List of Beta Theta Pi members

Beta Theta Pi is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.^[1] As of 2025, it consists of 142 active chapters and nineteen colonies in the United States and Canada.^[2] It has initiated 227,218 members.^[2] Below is a list of some of the notable members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.^[3]

Academia

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Thomas Swain Barclay		Professor of political science at Stanford University	[4][5]
Thomas A. Bartlett	Willamette 1951	Chancellor of the University of Alabama System	[6]
George F. Baughman	Florida 1937	Founding president of New College of Florida	[6]
David Ross Boyd	Wooster 1878	First president of the University of Oklahoma and president of the University of New Mexico	[3]: 956
Paul Bragdon	Amherst 1950	President of Reed College	[6]
James S. Buchanan	Cumberland 1885	President of the University of Oklahoma	[3]: 202
Thomas Courtice	Ohio Wesleyan	President of Ohio Wesleyan University	[6]
Stanley Coulter	Hanover 1870	Dean of Purdue University	[3]: 325
John Patrick Crecine	Carnegie Mellon 1961	President of Georgia Tech	[6]
William H. Danforth	Westminster 1948	Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis	[6]
Donald Dawson	Missouri 1932	Curator of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum	[7]
James Duderstadt	Yale 1964	President of the University of Michigan	[6]
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston	Hampden-Sydney 1886	President of Virginia Tech	[3]: 316
Robert F. Engle	Williams 1964	Winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; co-director of the Volatility and Risk Institute at New York University Stern School of Business	[8]
Robin Hugh Farquhar	British Columbia 1960	President of Carleton University	[6]
Carl Russell Fish	Harvard 1900	Historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison	[3]: 69
Thomas P. Gerrity	MIT 1963	Dean of the Wharton School of Business	[6]
William Pratt Graham	Syracuse 1903	Chancellor of Syracuse University	[3]: 739
Andrew Dousa Hepburn	Washington & Jefferson 1851	President of Miami University and Davidson College	[3]: 340
Alexander Q. Holladay	Virginia 1859	President of North Carolina State University and Virginia Senate	[9][3]: 840
John S. Hougham	Wabash 1846	President of Purdue University	[10][3]: 823
Alfred Hume	Vanderbilt 1878	Chancellor of the University of Mississippi	[11][3]: 788
Charles Keeler	UC Berkeley 1893	Director of the California Academy of Sciences	[6][12]
Samuel Laws	Miami University 1848	President of the University of Missouri and Westminster College	[3]: 608
Deane Waldo Malott	Kansas 1921	Chancellor of the University of Kansas and president of Cornell University	[6]
William Alexander Parsons Martin	Indiana 1846	President of the Tongwenguan and the Imperial University of Peking	[3]: 355
David T. McLaughlin	Dartmouth 1954	President of Dartmouth College	[6]
Dale T. Mortensen	Willamette 1961	Professor at Northwestern University and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences	[7]
Franklin David Murphy	Kansas 1936	Chancellor of the University of Kansas and UCLA	[7]
James Kennedy Patterson	Hanover 1856	First president of the University of Kentucky	[3]: 322
Steven Sample	Illinois 1958	President of the University of Southern California	[7]
James M. Sellers	Chicago 1916	President of Wentworth Military Academy	[3]: 123
Charles N. Sims	DePauw 1859	Chancellor of Syracuse University	[3]: 273
Edgar F. Shannon Jr.	W&L 1939	President of the University of Virginia	[6]
David Stanton Tappan	Miami 1864	President of Miami University	[3]: 273
George Whipple	Yale 1905	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934; founding dean of the University of Rochester Medical Center	[13]
Timothy M. Wolfe	Missouri 1980	President of the University of Missouri System	[14]
Y. C. James Yen	Yale 1918	Founder of the Chinese Mass Education Movement	[7]

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  George Bellows
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  Ding Darling

Art and architecture

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
John Bakewell Jr.	Cal Berkeley 1893	Architect	[3]: 82
George Bellows	Ohio State 1905	Realist painter	[3]: 612
Bernard Berenson	Boston 1887	Art historian	[3]: 43
Barry Bishop	Cincinnati 1951	Photographer for National Geographic and part of the first American team to summit Mount Everest	[15]
Arthur Brown Jr.	Cal Berkeley 1896	Architect	[3]: 83
Ding Darling	Beloit 1899	Cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning twice, head of the U.S. Biological Survey, and founder and first president of the National Wildlife Federation	[1][16][3]: 20

Astronauts

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  Joseph Allen
• 
  Ken Cameron
• 
  Paul Weitz

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Joseph P. Allen	DePauw 1959	NASA astronaut; mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery	[7]
Kenneth D. Cameron	MIT 1971	Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis	[6]
Paul J. Weitz	Penn State 1954	NASA astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	[6]

Business

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  Charles Koch
• 
  Sam Palmisano
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  Donald Petersen
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  Steven Rales
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  Frank Shrontz
• 
  Sam Walton

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
John E. Anderson	UCLA 1940	Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephen Bechtel Jr.	Purdue 1947	Co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation	[7]
Stephen Bechtel Sr.	California 1923	Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group	[7]
Eugene N. Beesley	Wabash 1929	Former chairman of the board, Eli Lilly and Company	[6][17][18]
Bill Bowerman	Oregon 1933	Founder of Nike, Inc.	[7]
Donald Bren	Washington 1955	Owner of The Irvine Company
Dan Carney	Wichita State 1953	Co-founder of Pizza Hut	[7]
Douglas Clayton	Cornell 1982	CEO of Leopard Capital
Arthur D. Collins Jr.	Miami 1969	CEO of Medtronic
William Cook	Northwestern 1953	Founder of the Cook Group	[7]
David Coulter	Carnegie Mellon 1971	Chairman and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
Ernest Kent Coulter	Ohio State 1892	Founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America	[3]: 608
Justin Whitlock Dart Sr.	Northwestern 1929	Founder of Dart Industries
Chris DeWolfe	Washington 1988	CEO of Myspace.com	[6]
David Duffield	Cornell 1962	President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc.	[6]
Spencer Eccles	Utah 1956	Financier and chairman emeritus of the Intermountain Region of Wells Fargo Corporation	[7]
William Esrey	Denison 1961	President and CEO of Sprint	[6]
Weldon B. Gibson	Washington State University 1938	Executive at SRI International	[7]
Jeffrey Grayson	Oregon 1964	Investment banker, businessman, and criminal	[6]
William Herbert Hunt	W&L 1951	Investor connected with the silver trading scandal called Silver Thursday	[6]
Joel Hyatt	Dartmouth 1972	Founder of Hyatt Legal Services	[6]
Edgar Kaiser Jr.	Stanford 1965	Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia	[6]
R. Crosby Kemper Jr.	Missouri 1950	President of UMB Financial Corporation	[6]
Charles Koch	MIT 1957	Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries	[6]
David Koch		Co-owner and executive vice president of Koch Industries	[7][19]
Alan Ladd Jr.	Southern California	President of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment
Kenneth Lay	Missouri 1967	Chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse	[7]
J. Hugh Liedtke	Amherst 1942	Founder of Zapata Corporation and CEO of Pennzoil	[6]
Conrad Leslie	Miami University 1949	Businessman and crop forecaster
Alexander F. Mathews	Virginia 1856	Banker and lawyer	[3]: 798
Hugh McColl	North Carolina 1957	Chairman and CEO of Bank of America	[7]
Steve Miller	Southern California 1966	President of Dean Witter Reynolds	[6]
J. C. Nichols	Kansas 1902	Real estate developer	[3]: 428
Daniel Ninivaggi	Columbia 1986	CEO of Lordstown Motors and chairman of Garrett Motion, CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul	[20]
Blake Nordstrom	Washington 1982	President of Nordstrom	[6]
Bruce Nordstrom	Washington 1955	Chairman and CEO of Nordstrom	[7]
Erik Nordstrom	Washington 1985	Co-president of Nordstrom	[6]
John R. Opel	Westminster 1948	President of IBM	[6]
Charles Lathrop Pack	Television 1878	Timberman and economist	[21][3]: 923
Samuel J. Palmisano	Johns Hopkins 1973	CEO of IBM
John Henry Patterson	Miami University 1867	Founder of National Cash Register	[3]: 923
Donald Petersen	Washington 1946	CEO of the Ford Motor Company	[7]
Marvin Pierce	Miami University 1916	President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush	[3]: 495
Mitchell Rales	Miami University 1978	Co-founder of Danaher Corporation
Steven Rales	DePauw 1973	Co-founder of Danaher
Steven Rogel	Washington 1965	CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company
Mortimer L. Schiff	Amherst 1896	Banker and 5th president of the Boy Scouts of America	[1][3]: 6
Frank Shrontz	Idaho 1953	Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company	[7]
Jeffrey Skilling	Southern Methodist 1975	CEO of Enron; convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
Kenneth A. Spencer	Kansas 1921	Founder, president, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company
Robert K. Steel	Duke 1973	President and CEO of Wachovia
G. Kennedy Thompson	North Carolina 1973	CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard	[7]
Sam Walton	Missouri 1940	Founder of Wal-Mart	[7]
John Warnock	Utah 1961	Computer scientist who co-founded Adobe Systems Inc	[7]
Fred Wilson	MIT 1983	Venture capitalist and prominent blogger
Thornton Wilson	Iowa State 1942	Chairman emeritus of the Boeing Co.	[6]
Owen D. Young	St. Lawrence 1894	Chairman of General Electric, founder of RCA, co-founder of NBC, and US representative to The Hague conference on reparations who developed the Young Plan	[22][3]: 703
John Zeglis	University of Illinois 1969	Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless[23]

Entertainment

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  James Arness
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  George Peppard
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  Adam West

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
James Arness	Beloit 1946	Actor known for portraying Matt Dillon in the Television series Gunsmoke	[6]
John Backe	Miami 1954	President and CEO of CBS	[7]
Steve Bellamy	Indiana University 1986	Entrepreneur in sports and entertainment known for founding several niche cable Television networks
Bruce Bennett	Washington 1928	Film and television actor who won the silver medal for the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics	[6]
John Boles	Texas 1917	Actor	[3]: 758
Jackson Bostwick	Alabama 1965	Actor known for the Television series Shazam!
Kyle Brandt	Princeton 2001	Television host, media personality, and actor	[24]
Thom Brennaman	Ohio 1986	Television sportscaster	[6]
Ned Brower	Southern Methodist 1998	Drummer and vocalist in the rock quintet Rooney	[6]
Phil Brown	Stanford 1937	Actor
Robert Butler	UCLA 1950	Emmy Award-winning Television director
Jay Chandrasekhar	Colgate 1990	Actor and film director	[6]
Lloyd Corrigan	UC Berkeley 1922	Actor who appeared in more than 90 films
John Doman	Pennsylvania 1966	Actor	[25]
Bergen Evans	Miami 1924	Television personality who won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting
Neil Everett	Willamette 1984	Anchor of SportsCenter
Chet Forte	Columbia 1957	Television director known for Monday Night Football	[6]
Pat Green	Texas Tech 1995	Country music artist	[6]
Cary Guffey	Florida 1994	Actor known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Leigh Harline	Utah 1929	Film composer and songwriter; won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Kevin Heffernan	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Horace Heidt	UC Berkeley 1924	Pianist, big band leader, and radio and Television personality
Foster Hewitt	Toronto 1925	Radio broadcaster known for Hockey Night in Canada
Griffin House	Miami 2002	Singer-songwriter
Chuck Howard	Duke 1955	Emmy Award-winning producer known for Wide World of Sports	[6]
Sidney Howard	UC Berkeley 1912	Playwright and screenwriter; received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind	[3]: 87
Jeffrey Jones	Lawrence 1968	Actor known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Richard Karn	Washington 1978	Actor known for Home Improvement
Burt Kwouk	Bowdoin 1953	Actor
Steve Lemme	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Daniel Lindsay	Missouri 2001	Filmmaker known for the Oscar-winning sports documentary Undefeated
David Lloyd	Colgate 1983	Anchor for SportsCenter
Pare Lorentz	West Virginia 1926	Filmmaker considered to be the father of the modern documentary
David Martin	Yale 1965	Television correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News
Walter Massey	MIT 1951	Actor
Les Mayfield	Southern California 1982	Film director known for Encino Man and Blue Streak
Max Morath	Colorado College 1947	Ragtime pianist and songwriter
Edward P. Morgan	Whitman 1932	Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956	[6]
William R. Moses	Wesleyan 1982	Actor known for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest	[6]
Kenyon Nicholson	Wabash 1917	Playwright and screenwriter	[3]: 835
Lance Norris	Whitman 1984	Actor and writer
Frank Pacelli	Illinois 1948	Emmy Award-winning director known for The Young and the Restless
George Peppard	Purdue 1952	Actor known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and The A-Team	[6]
Robert Pine	Ohio Wesleyan 1963	Actor known for the television series CHiPs
Robert Reed	Northwestern 1954	Actor known for The Brady Bunch
David Richmond-Peck	Western Ontario 1996	Actor who has appeared in over 70 film and Television roles
Rivers Rutherford	Mississippi 1989	Country music songwriter	[7]
Stephen H. Sholes	Rutgers 1933	Recording executive, producer, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jeremy Slate	St. Lawrence 1952	Actor
Stephen Sondheim	Williams 1950	Composer and lyricist known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and West Side Story	[6]
Paul Soter	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Erik Stolhanske	Colgate 1991	Actorand a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Jess Thomas	Nebraska 1948	Operatic tenor
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude	MIT 1976	Actor
Doodles Weaver	Stanford 1937	Character actor, comedian, and musician who hosted The Doodles Weaver Show
Robb Weller	Washington 1972	Television personality and game show host known for Entertainment Tonight and Win, Lose or Draw	[6]
Adam West	Whitman 1951	Actor known for Batman and Family Guy
Brian J. White	Dartmouth	Actor known for Stomp the Yard	[6]
Robert Wilson	Texas 1963	Playwright, Obie Award winner for direction, and Olivier Award winner for Best New Opera
Christopher Woodrow	Alabama 1999	Hollywood movie producer known for Birdman, Black Mass, and Hacksaw Ridge
Paul Worley	Vanderbilt 1972	Record producer who discovered the Dixie Chicks and produced the Grammy Award-winning album Own the Night for Lady Antebellum

Law

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Francis W. H. Adams		US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and New York City Police Commissioner	[26]
Herschel W. Arant	Yale 1911	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and former dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	[27][3]: 961
Virgil Bouldin	Cumberland 1889	Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and Alabama House of Representatives	[28][3]: 203
David J. Brewer	Wesleyan 1955	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Charles Colson	Brown 1953	Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator
George A. Cooke	Knox 1892	Illinois General Assembly, and chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court	[29][3]: 447
Chuck Douglas	Wesleyan 1964	New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice and US House of Representatives from New Hampshire
William O. Douglas	Whitman 1920	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[7][30]
Fred Gause	Indiana 1900	Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court	[3]: 367
Charles Harold Haden II	Oklahoma 1956	US Federal Judge	[6]
Frank Herbert Hall	Colorado College 1916	Chief justice of Colorado Supreme Court	[31][32][3]: 152
John Marshall Harlan	Centre 1850	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[6][3]: 101
Frank Hogan	Columbia 1924	New York County District Attorney
Newell Jennings		Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court	[30]
Joseph Rucker Lamar	Bethany 1877	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[6]
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr.	Missouri 1951	Judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	[6]
Horace Harmon Lurton	Cumberland 1867	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[6]
Samuel Taylor Marshall	Ohio 1839	Attorney and co-founder of Beta Theta Pi
Emlin McClain		Chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court	[16]
Warren Olney Jr.		Associate justice of the Supreme Court of California	[4]
Ralph O. Olson	Carleton 1922	Washington Supreme Court justice	[33]
William Robinson Pattangall		Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Attorney General, and Maine House of Representatives	[34]
John Josiah Robinette	Toronto 1926	Canadian lawyer and litigator	[7]
John Sopinka	Toronto 1958	Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Edwin K. Steers	Indiana 1937	Indiana Attorney General
Kimbrough Stone	Missouri 1895	Judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Dickran Tevrizian	Southern California 1962	First Armenian-American U.S. Federal Judge	[7]
Ralph Gordon Thompson	Oklahoma 1956	US Federal Judge	[6]
Willis Van Devanter	DePauw 1881	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[1][6]
Harold J. Warner		Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court	[35]
William Burnham Woods	Western Reserve 1841	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	[6]

Literature and journalism

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Bert Andrews	Stanford 1925	Washington-based reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who won a Pulitzer Prize
James Batten	Davidson 1957	Journalist and CEO of Knight Ridder	[6]
James O'Donnell Bennett	Michigan 1893	Journalist known for writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Record-Herald
Main Bocher	Chicago 1911	Fashion designer and editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue
Percy Jewett Burrell	Boston 1897	Dramatist and playwright
Byron Calame	Missouri 1961	Journalist and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal	[7]
Mark Divine	Colgate 1985	Author and retired Navy SEAL Commander
Dick Durrell	Minnesota 1950	Publisher of People magazine	[6]
Howard Fineman	Colgate 1970	Journalist and Television commentator; global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group	[7]
George Fitch	Knox College 1897	Author and journalist
William Harrison Fetridge	Northwestern 1930	Maritime writer, vice-president of Popular Mechanics, and president of the Dartnell Corporation	[6]
Sam Walter Foss	Brown 1882	Poet known for The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American
David Hirshey	Dickinson 1971	Book editor who served as senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins
Richard Hooker	Bowdoin 1945	Writer and surgeon known for his novel MASH	[6]
L. D. Hotchkiss	Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916	Newspaper journalist who served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times
Kermit Hunter	Ohio 1931	Author and playwright	[6]
Russell Janney	Yale 1906	Theatrical producer and author known for his 1946 best-selling novel The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948[36]
Ken Kesey	Oregon 1957	Author known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	[6]
Laird Koenig	Washington 1949	Author	[37]
David Lamb	Maine 1962	Los Angeles Times correspondent
Charles Wesley Leffingwell	Knox College	Editor of The Living Church magazine
Norman Maclean	Dartmouth 1924	Author known for his 1976 novel A River Runs Through It, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1992	[38]
Karl Marlantes	Yale 1967	Author known for the novel Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard	Missouri 1888	Journalist and newspaper editor; founder of the China Weekly Review and author of seven influential books on the Far East[39]
Harry Allen Overstreet	California 1899	Writer and author known for the best-selling book The Mature Mind
Albert Shaw	Johns Hopkins 1884	Journalist who was the founder and editor of The American Review of Reviews
Bob Thomas	UCLA 1943	Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press
Frederick N. Ward	Florida 1957	Photojournalist

Military

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  Omar Bundy
• 
  Terrence Graves
• 
  Jonathan Letterman
• 
  Thomas McGuire
• 
  David Waybur

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
George M. Browning Jr.	UCLA 1952	Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force	[40]
Omar Bundy	DePauw 1881	Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152)
Enoch Crowder	Missouri 1887	Major General, US Army; Judge Advocate General of the US Army; US Army Provost Marshall General; oversaw the drafting and administration of the Selective Service Act of 1917; US Ambassador to Cuba	[41]
Eric Erickson	Cornell 1921	Swedish national who served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services during World War II
Gerald E. Gneckow	Idaho 1960	Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-36); commanding officer of guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20); commanding officer of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61);commander of US Naval Forces South	[42]
Terrence C. Graves	Miami 1967	2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War
Dudley Jackson Hard	Wooster 1893	Major General, US Army (Ohio Army National Guard), commanded the 135th Field Artillery as a colonel during World War I; retired in 1936 as a major general commanding the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard	[43]
James Wallace Haverfield	Ohio State 1939	Ensign, US Naval Reserve; killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; namesake of USS Haverfield (DE-393)
Joe W. Kelly	DePauw 1931	General, US Air Force (Ret.); attended DePauw 1927-28, then transferred to U.S. Military Academy, class of 1932; Command Pilot; B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis	[44]
Jonathan Letterman	Washington & Jefferson 1845	Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco	[45]
James Rogers McConnell	Virginia 1910	Sergeant and fighter pilot with the Lafayette Escadrille
Thomas McGuire	Georgia Tech 1944	Major, US Army Air Forces fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)
Emory Jenison Pike	Iowa Wesleyan 1899	Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I
Everett P. Pope	Bowdoin 1941	Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II	[46]
William B. Rosson	Oregon 1940	General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; deputy commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; commander in chief, US Southern Command
John T. Thompson	Indiana 1881	Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
David C. Waybur	UC Berkeley 1942	1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart

Politics

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  Joseph Byrns
• 
  John Coburn
• 
  Schuyler Colfax
• 
  Charles Henry Hardin
• 
  Richard Lugar
• 
  Matt Quay
• 
  Kevin Stitt
• 
  John Warner

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Theodore C. Achilles	Stanford 1925	US Ambassador to Peru	[26]
Joe Allbaugh	Oklahoma State 1974	Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency	[7]
John Mills Allen	Cumberland 1869	US House of Representatives from Mississippi
A. Piatt Andrew	Wabash 1892	US House of Representatives from Massachusetts
William Hepburn Armstrong	Princeton 1847	US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Owen Aspinall	Denison 1949	Governor of American Samoa
Wayne N. Aspinall	Denver 1919	US House of Representatives from Colorado, Colorado House of Representatives, Colorado Senate	[31]
Charles Montague Bakewell	California 1889	US House of Representatives from Connecticut and Connecticut State Senate	[30]
George Thomas Barnes	Georgia 1853	US House of Representatives from Georgia
Lewis O. Barrows	Maine 1916	Governor of Maine and Secretary of State of Maine	[34]
John L. Bates	Boston 1882	Governor of Massachusetts and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives	[22]
Albert I. Beach	Kansas 1905	Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri	[19]
James Andrew Beall	Texas 1890	US House of Representatives from Texas
James A. Beaver	Washington and Jefferson 1856	Governor of Pennsylvania
James T. Begg	Wooster 1903	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Michael Bennet	Wesleyan 1987	US Senator from Colorado
Thomas Warren Bennett	DePauw 1855	US House of Representatives from Idaho and Governor of Idaho Territory
Ami Bera	UC Irvine 1987	US House of Representatives from California
Albert S. Berry	Miami 1856	US House of Representatives from Kentucky
Richard W. Blue	Washington and Jefferson 1864	US House of Representatives from Kansas
Hale Boggs	Tulane 1935	US House of Representatives from Louisiana	[6][47]
Newton Booth	DePauw 1846	US Senator from California and Governor of California
William Borah	Kansas 1884	US Senator from Idaho	[1]
Henry Sherman Boutell	Iowa 1873	US House of Representatives from North Dakota, Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland
Emmett Forest Branch	Indiana 1896	Governor of Indiana
Louis J. Brann	Maine 1898	Governor of Maine, Maine House of Representatives, and Mayor of Lewiston, Maine	[34]
Donald G. Brotzman	Colorado 1943	US House of Representatives from Colorado, Colorado House of Representatives, and United States Attorney for Colorado	[31]
Charles Hillman Brough	Johns Hopkins 1898	Governor of Arkansas	[48]
B. Gratz Brown	Transylvania 1846	US Senator from Kentucky
John Young Brown	Centre 1855	US House of Representatives from Kentucky and Governor of Kentucky
Norris Brown	Iowa 1883	US Senator from Nebraska
Webster E. Brown	Wisconsin 1874	US House of Representatives from Wisconsin
Henry Augustus Buchtel	DePauw 1872	Governor of Colorado
George S. Buck		Mayor of Buffalo, New York	[26]
Joseph R. Burton	Hanover 1873	US Senator from Kansas
John Marshall Butler	Johns Hopkins 1921	US Senator from Maryland
William D. Bynum	Indiana 1869	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Jo Byrns	Vanderbilt 1890	US House of Representatives from Tennessee and Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Courtney W. Campbell		US House of Representatives from Florida	[49]
Ezekial Samuel Candler Jr.	Mississippi 1881	US House of Representatives from Mississippi
Rush Clark	Washington and Jefferson 1853	US House of Representatives from Iowa
Frank G. Clarke	Dartmouth 1873	US House of Representatives from New Hampshire
Cassius Marcellus Clay		US ambassador to Russia, Kentucky House of Representatives, and Kentucky Senate	[50]
Isaac Clements	DePauw 1859	US House of Representatives from Illinois
John Coburn	Wabash 1846	United States Representative from Indiana, Associate Justice of Montana Territorial Supreme Court, Secretary of the Territory of Montana, and Brigadier General in the United States Army	[35]
Schuyler Colfax	DePauw 1854	Vice President of the United States, US House of Representatives from Indiana; Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Daniel Webster Comstock	Ohio Wesleyan 1860	US House of Representatives from Indiana
John Sherman Cooper	Centre 1923	US Senator from Kentucky; US Ambassador to India, US Ambassador to Nepal, and US Ambassador to West Germany	[7][50]
Norris Henry Cotton	Wesleyan 1923	US Senator from New Hampshire, US House of Representatives from New Hampshire, and Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives	[51]
William S. Cowherd	Missouri 1881	US House of Representatives from Missouri and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
William B. Cravens	Missouri 1893	US House of Representatives from Arkansas
Thomas T. Crittenden Jr.	Missouri 1882	Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
George W. Cromer	Indiana 1882	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Charles N. Crosby	Western Reserve 1897	US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania	[52]
Enoch Crowder	Missouri 1886	US Ambassador to Cuba	[1][53]
Lee Cruce	Vanderbilt 1885	Governor of Oklahoma	[50]
William Cumback	DePauw 1853	US House of Representatives from Indiana and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
John A. Danaher	Yale 1920	US Senator from Connecticut, judge of United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Secretary of the State of Connecticut	[30]
John E. Davis	North Dakota 1935	Governor of North Dakota, director of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, and North Dakota Senate	[54]
Mark L. De Motte	DePauw 1853	US House of Representatives from Indiana
David Dewhurst	Arizona 1967	Lieutenant Governor of Texas
Robert Docking	Kansas 1946	Governor of Kansas and mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Ozro J. Dodds	Miami 1861	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Bob Dold	Denison 1991	US House of Representatives from Illinois
John E. Dolibois	Miami 1942	US Ambassador to Luxembourg	[7]
Chuck Douglas	Wesleyan 1964	US House of Representatives from New Hampshire and New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice
Adolph Dubs	Beloit 1942	US Ambassador to Afghanistan
Tony Earl	Michigan State 1958	Governor of Wisconsin	[6]
Harvey J. Eckley	Washington & Jefferson 1868	Member of Ohio Senate and judge	[55]
Alonzo J. Edgerton	Wesleyan 1850	US Senator from Minnesota, Minnesota Senate, Minnesota House of Representatives, and United States District Court for the District of South Dakota
Paul C. Edmunds	Virginia 1856	US House of Representatives from Virginia
Samuel Hitt Elbert	Ohio Wesleyan 1854	Governor of the Colorado Territory, Secretary of the Territory of Colorado, and chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
William Elliott	Virginia 1858	US House of Representatives from South Carolina
Ezekiel John Ellis	Centenary 1859	US House of Representatives from Louisiana
Robert Ellsworth	Kansas 1946	US House of Representatives from Kansas, US Permanent Representative to NATO, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Oscar R. Ewing		3rd Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, vice-chair of Democratic National Committee, lawyer, social reformer, and one of the main authors of the Fair Deal program	[35]
Joseph S. Farland	West Virginia 1938	US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, US Ambassador to Panama, US Ambassador to Iran, and US Ambassador to Pakistan	[6][56]
Joseph R. Farrington	Wisconsin 1919	US House of Representatives from Hawaii Territory district and Hawaii Territorial Senate
Wallace Rider Farrington	Maine 1891	Governor of the Territory of Hawaii
Charles James Faulkner	VMI 1868	US Senator from West Virginia
Mark Felt	Idaho 1935	Associate Director of the FBI; exposed the Nixon administration's corruption as "Deep Throat"
Scott Field	Virginia 1868	US House of Representatives from Texas
George Benson Fox	Ohio Wesleyan 1861	Ohio Senate and Ohio General Assembly
David R. Francis	Washington University in St. Louis 1870	Governor of Missouri, US Secretary of the Interior, US Ambassador to Russia, and president of Louisiana Purchase Exposition	[1][50]
Bob Franks	DePauw 1973	US House of Representatives from New Jersey	[6]
William E. Fuller	Iowa 1870	US House of Representatives from Iowa
Samuel Galloway	Miami 1855	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Alexander H. Garnjost		New York State Assembly	[26]
Dick Gephardt	Northwestern 1962	US House of Representatives from Missouri; US House Minority Leader	[6]
Jack Geraghty	Washington 1956	Mayor of Spokane, Washington	[6]
John Milton Glover	Washington University in St. Louis 1871	US House of Representatives from Missouri
Abe Goff	Idaho 1922	US House of Representatives from Idaho and Idaho Senate	[57]
Stephen Goldsmith	Wabash 1968	Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana	[6]
John B. Gordon	Georgia 1854	US Senator from Georgia, Governor of Georgia, and major general in the Confederate States Army	[6]
Howard Mason Gore		Governor of West Virginia and United States Secretary of Agriculture, and West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture	[58]
Miles T. Granger	Wesleyan 1842	US House of Representatives from Connecticut
Levi T. Griffin	Michigan 1857	US House of Representatives from Michigan
George Blackmore Guild	Cumberland 1855	Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Steve Gunderson	Wisconsin 1973	US House Representative from Wisconsin	[6]
Fred L. Hadsel		US Ambassador to Somalia and US Ambassador to Ghana	[59]
William T. Haines	Maine 1876	Governor of Maine	[60]
H. R. Haldeman	UCLA 1948	White House Chief of Staff; convicted Watergate scandal conspirator	[6]
Benton Jay Hall	Miami 1855	US House of Representatives from Iowa
Charles A. Halleck	Indiana 1922	US House of Representatives from Indiana	[35]
John Hanna	DePauw 1858	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Mike Harcourt	British Columbia 1963	Premier of British Columbia and mayor of Vancouver	[6]
Charles Henry Hardin	Miami 1841	Governor of Missouri	[50]
James Harlan	DePauw 1845	US Senator from Iowa; United States Secretary of the Interior
Henry R. Harris	Emory 1847	US House of Representatives from Georgia
Louis P. Harvey	Western Reserve 1840	Governor of Wisconsin
Mark Hatfield	Willamette 1943	US Senator and Governor of Oregon	[7]
Joe Heck	Penn State 1984	US House of Representatives from Nevada
Pat Henry	Mississippi 1882	US House of Representatives from Mississippi
Robert R. Hitt	DePauw 1855	US House of Representatives from Illinois
George Hoadly	Western Reserve 1844	Governor of California and US House of Representatives from California
Henry William Hoffman	Washington and Jefferson 1846	US House of Representatives from Maryland
Glen Holden Sr.	Oregon 1951	US Ambassador to Jamaica	[7]
Edward E. Holland	Richmond 1879	US House of Representatives from Virginia
Linwood Holton	W&L 1945	Governor of Virginia	[6]
Stanley Hornbeck	Colorado 1903	US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Jonas G. Howard	DePauw 1847	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Frank N. Ikard	Texas 1932	US House Representative from Texas	[6]
Clifford C. Ireland	Knox 1901	US House of Representatives from Illinois	[29]
James F. Izlar	Emory 1855	US House of Representatives from South Carolina
Craig James	Florida 1963	US House of Representatives from Florida	[6]
William Marion Jardine	Kansas State 1894	US Secretary of Agriculture, US Ambassador to Egypt, president of Kansas State Agricultural College, and Kansas State Treasurer	[1][19]
Eric M. Javits	Columbia 1952	Ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	[7]
Leslie Jensen	South Dakota	Governor of South Dakota
Martin N. Johnson	Iowa 1873	US Senator from North Dakota
Brereton C. Jones	Virginia 1961	Governor of Kentucky, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, and West Virginia House of Delegates	[6][50]
Doug Jones	Alabama 1976	US Senator from Alabama
David Karnes	Nebraska 1971	US Senator from Nebraska
James P. Kem	Missouri 1910	US Senator from Missouri
William E. Kemp	Missouri 1914	Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Peter Kinder	Missouri 1976	Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
William M. Kinsey	Monmouth 1869	US Representative from Missouri
William F. Kopp	Iowa Wesleyan 1892	US Representative from Iowa
Edward H. Kruse	Indiana 1940	US Representative from Indiana
Bruce Kyle		Florida House of Representatives	[49][61]
Robert M. La Follette Jr.	Wisconsin 1917	US Senator from Wisconsin and Governor of Wisconsin	[1]
Charles B. Landis	Wabash 1883	US Representative from Indiana
Milton Latham	Jefferson 1843	US Senator from California and Governor of California
John J. Lentz	Wooster 1881	US Representative from Ohio
Fred D. Letts	Iowa 1899	US Representative from Iowa
David Linton	Miami 1839	Ohio State Senator; co-founder of Beta Theta Pi
Tom Loeffler	Texas 1971	US House Representative from Texas	[6]
Frank O. Lowden	Iowa 1885	US House Representative from Illinois and Governor of Illinois	[1]
Richard Lugar	Denison 1954	US Senator from Indiana and Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana	[62][35]
Ray Mabus	Mississippi 1969	Governor of Mississippi, US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Secretary of the Navy	[7]
Humphrey Marshall	Transylvania 1845	US House of Representatives from Kentucky and US Minister to China
Roger Marshall	Kansas State 1984	US Senator from Kansas
James G. Martin	Davidson 1957	US House of Representatives and Governor of North Carolina	[7][27]
Henry M. Mathews	West Virginia 1857	Governor of West Virginia
Courtland C. Matson	DePauw 1862	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Stanley Matthews	Cincinnati 1842	US Senator from Ohio; US Supreme Court Justice
John J. McCloy	Amherst 1916	United States Assistant Secretary of War and presidential advisor
James L. McConaughy	Yale 1909	Governor of Connecticut and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut	[30]
John W. McCormick	Ohio 1855	US House of Representatives from Ohio
James W. McDill	Miami 1853	US House of Representatives from Iowa
Joseph E. McDonald	DePauw 1849	US Senator from Indiana
David McKinley	Purdue 1969	US House of Representatives from West Virginia, member of West Virginia House of Delegates	[58]
William P. McLean	North Carolina 1857	US House of Representatives from Texas
William H. McMaster	Beloit 1899	US Senator from South Dakota and Governor of South Dakota	[1]
Paul V. McNutt	Indiana 1913	Governor of Indiana and first US Ambassador to the Philippines	[35]
Robert W. Miers	Indiana 1870	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Andrew Jackson Montague	Richmond 1882	US House of Representatives from Virginia and Governor of Virginia
J. Waldo Monteith	Toronto 1927	Member of the House of Commons of Canada
Arch A. Moore Jr.	West Virginia 1951	Governor of West Virginia and US House of Representatives from West Virginia	[1][7][58]
Dwight Morrow	Amherst 1895	Senator from New Jersey and US Ambassador to Mexico
Oliver P. Morton	Miami 1847	Governor of Indiana
David C. Mulford	Lawrence 1959	US Ambassador to India	[7]
John Mutz	Northwestern 1957	Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and President of Lilly Endowment
Albinus Nance	Knox 1868	Governor of Nebraska
Bill Nelson	Yale 1964	US House of Representatives from Florida, US Senator from Florida, State Treasurer of Florida;	[7][63]
John Stoughton Newberry	Michigan 1847	US House of Representatives from Michigan
Dick Nichols	Kansas State 1951	US House of Representatives from Kansas	[6]
Don Nickles	Oklahoma State 1971	US Senator from Oklahoma	[6]
John W. Noble	Miami 1850	US Secretary of the Interior
Jeremiah E. O'Connell	Boston 1906	US House of Representatives from Rhode Island and justice of Rhode Island Supreme Court	[22]
Benjamin Odell	Bethany 1877	US House of Representatives from New York
Richard B. Ogilvie	Yale 1945	Governor of Illinois	[29]
Alvin M. Owsley	Texas 1912	US Ambassador to Romania
Bob Packwood	Willamette 1954	US Senator from Oregon	[64]
Halbert E. Paine	Western Reserve 1845	US House of Representatives from Wisconsin
Guy Brasfield Park	Missouri 1896	Governor of Missouri	[41]
Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr.	Nebraska 1909	US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, US Ambassador to Guatemala, and US Minister to Switzerland, vice-president and director of the National Broadcasting Co., and chairman of RKO Corp.	[65]
John M. Pattison	Ohio Wesleyan 1869	US House of Representatives from Ohio and Governor of Ohio
George Smith Patton	VMI 1877	Mayor of San Marino, California and father of General George S. Patton	[66]
James Paull		West Virginia Senate	[58]
Boies Penrose	Harvard 1881	US Senator from Pennsylvania
William J. Perry	Carnegie Mellon 1949	US Secretary of Defense	[6]
David Peterson	Western Ontario 1966	Premier of Ontario	[6]
Walter R. Peterson Jr.	Dartmouth 1947	Governor of New Hampshire
Bill Phelps	Missouri 1956	US House of Representatives from Missouri
Robert H. Phinny	North Carolina 1945	US Ambassador to Swaziland	[6]
Michael Pitfield	St. Lawrence 1956	Canadian Senator
Henry Moses Pollard	Dartmouth 1857	US House of Representatives from Missouri
John G. Pollard	Richmond 1891	Governor of Virginia
Laurence Pope	Bowdoin 1967	US Ambassador to Chad
Andrew Jackson Poppleton	Michigan 1851	Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska
Albert G. Porter	DePauw 1843	Governor of Indiana; US House of Representatives from Indiana; and US Minister to Italy
George M. Pritchard	North Carolina 1907	US House of Representatives from North Carolina
Jacob J. Pugsley	Miami	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Matthew Quay	Jefferson 1850	US Senator from Pennsylvania
Saul Rae	Texas 1936	Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico, Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala and the Netherlands
Joseph L. Rawlins	Indiana 1874	US Senator from Utah
John H. Ray	Minnesota 1908	US House of Representatives from New York
Henry Augustus Reeves	Michigan 1852	US House of Representatives from Michigan
Robert R. Reynolds	North Carolina 1906	US Senator from North Carolina	[67]
John Jacob Rhodes	Kansas State 1938	US House of Representatives from Arizona; US House Minority Leader	[7][68]
Robert G. Rich Jr.	Florida 1952	US Ambassador to Belize	[6]
Ira E. Rider	St. Lawrence 1888	US House of Representatives from New York
Richard O. Ristine	Wabash 1941	Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and Indiana Senate	[7]
William Alfred Robinson	Toronto 1925	Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Charlie Rose	Davidson 1961	US House of Representatives from North Carolina	[6]
Arthur B. Rouse	Hanover 1896	US House of Representatives from Kentucky
Thomas L. Rubey	Missouri 1885	US House of Representatives from Missouri
Eugene P. Ruehlmann	Cincinnati 1947	Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio	[59]
Aimaro Satō	DePauw 1881	Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Jake Sawatzky	British Columbia 2024	Member of the Canadian House of Commons	[69]
Daniel Schaefer	South Dakota 1958	US House of Representatives from Colorado	[6]
Charles Frederick Scott	Kansas 1881	US House of Representatives from Kansas and Kansas State Senator
Harvey D. Scott	DePauw 1850	US House of Representatives from Indiana
Townsend Scudder	Columbia 1888	US House of Representatives from New York
Fred A. Seaton	Kansas State 1931	US Secretary of the Interior, US Senator from Nebraska, and Assistant Secretary of Defense	[19]
Philip Sharp	DePauw 1964	US House of Representatives from Indiana	[6]
David Sholtz	Yale 1914	Governor of Florida
Scott Sifton	Truman State 1996	Member of the Missouri Senate
George G. Siebels Jr.	Virginia 1937	Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Arnold Smith	Toronto 1935	Canadian Ambassador to Egypt the USSR
Denny Smith	Willamette 1960	US House of Representatives from Oregon	[6]
Frank Ellis Smith	Mississippi 1941	US House of Representatives from Mississippi
John M. C. Smith	Michigan 1881	US House of Representatives from Michigan
Bertrand Snell	Amherst 1894	US House of Representatives from New York
Earl Snell	Oregon 1907	Governor of Oregon
Charles Wilbert Snow	Bowdoin 1907	Governor of Connecticut
Zack Space	Kenyon 1983	US House of Representatives from Ohio	[6]
William B. Spencer	Centenary 1855	US House of Representatives from Louisiana
John Spratt	Davidson 1964	US House of Representatives from South Carolina	[6]
William McKendree Springer	Indiana 1857	US House of Representatives from Illinois
William Francis Stevenson	Davidson 1885	US House of Representatives from South Carolina
Kevin Stitt	Oklahoma State 1995	Governor of Oklahoma
Edward C. Stokes	Brown 1883	Governor of New Jersey
Reginald H. Sullivan	Wabash 1897	Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana
Howard Sutherland	Westminster 1889	US Senator from West Virginia
Robert Franklin Sutherland	Toronto 1911	Member of the Canadian House of Commons
Mike Synar	Oklahoma 1972	US House Representative from Oklahoma	[6]
Charles Phelps Taft II	Yale 1918	Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio	[59]
Leon Rutherford Taylor	Denison 1907	Governor of New Jersey
Charles M. Teague		US House of Representatives for California	[4]
Hosea Townsend	Western Reserve 1864	US House of Representatives from Colorado
Henry St. George Tucker III	W&L 1875	US House of Representatives from Virginia
John Turner	British Columbia 1952	Prime Minister of Canada	[7]
Al Ullman	Whitman 1935	US House of Representatives from Oregon
William H. Upson	Western Reserve 1842	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Daniel W. Voorhees	DePauw 1849	US Senator from Indiana
Durbin Ward	Miami 1843	Member of the Kentucky General Assembly and brevet brigadier general during the Civil War
George B. Ward	Cumberland 1887	Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
John H. Ware III		US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Senate	[70]
John Warner	W&L 1950	Secretary of the Navy; US Senator from Virginia; namesake of the attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN-785)	[7][56]
Albert Henry Washburn		American Envoy Extraordinary and US Minister to Austria	[1][22]
Walter A. Watson	Hampden-Sydney 1887	US House of Representatives from Virginia and Virginia Senate
Claude Weaver	Texas 1887	US House of Representatives from Oklahoma
Ed Weber	Denison 1953	US House of Representatives from Ohio
Tom Wheeler	Ohio State 1968	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Kenneth S. Wherry	Nebraska 1914	US Senator and Senate Minority Leader, Nebraska Senate	[65]
William F. Whiting	Amherst 1886	US Secretary of Commerce
Jamie Whitten	Mississippi 1933	US House of Representatives from Mississippi	[7]
Ben M. Williamson	Bethany 1886	US Senator from Kentucky
Wendell Willkie	Indiana 1916	1940 Republican Party nominee for President of the United States and member of Indiana House of Representatives	[35]
Charles Erwin Wilson	Carnegie 1909	US Secretary of Defense
Joseph G. Wilson	Miami 1846	US House of Representatives from Oregon
Charles E. Winter	Iowa Wesleyan 1892	US House of Representatives from Wyoming; acting Governor of Puerto Rico
Bill Wirtz	Beloit 1933	US Secretary of Labor
John Sergeant Wise	Virginia 1867	US House of Representatives from Virginia and United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
Josiah O. Wolcott	Wesleyan 1901	US Senator from Delaware, chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, and Attorney General of Delaware	[71]
Wendell Wyatt	Oregon 1939	US House of Representatives from Oregon
J. Smith Young	Centenary 1855	US House of Representatives from Louisiana
Philip Young	St. Lawrence 1931	US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Eugene M. Zuckert	Yale 1933	United States Secretary of the Air Force

Religion

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Charles E. Bennison	Lawrence 1965	Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania	[6]
Earl Cranston	Ohio 1861	Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Christopher Epting	Florida 1969	Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa	[6]
Gregory Parkes	Florida State University 1986	Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg

Sports

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  Guy Chamberlin
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  Eddie Collins
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  Shahid Khan
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  Jerry Lucas
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  Mike Schmidt
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  Stan Smith
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  John Wooden

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	References
Fred Ahern	Bowdoin 1974	NHL player with the California Seals, Cleveland Barons, and Colorado Rockies	[6]
Ethan Allen	Cincinnati 1926	Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University	[6]
Michael Antonovich	Minnesota 1973	NHL player, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, and New Jersey Devils	[6]
Frank Baumholtz	Ohio 1941	Professional basketball player and Major League Baseball player	[72]
Matty Bell	Centre 1920	College football player, college football coach, and athletic administrator	[73]
Jim Benepe	Northwestern 1986	Professional golfer	[6]
Earl Blaik	Miami 1918	Head football coach at Dartmouth College and the United States Military Academy	[73]
Carl Blaurock	Colorado Mines 1916	Mountaineer, first American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US
Joe Bottom	Southern California 1977	1976 Summer Olympics silver medalist in 100m butterfly strokey	[6]
Don Bragg	UCLA 1959	1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist in pole vault	[74]
Evan Brown	SMU 2017	Center for the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions
Mike Brown	Dartmouth 1957	President and general manager of the Cincinnati Bengals	[7][74]
Dave Brundage	Oregon State 1986	Minor League Baseball player and coach	[75]
Jim Brunzell	Minnesota 1971	Professional wrestler and co-author of the Killer Bees comic book series	[6]
George Buehler	Stanford 1969	Professional football player with the Los Angeles Raiders	[6]
John Bunn	Kansas 1920	Key contributor to the game of basketball	[6]
Guy Chamberlin	Nebraska 1916	College and pro football Hall of Famer: 5x NFL champion (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926)	[73]
Pete Cipollone	California 1994	2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing	[6]
Bob Clotworthy	Ohio State 1954	1952 Summer Olympics silver medalist and 1956 Summer Olympics gold medalist in springboard diving	[6]
Roy Cochran	Indiana 1941	1948 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4 × 400 m relay	[6]
Ron Coder	Penn State 1976	Professional football player with Seattle Seahawks	[6][74]
Don Cohan	Amherst 1951	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, sailing	[6]
Eddie Collins	Columbia 1907	Major League Baseball Hall of Famer with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, won Six (6) World Series. World Series MVP in 1924.	[6]
Don Coryell	Washington 1947	Coach of the San Diego Chargers	[73]
Mel Counts	Oregon State 1964	Professional basketball player who won two NBA titles with the Boston Celtics; Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964	[6]
Edgar Diddle	Centre 1919	Basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school	[6]
DeLoss Dodds	Kansas State 1959	University of Texas at Austin athletic director	[7]
Charles Doe	Stanford 1920	1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rugby	[6]
Bobby Douglass	Kansas 1969	Professional football player with the Chicago Bears	[6]
Eddie Eagan	Denver 1920	1920 Summer Olympics gold medalist, boxing 178-lb and 1932 Winter Olympics gold medalist in bobsledding	[6][31]
Keith Fahnhorst	Minnesota 1974	Professional football player with San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XVI & XIX Champion	[6]
Max Falkenstien	Kansas 1947	Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer	[76]
John Ferris	Stanford 1971	1968 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly stroke	[6]
Jay Fiedler	Dartmouth 1994	Professional football player with the Miami Dolphins	[6]
Dow Finsterwald	Ohio 1952	Professional golfer	[7]
Jeff Float	Southern California 1983	1984 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay	[6]
Travis Ford	Missouri 1991	Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University
Ken Forsch	Oregon State 1969	Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979
Charlie Fox	Creighton 2026	Creighton Intramurals; Creighton Beta football head coach with career 2-8 record, Intramural champion leftback on 2023 Indoor Co-Rec Futsal champions Lebron James FC
Bruce Furniss	Southern California 1979	1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle swimming	[6]
Steve Furniss	Southern California 1975	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 200 IM swimming	[6]
Dave Gagnon	Colgate 1991	Professional hockey player with the Detroit Red Wings	[6]
George Glamack	North Carolina early 1940s	All American basketball with the NBL, Rookie of the Year 1942
Iñaki Gómez	British Columbia 2010	2012 Summer Olympics Canadian team member, race walking
Gail Goodrich	UCLA 1965	Professional basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers	[6]
Dan Greenbaum	Southern California 1992	1992 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, volleyball	[6]
Dan Guerrero	UCLA 1974	UCLA Bruins athletic director	[77]
Ed Hamm	Georgia Tech 1928	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, long jump	[6]
George Harrison	Stanford 1961	1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay	[6]
Dick Harter	North Carolina 1952	NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets	[6]
Homer Hazel	Rutgers 1925	Football player and coach	[73]
Alan Helffrich	Penn State 1925	1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4×400 m relay	[6]
Bob Higgins	Penn State 1918	Professional football player and college football coach	[73]
Mark Jerue	Washington 1982	Professional football player with the New York Jets	[6]
Brian Job	Stanford	1968 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke	[6]
Brandt Jobe	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer	[6]
Grier Jones	Oklahoma State 1968	Professional golfer	[6]
Charlie Justice	North Carolina 1950	Professional football player with the Washington Redskins; three-time All-American	[73]
Robert Kane	Cornell 1934	President of the US Olympic Committee
Jeff Kemp	Dartmouth 1981	Professional football player with the Los Angeles Rams for 5 seasons.	[6]
Shahid Khan	Illinois 1971	Owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars	[7]
Johnny Kitzmiller	Oregon 1930	College and professional football player with the New York Giants	[73]
William Koch	MIT 1962	1992 America's Cup winner	[7]
George Kojac	Rutgers 1931	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay	[6]
Ryan Kuehl	Virginia 1995	Professional football player	[6]
Cawood Ledford	Centre College	University of Kentucky basketball commentator	[78]
David Lipsky	Northwestern University	Professional golfer
Jerry Lucas	Ohio State 1962	Professional basketball player player, college basketball coach, 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist, basketball	[7]
Larry MacPhail	Beloit 1910	Club president and general manager with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees	[6]
Jim Mandich	Michigan 1970	Professional football player with Miami Dolphins	[73]
Steve Marino	UVA 2002	Professional golfer
Kent Massey	Oklahoma 1974	1996 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, sailing	[79]
Scott McCarron	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer	[6]
Charles McGinnis	Wisconsin 1927	1928 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, pole vault	[6]
Bo McMillan	Centre 1922	Football player and coach	[73]
John Lester Miller	Yale 1924	1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing	[6]
Matt Monger	Oklahoma State 1984	Professional football player with the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXV	[6]
Ray Morrison	Vanderbilt 1912	Head football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University, and Austin College	[73]
Dave Mauer	Denison 1954	Football player, college football coach, and athletic administrator	[73]
Lowell North	UC Berkeley 1971	1964 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, yachting; 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist, yachting	[6]
Pat O'Dea	Wisconsin 1900	Australian rules and American football player and coach	[73]
John Orsi	Colgate 1932	Football player and coach	[73]
Gus Otto	Missouri 1965	Professional football player with the Oakland Raiders	[6]
John Parker	Stanford 1970	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, water polo	[6]
Bob Pearce	Oklahoma 1931	1932 Summer Olympics gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb	[6]
Pete Pihos	Indiana 1945	Professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles	[73]
Pat Powers	Southern California 1980	1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist, volleyball	[6]
Chip Reese	Dartmouth 1973	Professional poker player	[80]
Ed Rimkus	St. Lawrence 1937	1948 Winter Olympics gold medalist, bobsledding	[6]
Jamey Rootes	Clemson 1988	Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew and Houston Texans	[6]
Murray Rose	Southern California 1961	1956 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 400 freestyle swimming, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle; 1960 Summer Olympics silver medalist for 1500 freestyle, and bronze medalist for 4x200 relay	[6]
Ed Roski Jr.	Southern California 1962	Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team	[7]
Dick Roth	Stanford 1969	1964 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 400 IM swimming	[6]
Harlow Rothert	Stanford 1930	1932 Summer Olympics silver medalist, shot put	[6]
Mike Schmidt	Ohio 1971	Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame	[7]
John Shadden	Southern California 1987	1988 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, yachting	[6]
Gary Sheerer	Stanford 1968	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, water polo	[6]
Dave Shula	Texas 1973	Head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals	[6]
Jerry Sichting	Purdue 1979	NBA coach	[6]
Stan Smith	Southern California 1969	Professional tennis player; winner of the 1977 US Open – Men's singles and the 1972 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles	[7]
Bill Sprackling	Brown 1912	College Football Hall of Fame	[73]
Bob Stein	Minnesota 1969	Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs	[73]
Mal Stevens	Yale 1924	Football player and coach	[73]
Kevin Still	UCLA 1982	1984 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs	[6]
Bill Stoneman	Idaho 1966	General manager of the Los Angeles Angels; Major League Baseball player	[6]
John Tavener	Indiana 1944	College football player	[73]
William G. Thompson	UC Berkeley 1929	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing eight oars	[6]
Bill Veeck	Kenyon 1936	Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member	[6]
Rick Volk	Michigan 1967	Professional football player with the Miami Dolphins	[6]
Ben Wilson	Heidelberg 1944	Head football coach at Wichita State University
John Wooden	Purdue 1932	Head basketball coach at UCLA	[7]