List of Cosmos Club members

The Cosmos Club is a private social club in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1878. Following is an incomplete list of its notable members.

Name	Class and range	Notability	Reference
Cleveland Abbe	1883–1884	professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau	[1]
Cleveland Abbe Jr.	1895–1899	professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College	[1]
Truman Abbe	1903	surgeon	[1]
Philip Abelson	1953	physicist	[2]
Henry Adams	1878	historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient	[3][4][1]
Henry Carter Adams	1889	professor of political economy at the University of Michigan	[1]
James Truslow Adams		writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner	[3]
Leason Adams		geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute	[5]
Alvey A. Adee	1887–1889	United States Secretary of State	[1]
Jesse C. Adkins		judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia	[5]
Cyrus Adler	1890	Educator, librarian	[1]
Fred C. Ainsworth	1887–1888	U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general	[1]
Clyde Bruce Aitchison		Interstate Commerce Commissioner	[5][6][7]
Charles Henry Alden	1893–1897	first president of the Army Medical School	[1]
Asa O. Aldis	1880–1884	Judge and diplomat	[1]
John Merton Aldrich		associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum	[5]
Dean C. Allard		naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center	[8]
Charles Herbert Allen	1888–1890	Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress	[1]
Eugene Thomas Allen		pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution	[5]
Harvey J. Alter	1970	medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	[9][10]
Benjamin Alvord	1878	mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster	[1]
Henry Elijah Alvord	1895	Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Nicholas Longworth Anderson	1886–1887	U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers	[1]
Eliphalet F. Andrews	1880–1896	painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art	[3][1]
Lincoln Clark Andrews		U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	[5]
Earl C. Arnold		attorney, academic, college administrator	[5]
William Harris Ashmead	1892	Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian	[1]
John Vincent Atanasoff	1957	computer pioneer, built the first digital computer	[9]
Wilbur Olin Atwater	1899	professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist	[1]
Albert William Atwood	1928	author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post	[11][12][13]
James Percy Ault		Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher	[5]
Louis Winslow Austin		Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards	[5]
Michael Auslin		writer	[4]
Cyrus Cates Babb	1892	civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey	[1][14]
Ernest Adna Back		Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5][15]
Henry Bacon	1888	architect	[1]
Barbara A. Bailar	1988	mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association	[16]
Jennings Bailey		judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia	[5]
Vernon Orlando Bailey		Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture	[5]
H. Foster Bain		geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.	[5]
George Washington Baird	1895	Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy	[1][17][5]
Spencer Fullerton Baird	1878	ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian	[4][1][18]
Marcellus Bailey	1878–1885, 1866–1890	patent lawyer	[1]
Frank Baker	1882	physician and superintendent of the National Zoo	[4][1]
Marcus Baker	1884	cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution	[4][1]
Aram Bakshian Jr.		Author and speechwriter for three presidents	[19]
Albertus H. Baldwin	1899	commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission	[1][20][21][5]
Carleton Roy Ball		botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry	[5]
John Chandler Bancroft	1890–1898	sculptor	[1][22]
Orion M. Barber		politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals	[5]
Edward Chester Barnard	1899	topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey	[1]
Job Barnard	1903	associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court	[1]
John Russell Bartlett	1886–1897	oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral	[4][1]
Paul Wayland Bartlett	1914	sculptor	[9][3]
Henry Askew Barton		first director of the American Institute of Physics	[23]
Paul Bartsch		malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum	[5]
Carl Barus	1885–1895	physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University	[4][24][1]
Ray S. Bassler		geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum	[5]
Frederick John Bates		physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department	[5]
Newton Lemuel. Bates	1878–1881, 1884	surgeon general of the U.S. Navy	[4][25][1]
Louis Agricola Bauer	1899	geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.	[1][5]
Nathan D. Baxter		bishop of the Episcopal Church	[26]
Clifton Bailey Beach	1896	member of the U.S. Congress	[1]
George Ferdinand Becker	1890	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
George Beadle		geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	[3]
Truxtun Beale	1902	diplomat	[1][5]
Tarleton Hoffman Bean	1883	ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution	[4][1]
Thomas M. Beggs	1955	painter	[3][27][9]
Alexander Graham Bell	1880	scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society	[28][4][1][29]
Charles J. Bell	1883	co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company	[1][5]
Chichester Bell	1881–1887	chemist and inventor	[1]
Samuel Flagg Bemis		historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University	[5]
Marcus Benjamin	1896	chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum	[1][5]
Charles Bendire	1888	ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army	[1]
Arden L. Bement Jr.	1980	engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation
Andrew H. Berding		journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs	[30]
Patricia Wilson Berger		librarian, president of the American Library Association	[31]
Emil Bessels	1878	zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution	[4][1]
John M. Bevan		university professor	[32]
Albert Burnley Bibb	1892–1899	architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University	[1]
Ernest Percy Bicknell		director of the American Red Cross	[5][33]
Julius Bien	1885	artist, publisher, lithographer	[1]
Frank Hagar Bigelow	1890	professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau	[1]
John Bigelow Jr.		U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park	[5]
John Shaw Billings	1878	librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General	[34][4][1]
Henry H. Bingham	1881–1889	Congressman from Pennsylvania	[1]
Theodore A. Bingham	1897–1898	U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington	[1]
Claude Hale Birdseye		chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey	[5][35]
Rogers Birnie	1886	co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley	[1]
William Herbert Bixby		U.S. Army brigadier general	[5]
Henry Campbell Black	1892	lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary	[1][5]
William Murray Black	1897–1898	Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	[1]
Harry Blackmun		U.S. Supreme Court Justice	[16][36]
James P. Blair	1998	photographer with National Geographic	[37]
William Bodde Jr.		U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati	[38]
Ernest L. Bogart		economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association	[5]
Henry Carrington Bolton	1888	chemist	[1]
Robert Whitney Bolwell		professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies	[5][39]
Stephen Bonsal		journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History	[5]
Daniel J. Boorstin		Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize	[3][36]
William A. Boring	1901	architect	[1]
Clement Lincoln Bouvé		attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office	[5]
John Wesley Bovee	1902	gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons	[1][40][5]
Adam Giede Böving		entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum	[5]
Norman L. Bowen		geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington	[5]
William Bowie		geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey	[5]
Francis Tiffany Bowles	1882–1901	chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy	[4][41][42][1]
Alpheus Henry Bowman		brigadier general U.S. Army	[5]
George Lothrop Bradley	1883	artist	[1][43]
Frank B. Brady		engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation	[44][45]
Charles John Brand		chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture	[5]
Louis Brandeis	1915–1932	U.S. Supreme Court Justice	[46][5]
Gregory Breit		Mathematical physicist, academic	[5]
Lyman James Briggs		Physicist and engineer	[47][5]
David Brinkley		journalist	[36]
Alfred Hulse Brooks	1895	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Glenn Brown	1888	architect	[1][5]
Henry Billings Brown	1897	U.S. Supreme Court Justice	[1]
Joseph Stanley Brown	1881–1885, 1894	assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield	[1]
Lester R. Brown		environmental analyst	[48]
Stimson Joseph Brown	1900	professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory	[1]
John Mills Browne	1883–1884	surgeon general of the U.S. Navy	[1][49]
Arnold W. Brunner	1902	Architect and historian	[1]
Kirk Bryan		Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University	[5]
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan		journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star	[5][50]
Albert H. Bumstead		cartographer	[5]
William E. Bunney Jr.	1982	Psychiatrist, academic	[51]
Horatio C. Burchard	1879–1886	director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index	[1]
George K. Burgess		physicist	[34]
Swan Moses Burnett	1879	surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine	[52][4][53][9]
Arthur F. Burns		economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany	[38]
Vannevar Bush		electrical engineer	[52]
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown		sculptor	[5]
Charles Henry Butler		lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court	[5]
Robert W. Cairns	1954	chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society	[2]
Edgar B. Calvert		Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau	[5][54]
Charles R. Cameron		U.S. Foreign Service	[5]
Frank Kenneth Cameron	1895	soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina	[1][55]
Edward Kernan Campbell		chief judge of the Court of Claims	[5]
Marius Robinson Campbell	1896	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[1][56][5]
Henry W. Cannon	1884	Comptroller General of the United States	[4][1]
Stephen Capps		geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[5][57]
Horace Capron	1879	United States Commissioner of Agriculture	[1]
David Carliner		attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute	[58]
Frances Carpenter		Folklorist and photographer	[59]
Wilbur J. Carr		assistant secretary of State, diplomat	[5]
William George Carr		educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association	[60]
William Kearney Carr	1903	Philosopher, physician, author	[1][61]
John Merven Carrère	1905	architect	[3]
Henry A. P. Carter	1881	businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii	[4][1]
Philip L. Cantelon	1984	academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated	[62]
Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr.	1894	major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist	[1][5]
James McKeen Cattell	1902	first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly	[1]
Bruce Catton		historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History	[63][3]
Joan R. Challinor		chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science	[64][65]
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin	1883–1889	geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology	[1]
Steve Charnovitz		Legal scholar, writer, educator	[66]
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor	1902	author, novelist	[1]
Victor King Chesnut	1896	botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants	[1][67][5]
Colby Mitchell Chester		U.S. Navy admiral	[5]
John White Chickering	1878–1880	Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb	[68][1]
George B. Chittenden	1881	Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division of the U.S. Geological Survey	[4][69][70][1]
Hong-Yee Chiu		astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center	[71]
Martha E. Church	1988	geographer and president of Hood College	[16]
Earle H. Clapp		forester	[5]
Alonzo Howard Clark	1889	naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution	[1]
Austin Hobart Clark		zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum	[5]
Edgar E. Clark		attorney	[5]
William Bullock Clark	1895	professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University	[1]
William Mansfield Clark		chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service	[5]
Bruce C. Clarke	1968	U.S. army general	[2]
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke	1883	chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[4][1][5]
Stanwood Cobb		educator	[72]
Theodore I. Coe		architect	[73]
Roberta Cohen		executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution	[74][75]
William Colby		CIA director	[36]
Charles Cleaves Cole	1894–1895	associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia	[1]
William Byron Colver		chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers	[5]
Rita R. Colwell	1988	microbiologist	[16]
Arthur Compton		physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics	[3][52]
Karl Taylor Compton		physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology	[76]
Wilson Martindale Compton		lawyer, president of the State College of Washington	[5]
Charles Arthur Conant	1899	assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist	[1]
James B. Conant		chemist	[52]
David H. Condon	1967–1996	architect	[9]
Willis Conover		radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour	[77]
Holmes Conrad	1895–1900, 1903	attorney, Solicitor General of the United States	[1]
Nancy Conrad		teacher, author	[78]
Joseph A. Conry	1935	consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission	[9]
Orator F. Cook		botanist	[79][5]
Luis Felipe Corea	1890–1902	minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua	[1][80]
Frederic René Coudert Sr.	1897–1899	lawyer	[1]
Elliott Coues	1879	ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories	[1]
Frederick Vernon Coville	1892	chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][18][5]
J. Harry Covington		politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia	[5]
Allyn Cox	1973	painter	[9]
Thomas Craig	1879–1890	mathematician at Johns Hopkins University	[1]
William Crentz	1962–2002	Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels	[9]
Oscar Terry Crosby	1896	electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League	[1][81][82]
Charles Whitman Cross	1888	geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
George Crossette		Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society	[11][83]
Barbara Culliton		science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature	[84][65]
Hugh S. Cumming		surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service	[5]
Harry F. Cunningham		architect	[5][85][86]
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry	1895	educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman	[1]
George Edward Curtis	1889–1893	meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer	[1][87]
William Eleroy Curtis	1886	journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics; Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition	[1][88][89]
William Parker Cutter	1894	chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress; director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library	[1][90]
Charles William Dabney	1894	university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
William Healey Dall	1887	naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History	[1][5]
Joan Danziger	2003	sculptor	[3][9]
Nelson Horatio Darton	1899	geologist with U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Joseph E. Davies		Lawyer and diplomat	[5]
Arthur Powell Davis	1895	civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey	[1]
Bancroft Davis	1886–1892	attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.	[4][1]
Charles Henry Davis	1878	rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey	[1]
George Whitefield Davis	1881–1885	engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone	[1]
James Cox Davis		director general of the Federal Railroad Administration	[5][91]
John Davis	1886–1887	associate justice of the Court of Claims	[1]
Arthur Louis Day		geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington	[5]
David Talbot Day	1889–1893, 1901	chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Sara Day	2014	author of historical nonfiction	[92][93]
Frederic Adrian Delano		railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve	[5]
John Howard Dellinger		telecommunication engineer	[5]
Laura DeNardis		endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University	[94]
Tyler Dennett		editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	[5]
Leon E. Dessez	1903	architect	[1]
Dozier A. DeVane		attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.	[5]
Arthur E. Dewey	2003	U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration	[95]
Lyster Hoxie Dewey		botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
Roscoe DeWitt		architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II	[96]
Edwin Grant Dexter		educator	[5]
Joseph Silas Diller	1885	assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic	[4][97][1][5]
Alvin E. Dodd		consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association	[5]
Charles Richards Dodge	1894	Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][98][99]
Edward W. Donn Jr.	1896	architect	[1]
Marion Dorset	1902	chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][100][101][5]
George Amos Dorsey	1902	ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History	[1]
Noah Ernest Dorsey		physicist	[5]
Edward Morehouse Douglas	1887	geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey	[102][1]
Alexander Wilson Drake	1884–1887	artist, art director of The Century Magazine	[1]
Allen Drury		writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize	[3]
Horace Bookwalter Drury		Economist, academic, author	[5]
Paul du Quenoy		historian, professor, Fulbright scholar	[103]
Charles Benjamin Dudley	1900	chemist	[1]
William Ward Duffield	1894–1897	superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey	[1]
Arthur William Dunn		national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer	[5]
Edward Dana Durand	1903	director of the United States Census Bureau	[1]
Clarence Dutton	1878	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[34][4][1]
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight	1878–1882	librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State	[1]
William Sylvester Eames	1900	architect	[1]
John Robie Eastman	1878	astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy	[1][104][105][106]
Edward D. Easton	1883–1902	founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company	[4][1]
Burton Edelson		U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA	[107]
Henry White Edgerton		attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	[5]
John Joy Edson	1896–1898	president, Washington Loan & Trust Company	[1][5]
Lawrence Edwards		innovator in aerospace and ground transportation
Maurice F. Egan	1898	Professor, author, diplomat	[1]
Edward Eggleston	1901	Novelist, historian	[1]
William Snyder Eichelberger		astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy	[5][108]
Churchill Eisenhart		mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards	[109]
Milton Courtright Elliott		Lawyer and judge	[5]
Samuel Franklin Emmons	1882–1892	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America	[4][1]
Mordecai Thomas Endicott	1896	Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps	[1][110][111][5]
Carl Engel		pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress	[5]
William Phelps Eno		father of traffic safety	[5]
Jesse Frederick Essary		journalist	[5]
Edward Trantor Evans		senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey	[102]
Robley D. Evans	1883–1901	U.S. Navy admiral	[1]
Barton Warren Evermann	1898	ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries	[1]
William M. Ewing	1942	geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient	[2]
David Fairchild	1898	Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][5]
Tom Farer		academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico	[112]
Guy Otto Farmer		lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board	[113]
Arthur Briggs Farquhar	1902	Businessman and writer	[1]
John Barclay Fassett	1886–1887	Medal of Honor recipient	[1]
Oliver Lanard Fassig	1893	meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University	[1]
Clarence Norman Fenner		geologist	[5]
Henry G. Ferguson		geologist with U.S. Geological Survey	[5]
Thomas B. Ferguson	1879–1880	United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries	[1]
Alan Fern		scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress	[65][44][114][115]
Bernhard Fernow	1887	director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry	[1]
Jesse Walter Fewkes		chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution	[5]
George Wilton Field		biologist	[5]
Albert Kenrick Fisher	1902	biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist	[1][5]
Walter Kenrick Fisher	1902	biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter	[1]
John Fitterer	1973	educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities	[116]
J. A. Henry Flemer	1886–1888	architect	[4][117][1]
James Milton Flint	1880	medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum	[1][118]
Allen Ripley Foote	1891	political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association	[1][119]
Paul D. Foote		physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering	[5]
Kenneth M. Ford		computer scientist	[63]
William H. Forwood	1903	surgeon general of the U.S. Army	[1]
John W. Foster	1889	Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat	[1]
William Dudley Foulke	1902	Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer	[1]
Harry Crawford Frankenfield		senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau	[5]
John Hope Franklin	1963	historian	[63][120]
James E. Freeman		Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington	[5]
Herbert Friedenwald	1894	author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee	[1][5]
Daniel Mortimer Friedman		judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims	[121]
Paul L. Friedman		judge	[122][123]
Ed Frost		sculptor	[3]
Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr.	1900	architect	[1][5]
Ira Noel Gabrielson		entomologist	[124]
Frank E. Gaebelein	1965	educator, author, editor of Christianity Today	[116]
Arthur Burton Gahan		entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
John Kenneth Galbraith		economist	[125]
Edward Miner Gallaudet	1878	first president of Gallaudet University	[4][1]
Beverly Thomas Galloway	1894	chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture	[1][5]
Henry Gannett	1878	chief geographer-in-charge of topographic mapping U.S. Geological Survey	[102][4][1]
Samuel Gannett	1891	geographer, U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Wilbur E. Garrett	1966	photographer, editor of National Geographic	[37][126]
Hampson Gary		colonel, U.S. Army; lawyer, and diplomat	[5]
Georgie Anne Geyer		journalist; syndicated columnist, television news analyst	[16]
Tatiana C. Gfoeller		ambassador	[103]
Riccardo Giacconi		astrophysicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize	[3]
Cass Gilbert	1902	architect	[1]
Grove Karl Gilbert	1878	geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[34][4][1]
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn	2013	attorney, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland	[127]
Theodore Gill	1878	Biologist, zoologist	[4][1]
Daniel Coit Gilman	1878–1882, 1903	president, Johns Hopkins University; president, Carnegie Institution of Washington	[1]
Charles C. Glover	1887–1891, 1903	treasurer, Corcoran Gallery of Art; banker	[1]
Martin B. Gold	2000	lobbeyist	[128]
Arthur J. Goldberg		U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations	[16]
Joseph Goldberger		epidemiologist and surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service	[5]
Edward Alphonso Goldman		biologist	[5]
Frank Austin Gooch	1884–1886	chemist and engineer	[4][1]
George Brown Goode	1881	ichthyologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution	[4][1]
Richard Urquhart Goode	1886	geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey	[129][1]
Elliot Hersey Goodwin		vice president and secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce	[5]
James Howard Gore	1883	geodesist, author, and professor of mathematics at the Columbian University	[4][1][5]
Carol Graham	2008	Economist, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution	[95]
Henry S. Graves	1898–1901	chief of the United States Forest Service, co-founded the Yale Forest School	[1]
Horace Gray	1882	U.S. Supreme Court justice	[1]
John H. Gray		Economist, academic	[5]
William B. Greeley		chief of the United States Forest Service	[5]
Adolphus Greely	1887	polar explorer, brigadier general and chief signal officer in the U. S. Army	[1][5]
William R. Green		congressman, judge of the Court of Claims	[5]
Edward Lee Greene	1895–1902	professor of botany, Catholic University	[1]
Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf	1889–1903	assistant surgeon general and brigadier general, U. S. Army	[1][130][131]
James Leal Greenleaf		Landscape architect and civil engineer
Willis Ray Gregg		meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau	[5]
Robert Fiske Griggs		botanist, academic, head of National Geographic Society	[5]
Gilbert M. Grosvenor	1901	president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, editor of National Geographic	[28][34][1]
Nathan Clifford Grover		chief hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; academic	[5][132]
John M. Grunsfeld		astronaut and astronomer
Francis M. Gunnell	1878	Surgeon General U.S. Navy	[1][133]
Alexander Burton Hagner	1883	associate justice Supreme Court District of Columbia	[1]
Arnold Hague	1884	geologist, U. S. Geological Survey	[1]
Benjamin F. Hake		geologist and general manager of Gulf Oil Company of Bolivia	[134]
Asaph Hall Jr.	1890–1895	astronomer	[1]
Henry Clay Hall		attorney and commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission	[5]
Percival Hall		president of Gallaudet University	[5]
William Hallock	1885–1886	physicist, U. S. Geological Survey	[1]
Stefan Halper		Foreign policy scholar	[135]
Walton Hale Hamilton		economist and professor at Yale Law School	[5]
Charles Sumner Hamlin	1879	Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	[1][5]
John Hays Hammond		Mining engineer, diplomat	[5]
Hugh S. Hanna		president, The Capital Transit Company	[5][136]
George Wallace William Hanger	1902	chief clerk, Department of Labor; U.S. Board of Mediation	[1][5]
Norman Hapgood		writer, journalist, editor, critic, and an American minister to Denmark	[5]
William Hard		Social reformist and journalist	[5][137]
William Harkness	1878	astronomer, professor of mathematics for the U. S. Navy	[34][1]
James S. Harlan		attorney	[5]
Mark Walrod Harrington	1891–1898	chief of Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Albert L. Harris		architect	[5]
William Torrey Harris	1890	commissioner of education, U.S. Department of Interior; educator, lexicographer	[1]
Albert Bushnell Hart		academic, historian, writer, and editor	[5]
Frederick Hart	1983	Sculptor, and designer of the soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial	[3][9]
Thomas Hastings	1918–1919	architect	[3]
George Wesson Hawes	1881	geologist, curator U.S. National Museum	[1]
Joseph Roswell Hawley	1887–1890	congressman, senator, Governor of Connecticut	[1]
William Perry Hay	1900	zoologist, professor of natural sciences at Howard University	[1]
Edward Everett Hayden	1885	naval officer, meteorologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Geological Survey	[1][5]
Charles Willard Hayes	1892	geologist, U. S. Geological Survey	[1][138]
Harvey C. Hayes		pioneer in underwater acoustics, superintendent of Naval Research Laboratory Sound Division	[5][139]
Helen Hayes	1988	actress	[16]
John Fillmore Hayford	1898	assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey	[1]
William Babcock Hazen	1884	brigadier general, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army	[1]
A. G. Heaton	1886	artist, painter	[1]
Arthur B. Heaton		architect	[5]
Nicholas H. Heck		geophysicist and officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps	[5]
Carl Heinrich		entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. National Museum	[5]
Henry Henshaw	1878	ornithologist and ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology	[34][1][5]
Christian A. Herter Jr.		politician, vice president of Mobil Oil Company	[140]
Charles M. Herzfeld		scientist and director of DARPA	[141]
Donnel Foster Hewett		geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[5][142]
Francis J. Higginson	1883–1896	rear admiral in the U.S. Navy	[1]
Julius Erasmus Hilgard	1882–1883	superintendent, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey	[1]
Charles E. Hill		professor and administrator at George Washington University, international law expert	[5]
David Jayne Hill	1898	Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Minister to Switzerland	[1][5]
James G. Hill	1893	architect, head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury	[1]
Joseph Adna Hill	1900	statistician and chief of the division, U.S. Census Office	[1][5]
Nathaniel P. Hill	1883	senator, professor of Brown University, mining engineer	[1]
Samuel Hill	1895–1900	lawyer, railroad executive, president Minneapolis Trust Co.	[1]
Robert Cutler Hinckley	1886–1887	artist	[1]
A. S. Hitchcock		agrostologist and senior botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
Frank Harris Hitchcock	1901	chief, section of foreign markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Postmaster General	[1]
William Hitz		associate justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Supreme Court of the District of Columbia	[5]
Frederick Webb Hodge	1898	international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution; anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian	[1]
Howard Lincoln Hodgkins	1895	professor of mathematics, Columbian University	[1][5]
Samuel B. Holabird	1887–1889	brigadier general, quartermaster general, U. S. Army	[1]
Edward S. Holden	1878	astronomer and professor of mathematics for U. S. Navy	[34][1]
William Jacob Holland	1900	zoologist' director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; chancellor, University of Pittsburgh	[1]
Herman Hollerith	1886	statistician, inventor	[1]
Ned Hollister		biologist and superintendent of the National Zoological Park	[5]
Joseph Austin Holmes	1902	geologist, first director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines	[1]
Oliver Wendell Holmes		archivist and historian	[1]
William Henry Holmes	1878	chief, Bureau of American Ethnology; illustrator, U.S. Geological Survey; archaeologist,Smithsonian Institution	[3][34][1][18][5]
Judy Holoviak	1999	director of publications at the American Geophysical Union	[143][144][34][9]
Calvin B. Hoover		Economist and academic	[145]
Herbert Hoover	1921–1964	president of the United States	[3][9][120]
Andrew Delmar Hopkins	1903	entomologist, investigator of foliage insects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][146][5]
Stanley Hornbeck		Economist, author, professor, diplomat	[5]
William Temple Hornaday	1888–1890	taxidermist, U. S. National Museum; zoologist; first director of the New York Zoological Park	[1]
Joseph Coerten Hornblower	1883	architect	[1]
George Horton		consul general, U.S. Foreign Service	[5]
Walter Hough	1890	ethnologist, anthropologist, curator of anthropology at the U.S. National Museum	[1][5]
Riley D. Housewright		microbiologist	[147]
Richard Hovey	1893	poet	[1]
Leland Ossian Howard	1886–1950	entomologist, chief of the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture	[34][9][1][18]
Harrison E. Howe		chemical engineer, head of the Division of Research Extension, National Research Council,	[5]
William Wirt Howe	1899	associate justice Louisiana Supreme Court	[1]
Alfred Brazier Howell		comparative anatomist, zoologist	[5]
Edwin E. Howell	1891	Geologist, relief map maker	[1]
Henry W. Howgate	1878	U.S. Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer	[1]
Henry L. Howison	1883–1884	rear admiral, U.S. Navy; professor and department head, United States Naval Academy	[1]
Richard L. Hoxie		brigadier general in the United States Army	[5]
Gardiner Greene Hubbard	1883	lawyer, president of the National Geographic Society	[1]
Henry Guernsey Hubbard	1884	entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
J. Stephen Huebner	1973	research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	[148][62][149]
Edgar Erskine Hume		physician, a major general in the U.S Army medical corps	[5]
Paul Hume		music critic
Harry Baker Humphrey		botanist, pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
Edward Eyre Hunt Jr.		academic, physical anthropologist and human biologist	[5]
William Jackson Humphreys		Physicist and atmospheric researcher	[5]
Gaillard Hunt	1894–1897	state department, author	[1]
Thomas Sterry Hunt	1887	chemist, geologist, mineralogist	[1]
Benjamin Hutto		musician specializing in writing, producing and directing choral music
James A. Hyslop		entomologist, U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.	[5]
Joseph P. Iddings	1885	professor of petrology, University of Chicago	[1]
M. Thomas Inge		academic	[150]
Ernest Ingersoll	1882	Naturalist, writer, explorer	[1]
Ketanji Brown Jackson		U.S. Supreme Court justice	[120]
William Henry Jackson		Photographer, painter	[5]
Elaine Jaffe	1988	physician; pathologist; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health	[16]
A. Everette James Jr.	1981–2017	radiologist, academic, and founder of the Center for Medical Imaging Research	[3][151]
J. Franklin Jameson		historian, director of the department of historical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington	[5]
William Marion Jardine		United States Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Minister to Egypt	[5]
Jeremiah Jenks	1903	professor of economics at Cornell University	[1]
Emory Richard Johnson	1900	economist, Isthmian Canal Commissioner	[1]
Nelson T. Johnson		ambassador, diplomat	[5]
Andrieus A. Jones		Senator, lawyer	[5]
Ernest Lester Jones		Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, father of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, which later became the NOAA Commissioned Corps	[5]
H. McCoy Jones	1969	president of the International Hajji Baba Society, oriental rug collector	[152]
Neil Judd		curator of American archaeology, U.S. National Museum	[5]
Julius Kaplan	1983	art historian	[3][9]
Walter Karig		Officer in charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, assistant director of Navy public relations	[153]
Samuel Hay Kauffman	1881	publisher, editor of the Evening Star	[4][1]
Rudolph Kauffmann		managing editor Evening Star, vice president Evening Star Company	[5]
Thomas Henry Kearney	1901	botanist and agronomist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][5]
Robert V. Keeley	1985	diplomat	[154]
Arthur Keith		geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[5]
Vernon Lyman Kellogg		secretary, National Research Council; entomologist	[5]
Brian Kelly	2013	author, journalist, editor
George Kennan	1879–1885	Explorer, author, lecturer	[1]
George F. Kennan		Diplomat and historian	[52]
Frederick C. Kenyon	1897	zoologist and anatomist	[1]
Washington Caruther Kerr	1882–1884	State Geologist of North Carolina	[1][155][156]
Mary Dublin Keyserling	1988	economist	[16]
Jerome H. Kidder	1879	surgeon, astronomer with Smithsonian Institution and Naval Research Laboratory	[1]
James J. Kilpatrick		Journalist, newspaper columnist	[52]
Sumner Increase Kimball	1887	politician, superintendent United States Life Savings Service	[1]
William Wirt Kimball	1879–1880	U.S. naval officer and an early pioneer in the development of submarines	[1]
Albert Freeman Africanus King	1880	physician	[1]
Clarence King	1878–1881	first director of the U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Henry Kissinger		United States Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Prize	[3][120]
Jacques Paul Klein		Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret.); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (Ret.); Major General of the USAF (Ret.)	[157]
Ernest Knaebel		lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court	[5]
Martin Augustine Knapp	1893	chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; United States circuit judge	[1]
Frank Knowlton	1890	paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
John Jay Knox Jr.	1878	Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department	[1]
Simmie Knox	2006	Painter, portraitist	[9]
George M. Kober		physician, author, namesake of George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship	[5]
John Oliver La Gorce		editor, National Geographic Society	[5]
Carol C. Laise	1988	director of Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; Ambassador to Nepal	[16]
Theodore Frederick Laist	1901	architect; chief architect central district, Interstate Commerce Commission	[1][158]
Samuel Langley	1880	physicist, astronomer, Secretary of the Smithsonian	[52][3][34][1]
Walter H. Larrimer		entomologist; chief, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5][159]
Carl. W. Larson		Chief, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; director, National Dairy Council	[5][160]
James Laurence Laughlin		Economist, academic	[5]
Thelma Z. Lavine		Philosopheracademic	[161]
Luther Morris Leisenring		architect	[5]
Levi Leiter	1883	capitalist, co-founded Marshall Field & Company	[1]
Peter P. Lejins	1970	educator, criminologist, director of the National Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology	[2]
Waldo Gifford Leland		historian and archivist, Carnegie Institution and Library of Congress	[5]
Samuel Conrad Lemly	1884–1890	Judge Advocate General of the Navy	[162][163][1]
Harvey J. Levin	1986	economist	[164]
Francis E. Leupp	1885–1894, 1902	journalist, New York Evening Post assistant editor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs	[1][165][166]
David C. Levy		president and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design	[167]
George W. Lewis		director, Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics	[5]
Sinclair Lewis		writer, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize	[3][120]
William Mather Lewis		teacher, university president, state and national government official	[5]
Manuel de Oliveira Lima		Brazilian writer, literary critic, diplomat, historian, and journalist	[5]
Samuel C. Lind		radiation chemist, the father of modern radiation chemistry	[5]
Waldemar Lindgren	1896	geologist, U. S. Geological Survey	[1]
Michael C. Linn		Attorney and businessman	[168]
Sol Linowitz	1994	lawyer	[169]
Walter Lippmann		journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner	[3][120]
George W. Littlehales	1900	hydrographic engineer, Navy Department	[1][5]
Arthur H. Livermore		professor of biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College	[170]
Charles S. Lobingier		International judge, author, and law instructor	[5]
Edwin Chesley Estes Lord	1895	geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Max O. Lorenz		economist and statistician	[5]
Alan David Lourie		U.S. circuit judge, chemist	[122][123]
Alfred Maurice Low	1898	journalist	[1]
Isador Lubin		head, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics	[5]
Anthony Francis Lucas	1893	engineer, explorer	[1]
Robert Luce		Congressman, writer,	[5]
William Ludlow	1883–1888	major, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; major general U.S. Army	[1]
David Alexander Lyle	1887	major, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; inventor of the Lyle gun	[1][171][172]
Theodore Lyman III	1884–1885	Natural scientist, congressman	[1]
Frank Lyon		lawyer, newspaper publisher, and land developer	[5]
Arthur MacArthur Sr.	1888–1893	associate justice, Supreme Court District of Columbia; Governor of Wisconsin	[1]
Alexander Mackay-Smith	1893–1903	bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania	[1]
Archibald MacLeish		poet, Librarian of Congress, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize	[3]
Garrick Mallery	1878	ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution	[3][28][34][9]
Charles M. Manly	1899	engineer	[1]
Charles A. Mann	1887	Lawyer and politician	[1]
Parker Mann	1887–1890, 1894–1899	artist	[1][173][174]
Van H. Manning	1893	director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines	[1]
George Rogers Mansfield		geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[175]
Curtis F. Marbut		Director of the Soil Survey Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
Deanna B. Marcum	1994	librarian, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources	[176]
Hans Mark		professor of aerospace engineering, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force	[177]
Ronald A. Marks		senior official with the Central Intelligence Agency	[178]
Charles Lester Marlatt	1894	chief of the Bureau of Entomology	[34][1]
Harry A. Marmer		engineer, mathematician, and oceanographer with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Fred Maroon		photographer	[3]
Charles Dwight Marsh		botanist; physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
William Johnston Marsh	1895	architect	[1][179][180]
James Rush Marshall	1883	architect	[1][5]
H. Newell Martin	1878–1880	physiologist, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University	[1]
Robert S. Martin		librarian, archivist, administrator, and professor
Susan K Martin	1988	librarian; executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science	[16]
Charles F. Marvin	1890	professor of meteorology; chief, U.S. Weather Bureau	[1][5]
Otis Tufton Mason	1878–1898	ethnologist; curator, U.S. National Museum	[1]
Stephen Mather		first director of the National Park Service	[5]
François E. Matthes		geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[5]
Washington Matthews	1884–1900	surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist	[1]
Philip Mauro	1894	lawyer	[1]
George Hebard Maxwell	1899	lawyer, lobbyist, executive chairman National Irrigation Association	[1]
O. Louis Mazzatenta	2011	photographer and editor with National Geographic	[181][182]
Addams Stratton McAllister		Physicist, electrical engineer,	[5]
John S. McCain Jr.		United States Navy admiral
S. S. McClure	1892	co-founder and editor of McClure's	[1]
Richard Cunningham McCormick	1896–1899	governor of Arizona Territory, congressman, journalist	[1]
George Walter McCoy		director of the National Institute of Health	[5]
Walter I. McCoy		chief justice of the D.C. Supreme Court	[5]
Arthur Williams McCurdy	1898	inventor, astronomer	[1]
William John McGee	1885	ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution	[1][18]
John P. McGovern	1953–2007	allergist and philanthropist	[3][2][9]
Gerald S. McGowan		lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal	[183]
Jonas H. McGowan	1902	Lawyer, congressman	[1]
Frederick Banders McGuire	1883–1901	director Corcoran Art Gallery	[1]
Charles Follen McKim	1902	architect	[1]
William B. McKinley		U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative	[5]
Ann Dore McLaughlin	1988	U.S. Secretary of Labor	[16]
Robert McNamara		U.S. Secretary of Defense	[36]
Elwood Mead	1903	irrigation engineer, head of United States Bureau of Reclamation	[1][5]
Milton Bennett Medary		architect	[5]
Oscar Edward Meinzer		hydrogeologist	[5]
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall	1885	superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; president Worcester Polytechnic Institute	[1]
Walter Curran Mendenhall	1902	director of the US Geological Survey	[1][5]
Clinton Hart Merriam	1886	chief U.S. Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][5]
John Campbell Merriam		paleontologist	[5]
William Rush Merriam	1899–1900	director of the U.S. Census, governor of Minnesota	[1]
George Perkins Merrill	1893	curator, department of geology, U.S. National Museum	[1]
Edmund Clarence Messer	1902	artist	[1][184]
Balthasar H. Meyer		Interstate Commerce Commission, economist, academic	[5]
Eugene Meyer		chairman of the Federal Reserve, publisher of The Washington Post	[5]
Ellen Miles	2005	curator of the National Portrait Gallery	[9]
Christine Odell Cook Miller		judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims	[122]
Eleazar Hutchinson Miller	1893–1899	artist	[185][3][1]
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.	1903	biologist, assistant curator of mammals, U.S. National Museum	[1][5]
Warren L. Miller		chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
John D. Millett		chancellor, Miami University; senior vice president, Academy for Educational Development
Robert Andrews Millikan		physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics	[3][9]
Harry A. Millis		economist, educator, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
Arthur Millspaugh		Administrator general of the finance of Persia	[5]
George Heron Milne		Librarian and chief of the Congressional Reading Room
Cosmos Mindeleff	1887	journalist	[1]
Charles Sedgwick Minot	1902	anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research	[1]
Betty C. Monkman	2004	curator of the White House	[10]
Charles Moore	1891	Journalist, historian, city planner, and clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia	[1]
George Thomas Moore	1903	botanist, plant physiologist, algologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
John Moore	1887	Surgeon General of the U.S. Army	[1]
John Bassett Moore	1887	judge, Assistant Secretary of State, professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University	[1]
Veranus Alva Moore	1895	professor of comparative pathology and bacteriology, Cornell University	[1][186]
Willis Luther Moore	1895	chief of the weather bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][187]
George W. Morey		geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist	[5]
Sylvanus Morley		archaeologist	[5]
Edward Lyman Morris		botanist, curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences	[188]
Edward Lind Morse	1902	artist	[1][189]
Harold G. Moulton		economist	[5]
Charles Edward Munroe	1882–1885, 1892	chemistry professor, Columbian University	[34][1]
Denys Peter Myers	1977–2003	architectural historian with National Park Service, part of the Monuments Men team	[143][9][190][191]
Charles Willis Needham	1894	president George Washington University; solicitor, Interstate Commerce Commission	[1][5]
Charles P. Neill	1900	economist, U.S. Commissioner of Labor; professor of political economy, Catholic University	[1][5]
Edward William Nelson	1882–1883, 1903	naturalist and ethnologist, chief of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey	[1][5]
Henry Clay Nelson	1883	medical inspector and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Navy	[1]
Edwin Lowe Neville		diplomat	[5][192][193]
W. Coleman Nevils		Jesuit educator
John Strong Newberry	1878	professor of geology and paleontology at Columbia University School of Mines	[194]
Simon Newcomb	1880	rear admiral, professor at the Naval Observatory and Georgetown University	[3][9][1]
Frederick Haynes Newell	1890	chief, division of hydrography, U. S. Geological Survey; director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation	[1][5]
Oliver Peck Newman		president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; journalist	[5]
David George Newton		United States Ambassador to Iraq and Yemen
Hobart Nichols	1902–1962	painter; paleontologic draftsman, U.S. Geological Survey	[9][1]
Nathaniel B. Nichols		illustrator with U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of American Ethnology
Harald Herborg Nielsen	1954	physicist
Charles Nordhoff	1880–1883, 1888	Journalist, author	[1]
Thaddeus Norris	1894–1897	writer, father of American fly fishing	[1][195]
S. N. D. North	1899	director of the U.S. Census, statistician	[1]
Janet L. Norwood	1988	economist, statistician, U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics	[16][143][9][120]
Crosby Stuart Noyes	1884	editor and publisher of the Washington Evening Star	[1]
Theodore W. Noyes	1887	editor the Washington Evening Star	[1][5]
William A. Noyes	1903	chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	[1]
Perley G. Nutting		optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America	[5]
Harry C. Oberholser		ornithologist	[5]
Robert Lincoln O'Brien	1899	journalist, chairman of U.S. Tariff Commission	[1][196]
Stephen J. O'Brien		geneticist
Sandra Day O'Connor		U.S. Supreme Court justice	[36]
Paul Henry Oehser		journalist	[52][18]
Goetz Oertel		physicist	[197]
Herbert Gouverneur Ogden	1889	civil engineer, inspector of hydrography and topography, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey	[1]
Frederick E. Olmsted	1902	forester and agent with the Bureau of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.	1917–1957	landscape architect	[143]
Mark Olshaker		author	[65][44]
Frederick I. Ordway III		Air space scientist, author, educator	[198]
William Allen Orton		Plant pathologist, Director of the Tropical Research Foundation	[5][199][200]
Henry Fairfield Osborn	1894	academic, president of the American Museum of Natural History	[1]
Wilfred Hudson Osgood	1901	zoologist; staff with Division of Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Joseph H. Outhwaite	1886–1893	Lawyer and congressman	[1]
Robert Latham Owen	1899	Senator for Oklahoma	[1][5]
Robert Oxnam		Writer and academic
Harvey L. Page	1880	architect	[1]
Thomas Nelson Page	1885	author and U.S. Ambassador to Italy	[1]
William Nelson Page		Civil engineer and industrialist	[5]
Sidney Paige		geologist, faculty of Columbia University	[5][201]
Alajos Paikert	1901–1903	farmer, lawyer, director of the Museum of Hungarian Agricultural	[1]
Theodore Sherman Palmer	1885	co-founder of the National Audubon Society	[1]
Stefan Panaretov		Diplomat and professor	[5]
Walter Paris	1883–1885	artist	[1][202][203]
John Parke	1878–1880	colonel with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, general in the Civil War	[1]
Charles Lathrop Parsons		chemist	[5]
William Ordway Partridge	1894	sculptor	[1]
Leo Pasvolsky		Journalist, economist	[5]
Stewart Paton	1903	educator and physician specializing in neuropsychiatry	[1]
Richard North Patterson		novelist	[204]
Raymond Stanton Patton		director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, rear admiral	[205]
Charles O. Paullin		author, naval historian	[5]
George Foster Peabody	1896	banker	[1]
Albert Charles Peale	1883	geologist, mineralogist, paleobotanist, Section of Paleobotany U.S. National Museum	[1]
Raymond Allen Pearson	1897	Assistant, Dairy Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture; college president	[1]
Horace Peaslee	1926–1959	architect	[52][143][9]
Dallas Lynn Peck		director of the U.S. Geological Survey	[206]
William Thomas Pecora		director of the U.S. Geological Survey	[207]
Stanton J. Peelle		Politician and jurist	[208]
R. A. F. Penrose Jr.	1889–1897	geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey	[1]
Jack Perlmutter		artist, printmaker	[44][209]
Joseph E. Pesce	2010	astrophysicist	[210]
William John Peters	1889	topographer, U. S. Geological Survey, explorer	[1][5]
Esther Peterson	1988	consumer advocate; United Nations representative	[16]
Ivan Petrof	1881–1885	Writer, translator, and statistician of Alaska for the U.S. Census	[1]
Duncan Phillips		art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America	[5]
Walter P. Phillips	1882–1888	head of the United Press International, journalist, telegrapher, and inventor	[1]
Thomas R. Pickering		diplomat	[185]
Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce	1901	Unitarian minister who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate	[1][5]
Theodore Wells Pietsch I	1902	architect; designer, Office Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department	[1]
Charles Snowden Piggot		chemist and geophysicist, one of the founding fathers of ocean-bottom marine research	[5][211]
James Pilling	1879	ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology	[1]
Michael Pillsbury		Strategist and expert on China	[212]
Gifford Pinchot	1897–1946	chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[46][1]
Edmund Platt		congressman, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve	[5]
Michael Pocalyko		Businessman and writer	[213]
Forrest Pogue		military historian
William Mundy Poindexter	1883	architect	[1][214][215]
Charles Louis Pollard	1900	botanist, assistant curator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany	[216][1]
John Addison Porter	1884–1888	clerk to Senate Committee; Secretary to the President, journalist	[1]
George B. Post	1903	architect	[1]
Louis F. Post		Assistant United States Secretary of Labor	[5]
John Wesley Powell	1878	director of the U.S. Geological Survey, director Bureau of American Ethnology	[185][3][52]
William Bramwell Powell	1886–1901	educator	[1]
Frederick Belding Power		Research chemist and academic	[5]
Frank Presbrey	1892–1894	pioneering advertiser	[1]
Overton Westfeldt Price	1902	assistant chief, Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][217]
William Jennings Price		professor of law Georgetown University; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Panama)	[5][218]
Irwin G. Priest		Chief of Colorimetry Section Bureau of Standards	[5]
Henry Smith Pritchett	1878–1880, 1897	astronomer, university president, superintendent of United States Coast and Geodetic Survey	[34][1]
John Robert Procter	1894	geologist, Kentucky State geolostic survey, civil service commissioner	[1]
Raphael Pumpelly	1889–1894	Geologist, author, explorer	[1]
Edmund R. Purves		architect	[219]
Merlo J. Pusey		journalist	[220]
Herbert Putnam	1900	Librarian of Congress	[34][1][5]
Frederic Bennett Pyle	1900	architect	[1][5]
Altus Lacy Quaintance		Entomologist and associate chief of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology	[5]
Wallace Radcliffe		pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church	[5][221]
Jackson H. Ralston		Lawyer, professor of international law	[5][222][223]
John Hall Rankin	1902	architect	[1][224]
Frederick Leslie Ransome	1899	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Richard Rathbun	1883	biologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution	[1][18]
George Lansing Raymond	1898	professor of esthetics, Princeton University	[1][5]
Mila Rechcigl		researcher
Walter Reed	1893	U.S. Army physician and surgeon	[1]
John Bernard Reeside Jr.		geologist and paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[5][225][226]
Alan Reich		deputy assistant Secretary of State for Educational and cultural affairs	[227]
Ira Remsen	1878–1882	chemist and president of Johns Hopkins University	[52][1]
James Burton Reynolds		banker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	[5]
Joseph J. Reynolds	1886	colonel, cavalry, U.S. Army; engineer, and educator	[1]
C. Allen Thorndike Rice	1879	journalist and the editor and publisher of the North American Review	[1]
George S. Rice		Chief, Mining Division, U.S. Bureau of Mines	[5][228]
Joseph Mayer Rice	1897	physician, editor of The Forum magazine	[1]
Lois Rice	1988	Education policy scholar	[16]
William Gorham Rice	1896	Civil Service Commissioner, author	[1]
George Burr Richardson	1902	field geologist with U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Charles Valentine Riley	1878	pioneer in entomology, curator of insects at the U.S. National Museum	[52][29][1]
Arthur Cuming Ringland		forester, conservationist, and founder of CARE	[229][5]
Sidney Dillon Ripley II		ornithologist, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Charles Ritcheson		historian, diplomat, and university administrator	[230]
William Emerson Ritter		Zoologist, biologist	[5]
Ellis H. Roberts		Treasurer of the United States, congressman	[1]
George E. Roberts	1901	director of the United States Mint	[1]
Beverly Robertson	1886–1890	cavalry officer in the United States Army	[1]
George M. Robeson	1883–1886	Secretary of the Navy, congressman	[1]
Thomas Ralph Robinson		horticulturalist	[5][231]
Nelson Rockefeller		Vice President of the United States
William Woodville Rockhill	1901	diplomat, director Bureau American Republics	[1]
Lore Alford Rogers		bacteriologist, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[5]
Sievert Allen Rohwer		entomologist	[5]
Nina Roscher	1988	Professor of chemistry at American University	[16]
Edward Bennett Rosa	1902	physicist, U.S. Bureau of Standards	[1]
Milton J. Rosenau	1902	professor and assistant surgeon, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service	[1]
Joseph Nelson Rose	1893	assistant curator, Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum	[1][5]
John F. Ross	2000	Historian and author	[232]
Abbott Lawrence Rotch	1891	meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory	[1]
Leo Stanton Rowe	1901	professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director general of the Pan-American Union	[1]
Henry Augustus Rowland	1878–1887	physicist and Johns Hopkins educator	[1]
George Rublee		lawyer	[5]
Walter Rundell Jr.		Historian, archivist, and author
William Edwin Safford		botanist	[5]
Carl Sagan		Astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
Daniel Elmer Salmon	1884	veterinarian; chief Bureau Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture	[1]
William Salomon	1897	banker	[1]
Henry Y. Satterlee	1903	Bishop of Washington, Episcopal Church	[1]
Rufus Saxton	1889–1891	colonel, assistant Quartermaster General, U.S. Army	[1]
Antonin Scalia	19xx–1985	U.S. Supreme Court Justice	[233]
Rudolf E. Schoenfeld	1952–1981	ambassador	[9]
James Brown Scott		authority on international law, author, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace	[5]
Frank Charles Schrader	1903	geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University	[1][5]
Charles Schuchert	1895	invertebrate paleontologist, assistant curator for U.S. National Museum	[1]
Carol Schwartz	1989	politician	[234]
Eugene Amandus Schwarz	1889	entomological investigator, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Emil Alexander de Schweinitz	1889	director of biochemical laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Glenn T. Seaborg		chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize	[3]
William Henry Seaman	1887	examiner, U.S. Patent Office; a federal judge
George Mary Searle	1890–1894	Catholic priest and professor of astronomy, Catholic University	[1]
Atherton Seidell		founder of the American Documentation Institute	[5]
Harold Seidman		political scientist	[235]
Frederick Seitz	1954	physicist at Rockefeller University, National Medal of Science recipient	[2]
Ruth O. Selig	2007	anthropologist and educator	[10]
George Dudley Seymour	1897	Historian, patent attorney, antiquarian, author, and city planner	[1]
Nathaniel Shaler	1885	geologist; dean Lawrence Scientific School; professor geology, Harvard University	[9][1]
Homer L. Shantz		botanist and president of the University of Arizona	[5]
Willis Shapley		NASA administrator	[44]
Samuel Shellabarger	1881–1884	Lawyer and congressman	[1]
Seth Shepard	1903	associate justice and chief justice Supreme Court District of Columbia	[1]
Charles Wesley Shilling		U.S. Navy physician, researcher, and educator	[236]
Robert Wilson Shufeldt	1889–1895	diplomate, Rear Admiral U.S. Navy	[1]
Robert Wilson Shufeldt Jr.	1881	osteologist, myologist, museologist and ethnographer	[1]
Frederick Lincoln Siddons		associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia	[5]
Louis A. Simon		architect
James B. Simpson	1991	journalist, author, and Episcopal priest	[9]
Fred Singer	1957	physicist, director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, professor University of Virginia	[237]
Jeanne Sinkford	2015	Dentist, first female dean of an American college	[95]
Denis Sinor		Historian and academic	[238]
John Sinkankas		Navy officer, aviator, gemologist, and gem carver	[239]
William W. Skinner		chemist, conservationist, and college football coach	[5]
Edwin Emery Slosson		First director of Science Service, magazine editor, author, journalist, and chemist	[5]
John Humphrey Small		attorney and a U.S. Representative from North Carolina	[5]
Timothy Smiddy		Economist, academic, and diplomat	[5]
Thomas Smillie	1888	photographer and curator, Smithsonian Institution	[1]
Delos H. Smith		architect	[5][240]
Erwin Frink Smith	1891	plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
George P. Smith II		academic	[241]
George Otis Smith	1900	geologist and director of the U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Goldwin Smith	1892–1900	historian and journalist, college professor	[1]
Hugh McCormick Smith	1903	ichthyologist and administrator in the United States Bureau of Fisheries	[1]
John Bernhardt Smith	1886–1889	professor of entomology, assistant U.S. National Museum	[1]
Philip Sidney Smith		Geologist, chief Alaskan geologist, U.S. Geodetic Survey	[5]
Constantine Joseph Smyth		Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.	[5]
Thorvald Solberg		first Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office	[5]
Addison E. Southard		Diplomat, businessman, chief of the Division of Commercial Activities	[5]
Ellis Spear	1896	lawyer, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, brevet brigadier general U.S. Army	[1]
Arthur Coe Spencer	1898	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1][242]
Ainsworth Rand Spofford	1884–1889	journalist, author, Librarian of Congress	[1]
Josiah Edward Spurr	1903	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Thorvald Solberg	1887	Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress	[1]
George Owen Squier	1900	major, U.S. Army Signal Corps; scientist, and inventor	[1]
Wendell Phillips Stafford		associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.	[5]
Paul Carpenter Standley		botanist	[5]
Timothy Willam Stanton	1894	paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1][243]
Robert Stead	1888	architect	[1][244]
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns	1884–1891	paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey; assistant curator U.S. National Museum	[1]
Leonhard Stejneger		curatr of biology U.S. National Museum; ornithologist, herpetologist, and zoologist	[5]
George Miller Sternberg	1893	Surgeon General of the U.S. Army; bacteriologist	[1]
J. Macbride Sterrett	1892	professor of philosophy, Columbian University	[1]
Irwin Stelzer		Economist and columnist
James Stevenson	1884	executive officer, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Julian Steward		anthropologist	[245]
William Mott Steuart	1903	director U.S. Census Office	[1][246][5]
Moses T. Stevens	1893	Congressman and textile manufacturer	[1]
Frederick W. Stevens		physicist	[5]
Walter W. Stewart		Economist, Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Board	[5]
Charles Wardell Stiles	1892	parasitologist and zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry	[1][5]
Frank R. Stockton	1900	author, humorist	[1]
Alfred Holt Stone	1902	Cotton planter, writer, politician	[1]
John Stone Stone		mathematician	[247]
Samuel A. Stouffer		sociologist	[248]
Ellery Cory Stowell		diplomat, professor of international law at Columbia University and American University	[5]
Samuel Wesley Stratton	1901	physicist and the first head of the National Bureau of Standards	[9][1]
Oscar Straus	1900	diplomat, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor	[1]
Thomas Hale Streets	1881–1889	Surgeon, U. S. Navy	[1]
Walter Tennyson Swingle	1899–1902	botanist; agricultural explorer, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1]
Barbara B. Taft	1988	historian and fellow in the Royal Historical Society	[16]
William Howard Taft	1904–1913/30	President of the United States	[3][46][9][120]
Charles Sumner Tainter	1882–1886, 1891	inventor of the Graphophone	[1]
Gerald F. Tape		physicist	[249][44]
Albert H. Taylor		electircal and radio engineer	[5]
James Henry Taylor		mathematician	[250]
Frederick Winslow Taylor	1880–1893	chemist, U.S. National Museum; mechanical engineer	[1]
Henry Clay Taylor	1880–1910	rear admiral in the United States Navy	[1]
James Knox Taylor	1898	supervising architect, U.S. Treasury Department	[1]
Rufus Thayer	1885	judge	[3][1]
Charles Thom		microbiologist, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry	[5]
Almon Harris Thompson	1882	geographer, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Robert E. Thompson		Political writer and journalist
John J. Tigert		Educator and university president	[5]
Samuel Escue Tillman	1889	superintendent of the United States Military Academy, astronomer, engineer	[1]
Otto Hilgard Tittmann	1878–1880, 1884	founder, National Geographic Society; superintendent United States Coast and Geodetic Survey	[52][34][9][1]
Charles Hook Tompkins		architect	[52][5]
James Toumey	1899–1902	Professor at the Yale School of Forestry, superintendent of Tree-Planting, Division of Forestry	[1]
Charles Haskins Townsend	1897	zoologist and director of the New York Aquarium	[1]
Clinton Paul Townsend	1896	chemist; Patent Office examiner	[1]
Richard W. Townshend	1881–1885	congressman	[1]
William L. Trenholm	1887–1901	United States Comptroller of the Currency	[1]
Horace M. Trent		physicist
Alfred Charles True	1896	director experiment stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[1][5]
Frederick W. True	1882	head curator department of biology, U.S. National Museum	[1]
Henry St. George Tucker III		Lawyer and congressman	[5]
Bryant Tuckerman		mathematician	[5]
Lucius Tuckerman	1887	businessman, manufacturer, vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	[1][251]
John Tukey	1955	statistician with Bell Labs and Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient	[2]
Charles Yardley Turner	1910–1918	artist	[9]
Henry Ward Turner	1990–1996	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[252][1]
Scott Turner		mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines	[5]
Merle Tuve		geophysicist	[253]
Frank Tweedy	1885–1901	botanist, topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Sanford J. Ungar	1980	university president
Harold Urey		physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[3]
Charles Fox Urquhart	1895	topographer and administrator with the U.S. Geological Survey	[254][1]
Charles R. Van Hise	1890	geologist, academic and president of the University of Wisconsin	[1]
John van Schaick Jr.		clergyman and editor	[5]
Frank A. Vanderlip	1897	Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; president of the National City Bank of New York	[1]
T. Wayland Vaughan	1897	geologist, U. S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Museum; director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	[1]
Victor C. Vaughan		physician, medical researcher, educator, and academic administrator	[5]
Herman Knickerbocker Vielé	1887–1892	Novelist, short story writer, and poet	[1]
Herbert Elijah Wadsworth	1903	Businessman, politician, and philanthropist	[1][5]
Elwood Otto Wagenhurst	1903	lawyer, football coach	[1][255][5]
Charles Doolittle Walcott	1883	director, U.S. Geological Survey; administrator of the Smithsonian Institution	[1][18]
Patricia Wald	1988	chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia	[16][120]
Francis Amasa Walker	1879–1882	superintendent of the U.S. Census Bureau	[1]
Thomas Walsh	1900	mining engineer who discovered one of the largest gold mines in America	[1]
Clyde W. Warburton		Director of Extension Work of the United States Department of Agriculture	[5][256]
Lester Frank Ward	1878	paleobotanist with the U.S. Geological Survey and American Museum of Natural History	[52]
Samuel Gray Ward	1887–1890	banker, poet, author, and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	[1]
Eugene Fitch Ware	1902	Commissioner of Pensions	[1]
Frank Julian Warne	1911–1948	Journalist, economist, and statistician	[3][5]
Everett Warner	1943–1963	artist	[3]
Edward Wight Washburn		Chemist, chief of the Division of Chemistry of the U.S. Bureau of Standards	[5]
Wilcomb E. Washburn	1965–1997	historian	[143][9]
Walter Washington	1969–2004	Mayor of the District of Columbia	[3][9]
Alan Tower Waterman		physicist	[257]
J. Elfreth Watkins	1888	superintendent and curator of mechanical technology, U.S. National Museum	[1]
David K. Watson	1901–1902	Lawyer and congressman	[1]
Christopher Weaver	2005	software developer and educator at MIT	[258]
William Benning Webb	1887	President of the Board of Commissioners District of Columbia, lawyer	[1]
Joseph Weber		physicist, University of Maryland professor	[259]
Frank E. Webner		Consulting cost accountant, early management author, industrial engineer	[5]
Hutton Webster		Sociologist, author	[260]
Sidney Weintraub		economist
James Clarke Welling	1878	president of Columbian University, co-founder of National Geographic Society.	[34]
Volkmar Wentzel		photographer and cinematographer with National Geographic	[3]
Alexander Wetmore		ornithologist and avian paleontologist	[11][5]
William F. Wharton	1884	jurist, Assistant Secretary of State	[1]
Andrew Dickson White	1896	U.S. Ambassador to Germany, historian, co-founder and president of Cornell University	[1]
Charles Abiathar White	1882–1902	geologist and paleontologist	[1]
David White	1882	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1][5]
Frank White		Treasurer of the United States; Governor of North Dakota	[5]
Gilbert F. White		Geographer, the father of floodplain management	[261]
William Alanson White		neurologist and psychiatrist	[5]
William Allen White		newspapers editor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize	[3]
William Whiting II	1888–1889	politician, congressman	[1]
Beniah Longley Whitman	1895–1900	president Columbian University	[1]
Henry Howard Whitney	1899–1902	brigadier general, U.S. Army	[1]
Milton Whitney	1894	academic and chief, Division of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture	[262][1][263][5]
Frederick W. Whitridge	1883–1884	lawyer, president of the Third Avenue Railway Company	[1]
John Brewer Wight	1902	president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia	[1]
Harvey Washington Wiley	1883–1930	chief chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; author of Pure Food and Drug Act	[1][3][34][9][5]
Walter Francis Willcox	1899	statistician, U.S. Census Bureau; professor at Cornell University	[1]
Maynard Owen Williams		National Geographic foreign correspondent	[5]
Whiting Williams		co-founder of Welfare Federation of Cleveland (predecessor to United Way)	[264]
James Alexander Williamson	1886–1887	commissioner, United States General Land Office; brigadier general U.S. Army	[1]
Bailey Willis	1896	geologist, U.S. Geological Survey	[1]
Edwin Willits	1889–1894	Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and congressman	[1]
Westel W. Willoughby	1894–1895	professor political science, Johns Hopkins University	[1]
William F. Willoughby	1895	author and expert, U.S. Department of Labor	[1][5]
William Holland Wilmer	1896	ophthalmologist; founding director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University	[1]
Jeremiah M. Wilson	1883	educator, lawyer, jurist, and congressman	[1]
M. L. Wilson		professor, undersecretary of agriculture the U.S. Department of Agriculture	[265]
Thomas Wilson	1887	anthropologist; curator prehistoric archaeology, U.S. National Museum	[1]
William Lyne Wilson	1895	Postmaster General, president Washington and Lee University	[1]
Woodrow Wilson	1913–1924	President of the United States	[3][9][120]
Robert Watson Winston		Lawyer, judge, and author	[5][266][267]
Leonard Wood	1895–1897	U.S. Army major general, military governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines.	[1]
Robert Morse Woodbury		Economist, academic, author, and chief statistician of the International Labor Office in Geneva	[5][268][269]
Albert Fred Woods	1896	botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry, university president	[1][270]
Robert Simpson Woodward	1885	Professor of mechanics and mathematical physics, Columbia University	[1]
William Creighton Woodward	1995	medical doctor and lawyer, legislative counsel for the American Medical Association	[1]
John Maynard Woodworth	1878	surgeon general, Marine Hospital Service	[1]
Alma S. Woolley		nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author	[271]
Herman Wouk		writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize	[3]
Carroll D. Wright	1895	Statistician and first U.S. Commissioner of Labor	[1]
Nathan C. Wyeth	1900	architect, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury	[1]
Walter Wyman	1889	supervising surgeon general, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service	[1]
Robert Sterling Yard		Writer, journalist, editor, and wilderness activist	[5]
H. C. Yarrow	1878–1893	ornithologist, herpetologist, surgeon, curator of reptiles in the U.S. National Museum	[34][4][9][5]
Charles W. Yost	1974–1981	Diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Arthur N. Young		Economist and government advisor	[5]
Albert Francis Zahm	1902	academic; chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress	[272][1][5]
Estanislao Zeballos	1894–1895	E. E. and M. P. Argentina	[1]