List of Dartmouth College alumni

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This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School.^[1] Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated 255 classes of students and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni.^[2]

The Dartmouth College class of 1920, posing in the "Bema". Sherman Adams, Gus Sonnenberg, and Edwin Myers were members of this class.

This list uses the following notation:

• D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts
• DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present^[3])
• Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics)
• T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated
• M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program, or the historical equivalent^[4]

Academia and research

Academic administrators

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Benjamin Abbot	1811	President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1788–1838	[5]
Charles Augustus Aiken	1846	President of Union College 1869–1871	[6]
Jesse Appleton	1792	President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819	[7]
Rufus William Bailey	1812	President of Austin College 1862–1863	[8]
Cecil Bancroft	1860	Principal of Phillips Academy 1873–1901	[9]
Samuel Colcord Bartlett	1836	President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892	[10]
Louis T. Benezet	1936	President of Allegheny College 1948–1955, president of Colorado College 1955–1963, president of Claremont Graduate University 1963–1970, president of the University at Albany 1970–1975	[11]
Nathan Brackett	1864	Founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College	[12]
Francis Brown	1805	President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820	[10]
Isaac Newton Carleton	1859	Founder of Carleton School for Boys	[13]
Philander Chase	1795	Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, president of Jubilee College 1831–1852	[14]
Oren B. Cheney	1839	Founder and first president of Bates College 1855–1894	[15]
Daniel Dana	1788	President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821	[10]
Edmund Ezra Day	1905, M.A. 1905	President of Cornell University 1937–1949	[16][17]
John Sloan Dickey	1929	President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970	[10]
Marye Anne Fox	Ph.D 1974	Chancellor of University of California at San Diego 2004–present, chancellor of North Carolina State University 1998–2004	[18]
Jeffrey Garten	1968	Dean of the Yale School of Management 1995–2005	[19]
George Augustus Gates	1873	President of Grinnell College (1887–1900); president of Pomona College (1902–1909); president of Fisk University (1909–1912)	[20]
Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor	1815	Founding president of New-York Central College
Philip J. Hanlon	1977	President of Dartmouth College 2013–2023	[10]
Ernest Martin Hopkins	1901	President of Dartmouth College 1916–1945	[21]
Milo Parker Jewett	1828	President of Vassar College 1862–1864, founder and first president of Judson College 1838–1855	[22]
Amos Kendall	1812	Founder of Gallaudet College for the deaf	[23]
William C. Kirby	1972	Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002–2006	[24]
Benjamin Labaree	1828	President of Middlebury College 1840–1866	[25]
Edward Luck	1971	Vice-president of the International Peace Institute 2001–present, director of the Center on International Organization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University	[26]
Joseph McKeen	1774	President of Bowdoin College 1802–1807	[27]
David T. McLaughlin	1954, T'1955	President of Dartmouth College 1981–1987	[28]
Caleb Mills	1833	First professor of Wabash College 1833–1880, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instructions	[29]
Zephaniah Swift Moore	1793	President of Williams College 1815–1821, president of Amherst College 1821–1823	[30]
Charles S. Murkland	Ph.D 1903	First elected president of New Hampshire College 1893–1903	[31]
Daniel S. Papp	1969	President of Kennesaw State University 2006–present	[32]
Alden Partridge	1806	Founder of Norwich University	[33]
Albert C. Perkins	1859	President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1873–1889	[5]
Martha E. Pollack	1979	President of Cornell University April 2017–
Steve Salbu	MA	Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006–2014)	[34]
Artemas Wyman Sawyer	1847	President of Acadia College 1869–1896	[35]
Asa Dodge Smith	1830	President of Dartmouth College 1863–1877	[10]
Sylvanus Thayer	1807	Superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1817–1833, financier and namesake of the Thayer School of Engineering	[36]
Elisha Ticknor	1783	Originator of system of free primary schools in Boston; founder of first insurance company and savings bank in that town	[37]
Henry N. Tisdale	Ph.D. 1978	President of Claflin University 1994 to 2019	[38][39][40]
William Jewett Tucker	1861	President of Dartmouth College 1893–1909	[41]
John Wheelock	1771	President of Dartmouth College 1779–1815, son of Dartmouth College's founder Eleazar Wheelock	[10]
Robert Witt	T'1965	Chancellor of the University of Alabama System 2012–present; president of the University of Alabama 2003–2012	[42]

Professors and researchers

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Ebenezer Adams	1791	Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy and professor of languages at Dartmouth	[43]
Walter Sydney Adams	1898	Astronomer	[44]
Kwan-Ichi Asakawa	1899	First Japanese professor at a major university in the United States	[45]
Richard W. Bailey	1961	Linguist and scholar of the English language	[46]
Carlos Baker	1932	Professor of literature at Princeton University	[47]
Harold J. Berman	1938	Professor of law at Harvard Law School and Emory University	[48]
Carl Bridenbaugh	1925	Historian of Colonial America	[49]
H. Allen Brooks	1950	Architectural historian and professor at the University of Toronto	[50]
Francis Brown	1870	Semitic scholar	[51]
Manuel Buchwald	1962	Canadian geneticist and researcher	[52]
George S. Bullerjahn	1977	Microbiol ecology and health of Laurentian Great Lakes	[53]
George Bush	1818	Biblical scholar	[54]
Ruth Chang	1985	Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford University	[55]
Stanwood Cobb	1903	Professor of Latin and English, prominent early member of the Baháʼí Faith	[56]
Joshua Coffin	1817	Schoolteacher and prominent abolitionists	[57]
Levi L. Conant	1879	Mathematician specializing in trigonometry	[58]
Isaac Joslin Cox		Professor of history	[59]
Reuel Denney	1932	Poet and professor of English	[60]
William C. Dowling	1966	Professor of English and American literature at Rutgers University	[61][62]
John C. Ewers	1931	Ethnologist and first director of the National Museum of American History	[63]
Owen M. Fiss	1959	Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School	[64]
Michael Gazzaniga	1961	Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience	[65]
Marissa Giustina		Physicist, Senior Research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab	[66]
Kenneth M. Golden	1980	Applied mathematician, Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah	[67]
Lillian Guerra	1992	History researcher and author, professor at the University of Florida	[68]
John Hagelin	1975	Theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory	[69]
Jeffrey Hart	1951 (transferred to Columbia University)	Professor of English at Dartmouth College	[70][71]
Ira Michael Heyman	1951	Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley	[72]
H. Wiley Hitchcock	1944	Musicologist	[73]
Jeremy Howick	1992	University of Oxford Philosopher and Clinical Epidemiologist specialising in Evidence-Based Medicine and Placebo research	[74]
Robert A. Jarrow	T'1976	Professor of investment management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University	[75][76]
Ernest Everett Just	1907	Biologist, first recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1915	[77]
Neal Katyal	1991	Georgetown Law School professor, lawyer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld	[78]
Edward Klima	1953	Linguist at University of California, San Diego, researcher of sign languages	[79]
Barbara Krauthamer	1989	Historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University	[80]
David M. Kreps	1972	Economics professor at Stanford, winner of John Bates Clark Medal	[81]
John C. Lilly	DMS 1938–40 (never graduated)	Physician, psychoanalyst, and writer; experimenter into the nature of consciousness	[82]
Edward Norton Lorenz	1938	Professor at MIT, founder of chaos theory, winner of Kyoto Prize in 1993	[83]
Dan Milisavljevic	Ph.D	Astronomer, co-discoverer of three moons of Uranus	[84][85]
Henry Ruthven Monteith	A.B. 1869	Distinguished history professor at the University of Connecticut	[86]
Kenneth N. Ogle	Ph.D 1930	Researcher in human vision, and professor at the Dartmouth Eye Institute	[87]
John Ordronaux	1850	Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner	[88]
William Padula	M.S. 2008	professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics at the University of Southern California	[89]
Richard Parker		Economist, lecturer at Harvard University, co-founder of Mother Jones	[90]
Richard Anthony Parker	1930	Egyptologist, made major discoveries in ancient astronomy and chronology	[91]
Fred Lewis Pattee	1888	Professor of American Literature at the Pennsylvania State University	[92]
Russell Pinkston		Professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Texas at Austin	[93]
John M. Richardson		Professor of International Development at American University	[94]
Arunas Rudvalis	M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969	Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst	[95]
Frederick Schauer	1967	David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law
William H. Schlesinger	1972	Biogeochemistry researcher	[96]
David Silbersweig		Psychiatric and mental illness researcher at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic	[97]
John Smith	1773	Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental languages at Dartmouth College; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the board of trustees	[98][99]
Justin Harvey Smith	1877	Historian, Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth College	[100]
Page Smith	1940	Historian, author, founding provost of Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz	[101]
David Spindler	1989	Independent researcher of the Great Wall of China	[102]
Scott Straus	1993	Assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison	[103]
John Tallmadge		Professor of literature and environmental studies at Union Institute & University	[104]
Alan D. Taylor	Ph.D 1975	Mathematician, co-discoverer of a solution for envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people	[105]
George Ticknor	1807	Expert on Spanish literature	[106]
Lynne H. Walling	Ph.D. 1987	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society	[107]
Lloyd L. Weinreb	1957	Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School	[108]
Stephen Wizner	1959	Professor of law and supervising attorney at the Yale Law School	[109]
Charles Augustus Young	1853	Astronomer, made first observations of the flash spectrum of the sun during solar eclipses of 1869–70	[110]
Todd Zywicki	1988	Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law	[111]

MacArthur Fellows

The MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research award commonly called the "Genius Grant."

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Annette Gordon-Reed	1981	Law and History Professor at Harvard University, 2010 MacArthur Fellow	[112]
Becca Heller	2005	Human Rights Lawyer, 2018 MacArthur Fellow	[113]
Stuart Kauffman	1961	Theoretical biologist, 1987 MacArthur Fellow	[114]
Terry Plank	1985	Professor of Earth science and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory	[115]
John A. Rich	1980	Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, 2006 MacArthur Fellow	[116]
Anna Schuleit	M.A.L.S. 2005	Visual artist; 2006 MacArthur Fellow	[117]
Jeffrey Weeks	1978	Mathematician, 1999 MacArthur Fellow	[118]

Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Owen Chamberlain	1941	Co-winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics	[119]
Karl Barry Sharpless	1963	Winner of 2001 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[120]
George Davis Snell	1926	Co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	[121]

Architecture, engineering and building industry

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Michael Arad	1991	Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial	[122]
William McDonough	1973	Noted "green" designer, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1994–1999	[123]
James Pulliam		California Modernist architect and educator	[124]
David Todd	1934	Designer of Manhattan Plaza, chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1989–1990	[125]
Mario Torroella	1957	Cuban-American modernist architect and artist; co-founder and principal of HMFH Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects	[126]
Robert K. Watson	1984	Market transformation expert and founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System	[127]
Fred Wesley Wentworth	1889	Architect of many buildings in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity House at Dartmouth; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects	[128][129]

Arts

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
David R. Brown	1967, T (Executive Education Program)	Graphic designer and academic administrator	[130]
Abner Dean	1931	Cartoonist	[131]
Dan Gilroy	1981	Director and screenwriter	[132]
Andrea Higgins	1992	Painter	[133]
Erich Kunzel	1957	Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra for its Memorial Day and Independence Day concerts	[134]
Mike Melvoin	1959	Jazz pianist	[135]
Mateo Romero		Native American painter	[136]
Augustus Washington	(never graduated)	Photographer and daguerreotypist	[137]
Paul Weston	1933	Pianist, composer, and conductor	[138]
Jonathan Wolken	1971	Founder of the Pilobolus dance company	[139]

Business and finance

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Sandy Alderson	1969	General manager of New York Mets baseball team	[140]
Elyse Allan	1979, T'1984	President and CEO of GE Canada; vice president of General Electric	[141]
Johan H. Andresen Jr.	1988	Former CEO and chairman of Ferd; billionaire businessman, 5th wealthiest person in Norway
C. Michael Armstrong	T'1976 (Advanced Management Program)	CEO and chairman of AT&T	[142]
Zdeněk Bakala	T'1989	Czech investor and philanthropist; billionaire businessman
Peter Barris	Th'1982	Co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Polaris Partners, Forbes Midas List	[143]
Dan Baum	1983	Founder of Shutterfly	[144]
Michael Beckley	1996	Co-founder and CTO of Appian Corporation
Linda Behnken		Commercial fisher	[145]
Donald D. Belcher	1960	CEO of Banta Corporation	[146]
John Bello	T'1974	Founder and former CEO of SoBe	[147]
Austin Beutner	1982	Founder of global investment banking firm Evercore; former partner at The Blackstone Group	[148]
George Bissell	1845	Industrialist, oil industry pioneer; "father of the American oil industry"	[149]
Leon Black	1973	CEO and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; chairman of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art); billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people"	[150]
Gail Koziara Boudreaux	1982	Chairman and CEO of Anthem[151]
Glenn Britt	1971	President and CEO of Time Warner Cable
Trevor Burgess	1994	First openly gay bank CEO, founder of TRB Development majority shareholder and CEO of Neptune Flood Insurance	[152]
Patrick Byrne	1985	Founder, former CEO and chairman of Overstock.com
Matt Calkins	1994	Founder and CEO of Appian Corporation, billionaire	[153]
Walter Tenney Carleton	1891	Founding director of NEC	[154]
Russell Carson	1965	Co-founder and general partner of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; former chairman and CEO of Citicorp Venture Capital (renamed Court Square Capital Partners)
Lew Cirne	1993	Founder and CEO of Wily Technology and New Relic	[155]
William E. Conway Jr.	1971	Co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, billionaire	[156]
James Coulter	1982	Co-CEO and a founding partner of private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, billionaire	[157]
Tench Coxe	1980	Managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, Founding Board Member and initial investor of Nvidia
Jeff Crowe	1978	Managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List 5x
Alexander Cutler	T'1975	Former chairman and CEO of Eaton Corporation
Peter Darbee	1975, T'1977	Former CEO, president and chairman of Pacific Gas and Electric Company	[158]
Peter R. Dolan	T'1980	Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb	[159]
John Donahoe	1982	CEO of Nike; chairman of the board of PayPal; former CEO of ServiceNow; former CEO of eBay; former CEO and president of Bain & Company; former Dartmouth trustee	[160][161]
Bob DuPuy	1968	Former president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball	[162]
Timothy Geithner	1983	President of private equity firm Warburg Pincus; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.	1963	Former CEO of IBM; CEO of Carlyle Group	[163]
Howard Gilman	1943	Head of the Gilman Paper Company, philanthropist	[164]
David Girouard	1988	Founder and CEO of Upstart, billionaire	[165]
Brian Goldner	1985	CEO of Hasbro	[166]
Ronald Grant	1988	Chief operating officer of AOL LLC	[167]
Jeffrey Gundlach	1981	Investor, founder of investment firm DoubleLine Capital, which manages $140 billion in assets; billionaire
Reyn Guyer	1957	Toy inventor	[168]
Charles E. Haldeman	1970	President and CEO of Freddie Mac	[169]
Donald J. Hall, Sr.	1950	Chairman of the board; former president and CEO of Hallmark Cards	[170]
Broughton Harris	1845	Partner in Harris & Brothers Company railroad construction firm, president of Brattleboro Savings Bank	[171]
Douglas M. Hodge	1979	Former CEO of PIMCO, accused in 2019 college admissions bribery scandal	[172]
Fred A. Howland	1887	Secretary of State of Vermont, president and chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Company	[173]
Susan Huang	1984	Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, Dartmouth Trustee	[174]
Gardiner Greene Hubbard	1841	Co-founder and president of Bell Telephone Company (AT&T); founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; lawyer, financier, and philanthropist	[175]
Jeffrey R. Immelt	1978	CEO of General Electric	[176]
Sarah Irving	2010, T'2014	Executive vice president and chief brand officer of Irving Oil, heir to billionaire Arthur Irving	[177]
Greg Jensen	1996	Co-CEO and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, billionaire	[178]
Brian Kim	1997	Former hedge fund manager; criminal	[179][180]
Richard Kimball	1978	Founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures
Bud Konheim	1957	CEO of Nicole Miller	[181]
Herbert Levine	1937	Fashion executive and manufacturer	[182]
Dick Levy	1960	Chairman, president, and former CEO of Varian Medical Systems	[183][184]
Ric Lewis	1984	Founding partner of Tristan Capital Partners and Curzon Global Partners, British businessman
John Lord	1833	Historian and lecturer	[185]
John F. Lundgren	1973	Former CEO and chairman of Stanley Black & Decker
Roger Lynch	T'1995	CEO of Pandora Radio, former CEO of Sling TV	[186]
Greg Maffei	1982	Former CFO at Microsoft, co-president of Oracle, chairman and CEO of 360networks; current CEO at Liberty Media	[187]
Stephen Mandel	1978	Founder and hedge fund portfolio manager of Lone Pine Capital, billionaire
Morton D. May	1936	CEO of May Department Stores Company, philanthropist, and art collector	[188]
Kevin McGrath	T'1977	CEO of Digital Angel	[189]
Terry McGuire	T'1977	Managing general partner of venture firm New Enterprise Associates, Forbes Midas List	[190]
Roger McNamee	T'1982	Founding artner of private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Elevation Partners, billionaire	[191]
Mira Murati	Th'2012	Chief technology officer of OpenAI	[192]
William Horlick Neukom	1964	Former general counsel and chief legal officer at Microsoft, former CEO of the San Francisco Giants, former president of the American Bar Association	[193]
Ken Novack	1963	Former vice chairman of America Online and AOL-Time Warner	[194]
Robert Oelman	1931	President of NCR Corporation	[195]
Henry Paulson	1968	CEO of Goldman Sachs; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006–2009	[196]
Christopher Payne	1990	former COO at DoorDash; former CEO at Tinder; former SVP at eBay
Charles Alfred Pillsbury	1863	Flour industrialist and founder of the Pillsbury Company	[197]
Anthony Pritzker	1983	Managing director of Pritzker Group; billionaire and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune
Scott L. Probasco, Jr.	1950	Banking heir, former chair of the executive committee of SunTrust Banks in Chattanooga	[198]
Geoff Ralston	1982	President of Y Combinator; former chief product officer and SVP at Yahoo!
Bruce Rauner	1978	Founder and chairman of private equity firm GTCR and R8 Capital Partners; former governor of Illinois
Naval Ravikant	1995	CEO and co-founder of AngelList	[199][200]
Trevor Rees-Jones	1973	Founder and chairman of Chief Oil & Gas; billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people"
Janet L. Robinson	T'1996 (Executive Education Program)	President and CEO of the New York Times Company	[201]
T. J. Rodgers	1970	CEO and founder of Cypress Semiconductor	[202]
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor	T'1988	Chairman and CEO of Intercorp, managing general partner of Nexus Group, and chairman of Interbank; billionaire
Steven Rogel	Tuck (Executive Education Program)	Former chairman, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser
Steven Roth	1963	Founder, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, billionaire
Beardsley Ruml	1915	Economist, trust administrator, and business executive	[203]
Enrique Salem	1987	Former CEO of Symantec; managing director at Bain Capital Ventures
L. William Seidman	1943	Economist and financial commentator	[204]
Christopher A. Sinclair	T'1973	Chairman of Reckitt Benckiser, former chairman and CEO of Mattel, former chairman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola	[205]
Ned Skinner	1942	An original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks	[206]
Jimmie Lee Solomon	1978	Executive vice president of baseball operations at Major League Baseball	[207]
Josh B. Stein	1995	Managing general partner of venture firm Threshold Ventures, Forbes Midas List	[208]
Langley Steinert	T'1991	Founder and CEO of CarGurus, co-founder and former chairman of Tripadvisor	[209]
Edward P. Stritter	1968	Engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems, founder of Clarity Wireless and NeTPower, chief architect of the Motorola 68000 CPU (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh)	[210][211][212]
Bill Stromberg	1986	President and CEO of T. Rowe Price	[213]
Robert B. Sturges	1968	New Jersey government official; former executive at Carnival Corp and limited partner of the Miami Heat basketball team
Harry Bates Thayer	1879	President of Western Electric Company; vice president of AT&T	[214]
Grant Tinker	1949	CEO of NBC 1981–86	[215]
Alan Trefler	1977	Founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., billionaire
Edward Tuck	1862	Banker and philanthropist; son of Amos Tuck, donated money to found Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	[216]
Don M. Wilson III	T'1973	Chief risk officer of JPMorgan Chase 2003–2006	[217]
Thatcher Wine	1994	Founder of Juniper Books, bibliophile, author and public speaker	[218]

Entertainment

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Harry Ackerman	1935	Television producer	[219]
Steve Adams	1969	Author, screenwriter	[220]
Robert Allen	1929	Actor in Western films	[221]
Andy Barrie		Host of CBLA-FM's morning drive-time show, Metro Morning, in Toronto, Ontario 1995–2010	[222]
David Benioff	1992	Screenwriter, known for novel and film 25th Hour, Troy; co-creator of Game of Thrones	[223]
Walter Bernstein	1940	Writer and screenwriter	[224]
Paul Binder	1963	Juggler, co-creator of the Big Apple Circus	[225]
David Birney	1961	Actor	[223]
Stan Brakhage	1955 (never graduated)	Director and experimental filmmaker	[226][227]
Jennifer Bransford	1990	Actress on General Hospital	[228]
Connie Britton	1989	Actress; best known for Friday Night Lights, Nashville	[223]
Jim Butterworth	T	Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker	[229]
Sarah Wayne Callies	1999	Actress; best known for Prison Break	[223]
Julie Davis	1990	Screenwriter and film director; best known for Amy's Orgasm, Finding Bliss	[223]
Rachel Dratch	1988	Actress, cast member of Saturday Night Live	[223]
Alison Fanelli	M.S. 2002	Actress on The Adventures of Pete & Pete	[230]
Stephen Geller	1962	Screenwriter of Slaughterhouse-Five	[231]
Dan Gilroy	1981	Screenwriter and film director; best known for Nightcrawler	[231]
John Gilroy		Film editor	[232]
Dylan Mohan Gray	1991	Film director; best known for Fire in the Blood	[223]
David Harbour	1997	Actor; best known for Stranger Things	[233]
Buck Henry	1952	Actor, writer, director; shared Oscar nomination for screenplay for The Graduate	[234]
Alex Kapp Horner	1991	Actress on The New Adventures of Old Christine	[235]
Mindy Kaling	2001	Actress, writer and actress on The Office and The Mindy Project	[236]
Ben Koldyke	1991	Actor on Work It and Mr. Robinson	[237]
Stephen Macht	1963	Actor, TV and film	[223]
Robert L. May	1926	Creator of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Tom McArdle	1991	Film editor, nominated for the Academy Award for Editing Spotlight	[238][239]
Sam Means	2003	Staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	[240]
Chris Meledandri	1981	Film producer, and founder and CEO of Illumination, producer of the Despicable Me franchise	[citation needed]
Chris Miller	1963	Writer for the National Lampoon, co-writer of the screenplay for Animal House (based loosely on his experiences at Dartmouth)	[241]
Michael Moriarty	1963	Actor, winner of three Emmy Awards, one Tony Award and one Golden Globe Award, known for playing Benjamin Stone on Law & Order	[223]
Peter Parnell	1974	Playwright and screenwriter	[242]
Kamran Pasha	1993, T'2000	Hollywood screenwriter and director	[243][244]
Jean Passanante	1974	Head writer of As the World Turns since May 2005; winner of Writers Guild of America Award in 2007	[245]
Bob Rafelson	1954	Filmmaker, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Five Easy Pieces	[246]
Shonda Rhimes	1991	Screenwriter, director, and producer; best known for producing Grey's Anatomy	[247]
W. D. Richter	1968	Director of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	[248][249]
Fred Rogers	1950	Attended 1946–48 before transferring to Rollins College; creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood	[250]
Robert Ryan	1932	Actor, Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominee	[251]
Budd Schulberg	1936	Screenwriter, winner of the Academy Award for On the Waterfront (best original screenplay)	[252]
Andrew Shue	1989	Actor, best known for Melrose Place	[253]
Roger L. Simon	1964	Novelist, screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for Enemies, a Love Story	[254]
Ian Smith	DMS (never graduated)	Author and television personality	[255]
Scott Smith	1987	Screenwriter for A Simple Plan (Academy Award nomination, 1998)	[256]
Herbert Franklin Solow	1953	Producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer	[257]
Safiya Songhai	(never graduated)	Film director, producer, and writer	[258]
Meryl Streep	(exchange student)	Actress	[259]
Seth Swirsky	1982	Pop songwriter and author	[260][261]
Josh Taylor		Actor on Days of Our Lives	[262]
Aisha Tyler	1992	Actress, winner of the NAACP Image Award, portrayed Charlie Wheeler on Friends, Lana Kane on Archer, co-host of The Talk	[223]
Bob Varsha	1973	Auto racing commentator, SPEED Channel	[263]
Peter Viertel	1941	Author and screenwriter	[264]
Stan Waterman	1946	Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and underwater film producer	[265]
Pat Weaver	1930	Pioneering television executive, creator of The Today Show and The Tonight Show, Emmy Award winner	[266]
Norman Weissman		Writer, director, and producer of films	[267]
Brian J. White		Actor and professional football and lacrosse player	[268]
Ken Wlaschin	1956	Film programmer, historian and author	[269]
Jerry Zaks	1967	Tony Award-winning Broadway director and actor	[270]

Government, law, and public policy

Note: Individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.

United States federal and state court judges

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Nicholas Baylies	1794	Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1831–1833	[271][272]
Michael L. Bender	1964	Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court 2010–2014
George Hutchins Bingham	1887	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 1913–1949	[273]
Harrie B. Chase	1909	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1929–1954, Chief Judge 1953–1954	[274]
Salmon P. Chase	1826	Chief Justice of the United States 1864–1873, Senator from Ohio 1849–1855, Governor of Ohio 1856–1860, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1861–1864	[275]
William N. Cohen	1879	Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1897–1898
Robert J. Cordy	1971	Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 2001–2016
Gregg Costa	1994	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2014–2022
Stephen S. Cushing	1906	Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1952–1953	[276]
Charles Donahue	1899	Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1932–1944
Jason Downer	1838	Judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court 1864–1867	[277]
Asa Fowler	1833	Judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1855–1861	[278]
William J. Galbraith	1857	Associate justice of the territorial Montana Supreme Court	[279]
Nathaniel M. Gorton	1960	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 1992–present	[280]
Matthew Harvey	1806	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1831–1866, Representative from New Hampshire 1821–1825, Governor of New Hampshire 1830–1831	[281]
Arthur D. Healey	1913	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 1942–1948, Representative from Massachusetts 1933–1942	[281]
James Stuart Holden	1935	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont 1971–1984
Thomas Penfield Jackson	1958	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 1982–2004, presiding judge in United States v. Microsoft	[282]
Abdul Kallon	1990	Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama 2010–2022
Dominic W. Lanza	1998	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 2018–present	[283]
Gordon J. MacDonald	1983	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire 2021–present
Steven Menashi	2001	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 2019–present	[284]
Sherman R. Moulton	1898	Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1939–1949
George Washington Nesmith	1820	Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1859–1870	[285]
Carl J. Nichols	1992	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 2019–present	[286]
Clarence V. Opper	1918	Judge of the United States Tax Court	[287][288]
Frank Nesmith Parsons	1874	Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1902–1924	[289]
Donald C. Pogue	1969	Chief Judge on the United States Court of International Trade 1995–2016	[290]
Stanley Elroy Qua	1901	Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1934–1956, Chief Justice 1947–1956
John L. Rand	1883	Judge on the Oregon Supreme Court 1921–1942, Chief Justice 1927–29, 1933–1935, 1939–1941	[291]
Beth Robinson	1986	Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 2011–2021 and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2021–present)
Charles B. Schudson	1972	Judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals 1992–2004	[292]
John Samuel Sherburne	1776	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1804–1830, Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797	[281]
Laurence H. Silberman	1957	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 1985–present, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1975–1977, United States Deputy Attorney General 1974–1975, Under-secretary of Labor 1970–1973	[293]
William H. Taylor	1886	Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, 1913–1926	[294]
Webster Thayer	1879	Judge on the Superior Court of Massachusetts, presiding judge over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti	[295]
William H. Timbers	1937	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1971–1994	[296]
Abel Underwood	1824	Judge on the Vermont Circuit Court, 1854–1857	[297]
William H. Walls	1954	Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1994–2019	[298]
Sterry R. Waterman	1922	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Thomas D. Waterman	1981	Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
William Wilson	1797	Judge on the Ohio Court of Common Pleas 4th Judicial Circuit 1808–1822, Representative from Ohio 1823–1827	[281]
Michael A. Wolff	1967	Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri 1998–present, Chief Justice 2002–2005	[299]
Levi Woodbury	1809	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1845–1851, Governor of New Hampshire 1823–1824, Senator from New Hampshire 1825–1831, 1841–1845, United States Secretary of the Navy 1831–1834, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1834–1841	[300]

Executive branch and United States Cabinet members

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Sherman Adams	1920	White House Chief of Staff 1953–1958, Representative from New Hampshire 1945–1947, Governor of New Hampshire 1949–1953	[281]
Amos T. Akerman	1842	United States Attorney General 1870–1872	[301]
Alex Azar	1988	United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 2018–2021
Elaine Chao	(exchange student)	United States Secretary of Labor 2001–2009 United States Secretary of Transportation 2017–2021	[302]
James Forrestal	1915 (transferred to Princeton in sophomore year)	United States Secretary of the Navy 1944–1947, first United States Secretary of Defense 1947–1949	[303]
Anthony M. Frank	1953, T'1954	United States Postmaster General 1988–1992	[304]
Timothy Geithner	1983	United States Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009	[305]
Henry Paulson	1968	United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006–2009; CEO of Goldman Sachs	[196]
Rob Portman	1979	Director of the Office of Management and Budget 2006–2007, Representative from Ohio 1993–2005, U.S. Senator from Ohio 2011–2023	[281]
Redfield Proctor	1851	United States Secretary of War 1889–1891, Senator from Vermont 1891–1908, Governor of Vermont 1878–1880	[281]
Robert Reich	1968	United States Secretary of Labor 1993–1997	[306]
Nelson Rockefeller	1930	Vice President of the United States 1974–1977, Governor of New York 1959–1973	[307]
Daniel Webster	1801	United States Secretary of State 1841–1843, 1850–1852 Representative from Massachusetts 1813–1817, Representative from New Hampshire 1823–1827, Senator from Massachusetts 1827–1841, 1845–1850	[281]
Levi Woodbury	1809	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1845–1851, Governor of New Hampshire 1823–1824, Senator from New Hampshire 1825–1831, 1841–1845, United States Secretary of the Navy 1831–1834, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1834–1841	[300]

Members of the United States Congress

Over 164 Dartmouth graduates have served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.^[281]

Senators

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Charles H. Bell	1844	Senator from New Hampshire 1879–1879, Governor of New Hampshire 1881–1883	[281]
Samuel Bell	1793	Senator from New Hampshire 1823–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1819–1823	[281]
Fred H. Brown	1903	Senator from New Hampshire 1933–1939, Governor of New Hampshire 1923–1925	[281]
Henry E. Burnham	1865	Senator from New Hampshire 1901–1913	[281]
Dudley Chase	1791	Senator from Vermont 1813–1817, 1825–1831, anti-Jacksonian, uncle of Salmon P. Chase	[281]
Rufus Choate	1819	Senator from Massachusetts 1841–1845, Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1834	[281]
Daniel Clark	1834	Senator from New Hampshire 1857–1866, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1864–1865	[281]
Judah Dana	1795	Senator from Maine 1836–1837	[281]
Irving W. Drew	1870	Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1918	[281]
Peter Fitzgerald	1982	Senator from Illinois 1999–2005	[281]
George G. Fogg	1839	Senator from New Hampshire 1866–1867	[281]
Theodore Foster	1786	Senator from Rhode Island 1790–1803	[308]
Kirsten Gillibrand	1988	Senator from New York 2009–present; Representative from New York 2007–2009; first female Dartmouth graduate in Congress	[309][310]
Slade Gorton	1949	Senator from Washington 1981–1987, 1989–2001	[281]
James W. Grimes	1836	Senator from Iowa 1859–1869, Governor of Iowa 1854–1858	[281]
John Hoeven	1979	Senator from North Dakota 2011–present, Governor of North Dakota 2001–2010	[281]
Henry Hubbard	1803	Senator from New Hampshire 1835–1841, Representative from New Hampshire 1829–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1842–1844	[281]
Angus King	1966	Senator from Maine 2013–present, Governor of Maine 1995–2003	[311]
Gilman Marston	1837	Senator from New Hampshire 1889–1889, Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863, 1865–1867	[281]
Thomas J. McIntyre	1937	Senator from New Hampshire 1962–1979	[281]
Hugh Mitchell	1930	Senator from Washington 1945–1946, Representative from Washington 1949–1953	[281]
George H. Moses	1890	Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1933, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1925–1933, Minister to Greece and Montenegro 1909–1912	[281]
Moses Norris, Jr.	1828	Senator from New Hampshire 1849–1855, Representative from New Hampshire 1843–1847	[281]
Albion K. Parris	1806	Senator from Maine 1827–1828, Representative from Maine 1815–1818, Governor of Maine 1822–1827, Mayor of Portland, Maine, Maine 1852–1852	[281]
James W. Patterson	1848	Senator from New Hampshire 1867–1873, Representative from New Hampshire 1863–1867	[281]
Rob Portman	1979	Senator from Ohio 2011–, Representative from Ohio 1993–2005	[281]
Jonathan Ross	1851	Senator from Vermont 1899–1900	[281]
Ether Shepley	1811	Senator from Maine 1833–1836	[281]
Tina Smith	1984	Senator from Minnesota 2018–present	[281]
Paul Tsongas	1962	Senator from Massachusetts 1979–1985, Representative from Massachusetts 1975–1979	[281]
Leonard Wilcox	1817	Senator from New Hampshire 1842–1843	[281]

Representatives

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Heman Allen	1795	Representative from Vermont 1817–1818, Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1824–1827	[281]
Samuel Clesson Allen	1794	Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1829	[281]
James C. Alvord	1827	Representative from Massachusetts 1839–1839	[281]
Nathan Appleton		Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1833, 1842–1842	[312]
Lemuel H. Arnold	1811	Representative from Rhode Island 1845–1847, Governor of Rhode Island 1831–1833	[281]
Henry Moore Baker	1863	Representative from New Hampshire 1893–1897	[281]
William Emerson Barrett	1880	Representative from Massachusetts 1895–1899	[281]
Ichabod Bartlett	1808	Representative from New Hampshire 1823–1829	[281]
Charles Bass	1974	Representative from New Hampshire 1995–2007, 2011–2013	[281]
Perkins Bass	1934	Representative from New Hampshire 1955–1963	[281]
Samuel Newell Bell	1847	Representative from New Hampshire 1871–1873, 1875–1877	[281]
Silas Betton	1787	Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1807	[281]
Abijah Bigelow	1795	Representative from Massachusetts 1810–1815	[281]
Frank S. Black	1875	Representative from New York 1895–1897, Governor of New York 1897–1898	[281]
John Blanchard	1812	Representative from Pennsylvania 1845–1849	[281]
Daniel Breck	1812	Representative from Kentucky 1849–1851	[281]
Francis B. Brewer	1843	Representative from New York 1883–1885	[281]
Elijah Brigham	1778	Representative from Massachusetts 1811–1816	[281]
David Bronson	1819	Representative from Maine 1841–1843	[281]
Daniel Azro Ashley Buck	1823	Representative from Vermont 1823–1825 1827–1829 (two different districts)	[313]
Ellsworth B. Buck	1914	Representative from New York 1944–1945, 1945–1949 (two different districts)	[281]
Joseph Buffum, Jr.	1807	Representative from New Hampshire 1819–1821	[281]
Robert Burns	DMS 1811	Representative from New Hampshire 1833–1837	[281]
Sherman Everett Burroughs	1894	Representative from New Hampshire 1917–1923	[281]
Mike Capuano	1973	Representative from Massachusetts 1999–2019	[314]
John Carney	1978	Representative from Delaware 2011–2017, Governor of Delaware 2017–present, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware 2001–2009	[315]
Daniel Chipman	1788	Representative from Vermont 1815–1816	[281]
Martin Chittenden	1789	Representative from Vermont 1803–1813, Governor of Vermont 1813–1815	[281]
Frank Gay Clarke	1873	Representative from New Hampshire 1897–1901	[281]
James Hodge Codding	1871	Representative from Pennsylvania 1895–1899	[281]
William Cogswell	1859	Representative from Massachusetts 1887–1895	[281]
Thomas B. Curtis	1932	Representative from Missouri 1951–1953, 1953–1969 (two different districts)	[281]
Benjamin Dean	1845	Representative from Massachusetts 1878–1879	[281]
Nelson Dingley, Jr.	1855	Representative from Maine 1881–1899, Governor of Maine 1874–1876	[281]
Samuel Dinsmoor	1789	Representative from New Hampshire 1811–1813, governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834	[281]
Edwin B. Dooley	1926	Representative from New York 1957–1963	[281]
Fred J. Douglas	1895	Representative from New York 1937–1945	[281]
Daniel Meserve Durell	1794	Representative from New Hampshire 1807–1809	[281]
Ira Allen Eastman	1829	Representative from New Hampshire 1839–1843	[281]
Thomas M. Edwards	1813	Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863	[281]
Allen E. Ertel	Th'1958, T'1959	Representative from Pennsylvania 1977–1983	[281][316]
Evarts Worcester Farr	1863	Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1880	[281]
T. A. D. Fessenden	1845	Representative from Maine 1862–1863	[281]
Walbridge A. Field	1855	Representative from Massachusetts 1877–1878, 1879–1881	[281]
Benjamin Flanders	1842	Representative from Louisiana 1863–1864, Governor of Louisiana 1867–1868, Mayor of New Orleans 1870–1872	[281]
Isaac Fletcher	1808	Representative from Vermont 1837–1841	[281]
Richard Fletcher	1806	Representative from Massachusetts 1837–1839	[281]
David J. Foster	1880	Representative from Vermont 1901–1912	[281]
Bill Frenzel	1950	Representative from Minnesota 1971–1991	[281]
Sylvester Gilbert	1775	Representative from New Hampshire 1818–1819	[281]
Calvin Goddard	1786	Representative from Connecticut 1801–1805	[281]
Daniel W. Gooch	1843	Representative from Massachusetts 1858–1863, 1863–1865, 1873–1875 (three different districts)	[281]
John Noble Goodwin	1844	Representative from Maine 1861–1863, Governor of the Arizona Territory 1863–1866, delegate from the Arizona Territory 1866–1867	[281]
George Grennell, Jr.	1808	Representative from Massachusetts 1829–1839	[281]
Frank Joseph Guarini	1946	Representative from New Jersey 1979–1993	[281]
Sherwood Guernsey	1975	Representative from Massachusetts 1983–1990	[317]
Fletcher Hale	1905	Representative from New Hampshire 1925–1931	[281]
Joshua G. Hall	1851	Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1883	[281]
Winfield Scott Hammond	1884	Representative from Minnesota 1907–1915, Governor of Minnesota 1915–1915	[281]
Harry Hibbard	1835	Representative from New Hampshire 1849–1855	[281]
Edgar W. Hiestand	1910	Representative from California 1953–1963	[281]
Paul Hodes	1972	Representative from New Hampshire 2007–2011	[318]
Jonathan Hunt	1807	Representative from Vermont 1827–1832	[281]
Luther Jewett	1795	Representative from Vermont 1815–1817	[281]
Thomas B. Kyle	1881	Representative from Ohio 1901–1905	[281]
Jay Le Fevre	1918	Representative from New York 1943–1945, 1945–1951 (different districts)	[281]
Robert M. Leach	1902	Representative from Massachusetts 1924–1925	[281]
John Locke	1792 (never graduated)	Representative from Massachusetts 1823–1829	[281]
Joseph S. Lyman	1805	Representative from New York 1819–1821	[281]
Asa Lyon	1790	Representative from Vermont 1815–1817	[281]
Clark MacGregor	1944	Representative from Minnesota 1961–1971	[281]
Richard W. Mallary	1949	Representative from Vermont 1972–1975	[281]
Charles Marsh	1786	Representative from Vermont 1815–1817	[281]
George Perkins Marsh	1820	Representative from Vermont 1843–1849, Minister Resident in Turkey 1849–1853, Envoy to Italy 1861–1882	[281]
David Thomas Martin	1929	Representative from Nebraska 1959–1961, 1961–1974 (two different districts)	[281]
Ebenezer Mattoon	1776	Representative from Massachusetts 1801–1803	[281]
Samuel W. McCall	1874	Representative from Massachusetts 1893–1913, Governor of Massachusetts 1916–1919	[281]
Robert McClory	1930	Representative from Illinois 1963–1983	[281]
John A. McGuire	1928	Representative from Connecticut 1949–1953	[281]
Rufus McIntire	1809	Representative from Maine 1827–1835	[281]
Richard S. Molony	DMS 1832	Representative from Illinois 1851–1853	[281]
John S. Monagan	1933	Representative from Connecticut 1959–1973	[281]
Harold G. Mosier	1912	Representative from Ohio 1937–1939	[281]
Jeremiah Nelson	1790	Representative from Massachusetts 1805–1807, 1815–1825, 1831–1833	[281]
John Noyes	1795	Representative from Vermont 1815–1815	[281]
Benjamin Orr	1798	Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1819	[281]
Charles H. Peaslee	1824	Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853	[281]
Henry Moses Pollard	1857	Representative from Missouri 1877–1879	[281]
Samuel L. Powers	1874	Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1903, 1903–1905 (two different districts)	[281]
Ambrose Ranney	1844	Representative from Massachusetts 1881–1887	[281]
Edward C. Reed	1812	Representative from New York 1831–1833	[281]
Joseph Richardson	1802	Representative from Massachusetts 1827–1831	[281]
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley	1800	Representative from Louisiana 1835–1839	[281]
William Nathaniel Rogers	1915	Representative from New Hampshire 1923–1925	[281]
Erastus Root	1793	Representative from New York 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1815–1817	[281]
Samuel Locke Sawyer	1833	Representative from Missouri 1879–1881	[281]
Herman T. Schneebeli	1930 T'1931	Representative from Pennsylvania 1960–1977	[319]
John Samuel Sherburne	1776	Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797	[320]
Don Sherwood	1963	Representative from Pennsylvania 1999–2007	[281]
George A. Simmons	1816	Representative from New York 1853–1857	[281]
Henry P. Smith III	1933	Representative from New York 1965–1975	[281]
Peleg Sprague	1783	Representative from New Hampshire 1797–1799	[281]
Bradford N. Stevens	1835	Representative from Illinois 1871–1873	[281]
Moses T. Stevens	1846	Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, 1893–1895 (two different districts)	[281]
Thaddeus Stevens	1814	Representative from Pennsylvania 1849–1853, 1859–1868 (two different districts), drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction	[281]
Samuel Taggart	1774	Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1817	[281]
Joseph E. Talbot	1922	Representative from Connecticut 1942–1947	[281]
Nathaniel Terry	1786	Representative from Connecticut 1817–1819	[281]
Samuel Thurston	1843	Delegate from the Oregon Territory to the United States Congress 1849–1851	[281]
Charles Q. Tirrell	1866	Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1910	[281]
Andrew Tracy	1821	Representative from Vermont 1853–1855	[281]
Amos Tuck	1835	Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853, co-founder of the Republican Party	[281]
Doug Walgren	1962	Representative from Massachusetts 1977–1991	[281]
John Wentworth	1836	Representative from Illinois 1843–1851, 1853–1855, 1865–1867, Mayor of Chicago 1857–1858, 1860–1861 (three different districts), editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago	[281]
Thomas Whipple, Jr.	1814	Representative from New Hampshire 1821–1829	[281]
Charles W. Willard	1851	Representative from Vermont 1869–1875	[281]
George F. Williams	1872	Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, Minister to Greece 1913–1914	[281]
Hezekiah Williams	1820	Representative from Maine 1845–1849	[281]
Phineas White	1797	Representative from Vermont 1821–1823	[281]
Rick White	1975	Representative from Washington 1995–1999	[281]

United States governors

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
John H. Bartlett	1894	Governor of New Hampshire 1919–1921	[321]
Robert O. Blood	DMS 1913	Governor of New Hampshire 1941–1945	[322]
Albert O. Brown	1878	Governor of New Hampshire 1921–1923	[323]
John Carney	1978	Governor of Delaware 2017–present, lieutenant governor of Delaware 2001–2009, Representative from Delaware 2011–2017	[315]
Channing H. Cox	1901	Governor of Massachusetts 1921–1925	[324]
Moody Currier	1834	Governor of New Hampshire 1885–1887	[325]
Nathan Cutler	1798	Governor of Maine 1829–1830	[326]
Samuel Dinsmoor	1789	Governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834	[327]
Lane Dwinell	1928	Governor of New Hampshire 1955–1959	[328]
Arthur Emerson	1914	Governor of American Samoa 1931	[329]
John Hoeven	1979	Governor of North Dakota 2000–2010, U.S. Senator from North Dakota 2011–present	[330]
Angus King	1966	Governor of Maine 1995–2003, U.S. Senator from Maine 2013–present	[311]
John Kitzhaber	1969	Governor of Oregon 1995–2003, 2011–2015	[331]
Noah Martin	DMS 1824	Governor of New Hampshire 1852–1854	[332]
James L. McConaughy	M.A. 1915	Governor of Connecticut 1947–1948	[333]
John R. McKernan Jr.	1970	Governor of Maine 1987–1995	[334]
Ralph Metcalf	1823	Governor of New Hampshire 1855–1857	[335]
Walter R. Peterson, Jr.	1947	Governor of New Hampshire 1969–1973	[336]
Samuel E. Pingree	B.A. 1857 M.A. 1867	Governor of Vermont 1884–1886	[337]
Benjamin F. Prescott	1856	Governor of New Hampshire 1877–1879	[338]
Bruce Rauner	1978	Governor of Illinois 2015–2019	[339]
Moses Robinson	M.A. (hon.) 1790	Governor of Vermont 1789–1790	[340]
Josh Stein	1988	North Carolina Attorney General 2017–2025, Governor of North Carolina 2025–present
Robert W. Straub	1943	Governor of Oregon 1975–1979	[341]
Thomas W. Wolf	1972	Governor of Pennsylvania 2015–2023	[342]

Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Joel Barlow	1778	United States Consul to the City of Algiers 1795–1797, United States Ambassador to France 1811–1812	[343]
Robert L. Barry	1956	United States Ambassador to Bulgaria 1981–1984 and United States Ambassador to Indonesia 1992–1995	[293][344]
Stephen W. Bosworth	1961	United States Ambassador to Tunisia 1979–1981, United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines 1984–1987, United States Ambassador to Korea 1997–2000	[345]
Everett Ellis Briggs	1956	United States Ambassador to Panama 1982–1986, United States Ambassador to Honduras 1986–1989, United States Ambassador to Portugal 1990–1993	[293]
James Cason	1966	United States Ambassador to Paraguay 2006–2008	[293][346]
Henry Lee Clarke	1962	United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan 1992–1995	[347]
William Eaton	1790	United States Consul General to the City of Tunis 1797–1803	[citation needed]
Robert C. Hill	1942	United States Ambassador to Costa Rica 1953–1954, United States Ambassador to El Salvador 1954–1955, United States Ambassador to Mexico 1957–1960, United States Ambassador to Spain 1969–1972, United States Ambassador to Argentina 1974–1977	[293][348]
James F. Moriarty		United States Ambassador to Nepal 2004–2007, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh 2008–2011	[349]
Alfred H. Moses	1951	United States Ambassador to Romania 1994–1997	[293]
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr.	1973	United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines 2002–2005, United States Ambassador to Egypt 2005–2008, United States Ambassador to Turkey 2011–2014	[350]
Ronald I. Spiers	1950	United States Ambassador to the Bahamas 1973–1974, United States Ambassador to Turkey 1977–1980, United States Ambassador to Pakistan 1981–1983	[293]

Government officials outside the U.S.

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Ebenezer Allen	1826	Attorney General of the Republic of Texas, railroad promoter, namesake of the city of Allen, Texas	[351]
Gordon Campbell	1970	Premier of British Columbia 2001–2011	[352]
Howard Hampton		Member of Provincial Parliament 1987–1999, 1999–present (two different districts), leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party 1996–2009	[353]
Colin Kenny	T1968	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada 1969–1972 Director of Operations PMO 1972–1976 Policy Advisor the Prime Minister of Canada 1976 Assistant Principal to the Prime Minister of Canada 1976–1979; member of the Senate (Ontario) 1984–2018
Paavo Lipponen		Prime Minister of Finland 1995–2003, member of the Parliament of Finland 1991–2007	[354]
Juan Carlos Navarro	1983	Mayor of Panama City 1999–2009	[355]
Nit Phibunsongkhram	1962	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States from Thailand 1996–2008	[293]
William Remington	1939	Alleged Soviet spy	[356]
Wes Sheridan	1982	Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from Kensington-Malpeque, Canada 2007–present	[357]
Tiffany George Sylvester	c. 1830	Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario

Other U.S. political and legal figures

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Charles C. Adams, Jr.	1968	Fundraiser, lawyer, human rights activist	[358]
Daniel Adams	1779	New Hampshire State Senator 1838–1840	[359]
Harry Amey	1894	United States Attorney for the District of Vermont 1923–1933	[360]
Alex Azar	1988	Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services 2006–2007	[361]
Norman Bay	1982	United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico 2000–2002	[362]
Rand Beers	1964	National Security Council counterterrorism adviser c. 1980–2003	[363]
Mark Brzezinski	1987	Lawyer and foreign policy expert, advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign	[364]
Enoch Chase	1831	Wisconsin State Senator 1882–1884	[365]
Ronald Chen	1980	New Jersey Public Advocate 2006–present	[366]
Ed Clark	1952	Libertarian candidate for President of the United States in 1980	[367]
Robert Clark Corrente	1978	United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island 2004–2009	[368]
Leah D. Daughtry	1984	CEO of the 2008 Democratic National Convention	[369]
Benjamin W. Dean	1848	Secretary of State of Vermont	[370]
Josiah Dunham	1789	Secretary of State of Vermont	[371]
Asahel Farr	1846	Wisconsin State Senator 1876–1877	[372]
Gregory G. Garre	1987	United States Solicitor General 2008–2009	[373]
Roger Goodman	1983	Washington State Representative 2006–present	[374]
Joseph D. Hatch	1830	Vermont state legislator, mayor of Burlington, Vermont	[375]
Kenneth Hecht	1956	Public interest attorney	[376]
Hugh H. Henry	1833	Member Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate, United States Marshal for Vermont	[377]
Peter Hutchinson	1971	Minnesota politician, unsuccessful independent candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2006	[378][379]
Joel Hyatt	1972	Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senator from Ohio in 1994, founder of Hyatt Legal Services	[380]
Thomas Kean, Jr.	1990	New Jersey State Senator 2003–present, unsuccessful Republican candidate for Senator from New Jersey in 2006	[381]
William A. Ketcham	1867	Indiana Attorney General 1894–1898, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic 1920–1921	[382]
C. Everett Koop	1937	Surgeon General of the United States 1982–1989	[383]
Quentin L. Kopp	1949	California State Senator 1986–1998	[384]
Timothy Kraft	1963	Political consultant and campaign manager in 1980 for the unsuccessful Jimmy Carter reelection bid	[385]
Edward Lamb	1924	Labor attorney during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike	[386]
Karen Loeffler		United States Attorney for the District of Alaska	[387]
Wendy E. Long		Law clerk for US Court of Appeals judge Ralph Winter and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas	[388]
William J. Lynn III	1976	Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 1997–2001	[389]
Frank G. Mahady	1961	Judge of the Vermont District Court; Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court	[390]
Carl McCall	1958	New York State Senator 1975–1979, New York State Comptroller 1993–2002, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of New York in 2002	[391]
Sherman R. Moulton	1898	Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, 1938–1949	[392][393]
Elderkin Potter	1802	member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1827–1829	[394][395]
Peter Robinson	1979	Speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, writer of famous "Tear down this wall!" speech	[396]
Mara Rudman	1984	Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Presidents Obama and Clinton	[397][398]
Daniel Runde	1994	International Development and International Studies, former political appointee in the Bush Administration, William A. Schreyer endowed chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies	[399]
Jack Ryan	1981	Unsuccessful Republican candidate for Senator from Illinois in 2004	[400]
Kevin V. Ryan	1980	United States Attorney for the Northern District of California 2002–2007, one of nine U.S. attorneys at the center of the ongoing dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy	[401]
Edmund Sim	1988	International trade attorney	[402]
Stuart O. Simms	1972	Unsuccessful candidate for Attorney General of Maryland in 2006	[403]
Benjamin H. Steele	1857	Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court	[404]
Todd Stern	1973	U.S. special envoy for climate change 2009–2016	[405]
Diana Taylor	1977	New York Superintendent of Banks 2003–2007, companion of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg	[406]
Charles H. Treat	1863	Treasurer of the United States 1905–1909	[407]
Benjamin Wagner		United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California 2009–2016	[408]
Dave Winters	1974	Illinois State Representative 1995–2012	[409]
Bill Yellowtail	1971	Montana State Senator 1985–1993, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senator from Montana in 1996	[410]

Journalism and media

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Seth Abramson	1998	Newsweek columnist, BBC and CNN TV analyst, curatorial journalist and New York Times best-selling author	[411][412]
Jonathan Agronsky	1971	Voice of America journalist, author	[413]
Bill Beutel	1953	First anchor of what became Good Morning America	[414]
Rudi Blesh		Jazz critic and reviewer	[415]
Keith Boykin	1987	Co-host of the BET TV talk show My Two Cents	[416]
Thomas Braden	1940	Journalist and author	[417][418]
Ty Burr	1980	Film critic for The Boston Globe	[419]
Vincent Canby		Critic for The New York Times	[420]
Nicholas Carr	1981	Writer on technology, economics, and culture	[421]
Robert Christgau	1962	Rock music critic, formerly of the Village Voice	[422]
Orvil Dryfoos	1934	Publisher of The New York Times	[423]
Dinesh D'Souza	1983	Political analyst, fellow at the Hoover Institution	[424]
Harry Enten	2011	Political analyst	[425]
Nathaniel Fick	1999	Author of One Bullet Away and officer in the United States Marine Corps	[426]
Gregory Fossedal	1981	Conservative activist and author, co-founder of The Dartmouth Review	[427]
Paul Gambaccini	1970	Radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom	[428]
Brett Haber	1991	Sportscaster formerly of ESPN's SportsCenter; now host, commentator on Tennis Channel & NBC Olympics	[207]
Robert Hager	1960	NBC news analyst and correspondent	[429]
George Herman	1941	Journalist for CBS, moderator for Face the Nation	[430]
Evan X Hyde	1969	Publisher of Belize's newspaper Amandala	[431]
Laura Ingraham	1985	Political analyst, host of radio show The Laura Ingraham Show	[432]
Steve Kelley	1981	Political cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune	[433][434][435]
Jason E. Klein	1982	CEO of Times Mirror Magazines and CEO of Newspaper National Network LP	[436]
Mort Kondracke	1960	Executive editor of Roll Call; political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Millie: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease, which was made into a movie for CBS	[437]
A. J. Liebling	1924	Journalist, long-time contributor to The New Yorker	[438]
John Lippman		Television executive and the acting director of Voice of America
James Nachtwey	1970	Photojournalist	[439]
James Panero	1998	Managing editor of The New Criterion	[440]
Spencer Reiss	1974	Journalist for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired	[441][442]
Lisa Richardson		Editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times	[443]
Mel Robbins	1990	Journalist for CNN, television show host, and author	[444]
David Rosenbaum	1963	Journalist for The New York Times, winner of the 1991 Polk Award	[445]
Thomas N. Schroth	1942	Editor of Congressional Quarterly and founder of The National Journal	[446]
Maggie Shnayerson	2003	Journalist for TIME, The New York Sun, and the New York Post	[447]
Michael Shnayerson		Contributor to Vanity Fair	[448]
Sam Stein	2004	Journalist for The Bulwark, Politico, the Huffington Post, and the New York Daily News	[207]
Jacques Steinberg	1988	Journalist for The New York Times	[207]
Jake Tapper	1991	Journalist for CNN	[449]
George Ticknor	1847	Editor of The Keene Sentinel, c. 1860–1866	[450]
David Viscott	1959	Psychiatrist, professor, author, and media personality	[451]
Michael Weiss	2002	Journalist, security analyst and author	[452]
Tom Zoellner	2012	Author, journalist	[453]

Bloggers

Name	Year/degree	Blog	Reference
John H. Hinderaker	1971	Power Line	[454]
Scott W. Johnson	1971	Power Line	[454]
Melissa Lafsky	2000	Opinionistas	[455]
Paul Mirengoff	1971	Power Line	[454]

Literature, writing, and translation

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Philip Booth	1947	Poet, winner of Guggenheim grant	[456]
William Bronk	1938	Poet, winner of National Book Award	[457]
Brock Brower	1953	Novelist, nominated for the National Book Award
Joseph Campbell	1926 (never graduated)	Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which inspired Star Wars and The Matrix	[458]
Eric Dezenhall	1984	Author of fiction and nonfiction; books include Glass Jaw, A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal, Money Wanders and The Devil Himself	[459][460]
Bruce Ducker	1960	Novelist	[461]
Louise Erdrich	1976	Novelist, poet, winner of the O. Henry Award in 1987, Guggenheim Fellow, National Book Critics Circle Award	[462]
András Gerevich	M.A.L.S. 2002 (Fulbright student)	poet, screenwriter, literary translator and Professor	[463]
Philip Babcock Gove	1922	Lexicographer and editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International	[464]
Richard Hovey	1885	Poet	[465]
Bruce Judson	1976	Author of business and public policy books	[466]
Eric P. Kelly	1906	Journalist and writer, author of The Trumpeter of Krakow and recipient of the 1929 Newbery Medal	[467]
Richard Kenney	1970	Poet, English professor	[468]
Phil Klay	2005	US Marine officer, author of Redeployment and winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction	[469]
Richmond Lattimore	1926	Translator of the Iliad and other classics	[470]
Norman Maclean	1924	Author of A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire, winner of the National Book Award	[471]
Warren E. Preece	1943	General editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica	[472]
Gregory Rabassa	1944	Acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, and other major works of Latin American literature	[473]
Dr Seuss	1925	Children's author and illustrator	[474]
Alexander O. Smith	1995	Japanese/English translator and author	[475]
Tara Bray Smith	1992	Writer, memoirist	[476]
Thorne Smith		Science fiction author	[477]
Ed Victor		Literary agent	[478]

Pulitzer Prize winners

The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Richard Eberhart	1926	U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and the National Book Award in 1977	[479]
Dan Fagin	1985	Journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2014 for Toms River	[480]
Robert Frost	1896 (never graduated)	U.S. poet laureate, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes	[481]
Paul Gigot	1977	The Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2000	[482]
Frank Gilroy	1950	Playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1965 for The Subject Was Roses	[483]
Jake Hooker	1995	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2008	[484]
Nigel Jaquiss	1984	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005	[485]
Nick Kotz	1955	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968	[486]
Joseph Rago	2005	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2011	[487]
Martin J. Sherwin	1959	Historian regarding nuclear proliferation; shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with Kai Bird in 2006	[488]
David K. Shipler	1964	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987	[489]

Medicine

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Frederick W. Adams	1822	Physician, author, and violin maker	[490]
Peter J. Allen	1993	Chair of the Duke University Department of Surgery; Chief of the Duke University Division of Surgical Oncology; Vice President of Cancer Services for the Duke University Health System	[491]
Lori Arviso Alvord	1976	Became the first board-certified female Diné surgeon in 1994; author of The Scalpel and the Silver Bear; nominated for U.S. Surgeon General in 2013	[492]
John Francis Eisold	1976 DMS	Current attending physician at the United States Capitol	[493]
George L. Engel	1934	Psychiatrist, formulator of the biopsychosocial model	[494]
Irwin Freedberg		Dermatologist	[495]
John Gunderson	1965 DMS	Director of McLean Hospital's Borderline Center; Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; pioneer of research on the treatment of borderline personality disorder	[496]
Odette Harris	1991	Neurosurgery: treatment of traumatic brain injuries with a focus on epedemiology and outcomes	[497]
Rosandra N. Kaplan	DMS	Physician scientist at the National Cancer Institute	[498]
Charles Knowlton	1824 DMS	Physician, author of a noted pamphlet on birth control	[499]
Elad Levy	1993 B.S.	Leader, researcher, innovator in the field of neurosurgery for the treatment of stroke	[500]
Calvin C.J. Sia	1950	Developer of both the medical home concept for primary care and the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program	[501]
Bob Smith	1902	Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous	[502]
Frederick Douglass Stubbs	1926 B.A.	Pioneering Black thoracic surgeon	[503][504]
Paul Zamecnik	1934	Professor of medicine emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital	[505]
David Zarling	M.A.	Oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur	[506]

Military

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Dean C. Allard	1955	Director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center	[507]
Robert J. Dixon	1941	Four-star general in the United States Air Force	[508]
George P. Estey	(never graduated)	Union Army brigadier general, lawyer	[509]
Jack K. Farris	1981	U.S. Air Force major general	[510]
Joshua James Guppey	1843	Union Army brigadier general	[511]
Frank A. Haskell	1854	Union Army colonel during the American Civil War	[512]
John C. Meyer		U.S. Air Force general, World War II flying ace, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command	[513]
Arnold Resnicoff	1968	Navy chaplain; Command Chaplain, United States European Command; Special Assistant for Values and Vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
William W. Stickney	1926	U.S. Marine Corps major general, director of Marine Corps Marine Corps Reserve	[514]
John L. Sullivan	1921	United States Secretary of the Navy 1947–1949	[515]
Eri D. Woodbury	1863	American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

Religion

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs	1852	Presbyterian minister	[516]
Caleb Sprague Henry	1825	Episcopal clergyman and author
Arthur Whipple Jenks	1884, D.D. 1911	Episcopal theologian	[517]
Jack Kornfield	1967	Author, peacemaker and monk
William Palmer Ladd		Episcopal priest and seminary dean
Edward A. Lawrence, Sr.	1834	Congregational pastor, author, professor	[518]
Elihu Palmer	1787	Deist author and public speaker	[519]
Arnold Resnicoff	1968	Rabbi and retired U.S. Navy chaplain, national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and special assistant for values and vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Walter Ashbel Sellew	1866	Methodist bishop	[520]
Solomon Spalding	1785	Calvinist clergyman, possibly the author of a predecessor work of the Book of Mormon	[521]
David E. Stern	1983	Senior rabbi, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas	[522]
Joseph Tracy	M.A. 1814	Protestant minister, author, and historian	[523]
Julia Whitworth	B.A. 1993	Episcopal priest, Bishop-elect of Massachusetts	[524]

Social reform

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Charles Eastman	1887	Santee Sioux author, physician, and reformer	[525]
Lester Granger	1918	African-American civil rights activist	[526]
John Humphrey Noyes	1830	Founder of the Utopian Oneida Society	[527]

Sports

Baseball

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Brad Ausmus	1991	Catcher, 1999 All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, manager of the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, and Israel national baseball team	[528]
Jim Beattie	1976	Pitcher for the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners	[529]
Pete Burnside	1952	Pitcher for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, and Baltimore Orioles
Ralph Glaze	1906	Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; football All-American; head coach of football, basketball, and track and field for several universities	[530]
Kyle Hendricks	2013	Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs
Matt Klentak	2002	MLB executive	[531]
Chick Maynard	1920	Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox	[532]
Bill Neukom	1964	Managing general partner and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants (due to become chairman emeritus January 1, 2012)	[533]
Mike Remlinger	1988	Pitcher, 2002 MLB All-Star	[534]
Red Rolfe	1931	Third baseman for the New York Yankees	[535]
Chuck Seelbach	1970	Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers	[536]
Bianca Smith	2012	Coach in the Boston Red Sox organization; first African American woman to coach professional baseball	[537]
Rusty Yarnall	1926 (transferred to University of Vermont[538])	Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies	[532]

Basketball

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
James Blackwell	1991	Guard for the Charlotte Hornets and the Boston Celtics	[539]
Flinder Boyd	2002	Guard for Great Britain, feature writer	[540]
Aud Brindley	1946	Forward for the New York Knicks	[539]
Ric Bucher	1983	Basketball analyst for ESPN	[541]
Dave Gavitt	1959	Coach at Providence College, first commissioner of the Big East Conference	[542]
Russ Granik	1969	Deputy Commissioner and COO of the NBA	[543]
Rudy LaRusso	1959	Forward and center for the Minneapolis Lakers, five-time NBA All-Star	[544]
Walter Palmer	1990	Center for the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks	[539]

Football

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Katie Blackburn	1986	Executive vice president of the Cincinnati Bengals, played on women's ice hockey team while attending	[545]
Murry Bowden	1971	Linebacker, member of College Football Hall of Fame	[546]
Mike Brown	1957	Billionaire Owner of Cincinnati Bengals
Frank Cavanaugh	1898	College football coach	[547]
Jim Chasey	1971	Player in Canadian Football League	[548]
Casey Cramer	2004	Tight end for Tennessee Titans	[549]
Jay Fiedler	1994	Quarterback for Miami Dolphins	[550]
Amos Foster	1904	College football coach	[551]
Ed Healey	1919	Offensive tackle for Chicago Bears	[552]
Jeff Kemp	1981	Quarterback for Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks	[553]
Lloyd Lee	1998	Defensive assistant coach of Chicago Bears	[554]
Nick Lowery	1978	Kicker, 3-time NFL Pro Bowler	[555]
Bob MacLeod	1939	Halfback, member of College Football Hall of Fame, coach for Army	[556]
Brian Mann	2002	Quarterback for Los Angeles Avengers	[557]
Bill Morton	1932	Quarterback, member of College Football Hall of Fame; president and vice-chairman of American Express	[558]
Bill Roberts		Halfback for Green Bay Packers	[559]
Gordon Rule		Defensive back for Green Bay Packers	[560]
Dave Shula	1981	Wide receiver and coach	[561]
Gus Sonnenberg	1920	Halfback in NFL, professional wrestler	[562]
Clarence Spears	1917	Dartmouth player and coach, member of College Football Hall of Fame	[556]
Buddy Teevens	1979	Quarterback, current head coach for Dartmouth, former head coach at Maine, Stanford	[563]
George Tully		All-American and NFL player
Zach Walz	1998	Linebacker for Arizona Cardinals	[564]
Reggie Williams	1976	Linebacker for Cincinnati Bengals	[565][566]
Myron E. Witham	1904	Back, All-American, head coach of University of Colorado	[532]
Swede Youngstrom	1919[567]	Center and guard	[562]

Ice hockey

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Gillian Apps	2006	Left wing, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics	[568]
Walter Bush	1951	Administrator and organizer	[569]
Tanner Glass	2007	Center for Pittsburgh Penguins	[570]
Hugh Jessiman	2006	Right wing for New York Rangers	[571]
David Jones	2008	Right wing for Calgary Flames	[572]
Kristin King	2002	Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics	[573]
Myles Lane	1928	Defenseman for New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, football coach at Boston University, New York Supreme Court justice	[574][575]
Ben Lovejoy	2007	Defenseman for Anaheim Ducks	[576]
Sarah Parsons	2010	Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics	[573][577]
Cherie Piper	2006	Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics	[578]
Laura Stacey	2005	Right wing for Montreal Victoire, gold and silver medalist for Canada in 2022 and 2018 Winter Olympics	[579]
Lee Stempniak	2005	Right wing for Calgary Flames	[580]
Katie Weatherston	2006	Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics	[581]
Carey Wilson	1983 (never graduated)	Center for Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers	[532][582]

Track and field

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Gerry Ashworth	1963	Sprinter, gold medalist in 1964 Summer Olympics	[583]
Vilhjálmur Einarsson	1956	Triple jumper, silver medalist in 1956 Summer Olympics	[583]
Edwin Myers	1920	Pole vaulter, bronze medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics	[583]
Adam Nelson	1997	Shotputter, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics	[584]
Alexi Pappas	2012	10,000 metres, competitor in 2016 Summer Olympics	[583]
Arthur Shaw	1908	Hurdler, bronze medalist in 1908 Summer Olympics	[583]
Nathaniel Sherman	1910	Sprinter, competitor in 1908 Summer Olympics	[583]
Jarrod Shoemaker	2004	Triathlete, competitor in 2008 Summer Olympics	[585]
Earl Thomson	1917	Hurdler, gold medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics	[532]
Marc Wright	1913	Pole vaulter, silver medalist in 1912 Summer Olympics	[583]

Other

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
John H. Caldwell	1950	Cross-country skier, competitor in 1952 Winter Olympics	[586]
Sophie Caldwell	2011	Cross-country skier, competitor in 2014 Winter Olympics	[587]
Tim Caldwell	1976	Skier, competitor in 1976 Winter Olympics	[207]
Dick Durrance	1939	Skier, competitor in 1936 Winter Olympics	[588]
Jack Durrance	1936	Mountaineer, founder of Dartmouth Mountaineering Club	[589]
Andrew Goldstein	2005	Lacrosse goalie for Long Island Lizards, first professional male team-sport athlete to be openly gay during career	[590]
Craig Henderson	2009	Soccer player, competitor for New Zealand in 2008 Summer Olympics	[585]
Madison Hughes	2015	U.S. international rugby sevens player	[591]
Stuart Krohn	M.A.	Rugby union player	[592]
Paul Mott	1979	Soccer, played for Tampa Bay Rowdies, and former president of New Orleans Hornets	[593]
Cammy Myler	1995	Luger, four-time competitor for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics	[594]
Dominic Seiterle	1998	Rower, competitor for Canada in 2008 Summer Olympics	[585]
Michael Slive	1962	Commissioner of Southeastern Conference	[595]
Carolyn Treacy	2006	Biathlete in 2006 Winter Olympics	[573]
Lawrence Whitney	1915	Athlete in 1912 Summer Olympics	[596]
Moriah Wilson	2019	Champion gravel cyclist	[597]

Miscellaneous

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
John Ball	1820	Explorer of the Oregon Country with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth	[598]
Albert S. Bickmore	1860	Naturalist and co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History	[599]
Jeffrey Gundlach	1981	Investor and businessperson; founder of DoubleLine Capital LP, an investment firm; former head of the $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund	[600]
Michelle Khare	2014	YouTuber, actress, television host, and cyclist
John Ledyard	1776 (never graduated)	Explorer and adventurer; namesake of the Ledyard Canoe Club	[601]
Stephen Harriman Long	1809	Explorer, surveyor and military officer	[602]
James H. Newman	1978	Astronaut with NASA	[603]
Chip Reese	1973	Professional poker player and gambler	[604]
Steve Russell	1958	Computer programmer and gaming pioneer, creator of early video game Spacewar!	[605]

Fictional people

Name	Year/degree	Notability	Reference
Maggie Eagle Bear	1989	Character from Thunderheart, Native American activist
Natty Bumppo	(no year indicated)	Main character of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; described in the novels and in particular the movie Last of the Mohicans as having attended Eleazar Wheelock's school
Pete Campbell	1956	Character on Mad Men, played by Vincent Kartheiser
Jackie Chiles	(no year indicated)	Character from Seinfeld, attorney to Cosmo Kramer
Stephen Colbert (character)	(no year indicated)	Titular character of The Colbert Report (real Colbert did not attend Dartmouth; the fictional biography on colbertnation.com, however, lists Dartmouth as his alma mater)	[606]
Michael Corleone	1942	Main character in the Godfather epic	[607]
Thomas Crown	(no year indicated)	Titular character of The Thomas Crown Affair	[608]
Evan and Fogell	2011 (pre-freshmen)	Main characters in 2007 film Superbad	[609]
Meredith Grey	(no year indicated)	Titular character of Grey's Anatomy	[610]
Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins	(no year indicated)	Character from Who's Your Caddy, played by Big Boi, said to have played lacrosse for the Big Green
Katie	(no year indicated)	Character in The Secret Life of Pets
Lawrence Kutner	(no year indicated)	Character from House
Pete Lattimer	(no year indicated)	Character from Warehouse 13, officer of the U.S. Secret Service
Jack McCoy	(no year indicated)	Main character in Law and Order
"Trapper" John McIntyre	(no year indicated)	Character on M*A*S*H novels, film, and television, and Trapper John, M.D.
Preston Meyers	(no year indicated)	Character from Can't Hardly Wait, played by Ethan Embry; he is still in high school but set to attend Dartmouth
Dan Rydell	(no year indicated)	Character from Sports Night, television sports host played by Josh Charles
Jack Trainer	1970	Male lead from Working Girl, played by Harrison Ford	[607]
Hamilton Bridge Upton	(no year indicated)	Character from The Ugly American, member of the U.S. Foreign Service

See also

• Category:Dartmouth College alumni
• List of Dartmouth College faculty