Athletics

• Bernie Bierman -- University of Minnesota, 1915, Athlete, University of Minnesota Football Coach

• Andy Enfield -- Head basketball coach for Florida Gulf Coast University

• Jeremy Glick -- University of Rochester, 1993, was one of several passengers believed to have counterattacked the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001. He was US National Collegiate Judo champion in 1993. He was president of the Rochester Chapter. He was a business executive with Vividence, a San Mateo e-consulting company

• Otto Graham -- Northwestern University, 1944,Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback. In 1999, he was ranked number 7 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the highest-ranking player who had played in the AAFC

• Jackie Jensen -- University of California, 1949, Athlete, former Major League Baseball outfielder

• Walter A. Haas, Jr. -- University of California, 1937, former owner of Oakland Athletics, Honorary Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.

• Miller Pontius -- University of Michigan, 1914, All Big-9 (Western Conference) Tackle in 1912, All American in 1913, First baseman and Captain of the 1914 Baseball Team (2-year letterman), Assistant Football Coach, University of Tennessee and University of Michigan

• Bill Smith -- Hamilton College, 1980, General Manager, Minnesota Twins

• Neil Snow -- University of Michigan, 1902, Michigan's 2nd All-American Football player, Earned 10 varsity letters (Football-4, Baseball-4, Track-2), Named the 1st ever Rose Bowl MVP in the 1902 defeat of Stanford, 49-0, Named to the Michigan All Time Football Team

• Frank Steketee -- First Freshman to be named All American in Michigan Football History, Also lettered in hockey, golf and swimming

• Francis "Fay" T. Vincent -- Williams College, 1960, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball

 

Business and finance

• Colin Angle -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989, Founder and CEO of iRobot Corporation

• Edwin Booz -- Northwestern University, 1914, founder of Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company

• C.F.W. Bruce -- University of Toronto, 1926, President of the Aluminum Company of Canada

• Eran Egozy -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995, Founder and CTO of Harmonix Music Systems

• Henry Clay Folger -- Amherst College, 1879, President of Standard Oil and Founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library

• G. Keith Funston -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1932, President of the NYSE, 1951-1967.

• William Russell Grace -- Columbia University, 1900, Founder of W. R. Grace and Company

• Elbert Hand -- Hamilton College, 1961, CEO of Hartmarx

• Scott Hand -- Hamilton College, 1964, Chairman & CEO of INCO

• Arthur B. Homer -- Brown University, 1917, President of the Bethlehem Steel.

• Kevin Kennedy -- Hamilton College, 1970, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; President, Hamilton College Trustees

• David Packard -- Stanford University, 1934, Founder of the Hewlett-Packard Computer Corporation

• Charles H. Percy -- University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator, Chairman of Bell and Howell Corporation

• Phillip W. Pillsbury -- Yale University, 1924, President of The Pillsbury Company

• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- Brown University, 1897, Director, Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, philanthropist

• Grant Tinker -- Dartmouth College, 1949, President of NBC

• Gerald B. Zornow -- University of Rochester, 1937, Chairman of Eastman Kodak

• Joseph N. Ely -- Hamilton College, 2009, Chairman of Greensboro Milfoil Patrol

 

Education

• Joseph S. Ames -- Johns Hopkins Chapter, 1886, President of Johns Hopkins University

• Charles William Eliot -- Harvard Chapter, 1853, President of Harvard University

• William Watts Folwell -- Geneva Chapter, 1857, President of the University of Minnesota

• Daniel Coit Gilman -- Yale Chapter, 1852, President of Johns Hopkins University

• Kent Hubbell -- Cornell University, 1967, Cornell University Dean of Students

• Emory William Hunt -- Rochester Chapter, 1884, President of Denison University; President of Bucknell University

• Harry Burns Hutchins -- Peninsular Chapter, 1871, President, University of Michigan

• Robert Hutchins -- Yale Chapter, 1921, President of the University of Chicago

• Robert G. McKelvey -- Wesleyan University, 1959, Secretary, American Rhodes Scholars Association

• Har Barry Mills -- Bowdoin Chapter, 1972, President of Bowdoin College

• Andrew Van Vranken Raymond -- Union Chapter, 1875, President of Union College

• Benjamin Rush Rhees -- Amherst Chapter, 1883, President, University of Rochester, (1900–1935)

• Henry Wade Rogers -- Peninsular Chapter, 1874, President, Northwestern University, Dean, Yale Law School

• Eugene V. Rostow -- Yale Chapter, 1933, Dean of Yale Law School, Adviser to the United States Department of State

• Michael S. Roth -- Wesleyan University, 1978, President of Wesleyan University

• Thomas B. Rudd -- Hamilton Chapter, 1921, President of Hamilton College

• Charles Taylor -- McGill University, 1952, philosopher, Rhodes Scholar

• David Truman -- Amherst Chapter, 1921, President of Mount Holyoke College

• Edwin Willits -- Peninsular Chapter, 1855, President, State Agricultural College

 

Entertainment

• Jason Billig -- University at Buffalo, 1994, screenwriter, Saw III, Triple C is Back in Town: Roll Dem Bones 2 and Return of Flame Shoes

• Stephen Collins -- Amherst College, actor, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 7th Heaven

• Caleb Deschanel -- Johns Hopkins University, 1966, Academy Award-nominated cinematographer

• Roger Faxon -- Johns Hopkins University, 1970, C.E.O. of EMI Music

• David Korins -- University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998, Multi-award-winning scenic and production designer

• Chris Miller -- Dartmouth College, 1963, co-screenwriter, National Lampoon's Animal House

• Hayden Schlossberg -- University of Chicago, 2000, co-screenwriter, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Scary Movie 3 (rewrite)

• Ben Stein -- Columbia University, 1966, actor and author

• Raymond Joseph Teller (of Penn & Teller) -- Amherst College, 1970, actor and magician

 

Government and Military

• Hon. John Black Aird -- University of Toronto, 1945, Canadian Senator

• Richard R. Burt -- Cornell University, 1969, U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 1985 to 1989; U.S. Chief Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

• Reuven Carlyle -- University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987, Washington State Representative

• Michael N. Castle -- Hamilton College, 1961, Governor of Delaware; US Congressman

• Joshua Chamberlain -- Bowdoin College, 1852, hero of the Battle of Gettysburg; received Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; Medal of Honor; Governor of Maine; President of Bowdoin College

• Salmon P. Chase -- Dartmouth College, 1826, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln; Chief Justice of the United States

• Joseph H. Choate -- Harvard University, 1852, Ambassador to Great Britain

• Bainbridge Colby -- Williams College, 1890, Secretary of State; founder of Progressive Party

• Dwight F. Davis -- Harvard University, 1900, Secretary of War; donor of the Davis Cup.

• William R. Day -- University of Michigan, 1870, Secretary of State

• Larry J. Estrada--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968, Mayor of Fort Collins, Colorado

• Charles S. Fairchild -- Harvard University, 1863, Secretary of the Treasury

• James Rudolph Garfield -- Williams College, 1885, Secretary of the Interior

• Frederick H. Gillett -- Amherst College, 1874, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

• Edward M. House -- Cornell University, 1881, Presidential adviser and diplomat

• William Luther -- University of Minnesota, 1967, U.S. Congressman

• Michael Meighen -- McGill University, 1960, Canadian Senator

• Charles H. Percy -- University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator

• Thomas C. Reed -- Cornell University, 1956, 11th Secretary of the Air Force

• Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Harvard University, 1904, President of the United States

• Theodore Roosevelt -- Harvard University, 1880, President of the United States

• David F. Upton -- University of Michigan, 1945, Captain, US Navy, World War II Pacific Theater, Iwo Jima

• Fred Upton -- University of Michigan, 1975, US House of Representatives, Michigan's 4th congressional district (1986–1990), US House of Representatives, Michigan's 6th congressional district (1990–present)

• John S. Wold -- Union College, 1938, U.S. Congressman, oil man, and philanthropist

 

Law and Judiciary

• Samuel Blatchford -- Columbia University, 1837, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• Henry Billings Brown -- Yale University, 1856, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• Salmon P. Chase -- Dartmouth College, 1826, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• William R. Day -- University of Michigan, 1870, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• William S. Groesbeck -- Miami University, U. S. Representative

• Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Harvard University, 1861, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• John Jay -- Columbia University, 1836, abolitionist and grandson of John Jay 1st Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

• Dana H. Porter -- University of Toronto, 1921, Chief Justice of Ontario.

• William B. Scott -- McGill University, 1912, Chief Justice, Superior Court of Quebec.

• George Shiras, Jr. -- Yale University, 1853, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

• Harlan Fiske Stone -- Amherst College, 1894, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

 

Literature and Journalism

• Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Hamilton College, 1891, author.

• John Perry Barlow -- Wesleyan University, 1969, poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation[3]

• Philip Barry -- Yale University, 1918, author.

• Francis Bellamy -- University of Rochester, 1876, author of the original Pledge of Allegiance

• Stephen Vincent Benét -- Yale University, 1919, poet.

• Richard Ghormley Eberhart -- University of Minnesota, 1926, poet.

• David Eisenhower -- Amherst College, 1970, Author of Eisenhower at War

• Sean Ellis -- University of British Columbia, 1934, author and playwright

• John Farrar -- Yale University, 1918, poet, publisher.

• William Randolph Hearst -- Harvard University, 1885, publisher.

• Pagan Kennedy -- Wesleyan University, 1984, author, pioneer of '90s Zine Movement.

• Knight Austin Kiplinger -- Cornell University, 1969, publisher

• James Russell Lowell -- Harvard University, 1838, poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

• Henry Luce -- Yale University, 1920, publisher; founder of Time–Life.

• Robert Ludlum -- Wesleyan University, 1951, novelist

• Chris Miller -- Dartmouth College, 1961, Co-author of National Lampoon's Animal House

• Col. Robert R. McCormick -- Yale University, 1903, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

• P. J. O'Rourke -- Miami University, author

• Daniel Pearl -- Stanford University, 1985, journalist WSJ editor and victim of terrorism

• Ben Stein -- Columbia University, 1966, author, humorist

• George Templeton Strong -- Columbia University, 1838, prolific diarist

• Scott Turow -- Amherst College, 1970, novelist

• Thornton Wilder -- Yale University, 1920, author and playwright

 

Science and Engineering

• Frederick Madison Allen -- University of California, 1902, pioneer in Diabetes

• Farrington Daniels -- University of Minnesota, 1910, pioneer in solar energy; Chairman, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison

• David P. Faxon, MD -- Hamilton College, 1967, President of the American Heart Association

• Michael Gazzaniga -- Dartmouth College, 1961, founder of the field of cognitive neuroscience

• Hans Lisser -- University of California, 1907, pioneer in gland disorders

• William H. Masters -- Hamilton College, 1938, Researcher, human sexuality.

• Lt. Colonel Steven R. Nagel -- University of Illinois, 1969, NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Discovery

• Kenneth Ouriel -- University of Rochester, 1977, vascular surgeon and Chief of Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic.[4][5]

• Louis Nicot Ridenour -- University of Chicago, 1932, member, United States Atomic Energy Commission

• Daniel M. Tani -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984, NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Endeavour, International Space Station

• Josiah Whitney -- Yale University, 1839, California State Geologist and namesake of the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney.