List of Brown University people

Note: "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When just the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.

Academia

• Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – President of the College of Charleston, and Hobart College[2]
• Anthony Aguirre (Sc.B. 1995) – theoretical physicist; winner of the inaugural Buchalter Cosmology Prize[3]
• Linda Martín Alcoff (PhD 1987) – Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
• Vernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – President, Ohio University[4]
• Margaret L. Anderson (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emerita of History, UC Berkeley[5]
• James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – longest-serving President of the University of Michigan (1871–1909)
• Thomas Angell (1862) – Free Will Baptist preacher, professor at Bates College
• Clarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912; M.A. 1914) – economist; leading proponent of Institutional economics[6]
• Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President of Colby College, 1833–1836
• Jacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at the University of Vermont; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer
• Malcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School[7]
• Martha Banks (Sc.B. 1973) – Founder of Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (American Psychological Association, Division 45)
• Mark Bear (Ph.D., 1984) – Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT[8]
• Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University[9]
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  Aaron Beck (1942)
  Aaron T. Beck (1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy"; founder, Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award
• J. Gayle Beck (A.B. 1979) – Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis, clinical psychologist
• Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – President, Yeshiva University
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University[10]
• Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian and curator
• Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – president and namesake, Berklee College of Music
• Sangeeta N. Bhatia – John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT[11]
• Sarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – physicist, president of the College of Wooster, former dean of the college at Williams College
• Edgar S. Brightman – philosopher, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s advisor at Boston University
• Marianne Bronner (Sc.B. 1975) – Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology CalTECH[12]
• Kathryn Brush (M.A., PhD) – distinguished professor of art history at the University of Western Ontario
• Samuel W. Buell (A.B.) – Bernard M. Fishman Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law[13]
• Stephen L. Buchwald (Sc.B. 1977) – Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[14]
• Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B.) – 5th president of Tufts University, 1915–1919
• Walter Burse (1920) – President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts
• Dame Frances Cairncross (M.A., 1966) – Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford[15]
• Andrew Cayton (Ph.D, 1981) – Warner Woodring Chair in Early American History, The Ohio State University; University Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University
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  Zechariah Chafee (1907)
  Zechariah Chafee (A.B. 1907) – University Professor of Law, Harvard University[16]
• Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B., 1925) – Rhodes Scholar, President of Kenyon College, 1937–1956
• Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – founder and first President of Colby College, 1817–1833
• Oren B. Cheney (1835–36) – Baptist preacher, abolitionist, founder and president of Bates College
• Herman Chernoff (PhD, 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at MIT and of Statistics at Harvard University
• Barbara Chernow (A.B., Economics) – Senior Vice President for Administration at Stony Brook University
• Aram Chobanian – President, Boston University (2003–2005)
• Christopher G. Chute (A.B. English, 1977, M.D. 1982) – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University
• Richard Cohn – Battell Professor of Music Theory, Yale University
• Jay Coogan – President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• William E. Cooper – President, University of Richmond
• Robert A. Corrigan (A.B.) – President, San Francisco State University
• Christina Crosby (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of English, Wesleyan University
• Douglas W. Diamond (A.B.) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Michael Dickinson (Sc. B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology California Institute of Technology, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
• Daniel Eisenberg (M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971) – Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish at Florida State University
• Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Sc.B.) Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor, Stanford University
• Romeo Elton (1817–1889) – professor of Latin and Greek Languages and trustee at Brown University; namesake of an endowed chair
• Stanley Falkow – father of microbiology and professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of the Lasker Award, only second to the Nobel Prize
• Heidi Li Feldman (A.B. 1986) – law professor
• Ruth Feldstein (PhD 1996) – Professor of History, Rutgers University[17]
• Willbur Fisk (A.B. 1815) – Methodist minister; first president of Wesleyan University[18]
• James Forman Jr. (A.B. 1988) – Professor of Law, Yale Law School;[19] Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
  

  James Forman Jr (1988)
• Daniel Fischel – Dean, University of Chicago Law School
• David Shrier – American futurist and author
• Henry Simmons Frieze (1841) – President, University of Michigan
• Ester Fuchs (M.A.) – Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University[20]
• William Fulton (B.A. 1961) – algebraic geometer, former Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, winner of the Leroy P. Steele Prize
• Alexander R. Galloway (A.B., 1996) – Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
• Paul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – Director of the Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU[21]
• Edwin Gaustad (PhD 1951) – noted historian of American religious history at the University of California, Riverside[22]
• Gary Gerstle (A.B.) – Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge[23]
• Brie Gertler (PhD 1997) – Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia
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  John Wesley Gilbert (1888)
  John Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist[24]
• Frederic Poole Gorham (A.M. 1894) – founder of bacteriological studies program, President of the American Society for Microbiology (1911)
• John Greco (Ph.D., 1989) – Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at Saint Louis University
• Roland Greene (AB 1979) – Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University[25]
• Kent Greenfield (A.B. 1984) – Professor of Law Boston College Law School[26]
• Thomas D. Griffith (A.B.) – John B. Milliken Professor of Taxation, USC Gould School of Law[27]
• Edward Guiliano – New York Institute of Technology President[28]
• John Guttag (A.B. 1971) – chair of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004)
• John Haltiwanger (Sc.B. 1977) – economist, University of Maryland, College Park
• Janice Hammond (Sc.B.) – Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing at Harvard Business School[29]
• Albert Harkness (1842) – founder of the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens[30]
• Thomas Hassan – former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, first gentleman of New Hampshire
• John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) – Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, Naval War College
• Jerry A. Hausman (A.B. 1968) – John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[31]
• Dagmar Herzog (PhD) – Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center, CUNY[32]
• John Brown Francis Herreshoff (1870) – Chemist, winner of the Perkin Medal
• Marianne Hirsch (AB 1970; PhD 1970) – William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University[25][33]
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  John Hope (1894)
  John Hope (1894) – first African American president of Morehouse College and co-founder of the Niagara Movement, which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Tracey Holloway, professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Maryanne Cline Horowitz (A.B.) – historian, Occidental College[34]
• Arthur L. Horwich (A.B., 1972 M.D., 1975 summa cum laude) – biologist, Lasker Award (2011) winner, and Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine
• Ayanna Howard (Sc.B. '93) – roboticist; Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Endowed Chair in Bioengineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology; MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovators under 35[35]
• Charles Ingrao (Ph.D. 1974) – Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University
• Matthew Frye Jacobson (PhD 1992) – William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History, Yale University[36]
• Gene Andrew Jarrett (PhD 2002) – Professor of English and Dean, New York University College of Arts and Science[37]
• Judith Jacobson (1964) – co-founder of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
• Bruce J. Katz (A.B.) – vice president, Brookings Institution
• Brian Keating (Ph.D 2000) – astrophysicist[3]
• Michael Keane (Ph.D 1989) – Nuffield Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
• JacSue Kehoe (PhD 1961) – former instructor at Brown University, renowned neuroscience lecturer and researcher at the CNRS
• David Kelley (A.B., A.M.) – former professor of philosophy; founder of The Atlas Society
• Sean Dorrance Kelly (Sc.B., M.S.) – Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
• David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) – Vice President of International Studies and professor of International Relations at Brown University
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  Jim Yong Kim (1981)
  Jim Yong Kim (1981) – President, Dartmouth College, Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
• Michael Kimmel (M.A. 1974) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
• Karen L. King (PhD 1984) – Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University[38]
• Edward Kleinbard (A.B., M.A. 1973) – Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law[39]
• Eric Klinenberg (AB 1993) – sociologist, professor at New York University
• Carolyn Korsmeyer (Ph.D. 1972) – philosopher of aesthetics; Research Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo[40]
• Larry Kramer (AB 1980) – president, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; former Dean of Stanford Law School
• Ka Yee Christina Lee (Sc.B., 1986) – Provost, University of Chicago[41][42]
• Jennifer Lackey (PhD 2000) – Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University[43]
• Keith Lehrer (PhD 1960) – Regents' Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Arizona[44]
• Joan Leitzel (M.A. 1961) – President Emerita, University of New Hampshire[45]
• Derrick Henry Lehmer (PhD 1930) – University of California, Berkeley mathematician[46]
• Jeffrey Lesser (A.B. 1982; M.A. 1984) – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and Chair of History, Emory University[47]
• Walter Liedtke (AM 1969) – curator of European paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art[48]
• David Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University; MacArthur Fellow[49]
• Julie Beth Lovins (AB 1968) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching
• Luther Luedtke (PhD 1971) – former President of California Lutheran University and current President and CEO of Education Development Center
• James A. MacAlister (1856) – first president of Drexel University[50]
• Bruce H. Mann – (Harvard Law School legal scholar)[51]
• Sharon Marcus (A.B. 1986) – Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University[52]

Jonathan Maxcy (1787)

• Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd President of Brown University; first president of the University of South Carolina and Baptist minister
• David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – President, Drake University
• Brendan McConville (PhD 1992) – Professor of History, Boston University[53]
• Alexander Meiklejohn (1893) – philosopher; free-speech advocate; dean of Brown University (1901–1913); president of Amherst College
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  Jessica Meir (1999)
  Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – Harvard professor, astronaut
• Craig C. Mello,(Sc. B. 1982) – Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine) – professor University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Anne K. Mellor (A.B. 1963) – Distinguished Research Professor of English UCLA[54]
• Ruth Milkman (A.B. 1975) – Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY; former president, American Sociological Association[55]
• Kenneth R. Miller (Sc. B. 1970) – Professor of Biology at Brown University
• Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979; M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine; former provost, Johns Hopkins University[56]
• Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – President, University of Richmond (1988–1998), Centre College (1982–1988), Salem College (1979–1982)
• Samuel M. Nabrit (B.A. Morehouse College, Ph.D. 1932) – first African American to receive doctorate degree from Brown University; first African American trustee at Brown University; first African American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
• Srihari S. Naidu (Sc.B. 1993; MD, 1997) – physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College[57]
• Anna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc. B. 1977, Sc. M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor and Director – Virtual Center for Supernetworks, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Jay Newman (M.A.) – Professor of Philosophy at York University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Peter Norvig (Sc. B. 1978) – director of research at Google Inc.
• Eliphalet Nott (M.A. 1795) – President of Union College, 1805–1866; longest serving college president in American history[58]
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  Inman E. Page (1877)
  Inman E. Page (A.B. 1877, A.M. 1880) – Together with George W. Milford the first African-American student, president of four colleges: the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University
• Lynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Mount Holyoke College
• Kathy Peiss (PhD 1982) – Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania[59]
• Peter Pitegoff (A.B. 1975) – Dean and Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law
• Imam Prasodjo (Ph.D. 1997) - professor, University of Indonesia[60]
• Willard Preston (A.B. 1806) – 4th President of the University of Vermont[61]
• Wendell Pritchett, Chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden, Interim Dean and Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• Guruswami Ravichandran (PhD 1987) – John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at CalTECH[62]
• Jehuda Reinharz (Ph.D. 1972) – President, Brandeis University
• Kenneth Alan "Ken" Ribet (A.B. and A.M. 1969) – professor of mathematics at U.C. Berkeley, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
• Jennifer Richeson (1994) – psychologist, Macarthur fellowship recipient
• Paul Ridker (MD 1981) – cardiologist and medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University; on staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts; included in TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2004; previously named by TIME and CNN as one of "America's Best in Science and Medicine"
• Suzanne M. Rivera (A.B. 1991) – 17th President of Macalester College
• Daniel T. Rodgers (A.B. 1965) – Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University[63]
• Chase F. Robinson (A.B.) – President and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Lisa Rofel (AB 1975) – Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz[64]
• Gavriel David Rosenfeld (1989) – Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies at Fairfield University
• Robert Rynasiewicz (Sc.B. 1974) – Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University[65]
• David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Daniel R. Schwarz (PhD 1968) – Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University[66]
• Patrick Sharkey (A.B. 2000) – Professor of Sociology, NYU[67]
• Kaja Silverman (PhD 1977) – Keith L. Sachs W'67 and Katherine Stein Sachs CW'69 Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania[68]
• Michael Silverstein – Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
• Steven H. Simon (Sc.B.) – theoretical physicist, University of Oxford[69]
• Richard Slotkin (PhD) – Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Wesleyan University
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  Timothy Snyder (1991)
  Timothy D. Snyder (991 )– Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
• Jeffrey Stout (A.B. 1972) – Professor of Religion, Princeton University[70]
• Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – psychologist, author of the opponent-process theory of emotion
• David Summers (art historian)
• James Tallmadge, Jr. (1798) – President of New York University (1830–1846); U.S. Congressman, New York
• Arthur Taylor – President, Muhlenberg College (1992–2002), President, CBS (1972–1976)
• Richard Taylor (PhD 1959) – philosopher; subject of David Foster Wallace's prize-winning undergraduate thesis, later reprinted as Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will (along with essays by Taylor)[71][72]
• Rick Trainor (A.B.) – Principal of King's College London
• Francesca Trivellato (PhD 2004) – Barton M. Biggs Professor of History, Yale University; Professor of History, Institute for Advanced Study[73]
• William Freeman Twaddell – professor during 50s and 60s
• Adam Ulam – Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union
• Dell Upton (M.A. 975 ,Ph.D, 1980) — architectural historian, chair of the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles
• Thomas A. Wadden (B.A. 1975) - Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Ebonya Washington (A.B. 1995) – professor of Economics at Yale University
• Harry L. Watson (A.B. 1971) – Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[74]
• Francis Wayland III (A.B. 1846) – Dean of Yale Law School, 1873–1903[75]
• Geoffrey Wawro (A.B. 1983) – military historian
• Yang Wei (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Zhejiang University
• Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – President, Tufts University
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  Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875)
  Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875) – Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University; President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919
• Beniah Longley Whitman – President of Colby College and later President of George Washington University
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  Mary Emma Woolley (1894)
  Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – first American woman to serve as delegate to a major international conference; president of Mount Holyoke College
• Dean Zimmerman (PhD 1992) – Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University[76]
• Maria Zuber – first female department head at MIT (planetary and geological sciences) and NASA planning advisor
• Steven Zwicker (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969) – Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

United States senators

• Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853)[84]
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  Henry B. Anthony (1833)
  Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851)[85]
• Samuel G. Arnold (A.B. 1841) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[107]
• James Burrill, Jr. (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[108]
• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island; Governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015)[109]
• John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[110]
• Nathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island[111]
• Nathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[112]
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[113]
• Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – United States Senator from Massachusetts[114]
• Lafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) – U.S. Senator, R-Connecticut (1855–1867), President pro tempore of the Senate (1865–1867)[115]
• Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States Senator from Rhode Island[116]
• John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[117]
• Theodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) – U.S. Senator, D- Rhode Island (1937–1961)[118]
• Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Senator, D-New Hampshire[119]
• Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) – U.S. Senator, R-Colorado (1879–1885)[120]
• John Holmes (A.B. 1796) – U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, one of the two first Senators from Maine[121]

Lafayette S. Foster (1828)

• Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[122]
• William Hunter (A.B. 1791) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[123]
• Edward L. Leahy (A.B. ???) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[124]
• Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island[125]
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from New York[126]
• John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) – U.S. Senator from Maine[127]
• Frederic M. Sackett (1890) – U.S. Senator, R-Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)[128]
• Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire[129]

Advisors

John Hay (1858)

• Charles W. "Chuck" Colson (1953) – chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in the Watergate Scandal; founder of Prison Fellowship
• Thomas Corcoran (1922) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyist
• David F. Duncan (1995) – domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug addiction
• Marvin Goodfriend (Ph.D. 1980) – The Friends of Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University; pending nominee, Governors of the Federal Reserve[168]
• John Hay (1858) – U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
• Charles Hill (AB 1957) – Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University; former executive aid to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz; research fellow, Hoover Institution[169][170]
• E. Howard Hunt (1940) – author, OSS & CIA officer, worked under President Richard Nixon; figured in the Watergate scandal
• Randall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Ira Magaziner (1969) – Clinton advisor, current chairman of Clinton AIDS Initiative; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum
• Annette Nazareth (A.B. 1979) – former Securities and Exchange Commissioner, partner at Davis Polk & Wardell
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  Richard Olney (1856)
  Richard Olney (1856) – United States Attorney General (1893–1895), United States Secretary of State (1895–1897)
• David Onek (1991) – candidate for District Attorney of San Francisco
• Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) – Chair of the Democratic National Committee, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Tahesha Way (A.B. 1993) – Secretary of State of New Jersey (2018– )[165]
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  Janet Yellen (1967)
  Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – United States secretary of the treasury, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Jurists

Peleg Arnold

• Leslie Abrams Gardner (A.B. 1997) – District Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia[175]
• Asa Aldis (A.B. 1796) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[176]
• Peleg Arnold (A.B.) – Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1795 to 1812; represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1787–1788 session; incorporator of the Providence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790[177]
• Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Family Court[178]
• Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) – District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
• Theodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) – Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana[179]
• Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• George Moulton Carpenter (B.A. 1864) – Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
• Herbert F. DeSimone (B.A. 1910) – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation[180]
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835)
• John Patrick Hartigan (B.A. 1951) – Rhode Island Attorney General, 1933–1939; US District Court, 1940–1951; US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1951–1968[181]
• Richard Hertling, (B.A. 1982) – Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims[182]
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  Charles Evans Hughes (1881)
  Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941); Governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
• Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (A.B. 1909) – 20th United States Solicitor General; son of Charles Evans Hughes[183]
• Alfred H. Joslin (B.A. 1936) - Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1963-1979)
• Patrick C. Lynch – Rhode Island Attorney General (D)
• Lewis Linn McArthur – Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
• Theron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court[184]
• Marcus Morton (1838) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882–1890)
• Michael Newdow (Sc. B. 1974) – atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
• Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – former U.S. Solicitor General; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings; President of Baylor University
• Norman O. Tietjens (Ph.B. 1925; M.A. 1927) – judge of the United States Tax Court[185][186]
• Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former Rhode Island Superior Court judge
• William Tong (A.B. 1995) – Attorney General of Connecticut (2019–)[187]
• Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court

Business

• John Berylson (B.A. 1975) – American investor
• Marvin Bower (Sc. B. 1925) – co-founder of McKinsey & Company
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  Aneel Bhusri (1988)
  Aneel Bhusri (Sc. B. 1988) – billionaire, CEO of Workday
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  Orlando Bravo (1970)
  Orlando Bravo (1970) - first Puerto Rican billionaire businessman
• Willard C. Butcher (1948) – chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan Bank
• Arthur L. Carter (1953) – investor, namesake of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University
• Lisa Caputo – chief marketing officer, Citigroup
• John S. Chen (Sc.B. 1978) – Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited
• Chung Yong-jin (B.A. 1994) – South Korean billionaire[188]
• Glenn Creamer (A.B. 1984) – billionaire, Senior Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners
• Tanya Dubash (1991) – Indian businesswoman
• David Ebersman (A.B. 1991) – Chief Financial Officer of Facebook Inc.
• Donna M. Fernandes (Sc.B 1981) President and CEO, Buffalo Zoo 2000–2017
• George M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – former CEO of Motorola and Eastman Kodak Company
• Sidney E. Frank (class of 1942) – billionaire founder of Grey Goose and Jägermeister
• Tom Gardner (A.B. 1990) – co-founder and co-chairman of the Motley Fool
• Kenneth Gaw (1992) – Hong Kong businessman
• Jeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) – chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies
• Theresia Gouw (1990) – investor[189]
• Ross Greenburg (1977) – president of HBO Sports
• Walter Hoving (1920) – CEO of Tiffany & Co.
• Bradley S. Jacobs (class of 1979) – billionaire founder and CEO of XPO Logistics
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  Nina Jacobson (1987)
  Nina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) – former president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
• Paul Kazarian (M.A. 1980) – billionaire investor[190]
• Jonathan Klein (A.B. 1980) – former president of CNN U.S. News
• Steph Korey (B.A. 2009) – founder of Away
• Liz Lange (A.B. 1988) – founder of Liz Lange Maternity
• Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) – chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
• Gordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) – former president and CEO, NASDAQ
• Nadiem Makarim (2006) – founder of Gojek, current minister of education and culture of Indonesia
• Brian Moynihan (A.B. 1981) – president and CEO, Bank of America
• Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977) – billionaire, investor
• Steven Price, co-founder of Townsquare Media, and minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks
• Ajit Ranade – Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group
• Steven Rattner (A.B. 1974) – deputy chairman and deputy CEO of Lazard Frères & Co.
• William R. Rhodes (1957) – senior vice chairman of Citigroup
• Stephen Robert (A.B. 1962), Chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. (1983–1997), Chancellor of Brown University (1998–2007)
  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1897)
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1897) – son of John D. Rockefeller and builder of Rockefeller Center
• Tom Rothman (A.B. 1976) – president, 20th Century Fox Film Group

Ted Turner

• Tom Scott (A.B. 1989) – co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, with Tom First
• John Sculley (A.B. 1961) – president of PepsiCo (1977–1983); CEO of Apple Computer (1983–1993)
• Lawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) – president of Fannie Mae; secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Orin R. Smith – Chairman and CEO, Engelhard (1999–2001)
• Barry Sternlicht (A.B. 1982) – founder of Starwood Capital Group and Starwood
• Ted Turner (Class of 1960 but did not graduate) – billionaire founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting
• Amelia Warren Tyagi (AB) – businesswoman, author; daughter of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren[191]
• Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1937) – president and CEO of IBM (1956–1971); U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981)
• Melanie Whelan (1999) – CEO of SoulCycle (2015–2019)
• Meredith Whitney (A.B. 1992) – equity research analyst notable for her prediction of the financial crisis of 2007–2009
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  Andrew Yang (1996)
  Andrew Yang (B.A. 1996) – founder of Venture for America (VFA), and a U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
• Nancy Zimmerman (B.A. 1985) – hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

• Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic; author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature; David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies
• Amanda Anderson, literary critic; Andrew W. Mellon Professor for the Humanities
• Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian novelist and playwright; Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
• Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist, MacArthur Award recipient; Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
• Nancy Armstrong, literary critic and author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel; Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies
• Nomy Arpaly, Assistant Professor of Philosophy specializing in questions of moral agency
• Ariella Azoulay, comparative linguistics professor; Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
• Thomas Banchoff, mathematician specializing in geometry; known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions; Professor of Mathematics
• David Berson, discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones); Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
• Subra Suresh, current President of Nanyang Technological University, former President of Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the NSF.
• Sheila Blumstein, cognitive/linguistic scientist; Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
• Eugene Charniak, computer scientist; University Professor of Computer Science
• Forrest Gander, poet; The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor and Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature
• Constance Bumgarner Gee, art policy scholar, memoirist, and advocate of the medical use of cannabis; Assistant Professor of Public Policy
• Matthew Pratt Guterl, historian
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; Professor-at-large of International Studies
• James T. Campbell, historian
• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975), former Republican member of the United States Senate; Distinguished Visiting Fellow in International Relations
• Colin Channer, writer; Assistant Professor of Literary Arts
• Roderick Chisholm (~1999), philosopher known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of perception; influenced a generation of Brown philosophers including Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa
• Leon Neil Cooper, Nobel Prize in Physics 1972, father of superconductivity, and developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity in neuroscience; Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
• Robert Coover, post-modern writer, Spanking the Maid, The Origin of the Brunists; notable for his metafiction; electronic literature pioneer; T. B. Stowell University Professor, Adjunct Professor of English
• Robert Creeley, poet, For Love; Professor of English
• Constantine Dafermos, mathematician; Alumni/Alumnae University Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Philip J. Davis, applied mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; co-author of The Mathematical Experience; Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics
• Daniel C. Drucker(~2001), authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics; recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Timoshenko Medal, the ASME Medal, and the Drucker Medal, of which he is the namesake
• Curt Ducasse(~1966), philosopher noted for philosophy of mind and aesthetics; influenced Roderick Chisholm, former president of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
• David F. Duncan, epidemiologist and addictionologist, author of Drugs and the Whole Person; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
• Peter D. Eimas, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
• David Estlund, philosopher; Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities
• 

  Anne Fausto-Sterling
  Anne Fausto-Sterling, major contributor to the fields of sexology, biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles
• James L. Fitzgerald, indologist
• 

  Carlos Fuentes
  Carlos Fuentes, writer; widely considered the most influential author of the Spanish-speaking world since Jorge Luis Borges
• Oded Galor, economist studying economic growth; developer of the unified growth theory; Herbert H.Goldberger Professor of Economics
• Forrest Gander, poet, author of Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, Be With; Pulitzer Prize, Whiting Writers' Award and Howard Foundation Award winner; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Leela Gandhi, literary critic; John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English
• Sylvester James Gates, physicist specializing in superstring theory; featured extensively on NOVA PBS programs on physics; Ford Foundation Professor of Physics
• Stuart Geman, mathematician; James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Mary Louise Gill, philosopher and author of several books on Aristotle and Plato
• Paul Guyer, philosopher; Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy
• Ulf Grenander, mathematician, originator of the Pattern Theory in mathematics, which also influenced David Mumford; L. Herbert Ballou University Professor
• Gerald Guralnik, physicist; co-discoverer of the Higgs mechanism, Sakurai Prize winner; Chancellor's Professor of Physics
• Peter Howitt, economist, co-originator of the Schumpeterian Paradigm with Philippe Aghion
• Michael S. Harper, poet; first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island; Professor of English
• John Hawkes, author, The Blood Oranges, Second Skin
• Dwight B. Heath, anthropologist, foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies; Research Professor of Anthropology
• Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962), broker of the Dayton Accords; former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.; Professor-at-Large of International Studies
• Stephen Houston, archeologist, expert on Mayan hieroglyphics, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship; Professor of Anthropology

George Lamming

• Evelyn Hu-DeHart, historian of Asian migration in Latin America and the Caribbean and theorist of diasporas and transnationalism; Professor of History and Professor of American Studies
• George Karniadakis, mathematician; James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Adrienne Keene, Native American academic and activist
• David Kertzer, historian, anthropologist, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and Prisoner of the Vatican; Provost, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies

Sergei Khrushchev

• Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev; Senior Fellow in International Studies
• Jaegwon Kim, philosopher of mind, action theorist, author of Mind in a Physical World; William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy
• John M. Kosterlitz, of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (condensed matter physics); winner of the 1981 Maxwell Medal and Prize, and the 2000 Onsager Prize (one of the APS main awards); Professor of Physics
• Peter D. Kramer, author, Listening to Prozac, Against Depression; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Charles Kraus, chemist; consultant for the Manhattan Project; won the Priestley Medal and Franklin Medal
• Shriram Krishnamurthi, computer scientist
• Hans Kurath, linguist; known for publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US Linguistic Atlas of New England, winning the Loubat Prize, and for being the first main editor of the Middle English Dictionary
• Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile; Professor-at-large of International Studies
• George Lamming, Barbadian author, In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person; Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
• Rafael La Porta – economist; Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics
• Ross Levine, advisor to the United States Treasury, Federal Reserve System, and World Bank; highly cited economist, ranked 10th in the world, according to RePEc; James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics
• David C. Lewis, addictions specialist and authority on drug policy; Donald G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction
• Michael L. Littman, computer scientist
• Richard M. Locke, is an internationally respected scholar and authority on international labor rights, comparative political economy, employment relations, and corporate responsibility. He is provost of Brown University and Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs. For his ongoing research on fair and safe working conditions in global supply chains, Locke was awarded with an inaugural Progress Medal for Scholarship and Leadership on Fairness and Well-being by the Society for Progress in 2016.
• Glenn Loury, once regarded as "one of the most prominent black conservatives in the nation;" now considered much more "progressive"; Professor of Economics
• Catherine Lutz, anthropologist; :Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropolopgy and International Studies
• Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970), supporter of evolution involved in numerous public debates and trials about the teaching of intelligent design in schools; Professor of Biology
• Hyman Minsky (~1996), economist who researched into financial market fragility; his theories are considered the most accurate description of the financial crisis; namesake of the Minsky moment
• Edmund Morgan, historian
• James Morone, political scientist noted for his work on health politics, popular participation, morality in politics, and on political development
• 

  David Mumford
  David Mumford, Fields Medal-winning mathematician, MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Applied Mathematics
• Ron Nelson, composer; Professor of Music (retired)
• Otto Neugebauer, historian of mathematics; Professor of the History of Mathematics
• Felicia Nimue Ackerman, philosopher
• Katsumi Nomizu, co-author of Foundations of Differential Geometry (1963, 1969); Professor of Mathematics (1960–95)
• Martha Nussbaum, philosopher, authored The Fragility of Goodness while teaching at Brown; Professor of Philosophy (1985–95)
• 

  Onsager 1968
  Lars Onsager Norwegian-born physicist who taught at Brown (1928–33); Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 awarded for Onsager reciprocal relations, produced while at Brown but was not tenured
• Paul Phillips - conductor, composer, and world's leading scholar on the music of author Anthony Burgess
• David Pingree - Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow (1981)
• Jill Pipher - mathematician, co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., first director of ICERM
• William Poole - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (1998–present); served on Reagan's White House Council of Economic Advisors[256]
• Kurt Raaflaub - Professor of Classics and History
• Tricia Rose - historian
• Boris Rozovsky - mathematician
• Björn Sandstede - mathematician
• Robert Scholes - President, Modern Language Association; author, The Rise and Fall of English; co-author, The Nature of Narrative
• Chi-Wang Shu - mathematician
• Robert Sedgewick -author of computer science book Algorithms; board of directors, Adobe Systems
• Meinolf Sellmann - computer scientist, best known for algorithmic research in combinatorial optimization and artificial intelligence
• Vernon L. Smith - Nobel Prize in Economics, for developing empirical and scientific methods into economic research
• George Snell - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovering the genetic bases of immunological reactions
• Joseph H. Silverman (Sc.B. 1977), number theorist, co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.; Professor of Mathematics
• Ernest Sosa, philosopher, epistemologist
• Galina Starovoitova – visiting professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies 1994–1998; member of Russian Duma; leader of reformist Democratic Russia party; assassinated November 20, 1998
• George Stigler, Nobel Prize in Economics, on the influence of government regulation on the economy; Professor of Economics (1946–47)
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan, philosopher; Visiting Professor in Theology
• 

  Andries van Dam
  Andries "Andy" van Dam, computer graphics and hypertext pioneer, and co-founder of ACM SICGRAPH, precursor to SIGGRAPH; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, Professor of Computer Science, former (and first) Vice President for Research
• John E. Savage, theoretical computer science researcher; An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Jefferson Fellow
• Roberto Tamassia, computer scientist; Plastech Professor of Computer Science
• John L. Thomas, Bancroft Prize winning historian
• Peter van Dommelen, archeologist; Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology
• Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, How I Learned to Drive; Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of English
• Lai-Sheng Wang, chemist; Jesse H. and Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Professor
• Takeo Watanabe, neuroscientist; Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences;
• Peter Wegner, computer scientist; Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
• Arnold Weinstein, literary critic; Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature
• Margaret Weir, sociologist, political scientist; Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute
• Darrell M. West, author of multiple books, including Digital Government and Cross Talk; developer of website www.InsidePolitics.org; vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution;[257] John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy
• John Edgar Wideman, writer, two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Philadelphia Fire; Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
• Edward L. Widmer, historian, Clinton administration speechwriter; Director, John Carter Brown Library
• Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize for History winner, The Radicalism of the American Revolution; Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History
• C. D. Wright, poet, String Light; Macarthur fellowship winner (2004); Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English
• Stan Zdonik, computer scientist

• James Manning
• Jonathan Maxcy
• Asa Messer
• Francis Wayland
• Barnas Sears
• Alexis Caswell
• Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
• Elisha Benjamin Andrews
• William H. P. Faunce
• Clarence Augustus Barbour
• Henry Merritt Wriston
• Barnaby Conrad Keeney
• Ray L. Heffner
• Donald Frederick Hornig
• Howard Robert Swearer
• Vartan Gregorian
• Gordon Gee
• Sheila Blumstein (interim)
• Ruth Simmons
• Christina Paxson