List of George Washington University alumni

The list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a recent U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.

Academia

Michael K. Young, current President of Texas A&M University, formerly President of University of Washington.

Business

Lee Kun-Hee, Chairman of Samsung and one of the world's richest people.
Dina Merrill, billionaire co-founder of RKO Pictures.

Economics

Politics

U.S. Cabinet

U.S. Governors

U.S. Senators

Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader during most of the Obama Presidency.
Senator J. William Fulbright, founder of the Fulbright Program.

U.S. Representatives

Rep. Eric Cantor, former House Majority Leader and House Majority Whip.
Sitting U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros of California.
Sitting U.S. Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania.
Sitting U.S. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida.
Sitting U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley of California.

U.S. mayors

Henry Cisneros, Mayor of San Antonio and 10th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Other U.S. officials

Eddie Farnsworth, current President pro tempore of the Arizona Senate.
JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia.
Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump.
Mark Felt, Deep Throat informant during the Watergate scandal.

International

Heads of state and government

Cabinet ministers

Other figures

Diplomacy

U.S. Ambassadors

Michael Punke, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, current Vice President of Amazon Web Services.

State Department officials

Other diplomats

Law

U.S. Circuit Judges

U.S. District Judges

Senior Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews, the first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. District Court.
Harry L. Carrico, 23rd Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.

U.S. State Supreme Courts

Attorneys General

Hsu Mo, founding Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

International judges

Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Military

Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Journalism

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.

Pulitzer Prize

Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work on U.S. Global surveillance based on disclosures by Edward Snowden.

Activism

Tom Fitton, current President of Judicial Watch.

Entertainment

Alec Baldwin, Golden Globe-winning actor.
Dan Glickman, Chairman & CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Courteney Cox, actress.

First Family and royalty

Religion

Sciences

Michael Griffin, 11th Administrator of NASA.
Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.

Athletics

Olympics

Others

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