| Name | Original chapter | Notability | |
| Chester Holmes Aldrich | Columbia | architect, partner in Delano and Aldrich, Director of the American Academy in Rome | |
| Thomas H. Atherton | MIT | Architect, war memorials, and numerous armories and public buildings | |
| Henry Forbes Bigelow | MIT | architect, public and residential buildings in the Boston area | |
| Roger Harrington Bullard | Columbia | architect | |
| J. Cleaveland Cady | Trinity | architect, designer of Metropolitan Opera, American Museum of Natural History | |
| Duncan Candler | Columbia | architect, designer for John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Edsel Ford | |
| Stockton B. Colt | Columbia | architect designed the Emmett Building and the Barclay Building | |
| J. Cleaveland Cady | Trinity | architect, designer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City | |
| Rockwell King DuMoulin | Columbia | architect, professor, and department chair at the Rhode Island School of Design | |
| John Cameron Greenleaf | Yale | architect | |
| Andrew Hopewell Hepburn | MIT | architect, oversaw the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg | |
| Frank Howell Holden | MIT | architect, director of interior designs for Macy & Co. stores | |
| Edward Townsend Howes | Yale | architect, artist | |
| H. Mather Lippincott Jr. | Pennsylvania | architect of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends Center, Fred W. Noyes Foundation Museum | |
| Emlen T. Littell | Pennsylvania | architect known for designing gothic revival style churches | |
| Goodhue Livingston | Columbia | architect of Hayden Planetarium, Knickerbocker Hotel, Rikers Island Penitentiary | |
| John Mauran | MIT | architect | |
| Henry G. Morse | MIT | architect | |
| George Carnegie Palmer | Columbia | architect of New York State Education Building and numerous college and public buildings | |
| Francis L. Pell | Columbia | architect of Maryland Institute Building | |
| William G. Perry | MIT | architect responsible for the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg | |
| James Otis Post | Columbia | architect | |
| William Stone Post | Columbia | architect of the New York Stock Exchange and the campus plan, City College of New York | |
| Edmund R. Purves | Pennsylvania | architect, executive of American Institute of Architects, WWI Croix de Guerre and Verdun Medal | |
| William Hamilton Russell | Columbia | architect of New York City's Beaver Building, Mecca Masonic Temple and The Langham | |
| Peter L. Shelton | Pennsylvania | architect, winner of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award | |
| Fletcher Steele | Williams | landscape architect | |
| Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge | Trinity | architect, designer of the current New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street | |
| Name | Original chapter | Notability | |
| Winslow Ames | Columbia | art historian, author, academic, and director of the Museum of Modern Art | |
| Bill Bamberger | UNC | documentary photographer | |
| James Bohannon | Trinity | member of the band VHS Collection | |
| Morgan Colt | Columbia | Metal worker, furniture craftsman, impressionist, architect, and co-founder of New Hope Group | |
| John Eaton | Yale | jazz pianist and originator of John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song on PBS | |
| Harold Perry Erskine | Williams | architect and sculptor | |
| Wilson P. Foss Jr. | Yale | art collector and dealer of Asian art, chairman of New York Rock Trap Company | |
| John Humphreys Johnston | Columbia | artist | |
| Anya Liftig | Yale | Performance artist and memoirist | |
| Charles Green Shaw | Yale | artist, a significant figure in American abstract art, novelist, poet, journalist, and writer | |
| Allen Butler Talcott | Trinity | artist | |
| David Urquhart Wilcox | Yale | artist | |
| John Rhea Barton Willing | Pennsylvania | music enthusiast and violin collector, included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred" | |
| Name | Original
Chapter | Notability | |
| Bill Backer | Yale | advertising executive and lyricist, created "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" Coca-Cola campaign | |
| Hans W. Becherer | Trinity | president and CEO of John Deere | |
| Henry Becton | Yale | chairman and executive vice president of Becton Dickinson and Company | |
| Marshall Latham Bond | Yale | mining engineer, Jack London's landlord in during the Klondike Gold Rush | |
| Jonathan Bryan | Virginia | Vice president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company, president of Bryan, Kemp & Co. brokerage firm | |
| George H. Bull | Columbia | president of the Saratoga Racing Association and the Empire City Race Track | |
| William E. Carter | Pennsylvania | stockbroker, polo player, Titanic survivor | |
| Frank Hamilton Clark | Pennsylvania | president of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad | |
| Martin W. Clement | Trinity | president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1935 to 1948 | |
| Robert Habersham Coleman | Trinity | Gilded Age "Coal King," scion of the family that owned the Cornwall Iron Furnace | |
| Harry B. Combs | Yale | aviation pioneer, founder of Combs Aviation, and president of Gates Learjet Corporation | |
| Henry M. Crane | MIT | consulting engineer General Motors, vice president and chief engineer Crane-Simplex | |
| Russ Dallen | Mississippi | head of Oppenheimer & Co. in Venezuela, editor of The Daily Journal and Latin American Herald Tribune | |
| Alfred Dater | Yale | Vice chairman Connecticut Power Company, general manager, and chairman of Stamford Gas & Electric | |
| Clarence B. Davison | Yale | director of New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange | |
| D. LeRoy Dresser | Columbia | banker, merchant, brother-in-law of George Washington Vanderbilt II | |
| James F. Fargo | Williams | president of American Express, originated traveler's check system | |
| Stuyvesant Fish | Columbia | president of the Central Illinois Railroad | |
| Wilson P. Foss Jr. | Yale | Board chairman of New York Rock Trap Company, art collector, dealer of Asian art | |
| Gregory Gray Garland Jr. | Virginia | chairman of Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, owner of Unionvale Coal Company and Youngstown Steel Tank | |
| Schuyler Hamilton Jr. | Columbia | brick manufacturer, mining engineer, architect | |
| Colin M. Ingersoll, Jr. | Yale | Commissioner of real estate and chief engineer New York, New Hampshire, and Hartford Railroad | |
| Henry Bourne Joy | Yale | president Packard Motor Car Co. | |
| Eugene Klapp | Columbia | chief engineer Port of Havana Docks Company, deputy chief engineer Cape Code Canal, division engineerNew York Rapid Transit Commission, chief engineer Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company | |
| Philip F. Kobbe | Columbia | vice president, Westinghouse Electric Company | |
| Robert C. Lea | Pennsylvania | Partner in Rock Wool Insulation Company | |
| V. Everit Macy | Columbia | industrialist and philanthropist, president of the National Civic Federation | |
| James F. Magin | Yale | vice president and director of Square D | |
| William D. Nielson | Pennsylvania | president of Elmira and Williamsport Railroad, attorney | |
| William Beach Olmsted Jr. | Yale | director and vice-president American Viscose Corporation | |
| Charles A. Peabody Jr. | Columbia | president Mutual Life Insurance Co., member New York State Assembly | |
| R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont | Columbia | Executive with Keokee Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, director of Bank of America | |
| Moncure Robinson Jr. | Pennsylvania | director Baltimore Steam Packet Company | |
| Frank Roosevelt | Trinity | co-founder of the Roosevelt Organ Works | |
| Edwards Ogden Schuyler | Columbia | member of the stock exchange with Trippe, Schuyler & Co. | |
| Francis Alexander Shields Jr. | Pennsylvania | executive with Revlon and Estee Lauder, father of Brooke Shields | |
| John H. Stewart | Yale | investment banker, vice president Continental Illinois Co., Lawrence Stern & Company, and Cassett & Company | |
| John Borland Thayer III | Pennsylvania | treasurer and financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania, a survivor of the Titanic | |
| Frederick Ferris Thompson | Columbia | banker who helped found Citibank and JP Morgan Chase | |
| Henry R. Towne | Pennsylvania | co-founder of Yale locks, director Federal Reserve Bank of New York | |
| John Henry Towne | MIT | chairman of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. | |
| Juan Terry Trippe | Yale | aviation pioneer, founder of Pan Am | |
| Arthur Turnbull | Columbia | governor New York Stock Exchange, member Chicago Board of Trade | |
| Frederick William Vanderbilt | Yale | director of the New York Central Railroad, philanthropist | |
| George Herbert Walker IV | Pennsylvania | managing director of Lehman Brothers, second cousin to U.S. President George W. Bush | |
| H. Walter Webb | Columbia | vice president Wagner Palace Car Co.; executive with the New York Central Railroad | |
| Charles Sumner Williams | MIT | chairman and vice-president of Thomas A. Edison Inc., vice president Motion Picture Specialty Corporation | |
| Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. | Columbia | banker, president of the Saratoga Racing Association, prominent thoroughbred horse owner | |
| Name | Original chapter | Nobility | |
| Christopher Browne | Pennsylvania | Documentary film producer and director | |
| Edward Downes | Columbia | host of Texaco Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, musicologist and music critic | |
| John Eaton | Yale | originator of John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song on PBS, jazz pianist | |
| Alex Gibney | Yale | Oscar and Emmy winning film director and producer | |
| Fred Graham | Yale | chief anchor and managing editor of Court TV, legal correspondent for CBS News, recipient of a Peabody Award | |
| David Hemingson | Trinity | Academy Award nominated screenwriter, television and film producer and writer | |
| Rachael Horovitz | UNC | producer known for Moneyball (film) and Patrick Melrose (TV) | |
| Andrew Levy | Columbia | humorist and commentator with Red Eye and S.E. Cupp's Unfiltered | |
| Jeff MacNelly | UNC | three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Shoe | |
| Tom Maxwell | UNC | Singer-songwriter, writer, and former member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers | |
| Tinsley Mortime | Columbia | New York socialite and reality television personality, known for The Real Housewives of New York City | |
| Eric Shansby | Yale | political cartoonist for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post | |
| Fredrik Stanton | Williams | filmmaker, author, newspaper publisher | |
| Name | Original chapter | Notability | |
| Willard Bartlett | Columbia | chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. | |
| John Cromwell Bell Jr. | Pennsylvania | chief justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Governor of Pennsylvania | |
| Risden Tylor Bennett | Cumberland | North Carolina Superior Court justice, U.S. House of Representative from North Carolina | |
| Charles Clark | Mississippi | chief justice Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals | |
| S. S. Calhoon | Mississippi | justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi | |
| John T. Downey | Yale | Connecticut Superior Court judge, former CIA officer imprisoned in China for over two decades | |
| George H. Goodrich | Williams | justice, Superior Court of the District of Columbia | |
| Thomas G. Hailey | W&L | associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
| Henry S. Ruth Jr. | Yale | special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal, attorney with Department of Justice | |
| Gabriel P. Sanchez | Yale | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
| Sydney M. Smith | Mississippi | Justice Supreme Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives | |
| Samuel H. Terral | Mississippi | Associate Justice Supreme Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives | |
| Leroy Valliant | Mississippi | Chief Justice Supreme Court of Missouri | |
| Van Vechten Veeder | Virginia | Judge, U.S. Eastern District of New York | |
| Richard Smith Whaley | Virginia | senior judge of the U.S. Court of Claims, U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina | |
| J. Harvie Wilkinson III | Yale | judge Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals | |
| Charles H. Wiltsie | Rochester | attorney, author of legal treatises including the standard on Mortgage Law | |
| Thomas H. Woods | Williams | Chief Justice Superior Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives, lawyer | |
| Julian M. Wright | MIT | judge advocate in the International Court in Cairo, Egypt | |
| Name | Original chapter | Notability | |
| C. D. B. Bryan | Yale | author, journalist, academic, and winner of a Peabody Award and the Harper Prize | |
| John Stewart Bryan | Virginia | president Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader, president College of William and Mary | |
| Jay Carney | Yale | bureau chief for Time, CNN commentator, White House Press Secretary, Amazon communications executive, and head of policy at Airbnb | |
| George Crile III | Trinity | journalist associated with three decades at CBS News, author of Charlie Wilson's War | |
| Russ Dallen | Mississippi | editor-in-chief Latin American Herald Tribune, correspondent for Newsweek, head of Oppenheimer & Co. in Venezuela | |
| Tracy Deonn | UNC | author, received Coretta Scott King Award-John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her debut novel | |
| Max Forrester Eastman | Williams | socialist writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance | |
| Edwin Wiley Fuller | UNC | novelist and poet | |
| Peter Gammons | UNC | columnist for Sports Illustrated and The Boston Globe, and ESPN commentator | |
| W. Douglas Gordon | Virginia | editor of Richmond Times-Dispatch and Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch | |
| Ashbel Green | Columbia | senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf | |
| Isaac Austin Henderson | Williams | novelist and publisher of the New York Evening Post | |
| Robert Hillyer | Trinity | poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Verse | |
| Stuart Kellogg | Yale | editor of The Advocate, managing editor of The Journal of Homosexuality | |
| Charles Kuralt | UNC | journalist and writer, known for his long career with CBS News, winner of twelve Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards | |
| John H. Lahr | Yale | author, senior drama critic of The New Yorker, won a Tony Award, National Book Critics Circle Award | |
| Harold Lamb | Columbia | historian, screenwriter, and novelist | |
| Lewis H. Lapham | Yale | writer, founder of Lapham's Quarterly, editor of Harper's Magazine | |
| Sydney Lea | Yale | poet, novelist, essayist, Poet Laurette of Vermont | |
| Tochi Onyebuchi | Yale | science fiction writer | |
| Thomas Nelson Page | W&L | novelist who popularized the plantation genre. US Ambassador to Italy | |
| Mara Rockliff | Brown | author of books for children | |
| Jonathan Rosen | Yale | 2024 Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography for The Best Minds | - |
| Charles Green Shaw | Yale | writer for The New Yorker and ''Vanity Fair, poet, children's book author, novelist. abstract painter | |
| Stephen G. Smith | Pennsylvania | writer, editor in chief of the National Journal, senior-editor at Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report | |
| Lucien D. Starke Jr. | Virginia | president and general manager of The Virginia Pilot | |
| John Lawson Stoddard | Williams | bestselling author, creator of the travelogue genre, celebrity lecturer who pioneered using magic lanterns | |
| Melanie Sumner | UNC | novelist and academic, received a Whiting Award for her first novel, Polite Society | |
| Sandy Treadwell | UNC | sports journalist with Sports Illustrated and Classic Sports, Secretary of State of New York | |
| Edward Sims Van Zile | Trinity | journalist, writer of novels, short stories, and biographies | |
| Loudon Wainwright Jr. | UNC | writer and editor of Life magazine, author | |
| Donald Welsh | Columbia | editor and publisher, worked with Rolling Stone, Fortune, Budget Travel, and Budget Living | |
| Michael G. Williams | UNC | novelist, author of queer science fiction | |
| Naomi Wolf | Yale | writer, political consultant, feminist | |
| Ilyon Woo | Yale | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom | |
| Jonathan Yardley | UNC | Pulitzer Prize winning book critic with the Washington Post'' | |
| Name | Original chapter | Nobility | |
| Glover Crane Arnold | Columbia | instructor of anatomy at Bellevue Medical College | |
| Britton Chance | Pennsylvania | father of redox sciences, helped develop spectroscopy, 1952 Summer Olympics Gold medalist in yachting | |
| Lincoln Ellsworth | Yale 1900 | Polar explorer, engineer, surveyor, and author who led the first Arctic and Antarctic air crossings | |
| Andrea M. Ghez | MIT | recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, professor of physics at UCLA | |
| Clinton Hart Merriam | Yale | father of mammalogy, first chief of the U.S. Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy | |
| Mary O'Connor | Yale | chair of Orthopedics at Mayo Clinic, 1980 Summer Olympics women's eight rowing team, Congressional Gold Medal | |
| Sylvanus Albert Reed | Columbia | physicist, received Collier Trophy for the invention of the Reed metal airplane propeller | |
| William Carter Stubbs | Randolph Macon | Louisiana State Chemist, director of the experimental station at Louisiana State University | |
| Hermann von Wechlinger Schulte | Trinity | professor of anatomy, dean of Creighton University School of Medicine | |
| William McNeill Whistler | Columbia | founder and senior physician of London Throat Hospital, Confederate surgeon, brother of artist James Whistler | |
| Rudolph August Witthaus | Columbia | physician and forensic toxicologist, professor of chemistry and toxicology at Cornell University | |
| Name | Original chapter | Notability | |
| Joseph W. Alsop IV | Yale | Connecticut State House of Representatives, Connecticut State Senate | |
| Joseph Weldon Bailey | Mississippi | U.S. Senate from Texas, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas | |
| Nick Bain | Mississippi | Mississippi State House of Representatives 2012 to present | - |
| John Cromwell Bell Jr. | Pennsylvania | Lt. Governor and Governor of Pennsylvania, chief justice and justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | |
| Harry F. Byrd Jr. | Virginia | U.S. Senator from Virginia | |
| George R. Carter | Yale | Territorial Governor of Hawaii | |
| Thomas C. Catchings | Mississippi | U.S. House of Representatives Mississippi, Mississippi Attorney General | |
| Walker Lucas. Clapp | Mississippi | Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Mayor of Memphis | |
| Joseph S. Clark Jr. | Pennsylvania | U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia | |
| E. Harold Cluett | Williams | U.S. House Representatives from New York, National War Work Council | |
| Thomas C. Coffin | Yale | U.S. House Representatives from Idaho | |
| Lawrence Coughlin | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
| Charles S. Dewey | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | |
| Curtis N. Douglas | Rochester | New York State Senate | |
| Charles Edison | MIT | Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, son of Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Timothy E. Ellsworth | Rochester | President pro tempore of the New York State Senate | |
| Charles James Faulkner | Virginia | U.S. Senator from West Virginia | |
| Henry Fay | Rochester | Lt. Governor Rhode Island | |
| Hamilton Fish II | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, Speaker of the New York State Assembly | |
| Eric Garcetti | Columbia | Mayor of Los Angeles, California | |
| Albert Taylor Goodwyn | Virginia | U.S. House of Representative from Alabama | |
| Robert Ray Hamilton | Columbia | New York State Assembly | |
| Rounsaville S. McNeal | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives | |
| John M. Mitchell | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York | |
| Hernando Money | Mississippi | U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
| William Fellowes Morgan Sr. | Pennsylvania | New Jersey General Assembly, a pioneer of the use of refrigeration in warehouses | |
| Edward de Veaux Morrell | Pennsylvania | U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
| Wendell Mottley | Yale | Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives and Minister of Finance, 1964 Summer Olympics medalist | |
| James B. Murray | Yale | Virginia House of Delegates | |
| James Breck Perkins | Rochester | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, New York State Assembly | |
| Charles A. Peabody Jr. | Columbia | New York State Assembly, attorney | |
| William S. Reyburn | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
| Andrew Roraback | Yale | Connecticut Senate and House of Representatives, Connecticut Superior Court Judge | |
| Daniel Lindsay Russell | UNC | Governor of North Carolina, U.S. House of Representative from North Carolina | |
| Francis Sargent | MIT | Governor of Massachusetts | |
| Willard Saulsbury Jr. | Virginia | U.S. Senator from Delaware, Senate President pro tempore | |
| Walter Sillers Jr | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives; Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives | |
| D. French Slaughter Jr. | Virginia | U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia | |
| James Luther Slayden | W&L | U.S. House of Representatives from Texas | |
| Lawrence Vest Stephens | W&L | Governor of Missouri | |
| Gerry Studds | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, first openly gay Congressman | |
| Alfred Holt Stone | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives, Mississippi Tax Commissioner | |
| William V. Sullivan | Mississippi | U.S. Senator from Mississippi, House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
| John V. Tunney | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from California. U.S. Senator from California | |
| J. Mayhew Wainwright | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War | |
| Malcolm Wallop | Yale | U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Earl of Portsmouth, Wyoming State Senate | |
| Hugh L. White | Mississippi | Governor of Mississippi | |
| William Madison Whittington | Mississippi | U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
| Anthony A. Williams | Yale | Mayor of Washington, D.C. | |