List of Tufts University people

The list of Tufts University people includes alumni, professors, and administrators associated with Tufts University. For a list of Tufts' presidents, see List of presidents of Tufts University. It includes alumni and affiliates of the acquired Jackson College for Women and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Academics

College and university presidents

Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Tufts University, 29th president of Harvard University
Elmer Hewitt Capen, president of Tufts College member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts University and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
John Albert Cousens, president of Tufts College
Oliver Dean, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the first and second presidents; founder of Dean Academy
Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and influential rabbi
John E. Endicott, co-president of Woosong University and American foreign policy analyst specializing in security issues
Hollis Godfrey, president of Drexel University
Frederick W. Hamilton, president of Tufts College
William Leslie Hooper, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents
John Clarence Lee, president of St. Lawrence University; president and vice president of Lombard University
Moshe Many, Israeli urologist; president of Tel Aviv University, and President of Ashkelon Academic College
Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith College and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
George Stewart Miller, acting president of Tufts College
Miriam E. Nelson, president of Hampshire College
Joseph W. Polisi, president of The Juilliard School
Albert J. Simone, president of Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii system
Katherine Haley Will, president of Gettysburg College and former chair of the Annapolis Group

Provosts, deans, and vice presidents

Lisa Anderson, provost of the American University in Cairo and Middle East political scholar
Scott C. Beardsley, Dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business
John L. Carroll, Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law and former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama
David R. Harris, provost of Tufts, president of Union College
David W. Kennedy, vice president of international affairs at Brown University and legal scholar
David Rosowsky, vice president of University of Vermont, former dean of engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard J. Smith, dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Michelle Ann Williams, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Professors and scholars

Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, pioneer in lithium, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and lithium-air batteries
Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware
David Autor, economics professor at MIT focused on the effects of technology on the workplace
Arnaud Blin, French historian and political scientist
Martha Constantine-Paton, founding member of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, former Harvard psychology professor involved with the Harvard Psilocybin Project
Robert Daum, director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at the Vancouver School of Theology
Jay Famiglietti, professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
Rolf Faste, industrial designer and professor at Stanford University
Lewis M. Feldstein, co-chairman of the Saguaro Seminar and President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Matt Glaser, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music, jazz and bluegrass violinist
Alan L. Gropman, professor of history and grand strategy, National Defense University
Thomas L. Hopkins, progressive education professor and theorist
Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and former executive director of MIT Media Lab
Robert Kayen, professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley, previously University of California, Los Angeles
Jill Lepore, historian and professor at Harvard University
Julie Livingston, one of thirty-four "genius" MacArthur Fellows in 2013, for her research at Rutgers University
Mahmood Mamdani, African political expert and professor at Columbia University
Prachi Deshpande, historian and professor at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Frederick Nelson, mechanical engineer and professor
Padraig O'Malley, professor of international studies specializing in the problems of divided societies
Martin Theodore Orne, psychiatry and psychology professor and researcher
Eric Rubin, chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Herbert Charles Sanborn, received a master's degree from Tufts College in 1897; served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University 1921–1942
Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor

Art

Marion Boyd Allen, painter
David Armstrong, photographer
David Aronson, painter, sculptor; Emeritus Professor of Art, Boston University
Art School Cheerleaders, performance art troupe
Will Barnet, painter and printmaker
Kaiju Big Battel, performance art troupe
Carol Beckwith, photographer, author, and artist
Ture Bengtz, painter/printmaker, teacher
Frank Weston Benson, painter
Seamus Blackley, video game developer
Sheila Blair, art historian
Ruben Bolling, aka Ken Fisher, nationally syndicated cartoonist
Jan Brett, illustrator
Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, painter
David Buckley, painter, former musician with the Barracudas
Lisa Bufano, performance artist
Al Capp, cartoonist of Li'l Abner
Marie Cosindas, photographer
Holly Coulis, painter
Allan Rohan Crite, painter
Taylor Davis, plywood sculptor
Adio diBiccari, sculptor
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, photographer
Jim Dine, painter and printmaker
Omer Fast, video artist
Zach Feuer, art dealer
Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history
Esther Geller, painter
Kahlil Gibran, painter/sculptor
Nan Goldin, photographer
William Snelling Hadaway, artist, attended 1890s
William Melton Halsey, painter and sculptor
Doc Hammer, painter
Todd Hido, photographer
Nancy Holt, artist and sculptor
Susan Howe, poet, scholar, essayist and critic
Joan Jonas, performance artist
Lois Mailou Jones, painter
Tom Jung, graphic designer and illustrator
Ellsworth Kelly, painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Eleanor de Laittre, artist
Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky, painter, teacher
Mira Lehr, painter
May Hallowell Loud, painter
Jim McNitt, mixed-media painter and photographer
F. Luis Mora, artist and illustrator
Mark Morrisroe, photographer
Laurel Nakadate, video artist and photographer
Sally Pierone, artist
Larry Poons, painter
Liz Prince, comic book artist, Ignatz Award winner
Richard Scarry, illustrator
Doug and Mike Starn, photographers and performance artists
Frank Stout, painter
Tom Sutton, illustrator and comic book artist
Edmund Tarbell, painter
Wallace Tripp, illustrator
Cy Twombly, painter, sculptor, printmaker
John A. Wilson, sculptor
Peter Wolf, painter, singer
Levni Yilmaz, animator and cartoonist

Architecture

Macy DuBois, Canadian architect whose work is prominent in Toronto
Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect

Business

Yusuf Hassan Abdi, former director of IRIN
Peter Ackerman, managing director of Rockport Capital
Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance
Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill Restaurant
John Bello, founder and former CEO of SoBe Beverages and former President of NFL Properties
Samuel T. Byrne, founder of CrossHarbor Capital Partners and owner of the Yellowstone Club
Dov Charney, CEO and founder of American Apparel
Charles S. Cohen, real estate developer and film producer
William Cummings, head of the Cummings Foundation, one of the largest in New England, with over $2 billion in assets
Susan Decker, former President of Yahoo!, Inc.
Dick Dietrich, co-founder and CEO of GED Integrated Glass Solutions
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Corporation
Peter R. Dolan, former CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Technology Partners
Ben duPont, businessman, son of Pete du Pont
Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow
Seth Godin, marketing expert and founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo
Bernard Marshall Gordon, former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company; inventor, holds over 30 patents
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of GOOD Magazine and co-founder of Ethos water, current national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League
Jacqueline Hernandez, president of Combate Americas, and CEO of Telemundo Media
Eduardo Hochschild, chairman of Hochschild Mining
Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger
Jeff Kindler, CEO of Pfizer Inc., former Vice President of General Electric Co. and Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations at McDonald's
Ellen J. Kullman, ex-CEO of DuPont and an adviser on President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
Jim Manzi, former president, chairman, and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation
John T. McCarthy, chairman of ING Group Turkey
Harold McGraw III, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies; Chairman of the Business Roundtable
Umberto Milletti, CEO and co-founder of InsideView and co-founder of DigitalThink
Soichiro Minami, Japanese businessman and billionaire who founded job search and human resources software firm Visional
Susan Morse, first female president of the Olympic Club
Khaldoon Al Mubarak, CEO of Mubadala Development Company and chairman of Manchester City F.C.
John Martin Mugar, retired chairman and president of Star Market
Andrew M. Murstein, founder, board member, president, and largest shareholder of Medallion Financial
Joseph Neubauer, former CEO and current chairman of the board of ARAMARK Corporation
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
Roy Raymond, founder of Victoria's Secret lingerie retail stores
Ali Sabancı, member of the Sabancı family, chairman of Pegasus Airlines, Desas, and Esaslı Gıda, and former head of projects at Sabancı Holding
Scott Sanborn, CEO and President of LendingClub
Monty Sarhan, CEO and editor-in-chief of Cracked Entertainment, vice president of Viacom
Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital
Thomas Schmidheiny, billionaire and entrepreneur
Joel Simkhai, CEO and founder of Grindr and Blendr
Jeff Stibel, CEO of Web.com
Richard F. Syron, former chairman and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Jonathan Tisch, billionaire chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, co-owner of the New York Giants
Janice Savin Williams, founder and Senior Principal at Williams Capital Group
Walter B. Wriston, chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank 1967–1984

Crime

Elaine Brown, tax protester involved in a five-month armed standoff
Gina Grant, committer of matricide
Jonathan Pollard, Israeli-American spy
Harry Sagansky, member of the Jewish Mafia, oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison term
Jon Schillaci, convicted sex offender previously listed as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

Diplomacy

Jonathan Addleton, U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Rafeeuddin Ahmed, former UN Under-Secretary-General and Pakistan foreign service officer
Shafi U Ahmed, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Hady Amr, special representative for Palestinian affairs, policy analyst and author specializing in U.S.-Arab relations
Anthony Banbury, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
C. Fred Bergsten, former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Council on Foreign Relations
Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
Richard Boucher, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, ambassador to Cyprus, and Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong
Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), prominent Hong Kong politician; both the first woman and the first Chinese person to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, current Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
Musa Javed Chohan, former Pakistani Ambassador to France
J. Adam Ereli, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Lebanon
Michael Hammer, ambassador from the United States to Chile
John E. Herbst, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Wolfgang Ischinger, former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K.
Roberta S. Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Ismat Jahan, Bangladeshi Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, former ambassador to the Netherlands
Michelle Kwan, U.S. Ambassador to Belize and former Olympic figure skater
Mark W. Libby, US diplomat
Liu Xiaoming, former Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Sarah-Ann Lynch, US Ambassador to Guyana
Edwin W. Martin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Consul General of the United States in Hong Kong
David McKean, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg ; Director of Policy Planning
Masud Bin Momen, Bangladeshi foreign secretary
General William T. Monroe, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India
Bernd Mützelburg, German special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former German ambassador to India
Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel, India, and Russia
Mitchell Reiss, former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, current President of Washington College
Iqbal Riza, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peacekeeping and Pakistani diplomat
Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States
Konrad Seitz, former German Ambassador to India, Italy, and China
Alan Solomont, U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Shashi Tharoor, former UN Under-Secretary-General and Indian Minister for External Affairs, current member of Indian Parliament
Malcolm Toon, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
David Welch, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, former Ambassador to Egypt
Hassan Wirajuda, Foreign Minister of Indonesia

Entertainment

Film and television

Hank Azaria, actor and voice actor most famous for his work on The Simpsons and various films
Jessica Biel, film actress
David W. Burke, former President of CBS News
Rob Burnett, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman, President and CEO of Worldwide Pants
David Costabile, actor, known for his recurring roles on The Wire, Flight of the Conchords, and Breaking Bad
Chiara de Luca, French-Italian actress
Dom DeLuise, actor, most famous for his work in Blazing Saddles and Space Balls and as host of the television show Candid Camera
Lou DiBella, founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, owner of the Connecticut Defenders, former head of programming for HBO Sports, TV/film producer, and boxing promoter
David Faber, CNBC market analyst and host of Squawk on the Street
Adam Felber, political satirist, actor, radio personality, and humorist
Nicole Fiscella, Gossip Girl actress and model
Peter Gallagher, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actor, best known for his roles in The O.C., American Beauty, and Mr. Deeds
Joshua Gates, host of Syfy channel's Destination Truth and the Discovery Channel's Expedition Unknown
Nancy Glass, CEO of Glass Entertainment Group and formerly an anchor/reporter for several national television shows.
Cary Granat, co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
Jeff Greenstein, Emmy Award-winning TV writer and executive producer of Will & Grace
Susan Haskell, Emmy Award-winning Canadian actress, One Life to Live
Joanna Hausmann, comedian and correspondent of Bill Nye Saves the World
Dan Hedaya, film actor, best known for Clueless and Blood Simple
William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor, well known for roles in films such as Kiss of the Spider Woman, Broadcast News, A History of Violence, and The Incredible Hulk
Kara Kennedy, filmmaker, social activist, daughter of Ted Kennedy
Brian Koppelman, screenwriter and producer
Stephen Kunken, TV and film actor
Christopher Lawford, son of Peter Lawford, author, actor, and activist
Steven Lisberger, director of Tron
Lilia Luciano, Puerto Rican actress and TV reporter working in Spanish-language television in the United States
David Lynch, filmmaker
Stephen Macht, TV and film actor
Ben Mankiewicz, TV personality and host of Turner Classic Movies
Niels Mueller, filmmaker
Ameesha Patel, Bollywood actress
Oliver Platt, Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG-nominated actor
Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor on Heroes
Shari Redstone, founder and chairwoman of ViacomCBS Inc. and president of National Amusements
Peter Roth, CEO of Warner Brothers Television
Melissa Russo, TV news anchor for WNBC-TV News in New York City
Joshua Seftel, filmmaker
Justine Shapiro, movie and TV actress; co-host of Globe Trekker
Neal Shapiro, Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station WNET/WLIW in New York City; former president of NBC News
Atika Shubert, Jerusalem bureau chief for CNN
Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio
Laura Silverman, actress on The [Sarah Silverman Program] and sister of comedian Sarah Silverman
David Sonenberg, Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd
Will Tiao, TV actor
Steve Tisch, Academy Award-winning producer and co-owner of the New York Giants with his brother Jonathan Tisch
Meredith Vieira, TV host of The Today Show, formerly of The View
Aury Wallington, screenwriter and novelist
Rainn Wilson, actor and co-star of The Office
Gary Winick, film director and producer

Music and dance

Dan Avidan, comedian and singer, known for his work on Ninja Sex Party and Game Grumps
Matt Ballinger, actor and boy band singer in Dream Street
Garnett Bruce, opera director
Alex Caplow, lead singer of Magic Man
Tracy Chapman, multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
All members of Crumb, psychedelic rock band
Paul DeGeorge, member of the band Harry and the Potters
Ezra Furman, frontwoman of the band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
Adam Gardner, guitarist and vocalist for the band Guster
Matt Glaser, jazz and bluegrass violinist, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music
Don Grolnick, jazz pianist and composer
Guster, alternative rock band
Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, and actor
Leslie Hall, frontwoman for Leslie and the Ly's
Juliana Hatfield, musician
Alan Hovhaness, composer
Staś Kmieć, theater and dance choreographer, dancer, and the foremost U.S. authority on Polish folk dance and culture
James S. Levine, film and television composer
Erik Lindgren, composer and musician
Ryan Miller, lead singer and guitarist for rock band Guster
Jim Nollman, composer, musician, and author involved with animal communications
Charles North, poet
Daniel Pritzker, billionaire guitarist and songwriter for Sonia Dada, member of the Pritzker family
Members of the Rare Occasions met at Tufts University.
Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
Jeff Saltzman, drummer for Allegaeon
Eric Schwartz, folk singer/songwriter
Darrell Scott, country singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Deke Sharon, a cappella singer, composer, arranger, and producer
Both members of Timeflies, pop/hip hop duo
Malcolm Travis, musician
Michael "Mudcat" Ward, blues bassist, pianist and songwriter

Government

Chris Bortz, member Cincinnati City Council 2005-2011
Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department
Leo Otis Colbert, third director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and rear admiral
Richard N. Goodwin, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, political speechwriter, author, and playwright
Admiral Jonathan Howe, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
Matthew Levitt, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Winston Lord, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, president of the Council on Foreign Relations
Susan K. Martin, director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
Gina McCarthy, administrator of the EPA under President Obama
Peter Navarro, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy
Phyllis E. Oakley, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and Intelligence and Research
Farah Pandith, special representative to Muslim communities for the U.S. Department of State
Tara D. Sonenshine, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs for Barack Obama's administration
Bill Thompson, New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate
C. David Welch, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and regional president of Bechtel

Journalism

Erin Arvedlund, author and financial journalist
Matt Bai, author and political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
Liz Landers, journalist and correspondent for PBS News
Laura Lang, CEO of Time Inc.
Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for The Boston Globe and author
Jay Newton-Small, Washington Correspondent for TIME
Joanne Pransky, robotics journalist and magazine editor
Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of ''The New York Times''

Law

Nancy Atlas, judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
André Birotte Jr., judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California
John L. Carroll, former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama and Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law
R. Guy Cole, Jr., federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ralph Adam Fine, Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge
Faith S. Hochberg, federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and former deputy assistant secretary for law enforcement at the U.S. Department of Treasury
Timothy Lewis, former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Alfred P. Rubin
Nancy E. Rice, former chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
John G. Sargent, former Attorney General of the United States
Warren Silver, Maine Supreme Court justice
Norman H. Stahl, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Laura Denvir Stith, Missouri Supreme Court judge

Literature

Elliot Ackerman, author
Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author and professor
Jessica Anderson, author
Ian C. Ballon, author of several Internet law books, including a four-volume treatise
Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
Christopher Castellani, author of Maddalena trilogy and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow
John Ciardi, poet and translator
Cid Corman, poet, translator and poetry journal editor
George Michael Cuomo, author
Pieretta Dawn, author
Barbara Delinsky, bestselling author
Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, Puerto Rican policy analyst and author
Christopher Golden, horror, fantasy, and suspense novelist
Cary Granat, co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
Han Bi-ya, Korean activist, writer
Bette Bao Lord, author and civic activist
William MacDonald, prolific Christian author
Gregory Maguire, author of the novels Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Maliha Masood, author
Michael McDowell, author and screenwriter
Daniel Paisner, author best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator
Jane Lippitt Patterson, writer and editor
Anita Shreve, author
Darin Strauss, novelist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Wylie Sypher, writer
Mary L. Trump, author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Nathanael West, author and screenwriter
Ellen Emerson White, writer
Tiphanie Yanique, fiction writer, poet, and essayist

Military

Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ex-commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Forces
General Joseph P. Hoar, general and former commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command
Susan Livingstone, former acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment
Lieutenant Colonel Murray Sanders, U.S. Army Medical Corps officer nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine
Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied [Commander Europe] and Commander of the U.S. European Command
Major General Harold R. Story, commander of the 42nd Infantry Division
Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, former U.S. Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Blue Angels aviator

Nobel laureates

Eugene F. Fama, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing
Roderick MacKinnon, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels
Juan Manuel Santos, winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, President of Colombia

Politics

Heads of state

Shukri Ghanem, former Prime Minister of Libya
Kostas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece
Mulatu Teshome, former President of Ethiopia

U.S. governors

General Seldon Connor, former governor of Maine
F. Ray Keyser Jr., former governor of Vermont
Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Ambassador to the United Nations
Stanley C. Wilson, former governor of Vermont

U.S. Senate

Scott Brown, member of the United States Senate
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India

U.S. Congress

Jeb Bradley, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Joe Courtney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Dan Crenshaw, U.S. Representative from Texas
Peter DeFazio, U.S. Representative from Oregon
Thomas Kean, Jr., U.S. Representative from New Jersey
Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative from Georgia
John Olver, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Frank Pallone, U.S. Representative from New Jersey since 1988
William Leon St. Onge, U.S. Representative from Connecticut and mayor of Putnam
John Philip Swasey, U.S. Representative from Maine

Foreign officials

Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian Minister of External Affairs 1985–1987
Kow Nkensen Arkaah, Vice President of Ghana 1993–1997
Michael Dobbs, former chief of staff of the Conservative Party and political thriller novelist
Colette Flesch, Luxembourg politician and Olympic fencing competitor
Jean Francois-Poncet, French politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1981
Kostas Achileas Karamanlis, Greek politician and former Minister of Transportation
Olga Kefalogianni, Greek politician and Minister of Tourism
Shahryar Khan, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, author
John Kuan, former president of the Examination Yuan of the Republic of China
Jeffrey Lam, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and managing director of Forward Winsome Industries
Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice
Mbuyamu I. Matungulu, former DRC Minister of Finance, senior economist at the International Monetary Fund,
Phạm Bình Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam
Lê Hoài Trung, Foreign Minister of Vietnam
Vardan Oskanyan, former Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Surakiart Sathirathai, former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Finance Minister of Thailand
Antoinette Sayeh, director of the African Department at the International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of Liberia
Radmila Sekerinska, deputy prime minister of Macedonia and minister of defense of Macedonia
Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly
Godfrey Smith, Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management
Shashi Tharoor, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and prolific author
Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF and former Minister of Justice

State officials

Phil Bartlett, Maine Senate
Francis X. Bellotti, former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General of Massachusetts
Horace T. Cahill, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Elmer Hewitt Capen, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and third president of Tufts College
Anthony Cortese, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection; environmental activist and researcher
Benjamin Downing, Democratic State Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2006 at age 24
Steve Dyer, former member of Ohio House of Representatives 2007–2010
Michael E. Festa, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs
Dan Gelber, member of the Florida Senate and 38th Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida
Jack Hart, member of the Massachusetts State Senate
Albert W. Harvey, United States Marshal for the District of Vermont
Jon Hecht, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Frank Hornstein, Minnesota State Representative, member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party; elected for the first time in 2002
George Keverian, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1985–1991
Tram Nguyen, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Kristina Roegner, member of Ohio House of Representatives
Carl M. Sciortino, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2004–2014, Democratic Party
Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State 2015–present, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 2005–2015
Keith L. T. Wright, member of the New York State Assembly

City officials

Nina Albert, acting deputy mayor of Washington, D.C. for planning and economic development
Charles Neal Barney, former mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts
Kirk Caldwell, mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
Richard B. Coolidge, former mayor of Medford, Massachusetts
Philip Levine, 37th Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida
Patrick O. Murphy, former mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts
Charles Yancey, member of Boston City Council

Other

Doug Bailey, political strategist who founded The Hotline and Unity08
Jay Byrne, political strategist and former White House spokesperson
HRH Prince Cedza Dlamini of Swaziland; human rights activist; grandson of Nelson Mandela
Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative Party and political thriller novelist
Jen O'Malley Dillon, political strategist, campaign manager for the Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign, Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Mouin Rabbani, Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs
Lew Rockwell, libertarian political activist and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, former candidate for chairman of the DNC
Geng Shuang, Chinese diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations
William L. Uanna, security officer, Manhattan Project and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor of the U.S. State Department and executive director of the 9/11 Commission

Pulitzer Prize winners

Leslie Gelb, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Chasing Me to My Grave, co-written with subject Winfred Rembert
Mark Krikorian, executive director of Center for Immigration Studies and conservative pundit
Maxine Kumin, poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982
Philip Levine, poet and National Book Award recipient
April Saul, photojournalist, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Exploratory Journalism in 1997
Edward Schumacher-Matos, American-Colombian journalist, part of the staff of Philadelphia Inquirer who won Pulitzer in 1980
Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
Natalie Wolchover, science journalist, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Gordon S. Wood, professor of American history at Brown University

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Kuzhikalail M. Abraham, pioneer in lithium, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and lithium-air batteries; received Tufts Most Outstanding Achievement and Services Award in 2017
Stephen Moulton Babcock, agricultural chemist who pioneered the development of nutrition as a science
Reid Barton, mathematician, winner of the Morgan Prize, and successful performer of the International Science Olympiads
Seamus Blackley, game developer who helped create the Microsoft Xbox
Frank N. Blanchard, influential herpetologist and zoologist
Harold Bornstein, doctor and former personal physician to Donald Trump
Vannevar Bush, engineer and scientist noted for his work on the atom bomb and early computing
Sean B. Carroll, influential researcher and professor of evolutionary developmental biology
Anthony Cortese, environmental activist/researcher and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Bernard Marshall Gordon, inventor who holds over thirty patents; former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company
Frederick Grinnell, cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
Rick Hauck, astronaut
Bartholomew W. Hogan, former Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association
Hassan Jawahery, American-Iranian physicist and former spokesperson for the BaBar experiment
Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
Charles Kelman, ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, and entertainer, known as the "father of photoemulsification"
Victor A. McKusick, founding editor of the database Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Helen Abbott Michael, organic chemist
Frederick Stark Pearson, electrical engineer and businessman
Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and expert on rainforest ecosystems
Victor Prather, US Navy surgeon, set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with Malcolm Ross in 1961
John Reif, computer science, nanotechnology, and DNA researcher and professor
Keith Ross, NYU computer science professor; dean of engineering NYU Shanghai; ACM and IEEE Fellow
Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
Mary Jane Shultz, Tufts professor and researcher in physical, environmental, materials and surface chemistry
Lynn L. Silver, Biologist known for her work in antibacterial discovery and development
Phillip Hagar Smith, inventor of the Smith chart, a graphical aid to assist in solving problems with transmission lines and matching circuits
Mary Crutchfield Wright Thompson, first Black woman to practice dentistry in Boston.
John Q. Trojanowski, neurological researcher and professor specializing in degenerative diseases
Frankie Trull, lobbyist and science advocate focusing on laboratory animal testing; president of the National Association for Biomedical Research, Foundation for Biomedical Research, and Policy Directions Inc.
Loring W. Tu, Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry
Norbert Wiener, mathematician known as the founder of cybernetics
Esther Wilkins, dentist and author of Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist
Ronald C. Wornick, food scientist; founder of the Wornick Company, selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to mass-produce meals

Sports

Tyler C. Andrews, ultra-marathoner and mountaineer
Michael Aresco, Commissioner of the American Athletic Conference
Bob Backus, Olympic track and field athlete who set world records in the hammer throw
Andrea Baldini, Italian foil fencer
John Bello, former President of NFL Properties
Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer, racecar driver, and magazine editor
Wally Clement, professional baseball player
Harrie Dadmun, professional football player
Lou DiBella, boxing promoter; founder and CEO of Dibella Entertainment; former head of programming for HBO Sports; TV/film producer; owner of the minor league baseball team the Connecticut Defenders
Dan Doyle, executive director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at Trinity College
Frederick M. Ellis, athlete, coach, professor, and head football coach at Tufts 1946–1952
Carl Etelman, football back and coach
Colette Flesch, Luxembourgian politician and three-time Olympic fencing competitor
Chuck Greenberg, sports attorney; chairman and founder of the Greenberg Sports Group
William Grinnell, football player and former head football coach at Northeastern University
Jesse Grupper, Olympic rock climber
Doc Haggerty, professional football player
Doc Hazleton, professional baseball player
Zander Kirkland, Olympic sailor
Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for The Boston Globe; author
David Mendelblatt, yachtsman and ophthalmologist
Mark Mendelblatt, yachtsman, three-time college All-American, silver medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games and 2004 Laser World Championships
Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of Manchester City F.C. and CEO of Mubadala Development Company
Percy S. Prince, former Louisiana Tech head football and baseball coach
Matt Rand, long-distance runner
Harry Orman Robinson, former head coach of American football at UT-Austin and UMissouri-Columbia
Wendy Selig-Prieb, former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers
Heinie Stafford, professional baseball player
Genevra Stone, Olympic rower
Ed Tapscott, former president and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, head coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards
Jonathan Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
Ted Vogel, marathon runner, competed in 1948 Olympics
Shane Waldron, tight ends coach for the New England Patriots
Art Williams, Major League Baseball player
Peter Wylde, Olympic gold medalist in team horse jumping

Fictional alumni

Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan book series
Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, from the television show Seinfeld, who described it as her "safety school"
Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, played by Jill Hennessy, from the television show Crossing Jordan
Jennifer Melfi, played by Lorraine Bracco, from the television show The Sopranos
Dr. Susan Silverman, central character in Robert B. Parker's Spenser book series, as revealed in Sudden Mischief
Brad Sloan, played by Ben Stiller, the titular character of the film Brad's Status
Zachary Vaughn, character in one episode of The Simpsons
Berg, Pete, and Sharon, the three principal characters of the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl
Mamie-Claire, played by Heather Lind, from the film ''Mistress America''

Faculty

Nobel Laureates

Allan M. Cormack, physicist, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, inventor of the CAT scan
Mohamed Elbaradei, winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize; former Vice-President of Egypt
Wassily Leontief, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics; GDAE advisory board member and researcher 1993–1999*
Mario Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; GDAE advisory board member
Paul Samuelson, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics; part-time professor of international economic relations at Fletcher
Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics; GDAE advisory board member
Rainer Weiss, astrophysicist, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Pulitzer Prize winners

Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
William A. Henry III, television critic and author, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1976 and 1980
Erin I. Kelly, professor of philosophy
Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982

Others

Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor, Japanese politician and activist
Frederick Warren Allen, sculptor, teacher for 50 years, 30 as Head of Sculpture
Nalini Ambady, social psychologist, famous for pioneering and coining thin-slicing
Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
Lawrence S. Bacow, economist
Nancy Bauer, philosopher
Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President, Professor of Psychology, Music, and Neuroscience
Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School, served as Secretary of State Clinton's Special Representative for North Korea Policy
Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University
Antonia Chayes, Professor of International Politics and Law, former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
Frank Dengler, sculptor, instructor
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained
John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, assistant professor of pediatrics
Michael Downing, writer
Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics; regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy magazine
Lee Edelman, English professor, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
David Elkind, Professor Emeritus of Child Development, author of The Hurried Child, Giants in the Nursery, The Power of Play, and other bestsellers
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor
John Galvin, General and former Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Charles Grafly, sculptor, head of modeling, 1917 to 1929
Frank Pierrepont Graves, historian of education
Joseph Igersheimer, German ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey
Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
Sheldon Krimsky
Alfred Church Lane, geologist
Louis Lasagna, former Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine, known for introducing the modern Hippocratic Oath
Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
Linda Datcher Loury, former professor of economics
Zella Luria, psychologist and feminist, known for her pioneering work on the development of gender identity
David J. Malan, former professor of computer science, Gordon Mckay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, known for teaching CS50
Jerold Mande, former professor of practice ; former Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the USDA
William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
William C. Martel, Associate Professor of International Security Studies
Gilbert E. Metcalf, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics; author of Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America
William Green Miller, Professor and Associate Dean, United States Ambassador to Ukraine 1993–1998
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author nominated for Nobel Prize; writing fellow
Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
Vali Nasr, Iranian-American academic and scholar; Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
Raymond S. Nickerson, psychologist and author
Bela Lyon Pratt, sculptor, head of modeling, 1893 to 1917
Diane Souvaine, chair of the National Science Board
Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
John H. Sununu, governor of New Hampshire, chief of staff of the White House for G.H.W. Bush
Barry Trimmer, professor of biology; invented the world's first soft-bodied robot
Alexander Vilenkin, theoretical physicist
Jonathan Wilson, author
Wayne Winterrowd, horticulturist and author known for his gardens in Southern Vermont
Chantal Zakari, book artist and graphic designer; faculty
Karl Zerbe, painter, head of the Department of Painting 1937–1955
Carlos Alvarado Quesada, 48th President of Costa Rica

Honorary degree recipients

Tufts awards honorary degrees to outstanding people since 1858; among them:

1858: Thomas Whittemore
1861: Alonzo Ames Miner
1863: Sylvanus Cobb
1865: Thomas Thayer
1872: Israel Washburn
1875: Alonzo Ames Miner
1876: Seldon Connor
1886: Henry B. Metcalf
1890: Arthur Michael
1891: Joseph H. Walker
1894: Elihu Thomson
1895: Otis Skinner
1896: Mary Livermore
1897: Samuel G. Hilborn
1898: William Leslie Hooper
1899: Minton Warren
1900: Frederick Stark Pearson, Charles Ernest Fay
1901: Charles L. Hutchinson
1902: George S. Boutwell, Amos Dolbear
1903: Carroll D. Wright
1904: William Henry Moody
1905: William Edwards Huntington
1909: Charles Neal Barney
1910: Frank Shipley Collins, Eben Draper, Morton Prince
1911: Marion LeRoy Burton, Albert Potter Wills
1912: Frederic Aldin Hall, John G. Sargent
1913: Alfred Church Lane, Hosea Washington Parker
1914: Winston Churchill (novelist)
1915: William Leslie Hooper
1918: Ralph D. Mershon, Joseph Fort Newton
1919: Calvin Coolidge, William Sims
1920: Herbert Hoover, Charles L. Hutchinson
1921: Evangeline Cory Booth, Samuel Capen, Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, Samuel Orace Dunn, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William Henry Nichols, John Wingate Weeks
1922: Henry K. Braley, Heloise Hersey, Louise Homer, Leo Rich Lewis, Edward Sylvester Morse
1923: Edward Bok, Channing H. Cox, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Anna Coleman Ladd, Angelo Patri, Hugh Walpole
1924: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1925: Henry Kimball Hadley, Edna St. Vincent Millay
1926: Frederick Law Olmsted
1927: Richard E. Byrd, A. Atwater Kent, Frank Lahey, Edith Nourse Rogers, John van Schaick Jr.
1928: William Beebe, Charles Ernest Fay, Charles Lawrance, Eva Le Gallienne, John Livingston Lowes, Frank Burr Mallory
1929: Asa White Kenney Billings, Benjamin Newhall Johnson, Herbert Lord, Daniel Gregory Mason
1930: Frank Weston Benson, Arthur Dehon Little
1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes, Marion Edwards Park, Stanley Calef Wilson, Alfred Worcester
1932: George Grey Barnard, Vannevar Bush, Lou Henry Hoover, Archibald MacLeish, James Grover McDonald
1933: Mabel Wheeler Daniels, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Marie Danforth Page
1934: James Bryant Conant, Harold L. Ickes
1935: Carter Glass, Francis Russell Hart, Harry M. Lydenberg, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Sarah Wambaugh
1936: Dorothy Thompson
1937: Van Wyck Brooks, Leonard Carmichael, Thomas Edmund Dewey, Helen Jerome Eddy, Sylvanus Morley
1938: Miller McClintock, Henry Merritt Wriston
1939: Leo Otis Colbert, John Foster Dulles, George Horace Gallup
1940: Francis Henry Taylor
1941: Leason Heberling Adams, Lillian Hellman, George Stewart Miller, Jay Pierrepont Moffat
1942: Walter Nash, Katharine Elizabeth McBride, Leverett Saltonstall
1943: Karl Taylor Compton, Joseph Clark Grew, Sara Murray Jordan
1944: Beardsley Ruml
1945: Arthur William Coolidge, John Sloan Dickey, Theresa Helburn, Eric Johnston, Charles Donagh Maginnis
1946: Norbert Wiener, Laurence Olivier
1947: Joseph W. Martin Jr.
1948: Carl Stephens Ell
1949: Ralph Lowell
1950: Thomas Whittemore
1951: Thomas Dudley Cabot
1952: Henry Chauncey
1953: Robert Cutler
1954: John F. Kennedy
1955: Nathan M. Pusey
1956: John T. Blake
1957: Earl Warren
1958: Robert F. Kennedy
1959: Robert Frost
1960: Hiram Fong
1961: F. Ray Keyser Jr.
1962: Walter Hallstein
1963: James William Fulbright, Lyndon B. Johnson
1964: Charles A. Dana
1965: Jeremy Ingalls
1966: William Scranton, Nils Wessell
1967: John F. Collins, Abigail Adams Eliot
1968: Daniel Moynihan
1969: Kenneth Bancroft Clark, Lee Alvin DuBridge, Paul A. Freund, Howard Nemerov, Joseph Silverstein
1970: Patricia Roberts Harris, Harris Wofford
1971: Arthur Fiedler
1972: Jester Hairston
1974: Theodore Hesburgh, Shirley Hufstedler, Barbara Jordan, Edson Zvobgo
1976: John Brademas, Matina Horner, Virginia Knauer
1977: Irving Selikoff, B.F. Skinner, Malcolm Toon
1978: Victor McKusick, David Nachmansohn
1979: Salvador E. Luria
1980: Allan M. Cormack
1981: Leo Gross
1982: Alexander R. Todd
1983: Sandra Day O'Connor, Edward Kennedy
1984: Arthur M. Sackler, John Williams
1985: Lester R. Brown, Finn Brudevold
1986: Jane Goodall, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
1987: Claude Shannon, Gloria Steinem
1988: Paul Samuelson
1989: Stephen Hawking
1990: Robert Ballard, Juan Carlos I of Spain
1991: Yo-Yo Ma, Moonis Raza
1992: Bernard Marshall Gordon
1993: Carlos Fuentes
1994: Ted Koppel
1995: Murray Gell-Mann
1996: Anson Chan
1997: Richard Holbrooke
1998: Garry Trudeau
1999: Thomas Schmidheiny
2000: Issam Fares
2001: David McCullough
2002: John DiBiaggio, Eugene F. Fama, Roderick MacKinnon
2003: Mario Molina
2004: Neil Armstrong, Tracy Chapman
2005: Kostas Karamanlis
2006: Lynn Margulis
2007: Michael Bloomberg
2008: Meredith Vieira
2009: Leslie Gelb, Deval Patrick, Patricia Q. Stonesifer
2010: Kristina M. Johnson, Ann Hobson Pilot, Gordon Wood
2011: Charles M. Vest, Geoffrey Canada, Jamaica Kincaid, Pierre Omidyar, Robert Solow
2012: Eric Greitens, Lawrence S. Bacow, Bonnie Bassler, Farooq Kathwari
2013: Claude Steele, Lois Gibbs, Raymond Sackler
2014: Anne-Marie Slaughter, James Lawson, Jill Lepore, Haruki Murakami, James D. Stern
2015: Madeleine Albright, Joichi Ito
2016: Hank Azaria, Janet Echelman, H. Jack Geiger, Sonia Manzano
2017: Kenya Barris, Sean B. Carroll, Maria Contreras-Sweet, Joseph W. Polisi
2018: José Andrés, Ash Carter, Ellen Kullman, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Arturo O'Farrill, Farah Pandith
2019: Marie Cassidy, Edward Markey, Eva Moskowitz, Ellen Ochoa, Alfre Woodard