List of Yale University people
Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
Alumni
For a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, see List of Yale Law School alumni.Prize recipients
Nobel laureates
Pulitzer Prize winners
Abel laureates
Architecture and visual arts
Arts and humanities
Athletics
Business
College founders and presidents
Film and television
Inventors and innovators
Life sciences and medicine
Mathematics and computer science
Physical sciences and engineering
Law and politics
Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers
Supreme Court justices
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.U.S. senators
Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.Other legislators
Governors, mayors, other city and state officials
Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers
The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.Diplomats
Judges and attorneys
Activists
Political commentators
Other
- Matthew Adler, law professor
- Algernon Sydney Biddle, lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio
- Manasseh Cutler, co-author of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, member of the Ohio Company of Associates, Federalist congressman from Massachusetts
- John Hart Ely, legal scholar
- James Gadsden, namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of Arizona and New Mexico
- Quintin Johnstone, legal scholar
- Clarence King, founder of the U.S. Geological Survey
- James Wadsworth, founder of Geneseo, New York, and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley
- Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Military
Religion
History, literature, and journalism
Musicians and composers
Faculty
Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.Nobel laureates
Social sciences
Technologists
Television
Theatre
Others
Arts and humanities
Life sciences and medicine
Mathematics
Physical sciences and engineering
Social sciences
Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University
| Rectors of Yale College | Birth–death | Years as rector | |
| 1 | Rev. Abraham Pierson | 1641–1707 | 1701–07 Collegiate School |
| 2 | Rev. Samuel Andrew | 1656–1738 | 1707–19 |
| 3 | Rev. Timothy Cutler | 1684–1765 | 1719–26; 1718/9: renamed Yale College |
| 4 | Rev. Elisha Williams | 1694–1755 | 1726–39 |
| 5 | Rev. Thomas Clap | 1703–1767 | 1740–45 |
| Presidents of Yale College | Birth–death | Years as president | |
| 5 | Rev. Thomas Clap | 1703–1767 | 1745–66 |
| 6 | Rev. Naphtali Daggett | 1727–1780 | 1766–77 |
| 7 | Rev. Ezra Stiles | 1727–1795 | 1778–95 |
| 8 | Timothy Dwight IV | 1752–181 | 1795–1817 |
| 9 | Jeremiah Day | 1773–1867 | 1817–46 |
| 10 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | 1801–1899 | 1846–71 |
| 11 | Noah Porter III | 1811–1892 | 1871–86 |
| 12 | Timothy Dwight V | 1828–1916 | 1886–99; 1887: renamed Yale University |
| 13 | Arthur Twining Hadley | 1856–1930 | 1899–1921 |
| 14 | James Rowland Angell | 1869–1949 | 1921–37 |
| 15 | Charles Seymour | 1885–1963 | 1937–51 |
| 16 | Alfred Whitney Griswold | 1906–1963 | 1951–63 |
| 17 | Kingman Brewster Jr. | 1919–1988 | 1963–77 |
| 18 | Hanna Holborn Gray | 1930– | 1977–78 |
| 19 | A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1938–1989 | 1978–86 |
| 20 | Benno C. Schmidt Jr. | 1942– | 1986–92 |
| 21 | Howard R. Lamar | 1923–2023 | 1992–93 |
| 22 | Richard C. Levin | 1947– | 1993–2013 |
| 23 | Peter Salovey | 1958– | 2013–2024 |
| 24 | Maurie McInnis | 1966– | 2024–present |