Art
Carl Andre '53 — Internationally known sculptor
Joseph Cornell '21 (d.) — Internationally-known artist; best know for his "box" art
Carroll Dunham '67 — Influential American
painter, known for expressionistic, eye-popping color and combination
of biomorphism, cartooning and abstraction
Walker Evans '22 (d.) — Photographer;
won fame for Depression-era photos in Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men
Cleve Gray '36 (d.) — Painter known for
large-scale, vividly colorful abstract compositions
Horatio Greenough , student in 1814-1815 (d.)
— Designer of Bunker Hill Monument; first American sculptor
of international reputation
Mel Kendrick '67 — Sculptor, known for innovative
wood sculpture and cast work in bronze, rubber and plastic; 2002
recipient of Academy Award in Art
Angela Lorenz '83 — Book artist; her limited
editions represented in 50 public collections
William B. Macomber Jr. '40 (d.) — Former
president of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; former U.S.
ambassador to Turkey
Beaumont Newhall '26 (d.) — Photo historian; founder, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Frank Stella '54 — Leading American abstract artist in painting and metal reliefs
George C. Tooker '38 — Internationally-known painter
Business and industry
William S. Beinecke '32 — Former chairman of the board, The Sperry & Hutchinson Co.
 Broughton
H. Bishop '45 — Chairman, CEO, Pendleton Woolen
Mills
William W. Boeschenstein '44 — Retired
chairman, CEO and president, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
Harry M. Cornell Jr. '47 — Chairman
emeritus, former CEO, Leggett & Platt, Inc.
William Drayton Jr.'61 — See Social Action and Community Service
Ted Forstmann '57 — Founding general partner,
N.Y. investment firm Forstmann Little & Co.; co-founder, Children's
Scholarship Fund
 Richard
L. Gelb '41 (d.) — Chairman emeritus, Bristol-Myers
Co.
David L. Gunn '55 — former president, Amtrak
John Hess '72 — Chairman & CEO, Amerada Hess Corp.
Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) — President, Remington Products, Inc.; former owner, New England Patriots football team
John D. Macomber '46 — Former president, Celanese Corporation; chairman, Export-Import Bank of U.S.
Richard A . Moore '32 (d.) — Ambassador to Ireland; president, Western Broadcasting
Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. '58 — Former president and co-CEO, TIME-Warner, Inc.
Robert W. Sarnoff '35 (d.) — Former president, RCA and NBC
Whitney Stevens '44 — Former chairman, J.P. Stevens Co.
William R. "Tim" Timken Jr. '56 — See Government and public service
Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 (d.) — See
Government and public service
L. Stanton Williams '37 — Former president
of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries
Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) — Manufacturer, Wrigley's Chewing Gum; owner, Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field
Thomas H . Wyman (d.) '47 — Former chairman and CEO of CBS
Economics
William D. Nordhaus '59 — Economist; member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Carter administration
William S. Vickrey '31 (d.) — Nobel Prize-winning
economist
Education
James Phinney Baxter '18 (d.) — Former president, Williams College; Pulitzer Prize winner
Chris
Bischof '88 — Founder, Eastside College Preparatory
School, East Palo Alto, Calif., for disadvantaged students
Fitzgerald B. Bramwell '62 — Vice president for research and graduate studies, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Kentucky
Richard H. Brodhead '64 — President, Duke University; professor of English and dean, Yale College
Rebecca Tyler Brown Abbot 1837 (d.) —
First assistant principal, Hampton Institute
Jeffrey Garten '64 —See
Government and public service
A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) — Former president, Yale University; commissioner of baseball
Anthony Grafton '67 — Professor of history and chair, Council of the Humanities, Princeton; winner of Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award
Richard Theodore Greener 1865 (d.) — Teacher,
editor, lawyer, diplomat; first black graduate, Harvard; law dean,
Howard University; U.S. Consul, Vladivostok and Bombay
Ann
McKeever Hatch '67 — Founder, Oxbow School,
Napa Valley, Calif., high school art immersion program; philanthropist;
founder, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
Thomas H. Jackson '68 — President, University
of Rochester
John T. Kirkland 1786 (d.) — President
of Harvard, 1810-1828
Toby
Lineaweaver '72 — Executive director, Penikese
Island School, Cape Cod, Mass., for at-risk boys and juvenile
felons
Thomas C. Mendenhall '28 (d.) — Former president, Smith College
Elizabeth Luce Moore '18 — Former SUNY board president; former chair Institute for International Education and YWCA International Division
Joseph Hardy Neesima 1867 (d.) — Founder,
Doshisha University, largest private university in Japan; first
Japanese ordained Congregational minister
David Pingree '50 — MacArthur Award-winning
Brown University classicist
Josiah Quincy 1786 (d.) — See Government and public service
David J. Smith '62 — Educator; developer of award-winning
curriculum, "Mapping the World by Heart; children's book
author, "If the World Were a Village"
Peter P. Smith '64 — Assistant director-general
for education, UNESCO [2005-07]; founding president, California State University,
Monterey Bay
Thomas P. Smith , Andover student in 1838 (d.)
— Leader in Boston's black community seeking black separatist
"Smith Schools"
David J. Steinberg '55 — President, Long Island
University
Engineering and Architecture
William LeBaron Jenny 1846 (d.) — Builder of first
skyscraper
Guy Nordenson '73 — Associate professor, Princeton
School of Architecture; founder, Structural Engineers Association
of New York
Frederick Law Olmsted 1838 (d.) — Landscape
architect; designed New York's Central Park
Entertainment and the arts
 Les Blank '54 — Award-winning
independent documentary film maker
Humphrey Bogart '20 (d.) — Film actor
Tom Chapin '75 (d.) — Band leader and
composer, The Thomas Chapin Trio; former musical director, Lionel
Hampton Band
Frank Converse '56 — Actor
 Dana
Delany '74 — Actress, producer; winner of Emmy
Awards in 1989 and 1992 for ABC-TV's China Beach
Hollis W. Frampton Jr. '54 (d.) — Internationally known
film maker
 Brian
Henson '82 — President, Jim Henson Productions
Eugen Indjic '65 — Internationally renowned concert
pianist
Theresa Kopp '86— Writer, producer, NBC-TV's
Law & Order
 Jack
Lemmon '43 (d.) — Academy Award-winning actor
in Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger; Emmy
Award winner for TV movie Tuesdays with Morrie
Jonathan Meath '74 - Children's TV producer,
PBS's Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and ZOOM
Daniel R. Pinkham Jr. '40 (d.) — Internationally known
composer
Thomas S. Seligson '64 — CBS-TV producer;
writer of Parade Magazine profiles
Peter Sellars '75 — Opera, theatre, film
director; MacArthur Fellow and Emmy Award winner; former artistic
director, Los Angeles Festival and American National Theatre
Duncan Sheik '88 — Singer-songwriter;
Tony Award-winning co-creator of Broadway musical Spring Awakening; Top 20 hit Barely Breathing; gold album Duncan Sheik
Samuel Francis Smith, Seminary 1832 (d.) —
Wrote national hymn "America" while Andover Theological
Seminary student
Robert Smythe '78 — Founder, artistic
director, Mum Puppettheatre; 1998 Guggenheim Fellow
James Spader '78 — Actor; three-time Emmy Award winner for TV's
The Practice and Boston Legal; Best Actor Award, 1989 Cannes Film Festival
 Ming
Tsai '82 — Chef; star of public television's
Simply Ming; owner of Blue Ginger restaurant; author
of Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai.
Richard A. Wolf '64 — Creator, executive
producer, NBC-TV's Law & Order, Law & Order Special
Victims Unit, Wolf Films
Dan Zanes '79 — Recording artist; member
of the Del Fuegos; most recent CDs of children's music, House
Party, Night Time!, Family Dance
Warren Zanes '83 — Vice president of education,
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; member of the Del Fuegos
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Exploration
Ian
Baker '75 — Himalayan explorer,
Buddhist scholar, photographer, author; discovered Hidden Falls
of Tsangpo; named National Geographic Explorer for the Millennium
Hiram Bingham 1894 (d.) — Archaeologist;
rediscovered ancient ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru
Britton Keeshan '00 — Youngest person to complete
the Seven Summits by climbing the tallest peaks on seven continents,
including Mt. Everest in May 2004.
Government and public service
Paul "Jerry" Bremer '59 — U.S.
civilian administrator in Iraq, appointed by President George
W. Bush; former ambassador to the Netherlands and President Reagan's
ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism
George Bush '42 — 41st President of the United States
George W. Bush '64 — 43rd President of
the United States
John "Jeb" Bush '71 — Governor of Florida
Lincoln D. Chafee '71 — U.S. Senator, Republican-Rhode Island
Harlan Cleveland '34 — Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; former U.S. ambassador to NATO
Raymond C. Clevenger III '55 — Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Walter J.P. Curley '40 — Ambassador to France; former ambassador to Ireland
Edward E. Elson '52 — Former ambassador
to Denmark; founding director, National Public Radio
Annie Edwards, Abbot 1855 (d.) — First
woman postmaster in U.S., Rockford, Ill.
Thomas Foley '71 — U.S. Ambassador to Ireland under President George W. Bush; Former director of private sector development,
Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
Jeffrey Garten '64 — Under Secretary of Commerce, Clinton Admin.; former Dean, Yale School of
Management
Gerhard A. Gesell '28 (d.) — U.S. District
Judge, District of Columbia; prominent in Watergate, Oliver North
trials
Robert Ingersoll '33 — Deputy secretary of state under President Nixon; former U.S. ambassador to Japan
Clay Johnson III '64 — Deputy director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Patrick J. Kennedy '86 — U.S. Representative, Democrat-Rhode Island
Franklin L. Lavin '75 — U.S. ambassador to Singapore
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 — Former director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Clinton administration; four-star Army general and Desert Storm commander; teacher of national securities studies at West Point
William H. Moody 1871 (d.) — U.S. Supreme
Court Justice
Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. '53 — Ambassador
to Tunisia; U.S. liaison with PLO
Lovett
C. Peters '32 — Founder, Pioneer Institute
for Public Policy Research
Anthony Quainton '51 — Diplomat in residence,
American University; former president, National Policy Association;
former director general, U.S. Foreign Service; adviser on antiterrorist
policy to every president since Gerald Ford
Josiah Quincy 1786 (d.) — Mayor of Boston,
1823-1828; president of Harvard College, 1828-1845
W. Bradford Reynolds '60 — Former U.S.
assistant attorney general, Reagan administration
Charles F.C. Ruff '56 (d.) — Chairman, Fair Labor Association; White House Counsel during Clinton impeachment trial; member of Watergate Special Prosecution Force
James Shannon '69 — Former U.S. Representative, Massachusetts; former Massachusetts attorney general
Henry L. Stimson 1883 (d.) — Secretary
of War under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; member
of five presidential administrations; FDR's key adviser on atomic
policy
William R. "Tim" Timken '56 — U.S. Ambassador to Germany under President George W. Bush; former chair, National Association of Manufacturers
Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 (d.) — U.S. Secretary
of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president,
National Association of Manufacturers
William Ury '70 — See Literature
and writing
Christopher A. Wray '85— Chief of the
U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division
Journalism and publishing
Sam Allis '64 — Columnist,
Boston Globe; correspondent, Time magazine
Jonathan H. Alter '75 — Senior editor/columnist, Newsweek; contributing correspondent,
NBC News
 Willow
Bay '81— CNN News anchor
H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger III '72 — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author of Friday Night Lights
Melissa Biggs Bradley '85 — Senior editor,
Town & Country magazine
Otis
Chandler '46 — Former publisher, Los Angeles
Times
Kenneth J. Cooper '73 — Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist
Lucy Danziger '78 — Editor-in-chief, Self
magazine
John Darnton '60 — Pulitzer Prize-winning
foreign correspondent, New York Times
David B. Ensor '69 — CNN correspondent
William Hamilton '58 — Syndicated New
Yorker cartoonist; author; playwright
John F. Kennedy Jr. '79 (d.) — Publisher,
George magazine
William E. "Bill" Littlefield Jr. '66 — Host of NPR's Only a Game; author; award-winning journalist; sports commentator
Jeffrey K. MacNelly '65 (d.) — Creator
of Shoe cartoon; editorial cartoonist; winner of three
Pulitzer Prizes
Despina
Plakias Messinesi '29 (d.) —
Former travel editor, fashion editor, Vogue magazine
Seth A. Mydans '64 — New York Times
foreign correspondent
Gerard Piel '33 — Former publisher and president, Scientific American
Jane Pratt '80 — Editor-in-chief, Jane
magazine; author
Robert B. Semple Jr. '54 — Associate editor,
editorial page, New York Times; Pulitzer Prize
winner for environmental editorial writing
William Davis Taylor '27 (d.) — Former publisher, chairman of the board, Boston Globe
Evan Thomas '69 — Assistant managing
editor, Newsweek; author, Robert Kennedy: His Life
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Literature
and writing
Julia Alvarez '67 — Critically acclaimed poet,
novelist; author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents;
professor of English, Middlebury College
Michael R. Beschloss '73 — See
Social action and community service
Edgar Rice Burroughs 1894 (d.) — Author
of Tarzan novels
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) — Poet,
literary leader and doctor
 Tracy
Kidder '63 — Pulitzer Prize-winning author; novelist
Ring Lardner Jr . '32 (d.) — Author, Hollywood
screen writer ( MASH )
Lucy Lippard '54 — Cultural critic; feminist;
theorist; political activist; author, On the Beaten Track:
Tourism, Art and Place
Gordon Lish '52 — Influential literary
figure; author, Krupp's Lulu ; Guggenheim Fellowship
recipient; founder of two literary magazines; teacher
Paul Monette '63 (d.) — Writer; poet;
AIDS activist; English teacher; winner, National Book Award for
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
 Stacy
Schiff '78 — Pulitzer Prize winner for biography,
Vera; winner of George Washington Book Prize for A Great Improvisation:Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Charles Monroe Sheldon 1879 (d.) — Pastor;
author of religious novel, In His Steps, which outsold
every book except the Bible.
David Slavitt ’52 – Poet, translator, especially of Latin & Greek classics; author & critic; “Falling from Silence: Poems” [2001], “Re Verse” [2005] and many other publications.
Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) — Author; authority
on child-rearing; anti-war activist
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas '49 — Author
Shelby Tucker '53 — Travel author, Among
Insurgents: Walking Through Burma; world traveler
and adventurer
James Ramsey Ullman '25 (d.) — Author,
The White Tower; chronicler of mountaineering
William Ury '70 — Best-selling author,
Getting to Yes; international peace negotiator
Medicine
Bernard Ackerman '54 —
Former director, Institute for Dermatopatholgy, Jefferson
Medical College; founder, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology;
board member, Coalition and Center for Ethical Medical Testimony
Alexander de Lahunta '51
— World-class neuroanotomist, clinical neurologist, neuropathologist;
author; James Law Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University College
of Veterinary Medicine
Louis J. Elsas II '54 — Director,
Division of Medical Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine;
president, Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) —
See Literature and writing
Paul McHugh '48 — Psychiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins
Hospital; co-chairman, Ethics Committee at the American College
of Neuropsychopharmacology; author, Genes, Brain, and Behavior
 David
Nathan '47 — President emeritus, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute; 1990 National Medal of Science winner
Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) — See
Literature and writing
Chris
Weatherley-White '50 — Plastic surgeon with
Operation Smile, bringing reconstructive surgery to children in
Third World nations
Military
Sullivan Ballou 1849 (d.) — Civil War
major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers who died at the Battle
of Bull Run. His letter to his wife Sarah was featured in the
PBS series, The Civil War.
 Capt.
(ret.) Thomas J. Hudner Jr. '43 — Recipient
of Congressional Medal of Honor; commissioner of Veterans Services,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 — See
Government and public service
Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard H. O'Kane '30 (d.)
— Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; author
Major General James Parker 1870. (d.) — Commissioned in 1876, he served through World War I. For valor displayed during the Spanish-American War, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Arthur Murray Preston '31 (d.) — Recipient
of Congressional Medal of Honor for action as World War II torpedo
boat commander
Lt.-Gen. Sir John Watts '48 (d.) — Distinguished
British commander of special forces; Chief of Defense Staff in
Oman; knighted.
Science
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot 1891 (d.) —
Pioneer in astrophysics and solar energy; headed Smithsonian Institution
Constance Brinckerhoff '59 — Molecular
biologist; professor, Dartmouth Medical School; recipient of Merit
award from National Institutes of Health
Mary Wilkes Eubanks '65 — Botanist; senior
research scientist, Duke University; president, Sun Dance Genetics
Nicholas J. Hadley '72 — Physicist; professor of
physics, University of Maryland; member of team that discovered
the quark
William
S. Knowles '35 — Winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
Alfred Lee Loomis '05 (d.) — Physicist, lawyer,
investment banker; invented Loran radar system; director of radar
research in WWII; father of ultrasonics
Othniel Charles Marsh 1856 (d.) — First professor
of paleontology, Yale; established Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural
History
Marvin Minsky '45 — Authority on artificial
intelligence, computers, robotics
Samuel F.B. Morse 1805 (d.) — Inventor
of telegraph, Morse code; painter and president of National Academy
of Design
George Pieczenik '61 — Biochemist in genetic
research; associate professor at Rutgers University
Gerard Piel '33 — See Journalism
and publishing
Herbert Scoville '33 (d.) — Nuclear physicist,
Los Alamos; chief scientist in President Kennedy's U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
Lyman Spitzer Jr. '31 (d.)— International
leader in stellar dynamics, plasma physics, thermonuclear fusion,
space astronomy; designer of first telescope-bearing satellite;
author of idea of placing large telescope in space and driving
force behind development of Hubble Space Telescope.
George Hoyt Whipple 1896 (d.) — Winner
of 1933 Nobel Prize for cure for pernicious anemia
George M. Whitesides '57 — Professor
of chemistry, Harvard; 1998 National Medal of Science winner
Social action and community service
Hafsat Abiola '92 — Nigerian political
activist; winner, 1999 Women to Watch award, Association of Women's
Development
Prince Rahim Aga Khan '90 — Executive
director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, world's second
largest private economic development foundation
John Badman III '62 — Chairman of the Conference of
Patriotic and Historical Societies
Michael R. Beschloss '73 — Award-winning
historian; author; Annenberg senior fellow; director, Annenberg
Project on Television and U.S. Foreign Policy
 Sarah
Chayes '80—Former National Public Radio correspondent; founder of Arghand, market-based
production cooperative in Afghanistan; former Kandahar
field director, Afghans for Civil Society
 William
Sloane Coffin Jr. '42 (d.) — Minister, Riverside Church,
New York; former chaplain, Yale; civil rights proponent and peace
activist
Justin W. Dart Jr. '49 (d.) — Advocate for rights of disabled people; primary force behind Americans with Disabilities Act; Medal of Freedom recipient
William Drayton Jr.'61 — Social entreprenuer; founder and president of the Ashoka Foundation; former assistant administrator of the US E.P.A.
Edith Williamson Kean '54 — Director of landscape design for Green Thumb, New York City Parks and Recreation Department
Robert C . Macauley '41 — Founder and director, Americares, international relief agency
Kathryn L. Mulvey '84 — Executive
director of Infact, public interest group that targets corporate
abuse
Benjamin Spock, M.D. '21 (d.) — See
Literature and writing
Audrey
Synnott '54 — Sister of Mercy; coordinator
of sisters' associates program serving healthcare facilities and
schools
Theodore Weld 1820 (d.) — Abolitionist;
anti-slavery agitator with Edmund Quincy, Class of 1817
Heather White '76 — Founder of Verite,
non-profit organization that monitors factory conditions for goods
produced by child labor and sweatshops
Sports and athletics
William S. "Bill" Belichick
'71 — Head coach, New England Patriots, Super Bowl
XXXVI, XXXVIII and XXXIX Champions
A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) — See
Education
Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) —
See Business and industry
James P. McLane '49 — Olympic swimming
champion; winner of three gold and one silver medals at 1948 and
1952 Olympics; International Swimming Hall of Fame
William L. Veeck Jr. '32 (d.) — Owner,
Chicago White Sox
Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) — See
Business and industry
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