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Phi Beta Kappa Society

ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1776 at the College of William & Mary.

Official Website:
http://www.pbk.org/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dean Acheson
Government
11-Apr-1893 12-Oct-1971 US Secretary of State, 1949-53
Bruce Ackerman
Scholar
19-Aug-1943   We the People
Brock Adams
Politician
13-Jan-1927 10-Sep-2004 US Senator from Washington, 1987-93
John Quincy Adams
Head of State
11-Jul-1767 23-Feb-1848 6th President of the U.S.
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Paul Adelstein
Actor
29-Apr-1969   Prison Break
Mary Cunningham Agee
Activist
1951   The Nurturing Network
Carl B. Albert
Politician
10-May-1908 4-Feb-2000 Congressman from Oklahoma, 1946-76
Lamar Alexander
Politician
3-Jul-1940   US Senator from Tennessee
Horatio Alger
Author
13-Jan-1832 18-Jul-1899 Ragged Dick
Samuel Alito
Judge
1-Apr-1950   US Supreme Court Justice
George V. Allen
Diplomat
3-Nov-1903 11-Jul-1970 US Ambassador to Iran, 1946-48
John A. Allison
Business
14-Aug-1948   CEO of BB&T
Donna M. Alvarado
Business
8-Nov-1948   Aguila International
Luis W. Alvarez
Physicist
13-Jun-1911 1-Sep-1988 Particle accelerator pioneer
Laurie Anderson
Artist
5-Jun-1947   Tape bow violinist and performance artist
Charles McLean Andrews
Historian
22-Feb-1863 9-Sep-1943 The Colonial Period of American History
Robert E. Andrews
Politician
4-Aug-1957   Congressman, New Jersey 1st
Robert E. Angelica
Business
c. 1949   CEO of AT&T Investment Mgmt., 1999-2006
Decker Anstrom
Business
2-Aug-1950   COO of Landmark Communications
Brent R. Appel
Judge
c. 1951   Justice, Iowa Supreme Court
Anne L. Armstrong
Government
27-Dec-1927   US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77
Chester A. Arthur
Head of State
5-Oct-1829 18-Nov-1886 21st US President, 1881-85
Isaac Asimov
Author
2-Jan-1920 6-Apr-1992 Foundation
Paul S. Atkins
Government
1958   Securities and Exchange Commission
James Bacchus
Politician
21-Jun-1949   Congressman from Florida, 1991-95
Mario L. Baeza
Business
c. 1951   Baeza & Co.
Brian Baird
Politician
7-Mar-1956   Congressman, Washington 3rd
John C. Baldwin
Doctor
c. 1949   Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech
W. Scott Bales
Judge
c. 1956   Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Hank Barnette
Business
c. 1934   CEO of Bethlehem Steel, 1992-2000
Joseph W. Barr
Government
17-Jan-1918 23-Feb-1996 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1968-69
Tom Barrett
Politician
8-Dec-1953   Mayor of Milwaukee
Emily Morison Beck
Editor
c. 1916 28-Mar-2004 Editor of Bartlett's Quotations
Henry P. Becton, Jr.
Business
1943   WGBH Educational Foundation
Steven C. Beering
Educator
1932   President of Purdue, 1983-2000
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone
Richard Benedick
Diplomat
?   US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol
Gregory Benford
Novelist
30-Jan-1941   Physicist and author of Timescape
Doug Bereuter
Politician
6-Oct-1939   Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004
Ann E. Berman
Business
c. 1952   CFO of Harvard University, 2002-06
Ben Bernanke
Economist
13-Dec-1953   Federal Reserve Chairman
Brian A. Bernasek
Business
c. 1972   Partner, Carlyle Group
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
25-Aug-1918 14-Oct-1990 Conductor, New York Philharmonic
John Berryman
Poet
25-Oct-1914 7-Jan-1972 Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Jeff Bezos
Business
12-Jan-1964   Founder of Amazon
Benazir Bhutto
Head of State
21-Jun-1953 27-Dec-2007 Former prime minister of Pakistan
Alexander Bickel
Scholar
17-Dec-1924 7-Nov-1974 The Least Dangerous Branch
Robert Worth Bingham
Business
8-Nov-1871 18-Dec-1937 Publisher of The Louisville Courier-Journal
John P. Birkelund
Business
c. 1930   Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
J. Michael Bishop
Scientist
22-Feb-1936   Genetic causes of cancer
Harry Blackmun
Judge
12-Nov-1908 4-Mar-1999 US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94
Rebecca M. Blank
Economist
19-Sep-1955   Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99
Roy Blount, Jr.
Author
5-Oct-1941   Humorist
Richard Blumenthal
Government
13-Feb-1946   Attorney General of Connecticut
Barbara Bodine
Diplomat
1948   US Ambassador to Yemen, 1997-2001
Theodore R. Boehm
Judge
12-Sep-1938   Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
Paul H. Boeker
Diplomat
2-May-1938 29-Mar-2003 US Ambassador to Jordan, 1984-87
David Boies
Attorney
Mar-1941   Represented Gore in Bush v. Gore
W. E. B. Du Bois
Activist
23-Feb-1868 27-Aug-1963 Civil rights activist
Sissela Bok
Scholar
2-Dec-1934   Ethicist
David Bonderman
Business
c. 1943   Billionaire, Texas Pacific Group
David M. Borden
Judge
4-Aug-1937   Justice, CT Supreme Court, 1990-2007
Robert Bork
Government
1-Mar-1927   Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked
Michael J. Boskin
Economist
23-Sep-1945   Economics Professor, Stanford University
Roy J. Bostock
Business
c. 1940   Chairman, Yahoo and Northwest Airlines
Margot Botsford
Judge
16-Mar-1947   Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
William G. Bowen
Educator
6-Oct-1933   President, Princeton University, 1972-88
David F. Bradford
Economist
8-Jan-1939 22-Feb-2005 Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93
John R. Brazil
Educator
1946   President, Trinity University Texas
Gregory Breit
Physicist
14-Jul-1899 11-Sep-1981 Proton-proton dispersion
Daryl G. Brewster
Business
c. 1957   Former CEO of Krispy Kreme
Scott A. Brister
Judge
8-Jan-1955   Justice, Texas Supreme Court
Glenn A. Britt
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Time Warner Cable
Molly Corbett Broad
Business
1941   University Chancellor
J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr.
Economist
8-Jul-1939   President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004
Tom Brokaw
Journalist
6-Feb-1940   Former anchor, NBC Nightly News
Michael S. Brown
Biologist
13-Apr-1941   Metabolism of cholesterol
Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Government
20-Feb-1904 1-May-1996 US Attorney General, 1953-57
Frank Bruni
Journalist
31-Oct-1964   New York Times food critic
William C. Bullitt
Diplomat
25-Jan-1891 15-Feb-1967 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36
Mary Brown Bullock
Historian
c. 1945   President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006
Stephen B. Burbank
Educator
c. 1946   UPenn Law Professor
Stephen B. Burke
Business
c. 1958   COO of Comcast
Walter Dean Burnham
Scholar
1930   Democracy in the Making
R. Nicholas Burns
Government
28-Jan-1956   Under Secy of State for Political Affairs, 2005-08
George H.W. Bush
Head of State
12-Jun-1924   41st US President, 1989-93
Jeb Bush
Politician
11-Feb-1953   Governor of Florida, 1999-2007
Mary K. Bush
Business
c. 1949   Bush International
Dennis W. Carlton
Economist
c. 1950   Economics Professor, University of Chicago
Leonard Carmichael
Educator
9-Nov-1898 16-Sep-1973 Smithsonian chief 1953-64
Howie Carr
Columnist
17-Jan-1952   Boston Herald columnist, talk-radio host
John A. Carrig
Business
14-Jan-1952   CFO of Conoco-Phillips
Brad Carson
Politician
11-Mar-1967   Congressman from Oklahoma, 2001-05
Jimmy Carter
Head of State
1-Oct-1924   39th US President, 1977-81
Daniel H. Case III
Business
27-Jul-1957 27-Jun-2002 Hambrecht & Quist
R. V. Cassill
Novelist
17-May-1919 25-Mar-2002 Dr. Cobb's Game
Richard Celeste
Politician
11-Nov-1937   Governor of Ohio, 1983-91
Bennett Cerf
Business
25-May-1898 27-Aug-1971 Founder of Random House
Jon F. Chait
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Hudson Highland Group
Jerome Charyn
Novelist
13-May-1937   The Good Policeman
Lynne Cheney
First Lady
14-Aug-1941   Wife of US Vice President Dick Cheney
C. J. Cherryh
Author
1-Sep-1942   Cyteen and Downbelow Station
Judy Chicago
Artist
20-Jul-1939   The Birth Project
Rachelle B. Chong
Government
1959   FCC Commissioner, 1994-97
Steven Chu
Physicist
28-Feb-1948   Trapped atoms with laser light
Frank Church
Politician
25-Jul-1924 7-Apr-1984 US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81
Grover Cleveland
Head of State
18-Mar-1837 24-Jun-1908 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
Richard G. Cline
Business
c. 1935   CEO of Nicor, 1986-95
Bill Clinton
Head of State
19-Aug-1946   42nd US President, 1993-2001
Glenn Close
Actor
19-Mar-1947   Fatal Attraction
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Poet
18-Mar-1892 20-Jan-1955 Strange Holiness
Bainbridge Colby
Government
22-Dec-1869 11-Apr-1950 US Secretary of State, 1920-21
William Colby
Spy
4-Jan-1920 27-Apr-1996 CIA Director 1973-75
Bud Colligan
Business
14-Aug-1954   Accel Partners
Susan Collins
Politician
7-Dec-1952   US Senator from Maine
Peter Coneway
Business
c. 1944   US Ambassador to Switzerland
Denton Cooley
Doctor
22-Aug-1920   Pioneering heart surgeon
Calvin Coolidge
Head of State
4-Jul-1872 5-Jan-1933 30th US President, 1923-29
Jim Cooper
Politician
19-Jun-1954   Congressman, Tennessee 5th
Leon N. Cooper
Physicist
28-Feb-1930   BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   Directed The Godfather
David Corn
Columnist
Feb-1959   Washington editor of The Nation
Robert A. Corrigan
Educator
21-Apr-1935   President, San Francisco State University
Jon Corzine
Politician
1-Jan-1947   Governor of New Jersey
James G. Coulter
Business
c. 1959   Co-Founder, Texas Pacific Group
Michael Crichton
Novelist
23-Oct-1942   Jurassic Park
Chester A. Crocker
Government
29-Oct-1941   Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89
L. Gordon Crovitz
Publisher
c. 1959   Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2006-07
Countee Cullen
Poet
30-May-1903 9-Jan-1946 Harlem Renaissance poet
Elijah Cummings
Politician
18-Jan-1951   Congressman, Maryland 7th
Dinesh D'Souza
Author
25-Apr-1961   Conservative author
Drew Daniel
Electronic Musician
1971   Half of Matmos
Joseph E. Davies
Diplomat
29-Nov-1876 9-May-1958 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38
Clive Davis
Business
4-Apr-1932   Founder of Arista Records
Nathaniel Davis
Diplomat
12-Apr-1925   US Ambassador to Switzerland, 1975-77
Charles G. Dawes
Politician
27-Aug-1865 23-Apr-1951 US Vice President, 1925-29
Diana DeGette
Politician
29-Jul-1957   Congresswoman, Colorado 1st
Robert E. Denham
Attorney
27-Aug-1945   Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson
Susan S. Denison
Business
c. 1946   Partner, Cook Associates
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Business
17-Dec-1956   Health care administrator
Butler Derrick
Politician
30-Sep-1936   Congressman from South Carolina, 1975-95
Nelson Dingley, Jr.
Politician
15-Feb-1832 13-Jan-1899 Congressman from Maine, 1881-99
E. J. Dionne
Journalist
23-Apr-1952   The Washington Post
Harold W. Dodds
Educator
28-Jun-1889 25-Oct-1980 President, Princeton University, 1932-57
Elizabeth Dole
Politician
29-Jul-1936   US Senator from North Carolina
John Donahoe
Business
c. 1960   CEO-Elect of eBay
Thomas E. Donilon
Attorney
c. 1955   O'Melvany and Myers
Chuck Douglas
Politician
2-Dec-1942   Congressman from New Hampshire, 1989-91
Rita Dove
Poet
28-Aug-1952   7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95
Hugh Downs
Journalist
14-Feb-1921   20/20
Patrick H. Drewry
Politician
24-May-1875 21-Dec-1947 Congressman from Virginia, 1920-47
Lee S. Dreyfus
Politician
20-Jun-1926 2-Jan-2008 Governor of Wisconsin, 1979-83
James J. Duderstadt
Educator
c. 1943   President, University of Michigan, 1988-96
John Porter East
Politician
5-May-1931 29-Jun-1986 US Senator, committed suicide
Donald Easum
Diplomat
1923   US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1975-77
Gerald M. Edelman
Scientist
1-Jul-1929   Chemical structure of antibodies
Allison H. Eid
Judge
1965   Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
Stuart Eizenstat
Diplomat
15-Jan-1943   US Ambassador to the EU, 1993-96
Michael B. Elefante
Attorney
15-Feb-1944   Partner, Hemenway & Barnes
Mark Emmert
Educator
16-Dec-1952   President, University of Washington
Thomas O. Enders
Diplomat
28-Nov-1932 17-Mar-1996 US Ambassador to Canada, Spain
Doug Engelbart
Scientist
30-Jan-1925   Inventor of computer mouse
Robert F. Engle III
Economist
10-Nov-1942   Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Klaus Eppler
Attorney
8-May-1930   Retired Partner, Proskauer Rose
Richard Epstein
Scholar
17-Apr-1943   Takings
James D. Ericson
Business
c. 1936   CEO of Northwestern Mutual, 1993-2001
Susan Estrich
Pundit
16-Dec-1952   Fox News liberal
Charles L. Evans
Economist
15-Jan-1958   President and CEO, Chicago Fed
M. Stanton Evans
Activist
20-Jul-1934   Conservative activist
Thomas E. Everhart
Physicist
15-Feb-1932   President of CalTech, 1987-97
Richard D. Fairbank
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Capital One
Todd S. Farha
Business
1968   President and CEO of WellCare Health Plans
John D. Feerick
Attorney
12-Jul-1936   Dean of Fordham Law, 1982-2002
Glenn W. Ferguson
Educator
28-Jan-1929 20-Dec-2007 University president, Ambassador to Kenya
Howard Fineman
Journalist
c. 1948   Newsweek chief political analyst
Franklin M. Fisher
Economist
13-Dec-1934   Economist at MIT
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Government
22-Dec-1960   Special Counsel for Plame case
David I. Foley
Business
c. 1967   Blackstone Group
Hiram Fong
Politician
15-Oct-1906 18-Aug-2004 US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-77
William C. Foote
Business
c. 1951   CEO of USG
Kristin J. Forbes
Economist
21-Aug-1970   Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05
Randy Forbes
Politician
17-Feb-1952   Congressman, Virginia 4th
Randall M. Fort
Government
4-Jul-1956   Asst. Secy. State for Intelligence
Abe Fortas
Judge
19-Jun-1910 5-Apr-1982 US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69
Bill Foster
Politician
7-Oct-1955   Congressman, Illinois 14th
Donald Fowler
Government
12-Sep-1935   DNC chairman, 1995-97
Marye Anne Fox
Educator
9-Dec-1947   Chancellor, UC San Diego
Peter T. Francis
Business
c. 1953   J. M. Huber Corporation
Jeffrey A. Frankel
Economist
5-Nov-1952   Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99
Felix Frankfurter
Judge
15-Nov-1882 22-Feb-1965 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62
John Hope Franklin
Historian
2-Jan-1915   From Slavery to Freedom
Louis Freeh
Government
6-Jan-1950   FBI Director, 1993-2001
Betty Friedan
Activist
4-Feb-1921 4-Feb-2006 Rights for women spokesperson
Ellen V. Futter
Educator
21-Sep-1949   President of Barnard College, 1980-93
Frank Gannett
Business
15-Sep-1876 3-Dec-1957 Founder, Gannett publishing empire
Thomas S. Gates
Government
10-Apr-1906 25-Mar-1983 US Secretary of Defense, 1959-61
Claire L. Gaudiani
Educator
1944   President, Connecticut College, 1988-2001
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Weak interaction of particles
Jack Germond
Columnist
c. 1928   Fat Man in a Middle Seat
Michael Gershon
Scientist
c. 1936   Neurogastroenterologist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Judge
15-Mar-1933   US Supreme Court Justice
Nikki Giovanni
Poet
7-Jun-1943   Black Feeling, Black Talk
Todd Gitlin
Educator
1943   Journalism professor, social critic
Mike Godwin
Attorney
26-Oct-1956   General Counsel, Wikimedia
Pamela H. Godwin
Business
c. 1949   Former executive, GMAC Insurance
Donald J. Gogel
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Robert F. Goheen
Educator
15-Aug-1919 31-Mar-2008 President of Princeton University, 1957-72
Harvey J. Goldschmid
Government
6-May-1940   SEC Commissioner, 2002-05
Joseph L. Goldstein
Scientist
18-Apr-1940   Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism
Linda A. Goldstein
Business
25-Jun-1954   Electronic Retailing Association
Mary L. Good
Educator
20-Jun-1931   Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas
Virgil Goode
Politician
17-Oct-1946   Congressman, Virginia 5th
Nelson Goodman
Philosopher
7-Aug-1906 25-Nov-1998 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian
4-Jan-1943   Team of Rivals
Slade Gorton
Politician
8-Jan-1928   US Senator from Washington, 1981-2001
Bob Graham
Politician
9-Nov-1936   US Senator from Florida
Jennifer Granholm
Politician
5-Feb-1959   Governor of Michigan
Ella T. Grasso
Politician
10-May-1919 5-Feb-1981 First woman elected governor of Connecticut
Theodore F. Green
Politician
2-Oct-1867 19-May-1966 Governor and Senator from Rhode Island
Vartan Gregorian
Educator
8-Apr-1934   President of Carnegie Corporation
David Groh
Actor
21-May-1939 12-Feb-2008 Joe Gerard on Rhoda
Sanford J. Grossman
Business
21-Jul-1953   CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies
Ernest Gruening
Politician
6-Feb-1887 26-Jun-1974 US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69
Ursula K. Le Guin
Novelist
21-Oct-1929   The Left Hand of Darkness
John Gunther
Journalist
30-Aug-1901 29-May-1970 Inside Europe
Stephen Hadley
Government
13-Feb-1947   National Security Advisor
Joseph A. Hafner, Jr.
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Riviana Foods, 1984-2005
David Hall
Politician
20-Oct-1930   Governor of Oklahoma, 1971-75
Jane Hall
Journalist
?   Fox News Watch commentator
John S. Hamlin
Business
c. 1965   Former Dell VP
Learned Hand
Judge
27-Jan-1872 18-Aug-1961 Influential American justice
Raymond A. Hare
Diplomat
3-Apr-1901 9-Feb-1994 US Mideast Ambassador
Diane C. Harris
Business
c. 1942   Hypotenuse Enterprises, Inc.
Ann Weaver Hart
Educator
1948   President, Temple University
Herbert A. Hauptman
Mathematician
14-Feb-1917   X-Ray diffraction studies
Jerry A. Hausman
Economist
5-May-1946   Hausman Specification Test
Janet Gray Hayes
Politician
12-Jul-1926   Mayor of San Jose, 1975-83
Rutherford B. Hayes
Head of State
4-Oct-1822 17-Jan-1893 19th US President, 1877-81
William J. Haynes II
Government
30-Mar-1958   DOD General Counsel, 2001-08
James J. Heckman
Economist
19-Apr-1944   Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior
Ray L. Heffner
Educator
7-May-1925   President of Brown University, 1966-69
Christie Hefner
Business
8-Nov-1952   CEO of Playboy, Hugh Hefner's daughter
Walter W. Heller
Economist
27-Aug-1915 15-Jun-1987 Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-64
Richard Helms
Government
30-Mar-1913 22-Oct-2002 CIA Director, 1966-73
John E. Herbst
Diplomat
12-Aug-1952   US Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-06
Christian Herter, Jr.
Government
29-Jan-1919 16-Sep-2007 First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition
Andrew Heyward
Journalist
1950   President of CBS News, 1996-2005
Lister Hill
Politician
29-Dec-1894 21-Dec-1984 US Senator from Alabama, 1938-69
Mazie Hirono
Politician
3-Nov-1947   Congresswoman, Hawaii 2nd
Alger Hiss
Government
11-Nov-1904 15-Nov-1996 Accused spy for the Soviet Union
George H. Hitchings
Scientist
18-Apr-1905 27-Feb-1998 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis
Frederick P. Hitz
Government
14-Oct-1939   CIA Inspector General, 1990-98
Jim Hoagland
Journalist
22-Jan-1940   The Washington Post
Richard H. Hochman
Business
c. 1946   Regent Capital Management
David C. Hodge
Educator
27-Sep-1948   President, Miami University of Ohio
Robert Hofstadter
Physicist
5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Investigated electron scattering and nuclei
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author
29-Aug-1809 7-Oct-1894 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Invented the COBOL compiler
Tony Horwitz
Journalist
?   Confederates in the Attic
Thomas C. Hubbard
Diplomat
1943   US Ambassador to South Korea, 2001-04
Franklin P. Huddle
Diplomat
9-May-1943   US Ambassador to Tajikistan, 2001-03
Mark W. Huddleston
Educator
c. 1950   President, University of New Hampshire
William H. Hudnut III
Politician
17-Oct-1932   Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-91
Robert E. Hunter
Diplomat
c. 1940   US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98
Andrew D. Hurwitz
Judge
c. 1946   Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Bob Inglis
Politician
11-Oct-1959   Congressman, South Carolina 4th
Reed Irvine
Activist
29-Sep-1922 16-Nov-2004 Founder, Accuracy in Media
Douglas A. Irwin
Economist
c. 1962   Free Trade Under Fire
Irving M. Ives
Politician
24-Jan-1896 24-Feb-1962 US Senator from New York, 1947-59
Gary N. Jacobs
Business
12-Jul-1945   General Counsel for MGM Mirage
Jack B. Jacobs
Judge
c. 1942   Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Paul E. Jacobs
Business
c. 1963   CEO of Qualcomm
Richard Jenrette
Business
5-Apr-1929   Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Darryl N. Johnson
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Thailand, 2002-04
Tim Johnson
Politician
28-Dec-1946   US Senator from South Dakota
Tim Johnson
Politician
23-Jul-1946   Congressman, Illinois 15th
Jim Jontz
Politician
18-Dec-1951 14-Apr-2007 Congressman from Indiana, 1987-93
Paul L. Joskow
Economist
c. 1946   Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Percy Julian
Chemist
11-Apr-1899 19-Apr-1975 Physostigmine and cortisone
Ernest Just
Biologist
14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Matthew H. Kamens
Attorney
6-Dec-1951   Of Counsel, Wolf Block
Cresson H. Kearny
Inventor
7-Jan-1914 18-Dec-2003 Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol
Kenneth B. Keating
Politician
18-May-1900 5-May-1975 US Senator from New York, 1959-65
Barnaby C. Keeney
Educator
17-Oct-1914 18-Jun-1980 President of Brown University, 1955-66
Thomas F. Keller
Educator
22-Sep-1931   Dean of Fuqua School of Business, 1974-96
Joyce L. Kennard
Judge
6-May-1941   Justice, California Supreme Court
William E. Kennard
Government
19-Jan-1957   FCC Chairman, 1997-2001
Anthony Kennedy
Judge
23-Jul-1936   US Supreme Court Justice
Nan Keohane
Scholar
18-Sep-1940   Political scientist
William T. Kerr
Business
17-Apr-1941   CEO of Meredith Corporation, 1997-2006
James W. Keyes
Business
1955   CEO of Blockbuster
Robert C. Khayat
Educator
18-Apr-1938   Chancellor, University of Mississippi
Bernard Kilgore
Publisher
9-Nov-1908 14-Nov-1967 President of Dow Jones, 1945-66
Christoph M. Kimmich
Educator
16-Jan-1939   President, Brooklyn College
Nile Kinnick
Football
9-Jul-1918 2-Jun-1943 Winner, 1939 Heisman Trophy
Alfred Kinsey
Scientist
23-Jun-1894 25-Aug-1956 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Henry Kissinger
Government
27-May-1923   Secretly bombed Cambodia
Scott M. Kleinman
Business
c. 1975   Apollo Management
Michael Klosson
Diplomat
22-Aug-1949   US Ambassador to Cyprus, 2002-05
Lyman Knapp
Politician
5-Nov-1837 9-Oct-1904 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1889-93
Foy D. Kohler
Diplomat
15-Feb-1908 23-Dec-1990 US Ambassador to USSR, 1962-66
Arthur Kopit
Playwright
10-May-1937   Mama's Hung You in the Closet
Kay Koplovitz
Business
c. 1945   Co-Founder, USA Network
John A. Koskinen
Business
30-Jun-1939   President, US Soccer Foundation
Richard Kostelanetz
Artist
14-May-1940   Prodigious avant-garde artist and author
Stephen Krasner
Educator
15-Feb-1942   State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07
Juanita M. Kreps
Government
11-Jan-1921   US Secretary of Commerce, 1977-79
Robert H. Krieble
Philanthropist
1916 8-May-1997 Loctite Corporation
Marvin Krislov
Educator
c. 1960   President, Oberlin College
Nicholas D. Kristof
Journalist
27-Apr-1959   New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Kris Kristofferson
Actor
22-Jun-1936   Big Top Pee-Wee
Lynn Krominga
Business
15-May-1950   Former executive, Revlon
Susan D. Kronick
Business
c. 1951   Macy's executive
Barbara J. Krumsiek
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Calvert Group, Ltd.
Stanley Kunitz
Poet
29-Jul-1905 14-May-2006 US Poet Laureate, 2000
Philip Lader
Government
1946   US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001
Corliss Lamont
Activist
28-Mar-1902 26-Apr-1995 Millionaire socialist
Eddie Lampert
Business
19-Jul-1962   Billionaire, Chairman of Sears
Edward J. Landau
Attorney
c. 1929   Lowenthal, Landau, Fischer & Bring
Tom Lantos
Politician
1-Feb-1928 11-Feb-2008 Congressman from California, 1981-2008
Richmond Lattimore
Poet
6-May-1906 26-Feb-1984 Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
Ken Lay
Business
15-Apr-1942 05-Jul-2006 CEO of Enron, 1986-2002
Carol A. Leary
Educator
c. 1947   President of Bay Path College
David Leavitt
Novelist
23-Jun-1961   The Lost Language of Cranes
Lester A. Lefton
Educator
c. 1947   President, Kent State University
Tom Lehrer
Comic
9-Apr-1928   Comedic songwriter
Fritz Leiber
Author
24-Dec-1910 5-Sep-1992 Ship of Shadows
Carl Leubsdorf
Journalist
17-Mar-1938   Dallas Morning News
Flynt Leverett
Government
6-Mar-1958   Former National Security Council staffer
Edward H. Levi
Government
26-Jun-1911 7-Mar-2000 US Attorney General, 1975-77
Daniel B. Levin
Government
4-Mar-1956   Justice Department attorney
Jerry Levin
Business
6-May-1939   CEO of Time Warner, 2000-02
Mark Levin
Activist
21-Sep-1957   Landmark Legal Foundation
Arthur Levitt
Business
3-Feb-1931   SEC Chairman, 1993-2001
Marv Levy
Football
3-Aug-1925   NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach
John P. Lewis
Economist
1921   Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64
Frank Licht
Politician
13-Mar-1916 30-May-1987 Governor of Rhode Island, 1969-73
Joseph Lieberman
Politician
24-Feb-1942   US Senator from Connecticut
Rose M. Likins
Diplomat
1959   US Ambassador to El Salvador, 2000-03
William S. Lind
Activist
9-Jul-1947   Free Congress Foundation
Larry Lindsey
Economist
18-Jul-1954   Masterminded GWB's tax cut
Sol Linowitz
Business
17-Dec-1913 18-Mar-2005 Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
Ralph Linton
Anthropologist
27-Feb-1893 25-Dec-1953 The Study of Man
Joanne Lipman
Editor
c. 1962   Editor of Condé Nast Portfolio
Ken Lipper
Business
19-Jun-1941   Investment banker author of Wall Street
Walter Lippmann
Journalist
23-Sep-1889 14-Dec-1974 Today and Tomorrow
Marc S. Lipschultz
Business
c. 1971   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Philip R. Lochner, Jr.
Business
c. 1942   Senior VP at Time Warner, 1991-98
Alain Locke
Author
13-Sep-1886 9-Jun-1954 Leader in the Harlem Renaissance
Stacy London
TV Personality
25-May-1969   What Not to Wear
Clarence D. Long
Politician
11-Dec-1908 18-Sep-1994 Congressman from Maryland, 1963-85
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Steven R. Loranger
Business
c. 1952   CEO of ITT
Jim Louderback
Columnist
c. 1961   Former PC Magazine editor-in-chief
Ben F. Love
Business
1924 13-Jan-2006 CEO of Texas Commerce Bank
Gary W. Loveman
Business
c. 1960   CEO of Harrah's Entertainment
A. Lawrence Lowell
Educator
1-Jan-1856 6-Jan-1943 President, Harvard University, 1909-33
Jerry Lucas
Basketball
30-Mar-1940   NBA Hall of Famer
Robert Lucas
Economist
15-Sep-1937   Theory of rational expectations
Dick Lugar
Politician
4-Apr-1932   US Senator from Indiana
Robert Luskin
Attorney
21-Jan-1950   Karl Rove's lawyer
Katharine C. Lyall
Business
26-Apr-1941   President of the UW System, 1992-2004
Richard W. Lyman
Educator
18-Oct-1923   President of Stanford University, 1971-80
John Carroll Lynch
Actor
1-Aug-1963   The Drew Carey Show
Paul W. MacAvoy
Economist
21-Apr-1934   Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76
John Mack
Psychiatrist
4-Oct-1929 27-Sep-2004 A Prince of Our Disorder
Archibald Macleish
Poet
7-May-1892 20-Apr-1982 Conquistador
Burton Malkiel
Economist
28-Aug-1932   A Random Walk Down Wall Street
John Malone
Business
7-Mar-1941   Chairman of Liberty Media
John Marshall
Judge
24-Sep-1755 6-Jul-1835 US Chief Justice, 1801-35
Paule Marshall
Novelist
9-Apr-1929   Brown Girl, Brownstones
Edwin M. Martin
Government
21-May-1908 12-Jan-2002 US Ambassador to Argentina, 1964-68
Lynn Martin
Politician
26-Dec-1939   US Secretary of Labor, 1991-93
F. David Mathews
Government
6-Dec-1935   HEW Secretary under Ford
Steve A. Matthews
Attorney
c. 1956   Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd
Mark McClellan
Government
26-Jun-1963   Medicare Chief
James L. McConaughy
Politician
21-Oct-1887 7-Mar-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48
Steve McConnell
Computer Programmer
c. 1963   Author of Code Complete
Richard L. McCormick
Educator
26-Dec-1947   President, Rutgers University
Cynthia McFadden
Journalist
27-May-1956   Primetime Live
Edward McGaffigan
Government
8-Dec-1948 2-Sep-2007 NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007
George C. McGhee
Diplomat
1912 4-Jul-2005 US Ambassador to Germany, 1963-68
Ruth V. McGregor
Judge
1943   Arizona Chief Justice
Mike McIntyre
Politician
6-Aug-1956   Congressman, North Carolina 7th
Matthew M. McKenna
Business
c. 1950   Senior VP at Pepsi
John J. McMackin, Jr.
Business
10-Jan-1952   Partner, Williams & Jensen
Doyle McManus
Journalist
?   L.A. Times Washington bureau chief
Colin R. McMillan
Politician
27-Jul-1935 24-Jul-2003 US Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1990-92
Terrence McNally
Playwright
3-Nov-1939   Frankie and Johnny
Robert McNamara
Government
9-Jun-1916   US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
Jon Meacham
Journalist
1969   Managing Editor of Newsweek
Ved Mehta
Author
21-Mar-1934   Face to Face
John Mendelsohn
Biologist
31-Aug-1936   Cancer researcher
James Merrill
Poet
3-Mar-1926 6-Feb-1995 Nights and Days
Richard A. Meserve
Attorney
20-Nov-1944   President of the Carnegie Institution
Eugene H. Methvin
Journalist
19-Sep-1934   Readers Digest
Diane Middlebrook
Author
16-Apr-1939 15-Dec-2007 Biographer of Anne Sexton
Stanley Milgram
Psychologist
15-Aug-1933 20-Dec-1984 Milgram Experiment
Michael Milken
Business
4-Jul-1946   Convicted financial executive
Franklin C. Miller
Government
Oct-1950   National Security Council, 2001-05
J. Irwin Miller
Business
26-May-1909 16-Aug-2004 Former CEO of Cummins Engine
Stanley Miller
Chemist
7-Mar-1930 20-May-2007 Miller-Urey Experiment
Kate Millett
Activist
14-Sep-1934   Sexual Politics
James B. Milliken
Educator
c. 1957   President, University of Nebraska
Eric Mindich
Business
1967   Eton Park Capital Management
David Minge
Politician
19-Mar-1942   Congressman from Minnesota, 1993-2001
William E. Mitchell
Business
13-Mar-1944   CEO of Arrow Electronics
Eben Moglen
Attorney
c. 1959   Shareware law
James C. Momtazee
Business
c. 1972   Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Pattye L. Moore
Business
c. 1957   President of Sonic Drive-In, 2002-04
Sandra O. Moose
Business
c. 1941   Ex-VP, Boston Consulting Group
George Morfogen
Actor
30-Mar-1933   Rebadow on Oz
Robert Moses
Government
18-Dec-1888 29-Jul-1981 New York City planner
John R. Mott
Activist
25-May-1865 31-Jan-1955 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Ferid Murad
Scientist
14-Sep-1936   Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
Glenn Murdock
Judge