Fulbright Scholars (or Fellows) receive an all-expenses-paid trip to a foreign university for 2-12 months, paid by the U.S. government. Named for Senator J. William Fulbright, who spearheaded the legislation which created the program.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward Abbey |
Author |
29-Jan-1927 |
14-Mar-1989 |
Desert Solitaire |
| H. Gardner Ackley |
Economist |
30-Jun-1915 |
12-Feb-1998 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69 |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Hannes Alfvén |
Physicist |
30-May-1908 |
2-Apr-1995 |
Renegade Swedish astrophysicist |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| John Ashbery |
Poet |
28-Jul-1927 |
|
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| Benjamin Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| Hank Barnette |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of Bethlehem Steel, 1992-2000 |
| Craig R. Barrett |
Business |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
Chairman of Intel |
| Frederic K. Becker |
Attorney |
1935 |
|
Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer |
| Cathy Berberian |
Singer |
4-Jul-1925 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Operatic mezzo-soprano |
| Robert M. Berdahl |
Educator |
15-Mar-1937 |
|
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1997-2004 |
| K. Gunnar Bjorklund |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Sverica International |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Robert Bly |
Poet |
23-Dec-1926 |
|
Iron John: A Book About Men |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
Government |
14-Nov-1922 |
|
Secretary General of the UN, 1992-96 |
| Robert O. Bowen |
Novelist |
7-May-1920 |
9-Jun-2003 |
The Weight of the Cross |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| John R. Brazil |
Educator |
1946 |
|
President of Trinity University, 2000-10 |
| Andrew Brimmer |
Economist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 |
| J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr. |
Economist |
8-Jul-1939 |
|
President of the Richmond Fed, 1993-2004 |
| Erna Brodber |
Novelist |
20-Apr-1940 |
|
Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home |
| Phil Bruns |
Actor |
2-May-1931 |
8-Feb-2012 |
George Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
|
Public Choice Theory |
| Peter Burleigh |
Diplomat |
7-Mar-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1997-99 |
| Max Burns |
Politician |
8-Nov-1948 |
|
Congressman from Georgia, 2003-05 |
| Raoul G. Cantero III |
Judge |
1-Aug-1960 |
|
Justice, Florida Supreme Court |
| Jack Cashill |
Author |
15-Dec-1947 |
|
What's The Matter With California? |
| James C. Cason |
Diplomat |
c. 1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Paraguay |
| R. V. Cassill |
Novelist |
17-May-1919 |
25-Mar-2002 |
Dr. Cobb's Game |
| Dale Chihuly |
Artist |
20-Sep-1941 |
|
Glass artist |
| Chuck Close |
Painter |
5-Jul-1940 |
|
Photo-realist portrait painter, printmaker |
| Jeffery Cohelan |
Politician |
24-Jun-1914 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Congressman from California, 1959-71 |
| Juan Cole |
Historian |
1952 |
|
Sacred Space and Holy War |
| Tom Cole |
Politician |
28-Apr-1949 |
|
Congressman, Oklahoma 4th |
| Rhonda Copelon |
Attorney |
15-Sep-1944 |
|
Law Professor at CUNY |
| Cid Corman |
Poet |
29-Jun-1924 |
12-Mar-2004 |
Founder of Origin poetry magazine |
| Alex Cox |
Film Director |
15-Dec-1954 |
|
Repo Man |
| George Crumb |
Composer |
24-Oct-1929 |
|
1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
| Jeffrey Davidow |
Diplomat |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001 |
| Daniel C. Dennett |
Philosopher |
28-Mar-1942 |
|
Leading Darwinist and philosopher |
| Larry Diamond |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Foreign policy expert |
| Rita Dove |
Poet |
28-Aug-1952 |
|
7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| James S. Duesenberry |
Economist |
18-Jul-1918 |
5-Oct-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68 |
| Donald Easum |
Diplomat |
27-Aug-1923 |
|
US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1975-77 |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Jan Egeland |
Government |
1957 |
|
UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Jessica P. Einhorn |
Government |
c. 1945 |
|
Dean, School of Advanced International Studies |
| Bernard Fall |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1926 |
21-Feb-1967 |
Scholar of the Vietnam conflict |
| Leslie A. Fiedler |
Critic |
8-Mar-1917 |
29-Jan-2003 |
Love and Death in the American Novel |
| Robert Finn |
Diplomat |
19-Dec-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2002-03 |
| Renée Fleming |
Singer |
14-Feb-1959 |
|
The Beautiful Voice |
| Lukas Foss |
Conductor |
15-Aug-1922 |
1-Feb-2009 |
Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
| John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
| Jonathan Franzen |
Author |
17-Aug-1959 |
|
The Corrections |
| Paul Fussell |
Historian |
22-Mar-1924 |
23-May-2012 |
The Great War and Modern Memory |
| Richard H. Gallagher |
Engineer |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
Finite element method |
| Jean-Pierre Garnier |
Business |
31-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of GlaxoSmithKline |
| Geoffrey Garrett |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
President of the Pacific Council |
| Michael Geist |
Blogger |
11-Jul-1968 |
|
Internet law professor, University of Ottawa |
| Georgie Anne Geyer |
Journalist |
2-Apr-1935 |
|
Foreign correspondent turned columnist |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 |
| Austan D. Goolsbee |
Economist |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-11 |
| Anne Gorsuch |
Government |
21-Apr-1942 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Reagan's EPA administrator forced to resign |
| David Graeber |
Anthropologist |
12-Feb-1961 |
|
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology |
| Karen Grassle |
Actor |
25-Feb-1944 |
|
Ma on Little House on the Prairie |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
25-Oct-1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
| Meg Greenfield |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1930 |
13-May-1999 |
The Washington Post |
| Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Novelist |
21-Oct-1929 |
|
The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Charles Gwathmey |
Architect |
19-Jun-1938 |
3-Aug-2009 |
Designed extension to the Guggenheim |
| Brion Gysin |
Artist |
19-Jan-1916 |
13-Jul-1986 |
Inventor of the Dreamachine |
| Anthony Hecht |
Poet |
16-Jan-1923 |
20-Oct-2004 |
The Hard Hours |
| Morton Heilig |
Inventor |
22-Dec-1926 |
14-May-1997 |
Early virtual reality pioneer |
| Joseph Heller |
Author |
1-May-1923 |
12-Dec-1999 |
Catch-22 |
| Edward Herrmann |
Actor |
21-Jul-1943 |
|
Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls |
| Werner Herzog |
Film Director |
5-Sep-1942 |
|
Fitzcarraldo |
| Philip Heymann |
Government |
30-Oct-1932 |
|
US Deputy Attorney General, 1993-94 |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
|
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| Robert E. Hunter |
Diplomat |
c. 1940 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98 |
| Reed Irvine |
Activist |
29-Sep-1922 |
16-Nov-2004 |
Founder, Accuracy in Media |
| Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1946 |
|
Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Kristina M. Johnson |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
| Donald Kagan |
Historian |
1-May-1932 |
|
The Great Dialogue |
| Stacy Keach |
Actor |
2-Jun-1941 |
|
Mike Hammer, also voice narrator |
| Craig A. Kelly |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Chile, 2004-07 |
| Charles Kennedy |
Politician |
25-Nov-1959 |
|
Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1999-2006 |
| Christoph M. Kimmich |
Educator |
16-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Brooklyn College |
| Galway Kinnell |
Poet |
1-Feb-1927 |
|
Selected Poems |
| Douglas W. Kmiec |
Scholar |
24-Sep-1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Malta |
| Kenneth Koch |
Poet |
27-Feb-1925 |
6-Jul-2002 |
On the Great Atlantic Rainway |
| Richard Kostelanetz |
Artist |
14-May-1940 |
|
Prodigious avant-garde artist and author |
| John Lithgow |
Actor |
19-Oct-1945 |
|
Third Rock From The Sun |
| Philip R. Lochner, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Senior VP at Time Warner, 1991-98 |
| Dolph Lundgren |
Actor |
3-Nov-1957 |
|
The Punisher |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Lorin Maazel |
Conductor |
6-Mar-1930 |
|
Conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
| David Lyle Mack |
Diplomat |
10-Jun-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to the UAE, 1986-89 |
| Doyle McManus |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
LA Times Washington bureau chief |
| John Mendelsohn |
Biologist |
31-Aug-1936 |
|
Cancer researcher |
| John Atta Mills |
Head of State |
21-Jul-1944 |
24-Jul-2012 |
President of Ghana, 2009-12 |
| Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
| David Minge |
Politician |
19-Mar-1942 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1993-2001 |
| James Moeser |
Educator |
1939 |
|
Chancellor, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Anna Moffo |
Singer |
27-Jun-1932 |
10-Mar-2006 |
Operatic soprano |
| Michael Moriarty |
Actor |
5-Apr-1941 |
|
ADA on Law & Order |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Diana E. Murphy |
Judge |
4-Jan-1934 |
|
8th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Erwin Neher |
Scientist |
20-Mar-1944 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Strategic Investment Group |
| Philip A. Odeen |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of BDM International, 1992-97 |
| Shijuro Ogata |
Economist |
? |
|
Trilateral Commission's Pacific Asia deputy |
| Revilo P. Oliver |
Activist |
7-Jul-1908 |
10-Aug-1994 |
Founding member, John Birch Society |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics |
| Norman Ornstein |
Author |
14-Oct-1948 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Manuel T. Pacheco |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President, University of Missouri, 1997-2003 |
| Ronald D. Palmer |
Diplomat |
22-May-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritius, 1986-89 |
| Andreas Papandreou |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1919 |
23-Jun-1996 |
Twice Prime Minister of Greece |
| Robert E. Patricelli |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Women's Health USA |
| Donald J. Pease |
Politician |
26-Sep-1931 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1977-93 |
| Thomas Pickering |
Diplomat |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Career US Ambassador |
| Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
1943 |
|
Political scientist |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
| Norman Podhoretz |
Author |
16-Jan-1930 |
|
Prominent neocon author |
| Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
| David Pryor |
Politician |
29-Aug-1934 |
|
US Senator from Arkansas, 1979-97 |
| John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
| Kenneth Rexroth |
Poet |
22-Dec-1905 |
6-Jun-1982 |
Disenchanted beat poet |
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky |
Historian |
21-Dec-1923 |
14-May-2011 |
A History of Russia |
| Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Egypt, 2005-08 |
| Emmett J. Rice |
Economist |
21-Dec-1919 |
10-Mar-2011 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1979-86 |
| Charles Richter |
Scientist |
26-Apr-1900 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Groundbreaking seismologist |
| Andrew Robinson |
Actor |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| Mary Robinson |
Head of State |
21-May-1944 |
|
President of Ireland, 1990-97 |
| Richard Rodriguez |
Essayist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Hunger of Memory |
| Theodore Roethke |
Poet |
25-May-1908 |
1-Aug-1963 |
The Waking |
| Leslie V. Rowe |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea |
| Bill Rowling |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1927 |
31-Oct-1995 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1974-75 |
| Barnett R. Rubin |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan |
| Richard Sanders |
Actor |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Les Nessman on WKRP |
| John Sarbanes |
Politician |
20-May-1962 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 3rd |
| Robert A. Scalapino |
Scholar |
19-Oct-1919 |
31-Oct-2011 |
Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley |
| Jack Schmitt |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1935 |
|
12th Man on the Moon |
| Anthony J. Scirica |
Judge |
16-Dec-1940 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| John Searle |
Philosopher |
Dec-1932 |
|
Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Wallace Shawn |
Actor |
12-Nov-1943 |
|
Ate dinner with Andre |
| Robert Shaye |
Business |
3-Mar-1949 |
|
Co-CEO of New Line Cinema |
| Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
|
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
| Sally Shelton-Colby |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Barbados, 1979-81 |
| John Silber |
Educator |
15-Aug-1926 |
|
President of Boston University, 1971-96 |
| Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
| Bob Simon |
Journalist |
29-May-1941 |
|
60 Minutes |
| John Simon |
Critic |
12-May-1925 |
|
Reviewer for New York magazine |
| Gregory Slayton |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
US Consul General to Bermuda |
| Javier Solana |
Politician |
14-Jul-1942 |
|
Secretary-General, Council of the European Union |
| Janet Steiger |
Government |
10-Jun-1939 |
3-Apr-2004 |
FTC chairman, 1989-95 |
| Philip Stephens |
Journalist |
2-Jun-1953 |
|
Financial Times Associate Editor |
| Richard G. Stern |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1928 |
|
Other Men's Daughters |
| George R. Stewart |
Author |
31-May-1895 |
22-Aug-1980 |
Earth Abides |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| Mark Strand |
Poet |
11-Apr-1934 |
|
U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91 |
| Raymond Tanter |
Scholar |
? |
|
Iran Policy Committee founder |
| Terence Tao |
Mathematician |
17-Jul-1975 |
|
Prolific math prodigy |
| Susumu Tonegawa |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1939 |
|
Antibody production and diversity |
| Helen Vendler |
Critic |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
American poetry critic |
| Linda Vester |
Talk Show Host |
11-Jun-1965 |
|
Fox News Channel talk show host |
| Diane Wakoski |
Poet |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
Coins & Coffins |
| Margaret Walker |
Novelist |
7-Jul-1915 |
30-Nov-1998 |
Jubilee |
| Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
|
Just and Unjust Wars |
| Fletcher H. Wiley |
Attorney |
29-Nov-1942 |
|
Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen |
| William Appleman Williams |
Historian |
12-Jun-1921 |
6-Mar-1990 |
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy |
| Sheldon Wolin |
Philosopher |
4-Aug-1922 |
|
Politics and Vision |
| James Wright |
Poet |
13-Dec-1927 |
25-Mar-1980 |
The Branch Will Not Break |
| Toby Young |
Journalist |
1963 |
|
Toby Young writes about Toby Young |
| Muhammad Yunus |
Business |
28-Jun-1940 |
|
Banker to the Poor |
| Warren Zimmermann |
Diplomat |
16-Nov-1934 |
2-Feb-2004 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92 |
