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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.

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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