| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
| Dwayne Andreas |
Business |
4-Mar-1918 |
|
Archer Daniels Midland CEO, 1970-97 |
| Anne L. Armstrong |
Government |
27-Dec-1927 |
30-Jul-2008 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77 |
| Alexander Dallas Bache |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1806 |
17-Feb-1867 |
First President, National Academy of Sciences |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird |
Naturalist |
3-Feb-1823 |
19-Aug-1887 |
History of North American Birds |
| James Baker |
Government |
28-Apr-1930 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1989-92 |
| Barbara M. Barrett |
Attorney |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland |
| Bill Bass |
Scientist |
30-Aug-1928 |
|
Human decomposition |
| Xavier Becerra |
Politician |
26-Jan-1958 |
|
Congressman, California 31st |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Afsaneh M. Beschloss |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
The Rock Creek Group |
| Michael Beschloss |
Historian |
30-Nov-1955 |
|
The Conquerors |
| Lindy Boggs |
Politician |
13-Mar-1916 |
27-Jul-2013 |
Congresswoman from Louisiana, 1973-91 |
| Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
| Eli Broad |
Business |
6-Jun-1933 |
|
Billionaire |
| Warren Burger |
Judge |
17-Sep-1907 |
25-Jun-1995 |
US Chief Justice, 1969-86 |
| Sheila P. Burke |
Administrator |
c. 1951 |
|
COO of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Clarence Cannon |
Politician |
11-Apr-1879 |
12-May-1964 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1923-64 |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Henry Catto |
Diplomat |
6-Dec-1930 |
18-Dec-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1989-91 |
| Paul L. Cejas |
Business |
1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Belgium, 1998-2001 |
| G. Wayne Clough |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Secretary of the Smithsonian |
| Thad Cochran |
Politician |
7-Dec-1937 |
|
US Senator from Mississippi |
| Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
| Barber Conable |
Politician |
2-Nov-1922 |
30-Nov-2003 |
World Bank President, Congressman |
| Peter Coneway |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Switzerland |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| Clyde Cowan |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1919 |
24-May-1974 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Shelby M. Cullom |
Politician |
22-Nov-1829 |
28-Jan-1914 |
Governor and Senator from Illinois |
| Drew S. Days III |
Government |
1941 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1993-96 |
| Lynn G. Dolnick |
Naturalist |
c. 1951 |
|
National Zoological Park |
| Stephen A. Douglas |
Politician |
23-Apr-1813 |
3-Jun-1861 |
US Senator, debated Lincoln |
| Ervin S. Duggan |
Government |
30-Jun-1939 |
|
CEO of PBS, 1994-99 |
| Archie W. Dunham |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of Conoco, 1996-2002 |
| James C. Early |
Activist |
12-Jan-1947 |
|
Smithsonian Institution |
| James Pollard Espy |
Scientist |
9-May-1785 |
24-Jan-1860 |
The Philosophy of Storms |
| Cornelius Felton |
Scholar |
6-Nov-1807 |
26-Feb-1862 |
Classical scholar of Greek |
| Bill Frist |
Politician |
22-Feb-1952 |
|
US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07 |
| Phillip Frost |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Founder of IVAX Corporation |
| Melville W. Fuller |
Judge |
11-Feb-1833 |
4-Jul-1910 |
US Chief Justice, 1888-1910 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
| Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
25-Oct-1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
| James M. Guyette |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Rolls-Royce North America |
| Hannibal Hamlin |
Politician |
27-Aug-1809 |
4-Jul-1891 |
Lincoln's first Vice President |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Mickey Hart |
Drummer |
11-Sep-1943 |
|
Drummer for Grateful Dead |
| Joseph Henry |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1797 |
13-May-1878 |
Discovered electromagnetic induction |
| Ira Michael Heyman |
Educator |
30-May-1930 |
19-Nov-2011 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1980-90 |
| J. Tomilson Hill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of Blackstone Group |
| George F. Hoar |
Politician |
29-Aug-1826 |
30-Sep-1904 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904 |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| William Temple Hornaday |
Activist |
1-Dec-1854 |
6-Mar-1937 |
Defender of the American bison |
| George M. Humphrey |
Government |
8-Mar-1890 |
20-Jan-1970 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57 |
| Herbert E. Ives |
Physicist |
21-Jul-1882 |
13-Nov-1953 |
Facsimile machine |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Richard D. Kinder |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Chairman of Kinder Morgan Energy |
| Marie L. Knowles |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CFO of ARCO, 1996-2000 |
| Claudia Kotchka |
Business |
11-Jul-1951 |
|
Retired Procter & Gamble executive |
| Philip Lader |
Government |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001 |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Charles T. Manatt |
Attorney |
9-Jun-1936 |
22-Jul-2011 |
DNC Chairman, 1981-85 |
| Howard P. Milstein |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Chairman of Emigrant Bank |
| Steven T. Mnuchin |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Dune Capital Management |
| Homer A. Neal |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1942 |
|
Director of the ATLAS Project |
| Constance Berry Newman |
Government |
8-Jul-1935 |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for Africa, 2004-05 |
| Richard Olney |
Government |
15-Sep-1835 |
8-Apr-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1895-97 |
| Mary M. Ourisman |
Diplomat |
Feb-1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Barbados |
| James R. Patton, Jr. |
Attorney |
27-Oct-1928 |
|
Founder, Patton Boggs |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Ralph Regula |
Politician |
3-Dec-1924 |
|
Congressman from Ohio, 1973-2009 |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. |
Judge |
27-Jan-1955 |
|
US Chief Justice |
| Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Business |
10-Dec-1944 |
|
CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting |
| Wilbur Ross |
Business |
28-Nov-1937 |
|
Private equity, W. L. Ross & Co. |
| Roger W. Sant |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Billionaire, AES |
| Jim Sasser |
Politician |
30-Sep-1936 |
|
US Senator from Tennessee, 1977-95 |
| Richard T. Schlosberg III |
Publisher |
c. 1943 |
|
Publisher of LA Times, 1994-97 |
| Brian P. Schmidt |
Astronomer |
24-Feb-1967 |
|
Accelerating universe |
| David J. Skorton |
Educator |
22-Nov-1949 |
|
Smithsonian Institution |
| Lawrence M. Small |
Government |
14-Sep-1941 |
|
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-07 |
| A. W. "Pete" Smith |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 1993-99 |
| James Smithson |
Chemist |
1765 |
27-Jun-1829 |
Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution |
| John W. Snyder |
Government |
21-Jun-1895 |
8-Oct-1985 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1946-53 |
| Alan Spoon |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
President of Washington Post Co., 1991-2000 |
| Harlan Fiske Stone |
Judge |
11-Oct-1872 |
22-Apr-1946 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1925-46 |
| Patty Stonesifer |
Business |
1956 |
|
Co-Chair of Gates Foundation |
| H. Patrick Swygert |
Educator |
17-Mar-1943 |
|
President of Howard University, 1995-2008 |
| Mary Ann Tighe |
Business |
1948 |
|
Tri-State CEO, CB Richard Ellis |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| Sarah Vowell |
Radio Personality |
27-Dec-1969 |
|
This American Life |
| Earl Warren |
Judge |
19-Mar-1891 |
9-Jul-1974 |
US Chief Justice, 1953-69 |
| Anthony Welters |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
AmeriChoice |
| Wesley S. Williams, Jr. |
Attorney |
13-Nov-1942 |
|
Former Partner, Covington & Burling |
| James Woolsey |
Government |
21-Sep-1941 |
|
CIA Director, 1993-95 |
| Daniel W. Yohannes |
Philanthropist |
Sep-1952 |
|
CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation |
