List of Tufts University people

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The following is a partial, incomplete list of notable Tufts University alumni. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University. See also Tufts University alumni.

1 Notable alumni
2 Notable faculty

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Political leaders

David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs of the United States and previous U.S. Ambassador to Egypt from 2001 to 2005
Jeb Bradley, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003.
Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), politician, formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is both the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.
Musa Javed Chohan, former Pakistani Ambassador to France, Malaysia
Jeffrey Feltman, United States Ambassador to Lebanon
Michael E. Festa, member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1998 - present)
James B. Foley, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Senior Board Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism (1985)
Shukri Ghanem, former Prime Minister of Libya
John Herbst, US Ambassador, Ukraine
General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command
Wolfgang F. Ischinger, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
Costas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
Thomas Kean, Jr., U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey
Susan Livingstone, Undersecretary of Navy
Winston Lord, diplomat, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former President of Council on Foreign Relations
Terrence McCully, US Ambassador,
Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative from Georgia
William T. Monroe, US Ambassador, Bahrain
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a four-term U.S. Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic.
John Olver, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991
Frank Pallone, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988
Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former ambassador to the United Nations, former Secretary of Energy
Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, ran for chair of the DNC
John G. Sargent, lawyer and statesman, Attorney General of the United States from 1925 to 1929
Surakiart Sathirathai, the Foreign Minister of Thailand and potential UN Secretary-General
Hon. Warren Silver, Associate Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission.
Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, post-independence politician

[edit] Entrepreneurs and business leaders

John Bello, Founder and former CEO, SoBe Beverages, CEO, Original SoupMan, former President, NFL Properties
Seamus Blackley, gamew developer, co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox
Dov Charney (did not finish), CEO and founder of LA-based clothing company American Apparel
Dick Dietrich, Founder, GED Corporation
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase corporation
Peter R. Dolan, CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb
Andrew Duff, CEO Piper Jaffray
Daniel E. Doyle, founding director of Institute for International Sport
Nate Gantcher, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
Ari Goldstein, Hedge Fund Manager and raconteur, Stone River Capital, Jackson WY
Jonathan Greenblatt, social entrepreneur, founder of Ethos Water
Richard Hill, retired Chairman Fleet Bank Boston
Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger
George Charles Kokulis, retired Chairman, President and CEO of Travelers Life & Annuity
Reed Krakoff, President of Coach Leather
Mike McConnell, CEO, Brown Brothers Harriman
Harold McGraw, III, Chairman, President, and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies
Pamela McNamara, CEO, Arthur D. Little
John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market. Life Trustee at Tufts
Joseph Neubauer, CEO Aramark Corporation
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar, billionaire founders of eBay
Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom Inc.
Neal Shapiro former President of NBC News
Jeff Stibel - CEO of Web.com, Interland; Board Member, Founder and General Manager of The Search Agency, Simpli, MediaWorks and United Online (NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher of New York Times
Peter Roth, President, Warner Brothers
Wendy Selig-Prieb, Milwaukee Brewers CEO
Ed Tapscott, President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, an NBA team
Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
Walter Wriston, retired Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
Vikram Akula, founder and head of SKS Microfinance

[edit] Actors, film, and media

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times
Hank Azaria, actor and voice actor
Jessica Biel (did not finish), actress, 7th Heaven, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Benjamin Broderick, Musician, "Bound by Time (album)"
Rob Burnett, Executive Producer of Late Night with David Letterman
Tracy Chapman, musician
Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor, Hiros
Erin Connolly, Inside Edition Journalist
Tyler Duckworth, cast member, Real World Key West
Peter Gallagher, actor, Mr. Deeds, American Beauty, Broadway production Grease, The O.C.
Jeff Greenstein, Executive Producer of Will & Grace
Guster, musicians, Parachute, Goldfly, Lost and Gone Forever, Keep It Together, Guster on Ice
Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, arranger, choral director, and actor
Coral Hawthorne, Producer, In Living Color, The Hughleys and Complete Savages
Dan Hedaya, actor, Blood Simple, The Addams Family, The Usual Suspects, Clueless, Dick, A Night at the Roxbury
Matt Bai, political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
William Hurt, actor, The Big Chill, Kiss of the Spider Woman (winning the Academy Award for Best Actor)
Amisha Patel, Indian actress.
Oliver Platt, actor
Kyle Renick, Producer/Artistic Director of the WPA Theatre, originator of Little Shop of Horrors, Jeffrey and Steel Magnolias
David Scott, Producer and 2002 Emmy winner for his work on the 9-11 tragedy.
Neal Shapiro, former President of NBC News
Meredith Vieira, TV host (formerly of The View and currently of The Today Show)
Aury Wallington, screenwriter, Sex and the City, Veronica Mars, playwright, novelist
Rainn Wilson, actor, The Office, Six Feet Under (attended but never finished)
Gary Winick, director, producer
Patrick D. Healy, New York Times reporter [1]
Will Dunn, actor, "Osmosis Jones" and "Stuck on You".

[edit] Literature and arts

Cathy Bao Bean, writer, The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
John Ciardi, was a poet, translator, and etymologist
Cid Corman, poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.
Phil Dunlap, cartoonist, Ink Pen nationally syndicated
Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Up Country, lifelong friend of Anne Sexton
Erik Lindgren, composer and musician.
Gregory Maguire, writer, Wicked.
Anita Shreve, writer, The Pilot's Wife.
Nathanael West (did not finish), writer.
Christopher Golden, author of several Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels and the Body of Evidence mystery series (which takes place at Somerset University, a fictional version of the Tufts campus)
Adam Gardner, Brian Rosenworcel, and Ryan Miller from the pop/rock band GUSTER.

[edit] Academic leaders

Vannevar Bush, scientist
Ram Dass (formerly known as Richard Alpert), former psychology professor at Harvard University, dismissed in 1963 after his work with Dr. Timothy Leary on the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
Eugene Fama, economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.
Carlton H. Hastings, materials scientist, pioneer in the field of nondestructive testing; led the team that developed heat shields for all USA reentry vehicles (space vehicles designed to re-enter Earth's atmosphere) through Apollo; developer of the video X-ray system.
Rick Hauck, astronaut
Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lee Nordan. pioneer in lasik surgery
Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
William James Sidis, child prodigy and mathematician enrolled at age ten and attend for one year.
Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics

[edit] Athletes

Marcellus Rolle, kicker, NESCAC all-time leader for field goals made in a season (10)
Richard Hashim, 1988 US Squash Champion
Jen Toomey, top 1500-meter runner

[edit] Notable faculty

Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
Kenneth I. Kaitin, Head of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972-1986), Japanese politician and activist
Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
Hugo A. Bedau, ethicist, specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
Allan M. Cormack, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Consciousness Explained
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, History's Renaissance Man
Margaret Henderson Floyd, Art Historian and author of "Henry Hobson Richardson" and other books on architectural history
Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
Alfred Church Lane, geologist
William Moulton Marston, d 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
Chris B. Rogers, Father of ROBOLAB
Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
Loring Tu, world-renowned mathematician
Alexander Vilenkin, leading theoretical physicist
Rosalind Shaw, leading Anthropologist on Transitional Justice, expert of Sierra Leone
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
Arthur W. Winston, IEEE President, 2004. IEEEPast-president, 2005
David L. Kaplan, biomedical engineer, leader in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering