List of notable Georgetown University alumni

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The following is a list of notable Georgetown University alumni. Georgetown University is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. It is a member institution of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. It is incorporated as The President and Directors of Georgetown University.

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[edit] Legend

  • B, GSB, or MSB - McDonough School of Business (once Georgetown School of Business)
  • C, COL, or CAS - Georgetown College (once the College of Arts and Sciences)
  • D or DDS - Dental School
  • F or SFS - Walsh School of Foreign Service (undergraduate)
  • G or GRD - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • I, SLL, or FLL - School of Language and Linguistics (now the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, a division of Georgetown College)
  • L, LAW, or GULC - Law Center
  • M or MED - School of Medicine
  • MPP or PPI - Master's Degree, Public Policy Institute
  • MSFS - Walsh School of Foreign Service (graduate)
  • N, NUR, NHS, or SNHS - School of Nursing and Health Studies (once Georgetown University Nursing School)
  • SCE - School of Continuing Education
  • SSCE - School of Summer and Continuing Education
Selected Georgetown Alumni
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
Pearl Bailey, singer/actress
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Pearl Bailey, singer/actress
Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission
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Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission
Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-DE)
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Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-DE)
John Dean, former White House Counsel
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John Dean, former White House Counsel
Rep. Luis Fortuño (R-PR)
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Rep. Luis Fortuño (R-PR)
Gen. Alexander Haig, former US Secretary of State
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Gen. Alexander Haig, former US Secretary of State
Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)
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Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)
Dr. Susan Hockfield, President of MIT
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Dr. Susan Hockfield, President of MIT
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL)
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Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL)
Terry McAuliffe, former DNC chairman
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Terry McAuliffe, former DNC chairman
Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player and philanthropist
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Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player and philanthropist
John Cardinal O'Connor, former Archbishop of New York
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John Cardinal O'Connor, former Archbishop of New York
Amerie Mi Marie Rogers, singer-songwriter
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Amerie Mi Marie Rogers, singer-songwriter
John Sircia, former C.J. US Dist. Ct. D.C.
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John Sircia, former C.J. US Dist. Ct. D.C.

[edit] Law, government, and politics

[edit] Heads of State

[edit] Governors

[edit] Cabinet Members, White House Staff, Advisors

[edit] Ambassadors

  • David Abshire (G 1959) - United States Ambassador to NATO, 1983-1987; co-founder of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); advisor to President Reagan
  • Shlomo Argov (SFS 1952) - Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom, 1979-1982; Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands, 1977-1979; Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, 1971-1974
  • Ricardo Alberto Arias (SFS 1961) - Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations, 2004-present; Ambassador of Panama to the United States, 1994-96; Foreign Minister of Panama, 1996-1998
  • Diego C. Asencio (SFS 1952) - United States Ambassador to Brazil, 1983-1986; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1977-1980
  • Elizabeth Frawley Bagley (L 1987) - United States Ambassador to Portugal, 1994-1997; former senior advisor to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
  • Vincent M. Battle (SFS 1962) - United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 2001-2004
  • Willard L. Beaulac (SFS 1921) - United States Ambassador to Paraguay, 1944-1947; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1947-1951; United States Ambassador to Cuba, 1951-1953; United States Ambassador to Chile, 1953-1956; United States Ambassador to Argentina, 1956-1960
  • Clifford G. Bond (SFS 1970) - United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2001-2004
  • Brian D. Curran (SFS 1970) - United States Ambassador to Haiti, 2001-2003; United States Ambassador to Mozambique, 1997-2000
  • Simcha Dinitz (SFS 1953) - Ambassador of Israel to the United States, 1973-1979; political advisor to Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969-1973
  • Edward P. Djerejian (SFS 1960) - United States Ambassador to Israel, 1993-94; United States Ambassador to Syria, 1988-1991
  • James F. Dobbins, Jr. (SFS 1963) - United States Ambassador to the European Union, 1991-1993
  • Thomas J. Dodd (SFS 1957) - United States Ambassador to Uruguay, 1993-1997; United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1997-2001
  • Cynthia G. Efird (SFS 1971) - United States Ambassador to Angola, 2004-present
  • J. Richard Fredericks (B 1968) - United States Ambassador to Switzerland, 1999-2001
  • Peter W. Galbraith (L 1990) - United States Ambassador to Croatia, 1993-1998; United Nations Ambassador, East Timor, 2000-2001
  • David Hale (SFS 1983) - United States Ambassador to Jordan, 2005-present
  • John E. Herbst (SFS 1974) - United States Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-2006; United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2000-2003
  • Charles W. Hostler (G 1951) - United States Ambassador to Bahrain, 1989-1993
  • James R. Jones (L 1964) - United States Ambassador to Mexico, 1993-1997
  • Franklin Lavin (SFS 1979, G 1985) - United States Ambassador to Singapore, 2001-2005; Under Secretary of Commerce, 2005-present.
  • John F. Maisto (SFS 1961) - United States Permanent Representative to Organization of American States, 2003-present; United States Ambassador to Venezuela 1997-2000
  • Jackson McDonald (SFS 1978) - United States Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, 2004-present; United States Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, 2001-2004
  • Gerald S. McGowan (SFS 1968, L 1974) - United States Ambassador to Portugal, 1997-2001
  • Alfred Moses (L 1956) - United States Ambassador to Romania, 1994-97
  • Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. (SFS 1950) - United States Ambassador to Argentina, 1983-1986; United States Ambassador to Peru, 1981-1983
  • Mark R. Parris (SFS 1972) - United States Ambassador to Turkey, 1997-2000
  • Kasit Piromya (SFS 1968) - Kingdom of Thailand Ambassador to United States, 2004-2006
  • Maureen E. Quinn (G 1980) - United States Ambassador to Qatar, 2001-2004
  • James W. Riddleberger (G 1926) - United States Ambassador to Austria, 1962-1967; United States Ambassador to Greece, 1958-1959; United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1953-1958
  • Manuel Rocha (G 1978) - United States Ambassador to Bolivia, 2000-2002
  • Roberto R. Romulo (C 1960) - Ambassador of the Philippines to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Communites, 1989-1991; Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, 1992-1995
  • Francis Rooney (C 1975, L 1978) - United States Ambassador to Holy See, 2005-present
  • David M. Satterfield - (L 1978) - United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 1998-2001
  • David Scheffer (LLM 1978) - The first United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, 1997-2000
  • Thomas L. Siebert (C 1968, L 1972) - United States Ambassador to Sweden, 1994-1998
  • Bruno Stagno (SFS 1991) - Costa Rican Ambassador to the United Nations, 2002-2004
  • John Tefft (G 1978) - United States Ambassador to Georgia, 2005-present; United States Ambassador to Lithuania, 200-2003
  • Patrick N. Theros (SFS 1963) - United States Ambassador to Qatar, 1995-1998
  • HRH Prince Turki bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud (SFS 1968) - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ambassador to United States, 2005-present; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, 2002-2005
  • HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (SFS 1981) - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ambassador to United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, 2005-present; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Italy and Malta, 1995-2005
  • Viron P. Vaky (SFS 1947) - United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1976-1978; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1974-1976; United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1972-1974
  • C. David Welch (SFS 1975) - United States Ambassador to Egypt, 2001-2005
  • Melissa F. Wells (SFS 1956) - United States Ambassador to Estonia, 1998-2001; United States Ambassador to Congo, 1991-1993; United States Ambassador to Mozambique, 1987-1990; United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, 1976-1977; United States Ambassador to Cape Verde, 1976-1977
  • Ong Keng Yong (G 1983) - Singapore's Ambassador and High Commissioner to India and Nepal, 1996-1998

[edit] Judges

[edit] Members of the U.S. Senate

[edit] Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

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[edit] Other political

[edit] Business

[edit] Entertainment, media, and culture

[edit] Science and medicine

  • John-David F. Bartoe (G 1974, G 1976) - Astronaut and Astrophysicist; Research Manager, International Space Station, NASA Johnson Space Center, 1995-present
  • Pascale Cossart (G 1971) - Professor and Head of the Unité des Interactions Bactéries Cellules at the Pasteur Institute of Paris
  • George V. Coyne, S.J. (G 1962) - Astronomer; Director of the Vatican Observatory, 1978-2006
  • Mark Dybul (C 1985, M 1992) - Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, 2006-present
  • Susan Hockfield (Med Ph.D - 1979) - Neuroscientist; Provost, Yale University, 2003-2004; Dean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2000 (see also: Education list below)
  • Mark S. Humayun (C 1984) - Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Director of Research, Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California; 2005 Innovator of the Year Award from R&D Magazine for his work in creating implantable artificial retina that promises to restore sight to blind patients
  • Kevin Kiley (M 1976) - Lt. Gen. Kiley is the 41st Surgeon General of the Army and Commander, U.S. Army Medical Command, 2004-present
  • Antonia Novello (Hospital Fellow 1975) - Surgeon General of the United States, 1990-1993
  • Thomas Parran, Jr. (M 1915) - Surgeon General of the United States, 1936-1948
  • John J. Ring (C 1949; M 1953) - former President, American Medical Association
  • Vera Rubin (G 1954) - Astronomer
  • Solomon Snyder (C 1959, M 1962) - Neuroscientist
  • Andrew von Eschenbach (M 1967) - Director, Food and Drug Administration, 2006-present; Director, National Cancer Institute, 2002-2005

[edit] Religion, social action, and education

  • Kendall L. Baker (G 1966, G 1969) - 10th President, Ohio Northern University, 1999-present; 9th President, University of North Dakota, 1992-1999
  • Robert L. Barchi (C 1968, G 1969) - 4th President, Thomas Jefferson University, 2004-present; Provost, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-2004
  • Lawrence Biondi, S.J. (G 1966, G 1975) - 31st President, Saint Louis University, 1987-present
  • Joan Claybrook (L 1973) - President, Public Citizen, 1982-present
  • Jose Maria Cuenco (L) (b. 1885 - d. 1972) - Archbishop of Jaro, Philippines
  • Thomas B. Curran, O.S.F.S. (G 1985) - 14th President, Rockhurst University, 2006-present
  • John J. DeGioia (C 1979, G 1995) - 48th President, Georgetown University, 2001-present
  • Louis DeThomasis, FSC (SFS 1963) - 11th President, St. Mary's University of Minnesota, 1984-2005
  • Edward Djerejian (SFS 1960) - Founding Director, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, 1993-present
  • Robert M. Gates (G 1974) - 22nd President, Texas A&M University, 2002-present
  • Mark D. Gearan (L 1991) - President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1999-present
  • David Goldwyn (C 1981) - Chairman of the Board, GlobalGiving Foundation, 2003-present
  • Robert M. Hayes (C 1974) - Founder, Coalition for the Homeless
  • Leo Higdon Jr. (C 1968) - 10th President, Connecticut College, 2006-present
  • Susan Hockfield (Med Ph.D.) - 16th President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-present
  • Jan Karski (G Ph.D.) - Polish diplomat, WW II Resistance fighter, scholar; taught at Georgetown 40 years
  • Daniel K. Lahart, S.J. (MSB 1983) - President, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School, Houston, TX
  • Brian F. Linnane, S.J. (G 1981) - 24th President of Loyola College in Maryland, 2005-present
  • Barry W. Lynn (L 1978) - Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
  • John P. Minahan, Jr. (G 1970) - President, Western Oregon University, 2006-present
  • John Cardinal O'Connor (G 1970) - Archbishop of New York, 1984-2000
  • Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J. (C 1956) - 47th President, Georgetown University, 1989-2001
  • Sadako Ogata (SFS 1953) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1991-2000
  • Brian Paulson, S.J. (SFS 1981) - President, St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, Chicago, Illinois
  • Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. (C 1981) - 24th President, The University of Scranton, 2003-present
  • John Pinasco, S.J. (G 1868-1872) - 7th President, University of San Francisco, 1876-1880; 8th & 10th President, Santa Clara College (now University), 1880-1883 and 1888-1893
  • Most Rev.Thomas J. Rodi (C 1971) - Bishop, Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi
  • Sister Kathleen Ross, SNJM (G 1971) - founding President, Heritage College, Toppenish, Washington
  • Charles Schultz (C 1948) - Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors in the Carter Administration
  • Philip R. Sharp (SFS 1964, G 1974) - President, Resources for the Future, 2005-present, former Congresssman.
  • Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (C 1988) - President, Best Buddies International
  • Stacey Davis Stewart (C 1985) - President and CEO, Fannie Mae Foundation, 1999-present
  • Barry Sullivan (C 1953) - Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Chicago, 1989-1992
  • B. Joseph White (SFS 1969) - 16th President, University of Illinois, 2005-present
  • Rev. John Whitney, S.J. (C 1980) - Provincial, Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus

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