List of Washington University alumni
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The following persons are well-known alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.
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[edit] Arts and literature
- Morris Carnovsky (AB ??): stage and film actor; target of Hollywood blacklist; Theatre Hall of Fame inductee
- Anita Diamant (??): novelist
- Jon Feltheimer (??): CEO Lionsgate Films
- Bernard Fuchs (MFA 1954): painter and illustrator
- John Gardner (??): novelist
- Robert Guillaume (??): stage and television actor
- Henry Hampton (AB 1961): filmmaker; producer of PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize
- A.E. Hotchner (AB 1940, JD 1940): biographer and novelist (Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill)
- Fannie Hurst (1909): writer and social activist
- Josephine Winslow Johnson (??): Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Johnny Kastl (??): television actor (Scrubs)
- Edward Shepherd Mead (AB 1936): playwright ("How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")
- David Merrick (AB 1934): Broadway producer
- Oliver Nelson (student 1954-7): jazz musician and composer
- J. D. Parran (AM 1971): jazz musician
- Harold Ramis (AB 1966): film actor, writer and director
- Eugene B. Redmond (MA 1966): poet, critic, civil-rights activist
- Robert Quine (JD 1968): rock guitarist
- Peter Sarsgaard (AB 1995): actor
- Jeff Tremaine(AB 1990): Director, Producer
- Lauren Weinstein (AB 1998): cartoonist
- Mary Wickes (AB 1930): stage and film actress
- Tennessee Williams (student 1936-37): playwright
- Olly Wilson (AB 1959): composer
[edit] Architecture and design
- Charles Eames (??): designer, architect, filmmaker
- Hugh Ferriss (B.Arch 1911, M.Arch 1928): architect
- George Hellmuth (B.Arch 1928, M.Arch 1931): architect; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
- George Kassabaum (B.Arch 1947): architect; former president of American Institute of Architects; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
- Gyo Obata (B.Arch 1945): architect; cofounder and chairman of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
- Carolyne Roehm (BFA 1973): fashion designer
- C. P. Wang (M.Arch 1973): architect for Taipei 101, the world's tallest building as of 2005[1]
[edit] Business
- William H. Danforth (AB 1892): founder of Ralston Purina
- John Dubinsky (AB 1965, MBA 1967): former CEO of Mark Twain Bancshares
- Carl M. Casale (MBA ??): executive vice president, North America Commercial division of Monsanto
- Steve Fossett MBA 1968): options trader, balloonist, and adventurer.
- Sam Fox (BSBA 1951): founder, chairman, CEO, and owner of Harbour Group LTD
- Don Frahm (BSBA 1953): former chairman and CEO of the Hartford Insurance Group
- Earle Harbison (AB 1948): former president and COO of Monsanto
- Jeff Lebesch (BS 1979): co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Company
- Stanley Lopata (AB 1935): founder and former chairman of Carboline
- John F. McDonnell (?? 1967): retired chairman and CEO of McDonnell Douglas
- W. Patrick McGinnis (MBA 1972): president and CEO of Nestle Purina Petcare Company
- Howard J. Morgens (A.B. ????) President and CEO of Proctor & Gamble
- William Shaw (MBA 1972): president and COO of Marriott International Inc.
- Louis B. Susman (JD 1962): vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets
- Jack C. Taylor (student through 1944): founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and with a net worth of $13.9 billion; no. 14 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans in 2006.
- William G. Tragos (AB 1956): former chairman and CEO of TBWA Advertising, Inc.
- Arnold Zetcher (BSBA 1962): chairman, president and CEO of Talbots
- George Zimmer (AB 1970): founder of Men's Wearhouse
[edit] Education and academics
- James F. Barker (A.M. 1973): President of Clemson University
- Horace Mitchell (A.B. 1968, M.A. 1969, Ph.D 1974): President of California State University Bakersfield
- Zhangliang Chen (PhD 1982): prominent Chinese scientist; President of China Agricultural University; member of the National People's Congress
- Thomas Lamb Eliot (AB 1862, AM 1866): founding board member and president of Reed College
- Hiro Mukai (BS 1972): author of leading books on Systems Engineering
- Henry Ware Eliot (AB 1863): father of poet T.S. Eliot; former president of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis
- Nathan O. Hatch (AM 1972, PhD 1974): President of Wake Forest University
- Raelynn Hillhouse (AB ??): novelist, political scientist
- Edward Singleton Holden (SB 1866): fifth president of the University of California; director of the Lick Observatory
- Robert C. Kolodny (MD 1969) author of numerous books on human sexuality
- Joyce Ladner (AM 1966, PhD 1968): sociologist and activist
- Dolores Baja-Lasán (Ph.D 1959), chancellor of the Philippine Women's University System
- Max Lerner (AM 1925): intellectual, critic, and author
- Donald Livingston (PhD 1965) renowned constitutional scholar
- Walter E. Massey (AM 1966, PhD 1966): president of Morehouse College
- H. Richard Niebuhr (AM 1917): theologian
- Charles Van Ravenswaay (AB 1933, AM 1934): historian
- Abram L. Sachar (AB 1920, AM 1920): founding president of Brandeis University
- Barry Spizer (BS 1977): past president of the CCIM Institute of the National Association of Realtors
- Chia-Wei Woo (MA ??, PhD ??): founding president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; first Asian American to head a major U.S. university (San Francisco State University)
[edit] Journalism and media
- Ken Cooper (AB 1977): Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; former national editor of the Boston Globe
- Bill Dedman (no degree): Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter
- Lynne "Angel" Cooper Harvey (AB ??, AM ??): producer of Paul Harvey News
- Michael Isikoff (AB 1974): journalist
- Condé Nast (LLB 1897): publisher of Vogue
- Mike Peters (BFA 1965): Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist; creator of "Mother Goose and Grimm"
[edit] Politics, law, and government
- General John C. Bates: served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1906.
- Henry S. Caulfield (JD ??): Governor of Missouri, 1929-1933
- Clark M. Clifford (LLB 1928): U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968-69; former presidential advisor
- Earl Thomas Coleman (JD 1969): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1977-1993
- Phoebe Couzins (LLB 1871): first female U.S. marshal; leader in the women's suffrage movement
- Hal Daub (BS 1963): U.S. congressman from Nebraska, 1981-1989; mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (MD 1865): Governor of Missouri, 1901-1905
- Alan J. Dixon (LLB 1949): U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1981-93
- Mary Beth Dolin (????): Manitoba legislator and provincial cabinet member
- Leonidas C. Dyer (JD 1893): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1915-1933
- Edward Cranch Eliot (AB 1878, LLB 1880, AM 1881): former president of the American Bar Association
- David R. Francis (AB 1870): mayor of St. Louis, 1885-89; Governor of Missouri, 1889-93; U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1896-97; U.S. Ambassador to Russia
- Moses W. Harrison II (JD 1958): chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
- Harry B. Hawes (JD 1896): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1926-1933
- Chic Hecht (BS 1949): U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1983-89
- Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (JD 1926): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1951-1960
- William L. Igoe (JD 1902): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1913-1921
- Alphonso Jackson (JD 1972): U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2004-present
- Victor J. Miller (JD ??): mayor of St. Louis, 1925 to 1933
- Chris Koster (Missouri) (MBA ??): Missouri State senator
- Roscoe C. Patterson (JD 1897): US Senator from Missouri, 1929-1935
- Tony Ribaudo (1962): majority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, 1977-1997
- Kenneth J. Rothman (AB ?? JD??): Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1981-1985
- Steven Rothman (J.D.1977): US Congressmen from New Jersey 1997-present
- Phyllis Schlafly (AB 1944, JD 1978): author, political activist, coined the term "A Choice, Not an Echo"
- Mike Simpson (DDS 1977): Congressmen from Idaho 1999-present
- Ralph Tyler Smith (JD 1940): U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1969-1970
- Adam Shapiro (AB 1993): co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement
- Selden P. Spencer (JD 1886): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1918-1925
- Leonor Sullivan (1923): first female U.S. congressional representative from Missouri, 1953-1977
- Jim Talent (AB 1978): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 2003-2007
- Richard B. Teitelman (JD 1973): judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri
- James R. Thompson (AB ??): Governor of Illinois, 1977-1991
- Raymond Tucker (BS 1920): mayor of St. Louis, 1953-1965
- William H. Webster (JD 1949): former director of the CIA and the FBI
- Xenophon P. Wilfley (JD 1899): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1918
- George Howard Williams (JD 1897): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1925-1926
- Shien Biau Woo (PhD 1964): Asian American political activist; former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
[edit] Science, engineering, and medicine
- J. Michael Bailey (AB 1979): psychologist, professor, well-known researcher on sexual orientation
- Geoffrey Ballard (PhD 1963): alternative-fuels scientist and promoter; member of Order of Canada; founder of Ballard Power Systems
- Corinne Bott-Silverman (AB 1975): first female cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic
- Clyde Cowan (AM ??, PhD 1949): co-discoverer of the neutrino
- Lee Harrison III (BFA 1952, BS 1959): engineer; Emmy winner for invention of computer animation
- Julian Hill (BS 1924): chemist; co-inventor of nylon
- Edwin Krebs (MD 1943): Nobel laureate in medicine for work with protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism
- J.C.R. Licklider (BS ??): pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence
- Ben Moreell (??): U.S. Navy admiral; founder of the Navy's Seabees construction battalions
- Daniel Nathans (1954): Nobel laureate in medicine
- Alton Ochsner: surgeon and medical researcher (The Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
- Harry Ringermacher (BS 1968, MS 1977, PhD 1980): physicist; awarded the Mensa Foundation's Copper Black Award for groundbreaking work in infrared imagery
- Sol Spiegelman (PhD 1944): molecular biologist
- Harvey N. Silverman (AB 1974, DMD 1978): pioneer in cosmetic dentistry; inventor of Perfect Smile, Rapid White, and White Light tooth whiteners
- Earl Sutherland (MD 1942): Nobel laureate in medicine for elucidating the mechanisms of the actions of hormones
- Ernst Zinner (Phd ??): German astronomer
- Walter Wyman (MD 1873) 3rd US Surgeon General
[edit] Sports
- Jimmy Conzelman (BS 1917): professional football player and coach; enshrined in Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Dal Maxvill (BS ??): professional baseball player, former St. Louis Cardinals general manager
- Muddy Ruel (JD ??): professional baseball catcher; member of 1924 World Champion Washington Senators
- George Herbert Walker (LLB 1897): founder of Walker Cup in golf; grandfather and great-grandfather of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively
- Charley Winner (??): longtime coach in the National Football League
