List of Yale University people

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Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Notes:

Contents

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners

[edit] Technology and innovation

[edit] Business

[edit] Academics

[edit] College founders and presidents

[edit] Professors and scholars

[edit] Law and politics

[edit] Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers

[edit] Supreme Court justices

Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.[94]

[edit] U.S. senators

Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.[96]

[edit] Governors

Alumni who have served as Governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as President or Senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

[edit] Executive council members

The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.

[edit] Diplomats

[edit] Justices and attorneys

See also: Supreme Court Justices

[edit] Activists

[edit] Public intellectuals

[edit] Frontiersmen

[edit] Military

[edit] Other legislators

[edit] Other

[edit] Religion

[edit] History, literature, art, and music

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Film

[edit] Television

[edit] Fictional

(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)

(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)

[edit] Faculty

Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Others

[edit] Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University

Rectors of Yale College birth–death years as rector
1 Rev. Abraham Pierson (1641–1707) (1701–1707) Collegiate School
2 Rev. Samuel Andrew (1656–1738) (1707–1719) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Timothy Cutler (1684–1765) (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
4 Rev. Elisha William(s) (1694–1755) (1726–1739)
5 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1740–1745)
Presidents of Yale College birth–death years as president
1 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1745–1766)
2 Rev. Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780) (1766–1777) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Ezra Stiles (1727–1795) (1778–1795)
4 Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) (1795–1817)
5 Jeremiah Day (1773–1867) (1817–1846)
6 Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1899) (1846–1871)
7 Noah Porter III (1811–1892) (1871–1886)
8 Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916) (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
9 Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930) (1899–1921)
10 James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) (1921–1937)
11 Charles Seymour (1885–1963) (1937–1951)
12 Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963) (1951–1963)
13 Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919–1988) (1963–1977)
14 Hanna Holborn Gray (1930– ) (1977–1977) (acting)
15 A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) (1977–1986)
16 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1942– ) (1986–1992)
17 Howard R. Lamar (1923– ) (1992–1993) (acting)
18 Richard C. Levin (1947– ) (1993– )

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  62. ^ Dickinson entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
  63. ^ A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch (1978) : "Dickinson, Jonathan (1688-1747), Princeton's first President, died after only four and a half months in office and is chiefly remembered for having been the leader of the little group who, in his words, 'first concocted the plan and foundation of the College.' To him, 'more than to any other man, the College . . . owes its origin,' wrote Professor William A. Packard in The Princeton Book (1879)."
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  75. ^ Biographical profile from Amherst College
  76. ^ Entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
  77. ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
  78. ^ "Facts about Cornell" from the official Cornell University website: "Founded 1865 By Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White."
  79. ^ "A Brief History" from the official Dartmouth College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."
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  119. ^ "Dick Cavett" profile by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
  120. ^ "Vin Di Bona"
  121. ^ Sara Gilbert by Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
  122. ^ Michael Gross by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
  123. ^ Robert Picardo by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
  124. ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001,by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
  125. ^ From the film American Psycho: KIMBALL: And where did he go to school? BATEMAN: Don't you know this? KIMBALL: I just wanted to know if you know. BATEMAN: Before Yale? If I remember correctly, Saint Paul's...Listen, I just...I just want to help.
  126. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
  127. ^ From The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1: "...the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college."
  128. ^ "Jamie Buchman" Profile of the character at the show's official web site.
  129. ^ "Forbes Fictional 15: #5 Burns, Charles Montgomery Forbes Magazine December 1, 2005, by David M. Ewalt
  130. ^ From The Great Gatsby, in Chapter 1, "I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'" In Chapter 3, "I took dinner usually at the Yale Club..." In Chapter 7, "Jordan smiled. 'He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale.'"
  131. ^ "Lost in Translation" review in Rolling Stone (September 8, 2003) by Peter Travers: "Charlotte (Johansson) is three decades younger than Bob, but she shares his sense of drift. A Yale philosophy grad, she's in Tokyo with her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi)..."
  132. ^ 'Voice on Literature' The Village Voice, review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, March 8, 1962
  133. ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001, by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
  134. ^ From Florence of Arabia, Chapter 2: "Florence had grown up fascinated by her grandfather's tales of the Middle East. At college she majored in Arabic studies and was fluent by the time she graduated Yale."
  135. ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"Let the Games Begin"' (Season 3, Episode 51)
  136. ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale"' (Season 4, Episode 67)
  137. ^ Book review of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Volume 1 in Publishers Weekly, November 3, 2003: "The stories are swashbuckling adventures of Flash, 'Yale graduate and world-renowned Polo player,' and the lovely Dale Arden, who become stranded on the planet Mongo, a fierce place ruled with an iron fist by Ming the Merciless." Flash Gordon was introduced as a Yale alumnus in 1934 in the very first comic strip of the series.
  138. ^ From the script for Sabrina, "Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him the man Most Likely to Leave his Alma Mater Fifty Million Dollars. "
  139. ^ The West Wing episode "Celestial Navigation" (season 1, episode 15), in which Lyman says "I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of debate can rise to meet the Socratic wonder that is the White House press corps"
  140. ^ The book Frank Merriwell at Yale(1897) by Burt Standish (pseudonym of Gilbert Patten), ISBN 0837390095
  141. ^ Chronicle section the March 2, 1990 edition of the New York Times, by Susan Heller Anderson: "In the movie version of The Bonfire of the Vanities, TOM HANKS will play Sherman McCoy, the philandering, self-absorbed bond trader whose 'Yale chin' and prep-school background figure prominently in the TOM WOLFE best seller. Mr. Hanks visited Yale yesterday, soaking up information and atmosphere."
  142. ^ Official ER site at NBC: "Newer additions to the ER include Neela Rasgotra (Nagra), a British-Indian medical student who arrives in Chicago after finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular biology at Yale."
  143. ^ From Splendor in the Grass, Bud Stamper's father Ace Stamper says "We got a future, boy. The first thing we're gonna do, we're gonna get you an education - the best. Four years at Yale."
  144. ^ Stover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
  145. ^ "Reading Homer" in the Harvard Alumni Magazine September-October 1997 issue
  146. ^ Movie review by Roger Ebert: "Kat, meanwhile, is baby-sitting for a 30-year-old Yale graduate who is an architect rehabbing a local landmark. She's been accepted to Yale for the fall, and so they have that in common. Also reckless romanticism. His name is Tim (William R. Moses), his wife is in Europe, and Kat falls head over heels in idealism with him. "
  147. ^ Scrubs episode '"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu"' (aired May 9, 2006; Season 5, episode 115). See also Quotes at TV.com
  148. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar]
  149. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
  150. ^ Movie Review at TV Guide
  151. ^ From Lonesome Dove, Augustus says that Wilbarger is "probably the only man who ever went to Yale College who was buried under a buffalo skull." (p.567)
  152. ^ Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills" (season 5, episode 30)
  153. ^ Profile from the official web site of the show by NBC, which produced The West Wing
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