List of Brown University people

The following is a partial list of notable Brown University people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College (Brown University), the former women's college of Brown.

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Notable alumni and leaders of Brown

Note: "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When just the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.

Academia

Technology and innovation

Government, law and public policy

Governors

Legislators

Framer of the Founding Documents of the United States of America
United States Senators
Members of the United States House of Representatives
State Legislators

Mayors

Diplomats

Advisors

Sidney Baumgarten, (A.B. 1954), Assistant to NYC Mayor Abe Beame, and founder and director of Midtown Enforcement Project which began the cleanup of Times Square (1974-1978). Reported in recent book entitled "Ghosts of 42nd Street" published 2004 and numerous media articles.

Activists

Jurists

Business

Journalism

Literature

Medicine

Military

Sidney Baumgarten (AB 1954) Brigadier General in the New York Guard (formerly U.S. Army Reserve), called to active duty for the last time on 9/11/01 in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center. Awarded the NY State Conspicuous Service Medal by Governor Pataki for his role as Chief of Staff and for the mobilization and deployment of the troops on and after 9/11. Retired Jan. 2005.

Performing arts

Music

Film

Podcast

Television

Theater

Religion

Royalty

Visual arts

Athletics

Auto racing

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Olympics

Other sports

Colonial Era Brown Graduates (1769–1783)

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Unclassified

Notable faculty (Current and Former)

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. Author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature.
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies
Ghanaian novelist and playwright
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Archaeologist, MacArthur Award recipient
Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
literary critic and author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies
American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is very well known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions.
Professor of Mathematics
neuroscientist. Author of one of the world's most widely used neuroscience introductory textbooks. Since 2003, the head of the MIT Brain Lab. Part of the 10-member jury, the Champalimaud Vision Award, bestowed by the Champalimaud Foundation.
discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones)
Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1994 for investigative reporting
Visiting Professor of English
former president of Brazil
Professor-at-large of International Studies
former Republican member of the United States Senate
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in International Relations
famous philosopher known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of perception; influenced a generation of Brown philosophers including Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, two of the world's most famous philosophers.
international lawyer, father of peacekeeping doctrine since the Cold War
Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies faculty member
Nobel Prize in Physics 1972; father of superconductivity, and developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity in neuroscience
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
post-modern writer, Spanking the Maid, The Origin of the Brunists; notable for his metafiction; electronic literature pioneer
T. B. Stowell University Professor, Adjunct Professor of English
celebrated poet, For Love
Professor of English
applied mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; co-author of The Mathematical Experience
Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics
medical researcher developing vaccines for infectious diseases including HIV, TB, West Nile virus, smallpox, and tularemia
'Associate Professor of Community Health
founder of Cyberkinetics, a company that won FDA approval to test brain/robot interfaces (such as BrainGate) on humans
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience
geriatrician, author of "A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat", the New England Journal of Medicine article which described the purported abilities of Oscar the cat to predict imminent death.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
an authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics; recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Timoshenko Medal, the ASME Medal, and the Drucker Medal, of which he is the namesake.
philosopher noted for philosophy of mind and aesthetics; influenced Roderick Chisholm; former president of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division.
epidemiologist and addictionologist, author of "Drugs and the Whole Person"
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
a major contributor to the fields of sexology, biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles.
writer; widely considered the most influential author of the Spanish speaking world since Jorge Luis Borges
economist studying economic growth; developer of the Unified growth theory.
Herbert H.Goldberger Professor of Economics
poet, author of Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, Whiting Writers' Award and Howard Foundation Award winner
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
mathematician, originator of the Pattern Theory in mathematics, which also influenced David Mumford
L.Herbert Ballou University Professor
physicist; (co-)discoverer of the Higgs mechanism, Sakurai Prize winner
Chancellor's Professor of Physics
economist, co-originator of the Schumpeterian Paradigm with Philippe Aghion
poet; first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island
Professor of English
planetary geologist who trained Apollo astronauts and led imaging teams for NASA's interplanetary unmanned probes, from the Viking program to Mars
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences
anthropologist, foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies.
Research Professor of Anthropology
broker of the Dayton Accords; former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Professor-at-Large of International Studies
archeologist, expert on Mayan hieroglyphics, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
Professor of Anthropology
historian, anthropologist, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and Prisoner of the Vatican
Provost, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies
son of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Senior Fellow in International Studies
philosopher of mind, action theorist, author of Mind in a Physical World
William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy
of The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (Condensed Matter Physics); winner of the 1981 Maxwell Medal and Prize, and the 2000 Onsager Prize (one of the APS main awards)
Professor of Physics
author, Listening to Prozac, Against Depression
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Achieved chemist who was consultant for the Manhattan Project and won the Priestley Medal and Franklin Medal.
linguist; known for publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US Linguistic Atlas of New England, winning the Loubat Prize, and for being the first main editor of the Middle English Dictionary
former president of Chile
Professor-at-large of International Studies
Barbadian author, "In the Castle of My Skin", "Natives of My Person"
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Advisor to the United States Treasury, Federal Reserve System, and World Bank; highly cited economist, ranked 10th in the world, according to RePEc
James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics
addictions specialist and authority on drug policy
Donald G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction
Once regarded as 'one of the most prominent black conservatives in the nation' now considered much more 'progressive.'
Professor of Economics
former member of the US Council of Economic Advisers
supporter of evolution involved in numerous public debates and trials about the teaching of intelligent design in schools
Professor of Biology
economist that researched into financial market fragility; his theories are considered the most accurate description of the financial crisis; namesake of the Minsky moment
noted political scientist for his work on health politics, popular participation, morality in politics, and on political development
Fields Medal winning mathematician, MacArthur Fellow
Professor of Applied Mathematics
composer
Professor of Music (retired)
historian of mathematics
Professor of the History of Mathematics
philosopher, authored The Fragility of Goodness while teaching at Brown
Professor of Philosophy (1985~1995)
Norwegian-born physicist who taught at Brown (1928–1933); Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 awarded for Onsager reciprocal relations, produced while at Brown but was not tenured.
conductor, composer, and world's leading scholar on the music of author Anthony Burgess.
Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music
Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow (1981)
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (1998–Present); Served on Reagan's White House Council of Economic Advisors[11]
Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics (1974–1998)
Professor of Classics and History
President, Modern Language Association; author, The Rise and Fall of English; co-author, The Nature of Narrative
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media
author of well-known computer science book Algorithms; board of directors, Adobe Systems
Professor of Computer Science (1975~85)
Nobel Prize in Economics, for developing empirical and scientific methods into economic research.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovering the genetic bases of immunological reactions
Teacher in Biology (1930~1931)
Number theorist, co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.
Professor of Mathematics
philosopher, epistemologist
Nobel Prize in Economics, on the influence of government regulation on the economy
Professor of Economics (1946~1947)
co-discoverer of PCC (pyridinium chlorochromate), nick-named in Organic Chemistry as 'Corey's reagent'
experimental filmmaker, Peggy and Fred in Hell
Professor of Modern Culture and Media
philosopher
Visiting Professor in Theology
computer graphics pioneer, co-founder of ACM SIGGRAPH, and creator of hypertext
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, Professor of Computer Science, former (and first) Vice President for Research
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, How I Learned to Drive
Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of English
founder of the Chinese Democratic Party
Visiting Senior Fellow in International Studies
author of multiple books including Digital Government and Cross Talk; developer of website www.InsidePolitics.org; vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution[12]
John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy
writer (two time PEN/Faulkner Award winner), Philadelphia Fire
Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Pulitzer Prize for History winner, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History
poet, String Light; Macarthur fellowship winner (2004)
Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English
political philosopher, formerly a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law, famous for critique of Rawlsian liberalism.
Duncan Macmillian Professor of Philosophy
famous primatologist, former director of the Washington Zoo and editor of The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes

Presidents of Brown University

Main article: List of Presidents of Brown University

Trustees of Brown University

Honoris Causa Laureates

Fictitious alumni and faculty

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