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Chester Holmes Aldrich | Columbia | architect, partner in Delano and Aldrich, Director of the American Academy in Rome | [3] |
Thomas H. Atherton | MIT | Architect, war memorials, and numerous armories and public buildings | |
Henry Forbes Bigelow | MIT | architect, public and residential buildings in the Boston area | |
Roger Harrington Bullard | Columbia | architect | [4] |
J. Cleaveland Cady | Trinity | architect, designer of Metropolitan Opera, American Museum of Natural History | |
Duncan Candler | Columbia | architect, designer for John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Edsel Ford (Skylands) | |
Stockton B. Colt | Columbia | architect designed the Emmett Building and the Barclay Building | |
J. Cleaveland Cady | Trinity | architect, designer of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City | |
Rockwell King DuMoulin | Columbia | architect, professor, and department chair at the Rhode Island School of Design | [5] |
John Cameron Greenleaf | Yale | architect | |
Andrew Hopewell Hepburn | MIT | architect, oversaw the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg | [6] |
Frank Howell Holden | MIT | architect, director of interior designs for Macy & Co. stores | [7] |
Edward Townsend Howes | Yale | architect, artist | [8] [9] |
H. Mather Lippincott Jr. | Pennsylvania | architect of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends Center, Fred W. Noyes Foundation Museum | [10] [11] |
Emlen T. Littell | Pennsylvania | architect known for designing gothic revival style churches | |
Goodhue Livingston | Columbia | architect of Hayden Planetarium, Knickerbocker Hotel, Rikers Island Penitentiary | |
John Mauran | MIT | architect | |
Henry G. Morse | MIT | architect | |
George Carnegie Palmer | Columbia | architect of New York State Education Building and numerous college and public buildings | [12] |
Francis L. Pell | Columbia | architect of Maryland Institute Building | [13] |
William G. Perry | MIT | architect responsible for the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg | [14] |
James Otis Post | Columbia | architect | [15] [16] [17] |
William Stone Post | Columbia | architect of the New York Stock Exchange and the campus plan, City College of New York | [18] [19] [20] |
Edmund R. Purves | Pennsylvania | architect, executive of American Institute of Architects, WWI Croix de Guerre and Verdun Medal | [21] |
William Hamilton Russell | Columbia | architect of New York City's Beaver Building, Mecca Masonic Temple and The Langham | |
Peter L. Shelton | Pennsylvania | architect, winner of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award | [22] |
Fletcher Steele | Williams | landscape architect | |
Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge | Trinity | architect, designer of the current New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street | [23] | |
Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Ref |
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Winslow Ames | Columbia | art historian, author, academic, and director of the Museum of Modern Art | [24] |
Bill Bamberger | UNC | documentary photographer | |
James Bohannon | Trinity | member of the band VHS Collection | [25] |
Morgan Colt | Columbia | Metal worker, furniture craftsman, impressionist, architect, and co-founder of New Hope Group | |
John Eaton | Yale | jazz pianist and originator of John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song on PBS | |
Harold Perry Erskine | Williams | architect and sculptor | [26] |
Wilson P. Foss Jr. | Yale | art collector and dealer of Asian art, chairman of New York Rock Trap Company | |
John Humphreys Johnston | Columbia | artist | [27] |
Anya Liftig | Yale | Performance artist and memoirist | [28] |
Charles Green Shaw | Yale | artist, a significant figure in American abstract art, novelist, poet, journalist, and writer | [29] |
Allen Butler Talcott | Trinity | artist | |
David Urquhart Wilcox | Yale | artist | [30] [31] |
John Rhea Barton Willing | Pennsylvania | music enthusiast and violin collector, included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred" | | |
Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Ref |
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Bill Backer | Yale | advertising executive and lyricist, created "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" Coca-Cola campaign | |
Hans W. Becherer | Trinity | president and CEO of John Deere | [32] |
Henry Becton | Yale | chairman and executive vice president of Becton Dickinson and Company | [33] [34] |
Marshall Latham Bond | Yale | mining engineer, Jack London's landlord in during the Klondike Gold Rush | [35] |
Jonathan Bryan | Virginia | Vice president of the Richmond-Ashland Railway Company, president of Bryan, Kemp & Co. brokerage firm | [36] |
George H. Bull | Columbia | president of the Saratoga Racing Association and the Empire City Race Track | [37] |
William E. Carter | Pennsylvania | stockbroker, polo player, Titanic survivor | |
Arthur L. Church | Pennsylvania | engineer, secretary/assistant treasurer of Baldwin Locomotives Works | [38] |
Frank Hamilton Clark | Pennsylvania | president of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad | |
Martin W. Clement | Trinity | president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1935 to 1948 | |
Robert Habersham Coleman | Trinity | Gilded Age "Coal King," scion of the family that owned the Cornwall Iron Furnace | |
Harry B. Combs | Yale | aviation pioneer, founder of Combs Aviation, and president of Gates Learjet Corporation | [39] |
Henry M. Crane | MIT | consulting engineer General Motors, vice president and chief engineer Crane-Simplex | |
Russ Dallen | Mississippi | head of Oppenheimer & Co. in Venezuela, editor of The Daily Journal and Latin American Herald Tribune | |
Alfred Dater | Yale | Vice chairman Connecticut Power Company, general manager, and chairman of Stamford Gas & Electric | [40] |
Clarence B. Davison | Yale | director of New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange | [41] |
D. LeRoy Dresser | Columbia | banker, merchant, brother-in-law of George Washington Vanderbilt II | |
James F. Fargo | Williams | president of American Express, originated traveler's check system | [42] |
Stuyvesant Fish | Columbia | president of the Central Illinois Railroad | [43] |
Wilson P. Foss Jr. | Yale | Board chairman of New York Rock Trap Company, art collector, dealer of Asian art | [44] |
Gregory Gray Garland Jr. | Virginia | chairman of Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, owner of Unionvale Coal Company and Youngstown Steel Tank | [45] |
Schuyler Hamilton Jr. | Columbia | brick manufacturer, mining engineer, architect | |
Samuel Frederic Houston | Pennsylvania | President Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, president Guaranty Trust and Safe Deposit Company | [46] [47] |
Colin M. Ingersoll, Jr. | Yale | Commissioner of real estate and chief engineer New York, New Hampshire, and Hartford Railroad | [48] [49] |
Henry Bourne Joy | Yale | president Packard Motor Car Co. | |
Eugene Klapp | Columbia | chief engineer Port of Havana Docks Company, deputy chief engineer Cape Code Canal, division engineer New York Rapid Transit Commission, chief engineer Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company | [50] |
Philip F. Kobbe | Columbia | vice president, Westinghouse Electric Company | [51] [52] |
Robert C. Lea | Pennsylvania | Partner in Rock Wool Insulation Company (now Rockwool International) | [53] |
V. Everit Macy | Columbia | industrialist and philanthropist, president of the National Civic Federation | [54] |
James F. Magin | Yale | | |
William D. Nielson | Pennsylvania | president of Elmira and Williamsport Railroad, attorney | [55] |
William Beach Olmsted Jr. | Yale | director and vice-president American Viscose Corporation | [56] |
Charles A. Peabody Jr. | Columbia | president Mutual Life Insurance Co., member New York State Assembly | |
Rutherford Stuyvesant Pierrepont | Columbia | Executive with Keokee Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, director of Bank of America | [57] |
Moncure Robinson Jr. | Pennsylvania | director Baltimore Steam Packet Company (aka the Bay Line Railroad) | [58] |
Frank Roosevelt | Trinity | | [59] [60] |
Edwards Ogden Schuyler | Columbia | member of the stock exchange with Trippe, Schuyler & Co. | [61] |
Francis Alexander Shields Jr. | Pennsylvania | executive with Revlon and Estee Lauder, father of Brooke Shields | |
John Black Stewart | Virginia | manager of Charles D. Barney & Co. (later known as Smith Barney) | [62] |
John H. Stewart | Yale | investment banker, vice president Continental Illinois Co., Lawrence Stern & Company, and Cassett & Company | [63] |
John Borland Thayer III | Pennsylvania | treasurer and financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania, a survivor of the Titanic | [64] |
Frederick Ferris Thompson | Columbia | banker who helped found Citibank and JP Morgan Chase | |
Henry R. Towne | Pennsylvania | co-founder of Yale locks, director Federal Reserve Bank of New York | [65] |
John Henry Towne | MIT | chairman of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. | [66] |
Juan Terry Trippe | Yale | aviation pioneer, founder of Pan Am | [67] |
Arthur Turnbull | Columbia | governor New York Stock Exchange, member Chicago Board of Trade | [68] |
Frederick William Vanderbilt | Yale | director of the New York Central Railroad, philanthropist | |
George Herbert Walker IV | Pennsylvania | managing director of Lehman Brothers, second cousin to U.S. President George W. Bush | [69] |
H. Walter Webb | Columbia | vice president Wagner Palace Car Co.; executive with the New York Central Railroad | |
Charles Sumner Williams | MIT | chairman and vice-president of Thomas A. Edison Inc., vice president Motion Picture Specialty Corporation | [70] |
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. | Columbia | banker, president of the Saratoga Racing Association, prominent thoroughbred horse owner | | |
Name | Original Chapter | Nobility | Ref |
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Christopher Browne | Pennsylvania | Documentary film producer and director | [81] |
William Frank Burroughs | Columbia | Shakespearean actor | [82] |
Edward Downes | Columbia | host of Texaco Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, musicologist and music critic | [83] |
John Eaton | Yale | originator of John Eaton Presents the American Popular Song on PBS, jazz pianist | [84] |
Alex Gibney | Yale | Oscar and Emmy winning film director and producer | [85] |
Fred Graham | Yale | chief anchor and managing editor of Court TV, legal correspondent for CBS News, recipient of a Peabody Award | |
David Hemingson | Trinity | Academy Award nominated screenwriter, television and film producer and writer | [86] |
Rachael Horovitz | UNC | producer known for Moneyball (film) and Patrick Melrose (TV) | [87] |
Andrew Levy | Columbia | humorist and commentator with Red Eye and S.E. Cupp's Unfiltered | |
Jeff MacNelly | UNC | three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Shoe | [88] [89] |
| UNC | Singer-songwriter, writer, and former member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers | |
Tinsley Mortime | Columbia | New York socialite and reality television personality, known for The Real Housewives of New York City | [90] |
Eric Shansby | Yale | political cartoonist for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post | [91] |
Fredrik Stanton | Williams | filmmaker, author, newspaper publisher | [92] | |
Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Ref |
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Willard Bartlett | Columbia | chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. | |
John Cromwell Bell Jr. | Pennsylvania | chief justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Governor of Pennsylvania | |
Risden Tylor Bennett | Cumberland | North Carolina Superior Court justice, U.S. House of Representative from North Carolina | [99] |
Charles Clark | Mississippi | chief justice Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals | [100] |
S. S. Calhoon | Mississippi | justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi | |
John T. Downey | Yale | Connecticut Superior Court judge, former CIA officer imprisoned in China for over two decades | [101] |
George H. Goodrich | Williams | justice, Superior Court of the District of Columbia | |
Thomas G. Hailey | W&L | | |
Jeffrey Konta | Yale | attorney with William Randolph Hearst organization, World Film Corporation, and Lewis J. Selznick | [102] |
Henry S. Ruth Jr. | Yale | | [103] |
Gabriel P. Sanchez | Yale | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | [104] |
Sydney M. Smith | Mississippi | Justice Supreme Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives | |
Samuel H. Terral | Mississippi | Associate Justice Supreme Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives | |
Leroy Branch Valliant | Mississippi | Chief Justice Supreme Court of Missouri | |
Van Vechten Veeder | Virginia | Judge, U.S. Eastern District of New York | |
Richard Smith Whaley | Virginia | | |
J. Harvie Wilkinson III | Yale | judge Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals | [105] |
Charles H. Wiltsie | Rochester | attorney, author of legal treatises including the standard on Mortgage Law | [106] |
Thomas Hall Woods | Williams | Chief Justice Superior Court of Mississippi, Mississippi House of Representatives, lawyer | |
Julian M. Wright | MIT | judge advocate in the International Court in Cairo, Egypt | | |
Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Ref |
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C. D. B. Bryan | Yale | author, journalist, academic, and winner of a Peabody Award and the Harper Prize | [107] |
John Stewart Bryan | Virginia | president Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader, president College of William and Mary | |
Jay Carney | Yale | bureau chief for Time, CNN commentator, White House Press Secretary, Amazon communications executive, and head of policy at Airbnb | |
George Crile III | Trinity | journalist associated with three decades at CBS News, author of Charlie Wilson's War | [108] |
Russ Dallen | Mississippi | editor-in-chief Latin American Herald Tribune, correspondent for Newsweek, head of Oppenheimer & Co. in Venezuela | [109] |
Tracy Deonn | UNC | author, received Coretta Scott King Award-John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her debut novel | [110] |
Max Forrester Eastman | Williams | socialist writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance | |
Edwin Wiley Fuller | UNC | novelist and poet | [111] |
Peter Gammons | UNC | columnist for Sports Illustrated and The Boston Globe, and ESPN commentator | [112] |
W. Douglas Gordon | Virginia | editor of Richmond Times-Dispatch and Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch | |
Ashbel Green | Columbia | senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf | |
Isaac Austin Henderson | Williams | novelist and publisher of the New York Evening Post | |
| Trinity | poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Verse | [113] |
Stuart Kellogg | Yale | editor of The Advocate, managing editor of The Journal of Homosexuality | |
Lily Janiak | Yale | Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2024 Jury Member |
Charles Kuralt | UNC | journalist and writer, known for his long career with CBS News, winner of 12 Emmy Awards and 2 Peabody Awards | |
John H. Lahr | Yale | author, senior drama critic of The New Yorker, won a Tony Award, National Book Critics Circle Award | |
Harold Lamb | Columbia | historian, screenwriter, and novelist | [114] |
Lewis H. Lapham | Yale | writer, founder of Lapham's Quarterly, editor of Harper's Magazine | |
Sydney Lea | Yale | poet, novelist, essayist, Poet Laurette of Vermont | |
Charles M. Meredith III | Pennsylvania | owner and publisher of the Quakertown Free Press, Emmaus Free Press, Indian Valley Echo | [115] [116] |
Tochi Onyebuchi | Yale | science fiction writer | |
Thomas Nelson Page | W&L | novelist who popularized the plantation genre. US Ambassador to Italy | |
Mara Rockliff | Brown | author of books for children | [117] |
Jonathan Rosen | Yale | 2024 Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography for The Best Minds |
Charles Green Shaw | Yale | writer for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, poet, children's book author, novelist. abstract painter | |
Stephen G. Smith | Pennsylvania | writer, editor in chief of the National Journal, senior-editor at Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News & World Report | [118] |
Lucian Douglas Starke | Virginia | president and general manager of The Virginia Pilot | [119] |
John Lawson Stoddard | Williams | bestselling author, creator of the travelogue genre, celebrity lecturer who pioneered using magic lanterns | |
Melanie Sumner | UNC | novelist and academic, received a Whiting Award for her first novel, Polite Society | [120] |
C. A. L. Totten | Trinity | author | |
Sandy Treadwell | UNC | sports journalist with Sports Illustrated and Classic Sports, Secretary of State of New York | |
Edward Sims Van Zile | Trinity | journalist, writer of novels, short stories, and biographies | [121] |
Loudon Wainwright Jr. | UNC | writer and editor of Life magazine, author | |
Donald Welsh | Columbia | editor and publisher, worked with Rolling Stone, Fortune, Budget Travel, and Budget Living | |
Michael G. Williams | UNC | novelist, author of queer science fiction | [122] |
Naomi Wolf | Yale | writer, political consultant, feminist | |
Ilyon Woo | Yale | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom | |
Jonathan Yardley | UNC | Pulitzer Prize winning book critic with the Washington Post | [123] | |
Name | Original Chapter | Notability | Ref |
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Joseph W. Alsop IV | Yale | Connecticut State House of Representatives, Connecticut State Senate | |
Joseph Weldon Bailey | Mississippi | U.S. Senate from Texas, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas | |
Nick Bain | Mississippi | Mississippi State House of Representatives 2012 to present |
John Cromwell Bell Jr. | Pennsylvania | Lt. Governor and Governor of Pennsylvania, chief justice and justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | |
| Virginia | U.S. Senator from Virginia | [137] |
George R. Carter | Yale | Territorial Governor of Hawaii | |
Thomas C. Catchings | Mississippi | | |
Walker Lucas. Clapp | Mississippi | Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Mayor of Memphis | |
Joseph S. Clark Jr. | Pennsylvania | U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia | |
E. Harold Cluett | Williams | U.S. House Representatives from New York, National War Work Council | |
Thomas C. Coffin | Yale | U.S. House Representatives from Idaho | [138] |
Lawrence Coughlin | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | [139] |
| Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | |
Curtis N. Douglas | Rochester | New York State Senate | |
Charles Edison | MIT | Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, son of Thomas Alva Edison | |
Timothy E. Ellsworth | Rochester | President pro tempore of the New York State Senate | [140] |
Charles James Faulkner | Virginia | U.S. Senator from West Virginia | |
Henry Fay | Rochester | Lt. Governor Rhode Island | |
Hamilton Fish II | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, Speaker of the New York State Assembly | |
| Columbia | Mayor of Los Angeles, California | [141] |
Albert Taylor Goodwyn | Virginia | U.S. House of Representative from Alabama | |
Robert Ray Hamilton | Columbia | New York State Assembly | |
Rounsaville S. McNeal | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives | [142] |
John M. Mitchell | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York | |
Hernando Money | Mississippi | U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
William Fellowes Morgan Sr. | Pennsylvania | New Jersey General Assembly, a pioneer of the use of refrigeration in warehouses | [143] |
Edward de Veaux Morrell | Pennsylvania | U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
Wendell Mottley | Yale | Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives and Minister of Finance, 1964 Summer Olympics medalist | [144] |
James B. Murray | Yale | Virginia House of Delegates | [145] |
James Breck Perkins | Rochester | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, New York State Assembly | |
Charles A. Peabody Jr. | Columbia | New York State Assembly, attorney | |
William S. Reyburn | Yale | | |
Andrew Roraback | Yale | Connecticut Senate and House of Representatives, Connecticut Superior Court Judge | [146] |
Daniel Lindsay Russell | UNC | Governor of North Carolina, U.S. House of Representative from North Carolina | |
Francis Sargent | MIT | Governor of Massachusetts | |
Willard Saulsbury Jr. | Virginia | U.S. Senator from Delaware, Senate President pro tempore | |
Walter Sillers Jr | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives
- Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives
| |
D. French Slaughter Jr. | Virginia | U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia | [147] |
James Luther Slayden | W&L | U.S. House of Representatives from Texas | |
Lawrence Vest Stephens | W&L | Governor of Missouri | |
Gerry Studds | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, first openly gay Congressman | [148] |
Alfred Holt Stone | Mississippi | Mississippi House of Representatives, Mississippi Tax Commissioner | |
William V. Sullivan | Mississippi | U.S. Senator from Mississippi, House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
John V. Tunney | Yale | U.S. House of Representatives from California. U.S. Senator from California | [149] |
J. Mayhew Wainwright | Columbia | U.S. House of Representatives from New York, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War | |
Malcolm Wallop | Yale | U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Earl of Portsmouth, Wyoming State Senate | |
Hugh L. White | Mississippi | Governor of Mississippi | |
William Madison Whittington | Mississippi | U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi | |
Anthony A. Williams | Yale | Mayor of Washington, D.C. | | |