| Name
|
Yale class
|
Notability
|
Ref.
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| Dean Acheson
|
1915
|
United States Secretary of State
|
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| James C. Auchincloss
|
1908
|
United States House of Representatives, New York Stock Exchange governor
|
|
| Tracy Barnes
|
1933
|
Senior CIA official during the Cold War
|
|
| Peter Beard
|
1961
|
Photographer
|
|
| Dunbar Bostwick
|
1932
|
competitive horseman, who competed in polo and Harness racing
|
|
| Benjamin Brewster
|
1929
|
Director of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon)
|
|
| William C. Bullitt
|
1912
|
U.S. Ambassador to France, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
|
|
| Leonard Case Jr.
|
1842
|
Founder of Case School of Applied Science
|
|
| Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
|
1916
|
Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
|
| Calvin G. Child
|
1855
|
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
|
|
| Gilbert Colgate
|
1883
|
President and chairman of Colgate & Company
|
|
| H. Page Cross
|
1932
|
Architect
|
|
| Harvey Cushing
|
1891
|
Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery
|
|
| John Dalzell
|
1865
|
United States House of Representatives
|
|
| Edward Salisbury Dana
|
1870
|
mineralogist and professor of physics at Yale University
|
|
| Henry deForest
|
1876
|
Southern Pacific Railroad
|
|
| William Adams Delano
|
1895
|
Architect who designed many of Yale's buildings
|
|
| Frederick B. Dent
|
1944
|
United States Secretary of Commerce
|
|
| Richardson Dilworth
|
1921
|
Mayor of Philadelphia
|
|
| Peter H. Dominick
|
1937
|
United States Senate, United States Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
|
|
| Fred Dubois
|
1872
|
United States Senate
|
|
| John Enders
|
1919
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|
| Thomas Enders
|
1953
|
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, U.S. Ambassador to Canada
|
|
| Cory Finley
|
2011
|
Film director
|
|
| Willa Fitzgerald
|
2013
|
Actress
|
|
| A. Bartlett Giamatti
|
1960
|
Yale University president; National League president, MLB commissioner
|
|
| Randall L. Gibson
|
1853
|
United States Senate, Confederate brigadier-general, and president of Tulane University
|
|
| George Bird Grinnell
|
1870
|
Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer
|
|
| Raymond R. Guest
|
1931
|
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; special assistant to United States Secretary of Defense
|
|
| Carter Harrison III
|
1845
|
United States House of Representatives, Mayor of Chicago
|
|
| William Hawks
|
1923
|
Film producer
|
|
| Philip B. Heymann
|
1954
|
Watergate special prosecutor, deputy U.S. attorney general; professor at Harvard Law School
|
|
| George Roy Hill
|
1943
|
Academy Award for Directing The Sting
|
|
| Zora Howard
|
2014
|
Actress and writer
|
|
| Brewster Jennings
|
1920
|
Founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York
|
|
| Abraar Karan
|
2011
|
Infectious disease doctor
|
|
| Seymour H. Knox
|
1920
|
co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
|
|
| Rick E. Lawrence
|
1977
|
Associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
|
|
| Johan Lenox
|
2011
|
Composer and songwriter
|
|
| Charlton Thomas Lewis
|
1853
|
Lexicographer
|
|
| John Vliet Lindsay
|
1944
|
Mayor of New York City, United States House of Representatives
|
|
| Dahlia Lithwick
|
1990
|
editor at Newsweek and Slate
|
|
| Maynard Mack
|
1964
|
Literary critic; Yale English professor
|
|
| Joseph Medill McCormick
|
1900
|
United States Senate and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
|
|
| Robert R. McCormick
|
1903
|
owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; lawyer who co-founded Kirkland & Ellis
|
|
| Donald R. McLennan
|
1931
|
founder and chairman of the insurance brokerage firm Marsh McLennan
|
|
| Paul Mellon
|
1929
|
Philanthropist and thoroughbred racehorse breeder
|
|
| Timothy Mellon
|
1964
|
businessman and grandson of Andrew Mellon
|
|
| Cord Meyer, Jr.
|
1943
|
Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists
|
|
| Newbold Morris
|
1925
|
Parks Commissioner of New York City, president of the New York City Council
|
|
| Robert D. Orr
|
1940
|
Governor of Indiana; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
|
|
| Herbert Parsons
|
1890
|
United States House of Representatives
|
|
| Joseph M. Patterson
|
1901
|
Founder of the New York Daily News; manager of the Chicago Tribune
|
|
| Tom Perriello
|
1996
|
United States House of Representatives; executive director of the Open Society Foundation
|
|
| Michael Grace Phipps
|
|
champion polo player and owner/breeder of racehorses
|
|
| Stone Phillips
|
1977
|
Dateline NBC
|
|
| Frank Polk
|
1894
|
United States Secretary of State, partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell
|
|
| Cole Porter
|
1913
|
Entertainer and songwriter
|
|
| John Addison Porter
|
1842
|
professor of chemistry and physician
|
|
| Frederic A. Potts
|
1926
|
New Jersey Senate, chairman of Philadelphia National Bank
|
|
| Mortimer R. Proctor
|
1912
|
Governor of Vermont
|
|
| Jeannie Rhee
|
1994
|
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
|
|
| Dickinson W. Richards
|
1917
|
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|
| Alexandra Robbins
|
1998
|
Journalist and author
|
|
| James Stillman Rockefeller
|
1924
|
Olympic gold medalist for rowing, banker
|
|
| James Gamble Rogers
|
1889
|
Architect, designed many of Yale's buildings
|
|
| Gideon Rose
|
1985
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs
|
|
| Theodore Runyon
|
1842
|
Envoy and U.S. Ambassador to Germany
|
|
| William Nelson Runyon
|
1892
|
Acting Governor of New Jersey
|
|
| Ari Shapiro
|
2000
|
Co-host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio
|
|
| Huntington D. Sheldon
|
1925
|
Central Intelligence Agency; president of the Petroleum Corporation of America
|
|
| Lewis Sheldon
|
1896
|
Paris Peace Conference, Olympic gold medalist
|
|
| Ethan A. H. Shepley
|
1918
|
Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
|
|
| George Shiras Jr.
|
1853
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
|
| Sargent Shriver
|
1938
|
U.S. Ambassador to France, first director of the Peace Corps
|
|
| Brinley D. Sleight
|
1858
|
New York State Assembly, newspaper editor
|
|
| Benjamin Spock
|
1925
|
Olympic gold medalist
|
|
| Homer Sprague
|
1852
|
President of the University of North Dakota
|
|
| Roscoe S. Suddarth
|
1956
|
President of the Middle East Institute; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
|
|
| Charles Henry Tenney
|
1933
|
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
|
|
| Calvin Trillin
|
1957
|
Writer
|
|
| Garry Trudeau
|
1970
|
Doonesbury cartoonist
|
|
| Mark Twain
|
Honorary
|
author and humorist
|
|
| Joseph Twichell
|
1859
|
writer and Congregational minister
|
|
| Cyrus Vance
|
1939
|
United States Secretary of State; United States Secretary of the Army; chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
|
|
| Cornelius Vanderbilt III
|
1895
|
Brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the World War I
|
|
| Tyler Varga
|
2015
|
Professional football player
|
|
| George Edgar Vincent
|
1885
|
President of the University of Minnesota; president of the Rockefeller Foundation
|
|
| Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
|
1933
|
Mayor of New York City
|
|
| Allen Wardwell
|
1895
|
lawyer and parner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
|
|
| John Hay Whitney
|
1926
|
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of New York Herald Tribune
|
|
| Fareed Zakaria
|
1986
|
journalist, political commentator, editor, and author
|
|
| Warren Zimmermann
|
1956
|
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
|
|