Academic administrators

• Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – President, College of Charleston; 1st President Hobart College^[7]
• Vernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – 15th President, Ohio University^[8]
• James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – 3rd President, University of Michigan
  

  James Burrill Angell (1849)
• Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President, Colby College
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021-)^[9]
• Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – 2nd President, Yeshiva University
• Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – 2nd President and namesake, Berklee College of Music
• Sarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – 12th President, College of Wooster; former Dean of the College, Williams College
• Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B. 1884) – 5th President, Tufts University
• Walter Burse (1920) – 2nd President, Suffolk University
• Dame Frances Cairncross (A.M. 1966) – Rector, Exeter College, Oxford^[10]
• James Tift Champlin (1834) – 7th President, Colby College
• Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B. 1925) – 13th President, Kenyon College; 9th President, Rockford College
• Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – Founder and 1st President, Colby College
  

  Jeremiah Chaplin (1799)
• Oren B. Cheney (Class of 1840) – Founder and 1st President, Bates College
• Barbara Chernow (A.B. 1979) – Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, Brown University
• Aram Chobanian (A.B. 1951) – 9th President, Boston University
• Jay Coogan (A.B. 1980) – 16th President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• William E. Cooper (A.B., A.M. 1973) – 8th President, University of Richmond
• Robert A. Corrigan (A.B. 1957) – 12th President, San Francisco State University^[11]
• Glenn Cummings (M.A.T. 1984) – 13th President, University of Southern Maine^[12]
• Eliphaz Fay (A.B. 1821) – 4th President, Colby College
• Willbur Fisk (A.B. 1815) – 1st President, Wesleyan University^[13]
• Henry Simmons Frieze (A.B. 1841) – Acting President, University of Michigan
• Edward Guiliano (1972) – 3rd President, New York Institute of Technology^[14]
• Thomas Hassan (1978) – 14th Principal, Phillips Exeter Academy; first gentleman of New Hampshire
• John Hope (1894) – 4th President, Morehouse College; 5th President, Atlanta University; the first African American in both roles; co-founder of the Niagara Movement, which became the NAACP
• Suzanne Keen (A.B. 1984, A.M. 1986) – 10th President, Scripps College
• Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 17th President, Dartmouth College; 12th President of the World Bank
• Joan Leitzel (M.A. 1961) – 17th President, University of New Hampshire^[15]
• Luther Luedtke (Ph.D. 1971) – 5th President, California Lutheran University
• James A. MacAlister (1856) – 1st President, Drexel University^[16]
• Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – 1st President, Antioch College; father of American public education; member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  

  Horace Mann (1819)
• Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd President, Brown University; 1st President, University of South Carolina; 3rd President, Union College
• David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – 12th President, Drake University
• Alexander Meiklejohn (A.B. 1893, A.M. 1895) – 8th President, Amherst College; Dean, Brown University; philosopher and free-speech advocate
• Alonzo G. Morón (B.A. 1932) – 8th President of Hampton University, sociologist, civil servant^[17]
• Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – 8th President, University of Richmond; 18th President, Centre College; President, Salem College
• Robert W. Morse (A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1949) – 1st President, Case Western Reserve University^[18]
• Bernard Muir (1990) – Athletic Director, Stanford University
• Samuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – 2nd President, Texas Southern University
• Louis E. Newman (Ph.D. 1983) – Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University
• Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT
• Eliphalet Nott (A.M. 1795) – 4th President, Union College; 3rd President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; the longest serving American college president
• Inman E. Page (A.B. 1877, A.M. 1880) – President of the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University
• Lynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) – 18th President, Mount Holyoke College
• Willard Preston (A.B. 1806) – 4th President, University of Vermont^[19]
• Wendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – Chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden (2009–14); Provost, University of Pennsylvania (2017–21); Interim President, University of Pennsylvania (2022); first person of color to lead the University of Pennsylvania^[20]
  

  Wendell Pritchett (1986)
• Suzanne M. Rivera (A.B. 1991) – 17th President, Macalester College
• Chase F. Robinson (A.B. 1985) – President and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Leonard Schlesinger (A.B. 1972) – 12th President, Babson College
• Arthur R. Taylor (A.B. 1957, A.M 1961) – 10th President, Muhlenberg College; President, CBS (1972–1976)
• Sir Richard Trainor (A.B. 1970) – Principal, King's College London (2004–2014); Rector, Exeter College, Oxford (2014–)
  

  Sir Richard Trainor (1970)
• Yang Wei (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Zhejiang University
• Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – 8th President, Tufts University
• Benjamin Ide Wheeler (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – 8th President, University of California
• Charles Lincoln White (A.B. 1887) – 13th President, Colby College
• Beniah Longley Whitman (A.B. 1887, A.M. 1890) – 11th President, Colby College; 7th President, George Washington University
• Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – 11th President, Mount Holyoke College

Applied sciences

• Lallit Anand (Sc.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• Panos Antsaklis (M.Sc. Ph.D. 1977) – H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–)^[9]
• Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Sc.B. 1990) – John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT^[21]
  

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia (1990)
• Bernard Budiansky (Ph.D. 1950) – James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard University; recipient of the 1989 Timoshenko Medal
• Herman Chernoff (Ph.D. 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, MIT; known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff distribution and Chernoff face
• Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Sc.B. 1969) – Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• Tejal Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor, School of Engineering, Brown University
• Philippe Fauchet (M.Sc. 1980) – Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
• Rina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago; recipient of the 2023 MacArthur Fellowship^[3]
• Leigh Hochberg (B.Sc. 1990) – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Philip G. Hodge (Ph.D. 1949) – Professor Emeritus of Mechanics, University of Minnesota
• Ayanna Howard (Sc.B. 1993) – Dean, College of Engineering, Ohio State University
  

  Ayanna Howard (1993)
• Joseph Jacobson (Sc.B 1987) – Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
• Richard D. James (B.Sc. 1974) – Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota
• Mark Kachanov (Ph.D. 1981) – Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
• John Kim (Sc.M. 1974) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
• Victor Li (B.Sc. 1977, M.Sc. 1978, Ph.D. 1981) – James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Michigan; inventor of engineered cementitious composites
• Reda R. Mankbadi (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean, College of Engineering, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University
• Robert McMeeking (M.Sc. 1974, Ph.D. 1977) – Tony Evans Distinguished Professor of Structural Materials and Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara; recipient of the 2014 Timoshenko Medal
• Yves Moreau (M.Sc. 1994) – Professor of Engineering, KU Leuven
• Simon Ostrach (Sc.M. 1945, Ph.D. 1950) – Wilbert J. Austin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; pioneer in space science
• Stella Pang (B.Sc. 1977) – Department Head and Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
• Louise Prockter (M.Sc. Ph.D. 1999) – Chief Scientist, Space Exploration Sector, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
• Upadrasta Ramamurty (Ph.D. 1994) – Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
• Kavita Ramanan (M.Sc. 1993, Ph.D. 1998) – Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
• Kaliat Ramesh (Sc.M. 1985, Sc.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1988) – Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
• Guruswami Ravichandran (Ph.D. 1987) – John E. Goode Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology^[22]
• Ares J. Rosakis (ScM. 1980, Ph.D. 1982) – Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Ed Scheinerman (B.Sc. 1980) –Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
• Paul H. Steen (Sc.B. A.B., 1975) – Maxwell M. Upson Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
• Katia Sycara (Sc.B. 1969) – Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
• Gretar Tryggvason (Sc.M. 1982, Ph.D. 1985) – Department Head and Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Krystyn Van Vliet (Sc.B. 1998) – Michael and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
• Richard W. Ziolkowski (Sc.B. 1974) – Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

Economics and management

• Mark Aguiar (A.B. 1988) – Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton University
• Igor Ansoff (Ph.D. 1948) – economist and applied mathematician; Founding Dean, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University
• Clarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912, M.A. 1914) – Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin; leading proponent of institutional economics^[23]
• Malcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School^[24]
• William A. Darity Jr. (A.B. 1974) – Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University
  

  William Darity (1974)
• Steven J. Davis (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1986) – William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Mihir A. Desai (A.B. 1989) – Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Douglas Diamond (A.B. 1975) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2022)
  

  Douglas Diamond (1975)
• Karen Dynan (A.B. 1985) – Professor of the Practice, Economics Department, Harvard Kennedy School
• James Feyrer (A.M., Ph.D. 2001) – Professor and Vice-Chair of Economics, Dartmouth College
• Marvin Goodfriend (Ph.D. 1980) – Friends of Allan Meltzer Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University^[25]
• John Haltiwanger (Sc.B. 1977) – Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Janice Hammond (Sc.B.) – Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Harvard Business School
• Jerry A. Hausman (A.B. 1968) – John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT^[26]
• Guido Imbens (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1991) – Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2021)
  

  Guido Imbens (1989, 1991)
• Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (A.M. 1997, Ph.D. 2000) – Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Bruce J. Katz (A.B. 1981) – Vice President, Brookings Institution; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
• Michael Keane (Ph.D. 1989) – Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University^[27]
• Robert G. King (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) – Professor of Economics, Boston University
• Randall Kroszner (Sc.B. 1984) – Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Neale Mahoney (Sc.B. 2005) – Professor of Economics, Stanford University
• Edwin Mills (A.B. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Finance, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
• Robert A. Moffitt (A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Jonathan Morduch (A.B. 1985) – Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU
• Anna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc.B. 1977, Sc.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Georgia Perakis (Sc.M. 1988, Ph.D. 1993) – William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Eswar Prasad (A.M. 1986) – Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  

  Eswar Prasad (1986)
• Nancy Rothbard (A.B. 1990) – Deputy Dean and David Pottruck Professor of Management, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania^[28]
• David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – John C Head III Dean and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Scott Shane (A.B. 1986) – A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University^[29]
• Anthony Shorrocks (A.M. 1970) – Professor, London School of Economics; 5th Director of World Institute for Development Economics Research;
• Julia Steinberger (Sc.B. 1996) – Professor of Ecological Economics, University of Lausanne
• Ebonya Washington (A.B. 1995) – Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University
• David N. Weil (A.B. 1982) – James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University
• John Henry Williams (A.B. 1912) – Founding Dean, Harvard Kennedy School; economist of international trade theory^[30]
• Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; 78th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 15th Chair of the Federal Reserve; the first woman in both roles
  

  Janet Yellen (1967)

Formal sciences

• Frederick J. Almgren Jr. (Ph.D. 1962) – Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship^[31]
• Douglas N. Arnold (A.B. 1975) – McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (Ph.D. 1939) – President, Mathematical Association of America; the first woman elected to position
• David Blei (Sc.B. 1997) – Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Columbia University
• Dick Bulterman (Sc.M. 1977, Ph.D. 1982) – Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Nelson Dunford (Ph.D. 1936) – James E. English Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Yale University; namesake of the Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem;
• Steven K. Feiner (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1985) – Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
• George Forsythe (Ph.D. 1941) – founder and chair of the Computer Science Department, Stanford University;^[32] creator of the term "Computer Science"
  

  George Forsythe (Ph.D. 1941)
• William Fulton (A.B. 1961) – Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
• Anne Gelb (Sc.M. 1991, Ph.D. 1996)– John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
• Mark Goresky (Ph.D. 1976) – Member, Institute for Advanced Study; co-inventor of intersection homology
• John Guttag (A.B. 1971) – Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004), MIT
• James Hendler (M.Sc. 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; one of the originators of the Semantic Web
• Scott Klemmer (A.B. 1999) – Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego
• Robert Lazarsfeld (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University
• Edward D. Lazowska (A.B. 1972) – Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington
• Derrick Henry Lehmer (Ph.D. 1930) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley; "father of computational number theory"^[33][34]
  

  Derrick Henry Lehmer (1930)
• Katrina Ligett (Sc.B. 2004) – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Michael L. Littman (Ph.D. 1996) – University Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
• Dan Margalit (Sc.B. 1998) – Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
• Kathleen McKeown (A.B. 1976) – Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director, Data Science Institute at Columbia University
• Melanie Mitchell (A.B. 1980) – Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute; co-developer of Copycat
• John Coleman Moore (Ph.D. 1952) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University; known for the Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence
• Edward F. Moore (Ph.D. 1950) – Professor of Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison; known for the Moore machine
• Anthony Morse (Ph.D. 1937) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Morse–Kelley set theory, Morse–Sard theorem and the Federer–Morse theorem
• John Mylopoulos (Sc.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• David Nadler (B.Sc. 1996) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
• David Notkin (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
• Peter J. Olver (Sc.B. 1973) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
• Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Carl Pomerance (A.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
• Ken Ribet (A.B., A.M. 1969) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem
  

  Ken Ribet (1969)
• Stefan Roth (Sc.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007) – Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Robert Schapire (Sc.B. 1986) – former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University
• Robert Sedgewick (Sc.B. 1968, Sc.M. 1970) – Department Chair and William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University^[35]
• Scott Shenker (Sc.B. 1978) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Chief Scientist, UC Berkeley
• Shu Shien-Siu (Ph.D. 1948) – Chair Emeritus, Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Joseph H. Silverman (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Mathematics, Brown University
• Scott A. Smolka (Ph.D. 1984) – Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
• Halil Mete Soner (M.Sc. 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
• John A. Stankovic (B.Sc. 1970, M.Sc. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – BP America Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
• John Stasko (Sc.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – Regents Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
• Frank Tompa (Sc.B., Sc.M. 1970) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
• Kari Vilonen (Ph.D. 1983) – Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Melbourne
• Martin M. Wattenberg (A.B. 1991) – Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Raymond Louis Wilder (Ph.B. 1918, Sc.M. 1921) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Thaleia Zariphopoulou (M.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1989) V.F. Neuhaus Centennial Professor and Presidential Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Humanities

• Linda Martín Alcoff (Ph.D. 1987) – Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
• Margaret L. Anderson (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emerita of History, UC Berkeley^[36]
• Leora Auslander (Ph.D. 1988) – Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization, Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago
• Jacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at the University of Vermont; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer
• Janetta Rebold Benton (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Art History, Pace University
• Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian
• Bernard Bloch (Ph.D. 1935) – Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
• George Boas (A.B., A.M. 1913) – Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
• Edgar S. Brightman (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1908) – philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr.'s advisor at Boston University
• Marcia Chatelain (A.M., Ph.D. 2008) – Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History for Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
  

  Marcia Chatelain (2008)
• Roderick Chisholm (A.B. 1938) – Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
• James Corum (A.M.) – military historian; Lecturer, University of Salford
• Christina Crosby (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of English, Wesleyan University; scholar of feminism and critical disability studies
• Kenneth Dean (A.B. 1979) – Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore
• Matt Delmont (A.M. 2004, Ph.D. 2008) – Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
• Melvin Dixon (Ph.D. 1975) – Professor of Literature, Queens College
• Anne Dufourmantelle – philosopher and psychoanalyst^[37]
• Fred Feldman (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Ann Ferguson (Ph.D. 1965) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst^[38]
• Alison Fields (M.A. 2003) – Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma
• Diana Fuss (Ph.D. 1988) – Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English, Princeton University
• Alexander R. Galloway (A.B. 1996) – Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
  

  Alexander R. Galloway (1996)
• Gary Gerstle (A.B. 1976) – Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge
• Brie Gertler (Ph.D. 1997) – Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Virginia
• George Gorse (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1980) – Viola Horton Professor of Art History, Pomona College
• Jacqueline Wernimont (A.M 2005, Ph.D. 2009) – Distinguished Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, Dartmouth College
• John Greco (Ph.D. 1989) – Robert L. McDevitt and Catherine H. McDevitt Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
• Roland Greene (A.B. 1979) – Mark Pigott KBE Professor, Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of the Humanities, Director, Humanities Center, Stanford University; President, Modern Language Association (2015–16)
• Albert Harkness (1842) – founder of the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens^[39]
• John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) – Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History, United States Naval War College
• Dagmar Herzog (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1991) – Distinguished Professor of History, Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Graduate Center, CUNY
• Marianne Hirsch (A.B., A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1975) – William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
  

  Marianne Hirsch (1970, 1975)
• Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University
• James S. Holmes (1948–1950) – founding figure in translation studies
• Jean E. Howard (A.B. 1970) – George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Princeton University
• George B. Hutchinson (A.B. 1975) – Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, Cornell University
• Matthew Frye Jacobson (Ph.D. 1992) – Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University
• Dale Jacquette (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1983) – Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy, University of Bern
• Gene Andrew Jarrett (A.M. 1999, Ph.D. 2002) – Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English, Princeton University^[40]
• Donald Kagan (A.M. 1955) – Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics & History, Yale University; winner of the National Humanities Medal
  

  Donald Kagan (1955)
• Matthew Kapstein (Ph.D. 1987) – Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School
• Patricia Keating (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, UCLA
• David Kelley (A.B., A.M.) – philosopher, founder of The Atlas Society
• Sean Dorrance Kelly (Sc.B. 1989, M.S. 1989) – Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
• Ari Kelman (A.M. 1993, Ph.D. 1998) – Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, University of California, Davis; winner of the 2014 Bancroft Prize
• Karen Leigh King (Ph.D. 1984) – Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University^[41]
• Mark Kishlansky (A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1977) – Frank Baird Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University
• Carolyn Korsmeyer (Ph.D. 1972) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
• Jennifer Lackey (Ph.D. 2000) – Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
• Aditi Lahiri (Ph.D. 1982) – Chair of Linguistics, University of Oxford
• Wallace Lambert (A.B. 1947) – psychologist of linguistics; "widely considered the father of the psychological study of bilingualism"^[42][43]
• Keith Lehrer (Ph.D. 1960) – Regents' Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Arizona^[44]
• Jeffrey Lesser (A.B. 1982; M.A. 1984) – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University
• Nancy MacLean (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1981) – William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University
  

  Nancy MacLean (1981)
• Sharon Marcus (A.B. 1986) – Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University^[45]
• Brian Massumi (A.B. 1979) – philosopher and social theorist, former Professor of Communication, Université de Montréal^[46]
  

  Brian Massumi (1979)
• Brian McHale (A.B. 1974) – Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University
• Jeffrey L. Meikle (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1971) - Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
• Anne K. Mellor (A.B. 1963) – Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, UCLA
• Nara Milanich (A.B. 1994) – Professor of History, Barnard College
• Monica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – Associate Professor of History, UT Austin, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Ronald H. Nash (A.M. 1960) – Evangelical Baptist philosopher and apologist; Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary
• Sianne Ngai (A.B. 1993) – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago
• Kathy Peiss (Ph.D. 1982) – Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
• Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1956) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Arthur Upham Pope (A.B. 1904) – expert on Iranian art; founder and first director, Asia Institute
• Gerald Prince (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
• Arthur S. Reber (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) – psychologist known for introducing the concept of implicit learning; Broeklundian Professor, Emeritus, Brooklyn College^[47]
• Christina J. Riggs (A.B. 1993) – Professor of History of Visual Culture, Durham University
• Camille Robcis (A.B. 1999) – Professor of History and French, Columbia University, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
• Daniel T. Rodgers (A.B., Sc.B. 1965) – Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University
• Tricia Rose (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1993) – Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
  

  Tricia Rose (1987, 1993)
• Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld (Ph.D. 1967) – Professor of English and M. Glazer Chair and Professor of Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
• James F. Ross (Ph.D. 1958) – Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania
• John Howland Rowe (A.B. 1939) – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
• Mari Ruti (A.B. 1988) – Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Nathan Schneider (A.B. 2006) – journalist; Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
• Daniel R. Schwarz (Ph.D. 1968) – Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University
• Julius S. Scott (A.B 1973) – scholar of slavery and Caribbean and Atlantic history, author, The Common Wind
• Russ Shafer-Landau (A.B. 1986) – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Ethan H. Shagan (A.B. 1994) – Zaffaroni Family Chair in Education of the History Department, UC Berkeley
• Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. 1994) – Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
• Maxim D. Shrayer (A.B. 1989) – Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston University
• Kaja Silverman (Ph.D. 1977) – Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania^[48]
• Richard Slotkin (Ph.D. 1966) – Olin Professor of English Emeritus, Wesleyan University
• Timothy D. Snyder (A.B. 1991) – Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences
  

  Timothy Snyder (1991)
• David Sosa (A.B. 1989) – Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
• Jeffrey Stout (A.B. 1972) – Professor Emeritus of Religion, Princeton University
• David Summers (A.B. 1963) – William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art, University of Virginia.
• Charles Taliaferro (A.M., Ph.D. 1984) – Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College
• Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1959) – philosopher; subject of David Foster Wallace's prize-winning undergraduate thesis^[49][50]
• John L. Thomas (Ph.D. 1961) – George L. Littlefield Professor of American History Emeritus, Brown University; winner of the 1964 Bancroft Prize
• Salamishah Tillet (M.A.T. 1997) – Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University–Newark; recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
  

  Salamishah Tillet (1997)
• Francesca Trivellato (Ph.D. 2004) – Andrew W Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study^[51]
• Adam Ulam (A.B. 1943) – Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University; one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union^[52][53]
• Dell Upton (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) – Chair of the Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
• Geoffrey Wawro (A.B. 1983) – Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center, University of North Texas
• Charles Edwin Wilbour (Class of 1854) – Egyptologist, co-discoverer of the Elephantine Papyri
• Dean Zimmerman (Ph.D. 1992) – Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University^[54]
• Steven Zwicker (Ph.D. 1969) – Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis

Law

• Herman Vandenburg Ames – legal scholar, Professor of American Constitutional History, University of Pennsylvania
• Richard Reeve Baxter (A.B. 1942) – Judge, International Court of Justice; Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Karima Bennoune (A.B. 1988) – Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Samuel W. Buell (A.B. 1987) – Bernard M. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Zechariah Chafee (A.B. 1907) – First Amendment scholar; University Professor of Law, Harvard University^[55]
• Sarah Cleveland (A.B. 1987) – Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School
  

  Sarah Cleveland (1987)
• Jennifer Daskal (A.B. 1994) – Professor of Law, Washington College of Law at American University
• Lawrence Douglas (A.B. 1982) – James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
• Justin Driver (A.B. 1997) – Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School^[56]
• Heidi Li Feldman (A.B. 1986) – Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Daniel Fischel (A.M. 1974) – Lee and Brena Freeman Professor Emeritus of Law and Business and Dean Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School
• James Forman Jr. (A.B. 1988) – J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School;^[57] Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
  

  James Forman Jr (1988)
• Kent Greenfield (A.B. 1984) – Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School^[58]
• Henry B. Hansmann (A.B. 1967) – Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School
• Harold Dexter Hazeltine (A.B. 1894) – Downing Professor of the Laws of England (1919–1942), University of Cambridge
• Sonia Katyal (A.B. 1993) – Distinguished Haas Chair, UC Berkeley School of Law^[59]
• David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) – Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
• Larry Kramer (A.B. 1980) – Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Stanford Law School; president of the Hewlett Foundation
• Bruce H. Mann (A.B., A.M. 1972) – Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, husband of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren^[60]
  

  Bruce H. Mann (1972)
• Eric L. Muller (1984) – Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Wendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law School^[20]
• Alexander A. Reinert (A.B. 1994) – Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy, Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
• Vincent Rougeau (A.B. 1985) – President, College of the Holy Cross; Dean Emeritus, Boston College Law School
• Paul M. Schwartz (A.B. 1981) – Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Harry Shulman (A.B. 1923) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School
• Kenneth Starr (A.M. 1969) – Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean Emeritus, Pepperdine University School of Law; Solicitor General of the United States (1989–93); Independent Counsel for the Whitewater controversy; 14th President of Baylor University
• Francis Wayland III (A.B. 1846) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School

Medicine and public health

• Cheryl A. M. Anderson (A.B. 1992) – Professor and Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, UC San Diego
• Louise Aronson (A.B. 1986) – author; Professor of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco
• Ann Arvin (A.B. 1966) – Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emerita, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Aaron T. Beck (A.B. 1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy"; founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award
  

  Aaron T. Beck (1942)
• Jonathan Berek (M.M.Sc. 1973) – Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
• John M. Barry (A.B. 1968) – author; Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Linda Bartoshuk (Ph.D. 1965) – Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida
• Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975, M.M.Sc. 1976) – H.J. Smead Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Atul Butte (A.B. 1991, M.D. 1995) – Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Baker Computational Health Sciences Institute
• Christopher G. Chute (A.B. 1977, M.D. 1982) – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University
• Barbara E. Ehrlich (Sc.B. 1974) – Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
• Nancy Etcoff (A.B.) – Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
• Stanley Falkow (Ph.D. 1961) – father of microbiology, discoverer of the molecular nature of antibiotic resistance; Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine; winner of the Lasker Award^[61]
  

  Stanley Falkow (1961)
• James D. Griffin (A.B. 1970) – Professor, Harvard Medical School; Chair of Medical Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Director of Medical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tina Hartert (A.B. 1985) –  Lulu H. Owen Chair in Medicine and Vice President for Translational Research, Vanderbilt University
• Arthur L. Horwich (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975) – Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; winner of the Lasker Award, Shaw Prize, and Breakthrough Prize; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone-mediated protein folding
• Howard Hu (B.Sc. 1976) – Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Founding Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto
• William Kessen (Sc.M. 1950) – Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University
• Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – President, Dartmouth College; co-founder of Partners In Health; Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department; recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship; 12th President of the World Bank
  

  Jim Yong Kim (1982)
• Beth Levine (A.B. 1981) – Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• Jonathan S. Lewin (A.B. 1981) – Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University; Professor, Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health
• David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University.
• Stacy Tessler Lindau (M.D. 1996) – Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine Director, University of Chicago
• George Makari (A.B. 1982) – Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the De Witt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Joseph Matarazzo (A.B. 1946) – 98th President of the American Psychological Association, chair of the first department of medical psychology in the United States^[62]
• Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; former Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
• Craig C. Mello (Sc.B. 1982) – Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine); Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  

  Craig C. Mello (1982)
• Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine; former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University^[63]
  

  Lloyd B. Minor (1979, 1982)
• Mark Musen (Sc.B. 1977, M.D. 1980) – Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
• Srihari S. Naidu (Sc.B. 1993, M.D. 1997) – Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College
• Jordan S. Orange (A.B., Ph.D., 1996, M.D., 1997) – Chair of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Pediatrician-in-Chief of New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
• Thomas G. Plante (Sc.B. 1982) – clinical psychologist; Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor of Psychology, Santa Clara University
• Paul Ridker (B.Sc.. 1981) – Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Janet Sinsheimer (B.Sc. 1979) – Professor of Biostatistics, Biomathematics, and Human Genetics, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
• Thomas A. Wadden (A.B. 1975) – Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Augustus A. White (A.B. 1957) – Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Natural sciences

• Anthony Aguirre (Sc.B. 1995) – Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information, UC Santa Cruz
• Stephon Alexander (Ph.D. 2000) – theoretical physicist and musician, Professor of Physics, Brown University
• Edgar Allen (Sc.B. 1915, A.M. 1916, Ph.D. 1921) – anatomist and physiologist, discoverer of estrogen and father of endocrinology
• Amy Arnsten (A.B. 1976) – Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• Raymond Arvidson (Ph.D. 1974) – James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
• Biman Bagchi (Ph.D. 1980) – biophysical chemist, theoretical chemist; Amrut Mody Professor, Indian Institute of Science
  

  Biman Bagchi (1980)
• Mark Bear (Ph.D. 1984) – Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT; former Howard Hughes Medical Investigator^[64]
• Joy M. Bergelson (Sc.B. 1984) – Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, New York University
• Marianne Bronner (Sc.B. 1975) – Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology; Director of the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
• Stephen L. Buchwald (Sc.B. 1977) – Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT; developed Buchwald-Hartwig amination
• Sankar Das Sarma (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished University Professor and Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Richard E. Carson (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
• Andrew G. Clark (Sc.B. 1976) – Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics and Chair of Computational Biology, Cornell University^[65]
• Julia Clarke (A.B. 1995) – John A. Wilson Professor in Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Texas at Austin
• Tejal A. Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – bioengineer and therapeutic nanotechnologist; Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Brown University School of Engineering
• Michael H. Dickinson (Sc.B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, California Institute of Technology; recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Neil Donahue (B.Sc. 1985) – atmospheric chemist; Thomas Lord Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• John Donoghue (Ph.D. 1979) – H.M. Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown University
• Bethany Ehlmann (M.S. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) — president of The Planetary Society; Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology; Rhodes Scholar
• Anne Fausto-Sterling (Ph.D. 1970) – major contributor to sexology and biology of gender; Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University
  

  Anne Fausto-Sterling (1970)
• W. Tecumseh Fitch (A.B. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) – Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna
• Raymond Fuoss (Ph.D. 1932) – Sterling Professor Chair of Chemistry, Yale University
• Paul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – Director of the Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University^[66]
• Margaret Gardel (Sc.B. 1998) – Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
• Miriam B. Goodman (B.Sc. 1986) – Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Stanford University; Chair, Stanford Neuroscience Institute
• Andrew V. Granato (Ph.D. 1955) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Alan Grossman (Sc.B. 1979) – Praecis Professor of Biology and Department Head of Biology, MIT
• David Grinspoon (A.B., Sc.B.) – astrobiologist; Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
• James W. Head (Ph.D. 1969) – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences, Brown University
• Arthur Hoag (A.B. 1942) – astronomer; discoverer of Hoag's Object
• Michael R. Hoffmann (Ph.D. 1973) – John S. and Sherry Chen Professor of Environmental Science, Caltech
• Albrecht Hofmann (Ph.D. 1969) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, ForMemRS
  

  Albrecht Hofmann (1969)
• John Edwards Holbrook (A.B. 1815) – zoologist, herpetologist, and naturalist
• Donald C. Hood (Ph.D. 1969) – James F. Bender Professor in Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science, Columbia University
• Arthur L. Horwich (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975) – Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; winner of the Lasker Award, Albany Medical Center Prize, Shaw Prize, and Breakthrough Prize; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone-mediated protein folding
  

  Arthur L. Horwich (1972, 1975)
• Richard Ivry (A.B. 1981) – Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
• Bor-ming Jahn (M.Sc. 1967) – Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Geosciences, National Taiwan University
• Lucy Jones (A.B. 1976) – seismologist
• Richard Kaner (A.B. 1980) – Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, UCLA
• Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (Ph.D. 1975) – William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus, Cornell University
• Brian Keating (M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 2000) – Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC San Diego
• Steven Kliewer (B.Sc. 1985) – Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Philip Kocienski (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds
• Clifford Kubiak (Sc.B 1975) – Distinguished Professor and Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry, UC San Diego
• Krishna Kumar (Ph.D. 1996) – Robinson Professor in Chemistry, Tufts University
• Ka Yee Christina Lee (Sc.B. 1986) – 14th Provost (2020–23) and David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago^[67][68]
• Wen-Hsiung Li (Ph.D. 1972) – James Watson Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
• Robert Bruce Lindsay (A.B., Sc.M. 1920) – Chair of the Physics Department and Dean of the Graduate School, Brown University; recipient of the ASA Gold Medal
• David Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Gloria and Richard Kushel Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor in the Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University; recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship
• Robert H. MacArthur (A.M. 1953) – founding figure in evolutionary ecology; Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University^[69]
• Nick McCave (Ph.D. 1967) – Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge; fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
• Warren Meck (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
• Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) – Professor of Biology, Brown University
• David D. Moore (A.B. 1974) – Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley; discoverer of constitutive androstane receptor, farnesoid X receptor, and small heterodimer partner.
  

  Kenneth R. Miller (1970)
• John F. Mustard (M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1990) – Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
• Myung Kyungjae (Ph.D. 1999) – biologist, Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• Samuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – first African American to receive doctorate degree from Brown University; first African American trustee at Brown University; first African American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; second president of Texas Southern University
• Michael Paradiso (Ph.D. 1984) – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
• Robert L. Park (Ph.D. 1964) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park; former Director of Public Information at the American Physical Society
• Robert Parr (A.B. 1942) – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill; co-founder of quantum chemistry^[70]
• Ainissa Ramirez (Sc.B. 1990) – material scientist and science communicator
• Maureen Raymo (Sc.B 1982) – paleoclimatologist; Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor and Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory; Co-Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School
• Collin Roesler (Sc.B. 1985) – William R. Kenan Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin College
• Rachel Rosen (Sc.B.) – Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University
• Carolyn Rovee-Collier (M.Sc. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University; pioneering developmental psychologist
• David M. Sabatini (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Biology, MIT (2002–2021); Member, Whitehead Institute; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; discoverer of mTOR
  

  David M. Sabatini (1990)
• Jenny Saffran (A.B. 1991) – Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
• Ellery Schempp (Ph.D. 1967) – physicist, primary student involved in the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp
• William Seeley (A.B. 1993) – Zander Family Endowed Professor in Neurology, UC San Francisco, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship^[6]
• Michael Shadlen (A.B. 1981, M.D. 1988) – Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator^[71]
• Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
• Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (B.Sc. 2003) – Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Sc.B. 1986) – Director, Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor, Carnegie Mellon University^[72]
• Steven H. Simon (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Physics, University of Oxford^[73]
• Daniel L. Stein (Sc.B. 1975) – Professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York University
• Eliot Stellar (M.Sc. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; one of the founders of behavioral neuroscience^[74]
• James W. Stigler (A.B. 1976) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA
• Jesse Thaler (Sc.B. 2002) – Professor of Physics, MIT; Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
• Jessica Tierney (A.B. 2005, M.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) – Associate Professor of Geosciences and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science, University of Arizona^[75]
• Jan Peter Toennies (Ph.D. 1957) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization; Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Göttingen
• Stefanie Tompkins (M.Sc. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) – Director, DARPA; former vice president for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines^[76]
• Mark Trodden (M.Sc., Ph.D. 1995) – Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor and Department Chair of Physics, Co-Director of the Penn Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
• Fyodor Urnov (Ph.D. 1996) – Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, Berkeley
• John S. Werner (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis
• Xi-Cheng Zhang (Ph.D. 1986) – Parker Givens Chair of Optics, University of Rochester; Director of Institute of Optics
• Maria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research, MIT; NASA planning advisor; Co-chair of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology^[77]
  

  Maria Zuber (1986)

Social sciences

• Massimo Livi Bacci (1960–61) – Professor Emeritus of Demography, University of Florence
• Mary Beaudry (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) – Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy, Boston University^[78]
• Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University^[79]
• Aaron Belkin (A.B. 1988) – Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; authority on LGBT people in the United States Armed Forces
• Adia Benton (A.B. 1999) – cultural and medical anthropologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University
• Kenneth A. Bollen (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1977) – Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill^[80]
• Jason Bordoff (A.B. 1994) – Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  

  Jason Bordoff (1994)
• Selmer Bringsjord (Ph.D. 1987) – Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Melani Cammett (A.B. 1991) – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Prudence Carter (B.Sc. 1991) – Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology, Brown University; Mary E. Pardee Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley (2016–2021)
• Neta Crawford (A.B. 1985) – Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University^[81]
• Lee Drutman (A.B. 1999) – Senior Fellow, New America; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University^[82]
• Emily Falk (Sc.B. 2004) – Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
• William H. Frey (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) – Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
• Ester Fuchs (A.M. 1974) – Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University SIPA
• Robert M. Gagné (Sc.M 1939, Ph.D. 1940) – educational psychologist; Professor, Florida State University; author of Conditions of Learning
• John Ghazvinian (A.B. 1996) – Executive Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania^[83]
• John Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist^[84]
• Michael Inzlicht (Sc.M. 1999, Ph.D. 2001) – Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough
• David Kertzer (A.B. 1969) – Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Brown University; recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
  

  David Kertzer (1969)
• Michael Kimmel (M.A. 1974) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
• Eric Klinenberg (A.B. 1993) – Professor of Sociology and Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science, New York University
• Prema Kurien (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1993) – Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
• Harold Leavitt (Sc.M. 1944) – pioneer in management psychology; Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University^[85]
• Jacob T. Levy (A.B. 1993) – Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science, McGill University
• Ogden Lindsley (A.B. 1948, Sc.M. 1950) – developer of precision teaching; Professor, University of Kansas
• Geoffrey Loftus (A.B. 1967) – Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington
• Sabina Magliocco (A.B. 1980) – Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of British Columbia
• Leslie McCall (A.B. 1986) – Presidential Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
• Ruth Milkman (A.B. 1975) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY; former president, American Sociological Association^[86]
• Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT; Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2015–2021)^[87]
  

  Melissa Nobles (1985)
• Lloyd Ohlin (A.B. 1940) – sociologist and criminologist; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago^[88]
• Hal Pashler (A.B. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC San Diego
• Thomas Pepinsky (A.B. 2001) – Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government, Cornell University
• Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1957) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley, member, Council on Foreign Relations
• Imam Prasodjo (Ph.D. 1997) –Professor in the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia^[89]
• Jennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; MacArthur Fellowship recipient
  

  Jennifer Richeson (1994)
• Bruce Riedel (A.B. 1975) – Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS
• Lisa Rofel (A.B. 1975) – Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz^[90]
• Eldar Shafir (A.B. 1984) – Class of 1987 Professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
  

  Eldar Shafir (1984)
• Patrick Sharkey (A.B. 2000) – Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University^[91]
• William Herbert Sheldon (A.B. 1919) – psychologist, creator of the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology
• Rachel Sherman (A.B. 1991) – Professor and Chair of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
• Adam T. Smith (A.B. 1990) – Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Cornell University
• Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – experimental psychologist; author of the opponent-process theory of emotion; James M. Skinner University Professor of Science, University of Pennsylvania^[92]
• Erroll Southers (A.B. 1978) – Director of the Safe Communities Institute and Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies, USC Price School of Public Policy
• Deborah A. Thomas (A.B. 1988) – R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
• Fred Turner (A.B. 1984) – Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University
• Khachig Tölölyan (Ph.D. 1975) – founding figure in diaspora studies; Professor Emeritus of English and Letters, Wesleyan University
• Jeffrey K. Tulis (A.M. 1974) - Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
• Sam Wineburg (Class of 1980) – Margaret Jacks Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University
• Deborah J. Yashar (A.B. 1985) – Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Others

• Asger Aaboe (Ph.D. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Mathematics and of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale University
• Ryan S. Baker (B.Sc. 2000) – Professor, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Director, Penn Center for Learning Analytics
• Albert T. Corbett (A.B. 1972) – Associate Research Professor Emeritus of Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
• Julie Beth Lovins (A.B. 1968) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching
• Jamie Metzl (A.B. 1990) – futurist; Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
  

  Jamie Metzl (1990)
• Pedro Noguera (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1982) – Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
• Bina Venkataraman (A.B. 2002) – Director of Global Policy Initiatives, Broad Institute
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Ph.D. 2006) – Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Space science and exploration

• Brian Binnie (Sc.B. 1975, Sc.M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
• James B. Garvin (Sc.B. 1978, Sc.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
• David Grinspoon (Sc.B. 1982) – astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute
• Wesley Huntress (Sc.B. 1964) – president, The Planetary Society
• Byron K. Lichtenberg (Sc.B. 1969) – NASA astronaut
• Sarah Milkovich (Sc.M. 2002, Ph.D. 2005) – Lead of Science Operations for the Mars 2020 rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; one of two women to participate in the first all-female spacewalk^[95]
  

  Jessica Meir (1999)
• Lynn J. Rothschild (Ph.D. 1985) – evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) – third Administrator of NASA, oversaw first seven Apollo crewed missions
  

  Thomas O. Paine (1942)
• Ellen Stofan (Ph.D. 1989) – NASA Chief Scientist (2013–2016), John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum^[96][97]
• Suzanne Smrekar (B.Sc. 1984) – Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars InSight lander
• Paul Spudis (Sc.M. 1977) – noted lunar scientist associated with the NASA Office of Space Science^[98]
• Winslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd Observatory
• George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
• Maria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – Principal Investigator of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission^[77]

Governors

• Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – 22nd Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859)^[99]
• Oliver Ames (1851–1853) – 35th Governor of Massachusetts (1887–1890)
• Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – 21st Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate^[100]
• Augustus O. Bourn (1855) – 36th Governor of Rhode Island (1883–1885)
• Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – 73rd Governor of Rhode Island (2003–2011)^[101]
• Norman S. Case (A.B. 1908) – 56th Governor of Rhode Island (1928–1933)
• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – 74th Governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island^[102]
  

  Lincoln Chafee (1975)
• William Claflin (Class of 1837) – 27th Governor of Massachusetts (1869–1872)
• John H. Clifford (1827) – 21st Governor of Massachusetts (1853–1854)
• Samuel Cony (1829) – 31st Governor of Maine (1864–1867)^[103]
• Elisha Dyer (A.B. 1829) – 25th Governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859)^[104]
• Elisha Dyer Jr. – 45th Governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900)^[105]
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – 7th, 11th, and 17th Governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811, 1824–1831, 1843–1845)^[106]
• John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – 13th Governor of Rhode Island (1833–1838)^[107]
• William Gaston (1840) – 29th Governor of Massachusetts (1875–1876)
• Theodore Francis Green (1887) – 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator, D–Rhode Island (1937–1961)^[108]
  

  T. F. Green (1887)
• Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D–New Hampshire (2017–)^[109]
• James H. Higgins (A.B. 1898) – 50th Governor of Rhode Island (1907–1909)
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910)^[110]
• Charles Jackson (A.B. 1917, A.M. 1920) – 18th Governor of Rhode Island (1845–46)^[111]
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – 55th Governor of Louisiana (2008–2016)^[112]
• Otto Kerner Jr. (1930) – 33rd Governor of Illinois – (1961–1968)^[113]
• Samuel Ward King – 15th Governor of Rhode Island (1839–1843)
• Frank Licht (A.B. 1938) – 67th Governor of Rhode Island (1969–1973)
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – Justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); 11th Governor of New York (1833–1839); U.S. Secretary of War (1845–1849); U.S. Senator from New York; U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857)^[114]
  

  William L. Marcy (1808)
• Jack Markell (1982) – 18th United States Ambassador to the OECD, 73rd Governor of Delaware (2009–2017)^[115]
  

  Jack Markell (1982)
• Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), 16th & 18th Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844)^[116]
• Pendleton Murrah (1848) – 10th Governor of Texas (1863–1865)^[117]
• Philip W. Noel (1954) – 68th Governor of Rhode Island (1973–1977)^[118]
• Robert E. Quinn (1915) – 58th Governor of Rhode Island (1937–1939), Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court^[119]
• Edward C. Stokes (1883) – 32nd Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908)^[120]
• John Milton Thayer (1841) – 2nd Governor of Wyoming Territory (1875–1878) and 6th Governor of Nebraska (1887–1892)^[121]
• David Rogerson Williams (1792–1795) – 45th Governor of South Carolina (1814–1816)
• Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – 21st Governor of New Hampshire (1847–1849)
• William D. Williamson (1804) – 2nd Governor of Maine (1821–1821), U.S. Congressman, Maine (1821–1823)^[122]

Legislators

Mayors

• Kostas Bakoyannis (A.B. 2000) – Mayor of Athens, Greece (2019–present)^[182]
• David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital–Providence, Rhode Island; U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (2011–).^[148]
• Buddy Dyer (Sc.B. 1980) – 32nd Mayor of Orlando, Florida (2003–)
• Henry Loeb (1943) – Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee (1960–1963, 1968–1971)
• Alex Morse (A.B. 2011) – 44th Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts (2012–2021); elected youngest mayor of Holyoke at age 22^[183]
  

  Alex Morse (2011)
• Freddie O'Connell (A.B., B.Sc. 2000) – 10th Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee^[184]
• Chelsie J. Senerchia – 26th Mayor of Miami, Florida (1951–1953)
• Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – 1st Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1806–1806)
• Sumbul Siddiqui (A.B. 2010) – Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020–); first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history^[185][186]
• Samuel Starkweather (1822) – 7th and 15th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1844–1845, 1857–1858)
• Konstantinos Zervas (Sc.M. 1989) – Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece (2019–)^[187]

Diplomats

• Willard L. Beaulac (1918) – U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (1944–1947), Colombia (1947–1951), Cuba (1951–1953), Chile (1953–1956) and Argentina (1956–1960)
• W. Randolph Burgess (1912) – U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1957–1961)
• William H. Courtney (Ph.D. 1972) – U.S. Ambassador to Georgia (1995–1997) and Kazakhstan (1992–1994)
• Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1885–1886)
• Nathaniel Davis (1944) – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (1976–1977), Chile (1971-1973), Guatemala (1968–1971), and Bulgaria (1965–1966); Director General of the Foreign Service (1973–1975)
• Roy T. Davis (A.B. 1910) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1922–1930), Panama (1930–1933), and Haiti (1953-1957)
• Rosemary DiCarlo (A.B. 1969, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1979) – acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2013)
  

  Rosemary DiCarlo (1969)
• Norm Eisen (A.B. 1985) – U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011–2014)^[188]
• Ana A. Escrogima (A.B. 2001) – nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Oman
• Rufus Gifford (A.B. 1996) – U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2013–2017),^[189] Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, Chief of Protocol of the United States^[190]
• John Hay (A.B. 1858) – 37th U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
• Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999–2001), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1993–1994) , former Chairman of the Asia Society, member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, Counselor to the Council on Foreign Relations, Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin
  

  Richard Holbrooke (1962)
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 44th U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
• Noble Brandon Judah (1904) – U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929)
• Suzan G. LeVine (A.B. 1993) – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein (2014–2017)^[191]
• Frederick Irving (A.B. 1943) – U.S. Ambassador to Iceland (1972–1976)^[192]
• Roberta S. Jacobson (A.B. 1982) – U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018)^[193]
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – 21st U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857), 20th United States Secretary of War (1845–1849)
• Anthony Dryden Marshall (1950) – U.S. Consul in Istanbul, 1958–59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, (1969–71), Trinidad and Tobago (1972–74), Kenya (1973–77), Seychelles (1976–77); theatrical producer; felon^[194]
• Adam Namm (A.B. 1985) – U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (2012–2015)
• James D. Nealon (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (2014–2017)
• Victoria Nuland (A.B. 1983) – Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2021–), U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2005–2008)
  

  Victoria Nuland (1983)
• Richard Olson (A.B. 1981) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2008–2011) and Pakistan (2012–2015)
• Richard Olney (A.B. 1856) – 34th U.S. Secretary of State (1895–1897), 40th United States Attorney General (1893–1895)
• Ely Palmer (A.B. 1907) – U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (1948)^[195]
• Nit Phibunsongkhram (A.M. 1967) – Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008), Thai Ambassador to the United States (1996–2000)
• David Pressman (A.B. 1999) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs (2014–2017), U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2022–), co-founder Not on Our Watch
• Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) – U.S. Senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)
• John J. Sullivan (A.B. 1981) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2020–2022), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2017–2019), acting U.S. Secretary of State (2018)
• Stephanie S. Sullivan (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Ambassador to Ghana (2019–2022), and Republic of the Congo (2013–2017)
• William H. Sullivan (A.B. 1943) – U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1964–1969), the Philippines (1973–1977), and Iran (1977–1979)^[196]
• W. Stuart Symington (A.B. 1974) – U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (2016–2019) and Rwanda (2008–2011)
• Thomas J. Watson Jr. (A.B. 1937) – U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981); 2nd President of IBM (1952–71); 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68); recipient of the 1964 Presidential Medal of Freedom
  

  Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1937)
• Henry Wheaton (A.B. 1802) – U.S. Minister to Denmark (1827–1835) and Prussia (1837–1846)
• Curtin Winsor Jr. (A.B. 1961) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1983–1985)

Advisors and officials

• Charles "Chuck" Colson (1953) – chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in the Watergate Scandal; founder of Prison Fellowship
• Thomas Corcoran (1922) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyist
• Tad Devine (A.B. 1978) – political consultant, senior adviser in Al Gore's 2000 and John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaigns, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign
• David F. Duncan (1995) – domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug addiction
• John Hay (1858) – U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1898–1905), private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
  

  John Hay (1858)
• Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University; former executive aid to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz; research fellow, Hoover Institution^[197][198]
• E. Howard Hunt (1940) – author, OSS & CIA officer, worked under President Richard Nixon; figured in the Watergate scandal
• Randall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Ira Magaziner (1969) – Clinton advisor, current chairman of Clinton AIDS Initiative; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum
• Seema Nanda (1992) – United States Solicitor of Labor, CEO of the Democratic National Convention
• Annette Nazareth (A.B. 1979) – former Securities and Exchange Commissioner, partner at Davis Polk & Wardell
• Richard Olney (1856) – United States Attorney General (1893–1895), United States Secretary of State (1895–1897)
• David Onek (1991) – candidate for District Attorney of San Francisco
• Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) – Chair of the Democratic National Committee, former United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017)
  

  Thomas Perez (1983)
• John A. Rizzo (A.B. 1969) – Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency noted for his role in "laying the legal groundwork" for the War on Terror^[199]
• Tahesha Way (A.B. 1993) – Secretary of State of New Jersey (2018–2023), Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey (2023–)^[191][200]
• Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – United States Secretary of the Treasury, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

International politicians

• Junaid Ahmad (A.B.) – Bangladeshi economist, World Bank country director for India
• Ichirō Fujisaki – Japanese Ambassador to the United States (2008–12), Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1995–99)
• Shigeyuki Goto (A.M. 1984) – Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (2021–present)
• Martín Guzmán (Ph.D. 2013) – Minister of Economy of Argentina (2019–2022)^[201]
  

  Martín Guzmán (2013)
• Nitya Pibulsonggram (A.M. 1967) – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand (2006–2008)
• Nadiem Makarim (2006) – Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia (2021–present)^[202]
• Eduardo Montealegre (Sc.B. 1976) – Nicaraguan politician, Deputy to the National Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay – Member of the House of Lords Excepted Hereditary (2019–present)
  

  Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay
• Uttama Savanayana (Sc.B. 1982) – Former Minister of Finance (2019–2020), Industry (2016–2018), and Digital Economy and Society of Thailand (2015-2016)
• Tarek Shawki (M.Sc. 1983, M.Sc. 1985, Ph.D. 1985) – Minister of Education and Technical Education of Egypt
• Ijyaraj Singh (Sc.B. 1987) – Member of the Lok Sabha representing Kota (2009–2014)
• Julio Velarde (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1978) – Chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2006–present)

Activists, reformers, and thought leaders

• Junaid Ahmad (A.B. 1983) – economist; World Bank Country Director for India^[203]
• Benjamin Boas (A.B. 2007) – Cool Japan Ambassador to the Cabinet Office of Japan and cultural consultant
• John Bonifaz (1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Geoffrey Bowers – plaintiff an early HIV/AIDS discrimination case^[204]
• Katherine Chon (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and Board President of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project
• Bhupendranath Datta (M.A. 1914) – Indian revolutionary, sociologist and anthropologist
• Sean Eldridge (A.B. 2009) – political activist and former congressional candidate^[205]
• Derek Ellerman (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and Board Chairman of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project, former Ashoka fellow and current Ashoka Ambassador
• John Dix Fisher (1820) – founder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind—the first school for the blind established in the U.S.
• Kathryn S. Fuller (A.B. 1968) – chairman of the Board Ford Foundation former president and CEO of non-governmental organization World Wildlife Fund – U.S. (1989–2005)
• Samuel Gridley Howe (1821) – prominent physician, abolitionist, advocate of education for the blind
• Gene Karpinski (1974) – President, League of Conservation Voters
• Kerry Kennedy (A.B. 1981) – activist, writer; President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; former wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo; daughter of Robert F. Kennedy^[206]
  

  Kerry Kennedy (1981)
• Maya Keyes – anarchist and gay rights activist
• Alfie Kohn (A.B. 1979) – proponent of progressive education
• Nancy Lublin (1993) — founder of Crisis Text Line
• Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – educationist; father of American public school education
• Nancy Northup (A.B. 1981) – President, Center for Reproductive Rights
• Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – physician, founder of the first hospital center in the United States devoted to the medical needs of African women who have undergone FGM, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Michael Parenti (A.M. 1957) – political scientist, social critic, and author
  

  Michael Parenti
• Jesselyn Radack (A.B. 1992) – national security and human rights attorney
• Cecile Richards (1980) – President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
  

  Cecile Richards (1980)
• George Lincoln Rockwell (Class of 1942) – founder of the American Nazi Party; dropped out after sophomore year to join the Navy
• Kenneth Roth (A.B. 1978) – Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (1993–2022)
  

  Kenneth Roth (1978)
• Malika Saada Saar (A.B. 1992) – Director of the Human Rights Project for Girls; co-founder of Rebecca Project for Human Rights^[207]
• Rinku Sen (A.B. 1988) – Co-president of the Women’s March Board of Directors, former executive director of Race Forward^[208]
• Martha Sharp (A.B. 1926) – Unitarian who aided hundreds of Jews in escaping the Holocaust^[209]
• Michael Soussan (A.B. 1996) – whistleblower and author
• Irving Stowe (A.B. 1936) – founder of Greenpeace^[210]

Jurists and attorneys

• Leslie Abrams Gardner (A.B. 1997) – District Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia^[211]
• Asa Aldis (A.B. 1796) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[212]
• Peleg Arnold (A.B.) – Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1795 to 1812; represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1787–1788 session; incorporator of the Providence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790^[213]
• Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Family Court^[214]
• Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) – District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
• Theodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) – Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana^[215]
• Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• George Moulton Carpenter (A.B. 1864) – Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
• Zachary A. Cunha (A.B. 1998) – United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island
• Herbert F. DeSimone (A.B. 1910) – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation^[216]
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835)
• John Patrick Hartigan (A.B. 1951) – Rhode Island Attorney General, 1933–1939; US District Court, 1940–1951; US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1951–1968^[217]
• Richard Hertling, (A.B. 1982) – Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims^[218]
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941); Governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
  

  Charles Evans Hughes (1881)
• Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (A.B. 1909) – 20th United States Solicitor General; son of Charles Evans Hughes^[219]
• Alfred H. Joslin (A.B. 1936) - Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1963–1979)
• Patrick C. Lynch (1987) – Rhode Island Attorney General (D)
• Lewis Linn McArthur – Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
• Theron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court^[220]
• Marcus Morton (1838) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882–1890)
• Michael Newdow (Sc.B. 1974) – atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Thomas J. Perrelli (A.B. 1988) – former United States Associate Attorney General
• Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial Delegate to Congress
• Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – former U.S. Solicitor General; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings and namesake of the Starr Report; President of Baylor University
  

  Kenneth Starr (1969)
• Norman O. Tietjens (Ph.B. 1925, M.A. 1927) – judge of the United States Tax Court^[221][222]
• Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former Rhode Island Superior Court judge
• William Tong (A.B. 1995) – Attorney General of Connecticut (2019–)^[223]
• Anne Rachel Traum (A.B. 1991) – Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
• Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court

Music

• Sean Altman (A.B. 1983) – founding tenor member of Rockapella, known for the theme song of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
• Charles Ansbacher (1965) – founder and conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra
• MC Paul Barman (A.B. 1997) – cult rapper^[285]
• Marco Beltrami (Sc.B. 1988) – two-time Academy Award-nominated film score composer, Scream (1996), Resident Evil (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Hellboy (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Max Payne (2008), Mesrine (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Wolverine (2013), Warm Bodies (2013), World War Z (2013), Free Solo (2018), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and the video game Fortnite
• Clare Burson (1997) – singer-songwriter
• David Buskin (A.B 1965) – singer-songwriter (Modern Man), jingle composer, Clio Award winner (1983)
• Julia Cafritz – musician, known for Pussy Galore
• Wendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) – composer and electronic musician, Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Tron (1982)
  

  Wendy Carlos (1962)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) – country singer-songwriter
• Chubb Rock – rapper and radio host^[286]
• Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963) – director of the Boston Camerata
• Alvin Curran (A.B. 1960) – avant-garde composer
• Catie Curtis (1987) – contemporary folk singer-songwriter
• Dave Dederer (A.B.) – guitarist, singer, and founding member of rock band The Presidents of the United States of America
• Shelby Gaines (1991) – musician and artist
• Tucker Halpern (2013) – musician and DJ, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker^[287]
• Dhani Harrison (2001) – son of George Harrison, composer, guitarist^[288]
  

  Dhani Harrison (2001)
• Sophie Hawley-Weld (2014) – musician, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker
• Lili Haydn (1992) – singer-songwriter, violinist
• Dave Harrington (2009) – multi-instrumentalist and producer^[289]
• Lingua Ignota (M.F.A. 2016) – multidisciplinary artist and instrumentalist^[290]
  

  Lingua Ignota (2016)
• Nicolás Jaar (A.B. 2012) – avant-garde electronic music producer, owner and founder of record label and art house Clown & Sunset
• Gabriel Kahane (2003) – singer-songwriter
• Elliott Kerman (Sc.B. 1981) – founding baritone member of Rockapella
• Tad Kinchla (1995) – bassist for jam band Blues Traveler
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – electro-acoustic composer (New York City Oratorio, America's Game), writer on innovative musics and musicians
• Damian Kulash (A.B. 1998) – lead singer and founding member of indie rock band OK Go
• Erich Kunzel (1964) – conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
• Lawrence – soul-pop group founded by Clyde Lawrence '15 and Gracie Lawrence (Class of 2020)
• Lisa Loeb (A.B. 1990) – Grammy Award-winning alternative singer-songwriter; first unsigned artist to top the American charts
  

  Lisa Loeb (1990)
• The Low Anthem – indie folk band that includes alums Ben Knox Miller (2006), Jeff Prystowsky (2006) and Jocie Adams
• Erin McKeown (2000) – folk singer-songwriter
• Elizabeth Mitchell (1990) – musician, member of indie folk–pop band Ida; played in a band with Lisa Loeb and Duncan Sheik while at Brown
• Will Oldham (Class of 1992) – indie rock/alternative country singer-songwriter who also performs under the names Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Palace
• Elvis Perkins (1995) – singer-songwriter
• Navah Perlman (A.B. 1992) – concert pianist; daughter of Itzhak Perlman
• Dan Prothero – producer / engineer and owner of Fog City Records
• The Range – DJ and electronic musician^[291]
• Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and faculty member of the Yale School of Music
• Susan Salms-Moss (A.B. 1967) – soprano
• Theodore Shapiro (A.B. 1993) – film score composer, State and Main (2000), Old School (2003), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), I Love You, Man (2008), We're the Millers (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Ghostbusters (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), Severance (2022)
• Duncan Sheik (A.B. 1992) – alternative rock singer-songwriter; top 10 hit for the song "Barely Breathing"; Grammy and two-time Tony Award-winning composer, Spring Awakening
• Sasha Spielberg (2012) – musician, Wardell; daughter of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw^[292]
  

  Sasha Spielberg (2012)
• Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) – alternative rock singer-songwriter
• Saleka (A.B. 2018) – R&B singer-songwriter; daughter of M. Night Shyamalan^[293]
• Jon Spencer – singer and composer, known for Pussy Galore and Boss Hog^[294]
• Sally Taylor (1996) – musician, daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor
• Gwyneth Walker (A.B. 1967) – composer
• J. Mayo Williams (1920) – first African-American producer at a major record label
• Jamila Woods, (A.B. 2011) singer, songwriter and poet signed to Jagajaguwar
• ZOX – SideOneDummy recording artist, composed of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain

Film

• Andrew Ahn (2008) – director, Spa Night, Driveways
• Eva Amurri (2007) – actress, Loving Annabelle, Saved!, The Banger Sisters; daughter of Susan Sarandon
  

  Eva Amurri (2007)
• Scott E. Anderson (Sc.B. 1986) – Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Babe, and nominee Starship Troopers, Hollow Man
• Bess Armstrong (1975) – actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China
• Raymond J. Barry (A.B) – actor, Born on the Fourth of July, Steel City
• David Bartis (A.B. 1988) – producer, The Wall, Edge of Tomorrow, Fair Game
• Randall Batinkoff (1990) – actor, For Keeps, School Ties
• Steve Bloom (A.B. 1978) – screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach, The Sure Thing, Tall Tale, Jack Frost
• Joseph Bologna – actor, My Favorite Year, Blame It on Rio^[295]
• Sara Colangelo (A.B. 2001) – writer and director, Little Accidents, Worth
• David Conrad (A.B. 1990) – actor, Wedding Crashers, Ghost Whisperer
• Michael Costigan (1990) – producer, Brokeback Mountain, American Gangster, Under the Banner of Heaven
• Louis Ozawa Changchien (M.F.A. 2006) – actor, Predators, The Bourne Legacy, Bosch
• Yaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) – actress, Take the Lead, Honeydripper, The Kids Are All Right, The Butler; fashion model
  

  Yaya Da Costa (2004)
• Lucy DeVito (A.B. 2005) – actress, Melissa and Joey, Leaves of Grass
• Tom Dey (A.B. 1987) – director, Shanghai Noon, Showtime, Failure to Launch, Marmaduke, Wedding Season
• Alice Drummond (A.B. 1950) – actress, Awakenings, Nobody's Fool (1994), Doubt (2008)
• Richard Fleischer (A.B. 1939) – director, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Narrow Margin, Fantastic Voyage, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Boston Strangler, Doctor Dolittle, Mandingo, Soylent Green; Academy Award-winning documentary producer, Design for Death
• Josh Friedman (1989) – screenwriter, War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; developer, Snowpiercer
• Liz Garbus (A.B. 1992) – Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, What Happened, Miss Simone?, The Farm: Angola, USA, Killing in the Name, All In: The Fight for Democracy, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
• Francesca Gregorini (A.B. 1990) – Italian-American writer and film director
• Davis Guggenheim (1986) – Academy Award-winning documentary film director, An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for "Superman"; film director for Gracie, Gossip (2000), and episodes of 24, Alias, The Shield, ER, NYPD Blue
  

  Davis Guggenheim (1986)
• John Hamburg (A.B. 1992) – director, I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly; screenwriter, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers
• Josh Hamilton (1991) – actor, Eighth Grade, 13 Reasons Why^[296]
• Hill Harper (A.B. 1988) – actor, Constellation, Lackawanna Blues, CSI: NY
• Phil Hay – screenwriter, Destroyer, The Invitation, Ride Along
• Todd Haynes (A.B. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Mildred Pierce, I'm Not There, Far from Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Safe (1995), Poison, Dark Waters, The Velvet Underground (film)

Todd Haynes (1983)

• David Hedison (Class of 1949) – film, television, and stage actor
• Sean Hood (1988) – screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed, Cube 2: Hypercube
• Ruth Hussey (A.B. 1933) – Academy Award-nominated actress, The Philadelphia Story
• Oren Jacoby (1977) – Academy Award-nominated documentarian, Constantine's Sword
• Kirsten Johnson (1987)^[297] - documentarian, director, and cinematographer, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Cameraperson
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) – independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
• Simon Kinberg (A.B. 1995) – screenwriter and producer, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sherlock Holmes, Jumper (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
• Alison Klayman (A.B. 2006) – documentary filmmaker and journalist, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• Paul Kowalski (A.B. 2004) – film director and screenwriter, Paper Tiger (2020)
• John Krasinski (A.B. 2001) – playwright, actor, director, and producer, The Office, Jack Ryan, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, License to Wed, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
  

  John Krasinski (2001)
• Ellen Kuras (1981) – cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Be Kind Rewind
• Jonathan Levine (A.B. 2000) – writer/director, Warm Bodies, 50/50 (2011), The Wackness, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
• Doug Liman (A.B. 1988) – director and producer, The O.C., Edge of Tomorrow, Fair Game (2010),Jumper (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy, Go (1999), Swingers (1996)
• Laura Linney (A.B. 1986) – three-time Academy Award and two-time Tony Award-nominated actress, The Big C, The Savages, The Nanny Diaries, The Squid and the Whale, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Kinsey, Mystic River, Love Actually, You Can Count on Me, The Truman Show, Absolute Power, Primal Fear, Ozark
  

  Laura Linney (1986)
• Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Out of Africa
• Kátia Lund (A.B. 1989) – co-director, Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
• George Macready (A.B. 1921) – actor of film, stage, and television, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Paths of Glory
• Eli Marienthal (Class of 2008) – actor, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, The Iron Giant, Jack Frost (1998)
• Matt Manfredi – screenwriter, Crazy/Beautiful, Ride Along, The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Ross McElwee (A.B. 1970) – documentary filmmaker, Sherman's March (1986) and Bright Leaves
• Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) – Student Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Twitch
• Tim Blake Nelson (A.B. 1986) – actor, Lincoln (2012), The Incredible Hulk, Syriana, Minority Report, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Thin Red Line (1998); director, Leaves of Grass, O, The Grey Zone
  

  Tim Blake Nelson (1986)
• Lorraine Nicholson (2012) – actress, Soul Surfer, daughter of Jack Nicholson
• Matthew Reeve (002 )– producer and director, son of Christopher Reeve^[298]
• Yoruba Richen (A.B. 1994) – film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Angela Robinson (A.B. 1992) – director, Herbie: Fully Loaded, D.E.B.S. (2003), D.E.B.S. (2004)
• Jane Rosenthal – founder of the Tribeca Film Festival^[299]
• Danny Rubin (A.B. 1979) – screenwriter, Groundhog Day
• Michael Showalter (A.B. 1992) – actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter and the series The State, Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues
• Leelee Sobieski (Class of 2005) – actress, Eyes Wide Shut, Never Been Kissed, Here on Earth, Joy Ride (2001), The Glass House (2001), Wicker Man (2006), 88 Minutes, Public Enemies (2009); nominated for an Emmy for Joan of Arc
  

  Leelee Sobieski
• Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – radio and television journalist; filmmaker
• Matthew Sussman – actor, documentary filmmaker
• Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) – actress, Rushmore, Old School, Imaginary Heroes
• Astra Taylor (Class of 2001) – activist and filmmaker, Zizek!, Examined Life, What Is Democracy?^[300]
• Christine Vachon (A.B. 1983) – acclaimed independent film producer, I'm Not There, Infamous (2006), The Notorious Bettie Page, Far From Heaven, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Boys Don't Cry (1999); executive producer, This American Life
• Andrew Wagner (A.B. 1985) – writer, director, Starting Out in the Evening, The Talent Given Us
• Earl Wallace (A.B. 1955) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Witness
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Doc Hollywood, Tommy Boy
• Emma Watson (A.B. 2014) – actress, model, and activist, Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beauty and the Beast (2017), Little Women (2019)
  

  Emma Watson (2014)
• Betsy West (1973) – filmmaker and director, RBG, My Name is Pauli Murray; Fred W. Friendly Professor of Professional Practice in Media Society Emeritus, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
• JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) – actress, The Big Chill, Poltergeist
• Elizabeth Woodward – producer, The Great Hack, The Vow, You Resemble Me.
• Janet Yang (A.B. 1978) – first Asian-American president, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2022–);^[301] producer, The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt
• Jeff Zimbalist (2000) – filmmaker, Favela Rising

Television

• Sosie Bacon (Class of 2014) – actress, 13 Reasons Why, Loverboy, Smile; daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick^[302]
• Iris Bahr (1998) – actress, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Curb Your Enthusiasm ^[303][304]
• Kenneth Biller (1986) – television producer, writer, and director
• Julie Bowen (A.B. 1991) – actress, Modern Family, Boston Legal, Ed, Happy Gilmore
  

  Julie Bowen (1991)
• Roger Bowen (A.B.) – comedic actor, M*A*S*H; novelist^[305]
• Warren Brown – host, Sugar Rush
• Jessica Capshaw (A.B. 1998) – actress, Grey's Anatomy, The Practice, Minority Report
• Jordan Carlos (A.B. 2001) – comedian, Stephen Colbert's "black friend"
• Charise Castro Smith (A.B. 2005) actress, writer, playwright, producer, The Exorcist, The Haunting of Hill House, Encanto
• Kitty Chen (A.B. 1966) – actress, Law & Order, writer
• Nick Chinlund – actor, The X-Files
• Jude Ciccolella (A.B. 1969) – actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24
• Julian Cihi (A.B. 2009) – Japanese and American actor
• Yaya DaCosta (A.B. 2004) – actress and model
• Joel de la Fuente (A.B. 1991) – actor, best known for his role as Dr. Johann Pryce in Hemlock Grove
• Aunjanue Ellis (A.B. 1993) – actress, The Mentalist
  

  Aunjanue Ellis (1993)
• India Ennenga (A.B.) – actress, Treme^[306][307]
• Eve Gordon (A.B. 1978) – actress, Recount, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Felicity, American Horror Story, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Supernatural
• Robin Green (1967) – Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, The Sopranos, Northern Exposure
• Andy Greenwald (1999)– writer, podcaster, and producer^[308]
• Jonathan Groff (A.B. 1983) – actor, BlackAF; producer, Black-ish; writer, The Jon Stewart Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• David Groh (1961) – actor, Rhoda
• Marin Hinkle (1988) – actress, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Once and Again, Two and a Half Men
• Takehiro Hira (1997) – Japanese-born actor, Giri/Haji, Sekigahara
• Tina Holmes (1995) – actress, Six Feet Under
• Peter Jacobson (1987) – actor, House M.D.
• Rafe Judkins (2005) – contestant on Survivor: Guatemala, television writer
• Rhonda Ross Kendrick (A.B. 1993) – Daytime Emmy-nominated actress, Another World, daughter of Diana Ross
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1990) – Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, director, and writer, American Hollow, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
  

  Rory Kennedy (1990)
• John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) – actor, The Office, Leatherheads, License to Wed; director, A Quiet Place
• Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) – actress, Ellen, Andy Barker, P.I.
• Florencia Lozano (A.B. 1992) – actress, One Life to Live
• Ian Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) – writer, producer, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live
• Silas Weir Mitchell (A.B. 1991) – actor, Grimm^[309]
• Peter Nowalk (A.B. 2000) – creator, How to Get Away with Murder; producer, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy
• Masi Oka (Sc.B. 1997) – actor, Heroes, Scrubs, Will and Grace, Gilmore Girls, Get Smart
  

  Masi Oka (1997)
• Monica Owusu-Breen (1990) – writer, Alias, Lost; executive producer, Brothers & Sisters, Midnight, Texas^[310]
• John Pleshette (1964) – actor, Knots Landing, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Tracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995) – actress, Girlfriends, Black-ish, daughter of Diana Ross
  

  Tracee Ellis Ross (1995)
• Ben Shenkman (A.B. 1990) – actor, Royal Pains and Angels in America
• Sam Trammell (A.B. 1991) – actor, True Blood
• Bee Vang (2015) – actor, Gran Torino, writer^[311]
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Nip/Tuck, Family Law, The Guiding Light
• Suzanne Whang (Sc. M. 1986) – General Hospital, Las Vegas; host HGTV's House Hunters
• David Walton (2001) – actor, About a Boy
• Moisés Zamora (A.B. 2000) – creator, Selena: The Series^[312]

Theater

• Ayad Akhtar (1993) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Disgraced
• Adam Bock (1989) – Obie Award-winning playwright, The Thugs
• Kate Burton (A.B. 1979) – actress; nominated for three Tony Awards; on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Ellis Grey
• Zoë Chao (A.B. 2008) – actress in theatre and star of her own television show The God Particles; currently starring as Isobel in Facebook Watch drama Strangers
• Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics
  

  Nilo Cruz (1994)
• Daveed Diggs (A.B. 2004) – actor, Tony Award-winning originator of the roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Pulitzer-Prize winning 2015 musical Hamilton
  

  Daveed Diggs (2004)
• Jackie Sibblies Drury (M.F.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Fairview
• Gina Gionfriddo (M.F.A. 1997) – playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Becky Shaw (2009) and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013); producer, Law and Order
• Ann Harada (A.B. 1985) – actress in the original Broadway casts of Avenue Q and Cinderella
• Quiara Alegría Hudes (M.F.A. 2004) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Water by the Spoonful, In the Heights (Tony Award winner for Best Musical), Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, In the Heights
• Stephen Karam (2002) – playwright, Speech & Debate (2006); Tony Award winner, The Humans (2016); two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sons of the Prophet (2012) and The Humans
• James Naughton (A.B. 1967) – actor, two-time Tony Award winner for City of Angels (1992) and Chicago (1996); also featured in films such as The Paper Chase (1973), The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• John Ford Noonan (A.B. 1964) – actor and playwright best known for A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking^[313]
• Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, MacArthur fellowship recipient, Ruined, Sweat
• Sarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship, The Clean House, Eurydice, Passion Play, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
• Burt Shevelove (1937) – Tony Award-winning playwright, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Miriam Silverman (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2005) – Tony Award winning actress,^[314] The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  

  Miriam Silverman (2001, 2005)
• Alfred Uhry (1958) – playwright; Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• Amy Van Nostrand – actress, The Hothouse
• David Yazbek (1982) – Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, The Band's Visit (2017), The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010)
• John Lloyd Young (A.B. 1998) – actor; Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys (2006); lead vocalist, 2007 Grammy-winning Jersey Boys album for Clint Eastwood's 2014 Jersey Boys; member of President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities

Architecture

• Stan Allen (A.B. 1978) – architect; George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture and former Dean (2002 – 2012), Princeton University School of Architecture
• Edwin T. Banning (1885) – architect active in Rhode Island
• Prescott O. Clarke (1880) – architect active in Rhode Island
• Henry Atherton Frost – architect
• Sarah Williams Goldhagen (A.B. 1982) – architectural critic
• John G. Haskell – architect of Kansas public buildings, including the Kansas State Capitol
• Raymond Hood (1898–99) – architect of the Tribune Tower in Chicago and Rockefeller Center in New York
  

  Raymond Hood (1902)
• Charles Evans Hughes III (A.B.) – architect, grandson of Charles Evans Hughes^[317]
• Francis L. V. Hoppin (A.B.) – architect
• Norman Isham (A.B. 1886, M.A. 1890) – Rhode Island historical architect
• Harry Wild Jones – architect
• John Black Lee – mid-century modern architect
• Robert Somol (A.B. 1982) – architectural theorist
• Laurinda Hope Spear (B.F.A. 1972) – architect, co-founder of Arquitectonica
• Thomas Alexander Tefft (1851) – pioneer American architect

Design

• Jonathan Adler (A.B. 1988) – potter, designer and author
• Julie Carlson (A.B. 1983) – co-founder of Remodelista^[318]
• Tom Geismar (A.B. 1953) – graphic designer, designer of the PBS and Mobil logos^[319]
• Chuck Hoberman (1974–1976) – designer, inventor of the Hoberman sphere

Fashion

• Montana Levi Blanco (A.M.) – costume designer, recipient of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play^[320][321]
• Dana Buchman (A.B. 1973) – fashion designer
• Kimberly Ovitz (A.B. 2005) – fashion designer
• André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of Vogue^[248][249]
  

  Andre Leon Talley (1973)

Visual arts

• David Aldrich (A.B. 1929) – watercolor painter
• Deborah Aschheim (A.B. 1986) – new media artist
• Marc Erwin Babej (A.B. 1992) – photographic artist, writer
• Éric Baudelaire (A.B. 1994) – artist^[322]
• Richard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of the Yale School of Art (1996–2006), recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship^[2]
• Bill Bollinger (1961) – minimalist sculptor and installation artist^[323]
• Susan Chen (A.B. 2015) – painter
• Dawn Clements (A.B. 1986) – contemporary artist known for her panoramas^[324]
• Dave Cole (A.B. 2000) – sculptor, visual artist
• John Connell (Class of 1962) – sculptor and painter
• Devon Dikeou (A.B. 1986) – artist and curator
• Barnaby Evans (1975) – creator of the environmental art installation WaterFire
• Ayana Evans (A.B. 1998) – performance artist^[325]
• Brian Floca (A.B. 1991) – author and book illustrator
• Coco Fusco (A.B. 1982) – interdisciplinary artist and feminist
  

  Coco Fusco (1982)
• Susan Freedman (A.B. 1982) – president of the Public Art Fund
• Chitra Ganesh (A.B. 1996) – artist^[326]
• Orly Genger (A.B. 2001) – contemporary sculptor and installation artist
• Sanford Robinson Gifford (A.B. 1844) – landscape painter of the Hudson River School
  

  Sanford Robinson Gifford (1844)
• Isca Greenfield-Sanders (A.B. 2000) – artist
• Karl Haendel (A.B. 1998) – artist known for his pencil drawings
• Ilana Halperin (A.B. 1995) – artist
• George Hitchcock (A.B. 1872) – impressionist painter
• Akiko Ichikawa (A.B. 1994) – interdisciplinary visual artist and writer
• Bill Jacobson (A.B. 1977) – photographer
• Ken Johnson (A.B. 1976) – art critic for the New York Times
• Paul Ramirez Jonas (A.B. 1987) – contemporary artist; Chair of the Department of Art, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
• Nina Katchadourian (A.B. 1989) – multimedia artist
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – book-art, audio, video, photography, film, holography
• Paul Laffoley (A.B. 1962) – artist and architect
• Walter Liedtke (A.M. 1969) – curator of European paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art^[327]
• Candice Lin (A.B 2001) – artist
• Sarah Morris (A.B. 1988) – contemporary painter and filmmaker
• Elizabeth Neel (A.B. 1997) – contemporary painter
• Lisa Oppenheim (A.B. 1998) – multimedia artist
• Sarah Oppenheimer (A.B. 1995) – sculptor and installation artist
• Maureen Paley (A.B. 1975) – established the first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists
• Bern Porter (Sc.M. 1933) – visual artist and scientist involved in the development of the cathode-ray tube and the Manhattan Project
• Seth Price (A.B. 1997) – post-conceptual artist
• Lauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer, recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship^[328][329]
• Willoughby Sharp (A.B. 1957) – pioneer in conceptual and performance art^[330]
• Jeff Shesol (A.B. 1991) – cartoonist, Thatch; scriptwriter for Bill Clinton^[331]
• Taryn Simon (A.B. 1997) – multidisciplinary artist
• Scott Snibbe (A.B. 1991, M.Sc. 1994) – interactive media artist
• Anne Morgan Spalter (A.B. 1987) – digital mixed media artist and pioneering computer art academic; founder of Brown's and RISD's original digital fine arts courses
• Martha Tedeschi (A.B. 1980) – Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums^[332]
• Kerry Tribe (A.B. 1997) – installation artist^[333]
  

  Kerry Tribe (1997)
• Mark Tribe (A.B. 1990) – artist; chair of the School of Visual Arts' MFA program^[334]
• Marcus Waterman (1857) – Orientalist painter
• Virgil Macey Williams (1847–1850) – painter, co-founder of the San Francisco Art Association^[335]
• Saya Woolfalk (A.B. 2001) – multimedia artist

Game Design

• Elizabeth Hargrave (1994) – board game designer^[336]

Baseball

• Bill Almon (1975) – professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates; #1 pick in the 1974 draft^[337]
• Mark Attanasio (A.B. 1979) – financier and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers^[338]
• Charley Bassett – professional baseball player^[339]
• Tommy Dowd – professional baseball player^[340]
• Dave Fultz – professional baseball player^[341]
• Irving "Bump" Hadley (Class of 1928) – professional baseball player, pitcher for the Washington Senators and New York Yankees^[342]
• Mike Lynch – professional baseball player^[343]
• Frank Philbrick – professional baseball player^[344]
• Lee Richmond – professional baseball player, pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history^[345]
• Fred Tenney – professional baseball player^[346]
• William Edward White – possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball^[347]
  

  William Edward White

Basketball

• Lindsay Gottlieb (1999) – head coach, USC Trojans women's basketball
• Bernard Muir (1990) – athletic director at Stanford University
• Stephen Silas (1996) – head coach for the Houston Rockets

Football

• Don Colo (1950) – professional football player, three-time Pro Bowl selection; played for the Cleveland Browns^[348]
• Zak DeOssie (2007) – linebacker and long snapper for the New York Giants, two-time Pro Bowl selection (2008, 2010)^[349]
• James Develin (2010) – fullback for the New England Patriots; 2014 and 2016 Super Bowl Champion; 2017 Pro Bowl selection
• Mark Donovan (1988) – President of the Kansas City Chiefs
• John W. Heisman (Class of 1891) – college football player and coach; namesake of the Heisman Trophy^[350]
  

  John Heisman (1891)
• Steve Jordan (Sc.B. 1982) – professional football player, six-time All-Pro tight end who played for the Minnesota Vikings^[351]
• Sean Morey (1999) – Special Teams Captain of 2005 Super Bowl XL Champion Pittsburgh Steelers^[352]
• Bill O'Brien (A.B. 1992) – Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Alabama, former head Coach at Penn State^[353]
• Curly Oden (1921) – National Football League running back and member of 1928 league champion Providence Steam Roller
• Joe Paterno (A.B. 1950) – Head Coach for Penn State (1966–2011), all-time winningest Division I football coach^[354]
• E. J. Perry (A.B. 2021) – quarterback for the Michigan Panthers^[355]
  

  Joe Paterno (1950)
• Fritz Pollard (A.B. 1919) – first black All-American halfback; first black National Football League head coach; as a player, led the Akron Pros to the NFL's first-ever championship in 1920; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame^[356]
  

  Fritz Pollard (1919)
• Edward North Robinson (1896) – football coach at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Brown, Tufts, Boston University, and for the Providence Steam Roller; member of the College Football Hall of Fame^[357]
• Wallace Wade (1917) – football coach at the University of Alabama and then Duke, member of the College Football Hall of Fame; namesake of Duke's football stadium^[358]

Ice hockey

• Curt Bennett (1970) – professional ice hockey player, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Flames
• Yann Danis (A.B. 2004) – professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders
• Brian Eklund (A.B. 2002) – professional ice hockey goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning
• Garnet Hathaway (2014) – professional ice hockey forward for the Washington Capitals^[359]
• Brian Ihnacak (1985) – professional ice hockey forward for HC '05 Banská Bystrica
• Sam Lafferty (2018) – professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins^[360]

Lacrosse

• Timothy Kelly (2002) – General Manager of the New York Titans of the National Lacrosse League
• Dylan Molloy (2017) – player for the Chrome Lacrosse Club
• Lars Tiffany (1990) – head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of Virginia
• Dom Starsia (1974) – former head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of Virginia^[361]

Olympics^[362]

Other sports

• Rhett Bernstein (2009) – professional soccer player
• Mark Donohue (1959) – professional race car driver; 1972 Indianapolis 500 winner; fatally injured in a crash in practice for the Formula One 1975 Austrian Grand Prix; inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991)^[367]
• Charlie Enright (2008) – American sailor, winning skipper 2023 The Ocean Race
• Cory Gibbs (2001) – professional soccer player, Charlton Athletic, FA Premier League
• Fred Hovey (1890) – professional tennis player, US Open Men's Doubles Champion (1893) and Men's Singles Champion (1895)
• Jeff Larentowicz (2005) – professional soccer player, New England Revolution, Major League Soccer
• Bill Wirtz (1950) – owner of the Chicago Blackhawks