Notable alumni and leaders of Brown
Note: "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When just the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.
Rashid Mobin Ahmad (1988) – Chief of Cardiac Surgery of Rush University Medical Center
James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – longest-serving President of the University of Michigan (1871–1909)
Thomas Angell (1862) – Free Will Baptist preacher, professor at York University
Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President of Colby College, 1833–1836
Aaron T. Beck (1942) – "father of cognitive behavior therapy"; founder, Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award
Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – President, Yeshiva University
Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian and curator
Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – president and namesake, Berklee College of Music
Edgar S. Brightman – philosopher, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s advisor at Boston University
Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B.) – 5th president of Tufts University, 1915–1919
Walter Burse (1920) – President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts
Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B., 1925) – Rhodes Scholar, President of Kenyon College, 1937–1956
Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – founder and first President of Colby College, 1817–1833
Oren B. Cheney (1835–36) – Baptist preacher, abolitionist, founder and president of Bates College
Herman Chernoff (PhD, 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at MIT and of Statistics at Harvard University
Barbara Chernow (A.B., Economics) – Senior Vice President for Administration at Stony Brook University
Aram Chobanian – President, Boston University(2003~2005)
William E. Cooper – President, University of Richmond
Robert A. Corrigan (A.B.) – President, San Francisco State University
Douglas W. Diamond (A.B.) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Michael Dickinson (Sc. B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology California Institute of Technology, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
es:Daniel Eisenberg (M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971) – Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish at Florida State University
Romeo Elton (1817–1889) – professor of Latin and Greek Languages and trustee at Brown University; namesake of an endowed chair
Stanley Falkow – father of microbiology and professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of the Lasker Award, only second to the Nobel Prize
Daniel Fischel – Dean, University of Chicago Law School
Arthur Younger Ford (1884) – President of the University of Louisville (1914–1926)
Henry Simmons Frieze (1841) – President, University of Michigan
William Fulton (B.A. 1961) – algebraic geometer, former Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, winner of the Leroy P. Steele Prize
Brie Gertler (PhD 1997) – Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia
John Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist
Frederic Poole Gorham (A.M. 1894) – founder of bacteriological studies program, President of the American Society for Microbiology (1911)
Edward Guiliano – New York Institute of Technology President
John Guttag (A.B. 1971) – chair of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004)
Thomas Hassan – former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, first gentleman of New Hampshire
John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) – Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, Naval War College
Jerry Hausman (A.B., summa cum laude) – economist at MIT, inventor of Hausman specification test, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, only second in economics to the Nobel Prize
John Hope (1894) – first African American president of Morehouse College and co-founder of the Niagara Movement, which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Tracey Holloway, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Arthur L. Horwich (A.B., 1972 M.D., 1975 summa cum laude) – biologist, Lasker Award (2011) winner, and Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine
Judith Jacobson (1964) – co-founder of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Bruce J. Katz (A.B.) – vice president, Brookings Institution
JacSue Kehoe (PhD 1961) – former instructor at Brown University, renowned neuroscience lecturer and researcher at the CNRS
David Kelley (A.B., A.M.) – former professor of philosophy; founder of The Atlas Society
Sean Dorrance Kelly (Sc.B., M.S.) – Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) – Vice President of International Studies and professor of International Relations at Brown University
Jim Yong Kim (1981) – President, Dartmouth College, 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
Eric Klinenberg (AB 1983) – sociologist, professor at New York University
Luther Luedtke (PhD 1971) – former President of California Lutheran University and current President and CEO of Education Development Center
James A. MacAlister (1856) – first president of Drexel University
Bruce Mann – (Harvard Law School legal scholar)
Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd President of Brown University; first president of the University of South Carolina and Baptist minister
David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – President, Drake University
Alexander Meiklejohn (1893) – philosopher; free-speech advocate; dean of Brown University (1901–1913); president of Amherst College
Jessica Meir – Harvard professor, astronaut
Craig C. Mello,(Sc. B. 1982) – Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine) – professor University of Massachusetts Medical School
Kenneth R. Miller (Sc. B. 1970) – Professor of Biology at Brown University
Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – President, University of Richmond (1988–1998), Centre College (1982–1988), Salem College (1979–1982)
Samuel M. Nabrit (B.A. Morehouse College, 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
Anna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc. B. 1977, Sc. M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor and Director – Virtual Center for Supernetworks, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jay Newman (M.A.) – Professor of Philosophy at York University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Peter Norvig (Sc. B. 1978) – director of research at Google Inc.
Inman E. Page (AB 1877, AM 1880) – Together with George W. Milford the first African-American student, president of four colleges: the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University
Lynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Mount Holyoke College
Peter Pitegoff (A.B. 1975) – Dean and Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law
Jehuda Reinharz (Ph.D. 1972) – President, Brandeis University
Kenneth Alan "Ken" Ribet (A.B. and A.M. 1969) – professor of mathematics at U.C.-Berkeley, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
Chase F. Robinson (A.B.) – President and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jennifer Richeson (1994) – psychologist, Macarthur fellowship recipient
Paul Ridker (MD 1981) – cardiologist and medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University; on staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts; included in TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2004; previously named by TIME and CNN as one of "America's Best in Science and Medicine"
Gavriel David Rosenfeld (1989) – Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies at Fairfield University
David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Michael Silverstein – Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
Richard Slotkin (PhD) – Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Wesleyan University
Timothy D. Snyder – Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University
Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – psychologist, author of the opponent-process theory of emotion
David Summers (art historian)
James Tallmadge, Jr. (1798) – President of New York University (1830–1846); U.S. Congressman, New York
Arthur Taylor – President, Muhlenberg College (1992–2002), President, CBS (1972–1976)
J.P. Toennies – Direktor, Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung (1969–1998)
Rick Trainor (A.B.) – Principal of King's College London
William Freeman Twaddell – professor during 50s and 60s
Adam Ulam – Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union
Geoffrey Wawro (A.B. 1983) – military historian
Yang Wei (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Zhejiang University
Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – President, Tufts University
Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875) – Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University; President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919
Beniah Longley Whitman – President of Colby College and later President of George Washington University
Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – first American woman to serve as delegate to a major international conference; president of Mount Holyoke College
Maria Zuber – first female department head at MIT (planetary and geological sciences) and NASA planning advisor
Steven Zwicker (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969) – Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Technology and innovation
Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments
Seth Berkley (Sc. B., MD) – President, CEO and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Brian Binnie (Sc. B. 1975, Sc. M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheck
John H. Crawford (1975) – chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group
James B. Garvin (Sc. B. 1978, Sc. M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) – one of the first working female engineers; arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist; mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen
Randall Goya (A.B. 1980) – contributor to Drupal project, consultant for web application Enterprise architecture
Morton Gurtin (Ph.D. 1961) – Timoshenko Medal-winning mechanical engineer and mathematical physicist
Andy Hertzfeld (Sc. B. 1975) – key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of the primary software architects of the classic Mac OS
Eliot Horowitz – founder and CTO of MongoDB
Wesley Huntress – president, Planetary Society
William Williams Keen (1859) – first U.S. brain surgeon
David J. Lipman – director, National Center for Biotechnology Information
Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) – third NASA Administrator, oversaw first seven Apollo manned missions
Robert G. Parr (1942) – author of Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules
Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – Professor of Computer Science and co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University; lecturer and best-selling writer, The Last Lecture
Gordon Kidd Teal (Ph.D. 1931) – inventor of the silicon transistor
John Wilder Tukey (Sc. B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) – co-developed the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm; coined the terms bit, byte, software and cepstrum
Bob Wallace – ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware
George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Maia Weinstock – Deputy Editor of MIT News; feminist
Frank E. Winsor (Sc.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) – civil engineer; chief engineer for the Quabbin Reservoir and Scituate Reservoir projects; Brown University trustee
Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853)
Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851)
Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – Governor of Rhode Island–R (2003–2011); former CEO of Cookson America
Lincoln Chafee (1975) – Governor of Rhode Island
Samuel Cony (1829) – Governor of Maine (1864–1867)
Elisha Dyer – Governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859)
Elisha Dyer, Jr. – Governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900)
James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – Governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811; 1824–1831; 1843–1845)
Theodore Francis Green (1887) – Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator, D–Rhode Island (1937–1961)
Maggie Hassan – Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D–New Hampshire (2017-)
Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – Governor of New York (1907–1910)
Charles Jackson – Governor of Rhode Island (1845–46)
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – Governor of Louisiana–R (2008–)
Otto Kerner, Jr. (1930) – Governor of Illinois – (1961–1968)
William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – Justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); 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)
Jack A. Markell (1982) – Governor of Delaware–D (2009–)
Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844)
Pendleton Murrah (1848) – Governor of Texas during the American Civil War (1863–1865)
Philip W. Noel (1954) – former Governor of Rhode Island
Robert E. Quinn (1915) – Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court
Edward C. Stokes (1883) – Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908)
John Milton Thayer (1841) – Governor of Wyoming Territory and Governor of Nebraska
William D. Williamson (1804) – second Governor of the U.S. state of Maine and one of the first congressmen from Maine in the United States House of Representatives
Framer of the founding documents of the United States of America
Stephen Hopkins – First Chancellor of Brown University; Continental Congress delegate; signatory to the Declaration of Independence; introduced slavery ban to Rhode Island in 1774
United States Senators
Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853)
Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851)
Samuel G. Arnold (A.B. 1841) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
James Burrill, Jr. (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island; Governor of Rhode Island (2011–)
John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Nathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island
Nathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – United States Senator from Massachusetts
Lafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) – U.S. Senator, R-Connecticut (1855–1867), President pro tempore of the Senate, Acting Vice President of the United States
Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States Senator from Rhode Island
John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Theodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) – U.S. Senator, D- Rhode Island (1937–1961)
Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Senator elect, D-New Hampshire
Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) – U.S. Senator, R-Colorado (1879–1885)
John Holmes (A.B. 1796) – U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, one of the two first Senators from Maine
Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
William Hunter (A.B. 1791) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Edward L. Leahy (A.B. ???) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from New York
John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) – U.S. Senator from Maine
Frederic M. Sackett (1890) – U.S. Senator, R-Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)
Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Members of the United States House of Representatives
John Baldwin (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Connecticut (1825–1829)
Tristam Burges (A.B. 1796) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1835)
David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of state capital, Providence, Rhode Island; U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, 2011–present.
Howard A. Coffin (1901) – U.S. Congressman, R-Michigan
Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. Congressman, D-Ohio, D-New York, U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
Samuel L. Crocker (1822) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts
Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1821–1825)
Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835)
James Ervin (1797) U.S. Congressman, R-South Carolina (1817–1821)
Horace Everett (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Vermont (1829–1843)
Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 2nd and 4th districts
Julian Hartridge (1848) – U.S. Congressman, D-Georgia (1875–1879)
Nathaniel Hazard (1792) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1820)
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – U.S. Congressman, R-Louisiana 1st Congressional District (2004–2008)
Oscar Lapham (1864) – U.S. Congressman, D-Rhode Island, 1st Congressional District
Dan Maffei (1990) – U.S. Congressman, D-New York, 25th Congressional District
James Brown Mason (A.B. 1791) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1819)
Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844)
John J. O'Connor (1906) – U.S. Congressman, D-New York (1923–1939)
Dutee Jerauld Pearce (A.B. 1808) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1837)
Henry Kirke Porter (1860) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1903–1905)
Zabdiel Sampson (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820)
William P. Sheffield, II – U.S. Congressman, R-Rhode Island (1909–1911)
Solomon Sibley (1794) – first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial Delegate to Congress
Edward L. Sittler, Jr. (1930) – U.S. Congressman, R-Pennsylvania, 23rd Congressional District
Ebenezer Stoddard (1807) – United States Representative from Connecticut.
Daniel Wardwell (1811) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1831–1837)
William Widnall (1926) – U.S. Congressman, R-New Jersey (1950–1975)
John W. Wydler (1947) – U.S. Congressman, R-New York (1963–1981)
State legislators
F. Monroe Allen (Sc.B. 1951) – member of the Rhode Island State Senate from 1966 to 1974.
Sullivan Ballou – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives; Major in Rhode Island militia; killed at First Battle of Bull Run; writer of the "Dear Sarah" letter featured prominently in the Ken Burns documentary The Civil War
Antonio F. D. Cabral – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1990–present)
Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) – member of the Arkansas General Assembly (2006–present)
Elijah Hamlin – member of the Maine Legislature and two-time candidate for Governor of Maine
Steve Harrison (1990) – member of the West Virginia State Senate (2003–2006) and the West Virginia House of Delegates (1993–2002)
Wingate Hayes (1844) – Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1859 to 1860
Mee Moua (1992) – Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician
Mark Strama (1990) – member of the Texas House of Representatives
Austin Volk – member of the New Jersey General Assembly and mayor of Englewood, New Jersey
David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of state capital, Providence, Rhode Island; U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, 2011–present
Buddy Dyer – mayor of Orlando, Florida since 2003
W. Randolph Burgess (1912) – U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (1957–1961)
Dr. 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 under President Grover Cleveland
Rosemary DiCarlo – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2013)
R. P. Eddy (B.Sc. 1994) – Director of Counterterrorism, U.S. National Security Council, The White House; Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State for International Organizations; Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson; Senior Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Chief of Staff to Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
John Hay (A.B. 1858) – U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (A.B. 1962) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999–2001), United States Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 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
Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857)
Anthony Dryden Marshall – U.S. Consul in Istanbul, 1958–59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, 1969–71; Trinidad and Tobago, 1972–74; Kenya, 1973; Seychelles, 1976–77; theatrical producer; felon
Victoria Nuland – U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO (2005–2008)
Richard Olson (A.B. 1981) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2008–2011); United States Ambassador to Pakistan
Richard Olney (A.B. 1856) – U.S. Secretary of State (1895–1897)
Nit Phibunsongkhram (A.M.) – Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008), Thai Ambassador to the United States (1996–2000)
Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) – U.S. Senator, R-Kentucky (1924–1930), United States Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (A.B. 1937) – former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981)
Curtin Winsor, Jr. (A.B. 1961) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1983–1985)
Charles W. "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
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 – U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
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
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) – U.S. Secretary of Labor
Zachary Townsend (A.B. 2009) – Inaugural Chief Data Officer of California
Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
John Bonifaz (1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
Katherine Chon (BS 2002) – co-founder and Board President of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project
Derek Ellerman (BS 2002) – co-founder and Board Chairman of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project, former Ashoka fellow and current Ashoka Ambassador
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
Maya Keyes – anarchist and gay rights activist
Seth Magaziner (A.B. 2006) – candidate for Rhode Island General Treasurer
Horace Mann (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 female circumcision, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
Cecile Richards (1980) – President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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 non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch
Galina Starovoitova – visiting professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies 1994–1998; member of Russian Duma; leader of reformist Democratic Russia party; assassinated November 20, 1998
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
Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Family Court
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
Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
George Moulton Carpenter (B.A. 1864) – Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
Herbert F. DeSimone (B.A. 1910) – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation
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 (B.A. 1951) – Rhode Island Attorney General, 1933–1939; US District Court, 1940–1951; US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1951–1968
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)
Patrick C. Lynch – Rhode Island Attorney General (D)
Theron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
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
Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Leah Sprague (A.B. 1966) – Newburyport Massachusetts District Court Judge
Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – former U.S. Solicitor General; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings; President of Baylor University
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
Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court
Scott Aversano (A.B. 1991) – president of MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies
Marvin Bower (Sc. B. 1925) – co-founder of McKinsey & Company
Willard C. Butcher (1948) – chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan Bank
Lisa Caputo – chief marketing officer, Citigroup
Finn M.W. Caspersen (B.A. 1963) – financier, philanthropist, CEO of Beneficial Corporation and Knickerbocker Management
John S. Chen (Sc.B. 1978) – Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited
David Ebersman (A.B. 1991) – Chief Financial Officer of Facebook Inc.
Tom First (A.B. 1989) – co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, with Tom Smith
George M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – former CEO of Motorola and Eastman Kodak Company
Sidney E. Frank (class of 1942) – billionaire founder of Grey Goose and Jägermeister
Tom Gardner (A.B. 1990) – co-founder and co-chairman of the Motley Fool
Jeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) – chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies
Ross Greenburg (1977) – president of HBO Sports
Walter Hoving (1920) – CEO of Tiffany & Co.
Nina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) – former president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Jonathan Klein (A.B. 1980) – former president of CNN U.S. News
Liz Lange (A.B. 1988) – founder of Liz Lange Maternity
Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) – chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
Gordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) – former president and CEO, NASDAQ
Brian Moynihan (A.B. 1981) – president and CEO, Bank of America
Ajit Ranade – Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group
Steven Rattner (A.B. 1974) – deputy chairman and deputy CEO of Lazard Frères & Co.
William R. Rhodes (1957) – senior vice chairman of Citigroup
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1897) – son of John D. Rockefeller and builder of Rockefeller Center
Tom Rothman (A.B. 1976) – president, 20th Century Fox Film Group
Tom Scott (A.B. 1989) – co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, with Tom First
John Sculley (A.B. 1961) – president of PepsiCo (1977–1983); CEO of Apple Computer (1983–1993)
Lawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) – president of Fannie Mae; secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Orin R. Smith – Chairman and CEO, Engelhard (1999–2001)
Joseph H Spadaro (A.B. 1988) – founder and CEO, American Laundromat Records
Barry Sternlicht (A.B. 1982) – founder of Starwood Capital Group and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
Varun Thapar – (A.B. 2007) – executive with the Thapar Group
Ted Turner (Class of 1960 but did not graduate) – billionaire founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1937) – president and CEO of IBM (1956–1971); U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981)
Meredith Whitney (A.B. 1992) – equity research analyst notable for her prediction of the financial crisis of 2007–2009
Jim Axelrod (A.M. 1989) – Chief White House correspondent, CBS News
Chris Berman (A.B. 1977) – ESPN host and anchor
Martin Bernheimer – Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic
Duncan B. Black, aka Atrios – blogger
Robert Conley (1953) – founding member and former General Manager of NPR; creator and original host of All Things Considered; former New York Times front-page correspondent; National Geographic writer; reporter and anchor for NBC and the Huntley-Brinkley Report
Gareth Cook (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Boston Globe, for writing about stem cell research
Dana Cowin (A.B. 1982) – Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine
Lyn Crost (A.B. 1938) – World War II correspondent and author, Honor by Fire:Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
Adrian Dearnell – Franco-American financial journalist, CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media
Larry Elder (A.B. 1974) – columnist; radio personality; TV talk show host, The Larry Elder Show; author, The Ten Things You Can't Say in America
Chip Giller (A.B.) – environmentalist, founder of Grist
Ira Glass (A.B. 1982) – host and producer, National Public Radio, This American Life
Christopher L. Hayes (A.B. 2001) – Editor of The Nation and host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC
Taina Hernandez (A.B. 1996) – anchor of World News Now on ABC
Tony Horwitz – journalist, Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
A.J. Jacobs – journalist and author, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, The Year of Living Biblically
Amy Kellogg (A.B. 1987) – news reporter for the Fox News Channel
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (A.B. 1983) – lawyer; journalist; publisher of George magazine; son of President John F. Kennedy; killed in an airplane crash on July 16, 1999
Glenn Kessler (A.B. 1981) – diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post
Irving R. Levine – former NBC News correspondent
Mara Liasson (1977) – NPR correspondent
Bill Lichtenstein (1978) – journalist, documentary filmmaker, president of LCMedia, Inc.; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Peabody Award, U.N. Media Award, and 60 broadcast journalism honors.
Mark Maremont (1980) – senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Josh Marshall (Ph.D. 2003) – Polk Award-winning journalist; founder, Talking Points Memo
Linda Mason (1964) – producer and VP, CBS News; winner of 13 Emmy Awards
George Musser (Sc. B. 1988) – author and editor at Scientific American
Scott Poulson-Bryant (A.B. 2008, though originally in Class of 1989) – co-founding editor of VIBE Magazine and author of HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
Andrew C. Revkin (A.B. 1978) – environmental journalist, New York Times; recipient of 2008 Columbia University Journalism School John Chancellor Award
Quentin Reynolds – one of two journalists in London during The Blitz
James Risen – journalist for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times covering national intelligence; author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency; broke the 2005 story of warrantless NSA wiretapping; 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner
David S. Rohde (A.B. 1990) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist; escaped from 7-month Taliban captivity in 2009
Margaret Russell – Editor-in-Chief, Elle Decor magazine; design judge, Top Design
Aaron Schatz (1996) – ESPN NFL analyst, founder of Football Outsiders
Kathryn Schulz (A.B. 1996) – contributor to the Freakonomics blog and freelance journalist
Julia Flynn Siler (A.B. 1983) – journalist and nonfiction author
Amy Sohn (A.B. 1995) – columnist, New York magazine; novelist, Run Catch Kiss and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell
Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – host, MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart
André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; author, A.L.T.: A Memoir
Krista Tippett (A.B. 1983) – host, NPR's Speaking of Faith
Alex Wagner (A.B. 1999) – host, Now with Alex Wagner, MSNBC
Lady Gabriella Windsor (A.B. 2004) – member of the British royal family
David Allyn (A.B. 1991) – author, Make Love, Not War, I Can't Believe I Just Did That, playwright, Baptizing Adam
Daniel Altieri (A.M. 1971) – author, translator, The Court of the Lion: A novel of the T'ang Dynasty, Deception aka Iron Empress, Shangri-La (officially sanctioned sequel to Lost Horizon), Shore of Pearls, The Death of Fernie
Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – author, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Verificationist, The Hundred Brothers, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
Jacob M. Appel (A.B. 1995) – author, playwright, Arborophilia, Creve Coeur, The Mistress of Wholesome
Peter Balakian (Ph.D. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Ozone Journal
Edward Ball (1982) – National Book Award-winning nonfiction writer, Slaves in the Family, The Genetic Strand
Aliki Barnstone (A.B., M.A.) – poet and translator, author of Bright Body, four other poetry books, and The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation
Josh Bazell, novelist
Lisa Birnbach (A.B. 1978) – author, The Official Preppy Handbook
Kate Bornstein (née Albert Bornstein) (A.B. 1969) – transgender activist, performance artist, playwright, gender theorist, and author, Gender Outlaws and My Gender Workbook
Jeffrey Carver (A.B. 1971) – science fiction author, Nebula Award finalist
Susan Cheever (1965) – author
Ted Chiang – Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer
Brian Christian (A.B. 2006) – author, The Most Human Human
Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics
Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – American Book Award-winning author, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Dew Breaker, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
David Ebershoff – Lambda Literary Award-winning author, The Danish Girl, editor-at-large at Random House, professor at Columbia University
Jeffrey Eugenides (A.B. 1983) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot
Rudolph Fisher (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920) – author, musician, physician; a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright/avant-garde theater pioneer; founder, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
Peter Gizzi (M.F.A. 1991) – poet, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers
Jaimy Gordon – National Book Award-winning author, Lord of Misrule
Andrew Sean Greer – author, The Path of Minor Planets, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Scott Haltzman (1982, M.D. 1985) – psychiatrist, author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever
Tony Horwitz (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author of Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, and Baghdad Without a Map
Kika Hotta (jp：Kika Hotta) (A.B. 1997) – Japanese poet (mainly haiku and tanka style) and translator
Constance Hunting (A.B. 1947) – poet, founder of Puckerbrush Press
Shelley Jackson (M.F.A.) – author, Patchwork Girl, Half Life
Steven Johnson (A.B. 1990) – writer, pop-science, author, Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
Winthrop Jordan (PhD 1960) – American Civil War and racial history writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize
Barbara Keiler (A.M. 1976 in creative writing) – romance novelist, specializing in the contemporary subgenre; has written as "Ariel Berk", "Judith Arnold" and "Thea Frederick"
T. E. D. Klein (A.B. 1969) – horror fiction writer and magazine editor
Caroline Knapp (A.B.) – essayist and author, Drinking: A Love Story
Richard Kostelanetz (A.B.1962) – cultural historian, fictioner, poet, experimental writer, critic of avant-garde arts and artists, anthologist
Geoffrey A. Landis (Ph.D. 1988) – Nebula Award and Hugo Award-winning scientist-writer and science fiction author
Reif Larsen (A.B 2003) – professor at Columbia University; author, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Ben Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet, author of Angle of Yaw, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Lichtenberg Figures, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
David Levithan (A.B. 1993) – author, Boy Meets Boy, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Alan Levy – author
David Lipsky (A.B. 1987) – author, Three Thousand Dollars, The Art Fair, Absolutely American
Sam Lipsyte (A.B. 1990) – author, Home Land, Venus Drive, The Fun Parts
Lois Lowry (Class of 1958) – Newbery Medal-winning author, The Giver
Thomas Mallon (A.B.) – author, Henry and Clara, Bandbox, Dewey Defeats Truman, Two Moons
Ben Marcus (M.F.A. 1991) – author, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women
Alex McAulay (A.B.) – author, Bad Girls, Lost Summer, Oblivion Road, Shelter Me
Emily Arnold McCully (A.B. 1961) – Caldecott Award-winning children's author, Mirette on the High Wire
Mark C. McGarrity (A.B. 1966) – wrote crime fiction under the name Bartholomew Gill
Roland Merullo (A.B., M.A.) – author
Steven Millhauser – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Martin Dressler
Rick Moody (A.B. 1983) – author, The Ice Storm, Garden State, Purple America, The Diviners
Rebecca Morris - nonficton author, Ted and Ann, If I Can't Have You, A Killing in Amish Country
Nicanor Parra – Chilean poet, author of Poemas y Antipoemas
S. J. Perelman – humorist, The New Yorker; author; Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Around the World in Eighty Days
Nathaniel Philbrick – nonfiction writer; National Book Award winner, In the Heart of the Sea, Sea of Glory, Mayflower
Vicki Robin (A.B. 1967) – activist, author, Your Money or Your Life
Marilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) – Pulitzer Prize and Orange Prize-winning author, Gilead, Housekeeping, Home
Ariel Sabar (A.B. 1993) – author, National Book Critics Circle Award 2009 for My Father's Paradise
Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
David Shenk (A.B. 1988) – filmmaker and author, The End of Patience, Data Smog, whose title has entered the English vocabulary
David Shields (A.B. 1978) – author, Reality Hunger
Scott Snyder (B.A. 1998) – author of the story collection Voodoo Heart and writer of Vertigo Comics's ongoing original series American Vampire
Brian Kim Stefans (M.F.A. 2006) – poet, professor of English at UCLA, author of Viva Miscegenation and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics
Nathanael West (1924) – author, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust
Meg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) – author, Belzhar, The Interestings, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap
Samuel Warren Abbott (A.M. 1858) – first medical examiner and first secretary of Massachusetts' first state board of health from 1886 to 1904
Lynda Chin (A.B. 1988) – department chair and professor of genomic medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; scientific director of the MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science; in 2012 was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
George E. Coghill – anatomist
Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States; member of Brown's Board of Fellows
David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and first Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown; a leading researcher and activist on drugs policy issues
Neel Shah – Executive Director of Costs of Care, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
G. Edward Buxton (Ph.B. 1902) – commanding officer of Sergeant Alvin C. York; first assistant director of the OSS
Norman Dike (1941) – captain of the United States Army during World War II (promoted to lieutenant colonel after the war)
James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory
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 – founder and conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra
MC Paul Barman (A.B. 1997) – cult rapper
Marco Beltrami (Sc. B. 1988) – two-time Academy Award-nominated film score composer, Scream (1996), Resident Evil (2002), Blade II (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), I, Robot (2004), Hellboy (2004), Red Eye (2005), The Omen (2006), 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)
Clare Burson – singer-songwriter
David Buskin (A.B 1965) – singer (Modern Man), songwriter, jingle composer, Clio Award winner (1983)
Wendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) – composer and electronic musician, Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Tron (1982)
Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) – country singer-songwriter
Chubb Rock – rapper (did not graduate)
Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963) – Boston Camerata
Alvin Curran – avant-garde composer
Catie Curtis (1987) – contemporary folk singer-songwriter
Dave Dederer – guitarist, singer, and founding member of rock band The Presidents of the United States of America
Sage Francis – rapper
Shelby Gaines (1991) – musician and artist
Dhani Harrison – son of George Harrison, composer, guitarist
Lili Haydn (1992) – singer-songwriter-violinist
Nicolas Jaar (A.B. 2012) – avant-garde electronic music producer, owner and founder of record label and art house Clown & Sunset
Sophie Hawley-Weld & Tucker Halpern (A.B. 2014) - members of the electronic jungle-pop musical duo: Sofi Tukker
Elliott Kerman (A.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 (Brown professor, 1964) – conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Lisa Loeb (A.B. 1990) – alternative singer-songwriter; first unsigned artist to top the American charts (three weeks at #1)
The Low Anthem – celebrated indie folk band that includes alums Ben Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky and Jocie Adams
Erin McKeown – 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 (dropped out after one semester) – 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
Susan Salms-Moss (A.B. 1967) – soprano
Theodore Shapiro – film score composer, State and Main (2000), Heist (2001), Old School (2003), Along Came Polly (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Blades of Glory (2007), Semi-Pro (2008), Marley & Me (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), I Love You, Man (2008), We're the Millers (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
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
Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) – alternative rock singer-songwriter
Gwyneth Walker (A.B. 1967) – composer
ZOX – SideOneDummy recording artist, composed of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain
Eva Amurri (2007) – actress, Loving Annabelle (2005), Saved! (2004), The Banger Sisters (2002); daughter of Susan Sarandon
Scott E. Anderson (Sc.B. 1986) – Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, "Babe" (1995), and nominee "Starship Troopers" (1997), "Hollow Man" (2000)
Bess Armstrong (1975) – actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China (1983)
Art "Monty" Berger(1986 BA) – director - Winner 3 Emmy Awards, 9 Nominations, Two Hammer Awards, Acting Road House, Naked Gun
Steve Bloom (A.B.) – screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach, The Sure Thing, Tall Tale, Jack Frost
David Conrad (A.B.) – actor, Wedding Crashers, Ghost Whisperer
Yaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) – actress, Take the Lead (2006), Honeydripper (2007), The Kids Are All Right (2010), The Butler (2013); fashion model
Lucy DeVito (B.F.A.) – actress, Leaves of Grass (2009)
Tom Dey (A.B. 1987) – director, Shanghai Noon (2000), Showtime (2002), Failure to Launch (2006), Marmaduke (2010)
Alice Drummond (A.B. 1950) – actress, Awakenings (1990), Nobody's Fool (1994), Doubt (2008)
Richard Fleischer (A.B. 1939) – director, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Narrow Margin (1952), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), The Boston Strangler (1968), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Mandingo (1975), Soylent Green (1973); Academy Award-winning documentary producer, Design for Death (1947)
Josh Friedman – screenwriter, War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Liz Garbus (A.B. 1992) – Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
Randal Goya (A.B. 1980) – post-production sound engineer (foleys), sound editor, Associate Producer, One From the Heart (1981), Star 80 (1983), Silkwood (1983), Crackers (1984), The Way It Is (Eurydice In the Avenues) (1985), El caballero del dragón (1985), Elvis '56 (1987), My Demon Lover (1987), Basements (1987), Shakedown (1988)
Davis Guggenheim (1986) – Academy Award-winning documentary film director, An Inconvenient Truth (2006), It Might Get Loud (2009), and Waiting for "Superman" (2010); film director for Gracie (2007), Gossip (2000), and episodes of 24, Alias, The Shield, ER, NYPD Blue
John Hamburg (A.B.) – director, I Love You, Man (2009), Along Came Polly (2004); screenwriter, Zoolander (2001), Meet the Parents (2000), Meet the Fockers (2004)
Hill Harper (A.B. 1988) – actor, Constellation (2005), Lackawanna Blues (2005), CSI: NY (2004)
Todd Haynes (A.B. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Mildred Pierce (2011), I'm Not There (2007), Far from Heaven (2002), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (1995), and Poison (1991)
Sean Hood – screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed, Cube 2: Hypercube
Ruth Hussey (A.B. 1933) – Academy Award-nominated actress, The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Oren Jacoby – Academy Award-nominated documentarian, Constantine's Sword (2008)
Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) – independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
Simon Kinberg – screenwriter and producer, X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Jumper (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
John Krasinski (A.B. 2001) – playwright, actor, The Office, License to Wed, Leatherheads
Ellen Kuras – 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 (2013), 50/50 (2011), The Wackness (2008), All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Doug Liman (A.B. 1988) – director and producer, The O.C., Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Fair Game (2010),Jumper (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), 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 (2007), The Nanny Diaries (2007), The Squid and the Whale (2005),The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Kinsey (2004), Mystic River (2003), Love Actually (2003), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Truman Show (1998), Absolute Power (1997), Primal Fear (1997)
Tom Lipinski (A.B. 2004) – Suits 2011–2013, Labor Day 2013, The Following 2013, The Knick 2014
Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Out of Africa (1985)
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 (2004), The Iron Giant (1999), Jack Frost (1998)
Ross McElwee (A.B. 1970) – documentary filmmaker, Sherman's March (1986) and Bright Leaves (2004)
Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) – Student Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Twitch (2005)
Tim Blake Nelson (A.B. 1986) – actor, Lincoln (2012), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Syriana (2005), Minority Report (2002), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Thin Red Line (1998); director, Leaves of Grass (2009), O (2001), The Grey Zone (2001)
Lorraine Nicholson (2012) – actress, Soul Surfer (2011)
Angela Robinson (A.B. 1992) – director, Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), D.E.B.S. (2003), D.E.B.S. (2004)
Danny Rubin (A.B. 1979) – screenwriter, Groundhog Day
Michael Showalter (A.B. 1992) – actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Baxter (2005) and the series The State, Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues
Leelee Sobieski (attended) – actress, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Never Been Kissed (1999), Here on Earth (2000), Joy Ride (2001), The Glass House (2001), Wicker Man (2006), 88 Minutes (2007), Public Enemies (2009); nominated for an Emmy for Joan of Arc
Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – radio and television journalist; filmmaker
Matthew Sussman – actor, documentary filmmaker
Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) – actress, Rushmore (1998), Old School (2003), Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Christine Vachon (A.B. 1983) – acclaimed independent film producer, I'm Not There (2007), Infamous (2006), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Far From Heaven (2002), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Boys Don't Cry (1999); executive producer, This American Life
Vanessa Vadim (A.B. 1990) – independent documentary producer and cinematographer, Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend (2005), Fire in Our House (1995)
Andrew Wagner (A.B. 1985) – writer, director, Starting Out in the Evening (2007), The Talent Given Us (2004)
Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Doc Hollywood, Tommy Boy
Emma Watson (A.B. 2014) – actress, the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), Ballet Shoes (2007), The Tale of Despereaux (2008), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) – actress, The Big Chill, Poltergeist
Scout LaRue Willis (A.B. 2014) – actress
Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer (A.B. 1991) – actress, Modern Family,Boston Legal, Ed, Happy Gilmore (1996)
Warren Brown – host, Sugar Rush
Jessica Capshaw (A.B. 1998) – actress, Grey's Anatomy,The Practice, Minority Report (2002)
Jordan Carlos (A.B. 2001) – comedian, Stephen Colbert's "black friend"
Kitty Chen (B.A. 1966) – actress, Law & Order, writer
Jude Ciccolella (B.A. 1969) – actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24
Aunjanue Ellis (A.B. 1993) – actress, The Mentalist
Eve Gordon (B.A. 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/producer, The Sopranos, Northern Exposure
David Groh (1961) – actor, Rhoda
Marin Hinkle – actress, Once and Again, Two and a Half Men
Tina Holmes (1995) – actress, Six Feet Under
Peter Jacobson (1987) – actor, House M.D.
Rafe Judkins – 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 (1999), Fire in Our House (1995), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) – actor, The Office, Leatherheads, License to Wed
Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) – actress, Ellen, Andy Barker, P.I.
Florencia Lozano (B.A. 1992) – actress, One Life to Live
Ian Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) – writer, producer, The Simpsons, "Saturday Night Live"
Masi Oka (Sc. B. 1997) – actor, Heroes, Scrubs, Will and Grace, Gilmore Girls, Get Smart (2008)
Tracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995) – actress, Girlfriends, Blackish, daughter of Diana Ross
Sam Trammell (A.B. 1991) – actor, True Blood
Bee Vang – actor, Gran Torino
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 – actor, About a Boy
Ayad Akhtar (1993) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Disgraced
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
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
Nilo Cruz (M.F.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics
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
Gina Gionfriddo (MFA 1997) – playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Becky Shaw (2009) and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013); producer, Law and Order]'
Stephen Karam – 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)
Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – Pulitzer Prize–winning, Macarthur fellowship recipient playwright, Ruined
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 – Tony Award-winning playwright, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Alfred Uhry – playwright; Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
David Yazbek (1982) – Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, 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 (appointed by Barack Obama)
Alfred W. Anthony (A.B. 1883) – Professor at Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, author, Free Will Baptist minister
Alexander Viets Griswold (A.B. 1810) – Episcopal Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (A.B. 1828) – first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania; because the original Diocese of Central Pennsylvania was the predecessor diocese of the current Diocese of Bethlehem, he is counted as first bishop of Bethlehem as well
William Bullein Johnson (A.M. 1814) – South Carolina Baptist leader; first president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Associate of first president of Columbian College (later The George Washington University) William Staughton and Luther Rice; instrumental in founding Furman University, out of which emerged Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Adoniram Judson (A.B. 1807) – Baptist missionary; due to his efforts, Myanmar has the third largest number of Baptists worldwide, behind the United States and India
Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – President of Brown University and Baptist minister
George Maxwell Randall (A.B. 1835) – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and Parts Adjacent
Joshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting minister with U.S. sympathies
Leila Pahlavi (A.B. 1992) – Princess of Iran; youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran
Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein (Sc.B. 1985) – son of the late King Hussein of Jordan; Commander of the Jordan Royal Air Force
Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 1993) – member of the titular royal family of Greece
Prince Rahim Aga Khan (A.B. 1995) – eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 2006) – member of the titular royal family of Greece
Jonathan Adler (A.B. 1988) – potter, designer and author
Evan Altman (A.B. 2013) – artist living in Brooklyn. Also does programming.
Dave Cole (A.B. 2000) – sculptor, visual artist
John Connell (Class of 1962) – sculptor, painter
Barnaby Evans (1975) – creator of the environmental art installation WaterFire
Leya Evelyn – painter
Brian Floca (A.B. 1991) – author and book illustrator
Susan Freedman (A.B. 1982) – president of the Public Art Fund, an arts organization that commissions public installations by established and emerging contemporary visual artists
Isca Greenfield-Sanders (A.B. 2000) – artist
Karl Haendel (A.B. 1998) – artist
John G. Haskell – architect of Kansas public buildings, including the Kansas State Capitol
Raymond Hood (1902) – architect whose works include Tribune Tower in Chicago and Rockefeller Center in New York
Norman Isham (A.B. 1886, M.A. 1890) – Rhode Island historical architect
Clare Johnson (A.B. 2004) – artist and writer
Ken Johnson (A.B. 1976) – art critic for the New York Times
Paul Ramirez Jonas (A.B. 1987) – contemporary artist
Nina Katchadourian (A.B. 1989) – multimedia artist
Ed Koren (former professor) – writer and illustrator of children's books and political cartoons, notably in The New Yorker
Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – book-art, audio, video, photography, film, holography
Paul Laffoley (A.B. 1962) – artist and architect
Sarah Oppenheimer (A.B. 1995) – visual artist and sculptor
Maureen Paley (A.B. 1975) – established the first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists
Jeff Shesol (A.B. 1991) – cartoonist, Thatch; scriptwriter for Bill Clinton
Taryn Simon – fine art photographer
Scott Snibbe (A.B. 1991, M.Sc. 1994) – interactive media artist
Thomas Alexander Tefft (1851) – pioneer American architect
Saya Woolfalk (A.B. 2001) – multimedia artist
Mark Donohue (1959) – professional racing driver; 1972 Indianapolis 500 champion; first to drive at Indy for record-setting car owner Roger Penske (1969); fatally injured in a crash in practice for the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix (1975); inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991)
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
Mark Attanasio (A.B. 1979) – financier and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
Charley Bassett – professional baseball player
Tommy Dowd – professional baseball player
Dave Fultz – professional baseball player
Irving "Bump" Hadley (Class of 1928) – professional baseball player, pitcher for the Washington Senators and New York Yankees
Mike Lynch – professional baseball player
Frank Philbrick – professional baseball player
Lee Richmond – professional baseball player, pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history
Fred Tenney – professional baseball player
Craig Robinson – head basketball coach, 2006–2008; older brother of First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama
Don Colo (1950) – professional football player, three-time Pro Bowl selection; played for the Cleveland Browns
Zak DeOssie (2007) – linebacker and long snapper for the New York Giants, two-time Pro Bowl selection (2008, 2010)
James Develin (2010) – fullback for the New England Patriots; 2014 Super Bowl Champion
John W. Heisman (Class of 1891) – college football player and coach; namesake of the Heisman Trophy
Steve Jordan (Sc.B. 1982) – professional football player, six-time All-Pro tight end who played for the Minnesota Vikings
Sean Morey – Special Teams Captain of 2005 Super Bowl XL Champion Pittsburgh Steelers
Bill O'Brien (A.B. 1992) – Assistant Football Coach and Offensive Coordinator of the New England Patriots, Head Coach for Penn State (2012–)
Joe Paterno (A.B. 1950) – Head Coach for Penn State (1966–2011), all-time winningest Division I football coach
Fritz Pollard (A.B. 1919) – first black All-American halfback; first black National Football League head coach; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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
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
Tessa Gobbo (2013) – American rower, Olympic gold (2016) medalist in women's coxed eight rowing
Helen Johns Carroll (A.B. 1936) – freestyle swimmer, U.S. Olympic gold medalist in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Kathleen Kauth (2001) – ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist
Katie King (1997) – ice hockey player, Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medalist
Xeno Müller – Swiss rower, Olympic gold (1996) and silver (2000) medalist in the single scull
Albina Osipowich Van Aiken (A.B. 1933) – freestyle swimmer, won two gold medals for the U.S. in 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jimmy Pedro (A.B. 1994) – most decorated American male judo athlete; Judo World Champion (1999); two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1996, 2004); coaches Kayla Harrison, who won Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016
Alicia Sacramone (2010) – 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, U.S. Women's Gymnastic Team silver medal
Norman Taber (1913) – track and field athlete, member of the 1912 Olympic gold medal-winning 3000m relay team
Anna Willard (2006) – 2008 Olympic qualifier in 3000m steeplechase, American record holder in 3000m steeplechase
Joanna Zeiger (1992) – fourth in inaugural Olympic Women's Triathlon, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney; Olympic trial qualifier in marathon, triathlon and swimming
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
Cory Gibbs (2001) – professional soccer player, Charlton Athletic, FA Premier League
Emrah Gultekin (1995) – captain of the Turkish National Swimming Team
Fred Hovey (1890) – professional tennis player, US Open Men's Doubles Champion (1893) and Men's Singles Champion (1895)
Brian Ihnacak – (1985) – professional ice hockey player
Timothy Kelly (2002) – General Manager of the New York Titans of the National Lacrosse League
Jeff Larentowicz (2005) – professional soccer player, New England Revolution, Major League Soccer
Alicia Sacramone (2010) – gymnast, winner of several world championships and Olympic medals
Bill Wirtz – owner of the Chicago Blackhawks
Joanna Zeiger (1992) – triathlete; Olympian; 2008 Ironman 70.3 world champion; won 2005 Ironman Brazil and 2006 Ironman Coeur d'Alene
David Howell, A.M.
Joshua Toulmin, A.M.
James Mitchell Varnum
Theodore Foster
Samuel Ward, Jr.
Solomon Drowne
Dwight Foster
Esek Hopkins
Michael V. Bhatia (A.B. 1999) – Medal of Freedom recipient
Alexandra Bruce (A.B. 1986) – publisher, author, filmmaker
Dana Buchman (A.B. 1973) – fashion designer
Amy Carter (Class of 1989) – daughter of former President Jimmy Carter; political activist
William C. Chase (A.B. 1916) – soldier
Alexandra Kerry – daughter of presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John Kerry
Kimberly Ovitz (A.B. 2005) – fashion designer
Andre Leon Talley (M.A. 1973) – editor of Vogue Magazine
Allegra Versace (Class of 2008) – heiress to Gianni Versace's fortune and daughter of Donatella Versace
Luke Weil (Class of 2002) – heir to Autotote fortune, appeared in Jamie Johnson's documentary Born Rich
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic; author of
Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies
Amanda Anderson
literary critic
Andrew W. Mellon Professor for the Humanities
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian novelist and playwright
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Susan E. Alcock
archaeologist, MacArthur Award recipient
Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Nancy Armstrong
literary critic and author of
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies
Nomy Arpaly
Assistant Professor of Philosophy specializing in questions of moral agency
Ariella Azoulay
comparative linguistics professor
Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media
Thomas Banchoff
mathematician specializing in geometry; known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions
Professor of Mathematics
Mark F.Bear (Ph.D, Brown University)
neuroscientist; author of one of the world's most widely used neuroscience introductory textbooks; since 2003, the head of the MIT Brain Lab; part of the 10-member jury, the Champalimaud Vision Award, bestowed by the Champalimaud Foundation
David Berson
discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones)
Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Sheila Blumstein
cognitive/linguistic scientist
Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Tracy Breton
winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for investigative reporting
Visiting Professor of English
Eugene Charniak
computer scientist
University Professor of Computer Science
Forrest Gander
poet
The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor and Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature
Constance Bumgarner Gee
art policy scholar, memoirist, and advocate of the medical use of cannabis
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Matthew Pratt Guterl
historian
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
former president of Brazil
Professor-at-large of International Studies
James T. Campbell
historian
Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975)
former Republican member of the United States Senate
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in International Relations
Colin Channer
writer
Assistant Professor of Literary Arts
Roderick Chisholm (~1999)
philosopher known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of perception; influenced a generation of Brown philosophers including Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa
Jarat Chopra
international lawyer, father of peacekeeping doctrine since the Cold War
Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies faculty member
Leon Neil Cooper
Nobel Prize in Physics 1972; father of superconductivity, and developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity in neuroscience
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
Robert Coover
post-modern writer,
Spanking the Maid,
The Origin of the Brunists; notable for his metafiction; electronic literature pioneer
T. B. Stowell University Professor, Adjunct Professor of English
Robert Creeley
poet,
For Love
Professor of English
Constantine Dafermos
mathematician
Alumni/Alumnae University Professor of Applied Mathematics
Philip J. Davis
applied mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; co-author of
The Mathematical Experience
Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics
Anne DeGroot
medical researcher developing vaccines for infectious diseases including HIV, TB, West Nile virus, smallpox, and tularemia
'Associate Professor of Community Health
David Dosa
geriatrician, author of "A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat", the
New England Journal of Medicine article that described the purported abilities of Oscar the cat to predict imminent death
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Daniel C. Drucker(~2001)
authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics; recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Timoshenko Medal, the ASME Medal, and the Drucker Medal, of which he is the namesake
Curt Ducasse(~1966)
philosopher noted for philosophy of mind and aesthetics; influenced Roderick Chisholm; former president of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division
David F. Duncan
epidemiologist and addictionologist, author of
Drugs and the Whole Person
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Peter D. Eimas
Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
David Estlund
philosopher
Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities
Anne Fausto-Sterling
major contributor to the fields of sexology, biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles
James L. Fitzgerald
indologist
Carlos Fuentes
writer; widely considered the most influential author of the Spanish-speaking world since Jorge Luis Borges
Oded Galor
economist studying economic growth; developer of the unified growth theory
Herbert H.Goldberger Professor of Economics
Forrest Gander
poet, author of
Eye Against Eye,
Torn Awake, Whiting Writers' Award and Howard Foundation Award winner
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Leela Gandhi
literary critic
John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English
Stuart Geman
mathematician
James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics
Mary Louise Gill
philosopher and author of several books on Aristotle and Plato
David Benedict Professor of Classics and Philosophy
Paul Guyer
philosopher
Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy
Ulf Grenander
mathematician, originator of the Pattern Theory in mathematics, which also influenced David Mumford
L.Herbert Ballou University Professor
Gerald Guralnik
physicist; co-discoverer of the Higgs mechanism, Sakurai Prize winner
Chancellor's Professor of Physics
Peter Howitt
economist, co-originator of the
Schumpeterian Paradigm with Philippe Aghion
Michael S. Harper
poet; first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island
Professor of English
James Head (Ph.D. 1969)
planetary geologist who trained Apollo astronauts and led imaging teams for NASA's interplanetary unmanned probes, from the Viking program to Mars
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences
Dwight B. Heath
anthropologist, foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies
Research Professor of Anthropology
Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962)
broker of the Dayton Accords; former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Professor-at-Large of International Studies
Stephen Houston
archeologist, expert on Mayan hieroglyphics, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
Professor of Anthropology
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
historian of Asian migration in Latin America and the Caribbean and theorist of diasporas and transnationalism
Professor of History and Professor of American Studies
George Karniadakis
mathematician
James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics
David Kertzer
historian, anthropologist, author of
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and
Prisoner of the Vatican
Provost, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies
Sergei Khrushchev
son of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Senior Fellow in International Studies
Jaegwon Kim
philosopher of mind, action theorist, author of
Mind in a Physical World
William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy
John M. Kosterlitz
of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (condensed matter physics); winner of the 1981 Maxwell Medal and Prize, and the 2000 Onsager Prize (one of the APS main awards)
Professor of Physics
Peter D. Kramer
author,
Listening to Prozac,
Against Depression
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Charles Kraus
chemist; consultant for the Manhattan Project; won the Priestley Medal and Franklin Medal
Shriram Krishnamurthi
computer scientist
Hans Kurath
linguist; known for publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US
Linguistic Atlas of New England, winning the Loubat Prize, and for being the first main editor of the Middle English Dictionary
Ricardo Lagos
former president of Chile
Professor-at-large of International Studies
George Lamming
Barbadian author,
In the Castle of My Skin,
Natives of My Person
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Charles Larmore
political philosopher, formerly a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law, known for critique of Rawlsian liberalism
Duncan Macmillian Professor of Philosophy
Ross Levine
advisor to the United States Treasury, Federal Reserve System, and World Bank; highly cited economist, ranked 10th in the world, according to RePEc
James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics
David C. Lewis
addictions specialist and authority on drug policy
Donald G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction
Michael L. Littman
computer scientist
Glenn Loury
once regarded as "one of the most prominent black conservatives in the nation;" now considered much more "progressive"
Professor of Economics
Catherine Lutz
anthropologist
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropolopgy and International Studies
Peter MacAvoy
former member of the US Council of Economic Advisers
Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970)
supporter of evolution involved in numerous public debates and trials about the teaching of intelligent design in schools
Professor of Biology
Hyman Minsky(~1996)
economist who researched into financial market fragility; his theories are considered the most accurate description of the financial crisis; namesake of the Minsky moment
Edmund Morgan
historian
James Morone
political scientist noted for his work on health politics, popular participation, morality in politics, and on political development
David Mumford
Fields Medal-winning mathematician, MacArthur Fellow
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Ron Nelson
composer
Professor of Music (retired)
Otto Neugebauer
historian of mathematics
Professor of the History of Mathematics
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
philosopher
Katsumi Nomizu
co-author of
Foundations of Differential Geometry (1963, 1969)
Professor of Mathematics (1960–95)
Martha Nussbaum
philosopher, authored
The Fragility of Goodness while teaching at Brown
Professor of Philosophy (1985~95)
Lars Onsager
Norwegian-born physicist who taught at Brown (1928–33); Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 awarded for Onsager reciprocal relations, produced while at Brown but was not tenured
Paul Phillips
conductor, composer, and world's leading scholar on the music of author Anthony Burgess
Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music
David Pingree
Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow (1981)
William Poole
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (1998–present); served on Reagan's White House Council of Economic Advisors
Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics (1974–98)
Kurt Raaflaub
Professor of Classics and History
Tricia Rose
historian
Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Boris Rozovsky
mathematician
Ford Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics
Björn Sandstede
mathematician
Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics
Robert Scholes
President, Modern Language Association; author,
The Rise and Fall of English; co-author,
The Nature of Narrative
Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media
Chi-Wang Shu
mathematician
Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics
Dr. Arun K. Singh
Professor Emeritus and prominent heart surgeon
Robert Sedgewick
author of well-known computer science book
Algorithms; board of directors, Adobe Systems
Professor of Computer Science (1975~85)
Meinolf Sellmann
computer scientist, best known for algorithmic research in combinatorial optimization and artificial intelligence
Vernon L. Smith
Nobel Prize in Economics, for developing empirical and scientific methods into economic research
George Snell
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovering the genetic bases of immunological reactions
Teacher in Biology (1930~31)
Joseph H. Silverman
number theorist, co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.
Professor of Mathematics
Ernest Sosa
philosopher, epistemologist
George Stigler
Nobel Prize in Economics, on the influence of government regulation on the economy
Professor of Economics (1946~47)
Dom Illtyd Trethowan
philosopher
Visiting Professor in Theology
Andries "Andy" van Dam
computer graphics and hypertext pioneer, and co-founder of ACM SICGRAPH, precursor to SIGGRAPH
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education,
Professor of Computer Science, former (and first) Vice President for Research
John E. Savage
An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Jefferson Fellow, and theoretical computer science researcher
Roberto Tamassia
computer scientist
Plastech Professor of Computer Science
John L. Thomas
Bancroft Prize winning historian
Peter van Dommelen
archeologist
Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology
Paula Vogel
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright,
How I Learned to Drive
Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of English
Lai-Sheng Wang
chemist
Jesse H. and Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf Professor
Takeo Watanabe
Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences; neuroscientist
Peter Wegner
computer scientist
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Arnold Weinstein
literary critic
Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature
Margaret Weir
sociologist, political scientist
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute
Darrell M. West
author of multiple books, including
Digital Government and
Cross Talk; developer of website www.InsidePolitics.org; vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution
John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy
John Edgar Wideman
writer, two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner,
Philadelphia Fire
Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts
Edward L. Widmer
historian, Clinton administration speechwriter
Director, John Carter Brown Library
Gordon S. Wood
Pulitzer Prize for History winner,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History
C. D. Wright
poet,
String Light; Macarthur fellowship winner (2004)
Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English
Stan Zdonik
computer scientist
Christina Paxson
Ruth Simmons
Sheila Blumstein (interim)
Gordon Gee
Vartan Gregorian
Howard Robert Swearer
Donald Frederick Hornig
Ray L. Heffner
Barnaby Conrad Keeney
Henry Merritt Wriston
Clarence Augustus Barbour
William H. P. Faunce
Elisha Benjamin Andrews
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
Alexis Caswell
Barnas Sears
Francis Wayland
Asa Messer
Jonathan Maxcy
James Manning
Alain J.P. Belda – Chairman of the Board and CEO of Alcoa
Thomas W. Berry (A.B. 1969, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business) – investment banker
Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B., M.S. 1976, M.D. 1976, Brown) – Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine
Julie N. Brown
James J. Burke, Jr. (A.B. 1973, Brown; M.B.A. 1979, Harvard Graduate School of Business) – investment banker, Stonington Partners
Spencer R. Crew (A.B. 1971, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1979, Brown) – CEO, National Underground Railroad Center
Charles M. Davis (A.B. 1982) – Chairman and CEO, Fandango
Cornelia Dean (A.B., magna cum laude, 1969, Brown; M.A. 1981, Boston University) – Science Editor, New York Times
Katherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971, Brown; M.Arch. 1976, Harvard Graduate School of Design) – Senior Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
Richard Friedman (A.B. 1979, Brown; M.B.A. 1981, University of Chicago) – Co-Head of Merchant Banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Fredric B. Garonzik (A.B. 1964, Brown) – Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs Group
Martin J. Granoff (L.H.D. Honoris causa 2006, Brown) – textile company owner
Cathy Frank Halstead (B.A., New York University) – President, Sideny Frank Importing Co.
Galen V. Henderson (M.D. 1993, Brown) – Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
H. Anthony Ittleson (A.B. 1960, Brown) – Chairman and President, The Ittleson Foundation
Bobby Jindal (Sc.B. 1992, Brown) – Governor of Louisiana
Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976, Brown; M.P.P. 1980, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Harvard Law School) – President and COO, BET Holdings, Inc.
Karen M. Levy (A.B., honors, Brown; J.D. 1977, New York University School of Law)
Frederick Lippitt (A.B. 1939, Yale; J.D. 1946, Yale Law School) – political figure and philanthropist
Matthew J. Mallow (A.B. 1964, Brown; J.D. 1967, New York University) – partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Samuel M. Mencoff (A.B. 1978, Brown) – partner, Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc.
Srihari S. Naidu (Sc.B. 1993, Brown; M.D. 1997, Brown) – Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Treatment Center, Winthrop University Hospital
Annette L. Nazareth (A.B. 1978, Brown) – United States Securities & Exchange Commission commissioner
Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977, Brown) – CEO, Providence Equity Partners, Inc.
Kenneth J. O'Keefe (A.B. 1976, Brown)
George S. Parker II (A.B. 1951, Brown) – CEO/President of the Parker Pen Company 1966–86; also a trustee of Wisconsin's Beloit College
Theresia G. Ranzetta (A.B. 1990, Brown) – Managing Partner, Accel Partners
Alison S. Ressler (A.B., magna cum laude, 1980, Brown; J.D. 1983, Columbia University Law School) – partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Carmen Garcia Rodriguez (A.B. 1983, Brown; J.D. 1986, Columbia University School of Law)
Eric L. Rodriguez (A.B. 2008, Brown) – political advisor
Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar (A.B. 1987, A.M. 1990, Brown) – Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ralph F. Rosenberg (A.B. 1986, Brown) – Managing Partner, R6 Capital Management
Charles M. Royce (A.B. 1961, Brown; M.B.A. 1963, Columbia University) – President and Chief Investment Officer, Royce & Associates, LLC
Eileen M. Rudden (A.B. 1972, Brown) – technology sector advisor
Joan Wernig Sorensen (A.B. 1972, Brown) – development and public relations
Laurinda Hope Spear (B.F.A. 1972, Brown) – architect
Anita V. Spivey (A.B. 1974, Brown; J.D. Georgetown) – attorney
Barry Sternlicht (A.B., magna cum laude with honors, 1960, Brown; M.B.A., with distinction, Harvard Business School) – Chairman and CEO, Starwood Capital Group
Marta Tienda (B.A. 1972, Michigan State University; Ph.D. 1977, University of Texas-Austin) – Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Thomas J. Tisch (A.B. 1976, Brown; J.D. 1979, New York University) – Managing Partner, Four Partners
Ambassador William H. Twaddell (A.B. 1963, Brown)
Jerome C. Vascellaro (A.B. 1974, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Business School) – partner, Texas Pacific Group
Peter S. Voss (A.B. 1968, Brown) – Chairman and CEO, IXIS Asset Management Group
Frank E. Winsor (Ph.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) – civil engineer
William P. Wood (A.B. 1978, Brown) – co-founder, Austin Ventures
Stephen Gano (M.A., 1800)
Frederick Lippitt (LL.D., 1977)
Joseph R. Weisberger (LL.D., 1992)
Johnnetta B. Cole (L.H.D., 1992)
Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott (1996)
Miguel León-Portilla (1996)
William Sturtevant (L.H.D., 1996)
Brian Dickinson (L.H.D., 1999)
John Glenn (LL.D., 1999)
John Hume (LL.D., 1999)
Ruth Kirschstein (D.M.S., 1999)
H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan (L.H.D., 1999)
Romano Prodi (LL.D., 1999)
Steven Spielberg (L.H.D., 1999)
Julia V. Taft (L.H.D., 1999)
Madeleine Korbel Albright (LL.D., 2001)
Kofi Annan (LL.D., 2001)
Sheila Blumstein (Sc.D., 2001)
Demetrios Christodoulou (Sc.D., 2001)
Oskar Eustis (D.F.A., 2001)
Margaret H. Marshall (LL.D., 2001)
Philip Roth (Litt.D., 2001)
Lawrence M. Small (L.H.D., 2001)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (LL.D., 2002)
Mikhail Gorbachev (LL.D., 2003)
Christo (D.F.A., 2005)
Jeanne-Claude (D.F.A., 2005)
David Eggers (Litt.D., 2005)
Sidney Frank (L.H.D., 2005)
Wesley Huntress (Sc.D., 2005)
Mary-Claire King (D.M.S., 2005)
Phylicia Rashad (D.F.A., 2005)
William R. Rhodes (L.H.D., 2005)
Sima Samar (L.H.D., 2005)
Geoffrey Canada (L.H.D., 2006)
Kay Redfield Jamison (D.M.S., 2006)
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (LL.D., 2006)
Friedrich St.Florian (D.F.A., 2006)
Paul A. Volcker (L.H.D., 2006)
Chris Berman (L.H.D., 2007)
Kate Burton (D.F.A., 2007)
B.B. King (D.Mus., 2007)
Craig Mello (Sc.D., 2007)
Samantha Power (L.H.D., 2007)
Scott Cowen (LL.D., 2007)
Norman Francis (LL.D., 2007)
Marvalene Hughes (LL.D., 2007)
Robert Redford (D.F.A., 2008)
Edwidge Danticat (Litt.D., 2008)
Judith Jamison (D.F.A., 2008)
Shih Choon Fong (Sc.D., 2008)
Jerry Fishman (Sc.D., 2009)
Jessie Gruman (L.H.D., 2009)
Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982, D.M.S. 2009)
Fareed Zakaria (LL.D., 2009)
Fictitious alumni and faculty
Josiah Carberry – Professor of Psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots), who was created as a joke in 1929 and who has become a tradition at Brown. On every Friday the 13th, cracked pots are left around the Brown campus for students to deposit their pocket change. The money goes to support the Brown University library. Traditionally, Brown alums everywhere send their pocket change to the library on Friday the 13th. There is an organization of alums called "Friends of Josiah" that meets for dinner on the Brown campus on Friday the 13th.
Sean Alvarez (played by Andre DaSilva), honest stock broker and murder victim on Law & Order, 2000 episode "Trade This" (season 11), produced by Jeffrey L. Hayes, Brown '66.
Sabrina Anderson / Sabrina Jordan (played by Spencer Locke) – young woman held hostage during a robbery who, as a result, must enter witness protection and will not be able to go to Brown where her old friends will recognize her, on In Plain Sight – 2010 (season 3) episode "WitSec Stepmother"
Sam Arsenault (played by James Naughton, Brown '67) – guest villain on Damages (2006–7). In one episode, he sings Danny Boy at a cocktail party, telling the guests he sang it with the Jabberwocks when he was an undergraduate student at Brown. Jim was, in fact, a member of the Jabberwocks when he was an undergraduate at Brown.
Ann August (played by Natalie Portman) – central character in Anywhere but Here; daughter of Adele August (played by Susan Sarandon). Ann applies and is accepted to Brown, much to her mother's dismay over the distance.
Cliff Calley (played by Mark Feuerstein) – Senate Majority Counsel on The West Wing.
Laurel Castillo (played by Karla Souza) – law student on How to Get Away with Murder.
Clippy – Microsoft Office Assistant represented as an animated paperclip, who, according to his résumé, has a degree in art–semiotics from Brown, where he "graduated cum laude with a performing arts thesis that involved twisting myself into a representation of Michelangelo's David"
Laura Donnellon (played by Tracy Lynn Middendorf) – guest drug addict who drops out of Brown on The Guardian, episode Hazel Park, in 2003
Andrew Garner/Lash (played by Blair Underwood) – psychologist, husband of Melinda May; becomes Lash on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Garner is seen to have received his PhD at Brown in the episode "Chaos Theory."
Amy Gardner (played by Mary-Louise Parker) – women's rights activist and later Chief of Staff to the First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. Gardner was asked by the First Lady where she got "such a smart mouth", to which Gardner quickly replied "Brown."
Brian Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) – erudite, alcoholic dog from the animated television series Family Guy; dropped out one class short of graduating; re-enrolls and fails in the episode "Brian Goes Back to College". During the episode, Stewie Griffin (also voiced by MacFarlane) lives in the dorm with Brian.
Joy – the wealthy nomad Don Draper meets in Mad Men: "The Jet Set" (season 2, episode 11) took a literature survey course at Pembroke College
Lucy Kelson (played by Sandra Bullock) – protagonist of Two Weeks Notice is a liberal lawyer who specializes in environmental law in New York City and is hired by an immature billionaire who needs a Chief Counsel who not only will file briefs but help with every little aspect of his life. She and Meryl Brooks (played by Heather Burns) have known each other since "Brownie days."
Nick Mercer (played by Dermot Mulroney) – male escort hired by Kat Ellis (played by Debra Messing) to be her date to her sister's wedding in the film The Wedding Date; Mercer graduated from Brown with a degree in Comparative Literature
Otto Mann (voiced by Harry Shearer) – bus driver from the animated television series The Simpsons, who claims to have almost received tenure as a professor at Brown in one of Lisa Simpson's dream sequences
Imani Morehouse (played by Nicole Beharie) – district attorney on The Good Wife
Jack Morgan – lead detective in the Private detective series written by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (played by James Van Der Beek) – main character of the film Varsity Blues; this tormented replacement quarterback for his small-town Texas high school football team must devote himself to football and become a hero; receives acceptance to Brown, but his coach blackmails him to play football by threatening to ruin his transcript
Michael O'Neal (played by Dermot Mulroney) – main character of the film My Best Friend's Wedding
Julianne Potter (played by Julia Roberts) – main character of the film My Best Friend's Wedding and her "best friend" Michael O'Neal (played by Dermot Mulroney), who met and made their marriage pact while attending Brown
Audrey Raines (played by Kim Raver) – Jack Bauer's lover and Inter-Agency Liaison in the U.S. Department of Defense in the television series 24; earned an A.M. in public policy from Brown
Elliot Reid in the television series Scrubs; revealed in the episode "My Turf War" that she and her sorority sister Melody O'Hara attended Brown
Monica Reyes (played by Annabeth Gish) – FBI Special agent in the television series The X-Files, who studied folklore and mythology at Brown
Andrea Sachs – The main character in the 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. However, in the film version, Sachs is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Ryder Smith (played by George Hamilton) – leading man in Where the Boys Are a 1960 movie about spring break in Ft Lauderdale, shown during exam week on the Brown campus.
Jessica Stein (played by Jennifer Westfeldt) – titular character of the film Kissing Jessica Stein
Eileen Stevens – mom on Even Stevens
Jaye Tyler (played by Caroline Dhavernas) – snarky souvenir store clerk and main character of the television series Wonderfalls, who studied philosophy at Brown
Bridget "Bee" Vreeland – from the novel series Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Bill Wentz (played by Jack Noseworthy) – U.S. Navy radioman in the film U-571, who studied German at Brown
Seth Cohen (played by Adam Brody) and his girlfriend Summer Roberts (played by Rachel Bilson) – in the television series The O.C. both applied to Brown and had interviews with the admissions officer from Brown. In a few episodes, both were seen competing to gain more extracurricular activities to add to their C.V. hopefully to increase their chances to Brown. Ultimately however, Seth was rejected and Summer was accepted. Summer enrolls but is suspended for one year following her first semester after she freed rabbits in a science laboratory, and fellow student Winchester "Che" Cook (Chris Pratt) falsely accused her of other acts. Summer eventually returned to Brown and graduated.
Linda (played by Marisa Tomei) and Andrew (played by Allen Covert) are Brown alums in the movie Anger Management. Linda is Adam Sandler's girlfriend, and Andrew has been Linda's best friend since they dated at Brown. Andrew emasculates Sandler by forcing him to admit that he attended Trenton Community College, asking "where did you go to school again?" In another scene, Andrew tells Linda that "I rented out the entire sports bar. I thought it would be fun if it was just us Brown alums." He also tries to drum up their old romance by saying, "Do you remember back at Brown when we went up to see the Red Sox game?" In the movie, Sandler describes a Red Sox bra as "represent[ing] everything that I hate." Jack Nicholson, whose character went to Columbia University, reinforces the New York v. New England/Brown motif when he tells Sandler "Andrew is gonna try and recreate those hotsy-totsy nights up at Brown U."
As Good as It Gets – Jack Nicholson's publicist mentions her son got into Brown. Nicholson is indifferent because he has an antisocial personality.
Bill Buchanan from the TV series 24 has an English degree from Brown.
George Gammell Angell, great-uncle of the narrator of HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, professor of Semitic Languages at Brown University.
Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke, characters from Claire Messud's 2006 novel The Emperor's Children, were all friends at Brown University.
In the CW TV show Gossip Girl episode "Poison Ivy", Serena van der Woodsen's (Blake Lively) mother attended Brown University. Her father went to Harvard University.
Christine Everhart (played by Leslie Bibb), 2008 Iron Man film: a Vanity Fair columnist who questions and interrogates Stark about his weapons industry, claiming that his company is killing people. Stark asks if she attended Berkeley, but she corrects him and says "Brown, actually." Later, she appears again, to tell Stark of the Ten Rings in Gulmira and at the end, suspecting Stark of being Iron Man.
In Hamlet 2, the main character, a drama teacher assumes a Latino student is a gangster. In actuality, his father is an accomplished author and he gained early admission to Brown.
Nora Clark (played by Jenna Dewan) – in the movie Step Up, Nora reveals to Tyler Gage (played by Channing Tatum) that she had been accepted to Brown University, but tells him she does not want to go and wants to pursue her passion for dancing instead.
Nell Kellner (played by Tricia Vessey) – in the movie Coming Soon, Nell gets accepted to Brown University at the end of the film when she reveals that her father had donated a large sum of money to the school.
Donna Keppel (played by Brittany Snow) – protagonist of the movie Prom Night was accepted to Brown, but has doubts of going because of being separated from her boyfriend.
Eric van der Woodsen – in the book series Gossip Girl written by Cecily von Ziegesar, Eric is a student at Brown University.
Norah Silverberg (played by Kat Dennings) – female protagonist and love interest of Nick O'Leary (played by Michael Cera) in the movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist; she tells Nick she was accepted to Brown University.
Courtney, April and Monica – in the movie Ninja Cheerleaders, Courtney (played by Trishelle Cannatella), April (played by Ginny Weirick) and Monica (played by Maitland McConnell) get accepted to Brown and attend the school at the end of the film.
Jane Weston (played by Amy Smart) – in the movie Outside Providence, Jane gets accepted to Brown University and attends the school at the end of the film.
Nick Lipton (played by Zach Braff, making his feature film debut) in the movie Manhattan Murder Mystery, is the son of protagonists Larry Lipton (played by Woody Allen) and Carol Lipton (played by Diane Keaton), and makes a brief appearance when he visits his parents over a college break.
Sophie Hall (played by Amanda Seyfried) – in the movie Letters to Juliet, Sophie tells Charlie Wyman, played by Chris Egan, that she went to Brown and she double majored with a minor in Latin (Brown does not offer minors, only concentrations).
Turanga Munda, the mother of the character Turanga Leela in Futurama, has a degree in exolinguistics from Brown In the episode Zapp Dingbat, it was stated that Leela's father Morris also attended the University.
In a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Raw! Raw! Rooster!", a character named Rhode Island Red sings, "Who got kicked from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Brown?"
In The Skinny, four Black gay males meet up again in New York City. All are graduates of Brown University. The film was directed by Patrick-Ian Polk.
