U.S. Presidents
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
U.S. Attorneys General
Francis Biddle
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, also United States Secretary of the Navy and founder of the precursor to the FBI
William M. Evarts, also Secretary of State and a Senator from New York
Alberto Gonzales
Ebenezer R. Hoar
Loretta Lynch
Richard Kleindienst
Richard Olney, later also Secretary of State
Janet Reno
Elliot Richardson
William French Smith
Presidential cabinet advisors
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy, Senator from Michigan
Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Advisor
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State; instrumental in the creation of Lend-Lease, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, together with the precursors of the European Union and the World Trade Organization, and influential in the decision to enter the Korean War
Brockman Adams, Secretary of Transportation, Senator and Representative from Washington
Charles Francis Adams III, Secretary of the Navy
Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, Governor of Arizona
William Bennett, Secretary of Education, "Drug Czar," and conservative political pundit
Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, United States Attorney General, founded the precursor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
John Chafee, Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Rhode Island, Senator from Rhode Island
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation
Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Transportation, Senator from North Carolina
Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy
Ogden Mills, United States Secretary of the Treasury, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
William Ruckelshaus, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (1970–73; 1983–85)
Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Governor General of the Philippines
Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense (1981–1987)
Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor (1962–1969)
Robert Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State, United States Trade Representative, President of the World Bank
Senators
Spencer Abraham, Senator from Michigan (1995–2001), United States Secretary of Energy(2001–05)
Brockman Adams, Senator (1987–93) and Representative (1965–77) from Washington, United States Secretary of Transportation, (1977–79)
Ralph Owen Brewster, Senator from Maine (1941–52), Governor of Maine(1925–29)
John Chafee, Senator from Rhode Island (1976–99), Governor of Rhode Island (1963–69), Secretary of the Navy (1969–72)
Tom Cotton, Arkansas Senator, (2015–present) and Representative (2013–2015)
Mike Crapo, Senator (1999–present) and Representative (1993–1999) from Idaho
Ted Cruz, Senator (2013–present) from Texas
Elizabeth Dole, Senator from North Carolina (2003–2009), Secretary of Labor (1989–90), Secretary of Transportation (1983–87)
Thomas Eagleton, Senator from Missouri (1968–1987), Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee (1972)
Sam Ervin, Senator from North Carolina (1954–74)
Russ Feingold, Senator from Wisconsin (1993–2011)
George G. Fogg, Senator from New Hampshire (1866–67)
Hiram Leong Fong, Senator from Hawaii (1959–1977)
David H. Gambrell, Senator from Georgia (1971–72)
Frederick H. Gillett, U.S. Senator (1925–1931) and U.S. Representative (1893–1925) from Massachusetts, Speaker of the House (1919–1925)
Bob Graham, Senator from Florida (1987–2005), Governor of Florida (1979–87)
George Frisbie Hoar, Senator from Massachusetts (1877–1904)
Jim Jeffords, Senator from Vermont (1989–2007)
Tim Kaine, Democratic Senator from Virginia (2013–present)
Kenneth Keating, Senator (1959–65) and Representative (1953–59) from New York
Carl Levin, Senator from Michigan (1979–2015)
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator (1893–1924) and Representative (1887–93) from Massachusetts
Spark Matsunaga, Senator (1977–90) and Representative (1971–77) from Hawaii
Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois (2005–08), 44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
Claude Pepper, Senator (1936–51) and Representative (1963–89) from Florida
Larry Pressler, Senator from South Dakota (1979–97)
Jack Reed, Senator from Rhode Island (1997–present)
William V. Roth, Jr., Senator (1971–2001) and Representative (1967–70) from Delaware
Leverett Saltonstall, Senator from Massachusetts (1945–67), Governor of Massachusetts (1939–45)
Paul Sarbanes, Senator (1977–2007) and Representative (1971–77) from Maryland
Charles Schumer, Senator (1999–present) and Representative (1981–99) from New York
Ted Stevens, Senator from Alaska (1968–2009)
Adlai Stevenson III, Senator from Illinois (1970–81)
Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts (1851–74)
Robert A. Taft, Senator from Ohio, (1939–53)
Robert Taft Jr., Senator (1971–76) and Representative (1967–71) from Ohio
Mark Warner, U.S. Senator from Virginia (2009–present), and Governor of Virginia, (2002–06)
Representatives
Richard S. Aldrich, Rhode Island (1923–33)
Tom Allen, Maine (1997–2009)
John Anderson, Illinois (1961–81) and independent candidate in the 1980 Presidential election
John Barrow, Georgia (2005–15)
Anson Burlingame, Massachusetts (1855–1861)
Tom Campbell, California (1989–93, 1995–2001) and dean of the Haas School of Business
Joaquin Castro, Texas (2013–present)
Patrick A. Collins, Massachusetts (1883–1889), Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (1902–1905)
Jim Cooper, Tennessee (1983–present)
Christopher Cox, California (1989–2005), Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (2005–2009)
William C. Cramer, Florida (1955–71)
Artur Davis, Alabama (2003–11)
Ron DeSantis, Florida (2013–present)
William Thomas Ellis, Kentucky (1889–1895)
George Eustis, Louisiana (1855–1859)
Daniel J. Flood, Pennsylvania (1945–1947, 1949–1953, 1955–1980)
Barney Frank, Massachusetts (1981–2012)
Alan Grayson, Florida (2009–2017)
Jane Harman, California(1993–99; 2001–11)
Bill Jefferson, Louisiana (1991–2009)
Joseph P. Kennedy III, Massachusetts (2013–present)
Sander Levin, Michigan (1983–present)
Walter I. McCoy, New Jersey (1911–1914)
Tom Petri, Wisconsin (1979–2015)
John Sarbanes, Maryland (2007–present)
Adam Schiff, California (2001–present)
Pat Schroeder, Colorado (1973–97) (first woman elected to position)
Terri Sewell, Alabama (2011–present)
Brad Sherman, California (1997–present)
William H. Sowden, Pennsylvania (1885–89)
Juan Vargas, California (2013–present)
Laurence Hawley Watres, Pennsylvania (1923–31)
Supreme Court justices
Harry Blackmun
Louis Brandeis
William Brennan
Stephen Breyer (sitting)
Harold Hitz Burton
Benjamin Curtis
Felix Frankfurter
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Elena Kagan (sitting)
Anthony Kennedy (sitting)
Lewis Powell
John G. Roberts (Chief Justice, sitting)
Edward T. Sanford
Antonin Scalia
David Souter
Federal Court judges
R. Lanier Anderson III, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Christine Arguello, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Morris S. Arnold, Senior Circuit Judge, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals based in Little Rock
Richard S. Arnold, late Circuit Judge, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in Little Rock bears his name
Deborah Batts, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Cathy Bissoon, (J.D. 1993) District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Michael Boudin, (LL.B. 1964) Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Ed Carnes (J.D. 1975) Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Susan L. Carney, (J.D. 1977), Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Henry Friendly, (LL.B. 1927), Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1959–1974; senior circuit judge, 1974–1976
John P. Fullam, (LL.B. 1948), former District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Marvin J. Garbis (J.D. 1961), District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Merrick Garland, (J.D. 1977) Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Myron L. Gordon, late District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Neil Gorsuch, (J.D. 1991) late Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Joseph A. Greenaway, (J.D. 1981), Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Learned Hand, (LL.B. 1896) Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the most famed American jurist never to make it to the Supreme Court bench.
Harris Hartz, (J.D. 1972), Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Ketanji Brown Jackson (J.D. 1996), District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Matthew F. Kennelly, (J.D. 1981), District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Whitman Knapp, investigated corruption in the NYPD
Pierre Leval (J.D. 1963) Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
John T. Noonan, Jr. (LL.B. 1954), Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Diarmuid O'Scannlain (J.D. 1963), Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Richard A. Posner (LL.B. 1962), Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jed S. Rakoff (J.D. 1969), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Bruce Marshall Selya (LL.B. 1958), Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Laurence Silberman (J.D. 1961), Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
James R. Spencer (J.D 1974), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
A. Wallace Tashima (LL.B. 1961), third Asian American to be appointed to the United States Court of Appeals
Mark L. Wolf (J.D. 1971), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Kimba Wood (J.D. 1969), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Governors
Bruce Babbitt, Governor of Arizona, United States Secretary of the Interior
Percival Proctor Baxter (1901), Governor of Maine (1921–25)
Owen Brewster, Governor of Maine, Senator from Maine
John Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island, Senator from Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy
Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin
Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts; Democratic presidential nominee (1988)
Pierre S. du Pont, IV, Governor of Delaware; US Representative from Delaware
Joseph B. Ely, Governor of Massachusetts (1931–1935)
Bob Graham, Governor of Florida, Senator from Florida
Jennifer Granholm, Governor of Michigan
Tim Kaine, Governor of Virginia
Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts
Sylvester Pennoyer, Governor of Oregon
Robert E. Quinn, Governor of Rhode Island and Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court
Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts, Republican presidential nominee (2012)
Leverett Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts, Senator from Massachusetts
Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York
Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Mark R. Warner, Governor of Virginia; United States Senator from Virginia
William Weld, Governor of Massachusetts
State politicians
John O. Bailey, State Senator and Representative in Oregon, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General
Brent Barton, State Representative of Oregon
Daniel Bigelow, served in first legislature of Washington Territory, 1854
Joaquín Castro, State Representative of Texas
Wendy Davis, Texas State Senator and 2014 Democratic Gubernatorial nominee
Raj Goyle, State Representative of Kansas
Harold Groves, State Senator and Assemblyman of Wisconsin
Brad Hoylman, State Senator of New York
Sheila Kuehl, first openly gay member of the California legislature; child actress
Patrick D. McGee (1916–70), California State Assembly and Los Angeles City Council member in the mid–20th Century
Jonathan Miller, State Treasurer of Kentucky, democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 2007
Steve Pajcic, State Representative of Florida, democratic candidate for Governor of Florida, 1986
Alvin C. Reis, State Senator and Assemblyman of Wisconsin
State judges
John O. Bailey, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, state Senator and Representative in Oregon
Andre G. Bouchard, former Managing Partner Bouchard, Margules, & Friedlander, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery
James T. Brand, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Bruce Bromley, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Raoul G. Cantero III, Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Federico Hernández Denton, Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Jennifer Elrod (J.D. 1992), Texas state district judge
Patrick F. Fischer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Paul C. Gartzke, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
W. Michael Gillette, Oregon Supreme Court justice
Ernest W. Gibson III (LL.B. 1956), Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Michael Linfield (J.D. 1989), Los Angeles Superior Court judge
Mary Mullarkey, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Gerald Schroeder, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
Nathaniel Tompkins, Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
David Chiu (J.D.), president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Robert A. Dressler (J.D. 1973), Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1982–1986)
Jorge Elorza (J.D.), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island (2015 - present)
Karen Freeman-Wilson, Mayor of Gary, Indiana (2012-present)
William Edward Glynn, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1961-1965)
Sam Liccardo (J.D. 1996), Mayor of the City of San Jose, California (2015 - present)
James Marshall Head, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee (1900–1904)
Randal William McGavock, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee (1858–1859) and Confederate Lt. Col.
Neville Miller (LL.B. 1920), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1933–1937)
Joel Wachs, Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Anthony A. Williams (J.D.), Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999-2007)
Norman Armour, career diplomat, chief of mission in eight countries, Assistant Secretary of State
Richard L. Baltimore, United States Ambassador to Oman (2002–2006)
Joseph Hodges Choate, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1848–1852)
Norman L. Eisen (J.D. 1991), United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Nicholas Fish II, held various diplomatic posts across Europe
Charles W. Freeman, Jr., United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989–1992)
Evan G. Galbraith, United States Ambassador to France (1981–1985)
Rita Hauser, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1969–1972)
Philip Lader, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Robert Todd Lincoln, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Secretary of War
Jamie Metzl (J.D.), holder of various diplomatic and human rights positions
Ogden Mills, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Secretary of the Treasury
William Phillips, twice an Undersecretary in the State Department
Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change
Sheldon Vance, United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad
Robert Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State, US Trade Representative, President of the World Bank
John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser of the Department of State
Richard C. Breeden, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Charles Burson, chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore and Tennessee Attorney General
Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Lawrence Clayton (LL.B. 1916), United States Federal Reserve Board Governor (1934–1949)
Paul Clement, Solicitor General of the United States
Archibald Cox, Solicitor General of the United States and special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
Raj Date, Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2011–2012)
Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney General of the United States
Glenn A. Fine (J.D. 1985), Inspector General of the Justice Department (2000–present)
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, prosecutor of many notable corruption trials
David Frum, author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Ray Garrett, Jr., Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
David Gergen, political consultant and presidential advisor
David Ginsburg, presidential adviser and executive director of the Kerner Commission
Josh Gottheimer, speechwriter for Bill Clinton, strategist, candidate for the United States House of Representatives
Erwin Griswold, Solicitor General of the United States and Dean of Harvard Law School
Conrad K. Harper, Legal Adviser of the Department of State and president of the New York City Bar Association
Denison Kitchel (LL.B. 1933), national campaign manager for Barry M. Goldwater in 1964
Jerome Kurtz (1955), Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980)
Michael Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
David Lilienthal, head of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Karen L. Loeffler, United States Attorney for the District of Alaska
Ronald Machen, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
Kent Markus, advisor to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and former nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Fernando Martín García, Puerto Rican politician and former member of the Senate of Puerto Rico
Timothy Massad, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
John J. McCloy, assistant Secretary of War, administered US occupation of Germany, president of the World Bank
Wade H. McCree, Solicitor General of the United States
Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee; campaign manager for George W. Bush's second presidential run
Ralph Nader, Green Party presidential candidate (1996, 2000, 2004); consumer advocate
Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
Matthew G. Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
Loulan Pitre, Jr., New Orleans lawyer and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Franklin Raines, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission
Joseph Sandler, longest serving General Counsel of the Democratic National Committee (1993–2009)
Bob Shrum, political consultant
William Howard Taft IV, Legal Adviser of the Department of State
Elisse B. Walter, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Harold M. Williams, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and first president of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Lee S. Wolosky, former White House counterterrorism official
Juan Zarate, Deputy National Security Advisor
Canada
Michael Bryant, (LL.M., magna cum laude, 1994) Attorney General of Ontario
Loring Christie, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States (1939–1941)
Francis Fox, Canadian cabinet minister and Principal Secretary
Joseph Ghiz, Premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
Nigel S. Wright, Chief of Staff of the Office of the Prime Minister
India
Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India
Kapil Sibal (LLM), Union Minister of Human Resource Development
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Lai In-jaw (S.J.D.), former President of the Judicial Yuan (Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court) of the Republic of China
Annette Lu (LL.M.), former Vice President of the Republic of China
Ma Ying-jeou (S.J.D.), President of the Republic of China, Chairman of the Kuomintang, former Mayor of Taipei
United Kingdom
Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, British Labour Party politician
David Lammy (LLM), UK Minister of State for Higher Education, former Minister of Culture, MP for Tottenham
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, Liberal Democrat member of the British House of Lords
Other countries
Ben Bot, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Juan Ponce Enrile, Senator at the Senate of the Philippines
Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Minister of Justice
José García-Margallo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain
Lindsay Grant, former Leader of the People's Action Movement of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ho Peng Kee, Member of Parliament in Singapore and president of the Football Association of Singapore
Daniel Lipšic, Interior Minister of Slovakia, former Minister of Justice
Fientje Moerman, Belgian, and later Flemish, Minister of Economy, Enterprises, Innovation, Science and Foreign Trade
Kiraitu Murungi, Kenyan Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Energy
Mary Robinson, former President of the Republic of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Jovito Salonga, Philippine senator
Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong Tibetan Government in Exile
Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Gilbert Teodoro, Secretary of the Department of National Defense of the Philippines and former Congressman
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister and OPEC official
International court judges
Kenneth Keith, New Zealand judge appointed to the International Court of Justice
Koen Lenaerts (LL.M. 78), Belgian judge at the European Court of Justice
Miriam Defensor Santiago, judge-elect of the International Criminal Court and a current Senator of the Philippines.
National court judges
Andrew Cheung Kui-nung (LLM 1985), incumbent Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong and President of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (2011-)
Rohinton Fali Nariman (LLM), Judge, Supreme Court of India; former Solicitor General of India; youngest Senior Advocate designated by the Supreme Court of India in the history of Republic of India
Albert Francis Judd (LL.B. 1864, LL.D. 1894), Chief Justice, Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court
Bora Laskin (LL.M. 1939) Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1970–1973), Chief Justice of Canada (1973–1984)
Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff (LL.M.), Second Senate, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Sandile Ngcobo (LL.M.), Chief Justice of South Africa
Prof. Joel Ngugi (LL.M. 1998, S.J.D. 2003), Judge of the High Court of Kenya
Masaharu Ōhashi (LL.M. 1976), Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan
Ivan Rand (LL.B. 1912) Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1943–1959)
Bernard Rix (LL.M. 1969), Lord Justice, English Court of Appeals
Wishart Spence (LL.M. 1929), Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Vicente Abad Santos, associate justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Freda Steel (1978), Manitoba Court of Appeal judge
Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva (LL.M. 1990), Justice of the Superior Court of Justice in Brazil
Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
Gerald L. Neuman, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Navanethem Pillay (LLM 1982, SJD 1988), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group
Daniel J. Arbess (LL.M.), partner at White & Case
Bennett Boskey (LL.B. 1939), law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and two U.S. Supreme Court justices
Morgan Chu (J.D. 1976), intellectual property lawyer and co-managing partner at Irell & Manella
H. Rodgin Cohen, corporate lawyer noted for representation of large financial institutions during 2008 financial crisis
Bert Fields (LL.B. 1952), entertainment lawyer, represented celebrities including The Beatles, James Cameron, Tom Cruise, and Michael Jackson
Joseph H. Flom, name partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Khizr Khan, legal consultant
John B. Quinn, founder and name partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Jonathan R. Alger, James Madison University
Lawrence S. Bacow, Tufts University
Derek Bok, twice Harvard University
Kingman Brewster, Jr., Yale University and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Thomas V. Chema, Hiram College
Bruce Walker Ferguson, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Colin Diver, Reed College
Thomas Ehrlich, Indiana University
Ken Gormley, Duquesne University
David Leebron, Rice University
William C. Powers, the University of Texas
Jennifer Raab, Hunter College, City University of New York
Joel Seligman, the University of Rochester
John Sexton, New York University
Adel Tamano, University of the City of Manila of the Philippines and dean of Law of Liceo de Cagayan University
Michael K. Young, University of Washington
Andres D. Bautista (LL.M. 1993), law faculty dean at Far Eastern University in the Philippines
Mary Bobinski, (LL.M. 1989), dean of the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2015
Tom Campbell (J.D. 1976), dean of the Chapman University School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky (J.D. 1978), founding dean of University of California, Irvine School of Law; former constitutional law scholar at Duke Law School
Jim Chen, dean of University of Louisville School of Law
Robert C. Clark (J.D. 1972), dean (1989–2003) and professor at Harvard Law
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr. (LL.B. 1951), dean and professor at Harvard Law, diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Uganda
Charles Hamilton Houston, dean of Howard University School of Law and NAACP litigation director
Peter Hogg, (LL.M. 1963), dean of Osgoode Hall Law School of Toronto, constitutional scholar
Bruce Jacob (S.J.D.), alumnus, professor, and dean of Stetson University College of Law, dean of Mercer University Law School
Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall)
Elena Kagan (J.D. 1986), dean of Harvard Law (2003–2009)
Prof. Sylvia Kang'ara (LL.m. 1998, SJD 2003), dean of the Riara University School of Law, Kenya
Joseph D. Kearney (J.D. 1989), dean of the Marquette University Law School
W. Page Keeton, dean of the University of Texas School of Law
Harold Hongju Koh (J.D. 1980), dean of Yale Law School and Assistant Secretary of State
Charles T. McCormick, dean of the University of Texas Law School and the University of North Carolina School of Law
Makau W. Mutua (LL.M. 1985, S.J.D. 1987), dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York
William L. Prosser, dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley
Symeon C. Symeonides (LL.M. 1974, S.J.D. 1980), dean of the Willamette University College of Law
Cesar L. Villanueva (LL.M. 1989), dean of the Ateneo de Manila Law School in the Philippines
Robert K. Vischer (J.D. 1996), dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law
Jack Balkin, studies constitutional law and the impact of technology on law
Robert Delahunty (J.D. 1983), professor of constitutional law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law
Michael C. Dorf, professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School
Patrick J. Monahan, senior policy analyst to Ontario AG Ian Scott during Canadian Meech Lake Accord
John Ordronaux, Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner
Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law and public law at NYU School of Law
Nadine Strossen, professor of constitutional law and scholar of civil liberties at New York Law School, former president of the ACLU
Kathleen Sullivan, constitutional law scholar at Stanford Law School
Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr. (J.D. 1925), professor of constitutional and commercial law at Harvard Law School; clerked with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; took two cases before the US Supreme Court, one on price fixing in New York, and one on the Massachusetts Blue Laws; author and editor of numerous law texts
Laurence Tribe (J.D. 1966), professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School
Paul C. Weiler, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School; influenced the Canadian 1982 Constitution
Robert Blecker, criminal law professor at New York Law School and national expert on and advocate for the death penalty
Bernard Harcourt (J.D. 1989), criminological critical theorist
Dan Markel, law professor at Florida State University College of Law specializing in penology
Richard B. Bernstein (J.D. 1980), constitutional historian at New York Law School
Richard H. Helmholz (LL.B. 1965), property, natural resource, and legal history scholar at the University of Chicago Law School
Morton Horwitz (LL.B. 1967), torts and legal history scholar
John H. Langbein (LL.B. 1968), Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School
Daniel H. Lowenstein (LLB 1967), election law at UCLA Law School
Charles Warren, Pulitzer Prize–winning legal historian and Assistant Attorney General
Payam Akhavan (LL.M. 1990, S.J.D. 2001), UN Special Rapporteur, Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, Member of Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague
Bernard Audit (LL.M. 1969), international law professor at Panthéon-Assas University
Francis Boyle, international law professor at the University of Illinois
Amy Chua (J.D. 1987), international law and economics scholar at Yale Law School
Louis Henkin (LL.B 1940), international law and human rights authority
Klemen Jaklic (S.J.D. 2011), lecturer in international law at Harvard Law School
David Kennedy, critical theorist of international law
Joe Oloka-Onyango (LL.M., S.J.D.), Ugandan legal academic at Makerere University
Eric Posner, international law scholar at the University of Chicago Law School
Brad R. Roth, professor of international law and political science at Wayne State University
Law and literature
Jane Ginsburg, art and literary law property professor at Columbia Law
Dan Fenno Henderson (1949), founder of the University of Washington Asian law program; author of several works related to Japanese law
James Boyd White (1964), founder of the Law and Literature movement
Randy Barnett, libertarian legal theorist
Ronald Dworkin, legal and political philosopher
Richard Posner (LL.B. 1962), professor at the University of Chicago Law School, started the law and economics movement, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Peter Tillers, professor at Cardozo Law School and theorist of the law of evidence
Law and technology
Jack Balkin, studies constitutional law and the impact of technology on law
William W. Fisher, intellectual property law professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Peter Junger (LL.B. 1958), Internet law activist and professor at Case Western Reserve University
Charles Nesson, professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Michael Rustad, intellectual property scholar, author, and professor at Suffolk University Law School
Tim Wu (J.D. 1998), professor of law and technology at Columbia; coined the term "net neutrality"; writer for Slate
Jonathan Zittrain (J.D. 1995), professor of Internet Law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School
Alberto Alemanno, legal scholar at New York University
Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), legal scholar at Berkeley Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
George Bisharat, expert on Middle East legal and political affairs
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, professor at Columbia Law School and UCLA Law School and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics; critical race scholar, civil rights advocate, introduced and developed intersectional theory
Susan Estrich, feminist and legal commentator for Fox News
Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor at Yale Law School
Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University
Martin D. Ginsburg, taxation law expert, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center
Annette Gordon-Reed (J.D. 1984), professor at Harvard Law School and Pulitzer Prize for History winner
John Chipman Gray (LL.B. 1861), property law professor and founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray
Livingston Hall, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard Law School until his 1971 retirement
Christine M. Jolls, professor of law and economics at Yale Law School
Lance Liebman, professor at Columbia Law School and director of the American Law Institute
John F. Manning, Bruce Bromley Professor at Harvard Law School
Mari Matsuda, professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a leading voice in critical race theory, and first tenured female Asian American law professor in the U.S.
Arthur R. Miller, professor at NYU School of Law, former professor at Harvard Law School
Paul Steven Miller, disability rights expert, EEOC Commissioner, professor at the University of Washington School of Law, Special Assistant to the President
John V. Orth (J.D. 1974), professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill
John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Harvard clinical professor of law
Cass Sunstein (J.D. 1978), professor at Harvard Law School
Patricia J. Williams (J.D. 1975), proponent of critical race theory in law
Edward N. Beiser (1977), political scientist
Wallace Clift (J.D. 1952), psychology and religion, author of books including Jung and Christianity: The Challenge of Reconciliationde
Fr. John J. Coughlin (1987), Franciscan priest, attorney, and author
Herbert J. Davenport, economist
John Fiske, philosopher and historian
Harvey J. Levin (Fellow in Law and Economics, 1963–64), communications economist
John Matteson, English professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary biographer
Cheryl Mendelson, ethics philosopher and novelist
Samuel Moyn (J.D. 2001), intellectual historian
Eli Noam (J.D. 1975), professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School
David Riesman, sociologist; author of The Lonely Crowd
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
Robert Somol, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago architecture school
George Thorndike Angell, anti-animal cruelty activist
Richard Barnet (J.D. 1954), disarmament activist and co-founder of the leftist think tank Institute for Policy Studies
Larissa Behrendt (LL.M. 1994), Australian aboriginal rights activist, novelist
Janet Benshoof, human rights lawyer, founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Global Justice Center
Luke Cole, environmental lawyer and co-founder of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
John P. Davis (LL.B. 1933), African American activist
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, human rights advocate and historian
Charles E. Dunbar (LL.B. 1914), civil service reformer
George Esser, civil rights advocate
Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association
Jennifer Gordon, immigrant labor organizer
Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance
Mark J. Green, public interest author, candidate for Senator from New York (1986), Mayor of New York City (2001) and New York State Attorney General (2006)
Archibald Grimké, co-founder of the NAACP
Marjorie Heins, free speech and civil liberties advocate
Mary Howell (J.D. 1991), fought to open medical schools to women
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute libertarian activist
Hans F. Loeser (J.D. 1950), anti-Vietnam War activist
David A. Morse, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for leadership of the International Labour Organization
Ethan Nadelmann, anti-War on Drugs activist
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and frequent Green Party presidential candidate
Basil O'Connor, polio research advocate and president of the American Red Cross
Rebecca Onie, CEO of Health Leads and MacArthur Fellowship recipient
Wendell Phillips (1934), abolitionist and Native American rights advocate
Louis L. Redding (LL.B. 1928), NAACP lawyer and civil rights advocate; first African American admitted to the Delaware bar
Randall Robinson, anti-apartheid and pro-Haitian immigrant activist; founded the TransAfrica Forum
Tanya Rosen (LL.M. 2000), wildlife conservation advocate and Director of Panthera's Snow Leopard Program in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Harvey A. Silverglate, founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Silda Wall Spitzer, founder of Children for Children, former First Lady of New York State
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of Just Mercy
Moorfield Storey, president of the NAACP and the Anti-Imperialist League
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union
William English Walling, co-founder of the NAACP and founder of the Women's Trade Union League
Evan Wolfson, civil rights attorney, founder and president of Freedom to Marry
Justin Deabler, starred in The Real World: Hawaii (1992)
Jared Delgin, child actor
David Dorfman, film and television actor, child prodigy
Hill Harper, film, television, and stage actor
Samuel S. Hinds, starred in It's a Wonderful Life and Abbott & Costello films
Sheila Kuehl, child actress, first openly gay member of the California legislature
Paul Byard, architect and director of the Columbia architecture school historic preservation program
Richard Appel, comic writer, The Simpsons and The Cleveland Show
John Cochran (Survivor contestant), comedy writer and television personality
Fred de Cordova, producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Greg Giraldo, stand-up comedian and television personality
Gaspar Bergman, director
Sidney Salkow, director
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (LL.B. 1851), novelist and author of the New York State penal code
Seth Abramson (J.D. 2001), poet
Jacob M. Appel, short story writer, playwright (Arborophilia, The Mistress of Wholesome, Creve Coeur)
Louis Begley (LL.B. 1959), PEN/Hemingway Award-winning novelist; author of About Schmidt
Alexander Boldizar (J.D. 1999), writer and critic
Susan Cain (J.D. 1993), attorney, New York Times bestselling writer (Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking)
Viola Canales (J.D. 1989), novelist and short story writer
John Casey, novelist
Max Ehrmann, poet
Amy Gutman (J.D. 1993), novelist
Mohsin Hamid (J.D. 1997), novelist; author of the PEN/Hemingway Award finalist Moth Smoke and the Booker Prize-nominated The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Philip Jeyaretnam, Singaporean novelist and lawyer
Murad Kalam (J.D. 2002), novelist and short story writer
Brad Leithauser, poet, novelist, essay
James Russell Lowell, romantic poet, satirist, literary critic, United States Ambassador to Spain, and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Archibald MacLeish (LL.B. 1919), Pulitzer Prize–winning modernist poet, playwright and Librarian of Congress
John Matteson (J.D. 1986), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer
James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning short story writer and essayist
Cheryl Mendelson, novelist and philosopher of medical ethics
John Jay Osborn, Jr., author of The Paper Chase
Wena Poon (J.D. 1998), Singaporean author
Susan Power, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning novelist
William Henry Rhodes (LL.B. 1846), poet, essayist, short story writer
Akhil Sharma, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning short story writer, novelist
Pamela Thomas-Graham, author of the Ivy League Mysteries series
Arthur Train (LL.B. 1899), author of legal thrillers
Scott Turow (J.D. 1978), author of legal thrillers
Walter Wager, mystery and spy fiction novelist
Ayelet Waldman (J.D. 1991), novelist; wrote Mommy-Track Mysteries, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits; former columnist for Slate
Sabin Willett (J.D. 1983), novelist and defense lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainment camp inmates
Lauren Willig, historical romance novelist
William Winter (LL.B. 1857), author and literary critic
Owen Wister (LL.B. 1888), writer of westerns, including The Virginian
Austin Tappan Wright (L.L.B. 1908), writer and legal scholar, wrote Islandia
Samim Bilgen (1962), Turkish composer
Ruben Blades, salsa singer-songwriter and Panamanian Minister of Tourism
Jackie Fuchs (J.D., 1991), bassist for the music group The Runaways under her former stage name of Jackie Fox
Colin Meeder (J.D., 1997), bassist for the music group The Hated
James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
Zeeshan Zaidi (J.D., 2000), lead singer and guitarist for The Commuters
George Hitchcock, painter
William Wetmore Story, sculptor
John Jacob Astor III, financier and member of the Astor family
Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs
David Bonderman, co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital
Kevin Buehler (J.D. 1990), Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Doug Carlston, founder of computer game company Brøderbund Software
Finn M. W. Caspersen (J.D. 1966), financier, philanthropist, CEO of Beneficial Corporation and Knickerbocker Management
Kenneth Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express
Domenico De Sole, chairman of Tom Ford International and Sotheby's
Russ DeLeon, founder of online gambling site PartyGaming
Marc Dreier, sole equity partner in Dreier LLP convicted of securities fraud for selling $700 million in fictitious promissory notes
James Martin Eder
Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth, founder of first U.S. oil company
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (J.D. 1979), CEO of TIAA-CREF
Kenneth Frazier (J.D. 1978), President and CEO of Merck & Co.
Tully Friedman, founder of Friedman Fleischer & Lowe and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute
Gerald Grinstein, CEO of Delta Air Lines
Douglas Hagerman, General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of Rockwell Automation
Charles E. Haldeman, CEO of Freddie Mac
Glenn Hutchins, co-founder of private equity firm Silver Lake Partners
Mitchell R. Julis, co-founder of hedge fund Canyon Capital Advisors
Radcliffe Killam, oilman, businessman, rancher, large landowner, and philanthropist from Laredo, Texas
Jeff Kindler, CEO of Pfizer
Reginald Lewis, financier
Kenneth Lipper, investment banker, novelist, film producer
Alfred Lee Loomis
Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
L. L. Nunn, entrepreneur and educator
Adebayo Ogunlesi, Chairman of private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners
Ellen Pao, interim CEO of Reddit
Abram Nicholas Pritzker, founder of the Hyatt hotel chain
Keith Rabois, technology entrepreneur, executive and investor
Clarence B. Randall, Chairman of the Inland Steel Company
Sumner Redstone, Chairman of National Amusements
Leonid Rozhetskin, financier
Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital
Paul Singer, founder and CEO of Elliott Management Corporation and founder of the Paul E. Singer Family Foundation
Jeff Smisek, Chairman, President, and CEO of United Airlines
Gerald L. Storch, Chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us
Pamela Thomas-Graham, CEO of CNBC
Charlemagne Tower, railroad executive
Bruce Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard
William Woodward, Sr., banker and thoroughbred horse racer
Mortimer Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, owner of the New York Daily News
Paul Attanasio, TV/film screenwriter and producer; worked on House and Homicide: Life on the Street
Ron Bass, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film producer; wrote Rain Man
Peter Blake, consulting producer for House
Geoff Calkins, lead sports columnist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and ESPN radio show host
Debra Martin Chase, Hollywood producer
Clive Davis, Grammy Award-winning music producer
Frederick de Cordova (1933), film and television director and producer
Bill Jemas, comic book writer and producer
Christopher Keyser, TV screenwriter for Party of Five
Jeff Kwatinetz, music manager and television producer
Ken Ludwig, playwright and theater director
Jeffrey Orridge, television executive
David Otunga, husband of Jennifer Hudson; WWE wrestler; former reality tv contestant, I Love New York 2
Cary Sherman, Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America
David Sonenberg, music manager and film producer
Jon F. Vein, founder and CEO of MarketShare (subsidiary of Neustar); Emmy Award-winning animation producer.
David Zippel, Tony Award-winning musical theater lyricist
Keith Boykin, author, commentator; hosts My Two Cents on BET
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money and co-founder of TheStreet.com
Debra Dickerson, essayist on race
Rebecca Eisenberg (J.D. 1993), early blogger and writer on technology
Susan Estrich, feminist and legal commentator for Fox News
David Frum, author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Thomas Geoghegan, legal commentator
Lawrence Otis Graham, writer on contemporary race and class issues
Norman Hapgood, editor and critic
George Stillman Hillard, biographer, journalist, and Maine state politician
John H. Hinderaker, conservative blogger
Mickey Kaus, journalist and blogger for Slate
Carol Platt Liebau (1992), political analyst and commentator
Eric Liu, writer on race and mentorship; columnist for Slate
Ruth Marcus (J.D. 1984), columnist for the Washington Post
Kevin Philips, political commentator, Richard Nixon campaign strategist
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer on genocide, human rights, and foreign policy
Laurie Puhn, commentator, self-help author, and television hostess
Dong Puno, Philippine columnist, television host and producer
Ben Shapiro, conservative commentator
Jeffrey Steingarten, columnist for Vogue and Slate magazines; food critic
James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and staff writer for The New Yorker
Nicholas Vardy, Editor, The Global Guru, CIO, Global Guru Capital
Lis Wiehl (1987), legal analyst for Fox News and NPR
Tim Wu, writer for Slate; coined the term "net neutrality"; professor of law and technology at Columbia
Benjamin C. Bradlee, former Editor at Large of the Washington Post
Adam Cohen, editorial page editor for the New York Times
Lisa Daniels (1997), anchorwoman for NBC's Weekend Today
William L. Laurence, Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist who covered the testing and dropping of the atomic bomb
Meka Nichols, anchor/journalist for Channel One News
Rob Simmelkjaer, anchor/correspondent for ABC News Now
Gregory White Smith, 1991 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
James B. Stewart, 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory journalism
Robert C. Bassett, publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel
Phil Graham, publisher of the Washington Post
Tim Hays, publisher of the Riverside Press-Enterprise
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., publisher and CEO of the Washington Post
Cliff Sloan, publisher of Slate magazine
Charles J. Biddle, flying ace during the First World War, attorney and author
Raynal Bolling, first high ranking American officer killed in the First World War
David M. Brahms, brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps
Benjamin B. Ferencz, chief prosecutor for the U.S. Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial
Manning Force (1848), Union leader in the American Civil War
George Henry Gordon, Union general during the American Civil War; military historian
Albert G. Jenkins (1850), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and Congressman from Virginia (1857–61)
Mark S. Martins (1990), Brigadier General (United States Army) and Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions
Samuel Underhill, naval aviator
Ken Watkin, Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
Charles White Whittlesey, led the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest during the First World War
Helge Boes, CIA agent
John T. Downey, CIA agent captured in China
Alger Hiss, alleged spy of the Soviet Union
Sandy Alderson (J.D., 1976), general manager of the New York Mets
Bob Arum, boxing promoter
Mike Brown, owner of the Cincinnati Bengals
Brian Burke, president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames
Dick Button, figure skater and figure skating commentator
Hayes Jenkins, figure skater
Steve Clark, freestyle swimmer, multiple Olympic gold medallist and former world record holder
Don Cohan, Olympic bronze medalist in sailing
Lou DiBella, boxing promoter
Len Elmore, professional basketball player, sportscaster
Lawrence Fleisher, sports agent; helped found the NBA Players Association
Russ Granik, deputy commissioner of the NBA
Eddie Grant, Major League Baseball player (1905–1915), nicknamed "Harvard Eddie"
Ho Peng Kee, president of the Football Association of Singapore and Member of Parliament in Singapore
Rick Horrow, sports business expert
Ralph Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
Rob Manfred, commissioner of Major League Baseball
Jeffrey Orridge, commissioner of the Canadian Football League
David Otunga, professional wrestler with the WWE and former reality television star
Tony Petitti, president and CEO of the MLB Network
Michael Weiner (J.D. 1986), executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association
Myron Avery, Appalachian Trail hiker and travel guide author
Andy Bloch, champion poker player
Ken Fisher (J.D. 1987), pen name Ruben Bolling, cartoonist, author of Tom the Dancing Bug
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1837), writer on sea life and expert on maritime law
William Austin Dickinson, older brother of poet Emily Dickinson
Amanda Goad, winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and Jeopardy! Teen Tournament
Charles Goldfarb, computer language inventor
Erika Harold, winner of the Miss America contest
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder and first president of the National Geographic Society
Arnold W. G. Kean, developed civil aviation law
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., older brother of President John F. Kennedy
Joel I. Klein, New York City School Chancellor
Richard Lederer, author of books on language and wordplay
Robert Malley, analyst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Scotty McLennan, author and Dean of Religious Life at Stanford University
George S. Morison (1866), bridge designer
Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
George Padmore, Pan-Africanist figure
Francis Parkman, freelance historian and horticulturalist
Joan Whitney Payson, philanthropist and patron of the arts
Walter H. Seward (LL.B. 1924), third oldest living American and seventh-oldest living human
David Spindler, independent scholar of the Great Wall of China
William Stringfellow, lay theologian
Sonam Dechen Wangchuck (LL.M. 2007), Princess of Bhutan
These students attended Harvard Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.
Brooks Adams, historian
Larz Anderson, diplomat and businessman, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1912–13)
William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (dropped out 1914), U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933–1996)
William Bundy, CIA figure who had a role in planning the Vietnam War
Allan B. Calhamer, developed the board game Diplomacy
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (dropped out 1863), Governor of South Carolina
Frank Church (transferred), U.S. Senator from Idaho (1957–81)
John Sherman Cooper (dropped out), U.S. Senator from Kentucky (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973)
Danny Fields (dropped out 1959), figure in the underground New York punk rock scene
Melville Fuller (dropped out 1855), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (transferred), U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1993–present)
Arthur A. Hartman (dropped out 1948), U.S. Ambassador to France (1977–1981), United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1981–1987)
Henry James, novelist; author of The Bostonians and Washington Square
Jodi Kantor (dropped out), reporter and editor on culture and politics for the New York Times
Philip Kaufman, film screenwriter and director
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., left before his last year to serve in WWII, where he was killed
Michael Kinsley (transferred), journalist, editor, and host of Crossfire
Nicholas Longworth (transferred), Speaker of the House (1925–31)
Greg Mankiw (dropped out 1984), economist
Pat McCormick, comic actor and writer
Gordon McLendon, created Top 40 radio format
Louis Menand (dropped out 1974), American cultural and intellectual historian
William Henry Moody (dropped out), U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1906–1910), U.S. Attorney General (1904–1906), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1902–1904), Congressman from Massachusetts (1895–1902)
George Murdock, anthropologist
John Negroponte (dropped out 1960), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence
Cole Porter, composer and songwriter
Roscoe Pound (dropped out 1890), dean of Harvard Law School
Donald Regan, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1981–1985), White House Chief of Staff (1985–1987)
Angelo Rizzuto, photographer
Robert Rubin (dropped out), Secretary of the Treasury
William James Sidis (dropped out 1919), famous child prodigy
Alfred D. Sieminski (dropped out 1936), Congressman from New Jersey (1951–1959)
Adlai Stevenson II (dropped out), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953) and Democratic presidential candidate (1952, 1956)
Joe Vila (dropped out), sports writer
Robert W. Welch Jr. (dropped out), founder of the anticommunist John Birch Society
Phillip Banks, character on the TV series Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Oliver Barrett, main character in the film Love Story and its sequel Oliver's Story
Cable, superhero from the X-Force and X-Men comic books, as disclosed in X-Force Vol. 1 No. 40
Lindsay Dole, character on the TV series The Practice
Jerry Espenson, character on the TV series Boston Legal
Ainsley Hayes, character on the TV Series The West Wing
Miranda Hobbes, character on the TV series Sex and the City
Thurston Howell, III, character on the TV series Gilligan's Island
Artemus Gordon, character in the film Wild Wild West
Louis Litt, character on the TV series Suits
Ally McBeal, main character in the eponymous TV series
Mitch McDeere, main character in the TV series The Firm and the John Grisham novel which it was adapted from
Harvey Specter, character on the TV series Suits
Elle Woods, main character in the Legally Blonde films and musical
