List of George Washington University alumni

See also: List of George Washington University Law School alumni, List of Elliott School of International Affairs people, List of Columbian College of Arts and Sciences people, and List of The George Washington School of Business people

For the main article, see George Washington University. For a list of faculty, see List of George Washington University faculty.

This list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a recent U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.

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## Academia

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William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis Jack Edmonds, computer scientist, recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, best known for being one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization John R. Ryan, superintendent of United States Naval Academy Alexander Wetmore, 6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

* Clinton E. Adams, president of Rocky Vista University
* Myron Augsburger, president of Eastern Mennonite University
* Bill Baroni, Republican state senator of New Jersey, former assemblyman, adjunct professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
* George F. Baughman, president of the New College of Florida
* Derek Curtis Bok, president of Harvard University
* Sissela Bok, former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
* Walter M. Bortz III, president of Hampden–Sydney College
* Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and University of Northern Colorado
* Curley Byrd, president of University of Maryland, College Park
* Lindsay Chervinsky, presidential historia; executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
* Preston Cloud, eminent earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist whose work led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution"
* Lotus Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota
* Bettye Collier-Thomas, founder of Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History, award-winning Professor of History at Temple University
* Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University
* William Carey Crane, president of Baylor University
* Jack Edmonds, computer scientist, recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, best known for being one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization
* William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis
* John T. Fey, president of the University of Vermont and the University of Wyoming
* H. Edward Flentje, president of Emporia State University
* Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University
* William Halal, aerospace engineer, air force officer, academic, author
* Mildred Harnack, literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was beheaded by the Gestapo
* Andrew Hartman, professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University
* Todd B. Hawley, founder of the International Space University
* Brooks Hays, professor at Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and institute director at Wake Forest University
* Ricardo Jaar, president of the University of San Pedro Sula
* Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell University
* Ellyn Kaschak, 1968, emeritus professor of psychology, Ohio State University
* Mark Kennedy, president of University of North Dakota
* Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Islamic scholar and professor at The American University of Sharjah; author and general editor of The Study Quran
* Gustavo A. Mellander, president of Passaic College, Mission College; chancellor of Inter American University, West Valley and Mission College District; graduate dean emeritus, George Mason University; member of New Jersey State Board of Education
* Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College
* Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W. K. Kellogg Foundation; daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
* Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
* Martha Lucas Pate, president of Sweet Briar College
* Roger Pilon, vice president of the Cato Institute
* Carolynn Reid-Wallace, president of Fisk University; assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education
* Charles P. Roland, historian of the American Civil War and the American South, studied at George Washington in 1947 before transferring to Louisiana State University to obtain his PhD[1]
* John R. Ryan, chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of United States Naval Academy
* Robert Ryland, president of the University of Richmond
* Peter Schweizer, president of Government Accountability Institute
* Portia Holmes Shields, president of Albany State University, interim president of Tennessee State University
* Gary Sick, Middle East analyst and academic at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
* Morris G. Steen Jr., president of North Florida Community College
* Thomas B. Symons, president of University of Maryland, College Park
* Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African American historian[2]
* Henry Holcombe Tucker, president of the University of Georgia
* Alexander Wetmore, 6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
* Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of Brigham Young University
* Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the University of Illinois system
* Gregory H. Williams, president of the University of Cincinnati and the City College of New York
* John T. Wilson, president of the University of Chicago
* William Lyne Wilson, president of Washington and Lee University
* Meyrav Wurmser, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
* Irvin D. Yalom, existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University
* Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M University, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah
* Raul Yzaguirre, activist, lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, professor at Arizona State University, one of the first Hispanic fellows of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
* Melinda Zook, Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University

## Business

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Lee Kun-Hee, former chairman of Samsung and one of the world's richest people Kathy J. Warden, CEO of Northrop Grumman Dina Merrill, billionaire co-founder of RKO Pictures Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines Kenneth Lay, founder and CEO of the Enron Corporation Kaushik Basu, 11th Chief Economist of the World Bank

* Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics
* Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the X Prize Foundation
* Ron Baron, billionaire founder of Baron Capital; paid a record $103 million for an East Hampton, New York property
* Michael Beckerman, CEO of the Internet Association
* James C. Boland, former vice chairman of Ernst & Young; board member of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Sherwin-Williams, Invacare and DDR Corp.
* Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist, former board member at Revlon
* General John T. Chain Jr., director at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and ConAgra Foods, Inc.
* Henry Cisneros, president of Univision
* J. R. Claeys, CEO of the National Association of Government Contractors
* Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director of Goldman Sachs
* L. Stanley Crane,[3] member of National Academy of Engineering; railroad executive; CEO of Southern Railway and Consolidated Rail Corporation
* Nancy Davis, founder and CIO of Quadratic Capital Management
* Lester del Rey, founder of Del Rey Books
* Linda Fisher, former deputy administratpr of the Environmental Protection Agency; former vice president of Monsanto Company; vice president of DuPont
* Guilford Glazer, real estate developer
* Lawrence R. Goldfarb, CEO of LRG Capital Group
* Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers Intl.
* Stephen G. Haines, organizational theorist and management consultant
* Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Holdings, S.A.
* Donna Hrinak, president of Boeing Latin America
* Clayton M. Jones, chairman of Rockwell Collins
* David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac in early 2009
* Mugo Kibati, CEO of Telkom Kenya
* Gwendolyn King, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
* Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines
* Mustafa Koç, President of Koç Holding
* General Charles C. Krulak, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps; board member at ConocoPhillips, Phelps Dodge, Union Pacific; former executive at MBNA
* Kenneth Lay, CEO and chairman of Enron
* Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Group
* Theodore Lerner, billionaire real estate developer
* Ed Liddy, chairman of Allstate and AIG
* J. Phillip ("Jack") London, author, executive chairman and chairman of the board of CACI International Inc.
* Gerardo I. Lopez, CEO of Extended Stay America and AMC Theatres
* Alvan Macauley, president of Packard
* Ellen Malcolm, founder and president of EMILY's List and IBM heiress
* Yasseen Mansour, Egyptian billionaire
* Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
* Darla Moore (MBA), partner of the private investment firm, Rainwater, Inc.; founder of Palmetto Institute; married to the self-made Texan billionaire Richard Rainwater
* Nate Morris, entrepreneur
* Robert Nichols, president and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
* Roy Nouhra, founder and CEO of ASIS boats
* Donald Nyrop, president and CEO of Northwest Airlines
* William Owens, CEO of Nortel
* Neil Portnow, president of The Recording Academy
* Admiral Joseph Prueher (1973), former ambassador to China, former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations; a director of Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., the New York Life Insurance Company, Dyncorp International, Inc. and Fluor Corporation
* Michael Punke, vice president of Amazon Web Services
* Patricia Roberts Harris, former director at IBM
* John F. W. Rogers, chief of staff and partner at Goldman Sachs
* Joe Rospars, CEO of Blue State Digital
* Amina Al Rustamani, CEO of the TECOM Group
* Bruce Sewell, former general counsel and senior vice president at Apple
* Sim Shagaya, founder and CEO of Konga.com
* Afnan Al-Shuaiby, secretary general of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce
* Douglas Steenland, president and CEO of Northwest Airlines
* Bill Studeman, former vice president and Deputy general manager of Mission Systems at Northrop Grumman
* Van Toffler, president of Viacom Media Networks
* George Uribe, founder and CEO of Guestbooker.com
* Kathy J. Warden, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman
* Christopher J. Wiernicki, CEO of the American Bureau of Shipping
* Dennis R. Wraase, CEO of Pepco Holdings
* Elaine Wynn, co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts

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Lin Jianhai, current Secretary-General of the International Monetary Fund

* Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
* Dan Berger, president and CEO of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions
* Rafael Corpus, chairman of the Philippine National Bank
* Lin Jianhai, secretary general of the International Monetary Fund
* David Klein (PhD '71), governor of the Bank of Israel
* Rob Nichols, president and CEO of the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Forum
* Sandra Pianalto, 10th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
* James A. Runde, vice chairman of Morgan Stanley
* José Julián Sidaoui, deputy-governor of the Bank of Mexico
* Marc Tucker, founder and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy
* Julia Montgomery Walsh, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, first woman to be registered with the American Stock Exchange

## Politics

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### United States

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#### U.S. cabinet

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Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State David Bernhardt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior

* William Barr (JD '77), former U.S. Attorney General (1991–1993; 2019–2020)
* David Bernhardt (JD '94), current U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2019–2021)
* Henry Cisneros (DPA '76), 10th U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
* George B. Cortelyou (LLM 1896), 44th United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1st United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor
* John Foster Dulles (JD 1911), 52nd U.S. Secretary of State
* Mark Esper (PhD '08), former U.S. Secretary of Defense (2019–2020)
* Dan Glickman (JD '69), 26th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
* Patricia Roberts Harris (JD '60), 6th U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development, 1st U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
* Patrick J. Hurley (JD 1908, LLM 1913), 51st U.S. Secretary of War
* Stephen L. Johnson (MS '76), 11th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
* David M. Kennedy (MA '35, JD '37), 60th United States Secretary of the Treasury
* John Michael McConnell (MPA '86), 2nd Director of National Intelligence
* Christopher C. Miller (BA '87), former U.S. Secretary of Defense (2020–2021)
* A. Mitchell Palmer, 50th U.S. Attorney General
* Colin Powell (MBA '71), 65th U.S. Secretary of State
* George W. Romney, 3rd U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
* Susan Schwab (PhD '93), 15th United States Trade Representative
* John W. Snow (JD '67), 73rd US Secretary of the Treasury
* William Lyne Wilson (BA 1860), 37th U.S. Postmaster General
* Mike Young (MBA '91), acting U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (2017)

#### U.S. governors

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Senator Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia George W. Romney, 52nd governor of Michigan, father of Senator Mitt Romney

* Mel Carnahan, 51st governor of Missouri[4]
* Robert P. Casey, 42nd governor of Pennsylvania
* Fenimore Chatterton, 6th governor of Wyoming[5]
* James P. Coleman, 52nd governor of Mississippi
* Lee E. Emerson, 69th governor of Vermont
* Jim Folsom, 42nd governor of Alabama
* Frank Freyer, 14th Military Governor of Guam
* Ernest W. Gibson Jr., 67th governor of Vermont
* Vincent C. Gray, 7th mayor of the District of Columbia
* Frank L. Hagaman, 31st governor of Kansas
* Wilford Bacon Hoggatt, 6th governor of the District of Alaska
* Harry Hughes, 57th governor of Maryland
* Ruby Laffoon, 43rd governor of Kentucky
* Walter Philip Leber, 15th governor of the Panama Canal Zone
* Blair Lee, III, interim governor of Maryland
* Adam McMullen, 21st governor of Nebraska[6]
* Culbert Olson, 29th governor of California
* Frederic Hale Parkhurst, 52nd governor of Maine
* Pedro Pierluisi, 14th governor of Puerto Rico
* John Garland Pollard, 51st governor of Virginia
* Cal Rampton, 11th governor of Utah
* George W. Romney, 43rd governor of Michigan
* William Edwin Safford, 2nd Military Governor of Guam
* Grant Sawyer, 21st governor of Nevada
* Robert E. Smylie, 24th governor of Idaho
* Frederick Perry Stanton, interim governor of the Kansas Territory
* Thomas Swann, 33rd governor of Maryland
* Mark Warner, 69th governor of Virginia

#### U.S. senators

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Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader during most of the Obama presidency Senator J. William Fulbright, founder of the Fulbright Program

* Hank Brown, former U.S. senator from Colorado
* Robert Byrd, former U.S. senator from West Virginia, president pro tempore of the United States Senate
* Jean Carnahan, former U.S. senator from Missouri (2001–2002)
* Mel Carnahan, posthumously elected to the United States Senate
* Bennett Champ Clark, former U.S. senator from Missouri (1933–1945)
* Kent Conrad, former U.S. senator from North Dakota
* Norris Cotton, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire (1954–1974)
* Larry Craig, former U.S. senator from Idaho
* Jeremiah Denton, former U.S. senator from Alabama (1981–1987)
* Tammy Duckworth, current U.S. senator from Illinois (2017–present)
* John Foster Dulles, former U.S. senator from New York
* Mike Enzi, former U.S. senator from Wyoming (1997–2021)
* J. William Fulbright, U.S. senator from Arkansas, founder of the Fulbright Program (1945–1974)
* Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former U.S. senator from Vermont (1940–1941)
* William A. Harris, former U.S. senator from Kansas
* Daniel O. Hastings, former U.S. senator from Delaware
* Gordon J. Humphrey, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire (1979–1990)
* Daniel Inouye, former U.S. senator from Hawaii, president pro tempore of the United States Senate
* William E. Jenner, former U.S. senator from Indiana
* Daniel Tarbox Jewett, former U.S. senator from Missouri
* Blair Lee I, former U.S. senator from Maryland (1914–1917)
* Frank Moss, former U.S. senator from Utah (1959–1977)
* Francis G. Newlands, former U.S. senator from Nevada (1903–1917)
* Harry Reid, former U.S. senator from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader
* William L. Scott, former U.S. senator from Virginia
* Howard Sutherland, former U.S. senator from West Virginia
* Thomas Swann, elected to the United States Senate but instead served as governor of Maryland
* John Warner, former U.S. senator from Virginia (1979–2009)
* Mark Warner, current U.S. senator from Virginia (2009–present)
* Elizabeth Warren, current U.S. senator from Massachusetts (2013–present)

#### U.S. representatives

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Rep. Eric Cantor, former House Majority Leader and House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Israel, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Sitting U.S. Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania Sitting U.S. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida Sitting U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley of California Former U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania Former U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros of California Former U.S. Rep John H. Foster of Indiana Former U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida

* E. Ross Adair, Republican from Indiana, 1951–1971, later ambassador to Ethiopia
* Jason Altmire (1998), Democrat from Pennsylvania, 2007–2013
* Henry Moore Baker, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1893–1897, later a state representative
* Michael D. Barnes, Democrat from Maryland
* Bob Barr (1972), former Republican from Georgia, 1995–2003,
* Henry W. Barry, Republican from Mississippi, former state senator, 1870–1875
* James F. Battin, Republican from Montana,
* Helen Delich Bentley, Republican from Maryland, 1985–1995
* Michael Bilirakis (1960), Republican from Florida, 1983–2007
* Vincente T. Blaz, Republican from Guam, brigadier general, 1985–1993
* Charles Harrison Brown, Democrat from Missouri, 1957–1961
* Garry E. Brown, Republican from Michigan, 1967–1979
* Hank Brown, Republican from Colorado, former state senator, 1981–1991, later US senator
* Julia Brownley, U.S. representative from California (2013–present)
* Joel Broyhill, Republican from Virginia, chairman of the Rules Committee, 1953–1974
* Sherman Everett Burroughs, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1917–1923
* Laurence J. Burton, Republican from Utah, 1963–1971, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
* Robert Byrd (attended), Democrat from West Virginia, former state delegate and senator, 1953–1959, US senator
* Goodloe Byron, Democrat from Maryland, former State Delegate and senator, 1971–1978
* John L. Cable, Republican from Ohio, 1921–1925 and 1929–1933
* Gordon Canfield (1926), Republican from New Jersey, 1941–1961
* Eric Cantor (1985), Republican from Virginia, former Chief Deputy Whip, Minority Whip, 2001–2010, House Majority Leader, 2011–2014
* Lewis C. Carpenter, Republican from South Carolina, 1874–1875
* Donna Christian-Christensen, Democrat from the United States Virgin Islands, non-voting delegate, 1997–2015
* Gil Cisneros, Republican from California, 2019–2021
* William Henry Coleman, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1915–1917
* Frank Coombs, Republican from California, former state assemblyman and speaker, 1901–1903
* John Blaisdell Corliss, Republican from Michigan, 1895–1903
* Norris Cotton, Republican from New Hampshire, 1947–1954, later US senator
* William R. Coyle, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1925–1927 and 1929–1933
* Larry Craig, Republican from Idaho, 1981–1991, US senator, 1991–2009
* Josiah Crudup, Republican from North Carolina, 1821–1823
* Charles F. Curry Jr., Republican from California, 1931–1933
* Ewin L. Davis, Democrat from Tennessee 1919–1933
* Martin Dies Jr., Democrat from Texas; co-founder and chairman of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, 1931–1945 and 1953–1959
* Donald C. Dobbins, Democrat from Illinois, 1933–1937
* John James Duncan Jr., Republican from Tennessee, 1988 to 2019
* Neal Dunn, U.S. representative from Florida (2017–present)
* Clyde T. Ellis, Democrat from Arkansas, former state representative and senator, 1939–1943
* John James Flynt Jr., Democrat from Georgia, 1954–1979
* John H. Foster, Republican from Indiana, 1905–1909
* J. William Fulbright, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1945, later US senator
* Ralph A. Gamble, Republican from New York, 1937–1957
* Stephen Warfield Gambrill, Democrat from Maryland, 1924–1938
* Dan Glickman (JD 1969), Democrat from Kansas, former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, 1977–1995, former United States Secretary of Agriculture
* Gilbert Gude, Republican from Maryland, former state delegate and senator, 1967–1977
* Orval H. Hansen, Republican from Idaho, former state representative and senator, 1969–1975
* William A. Harris, Populist from Kansas, 1893–1895, later a state senator and then US senator, 1897–1903, unsuccessful candidate for governor
* Franck R. Havenner, Progressive and then Democrat from California, 1937–1941 and 1945–1953
* Brooks Hays, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1959
* Erin Houchin, Republican from Indiana
* George Huddleston Jr., Democrat from Alabama, 1963–1965
* Merlin Hull, Republican from Wisconsin, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, former Speaker, former Wisconsin Secretary of State, 1929–1931 and 1935–1953
* William Y. Humphreys, Democrat from Mississippi, 1923–1925
* Daniel Inouye (JD 1952), Democrat from Hawaii 1959–1963, former US senator
* Steve Israel (1985), Democrat from New York, 2001–2017
* Sam Johnson, Republican from Texas, 1991 to 2019
* Frank M. Karsten, Democrat from Missouri, 1947–1969
* Tom Kindness, Republican from Ohio
* Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine[7]
* Robert W. Levering, Democrat of Ohio
* Albert F. Dawson, Republican from Iowa
* Tim Mahoney (1983), Democrat from Florida, 2007–2009
* Henry May, Democrat from Maryland, 1853–1855 and 1861–1863
* Donald H. McLean, Republican from New Jersey, 1933–1945
* Herbert Alton Meyer, Republican from Kansas, 1947–1950
* Earl C. Michener, Republican from Michigan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1919–1933 and 1935–1951
* Edward Tylor Miller, Republican from Maryland, 1947–1959, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
* Jared Moskowitz, Democrat from Florida
* Francis G. Newlands (JD 1869), Democrat from Nevada, 1893–1903, later US senator
* William H. Parker, Republican from South Dakota, 1907–1908
* Stanford E. Parris, Republican from Virginia, former state Ddlegate, 1973–1975 and 1981–1991
* James T. Patterson, Republican from Connecticut, 1947–1959
* Pedro Pierluisi, Democratic Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the House, 2009–2017
* Nick Rahall, Democrat from West Virginia, 1977–2015
* Jim Ramstad (1973), Republican from Minnesota, 1991–2009
* Harry Reid (JD 1964), Democrat from Nevada, former lieutenant governor, 1983–1987, former US senator
* Henry S. Reuss, Democrat from Wisconsin
* John Merriman Reynolds, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1905–1911; later lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania
* John M. Robsion Jr., Republican from Kentucky, 1953–1959, unsuccessful candidate for governor
* Paul Rogers, Democrat from Florida, 1955–1979
* Alvah Sabin, from Vermont, former state representative and senator, as well as state secretary of state, 1853–1857
* William L. Scott, Republican from Virginia, 1967–1973, later US senator
* James Shannon, Democrat from Massachusetts, 1979–1985, later Massachusetts Attorney General
* Joe Skubitz, Republican from Kansas, 1963–1978
* Darren Soto, U.S. representative from Florida (2017–present)
* Gladys Noon Spellman, Democrat from Maryland, 1975–1981
* Frederick Perry Stanton, Democrat from Tennessee, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1845–1855, later Governor of Kansas
* Cliff Stearns (1963), Republican from Florida, 1989–2013
* Howard Sutherland, Republican from West Virginia, former state senator, 1913–1917
* Thomas Swann, Democrat from Maryland, former governor and mayor of Baltimore, elected to the US Senate but did not serve, 1869–1879
* William Timmons, U.S. representative from South Carolina (2019–present)
* Jill Tokuda, Democrat from Hawaii
* E. S. Johnny Walker, Democrat from New Mexico, former state representative, 1965–1969
* Francis E. Walter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1933–63
* Elton Watkins, Democrat from Oregon, 1923–1925, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate and Mayor of Portland
* Guilford Wiley Wells, Independent Republican from Mississippi, former US Attorney, 1875–1877
* Robert Wexler (1985), former state senator, Democrat from Florida, 1997–2010
* Compton I. White Jr., Democrat of Idaho, 1963–1967
* Susan Wild, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania (2018–present)
* Earle D. Willey, former Delaware Secretary of State, Republican from Delaware, 1943–1945
* William Lyne Wilson, Democrat from West Virginia, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, 1883–1895, later United States Postmaster General

#### U.S. mayors

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Vincent C. Gray, mayor of Washington, D.C. Henry Cisneros, mayor of San Antonio and 10th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Richard Wallach, mayor of D.C. Rocky Anderson, mayor of Salt Lake City

* Steven L. Abrams, former mayor of Boca Raton
* Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City
* Franklin P. Backus, former mayor of Alexandria
* Leroy S. Bendheim, former mayor of Alexandria
* William V. Bouic, former mayor of Rockville, Maryland
* Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio
* Frank Willey Clancy, former mayor of Albuquerque
* William Henry Coleman, former mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania
* Hector De La Torre, former mayor of South Gate, California
* Gretchen Driskell, former mayor of Saline, Michigan
* James Taylor Ellyson, former mayor of Richmond
* Mike Enzi, former mayor of Gillette, Wyoming
* George B. Fitch, former mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
* William S. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Cleveland
* Harold L. George, former mayor of Beverly Hills
* Robert K. Goodwin, former mayor of Redfield, Iowa
* Vincent C. Gray, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
* George W. Guthrie, former mayor of Pittsburgh
* Elizabeth C. Hoffman, former mayor of North Tonawanda, New York
* W. M. Holland, former mayor of Dallas
* David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City
* Tom Kindness, former mayor of Hamilton, Ohio
* Susan W. Kluttz, former mayor of Salisbury, North Carolina
* Alex Knopp, former mayor of Norwalk
* Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey
* John H. Logie, former mayor of Grand Rapids
* Henry B. F. MacFarland, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
* Frank E. Mann, former mayor of Alexandria
* Tom Van Horn Moorehead, former mayor of Zanesville, Ohio
* John Garland Pollard, former Williamsburg, Virginia
* Skip Priest, former mayor of Federal Way, Washington
* Tom Rust, former mayor of Herndon, Virginia
* Keith Sebelius, former mayor of Norton, Kansas
* Scott Slifka, former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut
* Thomas Swann, former mayor of Baltimore
* Walter Nathan Tobriner, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
* Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix
* Richard Wallach, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
* Kenneth S. Wherry, former mayor of Pawnee City, Nebraska
* Compton I. White Jr., former mayor of Clark Fork, Idaho
* Dorothy Wilken, former mayor of Boca Raton
* James L. Wilmeth, former mayor of Takoma Park, Maryland

#### Other U.S. officials

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Mercedes Schlapp, 2nd White House Director of Strategic Communications J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the FBI Eddie Farnsworth, former president pro tempore of the Arizona Senate Dennis Herrera, former City Attorney of San Francisco JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump Tony Sayegh, current United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Mark Felt, "Deep Throat" informant during the Watergate scandal Stanley Finch, first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Michael Griffin, administrator of NASA Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal Kenneth P. Moritsugu, Surgeon General of the united States James E. Webb, second administrator of NASA and namesake of the James Webb Space Telescope

* Julie Raque Adams, current member of the Kentucky Senate
* Aldrich Ames, Soviet spy working in the CIA as a counter-intelligence officer
* Ross "Rocky" Anderson (JD 1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
* Dionel M. Aviles, Under Secretary of the Navy, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy
* Willie Bailey, Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
* Gary J. Barczak, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Bill Baroni, Republican state senator of New Jersey, former assemblyman, adjunct professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
* A. Bruce Bielaski, director of the Bureau of Investigation, predecessor to the FBI
* William B. Black Jr., 16th Deputy Director of the National Security Agency
* Edward Blackmon Jr., Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
* Tom Bossert, United States Homeland Security Advisor for President Donald Trump
* Harold Brown Jr., CIA officer and U.S. Army Reserve major who was killed during the Camp Chapman attack
* Winston Bryant, former attorney general of Arkansas
* Alexander Butterfield, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
* Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the FBI
* Victoria Clarke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
* Charlie Collins, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for the 84th district[8]
* Charles Colson, chief counsel for US president Richard Nixon, spent time in prison for his part in the Watergate scandal
* David O. Cooke, "mayor of the Pentagon"
* Roger Cressey, member of the United States National Security Council
* Carlos Del Toro, current United States Secretary of the Navy
* Harry S. Dent Sr. (JD, 1957), special counsel to President Richard Nixon; General Counsel to the Republican National Committee; father of economist Harry Dent
* Lewis Deschler, first Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
* M. Jerome Diamond, Vermont Attorney General, 1975–1981[9]
* Elizabeth B. Drewry (BA, MA), archivist, National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
* Gretchen Driskell, former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
* Allen Dulles (1920), director of the CIA
* Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
* Randall Edwards (MBA 1990), Oregon State Treasurer
* Harland E. Everson, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Eddie Farnsworth, current president pro tempore of the Arizona Senate
* W. Mark Felt (1940), associate director, FBI; "Deep Throat" informant
* Stanley Finch (JD 1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
* Sean Flaherty, Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
* Richard A. Flintrop, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Aaron Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
* Hillman Terome Frazier, Democratic state senator of Mississippi, former state representative
* Robert J. Garagiola, Democratic member of the Maryland State Senate
* Gregory G. Garre, United States Solicitor General
* Lori Garver, deputy NASA administrator
* James W. Gilchrist, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Steven M. Goldman, New Jersey State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
* L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
* Tom Greenwell, first Republican judge of the 319th District Court in Corpus Christi[10]
* Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
* Bill Guffey, former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives
* Ana Sol Gutierrez, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense
* Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
* Paul Clinton Harris, Republican former member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Dennis Herrera, current City Attorney of San Francisco
* Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the administration of Barack Obama
* Frank Harris Hitchcock, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
* David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City, OK
* J. Edgar Hoover (1916, 1917, 1935), director, FBI
* Erin Houchin, member of the Indiana Senate
* Rosel H. Hyde, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
* Charles James, assistant attorney general and general counsel of Chevron-Texaco
* Marise James, member of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
* Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor for the Watergate hearings
* Corey Johnson, current Speaker of New York City Council
* Raymond Johnson, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
* Rod Johnston, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
* Diana Josephson, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
* Gwendolyn King, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
* Alex Knopp, eight-term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1987–2001) and two-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (2001–2005); clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School (since 2006)
* Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, current deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
* Murray D. Levy, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Donna Lynne, 49th lieutenant governor of Colorado
* Dan Maffei, current Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission
* Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
* Frank E. Mann, former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Mari Manoogian, current member of the Michigan House of Representatives
* Jesse Martineau, Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
* James W. McCord Jr., former CIA officer, involved in the Watergate scandal
* JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia
* Kathleen Troia McFarland, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
* Bill McGinley, White House Cabinet Secretary
* Floretta Dukes McKenzie, superintendent of District of Columbia Public Schools
* Kenneth E. Melson, former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
* Bill Mims, former Republican State Delegate and former member of the Senate of Virginia, current attorney general of Virginia
* Dominic J. Monetta, former deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense, 1991–1993; former director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy, 1989–1991
* Karen S. Montgomery, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Kenneth P. Moritsugu (M.D. 1971), Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006–present)[11]
* Tim Morrison, member of the United States National Security Council
* Jared Moskowitz, former member of the Florida House of Representatives
* Robert Nichols, President and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
* Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr., Inspector General of the Social Security Administration
* Kevin J. O'Connor, former United States Associate Attorney General
* Daniel J. O'Donnell, Democratic member of the New York State Assembly
* Eric O'Neill (JD 2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
* John P. O'Neill, former top anti-terrorism expert; former assistant director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; head of security at the World Trade Center; died in the September 11, 2001 attacks
* Leslie Osterman (1991), Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives
* John Overington, Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
* Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
* B. J. Penn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (2005–2009)
* Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
* Jeffrey Piccola, Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
* Paul G. Pinsky, former Democratic delegate and current member of the Maryland State Senate
* Atif Qarni, current Virginia Secretary of Education
* John Merriman Reynolds, US representative from Pennsylvania and then lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania
* Karl Rhoads, current member of the Hawaii Senate
* Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (or IRS Commissioner), head of the Internal Revenue Service, former partner at Ernst & Young
* John A. Rizzo, acting general counsel of the CIA
* José R. Rodríguez, current Minority Leader of Texas Senate
* John P. Roth, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
* Catherine M. Russell, chief of staff to Jill Biden, wife of Joseph Biden, former associate deputy attorney general
* Thomas Davis Rust, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* Tony Sayegh, United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
* Mary Schapiro, former chairwoman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, former CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, former chairman and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, director of Kraft Foods Inc, and Duke Energy Corporation
* Mercedes Schlapp, White House Director of Strategic Communications
* Bradley Schlozman, former head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and current US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri
* Daniel Shagoury (M.A. 1987), member of the Maine House of Representatives[12]
* Christopher B. Shank, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* James Shannon, former US representative and Massachusetts Attorney General
* Caroline Simmons, current member of the Connecticut Senate
* Vivian V. Simpson, first female Secretary of State of Maryland
* James Skoufis, Democratic member of New York State Assembly elected to State Senate in 2018
* Harry A. Slattery, US Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938–39; the Slattery Report
* Darren Soto, Democrat, Florida House of Representatives
* Kenneth W. Starr (1968), United States Solicitor General, and independent counsel during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals
* Ben Stevens, former president of the Alaska State Senate, son of United States Senator Ted Stevens
* Bill Studeman, former admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the CIA, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
* Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI, protégé of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
* Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, 1948–52, member of the Udall family
* Colin Van Ostern, New Hampshire Executive Council member and New Hampshire Gubernatorial candidate
* Lauren Vaughan, Secretary of the District of Columbia
* Ram Villivalam, current member of the Illinois Senate
* Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
* Rob Wagner, current member of the Oregon State Senate
* Katie Walsh, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
* Leo Wardrup, former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
* James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
* Mary Margaret Whipple, former Democratic State Delegate and current member of the Senate of Virginia
* William Lyne Wilson, 37th United States Postmaster General, former Ways and Means chairman in the US House of Representatives
* Robert O. Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

### International

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Juan Guaidó, acting president of Venezuela Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, former president of Croatia Syngman Rhee, 1st president of South Korea

#### Heads of state and government

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* Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (MEA '83), 21st prime minister of Pakistan (2017–2018)[13]
* Edward David Burt (BA '01, MS '03), current premier of Bermuda (2017–present)
* Chang Dae-whan (MA '76), prime minister of South Korea (2002)
* Michael Dunkley (MS '80), 12th premier of Bermuda (2014–2017)
* Faure Gnassingbé (MBA '97), current president of Togo (2005–present)[14]
* Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (F.S. '03), former president of Croatia (2015–2020)
* Juan Guaidó (MPA '09), disputed president of Venezuela (2019–present)
* Lee Myung-bak (V.S. '99), 17th president of South Korea (2008–2013)
* Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi (PhD '73), prime minister of Libya (1969–1970)
* Syngman Rhee (BA 1907), 1st president of South Korea (1948–1960)
* Mikhail Saakashvili (LLM '94), 3rd president of Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–2013)
* Chimediin Saikhanbileg (LLM '02), prime minister of Mongolia (2014–2016)
* Mandé Sidibé (MBA '74), 8th prime minister of Mali (2000–2002)
* Song Yo Chan (BA '40), prime minister of South Korea (1961–1962)
* Tshering Wangchuk (LLM '03), interim prime minister of Bhutan (2018)
* Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (MA '85), president of Iraq (2004–2005)

#### Cabinet ministers

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Mohammad Nahavandian, current vice president of Iran Hessa Al Jaber, former Information Minister of Qatar S. M. Krishna, former Foreign Minister of India Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia

* Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources of Pakistan
* Ashtar Ausaf Ali, former Attorney-General for Pakistan
* Hedayat Amin Arsala, former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
* Htay Aung, former Tourism Minister of Myanmar
* Alaa Batayneh, former Energy Minister of Jordan
* Roberto Campos, former Minister of Planning of Brazil
* John Deng, current Minister without Portfolio of Taiwan
* Slim Feriani, former Minister of Industry, Energy, Mining, Renewable Energy and SMEs, Republic of Tunisia
* Rex Gatchalian, current Philippines Secretary of Social Welfare and Development, former Member Philippine House of Representatives from Valenzuela, former mayor of Valenzuela
* Pedro Sánchez Gamarra, former Energy Minister of Peru
* Raya Haffar al-Hassan, former Finance Minister of Lebanon
* Hessa Al Jaber, former Minister of Information of Qatar
* Aleksandre Jejelava, former Science & Education Minister of Georgia
* Ali bin Abdulla Al Kaabi, former Labour Minister of the United Arab Emirates
* Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, former Minister of Corrections of Georgia
* Kao Su-po, former Minister of Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs of Taiwan
* Omar Ayub Khan, current Energy Minister of Pakistan (grandson of President Muhammad Ayub Khan)
* Kivutha Kibwana, former Defense Minister of Kenya
* Yahya Kisbi, former Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing
* S. M. Krishna, former Foreign Minister of India
* Zhivargo Laing, former Culture Minister of the Bahamas
* Lee Beom Seok, former Foreign Minister of South Korea
* Mihnea Motoc, former Defense Minister of Romania
* Mohammad Mustafa, former deputy prime minister of Palestine
* Mohammad Nahavandian, current vice president of Iran
* Nguyễn Thanh Nghị, former Vietnamese Minister of Construction, current Standing Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee
* Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, current Minister of Maritime Affairs of Indonesia
* Farouq Qasrawi, former Foreign Minister of Jordan
* Sérgio Paulo Rouanet, former Minister of Culture of Brazil
* Sudirman Said, former Energy Minister of Indonesia
* Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud, former Minister of Municipal Affairs of Saudi Arabia
* Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar, former Minister of Economy & Trade of Syria
* Nematullah Shahrani, former vice president of Afghanistan
* Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, former Minister for Internet Safety & Security of the United Kingdom
* Marcin Święcicki, former Minister of Economic Relations of Poland
* Géza Teleki, former Education Minister of Hungary
* Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, former vice governor of Jakarta, Indonesia
* Jorge Alberto Uribe, former Defense Minister of Colombia
* Alexander Zaveryukha, former deputy prime minister of Russia

#### Other figures

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José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Hsu Mo, founder of the International Court of Justice

* HH Prince Talal Arslan, Druze leader and current Head of the House of Arslan; founder and President of the Lebanese Democratic Party
* Vidar Bjørnstad, Member of the Norwegian Parliament
* Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
* Chung Mong-joon, chairman of the Liberty Korea Party
* Mauricio Vila Dosal, current governor of Yucatán, former Mayor of Mérida
* Anwar Gargash, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
* Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
* Dianne Haskett, mayor of London, Canada
* Andrew Hastie, current member of the Parliament of Australia
* Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
* Joe Hung (PhD history, 1981), Taiwanese journalist (Central News Agency) and diplomat, representative of Taiwan to Italy (1993–2000)[15]
* Philip Jaisohn, a founding father of the Korean Independence Movement
* İbrahim Kalın, current director of the National Intelligence Organization of the Republic of Türkiye
* Abdul Kady Karim, 2007 candidate for president of Sierra Leone
* Najmiddin Karim, current governor of Kirkuk
* Donald Stone Macdonald, mayor of Gwangju, South Korea
* George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
* Andrew Marshall, director of the Office of Net Assessment
* Jonathan Martin, justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Canada[16]
* Sarah Adwoa Safo, member of the Parliament of Ghana
* José Abad Santos (1909), chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
* Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, current Member of the House of Lords
* José Julián Sidaoui, Deputy Minister of Finance of Mexico
* Johnny Wright Sol, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador representing San Salvador
* Marcin Święcicki, mayor of Warsaw, Poland
* Henrique Valle, Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
* Tshering Wangchuk, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan

## Diplomacy

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### U.S. ambassadors

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Charles Page Bryan, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Portugal Michael Ratney, current U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Michael Punke, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, current vice president of Amazon Web Services Joseph Prueher, former U.S. Ambassador to China Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robin Bernstein, former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Rebecca Gonzales former U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho

* Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, former U.S. ambassador to Malta
* E. Ross Adair, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia
* Bernadette M. Allen, former U.S. ambassador to Niger
* Frank Almaguer, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
* Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
* Richard L. Baltimore, former U.S. ambassador to Oman
* William Tapley Bennett Jr., U.S. ambassador to NATO
* Robin Bernstein, former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic
* Stephen W. Bosworth, former U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, Philippines, and South Korea
* Richard Boucher, former U.S. ambassador to Cyprus
* Ralph L. Boyce, former U.S. ambassador to Indonesia and Thailand
* Theodore Brentano, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary
* Everett E. Briggs, former U.S. ambassador to Portugal
* Richard C. Brown, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay
* Charles Page Bryan, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Portugal
* Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria
* Morris D. Busby, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia
* John Cloud, former U.S. ambassador to Lithuania and Germany
* William Miller Collier, former U.S. ambassador to Chile and Spain
* James M. Derham, former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala
* Thomas J. Dodd Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay and Costa Rica
* Irving Bedell Dudley, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Peru
* Christine A. Elder, former U.S. ambassador to Liberia
* Charles A. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
* Edward W. Gnehm, former U.S. ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
* Rebecca Gonzales, former U.S. ambassador to Lesotho
* George W. Guthrie, former U.S. ambassador to Japan
* Sheila Gwaltney, former U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
* David C. Halsted, former U.S. ambassador to Chad and Uganda
* Patricia Roberts Harris, former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg
* William A. Heidt, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia
* Smith Hempstone, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya
* Aubrey Hooks, former U.S. ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, and Republic of Congo
* Donna Hrinak, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Venezuela
* Patrick J. Hurley, former U.S. ambassador to China and New Zealand
* Robert P. Jackson, former U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Cameroon
* Daniel A. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to Suriname
* Donald C. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and Mongolia
* Nelson T. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to China and Australia
* Robert Brendon Keating, former U.S. ambassador to Madagascar
* David M. Kennedy, former U.S. ambassador to NATO
* Harmon Elwood Kirby, former U.S. ambassador to Togo
* Carol Laise, former U.S. ambassador to Nepal
* George W. Landau former U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela
* Lyle Franklin Lane, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay
* James R. Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and South Korea
* Marisa Lino, former U.S. ambassador to Albania
* Thomas A. Loftus, former U.S. ambassador to Norway
* Charles Taylor Manatt, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic
* Edward E. Masters, former U.S. ambassador to Indonesia
* Robert J. McCloskey, former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Cyprus, and Netherlands
* Tom McDonald, former U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe
* Francis Terry McNamara, former U.S. ambassador to Cabo Verde, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
* William Dale Montgomery, U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and Croatia
* George Moose, former U.S. ambassador to Benin and Senegal
* John J. Muccio, former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland, South Korea
* Robert Daniel Murphy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Belgium
* Tibor P. Nagy, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia
* Walter E. North, former U.S. ambassador to Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea
* Frank V. Ortiz, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay, Guatemala, Barbados, Peru, and Argentina
* Edward Peck, former U.S. ambassador to Mauritania
* Carol Z. Perez, former U.S. ambassador to Chile
* John Peurifoy, former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Guatemala, and Thailand
* Joseph Prueher, former U.S. ambassador to China
* Michael Punke, former U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization
* Michael Ratney, current U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
* Catherine M. Russell, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
* Robert M. Sayre, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Panama, and Uruguay
* David H. Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
* Gerald Eustis Thomas, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya and Guyana
* Clare H. Timberlake, former U.S. ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Walter Nathan Tobriner, former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica
* Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO
* Julius Waring Walker Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Burkina Faso
* Alexander W. Weddell, former U.S. ambassador to Argentina and Spain
* John H. Wheeler, former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua
* Ross Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey
* William Braucher Wood, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia and Afghanistan
* Raul Yzaguirre, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic

### State Department officials

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Colin Powell, 65th U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 52nd U.S. Secretary of State Carol Z. Perez, current Director General of the Foreign Service

* William Tapley Bennett Jr., former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
* Richard Boucher, 6th Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
* Eileen Claussen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
* John Foster Dulles, 52nd U.S. Secretary of State
* Randall M. Fort, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
* J. Edward Fox, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
* Michelle Giuda, 30th Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
* Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
* Grant S. Green, former Under Secretary of State for Management
* Brooks Hays, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
* Heather Higginbottom, former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
* John D. Holum, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
* Nelson T. Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
* Julius Katz, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
* Carol Laise, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
* David Marchick, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
* Robert J. McCloskey, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
* Robert Daniel Murphy, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
* Tibor P. Nagy, 19th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
* Heather Nauert, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
* Carol Z. Perez, current director general of the Foreign Service
* John Peurifoy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration
* Colin Powell, 65th U.S. Secretary of State
* John F. W. Rogers, former Under Secretary of State for Management
* Robert M. Sayre, former Inspector General of the State Department and Coordinator for Counterterrorism
* Gregory B. Starr, former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
* James E. Webb, former United States Under Secretary of State
* William Braucher Wood, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

### Other diplomats

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Nestor Mendez, current Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States

* Archer Blood, former U.S. consul-general to Dhaka, East Pakistan, issued the Blood Telegram during the Bangladesh Liberation War
* Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current State Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
* Elliott Charng, Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and India
* Camillo Gonsalves, permanent representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
* Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
* Joe Hung, Taiwanese ambassador to Italy
* An Le, current U.S. consul to Ho Chi Minh City
* Frank Lockhart, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai
* Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat credited with saving over 62,000 Jews, the largest rescue operation of Jews of World War II
* George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
* Nestor Mendez, current Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States
* Richard Paul Momsen, former U.S. consul-general to Rio de Janeiro
* Mao Ning, current spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
* Thomas Sammons, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai
* Moncrieff J. Spear, former U.S. consul-general to the Bahamas
* Henrique Valle, deputy ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
* Guilford Wiley Wells, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai

## Law

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### U.S. circuit judges

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Sharon Prost, current chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit John Michael Seabright, current chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii

* Glenn L. Archer Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Bennett Champ Clark, former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
* James P. Coleman, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* Richard Dickson Cudahy, former senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
* William Edward Doyle, former senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
* Clyde H. Hamilton, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
* David R. Hansen, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
* Barbara Milano Keenan, current judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
* Richard Linn, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Carlos F. Lucero, current judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
* Sharon Prost, current chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Randall Ray Rader, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Kenneth Francis Ripple, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
* Albert Tate Jr., former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* Robert Smith Vance, former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

### U.S. District judges

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William K. Sessions III, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont senior judge Burnita Shelton Matthews, the first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. district court Harry L. Carrico, 23rd chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court

* Jorge Luis Alonso, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* G. Ross Anderson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
* James F. Battin, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
* Paul Benson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
* Andrew Coyle Bradley, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* James C. Cacheris, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
* Albert Sherman Christensen, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
* Tanya S. Chutkan, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Cameron McGowan Currie, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
* Arthur Marshall Davis, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
* William Edward Doyle, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
* Catherine Eagles, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
* Darrin P. Gayles, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Florida
* Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
* Joyce Hens Green, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Harold H. Greene, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Clyde H. Hamilton, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
* David R. Hansen, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
* Adolph A. Hoehling Jr., former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Sarah T. Hughes, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
* Roger L. Hunt, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
* Edwin F. Hunter, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
* Daniel T. K. Hurley, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
* Benjamin Franklin Keller, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
* John Milton Killits, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
* James Robert Kirkland, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Oren Ritter Lewis, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
* Burnita Shelton Matthews, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Ronald Edward Meredith, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
* William Matthews Merrick, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Suzanne Mitchell, current magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
* Edward Skottowe Northrop, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
* Linda Vivienne Parker, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
* Gordon Jay Quist, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
* James Robertson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Gerald Ellis Rosen, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
* Albert Morris Sames, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
* Henry Albert Schweinhaut, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* John Michael Seabright, current chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
* William K. Sessions III, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
* Frederick Lincoln Siddons, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Alfred Adams Wheat, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Stephen Victor Wilson, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

### U.S. state Supreme Courts

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Barbara Pariente, 51st chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court

* Russell A. Anderson, 20th chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* Harry L. Carrico, 23rd chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
* A. Lee Chandler, 28th chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
* Mary S. Coleman, 57th chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
* Félix Córdova Dávila, former justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
* Rankin Gibson, former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Barbara Milano Keenan, justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
* Michael Kruse, current chief justice of the American Samoa High Court
* Bill Mims, current justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
* Barbara Pariente, 51st chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court
* Taylor Hudnall Stukes, 20th chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
* Albert Tate Jr., former justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
* Clifford Taylor, 66th chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
* Kathryn Werdegar, former justice of the Supreme Court of California
* Horace W. Wilkie, 19th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* D. Frank Wilkins, current justice of the Utah Supreme Court
* Adolph Grant Wolf, former justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court

### Attorneys General

[edit]

William Barr, U.S. Attorney General John Garland Pollard, Attorney General for Virginia

* William Barr, 77th and 85th United States Attorney General
* Paul Benson, 22nd attorney general of North Dakota
* Winston Bryant, 52nd attorney general of Arkansas
* John A. Carver Jr., interim attorney general of American Samoa
* Frank Willey Clancy, 1st attorney general of New Mexico
* James P. Coleman, 33rd attorney general of Mississippi
* Jack Conway, 49th attorney general of Kentucky
* Frankie Sue Del Papa, 29th attorney general of Nevada
* M. Jerome Diamond, 22nd attorney general of Vermont
* Rufus L. Edmisten, 46th attorney general of North Carolina
* Aaron D. Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
* Joseph Foster, 29th attorney general of New Hampshire
* Bill Mims, 45th attorney general of Virginia
* Mohan Peiris, 41st attorney general of Sri Lanka
* Jeffrey B. Pine, 70th attorney general of Rhode Island
* John Garland Pollard, 21st attorney general of Virginia
* Vernon B. Romney, 14th attorney general of Utah
* Grace Berg Schaible, 20th attorney general of Alaska
* Robert E. Smylie, 21st attorney general of Idaho
* Robert Y. Thornton, 8th attorney general of Oregon
* William C. Wantland, former attorney general of the Seminole Nation

### International judges

[edit]

* Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
* Mohan Peiris, de facto chief justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
* José Abad Santos, 5th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
* Tshering Wangchuk, current chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan

### Other legal figures

[edit]

Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court

* Omar Ashmawy, chief counsel to the Office of Congressional Ethics
* Andrew P. Bakaj, former Department of Defense and CIA official; lead counsel for the whisteblower during the impeachment inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of President Donald Trump
* William D. Cohen, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[17]
* Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division
* Joyce Hens Green, presiding judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
* Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning legal author that exposed the United States surveillance of foreign leaders
* Thomas F. Hogan, presiding judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
* William Barberie Howell, chief judge of the U.S. Customs Court
* Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
* Wilma B. Liebman, chair of the National Labor Relations Board
* Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, first female presidential candidate
* Bradley Schlozman, head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
* William K. Sessions III, chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
* Flora Warren Seymour, writer, historian, author, first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners
* Chester Sipkin, administrative law judge for the United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service
* Ira Sorkin, lead attorney for Bernard Madoff
* Delbert Spurlock, General Counsel of the Army
* Ken Starr, 39th Solicitor General of the United States
* Scott W. Stucky, current chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

## Military

[edit]

Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense General Peter Pace, 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili, 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John William Vessey Jr., 10th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff David E. Jeremiah, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles F. Widdecke, recipient of Navy Cross during World War II

* Admiral Thad Allen (MPA), Commandant of the Coast Guard 2006–2010
* General Earl E. Anderson (J.D.)
* Rear Admiral Richard A. Appelbaum
* Captain Edward L. Beach Jr. (M.A.)
* Major General Thomas A. Benes
* Brigadier General Vincente T. Blaz
* Major General Robert D. Bohn
* Lieutenant General Arnold W. Braswell, United States Air Force, MBA, 1967
* Rear Admiral F. Taylor Brown
* Major General George William Casey Sr.
* General John T. Chain Jr., former Commander of the Strategic Air Command
* Rear Admiral Sandy Daniels
* Major General Sharon K.G. Dunbar, U.S. Air Force
* Captain Frank Freyer, 14th Naval Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
* General John Fugh, the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army, former judge advocate general
* General Charles A. Gabriel, 11th chief of staff of the United States Air Force
* Admiral John B. Hayes (M.A.), Commandant of the Coast Guard (Ret.) 1978–1982
* General Robert T. Herres, first vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Admiral David E. Jeremiah, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* General Charles C. Krulak, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
* Major General Bruce M. Lawlor (B.S., J.D., D.Sc.), first commander of Joint Task Force-Civil Support and first Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security
* Brigadier General Gavin Marks
* Brigadier General Michael A. McAuliffe
* Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney
* Lieutenant General John N. McLaughlin, Marine Corps service in three wars and spent three years as a POW
* General Merrill A. McPeak, former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and United States Secretary of the Air Force
* Major General Billy Mitchell (1919, but received degree as part of "class of 1899", having dropped out to serve in the Spanish–American War), advocate of air power in the military
* Lieutenant General Hal Moore, author of We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
* Major General Spurgeon Neel, father of Army aviation medicine
* Major General Peter George Olenchuk
* Admiral William Owens, 3rd vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* General Peter Pace, 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., Class of 1912, Commander of the 78th Infantry Division during World War II (August 1942 – November 1945)
* General Frank E. Petersen, United States Marine Corps, first black Marine general, first black Marine aviator, first black commanding officer of a fighter squadron, an air group, and a major base
* Brigadier General Paul D. Phillips, United States Army; former oldest living West Point graduate.[18][19][20]
* Major General Herman Poggemeyer Jr., United States Marine Corps
* General Colin Powell, 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, former Superintendent of United States Naval Academy, Chancellor of the State University of New York
* Major General Michael P. Ryan, United States Marine Corps, co-founded Marine Corps Marathon
* General John Shalikashvili, 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Brigadier General Henry J. Stehling
* Major General William W. Stickney, United States Marine Corps, Director of Marine Corps Reserve
* Bill Studeman, former Admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
* Brigadier General Dennis B. Sullivan
* Colonel John Tweedale (LL.B.), Medal of Honor recipient, 1868
* Brigadier General James P. Ulm
* Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr.
* General John William Vessey Jr., 10th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* Rear Admiral Sidney A. Wallace
* General Larry D. Welch, 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Commander, Strategic Air Command
* Major General Don S. Wenger
* Major General Charles F. Widdecke (M.A.); recipient of Navy Cross during World War II
* Brigadier General Hugh E. Wild
* Brigadier General David W. Winn

## Journalism

[edit]

Dana Bash, CNN White House Correspondent Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor for the Washington Post Kasie Hunt, host of MSNBC's Kasie DC Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press

* Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired
* Nazenin Ansari, Voice of America correspondent
* Dana Bash, CNN White House correspondent
* Steve Benen, lead blogger of The Washington Monthly
* Kate Bolduan, CNN correspondent
* Margaret Carlson, journalist; columnist for Bloomberg News; first woman columnist at Time
* Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
* Victoria Clarke, CNN analyst, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
* Bob Considine, journalist with United Press International and author
* Rowland Evans (1951), news commentator from CNN's Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields
* Bill Gertz, reporter and analyst for The Washington Times and Fox News
* Hadas Gold, media and business reporter for CNN and CNN International
* Glenn Greenwald, former attorney and current political and legal blogger, and columnist at Salon
* Diana B. Henriques, reporter for the New York Times
* Kasie Hunt, host of MSNBC's Kasie DC
* Jeff Jacoby, columnist for The Boston Globe
* Matt Katz, reporter for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio
* Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
* Philip Klein, executive editor of the Washington Examiner
* Sally Kohn, CNN and Fox News commentator
* Kathleen Troia McFarland, former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Fox News commentator
* Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, Fox News pundit
* Doug McKelway, Fox News journalist
* Marianne Means, White House correspondent
* Michael Moran, author of The Reckoning; producer of the documentary series Crisis Guides
* Reena Ninan, CNN correspondent, news anchor
* Mosheh Oinounou, executive producer of CBS News
* Mark Olshaker, author who collaborates with FBI agent John E. Douglas in books regarding criminal and investigative psychology
* Michael Punke, writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney best known for writing the novel The Revenant (2002), which was adapted into film as The Revenant (2015)
* Josh Rogin, CNN political analyst
* Hilary Rosen, on-air contributor for CNN; consultant, political director and Washington editor at large for The Huffington Post; former CEO of the RIAA
* Sydney Sadick, television personality and publisher of Spotlight Magazine
* Glenn R. Simpson, journalist for Wall Street Journal
* Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of Jacobin
* Chuck Todd (1991), NBC News political director
* Geovanny Vicente, political strategist and columnist for CNN
* Murray Waas, award-winning journalist and author, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, The National Journal, and The Boston Globe
* Brian Williams, former NBC Nightly News anchor
* Bob Woodward, editor at The Washington Post, famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal

### Pulitzer Prize

[edit]

Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work on U.S. global surveillance based on disclosures by Edward Snowden

* George D. Beveridge, winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
* Emily Green, one of the inaugural recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2020 for her work with This American Life concerning the personal impact of the "Remain in Mexico" policy
* Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
* Anders Gyllenhaal, chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board
* Diana B. Henriques, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
* Michael Kammen, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History
* William McPherson, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
* Mark Schleifstein, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and part of a New Orleans Times-Picayune team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
* Deborah Solomon, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
* Ginger Thompson, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
* Bob Woodward, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

## Activism

[edit]

Alex Pacheco, co-founder and Chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Tom Fitton, current president of Judicial Watch Raul Yzaguirre, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza

* Rita Banerji, gender activist
* Henry Berg-Brousseau, transgender rights activist
* Roslyn Brock, chairman of the NAACP
* Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, political activist
* Peggy Cooper Cafritz, civil rights activist
* Kraisak Choonhavan, Thai human rights activist
* Richard Cizik, environmental activist
* David A. Clarke, civil rights activist
* Watson Davis, science education activist
* Nicholas Eftimiades, founder of the Federation of Galaxy Explorers
* Tom Fitton, current president of Judicial Watch
* Jason Franklin, urban policy activist
* Marc Garlasco, senior military expert for Human Rights Watch
* Margery E. Goldberg, public arts activist
* Jane Briggs Hart, anti-war activist
* Jeanne Henriquez, women's rights activist
* Ida Hinman, suffragette and feminist activist
* Jonathan D. Katz (BA '81), founder of Queer Nation
* Kivutha Kibwana, Kenyan human rights activist
* Brittany Lewis, domestic violence activist
* Ángel Lozada, HIV activist
* Bari Lurie, chief of staff at the Clinton Foundation
* Kati Marton, chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition
* Stephanie K. Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
* Alex Pacheco, co-founder and Chairman of PETA
* Amien Rais, leader of the Indonesian reform movement
* Arlene Raven, feminist activist
* Nikolas Schiller, cannabis reform activist
* Mercedes Schlapp, Tea Party movement activist
* Paul Shapiro, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States
* Omega Silva, universal health care activist
* Kim A. Snyder, chronic fatigue syndrome activist
* Leah Soibel, executive director of Fuente Latina
* A. L. Steiner, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
* Wong Chin Foo, Chinese-American activist
* Raul Yzaguirre, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza

## Entertainment

[edit]

Alec Baldwin, Golden Globe-winning actor Dan Glickman, chairman & CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Courteney Cox, actress David Lynch, director Kerry Washington, actress

* Casey Affleck, actor (did not graduate)
* Angela Aki, singer-songwriter (Final Fantasy XII)
* Patricia Altschul, socialite and art collector
* Emily Axford, actor
* Alec Baldwin, actor (did not graduate)
* Reem Bassous, visual artist
* Ned Bittinger, portrait painter and illustrator
* William Peter Blatty, writer and filmmaker who wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version, for which he won an Academy Award
* Irvin Bomb, artist
* Warren Brown, TV host on the Food Network
* Courteney Cox (Mt. Vernon alumni), actress
* Christopher Pearse Cranch, writer and artist
* Merce Cunningham (attended), dancer and choreographer
* Manish Dayal, actor, known for 90210
* Lester del Rey, author, founded Del Rey Books
* Donna Dixon, actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd
* Isaac Fitzgerald, writer
* Adam Friedland, stand-up comedian, talk-show host and podcaster
* Ina Garten, host of Barefoot Contessa
* Dan Glickman (JD 1969), current president of the Motion Picture Association of America
* Haddaway, Trinidadian singer most famous for "What Is Love" single
* Taylor Hale, winner of Big Brother 24, Miss Michigan USA 2021
* Kevin Peter Hall, actor, Predator
* Haroon, graduate in Business Administration, Pakistani singer, composer, musician and engineer
* Reona Ito, music conductor (alumnus of the Elliott School)
* Chris Kilmore, turntablist for the band Incubus
* David Lynch, director and artist
* Rooney Mara (attended), actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* Ross Martin, television, film, radio actor; Wild, Wild West
* Eliza McLamb, singer-songwriter and podcast host (did not graduate)
* Dina Merrill, actress and socialite
* T.J. Miller, actor and stand-up comedian, Silicon Valley
* Naeto C, Nigerian rapper
* Lee Phillip, Korean American actor
* Adam Richman (attended for one year), indie pop singer-songwriter
* Mark Russell, satirist and comedian
* Annika Sharma, author
* Whitney Sudler-Smith, television personality and socialite
* Clay Travis, sports columnist and author
* Kerry Washington (1998), actress
* Andrew Weitz, fashion stylist and former talent agent
* Bill Westenhofer, Academy Award-winning visual effects artist
* Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer
* Scott Wolf (1991), actor
* Rachel Zoe, celebrity fashion stylist

## First Family and royalty

[edit]

First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

* David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and son-in-law of President Richard Nixon
* Susan Ford, daughter of U.S. President Gerald Ford
* Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson
* Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States
* Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Persia
* Elisabeth Delatour Préval, First Lady of Haiti
* Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud of Saudi Arabia
* Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman
* Princess Sonam Dechen Wangchuck of Bhutan

## Religion

[edit]

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology

* Bernard P. Brockbank, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* J. Reuben Clark, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Matthew Cowley, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Frank Joseph Dewane, Roman Catholic Bishop of Venice, Florida
* Violet L. Fisher, bishop of the United Methodist Church
* Jonathan Hausman, rabbi of Ahavath Torah
* L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology (did not graduate)
* George V. Murry, Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown
* Gregory V. Palmer, bishop of the United Methodist Church
* Richard G. Scott, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Marc Stanley, chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council
* William C. Wantland, Episcopal Bishop of Eau Claire

## Sciences

[edit]

Albert Freeman Africanus King, personal physician to Abraham Lincoln Ralph Alpher, "father of the Big Bang Theory" Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist

* Patch Adams, physician and comedian portrayed in a 1998 movie
* Yousef Alhorr, environmentalist known for his work in the field of sustainable built environment and climate actions
* Ralph Alpher, "father of the Big Bang theory"
* Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems; patroness of private space flight; first female space tourist
* Paul Antony, chief medical officer of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
* Serena M. Auñón, physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
* Julius Axelrod, biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
* Neal D. Barnard, physician, author, clinical researcher, founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
* Jessie G. Beach, paleontologist and museum aide[21]
* Patricia Wilson Berger, president of the American Library Association
* Dr. Lisa Bowleg, professor of Applied Social Psychology
* Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding[22] and vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries[23][24]
* James Carroll, president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
* Peter Caws, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
* Captain Michael Coats (1977), astronaut and Space Shuttle commander
* Charles Critchfield, physicist of the Manhattan Project
* Frederick D. Gregory, interim administrator of NASA
* Michael Griffin, 11th administrator of NASA
* Todd B. Hawley, co-founder of the International Space University
* L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics
* Nancy B. Jackson, president of the American Chemical Society
* Howard Judd, menopause expert and medical researcher
* Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD 1861), personal physician to President Abraham Lincoln
* Allenna Leonard, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
* Hans Lineweaver (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1933), physical chemist who developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot
* Marcus Ward Lyon Jr., president of the American Society of Mammalogists
* James Morhard, 14th deputy-administrator of NASA
* Constance Tom Noguchi, sickle cell disease researcher, NIDDK
* Wanda Peters, aeputy associate administrator for Programs at NASA and member of Senior Executive Service
* Marcus Boyd Shook, physician, president of the American Society of Internal Medicine
* Matthew Stirling, ethnologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites
* James E. Webb, second administrator of NASA
* Ashani Weeraratna, cancer researcher

## Athletics

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Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals David Haggerty, current president of the International Tennis Federation Elana Meyers, medalist at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics Red Auerbach, coach for the Boston Celtics Brendon Ayanbadejo, Super Bowl Champion and player for the Baltimore Ravens

* Brendan Adams (born 2000), professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Red Auerbach (1940, 1941), president of the Boston Celtics
* Brendon Ayanbadejo (MBA, 2013), football player, Super Bowl champion, Baltimore Ravens
* Mike Brey (1982), current head coach, Notre Dame men's basketball team
* Moti Daniel (1987), Israeli, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League and for the Israel national basketball team
* Yinka Dare (attended 1993–1994), basketball player, New Jersey Nets
* David Falk (J.D., 1975), sports agent
* John Flaherty (1988), former Major League Baseball player
* David Haggerty, current president of the International Tennis Federation
* Mike Hall (2006), basketball forward, Washington Wizards and overseas leagues, basketball coach
* Ray Hanken (1911–1980), football player
* Wayne Hart (1912), member of the All-South Atlantic football team for four years; coached Washington Vigilants and Clemson Agricultural College
* Jonquel Jones, WNBA player, former basketball center for the Connecticut Sun, currently on New York Liberty, 2021 WNBA MVP, 2024 WNBA champion with the New York Liberty and 2024 Finals MVP
* Lubomir Kavalek (1975), chess grandmaster
* Tuffy Leemans (1936), football running back, Pro Football Hall of Fame, New York Giants
* Ivan Leshinsky (born 1947), American-Israeli basketball player
* Theodore N. Lerner (1948), owner of the Washington Nationals
* Randy Levine (B.A., 1977), president of the New York Yankees
* Ricky Lindo (born 2000), American-Panamanian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Larry MacPhail, National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
* Pops Mensah-Bonsu (2006), basketball forward, Galatasaray S.K., NBA executive
* Ronnie Nunn, former referee for the National Basketball Association
* Michael O'Connor (2002), baseball pitcher, Washington Nationals
* Sam Perlozzo (1973), former manager, Baltimore Orioles; current third base coach, Seattle Mariners
* J. R. Pinnock (2006), basketball guard
* Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker
* Abe Pollin (1945), owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals
* Justin Prinstein, inaugural player in the Israel Baseball League
* Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls
* Gregg Ritchie (1987), former MLB hitting coach, Pittsburgh Pirates; head coach George Washington Colonials baseball since 2013
* Seth Rudolph, professional soccer player
* Joel Segal ('86), sports agent, 2016 "The NFL's 100 Most Important People" and Forbes' "World's Most Powerful Sports Agents"
* Chet Simmons, 1st commissioner of the United States Football League
* William W. Skinner, head football coach for University of Maryland, College Park and University of Arizona
* Mike Sommer (1958), member of college football team, played in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, and the Oakland Raiders
* Jim Tennant, former MLB player
* Jack Toomay, former Major League Baseball player
* Tom Walter, head baseball coach for Wake Forest University
* Yuta Watanabe, Japanese NBA player
* Bernie Wolfe (born 1951), NHL hockey player

### Olympics

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* Aquil Abdullah, rower at the 2004 Summer Olympics
* Sameera Al-Bitar, swimmer at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics
* Álvaro Fortuny, swimmer at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Patricio Garino, basketball player at the 2016 Summer Olympics
* Josiah Henson, wrestler at the 1952 Summer Olympics
* Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player at the 2012 Summer Olympics
* Elana Meyers (BS '06, MA '11), bobsledder at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics
* Ugo Oha, basketball player at the 2004 Summer Olympics
* Gerald F. Russell, runner at the 1940 Summer Olympics
* Alice Schmidt, runner at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics
* Chad Senior, pentathlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Dallas Shirley, basketball player at the 1960 Summer Olympics
* Ben Stevens, president of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games

## Other

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Roger Stone, opposition researcher for the Republican National Committee Patrick O'Connell, three-star Michelin chef at The Inn at Little Washington (the only three-star Michelin restaurant in the region) and National Humanities Medalist

* Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist and principal member of al-Qaeda
* John Calder Brennan (Law, 1937), historian
* Barbara Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), First Lady of the United States
* George Herbert Walker Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), president of the United States
* Robert L. Dale, pilot for the National Science Foundation
* Cathryn S. Dippo, statistician
* Harrison Howell Dodge (1852–1937), appointed as resident superintendent of Mount Vernon in 1885, serving 52 years in the position until his death[25]
* Alfred McAdams, painter
* Gustavo A. Mellander (AB, MA, PhD History 1966), university dean for 15 years; College president for 20 years. Member New Jersey State Board of Education
* Mona Al Munajjed, United Nations official
* Patrick O'Connell, three-star Michelin chef at The Inn at Little Washington (the only three-star Michelin restaurant in the region) and National Humanities Medalist
* Frank Robinson (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), Baseball Hall of Famer, manager of the Washington Nationals
* Jackie Ronne, Antarctic explorer, first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition
* Nikolas Schiller, mapmaker
* Roger Stone, opposition research consultant for the Republican National Committee
* Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
* Geovanny Vicente, CNN columnist and political strategist.
* John Appleton Wilson, architect

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Centers
and institutes|

* List of centers and research institutes at George Washington University
* National Security Archive
* Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
* Institute for International Economic Policy
* Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

Athletics|

| Teams|

* Baseball
* Men's basketball
* Women's basketball
* Football (defunct)
* Men's soccer
* Softball

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Venues|

* Charles E. Smith Center
* Tucker Field

Related|

* "Hail to the Buff and Blue"

Campuses|

* Campuses
* Foggy Bottom (main campus)
* Virginia Science & Technology Campus
* Mount Vernon Campus

Buildings
and places|

* 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue
* Anniversary Park
* University Art Galleries
* Corcoran Gallery of Art
* Corcoran Hall
* John J. Earley Office and Studio
* Engine Company 23
* F Street House
* Foggy Bottom–GWU station
* Fulbright Hall
* Fairbanks' George Washington
* Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall
* Lisner Auditorium
* Madison Hall
* Munson Hall
* President's Office
* Rawlins Park
* Residence halls
* River Horse
* School Without Walls (Washington, D.C.)
* Charles E. Smith Center
* Snows Court (Washington, D.C.)
* Stockton Hall
* Hattie M. Strong Residence Hall
* Oscar W. Underwood House
* Washington Circle
* Margaret Wetzel House
* Maxwell Woodhull House

Student life|

* GW-TV
* Student Association
* The GW Hatchet
* Enosinian Society
* The Taylor Prize in Mathematics
* ΔΦΕ

Libraries|

* Gelman Library
* Jacob Burns Law Library
* Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

People|

* President of the University Ellen Granberg
* Notable Alumni & Notable Faculty (Law School Alumni · Elliott School Alumni & Faculty · Columbian College Alumni & Faculty · GW Business School Alumni & Faculty)

Medicine
and health|

* Medical Faculty Associates
* George Washington University Hospital
* School of Medicine and Health Sciences
* School of Nursing
* Milken Institute School of Public Health
* Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center

See also|

* Benjamin Franklin University
* Mount Vernon College for Women
* National University School of Law

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