List of Brown University people

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The following is a partial list of notable Brown University people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College (Brown University), the former women's college of Brown.

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Contents 1 Notable alumni & leaders of Brown 1.1 Academia 1.2 Technology and innovation 1.3 Government, law and public policy 1.3.1 Governors 1.3.2 Legislators 1.3.2.1 Framer of the Founding Documents of the United States of America 1.3.2.2 United States Senators 1.3.2.3 Members of the United States House of Representatives 1.3.2.4 State Legislators 1.3.3 Mayors 1.3.4 Diplomats 1.3.5 Advisors 1.3.6 Activists 1.3.7 Jurists 1.4 Business 1.5 Journalism 1.6 Literature 1.7 Medicine 1.8 Military 1.9 Performing arts 1.9.1 Music 1.9.2 Film 1.9.3 Television 1.9.4 Theater 1.10 Religion 1.11 Royalty 1.12 Visual arts 1.13 Athletics 1.13.1 Auto racing 1.13.2 Baseball 1.13.3 Basketball 1.13.4 Football 1.13.5 Olympics 1.13.6 Other sports 1.14 Colonial Era Brown Graduates (1769 - 1783) 1.14.1 1769 1.14.2 1770 1.14.3 1771 1.14.4 1772 1.14.5 1773 1.14.6 1774 1.14.7 1775 1.14.8 1776 1.14.9 1777 1.14.10 1778 1.14.11 1779 1.14.12 1780 1.14.13 1781 1.14.14 1782 1.14.15 1783 1.15 Unclassified 2 Notable faculty 3 Presidents of Brown University 4 Trustees of Brown University 5 Honoris Causa Laureates 6 Fictitious alumni and faculty 7 References

Notable alumni & leaders of Brown

Note: "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When just the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.

Academia

• Stan Allen (A.B.) - Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University
• Thomas Angell (1862) - Free Will Baptist preacher, professor at York University
• Mark Bear (Ph.D. 1984) - professor of neuroscience, MIT; first classifier of long-term depression of a synapse
• Aaron T. Beck (1942) - "The Father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy"; founder, Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research at the University of Pennsylvania
• Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) - President, Yeshiva University
• Lee Eliot Berk (1964) - president and namesake, Berklee College of Music
• Iver Bernstein (1977) - Professor of American History, Washington University in St. Louis
• Gordon Keith Chalmers, (A.B., 1925) - Rhodes Scholar, President of Kenyon College, 1937–1956
• Oren B. Cheney (1835-36) - Baptist preacher, abolitionist, founder and president of Bates College
• Yung-Chi Cheng (PhD, 1972) - Discovered AIDS drug lamivudine (epivir), Henry Bronson Professor, York University
• Aram Chobanian - President, Boston University
• William E. Cooper - President, University of Richmond
• Robert A. Corrigan (A.B.) - President, San Francisco State University
• Michael Dickinson (Sc. B. 1984) - professor of integrative biology at University of California, Berkeley, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Stanley Falkow - father of microbiology and professor at Stanford Medical School
• Daniel Fischel - Dean, University of Chicago Law School
• Henry Simmons Frieze (1841) President, University of Michigan
• John Wesley Gilbert, (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891)- first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist.^[1]
• John Guttag (A.B. 1971) - chair of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004)
• John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) - Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, Naval War College
• Jerry Hausman (A.B.) - economist at MIT, inventor of Hausman specification test
• John Hope (1894) - first African American president of Morehouse College and co-founder of the Niagara Movement, which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Judith Jacobson (1964) - co-founder of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
• Wes Johnson - professor of astronomy and physics, NHSS; subject of music video by popular Nashua band Boone County
• Jim Yong Kim (1981) - President, Dartmouth College, Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Larry D. Kramer (A.B. 1980) - Richard E. Lan Professor of Law and Dean of the Stanford Law School
• David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) - Vice President of International Studies and professor of International Relations at Brown University
• Luther Luedtke (PhD 1971) - Former President of California Lutheran University and current President and CEO of Education Development Center
• James A. MacAlister (1856) - first president of Drexel University^[2]

• Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) - President of Brown University; first president of the University of South Carolina and Baptist minister
• David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) - President, Drake University
• Alexander Meiklejohn (1893) - philosopher; free-speech advocate; dean of Brown University (1901–1913); president of Amherst College
• Craig C. Mello, (Sc. B. 1982) - Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine), professor University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Kenneth R. Miller, (Sc. B. 1970) - Professor of Biology at Brown University.
• Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) - President, University of Richmond (1988-1998), Centre College (1982-1988), Salem College (1979-1982)
• Samuel M. Nabrit - (B.A. Morehouse College, Ph.D. 1932) first African American to receive doctorate degree from Brown University; first African American Trustee at Brown University; first African American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
• Anna Nagurney, (A.B. 1977, Sc. B. 1977, Sc. M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) - John F. Smith Memorial Professor and Director - Virtual Center for Supernetworks, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Jay Newman (M.A.) - Professor of Philosophy at York University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Peter Norvig - director of research at Google Inc.
• Lynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) - President-Elect, Mount Holyoke College
• John Davis Pierce (1822) - leader in establishment of the University of Michigan; secured protection of women's property rights; author of the Michigan free-school system
• Jehuda Reinharz (Ph.D. 1972) - President, Brandeis University
• Kenneth Alan "Ken" Ribet (A.B. and A.M. 1969) - professor of mathematics at U.C.-Berkeley, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
• Jennifer Richeson, (1994) - psychologist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient
• Paul Ridker, MD, 1981, is a cardiologist and medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University. He is also on staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Ridker was included in TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2004. Previously, TIME and CNN named Dr. Ridker as one of "America’s Best in Science and Medicine".
• David O. Robinson, (Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Marketing at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Wendy Schiller - professor of political science at Brown University
• David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Michael Silverstein - Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Psychology at the University of Chicago, recipient of the Macarthur Fellowship
• Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) - psychologist, author of the opponent-process theory of emotion
• James Tallmadge, Jr. (1798) President of New York University (1830-1846), U.S. Congressman, New York

• Arthur Taylor - President, Muhlenberg College (1992-2002), President, CBS (1972-1976)
• Rick Trainor (A.B.) - Principal of King's College London
• Adam Ulam - Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union
• Henry Webber (A.B.) - vice president of community affairs at the University of Chicago, executive vice chancellor for administration at Washington University effective March 1, 2007.
• David N. Weil - professor of economics at Brown University
• Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) - President, Tufts University
• Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875) - A Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University and later President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919
• Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) - first American woman to serve as delegate to a major international conference; president of Mount Holyoke College
• Maria Zuber - first female department head at MIT (planetary and geological sciences) and NASA planning advisor

Technology and innovation

• Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments
• Seth Berkley (Sc. B., MD) - President, CEO and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Brian Binnie (Sc. B. 1975, Sc. M. 1976) - test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
• John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) - inventor of spellcheck
• John H. Crawford (1975) - chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group
• James B. Garvin (Sc. B. 1978, Sc. M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) - Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) - one of the first working female engineers and is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. Mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen.
• Herman B. Goldstein (1940) - developed permanent-press fabric treatment

• Morton Gurtin (Ph.D. 1961) - Timoshenko Medal winning mechanical engineer and mathematical physicist
• Edwin Hart Ph.D. (1934) - known for contributions to radiation chemistry
• Andy Hertzfeld (Sc. B. 1975) - key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of the primary software architects of the original Mac OS
• Wesley Huntress - president, Planetary Society
• William Williams Keen (1859) - first U.S. brain surgeon
• David J. Lipman - director, National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) - third NASA Administrator, oversaw first seven Apollo manned missions
• Robert G. Parr (1942) - author of Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules
• Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) - Professor of Computer Science and Co-founder of The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University; lecturer and best-selling writer, The Last Lecture
• Gordon Kidd Teal (Ph.D. 1931) - inventor of the silicon transistor
• John Wilder Tukey (Sc. B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) - co-developed the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm; coined the terms bit, byte, software and cepstrum
• Bob Wallace - Ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware
• George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) - astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
• Frank E. Winsor (Sc.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) Civil engineer, chief engineer for the Quabbin Reservoir project, the Scituate Reservoir project and Brown University Trustee

Government, law and public policy

Governors

• Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) - Governor of Rhode Island-R (2002-); former CEO of Cookson America
• Samuel Cony (1829) - Governor of Maine (1864-1867)
• Elisha Dyer - Governor of Rhode Island (1857-1859)
• Elisha Dyer, Jr. - Governor of Rhode Island (1897-1900)
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) - Governor of Rhode Island (1807 – 1811; 1824 – 1831; 1843 – 1845)
• Theodore Francis Green (1887) - Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator, D-Rhode Island (1937–1961)
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) - Governor of New York (1907–1910)
• Charles Jackson - Governor of Rhode Island (1845-46)
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) - Governor of Louisiana-R (2008-)
• Otto Kerner, Jr. (1930) - Governor of Illinois - (1961-1968)
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) - Justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); Governor of New York (1833–1839); U.S. Secretary of War (1845–1849); U.S. Senator from New York; U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857)
• Jack A. Markell (1982) - Governor of Delaware-D (2009-)
• Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) - U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817-1821), Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840-1844)
• Pendleton Murrah (1848) - Governor of Texas during the American Civil War (1863–1865)
• Philip W. Noel (1954) - former Governor of Rhode Island
• Edward C. Stokes (1883) - Governor of New Jersey (1905-1908)

Legislators

Framer of the Founding Documents of the United States of America

• Stephen Hopkins - First Chancellor of Brown University; Continental Congress delegate; signatory to the Declaration of Independence; introduced slavery ban to Rhode Island in 1774.

United States Senators

• Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) - U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853-1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851-1853)
• Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) - U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island (1859-1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Governor of Rhode Island (1849-1851)
• Samuel G. Arnold (A.B. 1841) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• James Burrill, Jr. (A.B. 1788) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) - U.S. Senator, R-Rhode Island
• John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Nathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) - U.S. Senator, Rhode Island
• Nathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) - United States Senator from Massachusetts
• Lafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) - U.S. Senator, R-Connecticut (1855-1867), President pro tempore of the Senate, Acting Vice President of the United States
• Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) - United States Senator from Rhode Island
• John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Theodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) - U.S. Senator, D- Rhode Island (1937-1961)
• Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) - U.S. Senator, R-Colorado (1879-1885)
• John Holmes (A.B. 1796) - U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, one of the two first Senators from Maine

• Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• William Hunter (A.B. 1791) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Edward L. Leahy (A.B. ???) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) - U.S. Senator from New York
• John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) - U.S. Senator from Maine
• Frederic M. Sackett (1890) - U.S. Senator, R-Kentucky (1924-1930), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1930-1933)
• Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire

Members of the United States House of Representatives

• John Baldwin (A.B. 1797) - U.S. Congressman, Connecticut (1825-1829)
• Tristam Burges (A.B. 1796) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825-1835)
• Howard A. Coffin (1901) - U.S. Congressman, R-Michigan
• Samuel S. Cox (1846) - U.S. Congressman, D-Ohio, D-New York, U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

• Samuel L. Crocker (1822) - U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1821-1825)
• Samuel Eddy (1787) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819-1825), Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827-1835)
• James Ervin (1797) U.S. Congressman, R-South Carolina (1817-1821)
• Horace Everett (A.B. 1797) - U.S. Congressman, Vermont (1829-1843)
• Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 2nd & 4th districts
• Julian Hartridge (1848) - U.S. Congressman, D-Georgia (1875-1879)
• Nathaniel Hazard (1792) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819-1820)
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) - U.S. Congressman, R-Louisiana 1st Congressional District (2004–2008)
• Dan Maffei (1990) - U.S. Congressman, D-New York, 25th Congressional District
• James Brown Mason (A.B. 1791) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815-1819)
• Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) - U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817-1821), Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840-1844)
• John J. O'Connor (1906) - U.S. Congressman, D-New York (1923-1939)
• Dutee Jerauld Pearce (A.B. 1808) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825-1837)
• Henry Kirke Porter (1860) - U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1903-1905)
• William P. Sheffield, II - U.S. Congressman, R-Rhode Island (1909–1911).
• Solomon Sibley (1794) - first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial Delegate to Congress
• Edward L. Sittler, Jr. (1930)- U.S. Congressman, R-Pennsylvania, 23rd Congressional District
• Ebenezer Stoddard (1807) - United States Representative from Connecticut.
• Daniel Wardwell (1811) - U.S. Congressman, New York (1831-1837)
• William Widnall (1926) - U.S. Congressman, R-New Jersey (1950–1975)
• John W. Wydler (1947) - U.S. Congressman, R-New York (1963-1981)

State Legislators

• Sullivan Ballou - member Rhode Island House of Representatives & Major in Rhode Island militia, killed at First Battle of Bull Run
• Antonio F. D. Cabral - member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1990 - present)
• Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) - member of the Arkansas General Assembly (served 2006 - present)
• Wingate Hayes (???) - Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1859 to 1860.
• Mee Moua (1992) - Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician
• Mark Strama (1990) - member of the Texas House of Representatives

Mayors

• David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) - first openly gay mayor of state capital, Providence, RI.
• Buddy Dyer - mayor of Orlando, Florida since 2003.

Diplomats

• W. Randolph Burgess (1912) - U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (1957 - 1961)
• Samuel S. Cox (1846) - U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire under President Grover Cleveland.
• Dr. William H. Courtney (Ph.D. 1972) - U.S. Ambassador to Georgia (1995–1997), and Kazakhstan (1992–1994)
• John Hay (A.B. 1858) - U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
• Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (A.B. 1962) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999–2001), United States Assistant Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to Germany, former Chairman of the Asia Society, member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, Counselor to the Council on Foreign Relations, Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) - U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) - U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857)
• Anthony Dryden Marshall - U.S. Consul in Istanbul, 1958-59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, 1969-71; Trinidad and Tobago, 1972-74; Kenya, 1973; Seychelles, 1976-77, theatrical producer and felon
• Victoria Nuland - United States Permanent Representative to NATO (2005 - 2008)
• Richard Olney (A.B. 1856) - United States Secretary of State (1895-1897)
• Nit Phibunsongkhram (A.M.) - Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006 - 2008), Thai Ambassador to the United States (1996 - 2000)
• Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) - U.S. Senator, R-Kentucky (1924-1930), United States Ambassador to Germany (1930-1933)
• Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (A.B. 1937) - former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981)
• Curtin Winsor, Jr. (A.B. 1961) - U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1983-1985)

Advisors

• Charles W. "Chuck" Colson (1953) - chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in the Watergate Scandal; founder, Prison Fellowship
• David F. Duncan (1995) - domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; co-originator of the self medication hypothesis of drug addiction
• Thomas Corcoran (1922) - member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyist
• Penelope Hartland-Thunberg (A.B. 1940)- economist, member of the United State's Tariff Commission
• John Hay - U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905)
• E. Howard Hunt - worked under President Richard Nixon; figured in the Watergate Scandal
• Randall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) - member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Ira Magaziner (1969) - Clinton advisor, current chairman of Clinton AIDS Initiative; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum
• Richard Olney (1856) - United States Attorney General (1893-1895), United States Secretary of State (1895-1897)
• Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) - Nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
• Janet Yellen - (A.B. 1967) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Activists

• John Bonifaz (1987) - founder, National Voting Rights Institute, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Kathryn S. Fuller (A.B. 1968) - Chairman of the Board Ford Foundation former President and CEO of non-governmental organization World Wildlife Fund-U.S. (1989–2005)
• Samuel Gridley Howe (1821) - prominent physician, abolitionist, advocate of education for the blind
• Gene Karpinski (1974) - President, League of Conservation Voters
• Maya Keyes - anarchist and gay rights activist
• Horace Mann (1819) - educationist; father of American public school education
• Elliot Maxwell (A.B. 1968) - education reformer; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum
• Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) - physician, founder of the first hospital center in the United States devoted to the medical needs of African women who have undergone female circumcision, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• George Lincoln Rockwell (Class of 1942) - founder of the American Nazi Party; dropped out after sophomore year to join the Navy
• Cecile Richards (1980) - President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Kenneth Roth (A.B. 1978) - Executive Director of non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch
• Galina Starovoitova - Visiting professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies 1994-1998. Member of Russian Duma, leader of reformist Democratic Russia party, assassinated November 20, 1998.
• Donna Zaccaro (A.B. 1983) - President of non-profit WhatGoesAround.org, Inc. and daughter of former Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.

Jurists

• Peleg Arnold (A.B. ???) - Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1795 to 1812. Represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1787–1788 session; incorporator of the Providence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790.
• Theodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) - Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana
• Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) - Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• George Moulton Carpenter (B.A. 1864), a Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) - Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Samuel Eddy (1787) - U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819-1825), Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827-1835)
• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) - 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941); Governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
• Patrick C. Lynch - Rhode Island Attorney General-D
• Marcus Morton (1838) - Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882-1890)
• Michael Newdow (Sc. B. 1974) - atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Louis Redding - first African American to practice law in Delaware
• Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) - Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
• Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) - former U.S. Solicitor General; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings
• Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) - District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
• Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) - Rhode Island Superior Court judge and recommended nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) - communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court
• Joseph Weisberger (A.B. 1942) - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Business

• Scott Aversano (A.B. 1991) - President of MTV Films and Nick Movies
• Marvin Bower (Sc. B. 1925) - co-founder (1939) and managing director (1950–1967), McKinsey & Company; founder of modern management consulting
• Willard C. Butcher (1948) - chairman and CEO, The Chase Manhattan Corporation
• Lisa Caputo - Chief Marketing Officer, Citigroup
• John S. Chen - CEO, Sybase Inc
• Dan DiMicco - CEO, Nucor
• Michael Fanning (B.A. 1986) - Executive Vice President, MassMutual U.S. Insurance Group; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MML Investors Services, Inc.
• Tom First (1989) - founder, Nantucket Nectars
• George M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) - former chairman and CEO of Motorola Inc. and Eastman Kodak Co.
• Sidney E. Frank (class of 1942) - billionaire liquor magnate responsible for the American success of Jagermeister; creator of Grey Goose vodka; philanthropist

• Tim Forbes (1976) - Chief Operating Officer, Forbes, son of Malcolm Forbes
• Tom Gardner (A.B. 1990) - co-founder and co-chairman of the Motley Fool
• Jeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) - chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies *(1999–2004)
• Ross Greenburg (1977) - president of HBO Sports
• Walter Hoving (1920) - CEO of Tiffany & Co. (1955–1980)
• Nina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) - former president, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group
• Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) - chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
• Patrick Lo (Sc. B. 1979) - co-founder, chairman, and CEO of computer networking company Netgear
• Gordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) - first president and CEO, the NASDAQ
• L. Gordon McCovern (1948) - chairman, Campbell Soup Company
• David L. Meister (1961) - co-founder, former chairman and CEO of The Tennis Channel; former president of Time-Life Films and the Financial News Network (now CNBC)
• Brian Moynihan (1981) - CEO, Bank of America
• Raymond Prisament (2001) - Co-founder and President, Foresite Solutions. Later acquired by Nelnet in 2005.
• Steven Rattner (1974)- Founder of the Quadrangle Group and advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department
• William R. Rhodes (1957) - Chairman of Citibank and Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup
• Stephen Robert (1962) - former chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co.; chancellor emeritus of Brown University
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1897) - philanthropist; son of John D. Rockefeller; built Rockefeller Center in New York City
• Tom Rothman (A.B. 1976) - president, 20th Century Fox Film Group
• Eric Rudder - Vice President of Microsoft Corp.

• Tom Scott (1989) - founder, Nantucket Nectars & Plum TV
• John Sculley (A.B. 1961) - president of PepsiCo (1977–1983); CEO of Apple Computer (1983–1993)
• Lawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) - President and Chief Operating Officer, Fannie Mae, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Barry Sternlicht (A.B. 1982) - founder, and former chairman and CEO, of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, which owns the brands Sheraton, Four Points by Sheraton, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Le Méridien, W Hotels, and Westin
• Matt Quagliana - (A.B. 1990) CEO and founder of Cerebus Corp.
• Jeff Stibel (MSC 1999) - CEO of Web.com, Interland; Board Member, Founder and General Manager of The Search Agency, Simpli, MediaWorks and United Online (NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com)
• Orin R. Smith - Chairman and CEO, Engelhard (1999-2001)
• Jeffrey B. Swartz (A.B. 1982) - president, CEO, and director of The Timberland Company
• Ted Turner (Class of 1960) - billionaire media proprietor and philanthropist; founder of CNN, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, and the United Nations Foundation; largest private landowner in the United States. Turner was expelled from Brown in 1960.
• Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1937) - president and CEO of IBM (1956–1971); former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981)
• Meredith Whitney (A.B. 1992) - prominent equity research analyst notable for her predictions about American banks during the subprime mortgage crisis
• Lauren Zalaznick (1984) - president, Bravo Television Network

Journalism

• Jim Axelrod (A.M. 1989) Chief White House correspondent, CBS News
• Marc E. Babej (A.B. 1992) - Forbes.com columnist
• Chris Berman (A.B. 1977) - ESPN host and anchor
• Joshua G. Berman (1995) - Award-winning travel writer
• Martin Bernheimer - Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic
• Duncan B. Black a.k.a. Atrios, well-known blogger
• Robert Conley (1953) - Founder of NPR, original host of "All Things Considered", former New York Times front-page correspondent, National Geographic writer, and news reporter and anchor for NBC and the famed Huntley & Brinkley.
• Gareth Cook (A.B. 1991) - Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Boston Globe, for writing about stem cell research
• Dana Cowin (A.B. 1982) - Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine
• Lyn Crost (1938) - reporter on Japanese-American role in World War II and internment camps
• Adrian Dearnell - Frano-American journalist
• Larry Elder (A.B. 1974) - columnist, radio personality, TV talk show host (The Larry Elder Show); author, The Ten Things You Can't Say in America
• Heather Findlay (1986) - Former editor of On Our Backs, founder and editor of Girlfriends magazine, owner of H.A.F. Publishing
• Caryn Ganz (1999) - editor, Spin Magazine
• Ira Glass (A.B. 1982) - host and producer, National Public Radio, This American Life
• Rufus Griscom (1991) - cofounder, online sex/culture journal Nerve.com
• Taina Hernandez (A.B. 1996) - anchor of World News Now on ABC
• Lee Hockstader (1981) - correspondent and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post
• Tony Horwitz - journalist, Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
• Amy Kellogg (A.B. 1987) - news reporter for the Fox News Channel
• A.J. Jacobs - journalist and author, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, The Year of Living Biblically
• John F. Kennedy, Jr. (A.B. 1983) - lawyer; journalist; publisher of George magazine; son of President John F. Kennedy. Killed in an airplane crash on July 16, 1999.
• Peter Kovacs (1978) - Managing Editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
• Irving R. Levine - Noted former NBC News correspondent
• Mara Liasson (1977) - NPR Correspondent
• Bill Lichtenstein (1978) - journalist, documentary filmmaker, president of LCMedia, Inc.; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, Peabody Award, U.N. Media Award, and 60 broadcast journalism honors.
• Josh Marshall (Ph.D. 2003) - Polk Award-winning journalist, founder, talkingpointsmemo.com
• Mark Maremont (1980) Senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal and 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Linda Mason (1964) - producer and VP, CBS News; winner of 13 Emmy Awards
• George Musser (Sc. B. 1988) - author and editor at Scientific American
• George W. Potter - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
• Scott Poulson-Bryant - (A.B. 2008, though originally in Class of 1989), co-founding editor of VIBE Magazine and author of HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
• Andrew C. Revkin (A.B. 1978) Environmental Journalist, New York Times, recipient of a 2008 Columbia University Journalism School John Chancellor Award.
• Quentin Reynolds - one of two journalists in London during the German blitz
• James Risen - journalist for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times covering national intelligence; author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency; broke the 2005 story of warrantless NSA wiretapping; 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner.
• David S. Rohde (A.B.) - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,
• Mike Rubin (A.B. 2000) - Broadcaster, Brown Sports Radio and Cox Communications
• George Rush (A.B.) - columnist, New York Daily News

• Margaret Russell - Editor-in-Chief, Elle Decor magazine, design judge, Top Design
• Kirk Scharfenberg (A.B.) - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Boston Globe
• Aaron Schatz (1996) - ESPN NFL analyst, founder of Football Outsiders
• J. Peter Scoblic (1997) - Executive Editor, The New Republic
• Amy Sohn (A.B. 1995) - columnist, New York magazine; novelist, Run Catch Kiss and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell
• Philip Shenon (1981) - journalist at the New York Times
• Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) - host, MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart
• André Leon Talley (A.B., A.M.) - Vogue magazine editor-at-large; author, A.L.T.: A Memoir
• Krista Tippett (A.B. 1983) - host, NPR's Speaking of Faith
• Betsy West (1973) - VP of CBS News; former producer at ABC; winner of 18 Emmy Awards
• Benjamin Weiser (1976) - New York Times reporter and author of "A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country"
• Lady Gabriella Windsor (A.B. 2004) - (Ella Windsor), a member of the British Royal Family.

Literature

• David Allyn (A.B. 1991) author, Make Love, Not War, I Can't Believe I Just Did That, playwright, Baptizing Adam
• Jacob M. Appel (A.B. 1995), author, playwright, Arborophilia, Creve Coeur, The Mistress of Wholesome
• Edward Ball (1982) - National Book Award winning nonfiction writer, Slaves in the Family, The Genetic Strand
• Josh Bazell, novelist
• Lisa Birnbach, (A.B. 1978) - author, The Official Preppy Handbook
• Christopher F. Black (Sc. B. 1987) - educator and author of Conquering the SAT Writing and McGraw-Hill's SAT
• Kate Bornstein (née Albert Bornstein) (A.B. 1969) - transgender activist, performance artist, playwright, gender theorist, and author, Gender Outlaws and My Gender Workbook

• Jeffrey Carver (A.B. 1971) - science fiction author, Nebula Award finalist
• Susan Cheever (1965) - author
• Ted Chiang - Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award winning science fiction writer
• Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics
• Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) - American Book Award winning author, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Dew Breaker, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• David Ebershoff - Lambda Literary Award winning author, The Danish Girl, editor-at-large at Random House, professor at Columbia University
• Jeffrey Eugenides (A.B. 1983) - Pulitzer Prize winning author, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides
• Rudolph Fisher (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920) author, musician, physician; a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
• Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) - playwright/avant-garde theater pioneer; founder, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
• Peter Gizzi (M.F.A. 1991) - poet, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers
• Andrew Sean Greer - author, The Path of Minor Planets, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
• Scott Haltzman (1982, M.D. 1985) - psychiatrist, author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever
• Joan Hedrick (Ph. D. 1972) - Pulitzer Prize winning author, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
• Tony Horwitz (A.B. 1980) - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author of Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, and Baghdad Without a Map
• Constance Hunting (A.B. 1947) - poet, founder of Puckerbrush Press
• Shelley Jackson (M.F.A.) - author, Patchwork Girl, Half Life
• Steven Johnson (A.B. 1990) - writer, pop-science, author, Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
• Winthrop Jordan (PhD 1960) - American Civil War and racial history writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize
• T. E. D. Klein (A.B. 1969) - horror fiction writer & magazine editor
• Caroline Knapp (A.B.) - essayist and author, Drinking: A Love Story
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B.1962) - cultural historian, fictioner, poet, experimental writer, critic of avant-garde arts and artists, anthologist, etc.
• Geoffrey A. Landis (Ph.D. 1988) - Nebula Award and Hugo Award winning scientist-writer & science fiction author
• Ben Lerner (M.F.A. 2003) - poet, author of Angle of Yaw and The Lichtenberg Figures.
• Alan Levy - author
• David Lipsky (A.B. 1987) - author, Three Thousand Dollars, The Art Fair, Absolutely American
• Lois Lowry (Class of 1958) - Newbery Medal-winning author, The Giver
• Thomas Mallon (A.B.) - author, Henry and Clara, Bandbox, Dewey Defeats Truman, Two Moons
• Ben Marcus (M.F.A. 1991) - author, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women
• Alex McAulay (A.B.) - author, Bad Girls, Lost Summer, Oblivion Road, Shelter Me
• Emily Arnold McCully (A.B. 1961)- Caldecott Award winning children's author, Mirette on the High Wire
• Roland Merullo (A.B., M.A.) - author
• Steven Millhauser - Pulitzer Prize winning author, Martin Dressler
• Rick Moody (A.B.) - author, The Ice Storm, Garden State, Purple America, The Diviners
• Nicanor Parra - Influential Chilean poet, author of Poemas y Antipoemas

• S. J. Perelman - American humorist, The New Yorker; author; Academy Award winning screenwriter, Around the World in Eighty Days
• Nathaniel Philbrick - nonfiction writer; National Book Award winner, In the Heart of the Sea, Sea of Glory, Mayflower
• Vicki Robin (A.B. 1967) - activist, author Your Money or Your Life.
• Marilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) - Pulitzer Prize and Orange Prize winning author, Gilead, Housekeeping, Home
• Kate Schatz (M.F.A. 2005) - author, Rid of Me, a 33 1/3 book, co-editor, The Encyclopedia Project
• Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) - author, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
• Nathanael West (1924) - author, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust
• Meg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) - author, The Wife, The Position, The Ten-Year Nap
• Reif Larsen - professor at Columbia University; author, "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet".

Medicine

• Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) - prominent American physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States; member of Brown's Board of Fellows.

• David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) - Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and first Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown; a leading researcher and activist on drugs policy issues.

Military

• James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) - General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory.

Performing arts

Music

• ZOX - SideOneDummy recording artist, comprised of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain
• Sean Altman (A.B. 1983) - founding tenor member of Rockapella, which is known for performing the theme song to the show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? in every episode
• Charles Ansbacher - Founder and Conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra
• MC Paul Barman (A.B. 1997) - cult rapper^[3]
• David Buskin (A.B 1965) - singer (Modern Man), songwriter, jingle composer, Clio Award winner (1983).
• Marco Beltrami (Sc. B. 1988) - Academy Award nominated film score composer, Scream (1996), Resident Evil (2002), Blade II (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), I, Robot (2004), Hellboy (2004), Red Eye (2005), The Omen (2006), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Max Payne (2008), The Hurt Locker (2008)
• Wendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) - composer and electronic musician, Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1972), Tron (1982)
• Alvin Curran - avant-garde composer
• Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) - country singer-songwriter
• Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963), Boston Camerata
• Catie Curtis (1987) - contemporary folk singer-songwriter
• Dhani Harrison - son of George Harrison, composer, guitarist
• Lili Haydn (1992) - singer-songwriter-violinist
• Elliott Kerman (A.B. 1981) - founding baritone member of Rockapella
• Tad Kinchla (1995) - bassist for jam band Blues Traveler
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962), electro-acoustic composer (New York City Oratorio, Americas' Game), writer on innovative musics and musicians
• Damian Kulash (A.B. 1998) - lead singer and founding member of indie rock band OK Go
• Erich Kunzel (Brown professor, 1964) - conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
• Lisa Loeb (A.B. 1990) - alternative singer-songwriter; first unsigned artist to top the American charts (three weeks at #1)
• Erin McKeown - folk singer-songwriter
• Ernest Salaz (A.B. 2000) - indie rock/art-punk guitarist for Glorium, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
• Elizabeth Mitchell (1990) - musician, member of indie folk-pop band Ida; played in a band with Lisa Loeb and Duncan Sheik while at Brown
• Will Oldham - indie rock/alternative country singer-songwriter who also performs by such names as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Palace
• Elvis Perkins (1995) - singer-songwriter
• Navah Perlman (A.B. 1992) - concert pianist; daughter of Itzhak Perlman
• Theodore Shapiro - film score composer, State and Main (2000), Heist (2001), Old School (2003), Along Came Polly (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Blades of Glory (2007), Semi-Pro (2008), Marley & Me (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), I Love You, Man (2008)
• Chubb Rock - rapper (Did not graduate)
• Duncan Sheik (A.B. 1992) - alternative rock singer-songwriter; top 10 hit for the song "Barely Breathing"; 2-time Tony Award winning composer, Spring Awakening
• Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) - alternative rock singer-songwriter
• Gwyneth Walker (A.B. 1967) - composer

Film

• Eva Amurri (2007) - actress, Loving Annabelle (2005), Saved! (2004), The Banger Sisters (2002), daughter of Susan Sarandon.
• Bess Armstrong (1975) - actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China (1983)
• Steve Bloom (A.B.) - screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach, The Sure Thing, Tall Tale, Jack Frost
• David Conrad (A.B.) - actor Wedding Crashers, Ghost Whisperer
• Yaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) - actress, Take the Lead (2006), Honeydripper (2007); fashion model
• Tom Dey (A.B. 1987) - director, Shanghai Noon (2000), Showtime (2002), Failure to Launch (2006)
• Alice Drummond (A.B. 1950) - actress Awakenings (1990), Nobody's Fool (1994)
• Russell Lee Fine (1984) Cinematographer Eye of God (1997), Office Killer (1998), O (2001), The Grey Zone (2002), Sherrybaby (2006)
• Richard Fleischer (A.B. 1939) - director, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Narrow Margin (1952), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), The Boston Strangler (1968), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Soylent Green (1973); Academy Award winning documentary producer, Design for Death (1947)
• Josh Friedman - screenwriter, War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Liz Garbus (A.B. 1992) - Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
• Davis Guggenheim (1986) - Academy Award winning documentary film director, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and It Might Get Loud (2009), film director for Gracie (2007), Gossip (2000) & episodes of 24, Alias, The Shield, ER, NYPD Blue
• Linda Goldstein Knowlton (A.B. 1987) - producer, Whale Rider & The Shipping News
• John Hamburg (A.B.) - director, I Love You, Man (2009), Along Came Polly (2004); screenwriter, Zoolander (2001), Meet the Parents (2000), Meet the Fockers (2004)
• Hill Harper (A.B. 1988) - actor, Constellation (2005), Lackawanna Blues (2005), CSI: New York (2004)
• Todd Haynes (A.B. 1985) - Academy Award nominated writer/director, I'm Not There (2007), Far from Heaven (2002), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (1995) & Poison (1991)

• Sean Hood - screenwriter, Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed, Cube 2: Hypercube
• Ruth Hussey (A.B. 1933) - Academy Award nominated actress, The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• Oren Jacoby - Academy Award nominated documentarian, Constantine's Sword (2008)
• William Kelley (A.B. 1955) - Academy Award winning screenwriter, Witness (1985)
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) - independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
• Simon Kinberg - screenwriter, Jumper, X-Men 3, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• John Krasinski (A.B. 2001) - playwright - actor, "The Office", "License to Wed", "Leatherheads"
• Ellen Kuras - cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Be Kind Rewind
• Jonathan Levine (A.B. 2000) - writer/director, The Wackness (2008), All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
• Doug Liman (A.B. 1988) - director and producer, "The O.C.", Jumper (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Go (1999), Swingers (1996)
• Laura Linney (A.B. 1986) - 3-time Academy Award and 2-time Tony Award nominated actress, The Savages (2007), The Nanny Diaries (2007), The Squid and the Whale (2005),The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Kinsey (2004), Mystic River (2003), Love Actually (2003), You Can Count on Me (2000), The Truman Show (1998), Absolute Power (1997), Primal Fear (1997)
• Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961)- Academy Award winning screenwriter, Out of Africa (1985)
• Kátia Lund (A.B. 1989) - co-director, Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
• Eli Marienthal (currently enrolled, Class of 2008) - actor, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), The Iron Giant (1999), Jack Frost (1998)
• Ali Marsh - actress. Private Parts (1997)
• Ross McElwee (A.B. 1970) - documentary filmmaker, Sherman's March (1986) & Bright Leaves (2004)
• Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) - Student Academy Award nominated writer/director, Twitch (2005)
• Tim Blake Nelson (A.B. 1986) - actor, The Astronaut Farmer (2007), Syriana (2005), Minority Report (2002), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Thin Red Line (1998); director, O (2001), The Grey Zone (2001)
• Angela Robinson (A.B. 1992) - director, Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), D.E.B.S. (2003 film), D.E.B.S. (2004 film)
• Danny Rubin - (A.B.) - screenwriter, Groundhog Day
• Michael Showalter (A.B. 1992) - actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Baxter (2005) and the series The State, Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues
• Leelee Sobieski (attended) - actress, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Never Been Kissed (1999), Here on Earth (2000), Joy Ride (2001), The Glass House (2001), Wicker Man (2006), 88 Minutes (2007), Public Enemies (2009); nominated for an Emmy for "Joan of Arc"
• Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) - actress, Rushmore (1998), Old School (2003), Imaginary Heroes (2004)
• Christine Vachon (A.B. 1983), acclaimed independent film producer, I'm Not There (2007), Infamous (2006), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), Far From Heaven (2002), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Boys Don't Cry (1999); executive producer, This American Life
• Vanessa Vadim (A.B. 1990), independent documentary producer and cinematographer, Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend (2005), Fire in Our House (1995)
• Andrew Wagner (A.B. 1985), writer, director, Starting Out in the Evening (2007), The Talent Given Us (2004)
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987), actress, Doc Hollywood, Tommy Boy
• Emma Watson (currently enrolled, class of 2013) - actress Harry Potter film series
• JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) - actress, The Big Chill, Poltergeist
• Richard S. Wright (A.B. 1982) - producer, Runaway Bride, Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Underworld, Crank, Untraceable
• Ryan Shiraki (A.B. 1992) - writer, director, Home of Phobia, Poster Boy, "Spring Breakdown", Family Dancing (forthcoming)

Television

• Samuel Swarr (B.A.) - Donut Man lead actor
• Gianna Badiali (B.A.) - tripped on stairs
• Jonathan P. Adler (A.B.) - lead judge, Bravo's Top Design; potter
• Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer (A.B. 1991) - actress, Boston Legal, Ed, Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Warren Brown - host, Sugar Rush (Food Network)
• Jessica Capshaw (A.B. 1998) - actress, The Practice, Minority Report (2002)
• Jordan Carlos (A.B. 2001) - comedian, Stephen Colbert's "black friend"
• Jude Ciccolella (B.A. 1969) - actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24
• Kitty Chen (B.A. 1966) - actress, Law & Order, writer
• Ann Cohen (B.A. 1977) - writer, The Awful Truth, TV Nation
• Robin Green (1967) - Emmy Award winning writer/producer, The Sopranos, Northern Exposure
• David Groh - (1961) actor, most notably in Rhoda
• Jeffrey L. Hayes - (B.A. 1966) producer, Law and Order
• Marin Hinkle - actress, Once and Again, Two and a Half Men
• Rafe Judkins - contestant on Survivor: Guatemala
• Tina Holmes - (1995) actress, Six Feet Under
• Rhonda Ross Kendrick (A.B. 1993) - Daytime Emmy-nominated actress (Another World), daughter of Diana Ross
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1990) - Emmy Award winning documentary producer, director, and writer, American Hollow (1999), Fire in Our House (1995), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

• John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) - actor, The Office, Leatherheads, License to Wed
• Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) - actress, Ellen, Andy Barker, P.I.
• Florencia Lozano (B.A. 1992) - actress, One Life to Live
• Ian Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) - writer, producer, The Simpsons, "Saturday Night Live"
• Masi Oka (Sc. B. 1997) - actor, Heroes, Scrubs, Will and Grace, Gilmore Girls, Get Smart (2008)
• Tracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995), actress (Girlfriends), daughter of Diana Ross
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) - actress Nip/Tuck, Family Law, The Guiding Light
• Austin Winsberg (A.B. 1998) - writer/producer, Jake in Progress (2005)
• Suzanne Whang (Sc. M. 1986) - host HGTV's House Hunters

Theater

• Quiara Alegría Hudes (M.F.A. 2004), playwright, Pulitzer Prize finalist, In the Heights (Tony Award winner for Best Musical), Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue
• Kate Burton (A.B. 1979) - actress; nominated for three Tony Awards; also on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Ellis Grey
• Gina Gionfriddo (MFA 1997) - playwright, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Becky Shaw (2009), producer Law and Order
• Katherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971) - Chairwoman, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York NY
• James Naughton (A.B. 1967) - actor, two-time Tony Award winner for City of Angels (1992) and Chicago (1996); also featured in films such as The Paper Chase (1973), The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
• Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) - Pulitzer Prize winning, MacArthur Fellowship recipient playwright, Ruined
• Sarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) - playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, The Clean House, Eurydice, Passion Play
• Burt Shevelove - Tony Award winning playwright, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Alfred Uhry - playwright; Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award & Tony Award winner, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• David Yazbek (1982) - Emmy Award winning and Tony Award-nominated writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, The Full Monty
• John Lloyd Young (A.B. 1998) - actor; Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys (2006); lead vocalist, 2007 Grammy-winning "Jersey Boys" album

Religion

• Joshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) - English Dissenting minister with U.S. sympathies
• Alfred W. Anthony (A.B. 1883) - Professor at Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, author, Free Will Baptist minister
• Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) - President at Brown University and Baptist minister
• Alexander Viets Griswold (A.B. 1810) - Episcopalian Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
• Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (A.B. 1828) - the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. Because the original Diocese of Central Pennsylvania was the predecessor diocese of the current Diocese of Bethlehem, he is counted as first bishop of Bethlehem as well.
• Adoniram Judson (A.B. ) - Largely due to his work as a Baptist missionary, Myanmar has the third largest number of Baptists worldwide, behind the United States and India. .

Royalty

• Leila Pahlavi (A.B. 1992) - Princess of Iran; youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran.
• Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein (Sc.B. 1985) - a son of the late King Hussein of Jordan; Commander of the Jordan Royal Air Force.
• Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 1993) - member of the titular royal family of Greece.
• Prince Rahim Aga Khan (A.B. 1995) - Eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
• Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 2006) - member of the titular royal family of Greece.
• Alexander G. von Auersperg (A.B. 1983) - son of His Serene Highness Prince Alfred of Auersperg, Austria.
• The Lady Gabriella Windsor (A.B. 2004) - member of the British Royal Family; daughter of the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent

Visual arts

• Dave Cole (A.B. 2000) - sculptor, visual artist
• John Connell - sculptor, painter
• Stephania Conrad (née Mary Shimkus) (A.B. 1967 ) - sculptor, painter, designer
• Barnaby Evans (1975) - creator of the environmental art installation WaterFire
• Susan Freedman (A.B. 1982) - president of the Public Art Fund, an arts organization that commissions public installations by established and emerging contemporary visual artists
• Norman Isham (A.B. 1886, M.A. 1890) - Rhode Island historical architect
• Clare Johnson - artist and writer
• Ed Koren (former professor) - writer and illustrator of children's books and political cartoons, most notably in The New Yorker.
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) - book-art, audio, video, photography, film, holography, etc.
• Paul Laffoley (A.B. 1962) - artist and architect
• Maureen Paley (A.B. 1975) - established the first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists
• Jeff Shesol - cartoonist, Thatch and scriptwriter for Bill Clinton^[4]
• Thomas Alexander Tefft (1851) - pioneer American architect
• Raymond Hood (1902) - Famous Architect whose works include Tribune Tower in Chicago and Rockefeller Center in New York

Athletics

Auto racing

• Mark Donohue (1959) - professional racing driver, 1972 Indianapolis 500 champion, first to drive at Indy for record-setting car owner Roger Penske (1969), fatally injured in a crash in practice for the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix (1975), inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame(1991).

Baseball

• Bill Almon (1975) - professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates; #1 pick in the 1974 draft
• Mark Attanasio (A.B. 1979) - financier and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
• Charley Bassett - professional baseball player
• Tommy Dowd - professional baseball player
• Dave Fultz - professional baseball player
• Irving "Bump" Hadley (Class of 1928) - professional baseball player, pitcher for the Washington Senators and New York Yankees
• Mike Lynch - professional baseball player
• Lee Richmond - professional baseball player, pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history
• Fred Tenney - professional baseball player
• Frank Philbrick- professional baseball player

Basketball

• Craig Robinson - head basketball coach, 2006-8. He is the older brother of First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, wife of President Barack Obama.

Football

• Don Colo (1950) - professional American football player, All-Pro who played for the Cleveland Browns

• John W. Heisman (Class of 1891) - college American football player and coach; namesake of the Heisman Trophy
• Steve Jordan (Sc.B. 1982) - professional American football player, 6-time All-Pro tight end who played for the Minnesota Vikings
• Sean Morey - Special Teams Captain of 2005 Super Bowl XL Champion Pittsburgh Steelers
• Bill O'Brien (A.B. 1992) - Assistant Football Coach and Offensive Coordinator of the New England Patriots
• Joe Paterno (A.B. 1950) - American football coach for Penn State
• Fritz Pollard (A.B. 1919) - first black All-American halfback; first black National Football League head coach; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Edward North Robinson (1896) -[American football coach at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brown, Tufts, Boston University, and for the Providence Steam Roller
• Wallace Wade (1917) - American football coach at the University of Alabama and then Duke; namesake of Duke's football stadium
• Zak DeOssie (2007) - American Football, Linebacker for the NY Giants
• John Harris- Co-host of the Sean and John Show on 1560 the Game, Houston, Texas

Olympics

• Helen Johns Carroll (A.B. 1936) - freestyle swimmer, U.S. Olympic Gold medalist in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
• Kathleen Kauth (2001) - ice hockey player, Olympic Bronze medalist
• Katie King (1997) - ice hockey player, Olympic Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalist
• Xeno Müller - Swiss rower and Gold Medalist in the single scull at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
• Albina Osipowich Van Aiken (A.B. 1933) - freestyle swimmer, won two gold medals for the U.S. in 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Jimmy Pedro (A.B. 1994) - most decorated American Judo athlete; Judo World Champion (1999); two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1996, 2004)
• Alicia Sacramone, (2010), 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, U.S. Women's Gymnastic Team Silver Medal
• John Spellman (1924) - Olympic gold medalist for light heavyweight freestyle wrestling (1924)
• Norman Taber (1913) - track and field athlete, member of the 1912 Olympic gold medal-winning 3,000-m relay team
• Anna Willard (2006)- 2008 Olympic qualifier 3000m steeplechase, American record holder in 3000m steeplechase ^[5]

Other sports

• Curt Bennett (1970) - professional ice hockey player, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Flames
• Yann Danis (A.B. 2004) - professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders
• Cory Gibbs (2001) - professional football (soccer) player, Charlton Athletic, English Premier League
• Emrah Gultekin (1995) - Captain of the Turkish National Swimming Team
• Fred Hovey (1890) - professional tennis player, U.S. Open Men's Doubles Champion (1893) and Men's Singles Champion (1895)
• Timothy Kelly (2002) - General Manager of the New York Titans of the National Lacrosse League.
• Jeff Larentowicz (2005) - professional football (soccer) player, New England Revolution, Major League Soccer
• Alicia Sacramone (2010) - American Gymnast and winner of several World Championships and Olympic medals.
• Bill Wirtz - owner of the Chicago Blackhawks

Colonial Era Brown Graduates (1769 - 1783)

1769

• Joshua Toulmin
• William Rogers
• James Mitchell Varnum

1770

• Theodore Foster

1771

• Samuel Ward, Jr.

1772

1773

• Solomon Drowne

1774

• Dwight Foster

1775

1776

1777

1778

1779

1780

1781

1782

1783

Unclassified

• Michael V. Bhatia (A.B. 1999) - Medal of Freedom recipient
• Dana Buchman (A.B. 1973) - fashion designer
• Amy Carter (Class of 1989) - daughter of former President Jimmy Carter; political activist
• William C. Chase (A.B. 1916) - soldier
• Alexandra Kerry - Daughter of Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator John Kerry
• Kimberly Ovitz (A.B. 2005) - fashion designer
• Allegra Versace (Class of 2008) - heiress to Gianni Versace's fortune and daughter of Donatella Versace.
• Luke Weil (Class of 2002) - heir to Autotote fortune, appeared on Jamie Johnson's documentary Born Rich.

Notable faculty

• Chinua Achebe - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. Author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature.

David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies.

• Ama Ata Aidoo - Ghanaian novelist and playwright

Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts

• Susan E. Alcock - Archaeologist, MacArthur Award recipient

Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

• Nancy Armstrong - literary critic and author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel

Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies

• Thomas Banchoff - American mathematician specializing in geometry. He is very well known for his research in differential geometry in three and four dimensions.

Professor of Mathematics

• David Berson - discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones)

Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience

• Tracy Breton - winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting

Visiting Professor of English

• Fernando Cardoso - former president of Brazil

Professor-at-large of International Studies

• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) - former Republican member of the United States Senate

Distinguished Visiting Fellow in International Relations

• Jarat Chopra - international lawyer, father of peacekeeping doctrine since the Cold War

Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies faculty member 1990-2007

• Leon Neil Cooper - Nobel Prize in Physics 1972; father of superconductivity

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics

• Robert Coover - post-modern writer, Spanking the Maid, The Origin of the Brunists; notable for his metafiction; electronic writing pioneer

T. B. Stowell University Professor, Adjunct Professor of English

• Robert Creeley - celebrated poet, For Love

Professor of English

• Philip J. Davis - applied mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; co-author of The Mathematical Experience

Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics

• Anne DeGroot - medical researcher developing vaccines for infectious diseases including HIV, TB, West Nile virus, smallpox, and tularemia

Associate Professor of Community Health

• John Donoghue (Ph.D. 1979) - founder of Cyberkinetics, a company that won FDA approval to test brain/robot interfaces (such as BrainGate) on humans

Professor and Chair of Neuroscience

• David F. Duncan - epidemiologist and addictionologist, author of "Drugs and the Whole Person"

"Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine"

• Peter D. Eimas

Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

• Oskar Eustis - theatre director, commissioned and directed world premiere of Angels in America

Professor of English

• Carlos Fuentes - Mexican writer, The Death of Artemio Cruz

Professor-at-large of Hispanic Studies

• Forrest Gander - poet, author of Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, Whiting Writers' Award and Howard Foundation Award winner

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

• Gerald Guralnik - physicist; (co-)discoverer of the Higgs mechanism
• Michael S. Harper - poet; first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island

Professor of English

• James Head (Ph.D. 1969) - planetary geologist who trained Apollo astronauts and led imaging teams for NASA's interplanetary unmanned probes, from the Viking program to Mars

Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences

• Dwight B. Heath - anthropologist, foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies.

Research Professor of Anthropology

• Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962; LL.D. 1997) - broker of the Dayton Accords; former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

Professor-at-Large of International Studies

• Stephen Houston - archeologist, expert on Mayan hieroglyphics, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship

Professor of Anthropology

• David Kertzer - historian, anthropologist, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and Prisoner of the Vatican

Provost, Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies

• Sergei Khrushchev - son of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

Senior Fellow in International Studies

• Jaegwon Kim - philosopher of mind, action theorist, author of Mind in a Physical World

William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy

• J. Michael Kosterlitz - of The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition (Condensed Matter Physics)

Professor of Physics

• Peter D. Kramer - author, Listening to Prozac, Against Depression

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

• Ricardo Lagos - former president of Chile

Professor-at-large of International Studies

• George Lamming - Barbadian author, "In the Castle of My Skin", "Natives of My Person"

Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts

• David C. Lewis - addictions specialist and authority on drug policy

" Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction"

• Glenn Loury - Once regarded as 'one of the most prominent black conservatives in the nation' now considered much more 'progressive.'

Professor of Economics

• Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) - supporter of evolution involved in numerous public debates and trials about the teaching of intelligent design in schools

Professor of Biology

• David Mumford - Fields Medal winning mathematician, MacArthur Fellow

Professor of Applied Mathematics

• Ron Nelson - composer

Professor of Music (retired)

• Otto Neugebauer - historian of mathematics

Professor of the History of Mathematics

• Lars Onsager - Norwegian-born physicist who taught at Brown (1928–1933); Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 awarded for Onsager reciprocal relations, produced while at Brown but was not tenured

• Paul Phillips (conductor) - conductor, composer, and world's leading scholar on the music of author Anthony Burgess.

Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music"

• David Pingree - Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow (1981)
• William Poole - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (1998–Present); Served on Reagan's White House Council of Economic Advisors^[6]

Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics (1974–1998)

• Kurt Raaflaub

Professor of Classics and History

• Robert Scholes - President, Modern Language Association; author, The Rise and Fall of English; co-author, The Nature of Narrative

Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media

• Joseph H. Silverman - Number theorist, co-founder of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.

Professor of Mathematics

• Ernest Sosa - philosopher, epistemologist
• William J. Suggs - co-discoverer of PCC (pyridinium chlorochromate), nick-named in Organic Chemistry as 'Corey's reagent'
• Leslie Thornton - experimental filmmaker, Peggy and Fred in Hell

Professor of Modern Culture and Media

• Dom Illtyd Trethowan - philosopher

Visiting Professor in Theology

• Andries "Andy" van Dam - computer graphics pioneer, co-founder of ACM SIGGRAPH, and creator of hypertext

Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, Professor of Computer Science, former (and first) Vice President for Research

• Paula Vogel - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, How I Learned to Drive

Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of English

• Xu Wenli - founder of the Chinese Democratic Party

Visiting Senior Fellow in International Studies

• Darrell M. West - author of multiple books including Digital Government and Cross Talk; developer of website www.InsidePolitics.org; vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution^[7]

John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy

• John Edgar Wideman - writer (two time PEN/Faulkner Award winner), Philadelphia Fire

Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts

• Gordon S. Wood - Pulitzer Prize for History winner, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History

• C. D. Wright - poet, String Light; MacArthur Fellowship winner (2004)

Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English

• Charles Larmore - political philosopher, formerly at Chicago Law School, famous for critique of Rawlsian liberalism. Winner of the Grand Prix de Philosophie, Academie Francais 2004

• Dr. Lucy Spelman (A.B. 1985) - famous primatologist, former director of the Washington Zoo and editor of The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes

Presidents of Brown University

• Ruth Simmons
• Sheila Blumstein (interim)
• Gordon Gee
• Vartan Gregorian
• Howard Robert Swearer
• Donald Frederick Hornig
• Ray L. Heffner
• Barnaby Conrad Keeney
• Henry Merritt Wriston
• Clarence Augustus Barbour
• William H. P. Faunce
• Elisha Benjamin Andrews
• Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
• Alexis Caswell
• Barnas Sears
• Francis Wayland
• Asa Messer
• Jonathan Maxcy
• James Manning

Trustees of Brown University

• Frank E. Winsor (Ph.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) Civil Engineer
• Alain J.P. Belda Chairman of the Board & CEO of Alcoa
• Thomas W. Berry (A.B. 1969, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business) Investment Banker
• Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B., M.S. 1976, M.D. 1976, Brown) Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine
• Julie N. Brown
• James J. Burke, Jr. (A.B. 1973, Brown; M.B.A. 1979, Harvard Graduate School of Business) Investment Banker, Stonington Partners
• Spencer R. Crew (A.B. 1971, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1979, Brown) CEO, National Underground Railroad Center
• Charles M. Davis (A.B. 1982) Chairman & CEO, Fandango
• Cornelia Dean (A.B., magna cum laude, 1969, Brown; M.A. 1981, Boston University) Science Editor, New York Times
• Katherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971, Brown; M.Arch. 1976, Harvard Graduate School of Design) Senior Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
• Richard A. Friedman (A.B. 1979, Brown; M.B.A. 1981, University of Chicago) Co-Head of Merchant Banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Fredric B. Garonzik (A.B. 1964, Brown) Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs Group
• Martin J. Granoff (L.H.D. Honoris causa 2006, Brown) Textile company owner
• Cathy Frank Halstead (B.A., New York University) President, Sideny Frank Importing Co.
• Galen V. Henderson (M.D. 1993, Brown) Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• H. Anthony Ittleson (A.B. 1960, Brown) Chairman & President, The Ittleson Foundation
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992, Brown) Governor, Louisiana
• Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976, Brown; M.P.P. 1980, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Harvard Law School) President & COO, BET Holdings, Inc.
• Karen M. Levy (A.B., honors, Brown; J.D. 1977, New York University School of Law)
• Matthew J. Mallow (A.B. 1964, Brown; J.D. 1967, New York University) Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Samuel M. Mencoff (A.B. 1978, Brown) Partner, Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc.
• Annette L. Nazareth (A.B. 1978, Brown) United States Securities & Exchange Commission commissioner
• Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977, Brown) CEO, Providence Equity Partners, Inc.
• Kenneth J. O'Keefe (A.B. 1976, Brown)
• Theresia G. Ranzetta (A.B. 1990, Brown) Managing Partner, Accel Partners
• Alison S. Ressler (A.B., magna cum laude, 1980, Brown; J.D. 1983, Columbia University Law School) Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Carmen Garcia Rodriguez (A.B. 1983, Brown; J.D. 1986, Columbia University School of Law)
• Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar (A.B. 1987, A.M. 1990, Brown) Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Ralph F. Rosenberg (A.B. 1986, Brown) Managing Partner, R6 Capital Management
• Charles M. Royce (A.B. 1961, Brown; M.B.A. 1963, Columbia University) President & Chief Investment Officer, Royce & Associates, LLC
• Eileen M. Rudden (A.B. 1972, Brown) Technology Sector Advisor
• Joan Wernig Sorensen (A.B. 1972, Brown) Development and Public Relations
• Laurinda H. Spear (B.F.A. 1972, Brown) Architect
• Anita V. Spivey (A.B. 1974, Brown; J.D. Georgetown) Attorney
• Barry S. Sternlicht (A.B., magna cum laude with honors, 1960, Brown; M.B.A., with distinction, Harvard Business School) Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group
• Marta Tienda (B.A. 1972, Michigan State University; Ph.D. 1977, University of Texas-Austin) Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies & Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Thomas J. Tisch (A.B. 1976, Brown; J.D. 1979, New York University) Managing Partner, Four Partners
• Ambassador William H. Twaddell (A.B. 1963, Brown)
• Jerome C. Vascellaro (A.B. 1974, Brown; M.B.A., Harvard Business School) Partner, Texas Pacific Group
• Peter S. Voss (A.B. 1968, Brown) Chairman & CEO, IXIS Asset Management Group
• William P. Wood (A.B. 1978, Brown) Co-founder, Austin Ventures

Honoris Causa Laureates

• Joseph R. Weisberger (LL.D., 1992)
• Johnnetta B. Cole (L.H.D., 1992)
• Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott (1996)
• Miguel León-Portilla (1996)
• José E. Mindlin (1996)
• William Sturtevant (L.H.D., 1996)
• Brian Dickinson (L.H.D., 1999)
• John Glenn (LL.D., 1999)
• John Hume (LL.D., 1999)
• Ruth Kirschstein (D.M.S., 1999)
• H.M.Queen Noor of Jordan (L.H.D., 1999)
• Romano Prodi (LL.D., 1999)
• William J. Raspberry (L.H.D., 1999)
• Steven Spielberg (L.H.D., 1999)
• Julia V. Taft (L.H.D., 1999)
• Madeleine Korbel Albright (LL.D., 2001)
• Kofi Annan (LL.D., 2001)
• Sheila Blumstein (Sc.D., 2001)
• Demetrios Christodoulou (Sc.D., 2001)
• Oskar Eustis (D.F.A., 2001)
• Margaret H. Marshall (LL.D., 2001)
• Lorrin A. Riggs (Sc.D., 2001)
• Philip Roth (Litt.D., 2001)
• Lawrence M. Small (L.H.D., 2001)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (LL.D., 2002)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (LL.D., 2003)
• Christo (D.F.A., 2005)
• Jeanne-Claude (D.F.A., 2005)
• David Eggers (Litt.D., 2005)
• Sidney Frank (L.H.D., 2005)
• Wesley Huntress (Sc.D., 2005)
• Mary-Claire King (D.M.S., 2005)
• Phylicia Rashad (D.F.A., 2005)
• William R. Rhodes (L.H.D., 2005)
• Sima Samar (L.H.D., 2005)
• Philip A. Smith (D.D., 2005)
• Geoffrey Canada (L.H.D., 2006)
• Juliet V. Garcia (L.H.D., 2006)
• Martin J. Granoff (L.H.D., 2006)
• Kay Redfield Jamison (D.M.S., 2006)
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (LL.D., 2006)
• Friedrich St.Florian (D.F.A., 2006)
• Suniti Solomon (D.M.S., 2006)
• Paul A. Volcker (L.H.D., 2006)
• Stanley Aronson (D.M.S., 2007)
• Chris Berman (L.H.D., 2007)
• Kate Burton (D.F.A., 2007)
• B.B. King (D.Mus., 2007)
• Craig Mello (Sc.D., 2007)
• Samantha Power (L.H.D., 2007)
• Scott Cowen (LL.D., 2007)
• Norman Francis (LL.D., 2007)
• Marvalene Hughes (LL.D., 2007)
• Robert Redford (D.F.A., 2008)
• Edwidge Danticat (Litt.D., 2008)
• Judith Jamison (D.F.A., 2008)
• Matthew J. Mallow (L.H.D., 2008)
• Shih Choon Fong (Sc.D., 2008)
• Wendy J. Strothman (L.H.D., 2008)
• Maria T. Zuber (Sc.D., 2008)
• Richard C. Barker A.B. 1957, L.H.D., 2009
• Mary Elmendorf, L.H.D., 2009
• Jerry Fishman, Sc.D., 2009
• Jessie Gruman, L.H.D., 2009
• Jim Yong Kim, (A.B. 1982), D.M.S., 2009
• David Saltzman (A.B. 1984), L.H.D., 2009
• Fareed Zakaria, LL.D., 2009

Fictitious alumni and faculty

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• Josiah Carberry - Professor of Psychoceramics (the study of cracked pots), who was created as a joke in 1929 and who has become a tradition at Brown. On every Friday the 13th, cracked pots are left around the Brown campus for students to deposit their pocket change. The money goes to support the Brown University library. Traditionally, Brown alums everywhere send their pocket change to the library on Friday the 13th. There is an organization of alums called "Friends of Josiah" that meets for dinner on the Brown campus on Friday the 13th.
• Sam Arsenault, (played by James Naughton, Brown '67) - guest villain on Damages (TV Series) (2006-7). In one episode, he sings Danny Boy at a cocktail party, telling the guests he sang it with the Jabberwocks when he was an undergraduate student at Brown. Jim was, in fact, a member of the Jabberwocks.
• Cliff Calley, (played by Mark Feuerstein) - Senate Majority Counsel on The West Wing^[8].
• Andrea Sachs - The main character in the 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. However, in the film version, Sachs is a graduate of Northwestern University.
• Ann August (played by Natalie Portman) - central character in Anywhere but Here; daughter of Adele August (played by Susan Sarandon). Ann applies and is accepted to Brown, much to her mother's dismay over the distance.
• Clippy - Microsoft Office Assistant represented as an animated paperclip, who, according to his résumé, has a degree in art-semiotics from Brown, where he "graduated cum laude with a performing arts thesis that involved twisting myself into a representation of Michelangelo's David"
• Amy Gardner (played by Mary-Louise Parker) - women's rights activist and later Chief of Staff to the First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series The West Wing. Gardner was asked by the First Lady where she got "such a smart mouth", to which Gardner quickly replied "Brown."
• Brian Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) - erudite, alcoholic dog from the animated television series Family Guy; dropped out one class short of graduating; re-enrolls and fails in the episode "Brian Goes Back to College"
• Nick Mercer (played by Dermot Mulroney) - a male escort hired by Kat Ellis (played by Debra Messing) to be her date to her sister's wedding in the film The Wedding Date. Mercer graduated from Brown with a degree in Comparative Literature.
• Otto Mann (voiced by Harry Shearer) - bus driver from the animated television series The Simpsons, who claims to have almost received tenure as a professor at Brown in one of Lisa Simpson's dream sequences
• Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (played by James Van Der Beek) - main character of the film Varsity Blues, the tormented replacement quarterback for his small-town Texas high school football team must devote himself to football and become a hero despite just wanting to sit on the bench and read Kurt Vonnegut. Receives acceptance to Brown, but his coach blackmails him to play football by threatening to ruin his transcript
• Julianne Potter (played by Julia Roberts) - main character of the film My Best Friend's Wedding and her "best friend" Michael O'Neal (played by Dermot Mulroney), who met and made their marriage pact while attending Brown
• Audrey Raines (played by Kim Raver) - Jack Bauer's lover and Inter-Agency Liaison in the U.S. Department of Defense in the television series 24; earned an A.M. in public policy from Brown
• Elliot Reid in the television series Scrubs; revealed in the episode "My Turf War" that she and her sorority sister Melody O'Hara attended Brown
• Monica Reyes (played by Annabeth Gish) - FBI Special Agent in the television series The X-Files, who studied folklore and mythology at Brown
• Ryder Smith (played by George Hamilton) - leading man in Where the Boys Are a 1960 movie about spring break in Ft Lauderdale, shown during exam week on the Brown campus.
• Jessica Stein (played by Jennifer Westfeldt) - titular character of the film Kissing Jessica Stein
• Eileen Stevens - mom on Even Stevens
• Jaye Tyler (played by Caroline Dhavernas) - snarky souvenir store clerk and main character of the television series Wonderfalls, who studied philosophy at Brown
• Bridget "Bee" Vreeland - from the novel series Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Bill Wentz (played by Jack Noseworthy) - U.S. Navy radioman in the film U-571, who studied German at Brown
• Seth Cohen (played by Adam Brody) and his girlfriend Summer Roberts (played by Rachel Bilson) - in the television series The O.C. both applied to Brown and had interviews with the admissions tutor from Brown. In a few episodes, both were seen competing to gain more extracurricular activities to add to their C.V. hopefully to increase their chances to Brown. Ultimately however, Seth was rejected and Summer was accepted.
• Linda (played by Marisa Tomei) and Andrew (played by Allen Covert) are Brown alums in the movie Anger Management. Linda is Adam Sandler's girlfriend, and Andrew has been Linda's best friend since they dated at Brown. Andrew emasculates Sandler by forcing him to admit that he attended Trenton Community College, asking "where did you go to school again?" In another scene, Andrew tells Linda that "I rented out the entire sports bar. I thought it would be fun if it was just us Brown alums." He also tries to drum up their old romance by saying, "Do you remember back at Brown when we went up to see the Red Sox game?" In the movie, Sandler describes a Red Sox bra as "represent[ing] everything that I hate." Jack Nicholson, whose character went to Columbia University, reinforces the New York v. New England/Brown motif when he tells Sandler "Andrew is gonna try and recreate those hotsy-totsy nights up at Brown U."
• As Good As It Gets - Jack Nicholson's psychiatrist mentions her son got into Brown. Nicholson is indifferent because he has an antisocial personality.
• Bill Buchanan from the TV series 24 has an English degree from Brown.
• George Gammell Angell, great-uncle of the narrator of HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, professor of Semitic Languages at Brown University.
• Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke, characters from Claire Messud's 2006 novel The Emperor's Children, were all friends at Brown University.
• In the CW TV show Gossip Girl episode entitled "Poison Ivy", Serena van der Woodsen's (Blake Lively) mother attended Brown University. Her father went to Harvard University.
• Christine Everhart (played by Leslie Bibb), 2008 Iron Man film: A Vanity Fair columnist who questions and interrogates Stark about his weapons industry, claiming that his company is killing people. Stark asks if she attended Berkeley, but she corrects him and says "Brown, actually." Later, she appears again, to tell Stark of the Ten Rings in Gulmira and at the end, suspecting Stark of being Iron Man.
• In Hamlet 2, the main character, a drama teacher assumes a Latino student is a gangster. In actuality, his father is an accomplished author and he gained early admission to Brown.
• Nora Clark (played by Jenna Dewan) - in the movie Step Up (film), Nora reveals to Tyler Gage (played by Channing Tatum) that she had been accepted to Brown University, but tells him she does not want to go and wants to pursue her passion for dancing instead.
• Nell Kellner (played by Tricia Vessey) - in the movie Coming Soon, Nell gets accepted to Brown University at the end of the film when she reveals that her father had donated a large sum of money to the school.
• Donna Keppel (played by Brittany Snow) - protagonist of the movie Prom Night (2008 film) was accepted to Brown, but has doubts of going because of being separated from her boyfriend.
• Eric van der Woodsen - in the book series Gossip Girl written by Cecily von Ziegesar, Eric is a student at Brown University.
• Norah Silverberg (played by Kat Dennings) - female protagonist and love interest of Nick O'Leary (played by Michael Cera) in the movie Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist; she tells Nick she was accepted to Brown University.
• Courtney, April and Monica - in the movie Ninja Cheerleaders, Courtney (played by Trishelle Cannatella), April (played by Ginny Weirick) and Monica (played by Maitland McConnell) gets accepted to Brown and attends the school at the end of the film.
• Jane Weston (played by Amy Smart) - in the movie Outside Providence (film), Jane gets accepted to Brown University and attends the school at the end of the film.
• Nick Lipton (played by Zach Braff, making his feature film debut) - in the movie Manhattan Murder Mystery. Nick is the son of protagonists Larry Lipton (played by Woody Allen) and Carol Lipton (played by Diane Keaton), and makes a brief appearance when he visits his parents over a college break.

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