The following is a partial, incomplete list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University. See also Tufts University alumni.
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Notable alumni
Government and politics
- Bolaji Akinyemi, former Nigerian Minister of External Affairs
- Joyce Aluoch, judge on the International Criminal Court, former judge on the Kenyan High Court
- Kow Nkensen Arkaah, Vice President of Ghana from 1993 to 1997
- Shafi U Ahmed, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
- Doug Bailey, American political strategist who founded The Hotline and Unity08
- Anthony Banbury, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
- Francis X. Bellotti, former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General of Massachusetts
- C. Fred Bergsten, former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Council on Foreign Relations
- Jeb Bradley, former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Scott P. Brown, member of the Massachusetts State Senate
- Barbara Bodine, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
- Richard Boucher, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, ambassador to Cyprus, and Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong
- Jay Byrne, American political strategist and former White House spokesperson
- Horace T. Cahill, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
- Elmer Hewitt Capen, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives while an undergraduate at Tufts College (now Tufts University) and third president of Tufts College
- John L. Carroll, former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama and Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law
- Tom Casey (diplomat), Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department
- Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), prominent Hong Kong politician. She is both the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.
- Josh Chiero, Mexican Ambassador to China
- Peter J. Chan, Singaporean Ambassador to Thailand
- Musa Javed Chohan, former Pakistani Ambassador to France
- General Seldon Connor, former governor of Maine
- Anthony Cortese, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and environmental activist/researcher
- Joe Courtney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- Charles Dallara, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department from 1989 to 1991
- HRH Prince Cedza Dlamini of Swaziland, human rights activist and grandson of Nelson Mandela
- Peter DeFazio, U.S. Representative from Oregon
- Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist
- Sofyan Djalil, Indonesian Minister of State Enterprises
- General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Forces
- Joseph Adam Ereli, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
- Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Lebanon
- Michael E. Festa, former member of the Mass. House of Representatives and Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs
- Stephen Flanagan, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe at the National Security Council Staff from 1997 to 1999
- Colette Flesch, Luxembourgian politician and Olympic fencing competitor
- James B. Foley, former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
- Jean Francois-Poncet, French politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1981
- Luis Gallegos-Chiriboga, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations, former Ambassador to the U.S.
- Leslie Gelb, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Pulitzer Prize winner in Explanatory Journalism
- Shukri Ghanem, former Prime Minister of Libya
- Jack Hart, member of the Massachusetts State Senate
- Humayun Hamidzada, Director of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the Office of the President of Afghanistan
- Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, Tunisian Ambassador to the U.S.
- John E. Herbst, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan
- General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command
- Matthew Hoh, American diplomat who attracted controversy by his 2009 resignation over the American conduct of the Afghanistan War
- Faith S. Hochberg, federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Treasury
- Admiral Jonathan Howe, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
- Wolfgang Ischinger, former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K.
- Ismat Jahan, Bangladeshi Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the U.N., former ambassador The Netherlands
- Zhang Junsai, Chinese Ambassador to Australia
- Costas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
- George Keverian, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 until 1991
- Thomas Kean, Jr., member and Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate, unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate, and son of former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean
- Olga Kefalogianni, Greek politician
- Jeffrey Lam, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and Managing Director of Forward Winsome Industries
- Matthew Levitt, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Timothy Lewis, former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Susan Livingstone, former acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment
- Juan Fernando Lopez-Aguilar, Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice
- Winston Lord, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Mosun Mannan, Director General at the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Edwin W. Martin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Consul General of the United States in Hong Kong
- Mbuyamu I. Matungulu, senior economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), former DRC Minister of Finance
- Wayne McCook, Jamaican Ambassador to China
- David McKean, chief of staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and former chief of staff for U.S. Senator John Kerry
- Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative from Georgia
- General William T. Monroe, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (1977-2001) and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India
- Bernd Mützelburg, German special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former German ambassador to India
- Kittiphong Na-Ranong, Thai Ambassador to Vietnam
- Phyllis Oakley, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration
- John Olver, Democratic United States Representative from Massachusetts
- Vardan Oskanyan, former Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Frank Pallone, United States Representative from New Jersey since 1988
- Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State
- Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel, and Russia
- Mitchell Reiss, former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, current Vice-Provost of International Affairs at The College of William and Mary
- Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
- Iqbal Riza, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peacekeeping and Pakistani diplomat
- Jaime Daremblum Rosenstein, Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S.
- Leslie Rowe, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu
- Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, former candidate for chairman of the DNC
- Juan Manuel Santos, former Defense Minister of Colombia
- John G. Sargent, former Attorney General of the United States
- Surakiart Sathirathai, former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Finance Minister of Thailand
- Antoinette Sayeh, Director of the African Department at the International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of Liberia
- Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States
- Carl M. Sciortino, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Konrad Seitz, former German Ambassador to India, Italy, and China
- Abdulla Shahid, Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Radmila Sekerinska, Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia
- Warren Silver, Maine Supreme Court Judge
- Godfrey Smith, Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management
- Norman H. Stahl, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of the U.S. European Command
- Laura Denvir Stith, Missouri Supreme Court Judge
- William Leon St. Onge, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut and mayor of Putnam
- John Philip Swasey, former U.S. Representative from Maine
- Shashi Tharoor, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, former U.N. Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and prolific author
- Bill Thompson (New York), New York City Comptroller and current Democratic mayoral candidate
- Malcolm Toon, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
- Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, U.S. Vice Chief of Naval Operations
- David Welch, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, former Ambassador to Egypt
- Hassan Wirajuda, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
- Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador to North Korea
- Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor of the U.S. State Department and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission
- Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF and former Minister of Justice
Business
- Peter Ackerman, Managing Director of Rockport Capital
- Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance
- Khaled Al-Fayez, CEO of Gulf International Bank
- John Bello, founder and former CEO of SoBe Beverages and former President of NFL Properties
- Seamus Blackley, game developer who helped create the Microsoft Xbox
- Charles Bralver, founding partner of Oliver Wyman
- Rob Burnett (producer), President and CEO of Worldwide Pants, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman
- Daniel K. H. Chao, former executive VP and Managing Director of Bechtel
- Dov Charney (did not finish), CEO and founder of American Apparel
- Raj Choudhury, founder and CEO of Unification Energy Corporation
- Charles Dallara, Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance, former Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Chase and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department
- Susan Decker, former President of Yahoo!, Inc.
- Lou DiBella, founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, owner of The Connecticut Defenders, former head of programming for HBO Sports, TV/film producer, and boxing promoter
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Corporation
- Peter R. Dolan, former CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
- John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Technology Partners
- Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at Trinity College (Connecticut)
- Andrew Duff, CEO of Piper Jaffray
- Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
- Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow
- Edwin A. Finn, President and Editor-in-Chief of Barron's and Chairman of SmartMoney
- Michael Gadbaw, Vice President and Senior Counsel for International Law & Policy at General Electric
- Nate Gantcher, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Richard N. Goodwin, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, prominent political speechwriter, author, playwright, and husband of Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of GOOD Magazine and co-founder of Ethos water
- Seth Godin, marketing expert and founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo
- Bernard Marshall Gordon, former President and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company; inventor who holds over thirty patents
- Bill Gorra, CEO of Simoniz
- Cary Granat, co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
- Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace Corporation
- Richard Hill, retired Chairman of Fleet Bank of Boston
- Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
- Alan Hovhaness, American composer
- Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger
- Robert E. Kiernan III, former Managing Director and global head of e-commerce and technology for the investment banking and private equity divisions of Lehman Brothers
- Jeff Kindler, CEO of Pfizer Inc., former Vice President of General Electric Co. and Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations at McDonald's
- George Charles Kokulis, retired Chairman, President and CEO of Travelers Life & Annuity
- Reed Krakoff, President of Coach Leather
- Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of DuPont
- Jeffrey Lam, Managing Director of Forward Winsome Industries and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Laura Lang, CEO of Digitas
- Jim Manzi, former President, Chairman, and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation
- Mike McConnell, CEO of Brown Brothers Harriman
- Harold McGraw III, President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies and Chairman of the Business Roundtable
- Pamela McNamara, CEO of Arthur D. Little
- Vikram Mehta, Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Company in India
- Umberto Milletti, CEO and co-founder of InsideView and co-founder of DigitalThink
- Khaldoon Al Mubarak, CEO of Mubadala Development Company and chairman of Manchester City F.C.
- John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market
- Joseph Neubauer, CEO of the Aramark Corporation
- Shijuro Ogata, former deputy governor for international relations of the Bank of Japan
- Pierre Omidyar, billionaire founder of eBay, and his wife Pamela Omidyar
- Craig B. Owens, CFO and CAO of Campbell Soups
- Frederick Stark Pearson, electrical engineer and businessman
- Mary Puma, Chairwoman and CEO of Axcelis Technologies
- David Puth, former Managing Director and head of global currency and commodities at JPMorgan Chase
- Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom Inc.
- Dev Sanyal, CEO of Air BP
- Neal Shapiro, Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station WNET/WLIW New York City, former president of NBC News
- Jeff Stibel, CEO of Web.com
- David Sonenberg, Academy Award-winning movie producer and founder/head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher of The New York Times
- Peter Roth, CEO of Warner Brothers Television
- Reeta Roy, President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation
- Ali Sabancı, member of the Sabancı family, chairman of Pegasus Airlines, Desas, and Esaslı Gıda, former Head of Projects at Sabancı Holding
- Monty Sarhan, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Cracked Entertainment
- Wendy Selig-Prieb, CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers
- Brian Shin, founder and CEO of Visible Measures
- Charles Sitter, former President of the Exxon Corporation
- Ed Tapscott, former President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, head coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards
- Greg Terry, Managing Director and general counsel for Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific
- Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, co-owner of the New York Giants
- Richard Thoman, President and CEO of Xerox Corporation
- Carl Walter, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Bank (China)
- C. David Welch, Bechtel Regional President of Europe/Africa/Middle East/South West Asia and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
- Walter Wriston, Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
- Ziwang Xu, CEO of CXC Capital, Inc and former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Asia
- Mian Zaheen, Managing Director at Lazard
Arts and media
- William M. Abrams, senior executive and journalist for the New York Times, ABC News and The Wall Street Journal
- Kara Kennedy Allen, VSA producer and daughter of Ted Kennedy
- Erin Arvedlund, author and financial journalist
- Jessica Anderson, award-winning Australian author
- Hank Azaria, actor and voice actor most famous for his work on The Simpsons
- Matt Bai, author and political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
- Matt Ballinger, actor and singer
- Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
- Jessica Biel (did not finish), prominent film actress
- Jennifer Bunney, minor star on the reality TV show The Hills
- Ruben Bolling aka Ken Fisher, nationally syndicated cartoonist
- Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer, magazine editor, and racecar driver
- Garnett Bruce, prominent American opera director
- Rob Burnett, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman, President and CEO of Worldwide Pants
- Seamus Blackley, video game developer
- John Ciardi, poet and translator
- Tracy Chapman, multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
- Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
- Charles S. Cohen, CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation
- Erin Connolly, News Anchor and Reporter at Capital News 9
- Cid Corman, poet, translator, and poetry journal editor
- George Michael Cuomo, American author
- Karen S. Davis, photographer/author, singer, actress, and journalist
- Paul DeGeorge, member of the band Harry and the Potters
- Barbara Delinsky, prolific New York Times-bestselling author
- Dom DeLuise, actor, most famous for his work in Blazing Saddles and Space Balls and as host of the television show Candid Camera
- Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist
- Will Dunn, actor
- Phil Dunlap, nationally syndicated cartoonist of the Ink Pen
- Anthony Everett, news anchor for WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate of Boston, Mass
- David Faber, CNBC market analyst and host of Squawk on the Street
- Adam Felber, political satirist, radio personality, and humorist
- Nicole Fiscella, Gossip Girl actress and model
- Ezra Furman, front man of the band "Ezra Furman and the Harpoons"
- Peter Gallagher, prominent Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning actor
- Adam Gardner, guitarist and vocalist for the band Guster
- Joshua Gates, host of Syfy channel's Destination Truth
- Leslie Gelb, Pulitzer Prize-winner in Explanatory Journalism (1985), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Michelle Gielan, anchor of CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute
- Matt Glaser, American jazz and bluegrass violinist, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music
- Christopher Golden, horror, fantasy, and suspense novelist
- Cary Granat, co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
- Jeff Greenstein, Emmy Award-winning TV writer and executive producer of Will & Grace
- Guster, American alternative rock band
- Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, and actor
- Susan Haskell, Emmy Award-winning Canadian actress
- Coral Hawthorne, producer of In Living Color, The Hughleys and Complete Savages
- Patrick D. Healy, reporter for The New York Times
- Dan Hedaya, film actor
- Nancy Holt, award-winning artist and sculptor
- Carola Hoyos, correspondent for The Financial Times
- William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor
- Brian Koppelman, screenwriter and producer
- Staś Kmieć, renowned theater and dance choreographer, dancer, and the foremost U.S. authority on Polish folk dance and culture
- Mark Krikorian, the executive director of Center for Immigration Studies and conservative pundit
- Christopher Lawford, actor and New York Times-bestselling author, nephew of former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Erik Lindgren, composer and musician
- Bette Bao Lord, Chinese-American author and civic activist
- Lilia Luciano, Puerto Rican actress and TV reporter working in Spanish language television in the United States
- Peter Lynch
- William MacDonald, prolific Christian author
- Stephen Macht, TV and film actor
- Jim MacMillan, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist formerly of the Philadelphia Daily News
- Gregory Maguire, author of the novels Wicked (later adapted into a successful musical) and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
- Maliha Masood, award-winning author
- Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for The Boston Globe and author
- Jim McNitt, mixed-media painter and photographer
- George Morgan, TV and play actor
- Niels Mueller, film-maker
- Jim Nollman, composer, musician, and author involved with animal communications
- Jack O'Shea, guitarist for rock band Bayside
- Charles North, American poet
- Ameesha Patel, Bollywood actress
- Daniel Pritzker, guitarist and songwriter for Sonia Dada, member of the Pritzker family
- Oliver Platt, Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG-nominated actor
- Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor on Heroes
- Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom Inc.
- Kyle Renick, producer of the off-Broadway WPA Theatre, original producer of "Little Shop of Horrors, and Steel Magnolias
- Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
- Peter Roth, CEO of Warner Brothers Television
- Brian Rosenworcel, drummer for the band Guster
- Melissa Russo, TV news anchor for WNBC-TV News Channel 4 in New York City
- Monty Sarhan, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Cracked Entertainment Sathirathai
- Eric Schwartz, folk singer/songwriter
- David Scott, Emmy Award-winning senior producer of ABC News Nightline
- Joshua Seftel, filmmaker
- Justine Shapiro, American movie and tv actress who co-hosts Globe Trekker
- Neal Shapiro, Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station WNET/WLIW New York City, former president of NBC News
- Deke Sharon, prominent A capella singer, composer, and teacher
- Ben Silverman, Co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio
- Laura Silverman, actress on "The Sarah Silverman Program" and sister of comedian Sarah Silverman
- Anita Shreve, award-winning author
- Atika Shubert, Jerusalem bureau chief for CNN
- David Sonenberg, Academy Award-winning movie producer and founder/head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd
- Darin Strauss, award-winning novelist
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times
- Wylie Sypher, American writer
- Will Tiao, TV actor
- Meredith Vieira, TV host of The Today Show, formerly of The View
- Aury Wallington, screenwriter and novelist
- Nathanael West (did not finish), author and screenwriter
- Rainn Wilson (did not finish), actor and co-star of The Office
- Gary Winick, film director and producer
- Ellen Emerson White, writer whose first book was published while she was a senior at Tufts
- Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of American history
Sciences and academia
- Hady Amr, policy analyst and author specializing in U.S.-Arab relations
- Lisa Anderson (scholar), Provost of the American University in Cairo and Middle East political scholar
- Stephen Moulton Babcock, agricultural chemist who pioneered the development of nutrition as a science
- Frank N. Blanchard, influential herpetologist and zoologist
- Arnaud Blin, French historian and political scientist
- Vannevar Bush, engineer and scientist noted for his work on the atom bomb and early computing
- Elmer Hewitt Capen, third president of Tufts College (now Tufts University) and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives while an undergraduate at Tufts College
- Leonard Carmichael, ninth president of Tufts University, former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society
- John L. Carroll, Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law and former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama
- Sean B. Carroll, influential researcher and professor of evolutionary developmental biology
- Anthony Cortese, environmental activist/researcher and former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
- John Albert Cousens, sixth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University)
- Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, former Harvard psychology professor involved with the Harvard Psilocybin Project
- Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum, director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at the Vancouver School of Theology
- Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and influential American rabbi
- John E. Endicott, co-president of Woosong University and American foreign policy analyst specializing in security issues
- Eugene Fama, economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing
- Lewis M. Feldstein, Co-Chairman of the Saguaro Seminar and President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
- Matt Glaser, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music, American jazz and bluegrass violinis
- Hollis Godfrey, second president of Drexel University
- Irving B. Goldman, otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon who was influential in the development of rhinoplasty
- Bernard Marshall Gordon, inventor who holds over thirty patents, former President and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company
- Frederick W. Hamilton, fourth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University]]
- Carlton H. Hastings, materials scientist who led the team that developed heat shields for all U.S. space vehicles designed to re-enter Earth's atmosphere through Apollo and developed the video X-ray system
- Rick Hauck, American astronaut
- Admiral Bartholomew W. Hogan, former Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association
- Thomas L. Hopkins, progressive education professor and theorist
- William Leslie Hooper, acting president of Tufts College (later Tufts University) between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents
- Leonard George Horowitz, radical health theorist and author
- Matthew A. Howard, neurosurgeon and inventor who holds more than twenty patents
- Hassan Jawahery, American-Iranian physicist and former spokesperon for the BaBar experiment
- David W. Kennedy, Vice President of International Affairs at Brown University and legal scholar
- Matthew Levitt, director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, frequent terrorism pundit, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Roderick MacKinnon, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels
- Mahmood Mamdani, African political expert and professor
- Colette Mazzucelli, professor of international affairs
- Kathleen McCartney (dean), Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and developmental psychologist
- Helen Abbott Michael, organic chemist
- George Stewart Miller, acting president of Tufts College (later Tufts University) between the terms of the sixth and seventh elected presidents
- Frederick Nelson, mechanical engineer and professor
- Lee Nordan, American eye surgeon and pioneer in lasik surgery who holds five patents related to eye surgery
- Padraig O'Malley, professor of international studies specializing in the problems of divided societies
- Martin Theodore Orne, psychiatry and psychology professor/researcher
- Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, Puerto Rican policy analyst and author
- Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and expert on rainforest ecosystems
- Joseph W. Polisi, president of The Juilliard School
- Joanne Pransky, robotics expert
- John Reif, computer science, nanotechnology, and DNA researcher/professor
- Mitchell Reiss, Vice-Provost of International Affairs at The College of William and Mary, former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
- Lew Rockwell, libertarian political activist and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
- Albert J. Simone, former President of Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii system
- Richard J. Smith (anthropologist), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, influential anthropologist and dentist
- Fred Tanner, Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and professor/theorist of international affairs
- John Q. Trojanowski, prominent neurological researcher/professor specializing in degenerative diseases
- Frankie Trull, prominent lobbyist/science advocate focusing on laboratory animal testing, president of the National Association for Biomedical Research, Foundation for Biomedical Research, and Policy Directions Inc.
- Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
- Norbert Wiener, mathematician known as the founder of cybernetics
- Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of American history
Athletics
- Bob Backus, Olympic track and field athlete who set world records in the hammer throw
- John Bello, former President of NFL Properties
- Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer, racecar driver, and magazine editor
- Wally Clement, professional baseball player
- Harrie Dadmun, professional American football player
- Lou DiBella, boxing promoter, founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, former head of programming for HBO Sports, TV/film producer, and owner of the minor league baseball team The Connecticut Defenders
- Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at Trinity College (Connecticut)
- Colette Flesch, Luxembourgian politician and three-time Olympic fencing competitor
- William Grinnell, American football player and former head football coach at Northeastern University
- Doc Haggerty, professional American football player
- Richard Hashim, 1988 U.S. squash champion
- Doc Hazleton, professional baseball player
- Michelle Kwan, Olympic figure skater
- Matt Leonard, Coach for the Fairfield University Men's Rugby Football Club and player for the Connecticut Grey Rugby Club
- Jim Lonborg, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for The Boston Globe and author
- Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of Manchester City F.C. and CEO of Mubadala Development Company
- Harry Orman Robinson, former head coach of American football at UT-Austin and UMissouri-Columbia
- Wendy Selig-Prieb, former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers and daughter of Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
- Heinie Stafford, professional baseball player
- Ed Tapscott, former head coach of the Washington Wizards
- Jonathan Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
- Jen Toomey, U.S. track and field record-holder
- Shane Waldron, tight ends coach for the New England Patriots
- Katherine Haley Will, thirteenth (and first female) president of Gettysburg College and former chair of the Annapolis Group
- Art Williams (baseball) major league baseball player
- Peter Wylde, Olympic Gold Medalist in Team Horse Jumping
- Naeem Webster, Reserve Winger for the United States Rugby team 2005-2006
- Mudarris Jihad, defensive back and point guard drafted by Cleveland Browns in 1977 NFL Draft formerly known as Daryl Brown
Criminal activity
- Elaine Brown, tax protestor involved in a 5-month armed standoff
- Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
- Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow
- Gina Grant, matricide
- Jonathan Pollard (did not graduate), Israeli-American spy
- Harry Sagansky, member of the Jewish Mafia who is the oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison term
- Jon Schillaci (did not graduate), convicted sex offender previously listed as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Notable faculty
- Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972 - 1986), Japanese politician and activist
- Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
- Lawrence S. Bacow, economist
- Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
- Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
- Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University
- Allan M. Cormack (1924 – 1998), physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
- Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained
- John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (1973-1983)
- Lee Edelman, English professor, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor
- Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history
- Joseph Igersheimer German, *1879 †1965, ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey
- Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
- Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
- Kenneth I. Kaitin, head of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
- David Kaplan, biomedical engineer, leader in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering
- Sheldon Krimsky
- Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981-1982
- Alfred Church Lane, geologist
- Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
- William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
- Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
- Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
- Chris B. Rogers, father of Robolab
- Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory, eminent Anton Chekhov scholar, author of The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre
- Rosalind Shaw, leading anthropologist on transitional justice, expert on Sierra Leone
- Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
- John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
- Barry Trimmer, professor of Biology, invented (with David Kaplan) the world's first soft bodied robot
- Loring Tu, world-renowned mathematician
- Vali Nasr, Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Author of The Shia Revival. Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Alexander Vilenkin, leading theoretical physicist
- Arthur W. Winston, IEEE President, 2004. IEEE Past-president, 2005
- Timothy D. Brooks, Executive Director, Alumni Relations 1999 - Present
Fictional characters
- Elaine Benes, from the television show Seinfeld
- Jennifer Melfi, played by Lorraine Bracco, from the television show The Sopranos
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