List of Beta Theta Pi members

Beta Theta Pi is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.^[1] As of 2025, it consists of 142 active chapters and nineteen colonies in the United States and Canada.^[2] It has initiated 227,218 members.^[2] Below is a list of some of the notable members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.^[3]

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Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
Thomas Swain Barclay		Professor of political science at Stanford University	^[4]^[5]
Thomas A. Bartlett	Willamette 1951	Chancellor of the University of Alabama System	^[6]
George F. Baughman	Florida 1937	Founding president of New College of Florida	^[6]
David Ross Boyd	Wooster 1878	First president of the University of Oklahoma and president of the University of New Mexico	^[3]^: 956
Paul Bragdon	Amherst 1950	President of Reed College	^[6]
James S. Buchanan	Cumberland 1885	President of the University of Oklahoma	^[3]^: 202
Thomas Courtice	Ohio Wesleyan	President of Ohio Wesleyan University	^[6]
Stanley Coulter	Hanover 1870	Dean of Purdue University	^[3]^: 325
John Patrick Crecine	Carnegie Mellon 1961	President of Georgia Tech	^[6]
William H. Danforth	Westminster 1948	Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis	^[6]
Donald Dawson	Missouri 1932	Curator of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum	^[7]
James Duderstadt	Yale 1964	President of the University of Michigan	^[6]
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston	Hampden-Sydney 1886	President of Virginia Tech	^[3]^: 316
Robert F. Engle	Williams 1964	Winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; co-director of the Volatility and Risk Institute at New York University Stern School of Business	^[8]
Robin Hugh Farquhar	British Columbia 1960	President of Carleton University	^[6]
Carl Russell Fish	Harvard 1900	Historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison	^[3]^: 69
Thomas P. Gerrity	MIT 1963	Dean of the Wharton School of Business	^[6]
William Pratt Graham	Syracuse 1903	Chancellor of Syracuse University	^[3]^: 739
Andrew Dousa Hepburn	Washington & Jefferson 1851	President of Miami University and Davidson College	^[3]^: 340
Alexander Q. Holladay	Virginia 1859	President of North Carolina State University and Virginia Senate	^[9]^[3]^: 840
John S. Hougham	Wabash 1846	President of Purdue University	^[10]^[3]^: 823
Alfred Hume	Vanderbilt 1878	Chancellor of the University of Mississippi	^[11]^[3]^: 788
Charles Keeler	UC Berkeley 1893	Director of the California Academy of Sciences	^[6]^[12]
Samuel Laws	Miami University 1848	President of the University of Missouri and Westminster College	^[3]^: 608
Deane Waldo Malott	Kansas 1921	Chancellor of the University of Kansas and president of Cornell University	^[6]
William Alexander Parsons Martin	Indiana 1846	President of the Tongwenguan and the Imperial University of Peking	^[3]^: 355
David T. McLaughlin	Dartmouth 1954	President of Dartmouth College	^[6]
Dale T. Mortensen	Willamette 1961	Professor at Northwestern University and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences	^[7]
Franklin David Murphy	Kansas 1936	Chancellor of the University of Kansas and UCLA	^[7]
James Kennedy Patterson	Hanover 1856	First president of the University of Kentucky	^[3]^: 322
Steven Sample	Illinois 1958	President of the University of Southern California	^[7]
James M. Sellers	Chicago 1916	President of Wentworth Military Academy	^[3]^: 123
Charles N. Sims	DePauw 1859	Chancellor of Syracuse University	^[3]^: 273
Edgar F. Shannon Jr.	W&L 1939	President of the University of Virginia	^[6]
David Stanton Tappan	Miami 1864	President of Miami University	^[3]^: 273
George Whipple	Yale 1905	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934; founding dean of the University of Rochester Medical Center	^[13]
Timothy M. Wolfe	Missouri 1980	President of the University of Missouri System	^[14]
Y. C. James Yen	Yale 1918	Founder of the Chinese Mass Education Movement	^[7]

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
John Bakewell Jr.	Cal Berkeley 1893	Architect	^[3]^: 82
George Bellows	Ohio State 1905	Realist painter	^[3]^: 612
Bernard Berenson	Boston 1887	Art historian	^[3]^: 43
Barry Bishop	Cincinnati 1951	Photographer for National Geographic and part of the first American team to summit Mount Everest	^[15]
Arthur Brown Jr.	Cal Berkeley 1896	Architect	^[3]^: 83
Ding Darling	Beloit 1899	Cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning twice, head of the U.S. Biological Survey, and founder and first president of the National Wildlife Federation	^[1]^[16]^[3]^: 20

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
Joseph P. Allen	DePauw 1959	NASA astronaut; mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery	^[7]
Kenneth D. Cameron	MIT 1971	Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis	^[6]
Paul J. Weitz	Penn State 1954	NASA astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	^[6]

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
John E. Anderson	UCLA 1940	Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephen Bechtel Jr.	Purdue 1947	Co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation	^[7]
Stephen Bechtel Sr.	California 1923	Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group	^[7]
Bill Bowerman	Oregon 1933	Founder of Nike, Inc.	^[7]
Donald Bren	Washington 1955	Owner of The Irvine Company
Dan Carney	Wichita State 1953	Co-founder of Pizza Hut	^[7]
Douglas Clayton	Cornell 1982	CEO of Leopard Capital
Arthur D. Collins Jr.	Miami 1969	CEO of Medtronic
William Cook	Northwestern 1953	Founder of the Cook Group	^[7]
David Coulter	Carnegie Mellon 1971	Chairman and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
Ernest Kent Coulter	Ohio State 1892	Founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America	^[3]^: 608
Justin Whitlock Dart Sr.	Northwestern 1929	Founder of Dart Industries
Chris DeWolfe	Washington 1988	CEO of Myspace.com	^[6]
David Duffield	Cornell 1962	President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc.	^[6]
Spencer Eccles	Utah 1956	Financier and chairman emeritus of the Intermountain Region of Wells Fargo Corporation	^[7]
William Esrey	Denison 1961	President and CEO of Sprint	^[6]
Weldon B. Gibson	Washington State University 1938	Executive at SRI International	^[7]
Jeffrey Grayson	Oregon 1964	Investment banker, businessman, and criminal	^[6]
William Herbert Hunt	W&L 1951	Investor connected with the silver trading scandal called Silver Thursday	^[6]
Joel Hyatt	Dartmouth 1972	Founder of Hyatt Legal Services	^[6]
Edgar Kaiser Jr.	Stanford 1965	Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia	^[6]
R. Crosby Kemper Jr.	Missouri 1950	President of UMB Financial Corporation	^[6]
Charles Koch	MIT 1957	Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries	^[6]
David Koch		Co-owner and executive vice president of Koch Industries	^[7]^[17]
Alan Ladd Jr.	Southern California	President of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment
Kenneth Lay	Missouri 1967	Chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse	^[7]
J. Hugh Liedtke	Amherst 1942	Founder of Zapata Corporation and CEO of Pennzoil	^[6]
Conrad Leslie	Miami University 1949	Businessman and crop forecaster
Alexander F. Mathews	Virginia 1856	Banker and lawyer	^[3]^: 798
Hugh McColl	North Carolina 1957	Chairman and CEO of Bank of America	^[7]
Steve Miller	Southern California 1966	President of Dean Witter Reynolds	^[6]
J. C. Nichols	Kansas 1902	Real estate developer	^[3]^: 428
Daniel Ninivaggi	Columbia 1986	CEO of Lordstown Motors and chairman of Garrett Motion, CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul	^[18]
Blake Nordstrom	Washington 1982	President of Nordstrom	^[6]
Bruce Nordstrom	Washington 1955	Chairman and CEO of Nordstrom	^[7]
Erik Nordstrom	Washington 1985	Co-president of Nordstrom	^[6]
John R. Opel	Westminster 1948	President of IBM	^[6]
Charles Lathrop Pack	Television 1878	Timberman and economist	^[19]^[3]^: 923
Samuel J. Palmisano	Johns Hopkins 1973	CEO of IBM
John Henry Patterson	Miami University 1867	Founder of National Cash Register	^[3]^: 923
Donald Petersen	Washington 1946	CEO of the Ford Motor Company	^[7]
Marvin Pierce	Miami University 1916	President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush	^[3]^: 495
Mitchell Rales	Miami University 1978	Co-founder of Danaher Corporation
Steven Rales	DePauw 1973	Co-founder of Danaher
Steven Rogel	Washington 1965	CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company
Mortimer L. Schiff	Amherst 1896	Banker and 5th president of the Boy Scouts of America	^[1]^[3]^: 6
Frank Shrontz	Idaho 1953	Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company	^[7]
Jeffrey Skilling	Southern Methodist 1975	CEO of Enron; convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
Kenneth A. Spencer	Kansas 1921	Founder, president, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company
Robert K. Steel	Duke 1973	President and CEO of Wachovia
G. Kennedy Thompson	North Carolina 1973	CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard	^[7]
Sam Walton	Missouri 1940	Founder of Wal-Mart	^[7]
John Warnock	Utah 1961	Computer scientist who co-founded Adobe Systems Inc	^[7]
Fred Wilson	MIT 1983	Venture capitalist and prominent blogger
Thornton Wilson	Iowa State 1942	Chairman emeritus of the Boeing Co.	^[6]
Owen D. Young	St. Lawrence 1894	Chairman of General Electric, founder of RCA, co-founder of NBC, and US representative to The Hague conference on reparations who developed the Young Plan	^[20]^[3]^: 703
John Zeglis	University of Illinois 1969	Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless^[21]

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
James Arness	Beloit 1946	Actor known for portraying Matt Dillon in the Television series Gunsmoke	^[6]
John Backe	Miami 1954	President and CEO of CBS	^[7]
Steve Bellamy	Indiana University 1986	Entrepreneur in sports and entertainment known for founding several niche cable Television networks
Bruce Bennett	Washington 1928	Film and television actor who won the silver medal for the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics	^[6]
John Boles	Texas 1917	Actor	^[3]^: 758
Jackson Bostwick	Alabama 1965	Actor known for the Television series Shazam!
Kyle Brandt	Princeton 2001	Television host, media personality, and actor	^[22]
Thom Brennaman	Ohio 1986	Television sportscaster	^[6]
Ned Brower	Southern Methodist 1998	Drummer and vocalist in the rock quintet Rooney	^[6]
Phil Brown	Stanford 1937	Actor
Robert Butler	UCLA 1950	Emmy Award-winning Television director
Jay Chandrasekhar	Colgate 1990	Actor and film director	^[6]
Lloyd Corrigan	UC Berkeley 1922	Actor who appeared in more than 90 films
John Doman	Pennsylvania 1966	Actor	^[23]
Bergen Evans	Miami 1924	Television personality who won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting
Neil Everett	Willamette 1984	Anchor of SportsCenter
Chet Forte	Columbia 1957	Television director known for Monday Night Football	^[6]
Pat Green	Texas Tech 1995	Country music artist	^[6]
Cary Guffey	Florida 1994	Actor known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Leigh Harline	Utah 1929	Film composer and songwriter; won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Kevin Heffernan	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Horace Heidt	UC Berkeley 1924	Pianist, big band leader, and radio and Television personality
Foster Hewitt	Toronto 1925	Radio broadcaster known for Hockey Night in Canada
Griffin House	Miami 2002	Singer-songwriter
Chuck Howard	Duke 1955	Emmy Award-winning producer known for Wide World of Sports	^[6]
Sidney Howard	UC Berkeley 1912	Playwright and screenwriter; received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind	^[3]^: 87
Jeffrey Jones	Lawrence 1968	Actor known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Richard Karn	Washington 1978	Actor known for Home Improvement
Burt Kwouk	Bowdoin 1953	Actor
Steve Lemme	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Daniel Lindsay	Missouri 2001	Filmmaker known for the Oscar-winning sports documentary Undefeated
David Lloyd	Colgate 1983	Anchor for SportsCenter
Pare Lorentz	West Virginia 1926	Filmmaker considered to be the father of the modern documentary
David Martin	Yale 1965	Television correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News
Walter Massey	MIT 1951	Actor
Les Mayfield	Southern California 1982	Film director known for Encino Man and Blue Streak
Max Morath	Colorado College 1947	Ragtime pianist and songwriter
Edward P. Morgan	Whitman 1932	Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956	^[6]
William R. Moses	Wesleyan 1982	Actor known for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest	^[6]
Kenyon Nicholson	Wabash 1917	Playwright and screenwriter	^[3]^: 835
Lance Norris	Whitman 1984	Actor and writer
Frank Pacelli	Illinois 1948	Emmy Award-winning director known for The Young and the Restless
George Peppard	Purdue 1952	Actor known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and The A-Team	^[6]
Robert Pine	Ohio Wesleyan 1963	Actor known for the television series CHiPs
Robert Reed	Northwestern 1954	Actor known for The Brady Bunch
David Richmond-Peck	Western Ontario 1996	Actor who has appeared in over 70 film and Television roles
Rivers Rutherford	Mississippi 1989	Country music songwriter	^[7]
Stephen H. Sholes	Rutgers 1933	Recording executive, producer, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jeremy Slate	St. Lawrence 1952	Actor
Stephen Sondheim	Williams 1950	Composer and lyricist known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and West Side Story	^[6]
Paul Soter	Colgate	Actor and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Erik Stolhanske	Colgate 1991	Actorand a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Jess Thomas	Nebraska 1948	Operatic tenor
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude	MIT 1976	Actor
Doodles Weaver	Stanford 1937	Character actor, comedian, and musician who hosted The Doodles Weaver Show
Robb Weller	Washington 1972	Television personality and game show host known for Entertainment Tonight and Win, Lose or Draw	^[6]
Adam West	Whitman 1951	Actor known for Batman and Family Guy
Brian J. White	Dartmouth	Actor known for Stomp the Yard	^[6]
Robert Wilson	Texas 1963	Playwright, Obie Award winner for direction, and Olivier Award winner for Best New Opera
Christopher Woodrow	Alabama 1999	Hollywood movie producer known for Birdman, Black Mass, and Hacksaw Ridge
Paul Worley	Vanderbilt 1972	Record producer who discovered the Dixie Chicks and produced the Grammy Award-winning album Own the Night for Lady Antebellum

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Francis W. H. Adams		US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and New York City Police Commissioner	^[24]
Herschel W. Arant	Yale 1911	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and former dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	^[25]^[3]^: 961
Virgil Bouldin	Cumberland 1889	Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and Alabama House of Representatives	^[26]^[3]^: 203
David J. Brewer	Wesleyan 1955	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Charles Colson	Brown 1953	Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator
George A. Cooke	Knox 1892	Illinois General Assembly, and chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court	^[27]^[3]^: 447
Chuck Douglas	Wesleyan 1964	New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice and US House of Representatives from New Hampshire
William O. Douglas	Whitman 1920	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[7]^[28]
Fred Gause	Indiana 1900	Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court	^[3]^: 367
Charles Harold Haden II	Oklahoma 1956	US Federal Judge	^[6]
Frank Herbert Hall	Colorado College 1916	Chief justice of Colorado Supreme Court	^[29]^[30]^[3]^: 152
John Marshall Harlan	Centre 1850	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[6]^[3]^: 101
Frank Hogan	Columbia 1924	New York County District Attorney
Newell Jennings		Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court	^[28]
Joseph Rucker Lamar	Bethany 1877	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[6]
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr.	Missouri 1951	Judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	^[6]
Horace Harmon Lurton	Cumberland 1867	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[6]
Samuel Taylor Marshall	Ohio 1839	Attorney and co-founder of Beta Theta Pi
Emlin McClain		Chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court	^[16]
Warren Olney Jr.		Associate justice of the Supreme Court of California	^[4]
Ralph O. Olson	Carleton 1922	Washington Supreme Court justice	^[31]
William Robinson Pattangall		Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Attorney General, and Maine House of Representatives	^[32]
John Josiah Robinette	Toronto 1926	Canadian lawyer and litigator	^[7]
John Sopinka	Toronto 1958	Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Edwin K. Steers	Indiana 1937	Indiana Attorney General
Kimbrough Stone	Missouri 1895	Judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Dickran Tevrizian	Southern California 1962	First Armenian-American U.S. Federal Judge	^[7]
Ralph Gordon Thompson	Oklahoma 1956	US Federal Judge	^[6]
Willis Van Devanter	DePauw 1881	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[1]^[6]
Harold J. Warner		Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court	^[33]
William Burnham Woods	Western Reserve 1841	Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[6]

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
Bert Andrews	Stanford 1925	Washington-based reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who won a Pulitzer Prize
James Batten	Davidson 1957	Journalist and CEO of Knight Ridder	^[6]
James O'Donnell Bennett	Michigan 1893	Journalist known for writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Record-Herald
Main Bocher	Chicago 1911	Fashion designer and editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue
Percy Jewett Burrell	Boston 1897	Dramatist and playwright
Byron Calame	Missouri 1961	Journalist and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal	^[7]
Mark Divine	Colgate 1985	Author and retired Navy SEAL Commander
Dick Durrell	Minnesota 1950	Publisher of People magazine	^[6]
Howard Fineman	Colgate 1970	Journalist and Television commentator; global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group	^[7]
George Fitch	Knox College 1897	Author and journalist
William Harrison Fetridge	Northwestern 1930	Maritime writer, vice-president of Popular Mechanics, and president of the Dartnell Corporation	^[6]
Sam Walter Foss	Brown 1882	Poet known for The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American
David Hirshey	Dickinson 1971	Book editor who served as senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins
Richard Hooker	Bowdoin 1945	Writer and surgeon known for his novel MASH	^[6]
L. D. Hotchkiss	Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916	Newspaper journalist who served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times
Kermit Hunter	Ohio 1931	Author and playwright	^[6]
Russell Janney	Yale 1906	Theatrical producer and author known for his 1946 best-selling novel The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948^[34]
Ken Kesey	Oregon 1957	Author known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	^[6]
Laird Koenig	Washington 1949	Author	^[35]
David Lamb	Maine 1962	Los Angeles Times correspondent
Charles Wesley Leffingwell	Knox College	Editor of The Living Church magazine
Norman Maclean	Dartmouth 1924	Author known for his 1976 novel A River Runs Through It, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1992	^[36]
Karl Marlantes	Yale 1967	Author known for the novel Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard	Missouri 1888	Journalist and newspaper editor; founder of the China Weekly Review and author of seven influential books on the Far East^[37]
Harry Allen Overstreet	California 1899	Writer and author known for the best-selling book The Mature Mind
Albert Shaw	Johns Hopkins 1884	Journalist who was the founder and editor of The American Review of Reviews
Bob Thomas	UCLA 1943	Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press
Frederick N. Ward	Florida 1957	Photojournalist

Name	Chapter and year	Notability	Ref.
George M. Browning Jr.	UCLA 1952	Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force	^[38]
Omar Bundy	DePauw 1881	Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152)
Enoch Crowder	Missouri 1887	Major General, US Army; Judge Advocate General of the US Army; US Army Provost Marshall General; oversaw the drafting and administration of the Selective Service Act of 1917; US Ambassador to Cuba	^[39]
Eric Erickson	Cornell 1921	Swedish national who served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services during World War II
Terrence C. Graves	Miami 1967	2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War
James Wallace Haverfield	Ohio State 1939	Ensign, US Naval Reserve; killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; namesake of USS Haverfield (DE-393)
Joe W. Kelly	DePauw 1931	General, US Air Force (Ret.); attended DePauw 1927–28, then transferred to U.S. Military Academy, class of 1932; Command Pilot; Martin B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis	^[40]
Jonathan Letterman	Washington & Jefferson 1845	Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco	^[41]
James Rogers McConnell	Virginia 1910	Sergeant and fighter pilot with the Lafayette Escadrille
Thomas McGuire	Georgia Tech 1944	Major, US Army Air Forces fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst)
Emory Jenison Pike	Iowa Wesleyan 1899	Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I
Everett P. Pope	Bowdoin 1941	Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II	^[42]
William B. Rosson	Oregon 1940	General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; deputy commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; commander in chief, US Southern Command
John T. Thompson	Indiana 1881	Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
David C. Waybur	UC Berkeley 1942	1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart

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Fred Ahern	Bowdoin 1974	NHL player with the California Seals, Cleveland Barons, and Colorado Rockies	^[6]
Ethan Allen	Cincinnati 1926	Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University
Frank Baumholtz	Ohio 1941	Professional basketball player and Major League Baseball player	^[68]
Matty Bell	Centre 1920	College football player, college football coach, and athletic administrator	^[69]
Jim Benepe	Northwestern 1986	Professional golfer	^[6]
Earl Blaik	Miami 1918	Head football coach at Dartmouth College and the United States Military Academy	^[69]
Carl Blaurock	Colorado Mines 1916	Mountaineer, first American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US
Joe Bottom	Southern California 1977	1976 Summer Olympics silver medalist in 100m butterfly strokey	^[6]
Don Bragg	UCLA 1959	1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist in pole vault	^[70]
Evan Brown	SMU 2017	Center for the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions
Mike Brown	Dartmouth 1957	President and general manager of the Cincinnati Bengals	^[7]^[70]
Dave Brundage	Oregon State 1986	Minor League Baseball player and coach	^[71]
Jim Brunzell	Minnesota 1971	Professional wrestler and co-author of the Killer Bees comic book series	^[6]
George Buehler	Stanford 1969	Professional football player with the Los Angeles Raiders	^[6]
John Bunn	Kansas 1920	Key contributor to the game of basketball	^[6]
Guy Chamberlin	Nebraska 1916	College and pro football Hall of Famer: 5x NFL champion (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926)	^[69]
Pete Cipollone	California 1994	2004 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing	^[6]
Bob Clotworthy	Ohio State 1954	1952 Summer Olympics silver medalist and 1956 Summer Olympics gold medalist in springboard diving	^[6]
Roy Cochran	Indiana 1941	1948 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4 × 400 m relay	^[6]
Ron Coder	Penn State 1976	Professional football player with Seattle Seahawks	^[6]^[70]
Don Cohan	Amherst 1951	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, sailing	^[6]
Eddie Collins	Columbia 1907	Major League Baseball Hall of Famer with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, won Six (6) World Series. World Series MVP in 1924.	^[6]
Don Coryell	Washington 1947	Coach of the San Diego Chargers	^[69]
Mel Counts	Oregon State 1964	Professional basketball player who won two NBA titles with the Boston Celtics; Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964	^[6]
Edgar Diddle	Centre 1919	Basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school	^[6]
DeLoss Dodds	Kansas State 1959	University of Texas at Austin athletic director	^[7]
Charles Doe	Stanford 1920	1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rugby	^[6]
Bobby Douglass	Kansas 1969	Professional football player with the Chicago Bears	^[6]
Eddie Eagan	Denver 1920	1920 Summer Olympics gold medalist, boxing 178-lb and 1932 Winter Olympics gold medalist in bobsledding	^[6]^[29]
Keith Fahnhorst	Minnesota 1974	Professional football player with San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XVI & XIX Champion	^[6]
Max Falkenstien	Kansas 1947	Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer	^[72]
John Ferris	Stanford 1971	1968 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly stroke	^[6]
Jay Fiedler	Dartmouth 1994	Professional football player with the Miami Dolphins	^[6]
Dow Finsterwald	Ohio 1952	Professional golfer	^[7]
Jeff Float	Southern California 1983	1984 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay	^[6]
Travis Ford	Missouri 1991	Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University
Ken Forsch	Oregon State 1969	Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979
Bruce Furniss	Southern California 1979	1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle swimming	^[6]
Steve Furniss	Southern California 1975	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 200 IM swimming	^[6]
Dave Gagnon	Colgate 1991	Professional hockey player with the Detroit Red Wings	^[6]
George Glamack	North Carolina early 1940s	All American basketball with the NBL, Rookie of the Year 1942
Iñaki Gómez	British Columbia 2010	2012 Summer Olympics Canadian team member, race walking
Gail Goodrich	UCLA 1965	Professional basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers	^[6]
Dan Greenbaum	Southern California 1992	1992 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, volleyball	^[6]
Dan Guerrero	UCLA 1974	UCLA Bruins athletic director	^[73]
Ed Hamm	Georgia Tech 1928	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, long jump	^[6]
George Harrison	Stanford 1961	1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay	^[6]
Dick Harter	North Carolina 1952	NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets	^[6]
Homer Hazel	Rutgers 1925	Football player and coach	^[69]
Alan Helffrich	Penn State 1925	1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 4 × 400 m relay	^[6]
Bob Higgins	Penn State 1918	Professional football player and college football coach	^[69]
Mark Jerue	Washington 1982	Professional football player with the New York Jets	^[6]
Brian Job	Stanford	1968 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke	^[6]
Brandt Jobe	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer	^[6]
Grier Jones	Oklahoma State 1968	Professional golfer	^[6]
Charlie Justice	North Carolina 1950	Professional football player with the Washington Redskins; three-time All-American	^[69]
Robert Kane	Cornell 1934	President of the US Olympic Committee
Jeff Kemp	Dartmouth 1981	Professional football player with the Los Angeles Rams for 5 seasons.	^[6]
Shahid Khan	Illinois 1971	Owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars	^[7]
Johnny Kitzmiller	Oregon 1930	College and professional football player with the New York Giants	^[69]
William Koch	MIT 1962	1992 America's Cup winner	^[7]
George Kojac	Rutgers 1931	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay	^[6]
Ryan Kuehl	Virginia 1995	Professional football player	^[6]
Cawood Ledford	Centre College	University of Kentucky basketball commentator	^[74]
David Lipsky	Northwestern University	Professional golfer
Jerry Lucas	Ohio State 1962	Professional basketball player player, college basketball coach, 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist, basketball	^[7]
Larry MacPhail	Beloit 1910	Club president and general manager with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees	^[6]
Jim Mandich	Michigan 1970	Professional football player with Miami Dolphins	^[69]
Steve Marino	UVA 2002	Professional golfer
Kent Massey	Oklahoma 1974	1996 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, sailing	^[75]
Scott McCarron	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer	^[6]
Charles McGinnis	Wisconsin 1927	1928 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, pole vault	^[6]
Bo McMillan	Centre 1922	Football player and coach	^[69]
John Lester Miller	Yale 1924	1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing	^[6]
Matt Monger	Oklahoma State 1984	Professional football player with the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXV	^[6]
Ray Morrison	Vanderbilt 1912	Head football coach at Southern Methodist University, Vanderbilt University, Temple University, and Austin College	^[69]
Dave Mauer	Denison 1954	Football player, college football coach, and athletic administrator	^[69]
Lowell North	UC Berkeley 1971	1964 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, yachting; 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist, yachting	^[6]
Pat O'Dea	Wisconsin 1900	Australian rules and American football player and coach	^[69]
John Orsi	Colgate 1932	Football player and coach	^[69]
Gus Otto	Missouri 1965	Professional football player with the Oakland Raiders	^[6]
John Parker	Stanford 1970	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, water polo	^[6]
Bob Pearce	Oklahoma 1931	1932 Summer Olympics gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb	^[6]
Pete Pihos	Indiana 1945	Professional football player with the Philadelphia Eagles	^[69]
Pat Powers	Southern California 1980	1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist, volleyball	^[6]
Chip Reese	Dartmouth 1973	Professional poker player	^[76]
Ed Rimkus	St. Lawrence 1937	1948 Winter Olympics gold medalist, bobsledding	^[6]
Jamey Rootes	Clemson 1988	Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew and Houston Texans	^[6]
Murray Rose	Southern California 1961	1956 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 400 freestyle swimming, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle; 1960 Summer Olympics silver medalist for 1500 freestyle, and bronze medalist for 4x200 relay	^[6]
Ed Roski Jr.	Southern California 1962	Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team	^[7]
Dick Roth	Stanford 1969	1964 Summer Olympics gold medalist, 400 IM swimming	^[6]
Harlow Rothert	Stanford 1930	1932 Summer Olympics silver medalist, shot put	^[6]
Mike Schmidt	Ohio 1971	Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame	^[7]
John Shadden	Southern California 1987	1988 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, yachting	^[6]
Gary Sheerer	Stanford 1968	1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, water polo	^[6]
Dave Shula	Texas 1973	Head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals	^[6]
Jerry Sichting	Purdue 1979	NBA coach	^[6]
Stan Smith	Southern California 1969	Professional tennis player; winner of the 1977 US Open – Men's singles and the 1972 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles	^[7]
Bill Sprackling	Brown 1912	College Football Hall of Fame	^[69]
Bob Stein	Minnesota 1969	Professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs	^[69]
Mal Stevens	Yale 1924	Football player and coach	^[69]
Kevin Still	UCLA 1982	1984 Summer Olympics bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs	^[6]
Bill Stoneman	Idaho 1966	General manager of the Los Angeles Angels; Major League Baseball player	^[6]
John Tavener	Indiana 1944	College football player	^[69]
William G. Thompson	UC Berkeley 1929	1928 Summer Olympics gold medalist, rowing eight oars	^[6]
Bill Veeck	Kenyon 1936	Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member	^[6]
Rick Volk	Michigan 1967	Professional football player with the Miami Dolphins	^[6]
Ben Wilson	Heidelberg 1944	Head football coach at Wichita State University
John Wooden	Purdue 1932	Head basketball coach at UCLA	^[7]

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