List of Delta Kappa Epsilon members
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Delta Kappa Epsilon is a North American college fraternity.[1]: 87 It was established on June 22, 1844, at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]: 87 Following is a list of some of notable members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Academia
- James Barr Ames, Alpha – 2nd Dean of Harvard Law School[2]: 127
- James R. Angell, Omicron – president of Yale University[1]: 25
- Wilder Dwight Bancroft, Alpha – chemistry professor at Cornell University[2]: 145
- Bruce D. Benson, Delta Chi – president of the University of Colorado
- Arthur Pierce Butler, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School[2]: 145
- Charles W. Cole, Sigma – president of Amherst College; United States Ambassador to Chile[3]
- Archibald Cary Coolidge, Alpha – first director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 to 1928[2]: 144
- Melvil Dewey, Sigma – librarian, founder of the Columbia University School of Library Service, devised the Dewey Decimal System
- Gregory L. Fenves. Delta Chi – president of Emory University and the University of Texas
- Arthur Twining Hadley, Phi – president of Yale University[1]: 25
- Ernest Martin Hopkins, Pi – president of Dartmouth College[1]: 25
- Charles Loring Jackson, Alpha – organic chemist, professor, and chairman of the Division of Chemistry at Harvard University[2]: 127
- Harry Pratt Judson – president of the University of Chicago[1]: 26
- Martin Kellogg, Phi – president of the University of California at Berkeley
- Stanley King, Sigma – president of Amherst College
- George Edwin MacLean – president of the University of Iowa and chancellor of the University of Nebraska[1]: 26
- Walter A. McDougall, Sigma – professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; recipient of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- Robert J. McMullen, Iota – president of Centre College
- Cyrus Northrop, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota[1]: 26
- Calvin Plimpton, Sigma – president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
- Ira Remson – president of Johns Hopkins University[1]: 26
- Benno C. Schmidt Jr., Phi – president of Yale University
- Kenneth C. M. Sills – president of Bowdoin College[1]: 26
- William Codman Sturgis, Alpha – mycologist and dean of the School of Forestry at Colorado College[2]: 141
- Kent Syverud – president of Syracuse University[4]
- Ezra Ripley Thayer, Alpha – Dean of Harvard Law School[2]: 146
- George Edgar Vincent, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota
- Francis Amasa Walker, Sigma – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Barrett Wendell, Alpha – professor of English at Harvard University, known for writing a series of textbooks[2]: 135
- Justin Winsor, Alpha – librarian, historian, first president of the American Library Association[2]: 123
- Francis Woodman, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School[2]: 146
Architecture
- Frederick H. Brooke, Phi – architect
- Walter Cook, Alpha – architect with Babb, Cook & Willard[2]: 128
- Charles Allerton Coolidge, Alpha – architect[2]: 138
- Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, Alpha – naval architect who specialized in racing yachts[2]: 148
- Robert Trent Jones, Delta Chi – golf course architect
- Herbert Leeds, Alpha – yachtsman and golf course architect[2]: 134
- William Winthrop Kent, Alpha – architect[2]: 139
- Henry Chapman Mercer, Alpha – tilemaker and designer of Fonthill, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum; curator of American and prehistoric archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Museum[2]: 136
- Robert Swain Peabody, Alpha – architect[2]: 126
- J. Pickering Putnam, Alpha – architect[2]: 127
- Arthur Rotch, Alpha – architect[2]: 130
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, Alpha – architect[2]: 149
- Richard Clipston Sturgis, Alpha – architect[2]: 138
- Edmund M. Wheelwright, Alpha – architect[2]: 134
- James Bosley Noel Wyatt, Alpha – architect[2]: 129
Art
- Francis Brooks Chadwick, Alpha – painter[2]: 129
- Dale Chihuly, Kappa Epsilon – glass artist
- Frederic Crowninshield, Alpha – painter[2]: 126
- Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Alpha – painter and graphic artist[2]: 133
- Augustus C. Gurnee, Alpha – socialite and art patron[2]: 135
- Lawren Harris, Alpha Phi, – artist and member of the Group of Seven
- Troy Kinney, Phi – artist
- Edward Simmons, Alpha – painter[2]: 132
- William A. Slater, Alpha – art collector who established the Slater Memorial Museum[2]: 138
- Edward Perry Warren, Alpha – art collector[2]: 140
- Charles Goddard Weld, Alpha – art collector who made major contributions to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum[2]: 137
Business
- Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Alpha – polo player and chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company[5][6]
- John F. Akers, Phi – past president of IBM
- Frederick Lothrop Ames, Alpha – co-founder of General Electric, vice president of the Old Colony Railroad, and director of the Union Pacific Railroad[2]: 123
- William Henry Baldwin Jr., Alpha – president of the Long Island Rail Road[2]: 142
- Edward Bausch, Beta Phi – president of Bausch & Lomb Opticals
- August Belmont Jr., Alpha – finacier and head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company[7][8]
- Alfred R. Berkeley III Eta – former Nasdaq president
- Roland Betts, Phi – founder, chairman and CEO of Chelsea Piers
- James Cunningham Bishop, Alpha – banker and officer of the Welsbach Street Illuminating Company[2]: 149
- Alfred Bloomingdale, Upsilon – founder of Diners Club International
- Matthew Borden, Phi – industrialist
- Lawrence Bossidy, Mu – chairman of Honeywell
- Charles Sterling Bunnell, Phi – director of CitiBank
- Dave Calhoun, Sigma Alpha – president and CEO Boeing
- James Boorman Colgate, Mu – founder and president of the New York Gold Exchange
- Frederic Adrian Delano, Alpha – first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the Wabash Railroad[2]: 142
- Donald Fisher, Theta Zeta – founder and past chairman of Gap Inc.
- Theodore J. Forstmann, Phi – financier, subject of the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate
- Amos Tuck French, Alpha – member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company[2]: 142
- James Gamble, Lambda – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- William A. Gaston, Alpha – president of the Boston Elevated Railway and National Shawmut Bank[2]: 137
- Rutherford P. Hayes, Delta Chi – banker, developer, and librarian
- Webb Hayes, Delta Chi – co-founder the forerunner of Union Carbide; Private Secretary to the President[9]
- Henry J. Heinz, Phi – founder of Heinz
- Walter Hoving, Upsilon – chairman of Tiffany & Co.
- George Ward Holdrege, Alpha – general manager Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company[2]: 128
- Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi – co-founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines
- Thomas W. Lamont, Alpha – vice president of First National Bank[6]
- Robert Lehman, Phi – banker and head of Lehman Brothers
- Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho – founder of McCaw Communications
- George H. Mifflin, Alpha – president of Houghton Mifflin[2]: 126
- J. P. Morgan Jr., Alpha – banker and finance executive[7][8]
- Vasant Narasimhan, Delta Delta – CEO of Novartis
- Henry T. Oxnard, Alpha – founder and president of the American Beet Sugar Company[2]: 139
- Bradley Palmer, Alpha – lawyer involved with the creation of Gillette Safety Razor Co., the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and the United Fruit Company[2]: 146
- Frederick H. Rindge, Alpha – real estate developer and founder of present-day Malibu, California[2]: 136
- Charles Robert Sanger, Alpha – professor of chemistry at Harvard University[2]: 138
- George R. Sheldon, Alpha – banker, finacier, and a leading force in the Trust Company of America[2]: 136
- Frederick W. Smith, Phi – founder and chairman of FedEx
- James J. Storrow, Alpha – partner of Lee, Higginson & Co.; president of General Motors Nash Motors; president of the Boy Scouts of America[2]: 142
- Oscar Tang, Phi – financier and philanthropist
- Robert J. Thorne, Delta Chi – president of Montgomery Ward
- Hamilton McKown Twombly, Alpha – co-founder of the American Sulphur Company, later the Union Sulphur Company; financial advisor to William Henry Vanderbilt[2]: 130
- August H. Vogel, Alpha – vice-president of Pfister & Vogel[2]: 143
- Fiske Warren, Alpha – president of the S. D. Warren Paper Co., developer of single-tax colonies, and tennis champion[2]: 142
- Grinnell Willis, Alpha – textile merchant[2]: 129
- Joseph Wilson, Beta Phi – founder and president of Xerox
- Robert Winsor, Alpha – head of Kidder, Peabody & Company[2]: 138
- Dean Witter Jr., Phi – founder of Dean Witter & Co. (now part of Morgan Stanley)
- William Wrigley III, Phi – presidents of Wrigley Company
Entertainment
- Frank Batten, Eta – founder of the Weather Channel
- Dick Clark, Phi Gamma – host of American Bandstand and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
- Billy Crudup, Beta – actor
- Marcus Giamatti, Theta – actor
- Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta – actor
- Hagood Hardy, Alpha Phi – pianist and composer
- Howard Hawks, Delta Chi – film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Charles Ives, Phi – composer and recipient of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Michael Macari, Epsilon Rho – film producer
- Tex McCrary, Phi – radio and television personality,
- David Milch, Phi – writer and producer
- Cole Porter, Phi – composer
- Ryan Serhant, Tau – cast member of Million Dollar Listing New York
- Root Boy Slim, Phi – rock singer
- Chris Strouth, Phi Epsilon – musician, producer, writer, and filmmaker
- Ming Tsai, Phi – fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality
- Jonathan Winters, Lambda – comedian and writer
- Josh Zuckerman, Zeta – actor
- Ben Paterson, Delta Delta – jazz pianist
Government
- Wilson S. Bissell, Phi – United States Postmaster General[1]: 24
- Roy G. Finch – New York State Engineer and Surveyor[10]
- Henry Clay Hall – chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado[11]
- George H. Lyman, Alpha – Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party[2]: 131
- Thomas Mott Osborne, Alpha – Warden of Sing Sing; commander of Portsmouth Naval Prison; mayor of Auburn, New York; New York Public Service Commission[2]: 141
- Hirai Seijirō, Psi Omega – president of the Imperial Government Railways
- Sargent Shriver, Phi – founder and first director of the Peace Corps[12]
- Sidney W. Souers, Kappa – first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- William L. Trenholm, Delta – United States Comptroller of the Currency; president of North American Trust Company
Law
- Brooks Adams, Alpha – lawyer, political scientist, and critic of capitalism[2]: 128
- Francis R. Appleton, Alpha – lawyer with Robbins & Appleton[2]: 132
- Peter Townsend Barlow, Alpha – New York City magistrate[2]: 136
- Charles P. Barnes – Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives[13]
- Norman L. Bassett – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court[13]
- Edmund L. Baylies, Alpha – lawyer; personal counsel to Cornelius Vanderbilt III; president of the Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation[2]: 136
- Charles F. Brown – judge of the New York Supreme Court, judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Secretary of New York State[10]
- Harold H. Burton, Theta – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Senate, Mayor of Cleveland[14]
- Mortimer W. Byers – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York[10]
- John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[1]: 23
- Asa Bird Gardiner, Nu – New York County District Attorney[10]
- George Alexander Gale, Alpha Phi – chief justice of Ontario
- Paul M. Hebert, Zeta Zeta – judge of United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg
- James H. Hudson – associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court[13]
- Samuel Furman Hunt – judge advocate general of Ohio, judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, president pro-tempore of the Ohio Senate[9]
- James H. Hudson – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court[13]
- Brett Kavanaugh, Phi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- James Truesdell Kilbreth, Alpha – lawyer, New York City Police justice, Court of Special Sessions justice, and Collector of the Port of New York[2]: 125
- Arno W. King – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court[13]
- Ira Lloyd Letts – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island[15]
- Edmund H. Lewis – justice of the New York Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals[10]
- William Loring, Alpha – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court[2]: 130
- James Arnold Lowell, Alpha – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[2]: 149
- Louis W. Marcus – justice of the New York Supreme Court[10]
- Thomas Francis McAllister – chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[16]
- John James McCook, Alpha – corporate lawyer[2]: 128
- William D. Mitchelli – United States Attorney General and United States Solicitor General[1]: 24
- Peter B. Olney, Alpha – New York County District Attorney, Referee in Bankruptcy, and attorney[2]: 125
- Frank Nesmith Parsons, Pi – chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
- Francis Key Pendleton, Alpha – justice of the Supreme Court of New York and Corporation Counsel of New York City[10]
- Cuthbert W. Pound – Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals[10]
- Potter Stewart, Phi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Nathaniel Tompkins – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, president of the Maine Senate, speaker of the Maine House of Representatives[13]
- Arthur T. Vanderbilt – chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; dean of New York University School of Law[3]
- Samuel D. Warren II, Alpha – lawyer and co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish[2]: 133
- Francis S. Wilson – justice of the Illinois Supreme Court[12]
- Francis Joseph Wing, Alpha – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[2]: 130
Literature and journalism
- Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi – author
- Norman Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher of Los Angeles Times
- Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher of Los Angeles Times
- John Jay Chapman, Alpha – writer, poet, and essayist[2]: 141
- George Ticknor Curtis – biographer[1]: 27
- Virginius Dabney, Eta – 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
- Briton Hadden, Phi – co-founder of Time Magazine
- Ira B. Harkey Jr., Tau Lambda – journalist and recipient of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
- Julian Hawthorne – author and poet[1]: 27
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta – author
- William Randolph Hearst, Alpha – publisher, founder of Hearst Newspapers, and United States House of Representatives[2]: 143
- Robert Herrick, Alpha – novelist[2]: 148
- Edward Knoblock, Alpha – playwright and novelist
- Edward Jackson Lowell, Alpha – author of historical nonfiction and lawyer[2]: 127
- Edward Sandford Martin, Alpha – chief editorial editor and literary editor of Life Magaziner[2]: 134
- John Bach McMaster – historian and writer[1]: 27
- William H. Peck, Alpha – writer[2]: 123
- David Graham Phillips – novelist and journalist[1]: 27
- Eugene C. Pulliam, Psi Phi – newspaper editor and publisher[17]
- Ken Purdy, Rho Delta – editor of Parade, Car and Driver, and True
- James C. Quayle, Psi Phi – newspaper publisher[17]
- Whitelaw Reid, Kappa – editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune[1]: 27
- Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Alpha – author[2]: 139
- John Wright Sifton, Alpha Tau – president of Manitoba Free Press
- William Roscoe Thayer, Alpha – author and editor[1]: 27
- Bayard Tuckerman, Alpha – biographer and historian[2]: 135
- Owen Wister, Alpha – writer known for The Virginian[1]: 27
Medicine
- James P. Allison, Omega Chi – immunologist; 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine
- John Templeton Bowen, Alpha – dermatologist and professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital[2]: 136
- William A. Brooks, Alpha – surgeon and academic[2]: 144
- Arthur Tracy Cabot, Alpha – surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital; curator of the Harvard Dental Museum[2]: 130
- James Read Chadwick, Alpha – gynecologist and medical librarian[2]: 126
- Ernest Amory Codman, Alpha – surgeon[2]: 149
- John Green Curtis, Alpha – physiologist with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons[2]: 126
- Harvey Cushing, Phi – neurosurgeon, pathologist, and recipient of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- Thomas Dwight, Alpha – physician, anatomist, and professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical[2]: 126
- John F. Enders, Phi – medical researcher; 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine
- Robert Means Lawrence, Alpha – physician at the Boston Dispensary and author[2]: 128
- Charles McBurney, Alpha – surgeon-in-chief of the Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West)[2]: 126
- George Howard Monks, Alpha – surgeon and academic known for inventing board games such as Chinese checkers, Basilinda, and Halma[2]: 132
- E. H. Nichols, Alpha – surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School[2]: 143
- Morton Prince, Alpha – physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology[2]: 132
- Thomas Morgan Rotch, Alpha – pediatric doctor, first full professor of pediatrics in the United States[2]: 129
Military
- Winthrop Astor Chanler, Alpha – member of the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War[2]: 142
- Harvey Weir Cook, Psi Phi – flying ace in World War I
- Martin Witherspoon Gary, Alpha – brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and South Carolina Senate[2]: 124
- Peyton C. March, Rho – Chief of Staff of the United States Army[1]: 90
- Robert Peary, Theta – explorer and officer in the United States Navy; first man to reach the North Pole
- James R. Soley, Alpha – Assistant Secretary of the Navy; head of the Office of Naval Records and Library; instructor at the United States Naval War College; head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law at the United States Naval Academy[2]: 129
- Gordon Woodbury, Alpha – Assistant Secretary of the Navy[2]: 144
Politics
Presidents
- George H. W. Bush, Phi – 41st President of the United States[18]
- George W. Bush, Phi – 43rd President of the United States[18]
- Gerald R. Ford, Omicron – 38th President of the United States[19]
- Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi – 19th President of the United States[20]
- Mario García Menocal, Delta Chi – President of the Republic of Cuba[1]: 90
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alpha – 32nd President of the United States[21]
- Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha – 26th President of the United States[1]: 22 [8]
Vice presidents
U.S. Cabinet
- Dean Acheson, Phi – United States Secretary of State, received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History[23]
- Charles Francis Adams III, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Navy; Mayor of Quincy[1]: 24
- Joshua W. Alexander – United States Secretary of Commerce, United States House of Representatives[24]
- Robert Bacon, Alpha – United States Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to France[8]
- Thomas F. Bayard – United States Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Senate[1]: 90
- James G. Blaine, Theta – United States Secretary of State; Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Charles S. Fairchild, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General of New York[1]: 23
- Gordon Gray, Beta – Assistant Secretary of War
- Hilary A. Herbert – United States Secretary of the Navy; United States House of Representatives[1]: 24
- Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha – United States Secretary of War and Minister to the United Kingdom[8][1]: 23
- Victor H. Metcalf – United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, United States House of Representatives[1]: 24
- George Von L. Meyer, Alpha – Secretary of the Navy; United States Postmaster General, United States Ambassador to Russia,United States Ambassador to Italy[1]: 24
- George Von L. Meyer, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Postmaster General, U.S. ambassidor to Russia, United States Ambassidor to Italy, and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[6]
- Kenneth Claiborne Royall – United States Secretary of War, United States Secretary of the Army[25]
- William E. Simon, Rho – Secretary of the Treasury[19]
- Richard W. Thompson, Psi Phi – Secretary of the Navy
- John De Witt Warner, Delta Chi – United States House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
- Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi – United States Senate
- Calvin S. Brice – United States Senate; chair of the Democratic National Committee[9]
- Matthew Butler, Delta – United States Senate
- Chris Coons, Sigma – United States Senate
- Royal S. Copeland, Omicron – United States Senate[1]: 90 [26]
- Thomas Eagleton, Sigma – United States Senate, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, Attorney General of Missouri[24]
- Lister Hill, Psi – United States Senate
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[8][2]: 129
- Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta – Senate Majority Whip[27]
- George B. Martin – United States Senate[28]
- Kenneth McKellar – United States Senate, United States House of Representatives[1]: 90 [29]
- Leverett Saltonstall, Alpha – United States Senate and Governor of Massachusetts[2]: 126
- Ted Stevens, Theta Rho – United States Senate
- Robert Taft Jr., Phi – United States Senate
- James W. Wadsworth Jr. – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[1]: 90 [26]
U.S. House
- De Alva S. Alexander – United States House of Representatives[30]
- Thomas L. Ashley – United States House of Representatives[9]
- Nathaniel Banks, Sigma – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Franklin Bartlett, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[31]
- Perry Belmont, Alpha – United States House of Representatives; United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain[2]: 130
- Andrew Biemiller, Delta Chi – United States House of Representatives[32]
- Nathaniel B. Borden, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, and Massachusetts House of Representatives[2]: 127
- Elbert S. Brigham – United States House of Representatives[33]
- Melville Bull, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[2]: 134
- Edward Burnett, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[2]: 129
- William A. Chanler, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and New York State Assembly[2]: 147
- Augustus P. Gardner, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate[2]: 143
- Edward D. Hayden, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts House of Representatives[2]: 124
- James Hay – United States House of Representatives, judge of the Court of Claims, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates[34]
- Ro Khanna, Delta Delta – United States House of Representatives
- Warren I. Lee – United States House of Representatives[3]
- John E. Leonard, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[2]: 127
- Bob Livingston, Tau Lambda – United States House of Representatives
- Gillis William Long – United States House of Representatives[27]
- Nicholas Longworth, Alpha – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives[1]: 25
- Herbert Parsons – United States House of Representatives[31]
- Henry R. Rathbone – United States House of Representatives[12]
- John Simpkins, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[2]: 142
- Charles F. Sprague, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives[2]: 136
- Edwin F. Sweet – United States House of Representatives; Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan[19]
- Thomas Chandler Thacher, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[2]: 139
- Robert Walker Tayler – United States House of Representatives; judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio[9]
- Charles W. Upham, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts House of Representatives, and mayor of Salem, Massachusetts[2]: 123
- Charles G. Washburn, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives[2]: 137
- Samuel Winslow, Alpha – United States House of Representatives[2]: 142
Diplomacy
- Larz Anderson, Alpha – United States Ambassador to Japan; United States Minister to Belgium[35]
- Isaac Bell Jr., Alpha – United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; cotton broker and investors in the Commercial Cable Company[2]: 127
- Anson Burlingame – United States Minister to the Qing Empire, United States House of Representatives[31]
- Sutemi Chinda, Psi Phi – Secretary of State of the Empire of Japan[1]: 90
- John Gardner Coolidge, Alpha – United States Minister to Nicaragua[2]: 141
- Donald Ensenat, Phi – United States Ambassador to Brunei; Chief of Protocol of the United States
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Alpha – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and 1st Chair of the United States Maritime Commission[36]
- Donald S. MacDonald, Alpha Phi – High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; Canadian Minister of Finance
- Charles MacVeagh, Alpha – United States Ambassador to Japan[19]
- Wayne MacVeagh – United States Ambassador to Italy, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, United States Attorney General[1]: 24 [26]
- Clark T. Randt Jr., Phi – United States Ambassador to China
- Ogden Reid, Phi – United States Ambassador to Israel; United States House of Representatives
- Charles H. Sherrill – United States Minister to Argentina, United States Ambassador to Turkey[26]
- Henry J. Taylor – United States Ambassador to Switzerland[12]
- Yung Wing, Phi – Chinese diplomat to the United States. founder of the Chinese Educational Mission
- John D. Washburn, Alpha – Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland[2]: 123
- John Hay Whitney, Phi – United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune[13]
- Michael M. Wood, Phi – United States Ambassador to Sweden
- Cyrus Woods – United States Ambassador to Japan, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Envoy to Portugal, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Senate[37]
Governors
- Percival P. Baxter – Governor of Maine, President of the Maine Senate, Maine House of Representatives[13]
- Franklin S. Billings, Alpha – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives[2]: 142
- Owen Brewster – Governor of Maine, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives[13]
- Gaston Caperton, Beta – Governor of West Virginia[35]
- John Chafee, Phi – Governor of Rhode Island, United States Senate, United States Secretary of the Navy
- Mark Dayton, Phi – Governor of Minnesota, United States Senate
- Ron DeSantis, Phi – Governor of Florida
- John C. B. Ehringhaus – Governor of North Carolina, North Carolina House of Representatives[25]
- Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta – Governor of Louisiana[27]
- Charles Harwood – Governor of the United States Virgin Islands[38]
- Henry W. Keyes, Alpha – Governor of New Hampshire, United States Senate, New Hampshire Senate, New Hampshire House of Representatives[39]
- Tony Knowles, Phi – Governor of Alaska[40]
- Everett J. Lake – Governor of Connecticut[23]
- John Davis Long – Governor of Massachusetts, United States Secretary of the Navy, United States House of Representatives[1]: 24
- Richard Irvine Manning III – Governor of South Carolina[41]
- Robert D. Orr, Phi – Governor of Indiana, United States Ambassador to Singapore[30]
- George Pataki, Phi – Governor of New York
- Samuel E. Pingree – Governor of Vermont[39]
- Regis Henri Post, Alpha – Governor of Puerto Rico and member of the New York State Assembly[2]: 148
- Winthrop Rockefeller – Governor of Arkansas[42]
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Alpha – Governor-General of the Philippines, Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and New York State Assembly[43]
- William E. Russell, Alpha – Governor of Massachusetts[2]: 134
- Don Siegelman, Psi – Governor of Alabama
State
- W. C. Adams – Mississippi State Senate, Mississippi House of Representatives[44]
- Frederick Lothrop Ames, Alpha – Massachusetts Senate[2]: 123
- William Bancroft, Alpha – Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts[2]: 135
- Henry Alfred Bishop – Connecticut House of Representatives[23]
- John Sergeant Cram, Alpha – president of the New York Public Service Commission; President of the Dock Board[2]: 130
- George Cromwell – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, 1st Borough President of Staten Island[10]
- Grafton D. Cushing, Alpha – Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[2]: 142
- Israel T. Deyo – New York State Assembly[10]
- Martin W. Deyo – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly[10]
- Frank S. Farley – president of the New Jersey Senate, New Jersey General Assembly[3]
- Dexter M. Ferry Jr. – Michigan State House of Representatives, president of the Michigan State Board of Education, president of D.M. Ferry & Co.[16]
- Keith Falconer Fletcher, Tau – Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Thomas Gardner Ford – Michigan House of Representatives[16]
- George H. Forster, Alpha – New York State Assembly and New York State Senate[2]: 124
- B. V. Hain – Alabama House of Representatives[29]
- Oliver Gould Jennings – Connecticut House of Representatives[23]
- Oscar G. Johnston – Mississippi House of Representatives[44]
- D. W. Philbrick – speaker of the Maine House of Representatives[13]
- James A. Roberts – Comptroller of New York, New York State Assembly[13]
- Adolph J. Rodenbeck – New York State Assembly[10]
- Peter F. Schabarum, Theta Zeta – California State Assembly, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, professional football player
- George S. Weed, Alpha – New York State Assembly[2]: 142
Local
- Frederick Hobbes Allen, Alpha – Mayor of Pelham Manor, New York; member of the Democratic National Finance Committee; member of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission[2]: 137
- Beverly L. Hodghead – mayor of Berkeley, California[19]
- Archibald M. Howe, Alpha – member of the Common Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts; private secretary to congressman Henry Lillie Pierce; National Party vice-presidential candidate[2]: 128
Other
- Charles Sumner Bird, Alpha – Progressive Party's candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections[2]: 134
- George A. Drew, Alpha Phi – Premier of Ontario, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
- Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Theta Zeta – member of the Dutch Royal Family
- F. Norton Goddard, Alpha – political activist, founder of the Civic Club and the Anti-Policy Society[2]: 139
- Thomas Nelson Perkins, Alpha – member of the Paris Peace Conference and the Allied Reparations Committee[2]: 148
Religion
- Robert Codman, Alpha – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine[2]: 139
- Samuel A. Eliot, Alpha – Unitarian minister and secretary of the American Unitarian Association[2]: 141
- Lucien Lee Kinsolving – Bishop of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil[1]: 90
- William Lawrence – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts[1]: 90
- Francis Greenwood Peabody, Alpha – Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University[2]: 127
- John Timothy Stone – Presbyterian clergyman[45]
- Boyd Vincent – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio[1]: 90
Science and engineering
- Outram Bangs, Alpha – zoologist and urator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology[2]: 141
- Alan Bean, Omega Chi – Apollo astronaut, fourth man on the moon[46]
- Charles F. Brush – engineer and electrical inventor[1]: 90
- Walter Deane, Alpha – botanist, ornithologist, and curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum[2]: 128
- Charles Alton Ellis, Gamma Phi – engineer who designed the Golden Gate Bridge[47]
- Lucius Lee Hubbard, Alpha – State Geologist of Michigan[2]: 130
- Percival Lowell, Alpha – mathematician and astronomer who founded the Lowell Observatory[2]: 133
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore, Alpha – archaeologist[2]: 131
- John Thayer, Alpha – amateur ornithologist[2]: 142
- Jeme Tien Yow, Phi – chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Peking-Kalgan Railway
Sports
Baseball
- Bill Annan, Alpha – professional baseball player and umpire[2]: 134
- William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon – former owner of the Atlanta Braves
- Clinton W. Blume, Mu – pitcher New York Giants in the 1922 World Series; president of the Real Estate Board of New York
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi – commissioner of Major League Baseball
- George Steinbrenner, Epsilon – owner of the New York Yankees
- Fred Thayer, Alpha – baseball manager who invented the catcher's mask[2]: 135
Basketball
- Hank Luisetti, Sigma Rho – college basketball
- Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta – NBA All star and hall of famer
Football
- George C. Adams, Alpha – head coach of the Harvard University football program[2]: 142
- Frankie Albert, Sigma Rho – football player, coach of the San Francisco 49ers
- Dana X. Bible, Iota – head football coach at University of Texas, University of Nebraska, Texas A&M, Louisiana State and Mississippi College
- Paul Brown, Kappa – football coach, founder of the Cleveland Browns, and owner of the Cincinnati Bengals
- Walter Camp, Phi – college football player, coach, and sportswriter known as the "Father of American Football"
- Hugh Culverhouse, Psi – owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Arthur Cumnock, Alpha – college football player selected for the first All-America team in 1889[2]: 148
- Michael Eben, Alpha Phi – former Toronto Argonauts player
- Calvin Hill, Phi – professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Browns
- Larry Kelley, Phi – 1936 Heisman Trophy winner
- Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi – coach of the Dallas Cowboys
- James P. Lee, Alpha – college football player on the 1889 All-America college football team[2]: 149
- Gerrit Smith Miller, Alpha – founder of Oneida Football Club, known as "the father of football in the United States"; member of the New York State Assembly[2]: 128
- Marshall Newell, Alpha – college football player and coach[48]
- Joe Paterno, Upsilon – Pennsylvania State University football coach
- J. Burton Rix, Pi – football and basketball coach at the University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Miami[49]
- Matt Stover, Alpha Omega – placekicker in the National Football League
- Belford West, Mu – inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame[50]
- Wheelock Whitney Jr., Phi – owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins
Hockey
- Mike Babcock, Tau Alpha – head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs; only coach in the Triple Gold Club
- Bill Zito, Psi – general manager of the Florida Panthers, two time Stanley Cup champion
Olympians
- Sebastian Bea, Theta Zeta – 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist in crew
- James Elder, Alpha Phi – 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist, men's equestrian team
- Foxhall P. Keene, Alpha – gold medalist in Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics; semifinalist at the 1883 U.S. National Championships for tennis[2]: 149
- Bill Miller, Sigma Rho – 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist in pole vault
- Sumner Paine, Alpha – shooter who won a gold and silver medal in the 1896 Summer Olympics[2]: 125
- James Stillman Rockefeller, Phi – 1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist in crew
- Don Schollander, Phi – 1964 Summer Olympics four-time gold medalist in swimming
- Charles Snelling, Alpha Phi – figure skater, competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics
- Jack Torrance, Zeta Zeta – held world record in shot put for fourteen years, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Pat Turner – 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist in crew
- Richard Weinberger, Beta Tau – 2012 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in swimming (10 km Marathon)
Polo
- Raymond Rodgers Belmont, Alpha – polo player[2]: 143
- Seward Cary, Alpha – polo player[2]: 143
- John Elliot Cowdin, Alpha – polo player[2]: 136
Sailing
- Francis Boardman Crowninshield, Alpha – yachtsman[2]: 148
- Woodbury Kane, Alpha – yachtsman; served on the Columbia in the 1899 America's Cup race[2]: 139
- Herbert M. Sears, Alpha – yachtsman, commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, owner of Constellation[2]: 147
Tennis
- Joshua Crane, Alpha – four time U.S. court tennis champion; played in the finals of the 1904 U.S. Open Polo Championship[2]: 147
- Robert J. Kelleher, Epsilon – Hall of Fame tennis player and official
- Don McNeill, Lambda – four time Grand Slam winner in tennis
- Richard Sears, Alpha – tennis player, seven-time winner of the US National Championships singles[2]: 140
- Quincy Shaw, Alpha – tennis player, winner of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships in 1887 and 1890[2]: 148
- Howard Taylor, Alpha – tennis player, NCAA singles and doubles champion in 1883, winner of the 1889 U.S. National Championships men's doubles[2]: 143
- Walter Van Rensselaer Berry, Alpha – tennis player and judge at the International Mixed Tribunal of Cairo, Egypt[2]: 138
Other sports
- Jack Agrios, Delta Phi – chairman of the IAAF World Championships
- August Belmont Jr., Alpha – first president of the Jockey Club, builder of Belmont Park racetrack, and breeder of Man o' War
- Craig Hummer, Lambda – International Iron Man champion (lifeguarding), sportscaster
- George B. Morison, Alpha – sportsman, president of the Boston Athletic Association[2]: 140
- Dicky Pride, Psi – professional golfer on the PGA Tour