| Name |
Yale class |
Notability |
Ref. |
| Dean Acheson |
1915 |
United States Secretary of State |
[2] |
| James C. Auchincloss |
1908 |
United States House of Representatives, New York Stock Exchange governor |
[2][3] |
| Tracy Barnes |
1933 |
Senior CIA official during the Cold War |
[4] |
| Peter Beard |
1961 |
Photographer |
[5] |
| Dunbar Bostwick |
1932 |
competitive horseman, who competed in polo and Harness racing |
[4] |
| Benjamin Brewster |
1929 |
Director of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon) |
[2] |
| William C. Bullitt |
1912 |
U.S. Ambassador to France, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union |
[2] |
| Leonard Case Jr. |
1842 |
Founder of Case School of Applied Science |
[2] |
| Wayne Chatfield-Taylor |
1916 |
Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
[6] |
| Calvin G. Child |
1855 |
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut |
[7] |
| Gilbert Colgate |
1883 |
President and chairman of Colgate & Company |
[2] |
| H. Page Cross |
1932 |
Architect |
[4] |
| Harvey Cushing |
1891 |
Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery |
[8] |
| John Dalzell |
1865 |
United States House of Representatives |
[2] |
| Edward Salisbury Dana |
1870 |
mineralogist and professor of physics at Yale University |
[2] |
| Henry deForest |
1876 |
Southern Pacific Railroad |
[2] |
| William Adams Delano |
1895 |
Architect who designed many of Yale's buildings |
[2] |
| Frederick B. Dent |
1944 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
[2] |
| Richardson Dilworth |
1921 |
Mayor of Philadelphia |
[9] |
| Peter H. Dominick |
1937 |
United States Senate, United States Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland |
[10] |
| Fred Dubois |
1872 |
United States Senate |
[2] |
| John Enders |
1919 |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
[2] |
| Thomas Enders |
1953 |
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, U.S. Ambassador to Canada |
[2] |
| Cory Finley |
2011 |
Film director |
[11] |
| Willa Fitzgerald |
2013 |
Actress |
[12] |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti |
1960 |
Yale University president; National League president, MLB commissioner |
[6] |
| Randall L. Gibson |
1853 |
United States Senate, Confederate brigadier-general, and president of Tulane University |
[2] |
| George Bird Grinnell |
1870 |
Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer |
[13] |
| Raymond R. Guest |
1931 |
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; special assistant to United States Secretary of Defense |
[2] |
| Carter Harrison III |
1845 |
United States House of Representatives, Mayor of Chicago |
[2] |
| William Hawks |
1923 |
Film producer |
[14] |
| Philip B. Heymann |
1954 |
Watergate special prosecutor, deputy U.S. attorney general; professor at Harvard Law School |
[2] |
| George Roy Hill |
1943 |
Academy Award for Directing The Sting |
[2] |
| Zora Howard |
2014 |
Actress and writer |
[15] |
| Brewster Jennings |
1920 |
Founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York |
[2] |
| Abraar Karan |
2011 |
Infectious disease doctor |
[11] |
| Seymour H. Knox |
1920 |
co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company |
[2] |
| Rick E. Lawrence |
1977 |
Associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court |
[2] |
| Johan Lenox |
2011 |
Composer and songwriter |
[11] |
| Charlton Thomas Lewis |
1853 |
Lexicographer |
[7] |
| John Vliet Lindsay |
1944 |
Mayor of New York City, United States House of Representatives |
[16] |
| Dahlia Lithwick |
1990 |
editor at Newsweek and Slate |
[17] |
| Maynard Mack |
1964 |
Literary critic; Yale English professor |
[4] |
| Joseph Medill McCormick |
1900 |
United States Senate and publisher of the Chicago Tribune |
[2] |
| Robert R. McCormick |
1903 |
owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; lawyer who co-founded Kirkland & Ellis |
[2] |
| Donald R. McLennan |
1931 |
founder and chairman of the insurance brokerage firm Marsh McLennan |
[2] |
| Paul Mellon |
1929 |
Philanthropist and thoroughbred racehorse breeder |
[6] |
| Timothy Mellon |
1964 |
businessman and grandson of Andrew Mellon |
[18] |
| Cord Meyer, Jr. |
1943 |
Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists |
[2] |
| Newbold Morris |
1925 |
Parks Commissioner of New York City, president of the New York City Council |
[2] |
| Robert D. Orr |
1940 |
Governor of Indiana; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore |
[2] |
| Herbert Parsons |
1890 |
United States House of Representatives |
[2] |
| Joseph M. Patterson |
1901 |
Founder of the New York Daily News; manager of the Chicago Tribune |
[8] |
| Tom Perriello |
1996 |
United States House of Representatives; executive director of the Open Society Foundation |
[19] |
| Michael Grace Phipps |
|
champion polo player and owner/breeder of racehorses |
[4] |
| Stone Phillips |
1977 |
Dateline NBC |
[2] |
| Frank Polk |
1894 |
United States Secretary of State, partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell |
[2] |
| Cole Porter |
1913 |
Entertainer and songwriter |
[20] |
| John Addison Porter |
1842 |
professor of chemistry and physician |
[21][7] |
| Frederic A. Potts |
1926 |
New Jersey Senate, chairman of Philadelphia National Bank |
[2] |
| Mortimer R. Proctor |
1912 |
Governor of Vermont |
[2] |
| Jeannie Rhee |
1994 |
Deputy Assistant Attorney General |
[22] |
| Dickinson W. Richards |
1917 |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
[2] |
| Alexandra Robbins |
1998 |
Journalist and author |
[23] |
| James Stillman Rockefeller |
1924 |
Olympic gold medalist for rowing, banker |
[2][24] |
| James Gamble Rogers |
1889 |
Architect, designed many of Yale's buildings |
[8] |
| Gideon Rose |
1985 |
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
[2] |
| Theodore Runyon |
1842 |
Envoy and U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
[2] |
| William Nelson Runyon |
1892 |
Acting Governor of New Jersey |
[2] |
| Ari Shapiro |
2000 |
Co-host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio |
[17] |
| Huntington D. Sheldon |
1925 |
Central Intelligence Agency; president of the Petroleum Corporation of America |
[2] |
| Lewis Sheldon |
1896 |
Paris Peace Conference, Olympic gold medalist |
[2] |
| Ethan A. H. Shepley |
1918 |
Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis |
[2] |
| George Shiras Jr. |
1853 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
[2] |
| Sargent Shriver |
1938 |
U.S. Ambassador to France, first director of the Peace Corps |
[2] |
| Brinley D. Sleight |
1858 |
New York State Assembly, newspaper editor |
[25] |
| Benjamin Spock |
1925 |
Olympic gold medalist |
[6][26] |
| Homer Sprague |
1852 |
President of the University of North Dakota |
[7] |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth |
1956 |
President of the Middle East Institute; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan |
[2] |
| Charles Henry Tenney |
1933 |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
[4] |
| Calvin Trillin |
1957 |
Writer |
[27] |
| Garry Trudeau |
1970 |
Doonesbury cartoonist |
[6][28] |
| Mark Twain |
Honorary |
author and humorist |
[29] |
| Joseph Twichell |
1859 |
writer and Congregational minister |
[29] |
| Cyrus Vance |
1939 |
United States Secretary of State; United States Secretary of the Army; chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
[2] |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt III |
1895 |
Brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the World War I |
[8] |
| Tyler Varga |
2015 |
Professional football player |
[30] |
| George Edgar Vincent |
1885 |
President of the University of Minnesota; president of the Rockefeller Foundation |
[8] |
| Robert F. Wagner, Jr. |
1933 |
Mayor of New York City |
[16][4] |
| Allen Wardwell |
1895 |
lawyer and parner of Davis Polk & Wardwell |
[2] |
| John Hay Whitney |
1926 |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of New York Herald Tribune |
[31] |
| Fareed Zakaria |
1986 |
journalist, political commentator, editor, and author |
[32] |
| Warren Zimmermann |
1956 |
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia |
[2] |