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Wolf's Head Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1883, it is one of Yale's oldest senior societies and is grouped by Yale Alumni Magazine with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key as one of the three oldest "landed" societies at the university.[1][2]

Wolf's Head entry from the 1929 Yale Banner

This list includes notable people whose membership in Wolf's Head has been reported in reliable published sources. The society's membership was historically more public than its internal proceedings: Yale Alumni Magazine has written that, by the late nineteenth century, the membership of Yale's senior societies was widely known through Tap Day, although their inner workings remained private.[1] Annual lists of senior-society members were formerly published in Yale Alumni Magazine, the Yale Daily News, The New York Times, and the Yale Banner through 1970, after which members became less publicly identified.[3]

Wolf's Head was originally an all-male organization. In December 1991, its alumni voted to admit women, making it the last of Yale's all-male senior societies to approve coeducational membership.[4]

Academia

Félix Rodríguez
Richard Gilder
William Woolsey Johnson
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Frank Frost Abbott 1882 Classical scholar [5]
E. Tendayi Achiume 2005 Professor of law at Stanford Law School and former United Nations special rapporteur [6]
Douglass Marshall Allen 1963 Professor of philosophy and a rounder of Maine Peace Action Committee at the University of Maine [7]
Paul Butler 1982 Law professor of Georgetown University Law Center [8]
Sam Chauncey 1957 Administrator at Yale University during New Haven Black Panther trials [9][10]
Karilyn Crockett 1995 Historian and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former Chief of Equity for the City of Boston [6]
Sumner McKnight Crosby 1932 Professor of art history at Yale University [11]
Terence Cuneo 1991 Marsh Chair Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont [6]
William Shirley Fulton 1903 Archaeologist, founder of the Amerind Foundation, and director of the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation [12]
Richard Gilder 1954 Co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; headed the brokerage firm Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co [13]
Alfred Whitney Griswold 1929 16th president of Yale University [14]: 182 [15]
Ashbel Green Gulliver 1919 Dean of Yale Law School [16]
John N. Hazard 1930 Scholar of Soviet law and public administration and pioneer in the field of Sovietology [17][18]
Robert Maynard Hutchins 1921 5th president and chancellor of the University of Chicago and former dean of Yale Law School [19][20]
William Woolsey Johnson 1862 Professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy; co-founder of the American Mathematical Society [21]: 319 
Rashid Khalidi 1970 Professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University [22]
George deForest Lord 1942 George M. Bodman Professor of English Literature at Yale University [7]
Felix V. Matos Rodriguez 1984 8th Chancellor of City University of New York, cabinet secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Family Affairs [8]
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. 1963 20th president of Yale University, former Dean of the Columbia Law School [23][24]
William Kelly Simpson 1947 Professor of Egyptology, archaeology, ancient Egyptian literature, and Afro-Asiatic languages at Yale University [25]
Gil Stein 1978 Professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Chicago, former director of the Oriental Institute [6]
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Art and architecture

Richard Brettell
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Richard Brettell 1971 Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, chevalier and commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [25]
George S. Chappell 1899 Architect, parodist, and journalist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock [26]
Jonathan Foote 1958 Architect associated with the preservation movement [8]
John Hill Morgan 1893 Assistant professor of American painting at Yale, authority on early American art, member of the New York State Assembly [27]
Rene di Rosa 1942 American vintner, art collector, and founder of the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art [6]
Edmund Courtlandt Stanton 1876 Co-creator of the Metropolitan Opera House and co-manager Broadway's Garden Theatre [28]
Henry Raup Wagner 1884 American book collector, bibliographer, cartographer, historian, and business executive [29]
Sam Wagstaff 1944 American art curator, collector, and mentor of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith [30]
George Alexis Weymouth 1958 Artist, served on the United States Commission of Fine Arts, member of the Du Pont family. [8]
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Business

Tom Steyer
Edward Harkness
Anson Goodyear
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Sam Beard 1961 Social entrepreneur, co-founder of the Jefferson Awards for Public Service [6]
Henry Blodget 1988 Co-founder and CEO of Business Insider [31]
Morgan B. Brainard 1900 President of Aetna [32][33]
William H. T. Bush 1960 President of the St. Louis-Boatmen's Bancshares; brother of George W. Bush [34]
Alexander Smith Cochran 1896 Manufacturer, sportsman and philanthropist [35][36]
Gifford A. Cochran 1924 Owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and winner Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes [37][12]
Craig F. Cullinan Jr. 1949 Chairman of the executive committee of the Houston Sports Association, acquired the Houston Astros Major League Baseball franchise rights [38]
William Clay Ford Sr. 1949 Owner of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford [39]
Anson Goodyear 1899 1st president of the Museum of Modern Art, member of the Goodyear family [40][41]
Edward B. Greene 1900 Chairman of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Mining Company [32]
Charles W. Harkness 1883 Director of Standard Oil; the Southern Pacific Railway Company and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway [21]: 484 
Edward Harkness 1896 Philanthropist; 6th-richest person in the United States (1918) [42][43]
William L. Harkness 1881 Businessman and inheritor of a large share of Standard Oil. [44]
Gardiner Greene Hubbard 1841 Founder of Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T), founder of National Geographic Society, founder of journal Science [45]
Robert Livingston Ireland Jr. 1916 President of M.A. Hanna Company, quail hunter, and yachtsman [46]
Lewis Lehrman 1960 Rite Aid president and founder of the Lehrman Institute [14]: 175, 409 
George Grant Mason Jr. 1926 Co-founder of Pan Am, appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Authority [47]
Roger Milliken 1937 President and CEO of Milliken & Company [48]
Paul Moore Sr. 1908 Founder of Republic Aviation; director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad [49]
Bruce Norris 1946 Businessman and longtime owner of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team [6]
William Henry Parsons 1882 Paper manufacturer and president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice [50]
Philip W. Pillsbury 1924 Chairman emeritus of the Pillsbury Company [51]
Godfrey A. Rockefeller 1946 Aviator, conservationist, and former executive director of the World Wildlife Fund [6]
Michael Seibel 2005 Co-founder of Twitch / Justin.tv and partner at Y Combinator [6]
Tom Steyer 1979 Founder and senior partner of Farallon Capital, 2020 Presidential candidate [52]
William Earl Dodge Stokes 1874 Businessman with Phelps, Dodge & Company and real estate developer of New York City's Upper West Side [21]: 303 
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt 1902 Member of the Vanderbilt family and founder and president of numerous equestrian organizations [53]
Willard Lamb Velie 1888 Founder of Velie Motor Compan and executive at Deere & Company [54]
Kevin Lin 2004 Co-founder and former chief operating officer of Twitch [6]
Wheelock Whitney Jr. 1950 American investment banker, sports executive, philanthropist, and Minnesota politician [6]
William Wrigley III 1954 President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company [55]
Shivon Zilis 2008 Technology executive and venture capitalist [56]
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Entertainment

Charles Ives
Clarissa Ward
Chipo Chung
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Joshua Astrachan 1980 Film producer and co-founder of Animal Kingdom, an independent production company [6]
Rick Berlin 1967 Singer-songwriter, former frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, and Berlin Airlift [57]
Jeb Brown 1986 Broadway actor, known for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Dead Outlaw; Tony Award nominee [6]
Chipo Chung 2000 Actress and activist, known for Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Thomas & Friends [8]
Tom Davenport 1961 Documentary filmmaker and founder of Folkstreams, an online folklife film archive [6]
Seth Gordon 1998 Producer and director for PBS, The Gates Foundation, and the United Nations [6]
Charles Ives 1898 Modernist composer and pioneer in a systematic program of experimental music [58][55]
Ellis Ludwig-Leone 2011 Leader of the chamber pop group San Fermin [59]
Christopher Lydon 1962 Host of The Connection and creater of Open Source [22]
Tom Mankiewicz 1963 Screenwriter, director, and producer known for James Bond and Superman films [6]
Douglas Moore 1915 Composer, songwriter, organist, pianist, conductor, educator, actor, and author [60]
Lila Neugebauer 2007 Theatre director, writer, and artistic director [61]
Stan Salfas 1970 Film and television editor known for the modern Planet of the Apes films [6]
Clarissa Ward 2002 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning television journalist with CNN [8]
Meiyin Wang 2002 Singapore-born theatre director, producer, and curator; Lincoln Center arts executive [6]
Douglas Wick 1976 Academy Award winning film producer, whose work includes producing Gladiator [8]
Doug Wright 1985 Obie Award and Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter [8]
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Law

David Brewer
Rob Bonta
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Vanessa R. Avery 1996 Attorney and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut [6]
James E. Baker 1982 Former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces [6]
Rob Bonta 1993 34th attorney general of California [8]
David J. Brewer 1856 Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [21]: 319 
Vernon S. Broderick 1985 Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York [6]
John Proctor Clarke 1878 Justice of the New York Supreme Court [62]
Edgar G. Crossman 1900 Attorney and senior partner in Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl (now Davis Polk & Wardwell [63]
George B. Daniels 1975 Senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York [6]
Robert B. Fiske 1952 Attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York [64]
William Irwin Grubb 1883 Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama [50]
Henry M. Hoyt 1878 11th Solicitor General of the United States, Assistant Attorney General of the United States [46]
Wayne MacVeagh 1853 36th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and United States Ambassador to Italy [21]: 319 
Edward McCrady 1824 District attorney for the United States District Court for South Carolina [65]
John Garvan Murtha 1963 Federal judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Vermont [6][66]
Edward John Phelps 1844 Founder of the American Bar Association and envoy to Court of St. James's [67]
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. 1946 U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York and former chief judge [6]
Thomas Gaskell Shearman 1889 Attorney, economist, co-founded Shearman & Sterling [68]
Cyrus Vance Jr. 1977 District Attorney of New York County, New York [8]
John M. Walker Jr. 1962 Former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [6]
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Literature and journalism

Leigh Bardugo
Edwin S. Grosvenor
Paul Goldberger
Stephen Vincent Benét
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John Williams Andrews 1920 Poet, journalist, lawyer, and public relations professional; chief of the Federal-State Relations Section of United States Justice Department; co-recipient of the Robert Frost Poetry Award [69]
Leigh Bardugo 1997 Israeli–American fantasy author, known for young adult Grishaverse novels [70][71]
Charles L. Bartlett 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist [72]
Stephen Vincent Benét 1919 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist [16][73]
William Henry Bishop 1867 Novelist [74]
Clarence Winthrop Bowen 1883 Journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, inherited The Independent [21]: 302 
Paul Goldberger 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, editor at Vanity Fair, and architectural critic for The New York Times [22]
Barry Golson 1967 Executive editor of Playboy magazine and TV Guide; editor-in-chief of World Press Review [57]
Edwin S. Grosvenor 1974 President and editor-in-chief of American Heritage [75]
Cyril Hume 1922 Screenwriter, known for Tarzan the Ape Man, Flying Down to Rio, The Great Gatsby, and Forbidden Planet [76]
Crosby Kemper III 1974 Library executive, former director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services [6]
John Leggett 1942 American writer, editor, and longtime director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop [6]
William Matthews 1965 Poet and essayist, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize [8]
Charles "Chip" McGrath 1968 Editor of The New York Times Book Review and writer and editor for The New Yorker [6]
Walter Millis 1920 Writer for the New York Herald Tribune [69]
William Lyon Phelps 1884 Author, critic, and scholar [77]
Paul Preuss 1966 Science fiction author and science writer, known for the Venus Prime series [6]
Sanjena Sathian 2013 Novelist and journalist [78]
Preston Schoyer 1933 Novelist [11]
Edmund Clarence Stedman 1849 Poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist [21]: 319 
Ben Zimmer 1992 Linguist, lexicographer, language columnist for The Wall Street Journal [6]
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Medicine and science

Richard Henry Greene
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Joseph Augustus Blake 1885 Surgeon, professor of surgery at Columbia University, World War I medical officer [79]
George F. Cahill Jr. 1947 Physician-scientist known for major research on diabetes, fasting, and metabolism [6]
Henry Strong Durand 1881 Physician, creator of Bright College Years, and donor of Durand Eastman Park [54]
Richard Henry Greene 1862 Physician and first African American to graduate from Yale University [80]
James Glynn Gregory 1865 Physician, Surgeon General of Connecticut, Connecticut House of Representatives member [31]
Alfred Hand Jr. 1888 Pediatrician, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, discoverer of Hand-Schüller-Christian disease [7]
C. William Hanson 1977 Physician, medical informatics researcher, and Penn health system CMIO [6]
Rhiana Gunn-Wright 2011 Climate policy director at the Roosevelt Institute [59]
David Hilfiker 1967 Physician, founded recovery shelters and hospices, authored books on medical errors [57]
Charles Lawrance 1905 Founder of Lawrance Aero Engine Company, and an early proponent of air-cooled aircraft engines [81]
Douglas B. McGill 1951 President of the American Gastroenterological Association and chair of Mayo Clinic [82]
Clark Blanchard Millikan 1924 Co-founder of the National Academy of Engineering, and distinguished professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology [51]
Stephen A. Mitchell 1968 Psychoanalyst and leading founder of the relational psychoanalysis movement [6]
William G. Nelson 1980 Oncologist and prostate cancer researcher; director of a Johns Hopkins cancer center [6]
Eli Newberger 1962 Pediatrician, pioneer in child abuse field, educator, author, and jazz musician [83]
Theresa Oei 2015 Biomedical researcher and former National Football League cheerleader for the New England Patriots [84]
Benjamin Spock 1925 Pediatrician, pioneer in psychoanalysis, Olympic gold medallist, President of the United States candidate [85]
Archibald Welch 1836 Physician and politician for the Whig party [86]
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Politics

Scott Bessent
Rogers Morton
Yohannes Abraham
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Yohannes Abraham 2007 Chief of staff of the National Security Council and U.S. Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [61]
Philip K. Allen 1933 Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee [11]
Scott Bessent 1984 79th United States Secretary of the Treasury [87]
Malcolm Baldrige Jr. 1944 26th United States Secretary of Commerce, inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame [88]
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden 1836 U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 3rd district [89]
Herbert Wolcott Bowen 1878 United States Ambassador to Venezuela and consul-general in Spain and Iran [90]
Erastus Corning 2nd 1932 Mayor of Albany, New York; New York Senate; and New York State Assembly [11][91]
Parker Corning 1895 United States House of Representatives [92][93]
Edwin Corning 1906 Lieutenant Governor of New York, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee [86]
Mark Dayton 1969 Governor of Minnesota and United States Senate [8]
Joseph N. Greene 1941 American diplomat and Foreign Service officer; headed the U.S. Interests Section in Cairo [6]
Richard Monroe Fairbanks 1963 17th Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs [65]
Robert E. De Forest 1867 United States Representative, mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut senator [45]
Lafayette Blanchard Gleason 1885 Secretary of the New York Republican State Committee, secretary of Republican National Conventions [79]
Kate Heinzelman 2004 General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and attorney [6]
Robert Stockwell Reynolds Hitt 1898 United States Minister to Panama and Guatemala. [79]
Garentina Kraja 2011 Political adviser to Atifete Jahjaga president of Kosovo [59]
Douglas MacArthur II 1932 United States ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria, and Iran; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs [94]
Edwin Albert Merritt 1884 United States House of Representatives from New York [95]
John Hill Morgan 1893 New York State Assembly [96]
Thruston Ballard Morton 1929 United States Senate and United States House of Representatives from Kentucky [97]
Rogers Morton 1937 United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Commerce, and United States House of Representatives [55]
Amasa J. Parker Jr. 1891 New York Senator and Major General of the National Guard [54][98]
Norman Paul 1940 U.S. defense official and former Under Secretary of the Air Force [6]
Hugh Price 1960 American intelligence officer and former CIA Deputy Director for Operations [6]
A. Heaton Robertson 1872 Connecticut state senator, state representative, and Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut [45]
Geoffrey Robinson 1960 Member of Parliament and Paymaster General [99]
Kurt Schmoke 1971 47th Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland; dean of the Howard University School of Law [21]: 657 
Raymond G.H. Seitz 1963 U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom [8]
Stephen Sherrill 2009 San Francisco Board of Supervisors [100]
Lispenard Stewart 1876 New York state senator, president of the New York State Prison Commission, and philanthropist [46]
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Religion

Dorsey McConnell
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William DeLancey 1827 First bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, sixth Provost of the University of Pennsylvania [101]
Dorsey W. M. McConnell 1975 Acting Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church [8]
Scotty McLennan 1970 Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, author, and Stanford academic [6]
Paul Moore Jr. 1941 Episcopal Bishop of New York [102][103]
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Sports

Henry Slocum
Dick Jauron
Chuck Mercein
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Donald Beer 1957 Competition rower and Olympic champion [104]
Nicole Breault 1994 Sailor who is a four-time winner of the U.S. Women's Open Championship [8]
Eben Byers 1902 U.S. Amateur golf champion, industrialist, socialite [31]
John Charlesworth 1929 College football player [97]
Thomas Charlton 1956 Competition rower and Olympic champion [105]
Alan Corey Jr. 1940 American polo player, five-time U.S. Open winner, Polo Hall of Fame inductee [6]
Morris Ely 1898 Football quarterback, head football coach at Williams College, New York lawyer [106]
Chuck Garland 1920 Champion of Wimbledon doubles and inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame [69]
Tess Gerrand 2011 Australian Olympic rower and medallist at World Rowing Cups [107]
Reuben A. Holden III 1911 Tennis player [108]
Charles P. Howland 1891 First head football coach at Brown University later a lawyer [106]
Dick Jauron 1973 Professional football player and head coach of the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills [8]
Kieran Locke 2006 Professional swimmer for the United States Virgin Islands [109]
Chuck Mercein 1965 Professional football player for the New York Giants, the Green Bay Packers, and the New York Jets [8]
Jack Morrison 1967 Ice hockey Olympic athlete and corporate manager [105]
John Alston Moorhead 1904 Football player, head coach of University of Pittsburgh [31]
Ducky Pond 1925 College football player and head fo coach at Yale University [110]
Michelle Quibell 2006 Two time squash NCAA Division 1 Champion [109]
Stanley Blewett Wagoner 1913 United States pole vault champion, Yale track captain [28]
Henry Warner Slocum Jr. 1883 U.S. Open tennis champion, president of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee [28]
Rusty Wailes 1958 Gold medal Summer Olympics rower [111]
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