Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Bob Abernethy |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1927 |
|
Former NBC News correspondent |
William F. Achtmeyer |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Partner, The Parthenon Group |
Herbert Agar |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1897 |
24-Nov-1980 |
The People's Choice |
Samuel Alito |
Judge |
1-Apr-1950 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Arthur Glenn Andrews |
Politician |
15-Jan-1909 |
25-Sep-2008 |
Congressman from Alabama, 1965-67 |
Decker Anstrom |
Business |
2-Aug-1950 |
|
COO of Landmark Communications |
John Armstrong |
Politician |
25-Nov-1758 |
1-Apr-1843 |
US Secretary of War, 1813-14 |
Thurman Arnold |
Attorney |
2-Jun-1891 |
7-Nov-1969 |
Trust-busting attorney |
Charles Arnt |
Actor |
20-Aug-1906 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Remember the Night |
Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
29-Jan-2011 |
Music for Synthesizer |
Andrew J. Bacevich |
Historian |
5-Jul-1947 |
|
American Empire |
Elizabeth E. Bailey |
Educator |
1938 |
|
Professor, the Wharton School |
Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
James Baker |
Government |
28-Apr-1930 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1989-92 |
John D. Baker II |
Business |
7-Aug-1948 |
|
CEO of Florida Rock Industries |
John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Jon E. Barfield |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Chairman of Bartech Group |
Sarah M. Barpoulis |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Interim Energy Solutions, LLC |
Dewey F. Bartlett |
Politician |
28-Mar-1919 |
1-Mar-1979 |
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
Richard A. Bartlett |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Resource Holdings Ltd. |
Robert Bartlett |
Historian |
27-Nov-1950 |
|
The Making of Europe |
Adrian A. Basora |
Diplomat |
18-Jul-1938 |
|
NSC European Director, 1989-91 |
John Batchelor |
Radio Personality |
1948 |
|
The John Batchelor Show |
Jacob D. Beam |
Diplomat |
24-Mar-1908 |
16-Aug-1993 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969-73 |
Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
William W. Belknap |
Government |
22-Sep-1829 |
13-Oct-1890 |
US Secretary of War, impeached |
Roger S. Berlind |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Jun-1930 |
|
Broadway producer |
Jeff Bezos |
Business |
12-Jan-1964 |
|
Founder of Amazon |
Karan K. Bhatia |
Government |
? |
|
Deputy US Trade Representative |
Nicholas Biddle |
Business |
8-Jan-1786 |
27-Feb-1844 |
Second Bank of the United States |
James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
Frank Biondi |
Business |
9-Jan-1945 |
|
Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios |
John P. Birkelund |
Business |
23-Jun-1930 |
|
Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98 |
James G. Birney |
Activist |
4-Feb-1792 |
25-Nov-1857 |
Abolitionist Liberty Party candidate |
Eugene Carson Blake |
Religion |
7-Nov-1906 |
31-Jul-1985 |
General Secretary, World Council of Churches, 1966-74 |
J. A. Blanchard III |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of eFunds, 2000-02 |
Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
Alfred H. Bloom |
Educator |
27-Feb-1946 |
|
President, Swarthmore College |
Sally Blount |
Educator |
c. 1961 |
|
Dean, Kellogg School of Management |
W. Michael Blumenthal |
Government |
3-Jan-1926 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79 |
Philip Bobbitt |
Author |
22-Jul-1948 |
|
The Shield of Achilles |
Jack Bogle |
Business |
8-May-1929 |
|
Founder, The Vanguard Group |
Frederick M. Bohen |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
COO of Rockefeller University, 2002-05 |
George Henry Boker |
Playwright |
6-Oct-1823 |
2-Jan-1890 |
Francesca da Rimini |
Josh Bolten |
Government |
16-Aug-1955 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 2006-09 |
Kit Bond |
Politician |
6-Mar-1939 |
|
US Senator from Missouri, 1987-2011 |
Kate Bosworth |
Actor |
2-Jan-1983 |
|
Wonderland |
William G. Bowen |
Educator |
6-Oct-1933 |
|
President, Princeton University, 1972-88 |
Robert R. Bowie |
Government |
24-Aug-1909 |
2-Nov-2013 |
CIA Deputy Director, 1977-79 |
George E. P. Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
Thomas Boyatt |
Diplomat |
4-Mar-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia, 1980-83 |
Ralph L. Boyce, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1-Feb-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Thailand, 2004-07 |
Richard W. Boyce |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Texas Pacific Group |
Bill Bradley |
Politician |
28-Jul-1943 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey, 1979-97 |
John C. Breckinridge |
Politician |
21-Jan-1821 |
17-May-1875 |
James Buchanan's Vice President |
Robert Brenner |
Historian |
28-Nov-1943 |
|
The Boom and the Bubble |
Daniel Brewster |
Politician |
23-Nov-1923 |
19-Aug-2007 |
US Senator from Maryland, 1963-69 |
Michael E. Brown |
Astronomer |
c. 1965 |
|
Explorer of trans-Neptunian space |
David K. E. Bruce |
Diplomat |
12-Feb-1898 |
5-Dec-1977 |
US Ambassador to England, France, Germany |
Albert J. Budney, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Niagara Mohawk Holdings |
William Marshall Bullitt |
Attorney |
4-Mar-1873 |
3-Oct-1957 |
US Solicitor General, 1912-13 |
Tyler Burge |
Philosopher |
1946 |
|
Foundations of Mind |
James Burnham |
Author |
22-Nov-1905 |
28-Jul-1987 |
The Managerial Revolution |
Aaron Burr |
Politician |
6-Feb-1756 |
14-Sep-1836 |
Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
Robert N. Burt |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of FMC, 1992-2001 |
Lawrence E. Butler |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Macedonia, 2002-05 |
W. Walton Butterworth |
Diplomat |
7-Sep-1903 |
31-Mar-1975 |
US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68 |
Brendan T. Byrne |
Politician |
1-Apr-1924 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1974-82 |
Bruce L. Byrnes |
Business |
29-Mar-1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble, 2004-08 |
William T. Cahill |
Politician |
25-Jun-1912 |
1-Jul-1996 |
Governor of New Jersey, 1970-74 |
Dean Cain |
Actor |
31-Jul-1966 |
|
Superman |
J. Donald Cameron |
Politician |
14-May-1833 |
30-Aug-1918 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1877-97 |
George W. Campbell |
Politician |
9-Feb-1769 |
17-Feb-1848 |
Senator from Tennessee, Treasury Secretary |
John F. Campbell |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Nigeria, 2004-07 |
Robert H. Campbell |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Sunoco, 1991-2000 |
Frank Carlucci |
Government |
18-Oct-1930 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89 |
Robert Caro |
Historian |
30-Oct-1935 |
|
Biographer of Lyndon Johnson |
Hodding Carter III |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1935 |
|
Carter Administration mouthpiece |
Peter Cartwright |
Business |
6-Jan-1930 |
|
CEO of Calpine, 1984-2005 |
Daniel H. Case III |
Business |
27-Jul-1957 |
27-Jun-2002 |
Hambrecht & Quist |
Kimberly A. Casiano |
Business |
21-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Casiano Communications, 1994-2009 |
John Cavanagh |
Economist |
1955 |
|
Institute for Policy Studies |
Richard D. Challener |
Historian |
15-Nov-1923 |
23-Sep-2002 |
The French Theory of the Nation in Arms |
Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
James M. Clarke |
Politician |
12-Jun-1917 |
13-Apr-1999 |
Congressman from North Carolina, 1987-91 |
Janet M. Clarke |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Clarke Littlefield LLC |
Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
Richard R. Clifton |
Judge |
13-Nov-1950 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Ethan Coen |
Film Director |
21-Sep-1957 |
|
Half of the Coen brothers |
Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
Poet |
18-Mar-1892 |
20-Jan-1955 |
Strange Holiness |
Charles W. Coker |
Business |
10-May-1933 |
|
CEO of Sonoco Products, 1990-98 |
William Colby |
Spy |
4-Jan-1920 |
27-Apr-1996 |
CIA Director, 1973-75 |
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. |
Administrator |
17-Feb-1949 |
|
President of MLB National League, 1994-99 |
Steven M. Colloton |
Judge |
9-Jan-1963 |
|
8th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
Philip M. Condit |
Business |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 |
W. Lance Conn |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Vulcan, Inc. |
Pete Conrad |
Astronaut |
2-Jun-1930 |
8-Jul-1999 |
Apollo 12 mission commander, 3rd on moon |
Prentice Cooper |
Government |
28-Sep-1895 |
18-May-1969 |
Governor of Tennessee, 1939-45 |
George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
Howard E. Cox, Jr. |
Business |
1944 |
|
Greylock Partners |
Edward Cox |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1946 |
|
Nixon's son-in-law |
David W. Crane |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of NRG Energy |
Ryan C. Crocker |
Diplomat |
19-Jun-1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-09 |
William J. Crowe, Jr. |
Government |
2-Jan-1925 |
18-Oct-2007 |
US Navy Admiral |
Ted Cruz |
Politician |
22-Dec-1970 |
|
US Senator from Texas |
Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
29-Sep-2015 |
Former Black Power activist |
Curtis B. Dall |
Military |
24-Oct-1896 |
28-Jun-1991 |
Liberty Lobby |
George M. Dallas |
Politician |
10-Jul-1792 |
31-Dec-1864 |
Vice President under James Knox Polk |
John Danforth |
Politician |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2004 |
Peter Vivian Daniel |
Judge |
24-Apr-1784 |
31-May-1860 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1842-60 |
Mitch Daniels |
Politician |
7-Apr-1949 |
|
Governor of Indiana |
Rodger P. Davies |
Diplomat |
7-May-1921 |
19-Aug-1974 |
US Ambassador to Cyprus, 1974 |
William L. Davis |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of RR Donnelley, 1997-2004 |
Clinton Davisson |
Physicist |
22-Oct-1881 |
1-Feb-1958 |
Diffraction of electrons |
Pete Dawkins |
Football |
8-Mar-1938 |
|
Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy |
Wolfgang H. Demisch |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Demisch Associates LLC |
Ralph D. DeNunzio |
Business |
17-Nov-1931 |
|
CEO of Kidder Peabody, 1980-87 |
Robert H. Dicke |
Physicist |
6-May-1916 |
4-Mar-1997 |
Dicke radiometer |
Robert Sherwood Dillon |
Diplomat |
7-Jan-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon, 1981-83 |
Harold W. Dodds |
Educator |
28-Jun-1889 |
25-Oct-1980 |
President, Princeton University, 1932-57 |
Cleveland H. Dodge |
Business |
1860 |
1926 |
Woodrow Wilson's financier and advisor |
Justus D. Doenecke |
Historian |
5-Mar-1938 |
|
Storm on the Horizon |
Timothy Donnelly |
Poet |
3-Jun-1969 |
|
Twenty-Seven Props |
Paul W. Douglas |
Business |
12-Sep-1926 |
18-Sep-2011 |
CEO of Freeport Minerals, 1975-81 |
Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
Pete du Pont |
Politician |
22-Jan-1935 |
|
Governor of Delaware, 1977-85 |
David Duchovny |
Actor |
7-Aug-1960 |
|
Mulder on The X-Files |
James H. Duff |
Politician |
21-Jan-1883 |
20-Dec-1969 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947-51 |
Allen W. Dulles |
Spy |
7-Apr-1893 |
29-Jan-1969 |
CIA Director, 1953-61 |
Foster Rhea Dulles |
Historian |
24-Jan-1900 |
11-Sep-1970 |
Prelude to World Power |
John Foster Dulles |
Government |
25-Feb-1888 |
24-May-1959 |
Eisenhower's Secretary of State |
Charles F. Dunbar |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 |
Jack B. Dunn IV |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of FTI Consulting |
John Gregory Dunne |
Novelist |
25-May-1932 |
30-Dec-2003 |
True Confessions |
Timothy Dwight |
Educator |
14-May-1752 |
11-Jan-1817 |
President of Yale, 1795-1817 |
Henry van Dyke |
Author |
10-Nov-1852 |
10-Apr-1933 |
The Unknown Quantity |
Michael Eric Dyson |
Scholar |
23-Oct-1958 |
|
Know What I Mean? |
William L. Eagleton, Jr. |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1926 |
27-Jan-2011 |
US Ambassador to Syria, 1984-88 |
Donald Easum |
Diplomat |
27-Aug-1923 |
|
US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1975-77 |
Otto Eckstein |
Economist |
1-Aug-1927 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
Thomas J. Edelman |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Chairman, BioFuel Energy Corporation |
Robert Ehrlich |
Politician |
25-Nov-1957 |
|
Governor of Maryland, 2003-07 |
Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
Jessica P. Einhorn |
Government |
c. 1945 |
|
Dean, School of Advanced International Studies |
Caroline Elkins |
Author |
30-May-1969 |
|
Imperial Reckoning |
Oliver Ellsworth |
Judge |
29-Apr-1745 |
26-Nov-1807 |
US Chief Justice, 1796-1800 |
Douglas W. Elmendorf |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Director, Congressional Budget Office |
John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
Charles L. English |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Richard W. Erdman |
Diplomat |
1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria, 2003-06 |
Hugh Everett |
Physicist |
11-Nov-1930 |
19-Jul-1982 |
Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics |
Michael R. Farese |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of WJ Communications, 2002-05 |
Steve Feinberg |
Business |
29-Mar-1960 |
|
Cerberus Capital Management |
Jose Ferrer |
Actor |
8-Jan-1909 |
26-Jan-1992 |
The Caine Mutiny |
Mel Ferrer |
Actor |
25-Aug-1917 |
2-Jun-2008 |
War and Peace |
Mark Feuerstein |
Actor |
8-Jun-1971 |
|
Good Morning, Miami |
Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
Norman Finkelstein |
Scholar |
8-Dec-1953 |
|
The Holocaust Industry |
Robert Finn |
Diplomat |
19-Dec-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2002-03 |
John D. Finnegan |
Business |
31-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Chubb |
Leonard K. Firestone |
Business |
10-Jun-1907 |
24-Dec-1996 |
US Ambassador to Belgium, 1974-77 |
David Hackett Fischer |
Historian |
2-Dec-1935 |
|
Albion's Seed |
Robert J. Fisher |
Business |
1954 |
|
Interim CEO of The Gap |
Ted C. Fishman |
Author |
14-Jun-1958 |
|
China Inc. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Author |
24-Sep-1896 |
21-Dec-1940 |
The Great Gatsby |
Jim Flaherty |
Politician |
30-Dec-1949 |
10-Apr-2014 |
Canadian Minister of Finance, 2006-14 |
James Florio |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1990-94 |
Jonathan Safran Foer |
Novelist |
21-Feb-1977 |
|
Everything Is Illuminated |
Malcolm Forbes |
Business |
19-Aug-1919 |
24-Feb-1990 |
Forbes publisher, Faberge collector |
William Clay Ford, Jr. |
Business |
3-May-1957 |
|
CEO of Ford, 2001-06 |
James V. Forrestal |
Government |
15-Feb-1892 |
22-May-1949 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49 |
John Forsyth |
Politician |
22-Oct-1780 |
21-Oct-1841 |
US Secretary of State, 1834-41 |
Raymond B. Fosdick |
Business |
9-Jun-1883 |
19-Jul-1972 |
President of the Rockefeller Foundation |
Justin Fox |
Author |
28-Jan-1964 |
|
The Myth of the Rational Market |
Dod A. Fraser |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Sackett Partners |
Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. |
Politician |
17-Jan-1916 |
23-May-2011 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1953-75 |
Philip Freneau |
Poet |
2-Jan-1752 |
18-Dec-1832 |
Poet of the American Revolution |
Charles Fried |
Government |
15-Apr-1935 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1985-89 |
Paul A. Friedman |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Incyte |
Bill Frist |
Politician |
22-Feb-1952 |
|
US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07 |
Thomas F. Frist III |
Business |
c. 1968 |
|
Frist Capital Partners |
James I. Gadsden |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Iceland, 2002-05 |
Wilbur H. Gantz |
Business |
1937 |
|
President of Baxter International, 1987-92 |
Jason Garrett |
Football |
28-Mar-1966 |
|
Dallas Cowboys head coach |
Raymond L. Garthoff |
Diplomat |
26-Mar-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1977-79 |
Alice P. Gast |
Educator |
25-May-1958 |
|
President, Lehigh University |
Ronald M. George |
Judge |
11-Mar-1940 |
|
California Chief Justice |
Reuel Marc Gerecht |
Government |
? |
|
PNAC Middle East Initiative |
Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
Charles Gibson |
Journalist |
9-Mar-1943 |
|
Good Morning America |
Charles K. Gifford |
Business |
8-Nov-1942 |
|
Bank of America Chairman, 2004-05 |
Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
1-Sep-1925 |
|
Quantum optics |
Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
Jonathan Golden |
Attorney |
c. 1936 |
|
Arnall Golden Gregory |
Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
Shira D. Goodman |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
EVP at Staples |
Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
Michael S. Greco |
Attorney |
22-Nov-1942 |
|
President of the ABA, 2005-06 |
Gabrielle E. Greene |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Villanueva Companies |
Gerald Greenwald |
Business |
11-Sep-1935 |
|
CEO of United Air Lines, 1994-99 |
Philip Greer |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Weiss, Peck & Greer |
Benjamin H. Griswold IV |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Alex. Brown & Sons |
Francisco R. Gros |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Fosfertil |
Steve Grossman |
Politician |
c. 1946 |
|
DNC Chairman, 1997-99 |
Brandon Grove |
Diplomat |
8-Apr-1929 |
20-May-2016 |
US Ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87 |
Martin J. Gruenberg |
Government |
? |
|
FDIC Vice Chairman |
Joseph F. Guffey |
Politician |
29-Dec-1870 |
6-Mar-1959 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1935-47 |
Ben A. Guill |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
First Reserve Corporation |
Douglas A. Hacker |
Business |
1955 |
|
EVP at United Air Lines, 1999-2006 |
George Hager |
Journalist |
c. 1950 |
|
USA Today economics reporter |
William R. Hambrecht |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
W.R. Hambrecht & Co. |
Peter B. Hamilton |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Vice Chairman of Brunswick, 2000-07 |
F. Philip Handy |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Strategic Industries Inc. |
Stephen Hardis |
Business |
1935 |
|
CEO of Eaton, 1995-2000 |
John Marshall Harlan |
Judge |
20-May-1899 |
29-Dec-1971 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1955-71 |
Ron Harper |
Actor |
12-Jan-1936 |
|
Garrison's Gorillas |
Melissa Harris-Perry |
Author |
2-Oct-1973 |
|
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET |
William Harrop |
Diplomat |
19-Feb-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1991-93 |
Harris L. Hartz |
Judge |
20-Jan-1947 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
Leland Hayward |
Theatre Producer |
13-Sep-1902 |
18-Mar-1971 |
The Sound of Music |
Nan Hayworth |
Politician |
14-Dec-1959 |
|
Congresswoman, New York 19th |
Daniel R. Headrick |
Historian |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
When Information Came of Age |
James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
James A. Henderson |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of Cummins, 1994-99 |
Kenneth A. Hersh |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
Natural Gas Partners |
John Grier Hibben |
Educator |
19-Apr-1861 |
16-May-1933 |
President, Princeton University, 1912-32 |
Frederick P. Hitz |
Government |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
CIA Inspector General, 1990-98 |
Mellody Hobson |
Business |
3-Apr-1969 |
|
President of Ariel Capital Management |
Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. |
Business |
12-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Hallmark, 1986-2001 |
Kaneaster Hodges, Jr. |
Politician |
20-Aug-1938 |
|
US Senator from Arkansas, 1977-79 |
Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Amy Holmes |
Columnist |
25-Jul-1973 |
|
BET host, conservative commentator |
H. Allen Holmes |
Diplomat |
31-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1982-85 |
Janet L. Holmgren |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
President, Mills College |
Michael F. Holt |
Historian |
8-Jul-1940 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party |
Douglas Holtz-Eakin |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
McCain chief economic advisor |
William H. Hudnut III |
Politician |
17-Oct-1932 |
|
Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-91 |
Deal Hudson |
Religion |
30-Nov-1949 |
|
Karl Rove's favorite Catholic |
Edmund J. Hull |
Diplomat |
1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 2001-04 |
Russell A. Hulse |
Physicist |
28-Nov-1950 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
Cameron R. Hume |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Indonesia |
Alfred F. Hurley |
Educator |
16-Oct-1928 |
8-Jun-2013 |
Chancellor, University of North Texas, 1982-2002 |
Andrew D. Hurwitz |
Judge |
c. 1946 |
|
Justice, Arizona Supreme Court |
Lee Iacocca |
Business |
15-Oct-1924 |
|
Former chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
Carl Icahn |
Business |
16-Feb-1936 |
|
Billionaire, took over TWA |
John N. Irwin II |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1913 |
28-Feb-2000 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73 |
Lisa P. Jackson |
Government |
8-Feb-1962 |
|
EPA Administrator, 2009-13 |
Juanita T. James |
Business |
1-Oct-1952 |
|
Pitney Bowes executive |
Edgar D. Jannotta |
Business |
27-Apr-1931 |
|
Chairman, William Blair & Company |
Terry Jeffrey |
Journalist |
26-Jul-1958 |
|
Editor at Large, CNSNews.com |
Deborah S. Jin |
Physicist |
15-Nov-1968 |
15-Sep-2016 |
Created a fermionic condensate |
Miriam E. John |
Scientist |
c. 1948 |
|
VP at Sandia, 1999-2006 |
Darryl N. Johnson |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Thailand, 2002-04 |
James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
Robert L. Johnson |
Business |
8-Apr-1946 |
|
CEO of BET |
William Johnson |
Judge |
27-Dec-1771 |
11-Aug-1834 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1804-34 |
Michael H. Jordan |
Business |
13-Jun-1936 |
25-May-2010 |
CEO of EDS, 2003-07 |
Stanley Jordan |
Guitarist |
31-Jul-1959 |
|
Touch-technique guitarist |
Andrea Jung |
Business |
1959 |
|
CEO of Avon |
Elena Kagan |
Judge |
28-Apr-1960 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
Theodore H. Kattouf |
Diplomat |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to the UAE, 1999-2001 |
Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
8-May-2012 |
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
Samuel H. Kauffmann |
Business |
17-Jan-1924 |
4-Apr-2002 |
California tract housing developer |
Dick Kazmaier |
Football |
23-Nov-1930 |
1-Aug-2013 |
Winner, 1951 Heisman Trophy |
Thomas H. Kean |
Politician |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-90 |
Cresson H. Kearny |
Inventor |
7-Jan-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol |
Robert Keeley |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1929 |
9-Jan-2015 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89 |
Dennis J. Keller |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
DeVry Institute of Technology |
David E. Kelley |
Film/TV Producer |
4-Apr-1956 |
|
L. A. Law |
Larry Kelley |
Football |
30-May-1915 |
27-Jun-2000 |
Winner, 1936 Heisman Trophy |
Edward J. Kelly III |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Mercantile Bankshares, 2001-07 |
David B. Kelso |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
EVP at Aetna, 2001-03 |
Ellie Kemper |
Actor |
2-May-1980 |
|
Erin Hannon on The Office |
George F. Kennan |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1904 |
17-Mar-2005 |
Architect of US policy of Soviet containment |
John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
Nan Keohane |
Scholar |
18-Sep-1940 |
|
Political scientist |
Brian Kernighan |
Computer Programmer |
1942 |
|
The C Programming Language, awk |
Penn Kimball |
Journalist |
12-Oct-1915 |
8-Nov-2013 |
Persecuted by US Government |
Galway Kinnell |
Poet |
1-Feb-1927 |
28-Oct-2014 |
Selected Poems |
Roger Kirk |
Diplomat |
2-Nov-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Romania, 1985 |
Michael Klosson |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Cyprus, 2002-05 |
A. B. Krongard |
Business |
1936 |
|
CIA Executive Director, 2001-04 |
Howard J. Krongard |
Government |
12-Dec-1940 |
|
US State Dept Inspector General |
Lawrence Kudlow |
Economist |
20-Aug-1947 |
|
Kudlow & Cramer |
Bowie Kuhn |
Baseball |
28-Oct-1926 |
15-Mar-2007 |
Commissioner of Baseball, 1969-84 |
Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
Leonard Lance |
Politician |
25-Jun-1952 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 7th |
Richard Land |
Religion |
1947 |
|
Southern Baptist Convention |
Richard Landes |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1949 |
|
Center for Millennial Studies |
Andrew E. Lange |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1957 |
22-Jan-2010 |
Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech |
Sidney Lapidus |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Warburg Pincus |
Jim Leach |
Politician |
15-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007 |
Joseph LeBaron |
Diplomat |
c. 1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritania |
Blair Lee III |
Politician |
19-May-1916 |
25-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Maryland, 1977-79 |
Tom Leighton |
Mathematician |
c. 1956 |
|
Co-founder of Akamai |
Charles Godfrey Leland |
Poet |
15-Aug-1824 |
20-Mar-1903 |
Hans Breitmann's Ballads |
James F. Leonard |
Diplomat |
30-May-1920 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79 |
Richard C. Leone |
Government |
30-Apr-1940 |
|
President of the Century Foundation, 1989-2011 |
Richard W. Leopold |
Historian |
6-Jan-1912 |
23-Nov-2006 |
Robert Dale Owen: A Biography |
Wolf Lepenies |
Sociologist |
11-Jan-1941 |
|
Melancholy and Society |
Flynt Leverett |
Government |
6-Mar-1958 |
|
Former National Security Council staffer |
Mel Levine |
Politician |
7-Jun-1943 |
|
Congressman from California, 1983-93 |
Arthur D. Levinson |
Business |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
CEO of Genentech |
Lawrence S. Lewin |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
The Lewin Group |
Michael Lewis |
Author |
15-Oct-1960 |
|
Liar's Poker |
Morgan Lewis |
Politician |
16-Oct-1754 |
7-Apr-1844 |
Governor of New York, 1804-07 |
Perry J. Lewis III |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Heartland Industrial Partners |
Peter B. Lewis |
Business |
11-Nov-1933 |
23-Nov-2013 |
CEO of Progressive, 1965-98 |
Samuel W. Lewis |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1930 |
10-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85 |
Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
Carol Platt Liebau |
Pundit |
13-Feb-1967 |
|
Prude |
William S. Lind |
Activist |
9-Jul-1947 |
|
Free Congress Foundation |
Brink Lindsey |
Author |
c. 1962 |
|
The Age of Abundance |
Charles Y. S. Liu |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
On Capital China Technology Fund |
Debra A. Livingston |
Judge |
15-Apr-1959 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Henry Brockholst Livingston |
Judge |
25-Nov-1757 |
18-Mar-1823 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1807-23 |
Joshua Logan |
Film Director |
5-Oct-1908 |
12-Jul-1988 |
South Pacific |
Walter G. Lohr, Jr. |
Attorney |
c. 1945 |
|
Partner, Hogan & Hartson |
Breckinridge Long |
Diplomat |
16-May-1881 |
26-Sep-1958 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36 |
Clarence D. Long |
Politician |
11-Dec-1908 |
18-Sep-1994 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1963-85 |
Dennis M. Love |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Printpack, Inc. |
Kennett Love |
Journalist |
17-Aug-1924 |
13-May-2013 |
Suez: The Twice-Fought War |
Carrie Lukas |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
Hugh MacLennan |
Novelist |
20-Mar-1907 |
7-Nov-1990 |
Barometer Rising |
James Madison |
Head of State |
16-Mar-1751 |
28-Jun-1836 |
4th US President, 1809-17 |
David L. Mahoney |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
McKesson HBOC |
Burton Malkiel |
Economist |
28-Aug-1932 |
|
A Random Walk Down Wall Street |
Greg Mankiw |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
George W Bush economist |
Philip F. Maritz |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Maritz, Wolff & Co. |
Lorna R. Marsden |
Educator |
6-Mar-1942 |
|
President of York University, 1997-2007 |
Jim Marshall |
Politician |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
Congressman from Georgia, 2003-11 |
Joshua Micah Marshall |
Pundit |
15-Feb-1969 |
|
Talking Points Memo |
James G. Martin |
Politician |
11-Dec-1935 |
|
Governor of North Carolina, 1985-93 |
Anthony W. Marx |
Educator |
28-Feb-1959 |
|
President, Amherst College |
Harry Mathews |
Author |
14-Feb-1930 |
|
My Life in CIA |
H. Freeman Matthews |
Diplomat |
26-May-1899 |
19-Oct-1986 |
Career US Ambassador |
Norman S. Matthews |
Business |
1933 |
|
President and COO of Federated, 1987-88 |
Charles T. Maxwell |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co. |
Michael G. McCaffery |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Makena Capital Management |
John W. McCarter, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of the Field Museum |
John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
George B. McClellan, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Nov-1865 |
30-Nov-1940 |
Mayor of New York City, 1904-09 |
Mike McCurry |
Government |
21-Dec-1954 |
|
White House Press Secretary, 1994-98 |
James S. McDonnell |
Business |
9-Apr-1899 |
22-Aug-1980 |
Founder of McDonnell Aircraft Co. |
John F. McDonnell |
Business |
18-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of McDonnell-Douglas, 1988-94 |
William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
Richard B. McGlynn |
Attorney |
c. 1938 |
|
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae |
Harold W. McGraw, Jr. |
Business |
10-Jan-1918 |
24-Mar-2010 |
Chairman of McGraw-Hill, 1968-88 |
J. Miller McKim |
Activist |
14-Nov-1810 |
13-Jun-1874 |
Abolitionist and advocate for freed slaves' rights |
William G. McLoughlin |
Historian |
11-Jun-1922 |
28-Dec-1992 |
New England Dissent |
John Bach McMaster |
Historian |
29-Jun-1852 |
24-May-1932 |
History of the People of the United States |
Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
John McPhee |
Author |
8-Mar-1931 |
|
Annals of the Former World |
Lyle Menendez |
Criminal |
10-Jan-1968 |
|
Killed parents with brother Erik |
Livingston T. Merchant |
Diplomat |
23-Nov-1903 |
15-May-1976 |
Twice US Ambassador to Canada |
William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
Jeff Merkley |
Politician |
24-Oct-1956 |
|
US Senator from Oregon |
W. S. Merwin |
Poet |
30-Sep-1927 |
|
The Carrier of Ladders |
Frank S. Meyer |
Author |
9-May-1909 |
1-Apr-1972 |
In Defense of Freedom |
Franklin C. Miller |
Government |
Oct-1950 |
|
National Security Council, 2001-05 |
Heidi G. Miller |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
EVP at JP Morgan Chase |
Judith Miller |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1948 |
|
Credulous NY Times WMD maven |
Wentworth Miller |
Actor |
2-Jun-1972 |
|
Michael Scofield on Prison Break |
Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
24-Jan-2016 |
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
William E. Mitchell |
Business |
13-Mar-1944 |
|
CEO of Arrow Electronics |
Andrew T. Molson |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
Res Publica Consulting Group |
Eric H. Molson |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Chairman of Molson Coors Brewing |
Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
Errol Morris |
Film Director |
5-Feb-1948 |
|
Documentary filmmaker |
Robert Mueller |
Government |
7-Aug-1944 |
|
FBI Director |
Barry A. Munitz |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Getty Trust, 1998-2006 |
Lachlan Murdoch |
Business |
8-Sep-1971 |
|
Son of Rupert Murdoch |
Nathan Myhrvold |
Business |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000 |
Ralph Nader |
Activist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
Unsafe at Any Speed |
Andrew Napolitano |
Pundit |
6-Jun-1950 |
|
Senior Judicial Analyst, FOX News |
John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
23-May-2015 |
Schizophrenic game theorist |
William R. Newlin |
Attorney |
c. 1940 |
|
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney |
N. J. Nicholas, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Time Inc., 1986-90 |
J. Larry Nichols |
Business |
6-Jul-1942 |
|
CEO of Devon Energy |
Queen Noor |
Royalty |
23-Aug-1951 |
|
Queen of Jordan |
John Norman |
Author |
3-Jun-1931 |
|
Chronicles of Gor |
Robert Nozick |
Philosopher |
16-Nov-1938 |
23-Jan-2002 |
Libertarian philosopher |
Joseph S. Nye |
Government |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94 |
Michael O'Hanlon |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Robert B. Oakley |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1931 |
10-Dec-2014 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1988-91 |
Michelle Obama |
First Lady |
17-Jan-1964 |
|
Wife of Barack Obama |
Philip Ober |
Actor |
23-Mar-1902 |
13-Sep-1982 |
From Here to Eternity |
Don Oberdorfer |
Journalist |
28-May-1931 |
23-Jul-2015 |
The Washington Post |
Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
Gerald Parsky |
Attorney |
c. 1942 |
|
UC Regent, 1996-2008 |
William Paterson |
Judge |
24-Dec-1745 |
9-Sep-1806 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1793-1806 |
Jerry K. Pearlman |
Business |
27-Mar-1939 |
|
CEO of Zenith Electronics, 1983-95 |
P. James E. Peebles |
Astronomer |
25-Apr-1935 |
|
Galaxy formation |
Jeffrey M. Peek |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of CIT Group, 2004-09 |
Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
Jack Peltason |
Educator |
29-Aug-1923 |
21-Mar-2015 |
President, University of California, 1992-95 |
Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
Nancy B. Peretsman |
Business |
27-Mar-1954 |
|
Managing Director, Allen & Company |
Richard Perle |
Government |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
Prince of Darkness |
David Petraeus |
Military |
7-Nov-1952 |
|
CIA Director, 2011-12 |
David Graham Phillips |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1867 |
24-Jan-1911 |
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise |
Otis G. Pike |
Politician |
31-Aug-1921 |
20-Jan-2014 |
Congressman from New York, 1961-79 |
Mahlon Pitney |
Judge |
5-Feb-1858 |
9-Dec-1924 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1912-22 |
Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
Edward Platt |
Actor |
14-Feb-1916 |
19-Mar-1974 |
Chief on Get Smart |
John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
Jared Polis |
Politician |
12-May-1975 |
|
Congressman, Colorado 2nd |
Ramesh Ponnuru |
Columnist |
16-Aug-1974 |
|
Senior Editor, National Review |
Michael Porter |
Scholar |
1947 |
|
Competitive Strategy |
Richard Preston |
Author |
5-Aug-1954 |
|
The Hot Zone |
Frank C. Puleo |
Attorney |
c. 1945 |
|
Partner, Milbank Tweed |
Peter Putnam |
Historian |
11-Jun-1920 |
23-Sep-1998 |
Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam! |
Anthony Quainton |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1989-92 |
Jennifer J. Raab |
Educator |
c. 1956 |
|
President, Hunter College |
Stuart Rabner |
Judge |
30-Jun-1960 |
|
New Jersey Chief Justice |
Peter Railton |
Philosopher |
23-May-1950 |
|
Facts, Values, and Norms |
David Ramsay |
Historian |
2-Apr-1749 |
8-May-1815 |
The History of the American Revolution |
Willard Sterne Randall |
Historian |
13-Mar-1942 |
|
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor |
Don Michael Randel |
Educator |
9-Dec-1940 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 2000-06 |
John Randolph of Roanoke |
Politician |
2-Jun-1773 |
24-May-1833 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27 |
Karl L. Rankin |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1898 |
15-Jan-1991 |
US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1950-57 |
David M. Ransom |
Diplomat |
c. 1938 |
4-Dec-2003 |
US Ambassador to Bahrain, 1994-97 |
Andrew S. Rappaport |
Business |
1957 |
|
Venture capitalist, August Capital |
John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
Martyn R. Redgrave |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CFO of Limited Brands |
Chuck Reed |
Politician |
15-Aug-1948 |
|
Mayor of San Jose |
David A. Reed |
Politician |
21-Dec-1880 |
10-Feb-1953 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35 |
David Remnick |
Editor |
29-Oct-1958 |
|
Editor of The New Yorker |
Charles B. Renfrew |
Attorney |
31-Oct-1928 |
|
Deputy US Attorney General, 1980-81 |
Nicholas A. Rey |
Business |
23-Jan-1938 |
14-Jan-2009 |
US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97 |
Syngman Rhee |
Head of State |
26-Mar-1875 |
19-Jul-1965 |
First President of South Korea |
Dick Riordan |
Politician |
1-May-1930 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles, 1993-2001 |
James Robertson |
Judge |
1938 |
|
Judge, resigned from FISA court |
Thomas B. Robertson |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Slovenia, 2004-07 |
John D. Rockefeller III |
Philanthropist |
21-Mar-1906 |
10-Jul-1978 |
Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
Laurance Rockefeller |
Business |
26-May-1910 |
11-Jul-2004 |
Financier behind Eastern Airlines |
Thomas Rockwell |
Author |
13-Mar-1933 |
|
How to Eat Fried Worms |
John W. Rogers, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Ariel Capital Management |
Wayne Rogers |
Actor |
7-Apr-1933 |
31-Dec-2015 |
Trapper John on M*A*S*H |
William D. Rogers |
Diplomat |
12-May-1927 |
22-Sep-2007 |
Under Secretary of State, 1976-77 |
Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
Michael N. Rosen |
Attorney |
c. 1940 |
|
Partner, Bryan Cave |
Christopher W. S. Ross |
Diplomat |
3-Mar-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1991-98 |
Clinton Rossiter |
Historian |
18-Sep-1917 |
11-Jul-1970 |
Constitutional Dictatorship |
Donald C. Roth |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
EMP Global |
Michael S. Roth |
Educator |
c. 1956 |
|
President, Wesleyan University |
J. Stapleton Roy |
Diplomat |
16-Jun-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to China, 1991-95 |
William Ruckelshaus |
Government |
24-Jul-1932 |
|
Twice EPA administrator |
Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
|
President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
Louis Rukeyser |
Talk Show Host |
30-Jan-1933 |
2-May-2006 |
Host of PBS's Wall $treet Week |
William S. Rukeyser |
Journalist |
1939 |
|
Managing Editor of Fortune |
Donald Rumsfeld |
Government |
9-Jul-1932 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 |
Benjamin Rush |
Politician |
4-Jan-1746 |
19-Apr-1813 |
Signed Declaration of Independence |
Richard Rush |
Diplomat |
29-Aug-1780 |
30-Jul-1859 |
Negotiated the Rush-Bagot Agreement |
Douglas Rushkoff |
Author |
18-Feb-1961 |
|
Cyberculture analyst |
Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
Larry J. Sabato |
Educator |
7-Aug-1952 |
|
Widely-quoted political scientist |
Edward Said |
Educator |
1-Nov-1935 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Orientalism |
John Sarbanes |
Politician |
20-May-1962 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 3rd |
Paul Sarbanes |
Politician |
3-Feb-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maryland, 1977-2007 |
Hal Saunders |
Diplomat |
27-Dec-1930 |
6-Mar-2016 |
Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East, 1978-81 |
Leonard D. Schaeffer |
Business |
28-Jul-1945 |
|
CEO of WellPoint, 1992-2004 |
Howard B. Schaffer |
Diplomat |
21-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87 |
Andrew Schlafly |
Activist |
27-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservapedia founder |
Eric Schlosser |
Author |
17-Aug-1959 |
|
Fast Food Nation |
Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
|
CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
Gregory L. Schulte |
Government |
c. 1958 |
|
US Ambassador to the IAEA, 2005-09 |
Thomas J. Scotes |
Diplomat |
6-Jan-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1975-78 |
C. Scott Bartlett, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
National Westminster Bank USA |
Hal S. Scott |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Professor, Harvard Law School |
Richard B. Scudder |
Publisher |
13-May-1913 |
11-Jul-2012 |
Co-Founder, MediaNews Group |
Robert W. Scully |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Morgan Stanley Asset Management |
Terri Sewell |
Politician |
1-Jan-1965 |
|
Congresswoman, Alabama 7th |
O. Griffith Sexton |
Business |
1944 |
|
Former investment banker, Morgan Stanley |
Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
Lloyd S. Shapley |
Mathematician |
2-Jun-1923 |
12-Mar-2016 |
Theory of stable allocations |
James G. Shennan, Jr. |
Business |
? |
|
Trinity Ventures |
Randall T. Shepard |
Judge |
c. 1947 |
|
Indiana Chief Justice |
Brooke Shields |
Model |
31-May-1965 |
|
Suddenly Susan |
Osamu Shimomura |
Chemist |
27-Aug-1928 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist and game theorist |
George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
Louis A. Simpson |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Head of investments at GEICO |
Anne-Marie Slaughter |
Educator |
27-Sep-1958 |
|
President and CEO, New America |
Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered fullerines |
Jeffery Smisek |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Ex-President of United Airlines |
Harold B. Smith |
Business |
7-Apr-1933 |
|
President and COO of ITW, 1972-81 |
Jean Edward Smith |
Political Scientist |
13-Oct-1931 |
|
Grant |
Peter Smith |
Educator |
31-Oct-1945 |
|
President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005 |
Robert Smith |
Government |
3-Nov-1757 |
26-Nov-1842 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1801-09 |
Gerald A. Soffen |
Astronomer |
7-Feb-1926 |
22-Nov-2000 |
Viking I mission to mars |
Sonia Sotomayor |
Judge |
25-Jun-1954 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Samuel L. Southard |
Politician |
9-Jun-1787 |
26-Jun-1842 |
US Senator from New Jersey, 1833-42 |
A. Michael Spence |
Economist |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
Ronald Spiers |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1981-83 |
Eliot Spitzer |
Government |
10-Jun-1959 |
|
Governor of New York, 2007-08 |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Philip D. Sprouse |
Diplomat |
27-Sep-1906 |
28-Apr-1977 |
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1962-64 |
Frank Stella |
Painter |
12-May-1936 |
|
Minimalist painter, later mixed media artist |
Richard Stengel |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
Managing Editor, Time magazine |
Adlai Stevenson |
Politician |
5-Feb-1900 |
14-Jul-1965 |
Governor of Illinois, 1949-53 |
William E. Stevenson |
Diplomat |
25-Oct-1900 |
2-Apr-1985 |
US Ambassador to the Philippines, 1962-64 |
George R. Stewart |
Author |
31-May-1895 |
22-Aug-1980 |
Earth Abides |
Jimmy Stewart |
Actor |
20-May-1908 |
2-Jul-1997 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
William A. Stoltzfus, Jr. |
Diplomat |
3-Nov-1924 |
|
US Ambassador to Kuwait, 1972-76 |
John Stossel |
Journalist |
6-Mar-1947 |
|
Libertarian reporter |
Thomas P. Stossel |
Doctor |
c. 1941 |
|
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
Michael L. Strang |
Politician |
17-Jun-1929 |
12-Jan-2014 |
Congressman from Colorado, 1985-87 |
Morton Subotnick |
Electronic Musician |
13-Apr-1933 |
|
Silver Apples of the Moon |
Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
Harold R. Swearer |
Educator |
13-Oct-1932 |
19-Oct-1991 |
President of Brown University, 1977-88 |
Bob Taft |
Politician |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Governor of Ohio, 1999-2007 |
Terence Tao |
Mathematician |
17-Jul-1975 |
|
Prolific math prodigy |
Booth Tarkington |
Novelist |
29-Jul-1869 |
19-May-1946 |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
Stuart Taylor, Jr. |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
National Journal columnist |
Nicholas G. Thacher |
Diplomat |
20-Aug-1915 |
11-Mar-2002 |
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1970-73 |
Michael H. Thaman |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CEO of Owens Corning |
Lewis Thomas |
Doctor |
25-Nov-1913 |
3-Dec-1993 |
The Lives of a Cell |
Lowell Thomas |
Journalist |
6-Apr-1892 |
29-Aug-1981 |
With Lawrence in Arabia |
Norman Thomas |
Activist |
20-Nov-1884 |
19-Dec-1968 |
American Socialist Party |
Hank Thompson |
Country Musician |
3-Sep-1925 |
6-Nov-2007 |
Honky Tonk Swing musician |
Smith Thompson |
Judge |
17-Jan-1768 |
18-Dec-1843 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1823-43 |
Chang-Lin Tien |
Educator |
24-Jul-1935 |
29-Oct-2002 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1990-97 |
John S. Toll |
Educator |
25-Oct-1923 |
15-Jul-2011 |
President, University of Maryland, 1978-88 |
John R. Torell III |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Fortune Bancorp, 1990-94 |
William T. Torgerson |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Vice Chairman of Pepco Holdings |
William C. Trimble |
Diplomat |
2-May-1907 |
24-Jun-1996 |
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1959-62 |
Alexander Trowbridge |
Politician |
12-Dec-1929 |
27-Apr-2006 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68 |
Daniel K. K. Tseung |
Business |
c. 1971 |
|
Sun Hung Kai Properties |
Walter R. Tucker III |
Politician |
28-May-1957 |
|
Congressman from California, 1993-95 |
Alan Turing |
Mathematician |
23-Jun-1912 |
7-Jun-1954 |
Computing pioneer |
Harold R. Tyler, Jr. |
Attorney |
14-May-1922 |
25-May-2005 |
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
Thomas Unterman |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former CFO of Times Mirror |
Abel P. Upshur |
Attorney |
17-Jun-1790 |
28-Feb-1844 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43 |
James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
Robert J. Van de Graaff |
Inventor |
20-Dec-1901 |
16-Jan-1967 |
Van de Graaff generator |
Carol van Voorst |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Iceland, 2006-09 |
Katrina vanden Heuvel |
Editor |
7-Oct-1959 |
|
Editor of The Nation |
William H. Vanderbilt |
Politician |
24-Nov-1901 |
14-Apr-1981 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1939-41 |
Nicholas Veliotes |
Diplomat |
28-Oct-1928 |
|
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1984-86 |
Robert Venturi |
Architect |
25-Jun-1925 |
|
Postmodernist architect |
Paul Volcker |
Economist |
5-Sep-1927 |
|
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87 |
Edward A. Volkwein |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Hydro-Photon, Inc. |
Peter Jon de Vos |
Diplomat |
24-Dec-1938 |
9-Jun-2008 |
US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1994-97 |
Edward T. Wailes |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1903 |
25-Jun-1969 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1958-61 |
Daniel J. Warmenhoven |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Network Appliance |
Earl Anthony Wayne |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Argentina, 2006-09 |
James Moore Wayne |
Judge |
1790 |
5-Jul-1867 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1835-67 |
William Weaver |
Translator |
24-Jul-1923 |
12-Nov-2013 |
Translator from the Italian |
Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
10-Feb-1927 |
20-Mar-2014 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
John L. Weinberg |
Business |
25-Jan-1925 |
7-Aug-2006 |
Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90 |
Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Peter C. Wendell |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Venture capitalist, Sierra Ventures |
Howard B. Wentz, Jr. |
Business |
10-Jan-1930 |
19-Sep-2014 |
CEO of Amstar Company, 1983-89 |
Cornel West |
Activist |
2-Jun-1953 |
|
Race Matters |
George White |
Politician |
21-Aug-1872 |
15-Dec-1953 |
Governor of Ohio, 1931-35 |
Meg Whitman |
Business |
4-Aug-1956 |
|
CEO of Hewlett-Packard |
Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
Thornton Wilder |
Novelist |
17-Apr-1897 |
7-Dec-1975 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
G. Mennen Williams |
Politician |
23-Feb-1911 |
2-Feb-1988 |
Governor of Michigan, 1949-61 |
R. Sanders Williams |
Educator |
1948 |
|
Dean of Duke's Medical School |
Richard S. Williamson |
Diplomat |
9-May-1949 |
8-Dec-2013 |
Special Envoy to Sudan |
Edmund Wilson |
Author |
8-May-1895 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Axel's Castle |
Woodrow Wilson |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1856 |
3-Feb-1924 |
28th US President, 1913-21 |
John G. Winant |
Politician |
23-Feb-1889 |
3-Nov-1947 |
New Hampshire governor, committed suicide |
Frank G. Wisner |
Diplomat |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1994-97 |
Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
Peter Woit |
Physicist |
c. 1957 |
|
String Theorist |
Paul Wonnacott |
Economist |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Charles W. Yost |
Diplomat |
6-Nov-1907 |
21-May-1981 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1969-71 |
Kneeland C. Youngblood |
Business |
13-Dec-1955 |
|
Pharos Capital Group |
Marie L. Yovanovitch |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan |
Ed Zschau |
Politician |
6-Jan-1940 |
|
Congressman from California, 1983-87 |
John E. Zuccotti |
Business |
23-Jun-1937 |
19-Nov-2015 |
Real estate tycoon |
David E. Zweifel |
Diplomat |
13-Sep-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1981-84 |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Jill Abramson |
Journalist |
19-Mar-1954 |
|
New York Times managing editor |
Fouad Ajami |
Author |
9-Sep-1945 |
22-Jun-2014 |
Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS |
Jonathan Alter |
Columnist |
6-Oct-1957 |
|
Newsweek Senior Editor |
Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
29-Jan-2011 |
Music for Synthesizer |
Russell Banks |
Author |
28-Mar-1940 |
|
The Sweet Hereafter |
Benjamin R. Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
5-May-1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009 |
James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
W. Michael Blumenthal |
Government |
3-Jan-1926 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79 |
Jack Bogle |
Business |
8-May-1929 |
|
Founder, The Vanguard Group |
David Bohm |
Physicist |
20-Dec-1917 |
29-Oct-1992 |
Particle physicist |
William G. Bowen |
Educator |
6-Oct-1933 |
|
President, Princeton University, 1972-88 |
Julian P. Boyd |
Historian |
3-Nov-1903 |
21-May-1980 |
Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52 |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Peter Brown |
Historian |
26-Jul-1935 |
|
The Rise of Western Christendom |
Anthony Burgess |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1917 |
25-Nov-1993 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
Rudolf Carnap |
Philosopher |
18-May-1891 |
14-Sep-1970 |
The Logical Syntax of Language |
Richard D. Challener |
Historian |
15-Nov-1923 |
23-Sep-2002 |
The French Theory of the Nation in Arms |
Jerome Charyn |
Novelist |
13-May-1937 |
|
The Good Policeman |
Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
Linda Colley |
Historian |
13-Sep-1949 |
|
Britons: Forging the Nation |
Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
John Conway |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1937 |
|
Game of Life |
James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
25-Aug-2016 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
Donald Davidson |
Philosopher |
6-Mar-1917 |
30-Aug-2003 |
Actions, Reasons And Causes |
Clinton Davisson |
Physicist |
22-Oct-1881 |
1-Feb-1958 |
Diffraction of electrons |
Kemal Derviş |
Government |
10-Jan-1949 |
|
Head of the UNDP |
John Deutch |
Government |
27-Jul-1938 |
|
CIA Director, 1995-96 |
Robert H. Dicke |
Physicist |
6-May-1916 |
4-Mar-1997 |
Dicke radiometer |
Avinash K. Dixit |
Economist |
6-Aug-1944 |
|
Investment Under Uncertainty |
E. L. Doctorow |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1931 |
21-Jul-2015 |
The Book of Daniel |
Harold W. Dodds |
Educator |
28-Jun-1889 |
25-Oct-1980 |
President, Princeton University, 1932-57 |
Henry van Dyke |
Author |
10-Nov-1852 |
10-Apr-1933 |
The Unknown Quantity |
Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
Benjamin A. Elman |
Historian |
6-Sep-1946 |
|
Science in China, 1550-1900 |
John Etchemendy |
Educator |
1952 |
|
Provost of Stanford University |
Robert Fagles |
Translator |
11-Sep-1933 |
26-Mar-2008 |
Translator of Greek literature |
Ed Felten |
Computer Programmer |
25-Mar-1963 |
|
Broke SDMI |
John B. Fenn |
Chemist |
15-Jun-1917 |
10-Dec-2010 |
Electrospray ionization |
Robert Finn |
Diplomat |
19-Dec-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2002-03 |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
Aaron L. Friedberg |
Government |
16-Apr-1956 |
|
In the Shadow of the Garrison State |
Edward A. Frieman |
Physicist |
19-Jan-1926 |
11-Apr-2013 |
Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
Hector Garcia-Molina |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Stanford EECS Professor |
Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
Arthur J. Goldberg |
Judge |
8-Aug-1908 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Supreme Court Justice, 1962-65 |
Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
Eric F. Goldman |
Historian |
17-Jun-1916 |
19-Feb-1989 |
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson |
Ralph E. Gomory |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
Michael Graves |
Architect |
9-Jul-1934 |
12-Mar-2015 |
Postmodern architect, New York Five |
David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory of cosmology |
Amy Gutmann |
Educator |
19-Nov-1949 |
|
President, University of Pennsylvania |
Melissa Harris-Perry |
Author |
2-Oct-1973 |
|
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET |
E. Newton Harvey |
Zoologist |
25-Nov-1887 |
21-Jul-1959 |
Light-emitting organisms |
Chris Hedges |
Journalist |
18-Sep-1956 |
|
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
Joseph Henry |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1797 |
13-May-1878 |
Discovered electromagnetic induction |
John Grier Hibben |
Educator |
19-Apr-1861 |
16-May-1933 |
President, Princeton University, 1912-32 |
James Hillier |
Physicist |
22-Aug-1915 |
15-Jan-2007 |
Electron microscope |
Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
Philip K. Hitti |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1886 |
24-Dec-1978 |
History of the Arabs |
Frederick P. Hitz |
Government |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
CIA Inspector General, 1990-98 |
Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
Douglas Holtz-Eakin |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
McCain chief economic advisor |
Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
21-Jan-2013 |
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
Haynes Johnson |
Journalist |
9-Jul-1931 |
24-May-2013 |
Sleepwalking Through History |
Donald Justice |
Poet |
12-Aug-1925 |
6-Aug-2004 |
The Summer Anniversaries |
Louis Kahn |
Architect |
20-Feb-1901 |
17-Mar-1974 |
Prominent architect |
Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
Michio Kaku |
Physicist |
24-Jan-1947 |
|
String Theory |
Edward C. Kendall |
Scientist |
8-Sep-1886 |
4-May-1972 |
Adrenocortical hormones |
Brian Kernighan |
Computer Programmer |
1942 |
|
The C Programming Language, awk |
Gina Kolata |
Journalist |
25-Feb-1948 |
|
New York Times science writer |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
Poet |
29-Apr-1947 |
|
Neon Vernacular |
Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
Arnold J. Levine |
Biologist |
1939 |
|
Cancer researcher |
Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
John P. Lewis |
Economist |
18-Mar-1921 |
19-May-2010 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 |
Arthur S. Link |
Historian |
8-Aug-1920 |
26-Mar-1998 |
Wilson |
Adel A. Mahmoud |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton |
Burton Malkiel |
Economist |
28-Aug-1932 |
|
A Random Walk Down Wall Street |
Jacques Maritain |
Philosopher |
18-Nov-1882 |
28-Apr-1973 |
Interpreter of St. Thomas |
Jack Matlock |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91 |
Arno J. Mayer |
Historian |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist |
John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
George B. McClellan, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Nov-1865 |
30-Nov-1940 |
Mayor of New York City, 1904-09 |
Joseph E. McLean |
Historian |
10-Jul-1915 |
30-Dec-1985 |
William Rufus Day |
John McPhee |
Author |
8-Mar-1931 |
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Annals of the Former World |
James M. McPherson |
Historian |
11-Oct-1936 |
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Battle Cry of Freedom |
Louis Menand |
Critic |
21-Jan-1952 |
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The Metaphysical Club |
William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
Ashley Montagu |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1905 |
26-Nov-1999 |
The Natural Superiority of Women |
Oskar Morgenstern |
Economist |
24-Jan-1902 |
26-Jul-1977 |
Game theorist |
Toni Morrison |
Author |
18-Feb-1931 |
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Beloved |
Roger Mudd |
Journalist |
9-Feb-1928 |
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Newscaster |
Paul Muldoon |
Poet |
20-Jun-1951 |
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Moy Sand and Gravel |
Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
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Drug Policy Alliance |
Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
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What is it like to be a bat? |
John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
23-May-2015 |
Schizophrenic game theorist |
Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
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Publisher of The Nation |
Anne Norton |
Educator |
1954 |
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Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire |
Michael O'Hanlon |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
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Brookings Institution |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Author |
16-Jun-1938 |
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Author of over 40 novels |
Don Oberdorfer |
Journalist |
28-May-1931 |
23-Jul-2015 |
The Washington Post |
Bohdan Paczynski |
Astronomer |
8-Feb-1940 |
19-Apr-2007 |
Gravitational microlensing |
Elaine Pagels |
Historian |
13-Feb-1943 |
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The Gnostic Gospels |
Nell Irvin Painter |
Historian |
2-Aug-1942 |
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Creating Black Americans |
R. R. Palmer |
Historian |
11-Jan-1909 |
11-Jun-2002 |
The Age of the Democratic Revolution |
Erwin Panofsky |
Art Historian |
30-Mar-1892 |
14-Mar-1968 |
Studies in Iconology |
Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
P. James E. Peebles |
Astronomer |
25-Apr-1935 |
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Galaxy formation |
Ricardo Piglia |
Author |
24-Nov-1941 |
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The Absent City |
V. S. Pritchett |
Author |
16-Dec-1900 |
20-Mar-1997 |
Midnight Oil |
Hilary Putnam |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1926 |
13-Mar-2016 |
Philosophy of Mind |
Peter Putnam |
Historian |
11-Jun-1920 |
23-Sep-1998 |
Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam! |
Carroll Quigley |
Educator |
9-Nov-1910 |
3-Jan-1977 |
Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton |
Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
24-Sep-1937 |
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Health economist |
Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
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Harvard economist |
Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Harvey S. Rosen |
Economist |
29-Mar-1949 |
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Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
Robert Rosenblum |
Art Historian |
24-Jul-1927 |
6-Dec-2006 |
Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art |
Christopher W. S. Ross |
Diplomat |
3-Mar-1943 |
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US Ambassador to Syria, 1991-98 |
Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
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Portnoy's Complaint |
F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
Neil Rudenstine |
Educator |
21-Jan-1935 |
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President of Harvard, 1991-2001 |
Benjamin Rush |
Politician |
4-Jan-1746 |
19-Apr-1813 |
Signed Declaration of Independence |
Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
Charles Ryskamp |
Administrator |
21-Oct-1928 |
26-Mar-2010 |
Frick Collection Director, 1987-97 |
Carl E. Schorske |
Historian |
15-Mar-1915 |
13-Sep-2015 |
Fin-de-Si�cle Vienna: Politics and Culture |
Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
Robert Sedgewick |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1946 |
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Algorithms |
Erich Segal |
Novelist |
16-Jun-1937 |
17-Jan-2010 |
Love Story |
Nathan Seiberg |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1956 |
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String theorist at Princeton |
Charles G. Sellers |
Historian |
9-Sep-1923 |
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James K. Polk |
Roger Sessions |
Composer |
28-Dec-1896 |
16-Mar-1985 |
Concerto for Orchestra |
Thomas E. Shenk |
Biologist |
c. 1947 |
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Princeton Molecular Biologist |
William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
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Lead alpha Gynocritic |
Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
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President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
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President, Brown University |
Christopher A. Sims |
Economist |
21-Oct-1942 |
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Statistical theory of time series |
Peter Singer |
Philosopher |
6-Jul-1946 |
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Animal Liberation |
Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
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President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Richard Stengel |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
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Managing Editor, Time magazine |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
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Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
Lawrence Stone |
Historian |
4-Dec-1919 |
16-Jun-1999 |
The Crisis of the Aristocracy |
Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
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Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1941 |
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Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
Evan Thomas |
Journalist |
25-Apr-1951 |
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Newsweek |
J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
Shirley M. Tilghman |
Educator |
17-Sep-1946 |
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President of Princeton University |
Daniel C. Tsui |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1939 |
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Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Edward Tufte |
Author |
14-Mar-1942 |
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
Merle Tuve |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1901 |
20-May-1982 |
Proximity fuse |
Laura D. Tyson |
Economist |
28-Jun-1947 |
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Dean of London Business School |
Frederick Vine |
Geologist |
17-Jun-1939 |
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Plate tectonics |
Gregory Vlastos |
Philosopher |
27-Jul-1907 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy |
John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
Michael Walzer |
Philosopher |
3-Mar-1935 |
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Just and Unjust Wars |
John Archibald Wheeler |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1911 |
13-Apr-2008 |
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission |
Edmund White |
Author |
13-Jan-1940 |
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The Joy of Gay Sex |
Eric F. Wieschaus |
Scientist |
8-Jun-1947 |
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Embryonic development of fruit flies |
Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
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Deep structure of matter |
Sean Wilentz |
Historian |
20-Feb-1951 |
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The Rise of American Democracy |
Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
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Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
C. K. Williams |
Poet |
4-Nov-1936 |
20-Sep-2015 |
Repair |
Woodrow Wilson |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1856 |
3-Feb-1924 |
28th US President, 1913-21 |
Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
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String theorist at Princeton |
Sheldon S. Wolin |
Philosopher |
4-Aug-1922 |
21-Oct-2015 |
Politics and Vision |