EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1853 as Eliot Seminary by Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot and Wayman Crow. Name changed in 1857 to Washington University, and in 1976 to Washington University in St. Louis.

Location:
St. Louis, MO

Founding Date:
1853

Motto:
Per veritatem vis

Enrollment:
13,000

Official Website:
http://www.wustl.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Arlene Ackerman	Educator	10-Jan-1947	2-Feb-2013	School superintendent of San Francisco
Lance Banning	Historian	24-Jan-1942	31-Jan-2006	Sacred Fire of Liberty
James F. Barker	Educator	c. 1947		President of Clemson University
Kristin Bauer	Actor	26-Nov-1966		Pam De Beaufort on True Blood
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
John M. Berra	Business	c. 1948		EVP at Emerson Electric
John H. Biggs	Business	19-Jul-1936		CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002
William W. Canfield	Business	c. 1938		TALX Corporation
Steve Carver	Film Director	5-Apr-1945		Lone Wolf McQuade
Henry S. Caulfield	Politician	9-Dec-1873	11-May-1966	Governor of Missouri, 1929-33
Clark Clifford	Government	25-Dec-1906	10-Oct-1998	US Secretary of Defense, 1968-69
Stanley Cohen	Scientist	17-Nov-1922		Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Deborah S. Coleman	Business	c. 1953		International Business Solutions
Tom Coleman	Politician	29-May-1943		Congressman from Missouri, 1976-93
Gerty Cori	Scientist	15-Aug-1896	26-Oct-1957	Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Clyde Cowan	Physicist	6-Dec-1919	24-May-1974	Co-Discover of the neutrino
C. Baker Cunningham	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Belden, 1993-2005
Jeffrey E. Curtiss	Business	c. 1948		CFO of Service Corporation Int'l., 2000-06
Hal Daub	Politician	23-Apr-1941		Mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001
Reginald D. Dickson	Business	c. 1947		Buford, Dickson, Harper & Sparrow
Alan J. Dixon	Politician	7-Jul-1927	6-Jul-2014	US Senator from Illinois, 1981-93
Arnold W. Donald	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Merisant, 2000-03
Richard Eastham	Actor	22-Jun-1916	10-Jul-2005	Not with My Wife, You Don't!
Steve Fossett	Aviator	22-Apr-1944	3-Sep-2007	First to cross Pacific in a balloon
Sam Fox	Business	9-May-1929		US Ambassador to Belgium
Robert F. Furchgott	Scientist	4-Jun-1916	19-May-2009	Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
John Gardner	Novelist	21-Jul-1933	14-Sep-1982	Grendel
Raymond W. Gruender	Judge	5-Jul-1963		8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert Guillaume	Actor	30-Nov-1927		Benson
James H. Hance, Jr.	Business	c. 1944		CFO, Bank of America, 1988-2004
Nathan O. Hatch	Educator	17-May-1946		President of Wake Forest University
Chic Hecht	Politician	30-Nov-1928	15-May-2006	US Senator from Nevada, 1983-89
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.	Politician	25-Jun-1903	13-Sep-1960	US Senator from Missouri, 1951-60
Robin E. Hernreich	Business	1945		Co-Owner, Sacramento Kings
Christopher C. Horner	Activist	?		Competitive Enterprise Institute
Charlayne Hunter-Gault	TV Personality	27-Feb-1942		NPR, NewsHour reporter
William G. Hyland	Government	18-Jan-1929	25-Mar-2008	Editor of Foreign Affairs, 1984-93
Michael Isikoff	Journalist	c. 1952		Reporter who broke Lewinsky story
Alphonso Jackson	Government	9-Sep-1945		US Secretary of HUD, 2004-08
Gayle P. W. Jackson	Business	c. 1946		Energy Global
Robert B. Karn III	Business	c. 1943		Former Partner, Arthur Andersen
Menachem Kellner	Scholar	28-Mar-1946		Maimonidean scholar
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Edwin G. Krebs	Scientist	6-Jun-1918	21-Dec-2009	Protein phosphorylation
F. Mark Kuhlmann	Attorney	c. 1948		General Counsel of McDonnell-Douglas, 1991-97
Max Lerner	Sociologist	20-Dec-1902	5-Jun-1992	Ideas Are Weapons
Mary Ann Van Lokeren	Business	c. 1948		Krey Distributing Company
Breckinridge Long	Diplomat	16-May-1881	26-Sep-1958	US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36
Walter E. Massey	Business	5-Apr-1938		Morehouse College president, physicist
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
John C. Meng	Business	c. 1945		Schreiber Foods
David Merrick	Theatre Producer	27-Nov-1911	25-Apr-2000	Hello, Dolly!
Walter L. Metcalfe, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1938		CEO of Bryan Cave LLP, 1994-2004
Abner J. Mikva	Politician	21-Jan-1926	4-Jul-2016	Illinois Congressman, Clinton Counsel
Marvin Miller	Actor	18-Jul-1913	8-Feb-1985	Michael Anthony on The Millionaire
Paul Elmer More	Scholar	12-Dec-1864	9-Mar-1937	Shelburne Essays
Jonathan D. Moreno	Scholar	11-Jun-1952		Undue Risk
Edward A. Mueller	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Qwest
Condé Nast	Business	26-Mar-1873	19-Sep-1942	Founder of Cond� Nast Publications
Daniel Nathans	Scientist	30-Oct-1928	16-Nov-1999	Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
Dan O'Bannon	Screenwriter	30-Sep-1946	17-Dec-2009	Alien, Total Recall
Mike Peters	Cartoonist	9-Oct-1943		Mother Goose and Grimm
Andrew F. Puzder	Business	11-Jul-1950		CEO of CKE Restaurants
Harold Ramis	Comic	21-Nov-1944	24-Feb-2014	Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
Payne Ratner	Politician	3-Oct-1896	27-Dec-1974	Governor of Kansas, 1939-43
Ed Rollins	Government	19-Mar-1943		GOP political strategist
Steven Rothman	Politician	14-Oct-1952		Congressman, New Jersey 9th
Peter Sarsgaard	Actor	7-Mar-1971		Shattered Glass
George A. Schaefer	Business	13-Jun-1928	9-Apr-2013	CEO of Caterpillar, 1985-90
Roger W. Schipke	Business	c. 1937		CEO of Sunbeam, 1993-96
Phyllis Schlafly	Activist	15-Aug-1924	5-Sep-2016	Opponent of women's liberation
James H. Scott	Business	c. 1943		Morgan Stanley Investment Management
William J. Shaw	Business	c. 1946		President & COO of Marriott, 1997-2009
Mike Simpson	Politician	8-Sep-1950		Congressman, Idaho 2nd
Hamilton O. Smith	Scientist	23-Aug-1931		Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
Mohsen M. Sohi	Business	c. 1959		CEO of Freudenberg-NOK GP
John H. Stelle	Politician	10-Aug-1891	5-Jul-1962	Governor of Illinois, 1940-41
Jeffry E. Sterba	Business	c. 1954		CEO of PNM Resources
Gary H. Stern	Economist	3-Nov-1944		President and CEO, Minneapolis Fed
Louis B. Susman	Diplomat	19-Nov-1937		US Ambassador to the UK
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.	Scientist	19-Nov-1915	9-Mar-1974	Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP)
Jim Talent	Politician	18-Oct-1956		US Senator from Missouri, 2002-07
James R. Thompson	Politician	8-May-1936		Governor of Illinois, 1977-91
Jeff Tremaine	Film/TV Producer	8-Dec-1966		Co-creator of MTV's Jackass
Carlisle Trost	Military	24-Apr-1930		Chief of Naval Operations, 1986-90
Sandra A. VanTrease	Business	c. 1960		Group President, BJC Healthcare
Marilyn vos Savant	Columnist	11-Aug-1946		IQ 228, writes for Parade
Raymond Wagner, Jr.	Business	1959		Enterprise Rent-A-Car
John P. Wareham	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Beckman Coulter, 1998-2005
William Webster	Government	6-Mar-1924		FBI Director 1978-87, CIA Director 1987-91
Tennessee Williams	Playwright	26-Mar-1911	25-Feb-1983	The Glass Menagerie
Fred S. Zeidman	Business	c. 1947		GOP activist
George Zimmer	Business	21-Nov-1948		Founder of Men's Wearhouse

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Roger Baldwin	Activist	21-Jan-1884	26-Aug-1981	Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Paul Berg	Chemist	30-Jun-1926		Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Walter Dean Burnham	Scholar	15-Jun-1930		Democracy in the Making
Stanley Cohen	Scientist	17-Nov-1922		Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Barry Commoner	Biologist	28-May-1917	30-Sep-2012	Science and Survival
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
Edward Condon	Physicist	2-Mar-1902	26-Mar-1974	Quantum Mechanics
Carl Cori	Scientist	5-Dec-1896	20-Oct-1984	Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Gerty Cori	Scientist	15-Aug-1896	26-Oct-1957	Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Guy Davenport	Author	23-Nov-1927	4-Jan-2005	Thasos and Ohio
Edward A. Doisy	Scientist	3-Nov-1893	23-Oct-1986	Chemical structure of Vitamin K
Thomas Eagleton	Politician	4-Sep-1929	4-Mar-2007	US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87
Stanley Elkin	Novelist	11-May-1930	31-May-1995	The Living End
Joseph Erlanger	Scientist	5-Jan-1874	5-Dec-1965	Nerve conduction
John Fiske	Historian	30-Mar-1842	4-Jul-1901	Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy
William H. Gass	Novelist	30-Jul-1924		The Tunnel
Herbert S. Gasser	Scientist	5-Jul-1888	11-May-1963	Nerve conduction
James R. Gavin III	Doctor	c. 1945		Morehouse School of Medicine
Alfred D. Hershey	Scientist	4-Dec-1908	22-May-1997	Molecular structure of viral genes
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Luis Leloir	Chemist	6-Sep-1906	2-Dec-1987	Conversion of carbohydrates
Rita Levi-Montalcini	Scientist	22-Apr-1909	30-Dec-2012	Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Oscar Lewis	Anthropologist	25-Dec-1914	16-Dec-1970	Culture of Poverty
Arthur O. Lovejoy	Historian	10-Oct-1873	30-Dec-1962	The Great Chain of Being
Richard W. Lyman	Educator	18-Oct-1923	27-May-2012	President of Stanford University, 1971-80
Laurence H. Meyer	Economist	8-Mar-1944		Federal Reserve Governor, 1996-2002
Hyman Minsky	Economist	23-Sep-1919	25-Oct-1996	Inherently unstable markets
Douglass C. North	Economist	5-Nov-1920	23-Nov-2015	Cliometrics
Severo Ochoa	Scientist	24-Sep-1905	1-Nov-1993	Synthesized RNA
George Pake	Scientist	1-Apr-1924	4-Mar-2004	First director of Xerox PARC
R. R. Palmer	Historian	11-Jan-1909	11-Jun-2002	The Age of the Democratic Revolution
J. G. A. Pocock	Historian	7-Mar-1924		The Machiavellian Moment
Richard H. Popkin	Philosopher	27-Dec-1923	14-Apr-2005	The History of Scepticism
John McAllister Schofield	Military	29-Sep-1831	4-Mar-1906	Union General later Secretary of War
George D. Snell	Scientist	19-Dec-1903	6-Jun-1996	Recognition of HLA antigens
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.	Scientist	19-Nov-1915	9-Mar-1974	Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP)
Jim Talent	Politician	18-Oct-1956		US Senator from Missouri, 2002-07
Mona Van Duyn	Poet	9-May-1921	1-Dec-2004	To See, To Take
Raymond Wagner, Jr.	Business	1959		Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Henry Nelson Wieman	Philosopher	19-Aug-1884	19-Jun-1975	The Source of Human Good

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John W. Bachmann	Business	16-Nov-1938		Partner, Edward Jones
John H. Biggs	Business	19-Jul-1936		CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1993-2002
Stephen Brauer	Business	1945		US Ambassador to Belgium, 2001-03
Maxine K. Clark	Business	6-Mar-1949		CEO of Build-a-Bear Workshop, 1997-13
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
Arnold W. Donald	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Merisant, 2000-03
Joseph Erlanger	Scientist	5-Jan-1874	5-Dec-1965	Nerve conduction
David C. Farrell	Business	c. 1934		CEO of May Department Stores, 1979-98
Steve Fossett	Aviator	22-Apr-1944	3-Sep-2007	First to cross Pacific in a balloon
Sam Fox	Business	9-May-1929		US Ambassador to Belgium
Hugh Grant	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Monsanto
James H. Hance, Jr.	Business	c. 1944		CFO, Bank of America, 1988-2004
Clifford M. Hardin	Government	9-Oct-1915	4-Apr-2010	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71
Robin E. Hernreich	Business	1945		Co-Owner, Sacramento Kings
David F. Houston	Government	17-Feb-1866	2-Sep-1940	US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20
Mary Ann Van Lokeren	Business	c. 1948		Krey Distributing Company
John F. McDonnell	Business	18-Mar-1938		CEO of McDonnell-Douglas, 1988-94
Walter L. Metcalfe, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1938		CEO of Bryan Cave LLP, 1994-2004
Dennis A. Muilenburg	Business	c. 1964		EVP at Boeing
R. R. Palmer	Historian	11-Jan-1909	11-Jun-2002	The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Harold Ramis	Comic	21-Nov-1944	24-Feb-2014	Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
Wiley Rutledge	Judge	20-Jul-1894	10-Sep-1949	US Supreme Court Justice, 1943-49
Harvey Saligman	Business	c. 1939		Former CEO of INTERCO
Roger W. Schipke	Business	c. 1937		CEO of Sunbeam, 1993-96
Craig D. Schnuck	Business	c. 1948		Schnuck Markets
Michael M. Sears	Business	16-Jul-1947		CFO of Boeing, 2000-03
Joel Seligman	Educator	11-Jan-1950		President, University of Rochester
Andrew C. Taylor	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Margaret Bush Wilson	Activist	30-Jan-1919	11-Aug-2009	NAACP Chairman, 1975-83
Mark S. Wrighton	Educator	1949		Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
Fred S. Zeidman	Business	c. 1947		GOP activist

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Weeb Ewbank	Football	6-May-1907	17-Nov-1998	Head Coach, Baltimore Colts and NY Jets

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