List of George Washington University alumni

This list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a recent U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.

Academia

Clinton E. Adams, president of Rocky Vista University
Myron Augsburger, president of Eastern Mennonite University
Bill Baroni, Republican state senator of New Jersey, former assemblyman, adjunct professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
George F. Baughman, president of the New College of Florida
Derek Curtis Bok, president of Harvard University
Sissela Bok, former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
Walter M. Bortz III, president of Hampden–Sydney College
Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and University of Northern Colorado
Curley Byrd, president of University of Maryland, College Park
Lindsay Chervinsky, presidential historia; executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
Preston Cloud, eminent earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist whose work led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution"
Lotus Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota
Bettye Collier-Thomas, founder of Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History, award-winning professor of History at Temple University
Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University
William Carey Crane, president of Baylor University
Jack Edmonds, computer scientist, recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization
William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis
John T. Fey, president of the University of Vermont and the University of Wyoming
H. Edward Flentje, president of Emporia State University
Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University
William Halal, aerospace engineer, air force officer, academic, author
Mildred Harnack, literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was beheaded by the Gestapo
Andrew Hartman, professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University
Todd B. Hawley, founder of the International Space University
Brooks Hays, professor at Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and institute director at Wake Forest University
Ricardo Jaar, president of the University of San Pedro Sula
Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell University
Ellyn Kaschak, 1968, emeritus professor of psychology, Ohio State University
Mark Kennedy, president of University of North Dakota
Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Islamic scholar and professor at The American University of Sharjah; author and general editor of The Study Quran
Gustavo A. Mellander, president of Passaic College, Mission College; chancellor of Inter American University, West Valley and Mission College District; graduate dean emeritus, George Mason University; member of New Jersey State Board of Education
Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College
Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln; director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W. K. Kellogg Foundation; daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
Martha Lucas Pate, president of Sweet Briar College
Roger Pilon, vice president of the Cato Institute
Carolynn Reid-Wallace, president of Fisk University; assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education
Charles P. Roland, historian of the American Civil War and the American South, studied at George Washington in 1947 before transferring to Louisiana State University to obtain his PhD^[1]
John R. Ryan, chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of United States Naval Academy
Robert Ryland, president of the University of Richmond
Peter Schweizer, president of Government Accountability Institute
Portia Holmes Shields, president of Albany State University, interim president of Tennessee State University
Gary Sick, Middle East analyst and academic at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Morris G. Steen Jr., president of North Florida Community College
Thomas B. Symons, president of University of Maryland, College Park
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African American historian^[2]
Henry Holcombe Tucker, president of the University of Georgia
Alexander Wetmore, 6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of Brigham Young University
Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the University of Illinois system
Gregory H. Williams, president of the University of Cincinnati and the City College of New York
John T. Wilson, president of the University of Chicago
William Lyne Wilson, president of Washington and Lee University
Meyrav Wurmser, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
Irvin D. Yalom, existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University
Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M University, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah
Raul Yzaguirre, activist, lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, professor at Arizona State University, one of the first Hispanic fellows of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Melinda Zook, Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University

Business

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics
Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the X Prize Foundation
Ron Baron, billionaire founder of Baron Capital; paid a record $103 million for an East Hampton, New York property
Michael Beckerman, CEO of the Internet Association
James C. Boland, former vice chairman of Ernst & Young; board member of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Sherwin-Williams, Invacare and DDR Corp.
Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist, former board member at Revlon
General John T. Chain Jr., director at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Henry Cisneros, president of Univision
J. R. Claeys, CEO of the National Association of Government Contractors
Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director of Goldman Sachs
L. Stanley Crane,^[3] member of National Academy of Engineering; railroad executive; CEO of Southern Railway and Consolidated Rail Corporation
Nancy Davis, founder and CIO of Quadratic Capital Management
Lester del Rey, founder of Del Rey Books
Linda Fisher, former deputy administratpr of the Environmental Protection Agency; former vice president of Monsanto Company; vice president of DuPont
Guilford Glazer, real estate developer
Lawrence R. Goldfarb, CEO of LRG Capital Group
Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers Intl.
Stephen G. Haines, organizational theorist and management consultant
Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Holdings, S.A.
Donna Hrinak, president of Boeing Latin America
Clayton M. Jones, chairman of Rockwell Collins
David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac in early 2009
Mugo Kibati, CEO of Telkom Kenya
Gwendolyn King, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines
Mustafa Koç, president of Koç Holding
General Charles C. Krulak, former commandant of the United States Marine Corps; board member at ConocoPhillips, Phelps Dodge, Union Pacific; former executive at MBNA
Kenneth Lay, CEO and chairman of Enron
Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Group
Theodore Lerner, billionaire real estate developer
Ed Liddy, chairman of Allstate and AIG
J. Phillip ("Jack") London, author, executive chairman and chairman of the board of CACI International Inc.
Gerardo I. Lopez, CEO of Extended Stay America and AMC Theatres
Alvan Macauley, president of Packard
Ellen Malcolm, founder and president of EMILY's List and IBM heiress
Yasseen Mansour, Egyptian billionaire
Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
Darla Moore (MBA), partner of the private investment firm, Rainwater, Inc.; founder of Palmetto Institute; married to the self-made Texan billionaire Richard Rainwater
Nate Morris, entrepreneur
Robert Nichols, president and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Roy Nouhra, founder and CEO of ASIS boats
Donald Nyrop, president and CEO of Northwest Airlines
William Owens, CEO of Nortel
Neil Portnow, president of The Recording Academy
Admiral Joseph Prueher (1973), former ambassador to China, former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations; a director of Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., the New York Life Insurance Company, Dyncorp International, Inc. and Fluor Corporation
Michael Punke, vice president of Amazon Web Services
Patricia Roberts Harris, former director at IBM
John F. W. Rogers, chief of staff and partner at Goldman Sachs
Joe Rospars, CEO of Blue State Digital
Amina Al Rustamani, CEO of the TECOM Group
Bruce Sewell, former general counsel and senior vice president at Apple
Sim Shagaya, founder and CEO of Konga.com
Afnan Al-Shuaiby, secretary general of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce
Douglas Steenland, president and CEO of Northwest Airlines
Bill Studeman, former vice president and Deputy general manager of Mission Systems at Northrop Grumman
Van Toffler, president of Viacom Media Networks
George Uribe, founder and CEO of Guestbooker.com
Kathy J. Warden, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman
Christopher J. Wiernicki, CEO of the American Bureau of Shipping
Dennis R. Wraase, CEO of Pepco Holdings
Elaine Wynn, co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts

Economics

Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
Dan Berger, president and CEO of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions
Rafael Corpus, chairman of the Philippine National Bank
Lin Jianhai, secretary general of the International Monetary Fund
David Klein (PhD '71), governor of the Bank of Israel
Rob Nichols, president and CEO of the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Forum
Sandra Pianalto, 10th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
James A. Runde, vice chairman of Morgan Stanley
José Julián Sidaoui, deputy-governor of the Bank of Mexico
Marc Tucker, founder and president of the National Center on Education and the Economy
Julia Montgomery Walsh, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, first woman to be registered with the American Stock Exchange

Politics

United States

U.S. representatives

E. Ross Adair, Republican from Indiana, 1951–1971, later ambassador to Ethiopia
Jason Altmire (1998), Democrat from Pennsylvania, 2007–2013
Henry Moore Baker, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1893–1897, later a state representative
Michael D. Barnes, Democrat from Maryland
Bob Barr (1972), former Republican from Georgia, 1995–2003,
Henry W. Barry, Republican from Mississippi, former state senator, 1870–1875
James F. Battin, Republican from Montana,
Helen Delich Bentley, Republican from Maryland, 1985–1995
Michael Bilirakis (1960), Republican from Florida, 1983–2007
Vincente T. Blaz, Republican from Guam, brigadier general, 1985–1993
Charles Harrison Brown, Democrat from Missouri, 1957–1961
Garry E. Brown, Republican from Michigan, 1967–1979
Hank Brown, Republican from Colorado, former state senator, 1981–1991, later US senator
Julia Brownley, U.S. representative from California (2013–present)
Joel Broyhill, Republican from Virginia, chairman of the Rules Committee, 1953–1974
Sherman Everett Burroughs, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1917–1923
Laurence J. Burton, Republican from Utah, 1963–1971, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Robert Byrd (attended), Democrat from West Virginia, former state delegate and senator, 1953–1959, US senator
Goodloe Byron, Democrat from Maryland, former State Delegate and senator, 1971–1978
John L. Cable, Republican from Ohio, 1921–1925 and 1929–1933
Gordon Canfield (1926), Republican from New Jersey, 1941–1961
Eric Cantor (1985), Republican from Virginia, former Chief Deputy Whip, Minority Whip, 2001–2010, House Majority Leader, 2011–2014
Lewis C. Carpenter, Republican from South Carolina, 1874–1875
Donna Christian-Christensen, Democrat from the United States Virgin Islands, non-voting delegate, 1997–2015
Gil Cisneros, Republican from California, 2019–2021
William Henry Coleman, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1915–1917
Frank Coombs, Republican from California, former state assemblyman and speaker, 1901–1903
John Blaisdell Corliss, Republican from Michigan, 1895–1903
Norris Cotton, Republican from New Hampshire, 1947–1954, later US senator
William R. Coyle, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1925–1927 and 1929–1933
Larry Craig, Republican from Idaho, 1981–1991, US senator, 1991–2009
Josiah Crudup, Republican from North Carolina, 1821–1823
Charles F. Curry Jr., Republican from California, 1931–1933
Ewin L. Davis, Democrat from Tennessee 1919–1933
Martin Dies Jr., Democrat from Texas; co-founder and chairman of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, 1931–1945 and 1953–1959
Donald C. Dobbins, Democrat from Illinois, 1933–1937
John James Duncan Jr., Republican from Tennessee, 1988 to 2019
Neal Dunn, U.S. representative from Florida (2017–present)
Clyde T. Ellis, Democrat from Arkansas, former state representative and senator, 1939–1943
John James Flynt Jr., Democrat from Georgia, 1954–1979
John H. Foster, Republican from Indiana, 1905–1909
J. William Fulbright, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1945, later US senator
Ralph A. Gamble, Republican from New York, 1937–1957
Stephen Warfield Gambrill, Democrat from Maryland, 1924–1938
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), Democrat from Kansas, former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, 1977–1995, former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Gilbert Gude, Republican from Maryland, former state delegate and senator, 1967–1977
Orval H. Hansen, Republican from Idaho, former state representative and senator, 1969–1975
William A. Harris, Populist from Kansas, 1893–1895, later a state senator and then US senator, 1897–1903, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Franck R. Havenner, Progressive and then Democrat from California, 1937–1941 and 1945–1953
Brooks Hays, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1959
Erin Houchin, Republican from Indiana
George Huddleston Jr., Democrat from Alabama, 1963–1965
Merlin Hull, Republican from Wisconsin, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, former Speaker, former Wisconsin Secretary of State, 1929–1931 and 1935–1953
William Y. Humphreys, Democrat from Mississippi, 1923–1925
Daniel Inouye (JD 1952), Democrat from Hawaii 1959–1963, former US senator
Steve Israel (1985), Democrat from New York, 2001–2017
Sam Johnson, Republican from Texas, 1991 to 2019
Frank M. Karsten, Democrat from Missouri, 1947–1969
Tom Kindness, Republican from Ohio
Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine^[7]
Robert W. Levering, Democrat of Ohio
Albert F. Dawson, Republican from Iowa
Tim Mahoney (1983), Democrat from Florida, 2007–2009
Henry May, Democrat from Maryland, 1853–1855 and 1861–1863
Donald H. McLean, Republican from New Jersey, 1933–1945
Herbert Alton Meyer, Republican from Kansas, 1947–1950
Earl C. Michener, Republican from Michigan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1919–1933 and 1935–1951
Edward Tylor Miller, Republican from Maryland, 1947–1959, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Jared Moskowitz, Democrat from Florida
Francis G. Newlands (JD 1869), Democrat from Nevada, 1893–1903, later US senator
William H. Parker, Republican from South Dakota, 1907–1908
Stanford E. Parris, Republican from Virginia, former state Ddlegate, 1973–1975 and 1981–1991
James T. Patterson, Republican from Connecticut, 1947–1959
Pedro Pierluisi, Democratic Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the House, 2009–2017
Nick Rahall, Democrat from West Virginia, 1977–2015
Jim Ramstad (1973), Republican from Minnesota, 1991–2009
Harry Reid (JD 1964), Democrat from Nevada, former lieutenant governor, 1983–1987, former US senator
Henry S. Reuss, Democrat from Wisconsin
John Merriman Reynolds, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1905–1911; later lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania
John M. Robsion Jr., Republican from Kentucky, 1953–1959, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Paul Rogers, Democrat from Florida, 1955–1979
Alvah Sabin, from Vermont, former state representative and senator, as well as state secretary of state, 1853–1857
William L. Scott, Republican from Virginia, 1967–1973, later US senator
James Shannon, Democrat from Massachusetts, 1979–1985, later Massachusetts Attorney General
Joe Skubitz, Republican from Kansas, 1963–1978
Darren Soto, U.S. representative from Florida (2017–present)
Gladys Noon Spellman, Democrat from Maryland, 1975–1981
Frederick Perry Stanton, Democrat from Tennessee, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1845–1855, later Governor of Kansas
Cliff Stearns (1963), Republican from Florida, 1989–2013
Howard Sutherland, Republican from West Virginia, former state senator, 1913–1917
Thomas Swann, Democrat from Maryland, former governor and mayor of Baltimore, elected to the US Senate but did not serve, 1869–1879
William Timmons, U.S. representative from South Carolina (2019–present)
Jill Tokuda, Democrat from Hawaii
E. S. Johnny Walker, Democrat from New Mexico, former state representative, 1965–1969
Francis E. Walter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1933–63
Elton Watkins, Democrat from Oregon, 1923–1925, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate and Mayor of Portland
Guilford Wiley Wells, Independent Republican from Mississippi, former US Attorney, 1875–1877
Robert Wexler (1985), former state senator, Democrat from Florida, 1997–2010
Compton I. White Jr., Democrat of Idaho, 1963–1967
Susan Wild, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania (2018–2025)
Earle D. Willey, former Delaware Secretary of State, Republican from Delaware, 1943–1945
William Lyne Wilson, Democrat from West Virginia, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, 1883–1895, later United States Postmaster General

U.S. mayors

Steven L. Abrams, former mayor of Boca Raton
Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City
Franklin P. Backus, former mayor of Alexandria
Leroy S. Bendheim, former mayor of Alexandria
William V. Bouic, former mayor of Rockville, Maryland
Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio
Frank Willey Clancy, former mayor of Albuquerque
William Henry Coleman, former mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Hector De La Torre, former mayor of South Gate, California
Gretchen Driskell, former mayor of Saline, Michigan
James Taylor Ellyson, former mayor of Richmond
Mike Enzi, former mayor of Gillette, Wyoming
George B. Fitch, former mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
William S. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Cleveland
Harold L. George, former mayor of Beverly Hills
Robert K. Goodwin, former mayor of Redfield, Iowa
Vincent C. Gray, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
George W. Guthrie, former mayor of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth C. Hoffman, former mayor of North Tonawanda, New York
W. M. Holland, former mayor of Dallas
David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City
Tom Kindness, former mayor of Hamilton, Ohio
Susan W. Kluttz, former mayor of Salisbury, North Carolina
Alex Knopp, former mayor of Norwalk
Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey
John H. Logie, former mayor of Grand Rapids
Henry B. F. MacFarland, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
Frank E. Mann, former mayor of Alexandria
Tom Van Horn Moorehead, former mayor of Zanesville, Ohio
John Garland Pollard, former Williamsburg, Virginia
Skip Priest, former mayor of Federal Way, Washington
Tom Rust, former mayor of Herndon, Virginia
Keith Sebelius, former mayor of Norton, Kansas
Scott Slifka, former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas Swann, former mayor of Baltimore
Walter Nathan Tobriner, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix
Richard Wallach, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
Kenneth S. Wherry, former mayor of Pawnee City, Nebraska
Compton I. White Jr., former mayor of Clark Fork, Idaho
Dorothy Wilken, former mayor of Boca Raton
James L. Wilmeth, former mayor of Takoma Park, Maryland

Other U.S. officials

Julie Raque Adams, current member of the Kentucky Senate
Aldrich Ames, Soviet spy working in the CIA as a counter-intelligence officer
Ross "Rocky" Anderson (JD 1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
Dionel M. Aviles, Under Secretary of the Navy, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Willie Bailey, Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Gary J. Barczak, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Bill Baroni, Republican state senator of New Jersey, former assemblyman, adjunct professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
A. Bruce Bielaski, director of the Bureau of Investigation, predecessor to the FBI
William B. Black Jr., 16th Deputy Director of the National Security Agency
Edward Blackmon Jr., Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Tom Bossert, United States Homeland Security Advisor for President Donald Trump
Harold Brown Jr., CIA officer and U.S. Army Reserve major who was killed during the Camp Chapman attack
Winston Bryant, former attorney general of Arkansas
Alexander Butterfield, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the FBI
Victoria Clarke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Charlie Collins, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for the 84th district^[8]
Charles Colson, chief counsel for US president Richard Nixon, spent time in prison for his part in the Watergate scandal
David O. Cooke, "mayor of the Pentagon"
Roger Cressey, member of the United States National Security Council
Carlos Del Toro, current United States Secretary of the Navy
Harry S. Dent Sr. (JD, 1957), special counsel to President Richard Nixon; General Counsel to the Republican National Committee; father of economist Harry Dent
Lewis Deschler, first Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
M. Jerome Diamond, Vermont Attorney General, 1975–1981^[9]
Elizabeth B. Drewry (BA, MA), archivist, National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Gretchen Driskell, former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Allen Dulles (1920), director of the CIA
Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
Randall Edwards (MBA 1990), Oregon State Treasurer
Harland E. Everson, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Eddie Farnsworth, current president pro tempore of the Arizona Senate
W. Mark Felt (1940), associate director, FBI; "Deep Throat" informant
Stanley Finch (JD 1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
Sean Flaherty, Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
Richard A. Flintrop, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Aaron Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
Hillman Terome Frazier, Democratic state senator of Mississippi, former state representative
Robert J. Garagiola, Democratic member of the Maryland State Senate
Gregory G. Garre, United States Solicitor General
Lori Garver, deputy NASA administrator
James W. Gilchrist, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Steven M. Goldman, New Jersey State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
Tom Greenwell, first Republican judge of the 319th District Court in Corpus Christi^[10]
Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
Bill Guffey, former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Ana Sol Gutierrez, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense
Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
Paul Clinton Harris, Republican former member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment in the second Trump administration
Dennis Herrera, current City Attorney of San Francisco
Heather Higginbottom, deputy assistant to the president for Domestic Policy in the administration of Barack Obama
Frank Harris Hitchcock, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City, OK
J. Edgar Hoover (1916, 1917, 1935), director, FBI
Erin Houchin, member of the Indiana Senate
Rosel H. Hyde, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Charles James, assistant attorney general and general counsel of Chevron-Texaco
Marise James, member of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor for the Watergate hearings
Corey Johnson, current Speaker of New York City Council
Raymond Johnson, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Rod Johnston, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Diana Josephson, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Gwendolyn King, former commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
Alex Knopp, eight-term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1987–2001) and two-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (2001–2005); clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School (since 2006)
Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, current deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Murray D. Levy, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Donna Lynne, 49th lieutenant governor of Colorado
Dan Maffei, current Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission
Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Frank E. Mann, former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Mari Manoogian, current member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Jesse Martineau, Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
James W. McCord Jr., former CIA officer, involved in the Watergate scandal
JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia
Kathleen Troia McFarland, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Bill McGinley, White House Cabinet Secretary
Floretta Dukes McKenzie, superintendent of District of Columbia Public Schools
Kenneth E. Melson, former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Bill Mims, former Republican State Delegate and former member of the Senate of Virginia, current attorney general of Virginia
Dominic J. Monetta, former deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense, 1991–1993; former director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy, 1989–1991
Karen S. Montgomery, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Kenneth P. Moritsugu (M.D. 1971), Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006–present)^[11]
Tim Morrison, member of the United States National Security Council
Jared Moskowitz, former member of the Florida House of Representatives
Robert Nichols, President and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Patrick P. O'Carroll Jr., Inspector General of the Social Security Administration
Kevin J. O'Connor, former United States Associate Attorney General
Daniel J. O'Donnell, Democratic member of the New York State Assembly
Eric O'Neill (JD 2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
John P. O'Neill, former top anti-terrorism expert; former assistant director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; head of security at the World Trade Center; died in the September 11, 2001 attacks
Leslie Osterman (1991), Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives
John Overington, Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
B. J. Penn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (2005–2009)
Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
Teena Piccione, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology
Jeffrey Piccola, Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Paul G. Pinsky, former Democratic delegate and current member of the Maryland State Senate
Atif Qarni, current Virginia Secretary of Education
John Merriman Reynolds, US representative from Pennsylvania and then lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania
Karl Rhoads, current member of the Hawaii Senate
Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (or IRS Commissioner), head of the Internal Revenue Service, former partner at Ernst & Young
John A. Rizzo, acting general counsel of the CIA
José R. Rodríguez, current Minority Leader of Texas Senate
John P. Roth, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Catherine M. Russell, chief of staff to Jill Biden, wife of Joseph Biden, former associate deputy attorney general
Thomas Davis Rust, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Tony Sayegh, United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Mary Schapiro, former chairwoman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, former CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, former chairman and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, director of Kraft Foods Inc, and Duke Energy Corporation
Mercedes Schlapp, White House Director of Strategic Communications
Bradley Schlozman, former head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and current US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri
Daniel Shagoury (M.A. 1987), member of the Maine House of Representatives^[12]
Christopher B. Shank, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
James Shannon, former US representative and Massachusetts Attorney General
Caroline Simmons, current member of the Connecticut Senate
Vivian V. Simpson, first female Secretary of State of Maryland
James Skoufis, Democratic member of New York State Assembly elected to State Senate in 2018
Harry A. Slattery, US Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938–39; the Slattery Report
Darren Soto, Democrat, Florida House of Representatives
Kenneth W. Starr (1968), United States Solicitor General, and independent counsel during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals
Ben Stevens, former president of the Alaska State Senate, son of United States Senator Ted Stevens
Bill Studeman, former admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the CIA, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI, protégé of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, 1948–52, member of the Udall family
Colin Van Ostern, New Hampshire Executive Council member and New Hampshire Gubernatorial candidate
Lauren Vaughan, Secretary of the District of Columbia
Ram Villivalam, current member of the Illinois Senate
Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Rob Wagner, current member of the Oregon State Senate
Katie Walsh, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Leo Wardrup, former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
Mary Margaret Whipple, former Democratic State Delegate and current member of the Senate of Virginia
William Lyne Wilson, 37th United States Postmaster General, former Ways and Means chairman in the US House of Representatives
Robert O. Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

International

Heads of state and government

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (MEA '83), 21st prime minister of Pakistan (2017–2018)^[13]
Edward David Burt (BA '01, MS '03), current premier of Bermuda (2017–present)
Chang Dae-whan (MA '76), prime minister of South Korea (2002)
Michael Dunkley (MS '80), 12th premier of Bermuda (2014–2017)
Faure Gnassingbé (MBA '97), current president of Togo (2005–present)^[14]
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (F.S. '03), former president of Croatia (2015–2020)
Juan Guaidó (MPA '09), disputed president of Venezuela (2019–present)
Lee Myung-bak (V.S. '99), 17th president of South Korea (2008–2013)
Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi (PhD '73), prime minister of Libya (1969–1970)
Syngman Rhee (BA 1907), 1st president of South Korea (1948–1960)
Mikhail Saakashvili (LLM '94), 3rd president of Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–2013)
Chimediin Saikhanbileg (LLM '02), prime minister of Mongolia (2014–2016)
Mandé Sidibé (MBA '74), 8th prime minister of Mali (2000–2002)
Song Yo Chan (BA '40), prime minister of South Korea (1961–1962)
Tshering Wangchuk (LLM '03), interim prime minister of Bhutan (2018)
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (MA '85), president of Iraq (2004–2005)

Cabinet ministers

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources of Pakistan
Ashtar Ausaf Ali, former Attorney-General for Pakistan
Hedayat Amin Arsala, former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
Htay Aung, former Tourism Minister of Myanmar
Alaa Batayneh, former Energy Minister of Jordan
Roberto Campos, former Minister of Planning of Brazil
John Deng, current Minister without Portfolio of Taiwan
Slim Feriani, former Minister of Industry, Energy, Mining, Renewable Energy and SMEs, Republic of Tunisia
Rex Gatchalian, current Philippines Secretary of Social Welfare and Development, former Member Philippine House of Representatives from Valenzuela, former mayor of Valenzuela
Pedro Sánchez Gamarra, former Energy Minister of Peru
Raya Haffar al-Hassan, former Finance Minister of Lebanon
Hessa Al Jaber, former Minister of Information of Qatar
Aleksandre Jejelava, former Science & Education Minister of Georgia
Ali bin Abdulla Al Kaabi, former Labour Minister of the United Arab Emirates
Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, former Minister of Corrections of Georgia
Kao Su-po, former Minister of Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs of Taiwan
Omar Ayub Khan, current Energy Minister of Pakistan (grandson of President Muhammad Ayub Khan)
Kivutha Kibwana, former Defense Minister of Kenya
Yahya Kisbi, former Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing
S. M. Krishna, former Foreign Minister of India
Zhivargo Laing, former Culture Minister of the Bahamas
Lee Beom Seok, former Foreign Minister of South Korea
Mihnea Motoc, former Defense Minister of Romania
Mohammad Mustafa, former deputy prime minister of Palestine
Mohammad Nahavandian, current vice president of Iran
Nguyễn Thanh Nghị, former Vietnamese Minister of Construction, current head of Central Policy and Strategy Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, current Minister of Maritime Affairs of Indonesia
Farouq Qasrawi, former Foreign Minister of Jordan
Sérgio Paulo Rouanet, former Minister of Culture of Brazil
Sudirman Said, former Energy Minister of Indonesia
Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud, former Minister of Municipal Affairs of Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar, former Minister of Economy & Trade of Syria
Nematullah Shahrani, former vice president of Afghanistan
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, former Minister for Internet Safety & Security of the United Kingdom
Marcin Święcicki, former Minister of Economic Relations of Poland
Géza Teleki, former Education Minister of Hungary
Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, former vice governor of Jakarta, Indonesia
Jorge Alberto Uribe, former Defense Minister of Colombia
Alexander Zaveryukha, former deputy prime minister of Russia

Other figures

HH Prince Talal Arslan, Druze leader and current Head of the House of Arslan; founder and President of the Lebanese Democratic Party
Vidar Bjørnstad, member of the Norwegian Parliament
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Chung Mong-joon, chairman of the Liberty Korea Party
Mauricio Vila Dosal, current governor of Yucatán, former Mayor of Mérida
Anwar Gargash, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Dianne Haskett, mayor of London, Canada
Andrew Hastie, current member of the Parliament of Australia
Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
Joe Hung (PhD history, 1981), Taiwanese journalist (Central News Agency) and diplomat, representative of Taiwan to Italy (1993–2000)^[15]
Philip Jaisohn, a founding father of the Korean Independence Movement
İbrahim Kalın, current director of the National Intelligence Organization of the Republic of Türkiye
Abdul Kady Karim, 2007 candidate for president of Sierra Leone
Najmiddin Karim, current governor of Kirkuk
Donald Stone Macdonald, mayor of Gwangju, South Korea
George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
Andrew Marshall, director of the Office of Net Assessment
Jonathan Martin, justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Canada^[16]
Sarah Adwoa Safo, member of the Parliament of Ghana
José Abad Santos (1909), chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, current member of the House of Lords
José Julián Sidaoui, Deputy Minister of Finance of Mexico
Johnny Wright Sol, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador representing San Salvador
Marcin Święcicki, mayor of Warsaw, Poland
Henrique Valle, Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
Tshering Wangchuk, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan

Diplomacy

U.S. ambassadors

Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, former U.S. ambassador to Malta
E. Ross Adair, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia
Bernadette M. Allen, former U.S. ambassador to Niger
Frank Almaguer, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
Richard L. Baltimore, former U.S. ambassador to Oman
William Tapley Bennett Jr., U.S. ambassador to NATO
Robin Bernstein, former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic
Stephen W. Bosworth, former U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, Philippines, and South Korea
Richard Boucher, former U.S. ambassador to Cyprus
Ralph L. Boyce, former U.S. ambassador to Indonesia and Thailand
Theodore Brentano, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary
Everett E. Briggs, former U.S. ambassador to Portugal
Richard C. Brown, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay
Charles Page Bryan, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Portugal
Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria
Morris D. Busby, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia
John Cloud, former U.S. ambassador to Lithuania and Germany
William Miller Collier, former U.S. ambassador to Chile and Spain
James M. Derham, former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala
Thomas J. Dodd Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay and Costa Rica
Irving Bedell Dudley, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Peru
Christine A. Elder, former U.S. ambassador to Liberia
Charles A. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras
Edward W. Gnehm, former U.S. ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
Rebecca Gonzales, former U.S. ambassador to Lesotho
George W. Guthrie, former U.S. ambassador to Japan
Sheila Gwaltney, former U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
David C. Halsted, former U.S. ambassador to Chad and Uganda
Patricia Roberts Harris, former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg
William A. Heidt, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia
Smith Hempstone, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya
Aubrey Hooks, former U.S. ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, and Republic of Congo
Donna Hrinak, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Venezuela
Patrick J. Hurley, former U.S. ambassador to China and New Zealand
Robert P. Jackson, former U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Cameroon
Daniel A. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to Suriname
Donald C. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and Mongolia
Nelson T. Johnson, former U.S. ambassador to China and Australia
Robert Brendon Keating, former U.S. ambassador to Madagascar
David M. Kennedy, former U.S. ambassador to NATO
Harmon Elwood Kirby, former U.S. ambassador to Togo
Carol Laise, former U.S. ambassador to Nepal
George W. Landau former U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela
Lyle Franklin Lane, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay
James R. Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and South Korea
Marisa Lino, former U.S. ambassador to Albania
Thomas A. Loftus, former U.S. ambassador to Norway
Charles Taylor Manatt, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic
Edward E. Masters, former U.S. ambassador to Indonesia
Robert J. McCloskey, former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Cyprus, and Netherlands
Tom McDonald, former U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe
Francis Terry McNamara, former U.S. ambassador to Cabo Verde, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
William Dale Montgomery, U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and Croatia
George Moose, former U.S. ambassador to Benin and Senegal
John J. Muccio, former U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland, South Korea
Robert Daniel Murphy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Belgium
Tibor P. Nagy, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia
Walter E. North, former U.S. ambassador to Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea
Frank V. Ortiz, former U.S. ambassador to Uruguay, Guatemala, Barbados, Peru, and Argentina
Edward Peck, former U.S. ambassador to Mauritania
Carol Z. Perez, former U.S. ambassador to Chile
John Peurifoy, former U.S. ambassador to Greece, Guatemala, and Thailand
Joseph Prueher, former U.S. ambassador to China
Michael Punke, former U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization
Michael Ratney, current U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Catherine M. Russell, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Robert M. Sayre, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Panama, and Uruguay
David H. Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
Gerald Eustis Thomas, former U.S. ambassador to Kenya and Guyana
Clare H. Timberlake, former U.S. ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Walter Nathan Tobriner, former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica
Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO
Julius Waring Walker Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Burkina Faso
Alexander W. Weddell, former U.S. ambassador to Argentina and Spain
John H. Wheeler, former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua
Ross Wilson, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey
William Braucher Wood, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia and Afghanistan
Raul Yzaguirre, former U.S. ambassador to Dominican Republic

State Department officials

William Tapley Bennett Jr., former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Richard Boucher, 6th Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Eileen Claussen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
John Foster Dulles, 52nd U.S. Secretary of State
Randall M. Fort, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
J. Edward Fox, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Michelle Giuda, 30th Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
Grant S. Green, former Under Secretary of State for Management
Brooks Hays, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Heather Higginbottom, former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
John D. Holum, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
Nelson T. Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Julius Katz, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
Carol Laise, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
David Marchick, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
Robert J. McCloskey, former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Robert Daniel Murphy, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Tibor P. Nagy, 19th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Heather Nauert, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Carol Z. Perez, current director general of the Foreign Service
John Peurifoy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration
Colin Powell, 65th U.S. Secretary of State
John F. W. Rogers, former Under Secretary of State for Management
Robert M. Sayre, former Inspector General of the State Department and Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Gregory B. Starr, former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
James E. Webb, former United States Under Secretary of State
William Braucher Wood, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

Other diplomats

Archer Blood, former U.S. consul-general to Dhaka, East Pakistan, issued the Blood Telegram during the Bangladesh Liberation War
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current State Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Elliott Charng, Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and India
Camillo Gonsalves, permanent representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Joe Hung, Taiwanese ambassador to Italy
An Le, current U.S. consul to Ho Chi Minh City
Frank Lockhart, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai
Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat credited with saving over 62,000 Jews, the largest rescue operation of Jews of World War II
George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
Nestor Mendez, current Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Richard Paul Momsen, former U.S. consul-general to Rio de Janeiro
Mao Ning, current spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
Thomas Sammons, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai
Moncrieff J. Spear, former U.S. consul-general to the Bahamas
Henrique Valle, deputy ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
Guilford Wiley Wells, former U.S. consul-general to Shanghai

Law

U.S. circuit judges

Glenn L. Archer Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Bennett Champ Clark, former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
James P. Coleman, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Richard Dickson Cudahy, former senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
William Edward Doyle, former senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Clyde H. Hamilton, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
David R. Hansen, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Barbara Milano Keenan, current judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Richard Linn, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Carlos F. Lucero, current judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Sharon Prost, current chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Randall Ray Rader, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Kenneth Francis Ripple, current senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Albert Tate Jr., former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Robert Smith Vance, former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. district judges

Jorge Luis Alonso, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
G. Ross Anderson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
James F. Battin, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Paul Benson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
Andrew Coyle Bradley, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James C. Cacheris, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Albert Sherman Christensen, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
Tanya S. Chutkan, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Cameron McGowan Currie, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Arthur Marshall Davis, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
William Edward Doyle, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Catherine Eagles, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Darrin P. Gayles, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Florida
Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Joyce Hens Green, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Harold H. Greene, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Clyde H. Hamilton, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
David R. Hansen, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Adolph A. Hoehling Jr., former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Sarah T. Hughes, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Roger L. Hunt, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
Edwin F. Hunter, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Daniel T. K. Hurley, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Benjamin Franklin Keller, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
John Milton Killits, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
James Robert Kirkland, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Oren Ritter Lewis, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Burnita Shelton Matthews, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Ronald Edward Meredith, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
William Matthews Merrick, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Suzanne Mitchell, current magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Edward Skottowe Northrop, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Linda Vivienne Parker, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Gordon Jay Quist, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
James Robertson, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Gerald Ellis Rosen, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Albert Morris Sames, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Henry Albert Schweinhaut, former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
John Michael Seabright, current chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
William K. Sessions III, current senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Frederick Lincoln Siddons, former judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Alfred Adams Wheat, former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Stephen Victor Wilson, current judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. state supreme courts

Russell A. Anderson, 20th chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Harry L. Carrico, 23rd chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
A. Lee Chandler, 28th chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Mary S. Coleman, 57th chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
Félix Córdova Dávila, former justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Rankin Gibson, former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
Barbara Milano Keenan, justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
Michael Kruse, current chief justice of the American Samoa High Court
Bill Mims, current justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
Barbara Pariente, 51st chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Taylor Hudnall Stukes, 20th chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Albert Tate Jr., former justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Clifford Taylor, 66th chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
Kathryn Werdegar, former justice of the Supreme Court of California
Horace W. Wilkie, 19th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
D. Frank Wilkins, current justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Adolph Grant Wolf, former justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court

Attorneys general

William Barr, 77th and 85th United States Attorney General
Paul Benson, 22nd attorney general of North Dakota
Winston Bryant, 52nd attorney general of Arkansas
John A. Carver Jr., interim attorney general of American Samoa
Frank Willey Clancy, 1st attorney general of New Mexico
James P. Coleman, 33rd attorney general of Mississippi
Jack Conway, 49th attorney general of Kentucky
Frankie Sue Del Papa, 29th attorney general of Nevada
M. Jerome Diamond, 22nd attorney general of Vermont
Rufus L. Edmisten, 46th attorney general of North Carolina
Aaron D. Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
Joseph Foster, 29th attorney general of New Hampshire
Bill Mims, 45th attorney general of Virginia
Mohan Peiris, 41st attorney general of Sri Lanka
Jeffrey B. Pine, 70th attorney general of Rhode Island
John Garland Pollard, 21st attorney general of Virginia
Vernon B. Romney, 14th attorney general of Utah
Grace Berg Schaible, 20th attorney general of Alaska
Robert E. Smylie, 21st attorney general of Idaho
Robert Y. Thornton, 8th attorney general of Oregon
William C. Wantland, former attorney general of the Seminole Nation

International judges

Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
Mohan Peiris, de facto chief justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
José Abad Santos, 5th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Tshering Wangchuk, current chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan

Other legal figures

Omar Ashmawy, chief counsel to the Office of Congressional Ethics
Andrew P. Bakaj, former Department of Defense and CIA official; lead counsel for the whisteblower during the impeachment inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of President Donald Trump
William D. Cohen, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[17]
Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division
Joyce Hens Green, presiding judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning legal author that exposed the United States surveillance of foreign leaders
Thomas F. Hogan, presiding judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
William Barberie Howell, chief judge of the U.S. Customs Court
Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
Wilma B. Liebman, chair of the National Labor Relations Board
Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, first female presidential candidate
Bradley Schlozman, head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
William K. Sessions III, chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
Flora Warren Seymour, writer, historian, author, first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners
Chester Sipkin, administrative law judge for the United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service
Ira Sorkin, lead attorney for Bernard Madoff
Delbert Spurlock, General Counsel of the Army
Ken Starr, 39th Solicitor General of the United States
Scott W. Stucky, current chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Military

Admiral Thad Allen (MPA), Commandant of the Coast Guard 2006–2010
General Earl E. Anderson (J.D.)
Rear Admiral Richard A. Appelbaum
Captain Edward L. Beach Jr. (M.A.)
Major General Thomas A. Benes
Brigadier General Vincente T. Blaz
Major General Robert D. Bohn
Lieutenant General Arnold W. Braswell, United States Air Force, MBA, 1967
Rear Admiral F. Taylor Brown
Major General George William Casey Sr.
General John T. Chain Jr., former Commander of the Strategic Air Command
Major General John R. D. Cleland, US Army major general^[18]
Rear Admiral Sandy Daniels
Major General Sharon K.G. Dunbar, U.S. Air Force
Captain Frank Freyer, 14th Naval Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
General John Fugh, the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army, former judge advocate general
General Charles A. Gabriel, 11th chief of staff of the United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Vincent L. Griffith
Admiral John B. Hayes (M.A.), Commandant of the Coast Guard (Ret.) 1978–1982
General Robert T. Herres, first vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral David E. Jeremiah, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Charles C. Krulak, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
Major General Bruce M. Lawlor (B.S., J.D., D.Sc.), first commander of Joint Task Force-Civil Support and first Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security
Brigadier General Gavin Marks
Brigadier General Michael A. McAuliffe
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney
Lieutenant General John N. McLaughlin, Marine Corps service in three wars and spent three years as a POW
General Merrill A. McPeak, former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and United States Secretary of the Air Force
Major General Billy Mitchell (1919, but received degree as part of "class of 1899", having dropped out to serve in the Spanish–American War), advocate of air power in the military
Lieutenant General Hal Moore, author of We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
Major General Spurgeon Neel, father of Army aviation medicine
Major General Peter George Olenchuk
Admiral William Owens, 3rd vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Peter Pace, 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., Class of 1912, Commander of the 78th Infantry Division during World War II (August 1942 – November 1945)
General Frank E. Petersen, United States Marine Corps, first black Marine general, first black Marine aviator, first black commanding officer of a fighter squadron, an air group, and a major base
Brigadier General Paul D. Phillips, United States Army; former oldest living West Point graduate.^[19]^[20]^[21]
Major General Herman Poggemeyer Jr., United States Marine Corps
General Colin Powell, 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, former Superintendent of United States Naval Academy, Chancellor of the State University of New York
Major General Michael P. Ryan, United States Marine Corps, co-founded Marine Corps Marathon
General John Shalikashvili, 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rear Admiral Ronald F. Silva
Brigadier General Henry J. Stehling
Major General William W. Stickney, United States Marine Corps, Director of Marine Corps Reserve
Bill Studeman, former Admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
Brigadier General Dennis B. Sullivan
Colonel John Tweedale (LL.B.), Medal of Honor recipient, 1868
Brigadier General James P. Ulm
Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr.
General John William Vessey Jr., 10th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rear Admiral Sidney A. Wallace
General Larry D. Welch, 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Commander, Strategic Air Command
Major General Don S. Wenger
Major General Charles F. Widdecke (M.A.); recipient of Navy Cross during World War II
Brigadier General Hugh E. Wild
Brigadier General David W. Winn

Journalism

Kat Abughazaleh (2020), producer of Media Matters for America
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired
Nazenin Ansari, Voice of America correspondent
Dana Bash, CNN White House correspondent
Steve Benen, lead blogger of The Washington Monthly
Kate Bolduan, CNN correspondent
Margaret Carlson, journalist; columnist for Bloomberg News; first woman columnist at Time
Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
Victoria Clarke, CNN analyst, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Bob Considine, journalist with United Press International and author
Rowland Evans (1951), news commentator from CNN's Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields
Reuben Fink, Yiddish journalist and author
Bill Gertz, reporter and analyst for The Washington Times and Fox News
Hadas Gold, media and business reporter for CNN and CNN International
Glenn Greenwald, former attorney and current political and legal blogger, and columnist at Salon
Diana B. Henriques, reporter for the New York Times
Kasie Hunt, host of MSNBC's Kasie DC
Jeff Jacoby, columnist for The Boston Globe
Matt Katz, reporter for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio
Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
Philip Klein, executive editor of the Washington Examiner
Sally Kohn, CNN and Fox News commentator
Kathleen Troia McFarland, former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Fox News commentator
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, Fox News pundit
Doug McKelway, Fox News journalist
Marianne Means, White House correspondent
Michael Moran, author of The Reckoning; producer of the documentary series Crisis Guides
Reena Ninan, CNN correspondent, news anchor
Mosheh Oinounou, executive producer of CBS News
Mark Olshaker, author who collaborates with FBI agent John E. Douglas in books regarding criminal and investigative psychology
Michael Punke, writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney best known for writing the novel The Revenant (2002), which was adapted into film as The Revenant (2015)
Josh Rogin, CNN political analyst
Hilary Rosen, on-air contributor for CNN; consultant, political director and Washington editor at large for The Huffington Post; former CEO of the RIAA
Sydney Sadick, television personality and publisher of Spotlight Magazine
Glenn R. Simpson, journalist for Wall Street Journal
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of Jacobin
Chuck Todd (1991), NBC News political director
Geovanny Vicente, political strategist and columnist for CNN
Murray Waas, award-winning journalist and author, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, The National Journal, and The Boston Globe
Brian Williams, former NBC Nightly News anchor
Bob Woodward, editor at The Washington Post, famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal

Pulitzer Prize

George D. Beveridge, winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Emily Green, one of the inaugural recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2020 for her work with This American Life concerning the personal impact of the "Remain in Mexico" policy
Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Anders Gyllenhaal, chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board
Diana B. Henriques, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Michael Kammen, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History
William McPherson, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Mark Schleifstein, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and part of a New Orleans Times-Picayune team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Deborah Solomon, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Ginger Thompson, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Bob Woodward, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Activism

Rita Banerji, gender activist
Henry Berg-Brousseau, transgender rights activist
Roslyn Brock, chairman of the NAACP
Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, political activist
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, civil rights activist
Kraisak Choonhavan, Thai human rights activist
Richard Cizik, environmental activist
David A. Clarke, civil rights activist
Watson Davis, science education activist
Nicholas Eftimiades, founder of the Federation of Galaxy Explorers
Tom Fitton, current president of Judicial Watch
Jason Franklin, urban policy activist
Marc Garlasco, senior military expert for Human Rights Watch
Margery E. Goldberg, public arts activist
Jane Briggs Hart, anti-war activist
Jeanne Henriquez, women's rights activist
Ida Hinman, suffragette and feminist activist
Jonathan D. Katz (BA '81), founder of Queer Nation
Kivutha Kibwana, Kenyan human rights activist
Brittany Lewis, domestic violence activist
Ángel Lozada, HIV activist
Bari Lurie, chief of staff at the Clinton Foundation
Kati Marton, chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition
Stephanie K. Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Alex Pacheco, co-founder and Chairman of PETA
Amien Rais, leader of the Indonesian reform movement
Zohra Rasekh, Afghan doctor and women's rights activist
Arlene Raven, feminist activist
Nikolas Schiller, cannabis reform activist
Mercedes Schlapp, Tea Party movement activist
Paul Shapiro, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States
Omega Silva, universal health care activist
Kim A. Snyder, chronic fatigue syndrome activist
Leah Soibel, executive director of Fuente Latina
A. L. Steiner, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
Wong Chin Foo, Chinese-American activist
Raul Yzaguirre, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza

Entertainment

Casey Affleck, actor (did not graduate)
Angela Aki, singer-songwriter (Final Fantasy XII)
Patricia Altschul, socialite and art collector
Emily Axford, actor
Alec Baldwin, actor (did not graduate)
Reem Bassous, visual artist
Ned Bittinger, portrait painter and illustrator
William Peter Blatty, writer and filmmaker who wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version, for which he won an Academy Award
Irvin Bomb, artist
Warren Brown, TV host on the Food Network
Courteney Cox (Mt. Vernon alumni), actress
Christopher Pearse Cranch, writer and artist
Merce Cunningham (attended), dancer and choreographer
Manish Dayal, actor, known for 90210
Lester del Rey, author, founded Del Rey Books
Donna Dixon, actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd
Isaac Fitzgerald, writer
Adam Friedland, stand-up comedian, talk-show host and podcaster
Ina Garten, host of Barefoot Contessa
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), current president of the Motion Picture Association of America
Haddaway, Trinidadian singer most famous for "What Is Love" single
Taylor Hale, winner of Big Brother 24, Miss Michigan USA 2021
Kevin Peter Hall, actor, Predator
Haroon, graduate in Business Administration, Pakistani singer, composer, musician and engineer
Reona Ito, music conductor (alumnus of the Elliott School)
Chris Kilmore, turntablist for the band Incubus
David Lynch, director and artist
Rooney Mara (attended), actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Ross Martin, television, film, radio actor; Wild, Wild West
Eliza McLamb, singer-songwriter and podcast host (did not graduate)
Dina Merrill, actress and socialite
T.J. Miller, actor and stand-up comedian, Silicon Valley
Naeto C, Nigerian rapper
Lee Phillip, Korean American actor
Adam Richman (attended for one year), indie pop singer-songwriter
Mark Russell, satirist and comedian
Annika Sharma, author
Whitney Sudler-Smith, television personality and socialite
Clay Travis, sports columnist and author
Kerry Washington (1998), actress
Andrew Weitz, fashion stylist and former talent agent
Bill Westenhofer, Academy Award-winning visual effects artist
Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer
Scott Wolf (1991), actor
Rachel Zoe, celebrity fashion stylist

First Family and royalty

David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and son-in-law of President Richard Nixon
Susan Ford, daughter of U.S. President Gerald Ford
Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States
Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Persia
Elisabeth Delatour Préval, First Lady of Haiti
Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud of Saudi Arabia
Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman
Princess Sonam Dechen Wangchuck of Bhutan

Religion

Bernard P. Brockbank, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
J. Reuben Clark, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Matthew Cowley, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Frank Joseph Dewane, Roman Catholic Bishop of Venice, Florida
Violet L. Fisher, bishop of the United Methodist Church
Jonathan Hausman, rabbi of Ahavath Torah
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology (did not graduate)
George V. Murry, Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown
Gregory V. Palmer, bishop of the United Methodist Church
Richard G. Scott, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Marc Stanley, chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council
William C. Wantland, episcopal bishop of Eau Claire

Sciences

Patch Adams, physician and comedian portrayed in a 1998 movie
Yousef Alhorr, environmentalist known for his work in the field of sustainable built environment and climate actions
Ralph Alpher, "father of the Big Bang theory"
Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems; patroness of private space flight; first female space tourist
Paul Antony, chief medical officer of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Serena M. Auñón, physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
Julius Axelrod, biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
Neal D. Barnard, physician, author, clinical researcher, founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Jessie G. Beach, paleontologist and museum aide^[22]
Patricia Wilson Berger, president of the American Library Association
Dr. Lisa Bowleg, professor of Applied Social Psychology
Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding^[23] and vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries^[24]^[25]
James Carroll, president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Peter Caws, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
Captain Michael Coats (1977), astronaut and Space Shuttle commander
Charles Critchfield, physicist of the Manhattan Project
Frederick D. Gregory, interim administrator of NASA
Michael Griffin, 11th administrator of NASA
Todd B. Hawley, co-founder of the International Space University
L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics
Nancy B. Jackson, president of the American Chemical Society
Howard Judd, menopause expert and medical researcher
Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD 1861), personal physician to President Abraham Lincoln
Allenna Leonard, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
Hans Lineweaver (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1933), physical chemist who developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot
Marcus Ward Lyon Jr., president of the American Society of Mammalogists
James Morhard, 14th deputy-administrator of NASA
Constance Tom Noguchi, sickle cell disease researcher, NIDDK
Wanda Peters, aeputy associate administrator for Programs at NASA and member of Senior Executive Service
Marcus Boyd Shook, physician, president of the American Society of Internal Medicine
Matthew Stirling, ethnologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites
James E. Webb, second administrator of NASA
Ashani Weeraratna, cancer researcher

Athletics

Brendan Adams (born 2000), professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Red Auerbach (1940, 1941), president of the Boston Celtics
Brendon Ayanbadejo (MBA, 2013), football player, Super Bowl champion, Baltimore Ravens
Mike Brey (1982), current head coach, Notre Dame men's basketball team
Moti Daniel (1987), Israeli, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League and for the Israel national basketball team
Yinka Dare (attended 1993–1994), basketball player, New Jersey Nets
David Falk (J.D., 1975), sports agent
John Flaherty (1988), former Major League Baseball player
David Haggerty, current president of the International Tennis Federation
Mike Hall (2006), basketball forward, Washington Wizards and overseas leagues, basketball coach
Ray Hanken (1911–1980), football player
Wayne Hart (1912), member of the All-South Atlantic football team for four years; coached Washington Vigilants and Clemson Agricultural College
Jonquel Jones, WNBA player, former basketball center for the Connecticut Sun, currently on New York Liberty, 2021 WNBA MVP, 2024 WNBA champion with the New York Liberty and 2024 Finals MVP
Lubomir Kavalek (1975), chess grandmaster
Tuffy Leemans (1936), football running back, Pro Football Hall of Fame, New York Giants
Ivan Leshinsky (born 1947), American-Israeli basketball player
Theodore N. Lerner (1948), owner of the Washington Nationals
Randy Levine (B.A., 1977), president of the New York Yankees
Ricky Lindo (born 2000), American-Panamanian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Larry MacPhail, National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Pops Mensah-Bonsu (2006), basketball forward, Galatasaray S.K., NBA executive
Ronnie Nunn, former referee for the National Basketball Association
Michael O'Connor (2002), baseball pitcher, Washington Nationals
Sam Perlozzo (1973), former manager, Baltimore Orioles; current third base coach, Seattle Mariners
J. R. Pinnock (2006), basketball guard
Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker
Abe Pollin (1945), owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals
Justin Prinstein, inaugural player in the Israel Baseball League
Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls
Gregg Ritchie (1987), former MLB hitting coach, Pittsburgh Pirates; head coach George Washington Colonials baseball since 2013
Seth Rudolph, professional soccer player
Joel Segal ('86), sports agent, 2016 "The NFL's 100 Most Important People" and Forbes' "World's Most Powerful Sports Agents"
Chet Simmons, 1st commissioner of the United States Football League
William W. Skinner, head football coach for University of Maryland, College Park and University of Arizona
Mike Sommer (1958), member of college football team, played in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, and the Oakland Raiders
Jim Tennant, former MLB player
Jack Toomay, former Major League Baseball player
Tom Walter, head baseball coach for Wake Forest University
Yuta Watanabe, Japanese NBA player
Bernie Wolfe (born 1951), NHL hockey player

Olympics

Aquil Abdullah, rower at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sameera Al-Bitar, swimmer at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics
Álvaro Fortuny, swimmer at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
Patricio Garino, basketball player at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Josiah Henson, wrestler at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Elana Meyers (BS '06, MA '11), bobsledder at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics
Ugo Oha, basketball player at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gerald F. Russell, runner at the 1940 Summer Olympics
Alice Schmidt, runner at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics
Chad Senior, pentathlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
Dallas Shirley, basketball player at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Ben Stevens, president of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games

Other

Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist and principal member of al-Qaeda
John Calder Brennan (Law, 1937), historian
Barbara Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), First Lady of the United States
George Herbert Walker Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), president of the United States
Robert L. Dale, pilot for the National Science Foundation
Cathryn S. Dippo, statistician
Harrison Howell Dodge (1852–1937), appointed as resident superintendent of Mount Vernon in 1885, serving 52 years in the position until his death^[26]
Alfred McAdams, painter
Gustavo A. Mellander (AB, MA, PhD History 1966), university dean for 15 years; college president for 20 years; member of New Jersey State Board of Education
Mona Al Munajjed, United Nations official
Patrick O'Connell, three-star Michelin chef at The Inn at Little Washington (the only three-star Michelin restaurant in the region) and National Humanities Medalist
Frank Robinson (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), Baseball Hall of Famer, manager of the Washington Nationals
Jackie Ronne, Antarctic explorer, first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition
Nikolas Schiller, mapmaker
Roger Stone, opposition research consultant for the Republican National Committee
Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
Geovanny Vicente, CNN columnist and political strategist
John Appleton Wilson, architect

References

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^ "The History Makers". Other EducationMakers. The History Makers. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
^ L. Stanley Crane was elected in 1978 as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering
^ "Missouri Governor Mel Eugene Carnahan". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
^ "Wyoming Governor Fenimore Chatterton". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
^ "Adam McMullen". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
^ "Legislator Information". services.statescape.com. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
^ Arkansas House of Representatives biography: Charlie Collins Archived December 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ Vermont Legislative Directory. Montpelier, VT: Vermont Secretary of State. 1979. p. 198.
^ "Tom Greenwell". ncrptx.com. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
^ "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services. July 1, 2006.
^ "Maine House of Representatives". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
^ Masood, Salman (August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi: What You Need to Know About Pakistan's New Prime Minister". New York Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
^ "Profile: Faure Gnassingbe". April 2, 2005.
^ "Late journalist-diplomat Joe Hung remembered as man of erudition and veracity". Eye on Taiwan Media. March 6, 2018. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
^ "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta".
^ Jensen, Lori (October 25, 2019). "Speaker Biography, William D. Cohen". VTACDL Fall Continuing Legal Education. Essex Junction, VT: Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
^ "Biography, Major General John Cleland - US Army (Retired)". Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Tallahassee, Florida: Florida Veterans Hall of Fame Society. 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
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^ West Point Magazine Spring 2023
^ Hernandez, Lezlie (September 2, 2021). "Spotlight on Jessie G. Beach, Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology Staff Member". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
^ "Profile: Jennifer Boykin, Newport News Shipbuilding president". Daily Press (Virginia). August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
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[1] Who's Who in America, 1982–1983 (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1982), p. 2844

[THM-2] "The History Makers". Other EducationMakers. The History Makers. Retrieved December 6, 2015.

[NAE-3] L. Stanley Crane was elected in 1978 as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering

[4] "Missouri Governor Mel Eugene Carnahan". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

[5] "Wyoming Governor Fenimore Chatterton". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

[6] "Adam McMullen". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 24, 2012.

[7] "Legislator Information". services.statescape.com. Retrieved December 18, 2023.

[8] Arkansas House of Representatives biography: Charlie Collins Archived December 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[9] Vermont Legislative Directory. Montpelier, VT: Vermont Secretary of State. 1979. p. 198.

[10] "Tom Greenwell". ncrptx.com. Retrieved July 24, 2013.

[11] "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services. July 1, 2006.

[12] "Maine House of Representatives". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2024.

[13] Masood, Salman (August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi: What You Need to Know About Pakistan's New Prime Minister". New York Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.

[14] "Profile: Faure Gnassingbe". April 2, 2005.

[eyetai-15] "Late journalist-diplomat Joe Hung remembered as man of erudition and veracity". Eye on Taiwan Media. March 6, 2018. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.

[16] "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta".

[17] Jensen, Lori (October 25, 2019). "Speaker Biography, William D. Cohen". VTACDL Fall Continuing Legal Education. Essex Junction, VT: Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

[Hall2013-18] "Biography, Major General John Cleland - US Army (Retired)". Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Tallahassee, Florida: Florida Veterans Hall of Fame Society. 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2025.

[19] West Point Association of Graduates

[20] At 105, Colorado veteran is West Point’s oldest living graduate

[21] West Point Magazine Spring 2023

[:2-22] Hernandez, Lezlie (September 2, 2021). "Spotlight on Jessie G. Beach, Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology Staff Member". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

[daily-23] "Profile: Jennifer Boykin, Newport News Shipbuilding president". Daily Press (Virginia). August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[pilot-24] "Newport News Shipbuilding president Matt Mulherin to retire". The Virginian-Pilot. May 4, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[huntington-25] "Jennifer Boykin - Executive Vice President and President, Newport News Shipbuilding". Huntington Ingalls Industries. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[26] Staff. "COL. HARRISON DODGE, MT. VERNON CUSTODIAN; Superintendent of Washington's Home Since 1885—Made Many Improvements", The New York Times, May 21, 1937. Accessed July 24, 2010.

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