Notable Members
- Joseph Lieberman, United States Senator from Connecticut
- Robert B. Semple, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning associate editor, editorial page, The New York Times
- William McChesney Martin, Jr., longest-serving Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
- Jim Amoss, editor, New Orleans Times-Picayune, winner, Pulitzer Prize
- James H. Ottaway, Jr., executive, major shareholder, board member, Dow Jones & Company; prominent role in contesting sale to Rupert Murdoch
- Eli Whitney Debevoise, diplomat, attorney; founder, Debevoise & Plimpton
- James C. Goodale former vice chairman New York Times, First Amendment lawyer, author Fighting for the Press.
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., former United States Ambassador to China
- Jonathan Bush, American banker, former Republican Party fundraiser
- Sam Waterston, (honorary), television and screen actor; Law & Order
- Cesar Pelli, (honorary), architect, former dean, Yale School of Architecture
- John E. Pepper, Jr., (honorary), former Procter & Gamble CEO
- Sheila Jackson-Lee, United States Congresswoman
- Radhika Coomaraswamy, Under Secretary-General, United Nations
- Peter Beinart, editor, The New Republic
- Leslie Cockburn, journalistic, writer, documentary filmmaker
- Roy D. Chapin, Jr., chairman, chief executive officer, American Motors Corporation
- Robert Bruner, dean, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
- James Kugel, author, Biblical scholar
- John Robson, United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Chairman, Export-Import Bank; Dean, Goizueta Business School, Emory University; CEO, G. D. Searle & Company
- David Dellinger, anti-Vietnam War activist, socialist, author; member, the Chicago Seven
- Barton Biggs, longtime Morgan Stanley strategist, author, hedge fund principal
- Paul Monette, National Book Award-winning author, gay activist
- Alexander Garvin, urban planning authority, author, educator
- Steven Newhouse, executive, family-owned Advance Publications
- Stuart Symington, United States Senator from Missouri
- Thomas Powers, intelligence expert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Hugh D. Auchincloss, attorney, stockbroker
- Timothy Winston Childs, Arabist, diplomat, author
- Charles Pillsbury, attorney, mediator, community activist, New Haven; name is source for Yale roommate Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip character
- Troy Kinney, artist, illustrator
- Sir John Templeton, mutual fund founder, philanthropist, John Templeton Foundation
- John Templeton, Jr, MD, foundation president, John Templeton Foundation
- Henry Roe Cloud, first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale, reformer, educator
- Lloyd Kaufman, independent low-budget filmmaker, founder, Troma Studios
- James Franciscus, television and screen actor
- Lan Samantha Chang, author, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Robert G. Kaiser, former managing editor, The Washington Post
- Robert A.M. Stern, (honorary), award-winning architect, author, Dean, Yale School of Architecture
- Sarah Sze, sculptor, MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award' recipient
- Ranidu Lankage, Sri Lankan popstar
- David Shire, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and composer; scored The Conversation for brother-in-law Francis Ford Coppola
- Lloyd Cutler, attorney, White House Counsel; founding partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
- David Quammen, environmental writer, biographer of Charles Darwin
- Katherine Borowitz, American actress, wife of actor John Turturro
- Philip Geyelin, longtime editor, editorial page, The Washington Post
- Robert Christopher, founding editor, Newsweek International; managing editor, GEO magazine; administrator, Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University
- Hanon Reznikov, theater and film actor, co-director of The Living Theater, New York City
- Javade Chaudhri, EVP, General Counsel, Sempra Energy
- Peter Salovey, (honorary), Professor of Psychology, current Provost, Yale University
- Howard Lamar, (honorary), Professor of History, President of Yale University
- Robert Penn Warren, (honorary), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet; Professor of English, Yale University
- R. W. B. Lewis, (honorary), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Edith Wharton; Professor of American Studies, Yale University
- George Pataki, (honorary), Governor of New York
- C. Vann Woodward, (honorary), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; Professor of History, Yale University
- Kenneth Scott Latourette, (honorary), Professor of Christian Missions, Yale University
- Cleanth Brooks, (honorary), Professor of English, Yale University; leading authority on William Faulkner
- David E. Apter, (honorary), Henry J. Heinz professor of political science, Yale University
- Elizabeth Alexander, (honorary), professor of African American studies, Yale University, delivered Presidential Inaugural Poem, January 2009
- Akhil Amar,(honorary), American legal scholar, Yale University
- John Negroponte, (honorary), American Ambassador and Director of National Intelligence
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