Education and Academics
- James F. Barker (AM 1973): president of Clemson University
- Jessie Bernard (Ph.D. 1935): sociologist and noted feminist scholar
- Ewald W. Busse (M.D.) former dean of the Duke University School of Medicine
- Zhangliang Chen (PhD 1982): prominent Chinese scientist; president of China Agricultural University; member of the National People's Congress
- Thomas Lamb Eliot (AB 1862, AM 1866): founding board member and president of Reed College
- Henry Ware Eliot (AB 1863): father of poet T. S. Eliot; former president of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis
- Richard F. Giese (AM 1976): president of Mount Union College
- Ronald J. Gilson (BA 1968): Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University
- Nathan O. Hatch (AM 1972, PhD 1974): president of Wake Forest University
- Raelynn Hillhouse (AB): novelist, political scientist, national security expert
- Edward Singleton Holden (SB 1866): fifth president of the University of California; director of the Lick Observatory
- Robert C. Kolodny (MD 1969): author of numerous books on human sexuality
- Joyce Ladner (AM 1966, PhD 1968): sociologist and activist
- Dolores Baja-Lasán (PhD 1959): chancellor of the Philippine Women's University System
- Max Lerner (AM 1925): intellectual, critic, and author
- Donald Livingston (PhD 1965): renowned constitutional scholar
- Walter E. Massey (AM 1966, PhD 1966): president of Morehouse College
- Richard McKelvey (MA 1967): Political Scientist, specialized in mathematical theories of voting
- Horace Mitchell (AB 1968, MA 1969, PhD 1974): president of California State University Bakersfield
- Hiro Mukai (BS 1972): author of leading books on systems engineering
- Daniel Nathans (MD 1954): former president of Johns Hopkins University
- H. Richard Niebuhr (AM 1917): theologian
- Charles Van Ravenswaay (AB 1933, AM 1934): historian
- Abram L. Sachar (AB 1920, AM 1920): founding president of Brandeis University
- Ja Song (M.B.A. 1962, D.B.A. 1967): President of Yonsei University; Korean Minister of Education
- Barry Spizer (BS 1977): past president of the CCIM Institute of the National Association of Realtors
- Chia-Wei Woo (MA, PhD): founding president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; first Asian American to head a major U.S. university (San Francisco State University)
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