Marshall Scholars - Notable Marshall Scholars

Notable Marshall Scholars

Marshall Scholars can now be found among prominent CEOs, Supreme Court justices, members of the United States Congress, members of the Presidential Cabinet of the United States, university presidents, Pulitzer Prize winning authors, and leaders in many academic and professional disciplines.

• Graham Allison – Noted foreign policy expert and founding dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; former undersecretary of Defense
• Anne Applebaum – Pulitzer Prize winning author/journalist and columnist for the Washington Post
• Bruce Babbitt – Former Governor of Arizona and U.S. Secretary of the Interior for President Bill Clinton
• Daniel Benjamin Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Ambassador at Large State Department
• Mark R Bell – Senior fellow at Emory University's Center for Alternative Investments and investor
• Lael Brainard – Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
• Rosa Brooks – Counselor to the Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense; Los Angeles Times Columnist and Georgetown law professor
• Stephen Brusatte – Paleontologist, co-creator of taxonsearch and discoverer of Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis.
• Bill Buford – Founding editor of Granta, The New Yorker staff writer
• Stephen Breyer – Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1994
• William Joseph Burns – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; former Undersecretary of State; former United States Ambassador to Russia
• Patrick M. Byrne – Chairman of the Board and President of Overstock.com
• Thomas Carothers – Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Ted Conover – Noted author, essayist and journalist
• Richard Cordray – Directory of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Drew Daniel – member of Matmos and professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Ray Dolby – Inventor of Dolby Sound and Chairman of Dolby Laboratories
• Mary E. Edgerton – Surgical Pathologist and Director of Biorepository Informatics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Thomas Eugene Everhart – Physicist and former President of the California Institute of Technology
• Mark Filip – United States Deputy Attorney General
• Benjamin M. Friedman – American political economist
• Thomas Friedman – Multiple Pulitzer Prize winning author/journalist and columnist for the New York Times
• James K. Galbraith – Economist and journalist
• Jonathan Galassi – President, Farrar Straus and Giroux
• Jeffrey Gettleman – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the New York Times
• James F. Gilliam – biologist and ISI highly cited researcher
• Neil Gorsuch – Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
• Kelly Grovier – Poet and literary critic for The Observer and The Times Literary Supplement
• Alfred Guzzetti – Experimental and Documentary Filmmaker and Harvard University Professor
• Jenny Harrison – Mathematician and Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Reid Hoffman – Founder of LinkedIn
• Edward Hundert – Educator, psychiatrist, and medical ethicist
• Stephen Jennings, Co-CEO, Monitor Group
• John Jay Iselin – Former president of Cooper Union, former president of WNET
• Marty Kaplan – Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment
• Nannerl Keohane – Former President of both Duke University (1993–2004) and Wellesley College (1981–1993)
• Charles King – Georgetown University professor and author
• Derek Kilmer – U.S. Representative for Washington's 6th Congressional District
• Andrew Klaber – Orphans Against AIDS founder and Paulson & Co investment professional
• Michael Klarman – Bancroft Prize winner and constitutional law scholar at Harvard Law School
• Kris Kobach – Secretary of State of Kansas (2011–present); also notable as a drafter of Arizona SB 1070 and Alabama HB 56, two controversial measures seeking to discourage illegal immigration to those states
• Harold Koh – Legal Adviser of the Department of State; former Dean of the Yale Law School
• Peter Kramer – Author of Listening to Prozac (1993)
• Nicole Krauss – Novelist, History of Love
• Melissa Lane – Professor of political theory at Princeton University
• David Laibson – Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Seth Lloyd – Quantum Information Scientist
• Nancy Lublin – Creator and Founder, Dress for Success, and CEO, Do Something
• Scott MacIntyre – Musician and American Idol Season 8 contestant
• George Marcus - Anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine and Rice University
• Douglas A. Melton – Professor and chair of the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and HHMI investigator
• Jeff Modisett – Former Attorney General of the U.S. State of Indiana
• Robert Oden – Former president of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and former president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio
• Joshua Oppenheimer – award-winning documentary film director.
• Jonathan Orszag – former Clinton Administration economic advisor and Senior Managing Director of Compass Lexecon
• Peter Orszag – Director, OMB; former Director, Congressional Budget Office
• Jeffrey Rosen – Author, law professor, and legal affairs editor at The New Republic
• Jeffrey Rosensweig – Author, Director of Global Perspectives at the Goizueta School of Business of Emory University.
• Warwick Sabin – writer, politician, and editor "Oxford American"
• Lewis Sargentich – Professor at Harvard Law School
• Sandra E. Shumway – Research Professor, University of Connecticut; marine scientist
• A. Benjamin Spencer – Professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law
• John Spratt – Congressman for South Carolina's 5th congressional district
• Steven Strogatz – applied mathematician (complex networks)
• Kathleen Sullivan – Professor and former Dean of the Stanford Law School
• Roger Tsien – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
• Ed Victor – journalist and literary agent
• Mark Whitaker – Senior Vice President of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek
• Daniel Yergin – Pulitzer Prize winning author and noted economic researcher
• Kurt M. Campbell – Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Samuel Rascoff – Professor at NYU School of Law