Notable Members
| Name | Yale Class | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Cord Meyer, Jr. | 1943 | Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists |
| Frank Polk | 1894 | Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I |
| Dean Acheson | 1915 | 51st Secretary of State |
| Cyrus Vance | 1939 | 57th Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. |
| Theodore Runyon | 1842 | Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run |
| Sargent Shriver | 1938 | Peace Corps; 1972 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Allen Wardwell | 1895 | Russian War Relief, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Bank of New York; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. |
| John Enders | 1919 | shared 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| William C. Bullitt | 1912 | US Ambassador, France, '36-'41, first US Ambassador, Soviet Russia, '33-'36. |
| Huntington D. Sheldon | 1925 | Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Current Intelligence; President, Petroleum Corporation of America. |
| Warren Zimmermann | 1956 | US Ambassador, Yugoslavia, 1989–1992; author of book about the causes of Yugoslavia's dissolution. |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth | 1956 | President, Middle East Institute; US Ambassador to Jordan; American Iranian Council. |
| Lewis Sheldon | 1895 | US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field. |
| Raymond R. Guest | 1931 | US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945–47; horse breeder; polo Hall of fame. |
| Thomas Enders | 1953 | Ambassador, Spain '83-'86, Assistant Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ambassador to the European Union '79-'81, Ambassador to Canada, '76-'79; Salomon Brothers |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1960 | 16th Yale University president; National League president, MLB Commissioner |
| Paul Mellon | 1929 | philanthropist |
| Robert R. McCormick | 1903 | Chicago Tribune; Kirkland & Ellis |
| Henry deForest | 1876 | Southern Pacific Railroad |
| Fareed Zakaria | 1986 | Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show, Former Yale Corporation Member (Resigned 2012) |
| J. Peter Grace | 1936 | W. R. Grace & Co. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt III | 1895 | Vanderbilt heir. |
| James Stillman Rockefeller | 1924 | President and Chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew |
| Brewster Jennings | 1920 | Founder and President of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York; president, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research |
| Gilbert Colgate | 1883 | President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. |
| Benjamin Brewster | 1929 | Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon). |
| Seymour H. Knox | 1920 | American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company. |
| Donald R. McLennan | 1931 | Founder and Chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan |
| Stone Phillips | 1977 | Dateline NBC |
| Peter H. Dominick | 1937 | US Senator 1962-1974 (Colorado); US Congressman, 1960–1962; US Ambassador, Switzerland. |
| Gideon Rose | 1985 | Foreign Affairs |
| Philip B. Heymann | 1954 | Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy US Attorney General; Professor, Harvard Law School. |
| Joseph M. Patterson | 1901 | Founder, New York Daily News; manager, Chicago Tribune |
| George Edgar Vincent | 1885 | President of the University of Minnesota; President of the Rockefeller Foundation |
| Ethan A. H. Shepley | 1918 | Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Robert D. Orr | 1940 | Governor of Indiana; US Ambassador, Singapore. |
| Joseph Medill McCormick | 1900 | U.S. Senate '19-'24, Publisher, Chicago Tribune. |
| James C. Auchincloss, | 1908 | Representative, US Congress 1943-1965, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence WWI. |
| Herbert Parsons | 1890 | US Congress '04-'10; leading supporter of League of Nations. |
| Fred Dubois | 1872 | First US Senator from Idaho 1891-1897, resigned, re-elected 1901-1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho. |
| Richardson Dilworth | 1921 | Mayor of Philadelphia 1955-1962. |
| John Hay Whitney | 1926 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, major philanthropist to Yale University, and during his college years coined the phrase "crew cut". |
| Frederick B. Dent | 1944 | US Secretary of Commerce. |
| John Dalzell | 1865 | US Congress |
| Wayne Chatfield-Taylor | 1916 | President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. |
| William Nelson Runyon | 1892 | acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 - Jan 1920) |
| Newbold Morris | 1925 | New York lawyer and politician |
| Randall L. Gibson | 1853 | US Senator 1883-1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872–1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University. |
| Mortimer R. Proctor | 1912 | Governor of Vermont, 1945–47. |
| Frederic A. Potts | 1926 | Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate; Republican candidate, New Jersey Governor |
| Carter Henry Harrison | 1845 | Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879-93; US Representative, 1875–79; cousin of President William Henry Harrison. |
| George Shiras Jr. | 1853 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| Harvey Cushing | 1891 | Neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery |
| Dickinson W. Richards | 1917 | 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Benjamin Spock | 1925 | Baby & Child Care |
| Edward Salisbury Dana | 1871 | American mineralogist. |
| George Roy Hill | 1943 | 1974 Academy Award for Directing, The Sting |
| Cole Porter | 1913 | entertainer, song writer |
| James Gamble Rogers | 1889 | collegiate Gothic architecture, favored architect of Edward Harkness and designed many of Yale's buildings |
| Garry Trudeau | 1970 | Doonesbury Cartoonist |
| Dahlia Lithwick | 1990 | Editor at Newsweek and Slate |
| Peter Beinart | 1993 | Editor of The New Republic |
| Ari Shapiro | 2000 | White House Correspondent for National Public Radio |
| William Adams Delano | 1895 | Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale buildings. |
| Calvin Trillin | 1957 | American writer |
| John Vliet Lindsay | 1944 | 103rd Mayor of New York City 1966-1973
Congressman from New York City 1959-1965. |
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