Starf*ck (party) - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes (1881), father of American public school education Horace Mann (1819), philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1897), Secretary of State John Hay (1852), philosopher, civil libertarian, and Amherst College president Alexander Meiklejohn, first president of the University of South Carolina Jonathan Maxcy (1787), Bates College founder Oren B. Cheney (1836), Governor of Wyoming Territory and Governor of Nebraska John Milton Thayer (1841), longest-serving University of Michigan president (1871–1909) James Burrill Angell (1849), notable University of California president (1899–1919) Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875), Morehouse College's first African-American president John Hope (1894), magazine editor John F. Kennedy, Jr. '83, diplomat Richard Holbrooke '62, World Bank president and former Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim '82, NASA head during first seven Apollo missions Thomas O. Paine '42, chief scientist NASA Mars and lunar programs James B. Garvin '78.

Alumni who are currently governors of states are Bobby Jindal '91 of Louisiana, Maggie Hassan '80 of New Hampshire, Jack Markell '82 of Delaware, and Lincoln Chafee '75 of Rhode Island.

Business and finance figures include IBM chair and CEO Thomas Watson, Jr. '37, CNN founder and America's Cup yachtsman Ted Turner '60, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan '81, financial analyst Meredith Whitney, McKinsey & Co. co-founder and father of modern management consulting Marvin Bower '25, Group of Thirty member and Citibank chairman William R. Rhodes '57, Chase Bank chairman and CEO Willard C. Butcher '48, Tiffany & Co CEO Walter Hoving '20, Motorola and Eastman Kodak chairman and CEO George M. C. Fisher (ScM '64, PhD '66), NASDAQ first president and CEO Gordon Macklin '50, Quadrangle Group founder and Treasury Department "Car Czar" for auto industry reorganization Steven Rattner '74, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner, Annette Nazareth '78.

Alumni in the computer sciences and industry include Apple Macintosh and Mac OS designer Andy Hertzfeld '75, architect of Intel 386, 486, and Pentium microprocessors John H. Crawford '75, first Microsoft Windows project chief Brad Silverberg, Apple Computer CEO (1983–1993) John Sculley '61, MIT computer science chair John Guttag '71, University of Washington computer science chair Ed Lazowska '72, inventor of the first silicon transistor Gordon Kidd Teal '31.

Alumni in the arts and media include actress Laura Linney '86, actor John Krasinski '01, Modern Family actress Julie Bowen '91, Harry Potter films actress Emma Watson '13, MSNBC program hosts Chris Hayes '01 and Alex Wagner '99, NPR program host Ira Glass '82, singer-composer Mary Chapin Carpenter '81, CSI: NY actor Hill Harper, musicians Damian Kulash '98 and Dhani Harrison '02, film directors Todd Haynes '85, Doug Liman '88, and Davis Guggenheim '86, and director-actor Tim Blake Nelson '86, New Yorker humorist and Marx Brothers screenwriter S.J. Perelman '25, novelists Nathanael West '24, Jeffrey Eugenides '83, Rick Moody '83, Edwidge Danticat (MFA '93), and Marilynne Robinson '66, playwrights Sarah Ruhl '97, Lynn Nottage '86, Richard Foreman '59, Alfred Uhry '58, and Nilo Cruz (MFA '94), actress Jo Beth Williams '70, composer Duncan Sheik '92, singer Lisa Loeb '90, Rockefeller Center and Tribune Tower architect Raymond Hood (1902), composer and synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos '62, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen '77, film producer DJ Paul '90, actor Randall Batinkoff '90, TV personality Karyn Bryant '90, composer Rusty Magee, political pundit Mara Liasson, 20th Century Fox Film Group president Tom Rothman '76, Black Entertainment Television chairman and CEO Debra L. Lee '76, HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg '77, MTV Films and Nick Movies president Scott Aversano '91, CNN US News Operations president Jonathan Klein '80, Bravo TV president Lauren Zalaznick '84.

Other notable alumni include Pro Football Hall of Fame sportscaster Chris Berman '77, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno '50, Heisman Trophy namesake John W. Heisman '91, Pollard Award namesake and first black All-American and NFL head coach Fritz Pollard '19, National Security Council counter-terrorism director RP Eddy '94, presidential advisor Ira Magaziner '69, founder of The Gratitude Network and The Intersection event Randy Haykin '85. Also royals and nobles such as Prince Rahim Aga Khan, Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein, Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, Prince Nikita Romanov, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jaime of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of San Jaime and Count of Bardi, Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid, Lady Gabriella Windsor, Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg and Countess Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli.

New York Institute of Technology president Edward Guiliano, Nobel Laureates Craig Mello '82 and Jerry White '87, Cooley-Tukey FFT algorithm co-originator John Wilder Tukey '36, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard Adam Ulam '44, physicist Lewis E. Little '62, Lasker Award winning biologist and founder of microbial pathogenesis Stanley Falkow (PhD '59), MIT neuroscience department chair Mark F. Bear (B.A. '78, Ph.D '84), Penn psychologist, Lasker Award winner and cognitive therapy originator Aaron Beck '50, John Bates Clark Medal winning MIT economist Jerry A. Hausman '68, University of Chicago School of Law dean Daniel Fischel, Chicago Booth economist Randall Kroszner '84, Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer (legal scholar), '80, and Arthur L. Horwich.

Notable past or current faculty have included Nobel Laureates Lars Onsager, George Stigler, Vernon L. Smith, George Snell and Leon Cooper, Fields Medal winning mathematician David Mumford, mathematician Ulf Grenander, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood, Sakurai Prize winning physicist Gerald Guralnik for co-elucidation of the Higgs mechanism, award-winning physicist John M. Kosterlitz of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, computer scientist and inventor of hypertext Andries van Dam, computer scientist Robert Sedgewick, prominent engineers Daniel C. Drucker, L. Ben Freund, and Mayo D. Hersey, BrainGate inventor John Donoghue (Ph.D 79'), neuroscientist Mark F. Bear (B.A '78, Ph.D '82), biologist and prominent advocate of biological evolution Kenneth R. Miller, first president of the American Sociological Association Lester Frank Ward, economists Hyman Minsky, Peter MacAvoy, who was a former member of the US Council of Economic Advisers, William Poole (economist), Ross Levine, Oded Galor and Peter Howitt (economist), former Prime Minister of Italy and former EU chief Romano Prodi, former President of Brazil Fernando Cardoso, former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos, writers Carlos Fuentes, Chinua Achebe, Robert Coover, and Keith Waldrop, former Presidents of the American Philosophical Association Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, philosophers Curt Ducasse, Roderick Chisholm, and Martha Nussbaum, linguist Hans Kurath, political scientist James Morone and Senior Fellow Sergei Khrushchev.