For a selected list of notable people who studied abroad (compiled and revised
by Erina Ushio'09, Aarish Riaz'10, and Pu Huang'09, and Georgi Cholakov'07)
click here or scroll down.
Harvard University, USA
Princeton University, USA
Yale University, USA
Keio University, Japan
Tokyo University, Japan
Oxford University, UK
University College London, UK
London School of Economics, UK
King's College, UK
Sorbonne University, France
Heidelberg University, Germany
National University of Singapore, Singapore
McGill University, Canada
University of Toronto, Canada
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Macalaster College, USA
For a list of selected Rhodes scholars click here or
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For a list of selected Marshall scholars click here
or scroll down.
For a list of selected Fulbright scholars click here
or scroll down.
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Moses Znaimer | Canadian media mogul | Canada | born 1942 |
| Takashi Yuasa | Japanese international lawyer | Japan | born 1955 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | World War II admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy | Japan | 1884-1943 |
| Donald Tsang | Politician, Chief Executive of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | born 1944 |
| Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada | Canada | 1919-2000 |
| Lorenzo M. Tañada | Philippine Senator, nationalist and civil libertarian | Philippine | 1898-1992 |
| Surakiart Sathirathai | Foreign Minister of Thailand | Thailand | born 1958 |
| Syngman Rhee | President of South Korea | South Korea | 1875-1965 |
| Edwin O. Reischauer | East Asian scholar, U.S. ambassador | Japan | 1910-1990 |
| Masako Owada | Crown Princess of Japan | Japan | born 1963 |
| Nabiel Makarim | Indonesian Environmental Minister | Indonesia | born 1945 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Prime Minister of Canada | Canada | born 1874 |
| Marc Kielburger | Canadian humanitarian and activist | Canada | born 1977 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Canadian scholar, professor & author, Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament | Canada | born 1947 |
| Rabab Fetieh | First Saudi Arabian female orthodontist | Saudi Arabia | born 1954 |
| Lucie Edwards | Canadian Diplomat | Canada | |
| Felipe Calderón Hinojosa | President of Mexico | Mexico | born 1962 |
| Ban Ki-moon | Eigth Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-?) | South Korea | born 1944 |
| Esko Aho | Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995) | Finland | born 1954 |
| Mahidol Adulyadej | Prince of Thailand, father of present king Bhumibol Adulyadej | Thailand | 1892-1929 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Syngman Rhee | 1st president of the Republic of Korea, 1st president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea | Republic of Korea | 1875-1965 |
| Chang-Rae Lee | Professor of writing, New York Times Bestselling Author | Korea | born 1965 |
| Andrew Yao | Computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Turing award | China | born 1946 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Karl Carstens | Fifth President of Germany (1979-1984) | Germany | born 1949 |
| Tansu Çiller | Prime Minister of Turkey (1993-1996) | Turkey | born 1946 |
| Ernesto Zedillo | President of Mexico (1994-2000) | Mexico | born 1951 |
| Wendell Mottley | Olympic medalist and subsequently a Minister of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad and Tobago | born 1941 |
| Sir Daryl Dawson | Justice of the High Court of Australia | Australia | born 1933 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Theodor Holm | "Ted" Nelson, Computer architect and visionary | U.S. | |
| Andrew Thomson | Minister for Sport and Tourism ,and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Games in the Australian Government 1997 - 1998 | Australia | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Dhan Gopal Mukerji | the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States | India | |
| Ong Iok-tek | Taiwanese scholar and early leader of the Taiwan independence movement. | Taiwan | |
| Charles Dickinson West | Mechanical technologist | Ireland | |
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| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Theodor Seuss Geisel | writer (Dr. Seuss) | United States | |
| Oscar Wilde | writer | Ireland | |
| Vikram Seth | writer | India | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Gandhi | Indian political leader | India | |
| Eileen Gray | Lacquer artist and designer | Ireland | |
| A.S. Anand | Chief Justice of India (1998-2001) | India | |
| Gabriel Bach | Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel | Israel | |
| Simon Li | Justice of Appeal and former Deputy Attorney General of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
| Chaim Herzog | Sixth president of Israel | Israel | |
| Jomo Kenyatta | Kenya's "founding father" | Kenya | |
| Junichiro Koizumi | Former prime minister of Japan | Japan | |
| Mulk Raj Anand | Pioneer of the English novel in India | India | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Harmodio Arias | President of Panama, 1932-1936 | Panama | 1886-1962 |
| Óscar Arias | President of Costa Rica (1986-1990), 2006-present and Nobel Prize winner | Costa Rica | born 1941 |
| Errol Walton Barrow | Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987 | Barbados | 1920-1987 |
| Marek Belka | Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-2005 | Poland | born 1952 |
| Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto | Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961 | Peru | 1897-1979 |
| Maurice Bishop | Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-1983) | Grenada | 1944-1983 |
| Heinrich Brüning | Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932 | Germany | 1885-1970 |
| Kim Campbell | Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993 | Canada | born 1947 |
| Eugenia Charles | Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995 | Dominica | born 1919 |
| John Compton | Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996 | Saint Lucia | born 1926 |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-2005 | Nepal | born 1943 |
| Tuanku Jaafar | Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999 | Malaysia | born 1922 |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the United States 1961-1963 | United States | 1917-1963 |
| Jomo Kenyatta | First President of Kenya, 1964-1978 | Kenya | 1891-1978 |
| Mwai Kibaki | President of Kenya, 2002-present | Kenya | born 1931 |
| Tanin Kraivixien | Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977 | Thailand | born 1927 |
| Yu Kuo-Hwa | Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989 | Taiwan | 1914-2000 |
| Hilla Limann | President of Ghana | Ghana | 1934-1998 |
| Alfonso López Pumarejo | President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 942-1945 | Colombia | 1886-1959 |
| Michael Manley | Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992 | Jamaica | 1924-1997 |
| Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara | Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000 | Fiji | 1920-2004 |
| Queen Margrethe II | Queen of Denmark, 1972-present | Denmark | born 1940 |
| Beatriz Merino | First female Prime Minister of Peru, 2003-2003 | Peru | born 1947 |
| Sri K. R. Narayanan | President of India, 1997-2002 | India | 1921-2005) |
| Kwame Nkrumah | First President of Ghana, 1960-1966 | Ghana | 1909-1972 |
| Jacques Parizeau | Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995 | Quebec | born 1930 |
| Percival Patterson | Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present | Jamaica | born 1935 |
| Romano Prodi | Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998, 2006-present and President of the European Commission, 1999-2004 | Italy | born 1939 |
| Navinchandra Ramgoolam | Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000 | Mauritius | born 1947 |
| Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | Prime Minister of Mauritius (1961-1982) | Mauritius | 1900-1985 |
| Veerasamy Ringadoo | First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992 | Mauritius | 1920-2000 |
| Moshe Sharett | Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955 | Israel | 1894-1965 |
| Constantine Simitis | Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004 | Greece | born 1936 |
| Edward Szczepanik | Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile (1986 - 1990) | Poland | 1915-2005 |
| Anote Tong | President of Kiribati, 2003-present | Kiribati | born 1952 |
| Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984 | Canada | 1919-2000 |
| Lee Kuan Yew | Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990) | Singapore | born 1923 |
| Banja Tejan-Sie | Governor-General and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's Party in Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone | 1917-2000 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Desmond Tutu | First black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town | South Africa | |
| Muhammad Abdul Bari | Secretary General of Muslim Council of Britain | Bangladesh | |
| Sarojini Naidu | Freedom fighter | India | |
| Khushwant Singh | Novelist | Pakistan | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Michel Aflaq | The ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism | Syria | 1910-1989 |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Film director | Greece | born 1936 |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition | Italy | 1225-1274 |
| Joaquín Balaguer | Former President of the Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic | 1906-2002 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Head of the Catholic church | Germany | born 1927 |
| Habib Bourguiba | First President of Tunisia (1957-1987) | Tunisia | 1903?-2000 |
| Moshe Feldenkrais | Founder of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education | Ukraine, Israel | 1904-1984 |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house | USA | born 1919 |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Sixth Secretary General of the United Nations (1992-1996) | Egypt | born 1922 |
| Mahmoud Hessaby | Scientist and politician | Iran | 1903-1992 |
| Norman Mailer | Writer | USA | born 1923 |
| Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky | Mathematician, mechanician and physicist | Ukraine | 1801-1862 |
| Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia | Cambodian | 1925-1998 |
| Ibrahim Rugova | First President of Kosovo | Kosovo | 1944-2006 |
| Susan Sontag | Writer and activist | USA | 1933-2004 |
| Pierre Trudeau | Former Prime Minister | Canada | 1919-2000 |
| Marina Tsvetaeva | Poet and writer | Russia | 1892-1941 |
| Sam Waterston | Actor | USA | born 1940 |
| St. Francis Xavier | Co-founder of the Society of Jesus | Spain | 1506-1552 |
| Marie Curie | Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1903 | Poland | 1867-1934 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Michael Clyne | Linguist | Australia | |
| Alan Kreider | Pacifist and historian | United States | |
| G.E. Berrios | Epistemologist of psychiatry | Peru | |
| Jose Rizal | Nationalist | Philippines | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Mahathir bin Mohamad | 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia | Malaysia | |
| Tun Abdul Razak | 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia | Malaysia | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Ernest Rutherford | Nuclear physicist who became famous as the father of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom. | New Zealand | |
| Val Logsdon Fitch | Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1980 | United States | |
| Andrew Schally | Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine in 1977 | Poland | |
| Frederick Soddy | Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry in 1921 | UK | |
| Ismail al-Faruqi | Renowned Muslim philosopher and comparative religion scholar | Palestine | |
| Joseph B. Martin | Dean of the Harvard Medical School, former chair of neurology and neurosurgery | United States | |
| Fazlur Rahman | Well-known scholar of Islam | Pakistan | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Christopher Chetsanga | Professor University of Zimbabwe, discovered two DNA repair enzymes | Zimbabwe | |
| Walter Kohn | Pioneer of quantum chemistry | Austria | |
| Edward Rogers | Business tycoon, Rogers Communications | United States | |
| Thomas Sears | CEO of Royal Bank of Canada Insurance | United States | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Nagai Kafū | Japanese novelist, playwright, essayist, and diarist | Japan | |
| Richard Weizacker | Former President of Germany | Germany | |
| Masako Owada | Princess of Japan | Japan | |
| Kishore Mahbubani | President of the United Nations Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002 | India | |
| Tung-Yen Lin | World-renowned structural engineer best known as the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete | China | |
| Crown Prince Haakon of Norway | Heir apparent to the throne of Norway | Norway | |
| Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría | Economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician | Costa Rica | |
| James Chu-yu Soong | Politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan) | Taiwan | |
| Selman Abraham Waksman | Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine in 1952 | Ukraine | |
| Yuan Tseh Lee | Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry in 1986 | Taiwan | |
| Mario José Molina Henríquez | Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry in 1995 | Mexico | |
| Daniel Kahneman | Nobel Prize laureate in Economics in 2002 | Israel, France, USA | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | |
| Kofi Annan | Seventh Secretary General of the United Nations (1997-2007) | Ghana | born 1938 |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| John J. Tigert | US Commissioner of Education, 1921-1928 | USA | |
| Alain L. Locke | Philosopher and Harlem Renaissance patron | USA | |
| Earnest A. Hooten | Physical anthropologist | USA | |
| Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff | German diplomat, executed for conspiracy against Hitler | Germany | |
| J. H. Hofmeyr | South African liberal politician | South Africa | |
| Ralph V. L. Hartley | Telephone oscillator inventor | USA | |
| Edwin P. Hubble | Astronomer | USA | |
| Charles R. Clason | US Congressman | USA | |
| Norman W. Manley | Chief Minister of Jamaica, 1955-1959, Premier of Jamaica, 1959-1962 | Jamaica | |
| Roland Michener | Governor General of Canada, 1967-1974 | Canada | |
| Arthur Stanley Roe | First Rhodes Scholar from Australia | Australia | |
| Frank Aydelotte | President of Swarthmore College (1921-1940) | USA | |
| John Marshall Harlan II | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1955-1971 | USA | |
| Howard Florey | Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine in 1945 | Australia | |
| Fred Paterson | Australian Communist politician | Australia | |
| William E. Stevenson | Olympic gold medalist in 1924, President of Oberlin College (1946-1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1961-1965) | USA | |
| Sir John C. Eccles | Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine in 1963 | Australia | |
| J. William Fulbright | Senator for Arkansas (1945-1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program | USA | |
| Robert J. van de Graaff | Inventor of the eponymous Van de Graaff generator | USA | |
| Hervey M. Cleckley | Psychiatrist, pioneer in the field of psychopathy, co-author of The Three Faces of Eve | USA | |
| Robert Penn Warren | Poet and critic | USA | |
| E. F. Schumacher | Social theorist | Germany | |
| Carl B. Albert | Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1977), U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 1947-1977 | USA | |
| John Edward Lovelock | 1500 metre Olympic Gold medallist in 1936 Berlin Olympics | New Zealand | |
| Dean Rusk | U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-1969 | USA | |
| Adam von Trott zu Solz | German diplomat and anti-Nazi patriot, executed in 1944 | Germany | |
| Ivan A. Getting | Weapons scientist and co-inventor of GPS technology | USA | |
| Max Gluckman | South African-British-Israeli social anthropologist | UK | |
| Howard K. Smith | Broadcast journalist | USA | |
| Courtney Craig Smith | President of Swarthmore College | USA | |
| Byron R. White | Football player, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1993 | USA | |
| Dominic Mintoff | Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1957 & 1971- 1984 | Malta | |
| Paul J. Bohannan | Social anthropologist | USA | |
| Nicholas de B. Katzenbach | U.S. Attorney General, 1965-1966, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, 1966-1969 | USA | |
| Bernard W. Rogers | American general, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO | USA | |
| James M. Hester | First Rector of the United Nations University, President of New York University | USA | |
| John N. Turner | Liberal Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 | Canada | |
| John Brademas | American politician, President of New York University, 1981-1992, U.S. Congressman (Indiana), 1959-1981 | USA | |
| Thomas A. Bartlett | President of the American University in Cairo, 1963-1969, Interim President of AUC, 2002-2003; Chancellor of the University of Alabama System, 1981-1989; Chancellor of the State University of New York, 1994-1996 | USA | |
| Elliott H. Levitas | U.S. Congressman (Georgia), 1975-1985 | USA | |
| Edward de Bono | Maltese writer | Malta | |
| Robert J. L. (Bob) Hawke | Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-1991 | Australia | |
| Richard G. Lugar | U.S. Senator for Indiana, 1977- | USA | |
| Paul S. Sarbanes | U.S. Senator for Maryland, 1977-2007 | USA | |
| Ranjit Roy Chaudhury | Medical scientist | India | |
| Virendra Dayal | Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations | India | |
| Neil L. Rudenstine | President of Harvard University, 1991-2001 | USA | |
| Kristoffer Kristofferson | American actor and musician | USA | |
| Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | American political scientist, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1993-1994), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1994-1995), Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard | USA | |
| Jonathan Kozol | Writer and social activist | USA | |
| Pete Dawkins | 1958 Heisman Trophy Winner, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret. 1983), Chairman and CEO of Diversified Distribution Services, Travelers Group | USA | |
| Benjamin Bernard Dunlap | President of Wofford College | USA | |
| Richard F. Celeste | Governor of Ohio (1983-1991), Director of the Peace Corps, U.S. Ambassador to India, President of Colorado College | USA | |
| David H. Souter | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1990- | USA | |
| David B. Frohnmayer | President of the University of Oregon, 1994-; Attorney General of Oregon, 1980-1991 | USA | |
| Rex D. Adams | Chairman of the Board of PBS, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | USA | |
| David L. Boren | Governor of Oklahoma, 1975-1979); U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, 1979-1994; President of the University of Oklahoma | USA | |
| R. James Woolsey | Director of Central Intelligence, 1993-1995 | USA | |
| Montek Singh Ahluwalia | Indian economist, first independent evaluator of IMF, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India | India | |
| Wasim Sajjad | Pakistani politician and lawyer, Interim President of Pakistan, Chairman of the Senate | Pakistan | |
| Larry Pressler | U.S. Senator for South Dakota, 1979-1997 | USA | |
| William W. Bradley | American politician, NBA star, U.S. Senator for New Jersey, 1979-1997, and Democratic presidential candidate, 2000 | USA | |
| Daryl Williams | Australian politician, Liberal Member of the House of Representatives, 1993-2004, Attorney-General of Australia 1996-2003 | Australia | |
| Wesley K. Clark | American military officer and politician, Supreme Allied Commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1997-2000; Democratic presidential candidate, 2004 | USA | |
| Terrence F. Malick | American film director of The Thin Red Line, Badlands, and The New World | USA | |
| A. Michael Spence | Nobel Prize laureate in Economics in 2001 | Canada | |
| David E. Kendall | U.S. President William Clinton's personal lawyer | USA | |
| Thomas H. Allen | U.S. Congressman (Maine), 1997- | USA | |
| David C. Hardesty, Jr. | President of West Virginia University | USA | |
| William J. Clinton | 42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979-1981 & 1983-1993 | USA | |
| Robert B. Reich | U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993-1997 | USA | |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. | Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post | USA | |
| Strobe Talbott | American diplomat and journalist, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001), President of the Brookings Institution | USA | |
| William A. Fletcher | Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit | USA | |
| Ira Magaziner | White House Senior Aide, 1993-1999, originator of ICANN | USA | |
| Franklin D. Raines | Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1996-1998 | USA | |
| Kurt L. Schmoke | Mayor of Baltimore, 1987-1999; Dean of Howard University School of Law | USA | |
| Geoffrey I. Gallop | Premier of Western Australia, 2001-2006 | USA | |
| Michael E. Kinsley | American journalist (Los Angeles Times), founder of Slate magazine, editor of The New Republic | USA | |
| Thomas F. Birmingham | President of the Massachusetts Senate, Candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002 | USA | |
| Kim C. Beazley | Australian politician, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition | Australia | |
| E. J. Dionne | American journalist and Washington Post columnist | USA | |
| Paul Blustein | American author and journalist (The Washington Post) | USA | |
| Sir Rod Eddington | Former CEO of British Airways | Australia | |
| C. Thomas McMillen | U.S. Olympian, NBA basketball player, U.S. Congressman (Maryland), 1987-1993 | USA | |
| Walter Isaacson | Author, President of the Aspen Institute, Managing Editor of Time magazine (1995-2001), Chairman and CEO of CNN | USA | |
| Elliot F. Gerson | American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Deputy Attorney General of Connecticut | USA | |
| Edwin Cameron | Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, African National Congress lawyer and AIDS activist | South Africa | |
| Russell D. Feingold | U.S. Senator for Wisconsin, 1993- | USA | |
| Melvin J. Reynolds | U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993-1995 | USA | |
| Michael Gerrard L'Estrange | BA University of Sydney (1976) | Australia | |
| Alex Sceberras Trigona | Foreign Minister of Malta 1981-1987 | Malta | |
| Robert Maloney | LASIK specialist, Extreme Makeover ophthalmologist | USA | |
| Nicholas D. Kristof | New York Times reporter and columnist | USA | |
| Heather A. Wilson | U.S. Congresswoman (New Mexico), 1998- | USA | |
| David B. Vitter | U.S. Senator (Louisiana), 2005- | USA | |
| Christopher Eisgruber | Provost of Princeton University | USA | |
| Elizabeth Kiss | President of Agnes Scott College | USA | |
| Bill Halter | Arkansas Lt. Governor | USA | |
| George Stephanopoulos | Moderator of ABC's This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign | USA | |
| Brian Greene | American physicist and string theorist | USA | |
| Naomi R. Wolf | Author and feminist social critic | USA | |
| James Collins | The first bioengineer to receive MacArthur Foundation's "Genius Award" | USA | |
| David E. Kirk | Captain of the New Zealand All Blacks who won the inaugural Rugby (Union) World Cup in 1987 | New Zealand | |
| Brad R. Carson | U.S. Congressman (Oklahoma), 2001-2005 | USA | |
| Arthur Mutambara | Zimbabwean politician who became President of one faction of the Movement for Democratic Change in 2006 | Zimbabwe | |
| Cory A. Booker | Mayor of Newark, New Jersey | USA | |
| Piyush "Bobby" Jindal | U.S. Congressman (Louisiana), 2005-, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2001-2004, President of the University of Louisiana System, 1999-2001 | USA | |
| Rachel Maddow | Host of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio | USA | |
| Annette Salmeen | 1996 American Olympic gold medalist in swimming | USA | |
| Rachel Simmons | American author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls | USA | |
| Eric Garcetti | President of the Los Angeles City Council | USA | |
| Ben Cannon | Oregon State Representative | USA | |
| Name | Occupation | Home Country | Lived |
| Graham Allison | Noted foreign policy expert and former dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; former undersecretary of Defense | USA | |
| Anne Applebaum | Pulitzer Prize winning author/journalist and columnist for the Washington Post | USA | |
| Bruce Babbitt | Former Governor of Arizona and U.S. Secretary of the Interior for President Bill Clinton | USA | |
| Rosa Brooks | Los Angeles Times Columnist and Georgetown law professor | USA | |
| Bill Buford | Founding editor of Granta, New Yorker staff writer | USA | |
| Stephen Breyer | Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1994 | USA | |
| William Joseph Burns | U.S. Ambassador to Russia and former Undersecretary of State | USA | |
| Patrick M. Byrne | Chairman of the Board and President of Overstock.com | USA | |
| Ray Dolby | Inventor of Dolby Sound and Chairman of Dolby Laboratories | USA | |
| Thomas Friedman | Multiple Pulitzer Prize winning author/journalist and columnist for the New York Times | USA | |
| Jeffrey Gettleman | Journalist for the New York Times | USA | |
| 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 | USA | |
| Nannerl Keohane | Former President of both Duke University (1993-2004) and Wellesley College (1981-1993) | USA | |
| Michael Klarman | Brancroft Prize winner and constitutional law scholar at the University of Virginia | USA | |
| Harold Koh | Dean of the Yale Law School | USA | |
| Peter Kramer | Author of Listening to Prozac (1993) | USA | |
| Nicole Krauss | Novelist, History of Love | USA | |
| Peter Orszag | Director, Congressional Budget Office | USA | |
| Jeffrey Rosen | Author, law professor, and legal affairs editor at The New Republic | USA | |
| John Spratt | Congressman for South Carolina's 5th District | USA | |
| Kathleen Sullivan | Professor and former Dean of the Stanford Law School | USA | |
| Mark Whitaker | Editor of Newsweek magazine | USA | |
| Daniel Yergin | Pulitzer Prize winning author and noted economic researcher | USA | |
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