This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School.[1] Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated 253 classes of students and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni.[2]
This list uses the following notation:
- D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts
- DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present[3])
- Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics)
- T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated
- M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program, or the historical equivalent[4]
Academia and research
Academic administrators
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Abbot | 1811 | President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1788–1838 | [5] |
| Charles Augustus Aiken | 1846 | President of Union College 1869–1871 | [6] |
| Jesse Appleton | 1792 | President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819 | [7] |
| Rufus William Bailey | 1812 | President of Austin College 1862–1863 | [8] |
| Louis T. Benezet | 1936 | President of Allegheny College 1948–1955, president of Colorado College 1955–1963, president of Claremont Graduate University 1963–1970, president of the University at Albany 1970–1975 | [9] |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett | 1836 | President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892 | [10] |
| Cecil Bancroft | 1860 | Principal of Phillips Academy 1873–1901 | [11] |
| Nathan Brackett | 1864 | Founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College | [12] |
| Francis Brown | 1805 | President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820 | [10] |
| Isaac Newton Carleton | 1859 | Founder of Carleton School for Boys | [13] |
| Philander Chase | 1795 | Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, president of Jubilee College 1831–1852 | [14] |
| Oren B. Cheney | 1839 | Founder and first president of Bates College 1855–1894 | [15] |
| Daniel Dana | 1788 | President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821 | [10] |
| Edmund Ezra Day | 1905, M.A. 1905 | President of Cornell University 1937–1949 | [16][17] |
| John Sloan Dickey | 1929 | President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970 | [10] |
| Marye Anne Fox | Ph.D 1974 | Chancellor of University of California at San Diego 2004–present, chancellor of North Carolina State University 1998–2004 | [18] |
| Jeffrey Garten | 1968 | Dean of the Yale School of Management 1995–2005 | [19] |
| George Augustus Gates | 1873 | President of Grinnell College (1887–1900); president of Pomona College (1902–1909); president of Fisk University (1909–1912) | [20] |
| Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor | 1815 | Founding president of New-York Central College | |
| Philip J. Hanlon | 1977 | President of Dartmouth College 2013–2023 | [10] |
| Ernest Martin Hopkins | 1901 | President of Dartmouth College 1916–1945 | [21] |
| Milo Parker Jewett | 1828 | President of Vassar College 1862–1864, founder and first president of Judson College 1838–1855 | [22] |
| Amos Kendall | 1812 | Founder of Gallaudet College for the deaf | [23] |
| William C. Kirby | 1972 | Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002–2006 | [24] |
| Benjamin Labaree | 1828 | President of Middlebury College 1840–1866 | [25] |
| Edward Luck | 1971 | Vice-president of the International Peace Institute 2001–present, director of the Center on International Organization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University | [26] |
| Joseph McKeen | 1774 | President of Bowdoin College 1802–1807 | [27] |
| David T. McLaughlin | 1954, T'1955 | President of Dartmouth College 1981–1987 | [28] |
| Caleb Mills | 1833 | First professor of Wabash College 1833–1880, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instructions | [29] |
| Zephaniah Swift Moore | 1793 | President of Williams College 1815–1821, president of Amherst College 1821–1823 | [30] |
| Charles S. Murkland | Ph.D 1903 | First elected president of New Hampshire College 1893–1903 | [31] |
| Daniel S. Papp | 1969 | President of Kennesaw State University 2006–present | [32] |
| Alden Partridge | 1806 | Founder of Norwich University | [33] |
| Albert C. Perkins | 1859 | President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1873–1889 | [5] |
| Martha E. Pollack | 1979 | President of Cornell University April 2017– | |
| Steve Salbu | MA | Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006–2014) | [34] |
| Artemas Wyman Sawyer | 1847 | President of Acadia College 1869–1896 | [35] |
| Asa Dodge Smith | 1830 | President of Dartmouth College 1863–1877 | [10] |
| Sylvanus Thayer | 1807 | Superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1817–1833, financier and namesake of the Thayer School of Engineering | [36] |
| Elisha Ticknor | 1783 | Originator of system of free primary schools in Boston; founder of first insurance company and savings bank in that town | [37] |
| Henry N. Tisdale | Ph.D 1978 | President of Claflin University 1994 to 2019 | [38] [39][40] |
| William Jewett Tucker | 1861 | President of Dartmouth College 1893–1909 | [41] |
| John Wheelock | 1771 | President of Dartmouth College 1779–1815, son of Dartmouth College's founder Eleazar Wheelock | [10] |
| Robert Witt | T'1965 | Chancellor of the University of Alabama System 2012–present; president of the University of Alabama 2003–2012 | [42] |
To the section of Professors and researchers for Dartmough College alumni,I add:
George S. Bullerjahn, PH.D. an American biologist with specialty of microbiol ecology and health of Laurentian Great Lakes. He has an extensive bio in Wikipedia.
Professors and researchers
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer Adams | 1791 | Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy and professor of languages at Dartmouth | [43] |
| Walter Sydney Adams | 1898 | Astronomer | [44] |
| Kwan-Ichi Asakawa | 1899 | First Japanese professor at a major university in the United States | [45] |
| Richard W. Bailey | 1961 | Linguist and scholar of the English language | [46] |
| Carlos Baker | 1932 | Professor of literature at Princeton University | [47] |
| Harold J. Berman | 1938 | Professor of law at Harvard Law School and Emory University | [48] |
| Carl Bridenbaugh | 1925 | Historian of Colonial America | [49] |
| H. Allen Brooks | 1950 | Architectural historian and professor at the University of Toronto | [50] |
| Francis Brown | 1870 | Semitic scholar | [51] |
| Manuel Buchwald | 1962 | Canadian geneticist and researcher | [52] |
| George Bush | 1818 | Biblical scholar | [53] |
| Ruth Chang | 1985 | Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford University | [54] |
| Stanwood Cobb | 1903 | Professor of Latin and English, prominent early member of the Baháʼí Faith | [55] |
| Joshua Coffin | 1817 | Schoolteacher and prominent abolitionists | [56] |
| Levi L. Conant | 1879 | Mathematician specializing in trigonometry | [57] |
| Isaac Joslin Cox | Professor of history | [58] | |
| Reuel Denney | 1932 | Poet and professor of English | [59] |
| William C. Dowling | 1966 | Professor of English and American literature at Rutgers University | [60][61] |
| John C. Ewers | 1931 | Ethnologist and first director of the National Museum of American History | [62] |
| Owen M. Fiss | 1959 | Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School | [63] |
| Michael Gazzaniga | 1961 | Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience | [64] |
| Marissa Giustina | Physicist, Senior Research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab | [65] | |
| Kenneth M. Golden | 1980 | Applied mathematician, Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah | [66] |
| Lillian Guerra | 1992 | History researcher and author, Professor at the University of Florida | [67] |
| John Hagelin | 1975 | Theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory | [68] |
| Jeffrey Hart | 1951 (transferred to Columbia University) | Professor of English at Dartmouth College | [69][70] |
| Ira Michael Heyman | 1951 | Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley | [71] |
| H. Wiley Hitchcock | 1944 | Musicologist | [72] |
| Jeremy Howick | 1992 | University of Oxford Philosopher and Clinical Epidemiologist specialising in Evidence-Based Medicine and Placebo research | [73] |
| Robert A. Jarrow | T'1976 | Professor of investment management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University | [74][75] |
| Roger D. Jones | Ph.D 1979 | Physicist and entrepreneur | [76] |
| Ernest Everett Just | 1907 | Biologist, first recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1915 | [77] |
| Neal Katyal | 1991 | Georgetown Law School professor, lawyer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld | [78] |
| Edward Klima | 1953 | Linguist at University of California, San Diego, researcher of sign languages | [79] |
| David M. Kreps | 1972 | Economics professor at Stanford, winner of John Bates Clark Medal | [80] |
| Barbara Krauthamer | 1989 | Historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University | [81] |
| John C. Lilly | DMS 1938–40 (never graduated) | Physician, psychoanalyst, and writer; experimenter into the nature of consciousness | [82] |
| Edward Norton Lorenz | 1938 | Professor at MIT, founder of chaos theory, winner of Kyoto Prize in 1993 | [83] |
| Dan Milisavljevic | Ph.D | Astronomer, co-discoverer of three moons of Uranus | [84][85] |
| Henry Ruthven Monteith | A.B. 1869 | Distinguished history professor at the University of Connecticut | [86] |
| Kenneth N. Ogle | Ph.D 1930 | Researcher in human vision, and professor at the Dartmouth Eye Institute | [87] |
| John Ordronaux | 1850 | Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner | [88] |
| William Padula | M.S. 2008 | professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics at the University of Southern California | [89] |
| Richard Anthony Parker | 1930 | Egyptologist, made major discoveries in ancient astronomy and chronology | [90] |
| Richard Parker | Economist, lecturer at Harvard University, co-founder of Mother Jones | [91] | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee | 1888 | Professor of American Literature at the Pennsylvania State University | [92] |
| Russell Pinkston | Professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Texas at Austin | [93] | |
| John M. Richardson | Professor of International Development at American University | [94] | |
| Arunas Rudvalis | M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969 | Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst | [95] |
| Frederick Schauer | 1967 | David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law | |
| William H. Schlesinger | 1972 | Biogeochemistry researcher | [96] |
| David Silbersweig | Psychiatric and mental illness researcher at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic | [97] | |
| John Smith | 1773 | Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental languages at Dartmouth College; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the board of trustees | [98][99] |
| Justin Harvey Smith | 1877 | Historian, Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth College | [100] |
| Page Smith | 1940 | Historian, author, founding provost of Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz | [101] |
| Scott Straus | 1993 | Assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | [102] |
| David Spindler | 1989 | Independent researcher of the Great Wall of China | [103] |
| John Tallmadge | Professor of literature and environmental studies at Union Institute & University | [104] | |
| Alan D. Taylor | Ph.D 1975 | Mathematician, co-discoverer of a solution for envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people | [105] |
| George Ticknor | 1807 | Expert on Spanish literature | [106] |
| Lynne H. Walling | Ph.D. 1987 | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society | [107] |
| Lloyd L. Weinreb | 1957 | Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School | [108] |
| Stephen Wizner | 1959 | Professor of law and supervising attorney at the Yale Law School | [109] |
| Charles Augustus Young | 1853 | Astronomer, made first observations of the flash spectrum of the sun during solar eclipses of 1869–70 | [110] |
| Todd Zywicki | 1988 | Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law | [111] |
MacArthur Fellows
The MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research award commonly called the "Genius Grant."
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Plank | 1985 | Professor of Earth science and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory | [112] |
| Annette Gordon-Reed | 1981 | Law and History Professor at Harvard University, 2010 MacArthur Fellow | [113] |
| Becca Heller | 2005 | Human Rights Lawyer, 2018 MacArthur Fellow | [114] |
| Stuart Kauffman | 1961 | Theoretical biologist, 1987 MacArthur Fellow | [115] |
| John A. Rich | 1980 | Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, 2006 MacArthur Fellow | [116] |
| Anna Schuleit | M.A.L.S. 2005 | Visual artist; 2006 MacArthur Fellow | [117] |
| Jeffrey Weeks | 1978 | Mathematician, 1999 MacArthur Fellow | [118] |
Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Chamberlain | 1941 | Co-winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics | [119] |
| Karl Barry Sharpless | 1963 | Winner of 2001 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | [120] |
| George Davis Snell | 1926 | Co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [121] |
Architecture, engineering and building industry
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Arad | 1991 | Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial | [122] |
| William McDonough | 1973 | Noted "green" designer, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1994–1999 | [123] |
| James Pulliam | California Modernist architect and educator | [124] | |
| David Todd | 1934 | Designer of Manhattan Plaza, chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1989–1990 | [125] |
| Mario Torroella | 1957 | Cuban-American Modernist architect and artist. Co-founder and Principal of HMFH Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects | [126] |
| Robert K. Watson | 1984 | Market transformation expert and founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System | [127] |
| Fred Wesley Wentworth | 1889 | Architect of many buildings in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity House at Dartmouth; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects | [128][129] |
Arts
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| David R. Brown | 1967, T (Executive Education Program) | Graphic designer and academic administrator | [130] |
| Abner Dean | 1931 | Cartoonist | [131] |
| Dan Gilroy | 1981 | Director and screenwriter | [132] |
| Andrea Higgins | 1992 | Painter | [133] |
| Erich Kunzel | 1957 | Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra for its Memorial Day and Independence Day concerts | [134] |
| Mike Melvoin | 1959 | Jazz pianist | [135] |
| Mateo Romero | Native American painter | [136] | |
| Augustus Washington | (never graduated) | Photographer and daguerreotypist | [137] |
| Paul Weston | 1933 | Pianist, composer, and conductor | [138] |
| Jonathan Wolken | 1971 | Founder of the Pilobolus dance company | [139] |
Business and finance
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leon Black | 1973 | CEO and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; chairman of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art); American billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people" | [140] |
| Trevor Rees-Jones | 1973 | Founder and chairman of Chief Oil and Gas; American billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people" | |
| Anthony Pritzker | 1983 | Managing director of Pritzker Group; American billionaire and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune | |
| Steven Roth | 1963 | Founder, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, billionaire | |
| Donald J. Hall Sr. | 1950 | Chairman and majority shareholder of Hallmark Cards, billionaire | |
| Bruce Rauner | 1978 | Founder and chairman of private equity firm GTCR and R8 Capital Partners; former governor of Illinois | |
| Russell Carson | 1965 | Co-founder and general partner of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; former chairman and CEO of Citicorp Venture Capital (renamed Court Square Capital Partners) | |
| Gail Koziara Boudreaux | 1982 | Chairman and CEO of Anthem (company)[141] | |
| Enrique Salem | 1987 | Former CEO of Symantec; managing director at Bain Capital Ventures. | |
| Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor | T'1988 | Chairman and CEO of Intercorp, managing general partner of Nexus Group, and chairman of Interbank; billionaire | |
| Geoff Ralston | 1982 | President of Y Combinator; former chief product officer and SVP at Yahoo!. | |
| Roger McNamee | T'1982 | Founding Partner of private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Elevation Partners, billionaire | [142] |
| Henry Paulson | 1968 | CEO of Goldman Sachs; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006–2009 | [143] |
| Robert B. Sturges | 1968 | New Jersey government official; former executive at Carnival Corp and limited partner of the Miami Heat basketball team | |
| Timothy Geithner | 1983 | President of private equity firm Warburg Pincus; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009 | |
| Austin Beutner | 1982 | Founder of global investment banking firm Evercore; former partner at The Blackstone Group | [144] |
| Lew Cirne | 1993 | Founder and CEO of Wily Technology and New Relic | [145] |
| Alan Trefler | 1977 | Founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., billionaire | |
| William E. Conway Jr. | 1971 | Co-founder and co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, billionaire | [146] |
| Jeff Crowe | 1978 | Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List 5x | |
| Tench Coxe | 1980 | Managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, Founding Board Member and initial investor of Nvidia | |
| Susan Huang | 1984 | Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, Dartmouth Trustee | [147] |
| James Coulter | 1982 | Co-CEO and a Founding Partner of private equity firm Texas Pacific Group (TPG), billionaire | [148] |
| Jeffrey Gundlach | 1981 | American Investor, Founder of investment firm DoubleLine Capital which manages $140 billion in assets, billionaire | |
| Richard Kimball | 1978 | Founding General Partner of Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). | |
| Peter Barris | Th'1982 | Co-Founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Polaris Partners, Forbes Midas List. | [149] |
| Terry McGuire | T'1977 | Managing General Partner of venture firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Forbes Midas List. | [150] |
| Josh B. Stein | 1995 | Managing General Partner of venture firm Threshold Ventures, Forbes Midas List. | [151] |
| Stephen Mandel | 1978 | Founder and Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager of Lone Pine Capital, American billionaire | |
| Greg Jensen | 1996 | Co-CEO and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, billionaire | [152] |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | 1963 | Former CEO of IBM; CEO of Carlyle Group | [153] |
| Douglas M. Hodge | 1979 | Former CEO of PIMCO, accused in 2019 college admissions bribery scandal | [154] |
| John Donahoe | 1982 | CEO of Nike; Chairman of the Board of PayPal; former CEO of ServiceNow; former CEO of eBay; former CEO and President of Bain & Company; former Dartmouth trustee | [155][156] |
| Greg Maffei | 1982 | Former CFO at Microsoft, Co-President of Oracle, Chairman and CEO of 360networks; Current CEO at Liberty Media | [157] |
| William Horlick Neukom | 1964 | Former General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft, former CEO of the San Francisco Giants, former president of the American Bar Association (ABA) | [158] |
| Patrick Byrne | 1985 | Founder, former CEO and chairman of Overstock.com | |
| Alexander Cutler | T'1975 | Former chairman and CEO of Eaton Corporation | |
| Christopher Payne | 1990 | COO at DoorDash; former CEO at Tinder; former SVP at eBay. | |
| Walter Tenney Carleton | 1891 | Founding director of NEC | [159] |
| Matt Calkins | 1994 | Founder and CEO of Appian Corporation, billionaire | [160] |
| David Girouard | 1988 | Founder and CEO of Upstart, billionaire | [161] |
| Michael Beckley | 1996 | Co-Founder and CTO of Appian Corporation | |
| Peter R. Dolan | T'1980 | Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb | [162] |
| Bob DuPuy | 1968 | Former president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball | [163] |
| Howard Gilman | 1943 | Head of the Gilman Paper Company, philanthropist | [164] |
| Brian Goldner | 1985 | CEO of Hasbro | [165] |
| Ronald Grant | 1988 | Chief Operating Officer of AOL LLC | [166] |
| Peter Darbee | 1975, T'1977 | Former CEO, President and Chairman of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) | [167] |
| Reyn Guyer | 1957 | Toy inventor | [168] |
| Charles E. Haldeman | 1970 | President and CEO of Freddie Mac | [169] |
| Donald J. Hall, Sr. | 1952 | Chairman of the board and former president and CEO of Hallmark Cards | [170] |
| Broughton Harris | 1845 | Partner in Harris & Brothers Company railroad construction firm, president of Brattleboro Savings Bank | [171] |
| Fred A. Howland | 1887 | Secretary of State of Vermont, president and chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Company | [172] |
| Gardiner Greene Hubbard | 1841 | Co-Founder and President of Bell Telephone Company (AT&T); founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; Lawyer, financier, and philanthropist | [173] |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | 1978 | CEO of General Electric | [174] |
| Sarah Irving | 2010, T'2014 | Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer of Irving Oil, Heir to billionaire Arthur Irving | [175] |
| Ric Lewis | 1984 | Founding Partner of Tristan Capital Partners and Curzon Global Partners, British Businessman | |
| Brian Kim | 1997 | Former hedge fund manager; criminal | [176][177] |
| Bud Konheim | 1957 | CEO of Nicole Miller | [178] |
| Herbert Levine | 1937 | Fashion executive and manufacturer | [179] |
| Dick Levy | 1960 | Chairman, president, and former CEO of Varian Medical Systems | [180][181] |
| John Lord | 1833 | Historian and lecturer | [182] |
| Roger Lynch | T'1995 | CEO of Pandora Radio, former CEO of Sling TV | [183] |
| Morton D. May | 1936 | CEO of May Department Stores Company, philanthropist, and art collector | [184] |
| Kevin McGrath | T'1977 | CEO of Digital Angel | [185] |
| Mira Murati | Th'2012 | Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI | [186] |
| Ken Novack | 1963 | Former Vice Chairman of America Online and AOL-Time Warner | [187] |
| Glenn Britt | 1971 | President and CEO of Time Warner Cable | |
| John F. Lundgren | 1973 | Former CEO and chairman of Stanley Black & Decker | |
| Robert Oelman | 1931 | President of NCR Corporation | [188] |
| Charles Alfred Pillsbury | 1863 | Flour industrialist and founder of the Pillsbury Company | [189] |
| Scott L. Probasco, Jr. | 1950 | Banking heir, former chair of the executive committee of SunTrust Banks in Chattanooga | [190] |
| Naval Ravikant | 1995 | CEO and cofounder of AngelList | [191][192] |
| Dan Baum | 1983 | Founder of Shutterfly | [193] |
| Johan H. Andresen Jr. | 1988 | Former CEO and chairman of Ferd; billionaire businessman, 5th wealthiest person in Norway | |
| Zdeněk Bakala | T'1989 | Czech investor and Philanthropist; billionaire businessman | |
| Janet L. Robinson | T'1996 (Executive Education Program) | President and CEO of the New York Times Company | [194] |
| T. J. Rodgers | 1970 | CEO and founder of Cypress Semiconductor | [195] |
| Steven Rogel | Tuck (Executive Education Program) | Former chairman, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser | |
| Sandy Alderson | 1969 | General Manager of New York Mets baseball team | [196] |
| Elyse Allan | 1979, T'1984 | President and CEO of GE Canada; vice president of General Electric | [197] |
| C. Michael Armstrong | T'1976 (Advanced Management Program) | CEO and chairman of AT&T | [198] |
| Donald D. Belcher | 1960 | CEO of Banta Corporation | [199] |
| John Bello | T'1974 | Founder and former CEO of SoBe | [200] |
| George Bissell | 1845 | Industrialist, American oil industry pioneer; "Father of the American oil industry." | [201] |
| Beardsley Ruml | 1915 | Economist, trust administrator, and business executive | [202] |
| L. William Seidman | 1943 | Economist and financial commentator | [203] |
| Christopher A. Sinclair | T'1973 | Chairman of Reckitt Benckiser, former chairman and CEO of Mattel, former chairman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola | [204] |
| Ned Skinner | 1942 | An original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks | [205] |
| Jimmie Lee Solomon | 1978 | Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations at Major League Baseball | [206] |
| Langley Steinert | T'1991 | Founder and CEO of CarGurus, co-founder and former chairman of Tripadvisor | [207] |
| Edward P. Stritter | 1968 | Engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems, founder of Clarity Wireless and NeTPower, chief architect of the Motorola 68000 CPU (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh) | [208][209][210] |
| Bill Stromberg | 1986 | President and CEO of T. Rowe Price | [211] |
| Harry Bates Thayer | 1879 | President of Western Electric Company and vice president of AT&T | [212] |
| Grant Tinker | 1949 | CEO of NBC 1981–86 | [213] |
| Edward Tuck | 1862 | Banker and philanthropist; son of Amos Tuck, donated money to found Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | [214] |
| Trevor Burgess | 1994 | First openly gay bank CEO, founder of TRB Development majority shareholder and CEO of Neptune Flood Insurance | [215] |
| Don M. Wilson III | T'1973 | Chief Risk Officer of JPMorgan Chase 2003–2006 | [216] |
| Thatcher Wine | 1994 | Founder of Juniper Books, bibliophile, author and public speaker | [217] |
Entertainment
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Adams | 1969 | Author, Television and Screenwriter | [218] |
| Harry Ackerman | 1935 | Television producer | [219] |
| Robert Allen | 1929 | Actor in Western films | [220] |
| Andy Barrie | Host of CBLA-FM's morning drive-time show, Metro Morning, in Toronto, Ontario 1995–2010 | [221] | |
| David Benioff | 1992 | Screenwriter, known for novel and film 25th Hour, Troy; co-creator of Game of Thrones | [222] |
| Walter Bernstein | 1940 | Writer and screenwriter | [223] |
| Paul Binder | 1963 | Juggler, co-creator of the Big Apple Circus | [224] |
| David Birney | 1961 | Actor | [222] |
| Stan Brakhage | 1955 (never graduated) | Director and experimental filmmaker | [225][226] |
| Jennifer Bransford | 1990 | Actress on General Hospital | [227] |
| Connie Britton | 1989 | Actress; best known for Friday Night Lights, Nashville | [222] |
| Jim Butterworth | T | Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker | [228] |
| Sarah Wayne Callies | 1999 | Actress; best known for Prison Break | [222] |
| Julie Davis | 1990 | Screenwriter and film director; best known for Amy's Orgasm, Finding Bliss | [222] |
| Rachel Dratch | 1988 | Actress, cast member of Saturday Night Live | [222] |
| Alison Fanelli | M.S. 2002 | Actress on The Adventures of Pete & Pete | [229] |
| Stephen Geller | 1962 | Screenwriter of Slaughterhouse-Five | [230] |
| Dan Gilroy | 1981 | Screenwriter and film director; best known for Nightcrawler | [230] |
| John Gilroy | Film editor | [231] | |
| Dylan Mohan Gray | 1991 | Film director; best known for Fire in the Blood | [222] |
| David Harbour | 1997 | Actor; best known for Stranger Things | [232] |
| Buck Henry | 1952 | Actor, writer, director; shared Oscar nomination for screenplay for The Graduate | [233] |
| Alex Kapp Horner | 1991 | Actress on The New Adventures of Old Christine | [234] |
| Mindy Kaling | 2001 | Actress, writer and actress on The Office and The Mindy Project | [235] |
| Ben Koldyke | 1991 | Actor on Work It and Mr. Robinson | [236] |
| Stephen Macht | 1963 | Actor, TV and film | [222] |
| Robert L. May | 1926 | Creator of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | |
| Tom McArdle | 1991 | Film editor, nominated for the Academy Award for Editing Spotlight | [237][238] |
| Sam Means | 2003 | Staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | [239] |
| Chris Miller | 1963 | Writer for the National Lampoon, co-writer of the screenplay for Animal House (based loosely on his experiences at Dartmouth) | [240] |
| Michael Moriarty | 1963 | Actor, winner of three Emmy Awards, one Tony Award and one Golden Globe Award, known for playing Benjamin Stone on Law & Order | [222] |
| Peter Parnell | 1974 | Playwright and screenwriter | [241] |
| Kamran Pasha | 1993, T'2000 | Hollywood screenwriter and director | [242][243] |
| Jean Passanante | 1974 | Head writer of As the World Turns since May 2005; winner of Writers Guild of America Award in 2007 | [244] |
| Bob Rafelson | 1954 | Filmmaker, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Five Easy Pieces | [245] |
| Shonda Rhimes | 1991 | Screenwriter, director, and producer; best known for producing Grey's Anatomy | [246] |
| W. D. Richter | 1968 | Director of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | [247][248] |
| Fred Rogers | 1950 | Attended 1946–48 before transferring to Rollins College; creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood | [249] |
| Robert Ryan | 1932 | Actor, Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominee | [250] |
| Budd Schulberg | 1936 | Screenwriter, winner of the Academy Award for On the Waterfront (best original screenplay) | [251] |
| Andrew Shue | 1989 | Actor, best known for Melrose Place | [252] |
| Roger L. Simon | 1964 | Novelist, screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for Enemies, a Love Story | [253] |
| Ian Smith | DMS (never graduated) | Author and television personality | [254] |
| Scott Smith | 1987 | Screenwriter for A Simple Plan (Academy Award nomination, 1998) | [255] |
| Herbert Franklin Solow | 1953 | Producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer | [256] |
| Safiya Songhai | (never graduated) | Film director, producer, and writer | [257] |
| Meryl Streep | (exchange student) | Actress | [258] |
| Seth Swirsky | 1982 | Pop songwriter and author | [259][260] |
| Josh Taylor | Actor on Days of Our Lives | [261] | |
| Aisha Tyler | 1992 | Actress, winner of the NAACP Image Award, portrayed Charlie Wheeler on Friends, Lana Kane on Archer, co-host of The Talk | [222] |
| Bob Varsha | 1973 | Auto racing commentator, SPEED Channel | [262] |
| Peter Viertel | 1941 | Author and screenwriter | [263] |
| Stan Waterman | 1946 | Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and underwater film producer | [264] |
| Pat Weaver | 1930 | Pioneering television executive, creator of The Today Show and The Tonight Show, Emmy Award winner | [265] |
| Norman Weissman | Writer, director, and producer of films | [266] | |
| Brian J. White | Actor and professional football and lacrosse player | [267] | |
| Jerry Zaks | 1967 | Tony Award-winning Broadway director and actor | [268] |
| Chris Meledandri | 1981 | American film producer, and founder and CEO of Illumination, producer of the Despicable Me franchise | [citation needed] |
Government, law, and public policy
- Note: Individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.
United States federal and state court judges
Executive branch and United States Cabinet members
Members of the United States Congress
Over 164 Dartmouth graduates have served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.[279]
Senators
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles H. Bell | 1844 | Senator from New Hampshire 1879–1879, Governor of New Hampshire 1881–1883 | [279] |
| Samuel Bell | 1793 | Senator from New Hampshire 1823–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1819–1823 | [279] |
| Fred H. Brown | 1903 | Senator from New Hampshire 1933–1939, Governor of New Hampshire 1923–1925 | [279] |
| Henry E. Burnham | 1865 | Senator from New Hampshire 1901–1913 | [279] |
| Dudley Chase | 1791 | Senator from Vermont 1813–1817, 1825–1831, anti-Jacksonian, uncle of Salmon P. Chase | [279] |
| Rufus Choate | 1819 | Senator from Massachusetts 1841–1845, Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1834 | [279] |
| Daniel Clark | 1834 | Senator from New Hampshire 1857–1866, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1864–1865 | [279] |
| Judah Dana | 1795 | Senator from Maine 1836–1837 | [279] |
| Irving W. Drew | 1870 | Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1918 | [279] |
| Peter Fitzgerald | 1982 | Senator from Illinois 1999–2005 | [279] |
| George G. Fogg | 1839 | Senator from New Hampshire 1866–1867 | [279] |
| Theodore Foster | 1786 | Senator from Rhode Island 1790–1803 | [306] |
| Kirsten Gillibrand | 1988 | Senator from New York 2009–present; Representative from New York 2007–2009; first female Dartmouth graduate in Congress | [307][308] |
| Slade Gorton | 1949 | Senator from Washington 1981–1987, 1989–2001 | [279] |
| James W. Grimes | 1836 | Senator from Iowa 1859–1869, Governor of Iowa 1854–1858 | [279] |
| John Hoeven | 1979 | Senator from North Dakota 2011–present, Governor of North Dakota 2001–2010 | [279] |
| Henry Hubbard | 1803 | Senator from New Hampshire 1835–1841, Representative from New Hampshire 1829–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1842–1844 | [279] |
| Angus King | 1966 | Senator from Maine 2013–present, Governor of Maine 1995–2003 | [309] |
| Gilman Marston | 1837 | Senator from New Hampshire 1889–1889, Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863, 1865–1867 | [279] |
| Thomas J. McIntyre | 1937 | Senator from New Hampshire 1962–1979 | [279] |
| Hugh Mitchell | 1930 | Senator from Washington 1945–1946, Representative from Washington 1949–1953 | [279] |
| George H. Moses | 1890 | Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1933, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1925–1933, Minister to Greece and Montenegro 1909–1912 | [279] |
| Moses Norris, Jr. | 1828 | Senator from New Hampshire 1849–1855, Representative from New Hampshire 1843–1847 | [279] |
| Albion K. Parris | 1806 | Senator from Maine 1827–1828, Representative from Maine 1815–1818, Governor of Maine 1822–1827, Mayor of Portland, Maine, Maine 1852–1852 | [279] |
| James W. Patterson | 1848 | Senator from New Hampshire 1867–1873, Representative from New Hampshire 1863–1867 | [279] |
| Rob Portman | 1979 | Senator from Ohio 2011–, Representative from Ohio 1993–2005 | [279] |
| Jonathan Ross | 1851 | Senator from Vermont 1899–1900 | [279] |
| Ether Shepley | 1811 | Senator from Maine 1833–1836 | [279] |
| Tina Smith | 1984 | Senator from Minnesota 2018–present | [279] |
| Paul Tsongas | 1962 | Senator from Massachusetts 1979–1985, Representative from Massachusetts 1975–1979 | [279] |
| Leonard Wilcox | 1817 | Senator from New Hampshire 1842–1843 | [279] |
Representatives
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heman Allen | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1817–1818, Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1824–1827 | [279] |
| Samuel Clesson Allen | 1794 | Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1829 | [279] |
| James C. Alvord | 1827 | Representative from Massachusetts 1839–1839 | [279] |
| Nathan Appleton | Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1833, 1842–1842 | [310] | |
| Lemuel H. Arnold | 1811 | Representative from Rhode Island 1845–1847, Governor of Rhode Island 1831–1833 | [279] |
| Henry Moore Baker | 1863 | Representative from New Hampshire 1893–1897 | [279] |
| William Emerson Barrett | 1880 | Representative from Massachusetts 1895–1899 | [279] |
| Ichabod Bartlett | 1808 | Representative from New Hampshire 1823–1829 | [279] |
| Charles Bass | 1974 | Representative from New Hampshire 1995–2007, 2011–2013 | [279] |
| Perkins Bass | 1934 | Representative from New Hampshire 1955–1963 | [279] |
| Samuel Newell Bell | 1847 | Representative from New Hampshire 1871–1873, 1875–1877 | [279] |
| Silas Betton | 1787 | Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1807 | [279] |
| Abijah Bigelow | 1795 | Representative from Massachusetts 1810–1815 | [279] |
| Frank S. Black | 1875 | Representative from New York 1895–1897, Governor of New York 1897–1898 | [279] |
| John Blanchard | 1812 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1845–1849 | [279] |
| Daniel Breck | 1812 | Representative from Kentucky 1849–1851 | [279] |
| Francis B. Brewer | 1843 | Representative from New York 1883–1885 | [279] |
| Elijah Brigham | 1778 | Representative from Massachusetts 1811–1816 | [279] |
| David Bronson | 1819 | Representative from Maine 1841–1843 | [279] |
| Daniel Azro Ashley Buck | 1823 | Representative from Vermont 1823–1825 1827–1829 (two different districts) | [311] |
| Ellsworth B. Buck | 1914 | Representative from New York 1944–1945, 1945–1949 (two different districts) | [279] |
| Joseph Buffum, Jr. | 1807 | Representative from New Hampshire 1819–1821 | [279] |
| Robert Burns | DMS 1811 | Representative from New Hampshire 1833–1837 | [279] |
| Sherman Everett Burroughs | 1894 | Representative from New Hampshire 1917–1923 | [279] |
| Mike Capuano | 1973 | Representative from Massachusetts 1999–2019 | [312] |
| John Carney | 1978 | Representative from Delaware 2011–2017, Governor of Delaware 2017–present, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware 2001–2009 | [313] |
| Daniel Chipman | 1788 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1816 | [279] |
| Martin Chittenden | 1789 | Representative from Vermont 1803–1813, Governor of Vermont 1813–1815 | [279] |
| Frank Gay Clarke | 1873 | Representative from New Hampshire 1897–1901 | [279] |
| James Hodge Codding | 1871 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1895–1899 | [279] |
| William Cogswell | 1859 | Representative from Massachusetts 1887–1895 | [279] |
| Thomas B. Curtis | 1932 | Representative from Missouri 1951–1953, 1953–1969 (two different districts) | [279] |
| Benjamin Dean | 1845 | Representative from Massachusetts 1878–1879 | [279] |
| Nelson Dingley, Jr. | 1855 | Representative from Maine 1881–1899, Governor of Maine 1874–1876 | [279] |
| Samuel Dinsmoor | 1789 | Representative from New Hampshire 1811–1813, Governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834 | [279] |
| Edwin B. Dooley | 1926 | Representative from New York 1957–1963 | [279] |
| Fred J. Douglas | 1895 | Representative from New York 1937–1945 | [279] |
| Daniel Meserve Durell | 1794 | Representative from New Hampshire 1807–1809 | [279] |
| Ira Allen Eastman | 1829 | Representative from New Hampshire 1839–1843 | [279] |
| Thomas M. Edwards | 1813 | Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863 | [279] |
| Allen E. Ertel | Th'1958, T'1959 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1977–1983 | [279][314] |
| Evarts Worcester Farr | 1863 | Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1880 | [279] |
| T. A. D. Fessenden | 1845 | Representative from Maine 1862–1863 | [279] |
| Walbridge A. Field | 1855 | Representative from Massachusetts 1877–1878, 1879–1881 | [279] |
| Benjamin Flanders | 1842 | Representative from Louisiana 1863–1864, Governor of Louisiana 1867–1868, Mayor of New Orleans 1870–1872 | [279] |
| Isaac Fletcher | 1808 | Representative from Vermont 1837–1841 | [279] |
| Richard Fletcher | 1806 | Representative from Massachusetts 1837–1839 | [279] |
| David J. Foster | 1880 | Representative from Vermont 1901–1912 | [279] |
| Bill Frenzel | 1950 | Representative from Minnesota 1971–1991 | [279] |
| Sylvester Gilbert | 1775 | Representative from New Hampshire 1818–1819 | [279] |
| Calvin Goddard | 1786 | Representative from Connecticut 1801–1805 | [279] |
| Daniel W. Gooch | 1843 | Representative from Massachusetts 1858–1863, 1863–1865, 1873–1875 (three different districts) | [279] |
| John Noble Goodwin | 1844 | Representative from Maine 1861–1863, Governor of the Arizona Territory 1863–1866, delegate from the Arizona Territory 1866–1867 | [279] |
| George Grennell, Jr. | 1808 | Representative from Massachusetts 1829–1839 | [279] |
| Frank Joseph Guarini | 1946 | Representative from New Jersey 1979–1993 | [279] |
| Sherwood Guernsey | 1975 | Representative from Massachusetts 1983–1990 | [315] |
| Fletcher Hale | 1905 | Representative from New Hampshire 1925–1931 | [279] |
| Joshua G. Hall | 1851 | Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1883 | [279] |
| Winfield Scott Hammond | 1884 | Representative from Minnesota 1907–1915, Governor of Minnesota 1915–1915 | [279] |
| Harry Hibbard | 1835 | Representative from New Hampshire 1849–1855 | [279] |
| Edgar W. Hiestand | 1910 | Representative from California 1953–1963 | [279] |
| Paul Hodes | 1972 | Representative from New Hampshire 2007–2011 | [316] |
| Jonathan Hunt | 1807 | Representative from Vermont 1827–1832 | [279] |
| Luther Jewett | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 | [279] |
| Thomas B. Kyle | 1881 | Representative from Ohio 1901–1905 | [279] |
| Jay Le Fevre | 1918 | Representative from New York 1943–1945, 1945–1951 (different districts) | [279] |
| Robert M. Leach | 1902 | Representative from Massachusetts 1924–1925 | [279] |
| John Locke | 1792 (never graduated) | Representative from Massachusetts 1823–1829 | [279] |
| Joseph S. Lyman | 1805 | Representative from New York 1819–1821 | [279] |
| Asa Lyon | 1790 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 | [279] |
| Clark MacGregor | 1944 | Representative from Minnesota 1961–1971 | [279] |
| Richard W. Mallary | 1949 | Representative from Vermont 1972–1975 | [279] |
| Charles Marsh | 1786 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 | [279] |
| George Perkins Marsh | 1820 | Representative from Vermont 1843–1849, Minister Resident in Turkey 1849–1853, Envoy to Italy 1861–1882 | [279] |
| David Thomas Martin | 1929 | Representative from Nebraska 1959–1961, 1961–1974 (two different districts) | [279] |
| Ebenezer Mattoon | 1776 | Representative from Massachusetts 1801–1803 | [279] |
| Samuel W. McCall | 1874 | Representative from Massachusetts 1893–1913, Governor of Massachusetts 1916–1919 | [279] |
| Robert McClory | 1930 | Representative from Illinois 1963–1983 | [279] |
| John A. McGuire | 1928 | Representative from Connecticut 1949–1953 | [279] |
| Rufus McIntire | 1809 | Representative from Maine 1827–1835 | [279] |
| Richard S. Molony | DMS 1832 | Representative from Illinois 1851–1853 | [279] |
| John S. Monagan | 1933 | Representative from Connecticut 1959–1973 | [279] |
| Harold G. Mosier | 1912 | Representative from Ohio 1937–1939 | [279] |
| Jeremiah Nelson | 1790 | Representative from Massachusetts 1805–1807, 1815–1825, 1831–1833 | [279] |
| John Noyes | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1815 | [279] |
| Benjamin Orr | 1798 | Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1819 | [279] |
| Charles H. Peaslee | 1824 | Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853 | [279] |
| Henry Moses Pollard | 1857 | Representative from Missouri 1877–1879 | [279] |
| Samuel L. Powers | 1874 | Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1903, 1903–1905 (two different districts) | [279] |
| Ambrose Ranney | 1844 | Representative from Massachusetts 1881–1887 | [279] |
| Edward C. Reed | 1812 | Representative from New York 1831–1833 | [279] |
| Joseph Richardson | 1802 | Representative from Massachusetts 1827–1831 | [279] |
| Eleazer Wheelock Ripley | 1800 | Representative from Louisiana 1835–1839 | [279] |
| William Nathaniel Rogers | 1915 | Representative from New Hampshire 1923–1925 | [279] |
| Erastus Root | 1793 | Representative from New York 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1815–1817 | [279] |
| Samuel Locke Sawyer | 1833 | Representative from Missouri 1879–1881 | [279] |
| Herman T. Schneebeli | 1930 T'1931 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1960–1977 | [317] |
| John Samuel Sherburne | 1776 | Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797 | [318] |
| Don Sherwood | 1963 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1999–2007 | [279] |
| George A. Simmons | 1816 | Representative from New York 1853–1857 | [279] |
| Henry P. Smith III | 1933 | Representative from New York 1965–1975 | [279] |
| Peleg Sprague | 1783 | Representative from New Hampshire 1797–1799 | [279] |
| Bradford N. Stevens | 1835 | Representative from Illinois 1871–1873 | [279] |
| Moses T. Stevens | 1846 | Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, 1893–1895 (two different districts) | [279] |
| Thaddeus Stevens | 1814 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1849–1853, 1859–1868 (two different districts), drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction | [279] |
| Samuel Taggart | 1774 | Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1817 | [279] |
| Joseph E. Talbot | 1922 | Representative from Connecticut 1942–1947 | [279] |
| Nathaniel Terry | 1786 | Representative from Connecticut 1817–1819 | [279] |
| Samuel Thurston | 1843 | Delegate from the Oregon Territory to the United States Congress 1849–1851 | [279] |
| Charles Q. Tirrell | 1866 | Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1910 | [279] |
| Andrew Tracy | 1821 | Representative from Vermont 1853–1855 | [279] |
| Amos Tuck | 1835 | Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853, co-founder of the Republican Party | [279] |
| Doug Walgren | 1962 | Representative from Massachusetts 1977–1991 | [279] |
| John Wentworth | 1836 | Representative from Illinois 1843–1851, 1853–1855, 1865–1867, Mayor of Chicago 1857–1858, 1860–1861 (three different districts), editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago | [279] |
| Thomas Whipple, Jr. | 1814 | Representative from New Hampshire 1821–1829 | [279] |
| Charles W. Willard | 1851 | Representative from Vermont 1869–1875 | [279] |
| George F. Williams | 1872 | Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, Minister to Greece 1913–1914 | [279] |
| Hezekiah Williams | 1820 | Representative from Maine 1845–1849 | [279] |
| Phineas White | 1797 | Representative from Vermont 1821–1823 | [279] |
| Rick White | 1975 | Representative from Washington 1995–1999 | [279] |
United States governors
Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States
Government officials outside the U.S.
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ebenezer Allen | 1826 | Attorney General of the Republic of Texas, railroad promoter, namesake of the city of Allen, Texas | [349] |
| Gordon Campbell | 1970 | Premier of British Columbia 2001–2011 | [350] |
| Howard Hampton | Member of Provincial Parliament 1987–1999, 1999–present (two different districts), leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party 1996–2009 | [351] | |
| Colin Kenny | T1968 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada 1969–1972 Director of Operations PMO 1972–1976 Policy Advisor the Prime Minister of Canada 1976 Assistant Principal to the Prime Minister of Canada 1976–1979; member of the Senate (Ontario) 1984–2018 | |
| Paavo Lipponen | Prime Minister of Finland 1995–2003, member of the Parliament of Finland 1991–2007 | [352] | |
| Juan Carlos Navarro | 1983 | Mayor of Panama City 1999–2009 | [353] |
| Nit Phibunsongkhram | 1962 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States from Thailand 1996–2008 | [291] |
| William Remington | 1939 | Alleged Soviet spy | [354] |
| Wes Sheridan | 1982 | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from Kensington-Malpeque, Canada 2007–present | [355] |
| Tiffany George Sylvester | c. 1830 | Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario |
Other U.S. political and legal figures
Journalism and media
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seth Abramson | 1998 | Newsweek columnist, BBC and CNN TV analyst, curatorial journalist and New York Times best-selling author | [409][410] |
| Jonathan Agronsky | 1971 | Voice of America journalist, author | [411] |
| Bill Beutel | 1953 | First anchor of what became Good Morning America | [412] |
| Rudi Blesh | Jazz critic and reviewer | [413] | |
| Keith Boykin | 1987 | Co-host of the BET TV talk show My Two Cents | [414] |
| Thomas Braden | 1940 | Journalist and author | [415][416] |
| Ty Burr | 1980 | Film critic for The Boston Globe | [417] |
| Vincent Canby | Critic for The New York Times | [418] | |
| Nicholas Carr | 1981 | Writer on technology, economics, and culture | [419] |
| Robert Christgau | 1962 | Rock music critic, formerly of the Village Voice | [420] |
| Dinesh D'Souza | 1983 | Political analyst, fellow at the Hoover Institution | [421] |
| Orvil Dryfoos | 1934 | Publisher of The New York Times | [422] |
| Nathaniel Fick | 1999 | Author of One Bullet Away and officer in the United States Marine Corps | [423] |
| Gregory Fossedal | 1981 | Conservative activist and author, co-founder of The Dartmouth Review | [424] |
| Paul Gambaccini | 1970 | Radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom | [425] |
| Brett Haber | 1991 | Sportscaster formerly of ESPN's SportsCenter; now host, commentator on Tennis Channel & NBC Olympics | [206] |
| Robert Hager | 1960 | NBC news analyst and correspondent | [426] |
| George Herman | 1941 | Journalist for CBS, moderator for Face the Nation | [427] |
| Evan X Hyde | 1969 | Publisher of Belize's newspaper Amandala | [428] |
| Laura Ingraham | 1985 | Political analyst, host of radio show The Laura Ingraham Show | [429] |
| Steve Kelley | 1981 | Political cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune | [430][431][432] |
| Jason E. Klein | 1982 | CEO of Times Mirror Magazines and CEO of Newspaper National Network LP | [433] |
| Mort Kondracke | 1960 | Executive editor of Roll Call; political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Millie: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease, which was made into a movie for CBS | [434] |
| A. J. Liebling | 1924 | Journalist, long-time contributor to The New Yorker | [435] |
| James Nachtwey | 1970 | Photojournalist | [436] |
| James Panero | 1998 | Managing Editor of The New Criterion | [437] |
| Spencer Reiss | 1974 | Journalist for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired | [438][439] |
| Lisa Richardson (journalist) | Editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times | [440] | |
| Mel Robbins | 1990 | Journalist for CNN, television show host, and author | [441] |
| David Rosenbaum | 1963 | Journalist for The New York Times, winner of the 1991 Polk Award | [442] |
| Thomas N. Schroth | 1942 | Editor of Congressional Quarterly and founder of The National Journal | [443] |
| Maggie Shnayerson | 2003 | Journalist for TIME, The New York Sun, and the New York Post | [444] |
| Michael Shnayerson | Contributor to Vanity Fair | [445] | |
| Jacques Steinberg | 1988 | Journalist for The New York Times | [206] |
| Jake Tapper | 1991 | Journalist for CNN | [446] |
| George Ticknor | 1847 | Editor of The Keene Sentinel, c. 1860–1866 | [447] |
| David Viscott | 1959 | Psychiatrist, professor, author, and media personality | [448] |
| Michael Weiss | 2002 | Journalist, security analyst and author | [449] |
| Tom Zoellner | 2012 | Author, journalist | [450] |
Bloggers
| Name | Year/degree | Blog | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| John H. Hinderaker | 1971 | Power Line | [451] |
| Scott W. Johnson | 1971 | Power Line | [451] |
| Melissa Lafsky | 2000 | Opinionistas | [452] |
| Paul Mirengoff | 1971 | Power Line | [451] |
- John Lippman, television executive and the acting director of Voice of America
Literature, writing, and translation
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Booth | 1947 | Poet, winner of Guggenheim grant | [453] |
| William Bronk | 1938 | Poet, winner of National Book Award | [454] |
| Brock Brower | 1953 | Novelist, nominated for the National Book Award | |
| Joseph Campbell | 1926 (never graduated) | Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which inspired Star Wars and The Matrix | [455] |
| Eric Dezenhall | 1984 | Author of fiction and nonfiction; books include Glass Jaw, A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal, Money Wanders and The Devil Himself | [456][457] |
| Bruce Ducker | 1960 | Novelist | [458] |
| Louise Erdrich | 1976 | Novelist, poet, winner of the O. Henry Award in 1987, Guggenheim Fellow, National Book Critics Circle Award | [459] |
| Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) | 1925 | Children's author and illustrator | [460] |
| András Gerevich | M.A.L.S. 2002 (Fulbright student) | poet, screenwriter, literary translator and Professor | [461] |
| Philip Babcock Gove | 1922 | Lexicographer and editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International | [462] |
| Richard Hovey | 1885 | Poet | [463] |
| Bruce Judson | 1976 | Author of business and public policy books | [464] |
| Eric P. Kelly | 1906 | Journalist and writer, author of The Trumpeter of Krakow and recipient of the 1929 Newbery Medal | [465] |
| Richard Kenney | 1970 | Poet, English professor | [466] |
| Phil Klay | 2005 | US Marine officer, author of Redeployment and winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction | [467] |
| Richmond Lattimore | 1926 | Translator of the Iliad and other classics | [468] |
| Norman Maclean | 1924 | Author of A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire, winner of the National Book Award | [469] |
| Warren E. Preece | 1943 | General editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica | [470] |
| Gregory Rabassa | 1944 | Acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, and other major works of Latin American literature | [471] |
| Alexander O. Smith | 1995 | Japanese/English translator and author | [472] |
| Tara Bray Smith | 1992 | Writer, memoirist | [473] |
| Thorne Smith | Science fiction author | [474] | |
| Ed Victor | Literary agent | [475] |
Pulitzer Prize winners
The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.
Medicine
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick W. Adams | 1822 | Physician, author, and violin maker | [487] |
| Lori Arviso Alvord | 1976 | Became the first board-certified female Diné surgeon in 1994; author of The Scalpel and the Silver Bear; nominated for U.S. Surgeon General in 2013 | [488] |
| John Francis Eisold | 1976 DMS | Current attending physician at the United States Capitol | [489] |
| George L. Engel | 1934 | Psychiatrist, formulator of the biopsychosocial model | [490] |
| Irwin Freedberg | Dermatologist | [491] | |
| John Gunderson | 1965 DMS | Director of McLean Hospital's Borderline Center; Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; pioneer of research on the treatment of borderline personality disorder | [492] |
| Rosandra N. Kaplan | DMS | Physician scientist at the National Cancer Institute | [493] |
| Charles Knowlton | 1824 DMS | Physician, author of a noted pamphlet on birth control | [494] |
| Calvin C.J. Sia | 1950 | Developer of both the medical home concept for primary care and the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program | [495] |
| Bob Smith | 1902 | Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous | [496] |
| Paul Zamecnik | 1934 | Professor of medicine emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital | [497] |
| David Zarling | M.A. | Oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur | [498] |
| Elad Levy | 1993 B.S. | Leader, researcher, innovator in the field of Neurosurgery for the treatment of stroke | [499] |
| Odette Harris | 1991 | Neurosurgery: treatment of traumatic brain injuries with a focus on epedemiology and outcomes. | [500] |
Military
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dean C. Allard | 1955 | Director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center | [501] |
| Robert J. Dixon | 1941 | Four-star general in the United States Air Force | [502] |
| George P. Estey | (never graduated) | Union Army Brigadier General, lawyer | [503] |
| Jack K. Farris | 1981 | U.S. Air Force Major General | [504] |
| Joshua James Guppey | 1843 | Union Army Brigadier General | [505] |
| Frank A. Haskell | 1854 | Union Army colonel during the American Civil War | [506] |
| John C. Meyer | U.S. Air Force General, World War II flying ace, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command | [507] | |
| Arnold Resnicoff | 1968 | Navy chaplain; Command Chaplain, United States European Command; Special Assistant for Values and Vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force | |
| William W. Stickney | 1926 | U.S. Marine Corps major general, director of Marine Corps Marine Corps Reserve | [508] |
| John L. Sullivan | 1921 | United States Secretary of the Navy 1947–1949 | [509] |
| Eri D. Woodbury | 1863 | American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient |
Religion
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elihu Palmer | 1787 | Deist author and public speaker | [510] |
| Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs | 1852 | Presbyterian minister | [511] |
| Caleb Sprague Henry | 1825 | Episcopal clergyman and author | |
| Walter Ashbel Sellew | 1866 | Methodist bishop | [512] |
| Arthur Whipple Jenks | 1884, D.D. 1911 | Episcopal theologian | [513] |
| William Palmer Ladd | Episcopal priest and seminary dean | ||
| Jack Kornfield | 1967 | Author, Peacemaker and Monk | |
| Arnold Resnicoff | 1968 | Rabbi and retired U.S. Navy chaplain, national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and special assistant for values and vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force | |
| Solomon Spalding | 1785 | Calvinist clergyman, possibly the author of a predecessor work of the Book of Mormon | [514] |
| David E. Stern | 1983 | Senior rabbi, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas | [515] |
| Joseph Tracy | M.A. 1814 | Protestant minister, author, and historian | [516] |
| Edward A. Lawrence, Sr. | 1834 | Congregational pastor, author, professor | [517] |
Social reform
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Eastman | 1887 | Santee Sioux author, physician, and reformer | [518] |
| Lester Granger | 1918 | African-American civil rights activist | [519] |
| John Humphrey Noyes | 1830 | Founder of the Utopian Oneida Society | [520] |
Sports
Baseball
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Ausmus | 1991 | Catcher, 1999 All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, manager of the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, and Israel national baseball team | [521] |
| Jim Beattie | 1976 | Pitcher for the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners | [522] |
| Pete Burnside | 1952 | Pitcher for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, and Baltimore Orioles | |
| Ralph Glaze | 1906 | Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; football All-American; head coach of football, basketball, and track and field for several universities | [523] |
| Kyle Hendricks | 2013 | Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs | |
| Matt Klentak | 2002 | MLB executive | [524] |
| Chick Maynard | 1920 | Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox | [525] |
| Bill Neukom | 1964 | Managing general partner and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants (due to become chairman emeritus January 1, 2012) | [526] |
| Mike Remlinger | 1988 | Pitcher, 2002 MLB All-Star | [527] |
| Red Rolfe | 1931 | Third baseman for the New York Yankees | [528] |
| Chuck Seelbach | 1970 | Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers | [529] |
| Bianca Smith | 2012 | Coach in the Boston Red Sox organization; first African American woman to coach professional baseball | [530] |
| Rusty Yarnall | 1926 (transferred to University of Vermont[531]) | Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies | [525] |
Basketball
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Blackwell | 1991 | Guard for the Charlotte Hornets and the Boston Celtics | [532] |
| Aud Brindley | 1946 | Forward for the New York Knicks | [532] |
| Ric Bucher | 1983 | Basketball analyst for ESPN | [533] |
| Flinder Boyd | 2002 | Guard for Great Britain, feature writer | [534] |
| Dave Gavitt | 1959 | Coach at Providence College, first commissioner of the Big East Conference | [535] |
| Russ Granik | 1969 | Deputy Commissioner and COO of the NBA | [536] |
| Rudy LaRusso | 1959 | Forward and center for the Minneapolis Lakers, five-time NBA All-Star | [537] |
| Walter Palmer | 1990 | Center for the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks | [532] |
Football
Ice hockey
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillian Apps | 2006 | Left wing, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics | [561] |
| Walter Bush | 1951 | Administrator and organizer | [562] |
| Tanner Glass | 2007 | Center for Pittsburgh Penguins | [563] |
| Hugh Jessiman | 2006 | Right wing for New York Rangers | [564] |
| David Jones | 2008 | Right wing for Calgary Flames | [565] |
| Kristin King | 2002 | Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics | [566] |
| Myles Lane | 1928 | Defenseman for New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, football coach at Boston University, New York Supreme Court justice | [567][568] |
| Ben Lovejoy | 2007 | Defenseman for Anaheim Ducks | [569] |
| Sarah Parsons | 2010 | Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics | [566][570] |
| Cherie Piper | 2006 | Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics | [571] |
| Lee Stempniak | 2005 | Right wing for Calgary Flames | [572] |
| Katie Weatherston | 2006 | Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics | [573] |
| Carey Wilson | 1983 (never graduated) | Center for Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers | [525][574] |
Track and field
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerry Ashworth | 1963 | Sprinter, gold medalist in 1964 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Vilhjálmur Einarsson | 1956 | Triple jumper, silver medalist in 1956 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Edwin Myers | 1920 | Pole vaulter, bronze medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Adam Nelson | 1997 | Shotputter, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics | [576] |
| Alexi Pappas | 2012 | 10,000 metres, competitor in 2016 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Arthur Shaw | 1908 | Hurdler, bronze medalist in 1908 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Nathaniel Sherman | 1910 | Sprinter, competitor in 1908 Summer Olympics | [575] |
| Jarrod Shoemaker | 2004 | Triathlete, competitor in 2008 Summer Olympics | [577] |
| Earl Thomson | 1917 | Hurdler, gold medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics | [525] |
| Marc Wright | 1913 | Pole vaulter, silver medalist in 1912 Summer Olympics | [575] |
Other
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| John H. Caldwell | 1950 | Cross-country skier, competitor in 1952 Winter Olympics | [578] |
| Sophie Caldwell | 2011 | Cross-country skier, competitor in 2014 Winter Olympics | [579] |
| Tim Caldwell | 1976 | Skier, competitor in 1976 Winter Olympics | [206] |
| Dick Durrance | 1939 | Skier, competitor in 1936 Winter Olympics | [580] |
| Jack Durrance | 1936 | Mountaineer, founder of Dartmouth Mountaineering Club | [581] |
| Andrew Goldstein | 2005 | Lacrosse goalie for Long Island Lizards, first professional male team-sport athlete to be openly gay during career | [582] |
| Craig Henderson | 2009 | Soccer player, competitor for New Zealand in 2008 Summer Olympics | [577] |
| Madison Hughes | 2015 | U.S. international rugby sevens player | [583] |
| Britton Keeshan | M.A. 2006 | Adventurer, youngest person to climb Seven Summits | [584] |
| Stuart Krohn | M.A. | Rugby union player | [585] |
| Paul Mott | 1979 | Soccer, played for Tampa Bay Rowdies, and former president of New Orleans Hornets | [586] |
| Cammy Myler | 1995 | Luger, four-time competitor for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics | [587] |
| Dominic Seiterle | 1998 | Rower, competitor for Canada in 2008 Summer Olympics | [577] |
| Michael Slive | 1962 | Commissioner of Southeastern Conference | [588] |
| Carolyn Treacy | 2006 | Biathlete in 2006 Winter Olympics | [566] |
| Lawrence Whitney | 1915 | Athlete in 1912 Summer Olympics | [589] |
Miscellaneous
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Ball | 1820 | Explorer of the Oregon Country with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth | [590] |
| Albert S. Bickmore | 1860 | Naturalist and co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History | [591] |
| Jeffrey Gundlach | 1981 | Investor and businessperson.;founder of DoubleLine Capital LP, an investment firm; former head of the $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund | [592] |
| Michelle Khare | 2014 | YouTuber, actress, television host, and cyclist | |
| John Ledyard | 1776 (never graduated) | Explorer and adventurer; namesake of the Ledyard Canoe Club | [593] |
| Stephen Harriman Long | 1809 | Explorer, surveyor and military officer | [594] |
| James H. Newman | 1978 | Astronaut with NASA | [595] |
| Chip Reese | 1973 | Professional poker player and gambler | [596] |
| Steve Russell | 1958 | Computer programmer and gaming pioneer, creator of early video game Spacewar! | [597] |
Fictional people
| Name | Year/degree | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maggie Eagle Bear | 1989 | Character from Thunderheart, Native American activist | |
| Natty Bumppo | (no year indicated) | Main character of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; described in the novels and in particular the movie Last of the Mohicans as having attended Eleazar Wheelock's school | |
| Pete Campbell | 1956 | Character on Mad Men, played by Vincent Kartheiser | |
| Jackie Chiles | (no year indicated) | Character from Seinfeld, attorney to Cosmo Kramer | |
| Stephen Colbert (character) | (no year indicated) | Titular character of The Colbert Report (real Colbert did not attend Dartmouth; the fictional biography on colbertnation.com, however, lists Dartmouth as his alma mater) | [598] |
| Michael Corleone | 1942 | Main character in the Godfather epic | [599] |
| Thomas Crown | (no year indicated) | Titular character of The Thomas Crown Affair | [600] |
| Evan and Fogell | 2011 (pre-freshmen) | Main characters in 2007 film Superbad | [601] |
| Meredith Grey | (no year indicated) | Titular character of Grey's Anatomy | [602] |
| Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins | (no year indicated) | Character from Who's Your Caddy, played by Big Boi, said to have played lacrosse for the Big Green | |
| Lawrence Kutner | (no year indicated) | Character from House | |
| Pete Lattimer | (no year indicated) | Character from Warehouse 13, officer of the U.S. Secret Service | |
| Jack McCoy | (no year indicated) | Main character in Law and Order | |
| "Trapper" John McIntyre | (no year indicated) | Character on M*A*S*H novels, film, and television, and Trapper John, M.D. | |
| Katie | (no year indicated) | Character in The Secret Life of Pets | |
| Dan Rydell | (no year indicated) | Character from Sports Night, television sports host played by Josh Charles | |
| Jack Trainer | 1970 | Male lead from Working Girl, played by Harrison Ford | [599] |
| Hamilton Bridge Upton | (no year indicated) | Character from The Ugly American, member of the U.S. Foreign Service |
See also
References
External links
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