• Source: List of Boston University people

This is a list of notable faculty members and alumni of Boston University.




Legend


The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent BU schools and colleges:




Academy Awards






Pulitzer Prize winners






Academia




















Mercy B. Jackson (MED 1860) – physician, one of the first women to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree, in the United States
Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED 1864) – first African American woman in the United States to receive an MD, or Doctor of Medicine degree, one of first female physician authors in the 19th century
Anna Oliver (STH 1876) – first woman in the United States to receive a degree in theology
Helen Magill White (GRS 1877) – first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.
Takeo Kikuchi (LAW 1877) – one of first Japanese to study law in the U.S., founder and president of Tokyo's Chuo University
Charles Wesley Emerson (School of Oratory, 1877) – founder of Emerson College
Marion Talbot (CAS 1880) – influential leader in the early 20th century higher education of women, fought against efforts to restrict equal access to educational opportunities as Dean of Women at the University of Chicago (1895–1925), co-founded the American Association of University Women with her mentor Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to MIT
Nathan Abbott (LAW 1881) – founder of Stanford Law School and its first dean
Lelia Robinson Sawtelle (LAW 1881) – first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
Solon Irving Bailey (CAS 1881, GRS 1884) – astronomer, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1892
John Calvin Ferguson (CAS 1883) – art historian, influential in early 20th century education in China, founder of Nanking University, National Chiao Tung University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China
Samuel G. Plantz (STH 1883) – president of Lawrence College
Louisa Holman Richardson (CAS 1883) – Dean of Women at Ohio Wesleyan University
John W. Bowen (STH 1885, STH 1887) – influential in early civil rights movement, creator of The Voice of the Negro and the first accredited black high school in St. Louis, second person of African descent, and the first person born a slave, to earn a doctorate in the U.S.
James Geddes (CAS 1887) – linguist, spearheaded linguistic movement to create a universal alphabet for dictionaries of numerous languages, the precursor to the phonetic alphabet
Charles Eastman (MED 1890) – physician, one of the first Native Americans to receive an MD in the U.S., prolific author and speaker on Sioux ethnohistory and Native American affairs
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch (CAS 1890) – pioneering urban planner and social worker, founder of Greenwich House
Cora Smith Eaton (MED 1892) – suffragist, physician and mountaineer, first woman licensed to practice medicine in North Dakota
Solomon Carter Fuller (MED 1897) – discovered Alzheimer's disease through observations of neurofibrillary tangles and miliary plaques, publishing the first comprehensive review of the disease, noted as the first Black psychiatrist in the United States
Percy Jewett Burrel (School of Oratory, 1898) – creator of pageantry in the United States
Gleason Archer, Sr. (CAS 1904, LAW 1906) – founder of Suffolk University and Suffolk University Law School
Leonard Porter Ayres (GRS '10) – statistician, best-known work dealt with comprehensive statistical studies of American casualties in the first and second world wars
Shields Warren (CAS '18) – pathologist, helped establish field of radiobiology, first to study the pathology of radioactive fallout, discovered that susceptibility to cancer varied from person to person, mentored Eleanor Josephine Macdonald
Priscilla Fairfield Bok (CAS '18) – astronomer, author, director of Steward Observatory in Arizona, published a textbook "The Milky Way", coining the popular term 'milky way'
David Helvarg (CAS '25) – founded the field of pediatric cardiology, known for her work in banning thalidomide, first woman and first pediatrician to be elected head of the American Heart Association, awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
Myrtle Bachelder (WED '39) – chemist noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, contributions to the purification of the rare elements and to astrochemistry, for her analysis of Moon rocks collected during the Apollo missions
Fe Del Mundo (MED '40) – National Scientist of the Philippines and recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Nobel Prize of Asia, founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is known for shaping the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines
Samuel L. Myers Sr. (GRS '42) – economist, former university president, education adviser and civil rights advocate
Esther A. H. Hopkins (CAS '47) – chemist, biophysicist, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from Yale University, attorney for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
H. C. Robbins Landon (CFA '47) – musicologist, journalist, historian, BBC broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering neglected music by Haydn, correcting misunderstandings about Mozart
Eldon Hall (GRS '47) – computer scientist, leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Apollo program
Georgiana Jagiello (CAS '49) – physician, known for perfecting the technique for in vitro fertilization, first woman appointed to an endowed chair at Columbia University Medical School, first woman appointed to the Institute of Advanced Study at the UIUC
Rollin Williams (SSW '49) – first African-American professor at the University of Connecticut
Elma Lewis (WED '50) – one of the first women to receive a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founder of The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and National Center of Afro-American Artists, awarded National Medal of Arts by President Reagan
Ray Hyman (CAS '50) – one of the founders of the modern skeptical movement, noted critic of parapsychology, research on Hick's Law
Gertrude Hunter (MED '50) – doctor and professor of medicine, national director of health services
Nathan Azrin (CAS '51, GRS '52) – psychologist, founder of Token Economics and the CRAFT model
Raymond Coppinger (CAS '59) – biologist, expert in canine behavior and the origin of the domestic dog, professor at Hampshire College
Alan L. Gropman (CAS '59) – professor of history and grand strategy, author and lecturer, National Defense University
Jean Briggs (GRS '60) – anthropologist, American expert on Inuit languages, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Anthropological Association, a Royal Society of Canada fellow
William E. Doll Jr. (GRS '60) – educator, curriculum theorist, Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association, among first group of scholars to introduce complexity thinking to education in the 1980s
Hugo Bedau (GRS '61) – philosopher, best known for work on capital punishment
Stanley Awramik (CAS '68) – biogeologist, paleontologist, Geological Society of America
Gabor Boritt (GRS '68) – historian, received the National Humanities Medal in 2008 from Bush
Diana Chapman Walsh (CAS '71, UNI '83) – president of Wellesley College (1993–2007)
Lawrence C. Levy (B.S. '72) – executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, and journalist
John Nassivera (CAS '72) – author, playwright, Fellow in Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Theodora J. Kalikow (CAS '74) – president of University of Maine at Farmington (1994–2012)
Dana Mohler-Faria (CAS '74, 75) – president of Bridgewater State College (2002–2015)
Celeste Freytes (SED '77) – interim president of University of Puerto Rico (2013, 2016–2017)
Owen Flanagan (GRS '78) – philosopher, James B. Duke University Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University
Ted Landsmark (GRS '78) – president, Boston Architectural College (1997–2014), Professor of Public Policy at Northeastern University
Cynthia Gómez (CAS '79) – psychologist, served on Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS for Bush and Clinton, known for work in field of HIV/AIDS prevention, health care access and health equity for minority groups, founded Health Equity Institute at SFSU
Philip Kasinitz (CAS '79) – sociologist, Presidential Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Chair in Sociology (2001–)
I. Michael Leitman (CAS '81, MED '85) – Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Richard G. Frank (GRS '82) – economist, known for contributions to health economics, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation under Obama, Professor at Harvard University
Kevin J. Tracey (MED '83) – CEO, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, one of the most cited researchers in the world
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (GRS '84) – sociologist, known for his research on labor markets and workplace inequality
Ruth Agnes Daly (GRS '84, GRS '87) – astrophysicist, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Professor of Physics at Penn State University, best known for work on the expansion and acceleration histories of the universe
Andres Jaramillo-Botero (ENG '86) – physicist, known for contributions to first-principles based modeling, design and characterization of nanoscale materials and devices, professor at CalTech
Drew Weissman (MED '87, MED '87) – Nobel Prize-winning researcher, known for development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 "for discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"
Shoshana Chatfield (CAS '88) – first woman President of the Naval War College (2018–2023)
David Ciardi (CAS '91) – astrophysicist, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work on Kepler and his contributions to the fundamental nature of stellar variability, NASA Silver Achievement Medal as part of the TESS team, staff at CalTech
Morgan James Peters (CFA '91) – Director of Black Studies and associate professor of English, UMass Dartmouth
Saskia Hamilton (GRS '96) – poet, editor, and university administrator at Barnard College
Marie Jean Philip (GRS '96) – pioneering researcher in American Sign Language and one of first researchers to focus on ASL and deaf culture, helped establish ASL as a recognized language in the colleges of Massachusetts (early 1980s)
Richard Bohannon (SAR '93) – highly cited physiotherapy researcher, editor-in-chief of two peer-reviewed medical journals, Journal of Human Muscle Performance, Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy
Ha Jin (GRS '94) – writer, National Book Award for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Waiting (1999), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), National Book Award (1999), elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Ben Bahan (GRS '96) – influential figure in American Sign Language literature
Jeffrey Docking (CAS '96) – president of Adrian College (2005–present)
Bogdan A. Dobrescu (GRS '97) – theoretical physicist, expert in high-energy physics, scientist at Fermilab
Christopher Nowinski (GRS '17) – neuroscientist, professional wrestler, known for research on concussions in American football and CTE




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Martin Luther King Jr. (STH '55) – civil rights leader, 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom
W. T. Handy, Jr. (STH) – civil rights leader and Bishop of the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church
Anna Howard Shaw (STH 1878, MED 1886) – president of National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904–1915), leading figure in the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., first woman awarded Distinguished Service Medal, one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States
Alice Stone Blackwell (CAS 1881) – influential in merging two competing organizations in the women's suffrage movement into the National American Woman Suffrage Association, daughter of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, niece of Elizabeth Blackwell
Makarios III (STH '48) – 1st and 4th President of Cyprus, a key figure in the island's struggle for independence and a symbol of Cypriot national identity
James Lawson (STH '60) – leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement
James Forman (GRS '61) – prominent African-American leader in the Civil Rights Movement
Ruth Batson (WED '76) – civil rights activist known for critical role in desegregation of Boston public schools during the 1960s and 1970s
James L. Farmer Sr. (STH '13, STH 16', STH '18) – first Texan African-American to earn a PhD, minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, an academic in early religious history and theology, father of James Farmer
Eugene Callender (CAS '47) – first black pastor in the Christian Reformed Church, active in the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., pioneers "street academies" for disadvantaged New York City youth
Travis Roy (COM '00) – leading activist for spinal cord injury survivors, founder of the Travis Roy Foundation
Jean Kilbourne (GRS '80) – activist filmmaker, Killing Us Softly, famous for work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee
Elizabeth Meyer Glaser (WED '70) – child advocate, AIDS activist and co-founder of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (STH '56) – founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, innovator in ecumenical dialogue
Carl F. H. Henry (STF '49) – theologian, one of the most influential figures in the development of Neo-Evangelicalism
Roger Blanchard (CAS '32) – American bishop of the Episcopal Church, church's Bishop of Southern Ohio (1959–1970)
Andrew Z. Lopatin (CAS '87) – Rhodes Scholar, Orthodox Jewish rabbi and President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (1930–1950)
Walter A. Maier (STH '13) – speaker for The Lutheran Hour radio broadcast (1930–1950)
Richard Joseph Malone (STH '81) – Bishop of Portland (2004–2012), Bishop of Buffalo (2012–2019)
Woodie W. White (STH '61) – Bishop of the United Methodist Church North Central region, Bishop-In-Residence at Emory University




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Bernard Berenson (CAS 1887*) – prominent art historian of the early 20th century and major figure in the attribution of Old Masters
Franz Kline (CFA '35) – painter, important figure in Abstract Expressionism, part of the New York School with Pollock, de Kooning, Motherwell, a 1957 untitled painting sold at Christie's for $40.4 million
Cyrus Dallin (CFA '37) – sculptor of iconic sculptures including Paul Revere, Appeal to the Great Spirit and Angel Maroni (honorary degree)
Paul Caponigro (CFA '50) – two Guggenheim Fellowships, three grants from the NEA
Calvin Burnett (CFA '60) – artist, exhibited extensively at the Smithsonian and Brooklyn Museum
Pat Steir (CFA '60) – painter, Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
Arnold Glimcher (CFA '61) – founder of Pace Gallery, which sells more than $400 million in art annually
Lorraine Shemesh (CFA '61) – artist, Abstract Expressionism, elected to the National Academy of Design
Brice Marden (CFA '61) – painter, known for his paintings that fuse Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2020 an abstract painting, Complements (2004–2007) sold at Christie's for $30.9 million, eclipsing old masters like Rembrandt
Richard Yarde (CFA '62, '64) – artist and professor, specialized in watercolor painting
Rick Meyerowitz (CFA '65) – illustrator, best known for National Lampoon cover-art, creator of poster for the comedy film Animal House
Jane Aaron (CFA '69) – illustrator, Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), Sesame Street, Between the Lions
Mark Rosewater (COM '69) – head designer for Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game (2003–present)
Jon Imber (CFA '77) – painter, important figure in Boston Expressionism
Andrew Raftery (CFA '84) – painter, Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Alexi Worth (CFA '93) – painter, Guggenheim Fellowship (2009)
Jennifer Guidi (CFA '94) – painter, in collections of the Hammer Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and Marciano Art Foundation
Sedrick Huckaby (CFA '97) – artist, Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Robert T. Freeman (CFA '97) – painter, member of the Boston Arts Commission
Lizet Benrey – painter
Ida Lorentzen – American-born Norwegian artist




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Miriam Gideon (CAS '26) – composer, first woman to write a complete synagogue service, among most recorded female composers of her era, second woman inducted into American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975
Samuel Adler (CFA '48) – composer, American Classical Music Hall of Fame, founder and conductor of the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
George Wein (CAS '50) – Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, promoter, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Don Ellis (CFA '56) – trumpeter, jazz composer
Joan Baez (CFA 1958*) – folk singer, Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), one of Rolling Stone' 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
James Billings (CFA '57) – operatic baritone, opera librettist, opera director, member of the New York City Opera
Alan Wilson (CFA '64*) – co-founder, leader, co-lead singer, and primary composer of the blues band Canned Heat, known for hits "On the Road Again" and "Going Up the Country"
Doug Yule (CFA 1966*) – musician, member of the Velvet Underground (1968–1973), ranked number 19 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" (2004), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Anthony & Joseph Paratore (CFA '66; CFA '70) – piano duo
Norman Greenbaum (CFA '67*) – musician, "Spirit in the Sky", amongst best-selling one hit-wonders of all time
Kate Pierson (COM '70) – singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52's
Jeff Baxter (CAS '71*) – guitarist, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Spirit; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
James Montgomery (CAS '71) – blues musician, The James Montgomery Blues Band
David de Berry (CFA '76) – theater composer, known for 1987 score of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
Anthony Tommasini (CFA '82) – chief classical music critic for The New York Times (2000–2021)
Mwalim (CAS '91, COM '93) – composer, pianist, conductor, singer, playwright, director, actor
Mary Timony (CAS '92) – indie rock musician
Joan Wasser (CFA '92) – indie rock musician
Paula Kelley (CAS '93) – indie pop singer-songwriter
Justine Susanna Gamache (CFA '94, CFA '99) – indie synth-pop musician, lead singer of Freezepop
Valerie Coleman (CFA '95) – composer, named "one of the Top 35 Women Composers" by The Washington Post
PSY (QST 1996*) – Korean rapper best known for "Gangnam Style"
Noah Lennox (STH 1997*) – experimental musician, founding member of Animal Collective
Brian Fair (CAS '97) – Grammy Award-nominated lead vocalist of Shadows Fall
Aesop Rock (CFA '98) – hip hop musician
Matt Squire (CAS '99) – platinum music producer for Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Kesha, One Direction
Morris Robinson (CFA '01) – opera singer, first African-American artist to sign with a major classical record label
Alexandra Fol (CFA '02) – Canadian composer
Edwin Barker – principal double bass, Boston Symphony Orchestra
William Waterhouse – violinist, Boston Symphony Orchestra (1975–1987), principal 2nd violin, Boston Pops
Eugene Izotov – principal oboe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui – music director, Singapore Symphony Orchestra
David Daniels – music director, Warren Symphony Orchestra (Michigan) 1974–2010




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Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (WED '88) – socialite, publicist, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Jenna Mourey (WED '10) – the most popular female personality on YouTube with 1.8 billion video views and 20 million subscribers
Judy Smith (COM '80) – crisis manager who inspired Scandal's Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington
Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston (LAW '88) – co-creator of the comic book character Wonder Woman
Olivia Culpo – Miss USA 2012 from Rhode Island, Miss Universe 2012
Olivia Jordan – Miss World United States 2013, Top 20 at Miss World 2013. She is also Miss USA 2015 representing Oklahoma
Frank Reed Horton (LAW '17) – founder and first national president of Alpha Phi Omega, the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States
Wavy Gravy (CFA '61*) – entertainer, peace activist, best known for his role at Woodstock
Joyce Jillson (CFA '67) official astrologer for Twentieth Century Fox Studios, suggesting astrologically favorable dates for film openings, including Star Wars on May 25, 1977




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Allen Questrom (QST '64) – CEO of Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Barneys New York, and JCPenney
Karen S. Lynch (QST '99) – CEO, CVS Health
Reshma Kewalramani (CAS '75, MED '78) – President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Christine Poon (QST '83) – chairman, Johnson & Johnson
John F. Smith Jr. (QST '65) – chairman and CEO of General Motors
David Zaslav (LAW '85) – CEO and President, Warner Bros., oversaw merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia
Joe Roth (COM '71) – chairman, Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000); chairman, 20th Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and founder of major American film studio, Morgan Creek Entertainment
Nina Tassler (CFA '79) – chairman, CBS
Brian Bedol (COM '80) – creator of ESPN Classic, founder and CEO, CBS Sports Network
Shari Redstone (LAW '80) – Vice Chairman, Viacom and CBS, Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Forbes' list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Bonnie Hammer (COM '71, WED '75) – chairman, NBCUniversal
Ted Harbert (COM '77) – chairman, NBC Broadcasting, President and CEO of the Comcast Entertainment Group, and Chairman of ABC Entertainment
Luca Maestri (QST '91) – CFO, Apple
Tom Szkutak (QST '82) – CFO, Amazon
Edward Zander (QST '75) – chairman and CEO, Motorola, President of Sun Microsystems
Dirk Meyer (QST '93) – CEO, Advanced Micro Devices
Warren Albert (CAS '42) – President, Warren Equities, one of the 500 largest privately owned companies, Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School is named after him
Nancy Dubuc (COM '91) – CEO, Vice Media, CEO and President, A+E Networks
Steve Broidy (CFA '27*) – President, Monogram Pictures, 1962 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founding Chairman of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jim Brett (QST '91) – CEO, J.Crew, CEO, West-Elm
Mickey Drexler (QST '68) – CEO, J. Crew
J Allard (CAS '91) – VP, Microsoft, famous for developing the Xbox product family
Jerald G. Fishman (QST) – CEO, Analog Devices
Paul Irwin – CEO, Humane Society
Ken Lin (CAS '98) – founder and CEO, Credit Karma
Jan Brandt – former CMO of AOL and Vice Chair Emeritus of America Online/Time Warner
Kamal Bahamdan (ENG '94) – Saudi Arabian businessman, CEO, Safanad and five-time Olympic equestrian
Alessandro Benetton (QST '88) – chairman, 21 Investimenti S.p. A, and Deputy Chairman of Benetton Group
Rocco Benetton (QST Chief Executive) – Benetton Formula One Team
Edgar J. Helms (STH 1889*) – founder, Goodwill Industries
Norman Barren (QST '39) – founder, former CEO and President of Marshall's Stores
Marcela Sapone (QST '08, UNI '08) – founder and CEO, Hello Alfred
Stephanie McMahon (COM '98) – EVP, Chief Brand Officer, WWE, member of the McMahon family, owners of WWE
Shane McMahon (COM '93) – EVP, WWE, member of the McMahon family, owners of WWE
John Couris – CEO, Tampa General Hospital 2017




Film, television, and theatre






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List of notable alumni in the film and television industry listed by graduation year.
Samuel Bischoff (CAS '22) – prolific Warner Bros. and RKO Studios producer of classical Hollywood cinema, producing over 400 full-length including The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Last Mile (1932), The Strangler (1964)
Harold Russell (QST '49) – Academy Award-winning actor, Best Supporting Actor in The Best Years of Our Lives, the first non-professional actor to win an Oscar for acting, chairman of the President's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped
Albert and David Maysles (CAS '51) – Emmy Award-winning documentarians, early pioneers of direct cinema genre, known for Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter (1970) and Grey Gardens (1975), awarded 2013 National Medal of Arts by President Obama
Olympia Dukakis (SAR '53, CFA '57) – Academy Award-winning actress, Best Supporting Actress in Moonstruck (1987), Steel Magnolias (1989), feature-length documentary about her life, Olympia (2018), cousin of U.S. Governor Michael Dukakis
Russell Morash (CFA '57) – pioneer of lifestyle and how-to television, Emmy Award-winning director of The French Chef, starring Julia Child, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop
Jean Firstenberg (COM '58) – President and CEO of the American Film Institute (1980–2007) and the only woman to serve in the role, awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, member of the California State University Board of Trustees
Jonathan Goldsmith (CFA '58) – actor, Mamma Mia!, face of Dos Equis, 'The Most Interesting Man in the World'
John Cazale (CFA '59) – actor, appeared in five films, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and were selected for U.S. National Film Registry in the of the Library of Congress: The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978), husband of Meryl Streep
Marian Morash (CFA '59) – television personality, on-air chef for Crocket's Victory Garden, author of The Victory Garden Cookbook
Verna Bloom (CFA '59) – actress, Medium Cool and National Lampoon's Animal House
Ed Bishop (CFA '60) – actor, UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Fulbright Scholar
Faye Dunaway (CFA '62) – Academy Award-winning actress, regarded as powerful emblem of New Hollywood
Göksel Kortay (CFA '62) – actress, voice actress, translator, and lecturer
Tobin Bell (CFA '64) – actor, icon of horror genre, John Kramer / Jigsaw in the Saw franchise, starring in eight of Saw (2004) sequels
Stanley Kamel (CFA '65) – actor, best known for playing Dr. Charles Kroger on Monk (2002–2008)
Lenny Baker (CFA '66) – Tony Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actor in Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) and I Love My Wife (1977)
Paul Michael Glaser (CFA '67) – actor, ABC series Starsky & Hutch
Trish Vradenburg (CAS '68) – screenwriter, philanthropist, Designing Women, Kate and Allie, Family Ties
Will Lyman (CFA '71) – Peabody Award-winning narrator of PBS series Frontline (1984–present)
Lauren Shuler Donner (COM '71) – X-Men film series franchise producer, films have grossed around $5.5 billion
Robin Bartlett (CFA '73) – actress, NBC's The Powers That Be and Mad About You, recurring on American Horror Story
Alfre Woodard (CFA '74) – Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actress, Best Supporting Actress for Cross Creek (1983), "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century" by The New York Times, board member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Paul Reubens (CFA '74*) – Emmy Award-winning actor, creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman in The Pee-wee Herman Show and Pee-wee's Playhouse, ranked in TV Guide's 'Top 10 Cult Shows Ever'
David Garrison (CFA '74) – Tony Award-nominated actor, Al Bundy's neighbor on Married... with Children
John Snyder (CFA '74) – actor, voice actor
Bruce Feirstein (COM '75) – screenwriter of three James Bond films GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough
Rick Heinrichs (CFA '76) – Academy Award-winning production designer, Best Production Design for Sleepy Hollow
Reed Birney (COM '76*) – Tony Award-winning actor, Mass (2021), The Menu (2022), recurring roles in Gossip Girl, House of Cards
Ethan Phillips (CAS '77) – actor, playwright, Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager, Pete Downey on Benson
Bonnie Arnold (COM '78) – prominent figure in initial wave of computer-animation, producer of Toy Story, Tarzan, How to Train Your Dragon
Geena Davis (CFA '79) – Academy Award-winning actress, Best Supporting Actress in The Accidental Tourist(1989), Best Actress nominee for Thelma & Louise (1992), starred in Beetlejuice, A League of Their Own, awarded honorary Oscar Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for those "whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry"
Michael Williams (COM '79) – Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning producer, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer Eye
Peter Del Vecho (CFA '80) – Academy Award-winning producer, Best Animated Feature film Frozen
Jason Alexander (CFA '81) – Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for George Costanza on Seinfeld
Kevin Burns (COM '81) – Emmy Award-winning producer of A&E's Biography series, also Ancient Aliens, America's Book of Secrets
Deborah Liebling (COM '81) – Emmy Award-nominated producer, President of Production at Universal Pictures, responsible for South Park
Julianne Moore (CFA '83) – Academy Award-winning actress, Best Actress for Still Alice (2014), Best Actress nominee for The End of the Affair (2000) and Far from Heaven (2003), Best Supporting Actress for Boogie Nights(1998) and The Hours (2003), ranked eleventh on The New York Times list of the greatest actors of the 21st century,named to Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2015
Mariel Hemingway (CFA '83) – Academy Award-nominated actress for Woody Allen's Manhattan, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Cousins (CFA '83) – actor, Ted Beneke on Breaking Bad, Cain Rogan on One Life to Live, also in Revolution
Richard Gladstein (COM '83) – Academy Award-nominated producer, Pulp Fiction, She's All That, The Bourne Identity
David E. Kelley (LAW '83) – eleven-time Emmy Award-winning and four-time Peabody Award-winning writer-producer of L.A. Law, Picket Fences, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, Big Little Lies, Boston Legal, member of Television Hall of Fame
Jensen Buchanan (CFA '84) – Emmy Award-nominated actress, Sarah Gordon on One Life to Live, Another World
David Dinerstein (COM '84) – Academy Award-winning director, Best Documentary for Summer of Soul
Steven Brill (CFA '84) – director, Mr. Deeds, Without a Paddle, Heavyweights, Drillbit Taylor, Little Nicky
Scott Rosenberg (COM '85) – writer, producer, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, Beautiful Girls, High Fidelity
Gary Fleder (COM '85) – director, screenwriter, producer, Kiss the Girls, Don't Say a Word, Homefront
Michael Chiklis (CFA '86) – Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, The Shield, known for playing The Thing in two Fantastic Four films (2005–2007)
Marisa Tomei (CFA '86*) – Academy Award-winning actress, Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny (1993), Best Supporting Actress nominee for In the Bedroom (2002) and The Wrestler (2009)
Tatiana S. Riegel (CAS '86) – Academy Award-nominated film editor, Best Film Editing nominee for I, Tonya
Marc Maron (CAS '86) – comedian, more than 40 appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Jamie Kaler (CAS '87) – actor, comedian, Mike Callahan on My Boys, Gary on Will & Grace
Roy Conli (CFA '87) – Academy Award-winning producer, Best Animated Feature for Big Hero 6
Jeffrey Ross (COM '87) – actor, comedian, Comedy Central Roast series, Netflix's Historical Roasts
Michelle Hurd (CFA '88) – actress, Monique Jeffries in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Glades
Greg Fitzsimmons (CAS '89) – Emmy Award-winning writer, producer of The Ellen DeGeneres Show
John Henson (CAS '89) – comedian, co-host of ABC's Wipeout, with John Anderson
Andy Cohen (COM '90) – Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning host, executive producer of the Real Housewives franchise
Rocco DiSpirito (QST '90) – television personality, chef, restaurateur, star of The Restaurant
Jennifer Getzinger (COM '90) – director, screen supervisor, Mad Men, Sex and the City, The Comeback, The Sopranos, The Devil Wears Prada
Yan Luo (CFA '90) – actress, screenwriter, Pavilion of Women, first female Chinese filmmaker to produce, write, and star in a Hollywood film
Esra Dermancioglu (CFA '90) – actress, Mukaddes Ketenci in popular Turkish drama series Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?
Susan Dalian (CFA '90) – voice actress, voice of Haku in the first season of Naruto and the Screen Gems film The Brothers
Kim Raver (CFA '91) – actress, Audrey Raines on 24, Dr. Teddy Altman on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy
Peter Paige (CFA '91) – actor, Emmett Honeycutt on Showtime's hit series Queer as Folk
Christian Roman (CFA '91) – animator, director and executive producer of Disney's American Dragon: Jake Long
Stephen Kijak (COM '91) – filmmaker, Stones in Exile, Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Sam Sokolow (COM '91) – producer on National Geographic's Genius series, brother of Alec Sokolow
Fabien Cousteau (CGS'89, MET'91) – documentary filmmaker, Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic, grandson of Jacques Cousteau
Anthony Ruivivar (CFA '92) – actor, Carlos Nieto on Third Watch
Krista Vernoff (CFA '93) – Emmy Award-winning co-executive producer of Grey's Anatomy and Shameless
Cynthia Watros (CFA '93) – Emmy Award-winning actress, Annie Dutton on Guiding Light, Nina Reeves on General Hospital
Thomas Golubić (COM '93) – Emmy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated music supervisor, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, founding member and President of the Guild of Music Supervisors from (2017–2019)
Liz Patrick (COM'93) – Emmy Award-winning director, producer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, fifth director of Saturday Night Live (2022–)
Carlos Bardasano (QST '94, COM '97) – president and head of content at W Studios
Michaela Watkins (CFA '94) – actress, featured player on Saturday Night Live's 34th season, star of Hulu's Casual, The Unicorn, and Trophy Wife series, starred in The Back-up Plan (2010)
Corinne Marrinan (CFA '95) – Academy Award-winning producer, Best Documentary (Short Subject) for A Note of Triumph
Maura West (CFA '95) – Emmy Award-winning actress, Carly Tenney on As the World Turns, Ava Jerome on General Hospital
Yunjin Kim (CFA '95) – actress, best known for Sun-Hwa Kwon on Lost
Russell Hornsby (CFA '96) – actor, ABC Family's Lincoln Heights, HBO's In Treatment, NBC's Grimm
Camille Guaty (COM '96) – actress, lead in hit movie Gotta Kick It Up! (2002), recurring roles in Prison Break, Scorpion, and Cupid series
Megan McCormick (CAS '96) – television presenter, main host of British adventure tourism television series series Globe Trekker
Dave Shalansky (CFA '96) – television actor, Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Offer
Alex Karpovsky (UNI '97) – actor, filmmaker, Ray Ploshansky on HBO series Girls
Emily Deschanel (CFA '98) – actress, Fox series Bones, sister of Zooey Deschanel
Erica Leerhsen (CFA '98) – actress, star in the horror hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), known for Woody Allen films Hollywood Ending (2002), Anything Else (2003), Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Dan Fogler (CFA '98) – Tony Award-winning actor, Balls of Fury and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Raúl Castillo (CFA '99) – actor best known for his role of Richie Donado Ventura on the HBO series Looking
Brian McLean (CFA '99) – Academy Award-winning visual effects pioneer of character animation-stop motion
Rob Mariano (CAS '99) – reality television star known as "Boston Rob" on Survivor, first contestant to appear on Survivor six times and play five times, co-host of Sci Fi Investigates and The History Channel's Around the World in 80 Ways
Kevin O'Connor (QST '99) – host of the PBS home renovation series This Old House
Warren Kole (CFA '00) – actor, star in Showtime's Yellowjackets, Wes Mitchell on USA's Common Law, Robert Stahl in NBC's Shades of Blue, Spielberg's Into the West (2005), also in FOX's The Following
Linda Park (CFA '00) – actress, Hoshi Sato in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
Noah Bean (CFA '00) – actor, Ryan Fletcher on The CW action-thriller series Nikita, David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages
Gene Farber (CFA '00) – actor, Vasily Karpov in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Vincent Larusso (QST '00) – actor, Adam Banks in The Mighty Ducks trilogy
Ginnifer Goodwin (CFA '01) – actress, ABC's Once Upon a Time, Margene Heffman in HBO's Big Love
Ashley Williams (CFA '01) – actress, Victoria in CBS's How I Met Your Mother, TV Land's The Jim Gaffigan Show, NBC's Good Morning Miami, fixture on Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, ABC Family
Hong Chau (COM '01) – Academy Award-nominated actress, Best Supporting Actress for The Whale, starred in Netflix's The Menu, Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, A24's Showing Up, Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing, Netflix's The Night Agent
Patrick Casey (COM '01) – screenwriter, Violent Night and the Sonic the Hedgehog series
Baron Vaughn (CFA '03) – actor, comedian, Bud Bergstein on Netflix series Grace and Frankie
Theo Alexander (CFA '03) – actor, Talbot in HBO's True Blood
Ryan Sypek (CFA '04) – actor, co-star of ABC Family series Wildfire
Corinne Brinkerhoff (COM '04) – Emmy Award-nominated producer of Jane the Virgin, creator and executive producer of American Gothic, co-producer of The Good Wife, writer on Boston Legal
Katya Zamolodchikova (CFA '04*) – actor, comedian, drag queen on RuPaul's Drag Race, Viceland seriesThe Trixie & Katya Show, half of Trixie and Katya, a popular comedy duo
Uzo Aduba (CFA '05) – three-time Emmy Award-winning actress in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black and Hulu's Mrs. America
Noureen DeWulf (CFA '05) – actress, known for West Bank Story (2005), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), The Back-up Plan (2010), Lacey on Anger Management (2012–2014)
Nora Grossman (COM '05) – Academy Award-nominated producer, Best Picture for The Imitation Game (2014)
Sara Chase (CFA '05) – actress, Cyndee Pokorny on Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Henry Hughes (COM '06) – Academy Award-nominated director, Best Live Action Short for Day One (2015)
Tala Ashe (CFA '06) – actress, American Odyssey, As the World Turns, CW's Legends of Tomorrow
Katie Kubert (COM '06) – comic book editor, DC Comics, related to comic book artists Joe Kubert, Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert
Josh Safdie (COM '07) – co-director of A24's Uncut Gems, Palme d'Or-nominee Good Time, Heaven Knows What, co-founder of Elara Pictures
Benjamin Safdie (COM '08) – co-director of A24's Uncut Gems, Palme d'Or-nominee Good Time, Heaven Knows What, starred in Licorice Pizza, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., actor in Oppenheimer, co-founder of Elara Pictures
Rob Turbovsky (COM '08) – Emmy Award-nominated writer, producer of Hulu's Only Murders in the Building
Jessica Rothe (CFA '09) – actress, Paige in MTV comedy series Mary + Jane, La La Land, Happy Death Day
Kristine Leahy (COM '09) – host of NBC's American Ninja Warrior, former sports journalist
Jenn Proske (COM '09) – actress, Becca Crane in Vampires Suck, also CSI: NY, House of Lies
Jane Schoenbrun (COM '09) – director, screenwriter, producer, We're All Going to the World's Fair, I Saw the TV Glow
Evan Puschak (COM '10) – creator of The NerdWriter, host of Discovery Channel's Seeker Daily
Edmund Donovan (CFA '12) – actor, Hightown, Betty, High Fidelity, Orange Is the New Black
Sydney Lemmon (CFA '12) – actress, stars as Ana Helstrom in Hulu series Helstrom, also in HBO's Succession and Fear the Walking Dead
Ellen Tamaki (CFA '14) – actress, Niko Hamada in Charmed, Drea Mikami in Manifest




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Craig Lucas (CFA '73) – Pulitzer Prize-nominated and Tony Award-nominated, playwright, screenwriter
Stewart F. Lane (CFA '73) – Tony Award-winning producer, won Best Musical four times
Fred Zollo (CAS '75) – Academy Award-nominated, seven-time Tony Award-winning producer
Moritz von Stuelpnagel (CFA'00) – Tony Award-nominated producer, Best Direction of a Play
Bob Avian (CFA '59) – Tony Award-winning choreographer, won Award for Best Choreography twice
Martin Sherman (CFA '60) – Tony Award-nominated known for Bent
Jess Goldstein (CFA '72) – Tony Award-winning costume designer, won Best Costume Design for The Rivals
James L. Nederlander (CGS '80) – Tony Award-winning Broadway theatre owner, operator
Brad Oscar (CFA '86) – Tony Award-nominated actor best known for The Producers, Big Fish
Chay Yew (COM '92) – actor
Amber Gray (CFA '04) – Tony Award-nominated actress, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Hadestown




Journalism, news broadcasting and radio



Full list of notable alumni in the journalism, news broadcasting and radio section.

Eliza Putnam Heaton (CAS 1880) – journalist, editor
Anne O'Hagan Shinn (CAS 1890) – The New York Times journalist and suffragist, known for detailing the exploitation of young women working as shop clerks in early 20th century America
Edwin Grozier (CAS 1881) – publisher of the Boston Post, The Boston Globe
Tom Fitzgerald (1929*) – The Boston Globe sports journalist
Carl Mydans (QST '30) – pioneering photojournalist, joined Life as one of its earliest staff photographers, from 1936 into the 1950s
Fred Allen – The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio
Chet Simmons (COM '52) – first ESPN president, ABC Sports executive, NBC Sports president, USFL commissioner, Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2010, helped build ABC Sports into a leader in sports programming, developed Wide World of Sports
Ron Della Chiesa (COM '59) – radio personality
Gordon Hyatt (CFA '56) – producer and writer, CBS documentaries and public broadcasting
Donald Lambro (COM '62) – chief political correspondent of The Washington Times
Mike Barnicle (CAS '65) – journalist, radio host
Nina Totenberg (COM 65*) – correspondent for National Public Radio, one of NPR's "Founding Mothers"
Stephen Kurkjian (CAS '66) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Boston Globe, won Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1972 and 1980, won Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003, won George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994
George Strait (CAS '67) – journalist, founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, known for appearances on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
Gerard M. O'Neill (CAS '70) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
David Doubilet (COM '70) – National Geographic photographer
Tom Magliozzi (QST '71) – Peabody Award-winning co-host of Car Talk, 2014 inductee into National Radio Hall of Fame
Joseph Nocera (COM '74) – Pulitzer Prize for Commentary finalist, columnist, New York Times
Bill O'Reilly (COM '75) – The O'Reilly Factor, the highest-rated U.S. cable news show for 16 years
Howard Stern (CGS '74, COM '76) – host of The Howard Stern Show
Loyd Grossman (CAS '75) – presenter of BBC's MasterChef (1990–2000), co-presenter of Through the Keyhole with David Frost, visiting homes of many UK and US celebrities
Jim Vicevich (COM '77) – radio host of Sound Off Connecticut
Jim Donovan (COM '78) – news anchor, play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports' NFL coverage (1987–1997), radio voice of the Cleveland Browns Radio Network since 1999
Kevin Merida (COM '79) – executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, senior VP at ESPN, editor-in-chief of The Undefeated
Glenn Consor (COM '80) – NBA and NCAA basketball sports broadcaster
Erica Hill (COM '82) – CNN anchor and national correspondent
Anthony Tommasini (CFA '82) – The New York Times chief music critic
Gary Tuchman (COM '82) – CNN national correspondent
Anthony Radziwill (COM '82) – Emmy Award-winning NBC anchor and reporter, Peabody Award for an investigation on the resurgence of Nazism in the United States, son of Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield, nephew of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, spouse of Carole Radziwiłł
Steve Paikin (COM '83) – anchor of TVOntario's, Ontario's public broadcaster, flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Joseph Hallinan (COM '84) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Deena Sheldon (COM '84) – Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster, Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame
Don Van Natta Jr. (COM '86) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Linda Vester (COM '87) – anchor, NBC News at Sunrise, DaySide with Linda Vester on Fox News
Randi Kaye (COM '89) – CNN correspondent, Anderson Cooper 360
Sharon Tay (COM '89) – Emmy Award-winning MSNBC anchor, host of "MSNBC at the Movies," and "MSNBC Entertainment Hot List"
Dana Tyler (QST '90) – Emmy Award-winning CBS news anchor
Tyler Hicks (COM '93) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Liz Cho (COM '92) – news anchor, WABC-TV, flagship of ABC's network in New York City, co-anchored Eyewitness News
Dave Goucher (COM '93) – NHL play-by-play broadcaster for the Vegas Golden Knights
Monica Larner (COM '92) – award-winning critic, first Italian wine editor for Wine Enthusiast, Italian Reviewer for The Wine Advocate
Elizabeth Cohen (SPH '92) – CNN senior medical correspondent
Bill Simmons (COM '93) – ESPN columnist, CEO of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer, The Bill Simmons Podcast
Michele LaFountain (COM '94) – anchor, ESPN SportsCenter en espanól, first Puerto Rican to anchor ESPN's Spanish SportsCenter
Noah Pransky (COM '98) – NBC News national political correspondent
Kimbriell Kelly (COM '98) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Steve Kornacki (COM '01) – NBC News national political correspondent, cable news' 2016 breakout star
Jeremy Hobson (COM '04) – co-host, NPR's Here and Now
Kristin Fisher (COM '05) – Fox News, journalist and television news presenter
Alexandra Cooper (COM '17) – radio personality, Host of "Call Her Daddy" podcast
Justin Kutcher – NFL, NCAA, and MLB play-by-play broadcaster for Fox




Literature and poetry


Jhumpa Lahiri (CAS '93, UNI '95, UNI '97) – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000) for Interpreter of Maladies
Carl Phillips (CAS '93) – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2023)
David Grann (GRS '94) – author, Killers of the Flower Moon
Anne Sexton (GRS*) – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1967)
Sylvia Plath (GRS*) – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982)
George Starbuck (GRS*) – poet
Ha Jin (GRS '94) – author, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
Judy Blume (CAS '60*) – writer, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023
Robert B. Parker (GRS '57) – most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire, cited as reviving, changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors
Robert Munsch (CAS '71, GRS '73) – poet, children's author, author of Love You Forever, which was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6.97 million copies
Elizabeth George Speare (GRS '82) – children's author, one of six writers with two Newbery Medals, Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors
Ellen Bass (1970 M.A.) – poet and author
Percy Jewett Burrell (pre-1900 B.O., School of Oratory) – dramatist
Adam Cesare – horror writer
Hal Clement (WED 1946 M.Ed.) – science fiction author, inducted into Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Kim Stanley Robinson (GRS 1975 M.A.) – science fiction author
Nicholas Gage (DGE 1961, COM B.S. 1963, HON LtD 1985) – author, Eleni, A Place For Us, Greek Fire
Peter Guralnick (1971 M.A.) – author focused on twentieth-century American popular music
Younghill Kang – author, Guggenheim Fellow
William Ellery Leonard (1899) – poet
Susan Miller (SSW 1979 MSS) – author
Stewart O'Nan (ENG 1983 B.S.) – author
Robert B. Parker (GRS 1957 M.A., 1971 Ph.D.) – author, Spencer for Hire and other mystery novels
Norman Vincent Peale (STh) – minister, author
John Perkins (SMG 1968 BSB) – economist, author
Lauren Slater (WED 1995 EDD [Doctor of Education]) – author, psychologist
Neal Stephenson (CLA 1981 B.A.) – science fiction author
Ada Josephine Todd (Ph.D. 1886) – author and educator
Dorothy West – author, member of Harlem Renaissance
Bart Yates (M.M. 1988) – author
Pat Brown (MBA 2007) – author, criminal profiler, TV commentator
Casey Sherman
Maureen G. Mulvaney – special education teacher and college psychology instructor
Roger MacBride Allen (CAS '79) – author
Rhea Tregebov (GRS '78) – Canadian poet, children's author
Anne Sexton – Pulitzer Prize–winning poet (deceased)
Nicole Blackman – artist, poet, author, vocalist, Goth icon




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= U.S. diplomats, federal agencies and appointments

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William Cohen (LAW '65) – 20th U.S. Secretary of Defense (see U.S. Governors)
Gary Locke (J.D. 1975) – 36th U.S. Secretary of Commerce (see U.S. Governors)
James Rubin (GRS '86) – 22nd Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Chief Spokesman for the State Department (1997–2000) Madeleine Albright's "right-hand man", spouse of Christiane Amanpour
Louis Wade Sullivan (MED) – 17th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Sumner G. Whittier (CAS '36) – 5th Head of United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Keith B. Alexander (MBA) – 1st Commander of United States Cyber Command, 16th Director of the National Security Agency
Gary Locke (LAW '75) – U.S. Ambassador to China (see U.S. Governors)
David Mulford (CAS '62) – U.S. Ambassador to India
James Franklin Jeffrey (QST '77) – U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 23rd United States Deputy National Security Advisor, United States Ambassador to Albania
George F. Williams (LAW '74) – 5th U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro, U.S. Ambassador to Greece (see U.S. Representatives)
Brian J. Donnelly (CAS '70) – U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (see U.S. Representatives)
Connie Morella – United States Ambassador to the OECD (see U.S. Representatives)
David Young (STH '87, CAS '88) – U.S. Ambassador to Malawi, U.S. Ambassador to Zambia
Jim Marshall (LAW '77) – President of the United States Institute of Peace (see U.S. Representatives)
Norman D'Amours (LAW '63) – Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (see U.S. Representatives)
Joshua DuBois (CAS '03) – Head of Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Colleen Graffy, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Public Diplomacy for Europe and Eurasia
Stephen Douglas Johnson (LLM 1989) – U.S. House Chief Counsel for Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit 1995–98
Antonio Colorado (CAS '62) – 13th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico (see U.S. Representatives)




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Emma Fall Schofield (CAS 1906) – appointed as one of the first female judges in Massachusetts
J. Howard McGrath (LAW '29) – 60th United States Attorney General, 27th United States Solicitor General
Lincoln Almond (LAW '61) – United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island (see U.S. Governors)
Rebecca C. Lutzko (CAS '93) – U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
Harrie B. Chase (LAW '12) – Chief Judge of the Second Circuit, appointed by Coolidge (1929–1969)
George W. Anderson (LAW '90) – Senior Judge of the First Circuit appointed by Wilson (1918–1938)
Edward McEntee (LAW '33) – Judge of the First Circuit appointed by Johnson (1965–1976)
Juan R. Torruella (LAW '90) – Chief Judge of the First Circuit, appointed by Reagan (1984–2001)
Sandra Lynch (LAW '71) – Senior Judge of the First Circuit, appointed by Clinton, first woman appointed to the First Circuit (2008–)
O. Rogeriee Thompson (LAW '76) – Senior Judge of the First Circuit appointed by Obama (2010–)
Frank Freedman (LAW '49, LAW '50) – Chief Judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed by Nixon
Elisha Hume Brewster (LAW '96) – Senior Judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed by Harding
William T. McCarthy (LAW '08) – Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed by Truman
Margaret R. Guzman (LAW '92) – Judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed by Biden
Arthur Daniel Healey (LAW '13) – Judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed by Roosevelt
John Milton Younge (CAS '77) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed by Trump
Frank J. Williams – chief justice, Rhode Island Superior Court
Peter W. Agnes Jr. – associate justice of Massachusetts Appeals Court
Barbara Pariente (COM '70) – Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court (Authored the Terri Schiavo decision)
Armand Arabian – retired justice, California Supreme Court
Chuck Douglas (LAW '68) – Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (see U.S. House of Representatives)
Don Gorton (CAS B.A. 1982) – commissioner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board




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Boston University graduates have been elected to all six Massachusetts state Constitutional offices. Alumni include the first female officers for Attorney General of Massachusetts and Treasurer of Massachusetts and the first African-American Attorney General of Massachusetts.

Henry Converse Atwill (LAW '97) – 23rd Attorney General of Massachusetts
Jay R. Benton (LAW '10) – 26th Attorney General of Massachusetts
Paul Dever (LAW '26) – 29th Attorney General of Massachusetts (see U.S. Governors)
Edward J. McCormack Jr. (LAW '52) – 34th Attorney General of Massachusetts
Edward Brooke (LAW '48) – 35th Attorney General of Massachusetts, first African-American to serve (see U.S. Senators)
Martha Coakley (LAW '79) – 43rd Attorney General of Massachusetts, first female to serve
Frederick Mansfield (LAW '02) – 38th Treasurer of Massachusetts
Shannon O'Brien (LAW '85) – 55th Treasurer of Massachusetts, first woman to serve
Deb Goldberg (CAS '75) – 58th Treasurer of Massachusetts
A. Joseph DeNucci (MED '77) – 21st Auditor of Massachusetts, longest-serving Auditor in Massachusetts history
Barry Locke (CAS '53) – Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation and Chairman of the MBTA
Joseph D. Ward (LAW '76) – 22nd Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
Sumner G. Whittier (CAS '36) – 58th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (see U.S. diplomats)




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Walt Brown (GRS '61) – Oregon State Senate from the 13th/12th district
Lois Frankel (CAS '70) – Florida House of Representatives (see U.S. Representatives)
Andy Vargas (CAS '15) – Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 3rd Essex district
Connie Morella (CAS '54) – Maryland House of Delegates from the 16th district
Polly W. Beal – Wisconsin State Assembly
Irving Fishman – Massachusetts State Senate
Russell Holmes – Massachusetts State Representative (6th Suffolk)
Joan M. Menard – Massachusetts State Senator
Martha Ware – Massachusetts jurist and politician
Shaun Filiault – New Hampshire State Representative (Cheshire 7)




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Maynard Jackson (LAW '59*) – 54th and 56th mayor of Atlanta, GA
Frederick Mansfield (LAW '02) – 45th mayor of Boston, MA (see State officials)
Carmen Yulín Cruz (CAS '84) – 29th mayor of San Juan, PR, capital, most populous city in Puerto Rico (see U.S. Congress)
Edwin D. McGuinness (LAW '79) – 19th mayor of Providence, RI, Providence's first Irish Catholic mayor
Daniel L. D. Granger (LAW '77) – 21st mayor of Providence, RI (see U.S. Representatives)
John F. Collins (LAW '08) – 28th mayor of Providence, RI
Dennis Joseph Roberts (LAW '30) – 29th mayor of Providence, RI (see U.S. Governors)
Frank Freedman (LAW '49, LAW '50) – 46th mayor of Springfield, MA (see U.S. District Courts)
Jim Marshall (LAW '77) – mayor of Macon, GA (see U.S. Representatives)
Lois Frankel (CAS '70) – mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida (see U.S. Representatives)
Samuel J. Tedesco (LAW '38) – 42nd mayor of Bridgeport, CT, 96th lieutenant governor of CT
Edward J. Kennedy (CAS '73) – 90th mayor of Lowell, MA
John C. Mongan (CAS '50) – 42nd & 44th mayor of Manchester, NH
Louise Day Hicks (WED '52) – President of the Boston City Council (see U.S. Representatives)
Michael F. Flaherty (JD) – President of the Boston City Council
Ayanna Pressley (CGS '94) – Member of the Boston City Council at-large (see U.S. Representatives)




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Virgilio Barco Vargas (GRS '54) – 27th President of Colombia, 20th Colombia Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 18th Colombia Ambassador to the United States, 6th Mayor of Bogotá
Makarios III (STH '48) – 1st and 4th President of Cyprus, a key figure in the island's struggle for independence and a symbol of Cypriot national identity
Alfred Sant (QST '76) – 11th Prime Minister of Malta
Fan S. Noli (GRS '45) – 13th Prime Minister of Albania
Faisal al-Fayez (attended CAS 1981) – 34th Prime Minister of Jordan
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (GRS '81) – President of the 74th UN General Assembly
Gigi Tsereteli (SPH '05) – 16th President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Minister of Health, Labour and Social Affairs of Georgia
Rafic Hariri (Hon.'86) – 43rd Prime Minister of Lebanon, BU Board of Trustees (1990–2003)
Oscar Arias (CAS '61*) – President of Costa Rica, winner of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize
John-Paul Marks (GRS '03) – Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government, the most senior civil servant in Scotland
George Henry Murray (LAW 1883) – 8th Premier of Nova Scotia
Henry Emmerson (LAW 1887) – 9th Premier of New Brunswick
Hiroshige Seko (COM '92) – 14th Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan
Rizal Ramli (GRS '90) – 29th Minister of Finance, 4th Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs
Mukhriz Mahathir (QST '89) – 11th and 13th Menteri Besar of Kedah, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry
Win Gatchalian (QST '95) – Senator of the Philippines (2016–), Mayor of Valenzuela, Philippines, 11th largest city in the Philippines
Keiko Fujimori (QST '97) – President of Peru's Fujimorist political party, Popular Force (2009–), First Lady of Peru (1994–2000), congresswoman representing the Lima Metropolitan Area (2006–2011), daughter of President of Peru Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000)
Mark Regev (MET '98) – Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom
Wilma Pastrana (QST '92) – 13th First Lady of Puerto Rico
Aamer Sarfraz (QST '02) – Member of the House of Lords, Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Singapore
Milind Deora (QST '99) – Parliament of India, Minister of State of Ministry of Communications and IT, Ministry of Shipping
Attiya Inayatullah (GRS) – Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Saki Macozoma (attended) – anti-apartheid activist imprisoned alongside Nelson Mandela
Margaret Ng (STH Ph.D.) – Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1995–2012)
Christopher O'Neill (CAS '96) – British-American financier; husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
Jafar Hassan – 44th Prime Minister of Jordan




= Military, Navy

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Gina Ortiz Jones (CAS '03) – 27th U.S. Under Secretary of the Air Force, first woman of color and first open lesbian
Shoshana Chatfield (CAS '88) – first woman President of the Naval War College (2018–2023)
William Francis Buckley (CAS '55) – Beirut Station Chief/Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy, won CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Cross, kidnapped by the group Hezbollah in March 1984
Francis E. Quinlan, U.S. Marine Corps general
Robert Reimann, retired U.S. Navy rear admiral




= Law

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Ivan Fisher (LAW '68) – white-collar lawyer, The New York Times listed him in the top five of criminal attorneys in New York City
Francis Lee Bailey (LAW '60) – considered one of the greatest lawyers of the 20th century, attorney for O. J. Simpson, part of the "Dream Team", "Boston Strangler" suspect Albert DeSalvo, heiress Patty Hearst's trial for bank robberies, Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre




= Other

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Tipper Gore (CAS '70) – 33rd Second Lady of the United States
J. Howard McGrath (LAW '29) – Chair of the Democratic National Committee (see U.S. Governors)
Hadassah Lieberman (CAS '70) – wife of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman
John Sasso (CAS '70) – Democratic political operative who ran the 1988 presidential election bid by nominee Michael Dukakis
Joe Solmonese (COM '87) – President of the Human Rights Campaign, chief executive officer of EMILY's List, CEO of the 2020 Democratic National Convention
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (JD) – founder of Daily Kos, largest liberal political blog in the US
Richard Sugarman (GRS '76) – philosopher, advisor to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on his 2016 presidential campaign




Other


Warren Adelson – art dealer and author
Rikki Klieman (JD LAW 1975) – attorney, TV personality, Court TV, named by Time magazine as one of the five best female attorneys in the United States in 1983
Doris Holmes Blake – entomologist
Anthony W. Case (Ph.D, 2009) – developed devices used to measure solar wind on Parker Solar Probe and other uncrewed spacecraft
James Richard Cocke (MD) (1863–1900) – physician, homeopath, pioneer hypnotherapist; first blind medical graduate
William W. Happ (PhD) – silicon transistor pioneer at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and Professor at Arizona State University
Frederick S. Pardee – former economics researcher at the RAND Corporation, real estate investor in Los Angeles, California, philanthropist
Mark Rosewater – Magic: The Gathering head designer
Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. – State Historian of Maine
Dawn Steel (did not graduate) – first woman to run a major Hollywood studio (deceased)
Trish Vradenburg – playwright, author, television writer, and Alzheimer's Disease advocate
Kate Vrijmoet – artist
Mark Manson – self-help author, blogger and entrepreneur
Warren A. Cole – founder of Lambda Chi Alpha, one of the largest social fraternities in the US
Susan Heitler - clinical psychologist




Sports






= Hockey

=



U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

Tony Amonte
Jim Craig*
Mike Eruzione*
Jack Garrity
Jack Kelley
Jack O'Callahan*
Jack Parker
Dave Silk*
Keith Tkachuk
Scott Young
*Craig, Eruzione, O'Callahan and Silk were inducted as members of the 1980 Winter Olympics hockey team, known as the 'Miracle on Ice'



U.S. Olympians

This is a list of Boston University alumni who have played on an Olympic team.



U.S. National Hockey League

Head Coaches in the NHL

David Quinn, Head Coach, San Jose Sharks (2022–present); Head Coach, New York Rangers (2018–2021)
Mike Sullivan, Head Coach, Pittsburgh Penguins (2015–present), only American-born coach to win the Stanley Cup more than once
In total, there have been 92 former Terriers to make the NHL, with John Aiken being the first in 1957 and Shane Bowers being the most recent.

The Terriers have had 22 players who were chosen in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft as of the 2022–2023 season:

Rick DiPietro – 2000, 1st overall
Jack Eichel – 2015, 2nd overall
Scott Lachance – 1991, 4th overall
Brady Tkachuk – 2018, 4th overall
Ryan Whitney – 2002, 5th overall
Colin Wilson – 2008, 7th overall
Clayton Keller – 2016, 7th overall
Trevor Zegras – 2019, 9th overall
Tyler Boucher – 2021, 10th overall
Scott Young – 1986, 11th overall
David Quinn – 1984, 13th overall
Kevin Shattenkirk – 2007, 14th overall
Joel Farabee – 2018, 14th overall
Charlie McAvoy – 2016, 14th overall
Dante Fabbro – 2016, 17th overall
Keith Tkachuk – 1990, 19th overall
Kieffer Bellows – 2016, 19th overall
Jay O'Brien – 2018, 19th overall
Jeff Kealty – 1994, 22nd overall
Jake Oettinger – 2017, 26th overall
Charlie Coyle – 2010, 28th overall
Shane Bowers – 2017, 28th overall




= Other athletes

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Carl Adams – current wrestling coach; three-time NCAA All-American, two-time National Champion @ 158 lb
Harry Agganis – professional baseball player
David Hemery (BA) – won 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, won first ever British Superstars competition
Tunji Awojobi (born 1973) – Nigerian former professional basketball player
Raja Bell (transferred to Florida International University) – former NBA basketball player
Rocco Benetton – former chief executive of the Benetton Formula One team (also in Business)
Cindy Blodgett – former WNBA player, assistant basketball coach
Brett Brown – basketball coach
Thomas Burke (Law LL.B. 1897) – Olympic champion
Butch Byrd – professional football player
Gerardo Mauricio Chavez Montaño (CAS '02) – president and general manager of Bomberos de Mexicali, Club de Basquetbol, of Mexico's CIBACOPA League
Mickey Cochrane – Hall of Fame baseball player
Glenn Consor (BS '80) – sports broadcaster, radio color commentary for FM 106.7 Washington Wizards broadcasts; started four years for Rick Pitino on BU basketball team
Dave DeGuglielmo (WED; BS '90, EdM '91) – former NCAA football coach, professional football coach
Andy Dorman – Major League Soccer soccer player
Tom Dwan (no degree) – professional poker player
Michael Emenalo (CAS BA 1989) – member of Nigeria's 1994 World Cup soccer team
Mike Eruzione – captain, 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Dick Farley – College Football Hall of Fame coach
Paul Farren – former NFL player, Cleveland Browns 1983–91
Foge Fazio – NCAA football coach, NFL football coach
Michael Felger – sportswriter for the Boston Herald; sports radio talk show host
Keith Francis (MA) – Senior Intelligence Analyst, ATF, world-class track athlete
Tony Gaffney (born 1984) – basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Sheila Ford Hamp - Owner of the Detroit Lions
Bill Herrion – NCAA basketball coach
Karl Hobbs – NCAA basketball coach
John Holland (born 1988) – American-Puerto Rican basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Rick Hoyt – triathlete
Mike Jarvis – NCAA basketball coach
Jim "Crash" Jensen – former NFL football player
İrem Karamete (born 1993) – Turkish Olympic fencer
Robyn Kenney – Team USA field hockey
Steven Key – WNBA's Chicago Sky head coach/general manager
Zsolt Limperger – Hungarian football player
Jeffrey Lurie – owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, former professor, BU
Kelvin Madzongwe – current Zimbabwean international footballer
Charlie McAvoy – current NHL player
Shawn McEachern – retired NHL hockey player
John McKinlay – BU crew captain, two-time Olympian, rowing, 1952 Helsinki Finland, 1956 Melbourne Australia silver medalist
Kevin Murphy – 1st Team Associated Press 1-AA Football All-American, former arena football player
Jack Parker – Boston University hockey coach
Gary Plummer – NBA player
Mary Pratt – women's professional baseball player, Rockford Peaches ("A League of Their Own")
Marie-Philip Poulin – member of Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team; two-time Olympic gold medalist
Reggie Rucker – former NFL player
Peter Schifrin (born 1958) – Olympic fencer and sculptor
Dave Silk – 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team
John Thomas – high jump world record holder
Jennifer Wakefield – member of Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team; Olympic gold medalist
Catherine Ward – member of Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team; two-time Olympic gold medalist
Tara Watchorn – member of Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team; Olympic gold medalist
Maurice Watson (born 1993) – basketball player for Maccabi Rishon LeZion of the Israeli Basketball Premier League




Notable faculty members






= Nobel laureates

=
Saul Bellow – 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature (deceased)
Sheldon Glashow – 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Martin Luther King Jr. – 1964 Nobel Peace Prize (deceased)
Osamu Shimomura – 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Daniel C. Tsui – 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
Derek Walcott – 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature; fellow, MacArthur Foundation
Elie Wiesel – 1986 Nobel Peace Prize (deceased)
Louise Glück – 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2008–2011)




= Fulbright Scholars

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Anne Donahue
Robert Neffson




= Guggenheim Fellows

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Bonnie Costello – William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English; 1990
Theodore Antoniou – composer; professor of music; 1978
David Aronson – painter; emeritus professor of art; 1960
Saul Bellow – novelist; University Professor; 1948 and 1955
Alicia Borinsky – professor of Latin American and comparative literature; 2001 Latin American and Caribbean Fellow
Robert V. Bruce – professor emeritus of History; 1957
Charles Capper – professor of history; 1994
Robert Dallek – professor of history; 1973
Norman Dello Joio – composer; university professor and professor emeritus of music; 1944 and 1945
Leslie D. Epstein – director, Creative Writing Program; 1977
Thomas F. Glick – professor of history; 1987
Gennady Gorelik – research fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science; 1995 US and Canadian Fellow
Jaakko Hintikka – professor of philosophy; 1987
Caroline A. Jones – associate professor of Art History; 1999 US and Canadian Fellow
Howard Clark Kee – William Goodwin Aurelio Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies; 1966
Nancy Kopell – professor of mathematics; 1984
Leonid A. Levin – professor of computer science; 1993
Ralph Lombreglia – instructor in Creative Writing; 1996 US and Canadian Fellow
Debraj Ray – former professor of economics; 1997 US and Canadian Fellow
Maureen Raymo – research associate professor of earth sciences; 2003 US and Canadian Fellow
Abner Shimony – emeritus professor of philosophy and physics; 1972 US and Canadian Fellow
Murad Taqqu – professor of mathematics; 1987
Ibram X. Kendi – author, director of Center for Antiracist Research; 2019
Josephine Halvorson – College of Fine Arts professor of art and chair of graduate studies in painting; 2021




= MacArthur Fellows

=
Jim Collins – fellow, MacArthur Foundation, professor of biomedical engineering
Nancy Kopell – fellow, MacArthur Foundation, professor of mathematics




= Rhodes Scholars

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Jim Collins – Rhodes Scholar, professor of biomedical engineering
Michael Hasselmo – Rhodes Scholar, professor of psychology
Jon Westling – Rhodes Scholar, former president of Boston University




= Film, performing arts, television, radio

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Julia Child – cooking show host (deceased)
Harold Dorschug – radio engineer, former faculty member (deceased)
Simon Estes – operatic bass-baritone
Mark Fergus – screenwriter, director
Lukas Foss – composer and conductor (deceased)
Leslie Parnas – cellist (deceased)
Sumner Redstone – media mogul
Roman Totenberg – violinist (deceased)
Paul Ulanowsky – pianist
Roger Voisin – principal trumpet; Boston Symphony Orchestra (deceased)
John Walker – painter
Bob Zelnick – former ABC News correspondent, author




= Other

=

Loretta Lees – urban geographer and director of the Initiative on Cities
Isaac Asimov – author, best known for his work in writing science and science fiction (deceased)
Warren Ault – Huntington professor of history
Andrew Bacevich – historian, writer
Alexander Graham Bell – professor, inventor of the telephone (deceased)
Peter L. Berger – contemporary sociologist and theologian (deceased)
Zvi Bodie – professor
Belinda Borrelli – professor and director of the Center for Behavioral Science Research.
Borden Parker Bowne – professor of philosophy, 1876–1910
Gerald Warner Brace – professor of English; writer known for his novels, fiction and literary works
Lewis E. Braverman – chief of endocrinology 1999–2017
Robert A. Brown – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, current Boston University president
Robert V. Bruce – winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History (deceased)
Kathryn Burak – director of the Writing Program in the College of Communications
Caroline Walker Bynum – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Milič Čapek (1909–1997) – philosopher
Ray Carney – film theorist
Aram Chobanian – Lifetime Achievement Award, American Heart Association, former Boston University president
John T. Clarke – professor of astronomy
Robert Dallek – author, historian, Bancroft Prize winner
Roberta L. DeBiasi, M.D. – head of the Division of Pediatric Diseases at Children's National Hospital
Charles DeLisi – Presidential Citizens Medal recipient; Smithsonian Platinum Technology 21st Century Pioneer Partnership Laureate; Arthur G B Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering
Mildred S. Dresselhaus – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering
Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel – former associate dean, Boston University School of Law
Leslie Epstein
Henry Giroux – founding theorist of critical pedagogy in the United States
Robert Hess (1938–1994) – president of Brooklyn College
Geoffrey Hill – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gene Andrew Jarrett – professor of English and African American studies
Ha Jin – author, National Book Award winner, Faulkner Award winner, Hemingway Award winner
Sir Hans Kornberg – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences
Thomas Kunz – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Richard Landes – historian, director of the Center for Millennial Studies
Calvin B. T. Lee – dean of the College of Liberal Arts 1968–1970, acting president 1970–1971, executive vice president 1971–1971
Leonid Levin – co-discoverer of NP-completeness
Robert J. McShea
Adil Najam – dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
S. Hamid Nawab – professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-author of Signals and Systems
Father Norman O'Connor (1921–2003) – former BU Catholic chaplain, jazz aficionado, writer, radio and TV show host
Patrice Oppliger – assistant professor of Communication and media consultant on popular culture
Robert Pinsky – former U.S. Poet Laureate
Anne Sexton – poet (deceased)
Batu Siharulidze – prominent artist, known for his figurative sculptures
John Silber – former president
Whitney Smith – vexillologist
Susanne Sreedhar – assistant professor of philosophy
Charles R Stith – US Ambassador to Tanzania 1998–2001
Merlin Swartz – scholar of religion
Shanghua Teng – professor of computer science at Boston University; winner of Gödel Prize
Shari Thurer – adjunct associate professor in psychology
Georgia Warnke – distinguished professor of philosophy; director of the Center for Ideas & Society at the University of California, Riverside
Rosanna Warren – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
David Wiggins – fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Howard Zinn – historian, political activist, best selling author
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga – founder and main author of Daily Kos
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (born 1964) – professor of biomedical engineering at BU
Randy Barnett
Edward Fredkin
John Cheever
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan – pioneer of postwar development economics




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• The 100 (buku)
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• System of a Down
• Pertempuran Bunker Hill
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• List of University of Minnesota people
• List of people from Boston
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• List of University of Alabama people
• List of University of Richmond people
• List of Boston Conservatory people