Notable Alumni
Academia
- William Bowen 鈥55, former president, Mellon Foundation and Princeton University (deceased)
- Lisa Coleman 鈥88, president, Adler University
- Kim Coplin 鈥85, provost, 性视界传媒
- Thomas Cummins 鈥73, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks
- Charles Glasser 鈥61, former president, John F. Kennedy University
- Karen Morse 鈥62, chemist, former president of Western Washington University
- Eric Neilson 鈥71, vice president for medical affairs and the Lewis Landsberg Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Arts and Entertainment
- James L. Anderson 鈥85, former senior vice president-head of corporate communications and marketing, Warner Media and CNN, Worldwide
- Susan Booth 鈥85, artistic director, Goodman Theatre
- Steve Carell 鈥84, Golden Globe-winning actor and comedian,The Office, Little Miss Sunshine, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- Sharon Carr 鈥73, theatrical producer
- Tom Cotter 鈥86, comedian
- John Davidson 鈥63, entertainer, actor, playwright, game show host of Hollywood Squares, That鈥檚 Incredible!
- Michael Eisner 鈥64, former chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
- Jennifer Garner 鈥94, Golden Globe-winning actor, Alias, Juno, 13 Going on 30, entrepreneur
- Kyle Gordon 鈥14, comedian, YouTuber, TikTok celebrity, and creator of viral hit, 鈥淧lanet of the Bass鈥
- Hal Holbrook 鈥48, Tony Award-winning actor, Mark Twain Tonight, All the President鈥檚 Men, Lincoln (deceased)
- Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders 鈥78, former executive director of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
- Ben Jacoby 鈥09, music theatre actor, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Beaches the Musical, The Phantom of the Opera
- Marty Jones 鈥86, head of Austin Studios
- Andrew Levitt 鈥01, queer activist, actor, singer-songwriter, internationally known by his drag queen stage name Nina West
- Daniel Meyer 鈥94, music director, Erie Philharmonic
- Carl Moellenberg 鈥74, 13-time Tony award-winning Broadway producer
- Alex Moffat 鈥04, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live, The Bear, Bad Monkey
- Carl Ragsdale 鈥50, Oscar-winning film producer
- Jonathan Reynolds 鈥64, award-winning playwright, screenwriter (deceased)
- John Schuck 鈥62, actor, Annie, M*A*S*H, Roots, Law & Order
- Caroline Spence 鈥11, nationally touring singer-songwriter
Business
- J. Reid Anderson 鈥38, inventor and founder, Verbatim Corporation (deceased)
- Chuck Bellofatto 鈥85, global head, credit risk, JPMorgan Chase Private Bank
- John Beyer 鈥54, former head of world-renowned restoration architectural firm, with projects including Ellis Island, Grand Central Terminal, U.S. Capitol (deceased)
- Brad Blum 鈥76, former president, The Olive Garden and Burger King
- Cynthia Booth 鈥79, president and CEO, Emerge Manufacturing
- Daniel J. Brickman 鈥80, head of North America, Babcock & Brown LP (retired)
- John Canning Jr. 鈥66, co-founder, Madison Dearborn Partners
- John Chain 鈥56, former director, RJ Reynolds, ConAgra Foods, Inc.; Air Force general, former commander in chief, Strategic Air Command (deceased)
- Marcus Colwell 鈥84, managing director, HPS Investment Partners LLC
- Mark Dalton 鈥72, co-chairman, Tudor Investment Corporation
- William Esrey 鈥61, former CEO and chairman, Sprint Corporation
- John Faraci Jr. 鈥72, former chairman and CEO, International Paper
- James T. Glerum Jr. 鈥82, vice chairman, investment banking, Citibank (retired)
- Nelson Griggs 鈥93, president, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
- Suni Pederson Harford 鈥84, former president, Asset Management, GEB lead for sustainability and impact at UBS
- Matthew J. Harrington 鈥84, global president & COO, Edelman
- Thomas Hoaglin 鈥71, former chairman and CEO, Huntington Bank; former board member, American Electric Power
- David Howitt 鈥90, founder & CEO, The Meriwether Group, author of New York Times bestseller, Heed Your Call
- Billy Hult 鈥91, CEO, Tradeweb Markets, Inc.
- Terry Jones 鈥70, founder, Travelocity.com; founding chairman, Kayak.com
- 鈥嬧赌Emilios T. Kyriacou 鈥86, CEO, Citibank N.A., Greece
- Marc Lautenbach 鈥83, former president and CEO, Pitney Bowes Inc.
- 鈥嬧赌John D. Lowenberg, Sr. 鈥64, principal, Anvil Management Company, LLC
- Lisa McKnight 鈥90, former executive vice president and chief brand officer, Mattel, Inc.
- Jack Meyer 鈥67, former CEO, Harvard Management Company
- Stephen R. Polk 鈥78, former chairman, president, CEO, R.L. Polk & Co., longtime publisher of city directories and CARFAX vehicle history reports.
- Abigail Pringle 鈥96, former president, U.S. Wendy鈥檚
- Lucy Reynolds 鈥94, founder, The Murmuration Collective
- Claudia Sahm 鈥98, chief economist, New Century Advisors, former section chief, Federal Reserve Board
- Lewis (Lee) Sachs 鈥85, co-founder, managing partner, Gallatin Point Capital
- Ralph Schlosstein 鈥72, chairman emeritus, EverCore investment banking firm
- Jonathan Silverstein 鈥89, former managing partner, OrbiMed, a global medical investment firm
- Joshua Spoerri 鈥93, managing director, OpCapita
- Art Steinmetz, Jr. 鈥80, former CEO, chairman, Oppenheimer
- Larry Weber 鈥77, CEO, chairman, Racepoint Global Inc.
- Susan Whiting 鈥78, former chair, CEO and president, Nielsen Media Research; former vice chair, The Nielsen Co.; board chair, National Women鈥檚 History Museum
Government, Public Policy/Service
- Bill Clarke 鈥51, co-founder, Habitat for Humanity (deceased)
- Oyauma M. Garrison 鈥96, president and chief executive officer at A Kid Again, Inc.
- Tony Hall 鈥64, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 12-term U.S. representative
- John Hammock 鈥66, former executive director, Oxfam America
- Charles Henry 鈥69, board chairman, Amnesty International
- Cem Kozlu 鈥69, former representative, Turkish Parliament; former CEO, Turkish Airlines
- Richard G. Lugar 鈥54, Rhodes Scholar, six-term U.S. senator hailed for his global leadership on nuclear nonproliferation, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (deceased)
- Jim Petro 鈥70, former Ohio attorney general
- William Hubbs Rehnquist, supreme court justice (deceased)
- David Waller 鈥70, former senior associate counsel to President Reagan and deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Journalism/Literature/Publishing
- James Clear 鈥08, author of The New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits
- Roe Conn 鈥86, longtime Chicago talk radio and TV personality
- James Frey 鈥92, author, A Million Little Pieces, Bright Shiny Morning
- Sara Fritz 鈥66, award-winning journalist in Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles Times, Congressional Quarterly (deceased)
- Michael Glaser 鈥65, former poet laureate, State of Maryland
- Ann Hagedorn 鈥71, best-selling author of historical nonfiction, former staff writer, The Wall Street Journal, journalism teacher at Medill School of Journalism and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
- Pam Houston 鈥83, best-selling author of novels, short stories, and essays
- Molly O鈥橬eill 鈥75, The New York Times columnist, best-selling author (deceased)
- Alison Stine 鈥00, poet, author of Road out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award for science fiction
- Hal Walker 鈥54, award-winning journalist, first African-American correspondent for CBS News (deceased)
Religion
- Kelly Brown Douglas 鈥79, professor, Harvard Divinity School, canon of Washington National Cathedral
- Edgar Johnson Goodspeed 1890, theologian, University of Chicago professor (deceased)
- Randy Hollerith 鈥86, dean of Washington National Cathedral, officiant at 2025 funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Dick Cheney
- Andrea Raynor 鈥83, author, United Methodist minister, chaplain to the morgue at Ground Zero
- Gary Simpson 鈥84, pastor, Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Science
- William Ernest Castle 1889, early geneticist who pioneered the use of fruit flies in genetics research (deceased)
- Sheila Parks Little 鈥72, research scientist, Eli Lilly and Company
- Kirtley Mather 1909, American geologist and faculty member at Harvard University (deceased)
- George Stibitz 1926, father of digital computing, Bell Laboratories (deceased)
- Mary Talbot 1925, renowned entomologist and research scientist
Sports
- George Bodenheimer 鈥80, former president, CEO, and executive chairman, ESPN
- Nan Carney-DeBord 鈥80, emerita director of athletics, 性视界传媒
- Bill Giles 鈥56, chairman and general partner, Philadelphia Phillies
- Woody Hayes 鈥35, Ohio State University football coach, College Football Hall of Fame (deceased)
- Kenny Meyer 鈥50, former head coach, NFL鈥檚 San Francisco 49ers
- Anne Moelk 鈥92, head women’s lacrosse coach, DePauw University
- Ellen O’Brien 鈥09, associate athletics director, Marymount University
- Bobby Rahal 鈥75, Indy 500 winner, co-owner of Rahal Letterman Racing
- Jim Reynolds 鈥90, former vice president, Nike, Inc.
- John Robic 鈥86, assistant men鈥檚 basketball coach, University of Kentucky, 2012 NCAA Champions
- Makorobundo Salukombo 鈥12, nonprofit entrepreneur, Olympic marathoner
- Alison Spungen 鈥08, associate director of Division III, NCAA