Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History[26] for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45"
Mel Powell (B.A. 1952),[31] 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; founding dean and professor of music of the California Institute of the Arts
Samantha Power (B.A. 1992),[32] Pulitzer Prize for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide[33]
Kevin Puts (M.M. 1996), 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985),[34] reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting[26]
Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),[34] composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version[26]
Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),[39] composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006[40] for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis University
Fredric Jameson (Ph.D. 1959), cultural theorist; author of Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; chair of Duke University's Literature Program
Nathan Chen (B.A. 2024), 2-time Olympic champion (2022), 3-time world champion (2018, 2019 and 2021), 3-time Grand Prix final champion (2017-2019), and 6-time U.S. champion (2017–2022) in figure skating[59]
Eddie Eagan (B.A. 1921), AAU Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1919, Olympic gold medal in boxing 1920, Winter Olympics men's four-man bobsleigh gold medal 1932; only Olympian to win gold medals in Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports; New York State boxing commissioner[66][67][68]
Jeff Rohrer (B.A. 1981), football player with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys[103]
Don Schollander (B.A. 1968), swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968, 1 gold, 1 silver; one of the first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1983)[104]
Herbert M. Allison (B.A. 1965), former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability; former Chairman, President, and CEO of TIAA-CREF; former President and COO of Merrill Lynch
Brewster Jennings (1920), founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil), President of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714, M.A. 1717), first president of Columbia University (then known as King's College), father of William Samuel Johnson, signer of the US Constitution and third president of Columbia College (Columbia University)
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), signer of the U.S. Constitution, third president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and first US Senator from Connecticut
L. L. Langstroth (1831), apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, considered to be the father of American beekeeping; namesake and creator of the Langstroth hive
George B. Selden, awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895
Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), early chemist and science educator; one of the first professors of science at Yale College; the first person to distill petroleum; a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest scientific journal in the United States
Benjamin Silliman Jr., professor of chemistry at Yale University, instrumental in developing the oil industry
Michael L.J. Apuzzo (B.A. 1961), academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, Editor and educator; professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, University of Southern California; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, Yale
Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, chair of medicine at University of Maryland and Jefferson Medical College
John Elefteriades (M.D. 1976), cardiac surgeon, professor at Yale School of Medicine
Nathan Havill (M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2006), entomologist and evolutionary biologist
Rani Hoff (MPH and PhD), Yale professor of psychiatry
Peter Hotez (B.A. 1980), dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey Brock (B.A. 1992), Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Yale University, Guggenheim Fellow known for his work on classifying hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Andrew M. Gleason (B.A. 1942), Chair of Mathematics at Harvard, World War II codebreaker, made fundamental contributions to Lie Groups, Quantum Mechanics and Combinatorics
Brendan Hassett (B.A. 1992), mathematician who made significant contributions to higher-dimensional arithmetic geometry and birational geometry, fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Paul Hudak, professor of computer science, co-creator of the programming language Haskell
Daniel Spielman (B.S. 1992), MacArthur Fellow, Godel, Polya and Nevanlinna Prize Winner, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science professor at Yale University
Hassler Whitney (B.S. 1928) (B.A. 1929), mathematician, founder of singularity theory, foundational work in manifolds and embedding, Wolf Prize medallist
Walter A. Bell (MSc 1911, Ph.D. Geology 1920), Canadian geologist and paleontologist
Edward Bouchet (B.A. 1874, Ph.D. Physics 1876), first African-American to graduate from Yale and the first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university
Emanuel Fritz (M.A. Forestry 1914), professor of forestry and noted consultant on California redwoods
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–99), U.S. senator (1799–1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the University of Georgia (1786–1801)[193]
Robert Taft Jr. (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963–64, 1967–70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971–76)[236]
John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965–70), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–77); inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film The Candidate[237]
Ron DeSantis (B.A., 2001), Republican Representative from Florida (2013–18), governor of Florida
Charles S. Dewey, Republican Representative from Illinois (1941–42)
Jerome F. Donovan (Law 1894), U.S. Representative, D-New York (1918–21)
E. D. Estilette (B.A. 1857), Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1876; state district court judge in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana[247]
Porter J. Goss, U.S. Representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of CIA
Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.
Bruce W. Klunder (B.D. 1961), Presbyterian minister, civil rights activist with C.O.R.E., killed during protest against segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio
A. Peter Dewey, first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945
Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, executed by the British for espionage in 1776;[302] his last words are often quoted: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."[303]
James W.C. Pennington (1809–1870), African American orator, minister, and abolitionist; the first black man to attend classes at Yale when he audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839
Rabab Abdulhadi (Ph.D. 2000), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director.
Saleem Ali (M.E.S. 1996), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Andrew Lo (B.A. 1980), Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Michael P. Price (M.F.A. 1963), theatre producer and longest-serving artistic director in American theatre, Executive Director of Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals
Andy Sandberg (B.A. 2005/06), Tony Award-winning producer of Hair, 2009
Ted Sperling (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for orchestration
Others
Arts and humanities
Robert P. Abelson, late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science
Paul de Man, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be antisemitic
Jacques Derrida, philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man
Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
Elting E. Morison, historian, essayist, military biographer, was Professor of History and American Studies as well as the master of Timothy Dwight College between 1966 and 1972
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^Muhammad Ali's Boxing Day Gloves by Anna Rohlender, Forbes magazine, December 12, 2001: "Forbes Fact: Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Ali's parents named him Cassius Marcellus Clay after a white Kentucky abolitionist of the same name. The 19th-century Cassius Clay served as a diplomat to Russia during the Civil War."
^Callie, Siskel (September 16, 2004). "Editor bemoans U.S. political polarization". yaledailynews.com. Yale Daily News. Retrieved November 30, 2021. With the imminent presidential election and the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks just four days past, newspaper editor and former speechwriter John Avlon '96 gave a timely speech to about 25 students on centrism in politics at a Calhoun College Master's Tea yesterday.
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