Thomas A. Bartlett	Willamette 1951	Rhodes Scholar; Chancellor, University of Alabama System
David Ross Boyd	Wooster 1878	First President of the University of Oklahoma, Fifth President of the University of New Mexico
James S. Buchanan	Cumberland 1885	Fourth President of the University of Oklahoma
Thomas P. Courtice	Ohio Wesleyan	Former president, Ohio Wesleyan
Stanley Coulter	Hanover 1870	Former Dean, Purdue University
John Crecine	Carnegie Mellon 1961	Former president, Georgia Tech
William H. Danforth	Westminster 1948	Former Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
James J. Duderstadt	Yale 1964	Former president, University of Michigan
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston	Hampden-Sydney 1886	Former president, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Robert F. Engle	Williams 1964	Nobel Prize winner, Economic Sciences
Robin Hugh Farquhar	British Columbia 1960	Former president, Carleton
Carl Russell Fish	Harvard 1900	Former Historian, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas P. Gerrity	MIT 1963	Former Dean, Wharton School of Business
William Pratt Graham	Syracuse 1903	Former Chancellor Syracuse University
Andrew Dousa Hepburn	Washington & Jefferson 1852	Former president, Miami University
Alexander Q. Holladay	Virginia 1859^[2]	Former president, North Carolina State University
John S. Hougham	Wabash 1846^[3]	Former president, Purdue University
Alfred Hume	Vanderbilt^[4]	Former Chancellor, University of Mississippi
Charles Keeler	UC Berkeley 1893	Director, California Academy of Sciences
Deane Waldo Malott	Kansas 1921	Former chancellor, University of Kansas; President, Cornell University
William Alexander Parsons Martin	Indiana 1846	Former president, Tung Wen College of Peking and Imperial University of China
David T. McLaughlin	Dartmouth 1954	Former president, Dartmouth College
Dale T. Mortensen	Willamette 1961	Nobel Prize winner; Economics
Franklin David Murphy	Kansas 1936	Former Chancellor, University of Kansas; Chancellor, UCLA
James Kennedy Patterson	Hanover 1856	First President, University of Kentucky
Steven Sample	Illinois 1958	President, University of Southern California
James M. Sellers	Chicago 1917	Former president, Wentworth Military Academy
Charles N. Sims	DePauw 1859	Former Chancellor Syracuse University
Edgar F. Shannon Jr.	Washington and Lee 1939	Former president, University of Virginia
David Stanton Tappan	Miami 1864	Former president, Miami University
George H. Whipple	Yale 1905	Nobel Prize winner in 1934, Physiology or Medicine
Timothy M. Wolfe	Missouri 1980	President, University of Missouri System, 2012–2015^[5]

Charles E. Bennison	Lawrence 1965	Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
Ernest Kent Coulter	Ohio State 1892	Founder, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Earl Cranston	Ohio 1861	Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
Robert Todd Giffin	National Roll 2017	Bishop, Anglican Province of America, also a member of the Pilgrims Society and the Society of the Cincinnati
Gregory Parkes	Florida State University 1986	Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg, FL

Bert Andrews	Stanford 1925	Washington-based reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who won a Pulitzer Prize
James Arness	Beloit 1946	Actor known for portraying Matt Dillon in the TV series Gunsmoke
Bix Beiderbecke	Iowa (pledged 1925, not initiated)	Jazz musician
Steve Bellamy	Indiana University 1986	Entrepreneur in sports and entertainment known for founding several niche cable TV networks
George Bellows	Ohio State 1905	Artist
James O'Donnell Bennett	Michigan 1893	Journalist known for writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Record-Herald
Bernard Berenson	Boston / Harvard 1887	Art historian
Barry Bishop	Cincinnati 1951	Photographer for National Geographic
Main Bocher	Chicago 1911	Fashion designer and editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue
John Boles	Texas 1917	Actor known for playing Victor Moritz in Frankenstein
Jackson Bostwick	Alabama 1965	Actor known for portraying Captain Marvel in the TV series Shazam!^[9]
Kyle Brandt	Princeton 2001	TV host, media personality, and actor
Thom Brennaman	Ohio 1986	TV sportscaster
Phil Brown	Stanford 1937	Actor known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars
Jim Brunzell	Minnesota 1971	Professional wrestler and co-author of the Killer Bees comic book series
Percy Jewett Burrell	Boston 1897	Dramatist and playwright
Robert Butler	UCLA 1950	Emmy Award-winning TV director
Byron Calame	Missouri 1961	Journalist and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal
Jay Chandrasekhar	Colgate 1990	Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Lloyd Corrigan	UC Berkeley 1922	Actor who appeared in more than 90 films, including The Manchurian Candidate
Douglas Cramer	Cincinnati 1953	Leading collector of contemporary art and founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Jay Norwood Darling	Beloit 1899	Famous cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes and created more than 12,000 cartoons
John Doman	Pennsylvania 1966	Actor known for playing William Rawls in the TV series The Wire
Dick Durrell	Minnesota 1950	Founding publisher of People magazine
Bergen Evans	Miami 1924	Rhodes scholar and TV personality who won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting
Neil Everett	Willamette / Oregon 1984	Anchor of SportsCenter
Howard Fineman	Colgate 1970	Journalist and TV commentator; global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group
George Helgesen Fitch	Knox College 1897	Author and journalist
Chet Forte	Columbia 1957	TV director known for Monday Night Football
Sam Walter Foss	Brown 1882	Poet known for The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American
Pat Green	Texas Tech 1995	Country music artist
Cary Guffey	Florida 1994	Actor known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Leigh Harline	Utah 1929	Film composer and songwriter; won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Kevin Heffernan	Colgate	Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Horace Heidt	UC Berkeley 1924	Pianist, big band leader, and radio and TV personality
Foster Hewitt	Toronto 1925	Radio broadcaster known for Hockey Night in Canada
David Hirshey	Dickinson 1971	Book editor who served as senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins
Richard Hooker	Bowdoin 1945	Writer and surgeon known for his novel MASH
L. D. Hotchkiss	Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916	Newspaper journalist who served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times
Griffin House	Miami 2002	Singer-songwriter
Chuck Howard	Duke 1955	Emmy Award-winning producer known for Wide World of Sports; member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame
Sidney Howard	UC Berkeley 1912	Playwright and screenwriter; received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind
Kermit Hunter	Ohio 1931	Author and playwright
Russell Janney	Yale 1906	Theatrical producer and author known for his 1946 best-selling novel The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948^[10]
Jeffrey Jones	Lawrence 1968	Actor known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Richard Karn	Washington 1978	Actor known for Home Improvement
Ken Kesey	Oregon 1957	Author known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1975
Laird Koenig	Washington 1949	Author known for his 1974 novel The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane,^[11] which was made into a film of the same name in 1976.
Burt Kwouk	Bowdoin 1953	Actor known for his role as Cato in The Pink Panther film series
David Lamb	Maine 1962	Writer who traveled the world for 25 years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent^[12]
Charles Wesley Leffingwell	Knox	Author who served as editor of The Living Church magazine
Steve Lemme	Colgate	Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Daniel Lindsay	Missouri 2001	Filmmaker known for the Oscar-winning sports documentary Undefeated
David Lloyd	Colgate 1983	Anchor for SportsCenter
Pare Lorentz	West Virginia 1926	Filmmaker considered to be the father of the modern documentary
Norman Fitzroy Maclean	Dartmouth 1924	Author known for his 1976 novel A River Runs Through It, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1992
Karl Marlantes	Yale 1967	Author known for the novel Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
David Martin	Yale 1965	TV correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News
Walter Massey	MIT 1951	Actor known for Arthur and the English version of The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Les Mayfield	Southern California 1982	Film director known for Encino Man and Blue Streak
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard	Missouri 1888	Journalist and newspaper editor; founder of the China Weekly Review and author of seven influential books on the Far East^[13]
Max Morath	Colorado College 1947	Ragtime pianist
Edward P. Morgan	Whitman 1932	Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956
William R. Moses	Wesleyan 1982	Actor known for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest
Kenyon Nicholson	Wabash 1917	Playwright and screenwriter
Lance Norris	Whitman 1984	Actor and writer
Harry Allen Overstreet	California 1899	Writer and author of known for the best-selling book The Mature Mind
Frank Pacelli	Illinois 1948	Emmy Award-winning director known for The Young and the Restless
George Peppard	Purdue 1952	Actor known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and the TV series The A-Team
Robert Pine	Ohio Wesleyan 1963	Actor known for the TV series CHiPs
Robert Reed	Northwestern 1954	Actor known for portraying Mike Brady in the TV series The Brady Bunch
David Richmond-Peck	Western Ontario 1996	Actor who has appeared in over 70 film and TV roles, including She's The Man and Battlestar Galactica
Rivers Rutherford	Mississippi 1989	Country music songwriter who has composed several number one hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn
Albert Shaw	Johns Hopkins 1884	Journalist who was the founder and editor of The American Review of Reviews
Steve Sholes	Rutgers 1933	Recording executive and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jeremy Slate	St. Lawrence 1952	Actor known for The Sons of Katie Elder, the TV series The Aquanauts, and the soap opera One Life to Live
Stephen Sondheim	Williams 1950	Composer and lyricist known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and West Side Story
Paul Soter	Colgate	Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Erik Stolhanske	Colgate 1991	Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Bob Thomas	UCLA 1943	Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press
Jess Thomas	Nebraska 1948	Operatic tenor known for singing Wagner compositions
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude	MIT 1976	Actor known for The Wanderers and Stir Crazy
Frederick N. Ward	Florida 1957	Photojournalist
Doodles Weaver	Stanford 1937	Character actor, comedian, and musician who hosted the variety TV show The Doodles Weaver Show
Robb Weller	Washington 1972	TV personality and game show host known for Entertainment Tonight and Win, Lose or Draw
Adam West	Whitman 1951	Actor known for Batman and Family Guy
Brian J. White	Dartmouth	Actor known for Stomp the Yard
Robert Wilson	Texas 1963	New York City-based playwright, Obie Award winner for direction, and Olivier Award winner for Best New Opera
John Sergeant Wise	Virginia 1867	Author of The End of an Era
Christopher Woodrow	Alabama 1999	Hollywood movie producer known for Birdman, Black Mass, and Hacksaw Ridge
Paul Worley	Vanderbilt 1972	Record producer who discovered the Dixie Chicks and produced the Grammy Award-winning album Own the Night for Lady Antebellum

Fred Ahern	Bowdoin 1974	NHL player, California Seals, Cleveland Barons, Colorado Rockies
Ethan Allen	Cincinnati 1926	Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University
Michael Antonovich	Minnesota 1973	NHL player, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils
Frankie Baumholtz	Ohio 1941	Professional basketball player; Major League Baseball player
Jim Benepe	Northwestern 1986	Professional golfer
Earl Blaik	Miami 1918	Head football coach, Army
Carl Blaurock	Colorado Mines 1916	First American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US
Joe Bottom	Southern California 1977	1976 Olympic silver medalist in 100m butterfly
Don Bragg	UCLA 1959	1960 Olympic gold medalist in pole vault
Evan Brown	SMU 2017	Center for the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions
Mike Brown	Dartmouth 1957	President and general manager, Cincinnati Bengals
Dave Brundage	Oregon State 1986	Minor League Baseball player and coach
George Buehler	Stanford 1969	NFL player for the Los Angeles Raiders
John Bunn	Kansas 1920	Key contributor to the game of basketball
Guy Chamberlin	Nebraska 1916	College and pro football Hall of Famer by playing for seven teams over nine years, coaching four (4) over seven (7) years. Awards: 5x NFL champion (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926) and member of the all 20's NFL team.
Peter Cipollone	California 1994	2004 Olympic gold medalist, rowing
Bob Clotworthy	Ohio State 1954	1952 Olympic silver medalist and 1956 gold medalist in springboard diving
Roy Cochran	Indiana 1941	1948 Olympic gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4 × 400 m relay
Ron Coder	Penn State 1976	NFL player for Seattle Seahawks
Don Cohan	Amherst 1951	1972 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing
Eddie Collins	Columbia 1907	Major League Baseball Hall of Famer who played with just two teams over 26 seasons. While at the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, Eddie won Six (6) World Series. World Series MVP in 1924.
Don Coryell	Washington 1947	Former coach of the San Diego Chargers
Mel Counts	Oregon State 1964	Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964; 7th overall pick in 1964 NBA draft; played in NBA 1964–1976; won two NBA titles with Boston Celtics
Edgar Diddle	Centre 1919	Legendary basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school
DeLoss Dodds	Kansas State 1959	Athletic Director of the University of Texas at Austin
Charles Doe	Stanford 1920	1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rugby
Bobby Douglass	Kansas 1969	NFL quarterback, Chicago Bears
Eddie Eagan	Denver / Yale 1920	Olympic gold medalist, boxing 178-lb in 1920 and bobsledding in
Keith Fahnhorst	Minnesota 1974	NFL player, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XVI & XIX Champion
Max Falkenstien	Kansas 1947	Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer
John Ferris	Stanford 1971	1968 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly
Jay Fiedler	Dartmouth 1994	NFL QB who played seven seasons total, and five with the Miami Dolphins. Threw for almost 12,000 yards over his career.
Dow Finsterwald	Ohio 1952	Professional golfer
Jeff Float	Southern California 1983	1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay
Travis Ford	Missouri 1991	Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University
Ken Forsch	Oregon State 1969	Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979
Bruce Furniss	Southern California 1979	1976 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle
Steve Furniss	Southern California 1975	1972 Olympic bronze medalist, 200 IM
David Gagnon	Colgate 1991	NHL player, Detroit Red Wings
George Glamack	North Carolina early 1940s	All American basketball with the NBL, Rookie of the Year (1942) and Champion (1946) playing for several teams.
Iñaki Gomez	British Columbia 2010	2012 Canadian Summer Olympic team member
Gail Goodrich	UCLA 1965	NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers
Dan Greenbaum	Southern California 1992	1992 Olympic bronze medalist, volleyball
Dan Guerrero	UCLA 1974	UCLA athletic director
Ed Hamm	Georgia Tech 1928	1928 Olympic gold medalist, long jump
George Harrison	Stanford 1961	1960 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay
Dick Harter	North Carolina 1952	NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets
Alan Helffrich	Penn State 1925	1924 Olympic gold medalist, 4 × 400 m relay
Mark Jerue	Washington 1982	NFL player, New York Jets
Brian Job	Stanford	1968 Olympic bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke
Brandt Jobe	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer
Grier Jones	Oklahoma State 1968	Professional golfer
Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice	North Carolina 1950	Three-time All-American; Heisman Trophy runner-up; Washington Redskins football
Jeff Kemp	Dartmouth 1981	NFL quarterback for several teams, ending with the Los Angeles Rams for 5 seasons.
William Koch	MIT 1962	America's Cup winner
George Kojac	Rutgers 1931	1928 Olympic gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay
Cawood Ledford	Centre College	University of Kentucky basketball commentator
David Lipsky	Northwestern University	Professional golfer
Jerry Lucas	Ohio State 1962	NBA player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist
Larry MacPhail	Beloit 1910	Brooklyn Dodgers owner and general manager, introduced night games
Jim Mandich	Michigan 1970	NFL player, Miami Dolphins
Steve Marino	UVA 2002	Professional golfer
Kent Massey	Oklahoma 1974	1996 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing
Scott McCarron	UCLA 1989	Professional golfer
Charles McGinnis	Wisconsin 1927	1928 Olympic bronze medalist, pole vault
John L. Miller	Yale 1924	1924 Olympic gold medalist, rowing
Matt Monger	Oklahoma State 1984	All Big 8 LB honors, played five seasons in the NFL including with the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXV.
Lowell North	UC Berkeley 1971	Olympic medalist, yachting; bronze in 1964 and gold in 1968
Gus Otto	Missouri 1965	NFL player, Oakland Raiders
John Parker	Stanford 1970	1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo
Bob Pearce	Oklahoma 1931	1932 Olympic gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb
Pete Pihos	Indiana 1945	College Football Hall of Fame, NFL player Philadelphia Eagles, six-time Pro Bowl selection
Pat Powers	Southern California 1980	1984 Olympic gold medalist, volleyball
Chip Reese	Dartmouth 1973	Professional poker player
Ed Rimkus	St. Lawrence 1937	1948 Olympic gold medalist, bobsledding
Jamey Rootes	Clemson 1988	Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew, Houston Texans
I. Murray Rose	Southern California 1961	Multiple Olympic medalist, three gold medals in 1956 (400 freestyle, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle), two medals in 1960 (silver for 1500 freestyle, and bronze for 4x200 relay)
Edward P. Roski	Southern California 1968	Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team
Richard Roth	Stanford 1969	1964 Olympic gold medalist, 400 IM
Harlow Rothert	Stanford 1930	1932 Olympic silver medalist, shot put
Mike Schmidt	Ohio 1971	Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Hall of Fame
John Shadden	Southern California 1987	1988 Olympic bronze medalist, yachting
Gary Sheerer	Stanford 1968	1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo
Dave Shula	Texas 1973	Former head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals
Kevin Shum	MIT 2019	American competitive figure skater
Jerry Sichting	Purdue 1979	NBA coach
John T. Smith		Professional wrestler
Stan Smith	Southern California 1969	Professional tennis player; winner of two major singles titles (US Open 1971, Wimbledon 1972)
Bob Stein	Minnesota 1969	NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs
Kevin Still	UCLA 1982	1984 Olympic bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs
Bill Stoneman	Idaho 1966	General manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1999–2007; Major League Baseball player
William G. Thompson	UC Berkeley 1929	1928 Olympic gold medalist, rowing eight oars
Bill Tindall	Washington 1965	Professional golfer
Bill Veeck	Kenyon 1936	Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member
Rick Volk	Michigan 1967	NFL player with the Miami Dolphins
Webb Wilder	Oklahoma 1931	Professional golfer
Ben Wilson	Heidelberg 1944	WSU Football Coach
John Wooden	Purdue 1932	UCLA basketball coach

Jerry M. Blesch	Centre 1960 (1956–58) / US Naval Academy 1962 (1958–62)	Captain, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile frigate USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5); commanding officer of destroyer tender USS Puget Sound (AD-38); commander of Destroyer Squadron 25; (e.g., commodore of COMDESRON 25), to include acting as on scene commander of US military forces following the Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007; commanding officer of battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64);^[14] following retirement from the U.S. Navy, served as general secretary of Beta Theta Pi;^[15] namesake of the fraternity's Jerry M. Blesch General Secretary Leadership Award
George M. Browning Jr.^[16]	UCLA 1952	Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force
Omar Bundy	DePauw 1881	Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152)
Kenneth D. Cameron	MIT 1971	Colonel, US Marine Corps (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; currently a NASA management astronaut; pilot for STS-37 mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis; commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia (also see "Astronauts" section)
John Coburn	Wabash 1846	Brigadier General, Union Army; during the Civil War, led the first Union Army troops into the city of Atlanta during the Battle of Atlanta; founder of the Wabash College Chapter
Donald L. Cromer	Washington State 1958 (1954–55) / US Naval Academy 1959 (1955–59)	Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.), Master Missile Operations Officer; Master Space Operations Officer; Commander of Space Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command; 2010 recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup^[17]^[18]
Enoch Crowder	Missouri 1887 / US Military Academy 1881	Major General, US Army; Judge Advocate General of the US Army; US Army Provost Marshall General; oversaw the drafting and administration of the Selective Service Act of 1917; US Ambassador to Cuba
Mark Divine	Colgate 1985	Commander, US Navy (Ret.), Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer; founder of NavySEALs.com and SEAL FIT
John Perry Edwards	Kansas 1939	Ensign, US Naval Reserve, Naval Aviator, awarded Navy Cross for valor during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.^[19]
Eric Erickson	Cornell 1921	Technically not a member of the US armed forces, but as a Swedish national served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; provided key information that led to the aerial bombing of Nazi oil fields by USAAF and RAF aircraft
George Benson Fox	Ohio Wesleyan 1861	Major, US Army 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - American Civil War. Later American businessman and member Ohio General Assembly
Gerald E. Gneckow	Idaho 1960	Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-36); commanding officer of guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20); commanding officer of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61);commander of US Naval Forces South^[20]
John Brown Gordon	Georgia 1854	Major General, Confederate States Army; US Senator; Governor of Georgia
Terrence C. Graves	Miami 1967	2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War
Dudley Jackson Hard	Wooster 1893	Major General, US Army (Ohio Army National Guard); left private business to enlist as a private during the Spanish–American War; was later commissioned as an officer, commanded the 135th Field Artillery as a colonel during World War I; retired in 1936 as a major general commanding the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard; became the first county commander of the American Legion in Ohio^[21]
James Wallace Haverfield	Ohio State 1939	Ensign, US Naval Reserve; killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; namesake of USS Haverfield (DE-393) / (DER-393)
Joe W. Kelly	DePauw 1931 (1927–1928) / US Military Academy 1932 (1928–32)	General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later flew as a B-29 Superfortress, B-50 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker pilot and commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units in the late 1940s and 1950s; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis^[22]
Jonathan Letterman	Washington & Jefferson 1845	Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the former Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco^[23]
Frank S. Lomax	Nebraska 1939 (1935–36) / US Naval Academy 1940 (1936–40)	Ensign, US Navy, killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor^[24]
Daniel McCleary	Miami 1844	Lieutenant, US Army; killed in 1847 during the Mexican–American War; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to die in combat^[25]
James Rogers McConnell	Virginia 1910	Sergeant and fighter pilot, Lafayette Escadrille; French Croix de Guerre recipient; one of the first Americans to die in World War I. Today, brothers of McConnell's fraternity, the Omicron of Beta Theta Pi, remember his exploits in song and memorialize the fallen aviator every year on March 19 with an all-day color guard and a memorial ceremony.
Thomas McGuire	Georgia Tech 1944	Major, US Army Air Forces; Pilot; P-38 Lightning fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and three awards of the Silver Star; killed in action during a fighter sweep of the central Philippines, 7 Jan 1945; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey
Marvin L. McNickle^[26]	South Dakota 1936	Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; commander, 314th Troop Carrier Wing; commander, 9th Air Force; commander, 13th Air Force
Emory Jenison Pike	Iowa Wesleyan 1899 (1895–97) / US Military Academy 1901 (1897–1901)	Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I
Everett P. Pope	Bowdoin 1941	Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II^[27]
Matthew Stanley Quay	Washington & Jefferson 1850	Colonel, Union Army; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to be awarded the Medal of Honor; MOH awarded for heroic actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 (also see "Government and politics" section)
William B. Rosson	Oregon 1940	General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; deputy commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; commander in chief, US Southern Command
Thomas E. Schaefer	Lehigh 1953	Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; highest-ranking US military officer (Colonel, USAF) held captive during the 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis at the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 1979–1981^[28]
John Taliaferro Thompson	Indiana 1881 (1877–1878) / US Military Academy 1882 (1878–1882)	Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (aka "Tommy Gun")
David C. Waybur	UC Berkeley 1942	1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart
Paul J. Weitz	Penn State 1954	Captain, US Navy (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for space shuttle STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; retired from NASA as deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (also see "Astronauts" section)

Joe M. Allbaugh	Oklahoma State 1974	Founder of the Allbaugh Company; Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when in Federal government service
John Edward Anderson	UCLA 1940	Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephen David Bechtel, Sr.	California 1923	Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group
Bill Bowerman	Oregon 1933	Founder of Nike, Inc.
Donald Bren	Washington 1955	Billionaire; owner of The Irvine Company
Dan Carney	Wichita State 1953	Co-founder of Pizza Hut
Douglas Clayton	Cornell 1982	CEO of Leopard Capital
Arthur D. Collins Jr.	Miami 1969	CEO of Medtronic 2002–2008
William Cook	Northwestern 1953	Billionaire; founder of the Cook Group
David Coulter	Carnegie Mellon 1971	Former chairman and chief executive officer of BankAmerica Corporation
Justin Dart	Northwestern 1929	Founder of Dart Industries
Chris DeWolfe	Washington 1988	CEO of Myspace.com
David Duffield	Cornell 1962	President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc.
Dick Durrell	Minnesota 1950	Former publisher of People magazine
C. Christopher Epting	Florida 1969	Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa
William Esrey	Denison 1961	President and CEO of Sprint
Weldon B. Gibson	Washington State University 1938	Executive at SRI International
Joel Hyatt	Dartmouth 1972	Founder of Hyatt Legal Services
Edgar Kaiser	Stanford 1965	Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia
Shahid Khan	Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1971	Owner of Illinois auto parts company Flex-N-Gate; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars
Charles G. Koch	MIT 1957	Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries
Alan Ladd Jr.	Southern California	Former president of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment
Samuel Laws	Miami University 1848	Inventor of the ticker tape machine
Kenneth Lay	Missouri 1967	Former chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
R. Conrad Leslie	Miami University 1949	World renowned crop analyst
Alexander F. Mathews	Virginia 1856	Early West Virginia banker^[29]
Hugh McColl	North Carolina 1957	Chairman and CEO of Bank of America
Steve Miller	Southern California 1966	President of Dean Witter Reynolds
J. C. Nichols	Kansas 1902	Real estate
Daniel Ninivaggi^[30]	Columbia 1986	CEO of Lordstown Motors and chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul
Bruce Nordstrom	Washington 1955	Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom
John Opel	Westminster 1948	Former president of IBM
Sam Palmisano	Johns Hopkins 1973	CEO of IBM
John H. Patterson	Miami University 1867	Founder of National Cash Register
William Pennington	UC Berkeley 1945	Co-founder of Circus Circus Casino
Donald Petersen	Washington 1946	Former CEO of the Ford Motor Company
Marvin Pierce	Miami University 1916	President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush
Mitchell Rales	Miami University 1978	Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher Corporation
Steven Rales	DePauw 1973	Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher
Steven Rogel	Washington 1965	CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company
Frank Shrontz	Idaho 1954	Past Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company
Jeffrey Skilling	Southern Methodist 1975	Former CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
Kenneth A. Spencer	Kansas 1921	Founder, President, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company
Robert K. Steel	Duke 1973	Former president and CEO of Wachovia
G. Kennedy Thompson	North Carolina 1973	CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard
Sam Walton	Missouri 1940	Founder of Wal-Mart
Fred Wilson	MIT 1983	Venture capitalist and prominent blogger
Thornton Wilson	Iowa State 1942	Chairman emeritus of the Boeing Co.
John D. Zeglis	University of Illinois 1969	Former chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless^[31]

Joseph P. Allen	DePauw 1959	Former astronaut; Space Flight Executive; Senior Scientist Astronaut; Mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery
Kenneth D. Cameron	MIT 1971	Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); pilot for STS-37 mission aboard Atlantis (STS-37); commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia
Bill Nelson	Florida 1964 (1961–63) / Yale 1965 (1963–65)	Former US Congressman (D-FL), former senior US Senator from Florida (D-FL); not a professional career astronaut, but while a US congressman representing the congressional district including Kennedy Space Center, flew as a payload specialist on Columbia (STS-61C);^[32] the second sitting member of the US Congress to fly in space as part of a NASA initiative prior to the Challenger (STS-51L) disaster
Paul J. Weitz	Penn State 1954	Former astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; former deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

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