Academia

  • William Bowen ’55, former president, Mellon Foundation and Princeton University (deceased)
  • Lisa Coleman ’88, president, Adler University
  • Kim Coplin ’85, provost, Denison University
  • Thomas Cummins ’73, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks
  • Charles Glasser ’61, former president, John F. Kennedy University
  • Karen Morse ’62, chemist, former president of Western Washington University
  • Eric Neilson ’71, vice president for medical affairs and the Lewis Landsberg Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Arts and Entertainment

  • James L. Anderson ’85, former senior vice president-head of corporate communications and marketing, Warner Media and CNN, Worldwide
  • Susan Booth ’85, artistic director, Goodman Theatre
  • Steve Carell ’84, Golden Globe-winning actor and comedian,The Office, Little Miss Sunshine, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
  • Sharon Carr ’73, theatrical producer
  • Tom Cotter ’86, comedian
  • John Davidson ’63, entertainer, actor, playwright, game show host of Hollywood Squares, That’s Incredible!
  • Michael Eisner ’64, former chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
  • Jennifer Garner ’94, Golden Globe-winning actor, Alias, Juno, 13 Going on 30, entrepreneur
  • Kyle Gordon ’14, comedian, YouTuber, TikTok celebrity, and creator of viral hit, “Planet of the Bass”
  • Hal Holbrook ’48, Tony Award-winning actor, Mark Twain Tonight, All the President’s Men, Lincoln (deceased)
  • Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders ’78, former executive director of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
  • Ben Jacoby ’09, music theatre actor, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Beaches the Musical, The Phantom of the Opera
  • Marty Jones ’86, head of Austin Studios
  • Andrew Levitt ’01, queer activist, actor, singer-songwriter, internationally known by his drag queen stage name Nina West
  • Daniel Meyer ’94, music director, Erie Philharmonic
  • Carl Moellenberg ’74, 13-time Tony award-winning Broadway producer
  • Alex Moffat ’04, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live, The Bear, Bad Monkey
  • Carl Ragsdale ’50, Oscar-winning film producer
  • Jonathan Reynolds ’64, award-winning playwright, screenwriter (deceased)
  • John Schuck ’62, actor, Annie, M*A*S*H, Roots, Law & Order
  • Caroline Spence ’11, nationally touring singer-songwriter

Business

  • J. Reid Anderson ’38, inventor and founder, Verbatim Corporation (deceased)
  • Chuck Bellofatto ’85, global head, credit risk, JPMorgan Chase Private Bank
  • John Beyer ’54, former head of world-renowned restoration architectural firm, with projects including Ellis Island, Grand Central Terminal, U.S. Capitol (deceased)
  • Brad Blum ’76, former president, The Olive Garden and Burger King
  • Cynthia Booth ’79, president and CEO, Emerge Manufacturing
  • Daniel J. Brickman ’80, head of North America, Babcock & Brown LP (retired)
  • John Canning Jr. ’66, co-founder, Madison Dearborn Partners
  • John Chain ’56, former director, RJ Reynolds, ConAgra Foods, Inc.; Air Force general, former commander in chief, Strategic Air Command (deceased)
  • Marcus Colwell ’84, managing director, HPS Investment Partners LLC
  • Mark Dalton ’72, co-chairman, Tudor Investment Corporation
  • William Esrey ’61, former CEO and chairman, Sprint Corporation
  • John Faraci Jr. ’72, former chairman and CEO, International Paper
  • James T. Glerum Jr. ’82, vice chairman, investment banking, Citibank (retired)
  • Nelson Griggs ’93, president, NASDAQ Stock Exchange
  • Suni Pederson Harford ’84, former president, Asset Management, GEB lead for sustainability and impact at UBS
  • Matthew J. Harrington ’84, global president & COO, Edelman
  • Thomas Hoaglin ’71, former chairman and CEO, Huntington Bank; former board member, American Electric Power
  • David Howitt ’90, founder & CEO, The Meriwether Group, author of New York Times bestseller, Heed Your Call
  • Billy Hult ’91, CEO, Tradeweb Markets, Inc.
  • Terry Jones ’70, founder, Travelocity.com; founding chairman, Kayak.com
  • ​​Emilios T. Kyriacou ’86, CEO, Citibank N.A., Greece
  • Marc Lautenbach ’83, former president and CEO, Pitney Bowes Inc.
  • ​​John D. Lowenberg, Sr. ’64, principal, Anvil Management Company, LLC
  • Lisa McKnight ’90, former executive vice president and chief brand officer, Mattel, Inc.
  • Jack Meyer ’67, former CEO, Harvard Management Company
  • Stephen R. Polk ’78, former chairman, president, CEO, R.L. Polk & Co., longtime publisher of city directories and CARFAX vehicle history reports.
  • Abigail Pringle ’96, former president, U.S. Wendy’s
  • Lucy Reynolds ’94, founder, The Murmuration Collective
  • Claudia Sahm ’98, chief economist, New Century Advisors, former section chief, Federal Reserve Board
  • Lewis (Lee) Sachs ’85, co-founder, managing partner, Gallatin Point Capital
  • Ralph Schlosstein ’72, chairman emeritus, EverCore investment banking firm
  • Jonathan Silverstein ’89, former managing partner, OrbiMed, a global medical investment firm
  • Joshua Spoerri ’93, managing director, OpCapita
  • Art Steinmetz, Jr. ’80, former CEO, chairman, Oppenheimer
  • Larry Weber ’77, CEO, chairman, Racepoint Global Inc.
  • Susan Whiting ’78, former chair, CEO and president, Nielsen Media Research; former vice chair, The Nielsen Co.; board chair, National Women’s History Museum

Government, Public Policy/Service

  • Bill Clarke ’51, co-founder, Habitat for Humanity (deceased)
  • Oyauma M. Garrison ’96, president and chief executive officer at A Kid Again, Inc.
  • Tony Hall ’64, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 12-term U.S. representative
  • John Hammock ’66, former executive director, Oxfam America
  • Charles Henry ’69, board chairman, Amnesty International
  • Cem Kozlu ’69, former representative, Turkish Parliament; former CEO, Turkish Airlines
  • Richard G. Lugar ’54, Rhodes Scholar, six-term U.S. senator hailed for his global leadership on nuclear nonproliferation, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (deceased)
  • Jim Petro ’70, former Ohio attorney general
  • William Hubbs Rehnquist, supreme court justice (deceased)
  • David Waller ’70, former senior associate counsel to President Reagan and deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Journalism/Literature/Publishing

  • James Clear ’08, author of The New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits
  • Roe Conn ’86, longtime Chicago talk radio and TV personality
  • James Frey ’92, author, A Million Little Pieces, Bright Shiny Morning
  • Sara Fritz ’66, award-winning journalist in Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles Times, Congressional Quarterly (deceased)
  • Michael Glaser ’65, former poet laureate, State of Maryland
  • Ann Hagedorn ’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 ’83, best-selling author of novels, short stories, and essays
  • Molly O’Neill ’75, The New York Times columnist, best-selling author (deceased)
  • Alison Stine ’00, poet, author of Road out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award for science fiction
  • Hal Walker ’54, award-winning journalist, first African-American correspondent for CBS News (deceased)

Religion

  • Kelly Brown Douglas ’79, professor, Harvard Divinity School, canon of Washington National Cathedral
  • Edgar Johnson Goodspeed 1890, theologian, University of Chicago professor (deceased)
  • Randy Hollerith ’86, dean of Washington National Cathedral, officiant at 2025 funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Dick Cheney
  • Andrea Raynor ’83, author, United Methodist minister, chaplain to the morgue at Ground Zero
  • Gary Simpson ’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 ’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 ’80, former president, CEO, and executive chairman, ESPN
  • Nan Carney-DeBord ’80, emerita director of athletics, Denison University
  • Bill Giles ’56, chairman and general partner, Philadelphia Phillies
  • Woody Hayes ’35, Ohio State University football coach, College Football Hall of Fame (deceased)
  • Kenny Meyer ’50, former head coach, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers
  • Anne Moelk ’92, head women’s lacrosse coach, DePauw University
  • Ellen O’Brien ’09, associate athletics director, Marymount University
  • Bobby Rahal ’75, Indy 500 winner, co-owner of Rahal Letterman Racing
  • Jim Reynolds ’90, former vice president, Nike, Inc.
  • John Robic ’86, assistant men’s basketball coach, University of Kentucky, 2012 NCAA Champions
  • Makorobundo Salukombo ’12, nonprofit entrepreneur, Olympic marathoner
  • Alison Spungen ’08, associate director of Division III, NCAA