Overview

Notable persons

Charles Blackstone, '95, novelist
Paul Butterfield, '60, blues musician and bandleader
Anthony Cordesman '56, foreign policy commentator
Joyce Chiang '88, murdered INS attorney
Daniel Clowes '79, author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books
Arne Duncan, '82, Chicago Public Schools CEO
Andrea Ghez, '83, physicist
Maria Hinojosa, '79, journalist
Margo Jefferson, '64, Pulitzer Prize--winning New York Times critic
Nancy Lee Johnson '51, Connecticut Congresswoman (1983-2006)
Linda Johnson Rice, '75, president and CEO, Johnson Publishing
Lucy Kaplansky, '78 folk singer and songwriter
Robert Keohane, '58, political scientist
Sherry Lansing '62, former chief of Paramount Studios and Academy Award winner (2007)
Edward H. Levi, '28, attorney general of the United States, 1975-1977
W. Ian Lipkin, M.D., '70, led team that discovered West Nile Virus caused 1999 outbreak of encephalitis in New York
Richard A. Loeb '20, Famous murderer from Leopold and Loeb fame
Paul Nitze, '23, public servant
Mark Patinkin, '70, newspaper columnist and author
Ned Rorem, '40, composer and author
Janet Rowley '42, geneticist
Paul Sagan, '77, president and CEO, Akamai Technologies
John Paul Stevens '37, US Supreme Court justice
Robert Storr, '67, curator, critic, painter, dean of Yale School of Art
Garrick Utley, '56, television journalist
Geoffrey Ward, '57, screenwriter and author
Amy Wright, '67, actress
David Wilkins, '73, Harvard Law School Professor Faculty

Malia and Sasha Obama, children of US Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.