Facts about Hamilton

A Sampling of Notable Alumni

Sorted by Profession

Also, view list alphabetically or by major.
*Deceased

NATIONAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

• Kevin M. Brown '83, (History) Chief Operating Officer, American Red Cross
• Michael N. Castle '61, (Economics) U.S. Representative; former Governor of Delaware
• Michael Fleischer '88, (Government) Executive Director, New York State Thruway Authority
• Carl Hayden '63, (Asian Studies) Chairman, State University of New York Board of Trustees; former Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents
• John R. Leopold '64, (English Literature) Delegate, State of Maryland; former Member, National Council on Disability
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  Tom Vilsack '72
  Christina H. Pearson '95, (English Literature) Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
• William P. Purcell III '76, (Government) Director, The Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Mayor, City of Nashville; former Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 2006 "Public Official of the Year" by Governing Magazine
• *James S. Sherman 1878, Vice President of the United States
• Tom Vilsack '72, (History) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; former Governor of Iowa; Democratic Candidate for President in 2008
• Sara Redding Wilson K'72, Director, Virginia Department of Human Resource Management

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OTHER GOVERNMENT NOTABLES

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  Drew S. Days III '63
  W. Robert Connor '56, (Greek and Latin) President and CEO, The Teagle Foundation; former President and Director, National Humanities Center; appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
• Drew S. Days III '63, (English Literature) Professor of Law, Yale University; former U.S. Solicitor General
• John B. Emerson '75, (Government and Philosophy) President, Personal Investment Management for the Capital Group Companies; former Deputy Assistant to President Clinton
• Stephen R. Foley '84, (Creative Writing) Commander, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
• Mike Meyer '74, (English Literature and Government) Director of Communications and Speechwriting, The United Nations
• Ralph Oman '62, (History) former Register of Copyrights of the United States
• Jonathan Overpeck '79, (Geology) Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona; co-recipient of the Nobel Prize as one of the lead authors of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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  Elihu Root 1864
  *Elihu Root 1864, U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Winner of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize
• Alicia Davis '97, (Government and Spanish) Director of Marketing and Senior Project Manager, Target Point Consulting; former Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications, U.S. Department of Commerce

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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS, DEANS, PROVOSTS AND LIBRARIANS

• Martha Denney '82, (French) Dean of the College, Haverford College (effective July 1, 2009)
• John W. Dwinelle 1834, Founder of the University of California (authored the "Organic Act" that in 1868 created the Univ. of California).
• Charles L. Flynn, Jr. '74, (History) President, College of Mount St. Vincent
• Michael A. Keller '67, (Music) University Librarian, Stanford University
• Brian Levin-Stankevich '72 (History) Chancellor, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
• Joseph S. Lewis III '75, (Art History) Dean, UC Irvine School of the Arts
• Joe Morone '74, (Government) former President, Bentley College; CEO Albany International Corp
• Richard Pfau '64, (History) President, Averett University
• G. Jeremiah Ryan '72, (Government and Speech) President, Bergen Community College
• Thomas J. Schwarz '66, (Economics) President, SUNY Purchase
• *Edward J. Wickson 1869, Horticulturalist and Founder of the California State Horticultural Society and Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of California.
• Scott Wood '80, (Chemistry and Geology) Dean, University of Idaho College of Science

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FOREIGN AMBASSADORS

• Michael Klosson '71, (History and Public Policy) former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus; former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
• *Sol M. Linowitz '35, (German and Philosophy) Ambassador to the Organization of American States; Chairman of the Board of Xerox; Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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  Edward Walker, Jr. '62
  William H. Luers '51, (Chemistry and Mathematics) Chairman and President, United Nations Association of the USA; former President, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
• *Arnold L. Raphel '64, (Government) U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
• Edward S. Walker, Jr. '62, (Philosophy) Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory at Hamilton College; former President and CEO, Middle East Institute; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates

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CORPORATE EXECUTIVES

Susan Skerritt K'78

• *J. Carter Bacot '55, (Public Policy) Chairman, The Bank of New York
• Robert Bernstock '72, (History) President, Mailing and Shipping Services, U.S. Postal Service; former President, Campbell Soup Company
• David W. Blood '81, (Economics and Psychology) Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management; former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Wayland F. Blood '53, (English Literature and Public Policy) Retired Vice President/Treasurer, Ford Motor Credit Co.
• *William M. Bristol 1882, Co-Founder, Bristol-Myers Co.
• Thomas R. Crane, Jr. '61, (Economics and Spanish) former President/CEO, Castrol
• Blake Darcy '78, (Government) Founder, DLJ Direct
• Gerald V. Dirvin '59, (English Literature) Retired Executive Vice President, Procter & Gamble
• Dan Ferguson '48, (Economics and History) Retired CEO, Newell Rubbermaid Company
• James L. Ferguson '49, (English Literature) Retired Chairman and CEO, General Foods
• Sean K. Fitzpatrick '63, (English Literature) Retired Vice President/Chief Creative Officer, McCann-Erickson
• Amy Owens Goodfriend '82, (French) former Partner, Goldman Sachs
• Elbert O. Hand '61, (Art) Retired Chairman and CEO, Hartmarx Corp.
• Scott M. Hand '64, (History) President, Inco Ltd.
• David P. Hess '77, (Physics) President, Pratt & Whitney
• Joel W. Johnson '65, (Economics and English Literature) Retired President and CEO, Hormel Co.
• Kraig Kayser '82, (Economics) President and CEO, Seneca Food Corp.
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  A.G. Lafley '69
  Silas Keehn '52, (Economics and Government) Retired President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Kevin Kennedy '70, (Art) Chairman, Goldman Sachs Latin America
• William A. Kerr '79, (Government and History) Co-Chair Europe, The Bank of New York
• A.G. Lafley '69, (French and History) Former Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble
• Mark M. Leckie '75, (Economics) Vice President, The Gillette Company; Past President of Duracell, H.J. Heinz and Campbell Soups, U.S. Grocery Division
• Jack Levy '75, (History and Government) Global Head, Mergers & Acquisitions Dept, Goldman Sachs
• James Logan '74, (Economics) CEO, Gotuit Media Corp.; Past President,
  Microtouch Systems, Inc.
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  John Rice '78
  Arthur J. Massolo '64, (History and German) President/CEO, Straticon, Inc. and Chairman, Innovative Pharmaceutical Concepts
• Carl B. Menges '51, (Economics and English Literature) Retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
• Adam Miller '92, (Philosophy) President and COO, Abernathy MacGregor Group
• Dan Nye '88, (Government) ) CEO, Rocketlawyer; former CEO, LinkedIn
• Ronald Pressman '80, (Biology) President and CEO, GE Real Estate
• John Rice '78, (Economics) President and CEO, GE Infrastructure
• Philip Ruppel '80 (Art History), President, McGraw-Hill Professional
• Stephen Sadove '73, (Government) Chairman and CEO, Saks Inc.
• Jack Selby '96 (Economics), CEO, Clarium; founder, PayPal
• Douglas Sgarro '81, (History) Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for CVS Caremark Corporation
• Susan Skerritt K'78, (Economics and Spanish) Managing Director, Bank of New York
• David Solomon '84, (Government) Co-Head of Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs
• Michael Stone '72, (Government) Co-Chairman, The Beanstalk Group
• Rachel Tischler '92, (Theatre) Vice President of Entertainment Operations, USO
• Clyde Tuggle '84, (German) Senior Vice President, Coca-Cola Company
• Bill Weaver '65 (Philosophy) former CEO, Puget Sound Energy
• Jaime Yordan '71, (Foreign Languages) Vice Chair, Citibank; former Partner, Goldman Sachs

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ENTREPRENEURS

• *William M. Bristol 1882, Co-Founder, Bristol-Myers Co.
• Harlow Bundy 1877, founded The Bundy Time Recording Company, which was consolidated into one of IBM's forerunners
• Blake Darcy '78, (Government) Founder, DLJ Direct
• Leigh Keno '79 (Art) Founder, Antiques Road Show, Find!; recipient of the 2005 National Humanities Medal
• Michael Mathres '96, (Art and Economics) Founder and Director, Climate Capital Network; recipient of the 2004 Millenium Prize for Social Entrepreneurship
• *William H. Masters '38, (English Literature) Co-Founder, Masters & Johnson Institute
• Marc Randolph '80, (Geology) Founder, Netflix

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LEGAL CAREERS

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  Mary Bonauto '83
  Mary Bonauto '83 (Comparative Literature and History) Civil Rights Attorney (gay marriage)
• John J. Donohue III '74, (Economics and Mathematics) Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School; elected in 2009 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• *Hugh R. Jones '35, (English Literature and Mathematics) Retired Justice, NY State Court of Appeals
• Percy R. Luney Jr. '70, (Geology) Founding Dean, Florida A&M University Law School; Vice President, Space Florida
• Audrey Moore '84, (Psychology) Assistant District Attorney, Manhattan District Attorney's Office
• David A. Nelson '54, (English Literature and History) Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
• Stewart G. Pollock '54, (Philosophy) Retired Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court  
• John Reinstein '65, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
• Michael Rothenberg '86, (Philosophy) Executive Director, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Roger G. Strand '55, (History) Senior Judge, U.S. District Court

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MEDICINE/HEALTH CARE

• Johannes Burlin '87, (Economics) President and CEO, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (working on AIDS vaccine)
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  Paul Greengard '48
  David P. Faxon '67, M.D. (Biology) Chief of Cardiology, University of Chicago; former President, American Heart Association
• Paul Greengard '48, (Mathematics and Physics) Professor, Rockefeller University; 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Martin S. Hirsch '60, (Biology) Physician and Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Medical School; former Director of AIDS Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Margaret Keller O'Bryon K'75, (Public Policy) President/CEO, Consumer Health Foundation
• Hugh A. Sampson Jr., M.D., '71, (Biology) President, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute and Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences
• Edward C. (Ted) Taylor '46, (Chemistry), A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Princeton University; research in organic compounds has resulted in the creation of the successful tumor-fighting drug Alimta

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ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

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  Paul Lieberstein '89
  Kevin Burns '77, (English Literature and History) President, Prometheus Entertainment; Emmy Award-Winning Television Producer and Filmmaker
• David Grubin '65, (English Literature) Independent Film Producer, Director and Writer (FDR, LBJ, Napoleon); recipient of three George Foster Peabody awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards, and nine Emmys
• John Hadity '83, (Sociology) Independent Producer and Financier; former Senior Vice President, Miramax
• John Hester '69, (Government) Attorney, MGM; former Senior Executive Vice President, Orion Pictures
• Paul Lieberstein '89, (Economics) Writer, Producer and Actor, The Office (2006 Emmy for Best Comedy Series)
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  Thomas Tull '92
  Jane Mason '89, (Creative Writing) Writer/Editor of Children's Books; former Senior Editor, LucasFilm
• Thomas Tull '92, (Government) Founder, Chairman and CEO, Legendary Pictures
• Gillian Zucker '90, (Creative Writing and Religion) President, Auto Club Speedway of Southern California

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NON-PROFITS

• Stephen Angell '41, (Economics and Public Policy) Co-Founder, Alternatives to Violence
• Daniel Becker '77, (Public Policy) Director Global Warming, Sierra Club
• Richard Burns '77, (English Literature) Chief Operating Officer, Arcus Foundation; former Executive Director, New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
• Steve Culbertson '79, (English Literature and French) President and CEO, Youth Service America
• Curtis Decker '66, (History) Executive Director, National Disability Rights Network
• Katherine Ertsgaard '83, (Economics) Executive Director, Rochester City Ballet/Draper Center for Dance
• Cynthia Sherwood Evans '82, (Government) Chief Financial Officer, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
• John Hewko '79, (Government and Russian Studies) Vice President, Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Kimberley Intino '91, (Psychobiology) Director of Animal Sheltering Issues, Humane Society of the United States
• Linda Johnson '80, (American Studies) Interim Executive Director, Brooklyn Public Library
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  Robert Moses '56
  David Kunselman '66, CEO, Development of World Orphan Care, World Orphan Network
• Henry Little '65, (History) Vice President, The Nature Conservancy
• Rev. Dr. Joel MacCollam '68, (German) President, World Emergency Relief
• Matt McKenna '72, (Philosophy and Speech) President, Keep America Beautiful; former Senior Vice President of Finance, PepsiCo
• David Morse '74, (History) Vice President of Communications, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Robert Moses '56, (Philosophy) Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; Founder, The Algebra Project
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  Ezra Pound 1905
  Haskell Rhett '58, (English Literature) President Emeritus, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Nancy Roob '87, (Comparative Literature) President, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• Vincent Strully '69, (Government), Founder, Executive Director and President, The New England Center for Children
• David Weiss '75, (Government) President and CEO, CHF International (international development and humanitarian assistance organization)
• John Kellogg Werner '92, (Government) Founding Campus Director and Managing Director, Citizen Schools

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AUTHORS

• *Samuel Hopkins Adams 1891, Author
• Terry Brooks '66, (English Literature) Fantasy Author, Shannara series, also Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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  Kamila Shamsie '94
  Peter Cameron '82, (English Literature) Andorra, The Weekend and The City of Your Final Destination
• Carl Carmer '14, Stars Fell on Alabama
• Jane Mason '89, (Creative Writing) Writer/Editor, Flashlight Books; former Senior Editor, LucasFilm Ltd.
• Peter Meinke '55, (English Literature) Poet and Fiction Writer; past Director of the Eckerd College Writing Workshop; recipient of the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award
• John Nichols '62, (English Literature) Author, The Sterile Cuckoo
• *Ezra Pound 1905, Poet
• Preeta Samarasan '98, (History and Music) Author, Evening is the Whole Day
• Kamila Shamsie '94, (Creative Writing) Author, Salt and Saffron, Kartography
• Charles Dudley Warner 1851, Author, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (with Mark Twain)
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  Lisa Reifenberg
  Daniels '94
  Christopher Whitcomb '81, (History and English Literature) Author, Cold Zero and Black; former Special Agent, FBI

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JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA EXECUTIVES

• Stephanie Abarbanel '73, (Literature) former Senior Articles Editor, Woman's Day
• Henry Allen '63, (English Literature) Writer, The Washington Post; recipient of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize
• Lisa Reifenberg Daniels '94, (Mathematics and History) former Reporter, NBC Nightly News and the Today Show
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  Deborah Forte
  Stone K'75
  Marjory Abrams Edelston '85, (English Literature and Psychology) Publisher, Boardroom Inc.
• Fabio Freyre '83, (Psychology) Group Vice President, Corporate Sales and Marketing, Time Inc.; former Publisher, Sports Illustrated
• Margot Gilman '81, (Literature), Executive Editor, Prevention Magazine
• Peter C. Haeffner '88, (Government) Publisher, TV Guide
• Joanna Langfield K'76, (Communications) Syndicated Radio Personality, Film Critic, Author and Television Commentator
• Christine Laine '83 MD, MPH, FACP, (Biology and Creative Writing) Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine (youngest editor in the Journal's 82-year history)
• Stryker J. McGuire '69, (Spanish) Editor, International Quarterly and Contributing Editor for Newsweek; former London Bureau Chief, Newsweek
• Andrew Metz '91, (History) Producer, CBS 60 Minutes
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  Christine Laine '83
  Sara Noble '76, (Asian Studies) Publishing Consultant, Noble & Associates; former Managing Editor, Inc. Magazine
• Neal Pilson '60, (History) former Senior Vice President, CBS Broadcast Group; former President, CBS Sports
• Philip R. Ruppel '80, (Art History) President, McGraw-Hill Professional
• Barry Seaman '67, (Literature) former Special Projects Editor and former White House Correspondent, TIME Magazine
• Evan Smith '87, (Public Policy) CEO, Texas Tribune
• Richard W. Stanton '61, (French) Chief Operations Officer, Los Angeles Times
• Deborah Forte Stone K'75, (English Literature and Sociology) President,
  Scholastic Media
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  Steve Wulf '72
  James P. Willse '67, (English Literature) Editor, Newark Star-Ledger (Star-Ledger won 2005 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting of breaking news)
• *Alexander Woollcott, 1909, Drama Critic, The New York Times
• Linda Woolley K'75, (Government) Executive Vice President, Direct Marketing Association
• Steve Wulf '72, (English Literature) Editor-in-Chief, ESPN Books; founding Executive Editor, ESPN Magazine

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THE ARTS

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  Thomas Meehan '51
  James Caraher '73, (Music) Artistic Director/Conductor, Indianapolis Opera
• William S Gaden '84, (Mathematics) Senior Vice President and General Manager, Rogers and Hammerstein Organization
• Bill Harley '77, (Religion) Singer/Songwriter (children's songs); 2007 Grammy for "Best Spoken Word for Children"
• *Harry Kondoleon '77 (English Literature) Obie Award-Winning Playwright and Novelist
• Thomas E. Meehan '51, (English Literature) Playwright, Ain't Broadway Grand, Annie, Space Balls; 2001 Tony Award, The Producers, and 2003 Tony for Hairspray
• Ben Moore '82, (Art) Composer
• Richard J. Nelson '72, (Religion) Playwright, Some Americans Abroad
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  Melinda Wagner '79
  Cameron "Kip" Paine '94, (History) Vocalist with Chanticleer; recipient of 2000 Best Small Ensemble Grammy for the CD titled Colors of Love
• Jay Reise '72, (English Literature) Composer
• Michael Shapiro '72, (Art and History) Director, High Museum of Art
• Michael G. Sundell '56, (English Literature) former President, Yaddo Artists' Community
• Melinda Wagner '79, (Music) Composer; 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition

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ATHLETICS

• Francis F. Baker '36, (Science) Reserve Goalie, 1936 U.S. Olympic Bronze
  Medal Hockey Team
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  Gillian Zucker '90
  Guy Hebert '89, (Art) former Goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks; 1998 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
• William E. Smith '80, (French) Senior Vice President General Manager, Minnesota Twins
• Gillian Zucker '90, (Creative Writing and Religion) President, Auto Club Speedway of Southern California

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OTHERS OF NOTE

• *Richard W. Couper '44, (History) former President, The New York Public Library; former President, The Woodrow Wilson National
  Fellowship Foundation
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  B.F. Skinner '26
  *Laurentine Hamilton 1850, Minister and Educator; Mount Hamilton in California's Diablo Range, the tallest mountain overlooking Silicon Valley, is named for him
• Sir David Hayes '81, (French) Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by decree of the President of France
• *B.F. Skinner '26, (English Literature) Behavioral Psychologist
• *Gerrit Smith 1818, Philanthropist and Leading Abolitionist

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Note: The major did not exist until well into the 20th Century; most graduates simply received the A.B degree