List of Cornell University faculty

This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

Cornell's faculty for the 2005–06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a World Food Prize winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three National Medal of Science winners, two Wolf Prize winners, four MacArthur award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award winners, 20 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, three Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners.

Nobel laureates

Physics

• Richard Feynman (Physics faculty, 1945–50) – Physics 1965

Hans Bethe

• Hans Bethe (John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935–2005) – Physics 1967
• Hannes Alfvén (Distinguished Professor in Engineering) – Physics 1970
• John Robert Schrieffer (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–75) – Physics 1972
• Kenneth G. Wilson (Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–88) – Physics 1982
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1977–83) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics, 1989–90) – Physics 1991
• David Lee (Professor of Physics) – Physics 1996
• Robert Coleman Richardson (Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) – Physics 1996

Peace, Literature, or Economics

Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution

• Norman Borlaug (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1982–88) – Peace 1970
• Wole Soyinka (Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985) – Literature 1986
• Octavio Paz (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1972–74) – Literature 1990
• Amartya Sen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1978–84) – Economics 1998

Chemistry

• Peter Debye (Professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; Department Chair) – Chemistry 1936
• James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) – Chemistry 1946
• Vincent du Vigneaud (Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) – Chemistry 1955
• Manfred Eigen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) – Chemistry 1967
• Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty, 1948–57) – Chemistry 1974
• Roald Hoffmann (Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) – Chemistry 1981
• Henry Taube (Assistant Professor, 1944–46) – Chemistry 1983
• Richard R. Ernst (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) – Chemistry 1991

Physiology or Medicine

• Herbert Spencer Gasser (Medical College, 1931–34) – Physiology or Medicine 1944
• Fritz Albert Lipmann (Research Associate, Medical College, 1939–1941) – Physiology or Medicine 1953
• Peter Medawar (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) – Physiology or Medicine 1960
• Haldan Keffer Hartline (Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) – Physiology or Medicine 1967
• Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) – Physiology or Medicine 1968
• Har Gobind Khorana (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) – Physiology or Medicine 1968
• Robert F. Furchgott (Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1941–49) – Physiology or Medicine 1998
• Paul Greengard (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) – Physiology or Medicine 2000

MacArthur awards

• Archie Randolph Ammons (Professor of Creative Writing, 1964–98) – Poetry 1981
• Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) – Poetry 1991
• Paul Ginsparg (Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science) - Physics 2002
• Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) - Chemistry 1993
• Michal Lipson (Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Optical Physics 2010

Natural sciences and related fields

Mathematics

• Eugene Dynkin (Professor) – Mathematics
• Walter Feit (Professor, 1952–64) – Mathematician, co-author of the Feit–Thompson theorem
• Allen Hatcher (Professor, 1985–) – Mathematics
• John Irwin Hutchinson (Professor of Mathematics, 1894–?) – American mathematician
• Saunders Mac Lane (Professor) – Developer of algebra's category theory
• Anil Nerode (Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics) – Mathematician
• Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Professor) – Mathematician
• Paul Olum (Professor) – Mathematics, President of the University of Oregon 1980–89
• Steven Strogatz (Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994–) – Mathematician
• Éva Tardos (Professor of Computer Science) – Mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of the Fulkerson Prize, 1988
• William Thurston (Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003–) – Mathematics; Fields medal winner
• Charles F. Van Loan (Chair of the Department of Computer Science) – Mathematician

Physics

See also: List of Cornell Manhattan Project people

Freeman Dyson

• Robert Bacher (Professor, 1935–1949) – Manhattan Project leader and member of Atomic Energy Commission
• Persis Drell (Professor, 1988–2002) – American particle physicist
• Freeman Dyson (Professor, 1951–53) – Physics, mathematics
• Mitchell Feigenbaum (Professor) – Physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constant
• Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold Lecturer, 1987) – Astrophysicist
• Brian Greene (Professor, 1990–95) – Theoretical Physicist and Author – specializing in String Theory
• Arthur Kantrowitz (Professor, 1946–56) – Physicist and engineer
• Boyce McDaniel (Professor, 1946–1985) – Manhattan Project physicist and synchotron designer
• Paul McEuen (Professor, 2001–) – Physicist, specializes in carbon nanotube
• Yuri Orlov (Researcher of Physics, 1986–) – Nuclear physicist, former Soviet dissident and human rights activist
• Dennis William Sciama (Professor) – Physicist
• George Paget Thomson (Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) – Nobel Prize, Physics 1937
• Kip Thorne (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–92) – Astrophysicist
• Robert R. Wilson (Professor) – Youngest group leader on the Manhattan Project, first director of Fermilab

Astronomy

Carl Sagan

• Thomas Gold (John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, 1959–2004) – Astrophysicist, coined the term "magnetosphere"
• Jean-Luc Margot (Assistant Professor) – Astronomer, awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society, 2004
• Carl Sagan (David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 1968–96) – Space Sciences
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter (James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus, 1948–2008) – Astronomer
• Aleksander Wolszczan (Professor) – Discoverer of first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets.

Chemistry

• Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Professor, 1895–?) – Physical chemist
• James Crafts (Professor of Chemistry, 1868–97) – President of MIT, 1897–1900
• John Gamble Kirkwood (Professor) – Chemist
• Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) – MacArthur Award and Sloan Fellow
• Robert A. Plane – President of Wells College

Computer science and Engineering

Paul Ginsparg at Cornell University

• Paul Ginsparg (Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science, 2001–) – Developer of the arXiv e-print archive, MacArthur Award
• Joseph Halpern (Professor of Computer Science) – Computer scientist
• Juris Hartmanis (Professor, 1965–) – Computer scientist; Turing Award recipient, 1993
• John Hopcroft (IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science) – Turing Award recipient, 1986
• Michal Lipson (Assistant Professor, Engineering) MacArthur Award, research into nanotech applications to optics
• Trevor Pinch (Chair of Science and Technology Studies Department) – Chair of the Science and Technology Studies department
• Theodore Paul Wright (Acting President, 1951) – U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator

Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition

Jane Goodall

• Louis Agassiz (Lecturer) – American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist
• Liberty Hyde Bailey (Professor) – Botanist, founder of the 4-H movement, namesake of Bailey Hall
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Professor of History, Human Development, and Gender Studies, 1979–) – Scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fields
• T. Colin Campbell (Professor) – Nutritionist, director of the China Project, and author of The China Study
• Robert F. Chandler (Professor) – Winner of the World Food Prize, 1988
• Thomas Eisner (Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) – Pioneer of chemical ecology
• Barton Warren Evermann (Lecturer, 1900–03) – American ichthyologist
• Jane Goodall (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) – Naturalist
• Charles Frederick Hartt (Professor, 1868–?) – Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil
• Harold Hill Smith (Professor) – American geneticist
• Graham Kerr (Professor, 1973) – Chef, "The Galloping Gourmet"
• Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) – MacArthur Fellow, 1998); researcher in crop disease resistance
• Karl J. Niklas Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Plant Biology
• Katharine Payne (Researcher at Bioacoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology) – Whale and elephant researcher
• David Peakall (1968–1975 Laboratory of Ornithology, senior research associate in the Section of Ecology and Systematics in the Biological Sciences Division)
• Benoît Roux (Professor) – Molecular biologist; winner of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, 1998) from the Royal Society of Canada
• John C. Sanford (Professor, 1980–98) – Inventor of the gene gun
• Steven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, 1985–) – Plant breeding and agronomy researcher
• Helen Turley – winemaker
• Herbert John Webber (Professor, 1907–12) – American plant physiologist, developed the citrange
• Robert Whittaker (Professor) – American vegetation ecologist
• Burt Green Wilder (Professor of Neurology and Vertebrate Zoology, 1867–1910) – American comparative anatomist
• Charles Edward Stevens (Chairman of Physiology, Biology and Pharmacology, 1961–1979) – Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems.

Medicine

• James Ewing (Professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899–1939) – American pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's Sarcoma
• Juan Rosai (James Ewing Alumni Professor of Pathology (1991–1999), currently Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the Weill Cornell Medical College) – Author and editor of a main textbook in surgical pathology and discoverer of several entities such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
• Robert Foster Kennedy (Professor of Neurology) – One of the first to use electroconvulsive treatment to treat psychosis; first to link shell shock and hysteria
• Georgios Papanikolaou (Researcher at Department of Anatomy, Medical College, 1913–?) – Inventor of the Pap smear test for cervical cancer
• Tom Shires (Chair of Surgery, 1975–91) – trauma surgeon; use of saline solution in shock
• Ashutosh Tewari (Professor of Urology and Public Health)

Geology and geography

• Heinrich Ries (Professor, 1898–?) – American economic geologist
• Ralph Stockman Tarr (Professor, 1897–?) – American geographer

Social sciences

Economics

• Francine D. Blau (Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) - received her B.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from Cornell
• Kaushik Basu (Professor of Economics) – Indian economist
• George M. von Furstenberg (Assistant Professor of Economics) – Economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance
• John D. Kasarda earned a bachelor of science degree in applied economics from Cornell in 1967 and masters of business administration degree in Organizational Theory from Cornell in 1968, developer of the aerotropolis concept, which defines the role of airports and aviation-driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School.
• James Laurence Laughlin (Professor, 1890–92) – Founded the Federal Reserve System
• Thomas Sowell (Professor, 1965–1969) – Economist
• Holbrook Working (Professor) – Economic theorist on hedging, futures prices, market maker behavior, and storage
• Antonio Evaldo Comune – Brazilian economist, teaches at University of São Paulo.

Psychology

Kurt Lewin

• Daryl Bem (Professor of Psychology) – Social psychologist, creator of self-perception theory
• Sandra Bem (Professor) – Psychologist, created Bem Sex Role Inventory, studies gender roles
• Stephen J. Ceci (Professor) - Researcher of children's courtroom testimony
• Thomas Gilovich (Professor of Psychology) – Researcher of decision making and behavioral economics
• Paulina Kernberg (Professor of Psychiatry, 1978–2006) – American child psychiatrist and authority on personality disorders
• Kurt Lewin (Professor) – Founder of modern social psychology
• Ritch Savin-Williams (Professor) – prolific sexual orientation researcher
• Edward B. Titchener (Professor) – Inventor of structuralism, founder of first psychology lab in U.S. (at Cornell University)

Law

• G. Robert Blakey professor of law and director of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime (1973–80) – author of the RICO statute and chief counsel to House Select Committee on Assassinations
• Milton R. Konvitz – head of Liberian codification project

Anthropology, sociology, other social science

• John Adair (Professor, 1948–1960) – Anthropologist
• Fred Buttel (Professor of Rural Sociology) – Sociologist
• John Collier (anthropologist) - Visual anthropologist
• Dian Fossey (Visiting Research Associate, 1980) – Anthropologist whose murder was recreated as the film Gorillas in the Mist
• Rose Goldsen – pioneer in studying the effects of television and popular culture
• Jay Jasanoff (Professor, 1978–1998) – Indo-European linguistics specialist
• Bronisław Malinowski (Lecturer, 1933) – Founder of social anthropology
• Robert B. McGinnis – originator of the "Cornell Mobility Model" for studying social mobility
• John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on the Inca Empire
• Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002–) – Swedish economic sociologist
• Sidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) – Researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology
• James D. Thompson (Professor) – Sociologist
• Bassam Tibi (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2004–) – Political scientist of Islamic countries
• Meredith Small (Professor, 1998–) – Anthropologist and primatologist, author of several books on child development including Our Babies, Ourselves.

Humanities

Philosophy

• Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor, 1986–89) – African Studies philosopher and novelist
• Max Black
• Allan Bloom (Professor, 1963–70) – Philosophy and Government, author of Closing of the American Mind
• Richard Boyd (Professor) – Philosopher
• Edwin Arthur Burtt (Professor) Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy in 1941, author of numerous works on philosophy
• Harold F. Cherniss (Professor) – Author and expert on the philosophy of Ancient Greece
• Morris Raphael Cohen (Lecturer) – Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar
• James Edwin Creighton (Professor) – American philosopher
• Terence Irwin
• Anthony Kenny
• Norman Kretzmann
• Norman Malcolm (Professor, 1947–58) – Ludwig Wittgenstein scholar
• Evander Bradley McGilvary (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics, 1899–1905) – American philosophical scholar
• John Rawls (Professor) – Philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples
• Sydney Shoemaker (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy) – Philosopher and metaphysician
• Jason Stanley
• Brian Weatherson (Associate Professor of Philosophy) – Philosopher, metaphysician

Literature

Betty Friedan

• M.H. Abrams Author of the Mirror and the Lamp, acclaimed literary critic
• Frederick Ahl (Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature) – Classics scholar
• Archie Randolph Ammons (Professor of Creative Writing, 1964–98) – Poet, MacArthur Award
• Benedict Anderson (Professor Emeritus of International Studies) – Author of Imagined Communities
• Charles Edwin Bennett (Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, 1892–?) – Classicist
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (Professor of North European Languages, 1874 to 1880) – Author
• Hiram Corson (Professor) – Professor of literature
• Jonathan Culler (Professor) - Literary critic and theorist
• Louis Dyer (Acting Professor of Greek, 1895–96) – American educator and author
• Max Farrand (Professor) – Author of American historical subjects
• Betty Friedan (Professor) – Feminist, author of "The Feminine Mystique"
• Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) – Poet, fiction writer, MacArthur Award
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Professor, 1985–90) – Afro-American Studies scholar
• Victor Lange (Professor) – Professor of modern languages
• Alison Lurie (Professor of Creative Writing, 1968-) – Fiction writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Paul de Man (Professor) – Professor of Comparative Literature
• Vladimir Nabokov (Professor of European and Russian Literature, 1948–58) – Author of the novel Lolita
• Adrienne Rich (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) – Feminist poet
• Nathaniel Schmidt (Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures) – American orientalist
• William De Witt Snodgrass (Professor, 1955–57) – Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Melanie Thernstrom (Professor) – Author and freelance journalist
• Alvin Toffler (Professor) – American writer, sociologist, and futurist, Future Shock
• Helena Maria Viramontes (Professor of English) – Chicana fiction writer
• Wendy Wasserstein (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2005–06) – Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

History

Goldwin Smith

• Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) – Early 20th century Jewish rationalist and social reformer
• Glenn C. Altschuler, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University.
• Carl L. Becker (John Wendell Anderson Professor of History, 1917–41) – Historian, namesake of Carl Becker House
• David Brion Davis (Professor of History, 1957–69?) – 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner—scholar of slavery and American intellectual history
• Anthony Grafton (Professor) – One of the leading scholars of the Renaissance
• D.G.E. Hall - Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian History
• Donald Kagan (Professor) – Classicist
• Michael Kammen (Professor of History) – 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Constitution scholar
• Walter LaFeber (Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow of History, 1958–2006) – U.S. foreign policy historian
• Goldwin Smith (Professor of English and Constitutional History, 1868–71) – Historian, University Reformer, namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall
• Carl Stephenson (Professor of Medieval history, 1930–54?) – Influential early 20th century medievalist.
• John Szarkowski (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1983–89) – Influential photography curator, historian, and critic
• Herbert Tuttle, 19th-century historian, author, (Professor of international law)
• O. W. Wolters, Twentieth-century historian of early Southeast Asia

Music

• Malcolm Bilson (Professor) – Music historian
• David Borden (Director, Digital Music Program) – American composer of minimalist music
• Adolf Dahm-Petersen – Voice specialist and teacher of artistic singing
• Karel Husa (Professor, ?-1992) – Composer best known for Music for Prague 1968, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
• Hunter Johnson (Professor) – American composer

Architecture and design

Buckminster Fuller

• Bristow Adams (Professor, 1914–45) – American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator
• Buckminster Fuller (Professor) – Architect and inventor, famous for work with geodesic domes
• Colin Rowe (Professor, 1970s) – Architectural historian and theoritician.
• Romaldo Giurgola (Professor) – Architect, winner of the AIA Gold Medal
• Oswald Mathias Ungers (Professor, 1968–1976) – Architect

Fine arts and photography

• Michael Ashkin – Sculptor
• Jacqueline Livingston (Professor of Photography and Art (?-1978) – Feminist photographer
• Alison Lurie (Professor of Literature, 1970–) – Pulitzer Prize winning author

John Cleese

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

Media

Journalism, film, television, theatre

• John Cleese (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1999–2006; Provost’s Visiting Professor, 2006–) – Comedian and actor
• John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) – Left-wing journalist

Government, law, business

• Iajuddin Ahmed (Visiting Professor, 1984) – President of Bangladesh, 2002–09
• Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Professor, 1977–91) – Dean of Suffolk University Law School and Indiana University School of Law
• Lloyd Blankfein (Board of Overseers, Medical College) – President and CEO, Goldman Sachs, 2006–present
• Andrew Hacker (Professor) – Political scientist, questioned race, class, and gender in American society
• E. Roland Harriman (Established the Irving Sherwood Wright Professorship in Geriatrics, Medical College) – Financier and philanthropist
• Charles Evans Hughes (Professor, Law School, 1891–93) – Governor of New York, 1907–10, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1910–16), U.S. Presidential candidate, 1916), U.S. Secretary of State, 1921–25), U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1930–41
• Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) – U.S. Senator from New York, 1947–59, namesake of Ives Hall
• Robert Jarrow (Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management) – Expert on derivative securities; co-developer of Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework and Jarrow-Turnbull model
• George McTurnan Kahin (Professor of Government, 1951–88) – Expert on Southeast Asia and critic of the Vietnam War
• Alfred E. Kahn (Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Trustee; Dean of Arts & Sciences) – Advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation; economist
• Cynthia McKinney (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) – U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1993–2003, 2005–present
• Edwin Barber Morgan (Trustee, 1865–74) – U.S. Representative from New York, 1853–59); Director of American Express
• Robert Parris Moses (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006–) – Civil rights leader, creator of the Algebra Project, MacArthur "genius"
• Frances Perkins (Lecturer of Industrial & Labor Relations (?-1965) – U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933–45), first female U.S. Cabinet member
• Richard Neustadt (Professor of Public Administration, 1952?–54?) – political scientist specializing in the United States presidency. Advised American Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.
• Clinton Rossiter (Professor of Government, 1946–70) – Political scientist
• Frederick A. Sawyer (Professor) – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1873–74; Senator from South Carolina, 1968–73
• Martin Shefter (Professor of Government, 1986–) – Political scientist

Education

• Sarah Gibson Blanding (Dean of Human Ecology, 1941–46) – President of Vassar College, 1946–1964
• Alan G. Merten (Dean of the Johnson School) – President of George Mason University
• Don Michael Randel (University Provost, Dean of Arts & Sciences) – President of the University of Chicago, 2000–2006
• Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology) - President of the University of California, 1899–1919

Athletics

• Bob Blackman (Head Coach, Football, 1977–82) – Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Charles E. Courtney (Head Coach, Rowing, 1883–1920) – Noted rower and rowing coach
• Melody Davidson (Head Coach, Women's Ice Hockey) – Head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey team
• Edward Moylan (Head Coach, Tennis and Squash, 1962–72) – Tennis player
• Michael Slive (Director of Athletics) – Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, 2002–present
• Phil Sykes (Interim Head Coach, Field Hockey, 2003) – U.S. Olympic field hockey defender

See also

• List of Cornell University alumni
• List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

References

Further reading

• List of faculty holding named professorships
• List of A.D. White Professors-at-Large
• List of Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professors