List of Washington University alumni

The following persons are well-known alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.

Arts and literature

*Morris Carnovsky (AB): stage and film actor; target of Hollywood blacklist; Theatre Hall of Fame inductee
*Anita Diamant (AB 1973): novelist
*Jon Feltheimer (AB): CEO of Lionsgate Films
*Bernard Fuchs (MFA 1954): painter and illustrator
*John Gardner (AB 1955): novelist
*Elizabeth Graver (MFA 1999): novelist
*Robert Guillaume: stage and television actor
*Henry Hampton (AB 1961): filmmaker; producer of PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize
*A. E. Hotchner (AB 1940, JD 1940): biographer and novelist ("Papa Hemingway", "King of the Hill")
*Fannie Hurst (AB 1909): writer and social activist
*Josephine Winslow Johnson: Pulitzer Prize-winning author
*Stan Kann: theater organist
*Johnny Kastl (AB, AB 1997): television actor (Scrubs)
*Hank Klibanoff (AB): author and Pulitzer Prize winner
*Edward Shepherd Mead (AB 1936): playwright ("How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")
*Caryn Mandabach (AB): Emmy award winning television and film producer [ [http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=147 The Paley Center for Media | She Made It | Caryn Mandabach ] ]
*David Merrick (AB 1934): Broadway producer
*Oliver Nelson (student 1954-1957): jazz musician and composer
*David McCheyne Newell: naturalist, writer
*J. D. Parran (AM 1971): jazz musician
*Dan Piraro: cartoonist of "Bizarro", (attended but dropped out)
*Robert Quine (JD 1968): rock guitarist
*Harold Ramis (AB 1966): film actor, writer and director
*Jacob Evans (AB 1956): writer
*Eugene B. Redmond (MA 1966): poet, critic, civil-rights activist [ [http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/Directory/redmond.html Eugene B. Redmond - Department of English @ SIUE ] ]
*Carolyn Roehm (AB 1973): designer
*Irma S. Rombauer (AB): co-author of "The Joy of Cooking"
*Peter Sarsgaard (AB 1995): actor
*Steven Sater: Broadway lyricist, playwright, and poet
*Peter Saul (BFA 1956): Painter
*Allan Trautman (AB 1976): Actor, puppeteer
*Jeff Tremaine (AB 1990): director, producer
*Lauren Weinstein (AB 1998): cartoonist
*Luke Whisnant (MFA 1982): novelist, short story writer
*Mary Wickes (AB 1930): stage and film actress
*Tennessee Williams (student 1936-37): playwright
*Olly Wilson (AB 1959): composer [ Eileen Southern, "Olly Wilson: The Education of a Composer," "The Black Perspective in Music", vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 56-70.]

Architecture and design

*Charles Eames: designer, architect, filmmaker (Was expelled for his prediliction towards modern architecture)
*Hugh Ferriss (B.Arch 1911, M.Arch 1928): architect
*George Hellmuth (B.Arch 1928, M.Arch 1931): architect; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
*George Kassabaum (B.Arch 1947): architect; former president of American Institute of Architects; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
*Gyo Obata (B.Arch 1945): architect; cofounder and chairman of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
*C. P. Wang (M.Arch 1973): architect for Taipei 101, the world's tallest building as of 2005 [ [http://magazine.wustl.edu/Summer05/CPWang.htm Washington University in St. Louis Magazine ] ]

Business

*Stan A. Askren (MBA 1987): president and CEO of HNI Corporation
*William Bay (BA): President and CEO of Mel Bay
*John H. Biggs (PhD): former CEO of TIAA-CREF
*Melvin F. Brown (AB 1957, JD 1961): former CEO of Deutsche Financial Services
*Andrew M. Bursky (AB 1978, BSChE 1978, MSChE 1978): CEO of Atlas Holdings LLC
*Carl M. Casale (MBA): executive vice president, North America Commercial division of Monsanto
*David P. Connor (BA): CEO of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
*William H. Danforth (AB 1892): founder of Ralston Purina
*Charles H. Dolson (AB): president and CEO of Delta Airlines (1965-1970)
*Arnold Donald (BSME 1977): founder and former CEO of Merisant
*John Dubinsky (AB 1965, MBA 1967): former CEO of Mark Twain Bancshares
*Thomas J. Feichtinger (BS 1986): Global Director for General Motors Corporation
*Steve Fossett (MBA 1968): options trader, balloonist, and adventurer
*Sam Fox (BSBA 1951): founder, chairman, CEO, and owner of Harbour Group Industries
*Don Frahm (BSBA 1953): former chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
*Avram Glazer (BSBA 1982): president and CEO of the Zapata Corporation and joint chairman of Manchester United
*James Hance, Jr. (MBA): chairman of Sprint Nextel and former CFO of Bank of America (1998-2004)
*Earle Harbison (AB 1948): former president and COO of Monsanto
*Jerald Kent (BSBA 1978, MS 1979): founder and former CEO of Charter Communications
*Jeff Lebesch (BS 1979): co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Company
*Steven F. Leer (MBA 1977): chairman and CEO of Arch Coal
*Stanley Lopata (AB 1935): founder and former chairman of Carboline
*W. Patrick McGinnis (MBA 1972): president and CEO of Nestle Purina Petcare Company
*Howard J. Morgens (AB): president and CEO of Proctor & Gamble
*Charles Nagel (JD 1872): United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor; founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
*David Peacock (MBA): president of Anheuser-Busch
*William Shaw (MBA 1972): president and COO of Marriott International Inc.
*Louis B. Susman (JD 1962): vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets
*Jack C. Taylor (student through 1944): founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car; no. 14 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans in 2006
*Ann Rubenstein Tisch (AB 1976) Anchor of "Today Show", member of Tisch family
*William G. Tragos (AB 1956): former chairman and CEO of TBWA Advertising, Inc.
*Arnold Zetcher (BSBA 1962): chairman, president and CEO of Talbots
*George Zimmer (AB 1970): founder of Men's Wearhouse
*Jim Weddle (AB 1977, MBA): managing partner at Edward Jones Investments
*Gary Wendlandt (BS 1972): current CIO of New York Life Investment Management and former CIO of MassMutual
*John B. Whyte (attended two years in 1950s): Developer of Fire Island Pines, New York

Education and academics

*James F. Barker (AM 1973): president of Clemson University
*Jessie Bernard (Ph.D. 1935): sociologist and noted feminist scholar [Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E1D8133EF932A25753C1A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all "Jessie Bernard, 93: Ideas Inspired Feminists,"] "New York Times", 11 Oct. 1996.]
*Zhangliang Chen (PhD 1982): prominent Chinese scientist; president of China Agricultural University; member of the National People's Congress
*Thomas Lamb Eliot (AB 1862, AM 1866): founding board member and president of Reed College
*Hiro Mukai (BS 1972): author of leading books on systems engineering Dr. Richard F. Giese,
*Henry Ware Eliot (AB 1863): father of poet T. S. Eliot; former president of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis
*Nathan O. Hatch (AM 1972, PhD 1974): president of Wake Forest University
*Raelynn Hillhouse (AB): novelist, political scientist
*Richard F. Giese (AM 1976) president of Mount Union College
*Edward Singleton Holden (SB 1866): fifth president of the University of California; director of the Lick Observatory
*Robert C. Kolodny (MD 1969): author of numerous books on human sexuality
*Joyce Ladner (AM 1966, PhD 1968): sociologist and activist
*Dolores Baja-Lasán (PhD 1959): chancellor of the Philippine Women's University System
*Max Lerner (AM 1925): intellectual, critic, and author
*Donald Livingston (PhD 1965): renowned constitutional scholar
*Walter E. Massey (AM 1966, PhD 1966): president of Morehouse College
*Horace Mitchell (AB 1968, MA 1969, PhD 1974): president of California State University Bakersfield
*Daniel Nathans (MD 1954): former president of Johns Hopkins University
*H. Richard Niebuhr (AM 1917): theologian
*Charles Van Ravenswaay (AB 1933, AM 1934): historian
*Abram L. Sachar (AB 1920, AM 1920): founding president of Brandeis University
*Ja Song (M.B.A. 1962, D.B.A. 1967): President of Yonsei University; Korean Minister of Education
*Barry Spizer (BS 1977): past president of the CCIM Institute of the National Association of Realtors
*Chia-Wei Woo (MA, PhD): founding president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; first Asian American to head a major U.S. university (San Francisco State University)

Journalism and media

*Ken Cooper (AB 1977): Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; former national editor of the Boston Globe
*Bill Dedman: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter
*Lynne "Angel" Cooper Harvey (AB, AM): producer of Paul Harvey News; inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame
*William Hyland (BA): editor of Foreign Affairs (1984-1993)
*Michael Isikoff (AB 1974): author and journalist
*Condé Nast (LLB 1897): publisher of "Vogue"
*Mike Peters (BFA 1965): Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist; creator of "Mother Goose and Grimm"

Politics, law, and government

*Carl J. Artman (JD): Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2007–present.
*John C. Bates: served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1906.
*Henry S. Caulfield (JD): Governor of Missouri, 1929-1933
*Clark M. Clifford (LLB 1928): U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968-69; former presidential advisor
*Earl Thomas Coleman (JD 1969): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1977-1993
*Phoebe Couzins (LLB 1871): first female U.S. Marshal; leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement
*Edward Coke Crow (LLB 1879): 23rd Attorney General of Missouri from 1897-1905, advisor to Missouri Governor Lloyd Crow Stark (1937-1941)
*Hal Daub (BS 1963): U.S. congressman from Nebraska, 1981-1989; mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001
*Dwight F. Davis (LLB): founder of Davis Cup, and 49th US Secretary of War
*Alexander Monroe Dockery (MD 1865): Governor of Missouri, 1901-1905
*Alan J. Dixon (LLB 1949): U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1981-93
*Leonidas C. Dyer (JD 1893): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1915-1933
*Edward Cranch Eliot (AB 1878, LLB 1880, AM 1881): former president of the American Bar Association
*Sam Fox (AB 1951): current United States Ambassador to Belgium
*David R. Francis (AB 1870): mayor of St. Louis, 1885-89; Governor of Missouri, 1889-93; U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1896-97; U.S. Ambassador to Russia
*Raymond W. Gruender (JD/MBA 1987): current justice, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
*Jean C. Hamilton (JD 1971): current justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
*Moses W. Harrison II (JD 1958): retired chief justice, Illinois Supreme Court
*Harry B. Hawes (JD 1896): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1926-1933
*Chic Hecht (BS 1949): U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1983-89
*Andrew J. Higgens (JD 1948): retired chief justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
*Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (JD 1926): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1951-1960
*William L. Igoe (JD 1902): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1913-1921
*Alphonso Jackson (JD 1972): U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2004-2008
*Victor J. Miller (JD): mayor of St. Louis, 1925 to 1933
*Chris Koster (Missouri) (MBA): Missouri State senator
*John Francis Nangle (JD 1948): former chief justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1983-1990
*Roscoe C. Patterson (JD 1897): US Senator from Missouri, 1929-1935
*Catherine D. Perry (JD 1981): current justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
*Tony Ribaudo (1962): majority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, 1977-1997
*Kenneth J. Rothman (AB, JD): Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1981-1985
*Steven Rothman (JD 1977): US Congressmen from New Jersey, 1997-present
*Phyllis Schlafly (AB 1944, JD 1978): author, political activist
*Philip D. Shelton (JD 1972): president and executive director of the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)
*Mike Simpson (DDS 1977): U.S. congressman from Idaho, 1999-present
*Rodney W. Sippel (JD 1980): current justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
*Luther Ely Smith (JD 1897): founder of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
*Ralph Tyler Smith (JD 1940): U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1969-1970
*Adam Shapiro (AB 1993): co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement
*Selden P. Spencer (JD 1886): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1918-1925
*Leonor Sullivan (1923): first female U.S. congressional representative from Missouri, 1953-1977
*Jim Talent (AB 1978): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 2003-2007
*Richard B. Teitelman (JD 1973): current justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
*James R. Thompson (AB 1956): Governor of Illinois, 1977-1991
*Raymond Tucker (BS 1920): mayor of St. Louis, 1953-1965
*Tarisa Watanagase (PhD): governor of the Bank of Thailand, 2006
*William H. Webster (JD 1949): 14th director of the CIA and the 6th director of the FBI
*Xenophon P. Wilfley (JD 1899): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1918
*George Howard Williams (JD 1897): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1925-1926
*Shien Biau Woo (PhD 1964): Asian American political activist; former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

cience, engineering, and medicine

*J. Michael Bailey (AB 1979): psychologist, professor, well-known researcher on sexual orientation
*Geoffrey Ballard (PhD 1963): developed Fuel cells; member of Order of Canada; founder of Ballard Power Systems
*Corinne Bott-Silverman (AB 1975): first female cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic
*Ewald W. Busse (M.D.) Psychiatrist and Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.
*Clyde Cowan (AM, PhD 1949): co-discoverer of the neutrino
*Arnold W. Donald (BS): President and CEO of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
*Eugene Foster (MD 1951): Found the DNA link between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings
*Lee Harrison III (BFA 1952, BS 1959): engineer; Emmy winner for invention of computer animation
*Julian Hill (BS 1924): chemist; co-inventor of nylon
*Charlotte Jacobs (MD 1972): noted clinical oncologist, former director of the Clinical Cancer Center at Stanford University
*Edwin Krebs (MD 1943): Nobel laureate in medicine for work with protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism
*J. C. R. Licklider (BS 1937): pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence
*W. E. Moerner (BS 1975) : chemist, Stanford University professor; pioneer in single molecule spectroscopy and member of the National Academy of Sciences
*Ben Moreell (BS 1913): U.S. Navy admiral; founder of the Navy's Seabees construction battalions
*Daniel Nathans (MD 1954): Nobel laureate in medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes; awarded National Medal of Science
*Michael E. Phelps (PhD 1970): developed PET scan
*Alton Ochsner (MD): surgeon and medical researcher at The Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
*Harry Ringermacher (BS 1968, MS 1977, PhD 1980): physicist; awarded the Mensa International Copper Black Award for groundbreaking work in infrared imagery
*Joseph Edward Smadel (MD): recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
*Sol Spiegelman (PhD 1944): molecular biologist
*Harvey N. Silverman (AB 1974, DMD 1978): pioneer in cosmetic dentistry; inventor of Perfect Smile, Rapid White, and White Light tooth whiteners
*Earl Sutherland (MD 1942): Nobel laureate in medicine for elucidating the mechanisms of the actions of hormones
*Kenneth S. Wagoner (MA, 1934; PhD 1938), experimental psychologist
*Walter Wyman (MD 1873): 3rd US Surgeon General

*Ernst Zinner (PhD): German astronomer

ports

*Jimmy Conzelman (BS 1917): professional football player and coach; enshrined in Pro Football Hall of Fame
*Dal Maxvill (BS): professional baseball player, former St. Louis Cardinals general manager
*Muddy Ruel (JD): professional baseball catcher; member of 1924 World Champion Washington Senators
*Barbara Schaps Thomas (BS 1976) Senior VP and CFO of HBO Sports
*George Herbert Walker (LLB 1897): founder of Walker Cup in golf; grandfather and great-grandfather of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively
*Charley Winner: longtime coach in the National Football League

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