List of Tufts University people

The following is a partial, incomplete list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University. See also .

Notable alumni

Political leaders

*Kow Nkensen Arkaah, Vice President of Ghana from 1993 to 1997.
*Jeb Bradley, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007.
*Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), politician, formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is both the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.
*Musa Javed Chohan, former Pakistani Ambassador to France, Malaysia
*Joe Courtney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
*Peter DeFazio, U.S. Representative from Oregon
*Jeffrey Feltman, United States Ambassador to Lebanon
*Michael E. Festa, member of the Mass. House of Representatives ("served" 1998 - "present")
*James B. Foley, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
*Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Senior Board Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism (1985)
*Shukri Ghanem, former Prime Minister of Libya
*Jack Hart, Member of the Massachusetts Senate
*John E. Herbst, US Ambassador to Ukraine
*General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command
*Wolfgang Ischinger, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
*Costas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
*Thomas Kean, Jr., unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey in 2006
*Susan Livingstone, Undersecretary of Navy
*Winston Lord, diplomat, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former President of Council on Foreign Relations
*Terrence McCully, US Ambassador
*Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative from Georgia
*William T. Monroe, US Ambassador to Bahrain
*Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a four-term U.S. Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic.
*John Olver, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991
*Frank Pallone, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988
*Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former ambassador to the United Nations, former Secretary of Energy, former 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate
*Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, ran for chair of the DNC
*John G. Sargent, lawyer and statesman, Attorney General of the United States from 1925 to 1929
*Surakiart Sathirathai, the Foreign Minister of Thailand
*Klaus Scharioth, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
*Carl M. Sciortino, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
*Warren Silver, Associate Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
*Laura Denvir Stith, Missouri Supreme Court Judge, Tufts B.A. 1975
*Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Vice Chief of Naval Operations of Navy
*David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs of the United States and previous U.S. Ambassador to Egypt from 2001 to 2005
*Hassan Wirayuda, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
*Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission
*Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, post-independence politician
*Sofyan Djalil, State Minister of State Enterprises of Indonesia

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

*Vikram Akula, founder and head of SKS Microfinance
* Greg Altman, Founder and CEO, Serica Technologies
*Stephen Moulton Babcock, developed the "single-grain experiment" (in 1907-11) that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science.
*John Bello, Founder and former CEO, SoBe Beverages, CEO, Original SoupMan, former President, NFL Properties
* Neil Birnberg, President, Mercury Therapeutics.
*Seamus Blackley, game developer, co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox
*Dov Charney (did not finish), CEO and founder of LA-based clothing company American Apparel
* Ron Croen, founder of Nuance Communications.
*Susan Decker, President of Yahoo!, Inc.
*Dick Dietrich, Founder, GED Corporation
*Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase corporation
*Peter R. Dolan, CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb
*Daniel E. Doyle, founding director of Institute for International Sport
*Andrew Duff, CEO Piper Jaffray
*John Emrich, Investing Guru and Organic Farmer
*Nate Gantcher, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
*Jonathan Greenblatt, social entrepreneur, founder of Ethos Water
*Diane Hessan, CEO, Communispace Corporation
*Richard Hill, retired Chairman Fleet Bank Boston
*Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
*Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger
*Jeff Kindler, Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer Inc.
*George Charles Kokulis, retired Chairman, President and CEO of Travelers Life & Annuity
*Reed Krakoff, President of Coach Leather
* Laura Lang, CEO, Digitas.
*Mike McConnell, CEO, Brown Brothers Harriman
*Harold McGraw, III, Chairman, President, and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies
*Pamela McNamara, CEO, Arthur D. Little
*John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market. Life Trustee at Tufts
*Joseph Neubauer, CEO Aramark Corporation
*Pamela Omidyar and Pierre Omidyar, billionaire founder of [eBay]
* Mary Puma, Chairman and CEO, Axcelis Technologies.]
*David Puth, former managing director and head of global currency and commodities at JPMorgan Chase
*Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom Inc.
*Neal Shapiro former President of NBC News
*Jeff Stibel - CEO of Web.com, Interland; Board Member, Founder and General Manager of The Search Agency, Simpli, Worldwide MediaWorks and United Online (NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com)
*Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher of New York Times
*Peter Roth, President, Warner Brothers
*Wendy Selig-Prieb, Milwaukee Brewers CEO
*Ed Tapscott, President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, an NBA team
*Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, co-owner of the New York Giants
*Walter Wriston, retired Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
* Bill Gorra, CEO of Simoniz
* Ness Wadia, Indian business Tycoon, Bombay Dyeing heir, businessman . Currently dating Indian actress Preity Zinta since February 2005

Actors, film, and media

*William M. Abrams - (B.A.) senior executive and journalist for the New York Times, ABC News and The Wall Street Journal
*Hank Azaria, actor and voice actor
*Matt Bai, political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
*Matt Ballinger, singer and actor
*Jessica Biel (did not finish), actress, "7th Heaven", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
*Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer and magazine editor
*Rob Burnett, executive producer of "Late Night with David Letterman"
*Tracy Chapman, musician
*Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
*Erin Connolly, TV News Reporter KEYC(CBS) http://www.keyc.tv/biographies
*Paul DeGeorge, rock musician and one-half of Harry and the Potters
*Will Dunn, actor, "Osmosis Jones" and "Stuck on You"
*David Faber, CNBC anchor and producer
*Adam Felber, author, political satirist, radio personality, and regular panel member on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.
*Nicole Fiscella, actress on Gossip Girl, model
*Ezra Furman, rock and roll musician, front man of "Ezra Furman and the Harpoons"
*Peter Gallagher, actor, "Mr. Deeds", "American Beauty", Broadway production "Grease", The O.C.
*Jeff Greenstein, executive producer of "Will & Grace"
*Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, arranger, choral director, and actor
*Coral Hawthorne, producer, "In Living Color", "The Hughleys" and "Complete Savages"
*Patrick D. Healy, reporter, New York Times [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/patrick_d_healy/index.html?inline=nyt-per]
*Dan Hedaya, actor, "Blood Simple", "The Addams Family", "The Usual Suspects", "Clueless", "Dick"
*Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent, FT Magazine contributor, and award winning journalist, Financial Times
*William Hurt, actor, "The Big Chill", "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (winning the "Academy Award for Best Actor")
*Brian Koppelman, writer, "Rounders", "Oceans Thirteen", and a producer/director of "Tilt" and "Knockaround Guys"
*Christopher Lawford, actor, son of Patricia Kennedy and nephew of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
*Jim MacMillan, photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for Breaking News Photography, 2005.
*Amisha Patel, Indian actress.
*Oliver Platt, actor, "Huff"
*Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor, "Heroes"
*Kyle Renick, producer/artistic director of the WPA Theatre, originator of "Little Shop of Horrors", "Jeffrey" and "Steel Magnolias"
*Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
*Brian Rosenworcel, drummer for the band Guster
*David Scott, Producer and 2002 Emmy winner for his work on the 9-11 events.
*Neal Shapiro, former President of NBC News
*Ben Silverman, Co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio
*Laura Silverman, actress, "The Sarah Silverman Program," sister of comedian Sarah Silverman
*Atika Shubert, reporter, CNN
*Meredith Vieira, TV host (formerly of "The View" and currently of "The Today Show")
*Aury Wallington, screenwriter, "Sex and the City", "Veronica Mars", playwright, novelist
*Rainn Wilson, actor, "The Office", "Six Feet Under" (attended but never finished)
*Gary Winick, director, producer

Literature and arts

*Cathy Bao Bean, writer, "The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual"
*Ruben Bolling, cartoonist, "Tom the Dancing Bug"
*John Ciardi, was a poet, translator, and etymologist
*Cid Corman, poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.
*Barbara Delinsky, writer
*Phil Dunlap, cartoonist, Ink Pen nationally syndicated
*Christopher Golden, author of several "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" novels and the "Body of Evidence" mystery series (which takes place at Somerset University, a fictional version of the Tufts campus)
*Adam Gardner, Brian Rosenworcel, and Ryan Miller from the pop/rock band Guster
*Nancy Holt, contemporary artist
*Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Up Country", lifelong friend of Anne Sexton
*Erik Lindgren, composer and musician.
*Gregory Maguire, writer, "Wicked"
*Jim Nollman, composer, author, researcher of music to communicate with cetaceans
*Anita Shreve, writer, "The Pilot's Wife"
*Darin Strauss, Guggenheim-winning novelist and screenwriter, "Chang & Eng," and "The Real McCoy."
*Nathanael West (did not finish), writer
*Ellen Emerson White, writer, "Life Without Friends", "The Road Home", and "The President's Daughter" quartet
*Tracy Chapman, singer/songwriter

Academic leaders

*Vannevar Bush, scientist
*Ram Dass (formerly known as Richard Alpert), former psychology professor at Harvard University, dismissed in 1963 after his work with Dr. Timothy Leary on the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
*Eugene Fama, economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.
* Sai Gunturi, Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion
*Carlton H. Hastings, materials scientist, pioneer in the field of nondestructive testing; led the team that developed heat shields for all USA reentry vehicles (space vehicles designed to re-enter Earth's atmosphere) through Apollo; developer of the video X-ray system.
*Rick Hauck, astronaut
*Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Lee Nordan. pioneer in lasik surgery
*Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
*William James Sidis, child prodigy and mathematician enrolled at age ten and attend for one year.
*Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics
*Matthew A.Howard, Academic Neurosurgeon, inventor, co-founder Stereotaxis Corp.
*John L. Carroll, U.S. Magistrate Judge and Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law.

Athletes

*Richard Hashim, 1988 US squash champion
*Jim Lonborg, Cy Young Award winning pitcher for Boston Red Sox, graduated from Tufts Dental School
*Peter Wylde, 2004 Olympic Games Silver Medalist, Equestrian Show Jumping Team, Tufts A88 - History and Sociology
*Naeem Webster, Tufts Rugby scoring record holder, and Reserve Winger for United States Rugby 2005-2006
*Jen Toomey, Two-time (04 & 05) USA Indoor 1,500m champion; 2004 USA Indoor 800m champion, 1,000m American Record holder, Graduated from Tufts University 94

Criminals

*Elaine Brown, dentist, tax protestor involved in a 5 month standoff in New Hampshire
*Andrew Fastow, ex-Enron CFO
*Lea Fastow "née" Weingarten, a former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of the company's former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow
*Gina Grant, former high school student known for the murder of her mother.
*Harry Sagansky, organized crime figure in Boston. Oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison term at age 91.
*Jon Schillaci, convicted sex offender currently listed as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

Notable faculty

*Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972 - 1986), Japanese politician and activist
*Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
*Lawrence S. Bacow economist
*Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of "Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice" (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
*Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
*Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University
*Allan M. Cormack (1924 – 1998), physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
*Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and "Consciousness Explained"
*Lee Edelman, English professor, author of "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive"
*Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor
*Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of "Henry Hobson Richardson" and other books on architectural history
*Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
*Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of "Foundations of Language"
*Kenneth I. Kaitin, head of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
*David Kaplan, biomedical engineer, leader in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering
*Alfred Church Lane, geologist
*Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
*William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
*Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
*Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
*Chris B. Rogers, father of Robolab
*Rosalind Shaw, leading anthropologist on transitional justice, expert on Sierra Leone
*Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
*Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
*John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
*Barry Trimmer, professor of Biology, invented (with David Kaplan) the world's first soft bodied robot
*Loring Tu, world-renowned mathematician
*Alexander Vilenkin, leading theoretical physicist
*Arthur W. Winston, IEEE President, 2004. IEEE Past-president, 2005