Academics: Life After Duke: Noteworthy Alumni

Duke's list of well-known alumni is filled with achievers in the media and the arts, business, sports, politics, science and technology. Among the 120,000 successful and renowned Duke grads you'll find the following:

Politics/Law/Government

• Walter Boomer '60, Major General, Retired, former assistant commandant, USMC, Desert Storm Commander
• Ann Covington '63, former Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Court
• Elizabeth Dole '58, United States Senator, North Carolina; Secretary of Transportation and Labor; President of the American Red Cross
• Orinda Evans '65, US District Court Judge
• Jack Gosnell '66, former US Consul General to St. Petersburg, Russia
• Karen L. C. Henderson '66, US Court of Appeals
• Henry Hyde, '45, US Representative, Illinois
• Susan Illston '70, Federal Judge
• Robert D. Inglis '81, US Representative, South Carolina
• Philip Lader, '66, former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London and co-host of the Renaissance Weekends
• Stan Lundine '61, former Lt. Governor, State of New York
• Evelyn Murphy, '61, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
• Nick Rahall '71, Congressman for West Virginia
• Robert Sheheen '65, former Speaker, House of Representatives
• Eleanor Smeal '61, co-founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, political activist, former president of the National Organization for Women
• Margaret Taylor Smith '47, Chair, Board of Trustees, Kresge Foundation
• J Charlie Soong 1881, Duke's first international student and patriarch of the Soong Dynasty
• Elizabeth Verville '61, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs

Business

• Steven Black '74, Co-CEO, Investment Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Roy Bostock '62, Director of Northwest Airlines
• Andrew Busey '93, creator of iChat
• Melinda French Gates '86, Co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• David Goode '62, Chairman, President, & CEO of Norfolk Southern
• William H. Gross '66, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, PIMCO
• Nola Maddox Falcone '61, Managing Principal, NMF Asset Management
• John A. Koskinen '61, President of US Soccer Foundation, former Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget
• Dan Levitan '79, Co-founder & managing partner, Maveron
• Diane Britz Lotti '74, President of Pan Oceanic Management, Ltd.
• Cynthia Lowden '80, Vice President, human resources, SBLI USA
• John J. Mack, '68, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
• Peter Nicholas '64, Founder and Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation
• Edmund Pratt B.S. '47, former CEO of Pfizer, philanthropist, namesake of the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering at Duke
• Alan Schwartz '72, President and co-COO, The Bear Stearns Companies
• James L. Vincent '61, Director of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Jeffrey Vinik '81, Chairman, President, and CEO of Vinik Asset Management, and former manager of Fidelity Magellan
• Karl Von Der Heyden '62, Vice Chairman & CFO, Pepsico, Inc.
• G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. '75, President & CEO, General Motors Corporation
• Gary Wilson '62, Director of Walt Disney Corp., Co-Chairman of Northwest Airlines
• Harold Yoh, Jr. '58, President & CEO, Day and Zimmerman

Academia/Research/Science

• Fred Brooks '53, engineer, developer of OS/360, Turing Award winner
• Dr. Paul Farmer '82, infectious disease doctor, subject of Pulitzer-prize winning Tracy Kidder's biography Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Jerome Bruner '37, renowned psychologist and professor
• George Brumley, Jr. '56, former Chairman of Pediatrics, Associate Dean, Emory University
• Lorenz Eitner '40, renowned art historian
• Jay Goldman '50, Dean Emeritus and professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering
• George Porter, III '54, Chairman Emeritus, Ochsner Medical Foundation
• Dorothy Simpson '47, scientist, mathematician
• Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans '38, philanthropist
• Margaret Taylor Smith '47, author, social activist, Chair, Kresge Foundation
• George Wallace '57, former Dean, Dartmouth Medical School
• F. Thomas Wooten, III '57, retired President of the Research Triangle Institute
• Theodore Ziolkowski '51, Former Dean, The Graduate School, Princeton University

Media

• Dan Abrams '88, the Abrams Report on MSNBC
• Rex Adams '62, Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• Peter Applebome '71, reporter and editor for The New York Times
• Holly Brubach '75, author, editor, design consultant
• Clay Felker '51, founding editor of New York Magazine
• Patricia Carr Hagood '65, President of Oxymoron Media, Inc.
• David Hartman '56, first host of Good Morning America
• John Koch '66, columnist/editor for the Boston Globe
• Robert Loomis '49, Executive Editor of Random House
• Thomas Losee '63, former publisher of Architectural Digest
• Sean McManus '77, President of CBS News and Sports
• Charlie Rose '64, journalist, former CBS News Anchor, 60 Minutes correspondent and host of PBS's The Charlie Rose Show
• Marjorie Bekaert Thomas '69, CEO of Ivanhoe Broadcast News
• Judy Woodruff '68, NBC's White House correspondent and Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, anchor at CNN

The Arts

• Fred Chappell '61, North Carolina Poet Laureate, novelist
• Michael Ching '80, composer, Memphis Opera
• Michael Best '62, former Principal Artist of the Metropolitan Opera
• Les Brown '36, Jazz Hall of Fame musician
• René Echevarria '84, producer, The 4400, Dark Angel, Now and Then; screenwriter, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• John Feinstein '77, sports journalist and author of A Good Walk Spoiled, A Season on the Brink, A March to Madness, and The Last Amateurs
• Annabeth Gish '92, movie, stage, and television actress
• Kevin Gray '80, ("Phantom" on Broadway after Michael Crawford)
• Beth Hubbard '85, president, Gotham Entertainment Production Co.
• Josephine Humphreys '67, award-winning novelist
• Martin Kratt '89, creator and star of PBS's ZOBOOMAFOO
• Bruce Lund '73, toy designer
• Peter Maas '49, author of novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico, later made in movies
• Laura Paresky '90, animator/graphic designer/photographer
• Reynolds Price '55, renowned author, playwright, and Duke professor of literature
• Charles Randolph-Wright '77, writer, director, and producer
• William C. Styron '47, author, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Julie Tetel '71, author and professor
• Anne Tyler '61, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, author of The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons
• Randall Wallace '71, author of the screenplays for Braveheart and Pearl Harbor, and writer/director/producer for The Man in the Iron Mask and We Were Soldiers
• Patrick Williams '61, composer for movies and TV, Emmy and Grammy winner

Athletics

• Tommy Amaker '87, University of Michigan head basketball coach
• Brian Baldinger '82, game analyst for FOX NFL broadcasts
• Shane Battier '01, NBA basketball player, Memphis Grizzlies
• Alana Beard '04, WNBA basketball player, Washington Mystics
• Jay Bilas '86, ESPN sports commentator
• Joanne Boyle '85, UC-Berkeley women's basketball head coach
• Jeff Capel '97, Virginia Commonwealth University head basketball coach
• Chris Capuano '00, MLB baseball player, Milwaukee Brewers
• Chris Duhon '04, NBA basketball player, Chicago Bulls
• Danny Ferry '89, general manager of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers
• Ryan Fowler '04, NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys
• Dick Groat '52, Hall of Fame MLB baseball player
• Candy Hannemann '02, LPGA golfer
• Grant Hill '94, NBA basketball player, Orlando Magic
• Nancy Hogshead '86, Olympic medalist in swimming
• Randy Jones '92, Olympic medalist in four-man bobsled
• Sonny Jurgensen '57, Hall of Fame NFL football player
• Kate Kaiser '03, USA Women's Lacrosse World Cup Team member
• Tom Kerr '87, Harvard University head soccer coach
• Billy King '88, general manager of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers
• Jason Kreis '94, MLS soccer player, Real Salt Lake
• Katie Meier '90, University of Miami (FL) women's basketball head coach
• Virada "Oui" Nirapathpongporn '04, LPGA golfer
• Joe Ogilvie '96, PGA golfer
• Scott Schoeneweis '96, MLB baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
• Jillian Schwartz '01, USA Track & Field member in pole vault
• Dave Sime '58, Olympic medalist in track, ophthalmologic surgeon
• Quin Snyder '89, University of Missouri basketball coach
• Kim Susko '01, USA Field Hockey Team member
• Kelly Tilghman '91, on-air personality for The Golf Channel