List of Tufts University people

Notable Tufts alumni

Jeb Bradley, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003.
Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), politician, formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'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.
James B. Foley, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command
Wolfgang F. Ischinger, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
Costas Karamanlis, politician, Greek prime minister
Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative from Georgia (did not finish)
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, politician, former ambassador to the United Nations, governor of New Mexico
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 and potential UN Secretary-General

Seamus Blackley, game developer, co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox
Peter R. Dolan, CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb
Andrew Fastow, ex-Enron CFO
Richard Hill, retired chairman Fleet Bank Boston
Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger
John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market. Life Trustee at Tufts
Joseph Neubauer, CEO Aramark Corporation
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar, billionaire founders of eBay
Arthur Sulzberger, Publisher of New York Times
Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
Walter Wriston, retired chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, post-independence politician

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.
John Ciardi, was a poet, translator, and etymologist
Erik Lindgren, composer and musician.
Gregory Maguire, writer, Wicked.
Anita Shreve, writer, The Pilot's Wife.
Nathanael West (dropped out), writer.

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.
Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
Norbert Wiener, was a mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics

Elaine Benes, character on Seinfeld played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, graduated from Tufts University, called it her "safety school."
Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, title character from Crossing Jordan, played by Jill Hennessy. The fictional Boston medical examiner graduated from Tufts.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi, psychiatrist to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos graduated from Tufts Medical School.
Ken Erdedy, character in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It is likely that the fictional marijuana addict and resident of Ennet House attended Tufts University, evidenced among other things by the memorabilia in his household (p.25, 358, 360).
Kenny, a Stuckeybowl employee on the TV show Ed, graduated from Tufts (and, when asked about it by Ed, replied, "It's in Massachusetts.").
The characters in Two Guys and a Girl were Tufts alumni, as well as graduate students, and the sitcom's sets featured Tufts items, while its plots sometimes revolved around their former university.