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Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Notes:

Alumni

Main category: Yale University alumni

Nobel laureates

Paul Krugman
Sinclair Lewis

Pulitzer Prize winners

Technology and innovation

Business

Academics

College founders and presidents

Professors and scholars

Law and politics

Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers

George W. Bush
Bill Clinton

Supreme Court justices

Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.[106]

Abe Fortas
Sonia Sotomayor

U.S. senators

Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.[108]

Governors

Alumni who have served as Governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as President or Senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

Executive council members

The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.

Diplomats

Justices and attorneys

See also: Supreme Court Justices

Activists

Public intellectuals

William F. Buckley

Frontiersmen

Military

Other legislators

Other

Religion

James W.C. Pennington

History, literature, art, and architecture

Music

Athletics

Craig Breslow
Sarah Hughes

Film

Jodie Foster
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Paul Newman
Liev Schreiber

Television

Fictional

(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)

(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)

Faculty

Main category: Yale University faculty

Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.

Nobel laureates

Others

Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University

Also see Ivy League Presidents.
Rectors of Yale College birth–death years as rector
1 Rev. Abraham Pierson (1641–1707) (1701–1707) Collegiate School
2 Rev. Samuel Andrew (1656–1738) (1707–1719) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Timothy Cutler (1684–1765) (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
4 Rev. Elisha William(s) (1694–1755) (1726–1739)
5 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1740–1745)
Presidents of Yale College birth–death years as president
1 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1745–1766)
2 Rev. Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780) (1766–1777) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Ezra Stiles (1727–1795) (1778–1795)
4 Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) (1795–1817)
5 Jeremiah Day (1773–1867) (1817–1846)
6 Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1899) (1846–1871)
7 Noah Porter III (1811–1892) (1871–1886)
8 Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916) (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
9 Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930) (1899–1921)
10 James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) (1921–1937)
11 Charles Seymour (1885–1963) (1937–1951)
12 Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963) (1951–1963)
13 Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919–1988) (1963–1977)
14 Hanna Holborn Gray (1930– ) (1977–1977) (acting)
15 A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) (1977–1986)
16 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1942– ) (1986–1992)
17 Howard R. Lamar (1923– ) (1992–1993) (acting)
18 Richard C. Levin (1947– ) (1993– )

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  60. ^ Profile from the University of Mississippi
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  62. ^ Profile from the Carnegie Corporation
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  64. ^ Profile at the official website of the World Economic Forum
  65. ^ Dickinson entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
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  80. ^ Biographical profile from Amherst College
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  82. ^ Entry at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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  85. ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
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  87. ^ "A Brief History" from the official Dartmouth College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."
  88. ^ "Lawrence Lessig | Berkman Center". Cyber.law.harvard.edu. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
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  101. ^ Biographical entry from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
  102. ^ Biographical entry at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
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  104. ^ Biographical entry at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  105. ^ "Abdulkarim Al-Eryani | Club de Madrid". Clubmadrid.org. October 12, 1934. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
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  117. ^ "W. Averell Harriman" Biographical entry, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Archived 2009-10-31.
  118. ^ Biographical profile from the Encyclopædia Britannica
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  139. ^ Schiff, Judith Ann (November 2002). "Rudy Vallee, The First Crooner". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  140. ^ Sisario, Ben (June 7, 2009). "The Experimental, Led by the Obsessive". The New York Times. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  141. ^ http://www.icasinc.org/bios/chance.html
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  145. ^ Rotella, Carlo. "Edge of Greatness". Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  146. ^ "Dick Cavett" profile by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at the New York Times
  147. ^ Sara Gilbert by Sandra Brennan, Allmovie at the New York Times
  148. ^ Michael Gross by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at the New York Times
  149. ^ Robert Picardo by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at the New York Times
  150. ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001,by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
  151. ^ From the film American Psycho: KIMBALL: And where did he go to school? BATEMAN: Don't you know this? KIMBALL: I just wanted to know if you know. BATEMAN: Before Yale? If I remember correctly, Saint Paul's...Listen, I just...I just want to help.
  152. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
  153. ^ From The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1: "...the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college."
  154. ^ "Jamie Buchman" Profile of the character at the show's official web site.
  155. ^ "Forbes Fictional 15: #5 Burns, Charles Montgomery Forbes Magazine December 1, 2005, by David M. Ewalt
  156. ^ From The Great Gatsby, in Chapter 1, "I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'" In Chapter 3, "I took dinner usually at the Yale Club..." In Chapter 7, "Jordan smiled. 'He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale.'"
  157. ^ "Lost in Translation" review in Rolling Stone (September 8, 2003) by Peter Travers: "Charlotte (Johansson) is three decades younger than Bob, but she shares his sense of drift. A Yale philosophy grad, she's in Tokyo with her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi)..."
  158. ^ 'Voice on Literature' The Village Voice, review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, March 8, 1962
  159. ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001, by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
  160. ^ From Florence of Arabia, Chapter 2: "Florence had grown up fascinated by her grandfather's tales of the Middle East. At college she majored in Arabic studies and was fluent by the time she graduated Yale."
  161. ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"Let the Games Begin"' (Season 3, Episode 51)
  162. ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale"' (Season 4, Episode 67)
  163. ^ Book review of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Volume 1 in Publishers Weekly, November 3, 2003: "The stories are swashbuckling adventures of Flash, 'Yale graduate and world-renowned Polo player,' and the lovely Dale Arden, who become stranded on the planet Mongo, a fierce place ruled with an iron fist by Ming the Merciless." Flash Gordon was introduced as a Yale alumnus in 1934 in the very first comic strip of the series.
  164. ^ From the script for Sabrina, "Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him the man Most Likely to Leave his Alma Mater Fifty Million Dollars. "
  165. ^ The West Wing episode "Celestial Navigation" (season 1, episode 15), in which Lyman says "I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of debate can rise to meet the Socratic wonder that is the White House press corps"
  166. ^ The book Frank Merriwell at Yale(1897) by Burt Standish (pseudonym of Gilbert Patten), ISBN 0-8373-9009-5
  167. ^ Chronicle section the March 2, 1990 edition of the New York Times, by Susan Heller Anderson: "In the movie version of The Bonfire of the Vanities, TOM HANKS will play Sherman McCoy, the philandering, self-absorbed bond trader whose 'Yale chin' and prep-school background figure prominently in the TOM WOLFE best seller. Mr. Hanks visited Yale yesterday, soaking up information and atmosphere."
  168. ^ P.J. Farmer. Red Orc"s Rage. NY, Tor, 1991. ISBN 0-312-85036-0
  169. ^ Official ER site at NBC: "Newer additions to the ER include Neela Rasgotra (Nagra), a British-Indian medical student who arrives in Chicago after finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular biology at Yale."
  170. ^ From Splendor in the Grass, Bud Stamper's father Ace Stamper says "We got a future, boy. The first thing we're gonna do, we're gonna get you an education – the best. Four years at Yale."
  171. ^ Stover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
  172. ^ "Reading Homer" in the Harvard Alumni Magazine September–October 1997 issue
  173. ^ Movie review by Roger Ebert: "Kat, meanwhile, is baby-sitting for a 30-year-old Yale graduate who is an architect rehabbing a local landmark. She's been accepted to Yale for the fall, and so they have that in common. Also reckless romanticism. His name is Tim (William R. Moses), his wife is in Europe, and Kat falls head over heels in idealism with him. "
  174. ^ Scrubs episode '"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu"' (aired May 9, 2006; Season 5, episode 115). See also Quotes at TV.com
  175. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
  176. ^ Profile from the official web site of the show by NBC, which produced The West Wing
  177. ^ Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
  178. ^ "Dogged Yale University Investigation Proves Batman Is a Proud Alum"
  179. ^ From Lonesome Dove, Augustus says that Wilbarger is "probably the only man who ever went to Yale College who was buried under a buffalo skull." (p.567)
  180. ^ Movie Review at TV Guide
  181. ^ Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills" (season 5, episode 30)
  182. ^ National Institutes of Health
  183. ^ Taffel, Max (September 1953). "Samuel Clark Harvey, 1886–1953". Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 26 (1): b1–7. PMC 2599352.
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