Pulitzer Prize winners

• Robert V. Bruce
  Robert V. Bruce
  Robert Vance Bruce was an American historian specializing in the American Civil War who won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988 for his book The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876...
  
   (MA, PhD), 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography...
  
  
• Tom Fiedler (MS COM 1971), Executive Editor, Miami Herald, 1991 Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
  
• Ethan Forman, 2003 Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Daniel Goodrich (COM 1975), Photographer, Newsday
  Newsday
  Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
  
  , 1997 Pulitzer Prize
• Stan Grossfeld (MS COM 1980), Associate Editor, Boston Globe, 1984 Pulitzer Prize
• Joseph Hallinan (BS COM 1984), Reporter, Wall Street Journal, 1991 Pulitzer Prize
• Kenneth Irby
  Kenneth Irby
  Kenneth Irby is an American poet. He won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn....
  
   1992, 1993, and 1995 Pulitzer Prizes
• Stephen Kurkjian (BA COM 1966), Senior Metro Editor, Boston Globe, 1972, 1980, and 2003 Pulitzer Prizes
• Jhumpa Lahiri
  Jhumpa Lahiri
  Jhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both...
  
   (MA GRS 1993, MA UNI 1995, PhD UNI 1997), 2000 Pulitzer Prize
• Justin Lane, Freelance Photographer, 2002 Pulitzer Prize
• Patricia Maldonado, former Staff Writer, Miami Herald, 1999 Pulitzer Prize
• Gerald O'Neil, former Reporter, Boston Globe, 1972 Pulitzer Prize
• Michael Rezendes, Reporter, Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize
• Sacha Pfeiffer, Reporter, Boston Globe, 2003 Pulitzer Prize
• James Savage, Retired Associate Editor, Miami Herald, 1987 and 1993 news staff Pulitzer Prizes
• William Sherman, Reporter, New York Daily News
  New York Daily News
  The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
  
  , Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   and Peabody Award
  Peabody Award
  The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...
  
   winner
• Mark Thompson (BS COM 1975), Senior Correspondent, Time Magazine, 1985 Pulitzer Prize
• Don Van Natta, Jr.
  Don Van Natta, Jr.
  Don Van Natta Jr. is an author and an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams.-Life:...
  
   (BS COM 1986), Correspondent, New York Times, 1993, 1999, and 2002 Pulitzer Prizes
• Joan Vennochi, Columnist, Boston Globe, 1980 Pulitzer Prize
• Helen Ubinas (BS COM 1994), Columnist, Hartford Courant, 1999 Pulitzer Prize
• Susan Walsh (BS COM 1987), Staff Photographer, Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
  , 1999 Pulitzer Prize
• Meredith Warren, 2003 Pulitzer Prize

Academia

• Gleason Archer, Sr.
  Gleason Archer, Sr.
  Gleason Archer, Sr. was the founder and first president of Suffolk University and Suffolk Law School. He was also an extensive writer and radio broadcaster for NBC.-Early life and education:...
  
   (BA 1904, JD 1906), founder of Suffolk University
  Suffolk University
  Suffolk University is a private, non-sectarian, university located in Boston, Massachusetts and with over 16,000 students it is the third largest university in Boston...
  
   and Suffolk University Law School
  Suffolk University Law School
  Suffolk University Law School, also known as Suffolk Law School or SULS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Suffolk University. Suffolk University Law School is a private, non-sectarian, law school located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Suffolk University Law School was founded in...
  
  
• John S. Bailey, (BSBA '51) Chancellor, American College of Greece
  American College of Greece
  The American College of Greece was founded in Smyrna, Asia Minor in 1875 and is the considered to be Europe’s oldest and largest, comprehensive, U.S.-accredited academic institution and the largest private institute of tertiary education in Greece...
  
  
• Gail Carney, Dean, Lesley College
  Lesley University
  Lesley University is a private, coeducational university in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts.The university is a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and New England Collegiate Conference.-History:The...
  
  
• Robert A. Chernak, (BSBA '68) Senior VP, Student and Academic Support Services, George Washington University
  George Washington University
  The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
  
  
• Patricia Cormier (B.A.), President, Longwood University
  Longwood University
  Longwood University is a four-year public, liberal-arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1839 and became a university on July 1, 2002...
  
  
• Charles Wesley Emerson
  Charles Wesley Emerson
  Charles Wesley Emerson was the founder and first president of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Emerson was also the author of a number of books dealing with oratory and a minister with the Unitarian Church.- Biography :...
  
  , (School of Oratory, 1877) Founder, Emerson College
• Mary Jane England, President, Regis College
  Regis College
  Regis College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts and sciences college located in Weston, Massachusetts. Founded as a women’s college in 1927, Regis became co-educational in 2007.-History:...
  
  
• Nancy Harrington, President, Salem State College
  Salem State College
  Salem State University is a four-year public institution of higher learning located in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem State University, established in 1854 as Salem Normal School, is located approximately fifteen miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. Salem State enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and...
  
  , Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
  
• Fred A. Leuchter
  Fred A. Leuchter
  Frederick A. Leuchter, Jr. is an American Federal Court qualified expert in execution technology and author of forensic Holocaust denial material. He claims to have improved the design of instruments for capital punishment and had execution equipment contracts with several states...
  
  , famous Holocaust denier
• Ruth Linn
  Ruth Linn
  Ruth Linn is an Israeli academic and currently Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa in Israel. Her research interests are how moral decisions are made in stressful situations such as war and the Holocaust, and women's psychology and education.She is the author of four books,...
  
  , former Dean the University of Haifa
  University of Haifa
  The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.The University of Haifa was founded in 1963 by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
  
  , Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• Dana Mohler-Faria
  Dana Mohler-Faria
  Dana Mohler-Faria is the current president of Bridgewater State University and a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education...
  
  , President, Bridgewater State College
  Bridgewater State College
  Bridgewater State University is a public liberal-arts college in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is the largest college in the Massachusetts state university system outside of the University of Massachusetts system. The school's mascot is the bear.-History:BSU was founded by...
  
  
• Janice Stecchi, Dean, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  University of Massachusetts Lowell
  The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a public university in Lowell, Massachusetts, and part of the University of Massachusetts system...
  
  
• Thomas Tritton, President, Haverford College
  Haverford College
  Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
  
  
• Kevin J. Tracey
  Kevin J. Tracey
  Kevin J. Tracey, a scientist and inventor, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on 10 December 1957. He is President of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Professor and President of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine in Manhasset, New York.-Education:Kevin J. Tracey...
  
  , (M.D. '83) President, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
• Diana Chapman Walsh (M.S., PhD), President, Wellesley College
• J. Brian Atwood
  J. Brian Atwood
  John Brian Atwood is a diplomat and former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 2002 to 2010, he was dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota...
  
   (B.A), dean, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
  Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
  The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs is a graduate public affairs school located at the University of Minnesota, ranking among the top 15 professional schools of public affairs at public universities in the country. It is named after Hubert H. Humphrey, former Vice President of the...
  
  , University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
  

Business

• J Allard
  J Allard
  J Allard was "Chief Experience Officer" and Chief Technology Officer for the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft...
  
  , Vice President, Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• Supachai Chearavanont, (BSB 1989 SMG), CEO & President, True Corporation
  True Corporation
  True Corporation Public Company Limited is a communication conglomerate in Thailand. True controls Thailand's largest cable TV provider True Visions, its largest ISP True Internet and its third-largest mobile operator True Move.-History:...
  
   (Thailand)
• Nathaniel Baker, CEO, Domestic Bank
• Sarmad Palijo, (BA 2004 CAS), Chief Executive, Josh FM 99 - Pakistan's Premier FM Radio Network
• Norman Barron, Founder, Marshalls Department Stores
  Marshalls
  Marshalls, Inc., is a chain of American department stores owned by TJX Companies. Marshalls has over 750 conventional stores, as well as larger stores named Marshalls Mega Store, covering 42 states and Puerto Rico. Marshalls expanded into Canada in March 2011...
  
  
• Kirk Bauer, (JD), Executive Director, Disabled Sports USA; Former Member, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
  The President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition , is an American government organization that aims to "promote, encourage and motivate Americans of all ages to become physically active and participate in sport"...
  
  
• Brian Bedol
  Brian Bedol
  Brian Bedol is an American television executive, entrepreneur, and founder of the sports television channels Classic Sports Network and College Sports Television. Bedol owned CSN from 1995 to 1997 and CSTV from 2003 to 2006....
  
  , (COM BA 1980), Founder, Fusient Media Ventures, Creator, Classic Sports Network (which became ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic
  ESPN Classic is a sports channel that features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. Such programs includes biographies of famous sports figures or a rerun of a famous World Series or Super Bowl, often with added commentary on the event...
  
  ), Founder and CEO, CSTV
• Jack Belsito, (BSBA 1982), Group CEO, Voss USA Inc.(formerly President of Snapple)
• Alessandro Benetton
  Benetton family
  Four members of the Italian Benetton family founded the Benetton Group S.p.A. fashion company in 1965. The three brothers and one sister were all born in Treviso, Veneto, Italy. Their father owned a bicycle shop...
  
   (SMG BSB 1988) Chairman of 21 Investimenti S.p. A, and Deuty Chairman of Benetton Group
• John K. Billock, (MBA 1975), Vice Chairman and COO, Time Warner Cable
  Time Warner Cable
  Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
  
  
• Chutinant Bhirom Bhakdi, Board of Directors, Boon Rawd Brewery
  Boon Rawd Brewery
  Boon Rawd Brewery is an Asian brewery founded in 1933 by Boonrawd Srethabutra in Thailand which also makes and sells soft drinks. Their best known product is the pale lager Singha.-History:...
  
  (Singha Beer)
• Gina R. Boswell, Sr. Vice President and COO, Avon Products
  Avon Products
  Avon Products, Inc. is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 140 countries across the world and sales of $9.9 billion worldwide as of 2007.-Business Model:...
  
  
• Ellen Bovarnick, Vice President, Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola
  Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
  
  
• David Brand, (BS 1983) Head, Global Technology M&A, Lehman Brothers
  Lehman Brothers
  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...
  
  
• Janice Brandt, Vice Chair, America Online
• Shin Yong-Il, (MBA), CEO, Deutsche Asset Management
• Michael Bronner, (BSBA 1982), Founder & Chairman, Upromise
  Upromise
  Upromise, Inc. is an American corporation launched in April 2001, that is owned by SLM Corporation, the parent of Sallie Mae. Upromise claims to be the largest private source of college-funding contributions in the United States, with $575 million accrued in members' Upromise "college savings...
  
  , Digitas
• Fred Bronstein, President, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra. It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States....
  
  
• Jay Cashman
  Jay Cashman
  Jay Cashman, Inc. is an American heavy-construction company based in Quincy, Massachusetts, with satellite offices in Boston, Jupiter, Florida, and Staten Island, New York. , the company has about 1,000 employees. Cashman was one of the major contractors on the Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel...
  
  , CEO, Jay Cashman, Inc., Boston-area construction mogul
• David K. Colapinto
  David K. Colapinto
  David K. Colapinto is an attorney for Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, a Washington, D.C., USA, law firm specializing in employment law.Colapinto was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on December 4, 1958. He received his J.D. degree from Antioch School of Law after graduating from Boston University with a...
  
  , Esquire, partner, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
  Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
  Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in employment law, represents whistleblowers in the United States. Washingtonian Magazine, in its December 2004 issue, named the firm the top whistleblower within the Beltway. The three partners are brothers Stephen M. Kohn, Michael...
  
  , Washington, D.C.
• Ken Danieli, Brand Strategist and Principal, Danieli Consulting, LLC, Pepsi Stuff
  Pepsi Stuff
  Pepsi Stuff was a major loyalty program launched by PepsiCo, first in North America on March 28, 1996 and then around the world, featuring premiums — such as T-shirts, hats, denim and leather jackets, bags and mountain bikes — that could be purchased with Pepsi Points through the Pepsi Stuff...
  
   creator
• Allison Davis, Vice President, CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
   Television
• David Dinerstein, Founder, Paramount Classics
• Mickey Drexler, (MBA 1968), Chairman & CEO, J. Crew
• Trung Dung
  Trung Dung
  Trung Dung is a Vietnamese-American businessman. His life story has been profiled in many leading publications including Forbes, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Dan Rather's book The American Dream.-Early life:Dung was born in South Vietnam...
  
  , software billionaire business executive, founder of Fogbreak Software and On Display
• David Edgerton
  David Edgerton
  David R. Edgerton is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the Burger King Corporation.On March 1, 1954, he opened the restaurant Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida, U.S. On June 1 of the same year, he met James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation.Edgerton graduated...
  
  , co-founder of Burger King
  Burger King
  Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...
  
  
• Susan Evans, Co-Founder, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Ahmass Fakahany, Executive Vice President and CFO, Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...
  
  
• Kenneth Feld
  Kenneth Feld
  Kenneth Jeffrey Feld is the CEO of , which owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice!, and He is also the producer of several Broadway plays. The business was started by his father Irvin Feld and Ken became CEO upon his father's death in 1984. He has three daughters, two...
  
   (SMG 1970 BSB), CEO, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
• Sidney Feltenstein, (BA 1962), CEO, A&W
  A&W Restaurants
  A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...
  
   and Long John Silvers restaurants
• Bill Fine, President & General Manager, WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
  
   Boston
• Paul Fireman, founder, Reebok
  Reebok
  Reebok International Limited, a subsidiary of the German sportswear company Adidas since 2005, is a producer of Athletic shoes, apparel, and accessories. The name comes from the Afrikaans spelling of rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle...
  
  
• Jerald G. Fishman
  Jerald G. Fishman
  Jerald G. Fishman has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996. He is a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc.-Education:...
  
  , (MBA), CEO, Analog Devices
  Analog Devices
  Analog Devices, Inc. , known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Michael Fricklas, (JD), Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Viacom
  Viacom
  Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
  
  
• Samuel P. Fried, (JD), Senior Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel, Limited Brands
  Limited Brands
  Limited Brands is an American apparel company based in Columbus, Ohio. In 2009 it reported 9.04 billion dollars in revenue for the last fiscal year.-History:...
  
  
• Arlen W. Gelbard, (JD) Chief Banking Officer and President, E*TRADE Bank
• Bonnie Hammer
  Bonnie Hammer
  Bonnie Hammer is the Chairman of NBCU Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios. In January 2011, Hammer added executive responsibility for E! Entertainment, E! Studios and G4 to her existing oversight of USA, Syfy, Chiller, Cloo, Universal HD and Universal Cable Productions...
  
  , President, Sci-Fi Channel
  Sci Fi Channel (United States)
  Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
  
  
• Ted Harbert
  Ted Harbert
  Edward W. "Ted" Harbert III is currently Chairman, NBC Broadcasting. Before joining NBCUniversal, he was the president and CEO of the Comcast Entertainment Group.-Life and career:...
  
  , President, E! Networks
• Edgar J. Helms, founder of Goodwill Industries
  Goodwill Industries
  Goodwill Industries International is a not-for-profit organization that provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have a disability, lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges...
  
  
• Jeanette Horan, (EMBA 1993), CIO and Vice President, IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  
• John P. Howe, III, President & CEO, Project HOPE (USA)
  Project HOPE (USA)
  Project HOPE is an international health care organization founded in the United States in 1958. Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship...
  
  
• Frederick Huntsberry, (CGS non-degree prog 1982, BSB SMG 1984) Chief Operating Officer, Paramount Pictures
• Ishrat Husain
  Ishrat Husain
  Ishrat Husain is a Pakistani banker and economist, who is the Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. Dr. Ishrat was the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan's Central bank from 2 December 1999 to 1 December 2005...
  
   (PhD) 13th Governor of State Bank of Pakistan
  State Bank of Pakistan
  The State Bank of Pakistan is the central bank of Pakistan. While its constitution, as originally laid down in the State Bank of Pakistan Order 1948, remained basically unchanged until January 1, 1974, when the bank was nationalized, the scope of its functions was considerably enlarged...
  
  
• Paul Irwin
  Paul Irwin
  Dr. Paul G. Irwin is the former president of the American Bible Society and was host of the television show it produced, American Bible Society Presents. Prior to that, he was president of the Humane Society of the United States between 1975 and 2004...
  
  , former CEO, The Humane Society
  Humane Society
  A humane society may be a group that aims to stop human or animal suffering due to cruelty or other reasons, although in many countries, it is now used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals...
  
   of the United States
• Shel Israel
  Shel Israel
  Shel Israel is a writer and speaker on social media issues. He co-authored with Robert Scoble the book Naked Conversations, How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers ....
  
   (COM, no degree) Author, Entrepreneur and Consultant
• Toshimasa Iue, (MBA 1989), President & COO, Sanyo
  Sanyo
  is a major electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle of the market and has over 230 Subsidiaries and Affiliates....
  
  
• Bruce Karatz, (BA 1967), CEO, B Home]
• Jack B. Grubman, (BA Mathematics 1975), Managing Director, (Pain Webber), (Salomon Smith Barney). Lead Telecommunications Analyst (Citigroup)
• Damian Kozlowski, (MS), CEO, Citigroup
  Citigroup
  Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...
  
   Global Wealth Management
• Paul LaCamera, (MS), former President & General Manager, WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
  
   Boston
• Louis Lataif, former President, Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
  
   Europe; Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Management
  Boston University School of Management
  The Boston University School of Management is the business school at Boston University in Boston. Founded in 1913 as the College of Business Administration, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs....
  
  
• Michael Tze Hau Lee, (SMG MBA 1986), Managing Director Hysan Development Company Limited
  Hysan Development Company Limited
  Hysan Development Company Limited is a property investment, management and development company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company's roots in Hong Kong date back to 1923, when Lee Hysan acquired plots of land in East Point, now known as Causeway Bay...
  
  
• Christian F. Martin, CEO, C.F. Martin & Company
• Jessica McClintock
  Jessica McClintock
  Jessica Gagnon McClintock is Founder, President and CEO of Jessica McClintock, Inc., an American retail company based in San Francisco, California.-Biography:...
  
  , (BA 1950), Founder, President, CEO, Jessica McClintock, Inc.
• James McLamore
  James McLamore
  James Whitman McLamore was co-founder of the Burger King fast food franchise with David Edgerton. McLamore attended Northfield Mount Hermon School before matriculating at Cornell University....
  
  , co-founder of Burger King
  Burger King
  Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...
  
  
• Dirk Meyer
  Dirk Meyer
  Derrick R. "Dirk" Meyer was a former Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, serving in the position since July 18, 2008 and resigning on January 10, 2011.- Education :...
  
  , (MBA 1993) President & COO, Advanced Micro Devices
  Advanced Micro Devices
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...
  
  , ACM Maurice Wilkes Award winner for contributions to Alpha and x86 chip designs
• Mitchell Modell, CEO, Modell's Sporting Goods
  Modell's
  Modell's is a sporting goods retailer with locations in the Northeastern United States. Modell's carries both sporting goods and related apparel. Modell's currently has more than 140 retail locations in ten states and the District of Columbia as of 2008...
  
  
• Peter J. Moran, (CLA 1986), Co-Founder of ThinkBusiness magazine
• Ellen Parker, Executive Director, Project Bread
• Christine Poon
  Christine Poon
  Christine Poon, born c. 1951 in Brentwood, Missouri, is an American business executive. She is the former Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson's Board of Directors and Worldwide Chairman of J&J's Pharmaceuticals Group. Poon is currently dean of Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business...
  
  , (MBA 1983), former Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
  Johnson & Johnson
  Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....
  
  
• Craig S. Prusher, (BA 1985, JD 1988), Vice President, Asst. General Counsel, Burger King Corporation
• Richard D. Reidy, (BS 1982), President, Chief Executive Officer, Progress Software
  Progress Software
  Progress Software Corporation , formerly Data Language Corporation, is an American software company that sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the OpenEdge ABL , which was developed in the early 1980s. The best known application written in Progress is...
  
  
• Shari Redstone
  Shari Redstone
  Shari Ellin Redstone is an American businesswoman. She is the president of National Amusements, vice-chairman of CBS Corporation and Viacom, and on December 21, 2007 became chairman of Midway Games...
  
  , (JD), Vice Chair, Viacom
  Viacom
  Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
  
   and CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  
• Michael I. Roth, (JD), Interpublic Group
• Jay Rowe, Sr. Vice President, HBO Films
• Monty Sarhan
  Monty Sarhan
  Monty Sarhan is a Vice President at Viacom, where he has served in several capacities over the years . He currently works at Epix_, the premium movie channel that is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures, MGM, Lionsgate and Viacom...
  
  , CEO, Cracked Entertainment
• J. Michael Schell, (JD), Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Citigroup
  Citigroup
  Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...
  
   Global Markets, Inc.
• John F. Smith, Jr.
  John F. Smith, Jr.
  John Francis "Jack" Smith, Jr. is the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Delta Air Lines. Smith has been a member of Delta's board of directors since 2000....
  
   MBA 1965, Honorary Degree 1993, former Chairman and CEO of General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
  
• Patrick Spain
  Patrick Spain
  Patrick J. Spain is the co-founder of Hoover's, founder of HighBeam Research and is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of news curation site Newser....
  
   (LAW JD 1979), founder of Hoover's
  Hoover's
  Hoover's, Inc., a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet, is a business research company that has provided information on U.S. and foreign companies and industries since 1990. Since 1993, the company has made its information available on its website.-Operations:...
  
   and HighBeam Research
  HighBeam Research
  HighBeam Research is a paid search engine owned by Cengage Learning for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias...
  
  
• Margaret Stumpp
  Margaret Stumpp
  Margaret Stumpp is a Senior Vice President at Prudential Financial, Inc. She is the first openly transsexual person out of over 60,000 employees in the firm....
  
  , Senior Vice President, Prudential Financial
  Prudential Financial
  The Prudential Insurance Company of America , also known as Prudential Financial, Inc., is a Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the...
  
  
• Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment
• Gerald Tsai, Jr., (CAS, GRS 1949), Chairman, Tsai Management, Inc.
• Margaret Wallace
  Margaret Wallace
  Margaret Wallace is an American entrepreneur, gaming and media professional. In 2009, she co-founded with Nicholas Fortugno in New York, New York. The company focuses on bringing new kinds of immersive experiences to casual gamers...
  
  , (BS 1989), CEO, Co-Founder, Rebel Monkey
• David Weinstein, (BA 1972), Chief, Administration & Government Affairs, Fidelity Investments
  Fidelity Investments
  FMR LLC or Fidelity Investments is an American multinational financial services corporation one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world. It was founded in 1946 and serves North American investors. Fidelity Ventures is its venture capital arm...
  
  
• Joseph Williams, CEO, Hibernia
  Hibernia
  Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland. The name Hibernia was taken from Greek geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe , Pytheas of Massilia called the island Ierne . In his book Geographia Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of...
  
   Southcoast Capital Corp.
• Stuart Zakim, (BA 1976, MA 1978), Vice President, Showtime Network
• Edward Zander
  Edward Zander
  Edward J. Zander is an American business executive. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Motorola from January 2004 until January 2008, remaining as chairman until May 2008...
  
  , (MBA 1975), Chairman & CEO, Motorola
  Motorola
  Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
  
  , former President Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems
  Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
  
  
• Jason Strauss
  Jason Strauss
  Jason Strauss was born in New York and is the co-owner and co-founder of marketing firm Strategic Group, a marketing, promotions, and special events company. He is also co-owner and co-founder of The Strategic Hospitality Group. His partner is long-time friend, Noah...
  
  , CEO of the Strategic Group

Clergy

• Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...
  
   (STH PhD 1955), 1964 Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
  ; Civil Rights Leader
• Andrew Z. Lopatin
  Asher Lopatin
  Asher Lopatin is an American rabbi. He is rabbi of congregation Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago.Lopatin is a graduate of the Maimonides School, received a B.A. in International Relations and Islamic Studies from Boston University, and was awarded a Master of...
  
   (BA CAS 1987) Orthodox Jewish Rabbi
• Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos, Makarios III
  Makarios III
  Makarios III , born Andreas Christodolou Mouskos , was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church and the first President of the Republic of Cyprus ....
  
  , (no degree STh 1948) archbishop and primate of the Cypriot Orthodox Church and first and fourth President of the Republic of Cyprus
• Woodie W. White
  Woodie W. White
  Woodie Walter White is an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984.-Birth and Family:Woodie was born on 27 August 1935 in New York City. He is married to the former Jennie Tolson, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts. She attended Clark University in Worcester, and holds...
  
   (BST STH 1961), bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
   of the United Methodist Church
  United Methodist Church
  The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
  
  

International government, politics, royalty

• Faisal al-Fayez
  Faisal al-Fayez
  Faisal al-Fayez was the Prime Minister of Jordan from 25 October 2003, to 6 April 2005. He took office following the resignation of Ali Abu al-Ragheb. He resigned after being criticized for not being reformist enough. He previously served as Defence Minister, and is close to the king...
  
   (CAS MA) former Prime Minister of Jordan
  Jordan
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
  
  
• Fan S. Noli
  Fan S. Noli
  Theofan Stilian Noli, better known as Fan Noli was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.Fan Noli is venerated in Albania as a champion of literature,...
  
   (Doctoratur) former Prime Minister of Albania
  Albania
  Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
  
  , writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church
  Albanian Orthodox Church
  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....
  
  
• Oscar Arias
  Óscar Arias
  Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.He is also a...
  
  , (attended, no degree) President, Costa Rica; 1987 Nobel Peace Prize
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
  
• Milind Deora, (SMG BSBA '99) member of India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  's Parliament
• Keiko Fujimori
  Keiko Fujimori
  Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi is a Peruvian Fujimorista politician, daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. She served as First Lady, from 1994 to 2000, after her parents divorced, becoming the youngest First Lady in the history of the Americas...
  
  , (SMG BSB 1997) member of Peru's Congress, former first lady of Peru
• Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri, (Board of Trustee 1990-2003, named an Associate Founder of the University,Doctor of Laws and Honorary Trustee) Prime Minister
  Prime minister
  A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
  
   of Lebanon
  Lebanon
  Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
  
  ; 1992-1998 & 2000-2004
• Margaret Ng
  Margaret Ng
  Dr Margaret Ng Ngoi Yee is a politician, barrister, writer and columnist in Hong Kong. She has been a member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 1995....
  
  , (STH PhD) member of Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
  
  ’s Legislative Councml
• Hiroshige Seko
  Hiroshige Seko
  is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Wakayama Prefecture, he graduated from Waseda University and received a master's degree in corporate communications from Boston University. He was elected to the House of...
  
  , (COM MS 1992) Public Relations Advisor in the Cabinet of Japan
  Cabinet of Japan
  The of Japan is the executive branch of the government of Japan. It consists of the Prime Minister and up to fourteen other members, called Ministers of State. The Prime Minister is designated by the Diet, and the remaining ministers are appointed and dismissed by the Prime Minister...
  
  
• Gigi Tsereteli
  Gigi Tsereteli
  George "Gigi" Tsereteli is a member and vice-speaker of the Parliament of Georgia. He is married, with two children.-Education:...
  
  , (SPH 2005) Parliament, Georgia

Governors

• Lincoln Almond
  Lincoln Almond
  Lincoln Carter Almond is an American attorney, politician and member of the Republican Party. Almond served as United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1969–1978 and 1981–1993 and latter the 72nd Governor of Rhode Island, serving from 1995 to 2003.- Early life, education and...
  
  , (JD 1961), former Governor of Rhode Island
• John Lewis Bates (CLA A.B. 1882, LAW LL. B. 1885), former Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  .
• Albert O. Brown
  Albert O. Brown
  Albert Oscar Brown was a lawyer, banker, and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. Born in Northwood, New Hampshire, he served a single term as Governor. In addition to his law practice, Brown was also a member of a number of corporate boards and served as a trustee for Dartmouth...
  
  , (LL.B. 1884), former Governor of New Hampshire
  Governor of New Hampshire
  The Governor of the State of New Hampshire is the supreme executive magistrate of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.The governor is elected at the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold...
  
  
• Fred H. Brown
  Fred H. Brown
  Fred Herbert Brown was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Somersworth, New Hampshire. He served as mayor of Somersworth and as United States Attorney for New Hampshire before his term as Governor of New Hampshire from 1923 to 1925, and later served in the United States Senate.Brown...
  
  , (attended LAW 1904/06, no degree), former Governor of New Hampshire
  Governor of New Hampshire
  The Governor of the State of New Hampshire is the supreme executive magistrate of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.The governor is elected at the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold...
  
  , former U.S. Congressman
• Paul Dever, (JD 1926), former Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  
• Samuel D. Felker
  Samuel D. Felker
  Samuel Demeritt Felker was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Rochester, New Hampshire. He served as mayor of Rochester and in the New Hampshire state House of Representatives before being elected Governor in 1912.-External links:*...
  
  , (LL.B. 1887), former Governor of New Hampshire
  Governor of New Hampshire
  The Governor of the State of New Hampshire is the supreme executive magistrate of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.The governor is elected at the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold...
  
  
• Judd Gregg
  Judd Gregg
  Judd Alan Gregg is a former Governor of New Hampshire and former United States Senator from New Hampshire, who served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics...
  
  , (JD), U.S. Senator, former Governor of New Hampshire
  Governor of New Hampshire
  The Governor of the State of New Hampshire is the supreme executive magistrate of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.The governor is elected at the biennial state general election in November of even-numbered years. New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold...
  
  
• Bob McDonnell
  Bob McDonnell
  Robert Francis "Bob" McDonnell is an American politician who has been the 71st Governor of Virginia since January 2010. A former lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, McDonnell served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1993 to 2006 and served as Attorney General of Virginia from 2006...
  
  , (M.S.B.A. 1980), Governor of Virginia
  Governor of Virginia
  The governor of Virginia serves as the chief executive of the Commonwealth of Virginia for a four-year term. The position is currently held by Republican Bob McDonnell, who was inaugurated on January 16, 2010, as the 71st governor of Virginia....
  
  
• J. Howard McGrath
  J. Howard McGrath
  James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island.McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming Governor, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S...
  
  , (JD 1929), former U.S. Senator, former Governor of Rhode Island
• William Russell
  William Russell (governor)
  William Eustis Russell was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 37th Governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894, becoming the state's youngest ever elected Governor at age 34.-Family:...
  
  , (LL.B. 1879), former Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  .
• David I. Walsh
  David I. Walsh
  David Ignatius Walsh was a United States politician from Massachusetts. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served in the state legislature and then as Lieutenant Governor and then as the 46th Governor . His first term in the U.S...
  
  , (LL.B. 1897), former U.S. Senator, former Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  

United States Senators

• Edward Brooke III
  Edward Brooke
  Edward William Brooke, III is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 60.7%–38.7%...
  
  , (JD), first African-American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction (MA), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
• William M. Butler
  William M. Butler
  William Morgan Butler was a lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator....
  
  , (LL.B 1884), former U.S. Senator (MA)
• William Cohen
  William Cohen
  William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton.-Early life and education:...
  
  , (LL.B. 1965), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, former U.S. Senator, former U.S. Congressman
• J. Howard McGrath, (JD 1929), former U.S. Senator (see Governors)
• Thomas J. McIntyre
  Thomas J. McIntyre
  Thomas James McIntyre was a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, and a member of the Democratic Party.Born in Laconia, New Hampshire, he attended the public and parochial schools of Laconia; he graduated from Manlius Military School in Manlius, New York, in 1933, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New...
  
  , (JD 1940), former U.S. Senator (NH)
• Robert Upton, (LL.B. 1907), former U.S. Senator (NH)
• David I. Walsh, (LL.B. 1897), former U.S. Senator (see Governors)

United States House of Representatives

• Joseph E. Casey
  Joseph E. Casey
  Joseph Edward Casey was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Clinton, he attended the public schools, served as a private in the United States Army at Camp Lee, Virginia in 1918, and was graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1920. He was admitted to the bar...
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Antonio Colorado
  Antonio Colorado
  Antonio J. Colorado Laguna is a lawyer and politician from New York City, U.S.. He served as Secretary of State of Puerto Rico and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico for the administration of Rafael Hernández Colón.-Biography:...
  
  , (BS 1962) Resident Commissioner in US Congress from Puerto Rico
• Paul Cronin, former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• John Crosby, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Emilio Q. Daddario
  Emilio Q. Daddario
  Emilio Quincy Daddario was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congresses.-Life and career:...
  
  , (law), former U.S. Congressman (CT)
• Norman D'Amours
  Norman D'Amours
  Norman Edward D'Amours was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire from 1975 to 1985, where he was an active participant on issues related to banking and finance. Mr. D'Amours remains active in New Hampshire and national politics...
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congressman (NH)
• Louise Day Hicks
  Louise Day Hicks
  Anna Louise Day Hicks was an American politician and lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for her staunch opposition to court-ordered busing in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life:...
  
  , former U.S. Congresswoman (MA)
• Brian J. Donnelly
  Brian J. Donnelly
  Brian Joseph Donnelly of Dorchester, Boston was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. He is a Democrat....
  
  , (BS 1970), former U.S. Congressman (MA), former US Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago,
• Charles Douglas III, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (NH)
• Forrest Goodwin, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (ME)
• Daniel Granger, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (RI)
• Arthur Daniel Healey
  Arthur Daniel Healey
  Arthur Daniel Healey was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1933 to 1942 and then served as a United States federal judge until his death....
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA), and U.S. federal judge
• John Patrick Higgins
  John Patrick Higgins
  John Patrick Higgins was an officer in the United States Navy, chemist, attorney, and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts....
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Joe Hoeffel
  Joe Hoeffel
  Joseph Merrill "Joe" Hoeffel III is an American politician. A Democrat, he is currently a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, having previously served from 1992 to 1998....
  
  , (BS ), former U.S. Congressman (PA)
• Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congresswoman (TX)
• Charles Joyce, (Newbury Seminary, pre-1850), former U.S. Congressman (VT)
• Ambrose Kennedy, (JB LAW 1906), former U.S. Congressman (RI)
• James Maloney, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (CT)
• Jim Marshall
  Jim Marshall (U.S. politician)
  James Creel "Jim" Marshall is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
  
  , (JD), U.S. Congressman (GA)
• Connie Morella
  Connie Morella
  Constance Albanese "Connie" Morella is a Republican United States politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She also served as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2003 to 2007. She...
  
  , former U.S. Congresswoman (MD), former Maryland State Senator
• Frank Morse, former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Henry Naphen, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Jeremiah O'Connell, former U.S. Congressman (RI)
• Ernest W. Roberts, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Ferdinand St. Germain, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (RI)
• Charles Sprague, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Robert Stafford
  Robert Stafford
  Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator...
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Congressman (VT)
• Walter Stiness, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (RI)
• John Sullivan, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Joseph Walsh, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)
• Edward Wason, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (NH)
• George Williams, (JD), former U.S. Congressman (MA)

United States Executive Departments and Agencies

• Michael Carleton, CIO, United States Department of Health and Human Services
  United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
  
  
• William Cohen
  William Cohen
  William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton.-Early life and education:...
  
  , (JD), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, former U.S. Senator, former U.S. Congressman
• Joshua DuBois
  Joshua DuBois
  Joshua DuBois is the head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the Executive Office of the President of the United States under President Barack Obama....
  
  , (BA 2003), Head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under President Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  .
• Colleen Graffy
  Colleen Graffy
  Colleen Graffy is a former deputy United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and professor of law at Pepperdine University's London campus....
  
  , Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State (P.R.)
• James Franklin Jeffrey
  James Franklin Jeffrey
  James Franklin Jeffrey is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Iraq.He was serving as the Deputy National Security Advisor in the administration of George W. Bush before being appointed to Turkey.-Biography:...
  
  , (MBA), Ambassador, U.S. Department of State
• Elizabeth Jones
  Elizabeth Jones
  Elizabeth Jones was the eleventh Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, holding this position from 1981 until her resignation in 1991...
  
  , Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State
• Gary Locke (JD 1975), current Commerce Secretary and former Governor of Washington (see Governors)
• Louis Wade Sullivan
  Louis Wade Sullivan
  Louis Wade Sullivan is an American physician and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President George H. W. Bush and founded the Morehouse School of Medicine....
  
  , (MED), former Secretary, Health and Human Services

Other

• Keith B. Alexander
  Keith B. Alexander
  General Keith B. Alexander, USA is the current Director, National Security Agency , Chief, Central Security Service and Commander, United States Cyber Command. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, U.S. Army from 2003 to 2005...
  
  , (MBA), Director, National Security Agency
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
  
• Armand Arabian, Retired Justice, California Supreme Court
• Pat Brown
  Pat Brown (criminal profiler)
  -Biography:Brown was born in New Jersey and moved with her family to Virginia at age 9. She has lived in Maryland since 1982.-Education:In 1981, she graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of the State of New York...
  
  , (MBA 2007), Author, criminal profiler, TV commentator
• Jennifer M. Callahan, (B.A., B.S.), member of the Mass. House of Representatives
  Massachusetts House of Representatives
  The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...
  
   (served 2002 - present)
• Paul C. Casey, (MBA 1998), member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1989 - present)
• Martha Coakley
  Martha Coakley
  Martha Mary Coakley is the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Prior to serving as Attorney General, she was District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2007....
  
  , (JD), Massachusetts Attorney General
• Ned DeWire, (M.Div), former General Secretary, United Methodist Church
  United Methodist Church
  The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
  
  
• Michael F. Flaherty
  Michael F. Flaherty
  Michael F. Flaherty is a former at-large member of the Boston City Council. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected to Boston City Council Vice President in 2001 and Boston City Council President from 2002 to 2006....
  
  , (JD), President, Boston City Council
• Martha Fuller-Clark, (MA), New Hampshire
  New Hampshire
  New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
  
   State Senator
• Elizabeth Meyer Glaser
  Elizabeth Glaser
  Elizabeth Glaser, born Elizabeth Meyer, , was a major American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the modern AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth...
  
   (SED 1970), child advocate, AIDS activist and co-founder of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing pediatric HIV infection and eliminating pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs...
  
  
• Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, (GRS PhD 1988) Philanthropist
• Don Gorton
  Don Gorton
  Don Gorton is a Massachusetts attorney who served as a state tax judge from 1997 to 2008.-Biography:Gorton has been an advocate for LGBT equality in Boston for over 25 years. He is perhaps best known as the longtime Co-Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Hate Crime, to which he was appointed by...
  
   (CAS B.A. 1982), Commissioner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board
  Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board
  The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board is a quasi-judicial agency within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Office of the Governor. Though part of the executive branch, the ATB is "not subject to its control in the conduct of its adjudicatory functions." G.L. c. 58A, 1...
  
  
• Stephen Douglas Johnson
  Stephen Douglas Johnson
  Stephen Douglas Johnson , also known as Steve Johnson, was a Washington, D.C. banking lawyer; a chief lobbyist for the banking and insurance industries; U.S...
  
   (LLM 1989), U.S. House Chief Counsel for Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit 1995-98; White House Senior Advisor for the Office of Federal Housing Oversight 2000-03 whose premature death in 2003 was the subject of a wire service obituary written by the late Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
  
   confidant Michael Deaver
  Michael Deaver
  Michael Keith Deaver was a member of President Ronald Reagan's White House staff serving as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under James Baker III and Donald Regan from January 1981 until May 1985.-Early life:...
  
  
• Stephen Khanoyan, (CAS B.A. 2008), U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer
• Takeo Kikuchi (LLB LAW 1877), one of the first Japanese to study law in the US, founder and second president of Tokyo’s Chuo University
  Chuo University
  Chuo University is a one of the Japanese leading universities. Thus it is competitive in several rankings such as shown below.-General Rankings:The university has been ranked 27th, 25th, 34th during 2008-2010 respectively in the ranking "Truly Strong Universities" by Toyo Keizai.-Research...
  
  
• Rikki Klieman
  Rikki Klieman
  Rikki Klieman is an American criminal defense lawyer and TV personality for TruTV. A native of Chicago, she worked in criminal defense in Boston and taught at Columbia Law School before moving to the entertainment field...
  
   (JD LAW 1975), attorney, TV personality, Court TV
  Court TV
  truTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
  
  
• Benjamin LaGuer
  Benjamin LaGuer
  Benjamin LaGuer is a convicted rapist serving a life sentence in Massachusetts. He has not acknowledged the crime for which he was convicted, claiming innocence. His case achieved prominence in the late 1980s when reporting by John King discovered a juror who said that other members of the...
  
  , (MET B.L.S. magna cum laude, 1997) Massachusetts inmate who fought a conviction for more than two decades
• Zsolt Limperger, Hungarian football player
• Ida Lorentzen
  Ida Lorentzen
  Ida Lorentzen is an American born, Norwegian artist known for her paintings of interiors of a melancholic nature....
  
  , American born Norwegian Artist
• Joan M. Menard, Massachusetts State Senator
• Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga , often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos" , is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States. He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington, D.C...
  
   (JD), political consultant
• David Mulford
  David Mulford
  David Campbell Mulford is a former United States Ambassador to India. He took office on January 23, 2004, and left office in February 2009.He is currently Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse.Mulford was born in Rockford, Illinois...
  
   (MA GRS 1962), U.S. Ambassador to India
• Shannon O'Brien
  Shannon O'Brien
  Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien is a Democrat from Massachusetts. O'Brien served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 through 1993, in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 1995, and was the Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1999 through 2003...
  
  , (JD), former Massachusetts State Treasurer
• Barbara Pariente
  Barbara Pariente
  Barbara Joan Pariente is an attorney and jurist from Florida. She was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from July 1, 2004, until June 30, 2006. Pariente is the second woman to hold the position of chief justice and has served on the court since 1997...
  
  , (COM '70) Chief Justice, Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
   Supreme Court (Authored the Terri Schiavo decision)
• Mark Regev
  Mark Regev
  Mark Regev , formerly Mark Freiberg, is an Australian-born Israeli diplomat and media spokesman. He is currently the spokesman for the Prime Minister of Israel and an advisor on foreign press and public affairs, a position he has held since his appointment by the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...
  
  , (MS MET 1998), spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
• Elizabeth Rhodes, (MBA), Rhode Island State Senator
• Lelia Robinson (Mrs. Sawtelle), (LL.B LAW 1881), first woman admitted to Massachusetts state bar
• Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw
  Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States. Her birthday is celebrated as Anna Howard Shaw Day, as an alternative to St. Valentine's Day.-Early Life:Shaw was...
  
   (STH 1878, MED 1886) President, Nat'l Women's Suffrage Assn (1904-1915), first woman awarded Distinguished Service Medal
  Distinguished Service Medal (United States)
  The Distinguished Service Medal is the highest non-valorous military and civilian decoration of the United States military which is issued for exceptionally meritorious service to the government of the United States in either a senior government service position or as a senior officer of the United...
  
  
• Cynthia Stone-Creem, Massachusetts State Senator
• Martha Ware
  Martha Ware
  Martha Ware was an American district court judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.-Early life:Judge Ware was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and raised in Abington...
  
  , Massachusetts jurist and politician
• Sumner Whittier, former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts
• Frank J. Williams, Chief Justice, Rhode Island Superior Court
• Jacqueline Bruno
  Jacqueline Bruno
  Jacqueline Theresa Bruno is a television news reporter and former beauty queen from Assonet, Massachusetts. She is an anchor and reporter for WWLP-22News in Springfield, MA...
  
  , Miss Massachusetts Teen USA
  Miss Massachusetts Teen USA
  The Miss Massachusetts Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss Teen USA pageant....
  
   2003, 3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2003
  Miss Teen USA 2003
  Miss Teen USA 2003, the 21st Miss Teen USA pageant, was televised live from Palm Springs on 12 August 2003. At the conclusion of the final competition, Miss Oregon Teen USA Tami Farrell was crowned by outgoing queen Vanessa Semrow of Wisconsin....
  
   and Miss Massachusetts USA
  Miss Massachusetts USA
  The Miss Massachusetts USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Massachusetts in the Miss USA pageant....
  
   2008, Top 10 at Miss USA 2008
  Miss USA 2008
  Miss USA 2008, the 57th Miss USA beauty pageant, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2008. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Crystle Stewart, Miss Texas USA, was crowned the winner by outgoing titleholder, Rachel Smith of Tennessee...
  
  

Film, performing arts, television, radio, popular culture

• PSY
  Psy
  Psy may mean:*Something to do with psychology*A commonly used term for psychedelic trance , a sub-genre of modern electronic dance music*Something to do with psionics...
  
  , South Korean singer (ranked number 10 in best entertainers in Korea)
• Samuel Adler
  Samuel Adler (composer)
  Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in...
  
  , composer
• Sylvia Alimena, (CFA 1981), French Horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
  , National Symphony Orchestra, Conductor, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra
• Jason Alexander
  Jason Alexander
  Jay Scott Greenspan , better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, writer, comedian, television director, producer, and singer. He is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998...
  
   (attended SFA 3 years, Hon. 1995), Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winning actor and Seinfeld
  Seinfeld
  Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
  
   character George Costanza
  George Costanza
  George Louis Costanza is a character in the American television sitcom Seinfeld , played by Jason Alexander. He has variously been described as a "short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man" , "Lord of the Idiots" , and as "the greatest sitcom character of all time"...
  
  
• Fred Allen
  Fred Allen
  Fred Allen was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically pointed radio show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio.His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it...
  
   (attended Summer Session), entertainer
• Ian Bavitz
  Aesop Rock
  Ian Matthias Bavitz , better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop artist and producer. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it...
  
   (Aesop Rock), (BFA 1998), Hip-hop musician
• Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
   (CFA 1962 no degree), folk singer
• Abhishek Bachchan
  Abhishek Bachchan
  Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and producer. He is the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....
  
   (CAS 1997, no degree) Award-winning Indian actor - husband of actress Aishwarya Rai
  Aishwarya Rai
  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...
  
  
• Edwin Barker
  Edwin Barker
  Edwin Barker is an American double bass player who graduated from the New England Conservatory. He is currently Principal Double Bass with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Associate Professor of Music at Boston University College of Fine Arts.-Career:...
  
  , Principal Double Bass, Boston Symphony Orchestra
  Boston Symphony Orchestra
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
  
  
• Craig Bierko
  Craig Bierko
  Craig Philip Bierko is an American actor and singer.-Early life:Bierko was born in Rye Brook, New York, the son of Pat and Rex Bierko, who ran a local community theatre. Bierko's mother was a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism...
  
  , (BA), Actor
• James Billings
  James Billings
  James Billings is an American operatic baritone, librettist, and opera director. He began his career in the late 1950s in Boston and later became a member of the New York City Opera where he performed regularly from the early 1970s through the 1990s...
  
   (CFA 1957 MM), operatic baritone, opera librettist, and opera director
• Ed Bishop
  Ed Bishop
  Ed Bishop was an American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain.-Early life:Bishop served in the US Army from 8 October 1952 to 24 September 1954, working as a disc jockey with the Armed Forces Radio at St. Johns in Newfoundland...
  
  , (Deceased) Actor, Fullbright Scholar
• Nicole Blackman
  Nicole Blackman
  Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, and vocalist.-Literary career:Blackman is involved in the North American goth, spoken word and transgressive literature scenes....
  
  , artist, poet, author, vocalist, Goth icon
• Calvin Burnett
  Calvin Burnett
  Calvin Burnett is an African-American artist, illustrator and art educator.Calvin Burnett graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art in 1942, and received his MFA from Boston University in 1960. He has taught at a number of institutions in the northeastern United States, including the...
  
  , (MFA 1960) artist
• Jensen Buchanan
  Jensen Buchanan
  Jensen Buchanan is an American actress, best known for portraying Sarah Gordon Buchanan #1 on One Life to Live....
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   nominated actress
• John Cazale
  John Cazale
  John Holland Cazale , was an American film and theater actor. During his six-year film career he appeared in five films, each of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter.From his...
  
  , Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
   nominated actor, best known for role as "Fredo" in The Godfather
• Michael Chiklis
  Michael Chiklis
  Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, voice actor, occasional director and television producer. Some of the previous roles for which he is best known include Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish, LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield, Thing in...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   and Golden Globe Award
  Golden Globe Award
  The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
  
   winning actor
• Valerie Coleman, (SFA '95) Composer, Founder of Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble Imani Winds
• Alexis Cruz
  Alexis Cruz
  Alexis Cruz is an American actor, known for his performances as Rafael in Touched by an Angel and as Skaara in Stargate and Stargate SG-1. Cruz was born in The Bronx, New York of Puerto Rican descent. His mother, Julia, was a songwriter. He currently resides in Los Angeles. He went to Boston...
  
  , actor
• Geena Davis
  Geena Davis
  Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist...
  
  , (SFA 1979) Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actress
• David de Berry
  David de Berry
  David de Berry was a U.S. composer of theater music as well as an actor and music director.De Berry is best known for the score of a 1987 adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, on which he collaborated with playwright Richard Hellesen and director Dennis Bigelow...
  
  , theater composer, actor
• Ron Della Chiesa
  Ron Della Chiesa
  Ron Della Chiesa is a Boston area radio personality. Born in 1938 in Quincy, Massachusetts, he was taken by his father to jazz and Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts in the early 1950s, and developed an ear for both genres. His commentaries on WGBH-FM radio for the Boston Symphony are broadcast on...
  
  , (BA 1959) radio personality
• Andy Cohen
  Andy Cohen (television personality)
  Andy Cohen is an American television executive and host. He is currently the Executive Vice-President Original Programming and Development at the Bravo cable television network, a subsidiary of NBC Universal...
  
   Bravo TV executive and host
• Emily Deschanel, BFA, American actress, Bones
  Bones (TV series)
  Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
  
  , sister of Zooey Deschanel
  Zooey Deschanel
  Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous...
  
  
• Rocco DiSpirito
  Rocco DiSpirito
  Rocco DiSpirito is an Italian American chef based in New York City.-Life and career:DiSpirito was born in Queens, New York City, New York. He graduated in 1986 from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and in 1990 from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in business...
  
  , Chef, restaurateur, television personality The Restaurant
• Aubrey Dollar
  Aubrey Dollar
  Aubrey Dollar is an American television and film actress.She was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina and studied at Needham B. Broughton High School, where she was a classmate of fellow actor Colin Fickes. She also attended Boston University and Amherst College...
  
  , (no degree) actress
• Olympia Dukakis
  Olympia Dukakis
  Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck...
  
   (SAR BS 1953, SFA MFA 1957), Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actress
• Bill Duke
  Bill Duke
  William Henry "Bill" Duke, Jr. is an American actor and film director with over 30 years of experience. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke's work frequently dwells within the action/crime and drama genres but also includes comedy.-Early life:Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the...
  
  , actor,
• Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actress
• Patrick Dunn (SMG BSB 1985), Hong Kong actor and Television Master of Ceremonies
  Master of Ceremonies
  A Master of Ceremonies , or compere, is the host of a staged event or similar performance.An MC usually presents performers, speaks to the audience, and generally keeps the event moving....
  
  
• Jude Gerard Prest SFA - Television and Film Producer, director and Actor
• Don Ellis
  Don Ellis
  Don Ellis was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of unusual time signatures...
  
  , Trumpeter and jazz composer
• Brian Fair
  Brian Fair
  Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...
  
   Lead vocalist for the band Shadows Fall
  Shadows Fall
  Shadows Fall is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. They are one of the few contemporary metal bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy and some references to the Rastafari culture...
  
  
• Charles Farrell
  Charles Farrell
  Charles Farrell was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor...
  
   (SMG 1928 no degree) Film & TV Actor, mayor of Palm Springs, Ca., with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Bruce Feirstein
  Bruce Feirstein
  Bruce Feirstein is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Nice Guys Sleep Alone. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was on the New York Times best seller list for 53...
  
  , Screenwriter (3 James Bond movies), and author "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"
• Peter Filardi, Hollywood screenwriter, Flatliners
  Flatliners
  Flatliners is a 1990 American thriller film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students using physical science in an attempt to find out if there's anything out there beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments with near-death...
  
  
• Jason Filardi
  Jason Filardi
  -Writer:*Bringing Down the House *Drum *Gangsta M.D. *In the Navy *17 Again Back Nine -Actor:*The Craft as Paramedic*Ricky 6 as Rookie Officer-External links:...
  
  , Hollywood screenwriter, Bringing Down The House
  Bringing Down the House (film)
  Bringing Down the House is a 2003 American romantic comedy film, written by Jason Filardi and directed by Adam Shankman. The film stars Steve Martin and Queen Latifah.-Plot:...
  
  , 17 Again
  17 Again (film)
  17 Again: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on April 21, 2009 by New Line Records.-Track listing:# "On My Own" by Vincent and The Villains# "Can't Say No" by The Helio Sequence# "L.E.S...
  
  
• Greg Fitzsimmons
  Greg Fitzsimmons
  Greg Fitzsimmons is an American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer and radio host.-Life and career:Fitzsimmons has performed his comedy on numerous programs such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chelsea Lately and Comedy...
  
  , comedian
• Connie Fletcher
  Connie Fletcher
  Connie Fletcher is an American actress. She is known for her short role as Erin Lavery on All My Children .-Personal life:In December 2006 she married actor Aaron Staton....
  
  , actress
• Dan Fogler
  Dan Fogler
  Daniel Kevin "Dan" Fogler is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker.-Personal life:Fogler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second child of Shari, an English teacher, and Richard Fogler, a surgeon. Fogler is Jewish...
  
  , actor
• Alexandra Fol
  Alexandra Fol
  Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...
  
  , composer
• Justine Susanna Gamache
  Liz Enthusiasm
  Liz Enthusiasm is the pseudonym of Justinne Gamache, the lead singer of the indie synthpop band Freezepop. She currently lives in Massachusetts....
  
   (SFA BFA 1994, MFA 1999), Lead Singer, Freezepop
  Freezepop (band)
  Freezepop is an American electronic band from Boston, Massachusetts. They formed in 1999 with Liz Enthusiasm, Sean T. Drinkwater, and The Duke of Pannekoeken, an alias for composer Kasson Crooker. As of December 2009, the current lineup includes Enthusiasm, Drinkwater, Robert John "Bananas" Foster...
  
  
• Nina Garcia
  Nina Garcia
  Nina García, is a Colombian fashion journalist and critic who has held the post of Fashion Director at Elle and Marie Claire magazines, and is currently a judge on the Lifetime reality television program Project Runway....
  
  , Fashion Director of Elle Magazine, Judge for Project Runway
  Project Runway
  Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
  
  
• David Garrison
  David Garrison
  David Gene Garrison is an American actor. His primary venue is live theatre, but he may be more widely known for his numerous television roles, particularly that of Steve Rhoades on Married... with Children...
  
  , (BFA), Tony award nominated actor, Al Bundy's Neighbor on Married with Children
• Paul Michael Glaser
  Paul Michael Glaser
  Paul Michael Glaser is an American actor and director, perhaps best known for his role as Detective David Starsky on the 1970s television series Starsky and Hutch; he also appeared as Captain Jack Steeper on the 1999 to 2005 NBC series Third Watch.-Early life:Glaser, the youngest of three...
  
  , actor (Starsky!)
• Richard N. Gladstein
  Richard N. Gladstein
  Richard N. Gladstein is a film producer based in Los Angeles. His production company is FilmColony. His films include Finding Neverland, The Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Hurlyburly, and The Cider House Rules. His two Academy Award nominations came from Finding Neverland and The...
  
   (CGS non-degree program 1981, COM BS 1983), Academy Award nominated film producer
• Elon Gold
  Elon Gold
  Elon Gold is an American comedian, television actor, writer and producer. He starred in the television series Stacked. He also starred in the short-lived sitcom In-Laws...
  
  , comedian
• Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith
  Jonathan Goldsmith is an American actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s...
  
  , actor, "The Most Interesting Man in the World
  The Most Interesting Man in the World
  The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer, produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG for Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery. The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's most interesting man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman...
  
  "
• Ginnifer Goodwin, actress
• Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum
  Norman Greenbaum is an American singer-songwriter. He was raised in a traditional Jewish household and went to Hebrew school. His initial interest in music was sparked by Southern blues music and the folk music that was hugely popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
  , musician, "Spirit in the Sky"
• Mariel Hemingway
  Mariel Hemingway
  - Early life :Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise Hemingway and Jack Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan Hemingway and Margaux Hemingway...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   nominated actress, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
  
  
• Michelle Hurd
  Michelle Hurd
  Michelle Hurd is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt.-Early life:...
  
  , actress
• Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov is a Russian-born oboist and recording artist. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 2005. First Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra. Faculty member of DePaul University, Roosevelt University, ...
  
  , Principal Oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Jamie Kaler
  Jamie Kaler
  Jamie Kaler is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has gained fame by portraying the character Mike Callahan on the TBS comedy "My Boys". He has appeared on such talk shows as the Late Late Show as well as having a role on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and had a recurring role on Will...
  
   (CAS BA 1987), actor, "My Boys"
• Yunjin Kim, actress, Lost (TV series)
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
  , "The Korean Julia Roberts
  Julia Roberts
  Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
  
  "
• Andrew Kriesberg, writer, The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  
• David E. Kelley
  David E. Kelley
  David Edward Kelley is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal and Harry's Law, as well as several films. Kelley is one of the only screenwriters to have had a show created by him run on...
  
  , (JD), television producer, husband of Michelle Pfeiffer
  Michelle Pfeiffer
  Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface . Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work...
  
  , His father, Jack Kelley, coached BU Hockey
• Paula Kelley
  Paula Kelley
  Paula Kelley is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston, Massachusetts. She began her musical career in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before leaving them in 1994 to start her own career in songwriting...
  
  , singer
• Jeff Kline, Producer, various children's television shows
• Dominique LaBelle, opera singer
• Vincent Larusso
  Vincent Larusso
  Vincent "Sween" Angelo LaRusso is an American actor. He is most known for playing the character of "Adam Banks" in The Mighty Ducks trilogy. LaRusso plays the bass, and he graduated from Madison High School in New Jersey and Boston University's School of Management...
  
  , (BSB 2000 SMG), actor The Mighty Ducks films
  The Mighty Ducks films
  The Mighty Ducks is a series of three live-action films and one animated film released in the 1990s by Walt Disney Pictures. The movies revolve around a Twin Cities ice hockey team, composed of young players that stick together throughout various challenges...
  
  
• James Kyson Lee, actor Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  
• Erica Leerhsen
  Erica Leerhsen
  Erica Lei Leerhsen is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the horror films Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Wrong Turn 2. She is often referred to as a modern day scream queen...
  
  , (BFA '98), Actress
• Noah Lennox, experimental musician and founding member of the Animal Collective
  Animal Collective
  Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
  
  
• Will Lyman
  Will Lyman
  William Lyman is an American voice-over artist and actor, perhaps best known for his polished, resonant voice that has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984. Lyman has made a successful career in television and theater...
  
  , (SFA '71), Narrator, PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   Frontline
• Yan Luo (screenwriter)
  Yan Luo (screenwriter)
  Luo Yan is a Chinese American actress and screenwriter. She was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang. After having a successful acting career in China, she came to the U.S. in the mid 1980s. She started her own business during the early 1990s and later became the first female Chinese filmmaker to produce,...
  
  , actress
• Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston, co-creator of the comic book character, Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
  
  
• Rob Mariano
  Rob Mariano
  Robert Carlo "Boston Rob" Mariano is an American television personality, widely known for appearing in several reality shows, including Survivor, and The Amazing Race with his wife, Amber Brkich Mariano. Mariano won Survivor: Redemption Island and the $1,000,000 prize after competing on the show...
  
   (CAS BA 1999), better known as Boston Rob, an American reality TV star and husband of Amber Brkich
• Joshua Marvit, (writing under pseudonym Milt Pupique), creator of acrosticdoublespeak
• Megan McCormick
  Megan McCormick
  Megan Leah McCormick is one of the main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series Globe Trekker .-Professional work:...
  
  , television travel host
• David Metzler, television producer
• Tom Magliozzi
  Tom Magliozzi
  Thomas Louis "Click Tappet" Magliozzi is an American radio talk show host. He and his younger brother Ray Magliozzi, also known collectively as Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers, are the hosts of National Public Radio's Car Talk. -Biography:Thomas Louis...
  
  , (MBA, PhD) co-host of Car Talk
  Car Talk
  Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns...
  
  
• Ikuko Mizuno-Spire, violinist, Boston Symphony Orchestra
  Boston Symphony Orchestra
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
  
  
• Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   nominated and Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winning actress
• Russell Morash
  Russell Morash
  Russell Morash is a television producer and director of many television programs produced through WGBH and airing on PBS.His shows include This Old House, The Victory Garden, and The New Yankee Workshop...
  
  , (BA '57), Emmy Award winning producer, This Old House
  This Old House
  This Old House is an American home improvement magazine and television series aired on the American television station Public Broadcasting Service which follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.-Overview:...
  
  , New Yankee Workshop, The Victory Garden
  The Victory Garden (TV series)
  The Victory Garden is an American public television program about gardening and other outdoor activities, produced by station WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed by PBS...
  
  
• Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....
  
  , (No degree, school of education), Star Trek
  Star Trek
  Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
  
  , Spock
  Spock
  Spock is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series, Spock also appears in the animated Star Trek series, two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, seven of the Star Trek feature films, and numerous Star Trek...
  
  
• Michael Niro, producer, writer, celebrity interviewer (HBO) (Barbra Streisand: The Concert) (Sopranos)(Six Feet Under)
• Kevin O'Connor
  Kevin O'Connor (television)
  Kevin O'Connor is a television personality from the United States. He has been the host of the PBS home renovation series This Old House since replacing Steve Thomas in 2003. In 2008, Kevin won "The Boy-Next-Door I Would Most Like to Live-Next-Door To" award from the Football Cheerleaders League...
  
  , (GSM MBA '99) host of This Old House
  This Old House
  This Old House is an American home improvement magazine and television series aired on the American television station Public Broadcasting Service which follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.-Overview:...
  
  
• Rosie O'Donnell
  Rosie O'Donnell
  Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author and television personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family...
  
   (dropout), actress, comedian
• Linda Park, actress
• Peter Paige
  Peter Paige
  Peter Paige is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. His debut as director and writer was on the film Say Uncle.-Biography:Paige was born in West Hartford, Connecticut...
  
  , actor
• Ethan Phillips
  Ethan Phillips
  Ethan Phillips is an American actor, playwright and author. He is known for television roles such as Star Trek: Voyager's Neelix and Benson's Pete Downey.-Personal life:...
  
  , actor
• Paula Plum, actress, director, playwright
• Paul Rachman
  Paul Rachman
  Paul Rachman is an American film director who directed the highly praised 2006 documentary on punk music American Hardcore which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival...
  
  , (CAS BA '82), Film Director American Hardcore
  American Hardcore
  American Hardcore is the only L.A. Guns album to feature singer Chris Van Dahl and the first to feature bass guitarist Johnny Crypt. This album continues the increase in heaviness by the band started on their previous album Vicious Circle....
  
  , co-founder Slamdance FIlm Festival
  Slamdance Film Festival
  As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent in the film industry; it is also the only major film festival fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance counts among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the...
  
  
• Kim Raver
  Kim Raver
  Kimberly Jayne "Kim" Raver is an American actress.She is best known for her numerous roles on TV: as Kim Zambrano on Third Watch, Audrey Raines on 24, Nico Reilly on Lipstick Jungle, and, most recently, Teddy Altman on Grey's Anatomy.-Personal life:Raver was raised in New York City by her mother,...
  
  , (BFA) actress, (Audrey Raines from 24
  24 (TV series)
  24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
  
  )
• Paul Reubens
  Paul Reubens
  Paul Reubens is an American actor, writer, film producer, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor...
  
   (dropout), actor.
• Scott Rosenberg
  Scott Rosenberg
  Scott Rosenberg is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer.- Biography :Born in Needham, Massachusetts in 1963, Rosenberg received a Bachelor's Degree from Boston University. He earned his MFA from UCLA...
  
  , Hollywood screenwriter, Con Air
  Con Air
  Con Air is an Academy Award–nominated 1997 American action-thriller film directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich...
  
  , High Fidelity
  High Fidelity (film)
  High Fidelity is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack and the Danish actress Iben Hjejle. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name of the lead character...
  
  
• Jeffrey Ross
  Jeffrey Ross
  Jeff Ross is an American stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor, director and author.-Early life:...
  
  , actor, comedian
• Patti Rothberg
  Patti Rothberg
  Patti Rothberg is a New York-based singer, songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and painter/artist.Born in New York City Rothberg grew up in Scarsdale, NY, playing piano from the age of 3 and writing songs by the age of 15, joining a high school Rod Stewart cover band.Rothberg...
  
  , (no degree awarded), singer, songwriter
• Anthony Ruivivar
  Anthony Ruivivar
  Anthony Michael Ruivivar is an American actor known for his portrayal of FDNY paramedic Carlos Nieto in the TV series Third Watch, and other law-enforcement roles in different TV series.-Background:...
  
  , actor
• Harold Russell
  Harold Russell
  Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actor, former National Commander of AMVETS
• Sarah Saltzberg
  Sarah Saltzberg
  Sarah Saltzberg is an American actress and singer. She most recently starred in and produced the improv and sketch comedy show Don't Quit Your Night Job at the Ha! Comedy Club in New York. Also she recently appeared in the movie City Island as the Casting Director...
  
  , actress
• Richard Sher, radio and television producer
• Lan Shui
  Lan Shui
  Lan Shui is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Music Director, Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
   Symphony Orchestra
• Matt Squire
  Matt Squire
  Matt Squire is an American multi-platinum music producer and writer. He has produced, engineered, or written tracks for One Direction, 3OH!3, Good Charlotte, New Boyz, Selena Gomez, David Archuleta, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, The Used, All Time Low, Panic! at the Disco, Boys Like Girls, The Cab,...
  
  , (CAS 1999), Platinum Music Producer
• Eric Stein, castmember on Big Brother 8
  Big Brother 8 (U.S.)
  Big Brother 8 is the eighth season of the US version of the reality TV-show Big Brother on CBS. The season was announced on February 1, 2007. Julie Chen returned for this season as host. Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan are executive producers. Arnold Shapiro stepped down as producer following last...
  
  
• Howard Stern
  Howard Stern
  Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
  
  , (CGS non degree program 1974, COM BS 1976), radio host and self-declared "King of All Media"
• Ryan Sypek
  Ryan Sypek
  Ryan Sypek was born on August 6, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wayland High School in 2000. While attending Boston University, Ryan spent a semester in London at LAMDA...
  
  , actor
• Mary Timony
  Mary Timony
  Mary B. Timony is an American independent singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist. She was a member of the bands Helium and Autoclave, and currently plays in Wild Flag.-Biography:...
  
  , indie rocker
• Marisa Tomei
  Marisa Tomei
  Marisa Tomei is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987...
  
   (attended CFA 1983, Hon. DFA 2002), Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning actress
• Armand Van Helden
  Armand Van Helden
  Armand Van Helden is a record producer, DJ and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" , which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "U Don't Know Me ", which went to number 1...
  
  , DJ
• Joan Wasser
  Joan Wasser
  Joan Wasser is a violinist and singer/songwriter in the indie rock world. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders. She has released three albums as a singer songwriter, the 2006 Real Life the 2008 To Survive and the 2011 The Deep Field...
  
  , indie rocker
• William Waterhouse
  William Waterhouse (violinist)
  William James Waterhouse was a Canadian violinist and music educator. At the age of 4 he began studying the violin with his father, John Waterhouse, and music theory with the composer and conductor Bernard Naylor. While a teenager he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was a...
  
  , violinist
• Michaela Watkins
  Michaela Watkins
  Michaela Suzanne Watkins is an American comic actress, best known for her various roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, a regular performer with The Groundlings in Los Angeles, her recurring role as "Lucy" in the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, and for her supporting role as...
  
  , actress, Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
  
• Cynthia Watros
  Cynthia Watros
  Cynthia Michele Watros is an American television actress, who also starred in films and on stage. She is known for her roles as Libby on the ABC TV series Lost, Kellie in The Drew Carey Show, Erin in Titus, and Annie Dutton in Guiding Light...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winning actress
• Ashley Williams, (BA '01) actress, Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
   'It Girl', 2003
• Michael Williams
  Michael Williams (film producer)
  Michael Williams is a film producer. He won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for the documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara in 2004. He also won an Emmy Award in 2004 for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which he created...
  
  , Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   winning producer
• Alfre Woodard
  Alfre Woodard
  Alfre Ette Woodard is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards , and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
   winning and Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   nominated actress
• David Weinberg, American vocalist, The Suicide File
  The Suicide File
  The Suicide File was a short-lived American hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts that formed in April 2001. The band wrote songs with a mostly political message, although many songs also dealt with social and personal problems. Most of the band's output was released on the Southern California...
  
  

Journalism, non-fiction film and broadcasting

• Elissa Altman, food writer, The Huffington Post
  The Huffington Post
  The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
  
  , restaurant critic, Hartford Courant
• Mike Barnicle
  Mike Barnicle
  Michael "Mike" Barnicle is an award-winning American print and broadcast journalist as well as a social and political commentator. He is a frequent contributor and occasional guest host on MSNBC's Morning Joe and Hardball with Chris Matthews and is frequently seen on NBC's Today Show with...
  
  , Journalist, Radio Host
• Peter Botte, (SMG 1990 BSB) Sportswriter, New York Daily News, The Hockey News.
• Liz Cho, WABC-TV
  WABC-TV
  WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
  
   News Anchor
• Christine Chubbuck
  Christine Chubbuck
  Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who committed suicide during a live television broadcast.-Early life and education:...
  
  , television reporter who committed suicide on live television in 1974
• Elizabeth Cohen
  Elizabeth Cohen
  Elizabeth Cohen is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is the channel's senior medical correspondent and appears on American Morning.-Early life:...
  
  , CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   medical correspondent
• Joe Concannon, (deceased), Sports writer, Boston Globe
• Glenn Consor
  Glenn Consor
  Glenn Consor is a radio color commentator for the Washington Wizards. -Biography:Glenn is the color analyst for radio station 106.7 The Fan, which services the Washington, D.C. metro areal. The 2009-10 season marks Glenn Consor’s third season as the color analyst and post-game call-in show host...
  
  , (BS '80), Sports Broadcaster, Radio Color Commentary for FM 106.7 Washington DC Washington Wizards
  Washington Wizards
  The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
  
   broadcasts. Started 4 years for Rick Pitino on BU Basketball Team
• Fabien Cousteau
  Fabien Cousteau
  Fabien Cousteau is a French aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer. He is son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and grandson of the noted oceanographic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Born in Paris, he grew up in both France and the United States, and frequently accompanied his grandfather and father...
  
  , (BS '91), Aquatic filmmaker, grandson of Jacques Cousteau
• David Doubilet
  David Doubilet
  David Doubilet is a well known underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine. He was born in New York and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water...
  
   (COM 1970 BS), underwater photographer, National Geographic
• Mark Feinsand, (COM 1996 BS)Sportswriter, New York Daily News.
• Tyler Hicks
  Tyler Hicks
  Tyler Hicks is an American journalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Turkey, he typically covers foreign affairs, with an emphasis in recent years on conflict and war, but also works at times on assignments across the United States.He has won several awards...
  
  , photographer, New York Times
• Erica Hill
  Erica Hill
  Erica Ruth Hill is an American journalist and co-anchor of The Early Show on CBS. Prior to her current position, she was the weekday news anchor and Saturday co-anchor of the show. Hill previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for CNN, Headline News and TechTV.- Personal life :Hill was...
  
  , anchor, CNN Headline News
• Jeremy Hobson, reporter, Marketplace
  Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California...
  
  
• Randi Kaye
  Randi Kaye
  Randi Kaye is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is currently a national correspondent for the channel.-Early life and career:Kaye graduated cum laude from Boston University with a degree in broadcast journalism....
  
  , CNN Correspondent, AC360
• Yunghi Kim (COM 1984 BS) photographer, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, NPPA-POY Magazine Photographer Of The Year
• Michele LaFountain
  Michele LaFountain
  Michele LaFountain is the first Puerto Rican to become anchor of ESPN's Spanish version of SportsCenter.-Early years:Michele was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She earned a Bachelor's degree in English and American Literature at Harvard University...
  
  , Anchor, ESPN SportsCenter en espanól
• Albert Maysles, Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker
• Kevin Merida, Associate Editor, Washington Post
• Carl Mydans
  Carl Mydans
  Carl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine....
  
  , (CBA BS 1930), Photographic journalist with Life Magazine
  Life (magazine)
  Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
  
   from 1936 into the 1950s
• Joseph Nocera
  Joseph Nocera
  Joseph "Joe" Nocera is an American business journalist and author. He became a business columnist for The New York Times in April 2005. In March 2011, Nocera became a regular opinion columnist for The Times' Op-Ed page, writing on Tuesdays and Saturdays...
  
  , columnist, New York Times
• Bill O'Reilly
  Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
  William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news television program on American television...
  
  , (MS '75), Radio & Television personality
• Melanie Page, Former CNBC employee
• Anthony Radziwill
  Anthony Radziwill
  Anthony Stanislas Albert Radziwill was an American television executive and filmmaker.-Early life and education:...
  
  , NBC anchor and reporter
• Jay Severin
  Jay Severin
  Jay Severin, , is an American political talk radio personality. Severin has signed a multi-year contract with Boston's WXKS-AM Talk 1200 as an on-air personality...
  
  , commentator, politico
• Casey Sherman
  Casey Sherman
  Casey Sherman is an American true crime author and journalist.-Background:Sherman was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. His mother, Diane Sullivan Sherman, was the sister of Mary Sullivan, who was believed to be the final victim of the Boston Strangler. Sherman attended Barnstable High School and...
  
  , Bestselling author of A Rose for Mary, Black Irish & The Finest Hours
• Bill Simmons
  Bill Simmons
  William J. "Bill" Simmons III is a sports columnist, author, and podcaster. He currently writes columns and hosts podcasts for Grantland.com, which is affiliated with ESPN.com. He is a former writer for ESPN The Magazine and Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
  
  , (COM 1993 MS) Podcaster, Writer for ESPN's Page2
• Howard Stern
  Howard Stern
  Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
  
   (CGS 1974 NDP, SPC 1976 BS), shock jock, radio personality, "King of all Media"
• Sharon Tay
  Sharon Tay
  Sharon Tay is an Asian American journalist and former host of two programs on the MSNBC network.-Life and career:Tay was born in Singapore and emigrated to the United States at the age of seven. Her family settled in Connecticut for several years before relocating to the Philippines...
  
  , host, MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
  
• Anthony Tommasini
  Anthony Tommasini
  -Early years:Tommasini was born in Brooklyn around 1948 and raised on Long Island. He was admitted to Oberlin College's Conservatory of Music, but chose to matriculate at Yale University in order to obtain a broader liberal arts education...
  
  , Chief Music Critic, New York Times
• Nina Totenberg
  Nina Totenberg
  Nina Totenberg is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition...
  
  , (COM 1965) correspondent for National Public Radio
• Susan Tran, reporter, WHDH
• Gary Tuchman, (COM 1982 BS) reporter, CNN
• Dana Tyler
  Dana Tyler
  Dana Tyler is a senior news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. She currently anchors the 6 pm newscasts with Chris Wragge, and also hosts Eye on New York, a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS, as well as annual local specials CBS 2 at Tony's, CBS 2 at the Met and...
  
  , Emmy Award winning news anchor
• Linda Vester
  Linda Vester
  Linda Vester is an American TV news host. She was the host of Dayside with Linda Vester on the Fox News Channel, first joining the channel in 1999. She later left the channel to look after her children....
  
  , host, Fox News Channel
• Jim Vicevich
  Jim Vicevich
  Jim "Buddy" Vicevich is an American talk radio host based in Hartford, Connecticut. His show Sound Off Connecticut deals with local, as well as national, topics ranging from politics, economics and social issues, to movies and music...
  
  , Radio Host of Sound Off Connecticut
• Luci Saint Michael, Photojournalist, LIFE Magazine, National Geographic

Literature

• Anthony Bruno, (CAS 1974 BA), Novelist
• Percy Jewett Burrell
  Percy Jewett Burrell
  Percy Jewett Burrell was an author and director of historical and civic pageants, or dramas, and was known for his skills in oratory and elocution, . He also taught public speaking and drama, and was known as a "public reciter"...
  
  , (pre-1900 B.O., School of Oratory) American dramatist
• Hal Clement
  Hal Clement
  Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
  , (SED 1946 M.Ed), science fiction writer
• Nicholas Gage
  Nicholas Gage
  Nicholas Gage is a Greek American author and investigative journalist. Today he and his wife, Joan, live in North Grafton, Massachusetts...
  
   (DGE 1961, COM BS 1963, HON LtD 1985), Author, "Eleni
  Eleni
  Eleni is a phonetic spelling of the Modern Greek name "Ελένη", whose ancient version, Ἑλένη, is anglicized as Helen. Popular diminutives and nicknames include: Elenitsa, Elenaki, Elena, Lena, Lenio, Nitsa.Eleni may refer to:...
  
  ", "A Place For Us", "Greek Fire
  Greek fire
  Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to great effect as it could continue burning while floating on water....
  
  "
• Peter Guralnick
  Peter Guralnick
  Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter. He has been married for over 45 years to Alexandra...
  
  ,(1971 MA), author focused on twentieth-century American popular music
• Younghill Kang
  Younghill Kang
  Younghill Kang was an important early Asian American writer. He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee. He has been called "the father of Korean American literature."- Life and career :As a...
  
  , author, Guggenheim Fellow
• William Ellery Leonard
  William Ellery Leonard
  William Ellery Leonard was an American poet, playwright, translator, and literary scholar.-Early life:...
  
   (1899) Poet
• Susan Miller
  Sue Miller
  Sue Miller is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching...
  
  , (SSW 1979 MSS), author
• Stewart O'Nan
  Stewart O'Nan
  - Life and work :Born on February 4, 1961 to John Lee O'Nan and Mary Ann O'Nan, née Smith. He and his brother were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
  , (ENG 1983 BS), author
• Robert B. Parker
  Robert B. Parker
  Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also...
  
  , (GRS 1957 MA, 1971 PhD), author, "Spencer for Hire" and other mystery novels
• Norman Vincent Peale
  Norman Vincent Peale
  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was a minister and author and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".-Early life and education:...
  
  , (STh) Minister, author
• John Perkins, (SMG 1968 BSB), economist, author
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research...
  
  , (GRS 1975 MA) science fiction author
• Lauren Slater
  Lauren Slater
  Lauren Slater is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of six books, including Welcome To My Country , Prozac Diary , and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir...
  
  , (SED 1995 EDD [Doctor of Education]) author, psychologist
• Anne Sexton
  Anne Sexton
  Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize winning poet
• Neal Stephenson
  Neal Stephenson
  Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk...
  
  , (CLA 1981 BA) science fiction author
• Dorothy West
  Dorothy West
  Dorothy West was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper-class black family.-Early years:...
  
  , author, member of Harlem Renaissance
• Scott Whitaker, poet

Sports

• Carl Adams, current wrestling coach; 3-time NCAA All-American, 2-time National Champion @ 158 lb.
• Harry Agganis
  Harry Agganis
  Aristotle George Agganis ' , nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was an American athletic star in two sports. His family origins were from Longanikos near Sparta, Greece. -Career:...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Tony Amonte
  Tony Amonte
  Anthony Lewis Amonte is a retired American professional ice hockey player. He played right wing for the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and the Calgary Flames, all of the National Hockey League...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Shawn Bates
  Shawn Bates
  Shawn William Bates is an American professional ice hockey center and is currently a free agent. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders.- College :...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Raja Bell
  Raja Bell
  Raja Bell is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. Bell is known for his three-point shooting and intense defense.- Biography :Bell was born in Saint Croix, in the U.S...
  
   (transferred to Florida International University
  Florida International University
  Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
  
  ), NBA basketball player
• Rocco Benetton
  Rocco Benetton
  Rocco Benetton is the former chief executive of the Benetton Formula One team.-Personal background:...
  
   former chief executive of the Benetton Formula One team.
• Cindy Blodgett
  Cindy Blodgett
  Cindy Lee Blodgett is a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She was also the head coach at University of Maine, located in Orono, Maine from 2007 to 2011. Cindy attended Lawrence High School in Fairfield, where she was an all-star basketball player. She led the Bulldogs to a...
  
  , Former WNBA Player, Assistant Basketball Coach
• Nick Bonino
  Nick Bonino
  Nick Bonino is an American professional ice hockey Center currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks.-Playing career:Bonino began his high school career at Farmington High School in Connecticut, where he amassed 91 points in 24 games as a junior and led the school to its first state championship...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Billy Brooks
  Billy Brooks
  William McKinley Brooks III is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 11th overall in the 1976 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma.Brooks also played for the San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers.-External...
  
  , NFL's Buffalo Bills '93-'95
• Thomas Burke, (Law LL.B. 1897) Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   Champion
• Butch Byrd
  Butch Byrd
  George Edward "Butch" Byrd was a professional American football defensive back. He started his career playing college football at Boston University. He joined the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and immediately made an impact in the defensive backfield, with seven interceptions. Byrd was also a solid...
  
  , Professional Football Standout
• Gerardo Mauricio Chavez Montaño
  Gerardo Mauricio Chavez Montaño
  Gerardo Mauricio Chavez Montaño, also Mauricio Chavez, is the President of the Bomberos de Mexicali basketball team of the CIBACOPA Pacific Circuit of Mexican Basketball.-Early years:...
  
  , (CAS '02) President and General Manager of Bomberos de Mexicali, Club de Basquetbol, of Mexico's CIBACOPA League
• Glenn Consor
  Glenn Consor
  Glenn Consor is a radio color commentator for the Washington Wizards. -Biography:Glenn is the color analyst for radio station 106.7 The Fan, which services the Washington, D.C. metro areal. The 2009-10 season marks Glenn Consor’s third season as the color analyst and post-game call-in show host...
  
  , (BS '80), Sports Broadcaster, Radio Color Commentary for FM 106.7 Washington DC Washington Wizards
  Washington Wizards
  The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
  
   broadcasts. Started 4 years for Rick Pitino on BU Basketball Team
• Mickey Cochrane
  Mickey Cochrane
  Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane was a professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers...
  
  , Hall of Fame Baseball player
• Jim Craig, 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
  
• Jochen Dieckfoss, 4-time America East cross-country
  Cross country running
  Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
  
   champion
• Rick DiPietro
  Rick DiPietro
  Rick DiPietro, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League . He was the first overall selection by the Islanders in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Andy Dorman
  Andy Dorman
  Andrew "Andy" Dorman is a Wales international footballer. Born in England of English parents, he grew up in Wales and represented the Wales schools team, eventually gaining full senior international recognition when FIFA amended its rules on eligibility...
  
  , Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
  
   soccer player
• Chris Drury
  Chris Drury
  Christopher Drury is an American retired professional ice hockey player. Drury is a Hobey Baker Award-winner with Boston University, a Calder Trophy winner with the Colorado Avalanche, a Stanley Cup champion with the Avalanche, a two-time Olympic silver medalist with the United States, and a...
  
  , NHL hockey player, Hobey Baker
  Hobey Baker
  Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Regarded as the first American star in ice hockey, he was also an accomplished football player. Born into a prominent family from Philadelphia, he enrolled at Princeton University in 1910...
  
   Award winner
• Tom Dwan
  Tom Dwan
  Thomas Dwan Jr. is an American professional poker player who regularly plays online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker, where he plays under the screen name "durrrr"...
  
  , Professional Poker Player
• Michael Emenalo
  Michael Emenalo
  Michael Kevin Emenalo is a retired Nigerian football defender.-Career:Emenalo played college Soccer in the United States at Boston University from 1986 to 1989. From there, he played for Molenbeek in Belgium, Eintracht Trier in Germany and Notts County F.C in England before coming back to the US...
  
   (CAS BA 1989), member of Nigeria
  Nigeria national football team
  The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed the Super Eagles or Green Eagles, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation . The team has ranked as high as 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, in April 1994...
  
  's 1994 World Cup soccer team
• Mike Eruzione, Captain, 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
  
• Dick Farley
  Dick Farley
  Richard Joseph Farley is a former American football player and coach and active track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at Williams College from 1987 to 2003, compiling a record of 114–19–3...
  
  , College Football Hall of Fame
  College Football Hall of Fame
  The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
  
   coach
• Foge Fazio
  Foge Fazio
  Serafino Dante "Foge" Fazio was an American former National Football League defensive assistant and college football head coach....
  
  , NCAA football Coach, NFL football coach
• Michael Felger
  Michael Felger
  Michael "Mike" Felger is a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England. He also co-hosts an afternoon sports radio talk with The Boston Globe online columnist Tony Massarotti on WBZ-FM "98.5 The Sports Hub" in Boston....
  
  , sports writer for the Boston Herald
  Boston Herald
  The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
  
   and sports radio talk show host
• Matt Gilroy
  Matt Gilroy
  Matthew Gilroy is an American professional ice hockey defenseman playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League .Gilroy completed a four-year tenure with the Boston University Terriers of Hockey East...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Mike Grier
  Mike Grier
  Michael James Grier is a retired professional ice hockey winger who most recently played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League . He has also played professionally for the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, and San Jose Sharks...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Cornella Harrington Sanders, Olympic speed skater
• Bill Herrion
  Bill Herrion
  Bill Herrion is an American college basketball coach. Since 2005, he has been the men's head coach with the University of New Hampshire. Prior to coming to UNH, he served as the head coach at East Carolina University and Drexel University. He has been an assistant with Boston University, George...
  
  , NCAA basketball coach
• Karl Hobbs
  Karl Hobbs
  Karl Hobbs is a former men's college basketball coach. He is currently the Director, Basketball Operations at the University of Connecticut. He is the former head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team...
  
  , NCAA basketball coach
• Rick Hoyt, inspirational triathlete
• Mike Jarvis
  Mike Jarvis
  Mike Jarvis is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Florida Atlantic University. He has coached at Boston University, George Washington University and St. John's University. He also has worked as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN...
  
  , NCAA Basketball Coach
• Jim "Crash" Jensen, Former NFL football player
• Adam Kagin, Professional Poker Player
• Robyn Kenney
  Robyn Kenney
  Robyn Kenney is a field hockey midfielder from the United States, who earned her first senior career cap vs Russia on May 2, 2002. Kenney attended Boston University...
  
  , Team USA Field Hockey
• Steven Key
  Steven Key
  Steven Key was the head coach of the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association . As a player, he played for Boston University, professionally in the Continental Basketball Association , and throughout Europe....
  
  , WNBA's CHicago SKy head coach/general manager
• Jeffrey Lurie
  Jeffrey Lurie
  Jeffrey Lurie is a former Hollywood producer-turned National Football League team owner. Lurie bought the Philadelphia Eagles on May 6, 1994 from then-owner Norman Braman for $195 million...
  
  , ex-owner, Philadelphia Eagles, ex-professor, BU
• Shawn McEachern
  Shawn McEachern
  Shawn K. McEachern is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He is the current head boys' varsity ice hockey coach at The Rivers School, an independent 6–12 school in Weston, Massachusetts....
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Stephanie McMahon, WWE current Executive Vice President of Talent Relations, Live Events and Creative Writing
• Shane McMahon
  Shane McMahon
  Shane Brandon McMahon is an American executive, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of YOU On Demand. A former executive and professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment , he is the son of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon and former US Senate candidate Linda...
  
  , WWE former Executive Vice President of Global Media
• Freddy Meyer
  Freddy Meyer
  Frederick Meyer IV is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who currently plays for Modo Hockey of the Swedish Elitserien.- Playing career :Meyer was signed by the Philadelphia Flyers on May 21, 2003 to an entry level contract...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Jack O'Callahan
  Jack O'Callahan
  John J. "Jack" O'Callahan is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 390 NHL regular season games between 1982 and 1989 for the Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils...
  
  , 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
  
• Jay Pandolfo
  Jay Pandolfo
  Jay Paul Pandolfo is an American professional ice hockey forward currently a member of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.He spent most of his career with the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Jack Parker, legendary Boston University hockey coach
• Gary Plummer, NBA player
• Rick Pitino
  Rick Pitino
  Rick Pitino is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996...
  
  , NCAA & NBA Basketball Coach
• Tom Poti
  Tom Poti
  Thomas Emilio Poti is an ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. He attended Saint Peter-Marian High School for two years. A graduate of the Cushing Academy, Poti moved on to play for Boston University of Hockey East...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Ed Ronan
  Ed Ronan
  Edward Ronan is a former professional hockey player from 1991-1998.He played in the NHL for the Montreal Canadiens, Winnipeg Jets and Buffalo Sabres. He won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with Montreal....
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Dave Silk
  Dave Silk
  David Mark "Silky" Silk is a retired professional American ice hockey forward who played 249 NHL regular season games for the Boston Bruins, Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers between 1980 and 1985.-Amateur career:Silk attended Thayer Academy in Braintree, where he scored 85...
  
  , 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
  Miracle on Ice
  The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...
  
  
• Mike Sullivan (hockey), NHL Hockey Player, NHL Coach
• John Thomas (athlete), High Jump World Record Holder
• Keith Tkachuk
  Keith Tkachuk
  Keith Matthew Tkachuk is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played for four teams and three franchises in his 19-year career. He is one of only four American-born players to score 500 goals, and is the sixth American player to score 1,000 points.- Playing career :Tkachuk began...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Ryan Whitney
  Ryan Whitney
  Ryan Whitney is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League ....
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Brandon Yip
  Brandon Yip
  Brandon Yip is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. He is of 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 Irish descent.-Playing career:...
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Scott Young, retired NHL player

Miscellaneous

• Francis Lee Bailey
  Francis Lee Bailey
  Francis Lee Bailey Jr., commonly referred to as F. Lee Bailey, is a former attorney in Massachusetts and Florida. He was a criminal defense lawyer who served as the lawyer in the Sam Sheppard re-trial. He was also the supervisory attorney over attorney Mark J...
  
  , (JD '60) (A.K.A. F. Lee Bailey), Renowned lawyer, Graduated first in class
• Bernard Berenson
  Bernard Berenson
  Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".-Personal life:...
  
   (attended CLA 1883-84, no degree) prominent Art Historian of the early 20th Century
• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
  Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
  Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.-Early life:...
  
  , wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
  John F. Kennedy, Jr.
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. , often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John, was an American socialite, magazine publisher, lawyer, and pilot. The elder son of U.S. President John F...
  
  . Killed in an airplane crash
  John F. Kennedy, Jr. airplane crash
  On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr. died when the Piper Saratoga light aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. His wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, were also killed. His flight departed from Essex...
  
   on July 16, 1999.
• James Richard Cocke
  James Richard Cocke
  James Richard Cocke , who had been blind since infancy, was an American physician, homeopath, and a pioneer hypnotherapist.- Early life :...
  
  , M.D. (1863–1900), American physician, homeopath, and a pioneer hypnotherapist (the first blind medical graduate)
• Richard A. Cohen, instrumental figure in conversion therapy
• Warren A. Cole
  Warren A. Cole
  Warren Albert Cole , born in Swansea, Massachusetts, was a successful businessman and lawyer and is known as the founder of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.-Education:...
  
  , founder of the Lambda Chi Alpha
  Lambda Chi Alpha
  Lambda Chi Alpha is one of the largest men's secret general fraternities in North America, having initiated more than 280,000 members and held chapters at more than 300 universities. It is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference and was founded by Warren A. Cole, while he was a...
  
   Fraternity
  Fraternities and sororities
  Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
  
  , which is one of the largest social fraternities in the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  
• Charles Alexander Eastman (first named Ohiyesa), Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer.
• Fe Del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...
  
   (1940), National Scientist of the Philippines
  National Scientist of the Philippines
  The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...
  
  . A recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
  Ramon Magsaysay Award
  The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel...
  
   which is considered the Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
   of Asia
  Asia
  Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
  
  , she devised an incubator made out of bamboo, designed for use in rural communities without electrical power.
• Tom Dwan
  Tom Dwan
  Thomas Dwan Jr. is an American professional poker player who regularly plays online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker, where he plays under the screen name "durrrr"...
  
   aka Durrr (no degree), Professional Poker Player
• Ivan Fisher
  Ivan Fisher
  Ivan S. Fisher is a prominent New York criminal defense attorney. He represents white-collar clients and others targeted or charged in complex federal matters.As a young lawyer, Fisher represented the writer Jack Abbott in a murder trial...
  
  , Prominent lawyer
• Tipper Gore
  Tipper Gore
  Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore , née Aitcheson, is an author, photographer, former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of Al Gore...
  
  , Former 2nd Lady of the United States
• Larry Graham, (JD '70), President, National Confectioners Association
  National Confectioners Association
  Founded in 1884 in Chicago by representatives of 69 confectionery manufacturing firms, the National Confectioners Association is one of the oldest trade associations in the world. It is currently based in Washington, DC....
  
  
• Jeffrey Guterman
  Jeffrey Guterman
  Jeffrey Guterman is an American mental health counselor, educator, and author. He is author of the book, Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling, which was published by the American Counseling Association in March, 2006 . Guterman obtained a B.A. in psychology from Boston University in...
  
  , Mental health counselor and counselor educator
• Karen Kwan
  Karen Kwan
  Karen Wingyan Kwan Oppegard is best known as the older sister of figure skater Michelle Kwan. Karen is two years older than Michelle and was an elite figure skater herself....
  
  , skater
• Joyce Jillson
  Joyce Jillson
  Joyce Jillson was a syndicated newspaper columnist, best-selling author, actress, and astrologer. Her column was syndicated worldwide in over 200 papers and magazines....
  
  , astrologer, 20th Century Fox Studios, Reagan Administration
• Hadassah Lieberman
  Hadassah Lieberman
  Hadassah Lieberman is the wife of United States Senator Joseph Lieberman .-Biography:She was born Hadassah Freilich in a refugee camp in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents were both Holocaust survivors. Her father was Samuel Freilich, a lawyer and rabbi from Munkács, in the Carpathian Ruthenia...
  
  , wife of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman
• Mark Rosewater
  Mark Rosewater
  Mark Rosewater is a Magic: The Gathering card designer. He is currently Magics head designer.-Biography:Rosewater grew up in Pepper Pike, Ohio, where he attended the Orange High School. Rosewater has a Jewish background. Rosewater has described himself in his youth as a "social outcast", who did...
  
  , Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
  
   Head Designer
• Travis Roy
  Travis Roy
  Travis Roy is an American former college ice hockey player.Roy attended Yarmouth High School as a freshman, then transferred to nearby North Yarmouth Academy in order to pursue an athletic scholarship...
  
  , (COM 2000) a leading activist for spinal cord injury survivors and founder of The Travis Roy Foundation
• Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. is a Maine historian. In 2004 and 2008,, Shettleworth was appointed the sixth State Historian by Governor John Baldacci.-Personal:...
  
  , State Historian of Maine
• Joe Solmonese
  Joe Solmonese
  Joe Solmonese is president of the Human Rights Campaign of the United States and its affiliate the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. He was appointed to this position on March 9, 2005. A native of Attleboro, Massachusetts, Solmonese lives in Washington, D.C...
  
  , (COM 1987) President of the Human Rights Campaign
  Human Rights Campaign
  The Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...
  
  
• Dawn Steel
  Dawn Steel
  Dawn Steel was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio. She was born as Dawn Spielberg in New York City and raised in the suburb Great Neck, Long Island. Her father changed the family name.- Career :Dawn Steel attended New York University but did not graduate...
  
   (deceased)(did not graduate), first woman to run a major hollywood studio
• Steven H. Untracht, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., (CAS BA '75), member of 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner Doctors Without Borders.
• Trish Vradenburg
  Trish Vradenburg
  Trish Vradenburg is an American playwright, author, television writer, and Alzheimer’s Disease advocate.-Biography:Vradenburg was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Beatrice and Judge Joseph Lerner. She graduated from Boston University in 1968, and became a speech writer for Senator...
  
  , playwright, author, television writer, and Alzheimer’s Disease advocate.
• Kate Vrijmoet
  Kate Vrijmoet
  - Biography :Kate Vrijmoet began formal art studies at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, receiving a scholarship for two semesters of weekend courses while in high school . She went on to the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and was invited to teach there in 1994,...
  
  , artist
• Helen Magill White
  Helen Magill White
  Helen Magill White was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in the United States....
  
  , first woman to earn a Ph.D.

Nobel laureates

• Saul Bellow
  Saul Bellow
  Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
  
  , 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature (deceased)
• Sheldon Lee Glashow
  Sheldon Lee Glashow
  Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University.-Birth and education:...
  
  , 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Martin Luther King Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize (deceased)
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
  , 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature; fellow, MacArthur Foundation
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
  
  , 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
• Osamu Shimomura
  Osamu Shimomura
  is a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School...
  
  , 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fulbright Scholars

• Susan Akram, Fulbright Scholar
• Paul Barbone, Fulbright Scholar
• Thomas Barfield, Fulbright Scholar
• Janice Barrett, Fulbright Scholar
• Peter Bridgman Benfield, Fulbright Scholar
• Anne Donahue
  Anne Donahue
  Anne de la Blanchetai Donahue is an American politician from the state of Vermont. She has served as a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives since 2003, representing the Washington-2 district, which includes the Washington County towns of Moretown, Northfield, and Roxbury...
  
  , Fulbright Scholar
• Wendy Gordon, Fulbright Scholar
• Michael Corgan, Fulbright Scholar
• James Johnson, Fulbright Scholar
• Sam Kauffman, Fulbright Scholar
• Tedros Kiros, Fulbright Scholar
• Mark Kon, Fulbright Scholar
• Jeanne Ellen Koopman, Fulbright Scholar
• Victor Manfredi, Fulbright Scholar
• James Mendelsohn, Fulbright Scholar
• Frances Miller, Fulbright Scholar
• Robert Neffson
  Robert Neffson
  Robert Neffson is an American painter currently known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, as well as his early still lifes and figure paintings.-Life:...
  
  , Fulbright Scholar
• Augustus Norton, Fulbright Scholar
• David S. Palmer, Fulbright Scholar
• Robert Rosenthal, Fulbright Scholar
• Vivian Anne Schmidt, Fulbright Scholar
• Bruce Schulman, Fulbright Scholar
• Nina Silber, Fulbright Scholar
• Henry Burke Wend, Fulbright Scholar

Guggenheim Fellows

• Henry E. Allison (Professor of Philosophy) 1985
• Theodore Antoniou
  Theodore Antoniou
  Theodore Antoniou , is a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University...
  
   (Composer; Professor of Music) 1978
• David Aronson (Painter; Emeritus Professor of Art) 1960
• Jelle Atema (Director, Professor of Biology, BU Marine Program at Woods Hole) 1987
• Millicent Bell (Professor of English)1971
• Saul Bellow
  Saul Bellow
  Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
  
   (Novelist; University Professor) 1948 and 1955
• Peter Anthony Bertocci (Deceased Borden Parker Bowne Professor Emeritus of Philosophy) 1967
• Robert V. Bruce (Professor Emeritus of History) 1957
• Alicia Borinsky
  Alicia Borinsky
  Alicia Borinsky,born in Buenos Aires, is a novelist, poet and literary critic. Alicia Borinsky is professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University. Her critical work has helped frame the discussion about the writers of...
  
  , (Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature) 2001 Latin American and Caribbean Fellow
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
  
  
• Donald Selwyn Carne-Ross (University Professor and Professor of Classics and Modern Languages) 1962
• Walter D. Connor (Professor of Political Science) 1986
• Bonnie Costello (Associate Professor of English) 1990
• Thomas Joseph Cottle (Professor of Education) 1974
• Patricia Bland Craddock (Professor of English) 1971
• Robert Dallek
  Robert Dallek
  Robert Dallek is an American historian specializing in American presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford...
  
   (Professor of History) 1973
• Norman Dello Joio
  Norman Dello Joio
  - Life :He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the...
  
   (Composer; University Professor and Professor Emeritus of Music) 1944 and 1945
• Barbara Diefendorf (Professor of History), 1997 US and Canadian Fellow
• Leslie D. Epstein
  Leslie Epstein
  Leslie Donald Epstein is an American novelist.He has written nine novels including King of the Jews , Pandaemonium , and San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory , based on his childhood growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s...
  
   (Director, Creative Writing Program) 1977
• Aaron Moses Fogel (Associate Professor of English) 1987
• Alfredo Gisholt (Teaching Associate of Art) 2002 US and Canadian Fellow
• Thomas F. Glick
  Thomas F. Glick
  Thomas F. Glick Ph.D. has been a professor at Boston University since 1972. He teaches in the departments of history and gastronomy. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval...
  
   (Professor of History) 1987
• Merle Goldman (Professor of History) 1987
• Gennady Gorelik
  Gennady Gorelik
  Gennady Gorelik is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th century...
  
   (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science) 1995 US and Canadian Fellow
• Jeffrey Henderson (Professor of Classical Studies) 1997 US and Canadian Fellow
• Patricia Hills (Professor of Art History) 1982
• Jaakko Hintikka
  Jaakko Hintikka
  Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician.Hintikka was born in Vantaa. After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University...
  
   (Professor of Philosophy) 1987
• Arthur Grover Humes (Professor Emeritus of Biology) 1954
• Caroline Jones
  Caroline Jones
  Caroline Jones AO is a distinguished Australian television journalist and social commentator.She joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Canberra in 1963 and later became the first female reporter for This Day Tonight, and then the Four Corners presenter from 1973 to 1981...
  
   (Associate Professor of Art History) 1999 US and Canadian Fellow
• Howard Clark Kee (William Goodwin Aurelio Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies) 1966
• Carol Keller (Assistant Professor of Art) 1999 US and Canadian Fellow
• William R. Keylor (Professor of History) 1976
• John T. Kirk (Emeritus Professor of Art History) 1986
• Jon Paul Klancher (Associate Professor of English) 1989
• Fred S. Kleiner (Professor of Art History and Archaeology) 1988
• Nancy Kopell (Professor of Mathematics) 1984
• Aileen S. Kraditor (Professor Emeritus of History) 1975
• Leonid A. Levin
  Leonid Levin
  -External links:* at Boston University....
  
   (Professor of Computer Science) 1993
• Ralph Lombreglia
  Ralph Lombreglia
  Ralph Lombreglia is an American short story writer and multimedia producer and consultant. He wrote several short stories including two collections: Men Under Water, and Make Me Work. He teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
  
   (Instructor in Creative Writing) 1996 US and Canadian Fellow
• Susan Mizruchi (Professor of English and American Studies) 2001 US and Canadian Fellow
• Dilip Mookherjee ( Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Economic Development) 2001 US and Canadian Fellow
• Debraj Ray
  Debraj Ray
  Debraj Ray graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Calcutta in 1977.Ray is presently , and Professor of Economics at New York University. He is Co-Editor of the American Economic Review....
  
   (former Professor of Economics) 1997 US and Canadian Fellow
• Maureen Raymo
  Maureen Raymo
  Maureen E. Raymo is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist. She is a research professor at the University of Boston. She has won various prizes for her scientific work. In 2002, she was included by the illustrated magazine Discover in a list of the 50 most important women in science...
  
   (Research Associate Professor of Earth Sciences) 2003 US and Canadian Fellow
• Abner Shimony
  Abner Shimony
  Abner Shimony is an American physicist and philosopher of science specializing in quantum theory.-Career:Shimony obtained his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University in 1948, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950. He obtained his Ph.D...
  
   (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Physics) 1972 US and Canadian Fellow
• Lawrence Sulak (David M. Myers Distinguished Professor of Physics) 2002 US and Canadian Fellow
• Julian Zelizer (Professor of History) 2006 US and Canadian Fellow

MacArthur Fellows

• Jim Collins
  James Collins (Boston University)
  James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...
  
  , fellow, MacArthur Foundation, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Nancy Kopell, fellow, MacArthur Foundation, Professor of Mathematics

Rhodes Scholars

• Jim Collins
  James Collins (Boston University)
  James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...
  
  , Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Robert Grasberger, Rhodes Scholar
• Michael Hasselmo
  Michael Hasselmo
  Michael Hasselmo is a neuroscientist at Boston University.He is known for his work on neuromodulators, particularly acetylcholine, and for his computational modelling work on the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, especially regarding the functional role of theta rhythm.He is on the editorial board...
  
  , Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Psychology
• Julius Levine, Rhodes Scholar
• Rick Malins, Rhodes Scholar
• Jon Westling
  Jon Westling
  Jon Westling is an American educator, and was president of Boston University from 1996 until 2002.Raised in Yakima, Washington, he took his undergraduate degree from Reed College and studied history at St. John's College, Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship...
  
  , Rhodes Scholar, former President of Boston University

Film, performing arts, television, radio

• Julia Child
  Julia Child
  Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which...
  
  , world famous cooking show host (deceased)
• Harold Dorschug
  Harold Dorschug
  Harold Dorschug was one of the master control engineers during the Mercury Theatre's broadcast of H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds" on CBS radio in the '30s. Later, he moved to West Hartford, CT and was Chief Engineer and Director of Research and Development of WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut...
  
  , radio engineer, former faculty member (deceased)
• Simon Estes, Internationally renowned Operatic Bass-Baritone
• Lukas Foss
  Lukas Foss
  Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...
  
  , composer and conductor (deceased)
• Ann Hobson-Pilot, principal harpist; Boston Symphony Orchestra
  Boston Symphony Orchestra
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
  
  
• Mark Fergus, screenwriter, director
• Sumner Redstone
  Sumner Redstone
  Sumner Murray Redstone is an American media magnate. He is the majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain...
  
  , media mogul
• Mike Roylance, principal tuba, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• James Spruill, actor, founder, New African Company
• Roman Totenberg
  Roman Totenberg
  Roman Totenberg is a Polish-American violinist and educator.He is the father of National Public Radio journalist Nina Totenberg...
  
  , violinist
• Roger Voisin
  Roger Voisin
  Roger Louis Voisin was a French-born American classical trumpeter. In 1959, The New York Times called him "one of the best-known trumpeters in this country."-Performing career:...
  
  , principal trumpet; Boston Symphony Orchestra
  Boston Symphony Orchestra
  The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at the Tanglewood Music Center...
  
   (deceased)
• Bob Zelnick, former ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
   News correspondent, author
• Paul Ulanowsky
  Paul Ulanowsky
  Paul Alexander Theodore Ulanowsky was an Austrian-American pianist, accompanist, vocal coach, and music educator of Austrian and Ukrainian decent. He began his career as the pianist for the Vienna Philharmonic from 1927-1935...
  
  , pianist

Other

• Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov
  Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
  
  , author, best known for his work in writing science and science fiction (deceased)
• Warren Ault
  Warren Ault
  Warren Ortman Ault was an American historian, who taught at Boston University from 1913 to 1957.-Life:Ault was born in Lenexa, Kansas and graduated from Baker University in 1907, before studying at Jesus College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
  
  , Huntington
  William Edwards Huntington
  William Edwards Huntington was an American university dean and president.-Biography:He was born at Hillsboro, Illinois, served as private and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Infantry in 1864–1865, and was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and at Boston University , where he was...
  
   Professor of history
• Andrew Bacevich
  Andrew Bacevich
  Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. is a professor of international relations at Boston University and a retired career officer in the United States Army...
  
  , historian, writer
• John Baillieul, (Professor) 2006 President of IEEE Control Systems Society
• Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
  , (Professor) inventor of the telephone (deceased)
• Peter L. Berger
  Peter L. Berger
  Peter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .-Biography:...
  
  , contemporary sociologist and theologian
• Margrit Betke, one of two academics in the Top 10 Women to Watch in New Englandhttp://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=852
• Zvi Bodie
  Zvi Bodie
  Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals....
  
  , Professor
• Gerald Warner Brace
  Gerald Warner Brace
  Gerald Warner Brace was an American novelist, writer, educator, sailor and boat builder. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England.-Early life and ancestors:...
  
  , Professor of English was an American writer best known for his novels, fiction and literary works.
• Robert V. Bruce
  Robert V. Bruce
  Robert Vance Bruce was an American historian specializing in the American Civil War who won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1988 for his book The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876...
  
  , winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History (deceased)
• Robert A. Brown
  Robert A. Brown
  Robert A. Brown is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT.-External links:*...
  
  , fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
  
  ; National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
  
  , current Boston University President
• Caroline Walker Bynum
  Caroline Bynum
  Caroline Walker Bynum is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches, and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia...
  
  , fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Milič Čapek (1909-1997), philosopher
• Ray Carney
  Ray Carney
  Ray Carney, also known as Raymond Carney, Ph.D, is an American scholar and critic, primarily known for his work as a film theorist, although he writes extensively on American art and literature as well. He is known for his study of the works of actor and director John Cassavetes...
  
  , film theorist
• Aram Chobanian
  Aram Chobanian
  Aram V. Chobanian was president ad interim of Boston University from 2003 until June 9, 2005, when, in recognition of Chobanian’s work, the Board of Trustees voted to remove “ad interim” from his title and designate him the ninth president of Boston University. He had succeeded controversial B.U...
  
  , Lifetime Achievement Award, American Heart Association
  American Heart Association
  The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...
  
  , former Boston University President
• Bonnie Costello, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Robert Dallek
  Robert Dallek
  Robert Dallek is an American historian specializing in American presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford...
  
  , author, historian, Bancroft Prize
  Bancroft Prize
  The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...
  
   winner
• Charles DeLisi
  Charles DeLisi
  Charles DeLisi is the Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering at Boston University, and also served as Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 2000...
  
  , Presidential Citizens Medal
  Presidential Citizens Medal
  The Presidential Citizens Medal is the second highest civilian award in the United States, second only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is awarded by the President of the United States, and may be given posthumously....
  
  ; Smithsonian Platinum Technology 21st Century Pioneer Partnership Laureate; Arthur G B Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering
• Mildred S. Dresselhaus, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering
  National Academy of Engineering
  The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Leslie Epstein
  Leslie Epstein
  Leslie Donald Epstein is an American novelist.He has written nine novels including King of the Jews , Pandaemonium , and San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory , based on his childhood growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s...
  
  
• Joseph Fewsmith, scholar of Chinese politics and foreign relations
• Henry Giroux
  Henry Giroux
  Henry Giroux, born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies,...
  
  , founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States.
• Husain Haqqani
  Husain Haqqani
  Husain Haqqani or Hussain Haqqani is the former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, appointed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani in April 2008 and was resigned on November 22, 2011...
  
  , Professor & Director of Center of International Relations and Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  's Ambassador to the United States of America
• Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill
  Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
  
  , fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Ha Jin
  Ha Jin
  Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...
  
  , author, National Book Award winner, Faulkner Award winner, Hemingway Award winner
• Sir Hans Kornberg, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences
• Laurance Kotlikoff, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Richard Landes
  Richard Landes
  Richard Allen Landes is an American historian and author, specializing in Millennialism. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University...
  
   historian, Director of the Center for Millennial Studies
  Center for Millennial Studies
  The Center for Millennial Studies is a scholarly institute at Boston University devoted to studying millennial, millenarian, and apocalyptic movements, groups, and individuals throughout history and on the contemporary scene....
  
  
• Leonid Levin
  Leonid Levin
  -External links:* at Boston University....
  
  , co-discoverer of NP-Completeness
  NP-complete
  In computational complexity theory, the complexity class NP-complete is a class of decision problems. A decision problem L is NP-complete if it is in the set of NP problems so that any given solution to the decision problem can be verified in polynomial time, and also in the set of NP-hard...
  
  
• Robert J. McShea
  Robert J. McShea
  Robert J. McShea , Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Boston University, wrote Morality and Human Nature: A New Route to Ethical Theory, and The Political Philosophy of Spinoza....
  
  
• Thomas Mickey, Smithsonian Fellow
• Father Norman O'Connor
  Norman O'Connor
  Father Norman James O'Connor, "The Jazz Priest", was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 20, 1921. He became interested in jazz music at an early age and began playing piano with local jazz bands while in high school...
  
   (1921-2003), former BU Catholic Chaplain, jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
   aficionado, writer
  Writer
  A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
  
  , radio
  Radio
  Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
  
   and TV show
  Television program
  A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
  
   host
• Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
  
  , former U.S. Poet Laureate
• Bruce Redford, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Anne Sexton
  Anne Sexton
  Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...
  
  , poet
• John Silber
  John Silber
  John Robert Silber is an American academician and former candidate for public office. From 1971 to 1996 he was President of Boston University and from 1996 to 2003 Chancellor of the University. Since 2003 he has been its President Emeritus. In 1990, Silber took a leave of absence from the...
  
  , ex-President
• Batu Siharulidze
  Batu Siharulidze
  Batu Siharulidze is an artist from the Republic of Georgia, most widely known for his figurative sculptures. He now lives in Boston, Massachusetts where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University.-Biography:...
  
  , prominent artist, known for his figurative sculptures
• Whitney Smith
  Whitney Smith
  Whitney Smith is a professional vexillologist, i.e., scholar of flags. The term vexillology, which he coined in his 1958 article Flags of the Arab World, refers to the scholarly analysis of all aspects of flags. In 1961, Smith and colleague Gerhard Grahl cofounded The Flag Bulletin, the world's...
  
  , vexillologist
• Charles R Stith, US Ambassador to Tanzania 1998-2001
• Shanghua Teng
  Shanghua Teng
  Shang-Hua Teng is the chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California. In 2008 he was awarded the Gödel Prize for his joint work on smoothed analysis of algorithms with Daniel Spielman...
  
  , Professor of Computer Science at Boston University and winner of Gödel Prize
  Gödel Prize
  The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
  
  
• Rosanna Warren, fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• David Wiggins
  David Wiggins
  David Wiggins is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and issues in meta-ethics. His 2006 book, Ethics. Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality defends a position he calls "moral objectivism".- Life :Wiggins read philosophy...
  
  , fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
  
  , historian, political activist, best selling author
• Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga , often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos" , is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States. He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington, D.C...
  
  , founder and main author of Daily Kos
  Daily Kos
  Daily Kos is an American political blog that publishes news and opinions from a progressive point of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of netroots activists, whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the Democratic Party...