This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University , which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences , Pratt School of Engineering , Sanford School of Public Policy , and Duke Kunshan University . The university's graduate and professional schools include the graduate school , the Pratt School of Engineering , the Nicholas School of the Environment , the School of Medicine , the School of Nursing , the Fuqua School of Business , the School of Law , the Divinity School , the Sanford School of Public Policy , Duke Kunshan University , and Duke–NUS Medical School .
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Dallas Tamaira .
Famous alumni include U.S. President Richard Nixon ; Chilean President Ricardo Lagos ; former cabinet member and former Senator Elizabeth Dole ; philanthropist Melinda French Gates ; the chief executive officers of Apple (Tim Cook ), Procter and Gamble (David S. Taylor ), Bear Stearns (Alan Schwartz ), Morgan Stanley (John J. Mack ), Pfizer (Edmund T. Pratt Jr. ), McDonald's (Chris Kempczinski ) and General Motors Corporation (Rick Wagoner ); and the first United States Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients . Notable alumni media personalities include Dan Abrams , the former general manager of MSNBC ; Jay Bilas , a commentator on ESPN ; Sean McManus , the president of CBS News and CBS Sports ; Charlie Rose , the former host of his eponymous PBS talk show and a 60 Minutes contributor; and Judy Woodruff , an anchor at CNN . William DeVries (GME 1971–79) was the first doctor to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation, and appeared on the cover of Time in 1984.
Current notable faculty include Manny Azenberg , a Broadway producer whose productions have won 40 Tony Awards ; Adrian Bejan , namesake of the Bejan number ; and David Brooks , a columnist for The New York Times . Walter E. Dellinger III , formerly the United States Solicitor General , Assistant Attorney General , and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Bill Clinton , serves as a law professor. Novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman won the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award , while Peter Feaver was a member of the National Security Council under Clinton and George W. Bush . David Gergen served as an advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford , Ronald Reagan , and Bill Clinton . John Hope Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, while William Raspberry , a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post , won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. 15 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university.
James B. Duke established a $40 million trust fund, The Duke Endowment , in 1924, propelling the university to officially change its name in honor of his family's philanthropy.
Nobel laureates
Robert Lefkowitz , James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke and the 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
As of 2019, 15 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Duke University. The following list includes only those who have graduated from Duke or spent at least one year as a postdoctoral researcher /medical resident /visiting professor or two years as a faculty member at Duke.
Charles Townes (A.M. in physics, 1937), 1964 Nobel laureate in physics and winner of the 2005 Templeton Prize ,[1] National Medal of Science (1982)
Gertrude B. Elion (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1971 to 1983 and research professor from 1983 to 1999), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine [2]
George H. Hitchings (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1970–1985), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine[3]
Hans Dehmelt (Post-Doc. 1952–1955), 1989 Nobel laureate in physics ,[4] recipient of the National Medal of Science (1995)
Martin Rodbell (adjunct professor of cell biology from 1991 to 1998), 1994 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine[5] [6] [7]
Robert Coleman Richardson (Ph.D. in physics, 1966), 1996 Nobel laureate in Physics[8]
Peter Agre (vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medicine Center from 2005 to December 2007), 2003 Nobel laureate in chemistry [9] [10]
Robert Lefkowitz (James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, joined Duke in 1973), 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[11] National Medal of Science (2007)
Brian Kobilka (Post-Doc. 1984–1989), 2012 Nobel laureate in chemistry [12]
Paul L. Modrich (James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, joined Duke in 1976), 2015 Nobel laureate in Chemistry[13]
William Kaelin Jr. (B.S. 1979, M.D. 1982), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine[14]
Gregg L. Semenza (Pediatrics Residency), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine[14]
George Smith (Visiting Professor 1983–1984), 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry[15]
Turing Award laureates
In the absence of a Nobel Prize in Computer science , the Turing Award generally is recognized as the highest honor in the subject and the "Nobel Prize of computing." As of 2015, 3 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Duke University.
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Selected Duke Alumni
Ricardo Lagos , Ph.D. 1966
U.S. President Richard Nixon , J.D. 1937 [19]
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey , M.A. 1984
U.S. senator and cabinet secretary Elizabeth Dole , A.B. 1958
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps , Ph.D. 1948
U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr , J.D. 1973
U.S. congressman Ron Paul , M.D. 1961
U.S. congressman Nick Rahall , A.B. 1971
Admiral Frank Bowman , B.S. 1966
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki , A.M. 1976
Philanthropist Melinda Gates , A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987
Financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein , A.B. 1970
Apple CEO Tim Cook , M.B.A. 1988
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle , Ph.D. 1966
Astronaut Charles E. Brady, Jr. , M.D. 1975
Actor Jared Harris , B.F.A. 1984
Actor and comedian Ken Jeong , B.S. 1990
Television journalist Charlie Rose , A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968
two-time NCAA Champion, Seven-time NBA All-Star Grant Hill
two-time NCAA Champion, NBA All-Star Christian Laettner [20]
Five-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl Champion Sonny Jurgensen [21]
Eight-time MLB All-Star, Two-time World Series Champion Dick Groat
Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.
Cabinet members and White House staff
David Addington (J.D. 1981), chief of staff to former vice president Dick Cheney [25]
Claude Allen (J.D. 1990), White House domestic policy advisor
Josephus Daniels , Secretary of the Navy during World War I
Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former United States senator for North Carolina ; former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission ; former United States Secretary of Transportation ; former United States Secretary of Labor ; former president of the American Red Cross [26]
W. Neil Eggleston (A.B. 1975), White House Counsel under President Barack Obama[27]
Danielle C. Gray (A.B. 2000), Cabinet Secretary , senior advisor to President Barack Obama[28]
John P. Hannah (A.B. 1984), Assistant for National Security to former vice president Dick Cheney [29]
John Hillen (A.B. 1988), former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs [30]
John Koskinen (A.B. 1961), Commissioner of Internal Revenue (2013–2017), former deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget [31]
Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), United States Secretary of Commerce , 1977–79[32]
Reggie Love (A.B. 2005), personal aide to President Barack Obama [33]
Derek Lyons (A.B. 2004, B.S. 2004), White House Staff Secretary and Counselor to President Donald J. Trump [34]
Stephen Miller (A.B. 2007), Senior Advisor to former President Donald J. Trump [35]
Macon Phillips (A.B. 2000), White House Director of New Media with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov[36]
Daniel Calhoun Roper (A.B. 1888), United States Secretary of Commerce under Franklin Delano Roosevelt [37]
Sonal Shah (M.A. 1994), director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation , former head of the Global Development Initiative at Google.org[38]
Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired four-star general , 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014), 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003)[39]
Daleep Singh (A.B. 1997), Deputy National Security Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden
Doug Sosnik (A.B. 1979), senior advisor and political director to former President Bill Clinton [40]
Tommy Sowers (A.B. 1998), Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs[41]
Kenneth Starr (J.D. 1973), former United States Solicitor General , Independent Counsel during the Whitewater Affair[42]
James Young (M.D. 1955), MC USN, Attending White House Physician to Kennedy and Johnson, 1963-1966[43]
Jared Weinstein (A.B. 2002), personal assistant to former President George W. Bush [44]
Daniel I. Werfel (M.P.P. 1997), Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service , Current[45]
Jeffrey Zients (B.S. 1988), United States Chief Performance Officer , (2009-2013); White House Chief of Staff , Current[46]
Members of Congress
U.S. senators
Mo Cowan
Shelley Moore Capito
Rand Paul
Bob Krueger
Mo Cowan (A.B. 1991), former United States Senator from Massachusetts[47] [48]
Shelley Moore Capito (A.B. 1975), United States senator from West Virginia , former U.S. representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district[49] [50]
Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former United States senator for North Carolina ; former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission ; former United States Secretary of Transportation ; former United States Secretary of Labor ; former president of the American Red Cross [51]
Edward Gurney (LL.M. 1948), former United States Senator from Florida[52]
Rand Paul (M.D. 1988), United States Senator from Kentucky[53]
Everett Jordan (A.B.), former U.S. senator from North Carolina[54]
Ted Kaufman (B.S.E. 1960), United States senator of Delaware [55]
Bob Krueger (A.M. 1959), former U.S. representative and Senator from Texas [56]
Lee Slater Overman (A.B. 1874), former United States Senator from North Carolina[57]
James B. Pearson (A.B. 1942), United States senator from Kansas [58]
U.S. representatives
Hugh Quincy Alexander (1932), former U.S. representative from North Carolina (1953–1963)[59]
Robert Franklin Armfield , former Congressman from North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina [60]
Morris Brooks (A.B. 1975), former U.S. representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district[61]
Maurice G. Burnside (Ph.D. 1937), former Congressman from West Virginia [62]
Bradley Byrne (A.B. 1977), U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district[63]
Jim Courter (J.D. 1966), former Congressman from New Jersey [64]
Nick Galifianakis (A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953), U.S. representative from North Carolina (1967–1973)[65]
Lisa Gladden (A.B. 1986), Maryland State Representative, Annapolis, Maryland[66]
Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (A.B. 1897), Democratic US Representative from North Carolina[67]
Tom Grady (J.D., 1982), Republican U.S. representative from Florida [68]
Robin Hayes (A.B. 1967), Congressman of North Carolina 's 8th district (1998–present)[69]
Paul B. Henry (A.M., Ph.D. 1968), U.S. representative from Michigan and Michigan State Senator[70]
Henry Hyde (X. 1947), former U.S. representative of Illinois
Robert D. Inglis (A.B. 1981), U.S. representative of South Carolina [71]
Dan Lipinski (Ph.D. 1998), Congressman for Illinois ' 3rd district (2005–present)[72]
Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), Congressman from New York (1976–1987)[73]
Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former Georgia state judge, former U.S. representative of Georgia[74]
Ron Paul (M.D. 1961), U.S. representative from Texas (1997–2013); 2008 Republican Presidential candidate[75]
Scott Peters (A.B. 1980), U.S. representative for California's 52nd congressional district [76]
Ben Quayle (A.B, 1998), U.S. representative from Arizona ; son of former U.S. vice president Dan Quayle [77]
Nick Rahall (A.B. 1971), Congressman for West Virginia (1977–2015)[78]
Dave Trott (J.D. 1985), U.S. representative from Michigan (2015–2019)[79]
Basil Lee Whitener (J.D. 1937), U.S. representative from North Carolina (1957–1968)[80]
Mike Levin (J.D. 2005), U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district (2018–present)[81]
Diplomats
George Venable Allen (A.B. 1920), U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1946–1948; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1948–1949; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1949–1953
Todd C. Chapman (A.B. 1983), U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (2016–2019); U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2020–2021)
Robert Sherwood Dillon (A.B. 1951), U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (1981–1983)
William Eacho (A.B. 1976), U.S. Ambassador to Austria (2009–2013)
Cynthia G. Efird (A.M.), U.S. Ambassador to Angola (2004–2007)
Robert C. Frasure (Ph.D 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Estonia (1992–1994)
Gordon D. Giffin (A.B. 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1997–2001)
Mark Gitenstein (A.B. 1968), former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, President Biden's nominee for Ambassador to the European Union
Richard Graber (A.B. 1978), former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Jaime Aleman Healy (J.D. 1978), Panamanian Ambassador to the USA (2009–2011)
Stuart E. Jones (A.B. 1982), United States Ambassador to Jordan (2011–2014); United States Ambassador to Iraq (2014–present)
Robert Jordan (A.B. 1967), former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Bob Krueger (M.A. 1959), U.S. Ambassador to Burundi during the Clinton administration
Philip Lader (A.B. 1966), Ambassador to the United Kingdom , chairman of the WPP Group
Steven Lett (B.S.E. 1980), diplomat; head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (A.B. 1950), United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan
Walter P. McConaughy (A.B. 1930), former United States Ambassador to Burma , South Korea, Pakistan, and Taiwan
David McKean (J.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg (2016–2017), Director of Policy Planning (2013–2016)
Geeta Pasi (A.B. 1984), U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti (2011–2017) and Chad (2016–2018)
Manuel Sager (LL.M. 1985), ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
Elizabeth Verville (A.B. 1961), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs
Military
Kate Lee Harris Adams (B.F.A., 1941), aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II
William Atwater (M.A., Ph.D. 1982), retired captain in the US Marines; author, historian, and director of the US Army Ordnance Museum
Walter E. Boomer (B.S. 1960), retired general, former assistant commandant, US Marine Corps, Desert Storm Commander; business executive
Frank Bowman (B.S. 1966), retired admiral, former Chief of Naval Personnel, former director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, US Navy; Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Winston Choo (MA, History), retired lieutenant-general , former Chief of Defence Force (1974–1992) in the Singapore Armed Forces [84] [85]
Edward H. Deets (1979), rear admiral in the United States Navy
Martin E. Dempsey (M.A. 1984), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Charles S. Hamilton (B.S. 1974), rear admiral in the United States Navy
John L. Helgerson (M.S., Ph.D.), former CIA Inspector General
James W. Holsinger (M.D. 1964), retired major general in the United States Army Reserve , physician , nominated to become the 18th Surgeon General of the United States
Gilmary M. Hostage III (B.S.E. 1977), United States Air Force four-star general, currently serving as the commander of Air Combat Command
Vergel L. Lattimore , brigadier general in the Air National Guard
Ng Jui Ping (MA, History), retired lieutenant-general ; former Chief of Defence Force (1992–1995) in the Singapore Armed Forces [86]
Eric Schoomaker (residency and fellowship), Surgeon General of the United States Army
Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired four-star general , 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs ; 34th Chief of Staff of the Army
Michael J. Silah (A.B. 1992), rear admiral in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps , Director, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, and director, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
Kevin R. Slates , retired rear admiral in the United States Navy
Brett Velicovich , Fox News contributor and former United States Army intelligence.
Blake Wayne Van Leer (B.S. 1945), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy . Led SeaBee program and the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze .
Law
Judges
James P. Bassett (L.L.M. 2023), Associate Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Scott Brister (A.B. 1977), former justice, Texas Supreme Court
Cheri Beasley (L.L.M. 2018), Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Patricia E. Campbell-Smith (B.S. 1987), former chief judge, United States Court of Federal Claims under President Barack Obama
Aileen Cannon (A.B. 2003), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
J. Michelle Childs (L.L.M. 2016), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Robert L. Clifford (L.L.B. 1950), former associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
Ann Covington (A.B. 1963), former chief justice, Missouri Supreme Court
Laura Crane (A.B. 2003), nominated by President Biden to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Michael Dreeben (J.D. 1981), Deputy Solicitor General
Allyson Duncan (J.D. 1975), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Christine M. Durham (J.D. 1971), former chief justice, Utah Supreme Court
Orinda Evans (A.B. 1965), senior judge , United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Richard Mark Gergel (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1979), judge , United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Karen L. Henderson (A.B. 1966), judge , United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Todd M. Hughes (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992), judge , United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Susan Illston (A.B. 1970), senior judge , United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Barbara Jackson (L.L.M. 2014), associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Jeffrey W. Johnson (B.A. 1982), associate justice, California Court of Appeal
Jill Karofsky (B.A. 1988), justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jane L. Kelly (A.B. 1987), judge , United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Timothy J. Kelly (A.B. 1991), judge , United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Kathryn Hackett King (A.B. 2003), justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former Georgia state judge; former United States representative of Georgia
Michael R. Morgan (A.B. 1976), associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
David Nahmias (A.B. 1986), associate justice, Supreme Court of Georgia ; former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia
Paul Martin Newby (A.B. 1977), Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Susan Owens (A.B. 1971), associate justice, Washington Supreme Court
William H. Pauley III (A.B. 1974, J.D. 1977), judge , United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Cary Douglas Pugh (A.B. 1987), judge , United States Tax Court
Robin L. Rosenberg (J.D. 1989), Judge , United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Veronica M. Sanchez (A.B. 1996), nominated by President Biden to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Gary Stein (A.B. 1954, J.D. 1956), former associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
Allison Jones Rushing (J.D. 2007), United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Vijay Shanker (A.B. 1994), nominated by President Joseph Biden to serve on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
John J. Tharp, Jr. (A.B. 1982), judge , United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Michael B. Thornton (J.D. 1982), former chief judge , United States Tax Court
Patricia Timmons-Goodson (L.L.M. 2014), former associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Gerald B. Tjoflat (L.L.B. 1957), chief judge emeritus , U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
John M. Tyson (M.B.A. 1988), judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals
Peter Verniero (J.D. 1984), associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court ; former Attorney General of New Jersey
Justin R. Walker (A.B. 2004), judge , United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Charles K. Wiggins (J.D. 1976), justice, Washington Supreme Court
Don Willett (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992), judge , United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Attorneys
Ward Armstrong (B.A. 1977), lawyer and politician[87]
Charlie Condon (J.D. 1978), former Attorney General of South Carolina
Jack Conway (A.B. 1991), Attorney General of Kentucky
Eric Dick (M.S. 2023), lawyer and President of the Harris County Department of Education since 2017, known for specializing in resolving property insurance claim disputes[88] [89]
Robert Dove (Ph.D. 1964), parliamentarian of the United States Senate
Marc Elias (J.D. 1993, M.A. 1993), Founding Partner at Elias Law Group LLP, General Counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign
Jeffrey L. Fisher (A.B. 1992), professor at Stanford Law School
John Harmon (J.D. 1969), former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
Stanley Hilton (J.D. 1975), lawyer and activist
Larry Klayman (A.B. 1973), public interest lawyer[90]
Jeffrey Lichtman (J.D. 1990), defense attorney for John Gotti , Fat Joe , and The Game [91]
Andrew G. McCabe (A.B. 1990), former Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [92]
Dan McCarthy (J.D. 1983), chief prosecutor of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Navy
C. Allen Parker , presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (A.B. 1967), professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia , one of the first five African American undergraduates admitted to Duke in 1963[93]
Russell M. Robinson, II (L.L.B. 1956), founding partner of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
Eric Rothschild (A.B. 1989), lead attorney for Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
Susan Scafidi (A.B.), founder and president of the Fashion Law Institute , a nonprofit organization located at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City
Rodney A. Smolla (J.D. 1978), author; first amendment scholar; 11th president of Furman University
Ellen Stiefler (A.B. 1980), intellectual property attorney
Zephyr Teachout (A.M. 1999, J.D. 1999), associate professor of law at Fordham University , candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor of New York
Public policy
John H. Adams (J.D. 1962), co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Maya Ajmera (M.P.P. 1993), founder and president of The Global Fund for Children [94]
Barbara Arnwine (J.D. 1976), executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1989 to 2015
William Barber II (M.Div. 1989), member of the NAACP national board of directors[95]
Jainey K. Bavishi (A.B. 2003), Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Mary Duke Biddle (A.B. 1907), daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Lisa Borders (A.B. 1979), chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation; vice president of Global Community Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company [96]
Charlotte Bunch (A.B. 1966), author and human rights activist
Susan Bysiewicz (J.D. 1986), Lt. governor of Connecticut (since 2019), Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1999–2011)
Benjamin Chavis, Jr. (MDiv 1980), civil rights activist, executive director of the NAACP [97]
Eugene A. Conti, Jr. (M.A. public policy, Ph.D. anthropology 1978), Asst. Secretary USDOT, Secretary of Transportation, NCDOT
Peter Cook (A.B. 1989), Pentagon press secretary for Defense Secretary Ash Carter
Dave A. Chokshi (A.B. 2003), Health Commissioner of New York City
Pete Crossland (Ph.D. 1966), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
Chris Daly , former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Marjorie Dannenfelser (A.B. 1988), President of the Susan B. Anthony List , an organization that seeks to advance anti-abortion women in politics
Marisa T. Darden (J.D. 2008), nominee to serve as United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
Chris Dorworth (M.B.A. 2006), member of the Florida House of Representatives
Allan Fels (Ph.D.), chairperson of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Nelson M. Ford (B.A.), former United States Under Secretary of the Army
Andrew Giuliani (A.B. 2009), Special Assistant to the President and associate director of the Office of Public Liaison for President Donald Trump [98]
Susan M. Gordon (B.S. 1980), Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Director for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency [99]
Josh Hammer (B.S. 2011), columnist and political commentator
John Hanger (A.B. 1979), Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection , candidate for governor of Pennsylvania
Suhani Jalota (A.B. 2016), social activist[100]
Deborah Lee James (A.B. 1979) United States Secretary of the Air Force
Shavar Jeffries (A.B. 1996), civil rights attorney, candidate for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
B.J. Lawson (B.S.E 1996, M.D. 2000), Republican politician
Jerry Meek (A.B. 1993, J.D. 1997), chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party
Kimeli Wilson Naiyomah (M.I.D.P,), Kenyan author
Neil Newhouse (A.B. 1974), Republican pollster
Brendan Nyhan (Ph.D. 2009), author and political columnist
Jesse Panuccio (A.B. 2003), former acting Associate Attorney General of the United States
Muhammad Ali Pate (M.B.A. 2006), former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria
Art Pope (J.D. 1981), Budget Director for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
Robert Satloff (A.B. 1983), executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (A.B. 1939), philanthropist
Eleanor Smeal (A.B. 1961, LL.D 1991), political activist; president of the Feminist Majority Foundation ; former president of the National Organization for Women
Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), chair, board of trustees, Kresge Foundation
Emiliana Vegas , professor of practice at the graduate school of education, Harvard University
Damon Wilson (A.B. 1995), executive vice president at the Atlantic Council of the United States, former senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council
Howard Wolfson (M.A. 1991), Democratic political strategist, deputy mayor of New York City for governmental affairs
Celeste Rohlfing (Ph.D u.d.), Deputy Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation
Mayors
Steve Schewel
Ed Austin (A.B. 1948), mayor of Jacksonville (1991–1995)
Bill Campbell (J.D. 1977), mayor of Atlanta (1994–2002)
J. Kane Ditto (A.B.), mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (1989–1997)
Vijayalakshmi Gadwal , mayor of Hyderabad , India (2021–present)
Sylvia Kerckhoff (M.A. 1960), mayor of Durham, North Carolina (1993–1997)
Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), former mayor of Jamestown , former Congressman and Lieutenant governor of New York
Enrique Peñalosa (A.B. 1978), mayor of Bogotá , Colombia (1998–2000, 2016–2019)
Steve Schewel (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1982), mayor of Durham, North Carolina (2017–present)[101]
Nick Tennyson (A.B. 1972) mayor of Durham (1997–2001)
State officials
Austin M. Allran (A.B. 1974), member of the North Carolina General Assembly
Dan Blue (J.D.), former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives , 1981–2002
Bob Blumenfield (B.A. 1989), current Los Angeles City Council member, former California State Assembly member, 2009-2013,
Samuel Bogley (A.B), former Lieutenant governor of Maryland
F. Vernon Boozer (A.B 1958), former member of Maryland Senate , 1981–1999
Jason Carter (A.B. 1997), Democratic Party nominee for governor of Georgia ; member of the Georgia State Senate ; grandson of President Jimmy Carter
Mike Connolly (B.A. 2003), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Justin Fairfax (A.B. 2000), Lieutenant governor of Virginia [102]
J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party
Raj Goyle (A.B. 1997), member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Ember Reichgott Junge (J.D. 1977), former State Senator from Minnesota
Herb Kirsh , former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Bill Kramer (J.D. 1994), former Majority Leader, Wisconsin State Assembly
Evelyn Murphy (A.B. 1965, Ph.D. 1981), former Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts
Robert Sheheen (A.B. 1965), former Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives
Lura S. Tally (A.B. 1942), member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1973–1983, and the North Carolina Senate , 1983–1995
Mike Turzai (J.D. 1987), nominee for speaker of the Pennsylvania House Representatives , former Republican Caucus (Majority) Leader
Floyd McKissick Jr. (J.D. 1983), member of the North Carolina Senate
Merle Davis Umstead (B.A. 1926), First Lady of North Carolina
Kelli Ward (B.S. 1991), former state senator from Arizona[103]
Scott Wiener (B.A. 1992), member of the California State Senate
Other
Paul Auerbach (B.S. 1973, M.D. 1977), physician; a leading voice in the area of wilderness medicine ; founder and past president of the Wilderness Medical Society
Bernard Chan Pak-li (Ph.D. 2003), Ping Shek representative in the Kwun Tong District Council of Hong Kong, 2007–2013
D. Todd Christofferson (J.D. 1972), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jillian Johnson (B.A. 2003), Mayor Protempore of Durham, North Carolina
Kevin J. Martin (M.P.P. 1993), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Charlie Soong (X. 1881), Duke's first international student and patriarch of the Soong Dynasty
Daniel Tarullo (M.A. 1974), member of the board of governors of the United States Federal Reserve , Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice at Harvard Law School
Paul Teller (B.A. 1993), executive director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee [110] [111]
Frederic Whitehurst (Ph.D. 1980), former supervisory special agent in the FBI Laboratory
Mike Woodard (A.B. 1981), Durham, North Carolina City Council member
Ken Harbaugh (B.S. 1996), president of Team Rubicon
Alexander Volzhin , Russian chess grandmaster
Business
Shaikha Al-Bahar , CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait ; named the 85th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes
John A. Allison IV (M.B.A. 1974), chairman (and former CEO), BB&T
John Angelos , executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles
Steven Black (A.B. 1974), vice-chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Chairman of Wells Fargo
Roy J. Bostock (A.B. 1962), former chairman of Bcom3 Group, Inc.; namesake of Bostock Library
Wallace E. Boston, Jr. (A.B. 1974), president and chief executive officer, American Public University System
Jack O. Bovender, Jr. (A.B. 1967, MHA 1969), chairman and CEO of HCA
Jonathan Browning (M.B.A.), CEO of Volkswagen Group of America
Lewis B. Campbell (B.S.E. 1968), CEO of Textron
John Canning, Jr. , founder of private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners ; co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
John Chambers (attended 1967-1968; X. 1968), CEO of Cisco Systems
Mickey Conlon (A.B., 1998), celebrity real estate broker and star of HGTV 's reality television series Selling New York
Tim Cook (M.B.A. 1988), CEO of Apple Inc. [112]
Eddy Cue (B.S.), Apple 's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services
Husein Cumber (A.B. 1997), Chief Strategy Officer of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI)
Tom Davin (B.A. 1979), former COO of Taco Bell Corporation and CEO of Panda Restaurant Group
Grant DePorter (M.B.A.), restaurateur
Chad Dickerson (A.B. 1993), CEO of Etsy
Gary Dickinson (B.S. 1960), automotive industry executive
Fred Ehrsam (B.S. 2010), co-founder of Coinbase
Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
Jeffrey Fox (B.S. 1984), president and CEO of Convergys
Heath Freeman (A.B. 2002), Managing Director of Alden Global Capital
J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the board of The Fuqua Companies, founder of the J.B. Fuqua Foundation, namesake of Duke's Fuqua School of Business
Steven Galanis (B.A. 2010), CEO of Cameo
Melinda Gates (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987), co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [113]
Raghavendra V. Ghuge (Physician, Inventor and Businessman) (M.B.A. 2020), Founder of AIOMEGA, LLC , Founder and CEO of Sleep Medicine Institute of Texas
David Gibbs , (M.B.A. 1988), former CEO, Pizza Hut ; CEO, Yum! Brands
David R. Goode (A.B. 1962), chairman, president, and CEO of Norfolk Southern
William H. Gross (B.S. 1966), founder and chief investment officer, PIMCO , the world's largest bond fund
Brian Hamilton (M.B.A. 1990), co-founder and former chairman, Sageworks ;[114] founder, Inmates to Entrepreneurs[115]
Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (A.B. 1991), British viscount; chairman of the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail
Gerald Hassell (B.A. 1973), chairman and CEO, Bank of New York Mellon
William A. Hawkins (B.S. 1976), CEO of Medtronic
Sally Hogshead (B.A. 1991), CEO of Fascinate, Inc.
Betsy Holden (A.B.), CEO of Kraft Foods , 2001–2003[116]
Amy Hood (A.B. 1994), first female CFO of Microsoft
John Idzik, Jr. (A.M. 1993), former general manager of the NFL's New York Jets [117]
David Bronson Ingram (A.B. 1985), chairman of Ingram Entertainment
W. Bruce Johnson (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), interim chief executive officer and president, Sears Holdings Corporation
William D. Johnson (B.A.), chairman, president and CEO of Progress Energy
Tom Kain (A.B. 1986), Nike 's director of Global Marketing (Soccer)
Bruce Karsh (A.B. 1977), co-founder and president of Oaktree Capital Management
Chris Kempczinski (A.B. 1991), CEO of McDonald's [118]
Lesa Kennedy (B.A. 1983), CEO of International Speedway Corporation ; member of the board of directors of NASCAR
Zach Kleiman (J.D. 2013), General Manager of the Memphis Grizzlies ; 2022 NBA Executive of the Year
David Kohler (B.A.) President and CEO of Kohler Company
John A. Koskinen (A.B. 1961), president of US Soccer Foundation , former deputy director, Office of Management and Budget
Michael Lamach (M.B.A.), CEO and Chairman of Ingersoll Rand
Howard Lerman (A.B. 2002), founder and CEO of Yext
David Lauren (A.B., 1993), senior vice president at Polo Ralph Lauren [119]
Dylan Lauren (A.B., 1996), president and founder of Dylan's Candy Bar
Dan Levitan (1979), co-founder and managing partner, Maveron
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (A.B., J.D.), French billionaire businessman
Gary Lynch (J.D. 1975), former chief legal officer and vice chairman of Morgan Stanley
John J. Mack (A.B. 1968), CEO of Morgan Stanley ; former CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston
Aslaug Magnusdottir (LL.M. 1998), co-founder and former CEO of Moda Operandi
Marijke Mars (born 1965), billionaire heiress and businesswoman
Mathew Martoma (born 1974 as Ajai Mathew Mariamdani Thomas), hedge fund portfolio manager, convicted of insider trading
Steven Marks (A.B. 1989, J.D. 1992), general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America
Michael Marsicano (A.B. 1977, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1982), President and CEO of the Foundation for the Carolinas
Aubrey McClendon (A.B. 1981), CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy
Dan McCready (B.A. 2005), entrepreneur and candidate for US House of Representatives
Bart McDade (A.B. 1981), former president and COO of Lehman Brothers , tasked with saving the firm towards the end of its existence
Hardy McLain (born 1952), hedge fund manager, managing partner CVC Capital Partners
Joey McMahon (A.B. 2009, M.B.A. 2013), founder and CEO of The Monday Life
Lalit Modi (A.B. 1986), Modi Enterprises Scion, chairman and founder of Indian Premier League
Carter Murray (A.B. 1997), CEO of DraftFCB
Raymond Nasher (1943), real estate developer, philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
Peter Nicholas (A.B. 1964), founder and chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation
Edward Nixon (B.S. 1952), entrepreneur and last surviving brother of former US President Richard Nixon [120]
Stephen Pagliuca (1977), part owner of the Boston Celtics , managing director of Bain Capital [121]
Robert A. Pascal (A.B. 1957), entrepreneur and politician
Aaron Patzer (B.S.E 2002), founder and CEO of Mint
J. Michael Pearson (B.S. 1981), chairman and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland (M.B.A. 1986). First African-American vice president at Progress Energy Inc and Duke Energy [122]
Deb Liu (B.S.E), CEO of Ancestry.com
Vitor Olivier (B.S. 2011), CTO of Nubank
Poman Lo (A.B. 1999), founder of Bodhi and Friends
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. (B.S.E. 1947), former CEO of Pfizer , philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering
Robert M. Price (B.S. 1952), CEO of the Control Data Corporation
J. B. Pritzker (A.B.), managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group, principal owner of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and TransUnion Corporation, one of the 400 richest Americans
Joanna Rees (B.S.), venture capitalist
Jeffrey Reich (A.B. 1979), former senior managing director of Bear Stearns
Mark Reuss (M.B.A. 1990), head of global product development at General Motors ; former president of GM North America
William Neal Reynolds , president of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , brother of Richard Joshua Reynolds
Allard Roen , businessman from Las Vegas, Nevada , and Carlsbad, California
Andrew Rosen (A.B. 1982), chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc.
Drew Rosenhaus (J.D. 1990), NFL sports agent
David M. Rubenstein (A.B. 1970), billionaire co-founder of The Carlyle Group [123]
Liu Ruopeng (Ph.D. 2009), billionaire co-founder of Kuang-Chi Group
Georg Schaeffler (J.D. 1999), owner of the Schaeffler Group ; currently the wealthiest person in Germany
Alan Schwartz (A.B. 1972), CEO, Bear Stearns
Granville Semmes , founder of 1-800-Flowers [124]
Malvinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 1998), former chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy Laboratories ; chairman of Fortis Hospitals and Religare Financial Services; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
Shivinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 2000), managing director of Fortis Healthcare ; Advisory Board Member of AIESEC India; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
David B. Snow Jr. (M.S. 1978), chairman and CEO of Medco Health Solutions , a Fortune 100 company
Jimmy Soni (A.B. 2007), managing editor of the Huffington Post
Robert K. Steel (A.B. 1973), chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, president and CEO, Wachovia
Joseph R. Swedish (M.H.A. 1979), CEO of WellPoint (now Anthem ), the second-largest health insurance provider in the US
David S. Taylor (B.S.E 1980), president and CEO at Procter & Gamble
Christian Van Thillo (M.B.A. 1989), CEO of De Persgroep
Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), CEO of National Geographic Society
Bill Timmerman (1968), chairman, president, and CEO of SCANA
Randall L. Tobias , former CEO of Eli Lilly and Company ; served as U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and Administrator of USAID , with the rank of ambassador
David Trott (J.D. 1985), businessman; Republican politician
Ashok Varadhan (A.B. 1993), co-head of global banking and markets at Goldman Sachs ; became one of the firm's youngest partners at the age of 29
Poornima Vijayashanker (B.S. 2004), entrepreneur and engineer
James L. Vincent (B.S. 1961), chairman and CEO, Biogen Idec
Jeffrey Vinik (B.S. 1981), chairman, president, and CEO of Vinik Asset Management, owner of Tampa Bay Lightning
Karl von der Heyden (1962), vice chairman and CFO, Pepsico, Inc. , namesake of the von der Heyden pavilion at Duke
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (A.B. 1975), president and CEO, General Motors Corporation
Jeff Williams (M.B.A. 1991), COO of Apple
Gary L. Wilson (A.B. 1962), director of The Walt Disney Company ; co-chairman of Northwest Airlines ; namesake of Wilson Rec Center at Duke
Charles Xiaolin Wang (J.D. 1999), Chinese lawyer, entrepreneur and financier
Lee Waite (MBA 1983), President and CEO of Citigroup Holdings Japan
Thomas S. White, Jr. (1965), asset manager
William Wrigley, Jr. II (B.A.), chairman, president, CEO Wrigley Company
Gao Xiqing (J.D. 1986), general manager and chief investment officer of the China Investment Corporation
Education
University presidents and administrators
M. Katherine Banks (Ph.D. 1989), 24th president of Texas A&M University
Rick Brewer , president of Louisiana College
Christopher Celenza (Ph.D. 1996), James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University .
John Chandler (B.D. 1952, Ph.D. 1954), former president of Williams College
Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (MEd 1937), president of St. Mary's Junior College
Margaret Cuninggim , dean of women at the University of Tennessee and at Vanderbilt University
Charles L. Flynn, Jr. (Ph.D.), president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent
W. Kent Fuchs (B.S.E. 1977), president of the University of Florida , former provost of Cornell University
Pamela Gann (J.D. 1973), president of Claremont McKenna College and former dean of Duke University School of Law
Geoffrey Garrett (Ph.D.), political scientist, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania [125]
Susan Henking (B.A. 1977), president of Shimer College ; scholar of religious studies
Susan Herbst (B.A. 1984), president of University of Connecticut ; political scientist
Matthew S. Holland (M.A., Ph.D.), president of Utah Valley University
A. D. Kirwan (Ph.D., 1947), seventh president of the University of Kentucky
Benjamin Ladner (Ph.D. 1970), former president of American University
Theodore E. Long (A.M 1968), president of Elizabethtown College
Mirta Martin (B.S. 1982), ninth president of Fort Hays State University
Lloyd B. Minor (residency), scientist, surgeon, and dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
Marie Lynn Miranda (B.S., 1985), data scientist, 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago
Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr. (Th.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1967), ancient language scholar; authority on the origin of the alphabet; former president of Southern Virginia University and King College
David P. Roselle (Ph.D. 1965), president, University of Delaware
David E. Sweet (Ph.D., 1968), founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), former president of Colorado College ; former provost of Wake Forest University
Beth Winkelstein (Ph.D. 1999), deputy provost of the University of Pennsylvania
Theodore Ziolkowski (A.B. 1951), former dean of the graduate school, Princeton University
Jeffrey Vitter (M.B.A. 2002), 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi
Professors and academics
Arun Agrawal (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1992), professor at the University of Michigan
R. Michael Alvarez (Ph.D. 1992), professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology
Dan Ariely (Ph.D. 1998), professor of behavioral economics at Duke and head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab , author of Predictably Irrational
Susan Athey (A.B. 1991), professor of economics at Harvard University and winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Noël Bakhtian (B.S. 2005), director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Michael J. Battle (B.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995), Episcopal moral theologian
Roy Baumeister (M.A. 1976), psychologist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stephen B. Baylin (B.S., M.D. 1968), Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Johns Hopkins University
Mark F. Bear (B.S. 1979), professor of neuroscience at MIT ; member of the National Academy of Medicine
Sherilynn Black (Ph.D.), neuroscientist and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at Duke
Shree Bose (M.D., Ph.D. 2023), grand prize winner of the inaugural Google Science Fair in 2011
Susan H. Brandt , historian
Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Ph.D. 2002), Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School
Bill Brown (A.B.), distinguished professor of English at the University of Chicago
Robin M. Canup (B.S.), astrophysicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the Harold C. Urey Prize
Barry F. Cooper (Ph.D. 1969), Canadian political scientist
Thomas Daniel (Ph.D.), biologist, won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
Jon Danielsson (Ph.D. 1991), director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Sara Danius (Ph.D. 1997), permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy , a Royal Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature
Kenneth A. Dodge (Ph.D. 1978), William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University
David L. Downie (A.B. 1983), author, professor of politics and environment policy at Fairfield University
David Efird (A.B. 1995), philosopher and lecturer at the University of York
Garrett Epps (J.D. 1991), legal scholar, professor at the University of Baltimore
Thomas Eugene Flanagan (Ph.D.), conservative Canadian political scientist
R. Edward Freeman (A.B. 1973), philosopher and professor of business administration, known for the stakeholder theory
Maryellen Fullerton (B.A. 1968), lawyer and interim dean and law professor of law at Brooklyn Law School
Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962), psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College
John Graham (Ph.D. 1994), economist
Huck Gutman , Ph.D. from Duke; professor of English at the University of Vermont and political advisor to Bernie Sanders
Craig Hanks , Ph.D. from Duke; professor of philosophy at Texas State University
Dagmar Herzog (A.B., 1983), distinguished professor of history, the Graduate Center , City University of New York
Craig Henriquez (B.S.E., 1981, Ph.D., 1988), professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University
Douglas Hodgkin (Ph.D.), political scientist; author; professor at Bates College
D. Kern Holoman (B.A. 1969), Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis [126]
Robert A. Jarrow (B.S. 1974), Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Siddharth Kara (B.A.), expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking
Kevin Lane Keller (Ph.D. 1986), E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
Anne R. Kenney (B.A. 1972), Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell University Library
Rachel E. Klevit (Post Doc), professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington , member of the National Academy of Sciences
Walter J. Koch (Post Doc 1991-1995), director of the Center for Translational Medicine, professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology, and W.W. Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at Temple University
M. A. R. Koehl (Ph.D. 1976), professor at the University of California, Berkeley ; member of the National Academy of Sciences ; awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990
Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), professor, economist, United States Secretary of Commerce
Josh Kun (B.A. 1993), professor of communication at the University of Southern California and MacArthur Fellow 2016
Bruce R. Kuniholm (M.A. 1972, M.A.P.P.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1976), professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy ; expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Luciano L'Abate (Ph.D. 1956), the father of relational theory ; author of 50 books in the field of American psychology
Frank Lentricchia (Ph.D. 1960), literary critic; professor of literature at Duke University
Jerry B. Lincecum (Ph.D.), emeritus professor of English; author; affiliated with Austin College in Sherman, Texas [127]
Jerome Loving (Ph.D.), professor of American literature and culture at the University of Texas at Austin [128]
Marc Lynch (A.B.), professor of political science at George Washington University
Khaled Mattawa (Ph.D. 2009), Libyan poet, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
Raven I. McDavid, Jr. , linguist, dialectologist
Lionel W. McKenzie (B.S. 1939), economist
Allan Meltzer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1955), economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisors for Presidents Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
Duane Mitchell (M.D., Ph.D. 2001), assistant vice president for research, associate dean for translational science and Clinical Research, and director of the University of Florida (UF) Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (Ph.D. 1994), musicologist
Richard L. Morrill (Ph.D. 1968), chancellor of the University of Richmond
Robert L. Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
Chip Mosher , education columnist, poet, teacher
Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, and critic; professor at Dartmouth College
Joseph Gaither Pratt (A.B. 1931, M.A. 1933, Ph.D. 1936), psychologist
Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author and professor of literature at Duke
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Ph.D. 2004), associate professor with joint appointment in the departments of sociology and epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill University
William Bee Ravenel III (M.A.), Head of the English Department at Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia) , mentor to Senator and Presidential Candidate John S. McCain III
John A. Rich (M.D. 1984), chair of the department of health management and policy at Drexel University ; 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
Charles C. Richardson (B.S. 1959, M.D. 1960), biochemist, professor at Harvard University
Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago
Claudia Scott (M.A., Ph.D. 19971), public policy professor
Shauna Shapiro , professor of psychology at Santa Clara University
Baba Shiv (Ph.D. 1996), professor of marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business
Eric Stach (B.S.E. 1992), materials scientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania , Fellow of the American Physical Society
Glen Stassen (Ph.D.), ethicist; Baptist theologian; son of former Minnesota governor and nine-time Presidential candidate Harold Stassen
Omari Swinton (M.A. 2003, Ph.D 2007), economist, head of the National Economic Association
Robert Tally (A.B. 1990, J.D. 2001), professor of English at Texas State University
John E. Thomas (Ph.D. 1959), medical ethicist
J. Anderson Thomson (A.B. 1970), trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Robert M. Townsend (A.B. 1970), professor of economics at MIT and two-time winner of the Frisch Medal (1998, 2012)
Jenny Tung (B.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2010), evolutionary anthropologist, received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019
Peter Turchin (Ph.D. 1985), Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics"
Sam Wang (Post Doc), neuroscientist, professor and best-selling author
Daniel T. Willingham (A.B. 1983), professor of psychology at the University of Virginia
Nikolai Khokhlov (Ph.D.), professor of psychology at California State University, San Bernardino , former KGB officer
William Kaelin, Jr. (A.B. 1978, M.D. 1982), professor of medicine at Harvard University , recipient of the 2016 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Medicine, science and technology
David H. Adams , heart valve surgery and mitral valve repair
Raymond Delacy Adams (M.D. 1936), professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School ; chief of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital ; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nita Ahuja (M.D. 1993), chair of the department of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine
Waleed Al-Salam (Ph.D. 1958), mathematician
Eben Alexander (M.D. 1980), neurosurgeon and best-selling author
Linda Austin (M.D. 1976), psychiatrist
Lenox Baker (M.D. 1973), physician, public servant
Lt. Andy Baldwin , The Bachelor , lieutenant, and doctor
Ketan Ramanlal Bulsara (M.D. 1996), chief of neurosurgery at the University of Connecticut
Ian Barbour (M.S. 1946), physicist, theologian, and recipient of the Templeton Prize in 1999
Charles E. Brady, Jr. (M.D. 1975), astronaut
John C. Browne (Ph.D.), former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jerome Bruner (A.B. 1937), psychologist and professor
David R. Bryant (Ph.D. 1961), organic chemist
John Buse (Ph.D. 1985, M.D. 1986), former president of the American Diabetes Association
Jacquelyn Campbell (B.S.N 1968), Anna D. Wolf Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing , Member of the National Academy of Medicine
C. Thomas Caskey (M.D. 1963), medical geneticist and biomedical entrepreneur
Iain Cheeseman (B.S. 1997), assistant professor at MIT
George M. Church (B.S. 1974), father of most current sequencing and array technologies; helped initiate the Human Genome Project; professor at Harvard Medical School
Daniel J. Clancy (A.B. 1985), computer scientist, engineering director for Google Book Search
Marcus Conant (B.S. 1957, M.D. 1961), dermatologist and AIDS researcher
Richard Cytowic (B.A. 1973), neuroscientist and leading authority on the field of synesthesia
Rose May Davis (Ph.D. 1929), chemist; first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. at Duke
William DeVries (GME 1971–1979), pioneer of artificial organs
Scott Dulchavsky (surgical fellowship), chairman of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Henry Ford Hospital
Sylvia Earle (Ph.D., 1966), marine biologist; chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jim Ellis , co-creator of Usenet with Tom Truscott
Robert Everett (B.S. 1942), National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate (1989)
Paul Farmer (B.S. 1982), infectious disease specialist; winner of MacArthur Award ; subject of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tracy Kidder 's biography Mountains Beyond Mountains
Robert Fischell (B.S. 1951), physicist, inventor, holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents, National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate in 2015[129]
C. Stephen Foster (B.S. 1965), ophthalmologist , developed the "step ladder approach to care" for treating patients with ocular inflammatory disease
Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. (M.D. 1958), cancer researcher; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association of American Physicians
Irwin Fridovich (Ph.D. 1955), biochemist, member of the National Academy of Science
Craig Gentry (B.S. 1995), computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow , recipient of the ACM 's Grace Murray Hopper Award
Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962), psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College
Myron L. Good (Ph.D. 1951), particle physicist
Antonella Grassi (Ph.D. 1990), mathematician; fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Eugene Gu (M.D. 2015), president and CEO of the Ganogen Research Institute
Scott Guthrie , executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise group at Microsoft
Robert S. Haltiwanger (B.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1986), chairman of the department of biochemistry and cell biology at Stony Brook University
Mark S. Humayun (M.D. 1989), recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2015), member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering
Krithi Karanth (Ph.D.), conservation biologist
George A. Keyworth, II (Ph.D. 1968), physicist; presidential science advisor; former board member of Hewlett-Packard
Cassie Kozyrkov (Ph.D. 2012), Chief Decision Scientist, Google
Martin Kratt (B.S.), Zoologist and children's television host
Anita Layton (B.S. 1994), Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics at Duke University
Sarah Lisanby (B.S. 1987, M.D. 1991), psychiatrist; director of translational research at The National Institute of Mental Health
Martin J. Lohse (Post-Doc.), physician and pharmacologist
Derek Lowe (Ph.D. 1988), medicinal chemist
John M. MacDougal (Ph.D. 1984), botanist
Robert Malkin (Ph.D. 1993), biomedical engineer; fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Jennifer Manlove (Ph.D. 1993), sociological research scientist at Child Trends
Peter V. E. McClintock (Post-Doc. 1968), physicist
Yi Fang Xiong (M.S. 2011), CEO of Ehang Technology
Joe M. McCord (Ph.D. 1970), biochemist; discovered the enzyme superoxide dismutase
Frank B. McDonald (B.S. 1948), astrophysicist; former chief scientist of NASA ; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Michelle McMurry-Heath (M.D./Ph.D. 2000), doctor, immunologist, policymaker, and current CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
Delano Meriwether (M.D. 1967), physician, head of the United States Government 1976 swine flu immunization program
Tony Mills (A.B. 1982, M.D. 1986), physician specializing in the treatment of HIV and AIDS
Radhe Mohan (Ph.D. 1969), medical physicist and radiation treatment safety pioneer
Harold A. Mooney (Ph.D. 1960), former president of the Ecological Society of America ; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
Terry Myerson (B.S. 1992), head of Microsoft 's operating systems engineering group
Bert W. O'Malley (residency), distinguished professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; recipient of the National Medal of Science
Dana S. Nau (Ph.D. 1979), professor of computer science at the University of Maryland ; fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Victoria Chibuogu Nneji (Ph.D. 2019), computer scientist, design and innovation strategist, and a lecturing fellow, known for her research on robotics and autonomous transportation .[130]
George B. Pegram (B.A. 1895), conducted pioneering research on the behavior of neutrons and played a key role in the administration of the Manhattan Project
Sheldon Pinnell (A.B.), dermatologist; lead scientist of SkinCeuticals
Freda Porter (Ph.D. 1991), applied mathematician and environmental scientist known as one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in the mathematical sciences[131]
Daniel Colón-Ramos (Ph.D. 2003), Dorys McConnell Duberg Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine
Thomas Reardon (M.S. 2010), inventor of Internet Explorer
Walter Rudin (A.B. 1947, Ph.D. 1949), mathematician, recipient of the Leroy P. Steele Prize awarded by the American Mathematical Society
Michael Ryschkewitsch (Ph.D. 1978), NASA Chief Engineer
Alan R. Saltiel (A.B. 1975), director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan
Arun Kumar Shukla (Post-Doc 2006-2011), professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, awarded the Infosys Prize
Sir John Skehel (Post-Doc 1968–1971), British virologist
Dylan Smith , co-founder and chief financial officer of Box
Henry Yan (B.S.E. 2016), product manager at Facebook, CPO of Hub Blockchain
William Kennedy Smith , founder of Physicians Against Land Mines
Michael Tomasello (B.A. 1972), director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ; professor at Duke University ; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Joseph Travis (Ph.D. 1980), biologist; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; former president of the American Society of Naturalists
Tom Truscott , co-creator of Usenet with Jim Ellis
Luis von Ahn , inventor of CAPCHA and the Google image labeler; awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006
Olaf von Ramm (Ph.D. 1973), first patent on a 3-D ultrasound , later developed the first electronically steered matrix-array 3-D ultrasound imager
Ge Wang , creator of the ChucK programming language
Lewis W. Wannamaker (M.D. 1946), biochemist; recipient of the Robert Koch Prize ; member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
R. Sanders Williams (M.D. 1974), president of Gladstone Institutes ; professor of medicine at UCSF
Blake S. Wilson (B.S.E.E 1974), co-developer of the cochlear implant ; recipient of the 2013 Lasker Award for clinical research
Melanie Wood (B.S. 2003), mathematician
Ricardo J. Komotar (B.S. 1999), academic neurosurgeon
John H. Gibbons (Ph.D. 1954), American scientist, nuclear physicist, and internationally recognized expert in technologies for energy efficiency and energy resource conservation
Louis Pillemer , (B.S. 1932), immunologist; discoverer of properdin
John H. Sampson (Ph.D. 1996, M.B.A. 2011), world-renowned neurosurgeon
David Tab Rasmussen (Ph.D. 1986), paleontologist
Brittany Wenger (B.S. 2017), winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012
Anne D. Yoder (Ph.D. 1992), Braxton Craven Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Duke University
Literature
Ainehi Edoro (Ph.D. 2016), founder and editor of Brittle Paper
Arthur Talmage Abernethy (A.M. 1891, Trinity College), journalist, theologian, minister, first North Carolina Poet Laureate
Dorsey Armstrong (Ph.D. 1998), editor-in-chief of Arthuriana
Douglas Brunt (A.B. 1993), novelist and entrepreneur
John W. Campbell (B.S. 1932), science fiction writer
Fred Chappell (A.B. 1961, A.M. 1964), North Carolina Poet Laureate, novelist
Lucy Corin (A.B. 1992), novelist and short story writer; awarded Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Guy Davenport (B.A. 1948), author, Thasos and Ohio , National Review contributor
G. William Domhoff (A.B. 1958), author of the controversial bestseller Who Rules America?
David Drake (J.D. 1972), author of science fiction and fantasy literature
Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author, television presenter , zookeeper
Elizabeth A. Fenn (A.B. 1981), American historian, recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Ben Fountain (J.D. 1983), award-winning author of fiction
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Ph.D. 1979), American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker. 1981 MacArthur Fellow .
Paul Goldberg (A.B. 1981), novelist, The Yid , and editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter
Josephine Humphreys (A.B. 1967), novelist
Mac Hyman (A.B. 1947), author of No Time for Sergeants
Russell Kirk (A.M. 1941), author of The Conservative Mind
Nathaniel Lande (B.A. 1956), author, filmmaker, and former creative director of Time magazine
Peter Maas (A.B. 1949), author of novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico , later made into movies
Dan Mallory (A.B. 2001), best-selling author of The Woman in the Window
Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Lydia Millet (M.E.M. 1996), author of novels Oh Pure and Radiant Heart , Everyone's Pretty
Peggy Payne (1970), author, Sister India
Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, critic, professor at Dartmouth College
Michael Peterson (A.B. 1965), author, politician, convicted of murdering his wife in 2003
Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author; James B. Duke professor of literature at Duke
Lynn Veach Sadler , poet, author, and playwright
Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago ; formerly at Stanford University , where he chaired the comparative literature department, and Yale University
William Seale (Ph.D. 1965), American historian and author
Frank G. Slaughter (B.A. 1926), novelist and physician
Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), author, social activist, chair of Kresge Foundation
William C. Styron (A.B. 1947), author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice
Anne Tyler (A.B. 1961), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer of short stories
Haim Watzman (B.A. 1978), writer
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (MDiv), writer
Richard Zimler (A.B. 1977), novelist, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon ,The Warsaw Anagrams and The Gospel According to Lazarus (novel)
Fine arts
Michael Best (A.B. 1962), former principal artist of the Metropolitan Opera
Les Brown (A.B. 1936), musician, Les Brown & The Band of Renown; Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, 1999
Michael Ching (A.B. 1980), composer
Bill Cunliffe (A.B. 1978), Grammy Award -winning composer, arranger, pianist[132]
Mike Posner (B.S. 2010), musician
Tyler Rice (B.S. 2010), music producer, NBA and EA Sports
William Stone (B.A., 1966), operatic baritone
Oleg Timofeyev (Ph.D. 1999), musicologist
Entertainment
Ian Abrams, co-creator of the CBS TV series Early Edition , Undercover Blues , Rolling Thunder
Andy Baldwin (B.S. 1999), The Bachelor , lieutenant, and doctor
Jayne Brook (1982), actress, Chicago Hope [133]
Ryan Carnes (X. 2004), actor, Desperate Housewives , Eating Out [134]
Bailey Chase (B.A. 1995), actor, Longmire [135]
Jack Coleman (A.B. 1980), actor, Heroes , Dynasty , Days of Our Lives [136]
Robert L. Cook (B.S. 1973), Academy Award-winning software-programmer whose computer-graphics program, RenderMan , is used in many contemporary films
Kara DioGuardi (A.B. 1993), songwriter for musicians including Carlos Santana , Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears , American Idol judge[137]
Paul W. Downs (B.A. 2004), actor, Broad City , and co-creator of Hacks
Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author, television presenter , zookeeper
René Echevarria (A.B. 1984), producer, The 4400 , Dark Angel , Now and Again ; screenwriter, Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Ray Francis, model[138]
Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War photojournalist
Annabeth Gish (A.B. 1992), actress, X-Files , The West Wing [139]
Kevin Gray (A.B. 1980), Broadway actor, Phantom on Broadway after Michael Crawford[140]
Emmett Grogan (attended), founder of the Diggers theatre
John Gromada (A.B. 1986), Broadway composer and sound designer
Jared Harris (B.F.A. 1984), Emmy-nominated actor, Mad Men , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Hudgins , television writer, Friday Night Lights
Ken Jeong (B.S. 1990), comedian, physician, actor, Community , Knocked Up , Role Models , The Hangover films [141]
Eric Kirsten (A.B. 1991), screenwriter, Midnight Sun
Belle Knox (B.A. 2016), pornographic actress[142]
Cody Ko (A.B. 2012), YouTube personality and Computer Scientist [143]
Martin Kratt (B.S. 1989), creator and star of PBS's Zoboomafoo
Rossana Lacayo (B.S. 1979), Nicaraguan photographer and pioneer filmmaker
Alisa Lepselter (A.B. 1985), editor of director Woody Allen 's films since 1999
Keith Lucas (attended law school), Academy Award-nominated writer and producer of Judas and the Black Messiah
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (J.D. 1913), folk musician
Russell Marcus, TV producer of Married With Children ; creator of Family Rules , Brandy & Mr Whiskers and Corn & Peg [144]
Cindy Marina , (transferred to USC), model television presenter, former volleyball player, Miss Universe Albania 2019 [145]
Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of the New York Times bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell ; internet celebrity (TuckerMax.com)
Ben Mulroney (A.B. 1997), host of Canadian Idol and eTalk Daily ; son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Alexi Murdoch , singer-songwriter
Stephanie (B.S. 2009) and Matthew Patrick (B.S. 2009), hosts of the webseries Game Theory on YouTube
Ellary Porterfield (A.B. 2011), actress, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio , Sugar , Hidden Palms
Mike Posner (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, Cooler Than Me , Please Don't Go
Charles Randolph-Wright , director, writer, and producer
Retta (B.S. 1992), stand-up comedian and actress, Parks and Recreation
Monty Sarhan (J.D. 1999), CEO of SkyShowtime
Teddy Schwarzman (J.D. 2006), Academy Award-nominated film producer, The Imitation Game ; former corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Tre’ Scott (A.B. 2015), Tony Award-winning producer
Rebecca Sealfon (Ph.D. 2009), internet celebrity and winner of 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee
David H. Steinberg (J.D. 1993), screenwriter and film director; wrote screenplays for American Pie 2 , Slackers , National Lampoon's Barely Legal , and American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Travis Lane Stork (B.S. 1994), reality star of ABC 's Bachelor 8 and host of the Daytime Emmy Award winning daytime talk show, The Doctors (talk show)
Mike Stud (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, A Toast to Tommy (2011), Relief (2013), Closer (2014), These Days (2016)
Danya Taymor (A.B. 2010), Tony Award -winning theatre director
Rita Volk (B.S. 2009), actress and model, known for her role as Amy Raudenfeld in the MTV hit romantic comedy series Faking It
Randall Wallace (A.B. 1971), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Braveheart ; also wrote screenplay for Pearl Harbor and wrote and directed The Man in the Iron Mask and We Were Soldiers
Patrick Williams (A.B. 1961), Academy Award-nominated composer for movies and TV; Emmy and Grammy winner
Robert Yeoman (A.B. 1973), Academy Award-nominated cinematographer, Bottle Rocket , Rushmore , The Royal Tenenbaums , The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou , The Darjeeling Limited , and The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dan Abrams
Nia-Malika Henderson
John Harwood
Dan Abrams (A.B. 1988), chief legal correspondent for ABC News , host of Verdict with Dan Abrams, former general manager of MSNBC [146]
Diana Butler Bass (Ph.D. 1991), columnist and author[147]
J. Bowyer Bell (doctorate 1959), historian, artist and art critic[148]
Dan Bernstein (A.B.), sports journalist, WSCR radio host[149]
John Carreyrou (A.B. 1994), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Jessica Faye Carter (J.D. 2002, M.B.A. 2002), author, columnist, social media entrepreneur[150]
Michelle Charlesworth (A.B. 1992), WABC-TV anchor and reporter[151]
Seth Davis (A.B. 1992), Sports Illustrated columnist and college basketball analyst for CBS Sports [152]
Laila el-Haddad (A.B. 2000), Palestinian journalist
Alex Epstein (A.B.), writer, founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress
John Feinstein (A.B. 1977), sports journalist
Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
Edward L. Fike (class of 1941), journalist and publisher in California, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.
Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War photojournalist
Cornelia Grumman (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Kerry Hannon (A.B. 1982), best-selling author
Nia-Malika Henderson (B.A.), journalist, senior political reporter for CNN [153]
Melissa Harris-Perry (M.A., Ph.D. 1999), author, television host and political commentator[154]
David Hartman (A.B. 1956), first host of Good Morning America on ABC [155]
John Harwood (A.B. 1978), National Political Editor of The Wall Street Journal , frequent panelist on Washington Week [156]
Mangesh Hattikudur (A.B. 2001), co-founder of mental floss with Will Pearson
Ben Jacobs (J.D.), political reporter for The Guardian
Louis Isaac Jaffe , Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist
Hugo Lindgren (A.B. 1990), editor of The New York Times Magazine
Mark Mazzetti (A.B. 1996), The New York Times national security correspondent and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner
Scott McCartney (A.B. 1982), travel editor and journalist for The Wall Street Journal , author
Sean McManus (A.B. 1977), president of CBS News and CBS Sports
Susannah Meadows (A.B. 1995), senior writer for Newsweek
Richard A. Oppel, Jr. (A.B. 1990), journalist, reported for The New York Times from Iraq, Israel and Washington, D.C.
Will Pearson (A.B. 2001), co-founder of mental floss with Mangesh Hattikudur
Windland Smith Rice (X. 1992), photographer, daughter of Frederick W. Smith , billionaire founder of FedEx
Nabeel Qureshi (M.A.), Christian apologetic, author and speaker.
Charlie Rose (A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968), journalist, former CBS News anchor, 60 Minutes contributor[157]
Jim Rosenfield (A.B. 1981), WCBS-TV anchor
Michael Ruhlman (A.B. 1985), nonfiction author
Scott Savitt (A.B. 1985), author of Crashing the Party, recognized expert on China
John Seigenthaler, Jr. (B.S. 1978), Al Jazeera America news anchor, formerly at NBC News and MSNBC
A. M. Secrest (A.B. 1944, M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), journalist and Nieman Fellow
Elizabeth Spiers (A.B. 1999), founding editor of Gawker.com [158] [159]
Susan Tifft (A.B. 1973), writer and editor for Time magazine; professor at Sanford School of Public Policy [160]
Kelly Tilghman (A.B. 1991), broadcaster for The Golf Channel ; the PGA Tour 's first female lead golf announcer
Jim Toomey (B.S.E. 1983), syndicated cartoonist of Sherman's Lagoon [161]
Judy Woodruff (A.B. 1968), NBC 's White House correspondent and Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour , anchor at CNN [162]
JJ Ramberg (A.B. 1992), host of MSNBC 's weekend business program Your Business [163]
Barry Svrluga (A.B. 1993), national baseball writer for The Washington Post
Craig Whitlock (A.B. 1990), writer for The Washington Post and author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War[164]
Athletics
See also men's basketball players , women's basketball players , and football players .
Jamison Crowder
Daniel Jones
Patrick Bailey , NFL linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers [166]
Brian Baldinger (1982), former National Football League offensive lineman; commentator for Fox [167]
Chase Brice , professional football player (transferred to Appalachian State)[168]
Dave Brown (1991), ten seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals [169]
Charles Bowser (1982), NFL linebacker, 4th round draft pick[170]
Wray Carlton (1965), American Football League all star, Buffalo Bills fullback and all-time leading rusher from the AFL years[171]
Jeremy Cash (2016), NFL linebacker, All-American defensive back[172]
Ross Cockrell (2014), NFL cornerback, New York Giants[173]
Jamison Crowder (2014), NFL wide receiver, Washington Redskins[174]
Mike Curtis , NFL All Pro linebacker with the Baltimore Colts; Super Bowl V champion[175]
Al DeRogatis (1948), Pro Bowl tackle for the New York Giants ; later lead analyst for the NFL on NBC [176]
Anthony Dilweg (1989), former NFL quarterback , enjoyed brief success with the Green Bay Packers [177]
Dave Dunaway , NFL wide receiver[178]
Ryan Fowler , NFL linebacker, New York Jets [179]
Lennie Friedman NFL offensive lineman, 2nd round draft pick[180]
Thomas Hennessy , NFL long snapper [181]
Cedric Jones , NFL wide receiver[182]
Daniel Jones , No.6 overall pick in 2019 NFL draft , NFL Quarterback for New York Giants [183]
Sonny Jurgensen , Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins [184]
Kevin Lewis , NFL linebacker[185]
Thaddeus Lewis (2012), NFL quarterback[186]
Patrick Mannelly , NFL long snapper [187]
George McAfee , Hall of Fame halfback who played for the Chicago Bears [188]
Max McCaffrey (2016), NFL wide receiver, San Francisco 49ers[189]
Scottie Montgomery , Arena Football League wide receiver/defensive back
Ed Newman (1973), NFL offensive guard; 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins ; Super Bowl VIII champion[190]
Ayanga Okpokowuruk , football player
Clarence "Ace" Parker , Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Boston Yanks , and New York Yankees [191]
Lucas Patrick (2016), American football, guard, Green Bay Packers
Tommy Prothro , former head coach of the Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers
Tawambi Settles , player of gridiron football
Drew Strojny , NFL football offensive tackle
Laken Tomlinson , NFL offensive guard, San Francisco 49ers; 1st round draft pick[192]
Benjamin Watson (transferred to Georgia), former NFL tight end[193]
Baseball
Marcus Stroman
Wayne Ambler , Major League Baseball (MLB) player[194]
Bob Brower , former MLB player[195]
Chris Capuano (2000), former MLB player[196]
Claude Corbitt , former MLB player[197]
Lawrence "Crash" Davis , former MLB player (see also Bull Durham )
Nate Freiman , (B.A. 2009) former MLB player[198] [199]
Bryce Jarvis , professional baseball player, Arizona Diamondbacks organization[200] [201]
Ryan Jackson , former MLB player[202] [203]
Kenny Koplove , former professional baseball player; played internationally for Israel[204]
Jake Lemmerman , former professional baseball player[205]
Joey Loperfido , MLB player for Houston Astros [206] [207]
Bill McCahan , former MLB player
Matt Mervis , MLB player for Chicago Cubs [208] [209]
Ned Martin , former play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox [210]
Quinton McCracken , former MLB player[211]
Dan Otero , former MLB pitcher[212]
Scott Schoeneweis , former MLB pitcher, member of the 2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels [213]
Al Spangler , former MLB player
Graeme Stinson , professional baseball player[214]
Marcus Stroman , MLB pitcher, Chicago Cubs [215] [216]
Eric Tipton , former MLB player[217]
Mike Trombley , former MLB pitcher
Hal Wagner , former MLB player
Basketball
Grayson Allen
Carlos Boozer
Shane Battier
Kyrie Irving
JJ Redick
Jayson Tatum
Zion Williamson
Alaa Abdelnaby (1990), former professional basketball player, college basketball analyst[218]
Mark Alarie (1986), former professional basketball player[219] [220]
Grayson Allen (2018), No. 21 pick of the 2018 NBA draft , professional basketball player, Phoenix Suns [221] [222]
Tommy Amaker (1987), Harvard University head basketball coach[223]
Tate Armstrong (1977), former professional basketball player[224]
William Avery (2023), former professional basketball player[225] [226]
Gene Banks (B.A. 1981), former professional basketball player[227]
Bob Bender (1980), former professional basketball coach[228]
Eric Boateng (transferred to Arizona State), former professional basketball player[229]
Jamal Boykin (transferred to California), former professional basketball player[230]
Joe Belmont , former professional basketball player and coach[231]
Tony Barone (1971), former basketball coach and scout[232]
Kenny Blakeney (1995), former professional basketball player[233]
Marvin Bagley III , professional basketball player, No. 2 pick of the 2018 NBA draft , NBA player for Washington Wizards [234] [235]
Alison Bales (2007), former professional player (WNBA)[236]
RJ Barrett , No.3 overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft , NBA player for Toronto Raptors [237] [238]
Lexie Brown (2018), WNBA player for the Los Angeles Sparks [239] [240]
Paolo Banchero , NBA player for Orlando Magic [241] [242]
Joey Baker (2022), professional basketball player[243] [244]
Marques Bolden , professional basketball player[245] [246]
Shane Battier (2001), former professional basketball player[247] [248]
Alana Beard (2004), former professional basketball player in the WNBA [249] [250]
Jay Bilas (A.B. 1986, J.D. 1992), ESPN sports commentator[251]
Carlos Boozer (B.A. 2020), former professional basketball player[252] [253]
Elton Brand , former professional basketball player[254] [255]
Henry Cole (1921), former basketball player and coach
Seth Curry (2013), NBA Player for Dallas Mavericks [256] [257]
Jeff Capel (1997), men's basketball assistant coach, former head coach at the University of Oklahoma [258]
Chris Carrawell (2000), former professional basketball player, current assistant coach for Duke Blue Devils men's basketball[259]
Chris Collins (1996), men's basketball associate head coach[260]
Vernon Carey Jr. , NBA player for Charlotte Hornets [261] [262]
Wendell Carter Jr. , No. 7 pick of the 2018 NBA draft , NBA player for Orlando Magic [263] [264]
Quinn Cook (2015), NBA player, for Los Angeles Lakers [265] [266]
Andre Dawkins (2014), former professional basketball player[267]
Brian Davis (1992), former professional basketball player[268]
Johnny Dawkins (1986), University of Central Florida head basketball coach, former Duke associate head basketball coach and former professional basketball player (jersey retired)[269] [270]
Javin DeLaurier (2020), professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League [271]
Sean Dockery (2006), former professional basketball player[272]
Kenny Dennard (1981), former professional basketball player[273] [274]
Randy Denton (1971), former professional basketball player[275]
Luol Deng , former professional basketball player[276]
Charles "Lefty" Driesell , former college basketball coach (Davidson , Maryland , James Madison , Georgia State )
Chris Duhon (2004), former professional basketball player; assistant coach for Marshall University [277]
Trevon Duval , professional basketball player[278] [279]
Mike Dunleavy Jr. , former professional basketball player[280]
Daniel Ewing , professional basketball player, Maccabi Ashdod of the Israeli Premier League [281]
Danny Ferry (1989), former Cleveland Cavaliers general manager, former professional basketball player, member of 2003 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs (jersey retired)[282] [283]
Kyle Filipowski , NBA player for Utah Jazz [284]
Pat Garrity (M.B.A. 2011), former professional basketball player and investment professional[285]
Mike Gminski (1980), ACC/ Raycom sports commentator (jersey retired)[286] [287]
Harry Giles III , 20th pick of 2017 NBA draft , NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets [288] [289]
Miela Goodchild (2022), professional basketball player for Perth Lynx [290]
Jacob Grandison , professional basketball player[291]
Jordan Goldwire (2021), professional basketball player[292]
Chelsea Gray (2014), professional basketball player[293]
Haley Gorecki (2019), professional basketball player (WNBA)[294]
AJ Griffin , NBA player for Atlanta Hawks [295]
Dick Groat , former professional baseball and basketball player (jersey retired)[296]
Michael Gbinije (Transferred to Syracuse), professional basketball player, Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League [297] [298]
Lindsey Harding (2007), professional basketball player, Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA (jersey retired)[299]
Dave Henderson (1986), 1991 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP [300]
Gerald Henderson Jr. , former professional basketball player[301]
Phil Henderson (1990), former professional basketball player[302]
Art Heyman (1963), former professional basketball player (jersey retired)[303]
Josh Hairston (2014), former professional basketball player, sports agent for Klutch Sports [304]
Grant Hill (B.A. 1994), former professional basketball player, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (jersey retired)[305] [306]
Matthew Hurt , professional basketball player[307]
Rodney Hood , NBA player for the Los Angeles Clippers [308] [309]
Nick Horvath (2004), West Sydney Razorbacks professional basketball player
Bobby Hurley (1993), former professional basketball player (jersey retired), head coach at Arizona State [310] [311]
Brandon Ingram , NBA player for New Orleans Pelicans , No. 2 pick in the 2016 NBA draft [312] [313]
Kyrie Irving , professional basketball player, Dallas Mavericks ; No. 1 pick in the 2011 NBA draft ; 2011–2012 NBA Rookie of the Year, 2016 NBA Champion[314] [315]
Frank Jackson , NBA player for Detroit Pistons [316] [317]
Billy King , former president and general manager of the Brooklyn Nets [318] [319]
Nate James (2001), former professional basketball player[320]
Amile Jefferson (2016), former professional basketball player[321] [322]
Chase Jeter (Transferred to Arizona), basketball player[323] [324]
Dahntay Jones (2003), former professional basketball player[325] [326]
Jalen Johnson , NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks [327] [328]
Matt Jones (2017), professional basketball player[329]
Tre Jones , NBA player for San Antonio Spurs [330] [331]
Tyus Jones , NBA player for Washington Wizards [332]
Ed Koffenberger , played both basketball and tennis at Duke, Duke's first two-sport athlete[333]
Greg Koubek (1991), former professional basketball player[334]
Doug Kistler , former professional basketball player[335]
Ryan Kelly (2013), professional basketball player, Sun Rockers Shibuya of the B.League [336] [337]
Joe Kennedy , former professional basketball player[338]
Luke Kennard , NBA player for the Memphis Grizzlies [339] [340]
Trevor Keels , NBA player for New York Knicks [341]
Antonio Lang (1994), former professional basketball player[342]
Christian Laettner (1992), former professional basketball player (jersey retired)[343]
Dereck Lively II , NBA player for Dallas Mavericks [344]
Tricia Liston (2014), professional basketball player[345]
Trajan Langdon (1999), former professional basketball player[346]
Alex Murphy , professional basketball player in the LEB Oro league[347]
Corey Maggette , former professional basketball player[348]
David McClure (2009), former professional basketball player[349]
Josh McRoberts , former professional basketball player[350] [351]
Jared McCain , NBA player for Philadelphia 76ers [352]
Jeff Mullins , professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors and head basketball coach at UNC Charlotte (jersey retired)[353]
Gary Melchionni , former professional basketball player[354]
Lee Melchionni (2006), former professional basketball player[355]
Wendell Moore Jr. , NBA player for Minnesota Timberwolves [356] [357]
DeMarcus Nelson , professional basketball player, Panathinaikos in Greece[358]
Greg Newton (1997), former professional basketball player[359] [360]
Martin Nessley , former professional basketball player[361]
Alex O'Connell (transferred to Creighton), professional basketball player[362]
Leaonna Odom (2020), professional basketball player[363]
Jahlil Okafor , No. 3 of the 2015 NBA draft , professional basketball player[364] [365]
Semi Ojeleye (transferred to SMU), professional basketball player for Valencia Basket [366]
Cherokee Parks , former professional basketball player[367]
Jabari Parker , professional basketball player, Boston Celtics ; No. 2 of the 2014 NBA draft [368] [369]
Marshall Plumlee (2016), former basketball player[370] [371]
Mason Plumlee (2013), professional basketball player, Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA[372] [373]
Miles Plumlee (2012), former professional basketball player[374] [375]
Haley Peters , professional basketball player[376]
Shavlik Randolph , former professional basketball player [377]
JJ Redick (A.B. 2006),(Class of 2006) NCAA 's all-time leader in three-point field goals, former professional basketball player (jersey retired)[378] [379]
Austin Rivers , professional basketball player, last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves [380] [381]
Cam Reddish , No.8 pick in the 2019 NBA draft , NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers [382] [383]
Justin Robinson (2020), professional basketball player[384]
Ángela Salvadores , professional basketball player[385]
DJ Steward , professional basketball player[386]
Jon Scheyer ,(Class of 2010) American-Israeli McDonald's All American , All-American basketball player for national champion 2009–10 Duke basketball team ,[387] current Duke men's basketball coach
Adam Silver (1984), commissioner and chief operating officer of the NBA [388]
Cassius Stanley , NBA player for Indiana Pacers [389] [390]
Kyle Singler (2011), former professional basketball player[391]
Nolan Smith (2011), 2010 national champion, current Duke men's basketball assistant coach[392]
Quin Snyder (B.A. 1989, J.D., M.B.A. 1995), former University of Missouri head coach; former Austin Toros of the NBDL head coach; head coach of the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA [393]
Rasheed Sulaimon (transferred to Maryland), professional basketball player[394]
Jim Spanarkel , former professional basketball player, NBA and college basketball commentator[395]
Jayson Tatum , NBA player for the Boston Celtics , #3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft [396] [397]
Jordan Tucker (transferred to Butler), professional basketball player[398]
Gary Trent Jr. , NBA player for the Toronto Raptors [399] [400]
Derryck Thornton (Transferred to USC), professional basketball player[401]
Tyler Thornton (2014), former professional basketball player[402]
Lance Thomas (2010), 2010 national champion (captain); 10th on Duke's all-time list of offensive rebounds; professional basketball player[403]
Michele Van Gorp , former professional basketball player (WNBA)[404]
Abby Waner , former professional basketball player (WNBA)[405]
Elizabeth Williams , professional basketball player (WNBA)[406]
Mark Williams , NBA player for Charlotte Hornets [407] [408]
Jason Williams , former professional basketball player (jersey retired), college basketball commentator and analyst for ESPN [409]
Shelden Williams , Duke's all-time leader in rebounds and blocked shots, former professional basketball player (jersey retired)[410]
Justise Winslow , NBA player for Portland Trail Blazers [411]
Jack White (2020), professional basketball player[412]
Dariq Whitehead , NBA player for Brooklyn Nets [413]
Zion Williamson , No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA draft , NBA player for the New Orleans Pelicans [414] [415]
Steve Wojciechowski , former Marquette men's basketball head coach[416]
Golf
Skip Alexander , professional golfer[417]
Beth Bauer , professional golfer[418]
Laetitia Beck , Israeli professional golfer[419]
Amanda Blumenherst , professional golfer[420]
Céline Boutier , professional golfer[421]
Jenny Chuasiriporn , professional golfer
Max Greyserman (born 1995), professional golfer on the PGA Tour
Liz Janangelo , professional golfer
Brittany Lang , professional golfer
Leona Maguire (Irish), number 1 Women's World Amateur, Duke senior
Lisa Maguire , Irish amateur golfer
Bill Mallon , orthopedic surgeon, professional golfer, leading authority on the history of the Olympic Games
Joe Ogilvie , professional golfer
Leif Olson , professional golfer
Mike Souchak , professional golfer, winner of 15 PGA events
Kevin Streelman , professional golfer
Art Wall, Jr. , professional golfer, winner of 1959 Masters [422]
Other
Stephen Amritraj (B.A. 2006), professional tennis player
Drew Cannon (B.S. 2012), statistician and sports writer; on Boston Celtics staff
Jordan Cila (born 1982), Major League Soccer midfielder
Matt Danowski , professional lacrosse player for New Jersey Pride
Andy Frankenberger , professional poker player and former equity derivatives trader
Danielle Goldstein (born 1985), American-Israeli show jumper
Paulie Harraka , NASCAR racer[423]
Jay Heaps , Head Coach of the New England Revolution as of November 2011; former player for the New England Revolution MLS team; former Duke basketball and soccer player
Sarah Hirshland (born 1975), chief executive officer of the United States Olympic Committee
Nancy Hogshead , Olympic gold medal winner in swimming
Hiroshi Hoketsu (A.M. 1968), Japanese equestrian rider who debuted in the 1964 Summer Olympics and continues to compete today in the 2012 Summer Olympics
Matthew Jacobs , martial arts expert; frequently appears in Ultimate Fighting Championship
Abigail Johnston won a silver medal in synchronized diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics while an undergraduate at Duke and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics while attending Duke Medical School[424]
Randy Jones , competed in four Olympics as member of U.S. bobsledding teams
Jacob Kasper , professional wrestler[425]
John Kerr , soccer player; winner of Hermann Trophy for top collegian; first American player in the Football League First Division (now known as the Premiership ); Duke's head coach
Jason Kreis , professional soccer player and coach
Alison Levine (M.B.A. 2000), mountain climber and explorer; the only woman in the world to have completed the Explorers Grand Slam , reaching the summit of the highest mountain on each continent and skiing to the North and South Poles
Nick McCrory , Olympic diver[426]
Ibtihaj Muhammad (B.A. 2007), 2016 Olympic fencer and Bronze medalist[427]
Gunnar Peterson (B.A. 1985), fitness expert, author and motivational speaker
Vanessa Rousso , professional poker player
Shannon Rowbury , professional track athlete, middle distance runner
Morgan Reid (2017), professional soccer player[428]
Philip Schwalb , founder of National Sports Museum of America
Jillian Schwartz , Olympic pole vaulter
Dave Sime , champion sprinter, won a silver medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics
Andrew Skurka (A.B. 2003), first person to complete the 7,700 sea-to-sea-route spanning North America
Steven Solomon , Australian track and field, 2012 Olympics, Duke indoor 400m record holder
Jessica Rae Springsteen , nationally ranked equestrian; daughter of Bruce Springsteen
Becca Ward , 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing; three-time NCAA champion in individual women's sabre (2009, 2011, 2012)[429]
Sean Davis (soccer) , captain of the New York Red Bulls
Andrew Wenger , professional soccer player and first draft pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft
Current
Walter E. Dellinger III
Henry Petroski
Erwin Chemerinsky
Bill Adair , founder of the website PolitiFact [430]
David Aers , James B. Duke Professor of English, expert on medieval and Renaissance literature and theology[431]
Pankaj K. Agarwal , computer scientist, known for his research on computational geometry
Susan Alberts , primatologist, co-director of Amboseli Baboon Research Project
John Aldrich , political scientist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Samuel Alito , associate justice of the US Supreme Court
Nancy Andrews , vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Duke University School of Medicine [432]
Dan Ariely , professor of behavioral economics, author of Predictably Irrational
Nancy Armstrong , Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of English; critic of 18th- and 19th-century novels; editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Frank Asche , marine economist
Valerie Ashby , dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences [433]
Owen Astrachan (M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992), distinguished computer scientist
Emanuel Azenberg , producer of American theater who has won 40 Tony awards
Lorena S. Beese , biochemist, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Adrian Bejan , mechanical engineering professor, inventor of constructal theory and namesake of the Bejan number
Ravi V. Bellamkonda , biomedical engineer
Peter B. Bennett , founder and former president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network
Philip Bennett , former managing editor of The Washington Post
James Berger , statistician, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
Paul Berliner , ethnomusicologist
Chris Beyrer , director of the Duke Global Health Institute, member of the National Academy of Medicine
Tim Bollerslev , economist, expert on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Raphael M. Bonelli , professor of neurology and psychiatry
James Boyle , William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Geoffrey Brennan , philosopher associated with rational actor theory
Hubert Bray , mathematician, known for having proved the Riemannian Penrose inequality
David Brooks , columnist for The New York Times
Thomas Brothers , musicologist, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009
Kelly D. Brownell , scientist, professor, expert on obesity; named as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine in 2006
Frank Bruni , columnist for The New York Times
Caroline Bruzelius , art historian , expert on medieval architecture
Robert Bryant , chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute , fellow of the American Mathematical Society , member of the National Academy of Sciences
Allen Buchanan , philosopher
Al Buehler , chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation department; United States Olympic Track coach at the 1972 , 1984 , and 1988 Summer Olympics ; member of North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame [434]
Robert Calderbank , former vice president of AT&T ; recipient of the Shannon Award in electrical engineering
Bruce Caldwell , economist
Blanche Capel , James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology
William Chafe , American historian
Yuan-Tsong Chen , physician scientist, known for developing a recombinant enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease
Rey Chow , postcolonial, cultural critic
Dorie Clark , author and executive education professor
Sarah Cohen , Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Philip J. Cook , professor of public policy
Miriam Cooke , literary critic
Missy Cummings , professor of aeronautics, one of the US Navy's first female fighter pilots
Sandy Darity, Jr. , economist
Ingrid Daubechies , first woman president of the International Mathematical Union ; recipient of MacArthur Fellowship , Guggenheim Fellowship, and NAS Award in Mathematics
Cathy Davidson , author
Geraldine Dawson , former chief science officer of Autism Speaks
Walter E. Dellinger III , law professor, former United States Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton
Martin E. Dempsey , former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kenneth A. Dodge , psychologist
Bruce Donald , computer scientist, fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEE , recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship
Ariel Dorfman , novelist, playwright, human rights activist, 1992 winner of the Laurence Olivier Award
Fred Dretske , philosopher of mind , winner of the Jean Nicod Prize
Prasenjit Duara , historian
Patrick Duddy , former ambassador to Venezuela
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. , deputy Judge Advocate General
Rick Durrett , mathematician, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Victor J. Dzau , James B. Duke Professor of Medicine ; pioneering translational research scientist
Herbert Edelsbrunner , computer scientist, winner of the Alan T. Waterman Award
Carla Ellis , computer scientist, fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Sir Harold Evans , author; editor of The Times ; exposed Soviet spies
Wendy Ewald , photographer, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992
Peter Feaver , political scientist; served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Michael Ferejohn , expert on ancient philosophy
Eric Finkelstein , health economist, professor at Duke-NUS Medical School
Anne Firor Scott , historian, recipient of the National Humanities Medal
Owen Flanagan , philosopher of mind, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
Allen Frances , world-renowned psychiatrist
Connel Fullenkamp , director of undergraduate studies in economics, member of the IMF 's finance team
John Hope Franklin , civil rights activist, historian, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
Ernestine Friedl , professor emerita in cultural anthropology; former president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association ; known for her work on gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
Allan Friedman , neurosurgeon
Takanori Fukushima , neurosurgeon
Alan Enoch Gelfand , James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Sharon Gerecht , biomedical engineer; member of the National Academy of Medicine
David Gergen , former Duke professor; Duke trustee; adviser to Presidents Nixon , Ford , Reagan , and Clinton [435]
Michael Allen Gillespie , political scientist
Jay Golden , environmental engineer
David Goldstein , population geneticist[436]
Mark Goodacre , theologian
Matthias Gromeier , developer of the PVSRIPO virus that has recently shown to be effective in treating cancer
Gordon Hammes , biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Moo-Young Han , discoverer of the quark color charge
Michael Hardt , literature professor and Marxist, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire and Multitude
Brian Hare , evolutionary anthropologist, director of Duke Canine Cognition Center
Campbell Harvey , economist
Hashim Al-Hashimi , James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology; recipient of the 2020 NAS Award in Molecular Biology .
Stanley Hauerwas , theologian and author
N. Katherine Hayles , postmodern literary critic; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Richard B. Hays , theologian
Sheng Yang He , plant biologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Dan Heath , bestselling author of Made to Stick
Kieran Healy , Irish sociologist
Amy H. Herring , biostatistician
Oscar Hijuelos , novelist; first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Brigid Hogan , developmental biologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences , Institute of Medicine , and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kevin Hoover , economist
Jerry F. Hough , political scientist, author, and professor
Calvin Howell , physicist
Tony Jun Huang , William Bevan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Reinhard Hütter , Catholic theologian
Fredric Jameson , Marxist literary theorist; former chair of the Literature Program
Andrew Janiak , philosopher
Ashley E. Jardina , political scientist and author
Erich Jarvis , neurobiologist, professor at Rockefeller University
Abdul Sattar Jawad , literary theorist, fled Mustansiriya University after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Bruce Jentleson , director of Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to vice president Al Gore
Wu Jinglian , economist
Kimberly S. Johnson , professor of medicine and director of Duke REACH Equity (Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Care Equity)
Nan Marie Jokerst , electrical engineer, in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering , Triangle Women in STEM leader
James A. Joseph , former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
Samuel Katz , virologist, known for the development of the measles vaccine
Richard Kay , paleontologist
David Kirsch , oncologist
Alexander Kiselev , mathematician
Peter Klopfer , zoologist, civil rights advocate and educator
Jack Knight , legal theorist
Harold G. Koenig , psychiatrist
Claudia Koonz , feminist historian
Sally Kornbluth , provost and James B. Duke Professor of pharmacology and cancer biology
Ashutosh Kotwal , Fritz London Distinguished Professor of Physics,[437] Fellow of AAAS,[438] APS[439] and Sloan Foundation[440]
Rachel Kranton , economist, fellow of the Econometric Society , recipient of the Blaise Pascal Chair
Timur Kuran , Turkish economist
Kara Lawson , Duke women's basketball head coach (2020–present)[441]
Pedro Lasch , artist and assistant research professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Bruce Lawrence , Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion
Mark Leary , psychologist
Frank Lentricchia , literary critic
David F. Levi , jurist
Nan Lin , sociologist
Jason Locasale , professor of pharmacology, internationally recognized for his contributions to the modern understanding of metabolism
Martin J. Lohse , German physician and pharmacologist doing research on G protein-coupled receptors
Julian Lombardi , computer scientist , inventor
Nathaniel Mackey , poet and novelist, recipient of the 2015 Bollingen Prize and the 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Nancy MacLean , historian
Bruce Maggs , professor of computer science, founding employee of Akamai Technologies
Robert Malkin , biomedical engineer, fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
J. Lorand Matory , chair of the department of African and African American Studies
Achille Mbembe , philosopher and political scientist
Mark McCahill , creator of Internet Gopher , POP mail, and Croquet; coined the phrase "surfing the Web"
Mark McClellan , former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Thomas Carlos Mehen , nuclear physicist
Walter Mignolo , literary theorist
Terrie Moffitt , pioneering researcher in the development of antisocial behavior
Toril Moi , literary theorist associated with feminist theory
Christopher Monroe , quantum physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Ebrahim Moosa , religious scholar
V. Y. Mudimbe , philosopher associated with philosophy of language , phenomenology , and structuralism
Norman Myers , British environmentalist
Mark Anthony Neal , author
Lenhard Ng , mathematician, child mathematical prodigy
Miguel Nicolelis , pioneer of brain-machine interfaces
Mohamed Noor , evolutionary biologist; 2008 recipient of the Darwin–Wallace Medal [442]
Wayne Norman , expert on political philosophy
Jean Fox O'Barr , feminist teacher, scholar, and administrator; founded women's studies program at Duke
Linwood Pendleton , former chief economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Henry Petroski , civil engineer and writer[443]
Arlie Petters , pioneer in the mathematical theory and mathematical physics of gravitational lensing; professor of mathematics, physics, and business administration
Lillian Pierce , mathematician
Orrin H. Pilkey , geologist
Robert Plonsey , biomedical engineer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Amilcare Porporato , civil engineer
Reynolds Price , author and professor of literature
Kathy Alexis Psomiades , associate professor of English, specializing in Victorian poetry and novel theory
Dale Purves , professor of Neurobiology and Medical Doctor
Anne Pusey , primatologist, director of Jane Goodall Institute Research Center
Jonathan D. Quick , family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security
Christian R. H. Raetz , professor of biochemistry and member of the National Academy of Sciences
Sarah Bloom Raskin , former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
William Raspberry , Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism; syndicated columnist for The Washington Post ; Pulitzer Prize winner
Paul Rehak , archaeologist
Madan M. Rehani , medical physicist
John Reif , computer scientist; fellow of the AAAS , IEEE and ACM
Michael Reiter , James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science, fellow of the ACM
Jane S. Richardson , professor of biochemistry; developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram , method of representing the 3D structure of proteins, MacArthur Fellow
Alexander Rosenberg , philosopher; winner of Lakatos Award in philosophy of science, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
Benjamin Rossman , computer scientist
Kathy Rudy , social constructionist
Omid Safi , professor of Islamic Studies
David H. Sanford , philosopher
Nicola Scafetta , physicist
Tad Schmaltz , editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy
Christopher H. Schroeder , former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy for the United States Department of Justice
Barbara Ramsay Shaw , chemist, cancer researcher, expert on signal transduction
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , philosopher
David Smith , invisibility cloak pioneer; awarded the Descartes Prize in 2005
Tommy Sowers , Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs
J. E. R. Staddon , behavioral psychologist
Orin Starn , cultural anthropologist
Kristine Stiles , art historian
Vahid Tarokh , electrical engineer, recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship
John Terborgh , conservation biologist, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1996
Jenny Tung , evolutionary anthropologist, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019[444]
Timothy Tyson , historian
Cindy Lee Van Dover , professor of biological oceanography
Hans J. Van Miegroet , professor of art history
Tuan Vo-Dinh , biophysicist
Olaf von Ramm , Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering; first patent on a 3-D ultrasound
Geoffrey Wainwright , Methodist theologian
Xiao-Fan Wang , cancer biologist
E. Roy Weintraub , economist
Ben Wildman-Tobriner , physician; Olympic gold medalist
Huntington F. Willard , human geneticist; former president of American Society of Human Genetics; member of the National Academy of Sciences
E.O. Wilson , biologist, "the father of sociobiology and biodiversity", National Medal of Science (1976)
Lauren Winner , author and journalist
Judy Woodruff , news anchor , journalist
Vanessa Woods , internationally published Australian scientist, author and journalist
Weitao Yang , chemist
Anne Yoder , biologist, director of Duke Lemur Center [445]
Hongkai Zhao , mathematician
Anthony Zinni , decorated general
Frances Dorothy Acomb , historian
D. Bernard Amos , immunologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Norman B. Anderson , CEO of the American Psychological Association
Wolfgang Bibel , one of the founders of the research area of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe
Kwame Anthony Appiah , philosopher, author of In My Father's House and The Ethics of Identity
Srinivas Aravamudan , professor of English, literature and Romance studies; dean of humanities; specialist in 18th-century and postcolonial literature; author
Clay Armstrong , physiologist; recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Gairdner Foundation International Award for contributions to medical science
James Arthur , mathematician, former president of the American Mathematical Society
George James Augustine , neuroscientist
Katharine Banham , associate professor of psychology, emerita
John Spencer Bassett , historian who initiated the Bassett Affair , an important victory for academic freedom
Robert Bates , Eaton Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University
Upendra Baxi , legal scholar
Andrea Bertozzi , mathematician
Helen Bevington , poet and author
Utpal Bhattacharya , expert on business ethics
Lawrence Biedenharn , theoretical nuclear physicist
Harry Binswanger , objectivist philosopher and philosopher of mind
Mary L. Boas , mathematician
Ralph Boas , mathematician, recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award
James Bonk , chemist. Dean's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of 50 years of teaching
Edgar Bowers , poet, For Louis Pasteur , Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989, Guggenheim Fellowship twice
Joseph Penn Breedlove (B.A. 1898, M.A. 1902), University Librarian
David S. Broder , current Washington Post and former New York Times reporter
H. Keith H. Brodie , psychiatrist, educator and eventual president of Duke
David Allan Bromley , nuclear physicist, scientific advisor to US President George H. W. Bush , recipient of National Medal of Science (1988)
Hubie Brown , assistant men's basketball coach (1969–1972); NBA coach and commentator
John Buettner-Janusch , anthropologist
Michael Byers , Canadian legal scholar and nonfiction author
Leonard Carlitz , mathematician
Tina Campt , associate professor of women's studies and history; director of Graduate Studies
Ziv Carmon , professor of business administration at INSEAD
John W. Cell , professor of history at Duke.[446]
Erwin Chemerinsky , law professor, constitutional scholar
Randolph Chitwood , first cardio-thoracic surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in North America
Amy Chua , best-selling author
George Elliott Clarke , author, poet
G. Wayne Clough , president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
Kalman J. Cohen , economist, pioneer of market micro-structure
Roger Corless , theologian who made significant contributions to interfaith dialogue
John Shelton Curtiss , historian, James B. Duke Professor
Chuck Daly , assistant men's basketball coach (1963–1969); NBA coach[447]
Barun De , historian
Sara J. Dent , anaesthesiologist
Burton Drayer , radiologist; authority on the use of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosing neurological disorders
Mike Duffy , television host
Eleanor Lansing Dulles , politician involved in the affairs of post-World War II Germany, Bretton Woods Conference , US State Department
Paul Ebert , cardiovascular surgeon
Michael Ehlers , Chief Scientific Officer at life sciences venture capital firm Apple Tree Partners
Elliot Engel , writer, dramatist, and lecturer
William M. Fairbank , physicist known for his work on liquid helium; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Stanley Fish , former chair of the English Department, deconstructionist literary critic
Wallace Fowlie , author and poet, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947
Clara Franzini-Armstrong , cell biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Bertram Fraser-Reid , organic chemist
Robert C. Frasure , ambassador to Estonia
Henry Louis Gates , chair of African-American Studies at Harvard [448]
Erol Gelenbe , computer scientist, known for introducing the random neural network and the eponymous G-networks
David Gergen , political analyst, adviser to Presidents Nixon , Ford , Reagan , and Clinton
John Jay Gergen , mathematician
S. Malcolm Gillis , prominent economist, former president of Rice University
René Girard , philosopher, literary critic, and historian; member of the Académie française
Peter J. Gomes , preacher and theologian from Harvard University's Divinity School
Craufurd Goodwin , economist
Lawrence Goodwyn , writer and political theorist
Andrew Gordon , Japanese Historian
Walter Gordy , physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Gail Goestenkors , Duke women's basketball head coach (1992–2007)[449]
Phillip Griffiths , mathematician; fellow of the American Mathematical Society , recipient of the Wolf Prize
Paul Magnus Gross , chemist, former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Julia Grout , chair of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education, 1924–1964
Allan Gurganus , author
William Baskerville Hamilton , historian
Philip Handler , biochemist; two-term president of the National Academy of Sciences; winner of the National Medal of Science
Gerald Heard , philosopher, historian
Robert L. Hill , biochemist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Charles Honorton , parapsychologist
Calvin B. Hoover , founder of the field of comparative economic systems , awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Harry Truman in 1947.
Sally Hughes-Schrader , zoologist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Aldous Huxley , novelist, mystic
Jacquelyne Jackson , sociologist
Daniel James , British historian
Harold Jenkins
Randy Jirtle , biologist, known for his contribution to the field of epigenetics
Kristina M. Johnson , Under Secretary of Energy for the Obama Administration; former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering ; former director of Boston Scientific Corporation
Simon Johnson , former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
Wolfgang Joklik , virologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Edward E. Jones , social psychologist , developed fundamental attribution error
Alice Kaplan , author, chair of the French department at Yale
Lawrence C. Katz , neurobiologist
Randall Kenan , author
Robert Keohane , neoliberal scholar of international relations
Kim Sung-Hou , structural biologist and biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Claudia Koonz , feminist historian
Stephen Kovacs (1972–2022), saber fencer and fencing coach, charged with sexual assault , died in prison[450] [451] [452] While at Duke he mentored three-time NCAA women's saber champion Becca Ward .[451] Half a dozen years later Kovacs was accused of sexually assaulting two fencing students elsewhere, and he died in prison in 2022.[453]
Paul J. Kramer , biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Juanita M. Kreps , United States Secretary of Commerce
Anne O. Krueger , World Bank Chief Economist
Weston La Barre , anthropologist , worked in ethnography
Thomas LaBean , leading researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology
Howard Nathaniel Lee , former mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bernard Lefkowitz , sociologist , journalist , investigative reporter
Raphael Lemkin , human rights activist ; coined the word "genocide "
H. Gregg Lewis , labor economist
Sarah Lisanby , psychiatrist
Michael L. Littman , computer scientist
Daniel A. Livingstone , limnologist, recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
Fritz London , physicist , won the Lorentz Medal
Alasdair MacIntyre , philosopher, virtue ethicist
John Madey , developer of the free electron laser
Ernest Mario , pharmaceutical industry executive
Mathew D. McCubbins , Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law
William McDougall , psychologist, author of An Introduction to Social Psychology
George McLendon , biochemist, winner of Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and Guggenheim fellowship
Joanne P. McCallie , Duke women's basketball head coach (2007–2020)[454]
Warren Meck , neuroscientist
Karl Menger , mathematician
Edwin Mims , professor of English literature
Marie Lynn Miranda , data scientist and children's environmental health researcher
John Wilson Moore , pioneering biophysicist
Alberto Moreiras , professor of Romance Studies
David R. Morrison , mathematician; Guggenheim Fellow ; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Thom Mount , film producer; president of the Producers Guild of America
Francis Joseph Murray , mathematician and founder of functional analysis ; winner of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
Toshio Narahashi , pharmacologist, the "founding father of neurotoxicology"
Karen Neander , philosopher of mind
Charles Nemeroff , psychiatrist, known for work in treating depression
Hans Neurath , biochemist, leading researcher in the field of protein chemistry
Laura Niklason , professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim , theoretical physicist
Albert Outler , Methodist theologian
G. B. Pegram , key administrator of Manhattan Project
William Howell Pegram , chemist
Sallie Permar , pediatrician-in-chief at Weill Cornell Medical Center ; chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine .
Anton Peterlin , physicist
Ernest C. Pollard , professor of biophysics
David Price , United States representative
James Rachels , philosopher and cultural relativist
Stojan Radic , electrical engineer
Joseph B. Rhine , psychologist and parapsychologist; founder of modern studies of psychical phenomena
Louisa E. Rhine , parapsychologist
Sidarta Ribeiro , Brazilian neuroscientist
John Ridpath , intellectual historian
Sócrates Rizzo , former mayor of Monterrey ; former governor of Nuevo León
Dennis A. Rondinelli , international development policy expert at the Sanford School of Public Policy
Mary Ellen Rudin , mathematician
David Sabiston , cardiac surgeon, one of the pioneers of coronary bypass surgery
Guy Salvesen , biochemist, known for his work in the field of apoptosis
E. P. Sanders , British Academy member; leading figure in the third Historical Jesus movement
Michael Scharf , lawyer, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
David Scheffer , diplomat
William H. Schlesinger , biogeochemist, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen , figure in the field of comparative physiology, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , feminist theorist, literary theorist , expert in gender studies
Lori Ann Setton , biomedical engineer
Michael Sheetz , cell biologist, recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Beth A. Simmons , international relations scholar, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Elwyn L. Simons , paleontologist and primate conservationist
Barbara Herrnstein Smith , literary theorist
Brian Cantwell Smith , scholar who conducts research in the fields of cognitive science, computer science, information studies, philosophy, and ontology
Cordwainer Smith , author
Joseph Tyree Sneed, III , U.S. Deputy Attorney General , judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Ralph Snyderman , biotech entrepreneur
David Soskice , political economist
Joseph J. Spengler , economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought
Hertha Sponer , physicist
Eugene A. Stead , medical educator, founder of the physician assistant profession
William Stern , psychologist, philosopher
Kenneth B. Storey , professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
Charles Tanford , protein chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Edward D. Thalmann , expert in hyperbaric medicine
Fritz Thurstone (1932–2005), pioneer of ultrasound technology
Paul Tillich , theologian
Peter Ungar , paleoanthropologist
Sander Vanocur , ABC and NBC correspondent; The Washington Post television editor; The New York Times reporter
W. Kip Viscusi , economist
Steven Vogel , biologist, James B. Duke Professor of Biology[455]
Robert Ward , composer
Kenny Williams , author, winner of the MidAmerica Award
Mary Lou Williams , composer
Patricia J. Williams , legal scholar, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000
William H. Willimon , Methodist theologian
Eric Winer , medical oncologist
Kwasi Wiredu , philosopher
Karl Zener , parapsychologist
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The Duke Endowment $1.5+ billion[466] [467] [468] [469] [470] 1924– 2024 Various[471]
James B. Duke $40 million ($1.36 billion in 2024 dollars) 1924 For endowment; established The Duke Endowment later that year
Lord Corporation $261 million 2019 Unrestricted[472]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $250+ million 2002–2021 $46.5 million for AIDS research,[473] $30 million for a new science facility and $5 million for student life initiatives,[474] $20 million for the Duke Global Health Initiative,[475] $15 million for DukeEngage, a civic engagement program,[476] $9 million for undergraduate financial aid and $1 million for Fuqua students financial aid,[477] and $4.5 million for water sanitation research. The full list of grants is available at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website.[478]
Peter and Ginny Nicholas $115+ million 1999– 2023 $20 million for the School of the Environment and Earth Sciences ;[479] $70 million pledged in 2003 for the School of the Environment fully paid by 2022; $25 million pledged in 2023[480]
David Rubenstein $100+ million 2002–2017 More than $100 million in total,[481] including $25 million towards a new performing arts center,[482] $20 million for undergraduate scholarships,[483] $13.6 million to Duke Libraries, $20.75 million to the Sanford School of Public Policy, $10 million to Duke athletics[484] [485]
Bruce and Martha Karsh$85 million 2005–2011 For student financial aid[486] [487] [488]
Anne and Robert Bass $70 million 1996–2013 $20 million for the FOCUS program and various endowed chairs, $50 million for interdisciplinary research[489] [490]
Disque Deane $20 million ($56 million in 2024 dollars) 1986 To "establish a research institute on the human future"[491]
J. Michael and Christine Pearson$50+ million 2014 $30 million to the Pratt School of Engineering to advance engineering and science education, $15 million to the School of Nursing and $7.5 million to the Fuqua School of Business[492]
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. $35 million 1999 To endow the School of Engineering [493]
David H. Murdock $35 million 2007 For "translational medicine" research by the Duke Medical School [494]
Dr. Steven and Rebecca Scott $30 million 2012-2013 $20 million for Duke Sports Medicine[495] and $10 million for Duke athletics[496]
Dudley Rauch
$30 million
2021
For medical student scholarships[497]
Jack O. Bovender, Jr.
$27.5 million
2006-2014
$10 million for Trinity College, $10 million for the Fuqua School of Business Health Sector Management Program, and $5 million for School of Nursing,[498] $1.5 million for a professorship at Duke Divinity School,[499] and $1 million for a scholarship for minority students in the Health Sector Management Program[500]
Robert Margolis
$26.5 million
2015-2023
For the Margolis Center for Health Policy[501] [502]
Michael J. and Patty Fitzpatrick $25 million 2000 For a center for advanced photonics and communications[503]
William and Sue Gross $23 million 2005 $15 million for undergraduate scholarships, $5 million for medical students' scholarships, and $3 million to support faculty members of the Fuqua School of Business [504]
Bill and Melinda Gates $20 million 1998 For undergraduate scholarships[504]
Washington Duke $385,000 ($13 million in 2024 dollars) 1892 For original endowment and construction
Julian S. Carr N/A 1892 Donated site of East Campus
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