Name
|
Class and range
|
Notability
|
Reference
|
Cleveland Abbe
|
1883–1884
|
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau
|
[1]
|
Cleveland Abbe Jr.
|
1895–1899
|
professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College
|
[1]
|
Truman Abbe
|
1903
|
surgeon
|
[1]
|
Philip Abelson
|
1953
|
physicist
|
[2]
|
Henry Adams
|
1878
|
historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient
|
[3][4][1]
|
Henry Carter Adams
|
1889
|
professor of political economy at the University of Michigan
|
[1]
|
James Truslow Adams
|
|
writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner
|
[3]
|
Leason Adams
|
|
geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute
|
[5]
|
Alvey A. Adee
|
1887–1889
|
United States Secretary of State
|
[1]
|
Jesse C. Adkins
|
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|
[5]
|
Cyrus Adler
|
1890
|
Educator, librarian
|
[1]
|
Fred C. Ainsworth
|
1887–1888
|
U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general
|
[1]
|
Clyde Bruce Aitchison
|
|
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
|
[5][6][7]
|
Charles Henry Alden
|
1893–1897
|
first president of the Army Medical School
|
[1]
|
Asa O. Aldis
|
1880–1884
|
Judge and diplomat
|
[1]
|
John Merton Aldrich
|
|
associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum
|
[5]
|
Dean C. Allard
|
|
naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center
|
[8]
|
Charles Herbert Allen
|
1888–1890
|
Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress
|
[1]
|
Eugene Thomas Allen
|
|
pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution
|
[5]
|
Harvey J. Alter
|
1970
|
medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
[9][10]
|
Benjamin Alvord
|
1878
|
mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster
|
[1]
|
Henry Elijah Alvord
|
1895
|
Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Nicholas Longworth Anderson
|
1886–1887
|
U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers
|
[1]
|
Eliphalet F. Andrews
|
1880–1896
|
painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art
|
[3][1]
|
Lincoln Clark Andrews
|
|
U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
[5]
|
Earl C. Arnold
|
|
attorney, academic, college administrator
|
[5]
|
William Harris Ashmead
|
1892
|
Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian
|
[1]
|
John Vincent Atanasoff
|
1957
|
computer pioneer, built the first digital computer
|
[9]
|
Wilbur Olin Atwater
|
1899
|
professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist
|
[1]
|
Albert William Atwood
|
1928
|
author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post
|
[11][12][13]
|
James Percy Ault
|
|
Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher
|
[5]
|
Louis Winslow Austin
|
|
Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
[5]
|
Michael Auslin
|
|
writer
|
[4]
|
Cyrus Cates Babb
|
1892
|
civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][14]
|
Ernest Adna Back
|
|
Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5][15]
|
Henry Bacon
|
1888
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Barbara A. Bailar
|
1988
|
mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association
|
[16]
|
Jennings Bailey
|
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
|
[5]
|
Vernon Orlando Bailey
|
|
Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
H. Foster Bain
|
|
geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
|
[5]
|
George Washington Baird
|
1895
|
Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
|
[1][17][5]
|
Spencer Fullerton Baird
|
1878
|
ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian
|
[4][1][18]
|
Marcellus Bailey
|
1878–1885,
1866–1890
|
patent lawyer
|
[1]
|
Frank Baker
|
1882
|
physician and superintendent of the National Zoo
|
[4][1]
|
Marcus Baker
|
1884
|
cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution
|
[4][1]
|
Aram Bakshian Jr.
|
|
Author and speechwriter for three presidents
|
[19]
|
Albertus H. Baldwin
|
1899
|
commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission
|
[1][20][21][5]
|
Carleton Roy Ball
|
|
botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry
|
[5]
|
John Chandler Bancroft
|
1890–1898
|
sculptor
|
[1][22]
|
Orion M. Barber
|
|
politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
|
[5]
|
Edward Chester Barnard
|
1899
|
topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey
|
[1]
|
Job Barnard
|
1903
|
associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
|
[1]
|
John Russell Bartlett
|
1886–1897
|
oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral
|
[4][1]
|
Paul Wayland Bartlett
|
1914
|
sculptor
|
[9][3]
|
Henry Askew Barton
|
|
first director of the American Institute of Physics
|
[23]
|
Paul Bartsch
|
|
malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
|
Carl Barus
|
1885–1895
|
physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University
|
[4][24][1]
|
Ray S. Bassler
|
|
geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
|
Frederick John Bates
|
|
physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department
|
[5]
|
Newton Lemuel. Bates
|
1878–1881, 1884
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
[4][25][1]
|
Louis Agricola Bauer
|
1899
|
geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
|
[1][5]
|
Nathan D. Baxter
|
|
bishop of the Episcopal Church
|
[26]
|
Clifton Bailey Beach
|
1896
|
member of the U.S. Congress
|
[1]
|
George Ferdinand Becker
|
1890
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
George Beadle
|
|
geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
[3]
|
Truxtun Beale
|
1902
|
diplomat
|
[1][5]
|
Tarleton Hoffman Bean
|
1883
|
ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution
|
[4][1]
|
Thomas M. Beggs
|
1955
|
painter
|
[3][27][9]
|
Alexander Graham Bell
|
1880
|
scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society
|
[28][4][1][29]
|
Charles J. Bell
|
1883
|
co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company
|
[1][5]
|
Chichester Bell
|
1881–1887
|
chemist and inventor
|
[1]
|
Samuel Flagg Bemis
|
|
historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University
|
[5]
|
Marcus Benjamin
|
1896
|
chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum
|
[1][5]
|
Charles Bendire
|
1888
|
ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
Arden L. Bement Jr.
|
1980
|
engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation
|
|
Andrew H. Berding
|
|
journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
|
[30]
|
Patricia Wilson Berger
|
|
librarian, president of the American Library Association
|
[31]
|
Emil Bessels
|
1878
|
zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution
|
[4][1]
|
John M. Bevan
|
|
university professor
|
[32]
|
Albert Burnley Bibb
|
1892–1899
|
architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University
|
[1]
|
Ernest Percy Bicknell
|
|
director of the American Red Cross
|
[5][33]
|
Julius Bien
|
1885
|
artist, publisher, lithographer
|
[1]
|
Frank Hagar Bigelow
|
1890
|
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau
|
[1]
|
John Bigelow Jr.
|
|
U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park
|
[5]
|
John Shaw Billings
|
1878
|
librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General
|
[34][4][1]
|
Henry H. Bingham
|
1881–1889
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania
|
[1]
|
Theodore A. Bingham
|
1897–1898
|
U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington
|
[1]
|
Claude Hale Birdseye
|
|
chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5][35]
|
Rogers Birnie
|
1886
|
co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley
|
[1]
|
William Herbert Bixby
|
|
U.S. Army brigadier general
|
[5]
|
Henry Campbell Black
|
1892
|
lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary
|
[1][5]
|
William Murray Black
|
1897–1898
|
Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
|
[1]
|
Harry Blackmun
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
[16][36]
|
James P. Blair
|
1998
|
photographer with National Geographic
|
[37]
|
William Bodde Jr.
|
|
U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati
|
[38]
|
Ernest L. Bogart
|
|
economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association
|
[5]
|
Henry Carrington Bolton
|
1888
|
chemist
|
[1]
|
Robert Whitney Bolwell
|
|
professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies
|
[5][39]
|
Stephen Bonsal
|
|
journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History
|
[5]
|
Daniel J. Boorstin
|
|
Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
[3][36]
|
William A. Boring
|
1901
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Clement Lincoln Bouvé
|
|
attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office
|
[5]
|
John Wesley Bovee
|
1902
|
gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons
|
[1][40][5]
|
Adam Giede Böving
|
|
entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
|
Norman L. Bowen
|
|
geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
[5]
|
William Bowie
|
|
geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[5]
|
Francis Tiffany Bowles
|
1882–1901
|
chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy
|
[4][41][42][1]
|
Alpheus Henry Bowman
|
|
brigadier general U.S. Army
|
[5]
|
George Lothrop Bradley
|
1883
|
artist
|
[1][43]
|
Frank B. Brady
|
|
engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation
|
[44][45]
|
Charles John Brand
|
|
chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
Louis Brandeis
|
1915–1932
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
[46][5]
|
Gregory Breit
|
|
Mathematical physicist, academic
|
[5]
|
Lyman James Briggs
|
|
Physicist and engineer
|
[47][5]
|
David Brinkley
|
|
journalist
|
[36]
|
Alfred Hulse Brooks
|
1895
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Glenn Brown
|
1888
|
architect
|
[1][5]
|
Henry Billings Brown
|
1897
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
[1]
|
Joseph Stanley Brown
|
1881–1885, 1894
|
assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield
|
[1]
|
Lester R. Brown
|
|
environmental analyst
|
[48]
|
Stimson Joseph Brown
|
1900
|
professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory
|
[1]
|
John Mills Browne
|
1883–1884
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
[1][49]
|
Arnold W. Brunner
|
1902
|
Architect and historian
|
[1]
|
Kirk Bryan
|
|
Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University
|
[5]
|
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
|
|
journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star
|
[5][50]
|
Albert H. Bumstead
|
|
cartographer
|
[5]
|
William E. Bunney Jr.
|
1982
|
Psychiatrist, academic
|
[51]
|
Horatio C. Burchard
|
1879–1886
|
director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index
|
[1]
|
George K. Burgess
|
|
physicist
|
[34]
|
Swan Moses Burnett
|
1879
|
surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine
|
[52][4][53][9]
|
Arthur F. Burns
|
|
economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
|
[38]
|
Vannevar Bush
|
|
electrical engineer
|
[52]
|
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown
|
|
sculptor
|
[5]
|
Charles Henry Butler
|
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
|
[5]
|
Robert W. Cairns
|
1954
|
chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society
|
[2]
|
Edgar B. Calvert
|
|
Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
[5][54]
|
Charles R. Cameron
|
|
U.S. Foreign Service
|
[5]
|
Frank Kenneth Cameron
|
1895
|
soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina
|
[1][55]
|
Edward Kernan Campbell
|
|
chief judge of the Court of Claims
|
[5]
|
Marius Robinson Campbell
|
1896
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][56][5]
|
Henry W. Cannon
|
1884
|
Comptroller General of the United States
|
[4][1]
|
Stephen Capps
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5][57]
|
Horace Capron
|
1879
|
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
David Carliner
|
|
attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute
|
[58]
|
Frances Carpenter
|
|
Folklorist and photographer
|
[59]
|
Wilbur J. Carr
|
|
assistant secretary of State, diplomat
|
[5]
|
William George Carr
|
|
educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association
|
[60]
|
William Kearney Carr
|
1903
|
Philosopher, physician, author
|
[1][61]
|
John Merven Carrère
|
1905
|
architect
|
[3]
|
Henry A. P. Carter
|
1881
|
businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii
|
[4][1]
|
Philip L. Cantelon
|
1984
|
academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated
|
[62]
|
Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr.
|
1894
|
major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist
|
[1][5]
|
James McKeen Cattell
|
1902
|
first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly
|
[1]
|
Bruce Catton
|
|
historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
|
[63][3]
|
Joan R. Challinor
|
|
chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
|
[64][65]
|
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
|
1883–1889
|
geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology
|
[1]
|
Steve Charnovitz
|
|
Legal scholar, writer, educator
|
[66]
|
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
|
1902
|
author, novelist
|
[1]
|
Victor King Chesnut
|
1896
|
botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants
|
[1][67][5]
|
Colby Mitchell Chester
|
|
U.S. Navy admiral
|
[5]
|
John White Chickering
|
1878–1880
|
Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb
|
[68][1]
|
George B. Chittenden
|
1881
|
Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division
of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[4][69][70][1]
|
Hong-Yee Chiu
|
|
astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
|
[71]
|
Martha E. Church
|
1988
|
geographer and president of Hood College
|
[16]
|
Earle H. Clapp
|
|
forester
|
[5]
|
Alonzo Howard Clark
|
1889
|
naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution
|
[1]
|
Austin Hobart Clark
|
|
zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
|
Edgar E. Clark
|
|
attorney
|
[5]
|
William Bullock Clark
|
1895
|
professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
William Mansfield Clark
|
|
chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service
|
[5]
|
Bruce C. Clarke
|
1968
|
U.S. army general
|
[2]
|
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
|
1883
|
chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[4][1][5]
|
Stanwood Cobb
|
|
educator
|
[72]
|
Theodore I. Coe
|
|
architect
|
[73]
|
Roberta Cohen
|
|
executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution
|
[74][75]
|
William Colby
|
|
CIA director
|
[36]
|
Charles Cleaves Cole
|
1894–1895
|
associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
[1]
|
William Byron Colver
|
|
chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers
|
[5]
|
Rita R. Colwell
|
1988
|
microbiologist
|
[16]
|
Arthur Compton
|
|
physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
|
[3][52]
|
Karl Taylor Compton
|
|
physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
[76]
|
Wilson Martindale Compton
|
|
lawyer, president of the State College of Washington
|
[5]
|
Charles Arthur Conant
|
1899
|
assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist
|
[1]
|
James B. Conant
|
|
chemist
|
[52]
|
David H. Condon
|
1967–1996
|
architect
|
[9]
|
Willis Conover
|
|
radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour
|
[77]
|
Holmes Conrad
|
1895–1900, 1903
|
attorney, Solicitor General of the United States
|
[1]
|
Nancy Conrad
|
|
teacher, author
|
[78]
|
Joseph A. Conry
|
1935
|
consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission
|
[9]
|
Orator F. Cook
|
|
botanist
|
[79][5]
|
Luis Felipe Corea
|
1890–1902
|
minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua
|
[1][80]
|
Frederic René Coudert Sr.
|
1897–1899
|
lawyer
|
[1]
|
Elliott Coues
|
1879
|
ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
|
[1]
|
Frederick Vernon Coville
|
1892
|
chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][18][5]
|
J. Harry Covington
|
|
politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
[5]
|
Allyn Cox
|
1973
|
painter
|
[9]
|
Thomas Craig
|
1879–1890
|
mathematician at Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
William Crentz
|
1962–2002
|
Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels
|
[9]
|
Oscar Terry Crosby
|
1896
|
electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League
|
[1][81][82]
|
Charles Whitman Cross
|
1888
|
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
George Crossette
|
|
Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society
|
[11][83]
|
Barbara Culliton
|
|
science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature
|
[84][65]
|
Hugh S. Cumming
|
|
surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service
|
[5]
|
Harry F. Cunningham
|
|
architect
|
[5][85][86]
|
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
|
1895
|
educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman
|
[1]
|
George Edward Curtis
|
1889–1893
|
meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer
|
[1][87]
|
William Eleroy Curtis
|
1886
|
journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics;
Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition
|
[1][88][89]
|
William Parker Cutter
|
1894
|
chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress;
director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library
|
[1][90]
|
Charles William Dabney
|
1894
|
university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
William Healey Dall
|
1887
|
naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History
|
[1][5]
|
Joan Danziger
|
2003
|
sculptor
|
[3][9]
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Nelson Horatio Darton
|
1899
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Joseph E. Davies
|
|
Lawyer and diplomat
|
[5]
|
Arthur Powell Davis
|
1895
|
civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Bancroft Davis
|
1886–1892
|
attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
|
[4][1]
|
Charles Henry Davis
|
1878
|
rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey
|
[1]
|
George Whitefield Davis
|
1881–1885
|
engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone
|
[1]
|
James Cox Davis
|
|
director general of the Federal Railroad Administration
|
[5][91]
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John Davis
|
1886–1887
|
associate justice of the Court of Claims
|
[1]
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Arthur Louis Day
|
|
geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
[5]
|
David Talbot Day
|
1889–1893, 1901
|
chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Sara Day
|
2014
|
author of historical nonfiction
|
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Frederic Adrian Delano
|
|
railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
|
[5]
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John Howard Dellinger
|
|
telecommunication engineer
|
[5]
|
Laura DeNardis
|
|
endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University
|
[94]
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Tyler Dennett
|
|
editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
|
[5]
|
Leon E. Dessez
|
1903
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Dozier A. DeVane
|
|
attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
|
[5]
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Arthur E. Dewey
|
2003
|
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration
|
[95]
|
Lyster Hoxie Dewey
|
|
botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
Roscoe DeWitt
|
|
architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II
|
[96]
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Edwin Grant Dexter
|
|
educator
|
[5]
|
Joseph Silas Diller
|
1885
|
assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic
|
[4][97][1][5]
|
Alvin E. Dodd
|
|
consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association
|
[5]
|
Charles Richards Dodge
|
1894
|
Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][98][99]
|
Edward W. Donn Jr.
|
1896
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Marion Dorset
|
1902
|
chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][100][101][5]
|
George Amos Dorsey
|
1902
|
ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History
|
[1]
|
Noah Ernest Dorsey
|
|
physicist
|
[5]
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Edward Morehouse Douglas
|
1887
|
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[102][1]
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Alexander Wilson Drake
|
1884–1887
|
artist, art director of The Century Magazine
|
[1]
|
Allen Drury
|
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
[3]
|
Horace Bookwalter Drury
|
|
Economist, academic, author
|
[5]
|
Paul du Quenoy
|
|
historian, professor, Fulbright scholar
|
[103]
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Charles Benjamin Dudley
|
1900
|
chemist
|
[1]
|
William Ward Duffield
|
1894–1897
|
superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[1]
|
Arthur William Dunn
|
|
national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer
|
[5]
|
Edward Dana Durand
|
1903
|
director of the United States Census Bureau
|
[1]
|
Clarence Dutton
|
1878
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[34][4][1]
|
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight
|
1878–1882
|
librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State
|
[1]
|
William Sylvester Eames
|
1900
|
architect
|
[1]
|
John Robie Eastman
|
1878
|
astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy
|
[1][104][105][106]
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Edward D. Easton
|
1883–1902
|
founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company
|
[4][1]
|
Burton Edelson
|
|
U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA
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[107]
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Henry White Edgerton
|
|
attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
|
[5]
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John Joy Edson
|
1896–1898
|
president, Washington Loan & Trust Company
|
[1][5]
|
Lawrence Edwards
|
|
innovator in aerospace and ground transportation
|
|
Maurice F. Egan
|
1898
|
Professor, author, diplomat
|
[1]
|
Edward Eggleston
|
1901
|
Novelist, historian
|
[1]
|
William Snyder Eichelberger
|
|
astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy
|
[5][108]
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Churchill Eisenhart
|
|
mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards
|
[109]
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Milton Courtright Elliott
|
|
Lawyer and judge
|
[5]
|
Samuel Franklin Emmons
|
1882–1892
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America
|
[4][1]
|
Mordecai Thomas Endicott
|
1896
|
Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps
|
[1][110][111][5]
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Carl Engel
|
|
pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress
|
[5]
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William Phelps Eno
|
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father of traffic safety
|
[5]
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Jesse Frederick Essary
|
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journalist
|
[5]
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Edward Trantor Evans
|
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senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[102]
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Robley D. Evans
|
1883–1901
|
U.S. Navy admiral
|
[1]
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Barton Warren Evermann
|
1898
|
ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries
|
[1]
|
William M. Ewing
|
1942
|
geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient
|
[2]
|
David Fairchild
|
1898
|
Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][5]
|
Tom Farer
|
|
academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico
|
[112]
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Guy Otto Farmer
|
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lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
|
[113]
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Arthur Briggs Farquhar
|
1902
|
Businessman and writer
|
[1]
|
John Barclay Fassett
|
1886–1887
|
Medal of Honor recipient
|
[1]
|
Oliver Lanard Fassig
|
1893
|
meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
Clarence Norman Fenner
|
|
geologist
|
[5]
|
Henry G. Ferguson
|
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5]
|
Thomas B. Ferguson
|
1879–1880
|
United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
|
[1]
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Alan Fern
|
|
scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress
|
[65][44][114][115]
|
Bernhard Fernow
|
1887
|
director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry
|
[1]
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
|
|
chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
|
[5]
|
George Wilton Field
|
|
biologist
|
[5]
|
Albert Kenrick Fisher
|
1902
|
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist
|
[1][5]
|
Walter Kenrick Fisher
|
1902
|
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter
|
[1]
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John Fitterer
|
1973
|
educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
|
[116]
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J. A. Henry Flemer
|
1886–1888
|
architect
|
[4][117][1]
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James Milton Flint
|
1880
|
medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum
|
[1][118]
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Allen Ripley Foote
|
1891
|
political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association
|
[1][119]
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Paul D. Foote
|
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physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
|
[5]
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Kenneth M. Ford
|
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computer scientist
|
[63]
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William H. Forwood
|
1903
|
surgeon general of the U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
John W. Foster
|
1889
|
Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat
|
[1]
|
William Dudley Foulke
|
1902
|
Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer
|
[1]
|
Harry Crawford Frankenfield
|
|
senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
[5]
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John Hope Franklin
|
1963
|
historian
|
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James E. Freeman
|
|
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington
|
[5]
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Herbert Friedenwald
|
1894
|
author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee
|
[1][5]
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Daniel Mortimer Friedman
|
|
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims
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Paul L. Friedman
|
|
judge
|
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|
Ed Frost
|
|
sculptor
|
[3]
|
Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr.
|
1900
|
architect
|
[1][5]
|
Ira Noel Gabrielson
|
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entomologist
|
[124]
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Frank E. Gaebelein
|
1965
|
educator, author, editor of Christianity Today
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Arthur Burton Gahan
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
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John Kenneth Galbraith
|
|
economist
|
[125]
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Edward Miner Gallaudet
|
1878
|
first president of Gallaudet University
|
[4][1]
|
Beverly Thomas Galloway
|
1894
|
chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture
|
[1][5]
|
Henry Gannett
|
1878
|
chief geographer-in-charge of topographic mapping U.S. Geological Survey
|
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Samuel Gannett
|
1891
|
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
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Wilbur E. Garrett
|
1966
|
photographer, editor of National Geographic
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Hampson Gary
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colonel, U.S. Army; lawyer, and diplomat
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[5]
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Georgie Anne Geyer
|
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journalist; syndicated columnist, television news analyst
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[16]
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Tatiana C. Gfoeller
|
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ambassador
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[103]
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Riccardo Giacconi
|
|
astrophysicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize
|
[3]
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Cass Gilbert
|
1902
|
architect
|
[1]
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Grove Karl Gilbert
|
1878
|
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[34][4][1]
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Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn
|
2013
|
attorney, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
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Theodore Gill
|
1878
|
Biologist, zoologist
|
[4][1]
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Daniel Coit Gilman
|
1878–1882, 1903
|
president, Johns Hopkins University; president, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
[1]
|
Charles C. Glover
|
1887–1891, 1903
|
treasurer, Corcoran Gallery of Art; banker
|
[1]
|
Martin B. Gold
|
2000
|
lobbeyist
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Arthur J. Goldberg
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U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations
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[16]
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Joseph Goldberger
|
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epidemiologist and surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service
|
[5]
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Edward Alphonso Goldman
|
|
biologist
|
[5]
|
Frank Austin Gooch
|
1884–1886
|
chemist and engineer
|
[4][1]
|
George Brown Goode
|
1881
|
ichthyologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
[4][1]
|
Richard Urquhart Goode
|
1886
|
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
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Elliot Hersey Goodwin
|
|
vice president and secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce
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[5]
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James Howard Gore
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1883
|
geodesist, author, and professor of mathematics at the Columbian University
|
[4][1][5]
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Carol Graham
|
2008
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Economist, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
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Henry S. Graves
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1898–1901
|
chief of the United States Forest Service, co-founded the Yale Forest School
|
[1]
|
Horace Gray
|
1882
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
[1]
|
John H. Gray
|
|
Economist, academic
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[5]
|
William B. Greeley
|
|
chief of the United States Forest Service
|
[5]
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Adolphus Greely
|
1887
|
polar explorer, brigadier general and chief signal officer in the U. S. Army
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[1][5]
|
William R. Green
|
|
congressman, judge of the Court of Claims
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[5]
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Edward Lee Greene
|
1895–1902
|
professor of botany, Catholic University
|
[1]
|
Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf
|
1889–1903
|
assistant surgeon general and brigadier general, U. S. Army
|
[1][130][131]
|
James Leal Greenleaf
|
|
Landscape architect and civil engineer
|
|
Willis Ray Gregg
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meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau
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[5]
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Robert Fiske Griggs
|
|
botanist, academic, head of National Geographic Society
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[5]
|
Gilbert M. Grosvenor
|
1901
|
president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, editor of National Geographic
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Nathan Clifford Grover
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chief hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; academic
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John M. Grunsfeld
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astronaut and astronomer
|
|
Francis M. Gunnell
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1878
|
Surgeon General U.S. Navy
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[1][133]
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Alexander Burton Hagner
|
1883
|
associate justice Supreme Court District of Columbia
|
[1]
|
Arnold Hague
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1884
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geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
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[1]
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Benjamin F. Hake
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geologist and general manager of Gulf Oil Company of Bolivia
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Asaph Hall Jr.
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1890–1895
|
astronomer
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[1]
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Henry Clay Hall
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attorney and commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission
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[5]
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Percival Hall
|
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president of Gallaudet University
|
[5]
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William Hallock
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1885–1886
|
physicist, U. S. Geological Survey
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[1]
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Stefan Halper
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Foreign policy scholar
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Walton Hale Hamilton
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economist and professor at Yale Law School
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[5]
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Charles Sumner Hamlin
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1879
|
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
[1][5]
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John Hays Hammond
|
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Mining engineer, diplomat
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[5]
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Hugh S. Hanna
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|
president, The Capital Transit Company
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George Wallace William Hanger
|
1902
|
chief clerk, Department of Labor; U.S. Board of Mediation
|
[1][5]
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Norman Hapgood
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writer, journalist, editor, critic, and an American minister to Denmark
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[5]
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William Hard
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Social reformist and journalist
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William Harkness
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1878
|
astronomer, professor of mathematics for the U. S. Navy
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James S. Harlan
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attorney
|
[5]
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Mark Walrod Harrington
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1891–1898
|
chief of Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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[1]
|
Albert L. Harris
|
|
architect
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[5]
|
William Torrey Harris
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1890
|
commissioner of education, U.S. Department of Interior; educator, lexicographer
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[1]
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Albert Bushnell Hart
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academic, historian, writer, and editor
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[5]
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Frederick Hart
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1983
|
Sculptor, and designer of the soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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|
Thomas Hastings
|
1918–1919
|
architect
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[3]
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George Wesson Hawes
|
1881
|
geologist, curator U.S. National Museum
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[1]
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Joseph Roswell Hawley
|
1887–1890
|
congressman, senator, Governor of Connecticut
|
[1]
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William Perry Hay
|
1900
|
zoologist, professor of natural sciences at Howard University
|
[1]
|
Edward Everett Hayden
|
1885
|
naval officer, meteorologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
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Charles Willard Hayes
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1892
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
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Harvey C. Hayes
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pioneer in underwater acoustics, superintendent of Naval Research Laboratory Sound Division
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[5][139]
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Helen Hayes
|
1988
|
actress
|
[16]
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John Fillmore Hayford
|
1898
|
assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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[1]
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William Babcock Hazen
|
1884
|
brigadier general, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army
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[1]
|
A. G. Heaton
|
1886
|
artist, painter
|
[1]
|
Arthur B. Heaton
|
|
architect
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[5]
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Nicholas H. Heck
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geophysicist and officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps
|
[5]
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Carl Heinrich
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
|
Henry Henshaw
|
1878
|
ornithologist and ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology
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[34][1][5]
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Christian A. Herter Jr.
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politician, vice president of Mobil Oil Company
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Charles M. Herzfeld
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scientist and director of DARPA
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Donnel Foster Hewett
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geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
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Francis J. Higginson
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1883–1896
|
rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
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[1]
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Julius Erasmus Hilgard
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1882–1883
|
superintendent, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[1]
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Charles E. Hill
|
|
professor and administrator at George Washington University, international law expert
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[5]
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David Jayne Hill
|
1898
|
Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Minister to Switzerland
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[1][5]
|
James G. Hill
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1893
|
architect, head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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[1]
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Joseph Adna Hill
|
1900
|
statistitian and chief of the division, U.S. Census Office
|
[1][5]
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Nathaniel P. Hill
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1883
|
senator, professor of Brown University, mining engineer
|
[1]
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Samuel Hill
|
1895–1900
|
lawyer, railroad executive, president Minneapolis Trust Co.
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[1]
|
Robert Cutler Hinckley
|
1886–1887
|
artist
|
[1]
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A. S. Hitchcock
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|
agrostologist and senior botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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[5]
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Frank Harris Hitchcock
|
1901
|
chief, section of foreign markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Postmaster General
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[1]
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William Hitz
|
|
associate justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
[5]
|
Frederick Webb Hodge
|
1898
|
international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution; anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian
|
[1]
|
Howard Lincoln Hodgkins
|
1895
|
professor of mathematics, Columbian University
|
[1][5]
|
Samuel B. Holabird
|
1887–1889
|
brigadier general, quartermaster general, U. S. Army
|
[1]
|
Edward S. Holden
|
1878
|
astronomer and professor of mathematics for U. S. Navy
|
[34][1]
|
William Jacob Holland
|
1900
|
zoologist' director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
|
[1]
|
Herman Hollerith
|
1886
|
statistician, inventor
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[1]
|
Ned Hollister
|
|
biologist and superintendent of the National Zoological Park
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[5]
|
Joseph Austin Holmes
|
1902
|
geologist, first director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
|
[1]
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
|
archivist and historian
|
[1]
|
William Henry Holmes
|
1878
|
chief, Bureau of American Ethnology; illustrator, U.S. Geological Survey; archaeologist,Smithsonian Institution
|
[3][34][1][18][5]
|
Judy Holoviak
|
1999
|
director of publications at the American Geophysical Union
|
[143][144][34][9]
|
Calvin B. Hoover
|
|
Economist and academic
|
[145]
|
Herbert Hoover
|
1921–1964
|
president of the United States
|
[3][9][120]
|
Andrew Delmar Hopkins
|
1903
|
entomologist, investigator of foliage insects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][146][5]
|
Stanley Hornbeck
|
|
Economist, author, professor, diplomat
|
[5]
|
William Temple Hornaday
|
1888–1890
|
taxidermist, U. S. National Museum; zoologist; first director of the New York Zoological Park
|
[1]
|
Joseph Coerten Hornblower
|
1883
|
architect
|
[1]
|
George Horton
|
|
consul general, U.S. Foreign Service
|
[5]
|
Walter Hough
|
1890
|
ethnologist, anthropologist, curator of anthropology at the U.S. National Museum
|
[1][5]
|
Riley D. Housewright
|
|
microbiologist
|
[147]
|
Richard Hovey
|
1893
|
poet
|
[1]
|
Leland Ossian Howard
|
1886–1950
|
entomologist, chief of the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture
|
[34][9][1][18]
|
Harrison E. Howe
|
|
chemical engineer, head of the Division of Research Extension, National Research Council,
|
[5]
|
William Wirt Howe
|
1899
|
associate justice Louisiana Supreme Court
|
[1]
|
Alfred Brazier Howell
|
|
comparative anatomist, zoologist
|
[5]
|
Edwin E. Howell
|
1891
|
Geologist, relief map maker
|
[1]
|
Henry W. Howgate
|
1878
|
U.S. Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer
|
[1]
|
Henry L. Howison
|
1883–1884
|
rear admiral, U.S. Navy; professor and department head, United States Naval Academy
|
[1]
|
Richard L. Hoxie
|
|
brigadier general in the United States Army
|
[5]
|
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
|
1883
|
lawyer, president of the National Geographic Society
|
[1]
|
Henry Guernsey Hubbard
|
1884
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
J. Stephen Huebner
|
1973
|
research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[148][62][149]
|
Edgar Erskine Hume
|
|
physician, a major general in the U.S Army medical corps
|
[5]
|
Paul Hume
|
|
music critic
|
|
Harry Baker Humphrey
|
|
botanist, pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
Edward Eyre Hunt Jr.
|
|
academic, physical anthropologist and human biologist
|
[5]
|
William Jackson Humphreys
|
|
Physicist and atmospheric researcher
|
[5]
|
Gaillard Hunt
|
1894–1897
|
state department, author
|
[1]
|
Thomas Sterry Hunt
|
1887
|
chemist, geologist, mineralogist
|
[1]
|
Benjamin Hutto
|
|
musician specializing in writing, producing and directing choral music
|
|
James A. Hyslop
|
|
entomologist, U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.
|
[5]
|
Joseph P. Iddings
|
1885
|
professor of petrology, University of Chicago
|
[1]
|
M. Thomas Inge
|
|
academic
|
[150]
|
Ernest Ingersoll
|
1882
|
Naturalist, writer, explorer
|
[1]
|
Ketanji Brown Jackson
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
[120]
|
William Henry Jackson
|
|
Photographer, painter
|
[5]
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Elaine Jaffe
|
1988
|
physician; pathologist; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
|
[16]
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A. Everette James Jr.
|
1981–2017
|
radiologist, academic, and founder of the Center for Medical Imaging Research
|
[3][151]
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J. Franklin Jameson
|
|
historian, director of the department of historical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
[5]
|
William Marion Jardine
|
|
United States Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Minister to Egypt
|
[5]
|
Jeremiah Jenks
|
1903
|
professor of economics at Cornell University
|
[1]
|
Emory Richard Johnson
|
1900
|
economist, Isthmian Canal Commissioner
|
[1]
|
Nelson T. Johnson
|
|
ambassador, diplomat
|
[5]
|
Andrieus A. Jones
|
|
Senator, lawyer
|
[5]
|
Ernest Lester Jones
|
|
Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, father of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, which later became the NOAA Commissioned Corps
|
[5]
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H. McCoy Jones
|
1969
|
president of the International Hajji Baba Society, oriental rug collector
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[152]
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Neil Judd
|
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curator of American archaeology, U.S. National Museum
|
[5]
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Julius Kaplan
|
1983
|
art historian
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[3][9]
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Walter Karig
|
|
Officer in charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, assistant director of Navy public relations
|
[153]
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Samuel Hay Kauffman
|
1881
|
publisher, editor of the Evening Star
|
[4][1]
|
Rudolph Kauffmann
|
|
managing editor Evening Star, vice president Evening Star Company
|
[5]
|
Thomas Henry Kearney
|
1901
|
botanist and agronomist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][5]
|
Robert V. Keeley
|
1985
|
diplomat
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[154]
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Arthur Keith
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geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5]
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Vernon Lyman Kellogg
|
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secretary, National Research Council; entomologist
|
[5]
|
Brian Kelly
|
2013
|
author, journalist, editor
|
|
George Kennan
|
1879–1885
|
Explorer, author, lecturer
|
[1]
|
George F. Kennan
|
|
Diplomat and historian
|
[52]
|
Frederick C. Kenyon
|
1897
|
zoologist and anatomist
|
[1]
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Washington Caruther Kerr
|
1882–1884
|
State Geologist of North Carolina
|
[1][155][156]
|
Mary Dublin Keyserling
|
1988
|
economist
|
[16]
|
Jerome H. Kidder
|
1879
|
surgeon, astronomer with Smithsonian Institution and Naval Research Laboratory
|
[1]
|
James J. Kilpatrick
|
|
Journalist, newspaper columnist
|
[52]
|
Sumner Increase Kimball
|
1887
|
politician, superintendent United States Life Savings Service
|
[1]
|
William Wirt Kimball
|
1879–1880
|
U.S. naval officer and an early pioneer in the development of submarines
|
[1]
|
Albert Freeman Africanus King
|
1880
|
physician
|
[1]
|
Clarence King
|
1878–1881
|
first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Henry Kissinger
|
|
United States Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Prize
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[3][120]
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Jacques Paul Klein
|
|
Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret.); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (Ret.); Major General of the USAF (Ret.)
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[157]
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Ernest Knaebel
|
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
|
[5]
|
Martin Augustine Knapp
|
1893
|
chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; United States circuit judge
|
[1]
|
Frank Knowlton
|
1890
|
paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
John Jay Knox Jr.
|
1878
|
Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department
|
[1]
|
Simmie Knox
|
2006
|
Painter, portraitist
|
[9]
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George M. Kober
|
|
physician, author, namesake of George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship
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[5]
|
John Oliver La Gorce
|
|
editor, National Geographic Society
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[5]
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Carol C. Laise
|
1988
|
director of Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; Ambassador to Nepal
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[16]
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Theodore Frederick Laist
|
1901
|
architect; chief architect central district, Interstate Commerce Commission
|
[1][158]
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Samuel Langley
|
1880
|
physicist, astronomer, Secretary of the Smithsonian
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[52][3][34][1]
|
Walter H. Larrimer
|
|
entomologist; chief, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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[5][159]
|
Carl. W. Larson
|
|
Chief, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; director, National Dairy Council
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[5][160]
|
James Laurence Laughlin
|
|
Economist, academic
|
[5]
|
Thelma Z. Lavine
|
|
Philosopheracademic
|
[161]
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Luther Morris Leisenring
|
|
architect
|
[5]
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Levi Leiter
|
1883
|
capitalist, co-founded Marshall Field & Company
|
[1]
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Peter P. Lejins
|
1970
|
educator, criminologist, director of the National Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology
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[2]
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Waldo Gifford Leland
|
|
historian and archivist, Carnegie Institution and Library of Congress
|
[5]
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Samuel Conrad Lemly
|
1884–1890
|
Judge Advocate General of the Navy
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Harvey J. Levin
|
1986
|
economist
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[164]
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Francis E. Leupp
|
1885–1894, 1902
|
journalist, New York Evening Post assistant editor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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[1][165][166]
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David C. Levy
|
|
president and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design
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[167]
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George W. Lewis
|
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director, Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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[5]
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Sinclair Lewis
|
|
writer, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize
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[3][120]
|
William Mather Lewis
|
|
teacher, university president, state and national government official
|
[5]
|
Manuel de Oliveira Lima
|
|
Brazilian writer, literary critic, diplomat, historian, and journalist
|
[5]
|
Samuel C. Lind
|
|
radiation chemist, the father of modern radiation chemistry
|
[5]
|
Waldemar Lindgren
|
1896
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Michael C. Linn
|
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Attorney and businessman
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[168]
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Sol Linowitz
|
1994
|
lawyer
|
[169]
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Walter Lippmann
|
|
journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner
|
[3][120]
|
George W. Littlehales
|
1900
|
hydrographic engineer, Navy Department
|
[1][5]
|
Arthur H. Livermore
|
|
professor of biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College
|
[170]
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Charles S. Lobingier
|
|
International judge, author, and law instructor
|
[5]
|
Edwin Chesley Estes Lord
|
1895
|
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Max O. Lorenz
|
|
economist and statistician
|
[5]
|
Alan David Lourie
|
|
U.S. circuit judge, chemist
|
[122][123]
|
Alfred Maurice Low
|
1898
|
journalist
|
[1]
|
Isador Lubin
|
|
head, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
|
[5]
|
Anthony Francis Lucas
|
1893
|
engineer, explorer
|
[1]
|
Robert Luce
|
|
Congressman, writer,
|
[5]
|
William Ludlow
|
1883–1888
|
major, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; major general U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
David Alexander Lyle
|
1887
|
major, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; inventor of the Lyle gun
|
[1][171][172]
|
Theodore Lyman III
|
1884–1885
|
Natural scientist, congressman
|
[1]
|
Frank Lyon
|
|
lawyer, newspaper publisher, and land developer
|
[5]
|
Arthur MacArthur Sr.
|
1888–1893
|
associate justice, Supreme Court District of Columbia; Governor of Wisconsin
|
[1]
|
Alexander Mackay-Smith
|
1893–1903
|
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
|
[1]
|
Archibald MacLeish
|
|
poet, Librarian of Congress, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize
|
[3]
|
Garrick Mallery
|
1878
|
ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution
|
[3][28][34][9]
|
Charles M. Manly
|
1899
|
engineer
|
[1]
|
Charles A. Mann
|
1887
|
Lawyer and politician
|
[1]
|
Parker Mann
|
1887–1890,
1894–1899
|
artist
|
[1][173][174]
|
Van H. Manning
|
1893
|
director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines
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[1]
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George Rogers Mansfield
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geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
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Curtis F. Marbut
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|
Director of the Soil Survey Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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[5]
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Deanna B. Marcum
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1994
|
librarian, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources
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Hans Mark
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professor of aerospace engineering, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force
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Ronald A. Marks
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senior official with the Central Intelligence Agency
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[178]
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Charles Lester Marlatt
|
1894
|
chief of the Bureau of Entomology
|
[34][1]
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Harry A. Marmer
|
|
engineer, mathematician, and oceanographer with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
|
Fred Maroon
|
|
photographer
|
[3]
|
Charles Dwight Marsh
|
|
botanist; physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
William Johnston Marsh
|
1895
|
architect
|
[1][179][180]
|
James Rush Marshall
|
1883
|
architect
|
[1][5]
|
H. Newell Martin
|
1878–1880
|
physiologist, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
Robert S. Martin
|
|
librarian, archivist, administrator, and professor
|
|
Susan K Martin
|
1988
|
librarian; executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
|
[16]
|
Charles F. Marvin
|
1890
|
professor of meteorology; chief, U.S. Weather Bureau
|
[1][5]
|
Otis Tufton Mason
|
1878–1898
|
ethnologist; curator, U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Stephen Mather
|
|
first director of the National Park Service
|
[5]
|
François E. Matthes
|
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5]
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Washington Matthews
|
1884–1900
|
surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist
|
[1]
|
Philip Mauro
|
1894
|
lawyer
|
[1]
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George Hebard Maxwell
|
1899
|
lawyer, lobbyist, executive chairman National Irrigation Association
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[1]
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O. Louis Mazzatenta
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2011
|
photographer and editor with National Geographic
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Addams Stratton McAllister
|
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Physicist, electrical engineer,
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[5]
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John S. McCain Jr.
|
|
United States Navy admiral
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|
S. S. McClure
|
1892
|
co-founder and editor of McClure's
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[1]
|
Richard Cunningham McCormick
|
1896–1899
|
governor of Arizona Territory, congressman, journalist
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[1]
|
George Walter McCoy
|
|
director of the National Institute of Health
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[5]
|
Walter I. McCoy
|
|
chief justice of the D.C. Supreme Court
|
[5]
|
Arthur Williams McCurdy
|
1898
|
inventor, astronomer
|
[1]
|
William John McGee
|
1885
|
ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution
|
[1][18]
|
John P. McGovern
|
1953–2007
|
allergist and philanthropist
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[3][2][9]
|
Gerald S. McGowan
|
|
lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
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Jonas H. McGowan
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1902
|
Lawyer, congressman
|
[1]
|
Frederick Banders McGuire
|
1883–1901
|
director Corcoran Art Gallery
|
[1]
|
Charles Follen McKim
|
1902
|
architect
|
[1]
|
William B. McKinley
|
|
U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative
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[5]
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Ann Dore McLaughlin
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1988
|
U.S. Secretary of Labor
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[16]
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Robert McNamara
|
|
U.S. Secretary of Defense
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Elwood Mead
|
1903
|
irrigation engineer, head of United States Bureau of Reclamation
|
[1][5]
|
Milton Bennett Medary
|
|
architect
|
[5]
|
Oscar Edward Meinzer
|
|
hydrogeologist
|
[5]
|
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
|
1885
|
superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; president Worcester Polytechnic Institute
|
[1]
|
Walter Curran Mendenhall
|
1902
|
director of the US Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Clinton Hart Merriam
|
1886
|
chief U.S. Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][5]
|
John Campbell Merriam
|
|
paleontologist
|
[5]
|
William Rush Merriam
|
1899–1900
|
director of the U.S. Census, governor of Minnesota
|
[1]
|
George Perkins Merrill
|
1893
|
curator, department of geology, U.S. National Museum
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[1]
|
Edmund Clarence Messer
|
1902
|
artist
|
[1][184]
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Balthasar H. Meyer
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|
Interstate Commerce Commission, economist, academic
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[5]
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Eugene Meyer
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|
chairman of the Federal Reserve, publisher of The Washington Post
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[5]
|
Ellen Miles
|
2005
|
curator of the National Portrait Gallery
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[9]
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Christine Odell Cook Miller
|
|
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
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Eleazar Hutchinson Miller
|
1893–1899
|
artist
|
[185][3][1]
|
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
|
1903
|
biologist, assistant curator of mammals, U.S. National Museum
|
[1][5]
|
Warren L. Miller
|
|
chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
|
|
John D. Millett
|
|
chancellor, Miami University; senior vice president, Academy for Educational Development
|
|
Robert Andrews Millikan
|
|
physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
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[3][9]
|
Harry A. Millis
|
|
economist, educator, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
|
|
Arthur Millspaugh
|
|
Administrator general of the finance of Persia
|
[5]
|
George Heron Milne
|
|
Librarian and chief of the Congressional Reading Room
|
|
Cosmos Mindeleff
|
1887
|
journalist
|
[1]
|
Charles Sedgwick Minot
|
1902
|
anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research
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[1]
|
Betty C. Monkman
|
2004
|
curator of the White House
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[10]
|
Charles Moore
|
1891
|
Journalist, historian, city planner, and clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
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[1]
|
George Thomas Moore
|
1903
|
botanist, plant physiologist, algologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
John Moore
|
1887
|
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
John Bassett Moore
|
1887
|
judge, Assistant Secretary of State, professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University
|
[1]
|
Veranus Alva Moore
|
1895
|
professor of comparative pathology and bacteriology, Cornell University
|
[1]
|
Willis Luther Moore
|
1895
|
chief of the weather bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][186]
|
George W. Morey
|
|
geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist
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[5]
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Sylvanus Morley
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archaeologist
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[5]
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Edward Lyman Morris
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botanist, curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
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Edward Lind Morse
|
1902
|
artist
|
[1][188]
|
Harold G. Moulton
|
|
economist
|
[5]
|
Charles Edward Munroe
|
1882–1885, 1892
|
chemistry professor, Columbian University
|
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|
Denys Peter Myers
|
1977–2003
|
architectural historian with National Park Service, part of the Monuments Men team
|
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|
Charles Willis Needham
|
1894
|
president George Washington University; solicitor, Interstate Commerce Commission
|
[1][5]
|
Charles P. Neill
|
1900
|
economist, U.S. Commissioner of Labor; professor of political economy, Catholic University
|
[1][5]
|
Edward William Nelson
|
1882–1883, 1903
|
naturalist and ethnologist, chief of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Henry Clay Nelson
|
1883
|
medical inspector and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Navy
|
[1]
|
Edwin Lowe Neville
|
|
diplomat
|
[5][191][192]
|
W. Coleman Nevils
|
|
Jesuit educator
|
|
John Strong Newberry
|
1878
|
professor of geology and paleontology at Columbia University School of Mines
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Simon Newcomb
|
1880
|
rear admiral, professor at the Naval Observatory and Georgetown University
|
[3][9][1]
|
Frederick Haynes Newell
|
1890
|
chief, division of hydrography, U. S. Geological Survey; director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|
[1][5]
|
Oliver Peck Newman
|
|
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; journalist
|
[5]
|
David George Newton
|
|
United States Ambassador to Iraq and Yemen
|
|
Hobart Nichols
|
1902–1962
|
painter; paleontologic draftsman, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[9][1]
|
Nathaniel B. Nichols
|
|
illustrator with U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of American Ethnology
|
|
Harald Herborg Nielsen
|
1954
|
physicist
|
|
Charles Nordhoff
|
1880–1883,1888
|
Journalist, author
|
[1]
|
Thaddeus Norris
|
1894–1897
|
writer, father of American fly fishing
|
[1][194]
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S. N. D. North
|
1899
|
director of the U.S. Census, statistician
|
[1]
|
Janet L. Norwood
|
1988
|
economist, statistician, U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics
|
[16][143][9][120]
|
Crosby Stuart Noyes
|
1884
|
editor and publisher of the Washington Evening Star
|
[1]
|
Theodore W. Noyes
|
1887
|
editor the Washington Evening Star
|
[1][5]
|
William A. Noyes
|
1903
|
chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|
[1]
|
Perley G. Nutting
|
|
optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America
|
[5]
|
Harry C. Oberholser
|
|
ornithologist
|
[5]
|
Robert Lincoln O'Brien
|
1899
|
journalist, chairman of U.S. Tariff Commission
|
[1][195]
|
Stephen J. O'Brien
|
|
geneticist
|
|
Sandra Day O'Connor
|
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice
|
[36]
|
Paul Henry Oehser
|
|
journalist
|
[52][18]
|
Goetz Oertel
|
|
physicist
|
[196]
|
Herbert Gouverneur Ogden
|
1889
|
civil engineer, inspector of hydrography and topography, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[1]
|
Frederick E. Olmsted
|
1902
|
forester and agent with the Bureau of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
|
1917–1957
|
landscape architect
|
[143]
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Mark Olshaker
|
|
author
|
[65][44]
|
Frederick I. Ordway III
|
|
Air space scientist, author, educator
|
[197]
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William Allen Orton
|
|
Plant pathologist, Director of the Tropical Research Foundation
|
[5][198][199]
|
Henry Fairfield Osborn
|
1894
|
academic, president of the American Museum of Natural History
|
[1]
|
Wilfred Hudson Osgood
|
1901
|
zoologist; staff with Division of Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Joseph H. Outhwaite
|
1886–1893
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
[1]
|
Robert Latham Owen
|
1899
|
Senator for Oklahoma
|
[1][5]
|
Robert Oxnam
|
|
Writer and academic
|
|
Harvey L. Page
|
1880
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Thomas Nelson Page
|
1885
|
author and U.S. Ambassador to Italy
|
[1]
|
William Nelson Page
|
|
Civil engineer and industrialist
|
[5]
|
Sidney Paige
|
|
geologist, faculty of Columbia University
|
[5][200]
|
Alajos Paikert
|
1901–1903
|
farmer, lawyer, director of the Museum of Hungarian Agricultural
|
[1]
|
Theodore Sherman Palmer
|
1885
|
co-founder of the National Audubon Society
|
[1]
|
Stefan Panaretov
|
|
Diplomat and professor
|
[5]
|
Walter Paris
|
1883–1885
|
artist
|
[1][201][202]
|
John Parke
|
1878–1880
|
colonel with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, general in the Civil War
|
[1]
|
Charles Lathrop Parsons
|
|
chemist
|
[5]
|
William Ordway Partridge
|
1894
|
sculptor
|
[1]
|
Leo Pasvolsky
|
|
Journalist, economist
|
[5]
|
Stewart Paton
|
1903
|
educator and physician specializing in neuropsychiatry
|
[1]
|
Richard North Patterson
|
|
novelist
|
[203]
|
Raymond Stanton Patton
|
|
director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, rear admiral
|
[204]
|
Charles O. Paullin
|
|
author, naval historian
|
[5]
|
George Foster Peabody
|
1896
|
banker
|
[1]
|
Albert Charles Peale
|
1883
|
geologist, mineralogist, paleobotanist, Section of Paleobotany U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Raymond Allen Pearson
|
1897
|
Assistant, Dairy Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture; college president
|
[1]
|
Horace C. Peaslee
|
1926–1959
|
architect
|
[52][143][9]
|
Dallas Lynn Peck
|
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[205]
|
William Thomas Pecora
|
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[206]
|
Stanton J. Peelle
|
|
Politician and jurist
|
[207]
|
R. A. F. Penrose Jr.
|
1889–1897
|
geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Jack Perlmutter
|
|
artist, printmaker
|
[44][208]
|
Joseph E. Pesce
|
2010
|
astrophysicist
|
[209]
|
William John Peters
|
1889
|
topographer, U. S. Geological Survey, explorer
|
[1][5]
|
Esther Peterson
|
1988
|
consumer advocate; United Nations representative
|
[16]
|
Ivan Petrof
|
1881–1885
|
Writer, translator, and statistician of Alaska for the U.S. Census
|
[1]
|
Duncan Phillips
|
|
art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America
|
[5]
|
Walter P. Phillips
|
1882–1888
|
head of the United Press International, journalist, telegrapher, and inventor
|
[1]
|
Thomas R. Pickering
|
|
diplomat
|
[185]
|
Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce
|
1901
|
Unitarian minister who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate
|
[1][5]
|
Theodore Wells Pietsch I
|
1902
|
architect; designer, Office Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department
|
[1]
|
Charles Snowden Piggot
|
|
chemist and geophysicist, one of the founding fathers of ocean-bottom marine research
|
[5][210]
|
James Pilling
|
1879
|
ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology
|
[1]
|
Michael Pillsbury
|
|
Strategist and expert on China
|
[211]
|
Gifford Pinchot
|
1897–1946
|
chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[46][1]
|
Edmund Platt
|
|
congressman, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve
|
[5]
|
Michael Pocalyko
|
|
Businessman and writer
|
[212]
|
Forrest Pogue
|
|
military historian
|
|
William Mundy Poindexter
|
1883
|
architect
|
[1][213][214]
|
Charles Louis Pollard
|
1900
|
botanist, assistant curator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany
|
[215][1]
|
John Addison Porter
|
1884–1888
|
clerk to Senate Committee; Secretary to the President, journalist
|
[1]
|
George B. Post
|
1903
|
architect
|
[1]
|
Louis F. Post
|
|
Assistant United States Secretary of Labor
|
[5]
|
John Wesley Powell
|
1878
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey, director Bureau of American Ethnology
|
[185][3][52]
|
William Bramwell Powell
|
1886–1901
|
educator
|
[1]
|
Frederick Belding Power
|
|
Research chemist and academic
|
[5]
|
Frank Presbrey
|
1892–1894
|
pioneering advertiser
|
[1]
|
Overton Westfeldt Price
|
1902
|
assistant chief, Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][216]
|
William Jennings Price
|
|
professor of law Georgetown University; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Panama)
|
[5][217]
|
Irwin G. Priest
|
|
Chief of Colorimetry Section Bureau of Standards
|
[5]
|
Henry Smith Pritchett
|
1878–1880, 1897
|
astronomer, university president, superintendent of United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[34][1]
|
John Robert Procter
|
1894
|
geologist, Kentucky State geolostic survey, civil service commissioner
|
[1]
|
Raphael Pumpelly
|
1889–1894
|
Geologist, author, explorer
|
[1]
|
Edmund R. Purves
|
|
architect
|
[218]
|
Merlo J. Pusey
|
|
journalist
|
[219]
|
Herbert Putnam
|
1900
|
Librarian of Congress
|
[34][1][5]
|
Frederic Bennett Pyle
|
1900
|
architect
|
[1][5]
|
Altus Lacy Quaintance
|
|
Entomologist and associate chief of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology
|
[5]
|
Wallace Radcliffe
|
|
pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
|
[5][220]
|
Jackson H. Ralston
|
|
Lawyer, professor of international law
|
[5][221][222]
|
John Hall Rankin
|
1902
|
architect
|
[1][223]
|
Frederick Leslie Ransome
|
1899
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Richard Rathbun
|
1883
|
biologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
[1][18]
|
George Lansing Raymond
|
1898
|
professor of esthetics, Princeton University
|
[1][5]
|
Mila Rechcigl
|
|
researcher
|
|
Walter Reed
|
1893
|
U.S. Army physician and surgeon
|
[1]
|
John Bernard Reeside Jr.
|
|
geologist and paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[5][224][225]
|
Alan Reich
|
|
deputy assistant Secretary of State for Educational and cultural affairs
|
[226]
|
Ira Remsen
|
1878–1882
|
chemist and president of Johns Hopkins University
|
[52][1]
|
James Burton Reynolds
|
|
banker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
|
[5]
|
Joseph J. Reynolds
|
1886
|
colonel, cavalry, U.S. Army; engineer, and educator
|
[1]
|
C. Allen Thorndike Rice
|
1879
|
journalist and the editor and publisher of the North American Review
|
[1]
|
George S. Rice
|
|
Chief, Mining Division, U.S. Bureau of Mines
|
[5][227]
|
Joseph Mayer Rice
|
1897
|
physician, editor of The Forum magazine
|
[1]
|
Lois Rice
|
1988
|
Education policy scholar
|
[16]
|
William Gorham Rice
|
1896
|
Civil Service Commissioner, author
|
[1]
|
George Burr Richardson
|
1902
|
field geologist with U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Charles Valentine Riley
|
1878
|
pioneer in entomology, curator of insects at the U.S. National Museum
|
[52][29][1]
|
Arthur Cuming Ringland
|
|
forester, conservationist, and founder of CARE
|
[228][5]
|
Sidney Dillon Ripley II
|
|
ornithologist, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
|
|
Charles Ritcheson
|
|
historian, diplomat, and university administrator
|
[229]
|
William Emerson Ritter
|
|
Zoologist, biologist
|
[5]
|
Ellis H. Roberts
|
|
Treasurer of the United States, congressman
|
[1]
|
George E. Roberts
|
1901
|
director of the United States Mint
|
[1]
|
Beverly Robertson
|
1886–1890
|
cavalry officer in the United States Army
|
[1]
|
George M. Robeson
|
1883–1886
|
Secretary of the Navy, congressman
|
[1]
|
Thomas Ralph Robinson
|
|
horticulturalist
|
[5][230]
|
Nelson Rockefeller
|
|
Vice President of the United States
|
|
William Woodville Rockhill
|
1901
|
diplomat, director Bureau American Republics
|
[1]
|
Lore Alford Rogers
|
|
bacteriologist, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[5]
|
Sievert Allen Rohwer
|
|
entomologist
|
[5]
|
Nina Roscher
|
1988
|
Professor of chemistry at American University
|
[16]
|
Edward Bennett Rosa
|
1902
|
physicist, U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
[1]
|
Milton J. Rosenau
|
1902
|
professor and assistant surgeon, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
|
[1]
|
Joseph Nelson Rose
|
1893
|
assistant curator, Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum
|
[1][5]
|
John F. Ross
|
2000
|
Historian and author
|
[231]
|
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
|
1891
|
meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
|
[1]
|
Leo Stanton Rowe
|
1901
|
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director general of the Pan-American Union
|
[1]
|
Henry Augustus Rowland
|
1878–1887
|
physicist and Johns Hopkins educator
|
[1]
|
George Rublee
|
|
lawyer
|
[5]
|
Walter Rundell Jr.
|
|
Historian, archivist, and author
|
|
William Edwin Safford
|
|
botanist
|
[5]
|
Carl Sagan
|
|
Astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
|
|
Daniel Elmer Salmon
|
1884
|
veterinarian; chief Bureau Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
William Salomon
|
1897
|
banker
|
[1]
|
Henry Y. Satterlee
|
1903
|
Bishop of Washington, Episcopal Church
|
[1]
|
Rufus Saxton
|
1889–1891
|
colonel, assistant Quartermaster General, U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
Antonin Scalia
|
19xx–1985
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
|
[232]
|
Rudolf E. Schoenfeld
|
1952–1981
|
ambassador
|
[9]
|
James Brown Scott
|
|
authority on international law, author, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
|
[5]
|
Frank Charles Schrader
|
1903
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University
|
[1][5]
|
Charles Schuchert
|
1895
|
invertebrate paleontologist, assistant curator for U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Carol Schwartz
|
1989
|
politician
|
[233]
|
Eugene Amandus Schwarz
|
1889
|
entomological investigator, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Emil Alexander de Schweinitz
|
1889
|
director of biochemical laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Glenn T. Seaborg
|
|
chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize
|
[3]
|
William Henry Seaman
|
1887
|
examiner, U.S. Patent Office; a federal judge
|
|
George Mary Searle
|
1890–1894
|
Catholic priest and professor of astronomy, Catholic University
|
[1]
|
Atherton Seidell
|
|
founder of the American Documentation Institute
|
[5]
|
Harold Seidman
|
|
political scientist
|
[234]
|
Frederick Seitz
|
1954
|
physicist at Rockefeller University, National Medal of Science recipient
|
[2]
|
Ruth O. Selig
|
2007
|
anthropologist and educator
|
[10]
|
George Dudley Seymour
|
1897
|
Historian, patent attorney, antiquarian, author, and city planner
|
[1]
|
Nathaniel Shaler
|
1885
|
geologist; dean Lawrence Scientific School; professor geology, Harvard University
|
[9][1]
|
Homer L. Shantz
|
|
botanist and president of the University of Arizona
|
[5]
|
Willis Shapley
|
|
NASA administrator
|
[44]
|
Samuel Shellabarger
|
1881–1884
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
[1]
|
Seth Shepard
|
1903
|
associate justice and chief justice Supreme Court District of Columbia
|
[1]
|
Charles Wesley Shilling
|
|
U.S. Navy physician, researcher, and educator
|
[235]
|
Robert Wilson Shufeldt
|
1889–1895
|
diplomate, Rear Admiral U.S. Navy
|
[1]
|
Robert Wilson Shufeldt Jr.
|
1881
|
osteologist, myologist, museologist and ethnographer
|
[1]
|
Frederick Lincoln Siddons
|
|
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
|
[5]
|
Louis A. Simon
|
|
architect
|
|
James B. Simpson
|
1991
|
journalist, author, and Episcopal priest
|
[9]
|
Fred Singer
|
1957
|
physicist, director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, professor University of Virginia
|
[236]
|
Jeanne Sinkford
|
2015
|
Dentist, first female dean of an American college
|
[95]
|
Denis Sinor
|
|
Historian and academic
|
[237]
|
John Sinkankas
|
|
Navy officer, aviator, gemologist, and gem carver
|
[238]
|
William W. Skinner
|
|
chemist, conservationist, and college football coach
|
[5]
|
Edwin Emery Slosson
|
|
First director of Science Service, magazine editor, author, journalist, and chemist
|
[5]
|
John Humphrey Small
|
|
attorney and a U.S. Representative from North Carolina
|
[5]
|
Timothy Smiddy
|
|
Economist, academic, and diplomat
|
[5]
|
Thomas Smillie
|
1888
|
photographer and curator, Smithsonian Institution
|
[1]
|
Delos H. Smith
|
|
architect
|
[5][239]
|
Erwin Frink Smith
|
1891
|
plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
George P. Smith II
|
|
academic
|
[240]
|
George Otis Smith
|
1900
|
geologist and director of the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Goldwin Smith
|
1892–1900
|
historian and journalist, college professor
|
[1]
|
Hugh McCormick Smith
|
1903
|
ichthyologist and administrator in the United States Bureau of Fisheries
|
[1]
|
John Bernhardt Smith
|
1886–1889
|
professor of entomology, assistant U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Philip Sidney Smith
|
|
Geologist, chief Alaskan geologist, U.S. Geodetic Survey
|
[5]
|
Constantine Joseph Smyth
|
|
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
|
[5]
|
Thorvald Solberg
|
|
first Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office
|
[5]
|
Addison E. Southard
|
|
Diplomat, businessman, chief of the Division of Commercial Activities
|
[5]
|
Ellis Spear
|
1896
|
lawyer, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, brevet brigadier general U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
Arthur Coe Spencer
|
1898
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][241]
|
Ainsworth Rand Spofford
|
1884–1889
|
journalist, author, Librarian of Congress
|
[1]
|
Josiah Edward Spurr
|
1903
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Thorvald Solberg
|
1887
|
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress
|
[1]
|
George Owen Squier
|
1900
|
major, U.S. Army Signal Corps; scientist, and inventor
|
[1]
|
Wendell Phillips Stafford
|
|
associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
|
[5]
|
Paul Carpenter Standley
|
|
botanist
|
[5]
|
Timothy Willam Stanton
|
1894
|
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][242]
|
Robert Stead
|
1888
|
architect
|
[1][243]
|
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
|
1884–1891
|
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey; assistant curator U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Leonhard Stejneger
|
|
curatr of biology U.S. National Museum; ornithologist, herpetologist, and zoologist
|
[5]
|
George Miller Sternberg
|
1893
|
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army; bacteriologist
|
[1]
|
J. Macbride Sterrett
|
1892
|
professor of philosophy, Columbian University
|
[1]
|
Irwin Stelzer
|
|
Economist and columnist
|
|
James Stevenson
|
1884
|
executive officer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Julian Steward
|
|
anthropologist
|
[244]
|
William Mott Steuart
|
1903
|
director U.S. Census Office
|
[1][245][5]
|
Moses T. Stevens
|
1893
|
Congressman and textile manufacturer
|
[1]
|
Frederick W. Stevens
|
|
physicist
|
[5]
|
Walter W. Stewart
|
|
Economist, Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Board
|
[5]
|
Charles Wardell Stiles
|
1892
|
parasitologist and zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry
|
[1][5]
|
Frank R. Stockton
|
1900
|
author, humorist
|
[1]
|
Alfred Holt Stone
|
1902
|
Cotton planter, writer, politician
|
[1]
|
John Stone Stone
|
|
mathematician
|
[246]
|
Samuel A. Stouffer
|
|
sociologist
|
[247]
|
Ellery Cory Stowell
|
|
diplomat, professor of international law at Columbia University and American University
|
[5]
|
Samuel Wesley Stratton
|
1901
|
physicist and the first head of the National Bureau of Standards
|
[9][1]
|
Oscar Straus
|
1900
|
diplomat, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor
|
[1]
|
Thomas Hale Streets
|
1881–1889
|
Surgeon, U. S. Navy
|
[1]
|
Walter Tennyson Swingle
|
1899–1902
|
botanist; agricultural explorer, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1]
|
Barbara B. Taft
|
1988
|
historian and fellow in the Royal Historical Society
|
[16]
|
William Howard Taft
|
1904–1913/30
|
President of the United States
|
[3][46][9][120]
|
Charles Sumner Tainter
|
1882–1886, 1891
|
inventor of the Graphophone
|
[1]
|
Gerald F. Tape
|
|
physicist
|
[248][44]
|
Albert H. Taylor
|
|
electircal and radio engineer
|
[5]
|
James Henry Taylor
|
|
mathematician
|
[249]
|
Frederick Winslow Taylor
|
1880–1893
|
chemist, U.S. National Museum; mechanical engineer
|
[1]
|
Henry Clay Taylor
|
1880–1910
|
rear admiral in the United States Navy
|
[1]
|
James Knox Taylor
|
1898
|
supervising architect, U.S. Treasury Department
|
[1]
|
Rufus Thayer
|
1885
|
judge
|
[3][1]
|
Charles Thom
|
|
microbiologist, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry
|
[5]
|
Almon Harris Thompson
|
1882
|
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Robert E. Thompson
|
|
Political writer and journalist
|
|
John J. Tigert
|
|
Educator and university president
|
[5]
|
Samuel Escue Tillman
|
1889
|
superintendent of the United States Military Academy, astronomer, engineer
|
[1]
|
Otto Hilgard Tittmann
|
1878–1880, 1884
|
founder, National Geographic Society; superintendent United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|
[52][34][9][1]
|
Charles Hook Tompkins
|
|
architect
|
[52][5]
|
James Toumey
|
1899–1902
|
Professor at the Yale School of Forestry, superintendent of Tree-Planting, Division of Forestry
|
[1]
|
Charles Haskins Townsend
|
1897
|
zoologist and director of the New York Aquarium
|
[1]
|
Clinton Paul Townsend
|
1896
|
chemist; Patent Office examiner
|
[1]
|
Richard W. Townshend
|
1881–1885
|
congressman
|
[1]
|
William L. Trenholm
|
1887–1901
|
United States Comptroller of the Currency
|
[1]
|
Horace M. Trent
|
|
physicist
|
|
Alfred Charles True
|
1896
|
director experiment stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[1][5]
|
Frederick W. True
|
1882
|
head curator department of biology, U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
Henry St. George Tucker III
|
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
[5]
|
Bryant Tuckerman
|
|
mathematician
|
[5]
|
Lucius Tuckerman
|
1887
|
businessman, manufacturer, vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
[1][250]
|
John Tukey
|
1955
|
statistician with Bell Labs and Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient
|
[2]
|
Charles Yardley Turner
|
1910–1918
|
artist
|
[9]
|
Henry Ward Turner
|
1990–1996
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[251][1]
|
Scott Turner
|
|
mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines
|
[5]
|
Merle Tuve
|
|
geophysicist
|
[252]
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Frank Tweedy
|
1885–1901
|
botanist, topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Sanford J. Ungar
|
1980
|
university president
|
|
Harold Urey
|
|
physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|
[3]
|
Charles Fox Urquhart
|
1895
|
topographer and administrator with the U.S. Geological Survey
|
[253][1]
|
Charles R. Van Hise
|
1890
|
geologist, academic and president of the University of Wisconsin
|
[1]
|
John van Schaick Jr.
|
|
clergyman and editor
|
[5]
|
Frank A. Vanderlip
|
1897
|
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; president of the National City Bank of New York
|
[1]
|
T. Wayland Vaughan
|
1897
|
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Museum; director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
|
[1]
|
Victor C. Vaughan
|
|
physician, medical researcher, educator, and academic administrator
|
[5]
|
Herman Knickerbocker Vielé
|
1887–1892
|
Novelist, short story writer, and poet
|
[1]
|
Herbert Elijah Wadsworth
|
1903
|
Businessman, politician, and philanthropist
|
[1][5]
|
Elwood Otto Wagenhurst
|
1903
|
lawyer, football coach
|
[1][254][5]
|
Charles Doolittle Walcott
|
1883
|
director, U.S. Geological Survey; administrator of the Smithsonian Institution
|
[1][18]
|
Patricia Wald
|
1988
|
chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
|
[16][120]
|
Francis Amasa Walker
|
1879–1882
|
superintendent of the U.S. Census Bureau
|
[1]
|
Thomas Walsh
|
1900
|
mining engineer who discovered one of the largest gold mines in America
|
[1]
|
Clyde W. Warburton
|
|
Director of Extension Work of the United States Department of Agriculture
|
[5][255]
|
Lester Frank Ward
|
1878
|
paleobotanist with the U.S. Geological Survey and American Museum of Natural History
|
[52]
|
Samuel Gray Ward
|
1887–1890
|
banker, poet, author, and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
[1]
|
Eugene Fitch Ware
|
1902
|
Commissioner of Pensions
|
[1]
|
Frank Julian Warne
|
1911–1948
|
Journalist, economist, and statistician
|
[3][5]
|
Everett Warner
|
1943–1963
|
artist
|
[3]
|
Edward Wight Washburn
|
|
Chemist, chief of the Division of Chemistry of the U.S. Bureau of Standards
|
[5]
|
Wilcomb E. Washburn
|
1965–1997
|
historian
|
[143][9]
|
Walter Washington
|
1969–2004
|
Mayor of the District of Columbia
|
[3][9]
|
Alan Tower Waterman
|
|
physicist
|
[256]
|
J. Elfreth Watkins
|
1888
|
superintendent and curator of mechanical technology, U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
David K. Watson
|
1901–1902
|
Lawyer and congressman
|
[1]
|
Christopher Weaver
|
2005
|
software developer and educator at MIT
|
[257]
|
William Benning Webb
|
1887
|
President of the Board of Commissioners District of Columbia, lawyer
|
[1]
|
Joseph Weber
|
|
physicist, University of Maryland professor
|
[258]
|
Frank E. Webner
|
|
Consulting cost accountant, early management author, industrial engineer
|
[5]
|
Hutton Webster
|
|
Sociologist, author
|
[259]
|
Sidney Weintraub
|
|
economist
|
|
James Clarke Welling
|
1878
|
president of Columbian University, co-founder of National Geographic Society.
|
[34]
|
Volkmar Wentzel
|
|
photographer and cinematographer with National Geographic
|
[3]
|
Alexander Wetmore
|
|
ornithologist and avian paleontologist
|
[11][5]
|
William F. Wharton
|
1884
|
jurist, Assistant Secretary of State
|
[1]
|
Andrew Dickson White
|
1896
|
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, historian, co-founder and president of Cornell University
|
[1]
|
Charles Abiathar White
|
1882–1902
|
geologist and paleontologist
|
[1]
|
David White
|
1882
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1][5]
|
Frank White
|
|
Treasurer of the United States; Governor of North Dakota
|
[5]
|
Gilbert F. White
|
|
Geographer, the father of floodplain management
|
[260]
|
William Alanson White
|
|
neurologist and psychiatrist
|
[5]
|
William Allen White
|
|
newspapers editor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
[3]
|
William Whiting II
|
1888–1889
|
politician, congressman
|
[1]
|
Beniah Longley Whitman
|
1895–1900
|
president Columbian University
|
[1]
|
Henry Howard Whitney
|
1899–1902
|
brigadier general, U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
Milton Whitney
|
1894
|
academic and chief, Division of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[261][1][262][5]
|
Frederick W. Whitridge
|
1883–1884
|
lawyer, president of the Third Avenue Railway Company
|
[1]
|
John Brewer Wight
|
1902
|
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
|
[1]
|
Harvey Washington Wiley
|
1883–1930
|
chief chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; author of Pure Food and Drug Act
|
[1][3][34][9][5]
|
Walter Francis Willcox
|
1899
|
statistician, U.S. Census Bureau; professor at Cornell University
|
[1]
|
Maynard Owen Williams
|
|
National Geographic foreign correspondent
|
[5]
|
Whiting Williams
|
|
co-founder of Welfare Federation of Cleveland (predecessor to United Way)
|
[263]
|
James Alexander Williamson
|
1886–1887
|
commissioner, United States General Land Office; brigadier general U.S. Army
|
[1]
|
Bailey Willis
|
1896
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey
|
[1]
|
Edwin Willits
|
1889–1894
|
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and congressman
|
[1]
|
Westel W. Willoughby
|
1894–1895
|
professor political science, Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
William F. Willoughby
|
1895
|
author and expert, U.S. Department of Labor
|
[1][5]
|
William Holland Wilmer
|
1896
|
ophthalmologist; founding director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University
|
[1]
|
Jeremiah M. Wilson
|
1883
|
educator, lawyer, jurist, and congressman
|
[1]
|
M. L. Wilson
|
|
professor, undersecretary of agriculture the U.S. Department of Agriculture
|
[264]
|
Thomas Wilson
|
1887
|
anthropologist; curator prehistoric archaeology, U.S. National Museum
|
[1]
|
William Lyne Wilson
|
1895
|
Postmaster General, president Washington and Lee University
|
[1]
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
1913–1924
|
President of the United States
|
[3][9][120]
|
Robert Watson Winston
|
|
Lawyer, judge, and author
|
[5][265][266]
|
Leonard Wood
|
1895–1897
|
U.S. Army major general, military governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines.
|
[1]
|
Robert Morse Woodbury
|
|
Economist, academic, author, and chief statistician of the International Labor Office in Geneva
|
[5][267][268]
|
Albert Fred Woods
|
1896
|
botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry, university president
|
[1][269]
|
Robert Simpson Woodward
|
1885
|
Professor of mechanics and mathematical physics, Columbia University
|
[1]
|
William Creighton Woodward
|
1995
|
medical doctor and lawyer, legislative counsel for the American Medical Association
|
[1]
|
John Maynard Woodworth
|
1878
|
surgeon general, Marine Hospital Service
|
[1]
|
Alma S. Woolley
|
|
nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author
|
[270]
|
Herman Wouk
|
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
|
[3]
|
Carroll D. Wright
|
1895
|
Statistician and first U.S. Commissioner of Labor
|
[1]
|
Nathan C. Wyeth
|
1900
|
architect, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury
|
[1]
|
Walter Wyman
|
1889
|
supervising surgeon general, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
|
[1]
|
Robert Sterling Yard
|
|
Writer, journalist, editor, and wilderness activist
|
[5]
|
H. C. Yarrow
|
1878–1893
|
ornithologist, herpetologist, surgeon, curator of reptiles in the U.S. National Museum
|
[34][4][9][5]
|
Charles W. Yost
|
1974-1981
|
Diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
|
Arthur N. Young
|
|
Economist and government advisor
|
[5]
|
Albert Francis Zahm
|
1902
|
academic; chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress
|
[271][1][5]
|
Estanislao Zeballos
|
1894–1895
|
E. E. and M. P. Argentina
|
[1]
|