Name
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Class of
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Notability
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Michael L. J. Apuzzo
|
1957
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Academic neurosurgeon, editor, futurist
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Henry Baldwin
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1793
|
U.S. Congressman, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
|
Roger Sherman Baldwin
|
1807
|
U.S. Senator, Governor of Connecticut, defense attorney in Amistad case
|
Simeon Eben Baldwin
|
1857
|
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor of Connecticut
|
Wilson S. Bissell
|
1865
|
United States Postmaster General
|
Andy Bloch[5]
|
1987
|
Professional poker player
|
Edward Bouchet
|
1870
|
Physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
|
Augustus Brandegee
|
1845
|
U.S. House of Representatives
|
Chauncey Bunce Brewster
|
1864
|
Episcopal Bishop
|
Benjamin Brewster
|
1878
|
Episcopal Bishop of Maine
|
Nicholas Britell
|
1999
|
Composer, Pianist, and Film Producer
|
Guido Calabresi
|
1949
|
U.S. Court of Appeals judge, Dean of the Yale Law School
|
Walter Camp
|
1876
|
Founder of modern American football
|
Mei Chin
|
1993
|
Novelist and food critic
|
Elisha Cooper
|
1989
|
Author and Illustrator
|
John Davenport
|
n/a
|
Founder of New Haven, early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school; regarded as Hopkins' founder
|
Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr.
|
1849
|
Third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
|
Nicholas Dawidoff
|
1981
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Author
|
George DiCenzo
|
1958
|
Actor, Arts Activist
|
Asa Drury
|
n/a
|
Rector of Hopkins from 1829 to 1831
|
Henry Durand
|
1877
|
Songwriter of Yale alma mater, "Bright College Years"
|
Timothy Dwight V
|
1845
|
President of Yale University
|
Henry W. Edwards
|
1793
|
U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut
|
Trey Ellis
|
1980
|
Novelist
|
William Eno
|
1877
|
Road safety advocate and inventor
|
Henry Farnam
|
1870
|
Railroad president
|
Orris Ferry
|
1840
|
U.S. Congressman, Senator
|
Ernest Flagg
|
1876
|
Architect
|
John Geanakoplos
|
1971
|
Economist
|
Josiah Willard Gibbs
|
1854
|
Father of Thermodynamics
|
Chauncey Goodrich
|
1804
|
Editor of the Webster's Dictionary
|
Arthur Hadley
|
1872
|
President of Yale University
|
John Hays Hammond
|
1873
|
Mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers
|
Carolyn Hax
|
1984
|
Advice Columnist for the Washington Post
|
James Hillhouse
|
1769
|
U.S. Congressman, Senator
|
Edward Hopkins
|
n/a
|
Colonial Governor of Connecticut, Hopkins' first benefactor
|
William Hoppin
|
1824
|
Governor of Rhode Island
|
Edward House
|
1877
|
Diplomat, political adviser to Woodrow Wilson
|
William Henry Hunt
|
1874
|
Federal and state judge, territorial governor of Puerto Rico
|
William Morris Hunt
|
1834
|
Painter
|
Jared Ingersoll
|
1762
|
Delegate to the Continental Congress; signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania; Federalist vice presidential candidate
|
Charles Ives
|
1894
|
Classical composer and insurance executive
|
Harold Hongju Koh
|
1971
|
Dean of the Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
|
Justin Kutcher
|
1998
|
Sports Commentator
|
Paul MacCready
|
1943
|
Aeronautical engineer
|
John Malone
|
1959
|
Telecommunications mogul
|
Joseph Mansfield
|
1817
|
American Civil War Major General
|
Jonathan Mostow
|
1979
|
Film director, writer, and producer
|
Henry Murphy
|
1895
|
Architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House
|
Francisco Palmieri
|
1979
|
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
|
Edwards Pierrepont
|
1833
|
New York Supreme Court justice; Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General
|
Abraham Pierson
|
1664
|
First rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School
|
Benjamin Silliman
|
1833
|
Early professor of science
|
Alfred Terry
|
1838
|
American Civil War Major General, military commander of the Dakota Territory
|
Dan Wasserman
|
1967
|
Political cartoonist
|
Theodore Winthrop
|
1841
|
Author
|
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
|
1816
|
President of Yale University
|