List of Signet Society members

Following is a list of Signet Society members. Signet Society is a Harvard University final club that recognizes accomplishments in literature and the arts.

Academia

• Emily Apter, professor chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University
• Derek Bok, Harvard University president
• James B. Conant, Harvard University president, scholar, chemist
• Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University president, chemist, mathematician
• Alexander Forbes, electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School
• Owen Gingerich, professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Peter J. Gomes, theologian and professor of Christian morals at Harvard Divinity School
• Mason Hammond, Classics scholar
• William James, philosopher, psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States
• Marty Kaplan, professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios
• Thomas Kuhn, philosopher and college professor
• William Coolidge Lane
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University president, historian
• Charles Eliot Norton,social critic, and Harvard professor
• Neil Rudenstine, Harvard President
• Ilya Vidrin, academic research-practitioner
• Andrew Weil, founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine

Art

• Paul Bartlett (painter)

Business

• Agnes Chu, businesswoman and producer who oversaw original content at the launch of Disney+ in 2019 and president of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) including media brands such as GQ, The New Yorker and Vogue
• Mark Penn, chairman and chief executive officer of Stagwell, chief strategy officer of Microsoft Corporation, and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller
• John Train, investment advisor and author

Education

• Herbert R. Kohl, educator who founded the open classroom movement

Entertainment

• Matthew Bohrer, actor
• Andy Borowitz, writer, comedian, actor
• Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor
• Amy Brenneman, actress
• Nicholas Britell, film composer and producer
• Ben Cosgrove, composer and multi-instrumentalist
• Tommy Lee Jones, actor
• Rashida Jones, actress
• Marty Kaplan, writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
• Douglas Kenney, co-founded of National Lampooncomedy and writer, produce, and actor in Animal House and Caddyshack
• John Lithgow, actor
• Donal Logue, actor
• James Murdoch, media owner
• Conan O'Brien, talk show host
• Natalie Portman, actress
• Whit Stillman, writer-director
• Tom Werner, producer, Red Sox co-owner
• Sabrina Wu, writer, comedian, and actor
• Alan "Scooter" Zackheim, reality show winner Beauty and the Geek

Journalism

• Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times
• Adam Gopnik, writer for The New Yorker
• Hendrik Hertzberg, principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine, speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, and editor of The New Republic
• Walter Isaacson, chair and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time
• Douglas Kenney, co-founded of National Lampooncomedy and writer, produce, and actor in Animal House and Caddyshack
• Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The New York Times
• George Plimpton, sports journalist who helped found The Paris Review
• Frank Rich, essayist and liberal op-ed columnist with The New York Times
• Reihan Salam, conservative political commentator, president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, executive editor of National Review, a contributing editor at National Affairs, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic
• Alessandra Stanley, co-founder of Air Mail
• Andrew Sullivan, founder of the political blog The Daily Dish
• Richard Tofel, former president of ProPublica
• Fareed Zakaria, editor, author, commentator

Literature

• James Agee, novelist, screenwriter, poet, author
• Conrad Aiken, author
• John Ashbery, poet, writer
• Robert Benchley, writer and actor
• John Berendt, writer
• Earl Derr Biggers, novelist and playwright
• T. S. Eliot, poet, author
• Robert Frost, poet
• Donald Hall, poet
• Seamus Heaney, poet
• Leslie Jamison, novelist and essayist
• Norman Mailer, writer
• Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer Prize winning author, maritime historian, and retired Rear Admiral
• George Plimpton, writer, journalist
• George Santayana, philosopher, poet, novelist
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, author, winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
• Wallace Stevens, poet
• Trumbull Stickney, poet
• John Updike, writer
• John Hall Wheelock, poet

Politics

• Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Charles Joseph Bonaparte, United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Navy
• Hamilton Fish II, United States Congress
• Marty Kaplan, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios, and professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
• Jay Rockefeller, United States Senate
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
• James Roosevelt, U.S. House of Representatives, chairman of the California Democratic Party
• Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• Chuck Schumer, United States Senate
• Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense, director of the Office of Management and Budget, California State Assembly, and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
• William Weld, Massachusetts Governor

Other

• Lionel de Jersey Harvard, collateral descended of Harvard College founder

Fictional members

• James "Toofer" Spurlock, fictional character on television show 30 Rock

References

Notes

• Signet Society Website