Notable Alumni
新澳开奖鈥檚 23,200 alumni are collectively among the most loyal, passionate, and accomplished graduates of any college in the country.
Authors & Artists
![Jake Blount ’17](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/tsoyplpzpchuwkah.jpg)
![Sarah Maas '08](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/170407hmlmaas576tpngpng.png)
![Roz Chast](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/rozchast16x12jpg.jpg)
More Authors & Artists
(English Literature) Author, Andorra, The Weekend, The City of Your Final Destination, and Coral Glynn
![Spencer Finch](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/zzorxlbuatotsknm.png?1678381444329)
(Religion) Storyteller, Musician, Author; 2007 and 2009 Grammy Awards for “Best Spoken Word for Children”
(English Literature) Author, Founder/Publisher, Pushcart Press
(Religion) Author, Poet Laureate of Maine; former Director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
(English Literature) Author, Poet Laureate of Florida; former Director, Eckerd College Writing Workshop; recipient, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
(English Literature) Author, The Sterile Cuckoo and The Milagro Beanfield War
Cameron “Kip” Paine ’94 (History) Recipient, 2000 Best Small Ensemble Grammy as a member of Chanticleer
![Ezra Pound](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/ezrapng.png?1678321120676)
(English Literature) Composer; Opera Rasputin presented in Moscow to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
![Preeta Samarasan](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/preetasamarasanpng.png?1678321508818)
(Creative Writing) Author, Salt and Saffron, Kartography, Burnt Shadows, Home Fire and Best of Friends
World-Renowned Glass Sculptor
(English Literature) Author, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, The Purification Ceremony, the “Private” series (with James Patterson)
(Music) Composer; 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition
(American Studies) Author, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
More Business & Entrepreneurs
(Economics) Co-Founder/CEO, Tilia Holdings; former President, Silliker Laboratories North America; former President/CEO, Advanced BioScience Laboratories (working on AIDS vaccine)
(History) President/CEO, Realtime Media; former President, Mailing and Shipping Services, U.S. Postal Service; former President, Campbell Soup; former President, Scotts Miracle-Gro
(Economics and Psychology) Co-Founder/Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management; former CEO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
![Amy Owens Goodfriend](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/mbristolpng.png?1678332183186)
Co-Founder, Bristol-Myers
Harlow Bundy 1877* Founder, Bundy Time Recording (forerunner to IBM)
Blake Darcy ’78 (Government) Founder, DLJdirect; Co-Founder, Formula Investing LLC
William Gaden ’84 (Mathematics) President, Concord Theatricals (manages the works of Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and more)
(French) Founder, Goodfriend Partners; former Partner, Goldman Sachs
(History) Lead Director, Boyd Technologies and Karora Resources; Executive Chairman, Kharrouba Copper; former Chairman and CEO, Inco
David Hess ’77 (Physics) former CEO, Pratt & Whitney
Alon Hillel-Tuch ’07 (Chinese and Economics) Managing Partner, Stacked Capital; Co-Founder, RocketHub
Kevin Kennedy ’70 (Art) former General Partner/Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; former President/CEO, Metropolitan Opera
![Eric Kuhn](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/mesgwwvmfvwpercs.png?1678383405691)
A.G. Lafley ’69 (French and History) former President/CEO, Procter & Gamble
(History and Government) Senior Advisor, Centerview Partners; former Global Head, Mergers & Acquisitions, Goldman Sachs
Michael Mathres ’96 (Art and Economics) Co-Founder/Director, REDD+Capital; Co-Founder/Director, World Climate; Founder/Director, Climate Capital Network; recipient, 2004 Millenium Prize for Social Entrepreneurship
(Philosophy) Executive Vice President, NBCUniversal Media
(Economics) Chairman/CEO, Olympus Partners
![Dan Nye](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/dnyepng.png?1678583611877)
Ronald Pressman ’80 (Biology) former Chief Operating Officer, TIAA-CREF; former President/CEO, GE Real Estate
John Rice ’78 (Economics) former President/CEO, General Electric Energy; former President/CEO, GE Global Growth and GE Industry & Infrastructure
Stephen Sadove ’73 (Government) former Chairman/CEO, Saks Fifth Avenue
Stuart Scott ’61* (English Literature) former Chairman/CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle
(Asian Studies and Government) Co-Founder/CEO, UNTUCKit; Founder, Definite Articles
(Economics) Managing Director, Thiel Capital; Founder, Grandmaster Capital Management; former CEO, Clarium; Co-founder, PayPal
(Mathematics) Executive VP, Chief Sustainability and Leadership Development Officer, Tetra Tech
![Susan Skerritt](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/sskerrittpng.png?1678333713845)
(Government) Chairman/Co-Founder, The Beanstalk Group
(German) Co-Founder, Pine Island Capital Partners; former Senior VP, Chief Public Affairs and Communications Officer, Coca-Cola
![Diana van Maasdijk](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/vanmaasdijkpng.png?1678333972769)
John Werner ’92 (Government) Founder/CEO, AR in Action; Founder/Curator/CEO, TEDxBoston; Founding Team Member, Citizen Schools
More Education & Nonprofits
![Maxwell Akuamoah-Boateng](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/maxwellakuamoahboatengpng.png?1678418749581)
(Public Policy) Director, Safe Climate Transport Campaign; former Director, Global Warming, Sierra Club; appointed to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Personal Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Reductions (Clinton)
Richard Burns ’77 (English Literature) First Executive Director, New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center; Founding Board President, GLAD
Richard W. Couper ’44* (History) President, New York Public Library; President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
(Government and Russian Studies)
CEO/General Secretary, Rotary International
Peter Kazickas ’15 (World Politics) CEO, Uncommon (builds technology hubs in low-income communities in developing nations)
(Music) Vice Provost, Academic Council, Stanford University Libraries
David Kunselman ’66 CEO, World Development Teams; former CEO, Development of World Orphan Care, World Orphan Network
Mike Meyer ’74 (English Literature and Government) Founding Dean, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications, Nairobi; former Chief Speechwriter for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
![Nancy Roob](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/nwcfqspxiqexcubo.png?1678418533566)
(Economics) President, Drew University; former President, Purchase College (SUNY)
Michael Shapiro ’72 (Art and History) Director Emeritus, High Museum of Art
(Government) Founder/CEO, The New England Center for Children
Film, Television & Theatre
![Yance Ford '94](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/fordyance2017jpg.jpg)
![Spring 2007](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/eckzvkyeftmbltdc.jpg)
![Deborah Forte ’75](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/7636fortecontentsweb1800jpg.jpg)
More Film, Television & Theatre
![Nat Faxon](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/faxonpng.png?1678585631853)
Deirdre Fenton ’04 (Government) Executive Director, Unscripted, Meadowlark Media; former Producer, ESPN; 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for O.J. Made in America
Director, Producer, and Actor; film credits include Ghost, Nixon, Divergent, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated movie; on TV: Dexter, Justified, and Scandal
John Hadity ’83 (Sociology) Executive VP, Entertainment Partners Financial Solutions; former Senior VP, Miramax
![Leigh Keno](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/kenopng.png?1678585248205)
* (English Literature) Playwright; won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical in 1977 for Annie, in 2001 for The Producers, and in 2003 for Hairspray
![Sarah Rafferty](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/raffertypng.png?1678584027648)
(English Literature and Theatre) Real Estate Broker and Reality Television Actor of Million Dollar Listing New York
Thomas Tull ’92 (Government) Founder, Legendary Entertainment
Government, Law & Diplomacy
![Mary Bonauto](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/marybonautopngjpg.jpg)
![Michael Klosson ’71](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/211204dsc4319jpg.jpg)
![Tom Vilsack '72](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/hamilton3638035jpg.jpg)
More Government, Law & Diplomacy
Michael Castle ’61 (Economics) former U.S. Representative; former Governor of Delaware
W. Robert Connor ’56 (Government and Philosophy) former President/CEO, The Teagle Foundation; former President/Director, National Humanities Center; appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (Clinton)
![Drew Days](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/drewdayspng.png?1678516892062)
(Government and Philosophy) Chairman, American Council on Germany; former U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
Stephen Foley ’84 (Creative Writing) former Commander, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)
![Sol Linowitz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/linowitzpng.png?1678586402392)
William Luers ’51 (Chemistry and Mathematics) Director, The Iran Project; Chairman/President, United Nations Association of the USA; former President, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela
Percy Luney, Jr. ’70 (Geology) Founding Dean, Florida A&M University Law School; former VP, Space Florida
(Philosophy and Speech) Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University; former Special Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; former President, Keep America Beautiful; former Senior VP, Finance, PepsiCo
(World Politics) U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ralph Oman ’62 (History) former Register of Copyrights of the United States
![Elihu Root](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/elihurootpng.png?1678585864861)
* Vice President of the United States
* Philanthropist and Abolitionist
Edward S. Walker, Jr. ’62 (Philosophy) former President and CEO, Middle East Institute; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates
Journalism & Digital Media
![Andrew Metz '91](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/anderwmetzjpg.jpg)
![Kathleen McGrory ’05](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/kathleenmcgorypngjpg.jpg)
![Evan Smith ’87](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/evansmithttf18ccrfeast1071web1800jpg.jpg)
More Journalism & Digital Media
![Henry Allen](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/tbxqkuaywpbaeygo.png?1678514987279)
Margaret de Streel ’88 (English Literature) Deputy Print Editor and former World News Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Fabio Freyre ’83 (Psychology) Advertising Director, Facebook; former Group Vice President, Corporate Sales and Marketing, Time Inc.; former Publisher, Sports Illustrated
Morgan Selzer Handel ’03 (Government) Chief Content Officer, Headspace; Executive Producer, Netflix’s Emmy Award-Winning Headspace Guide to Meditation
![Stacey Klein](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/lnffntrsihxoezbz.png?1678514326320)
Jordyn Taylor ’12 (History and Theatre) Executive Digital Editor, Men’s Health Magazine
![Samantha Skey](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/skeypng.png?1678511900526)
Charlie Warzel ’10 (Government) Staff Writer, The Atlantic (editor of its newsletter, Galaxy Brain)
James P. Willse ’67 (English Literature) former Editor, Newark Star-Ledger, recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting of breaking news
* Drama Critic, The New York Times; Member of the Algonquin Round Table
More Medicine, Health Care & Science
Martin S. Hirsch ’60 (Biology) Physician and Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Medical School; former Director of AIDS Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
* (English Literature) Co-Founder, Masters & Johnson Institute
![Jonathan Overpeck](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/overpeckpng.png?1678515200775)
(Biology) Professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute; former President, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Sports
![Mason Ashe '85](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/ipjbsjsrtwhqzpui.jpg)
![Guy Hebert '89](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/hebertguy2008jpgjpg.jpg)
![Gillian Zucker '90, Clippers owner Steve ballmer](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/16:9/300/gillianzuckergettyimagesjpg.jpg)
More Sports
![Joe Gilbert](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/joegilbertpng.png?1678515751358)
Bryan Jaroch ’97 (Psychology) Coordinating Producer, ESPN; received Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series (Sunday Night Football)
*Deceased
![Andrew Lee](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/gcjpezayykvckwpf.png?1678516783863)
(History) President, Pilson Communications, Inc.; former President, CBS Sports
Jim Rushton ’92 (Economics) Senior Vice President, Business Strategy & Stadium Affairs, Los Angeles Chargers
![Steve Wulf](https://s3.amazonaws.com/mediacdn.hamilton.edu/images/1:1/500/wulfpng.png?1678516274239)