List of Princeton University people

James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution, fourth President of the United States, member of the Princeton Class of 1771, and Princeton's first graduate student.

This list of notable people associated with Princeton University includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with Princeton and use the following notation:

• B indicates a bachelor's degree
• Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated
• AM indicates a Master of Arts degree
• MPP indicates a Master of Public Policy degree awarded by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• MPA indicates a Master in Public Affairs degree awarded by the Woodrow Wilson School
• MCF indicates completion of the Mid-Career Fellowship, a discontinued non-degree program of the Woodrow Wilson School
• MSE indicates a Master of Science in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science
• PhD indicates a Ph.D. degree
• GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree
• F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty
• T indicates a Trustee of Princeton University, followed by years denoting the time of service as a Trustee
• Pres indicates a President of Princeton University, followed by years denoting the time of service as President

Politics and government

Main article: List of Princeton University people (government)

Royalty

• Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
• Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco
• Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

Military

• Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., 1932 – World War II Medal of Honor recipient killed in the Battle of Tarawa
• James Caldwell, A.B. 1759 – American Revolutionary soldier and chaplain
• James Robb Church, 1888 – Medal of Honor recipient, Spanish-American War
• Kenneth F. Cramer (1894-1954), B. Litt. 1916, M.A. 1917 – United States Army Major General and Chief of the National Guard Bureau
• Glen Edwards, M.S. 1947 – U.S. Air Force test pilot
• Andrew Goodpaster, A.M. 1949, M.S.E. 1949, Ph.D. 1950 – Supreme Allied Commander, Europe for NATO
• Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee A.B. 1773 – American Revolutionary cavalry officer, father of Robert E. Lee
• Gordon Johnston, A.B. 1896 – Medal of Honor recipient, Philippine–American War
• David Petraeus, M.P.A. 1985 Ph.D. 1987 – Former commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), USCENTCOM, and Multi-National Force - Iraq; former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Elliott White Springs, A.B. 1917 – World War I flying ace and memoirist
• Tamon Yamaguchi, 1921–1923 – Japanese Admiral killed at the Battle of Midway
• Nathaniel Scudder an American physician and patriot leader during the Revolutionary War
• James Millikin Bevans – U.S. Air Force Major General

Academia

This section includes lists of notable academics who graduated from Princeton and notable Princeton faculty members. Boldface indicates a current professor at Princeton.

Alumni and students

Name	Field	Affiliation	Notes	Refs
Hal Abelson	Computer Science	B 1969
Mike Archer	Biology	B 1967	Director of the Australian Museum, 1999–2003
John Bardeen	Physics	PhD 1936	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1956 and 1972
Gary Becker	Economics	B 1951	Nobel Prize in Economics, 1992
Walden Bello	Sociology	MA 1972, PhD 1975	Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, 2007–
Gregory Berns	Psychology	B 1986
Manjul Bhargava	Mathematics	PhD 2001
James H. Billington	History	B 1950, F 1964–75	Librarian of Congress, 1987–
Alan Blinder	Economics	B 1967; F 1971–	Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1994–96
George Boolos	Philosophy	B 1961
Alan Brinkley	History	B 1971	Provost of Columbia University, 2003–09
Michael E. Brown	Astronomy	B 1987	Named to the Time 100, 2006
Eugenio Calabi	Mathematics	PhD 1950
David Card	Economics	PhD 1983, F 1983–97	John Bates Clark Medal, 1995
Alonzo Church	Mathematics	B 1924, PhD 1927, F 1929–67	Proved the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem
Arthur Compton	Physics	B 1914, PhD 1916	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1927
Karl Compton	Physics	PhD 1912, F 1915–30	President of MIT, 1930–48
Wilson Compton	Economics	PhD 1915	President of Washington State University, 1945–51
Ira Condict		B 1784	Third President of Queen's College (Rutgers University) and Queen's College Grammar School (Rutgers Preparatory School), 1795-1810, Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed clergyman
James Creese		B 1918, AM	President of Drexel University, 1945–63
R. F. Patrick Cronin	Medicine	B Class of 1947, conferred in 2000	Dean of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Dennis Crouch	Law	B 1997	Publisher of Patently-O
Loring Danforth	Anthropology	PhD 1977
John R. DaSilva	Architecture	B.A. 1985
Clinton Davisson	Physics	PhD 1911	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1937
David A. Dodge	Economics	PhD 1972	Chancellor of Queen's University, 2008–; Governor of the Bank of Canada, 2001–08
Acheson Duncan	Statistics	B 1923, AM 1927, PhD 1936, F 1936–42
Robert H. Edwards		B 1957	President of Carleton College, 1977–86; President of Bowdoin College, 1990–2001
Selden Edwards	Literature	B 1941	Headmaster of Elgin Academy, the Crane Country Day School, and Sacramento Country Day
Robert D. English	Politics	MPA 1982; PhD 1995
Hugh Everett	Physics	PhD 1957
Livingston Farrand	Medicine	B 1888	President of Cornell University, 1921–37
Max Farrand	History	B 1892
Charles Fefferman	Mathematics	PhD 1969, F 1973–	Fields Medal, 1978
Richard Felder	Chemical Engineering	PhD 1966
Richard Feynman	Physics	PhD 1942	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1965
Norman Finkelstein	History	PhD 1988
Evan Flatow	Medicine	B 1977
John V. Fleming	English	PhD 1963, F 1965–2006
Henri Ford	Medicine	B 1980; Trustee
Hal Foster	Art History	B 1977; F 1997–
Michael Freedman	Mathematics	PhD 1973	Fields Medal, 1986
Robert Goheen	Classics	B 1940, AM 1947, PhD 1948, F 1948–72, Pres 1957–72
Phillip Griffiths	Mathematics	PhD 1962, F 1967–72	Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2008
Noel F. Hall	Economics	AM 1926
Robin Hartshorne	Mathematics	PhD 1963
James Heckman	Economics	AM 1968; PhD 1971	Nobel Prize in Economics, 2000
Sam Higginbottom	Religion	B 1903
Robert Hofstadter	Physics	PhD 1938, F 1945–60	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1961
D. Kern Holoman	Music	PhD 1974	Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis
Carl Hovde	English	PhD 1955	Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, 1968–72
Nathan Jacobson	Mathematics	PhD 1934
Elena Kagan	Law	B 1981	Dean of Harvard Law School, 2003–09; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2010–
Bob Kahn	Computer Science	PhD 1964	Turing Award, 2004; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2005
John G. Kemeny	Computer Science	B 1947, PhD 1949	Co-developer of BASIC. President of Dartmouth College, 1970–81
Brian Kernighan	Computer Science	PhD 1969, F 2000–	Co-developer of C
Alan Kreider	Divinity	GS 1962–63
Stephen Kurtz	History	B 1948	Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1974–87
Eric Lander	Biology	B 1978	Founding Director of the Broad Institute
Serge Lang	Mathematics	PhD 1951
Paul Lansky	Music	PhD 1973, F 1969–
William Lennox	English	AM, PhD	Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
Alan Lightman	Physics	B 1970
George Lusztig	Mathematics	PhD 1971
Juan Maldacena	Physics	PhD 1996
Burton Malkiel	Economics	PhD 1964; F 1964–81, 1988–	Dean of Yale School of Management, 1981–87. Author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street
N. Gregory Mankiw	Economics	B 1980	Chair of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, 2003–05
James Manning	Divinity	B 1762	Founder and first President of Brown University, 1764–91
Thomas Maren	Medicine	B 1918, AM
Juan Marichal	History	PhD 1949
Lorna Marsden	Sociology	PhD 1972	President of York University, 1997–2007
Bahram Mashhoon	Physics	PhD 1972
Barry Mazur	Mathematics	PhD 1959
James McCarthy	Sociology	PhD 1977	President of Suffolk University 2012–present
John McCarthy	Computer Science	PhD 1951	Turing Prize, 1971
Edwin McMillan	Chemistry	PhD 1932	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1932
John Milnor	Mathematics	B 1951; PhD 1954	Fields Medal, 1962; Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 1989; Abel Prize, 2011
John Nash	Mathematics	PhD 1950, F	Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
Clifford Nass	Sociology	B 1981, AM 1985, PhD 1986
Alexander Nehamas	Philosophy	PhD 1971, F 1990–
Joseph Nye	Politics	B 1958	Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, 1995–2004
Steven Orszag	Mathematics	PhD 1966, F 1984–98
Wolfgang Panofsky	Physics	B 1938	Director of SLAC, 1961–84; National Medal of Science, 1969
Christos Papadimitriou	Computer Science	PhD 1976
Richard Pildes	Law	B 1979
John Rawls	Philosophy	B 1943; PhD 1950
W. Taylor Reveley	Law	B 1965	President of the College of William & Mary, 2008–
Richard Revesz	Law	B 1979	Dean of New York University School of Law, 2002–
Avital Ronell	Comparative Literature	PhD 1979
Theodore Roszak	History	PhD 1958
Gian-Carlo Rota	Mathematics	B 1953
Neil Rudenstine	English	B 1956, F 1968–87, Provost 1977–87, T 2002–06	President of Harvard University, 1991–2001
George Rupp	Divinity	B 1964	President of Columbia University, 1998–2002
Edward Saïd	English	B 1957
Chris William Sanchirico	Law	B 1984
Harold T. Shapiro	Economics	PhD 1964, F 1988–, Pres 1988–2001
Richard Smalley	Chemistry	PhD 1973	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996.
Allen Shenstone	Physics	B 1914, AM 1920, PhD 1922, F 1925–62.
Raymond Smullyan	Mathematics	PhD 1959
Charles Phelps Smyth	Chemistry	B 1916, AM 1917, F 1920–63	Medal of Freedom, 1947
Henry DeWolf Smyth	Physics	B 1918, PhD 1921, F 1924–66	Author of the Smyth Report
Michael Spence	Economics	B 1966	John Bates Clark Medal, 1981; Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001
Isaac Starr	Medicine	B 1916	developed first practical ballistocardiograph; 1957 Albert Lasker Award, 1967 Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, 1977 Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam
Richard Stearns	Computer Science	PhD 1961
Norman Steenrod	Mathematics	PhD 1936, F 1947–71
Devin J. Stewart	Near Eastern Studies	B 1984	Professor at Emory University
Michael Stonebraker	Computer Science	B 1965
Jeffrey Stout	Religion	PhD 1976, F 1976–
Ilhi Synn	German	PhD 1966	President of Keimyung University, 1988–2004
Terence Tao	Mathematics	PhD 1996	MacArthur Fellowship, 2006; Fields Medal, 2006
John Tate	Mathematics	PhD 1950	Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2002–03; Abel Prize, 2010
Richard Taylor	Mathematics	PhD 1988
Kip Thorne	Physics	PhD 1965
Stephen Thorsett	Physics	AM 1989, PhD 1991, F 1994–99	President of Willamette University, 2011–
Rick Trainor	History	GS	Principal of King's College London, 2004–
John Tukey	Statistics	AM 1938, PhD 1939, F 1945–2000	National Medal of Science, 1973. IEEE Medal of Honor, 1982
Alan Turing	Computer Science	PhD 1938
Cumrun Vafa	Physics	PhD 1985
Cornel West	African American Studies	PhD 1980, F 2002–
Steven Weinberg	Physics	PhD 1957	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979; National Medal of Science, 1991
J. H. C. Whitehead	Mathematics	PhD 1932
Red Whittaker	Electrical Engineering	B 1973
Avi Wigderson	Computer Science	MSE 1981, AM 1982, PhD 1983
Arthur Wightman	Physics	PhD 1949, F 1949–
Frank Wilczek	Physics	PhD 1974, F 1974–81	Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004
John Tuzo Wilson	Geology	PhD 1936
Edward Witten	Physics	AM 1974, PhD 1976, F 1980–87	MacArthur Fellowship, 1982; Fields Medal, 1990; National Medal of Science, 2003
Richard Wolfenden	Chemistry	B 1956
Susan Woodward	Politics	AM 1968; PhD 1975
Ben Zinn	Aerospace Engineering	B 1963, PhD 1965
Steven Zucker	Mathematics	PhD 1974
Gregg Zuckerman	Mathematics	PhD 1975

Faculty and staff

Faculty with only short visiting appointments are excluded from this list. Albert Einstein was one of many scholars at the independent Institute for Advanced Study not formally associated with the University but nevertheless closely linked to it.

Architecture

• Elizabeth Diller – architect, professor of architecture, winner of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 1999–2004
• Kazuyo Sejima – principal of Tokyo based architecture firm SANAA
• Michael Graves – professor emeritus
• Stan Allen – Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture and author of Points and Lines
• Sarah Whiting – assistant professor and M.Arch thesis director, also editor of Assemblage and Log and principal of WW Architecture.
• Paul Lewis (architect) – assistant professor and Director of Graduate Studies, principal of LTL Architects.

Economics and business

• Orley Ashenfelter professor of economics, winner of the Frisch Medal (1982)
• Ben Bernanke – professor of economics and public affairs, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
• William G. Bowen – professor emeritus of economics, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988 and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1988 to 2006.
• Angus Deaton – professor of economics, president of the American Economic Association
• Avinash Dixit – professor of economics, co-author of Games of Strategy, former president of the Econometric Society and 2008 president of the American Economic Association
• Gene Grossman – professor of economics
• Daniel Kahneman – professor of economics and psychology, Nobel Prize in economics (2002)
• Nobuhiro Kiyotaki – professor of economics winner of the 1997 Nakahara Prize of the Japan Economics Association and the 1999 Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association
• Alan Krueger – professor of economics
• Paul Krugman – professor of economics, New York Times columnist, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, Nobel Prize in economics (2008)
• Arthur Lewis Former Professor – Nobel laureate (Economics 1979)
• Burton Malkiel Ph.D. [1964] – professor of economics, former dean of the Yale School of Management, and author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
• Eric Maskin – Professor of economics, Nobel Prize in economics (2007)
• Harvey S. Rosen – professor of economics, former chairman of Council of Economic Advisers
• Harold Tafler Shapiro – professor emeritus of economics, former president of Princeton University and of the University of Michigan
• Christopher Sims – professor of economics, Nobel Prize in economics (2011)
• Lars E. O. Svensson – professor of economics, deputy governor of the central bank of Sweden and one of the ten best economist in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc

Government, law, and public policy

• Jeremy Ben-Ami – executive director of J Street and JStreetPac
• Charles Beitz – professor of politics
• Willie Blount – Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815
• Barbara Bodine – diplomat in residence
• Angus Deaton – Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics
• Alexandra Davis DiPentima, Chief Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court
• Richard Falk – Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus
• Aaron Friedberg – professor of international relations
• Robert P. George – professor of jurisprudence, constitutional law scholar
• Robert Gilpin – Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus
• Jan Gross – professor of history
• Robert Hutchings – diplomat-in-residence
• G. John Ikenberry – Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
• Daniel Kurtzer – diplomat-in-residence
• Harold James – professor of History and International Affairs
• Nannerl O. Keohane – Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs
• Robert Keohane – university professor of international relations
• Helen Milner – B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs
• Philip Pettit – professor of politics and philosophy
• Uwe Reinhardt – James Madison professor of political economy
• Anne-Marie Slaughter – dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• John Thomas Steen, Jr. – lawyer in San Antonio and currenlty the 108th Secretary of State of Texas
• Isaac Tichenor – 1775 – governor of Vermont, U.S. senator
• Robert C. Tucker – IBM Professor of International Studies, Emeritus
• John Waterbury – William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus
• Thomas Woodrow Wilson A.B. 1879 – Author of Congressional Government – 1885–, President of Princeton University, 1902–10, Governor of New Jersey, 1911–13, 28th President of the United States of America, 1913–21, Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1919, for promoting the establishment of the League of Nations.

Art, Literature, and Humanities

• Kwame Anthony Appiah – professor of philosophy
• Marco Aponte Moreno – lecturer of Spanish, 2005–06, 2007–08 – Theater actor / Linguist
• Anthony Burgess – visiting professor, 1970–71 – novelist and critic – author of The Long Day Wanes, A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
• Peter Brown – Professor of History
• Americo Castro – Professor of Hispanic literature
• Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor of Journalism, Emmy award-winning TV news magazine producer, author
• Robert Darnton – Emeritus professor of history
• Donald Davidson – professor of philosophy
• Selden Edwards – best-selling novelist, headmaster, teacher
• Jeffrey Eugenides – novelist, professor of creative writing and Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Robert Fagles – Emeritus professor of English and Comparative literature
• John V. Fleming – Emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Hal Foster – art critic professor in the department of art and archeology
• Arthur Frothingham – professor of Art and Archaeology
• Emmet Gowin – professor of photography
• Anthony Grafton – professor of history
• Gilbert Harman – professor of philosophy, winner of the Jean Nicod Prize
• William Howarth – professor of English and environmental studies
• Frank Cameron Jackson – professor of philosophy
• Saul Kripke – professor emeritus of Philosophy at Princeton University
• Walter Kaufmann – professor of philosophy
• Yusef Komunyakaa – poet, professor in the Creative Writing Program (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
• Saul Kripke – professor of philosophy, winner of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
• Victor Lange – professor of modern languages
• Paul Lansky – composer, professor of music
• Denis Feeney – professor of classics
• Chang-Rae Lee – professor of writing, New York Times bestselling author
• David K. Lewis – professor of philosophy
• Perry Link – professor of East Asian Studies
• Toni Morrison – professor in the Creative Writing Program, Nobel laureate (Literature 1993)
• Paul Muldoon – professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Haruki Murakami – visiting professor, literature, creative writing
• Alexander Nehamas – professor of philosophy
• Joyce Carol Oates – Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, professor in the Creative Writing Program – author, Pulitzer Prize nominee
• Elaine Pagels – professor of religion
• Francis Landey Patton – professor of theology; president of the University, 1888–1902
• Ricardo Piglia – professor of Latin-American literature
• Thomas J. Preston, Jr. – professor of archeology
• Albert J. Raboteau – Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion, Princeton University, former Dean of the Graduate School
• Richard Rorty – professor of philosophy
• Carl Emil Schorske – Emeritus professor of history, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980)
• Ruth Simmons Vice Provost, 1992–95 – first female and first black president of any Ivy League school (Brown)
• Peter Singer – professor of human values, expert on practical ethics
• P. Adams Sitney – film historian, professor of visual arts
• Michael A. Smith – professor of philosophy
• Walter Terence Stace – professor of philosophy
• Gregory Vlastos – professor of philosophy
• C. K. Williams – professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Michael Wood – professor in the English department
• Cornel West – professor of philosophy

Math and science

• Forman S. Acton – professor of computer scientist
• John H. Conway – professor of mathematics, best known for the Game of Life
• Ingrid Daubechies – professor of mathematics after whom the Daubechies wavelet is named
• Henry Eyring – professor of chemistry, famous for the Eyring equation and recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1966
• Charles Fefferman – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• James E. Gunn – Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, leader of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and predicted the eponymous Gunn–Peterson trough
• Karl Jöreskog – professor of statistics
• Joseph Henry – professor of natural philosophy
• Thomas H. Jordan – Former Professor of Earth Sciences, current director of the Southern California Earthquake Center
• Daniel Kahneman – Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Nicholas Katz – professor of mathematics
• Brian Kernighan – coauthor of AWK and AMPL, author of The C Programming Language.
• Elon Lindenstrauss – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• George A. Miller – professor emeritus of psychology, seminal contributions in cognitive psychology and cognitive science
• Gananath Obeyesekere – professor of Anthropology
• Andrei Okounkov – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• Gerard K. O'Neill – professor of physics, leader in field of space colonization, author of The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
• Jeremiah Ostriker – professor of astrophysics and recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Paul Steinhardt – Albert Einstein professor of physics, recipent of the Dirac Medal, 2002
• Philip Warren Anderson – Joseph Henryprofessor of physics and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Philip James Edwin Peebles – professor emeritus of physics, one of the first to predict the nature of the cosmic microwave background radiation
• Peter Sarnak – professor of mathematics
• Paul Seymour – professor of mathematics
• Yigong Shi – professor of molecular biology, leader in the field of apoptosis
• Osamu Shimomura – researcher honored with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on GFP
• Goro Shimura – professor emeritus of mathematics, fundamental contributions to number theory and automorphic forms, especially in Langlands program
• Yakov G. Sinai – professor of mathematics
• Elias M. Stein – professor of mathematics, recipient of the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), the National Medal of Science (2002), and Stefan Bergman Prize (2005)
• Manjul Bhargava – Simons Investigator, 2012
• Robert Tarjan – professor of computer science, inventor of many algorithms related to graph theory, winner of the 1986 Turing Award, recipient of the 1982 Nevanlinna Prize
• Joseph Hooton Taylor – professor of physics, 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Daniel C. Tsui – professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
• John Archibald Wheeler – professor emeritus of physics, later collaborator of Albert Einstein, advisor to Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne
• Eric Wieschaus – professor of molecular biology, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Andrew Wiles – professor of mathematics, proved Fermat's Last Theorem, winner of the Schock Prize (1995), Royal Medal (1996), Cole Prize (1996), Wolf Prize (1996), King Faisal Prize (1998) and Shaw Prize (2005).
• Andrew Yao – computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Turing award
• Val Fitch – professor emeritus of physics, Nobel laureate
• Edward Witten – professor emeritus of physics, Fields Medalist, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize
• Nathan Seiberg – professor emeritus of physics, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize
• Juan Martin Maldacena – professor emeritus of physics, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize
• David Spergel – professor of astrophysics, leading astrophysicist
• J. Richard Gott – professor of astrophysics, winner of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching

Engineering

• Robert Calderbank – professor of electrical engineering, mathematics, and applied mathematics
• Claire F. Gmachl – professor of Electrical Engineering
• Brian Kernighan – professor of computer science and coauthor of The C Programming Language
• Robert Sedgewick – professor of computer science
• Alexander Smits – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, leading expert on turbulence and fluid dynamics
• Howard Stone – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and chemical engineering, leading expert in fluid dynamics

Business

• Gerhard Andlinger 1952 – founder of Andlinger & Company, Inc.
• James T. Aubrey, Jr. A.B. 1941 – president of CBS and MGM
• Jeff Bezos B.S.E. 1986 – founder of Amazon.com
• Frank Biondi A.B. 1963 – former chairman of Viacom
• John C. Bogle A.B. 1951 – former founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group, which pioneered the index fund.
• Youngsuk Chi – A.B. 1983 – CEO of Elsevier and former University Trustee
• Charles W. Coker – A.B. 1955 – former CEO and Chairman of Sonoco Products
• Ralph Denunzio A.B. 1953 – former CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co.
• Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (class of 1920) – former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
• Malcolm Forbes A.B. 1941 – businessman and publisher
• Steve Forbes A.B. 1970 – son of Malcolm Forbes, businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine
• William Clay Ford, Jr. 1979 – Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors Ford Motor Company
• Franklin Potts Glass, Jr. 1877 – newspaper publisher
• Phil Goldman B.S.E. 1986 – founder of WebTV
• Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. A.B. 1954 – Former President and CEO, Hallmark Cards; Former President and CEO, Kansas City Southern Industries; Member or Former Member of the Board, Kansas City Southern Industries, Ford Motor Company, Dow Jones & Co., Aquila, Inc., Sprint, Estee Lauder; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Carl Icahn A.B. 1957 – Corporate raider
• Andrea Jung A.B. 1979 – CEO of Avon Products
• John Katzman A.B. (Architecture) 1981 – founder of The Princeton Review
• Joe Kennedy B.S.E. 1981 – CEO and President of Pandora Internet Radio
• George Kern 1947 – lawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
• F. Thomson Leighton B.S.E. 1978 – cofounder of Akamai Technologies
• Peter B. Lewis A.B. 1955 – Chairman of Progressive
• Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. (1914–2003), head of Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott & Co.
• Donold Lourie A.B. 1922 – President and CEO of Quaker Oats Company
• Aaron Marcus B.A. 1965 – founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. in 1982
• Ginna Marston B.A. 1980 – Public service advertising
• James S. McDonnell M.S. 1921 – founded McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1939
• Nick Morgan A.B. English literature 1976 - Speaking coach and author.
• Louis Rukeyser A.B. 1954 – former host of Wall $treet Week and business commentator
• Eric Schmidt B.S.E. 1976 – Former CEO of Google, 136th-wealthiest person in the world in 2011
• Jeffery A. Smisek A.B. (Economics) 1976 – CEO of United Continental Holdings
• Daniel J. Warmenhoven B.S.E. 1972 – CEO of NetApp, Inc. (NTAP)
• Ralph Warner A.B. 1963 – pioneer in the legal self-help book industry, co-founder of Nolo Press
• John Weinberg A.B. 1948 – head of Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990
• Meg Whitman A.B. 1977 – CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard
• Sir Gordon Wu B.S.E. (Civil Engineering) 1958 – founder and chairman of Hopewell Holdings Ltd
• William Fung B.S.E. 1970 – managing director of Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd.

Science and technology

Here are listed alumni who made notable contributions to science and technology outside academia.

Astronauts

• James C. Adamson, M.S.E. 1977
• Daniel T. Barry, M.A. 1977, M.S.E. 1977, Ph.D. 1980
• Brian Binnie, M.S.E. 1978
• Pete Conrad, Jr., B.S.E. 1953, M.A. 1966, only Princeton graduate (as of 2010) to walk on the Moon.
• Gerald Carr, M.S.E. 1962
• Gregory T. Linteris, B.S.E. 1979, Ph.D. 1990

Engineering and science

• Hal Abelson, A.B. 1969 – directed implementation of the Logo programming language for the Apple II, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
• Daniel Barringer, A.B. 1879 – geologist
• David R. Boggs, B.S.E. 1972 – co-inventor (with Robert Metcalfe) of Ethernet
• Henry Crew, A.B. 1882 – physicist; president of the American Physical Society in 1909
• Thomas C. Hanks 1966 – seismologist, introduced Moment magnitude scale to measure earthquakes
• Ernest Lester Jones A.B. 1898 – head of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1914 until his death in 1929.

Literature and Journalism

Name	Affiliation	Notes	Refs
Lorraine Adams	A.B. 1981	Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author of "Harbor" and "The Room and the Chair"
John Peale Bishop	A.B.1917	American poet
Frederick Buechner	A.B. 1947	Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
Nina Berberova	Faculty	Writer, professor of Russian literature (1963–1971)
Susan Cain	1989	New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Ian Caldwell	A.B. 1998	Co-authored the recent book The Rule of Four, set on the Princeton campus.
José Donoso	A.B. 1951	Chilean author
Selden Edwards	A.B. 1963	Author of The Little Book and The Lost Prince
Timothy Ferriss	A.B 2000	Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and holder of the world record in tango
Stona Fitch	A.B. 1983	Author of Senseless on which the movie Senseless is based and Give and Take, founder of Concord Free Press
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Class of 1917 (did not graduate)	Author of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise
Jonathan Safran Foer	A.B. 1999	Author of Everything Is Illuminated
Rivka Galchen	A.B. 1998	Author of Atmospheric Disturbances
Richard Halliburton	A.B. 1922	Author, adventurer, lecturer
Mohsin Hamid	A.B. 1993	Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Peter Hessler	A.B. 1992	Author of River Town and Oracle Bones
Walter Kirn	A.B. (English) 1983	Author of Up in the Air and other novels, literary critic, essayist
A. Walton Litz	A.B 1951	Literary critic
John McPhee	A.B. 1953	Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Ferris Professor of Journalism since 1974
John Matteson	A.B. 1983	Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
George Frederick Morgan		Poet
Toni Morrison	Faculty	Winner of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing 1989–2006
Paul Muldoon	Faculty	Irish Poet laureate
John Norman	Ph.D 1963	Sci-Fi author and philosopher
Joyce Carol Oates	Faculty	Professor in Creative Writing Program
Jodi Picoult	A.B. 1987	Bestselling novelist
William H. Quillian	B.A. 1965, M.A.,Ph.D. 1975	Author, Professor of English on the Emma B. Kennedy Foundation at Mount Holyoke College
David Remnick	A.B. 1981	Editor of The New Yorker
Lawrence Riley		playwright and screenwriter, author of Personal Appearance, Return Engagement and Kin Hubbard.
Eric Schlosser	A.B. 1982	Journalist, Fast Food Nation
Charles Scribner I		Founder of Scribner's publishing house, his descendants include several Princeton alumni.
Jennifer Weiner	A.B. 1991	Novelist, Good in Bed, In Her Shoes Little Earthquakes, and Goodnight Nobody
Edmund Wilson	A.B. 1916	Literary critic
Chris Welles (1937–2010)		Business journalist and author.
Mario Vargas Llosa	Faculty	Nobel prize winner, Novelist and Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts 2010–11

Pulitzer Prize winners

• A. Scott Berg A.B. 1971 – Pulitzer Prize winner for biography of Charles Lindbergh, winner of the National Book Award for biography of Max Perkins
• Robert Caro A.B. 1957 – Two time Pulitzer Prize Winner for The Power Broker and Master of the Senate
• George F. Kennan, A.B. 1925 – two time Pulitzer Prize winner for history in 1957 and biography in 1968; Cold War diplomat, architect of "containment" strategy (also listed in Government: Other).
• Galway Kinnell A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet
• Arthur Krock A.B. 1908 – Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while writing for The New York Times in the 1930s
• John Matteson A.B. 1983 – Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography in 2008 for Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
• John McPhee A.B. 1953 – Humanities Council professor, 1999 Pulitzer Prize recipient
• James M. McPherson Professor of History- Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1989 for Battle Cry of Freedom
• Charles McIlwain, A.B.1894– Pulitzer Prize for history in 1924, professor at Princeton
• W. S. Merwin A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator
• David Remnick A.B. 1981 – Pulitzer Prize Winner for general non-fiction in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, general editor of The New Yorker magazine since 1998
• Eugene O'Neill class of 1910 (did not graduate) – Nobel laureate (Literature 1936), three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ralph Barton Perry, A.B. 1896– Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1936, professor at Harvard University
• Ernest Poole, A.B. 1902 – Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918
• Booth Tarkington, A.B. 1893 – two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams
• William W. Warner, 1943 – science writer, Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1977 for Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay
• Thornton Wilder M.A. 1925 – three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, once for fiction and twice for drama; National Book Award winner; Our Town premiered at Princeton
• George F. Will, Ph.D. 1968– Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977
• Jesse Lynch Williams, A.B. 1892– Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1918

Sports

• Armond Hill Assistant Coach, Boston Celtics; former NBA basketball player, 1976 to 1984
• Hobey Baker A.B. 1914 – famous ice hockey player; college hockey's top individual award is named in his memory
• Moe Berg A.B. 1923 – baseball player and spy
• Arthur Bluethenthal 1913 – All American football player and decorated World War I pilot
• Bill Bradley A.B. 1965 – former basketball star, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, former U.S. Senator
• Bob Bradley A.B. 1980, United States National Soccer Coach and MLS Cup winning coach.
• Geep Chryst, Quarterbacks coach, San Francisco 49ers
• Jon Dekker, professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Emerson Dickman – baseball coach (1949–51); his teams won two Eastern League championships and tied one, as the 1951 team reached the College World Series
• Keith Elias A.B. 1993 – former professional football player in the National Football League
• John Fisher A.B. 1983 – Owner, Oakland Athletics
• Jason Garrett – Offensive coordinator, interim head coach, Head Coach (2011 – ) for the Dallas Cowboys
• Wycliffe Grousbeck A.B. 1983 – CEO, Governor, and co-owner, Boston Celtics
• Lynn Jennings A.B. 1983 – Olympic runner, three-time world cross country champion, member of National Distance Running Hall of Fame
• Jeff Halpern A.B. 1999 – current NHL player; plays for the NHL team Los Angeles Kings
• Sara Hendershot – Rower at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Dick Kazmaier A.B. 1952 – Heisman Trophy winner 1952
• Zak Keasey, professional football player, San Francisco 49ers
• Donold Lourie A.B. 1922 – College Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Larry Lucchino A.B. 1967 – President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox
• Jesse Marsch A.B. 1995 – professional soccer player, winner of three MLS championships with D.C. United and the Chicago Fire.
• Tim McCann – professional football player, New York Giants
• John Messuri – former professional hockey player, Princeton Tigers all-time leading scorer.
• Rich McKay A.B. 1981 – President and General Manager, Atlanta Falcons
• Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum – Successful American-born German showjumper
• Cook Neilson A.B. 1967 – Motorcycle Racer, member American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame
• Dennis Norman 2001 – professional football player currently playing center for the San Diego Chargers
• Ross Ohlendorf – Current MLB pitcher for the San Diego Padres
• George Parros – professional ice hockey player, for the 2007 Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks
• Geoff Petrie A.B. 1970 – former NBA player, current President of Basketball Operations for the Sacramento Kings
• Mark Shapiro – Cleveland Indians general manager and two-time MLB Executive of the Year
• Brian Taylor former ABA and NBA basketball player, 1972 to 1982
• John Thompson III 1988 – Basketball Coach at Georgetown
• Soren Thompson 2005 – fencer, NCAA épée champion, junior olympic champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, Olympic fencer
• Bob Tufts, major league baseball pitcher
• Terdema Ussery – A. B. 1981 – President and CEO of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks basketball team.
• Will Venable – outfielder for the San Diego Padres
• Kevin Westgarth – current NHL player; plays for the NHL team Los Angeles Kings
• Chris Young – starting pitcher for the New York Mets
• Ben Zinn – International soccer player and academic at Georgia Tech

Journalism

• Joel Achenbach A.B. 1982, writer for The Washington Post and author of the Post's Achenblog
• R. W. Apple, Jr. A.B. 1957, writer for The New York Times
• Hamilton Fish Armstrong A.B. 1914, editor of Foreign Policy
• William Attwood A.B. 1941, U.S. Ambassador and publisher of Newsday
• Kate Betts, A.B. 1986, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar.
• John Brooks A.B. 1942, author and staff member, The New Yorker
• Robert Caro A.B. 1957, Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer
• Patrick Chovanec A.B. 1993, commentator on the economy of the People's Republic of China in Western media
• Lisa R. Cohen Ferris professor of journalism, Emmy-winning television producer, author
• Burton Crane 1922, The New York Times foreign correspondent and financial author
• Bosley Crowther A.B. 1928, film critic at The New York Times
• Frank Deford A.B. 1961, writer for Sports Illustrated and broadcaster on U.S. radio and television.
• Marc Fisher, writer for The Washington Post
• F. Scott Fitzgerald A.B. 1917, novelist and short-story author.
• Barton Gellman A.B. 1982, editor at The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winner
• Richard Just A.B 2001, managing editor, The New Republic
• Charlie Gibson A.B. 1965, journalist, former Good Morning America host, anchor of ABC World News Tonight
• Robert Hilferty A.B. 1982, writer for Bloomberg News, New York, The New York Times, Opera News, and The Village Voice
• Olivier Kamanda B.S.E 2003, editor, Foreign Policy Digest
• Donald Kirk A.B. 1959, national correspondent, Chicago Tribune
• Rick Klein A.B. 1998, author of The Note (ABC News).
• Richard Kluger A.B. 1956, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and book publisher
• Doug Lederman A.B. 1984, co-founder and editor of Inside Higher Ed and former editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education
• John S. Martin A.B. 1923, managing editor, Time
• Robert McLean A.B. 1913, publisher, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
• John B. Oakes A.B. 1934, editorial page editor, The New York Times
• Don Oberdorfer A.B. 1952, writer for The Washington Post, current professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Norimitsu Onishi A.B. 1992, reporter for The New York Times
• T.R. Reid A.B. 1966, former correspondent, The Washington Post and bestselling non-fiction author.
• Maria Ressa B.S.E. – CNN Anchor
• James Ridgeway A.B. 1959, editor and writer, New Republic and The Village Voice
• Rick Stengel A.B. 1977 – managing editor of Time
• Mark Stevens A.B. 1973, film critic for New York and co-author of De Kooning: An American Master
• John Stossel A.B. 1969, ABC News anchor/correspondent
• Annalyn Swan A.B. 1973, co-author of 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning De Kooning: An American Master
• John S. Martin A.B. 1923, managing editor, Time
• Katrina vanden Heuvel A.B. 1981 – editor of The Nation
• Christine Whelan A.B. 1999, contributor to The Wall Street Journal and others, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
• Alexander Wolff A.B. 1979 – Writer for Sports Illustrated
• Robert Sterling Yard B.A. 1883 – journalist for the New York Sun and New York Herald, editor-in-chief of The Century Magazine; later founder and first president of The Wilderness Society

Entertainment

Name	Affiliation	Notes	Refs
John Peale Bishop	A.B.1917	American poet
Sara Baiyu Chen	A.B. 2008	Singer-songwriter and actress
Erik Barnouw		Writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor
Roger Berlind	A.B. 1954	Produced (or co-produced) produced or co-produced over 40 plays and musicals on Broadway and many off-Broadway and regional productions as well. The Broadway production have won over 60 Tony Awards, including 12 for best production.
Stephen Bogardus	A.B. 1976	Actor
Brooks Bowman	A.B. 1936	Jazz composer and writer of the song "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)"
Dean Cain	A.B. 1988	Actor, played Superman in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Ethan Coen	A.B. 1979	Academy Award-winning filmmaker of No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Fargo, among others
Kwanza Jones		Billboard (magazine) charting singer, songwriter and actress
David Duchovny	A.B. 1982	Actor best known for his role in The X-Files. Won Golden Globe Awards for this and Californication
Molly Ephraim	A.B. 2008	Stage, film, and television actress
José Ferrer	A.B. 1933	Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actor
Mark Feuerstein	A.B. 1993	Film and television actor (Royal Pains)
Ruth Gerson	A.B. 1992	Singer, songwriter
Thomas Gibbons	A.B. 2013	Comedian and screenwriter
Bo Goldman	A.B. 1953	Co-winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest); winner of the 1981 Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Melvin and Howard); nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Scent of a Woman)
Nicholas Hammond		Actor best known for his roles in The Sound of Music and The Amazing Spider-Man
Charles Horn	Ph.D.	Writer Robot Chicken
Andrew Jarecki		Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, Capturing the Friedmans
Eugene Jarecki		Documentary filmmaker, Why We Fight (2005 film)
Robert L. Johnson	A.M. 1972	Founded Black Entertainment Television in 1980; member of the board for US Airways, General Mills, and Hilton Hotels.
Stanley Jordan	A.B. 1981	Jazz guitarist
Larissa Kelly	A.B. 2002	Fifth-ranked all-time Jeopardy! winner.
Ellie Kemper	A.B. 2002	Actress who plays Erin Hannon on The Office
Joshua Logan	A.B. 1931	Winner (or co-winner) of seven Tony Awards, co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize, nominated three times for the Academy Award, directed the film versions of Camelot and South Pacific
Craig Mazin	A.B. 1992	Screenwriter of Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4
Myron McCormick	A.B. 1933	Actor, winner of a Tony Award in 1950
Douglas McGrath	A.B. 1980	Actor, director, and screenwriter (including Bullets Over Broadway)
Wentworth Miller	A.B. 1995	Film and television actor best known for his role as Michael Scofield on the Fox Network's series Prison Break
Jeff Moss	A.B. 1963	Lyricist, composer, poet. Co-creator of Sesame Street (former member of Princeton Triangle Club), winner of fifteen Emmy Awards
Rose Catherine Pinkney		Television executive with Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox.
Jane Randall		3rd place contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 15. She is currently signed to modelling agency IMG Models.
Wayne Rogers	A.B. 1955	Actor best known for his role as Trapper John McIntyre on TV series M*A*S*H
Barbara Romer	A.B. 1993	Film and theatrical producer; Founder of the Globe Theatre.
Marc Rosen		Film and television producer, best known for his work on the Harry Potter film franchise and the TV series Threshold
Brooke Shields	A.B. 1987	Model/actress, from The Blue Lagoon and the TV series Suddenly Susan and Lipstick Jungle (former member of Princeton Triangle Club)
Brett Simon	A.B. 1997	Director of Assassination of a High School President
Jimmy Stewart	B.S. 1932	Academy Award-winning actor (former member of Princeton Triangle Club), aviator, Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. Honorary degree in 1947.
Robert Taber		Actor
Bretaigne Windust	A.B. 1929	Film director, producer

Art and architecture

• Stan Allen M.Arch., dean of School of Architecture, Princeton University
• Merritt Bucholz, partner of Irish based Bucholz | McEvoy Architects, and Professor of Architecture at University of Limerick.
• Thomas S. Buechner (1936–2010), founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass and director of the Brooklyn Museum.
• Michael Graves, architect, designer and Princeton professor
• Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, A.B. (Anthropology) famed photographer, director and digital artist, star of Bravo's 2010 docu-series "Double Exposure" about her photography
• Jim Lee, A.B. (Psychology) 1986, comic book artist famous for his works on X-Men, Batman, and others, as well as one of seven founders of Image Comics
• Demetri Porphyrios M.Arch. 1974, Ph.D. 1980 – architect and architectural theorist
• Frank Stella, American Artist
• William Turnbull, Jr., architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Robert Venturi A.B. 1947, M.F.A. 1950 – architect, Pritzker Prize laureate 1991
• Marion Sims Wyeth, architect of Mar-A-Lago and other mansions

Other

• David W. Doyle '49, Central Intelligence Agency officer and author
• Cate Edwards '04 – daughter of two-time presidential candidate and 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards
• Zelda Harris '07 – Former child actress, best known for her starring role in the Spike Lee dramedy Crooklyn
• Stephen E. Holloway, pastor of historic Harbor Church in Block Island, Rhode Island
• James Hogue attended Princeton under the fraudulent persona of Alexi Indris Santana from 1989 to 1991
• Dario Hunter '04, The first Muslim-born person to be ordained a rabbi.
• Josue Lajeunesse, custodian and honorary member of the class of 1998, founded project to bring clean water to Lasource, Haiti, subject of the documentary film The Philosopher Kings (film)
• Jeffrey R. MacDonald '65, subject of Joe McGinnis' best seller "Fatal Vision". Green Beret physician convicted of murdering his wife and two children at Fort Bragg.
• Joseph (Lyle) Menendez, convicted murderer, left Princeton in 1988 following plagiarism charges
• Michelle Obama '85 – First Lady of the United States, wife of United States President Barack Obama
• Rebecca Sealfon '05 – Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Champion

Fictional

See also: Princeton University in popular culture

(in alphabetical order by title name)

• In the television series 24, President Charles Logan graduated from Princeton University.
• Jack Donaghy, from 30 Rock, is an alumnus. Multiple episodes center on his college experience.
• In the film Across the Universe, the character Max attends Princeton, but drops out.
• An American Wife a roman à clef about President George W. Bush and Laura Bush by Curtis Sittenfeld, George W. Bush's stand in Charlie Blackwell was a Princeton alumnus and one section of the book describes the couple attending a Princeton Renunion in great detail.
• A Beautiful Mind, the Academy Award winning film about the famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. features a major part depicting Nash's initial days at Princeton University. Although the film is a fictionalized biography, in real life Nash did receive his doctorate from Princeton and is a Princeton professor.
• In A Cinderella Story, the characters played by Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray will be attending Princeton at the end of the movie.
• In the movie Batman Begins, it is revealed that Bruce Wayne attended Princeton University, although he chose not to continue his education there after returning home (it is unknown whether he had completed his undergraduate school education and was attending graduate school or if he was dropping out of college).
• In Burn After Reading, Osbourne Cox, the lead played by John Malkovich, was a Princeton Graduate Class of 1973, and in a scene at a fictional Princeton Club, leads a fast-tempo rendition of Princeton's anthem, Old Nassau
• In The Change-Up, Dave Lockwood graduated from Princeton University.
• In Charles in Charge, Charles gets accepted as a graduate student in Princeton.
• In Commander in Chief, Kelly Ludlow, the press secretary played by Ever Carradine has graduated from Princeton.
• In Doogie Howser, M.D., the namesake is a child prodigy who graduated from Princeton at the age of 10 in 1983 and received his medical license at age 14.
• In The WB Television Network show "Everwood", Amy Abbott is accepted to Princeton.
• In an episode of The Flintstones entitled "Flintstone of Prinstone", which originally aired on November 3, 1961, Fred briefly attends Princeton's prehistoric counterpart, "Prinstone University," as a part-time student. Fred ends up becoming the star quarterback in a big football game against Prinstone's arch-rival Shale. In another episode entitled "Cinderellastone", which originally aired on October 22, 1964, Fred's dream character also attended Prinstone. Prinstone's also mentioned by Wilma's mother in the 1993 TV-movie "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby."
• In the novel Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner, protagonist Cannie Shapiro is a Princeton alumna.
• In Leatherheads, the character of Carter Rutherford is a star Princeton quarterback
• In Mad Men, Paul Kinsey is a Princeton Graduate (class of '55), and in "My Old Kentucky Home" (Season 3, Episode 3), Kinsey's classmate Jeffrey, a drug dealer, reminisces about the Tigertones a cappella group
• In Mars Attacks!, President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is a Princeton alumnus.
• In the movie Risky Business, Tom Cruise's character gets into Princeton after an unconventional interview at his own home
• In the movie Rubber (2010 film), one of the spectators ("film buff Ethan") appears wearing an orange-embroidered black baseball cap reading "PRINCETO"
• In Salt, Angelina Jolie's character Evelyn Salt went to Princeton
• In South Park, Mayor McDaniels
• Sondra Huxtable and her future husband Elvin Tibideaux of The Cosby Show graduated from Princeton.
• In Family Ties, "Young Republican" Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) spends the first two seasons of the series preparing to attend Princeton. While visiting for an on-campus interview, Mallory has an emotional crisis. Ultimately, Alex chooses to tend to her rather than complete his interview, thus destroying any possibility of attending Princeton.
• In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Princeton is Philip's alma mater. Phillip's son Carlton enrolls in Princeton by the final episode.
• In Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore is accepted into Princeton University
• In The Girl Next Door, Eli is mentioned as having been accepted to Princeton
• In Her Shoes, a novel by Jennifer Weiner '91: Rose Feller is a Princeton grad. Her younger sister Maggie camps out in a Princeton library.
• In the Left Behind series, character Cameron "Buck" Williams is a Princeton grad.
• In the science fiction novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper, Calvin Morrison had been a theology student at Princeton, but dropped out to join the U.S. Army and fight in the Korean War. He later became an officer with the Pennsylvania State Police and was transported to another time-line.
• In the television series Numb3rs, the characters of Charlie Eppes and Larry Fleinhardt are Princeton Alumni. Charlie graduated at the age of 16 and Larry at the age of 19.
• In "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", the character played by Anne Hathaway has graduated from Princeton.
• In the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters Changez and Erica are Princeton grads.
• In the mystery novel The Rule of Four, the protagonists are Princeton students and the Art Museum and its collections play a central role in the plot.
• In The Simpsons, Cecil Terwilliger, the brother of Sideshow Bob, is an alumnus (Sideshow Bob refers to it as the years Cecil spent in Clown College). Snake also attended, but took a year off, presumably never to return.
• In the musical South Pacific, Lt. Joe Cable had attended Princeton.
• In the novel and movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dickie Greenleaf (played by Jude Law) has attended Princeton, and the title character Tom Ripley pretends he is a Princeton alumnus.
• In There's Something About Mary, Mary attended Princeton University. So did her ex-boyfriend "Woogie" who was also holder of a scholarship from Princeton.
• In the semi-autobiographical novel This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a former Princeton alumnus himself, the protagonist Amory Blaine attends Princeton.
• Professor Richard Pierson of the Princeton Observatory was portrayed by Orson Welles in The Mercury Theatre on the Air's famous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, broadcast October 30, 1938.
• Watchmen, a graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins: Dr. Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan, born 1929, attended Princeton University from 1948–1958 and graduated with a Ph.D. in atomic physics.
• In The West Wing, former Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) is a magna cum laude Princeton undergraduate. In fact, in Season 1 it is revealed that Sam's Secret Service code name is "Princeton."
• In the television series Weeds, the character Megan gets accepted into Princeton.

See also

• History of Princeton University
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University

External links

• Official website of Princeton University