List of Tufts University people

The following is a partial list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University.

Notable alumni

Political leaders

• Jeb Bradley, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003.
• Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), politician, formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is both the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.
• James B. Foley, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
• Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya
• General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command
• Wolfgang F. Ischinger, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
• Costas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
• Cynthia McKinney (did not finish), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a four-term U.S. Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic.
• John Olver, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991
• Frank Pallone, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988
• Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former ambassador to the United Nations
• Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, ran for chair of the DNC
• John G. Sargent, lawyer and statesman, Attorney General of the United States from 1925 to 1929
• Surakiart Sathirathai, the Foreign Minister of Thailand and potential UN Secretary-General
• Hon. Warren Silver, Associate Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
• Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission.
• Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Senior Board Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism (1985)
• Winston Lord,diplomat, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former President of Council on Foreign Relations
• Susan Livingstone, Undersecretary of Navy
• Jeffrey Feltman, United States Ambassador to Lebanon
• John Herbst, US Ambassador, Ukraine
• William T. Monroe, US Ambassador, Bahrain
• Terrence McCully, US Ambassador, M

Entrepreneurs and business leaders

• Seamus Blackley, game developer, co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox
• Dov Charney (did not finish), CEO and founder of LA-based clothing company American Apparel
• Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase corporation
• Peter R. Dolan, CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb
• John Bello, Founder and former CEO, SoBe Beverages, CEO, Original SoupMan, former President, NFL Properties
• Dick Dietrich, Founder, GED Corporation
• Mike McConnell, CEO Brown Brothers Harriman
• Andrew Fastow, ex-Enron CFO
• Lea Fastow, a former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of the company's former chief financial operator Andrew Fastow
• Richard Hill, retired chairman Fleet Bank Boston
• Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger
• John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market. Life Trustee at Tufts
• Joseph Neubauer, CEO Aramark Corporation
• Pierre and Pamela Omidyar, billionaire founders of eBay
• Shari Redstone, vice chairman of Viacom Inc.
• Neal Shapiro former president of NBC News
• Arthur Sulzberger, Publisher of New York Times
• Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
• Walter Wriston, retired chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
• Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, post-independence politician
• Harold McGraw, III, Chairman, President, and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies
• Reed Krakoff, President of Coach Leather
• Nate Gantcher, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
• Pamela McNamara, CEO, Arthur Little
• Ed Tapscott, President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, and NBA team
• Wendy Selig-Prieb, Milwaukee Brewers CEO
• Peter Roth, President, Warner Brothers

Actors, film, and media

• Hank Azaria, actor
• Jessica Biel (did not finish), actress, 7th Heaven, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Rob Burnett, Executive Producer of Late Night with David Letterman
• Tracy Chapman, musician
• Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
• Tyler Duckworth, cast member, Real World Key West
• Peter Gallagher, actor, Mr. Deeds, American Beauty, Broadway production Grease, The O.C.
• Jeff Greenstein, Executive Producer of Will & Grace
• Guster, musicians, Parachute, Goldfly, Lost and Gone Forever, Keep It Together, Guster on Ice
• Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, arranger, choral director, and actor
• Dan Hedaya, actor, Blood Simple, The Addams Family, The Usual Suspects, Clueless, Dick, A Night at the Roxbury
• William Hurt, actor, The Big Chill, Kiss of the Spider Woman (winning the Academy Award for Best Actor)
• Amisha Patel, Indian actress.
• Oliver Platt, actor
• Neal Shapiro, former President of NBC News
• Meredith Vieira, TV host
• Peter Roth, President, Warner Brothers Television, instrumental for many hits, including The West Wing, Friends and ER
• Coral Hawthorne, Producer, In Living Color, The Hughleys and Complete Savages
• Kyle Renick, Producer/Artistic Director of the WPA Theatre, originator of Little Shop of Horrors, Jeffrey and Steel Magnolias
• Aury Wallington, screenwriter, Sex and the City, Veronica Mars, playwright, novelist

Literature and arts

• Cid Corman, poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.
• John Ciardi, was a poet, translator, and etymologist
• Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Up Country, lifelong friend of Anne Sexton
• Erik Lindgren, composer and musician.
• Gregory Maguire, writer, Wicked.
• Anita Shreve, writer, The Pilot's Wife.
• Nathanael West (did not finish), writer.
• Tracy Chapman, recording artist

Academic leaders

• Vannevar Bush, scientist
• Ram Dass (formerly known as Richard Alpert), former psychology professor at Harvard University, dismissed in 1963 after his work with Dr. Timothy Leary on the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
• Eugene Fama, economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.
• Carlton H. Hastings, materials scientist, pioneer in the field of nondestructive testing; led the team that developed heat shields for all USA reentry vehicles (space vehicles designed to re-enter Earth's atmosphere)through Apollo; developer of the video X-ray system.
• Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lee Nordan. pioneer in lasik surgery
• Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
• Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics
• Rick Hauck, astronaut

Athletes

• Jennifer Toomey, athlete
• Sakhi Khan, former world Squash champion

Notable faculty

• Tyler London, philosopher of mathematics
• Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Consciousness Explained
• Alfred Church Lane, geologist
• Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
• Allan M. Cormack, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
• Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
• Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
• Hugo A. Bedau, ethicist, specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
• Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, History's Renaissance Man
• Chris Rogers, Father of ROBOLAB
• Asian Swipey Lady, Guardian of Carmicheal Dining Hall. She stops everyone who tries to steal food and loves working 13 hour days. She also looks like one of the aliens from Star Wars but is even more evil.
• Snoop Dogg, He used to work in the dining hall but got fired when it was found that he was actually a level three sex offender.

Fictitious alumni and faculty

• Elaine Benes, character on Seinfeld played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, graduated from Tufts University, calling it her "safety school."
• Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, title character from Crossing Jordan, played by Jill Hennessy. The fictional Boston medical examiner graduated from Tufts.
• Dr. Jennifer Melfi, psychiatrist to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos graduated from Tufts Medical School.
• Ken Erdedy, character in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It is likely that the fictional marijuana addict and resident of Ennet House attended Tufts University, evidenced among other things by the memorabilia in his household (p.25, 360, 362).
• Kenny, a Stuckeybowl employee on the TV show Ed, graduated from Tufts (and, when asked about it by Ed, replied, "It's in Massachusetts.").
• The characters in Two Guys and a Girl were Tufts alumni, as well as graduate students, and the sitcom's sets featured Tufts items, while its plots sometimes revolved around their former university.
• Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series. Eventual U.S. Secretary of State graduated first in his class at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.