List of Cornell University alumni

This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Cornell University, an Ivy League university whose main campus is in Ithaca, New York.

Cornell University, an Ivy League university founded in 1865 in Ithaca, New York

As of 2024, Cornell has over 250,000 living alumni.[1] Since the university's founding, its alumni have included 25 recipients of National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation combined, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 34 Marshall Scholars, 31 Rhodes Scholars,[1][2][3][4] 249 elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, 201 elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, and over 190 heads of higher learning institutions.

Cornell is the only university in the world with three female winners of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates; Cornell alumni Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison each were unshared recipients of the prize.[5][6] Many alumni maintain university ties through the university's homecoming. Its alumni magazine is Cornell Magazine.[7] In Manhattan, the university maintains the Cornell Club of New York for alumni. In 2005, Cornell ranked third nationally among universities and colleges in philanthropic giving from its alumni.[1] Alumni are known as Cornellians, many of whom are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.[1][8]

In contemporary culture, fictional alumni have been portrayed in several films, television shows, and books. In television, Andy Bernard on The Office (2005 to 2013),[9] Tom Kirkman on Designated Survivor (2016 to 2018), Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family (2009 to 2020),[10] and Shane Patton on HBO's The White Lotus (2021 to present) are each Cornell University alumni.[11] In films, Christina Pagniacci in Any Given Sunday (1999)[12] and Natalie Keener in Up in the Air (2009)[13] are both Cornell alumni.

Academia

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College and university presidents

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David Starr Jordan

Anthropology and sociology

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Kimberlé Crenshaw
 
Julian Steward

Economics

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Claudia Goldin
 
Sanjeev Goyal

History

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Glenn C. Altschuler
 
Louis R. Gottschalk
 
David Oshinsky
 
Richard Pipes

Philosophy

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Thomas Nagel
 
Francis Fukuyama

Political science

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Gordon G. Chang
 
John Mearsheimer

Architecture and design

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Peter Eisenman
 
Richard Meier
 
James Rockwell
 
Margaret Bourke-White

Authors and writers

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Louis Bromfield
 
Ann Coulter
 
Junot Díaz
 
Matt Ruff
 
Elsie Singmaster
 
Kurt Vonnegut
 
Lauren Weisberger
 
E. B. White

Business

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Founders

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Willis Carrier
 
Joseph Coors
 
David Duffield
 
Frank Gannett
 
James McLamore
 
Clarence W. Spicer
 
Sanford I. Weill

Chairpersons, CEOs, and executives

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Carl Bass
 
Mark Bertolini
 
Joseph H. Boardman
 
Eric Daniels
 
David Dombrowski
 
Robert D. Kennedy
 
Douglas Leone
 
Ratan Tata
 
Andrew Tisch
 
Barry Weiss

Education

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Entertainment

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Film, radio, television and theatre

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Howard Hawks
 
Frank Morgan
 
Christopher Reeve
 
William Sadler
 
Andrea Savage
 
Robert Schenkkan
 
Franchot Tone
 
Mary Woronov

Music

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Harry Chapin
 
Greg Graffin
 
Robert Moog
 
Peter Yarrow

Other

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Government and politics

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Heads of state

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Václav Klaus
 
Mario García Menocal
 
Lee Teng-Hui

U.S. Cabinet and cabinet-level ranks

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Henry Morgenthau Jr.
 
Janet Reno
 
Paul Wolfowitz

U.S. governors

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John Alden Dix
 
Joseph B. Foraker
 
Edmund Muskie

U.S. Senators

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Chuck Robb

U.S. Representatives

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Gabby Giffords

Diplomats

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Alan Keyes
 
Willard Dickerman Straight

Other U.S. government officials

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Edward M. House
 
Alan B. Krueger
 
Anthony Fauci

State and local government

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Mandy Cohen
 
Richard N. Gottfried
 
Florence Kelley

Non-U.S. governments

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Bajrakitiyabha
 
Issac Herzog
 
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
 
Iyabo Obasanjo

Journalism and media

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Jim Axelrod
 
Edward Jay Epstein
 
Farhad Manjoo
 
Kate Snow
 
Sheryl WuDunn

Supreme Court justices

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Federal judges

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Ronnie Abrams
 
Douglas H. Ginsburg
 
Sharon Prost
 
Elbert Tuttle

State and local judges

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William F. Bleakley

Other judges

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Lawyers

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Floyd Abrams

Military

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George Bell Jr.
 
John M. Paxton Jr.

Nobel laureates

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Toni Morrison
 
Douglas Osheroff
 
Steven Weinberg

Chemistry

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Physics

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Peace, literature, or economics

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Physiology or medicine

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Psychology

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Edwin Boring
 
Joyce Brothers

Religion

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David Saperstein

Science and medicine

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Sports

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Baseball

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Hughie Jennings

Basketball

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Football

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JC Tretter
 
Pop Warner

Ice hockey

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Gary Bettman
 
Ben Scrivens

Lacrosse

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Olympians

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Jamie Greubel
 
Rebecca Johnston

Racing

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Tennis

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  • William Larned – seven-time U.S. tennis championship winner
  • Dick Savitt (born 1927) – tennis player, ranked No. 2 in the world

Wrestling

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Kyle Dake
 
Yianni Diakomihalis
  • Kyle Dake (B.A. 2013), freestyle wrestling Olympic Gold Medalist in 2020, World Champion (2018, 2019, 2021), World Cup Gold Medalist (2018), four-time NCAA Division I individual national titleholder in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013
  • Yianni Diakomihalis, freestyle and folkstyle wrestling, three-time NCAA Division I individual national titleholder in 2018, 2019, and 2021
  • Joe DeMeo, U.S. Olympic wrestling assistant coach

Other

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Crime

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Mark Whitacre

Other

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Ross Gilmore Marvin

See also

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References

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Notes

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