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Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.

Notes:

=Alumni=

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

Technology & innovation

Business

Academics

College founders and presidents

Professors and scholars

Law & politics

Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state and prime ministers

Supreme Court justices

U.S. senators

Governors

Alumni who have served as Governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as President or Senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

Executive council members

The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.

Diplomats

Justices and attorneys

See also: Supreme Court Justices

Activists

Commentators

Frontiersmen

Early American soldiers

Other legislators

Other

Religion

History, literature, art & music

Athletics

Film

Television

Fictional

(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)

  • "Paul Allen", victim of serial killer Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard alumnus) in the movie American Psycho.
  • "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby
  • "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by Helen Hunt) in television comedy series Mad About You
  • "Charles Montgomery Burns", Class of 1914, the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
  • "Nick Carraway", narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby
  • "Charlotte" (played by Scarlett Johansson), main character of movie Lost in Translation.
  • "Lane Coutell," Franny's boyfriend in J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
  • "Dr. Niles Crane", Frasier's brother in the award-winning television comedy series Frasier. The actor who plays him, David Hyde Pierce, is a real-life alumnus.
  • "Richard Gilmore", grandfather of Rory Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls.
  • "Rory Gilmore"*, main character of the television series Gilmore Girls
  • "Linus Larrabee", protagonist in the movie Sabrina, played by Humphrey Bogart in 1954 and Harrison Ford in 1995.
  • Josh Lyman, Deputy Chief of Staff for President Barlett in the television show The West Wing is a graduate of Yale Law School.
  • "Frank Merriwell," the most popular dime-novel hero of the early twentieth century. Protagonist of Gilbert Patten's 200 odd Merriwell novels.
  • "Sherman McCoy," central character in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. McCoy was intended as an exemplar of New York in the "Greed in Good" 1980s.
  • "Zack Morris," the main character on Saved by the Bell earns a 1502 on his SAT, is accepted to Yale, and plans on attending. However, his plans change and on The College Years, he goes to California University (presumed to be Berkeley).
  • "Neela Rasgotra", (Medical degree) doctor on the television series "ER".
  • "Dink Stover", hero of Owen Johnson's 1911 novel Stover at YaleStover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
  • "Robert Underdunk Terwilliger" (with the stage name of "Sideshow Bob") in the television series The Simpsons
  • "Clara Tillinghast," nickname "Clingfast," head of the New Yorker's Department of Factual Verification in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City
  • "Troy" the secondary janitor on the television comedy Scrubs, whose obtuse and violent approach to life become humorous when the unnamed major janitor character says to him "You went to Yale".
  • "Andrea Zuckerman", character of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210
  • Senator Arnold Vinick (R-CA), Republican Presidential Nominee in The West Wing. Played by Alan Alda

(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)

=Faculty= Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.

Nobel laureates

Others

=Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University=

Rectors of Yale College birth–death years as rector
1 Rev. Abraham Pierson (1641–1707) (1701–1707) Collegiate School
2 Rev. Samuel Andrew (1656–1738) (1707–1719) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Timothy Cutler (1684–1765) (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
4 Rev. Elisha William(s) (1694–1755) (1726–1739)
5 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1740–1745)

Presidents of Yale College birth–death years as president
1 Rev. Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1745–1766)
2 Rev. Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780) (1766–1777) (pro tempore)
3 Rev. Ezra Stiles (1727–1795) (1778–1795)
4 Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) (1795–1817)
5 Jeremiah Day (1773–1867) (1817–1846)
6 Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1899) (1846–1871)
7 Noah Porter III (1811–1892) (1871–1886)
8 Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916) (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
9 Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930) (1899–1921)
10 James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) (1921–1937)
11 Charles Seymour (1885–1963) (1937–1951)
12 Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963) (1951–1963)
13 Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919–1988) (1963–1977)
14 Hanna Holborn Gray (1930– ) (1977–1977) (acting)
15 A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) (1977–1986)
16 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1942– ) (1986–1992)
17 Howard R. Lamar (1923– ) (1992–1993) (acting)
18 Richard C. Levin (1947– ) (1993– )

References

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