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Notable Alumni Woodrow Wilson • Henry Norris Russell • Cornel West • Paul Volcker • Gresham M. Sykes • John Tate • Dana Scott • Frank Wilczek • Lyman Spitzer • William Meredith • David Card • Henry Fairfield Osborn • Karl Taylor Compton • Charles Fefferman • James Madison • Eugene O’Neill • Samuel A. Alito, Jr. • F. Scott Fitzgerald • James Stewart • Ted Cruz • Aaron Burr • Michelle Obama • Robert Mueller • George Will • Robert Caro • Donald Rumsfeld • Bill Frist • W.S. Merwin • Carl Icahn • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies • George Shultz • Marvin Minsky • Errol Morris • Jill Abramson • David E. Kelley • Sonia Sotomayor • Ralph Nader • Meg Whitman • Bennett S. LeBow • Robert Kahn • Eric Schmidt • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski • Jonathan Safran Foer • James Baker • John Nash • Paul W. Taylor • Robert L. Johnson • Steve Forbes • Frank Stella • Arthur Holly Compton • David Hackett Fischer • Andrea Jung • Jeff Bezos • Lloyd Shapley • Jeff Merkley • Pete Conrad • Michael Stonebraker • Dani Rodrik • Lee Iacocca • David Duchovny • José Donoso • James J. Heckman • Queen Noor • J. Tuzo Wilson • Oliver Hart • José Ferrer • Steven Weinberg • Gary S. Becker • Edwin Mattison McMillan • Lowell Thomas • John Bardeen • T. Berry Brazelton • Lachlan Murdoch • John F. Hartwig • Pete Hegseth • Maria Ressa • MacKenzie Scott • Jerome Powell • Joshua Angrist • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • James Peebles • Michael Freedman • Richard Rush • Michael Fried • Robert Hofstadter • William Colby • John Stossel • Gerald Carr • John Peale Bishop • Edward Witten • Gerard Barnes Lambert • John McCarthy • Richard E. Stearns • Laurance S. Rockefeller • Clinton Joseph Davisson • Francis Robbins Upton • Frances Arnold • Michael Lewis • Robert Venturi • Ethan Coen
Related People Woodrow Wilson • Shirley M. Tilghman • Christina H. Paxson • John Witherspoon • Jonathan Dickinson • Jonathan Belcher

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