Nobel laureates

• Hans Dehmelt (Post-Doc. 1952–55) 1989 Nobel Laureate in physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  
• Robert Coleman Richardson
  Robert Coleman Richardson
  Robert Coleman Richardson is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3...
  
   (Ph. D 1966), 1996 Nobel Laureate in physics
• Charles Townes (A.M. 1937), 1964 Nobel Laureate in physics and winner of the 2005 Templeton Prize
  Templeton Prize
  The Templeton Prize is an annual award presented by the Templeton Foundation. Established in 1972, it is awarded to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical...
  
  

Heads of State

• Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
  
   (Ph.D. 1966), former President
  President of Chile
  The President of the Republic of Chile is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile. The President is responsible of the government and state administration...
  
   of Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  
• Richard Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
  
   (J.D. 1937), 37th President
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
   of the United States

Cabinet members and White House staff

• David Addington
  David Addington
  David Spears Addington , was legal counsel and chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and is now vice president of domestic and economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation....
  
   (J.D. 1981), chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney
  Dick Cheney
  Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
  
  
• Claude Allen
  Claude Allen
  Claude Alexander Allen was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy in George W. Bush's White House and a withdrawn Bush judicial nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The African-American Republican was appointed to his White House...
  
   (J.D. 1990), White House domestic policy advisor
• Peter Cunningham (1980), Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, Department of Education
  United States Department of Education
  The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...
  
  
• Elizabeth Dole
  Elizabeth Dole
  Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as a United States Senator....
  
   (A.B. 1958), former United States Senator of North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
  ; former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
  Federal Trade Commission
  The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
  
  ; former United States Secretary of Transportation
  United States Secretary of Transportation
  The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966,...
  
  , former United States Secretary of Labor
  United States Secretary of Labor
  The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies....
  
  , former President of the American Red Cross
  American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
  
  
• Roberto Gonzalez (2000), Associate Counsel to President Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  
• Danielle Gray (2000), Associate Counsel to President Obama
• John P. Hannah
  John P. Hannah
  John Peter Hannah , is a senior fellow at the Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington, DC think tank which was founded in 1985, with backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,. He is a former national security adviser to U.S...
  
   (A.B. 1984), Assistant for National Security to former Vice President Dick Cheney
  Dick Cheney
  Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
  
  
• John Koskinen
  John Koskinen
  John Koskinen served as Non-Executive Chairman of Freddie Mac since September, 2008. He served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2004-2008. He previously served as the Deputy Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget,...
  
   (A.B. 1961), former Deputy Director of the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   Office of Management and Budget
  United States Office of Management and Budget
  The Office of Management and Budget is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States .The current OMB Director is Jacob Lew.-History:...
  
  
• Juanita M. Kreps
  Juanita M. Kreps
  Juanita Morris Kreps was U.S. Secretary of Commerce from January 23, 1977 until October 31, 1979 under President Jimmy Carter and was the first woman to hold that position, and the fourth woman to hold any cabinet position.-Life and career:Kreps was born Clara Juanita Morris in Lynch, Kentucky,...
  
   (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), United States Secretary of Commerce
  United States Secretary of Commerce
  The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...
  
  , 1977–79
• Reggie Love
  Reggie Love
  Reginald L. Love serves as the special assistant and personal aide, commonly referred to as body man, to United States President Barack Obama...
  
   (A.B. 2005), Personal Aide to President Barack H. Obama
• Macon Phillips
  Macon Phillips
  Macon Phillips is the White House Director of New Media with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov. Phillips' efforts at Whitehouse.gov will be closely coordinated with internet operations at the Democratic National Committee, which has responsibility for administration of the...
  
   (2000), White House Director of New Media
  New media
  New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
  
   with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov
• Daniel Calhoun Roper
  Daniel Calhoun Roper
  Daniel Calhoun Roper was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina...
  
   (A.B. 1888), United States Secretary of Commerce
  United States Secretary of Commerce
  The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...
  
   under Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Eric Shinseki
  Eric Shinseki
  Eric Ken Shinseki is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army...
  
   (A.M.), retired four-star general
  General (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
  
  , currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters...
  
  , previously served as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army
  Chief of Staff of the United States Army
  The Chief of Staff of the Army is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Army, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the Army; and is in...
  
  
• Doug Sosnik
  Doug Sosnik
  Douglas Brian Sosnik , an American political strategist.Sosnik is a 1978 graduate of Duke University.Sosnik is affiliated with the Democratic Party, and notably served as the political director for President Bill Clinton during his second term. He also was a campaign strategist for Massachusetts...
  
   (A.B. 1979), senior advisor and political director to Former President
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
   Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
  
• Kenneth Starr
  Kenneth Starr
  Kenneth Winston "Ken" Starr is an American lawyer and educational administrator who has also been a federal judge. He is best known for his investigation of figures during the Clinton administration....
  
   (J.D. 1973), former United States Solicitor General
  United States Solicitor General
  The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...
  
  , Independent Counsel during the Whitewater Affair
• Jared Weinstein
  Jared Weinstein
  Jared Weinstein is an American student, and former government official. He served as the special assistant and personal aide to U.S. President George W. Bush from 2006 - 2009. Prior to this post, he served as an aide to White House Chiefs of Staff Andy Card and Josh Bolten. After President Bush...
  
   (A.B. 2002), Personal Assistant to former President George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
  
• Jeffrey Zients
  Jeffrey Zients
  Jeffrey "Jeff" D. Zients is an American CEO, management consultant and entrepreneur. On July 30, 2010, he was named acting director of the Office of Management & Budget. President Obama appointed him to the new position of United States Chief Performance Officer...
  
   (B.S. 1988), United States Chief Performance Officer
  United States Chief Performance Officer
  Chief Performance Officer of the United States is a position in the Office of Management and Budget , first announced on January 7, 2009 by then President-elect Barack Obama. The new post concentrates on the federal budget and government reform...
  
  

Members of Congress

• Hugh Quincy Alexander
  Hugh Quincy Alexander
  Hugh Quincy Alexander was a Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina between 1953 and 1963.Born on a farm near Glendon, North Carolina in Moore County in 1911, Alexander attended local public schools and then Duke University, graduating in 1932...
  
   (1932), former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
   (1953–1963)
• Robert Franklin Armfield, former Congressman from North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
  Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
  The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina is the second highest elected official in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the only elected official to have powers in both the legislative and executive branches of state government...
  
  
• Maurice G. Burnside
  Maurice G. Burnside
  Maurice Gwinn Burnside was a professor, tobacco warehouse manager, and U.S. Representative from Huntington, West Virginia....
  
  , (PhD, 1937), former Congressman from West Virginia
  West Virginia
  West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
  
  
• Elizabeth Dole
  Elizabeth Dole
  Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as a United States Senator....
  
   (A.B. 1958), United States Senator of North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
   (2003–2009); former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
  Federal Trade Commission
  The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
  
  ; former United States Secretary of Transportation
  United States Secretary of Transportation
  The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966,...
  
  , former United States Secretary of Labor
  United States Secretary of Labor
  The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies....
  
  , former President of the American Red Cross
  American Red Cross
  The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
  
  
• Nick Galifianakis
  Nick Galifianakis
  Nick Galifianakis was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1967 and 1973.-Life and career:Galifianakis was born in Durham, North Carolina, the son of Greek immigrants Sophia and Mike Galifianakis. Galifianakis attended local public schools and then Duke University, earning a...
  
   (A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
  
• Lisa Gladden. (A.B. 1986) Maryland State Representative, Annapolis, MD.
• Hannibal Lafayette Godwin
  Hannibal Lafayette Godwin
  Hannibal Lafayette Godwin was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1907 and 1921.Born near Dunn in Harnett County, North Carolina, Godwin attended common schools near his home and then Trinity College in Durham...
  
  , (A.B. 1897) Democratic US Representative from North Carolina
• Tom Grady
  Tom Grady
  Tom Grady in Fairview Park, Ohio.Grady is a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida. He attended Florida State University and graduated with a finance degree in 1979. He then went on to Law School at Duke University and graduated with his juris doctorate in 1982...
  
  , (J.D., 1982) Republican US Representative from Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  
• Robin Hayes
  Robin Hayes
  Robert Cannon "Robin" Hayes is the current chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. For five terms from 1999 to 2009, he represented North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the House of Representatives.-Early life:...
  
   (A.B. 1967), congressman of North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
  ’s 8th district (1998–present)
• Paul B. Henry
  Paul B. Henry
  Paul Brentwood Henry was a professor of political science and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life and career:...
  
  , (A.M., Ph.D. 1968) US Represtenative from Michigan
  Michigan
  Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
  
   and Michigan State Senator
• Henry Hyde
  Henry Hyde
  Henry John Hyde , an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport...
  
   (X. 1947), former U.S. Representative of Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
  
• Robert D. Inglis
  Bob Inglis
  Robert Durden "Bob" Inglis, Sr. is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and then again from 2005 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party...
  
   (A.B. 1981), current U.S. Representative of South Carolina
  South Carolina
  South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
  
  
• Everett Jordan, (A.B.), former U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• Ted Kaufman
  Ted Kaufman
  Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Delaware from 2009 to 2010. Since 2010, he has chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel in the United States federal government; he is the second person to hold that post, succeeding inaugural holder...
  
   (B.S.E. 1960), United States Senator of Delaware
  Delaware
  Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Bob Krueger (A.M. 1959), former U.S. Representative and Senator from Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
  
• Dan Lipinski
  Dan Lipinski
  Daniel William Lipinski is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district includes much of the southwest side of Chicago, along with such suburbs as Oak Lawn and Brookfield....
  
   (Ph.D. 1998), congressman for Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
  ' 3rd district (2005–present)
• Stan Lundine
  Stan Lundine
  Stanley Nelson Lundine is a politician from Jamestown, New York who served as Mayor of Jamestown, a United States Representative, and lieutenant governor of New York. A Democrat, he was inaugurated Mayor in 1970 and served to 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the...
  
   (A.B. 1961), congressman from New York (1976–1987)
• Lee Slater Overman
  Lee Slater Overman
  Lee Slater Overman was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1903 and 1930. He was born in Salisbury, N.C., the son of William H. and Mary E. Slater Overman. He attended Trinity College , Class of 1874, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity...
  
  , (A.B. 1874), former United States Senator from North Carolina
• Denise Majette
  Denise Majette
  Denise L. Majette is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Georgia.Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale University and completed a Juris Doctor degree at Duke University in 1979...
  
   (J.D. 1979), former Georgia
  Georgia (U.S. state)
  Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
  
   state judge, former United States Representative of Georgia
• Ron Paul
  Ron Paul
  Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...
  
   (M.D. 1961), current United States Representative from Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
   and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate.
• James B. Pearson
  James B. Pearson
  James Blackwood Pearson was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1962 to 1979.-Biography:Pearson was born in 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist minister. With his parents, he moved to Virginia in 1934 and attended public school. He went on to attend college at Duke University...
  
   (A.B. 1942), United States Senator from Kansas
  Kansas
  Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
  
  
• Nick Rahall
  Nick Rahall
  Nick Joe Rahall II is the U.S. Representative for West Virginia's 3rd congressional district, serving since 1977. Rahall is currently Ranking Member of the House Resources Committee. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including...
  
   (A.B. 1971), Congressman for West Virginia
  West Virginia
  West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
  
  
• Rand Paul
  Rand Paul
  Randal Howard "Rand" Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. He is a member of the Republican Party. A member of the Tea Party movement, he describes himself as a "constitutional conservative" and a libertarian...
  
   (M.D. 1988), current United States Senator from Kentucky
• Ben Quayle
  Ben Quayle
  Benjamin Eugene "Ben" Quayle is an American politician and U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. Ben Quayle is son of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and former U. S...
  
   (A.B, 1998), U.S. Representative-elect for Arizona's 3rd congressional district
• Morris Brooks (A.B. 1975), U.S. Representative-elect for Alabama's 5th congressional district
• Shelley Moore Capito
  Shelley Moore Capito
  Shelley Moore Capito is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. She is a member of the Republican Party...
  
   (A.B. 1975), U.S. Representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district

Diplomats

• Jaime Alemán (J.D. 1978), U.S. Ambassador to Panama (2009–present)
• George Venable Allen (A.B. 1920), U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1946–1948; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1948–1949; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1949–1953.
• Robert Sherwood Dillon
  Robert Sherwood Dillon
  Robert Sherwood Dillon was the United States Ambassador to Lebanon from 1981 to 1983. He was born in 1929 in Chicago and attended Duke University, graduating in 1951.- References :...
  
   (A.B. 1951), U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon
  Lebanon
  Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
  
   (1981–1983)
• William Eacho
  William Eacho
  William Carlton Eacho, III is the United States Ambassador to Austria. Eacho was nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2009. He was confirmed by the US Senate and sworn in in August 2009. He succeeded David F...
  
   (A.B.), U.S. Ambassador to Austria (2009–present)
• Cynthia G. Efird
  Cynthia G. Efird
  Cynthia Grissom Efird served as the United States Ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007. Dan Mozena was appointed to replace her.-Education:...
  
   (A.M.), U.S. Ambassador to Angola
  Angola
  Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
  
  
• Robert C. Frasure
  Robert C. Frasure
  Robert C. Frasure was an American diplomat and the first United States Ambassador to Estonia following Estonia's regained independence from the Soviet Union.-Biography:...
  
  , (Ph.D), U.S. Ambassador to Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  
• Gordon D. Giffin (A.B. 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1997–2001)
• Jack Gosnell
  Jack Gosnell
  Jack Gosnell was the US Consul General to St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from Duke University in 1966.-External links:* Jack Gosnell, Director site...
  
   (A.B. 1966), former US Consul General to St. Petersburg, Russia
• Richard W. Graber
  Richard W. Graber
  Richard W. Graber is an American lawyer from Wisconsin and Republican politician, who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006-2009. He was appointed by George W. Bush on September 14, 2006. His office ended as Barack Obama became the new President of the United States on...
  
   (A.B. 1978), United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
  United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
  Following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 at the end of The Great War, the Bohemians, Moravians, and Slovaks united to form the new nation of Czechoslovakia...
  
  
• Robert Jordan (A.B. 1967), former United States Ambassador
  Ambassadors from the United States
  This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to individual nations of the world, to international organizations, to past nations, and ambassadors-at-large.Ambassadors are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate...
  
   to Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia
  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
  
  .
• Bob Krueger (M.A. 1959), U.S. Ambassador to Burundi
  Burundi
  Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
  
   during administration of Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
  
• Philip Lader
  Philip Lader
  Philip Lader was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and as of 2010 is chairman of WPP Group plc, a global media and communications firm....
  
   (A.B. 1966), Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  The office of United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom was traditionally, and still is very much so today due to the Special Relationship, the most prestigious position in the United States Foreign Service...
  
   and co-host of the Renaissance Weekends
• Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
  Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. is a former American ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, an historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S...
  
   (A.B. 1950), United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
  
   and to the Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   under Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
  
  
• Walter P. McConaughy
  Walter P. McConaughy
  Walter Patrick McConaughy, Jr. was a career American diplomat. McConaughy attended Duke University, graduating in 1930. Afterwards, he worked in the US State Department, and was posted to Hong Kong around 1950...
  
   (A.B. 1930), former United States Ambassador to Burma, South Korea, Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  , and Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  
• Elizabeth Verville
  Elizabeth Verville
  Elizabeth Verville is the Acting U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and the Bureau of Law Enforcement Affairs. Verville led the U.S. Delegation to develop the United Nations Transnational Organized Crime Convention...
  
   (A.B. 1961), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs

Military

• Walter E. Boomer (B.S. 1960), General, Retired, former assistant commandant, US Marine Corps, Desert Storm Commander; business executive
• Frank Bowman
  Frank Bowman
  Frank "Skip" Bowman a retired four-star Admiral, is the former Chief of Naval Personnel and former Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion. In 2006, Admiral Bowman was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire .-Education:Admiral Bowman graduated from Duke...
  
   (B.S. 1966), Admiral, Retired, former Chief of Naval Personnel, former Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, US Navy; Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
   (KBE)
• Edward H. Deets
  Edward H. Deets
  Edward H. "Ned" Deets III is a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. A cryptology and information warfare specialist, .-Early years:...
  
   (1979), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
  
• Charles S. Hamilton
  Charles S. Hamilton
  Charles Samuel Hamilton is an award-winning rear admiral in the United States Navy.Hamilton is a native of Amityville, New York, and graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology in May 1974...
  
   (B.S. 1974), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
  
• James W. Holsinger
  James W. Holsinger
  James Wilson Holsinger, Jr., is an American physician. A former major general in the U.S. Army Reserve , he has worked primarily in public health for over thirty years. He served as the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 1990 to 1993, during the administrations of George H. W....
  
   (M.D. 1964), retired Major General
  Major general (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general...
  
   in the United States Army Reserve
  United States Army Reserve
  The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the reserve components of the United States Army....
  
  , physician
  Physician
  A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
  
  , nominated to become the 18th Surgeon General of the United States
  Surgeon General of the United States
  The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government...
  
  
• Eric Shinseki
  Eric Shinseki
  Eric Ken Shinseki is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army...
  
   (A.M.), retired four-star general
  General (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
  
  , currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters...
  
  , previously served as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army
  Chief of Staff of the United States Army
  The Chief of Staff of the Army is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Army, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the Army; and is in...
  
  
• William Atwater
  William Atwater
  William Felix Atwater is an author and former Director of the United States Army Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen, Maryland, United States. He is a 1968 graduate of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science with a minor in philosophy and religion...
  
   (MA, PhD 1982), retired Captain in the US Marines, now an author, historian, and director of the US Army Ordnance Museum.
• Winston Choo
  Winston Choo
  Lieutenant General Winston Choo Wee Leong is a retired Singaporean general who served as the first Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces from 1974 to 1992. He is currently Singapore's ambassador to Israel.-Career:...
  
   (MA, History), Retired Lieutenant-General, former Chief of Defence Force (1974 to 1992) in the Singapore Armed Forces
  Singapore Armed Forces
  The Singapore Armed Forces is the military arm of the Total Defence of the Republic of Singapore; as well as the military component of the Ministry of Defence. The SAF comprises three branches: the Singapore Army, the Republic of Singapore Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Navy...
  
  .
• Ng Jui Ping
  Ng Jui Ping
  Lieutenant General Ng Jui Ping was the 2nd Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces from 1992 - 1995.-Career:LG Ng Jui Ping spent a total of 30 years with the Singapore Armed Forces...
  
   (MA, History), Retired Lieutenant-General, former Chief of Defence Force (1992 to 1995) in the Singapore Armed Forces
  Singapore Armed Forces
  The Singapore Armed Forces is the military arm of the Total Defence of the Republic of Singapore; as well as the military component of the Ministry of Defence. The SAF comprises three branches: the Singapore Army, the Republic of Singapore Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Navy...
  
  .
• Kevin R. Slates
  Kevin R. Slates
  Kevin R. Slates is a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.-Career:Slates joined the Navy in 1982. During the Gulf War, he was assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force. Later, he was assigned to the Naval Surface Warfare Center. From 1999 to 2001, he was in command of NMCB 3. During his time...
  
  , Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
  
• Vergel L. Lattimore
  Vergel L. Lattimore
  Vergel L. Lattimore is a retired Brigadier General in the Air National Guard.-Biography:An ordained Methodist Episcopal minister, Lattimore is a professor at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. He has attended Livingstone College, Duke Divinity School, Northwestern University and Hartford...
  
  , Brigadier General in the Air National Guard
  Air National Guard
  The Air National Guard , often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Established under Title 10 and...
  
  

Law

• Scott Brister
  Scott Brister
  Scott Andrew Brister is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who served from November 2003 until September 2009. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to serve the remainder of the term of Justice Craig T. Enoch. He was then elected to a regular six-year term in November 2004...
  
   (A.B.), Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court
• Robert L. Clifford
  Robert L. Clifford
  Robert L. Clifford was an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.He was born in 1924 in Passaic County, New Jersey and attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, graduating in the class of 1942. He received a Bachelor's degree from Lehigh University and an LL.B. from the Duke University...
  
   (LL. B.) 1950, Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
• Ann Covington (A.B. 1963), former Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Court
• Allyson Duncan (J.D. 1975), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
• Christine M. Durham
  Christine M. Durham
  Christine Meaders Durham is the Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. She was born on 3 August 1945. Her husband, George Durham, is a pediatrician and they have five children.-Early Life and Education:...
  
   (J.D. 1971), Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court
• Orinda Evans (A.B. 1965), US District Court Judge
• Karen L. Henderson
  Karen L. Henderson
  Karen LeCraft Henderson is a United States federal judge who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in July 1990, by President George H. W. Bush.-Early life, education, and career:...
  
   (A.B. 1966), US Court of Appeals
• Susan Illston
  Susan Illston
  Susan Yvonne Illston is a San Francisco, California-based judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.-Biography:...
  
   (A.B. 1970), Federal Judge
• Jeffrey Lichtman
  Jeffrey Lichtman
  Jeffrey Lichtman is a prominent defense attorney in New York City who represented John Gotti Jr. and managed to secure a dismissal of three charges of murder conspiracy, an acquittal of a $25 million securities fraud charge, and a hung jury on every remaining count brought against him...
  
   (J.D. 1990) defense attorney for John Gotti
  John Gotti
  John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age...
  
  , Fat Joe
  Fat Joe
  Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....
  
  , and The Game
  The Game (rapper)
  Jayceon Terrell Taylor , better known by his stage name Game, formerly The Game, is an American rapper and actor. As a member of G-Unit, he rose to fame in 2005 with the success of his debut album, The Documentary, which earned him two Grammy Award nominations...
  
  
• Denise Majette
  Denise Majette
  Denise L. Majette is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Georgia.Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale University and completed a Juris Doctor degree at Duke University in 1979...
  
   (J.D. 1979), former Georgia
  Georgia (U.S. state)
  Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
  
   state judge, former United States Representative of Georgia
• Paul Martin Newby
  Paul Martin Newby
  Paul Martin Newby is an American judge, elected in 2004 to a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court to an eight-year term that expires in 2012.Newby was born in Asheboro, North Carolina...
  
   (A.B. 1977), Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
  North Carolina Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices...
  
  
• Susan Owens
  Susan Owens
  Susan Owens is an Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court. On November 7, 2000, she was elected the seventh woman to serve on the court. She joined the court after serving nineteen years as District Court Judge in Western Clallam County, where she was the county's senior elected official...
  
   (A.B. 1971), Associate Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court
• Eric Rothschild (A.B. 1989), Lead attorney for Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
  Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
  Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design...
  
  
• Don Willett
  Don Willett
  Don R. Willett is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on August 24, 2005 to fill the vacancy created when former Justice Priscilla Owen joined the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...
  
   (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992), Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court
  Texas Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for non-criminal matters in the state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is the court of last resort for criminal matters.The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices...
  
  

Public policy

• John H. Adams (NRDC)
  John H. Adams (NRDC)
  John Hamilton Adams co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970. Adams served as executive director and, later, as president of the nonprofit conservation group until 2006. Prior to co-founding NRDC, Adams served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan...
  
   (J.D. 1962), co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  The Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...
  
  
• Charlotte Bunch
  Charlotte Bunch
  Charlotte Bunch is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements.A Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Bunch founded Washington D.C...
  
   (A.B. 1966) author and human rights activist
• Benjamin Chavis, Jr. (MDiv 1980), civil rights activist, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...
  
   (NAACP)
• Eugene A. Conti, Jr. (MA Public Policy PhD Anthropology 1978) Asst. Secretary USDOT, Secretary of Transportation, NCDOT
• Mary Duke Biddle
  Mary Duke Biddle
  Mary Lillian Duke Biddle , was an American philanthropist.-Biography:She was born on November 16, 1887 in Durham, North Carolina as Mary Lillian Duke to Benjamin Newton Duke. She attended Durham's Trinity College, the institutional predecessor of Duke University, which was named in honor of her...
  
   (A.B. 1907), daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke
  Benjamin Newton Duke
  Benjamin Newton Duke was a U.S. tobacco, textile, energy industrialist and philanthropist.-Biography:...
  
   and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke
  Sarah Pearson Angier Duke
  Sarah Pearson Angier Duke was a daughter of Malbourne Angier and the wife of Benjamin N. Duke, one of the benefactors of Duke University. She is the namesake of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.-External links:*...
  
  , founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
• Arnold Epstein (M.D., 1976), Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management and John H. Foster Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  
• Neal Keny-Guyer (A.B. 1976), CEO of Mercy Corps
  Mercy Corps
  Mercy Corps is a global aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict. People working for it move as quickly as possible from bringing in food and supplies to enabling people to rebuild their economy with...
  
  
• Jerry Meek
  Jerry Meek
  Jerry Meek is a North Carolina attorney and Democratic Party activist who was the chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party from 2005 through 2009....
  
  , (A.B. 1993, J.D. 1997), Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party
  North Carolina Democratic Party
  The North Carolina Democratic Party is the North Carolina affiliate of the national Democratic Party in the United States. It is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. They are located in the historic Goodwin house which is located in the downtown area of Raleigh at 220 Hillsborough Street...
  
  
• Margaret Taylor Smith
  Margaret Taylor Smith
  Margaret Taylor Smith is an author and social activist, and was chair of the Kresge Foundation until 1998. She received an A.B. in 1947 from Duke University, where the Margaret Taylor Smith Directorship in Women's Studies is named for her.-External links:*...
  
   (A.B. 1947), Chair, Board of Trustees, Kresge Foundation
• Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (A.B. 1939), philanthropist
• Eleanor Smeal
  Eleanor Smeal
  Eleanor Smeal is a feminist activist, political analyst, lobbyist, and grassroots organizer...
  
   (A.B. 1961, LL.D 1991), political activist, current president of the Feminist Majority Foundation
  Feminist Majority Foundation
  The Feminist Majority Foundation is a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to Women's Equality, Reproductive Health and Non-Violence, headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll in which 56 percent...
  
  , former president of the National Organization for Women
  National Organization for Women
  The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S...
  
  

Others

• Austin M. Allran
  Austin M. Allran
  Austin Murphy Allran is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-second Senate district, including constituents in Iredell and Catawba counties. An attorney from Hickory, North Carolina, Allran is currently serving in his twelfth term in the state...
  
   (A.B. 1974) member of the North Carolina General Assembly
  North Carolina General Assembly
  The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The General Assembly drafts and legislates the state laws of North Carolina, also known as the General Statutes...
  
  
• Ed Austin
  Ed Austin
  T. Edward "Ed" Austin, Jr. was an American politician and attorney. He served as mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1991 to 1995. He also served as the first Public Defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit from 1963 to 1968, and served as State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit from...
  
   (A.B. 1948), Mayor of Jacksonville
  Jacksonville, Florida
  Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
  
   1991–1995
• Michael Bassett
  Michael Bassett
  Michael Edward Rainton Bassett, QSO is a former Labour Party member of the New Zealand House of Representatives and cabinet minister in the reformist fourth Labour government...
  
   (Ph.D. 1961), Member of the New Zealand Parliament
• Daniel T. Blue, Jr.
  Daniel T. Blue, Jr.
  Daniel Terry 'Dan' Blue, Jr. is a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate, representing the state's 14th Senate district since his appointment in 2009. He previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1981 through 2002 and from 2006 through his 2009 Senate appointment...
  
   (J.D), former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
  North Carolina House of Representatives
  The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the state senate....
  
  , 1981–2002
• Samuel Bogley, (A.B), former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
  Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
  The Lieutenant Governor of Maryland is the second highest ranking official in the executive branch of the state government of Maryland in the United States. He or she is elected on the same ticket as the Governor of Maryland and must meet the same qualifications.The current Lieutenant Governor is...
  
  
• F. Vernon Boozer, (A.B 1958), former member of Maryland Senate
  Maryland State Senate
  The Maryland Senate, sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Senate, is the upper house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland...
  
   1981–1999.
• Bill Campbell
  Bill Campbell (mayor)
  Bill Campbell , is a former American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and served as the 57th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., from 1994 to 2002. Campbell was the fifty-seventh mayor in the city's history and the third African American to hold the office...
  
   (J.D. 1977), Mayor of Atlanta
  Atlanta, Georgia
  Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
  
   1994–2002
• Cason Carter (A.B. 2000), Tulsa, Oklahoma
  Tulsa, Oklahoma
  Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
  
  , City Council Member, 2006–present
• Arkady Dvorkovich
  Arkady Dvorkovich
  Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich is an official of the Russian Chess Federation. Dvorkovich favors his opponent, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is running for re-election of FIDE....
  
   (M.S. 1997), chief economic advisor to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
  Dmitry Medvedev
  Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...
  
  
• R. Gregg Cherry
  R. Gregg Cherry
  Robert Gregg Cherry was the 61st Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1945 to 1949.-Biography:Born in South Carolina, Cherry grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina with relatives after the death of his parents. He earned bachelor's and law degrees at Trinity College...
  
   (A.B. 1913), Governor of North Carolina
• Jack Conway
  Jack Conway (politician)
  John William “Jack” Conway is an American politician from Kentucky. Conway is a Democrat and has served as the Attorney General of Kentucky since 2008. Prior to his election as attorney general, he was a candidate in the 2002 U.S. House of Representatives election for , narrowly losing to Anne...
  
   (A.B. 1991), Attorney General of Kentucky
  Kentucky
  The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
  
  
• J. Kane Ditto
  J. Kane Ditto
  J. Kane Ditto is a former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.Ditto, a Democrat, served as Mayor of the City of Jackson from July 1989 until July 1997. Ditto was previously elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from District 66, where he served from 1987 to 1989...
  
   (A.B.), former Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
  Jackson, Mississippi
  Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
  
  
• J.B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), Chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party
  Democratic Party (United States)
  The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
  
  
• Hashim bin Al Hussein (X), Prince of Jordan
  Jordan
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
  
  
• Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
  Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
  Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is the 14th child of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the current Emir of Qatar, and the eldest daughter of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned....
  
   (B.A. 2005), 14th child of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the current Emir of Qatar
• Stan Lundine
  Stan Lundine
  Stanley Nelson Lundine is a politician from Jamestown, New York who served as Mayor of Jamestown, a United States Representative, and lieutenant governor of New York. A Democrat, he was inaugurated Mayor in 1970 and served to 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the...
  
   (A.B. 1961), former Mayor of Jameston
  Jamestown, New York
  Jamestown is a city in Chautauqua County, New York in the United States. The population was 31,146 at the 2010 census.The City of Jamestown is adjacent to Town of Ellicott and is at the southern tip of Chautauqua Lake...
  
  , former Congressman and Lieutenant Governor of New York
  Lieutenant Governor of New York
  The Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the government of New York State. It is the second highest ranking official in state government. The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor for a four year term...
  
  
• Kevin J. Martin
  Kevin Martin (FCC)
  Kevin Jeffrey Martin was the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30, 2001, and was confirmed on May 25, 2001. On March 16, 2005, President Bush designated him as FCC chairman, to replace Michael K. Powell...
  
   (M.P.P. 1993), Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
  Federal Communications Commission
  The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
  
  
• Amit Mitra
  Amit Mitra
  Amit Mitra is an Indian economist and politician representing All India Trinamool Congress and the current Finance Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. He is the incumbent MLA in the West Bengal state assembly from the Khardaha state assembly constituency...
  
   (Ph.D. 1978), Finance Minister of the Indian State of West Bengal
  West Bengal
  West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
  
   and prominent economist and member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
• Evelyn Murphy
  Evelyn Murphy
  Evelyn Murphy was the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991, being the first woman in the history of the state to hold a constitutional office...
  
   (A.B. 1965, Ph. D 1981), former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
  Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
  The Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts...
  
  
• Ron Paul
  Ron Paul
  Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...
  
   (M.D. 1961), 1988
  United States presidential election, 1988
  The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...
  
   and 2008
  Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008
  Ron Paul was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.Initial opinion polls during the first three quarters of 2007 showed Ron Paul consistently receiving support from 3% or less of those polled...
  
   presidential candidate
• Enrique Peñalosa
  Enrique Peñalosa
  Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a Colombian politician and New Urbanist. He was mayor of Bogotá, from 1998 until 2001, and was runner-up in 2007. He is running in 2011 for mayor as the Green Party candidate. He has also worked as a journalist and consultant on urban and transportation policy...
  
   (A.B.), Mayor of Bogotá
  Bogotá
  Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
  
  , Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
  
• Robert Sheheen
  Robert Sheheen
  Robert J. Sheheen is an American lawyer and politician from Camden, South Carolina. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1977 to 2000; he served as speaker of from 1986 to 1994. Sheheen received a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1965 and a law degree from...
  
   (A.B. 1965), former Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives
  South Carolina House of Representatives
  The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the upper house being the South Carolina Senate. It consists of 124 Representatives elected to two year terms at the same time as US Congressional elections...
  
  
• John H. Shields
  John Shields (Texas politician)
  John Howard Shields is an attorney in San Antonio, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Bexar County. Shields is also an investor in Retama Park racetrack in San Antonio. His father-in-law is powerful San Antonio businessman B. J. "Red" McCombs...
  
   (A.B.), former member of the Texas House of Representatives
  Texas House of Representatives
  The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Texas Legislature. The House is composed of 150 members elected from single-member districts across the state. The average district has about 150,000 people. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits...
  
   from San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  
• Andrew Skurka
  Andrew Skurka
  Andrew Skurka is a professional backpacker who is best known for his two long-distance hiking firsts—the 6,875-mile Great Western Loop and the 7,778-mile Sea-to-Sea Route...
  
   (A.B. 2003), first person to complete the 7,700 Sea-to-Sea-Route which crosses North America
• Heather Smith (A.B. 1998), President of Rock the Vote
  Rock the Vote
  Rock the Vote is a non-profit organization in the United States of America whose mission is to engage and build the political power of young people....
  
  
• Charlie Soong
  Charlie Soong
  Charles Jones Soong , courtesy name Yaoru was a Chinese businessman who first achieved prominence as a missionary in Shanghai. He was a close friend of Sun Yat-Sen and a key player in the events that led to the Xinhai Revolution in 1911...
  
   (X. 1881), Duke's first international student and patriarch of the Soong Dynasty
• Lura S. Tally
  Lura S. Tally
  Lura S. Tally is a retired legislator from North Carolina, who served five terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives and six terms in the North Carolina Senate. She is a graduate of Duke University and holds a Masters degree from North Carolina State University. Methodist University...
  
   (A.B. 1942), Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
  North Carolina House of Representatives
  The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the state senate....
  
  , 1973–1983, and the North Carolina Senate
  North Carolina Senate
  The North Carolina Senate is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly.Its prerogatives and powers are similar to those of the other house, the House of Representatives. Its members do, however, represent districts that are larger than those of their colleagues in the House. The...
  
  , 1983–1995
• Daniel Tarullo
  Daniel Tarullo
  Daniel Tarullo is a professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a member of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve Board since January 28th, 2009...
  
   (M.A. 1974), nominated to the Board of Governors
  Board of governors
  Board of governors is a term sometimes applied to the board of directors of a public entity or non-profit organization.Many public institutions, such as public universities, are government-owned corporations. The British Broadcasting Corporation was managed by a board of governors, though this role...
  
   of the Federal Reserve by Barack Obama
  Barack Obama
  Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
  
  
• Paul Teller
  Paul Teller
  Paul Teller is the Executive Director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee. Teller was described in a Washington Post profile as “one of the most influential conservative aides in Congress.” As a result of actions he and his subordinates took during the 2011 U.S...
  
   (B.A. 1993), Executive Director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee
  Republican Study Committee
  The Republican Study Committee [RSC] is a caucus of over 170 conservative members of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives...
  
  .
• William B. Umstead
  William B. Umstead
  William Bradley Umstead was an American Senator and the 63rd Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.-Biography:Umstead was born in the northern Durham County town of Bahama in 1895...
  
   (J.D 1921), Governor of North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
  
• Bob Wise
  Bob Wise
  Robert Ellsworth "Bob" Wise, Jr. is an American politician. A Democrat, Wise served as the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from January 2001 to January 2005.-Early life:...
  
   (A.B. 1970), Governor of West Virginia
  West Virginia
  West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
  
  
• Mike Woodard (A.B. 1981), Durham
  Durham, North Carolina
  Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...
  
  , North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
   City Council member
• Cathy Zoi (B.S.), former Chief of Staff of the White House Office on Environmental Policy in the Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
   Administration, CEO of Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
  's Alliance for Climate Protection
  Alliance for Climate Protection
  The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Nobel laureate and former United States Vice President Al Gore. The Alliance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis...
  
  

Business

• Rex Adams
  Rex Adams
  Rex D. Adams is currently serving as Chairman and Non-Executive Director on the Invesco Board of Directors.Adams previously served as a professor and dean at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business from 1996 to 2001; before that appointment, he had worked for the Mobil Corporation for 31...
  
   (A.B. 1962), chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   (PBS), former VP of Mobil Corporation
• Harsha Agadi
  Harsha V. Agadi
  -Early life and career:Agadi obtained a B.Com from the University of Mumbai. He moved to the U.S. in 1984 and earned an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Following his graduation from Duke, Agadi worked at Kraft General Foods...
  
   (M.B.A. 1987), President and CEO, Church's Chicken
  Church's Chicken
  Church's Chicken is a US-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken, also trading outside North America as Texas Chicken. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To Go by George W. Church, Sr., on April 17, 1952, in San Antonio, across the street from The Alamo...
  
  
• John A. Allison IV
  John A. Allison IV
  John Allison was born on August 14, 1948, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began his career with BB&T in 1971 following his graduation from the University of North Carolina with a degree in business administration...
  
   (M.B.A. 1974), Chairman (and former CEO), BB&T
  BB&T
  BB&T Corporation is an American bank with assets of $157 billion , offering full-service commercial and retail banking services along with other financial services like insurance, investments, retail brokerage, mortgage, corporate finance, consumer finance, payment services, international...
  
  
• John Angelos
  John Angelos
  John Angelos is the Executive Vice President of the Baltimore Orioles, a position he has held since April 1999, leading the club's front office and overseeing the day to day business operations including marketing, communications and sales. He also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the...
  
  , Executive Vice President of the Baltimore Orioles
  Baltimore Orioles
  The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...
  
  
• Steven Black
  Steven Black
  Steven "Steve" D. Black is the former Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan Chase & Co.. He previously served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan, the investment banking subsidiary of JP Morgan Chase. He is a 1974 graduate of Duke University, and has served on the New York Development Council...
  
   (A.B. 1974), Vice-Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments and retail. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets and market capitalization.It is a major provider of financial services, with assets of $2 trillion and according to Forbes magazine is...
  
  
• Roy J. Bostock
  Roy J. Bostock
  Roy J. Bostock is an American businessman and has served as chairman of Yahoo! Inc. since January 2008. He also serves on the boards of directors of Morgan Stanley and Delta Air Lines. From 2000 to 2001 he served as chairman of the advertising firm BCom3 Group, Inc...
  
   (A.B. 1962), former Chairman of B>Com3 Group, Inc., now on the board of directors for Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
  
  , Yahoo
  Yahoo!
  Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
  
  , and Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines, Inc. was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines by a merger approved on October 29, 2008, making Delta the largest airline in the world...
  
  , namesake of Bostock Library
• Wallace E. Boston, Jr.
  Wallace E. Boston, Jr.
  Wallace E. Boston, Jr. is the CEO of American Public University System and the author of . Dr. Boston guided APUS through its accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association in 2006, and in 2007, he led American Public Education, Inc., the parent of APUS, to a...
  
   (A.B. 1974) President and Chief Executive Officer, American Public University System
  American Public University System
  The American Public University System is a for-profit, online learning institution of higher education that is composed of the American Military University and the American Public University...
  
  
• Jack O. Bovender Jr. (A.B. 1967, MHA 1969), Chairman and CEO of HCA
  Hospital Corporation of America
  Hospital Corporation of America is the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world, It is based in Nashville, Tennessee and is widely considered to be the single largest factor in making that city a hotspot for healthcare enterprise.-History:The founders of HCA include Jack C....
  
  
• Andrew Busey (B.S. 1993), creator of iChat
• Lewis B. Campbell
  Lewis B. Campbell
  Lewis B. Campbell is the former CEO of Textron. He received a BSE from Duke University in 1968.-Campbell’s Transformation of Textron:In 1998, Campbell was appointed chief executive officer. Campbell believed in the “core business” model, and divested from Avco Financial Services...
  
   (B.S.E. 1968), CEO of Textron
  Textron
  Textron is a conglomerate that includes Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Greenlee, among others. It was founded by Royal Little in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company, and is headquartered at the Textron Tower in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.With total revenues of...
  
  
• John Canning, Jr.
  John Canning, Jr.
  John A. Canning, Jr. is a private equity investor and sports executive. He is the founder and chairman of Madison Dearborn Partners, the large Chicago-based private equity firm. He has recently been linked to discussions about the potential sale of the Chicago Cubs.-Career:Canning was an early...
  
  , founder of private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners and co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
  Milwaukee Brewers
  The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
  
  
• John Chambers
  John Chambers (CEO)
  John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, the company has grown from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate...
  
   (X. 1968), CEO of Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
  
  , attended from 1967 until 1968
• Timothy D. Cook (M.B.A. 1988), CEO of Apple Inc.
• Bradley J. Dodson, BA Economics, Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer of Oil States International (NYSE:OIS)
• Nola Maddox Falcone (1961), Managing Principal, NMF Asset Management
• Clay Felker
  Clay Felker
  Clay Schuette Felker was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. He was known for bringing large numbers of journalists into the profession...
  
   (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
• Thomas Finke (M.B.A. 1991), Chairman and CEO, Babson Capital Management
• Michael J. Fitzpatrick
  Michael J. Fitzpatrick
  Michael J. Fitzpatrick is a New York State Assemblyman representing the 7th district, which is in Suffolk County.-Education and career:...
  
  , Chairman and CEO, E-TEK Dynamics, namesake of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences
• J.B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), Chairman of the Board of The Fuqua Companies, founder of the J.B. Fuqua Foundation, namesake of Duke's Fuqua School of Business
  Fuqua School of Business
  The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. It currently enrolls 1,340 students in degree-seeking programs...
  
  
• Melinda Gates
  Melinda Gates
  Melinda Ann French , later known as Melinda French Gates, is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Bill Gates...
  
   (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987), co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, wife of Bill Gates
  Bill Gates
  William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
  
  
• David R. Goode
  David R. Goode
  David R. Goode is the retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation . Other directorships: Caterpillar Inc.; Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Georgia-Pacific Corporation; Norfolk Southern Railway, and Texas Instruments Incorporated. Goode has been a director of Caterpillar since 1993...
  
   (A.B. 1962), Chairman, President, & CEO of Norfolk Southern
• William H. Gross (B.S. 1966), Founder and Chief Investment Officer, PIMCO, the world's largest bond
  Bond (finance)
  In finance, a bond is a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest to use and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed maturity...
  
   fund with $641.6 billion in assets, the owner of the only complete collection of U.S. 19th century stamp
  Postage stamp
  A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...
  
  s
• Eric E. Haas (M.S., M.B.A. 1993), CEO, Altruist Financial Advisors LLC
• Hank Halter (M.B.A. 1993), CFO of Delta Air Lines
  Delta Air Lines
  Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a major airline based in the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The airline operates an extensive domestic and international network serving all continents except Antarctica. Delta and its subsidiaries operate over 4,000 flights every day...
  
  
• Gerald Hassell
  Gerald Hassell
  Gerald L. Hassell is the Chairman, CEO and President of The Bank of New York Mellon.-Background:Gerald Hassell joined the Bank of New York in 1973 when he was only 21 years old as a management trainee, and has held various positions in the credit and corporate banking divisions...
  
   (B.A.), Chairman and CEO, Bank of New York Mellon
  Bank of New York Mellon
  The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company formed on July 1, 2007 as result of the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation...
  
  
• William A. Hawkins
  William A. Hawkins
  William "Bill" A. Hawkins was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic from 2008 until 2011.-Early life:Hawkins received a bachelors of science degree in electrical and biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1976...
  
   (B.S. 1976), CEO of Medtronic
  Medtronic
  Medtronic, Inc. , based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company and is a Fortune 500 company.- History :...
  
  
• Betsy Holden
  Betsy Holden
  Betsy Holden is a corporate director of Tribune Company. Holden served as Co-CEO of Kraft Foods from 2001 to 2004. She is currently a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company and a member of the Duke University Board of Trustees....
  
   (A.B.), CEO of Kraft Foods
  Kraft Foods
  Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...
  
  , 2001–2003
• W. Bruce Johnson (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), Interim Chief Executive Officer and President, Sears Holdings Corporation
  Sears Holdings Corporation
  Sears Holdings Corporation is a retail conglomerate formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co., of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, with Kmart Holdings Corporation, of Troy, Michigan...
  
  
• Edwin L. Jones, Jr. (B.S. 1948), Engineer, president, J. A. Jones Construction Company
• Bruce Karsh
  Bruce Karsh
  Bruce A. Karsh is the Co-Founder and President of Oaktree Capital Management. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Duke University's investment management company. -Career:...
  
   (A.B 1977), Co-Founder and President of Oaktree Capital Management
  Oaktree Capital Management
  Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is a global investment management corporation with about US$82.4 billion of assets under management. Oaktree's mission is to provide management with a primary emphasis on risk control in a limited number of sophisticated investment specialties...
  
  
• Timothy Kasbe (M.B.A. 2000), Chief Information Officer, Sears Holdings Corporation
  Sears Holdings Corporation
  Sears Holdings Corporation is a retail conglomerate formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co., of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, with Kmart Holdings Corporation, of Troy, Michigan...
  
  
• Jeffrey Kip (M.B.A. 1999), CFO of Panera Bread
  Panera Bread
  Panera Bread is a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada that sells breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, and other bakery items. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.-Corporate history:In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co...
  
  
• Rik Kirkland (A.M. 1976), S/B Managing Editor, Fortune Magazine
• John A. Koskinen (A.B. 1961), President of US Soccer Foundation, former Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget
  United States Office of Management and Budget
  The Office of Management and Budget is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States .The current OMB Director is Jacob Lew.-History:...
  
  
• Mike Lamach (M.B.A.), President and COO, Ingersoll Rand
  Ingersoll Rand
  Ingersoll-Rand plc is a $13 billion global diversified industrial company founded in 1871. The Ingersoll Rand name came into use in 1905 through the combination of Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company and Rand Drill Company...
  
  
• Dylan Lauren
  Dylan Lauren
  Dylan Lauren is the daughter of clothing designer Ralph Lauren, and the owner of Dylan's Candy Bar, the largest candy store in the world, based in New York City.-Life and career:...
  
   (A.B. 1996), President and Founder of Dylan's Candy Bar
  Dylan's Candy Bar
  Dylan's Candy Bar is a chain of boutique candy shops and candy supplier currently located in New York City, East Hampton, Roosevelt Field, Orlando and Houston, as well as in wholesale venues around the globe. It is owned by Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph Lauren...
  
  
• J. Richard Leaman III (B.A. 1984, M.B.A. 1986), Joint Global Head of Investment Banking, UBS
• Dan Levitan (1979), Co-founder & Managing Partner, Maveron
• Diane Britz Lotti (1974), President of Pan Oceanic Management, Ltd.
• Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
  Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
  William Louis-Dreyfus is a French-born American businessman. With his family's net worth estimated at $2.9 billion by Forbes, he is one of the richest men in the world. He is the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus Group...
  
   (A.B., J.D.), French billionaire businessman
• Cynthia Lowden (1980), Vice President, human resources, SBLI USA
• John J. Mack
  John J. Mack
  John J. Mack is the current Chairman of the Board at Morgan Stanley, the New York-based investment bank and brokerage firm. Mack announced his retirement as Chief Executive Officer on September 10, 2009, which was effective January 1, 2010. Former Co-President James P...
  
   (A.B. 1968), CEO of Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
  
  , former CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston
  Credit Suisse First Boston
  Credit Suisse First Boston was the former name of the banking firm Credit Suisse.-History:In 1978, Credit Suisse and First Boston Corporation formed a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture called the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston...
  
  
• Aubrey McClendon
  Aubrey McClendon
  Aubrey Kerr McClendon is the chief executive officer, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation . He is an outspoken advocate for natural gas as a cleaner and safer alternative to oil and coal fuels...
  
   (A.B. 1981) CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy
  Chesapeake Energy is the second largest producer of natural gas in the United States, a top 15 producer of U.S. liquids and the most active driller of new wells, according to an November 2011 investor presentation. It recorded 3Q 2011 natural gas production of an average of approximately of...
  
  . Shares principal ownership of the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics
  Seattle SuperSonics
  The Seattle SuperSonics were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific and Northwest Divisions of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008. Following the 2007–08 season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City, and now plays as...
  
   and WNBA's Seattle Storm
  Seattle Storm
  The Seattle Storm is a professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2000 season began...
  
  .
• Amit Mitra (Phd, Economics 1976). Secretary General of FICCI-Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, India's Apex Business Chamber. Dr Mitra is also the recipient of India's Prestigious National Civilian Award " Padma Shree" conferred by the President of India in 2008
• Lalit Modi
  Lalit Modi
  Lalit Kumar Modi, is the former architect of the Indian Premier League.Best known for his stint as the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and the Chairman of the Champions League, between 2008 and 2010, he has also occupied the roles of Vice President of the Board of Control...
  
   (A.B. 1986), Modi Enterprises Scion, Chairman and Founder of Indian Premier League
  Indian Premier League
  The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
  
  
• Raymond Nasher
  Raymond Nasher
  Raymond Nasher was a Duke University alumnus who was an avid art collector. Together with his wife Patsy, he amassed a substantial number of the world's greatest sculptures and various other important pieces...
  
   (1943), Real estate developer, philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
  Nasher Museum of Art
  The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The $24 million museum was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and opened on October 2, 2005...
  
  
• Peter Nicholas
  Peter Nicholas (businessman)
  Peter M. Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele.Nicholas earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1964 and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Nicholas is Chairman Emeritus of the Duke Board of Trustees...
  
   (A.B. 1964), Founder and Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation
• Stephen Pagliuca
  Stephen Pagliuca
  Stephen Pagliuca is a private equity investor, managing partner of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics.In 2003, Pagliuca, along with Irving and Wyc Grousbeck, Robert Epstein, William P...
  
   (1977), Part owner of the Boston Celtics
  Boston Celtics
  The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
  
  , Managing Director of Bain Capital
  Bain Capital
  Bain Capital LLC is a Boston-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Originally conceived as an early-stage, growth-oriented investment fund, Bain Capital today manages approximately $65 billion in assets, and its strategies include private...
  
  
• Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.
  Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.
  Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. was the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc.. He served as President from 1971 to 1972, CEO from 1972 to 1991, and Chairman from 1972 to 1992. He is the namesake of Duke University's Engineering School.-Early life:...
  
   (B.S.E. 1947), former CEO of Pfizer
  Pfizer
  Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...
  
  , philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering
• J.B. Pritzker
  J.B. Pritzker
  Jay Robert Pritzker is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and private business investor in the United States...
  
   (A.B.), managing partner and co-founder of the The Pritzker Group, principal owner of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and TransUnion
  TransUnion
  TransUnion is the third largest credit bureau in the United States, which offers credit-related information to potential creditors. Like major competitors Equifax and Experian, TransUnion markets credit reports directly to consumers.- History :...
  
   Corporation, one of the 400 richest Americans
  Forbes 400
  The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest Americans is a list published by Forbes Magazine magazine of the wealthiest 400 Americans, ranked by net worth. The list is published annually in September, and 2010 marks the 29th issue. The 400 was started by Malcom Forbes in 1982 and treats those in the list like...
  
  
• Mark Rosenbaum (M.B.A. 1987), Chief Financial Officer, MySpace
  MySpace
  Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
  
  
• Drew Rosenhaus
  Drew Rosenhaus
  Drew Rosenhaus is an American sports agent who represents professional football players. He owns the Miami-based sports agency, Rosenhaus Sports, and is known for using aggressive tactics on behalf of his clients who play in the National Football League.Rosenhaus currently represents approximately...
  
   (J.D. 1990), NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   sports agent
• David M. Rubenstein (A.B. 1970), co-founder of The Carlyle Group
• W. Russell Scheirman (A.B. 1977, M.S. 1978), President & CFO of Vaalco Energy Inc.
  Vaalco Energy Inc.
  VAALCO Energy Inc., , is a small oil production company with annual revenues of $85 million. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "EGY"....
  
  
• Alan Schwartz
  Alan Schwartz
  Alan D. Schwartz is an executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, an investment banking firm based in Chicago and New York. He was the last CEO Bear Stearns before its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase & Co., having succeeded James E. Cayne who remained chairman.-History at Bear Stearns:Alan...
  
   (A.B. 1972), CEO, Bear Stearns
  Bear Stearns
  The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. based in New York City, was a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage, until its sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2008 during the global financial crisis and recession...
  
  
• Bobby Sharma
  Bobby Sharma
  Bobby Sharma is Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Basketball for IMG , the premier global sports and media company. Sharma oversees the growth of IMG's basketball business around the world, including the emerging economies of India and Brazil.-Education:Sharma graduated from Duke...
  
   (A.B. 1995, J.D. 1998), IMG (company) Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Basketball
• Malvinder Mohan Singh
  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  Malvinder Mohan Singh is the son of Dr. Parvinder Singh, and is the former Chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy Laboratories. He is the grandson of Bhai Mohan Singh, the founder of Ranbaxy. He and his brother Shivinder Singh are among the top twenty richest Indians in the world...
  
   (M.B.A. 1998), Former Chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy Laboratories
  Ranbaxy Laboratories
  Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited is a pharmaceutical company that was incorporated in India in 1961. The company went public in 1973 and Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo gained majority control in 2008...
  
   One of the twenty richest Indians in the world with a net worth of over a billion dollars, Current Chairman of Fortis Hospitals and Religare
  Religare
  Religare Enterprises Ltd. is an India based financial services company with operations around the globe. Commonly referred to as Religare, the company offers a range of financial services through its group companies. The services offered include broking, insurance, asset management, lending...
  
   Financial Services.
• Shivinder Mohan Singh
  Shivinder Mohan Singh
  Shivinder Mohan Singh is the younger son of Dr. Parvinder Singh, and is currently the managing director of Fortis Healthcare, an Indian company. He is the grandson of Bhai Mohan Singh, the founder of generic drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories. He and his brother Malvinder Singh are among the top...
  
   (M.B.A. 2000), Current Managing Director of Fortis Healthcare Advisory Board Member of AIESEC
  AIESEC
  AIESEC is a global youth organisation that develops leadership capabilities through their internal leadership programmes and engaging students and graduates in international student exchange and internship programmes for profit and non-profit organisations. Its international office is in...
  
   India, One of the twenty richest Indians in the world
• Sam A. Solomon (M.B.A.), President and CEO, Coleman Company
  Coleman Company
  Coleman Company, Inc., is an American company that specializes in outdoor recreation products. Historically, Coleman is known for camping gear....
  
  
• W. David Stedman (1942), Business executive, philanthropist
• Robert K. Steel
  Robert K. Steel
  Robert King "Bob" Steel is an American business leader and an expert on financial institutions and markets. In June 2010, he was named Deputy Mayor for Economic Development by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
  
   (A.B. 1973), Chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, President & CEO, Wachovia
  Wachovia
  Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States based on total assets...
  
  
• Terry Thompson (M.B.A. 1999), COO of Mercer
• Bill Timmerman
  William Timmerman
  William "Bill" Timmerman is the Chairman, President and CEO of SCANA Corporation.-Early life and career:Timmerman received a bachelors degree in accounting from Duke University in 1968...
  
   (1968), Chairman, President, and CEO of SCANA
  SCANA
  SCANA Corporation is a $9 billion Fortune 500 energy-based holding company, based in Cayce, South Carolina, whose businesses include regulated electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses...
  
  
• James L. Vincent
  James L. Vincent
  James L. "Jim" Vincent was the Chairman and CEO of Biogen Idec from 1985 to 2002. He graduated from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963...
  
   (B.S. 1961), Chairman & CEO, Biogen Idec
  Biogen Idec
  Biogen Idec, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and San Diego, California-based IDEC Pharmaceuticals...
  
  
• Christopher L. Smith, (B.A. 1990), President & CEO, Transit Systems, Inc.
• Jeffrey Vinik
  Jeffrey Vinik
  Jeffrey N. Vinik is the current owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Storm , as well as a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox...
  
   (B.S. 1981), Chairman, President, and CEO of Vinik Asset Management, owner of Tampa Bay Lightning
  Tampa Bay Lightning
  The Tampa Bay Lightning are a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida. They are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . They have one Stanley Cup championship in their history, in 2003–04. They are often referred to as the...
  
  
• Karl von der Heyden
  Karl von der Heyden
  Karl von der Heyden was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of PepsiCo, Inc. from 1996 to 2001. He had rejoined the Company in September 1996 as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer...
  
   (1962), Vice Chairman & CFO, Pepsico, Inc., namesake of the von der Heyden pavilion at Duke
• G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (A.B. 1975), President & CEO, General Motors Corporation
• John C. Walters (M.B.A.), President & COO, Hartford Life, Inc.
• Gary L. Wilson
  Gary L. Wilson
  Gary L. Wilson was the Chairman of the Board of Northwest Airlines and Chief Financial Officer of Walt Disney Company and Chief Financial Officer of Marriott Corporation.-Education:...
  
   (A.B. 1962), Director of The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
  
  , Co-Chairman of Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines, Inc. was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines by a merger approved on October 29, 2008, making Delta the largest airline in the world...
  
  , namesake of Wilson Rec Center at Duke
• Pamela J. White (M.B.A. 1988), CFO, Victoria's Secret
• Gao Xiqing
  Gao Xiqing
  Gao Xiqing is the Vice Chairman, President and Chief Investment Officer of the China Investment Corporation, China's sovereign investment fund.-Early life and career:...
  
   (J.D. 1986), General Manager and Chief Investment Officer of the China Investment Corporation
  China Investment Corporation
  China Investment Corporation is a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. CIC was established in 2007 with approximately US$200 billion of assets under management, making it one of the largest sovereign wealth funds...
  
  
• Harold "Spike" Yoh (B.S. 1958), former Chairman and CEO of Day & Zimmermann
  Day & Zimmermann
  The Day & Zimmermann company was founded in 1901. Its corporate office is at 1500 Spring Garden St. Philadelphia, PA 19130.The company first came to prominence when the Hershey chocolate company contracted it to produce the foil wrapper for their Hershey's Kisses...
  
  , namesake of Duke's Yoh Football Center
• Pramod Naralkar (M.S.) Chairman and Managing Director of Suma Soft a growing software company based in Pune, India and Suma Shilp an established Indian real estate company.
• Ram Ramchand (M.S) Director of US operations for Suma
• Joseph S. Cooper (B.A.) 1950 International Marketing Management, TWA
  Twa
  The Twa are any of several hunting peoples of Africa who live interdependently with agricultural Bantu populations, and generally hold a socially subordinate position: They provide the farming population with game in exchange for agricultural products....
  
  , Consumer Prouct Company (Import/Exports), McCann-Erickson
• Earl Hubbard (B.A.) 1950, vice president Southern National Bank
  Southern National Bank
  Southern National Bank was a bank headquartered first in Lumberton, North Carolina and then in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In a merger of equals, it joined with BB&T in 1995.-History:...
  
  
• William Wrigley Jr. (B.A) Chairman, President, CEO William Wrigley Jr. Company. Estimated net worth of 3.4 billion US Dollars making him one of the richest men in the world.
• David Lauren
  David Lauren
  David Lauren is the younger son of clothing designer, Ralph Lauren. His mother is Ricky Lauren and his siblings are Dylan and Andrew Lauren.-Early life:...
  
   (B.A) Senior Vice President at Polo Ralph Lauren
  Polo Ralph Lauren
  Ralph Lauren Corporation is a luxury clothing and goods company of the American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren specializes in high-end casual/semi-formal wear for men and women, as well as accessories, fragrances, home and housewares...
  
   is married to Lauren Bush

Education

• Susan Athey
  Susan Athey
  Susan Carleton Athey is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.- Early life :...
  
   (A.B. 1991), professor of economics at Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
   and winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
  John Bates Clark Medal
  The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge"...
  
  
• Dan Ariely
  Dan Ariely
  Dan Ariely is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight.-Biography:...
  
   (Ph.D.), professor of behavioral economics at Duke and head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab
  MIT Media Lab
  The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
  
  , author of Predictably Irrational
  Predictably Irrational
  Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions is a 2008 book by Dan Ariely, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, "My goal, by the end of this book, is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and...
  
  
• George Brumley, Jr. (A.B. 1956), former Chairman of Pediatrics, Associate Dean, Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  
• Mauri Ditzler (Ph.D. 1979), president of Monmouth College
  Monmouth College
  Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.-History:Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church...
  
  
• David L. Downie
  David L. Downie
  David Leonard Downie is an American scholar focusing on international environmental politics and policy and currently serves as Director of the Program on the Environment and Associate Professor of Political Science at Fairfield University.-Research and writings:Downie has written extensively on...
  
   (A.B. 1983), author, professor of politics and environment policy at Fairfield University
  Fairfield University
  Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...
  
  
• David Efird
  David Efird
  David Hampton Efird is an American philosopher, educated at Duke University , Princeton Theological Seminary , Edinburgh University , Oxford University . He is currently a lecturer in philosophy at the University of York, in York, England...
  
   (A.B. 1995), philosopher and lecturer at the University of York
  University of York
  The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
  
  
• Thomas Eugene Flanagan (Ph.D), conservative Canadian political scientist
• Charles Flynn
  Charles Flynn
  Dr. Charles L. Flynn, Jr. was appointed President at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in 2000. Prior to the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Flynn served as Provost of Assumption College in Massachusetts....
  
   (Ph.D.), president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent
  College of Mount Saint Vincent
  For the university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, see Mount Saint Vincent University The College of Mount Saint Vincent is a Catholic liberal arts college located in the northeast corner of the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York, adjacent to the Yonkers border. It is the northernmost location in...
  
  
• W. Kent Fuchs
  W. Kent Fuchs
  W. Kent Fuchs is the current Provost of Cornell University. Fuchs was previously the Joseph Silbert Dean of the Cornell University College of Engineering . He was formerly Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, and Michael J. and Catherine R. Birck...
  
   (B.S.E. 1977), provost of Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  
• Pamela Gann
  Pamela Gann
  Pamela Brooks Gann is the fourth and current president of Claremont McKenna College in California.. She became president on July 1, 1999.Born in Monroe, North Carolina, Gann graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970 with a degree in mathematics...
  
   (J.D. 1973), president of Claremont McKenna College
  Claremont McKenna College
  Claremont McKenna College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college and a member of the Claremont Colleges located in Claremont, California. The campus is located east of Downtown Los Angeles...
  
   and former Dean of Duke University School of Law
  Duke University School of Law
  The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...
  
  
• Ken Gergen (Ph. D. 1962), notable American psychologist
  Psychologist
  Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
  
   and professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
   at Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
  
  
• Susan Herbst
  Susan Herbst
  Susan Herbst, a political scientist, is the 15th and current president of the University of Connecticut. She was named the president of the university on December 20, 2010, and took office on June 1, 2011...
  
   (B.A. 1984), President of University of Connecticut
  University of Connecticut
  The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
  
   and political scientist
• Douglas Hodgkin
  Douglas Hodgkin
  Douglas Hodgkin is an American political scientist and author, and is a professor emeritus at Bates College.Born in Lewiston, Maine, Hodgkin received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D from Duke University...
  
  , (Ph.D.) political scientist, author and professor at Bates College
  Bates College
  Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...
  
  
• Frank Lentricchia
  Frank Lentricchia
  Frank Lentricchia is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962...
  
  , (Ph.D. 1960), noted literary critic, professor of literature at Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  
• Theodore E. Long
  Theodore E. Long
  Theodore E. Long is the former president of Elizabethtown College. Long became president in 1996, and he retired in 2011 . Prior to becoming president of Elizabethtown, Long served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.Long is a 1965...
  
  , (A.M 1968), president of Elizabethtown College
  Elizabethtown College
  Elizabethtown College is a small comprehensive college located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. The school was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren...
  
  
• A. D. Kirwan
  A. D. Kirwan
  Albert Dennis Kirwan was the seventh President of the University of Kentucky. He also was the head football coach at the University from 1938-1944....
  
   (Ph. D., 1947), seventh president of the University of Kentucky
  University of Kentucky
  The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
  
  
• Juanita M. Kreps
  Juanita M. Kreps
  Juanita Morris Kreps was U.S. Secretary of Commerce from January 23, 1977 until October 31, 1979 under President Jimmy Carter and was the first woman to hold that position, and the fourth woman to hold any cabinet position.-Life and career:Kreps was born Clara Juanita Morris in Lynch, Kentucky,...
  
   (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), professor, economist, United States Secretary of Commerce
  United States Secretary of Commerce
  The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...
  
  
• Benjamin Ladner
  Benjamin Ladner
  Benjamin Mance Ladner, Ph.D. is an academic expert in the fields of philosophy and religion. He was president of the National Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Sciences from 1980–1994 and American University from 1994-2005.His areas of professional interest and research are international relations...
  
   (Ph.D. 1970), former president of American University
  American University
  American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
  
  
• Robert L. Morris
  Robert L. Morris (parapsychologist)
  Robert Lyle Morris was a noted parapsychologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he was first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology. He received his doctorate from Duke University.-References:...
  
   (Ph.D. 1969), notable psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
  University of Edinburgh
  The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
  
  
• W. Darrell Overdyke
  W. Darrell Overdyke
  William Darrell Overdyke was an American historian known particularly for his work on 18th- and 19th-century plantation homes in his adopted state of Louisiana as well as the anti-immigration Know Nothing political party in the American South.-Background:Overdyke was born in Cherokee near...
  
   (Ph.D. 1941), historian at Centenary College of Louisiana
  Centenary College of Louisiana
  Centenary College of Louisiana is a primarily undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences college in Shreveport, Louisiana. The college is one of the founding members of the Associated Colleges of the South, a pedagogical organization consisting of sixteen Southern liberal arts colleges...
  
  
• Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr.
  Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr.
  Dr. Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr. is an American ancient language scholar. He is a noted authority on the origin of the alphabet, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Masada scripts and the Apocrypha, a correctional translator of the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and former college president at Southern Seminary Junior...
  
   (Th.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1967), noted ancient language scholar, authority on the origin of the alphabet, and former president of Southern Virginia University
  Southern Virginia University
  Southern Virginia University is a liberal arts college located in Buena Vista, Virginia that promotes standards and values of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while not being owned nor operated by the Church...
  
   and King College
  King College
  King College is a private, comprehensive college located in Bristol, Tennessee. Founded in 1867, King is independently governed with covenant affiliations to the Presbyterian Church and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ....
  
  
• Noel Perrin
  Noel Perrin
  Noel Perrin was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College.-Early years:Perrin was born on September 18, 1927 in New York City and grew up in Pelham Manor, New York His parents both worked as advertising copywriters at the J. Walter Thompson Agency...
  
   (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, and critic. Professor at Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...
  
   (A.B 1955), renowned author and professor of literature at Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  
• David P. Roselle
  David Roselle
  David Paul Roselle is an American mathematician and academic administrator who served as the ninth President of the University of Kentucky and the 25th President of the University of Delaware.-Early life and family:...
  
   (Ph.D. 1965), President, University of Delaware
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  
• Haun Saussy
  Haun Saussy
  Caleb Powell Haun Saussy is the University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.- Research :Saussy's first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic , discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection Shi jing...
  
   (A.B., 1981) comparative literature professor at Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• David E. Sweet
  David E. Sweet
  David E. Sweet, , academic, was the founding president of innovative Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College, where he spearheaded the Leadership Rhode Island program.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Ph.D., 1968), founding president of Metropolitan State University
  Metropolitan State University
  Metropolitan State University is a four-year public university located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, United States. It is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.-History:...
  
   and later president of Rhode Island College
  Rhode Island College
  Rhode Island College is a nationally ranked, coeducational, state-supported comprehensive college founded in 1854, located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA...
  
  .
• Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph. D.), provost of Wake Forest University
  Wake Forest University
  Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...
  
  
• Betty Miller Unterberger
  Betty Miller Unterberger
  Betty Miller Unterberger is a retired historian, who as professor of American international relations spent the bulk of her extensive academic career at Texas A&M University...
  
   (Ph.D. 1950), historian
• George Wallace
  George Wallace
  George Corley Wallace, Jr. was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S...
  
  (A.B. 1957), former Dean, Dartmouth Medical School
  Dartmouth Medical School
  Dartmouth Medical School is the medical school of Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. The fourth-oldest medical school in the United States, Dartmouth Medical School was founded in 1797 by New England physician Nathan Smith and grew steadily over the course...
  
  
• Theodore Ziolkowski
  Theodore Ziolkowski
  Theodore Ziolkowski, born 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama, is a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He received an A.B. from Duke University in 1951, an A.M. from Duke in 1952 and, following studies at the University of Innsbruck, his Ph.D from Yale University in 1957...
  
   (A.B. 1951), Former Dean, The Graduate School, Princeton University
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
  

Medicine, science and technology

• David H. Adams
  David H. Adams
  David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center....
  
  , heart valve surgery and mitral valve repair
  Mitral valve repair
  Mitral valve repair is a cardiac surgery procedure performed by cardiac surgeons to treat stenosis or regurgitation of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the "inflow valve" for the left side of the heart. Blood flows from the lungs, where it picks up oxygen, through the pulmonary veins, to the...
  
  
• Eben Alsberg (B.S.E. 1994), Tissue Engineer, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University
• Lenox Baker
  Lenox Baker
  Lenox Dial Baker Sr. was an American orthopedic surgeon and athletic trainer at both Duke University and University of Tennessee. The Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital at Duke is named in his honor...
  
   (M.D. 1973), physician, public servant
• Lt. Andy Baldwin, The Bachelor, lieutenant, and doctor
• Ian Barbour
  Ian Barbour
  Ian Graeme Barbour, born 5 October 1923, is an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion. According to the Public Broadcasting Service his mid-1960s Issues in Science and Religion "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of science and religion."In...
  
   (M.S. 1946), physicist, theologian, and recipient of the Templeton Prize
  Templeton Prize
  The Templeton Prize is an annual award presented by the Templeton Foundation. Established in 1972, it is awarded to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical...
  
   in 1999
• Charles E. Brady, Jr.
  Charles E. Brady, Jr.
  Charles Eldon Brady, Jr. was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.-Personal data:...
  
   (M.D. 1975), astronaut
• Fred Brooks
  Fred Brooks
  Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month...
  
   (A.B. 1953), engineer, developer of OS/360, Turing Award
  Turing Award
  The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
  
   winner
• John C. Browne (physicist)
  John C. Browne (physicist)
  John C. Browne was born on July 29, 1942 in Pottstown, Pa. as the fifth child of Charles I. and Mary Agnes Browne. He received a B.S. in Physics from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University in Durham, NC. His thesis John C. Browne was born on...
  
   (Ph.D.), former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
  
  
• Jerome Bruner
  Jerome Bruner
  Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who has contributed to cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology, as well as to history and to the general philosophy of education. Bruner is currently a senior research fellow at the New York University School...
  
   (A.B. 1937), renowned psychologist and professor
• George Church
  George Church
  George Church is an American molecular geneticist. He is currently Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.With...
  
   (B.S. 1974), father of most current sequencing and array technologies, helped initiate the Human Genome Project, professor at Harvard Medical School
  Harvard Medical School
  Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
  
  
• John Cocke
  John Cocke
  John Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."...
  
   (B.S. 1945, Ph.D. 1956), considered the father of the RISC computer architecture, Turing Award
  Turing Award
  The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
  
   laureate in 1987
• John W. Cornwell (B.S. 2006), inventor of the beer launching fridge
  Beer Launching Fridge
  The Beer Launching Fridge is a modified mini-fridge that catapults beer to the desired drinker by use of a keyless remote system. It has been featured on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Colbert Report....
  
  
• Richard Cytowic
  Richard Cytowic
  Richard E. Cytowic is an American neurologist and author who rekindled interest in studying synesthesia in the 1980s. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times Magazine cover story about James Brady, the Presidential Press Secretary shot in the brain during the assassination...
  
   (B.A. 1973), neuroscientist and leading authority on the field of synesthesia
  Synesthesia
  Synesthesia , from the ancient Greek , "together," and , "sensation," is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway...
  
  
• William DeVries
  William DeVries
  -References:...
  
   (GME 1971–1979), pioneer of artificial organs
• Sylvia Earle
  Sylvia Earle
  Sylvia Alice Earle is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990–1992. She is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General".-Education and career:Earle received a...
  
   (Ph. D, 1966), marine biologist, Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
  
  
• Jim Ellis
  Jim Ellis (computing)
  James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet, along with Tom Truscott.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida. Before developing Usenet, Ellis attended Duke University. He later worked as an Internet security consultant for Sun...
  
  , co-creator of Usenet
  Usenet
  Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
  
   with Tom Truscott
  Tom Truscott
  Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. One of his the first endeavors into computers were writing a computer chess program and then later working on a...
  
  
• Paul Farmer
  Paul Farmer
  Dr. Paul Edward Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician. He is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician and Chief...
  
   (B.S. 1982), infectious disease doctor, winner of MacArthur Award
  MacArthur Fellows Program
  The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
  
  , subject of Pulitzer-prize winning author Tracy Kidder
  Tracy Kidder
  John Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation...
  
  's biography Mountains Beyond Mountains
  Mountains Beyond Mountains
  Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World is a non-fiction, biographical work by American writer Tracy Kidder. The story traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer. The book was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ken Gergen (Ph. D. 1962), notable American psychologist
  Psychologist
  Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
  
   and professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
   at Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
  
  
• W. Proctor Harvey (M.D. 1943), considered "the nation's most skilled practitioner of auscultation," Harvey was a Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine whose name was synonymous with the stethoscope
• Jeffrey W. Holcombe, Moss specialist and biology professor at The Loomis Chaffee School
• Eric Kirsten (A.B., 1991), Fanzter
  Fanzter
  Fanzter Inc. is an American software company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. Fanzter launched Coolspotters.com in May, 2008, and has released several iOS applications including CoolPapers, Streaks and Summizer. The company was founded in 2007 by Aaron LaBerge and Eric Kirsten, and is...
  
   Founder, President
• John M. MacDougal
  John M. MacDougal
  John Mochrie MacDougal is an American botanist, noted for his work on the taxonomy of passion flowers, having discovered several varieties.He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1975 at College of Charleston...
  
   (Ph. D. 1984), botanist
• Walter Miller (M.D. 1970), internationally renowned expert in human steroid hormone synthesis, used gene cloning techniques to become the first to clone bovine growth hormone.
• Robert Morris
  Robert L. Morris (parapsychologist)
  Robert Lyle Morris was a noted parapsychologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he was first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology. He received his doctorate from Duke University.-References:...
  
   (Ph. D 1969), notable psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
  University of Edinburgh
  The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
  
  
• Joseph R. Nevins (Ph. D. 1976), distinguished cancer researcher, founder of the E2F
  E2F
  E2F is a group of genes that codifies a family of transcription factors in higher eukaryotes. Three of them are activators: E2F1, 2 and E2F3a. Six others act as suppressors: E2F3b, E2F4-8. All of them are involved in the cell cycle regulation and synthesis of DNA in mammalian cells...
  
   transcription factor
  Transcription factor
  In molecular biology and genetics, a transcription factor is a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow of genetic information from DNA to mRNA...
  
   family, of the Rb-E2F pathway
• George Porter, III (A.B. 1954), Chairman Emeritus, Ochsner Medical Foundation
• Jim Scheinman, Bebo co-founder, early Friendster employee, came close to acquiring Facebook when it was very young
• Dorothy Simpson (B.S. 1947), scientist, mathematician
• Dylan Smith
  Dylan Smith
  Dylan Smith may refer to:*Dylan Smith , American actor*Dylan Smith , founder of Box.net*Dylan Smith *Dylan Smith, son of Rod Smith...
  
  , Box.net Inc. Co-founder, CFO
• William Kennedy Smith
  William Kennedy Smith
  William Kennedy Smith is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them....
  
  , founder of Physicians Against Land Mines
• Henrique Tono (Ph.D.), co-founder of Ingrain, Inc.
  Ingrain, Inc.
  Ingrain, Inc. is a multinational digital rock physics laboratory. Co-founded in 2007 by Amos Nur, Ph.D. and Henrique Tono, Ph.D, Ingrain's imaging technology allows it to compute the physical properties and fluid flow characteristics of oil and gas reservoir rocks.-Historical Highlights:* September...
  
  
• Tom Truscott
  Tom Truscott
  Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. One of his the first endeavors into computers were writing a computer chess program and then later working on a...
  
  , co-creator of Usenet
  Usenet
  Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
  
   with Jim Ellis
  Jim Ellis (computing)
  James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet, along with Tom Truscott.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida. Before developing Usenet, Ellis attended Duke University. He later worked as an Internet security consultant for Sun...
  
  
• Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009...
  
  , inventor of the captcha and Google image labeler
• Olaf von Ramm
  Olaf von Ramm
  Olaf von Ramm is the Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering at Duke University. He is best known for his work in the development of medical instruments, particularly ultrasound systems. He holds the first patent on a three-dimensional ultrasound ....
  
   (Ph.D. 1973), first patent on a 3-D ultrasound
  Ultrasound
  Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Ultrasound is thus not separated from "normal" sound based on differences in physical properties, only the fact that humans cannot hear it. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is...
  
  , later developed the first electronically steered matrix-array 3-D ultrasound imager
• Ge Wang, Chuck ChucK
  ChucK
  ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone/iPad. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such...
  
   creator
• Melanie Wood
  Melanie Wood
  Melanie Matchett Wood is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her Ph.D...
  
   (B.S. 2003), mathematician
• F. Thomas Wooten, III '57, former President of the Research Triangle Institute
• Scott Guthrie
  Scott Guthrie
  Scott Guthrie is a vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Common Language Runtime , Core .NET Base Class Library, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF, Internet Information Services 7.5, Commerce Server, .NET Compact Framework, Visual Web...
  
   Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   Corporate Vice President
• Leonard Schuyler, (M.D.,1950), Professor Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center,retired

Literature

• James Armstrong} (B.S. 1982), author of UNIX Secrets and other computer books
• Fred Chappell
  Fred Chappell
  Fred Davis Chappell is an author and poet. He retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002...
  
   (A.B. 1961, A.M. 1964), North Carolina Poet Laureate, novelist
• Guy Davenport
  Guy Davenport
  Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.-Life:...
  
  , author, Thasos and Ohio, National Review
  National Review
  National Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
  
  contributor
• David Cornel De Jong (M.A. 1932), author of 13 novels, 5 children's books, several books of poetry, and had stories appear in Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine
  Scribner's Magazine
  Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. Scribner's Magazine was the second magazine out of the "Scribner's" firm, after the publication of Scribner's Monthly...
  
  , Esquire (Magazine)
  Esquire (magazine)
  Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
  
  , and Poetry (Magazine)
  Poetry (magazine)
  Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
  
  , among others
• Lee McGeorge Durrell
  Lee McGeorge Durrell
  Lee McGeorge Durrell MBE is a naturalist, author, zookeeper and television presenter, best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.-Brief biography:Lee was born in Memphis,...
  
   (Ph. D 1979), author, television presenter, zoo
  Zoo
  A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....
  
  keeper
• Joseph DiMona (A.B. 1947), author, www:dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-JosephDiMonaJr.htm.
• Josephine Humphreys
  Josephine Humphreys
  Josephine Humphreys is an American novelist.A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall , studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University , and went on to...
  
   (A.B. 1967), award-winning novelist
• Mac Hyman
  Mac Hyman
  Mac Hyman , was an American fiction writer whose best-selling comic novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted into a popular Broadway play and a motion picture.- Early life and service :...
  
   (A.B. 1947), author of No Time for Sergeants
  No Time for Sergeants
  No Time for Sergeants is a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman, which was later adapted into a teleplay on The United States Steel Hour, a popular Broadway play and 1958 motion picture, as well as a 1964 television series. The book chronicles the misadventures of a country bumpkin named Will...
  
  
• Russell Kirk
  Russell Kirk
  Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement...
  
   (A.M. 1941), author, The Conservative Mind
• Nathaniel Lande
  Nathaniel Lande
  Nathaniel Lande, born of Canadian parents, is a journalist, author, and filmmaker with a career spanning several decades. He is the author of ten books including Cricket and Dispatches from the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent, and was the creative force behind TIME Incorporated...
  
  , author, filmmaker, and former creative director of TIME
  Time
  Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
  
   magazine.
• Peter Maas
  Peter Maas
  Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish heritage....
  
   (A.B. 1949), author of novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico
  Serpico
  Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the brink at first by their distrust and later by the threats and...
  
  , later made into movies
• Tucker Max
  Tucker Max
  Tucker Max is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it for a bet in 2002, making him an Internet celebrity.Max's book I Hope They...
  
  , author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
  I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
  I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a New York Times #1 bestseller and has made the Best Seller List each year from 2006 to 2011. It has sold over one million copies worldwide, including 400,000 copies in 2009 alone...
  
  
• Lydia Millet
  Lydia Millet
  Lydia Millet is an American novelist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award...
  
   (M.E.M. 1996), author of "Oh Pure and Radiant Heart," "Everyone's Pretty" and other novels.
• Peggy Payne
  Peggy Payne
  Peggy Payne is a writer, journalist and consultant to writers. She has written four books and her articles, reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, among others...
  
   (1970),author, Sister India
• Noel Perrin
  Noel Perrin
  Noel Perrin was an American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College.-Early years:Perrin was born on September 18, 1927 in New York City and grew up in Pelham Manor, New York His parents both worked as advertising copywriters at the J. Walter Thompson Agency...
  
   (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, and critic. Professor at Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• Michael Peterson
  Michael Peterson (author)
  Michael Iver Peterson is a fiction writer and politician. In 2003, he was convicted of the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.-Personal life:...
  
   (A.B. 1965), author, politician, convicted of murdering his wife in 2003
• Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price
  Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...
  
   (A.B 1955), renowned author and James B. Duke professor of literature at Duke
  Duke
  A duke or duchess is a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch, and historically controlling a duchy...
  
  
• Lynn Veach Sadler
  Lynn Veach Sadler
  Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler is an American poet, writer, and playwright. A native of North Carolina, she holds a doctorate and a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from Duke University1...
  
  , poet, author, and playwright
• Haun Saussy
  Haun Saussy
  Caleb Powell Haun Saussy is the University Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.- Research :Saussy's first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic , discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection Shi jing...
  
   (A.B., 1981) Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative and Chinese literature at Yale
  YALE
  RapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
  
  
• Margaret Taylor Smith
  Margaret Taylor Smith
  Margaret Taylor Smith is an author and social activist, and was chair of the Kresge Foundation until 1998. She received an A.B. in 1947 from Duke University, where the Margaret Taylor Smith Directorship in Women's Studies is named for her.-External links:*...
  
   (A.B. 1947), author, social activist, Chair, Kresge Foundation
• William C. Styron, (A.B. 1947) author, Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Anne Tyler
  Anne Tyler
  Anne Tyler is an American novelist.Tyler, the eldest of four children, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina and in Raleigh...
  
  , (A.B. 1961) Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer of short stories
• Dana Vachon (B.A. 2002), author of Mergers & Acquisitions
• Haim Watzman
  Haim Watzman
  Haim Watzman , is an American-born, Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator.Watzman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. After receiving a B.A. from Duke University, Watzman made aliyah to Israel, where he has lived since 1978 and worked as a freelance...
  
   writer
• Richard Zimler
  Richard Zimler
  Richard Zimler is a best-selling author of fiction. His books, which have earned him a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1998 Herodotus Award, have been published in many countries and translated into more than 20 languages...
  
   (A.B. 1977), novelist, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams

Fine arts

• Michael Best
  Michael Best
  Michael Best is an operatic tenor and voice teacher. A native of North Carolina, he was a solo artist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing 297 performances in 17 seasons. Best received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1962 and teaches voice at Roosevelt University's...
  
   (A.B. 1962), Former Principal Artist of the Metropolitan Opera
  Metropolitan Opera
  The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
  
  
• Les Brown
  Les Brown (bandleader)
  Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils that Brown led while a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...
  
   (A.B. 1936), Musician, Les Brown & The Band of Renown, Jazz Hall of Fame Inductee 1999
• Michael Ching (A.B. 1980), composer, Memphis Opera
• Bill Cunliffe
  Bill Cunliffe
  Bill Cunliffe is an American jazz pianist and composer based in Los Angeles He has been described by The New York Times as being in the "modern jazz mainstream" and as an "accomplished pianist and composer." Ernie Rideout of Keyboard Magazine described Cunliffe's playing as "inventive, melodic,...
  
  , Grammy Award
  Grammy Award
  A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
  
   winning composer, arranger, pianist
• Lorenz Eitner (A.B. 1940), renowned art historian
• Adam Lord (B.A. 2003), musician, writer
• Mike Posner (B.S. 2010), musician, Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 single "Cooler Than Me
  Cooler Than Me
  "Cooler Than Me" is a song by American recording artist Mike Posner. Since its release it has peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay in its July 31, 2010 issue. The instrumental was produced by Gigamesh. Another version, labeled...
  
  "
• Adam Sampieri
  Adam Sampieri
  Adam Sampieri was the guitarist and vocalist for the Alan Davis Band. The band was active from 2001 through 2003.Sampieri is currently a Theatre teacher and Director at the North Carolina School of Science and Math. He does regular gigs and also works in a music supply store.-References:...
  
   (B.A. 2003), musician, writer
• Ryan Senft
  Ryan Senft
  Ryan Senft was the drummer and percussionist for the Alan Davis Band. The band was active from 2001 through 2003. He was also a busy session player at Duke University and in The Triangle of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and performed with two other prominent Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill bands, Velvet...
  
   (B.S. 2002), musician, Alan Davis Band
  Alan Davis Band
  The Alan Davis Band was a rock band composed of Adam Sampieri , Adam Lord , David Beckmann , and Ryan Senft . The band was active from 2001 through 2003....
  
  
• William Stone
  William Stone (baritone)
  William Stone is an American operatic baritone. He is a graduate of Duke University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
  
   (B.A., 1966), operatic baritone

Entertainment

• Ian Abrams
  Ian Abrams
  Ian Abrams is an American television writer and producer, and, with Pat Page and Vik Rubenfeld, co-creator of the CBS TV series Early Edition, although he did not write any produced episodes of the series except the pilot and was only on the writing staff of the show during its first year...
  
  , co-creator of the CBS TV series Early Edition
  Early Edition
  Early Edition is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this...
  
  , Undercover Blues
  Undercover Blues
  Undercover Blues is a 1993 movie about a family of secret agents, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid. The film was written by Ian Abrams and directed by Herbert Ross.- Plot :...
  
  , Rolling Thunder
• Andy Baldwin (B.S. 1999), The Bachelor, lieutenant, and doctor
• Jayne Brook
  Jayne Brook
  Jayne Brook is an American actress, known for her role as Dr. Diane Grad on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She appeared on the series from 1995 to 1999.-Early life:...
  
   (1982), actress, Chicago Hope
  Chicago Hope
  Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994, to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr...
  
  
• Ryan Carnes
  Ryan Carnes
  Ryan Gregg Carnes is an American actor. He attended Duke University where he was a member of DUMB, the Duke University Marching Band. He is currently working on a collaboration with other musicians and is an accomplished drummer of 15 years.In 2003 Carnes was part of a national campaign for...
  
   (X. 2004), actor, Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
  
  , Eating Out
• Jack Coleman (A.B. 1980), actor, Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  , Dynasty
  Dynasty (TV series)
  Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...
  
  , Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  
• Robert L. Cook
  Robert L. Cook
  Robert L. Cook is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. Cook was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University. While at Cornell, Cook worked with Donald P. Greenberg. He is now Vice President of...
  
   (B.S. 1973), Oscar-winning software-programmer whose computer-graphics program, RenderMan
  RenderMan Interface Specification
  The RenderMan Interface Specification, or RISpec in short, is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three-dimensional scenes and turn them into digital photorealistic images...
  
  , is used in many contemporary films
• Kara DioGuardi
  Kara DioGuardi
  Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...
  
   (A.B. 1993), songwriter for musicians including Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
  , Kelly Clarkson
  Kelly Clarkson
  Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.In 2003,...
  
   and Britney Spears
  Britney Spears
  Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
  
  , American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
   judge
• Lee McGeorge Durrell
  Lee McGeorge Durrell
  Lee McGeorge Durrell MBE is a naturalist, author, zookeeper and television presenter, best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.-Brief biography:Lee was born in Memphis,...
  
   (Ph.D. 1979), author, television presenter, zoo
  Zoo
  A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....
  
  keeper
• René Echevarria
  René Echevarria
  René Echevarria is an American-Cuban screenwriter and film producer.-Screenwriter career:Echevarria began his career as an amateur screenwriter submitting unsolicited scripts to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After using a few of his stories, they hired him as a writer. He then...
  
   (A.B. 1984), producer, The 4400
  The 4400
  The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie...
  
  , Dark Angel
  Dark Angel (TV series)
  Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...
  
  , Now and Again
  Now and Again
  Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain...
  
  ; screenwriter, Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
  
  , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...
  
  
• Michael Q. Fellmeth (A.B. 1992), Vice President, Dramatists Play Service
  Dramatists Play Service
  Established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild and the Society for Authors' Representatives, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. is a theatrical publishing and licensing house...
  
  
• Sean Flynn
  Sean Flynn
  Sean Leslie Flynn was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author.Flynn was the only child of the marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita...
  
   (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
   photojournalist
• Annabeth Gish
  Annabeth Gish
  Annabeth Gish is an American actress known for starring roles in Shag, Mystic Pizza and Double Jeopardy. She is best known for her roles as Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files, Elizabeth Bartlet Westin on The West Wing and as Eileen Caffee on the Showtime drama Brotherhood.-Personal...
  
   (A.B. 1992), actress, X-Files, The West Wing
• Kelly Goldsmith (A.B. 2001), actress, Survivor
  Survivor: Africa
  Survivor: Africa is the third season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was filmed during 2001 and aired from October 11, 2001 - January 10, 2002 on CBS. It was set in Kenya's Shaba National Reserve on the African continent....
  
  
• Kevin Gray
  Kevin Gray
  Kevin John Gray is an English footballer, playing as a defender for Workington.-Football career:He started his career at Mansfield Town signing as a trainee in July 1990 and had a successful four year period at Mansfiled...
  
   (A.B. 1980), Broadway actor, Phantom
  The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
  
  on Broadway after Michael Crawford
• John Gromada
  John Gromada
  John Gromada is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres...
  
   (A.B. 1986), Broadway composer and sound designer
• Jared Harris
  Jared Harris
  Jared Francis Harris is a British character actor, well known for playing the obnoxious Mac McGrath in the Adam Sandler film Mr. Deeds, and for his portrayal of Lane Pryce on the AMC series Mad Men.- Personal life :...
  
   (B.F.A. 1984), actor, Mad Men
  Mad Men
  Mad Men is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series premiered on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and are produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its fourth season on October 17, 2010. Each...
  
  , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
  
  
• Beth Hubbard (A.B. 1985), president, Gotham Entertainment Production Co.
• Kevin Isola (A.B. 1992), Broadway actor, Brooklyn Boy
  Brooklyn Boy
  Brooklyn Boy is a play by American playwright Donald Margulies.Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a best-seller. An outsider all his life, he is suddenly on the inside of everything: town cars, television studios, the...
  
  
• Ken Jeong
  Ken Jeong
  Kendrick Kang-Joh "Ken" Jeong , also known as "Dr. Ken," is an American comedian, actor, and physician. Currently, he appears as Ben Chang on the NBC comedy series Community.-Early life and medical career:...
  
   (B.S. 1990), comedian, physician, actor, Community
  Community (TV series)
  Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that airs on NBC. The series is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television...
  
  , Knocked Up
  Knocked Up
  Knocked Up is a 2007 American romantic comedy drama film co-produced, written, and directed by Judd Apatow. Starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann, the film follows the repercussions of a drunken one-night stand between Rogen's slacker character and Heigl's just-promoted...
  
  , Role Models
  Role Models
  Role Models is a 2008 American comedy film directed by David Wain about two energy drink salesmen who are ordered to perform 150 hours of community service as punishment for various offenses. For their service, the two men work at a program designed to pair kids with adult role models. The film...
  
  ,The Hangover
  The Hangover (film)
  The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha and Jeffrey Tambor...
  
  
• Martin Kratt
  Martin Kratt
  Martin William Kratt is an educational nature show host. He and his brother Chris Kratt grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey, and together created the children's television series Kratts' Creatures and Zoboomafoo as well as Be the Creature, which runs on the National Geographic Channel...
  
   (B.S. 1989), creator and star of PBS's Zoboomafoo
  Zoboomafoo
  Zoboomafoo is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1998, to April 21, 2001, and is still shown today in syndication depending on the area, and it is regularly shown on PBS Kids Sprout. A total of 65 episodes were aired...
  
  
• Bruce Lund (A.B. 1973), toy designer
• Jon Marans (A.B. 1979), playwright, Old Wicked Songs
  Old Wicked Songs
  Old Wicked Songs is a two character play written by Jon Marans whose work received a nomination for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Other works by Marans include A Strange and Separate People, Jumping for Joy, Legacy of the Dragonslayers and the musical Irrationals, .Old Wicked Songs was first...
  
  , The Temperamentals
  The Temperamentals
  The Temperamentals is a 2009 play by Jon Marans. It chronicles the founding of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained LGBT rights organization in the United States, and the love affair of two of its founding members, Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich...
  
  
• Tucker Max
  Tucker Max
  Tucker Max is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it for a bet in 2002, making him an Internet celebrity.Max's book I Hope They...
  
   (J.D. 2001), author of the New York Times best selling
  New York Times Best Seller list
  The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication...
  
   book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
  I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
  I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a New York Times #1 bestseller and has made the Best Seller List each year from 2006 to 2011. It has sold over one million copies worldwide, including 400,000 copies in 2009 alone...
  
  , internet celebrity (TuckerMax.com)
• Ben Mulroney
  Ben Mulroney
  Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney is a Canadian television host, and is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.-Early life:...
  
  , host of Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
  
  and eTalk Daily, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
  Brian Mulroney
  Martin Brian Mulroney, was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S...
  
  
• Andrea Nelson Meigs (J.D. 1994), talent agent at International Creative Management
  International Creative Management
  International Creative Management is a talent and literary agency with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and London. ICM is a full-service agency representing creative and technical talent in the fields of motion pictures, television, fiction and nonfiction publishing, music, live performance,...
  
   for Beyonce Knowles
  Beyoncé Knowles
  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
  
  , Christina Applegate
  Christina Applegate
  Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
  
  , and Idris Elba
  Idris Elba
  Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba is a British television, theatre, and film actor. He has starred in both British and American productions. Elba grew up in Canning Town, East London. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. He has worked in a variety of TV roles including ...
  
  , among others
• Laura Paresky (A.B. 1990), television designer/animator
• Ellary Porterfield
  Ellary Porterfield
  Ellary Porterfield is an actress from Bend, Oregon most notable for her role as Terry "Tuff" Ryan in the 2005 film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.-Background:...
  
   (attending), actress, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 film written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry "Tuff" Ryan. The DVD was released on March 14, 2006.-Plot:...
  
  , Hidden Palms
• Mike Posner (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, Cooler Than Me
  Cooler Than Me
  "Cooler Than Me" is a song by American recording artist Mike Posner. Since its release it has peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay in its July 31, 2010 issue. The instrumental was produced by Gigamesh. Another version, labeled...
  
  , Please Don't Go
  Please Don't Go (Mike Posner song)
  "Please Don't Go" is a song by American recording artist Mike Posner, released as the second single from his debut album 31 Minutes to Takeoff . The song was written by Posner in collaboration with Benny Blanco. J Records released the single to contemporary hit radio in the United States on June...
  
  
• Charles Randolph-Wright, Director, writer, and producer
• Rebecca Sealfon, (Ph.D. 2009) internet celebrity and winner of 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee
  Scripps National Spelling Bee
  The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States, with participants from other countries as well. It is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W...
  
  
• Retta
  Retta (comedian)
  Retta Sirleaf, better known simply as Retta, is an American stand-up comedian and actress, who is currently appearing as Donna Meagle on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation...
  
  , stand-up comedian and actress, Parks and Recreation
  Parks and Recreation
  Parks and Recreation is an American comedy television series on NBC that focuses on Leslie Knope , a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, the series debuted on April 9, 2009; it has run for three seasons and...
  
  
• Travis Lane Stork
  Travis Lane Stork
  Dr. Travis Lane Stork, MD is an American emergency physician and television personality, best known for appearing on The Bachelor, and as the host of the syndicated daytime talk show, The Doctors....
  
   (B.S. 1994), reality star of ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  's Bachelor 8
• Randall Wallace
  Randall Wallace
  Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the 1995 film Braveheart. His work on the film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America award for Best...
  
   (A.B. 1971), author of the screenplays for Braveheart
  Braveheart
  Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...
  
  , The Man in the Iron Mask, Pearl Harbor
  Pearl Harbor (film)
  Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay...
  
  , and We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L...
  
  
• Patrick Williams (A.B. 1961), composer for movies and TV, Emmy and Grammy winner
• Robert Yeoman
  Robert Yeoman
  Robert David Yeoman is an American cinematographer and director of photography. Yeoman is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Yeoman spent his childhood in the northern suburbs of Chicago...
  
  , cinematographer for such films as Bottle Rocket
  Bottle Rocket
  Bottle Rocket is a 1996 comedy film directed by Wes Anderson. It was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. As well as being Wes Anderson's directorial debut, Bottle Rocket was the debut feature for brothers Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson, who co-starred with James Caan and Robert Musgrave.The film...
  
  , Rushmore
  Rushmore (film)
  Rushmore is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer , his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume , and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross . The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson...
  
  , The Royal Tenenbaums
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. The film stars Gene Hackman and Anjelica Huston, with Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson....
  
  , The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is an American comedy-drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature length film, released in the U.S. on December 25, 2004...
  
  , and The Darjeeling Limited
  The Darjeeling Limited
  The Darjeeling Limited is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. It was written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola...
  
  

• Ben Barry, a character played by Matthew McConaughey
  Matthew McConaughey
  Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor.After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s, McConaughey gained notice for his breakout role in Dazed and Confused . He then appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, Contact, U-571, Tiptoes, Sahara, and We Are Marshall...
  
   in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
  How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film, directed by Donald Petrie, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.-Plot:...
  
  , is a Duke alumnus
• Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie
  Sarah MacKenzie
  Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, JAGC, USMC is one of the main characters in the JAG TV series.In her first appearance on the show and for several seasons, she holds the rank of Major USMC, but is then promoted to Lieutenant...
  
  , USMC
  United States Marine Corps
  The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
  
  , a character played by Catherine Bell
  Catherine Bell
  Catherine Lisa Bell is an American actress known for her role of Lieutenant Colonel Sarah MacKenzie of the television show JAG from 1997 to 2005...
  
   in the television series JAG
  JAG (TV series)
  JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
  
  , earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law
  Duke University School of Law
  The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...
  
  
• Nick Savrinn, a character on Prison Break
  Prison Break
  Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...
  
  , attended Duke as an undergraduate
• Nathan Scott
  Nathan Scott
  Nathan Royal Scott is a fictional character on The CW television series One Tree Hill, portrayed by James Lafferty. He was the second protagonist during the first six seasons; but following Lucas Scott's departure, Nathan has become the main character and central figure of the show. Nathan is Lucas...
  
  , a character played by James Lafferty
  James Lafferty
  James Martin Lafferty is an American actor, director and producer. He currently portrays Nathan Scott on the CW television drama One Tree Hill. In addition to his role on the young adult drama, Lafferty is also known for his appearance as Justin in S...
  
   on the television series One Tree Hill (TV series)
  One Tree Hill (TV series)
  One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...
  
  , received a scholarship to play basketball at Duke
• Sam Seaborn
  Sam Seaborn
  Samuel Norman "Sam" Seaborn is a fictional character portrayed by Rob Lowe on the television serial drama The West Wing. He is best known for being Deputy White House Communications Director in the Josiah Bartlet administration throughout the first four seasons of the series.-Creation and...
  
  , a character portrayed by Rob Lowe
  Rob Lowe
  Robert Hepler "Rob" Lowe is an American actor. Lowe came to prominence after appearing in films such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, About Last Night..., St. Elmo's Fire, and Wayne's World. On television, Lowe is known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and his role as Senator Robert...
  
   on The West Wing, graduated from Duke University School of Law
  Duke University School of Law
  The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...
  
  
• Stingo, the narrator of William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice
  Sophie's Choice (novel)
  Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps...
  
  , attended Duke as an undergraduate (as did Styron).
• Stacy Warner, a character played by Sela Ward
  Sela Ward
  Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
  
   on House
  House (TV series)
  House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
  
  
• Charlotte York's brother Wesley on Sex and the City
• Dr. Jim Pomatter in Waitress
  Waitress (film)
  Waitress is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who also appears in a supporting role. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went into limited theatrical release in the US on May 2, 2007.-Plot:...
  
  
• Lieutenant
  Lieutenant
  A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
  
   Kif Kroker
  Kif Kroker
  Lieutenant Kif Kroker is a character from the animated television series Futurama. He is the long suffering assistant to Captain Zapp Brannigan and Fourth Lieutenant on the Democratic Order of Planets starship Nimbus...
  
   of Futurama
  Futurama
  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
   mentions in Amazon Women in the Mood
  Amazon Women in the Mood
  "Amazon Women in the Mood" is the first episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on February 4, 2001.-Plot:...
  
   that he sang in the Duke Boy's Chorus.
• Isobel Flemming-Saltzman, a character from "The Vampire Diaries" TV show.
• Tori Frederking, a character played by Teresa Palmer
  Teresa Palmer
  Teresa Palmer is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in the suicide drama 2:37. Palmer was seen in The Grudge 2 in 2006, in December Boys, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, and in the 2008 children's fantasy Bedtime Stories, with Adam Sandler...
  
   in Take Me Home Tonight
  Take Me Home Tonight
  "Take Me Home Tonight" is a song by American rock singer Eddie Money, from his album Can't Hold Back, released in 1986. It was released as a single and reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks...
  
  , attended Duke
• Myron Bolitar
  Myron Bolitar
  Myron Bolitar is a fictional character in a series of thrillers written by Harlan Coben.The series protagonist is a formerly renowned basketball player and is the owner of MB SportsReps , an agency representing sports stars and celebrities...
  
  , a character of several of Harlan Coben
  Harlan Coben
  Harlan Coben is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and often have multiple plot twists...
  
  's novels, attended Duke on a basketball scholarship

Journalism and media

• Dan Abrams
  Dan Abrams
  Dan Abrams is an American television host, legal commentator, web entrepreneur and best-selling author. He is currently Legal Analyst at ABC News Good Morning America , and a substitute anchor for the network. He formerly served as Chief Legal Analyst for NBC News, as General Manager of MSNBC and...
  
   (A.B. 1988), chief legal correspondent
  Correspondent
  A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...
  
   for NBC News
  NBC News
  NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
  
  , host of Verdict with Dan Abrams, former General Manager of MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
  
• J. Bowyer Bell
  J. Bowyer Bell
  J. Bowyer Bell was an American historian, artist and art critic.-Background and early life:Bell was born into an Episcopalian family on 15 November 1931 in New York City. The family later moved to Alabama, from where Bell attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, majoring in...
  
   (doctorate 1959), historian, artist and art critic
• Dan Bernstein
  Boers and Bernstein
  Boers and Bernstein is an afternoon drive-time sports talk show on Chicago's WSCR hosted by former columnist Terry Boers and Dan Bernstein. The program airs weekday afternoons from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. On days when the Chicago White Sox have a 7:10 start time, the program will often be extended half...
  
   (A.B.), sports journalist, WSCR
  WSCR
  WSCR is a sports radio station in the Chicago, Illinois radio market. The station is owned by CBS Radio and transmits on 670 kHz on the AM dial. Its transmitter is located just off Army Trail Road in Bloomingdale, which is a western suburb of Chicago. It is known as "The Score," and has been on...
  
   radio host
• Jessica Faye Carter
  Jessica Faye Carter
  Jessica Faye Carter is an American lawyer, author, and businesswoman. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Nette Media, a company specializing in social media technologies for women...
  
   (J.D. 2002, M.B.A. 2002), author, columnist, social media entrepreneur
• Seth Davis
  Seth Davis
  Seth Davis is a writer for Sports Illustrated magazine and an in-studio analyst for CBS' NCAA men's college basketball coverage with Greg Anthony and host Greg Gumbel. Davis attended Duke University, graduating in 1992 with a degree in political science...
  
   (A.B. 1992), Sports Illustrated
  Sports Illustrated
  Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
  
   columnist and college basketball analyst for CBS Sports
  CBS Sports
  CBS Sports is a division of CBS Broadcasting which airs sporting events on the American television network. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street.CBS...
  
  
• John Feinstein
  John Feinstein
  John Feinstein is an American sportswriter, author and sports commentator who wrote the top two best-selling non-fiction sports books in history, A Good Walk Spoiled and A Season on the Brink.-Early life:...
  
   (A.B. 1977), sports journalist
• Clay Felker
  Clay Felker
  Clay Schuette Felker was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. He was known for bringing large numbers of journalists into the profession...
  
   (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
• Sean Flynn
  Sean Flynn
  Sean Leslie Flynn was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author.Flynn was the only child of the marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita...
  
   (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
   photojournalist
• David Hartman
  David Hartman (TV personality)
  David Downs Hartman is an American journalist and media host who began his media career as an actor. He currently anchors and hosts documentary programs on cable TV's History and on PBS. Hartman is best known as the first host of ABC's Good Morning America, from 1975 to 1987. As an actor, he...
  
   (A.B. 1956), first host of Good Morning America
  Good Morning America
  Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
  
  on ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  
• Mangesh Hattikudur
  Mangesh Hattikudur
  Mangesh Hattikudur is the co-founder of the American humor magazine mental floss, which he started with Will Pearson when both were students at Duke University. Hattikudur graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree...
  
   (A.B. 2001) co-founder of mental floss
  Mental floss
  Mental Floss is a bi-monthly American magazine, launched in 2001 in Birmingham, Alabama, that presents facts and trivia in a humorous way...
  
  with Will Pearson
• John Harwood
  John Harwood
  John Harwood is an American journalist who is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a writer for The New York Times. He writes a weekly column entitled "The Caucus" that appears on Monday about Washington politics and policy...
  
   (A.B. 1978), National Political Editor of The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
  , frequent panelist on Washington Week
  Washington Week
  Washington Week is a public affairs program on PBS. Unlike panel discussion shows that focus on debate as a means of discussing topics, the program follows a path of moderation and discussion...
  
  
• Matt Ivester (2005), founder of JuicyCampus
  JuicyCampus
  JuicyCampus.com was a website focusing on gossip, rumors, and rants related to colleges and universities in the United States. As of February 5, 2009, it is out of business, and its website now redirects to ....
  
  , a gossip website
  Website
  A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
  
  
• Mark Mazzetti
  Mark Mazzetti
  Mark Mazetti is an American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The New York Times. -Life:Mazzetti was born in Washington DC, and graduated from Duke University with a Bachelors degree in Public Policy and Politics...
  
   (A.B. 1996), New York Times national security correspondent and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Scott McCartney
  Scott McCartney
  Scott McCartney is The Wall Street Journal's travel editor, as well as a regular columnist for the newspaper.-Background:McCartney currently lives in Dallas, though he is a native of Boston. He attended Duke University and graduated in 1982 with an A.B. in Public Policy Studies...
  
   (A.B. 1982), Travel Editor and journalist for The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
  , author
• Sean McManus (A.B. 1977), President of CBS News
  CBS News
  CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
  
   and CBS Sports
  CBS Sports
  CBS Sports is a division of CBS Broadcasting which airs sporting events on the American television network. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street.CBS...
  
  
• Susannah Meadows
  Susannah Meadows
  Susannah Meadows is a senior writer for Newsweek magazine.She covered the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean and John Kerry, the five year anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and the rape allegations against lacrosse players at Duke University...
  
   (A.B. 1995) Senior Writer for Newsweek
  Newsweek
  Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
  
  
• Will Pearson
  Will Pearson
  William E. Pearson is the co-founder of mental_floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University...
  
   (A.B. 2001) co-founder of mental floss
  Mental floss
  Mental Floss is a bi-monthly American magazine, launched in 2001 in Birmingham, Alabama, that presents facts and trivia in a humorous way...
  
   with Mangesh Hattikudur
• Charlie Rose
  Charlie Rose
  Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993...
  
   (A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968), journalist, former CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
   News Anchor, 60 Minutes
  60 Minutes
  60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
  
  contributor
• Jim Rosenfield
  Jim Rosenfield
  Jim Rosenfield is an American local television news anchor. He most recently co-anchored the noon and 6 p.m. newscasts on WCBS-TV in New York City alongside Dana Tyler. At various times, he has appeared on the newscasts at noon, 5, 6, and 11 pm at WCBS-TV...
  
   (A.B. 1981) WCBS-TV
  WCBS-TV
  WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building, both in Midtown Manhattan....
  
   anchor
• Monty Sarhan
  Monty Sarhan
  Monty Sarhan is a Vice President at Viacom, where he has served in several capacities over the years . He currently works at Epix_, the premium movie channel that is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures, MGM, Lionsgate and Viacom...
  
   (J.D. 1999), Publisher and CEO of national humor magazine Cracked
• John Seigenthaler, Jr.
  John Seigenthaler, Jr.
  John Michael Seigenthaler is an American former news anchor and correspondent who worked for both NBC and MSNBC. He is the son of the newspaper journalist John Lawrence Seigenthaler. He is best known for his 8-year tenure as weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News...
  
   (B.S. 1978) NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   and MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
   news anchor
• Kathryn Deane
  Kathryn Deane
  Kathryn "Kathy" Deane is President of fashion merchandising consulting company the Tobe Report, based in New York City. She graduated from Duke University and is currently on Duke University's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors...
  
  , (B.A. 1978) President of the Tobe Report, one of the world's most prestigious fashion merchandising consulting companies that publishes a weekly trend magazine
• Elizabeth Spiers
  Elizabeth Spiers
  Elizabeth Spiers , a native of Wetumpka, Alabama, is the founder of Dead Horse Media, which publishes Dealbreaker, a gossip site about Wall Street, AbovetheLaw, a gossip site about law, Fashionista, a gossip site about fashion, and Supermogul, a now defunct business management site...
  
   (A.B. 1999) founding editor of Gawker.com
  Gawker.com
  Gawker is a newsmagazine/blog based in New York City that bills itself as "the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip" and focuses on celebrities and the media industry....
  
  
• Susan Tifft (A.B. 1973), former senior editor at TIME magazine and Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Journalism
• Jim Toomey
  Jim Toomey
  James Patrick Toomey is a popular American cartoonist famous for his comic Sherman's Lagoon. Toomey received his B.S.E. from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1983, an M.L.A...
  
   (B.S.E. 1983), Syndicated cartoonist of Sherman's Lagoon
  Sherman's Lagoon
  Sherman's Lagoon is a comic strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It first appeared in the Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991....
  
  
• Judy Woodruff
  Judy Woodruff
  Judy Woodruff is an American television news anchor and journalist.Woodruff is a Board Member at the IWMF .-Broadcast journalism career:...
  
   (A.B. 1968), NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
  's White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   correspondent and Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, anchor at CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
  

See also men's basketball players, women's basketball players, and football players.

American football

• Patrick Bailey
  Patrick Bailey
  Patrick Bailey is an American football linebacker who is currently with the Tennessee Titans. He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2008...
  
  , NFL linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
  
• Brian Baldinger
  Brian Baldinger
  Brian David "The Facemask Fingerer" Baldinger is a former professional American football player and former color commentator for National Football League telecasts on the Fox network. He also covers Atlanta Falcons preseason games as an analyst on WXIA-TV with Randy Waters...
  
   (1982), former National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   offensive lineman, current commentator for Fox
  Fox Broadcasting Company
  Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
  
  
• Dave Brown
  Dave Brown (quarterback)
  David Michael Brown is a former professional American football quarterback who played for Duke University and later in the National Football League for the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals....
  
   (1991), ten seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   and Arizona Cardinals
  Arizona Cardinals
  The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Al DeRogatis
  Al DeRogatis
  Albert John "Al" DeRogatis was an American football player and television and radio sportscaster.-Biography:...
  
   (1948), Pro Bowl
  Pro Bowl
  In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League . Since the merger with the rival American Football League in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC–NFC Pro Bowl, matching the top players in the American Football Conference against those...
  
   tackle for the New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Anthony Dilweg
  Anthony Dilweg
  Anthony Hume Dilweg was a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers who was last signed to the Los Angeles Raiders in the National Football League...
  
   (1989), former NFL quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
  , enjoyed brief success with the Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  
• Dave Dunaway
  Dave Dunaway
  -Biography:Dunaway was born David Harry Dunaway on January 19, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:Dunaway was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 1967 NFL Draft. He would split the 1968 NFL season between the Packers and the Atlanta Falcons...
  
  , NFL wide receiver
• Ryan Fowler
  Ryan Fowler
  Ryan Omead Fowler is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2004...
  
  , NFL linebacker, New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Lennie Friedman
  Lennie Friedman
  Leonard Lebrecht Friedman is an American football offensive lineman who is currently a free agent in the National Football League....
  
   NFL offensive lineman
• Sonny Jurgensen
  Sonny Jurgensen
  Christian Adolph "Sonny" Jurgensen III is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983....
  
  , Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
   quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
   who played for the Philadelphia Eagles
  Philadelphia Eagles
  The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   and Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
  
  
• Kevin Lewis
  Kevin Lewis (football player)
  Kevin Lewis is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League who played for the New York Giants. He played college football at Duke.-New York Giants:...
  
  , NFL linebacker
• Patrick Mannelly
  Patrick Mannelly
  Patrick Mannelly is an American football long snapper for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He was originally selected with the 36th pick of the sixth round of the 1998 NFL Draft out of Duke University.-High school years:...
  
  , NFL longsnapper
• George McAfee
  George McAfee
  George Anderson McAfee was a former American football player. McAfee is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played college football at Duke University. He is a former running back who played for the Chicago Bears...
  
  , Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
   halfback
  Halfback (American football)
  A halfback, sometimes referred to as a tailback, is an offensive position in American football, which lines up in the backfield and generally is responsible for carrying the ball on run plays. Historically, from the 1870s through the 1950s, the halfback position was both an offensive and defensive...
  
   who played for the Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Scottie Montgomery
  Scottie Montgomery
  Scottie Montgomery is an American football coach and former wide receiver. He is currently the wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.-Early years:...
  
  , Arena Football League wide receiver/defensive back
• Ed Newman
  Ed Newman
  Ed Newman is a former Offensive Guard who, from 1973 to 1984, played 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins.-Early life:...
  
  , (1973), NFL offensive guard; 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Clarence "Ace" Parker
  Clarence Parker
  Clarence "Ace" Parker, is a former quarterback who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Boston Yanks , and the New York Yankees. He was an All-American tailback at Duke University in 1936...
  
  , Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
   quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
   who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
  Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
  The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...
  
  , Boston Yanks
  Boston Yanks
  The Boston Yanks were a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts that played from 1944 to 1948. The team played its home games at Fenway Park. Games that conflicted with the Boston Red Sox schedule were held at the Manning Bowl in Lynn, Massachusetts...
  
  , and New York Yankees
  New York Yankees (AAFC)
  The New York Yankees were a professional American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949. The team played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and often played in front of sold-out crowds . They were owned by Dan Topping, who brought many of his Brooklyn...
  
  
• Tommy Prothro
  Tommy Prothro
  James Thompson "Tommy" Prothro, Jr. was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Oregon State University from 1955 to 1964 and at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1965 to 1970, compiling a career college football record of 104–55–5...
  
  , former head coach of the Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers
  San Diego Chargers
  The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Drew Strojny
  Drew Strojny
  Drew Strojny is an American football player who currently is a web designer. He played for the St. Louis Rams. He attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Ma....
  
  , NFL football offensive tackle

Baseball

• Wayne Ambler, professional baseball player
• Bob Brower, Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   player
• Chris Capuano
  Chris Capuano
  Christopher "Chris" Frank Capuano is an American professional baseball player.-Early life:Capuano graduated from St. Thomas School in West Springfield in 8th grade...
  
   (2000), professional baseball player. Currently with the New York Mets
  New York Mets
  The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
  
  
• Claude Corbitt
  Claude Corbitt
  Claude Elliott Corbitt was an a infielder in Major League Baseball from 1945-1949.-External links:...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Lawrence "Crash" Davis, professional baseball player (see also Bull Durham
  Bull Durham
  Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy baseball film. It is based upon the minor league experiences of writer/director Ron Shelton and depicts the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina....
  
  )
• Ryan Jackson, professional baseball player
• Bill McCahan
  Bill McCahan
  William Glenn McCahan was an American professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1946 to 1949....
  
  , MLB player
• Quinton McCracken
  Quinton McCracken
  Quinton Antoine McCracken is a former professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in Major League Baseball, and was the Tampa Bay Devil Rays franchise's first center fielder and batter on March 31, 1998....
  
  , professional baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   player, member of 2001 World Series
  2001 World Series
  -Game 1:Saturday, October 27, 2001 at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, ArizonaArizona showed no fear and chased Yankees starter Mike Mussina after just three innings. The Yankees gave up five unearned runs and the Diamondbacks rode Curt Schilling's seven strong innings to a 9–1 rout...
  
   Champion Arizona Diamondbacks
  Arizona Diamondbacks
  The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
  
  
• Scott Schoeneweis
  Scott Schoeneweis
  Scott David Schoeneweis is an American Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher who is currently a free agent.In the five seasons from 2003–07, Schoeneweis allowed only one home run to left-handed batters...
  
  , professional baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   pitcher, member of the 2002 World Series
  2002 World Series
  The 2002 World Series was a best-of-seven playoff series to determine the champion of Major League Baseball for the 2002 season. It was the 98th such contest between the champions of the American League and National League , and featured the AL champion Anaheim Angels against the NL champion San...
  
   Champion Anaheim Angels
  Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...
  
  . Currently with the Boston Redsox.
• Al Spangler
  Al Spangler
  Albert Donald "Spanky" Spangler is a retired American Major League Baseball outfielder.Spangler attended Duke University. He was signed as a free agent by the Milwaukee Braves on June 14, 1954...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Eric Tipton
  Eric Tipton
  Eric Gordon Tipton was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds...
  
  , professional baseball player
• Mike Trombley
  Mike Trombley
  Michael Scott Trombley and raised in Wilbraham, Massachusetts is a retired professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from -.-External links:...
  
  , MLB pitcher
• Hal Wagner
  Hal Wagner
  Harold Edward Wagner , is a former professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues from 1937-1949. He would play for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox.-External links:...
  
  , professional baseball player

Basketball

• Alaa Abdelnaby
  Alaa Abdelnaby
  Alaa Abdelnaby is a retired Egyptian-American professional basketball player. He played for Duke University in college and then played in the NBA and CBA, among other leagues.-Early life:Abdelnaby was born in Cairo, Egypt...
  
  , former professional basketball player, college basketball analyst
• Tommy Amaker
  Tommy Amaker
  Harold Tommy Amaker is the current head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also served as head basketball coach for the University of Michigan men's basketball team and at Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke...
  
  , Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
   head basketball coach
• Alison Bales
  Alison Bales
  Alison Marie Bales is an American professional basketball player who plays for the WNBA's Atlanta Dream.-High school:...
  
  , professional player (WNBA)
• Shane Battier
  Shane Battier
  Shane Courtney Battier is an American professional basketball player . He most recently played with the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He has also been a member of the U.S...
  
  , professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• DeMarcus Nelson
  DeMarcus Nelson
  DeMarcus De'Juan Nelson is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for BC Donetsk. He can play at either the point guard or shooting guard positions. Nelson has played in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors.-College career:Nelson played at the shooting guard position on...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Alana Beard
  Alana Beard
  -External links:****...
  
  , professional basketball player (WNBA) (jersey retired)
• Jay Bilas
  Jay Bilas
  Jay Scot Bilas is an American lawyer and basketball analyst for ESPN and CBS Sports. He is also a former college basketball player.-Playing career:...
  
   (A.B. 1986, J.D. 1992), ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
   sports commentator
• Carlos Boozer
  Carlos Boozer
  Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. is an American professional basketball player with the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Elton Brand
  Elton Brand
  Elton Tyron Brand is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Jeff Capel
  Jeff Capel III
  Felton Jeff Capel III is an American former college basketball player at Duke University and was a head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Oklahoma. He is currently an assistant coach for his alma mater, Duke.-Youth:Capel is from a basketball family...
  
  , University of Oklahoma
  University of Oklahoma
  The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
  
   head basketball coach
• Chris Collins
  Chris Collins (basketball)
  Chris Collins is a basketball player and coach from Northbrook, Illinois. He is currently the associate head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team and is the son of NBA coach Doug Collins....
  
  , men's basketball assistant coach
• Johnny Dawkins
  Johnny Dawkins
  -External links:*...
  
  , Stanford University head basketball coach, former Duke associate head basketball coach and former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Luol Deng
  Luol Deng
  Luol Deng is a South Sudanese-British professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls and the Great Britain national basketball team. He plays the small forward position.-Early life:...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Charles "Lefty" Driesell
  Lefty Driesell
  Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Davidson College, James Madison University, and Georgia State University. During his 41-year coaching career, Driesell led teams from each school to the NCAA...
  
  , former college basketball coach
• Chris Duhon
  Chris Duhon
  Chris Nicholas Duhon is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic. Duhon was a point guard for the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team from 2000 to 2004, the Chicago Bulls from 2004 to 2008, and the New York Knicks from 2008 to 2010, and presently plays for the Orlando...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Mike Dunleavy, Jr.
  Mike Dunleavy, Jr.
  Michael Joseph "Mike" Dunleavy, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Daniel Ewing
  Daniel Ewing
  George Daniel Ewing, Jr , is an American professional basketball player, currently playing with Ukraine's Azovmash Mariupol, mainly as a shooting guard.-College career:...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Danny Ferry
  Danny Ferry
  Daniel John Willard "Danny" Ferry is a retired American professional basketball player and the Vice President of Basketball Operations for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association...
  
  , Cleveland Cavaliers
  Cleveland Cavaliers
  The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...
  
   general manager, former professional basketball player, member of 2003 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs
  San Antonio Spurs
  The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
   (jersey retired)
• Mike Gminski
  Mike Gminski
  Michael Thomas Gminski is a retired American college and professional basketball player. Gminski played his high school ball for Masuk High School in Monroe, CT. From there he played four seasons with the Duke Blue Devils, from 1977 to 1980. He led the team in scoring during his junior and senior...
  
  , FSN sports commentator (jersey retired)
• Dick Groat
  Dick Groat
  Richard Morrow Groat is a former two-sport athlete best known as a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He played for four National League teams, mainly the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in after winning the batting title with a .325...
  
  , former professional baseball and basketball player (jersey retired)
• Lindsey Harding
  Lindsey Harding
  Lindsey Marcie Harding is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Atlanta Dream. She was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up in Houston, Texas.-College career:...
  
  , professional basketball player (WNBA) (jersey retired)
• Art Heyman
  Art Heyman
  Arthur Bruce "Art" Heyman is an American former professional basketball player.-Early years:Heyman, who was Jewish, was born in New York City, New York. A 6' 5" guard/forward, after attending Oceanside High School in New York, Heyman was heavily recruited by many schools, and originally signed a...
  
  , former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Grant Hill
  Grant Hill (basketball)
  Grant Henry Hill is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Phoenix Suns. As a collegian with Duke University and early in his professional career with the Detroit Pistons, Hill was widely considered to be one of the best all-around players in the game, often...
  
  , professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Nick Horvath
  Nick Horvath
  Nick Horvath is a naturalised New Zealand professional basketball player, originally from the United States, currently playing for the NZL NBL team Manawatu Jets....
  
  , West Sydney Razorbacks
  West Sydney Razorbacks
  The Sydney Spirit were a professional basketball team competing in the Australasian National Basketball League...
  
   professional baseball player
• Bobby Hurley
  Bobby Hurley
  Robert Matthew 'Bobby' Hurley is an American former basketball player and currently an assistant coach at Wagner College.-Biography:...
  
  , former professional basketball player (jersey retired), assistant coach at Wagner College
  Wagner College
  Wagner College is a private, co-educational, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 total students located atop Grymes Hill in New York City's borough of Staten Island...
  
  
• Dahntay Jones
  Dahntay Jones
  Dahntay Lavall Jones is an American professional basketball player, currently playing for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA.Originally a student at Rutgers University, Jones transferred to Duke University...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Billy King
  Billy King
  Billy King is the general manager of the New Jersey Nets, and former general manager and team president of the Philadelphia 76ers. King grew up in Sterling, Virginia where he played basketball at Park View High School, and received a scholarship to play at Duke University. He was known primarily...
  
  , President and General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers
  Philadelphia 76ers
  The Philadelphia 76ers are a professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association . Originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA...
  
  
• Christian Laettner
  Christian Laettner
  Christian Donald Laettner is a retired American professional basketball player and entrepreneur. He had a distinguished college and national career, and played in the National Basketball Association for thirteen seasons, from 1992–2005. He is presently a minority holder for the Major League...
  
  , former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Corey Maggette
  Corey Maggette
  Corey Antoine Maggette is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, for the Charlotte Bobcats. He excelled at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was an All-American in basketball and also an Illinois high school state track finalist in long...
  
  , professional basketball player
• Jeff Mullins, professional basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   player for the Golden State Warriors
  Golden State Warriors
  The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
   and head basketball coach at UNC Charlotte
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  The University of North Carolina at Charlotte , also known as UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte, is a public research university located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States...
  
   (jersey retired)
• Shavlik Randolph
  Shavlik Randolph
  Ronald Shavlik Randolph is an American professional basketball player. Randolph played for Duke University from 2002 to 2005.-Family and childhood:...
  
  , professional basketball player
• J.J. Redick
  J.J. Redick
  Jonathan Clay "J. J." Redick is an American professional basketball player at the shooting guard position who plays for the Orlando Magic. He was selected 11th overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2006 NBA Draft. During his collegiate years, Redick played for Duke University...
  
   (A.B. 2006), NCAA's all-time leader in three-point field goals, professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Bobby Sharma
  Bobby Sharma
  Bobby Sharma is Senior Vice President, Global Business Development, Basketball for IMG , the premier global sports and media company. Sharma oversees the growth of IMG's basketball business around the world, including the emerging economies of India and Brazil.-Education:Sharma graduated from Duke...
  
   (A.B. 1995, J.D. 1998), Vice President & General Counsel, NBA Development League
  NBA Development League
  The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...
  
  
• Adam Silver
  Adam Silver
  Adam Silver is the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the National Basketball Association. He has held this post since July 2006.According to his NBA 101 information page, Silver has been with the league for over 14 years...
  
   (1984), Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA
• Quin Snyder
  Quin Snyder
  Quin Snyder is currently an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. Snyder, was formerly in charge of player development for the 76ers and accepted the role in June 2010 after coaching the NBDL's Austin Toros for three seasons...
  
  , former University of Missouri
  University of Missouri
  The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...
  
   basketball coach, current head coach of NBA Development League
  NBA Development League
  The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...
  
   Austin Toros
  Austin Toros
  The Austin Toros are a NBA Development League minor league basketball team based in Cedar Park, Texas, United States.The team plays home games at Cedar Park Center.Their logo is the design of a bull and basketball with the state of Texas in the background...
  
  
• Jim Spanarkel
  Jim Spanarkel
  James Gerard Spanarkel is an American television analyst for the National Basketball Association. Spanarkel, who himself was a professional basketball player, was selected 16th overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and traded to the Dallas Mavericks in 1980...
  
  , former professional basketball player, NBA and college basketball commentator
• Michele Van Gorp
  Michele Van Gorp
  Michele Van Gorp is a former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association , most recently with the Minnesota Lynx.- Early career :...
  
  , professional basketball player (WNBA)
• Abby Waner, Profesional basketball player (WNBA)
• Jason Williams
  Jay Williams (basketball)
  Jason David Williams , professionally known as Jay Williams, is a former American professional basketball player with the NBA Chicago Bulls. He last signed with the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, but was waived by the Toros on December 30, 2006 to rehabilitate a nagging injury...
  
  , former professional basketball player (jersey retired), college basketball commentator and analyst for ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
  
• Shelden Williams
  Shelden Williams
  Shelden DeMar Williams is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New York Knicks...
  
  , Duke's all-time leader in rebounds and blocked shots, professional basketball player (jersey retired)
• Steve Wojciechowski
  Steve Wojciechowski
  Steve "Wojo" Wojciechowski is an American basketball coach and former player. He played at Duke University from 1994 until 1998 where he was the team's point guard. He currently is an associate head coach at Duke under head coach Mike Krzyzewski...
  
  , men's basketball assistant coach

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• Skip Alexander professional golfer
• Beth Bauer
  Beth Bauer
  Beth Bauer is an American professional golfer.Bauer was born in Largo, Florida. As an amateur, she won the 1997 U.S. Girls' Junior and in 1998 and 1999 she earned back-to-back victories at the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. She played on the U.S...
  
  , professional golfer
• Amanda Blumenherst
  Amanda Blumenherst
  Amanda Blumenherst is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She was a three-time National Player of the Year at Duke University and won the U.S. Women's Amateur title in 2008....
  
  , professional golfer
• Jenny Chuasiriporn, professional golfer
• Matt Danowski
  Matt Danowski
  Matt Danowski is a professional lacrosse player for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse. He also plays professional indoor lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League for the Rochester Knighthawks...
  
  , professional lacrosse player for New Jersey Pride
  New Jersey Pride
  The New Jersey Pride were a men's field lacrosse team formerly based in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. They played in Major League Lacrosse from 2001-2008.-Franchise history:...
  
  , all-time leading points scorer in NCAA Lacrosse history, Tewaaraton Trophy
  Tewaaraton Trophy
  The Tewaaraton Trophy is an award given annually, since 2001, to the most outstanding American college lacrosse player. It is the lacrosse equivalent of football's Heisman Trophy. The trophy is presented by the Greater Washington Sports Alliance and the University Club of Washington, D.C...
  
   winner in 2007, two-time Jack Turnbull Award
  Jack Turnbull Award
  The "Lt. Col. J. I. Turnbull Award" — also known as the Jack Turnbull Award — is an award given to the United States' top collegiate attackman in lacrosse, named after National Lacrosse Hall of Fame alumnus Jack Turnbull. The award is given to a player in Division I, Division II, and Division...
  
   winner, two-time Lt. Raymond Enners Award
  Lt. Raymond Enners Award
  The Lt. Raymond Enners Award is an award given annually to the NCAA's most outstanding player in men's college lacrosse. The award is presented by the USILA and is named after Raymond Enners, who attended the United States Military Academy, class of 1967, and served in the U.S. Army during the...
  
   winner
• Paulie Harraka, NASCAR racer
• Jay Heaps
  Jay Heaps
  Jay Heaps ) is a former American soccer player. He is the current head coach for the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer....
  
  , professional Major League Soccer player, on the New England Revolution
  New England Revolution
  The New England Revolution is an American professional association football club based in Foxborough, Massachusetts which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• Nancy Hogshead, Olympic gold medal winner in swimming
• Anna Grzebien, professional golfer
• Matthew Jacobs
  Matthew Jacobs
  Matthew Jacobs is a British writer, director and producer. He is known best for his extensive career writing for television shows like Doctor Who and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles...
  
  , a world renowned martial arts expert, frequently appears in Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Liz Janangelo
  Liz Janangelo
  Elizabeth Janangelo is an American professional golfer currently playing on the Futures Tour.-Early life and amateur career:Born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, Janangelo began playing golf at age two....
  
  , professional golfer
• Randy Jones, competed in four Olympics as member of U.S. bobsledding teams
• John Kerr
  John Kerr (soccer)
  John Kerr, Jr. is an American retired soccer midfielder who played professionally in the United States, Canada, England, France and Northern Ireland during a much traveled and varied playing career. He is currently head coach of the Duke University men's soccer team. Kerr was named the 1986...
  
  , soccer player, winner of Hermann Trophy
  Hermann Trophy
  The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top male and female college soccer players.-History:...
  
   for top collegian, first American player in the Football League First Division (now known as the Premiership
  FA Premier League
  The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League. The Premier...
  
  ), Duke's head coach
• Brittany Lang
  Brittany Lang
  Brittany Lang is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in McKinney, Texas, Lang had a decorated amateur career. She won eight American Junior Golf Association events and was a two-time First-Team Polo Golf Junior...
  
  , professional golfer
• Alison Levine
  Alison Levine
  Alison Levine is an American mountain climber, sportswoman, explorer, and entrepreneur. She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010 at age 44, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mt...
  
   (M.B.A. 2000), mountain climber and explorer who is the only woman in the world to have completed the Explorers Grand Slam
  Explorers Grand Slam
  The Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam is an adventurers challenge to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and all of the Seven Summits....
  
  , reaching the summit of the highest mountain on each continent and ski to the North and South Poles
• Jason Kreis
  Jason Kreis
  Jason Clarence Kreis is an American soccer coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer....
  
   professional soccer player
• Joe Ogilvie
  Joe Ogilvie
  Norman Joseph Ogilvie is an American professional golfer.Ogilvie was born in Lancaster, Ohio and graduated from Duke University. He currently plays on the PGA Tour and picked up his first win on tour at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee in 2007...
  
  , professional golfer
• Vanessa Rousso
  Vanessa Rousso
  Vanessa Ashley Rousso is a French American law student at the University of Miami and a professional poker player. She is also known by her Pokerstars online screen name Lady Maverick. Born in , Rousso has dual citizenships with the United States and France. Rousso is a member of Team PokerStars,...
  
  , professional poker player
• Shannon Rowbury
  Shannon Rowbury
  Shannon Rowbury is an American middle distance runner under contract with Nike currently residing in San Francisco, California. Rowbury competed for the United States in the women's 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China...
  
  , professional track athlete, middle distance runner
• Philip Schwalb
  Philip Schwalb
  Philip Schwalb is the founder of for-profit Sports Museum of America in New York City.-Early life and Career:Schwalb was raised in Orlando, Florida. He received an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Duke University and a law degree from Emory University School of Law...
  
  , founder of National Sports Museum of America
• Jillian Schwartz
  Jillian Schwartz
  Jillian Schwartz is an American-born pole vaulter who competes internationally for Israel. She represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics and competed at four consecutive World Championships in Athletics from 2003 to 2009...
  
  , Olympic pole vaulter
• Mike Souchak
  Mike Souchak
  Michael Souchak was an American professional golfer who won 15 times on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s, and played for the 1959 and 1961 Ryder Cup teams.-Early years, college:...
  
  , professional golfer, winner of 15 PGA events
• Jessica Rae Springsteen, daughter of Bruce Springsteen. Nationally ranked equestrian.
• Becca Ward, 2008 Olympic Bronze Medalist in fencing
• Art Wall, Jr.
  Art Wall, Jr.
  Arthur Jonathan Wall, Jr. was an American golfer.Wall was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He attended Duke University, graduating in 1949 with a business degree....
  
  , professional golfer, winner of 1959 Masters