# List of Phi Beta Kappa members

This is a list of notable members of the Phi Beta Kappa who have Wikipedia biographies.

## Notable members elected as undergraduates

| Name | Year | College or University | Notability |
| Bushrod Washington | 1778 | College of William & Mary | |
| John Heath | 1779 | College of William & Mary | |
| Richard Bland Lee | 1780 | College of William & Mary | |
| John Marshall | 1780 | College of William & Mary | |
| James Kent | 1781 | Yale College | |
| Stephen Van Rensselaer | 1782 | Harvard University | |
| John Quincy Adams | 1787 | Harvard University | |
| Eli Whitney | 1792 | Yale College | |
| David Sherman Boardman | 1792 | Yale College | |
| Joseph Story | 1798 | Harvard University | |
| Oliver Ellsworth | 1799 | Yale College | |
| Daniel Webster | 1801 | Dartmouth College | |
| John Calhoun | 1804 | Yale College | |
| Levi Woodbury | 1809 | Dartmouth College | |
| Samuel Morse | 1810 | Yale College | |
| William H. Prescott | 1814 | Harvard University | |
| Joseph Tracy | 1814 | Dartmouth College | |
| William H. Seward | 1819 | Union College | |
| Rufus Choate | 1819 | Dartmouth College | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1824 | Bowdoin College | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1825 | Bowdoin College | |
| Salmon Portland Chase | 1826 | Dartmouth College | |
| William Strong | 1828 | Yale College | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1828 | Harvard University | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis | 1829 | Harvard University | |
| Lorenzo Langstroth | 1831 | Yale College | |
| Asa Fowler | 1833 | Dartmouth College | |
| Timothy P. Redfield | 1836 | Dartmouth College | |
| Morrison Remick Waite | 1837 | Yale College | |
| Chester A. Arthur | 1848 | Union College | |
| William S. Clark | 1848 | Amherst College | |
| Timothy Dwight V | 1848 | Yale College | |
| Joshua Chamberlain | 1852 | Bowdoin College | |
| Joseph H. Choate | 1852 | Harvard University | |
| Melville Weston Fuller | 1853 | Bowdoin College | |
| George Shiras Jr | 1853 | Yale College | |
| David Josiah Brewer | 1856 | Yale College | |
| Henry Billings Brown | 1856 | Yale College | |
| James A. Garfield | 1856 | Williams College | |
| John B. Hinkson | 1860 | Lafayette College | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 1861 | Harvard University | |
| George Moulton Carpenter | 1864 | Brown University | |
| William T. Sherman | 1866 | Dartmouth College | |
| Henry Adams | 1872 | Harvard University | |
| Henry James | 1872 | Harvard University | |
| William Henry Moody | 1876 | Harvard University | |
| Robert Peary | 1877 | Bowdoin College | |
| William Howard Taft | 1878 | Yale College | |
| John Dewey | 1879 | University of Vermont | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1880 | Harvard University | |
| Charles Evans Hughes | 1881 | Brown University | |
| Edward Bouchet | 1874 | Yale College | |
| John Hessin Clarke | 1877 | Case Western Reserve University | |
| Henry Clay Folger | 1879 | Amherst College | |
| George Santayana | 1886 | Harvard University | |
| Henry Stimson | 1888 | Yale University | |
| Bernard Baruch | 1889 | City College of New York | |
| Benjamin Cardozo | 1889 | Columbia College | |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 1890 | Fisk University | |
| Bainbridge Colby | 1890 | Williams College | |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | 1892 | Radcliffe College | |
| Edward E. Wilson | 1892 | Williams College | |
| Learned Hand | 1893 | Harvard University | |
| Alexander Meiklejohn | 1893 | Brown University | |
| Andrew Sledd | 1894 | Randolph-Macon College | |
| Harlan Fiske Stone | 1894 | Amherst College | |
| Owen Roberts | 1895 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| John Barlow | 1895 | Brown University | |
| Louis Brandeis | 1895 | Harvard University | |
| Caroline Ransom Williams | 1896 | Mount Holyoke College | |
| John D. Rockefeller Jr. | 1897 | Brown University | |
| Richard B. Carter | 1898 | Harvard University | |
| Mary Annette Anderson | 1899 | Middlebury College | |
| John Gresham Machen | 1901 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Felix Frankfurter | 1902 | City College of New York | |
| Elihu Root | 1903 | Hamilton College | |
| Stanley King | 1903 | Amherst College | |
| John J. Tigert | 1904 | Vanderbilt University | |
| Booker T. Washington | 1904 | Harvard University | |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | 1905 | Cornell University | |
| Christine Iverson Bennett | 1907 | University of Michigan | |
| Ernest Everett Just | 1907 | Dartmouth College | |
| John J. Parker | 1907 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| William Burke Belknap | 1908 | Yale College | |
| John Foster Dulles | 1908 | Princeton University | |
| John Hall Wheelock | 1908 | Harvard University | |
| Owen Brewster | 1909 | Bowdoin College | |
| Harold Hitz Burton | 1909 | Bowdoin College | |
| Walter Lippmann | 1909 | Harvard University | |
| Harold Medina | 1909 | Princeton University | |
| C.T. Wang | 1910 | Yale University | |
| Paul Douglas | 1913 | Bowdoin College | |
| Jane Barus | 1913 | Smith College | |
| Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell | 1913 | Smith College | |
| Pearl Buck | 1914 | Randolph-Macon Woman's College | |
| James Bryant Conant | 1914 | Harvard University | |
| Carroll A. Edson | 1914 | Dartmouth College | |
| Hu Hsen-Hsu | 1914 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Dean Acheson | 1915 | Yale University | |
| Archibald MacLeish | 1915 | Yale University | |
| Charles Hamilton Houston | 1915 | Amherst College | |
| Alfred Kinsey | 1916 | Bowdoin College | |
| Robert Frost | 1916 | Harvard University | |
| Irwin Edman | 1917 | Columbia University | |
| Jarvis Offutt | 1917 | Yale University | |
| Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. | 1917 | College of William & Mary | |
| Oliver Waterman Larkin | 1918 | Harvard University | |
| Paul Robeson | 1919 | Rutgers University | |
| K. K. Chen | 1920 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| William O. Douglas | 1920 | Whitman College | |
| Percy Lavon Julian | 1920 | DePauw University | |
| David E. Lilienthal | 1920 | DePauw University | |
| Countee Cullen | 1922 | New York University | |
| Henry Friendly | 1923 | Harvard University | |
| Nathan F. Leopold | 1923 | University of Chicago | |
| Herbert Brownell Jr. | 1924 | University of Nebraska | |
| Grayson L. Kirk | 1924 | Miami University | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1925 | Harvard University | |
| Alger Hiss | 1926 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Martin Dobelle | 1926 | Fordham University | |
| Joseph J. Spengler | 1927 | Ohio State University | |
| George H. Hitchings | 1927 | University of Washington | |
| Mildred Grosberg Bellin | 1928 | Smith College | |
| Grace Hopper | 1928 | Vassar College | |
| John C. Stennis | 1928 | University of Virginia | |
| Carl Sandburg | 1928 | Harvard University | |
| Leroy Anderson | 1929 | Harvard University | |
| Harry Blackmun | 1929 | Harvard University | |
| Paul S. Dunkin | 1929 | DePauw University | |
| Margaret Burnham Geddes | 1929 | Vassar College | |
| James Michener | 1929 | Swarthmore College | |
| Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. | 1929 | Washington & Lee University | |
| William Fields Carter | 1930 | University of Richmond | Virginia state delegate |
| Nelson Rockefeller | 1930 | Dartmouth College | |
| Jonas Salk | 1930 | City College of New York | |
| Carl Albert | 1931 | University of Oklahoma | |
| Dean Rusk | 1931 | Davidson College | |
| Fred Sington | 1931 | University of Alabama | |
| Edward H. Levi | 1932 | University of Chicago | |
| Eugene O'Neill Jr. | 1932 | Yale University | |
| Eugene V. Rostow | 1932 | Yale University | |
| Barry Wood | 1932 | Harvard University | |
| Paul Weston (as Paul Wetstein) | 1933 | Dartmouth College | |
| Frank Oppenheimer | 1933 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| John Howard | 1934 | Case Western Reserve University | |
| Daniel Boorstin | 1934 | Harvard University | |
| Richard Helms | 1935 | Williams College | |
| T. S. Eliot | 1935 | Harvard University | |
| Samuel Belkin | 1935 | Brown University | |
| Milton Babbitt | 1936 | New York University | |
| Ed Muskie | 1936 | Bates College | |
| Robert McNamara | 1936 | University of California Berkeley | |
| Alan Lomax | 1936 | University of Texas | |
| Potter Stewart | 1937 | Yale University | |
| Byron White | 1937 | University of Colorado | |
| Caspar Weinberger | 1938 | Harvard University | |
| Doris Grumbach | 1939 | New York University | |
| John L. Loos | 1939 | University of Nebraska | |
| Nile Kinnick | 1939 | University of Iowa | |
| Wilma Dykeman | 1940 | Northwestern University | |
| Orville Freeman | 1940 | University of Minnesota | |
| Bernard Epstein | 1940 | New York University | |
| Ella T. Grasso | 1940 | Mount Holyoke College | |
| Allen Ludden | 1940 | University of Texas | |
| Robie Macauley | 1941 | Kenyon College | |
| Ruth Barcan Marcus | 1941 | New York University | |
| Wade H. McCree | 1941 | Fisk University | |
| William Kunstler | 1941 | Yale University | |
| John Paul Stevens | 1941 | University of Chicago | |
| Betty Friedan | 1942 | Smith College | |
| Carl W. Gottschalk | 1942 | Roanoke College | |
| Jade Snow Wong | 1942 | Mills College | |
| George C. Baldwin | 1943 | Kalamazoo College | |
| James F. Howard Jr. | 1943 | Yale University | |
| Phyllis Schlafly | 1943 | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Cid Corman | 1945 | Tufts University | |
| Frank Church | 1947 | Stanford University | |
| Jack St. Clair Kilby | 1947 | University of Illinois | |
| Peter D. Lax | 1947 | New York University | |
| Tom Lehrer | 1947 | Harvard University | |
| Robert Bork | 1948 | University of Chicago | |
| George H. W. Bush | 1948 | Yale University | |
| Edward D. White Jr. | 1948 | Columbia University | |
| Martin Lewis Perl | 1948 | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | |
| William Rehnquist | 1948 | Stanford University | |
| Judith Tobin | 1948 | Mount Holyoke College | |
| Brock Adams | 1949 | Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Bill Naito | 1949 | Reed College | |
| Edward O. Wilson | 1949 | University of Alabama | |
| Jane Dempsey Douglass | c. 1950s | Syracuse University | |
| Henry Kissinger | 1950 | Harvard University | |
| Marv Levy | 1950 | Coe College | |
| William Dickey | 1951 | Reed College | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1951 | Radcliffe College | |
| Susan Sontag | 1951 | University of Chicago | |
| Arlen Specter | 1951 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| David Lee | 1952 | Harvard University | |
| Arthur Levitt | 1952 | Williams College | |
| Stephen Sondheim | 1952 | Williams College | |
| John Shelby Spong | 1952 | University of North Carolina | |
| Guido Calabresi | 1953 | Yale University | |
| Clive Davis | 1953 | New York University | |
| Ronald Dworkin | 1953 | Harvard University | |
| John Hope Franklin | 1953 | Fisk University | |
| Fredric Jameson | 1953 | Haverford College | |
| Paul Donnelly Paganucci | 1953 | Dartmouth College | |
| Thomas R. Pickering | 1953 | Bowdoin College | |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 1954 | Cornell University | |
| Sheldon Glashow | 1954 | Cornell University | |
| Richard Lugar | 1954 | Denison University | |
| Victor Navasky | 1954 | Swarthmore College | |
| Joan Rivers | 1954 | Barnard College | |
| John Updike | 1954 | Harvard University | |
| Steven Weinberg | 1954 | Cornell University | |
| Franklin M. Fisher | 1955 | Harvard University | |
| Ralph Nader | 1955 | Princeton University | |
| Reynolds Price | 1955 | Duke University | |
| John L. Hall | 1956 | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Gloria Steinem | 1956 | Smith College | |
| Akira Iriye | 1957 | Haverford College | |
| Elizabeth Dole | 1958 | Duke University | |
| Anthony Kennedy | 1958 | Stanford University | |
| Kris Kristofferson | 1958 | Pomona College | |
| Joseph Nye | 1958 | Princeton University | |
| Paul Comi | 1958 | University of Southern California | |
| Robert Coleman Richardson | 1958 | Virginia Tech | |
| Stephen Breyer | 1959 | Stanford University | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | 1959 | Hofstra University | |
| John W. Dower | 1959 | Amherst College | |
| Bob Graham | 1959 | University of Florida | |
| Robert Nozick | 1959 | Columbia University | |
| Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. | 1959 | Cornell University | |
| Richard Posner | 1959 | Yale University | |
| Richard Lindzen | 1960 | Harvard University | |
| Robert E. Rubin | 1960 | Harvard University | |
| David H. Souter | 1960 | Harvard University | |
| Daniel Gillespie | 1960 | Rice University | |
| Lester Thurow | 1960 | Williams College | |
| Fay Vincent | 1960 | Williams College | |
| Pat Schroeder | 1961 | University of Minnesota | |
| Sheldon Goldman | 1961 | New York University | |
| Elizabeth Parr-Johnston | 1961 | Wellesley College | |
| Lamar Alexander | 1962 | Vanderbilt University | |
| Tom Brokaw | 1962 | University of South Dakota | |
| Lynne Cheney | 1962 | Colorado College | |
| Robert Christgau | 1962 | Dartmouth College | |
| Edward Ng | 1962 | University of Minnesota | |
| Barack Obama Sr. | 1962 | University of Hawaii | |
| Daniel C. Tsui | 1962 | Augustana College | |
| David L. Boren | 1963 | Yale University | |
| Richard Epstein | 1963 | Columbia University | |
| David Satcher | 1963 | Morehouse College | |
| John Edgar Wideman | 1963 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| James Woolsey | 1963 | Stanford University | |
| David Boies | 1964 | University of Redlands | |
| Michael Crichton | 1964 | Harvard University | |
| Leonard Bernstein | 1964 | Harvard University | |
| Joseph Lieberman | 1964 | Yale University | |
| Angela Davis | 1965 | Brandeis University | |
| Carl Gershman | 1965 | Yale University | |
| Terrence Malick | 1965 | Harvard University | |
| Walter Murch | 1965 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| W. Taylor Reveley III | 1965 | Princeton University | |
| Paul Wellstone | 1965 | University of North Carolina | |
| William Weld | 1966 | Harvard University | |
| Philip Lader | 1966 | Duke University | |
| George Smoot | 1966 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Jane Harman | 1966 | Smith College | |
| John Postlethwait | 1966 | Purdue University | |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | 1967 | California Institute of Technology | |
| Richard Blumenthal | 1967 | Harvard University | |
| Janet Yellen | 1967 | Brown University | |
| Bill Clinton | 1968 | Georgetown University | |
| Michio Kaku | 1968 | Harvard University | |
| John C. Mather | 1968 | Swarthmore College | |
| Henry Paulson | 1968 | Dartmouth College | |
| Isaac Asimov | 1972 | Boston University | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1969 | Barnard College | |
| Jon Corzine | 1969 | University of Illinois | |
| Hugh David Politzer | 1969 | University of Michigan | |
| Frank J. Fabozzi | 1969 | City University of New York | |
| E. Annie Proulx | 1969 | University of Vermont | |
| Steven Chu | 1970 | University of Rochester | |
| Frank Easterbrook | 1970 | Swarthmore College | |
| Mazie Hirono | 1970 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | |
| Frank Wilczek | 1970 | University of Chicago | |
| David Rubenstein | 1970 | Duke University | |
| Louis Freeh | 1971 | Rutgers University | |
| Michael Katze | 1971 | Boston University | |
| Mike Nifong | 1971 | University of North Carolina | |
| Chuck Schumer | 1971 | Harvard University | |
| Pat Quinn | 1971 | Georgetown University | |
| Roger Tsien | 1971 | Harvard University | |
| Nadine Strossen | 1972 | Radcliffe College | |
| Samuel Alito | 1972 | Princeton University | |
| Robert B. Laughlin | 1972 | University of California Berkeley | |
| Jeffrey K. Tulis | 1972 | Bates College | |
| Benazir Bhutto | 1973 | Radcliffe College | |
| Jeb Bush | 1973 | University of Texas | |
| E.J. Dionne | 1973 | Harvard University | |
| Rita Dove | 1973 | Miami University | |
| John N. Kennedy | 1973 | Vanderbilt University | |
| Paul Alan Levy | 1973 | Reed College | |
| Austin Ligon | 1973 | University of Texas | |
| Renée Montagne | 1973 | University of California Berkeley | |
| Diana Nyad | 1973 | Lake Forest College | |
| Carl Wieman | 1973 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Glenn Close | 1974 | College of William & Mary | |
| Christie Hefner | 1974 | Brandeis University | |
| Mark E. Kalmansohn | c. 1974 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Condoleezza Rice | 1974 | University of Denver | |
| Ben Bernanke | 1975 | Harvard University | |
| Susan Collins | 1975 | St. Lawrence University | |
| Griffith R. Harsh | 1975 | Harvard University | |
| Harold Hongju Koh | 1975 | Harvard University | |
| Gale Norton | 1975 | University of Denver | |
| Robert Zoellick | 1975 | Swarthmore College | |
| Michael Burns | 1976 | University of California, Los Angeles | actor and historian |
| Lawrence B. Lindsey | 1976 | Bowdoin College | |
| Jack A. Goldstone | 1976 | Harvard University | |
| Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt | 1976 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| John G. Roberts | 1976 | Harvard University | |
| Sonia Sotomayor | 1976 | Princeton University | |
| Joseph C. Nuesse | 1976 | Catholic University of America | |
| Mark Warner | 1977 | George Washington University | |
| Michael Stuart | 1977 | DePauw University | |
| Jeffrey Vitter | 1977 | University of Notre Dame | |
| Dale Archer | 1978 | Tulane University | |
| Maurice Berger | 1978 | Hunter College | |
| Karen Hughes | 1978 | Southern Methodist University | |
| David Addington | 1978 | Georgetown University | |
| Paula Franzese | 1979 | Barnard College | |
| Debra Lehrmann | 1979 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| David Merritt | 1979 | University of Santa Clara | |
| Mary Lambeth Moore | 1980 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Stavros Lambrinidis | 1984 | Amherst College | |
| Jennifer Granholm | 1980 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Michael R. Barratt | 1981 | University of Washington | |
| Lynn Barry | 1981 | College of William & Mary | |
| Nicholas D. Kristof | 1981 | Harvard University | |
| Elena Kagan | 1981 | Princeton University | |
| I Michael Leitman | 1981 | Boston University | |
| Eliot Spitzer | 1981 | Princeton University | |
| Matthew Kramer | 1981 | Cornell University | |
| Jill Zimmerman | 1981 | Purdue University | |
| George Stephanopoulos | 1982 | Columbia University | |
| Kateryna Yushchenko | 1982 | Georgetown University | |
| Patrick Fitzgerald | 1982 | Amherst College | |
| David Duchovny | 1982 | Princeton University | |
| Jeffrey W. Legro | 1982 | Middlebury College | |
| Jean Rhodes | 1983 | University of Vermont | |
| Christopher Eisgruber | 1983 | Princeton University | |
| Miguel Estrada | 1983 | Columbia University | |
| Dinesh D'Souza | 1983 | Dartmouth College | |
| Christiane Amanpour | 1983 | University of Rhode Island | |
| Lisa Randall | 1984 | Harvard University | |
| Lee Siegel | 1984 | Columbia University | |
| Eric Allin Cornell | 1985 | Stanford University | |
| Ken Stern | 1985 | Haverford College | |
| Daniel Pearl | 1985 | Stanford University | |
| Carol Queen | 1985 | University of Oregon | |
| Anne Applebaum | 1986 | Yale University | |
| Jeff Bezos | 1986 | Princeton University | |
| Sabine Hyland | 1986 | Cornell University | |
| Susan Rice | 1986 | Stanford University | |
| Rafael Resendes | 1987 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Laura J. Snyder | 1987 | Brandeis University | |
| Paul Clement | 1988 | Georgetown University | |
| Neil Gorsuch | 1988 | Princeton University | |
| KellyAnne Conway | 1989 | Trinity Washington University | |
| Eudora Welty | 1989 | Millsaps College | |
| Ashley Judd | 1990 | University of Kentucky | |
| Rosa Brooks | 1990 | Harvard University | |
| Joshua Redman | 1991 | Harvard University | |
| Paul Adelstein | 1991 | Bowdoin College | |
| Peter R. Orszag | 1991 | Princeton University | |
| Carson Kressley | 1991 | Gettysburg College | |
| Jimmy Carter | 1991 | Kansas State University | |
| Dena Grayson | 1991 | University of Florida | |
| Julie Story Byerley | 1992 | Rhodes College | |
| Doris Eaton Travis | 1992 | University of Oklahoma | |
| Danielle Allen | 1993 | Princeton University | |
| Benjamin Radford | 1993 | University of New Mexico | |
| Stephanie Herseth Sandlin | 1993 | Georgetown University | |
| Amit Mehta | 1993 | Georgetown University | |
| Bobby Jindal | 1993 | Brown University | |
| Matt Sherman | 1994 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Amy Coney Barrett | 1994 | Rhodes College | |
| Robb LaKritz | 1994 | University of Michigan | |
| Burton Rocks | 1994 | Stony Brook University | |
| Mamphela Ramphele | 1994 | Harvard University | |
| James Kerwin | 1995 | Texas Christian University | |
| Griff Aldrich | 1996 | Hampden-Sydney College | |
| Matthew Kleban | 1996 | Reed College | |
| Andrew Mueller | 1996 | University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| Dan O'Brien | 1996 | Middlebury College | playwright |
| Emily Bergl | 1997 | Grinnell College | |
| Richard Carrier | 1997 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Susan Haack | 1997 | University of Miami | |
| Peyton Manning | 1997 | University of Tennessee | |
| Michael Schur | 1997 | Harvard University | |
| Ro Khanna | 1998 | University of Chicago | |
| Kerry Washington | 1998 | George Washington University | |
| Sufjan Stevens | 1998 | Hope College | |
| Brad Delson | 1999 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Rita Ng | 2000 | Stanford University | |
| Heidi Cruz | 2000 | Claremont McKenna College | |
| Holly A. Thomas | 2000 | Stanford University | |
| Brianna Keilar | 2001 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Josh Hawley | 2002 | Stanford University | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 2004 | Harvard University | |
| Ben Shapiro | 2004 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Rivers Cuomo | 2006 | Harvard University | |
| Oludamini Ogunnaike | 2007 | Harvard University | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy | 2007 | Harvard University | |
| Isaiah Andrews | 2009 | Yale College | |
| Lena Park | 2010 | Columbia University | |
| Kurt Hugo Schneider | 2010 | Yale University | |
| Annie E. Clark | 2011 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Tamar Kaprelian | 2016 | Columbia University | |
| Sylvia Swayne | 2019 | University of Alabama | |
| Amanda Gorman | 2020 | Harvard University | |

## Honorary members

* Name
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Leonard Bernstein
* Barbara Bush
* Jimmy Carter
* Rosalynn Carter
* Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Calvin Coolidge
* John Hope Franklin
* R. Buckminster Fuller
* Susan Haack
* Rutherford B. Hayes
* David Johnston
* Helen Keller
* Sandra Day O'Connor
* Mary Oliver
* Mamphela Ramphele
* John D. Rockefeller
* Fred Rogers
* Eleanor Roosevelt
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Anne Sexton
* Harry S. Truman
* Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
* Booker T. Washington
* Woodrow Wilson

## Fictional members

* Ellis Loew, fictional District Attorney in James Ellroy's novels The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential, is a member and he shows his key several times.
* Thomas Crown, title character of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair, toys with his golden Phi Beta Kappa key which he is wearing on a chain. It is stated that he is an alumnus of Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.
* Richard Sumner, the main character of the movie Desk Set (1957), is mentioned as a member when Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) reels off Sumner's character's accomplishments and says that he's a graduate of M.I.T. with a Ph.D. in Science and a Phi Beta Kappa, although he doesn't wear his key, which means either that he's modest or he lost it.
* Harry Bailey in the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is greeted at the train station by George and Uncle Billy as “Professor Phi Beta Kappa Harry Bailey,” implying he is a member.
* Charley Bordelon West in TV show Queen Sugar is a member. This is referenced when she has to correct someone who incorrectly refers to it as a social fraternity.
* Rory Gilmore, the title character of the TV show Gilmore Girls, is referenced as a member of Emily and Richard Gilmore's graduation musical duo.
* Emily Sweeney in TV show The Big Bang Theory is revealed as a Phi Beta Kappa member. It is said to have been apparent on her online dating profile viewed by Rajesh Koothrappali. Also, Sheldon Cooper has a frame of Phi Beta Kappa in his office, suggesting that he is a member.
* Gavin Stevens, the protagonist of several pieces by William Faulkner exhibits the Phi Beta Kappa key from Harvard in the stories "Hand Upon the Water", "An Error in Chemistry" and "Knight's Gambit".
* Niles Crane of the TV show Frasier is a member.
* Greg Sanders of the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a member.