# List of Beta Theta Pi members

This is a list of notable members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

## Academia

| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Peter H. Armacost | Denison 1957 | President of Eckerd College |
| Thomas A. Bartlett | Willamette 1951 | Rhodes Scholar; Former chancellor of the University of Alabama System |
| David Ross Boyd | Wooster 1878 | First president of the University of Oklahoma and fifth president of the University of New Mexico |
| Paul Bragdon | Amherst 1950 | President of Reed College |
| James S. Buchanan | Cumberland 1885 | Fourth president of the University of Oklahoma |
| Thomas P. Courtice | Ohio Wesleyan | Former president of Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Stanley Coulter | Hanover 1870 | Former dean of Purdue University |
| John Crecine | Carnegie Mellon 1961 | Former president of Georgia Tech |
| William H. Danforth | Westminster 1948 | Former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis |
| James J. Duderstadt | Yale 1964 | Former president of the University of Michigan |
| Joseph Dupuy Eggleston | Hampden-Sydney 1886 | Former president of Virginia Tech |
| Robert F. Engle | Williams 1964 | Nobel Prize winner; Currently co-director of the Volatility and Risk Institute at NYU Stern |
| Robin Hugh Farquhar | British Columbia 1960 | Former president of Carleton University |
| Carl Russell Fish | Harvard 1900 | Former historian of the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thomas P. Gerrity | MIT 1963 | Former dean of the Wharton School of Business |
| William Pratt Graham | Syracuse 1903 | Former chancellor of Syracuse University |
| Andrew Dousa Hepburn | Washington & Jefferson 1852 | Former president of Miami University |
| Alexander Q. Holladay | Virginia 1859 | Former president of North Carolina State University |
| John S. Hougham | Wabash 1846 | Former president of Purdue University |
| Alfred Hume | Vanderbilt | Former chancellor of the University of Mississippi |
| Charles Keeler | UC Berkeley 1893 | Former director of the California Academy of Sciences |
| Deane Waldo Malott | Kansas 1921 | Former chancellor of the University of Kansas and president of Cornell University |
| William Alexander Parsons Martin | Indiana 1846 | Former president of the Tongwenguan and the Imperial University of Peking |
| David T. McLaughlin | Dartmouth 1954 | Former president of Dartmouth College |
| Dale T. Mortensen | Willamette 1961 | Nobel Prize winner; Former co-founding editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics |
| Franklin David Murphy | Kansas 1936 | Former chancellor of the University of Kansas and UCLA |
| James Kennedy Patterson | Hanover 1856 | First president of the University of Kentucky |
| Steven Sample | Illinois 1958 | Former president of the University of Southern California |
| James M. Sellers | Chicago 1917 | Former president of Wentworth Military Academy |
| Charles N. Sims | DePauw 1859 | Former chancellor of Syracuse University |
| Edgar F. Shannon Jr. | Washington and Lee 1939 | Former president of the University of Virginia |
| David Stanton Tappan | Miami 1864 | Former president of Miami University |
| George H. Whipple | Yale 1905 | Nobel Prize winner; Founding dean of URMC |
| Timothy M. Wolfe | Missouri 1980 | Former president of the University of Missouri System |

## Art

| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| George Bellows | Ohio State 1905 | Realist painter considered one of the most acclaimed artist of his generation |
| Bernard Berenson | Boston / Harvard 1887 | Art historian |
| Barry Bishop | Cincinnati 1951 | Photographer for National Geographic |
| Douglas Cramer | Cincinnati 1953 | Leading collector of contemporary art and co-founder of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art |
| Jay Norwood Darling | Beloit 1899 | Cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes and founder of the National Wildlife Federation |

## Astronauts

* Captain Paul Weitz Pilot on Skylab 2, Commander on STS-6, Penn State
* Joseph P. Allen Mission Specialist on STS-5, STS-51-A Depauw
* Colonel Ken Cameron Pilot on STS-37, Commander on STS-56, STS-74, MIT
* Senator Bill Nelson Mission Specialist on STS-61-C, Florida/Yale
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Joseph P. Allen | DePauw 1959 | Former astronaut; Space Flight Executive; Senior Scientist Astronaut; Mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery |
| Kenneth D. Cameron | MIT 1971 | Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); pilot for STS-37 mission aboard Atlantis (STS-37); commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia |
| Bill Nelson | Florida 1964 (1961–63) / Yale 1965 (1963–65) | Former US Congressman (D-FL), former senior US Senator from Florida (D-FL); not a professional career astronaut, but while a US congressman representing the congressional district including Kennedy Space Center, flew as a payload specialist on Columbia (STS-61C); the second sitting member of the US Congress to fly in space as part of a NASA initiative prior to the Challenger (STS-51L) disaster |
| Paul J. Weitz | Penn State 1954 | Former astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; former deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |

## Business

* Sam Walton Founder of Wal-Mart, Missouri
* Charles Koch Chairman/CEO of Koch Industries, MIT
* Sam Palmisano Chairman/CEO of IBM, Johns Hopkins
* Steven Rales Co-founder of Danaher Corporation, Depauw
* Donald Petersen CEO of Ford Motor Company, Washington
* Frank Shrontz Chairman/CEO of the Boeing Company, Idaho
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Joe M. Allbaugh | Oklahoma State 1974 | Founder of the Allbaugh Company; Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when in Federal government service |
| John Edward Anderson | UCLA 1940 | Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management |
| Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. | California 1923 | Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group |
| Bill Bowerman | Oregon 1933 | Founder of Nike, Inc. |
| Donald Bren | Washington 1955 | Billionaire; owner of The Irvine Company |
| Dan Carney | Wichita State 1953 | Co-founder of Pizza Hut |
| Douglas Clayton | Cornell 1982 | CEO of Leopard Capital |
| Arthur D. Collins Jr. | Miami 1969 | CEO of Medtronic 2002–2008 |
| William Cook | Northwestern 1953 | Billionaire; founder of the Cook Group |
| David Coulter | Carnegie Mellon 1971 | Former chairman and chief executive officer of BankAmerica Corporation |
| Ernest Kent Coulter | Ohio State 1892 | Founder, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America |
| Justin Dart | Northwestern 1929 | Founder of Dart Industries |
| Chris DeWolfe | Washington 1988 | CEO of Myspace.com |
| David Duffield | Cornell 1962 | President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc. |
| William Esrey | Denison 1961 | President and CEO of Sprint |
| Weldon B. Gibson | Washington State University 1938 | Executive at SRI International |
| Joel Hyatt | Dartmouth 1972 | Founder of Hyatt Legal Services |
| Edgar Kaiser | Stanford 1965 | Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia |
| Shahid Khan | Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1971 | Owner of Illinois auto parts company Flex-N-Gate; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Charles G. Koch | MIT 1957 | Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries |
| Alan Ladd Jr. | Southern California | Former president of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment |
| Samuel Laws | Miami University 1848 | Inventor of the ticker tape machine |
| Kenneth Lay | Missouri 1967 | Former chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse |
| R. Conrad Leslie | Miami University 1949 | World renowned crop analyst |
| Alexander F. Mathews | Virginia 1856 | Early West Virginia banker |
| Hugh McColl | North Carolina 1957 | Chairman and CEO of Bank of America |
| Steve Miller | Southern California 1966 | President of Dean Witter Reynolds |
| J. C. Nichols | Kansas 1902 | Real estate |
| Daniel Ninivaggi | Columbia 1986 | CEO of Lordstown Motors and chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul |
| Bruce Nordstrom | Washington 1955 | Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom |
| John Opel | Westminster 1948 | Former president of IBM |
| Sam Palmisano | Johns Hopkins 1973 | CEO of IBM |
| John H. Patterson | Miami University 1867 | Founder of National Cash Register |
| William Pennington | UC Berkeley 1945 | Co-founder of Circus Circus Casino |
| Donald Petersen | Washington 1946 | Former CEO of the Ford Motor Company |
| Marvin Pierce | Miami University 1916 | President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush |
| Mitchell Rales | Miami University 1978 | Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher Corporation |
| Steven Rales | DePauw 1973 | Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher |
| Steven Rogel | Washington 1965 | CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company |
| Frank Shrontz | Idaho 1954 | Past Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company |
| Jeffrey Skilling | Southern Methodist 1975 | Former CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse |
| Kenneth A. Spencer | Kansas 1921 | Founder, President, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company |
| Robert K. Steel | Duke 1973 | Former president and CEO of Wachovia |
| G. Kennedy Thompson | North Carolina 1973 | CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard |
| Sam Walton | Missouri 1940 | Founder of Wal-Mart |
| Fred Wilson | MIT 1983 | Venture capitalist and prominent blogger |
| Thornton Wilson | Iowa State 1942 | Chairman emeritus of the Boeing Co. |
| John D. Zeglis | University of Illinois 1969 | Former chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless |

## Entertainment

* James Arness Actor Gunsmoke Beloit
* George Bellows Artist Ohio State
* George Peppard Actor Breakfast at Tiffany's and The A-Team Purdue
* Adam West Actor Batman and Family Guy Whitman
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| James Arness | Beloit 1946 | Actor known for portraying Matt Dillon in the TV series Gunsmoke |
| Bix Beiderbecke | Iowa (pledged 1925, not initiated) | Jazz musician |
| Steve Bellamy | Indiana University 1986 | Entrepreneur in sports and entertainment known for founding several niche cable TV networks |
| John Boles | Texas 1917 | Actor known for playing Victor Moritz in Frankenstein |
| Jackson Bostwick | Alabama 1965 | Actor known for portraying Captain Marvel in the TV series Shazam! |
| Kyle Brandt | Princeton 2001 | TV host, media personality, and actor |
| Thom Brennaman | Ohio 1986 | TV sportscaster |
| Phil Brown | Stanford 1937 | Actor known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars |
| Robert Butler | UCLA 1950 | Emmy Award-winning TV director |
| Jay Chandrasekhar | Colgate 1990 | Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard |
| Lloyd Corrigan | UC Berkeley 1922 | Actor who appeared in more than 90 films, including The Manchurian Candidate |
| John Doman | Pennsylvania 1966 | Actor known for playing William Rawls in the TV series The Wire |
| Bergen Evans | Miami 1924 | Rhodes scholar and TV personality who won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting |
| Neil Everett | Willamette / Oregon 1984 | Anchor of SportsCenter |
| Chet Forte | Columbia 1957 | TV director known for Monday Night Football |
| Pat Green | Texas Tech 1995 | Country music artist |
| Cary Guffey | Florida 1994 | Actor known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Leigh Harline | Utah 1929 | Film composer and songwriter; won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| Kevin Heffernan | Colgate | Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard |
| Horace Heidt | UC Berkeley 1924 | Pianist, big band leader, and radio and TV personality |
| Foster Hewitt | Toronto 1925 | Radio broadcaster known for Hockey Night in Canada |
| Griffin House | Miami 2002 | Singer-songwriter |
| Chuck Howard | Duke 1955 | Emmy Award-winning producer known for Wide World of Sports; member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame |
| Sidney Howard | UC Berkeley 1912 | Playwright and screenwriter; received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind |
| Jeffrey Jones | Lawrence 1968 | Actor known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| Richard Karn | Washington 1978 | Actor known for Home Improvement |
| Burt Kwouk | Bowdoin 1953 | Actor known for his role as Cato in The Pink Panther film series |
| Steve Lemme | Colgate | Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard |
| Daniel Lindsay | Missouri 2001 | Filmmaker known for the Oscar-winning sports documentary Undefeated |
| David Lloyd | Colgate 1983 | Anchor for SportsCenter |
| Pare Lorentz | West Virginia 1926 | Filmmaker considered to be the father of the modern documentary |
| David Martin | Yale 1965 | TV correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News |
| Walter Massey | MIT 1951 | Actor known for Arthur and the English version of The Mysterious Cities of Gold |
| Les Mayfield | Southern California 1982 | Film director known for Encino Man and Blue Streak |
| Max Morath | Colorado College 1947 | Ragtime pianist |
| Edward P. Morgan | Whitman 1932 | Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956 |
| William R. Moses | Wesleyan 1982 | Actor known for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest |
| Kenyon Nicholson | Wabash 1917 | Playwright and screenwriter |
| Lance Norris | Whitman 1984 | Actor and writer |
| Frank Pacelli | Illinois 1948 | Emmy Award-winning director known for The Young and the Restless |
| George Peppard | Purdue 1952 | Actor known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and the TV series The A-Team |
| Robert Pine | Ohio Wesleyan 1963 | Actor known for the TV series CHiPs |
| Robert Reed | Northwestern 1954 | Actor known for portraying Mike Brady in the TV series The Brady Bunch |
| David Richmond-Peck | Western Ontario 1996 | Actor who has appeared in over 70 film and TV roles, including She's The Man and Battlestar Galactica |
| Rivers Rutherford | Mississippi 1989 | Country music songwriter who has composed several number one hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn |
| Steve Sholes | Rutgers 1933 | Recording executive and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| Jeremy Slate | St. Lawrence 1952 | Actor known for The Sons of Katie Elder, the TV series The Aquanauts, and the soap opera One Life to Live |
| Stephen Sondheim | Williams 1950 | Composer and lyricist known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and West Side Story |
| Paul Soter | Colgate | Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard |
| Erik Stolhanske | Colgate 1991 | Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard |
| Jess Thomas | Nebraska 1948 | Operatic tenor known for singing Wagner compositions |
| Erland Van Lidth De Jeude | MIT 1976 | Actor known for The Wanderers and Stir Crazy |
| Doodles Weaver | Stanford 1937 | Character actor, comedian, and musician who hosted the variety TV show The Doodles Weaver Show |
| Robb Weller | Washington 1972 | TV personality and game show host known for Entertainment Tonight and Win, Lose or Draw |
| Adam West | Whitman 1951 | Actor known for Batman and Family Guy |
| Brian J. White | Dartmouth | Actor known for Stomp the Yard |
| Christopher Woodrow | Alabama 1999 | Hollywood movie producer known for Birdman, Black Mass, and Hacksaw Ridge |
| Paul Worley | Vanderbilt 1972 | Record producer who discovered the Dixie Chicks and produced the Grammy Award-winning album Own the Night for Lady Antebellum |

## Law

| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| David Josiah Brewer | Wesleyan 1955 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Willis Van Devanter | DePauw 1881 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Charles Douglas III | Wesleyan 1964 | Former US Representative from New Hampshire and New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice |
| William O. Douglas | Whitman 1920 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Fred Gause | Indiana 1900 | Former Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court |
| Charles H. Haden II | Oklahoma 1956 | Former US Federal Judge |
| John Marshall Harlan | Centre 1850 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Frank Smithwick Hogan | Columbia 1924 | Former New York County District Attorney |
| Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr. | Missouri 1951 | Former Judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and President of the Missouri Bar Association |
| Horace Lurton | Cumberland 1867 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Samuel Taylor Marshall | Ohio 1839 | Former Attorney and Co-Founder of Beta Theta Pi |
| Ralph O. Olson | Carleton 1922 | Former Washington Supreme Court justice |
| John Sopinka | Toronto 1958 | Former Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada |
| Edwin K. Steers | Indiana 1937 | Former Indiana Attorney General |
| Kimbrough Stone | Missouri 1895 | Former Judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit |
| Ralph G. Thompson | Oklahoma 1956 | Former US Federal Judge |
| Hosea Townsend | Western Reserve 1864 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| William B. Woods | Western Reserve 1841 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Wendell Wyatt | Oregon 1939 | Former US Representative from Oregon |

## Literature and journalism

* Ding Darling Pulitzer Prize Winner Beloit
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Bert Andrews | Stanford 1925 | Washington-based reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who won a Pulitzer Prize |
| James O'Donnell Bennett | Michigan 1893 | Journalist known for writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Record-Herald |
| Main Bocher | Chicago 1911 | Fashion designer and editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue |
| Percy Jewett Burrell | Boston 1897 | Dramatist and playwright |
| Byron Calame | Missouri 1961 | Journalist and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal |
| Dick Durrell | Minnesota 1950 | Former publisher of People magazine |
| Howard Fineman | Colgate 1970 | Journalist and TV commentator; global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group |
| George Helgesen Fitch | Knox College 1897 | Author and journalist |
| Sam Walter Foss | Brown 1882 | Poet known for The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American |
| David Hirshey | Dickinson 1971 | Book editor who served as senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins |
| Richard Hooker | Bowdoin 1945 | Writer and surgeon known for his novel MASH |
| L. D. Hotchkiss | Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916 | Newspaper journalist who served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times |
| Kermit Hunter | Ohio 1931 | Author and playwright |
| Russell Janney | Yale 1906 | Theatrical producer and author known for his 1946 best-selling novel The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948 |
| Ken Kesey | Oregon 1957 | Author known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1975 |
| Laird Koenig | Washington 1949 | Author known for his 1974 novel The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, which was made into a film of the same name in 1976. |
| David Lamb | Maine 1962 | Writer who traveled the world for 25 years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent |
| Charles Wesley Leffingwell | Knox | Author who served as editor of The Living Church magazine |
| Norman Fitzroy Maclean | Dartmouth 1924 | Author known for his 1976 novel A River Runs Through It, which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1992 |
| Karl Marlantes | Yale 1967 | Author known for the novel Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War |
| Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard | Missouri 1888 | Journalist and newspaper editor; founder of the China Weekly Review and author of seven influential books on the Far East |
| Harry Allen Overstreet | California 1899 | Writer and author of known for the best-selling book The Mature Mind |
| Albert Shaw | Johns Hopkins 1884 | Journalist who was the founder and editor of The American Review of Reviews |
| Bob Thomas | UCLA 1943 | Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press |
| Frederick N. Ward | Florida 1957 | Photojournalist |
| Robert Wilson | Texas 1963 | New York City-based playwright, Obie Award winner for direction, and Olivier Award winner for Best New Opera |
| John Sergeant Wise | Virginia 1867 | Author of The End of an Era |

## Military

* Lieutenant David Waybur Medal of Honor Recipient, UC Berkeley
* Brigadier General John Coburn U.S. Representative, Wabash
* Lieutenant Terrence Graves Medal of Honor Recipient, Miami
* Major General Omar Bundy Legion of Honour Recipient, Depauw
* Colonel Matt Quay Medal of Honor Recipient, U.S. Senator, Washington and Jefferson
* Major Thomas McGuire Medal of Honor Recipient, Georgia Tech
* Major Jonathan Letterman Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, Washington and Jefferson
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Jerry M. Blesch | Centre 1960 (1956–58) / US Naval Academy 1962 (1958–62) | Captain, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile frigate USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5); commanding officer of destroyer tender USS Puget Sound (AD-38); commander of Destroyer Squadron 25; (e.g., commodore of COMDESRON 25), to include acting as on scene commander of US military forces following the Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007; commanding officer of battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64); following retirement from the U.S. Navy, served as general secretary of Beta Theta Pi; namesake of the fraternity's Jerry M. Blesch General Secretary Leadership Award |
| George M. Browning Jr. | UCLA 1952 | Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force |
| Omar Bundy | DePauw 1881 | Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152) |
| Kenneth D. Cameron | MIT 1971 | Colonel, US Marine Corps (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; currently a NASA management astronaut; pilot for STS-37 mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis; commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia (also see "Astronauts" section) |
| John Coburn | Wabash 1846 | Brigadier General, Union Army; during the Civil War, led the first Union Army troops into the city of Atlanta during the Battle of Atlanta; founder of the Wabash College Chapter |
| Donald L. Cromer | Washington State 1958 (1954–55) / US Naval Academy 1959 (1955–59) | Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.), Master Missile Operations Officer; Master Space Operations Officer; Commander of Space Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command; 2010 recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Enoch Crowder | Missouri 1887 / US Military Academy 1881 | Major General, US Army; Judge Advocate General of the US Army; US Army Provost Marshall General; oversaw the drafting and administration of the Selective Service Act of 1917; US Ambassador to Cuba |
| Mark Divine | Colgate 1985 | Commander, US Navy (Ret.), Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer; founder of NavySEALs.com and SEAL FIT |
| John Perry Edwards | Kansas 1939 | Ensign, US Naval Reserve, Naval Aviator, awarded Navy Cross for valor during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Eric Erickson | Cornell 1921 | Technically not a member of the US armed forces, but as a Swedish national served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; provided key information that led to the aerial bombing of Nazi oil fields by USAAF and RAF aircraft |
| George Benson Fox | Ohio Wesleyan 1861 | Major, US Army 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - American Civil War. Later American businessman and member Ohio General Assembly |
| Gerald E. Gneckow | Idaho 1960 | Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-36); commanding officer of guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20); commanding officer of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61);commander of US Naval Forces South |
| John Brown Gordon | Georgia 1854 | Major General, Confederate States Army; US Senator; Governor of Georgia |
| Terrence C. Graves | Miami 1967 | 2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War |
| Dudley Jackson Hard | Wooster 1893 | Major General, US Army (Ohio Army National Guard); left private business to enlist as a private during the Spanish–American War; was later commissioned as an officer, commanded the 135th Field Artillery as a colonel during World War I; retired in 1936 as a major general commanding the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard; became the first county commander of the American Legion in Ohio |
| James Wallace Haverfield | Ohio State 1939 | Ensign, US Naval Reserve; killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; namesake of USS Haverfield (DE-393) / (DER-393) |
| Joe W. Kelly | DePauw 1931 (1927–1928) / US Military Academy 1932 (1928–32) | General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later flew as a B-29 Superfortress, B-50 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker pilot and commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units in the late 1940s and 1950s; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Jonathan Letterman | Washington & Jefferson 1845 | Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the former Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco |
| Frank S. Lomax | Nebraska 1939 (1935–36) / US Naval Academy 1940 (1936–40) | Ensign, US Navy, killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Daniel McCleary | Miami 1844 | Lieutenant, US Army; killed in 1847 during the Mexican–American War; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to die in combat |
| James Rogers McConnell | Virginia 1910 | Sergeant and fighter pilot, Lafayette Escadrille; French Croix de Guerre recipient; one of the first Americans to die in World War I. Today, brothers of McConnell's fraternity, the Omicron of Beta Theta Pi, remember his exploits in song and memorialize the fallen aviator every year on March 19 with an all-day color guard and a memorial ceremony. |
| Thomas McGuire | Georgia Tech 1944 | Major, US Army Air Forces; Pilot; P-38 Lightning fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and three awards of the Silver Star; killed in action during a fighter sweep of the central Philippines, 7 Jan 1945; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey |
| Marvin L. McNickle | South Dakota 1936 | Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; commander, 314th Troop Carrier Wing; commander, 9th Air Force; commander, 13th Air Force |
| Emory Jenison Pike | Iowa Wesleyan 1899 (1895–97) / US Military Academy 1901 (1897–1901) | Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I |
| Everett P. Pope | Bowdoin 1941 | Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II |
| Matthew Stanley Quay | Washington & Jefferson 1850 | Colonel, Union Army; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to be awarded the Medal of Honor; MOH awarded for heroic actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 (also see "Government and politics" section) |
| William B. Rosson | Oregon 1940 | General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; deputy commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; commander in chief, US Southern Command |
| Thomas E. Schaefer | Lehigh 1953 | Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; highest-ranking US military officer (Colonel, USAF) held captive during the 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis at the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 1979–1981 |
| John Taliaferro Thompson | Indiana 1881 (1877–1878) / US Military Academy 1882 (1878–1882) | Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (aka "Tommy Gun") |
| David C. Waybur | UC Berkeley 1942 | 1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart |
| Paul J. Weitz | Penn State 1954 | Captain, US Navy (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for space shuttle STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; retired from NASA as deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (also see "Astronauts" section) |

## Politics

* Vice President Schuyler Colfax
* Senator John Warner, Washington and Lee
* Governor Charles Henry Hardin, Miami
* Senator Richard Lugar, Denison
* Speaker of the House Joseph Byrns, Vanderbilt
* Governor Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma State
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Theodore Achilles | Stanford 1925 | Former US Ambassador to Peru |
| Joe Allbaugh | Oklahoma State 1974 | Former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
| John M. Allen | Cumberland 1869 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. | Wabash 1892 | Former US Representative from Massachusetts |
| William Hepburn Armstrong | Princeton 1847 | Former US Representative from Pennsylvania |
| Owen Aspinall | Denison 1949 | Former governor of American Samoa |
| Wayne N. Aspinall | Denver 1919 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles M. Bakewell | California 1889 | Former US Representative from Connecticut |
| George Thomas Barnes | Georgia 1853 | Former US Representative from Georgia |
| Lewis O. Barrows | Maine 1916 | Former governor of Maine |
| John L. Bates | Boston 1882 | Former governor of Massachusetts |
| Albert Beach | Kansas 1905 | Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Jack Beall | Texas 1890 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| James A. Beaver | Washington and Jefferson 1856 | Former governor of Pennsylvania |
| James T. Begg | Wooster 1903 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Michael Bennet | Wesleyan 1987 | US Senator from Colorado |
| Thomas Warren Bennett | DePauw 1855 | Former US Representative from Idaho; former governor of Idaho Territory |
| Dr. Ami Bera | UC Irvine 1987 | US Representative from California |
| Albert Seaton Berry | Miami 1856 | Former US Representative from Kentucky |
| Richard Whiting Blue | Washington and Jefferson 1864 | Former US Representative from Kansas |
| Thomas H. Boggs | Tulane 1935 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Newton Booth | DePauw 1846 | Former US Senator from California; former governor of California |
| William Borah | Kansas 1884 | Former US Senator from Idaho; former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| Henry S. Boutell | Iowa 1873 | Former US Representative from North Dakota; former Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Switzerland |
| Emmett Forest Branch | Indiana 1896 | Former governor of Indiana |
| Louis Jefferson Brann | Maine 1898 | Former governor of Maine |
| Donald G. Brotzman | Colorado 1943 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles H. Brough | Johns Hopkins 1898 | Former governor of Arkansas |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Transylvania 1846 | Former US Senator from Kentucky |
| John Young Brown | Centre 1855 | Former US Representative from Kentucky; former governor of Kentucky |
| Norris Brown | Iowa 1883 | Former US Senator from Nebraska |
| Webster E. Brown | Wisconsin 1874 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Henry A. Buchtel | DePauw 1872 | Former governor of Colorado |
| Joseph Ralph Burton | Hanover 1873 | Former US Senator from Kansas |
| John Marshall Butler | Johns Hopkins 1921 | Former US Senator from Maryland |
| William D. Bynum | Indiana 1869 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. | Vanderbilt 1890 | Former US Representative from Tennessee; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives |
| Ezekial Samuel Candler Jr. | Mississippi 1881 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Rush Clark | Washington and Jefferson 1853 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Frank G. Clarke | Dartmouth 1873 | Former US Representative from New Hampshire |
| Isaac Clements | DePauw 1859 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| John Coburn | Wabash 1846 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Schuyler Colfax | DePauw 1854 | Former US Representative from Indiana; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives; former Vice President of the United States |
| Chuck Colson | Brown 1953 | Former Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator |
| Daniel Webster Comstock | Ohio Wesleyan 1860 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| John Sherman Cooper | Centre / Yale 1923 | Former US Senator from Kentucky; former US Ambassador to India, Nepal and West Germany |
| Norris Henry Cotton | Wesleyan 1923 | Former US Senator from New Hampshire |
| William S. Cowherd | Missouri 1881 | Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri; former US Representative from Missouri |
| William B. Cravens | Missouri 1893 | Former US Representative from Arkansas |
| Thomas T. Crittenden Jr. | Missouri 1882 | Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| George Washington Cromer | Indiana 1882 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Charles Crosby | Western Reserve 1897 | Former US Representative from Pennsylvania |
| Enoch Herbert Crowder | Missouri 1886 | Former US Ambassador to Cuba |
| Lee Cruce | Vanderbilt 1885 | Former governor of Oklahoma |
| William Cumback | DePauw 1853 | Former US Representative from Indiana; former lieutenant governor of Indiana |
| John Anthony Danaher | Yale 1920 | Former US Senator from Connecticut |
| John E. Davis | North Dakota 1935 | Former governor from North Dakota |
| Donald Dawson | Missouri 1932 | Former aide to President Harry S. Truman; former curator of the Truman Presidential Library |
| Mark Lindsey De Motte | DePauw 1853 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| David Dewhurst | Arizona 1967 | 41st lieutenant governor of Texas |
| Robert Docking | Kansas 1946 | Former governor of Kansas; former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Ozro J. Dodds | Miami 1861 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Robert J. Dold | Denison 1991 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| John E. Dolibois | Miami 1942 | Former US Ambassador to Luxembourg |
| Charles Douglas III | Wesleyan 1964 | Former US Representative from New Hampshire; New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice |
| Adolph Dubs | Beloit 1942 | Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| Anthony S. Earl | Michigan State 1958 | Former governor of Wisconsin |
| Harvey J. Eckley | Washington & Jefferson 1868 | judge and member of Ohio Senate |
| Alonzo Jay Edgerton | Wesleyan 1850 | Former US Senator from Minnesota |
| Paul Carrington Edmunds | Virginia 1856 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| Samuel Hitt Elbert | Ohio Wesleyan 1854 | Former governor of the then-Colorado Territory |
| William Elliott | Virginia 1858 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Ezekiel John Ellis | Centenary 1859 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Robert Ellsworth | Kansas 1946 | Former US Representative from Kansas, former advisor to the president and former US Permanent Representative to NATO under President Richard M. Nixon; former Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford |
| Joseph S. Farland | West Virginia 1938 | Former US Ambassador to Dominican Republic, Panama, Iran and Pakistan |
| Joseph R. Farrington | Wisconsin 1919 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Wallace R. Farrington | Maine 1891 | Former governor of the Territory of Hawaii |
| Charles James Faulkner | V.M.I. / Virginia 1868 | Former US Senator from West Virginia |
| W. Mark Felt | Idaho 1935 | Former Associate Director of the FBI; exposed the Nixon administration's corruption as "Deep Throat" |
| Scott Field | Virginia 1868 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| David R. Francis | Washington University in St. Louis 1870 | Former mayor of St. Louis; former governor of Missouri; former US Secretary of the Interior; former US Ambassador to Russia; president of Louisiana Purchase Exposition |
| Bob Franks | DePauw 1973 | Former US Representative from New Jersey |
| William E. Fuller | Iowa 1870 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Samuel Galloway | Miami 1855 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Richard Gephardt | Northwestern 1962 | Former US Representative from Missouri; former US House Minority Leader |
| John (Jack) V. Geraghty | Washington 1956 | Former mayor of Spokane, Washington |
| John Milton Glover | Washington University in St. Louis 1871 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Abe McGregor Goff | Idaho 1922 | Former US Representative from Idaho |
| Stephen Goldsmith | Wabash 1968 | Former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana |
| John Brown Gordon | Georgia 1854 | Major General in CSA; former US Senator from Georgia; former governor of Georgia |
| Miles Tobey Granger | Wesleyan 1842 | Former US Representative from Connecticut |
| Levi Thomas Griffin | Michigan 1857 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| George Blackmore Guild | Cumberland 1855 | Former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee |
| Steven Gunderson | Wisconsin 1973 | Former US House Representative from Wisconsin |
| William T. Haines | Maine 1876 | Former governor of Maine |
| H. R. Haldeman | UCLA 1948 | Former White House Chief of Staff under President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator |
| Benton Jay Hall | Miami 1855 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Charles Abraham Halleck | Indiana 1922 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| John Hanna | DePauw 1858 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Michael F. Harcourt | British Columbia 1963 | Former premier of British Columbia; former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Charles Henry Hardin | Miami 1841 | Former governor of Missouri |
| James Harlan | DePauw 1845 | Former US Senator from Iowa; former US Secretary of the Interior |
| Henry Richard Harris | Emory 1847 | Former US Representative from Georgia |
| Louis Powell Harvey | Western Reserve 1840 | Former governor of Wisconsin |
| Mark O. Hatfield | Willamette 1943 | Former US Senator; former governor of Oregon |
| Joe Heck | Penn State 1984 | US Representative from Nevada; chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| Pat Henry | Mississippi 1882 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Robert Roberts Hitt | DePauw 1855 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| George Hoadly | Western Reserve 1844 | Former governor of California; former US Representative from California |
| Henry William Hoffman | Washington and Jefferson 1846 | Former US Representative from Maryland |
| Glen Holden Sr. | Oregon 1951 | Former US Ambassador to Jamaica |
| Edward Everett Holland | Richmond 1879 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| A. Linwood Holton | Washington and Lee 1945 | Former governor of Virginia |
| Stanley K. Hornbeck | Colorado / Denver 1903 | Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands |
| Jonas George Howard | DePauw 1847 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Frank Neville Ikard | Texas 1932 | Former US House Representative from Texas |
| Clifford C. Ireland | Knox 1901 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| James Ferdinand Izlar | Emory 1855 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Craig T. James | Florida 1963 | Former US Representative from Florida |
| William Marion Jardine | Kansas State 1894 | Former US Secretary of Agriculture; former US Ambassador to Egypt |
| Eric M. Javits | Columbia 1952 | Ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| Leslie Jensen | South Dakota | Former governor of South Dakota |
| Martin Nelson Johnson | Iowa 1873 | Former US Senator from North Dakota |
| Brereton C. Jones | Virginia 1961 | Former governor of Kentucky |
| Doug Jones | Alabama 1976 | Former US Senator from Alabama |
| David Karnes | Nebraska 1971 | Former US Senator from Nebraska |
| James P. Kem | Missouri 1910 | Former U.S. Senator from Missouri |
| William E. Kemp | Missouri 1914 | Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Peter D. Kinder | Missouri 1976 | Lieutenant Governor of Missouri |
| William M. Kinsey | Monmouth 1869 | Former U.S. Representative from Missouri |
| William F. Kopp | Iowa Wesleyan 1892 | Former U.S. Representative from Iowa |
| Edward H. Kruse | Indiana 1940 | Former U.S. Representative from Indiana |
| Robert M. La Follette Jr. | Wisconsin 1917 | Former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin; former governor of Wisconsin |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Bethany 1877 | Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| Charles B. Landis | Wabash 1883 | Former U.S. Representative from Indiana |
| Milton Slocum Latham | Jefferson 1843 | Former U.S. Senator from California; former governor of California |
| John J. Lentz | Wooster 1881 | Former U.S. Representative from Ohio |
| Fred D. Letts | Iowa 1899 | Former U.S. Representative from Iowa |
| David Linton | Miami 1839 | Ohio State Senator who was active in the Whig, Republican, and Greenback parties; co-founder of Beta Theta Pi |
| Thomas G. Loeffler | Texas 1971 | Former US House Representative from Texas |
| Frank Orren Lowden | Iowa 1885 | Former US House Representative from Illinois; former governor of Illinois |
| Richard Lugar | Denison 1954 | Former US Senator from Indiana; knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE); recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Ray Mabus | Mississippi 1969 | Former governor of Mississippi 1988–92; former, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Secretary of the Navy, 2009–present; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Humphrey Marshall | Translyvania 1845 | Former US Representative from Kentucky; former US Minister to China |
| Roger Marshall | Kansas State 1984 | US Senator from Kansas |
| James G. Martin | Davidson 1957 | Former US House of Representatives; former governor of North Carolina |
| Henry M. Mathews | West Virginia 1857 | Former governor of West Virginia |
| Courtland Cushing Matson | DePauw 1862 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Thomas Stanley Matthews | Cincinnati 1842 | Former US Senator from Ohio; former US Supreme Court Justice |
| John Jay McCloy | Amherst 1916 | Former assistant secretary of War; former advisor to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan; received Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction |
| James L. McConaughy | Yale 1909 | Former governor of Connecticut |
| John Watts McCormick | Ohio 1855 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| James Wilson McDill | Miami 1853 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Joseph Ewing McDonald | DePauw / Indiana 1849 | Former US Senator from Indiana |
| David McKinley | Purdue 1969 | US Representative from West Virginia, Former member of W. Virginia House of Delegates |
| William Pickney McLean | North Carolina 1857 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| William H. McMaster | Beloit 1899 | Former US Senator from South Dakota; former governor of South Dakota |
| Paul Vories McNutt | Indiana 1913 | Former governor of Indiana; first US Ambassador to the Philippines |
| Robert W. Miers | Indiana 1870 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Andrew Jackson Montague | Richmond 1882 / Virginia 1885 | Former US Representative from Virginia; former governor of Virginia |
| J. Waldo Monteith | Toronto 1927 | Former member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Arch A. Moore Jr. | West Virginia 1951 | Former governor of West Virginia; former US Representative from West Virginia |
| Dwight Morrow | Amherst 1895 | Former senator from New Jersey; US Ambassador to Mexico |
| Oliver P. Morton | Miami 1847 | Former governor of Indiana; integral in the creation of the DePauw, Indiana and Wabash chapters of Beta Theta Pi |
| David C. Mulford | Lawrence 1959 | Former US Ambassador to India |
| John Mutz | Northwestern 1957 | Former lieutenant governor of Indiana; President of Lilly Endowment |
| Albinus Nance | Knox 1868 | Former governor of Nebraska |
| Bill Nelson | Florida 1964 / Yale 1965 | Former US Senator from Florida; former State Treasurer of Florida; former US Representative from Florida; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup (also see "Astronauts" section) |
| John Stoughton Newberry | Michigan 1847 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Richard D. Nichols | Kansas State 1951 | Former US Representative from Kansas |
| Don Nickles | Oklahoma State 1971 | Former US Senator from Oklahoma |
| John W. Noble | Miami 1850 | Former US Secretary of the Interior |
| Jeremiah E. O'Connell | Boston 1906 | Former US Representative from Rhode Island |
| Benjamin Baker Odell Jr. | Bethany 1877 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Richard Buell Ogilivie | Yale 1945 | Former governor of Illinois |
| Alvin M. Owsley | Texas 1912 | Former US Ambassador to Romania |
| Bob Packwood | Willamette 1954 | Former US Senator from Oregon |
| Halbert Eleazer Paine | Western Reserve 1845 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Guy B. Park | Missouri 1896 | Former governor of Missouri |
| Richard C. Patterson Jr. | Nebraska 1909 / Columbia 1911 | Former US ambassador to Yugoslavia and Guatemala, and US minister to Switzerland |
| John M. Pattison | Ohio Wesleyan 1869 | Former US Representative from Ohio; former governor of Ohio |
| George Smith Patton | Virginia Military Institute 1877 | Mayor of San Marino, California, candidate for U.S. House and Senate, father of General George S. Patton |
| Boies Penrose | Harvard / Pennsylvania 1881 | Former US Senator from Pennsylvania |
| William J. Perry | Carnegie Mellon 1949 | Former US Secretary of Defense |
| David Peterson | Western Ontario 1966 | Former premier of Ontario |
| Walter R. Peterson | Dartmouth 1947 | Former governor of New Hampshire |
| Bill Phelps | Missouri 1956 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Robert Phinny | Ambassador to Swaziland | | Michael Pitfield | St. Lawrence 1956 | Former Canadian Senator |
| Henry Moses Pollard | Dartmouth 1857 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| John G. Pollard | Richmond 1891 | Former governor of Virginia |
| Laurence Pope | Bowdoin 1967 | Former US Ambassador to Chad |
| Andrew J. Poppleton | Michigan 1851 | Former mayor of Omaha, Nebraska |
| Albert Gallatin Porter | DePauw 1843 | Former governor of Indiana; former US Representative from Indiana; former US Minister to Italy |
| George M. Pritchard | North Carolina 1907 | Former US Representative from North Carolina |
| Jacob Joseph Pugsley | Miami | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Matthew Stanley Quay | Jefferson 1850 | Former US Senator from Pennsylvania; first Beta to be awarded the Medal of Honor while a colonel in the 134th Pennsylvania Infantry at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 |
| Saul F. Rae | Texas 1936 | Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Mexico, Guatemala and the Netherlands |
| Joseph Lafayette Rawlins | Indiana 1874 | Former US Senator from Utah |
| John Henry Ray | Minnesota 1908 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Henry Augustus Reeves | Michigan 1852 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Robert Rice Reynolds | North Carolina 1906 | Former US Senator from North Carolina |
| John J. Rhodes | Kansas State 1938 | Former US Representative from Arizona; former US House Minority Leader; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Ira E. Rider | St. Lawrence 1888 | Former US Representative from New York |
| William A. Robinson | Toronto 1925 | Former member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Charlie Rose | Davidson 1961 | Former US Representative from North Carolina |
| Arthur Rouse | Hanover 1896 | Former US Representative from Kentucky |
| Thomas L. Rubey | Missouri 1885 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Eugene P. Ruehlmann | Cincinnati 1947 | Former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Aimaro Sato | DePauw 1881 | Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States |
| Daniel Schaefer | South Dakota 1958 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles Frederick Scott | Kansas 1881 | Regent; former Kansas State Senator; former US Representative from Kansas |
| Harvey David Scott | DePauw 1850 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Townsend Scudder | Columbia 1888 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Frederick Andrew Seaton | Kansas State 1931 | Former US Senator from Nebraska; former assistant secretary of defense; former US Secretary of the Interior |
| Phillip R. Sharp | DePauw 1964 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| David Sholtz | Yale 1914 | Former governor of Florida |
| Scott Sifton | Truman State University 1996 | Member of the Missouri Senate |
| George G. Siebels Jr. | Virginia 1937 | Former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama |
| Arnold Cantwell Smith | Toronto 1935 | Former Canadian ambassador to Egypt and the USSR |
| Dennis A. Smith | Willamette 1960 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| Frank E. Smith | Mississippi 1941 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| John M.C. Smith | Michigan 1881 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Bertrand Snell | Amherst 1894 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Earl W. Snell | Oregon 1907 | Former governor of Oregon |
| C. Wilbert Snow | Bowdoin 1907 | Former governor of Connecticut |
| Zack Space | Kenyon 1983 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| William Brainerd Spencer | Centenary 1855 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| John M. Spratt Jr. | Davidson 1964 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| William McKendree Springer | Indiana 1857 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| William Francis Stevenson | Davidson 1885 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Kevin Stitt | Oklahoma State 1995 | Governor of Oklahoma |
| Edward C. Stokes | Brown 1883 | Former governor of New Jersey |
| Reginald H. Sullivan | Wabash 1897 | Former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Howard Sutherland | Westminster 1889 | Former US Senator from West Virginia |
| Robert Franklin Sutherland | Toronto 1911 | Former member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Mike Synar | Oklahoma 1972 | Former US House Representative from Oklahoma |
| Charles P. Taft II | Yale 1918 | Former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Leon Taylor | Denison 1907 | Former governor of New Jersey |
| Dickran M. Tevrizian Jr. | Southern California 1962 | Former US Federal Judge; first Armenian-American Federal Judge |
| Henry St. George Tucker | Washington and Lee 1875 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| John Turner | British Columbia 1952 | Former prime minister of Canada |
| Albert Rollen Conrad Ullman | Whitman 1935 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| William Hanford Upson | Western Reserve 1842 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Willis Van Devanter | DePauw 1881 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Daniel Wosley Voorhees | DePauw 1849 | Former US Senator from Indiana |
| Durbin Ward | Miami 1843 | Former Kentucky assemblyman and brevet brigadier general during the Civil War |
| George B. Ward | Cumberland 1887 | Former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama |
| John Warner | Washington and Lee 1950 | Former Secretary of the Navy; former US Senator from Virginia; former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC); namesake of the attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN-785) |
| Walter Allen Watson | Hampden-Sydney 1887 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| E.D. Claude Weaver | Texas 1887 | Former US Representative from Oklahoma |
| Edward F. Weber | Denison 1953 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Tom Wheeler | Ohio State 1968 | Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| Kenneth S. Wherry | Nebraska 1914 | Former US Senator and Senate Minority Leader |
| William F. Whiting | Amherst 1886 | Former US Secretary of Commerce |
| Jamie Whitten | Mississippi 1933 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Benjamin Mitchell Williamson | Bethany 1886 | Former US Senator from Kentucky |
| Wendell Willkie | Indiana 1916 | 1940 Republican Party nominee for president of the US |
| Charles Erwin Wilson | Carnegie 1909 | Former US Secretary of Defense |
| Joseph Gardner Wilson | Miami 1846 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| Charles E. Winter | Iowa Wesleyan 1892 | Former US Representative from Wyoming; former acting governor of Puerto Rico |
| William W. Wirtz | Beloit 1933 | Former US Secretary of Labor |
| John Sergeant Wise | Virginia 1867 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| Josiah Oliver Wolcott | Wesleyan 1901 | Former US Senator from Delaware |
| John Smith Young | Centenary 1855 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Owen D. Young | St. Lawrence 1894 | Former US diplomat; representative to the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929 as a member of the German Reparations International Commission; "father" of the Young Plan for the fiscal rehabilitation of Germany after World War I |
| Philip Young | St. Lawrence 1931 | Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands |
| Eugene M. Zuckert | Yale 1933 | Former Secretary of the Air Force |

## Religion

| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Charles E. Bennison | Lawrence 1965 | Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania |
| Earl Cranston | Ohio 1861 | Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church |
| C. Christopher Epting | Florida 1969 | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa |
| Gregory Parkes | Florida State University 1986 | Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg, FL |

## Sports

* Stan Smith World No. 1 Tennis Player, Wimbledon and US Open Champion, USC
* Mike Schmidt MLB Hall of Fame, 12 Time All Star, 3 Time NL MVP, 10 Time Gold Glove Award Winner, Ohio
* Guy Chamberlin College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, 5 Time NFL Champion, Nebraska
* John Wooden 10 Time NCAA National Champion Basketball Coach, 5 Time AP Coach of the Year Purdue
* Eddie Collins MLB Hall of Fame, 6 Time World Series Champion, AL MVP, 4 Time AL Stolen Base Leader, Columbia
* Shahid Kahn Owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Illinois
* Jerry Lucas 7 Time NBA All Star, Olympic Basketball Gold Medalist, 2 Time NCAA Player of the Year, Ohio State
| Name | Chapter and year | Notability |
| Fred Ahern | Bowdoin 1974 | NHL player, California Seals, Cleveland Barons, Colorado Rockies |
| Ethan Allen | Cincinnati 1926 | Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University |
| Michael Antonovich | Minnesota 1973 | NHL player, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils |
| Frankie Baumholtz | Ohio 1941 | Professional basketball player; Major League Baseball player |
| Jim Benepe | Northwestern 1986 | Professional golfer |
| Earl Blaik | Miami 1918 | Head football coach, Army |
| Carl Blaurock | Colorado Mines 1916 | First American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US |
| Joe Bottom | Southern California 1977 | 1976 Olympic silver medalist in 100m butterfly |
| Don Bragg | UCLA 1959 | 1960 Olympic gold medalist in pole vault |
| Evan Brown | SMU 2017 | Center for the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions |
| Mike Brown | Dartmouth 1957 | President and general manager, Cincinnati Bengals |
| Dave Brundage | Oregon State 1986 | Minor League Baseball player and coach |
| Jim Brunzell | Minnesota 1971 | Professional wrestler and co-author of the Killer Bees comic book series |
| George Buehler | Stanford 1969 | NFL player for the Los Angeles Raiders |
| John Bunn | Kansas 1920 | Key contributor to the game of basketball |
| Guy Chamberlin | Nebraska 1916 | College and pro football Hall of Famer by playing for seven teams over nine years, coaching four (4) over seven (7) years. Awards: 5x NFL champion (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926) and member of the all 20's NFL team. |
| Peter Cipollone | California 1994 | 2004 Olympic gold medalist, rowing |
| Bob Clotworthy | Ohio State 1954 | 1952 Olympic silver medalist and 1956 gold medalist in springboard diving |
| Roy Cochran | Indiana 1941 | 1948 Olympic gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4 × 400 m relay |
| Ron Coder | Penn State 1976 | NFL player for Seattle Seahawks |
| Don Cohan | Amherst 1951 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing |
| Eddie Collins | Columbia 1907 | Major League Baseball Hall of Famer who played with just two teams over 26 seasons. While at the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, Eddie won Six (6) World Series. World Series MVP in 1924. |
| Don Coryell | Washington 1947 | Former coach of the San Diego Chargers |
| Mel Counts | Oregon State 1964 | Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964; 7th overall pick in 1964 NBA draft; played in NBA 1964–1976; won two NBA titles with Boston Celtics |
| Edgar Diddle | Centre 1919 | Legendary basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school |
| DeLoss Dodds | Kansas State 1959 | Athletic Director of the University of Texas at Austin |
| Charles Doe | Stanford 1920 | 1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rugby |
| Bobby Douglass | Kansas 1969 | NFL quarterback, Chicago Bears |
| Eddie Eagan | Denver / Yale 1920 | Olympic gold medalist, boxing 178-lb in 1920 and bobsledding in |
| Keith Fahnhorst | Minnesota 1974 | NFL player, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XVI & XIX Champion |
| Max Falkenstien | Kansas 1947 | Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer |
| John Ferris | Stanford 1971 | 1968 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly |
| Jay Fiedler | Dartmouth 1994 | NFL QB who played seven seasons total, and five with the Miami Dolphins. Threw for almost 12,000 yards over his career. |
| Dow Finsterwald | Ohio 1952 | Professional golfer |
| Jeff Float | Southern California 1983 | 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay |
| Travis Ford | Missouri 1991 | Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University |
| Ken Forsch | Oregon State 1969 | Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979 |
| Bruce Furniss | Southern California 1979 | 1976 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle |
| Steve Furniss | Southern California 1975 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, 200 IM |
| David Gagnon | Colgate 1991 | NHL player, Detroit Red Wings |
| George Glamack | North Carolina early 1940s | All American basketball with the NBL, Rookie of the Year (1942) and Champion (1946) playing for several teams. |
| Iñaki Gomez | British Columbia 2010 | 2012 Canadian Summer Olympic team member |
| Gail Goodrich | UCLA 1965 | NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers |
| Dan Greenbaum | Southern California 1992 | 1992 Olympic bronze medalist, volleyball |
| Dan Guerrero | UCLA 1974 | UCLA athletic director |
| Ed Hamm | Georgia Tech 1928 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, long jump |
| George Harrison | Stanford 1961 | 1960 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay |
| Dick Harter | North Carolina 1952 | NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets |
| Alan Helffrich | Penn State 1925 | 1924 Olympic gold medalist, 4 × 400 m relay |
| Mark Jerue | Washington 1982 | NFL player, New York Jets |
| Brian Job | Stanford | 1968 Olympic bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke |
| Brandt Jobe | UCLA 1989 | Professional golfer |
| Grier Jones | Oklahoma State 1968 | Professional golfer |
| Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice | North Carolina 1950 | Three-time All-American; Heisman Trophy runner-up; Washington Redskins football |
| Robert J. Kane | Cornell 1934 | Former president of the US Olympic Committee |
| Jeff Kemp | Dartmouth 1981 | NFL quarterback for several teams, ending with the Los Angeles Rams for 5 seasons. |
| William Koch | MIT 1962 | America's Cup winner |
| George Kojac | Rutgers 1931 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay |
| Cawood Ledford | Centre College | University of Kentucky basketball commentator |
| David Lipsky | Northwestern University | Professional golfer |
| Jerry Lucas | Ohio State 1962 | NBA player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist |
| Larry MacPhail | Beloit 1910 | Brooklyn Dodgers owner and general manager, introduced night games |
| Jim Mandich | Michigan 1970 | NFL player, Miami Dolphins |
| Steve Marino | UVA 2002 | Professional golfer |
| Kent Massey | Oklahoma 1974 | 1996 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing |
| Scott McCarron | UCLA 1989 | Professional golfer |
| Charles McGinnis | Wisconsin 1927 | 1928 Olympic bronze medalist, pole vault |
| John L. Miller | Yale 1924 | 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rowing |
| Matt Monger | Oklahoma State 1984 | All Big 8 LB honors, played five seasons in the NFL including with the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXV. |
| Lowell North | UC Berkeley 1971 | Olympic medalist, yachting; bronze in 1964 and gold in 1968 |
| Gus Otto | Missouri 1965 | NFL player, Oakland Raiders |
| John Parker | Stanford 1970 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo |
| Bob Pearce | Oklahoma 1931 | 1932 Olympic gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb |
| Pete Pihos | Indiana 1945 | College Football Hall of Fame, NFL player Philadelphia Eagles, six-time Pro Bowl selection |
| Pat Powers | Southern California 1980 | 1984 Olympic gold medalist, volleyball |
| Chip Reese | Dartmouth 1973 | Professional poker player |
| Robert G. Rich Jr.|Florida 1952 | US Ambassador to Belize | |
| Ed Rimkus | St. Lawrence 1937 | 1948 Olympic gold medalist, bobsledding |
| Jamey Rootes | Clemson 1988 | Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew, Houston Texans |
| I. Murray Rose | Southern California 1961 | Multiple Olympic medalist, three gold medals in 1956 (400 freestyle, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle), two medals in 1960 (silver for 1500 freestyle, and bronze for 4x200 relay) |
| Edward P. Roski | Southern California 1968 | Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team |
| Richard Roth | Stanford 1969 | 1964 Olympic gold medalist, 400 IM |
| Harlow Rothert | Stanford 1930 | 1932 Olympic silver medalist, shot put |
| Mike Schmidt | Ohio 1971 | Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Hall of Fame |
| John Shadden | Southern California 1987 | 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, yachting |
| Gary Sheerer | Stanford 1968 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo |
| Dave Shula | Texas 1973 | Former head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Jerry Sichting | Purdue 1979 | NBA coach |
| John T. Smith | | Professional wrestler |
| Stan Smith | Southern California 1969 | Professional tennis player; winner of two major singles titles (US Open 1971, Wimbledon 1972) |
| Bob Stein | Minnesota 1969 | NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs |
| Kevin Still | UCLA 1982 | 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs |
| Bill Stoneman | Idaho 1966 | General manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1999–2007; Major League Baseball player |
| William G. Thompson | UC Berkeley 1929 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, rowing eight oars |
| Bill Tindall | Washington 1965 | Professional golfer |
| Bill Veeck | Kenyon 1936 | Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member |
| Rick Volk | Michigan 1967 | NFL player with the Miami Dolphins |
| Webb Wilder | Oklahoma 1931 | Professional golfer |
| Ben Wilson | Heidelberg 1944 | WSU Football Coach |
| John Wooden | Purdue 1932 | UCLA basketball coach |