# List of Dartmouth College alumni

This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School. Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated 254 classes of students and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni.
This list uses the following notation:
* D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts
* DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present)
* Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics)
* T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated
* M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program, or the historical equivalent

## Academia and research
### Academic administrators

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Benjamin Abbot | 1811 | President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1788–1838 |
| Charles Augustus Aiken | 1846 | President of Union College 1869–1871 |
| Jesse Appleton | 1792 | President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819 |
| Rufus William Bailey | 1812 | President of Austin College 1862–1863 |
| Cecil Bancroft | 1860 | Principal of Phillips Academy 1873–1901 |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett | 1836 | President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892 |
| Louis T. Benezet | 1936 | President of Allegheny College 1948–1955, president of Colorado College 1955–1963, president of Claremont Graduate University 1963–1970, president of the University at Albany 1970–1975 |
| Nathan Brackett | 1864 | Founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College |
| Francis Brown | 1805 | President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820 |
| Isaac Newton Carleton | 1859 | Founder of Carleton School for Boys |
| Philander Chase | 1795 | Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, president of Jubilee College 1831–1852 |
| Oren B. Cheney | 1839 | Founder and first president of Bates College 1855–1894 |
| Daniel Dana | 1788 | President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821 |
| Edmund Ezra Day | 1905, M.A. 1905 | President of Cornell University 1937–1949 |
| John Sloan Dickey | 1929 | President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970 |
| Marye Anne Fox | Ph.D 1974 | Chancellor of University of California at San Diego 2004–present, chancellor of North Carolina State University 1998–2004 |
| Jeffrey Garten | 1968 | Dean of the Yale School of Management 1995–2005 |
| George Augustus Gates | 1873 | President of Grinnell College (1887–1900); president of Pomona College (1902–1909); president of Fisk University (1909–1912) |
| Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor | 1815 | Founding president of New-York Central College |
| Philip J. Hanlon | 1977 | President of Dartmouth College 2013–2023 |
| Ernest Martin Hopkins | 1901 | President of Dartmouth College 1916–1945 |
| Milo Parker Jewett | 1828 | President of Vassar College 1862–1864, founder and first president of Judson College 1838–1855 |
| Amos Kendall | 1812 | Founder of Gallaudet College for the deaf |
| William C. Kirby | 1972 | Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002–2006 |
| Benjamin Labaree | 1828 | President of Middlebury College 1840–1866 |
| Edward Luck | 1971 | Vice-president of the International Peace Institute 2001–present, director of the Center on International Organization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University |
| Joseph McKeen | 1774 | President of Bowdoin College 1802–1807 |
| David T. McLaughlin | 1954, T'1955 | President of Dartmouth College 1981–1987 |
| Caleb Mills | 1833 | First professor of Wabash College 1833–1880, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instructions |
| Zephaniah Swift Moore | 1793 | President of Williams College 1815–1821, president of Amherst College 1821–1823 |
| Charles S. Murkland | Ph.D 1903 | First elected president of New Hampshire College 1893–1903 |
| Daniel S. Papp | 1969 | President of Kennesaw State University 2006–present |
| Alden Partridge | 1806 | Founder of Norwich University |
| Albert C. Perkins | 1859 | President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1873–1889 |
| Martha E. Pollack | 1979 | President of Cornell University April 2017– |
| Steve Salbu | MA | Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006–2014) |
| Artemas Wyman Sawyer | 1847 | President of Acadia College 1869–1896 |
| Asa Dodge Smith | 1830 | President of Dartmouth College 1863–1877 |
| Sylvanus Thayer | 1807 | Superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1817–1833, financier and namesake of the Thayer School of Engineering |
| Elisha Ticknor | 1783 | Originator of system of free primary schools in Boston; founder of first insurance company and savings bank in that town |
| Henry N. Tisdale | Ph.D. 1978 | President of Claflin University 1994 to 2019 |
| William Jewett Tucker | 1861 | President of Dartmouth College 1893–1909 |
| John Wheelock | 1771 | President of Dartmouth College 1779–1815, son of Dartmouth College's founder Eleazar Wheelock |
| Robert Witt | T'1965 | Chancellor of the University of Alabama System 2012–present; president of the University of Alabama 2003–2012 |

### Professors and researchers

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Ebenezer Adams | 1791 | Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy and professor of languages at Dartmouth |
| Walter Sydney Adams | 1898 | Astronomer |
| Kwan-Ichi Asakawa | 1899 | First Japanese professor at a major university in the United States |
| Richard W. Bailey | 1961 | Linguist and scholar of the English language |
| Carlos Baker | 1932 | Professor of literature at Princeton University |
| Harold J. Berman | 1938 | Professor of law at Harvard Law School and Emory University |
| Carl Bridenbaugh | 1925 | Historian of Colonial America |
| H. Allen Brooks | 1950 | Architectural historian and professor at the University of Toronto |
| Francis Brown | 1870 | Semitic scholar |
| Manuel Buchwald | 1962 | Canadian geneticist and researcher |
| George S. Bullerjahn | 1977 | Microbiol ecology and health of Laurentian Great Lakes |
| George Bush | 1818 | Biblical scholar |
| Ruth Chang | 1985 | Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford University |
| Stanwood Cobb | 1903 | Professor of Latin and English, prominent early member of the Baháʼí Faith |
| Joshua Coffin | 1817 | Schoolteacher and prominent abolitionists |
| Levi L. Conant | 1879 | Mathematician specializing in trigonometry |
| Isaac Joslin Cox | | Professor of history |
| Reuel Denney | 1932 | Poet and professor of English |
| William C. Dowling | 1966 | Professor of English and American literature at Rutgers University |
| John C. Ewers | 1931 | Ethnologist and first director of the National Museum of American History |
| Owen M. Fiss | 1959 | Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School |
| Michael Gazzaniga | 1961 | Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Marissa Giustina | | Physicist, Senior Research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab |
| Kenneth M. Golden | 1980 | Applied mathematician, Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah |
| Lillian Guerra | 1992 | History researcher and author, professor at the University of Florida |
| John Hagelin | 1975 | Theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory |
| Jeffrey Hart | 1951 (transferred to Columbia University) | Professor of English at Dartmouth College |
| Ira Michael Heyman | 1951 | Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley |
| H. Wiley Hitchcock | 1944 | Musicologist |
| Jeremy Howick | 1992 | University of Oxford Philosopher and Clinical Epidemiologist specialising in Evidence-Based Medicine and Placebo research |
| Robert A. Jarrow | T'1976 | Professor of investment management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University |
| Ernest Everett Just | 1907 | Biologist, first recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1915 |
| Neal Katyal | 1991 | Georgetown Law School professor, lawyer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Edward Klima | 1953 | Linguist at University of California, San Diego, researcher of sign languages |
| Barbara Krauthamer | 1989 | Historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University |
| David M. Kreps | 1972 | Economics professor at Stanford, winner of John Bates Clark Medal |
| John C. Lilly | DMS 1938–40 (never graduated) | Physician, psychoanalyst, and writer; experimenter into the nature of consciousness |
| Edward Norton Lorenz | 1938 | Professor at MIT, founder of chaos theory, winner of Kyoto Prize in 1993 |
| Dan Milisavljevic | Ph.D | Astronomer, co-discoverer of three moons of Uranus |
| Henry Ruthven Monteith | A.B. 1869 | Distinguished history professor at the University of Connecticut |
| Kenneth N. Ogle | Ph.D 1930 | Researcher in human vision, and professor at the Dartmouth Eye Institute |
| John Ordronaux | 1850 | Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner |
| William Padula | M.S. 2008 | professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics at the University of Southern California |
| Richard Parker | | Economist, lecturer at Harvard University, co-founder of Mother Jones |
| Richard Anthony Parker | 1930 | Egyptologist, made major discoveries in ancient astronomy and chronology |
| Fred Lewis Pattee | 1888 | Professor of American Literature at the Pennsylvania State University |
| Russell Pinkston | | Professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Texas at Austin |
| John M. Richardson | | Professor of International Development at American University |
| Arunas Rudvalis | M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969 | Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Frederick Schauer | 1967 | David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law |
| William H. Schlesinger | 1972 | Biogeochemistry researcher |
| David Silbersweig | | Psychiatric and mental illness researcher at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic |
| John Smith | 1773 | Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental languages at Dartmouth College; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the board of trustees |
| Justin Harvey Smith | 1877 | Historian, Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth College |
| Page Smith | 1940 | Historian, author, founding provost of Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| David Spindler | 1989 | Independent researcher of the Great Wall of China |
| Scott Straus | 1993 | Assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| John Tallmadge | | Professor of literature and environmental studies at Union Institute & University |
| Alan D. Taylor | Ph.D 1975 | Mathematician, co-discoverer of a solution for envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people |
| George Ticknor | 1807 | Expert on Spanish literature |
| Lynne H. Walling | Ph.D. 1987 | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
| Lloyd L. Weinreb | 1957 | Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School |
| Stephen Wizner | 1959 | Professor of law and supervising attorney at the Yale Law School |
| Charles Augustus Young | 1853 | Astronomer, made first observations of the flash spectrum of the sun during solar eclipses of 1869–70 |
| Todd Zywicki | 1988 | Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law |

#### MacArthur Fellows

The MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research award commonly called the "Genius Grant."
| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Annette Gordon-Reed | 1981 | Law and History Professor at Harvard University, 2010 MacArthur Fellow |
| Becca Heller | 2005 | Human Rights Lawyer, 2018 MacArthur Fellow |
| Stuart Kauffman | 1961 | Theoretical biologist, 1987 MacArthur Fellow |
| Terry Plank | 1985 | Professor of Earth science and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory |
| John A. Rich | 1980 | Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, 2006 MacArthur Fellow |
| Anna Schuleit | M.A.L.S. 2005 | Visual artist; 2006 MacArthur Fellow |
| Jeffrey Weeks | 1978 | Mathematician, 1999 MacArthur Fellow |

#### Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.
| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Owen Chamberlain | 1941 | Co-winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Karl Barry Sharpless | 1963 | Winner of 2001 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| George Davis Snell | 1926 | Co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |

## Architecture, engineering and building industry

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Michael Arad | 1991 | Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial |
| William McDonough | 1973 | Noted "green" designer, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1994–1999 |
| James Pulliam | | California Modernist architect and educator |
| David Todd | 1934 | Designer of Manhattan Plaza, chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1989–1990 |
| Mario Torroella | 1957 | Cuban-American modernist architect and artist; co-founder and principal of HMFH Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects |
| Robert K. Watson | 1984 | Market transformation expert and founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System |
| Fred Wesley Wentworth | 1889 | Architect of many buildings in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity House at Dartmouth; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects |

## Arts

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| David R. Brown | 1967, T (Executive Education Program) | Graphic designer and academic administrator |
| Abner Dean | 1931 | Cartoonist |
| Dan Gilroy | 1981 | Director and screenwriter |
| Andrea Higgins | 1992 | Painter |
| Erich Kunzel | 1957 | Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra for its Memorial Day and Independence Day concerts |
| Mike Melvoin | 1959 | Jazz pianist |
| Mateo Romero | | Native American painter |
| Augustus Washington | (never graduated) | Photographer and daguerreotypist |
| Paul Weston | 1933 | Pianist, composer, and conductor |
| Jonathan Wolken | 1971 | Founder of the Pilobolus dance company |

## Business and finance

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Sandy Alderson | 1969 | General manager of New York Mets baseball team |
| Elyse Allan | 1979, T'1984 | President and CEO of GE Canada; vice president of General Electric |
| Johan H. Andresen Jr. | 1988 | Former CEO and chairman of Ferd; billionaire businessman, 5th wealthiest person in Norway |
| C. Michael Armstrong | T'1976 (Advanced Management Program) | CEO and chairman of AT&T |
| Zdeněk Bakala | T'1989 | Czech investor and philanthropist; billionaire businessman |
| Peter Barris | Th'1982 | Co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Polaris Partners, Forbes Midas List |
| Dan Baum | 1983 | Founder of Shutterfly |
| Michael Beckley | 1996 | Co-founder and CTO of Appian Corporation |
| Donald D. Belcher | 1960 | CEO of Banta Corporation |
| John Bello | T'1974 | Founder and former CEO of SoBe |
| Austin Beutner | 1982 | Founder of global investment banking firm Evercore; former partner at The Blackstone Group |
| George Bissell | 1845 | Industrialist, oil industry pioneer; "father of the American oil industry" |
| Leon Black | 1973 | CEO and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; chairman of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art); billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people" |
| Gail Koziara Boudreaux | 1982 | Chairman and CEO of Anthem |
| Glenn Britt | 1971 | President and CEO of Time Warner Cable |
| Trevor Burgess | 1994 | First openly gay bank CEO, founder of TRB Development majority shareholder and CEO of Neptune Flood Insurance |
| Patrick Byrne | 1985 | Founder, former CEO and chairman of Overstock.com |
| Matt Calkins | 1994 | Founder and CEO of Appian Corporation, billionaire |
| Walter Tenney Carleton | 1891 | Founding director of NEC |
| Russell Carson | 1965 | Co-founder and general partner of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; former chairman and CEO of Citicorp Venture Capital (renamed Court Square Capital Partners) |
| Lew Cirne | 1993 | Founder and CEO of Wily Technology and New Relic |
| William E. Conway Jr. | 1971 | Co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, billionaire |
| James Coulter | 1982 | Co-CEO and a founding partner of private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, billionaire |
| Tench Coxe | 1980 | Managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, Founding Board Member and initial investor of Nvidia |
| Jeff Crowe | 1978 | Managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List 5x |
| Alexander Cutler | T'1975 | Former chairman and CEO of Eaton Corporation |
| Peter Darbee | 1975, T'1977 | Former CEO, president and chairman of Pacific Gas and Electric Company |
| Peter R. Dolan | T'1980 | Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| John Donahoe | 1982 | CEO of Nike; chairman of the board of PayPal; former CEO of ServiceNow; former CEO of eBay; former CEO and president of Bain & Company; former Dartmouth trustee |
| Bob DuPuy | 1968 | Former president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball |
| Timothy Geithner | 1983 | President of private equity firm Warburg Pincus; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009 |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | 1963 | Former CEO of IBM; CEO of Carlyle Group |
| Howard Gilman | 1943 | Head of the Gilman Paper Company, philanthropist |
| David Girouard | 1988 | Founder and CEO of Upstart, billionaire |
| Brian Goldner | 1985 | CEO of Hasbro |
| Ronald Grant | 1988 | Chief operating officer of AOL LLC |
| Jeffrey Gundlach | 1981 | Investor, founder of investment firm DoubleLine Capital, which manages $140 billion in assets; billionaire |
| Reyn Guyer | 1957 | Toy inventor |
| Charles E. Haldeman | 1970 | President and CEO of Freddie Mac |
| Donald J. Hall, Sr. | 1950 | Chairman of the board; former president and CEO of Hallmark Cards |
| Broughton Harris | 1845 | Partner in Harris & Brothers Company railroad construction firm, president of Brattleboro Savings Bank |
| Douglas M. Hodge | 1979 | Former CEO of PIMCO, accused in 2019 college admissions bribery scandal |
| Fred A. Howland | 1887 | Secretary of State of Vermont, president and chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Company |
| Susan Huang | 1984 | Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, Dartmouth Trustee |
| Gardiner Greene Hubbard | 1841 | Co-founder and president of Bell Telephone Company (AT&T); founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; lawyer, financier, and philanthropist |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | 1978 | CEO of General Electric |
| Sarah Irving | 2010, T'2014 | Executive vice president and chief brand officer of Irving Oil, heir to billionaire Arthur Irving |
| Greg Jensen | 1996 | Co-CEO and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, billionaire |
| Brian Kim | 1997 | Former hedge fund manager; criminal |
| Richard Kimball | 1978 | Founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures |
| Bud Konheim | 1957 | CEO of Nicole Miller |
| Herbert Levine | 1937 | Fashion executive and manufacturer |
| Dick Levy | 1960 | Chairman, president, and former CEO of Varian Medical Systems |
| Ric Lewis | 1984 | Founding partner of Tristan Capital Partners and Curzon Global Partners, British businessman |
| John Lord | 1833 | Historian and lecturer |
| John F. Lundgren | 1973 | Former CEO and chairman of Stanley Black & Decker |
| Roger Lynch | T'1995 | CEO of Pandora Radio, former CEO of Sling TV |
| Greg Maffei | 1982 | Former CFO at Microsoft, co-president of Oracle, chairman and CEO of 360networks; current CEO at Liberty Media |
| Stephen Mandel | 1978 | Founder and hedge fund portfolio manager of Lone Pine Capital, billionaire |
| Morton D. May | 1936 | CEO of May Department Stores Company, philanthropist, and art collector |
| Kevin McGrath | T'1977 | CEO of Digital Angel |
| Terry McGuire | T'1977 | Managing general partner of venture firm New Enterprise Associates, Forbes Midas List |
| Roger McNamee | T'1982 | Founding artner of private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Elevation Partners, billionaire |
| Mira Murati | Th'2012 | Chief technology officer of OpenAI |
| William Horlick Neukom | 1964 | Former general counsel and chief legal officer at Microsoft, former CEO of the San Francisco Giants, former president of the American Bar Association |
| Ken Novack | 1963 | Former vice chairman of America Online and AOL-Time Warner |
| Robert Oelman | 1931 | President of NCR Corporation |
| Henry Paulson | 1968 | CEO of Goldman Sachs; United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006–2009 |
| Christopher Payne | 1990 | COO at DoorDash; former CEO at Tinder; former SVP at eBay |
| Charles Alfred Pillsbury | 1863 | Flour industrialist and founder of the Pillsbury Company |
| Anthony Pritzker | 1983 | Managing director of Pritzker Group; billionaire and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune |
| Scott L. Probasco, Jr. | 1950 | Banking heir, former chair of the executive committee of SunTrust Banks in Chattanooga |
| Geoff Ralston | 1982 | President of Y Combinator; former chief product officer and SVP at Yahoo! |
| Bruce Rauner | 1978 | Founder and chairman of private equity firm GTCR and R8 Capital Partners; former governor of Illinois |
| Naval Ravikant | 1995 | CEO and co-founder of AngelList |
| Trevor Rees-Jones | 1973 | Founder and chairman of Chief Oil & Gas; billionaire and one of Forbes' "400 richest people" |
| Janet L. Robinson | T'1996 (Executive Education Program) | President and CEO of the New York Times Company |
| T. J. Rodgers | 1970 | CEO and founder of Cypress Semiconductor |
| Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor | T'1988 | Chairman and CEO of Intercorp, managing general partner of Nexus Group, and chairman of Interbank; billionaire |
| Steven Rogel | Tuck (Executive Education Program) | Former chairman, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser |
| Steven Roth | 1963 | Founder, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, billionaire |
| Beardsley Ruml | 1915 | Economist, trust administrator, and business executive |
| Enrique Salem | 1987 | Former CEO of Symantec; managing director at Bain Capital Ventures |
| L. William Seidman | 1943 | Economist and financial commentator |
| Christopher A. Sinclair | T'1973 | Chairman of Reckitt Benckiser, former chairman and CEO of Mattel, former chairman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola |
| Ned Skinner | 1942 | An original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks |
| Jimmie Lee Solomon | 1978 | Executive vice president of baseball operations at Major League Baseball |
| Josh B. Stein | 1995 | Managing general partner of venture firm Threshold Ventures, Forbes Midas List |
| Langley Steinert | T'1991 | Founder and CEO of CarGurus, co-founder and former chairman of Tripadvisor |
| Edward P. Stritter | 1968 | Engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems, founder of Clarity Wireless and NeTPower, chief architect of the Motorola 68000 CPU (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh) |
| Bill Stromberg | 1986 | President and CEO of T. Rowe Price |
| Robert B. Sturges | 1968 | New Jersey government official; former executive at Carnival Corp and limited partner of the Miami Heat basketball team |
| Harry Bates Thayer | 1879 | President of Western Electric Company; vice president of AT&T |
| Grant Tinker | 1949 | CEO of NBC 1981–86 |
| Alan Trefler | 1977 | Founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., billionaire |
| Edward Tuck | 1862 | Banker and philanthropist; son of Amos Tuck, donated money to found Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth |
| Don M. Wilson III | T'1973 | Chief risk officer of JPMorgan Chase 2003–2006 |
| Thatcher Wine | 1994 | Founder of Juniper Books, bibliophile, author and public speaker |

## Entertainment

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Harry Ackerman | 1935 | Television producer |
| Steve Adams | 1969 | Author, screenwriter |
| Robert Allen | 1929 | Actor in Western films |
| Andy Barrie | | Host of CBLA-FM's morning drive-time show, Metro Morning, in Toronto, Ontario 1995–2010 |
| David Benioff | 1992 | Screenwriter, known for novel and film 25th Hour, Troy; co-creator of Game of Thrones |
| Walter Bernstein | 1940 | Writer and screenwriter |
| Paul Binder | 1963 | Juggler, co-creator of the Big Apple Circus |
| David Birney | 1961 | Actor |
| Stan Brakhage | 1955 (never graduated) | Director and experimental filmmaker |
| Jennifer Bransford | 1990 | Actress on General Hospital |
| Connie Britton | 1989 | Actress; best known for Friday Night Lights, Nashville |
| Jim Butterworth | T | Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker |
| Sarah Wayne Callies | 1999 | Actress; best known for Prison Break |
| Julie Davis | 1990 | Screenwriter and film director; best known for Amy's Orgasm, Finding Bliss |
| Rachel Dratch | 1988 | Actress, cast member of Saturday Night Live |
| Alison Fanelli | M.S. 2002 | Actress on The Adventures of Pete & Pete |
| Stephen Geller | 1962 | Screenwriter of Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Dan Gilroy | 1981 | Screenwriter and film director; best known for Nightcrawler |
| John Gilroy | | Film editor |
| Dylan Mohan Gray | 1991 | Film director; best known for Fire in the Blood |
| David Harbour | 1997 | Actor; best known for Stranger Things |
| Buck Henry | 1952 | Actor, writer, director; shared Oscar nomination for screenplay for The Graduate |
| Alex Kapp Horner | 1991 | Actress on The New Adventures of Old Christine |
| Mindy Kaling | 2001 | Actress, writer and actress on The Office and The Mindy Project |
| Ben Koldyke | 1991 | Actor on Work It and Mr. Robinson |
| Stephen Macht | 1963 | Actor, TV and film |
| Robert L. May | 1926 | Creator of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer |
| Tom McArdle | 1991 | Film editor, nominated for the Academy Award for Editing Spotlight |
| Sam Means | 2003 | Staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |
| Chris Meledandri | 1981 | Film producer, and founder and CEO of Illumination, producer of the Despicable Me franchise |
| Chris Miller | 1963 | Writer for the National Lampoon, co-writer of the screenplay for Animal House (based loosely on his experiences at Dartmouth) |
| Michael Moriarty | 1963 | Actor, winner of three Emmy Awards, one Tony Award and one Golden Globe Award, known for playing Benjamin Stone on Law & Order |
| Peter Parnell | 1974 | Playwright and screenwriter |
| Kamran Pasha | 1993, T'2000 | Hollywood screenwriter and director |
| Jean Passanante | 1974 | Head writer of As the World Turns since May 2005; winner of Writers Guild of America Award in 2007 |
| Bob Rafelson | 1954 | Filmmaker, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Five Easy Pieces |
| Shonda Rhimes | 1991 | Screenwriter, director, and producer; best known for producing Grey's Anatomy |
| W. D. Richter | 1968 | Director of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension |
| Fred Rogers | 1950 | Attended 1946–48 before transferring to Rollins College; creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |
| Robert Ryan | 1932 | Actor, Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominee |
| Budd Schulberg | 1936 | Screenwriter, winner of the Academy Award for On the Waterfront (best original screenplay) |
| Andrew Shue | 1989 | Actor, best known for Melrose Place |
| Roger L. Simon | 1964 | Novelist, screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for Enemies, a Love Story |
| Ian Smith | DMS (never graduated) | Author and television personality |
| Scott Smith | 1987 | Screenwriter for A Simple Plan (Academy Award nomination, 1998) |
| Herbert Franklin Solow | 1953 | Producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer |
| Safiya Songhai | (never graduated) | Film director, producer, and writer |
| Meryl Streep | (exchange student) | Actress |
| Seth Swirsky | 1982 | Pop songwriter and author |
| Josh Taylor | | Actor on Days of Our Lives |
| Aisha Tyler | 1992 | Actress, winner of the NAACP Image Award, portrayed Charlie Wheeler on Friends, Lana Kane on Archer, co-host of The Talk |
| Bob Varsha | 1973 | Auto racing commentator, SPEED Channel |
| Peter Viertel | 1941 | Author and screenwriter |
| Stan Waterman | 1946 | Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and underwater film producer |
| Pat Weaver | 1930 | Pioneering television executive, creator of The Today Show and The Tonight Show, Emmy Award winner |
| Norman Weissman | | Writer, director, and producer of films |
| Brian J. White | | Actor and professional football and lacrosse player |
| Ken Wlaschin | 1956 | Film programmer, historian and author |
| Jerry Zaks | 1967 | Tony Award-winning Broadway director and actor |

## Government, law, and public policy

    Note: Individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.

### United States federal and state court judges

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Nicholas Baylies | 1794 | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1831–1833 |
| Michael L. Bender | 1964 | Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court 2010–2014 |
| George Hutchins Bingham | 1887 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 1913–1949 |
| Harrie B. Chase | 1909 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1929–1954, Chief Judge 1953–1954 |
| Salmon P. Chase | 1826 | Chief Justice of the United States 1864–1873, Senator from Ohio 1849–1855, Governor of Ohio 1856–1860, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1861–1864 |
| William N. Cohen | 1879 | Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1897–1898 |
| Robert J. Cordy | 1971 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 2001–2016 |
| Gregg Costa | 1994 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2014–2022 |
| Stephen S. Cushing | 1906 | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1952–1953 |
| Charles Donahue | 1899 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1932–1944 |
| Jason Downer | 1838 | Judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court 1864–1867 |
| Asa Fowler | 1833 | Judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1855–1861 |
| William J. Galbraith | 1857 | Associate justice of the territorial Montana Supreme Court |
| Nathaniel M. Gorton | 1960 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 1992–present |
| Matthew Harvey | 1806 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1831–1866, Representative from New Hampshire 1821–1825, Governor of New Hampshire 1830–1831 |
| Arthur D. Healey | 1913 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 1942–1948, Representative from Massachusetts 1933–1942 |
| James Stuart Holden | 1935 | Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont 1971–1984 |
| Thomas Penfield Jackson | 1958 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 1982–2004, presiding judge in United States v. Microsoft |
| Abdul Kallon | 1990 | Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama 2010–2022 |
| Dominic W. Lanza | 1998 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 2018–present |
| Gordon J. MacDonald | 1983 | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire 2021–present |
| Steven Menashi | 2001 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 2019–present |
| Sherman R. Moulton | 1898 | Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1939–1949 |
| George Washington Nesmith | 1820 | Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1859–1870 |
| Carl J. Nichols | 1992 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 2019–present |
| Clarence V. Opper | 1918 | Judge of the United States Tax Court |
| Frank Nesmith Parsons | 1874 | Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1902–1924 |
| Donald C. Pogue | 1969 | Chief Judge on the United States Court of International Trade 1995–2016 |
| Stanley Elroy Qua | 1901 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1934–1956, Chief Justice 1947–1956 |
| John L. Rand | 1883 | Judge on the Oregon Supreme Court 1921–1942, Chief Justice 1927–29, 1933–1935, 1939–1941 |
| Beth Robinson | 1986 | Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 2011–2021 and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2021–present) |
| Charles B. Schudson | 1972 | Judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals 1992–2004 |
| John Samuel Sherburne | 1776 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1804–1830, Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797 |
| Laurence H. Silberman | 1957 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 1985–present, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1975–1977, United States Deputy Attorney General 1974–1975, Under-secretary of Labor 1970–1973 |
| William H. Taylor | 1886 | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, 1913–1926 |
| Webster Thayer | 1879 | Judge on the Superior Court of Massachusetts, presiding judge over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti |
| William H. Timbers | 1937 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1971–1994 |
| Abel Underwood | 1824 | Judge on the Vermont Circuit Court, 1854–1857 |
| William H. Walls | 1954 | Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1994–2019 |
| Sterry R. Waterman | 1922 | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Thomas D. Waterman | 1981 | Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court |
| William Wilson | 1797 | Judge on the Ohio Court of Common Pleas 4th Judicial Circuit 1808–1822, Representative from Ohio 1823–1827 |
| Michael A. Wolff | 1967 | Judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri 1998–present, Chief Justice 2002–2005 |
| Levi Woodbury | 1809 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1845–1851, Governor of New Hampshire 1823–1824, Senator from New Hampshire 1825–1831, 1841–1845, United States Secretary of the Navy 1831–1834, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1834–1841 |

### Executive branch and United States Cabinet members

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Sherman Adams | 1920 | White House Chief of Staff 1953–1958, Representative from New Hampshire 1945–1947, Governor of New Hampshire 1949–1953 |
| Amos T. Akerman | 1842 | United States Attorney General 1870–1872 |
| Alex Azar | 1988 | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 2018–2021 |
| Elaine Chao | (exchange student) | United States Secretary of Labor 2001–2009 United States Secretary of Transportation 2017–2021 |
| James Forrestal | 1915 (transferred to Princeton in sophomore year) | United States Secretary of the Navy 1944–1947, first United States Secretary of Defense 1947–1949 |
| Anthony M. Frank | 1953, T'1954 | United States Postmaster General 1988–1992 |
| Timothy Geithner | 1983 | United States Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009 |
| Henry Paulson | 1968 | United States Secretary of the Treasury 2006–2009; CEO of Goldman Sachs |
| Rob Portman | 1979 | Director of the Office of Management and Budget 2006–2007, Representative from Ohio 1993–2005, U.S. Senator from Ohio 2011–2023 |
| Redfield Proctor | 1851 | United States Secretary of War 1889–1891, Senator from Vermont 1891–1908, Governor of Vermont 1878–1880 |
| Robert Reich | 1968 | United States Secretary of Labor 1993–1997 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | 1930 | Vice President of the United States 1974–1977, Governor of New York 1959–1973 |
| Daniel Webster | 1801 | United States Secretary of State 1841–1843, 1850–1852 Representative from Massachusetts 1813–1817, Representative from New Hampshire 1823–1827, Senator from Massachusetts 1827–1841, 1845–1850 |
| Levi Woodbury | 1809 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1845–1851, Governor of New Hampshire 1823–1824, Senator from New Hampshire 1825–1831, 1841–1845, United States Secretary of the Navy 1831–1834, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1834–1841 |

### Members of the United States Congress

Over 164 Dartmouth graduates have served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.

#### Senators

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Charles H. Bell | 1844 | Senator from New Hampshire 1879–1879, Governor of New Hampshire 1881–1883 |
| Samuel Bell | 1793 | Senator from New Hampshire 1823–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1819–1823 |
| Fred H. Brown | 1903 | Senator from New Hampshire 1933–1939, Governor of New Hampshire 1923–1925 |
| Henry E. Burnham | 1865 | Senator from New Hampshire 1901–1913 |
| Dudley Chase | 1791 | Senator from Vermont 1813–1817, 1825–1831, anti-Jacksonian, uncle of Salmon P. Chase |
| Rufus Choate | 1819 | Senator from Massachusetts 1841–1845, Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1834 |
| Daniel Clark | 1834 | Senator from New Hampshire 1857–1866, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1864–1865 |
| Judah Dana | 1795 | Senator from Maine 1836–1837 |
| Irving W. Drew | 1870 | Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1918 |
| Peter Fitzgerald | 1982 | Senator from Illinois 1999–2005 |
| George G. Fogg | 1839 | Senator from New Hampshire 1866–1867 |
| Theodore Foster | 1786 | Senator from Rhode Island 1790–1803 |
| Kirsten Gillibrand | 1988 | Senator from New York 2009–present; Representative from New York 2007–2009; first female Dartmouth graduate in Congress |
| Slade Gorton | 1949 | Senator from Washington 1981–1987, 1989–2001 |
| James W. Grimes | 1836 | Senator from Iowa 1859–1869, Governor of Iowa 1854–1858 |
| John Hoeven | 1979 | Senator from North Dakota 2011–present, Governor of North Dakota 2001–2010 |
| Henry Hubbard | 1803 | Senator from New Hampshire 1835–1841, Representative from New Hampshire 1829–1835, Governor of New Hampshire 1842–1844 |
| Angus King | 1966 | Senator from Maine 2013–present, Governor of Maine 1995–2003 |
| Gilman Marston | 1837 | Senator from New Hampshire 1889–1889, Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863, 1865–1867 |
| Thomas J. McIntyre | 1937 | Senator from New Hampshire 1962–1979 |
| Hugh Mitchell | 1930 | Senator from Washington 1945–1946, Representative from Washington 1949–1953 |
| George H. Moses | 1890 | Senator from New Hampshire 1918–1933, President pro tempore of the United States Senate 1925–1933, Minister to Greece and Montenegro 1909–1912 |
| Moses Norris, Jr. | 1828 | Senator from New Hampshire 1849–1855, Representative from New Hampshire 1843–1847 |
| Albion K. Parris | 1806 | Senator from Maine 1827–1828, Representative from Maine 1815–1818, Governor of Maine 1822–1827, Mayor of Portland, Maine, Maine 1852–1852 |
| James W. Patterson | 1848 | Senator from New Hampshire 1867–1873, Representative from New Hampshire 1863–1867 |
| Rob Portman | 1979 | Senator from Ohio 2011–, Representative from Ohio 1993–2005 |
| Jonathan Ross | 1851 | Senator from Vermont 1899–1900 |
| Ether Shepley | 1811 | Senator from Maine 1833–1836 |
| Tina Smith | 1984 | Senator from Minnesota 2018–present |
| Paul Tsongas | 1962 | Senator from Massachusetts 1979–1985, Representative from Massachusetts 1975–1979 |
| Leonard Wilcox | 1817 | Senator from New Hampshire 1842–1843 |

#### Representatives

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Heman Allen | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1817–1818, Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1824–1827 |
| Samuel Clesson Allen | 1794 | Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1829 |
| James C. Alvord | 1827 | Representative from Massachusetts 1839–1839 |
| Nathan Appleton | | Representative from Massachusetts 1831–1833, 1842–1842 |
| Lemuel H. Arnold | 1811 | Representative from Rhode Island 1845–1847, Governor of Rhode Island 1831–1833 |
| Henry Moore Baker | 1863 | Representative from New Hampshire 1893–1897 |
| William Emerson Barrett | 1880 | Representative from Massachusetts 1895–1899 |
| Ichabod Bartlett | 1808 | Representative from New Hampshire 1823–1829 |
| Charles Bass | 1974 | Representative from New Hampshire 1995–2007, 2011–2013 |
| Perkins Bass | 1934 | Representative from New Hampshire 1955–1963 |
| Samuel Newell Bell | 1847 | Representative from New Hampshire 1871–1873, 1875–1877 |
| Silas Betton | 1787 | Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1807 |
| Abijah Bigelow | 1795 | Representative from Massachusetts 1810–1815 |
| Frank S. Black | 1875 | Representative from New York 1895–1897, Governor of New York 1897–1898 |
| John Blanchard | 1812 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1845–1849 |
| Daniel Breck | 1812 | Representative from Kentucky 1849–1851 |
| Francis B. Brewer | 1843 | Representative from New York 1883–1885 |
| Elijah Brigham | 1778 | Representative from Massachusetts 1811–1816 |
| David Bronson | 1819 | Representative from Maine 1841–1843 |
| Daniel Azro Ashley Buck | 1823 | Representative from Vermont 1823–1825 1827–1829 (two different districts) |
| Ellsworth B. Buck | 1914 | Representative from New York 1944–1945, 1945–1949 (two different districts) |
| Joseph Buffum, Jr. | 1807 | Representative from New Hampshire 1819–1821 |
| Robert Burns | DMS 1811 | Representative from New Hampshire 1833–1837 |
| Sherman Everett Burroughs | 1894 | Representative from New Hampshire 1917–1923 |
| Mike Capuano | 1973 | Representative from Massachusetts 1999–2019 |
| John Carney | 1978 | Representative from Delaware 2011–2017, Governor of Delaware 2017–present, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware 2001–2009 |
| Daniel Chipman | 1788 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1816 |
| Martin Chittenden | 1789 | Representative from Vermont 1803–1813, Governor of Vermont 1813–1815 |
| Frank Gay Clarke | 1873 | Representative from New Hampshire 1897–1901 |
| James Hodge Codding | 1871 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1895–1899 |
| William Cogswell | 1859 | Representative from Massachusetts 1887–1895 |
| Thomas B. Curtis | 1932 | Representative from Missouri 1951–1953, 1953–1969 (two different districts) |
| Benjamin Dean | 1845 | Representative from Massachusetts 1878–1879 |
| Nelson Dingley, Jr. | 1855 | Representative from Maine 1881–1899, Governor of Maine 1874–1876 |
| Samuel Dinsmoor | 1789 | Representative from New Hampshire 1811–1813, governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834 |
| Edwin B. Dooley | 1926 | Representative from New York 1957–1963 |
| Fred J. Douglas | 1895 | Representative from New York 1937–1945 |
| Daniel Meserve Durell | 1794 | Representative from New Hampshire 1807–1809 |
| Ira Allen Eastman | 1829 | Representative from New Hampshire 1839–1843 |
| Thomas M. Edwards | 1813 | Representative from New Hampshire 1859–1863 |
| Allen E. Ertel | Th'1958, T'1959 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1977–1983 |
| Evarts Worcester Farr | 1863 | Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1880 |
| T. A. D. Fessenden | 1845 | Representative from Maine 1862–1863 |
| Walbridge A. Field | 1855 | Representative from Massachusetts 1877–1878, 1879–1881 |
| Benjamin Flanders | 1842 | Representative from Louisiana 1863–1864, Governor of Louisiana 1867–1868, Mayor of New Orleans 1870–1872 |
| Isaac Fletcher | 1808 | Representative from Vermont 1837–1841 |
| Richard Fletcher | 1806 | Representative from Massachusetts 1837–1839 |
| David J. Foster | 1880 | Representative from Vermont 1901–1912 |
| Bill Frenzel | 1950 | Representative from Minnesota 1971–1991 |
| Sylvester Gilbert | 1775 | Representative from New Hampshire 1818–1819 |
| Calvin Goddard | 1786 | Representative from Connecticut 1801–1805 |
| Daniel W. Gooch | 1843 | Representative from Massachusetts 1858–1863, 1863–1865, 1873–1875 (three different districts) |
| John Noble Goodwin | 1844 | Representative from Maine 1861–1863, Governor of the Arizona Territory 1863–1866, delegate from the Arizona Territory 1866–1867 |
| George Grennell, Jr. | 1808 | Representative from Massachusetts 1829–1839 |
| Frank Joseph Guarini | 1946 | Representative from New Jersey 1979–1993 |
| Sherwood Guernsey | 1975 | Representative from Massachusetts 1983–1990 |
| Fletcher Hale | 1905 | Representative from New Hampshire 1925–1931 |
| Joshua G. Hall | 1851 | Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1883 |
| Winfield Scott Hammond | 1884 | Representative from Minnesota 1907–1915, Governor of Minnesota 1915–1915 |
| Harry Hibbard | 1835 | Representative from New Hampshire 1849–1855 |
| Edgar W. Hiestand | 1910 | Representative from California 1953–1963 |
| Paul Hodes | 1972 | Representative from New Hampshire 2007–2011 |
| Jonathan Hunt | 1807 | Representative from Vermont 1827–1832 |
| Luther Jewett | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 |
| Thomas B. Kyle | 1881 | Representative from Ohio 1901–1905 |
| Jay Le Fevre | 1918 | Representative from New York 1943–1945, 1945–1951 (different districts) |
| Robert M. Leach | 1902 | Representative from Massachusetts 1924–1925 |
| John Locke | 1792 (never graduated) | Representative from Massachusetts 1823–1829 |
| Joseph S. Lyman | 1805 | Representative from New York 1819–1821 |
| Asa Lyon | 1790 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 |
| Clark MacGregor | 1944 | Representative from Minnesota 1961–1971 |
| Richard W. Mallary | 1949 | Representative from Vermont 1972–1975 |
| Charles Marsh | 1786 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1817 |
| George Perkins Marsh | 1820 | Representative from Vermont 1843–1849, Minister Resident in Turkey 1849–1853, Envoy to Italy 1861–1882 |
| David Thomas Martin | 1929 | Representative from Nebraska 1959–1961, 1961–1974 (two different districts) |
| Ebenezer Mattoon | 1776 | Representative from Massachusetts 1801–1803 |
| Samuel W. McCall | 1874 | Representative from Massachusetts 1893–1913, Governor of Massachusetts 1916–1919 |
| Robert McClory | 1930 | Representative from Illinois 1963–1983 |
| John A. McGuire | 1928 | Representative from Connecticut 1949–1953 |
| Rufus McIntire | 1809 | Representative from Maine 1827–1835 |
| Richard S. Molony | DMS 1832 | Representative from Illinois 1851–1853 |
| John S. Monagan | 1933 | Representative from Connecticut 1959–1973 |
| Harold G. Mosier | 1912 | Representative from Ohio 1937–1939 |
| Jeremiah Nelson | 1790 | Representative from Massachusetts 1805–1807, 1815–1825, 1831–1833 |
| John Noyes | 1795 | Representative from Vermont 1815–1815 |
| Benjamin Orr | 1798 | Representative from Massachusetts 1817–1819 |
| Charles H. Peaslee | 1824 | Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853 |
| Henry Moses Pollard | 1857 | Representative from Missouri 1877–1879 |
| Samuel L. Powers | 1874 | Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1903, 1903–1905 (two different districts) |
| Ambrose Ranney | 1844 | Representative from Massachusetts 1881–1887 |
| Edward C. Reed | 1812 | Representative from New York 1831–1833 |
| Joseph Richardson | 1802 | Representative from Massachusetts 1827–1831 |
| Eleazer Wheelock Ripley | 1800 | Representative from Louisiana 1835–1839 |
| William Nathaniel Rogers | 1915 | Representative from New Hampshire 1923–1925 |
| Erastus Root | 1793 | Representative from New York 1803–1805, 1809–1811, 1815–1817 |
| Samuel Locke Sawyer | 1833 | Representative from Missouri 1879–1881 |
| Herman T. Schneebeli | 1930 T'1931 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1960–1977 |
| John Samuel Sherburne | 1776 | Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797 |
| Don Sherwood | 1963 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1999–2007 |
| George A. Simmons | 1816 | Representative from New York 1853–1857 |
| Henry P. Smith III | 1933 | Representative from New York 1965–1975 |
| Peleg Sprague | 1783 | Representative from New Hampshire 1797–1799 |
| Bradford N. Stevens | 1835 | Representative from Illinois 1871–1873 |
| Moses T. Stevens | 1846 | Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, 1893–1895 (two different districts) |
| Thaddeus Stevens | 1814 | Representative from Pennsylvania 1849–1853, 1859–1868 (two different districts), drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction |
| Samuel Taggart | 1774 | Representative from New Hampshire 1803–1817 |
| Joseph E. Talbot | 1922 | Representative from Connecticut 1942–1947 |
| Nathaniel Terry | 1786 | Representative from Connecticut 1817–1819 |
| Samuel Thurston | 1843 | Delegate from the Oregon Territory to the United States Congress 1849–1851 |
| Charles Q. Tirrell | 1866 | Representative from Massachusetts 1901–1910 |
| Andrew Tracy | 1821 | Representative from Vermont 1853–1855 |
| Amos Tuck | 1835 | Representative from New Hampshire 1847–1853, co-founder of the Republican Party |
| Doug Walgren | 1962 | Representative from Massachusetts 1977–1991 |
| John Wentworth | 1836 | Representative from Illinois 1843–1851, 1853–1855, 1865–1867, Mayor of Chicago 1857–1858, 1860–1861 (three different districts), editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago |
| Thomas Whipple, Jr. | 1814 | Representative from New Hampshire 1821–1829 |
| Charles W. Willard | 1851 | Representative from Vermont 1869–1875 |
| George F. Williams | 1872 | Representative from Massachusetts 1891–1893, Minister to Greece 1913–1914 |
| Hezekiah Williams | 1820 | Representative from Maine 1845–1849 |
| Phineas White | 1797 | Representative from Vermont 1821–1823 |
| Rick White | 1975 | Representative from Washington 1995–1999 |

### United States governors

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| John H. Bartlett | 1894 | Governor of New Hampshire 1919–1921 |
| Robert O. Blood | DMS 1913 | Governor of New Hampshire 1941–1945 |
| Albert O. Brown | 1878 | Governor of New Hampshire 1921–1923 |
| John Carney | 1978 | Governor of Delaware 2017–present, lieutenant governor of Delaware 2001–2009, Representative from Delaware 2011–2017 |
| Channing H. Cox | 1901 | Governor of Massachusetts 1921–1925 |
| Moody Currier | 1834 | Governor of New Hampshire 1885–1887 |
| Nathan Cutler | 1798 | Governor of Maine 1829–1830 |
| Samuel Dinsmoor | 1789 | Governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834 |
| Lane Dwinell | 1928 | Governor of New Hampshire 1955–1959 |
| Arthur Emerson | 1914 | Governor of American Samoa 1931 |
| John Hoeven | 1979 | Governor of North Dakota 2000–2010, U.S. Senator from North Dakota 2011–present |
| Angus King | 1966 | Governor of Maine 1995–2003, U.S. Senator from Maine 2013–present |
| John Kitzhaber | 1969 | Governor of Oregon 1995–2003, 2011–2015 |
| Noah Martin | DMS 1824 | Governor of New Hampshire 1852–1854 |
| James L. McConaughy | M.A. 1915 | Governor of Connecticut 1947–1948 |
| John R. McKernan Jr. | 1970 | Governor of Maine 1987–1995 |
| Ralph Metcalf | 1823 | Governor of New Hampshire 1855–1857 |
| Walter R. Peterson, Jr. | 1947 | Governor of New Hampshire 1969–1973 |
| Samuel E. Pingree | B.A. 1857 M.A. 1867 | Governor of Vermont 1884–1886 |
| Benjamin F. Prescott | 1856 | Governor of New Hampshire 1877–1879 |
| Bruce Rauner | 1978 | Governor of Illinois 2015–2019 |
| Moses Robinson | M.A. (hon.) 1790 | Governor of Vermont 1789–1790 |
| Josh Stein | 1988 | North Carolina Attorney General 2017–2025, Governor of North Carolina 2025–present |
| Robert W. Straub | 1943 | Governor of Oregon 1975–1979 |
| Thomas W. Wolf | 1972 | Governor of Pennsylvania 2015–2023 |

### Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Joel Barlow | 1778 | United States Consul to the City of Algiers 1795–1797, United States Ambassador to France 1811–1812 |
| Robert L. Barry | 1956 | United States Ambassador to Bulgaria 1981–1984 and United States Ambassador to Indonesia 1992–1995 |
| Stephen W. Bosworth | 1961 | United States Ambassador to Tunisia 1979–1981, United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines 1984–1987, United States Ambassador to Korea 1997–2000 |
| Everett Ellis Briggs | 1956 | United States Ambassador to Panama 1982–1986, United States Ambassador to Honduras 1986–1989, United States Ambassador to Portugal 1990–1993 |
| James Cason | 1966 | United States Ambassador to Paraguay 2006–2008 |
| Henry Lee Clarke | 1962 | United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan 1992–1995 |
| William Eaton | 1790 | United States Consul General to the City of Tunis 1797–1803 |
| Robert C. Hill | 1942 | United States Ambassador to Costa Rica 1953–1954, United States Ambassador to El Salvador 1954–1955, United States Ambassador to Mexico 1957–1960, United States Ambassador to Spain 1969–1972, United States Ambassador to Argentina 1974–1977 |
| James F. Moriarty | | United States Ambassador to Nepal 2004–2007, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh 2008–2011 |
| Alfred H. Moses | 1951 | United States Ambassador to Romania 1994–1997 |
| Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. | 1973 | United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines 2002–2005, United States Ambassador to Egypt 2005–2008, United States Ambassador to Turkey 2011–2014 |
| Ronald I. Spiers | 1950 | United States Ambassador to the Bahamas 1973–1974, United States Ambassador to Turkey 1977–1980, United States Ambassador to Pakistan 1981–1983 |

### Government officials outside the U.S.

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Ebenezer Allen | 1826 | Attorney General of the Republic of Texas, railroad promoter, namesake of the city of Allen, Texas |
| Gordon Campbell | 1970 | Premier of British Columbia 2001–2011 |
| Howard Hampton | | Member of Provincial Parliament 1987–1999, 1999–present (two different districts), leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party 1996–2009 |
| Colin Kenny | T1968 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada 1969–1972 Director of Operations PMO 1972–1976 Policy Advisor the Prime Minister of Canada 1976 Assistant Principal to the Prime Minister of Canada 1976–1979; member of the Senate (Ontario) 1984–2018 |
| Paavo Lipponen | | Prime Minister of Finland 1995–2003, member of the Parliament of Finland 1991–2007 |
| Juan Carlos Navarro | 1983 | Mayor of Panama City 1999–2009 |
| Nit Phibunsongkhram | 1962 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States from Thailand 1996–2008 |
| William Remington | 1939 | Alleged Soviet spy |
| Wes Sheridan | 1982 | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from Kensington-Malpeque, Canada 2007–present |
| Tiffany George Sylvester | c. 1830 | Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario |

### Other U.S. political and legal figures

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Charles C. Adams, Jr. | 1968 | Fundraiser, lawyer, human rights activist |
| Daniel Adams | 1779 | New Hampshire State Senator 1838–1840 |
| Harry Amey | 1894 | United States Attorney for the District of Vermont 1923–1933 |
| Alex Azar | 1988 | Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services 2006–2007 |
| Norman Bay | 1982 | United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico 2000–2002 |
| Rand Beers | 1964 | National Security Council counterterrorism adviser c. 1980–2003 |
| Mark Brzezinski | 1987 | Lawyer and foreign policy expert, advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign |
| Enoch Chase | 1831 | Wisconsin State Senator 1882–1884 |
| Ronald Chen | 1980 | New Jersey Public Advocate 2006–present |
| Ed Clark | 1952 | Libertarian candidate for President of the United States in 1980 |
| Robert Clark Corrente | 1978 | United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island 2004–2009 |
| Leah D. Daughtry | 1984 | CEO of the 2008 Democratic National Convention |
| Benjamin W. Dean | 1848 | Secretary of State of Vermont |
| Josiah Dunham | 1789 | Secretary of State of Vermont |
| Asahel Farr | 1846 | Wisconsin State Senator 1876–1877 |
| Gregory G. Garre | 1987 | United States Solicitor General 2008–2009 |
| Roger Goodman | 1983 | Washington State Representative 2006–present |
| Joseph D. Hatch | 1830 | Vermont state legislator, mayor of Burlington, Vermont |
| Kenneth Hecht | 1956 | Public interest attorney |
| Hugh H. Henry | 1833 | Member Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate, United States Marshal for Vermont |
| Peter Hutchinson | 1971 | Minnesota politician, unsuccessful independent candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2006 |
| Joel Hyatt | 1972 | Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senator from Ohio in 1994, founder of Hyatt Legal Services |
| Thomas Kean, Jr. | 1990 | New Jersey State Senator 2003–present, unsuccessful Republican candidate for Senator from New Jersey in 2006 |
| William A. Ketcham | 1867 | Indiana Attorney General 1894–1898, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic 1920–1921 |
| C. Everett Koop | 1937 | Surgeon General of the United States 1982–1989 |
| Quentin L. Kopp | 1949 | California State Senator 1986–1998 |
| Timothy Kraft | 1963 | Political consultant and campaign manager in 1980 for the unsuccessful Jimmy Carter reelection bid |
| Edward Lamb | 1924 | Labor attorney during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike |
| Karen Loeffler | | United States Attorney for the District of Alaska |
| Wendy E. Long | | Law clerk for US Court of Appeals judge Ralph Winter and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas |
| William J. Lynn III | 1976 | Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 1997–2001 |
| Frank G. Mahady | 1961 | Judge of the Vermont District Court; Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court |
| Carl McCall | 1958 | New York State Senator 1975–1979, New York State Comptroller 1993–2002, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of New York in 2002 |
| Sherman R. Moulton | 1898 | Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, 1938–1949 |
| Elderkin Potter | 1802 | member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1827–1829 |
| Peter Robinson | 1979 | Speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, writer of famous "Tear down this wall!" speech |
| Mara Rudman | 1984 | Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Presidents Obama and Clinton |
| Daniel Runde | 1994 | International Development and International Studies, former political appointee in the Bush Administration, William A. Schreyer endowed chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Jack Ryan | 1981 | Unsuccessful Republican candidate for Senator from Illinois in 2004 |
| Kevin V. Ryan | 1980 | United States Attorney for the Northern District of California 2002–2007, one of nine U.S. attorneys at the center of the ongoing dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy |
| Edmund Sim | 1988 | International trade attorney |
| Stuart O. Simms | 1972 | Unsuccessful candidate for Attorney General of Maryland in 2006 |
| Benjamin H. Steele | 1857 | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court |
| Todd Stern | 1973 | U.S. special envoy for climate change 2009–2016 |
| Diana Taylor | 1977 | New York Superintendent of Banks 2003–2007, companion of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg |
| Charles H. Treat | 1863 | Treasurer of the United States 1905–1909 |
| Benjamin Wagner | | United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California 2009–2016 |
| Dave Winters | 1974 | Illinois State Representative 1995–2012 |
| Bill Yellowtail | 1971 | Montana State Senator 1985–1993, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senator from Montana in 1996 |

## Journalism and media

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Seth Abramson | 1998 | Newsweek columnist, BBC and CNN TV analyst, curatorial journalist and New York Times best-selling author |
| Jonathan Agronsky | 1971 | Voice of America journalist, author |
| Bill Beutel | 1953 | First anchor of what became Good Morning America |
| Rudi Blesh | | Jazz critic and reviewer |
| Keith Boykin | 1987 | Co-host of the BET TV talk show My Two Cents |
| Thomas Braden | 1940 | Journalist and author |
| Ty Burr | 1980 | Film critic for The Boston Globe |
| Vincent Canby | | Critic for The New York Times |
| Nicholas Carr | 1981 | Writer on technology, economics, and culture |
| Robert Christgau | 1962 | Rock music critic, formerly of the Village Voice |
| Orvil Dryfoos | 1934 | Publisher of The New York Times |
| Dinesh D'Souza | 1983 | Political analyst, fellow at the Hoover Institution |
| Harry Enten | 2011 | Political analyst |
| Nathaniel Fick | 1999 | Author of One Bullet Away and officer in the United States Marine Corps |
| Gregory Fossedal | 1981 | Conservative activist and author, co-founder of The Dartmouth Review |
| Paul Gambaccini | 1970 | Radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom |
| Brett Haber | 1991 | Sportscaster formerly of ESPN's SportsCenter; now host, commentator on Tennis Channel & NBC Olympics |
| Robert Hager | 1960 | NBC news analyst and correspondent |
| George Herman | 1941 | Journalist for CBS, moderator for Face the Nation |
| Evan X Hyde | 1969 | Publisher of Belize's newspaper Amandala |
| Laura Ingraham | 1985 | Political analyst, host of radio show The Laura Ingraham Show |
| Steve Kelley | 1981 | Political cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| Jason E. Klein | 1982 | CEO of Times Mirror Magazines and CEO of Newspaper National Network LP |
| Mort Kondracke | 1960 | Executive editor of Roll Call; political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Millie: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease, which was made into a movie for CBS |
| A. J. Liebling | 1924 | Journalist, long-time contributor to The New Yorker |
| John Lippman | | Television executive and the acting director of Voice of America |
| James Nachtwey | 1970 | Photojournalist |
| James Panero | 1998 | Managing editor of The New Criterion |
| Spencer Reiss | 1974 | Journalist for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired |
| Lisa Richardson | | Editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times |
| Mel Robbins | 1990 | Journalist for CNN, television show host, and author |
| David Rosenbaum | 1963 | Journalist for The New York Times, winner of the 1991 Polk Award |
| Thomas N. Schroth | 1942 | Editor of Congressional Quarterly and founder of The National Journal |
| Maggie Shnayerson | 2003 | Journalist for TIME, The New York Sun, and the New York Post |
| Michael Shnayerson | | Contributor to Vanity Fair |
| Jacques Steinberg | 1988 | Journalist for The New York Times |
| Jake Tapper | 1991 | Journalist for CNN |
| George Ticknor | 1847 | Editor of The Keene Sentinel, c. 1860–1866 |
| David Viscott | 1959 | Psychiatrist, professor, author, and media personality |
| Michael Weiss | 2002 | Journalist, security analyst and author |
| Tom Zoellner | 2012 | Author, journalist |

### Bloggers

| Name | Year/degree | Blog |
| John H. Hinderaker | 1971 | Power Line |
| Scott W. Johnson | 1971 | Power Line |
| Melissa Lafsky | 2000 | Opinionistas |
| Paul Mirengoff | 1971 | Power Line |

## Literature, writing, and translation

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Philip Booth | 1947 | Poet, winner of Guggenheim grant |
| William Bronk | 1938 | Poet, winner of National Book Award |
| Brock Brower | 1953 | Novelist, nominated for the National Book Award |
| Joseph Campbell | 1926 (never graduated) | Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which inspired Star Wars and The Matrix |
| Eric Dezenhall | 1984 | Author of fiction and nonfiction; books include Glass Jaw, A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal, Money Wanders and The Devil Himself |
| Bruce Ducker | 1960 | Novelist |
| Louise Erdrich | 1976 | Novelist, poet, winner of the O. Henry Award in 1987, Guggenheim Fellow, National Book Critics Circle Award |
| András Gerevich | M.A.L.S. 2002 (Fulbright student) | poet, screenwriter, literary translator and Professor |
| Philip Babcock Gove | 1922 | Lexicographer and editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International |
| Richard Hovey | 1885 | Poet |
| Bruce Judson | 1976 | Author of business and public policy books |
| Eric P. Kelly | 1906 | Journalist and writer, author of The Trumpeter of Krakow and recipient of the 1929 Newbery Medal |
| Richard Kenney | 1970 | Poet, English professor |
| Phil Klay | 2005 | US Marine officer, author of Redeployment and winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction |
| Richmond Lattimore | 1926 | Translator of the Iliad and other classics |
| Norman Maclean | 1924 | Author of A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire, winner of the National Book Award |
| Warren E. Preece | 1943 | General editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Gregory Rabassa | 1944 | Acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, and other major works of Latin American literature |
| Dr Seuss | 1925 | Children's author and illustrator |
| Alexander O. Smith | 1995 | Japanese/English translator and author |
| Tara Bray Smith | 1992 | Writer, memoirist |
| Thorne Smith | | Science fiction author |
| Ed Victor | | Literary agent |

### Pulitzer Prize winners

The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.
| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Richard Eberhart | 1926 | U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and the National Book Award in 1977 |
| Dan Fagin | 1985 | Journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2014 for Toms River |
| Robert Frost | 1896 (never graduated) | U.S. poet laureate, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes |
| Paul Gigot | 1977 | The Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2000 |
| Frank Gilroy | 1950 | Playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1965 for The Subject Was Roses |
| Jake Hooker | 1995 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2008 |
| Nigel Jaquiss | 1984 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005 |
| Nick Kotz | 1955 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968 |
| Joseph Rago | 2005 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2011 |
| Martin J. Sherwin | 1959 | Historian regarding nuclear proliferation; shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with Kai Bird in 2006 |
| David K. Shipler | 1964 | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987 |

## Medicine

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Frederick W. Adams | 1822 | Physician, author, and violin maker |
| Lori Arviso Alvord | 1976 | Became the first board-certified female Diné surgeon in 1994; author of The Scalpel and the Silver Bear; nominated for U.S. Surgeon General in 2013 |
| John Francis Eisold | 1976 DMS | Current attending physician at the United States Capitol |
| George L. Engel | 1934 | Psychiatrist, formulator of the biopsychosocial model |
| Irwin Freedberg | | Dermatologist |
| John Gunderson | 1965 DMS | Director of McLean Hospital's Borderline Center; Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; pioneer of research on the treatment of borderline personality disorder |
| Odette Harris | 1991 | Neurosurgery: treatment of traumatic brain injuries with a focus on epedemiology and outcomes |
| Rosandra N. Kaplan | DMS | Physician scientist at the National Cancer Institute |
| Charles Knowlton | 1824 DMS | Physician, author of a noted pamphlet on birth control |
| Elad Levy | 1993 B.S. | Leader, researcher, innovator in the field of neurosurgery for the treatment of stroke |
| Calvin C.J. Sia | 1950 | Developer of both the medical home concept for primary care and the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program |
| Bob Smith | 1902 | Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Frederick Douglass Stubbs | 1926 B.A. | Pioneering Black thoracic surgeon |
| Paul Zamecnik | 1934 | Professor of medicine emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital |
| David Zarling | M.A. | Oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur |

## Military

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Dean C. Allard | 1955 | Director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center |
| Robert J. Dixon | 1941 | Four-star general in the United States Air Force |
| George P. Estey | (never graduated) | Union Army brigadier general, lawyer |
| Jack K. Farris | 1981 | U.S. Air Force major general |
| Joshua James Guppey | 1843 | Union Army brigadier general |
| Frank A. Haskell | 1854 | Union Army colonel during the American Civil War |
| John C. Meyer | | U.S. Air Force general, World War II flying ace, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command |
| Arnold Resnicoff | 1968 | Navy chaplain; Command Chaplain, United States European Command; Special Assistant for Values and Vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force |
| William W. Stickney | 1926 | U.S. Marine Corps major general, director of Marine Corps Marine Corps Reserve |
| John L. Sullivan | 1921 | United States Secretary of the Navy 1947–1949 |
| Eri D. Woodbury | 1863 | American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient |

## Religion

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs | 1852 | Presbyterian minister |
| Caleb Sprague Henry | 1825 | Episcopal clergyman and author |
| Arthur Whipple Jenks | 1884, D.D. 1911 | Episcopal theologian |
| Jack Kornfield | 1967 | Author, peacemaker and monk |
| William Palmer Ladd | | Episcopal priest and seminary dean |
| Edward A. Lawrence, Sr. | 1834 | Congregational pastor, author, professor |
| Elihu Palmer | 1787 | Deist author and public speaker |
| Arnold Resnicoff | 1968 | Rabbi and retired U.S. Navy chaplain, national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and special assistant for values and vision to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force |
| Walter Ashbel Sellew | 1866 | Methodist bishop |
| Solomon Spalding | 1785 | Calvinist clergyman, possibly the author of a predecessor work of the Book of Mormon |
| David E. Stern | 1983 | Senior rabbi, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas |
| Joseph Tracy | M.A. 1814 | Protestant minister, author, and historian |
| Julia Whitworth | B.A. 1993 | Episcopal priest, Bishop-elect of Massachusetts |

## Social reform

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Charles Eastman | 1887 | Santee Sioux author, physician, and reformer |
| Lester Granger | 1918 | African-American civil rights activist |
| John Humphrey Noyes | 1830 | Founder of the Utopian Oneida Society |

## Sports
### Baseball

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Brad Ausmus | 1991 | Catcher, 1999 All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, manager of the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, and Israel national baseball team |
| Jim Beattie | 1976 | Pitcher for the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners |
| Pete Burnside | 1952 | Pitcher for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, and Baltimore Orioles |
| Ralph Glaze | 1906 | Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; football All-American; head coach of football, basketball, and track and field for several universities |
| Kyle Hendricks | 2013 | Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs |
| Matt Klentak | 2002 | MLB executive |
| Chick Maynard | 1920 | Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox |
| Bill Neukom | 1964 | Managing general partner and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants (due to become chairman emeritus January 1, 2012) |
| Mike Remlinger | 1988 | Pitcher, 2002 MLB All-Star |
| Red Rolfe | 1931 | Third baseman for the New York Yankees |
| Chuck Seelbach | 1970 | Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers |
| Bianca Smith | 2012 | Coach in the Boston Red Sox organization; first African American woman to coach professional baseball |
| Rusty Yarnall | 1926 (transferred to University of Vermont) | Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |

### Basketball

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| James Blackwell | 1991 | Guard for the Charlotte Hornets and the Boston Celtics |
| Flinder Boyd | 2002 | Guard for Great Britain, feature writer |
| Aud Brindley | 1946 | Forward for the New York Knicks |
| Ric Bucher | 1983 | Basketball analyst for ESPN |
| Dave Gavitt | 1959 | Coach at Providence College, first commissioner of the Big East Conference |
| Russ Granik | 1969 | Deputy Commissioner and COO of the NBA |
| Rudy LaRusso | 1959 | Forward and center for the Minneapolis Lakers, five-time NBA All-Star |
| Walter Palmer | 1990 | Center for the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks |

### Football

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Katie Blackburn | 1986 | Executive vice president of the Cincinnati Bengals, played on women's ice hockey team while attending |
| Murry Bowden | 1971 | Linebacker, member of College Football Hall of Fame |
| Mike Brown | 1957 | Owner of Cincinnati Bengals |
| Frank Cavanaugh | 1898 | College football coach |
| Jim Chasey | 1971 | Player in Canadian Football League |
| Casey Cramer | 2004 | Tight end for Tennessee Titans |
| Jay Fiedler | 1994 | Quarterback for Miami Dolphins |
| Amos Foster | 1904 | College football coach |
| Ed Healey | 1919 | Offensive tackle for Chicago Bears |
| Jeff Kemp | 1981 | Quarterback for Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks |
| Lloyd Lee | 1998 | Defensive assistant coach of Chicago Bears |
| Nick Lowery | 1978 | Kicker, 3-time NFL Pro Bowler |
| Bob MacLeod | 1939 | Halfback, member of College Football Hall of Fame, coach for Army |
| Brian Mann | 2002 | Quarterback for Los Angeles Avengers |
| Bill Morton | 1932 | Quarterback, member of College Football Hall of Fame; president and vice-chairman of American Express |
| Bill Roberts | | Halfback for Green Bay Packers |
| Gordon Rule | | Defensive back for Green Bay Packers |
| Dave Shula | 1981 | Wide receiver and coach |
| Gus Sonnenberg | 1920 | Halfback in NFL, professional wrestler |
| Clarence Spears | 1917 | Dartmouth player and coach, member of College Football Hall of Fame |
| Buddy Teevens | 1979 | Quarterback, current head coach for Dartmouth, former head coach at Maine, Stanford |
| George Tully | | All-American and NFL player |
| Zach Walz | 1998 | Linebacker for Arizona Cardinals |
| Reggie Williams | 1976 | Linebacker for Cincinnati Bengals |
| Myron E. Witham | 1904 | Back, All-American, head coach of University of Colorado |
| Swede Youngstrom | 1919 | Center and guard |

### Ice hockey

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Gillian Apps | 2006 | Left wing, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Walter Bush | 1951 | Administrator and organizer |
| Tanner Glass | 2007 | Center for Pittsburgh Penguins |
| Hugh Jessiman | 2006 | Right wing for New York Rangers |
| David Jones | 2008 | Right wing for Calgary Flames |
| Kristin King | 2002 | Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Myles Lane | 1928 | Defenseman for New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, football coach at Boston University, New York Supreme Court justice |
| Ben Lovejoy | 2007 | Defenseman for Anaheim Ducks |
| Sarah Parsons | 2010 | Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Cherie Piper | 2006 | Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Laura Stacey | 2005 | Right wing for Montreal Victoire, gold and silver medalist for Canada in 2022 and 2018 Winter Olympics |
| Lee Stempniak | 2005 | Right wing for Calgary Flames |
| Katie Weatherston | 2006 | Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Carey Wilson | 1983 (never graduated) | Center for Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers |

### Track and field

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Gerry Ashworth | 1963 | Sprinter, gold medalist in 1964 Summer Olympics |
| Vilhjálmur Einarsson | 1956 | Triple jumper, silver medalist in 1956 Summer Olympics |
| Edwin Myers | 1920 | Pole vaulter, bronze medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics |
| Adam Nelson | 1997 | Shotputter, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics |
| Alexi Pappas | 2012 | 10,000 metres, competitor in 2016 Summer Olympics |
| Arthur Shaw | 1908 | Hurdler, bronze medalist in 1908 Summer Olympics |
| Nathaniel Sherman | 1910 | Sprinter, competitor in 1908 Summer Olympics |
| Jarrod Shoemaker | 2004 | Triathlete, competitor in 2008 Summer Olympics |
| Earl Thomson | 1917 | Hurdler, gold medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics |
| Marc Wright | 1913 | Pole vaulter, silver medalist in 1912 Summer Olympics |

### Other

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| John H. Caldwell | 1950 | Cross-country skier, competitor in 1952 Winter Olympics |
| Sophie Caldwell | 2011 | Cross-country skier, competitor in 2014 Winter Olympics |
| Tim Caldwell | 1976 | Skier, competitor in 1976 Winter Olympics |
| Dick Durrance | 1939 | Skier, competitor in 1936 Winter Olympics |
| Jack Durrance | 1936 | Mountaineer, founder of Dartmouth Mountaineering Club |
| Andrew Goldstein | 2005 | Lacrosse goalie for Long Island Lizards, first professional male team-sport athlete to be openly gay during career |
| Craig Henderson | 2009 | Soccer player, competitor for New Zealand in 2008 Summer Olympics |
| Madison Hughes | 2015 | U.S. international rugby sevens player |
| Stuart Krohn | M.A. | Rugby union player |
| Paul Mott | 1979 | Soccer, played for Tampa Bay Rowdies, and former president of New Orleans Hornets |
| Cammy Myler | 1995 | Luger, four-time competitor for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics |
| Dominic Seiterle | 1998 | Rower, competitor for Canada in 2008 Summer Olympics |
| Michael Slive | 1962 | Commissioner of Southeastern Conference |
| Carolyn Treacy | 2006 | Biathlete in 2006 Winter Olympics |
| Lawrence Whitney | 1915 | Athlete in 1912 Summer Olympics |
| Moriah Wilson | 2019 | Champion gravel cyclist |

## Miscellaneous

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| John Ball | 1820 | Explorer of the Oregon Country with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth |
| Albert S. Bickmore | 1860 | Naturalist and co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History |
| Jeffrey Gundlach | 1981 | Investor and businessperson; founder of DoubleLine Capital LP, an investment firm; former head of the $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund |
| Michelle Khare | 2014 | YouTuber, actress, television host, and cyclist |
| John Ledyard | 1776 (never graduated) | Explorer and adventurer; namesake of the Ledyard Canoe Club |
| Stephen Harriman Long | 1809 | Explorer, surveyor and military officer |
| James H. Newman | 1978 | Astronaut with NASA |
| Chip Reese | 1973 | Professional poker player and gambler |
| Steve Russell | 1958 | Computer programmer and gaming pioneer, creator of early video game Spacewar! |

### Fictional people

| Name | Year/degree | Notability |
| Maggie Eagle Bear | 1989 | Character from Thunderheart, Native American activist |
| Natty Bumppo | (no year indicated) | Main character of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; described in the novels and in particular the movie Last of the Mohicans as having attended Eleazar Wheelock's school |
| Pete Campbell | 1956 | Character on Mad Men, played by Vincent Kartheiser |
| Jackie Chiles | (no year indicated) | Character from Seinfeld, attorney to Cosmo Kramer |
| Stephen Colbert (character) | (no year indicated) | Titular character of The Colbert Report (real Colbert did not attend Dartmouth; the fictional biography on colbertnation.com, however, lists Dartmouth as his alma mater) |
| Michael Corleone | 1942 | Main character in the Godfather epic |
| Thomas Crown | (no year indicated) | Titular character of The Thomas Crown Affair |
| Evan and Fogell | 2011 (pre-freshmen) | Main characters in 2007 film Superbad |
| Meredith Grey | (no year indicated) | Titular character of Grey's Anatomy |
| Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins | (no year indicated) | Character from Who's Your Caddy, played by Big Boi, said to have played lacrosse for the Big Green |
| Katie | (no year indicated) | Character in The Secret Life of Pets |
| Lawrence Kutner | (no year indicated) | Character from House |
| Pete Lattimer | (no year indicated) | Character from Warehouse 13, officer of the U.S. Secret Service |
| Jack McCoy | (no year indicated) | Main character in Law and Order |
| "Trapper" John McIntyre | (no year indicated) | Character on M*A*S*H novels, film, and television, and Trapper John, M.D. |
| Dan Rydell | (no year indicated) | Character from Sports Night, television sports host played by Josh Charles |
| Jack Trainer | 1970 | Male lead from Working Girl, played by Harrison Ford |
| Hamilton Bridge Upton | (no year indicated) | Character from The Ugly American, member of the U.S. Foreign Service |