page_title: List of Duke University people
section_title: Current
hierarchical_section_title: List of Duke University people / Faculty / Current
caption_attribution_description: Walter E. Dellinger III, acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997
context_page_description: This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, and Sanford School of Public Policy. The university's graduate and professional schools include the Graduate School, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law, the Divinity School, and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
  Famous alumni include U.S. President Richard Nixon; Chilean President Ricardo Lagos; former cabinet member and former Senator Elizabeth Dole; philanthropist Melinda French Gates; the chief executive officers of Apple, Procter and Gamble, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, McDonald's and General Motors Corporation; and the first United States Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients.
context_section_description: Bill Adair,  founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact
  David Aers, James B. Duke Professor of English, expert on medieval and Renaissance literature and theology
  Pankaj K. Agarwal, computer scientist, known for his research on computational geometry
  Susan Alberts, primatologist, co-director of Amboseli Baboon Research Project
  John Aldrich, political scientist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  Samuel Alito, associate justice  of the US Supreme Court
  Nancy Andrews, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Duke University School of Medicine
  Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics, author of Predictably Irrational
  Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of English; critic of 18th- and 19th-century novels; editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction
  Frank Asche, marine economist
  Valerie Ashby, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  Owen Astrachan (M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992), distinguished computer scientist
  Emanuel Azenberg, producer of American theater who has won 40 Tony awards
  Lorena S. Beese, biochemist, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
  Adrian Bejan, mechanical engineering professor, inventor of constructal theory and namesake of the Bejan number
  Ravi V. Bellamkonda, biomedical engineer
  Peter B. Bennett, founder and former president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network
  Philip Bennett, former managing editor of The Washington Post
  James Berger, statistician, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
  Paul Berliner, ethnomusicologist
  Tim Bollerslev, economist, expert on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
  Raphael M. Bonelli, professor of neurology and psychiatry
  James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
  Geoffrey Brennan, philosopher associated with rational actor theory
  Hubert Bray, mathematician, known for having proved the Riemannian Penrose inequality
  David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
  Thomas Brothers, musicologist, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009
  Kelly D. Brownell, scientist, professor, expert on obesity; named as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine in 2006
  Caroline Bruzelius, art historian, expert on medieval architecture
  Robert Bryant, chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, fellow of the American Mathematical Society, member of the National Academy of Sciences
  Allen Buchanan, philosopher
  Al Buehler, chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation department; United States Olympic Track coach at the 1972, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympics; member of North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
  Robert Calderbank, former vice president of AT&T; recipient of the Shannon Award in electrical engineering
  Bruce Caldwell, economist
  William Chafe, American historian
  Rey Chow, postcolonial, cultural critic
  Sarah Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
  Philip J. Cook, professor of public policy
  Miriam Cooke, literary critic
  Missy Cummings, professor of aeronautics, one of the US Navy's first female fighter pilots
  Sandy Darity, Jr., economist
  Ingrid Daubechies, first woman president of the International Mathematical Union; recipient of MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and NAS Award in Mathematics
  Cathy Davidson, author
  Geraldine Dawson, former chief science officer of Autism Speaks
  Walter E. Dellinger III, law professor, former United States Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton
  Martin E. Dempsey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  Kenneth A. Dodge, psychologist
  Bruce Donald, computer scientist, fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEE, recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship
  Ariel Dorfman, novelist, playwright, human rights activist, 1992 winner of the Laurence Olivier Award
  Fred Dretske, philosopher of mind, winner of the Jean Nicod Prize
  Prasenjit Duara, historian
  Patrick Duddy, former ambassador to Venezuela
  Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., deputy Judge Advocate General
  Rick Durrett, mathematician, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
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