Rutgers University

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Notable alumni

Politics, government and public service

• Phillip Alampi, Class of 1934, M.A. 1945 — New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture
• Joseph P. Bradley, Class of 1836 — Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
• Clifford P. Case, Class of 1925 — United States Senator
• Marco Dimarcello, Class of 1997 — social studies teacher
• James J. Florio, J.D. 1967 — former Governor of New Jersey
• Louis Freeh, Class of 1971 — Director of the FBI (1993–2001)
• Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Class of 1836 — Vice Presidential Candidate, United States Senator
• E. Scott Garrett J.D. 1984 — Representative
• Garret A. Hobart, Class of 1863 — Industrialist, Vice President of the United States, (1897–1899)
• James J. Howard, M.Ed. 1958; Representative, (1965?1988)
• Richard Hughes, J.D. 1931 — New Jersey Governor, Chief State Supreme Court Justice
• William Hughes, Class of 1955 — Congressman, Ambassador to Panama
• Jack H. Jacobs, Class of 1966, M.A. 1972 — Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, military analyst for MSNBC
• Robert Menendez — Representative
• William A. Newell, Class of 1836 — Physician, Governor of New Jersey, (1857-1860)
• Hazel O'Leary — U.S. Secretary of Energy (1993–1997)
• David A. Morse, Class of 1929 — Director-General of ILO who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969 on behalf of the ILO
• James Schureman, Class of 1775 — Continental Congress, Senator.
• Robert Torricelli, Class of 1974 — United States Senator, Congressman
• Peter W. Rodino, Jr., J.D. 1937 — Congressman
• Foster M. Voorhees, Class of 1876 — Governor of New Jersey, (1898, 1899-1902)

Business

• Roger Ackerman, Class of 1960, M.A. 1962 — former chairman and CEO of Corning, Inc.
• Jay Chiat, Class of 1953 — advertising executive
• James Cullen, Class of 1964 — former president and COO of Bell Atlantic
• Marc Ecko — CEO and Founder of Marc Ecko Enterprises
• Sharon Fordham, Class of 1975 — CEO of WeightWatchers.com, Inc.
• Arthur Goldberg, Class of 1963 — former president and CEO of Park Place Entertainment Corporation
• James Kelly, Class of 1973 — former chairman and CEO of UPS
• Leonor F. Loree, Class of 1877 — President of the Pennsylvania Railroad
• Bernard Marcus, Class of 1951 — Founder of the Home Depot
• Gregg Spiridellis, Class of 1993 — founder of JibJab.com
• David Lloyd Kreeger, Class of 1929 — founder of GEICO
• Ernest Mario, Class of 1961 — former CEO of Glaxo
• Marty Yudkovitz — former president of Tivo

Medicine

• Clifton R. Lacy, Class of 1975 — New Jersey Commissioner of Health and Senior Services
• William Trager, Class of 1930 — developed new treatements for Malaria
• Selman Waksman, Class of 1915 — discovered 22 antibiotics, best known for streptomycin. Nobel laureate.
• H. Boyd Woodruff, Class of 1939/Graduate School 1942 — discovered antibiotic actinomycin.
• Stephen D. Ford, Class of 1979— Chief of Staff, Robert Wood Johnson University Hopsital at Rahway.

Academia

• Carol Christ, Class of 1966 — President of Smith College
• Milton Friedman, Class of 1932 — Economist, Nobel Laureate
• William H. S. Demarest, Class of 1883 — President of Rutgers University
• Philip Milledoler Brett, Class of 1892 — President of Rutgers University, Successful Corporate Attorney
• Carl Woodward, Class of 1914 — President of University of Rhode Island
• William Kirwan, M.A. 1962, 1964 — Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, former President of Ohio State University
• Roy Franklin Nichols, Class of 1918 — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Science & Engineering

• Simeon DeWitt, Class of 1776 — Geographer for George Washington and Continental Army during the American Revolution
• Ramzi Yousef — Terrorist, involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (studied Chemical Engineering, briefly)
• Nidal Ayyad — Terrorist, involved in 1993 World Trade Center bombing (graduated in Chemical Engineering )
• Peter C. Schultz, Class of 1964 — co-inventor of fiber optics
• Stanley N. Cohen, Class of 1956 — geneticist, pioneer in gene splicing
• Louis Gluck, Class of 1948 — considered the father of neonatology, the science of caring for newborn infants
• Philip S. Schein, Class of 1961 — cancer researcher, founder of U.S. Bioscience
• Matthew Golombek, Class of 1976 — project scientist in charge of NASA's Pathfinder mission to Mars
• Terry Hart, Class of 1978 — Astronaut, president of LORAL Skynet

Arts & letters

• Martin Agronsky, Class of 1936 — Journalist
• Richard Aregood, Class of 1965 — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Alice Aycock, Class of 1968 — Sculptor
• Samuel Blackman, Class of 1927 — Journalist
• James Blish, Class of 1942 — Science fiction and fantasy author.
• Janet Evanovich, Class of 1965 — Best-selling Author
• Jerry Izenberg, Class of 1952 — Emmy-winning sports journalist
• Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Class of 1908 (did not graduate) — poet, died in France during World War I.
• Robert Pinsky, Class of 1962 — Poet Laureate of the United States, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
• George Segal, GSNB 1963 — Sculptor
• Michael Shaara, Class of 1951 — author of The Killer Angels and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Entertainment and sports

• Mr. Magoo — A cartoon character whose fictional biography included being an alumnus of Rutgers.
• Roger Bart — Actor ("The Producers", Tony Award for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown")
• Mario Batali, Class of 1982 — Chef, Restauranteur, Television Host (Molto Mario, Iron Chef America)
• Bill Bellamy — Comedian, Actor
• Avery Brooks, Class of 1973 — Actor, Educator
• Asia Carrera (born Jessica Bennett), Class of 1995 — Porn Star (who majored in Business and Japanese).
• Kevin Chamberlin — Actor (Tony Award nominations for "Dirty Blonde" and "Seussical")
• Kristin Davis, Class of 1987, — Actress (Sex and the City)
• Calista Flockhart, Class of 1988 — Actress (stage, television, and motion pictures) (The Birdcage)(Ally McBeal), Emmy winner
• James Gandolfini, Class of 1983 — Actor (The Sopranos), Emmy winner
• Alexi Lalas, Class of 1991 — Former U.S. Soccer National Team member, present President & General Manager of MetroStars in MLS
• William Mastrosimone, Class of 1980 — Playwright, Golden Globe Award winner
• Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson, Class of 1927 — Musician and Actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
• Paul Robeson, Class of 1919 — Athlete, Actor, Singer, Political Activist
• Aaron Stanford, Class of 2000 — Actor ("X2", "Tadpole")
• David Stern, Class of 1963 — Commissioner of the National Basketball Association