"Dukie" redirects here. For the American television character, see
Dukie Weems . For the New Zealand singer known as Joe Dukie, see
Dallas Tamaira .
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 ,
Sanford School of Public Policy , and
Duke Kunshan University . 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 , the
Sanford School of Public Policy ,
Duke Kunshan University , and
Duke–NUS Medical School .
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 (
Tim Cook ),
Procter and Gamble (
David S. Taylor ),
Bear Stearns (
Alan Schwartz ),
Morgan Stanley (
John J. Mack ),
Pfizer (
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. ),
McDonald's (
Chris Kempczinski ) and
General Motors Corporation (
Rick Wagoner ); and the first
United States Chief Performance Officer
Jeffrey Zients . Notable alumni media personalities include
Dan Abrams , the former general manager of
MSNBC ;
Jay Bilas , a commentator on
ESPN ;
Sean McManus , the president of
CBS News and
CBS Sports ;
Charlie Rose , the former host of
his eponymous PBS talk show and a
60 Minutes contributor; and
Judy Woodruff , an anchor at
CNN .
William DeVries (GME 1971–79) was the first doctor to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation, and appeared on the cover of
Time in 1984.
Current notable faculty include
Manny Azenberg , a Broadway producer whose productions have won 40
Tony Awards ;
Adrian Bejan , namesake of the
Bejan number ; and
David Brooks , a columnist for
The New York Times .
Walter E. Dellinger III , formerly the
United States Solicitor General ,
Assistant Attorney General , and head of the
Office of Legal Counsel under
Bill Clinton , serves as a law professor. Novelist and playwright
Ariel Dorfman won the 1992
Laurence Olivier Award , while
Peter Feaver was a member of the
National Security Council under Clinton and
George W. Bush .
David Gergen served as an advisor to Presidents
Richard Nixon ,
Gerald Ford ,
Ronald Reagan , and
Bill Clinton .
John Hope Franklin was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, while
William Raspberry , a syndicated columnist for
The Washington Post , won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1994. 15
Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university.
James B. Duke established a $40 million trust fund,
The Duke Endowment , in 1924, propelling the university to officially change its name in honor of his family's philanthropy.
International academic prizes
Nobel laureates
Robert Lefkowitz , James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke and the 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
As of 2019, 15 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Duke University. The following list includes only those who have graduated from Duke or spent at least one year as a
postdoctoral researcher /
medical resident /
visiting professor or two years as a faculty member at Duke.
Charles Townes (A.M. in physics, 1937), 1964 Nobel laureate in physics and winner of the 2005
Templeton Prize ,
[1]
National Medal of Science (1982)
Gertrude B. Elion (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1971 to 1983 and research professor from 1983 to 1999), 1988
Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
[2]
George H. Hitchings (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1970–1985), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
[3]
Hans Dehmelt (Post-Doc. 1952–1955), 1989
Nobel laureate in physics ,
[4] recipient of the
National Medal of Science (1995)
Martin Rodbell (adjunct professor of cell biology from 1991 to 1998), 1994 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
[5]
[6]
[7]
Robert Coleman Richardson (Ph.D. in physics, 1966), 1996 Nobel laureate in Physics
[8]
Peter Agre (vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medicine Center from 2005 to December 2007), 2003
Nobel laureate in chemistry
[9]
[10]
Robert Lefkowitz (James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, joined Duke in 1973), 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
[11]
National Medal of Science (2007)
Brian Kobilka (Post-Doc. 1984–1989), 2012
Nobel laureate in chemistry
[12]
Paul L. Modrich (James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, joined Duke in 1976), 2015 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
[13]
William Kaelin Jr. (B.S. 1979, M.D. 1982), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine
[14]
Gregg L. Semenza (Pediatrics Residency), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine
[14]
George Smith (Visiting Professor 1983–1984), 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
[15]
Turing Award laureates
In the absence of a Nobel Prize in
Computer science , the
Turing Award generally is recognized as the highest honor in the subject and the "Nobel Prize of computing." As of 2015, 3 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Duke University.
Alumni
Selected Duke Alumni
Ricardo Lagos , Ph.D. 1966
U.S. President
Richard Nixon , J.D. 1937
[19]
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Martin Dempsey , M.A. 1984
U.S. senator and cabinet secretary
Elizabeth Dole , A.B. 1958
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Juanita Kreps , Ph.D. 1948
U.S. Solicitor General
Kenneth Starr , J.D. 1973
U.S. congressman
Ron Paul , M.D. 1961
U.S. congressman
Nick Rahall , A.B. 1971
Admiral
Frank Bowman , B.S. 1966
U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric Shinseki , A.M. 1976
Philanthropist
Melinda Gates , A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987
Financier and philanthropist
David Rubenstein , A.B. 1970
Apple CEO
Tim Cook , M.B.A. 1988
Marine biologist
Sylvia Earle , Ph.D. 1966
Astronaut
Charles E. Brady, Jr. , M.D. 1975
Actor
Jared Harris , B.F.A. 1984
Actor and comedian
Ken Jeong , B.S. 1990
Television journalist
Charlie Rose , A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968
Two-time NBA All-Star
Carlos Boozer
[20]
Seven-time NBA All-Star
Grant Hill
two-time NCAA Champion, NBA All-Star
Christian Laettner
[21]
Seven-time NBA All-Star, NBA Champion
Kyrie Irving
[22]
Five-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl Champion
Sonny Jurgensen
[23]
Eight-time MLB All-Star
Dick Groat
Government, law, and public policy
Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.
Heads of state
Cabinet members and White House staff
David Addington (J.D. 1981), chief of staff to former vice president
Dick Cheney
[27]
Claude Allen (J.D. 1990), White House domestic policy advisor
Josephus Daniels ,
Secretary of the Navy during World War I
Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former
United States senator for
North Carolina ; former commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission ; former
United States Secretary of Transportation ; former
United States Secretary of Labor ; former president of the
American Red Cross
[28]
W. Neil Eggleston (A.B. 1975),
White House Counsel under President Barack Obama
[29]
Danielle C. Gray (A.B. 2000),
Cabinet Secretary , senior advisor to President Barack Obama
[30]
John P. Hannah (A.B. 1984), Assistant for National Security to former vice president
Dick Cheney
[31]
John Hillen (A.B. 1988), former
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
[32]
John Koskinen (A.B. 1961),
Commissioner of Internal Revenue (2013–2017), former deputy director of the
White House
Office of Management and Budget
[33]
Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948),
United States Secretary of Commerce , 1977–79
[34]
Reggie Love (A.B. 2005), personal aide to President
Barack Obama
[35]
Derek Lyons (A.B. 2004, B.S. 2004),
White House Staff Secretary and Counselor to
President Donald J. Trump
[36]
Stephen Miller (A.B. 2007), Senior Advisor to former President
Donald J. Trump
[37]
Macon Phillips (A.B. 2000), White House Director of
New Media with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov
[38]
Daniel Calhoun Roper (A.B. 1888),
United States Secretary of Commerce under
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[39]
Sonal Shah (M.A. 1994), director of the White House
Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation , former head of the Global Development Initiative at Google.org
[40]
Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired
four-star general , 7th
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014), 34th
Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003)
[41]
Daleep Singh (A.B. 1997),
Deputy National Security Advisor to
President Joseph R. Biden
Doug Sosnik (A.B. 1979), senior advisor and political director to
former President
Bill Clinton
[42]
Tommy Sowers (A.B. 1998), Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
[43]
Kenneth Starr (J.D. 1973), former
United States Solicitor General ,
Independent Counsel during the
Whitewater Affair
[44]
James Young (M.D. 1955), MC USN, Attending White House Physician to Kennedy and Johnson, 1963-1966
[45]
Jared Weinstein (A.B. 2002), personal assistant to former President
George W. Bush
[46]
Daniel I. Werfel (M.P.P. 1997),
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service , Current
[47]
Jeffrey Zients (B.S. 1988),
United States Chief Performance Officer , (2009-2013);
White House Chief of Staff , Current
[48]
Members of Congress
U.S. senators
Mo Cowan (A.B. 1991), former United States Senator from Massachusetts
[49]
[50]
Shelley Moore Capito (A.B. 1975),
United States senator from
West Virginia , former U.S. representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district
[51]
[52]
Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former
United States senator for
North Carolina ; former commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission ; former
United States Secretary of Transportation ; former
United States Secretary of Labor ; former president of the
American Red Cross
[53]
Edward Gurney (LL.M. 1948), former United States Senator from Florida
[54]
Rand Paul (M.D. 1988), United States Senator from Kentucky
[55]
Everett Jordan (A.B.), former U.S. senator from North Carolina
[56]
Ted Kaufman (B.S.E. 1960),
United States senator of
Delaware
[57]
Bob Krueger (A.M. 1959), former U.S. representative and Senator from
Texas
[58]
Lee Slater Overman (A.B. 1874), former United States Senator from North Carolina
[59]
James B. Pearson (A.B. 1942),
United States senator from
Kansas
[60]
U.S. representatives
Hugh Quincy Alexander (1932), former
U.S. representative from
North Carolina (1953–1963)
[61]
Robert Franklin Armfield , former Congressman from North Carolina, Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina
[62]
Morris Brooks (A.B. 1975), former U.S. representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district
[63]
Maurice G. Burnside (Ph.D. 1937), former Congressman from
West Virginia
[64]
Bradley Byrne (A.B. 1977), U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district
[65]
Jim Courter (J.D. 1966), former Congressman from
New Jersey
[66]
Nick Galifianakis (A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953), U.S. representative from
North Carolina (1967–1973)
[67]
Lisa Gladden (A.B. 1986), Maryland State Representative, Annapolis, Maryland
[68]
Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (A.B. 1897), Democratic US Representative from North Carolina
Tom Grady (J.D., 1982), Republican U.S. representative from
Florida
Robin Hayes (A.B. 1967), Congressman of
North Carolina 's 8th district (1998–present)
Paul B. Henry (A.M., Ph.D. 1968), U.S. representative from
Michigan and Michigan State Senator
Henry Hyde (X. 1947), former U.S. representative of
Illinois
Robert D. Inglis (A.B. 1981), U.S. representative of
South Carolina
Dan Lipinski (Ph.D. 1998), Congressman for
Illinois ' 3rd district (2005–present)
Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), Congressman from New York (1976–1987)
Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former
Georgia state judge, former
U.S. representative of Georgia
Ron Paul (M.D. 1961),
U.S. representative from
Texas (1997–2013); 2008 Republican Presidential candidate
Scott Peters (A.B. 1980), U.S. representative for
California's 52nd congressional district
Ben Quayle (A.B, 1998), U.S. representative from
Arizona ; son of former
U.S. vice president
Dan Quayle
Nick Rahall (A.B. 1971), Congressman for
West Virginia (1977–2015)
Dave Trott (J.D. 1985), U.S. representative from Michigan (2015–2019)
Basil Lee Whitener (J.D. 1937), U.S. representative from North Carolina (1957–1968)
Mike Levin (J.D. 2005), U.S. representative for
California's 49th congressional district (2018–present)
Governors
Diplomats
George Venable Allen (A.B. 1920), U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1946–1948; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1948–1949; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1949–1953
Todd C. Chapman (A.B. 1983), U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (2016–2019); U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2020–present)
Robert Sherwood Dillon (A.B. 1951), U.S. Ambassador to
Lebanon (1981–1983)
William Eacho (A.B. 1976), U.S. Ambassador to
Austria (2009–2013)
Cynthia G. Efird (A.M.), U.S. Ambassador to
Angola (2004–2007)
Robert C. Frasure (Ph.D 1971), U.S. Ambassador to
Estonia (1992–1994)
Gordon D. Giffin (A.B. 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1997–2001)
Mark Gitenstein (A.B. 1968), former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, President Biden's nominee for Ambassador to the European Union
Richard Graber (A.B. 1978), former
United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Jaime Aleman Healy (J.D. 1978), Panamanian Ambassador to the USA (2009–2011)
Stuart E. Jones (A.B. 1982),
United States Ambassador to Jordan (2011–2014);
United States Ambassador to Iraq (2014–present)
Robert Jordan (A.B. 1967), former
United States Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia
Bob Krueger (M.A. 1959), U.S. Ambassador to
Burundi during the
Clinton administration
Philip Lader (A.B. 1966),
Ambassador to the United Kingdom , chairman of the
WPP Group
Steven Lett (B.S.E. 1980), diplomat; head of the
International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (A.B. 1950),
United States Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia and to the Soviet Union under
Ronald Reagan
Walter P. McConaughy (A.B. 1930), former United States Ambassador to
Burma , South Korea, Pakistan, and
Taiwan
David McKean (J.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to
Luxembourg (2016–2017),
Director of Policy Planning (2013–2016)
Geeta Pasi (A.B. 1984), U.S. Ambassador to
Djibouti (2011–2017) and
Chad (2016–2018)
Manuel Sager (LL.M. 1985), ambassador of
Switzerland to the
United States
Elizabeth Verville (A.B. 1961), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs
Military
Kate Lee Harris Adams (B.F.A., 1941), aviator and member of the
Women Airforce Service Pilots during
World War II
William Atwater (M.A., Ph.D. 1982), retired captain in the US Marines; author, historian, and director of the US Army Ordnance Museum
Walter E. Boomer (B.S. 1960), retired general, former assistant commandant, US Marine Corps,
Desert Storm Commander; business executive
Frank Bowman (B.S. 1966), retired admiral, former Chief of Naval Personnel, former director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, US Navy; Honorary
Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Winston Choo (MA, History), retired
lieutenant-general , former Chief of Defence Force (1974–1992) in the
Singapore Armed Forces
[69]
[70]
Edward H. Deets (1979), rear admiral in the
United States Navy
Martin E. Dempsey (M.A. 1984),
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Charles S. Hamilton (B.S. 1974), rear admiral in the
United States Navy
John L. Helgerson (M.S., Ph.D.), former
CIA Inspector General
James W. Holsinger (M.D. 1964), retired
major general in the
United States Army Reserve ,
physician , nominated to become the 18th
Surgeon General of the United States
Gilmary M. Hostage III (B.S.E. 1977),
United States Air Force four-star general, currently serving as the commander of
Air Combat Command
Vergel L. Lattimore , brigadier general in the
Air National Guard
Ng Jui Ping (MA, History), retired
lieutenant-general ; former Chief of Defence Force (1992–1995) in the
Singapore Armed Forces
[71]
Eric Schoomaker (residency and fellowship),
Surgeon General of the United States Army
Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired
four-star general , 7th
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs ; 34th
Chief of Staff of the Army
Michael J. Silah (A.B. 1992), rear admiral in the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps , Director, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, and director, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
Kevin R. Slates , retired
rear admiral in the
United States Navy
Brett Velicovich ,
Fox News contributor and former
United States Army intelligence.
Blake Wayne Van Leer (B.S. 1945), Commander and Captain in the
U.S. Navy . Led
SeaBee program and the nuclear research and power unit at
McMurdo Station during
Operation Deep Freeze .
Law
Judges
James P. Bassett (L.L.M. 2023), Associate Justice,
New Hampshire Supreme Court
Scott Brister (A.B. 1977), former justice,
Texas Supreme Court
Cheri Beasley (L.L.M. 2018), Chief Justice,
North Carolina Supreme Court
Patricia E. Campbell-Smith (B.S. 1987), former chief judge,
United States Court of Federal Claims under President
Barack Obama
Aileen Cannon (A.B. 2003), United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
J. Michelle Childs (L.L.M. 2016),
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Robert L. Clifford (L.L.B. 1950), former associate justice,
New Jersey Supreme Court
Ann Covington (A.B. 1963), former chief justice,
Missouri Supreme Court
Laura Crane (A.B. 2003), nominated by
President Biden to serve as a judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Michael Dreeben (J.D. 1981), Deputy
Solicitor General
Allyson Duncan (J.D. 1975), judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Christine M. Durham (J.D. 1971), former chief justice,
Utah Supreme Court
Orinda Evans (A.B. 1965),
senior
judge ,
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Richard Mark Gergel (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1979),
judge ,
United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Karen L. Henderson (A.B. 1966),
judge ,
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Todd M. Hughes (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992),
judge ,
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Susan Illston (A.B. 1970),
senior
judge ,
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Barbara Jackson (L.L.M. 2014), associate justice,
North Carolina Supreme Court
Jeffrey W. Johnson (B.A. 1982), associate justice,
California Court of Appeal
Jill Karofsky (B.A. 1988), justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jane L. Kelly (A.B. 1987),
judge ,
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Timothy J. Kelly (A.B. 1991),
judge ,
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Kathryn Hackett King (A.B. 2003), justice of the
Arizona Supreme Court
Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former
Georgia state judge; former
United States representative of Georgia
Michael R. Morgan (A.B. 1976), associate justice,
North Carolina Supreme Court
David Nahmias (A.B. 1986), associate justice,
Supreme Court of Georgia ; former
US Attorney for the
Northern District of Georgia
Paul Martin Newby (A.B. 1977), Chief Justice,
North Carolina Supreme Court
Susan Owens (A.B. 1971), associate justice,
Washington Supreme Court
William H. Pauley III (A.B. 1974, J.D. 1977),
judge ,
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Cary Douglas Pugh (A.B. 1987),
judge ,
United States Tax Court
Robin L. Rosenberg (J.D. 1989),
Judge ,
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Veronica M. Sanchez (A.B. 1996), nominated by
President Biden to serve as a judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Gary Stein (A.B. 1954, J.D. 1956), former associate justice,
New Jersey Supreme Court
Allison Jones Rushing (J.D. 2007),
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Vijay Shanker (A.B. 1994), nominated by
President Joseph Biden to serve on the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
John J. Tharp, Jr. (A.B. 1982),
judge ,
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Michael B. Thornton (J.D. 1982), former chief
judge ,
United States Tax Court
Patricia Timmons-Goodson (L.L.M. 2014), former associate justice,
North Carolina Supreme Court
Gerald B. Tjoflat (L.L.B. 1957),
chief judge emeritus ,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
John M. Tyson (M.B.A. 1988), judge,
North Carolina Court of Appeals
Peter Verniero (J.D. 1984), associate justice,
New Jersey Supreme Court ; former
Attorney General of New Jersey
Justin R. Walker (A.B. 2004),
judge ,
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Charles K. Wiggins (J.D. 1976), justice,
Washington Supreme Court
Don Willett (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992),
judge ,
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Attorneys
Ward Armstrong (B.A. 1977), lawyer and politician
[72]
Charlie Condon (J.D. 1978), former Attorney General of South Carolina
Jack Conway (A.B. 1991), Attorney General of
Kentucky
Eric Dick (M.S. 2023), lawyer and President of the
Harris County Department of Education since 2017, known for specializing in resolving property insurance claim disputes
[73]
[74]
Robert Dove (Ph.D. 1964),
parliamentarian of the United States Senate
Marc Elias (J.D. 1993, M.A. 1993), Founding Partner at Elias Law Group LLP, General Counsel for Hillary Clinton's
2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry's
2004 presidential campaign
Jeffrey L. Fisher (A.B. 1992), professor at
Stanford Law School
John Harmon (J.D. 1969), former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
Stanley Hilton (J.D. 1975), lawyer and activist
Larry Klayman (A.B. 1973), public interest lawyer
[75]
Jeffrey Lichtman (J.D. 1990), defense attorney for
John Gotti ,
Fat Joe , and
The Game
[76]
Andrew G. McCabe (A.B. 1990), former Acting
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
[77]
Dan McCarthy (J.D. 1983), chief prosecutor of the
Judge Advocate General's Corps of the
United States Navy
C. Allen Parker , presiding partner at
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (A.B. 1967), professor of law at the
University of the District of Columbia , one of the first five African American undergraduates admitted to Duke in 1963
[78]
Russell M. Robinson, II (L.L.B. 1956), founding partner of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
Eric Rothschild (A.B. 1989), lead attorney for
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
Susan Scafidi (A.B.), founder and president of the
Fashion Law Institute , a nonprofit organization located at the
Fordham University School of Law in New York City
Rodney A. Smolla (J.D. 1978), author; first amendment scholar; 11th president of Furman University
Ellen Stiefler (A.B. 1980), intellectual property attorney
Zephyr Teachout (A.M. 1999, J.D. 1999), associate professor of law at
Fordham University , candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for
governor of New York
Public policy
John H. Adams (J.D. 1962), co-founder of the
Natural Resources Defense Council
Maya Ajmera (M.P.P. 1993), founder and president of
The Global Fund for Children
[79]
Barbara Arnwine (J.D. 1976), executive director of the
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1989 to 2015
William Barber II (M.Div. 1989), member of the
NAACP national board of directors
[80]
Jainey K. Bavishi (A.B. 2003), Assistant
Secretary of Commerce
Mary Duke Biddle (A.B. 1907), daughter of
Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Lisa Borders (A.B. 1979), chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation; vice president of Global Community Affairs at
The Coca-Cola Company
[81]
Charlotte Bunch (A.B. 1966), author and human rights activist
Susan Bysiewicz (J.D. 1986), Lt. governor of Connecticut (since 2019), Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1999–2011)
Benjamin Chavis, Jr. (MDiv 1980), civil rights activist, executive director of the
NAACP
[82]
Eugene A. Conti, Jr. (M.A. public policy, Ph.D. anthropology 1978), Asst. Secretary USDOT, Secretary of Transportation, NCDOT
Peter Cook (A.B. 1989),
Pentagon press secretary for Defense Secretary
Ash Carter
Dave A. Chokshi (A.B. 2003),
Health Commissioner of New York City
Pete Crossland (Ph.D. 1966), former member of the
Ohio House of Representatives
Chris Daly , former member of the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Marjorie Dannenfelser (A.B. 1988), President of the
Susan B. Anthony List , an organization that seeks to advance anti-abortion women in politics
Marisa T. Darden (J.D. 2008), nominee to serve as
United States attorney for the
Northern District of Ohio
Chris Dorworth (M.B.A. 2006), member of the
Florida House of Representatives
Allan Fels (Ph.D.), chairperson of the
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Nelson M. Ford (B.A.), former
United States Under Secretary of the Army
Andrew Giuliani (A.B. 2009),
Special Assistant to the President and associate director of the
Office of Public Liaison for
President Donald Trump
[83]
Susan M. Gordon (B.S. 1980), Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Director for the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
[84]
Josh Hammer (B.S. 2011), columnist and political commentator
John Hanger (A.B. 1979),
Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection , candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania
Suhani Jalota (A.B. 2016), social activist
[85]
Deborah Lee James (A.B. 1979)
United States Secretary of the Air Force
Shavar Jeffries (A.B. 1996), civil rights attorney, candidate for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
B.J. Lawson (B.S.E 1996, M.D. 2000), Republican politician
Jerry Meek (A.B. 1993, J.D. 1997), chairman of the
North Carolina Democratic Party
Kimeli Wilson Naiyomah (M.I.D.P,), Kenyan author
Neil Newhouse (A.B. 1974),
Republican pollster
Brendan Nyhan (Ph.D. 2009), author and political columnist
Jesse Panuccio (A.B. 2003), former acting Associate Attorney General of the United States
Muhammad Ali Pate (M.B.A. 2006), former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria
Art Pope (J.D. 1981), Budget Director for North Carolina Governor
Pat McCrory
Robert Satloff (A.B. 1983), executive director of the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (A.B. 1939), philanthropist
Eleanor Smeal (A.B. 1961, LL.D 1991), political activist; president of the
Feminist Majority Foundation ; former president of the
National Organization for Women
Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), chair, board of trustees,
Kresge Foundation
Emiliana Vegas , professor of practice at the graduate school of education, Harvard University
Damon Wilson (A.B. 1995), executive vice president at the
Atlantic Council of the United States, former senior director for European affairs at the
National Security Council
Howard Wolfson (M.A. 1991),
Democratic political strategist, deputy mayor of New York City for governmental affairs
Celeste Rohlfing (Ph.D u.d.), Deputy Assistant Director of the
National Science Foundation
Mayors
Ed Austin (A.B. 1948), mayor of
Jacksonville (1991–1995)
Bill Campbell (J.D. 1977), mayor of
Atlanta (1994–2002)
J. Kane Ditto (A.B.), mayor of
Jackson, Mississippi (1989–1997)
Vijayalakshmi Gadwal , mayor of
Hyderabad , India (2021–present)
Sylvia Kerckhoff (M.A. 1960), mayor of
Durham, North Carolina (1993–1997)
Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), former mayor of
Jamestown , former Congressman and
Lieutenant governor of New York
Enrique Peñalosa (A.B. 1978), mayor of
Bogotá ,
Colombia (1998–2000, 2016–2019)
Steve Schewel (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1982), mayor of
Durham, North Carolina (2017–present)
[86]
Nick Tennyson (A.B. 1972) mayor of Durham (1997–2001)
State officials
Austin M. Allran (A.B. 1974), member of the
North Carolina General Assembly
Dan Blue (J.D.), former member of the
North Carolina House of Representatives , 1981–2002
Bob Blumenfield (B.A. 1989), current
Los Angeles City Council member, former
California State Assembly member, 2009-2013,
Samuel Bogley (A.B), former
Lieutenant governor of Maryland
F. Vernon Boozer (A.B 1958), former member of
Maryland Senate , 1981–1999
Jason Carter (A.B. 1997), Democratic Party nominee for
governor of Georgia ; member of the
Georgia State Senate ; grandson of President
Jimmy Carter
Mike Connolly (B.A. 2003), member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Justin Fairfax (A.B. 2000),
Lieutenant governor of Virginia
[87]
J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the Georgia
Democratic Party
Raj Goyle (A.B. 1997), member of the
Kansas House of Representatives
Ember Reichgott Junge (J.D. 1977), former State Senator from Minnesota
Herb Kirsh , former member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives
Bill Kramer (J.D. 1994), former Majority Leader,
Wisconsin State Assembly
Evelyn Murphy (A.B. 1965, Ph.D. 1981), former
Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts
Robert Sheheen (A.B. 1965), former Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives
Lura S. Tally (A.B. 1942), member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1973–1983, and the
North Carolina Senate , 1983–1995
Mike Turzai (J.D. 1987), nominee for speaker of the
Pennsylvania House Representatives , former Republican Caucus (Majority) Leader
Floyd McKissick Jr. (J.D. 1983), member of the
North Carolina Senate
Merle Davis Umstead (B.A. 1926), First Lady of North Carolina
Kelli Ward (B.S. 1991), former state senator from Arizona
[88]
Scott Wiener (B.A. 1992), member of the
California State Senate
Foreign officials
Foreign royalty
Other
Paul Auerbach (B.S. 1973, M.D. 1977), physician; a leading voice in the area of
wilderness medicine ; founder and past president of the
Wilderness Medical Society
Bernard Chan Pak-li (Ph.D. 2003),
Ping Shek representative in the
Kwun Tong District Council of Hong Kong, 2007–2013
D. Todd Christofferson (J.D. 1972), member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jillian Johnson (B.A. 2003), Mayor Protempore of
Durham, North Carolina
Kevin J. Martin (M.P.P. 1993), chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission
Charlie Soong (X. 1881), Duke's first international student and patriarch of the Soong Dynasty
Daniel Tarullo (M.A. 1974), member of the
board of governors of the
United States Federal Reserve , Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice at
Harvard Law School
Paul Teller (B.A. 1993), executive director of the United States House of Representatives
Republican Study Committee
[93]
[94]
Frederic Whitehurst (Ph.D. 1980), former supervisory special agent in the
FBI Laboratory
Mike Woodard (A.B. 1981),
Durham, North Carolina City Council member
Ken Harbaugh (B.S. 1996), president of
Team Rubicon
Alexander Volzhin , Russian chess
grandmaster
Business
Shaikha Al-Bahar , CEO of the
National Bank of Kuwait ; named the 85th most powerful woman in the world by
Forbes
John A. Allison IV (M.B.A. 1974), chairman (and former CEO),
BB&T
John Angelos , executive vice president of the
Baltimore Orioles
Steven Black (A.B. 1974), vice-chairman,
JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Chairman of
Wells Fargo
Roy J. Bostock (A.B. 1962), former chairman of Bcom3 Group, Inc.; namesake of Bostock Library
Wallace E. Boston, Jr. (A.B. 1974), president and chief executive officer,
American Public University System
Jack O. Bovender, Jr. (A.B. 1967, MHA 1969), chairman and CEO of
HCA
Jonathan Browning (M.B.A.), CEO of
Volkswagen Group of America
Lewis B. Campbell (B.S.E. 1968), CEO of
Textron
John Canning, Jr. , founder of private equity firm
Madison Dearborn Partners ; co-owner of the
Milwaukee Brewers
John Chambers (attended 1967-1968; X. 1968), CEO of
Cisco Systems
Mickey Conlon (A.B., 1998), celebrity real estate broker and star of
HGTV 's reality television series
Selling New York
Tim Cook (M.B.A. 1988), CEO of
Apple Inc.
[95]
Eddy Cue (B.S.),
Apple 's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services
Husein Cumber (A.B. 1997), Chief Strategy Officer of
Florida East Coast Industries (FECI)
Tom Davin (B.A. 1979), former COO of
Taco Bell Corporation and CEO of
Panda Restaurant Group
Grant DePorter (M.B.A.), restaurateur
Chad Dickerson (A.B. 1993), CEO of
Etsy
Gary Dickinson (B.S. 1960), automotive industry executive
Fred Ehrsam (B.S. 2010), co-founder of
Coinbase
Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of
New York Magazine
Jeffrey Fox (B.S. 1984), president and CEO of
Convergys
Heath Freeman (A.B. 2002), Managing Director of
Alden Global Capital
J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the board of The Fuqua Companies, founder of the J.B. Fuqua Foundation, namesake of Duke's
Fuqua School of Business
Steven Galanis (B.A. 2010), CEO of
Cameo
Melinda Gates (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987), co-founder of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
[96]
Raghavendra V. Ghuge (Physician, Inventor and Businessman) (M.B.A. 2020), Founder of
AIOMEGA, LLC , Founder and CEO of
Sleep Medicine Institute of Texas
David Gibbs , (M.B.A. 1988), former CEO,
Pizza Hut ; CEO,
Yum! Brands
David R. Goode (A.B. 1962), chairman, president, and CEO of
Norfolk Southern
William H. Gross (B.S. 1966), founder and chief investment officer,
PIMCO , the world's largest
bond fund
Brian Hamilton (M.B.A. 1990), co-founder and former chairman,
Sageworks ;
[97] founder, Inmates to Entrepreneurs
[98]
Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (A.B. 1991), British viscount; chairman of the
Evening Standard and the
Daily Mail
Gerald Hassell (B.A. 1973), chairman and CEO,
Bank of New York Mellon
William A. Hawkins (B.S. 1976), CEO of
Medtronic
Sally Hogshead (B.A. 1991), CEO of Fascinate, Inc.
Betsy Holden (A.B.), CEO of
Kraft Foods , 2001–2003
[99]
Amy Hood (A.B. 1994), first female CFO of
Microsoft
John Idzik, Jr. (A.M. 1993), former general manager of the NFL's
New York Jets
[100]
David Bronson Ingram (A.B. 1985), chairman of
Ingram Entertainment
W. Bruce Johnson (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), interim chief executive officer and president,
Sears Holdings Corporation
William D. Johnson (B.A.), chairman, president and CEO of
Progress Energy
Tom Kain (A.B. 1986),
Nike 's director of Global Marketing (Soccer)
Bruce Karsh (A.B. 1977), co-founder and president of
Oaktree Capital Management
Chris Kempczinski (A.B. 1991), CEO of
McDonald's
[101]
Lesa Kennedy (B.A. 1983), CEO of
International Speedway Corporation ; member of the board of directors of
NASCAR
Zach Kleiman (J.D. 2013), General Manager of the
Memphis Grizzlies ; 2022
NBA Executive of the Year
David Kohler (B.A.) President and CEO of
Kohler Company
John A. Koskinen (A.B. 1961), president of
US Soccer Foundation , former deputy director,
Office of Management and Budget
Michael Lamach (M.B.A.), CEO and Chairman of
Ingersoll Rand
Howard Lerman (A.B. 2002), founder and CEO of
Yext
David Lauren (A.B., 1993), senior vice president at
Polo Ralph Lauren
[102]
Dylan Lauren (A.B., 1996), president and founder of
Dylan's Candy Bar
Dan Levitan (1979), co-founder and managing partner,
Maveron
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (A.B., J.D.), French billionaire businessman
Gary Lynch (J.D. 1975), former
chief legal officer and
vice chairman of
Morgan Stanley
John J. Mack (A.B. 1968), CEO of
Morgan Stanley ; former CEO of
Credit Suisse First Boston
Aslaug Magnusdottir (LL.M. 1998), co-founder and former CEO of
Moda Operandi
Marijke Mars (born 1965), billionaire heiress and businesswoman
Mathew Martoma (born 1974 as Ajai Mathew Mariamdani Thomas), hedge fund portfolio manager, convicted of insider trading
Steven Marks (A.B. 1989, J.D. 1992), general counsel for the
Recording Industry Association of America
Michael Marsicano (A.B. 1977, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1982), President and CEO of the
Foundation for the Carolinas
Aubrey McClendon (A.B. 1981), CEO, chairman, and co-founder of
Chesapeake Energy
Dan McCready (B.A. 2005), entrepreneur and candidate for
US House of Representatives
Bart McDade (A.B. 1981), former president and COO of
Lehman Brothers , tasked with saving the firm towards the end of its existence
Hardy McLain (born 1952), hedge fund manager, managing partner
CVC Capital Partners
Joey McMahon (A.B. 2009, M.B.A. 2013), founder and CEO of The Monday Life
Lalit Modi (A.B. 1986), Modi Enterprises Scion, chairman and founder of
Indian Premier League
Carter Murray (A.B. 1997), CEO of
DraftFCB
Raymond Nasher (1943), real estate developer, philanthropist, namesake of Duke's
Nasher Museum of Art
Peter Nicholas (A.B. 1964), founder and chairman of
Boston Scientific Corporation
Edward Nixon (B.S. 1952), entrepreneur and last surviving brother of former
US President
Richard Nixon
[103]
Stephen Pagliuca (1977), part owner of the
Boston Celtics , managing director of
Bain Capital
[104]
Robert A. Pascal (A.B. 1957), entrepreneur and politician
Aaron Patzer (B.S.E 2002), founder and CEO of
Mint
J. Michael Pearson (B.S. 1981), chairman and CEO of
Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland (M.B.A. 1986). First African-American vice president at
Progress Energy Inc and
Duke Energy
[105]
Deb Liu (B.S.E), CEO of
Ancestry.com
Poman Lo (A.B. 1999), founder of
Bodhi and Friends
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. (B.S.E. 1947), former CEO of
Pfizer , philanthropist, namesake of Duke's
Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering
Robert M. Price (B.S. 1952), CEO of the
Control Data Corporation
J. B. Pritzker (A.B.), managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group, principal owner of
Hyatt Hotels Corporation and
TransUnion Corporation, one of the
400 richest Americans
Joanna Rees (B.S.), venture capitalist
Jeffrey Reich (A.B. 1979), former senior managing director of
Bear Stearns
Mark Reuss (M.B.A. 1990), head of global product development at
General Motors ; former president of GM North America
William Neal Reynolds , president of
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , brother of
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Allard Roen , businessman from
Las Vegas, Nevada , and
Carlsbad, California
Andrew Rosen (A.B. 1982), chairman and CEO of
Kaplan, Inc.
Drew Rosenhaus (J.D. 1990),
NFL sports agent
David M. Rubenstein (A.B. 1970), billionaire co-founder of
The Carlyle Group
[106]
Liu Ruopeng (Ph.D. 2009), billionaire co-founder of
Kuang-Chi Group
Georg Schaeffler (J.D. 1999), owner of the
Schaeffler Group ; currently the wealthiest person in Germany
Alan Schwartz (A.B. 1972), CEO,
Bear Stearns
Granville Semmes , founder of
1-800-Flowers
[107]
Malvinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 1998), former chairman and CEO of
Ranbaxy Laboratories ; chairman of Fortis Hospitals and
Religare Financial Services; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
Shivinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 2000), managing director of
Fortis Healthcare ; Advisory Board Member of
AIESEC India; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
David B. Snow Jr. (M.S. 1978), chairman and CEO of
Medco Health Solutions , a
Fortune 100 company
Jimmy Soni (A.B. 2007), managing editor of the
Huffington Post
Robert K. Steel (A.B. 1973), chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, president and CEO,
Wachovia
Joseph R. Swedish (M.H.A. 1979), CEO of WellPoint (now
Anthem ), the second-largest health insurance provider in the US
David S. Taylor (B.S.E 1980), president and CEO at
Procter & Gamble
Christian Van Thillo (M.B.A. 1989), CEO of
De Persgroep
Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), CEO of
National Geographic Society
Bill Timmerman (1968), chairman, president, and CEO of
SCANA
Randall L. Tobias , former CEO of
Eli Lilly and Company ; served as U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and Administrator of
USAID , with the rank of ambassador
David Trott (J.D. 1985), businessman; Republican politician
Ashok Varadhan (A.B. 1993), co-head of global banking and markets at
Goldman Sachs ; became one of the firm's youngest partners at the age of 29
Poornima Vijayashanker (B.S. 2004), entrepreneur and engineer
James L. Vincent (B.S. 1961), chairman and CEO,
Biogen Idec
Jeffrey Vinik (B.S. 1981), chairman, president, and CEO of Vinik Asset Management, owner of
Tampa Bay Lightning
Karl von der Heyden (1962), vice chairman and CFO,
Pepsico, Inc. , namesake of the von der Heyden pavilion at Duke
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (A.B. 1975), president and CEO,
General Motors Corporation
Jeff Williams (M.B.A. 1991), COO of
Apple
Gary L. Wilson (A.B. 1962), director of
The Walt Disney Company ; co-chairman of
Northwest Airlines ; namesake of Wilson Rec Center at Duke
Charles Xiaolin Wang (J.D. 1999), Chinese lawyer, entrepreneur and financier
Lee Waite (MBA 1983), President and CEO of
Citigroup Holdings Japan
Thomas S. White, Jr. (1965), asset manager
William Wrigley, Jr. II (B.A.), chairman, president, CEO
Wrigley Company
Gao Xiqing (J.D. 1986), general manager and chief investment officer of the
China Investment Corporation
Education
University presidents and administrators
M. Katherine Banks (Ph.D. 1989),
24th president of
Texas A&M University
Rick Brewer , president of
Louisiana College
Christopher Celenza (Ph.D. 1996), James B. Knapp Dean of the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at
Johns Hopkins University .
John Chandler (B.D. 1952, Ph.D. 1954), former president of
Williams College
Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (MEd 1937), president of
St. Mary's Junior College
Margaret Cuninggim , dean of women at the
University of Tennessee and at
Vanderbilt University
Charles L. Flynn, Jr. (Ph.D.), president of the
College of Mount Saint Vincent
W. Kent Fuchs (B.S.E. 1977), president of the
University of Florida , former provost of
Cornell University
Pamela Gann (J.D. 1973), president of
Claremont McKenna College and former dean of
Duke University School of Law
Geoffrey Garrett (Ph.D.), political scientist, dean of the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
[108]
Susan Henking (B.A. 1977), president of
Shimer College ; scholar of religious studies
Susan Herbst (B.A. 1984), president of
University of Connecticut ; political scientist
Matthew S. Holland (M.A., Ph.D.), president of
Utah Valley University
A. D. Kirwan (Ph.D., 1947), seventh president of the
University of Kentucky
Benjamin Ladner (Ph.D. 1970), former president of
American University
Theodore E. Long (A.M 1968), president of
Elizabethtown College
Mirta Martin (B.S. 1982), ninth president of
Fort Hays State University
Lloyd B. Minor (residency), scientist, surgeon, and dean of
Stanford University School of Medicine
Marie Lynn Miranda (B.S., 1985), data scientist, 10th chancellor of the
University of Illinois Chicago
Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr. (Th.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1967), ancient language scholar; authority on the origin of the alphabet; former president of
Southern Virginia University and
King College
David P. Roselle (Ph.D. 1965), president,
University of Delaware
David E. Sweet (Ph.D., 1968), founding president of
Metropolitan State University and later president of
Rhode Island College
Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), former president of
Colorado College ; former provost of
Wake Forest University
Beth Winkelstein (Ph.D. 1999), deputy provost of the
University of Pennsylvania
Theodore Ziolkowski (A.B. 1951), former dean of the graduate school,
Princeton University
Jeffrey Vitter (M.B.A. 2002), 17th chancellor of the
University of Mississippi
Professors and academics
Arun Agrawal (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1992), professor at the
University of Michigan
R. Michael Alvarez (Ph.D. 1992), professor of political science at the
California Institute of Technology
Dan Ariely (Ph.D. 1998), professor of behavioral economics at Duke and head of the eRationality research group at the
MIT Media Lab , author of
Predictably Irrational
Susan Athey (A.B. 1991), professor of economics at
Harvard University and winner of the
John Bates Clark Medal
Noël Bakhtian (B.S. 2005), director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Michael J. Battle (B.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995), Episcopal moral theologian
Roy Baumeister (M.A. 1976), psychologist, fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stephen B. Baylin (B.S., M.D. 1968), Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at
Johns Hopkins University
Mark F. Bear (B.S. 1979), professor of neuroscience at
MIT ; member of the
National Academy of Medicine
Sherilynn Black (Ph.D.), neuroscientist and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at Duke
Shree Bose (M.D., Ph.D. 2023), grand prize winner of the inaugural
Google Science Fair in 2011
Susan H. Brandt , historian
Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Ph.D. 2002), Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at
Harvard Law School
Bill Brown (A.B.), distinguished professor of English at the
University of Chicago
Robin M. Canup (B.S.), astrophysicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the
Harold C. Urey Prize
Barry F. Cooper (Ph.D. 1969), Canadian political scientist
Thomas Daniel (Ph.D.), biologist, won a
MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
Jon Danielsson (Ph.D. 1991), director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the
London School of Economics and Political Science
Sara Danius (Ph.D. 1997), permanent secretary of the
Swedish Academy , a
Royal Academy which awards the
Nobel Prize in Literature
Kenneth A. Dodge (Ph.D. 1978), William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and professor of psychology and neuroscience at
Duke University
David L. Downie (A.B. 1983), author, professor of politics and environment policy at
Fairfield University
David Efird (A.B. 1995), philosopher and lecturer at the
University of York
Garrett Epps (J.D. 1991), legal scholar, professor at the
University of Baltimore
Thomas Eugene Flanagan (Ph.D.), conservative Canadian
political scientist
R. Edward Freeman (A.B. 1973), philosopher and professor of business administration, known for the
stakeholder theory
Maryellen Fullerton (B.A. 1968), lawyer and interim dean and law professor of law at
Brooklyn Law School
Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962),
psychologist and
professor at
Swarthmore College
John Graham (Ph.D. 1994), economist
Huck Gutman , Ph.D. from Duke; professor of English at the
University of Vermont and political advisor to
Bernie Sanders
Craig Hanks , Ph.D. from Duke; professor of philosophy at
Texas State University
Dagmar Herzog (A.B., 1983), distinguished professor of history, the
Graduate Center ,
City University of New York
Craig Henriquez (B.S.E., 1981, Ph.D., 1988), professor of biomedical engineering at
Duke University
Douglas Hodgkin (Ph.D.), political scientist; author; professor at
Bates College
D. Kern Holoman (B.A. 1969),
Distinguished Professor of Music at the
University of California, Davis
[109]
Robert A. Jarrow (B.S. 1974), Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management,
Cornell University
Siddharth Kara (B.A.), expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking
Kevin Lane Keller (Ph.D. 1986), E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the
Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College
Anne R. Kenney (B.A. 1972), Carl A. Kroch University Librarian,
Cornell University Library
Rachel E. Klevit (Post Doc), professor of biochemistry at the
University of Washington , member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Walter J. Koch (Post Doc 1991-1995), director of the Center for Translational Medicine, professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology, and W.W. Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at
Temple University
M. A. R. Koehl (Ph.D. 1976), professor at the
University of California, Berkeley ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences ; awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990
Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), professor, economist,
United States Secretary of Commerce
Josh Kun (B.A. 1993), professor of communication at the
University of Southern California and
MacArthur Fellow 2016
Bruce R. Kuniholm (M.A. 1972, M.A.P.P.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1976), professor at the
Sanford School of Public Policy ; expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Luciano L'Abate (Ph.D. 1956), the father of
relational theory ; author of 50 books in the field of American psychology
Frank Lentricchia (Ph.D. 1960), literary critic; professor of literature at
Duke University
Jerry B. Lincecum (Ph.D.), emeritus professor of English; author; affiliated with
Austin College in
Sherman, Texas
[110]
Jerome Loving (Ph.D.), professor of American literature and culture at the
University of Texas at Austin
[111]
Marc Lynch (A.B.), professor of political science at George Washington University
Khaled Mattawa (Ph.D. 2009), Libyan poet, awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
Raven I. McDavid, Jr. , linguist, dialectologist
Lionel W. McKenzie (B.S. 1939), economist
Allan Meltzer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1955), economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisors for Presidents Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
Duane Mitchell (M.D., Ph.D. 2001), assistant vice president for research, associate dean for translational science and Clinical Research, and director of the
University of Florida (UF) Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (Ph.D. 1994), musicologist
Richard L. Morrill (Ph.D. 1968), chancellor of the
University of Richmond
Robert L. Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the
University of Edinburgh
Chip Mosher , education columnist, poet, teacher
Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, and critic; professor at
Dartmouth College
Joseph Gaither Pratt (A.B. 1931, M.A. 1933, Ph.D. 1936), psychologist
Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author and professor of literature at Duke
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Ph.D. 2004), associate professor with joint appointment in the departments of sociology and epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at
McGill University
William Bee Ravenel III (M.A.), Head of the English Department at
Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia) , mentor to Senator and Presidential Candidate
John S. McCain III
John A. Rich (M.D. 1984), chair of the department of health management and policy at
Drexel University ; 2006
MacArthur Fellowship
Charles C. Richardson (B.S. 1959, M.D. 1960), biochemist, professor at
Harvard University
Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the
University of Chicago
Claudia Scott (M.A., Ph.D. 19971), public policy professor
Shauna Shapiro , professor of psychology at
Santa Clara University
Baba Shiv (Ph.D. 1996), professor of marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business
Eric Stach (B.S.E. 1992), materials scientist, professor at the
University of Pennsylvania , Fellow of the
American Physical Society
Glen Stassen (Ph.D.), ethicist; Baptist theologian; son of former Minnesota governor and nine-time Presidential candidate
Harold Stassen
Omari Swinton (M.A. 2003, Ph.D 2007), economist, head of the
National Economic Association
Robert Tally (A.B. 1990, J.D. 2001), professor of English at
Texas State University
John E. Thomas (Ph.D. 1959), medical ethicist
J. Anderson Thomson (A.B. 1970), trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Robert M. Townsend (A.B. 1970), professor of economics at
MIT and two-time winner of the
Frisch Medal (1998, 2012)
Jenny Tung (B.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2010), evolutionary anthropologist, received a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2019
Peter Turchin (Ph.D. 1985), Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics"
Sam Wang (Post Doc), neuroscientist, professor and best-selling author
Daniel T. Willingham (A.B. 1983), professor of psychology at the
University of Virginia
Nikolai Khokhlov (Ph.D.), professor of psychology at
California State University, San Bernardino , former
KGB officer
William Kaelin, Jr. (A.B. 1978, M.D. 1982), professor of medicine at
Harvard University , recipient of the 2016
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the 2019
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
History
Medicine, science and technology
David H. Adams , heart valve surgery and
mitral valve repair
Raymond Delacy Adams (M.D. 1936), professor of neurology at
Harvard Medical School ; chief of neurology at
Massachusetts General Hospital ; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nita Ahuja (M.D. 1993), chair of the department of surgery at
Yale University School of Medicine
Waleed Al-Salam (Ph.D. 1958), mathematician
Eben Alexander (M.D. 1980), neurosurgeon and best-selling author
Linda Austin (M.D. 1976), psychiatrist
Lenox Baker (M.D. 1973), physician, public servant
Lt. Andy Baldwin ,
The Bachelor , lieutenant, and doctor
Ketan Ramanlal Bulsara (M.D. 1996), chief of neurosurgery at the
University of Connecticut
Ian Barbour (M.S. 1946), physicist, theologian, and recipient of the
Templeton Prize in 1999
Charles E. Brady, Jr. (M.D. 1975), astronaut
John C. Browne (Ph.D.), former director of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jerome Bruner (A.B. 1937), psychologist and professor
David R. Bryant (Ph.D. 1961), organic chemist
John Buse (Ph.D. 1985, M.D. 1986), former president of the
American Diabetes Association
Jacquelyn Campbell (B.S.N 1968), Anna D. Wolf Chair at the
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing , Member of the
National Academy of Medicine
C. Thomas Caskey (M.D. 1963), medical geneticist and biomedical entrepreneur
Iain Cheeseman (B.S. 1997), assistant professor at MIT
George M. Church (B.S. 1974), father of most current sequencing and array technologies; helped initiate the Human Genome Project; professor at
Harvard Medical School
Daniel J. Clancy (A.B. 1985), computer scientist, engineering director for
Google Book Search
Marcus Conant (B.S. 1957, M.D. 1961), dermatologist and AIDS researcher
Richard Cytowic (B.A. 1973), neuroscientist and leading authority on the field of
synesthesia
Rose May Davis (Ph.D. 1929), chemist; first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. at Duke
William DeVries (GME 1971–1979), pioneer of artificial organs
Scott Dulchavsky (surgical fellowship), chairman of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the
Henry Ford Hospital
Sylvia Earle (Ph.D., 1966), marine biologist; chief scientist of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jim Ellis , co-creator of
Usenet with
Tom Truscott
Robert Everett (B.S. 1942),
National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate (1989)
Paul Farmer (B.S. 1982), infectious disease specialist; winner of
MacArthur Award ; subject of Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Tracy Kidder 's biography
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Robert Fischell (B.S. 1951), physicist, inventor, holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents,
National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate in 2015
[112]
C. Stephen Foster (B.S. 1965),
ophthalmologist , developed the "step ladder approach to care" for treating patients with ocular inflammatory disease
Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. (M.D. 1958), cancer researcher; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
Institute of Medicine , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
Association of American Physicians
Irwin Fridovich (Ph.D. 1955), biochemist, member of the National Academy of Science
Craig Gentry (B.S. 1995), computer scientist,
MacArthur Fellow , recipient of the
ACM 's
Grace Murray Hopper Award
Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962),
psychologist and
professor at
Swarthmore College
Myron L. Good (Ph.D. 1951), particle physicist
Antonella Grassi (Ph.D. 1990), mathematician; fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
Eugene Gu (M.D. 2015), president and CEO of the
Ganogen Research Institute
Scott Guthrie , executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise group at
Microsoft
Robert S. Haltiwanger (B.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1986), chairman of the department of biochemistry and cell biology at
Stony Brook University
Mark S. Humayun (M.D. 1989), recipient of the
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2015), member of the
National Academy of Medicine and the
National Academy of Engineering
Krithi Karanth (Ph.D.), conservation biologist
George A. Keyworth, II (Ph.D. 1968), physicist; presidential science advisor; former board member of
Hewlett-Packard
Cassie Kozyrkov (Ph.D. 2012), Chief Decision Scientist,
Google
Martin Kratt (B.S.), Zoologist and children's television host
Anita Layton (B.S. 1994), Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics at
Duke University
Sarah Lisanby (B.S. 1987, M.D. 1991), psychiatrist; director of translational research at
The National Institute of Mental Health
Martin J. Lohse (Post-Doc.), physician and pharmacologist
Derek Lowe (Ph.D. 1988), medicinal chemist
John M. MacDougal (Ph.D. 1984), botanist
Robert Malkin (Ph.D. 1993), biomedical engineer; fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Jennifer Manlove (Ph.D. 1993), sociological research scientist at
Child Trends
Peter V. E. McClintock (Post-Doc. 1968), physicist
Yi Fang Xiong (M.S. 2011), CEO of
Ehang Technology
Joe M. McCord (Ph.D. 1970), biochemist; discovered the enzyme
superoxide dismutase
Frank B. McDonald (B.S. 1948), astrophysicist; former chief scientist of
NASA ; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Michelle McMurry-Heath (M.D./Ph.D. 2000), doctor, immunologist, policymaker, and current CEO of the
Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
Delano Meriwether (M.D. 1967), physician, head of the United States Government 1976 swine flu immunization program
Tony Mills (A.B. 1982, M.D. 1986), physician specializing in the treatment of HIV and AIDS
Radhe Mohan (Ph.D. 1969), medical physicist and radiation treatment safety pioneer
Harold A. Mooney (Ph.D. 1960), former president of the
Ecological Society of America ; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the
University of Edinburgh
Terry Myerson (B.S. 1992), head of
Microsoft 's operating systems engineering group
Bert W. O'Malley (residency), distinguished professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; recipient of the
National Medal of Science
Dana S. Nau (Ph.D. 1979), professor of computer science at the
University of Maryland ; fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery
Victoria Chibuogu Nneji (Ph.D. 2019), computer scientist, design and innovation strategist, and a lecturing fellow, known for her research on robotics and
autonomous transportation .
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George B. Pegram (B.A. 1895), conducted pioneering research on the behavior of
neutrons and played a key role in the administration of the
Manhattan Project
Sheldon Pinnell (A.B.), dermatologist; lead scientist of SkinCeuticals
Freda Porter (Ph.D. 1991), applied mathematician and environmental scientist known as one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in the mathematical sciences
[114]
Daniel Colón-Ramos (Ph.D. 2003), Dorys McConnell Duberg Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at
Yale University School of Medicine
Thomas Reardon (M.S. 2010), inventor of
Internet Explorer
Walter Rudin (A.B. 1947, Ph.D. 1949), mathematician, recipient of the
Leroy P. Steele Prize awarded by the
American Mathematical Society
Michael Ryschkewitsch (Ph.D. 1978), NASA Chief Engineer
Alan R. Saltiel (A.B. 1975), director of the
Life Sciences Institute at the
University of Michigan
Sir
John Skehel (Post-Doc 1968–1971), British virologist
Dylan Smith , co-founder and chief financial officer of
Box
Henry Yan (B.S.E. 2016), product manager at Facebook, CPO of Hub Blockchain
William Kennedy Smith , founder of Physicians Against Land Mines
Michael Tomasello (B.A. 1972), director of the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ; professor at
Duke University ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Joseph Travis (Ph.D. 1980), biologist; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; former president of the
American Society of Naturalists
Tom Truscott , co-creator of
Usenet with
Jim Ellis
Luis von Ahn , inventor of
CAPCHA and the Google image labeler; awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2006
Olaf von Ramm (Ph.D. 1973), first patent on a 3-D
ultrasound , later developed the first electronically steered matrix-array 3-D ultrasound imager
Ge Wang , creator of the
ChucK programming language
Lewis W. Wannamaker (M.D. 1946), biochemist; recipient of the
Robert Koch Prize ; member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
R. Sanders Williams (M.D. 1974), president of
Gladstone Institutes ; professor of medicine at
UCSF
Blake S. Wilson (B.S.E.E 1974), co-developer of the
cochlear implant ; recipient of the 2013
Lasker Award for clinical research
Melanie Wood (B.S. 2003), mathematician
Ricardo J. Komotar (B.S. 1999), academic neurosurgeon
John H. Gibbons (Ph.D. 1954), American scientist, nuclear physicist, and internationally recognized expert in technologies for energy efficiency and energy resource conservation
Louis Pillemer , (B.S. 1932), immunologist; discoverer of
properdin
John H. Sampson (Ph.D. 1996, M.B.A. 2011), world-renowned neurosurgeon
David Tab Rasmussen (Ph.D. 1986), paleontologist
Brittany Wenger (B.S. 2017), winner of the
Google Science Fair in 2012
Anne D. Yoder (Ph.D. 1992), Braxton Craven Professor of Evolutionary Biology at
Duke University
Literature
Ainehi Edoro (Ph.D. 2016), founder and editor of
Brittle Paper
Arthur Talmage Abernethy (A.M. 1891, Trinity College), journalist, theologian, minister, first
North Carolina Poet Laureate
Dorsey Armstrong (Ph.D. 1998), editor-in-chief of
Arthuriana
Douglas Brunt (A.B. 1993), novelist and entrepreneur
John W. Campbell (B.S. 1932), science fiction writer
Fred Chappell (A.B. 1961, A.M. 1964), North Carolina Poet Laureate, novelist
Lucy Corin (A.B. 1992), novelist and short story writer; awarded
Rome Prize by the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Guy Davenport (B.A. 1948), author, Thasos and Ohio ,
National Review contributor
G. William Domhoff (A.B. 1958), author of the controversial bestseller
Who Rules America?
David Drake (J.D. 1972), author of science fiction and fantasy literature
Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author,
television presenter ,
zookeeper
Elizabeth A. Fenn (A.B. 1981), American historian, recipient of the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for History
Ben Fountain (J.D. 1983), award-winning author of fiction
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Ph.D. 1979), American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker. 1981
MacArthur Fellow .
Paul Goldberg (A.B. 1981), novelist, The Yid , and editor and publisher of
The Cancer Letter
Josephine Humphreys (A.B. 1967), novelist
Mac Hyman (A.B. 1947), author of
No Time for Sergeants
Russell Kirk (A.M. 1941), author of
The Conservative Mind
Nathaniel Lande (B.A. 1956), author, filmmaker, and former creative director of
Time magazine
Peter Maas (A.B. 1949), author of novels The
Valachi Papers and
Serpico , later made into movies
Dan Mallory (A.B. 2001), best-selling author of
The Woman in the Window
Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Lydia Millet (M.E.M. 1996), author of novels Oh Pure and Radiant Heart , Everyone's Pretty
Peggy Payne (1970), author, Sister India
Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, critic, professor at
Dartmouth College
Michael Peterson (A.B. 1965), author, politician, convicted of murdering his wife in 2003
Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author; James B. Duke professor of literature at Duke
Lynn Veach Sadler , poet, author, and playwright
Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the
University of Chicago ; formerly at
Stanford University , where he chaired the comparative literature department, and
Yale University
William Seale (Ph.D. 1965), American historian and author
Frank G. Slaughter (B.A. 1926), novelist and physician
Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), author, social activist, chair of
Kresge Foundation
William C. Styron (A.B. 1947), author,
Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote
The Confessions of Nat Turner and
Sophie's Choice
Anne Tyler (A.B. 1961), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer of short stories
Haim Watzman (B.A. 1978), writer
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (MDiv), writer
Richard Zimler (A.B. 1977), novelist, author of
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon ,
The Warsaw Anagrams and
The Gospel According to Lazarus (novel)
Fine arts
Michael Best (A.B. 1962), former principal artist of the
Metropolitan Opera
Les Brown (A.B. 1936), musician, Les Brown & The Band of Renown; Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, 1999
Michael Ching (A.B. 1980), composer
Bill Cunliffe (A.B. 1978),
Grammy Award -winning composer, arranger, pianist
[115]
Mike Posner (B.S. 2010), musician
Tyler Rice (B.S. 2010), music producer, NBA and EA Sports
William Stone (B.A., 1966), operatic baritone
Oleg Timofeyev (Ph.D. 1999), musicologist
Entertainment
Ian Abrams, co-creator of the CBS TV series
Early Edition ,
Undercover Blues , Rolling Thunder
Andy Baldwin (B.S. 1999),
The Bachelor , lieutenant, and doctor
Jayne Brook (1982), actress,
Chicago Hope
[116]
Ryan Carnes (X. 2004), actor,
Desperate Housewives ,
Eating Out
[117]
Bailey Chase (B.A. 1995), actor,
Longmire
[118]
Jack Coleman (A.B. 1980), actor,
Heroes ,
Dynasty ,
Days of Our Lives
[119]
Robert L. Cook (B.S. 1973), Academy Award-winning software-programmer whose computer-graphics program,
RenderMan , is used in many contemporary films
Kara DioGuardi (A.B. 1993), songwriter for musicians including
Carlos Santana ,
Kelly Clarkson and
Britney Spears ,
American Idol judge
[120]
Paul W. Downs (B.A. 2004), actor,
Broad City , and co-creator of
Hacks
Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author,
television presenter , zookeeper
René Echevarria (A.B. 1984), producer,
The 4400 ,
Dark Angel ,
Now and Again ; screenwriter,
Star Trek: The Next Generation ,
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Ray Francis, model
[121]
Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and
Vietnam War photojournalist
Annabeth Gish (A.B. 1992), actress,
X-Files ,
The West Wing
[122]
Kevin Gray (A.B. 1980), Broadway actor,
Phantom on Broadway after Michael Crawford
[123]
Emmett Grogan (attended), founder of the
Diggers theatre
John Gromada (A.B. 1986), Broadway composer and sound designer
Jared Harris (B.F.A. 1984), Emmy-nominated actor,
Mad Men ,
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Hudgins , television writer,
Friday Night Lights
Ken Jeong (B.S. 1990), comedian, physician, actor,
Community ,
Knocked Up ,
Role Models ,
The Hangover films
[124]
Eric Kirsten (A.B. 1991), screenwriter,
Midnight Sun
Belle Knox (B.A. 2016), pornographic actress
[125]
Cody Ko (A.B. 2012),
YouTube personality and
Computer Scientist
[126]
Martin Kratt (B.S. 1989), creator and star of PBS's
Zoboomafoo
Rossana Lacayo (B.S. 1979), Nicaraguan photographer and pioneer filmmaker
Alisa Lepselter (A.B. 1985), editor of director
Woody Allen 's films since 1999
Keith Lucas (attended law school), stand-up comedian, actor in
22 Jump Street , creator of
Lucas Bros. Moving Co. , writer and producer of
Judas and the Black Messiah
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (J.D. 1913), folk musician
Russell Marcus, TV producer of
Married With Children ; creator of
Family Rules ,
Brandy & Mr Whiskers and
Corn & Peg
[127]
Cindy Marina , (transferred to USC), model television presenter, former volleyball player,
Miss Universe Albania 2019
[128]
Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of the
New York Times bestselling book
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell ; internet celebrity (TuckerMax.com)
Ben Mulroney (A.B. 1997), host of
Canadian Idol and
eTalk Daily ; son of former Canadian Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Alexi Murdoch , singer-songwriter
Stephanie (B.S. 2009) and
Matthew Patrick (B.S. 2009), hosts of the webseries Game Theory on
YouTube
Ellary Porterfield (A.B. 2011), actress,
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio ,
Sugar ,
Hidden Palms
Mike Posner (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter,
Cooler Than Me ,
Please Don't Go
Charles Randolph-Wright , director, writer, and producer
Retta (B.S. 1992), stand-up comedian and actress,
Parks and Recreation
Monty Sarhan (J.D. 1999), CEO of
SkyShowtime
Teddy Schwarzman (J.D. 2006), Academy Award-nominated film producer,
The Imitation Game ; former corporate lawyer at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Tre’ Scott (A.B. 2015), Tony Award-winning producer
Rebecca Sealfon (Ph.D. 2009), internet celebrity and winner of 1997
Scripps National Spelling Bee
David H. Steinberg (J.D. 1993), screenwriter and film director; wrote screenplays for American Pie 2 , Slackers , National Lampoon's Barely Legal , and American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Travis Lane Stork (B.S. 1994), reality star of
ABC 's Bachelor 8 and host of the
Daytime Emmy Award winning daytime talk show,
The Doctors (talk show)
Mike Stud (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, A Toast to Tommy (2011), Relief (2013), Closer (2014), These Days (2016)
Rita Volk (B.S. 2009), actress and model, known for her role as Amy Raudenfeld in the
MTV hit romantic comedy series Faking It
Randall Wallace (A.B. 1971), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of
Braveheart ; also wrote screenplay for
Pearl Harbor and wrote and directed
The Man in the Iron Mask and
We Were Soldiers
Patrick Williams (A.B. 1961), Academy Award-nominated composer for movies and TV; Emmy and Grammy winner
Robert Yeoman (A.B. 1973), Academy Award-nominated cinematographer,
Bottle Rocket ,
Rushmore ,
The Royal Tenenbaums ,
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou ,
The Darjeeling Limited , and
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Journalism and media
Dan Abrams (A.B. 1988), chief legal
correspondent for
ABC News , host of Verdict with Dan Abrams, former general manager of
MSNBC
[129]
Diana Butler Bass (Ph.D. 1991), columnist and author
[130]
J. Bowyer Bell (doctorate 1959), historian, artist and art critic
[131]
Dan Bernstein (A.B.), sports journalist,
WSCR radio host
[132]
John Carreyrou (A.B. 1994), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Jessica Faye Carter (J.D. 2002, M.B.A. 2002), author, columnist, social media entrepreneur
[133]
Michelle Charlesworth (A.B. 1992),
WABC-TV anchor and reporter
[134]
Seth Davis (A.B. 1992),
Sports Illustrated columnist and college basketball analyst for
CBS Sports
[135]
Laila el-Haddad (A.B. 2000), Palestinian journalist
Alex Epstein (A.B.), writer, founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress
John Feinstein (A.B. 1977), sports journalist
Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of
New York Magazine
Edward L. Fike (class of 1941), journalist and publisher in California, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.
Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and
Vietnam War photojournalist
Cornelia Grumman (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Kerry Hannon (A.B. 1982), best-selling author
Nia-Malika Henderson (B.A.), journalist, senior political reporter for
CNN
[136]
Melissa Harris-Perry (Ph.D. 1999), author, television host and political commentator
[137]
David Hartman (A.B. 1956), first host of
Good Morning America on
ABC
[138]
John Harwood (A.B. 1978), National Political Editor of
The Wall Street Journal , frequent panelist on
Washington Week
[139]
Mangesh Hattikudur (A.B. 2001), co-founder of
mental floss with Will Pearson
Ben Jacobs (J.D.), political reporter for
The Guardian
Louis Isaac Jaffe ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist
Hugo Lindgren (A.B. 1990), editor of
The New York Times Magazine
Mark Mazzetti (A.B. 1996),
The New York Times national security correspondent and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner
Scott McCartney (A.B. 1982), travel editor and journalist for
The Wall Street Journal , author
Sean McManus (A.B. 1977), president of
CBS News and
CBS Sports
Susannah Meadows (A.B. 1995), senior writer for
Newsweek
Richard A. Oppel, Jr. (A.B. 1990), journalist, reported for The New York Times from Iraq, Israel and Washington, D.C.
Will Pearson (A.B. 2001), co-founder of
mental floss with Mangesh Hattikudur
Windland Smith Rice (X. 1992), photographer, daughter of
Frederick W. Smith , billionaire founder of
FedEx
Nabeel Qureshi (M.A.), Christian apologetic, author and speaker.
Charlie Rose (A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968), journalist, former
CBS News anchor,
60 Minutes contributor
[140]
Jim Rosenfield (A.B. 1981),
WCBS-TV anchor
Michael Ruhlman (A.B. 1985), nonfiction author
Scott Savitt (A.B. 1985), author of Crashing the Party, recognized expert on China
John Seigenthaler, Jr. (B.S. 1978),
Al Jazeera America news anchor, formerly at
NBC News and
MSNBC
A. M. Secrest (A.B. 1944, M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), journalist and
Nieman Fellow
Elizabeth Spiers (A.B. 1999), founding editor of
Gawker.com
[141]
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Susan Tifft (A.B. 1973), writer and editor for
Time magazine; professor at
Sanford School of Public Policy
[143]
Kelly Tilghman (A.B. 1991), broadcaster for
The Golf Channel ; the
PGA Tour 's first female lead golf announcer
Jim Toomey (B.S.E. 1983), syndicated cartoonist of
Sherman's Lagoon
[144]
Judy Woodruff (A.B. 1968),
NBC 's
White House correspondent and Washington correspondent for the
MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour , anchor at
CNN
[145]
JJ Ramberg (A.B. 1992), host of
MSNBC 's weekend business program
Your Business
[146]
Barry Svrluga (A.B. 1993), national baseball writer for
The Washington Post
Craig Whitlock (A.B. 1990), writer for
The Washington Post and author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
[147]
Philanthropy
Athletics
See also
men's basketball players ,
women's basketball players , and
football players .
Patrick Bailey ,
NFL linebacker,
Pittsburgh Steelers
[149]
Brian Baldinger (1982), former
National Football League offensive lineman; commentator for
Fox
[150]
Chase Brice , professional football player (transferred to Appalachian State)
[151]
Dave Brown (1991), ten seasons in the
NFL with the
New York Giants and
Arizona Cardinals
[152]
Charles Bowser (1982), NFL linebacker, 4th round draft pick
[153]
Wray Carlton (1965),
American Football League all star,
Buffalo Bills fullback and all-time leading rusher from the AFL years
[154]
Jeremy Cash (2016), NFL linebacker, All-American defensive back
[155]
Ross Cockrell (2014), NFL cornerback, New York Giants
[156]
Jamison Crowder (2014), NFL wide receiver, Washington Redskins
[157]
Mike Curtis , NFL All Pro linebacker with the Baltimore Colts;
Super Bowl V champion
[158]
Al DeRogatis (1948),
Pro Bowl tackle for the
New York Giants ; later lead analyst for the
NFL on NBC
[159]
Anthony Dilweg (1989), former
NFL
quarterback , enjoyed brief success with the
Green Bay Packers
[160]
Dave Dunaway ,
NFL wide receiver
[161]
Ryan Fowler , NFL linebacker,
New York Jets
[162]
Lennie Friedman NFL offensive lineman, 2nd round draft pick
[163]
Thomas Hennessy , NFL
long snapper
Cedric Jones , NFL wide receiver
[164]
Daniel Jones , No.6 overall pick in
2019 NFL Draft , NFL Quarterback for
New York Giants
[165]
Sonny Jurgensen ,
Hall of Fame
quarterback who played for the
Philadelphia Eagles and
Washington Redskins
[166]
Kevin Lewis ,
NFL linebacker
Thaddeus Lewis (2012), NFL quarterback,
Patrick Mannelly , NFL
long snapper
George McAfee , Hall of Fame
halfback who played for the
Chicago Bears
Max McCaffrey (2016), NFL wide receiver, San Francisco 49ers
Scottie Montgomery ,
Arena Football League wide receiver/defensive back
Ed Newman (1973), NFL offensive guard; 12 seasons with the
Miami Dolphins ;
Super Bowl VIII champion
[167]
Ayanga Okpokowuruk , football player
Clarence "Ace" Parker , Hall of Fame
quarterback who played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers ,
Boston Yanks , and
New York Yankees
[168]
Lucas Patrick (2016), American football, guard, Green Bay Packers
Tommy Prothro , former head coach of the
Los Angeles Rams and
San Diego Chargers
Tawambi Settles , player of gridiron football
Drew Strojny , NFL football
offensive tackle
Laken Tomlinson , NFL offensive guard, San Francisco 49ers; 1st round draft pick
[169]
Benjamin Watson (transferred to Georgia), former NFL tight end
[170]
Baseball
Wayne Ambler ,
Major League Baseball (MLB) player
[171]
Bob Brower , former MLB player
[172]
Chris Capuano (2000), former MLB player
[173]
Claude Corbitt , former MLB player
[174]
Lawrence "Crash" Davis , former MLB player (see also
Bull Durham )
Nate Freiman , (B.A. 2009) former MLB player
[175]
[176]
Bryce Jarvis , professional baseball player, Arizona Diamondbacks organization
[177]
[178]
Ryan Jackson , former MLB player
[179]
[180]
Kenny Koplove , former professional baseball player; played internationally for Israel
[181]
Bill McCahan , former MLB player
Matt Mervis , MLB player for
Chicago Cubs
[182]
[183]
Quinton McCracken , former MLB player
[184]
Dan Otero , former MLB pitcher
[185]
Scott Schoeneweis , former MLB pitcher, member of the
2002 World Series Champion
Anaheim Angels
[186]
Al Spangler , former MLB player
Graeme Stinson , professional baseball player
[187]
Marcus Stroman , MLB pitcher,
Chicago Cubs
[188]
[189]
Eric Tipton , former MLB player
[190]
Mike Trombley , former MLB pitcher
Hal Wagner , former MLB player
Basketball
Alaa Abdelnaby (1990), former professional basketball player, college basketball analyst
[191]
Mark Alarie (1986), former professional basketball player
[192]
[193]
Grayson Allen (2018), No. 21 pick of the
2018 NBA draft , professional basketball player,
Phoenix Suns
[194]
[195]
Tommy Amaker (1987),
Harvard University head basketball coach
[196]
Tate Armstrong (1977), former professional basketball player
[197]
William Avery , former professional basketball player
[198]
[199]
Gene Banks (B.A. 1981), former professional basketball player
[200]
Bob Bender (1980), former professional basketball coach
[201]
Eric Boateng (transferred to Arizona State), former professional basketball player
[202]
Jamal Boykin (transferred to California), former professional basketball player
[203]
Joe Belmont , former professional basketball player and coach
[204]
Tony Barone (1971), former basketball coach and scout
[205]
Kenny Blakeney (1995), former professional basketball player
[206]
Marvin Bagley III , professional basketball player, No. 2 pick of the
2018 NBA draft , NBA player for
Washington Wizards
[207]
[208]
Alison Bales (2007), former professional player (WNBA)
[209]
RJ Barrett , No.3 overall pick in the
2019 NBA draft , NBA player for
Toronto Raptors
[210]
[211]
Lexie Brown (2018), WNBA player for the
Los Angeles Sparks
[212]
[213]
Paolo Banchero , NBA player for
Orlando Magic
[214]
[215]
Joey Baker (2022), professional basketball player
[216]
[217]
Marques Bolden , professional basketball player
[218]
[219]
Shane Battier (2001), former professional basketball player
[220]
[221]
Alana Beard (2004), former professional basketball player in the
WNBA
[222]
[223]
Jay Bilas (A.B. 1986, J.D. 1992),
ESPN sports commentator
[224]
Carlos Boozer (B.A. 2020), former professional basketball player
[225]
[226]
Elton Brand , former professional basketball player
[227]
[228]
Henry Cole (1921), former basketball player and coach
Seth Curry (2013), NBA Player for
Dallas Mavericks
[229]
[230]
Jeff Capel (1997), men's basketball assistant coach, former head coach at the
University of Oklahoma
[231]
Chris Carrawell (2000), former professional basketball player, current assistant coach for Duke Blue Devils men's basketball
[232]
Chris Collins (1996), men's basketball associate head coach
[233]
Vernon Carey Jr. , NBA player for
Charlotte Hornets
[234]
Wendell Carter Jr. , No. 7 pick of the
2018 NBA draft , NBA player for
Orlando Magic
[235]
[236]
Quinn Cook (2015), NBA player, for
Los Angeles Lakers
[237]
[238]
Andre Dawkins (2014), former professional basketball player
[239]
Brian Davis (1992), former professional basketball player
[240]
Johnny Dawkins (1986), University of Central Florida head basketball coach, former Duke associate head basketball coach and former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
[241]
[242]
Javin DeLaurier (2020), professional basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
[243]
Sean Dockery (2006), former professional basketball player
[244]
Kenny Dennard (1981), former professional basketball player
[245]
[246]
Randy Denton (1971), former professional basketball player
[247]
Luol Deng , former professional basketball player
[248]
Charles "Lefty" Driesell , former college basketball coach (
Davidson ,
Maryland ,
James Madison ,
Georgia State )
Chris Duhon (2004), former professional basketball player; assistant coach for
Marshall University
[249]
Trevon Duval , professional basketball player
[250]
[251]
Mike Dunleavy Jr. , former professional basketball player
[252]
Daniel Ewing , professional basketball player,
Maccabi Ashdod of the
Israeli Premier League
[253]
Danny Ferry (1989), former
Cleveland Cavaliers general manager, former professional basketball player, member of 2003 NBA Champion
San Antonio Spurs (jersey retired)
[254]
[255]
Pat Garrity (M.B.A. 2011), former professional basketball player and investment professional
[256]
Mike Gminski (1980), ACC/ Raycom sports commentator (jersey retired)
[257]
[258]
Harry Giles III , 20th pick of
2017 NBA draft , NBA player for the
Brooklyn Nets
[259]
[260]
Miela Goodchild (2022), professional basketball player for
Perth Lynx
[261]
Jacob Grandison , professional basketball player
[262]
Jordan Goldwire (2021), professional basketball player
[263]
Haley Gorecki (2019), professional basketball player (WNBA)
[264]
AJ Griffin , NBA player for
Atlanta Hawks
[265]
Dick Groat , former professional baseball and basketball player (jersey retired)
[266]
Michael Gbinije (Transferred to Syracuse), professional basketball player,
Oklahoma City Blue of the
NBA G League
[267]
[268]
Lindsey Harding (2007), professional basketball player,
Los Angeles Sparks in the
WNBA (jersey retired)
[269]
Dave Henderson (1986), 1991
Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
[270]
Gerald Henderson Jr. , former professional basketball player
[271]
Phil Henderson (1990), former professional basketball player
[272]
Art Heyman (1963), former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
[273]
Josh Hairston (2014), former professional basketball player, sports agent for
Klutch Sports
[274]
Grant Hill (B.A. 1994), former professional basketball player, member of
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (jersey retired)
[275]
[276]
Matthew Hurt , professional basketball player
[277]
Rodney Hood , NBA player for the
Los Angeles Clippers
[278]
[279]
Nick Horvath (2004),
West Sydney Razorbacks professional basketball player
Bobby Hurley (1993), former professional basketball player (jersey retired), head coach at
Arizona State
[280]
[281]
Brandon Ingram , NBA player for
New Orleans Pelicans , No. 2 pick in the
2016 NBA draft
[282]
[283]
Kyrie Irving , professional basketball player,
Dallas Mavericks ;
No. 1 pick in the
2011 NBA draft ; 2011–2012 NBA Rookie of the Year, 2016 NBA Champion
[284]
[285]
Frank Jackson , NBA player for
Detroit Pistons
[286]
[287]
Billy King , former president and general manager of the
Brooklyn Nets
[288]
[289]
Nate James (2001), former professional basketball player
[290]
Amile Jefferson (2016), former professional basketball player
[291]
[292]
Chase Jeter (Transferred to Arizona), basketball player
[293]
[294]
Dahntay Jones (2003), former professional basketball player
[295]
[296]
Jalen Johnson , NBA player for the
Atlanta Hawks
[297]
[298]
Matt Jones (2017), professional basketball player
[299]
Tre Jones , NBA player for
San Antonio Spurs
[300]
Tyus Jones , NBA player for
Washington Wizards
[301]
Ed Koffenberger , played both basketball and tennis at Duke, Duke's first two-sport athlete
[302]
Greg Koubek (1991), former professional basketball player
[303]
Doug Kistler , former professional basketball player
[304]
Ryan Kelly (2013), professional basketball player,
Sun Rockers Shibuya of the
B.League
[305]
[306]
Joe Kennedy , former professional basketball player
[307]
Luke Kennard , NBA player for the
Memphis Grizzlies
[308]
[309]
Trevor Keels , NBA player for
New York Knicks
[310]
Antonio Lang (1994), former professional basketball player
[311]
Christian Laettner (1992), former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
[312]
Dereck Lively II , NBA player for
Dallas Mavericks
[313]
Trajan Langdon (1999), former professional basketball player
[314]
Alex Murphy , professional basketball player in the
LEB Oro league
[315]
Corey Maggette , former professional basketball player
[316]
David McClure (2009), former professional basketball player
[317]
Josh McRoberts , former professional basketball player
[318]
[319]
Jeff Mullins , professional basketball player for the
Golden State Warriors and head basketball coach at
UNC Charlotte (jersey retired)
[320]
Gary Melchionni , former professional basketball player
[321]
Lee Melchionni (2006), former professional basketball player
[322]
Wendell Moore Jr. , NBA player for
Minnesota Timberwolves
[323]
[324]
DeMarcus Nelson , professional basketball player,
Panathinaikos in Greece
[325]
Greg Newton (1997), former professional basketball player
[326]
[327]
Martin Nessley , former professional basketball player
[328]
Alex O'Connell (transferred to Creighton), professional basketball player
[329]
Jahlil Okafor , No. 3 of the
2015 NBA draft , professional basketball player
[330]
[331]
Semi Ojeleye (transferred to SMU), professional basketball player for
Valencia Basket
[332]
Cherokee Parks , former professional basketball player
[333]
Jabari Parker , professional basketball player,
Boston Celtics ; No. 2 of the
2014 NBA draft
[334]
[335]
Marshall Plumlee (2017), former basketball player
[336]
[337]
Mason Plumlee (2013), professional basketball player,
Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA
[338]
[339]
Miles Plumlee (2012), former professional basketball player
[340]
[341]
Haley Peters , professional basketball player
[342]
Shavlik Randolph , former professional basketball player
[343]
JJ Redick (A.B. 2006),(Class of 2006)
NCAA 's all-time leader in three-point field goals, former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
[344]
[345]
Austin Rivers , professional basketball player, last played for the
Minnesota Timberwolves
[346]
[347]
Cam Reddish , No.8 pick in the
2019 NBA draft , NBA player for
Los Angeles Lakers
[348]
[349]
Justin Robinson (2020), professional basketball player
[350]
DJ Steward , professional basketball player
[351]
Jon Scheyer ,(Class of 2010) American-Israeli McDonald's
All American , All-American basketball player for national champion
2009–10 Duke basketball team ,
[352] current Duke men's basketball coach
Adam Silver (1984), commissioner and chief operating officer of the
NBA
[353]
Cassius Stanley , NBA player for
Indiana Pacers
[354]
Kyle Singler (2011), former professional basketball player
[355]
Nolan Smith (2011), 2010 national champion, current Duke men's basketball assistant coach
[356]
Quin Snyder (B.A. 1989, J.D., M.B.A. 1995), former
University of Missouri head coach; former Austin Toros of the NBDL head coach; head coach of the
Atlanta Hawks in the
NBA
[357]
Rasheed Sulaimon (transferred to Maryland), professional basketball player
[358]
Jim Spanarkel , former professional basketball player, NBA and college basketball commentator
[359]
Jayson Tatum , NBA player for the
Boston Celtics , #3 overall pick in the
2017 NBA draft
[360]
[361]
Jordan Tucker (transferred to Butler), professional basketball player
[362]
Gary Trent Jr. , NBA player for the
Toronto Raptors
[363]
[364]
Derryck Thornton (Transferred to USC), professional basketball player
[365]
Tyler Thornton (2014), former professional basketball player
[366]
Lance Thomas (2010), 2010 national champion (captain); 10th on Duke's all-time list of offensive rebounds; professional basketball player
[367]
Michele Van Gorp , former professional basketball player (WNBA)
[368]
Abby Waner , former professional basketball player (WNBA)
[369]
Elizabeth Williams , professional basketball player (WNBA)
[370]
Mark Williams , NBA player for
Charlotte Hornets
[371]
[372]
Jason Williams , former professional basketball player (jersey retired), college basketball commentator and analyst for
ESPN
[373]
Shelden Williams , Duke's all-time leader in rebounds and blocked shots, former professional basketball player (jersey retired)
[374]
Justise Winslow , NBA player for
Portland Trail Blazers
[375]
Jack White (2020), professional basketball player
[376]
Dariq Whitehead , NBA player for
Brooklyn Nets
[377]
Zion Williamson , No. 1 pick in the
2019 NBA draft , NBA player for the
New Orleans Pelicans
[378]
[379]
Steve Wojciechowski , former Marquette men's basketball head coach
Golf
Skip Alexander , professional golfer
[380]
Beth Bauer , professional golfer
[381]
Laetitia Beck , Israeli professional golfer
[382]
Amanda Blumenherst , professional golfer
[383]
Céline Boutier , professional golfer
Jenny Chuasiriporn , professional golfer
Liz Janangelo , professional golfer
Brittany Lang , professional golfer
Leona Maguire (Irish), number 1 Women's World Amateur, Duke senior
Lisa Maguire , Irish amateur golfer
Bill Mallon , orthopedic surgeon, professional golfer, leading authority on the history of the Olympic Games
Joe Ogilvie , professional golfer
Leif Olson , professional golfer
Mike Souchak , professional golfer, winner of 15 PGA events
Kevin Streelman , professional golfer
Art Wall, Jr. , professional golfer, winner of 1959
Masters
[384]
Other
Stephen Amritraj (B.A. 2006), professional tennis player
Drew Cannon (B.S. 2012), statistician and sports writer; on
Boston Celtics staff
Jordan Cila (born 1982),
Major League Soccer midfielder
Matt Danowski , professional lacrosse player for
New Jersey Pride
Andy Frankenberger , professional poker player and former equity derivatives trader
Danielle Goldstein (born 1985), American-Israeli show jumper
Paulie Harraka , NASCAR racer
[385]
Jay Heaps , Head Coach of the
New England Revolution as of November 2011; former player for the New England Revolution MLS team; former Duke basketball and soccer player
Sarah Hirshland (born 1975), chief executive officer of the
United States Olympic Committee
Nancy Hogshead , Olympic gold
medal winner in swimming
Hiroshi Hoketsu (A.M. 1968), Japanese equestrian rider who debuted in the
1964 Summer Olympics and continues to compete today in the
2012 Summer Olympics
Matthew Jacobs , martial arts expert; frequently appears in Ultimate Fighting Championship
Abigail Johnston won a silver medal in synchronized diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics while an undergraduate at Duke and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics while attending Duke Medical School
[386]
Randy Jones , competed in four Olympics as member of U.S. bobsledding teams
Jacob Kasper , professional wrestler
[387]
John Kerr , soccer player; winner of
Hermann Trophy for top collegian; first American player in the
Football League First Division (now known as the
Premiership ); Duke's head coach
Jason Kreis , professional soccer player and coach
Alison Levine (M.B.A. 2000), mountain climber and explorer; the only woman in the world to have completed the
Explorers Grand Slam , reaching the summit of the highest mountain on each continent and skiing to the North and South Poles
Nick McCrory , Olympic diver
[388]
Ibtihaj Muhammad (B.A. 2007), 2016 Olympic fencer and Bronze medalist
Gunnar Peterson (B.A. 1985), fitness expert, author and motivational speaker
Vanessa Rousso , professional poker player
Shannon Rowbury , professional track athlete, middle distance runner
Morgan Reid (2017), professional soccer player
[389]
Philip Schwalb , founder of National Sports Museum of America
Jillian Schwartz , Olympic pole vaulter
Dave Sime , champion sprinter, won a silver medal at the
1960 Rome Olympics
Andrew Skurka (A.B. 2003), first person to complete the 7,700 sea-to-sea-route spanning North America
Steven Solomon , Australian track and field, 2012 Olympics, Duke indoor 400m record holder
Jessica Rae Springsteen , nationally ranked equestrian; daughter of
Bruce Springsteen
Becca Ward , 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing; three-time NCAA champion in individual women's sabre (2009, 2011, 2012)
[390]
Sean Davis (soccer) , captain of the
New York Red Bulls
Andrew Wenger , professional soccer player and first draft pick in the
2012 MLS SuperDraft
Fictional
Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie ,
USMC , a character played by
Catherine Bell in the television series
JAG , graduated from
Duke University School of Law .
Nathan Scott , a character played by
James Lafferty on the television series
One Tree Hill , received a scholarship to play basketball at Duke though his offer was rescinded when he was caught
point shaving
Sam Seaborn , a character portrayed by
Rob Lowe (whose son attends Duke in real life) on
The West Wing , graduated from Duke University School of Law.
The film
The Man in the Moon takes place as Maureen Trant, played by
Emily Warfield , is preparing to attend Duke in the fall. Emma Seneshen, a character who appears briefly during the film's opening, is also mentioned to be a Duke student.
Benjamin Barry, a character portrayed by
Matthew McConaughey is shown to be a Duke alumni in
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Sloan Sabbath, a character portrayed by
Olivia Munn is mentioned to have 2 Ph.D.'s from Duke in television show
The Newsroom
Faculty
Current
Walter E. Dellinger III
Henry Petroski
Erwin Chemerinsky
Bill Adair , founder of the website
PolitiFact
[391]
David Aers ,
James B. Duke Professor of English, expert on medieval and Renaissance literature and theology
[392]
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
[393]
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
[394]
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
Chris Beyrer , director of the Duke Global Health Institute, member of the
National Academy of Medicine
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
Frank Bruni , columnist for
The New York Times
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
[395]
Robert Calderbank , former vice president of
AT&T ; recipient of the
Shannon Award in electrical engineering
Bruce Caldwell , economist
Blanche Capel ,
James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology
William Chafe , American historian
Yuan-Tsong Chen , physician scientist, known for developing a recombinant enzyme replacement therapy for
Pompe disease
Rey Chow , postcolonial, cultural critic
Dorie Clark , author and executive education professor
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
Victor J. Dzau ,
James B. Duke Professor of
Medicine ; pioneering translational research scientist
Herbert Edelsbrunner , computer scientist, winner of the
Alan T. Waterman Award
Carla Ellis , computer scientist, fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery
Sir Harold Evans , author; editor of
The Times ; exposed Soviet spies
Wendy Ewald , photographer, awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 1992
Peter Feaver , political scientist; served on the
National Security Council staff under
Presidents
Bill Clinton and
George W. Bush
Michael Ferejohn , expert on
ancient philosophy
Eric Finkelstein , health economist, professor at
Duke-NUS Medical School
Anne Firor Scott , historian, recipient of the
National Humanities Medal
Owen Flanagan , philosopher of mind,
Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
Allen Frances , world-renowned psychiatrist
Connel Fullenkamp , director of undergraduate studies in economics, member of the
IMF 's finance team
John Hope Franklin , civil rights activist, historian, awarded
Presidential Medal of Freedom by President
Bill Clinton
Ernestine Friedl , professor
emerita in cultural anthropology; former president of the
American Ethnological Society and the
American Anthropological Association ; known for her work on gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
Allan Friedman , neurosurgeon
Takanori Fukushima , neurosurgeon
Alan Enoch Gelfand , James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Sharon Gerecht , biomedical engineer; member of the
National Academy of Medicine
David Gergen , former Duke professor; Duke trustee; adviser to Presidents
Nixon ,
Ford ,
Reagan , and
Clinton
[396]
Michael Allen Gillespie , political scientist
Jay Golden , environmental engineer
David Goldstein , population geneticist
[397]
Mark Goodacre , theologian
Matthias Gromeier , developer of the
PVSRIPO virus that has recently shown to be effective in treating cancer
Gordon Hammes , biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Moo-Young Han , discoverer of the quark color charge
Michael Hardt , literature professor and Marxist, co-author with
Antonio Negri of
Empire and
Multitude
Brian Hare , evolutionary anthropologist, director of Duke Canine Cognition Center
Campbell Harvey , economist
Hashim Al-Hashimi , James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology; recipient of the 2020
NAS Award in Molecular Biology .
Stanley Hauerwas , theologian and author
N. Katherine Hayles , postmodern literary critic; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Richard B. Hays , theologian
Sheng Yang He , plant biologist; member of the
National Academy of Sciences ;
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Dan Heath , bestselling author of
Made to Stick
Kieran Healy , Irish sociologist
Amy H. Herring , biostatistician
Oscar Hijuelos , novelist; first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Brigid Hogan , developmental biologist; member of the
National Academy of Sciences ,
Institute of Medicine , and fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kevin Hoover , economist
Jerry F. Hough , political scientist, author, and professor
Calvin Howell , physicist
Tony Jun Huang , William Bevan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Reinhard Hütter , Catholic theologian
Fredric Jameson , Marxist literary theorist; former chair of the Literature Program
Andrew Janiak , philosopher
Ashley E. Jardina , political scientist and author
Erich Jarvis , neurobiologist, professor at
Rockefeller University
Abdul Sattar Jawad , literary theorist, fled
Mustansiriya University after the
2003 Invasion of Iraq
Bruce Jentleson , director of Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to
vice president
Al Gore
Wu Jinglian , economist
Kimberly S. Johnson , professor of medicine and director of Duke REACH Equity (Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Care Equity)
Nan Marie Jokerst , electrical engineer, in the
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering , Triangle Women in STEM leader
James A. Joseph , former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
Samuel Katz , virologist, known for the development of the
measles vaccine
Richard Kay , paleontologist
David Kirsch , oncologist
Alexander Kiselev , mathematician
Peter Klopfer , zoologist, civil rights advocate and educator
Jack Knight , legal theorist
Harold G. Koenig , psychiatrist
Claudia Koonz , feminist historian
Sally Kornbluth , provost and
James B. Duke Professor of pharmacology and cancer biology
Ashutosh Kotwal , Fritz London Distinguished Professor of Physics,
[398] Fellow of AAAS,
[399] APS
[400] and Sloan Foundation
[401]
Rachel Kranton , economist, fellow of the
Econometric Society , recipient of the
Blaise Pascal Chair
Timur Kuran , Turkish economist
Kara Lawson , Duke women's basketball head coach (2020–present)
[402]
Pedro Lasch , artist and assistant research professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Bruce Lawrence , Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion
Mark Leary , psychologist
Frank Lentricchia , literary critic
David F. Levi , jurist
Nan Lin ,
sociologist
Jason Locasale , professor of pharmacology, internationally recognized for his contributions to the modern understanding of metabolism
Martin J. Lohse , German physician and pharmacologist doing research on
G protein-coupled receptors
Julian Lombardi ,
computer scientist , inventor
Nathaniel Mackey , poet and novelist, recipient of the 2015
Bollingen Prize and the 2014
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Nancy MacLean , historian
Bruce Maggs , professor of computer science, founding employee of
Akamai Technologies
Robert Malkin , biomedical engineer, fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
J. Lorand Matory , chair of the department of African and African American Studies
Achille Mbembe , philosopher and political scientist
Mark McCahill , creator of
Internet Gopher , POP mail, and Croquet; coined the phrase "surfing the Web"
Mark McClellan , former
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Thomas Carlos Mehen , nuclear physicist
Walter Mignolo , literary theorist
Terrie Moffitt , pioneering researcher in the development of antisocial behavior
Toril Moi , literary theorist associated with
feminist theory
Christopher Monroe , quantum physicist, member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Ebrahim Moosa , religious scholar
V. Y. Mudimbe ,
philosopher associated with
philosophy of language ,
phenomenology , and
structuralism
Norman Myers , British environmentalist
Mark Anthony Neal , author
Lenhard Ng , mathematician, child mathematical prodigy
Miguel Nicolelis , pioneer of
brain-machine interfaces
Mohamed Noor , evolutionary biologist; 2008 recipient of the
Darwin–Wallace Medal
[403]
Wayne Norman , expert on political philosophy
Jean Fox O'Barr , feminist teacher, scholar, and administrator; founded women's studies program at Duke
Linwood Pendleton , former chief economist of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Henry Petroski , civil engineer and writer
[404]
Arlie Petters , pioneer in the mathematical theory and mathematical physics of gravitational lensing; professor of mathematics, physics, and business administration
Lillian Pierce , mathematician
Orrin H. Pilkey , geologist
Robert Plonsey , biomedical engineer, member of the
National Academy of Engineering
Amilcare Porporato , civil engineer
Reynolds Price , author and professor of literature
Kathy Alexis Psomiades , associate professor of English, specializing in Victorian poetry and novel theory
Dale Purves , professor of Neurobiology and Medical Doctor
Anne Pusey , primatologist, director of
Jane Goodall Institute Research Center
Jonathan D. Quick , family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security
Christian R. H. Raetz , professor of biochemistry and member of the National Academy of Sciences
Sarah Bloom Raskin , former member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , former
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
William Raspberry , Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism; syndicated
columnist for
The Washington Post ; Pulitzer Prize winner
Paul Rehak , archaeologist
Madan M. Rehani , medical physicist
John Reif , computer scientist; fellow of the
AAAS ,
IEEE and
ACM
Michael Reiter ,
James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science, fellow of the
ACM
Jane S. Richardson , professor of biochemistry; developed the Richardson diagram, or
ribbon diagram , method of representing the 3D structure of proteins,
MacArthur Fellow
Alexander Rosenberg , philosopher; winner of
Lakatos Award in philosophy of science,
Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
Benjamin Rossman , computer scientist
Kathy Rudy ,
social constructionist
Omid Safi , professor of Islamic Studies
David H. Sanford , philosopher
Nicola Scafetta , physicist
Tad Schmaltz , editor of the
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Christopher H. Schroeder , former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy for the United States Department of Justice
Barbara Ramsay Shaw , chemist,
cancer researcher, expert on
signal transduction
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , philosopher
David Smith , invisibility cloak pioneer; awarded the
Descartes Prize in 2005
Tommy Sowers , Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the
US Department of Veterans Affairs
J. E. R. Staddon ,
behavioral psychologist
Orin Starn , cultural anthropologist
Kristine Stiles ,
art historian
Vahid Tarokh , electrical engineer, recipient of a
Guggenheim fellowship
John Terborgh , conservation biologist, awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and the
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1996
Jenny Tung , evolutionary anthropologist, awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2019
[405]
Timothy Tyson , historian
Cindy Lee Van Dover , professor of biological oceanography
Hans J. Van Miegroet , professor of art history
Tuan Vo-Dinh , biophysicist
Olaf von Ramm , Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering; first patent on a 3-D
ultrasound
Geoffrey Wainwright ,
Methodist
theologian
E. Roy Weintraub , economist
Ben Wildman-Tobriner , physician;
Olympic gold medalist
Huntington F. Willard , human geneticist; former president of American Society of Human Genetics; member of the National Academy of Sciences
E.O. Wilson , biologist, "the father of sociobiology and biodiversity",
National Medal of Science (1976)
Lauren Winner , author and journalist
Judy Woodruff ,
news anchor , journalist
Vanessa Woods , internationally published Australian scientist, author and journalist
Weitao Yang , chemist
Anne Yoder , biologist, director of
Duke Lemur Center
[406]
Hongkai Zhao , mathematician
Anthony Zinni , decorated general
Former
Frances Dorothy Acomb , historian
D. Bernard Amos , immunologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Norman B. Anderson , CEO of the
American Psychological Association
Wolfgang Bibel , one of the founders of the research area of
artificial intelligence in
Germany and
Europe
Kwame Anthony Appiah , philosopher, author of In My Father's House and The Ethics of Identity
Srinivas Aravamudan , professor of English, literature and Romance studies; dean of humanities; specialist in 18th-century and postcolonial literature; author
Clay Armstrong , physiologist; recipient of the
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the
Gairdner Foundation International Award for contributions to medical science
James Arthur , mathematician, former president of the
American Mathematical Society
George James Augustine , neuroscientist
Katharine Banham , associate professor of psychology, emerita
John Spencer Bassett , historian who initiated the
Bassett Affair , an important victory for
academic freedom
Robert Bates , Eaton Professor in the Department of Government at
Harvard University
Upendra Baxi , legal scholar
Andrea Bertozzi , mathematician
Helen Bevington , poet and author
Utpal Bhattacharya , expert on
business ethics
Lawrence Biedenharn , theoretical nuclear physicist
Harry Binswanger ,
objectivist philosopher and
philosopher of mind
Mary L. Boas , mathematician
Ralph Boas , mathematician, recipient of the
Lester R. Ford Award
James Bonk , chemist. Dean's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of 50 years of teaching
Edgar Bowers , poet, For Louis Pasteur ,
Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989, Guggenheim Fellowship twice
David S. Broder , current
Washington Post and former New York Times reporter
H. Keith H. Brodie , psychiatrist, educator and eventual president of Duke
David Allan Bromley , nuclear physicist, scientific advisor to
US President
George H. W. Bush , recipient of
National Medal of Science (1988)
Hubie Brown , assistant men's basketball coach (1969–1972); NBA coach and commentator
John Buettner-Janusch , anthropologist
Michael Byers , Canadian legal scholar and nonfiction author
Leonard Carlitz , mathematician
Tina Campt , associate professor of women's studies and history; director of Graduate Studies
Ziv Carmon , professor of business administration at
INSEAD
John W. Cell , professor of history at Duke.
[407]
Erwin Chemerinsky , law professor, constitutional scholar
Randolph Chitwood , first cardio-thoracic surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in North America
Amy Chua , best-selling author
George Elliott Clarke , author, poet
G. Wayne Clough , president of the
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kalman J. Cohen , economist, pioneer of
market micro-structure
Roger Corless , theologian who made significant contributions to interfaith dialogue
John Shelton Curtiss , historian, James B. Duke Professor
Chuck Daly , assistant men's basketball coach (1963–1969); NBA coach
[408]
Barun De , historian
Sara J. Dent , anaesthesiologist
Burton Drayer , radiologist; authority on the use of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosing neurological disorders
Mike Duffy ,
television host
Eleanor Lansing Dulles , politician involved in the affairs of post-World War II Germany,
Bretton Woods Conference ,
US State Department
Paul Ebert , cardiovascular surgeon
Michael Ehlers , Chief Scientific Officer at life sciences venture capital firm Apple Tree Partners
William M. Fairbank , physicist known for his work on liquid helium; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Stanley Fish , former chair of the English Department,
deconstructionist literary critic
Wallace Fowlie , author and poet, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947
Clara Franzini-Armstrong , cell biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Bertram Fraser-Reid , organic chemist
Robert C. Frasure , ambassador to
Estonia
Henry Louis Gates , chair of African-American Studies at
Harvard
[409]
Erol Gelenbe , computer scientist, known for introducing the
random neural network and the eponymous
G-networks
David Gergen , political analyst, adviser to Presidents
Nixon ,
Ford ,
Reagan , and
Clinton
John Jay Gergen , mathematician
S. Malcolm Gillis , prominent economist, former president of
Rice University
René Girard , philosopher, literary critic, and historian; member of the
Académie française
Peter J. Gomes , preacher and theologian from Harvard University's Divinity School
Craufurd Goodwin , economist
Lawrence Goodwyn , writer and political theorist
Andrew Gordon , Japanese Historian
Walter Gordy , physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Gail Goestenkors , Duke women's basketball head coach (1992–2007)
[410]
Phillip Griffiths , mathematician; fellow of the
American Mathematical Society , recipient of the
Wolf Prize
Paul Magnus Gross , chemist, former
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Julia Grout , chair of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education, 1924–1964
Allan Gurganus , author
William Baskerville Hamilton , historian
Philip Handler , biochemist; two-term president of the National Academy of Sciences; winner of the
National Medal of Science
Gerald Heard , philosopher, historian
Robert L. Hill , biochemist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Charles Honorton , parapsychologist
Calvin B. Hoover , founder of the field of
comparative economic systems , awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by Harry Truman in 1947.
Sally Hughes-Schrader , zoologist, Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Aldous Huxley , novelist, mystic
Jacquelyne Jackson , sociologist
Daniel James , British historian
Harold Jenkins
Randy Jirtle , biologist, known for his contribution to the field of epigenetics
Kristina M. Johnson ,
Under Secretary of Energy for the
Obama Administration; former dean of the
Pratt School of Engineering ; former director of
Boston Scientific Corporation
Simon Johnson , former
chief economist of the
International Monetary Fund
Wolfgang Joklik , virologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Edward E. Jones ,
social psychologist , developed
fundamental attribution error
Alice Kaplan , author, chair of the French department at
Yale
Lawrence C. Katz , neurobiologist
Randall Kenan , author
Robert Keohane , neoliberal scholar of international relations
Kim Sung-Hou , structural biologist and biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Claudia Koonz , feminist historian
Stephen Kovacs (1972–2022),
saber
fencer and fencing coach, charged with
sexual assault , died in prison
[411]
[412]
[413] While at Duke he mentored three-time NCAA women's saber champion
Becca Ward .
[412] Half a dozen years later Kovacs was accused of sexually assaulting two fencing students elsewhere, and he died in prison in 2022.
[414]
Paul J. Kramer , biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Juanita M. Kreps ,
United States Secretary of Commerce
Anne O. Krueger ,
World Bank Chief Economist
Weston La Barre ,
anthropologist , worked in
ethnography
Thomas LaBean , leading researcher in the field of
DNA nanotechnology
Howard Nathaniel Lee , former mayor of
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bernard Lefkowitz ,
sociologist ,
journalist ,
investigative reporter
Raphael Lemkin ,
human rights activist ; coined the word "
genocide "
H. Gregg Lewis , labor economist
Sarah Lisanby , psychiatrist
Michael L. Littman , computer scientist
Daniel A. Livingstone , limnologist, recipient of the
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
Fritz London ,
physicist , won the
Lorentz Medal
Alasdair MacIntyre , philosopher,
virtue ethicist
John Madey , developer of the
free electron laser
Ernest Mario , pharmaceutical industry executive
Mathew D. McCubbins , Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law
William McDougall , psychologist, author of An Introduction to Social Psychology
George McLendon , biochemist, winner of
Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and Guggenheim fellowship
Joanne P. McCallie , Duke women's basketball head coach (2007–2020)
[415]
Warren Meck , neuroscientist
Karl Menger , mathematician
Edwin Mims , professor of English literature
Marie Lynn Miranda , data scientist and children's environmental health researcher
John Wilson Moore , pioneering biophysicist
Alberto Moreiras , professor of Romance Studies
David R. Morrison , mathematician;
Guggenheim Fellow ; member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Thom Mount , film producer; president of the
Producers Guild of America
Francis Joseph Murray ,
mathematician and founder of
functional analysis ; winner of the
Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
Toshio Narahashi , pharmacologist, the "founding father of neurotoxicology"
Karen Neander , philosopher of mind
Charles Nemeroff , psychiatrist, known for work in treating depression
Hans Neurath , biochemist, leading researcher in the field of protein chemistry
Laura Niklason , professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim ,
theoretical physicist
Albert Outler ,
Methodist theologian
G. B. Pegram , key administrator of
Manhattan Project
William Howell Pegram , chemist
Sallie Permar , pediatrician-in-chief at
Weill Cornell Medical Center ; chair of the Department of Pediatrics at
Weill Cornell Medicine .
Anton Peterlin , physicist
Ernest C. Pollard , professor of biophysics
David Price ,
United States representative
James Rachels ,
philosopher and
cultural relativist
Stojan Radic , electrical engineer
Joseph B. Rhine , psychologist and parapsychologist; founder of modern studies of psychical phenomena
Louisa E. Rhine , parapsychologist
Sidarta Ribeiro , Brazilian neuroscientist
John Ridpath ,
intellectual historian
Sócrates Rizzo , former mayor of
Monterrey ; former governor of
Nuevo León
Dennis A. Rondinelli , international development policy expert at the
Sanford School of Public Policy
Mary Ellen Rudin , mathematician
David Sabiston , cardiac surgeon, one of the pioneers of coronary bypass surgery
Guy Salvesen , biochemist, known for his work in the field of
apoptosis
E. P. Sanders , British Academy member; leading figure in the third
Historical Jesus movement
Michael Scharf , lawyer, nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
David Scheffer , diplomat
William H. Schlesinger , biogeochemist, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen , figure in the field of comparative physiology, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ,
feminist theorist,
literary theorist , expert in
gender studies
Lori Ann Setton , biomedical engineer
Michael Sheetz , cell biologist, recipient of the
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Beth A. Simmons , international relations scholar, member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Elwyn L. Simons , paleontologist and primate conservationist
Barbara Herrnstein Smith ,
literary theorist
Brian Cantwell Smith , scholar who conducts research in the fields of cognitive science, computer science, information studies, philosophy, and ontology
Cordwainer Smith , author
Joseph Tyree Sneed, III , U.S.
Deputy Attorney General , judge on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Ralph Snyderman , biotech entrepreneur
David Soskice , political economist
Joseph J. Spengler , economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought
Hertha Sponer , physicist
Eugene A. Stead , medical educator, founder of the
physician assistant profession
William Stern , psychologist, philosopher
Kenneth B. Storey , professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
Charles Tanford , protein chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Edward D. Thalmann , expert in hyperbaric medicine
Fritz Thurstone (1932–2005), pioneer of ultrasound technology
Paul Tillich , theologian
Peter Ungar , paleoanthropologist
Sander Vanocur ,
ABC and
NBC correspondent;
The Washington Post television editor;
The New York Times reporter
W. Kip Viscusi , economist
Steven Vogel , biologist,
James B. Duke Professor of Biology
[416]
Robert Ward ,
composer
Kenny Williams , author, winner of the MidAmerica Award
Mary Lou Williams , composer
Patricia J. Williams , legal scholar, awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2000
William H. Willimon , Methodist theologian
Eric Winer , medical oncologist
Kwasi Wiredu , philosopher
Karl Zener , parapsychologist
Men's basketball head coaches
Mike Krzyzewski
Duke University presidents
Major philanthropists
Donors who have contributed at least $20 million to the university or founding donors:
Donor
Total Amount
Year
Purpose
The Duke Endowment
$1.5+ billion
[427]
[428]
[429]
[430]
[431]
1924– 2024
Various
[432]
James B. Duke
$40 million ($1.36 billion in 2024 dollars)
1924
For endowment; established The Duke Endowment later that year
Lord Corporation
$261 million
2019
Unrestricted
[433]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$250+ million
2002–2021
$46.5 million for
AIDS research,
[434] $30 million for a new science facility and $5 million for student life initiatives,
[435] $20 million for the Duke Global Health Initiative,
[436] $15 million for DukeEngage, a civic engagement program,
[437] $9 million for undergraduate financial aid and $1 million for
Fuqua students financial aid,
[438] and $4.5 million for water sanitation research. The full list of grants is available at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website.
[439]
Peter and Ginny Nicholas
$115+ million
1999– 2023
$20 million for the
School of the Environment and Earth Sciences ;
[440] $70 million pledged in 2003 for the School of the Environment fully paid by 2022; $25 million pledged in 2023
[441]
David Rubenstein
$100+ million
2002–2017
More than $100 million in total,
[442] including $25 million towards a new performing arts center,
[443] $20 million for undergraduate scholarships,
[444] $13.6 million to Duke Libraries, $20.75 million to the Sanford School of Public Policy, $10 million to Duke athletics
[445]
[446]
Bruce and Martha Karsh
$85 million
2005–2011
For student financial aid
[447]
[448]
[449]
Anne and
Robert Bass
$70 million
1996–2013
$20 million for the FOCUS program and various endowed chairs, $50 million for interdisciplinary research
[450]
[451]
Disque Deane
$20 million ($56 million in 2024 dollars)
1986
To "establish a research institute on the human future"
[452]
J. Michael and Christine Pearson
$50+ million
2014
$30 million to the Pratt School of Engineering to advance engineering and science education, $15 million to the School of Nursing and $7.5 million to the Fuqua School of Business
[453]
Edmund T. Pratt Jr.
$35 million
1999
To endow the
School of Engineering
[454]
David H. Murdock
$35 million
2007
For "translational medicine" research by the
Duke Medical School
[455]
Dr. Steven and Rebecca Scott
$30 million
2012-2013
$20 million for Duke Sports Medicine
[456] and $10 million for Duke athletics
[457]
Dudley Rauch
$30 million
2021
For medical student scholarships
[458]
Jack O. Bovender, Jr.
$27.5 million
2006-2014
$10 million for Trinity College, $10 million for the Fuqua School of Business Health Sector Management Program, and $5 million for School of Nursing,
[459] $1.5 million for a professorship at Duke Divinity School,
[460] and $1 million for a scholarship for minority students in the Health Sector Management Program
[461]
Robert Margolis
$26.5 million
2015-2023
For the Margolis Center for Health Policy
[462]
[463]
Michael J. and Patty Fitzpatrick
$25 million
2000
For a center for advanced photonics and communications
[464]
William and Sue Gross
$23 million
2005
$15 million for undergraduate scholarships, $5 million for medical students' scholarships, and $3 million to support faculty members of the
Fuqua School of Business
[465]
Bill and
Melinda Gates
$20 million
1998
For undergraduate scholarships
[465]
Washington Duke
$385,000 ($13 million in 2024 dollars)
1892
For original endowment and construction
Julian S. Carr
N/A
1892
Donated site of
East Campus
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