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x Jason Douglas Jason.jpg   Oakland Jonathan Edwards College
A scholar and a gentleman.
x Robert Cook Robert A. Cook Dec 26, 1964 Long Beach Berkeley College
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb.  You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
x Jordana Brewster Jordana brewster Apr 26, 1980 Panama City Berkeley College
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is a Brazilian-American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki...
x Fareed Zakaria Fareed zakaria 2007 Jan 20, 1964 Mumbai Berkeley College
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria ( /fəˈriːd zəˈkɑriə/; Konkani/Hindi: फ़रीद राफ़िक़ ज़कारिया, Urdu: فرید رفیق زکریا; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek...
x David Lempert   Feb 12, 1959 The Bronx Trumbull College
David Howard Lempert (February 12, 1959), is an anthropologist, author, social entrepreneur/NGO head, legal scholar/lawyer, and international development consultant. Though his work crosses many fields, he is known primarily as an educational...
x Dana Milbank   Apr 27, 1968   Trumbull College
Dana Timothy Milbank (born April 27, 1968) is a columnist for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and...
x Oliver Stone Oliver Stone 01 Sep 15, 1946 New York City Trumbull College
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had previously...
Saybrook College
x Allison Silverman AllisonSilverman.jpg Feb 17, 1972   Trumbull College
Allison Silverman (born February 17, 1972) is an American comedy writer from Gainesville, Florida. She was the head writer and executive producer for The Colbert Report until 2009. In 2011, she was an executive producer and writer of Portlandia....
x Ron Livingston Ron Livingston Jun 5, 1967 Cedar Rapids Trumbull College
Ronald Joseph "Ron" Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. His roles include a disaffected corporate employee (Peter Gibbons) in the film Office Space, a sardonic writer (Jack Berger) in a short-term relationship...
x Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper Jun 3, 1967 New York City Trumbull College
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however,...
x L. Paul Bremer L. Paul Bremer Sep 30, 1941 Hartford Ezra Stiles College
Lewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III (born September 30, 1941) is an American diplomat. He is most notable for his role as the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority charged with overseeing Iraq's occupation after the 2003 invasion. He reported...
x Edward Norton Edward Norton.jpg Aug 18, 1969 Baltimore Ezra Stiles College
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....
x Lloyd Kaufman Lloyd kaufman promoting getting lucky Dec 30, 1945 New York City Ezra Stiles College
Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films,...
x Robert Blair Kaiser   1930   Ezra Stiles College
Robert Blair Kaiser (born 1930) is an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church. As a correspondent for Time Magazine, he won the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine...
x Sheldon Whitehouse Sen Sheldon Whitehouse Oct 20, 1955 New York City Ezra Stiles College
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as United States Attorney (1994–1998) and State Attorney General for...
x Mitchell Kapor MitchKapor Nov 1, 1950 Brooklyn Ezra Stiles College
Mitchell David Kapor (born 1 November 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3. He is also a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was the first chair of the Mozilla Foundation. He has been...
x Bob Woodward Bobwoodwardatgmu Mar 26, 1943 Geneva Ezra Stiles College
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post. While a young...
x Dan Froomkin       Ezra Stiles College
Dan Froomkin is the Senior Washington Correspondent for the Huffington Post. His work is now collected here. He previously wrote a column for the online version of The Washington Post called White House Watch. On June 18, 2009 it was reported that...
x Mark Linn-Baker Mark Linn-Baker at the 39th Emmy Awards cropped Jun 17, 1954 St. Louis Ezra Stiles College
Mark Linn-Baker (born June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director famous for his role as Larry Appleton on the television sitcom Perfect Strangers. Mark Linn-Baker graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1972....
x David Gergen With President Obama.jpg May 9, 1942 Durham Ezra Stiles College
Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and adviser to presidents – for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and held...
x Stone Phillips Stone Phillips Dec 2, 1954 Texas City Silliman College
Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine TV show. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as...
x David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce at 47th Emmy Awards Apr 3, 1959 Saratoga Springs Silliman College
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series' run. Pierce, the youngest of four...
x Elizabeth Kostova E Dec 26, 1964 New London Silliman College
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian. Elizabeth Z. Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb...
x Jim Jeffords Jim Jeffords May 11, 1934 Rutland City Silliman College
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. He retired from the Senate in 2006. Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont,...
x Ben Greenman Ben Greenman by David Shankbone Sep 28, 1969   Silliman College
Ben Greenman (born September 28, 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor. Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Palmetto High School and then Yale University where he worked on the Yale Herald...
x Nerissa Nields       Silliman College  
x Daniel Yergin "Daniel Yergin" - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 Feb 6, 1947 Los Angeles Silliman College
Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy that is now...
x Evan Wolfson Evan Wolfson, attorney for Baker Feb 4, 1957 Brooklyn Silliman College
Evan Wolfson (born February 4, 1957) is an American attorney and gay rights advocate. He is the founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry, a group favoring same-sex marriage in the United States. Wolfson, who many consider to be the father...
x Strobe Talbott StrobeTalbott Apr 25, 1946 Dayton Silliman College
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy...
x Joshua Spanogle       Branford College
Joshua Spanogle is a physician and a novelist. He graduated from Yale University and Stanford Medical School. He has written the bestselling medico-science thrillers Isolation Ward (2006) and Flawless (2007). Spanogle has worked in medical ethics,...
x Samantha Power Samantha Power 2008 Sep 21, 1970 Republic of Ireland Davenport College
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director...
x William F. Buckley, Jr. William F Nov 24, 1925 New York City Davenport College
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement. He...
x David McCullough David McCullough Jul 7, 1933 Pittsburgh Davenport College
David Gaub McCullough (pronounced /məˈkʌlə/; born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,...
x Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, August 18, 1948 Apr 17, 1897 Madison Davenport College
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—and a U.S. National...
x Garry Trudeau GarryTrudeau Jul 21, 1948 New York City Davenport College
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau. He is the great-grandson...
x George W. Bush George-W-Bush Jul 6, 1946 New Haven Davenport College
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the eldest son...
x Sarah Lyall       Davenport College
Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American-born English journalist, who currently works as London correspondent for The New York Times. Lyall is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, class of 1981 and of Yale University. Lyall has been married to the author...
x George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush Jun 12, 1924 Milton Davenport College
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93). He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an...
x Michael Gerber   Jun 14, 1969   Davenport College
Michael Gerber (born June 14, 1969) is best known as the author of the Barry Trotter series, parodies of the Harry Potter books. Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to The Yale Record, The New Yorker, and Saturday Night Live. He is...
x Sherrod Brown Sherrod Brown Nov 9, 1952 Mansfield Davenport College
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the senior United States Senator from Ohio and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing...
x Jefferson Mays   Jun 8, 1965 Connecticut Davenport College
Jefferson Mays (born Lewis Jefferson Mays; June 8, 1965) is an American theatre and film actor. A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he...
x Nicholas F. Brady Nicholas Frederick Brady Apr 11, 1930 New York City Jonathan Edwards College
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989. The son of Eliot Chace and her husband...
x Glenn Greenberg       Jonathan Edwards College  
x Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann at Harvard University Sep 15, 1929 Manhattan Jonathan Edwards College
Murray Gell-Mann ( /ˈmʌriː ˈɡɛl ˈmæn/; born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles and discovery of the quark. He is the Robert...
x Wilbur Ross   Nov 28, 1937   Jonathan Edwards College
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. (November 28, 1937) is an American investor known for restructuring failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, telecommunications, foreign investment and textiles. He specializes in leveraged buyouts and distressed...
x John Kerry John Kerry Dec 11, 1943 Aurora Jonathan Edwards College
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic...
x Allan Heinberg   Jun 29, 1967   Morse College
Allan Heinberg (born June 29, 1967) is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Grey's Anatomy....
x Douglas A. Warner III   Jun 9, 1946 Cincinnati Morse College
Following graduation from Yale University in 1968, Mr. Warner joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (in the mid 80s they returned to the name  J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated). He was elected president and a...
x Sada Jacobson   Feb 14, 1983 Dunwoody Morse College
Sada Molly Jacobson (born February 14, 1983 in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American fencer. Her hometown is Dunwoody, GA. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist and 2004 Olympic Individual Sabre bronze medalist. She has been...
x Bronson Pinchot Bronson Pinchot at the 39th Emmy Awards cropped May 20, 1959 New York City Morse College
Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. He has appeared in several feature films, including Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop (and reprising his popular supporting role in Beverly Hills Cop III), The First Wives Club, True...
x Jennifer Beals Jennifer Beals Dec 19, 1963 Chicago Morse College
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an...
x Joe Lieberman Joe Lieberman official portrait Feb 24, 1942 Stamford Morse College
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he...
x George Pataki George Pataki Jun 24, 1945 Peekskill Pierson College
George Elmer Pataki (pronounced /pəˈtɑːki/; born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31...
x Howard Dean Howard Dean Nov 17, 1948 New York City Pierson College
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the...
x Gene Siskel Gene Siskel at the 61st Academy Awards Jan 26, 1946 Chicago Pierson College
Eugene Kal "Gene" Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted the popular review show Siskel & Ebert At the Movies from 1975 until his...
x Richard H. Brodhead   Apr 17, 1947 Dayton Pierson College
Richard Halleck Brodhead (born April 17, 1947) currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature. Brodhead was born April 17, 1947 in Dayton, Ohio. His family moved to Fairfield,...
x Jeffrey Bewkes   May 25, 1952 Paterson Pierson College
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in addition to his other...
x Tony Knowles GovTonyKnowles Jan 1, 1943 Tulsa Pierson College
Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1, 1943) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as the seventh Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in 2002,...
x Jeffrey Loria   Nov 20, 1940 Manhattan Pierson College
Jeffrey H. Loria (born November 20, 1940) is an art dealer and the owner of the Miami Marlins. Raised in Manhattan, Loria took an early interest in baseball, attending his first New York Yankees game in the late 1940s. Loria attended New York City's...
x Paul Giamatti Paul Giamatti 2008 Jun 6, 1967 New Haven Pierson College
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (pronounced /dʒiəˈmɑːti/; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. An acclaimed character actor, Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The...
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