Robert Allbritton ’92—Publisher of The Politico; chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communications

Taft Armandroff ’82—Director, W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii (world’s largest observatory)

Miguel Arteta ’89—Film and television director (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, Cedar Rapids)

Eric Asimov ’79—Chief wine critic, The New York Times

Gerald Baliles ’63—Director, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia; former governor of Virginia

Andrea Barthwell ’76—Founder and CEO of EMGlobal (consulting firm devoted to international health care and policy); former deputy director for demand reduction, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Washington, D.C.

Michael Bay ’86—Film producer and director (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, Transformers franchise)

Carter Bays ’97—Co-creator and writer of television show How I Met Your Mother

Ruth Behar ’77—Writer, filmmaker, professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; recipient of MacArthur Award

Bill Belichick ’75—Head coach, New England Patriots, winner of three Super Bowls

Michael Bennet ’87—U.S. senator from Colorado; previously superintendent of schools in Denver

Herbert Benson ’57, MD—Professor, Harvard Medical School; founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute; author of The Relaxation Response

Amy Bloom ’75—Author (Love Invents Us, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Away); creator and writer of television show State of Mind

Ron Bloom ’77—Former senior counselor for manufacturing policy for Obama administration and head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry

Joshua Boger ’73—Founder and retired chairman, president and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Lael Brainard ’83—Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department; former director, Poverty and Global and Economy at The Brookings Institution

David Brancaccio ’82—Host of NOW news program, PBS

David Brewster ’95—Co-founder, COO, and president of EnerNOC, Inc., the Energy Network Operations Center

Linda Brinen ’88—Director of structural biology, Sandler Center for Basic Research in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Francisco

Ambrose Burfoot ’68—First collegian to win the Boston Marathon; executive editor, Runner’s World Magazine

Majora Carter ’88—President of The Majora Carter Group, for-profit consulting company; founder and former executive director, Sustainable South Bronx; recipient of MacArthur Award; also founder of River Heroes, offering job training

Marysol Castro ’96—Weather anchor, The Early Show, CBS News

Ka-keung Ceajer Chan ’79—Hong Kong’s secretary for financial services and the treasury; dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School

Sasha Chanoff ’94—Founder and executive director, RefugePoint (protects forgotten refugees)

Kathleen Clyde ’01—Ohio state representative, 68th district

Bruce Corwin ’62—Chairman and CEO, Metropolitan Theatres Corporation

Robin Cook ’62, MD—Medical mystery writer (Chromosome 6, Coma, Shock, Crisis, and other best-sellers)

Alan Dachs ’70—President and CEO, The Fremont Group (private investment company); member of the boards of directors of the Bechtel Group and the S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation

David Daniel ’77—CEO, Spencer Stuart and Associates (executive search firm)

D. Ronald Daniel ’52—Director and former CEO, McKinsey and Company; former treasurer, Harvard Corporation

Jeffrey Deitch ’74—Director, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Dana Delany ’78—Emmy Award-winning actress whose credits include the television shows (China Beach, Desperate Housewives, Body of Proof) and films (Tombstone, Fly Away Home)

William Dietz ’66, MD—Director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity Center For Disease Control; one of the most widely cited experts on obesity in the media

Jane Eisner ’77—Editor, The Forward

Toby Emmerich ’85—President and CEO of New Line Cinema

Charles Exley ’51—Director, Merck; retired CEO and chairman, NCR, Inc.

Joseph Fins ’82, MD—Chief of the division of medical ethics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University; director of medical ethics, New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center

Ted Fiske ’59—Educational writer, creator of The Fiske Guide to Colleges

Jennifer Flackett ’86—Screenwriter (Madeline, Wimbledon, Little Manhattan)

Ruben Fleischer ’97—Film director (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less)

Smokey Fontaine ’93—Oversees the largest online African American network; author of EARL: The Autobiography of DMX

John Frank ’78, P’12—Managing principal, Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles, one of the world’s leading alternative investment managers

Graeme Freeman ’77—Executive director, The Freeman Foundation

Michael Fries ’85—President and CEO, Liberty Global Inc., international cable operator

Leslie Gabel-Brett ’76—Director of education and public affairs, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund

Jeff Galloway ’67—Olympic runner and author of Galloway’s Book on Running

David Garrow ’75—Author of Bearing the Cross, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Jordan Goldman ’04—Founder and CEO of Unigo, an online students’ guide to colleges

Akiva Goldsman ’83—Film producer and screenwriter (A Beautiful Mind—Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, Cinderella Man, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons)

Christopher Graves ’81—President and CEO, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

Laman Gray Jr. ’63, MD—Leader in the fields of cardiovascular surgery and development of artificial hearts and circulatory support systems; implanted the world’s first self-contained artificial heart, the AbioCor

Matthew Greenfield ’90—Senior vice president of production, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Leslie Greengard ’79—Director, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; member, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering

Daniel Handler ’92—Author (under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket) of A Series of Unfortunate Events children’s book series

Lyle Ashton Harris ’88—Photographer and artist

Amir Hasson ’98—Founder and CEO, United Villages (provides low-cost Internet access for remote villages in developing nations)

Darryl Hazel ’70—Retired senior vice president, Ford Motor Company; former president, Ford Customer Service Division

Morrison Heckscher ’62—Chairman of the American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

John Hickenlooper Jr. ’74—Governor of Colorado; formerly mayor of Denver

Jay Hoggard ’76—Jazz musician, vibraphonist, and Wesleyan professor

Gerald Holton ’41—Physics professor, Harvard University; world’s leading authority on the life of Albert Einstein

Jed Hoyer ’96—Executive vice president and general manager, Chicago Cubs

Robert Hunter ’62—Senior advisor, Rand Company; former United States ambassador to NATO

Alberto Ibarguen ’66—President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (journalism); former publisher, the Miami Herald

David Jones ’70—President and CEO, Community Service Society of New York

Sebastian Junger ’84—Author (The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, War) and documentary filmmaker (Restrepo)

Dina Kaplan ’93—Cofounder of Blip TV

Kathryn Keeler ’78—Gold medalist in rowing at ’84 Olympics; Olympics coach in ’96

Herb Kelleher ’53—Founder and retired chairman, president and CEO, Southwest Airlines

Thomas Kelly ’73—President and COO, Schaller Anderson, Inc., health management company

Yoriko Kishimoto ’77—City council member and former mayor, City of Palo Alto, CA

David Kohan ’86—Co-creator and executive producer of Will and Grace

Alex Kotlowitz ’77—Journalist, activist, author (There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River); producer of documentary The Interrupters

Alex Kurtzman ’95—Film and television screenwriter and producer (Alias, Transformers, Fringe, Star Trek [2009])

Brooks Kraft ’87—Nationally recognized photojournalist whose pictures of the White House and President Bush have appeared in Time magazine

Daphne Kwok ’84—Executive director, Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California; chair, President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Matt Lesser ’10—Connecticut state representative, 100th district

Jay Levy ’60, MD—AIDS researcher and educator; professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Glenn Ligon ’82—Painter and printmaker

John Lipsky ’68—Former first deputy managing director, International Monetary Fund

Caroline Little ’81—CEO, Newspaper Association of America

James Longley ’94—Documentary filmmaker (Iraq in Fragments); recipient of MacArthur Award

Gary Loveman ’82—CEO, Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

Eric Mangini ’94—Former head coach, Cleveland Browns

Emilie Marcus ’82— Editor, Cell magazine

Laurence Mark ’71—Film producer (Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, Dreamgirls, Julie and Julia)

Paul Mason ’77—President and CEO, Link TV; co-founder of Mezclado, an independent television production company; former senior vice president, ABC Inc.

Thomas McKnight ’63—Artist

Mora McLean ’77—President and CEO, Africa-America Institute

Mary McWilliams ’71—Executive director, Puget Sound Health Resources; previously president and CEO, Regence Blue Shield

Jerry Melillo ’65—Co-director, The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory

MGMT (Ben Goldwasser ’05, Andrew Vanwyngarden ’05, and Will Berman ’04)—Brooklyn based pop music duo with acclaimed recording, Oracular Spectacular

Alan Miller ’76—Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, formerly with The Los Angeles Times; now founder of the News Literacy Project

Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02—Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of the musical In the Heights

Donna Morea ’76—Retired president of CGI-AMS, leading the development and evolution of CGI’s business in the United States

Candace Nelson ’96—Founder, Sprinkles

C. Richard (Rick) Nicita ’67—Co-chairman and COO, Morgan Creek Productions

Sascha Paladino ’98—Documentary filmmaker (Throw Down Your Heart)

Amanda Palmer ’98—Singer and songwriter; former lead singer of The Dresden Dolls

Michael Palmer ’64, MD—Medical mystery writer (Flashback, Extreme Measures, Natural Causes, The Fifth Vial and other best-sellers)

Carolyn Parkhurst Rosser ’92—Novelist (The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album)

Andrew Parkinson ’80 and Thomas Parkinson ’82—Founders, Peapod, Inc.

Zak Penn ’90—Screenwriter and television producer (The Incredible Hulk, X Men: The Last Stand, Alphas); director (Incident at Loch Ness, The Grand)

Nicole Phelps ’94—Executive editor at Style.com

Randall Pinkston ’72—Emmy Award–winning television journalist; correspondent, CBS News

Ellen Prager ’84—Marine and earth scientist; president, Earth 2 Ocean, Inc.

Robert Pruzan ’85—Founding partner, Centerview Partners, financial advisory and private equity firm; former president and CEO in investment banking, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Amy Radin ’79—Chief innovation officer, Global Consumer Group, Citigroup, Inc.

Jeffrey Richards ’69—Tony Award-winning theater producer (Spring Awakening, August: Osage County, Hair, The Merchant of Venice)

David Rhodes ’68—President, School for the Visual Arts

Mary Roach ’81—Author (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook, Bonk, Packing for Mars)

Dennis Robinson ’79—President and CEO, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority

Bill Rodgers ’70—Renowned runner, winner of four New York and four Boston marathons

Tom Rogers ’76—President and CEO, TiVo

Paul Schiff ’81—Film producer (My Cousin Vinny, Rushmore, Mona Lisa Smile, Solitary Man)

Peter Schube ’81—President and COO, Jim Henson Company

Amy Schulman ’82—Senior vice president and general counsel for Pfizer

Hon. Anthony Scirica ’62—Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia)

Larry Selzer ’82—President and CEO, The Conservation Fund

Sara Shandler ’02—Author of Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self

Theodore Shaw ’76—Professor of professional practice at Columbia Law School

Peter Shumlin ’79—Governor of Vermont

Randy Siegel ’83— President of local digital strategy, Advance Publications

Jonathan Spector ’78—CEO, The Conference Board

Mark Steinmetz ’82—Photographer; books include Tuscan Trees and South Central

C. Sumner (Chuck) Stone ’48—Professor of journalism emeritus at University of North Carolina

Tierney Sutton ’86—Jazz singer

Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75—President, Spelman College; author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Johnny Temple ’88—Publisher, Akashic Books

Craig Thomas ’97—Co-creator and writer of television show How I Met Your Mother

Wells Tower ’96—Fiction writer and journalist (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned)

Philip Trager ’56—Photographer; books include Villas of Palladio, Dancers, Changing Paris: A Tour Along the Seine, and Faces

Stephen Trask ’89—Composer and lyricist of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch; film composer (Camp, The Station Agent, In Good Company, The Savages)

Hon. Stephen Trott ’62—Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

Jon Turteltaub ’85—Film director (Phenomenon, While You Were Sleeping, National Treasure, A Sorcerer's Apprentice); creator of television drama Jericho

Ayelet Waldman ’86—Author (Mommy Track Mysteries, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother, Red Hook Road)

Laura Walker ’79—President and CEO, WNYC (nation’s largest public radio station)

Matthew Weiner ’87—Emmy Award-winning creator, writer, executive producer of Mad Men

Roger Weisberg ’75—Award-winning documentary filmmaker (Road Scholar, Sound and Fury, Why Can't We Be a Family Again?, Aging Out)

Paul Weitz ’88—Film director, In Good Company, American Dreamz, Little Fockers (and with brother Chris Weitz, American Pie, About a Boy) and playwright (Privilege, Show People, Trust)

Joss Whedon ’87—Creator, producer, director, and writer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Emmy Award); film director and screenwriter (Speed, Toy Story, Serenity, Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers)

Mike White ’92—Screenwriter and television producer (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, School of Rock, Nacho Libre, Enlightened); director (Year of the Dog)

Santi White ’97—Brooklyn-based rapper/singer/songwriter known as Santigold

Bradley Whitford ’81—Film and television actor (The West Wing—Emmy award, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Billy Madison, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

Dar Williams ’89—Folksinger

Christopher Wink ’83—Founder of the Blue Man Group and Blue Man Creativity Center

Daniel Wolf ’79—Massachusetts state senator, the Cape and Islands district

Frank Wood ’84—Tony award-winning actor

John Woodhouse ’53—Co-founder, CLW Group; former senior chairman, Sysco Corporation

Michael Yamashita ’71—Photographer, National Geographic; books include Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey, Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer

John Yang ’80—Correspondent, NBC News

Strauss Zelnick ’79— CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.; founder and president, ZelnickMedia