Founded 1764 as Rhode Island College, renamed 1804 to Brown.
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Peter F. Allgeier |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to the WTO |
Eva Amurri |
Actor |
15-Mar-1985 |
|
Actress/daughter of Susan Sarandon |
Bess Armstrong |
Actor |
11-Dec-1953 |
|
Dr. Klompus in Pecker |
Kate Ascher |
Author |
c. 1958 |
|
The Works: Anatomy of a City |
Raymond J. Barry |
Actor |
14-Mar-1939 |
|
Arlo Givens on Justified |
Randall Batinkoff |
Actor |
16-Oct-1968 |
|
For Keeps |
Frederic K. Becker |
Attorney |
1935 |
|
Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer |
Bruce Bennett |
Attorney |
3-Oct-1958 |
|
Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman |
Chris Berman |
Sports Journalist |
10-May-1955 |
|
Sportscaster on ESPN |
Theodore R. Boehm |
Judge |
12-Sep-1938 |
|
Justice, Indiana Supreme Court |
Julie Bowen |
Actor |
3-Mar-1970 |
|
Modern Family |
Roger Bowen |
Actor |
25-May-1932 |
16-Feb-1996 |
Hamilton Majors, Jr. on Arnie |
John Seely Brown |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Director of Xerox PARC, 1990-2000 |
Kate Burton |
Actor |
10-Sep-1957 |
|
Actress/daughter of Richard Burton |
Willard C. Butcher |
Business |
25-Oct-1926 |
25-Aug-2012 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1980-91 |
Jessica Capshaw |
Actor |
9-Aug-1976 |
|
Dr. Robbins on Grey's Anatomy |
Lisa M. Caputo |
Business |
1964 |
|
EVP at The Travelers |
Don Carcieri |
Politician |
16-Dec-1942 |
|
Governor of Rhode Island, 2003-11 |
Wendy Carlos |
Electronic Musician |
14-Nov-1939 |
|
Switched On Bach |
Mary Chapin Carpenter |
Country Musician |
21-Feb-1958 |
|
Never Had It So Good |
Amy Carter |
Relative |
19-Oct-1967 |
|
Daughter of President Jimmy Carter |
John B. Caswell |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Omnia Group |
Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Historian |
9-May-1954 |
|
Ohio: The History of a People |
Lincoln Chafee |
Politician |
26-Mar-1953 |
|
Governor of Rhode Island, 2011-15 |
John S. Chen |
Business |
1-Jul-1955 |
|
CEO of Sybase |
Nick Chinlund |
Actor |
18-Nov-1961 |
|
A Brother's Kiss |
David N. Cicilline |
Politician |
15-Jul-1961 |
|
Congressman, Rhode Island 1st |
John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
Deborah A. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
SmartForest Ventures |
Joseph J. Collins |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Time Warner Cable, 1989-2003 |
Chuck Colson |
Government |
16-Oct-1931 |
21-Apr-2012 |
Minister, former Watergate figure |
David Conrad |
Actor |
17-Aug-1967 |
|
Jim Clancy on Ghost Whisperer |
David Corn |
Columnist |
Feb-1959 |
|
Washington editor of The Nation |
Robert A. Corrigan |
Educator |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
President, San Francisco State University |
Glenn M. Creamer |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Providence Equity Partners |
Edwidge Danticat |
Author |
19-Jan-1969 |
|
The Dew Breaker |
Nathaniel Davis |
Diplomat |
12-Apr-1925 |
16-May-2011 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73 |
Daniel R. DiMicco |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Nucor |
Robert E. Dineen, Jr. |
Attorney |
1940 |
|
Former Partner, Shearman & Sterling |
Larry Elder |
Radio Personality |
27-Apr-1952 |
|
Republitarian radio talk show host |
Aunjanue Ellis |
Actor |
21-Feb-1969 |
|
Madeleine Hightower on The Mentalist |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
Author |
8-Mar-1960 |
|
The Virgin Suicides |
George M. C. Fisher |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kodak, 1993-2000 |
Alan H. Fishman |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Meridian Capital Group |
Richard Fleischer |
Film Director |
8-Dec-1916 |
24-Mar-2006 |
Soylent Green |
Stephen R. Fox |
Author |
28-Feb-1945 |
|
Blood and Power |
Ze Frank |
Blogger |
31-Mar-1972 |
|
The Show with Ze Frank |
Kathryn S. Fuller |
Administrator |
c. 1946 |
|
World Wildlife Fund CEO, 1989-2005 |
Ira Glass |
Radio Personality |
3-Mar-1959 |
|
This American Life |
Richard Karl Goeltz |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CFO of American Express, 1996-2000 |
Lewis L. Gould |
Historian |
21-Aug-1939 |
|
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt |
Theodore F. Green |
Politician |
2-Oct-1867 |
19-May-1966 |
Governor and Senator from Rhode Island |
Jeffrey W. Greenberg |
Business |
1951 |
|
CEO of Marsh & McLennan, 1999-2004 |
David Groh |
Actor |
21-May-1939 |
12-Feb-2008 |
Joe Gerard on Rhoda |
Davis Guggenheim |
Film Director |
1964 |
|
An Inconvenient Truth |
David W. Haas |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Chairman, The William Penn Foundation |
Josh Hamilton |
Actor |
9-Jun-1969 |
|
Alive |
Hill Harper |
Actor |
17-May-1966 |
|
CSI: New York |
Maggie Hassan |
Politician |
27-Feb-1958 |
|
Governor of New Hampshire |
Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
John Hay |
Government |
8-Oct-1838 |
1-Jul-1905 |
US Secretary of State, 1898-1905 |
Todd Haynes |
Film Director |
2-Jan-1961 |
|
Far From Heaven |
Deborah S. Hechinger |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
BoardSource |
David Hedison |
Actor |
20-May-1927 |
|
Twice Felix Leiter in Bond films |
John Heisman |
Football |
23-Oct-1869 |
3-Oct-1936 |
Namesake of the Heisman Trophy |
Andy Hertzfeld |
Computer Programmer |
6-Apr-1953 |
|
Macintosh designer |
Marin Hinkle |
Actor |
23-Mar-1966 |
|
Judy Brooks on Once and Again |
Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
Alexander Lyman Holley |
Business |
20-Jul-1832 |
29-Jan-1882 |
Designed steel foundries |
Raymond Hood |
Architect |
29-Mar-1881 |
14-Aug-1934 |
Chicago Tribune Tower |
Tony Horwitz |
Journalist |
1959 |
|
Confederates in the Attic |
Samuel Gridley Howe |
Educator |
10-Nov-1801 |
9-Jan-1876 |
Founder of Perkins Institution |
Franklin P. Huddle |
Diplomat |
9-May-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Tajikistan, 2001-03 |
Charles Evans Hughes |
Politician |
11-Apr-1862 |
27-Aug-1948 |
US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate |
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |
Government |
30-Nov-1889 |
21-Jan-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1929-30 |
E. Howard Hunt |
Criminal |
9-Oct-1918 |
23-Jan-2007 |
Coordinated Watergate break-in |
Heather F. Hurlburt |
Activist |
c. 1967 |
|
Executive Director, National Security Network |
Ruth Hussey |
Actor |
30-Oct-1911 |
19-Apr-2005 |
The Philadelphia Story |
Peter Jacobson |
Actor |
24-Mar-1965 |
|
Dr. Chris Taub on House |
Bobby Jindal |
Politician |
10-Jun-1971 |
|
Governor of Louisiana |
William J. Vareschi Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Retired GE executive |
Adoniram Judson |
Linguist |
9-Aug-1788 |
12-Apr-1850 |
Missionary, Burmese lexicographer |
Donald Kagan |
Historian |
1-May-1932 |
|
The Great Dialogue |
Rhonda Ross Kendrick |
Actor |
14-Aug-1971 |
|
Daughter of Diana Ross |
John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
Relative |
25-Nov-1960 |
16-Jul-1999 |
Son of John F. Kennedy |
Kerry Kennedy |
Activist |
8-Sep-1959 |
|
Human rights activist |
Mary Richardson Kennedy |
Relative |
4-Oct-1959 |
16-May-2012 |
Estranged wife of RFK, Jr. |
Rory Kennedy |
Film/TV Producer |
12-Dec-1968 |
|
Documentary filmmaker |
Otto Kerner |
Politician |
15-Aug-1908 |
9-May-1976 |
Governor of Illinois, 1961-68 |
Jim Yong Kim |
Administrator |
8-Dec-1959 |
|
President of the World Bank |
Jacqueline B. Kosecoff |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Ovations Pharmacy Solutions |
Richard Kostelanetz |
Artist |
14-May-1940 |
|
Prodigious avant-garde artist and author |
John Krasinski |
Actor |
20-Oct-1979 |
|
Jim Halpert on The Office |
Randall S. Kroszner |
Economist |
22-Jun-1962 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
Erich Kunzel |
Conductor |
21-Mar-1935 |
1-Sep-2009 |
Conductor, Cincinnati Pops, 1977-2009 |
Edward G. Lanpher |
Diplomat |
8-Dec-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1991-95 |
Mel S. Lavitt |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
GC Capital Management |
Debra L. Lee |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of BET Networks |
Keith Lehrer |
Philosopher |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Metamind |
Irving R. Levine |
Journalist |
26-Aug-1922 |
27-Mar-2009 |
NBC Correspondent, 1950-95 |
Mara Liasson |
Journalist |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Fox News political analyst |
Frank Licht |
Politician |
13-Mar-1916 |
30-May-1987 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1969-73 |
Walter Liedtke |
Curator |
28-Aug-1945 |
3-Feb-2015 |
Curator of European Paintings at the Met, 1980-2015 |
Doug Liman |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1965 |
|
The Bourne Identity |
Laura Linney |
Actor |
5-Feb-1964 |
|
Meryl in The Truman Show |
Lisa Loeb |
Singer/Songwriter |
11-Mar-1968 |
|
Stay (I Missed You) |
Lois Lowry |
Author |
19-Feb-1937 |
|
The Giver |
George Macready |
Actor |
29-Aug-1908 |
2-Jul-1973 |
Paths of Glory |
Dan Maffei |
Politician |
4-Jul-1968 |
|
Congressman from New York, 2009-11 |
Ira Magaziner |
Government |
8-Nov-1947 |
|
Internet advisor under Bill Clinton |
Horace Mann |
Educator |
4-May-1796 |
2-Aug-1859 |
Massachusetts education reformer |
William L. Marcy |
Politician |
12-Dec-1786 |
4-Jul-1857 |
US Secretary of State, 1853-57 |
Jack A. Markell |
Politician |
26-Nov-1960 |
|
Governor of Delaware |
Joshua Micah Marshall |
Pundit |
15-Feb-1969 |
|
Talking Points Memo |
Ross McElwee |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1947 |
|
Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker |
John J. McLaughry |
Football |
8-Apr-1917 |
28-Nov-2007 |
Head Coach at Brown, 1959-66 |
Craig C. Mello |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1960 |
|
RNA interference |
Matthew Miller |
Columnist |
c. 1962 |
|
The Two Percent Solution |
Steven Millhauser |
Author |
3-Aug-1943 |
|
Martin Dressler |
Rick Moody |
Author |
18-Oct-1961 |
|
Purple America |
Roderick W. Moore |
Diplomat |
c. 1964 |
|
US Ambassador to Montenegro |
George Morfogen |
Actor |
30-Mar-1933 |
|
Rebadow on Oz |
Brian T. Moynihan |
Business |
9-Oct-1959 |
|
CEO, Bank of America |
James Naughton |
Actor |
6-Dec-1945 |
|
The Paper Chase |
Annette L. Nazareth |
Government |
c. 1956 |
|
Securities and Exchange Commission |
Tim Blake Nelson |
Actor |
11-May-1964 |
|
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Michael Newdow |
Activist |
24-Jun-1953 |
|
Waged war against "under God" |
Philip W. Noel |
Politician |
5-Jun-1931 |
|
Governor of Rhode Island, 1973-77 |
Victoria Nuland |
Diplomat |
1961 |
|
Asst. Secretary of State, Europe |
Masi Oka |
Actor |
27-Dec-1974 |
|
Hiro Nakamura on Heroes |
Will Oldham |
Singer/Songwriter |
1970 |
|
Enigmatic folk singer, actor |
Richard Olney |
Government |
15-Sep-1835 |
8-Apr-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1895-97 |
Douglas H. Paal |
Diplomat |
? |
|
Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 2002-06 |
Robert W. Pangia |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Ivy Healthcare Capital |
Marianne Miller Parrs |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CFO of International Paper, 2005-07 |
Joe Paterno |
Football |
21-Dec-1926 |
22-Jan-2012 |
Penn State Head Coach, 1966-2011 |
Randy Pausch |
Educator |
23-Oct-1960 |
25-Jul-2008 |
The Last Lecture |
S. J. Perelman |
Author |
1-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
New Yorker humorist |
Thomas J. Perrelli |
Attorney |
12-Mar-1966 |
|
US Associate Attorney General |
Andrew J. Policano |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Business School Dean, UC Irvine |
Fritz Pollard |
Football |
27-Jan-1894 |
11-May-1986 |
First black coach in the NFL |
Richard Gid Powers |
Author |
27-Jul-1944 |
|
Secrecy and Power |
Irving Price |
Business |
21-Sep-1884 |
23-Nov-1976 |
Co-Founder of Fisher-Price Toys |
Jon Purnell |
Diplomat |
c. 1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2004-07 |
Robert E. Quinn |
Politician |
2-Apr-1894 |
19-May-1975 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1937-39 |
Ralph Rainger |
Composer |
7-Oct-1901 |
23-Oct-1942 |
Thanks For The Memory |
Steven Rattner |
Business |
5-Jul-1952 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
Andrew Revkin |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
New York Times science reporter |
William R. Rhodes |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Vice Chairman of Citigroup |
Bruce Riedel |
Spy |
c. 1953 |
|
CIA Near East Asia Specialist |
John A. Rizzo |
Government |
c. 1949 |
|
CIA Acting General Counsel |
Elizabeth H. Roberts |
Politician |
17-Apr-1957 |
|
Lt. Governor of Rhode Island |
Jane Sullivan Roberts |
Activist |
c. 1955 |
|
Wife of US Chief Justice John Roberts |
Marilynne Robinson |
Novelist |
26-Nov-1943 |
|
Housekeeping |
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
Business |
29-Jan-1874 |
11-May-1960 |
Built Rockefeller Center |
George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
Tracee Ellis Ross |
Actor |
29-Oct-1972 |
|
Joan Clayton on Girlfriends |
Ellery Schempp |
Activist |
1940 |
|
Abington School District v. Schempp |
Leonard A. Schlesinger |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Babson College |
Eric W. Schrier |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Readers Digest |
Tom Scott |
Business |
c, 1967 |
|
Co-Founder, Nantucket Nectars |
John Sculley |
Business |
6-Apr-1939 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1983-93 |
Duncan Sheik |
Musician |
18-Nov-1969 |
|
Barely Breathing |
Michael Showalter |
Comic |
17-Jun-1970 |
|
The State |
Thomas W. Simons |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1995-98 |
James Slavet |
Business |
c. 1970 |
|
Greylock Partners |
Lawrence M. Small |
Government |
14-Sep-1941 |
|
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-07 |
Martin Smith |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
Frontline |
Orin R. Smith |
Business |
13-Aug-1935 |
|
CEO of Engelhard, 1984-2001 |
Erroll Southers |
Government |
c. 1957 |
|
2009 TSA Director nominee |
Ken Starr |
Government |
21-Jul-1946 |
|
Special Prosecutor, Clinton's impeachment |
Barry S. Sternlicht |
Business |
1960 |
|
Founder of Starwood Hotels |
Allison Stewart |
Journalist |
4-Jul-1966 |
|
MSNBC news anchor |
William H. Sullivan |
Diplomat |
12-Oct-1922 |
11-Oct-2013 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1977-79 |
Jeffrey Swartz |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
President and CEO of Timberland |
Kenneth R. Timmerman |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1953 |
|
Foundation for Democracy in Iran |
Thomas J. Tisch |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Four Partners Investment Partnership |
Sam Trammell |
Actor |
15-May-1971 |
|
Sam Merlotte on True Blood |
Ted Turner |
Business |
19-Nov-1938 |
|
Founder of Cable News Network |
Allegra Versace |
Relative |
30-Jun-1986 |
|
Waify Versace heiress |
Raymond G. Viault |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004 |
Wallace Wade |
Football |
15-Jun-1892 |
7-Oct-1986 |
Alabama and Duke Head Coach |
Alex Wagner |
Journalist |
c. 1977 |
|
Now with Alex Wagner |
David Walton |
Actor |
27-Oct-1978 |
|
Will on About a Boy |
Julie Warner |
Actor |
9-Feb-1965 |
|
The Puppet Masters |
Emma Watson |
Actor |
15-Apr-1990 |
|
Hermione in Harry Potter films |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
Business |
14-Jan-1914 |
31-Dec-1993 |
CEO of IBM, 1956-71 |
Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
JoBeth Williams |
Actor |
6-Dec-1948 |
|
Poltergeist |
Keith H. Williamson |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
General Counsel at Centene |
Billy Wirth |
Actor |
23-Jun-1962 |
|
The Lost Boys |
Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
Federal Reserve Chair |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Leonore Annenberg |
Socialite |
20-Feb-1918 |
12-Mar-2009 |
Wife of Walter Annenberg |
Isaac Backus |
Religion |
9-Jan-1724 |
20-Nov-1806 |
An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty |
John P. Birkelund |
Business |
23-Jun-1930 |
|
Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98 |
Theodore R. Boehm |
Judge |
12-Sep-1938 |
|
Justice, Indiana Supreme Court |
Frederick M. Bohen |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
COO of Rockefeller University, 2002-05 |
John Seely Brown |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Director of Xerox PARC, 1990-2000 |
Steve Cohen |
Business |
11-Jun-1956 |
|
Hedge fund billionaire |
Deborah A. Coleman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
SmartForest Ventures |
Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
Ramon C. Cortines |
Educator |
22-Jul-1932 |
|
Prominent schools superintendent |
Edward E. Elson |
Diplomat |
c. 1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Denmark, 1994-98 |
Kathryn S. Fuller |
Administrator |
c. 1946 |
|
World Wildlife Fund CEO, 1989-2005 |
Gordon Gee |
Educator |
2-Feb-1944 |
|
President, Ohio State University |
Jeffrey W. Greenberg |
Business |
1951 |
|
CEO of Marsh & McLennan, 1999-2004 |
Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
Ray L. Heffner |
Educator |
7-May-1925 |
28-Nov-2012 |
President of Brown University, 1966-69 |
Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
21-Jan-2013 |
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
Barnaby C. Keeney |
Educator |
17-Oct-1914 |
18-Jun-1980 |
President of Brown University, 1955-66 |
Debra L. Lee |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of BET Networks |
Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
William R. Rhodes |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Vice Chairman of Citigroup |
Thomas M. Ryan |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of CVS Caremark |
Leonard A. Schlesinger |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Babson College |
Ruth J. Simmons |
Educator |
3-Jul-1945 |
|
President, Brown University |
Lawrence M. Small |
Government |
14-Sep-1941 |
|
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-07 |
Barry S. Sternlicht |
Business |
1960 |
|
Founder of Starwood Hotels |
Harold R. Swearer |
Educator |
13-Oct-1932 |
19-Oct-1991 |
President of Brown University, 1977-88 |
Thomas J. Tisch |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Four Partners Investment Partnership |
Jerry Weintraub |
Film/TV Producer |
29-Sep-1937 |
6-Jul-2015 |
Hollywood producer |
Gordon S. Wood |
Historian |
27-Nov-1933 |
|
The Creation of the American Republic |
Henry M. Wriston |
Educator |
4-Jul-1889 |
7-Mar-1978 |
President of Brown University, 1937-55 |
Robert J. Zimmer |
Educator |
5-Nov-1947 |
|
President, University of Chicago |