Founded by Charles Tufts in 1852 as Tufts College, changed to Tufts University in 1954. There are campuses at Medford (main), Boston, and Grafton.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David Anderson |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1937 |
4-Jul-1997 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1981-85 |
| Hank Azaria |
Actor |
25-Apr-1964 |
|
Moe and Apu on The Simpsons |
| Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
| Doug Bailey |
Activist |
c. 1934 |
|
President and CEO, Unity08 |
| Medea Benjamin |
Activist |
10-Sep-1952 |
|
CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Jessica Biel |
Actor |
3-Mar-1982 |
|
The Rules of Attraction |
| Barbara Bodine |
Diplomat |
1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1997-2001 |
| Richard A. Boucher |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
Asst. Secretary of State for South Asia |
| Thomas Boyatt |
Diplomat |
4-Mar-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia, 1980-83 |
| Jeb Bradley |
Politician |
20-Oct-1952 |
|
Congressman from New Hampshire, 2003-07 |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Started the National Science Foundation |
| Costas Caramanlis |
Head of State |
14-Sep-1956 |
|
Prime Minister of Greece |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian chief 1953-64 |
| Tracy Chapman |
Singer |
30-Mar-1964 |
|
Fast Car |
| Dov Charney |
Business |
31-Jan-1969 |
|
American Apparel CEO |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Ariel Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1964 |
|
Expert on International Relations |
| Daniel H. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
NYT VP Advertising, 1995-99 |
| Cid Corman |
Poet |
29-Jun-1924 |
12-Mar-2004 |
Founder of Origin poetry magazine |
| Walter Cutler |
Diplomat |
25-Nov-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1984-87 |
| Ram Dass |
Religion |
5-Apr-1931 |
|
Be Here Now |
| Nathaniel Davis |
Diplomat |
12-Apr-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to Switzerland, 1975-77 |
| John R. Dawson |
Diplomat |
1950 |
1-Aug-2003 |
US Ambassador to Peru, 2002-03 |
| Susan Decker |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
President of Yahoo |
| Peter DeFazio |
Politician |
27-May-1947 |
|
Congressman, Oregon 4th |
| James Dimon |
Business |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Chase |
| Peter R. Dolan |
Business |
6-Jan-1956 |
|
CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06 |
| Marsha Johnson Evans |
Military |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of American Red Cross, 2002-05 |
| Andrew Fastow |
Business |
22-Dec-1961 |
|
Disgraced CFO of Enron |
| Jeffrey D. Feltman |
Diplomat |
c. 1959 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon |
| Robert W. Fitts |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, 2003-06 |
| James B. Flaws |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of Corning |
| James B. Foley |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1957 |
|
US Ambassador to Haiti, 2003-05 |
| Peter Gallagher |
Actor |
19-Aug-1955 |
|
American Beauty |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| Dan Hedaya |
Actor |
24-Jul-1940 |
|
Bestubbled character actor, Blood Simple |
| Lillian Hellman |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1905 |
30-Jun-1984 |
Little Foxes |
| John E. Herbst |
Diplomat |
12-Aug-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-06 |
| Elbert Hubbard |
Author |
19-Jun-1856 |
7-May-1915 |
Founder of Roycroft Press |
| William Hurt |
Actor |
20-Mar-1950 |
|
Altered States, Broadcast News |
| Thomas H. Kean, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Sep-1968 |
|
New Jersey State Senator |
| F. Ray Keyser, Jr. |
Politician |
17-Aug-1927 |
|
Governor of Vermont, 1961-63 |
| Jeffrey B. Kindler |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Pfizer |
| Abby F. Kohnstamm |
Business |
1953 |
|
Senior VP at IBM, 1993-2005 |
| John A. Krol |
Business |
16-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of DuPont, 1995-98 |
| Ellen J. Kullman |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
EVP at DuPont |
| David Kuo |
Government |
c. 1968 |
|
Tempting Faith |
| Dennis Kux |
Diplomat |
11-Aug-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1986-89 |
| Karen R. Lawrence |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
President, Sarah Lawrence College |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| Stephen Low |
Diplomat |
2-Dec-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1979-81 |
| William J. Luti |
Military |
c. 1952 |
|
NSC Defense Policy Adviser |
| Stephen Macht |
Actor |
1-May-1942 |
|
Galaxina |
| Roderick MacKinnon |
Doctor |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
Ion channels of cell membranes |
| Mahmood Mamdani |
Author |
? |
|
When Victims Become Killers |
| Michael W. McConnell |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman |
| Harold McGraw III |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of McGraw-Hill |
| Cynthia McKinney |
Politician |
17-Mar-1955 |
|
Congresswoman from Georgia, 2005-07 |
| Richard A. Meserve |
Attorney |
20-Nov-1944 |
|
President of the Carnegie Institution |
| David A. Metzner |
Business |
? |
|
Lobbyist, American Continental Group |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
| Daniel J. Murphy, Jr. |
Military |
30-May-1948 |
|
CEO of Alliant Techsystems |
| Joseph Neubauer |
Business |
19-Oct-1941 |
|
CEO of ARAMARK |
| Phyllis E. Oakley |
Government |
1934 |
|
Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99 |
| John Olver |
Politician |
3-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 1st |
| Pierre M. Omidyar |
Business |
21-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of eBay |
| Frank Pallone |
Politician |
30-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 6th |
| Thomas Pickering |
Diplomat |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Career US Ambassador |
| Oliver Platt |
Actor |
12-Jan-1960 |
|
Bartlet's lawyer on The West Wing |
| Jonathan Pollard |
Spy |
7-Aug-1954 |
|
Spied for Israel |
| Deborah E. Powell |
Doctor |
1939 |
|
Dean of UMN Medical School |
| William Thornton Pryce |
Diplomat |
19-Jul-1932 |
11-Jul-2006 |
US Ambassador to Honduras, 1993-96 |
| Sendhil Ramamurthy |
Actor |
17-May-1974 |
|
Mohinder Suresh on Heroes |
| Shari Redstone |
Business |
14-Apr-1954 |
|
President of National Amusements |
| Mitchell B. Reiss |
Government |
? |
|
Director of Policy Planning, 2003-05 |
| Nancy E. Rice |
Judge |
2-Jun-1950 |
|
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court |
| Bill Richardson |
Politician |
15-Nov-1947 |
|
Governor of New Mexico |
| Jeremy Rifkin |
Activist |
1943 |
|
Foundation on Economic Trends |
| Sheli Z. Rosenberg |
Business |
2-Feb-1942 |
|
Equity Group Investments |
| Leslie V. Rowe |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea |
| John G. Sargent |
Government |
13-Oct-1860 |
5-Mar-1939 |
US Attorney General, 1925-29 |
| Raymond J. Saulnier |
Economist |
20-Sep-1908 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61 |
| John D. Scanlan |
Diplomat |
20-Dec-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1985-89 |
| Ellery Schempp |
Activist |
1940 |
|
Abington School District v. Schempp |
| Jack W. Schuler |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Abbot Laboratories, 1987-89 |
| Alan D. Solomont |
Business |
1957 |
|
DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997 |
| Paula Stern |
Government |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86 |
| Laura Denvir Stith |
Judge |
30-Oct-1953 |
|
Missouri Chief Justice |
| William H. Sullivan |
Diplomat |
12-Oct-1922 |
|
US Ambassador to Iran, 1977-79 |
| Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. |
Publisher |
22-Sep-1951 |
|
New York Times Publisher |
| Richard F. Syron |
Business |
25-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Freddie Mac |
| Shashi Tharoor |
Government |
9-Mar-1956 |
|
UN Under Secretary General, 2002-07 |
| Malcolm Toon |
Diplomat |
4-Jul-1916 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1976-79 |
| Harlan Ullman |
Columnist |
15-Mar-1941 |
|
Shock and Awe |
| Meredith Vieira |
Game Show Host |
30-Dec-1953 |
|
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| Roger Wallace |
Business |
? |
|
Lobbyist, Investamex |
| Paul F. Walsh |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of eFunds |
| C. David Welch |
Diplomat |
1953 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Robert E. White |
Diplomat |
21-Sep-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to El Salvador, 1980-81 |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Wesley S. Williams, Jr. |
Attorney |
13-Nov-1942 |
|
Former Partner, Covington & Burling |
| Karen Hastie Williams |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring |
| Rainn Wilson |
Actor |
20-Jan-1966 |
|
Dwight on The Office |
| Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
| Philip Zelikow |
Government |
1954 |
|
9-11 Commission executive director |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
| Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian chief 1953-64 |
| Gerald Cassidy |
Government |
c. 1940 |
|
Cassidy & Associates |
| Lauro F. Cavazos |
Government |
4-Jan-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Education, 1988-90 |
| Daniel H. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
NYT VP Advertising, 1995-99 |
| Peter R. Dolan |
Business |
6-Jan-1956 |
|
CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06 |
| Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1928 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78 |
| Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
| Jeffrey B. Kindler |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Pfizer |
| Abby F. Kohnstamm |
Business |
1953 |
|
Senior VP at IBM, 1993-2005 |
| John A. Krol |
Business |
16-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of DuPont, 1995-98 |
| Ellen J. Kullman |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
EVP at DuPont |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| Joseph Neubauer |
Business |
19-Oct-1941 |
|
CEO of ARAMARK |
| Pierre M. Omidyar |
Business |
21-Jun-1967 |
|
Founder of eBay |
| Alvin F. Poussaint |
Doctor |
15-May-1934 |
|
Child-rearing expert |
| Gabriel Schmergel |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Genetics Institute, Inc., 1981-97 |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| Alan D. Solomont |
Business |
1957 |
|
DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997 |
| John H. Sununu |
Government |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff |
| Alfred M. Zeien |
Business |
1930 |
|
CEO of Gillette, 1991-99 |
