Founded 27 January 1888.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Bill Bass |
Scientist |
30-Aug-1928 |
|
Human decomposition |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
| Michael R. Bonsignore |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Honeywell, 1999-2001 |
| Leonard Carmichael |
Educator |
9-Nov-1898 |
16-Sep-1973 |
Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64 |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Activist |
11-Jun-1910 |
25-Jun-1997 |
Oceanographer, environmentalist |
| John Fahey |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of National Geographic Society |
| Jack Fletcher |
Photographer |
1917 |
31-Dec-2003 |
National Geographic photographer |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| John Oliver La Gorce |
Explorer |
22-Sep-1880 |
23-Dec-1959 |
Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor |
| Mark G. Hambley |
Diplomat |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon, 1993-94 |
| Elizabeth J. Hudson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
National Geographic Society |
| Eli S. Jacobs |
Baseball |
5-Oct-1937 |
|
Former Baltimore Orioles owner |
| Lady Bird Johnson |
First Lady |
22-Dec-1912 |
11-Jul-2007 |
Wife of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Maria Elena Lagomasino |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank, 2001-05 |
| J. W. Marriott, Jr. |
Business |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Billionaire, CEO of Marriott |
| Floretta Dukes McKenzie |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
DC School Superintendent, 1981-88 |
| George Muñoz |
Business |
1951 |
|
CEO of OPIC, 1997-2001 |
| John R. Murphy |
Publisher |
7-Jan-1934 |
|
Publisher of the Baltimore Sun, 1981-92 |
| Story Musgrave |
Astronaut |
19-Aug-1935 |
|
Spent 1281 hours in space |
| Patrick Noonan |
Activist |
c. 1943 |
|
Chairman of the Conservation Fund |
| William Pigott |
Business |
27-Jun-1860 |
19-Jul-1929 |
Pacific Car & Foundry |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| William K. Reilly |
Business |
26-Jan-1940 |
|
EPA Administrator, 1989-93 |
| Rozanne L. Ridgway |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89 |
| Laurance Rockefeller |
Business |
26-May-1910 |
11-Jul-2004 |
Financier behind Eastern Airlines |
| Alex Trebek |
Game Show Host |
22-Jul-1940 |
|
Jeopardy |
| Ted Waitt |
Business |
18-Jan-1963 |
|
Co-Founder of Gateway |