Nonprofit organization founded in Santa Monica, California on May 14, 1948. The name RAND is a contraction of the words research and development.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ken Adelman |
Diplomat |
9-Jun-1946 |
|
Deputy US Ambassador to the UN, 1981-83 |
| Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
| Dan Ariely |
Economist |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
The Upside of Irrationality |
| Hap Arnold |
Military |
25-Jun-1886 |
15-Jan-1950 |
Commander, US Army Air Corps, WWII |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Paul Baran |
Engineer |
29-Apr-1926 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Packet-sharing in computer communications |
| Carl Bildt |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1949 |
|
Foreign Minister of Sweden |
| David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| L. Paul Bremer |
Government |
30-Sep-1941 |
|
Director of the Iraq Provisional Authority |
| Arthur C. Brooks |
Author |
21-May-1964 |
|
Gross National Happiness |
| Harold Brown |
Government |
19-Sep-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 |
| Ronald W. Burkle |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Supermarket Billionaire |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Frank Carlucci |
Government |
18-Oct-1930 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89 |
| Steven C. Clemons |
Pundit |
1962 |
|
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation |
| Samuel T. Cohen |
Physicist |
25-Jan-1921 |
28-Nov-2010 |
Neutron bomb |
| Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
| Lovida H. Coleman, Jr. |
Attorney |
21-May-1949 |
|
Partner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan |
| William T. Coleman, Jr. |
Government |
7-Jul-1920 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 |
| Gary L. Countryman |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Liberty Mutual, 1986-98 |
| Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
29-Sep-2015 |
Former Black Power activist |
| Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
| Butler Derrick |
Politician |
30-Sep-1936 |
5-May-2014 |
Congressman from South Carolina, 1975-95 |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| James F. Dobbins |
Diplomat |
31-May-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to the EU, 1991-93 |
| Donald W. Douglas |
Business |
6-Apr-1892 |
1-Feb-1981 |
Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co. |
| George C. Eads |
Economist |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 |
| Otto Eckstein |
Economist |
1-Aug-1927 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66 |
| Luigi R. Einaudi |
Diplomat |
1-Mar-1936 |
|
Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05 |
| Daniel Ellsberg |
Government |
7-Apr-1931 |
|
Pentagon Papers source |
| Kenneth Feinberg |
Government |
23-Oct-1945 |
|
Pay Czar for TARP and Gulf of Mexico disaster |
| Matt Fong |
Government |
20-Nov-1953 |
1-Jun-2011 |
Strategic Advisory Group |
| William Friedman |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1891 |
12-Nov-1969 |
Cryptography pioneer |
| Francis Fukuyama |
Author |
27-Oct-1952 |
|
The End of History and the Last Man |
| Christopher B. Galvin |
Business |
21-Mar-1950 |
|
CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003 |
| Raymond L. Garthoff |
Diplomat |
26-Mar-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1977-79 |
| Timothy F. Geithner |
Government |
18-Aug-1961 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-13 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Sam Ginn |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99 |
| Frederick W. Gluck |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Vice Chairman of Bechtel, 1994-98 |
| Dan Gorlin |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1956 |
|
Choplifter |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Pedro José Greer, Jr. |
Doctor |
15-Jun-1956 |
|
Gastroenterologist, RAND Trustee |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| James D. Hodgson |
Government |
3-Dec-1915 |
28-Nov-2012 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1970-73 |
| Karen Elliott House |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1947 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2002-06 |
| Douglas G. Houser |
Attorney |
11-Jul-1935 |
|
Partner, Bullivant Houser Bailey |
| Jen-Hsun Huang |
Business |
17-Feb-1963 |
|
CEO of NVIDIA |
| Shirley Hufstedler |
Judge |
24-Aug-1925 |
|
US Secretary of Education, 1979-81 |
| Robert E. Hunter |
Diplomat |
c. 1940 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98 |
| Suzanne Nora Johnson |
Business |
14-May-1957 |
|
Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07 |
| Herman Kahn |
Scholar |
15-Feb-1922 |
7-Jul-1983 |
Hudson Institute founder |
| Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
| Arnold Kanter |
Government |
27-Feb-1945 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Under Secy. of State for Political Affairs, 1991-93 |
| Bruce Karatz |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of KB Home, 1986-2006 |
| Karen L. Katen |
Business |
1948 |
|
Senior Pfizer executive |
| Lydia H. Kennard |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Los Angeles World Airports |
| Zalmay Khalilzad |
Diplomat |
22-Mar-1951 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2007-09 |
| Philip Lader |
Government |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2001 |
| David M. Lawrence |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kaiser KHFP, 1991-2002 |
| Curtis LeMay |
Military |
15-Nov-1906 |
1-Oct-1990 |
USAF General |
| Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
| Arthur Levitt |
Business |
3-Feb-1931 |
|
SEC Chairman, 1993-2001 |
| Lewis Libby |
Government |
22-Aug-1950 |
|
Cheney's former Chief of Staff |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| Michael Lynton |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Sony Entertainment |
| Harry M. Markowitz |
Economist |
24-Aug-1927 |
|
Portfolio theory |
| Walter E. Massey |
Business |
5-Apr-1938 |
|
Morehouse College president, physicist |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| K. T. McFarland |
Government |
1952 |
|
Former Kissinger staffer |
| Edward McGaffigan |
Government |
8-Dec-1948 |
2-Sep-2007 |
NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 |
| Ann Dore McLaughlin |
Government |
16-Nov-1941 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89 |
| Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| Newton N. Minow |
Government |
17-Jan-1926 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1961-63 |
| Lloyd N. Morrisett |
Administrator |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
President, Markle Foundation, 1969-98 |
| John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
23-May-2015 |
Schizophrenic game theorist |
| Hassan Nemazee |
Business |
27-Jan-1950 |
|
Nemazee Capital Corporation |
| Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
13-Mar-1933 |
26-Oct-2011 |
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Lauris Norstad |
Military |
24-Mar-1907 |
12-Sep-1988 |
Supreme Allied Commander, 1956-63 |
| Paul O'Neill |
Government |
4-Dec-1935 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 2001-02 |
| James E. Oberg |
Historian |
7-Nov-1944 |
|
Space exploration historian |
| Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
| Ronald L. Olson |
Attorney |
1941 |
|
Munger Tolles & Olson |
| Amy Pascal |
Business |
1959 |
|
Sony Pictures co-chairman |
| Merton J. Peck |
Economist |
17-Dec-1925 |
1-Mar-2013 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Percy A. Pierre |
Educator |
3-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Prairie View A&M University, 1983-89 |
| Patricia S. Pineda |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
General Counsel, Toyota Motors NA |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| John Edward Porter |
Politician |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001 |
| Michael Powell |
Government |
23-Mar-1963 |
|
FCC Chairman 2001-05, Colin Powell's son |
| John Raisian |
Economist |
c. 1953 |
|
Director, Hoover Institution |
| John S. Reed |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000 |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Condoleezza Rice |
Government |
14-Nov-1954 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2005-09 |
| Donald B. Rice |
Business |
4-Jun-1939 |
|
Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93 |
| James E. Rohr |
Business |
18-Oct-1948 |
|
CEO of PNC Financial |
| Donald Rumsfeld |
Government |
9-Jul-1932 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 |
| Gary Samore |
Government |
31-Mar-1953 |
|
White House WMD Czar, 2009-13 |
| Thomas C. Schelling |
Economist |
14-Apr-1921 |
|
The Strategy of Conflict |
| James R. Schlesinger |
Government |
15-Feb-1929 |
27-Mar-2014 |
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| William F. Sharpe |
Economist |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Capital asset pricing model |
| Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist and game theorist |
| William E. B. Siart |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Former CEO, First Interstate Bancorp |
| Walter B. Slocombe |
Government |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Defense analyst |
| Richard H. Solomon |
Diplomat |
1937 |
|
President of US Institute For Peace |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong |
Business |
1952 |
|
Founder, Abraxis BioScience |
| Jerry I. Speyer |
Business |
23-Jun-1940 |
|
Tishman Speyer Properties |
| Dennis Stanfill |
Business |
1-Apr-1927 |
|
CEO of 20th Century Fox, 1971-81 |
| Frank Stanton |
Business |
20-Mar-1908 |
24-Dec-2006 |
President of CBS, 1946-73 |
| James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Donald W. Tang |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns |
| Ratan N. Tata |
Business |
28-Dec-1937 |
|
Chairman of Tata Group |
| James A. Thomson |
Administrator |
21-Jan-1945 |
|
President and CEO, Rand Corporation |
| Murray Turoff |
Scientist |
13-Feb-1936 |
|
Computer conferencing and instant messaging |
| John P. White |
Government |
27-Feb-1937 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1995-97 |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
| Frank G. Wisner |
Diplomat |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1994-97 |
| Albert Wohlstetter |
Author |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
| Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
| Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
