- James Wright
James Edward Wright (born 1939) is the 16th President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and has served in this position since 1998. A noted historian, he has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1969, and has held numerous leadership posts at the College including Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Provost and Acting President. A specialist in American political history with a focus on the history of the American West, … - Bob Smith
Dr. Bob Smith (Robert Holbrook Smith, b. 8 August 1879; d. 16 November 1950) was a physician and surgeon from Akron, Ohio and co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1902, he completed medical school at the University of Michigan. - Paul Hodes
Paul Hodes (born March 21, 1951 in New York City, New York) is an attorney from the U.S. state of New Hampshire who formerly served at the Shaheen & Gordon Law Firm. He is currently the Representative for the 2nd District of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives. He is New Hampshire's first Jewish congressman. Hodes was born March 21, 1951. After graduating from The Collegiate School, a private school in New York City, … - Eleazar Wheelock
The Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (April 22, 1711 - April 24, 1779) was an American Congregational minister, orator, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College. He was born in Windham, Connecticut to Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Huntington. He is the great-grandson of the first teacher of the first free school in the United States (see Dedham, Massachusetts), The Rev. - George Stibitz
George Robert Stibitz (April 20, 1904 - January 31, 1995) is internationally recognized as a father of the modern digital computer. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his 1930s and 1940s work on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Born in York, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor's degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master's degree from Union College in 1927, … - C. Everett Koop
Vice Admiral Cornelius Everett Koop, M.D. (born October 14 1916 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physician. He served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, under Ronald Reagan's presidency. He was in a sense the first "celebrity Surgeon General" and is probably still the best-known holder of the office. Koop obtained his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, … - Andrew Oswald
Andrew Oswald (born November 27, 1953) is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is currently a Professorial Fellow of the ESRC. He has held posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard. - John Locke
John Locke, was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Hopkinton, Middlesex County, and attended Andover Academy and Dartmouth College, eventually graduating from Harvard University in 1792. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and began practicing law in Ashby in 1796. - David Blanchflower
David Graham Blanchflower (born March 2, 1952) is a leading labour economist, currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He is also a current Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, … - Donella Meadows
Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of "Limits to Growth", and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene in a system. She was educated in science, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968. She then became a research fellow at MIT, … - Andrew Samwick
Andrew Alan Samwick served as Chief Economist on the Staff of the United States President’s Council of Economic Advisors from July 2003 to July 2004. He received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at Harvard College in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993; at MIT he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the National Institute on Aging, … - John Sloan Dickey
John Sloan Dickey (4 November 1907 - 9 February 1991) was an American diplomat, scholar, and intellectual. Dickey served as President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire from 1945 to 1970, and helped revitalize the Ivy League institution. - Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1952) holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies and serves as associate professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Southern Methodist University and Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at Dartmouth in the fall of 1998. Her research areas include modern Jewish thought, feminist theology, and Protestantism in Germany. - Michael Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. - James O. Freedman
James Oliver Freedman (September 21, 1935 - March 21, 2006) was a career academic administrator. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he would briefly serve as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; as the sixteenth president of the University of Iowa from 1982 to 1987; and as the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, from 1987 to 1998. Freedman self-consciously tried to create at both Iowa and Dartmouth, … - Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from King's College at the University of London. After this he worked as a postdoc at Fermilab until 1988 and from then until 1991 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. - Peter Robinson
Peter M. Robinson (born 1957) is an American author, a research fellow, a television host and a former speechwriter for George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Robinson grew up in Vestal, New York. He attended Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1979, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and wrote for "The Dartmouth". He majored in English and graduated "summa cum laude", then continued his studies at Oxford University, England, … - Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799-July 13, 1859), American lawyer and orator, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, the descendant of a family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643 ; brother of noted physician George Choate, and uncle to George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate. Rufus Choate's birthplace, Choate House, remains virtually unchanged to this day. - James Wilson
James Wilson (March 15, 1763-1835) was the first maker of globes in the USA. Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wilson farmed with his father and trained as a blacksmith, though had little other formal education. He moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1796 and became interested in cartography and taught himself map making. He invested in an encyclopedia and taught himself engraving and mapmaking with the intention of producing maps for the schoolchildren of America. - John Wentworth
"Long" John Wentworth (March 5 1815 - October 16 1888) was the editor of the "Chicago Democrat", a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives. Born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, John Wentworth was a huge man, towering 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) high and weighing more than 300 pounds (136 kg). He drank at least a pint of whiskey each day and would eat from 30-40 different foods during a single meal. - John Wentworth
Sir John Wentworth (9 August 1737 - 8 April1820) was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution. He followed his uncle, Benning Wentworth, as governor in 1767. During his term, he was instrumental in the creation of Dartmouth College. Although he was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was generally sympathetic to the colonists in their early disagreements with the crown, … - Thomas H. Cormen
Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of "Introduction to Algorithms", along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. He received his bachelor's degree "summa cum laude" from Princeton University in 1978. He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his master's degree (1986) and his PhD (1992). Dr. Cormen is a barbecue afficionado and expert. - Scott Smith
Scott Smith is an American author and screenwriter and is a graduate of Columbia University. He has published two suspense novels, "A Simple Plan" and "The Ruins". His screen adaptation of "A Simple Plan" earned him an Academy Award nomination. Scott Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and now lives in New Orleans. After studying at Dartmouth College and Columbia University in New York, he took up writing full time. - Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky (b. 1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at Dartmouth College. A member of the Frog Peak Music collective, he co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom. He has an album of mensuration canons, "Four-Voice Canons", and he has also served as co-producer of "Asmat Dream: New Music Indonesia, Vol. 1" with his wife, composer Jody Diamond. - Kevin Lane Keller
Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored "Strategic Brand Management" (Prentice Hall, 1998 & 2002), a widely-used text on brand management. He has published his research in the "Journal of Marketing", "Journal of Marketing Research", and "Journal of Consumer Research". - Buddy Teevens
Eugene Francis Teevens III, more commonly known as Buddy Teevens (b. October 1 1956, Pembroke, Massachusetts) is the head football coach at Dartmouth College. - Jeffrey Hart
Jeffrey Hart (b. April 22, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York) is a cultural critic, professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, essayist, and columnist who lives in New Hampshire, USA. A professor of English literature at Dartmouth for three decades, Hart took a leave of absence from his post in 1968 in order to work for the abortive presidential campaign of then-Governor Ronald Reagan. This role would lead to a position within the Nixon administration as a speechwriter, … - T. J. Rodgers
Thurman John Rodgers, better known as T.J. Rodgers, is the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. He is known for his public relations acumen, his brash personality, and strong advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism. He received his bachelor's degrees from Dartmouth College in 1970, graduating as "salutatorian" with majors in chemistry and physics. - Jon Appleton
Jon Appleton (born Jon Howard Appleton, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, author and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. A composer of both instrumental and electro-acoustic music, Appleton is best known in the United States for the latter, much of it composed for the Synclavier, … - José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a Mexican social realist painter who specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of the theme of the human versus the mechanical. He was also a genre painter and lithographer. Orozco studied in Mexico City at the San Carlos Academy. With Diego Rivera, he was a leader of the Mexican Renaissance. - Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music. - David T. McLaughlin
David T. McLaughlin (March 16, 1932-August 25, 2004) was the 14th President of Dartmouth College, 1981-1987. Mr. McLaughlin also served as Chief Executive Officer of Orion Safety Products from 1988 to December 31 2000. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aspen Institute from 1988 to 1997 and its Chairman from 1987 to 1988. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Toro Company from 1977 to 1981, … - Reggie Williams
Reginald Williams (born September 19, 1954 in Flint, Michigan) is a former professional American football player. Williams graduated from Dartmouth College, where he starred as a linebacker. In 1976, he was drafted in the third round by the Cincinnati Bengals, for whom he played fourteen seasons. During that time, he played in two Super Bowls. In 2007 Reggie Williams was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, … - Julian Whitaker
Julian Whitaker , MD, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Emory University Medical School in Atlanta, Georgia. Since opening the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, California, in 1979, he and his staff have successfully treated approximately 40,000 patients with his unique program of diet, exercise, nutritional supplements, and noninvasive therapies. - Chris Miller
Chris Miller (born 1942) is an American author and screenwriter, most notable for his work on "National Lampoon" magazine and "Animal House" (he also had a bit part as Curtis Wayne "Hardbar" Fuller and was credited as Christian Miller). In fact, his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College helped inspire much of the material of "Animal House". Prior to writing the script to "Animal House", … - Edward Tuck
Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 - April 30, 1938) was an American banker and philanthropist. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he was educated at Dartmouth College. Tuck donated $500,000 to Dartmouth to endow the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, in memory of his father. His gifts to Dartmouth were estimated at $6 million. He donated funds to the New Hampshire Historical Society to build its New Hampshire History Building housing the Tuck Library. - William Jewett Tucker
The Rev. William Jewett Tucker (1839-1926) served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909. - Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer. - Chip Reese
David Edward "Chip" Reese (born March 28 1951) is an American professional gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He suffered from rheumatic fever during his elementary years at school and had to stay at home for almost a year. During this time, his mother taught him how to play several board and card games and Reese later described himself as "a product of that year." By the age of six, he was regularly beating fifth-graders at poker. - Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
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