- Meredith Vieira
Meredith Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality, game show hostess and journalist. She currently co-hosts NBC's "Today". She previously co-hosted ABC's daytime talk show "The View" (from 1997 to 2006), and is currently the host of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in syndication. She also hosted " Intimate Portrait," a series on Lifetime Television.
- Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. Tisch also holds positions as: *Chairman of the "Travel Business Roundtable" (TBR), a travel industry lobbying group *Chairman of "NYC & Company", New York City's official tourism marketing organization *Trustee of Tufts University.
- Rob Burnett
Robert Barry Burnett (born August 27, 1967) is a former defensive end who played in the NFL for 14 seasons.
- Leonard Carmichael
Leonard Carmichael was a U.S. educator and psychologist. Born on November 9 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1924. He was a brother in the Theta Delta Chi fraternity during his time at Tufts. After being part of the Brown University faculty, Carmichael served as the president of Tufts from 1938 to 1952.
- Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sendhil Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor, born in Chicago, Illinois. He plays the Indian geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC drama "Heroes". He was born in the US to Indian parents, both of whom are physicians. His parents are from Bangalore, India. He has one sister, who is a physician, doing a residency in a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency program. He and his sister were raised in San Antonio.
- Pierre Omidyar
Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon. Born in Paris, he moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. Hewrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library. He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree incomputer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software.
- Christopher Lawford
Christopher Kennedy Lawford (born March 29, 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA), a nephew of John F. Kennedy, cousin-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger (appearing in two of his films, including "Terminator 3"), and son of Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, is a Hollywood actor. After many secondary roles in films for over a decade, he played a minor role in the 2000 film "Thirteen Days", as Commander William Ecker of the US Navy.
- Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex-seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. A leading figure in the development of the military-industrial complex and the military funding of science in the United States, …
- Philip D. Zelikow
Philip D. Zelikow , Executive Director [R] - Philip Zelikow is the executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9/11 Commission." .. After serving in government with the Navy, the State Department, and the National Security Council ...
- Ram Dass
Dr. Richard Alpert, also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller "Be Here Now". He is well-known for his association with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, both having been dismissed from their professorships for experiments on the effects of psychedelic drugs on human subjects. He is also known for his travels to India and his association with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba.
- Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954 in Albany, New York) is an American author. He is the author of the novels "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West", "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are revisionist retellings of classic children's stories: for example, …
- Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, McKinney is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's fourth congressional district. McKinney was defeated in the 2006 Democratic primary, losing her Congressional seat for the second time.
- Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.
- John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he also translated Dante's "Divine Comedy", wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the "Saturday Review" as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, …
- Jim Lonborg
James Reynold Lonborg (born April 16, 1942) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Boston Red Sox (1965-71), Milwaukee Brewers (1972) and Philadelphia Phillies (1973-79). He was known as "Gentleman Jim" during his 15 year career for his fearlessness for pitching on the inside of the plate. Born in Santa Maria, California, Lonborg graduated from Stanford University.
- Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles, "Fast Car," "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution," "Baby Can I Hold You," and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi-platinum and multi-Grammy Award-winning artist.
- Neal Shapiro
Neal Shapiro Neal Shapiro is an award-winning, innovative producer and a widely respected news executive, with a 25-year career spanning print, broadcast, cable, and Internet media. He joined Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) as president in March 2007. EBC is licensee of public television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York.
- Frank Pallone
Frank Pallone Jr. (born October 30, 1951 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American Democratic politician, who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives where he represents New Jersey's 6th district (map). Pallone was elected to office in 1988, filling the New Jersey's 3rd congressional district seat vacated by the death of James J. Howard. In redistricting following the 1990 Census, the district was effectively renumbered as the 6th district.
- Andrew Fastow
Business executive and convict. Born Andrew Stuart Fastow on December 22, 1961 in Washington, DC. Andrew Fastow was one of three sons raised in a middle-class Jewish family in New Providence, New Jersey. He graduated from Tufts University in 1983. After earning his MBA from Northwestern University, he worked for Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago.
- Hank Azaria
Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is a four-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and voice artist.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, …
- Amisha Patel
Amisha Patel (born June 9, 1977, also known as Ameesha Patel) is a Bollywood actress and model from Maharashtra, India.
- Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement.
- Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel Actress Jessica Biel was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, Minnesota. Jessica grew up in Boulder, Colorado with an early ambition to be in music theater. As a child, she starred in several musicals, including The Sound of Music and Annie . In 1994, Biel was awarded a scholarship to Diane Hardin's Young Actors Space in Los Angeles.
- Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve (b. 1946) is an award winning American writer.
- Peter R. Dolan
Peter Dolan is Managing Director of PRDolan LLC, a limited liability company formed in 2008. He provides CEO advisory role services and board directorship to growing companies in the healthcare and health and wellness businesses. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, with 18+ years with the company, the last 5 as CEO.
- Walter B. Wriston
Walter Wriston was a banker and former chairman of Citicorp. As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp (later Citigroup) from 1967-1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time.
- Ben Silverman
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- Leslie Gelb
Leslie (Les) Howard Gelb is a former correspondent for "The New York Times" and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica that was re-established in 2005 after a 10-year hiatus.
- Oliver Platt
Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian film and television actor.
- Seamus Blackley
Seamus Blackley is an agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. After entering Tufts University to study jazz piano, Blackley switched to study physics and graduated Summa cum Honore en Tesis. As a sophomore, he published his first paper in the "Journal of Magnetic Resonance". After college, he studied High Energy Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, until the Superconducting Supercollider project was cancelled in 1993.
- Lea Fastow
Lea Weingarten Fastow (born December 1961) is the wife of disgraced former Enron executive and convicted felon Andrew Fastow, and is the second former Enron executive to go to prison after Enron collapsed due to fraud in December 2001. Lea Fastow is a native of Houston, Texas, where she was born into a Jewish family that founded the J. Weingarten Incorporated grocery store chain and Weingarten Realty Investors.
- Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The Radicalism of the American Revolution". His book "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787" won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham.
- Peter Gallagher
Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19 1955) is a Golden Globe award winning American actor.
- William Hurt
William Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American actor.
- Laura Denvir Stith
Laura Denvir Stith (b. October 30, 1953) is the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of Missouri. She has been on the Supreme Court since 2001. She graduated "magna cum laude" from Jackson College for Women (now part of Tufts University) in 1975 and from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978. Judge Stith served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Robert Seiler of the Missouri Supreme Court and then entered private practice in Kansas City, Missouri.
- Winston Lord
Winston Lord is a United States diplomat and administrator. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985. Lord was a key figure in the restoration of relations between the United States and China in 1972. From 1969–73, as a member of the National Security Council’s planning staff, he was an aide to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, accompanying him on his secret trip to Beijing in 1971.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 22 September 1951, Mount Kisco, New York) became the publisher of "The New York Times" in 1992 and chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997. Sulzberger is the son of the previous "Times" publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and grandson of another "Times" publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. He is married to artist and journalist Gail Gregg.
- Anson Chan
Anson Chan (Fang On Sang) <small>GBM GCMG CBE JP </small> (born January 17, 1940) was head of Hong Kong's civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong. A Chinese would not hold the highest governmental position until Hong Kong's handover to China.
- Kostas Karamanlis
Konstantínos Alexandrou Karamanlís became Prime Minister of Greece on March 10 2004 following his party's victory in the March 7 parliamentary elections. He is the leader of the centre right-conservative party New Democracy, which his uncle Constantine Karamanlis founded.