- Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems. Schwartz attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in 1983. He spent freshman year of college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983-1984, and then transferred to Wesleyan University, where he studied economics and mathematics. Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City. - Bill Belichick
In 2001, just his second season as Patriots head coach, Belichick guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success, reaching the Super Bowl four times in the last seven years while claiming five straight division championships. Over the last five seasons (2003-07), the Patriots have compiled an overall record of 77-17 (. - Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Known especially for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show "China Beach" (1988–91), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Delany was born in New York City. After growing up in Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, then Wesleyan University. - 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. - Eric Mangini
Eric Mangini (born January 19, 1971 in Hartford, Connecticut) is the current head coach of the New York Jets of the NFL. At the age of 35, he was the youngest head coach in the NFL, as well as the youngest coach in the four major North American sports, including the NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA, until the hiring of Lane Kiffin by the Oakland Raiders. Mangini is the youngest head coach in Jets history. He is also the first and, so far, … - Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born October 17, 1974) is a contributing editor at "New York magazine" and author of the book "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture". Her work has appeared in "The Washington Post", "Vogue", "Slate", "Men's Journal" and "Blender". Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s. Her experiences at Wesleyan, which she says had "co-ed showers, … - David McClelland
David Clarence McClelland was an American behavioral psychologist, social psychologist, and an advocate of quantitative history. McClelland earned his BA in 1938 at Wesleyan University, his MA in 1939 at the University of Missouri, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Yale University in 1941. McClelland taught at the Connecticut College and Wesleyan University before accepting, in 1956, a position at Harvard University. After his 30-year tenure at Harvard he moved, … - Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of such books as "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife" (2005) and "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" (2003). She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in San Francisco, California. Roach has written for Vogue, "The New York Times Magazine", "Discover", "Outside", "Reader's Digest", "GQ", and other periodicals. - Bill Rodgers
William ("Bill") Henry Rodgers (b. December 23, 1947 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American runner and former American record holder in the marathon who is best known for his victories in the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon in the late 1970s. Rodgers won both races four times each between 1975 and 1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975 and a 2:09:27 in 1979. - Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. Bay has achieved financial success with such movies as "Transformers", "Armageddon", "The Rock", "Pearl Harbor", "Bad Boys", and "Bad Boys II". Bay is also one of the members of the LA music video production company Propaganda Films. - Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born 17 January 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American author and journalist. He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. He received a National Magazine Award in 2000 for "The Forensics of War," published in "Vanity Fair" in 1999. In 1997, with the publication of his work, "The Perfect Storm", he was touted as the new Hemingway, … - Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Whitford majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and then went on to receive a fine arts degree from The Juilliard School. Whitford is best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", which he began with the show's premiere in 1999. - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Edward Kennedy Jr.
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. is the elder son of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Virginia Joan Bennett. In 1973 cancer was discovered in his right leg. The leg was amputated. On the same day this surgery took place, Ted Sr. gave his niece Kathleen away at her wedding, rushing back to the hospital afterwards. In 1986, a movie called The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story was made for TV which concentrated on this event in Kennedy's life. - Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American director of film and television, best known for his independent film "Chuck & Buck" (2000). Born to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up all over Latin America due to his father's itinerant existence as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica, but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, where he learned filmmaking. - Paul Weitz
Paul Weitz (born 1966 in New York, New York) is a film director and screenwriter. Growing up in New York City, he attended The Collegiate School for boys. Then, he graduated from Wesleyan University, where he wrote the play "Mango Tea". The play went on to performances off-Broadway. Nowadays, he usually works with his brother Chris Weitz. However, he wrote and directed his recent film, "In Good Company", by himself. - Kim Stolz
Kimberly "Kim" Stolz (born June 8, 1983) is an American fashion model and MTV VJ from New York City, New York. Stolz competed in the cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model, and she finished in fifth place on the season's 11th episode. - Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970), is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist. He is best known for his work under his pen name, Lemony Snicket. - William H. Gass
William H. Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. - Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone and French horn before he settled on the trumpet. He played in various R&B groups and by 1967 became a member of the AACM and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell. - Mike White
Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American writer, actor, director, and producer for television and film. - Charles Alan Wright
Charles Alan Wright (1927 - 2000), was a prominent authority in the United States on constitutional law and federal procedure, and was the author of the treatise, <i>Federal Practice and Procedure</i>. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Wright earned his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1947 and law degree from Yale in 1949. - Jon Turteltaub
Jonathan Charles Turteltaub (born 8 August 1963) is an American film director and producer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. On July 6, 2006, he married Amy Eldon, sister of photojournalist Dan Eldon. He has directed several successful mainstream movies including 1993's "Cool Runnings", "While You Were Sleeping" (1995), "Phenomenon" (1996), "Instinct", … - Henry Merritt Wriston
Henry Merritt Wriston (1889-1978) was a United States educator and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University. Wriston was born in 1889 in Laramie, Wyoming, the son of a Methodist minister and a schoolteacher. He received his B.A. in 1911 from Wesleyan University, and returned there for his M.A. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He served as the eighth president of Lawrence University from 1925 to 1937. - Charles Olson
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 - 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Subsequently, many postmodern groups, such as the poets of the Language School, include Olson as a primary and precedent figure. - Alix Olson
Alix Olson is an American poet who works exclusively in spoken word. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997 and uses her work to verbally combat and highlight the problems with capitalism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, misogyny, and the patriarchy. She identitifies as a lesbian, socialist, feminist working for democracy. - Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jack Jordan, Jr., (born 1952) is the sitting Democratic district attorney for Orleans Parish, Louisiana, the first African American to hold the elected position. Jordan was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Jordan, Sr. He grew up in the middle class African American Pontchartrain Park neighborhood of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, … - Richard Slotkin
Richard Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. His award-winning trilogy on the myth of the frontier in America, which is comprised of "Regeneration Through Violence", "The Fatal Environment", and "Gunfighter Nation" offers an original and highly provocative interpretation of the United States' national experience. - Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born c. 1966) is an American environmental advocate and artist. She is focused on revitalization of her home borough of the Bronx, NY and currently works as the Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSB). - Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar (born Havana, Cuba, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University. Her dissertation (1983), based on her first fieldwork in northern Spain, became the basis for her first book. Her more recent writings have focused on her fieldwork in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. - Norris Cotton
Norris H. Cotton (May 11 1900-February 24 1989) was an American Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire. Norris Cotton was born on a farm in Warren, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. While in college, he served as a clerk to the New Hampshire state senate and as a member of the New Hampshire state Assembly in 1923 as one of the youngest legislators in history. - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Beverly Daniel Tatum is the current president of Spelman College. Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. She also received an M.A. religious studies from Hartford Seminary. Tatum received a L.H.D. from Bates College in 2000. Tatum taught at Westfield State College and the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining Mount Holyoke College in 1989. - William Christopher
William Christopher (born October 20, 1932) is an American actor who is best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series "M*A*S*H" and Private Lester Hummel on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." - Shelly Kagan
Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics. Originally a native of Skokie, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1982. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Yale. According to his Yale web page, his main research interests "lie in moral philosophy, … - 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. - Wilbur Olin Atwater
Wilbur Olin Atwater was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism. Atwater grew up in the New England area. He opted not to fight in the American Civil War and instead to pursue an undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In 1668, Atwater's interest in civil engineering and agricultural chemistry led him to enroll in Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School, … - Raymond E. Baldwin
Raymond Earl Baldwin (August 31, 1893 - October 4, 1986) was a United States Senator and Governor of Connecticut. Born in Rye, New York, he moved to Middletown, Connecticut in 1903 and attended the public schools. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown in 1916, and entered Yale University. However, upon the declaration of war, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He was assigned to officers' training school and was commissioned an ensign in February 1918, … - John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. - Elisabeth Harnois
Elisabeth Rose Harnois (born May 26, 1979 in Detroit, Michigan) is a television and film actress. Although she was born in Detroit, she was raised in Los Angeles. In 2001 she graduated Wesleyan University with a degree in film studies. She appeared in two movies at the age of five - "Where are the Children?" and "One Magic Christmas". She did many commercials until landing the role of Alice in the 1991 Disney Channel series "Adventures in Wonderland". - Douglas J. Bennet
Douglas J. "Doug" Bennet Jr. (born June 23, 1938) is the president of Wesleyan University, located in Middletown, Connecticut. He is the 15th president in the school's history, and has been president since 1995. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the Clinton Administration (1993-1995) and was the President and CEO of National Public Radio from 1983-1993. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Bennet grew up in Lyme, …
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