- James Garfield
James Abram Garfield was a major general in the United States Army, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the twentieth President of the United States. He was the second U.S. President to be assassinated - Abraham Lincoln was the first. Garfield had the second shortest presidency in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March 5 to September 19, 1881, President Garfield served for a total of six months and fifteen days. - Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is widely seen as his generation's leading writer of the stage musical. Described by Frank Rich in the "The New York Times" as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater," he is one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. - George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, … - James Rudolph Garfield
James Rudolph Garfield (October 17, 1865 - March 24, 1950) was a U.S. politician, lawyer and son of President James Abram Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. - Fay Vincent
Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. (born May 29, 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the 8th commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992. He is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School and Williams College, class of 1960, which he attended on a full academic scholarship, and Yale Law School, class of 1963. - L. E. Modesitt Jr.
L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr. (b. 1943 in Denver, Colorado) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series "The Saga of Recluce". He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, … - David Strathairn
David Russell Strathairn (born January 26 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. - John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. - Kirk Varnedoe
J. Kirk T. Varnedoe was an American art historian and writer, and a noted curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He was a Professor of the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and studied at Williams College. After his years at Williams, he went to Paris, where he became expert on Auguste Rodin's drawings, and fell in love with French culture and civilization. - Dominick Dunne
D ominick Dunne has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993, covering the high-profile trials of the Menendez brothers, O. J. Simpson , and Michael Skakel , to name a few, and writing about subjects from Imelda Marcos to Claus von Bulow, to Warren Beatty and Annette Bening . He files his monthly column, "Dominick Dunne's Diary," for the magazine, sharing his inside stories from Hollywood and high society. - Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is an activist and researcher focused on information technology and information development. Based at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, he is the co-founder of Global Voices , an international web-based community of bloggers and citizen journalists dedicated to broadening intercultural understanding and improving global journalism. - William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and homeopath. - Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt Jr. (born 1931) was the twenty-fifth and longest serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1993 to 2001. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules. Growing up in Brooklyn, Levitt received his first exposure to the world of finance through his father, Arthur Levitt, Sr., … - Walker Evans
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He wrote that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent." Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, … - Bo Peabody
Bo Peabody (1970 -) is an entrepreneur, and Internet executive who co-founded Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992. (It was sold to Lycos in 1998.) Peabody graduated from Williams College in 1994. He is currently Managing General Partner at Village Ventures, a venture capital firm. He is also the author of Lucky or Smart, published by Random House. - William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. - Steve Kelley
Steve Kelley (born January 8, 1953) is a former Minnesota state Senator. He recently received the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsement. Kelley was elected to Minnesota Senate in the fall of 1996, and previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993-97. During his tenure in the senate, Kelley authored legislation to defend against identity theft, prevent companies from "phishing" for personal information online, … - Jesse Winchester
Jesse Winchester In-depth Biography Jesse Winchester was the music world's most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader, though his renown came from a body of wry, closely observed songs. After growing up in Memphis, Winchester received his draft notice in 1967 and moved to Montreal, Canada, rather than serve in the military. In 1969, he met Robbie Robertson of the Band, who helped launch his recording career. - Richard Helms
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities. In 1977, he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remained a revered figure in the intelligence profession. - Gordon Clapp
Gordon Clapp (born September 24, 1948) is an American actor, best known for playing the role of Detective Greg Medavoy for 12 seasons on the television series "NYPD Blue", winning an Emmy Award in 1998. He has appeared in numerous TV shows, movies (including 4 for his friend director John Sayles), and stage plays. In film, he appeared in "Flags of Our Fathers" as United States Marine Corps General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith. - Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. - William Lowndes Yancey
William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 - July 27, 1863) was an American leader of the Southern secession movement as a journalist, politician, orator, and diplomat. Part of the group characterized as the Fire-Eaters, Yancey was seen by many as one of the most effective agitators for secession and rhetorical defenders of slavery. Throughout the critical 1850s Yancey, sometimes referred to as the "Orator of Secession", … - G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a psychologist and educator who pioneered American psychology. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College in 1867, then studied at the Union Theological Seminary. - Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle (born November 10, 1942 in Syracuse, New York) received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)". He graduated from Williams College with a BS in physics. He got his M.S. in physics and his Ph.D. in Economics, both from Cornell University in 1966 and 1969 respectively, and was a MIT Professor of Economics from 1969 to 1977. - John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 - July 6, 2002) was an American film director. - James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (b. August 3 1918) is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his "Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945". - John Bascom
John Bascom was born in Genoa, New York, on May 1, 1827. He was a graduate of Williams College with the class of 1849, and held many scholarly and honorary degrees from that and other institutions of learning. He was professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was President of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. Bascom graduated from Williams College in 1849, then spent several years studying and working, … - Jay McInerney
John Barrett McInerney Jr. (born January 13, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut) (pronounced) is an American writer. His novels include "Bright Lights, Big City", "Ransom", "Story of My Life", "Brightness Falls", and "The Last of the Savages". He edited "The Penguin Book of New American Voices", wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of "Bright Lights, Big City", … - Arne Carlson
Arne Helge Carlson (born September 24, 1934) is an American politician active in the state of Minnesota. He was born in New York City attended Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated from Williams College in 1957. He served one term on the Minneapolis City Council from 1965 to 1967 and was the Republican candidate for mayor in 1967, losing to Democratic-Farmer-Labor incumbent Arthur Naftalin. - Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an American documentary filmmaker. Born into a Jewish family, he came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer, a fact that has influenced his style and choice of subjects ever since. In 2003, Frederick Wiseman received the George Polk Career Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. - Bill Simon
William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. Simon was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of William E. Simon, Sr., the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Coincidentally, Simon was a childhood friend of current Democratic party chair Howard Dean. Simon earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1973, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, … - Ed Case
Edward Espenett "Ed" Case (born September 27, 1952) is a Democratic politician. He represented Hawaii's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2002 in a special election to fill the seat of Patsy T. Mink, who died of pneumonia. In 2006 Case chose not to run for another term in the House of Representatives so he could challenge Senator Daniel Akaka in the Democratic primary for Akaka's U.S. Senate seat. - Curtis T. McMullen
Curtis T. McMullen is Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He graduated valedictorian from Williams College in 1980, earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, and held positions at Princeton and Berkeley before coming to Harvard in 1997. His research centers on complex dynamics and hyperbolic geometry, and has included work in knot theory, number theory and algebraic geometry. - Herbert Stein
Herbert Stein (August 27, 1916 - September 8, 1999) was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was on the board of contributors of "The Wall Street Journal". He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon and President Ford. In the 1970s, he was a professor of economics at the University of Virginia. Stein was born in Detroit, but his family moved to New York during the Great Depression. - Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 - April 9, 1899) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Born in Haddam, Connecticut, he was the sixth of the nine children of David Dudley Field I, a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Submit Dickinson. - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer, born at Cold Spring, N. Y., educated at Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States. He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, … - Edward Morley
Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 - February 24 1923) was an American scientist. - John B. McCoy
John B. McCoy was Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of BANK ONE CORPORATION (commercial and consumer bank) until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, BANC ONE CORPORATION, from 1987 to 1998. Mr. McCoy has been a Director of AT&T Inc. since October 1999. He served as a Director of Ameritech Corporation from 1991 until the company was acquired by AT&T Inc. in 1999. - Mark Udall
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18 1950), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing. The district consists of Broomfield, Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, and Summit counties, as well as portions of Adams, Boulder, and Jefferson counties. Udall is an official candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 - Lester Thurow
Lester Carl Thurow (1938) is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on mainstream economics. Thurow was born on in Livingston, Montana. He got his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. Thurow was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors.
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