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Which famous people attended Cornell University?
I'm would like to know which famous people attended and/or graduated from Cornell University. I'm especially interested in whether or not any presidents, successful business people or political leaders graduated from the school.
I feel it gives a school prestige and credibility when its alumni are successful in their chosen careers. I'd also like to know what courses they took and what they majored in. I would also like to know during which years they attended the school.
I feel it gives a school prestige and credibility when its alumni are successful in their chosen careers. I'd also like to know what courses they took and what they majored in. I would also like to know during which years they attended the school.
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Wikipedia provides a long list, which includes the following personalities:
Heads of State
Jamshid Amuzegar (B.S. 1945 Engineering, Ph.D. 1951) - Prime Minister of Iran, 1977-78
Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol (LL.M. 2002, J.S.D. 2005) - Princess of Thailand 1
Lee Teng-hui (Ph.D. 1968 Agricultural Economics) - President of Republic of China (Taiwan), 1988-2000
Mario García Menocal (B.S. 1888 Engineering) - President of Cuba, 1913–21
U.S. Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks
Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 Government) - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
Samuel W. Bodman (B.S. 1961 Chemical Engineering) - Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2001-03; Secretary of Energy, 2005-2009
Lincoln D. Faurer (attended, did not graduate) - Director, National Security Agency 1981-85
Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969 Government) - National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, 2005-2009
Eugene K. Jones - (M.A. 1908 Social Science) Member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, Founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
C. Everett Koop (M.D. 1941) - Surgeon General of the United States under president Ronald Reagan, 1982-89
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (undergrad 1909-10, 1912-13, dropped out) - Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45
Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939) - Governor of Maine, 1955-59; Senator from Maine, 1959-80; Vice Presidential Candidate, 1968; Secretary of State, 1980-81
Samuel Pierce (B.A. 1947, J.D. 1949; Trustee, 1972-77, 1978-82) - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, 1981-89
Thomas C. Reed (B.S. 1956 Mechanical Engineering) - Secretary of the Air Force under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1976-77
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 Chemistry; Professor) - Attorney General under Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937) - Attorney General, 1957-61), Secretary of State, 1969-73), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, 1973
Louis Wade Sullivan (Medical College Resident) - Founder and Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, 1975, Secretary of Health and Human Services under George H. W. Bush, 1989-93
Paul Wolfowitz (B.A. 1965 Mathematics and Chemistry) - Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, 2001-05, President of the World Bank, 2005-2007
U.S. Senators, Governors, Supreme Court
Joseph B. Foraker (B.A. 1869) - Governor of Ohio, 1886-90). Senator, Ohio, 1897-1909). One of eight members of Cornell's first graduating class.
Douglas H. Ginsburg (B.S. 1970) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (B.A. 1954 Government) - U.S. Supreme Court associate justice
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (1924) - Representative, Missouri 11th District, 1935-40). Senator, Missouri, 1951-60).
Philip H. Hoff (J.D. 1951) - Governor of Vermont, 1963-69). First Democrat to serve in that position since the Civil War.
Goodwin Knight (graduate study 1919-20) - Governor of California, 1953-59
Chuck Robb (undergrad 1957-58, transferred) - Senator, Virginia, 1989-2001
U.S. Congressmen
John G. Alexander (J.D. 1916) - Minnesota 3rd District, 1939-41
Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982) - New Jersey 1st District, 1990-present
Andrew Biemiller (B.A. 1926) - Wisconsin, 1945-47, 1949-51
Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1921) - Michigan, 1939-47
Abraham Lincoln Brick (undergrad) - Indiana, 1899-1908
Barber Conable (B.A. 1942 Medieval History, LL.B. 1948) - New York 37th District, 1965-73; 35th District, 1973-83; 30th District, 1983-85; President of the World Bank, 1986-91
Maurice Connolly (1897) - Iowa, 1913-15
Thomas Joseph Downey (B.S. 1970) - New York 2nd District, 1975-93
Bob Filner (B.A. 1963 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1973 History of Science) - California 50th District, 1993-2003, 51st District, 2003-present
Gabrielle Giffords (M.R.P. 1996) - Arizona, 8th District, 2007-present
Norman Judd Gould (M.E. 1899) - New York, 1915-23
Gilbert Gude (B.S. 1948) - Maryland 8th District, 1967-77
Edwin Arthur Hall - New York, 1939-53
Joseph Clifford Hendrix (studies 1870-73; Trustee) - New York, 1893-95
Frank Horton (L.L.B. 1947) - New York 36th District, 1963-73), 34th District, 1973-83), 29th District, 1983-93
Charles Samuel Joelson (B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939) - New Jersey, 1961-69
Clarence Evans Kilburn (1916) - New York, 1940-65
Mark Kirk (B.A. 1981 History) - Illinois 10th District, 2001-present
Gary Alcide Lee (graduate study 1963) - New York, 1979-83
Norman F. Lent (L.L.B. 1957) - New York 5th District, 1971-73), 4th District, 1973-93
Lewis Henry, 1909) - New York, 1922-23
Richard Dean McCarthy (graduate study) - New York, 1965-71
Clement Woodnutt Miller, 1946 Industrial & Labor Relations) - California, 1959-62
Robert J. Mrazek (B.A. 1967 Government) - New York 3rd District, 1983-93
James R. Olin (B.E.E. 1943) - Virginia, 1983-93
Richard Ottinger (B.A. 1950) - New York, 1965-71, 1975-85); Founder and second staff member of the Peace Corps, 1961-64); Dean of Pace Law School, 1994-99
Edward Worthington Pattison (B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957) - New York, 1975-79
James Parker (1887) - New York 29th District, 1913-33
John Raymond Pillion (L.L.B. 1927) - New York, 1953-65
Alexander Pirnie (1924, J.D. 1926) - New York 34th District, 1959-63), 32nd District, 1963-73
Daniel A. Reed (1898) - New York 43rd District, 1919-45, 1953-59), 45th District, 1945-53
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (B.A. 1933) - Wisconsin, 1955-83
Howard Winfield Robison (1937, law 1939) - New York, 1958-75
James A. Roe (School of Military Aeronautics 1917) - New York, 1945-47
George Shiras III (1881) - Pennsylvania, 1903-05
Henry P. Smith III (law 1936) - New York, 1965-75
Sam Steiger - (Arizona, 1967-77
Elmer E. Studley (1894) - New York, 1933-35
Frank Sundstrom (1924) - New Jersey 11th District, 1943-49
Paul Harold Todd, Jr. (B.S. 1942) - Michigan, 1965-67), CEO of Planned Parenthood, 1967-70
William Edgar Tuttle, Jr. (undergrad 1887-89) - New Jersey, 1911-15
George Ernest Waldo (undergrad 1868-70) - New York, 1905-09
John De Witt Warner (1872) - New York, 1891-95
John S. Wold (M.S. 1939) - Wyoming, 1969-71
Business Founders
Willis Carrier (M.E. 1901) - Founder of Carrier Corporation; inventor of air conditioning
Adolph Coors (B.A. 1907) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
Joseph Coors (B.Chem. 1939, Chem. E. 1940) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
Mac Cummings (B.A. 2001) Co-founder of Terakeet Corporation; Director of Internet Finance
David Duffield (B.E.E. 1962, M.B.A. 1964) - Co-founder of PeopleSoft
Chuck Feeney (B.S. Hotel Administration) - Founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, Founder & Director of Atlantic Philanthropies
Frank Gannett (B.A. 1898) - Founder of Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher; namesake of Gannett Health Center
Paul Graham (B.A.) - Co-founder of Viaweb, sold for $46.6 million to Yahoo! and became Yahoo! Stores; Lisp programmer, author
Leroy Grumman (M.E. 1916) - Founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Myra Hart (B.A. 1962, M.B.A. 1981, Trustee, 1999-) - One of four founders of Staples, Inc., Professor at Harvard Business School
Jeff Hawkins (B.S. 1979 Electrical Engineering) - Founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring; inventor of the Palm Pilot
Irwin M. Jacobs, Co-founder of Qualcomm
Irwin M. Jacobs (B.E.E. 1956) - Co-founder and Chairman of Qualcomm; UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, philanthropist
Edward Leamington Nichols (B.S. 1875, Professor) - Founder of the Physical Review
Drew Nieporent (B.S. 1977 Hotel Administration) - Owner of Myriad Restaurant Group, which operates 16 restaurants in six U.S. cities
Franklin W. Olin (B.C.E. 1886) - Founder of Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Hall
John M. Olin (B.S. 1913 Chemistry) - Founder of John M. Olin Foundation, President, Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Library
Jay Walker (B.S. 1977 Industrial Relations) - Founder of Priceline.com; founder and chairman, Walker Digital
Sanford I. Weill (B.A. 1955 Government) - Former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup; founder of Shearson Loeb Rhoades, sold for $930 million to American Express; namesake of Weill Cornell Medical College
Robin Wolaner (B.S. 1975 Industrial and Labor Relations) - Founder of Parenting Magazine
Kevin McGovern (B.A. 1970) Co-Founder of SoBe Beverages
Chairpersons, CEO's, Executives
Al Bernardin (1952) - Creator of the McDonald's Quarter Pounder.5 Former Vice President of Product Development for McDonald's.
Val A. Browning (B.S. 1917) - President of Browning Arms Company
John T. Bohenick (B.S. 1983 Mechanical Engineering) - President (2007-2009) of Gates Corporation
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. (undergrad 1906-09, dropped out) - President (1940-48) and Chairman (1948-62) of DuPont
Anand Chandrasekher (B.S. Computer Science, Master in Engineering, MBA) - Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group of Intel Corporation
Abby Joseph Cohen (B.A. 1973 Economics and Computer Science, Trustee) - Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Pete Coors (B.S. 1969 Industrial Engineering) - Executive of Coors Brewing Company, Senatorial candidate, 2004
Kenneth T. Derr (B.S. 1959 Mechanical Engineering, M.B.A. 1960, Trustee) - Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation, 1989-99
Dave Dombrowski (undergrad 1974-75, transferred) - President, CEO, and General Manager of the Detroit Tigers
William R. Donnell (1945) President of historic Gulf Stream Hotel.
Reggie Fils-Aime (B.S. 1983 Applied Economics) - President of Nintendo's North American division
Byron Grote (Ph.D. 1981 Quantitative Analysis) - Chief Financial Officer of BP
Raj Gupta (M.S. 1969 Operations Research) - CEO and president of Rohm and Haas6
Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1922 Chemistry) - President of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and namesake of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus
Herbert Fisk Johnson III - 5 Cornell degrees 1979-86 - CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and Trustee Emeritus of Cornell
Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1950 Economics) - Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and co-namesake of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Thomas W. Jones (B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, Trustee) - Principal of TWJ Capital LLC
Erick Keller (B.S.) - COO of KPCB
Lowell McAdam (M.E. 1976) - President & CEO - Verizon Wireless.
William D. Perez (B.A. 1969 Government) - CEO of Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company, CEO of Nike, Inc., 2004-06
Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (M.E. 1908) - Vice President (1912-1947) and Chairman (1947-1963) of Sun Oil Company; founder of The Pew Charitable Trusts; namesake of Pew Engineering Quad
Lewis Platt (B.S. 1964 Mechanical Engineering) - CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99), Chairman of Boeing, 2003-05
Justin Rattner (B.S. 1970 Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1972 Computer Science) - Chief Technology Officer of Intel, ABC News Person of the Week for his work on the ASCI Red system (fastest computer in the world, 1996-2000), R&D Magazine's "Scientist of the Year", 1989
Bruce S. Raynor (B.S. 1972 Industrial & Labor Relations) - President of UNITE HERE
Kevin Reilly (B.A. 1984) - President of NBC Entertainment, 2004-present
Jon Rubinstein (B.S. 1978, M.Eng 1979) - CEO of Palm, Inc., Apple SVP 1997-2006.
Steven Sinofsky (B.A. 1987) - President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering at Microsoft
Warren Staley (M.B.A. 1967) - Chairman and CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company; member of President's Export Council under George W. Bush
Ratan Tata (B.Arch. 1962) - Chairman of Tata Group, India's wealthiest business group, 1991-present
Walter C. Teagle (B.S. 1899, Trustee, 1924-54) - President and Chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil); namesake of Teagle Hall
Myron Charles Taylor (LL.B. 1894) - Chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel, 1932-38); namesake of Taylor Hall
Arnold Tremere, Executive Director, Government Official (Canadian International Grains Institute)
Rick Tsai (Ph.D 1981) - CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Harold Uris (B.S. 1925, Trustee 1967-1972) - Real estate investor and builder; namesake of Uris Hall
Mark Whitacre, COO of Cypress Systems (Ph.D. Nutritional Biochemistry)
Heads of State
Jamshid Amuzegar (B.S. 1945 Engineering, Ph.D. 1951) - Prime Minister of Iran, 1977-78
Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol (LL.M. 2002, J.S.D. 2005) - Princess of Thailand 1
Lee Teng-hui (Ph.D. 1968 Agricultural Economics) - President of Republic of China (Taiwan), 1988-2000
Mario García Menocal (B.S. 1888 Engineering) - President of Cuba, 1913–21
U.S. Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks
Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 Government) - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
Samuel W. Bodman (B.S. 1961 Chemical Engineering) - Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2001-03; Secretary of Energy, 2005-2009
Lincoln D. Faurer (attended, did not graduate) - Director, National Security Agency 1981-85
Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969 Government) - National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, 2005-2009
Eugene K. Jones - (M.A. 1908 Social Science) Member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, Founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
C. Everett Koop (M.D. 1941) - Surgeon General of the United States under president Ronald Reagan, 1982-89
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (undergrad 1909-10, 1912-13, dropped out) - Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45
Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939) - Governor of Maine, 1955-59; Senator from Maine, 1959-80; Vice Presidential Candidate, 1968; Secretary of State, 1980-81
Samuel Pierce (B.A. 1947, J.D. 1949; Trustee, 1972-77, 1978-82) - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, 1981-89
Thomas C. Reed (B.S. 1956 Mechanical Engineering) - Secretary of the Air Force under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1976-77
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 Chemistry; Professor) - Attorney General under Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937) - Attorney General, 1957-61), Secretary of State, 1969-73), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, 1973
Louis Wade Sullivan (Medical College Resident) - Founder and Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, 1975, Secretary of Health and Human Services under George H. W. Bush, 1989-93
Paul Wolfowitz (B.A. 1965 Mathematics and Chemistry) - Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, 2001-05, President of the World Bank, 2005-2007
U.S. Senators, Governors, Supreme Court
Joseph B. Foraker (B.A. 1869) - Governor of Ohio, 1886-90). Senator, Ohio, 1897-1909). One of eight members of Cornell's first graduating class.
Douglas H. Ginsburg (B.S. 1970) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (B.A. 1954 Government) - U.S. Supreme Court associate justice
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (1924) - Representative, Missouri 11th District, 1935-40). Senator, Missouri, 1951-60).
Philip H. Hoff (J.D. 1951) - Governor of Vermont, 1963-69). First Democrat to serve in that position since the Civil War.
Goodwin Knight (graduate study 1919-20) - Governor of California, 1953-59
Chuck Robb (undergrad 1957-58, transferred) - Senator, Virginia, 1989-2001
U.S. Congressmen
John G. Alexander (J.D. 1916) - Minnesota 3rd District, 1939-41
Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982) - New Jersey 1st District, 1990-present
Andrew Biemiller (B.A. 1926) - Wisconsin, 1945-47, 1949-51
Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1921) - Michigan, 1939-47
Abraham Lincoln Brick (undergrad) - Indiana, 1899-1908
Barber Conable (B.A. 1942 Medieval History, LL.B. 1948) - New York 37th District, 1965-73; 35th District, 1973-83; 30th District, 1983-85; President of the World Bank, 1986-91
Maurice Connolly (1897) - Iowa, 1913-15
Thomas Joseph Downey (B.S. 1970) - New York 2nd District, 1975-93
Bob Filner (B.A. 1963 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1973 History of Science) - California 50th District, 1993-2003, 51st District, 2003-present
Gabrielle Giffords (M.R.P. 1996) - Arizona, 8th District, 2007-present
Norman Judd Gould (M.E. 1899) - New York, 1915-23
Gilbert Gude (B.S. 1948) - Maryland 8th District, 1967-77
Edwin Arthur Hall - New York, 1939-53
Joseph Clifford Hendrix (studies 1870-73; Trustee) - New York, 1893-95
Frank Horton (L.L.B. 1947) - New York 36th District, 1963-73), 34th District, 1973-83), 29th District, 1983-93
Charles Samuel Joelson (B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939) - New Jersey, 1961-69
Clarence Evans Kilburn (1916) - New York, 1940-65
Mark Kirk (B.A. 1981 History) - Illinois 10th District, 2001-present
Gary Alcide Lee (graduate study 1963) - New York, 1979-83
Norman F. Lent (L.L.B. 1957) - New York 5th District, 1971-73), 4th District, 1973-93
Lewis Henry, 1909) - New York, 1922-23
Richard Dean McCarthy (graduate study) - New York, 1965-71
Clement Woodnutt Miller, 1946 Industrial & Labor Relations) - California, 1959-62
Robert J. Mrazek (B.A. 1967 Government) - New York 3rd District, 1983-93
James R. Olin (B.E.E. 1943) - Virginia, 1983-93
Richard Ottinger (B.A. 1950) - New York, 1965-71, 1975-85); Founder and second staff member of the Peace Corps, 1961-64); Dean of Pace Law School, 1994-99
Edward Worthington Pattison (B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957) - New York, 1975-79
James Parker (1887) - New York 29th District, 1913-33
John Raymond Pillion (L.L.B. 1927) - New York, 1953-65
Alexander Pirnie (1924, J.D. 1926) - New York 34th District, 1959-63), 32nd District, 1963-73
Daniel A. Reed (1898) - New York 43rd District, 1919-45, 1953-59), 45th District, 1945-53
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (B.A. 1933) - Wisconsin, 1955-83
Howard Winfield Robison (1937, law 1939) - New York, 1958-75
James A. Roe (School of Military Aeronautics 1917) - New York, 1945-47
George Shiras III (1881) - Pennsylvania, 1903-05
Henry P. Smith III (law 1936) - New York, 1965-75
Sam Steiger - (Arizona, 1967-77
Elmer E. Studley (1894) - New York, 1933-35
Frank Sundstrom (1924) - New Jersey 11th District, 1943-49
Paul Harold Todd, Jr. (B.S. 1942) - Michigan, 1965-67), CEO of Planned Parenthood, 1967-70
William Edgar Tuttle, Jr. (undergrad 1887-89) - New Jersey, 1911-15
George Ernest Waldo (undergrad 1868-70) - New York, 1905-09
John De Witt Warner (1872) - New York, 1891-95
John S. Wold (M.S. 1939) - Wyoming, 1969-71
Business Founders
Willis Carrier (M.E. 1901) - Founder of Carrier Corporation; inventor of air conditioning
Adolph Coors (B.A. 1907) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
Joseph Coors (B.Chem. 1939, Chem. E. 1940) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
Mac Cummings (B.A. 2001) Co-founder of Terakeet Corporation; Director of Internet Finance
David Duffield (B.E.E. 1962, M.B.A. 1964) - Co-founder of PeopleSoft
Chuck Feeney (B.S. Hotel Administration) - Founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, Founder & Director of Atlantic Philanthropies
Frank Gannett (B.A. 1898) - Founder of Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher; namesake of Gannett Health Center
Paul Graham (B.A.) - Co-founder of Viaweb, sold for $46.6 million to Yahoo! and became Yahoo! Stores; Lisp programmer, author
Leroy Grumman (M.E. 1916) - Founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Myra Hart (B.A. 1962, M.B.A. 1981, Trustee, 1999-) - One of four founders of Staples, Inc., Professor at Harvard Business School
Jeff Hawkins (B.S. 1979 Electrical Engineering) - Founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring; inventor of the Palm Pilot
Irwin M. Jacobs, Co-founder of Qualcomm
Irwin M. Jacobs (B.E.E. 1956) - Co-founder and Chairman of Qualcomm; UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, philanthropist
Edward Leamington Nichols (B.S. 1875, Professor) - Founder of the Physical Review
Drew Nieporent (B.S. 1977 Hotel Administration) - Owner of Myriad Restaurant Group, which operates 16 restaurants in six U.S. cities
Franklin W. Olin (B.C.E. 1886) - Founder of Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Hall
John M. Olin (B.S. 1913 Chemistry) - Founder of John M. Olin Foundation, President, Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Library
Jay Walker (B.S. 1977 Industrial Relations) - Founder of Priceline.com; founder and chairman, Walker Digital
Sanford I. Weill (B.A. 1955 Government) - Former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup; founder of Shearson Loeb Rhoades, sold for $930 million to American Express; namesake of Weill Cornell Medical College
Robin Wolaner (B.S. 1975 Industrial and Labor Relations) - Founder of Parenting Magazine
Kevin McGovern (B.A. 1970) Co-Founder of SoBe Beverages
Chairpersons, CEO's, Executives
Al Bernardin (1952) - Creator of the McDonald's Quarter Pounder.5 Former Vice President of Product Development for McDonald's.
Val A. Browning (B.S. 1917) - President of Browning Arms Company
John T. Bohenick (B.S. 1983 Mechanical Engineering) - President (2007-2009) of Gates Corporation
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. (undergrad 1906-09, dropped out) - President (1940-48) and Chairman (1948-62) of DuPont
Anand Chandrasekher (B.S. Computer Science, Master in Engineering, MBA) - Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group of Intel Corporation
Abby Joseph Cohen (B.A. 1973 Economics and Computer Science, Trustee) - Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Pete Coors (B.S. 1969 Industrial Engineering) - Executive of Coors Brewing Company, Senatorial candidate, 2004
Kenneth T. Derr (B.S. 1959 Mechanical Engineering, M.B.A. 1960, Trustee) - Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation, 1989-99
Dave Dombrowski (undergrad 1974-75, transferred) - President, CEO, and General Manager of the Detroit Tigers
William R. Donnell (1945) President of historic Gulf Stream Hotel.
Reggie Fils-Aime (B.S. 1983 Applied Economics) - President of Nintendo's North American division
Byron Grote (Ph.D. 1981 Quantitative Analysis) - Chief Financial Officer of BP
Raj Gupta (M.S. 1969 Operations Research) - CEO and president of Rohm and Haas6
Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1922 Chemistry) - President of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and namesake of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus
Herbert Fisk Johnson III - 5 Cornell degrees 1979-86 - CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and Trustee Emeritus of Cornell
Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1950 Economics) - Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and co-namesake of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Thomas W. Jones (B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, Trustee) - Principal of TWJ Capital LLC
Erick Keller (B.S.) - COO of KPCB
Lowell McAdam (M.E. 1976) - President & CEO - Verizon Wireless.
William D. Perez (B.A. 1969 Government) - CEO of Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company, CEO of Nike, Inc., 2004-06
Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (M.E. 1908) - Vice President (1912-1947) and Chairman (1947-1963) of Sun Oil Company; founder of The Pew Charitable Trusts; namesake of Pew Engineering Quad
Lewis Platt (B.S. 1964 Mechanical Engineering) - CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99), Chairman of Boeing, 2003-05
Justin Rattner (B.S. 1970 Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1972 Computer Science) - Chief Technology Officer of Intel, ABC News Person of the Week for his work on the ASCI Red system (fastest computer in the world, 1996-2000), R&D Magazine's "Scientist of the Year", 1989
Bruce S. Raynor (B.S. 1972 Industrial & Labor Relations) - President of UNITE HERE
Kevin Reilly (B.A. 1984) - President of NBC Entertainment, 2004-present
Jon Rubinstein (B.S. 1978, M.Eng 1979) - CEO of Palm, Inc., Apple SVP 1997-2006.
Steven Sinofsky (B.A. 1987) - President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering at Microsoft
Warren Staley (M.B.A. 1967) - Chairman and CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company; member of President's Export Council under George W. Bush
Ratan Tata (B.Arch. 1962) - Chairman of Tata Group, India's wealthiest business group, 1991-present
Walter C. Teagle (B.S. 1899, Trustee, 1924-54) - President and Chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil); namesake of Teagle Hall
Myron Charles Taylor (LL.B. 1894) - Chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel, 1932-38); namesake of Taylor Hall
Arnold Tremere, Executive Director, Government Official (Canadian International Grains Institute)
Rick Tsai (Ph.D 1981) - CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Harold Uris (B.S. 1925, Trustee 1967-1972) - Real estate investor and builder; namesake of Uris Hall
Mark Whitacre, COO of Cypress Systems (Ph.D. Nutritional Biochemistry)
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According to listafterlist.com, listed below are some of the famous people attended Cornell University:
#Harry W. Coover Jr. (M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944) - Prolific product inventor, notably cyanoacrylate adhesives (Super Glue); member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
# Walter McCrone (B.S. 1938 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1942 Organic Chemistry) - Leading expert in microscopy, best known for work on the Shroud of Turin and the Vinland map
#Robert C. Baker (B.S. 1943; Professor) - Inventor of the chicken nugget
#Keith Downey (Ph.D. 1961) - Inventor of canola oil
#Arthur Rose Eldred (B.S. 1916 Agriculture) - America's first Eagle Scout, 1912), agriculturalist
#Robert Trent Jones, 1931) - Designer of about 500 golf courses
#Huey Lewis (undergrad 1967-69, dropped out) - Rock musician, Huey Lewis and the News
#Bill Maher (B.A. 1978 English) - Comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist
#Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979) - News anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster who currently hosts Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
#Harry W. Coover Jr. (M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944) - Prolific product inventor, notably cyanoacrylate adhesives (Super Glue); member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
# Walter McCrone (B.S. 1938 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1942 Organic Chemistry) - Leading expert in microscopy, best known for work on the Shroud of Turin and the Vinland map
#Robert C. Baker (B.S. 1943; Professor) - Inventor of the chicken nugget
#Keith Downey (Ph.D. 1961) - Inventor of canola oil
#Arthur Rose Eldred (B.S. 1916 Agriculture) - America's first Eagle Scout, 1912), agriculturalist
#Robert Trent Jones, 1931) - Designer of about 500 golf courses
#Huey Lewis (undergrad 1967-69, dropped out) - Rock musician, Huey Lewis and the News
#Bill Maher (B.A. 1978 English) - Comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist
#Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979) - News anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster who currently hosts Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
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