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Also Known As	College of New Jersey
Notable Alumni	Woodrow Wilson • Henry Norris Russell • David Card • Fei-Fei Li • Cornel West • Paul Volcker • Henry Fairfield Osborn • Gresham M. Sykes • John Tate • Frank Wilczek • Dana Scott • Lyman Spitzer • William Meredith • Karl Taylor Compton • Charles Fefferman • Pete Hegseth • Samuel A. Alito, Jr. • Eugene O’Neill • James Madison • Michael Lewis • Jerome Powell • MacKenzie Scott • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Dario Amodei • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Ted Cruz • Sonia Sotomayor • Robert Mueller • Aaron Burr • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski • Jeff Bezos • Lachlan Murdoch • Mellody Hobson • Michelle Obama • James Stewart • Maria Ressa • Errol Morris • Robert Caro • George Will • Meg Whitman • David E. Kelley • W.S. Merwin • Joshua Angrist • Jonathan Safran Foer • Robert Venturi • Ethan Coen • Lisa P. Jackson • Carl Icahn • Bill Frist • Benjamin Rush • Ralph Nader • Marvin Minsky • Eric Schmidt • Donald Rumsfeld • Eliot Spitzer • George Shultz • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies • John Bogle • Robert Kahn • Robert L. Johnson • Francis Preston Blair, Jr. • Bennett S. LeBow • James Peebles • John F. Hartwig • James Baker • Frank Stella • John Nash • Paul W. Taylor • Steve Forbes • Arthur Holly Compton • David Hackett Fischer • Andrea Jung • Jeff Merkley • Lee Iacocca • Dani Rodrik • David Duchovny • Lloyd Shapley • Queen Noor • Frances Arnold • Bill Bradley • Michael Stonebraker • José Donoso • James J. Heckman • J. Tuzo Wilson • Oliver Hart • Steven Weinberg • Pete Conrad • Gary S. Becker • Edwin Mattison McMillan • John Bardeen • Lowell Thomas • T. Berry Brazelton • Richard Rush • Michael Fried • Michael Freedman • José Ferrer • William Colby • John McCarthy • John Stossel • Robert Hofstadter • Gerald Carr • John Peale Bishop • Edward Witten • Gerard Barnes Lambert • John D. Rockefeller III • Richard E. Stearns • Laurance S. Rockefeller • Charles Hodge • Mary E. Brunkow • Clinton Joseph Davisson • Francis Robbins Upton
Related People	Woodrow Wilson • Shirley M. Tilghman • Christina H. Paxson • John Witherspoon • Jonathan Dickinson • Jonathan Belcher