Yale University: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Yale College • Collegiate School
Date	1701 - present
Notable Alumni	Benjamin Silliman • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • Robert A.M. Stern • Harold Bloom • William Nordhaus • James E. Rothman • Philip Dybvig • John B. Fenn • Lyman Spitzer • Ernest Orlando Lawrence • James Comer • Edmund S. Phelps • Lars Onsager • Dumas Malone • Vincent Scully • George W. Bush • Clarence Thomas • JD Vance • Bill Clinton • Hillary Clinton • Samuel A. Alito, Jr. • Jonathan Edwards • Min Jin Lee • Brett Kavanaugh • Vivek Ramaswamy • Sherrod Brown • George H.W. Bush • Pauli Murray • Kehinde Wiley • Stacey Abrams • John C. Calhoun • Hunter Biden • Larry Kramer • Vivek Murthy • John Bolton • Lynn Nottage • Meryl Streep • Henry Winkler • Amy Klobuchar • Thorstein Veblen • Gerald Ford • William Howard Taft • Michael Harrington • Alan J. Pakula • Prescott S. Bush • Jack Schlossberg • Ron DeSantis • Samuel F.B. Morse • Sonia Sotomayor • Sigourney Weaver • Samantha Power • Naomi Wolf • Cory Booker • Anita Hill • Ben Carson • Noah Webster • Scott Bessent • Josh Hawley • Usha Vance • Eli Whitney • Audrey Flack • Judith Butler • Jonathan Majors • George Roy Hill • Paul Giamatti • John Kerry • Jeremy Strong • Lina Khan • Maya Lin • Joseph Lieberman • Wangechi Mutu • Anderson Cooper • Sheila Hicks • James A. Robinson • Francis Collins • Barkley L. Hendricks • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Stephen Greenblatt • Joel Mokyr • Angela Bassett • Tom Steyer • Edward Norton • Frances McDormand • Roni Horn • Ben Sasse • Claes Oldenburg • Michael Woodford • Robert A. Dahl • Michael Bennet • Garry Wills • Jerry Brown • Chris Coons • Jodie Foster • Catharine A. MacKinnon • Tony Shalhoub • Bob Woodward • Janet Yellen • Arthur Laffer • Eddie Lampert • Norman Foster • Alan Dershowitz • Mario Monti • Gary Hart • Richard Serra • Robert D. Putnam • Richard Rogers • Dick Smith • Michael Cimino • Robert Penn Warren • Indra Nooyi • Robert Moses • Murray Gell-Mann • Garry Trudeau • Bill Nelson • Carl Woese • Martin Puryear • Ann Hamilton • Michael Mukasey • John Ashcroft • Anne Wojcicki • Tom Wolfe • David McCullough • Brian K. Kobilka • Cole Porter • Arlen Specter • Sinclair Lewis • Douglas Diamond • Pat Robertson • Frederick Wiseman • Stanley Tigerman • Robert Maynard Hutchins • Richard Blumenthal • Porter Goss • Grace Hopper • John Negroponte • Camille Paglia • Jennifer Connelly • Abe Fortas • Theodore R. Sizer • Paul Krugman • Evelyn Granville • David Duchovny • Charles Yanofsky • Henry Luce • Moses Coit Tyler • Philip C. Curtis • I. Michael Heyman • Peter A. Diamond • Howard Dean • Harry Nyquist • John Guare • Ernesto Zedillo • Roberto Crispulo Goizueta • Tansu Çiller • Sheldon Whitehouse • Samuel Seabury • Alfred G. Gilman • Brice Marden • Gordon Gould • Archibald MacLeish • Peter Ackroyd • Les Aspin • Raymond Davis, Jr. • Leonard Baskin • Thornton Wilder • William Rainey Harper • Cyrus Vance • Eric Bentley • John Barrasso • John B. Goodenough • George A. Akerlof • Stephen Vincent Benét • Frederick W. Smith • Eleanor Holmes Norton • Eddie Eagan • David Davis • John Griggs Thompson • McGeorge Bundy • R. Sargent Shriver • Thomas McGuane • Crown Princess Victoria • Easley Blackwood, Jr. • William Kunstler • W. Edwards Deming • Nannerl Overholser Keohane • Eleanor J. Gibson • Matthew Barney • Byron R. White • Pudge Heffelfinger • Edward Alexander Bouchet • Robert F. Wagner • Stanley Fish • Wilbur Olin Atwater • Gloria Naylor • Reginald Marsh • Henry Melson Stommel • David Lee • Frederic Remington • James Henry Breasted • Owen Dodson
Related People	John Hay Whitney • Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage • Anna M. Richardson Harkness • Kingman Brewster, Jr. • Elihu Yale • Alfred Whitney Griswold • Jeremiah Dummer • George Peabody • James Rowland Angell • Benjamin Silliman • Theodore Dwight Woolsey • A. Bartlett Giamatti

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