The following persons are notable alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.

Academia

College or university presidents James F. Barker (AM 1973): former president of Clemson University Rebecca Ehretsman (MA): 18th president of Wartburg College Thomas Lamb Eliot (AB 1862, AM 1866): founding board member and president of Reed College Deborah Freund (AB 1973): president of Claremont Graduate University Barry Glassner (MA, PHD): 24th president of Lewis & Clark College Nathan O. Hatch (AM 1972, PhD 1974): president emeritus of Wake Forest University Edward S. Holden (SB 1866): fifth president of the University of California; director of the Lick Observatory Joyce Ladner (AM 1966, PhD 1968): sociologist, civil rights activist and interim president of Howard University Walter E. Massey (AM 1966, PhD 1966): physicist, director of the National Science Foundation, president of Morehouse College Horace Mitchell (AB 1968, MA 1969, PhD 1974): president of California State University Bakersfield Daniel Nathans (MD 1954): former president of Johns Hopkins University H. Richard Niebuhr (AM 1917): theologian, former president of Elmhurst College and professor at Yale University Larry Robinson (PhD 1984): academic, administrator, chemist and the current President of Florida A&M University Abram L. Sachar (AB 1920, AM 1920): founding president of Brandeis University Kim Schatzel (BS 1978): 19th president of University of Louisville Song Ja (MBA 1962, DBA 1967): former president of Yonsei University and Myongji University; South Korean Minister of Education Samuel Stanley (MD 1980): fifth president of Stony Brook University Woo Chia-wei (MA, PhD): founding president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; first Asian American president of a major U.S. university (San Francisco State University)

Professors

Francis J. Beckwith (MJS): professor and associate director of the graduate program in philosophy at Baylor University Jessie Bernard (PhD 1935): sociologist; feminist scholar, professor at Pennsylvania State University Judson A. Brewer (PhD 2002, MD 2004): neuroscientist and psychiatrist, director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center and professor at Brown University William M. Bugg (PhD 1959): professor at the University of Tennessee and fellow of the American Physical Society Ewald W. Busse (M.D.): professor at Duke University and president of the American Psychiatric Association Elizabeth A. Craig: biochemistry professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison; member of the National Academy of Sciences Keith Crandall (PhD 1993): founding director of the Computational Biology Institute and professor at George Washington University Lorrie Cranor (BS 1992, MS 1993, MS 1996, D.Sc. 1996): professor at Carnegie Mellon University; served as chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission Carolyn S. Gordon (PhD 1979): Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College Kenneth I. Gross (PhD 1966): mathematician, professor at University of Vermont and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Raelynn Hillhouse (AB): novelist, political scientist, national security expert, professor at University of Michigan and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Barbara Krauthamer (MA 1994): African-American historian, professor at New York University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University Lauren Krivo (AB 1978): professor of sociology at Rutgers University Richard Lischer (MA 1967): theologian and professor at Duke Divinity School Donald Livingston (PhD 1965): professor of philosophy at Emory University and constitutional scholar John L. Loos (PhD c. 1953): historian and professor at Louisiana State University, researcher of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Richard V. E. Lovelace (BS Physics 1964): astrophysicist and plasma physicist at Cornell University Julius B. Maller (AB 1925): professor of psychology at Yeshiva University Richard McKelvey (MA 1967): political scientist, specialized in mathematical theories of voting and Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology William E. Moerner (BS, AB 1975): Nobel Prize-winning chemical physicist, professor at Stanford University Jonathan D. Moreno (PhD 1977): David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Bruce Ovbiagele (MLS 2021): professor of Neurology and associate dean at the University of California, San Francisco and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Heart Association Eugene B. Redmond (AM 1966): poet and professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Maurice H. Rees: medical educator, professor at University of Colorado Boulder, and dean of University of Colorado School of Medicine 1925–1945 Bruce Rittmann (B.S., M.S. 1974): Regents' Professor at Arizona State University Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (MSW 1944), social worker and professor at the University of Puerto Rico Elizabeth Scarlett (AB 1983): author of books on Spanish literature and film, professor at University at Buffalo Pepper Schwartz (AB 1967, MA 1969): sociologist, sexologist, and professor at the University of Washington Hollis Taylor: author and musicologist at Macquarie University Thea Tlsty (PhD 1980): professor of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco L. Randell Wray (MA, PhD): economist associated with modern monetary theory and professor of economics at Bard College Ellen W. Zegura (BS 1987, MS 1990, D.Sc. 1993): professor at Georgia Tech Jacquelyn Zita (BA, PhD): former professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at University of Minnesota

Arts, including literature

A–M Ericka Beckman (BFA 1974): filmmaker Deanne Bell (BS 2002): host of Discovery Channel's Smash Lab and PBS's Design Squad Suessa Baldridge Blaine: writer of temperance pageants Morris Carnovsky (AB): stage and film actor Steve Carver (MFA): film director Douglass Crockwell (BS 1926): commercial artist and experimental filmmaker Larry Cuba (AB 1972): animator Robert Culp (attended): television actor Patricia Degener: artist Kyle DeWoody (BA 2007): gallery owner Anita Diamant (AB 1973): novelist Doug Dillard: bluegrass musician, banjo player for the Dillards Song Ja (MBA 1962, DBA 1967): former president of Yonsei University and Myongji University; South Korean Minister of Education Sean Douglas (LA 2005): multi-platinum songwriter and producer Richard Eastham (studied prior to World War II): actor Henry Ware Eliot (AB 1863): father of poet T. S. Eliot; former president of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis George Pearse Ennis: painter and watercolorist Lillie Rose Ernst: leader of The Potters, an artistic group in early 20th-century St. Louis Jon Feltheimer (AB 1972): CEO of Lionsgate Films Emily Fridlund: author of History of Wolves Tom Friedman (BFA 1988): conceptual sculptor Bernie Fuchs (MFA 1954): painter and illustrator Richa Gangopadhyay (MBA 2017): actress John Gardner (AB 1955): novelist Dave Garroway (AB 1936): Today Show host Cheryl Goldsleger (MFA 1975): artist Alicia Graf Mack (MA): dancer Elizabeth Graver (MFA 1999): novelist Robert Guillaume: stage and television actor Gustave Haenschen: pianist, composer, recording director (Brunswick Records), orchestral conductor and radio executive Garth Risk Hallberg (MFA 2001): novelist Henry Hampton (AB 1961): filmmaker; producer of PBS civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize John Hartford: bluegrass fiddler and banjo player Edmund Hartmann: film and television writer and producer Veronica Helfensteller: painter and printer Ronald Himes: theatrical producer, director, and actor Ann Hirsch (BFA 2007): artist Daniel Hirsh (AB 2005): actor and filmmaker A. E. Hotchner (AB 1940, JD 1940): biographer and novelist (Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill) Fannie Hurst (AB 1909): writer and social activist Josephine Johnson (student 1926–1931): Pulitzer Prize-winning author Roland C. Jordan: composer and music theorist Stan Kann (AB 1946): theater organist Johnny Kastl (AB, 1997): television actor (Scrubs) Hank Klibanoff (AB 1971): author and Pulitzer Prize winner Zander Lehmann (AB 2009): creator, writer, and producer of the TV show Casual Caryn Mandabach (AB 1970): Emmy award-winning television and film producer of the Cosby Show Shepherd Mead (AB 1936): playwright (How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) David Merrick (AB 1934): Broadway producer Creighton Michael (MFA): abstract artist Marvin Miller: actor, voice actor, radio announcer, multiple time winner of Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album Ian Monroe (BFA 1995): visual artist

N–Z Oliver Nelson (student 1954–1957): jazz musician and composer David McCheyne Newell: naturalist, writer Frank Nuderscher: American Impressionist painter and muralistGerdts, William H. Art across America: two centuries of regional painting, 1710–1920, Volume 3. Abbeville Press, 1991, p. 59.Falk, Peter Hastings. Who was Who in American Art 1564–1975 Vol II. Sound View Press, 1999 p. 2445. Al Parker (student 1923–28): illustrator J. D. Parran (AM 1971): jazz musician Ebony Patterson (MFA 2006): visual artist Sandra Payne (BFA): visual artist Mike Peters (BFA 1965): Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, creator of Mother Goose and Grimm Judy Pfaff (BFA 1971): visual artist Dan Piraro (dropped out): cartoonist of Bizarro Robert Quine (JD 1968): rock guitarist Harold Ramis (AB 1966): film actor, writer and director

David Ready (BA 2001): film producer, President of Film at Chernin Entertainment Eugene B. Redmond (MA 1966): poet, critic, civil-rights activist Irma S. Rombauer (AB): co-author of The Joy of CookingPapers of the Rombauer–Becker Family, 1795–1992. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Allen Rucker: television writer and novelist Peter Sarsgaard (AB 1993): actor Steven Sater: Broadway lyricist, playwright, and poet Peter Saul (BFA 1956): painter Michael Shamberg: video artist, producer Jane Sauer (BA 1959): fiber artist, sculptor William Jay Smith (AB 1939; MA 1941): nineteenth United States Poet Laureate Maxwell Stevens (MFA 1995): painter, visual artist Dan Storper (AB ’73): founder and CEO of Putumayo World Music Allan Trautman (AB 1976): actor, puppeteer Jeff Tremaine (AB 1990): director, producer, and co-creator of MTV's Jackass Anne Valente (AB 2003): novelist, short story writer Charles van Ravenswaay (AB 1933, AM 1934): historian, first paid director of the Missouri Historical Society Kristin Bauer van Straten: television actress on True Blood Lauren Weinstein (AB 1998): cartoonist June Weybright: composer Luke Whisnant (MFA 1982): novelist, short story writer Mary Wickes (AB 1930): stage, film, and television actress Tennessee Williams (student 1936–37): playwright Olly Wilson (AB 1959): composerEileen Southern, "Olly Wilson: The Education of a Composer", The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 56–70. Ben H. Winters (BA 1998): author, playwright, screenwriter Qiu Xiaolong (MA 1993) (PhD 1995): crime novelist, English-language poet, literary translator, critic, and academic

Architecture and design

Marshall Brown, professor of architecture at Princeton University Charles Eames: designer, architect, filmmaker Hugh Ferriss (B.Arch 1911, M.Arch 1928): architect Tom Friedman (BFA 1988): conceptual sculptor, artist Alan Goldberg (1954): architect Walker Hancock: sculptor, 1989 National Medal of Arts winner Gyo Obata (B.Arch 1945): architect; co-founder and chairman of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum James F. O'Gorman (B.Arch 1956): architectural historian and author Carlos Ott (M.Arch 1972): Uruguayan-Canadian architect of the Opéra Bastille C. P. Wang (M.Arch 1973): architect for Taipei 101, the world's tallest building as of 2005

Business

Fahd Al-Rasheed (BSBA): CEO of the Royal Commission for Riyadh City John H. Biggs (PhD): former CEO of TIAA-CREF