- Ralph Abraham, American mathematician
- Cephas Yao Agbemenu African Art Professor and Traditional African Wood Carver-Traveler
- Debabrata Basu, the India-born mathematical-statistician, Florida State University
- Raj Aggarwal, American business and finance professor, former dean of University of Akron College of Business Administration
- Shamshad Akhtar, Pakistani banker, former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (2006–2009)
- Arlene Alda, American author, photographer, and musician
- Karim Alrawi, Egyptian/British author and playwright
- Augusto Álvarez Rodrich, Peruvian economist and journalist
- Harold Amos, American microbiologist and professor
- Francis Andersen, Australian Hebrew and biblical studies scholar
- Nancy Andreasen, American neuroscientist, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2000
- Richard Antoun, American professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, murdered by graduate student in 2009
- Sima Avramovic, Serbian law professor and legal author
- Craig Barrett, Former Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation
- Gad Barzilai, Professor of International Studies, Law, and Political Science, University of Washington
- Ed Bishop, American Actor, Radio and Theatre Productions UFO TV Series
- Melissa Block, American radio host, co-host of All Things Considered on National Public Radio
- Amar Bose, Chairman and founder of Bose Corporation
- David G. Bradley, Owner of the Atlantic Media Company and founder of the Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board
- Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, American research scientist
- Michael Bryant, Canadian politician, former Attorney General of Ontario
- Storm Bull, American musician, composer, and educator
- Liam Byrne, British Labour politician
- Steven Campbell, Scottish artist
- Bob Carr, Australian politician
- Ron Castan, Australian Constitutional law barrister
- Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- A. D. Coleman, American photography critic and author
- Nathan Collett, filmmaker
- Aaron Copland, American composer
- Leah Curtis, Australian composer
- Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
- Ivan Davis, classical pianist
- Barbara Debs, Former president of Manhattanville College (1975–1985)
- Richard Debs, American investment banker, founding president of Morgan Stanley International Inc.
- Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist
- Niels Diffrient, American industrial designer
- William C. Dowling, scholar, author, social critic
- John W. Downey, contemporary classical composer
- Peter Drysdale, economist, his work provided the intellectual foundations for the establishment of APEC
- William Durden, president of Dickinson College
- Taghreed El-Khodary, journalist
- Erik Engstrom, CEO of Reed Elsevier
- Jan Erkert, modern dance artist
- Lee Evans, Olympic gold medalist
- John T. Fesperman, conductor and organist
- Charles Figley, president of the Green Cross academy of traumatology
- Christian Filippella, film director and writer
- Andrea Fitting, founder and CEO of Fitting Group, a challenger branding agency
- Renée Fleming, soprano
- John Miles Foley, scholar of comparative oral tradition
- Carlo Forlivesi, composer and researcher
- John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history at Duke University and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Jonathan Franzen, novelist
- John R. P. French, psychologist
- András Gerevich, poet and screenwriter
- Riccardo Giacconi, physicist and 2002 Nobel Laureate
- Gabrielle Giffords, US Congresswoman
- Austan Goolsbee, economist and Presidential advisor
- Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician; inventor of polyominoes, the inspiration for the computer game Tetris.
- Milton Glaser, graphic designer
- Phillip Glass American composer
- Betty Jane Gorin-Smith, Kentucky historian
- George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist
- John Granville, United States Agency for International Development diplomat assassinated in Sudan
- Harold J. Grimm, Professor of History and an authority on the Protestant Reformation
- Charles Gwathmey, architect
- Zahi Hawass, Secretary General, The Supreme Council of Antiquities; Egypt
- Neville Karunatilake, Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- Joseph Heller, author
- Deborah Hertz, Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San Diego
- Christof Heyns, Professor of Human Rights, former Dean of the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President of Operations and Google Fellow at Google Inc.
- Hao Huang, pianist and professor of music and American Studies
- Edgar Hull, Louisiana physician
- Greg Hunt, Australian Politician
- Saeed Jaffrey, actor and recipient of an OBE
- Trevor Joyce, poet and member of Aosdana
- Alex Kahn, pageant performance artist
- Kusuma Karunaratne, Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, professor and scholar of Sinhalese language and literature
- Willliam Kelly American/Australian artist, humanist and human-rights advocate and former Dean (1975–1982) of the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia.
- Malur R. Narasimha Prasad or M. R. N. Prasad, Indian Endocrinologist and scientist at World Health Organisation.
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- Shirley Strum Kenny, president of Stony Brook University
- H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
- Werner Krieglstein, a German-American University of Chicago fellow, philosopher, author, and actor
- S.M. Krishna, Former chief minister of Karnataka, India, and the current Foreign Minister of India
- Laila Lalami, author and essayist
- Karen LaMonte, artist with works in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the De Young Museum, and others.
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Diplomat and Member of the European Parliament
- Ben Lerner, poet
- Jack Levine, American painter and printmaker
- Samer Libdeh, journalist and researcher
- Daniel Libeskind, Polish-born American architect
- William S.W. Lim, Hong Kong architect and author
- John Lithgow, actor
- Alvin Lucier, composer of experimental music
- Dolph Lundgren, actor and director
- Reinhard H Luthin, historian and author
- Robie Macauley, novelist, editor and literary critic
- G. S. Maddala, econometrician
- Germain Marc'hadour, French literary historian
- Walter E. Massey, physicist, former president of Morehouse College and Chairman (2009) of Bank of America.
- Arthur Chute McGill, American Theologian and the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard from 1971 until 1980.
- Martin V. Melosi, environmental and urban historian, University of Houston
- John Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- William D. Metz, historian and heritage conservation scholar
- George Armitage Miller, psychologist and cognitive scientist
- John Atta Mills, president of Ghana
- Anna Moffo, operatic soprano
- Jürgen Mulert, economist, founder of the German Fulbright Alumni Association
- Loretta Napoleoni, economist, author, journalist and political analyst
- Robert Neffson, artist
- Donna Nelson, chemistry professor and scientific workforce scholar
- Marcus Nispel, film director
- Robert Nozick, American political philosopher
- Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group
- Bamidele A. Ojo, professor of political science and international studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Carlos Ott, Uruguayan architect
- Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, First female vice chancellor of a Ghanaian university
- Olara Otunnu, Ugandan advocate for child rights, and Uganda Presidential Candidate in 2010
- Tarik O'Regan, composer
- Ron Padgett, American poet and translator
- Peggy Pettitt, African-American actor and storyteller
- Thomas R. Pickering, former US under secretary of state for political affairs
- Sebastián Piñera, current president of Chile
- Sylvia Plath, poet
- Michael Pyatok, architect, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle
- Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer
- Aneesh Raman, former CNN Middle East Correspondent
- Som Ranchan, Professor, author, and critic of Indian origin.
- Bertram Raven, psychologist
- John Rawls, Philosopher
- David Reagan, former director of Pepperdine University's Center for International Business, currently an evangelist and founder of Lamb and Lion Ministries
- Stephan Reimertz, writer and art historian
- Michael A. Rice, biologist and Rhode Island and state representative.
- Oussama Romdhani, former Tunisian Communications Minister
- Michele van de Roer, contemporary French artist, painter, designer, and engraver
- Brian Rutenberg, American Abstract Artist
- Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer and Typographer
- Theodore J. St. Antoine, Dean of University of Michigan School of Law and expert in labor relations and collective bargaining
- Nilofar Sakhi, women's rights activist in Afghanistan
- Ross Scaife, Founder and co-editor of The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities and founding editor of Suda On Line
- Philip Schultz Poet
- Benjamin Schwarz, literary editor and national editor, The Atlantic
- Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University
- Matt Sherman, former Department of State official and advisor to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus
- Jane Smiley, American author
- Tom Smith, jazz musician, educator
- Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO and former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
- Olen Steinhauer, author
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist
- F. Gordon A. Stone, English chemist and recipient of the Davy Medal
- Terence Tao, mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal
- Julie Taymor, designer and director
- Alfredo Toro Hardy, Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Ireland and Singapore
- Massimiliano Versace, scientist and director of the Neuromorphics Lab at Boston University
- Ernesto Villalobos, Mexican composer and award-winning violinist
- Bernt Wahl, American mathematician, entrepreneur, author and Industry Fellow at U.C. Berkeley
- Patricia Wasley, dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington and renowned education scholar
- Ulrich Wickert, German journalist and TV presenter
- Colin H Williams, Professor, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
- Charles Wright, Poet
- Jonathan Shapiro ("Zapiro"), South African cartoonist
- Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize winner
- Malini Khatri, Headmistress, Sir Sobha Singh Block, Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi
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