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Alumni in politics include U.S. Secretary of State John Hay (1852); U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General Richard Olney (1856); Chief Justice of the United States and U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes (1881); Governors Bobby Jindal ('92), Lincoln Chafee ('75), and Jack Markell ('82); Senator Maggie Hassan ('80); Representatives David Cicilline ('83), Dean Phillips ('91), Deborah K. Ross ('85), Gil Cisneros (2015), and Dan Maffei ('90); diplomat Richard Holbrooke ('62); Presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang ('96), and DNC Chair and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez ('83).[1][2][3][4]
Prominent alumni in business and finance include philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1897), former Chair of the Federal Reserve and current Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen ('67), World Bank President Jim Yong Kim ('82), Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan ('81), CNN founder Ted Turner ('60), IBM chairman and CEO Thomas Watson, Jr. (1937), co-founder of Starwood Capital Group Barry Sternlicht ('82), Apple Inc. CEO John Sculley ('61), Blackberry CEO John S. Chen ('78), Facebook CFO David Ebersman ('91), and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi ('91).[5][6][7] Companies founded by Brown alumni include CNN, The Wall Street Journal, MongoDB, Searchlight Pictures, Netgear, W Hotels, Workday, Warby Parker, Casper, Figma, ZipRecruiter, and Cards Against Humanity.[8][9][10][11][12]
Alumni in the arts and media include actors John Krasinski ('01), Emma Watson ('14),[13] Daveed Diggs ('04),[14] Julie Bowen ('91),[15] Laura Linney ('86), Tracee Ellis Ross ('94),[16] and Jessica Capshaw ('98); authors Lois Lowry, Madeline Miller ('00), Jeffrey Eugenides ('83), Edwidge Danticat ('93), and Marilynne Robinson ('66); musicians Lisa Loeb ('81) and Wendy Carlos ('62); radio producer Ira Glass ('82); and journalists James Risen ('77), Mara Liasson ('77), Chris Hayes ('01),[17] and A. G. Sulzberger ('04).[18] Works created by Brown alumni include This American Life, Driving Miss Daisy, In The Heights, How to Get Away With Murder, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Danish Girl.
Important figures in the history of education include the father of American public school education Horace Mann (1819), civil libertarian and Amherst College president Alexander Meiklejohn (1893), Bates College founder Oren B. Cheney (1836), University of Michigan president James Burrill Angell (1849), University of California president Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1875), and Morehouse College's first African-American president John Hope (1894).
Alumni in technology include the inventor of the first silicon transistor, Gordon Kidd Teal (1931); architect of Intel 386, 486, and Pentium microprocessors John H. Crawford ('75); Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld ('75); computer scientist Peter Norvig ('78); and MongoDB founder Eliot Horowitz ('03).
Other notable alumni include publisher John F. Kennedy, Jr. ('83); socialite Allegra Versace; human rights activist Kerry Kennedy ('81); football coaches Bill O'Brien ('92) and Joe Paterno ('50); Heisman Trophy namesake John W. Heisman ('91); and royals and nobles including Lady Gabriella Kingston (2004), Princess Leila Pahlavi ('92), Prince Faisal bin Hussein ('85), Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg ('93), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark ('06), Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark ('93), and Prince Rahim Aga Khan ('95).
Nobel Laureates include Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm co-originator John Tukey (1936); father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, Aaron T. Beck ('50); father of bacterial pathogenicity, Stanley Falkow ('59); discoverer of RNA interference, Craig Mello ('82); and peace activist Jerry White ('87).[19][20][21]
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- ^ "5 Things You Should Know About Lincoln Chafee". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "5 Things You Should Know About Bobby Jindal". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "A Complicated Man". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Davies, Emily (2017-10-13). "Ratty, SciLi and Sigma Chi: Tom Perez on his time at Brown". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "The 24 most successful Brown alumni of all time". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Grin, Ben (2004-09-20). "Putting past behind him, Ted Turner '60 builds strong relationship with University". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Locke, Taylor (2019-12-10). "Uber CEO: This is the subject young people should study in college, no matter their career goals". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Rosenberg, Jerry Martin (1982). Inside the Wall Street Journal: The History and the Power of Dow Jones & Company and America's Most Influential Newspaper. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-02-604860-6.
- ^ "Out Of China". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
- ^ Mac, Ryan. "Tech Exec Aneel Bhusri Becomes A Billionaire As Workday Shares Soar". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ^ Albert-Deitch, Cameron (2018-01-02). "Why These Casper Co-Founders Swear by Their Morning Routine (Hint: It's Not Just Sleep)". Inc.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ Heft-Luthy, Sam (2012-10-17). "Two alums develop risque card game". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
- ^ "Emma Watson graduates from Brown University". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Something Great". Brown Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on January 1, 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ Feldman, Lucy (2012-10-25). "Modern Family star entertains crowd with college stories". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Funny Girl". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Taking Sides". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Public Enemy No. 1". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ Wade, Nicholas (2006-10-03). "2 American 'Worm People' Win Nobel for RNA Work". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ "Stanley Falkow, Father of Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis, Dies". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ Altman, Lawrence K. (2006-09-17). "Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-14.