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| *], ex-] CFO, convicted felon, notorious fraudster, swindler, conman, masterminded massive ] fraud, became informant against former co-workers in order to receive reduced sentence of 10 years in federal prison | *], ex-] CFO, convicted felon, notorious fraudster, swindler, conman, masterminded massive ] fraud, became informant against former co-workers in order to receive reduced sentence of 10 years in federal prison | ||
| *] nee Weingarten, convicted felon, fraudster, tax evasion, sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for role in ] fraud, former ] assistant treasurer and wife of convicted felon, Tufts classmate and ] fraudster ] (see above) | *] nee Weingarten, convicted felon, fraudster, tax evasion, sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for role in massive ] fraud, former ] assistant treasurer and wife of convicted felon, Tufts classmate and ] fraudster ] (see above) | ||
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The following is a partial list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University. See also Tufts University alumni.
Notable alumni
Political leaders
- Jeb Bradley, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003.
- Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), politician, formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is both the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.
- Jeffrey Feltman, United States Ambassador to Lebanon
- James B. Foley, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti
- Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Senior Board Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism (1985)
- Shukri Ghanem, former Prime Minister of Libya
- John Herbst, US Ambassador, Ukraine
- General Joseph P. Hoar, former commander-in-chief of United States Central Command
- Wolfgang F. Ischinger, diplomat, German Ambassador to the U.S.
- Costas Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece
- Susan Livingstone, Undersecretary of Navy
- Winston Lord,diplomat, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former President of Council on Foreign Relations
- Terrence McCully, US Ambassador,*Cynthia McKinney (did not finish), U.S. Representative from Georgia
- William T. Monroe, US Ambassador, Bahrain
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a four-term U.S. Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic.
- John Olver, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991
- Frank Pallone, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1988
- Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, former ambassador to the United Nations
- Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, ran for chair of the DNC
- John G. Sargent, lawyer and statesman, Attorney General of the United States from 1925 to 1929
- Surakiart Sathirathai, the Foreign Minister of Thailand and potential UN Secretary-General
- Hon. Warren Silver, Associate Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
- Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission.
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
- John Bello, Founder and former CEO, SoBe Beverages, CEO, Original SoupMan, former President, NFL Properties
- Seamus Blackley, game developer, co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox
- Dov Charney (did not finish), CEO and founder of LA-based clothing company American Apparel
- Dick Dietrich, Founder, GED Corporation
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase corporation
- Peter R. Dolan, CEO Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Nate Gantcher, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
- Richard Hill, retired chairman Fleet Bank Boston
- Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger
- Jonathan Greenblatt, social entreprenuer, founder of Ethos Water
- Reed Krakoff, President of Coach Leather
- Mike McConnell, CEO Brown Brothers Harriman
- Harold McGraw, III, Chairman, President, and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies
- Pamela McNamara, CEO, Arthur Little
- John Martin Mugar, retired Chairman and President of Star Market. Life Trustee at Tufts
- Joseph Neubauer, CEO Aramark Corporation
- Pierre and Pamela Omidyar, billionaire founders of eBay
- Shari Redstone, vice chairman of Viacom Inc.
- Neal Shapiro former president of NBC News
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher of New York Times
- Peter Roth, President, Warner Brothers
- Wendy Selig-Prieb, Milwaukee Brewers CEO
- Ed Tapscott, President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, an NBA team
- Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
- Walter Wriston, retired chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984
- Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, post-independence politician
Actors, film, and media
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times
- Hank Azaria, actor
- Jessica Biel (did not finish), actress, 7th Heaven, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Rob Burnett, Executive Producer of Late Night with David Letterman
- Tracy Chapman, musician
- Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
- Tyler Duckworth, cast member, Real World Key West
- Peter Gallagher, actor, Mr. Deeds, American Beauty, Broadway production Grease, The O.C.
- Jeff Greenstein, Executive Producer of Will & Grace
- Guster, musicians, Parachute, Goldfly, Lost and Gone Forever, Keep It Together, Guster on Ice
- Jester Hairston, composer, conductor, arranger, choral director, and actor
- Coral Hawthorne, Producer, In Living Color, The Hughleys and Complete Savages
- Dan Hedaya, actor, Blood Simple, The Addams Family, The Usual Suspects, Clueless, Dick, A Night at the Roxbury
- Matt Bai, political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
- William Hurt, actor, The Big Chill, Kiss of the Spider Woman (winning the Academy Award for Best Actor)
- Amisha Patel, Indian actress.
- Oliver Platt, actor
- Kyle Renick, Producer/Artistic Director of the WPA Theatre, originator of Little Shop of Horrors, Jeffrey and Steel Magnolias
- Neal Shapiro, former President of NBC News
- Meredith Vieira, TV host (formerly of The View and currently of The Today Show)
- Aury Wallington, screenwriter, Sex and the City, Veronica Mars, playwright, novelist
- Patrick Healy, New York Times reporter
Literature and arts
- John Ciardi, was a poet, translator, and etymologist
- Cid Corman, poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.
- Phil Dunlap, cartoonist, Ink Pen nationally syndicated
- Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Up Country, lifelong friend of Anne Sexton
- Erik Lindgren, composer and musician.
- Gregory Maguire, writer, Wicked.
- Anita Shreve, writer, The Pilot's Wife.
- Nathanael West (did not finish), writer.
- Christopher Golden, author of several Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels and the Body of Evidence mystery series (which takes place at Somerset University, a fictional version of the Tufts campus)
Academic leaders
- Vannevar Bush, scientist
- Ram Dass (formerly known as Richard Alpert), former psychology professor at Harvard University, dismissed in 1963 after his work with Dr. Timothy Leary on the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
- Eugene Fama, economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing, both theoretical and empirical.
- Carlton H. Hastings, materials scientist, pioneer in the field of nondestructive testing; led the team that developed heat shields for all USA reentry vehicles (space vehicles designed to re-enter Earth's atmosphere)through Apollo; developer of the video X-ray system.
- Rick Hauck, astronaut
- Roderick MacKinnon, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Lee Nordan. pioneer in lasik surgery
- Ellery Schempp, physicist and political activist
- Norbert Wiener, a mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics
Athletes
- Sakhi Khan, former world Squash champion
- Jennifer Toomey, athlete
Criminals
- Andrew Fastow, ex-Enron CFO, convicted felon, notorious fraudster, swindler, conman, masterminded massive Enron fraud, became informant against former co-workers in order to receive reduced sentence of 10 years in federal prison
- Lea Fastow nee Weingarten, convicted felon, fraudster, tax evasion, sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for role in massive Enron fraud, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of convicted felon, Tufts classmate and Enron fraudster Andrew Fastow (see above)
Notable faculty
- Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972-1986), Japanese politician and activist
- Hugo A. Bedau, ethicist, specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
- Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
- Allan M. Cormack, physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
- Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Consciousness Explained
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, History's Renaissance Man
- Margaret Henderson Floyd, Art Historian and author of "Henry Hobson Richardson" and other books on architectural history
- Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
- Alfred Church Lane, geologist
- Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
- Chris Rogers, Father of ROBOLAB
- Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
- John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
- Loring Tu, world-renownd matemetician
- Alexander Vilenkin, leading theoretical physicist
- Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
Fictitious alumni and faculty
- Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series. Eventual U.S. Secretary of State graduated first in his class at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
- Elaine Benes, character on Seinfeld played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, graduated from Tufts University, calling it her "safety school."
- Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, title character from Crossing Jordan, played by Jill Hennessy. The fictional Boston medical examiner graduated from Tufts.
- Ken Erdedy, character in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It is likely that the fictional marijuana addict and resident of Ennet House attended Tufts University, evidenced among other things by the memorabilia in his household (p.25, 360, 362).
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi, psychiatrist to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos graduated from Tufts Medical School.
- Kenny, a Stuckeybowl employee on the TV show Ed, graduated from Tufts (and, when asked about it by Ed, replied, "It's in Massachusetts.").
- The characters in Two Guys and a Girl were Tufts alumni, as well as graduate students, and the sitcom's sets featured Tufts items, while its plots sometimes revolved around their former university.
