Williams College alumni

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

American director and actor (1909–2003)

Reza Pahlavi is an Iranian political activist and the former Crown Prince of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress Farah. He lives in the United States as a dissident in exile.

2nd Prime Minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004

American economist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)

American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)

American soccer player (born 1968)

American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)

American film and television director (1930-2002)

American actor (born 1949)

American physical chemist

American romantic poet and journalist (1794-1878)

American lawyer and politician (born 1973)

American astronomer (1864–1951)

American mathematician and Fields medallist

Taiwanese singer, songwriter, actor

American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)

American judge (1844-1926)

American politician (1869-1950)

American documentary filmmaker (1930-2026)

Lina Maliha Khan is a British and American legal scholar who was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate professor at Columbia Law School.

American writer (1883-1969)

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1913–2002)

Bangladeshi economist and civil servant

American politician

American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)

German-American philosopher (1921–1980)

American actor (1923–2012)

American news anchor, currently the anchor of Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN

American political scientist and anthropologist

American television host

American physicist (1910–1994)

American songwriter

American film director (born 1950)

American botanist (1776-1842)

American musician (1967–2020)

American poet

American historian and sociologist

American politician (1878–1963)

American writer (1968–2022)

American historian (1922–2020)

American writer

American media scholar, blogger, and Internet activist

American actress

American screenwriter (1892–1969)

American physicist (1932–2025)

American actor

American children's writer

athletics competitor (1875–1945)

American politician and diplomat (born 1950)

American pundit (1943-)

American actor (1908–1976)

American writer (1912-2004)

15th United States Trade Representative

American writer (1939–2020)

American actress

American organic chemist (1899–1977)

American author

American dramatist (1894–1977)

American voice actor