Yale University faculty

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

Nigerian writer (born 1934)

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)

Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

American scientist (1839–1903)

Hong Kong-British-American physicist

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)

American economist (1921-2016)

German philosopher (1874–1945)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

American analytical chemist (1917–2010)

Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate

American economist (1932–2020)

American economist (1918–2002)

American biochemist (1940–2018)

American economist

American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)

American economist

American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

61st President of Mexico

American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)

American econometrician and macroeconomist (1942-2026)

Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)

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American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)

American historian (born 1969)

American novelist and screenwriter

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American linguist (1887–1949)

Nigerian writer (1944–2017)

American computer scientist (1922–1990)

American political scientist (1915–2014)

American particle physicist and cosmologist

German-American sex therapist

Japanese architect (1931-2022)

American novelist (born 1977)

American paleontologist (1831–1899)

French physicist

Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)

Russian mathematician

American economist

German philosopher (1905–1997)

German philologist (1892-1957)

American economist

American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

Hungarian mathematician

American astronomer (1914–1997)

Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm. He is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, the first openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration, and the second openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary.

French poet, essayist, translator (1923–2016)

American psychologist (1884–1952)

American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)

American graphic designer (1914–1996)

American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993)

English-American astronomer and mathematician

US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)

American sociologist (1840–1910)