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Tufts University

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded by Charles Tufts in 1852 as Tufts College, changed to Tufts University in 1954. There are campuses at Medford (main), Boston, and Grafton.

Location:
Medford, MA

Founding Date:
1852

Mascot:
Jumbo the Elephant

Enrollment:
9000

Official Website:
http://www.tufts.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
David Anderson Diplomat 3-Jan-1937 4-Jul-1997 US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1981-85
Hank Azaria Actor 25-Apr-1964   Moe and Apu on The Simpsons
Stephen Babcock Chemist 22-Oct-1843 2-Jul-1931 Chemistry of milk
Doug Bailey Activist c. 1934   President and CEO, Unity08
William M. Bellamy Diplomat 21-Aug-1950   US Ambassador to Kenya, 2003-06
Jeffrey D. Benjamin Business c. 1961   Apollo Management
Medea Benjamin Activist 10-Sep-1952   CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder
C. Fred Bergsten Economist 23-Apr-1941   Institute for International Economics
Jessica Biel Actor 3-Mar-1982   The Rules of Attraction
Coit D. Blacker Government c. 1950   Institute for International Studies, Stanford
Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. Government c. 1952   Asst. Secy. State Politico-Military, 2001-05
Barbara Bodine Diplomat 1948   US Ambassador to Yemen, 1997-2001
Richard A. Boucher Diplomat c. 1951   Asst. Secretary of State for South Asia
Thomas Boyatt Diplomat 4-Mar-1933   US Ambassador to Colombia, 1980-83
Jeb Bradley Politician 20-Oct-1952   Congressman from New Hampshire, 2003-07
Scott Brown Politician 12-Sep-1959   US Senator from Massachusetts, 2010-13
Richard R. Burt Diplomat 3-Feb-1947   US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89
Vannevar Bush Scientist 11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Pre-internet visionary
Costas Caramanlis Head of State 14-Sep-1956   Prime Minister of Greece, 2004-09
Leonard Carmichael Educator 9-Nov-1898 16-Sep-1973 Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64
Tracy Chapman Singer 30-Mar-1964   Fast Car
Dov Charney Business 31-Jan-1969   Founder of American Apparel
John Ciardi Poet 24-Jun-1916 30-Mar-1986 How Does a Poem Mean?
Ariel Cohen Scholar c. 1964   Expert on International Relations
Daniel H. Cohen Business c. 1952   NYT VP Advertising, 1995-99
Warren I. Cohen Historian 20-Jun-1934   America's Response to China
R. Guy Cole, Jr. Judge 23-May-1951   6th Circuit Court of Appeals
Anthony H. Cordesman Government 2-Aug-1938   The Lessons of Modern War
Cid Corman Poet 29-Jun-1924 12-Mar-2004 Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Joe Courtney Politician 6-Apr-1953   Congressman, Connecticut 2nd
Robert B. Coutts Business c. 1950   EVP at Lockheed Martin
Richard N. Current Historian 5-Oct-1912 26-Oct-2012 The Lincoln Nobody Knows
Walter Cutler Diplomat 25-Nov-1931   US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1984-87
Ram Dass Religion 5-Apr-1931   Be Here Now
Nathaniel Davis Diplomat 12-Apr-1925 16-May-2011 US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73
John R. Dawson Diplomat 1950 1-Aug-2003 US Ambassador to Peru, 2002-03
Susan Decker Business c. 1963   President of Yahoo
Horace Dediu Pundit 15-Feb-1968   Tech industry analyst
Peter DeFazio Politician 27-May-1947   Congressman, Oregon 4th
Dom DeLuise Actor 1-Aug-1933 4-May-2009 Cannonball Run
Steven J. Demetriou Business c. 1959   CEO of Aleris International
James Dimon Business 13-Mar-1956   CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Peter R. Dolan Business 6-Jan-1956   CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06
J. Adam Ereli Diplomat c. 1960   US Ambassador to Bahrain
Marsha Johnson Evans Military c. 1947   CEO of American Red Cross, 2002-05
David Faber Journalist 10-Mar-1964   CNBC financial reporter
Andrew Fastow Business 22-Dec-1961   Disgraced CFO of Enron
Jeffrey D. Feltman Diplomat c. 1959   US Ambassador to Lebanon, 2004-08
Robert W. Fitts Diplomat ?   US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, 2003-06
James B. Flaws Business c. 1949   CFO of Corning
James B. Foley Diplomat 4-Apr-1957   US Ambassador to Haiti, 2003-05
Jon S. Fossel Business c. 1941   CEO of Oppenheimer Management, 1989-96
Allen R. Freedman Business c. 1940   CEO of Assurant, 1979-2000
Henry F. Frigon Business c. 1936   CEO of CARSTAR, Inc., 1998-2001
Peter Gallagher Actor 19-Aug-1955   American Beauty
Leslie H. Gelb Government 4-Mar-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003
Seth Godin Business 10-Jul-1960   Tribes
Dan Hedaya Actor 24-Jul-1940   Bestubbled character actor, Blood Simple
Lillian Hellman Playwright 20-Jun-1905 30-Jun-1984 Little Foxes
John E. Herbst Diplomat 12-Aug-1952   US Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-06
Faith S. Hochberg Attorney 1950   US District Court Judge, New Jersey
Elbert Hubbard Author 19-Jun-1856 7-May-1915 Founder of Roycroft Press
William Hurt Actor 20-Mar-1950   Altered States, Broadcast News
Joi Ito Business 19-Jun-1966   Director, MIT Media Lab
Thomas H. Kean, Jr. Politician 5-Sep-1968   New Jersey State Senator
F. Ray Keyser, Jr. Politician 17-Aug-1927 7-Mar-2015 Governor of Vermont, 1961-63
Jeffrey B. Kindler Business 13-May-1955   CEO of Pfizer, 2006-10
Abby F. Kohnstamm Business 1953   Senior VP at IBM, 1993-2005
John A. Krol Business 16-Oct-1936   CEO of DuPont, 1995-98
Ellen J. Kullman Business 1956   CEO of DuPont
David Kuo Government 26-Jun-1968 5-Apr-2013 Tempting Faith
Dennis Kux Diplomat 11-Aug-1931   US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1986-89
Karen R. Lawrence Educator 18-Mar-1949   President, Sarah Lawrence College
Jill Lepore Historian 27-Aug-1966   The Name of War
Winston Lord Diplomat 17-Aug-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85
Stephen Low Diplomat 2-Dec-1927 15-Nov-2010 US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1979-81
William J. Luti Military c. 1952   NSC Defense Policy Adviser
Stephen Macht Actor 1-May-1942   General Hospital
Roderick MacKinnon Biologist 19-Feb-1956   Ion channels of cell membranes
Mahmood Mamdani Author ?   When Victims Become Killers
Jim P. Manzi Business c. 1951   CEO of Lotus Development, 1986-95
Michael W. McConnell Business c. 1942   Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
Harold McGraw III Business c. 1948   CEO of McGraw-Hill
Cynthia McKinney Politician 17-Mar-1955   Congresswoman from Georgia, 1993-2003 and 2005-07
Victor A. McKusick Scientist 21-Oct-1921 22-Jul-2008 Father of medical genetics
Richard A. Meserve Attorney 20-Nov-1944   President of the Carnegie Institution
David A. Metzner Lobbyist ?   Lobbyist, American Continental Group
Derek Mitchell Diplomat 16-Sep-1964   US Policy Coordinator for Burma
William T. Monroe Diplomat c. 1950   US Ambassador to Bahrain, 2004-07
Roderick W. Moore Diplomat c. 1964   US Ambassador to Montenegro
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Politician 16-Mar-1927 26-Mar-2003 US Senator from New York, 1977-2001
Daniel J. Murphy, Jr. Military 30-May-1948   CEO of Alliant Techsystems
James C. Neary Business c. 1965   Managing Director at Warburg Pincus
William Javier Nelson Historian 27-Nov-1947   Almost a Territory
Joseph Neubauer Business 19-Oct-1941   CEO of ARAMARK
Janne E. Nolan Educator 28-Dec-1951   Defense and foreign policy analyst
Phyllis E. Oakley Government 1934   Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99
John Olver Politician 3-Sep-1936   Congressman, Massachusetts 1st
Pierre M. Omidyar Business 21-Jun-1967   Founder of eBay
Frank Pallone Politician 30-Oct-1951   Congressman, New Jersey 6th
Whitney T. Perkins Historian 28-Feb-1921 28-Jan-2005 Constraint of Empire
Thomas Pickering Diplomat 5-Nov-1931   Career US Ambassador
Oliver Platt Actor 12-Jan-1960   Bartlet's lawyer on The West Wing
Jonathan Pollard Spy 7-Aug-1954   Spied for Israel
Deborah E. Powell Doctor 1939   Dean of UMN Medical School
William Thornton Pryce Diplomat 19-Jul-1932 11-Jul-2006 US Ambassador to Honduras, 1993-96
Bessica Raiche Aviator Apr-1875 11-Apr-1932 Aviatrix and gynecologist
Sendhil Ramamurthy Actor 17-May-1974   Mohinder Suresh on Heroes
Shari Redstone Business 14-Apr-1954   President of National Amusements
Mitchell B. Reiss Government ?   Director of Policy Planning, 2003-05
Nancy E. Rice Judge 2-Jun-1950   Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
Bill Richardson Politician 15-Nov-1947   Governor of New Mexico, 2003-11
Jeremy Rifkin Activist 26-Jan-1945   Foundation on Economic Trends
Lew Rockwell Activist 1-Jul-1944   Libertarian activist
Sheli Z. Rosenberg Business 2-Feb-1942   Equity Group Investments
Leslie V. Rowe Diplomat ?   US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea
Juan Manuel Santos Head of State 10-Aug-1951   President of Colombia
John G. Sargent Government 13-Oct-1860 5-Mar-1939 US Attorney General, 1925-29
Raymond J. Saulnier Economist 20-Sep-1908 30-Apr-2009 Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61
John D. Scanlan Diplomat 20-Dec-1927 20-Nov-2007 US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1985-89
Ellery Schempp Activist 1940   Abington School District v. Schempp
Jack W. Schuler Business c. 1941   President of Abbot Laboratories, 1987-89
Neil Smit Business c. 1959   CEO of Charter Communications
Alan D. Solomont Business 1957   DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997
Norman H. Stahl Judge 30-Jan-1931   1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1992-2001
James A. Stern Business c. 1950   Founder, The Cypress Group
Paula Stern Government 31-Mar-1945   Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86
Laura Denvir Stith Judge 30-Oct-1953   Missouri Chief Justice
William H. Sullivan Diplomat 12-Oct-1922 11-Oct-2013 US Ambassador to Iran, 1977-79
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Publisher 22-Sep-1951   New York Times Publisher
Richard F. Syron Business 25-Oct-1943   CEO of Freddie Mac, 2003-08
Robert J. Tarr, Jr. Business 7-Dec-1943   CEO of Neiman Marcus, 1991-97
Shashi Tharoor Government 9-Mar-1956   UN Under Secretary General, 2002-07
Jonathan M. Tisch Business 7-Dec-1953   CEO of Loews Hotels
Malcolm Toon Diplomat 4-Jul-1916 12-Feb-2009 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1976-79
Elaine S. Ullian Business c. 1947   CEO of Boston Medical Center
Harlan Ullman Columnist 15-Mar-1941   Shock and Awe
Meredith Vieira Game Show Host 30-Dec-1953   Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Roger Wallace Business ?   Lobbyist, Investamex
Paul F. Walsh Business c. 1950   CEO of eFunds
C. David Welch Diplomat 1953   US Ambassador to Egypt, 2001-05
Nathanael West Author 17-Oct-1903 22-Dec-1940 The Day of the Locust
Robert E. White Diplomat 21-Sep-1926 13-Jan-2015 US Ambassador to El Salvador, 1980-81
Norbert Wiener Mathematician 26-Nov-1894 18-Mar-1964 Cybernetics
Wesley S. Williams, Jr. Attorney 13-Nov-1942   Former Partner, Covington & Burling
Karen Hastie Williams Business 30-Sep-1944   Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring
Rainn Wilson Actor 20-Jan-1966   Dwight on The Office
Gary Winick Film Director 31-Mar-1961 27-Feb-2011 13 Going on 30
Gordon S. Wood Historian 27-Nov-1933   The Creation of the American Republic
Walter B. Wriston Business 3-Aug-1919 19-Jan-2005 CEO of Citibank, 1967-84
Philip Zelikow Government 21-Sep-1954   9-11 Commission executive director

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
David W. K. Acheson Government ?   Food Safety Czar
Vannevar Bush Scientist 11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Pre-internet visionary
Lauro F. Cavazos Government 4-Jan-1927   US Secretary of Education, 1988-90
Deepak Chopra Author 22-Oct-1946   Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
Allan M. Cormack Physicist 23-Feb-1924 7-May-1998 Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
Nelson Goodman Philosopher 7-Aug-1906 25-Nov-1998 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
X. J. Kennedy Poet 21-Aug-1929   Juvenile poet, Brats
Maxine Kumin Poet 6-Jun-1925 6-Feb-2014 Up Country
Gregory Pincus Scientist 9-Apr-1903 22-Aug-1967 Inventor of oral contraceptives
Mikhail Saakashvili Head of State 21-Dec-1967   President of Georgia, 2004-13
Adele Simmons Administrator 21-Jun-1941   President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99
Leonard S. Unger Diplomat 17-Dec-1917 3-Jun-2010 US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lawrence S. Bacow Educator c. 1950   President, Tufts University
Stephen W. Bosworth Diplomat 4-Dec-1939 4-Jan-2016 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000
Leonard Carmichael Educator 9-Nov-1898 16-Sep-1973 Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64
Gerald Cassidy Government c. 1940   Cassidy & Associates
Lauro F. Cavazos Government 4-Jan-1927   US Secretary of Education, 1988-90
Daniel H. Cohen Business c. 1952   NYT VP Advertising, 1995-99
Peter R. Dolan Business 6-Jan-1956   CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 2001-06
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. Diplomat 24-Jan-1928   US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78
Leslie H. Gelb Government 4-Mar-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003
Jeffrey B. Kindler Business 13-May-1955   CEO of Pfizer, 2006-10
Abby F. Kohnstamm Business 1953   Senior VP at IBM, 1993-2005
John A. Krol Business 16-Oct-1936   CEO of DuPont, 1995-98
Ellen J. Kullman Business 1956   CEO of DuPont
Winston Lord Diplomat 17-Aug-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85
Joseph Neubauer Business 19-Oct-1941   CEO of ARAMARK
Pierre M. Omidyar Business 21-Jun-1967   Founder of eBay
Alvin F. Poussaint Doctor 15-May-1934   Child-rearing expert
Gabriel Schmergel Business c. 1941   CEO of Genetics Institute, Inc., 1981-97
Adele Simmons Administrator 21-Jun-1941   President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99
Alan D. Solomont Business 1957   DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997
Huntley N. Spaulding Politician 29-Oct-1869 14-Nov-1955 Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-29
James A. Stern Business c. 1950   Founder, The Cypress Group
John H. Sununu Government 2-Jul-1939   George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff
Jonathan M. Tisch Business 7-Dec-1953   CEO of Loews Hotels
Charles Tufts Business 17-Jul-1781 24-Dec-1876 Founder of Tufts University
Gordon S. Wood Historian 27-Nov-1933   The Creation of the American Republic
Alfred M. Zeien Business 25-Feb-1930   CEO of Gillette, 1991-99

COACHES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Tom Penders Basketball 23-May-1945   NCAA Basketball Coach

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