List of Delta Kappa Epsilon members

Delta Kappa Epsilon is a North American college fraternity.^[1]: 87It was established on June 22, 1844 at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut.^[1]: 87 Following is a list of some of notable members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

• James Barr Ames, Alpha – 2nd Dean of Harvard Law School^[2]: 127
• James R. Angell, Omicron – president of Yale University^[1]: 25
• Wilder Dwight Bancroft, Alpha – chemistry professor at Cornell University^[2]: 145
• Bruce D. Benson, Delta Chi – president of the University of Colorado
• Arthur Pierce Butler, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School^[2]: 145
• Charles W. Cole, Sigma – president of Amherst College; United States Ambassador to Chile^[3]
• Archibald Cary Coolidge, Alpha – first director of the Harvard University Library from 1910 to 1928^[2]: 144
• Melvil Dewey, Sigma – librarian, founder of the Columbia University School of Library Service, devised the Dewey Decimal System
• Gregory L. Fenves. Delta Chi – president of Emory University and the University of Texas
• Arthur Twining Hadley, Phi – president of Yale University^[1]: 25
• Ernest Martin Hopkins, Pi – president of Dartmouth College^[1]: 25
• Charles Loring Jackson, Alpha – organic chemist, professor, and chairman of the Division of Chemistry at Harvard University^[2]: 127
• Harry Pratt Judson – president of the University of Chicago^[1]: 26
• Martin Kellogg, Phi – president of the University of California at Berkeley
• Stanley King, Sigma – president of Amherst College
• George Edwin MacLean – president of the University of Iowa and chancellor of the University of Nebraska^[1]: 26
• Walter A. McDougall, Sigma – professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; recipient of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
• Robert J. McMullen, Iota – president of Centre College
• Cyrus Northrop, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota^[1]: 26
• Calvin Plimpton, Sigma – president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
• Ira Remson – president of Johns Hopkins University^[1]: 26
• Benno C. Schmidt Jr., Phi – president of Yale University
• Kenneth C. M. Sills – president of Bowdoin College^[1]: 26
• William Codman Sturgis, Alpha – mycologist and dean of the School of Forestry at Colorado College^[2]: 141
• Ezra Ripley Thayer, Alpha – Dean of Harvard Law School^[2]: 146
• George Edgar Vincent, Phi – president of the University of Minnesota
• Francis Amasa Walker, Sigma – president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Barrett Wendell, Alpha – professor of English at Harvard University, known for writing a series of textbooks^[2]: 135
• Justin Winsor, Alpha – librarian, historian, first president of the American Library Association^[2]: 123
• Francis Woodman, Alpha – co-founder and headmaster of Morristown School^[2]: 146

• Frederick H. Brooke, Phi – architect
• Walter Cook, Alpha – architect with Babb, Cook & Willard^[2]: 128
• Charles Allerton Coolidge, Alpha – architect^[2]: 138
• Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, Alpha – naval architect who specialized in racing yachts^[2]: 148
• Robert Trent Jones, Delta Chi – golf course architect
• Herbert Leeds, Alpha – yatchsman and golf course architect^[2]: 134
• William Winthrop Kent, Alpha – architect^[2]: 139
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Alpha – tilemaker and designer of Fonthill, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum; curator of American and prehistoric archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Museum^[2]: 136
• Robert Swain Peabody, Alpha – architect^[2]: 126
• J. Pickering Putnam, Alpha – architect^[2]: 127
• Arthur Rotch, Alpha – architect^[2]: 130
• Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, Alpha – architect^[2]: 149
• Richard Clipston Sturgis, Alpha – architect^[2]: 138
• Edmund M. Wheelwright, Alpha – architect^[2]: 134
• James Bosley Noel Wyatt, Alpha – architect^[2]: 129

• Francis Brooks Chadwick, Alpha – painter^[2]: 129
• Dale Chihuly, Kappa Epsilon – glass artist
• Frederic Crowninshield, Alpha – painter^[2]: 126
• Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Alpha – painter and graphic artist^[2]: 133
• Augustus C. Gurnee, Alpha – socialite and art patron^[2]: 135
• Lawren Harris, Alpha Phi, – artist and member of the Group of Seven
• Troy Kinney, Phi – artist
• Edward Simmons, Alpha – painter^[2]: 132
• William A. Slater, Alpha – art collector who established the Slater Memorial Museum^[2]: 138
• Edward Perry Warren, Alpha – art collector^[2]: 140
• Charles Goddard Weld, Alpha – art collector who made major contributions to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Peabody Essex Museum^[2]: 137

• Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Alpha – polo player and chairman of the board of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company^[4][5]
• John F. Akers, Phi – past president of IBM
• Frederick Lothrop Ames, Alpha – co-founder of General Electric, vice president of the Old Colony Railroad, and director of the Union Pacific Railroad^[2]: 123
• William Henry Baldwin Jr., Alpha – president of the Long Island Rail Road^[2]: 142
• Edward Bausch, Beta Phi – president of Bausch & Lomb Opticals
• August Belmont Jr., Alpha – finacier and head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company^[6][7]
• Alfred R. Berkeley III Eta – former Nasdaq president
• Roland Betts, Phi – founder, chairman and CEO of Chelsea Piers
• James Cunningham Bishop, Alpha – banker and officer of the Welsbach Street Illuminating Company^[2]: 149
• Alfred Bloomingdale, Upsilon – founder of Diners Club International
• Matthew Borden, Phi – industrialist
• Lawrence Bossidy, Mu – chairman of Honeywell
• Charles Sterling Bunnell, Phi – director of CitiBank
• Dave Calhoun, Sigma Alpha – president and CEO Boeing
• James Boorman Colgate, Mu – founder and president of the New York Gold Exchange
• Frederic Adrian Delano, Alpha – first vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and the Wabash Railroad^[2]: 142
• Donald Fisher, Theta Zeta – founder and past chairman of Gap Inc.
• Theodore J. Forstmann, Phi – financier, subject of the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate
• Amos Tuck French, Alpha – member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company^[2]: 142
• James Gamble, Lambda – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
• William A. Gaston, Alpha – president of the Boston Elevated Railway and National Shawmut Bank^[2]: 137
• Rutherford P. Hayes, Delta Chi – banker, developer, and librarian
• Webb Hayes, Delta Chi – co-founder the forerunner of Union Carbide; Private Secretary to the President^[8]
• Henry J. Heinz, Phi – founder of Heinz
• Walter Hoving, Upsilon – chairman of Tiffany & Co.
• George Ward Holdrege, Alpha – general manager Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company^[2]: 128
• Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi – co-founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines
• Thomas W. Lamont, Alpha – vice president of First National Bank^[5]
• Robert Lehman, Phi – banker and head of Lehman Brothers
• Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho – founder of McCaw Communications
• George H. Mifflin, Alpha – president of Houghton Mifflin^[2]: 126
• J. P. Morgan Jr., Alpha – banker and finance executive^[6][7]
• Vasant Narasimhan, Delta Delta – CEO of Novartis
• Henry T. Oxnard, Alpha – founder and president of the American Beet Sugar Company^[2]: 139
• Bradley Palmer, Alpha – lawyer involved with the creation of Gillette Safety Razor Co., the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and the United Fruit Company^[2]: 146
• Frederick H. Rindge, Alpha – real estate developer and founder of present-day Malibu, California^[2]: 136
• Charles Robert Sanger, Alpha – professor of chemistry at Harvard University^[2]: 138
• George R. Sheldon, Alpha – banker, finacier, and a leading force in the Trust Company of America^[2]: 136
• Frederick W. Smith, Phi – founder and chairman of FedEx
• James J. Storrow, Alpha – partner of Lee, Higginson & Co.; president of General Motors Nash Motors; president of the Boy Scouts of America^[2]: 142
• Oscar Tang, Phi – financier and philanthropist
• Robert J. Thorne, Delta Chi – president of Montgomery Ward
• Hamilton McKown Twombly, Alpha – co-founder of the American Sulphur Company, later the Union Sulphur Company; financial advisor to William Henry Vanderbilt^[2]: 130
• August H. Vogel, Alpha – vice-president of Pfister & Vogel^[2]: 143
• Fiske Warren, Alpha – president of the S. D. Warren Paper Co., developer of single-tax colonies, and tennis champion^[2]: 142
• Grinnell Willis, Alpha – textile merchant^[2]: 129
• Joseph Wilson, Beta Phi – founder and president of Xerox
• Robert Winsor, Alpha – head of Kidder, Peabody & Company^[2]: 138

• Dean Witter Jr., Phi – founder of Dean Witter & Co. (now part of Morgan Stanley)
• William Wrigley III, Phi – presidents of Wrigley Company

• Frank Batten, Eta – founder of the Weather Channel
• Dick Clark, Phi Gamma – host of American Bandstand and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' EveDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
• Billy Crudup, Beta – actor
• Marcus Giamatti, Theta – actor
• Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta – actor
• Hagood Hardy, Alpha Chi – pianist and composer
• Howard Hawks, Delta Chi – film director, producer, and screenwriter
• Charles Ives, Phi – composer and recipient of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music
• Michael Macari, Epsilon Rho – film producer
• Tex McCrary, Phi – radio and television personality,
• David Milch, Phi – writer and producer
• Cole Porter, Phi – composer
• Ryan Serhant, Tau – cast member of Million Dollar Listing New York
• Root Boy Slim, Phi – rock singer
• Chris Strouth, Phi Epsilon – musician, producer, writer, and filmmaker
• Ming Tsai, Phi – fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality
• Jonathan Winters, Lambda – comedian and writer
• Josh Zuckerman, Zeta – actor
• Ben Paterson, Delta Delta – jazz pianist

• Wilson S. Bissell, Phi – United States Postmaster General^[1]: 24
• Roy G. Finch – New York State Engineer and Surveyor^[9]
• Henry Clay Hall – chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado^[10]
• George H. Lyman, Alpha – Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party^[2]: 131
• Thomas Mott Osborne, Alpha – Warden of Sing Sing; commander of Portsmouth Naval Prison; mayor of Auburn, New York; New York Public Service Commission^[2]: 141
• Hirai Seijirō, Psi Omega – president of the Imperial Government Railways
• Sargent Shriver, Phi – founder and first director of the Peace Corps^[11]
• Sidney W. Souers, Kappa – first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• William L. Trenholm, Delta – United States Comptroller of the Currency; president of North American Trust Company

• Brooks Adams, Alpha – lawyer, political scientist, and critic of capitalism^[2]: 128
• Francis R. Appleton, Alpha – lawyer with Robbins & Appleton^[2]: 132
• Peter Townsend Barlow, Alpha – New York City magistrate^[2]: 136
• Charles P. Barnes – Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives^[12]
• Norman L. Bassett – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[12]
• Edmund L. Baylies, Alpha – lawyer; personal counsel to Cornelius Vanderbilt III; president of the Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation^[2]: 136
• Charles F. Brown – judge of the New York Supreme Court, judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Secretary of New York State^[9]
• Harold H. Burton, Theta – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Senate, Mayor of Cleveland^[13]
• Mortimer W. Byers – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York^[9]
• John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States^[1]: 23
• Asa Bird Gardiner, Nu – New York County District Attorney ^[9]
• George Alexander Gale, Alpha Phi – chief justice of Ontario
• Paul M. Hebert, Zeta Zeta – judge of United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg
• James H. Hudson – associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[12]
• Samuel Furman Hunt – judge advocate general of Ohio, judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, president pro-tempore of the Ohio Senate^[8]
• James H. Hudson – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[12]
• Brett Kavanaugh, Phi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• James Truesdell Kilbreth, Alpha – lawyer, New York City Police justice, Court of Special Sessions justice, and Collector of the Port of New York^[2]: 125
• Arno W. King – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[12]
• Ira Lloyd Letts – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island^[14]
• Edmund H. Lewis – justice of the New York Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals^[9]
• William Loring, Alpha – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court^[2]: 130
• James Arnold Lowell, Alpha – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts^[2]: 149
• Louis W. Marcus – justice of the New York Supreme Court^[9]
• Thomas Francis McAllister – chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[15]
• John James McCook, Alpha – corporate lawyer^[2]: 128
• William D. Mitchelli – United States Attorney General and United States Solicitor General^[1]: 24
• Peter B. Olney, Alpha – New York County District Attorney, Referee in Bankruptcy, and attorney^[2]: 125
• Frank Nesmith Parsons, Pi – chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Francis Key Pendleton, Alpha – justice of the Supreme Court of New York and Corporation Counsel of New York City^[9]
• Cuthbert W. Pound – Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals^[9]
• Potter Stewart, Phi – justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Nathaniel Tompkins – justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, president of the Maine Senate, speaker of the Maine House of Representatives^[12]
• Arthur T. Vanderbilt – chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; dean of New York University School of Law^[3]
• Samuel D. Warren II, Alpha – lawyer and co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish^[2]: 133
• Francis S. Wilson – justice of the Illinois Supreme Court^[11]
• Francis Joseph Wing, Alpha – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[2]: 130

• Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi – author
• Norman Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher of Los Angeles Times
• Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher of Los Angeles Times
• John Jay Chapman, Alpha – writer, poet, and essayist^[2]: 141
• George Ticknor Curtis – biographer^[1]: 27
• Virginius Dabney, Eta – 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
• Briton Hadden, Phi – co-founder of Time Magazine
• Ira B. Harkey Jr., Tau Lambda – journalist and recipient of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
• Julian Hawthorne – author and poet^[1]: 27
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta – author
• William Randolph Hearst, Alpha – publisher, founder of Hearst Newspapers, and United States House of Representatives^[2]: 143
• Robert Herrick, Alpha – novelist^[2]: 148
• Edward Knoblock, Alpha – playwright and novelist
• Edward Jackson Lowell, Alpha – author of historical nonfiction and lawyer^[2]: 127
• Edward Sandford Martin, Alpha – chief editorial editor and literary editor of Life Magaziner^[2]: 134
• John Bach McMaster – historian and writer^[1]: 27
• William H. Peck, Alpha – writer^[2]: 123
• David Graham Phillips – novelist and journalist^[1]: 27
• Eugene C. Pulliam, Psi Phi – newspaper editor and publisher^[16]
• Ken Purdy, Rho Delta – editor of Parade, Car and Driver, and True
• James C. Quayle, Psi Phi – newspaper publisher^[16]
• Whitelaw Reid, Kappa – editor-in-chief of the New York Tribune^[1]: 27
• Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Alpha – author^[2]: 139
• John Wright Sifton, Alpha Tau – president of Manitoba Free Press
• William Roscoe Thayer, Alpha – author and editor^[1]: 27
• Bayard Tuckerman, Alpha – biographer and historian^[2]: 135
• Owen Wister, Alpha – writer known for The Virginian^[1]: 27

• James P. Allison, Omega Chi – immunologist; 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine
• John Templeton Bowen, Alpha – dermatologist and professor of dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital^[2]: 136
• William A. Brooks, Alpha – surgeon and academic^[2]: 144
• Arthur Tracy Cabot, Alpha – surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital; curator of the Harvard Dental Museum^[2]: 130
• James Read Chadwick, Alpha – gynecologist and medical librarian^[2]: 126
• Ernest Amory Codman, Alpha – surgeon^[2]: 149
• John Green Curtis, Alpha – physiologist with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons^[2]: 126
• Harvey Cushing, Phi – neurosurgeon, pathologist, and recipient of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
• Thomas Dwight, Alpha – physician, anatomist, and professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical^[2]: 126
• John F. Enders, Phi – medical researcher; 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine
• Robert Means Lawrence, Alpha – physician at the Boston Dispensary and author^[2]: 128
• Charles McBurney, Alpha – surgeon-in-chief of the Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West)^[2]: 126
• George Howard Monks, Alpha – surgeon and academic known for inventing board games such as Chinese checkers, Basilinda, and Halma^[2]: 132
• E. H. Nichols, Alpha – surgeon and clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School^[2]: 143
• Morton Prince, Alpha – physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology^[2]: 132
• Thomas Morgan Rotch, Alpha – pediatric doctor, first full professor of pediatrics in the United States^[2]: 129

• Winthrop Astor Chanler, Alpha – member of the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War^[2]: 142
• Harvey Weir Cook, Psi Phi – flying ace in World War I
• Martin Witherspoon Gary, Alpha – brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and South Carolina Senate^[2]: 124
• Peyton C. March, Rho – Chief of Staff of the United States Army^[1]: 90
• Robert Peary, Theta – explorer and officer in the United States Navy; first man to reach the North Pole
• James R. Soley, Alpha – Assistant Secretary of the Navy; head of the Office of Naval Records and Library; instructor at the United States Naval War College; head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law at the United States Naval Academy^[2]: 129
• Gordon Woodbury, Alpha – Assistant Secretary of the Navy^[2]: 144

• George H. W. Bush, Phi – 41st President of the United States^[17]
• George W. Bush, Phi – 43rd President of the United States^[17]
• Gerald R. Ford, Omicron – 38th President of the United States^[18]
• Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi – 19th President of the United States^[19]
• Mario García Menocal, Delta Chi – President of the Republic of Cuba^[1]: 90

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alpha – 32nd President of the United States^[20]
• Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha – 26th President of the United States^{[1]: 22 [7]}

• J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi – Vice President of the United States^[21]

• Dean Acheson, Phi – United States Secretary of State, received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History^[22]
• Charles Francis Adams III, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Navy; Mayor of Quincy^[1]: 24
• Joshua W. Alexander – United States Secretary of Commerce, United States House of Representatives^[23]
• Robert Bacon, Alpha – United States Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to France^[7]
• Thomas F. Bayard – United States Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Senate^[1]: 90

• James G. Blaine, Theta – United States Secretary of State; Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Charles S. Fairchild, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General of New York^[1]: 23
• Gordon Gray, Beta – Assistant Secretary of War
• Hilary A. Herbert – United States Secretary of the Navy; United States House of Representatives^[1]: 24
• Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha – United States Secretary of War and Minister to the United Kingdom^[7][1]: 23
• Victor H. Metcalf – United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor, United States House of Representatives^[1]: 24
• George Von L. Meyer, Alpha – Secretary of the Navy; United States Postmaster General, United States Ambassador to Russia, United States Ambassador to Italy^[1]: 24
• George Von L. Meyer, Alpha – United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Postmaster General, U.S. ambassidor to Russia, United States Ambassidor to Italy, and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives^[5]
• Kenneth Claiborne Royall – United States Secretary of War, United States Secretary of the Army^[24]
• William E. Simon, Rho – Secretary of the Treasury^[18]
• Richard W. Thompson, Psi Phi – Secretary of the Navy
• John De Witt Warner, Delta Chi – United States House of Representatives

• Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi – United States Senate
• Calvin S. Brice – United States Senate; chair of the Democratic National Committee^[8]
• Matthew Butler, Delta – United States Senate
• Chris Coons, Sigma – United States Senate
• Royal S. Copeland, Omicron – United States Senate^{[1]: 90 [25]}
• Thomas Eagleton, Sigma – United States Senate, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, Attorney General of Missouri^[23]
• Lister Hill, Psi – United States Senate
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives^{[7][2]: 129}
• Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta – Senate Majority Whip^[26]
• George B. Martin – United States Senate^[27]
• Kenneth McKellar – United States Senate, United States House of Representatives^{[1]: 90 [28]}
• Leverett Saltonstall, Alpha – United States Senate and Governor of Massachusetts^[2]: 126
• Ted Stevens, Theta Rho – United States Senate
• Robert Taft Jr., Phi – United States Senate
• James W. Wadsworth Jr. – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives^{[1]: 90 [25]}

• De Alva S. Alexander – United States House of Representatives^[29]
• Thomas L. Ashley – United States House of Representatives^[8]
• Nathaniel Banks, Sigma – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Franklin Bartlett, Alpha – Uited States House of Representatives^[30]
• Perry Belmont, Alpha – United States House of Representatives; United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain^[2]: 130
• Andrew Biemiller, Delta Chi – United States House of Representatives ^[31]
• Nathaniel B. Borden, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, and Massachusetts House of Representatives^[2]: 127
• Elbert S. Brigham – United States House of Representatives^[32]
• Melville Bull, Alpha – United States House of Representatives^[2]: 134
• Edward Burnett, Alpha – United States House of Representatives^[2]: 129
• William A. Chanler, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and New York State Assembly^[2]: 147
• Augustus P. Gardner, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate^[2]: 143
• Edward D. Hayden, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and Massachusetts House of Representatives^[2]: 124
• James Hay – United States House of Representatives, judge of the Court of Claims, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates^[33]
• Ro Khanna, Delta Delta – United States House of Representatives
• Warren I. Lee – United States House of Representatives^[3]
• John E. Leonard, Alpha – United States House of Representatives and associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court^[2]: 127
• Bob Livingston, Tau Lambda – United States House of Representatives
• Gillis William Long – United States House of Representatives^[26]
• Nicholas Longworth, Alpha – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives^[1]: 25
• Herbert Parsons – United States House of Representatives^[30]
• Henry R. Rathbone – United States House of Representatives^[11]
• John Simpkins, Alpha – United States House of Representatives^[2]: 142
• Charles F. Sprague, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives^[2]: 136
• Edwin F. Sweet – United States House of Representatives; Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan^[18]
• Thomas Chandler Thacher, Alpha – United States House of Representatives^[2]: 139
• Robert Walker Tayler – United States House of Representatives; judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[8]
• Charles W. Upham, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts House of Representatives, and mayor of Salem, Massachusetts^[2]: 123
• Charles G. Washburn, Alpha – United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives^[2]: 137
• Samuel Winslow, Alpha – United States House of Representatives^[2]: 142

• Larz Anderson, Alpha – United States Ambassador to Japan; United States Minister to Belgium^[34]
• Isaac Bell Jr., Alpha – United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; cotton broker and investors in the Commercial Cable Company^[2]: 127
• Anson Burlingame – United States Minister to the Qing Empire, United States House of Represntatives^[30]
• Sutemi Chinda, Psi Phi – Secretary of State of the Empire of Japan^[1]: 90
• John Gardner Coolidge, Alpha – United States Minister to Nicaragua^[2]: 141
• Donald Ensenat, Phi – United States Ambassador to Brunei; Chief of Protocol of the United States
• Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Alpha – U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and 1st Chair of the United States Maritime Commission^[35]
• Donald S. MacDonald, Alpha Phi – High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; Canadian Minister of Finance
• Charles MacVeagh, Alpha – United States Ambassador to Japan^[18]
• Wayne MacVeagh – United States Ambassador to Italy, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, United States Attorney General^{[1]: 24 [25]}
• Clark T. Randt Jr., Phi – United States Ambassador to China
• Ogden Reid, Phi – United States Ambassador to Israel; United States House of Representatives
• Charles H. Sherrill – United States Minister to Argentina, United States Ambassador to Turkey^[25]
• Henry J. Taylor – United States Ambassador to Switzerland^[11]
• Yung Wing, Phi – Chinese diplomat to the United States. founder of the Chinese Educational Mission
• John D. Washburn, Alpha – Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland^[2]: 123
• John Hay Whitney, Phi – United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune^[12]
• Michael M. Wood, Phi – United States Ambassador to Sweden
• Cyrus Woods – United States Ambassador to Japan, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Envoy to Portugal, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Senate^[36]

• Percival P. Baxter – Governor of Maine, President of the Maine Senate, Maine House of Representatives^[12]
• Franklin S. Billings, Alpha – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives^[2]: 142
• Owen Brewster – Governor of Maine, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives^[12]
• Gaston Caperton, Beta – Governor of West Virginia^[34]
• John Chafee, Phi – Governor of Rhode Island, United States Senate, United States Secretary of the Navy
• Mark Dayton, Phi – Governor of Minnesota, United States Senate
• Ron DeSantis, Phi – Governor of Florida
• John C. B. Ehringhaus – Governor of North Carolina, North Carolina House of Representatives^[24]
• Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta – Governor of Louisiana^[26]
• Charles Harwood – Governor of the United States Virgin Islands^[37]
• Henry W. Keyes, Alpha – Governor of New Hampshire, United States Senate, New Hampshire Senate, New Hampshire House of Representatives^[38]
• Tony Knowles, Phi – Governor of Alaska^[39]
• Everett J. Lake – Governor of Connecticut^[22]
• John Davis Long – Governor of Massachusetts, United States Secretary of the Navy, United States House of Representatives^[1]: 24
• Richard Irvine Manning III – Governor of South Carolina^[40]
• Robert D. Orr, Phi – Governor of Indiana, United States Ambassador to Singapore^[29]
• George Pataki, Phi – Governor of New York
• Samuel E. Pingree – Governor of Vermont^[38]
• Regis Henri Post, Alpha – Governor of Puerto Rico and member of the New York State Assembly^[2]: 148
• Winthrop Rockefeller – Governor of Arkansas^[41]
• Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Alpha – Governor-General of the Philippines, Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and New York State Assembly^[42]
• William E. Russell, Alpha – Governor of Massachusetts^[2]: 134
• Don Siegelman, Psi – Governor of Alabama

• W. C. Adams – Mississippi State Senate, Mississippi House of Representatives^[43]
• Frederick Lothrop Ames, Alpha – Massachusetts Senate^[2]: 123
• William Bancroft, Alpha – Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts^[2]: 135
• Henry Alfred Bishop – Connecticut House of Representatives^[22]
• John Sergeant Cram, Alpha – president of the New York Public Service Commission; President of the Dock Board^[2]: 130
• George Cromwell – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, 1st Borough President of Staten Island^[9]
• Grafton D. Cushing, Alpha – Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives^[2]: 142
• Israel T. Deyo – New York State Assembly^[9]
• Martin W. Deyo – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly^[9]
• Frank S. Farley – president of the New Jersey Senate, New Jersey General Assembly^[3]
• Dexter M. Ferry Jr. – Michigan State House of Representatives, president of the Michigan State Board of Education, president of D.M. Ferry & Co.^[15]
• Keith Falconer Fletcher, Tau – Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Thomas Gardner Ford – Michigan House of Representatives^[15]
• George H. Forster, Alpha – New York State Assembly and New York State Senate^[2]: 124
• B. V. Hain – Alabama House of Representatives^[28]
• Oliver Gould Jennings – Connecticut House of Representatives^[22]
• Oscar G. Johnston – Mississippi House of Representatives^[43]
• D. W. Philbrick – speaker of the Maine House of Representatives^[12]
• James A. Roberts – Comptroller of New York, New York State Assembly^[12]
• Adolph J. Rodenbeck – New York State Assembly^[9]
• Peter F. Schabarum, Theta Zeta – California State Assembly, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, professional football player
• George S. Weed, Alpha – New York State Assembly^[2]: 142

• Frederick Hobbes Allen, Alpha – Mayor of Pelham Manor, New York; member of the Democratic National Finance Committee; member of Woodrow Wilson's Peace Commission^[2]: 137
• Beverly L. Hodghead – mayor of Berkeley, California^[18]
• Archibald M. Howe, Alpha – member of the Common Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts; private secretary to congressman Henry Lillie Pierce; National Party vice-presidential candidate^[2]: 128

• Charles Sumner Bird, Alpha – Progressive Party's candidate in the 1912 and 1913 Massachusetts gubernatorial elections^[2]: 134
• George A. Drew, Alpha Phi – Premier of Ontario, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
• Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Theta Zeta – member of the Dutch Royal Family

• F. Norton Goddard, Alpha – political activist, founder of the Civic Club and the Anti-Policy Society^[2]: 139
• Thomas Nelson Perkins, Alpha – member of the Paris Peace Conference and the Allied Reparations Committee^[2]: 148

• Robert Codman, Alpha – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine^[2]: 139
• Samuel A. Eliot, Alpha – Unitarian minister and secretary of the American Unitarian Association^[2]: 141
• Lucien Lee Kinsolving – Bishop of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil^[1]: 90
• William Lawrence – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts^[1]: 90
• Francis Greenwood Peabody, Alpha – Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University^[2]: 127
• John Timothy Stone – Presbyterian clergyman^[44]
• Boyd Vincent – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio^[1]: 90

• Outram Bangs, Alpha – zoologist and urator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology^[2]: 141
• Alan Bean, Omega Chi – Apollo astronaut, fourth man on the moon^[45]
• Charles F. Brush – engineer and electrical inventor^[1]: 90
• Walter Deane, Alpha – botanist, ornithologist, and curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum^[2]: 128
• Charles Alton Ellis, Gamma Phi – engineer who designed the Golden Gate Bridge^[46]
• Lucius Lee Hubbard, Alpha – State Geologist of Michigan^[2]: 130
• Percival Lowell, Alpha – mathematician and astronomer who founded the Lowell Observatory^[2]: 133
• Clarence Bloomfield Moore, Alpha – archaeologist^[2]: 131
• John Thayer, Alpha – amateur ornithologist^[2]: 142
• Jeme Tien Yow, Phi – chief engineer responsible for the construction of the Peking-Kalgan Railway

• Bill Annan, Alpha – professional baseball player and umpire^[2]: 134
• William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon – former owner of the Atlanta Braves
• Clinton W. Blume, Mu – pitcher New York Giants in the 1922 World Series; president of the Real Estate Board of New York
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi – commissioner of Major League Baseball
• George Steinbrenner, Epsilon – owner of the New York Yankees
• Fred Thayer, Alpha – baseball manager who invented the catcher's mask^[2]: 135

• Hank Luisetti, Sigma Rho – college basketball
• Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta – NBA All star and hall of famer

• George C. Adams, Alpha – head coach of the Harvard University football program^[2]: 142
• Frankie Albert, Sigma Rho – football player, coach of the San Francisco 49ers
• Dana X. Bible, Iota – head football coach at University of Texas, University of Nebraska, Texas A&M, Louisiana State and Mississippi College
• Paul Brown, Kappa – football coach, founder of the Cleveland Browns, and owner of the Cincinnati Bengals
• Walter Camp, Phi – college football player, coach, and sportswriter known as the "Father of American Football"
• Hugh Culverhouse, Psi – owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Arthur Cumnock, Alpha – college football player selected for the first All-America team in 1889^[2]: 148
• Michael Eben, Alpha Phi – former Toronto Argonauts player
• Calvin Hill, Phi – professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Browns
• Larry Kelley, Phi – 1936 Heisman Trophy winner
• Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi – coach of the Dallas Cowboys
• James P. Lee, Alpha – college football player on the 1889 All-America college football team^[2]: 149
• Gerrit Smith Miller, Alpha – founder of Oneida Football Club, known as "the father of football in the United States"; member of the New York State Assembly^[2]: 128
• Marshall Newell, Alpha – college football player and coach^[47]
• Joe Paterno, Upsilon – Pennsylvania State University football coach
• J. Burton Rix, Pi – football and basketball coach at the University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Miami^[48]
• Matt Stover, Alpha Omega – placekicker in the National Football League
• Belford West, Mu – inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame^[49]
• Wheelock Whitney Jr., Phi – owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins

• Mike Babcock, Tau Alpha – head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs; only coach in the Triple Gold Club
• Bill Zito, Psi – general manager of the Florida Panthers, two time Stanley Cup champion

• Sebastian Bea, Theta Zeta – 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist in crew
• James Elder, Alpha Phi – 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist, men's equestrian team
• Foxhall P. Keene, Alpha – gold medalist in Polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics; semifinalist at the 1883 U.S. National Championships for tennis^[2]: 149
• Bill Miller, Sigma Rho – 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist in pole vault
• Sumner Paine, Alpha – shooter who won a gold and silver medal in the 1896 Summer Olympics^[2]: 125
• James Stillman Rockefeller, Phi – 1924 Summer Olympics gold medalist in crew
• Don Schollander, Phi – 1964 Summer Olympics four-time gold medalist in swimming
• Charles Snelling, Alpha Phi – figure skater, competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics
• Jack Torrance, Zeta Zeta – held world record in shot put for fourteen years, competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Pat Turner – 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist in crew
• Richard Weinberger, Beta Tau – 2012 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in swimming (10 km Marathon)

• Raymond Rodgers Belmont, Alpha – polo player^[2]: 143
• Seward Cary, Alpha – polo player^[2]: 143
• John Elliot Cowdin, Alpha – polo player^[2]: 136

• Francis Boardman Crowninshield, Alpha – yachtsman^[2]: 148
• Woodbury Kane, Alpha – yachtsman; served on the Columbia in the 1899 America's Cup race^[2]: 139
• Herbert M. Sears, Alpha – yachtsman, commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, owner of Constellation^[2]: 147

• Joshua Crane, Alpha – four time U.S. court tennis champion; played in the finals of the 1904 U.S. Open Polo Championship^[2]: 147
• Robert J. Kelleher, Epsilon – Hall of Fame tennis player and official
• Don McNeill, Lambda – four time Grand Slam winner in tennis
• Richard Sears, Alpha – tennis player, seven-time winner of the US National Championships singles^[2]: 140
• Quincy Shaw, Alpha – tennis player, winner of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships in 1887 and 1890^[2]: 148
• Howard Taylor, Alpha – tennis player, NCAA singles and doubles champion in 1883, winner of the 1889 U.S. National Championships men's doubles^[2]: 143
• Walter Van Rensselaer Berry, Alpha – tennis player and judge at the International Mixed Tribunal of Cairo, Egypt^[2]: 138

• Jack Agrios, Delta Phi – chairman of the IAAF World Championships
• August Belmont Jr., Alpha – first president of the Jockey Club, builder of Belmont Park racetrack, and breeder of Man o' War
• Craig Hummer, Lambda – International Iron Man champion (lifeguarding), sportscaster
• George B. Morison, Alpha – sportsman, president of the Boston Athletic Association^[2]: 140
• Dicky Pride, Psi – professional golfer on the PGA Tour

• Prominent Alumni