Name |
Class and range |
Notability |
Reference |
Cleveland Abbe |
1883–1884 |
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau |
[1] |
Cleveland Abbe Jr. |
1895–1899 |
professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College |
[1] |
Truman Abbe |
1903 |
surgeon |
[1] |
Philip Abelson |
1953 |
physicist |
[2] |
Henry Adams |
1878 |
historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient |
[3][4][1] |
Henry Carter Adams |
1889 |
professor of political economy at the University of Michigan |
[1] |
James Truslow Adams |
|
writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner |
[3] |
Leason Adams |
|
geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute |
[5] |
Alvey A. Adee |
1887–1889 |
United States Secretary of State |
[1] |
Jesse C. Adkins |
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
[5] |
Cyrus Adler |
1890 |
Educator, librarian |
[1] |
Fred C. Ainsworth |
1887–1888 |
U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general |
[1] |
Clyde Bruce Aitchison |
|
Interstate Commerce Commissioner |
[5][6][7] |
Charles Henry Alden |
1893–1897 |
first president of the Army Medical School |
[1] |
Asa O. Aldis |
1880–1884 |
Judge and diplomat |
[1] |
John Merton Aldrich |
|
associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum |
[5] |
Dean C. Allard |
|
naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center |
[8] |
Charles Herbert Allen |
1888–1890 |
Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress |
[1] |
Eugene Thomas Allen |
|
pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution |
[5] |
Harvey J. Alter |
1970 |
medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
[9][10] |
Benjamin Alvord |
1878 |
mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster |
[1] |
Henry Elijah Alvord |
1895 |
Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Nicholas Longworth Anderson |
1886–1887 |
U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers |
[1] |
Eliphalet F. Andrews |
1880–1896 |
painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art |
[3][1] |
Lincoln Clark Andrews |
|
U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
[5] |
Earl C. Arnold |
|
attorney, academic, college administrator |
[5] |
William Harris Ashmead |
1892 |
Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian |
[1] |
John Vincent Atanasoff |
1957 |
computer pioneer, built the first digital computer |
[9] |
Wilbur Olin Atwater |
1899 |
professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist |
[1] |
Albert William Atwood |
1928 |
author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post |
[11][12][13] |
James Percy Ault |
|
Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher |
[5] |
Louis Winslow Austin |
|
Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards |
[5] |
Michael Auslin |
|
writer |
[4] |
Cyrus Cates Babb |
1892 |
civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][14] |
Ernest Adna Back |
|
Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5][15] |
Henry Bacon |
1888 |
architect |
[1] |
Barbara A. Bailar |
1988 |
mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association |
[16] |
Jennings Bailey |
|
judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
[5] |
Vernon Orlando Bailey |
|
Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
H. Foster Bain |
|
geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. |
[5] |
George Washington Baird |
1895 |
Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy |
[1][17][5] |
Spencer Fullerton Baird |
1878 |
ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian |
[4][1][18] |
Marcellus Bailey |
1878–1885,
1866–1890 |
patent lawyer |
[1] |
Frank Baker |
1882 |
physician and superintendent of the National Zoo |
[4][1] |
Marcus Baker |
1884 |
cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution |
[4][1] |
Aram Bakshian Jr. |
|
Author and speechwriter for three presidents |
[19] |
Albertus H. Baldwin |
1899 |
commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission |
[1][20][21][5] |
Carleton Roy Ball |
|
botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry |
[5] |
John Chandler Bancroft |
1890–1898 |
sculptor |
[1][22] |
Orion M. Barber |
|
politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals |
[5] |
Edward Chester Barnard |
1899 |
topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey |
[1] |
Job Barnard |
1903 |
associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
[1] |
John Russell Bartlett |
1886–1897 |
oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral |
[4][1] |
Paul Wayland Bartlett |
1914 |
sculptor |
[9][3] |
Henry Askew Barton |
|
first director of the American Institute of Physics |
[23] |
Paul Bartsch |
|
malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Carl Barus |
1885–1895 |
physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University |
[4][24][1] |
Ray S. Bassler |
|
geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Frederick John Bates |
|
physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department |
[5] |
Newton Lemuel. Bates |
1878–1881, 1884 |
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy |
[4][25][1] |
Louis Agricola Bauer |
1899 |
geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. |
[1][5] |
Nathan D. Baxter |
|
bishop of the Episcopal Church |
[26] |
Clifton Bailey Beach |
1896 |
member of the U.S. Congress |
[1] |
George Ferdinand Becker |
1890 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
George Beadle |
|
geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
[3] |
Truxtun Beale |
1902 |
diplomat |
[1][5] |
Tarleton Hoffman Bean |
1883 |
ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution |
[4][1] |
Thomas M. Beggs |
1955 |
painter |
[3][27][9] |
Alexander Graham Bell |
1880 |
scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society |
[28][4][1][29] |
Charles J. Bell |
1883 |
co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company |
[1][5] |
Chichester Bell |
1881–1887 |
chemist and inventor |
[1] |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
|
historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University |
[5] |
Marcus Benjamin |
1896 |
chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum |
[1][5] |
Charles Bendire |
1888 |
ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army |
[1] |
Arden L. Bement Jr. |
1980 |
engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation |
|
Andrew H. Berding |
|
journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs |
[30] |
Patricia Wilson Berger |
|
librarian, president of the American Library Association |
[31] |
Emil Bessels |
1878 |
zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution |
[4][1] |
John M. Bevan |
|
university professor |
[32] |
Albert Burnley Bibb |
1892–1899 |
architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University |
[1] |
Ernest Percy Bicknell |
|
director of the American Red Cross |
[5][33] |
Julius Bien |
1885 |
artist, publisher, lithographer |
[1] |
Frank Hagar Bigelow |
1890 |
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau |
[1] |
John Bigelow Jr. |
|
U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park |
[5] |
John Shaw Billings |
1878 |
librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General |
[34][4][1] |
Henry H. Bingham |
1881–1889 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania |
[1] |
Theodore A. Bingham |
1897–1898 |
U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington |
[1] |
Claude Hale Birdseye |
|
chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5][35] |
Rogers Birnie |
1886 |
co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley |
[1] |
William Herbert Bixby |
|
U.S. Army brigadier general |
[5] |
Henry Campbell Black |
1892 |
lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary |
[1][5] |
William Murray Black |
1897–1898 |
Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
[1] |
Harry Blackmun |
|
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
[16][36] |
James P. Blair |
1998 |
photographer with National Geographic |
[37] |
William Bodde Jr. |
|
U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati |
[38] |
Ernest L. Bogart |
|
economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association |
[5] |
Henry Carrington Bolton |
1888 |
chemist |
[1] |
Robert Whitney Bolwell |
|
professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies |
[5][39] |
Stephen Bonsal |
|
journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History |
[5] |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
|
Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
[3][36] |
William A. Boring |
1901 |
architect |
[1] |
Clement Lincoln Bouvé |
|
attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office |
[5] |
John Wesley Bovee |
1902 |
gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons |
[1][40][5] |
Adam Giede Böving |
|
entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Norman L. Bowen |
|
geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
[5] |
William Bowie |
|
geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[5] |
Francis Tiffany Bowles |
1882–1901 |
chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy |
[4][41][42][1] |
Alpheus Henry Bowman |
|
brigadier general U.S. Army |
[5] |
George Lothrop Bradley |
1883 |
artist |
[1][43] |
Frank B. Brady |
|
engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation |
[44][45] |
Charles John Brand |
|
chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Louis Brandeis |
1915–1932 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
[46][5] |
Gregory Breit |
|
Mathematical physicist, academic |
[5] |
Lyman James Briggs |
|
Physicist and engineer |
[47][5] |
David Brinkley |
|
journalist |
[36] |
Alfred Hulse Brooks |
1895 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Glenn Brown |
1888 |
architect |
[1][5] |
Henry Billings Brown |
1897 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
[1] |
Joseph Stanley Brown |
1881–1885, 1894 |
assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield |
[1] |
Lester R. Brown |
|
environmental analyst |
[48] |
Stimson Joseph Brown |
1900 |
professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory |
[1] |
John Mills Browne |
1883–1884 |
surgeon general of the U.S. Navy |
[1][49] |
Arnold W. Brunner |
1902 |
Architect and historian |
[1] |
Kirk Bryan |
|
Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University |
[5] |
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan |
|
journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star |
[5][50] |
Albert H. Bumstead |
|
cartographer |
[5] |
William E. Bunney Jr. |
1982 |
Psychiatrist, academic |
[51] |
Horatio C. Burchard |
1879–1886 |
director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index |
[1] |
George K. Burgess |
|
physicist |
[34] |
Swan Moses Burnett |
1879 |
surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine |
[52][4][53][9] |
Arthur F. Burns |
|
economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany |
[38] |
Vannevar Bush |
|
electrical engineer |
[52] |
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown |
|
sculptor |
[5] |
Charles Henry Butler |
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court |
[5] |
Robert W. Cairns |
1954 |
chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society |
[2] |
Edgar B. Calvert |
|
Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau |
[5][54] |
Charles R. Cameron |
|
U.S. Foreign Service |
[5] |
Frank Kenneth Cameron |
1895 |
soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina |
[1][55] |
Edward Kernan Campbell |
|
chief judge of the Court of Claims |
[5] |
Marius Robinson Campbell |
1896 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][56][5] |
Henry W. Cannon |
1884 |
Comptroller General of the United States |
[4][1] |
Stephen Capps |
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5][57] |
Horace Capron |
1879 |
United States Commissioner of Agriculture |
[1] |
David Carliner |
|
attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute |
[58] |
Frances Carpenter |
|
Folklorist and photographer |
[59] |
Wilbur J. Carr |
|
assistant secretary of State, diplomat |
[5] |
William George Carr |
|
educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association |
[60] |
William Kearney Carr |
1903 |
Philosopher, physician, author |
[1][61] |
John Merven Carrère |
1905 |
architect |
[3] |
Henry A. P. Carter |
1881 |
businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii |
[4][1] |
Philip L. Cantelon |
1984 |
academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated |
[62] |
Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr. |
1894 |
major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist |
[1][5] |
James McKeen Cattell |
1902 |
first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly |
[1] |
Bruce Catton |
|
historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History |
[63][3] |
Joan R. Challinor |
|
chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science |
[64][65] |
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin |
1883–1889 |
geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology |
[1] |
Steve Charnovitz |
|
Legal scholar, writer, educator |
[66] |
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor |
1902 |
author, novelist |
[1] |
Victor King Chesnut |
1896 |
botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants |
[1][67][5] |
Colby Mitchell Chester |
|
U.S. Navy admiral |
[5] |
John White Chickering |
1878–1880 |
Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb |
[68][1] |
George B. Chittenden |
1881 |
Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division
of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[4][69][70][1] |
Hong-Yee Chiu |
|
astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
[71] |
Martha E. Church |
1988 |
geographer and president of Hood College |
[16] |
Earle H. Clapp |
|
forester |
[5] |
Alonzo Howard Clark |
1889 |
naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution |
[1] |
Austin Hobart Clark |
|
zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Edgar E. Clark |
|
attorney |
[5] |
William Bullock Clark |
1895 |
professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
William Mansfield Clark |
|
chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service |
[5] |
Bruce C. Clarke |
1968 |
U.S. army general |
[2] |
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke |
1883 |
chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[4][1][5] |
Stanwood Cobb |
|
educator |
[72] |
Theodore I. Coe |
|
architect |
[73] |
Roberta Cohen |
|
executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution |
[74][75] |
William Colby |
|
CIA director |
[36] |
Charles Cleaves Cole |
1894–1895 |
associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia |
[1] |
William Byron Colver |
|
chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers |
[5] |
Rita R. Colwell |
1988 |
microbiologist |
[16] |
Arthur Compton |
|
physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics |
[3][52] |
Karl Taylor Compton |
|
physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
[76] |
Wilson Martindale Compton |
|
lawyer, president of the State College of Washington |
[5] |
Charles Arthur Conant |
1899 |
assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist |
[1] |
James B. Conant |
|
chemist |
[52] |
David H. Condon |
1967–1996 |
architect |
[9] |
Willis Conover |
|
radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour |
[77] |
Holmes Conrad |
1895–1900, 1903 |
attorney, Solicitor General of the United States |
[1] |
Nancy Conrad |
|
teacher, author |
[78] |
Joseph A. Conry |
1935 |
consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission |
[9] |
Orator F. Cook |
|
botanist |
[79][5] |
Luis Felipe Corea |
1890–1902 |
minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua |
[1][80] |
Frederic René Coudert Sr. |
1897–1899 |
lawyer |
[1] |
Elliott Coues |
1879 |
ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories |
[1] |
Frederick Vernon Coville |
1892 |
chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][18][5] |
J. Harry Covington |
|
politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia |
[5] |
Allyn Cox |
1973 |
painter |
[9] |
Thomas Craig |
1879–1890 |
mathematician at Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
William Crentz |
1962–2002 |
Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels |
[9] |
Oscar Terry Crosby |
1896 |
electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League |
[1][81][82] |
Charles Whitman Cross |
1888 |
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
George Crossette |
|
Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society |
[11][83] |
Barbara Culliton |
|
science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature |
[84][65] |
Hugh S. Cumming |
|
surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service |
[5] |
Harry F. Cunningham |
|
architect |
[5][85][86] |
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry |
1895 |
educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman |
[1] |
George Edward Curtis |
1889–1893 |
meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer |
[1][87] |
William Eleroy Curtis |
1886 |
journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics;
Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition |
[1][88][89] |
William Parker Cutter |
1894 |
chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress;
director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library |
[1][90] |
Charles William Dabney |
1894 |
university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
William Healey Dall |
1887 |
naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History |
[1][5] |
Joan Danziger |
2003 |
sculptor |
[3][9] |
Nelson Horatio Darton |
1899 |
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Joseph E. Davies |
|
Lawyer and diplomat |
[5] |
Arthur Powell Davis |
1895 |
civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Bancroft Davis |
1886–1892 |
attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
[4][1] |
Charles Henry Davis |
1878 |
rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey |
[1] |
George Whitefield Davis |
1881–1885 |
engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone |
[1] |
James Cox Davis |
|
director general of the Federal Railroad Administration |
[5][91] |
John Davis |
1886–1887 |
associate justice of the Court of Claims |
[1] |
Arthur Louis Day |
|
geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
[5] |
David Talbot Day |
1889–1893, 1901 |
chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Sara Day |
2014 |
author of historical nonfiction |
[92][93] |
Frederic Adrian Delano |
|
railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve |
[5] |
John Howard Dellinger |
|
telecommunication engineer |
[5] |
Laura DeNardis |
|
endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University |
[94] |
Tyler Dennett |
|
editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
[5] |
Leon E. Dessez |
1903 |
architect |
[1] |
Dozier A. DeVane |
|
attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. |
[5] |
Arthur E. Dewey |
2003 |
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration |
[95] |
Lyster Hoxie Dewey |
|
botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Roscoe DeWitt |
|
architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II |
[96] |
Edwin Grant Dexter |
|
educator |
[5] |
Joseph Silas Diller |
1885 |
assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic |
[4][97][1][5] |
Alvin E. Dodd |
|
consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association |
[5] |
Charles Richards Dodge |
1894 |
Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][98][99] |
Edward W. Donn Jr. |
1896 |
architect |
[1] |
Marion Dorset |
1902 |
chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][100][101][5] |
George Amos Dorsey |
1902 |
ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History |
[1] |
Noah Ernest Dorsey |
|
physicist |
[5] |
Edward Morehouse Douglas |
1887 |
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[102][1] |
Alexander Wilson Drake |
1884–1887 |
artist, art director of The Century Magazine |
[1] |
Allen Drury |
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
[3] |
Horace Bookwalter Drury |
|
Economist, academic, author |
[5] |
Paul du Quenoy |
|
historian, professor, Fulbright scholar |
[103] |
Charles Benjamin Dudley |
1900 |
chemist |
[1] |
William Ward Duffield |
1894–1897 |
superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[1] |
Arthur William Dunn |
|
national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer |
[5] |
Edward Dana Durand |
1903 |
director of the United States Census Bureau |
[1] |
Clarence Dutton |
1878 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[34][4][1] |
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight |
1878–1882 |
librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State |
[1] |
William Sylvester Eames |
1900 |
architect |
[1] |
John Robie Eastman |
1878 |
astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy |
[1][104][105][106] |
Edward D. Easton |
1883–1902 |
founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company |
[4][1] |
Burton Edelson |
|
U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA |
[107] |
Henry White Edgerton |
|
attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
[5] |
John Joy Edson |
1896–1898 |
president, Washington Loan & Trust Company |
[1][5] |
Lawrence Edwards |
|
innovator in aerospace and ground transportation |
|
Maurice F. Egan |
1898 |
Professor, author, diplomat |
[1] |
Edward Eggleston |
1901 |
Novelist, historian |
[1] |
William Snyder Eichelberger |
|
astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy |
[5][108] |
Churchill Eisenhart |
|
mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards |
[109] |
Milton Courtright Elliott |
|
Lawyer and judge |
[5] |
Samuel Franklin Emmons |
1882–1892 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America |
[4][1] |
Mordecai Thomas Endicott |
1896 |
Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps |
[1][110][111][5] |
Carl Engel |
|
pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress |
[5] |
William Phelps Eno |
|
father of traffic safety |
[5] |
Jesse Frederick Essary |
|
journalist |
[5] |
Edward Trantor Evans |
|
senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[102] |
Robley D. Evans |
1883–1901 |
U.S. Navy admiral |
[1] |
Barton Warren Evermann |
1898 |
ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries |
[1] |
William M. Ewing |
1942 |
geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient |
[2] |
David Fairchild |
1898 |
Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][5] |
Tom Farer |
|
academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico |
[112] |
Guy Otto Farmer |
|
lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board |
[113] |
Arthur Briggs Farquhar |
1902 |
Businessman and writer |
[1] |
John Barclay Fassett |
1886–1887 |
Medal of Honor recipient |
[1] |
Oliver Lanard Fassig |
1893 |
meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
Clarence Norman Fenner |
|
geologist |
[5] |
Henry G. Ferguson |
|
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey |
[5] |
Thomas B. Ferguson |
1879–1880 |
United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries |
[1] |
Alan Fern |
|
scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress |
[65][44][114][115] |
Bernhard Fernow |
1887 |
director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry |
[1] |
Jesse Walter Fewkes |
|
chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution |
[5] |
George Wilton Field |
|
biologist |
[5] |
Albert Kenrick Fisher |
1902 |
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist |
[1][5] |
Walter Kenrick Fisher |
1902 |
biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter |
[1] |
John Fitterer |
1973 |
educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities |
[116] |
J. A. Henry Flemer |
1886–1888 |
architect |
[4][117][1] |
James Milton Flint |
1880 |
medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum |
[1][118] |
Allen Ripley Foote |
1891 |
political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association |
[1][119] |
Paul D. Foote |
|
physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering |
[5] |
Kenneth M. Ford |
|
computer scientist |
[63] |
William H. Forwood |
1903 |
surgeon general of the U.S. Army |
[1] |
John W. Foster |
1889 |
Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat |
[1] |
William Dudley Foulke |
1902 |
Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer |
[1] |
Harry Crawford Frankenfield |
|
senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau |
[5] |
John Hope Franklin |
1963 |
historian |
[63][120] |
James E. Freeman |
|
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington |
[5] |
Herbert Friedenwald |
1894 |
author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee |
[1][5] |
Daniel Mortimer Friedman |
|
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims |
[121] |
Paul L. Friedman |
|
judge |
[122][123] |
Ed Frost |
|
sculptor |
[3] |
Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr. |
1900 |
architect |
[1][5] |
Ira Noel Gabrielson |
|
entomologist |
[124] |
Frank E. Gaebelein |
1965 |
educator, author, editor of Christianity Today |
[116] |
Arthur Burton Gahan |
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
economist |
[125] |
Edward Miner Gallaudet |
1878 |
first president of Gallaudet University |
[4][1] |
Beverly Thomas Galloway |
1894 |
chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture |
[1][5] |
Henry Gannett |
1878 |
chief geographer-in-charge of topographic mapping U.S. Geological Survey |
[102][4][1] |
Samuel Gannett |
1891 |
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Wilbur E. Garrett |
1966 |
photographer, editor of National Geographic |
[37][126] |
Hampson Gary |
|
colonel, U.S. Army; lawyer, and diplomat |
[5] |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
|
journalist; syndicated columnist, television news analyst |
[16] |
Tatiana C. Gfoeller |
|
ambassador |
[103] |
Riccardo Giacconi |
|
astrophysicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize |
[3] |
Cass Gilbert |
1902 |
architect |
[1] |
Grove Karl Gilbert |
1878 |
geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[34][4][1] |
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn |
2013 |
attorney, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland |
[127] |
Theodore Gill |
1878 |
Biologist, zoologist |
[4][1] |
Daniel Coit Gilman |
1878–1882, 1903 |
president, Johns Hopkins University; president, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
[1] |
Charles C. Glover |
1887–1891, 1903 |
treasurer, Corcoran Gallery of Art; banker |
[1] |
Martin B. Gold |
2000 |
lobbeyist |
[128] |
Arthur J. Goldberg |
|
U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations |
[16] |
Joseph Goldberger |
|
epidemiologist and surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service |
[5] |
Edward Alphonso Goldman |
|
biologist |
[5] |
Frank Austin Gooch |
1884–1886 |
chemist and engineer |
[4][1] |
George Brown Goode |
1881 |
ichthyologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
[4][1] |
Richard Urquhart Goode |
1886 |
geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[129][1] |
Elliot Hersey Goodwin |
|
vice president and secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce |
[5] |
James Howard Gore |
1883 |
geodesist, author, and professor of mathematics at the Columbian University |
[4][1][5] |
Carol Graham |
2008 |
Economist, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution |
[95] |
Henry S. Graves |
1898–1901 |
chief of the United States Forest Service, co-founded the Yale Forest School |
[1] |
Horace Gray |
1882 |
U.S. Supreme Court justice |
[1] |
John H. Gray |
|
Economist, academic |
[5] |
William B. Greeley |
|
chief of the United States Forest Service |
[5] |
Adolphus Greely |
1887 |
polar explorer, brigadier general and chief signal officer in the U. S. Army |
[1][5] |
William R. Green |
|
congressman, judge of the Court of Claims |
[5] |
Edward Lee Greene |
1895–1902 |
professor of botany, Catholic University |
[1] |
Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf |
1889–1903 |
assistant surgeon general and brigadier general, U. S. Army |
[1][130][131] |
James Leal Greenleaf |
|
Landscape architect and civil engineer |
|
Willis Ray Gregg |
|
meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau |
[5] |
Robert Fiske Griggs |
|
botanist, academic, head of National Geographic Society |
[5] |
Gilbert M. Grosvenor |
1901 |
president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, editor of National Geographic |
[28][34][1] |
Nathan Clifford Grover |
|
chief hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; academic |
[5][132] |
John M. Grunsfeld |
|
astronaut and astronomer |
|
Francis M. Gunnell |
1878 |
Surgeon General U.S. Navy |
[1][133] |
Alexander Burton Hagner |
1883 |
associate justice Supreme Court District of Columbia |
[1] |
Arnold Hague |
1884 |
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Benjamin F. Hake |
|
geologist and general manager of Gulf Oil Company of Bolivia |
[134] |
Asaph Hall Jr. |
1890–1895 |
astronomer |
[1] |
Henry Clay Hall |
|
attorney and commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission |
[5] |
Percival Hall |
|
president of Gallaudet University |
[5] |
William Hallock |
1885–1886 |
physicist, U. S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Stefan Halper |
|
Foreign policy scholar |
[135] |
Walton Hale Hamilton |
|
economist and professor at Yale Law School |
[5] |
Charles Sumner Hamlin |
1879 |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
[1][5] |
John Hays Hammond |
|
Mining engineer, diplomat |
[5] |
Hugh S. Hanna |
|
president, The Capital Transit Company |
[5][136] |
George Wallace William Hanger |
1902 |
chief clerk, Department of Labor; U.S. Board of Mediation |
[1][5] |
Norman Hapgood |
|
writer, journalist, editor, critic, and an American minister to Denmark |
[5] |
William Hard |
|
Social reformist and journalist |
[5][137] |
William Harkness |
1878 |
astronomer, professor of mathematics for the U. S. Navy |
[34][1] |
James S. Harlan |
|
attorney |
[5] |
Mark Walrod Harrington |
1891–1898 |
chief of Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Albert L. Harris |
|
architect |
[5] |
William Torrey Harris |
1890 |
commissioner of education, U.S. Department of Interior; educator, lexicographer |
[1] |
Albert Bushnell Hart |
|
academic, historian, writer, and editor |
[5] |
Frederick Hart |
1983 |
Sculptor, and designer of the soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
[3][9] |
Thomas Hastings |
1918–1919 |
architect |
[3] |
George Wesson Hawes |
1881 |
geologist, curator U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Joseph Roswell Hawley |
1887–1890 |
congressman, senator, Governor of Connecticut |
[1] |
William Perry Hay |
1900 |
zoologist, professor of natural sciences at Howard University |
[1] |
Edward Everett Hayden |
1885 |
navel officer, meteorologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Charles Willard Hayes |
1892 |
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey |
[1][138] |
Harvey C. Hayes |
|
pioneer in underwater acoustics, superintendent of Naval Research Laboratory Sound Division |
[5][139] |
Helen Hayes |
1988 |
actress |
[16] |
John Fillmore Hayford |
1898 |
assistant, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[1] |
William Babcock Hazen |
1884 |
brigadier general, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army |
[1] |
A. G. Heaton |
1886 |
artist, painter |
[1] |
Arthur B. Heaton |
|
architect |
[5] |
Nicholas H. Heck |
|
geophysicist and officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps |
[5] |
Carl Heinrich |
|
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Henry Henshaw |
1878 |
ornithologist and ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology |
[34][1][5] |
Christian A. Herter Jr. |
|
politician, vice president of Mobil Oil Company |
[140] |
Charles M. Herzfeld |
|
scientist and director of DARPA |
[141] |
Donnel Foster Hewett |
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5][142] |
Francis J. Higginson |
1883–1896 |
rear admiral in the U.S. Navy |
[1] |
Julius Erasmus Hilgard |
1882–1883 |
superintendent, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[1] |
Charles E. Hill |
|
professor and administrator at George Washington University, international law expert |
[5] |
David Jayne Hill |
1898 |
Assistant Secretary of State, U. S. Minister to Switzerland |
[1][5] |
James G. Hill |
1893 |
architect, head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
[1] |
Joseph Adna Hill |
1900 |
statistitian and chief of the division, U.S. Census Office |
[1][5] |
Nathaniel P. Hill |
1883 |
senator, professor of Brown University, mining engineer |
[1] |
Samuel Hill |
1895–1900 |
lawyer, railroad executive, president Minneapolis Trust Co. |
[1] |
Robert Cutler Hinckley |
1886–1887 |
artist |
[1] |
A. S. Hitchcock |
|
agrostologist and senior botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Frank Harris Hitchcock |
1901 |
chief, section of foreign markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Postmaster General |
[1] |
William Hitz |
|
associate justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Supreme Court of the District of Columbia |
[5] |
Frederick Webb Hodge |
1898 |
international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution; anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian |
[1] |
Howard Lincoln Hodgkins |
1895 |
professor of mathematics, Columbian University |
[1][5] |
Samuel B. Holabird |
1887–1889 |
brigadier general, quartermaster general, U. S. Army |
[1] |
Edward S. Holden |
1878 |
astronomer and professor of mathematics for U. S. Navy |
[34][1] |
William Jacob Holland |
1900 |
zoologist' director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; chancellor, University of Pittsburgh |
[1] |
Herman Hollerith |
1886 |
statistician, inventor |
[1] |
Ned Hollister |
|
biologist and superintendent of the National Zoological Park |
[5] |
Joseph Austin Holmes |
1902 |
geologist, first director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines |
[1] |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
|
archivist and historian |
[1] |
William Henry Holmes |
1878 |
chief, Bureau of American Ethnology; illustrator, U.S. Geological Survey; archaeologist,Smithsonian Institution |
[3][34][1][18][5] |
Judy Holoviak |
1999 |
director of publications at the American Geophysical Union |
[143][144][34][9] |
Calvin B. Hoover |
|
Economist and academic |
[145] |
Herbert Hoover |
1921–1964 |
president of the United States |
[3][9][120] |
Andrew Delmar Hopkins |
1903 |
entomologist, investigator of foliage insects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][146][5] |
Stanley Hornbeck |
|
Economist, author, professor, diplomat |
[5] |
William Temple Hornaday |
1888–1890 |
taxidermist, U. S. National Museum; zoologist; first director of the New York Zoological Park |
[1] |
Joseph Coerten Hornblower |
1883 |
architect |
[1] |
George Horton |
|
consul general, U.S. Foreign Service |
[5] |
Walter Hough |
1890 |
ethnologist, anthropologist, curator of anthropology at the U.S. National Museum |
[1][5] |
Riley D. Housewright |
|
microbiologist |
[147] |
Richard Hovey |
1893 |
poet |
[1] |
Leland Ossian Howard |
1886–1950 |
entomologist, chief of the Division of Entomology, Department of Agriculture |
[34][9][1][18] |
Harrison E. Howe |
|
chemical engineer, head of the Division of Research Extension, National Research Council, |
[5] |
William Wirt Howe |
1899 |
associate justice Louisiana Supreme Court |
[1] |
Alfred Brazier Howell |
|
comparative anatomist, zoologist |
[5] |
Edwin E. Howell |
1891 |
Geologist, relief map maker |
[1] |
Henry W. Howgate |
1878 |
U.S. Army Signal Corps officer and Arctic explorer |
[1] |
Henry L. Howison |
1883–1884 |
rear admiral, U.S. Navy; professor and department head, United States Naval Academy |
[1] |
Richard L. Hoxie |
|
brigadier general in the United States Army |
[5] |
Gardiner Greene Hubbard |
1883 |
lawyer, president of the National Geographic Society |
[1] |
Henry Guernsey Hubbard |
1884 |
entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
J. Stephen Huebner |
1973 |
research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[148][62][149] |
Edgar Erskine Hume |
|
physician, a major general in the U.S Army medical corps |
[5] |
Paul Hume |
|
music critic |
|
Harry Baker Humphrey |
|
botanist, pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Edward Eyre Hunt Jr. |
|
academic, physical anthropologist and human biologist |
[5] |
William Jackson Humphreys |
|
Physicist and atmospheric researcher |
[5] |
Gaillard Hunt |
1894–1897 |
state department, author |
[1] |
Thomas Sterry Hunt |
1887 |
chemist, geologist, mineralogist |
[1] |
Benjamin Hutto |
|
musician specializing in writing, producing and directing choral music |
|
James A. Hyslop |
|
entomologist, U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. |
[5] |
Joseph P. Iddings |
1885 |
professor of petrology, University of Chicago |
[1] |
M. Thomas Inge |
|
academic |
[150] |
Ernest Ingersoll |
1882 |
Naturalist, writer, explorer |
[1] |
Ketanji Brown Jackson |
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice |
[120] |
William Henry Jackson |
|
Photographer, painter |
[5] |
Elaine Jaffe |
1988 |
physician; pathologist; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health |
[16] |
A. Everette James Jr. |
1981–2017 |
radiologist, academic, and founder of the Center for Medical Imaging Research |
[3][151] |
J. Franklin Jameson |
|
historian, director of the department of historical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
[5] |
William Marion Jardine |
|
United States Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Minister to Egypt |
[5] |
Jeremiah Jenks |
1903 |
professor of economics at Cornell University |
[1] |
Emory Richard Johnson |
1900 |
economist, Isthmian Canal Commissioner |
[1] |
Nelson T. Johnson |
|
ambassador, diiplomat |
[5] |
Andrieus A. Jones |
|
Senator, lawyer |
[5] |
Ernest Lester Jones |
|
Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, father of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, which later became the NOAA Commissioned Corps |
[5] |
H. McCoy Jones |
1969 |
president of the International Hajji Baba Society, oriental rug collector |
[152] |
Neil Judd |
|
curator of American archaeology, U.S. National Museum |
[5] |
Julius Kaplan |
1983 |
art historian |
[3][9] |
Walter Karig |
|
Officer in charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, assistant director of Navy public relations |
[153] |
Samuel Hay Kauffman |
1881 |
publisher, editor of the Evening Star |
[4][1] |
Rudolph Kauffmann |
|
managing editor Evening Star, vice president Evening Star Company |
[5] |
Thomas Henry Kearney |
1901 |
botanist and agronomist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][5] |
Robert V. Keeley |
1985 |
diplomat |
[154] |
Arthur Keith |
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5] |
Vernon Lyman Kellogg |
|
secretary, National Research Council; entomologist |
[5] |
Brian Kelly |
2013 |
author, journalist, editor |
|
George Kennan |
1879–1885 |
Explorer, author, lecturer |
[1] |
George F. Kennan |
|
Diplomat and historian |
[52] |
Frederick C. Kenyon |
1897 |
zoologist and anatomist |
[1] |
Washington Caruther Kerr |
1882–1884 |
State Geologist of North Carolina |
[1][155][156] |
Mary Dublin Keyserling |
1988 |
economist |
[16] |
Jerome H. Kidder |
1879 |
surgeon, astronomer with Smithsonian Institution and Naval Research Laboratory |
[1] |
James J. Kilpatrick |
|
Journalist, newspaper columnist |
[52] |
Sumner Increase Kimball |
1887 |
politician, superintendent United States Life Savings Service |
[1] |
William Wirt Kimball |
1879–1880 |
U.S. naval officer and an early pioneer in the development of submarines |
[1] |
Albert Freeman Africanus King |
1880 |
physician |
[1] |
Clarence King |
1878–1881 |
first director of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Henry Kissinger |
|
United States Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Prize |
[3][120] |
Jacques Paul Klein |
|
Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret.); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (Ret.); Major General of the USAF (Ret.) |
[157] |
Ernest Knaebel |
|
lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court |
[5] |
Martin Augustine Knapp |
1893 |
chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; United States circuit judge |
[1] |
Frank Knowlton |
1890 |
paleontologist, U. S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
John Jay Knox Jr. |
1878 |
Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury Department |
[1] |
Simmie Knox |
2006 |
Painter, portraitist |
[9] |
George M. Kober |
|
physician, author, namesake of George M. Kober Medal and Lectureship |
[5] |
John Oliver La Gorce |
|
editor, National Geographic Society |
[5] |
Carol C. Laise |
1988 |
director of Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy; Ambassador to Nepal |
[16] |
Theodore Frederick Laist |
1901 |
architect; chief architect central district, Interstate Commerce Commission |
[1][158] |
Samuel Langley |
1880 |
physicist, astronomer, Secretary of the Smithsonian |
[52][3][34][1] |
Walter H. Larrimer |
|
entomologist; chief, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5][159] |
Carl. W. Larson |
|
Chief, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; director, National Dairy Council |
[5][160] |
James Laurence Laughlin |
|
Economist, academic |
[5] |
Thelma Z. Lavine |
|
Philosopheracademic |
[161] |
Luther Morris Leisenring |
|
architect |
[5] |
Levi Leiter |
1883 |
capitalist, co-founded Marshall Field & Company |
[1] |
Peter P. Lejins |
1970 |
educator, criminologist, director of the National Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology |
[2] |
Waldo Gifford Leland |
|
historian and archivist, Carnegie Institution and Library of Congress |
[5] |
Samuel Conrad Lemly |
1884–1890 |
Judge Advocate General of the Navy |
[162][163][1] |
Harvey J. Levin |
1986 |
economist |
[164] |
Francis E. Leupp |
1885–1894, 1902 |
journalist, New York Evening Post assistant editor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs |
[1][165][166] |
David C. Levy |
|
president and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art and Design |
[167] |
George W. Lewis |
|
director, Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
[5] |
Sinclair Lewis |
|
writer, playwright, and winner of the Nobel Prize |
[3][120] |
William Mather Lewis |
|
teacher, university president, state and national government official |
[5] |
Manuel de Oliveira Lima |
|
Brazilian writer, literary critic, diplomat, historian, and journalist |
[5] |
Samuel C. Lind |
|
radiation chemist, the father of modern radiation chemistry |
[5] |
Waldemar Lindgren |
1896 |
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Michael C. Linn |
|
Attorney and businessman |
[168] |
Sol Linowitz |
1994 |
lawyer |
[169] |
Walter Lippmann |
|
journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner |
[3][120] |
George W. Littlehales |
1900 |
hydrographic engineer, Navy Department |
[1][5] |
Arthur H. Livermore |
|
professor of biochemistry at Cornell University and Reed College |
[170] |
Charles S. Lobingier |
|
International judge, author, and law instructor |
[5] |
Edwin Chesley Estes Lord |
1895 |
geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Max O. Lorenz |
|
economist and statitician |
[5] |
Alan David Lourie |
|
U.S. circuit judge, chemist |
[122][123] |
Alfred Maurice Low |
1898 |
journalist |
[1] |
Isador Lubin |
|
head, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
[5] |
Anthony Francis Lucas |
1893 |
engineer, explorer |
[1] |
Robert Luce |
|
Congressman, writer, |
[5] |
William Ludlow |
1883–1888 |
major, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; major general U.S. Army |
[1] |
David Alexander Lyle |
1887 |
major, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; inventor of the Lyle gun |
[1][171][172] |
Theodore Lyman III |
1884–1885 |
Natural scientist, congressman |
[1] |
Frank Lyon |
|
lawyer, newspaper publisher, and land developer |
[5] |
Arthur MacArthur Sr. |
1888–1893 |
associate justice, Supreme Court District of Columbia; Governor of Wisconsin |
[1] |
Alexander Mackay-Smith |
1893–1903 |
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania |
[1] |
Archibald MacLeish |
|
poet, Librarian of Congress, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize |
[3] |
Garrick Mallery |
1878 |
ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution |
[3][28][34][9] |
Charles M. Manly |
1899 |
engineer |
[1] |
Charles A. Mann |
1887 |
Lawyer and politician |
[1] |
Parker Mann |
1887–1890,
1894–1899 |
artist |
[1][173][174] |
Van H. Manning |
1893 |
director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines |
[1] |
George Rogers Mansfield |
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[175] |
Curtis F. Marbut |
|
Director of the Soil Survey Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Deanna B. Marcum |
1994 |
librarian, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources |
[176] |
Hans Mark |
|
professor of aerospace engineering, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force |
[177] |
Ronald A. Marks |
|
senior official with the Central Intelligence Agency |
[178] |
Charles Lester Marlatt |
1894 |
chief of the Bureau of Entomology |
[34][1] |
Harry A. Marmer |
|
engineer, mathematician, and oceanographer with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
|
Fred Maroon |
|
photographer |
[3] |
Charles Dwight Marsh |
|
botanist; physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
William Johnston Marsh |
1895 |
architect |
[1][179][180] |
James Rush Marshall |
1883 |
architect |
[1][5] |
H. Newell Martin |
1878–1880 |
physiologist, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
Robert S. Martin |
|
librarian, archivist, administrator, and professor |
|
Susan K Martin |
1988 |
librarian; executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science |
[16] |
Charles F. Marvin |
1890 |
professor of meteorology; chief, U.S. Weather Bureau |
[1][5] |
Otis Tufton Mason |
1878–1898 |
ethnologist; curator, U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Stephen Mather |
|
first director of the National Park Service |
[5] |
François E. Matthes |
|
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5] |
Washington Matthews |
1884–1900 |
surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist |
[1] |
Philip Mauro |
1894 |
lawyer |
[1] |
George Hebard Maxwell |
1899 |
lawyer, lobbyist, executive chairman National Irrigation Association |
[1] |
O. Louis Mazzatenta |
2011 |
photographer and editor with National Geographic |
[181][182] |
Addams Stratton McAllister |
|
Physicist, electrical engineer, |
[5] |
John S. McCain Jr. |
|
United States Navy admiral |
|
S. S. McClure |
1892 |
co-founder and editor of McClure's |
[1] |
Richard Cunningham McCormick |
1896–1899 |
governor of Arizona Territory, congressman, journalist |
[1] |
George Walter McCoy |
|
director of the National Institute of Health |
[5] |
Walter I. McCoy |
|
chief justice of the D.C. Supreme Court |
[5] |
Arthur Williams McCurdy |
1898 |
inventor, astronomer |
[1] |
William John McGee |
1885 |
ethnologist, Smithsonian Institution |
[1][18] |
John P. McGovern |
1953–2007 |
allergist and philanthropist |
[3][2][9] |
Gerald S. McGowan |
|
lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal |
[183] |
Jonas H. McGowan |
1902 |
Lawyer, congressman |
[1] |
Frederick Banders McGuire |
1883–1901 |
director Corcoran Art Gallery |
[1] |
Charles Follen McKim |
1902 |
architect |
[1] |
William B. McKinley |
|
U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative |
[5] |
Ann Dore McLaughlin |
1988 |
U.S. Secretary of Labor |
[16] |
Robert McNamara |
|
U.S. Secretary of Defense |
[36] |
Elwood Mead |
1903 |
irrigation engineer, head of United States Bureau of Reclamation |
[1][5] |
Milton Bennett Medary |
|
architect |
[5] |
Oscar Edward Meinzer |
|
hydrogeologist |
[5] |
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall |
1885 |
superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; president Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
[1] |
Walter Curran Mendenhall |
1902 |
director of the US Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Clinton Hart Merriam |
1886 |
chief U.S. Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][5] |
John Campbell Merriam |
|
paleontologist |
[5] |
William Rush Merriam |
1899–1900 |
director of the U.S. Census, governor of Minnesota |
[1] |
George Perkins Merrill |
1893 |
curator, department of geology, U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Edmund Clarence Messer |
1902 |
artist |
[1][184] |
Balthasar H. Meyer |
|
Interstate Commerce Commission, economist, academic |
[5] |
Eugene Meyer |
|
chairman of the Federal Reserve, publisher of The Washington Post |
[5] |
Ellen Miles |
2005 |
curator of the National Portrait Gallery |
[9] |
Christine Odell Cook Miller |
|
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims |
[122] |
Eleazar Hutchinson Miller |
1893–1899 |
artist |
[185][3][1] |
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. |
1903 |
biologist, assistant curator of mammals, U.S. National Museum |
[1][5] |
Warren L. Miller |
|
chairman, U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad |
|
John D. Millett |
|
chancellor, Miami University; senior vice president, Academy for Educational Development |
|
Robert Andrews Millikan |
|
physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics |
[3][9] |
Harry A. Millis |
|
economist, educator, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board |
|
Arthur Millspaugh |
|
Administrator general of the finance of Persia |
[5] |
George Heron Milne |
|
Librarian and chief of the Congressional Reading Room |
|
Cosmos Mindeleff |
1887 |
journalist |
[1] |
Charles Sedgwick Minot |
1902 |
anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research |
[1] |
Betty C. Monkman |
2004 |
curator of the White House |
[10] |
Charles Moore |
1891 |
Journalist, historian, city planner, and clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia |
[1] |
George Thomas Moore |
1903 |
botanist, plant physiologist, algologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
John Moore |
1887 |
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army |
[1] |
John Bassett Moore |
1887 |
judge, Assistant Secretary of State, professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University |
[1] |
Veranus Alva Moore |
1895 |
professor of comparative pathology and bacteriology, Cornell University |
[1] |
Willis Luther Moore |
1895 |
chief of the weather bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][186] |
George W. Morey |
|
geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist |
[5] |
Sylvanus Morley |
|
archaeologist |
[5] |
Edward Lyman Morris |
|
botanist, curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |
[187] |
Edward Lind Morse |
1902 |
artist |
[1][188] |
Harold G. Moulton |
|
economist |
[5] |
Charles Edward Munroe |
1882–1885, 1892 |
chemistry professor, Columbian University |
[34][1] |
Denys Peter Myers |
1977–2003 |
architectural historian with National Park Service, part of the Monuments Men team |
[143][9][189][190] |
Charles Willis Needham |
1894 |
president George Washington University; solicitor, Interstate Commerce Commission |
[1][5] |
Charles P. Neill |
1900 |
economist, U.S. Commissioner of Labor; professor of political economy, Catholic University |
[1][5] |
Edward William Nelson |
1882–1883, 1903 |
naturalist and ethnologist, chief of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey |
[1][5] |
Henry Clay Nelson |
1883 |
medical inspector and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Navy |
[1] |
Edwin Lowe Neville |
|
diplomat |
[5][191][192] |
W. Coleman Nevils |
|
Jesuit educator |
|
John Strong Newberry |
1878 |
professor of geology and paleontology at Columbia University School of Mines |
[193] |
Simon Newcomb |
1880 |
rear admiral, professor at the Naval Observatory and Georgetown University |
[3][9][1] |
Frederick Haynes Newell |
1890 |
chief, division of hydrography, U. S. Geological Survey; director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |
[1][5] |
Oliver Peck Newman |
|
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; journalist |
[5] |
David George Newton |
|
United States Ambassador to Iraq and Yemen |
|
Hobart Nichols |
1902–1962 |
painter; paleontologic draftsman, U.S. Geological Survey |
[9][1] |
Nathaniel B. Nichols |
|
illustrator with U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of American Ethnology |
|
Harald Herborg Nielsen |
1954 |
physicist |
|
Charles Nordhoff |
1880–1883,1888 |
Journalist, author |
[1] |
Thaddeus Norris |
1894–1897 |
writer, father of American fly fishing |
[1][194] |
S. N. D. North |
1899 |
director of the U.S. Census, statistician |
[1] |
Janet L. Norwood |
1988 |
economist, statistician, U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics |
[16][143][9][120] |
Crosby Stuart Noyes |
1884 |
editor and publisher of the Washington Evening Star |
[1] |
Theodore W. Noyes |
1887 |
editor the Washington Evening Star |
[1][5] |
William A. Noyes |
1903 |
chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
[1] |
Perley G. Nutting |
|
optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America |
[5] |
Harry C. Oberholser |
|
ornithologist |
[5] |
Robert Lincoln O'Brien |
1899 |
journalist, chairman of U.S. Tariff Commission |
[1][195] |
Stephen J. O'Brien |
|
geneticist |
|
Sandra Day O'Connor |
|
U.S. Supreme Court justice |
[36] |
Paul Henry Oehser |
|
journalist |
[52][18] |
Goetz Oertel |
|
physicist |
[196] |
Herbert Gouverneur Ogden |
1889 |
civil engineer, inspector of hydrography and topography, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[1] |
Frederick E. Olmsted |
1902 |
forester and agent with the Bureau of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. |
1917–1957 |
landscape architect |
[143] |
Mark Olshaker |
|
author |
[65][44] |
Frederick I. Ordway III |
|
Air space scientist, author, educator |
[197] |
William Allen Orton |
|
Plant pathologist, Director of the Tropical Research Foundation |
[5][198][199] |
Henry Fairfield Osborn |
1894 |
academic, president of the American Museum of Natural History |
[1] |
Wilfred Hudson Osgood |
1901 |
zoologist; staff with Division of Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Joseph H. Outhwaite |
1886–1893 |
Lawyer and congressman |
[1] |
Robert Latham Owen |
1899 |
Senator for Oklahoma |
[1][5] |
Robert Oxnam |
|
Writer and academic |
|
Harvey L. Page |
1880 |
architect |
[1] |
Thomas Nelson Page |
1885 |
author and U.S. Ambassador to Italy |
[1] |
William Nelson Page |
|
Civil engineer and industrialist |
[5] |
Sidney Paige |
|
geologist, faculty of Columbia University |
[5][200] |
Alajos Paikert |
1901–1903 |
farmer, lawyer, director of the Museum of Hungarian Agricultural |
[1] |
Theodore Sherman Palmer |
1885 |
co-founder of the National Audubon Society |
[1] |
Stefan Panaretov |
|
Diplomat and professor |
[5] |
Walter Paris |
1883–1885 |
artist |
[1][201][202] |
John Parke |
1878–1880 |
colonel with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, general in the Civil War |
[1] |
Charles Lathrop Parsons |
|
chemist |
[5] |
William Ordway Partridge |
1894 |
sculptor |
[1] |
Leo Pasvolsky |
|
Journalist, economist |
[5] |
Stewart Paton |
1903 |
educator and physician specializing in neuropsychiatry |
[1] |
Richard North Patterson |
|
novelist |
[203] |
Raymond Stanton Patton |
|
director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, rear admiral |
[204] |
Charles O. Paullin |
|
author, naval historian |
[5] |
George Foster Peabody |
1896 |
banker |
[1] |
Albert Charles Peale |
1883 |
geologist, mineralogist, paleobotanist, Section of Paleobotany U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Raymond Allen Pearson |
1897 |
Assistant, Dairy Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture; college president |
[1] |
Horace C. Peaslee |
1926–1959 |
architect |
[52][143][9] |
Dallas Lynn Peck |
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[205] |
William Thomas Pecora |
|
director of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[206] |
Stanton J. Peelle |
|
Politician and jurist |
[207] |
R. A. F. Penrose Jr. |
1889–1897 |
geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Jack Perlmutter |
|
artist, printmaker |
[44][208] |
Joseph E. Pesce |
2010 |
astrophysicist |
[209] |
William John Peters |
1889 |
topographer, U. S. Geological Survey, explorer |
[1][5] |
Esther Peterson |
1988 |
consumer advocate; United Nations representative |
[16] |
Ivan Petrof |
1881–1885 |
Writer, translator, and statistician of Alaska for the U.S. Census |
[1] |
Duncan Phillips |
|
art collector and critic who played a seminal role in introducing modern art to America |
[5] |
Walter P. Phillips |
1882–1888 |
head of the United Press International, journalist, telegrapher, and inventor |
[1] |
Thomas R. Pickering |
|
diplomat |
[185] |
Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce |
1901 |
Unitarian minister who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate |
[1][5] |
Theodore Wells Pietsch I |
1902 |
architect; designer, Office Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department |
[1] |
Charles Snowden Piggot |
|
chemist and geophysicist, one of the founding fathers of ocean-bottom marine research |
[5][210] |
James Pilling |
1879 |
ethnologist, Bureau of Ethnology |
[1] |
Michael Pillsbury |
|
Strategist and expert on China |
[211] |
Gifford Pinchot |
1897–1946 |
chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[46][1] |
Edmund Platt |
|
congressman, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve |
[5] |
Michael Pocalyko |
|
Businessman and writer |
[212] |
Forrest Pogue |
|
military historian |
|
William Mundy Poindexter |
1883 |
architect |
[1][213][214] |
Charles Louis Pollard |
1900 |
botanist, assistant curator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany |
[215][1] |
John Addison Porter |
1884–1888 |
clerk to Senate Committee; Secretary to the President, journalist |
[1] |
George B. Post |
1903 |
architect |
[1] |
Louis F. Post |
|
Assistant United States Secretary of Labor |
[5] |
John Wesley Powell |
1878 |
director of the U.S. Geological Survey, director Bureau of American Ethnology |
[185][3][52] |
William Bramwell Powell |
1886–1901 |
educator |
[1] |
Frederick Belding Power |
|
Research chemist and academic |
[5] |
Frank Presbrey |
1892–1894 |
pioneering advertiser |
[1] |
Overton Westfeldt Price |
1902 |
assistant chief, Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][216] |
William Jennings Price |
|
professor of law Georgetown University; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Panama) |
[5][217] |
Irwin G. Priest |
|
Chief of Colorimetry Section Bureau of Standards |
[5] |
Henry Smith Pritchett |
1878–1880, 1897 |
astronomer, university president, superintendent of United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[34][1] |
John Robert Procter |
1894 |
geologist, Kentucky State geolostic survey, civil service commissioner |
[1] |
Raphael Pumpelly |
1889–1894 |
Geologist, author, explorer |
[1] |
Edmund R. Purves |
|
architect |
[218] |
Merlo J. Pusey |
|
journalist |
[219] |
Herbert Putnam |
1900 |
Librarian of Congress |
[34][1][5] |
Frederic Bennett Pyle |
1900 |
architect |
[1][5] |
Altus Lacy Quaintance |
|
Entomologist and associate chief of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology |
[5] |
Wallace Radcliffe |
|
pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church |
[5][220] |
Jackson H. Ralston |
|
Lawyer, professor of international law |
[5][221][222] |
John Hall Rankin |
1902 |
architect |
[1][223] |
Frederick Leslie Ransome |
1899 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Richard Rathbun |
1883 |
biologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
[1][18] |
George Lansing Raymond |
1898 |
professor of esthetics, Princeton University |
[1][5] |
Mila Rechcigl |
|
researcher |
|
Walter Reed |
1893 |
U.S. Army physician and surgeon |
[1] |
John Bernard Reeside Jr. |
|
geologist and paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[5][224][225] |
Alan Reich |
|
deputy assistant Secretary of State for Educational and cultural affairs |
[226] |
Ira Remsen |
1878–1882 |
chemist and president of Johns Hopkins University |
[52][1] |
James Burton Reynolds |
|
banker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
[5] |
Joseph J. Reynolds |
1886 |
colonel, cavalry, U.S. Army; engineer, and educator |
[1] |
C. Allen Thorndike Rice |
1879 |
journalist and the editor and publisher of the North American Review |
[1] |
George S. Rice |
|
Chief, Mining Division, U.S. Bureau of Mines |
[5][227] |
Joseph Mayer Rice |
1897 |
physician, editor of The Forum magazine |
[1] |
Lois Rice |
1988 |
Education policy scholar |
[16] |
William Gorham Rice |
1896 |
Civil Service Commissioner, author |
[1] |
George Burr Richardson |
1902 |
field geologist with U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Charles Valentine Riley |
1878 |
pioneer in entomology, curator of insects at the U.S. National Museum |
[52][29][1] |
Arthur Cuming Ringland |
|
forester, conservationist, and founder of CARE |
[228][5] |
Sidney Dillon Ripley II |
|
ornithologist, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
|
Charles Ritcheson |
|
historian, diplomat, and university administrator |
[229] |
William Emerson Ritter |
|
Zoologist, biologist |
[5] |
Ellis H. Roberts |
|
Treasurer of the United States, congressman |
[1] |
George E. Roberts |
1901 |
director of the United States Mint |
[1] |
Beverly Robertson |
1886–1890 |
cavalry officer in the United States Army |
[1] |
George M. Robeson |
1883–1886 |
Secretary of the Navy, congressman |
[1] |
Thomas Ralph Robinson |
|
horticulturalist |
[5][230] |
Nelson Rockefeller |
|
Vice President of the United States |
|
William Woodville Rockhill |
1901 |
diplomat, director Bureau American Republics |
[1] |
Lore Alford Rogers |
|
bacteriologist, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[5] |
Sievert Allen Rohwer |
|
entomologist |
[5] |
Nina Roscher |
1988 |
Professor of chemistry at American University |
[16] |
Edward Bennett Rosa |
1902 |
physicist, U.S. Bureau of Standards |
[1] |
Milton J. Rosenau |
1902 |
professor and assistant surgeon, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service |
[1] |
Joseph Nelson Rose |
1893 |
assistant curator, Department of Botany, U.S. National Museum |
[1][5] |
John F. Ross |
2000 |
Historian and author |
[231] |
Abbott Lawrence Rotch |
1891 |
meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory |
[1] |
Leo Stanton Rowe |
1901 |
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, director general of the Pan-American Union |
[1] |
Henry Augustus Rowland |
1878–1887 |
physicist and Johns Hopkins educator |
[1] |
George Rublee |
|
lawyer |
[5] |
Walter Rundell Jr. |
|
Historian, archivist, and author |
|
William Edwin Safford |
|
botanist |
[5] |
Carl Sagan |
|
Astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author |
|
Daniel Elmer Salmon |
1884 |
veterinarian; chief Bureau Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
William Salomon |
1897 |
banker |
[1] |
Henry Y. Satterlee |
1903 |
Bishop of Washington, Episcopal Church |
[1] |
Rufus Saxton |
1889–1891 |
colonel, assistant Quartermaster General, U.S. Army |
[1] |
Antonin Scalia |
19xx–1985 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
[232] |
Rudolf E. Schoenfeld |
1952–1981 |
ambassador |
[9] |
James Brown Scott |
|
authority on international law, author, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
[5] |
Frank Charles Schrader |
1903 |
geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University |
[1][5] |
Charles Schuchert |
1895 |
invertebrate paleontologist, assistant curator for U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Carol Schwartz |
1989 |
politician |
[233] |
Eugene Amandus Schwarz |
1889 |
entomological investigator, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Emil Alexander de Schweinitz |
1889 |
director of biochemical laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Glenn T. Seaborg |
|
chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize |
[3] |
William Henry Seaman |
1887 |
examiner, U.S. Patent Office; a federal judge |
|
George Mary Searle |
1890–1894 |
Catholic priest and professor of astronomy, Catholic University |
[1] |
Atherton Seidell |
|
founder of the American Documentation Institute |
[5] |
Harold Seidman |
|
political scientist |
[234] |
Frederick Seitz |
1954 |
physicist at Rockefeller University, National Medal of Science recipient |
[2] |
Ruth O. Selig |
2007 |
anthropologist and educator |
[10] |
George Dudley Seymour |
1897 |
Historian, patent attorney, antiquarian, author, and city planner |
[1] |
Nathaniel Shaler |
1885 |
geologist; dean Lawrence Scientific School; professor geology, Harvard University |
[9][1] |
Homer L. Shantz |
|
botanist and president of the University of Arizona |
[5] |
Willis Shapley |
|
NASA administrator |
[44] |
Samuel Shellabarger |
1881–1884 |
Lawyer and congressman |
[1] |
Seth Shepard |
1903 |
associate justice and chief justice Supreme Court District of Columbia |
[1] |
Charles Wesley Shilling |
|
U.S. Navy physician, researcher, and educator |
[235] |
Robert Wilson Shufeldt |
1889–1895 |
diplomate, Rear Admiral U.S. Navy |
[1] |
Robert Wilson Shufeldt Jr. |
1881 |
osteologist, myologist, museologist and ethnographer |
[1] |
Frederick Lincoln Siddons |
|
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia |
[5] |
Louis A. Simon |
|
architect |
|
James B. Simpson |
1991 |
journalist, author, and Episcopal priest |
[9] |
Fred Singer |
1957 |
physicist, director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, professor University of Virginia |
[236] |
Jeanne Sinkford |
2015 |
Dentist, first female dean of an American college |
[95] |
Denis Sinor |
|
Historian and academic |
[237] |
John Sinkankas |
|
Navy officer, aviator, gemologist, and gem carver |
[238] |
William W. Skinner |
|
chemist, conservationist, and college football coach |
[5] |
Edwin Emery Slosson |
|
First director of Science Service, magazine editor, author, journalist, and chemist |
[5] |
John Humphrey Small |
|
attorney and a U.S. Representative from North Carolina |
[5] |
Timothy Smiddy |
|
Economist, academic, and diplomat |
[5] |
Thomas Smillie |
1888 |
photographer and curator, Smithsonian Institution |
[1] |
Delos H. Smith |
|
architect |
[5][239] |
Erwin Frink Smith |
1891 |
plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
George P. Smith II |
|
academic |
[240] |
George Otis Smith |
1900 |
geologist and director of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Goldwin Smith |
1892–1900 |
historian and journalist, college professor |
[1] |
Hugh McCormick Smith |
1903 |
ichthyologist and administrator in the United States Bureau of Fisheries |
[1] |
John Bernhardt Smith |
1886–1889 |
professor of entomology, assistant U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Philip Sidney Smith |
|
Geologist, chief Alaskan geologist, U.S. Geodetic Survey |
[5] |
Constantine Joseph Smyth |
|
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
[5] |
Thorvald Solberg |
|
first Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office |
[5] |
Addison E. Southard |
|
Diplomat, businessman, chief of the Division of Commercial Activities |
[5] |
Ellis Spear |
1896 |
lawyer, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, brevet brigadier general U.S. Army |
[1] |
Arthur Coe Spencer |
1898 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][241] |
Ainsworth Rand Spofford |
1884–1889 |
journalist, author, Librarian of Congress |
[1] |
Josiah Edward Spurr |
1903 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Thorvald Solberg |
1887 |
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress |
[1] |
George Owen Squier |
1900 |
major, U.S. Army Signal Corps; scientist, and inventor |
[1] |
Wendell Phillips Stafford |
|
associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. |
[5] |
Paul Carpenter Standley |
|
botanist |
[5] |
Timothy Willam Stanton |
1894 |
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][242] |
Robert Stead |
1888 |
architect |
[1][243] |
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns |
1884–1891 |
paleontologist, U.S. Geological Survey; assistant curator U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Leonhard Stejneger |
|
curatr of biology U.S. National Museum; ornithologist, herpetologist, and zoologist |
[5] |
George Miller Sternberg |
1893 |
Surgeon General of the U.S. Army; bacteriologist |
[1] |
J. Macbride Sterrett |
1892 |
professor of philosophy, Columbian University |
[1] |
Irwin Stelzer |
|
Economist and columnist |
|
James Stevenson |
1884 |
executive officer, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Julian Steward |
|
anthropologist |
[244] |
William Mott Steuart |
1903 |
director U.S. Census Office |
[1][245][5] |
Moses T. Stevens |
1893 |
Congressman and textile manufacturer |
[1] |
Frederick W. Stevens |
|
physicist |
[5] |
Walter W. Stewart |
|
Economist, Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Board |
[5] |
Charles Wardell Stiles |
1892 |
parasitologist and zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry |
[1][5] |
Frank R. Stockton |
1900 |
author, humorist |
[1] |
Alfred Holt Stone |
1902 |
Cotton planter, writer, politician |
[1] |
John Stone Stone |
|
mathematician |
[246] |
Samuel A. Stouffer |
|
sociologist |
[247] |
Ellery Cory Stowell |
|
diplomat, professor of international law at Columbia University and American University |
[5] |
Samuel Wesley Stratton |
1901 |
physicist and the first head of the National Bureau of Standards |
[9][1] |
Oscar Straus |
1900 |
diplomat, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
[1] |
Thomas Hale Streets |
1881–1889 |
Surgeon, U. S. Navy |
[1] |
Walter Tennyson Swingle |
1899–1902 |
botanist; agricultural explorer, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1] |
Barbara B. Taft |
1988 |
historian and fellow in the Royal Historical Society |
[16] |
William Howard Taft |
1904–1913/30 |
President of the United States |
[3][46][9][120] |
Charles Sumner Tainter |
1882–1886, 1891 |
inventor of the Graphophone |
[1] |
Gerald F. Tape |
|
physicist |
[248][44] |
Albert H. Taylor |
|
electircal and radio engineer |
[5] |
James Henry Taylor |
|
mathematician |
[249] |
Frederick Winslow Taylor |
1880–1893 |
chemist, U.S. National Museum; mechanical engineer |
[1] |
Henry Clay Taylor |
1880–1910 |
rear admiral in the United States Navy |
[1] |
James Knox Taylor |
1898 |
supervising architect, U.S. Treasury Department |
[1] |
Rufus Thayer |
1885 |
judge |
[3][1] |
Charles Thom |
|
microbiologist, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry |
[5] |
Almon Harris Thompson |
1882 |
geographer, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Robert E. Thompson |
|
Political writer and journalist |
|
John J. Tigert |
|
Educator and university president |
[5] |
Samuel Escue Tillman |
1889 |
superintendent of the United States Military Academy, astronomer, engineer |
[1] |
Otto Hilgard Tittmann |
1878–1880, 1884 |
founder, National Geographic Society; superintendent United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
[52][34][9][1] |
Charles Hook Tompkins |
|
architect |
[52][5] |
James Toumey |
1899–1902 |
Professor at the Yale School of Forestry, superintendent of Tree-Planting, Division of Forestry |
[1] |
Charles Haskins Townsend |
1897 |
zoologist and director of the New York Aquarium |
[1] |
Clinton Paul Townsend |
1896 |
chemist; Patent Office examiner |
[1] |
Richard W. Townshend |
1881–1885 |
congressman |
[1] |
William L. Trenholm |
1887–1901 |
United States Comptroller of the Currency |
[1] |
Horace M. Trent |
|
physicist |
|
Alfred Charles True |
1896 |
director experiment stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[1][5] |
Frederick W. True |
1882 |
head curator department of biology, U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
Henry St. George Tucker III |
|
Lawyer and congressman |
[5] |
Bryant Tuckerman |
|
mathematician |
[5] |
Lucius Tuckerman |
1887 |
businessman, manufacturer, vice-president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
[1][250] |
John Tukey |
1955 |
statistician with Bell Labs and Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient |
[2] |
Charles Yardley Turner |
1910–1918 |
artist |
[9] |
Henry Ward Turner |
1990–1996 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[251][1] |
Scott Turner |
|
mining engineer, director of the United States Bureau of Mines |
[5] |
Merle Tuve |
|
geophysicist |
[252] |
Frank Tweedy |
1885–1901 |
botanist, topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Sanford J. Ungar |
1980 |
university president |
|
Harold Urey |
|
physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
[3] |
Charles Fox Urquhart |
1895 |
topographer and administrator with the U.S. Geological Survey |
[253][1] |
Charles R. Van Hise |
1890 |
geologist, academic and president of the University of Wisconsin |
[1] |
John van Schaick Jr. |
|
clergyman and editor |
[5] |
Frank A. Vanderlip |
1897 |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; president of the National City Bank of New York |
[1] |
T. Wayland Vaughan |
1897 |
geologist, U. S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Museum; director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
[1] |
Victor C. Vaughan |
|
physician, medical researcher, educator, and academic administrator |
[5] |
Herman Knickerbocker Vielé |
1887–1892 |
Novelist, short story writer, and poet |
[1] |
Herbert Elijah Wadsworth |
1903 |
Businessman, politician, and philanthropist |
[1][5] |
Elwood Otto Wagenhurst |
1903 |
lawyer, football coach |
[1][254][5] |
Charles Doolittle Walcott |
1883 |
director, U.S. Geological Survey; administrator of the Smithsonian Institution |
[1][18] |
Patricia Wald |
1988 |
chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
[16][120] |
Francis Amasa Walker |
1879–1882 |
superintendent of the U.S. Census Bureau |
[1] |
Thomas Walsh |
1900 |
mining engineer who discovered one of the largest gold mines in America |
[1] |
Clyde W. Warburton |
|
Director of Extension Work of the United States Department of Agriculture |
[5][255] |
Lester Frank Ward |
1878 |
paleobotanist with the U.S. Geological Survey and American Museum of Natural History |
[52] |
Samuel Gray Ward |
1887–1890 |
banker, poet, author, and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
[1] |
Eugene Fitch Ware |
1902 |
Commissioner of Pensions |
[1] |
Frank Julian Warne |
1911–1948 |
Journalist, economist, and statistician |
[3][5] |
Everett Warner |
1943–1963 |
artist |
[3] |
Edward Wight Washburn |
|
Chemist, chief of the Division of Chemistry of the U.S. Bureau of Standards |
[5] |
Wilcomb E. Washburn |
1965–1997 |
historian |
[143][9] |
Walter Washington |
1969–2004 |
Mayor of the District of Columbia |
[3][9] |
Alan Tower Waterman |
|
physicist |
[256] |
J. Elfreth Watkins |
1888 |
superintendent and curator of mechanical technology, U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
David K. Watson |
1901–1902 |
Lawyer and congressman |
[1] |
Christopher Weaver |
2005 |
software developer and educator at MIT |
[257] |
William Benning Webb |
1887 |
President of the Board of Commissioners District of Columbia, lawyer |
[1] |
Joseph Weber |
|
physicist, University of Maryland professor |
[258] |
Frank E. Webner |
|
Consulting cost accountant, early management author, industrial engineer |
[5] |
Hutton Webster |
|
Sociologist, author |
[259] |
Sidney Weintraub |
|
economist |
|
James Clarke Welling |
1878 |
president of Columbian University, co-founder of National Geographic Society. |
[34] |
Volkmar Wentzel |
|
photographer and cinematographer with National Geographic |
[3] |
Alexander Wetmore |
|
ornithologist and avian paleontologist |
[11][5] |
William F. Wharton |
1884 |
jurist, Assistant Secretary of State |
[1] |
Andrew Dickson White |
1896 |
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, historian, co-founder and president of Cornell University |
[1] |
Charles Abiathar White |
1882–1902 |
geologist and paleontologist |
[1] |
David White |
1882 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1][5] |
Frank White |
|
Treasurer of the United States; Governor of North Dakota |
[5] |
Gilbert F. White |
|
Geographer, the father of floodplain management |
[260] |
William Alanson White |
|
neurologist and psychiatrist |
[5] |
William Allen White |
|
newspapers editor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
[3] |
William Whiting II |
1888–1889 |
politician, congressman |
[1] |
Beniah Longley Whitman |
1895–1900 |
president Columbian University |
[1] |
Henry Howard Whitney |
1899–1902 |
brigadier general, U.S. Army |
[1] |
Milton Whitney |
1894 |
academic and chief, Division of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[261][1][262][5] |
Frederick W. Whitridge |
1883–1884 |
lawyer, president of the Third Avenue Railway Company |
[1] |
John Brewer Wight |
1902 |
president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia |
[1] |
Harvey Washington Wiley |
1883–1930 |
chief chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; author of Pure Food and Drug Act |
[1][3][34][9][5] |
Walter Francis Willcox |
1899 |
statistician, U.S. Census Bureau; professor at Cornell University |
[1] |
Maynard Owen Williams |
|
National Geographic foreign correspondent |
[5] |
Whiting Williams |
|
co-founder of Welfare Federation of Cleveland (predecessor to United Way) |
[263] |
James Alexander Williamson |
1886–1887 |
commissioner, United States General Land Office; brigadier general U.S. Army |
[1] |
Bailey Willis |
1896 |
geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
[1] |
Edwin Willits |
1889–1894 |
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and congressman |
[1] |
Westel W. Willoughby |
1894–1895 |
professor political science, Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
William F. Willoughby |
1895 |
author and expert, U.S. Department of Labor |
[1][5] |
William Holland Wilmer |
1896 |
ophthalmologist; founding director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University |
[1] |
Jeremiah M. Wilson |
1883 |
educator, lawyer, jurist, and congressman |
[1] |
M. L. Wilson |
|
professor, undersecretary of agriculture the U.S. Department of Agriculture |
[264] |
Thomas Wilson |
1887 |
anthropologist; curator prehistoric archaeology, U.S. National Museum |
[1] |
William Lyne Wilson |
1895 |
Postmaster General, president Washington and Lee University |
[1] |
Woodrow Wilson |
1913–1924 |
President of the United States |
[3][9][120] |
Robert Watson Winston |
|
Lawyer, judge, and author |
[5][265][266] |
Leonard Wood |
1895–1897 |
U.S. Army major general, military governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines. |
[1] |
Robert Morse Woodbury |
|
Economist, academic, author, and chief statistician of the International Labor Office in Geneva |
[5][267][268] |
Albert Fred Woods |
1896 |
botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry, university president |
[1][269] |
Robert Simpson Woodward |
1885 |
Professor of mechanics and mathematical physics, Columbia University |
[1] |
William Creighton Woodward |
1995 |
medical doctor and lawyer, legislative counsel for the American Medical Association |
[1] |
John Maynard Woodworth |
1878 |
surgeon general, Marine Hospital Service |
[1] |
Alma S. Woolley |
|
nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author |
[270] |
Herman Wouk |
|
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
[3] |
Carroll D. Wright |
1895 |
Statistician and first U.S. Commissioner of Labor |
[1] |
Nathan C. Wyeth |
1900 |
architect, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury |
[1] |
Walter Wyman |
1889 |
supervising surgeon general, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service |
[1] |
Robert Sterling Yard |
|
Writer, journalist, editor, and wilderness activist |
[5] |
H. C. Yarrow |
1878–1893 |
ornithologist, herpetologist, surgeon, curator of reptiles in the U.S. National Museum |
[34][4][9][5] |
Charles W. Yost |
1974-1981 |
Diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
Arthur N. Young |
|
Economist and government advisor |
[5] |
Albert Francis Zahm |
1902 |
academic; chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress |
[271][1][5] |
Estanislao Zeballos |
1894–1895 |
E. E. and M. P. Argentina |
[1] |