Academics
Prominent Fulbright Scholars of the Past
| Name | Category | Achievement | Most Recent Affiliation / Location | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinua Achebe | Writer | Writer | Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson | NY |
| Maya Angelou | Writer | Writer | Wake Forest University | NC |
| Eduardo Aninat | International Organizations / NGO | Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary
Fund (1999- ) |
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (1999- ) | DC |
| Andres Bianchi | Ambassador | Ambassador, Chile to U.S. (2000- ) | Ambassador, Chile to U.S. (2000- ) | DC? |
| Alan Blinder | Business | Vice-Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve Board (1994-96) | NJ | |
| Hans H. Blix | United Nations | Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector; Director, International Atomic Energy Agency (1981-97) | ||
| Amar Gopal Bose | Business | Founder, Chairman and CEO, Bose Corporation | MA | |
| John Brademas | University President | President, New York University (1981-92); Former U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959-81) | NY | |
| Fernando Cardoso | Head of State | President of Brazil (1995-2003) | ||
| Alexander Counts | International Organizations / NGO | President, Grameen Foundation USA | President, Grameen Foundation USA | DC |
| Barbara Crossette | Media | The New York Times U.N. bureau chief | NY | |
| Leo J. Donovan, S.J. | University President | President, Georgetown University (1989-2001) | ||
| Rita Dove | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1987) | New York | NY |
| Renee Fleming | Music | Opera Singer | CT | |
| Lukas Foss | Music | Conductor and pianist | Bridgehampton | NY |
| Jean-Pierre Garnier | Business | CEO, GlaxoSmithKline | ||
| Kul Chandra Gautam | United Nations | Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF | United Nations | NY |
| Boutros Boutros Ghali | United Nations | Secretary-General, United Nations (1992-96) | ||
| Rita Hauser | United Nations | U.S. representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights | Chairs, International Peace Academy; Of Counsel, Stroock, Stroock & Lavan | NY |
| Ada Louise Huxtable | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Criticism, 1970) | New York | NY |
| Geza Jeszensky | Ambassador | Ambassador, Hungary to U.S. (1998- ) | Ambassador, Hungary to U.S. (1998- ) | DC? |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1981-85) | Professor, Georgetown University | DC |
| Tommy Koh | Ambassador | Ambassador, Singapore to U.S. (1984-90), U.N. (1968-71, 74-84) | Professor, Seton Hall University | NJ |
| Joshua Lederberg | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1958) | President Emeritus, Rockefeller University | NY |
| Joseph Lelyveld | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (General Non-Fiction, 1986) | NY? | |
| Osman Faruk Logoglu | Ambassador | Ambassador, Turkey to U.S. (2001- ) | Ambassador, Turkey to U.S. (2001- ) | DC? |
| Lorin Maazel | Music | Conductor, New York Philharmonic | New York | NY |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (2000) | Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania | PA |
| Anna Moffo | Music | Soprano | New York | NY |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1975-76), India (1973-75); Former Senator | New York | NY |
| Ivory V. Nelson | University President | President, Linclon University (1999- ) | President, Linclon University (1999- ) | PA |
| Olara Otunnu | United Nations | Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict | United Nations | NY |
| Philip Pearlstein | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| Richard Serra | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| Han Seung-Soo | United Nations | President, U.N. General Assembly (2001-02) | United Nations | NY |
| Ruth Simmons | University President | President, Brown College (2001- ); Former President Smith College (1995-2000) | President, Brown College | RI |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (2001) | Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | CA |
| Susumu Tonegawa | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1987) | MIT | MA |
| John Updike | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Fiction, 1982 and 1991) | Ipswich | MA |
| Linda Vester | Media | Fox News | NY | |
| Alberto Vitale | Business | CEO of Random House | CEO of Random House | NY |
| James D. Watson | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1962) | President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring, New York) | NY |
| Josh Weston | Business | Honorary Chairman of the Board, ADP | NJ | |
| Makmur Widodo | United Nations | Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations | United Nations | NY |
| Rosalyn S. Yalow | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1977) | Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Veterans Administration Hospital (Bronx, NY) | NY |
| Muhammad Yunus | International Organizations / NGO | Chairman and Founder, Grameen Bank | Board, UN Foundation; Ambassador, UNAIDS | |
| Adolfo Aguilar Zinser | United Nations | Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations | United Nations | NY |
| Farid Abboud | Ambassador | Ambassador, Lebanon to U.S. (1999- ) | Ambassador, Lebanon to U.S. (1999- ) | DC? |
| George A. Akerlof | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (2001) | Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley | CA |
| Philip W. Anderson | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1977) | Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Bell Labs | NJ |
| Marcia Angell | Miscellaneous | Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine | Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine | MA |
| Dominick Argento | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1975) | MN | |
| John Ashbery | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1976) | New York | NY |
| Emmanuel Ax | Music | Pianist | New York | NY |
| William B. Bader | Government | Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1999- ) | DC | |
| Bernard Baker | Business | Chairman, Board of Directors, FuelCell Energy | CT | |
| Curtis Barnette | Business | Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | DC | |
| Craig Barrett | Business | President and CEO, Intel Corporation | AZ | |
| Leslie Bassett | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1966) | MI | |
| Hans Bethe | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1967) | ||
| Judith Blegen | Music | Soprano | ||
| Alfred H. Bloom | University President | President, Swarthmore College (1991- ) | President, Swarthmore College (1991- ) | PA |
| Derek Bok | University President | President, Harvard University (1971-91) | President Emeritus and Professor of Law, Harvard University | MA |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (History, 1974) | Washington | DC |
| Robert S. Bowen | Business | Vice Chairman and CEO, Group 1 Software, Inc. | MD | |
| Andrew Brimmer | Business | Member, Federal Reserve Board (1966) | Professor, University of Massachusetts | MA |
| James M. Buchanan | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1986) | Advisory General Director, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University | VA |
| David A. Caputo | University President | President, Pace University (2000- ); President, Hunter College (1995-2000) | President, Pace University | NY |
| Ingvar G. Carlsson | Head of State | Prime Minister of Sweden (1986-91, 1994-96) | ||
| Gerhard Casper | University President | President, Stanford University (1992-2000) | Professor of Law, Stanford University | CA |
| Dale Chihuly | Arts | Artist | Seattle | WA |
| Timothy Chorba | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Singapore (1994-97) | Patton Boggs Law Firm | DC |
| Wlodziemierz Cimoszewicz | Head of State | Prime Minister of Poland (199?-200?) | ||
| Chuck Close | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| George Crumb | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1968) | Philadelphia | PA |
| Jeffrey Davidow | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Mexico (1998- ), Venezuela (1993-96), Zambia (1988-90) | Ambassador, U.S. to Mexico (1998- ), Venezuela (1993-96), Zambia (1988-90) | |
| David Brion Davis | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (General Non-Fiction, 1967) | Orange | CT |
| Misha Dichter | Music | Pianist | New York | NY |
| Lamberto Dini | Head of State | Prime Minister of Italy (1995-96) | ||
| David Herbert Donald | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Biography or Autobiography, 1961 & 1988) | Lincoln | MA |
| Donald B. Easum | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Nigeria (1971-77) | NY | |
| Bay Fang | Media | National Correspondent, US News and World Report | National Correspondent, US News and World Report | DC |
| Bruce Bissell Finley | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Breaking News Reporting, 2000) | Denver | CO |
| Robert Finn | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Afghanistan (2002- ), Tajikistan | Ambassador, U.S. to Afghanistan (2002- ), Tajikistan | |
| Jonathan Franzen | Writer | Author of The Corrections | NY | |
| Eric Freedman | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Beat Reporting, 1994) | East Lansing | MI |
| Milton Friedman | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1976) | Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; Hoover Institution | IL |
| Michael Froman | Business | Chief of Staff, Office of the Chairman, Citigroup, Inc. | NY | |
| Nina Gershon | Government | Federal Judge | Federal Judge | NY |
| Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | Head of State | Prime Minister of Yemen (199?- ) | ||
| Riccardo Giacconi | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (2002) | President, Associated Universities, Inc.; Professor, Johns Hopkins University | MD? |
| Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Head of State | Prime Miniser of France (1974-81) | ||
| Milton Glaser | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| Philip Glass | Music | Composer | New York | NY |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (History, 1995) | Rockport, Maine | |
| Hanna Holborn Gray | University President | President, University of Chicago (1978-93) | President Emeritus and Professor of History, University of Chicago | IL |
| Paul Greenberg | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Editorial Writing, 1969) | Little Rock | AR |
| Frederick S. Hammer | Business | Co-Chairman, Inter-Atlantic and Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) Ltd | NY | |
| Arthur Hartman | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. Ambassador to U.S.S.R. (1981-87), France (1977-81) | ||
| Anthony Hecht | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1968) | Washington | DC |
| Abdel Aziz Hegazy | Head of State | Prime Minister of Egypt (1974-75) | ||
| Samuel Isaly | Business | Founding and Managing Partner of OrbiMed Advisors LLC | New York | NY |
| Hugh R. Jones | Business | Senior Partner, Boston Office of Hale and Dorr LLP | MA | |
| Wolf Kahn | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| Galway Kinnell | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1983) | New York | NY |
| Masatoshi Koshiba | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (2002) | Senior Counselor, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (University of Tokyo) | |
| Alan M. Kriegsman | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Criticism, 1976) | Chevy Chase | MD |
| Hyun Jae Lee | Head of State | Prime Minister of Korea (1988) | ||
| Philip Lochner | Business | Senior Vice President, Time Warner (1998) | CT | |
| Richard W. Lyman | University President | President, Stanford University (1970-80); President, Rockefeller Foundation | CA | |
| Carleton Mabee | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Biography or Autobiography, 1944) | New York | NY |
| Charles F. MacCormack | International Organizations / NGO | President, Save the Children; Former President, World Learning | President, Save the Children | CT |
| Mary Ellen Mark | Arts | Artist | New York | NY |
| Donald Martino | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1974) | Cambridge | MA |
| Donald J. McConnell | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Eritrea (2001- ), Burkina Faso (1993-96) | Ambassador, U.S. to Eritrea (2001- ), Burkina Faso (1993-96) | |
| Thomas Messer | Arts | Director, Guggenheim (1961-88) | NY | |
| Franco Modigliani | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1985) | MIT | MA |
| Erwin Neher | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1991) | Director, Membrane Biophysics Department, Max Planck Institut (Gottingen, Germany) | |
| Douglass C. North | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1993) | Professor of Economics, Washington University | MO |
| Ronald D.F. Palmer | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Togo, 1976-78; Malaysia, 1981-83; Mauritius, 1986-89 | Professor Emeritus, George Washington University | DC |
| Alfred Partoll | Business | Vice President AT&T | Retired | NY |
| Wayne Peterson | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1992) | San Francisco | CA |
| Thomas R. Pickering | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1989-92), Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan | Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company | |
| Donald J. Planty | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Guatemala (1996- ) | Ambassador, U.S. to Guatemala (1996- ) | |
| Cornelius B. Prior Jr | Business | CEO of several companies who gave $5 million to Holy Cross College in 1998 | CT | |
| Roger Reynolds | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1989) | La Jolla | CA |
| Lawrence R. Ricciardi | Business | Senior VP & General Counsel, IBM (1995-Present) | NY | |
| Ned Rorem | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1976) | Nantucket | MA |
| Roger Rosenblatt | Media | Award-winning journalist | NY | |
| Jaime Daremblum Rosenstein | Ambassador | Ambassador, Costa Rica to U.S. (199?- ) | Ambassador, Costa Rica to U.S. (199?- ) | DC? |
| Carlo Rubbia | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1984) | Professor, University of Pavia (Italy); President of the Italian Instiute for Environmentally-safe Energy (ENEA) | |
| Theodore E. Russell | Ambassador | Ambassador, U.S. to Slovakia (1993-96) | VA | |
| Paul Samuelson | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1970) | Professor Emeritus, MIT | MA |
| Bengt Samuelsson | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1982) | Professor of Physiological Chemistry and former President, Karolinska Institute (Sweden); Chairman, Nobel Foundation | |
| John R. Silber | University President | President, Boston University (1971-96) | Chancellor, Boston University (1996- ) | MA |
| Charles Simic | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1990) | Stratford | NH |
| Jane Smiley | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Fiction, 1992) | New York | NY |
| Hedrick Smith | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (International Reporting, 1974) | ||
| Margaret Snyder | United Nations | Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) | ||
| Javier Solano | United Nations | Secretary-General, NATO (1995-99) | ||
| Mark Strand | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1999) | Chicago | IL |
| Niara Sudarkasa | University President | President, Lincoln University (198?-98) | ||
| Charles H. Townes | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1964) | Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley; Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts | MA |
| Garrick Utley | Media | Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News | Contributor, CNN's New York Bureau | NY |
| PeterViereck | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1949) | South Hadley | MA |
| George Walker | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1996) | Montclair | NJ |
| Michael Walzer | Miscellaneous | Political Theorist | Professor, Princeton University | NJ |
| Allen Weinstein | International Organizations / NGO | President, Center for Democracy | President, Center for Democracy | DC |
| CharlesWright | Pulitzer | Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1998) | Charlottesville | VA |
| Chen NingYang | Nobel | Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1957) | Professor at SUNY Stony Brook; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University (Beijing) | NY? |
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