This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School. Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated classes of students, and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni.

This list uses the following notation: D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present) Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics) T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program, or the historical equivalent

Academia and research

Academic administrators Name Year/degree Notability ReferenceBenjamin Abbot 1811 President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1788–1838 1846 President of Union College 1869–1871 1792 President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819 1812 President of Austin College 1862–1863 Cecil Bancroft 1860 Principal of Phillips Academy 1873–1901 1836 President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892 1936 President of Allegheny College 1948–1955, president of Colorado College 1955–1963, president of Claremont Graduate University 1963–1970, president of the University at Albany 1970–1975 1864 Founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College 1805 President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820 1859 Founder of Carleton School for Boys 1795 Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, president of Jubilee College 1831–1852 1839 Founder and first president of Bates College 1855–1894 1788 President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821 1905, M.A. 1905 President of Cornell University 1937–1949 1929 President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970 Ph.D 1974 Chancellor of University of California at San Diego 2004–present, chancellor of North Carolina State University 1998–2004 1968 Dean of the Yale School of Management 1995–2005 1873 President of Grinnell College (1887–1900); president of Pomona College (1902–1909); president of Fisk University (1909–1912) 1815 Founding president of New-York Central College 1977 President of Dartmouth College 2013–2023 1901 President of Dartmouth College 1916–1945 1828 President of Vassar College 1862–1864, founder and first president of Judson College 1838–1855 1812 Founder of Gallaudet College for the deaf 1972 Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002–2006 1828 President of Middlebury College 1840–1866 1971 Vice president of the International Peace Institute 2001–present, director of the Center on International Organization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University 1774 President of Bowdoin College 1802–1807 1954, T'1955 President of Dartmouth College 1981–1987 1833 First professor of Wabash College 1833–1880, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instructions 1793 President of Williams College 1815–1821, president of Amherst College 1821–1823 Ph.D 1903 First elected president of New Hampshire College 1893–1903 1969 President of Kennesaw State University 2006–present 1806 Founder of Norwich UniversityAlbert C. Perkins 1859 President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1873–1889 1979 President of Cornell University April 2017– MA Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006–2014) 1847 President of Acadia College 1869–1896 1830 President of Dartmouth College 1863–1877 1807 Superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1817–1833, financier and namesake of the Thayer School of Engineering 1783 Originator of system of free primary schools in Boston; founder of first insurance company and savings bank in that town Ph.D. 1978 President of Claflin University 1994 to 2019 1861 President of Dartmouth College 1893–1909 1771 President of Dartmouth College 1779–1815, son of Dartmouth College's founder Eleazar Wheelock T'1965 Chancellor of the University of Alabama System 2012–present; president of the University of Alabama 2003–2012

Professors and researchers Name Year/degree Notability Reference 1791 Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy and professor of languages at Dartmouth 1898 Astronomer 1899 First Japanese professor at a major university in the United States 1961 Linguist and scholar of the English language 1932 Professor of literature at Princeton University 1938 Professor of law at Harvard Law School and Emory University 1925 Historian of Colonial America 1950 Architectural historian and professor at the University of Toronto 1870 Semitic scholar 1962 Canadian geneticist and researcher 1977 Microbiol ecology and health of Laurentian Great Lakes 1818 Biblical scholar 1985 Professor and chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford University 1903 Professor of Latin and English, prominent early member of the Baháʼí Faith 1817 Schoolteacher and prominent abolitionists 1879 Mathematician specializing in trigonometry Professor of history 1932 Poet and professor of English 1966 Professor of English and American literature at Rutgers University 1931 Ethnologist and first director of the National Museum of American HistorySaxon, Wolfgang (May 27, 1997). "John Canfield Ewers, Ethnologist, Dies at 87" . The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2012. 1959 Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School 1961 Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Physicist, senior research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab 1980 Applied mathematician, distinguished professor at the University of UtahAnnette Gordon-Reed1981 Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University; winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History 1992 History researcher and author, professor at the University of Florida 1975 Theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory 1951 (transferred to Columbia University) Professor of English at Dartmouth College 1951 Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley 1944 Musicologist 1992 University of Oxford Philosopher and Clinical Epidemiologist specialising in Evidence-Based Medicine and Placebo research T'1976 Professor of investment management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University 1907 Biologist, first recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1915 1991 Georgetown Law School professor, lawyer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 1953 Linguist at University of California, San Diego, researcher of sign languages 1989 Historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University 1972 Economics professor at Stanford, winner of John Bates Clark Medal DMS 1938–40 (never graduated) Physician, psychoanalyst, and writer; experimenter into the nature of consciousness 1938 Professor at MIT, founder of chaos theory, winner of Kyoto Prize in 1993 Ph.D Astronomer, co-discoverer of three moons of UranusHenry Ruthven MonteithA.B. 1869Distinguished history professor at the University of Connecticut Ph.D 1930 Researcher in human vision, and professor at the Dartmouth Eye Institute 1850 Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner M.S. 2008 Professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics at the University of Southern California Economist, lecturer at Harvard University, co-founder of Mother Jones 1930 Egyptologist, made major discoveries in ancient astronomy and chronology 1888 Professor of American Literature at the Pennsylvania State University Professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Texas at AustinFrida E. Polli1994Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Professor of International Development at American University M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969 Associate professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 1967 David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law 1972 Biogeochemistry researcher Psychiatric and mental illness researcher at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic 1773 Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental languages at Dartmouth College; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the board of trustees 1877 Historian, professor of Modern History at Dartmouth College 1940 Historian, author, founding provost of Cowell College at University of California, Santa Cruz 1989 Independent researcher of the Great Wall of China 1993 Assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of literature and environmental studies at Union Institute & University Ph.D 1975 Mathematician, co-discoverer of a solution for envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people 1807 Expert on Spanish literature Ph.D. 1987 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 1957 Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School 1959 Professor of law and supervising attorney at the Yale Law School 1853 Astronomer, made first observations of the flash spectrum of the sun during solar eclipses of 1869–70 1988 Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law

MacArthur Fellows The MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research award commonly called the "Genius Grant." Name Year/degree Notability Reference 1981 Law and History professor at Harvard University, 2010 MacArthur Fellow 2005 Human rights lawyer, 2018 MacArthur Fellow 1961 Theoretical biologist, 1987 MacArthur Fellow 1985 Professor of Earth science and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory 1980 Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, 2006 MacArthur Fellow M.A.L.S. 2005 Visual artist; 2006 MacArthur Fellow 1978 Mathematician, 1999 MacArthur Fellow

Nobel laureates The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society. Name Year/degree Notability Reference 1941 Co-winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Winner of 2001 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 Co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Architecture, engineering and building industry Name Year/degree Notability Reference 1991 Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial 1973 Noted "green" designer, dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1994–1999 James Pulliam California Modernist architect and educator 1934 Designer of Manhattan Plaza, chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1989–1990 Mario Torroella 1957 Cuban-American modernist architect and artist; co-founder and principal of HMFH Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects 1984 Market transformation expert and founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System 1889 Architect of many buildings in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity House at Dartmouth; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

Arts