Following is a list of Signet Society members. Signet Society is a Harvard University final club that recognizes accomplishments in literature and the arts.
Academia Emily Apter, professor chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University Derek Bok, Harvard University president James B. Conant, Harvard University president, scholar, chemist Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University president, chemist, mathematician Alexander Forbes, electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School Owen Gingerich, professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Peter J. Gomes, theologian and professor of Christian morals at Harvard Divinity School Mason Hammond, Classics scholar William James, philosopher, psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States Marty Kaplan, professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios Thomas Kuhn, philosopher and college professor William Coolidge Lane Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University president, historian Charles Eliot Norton, social critic, and Harvard professor Neil Rudenstine, Harvard President Ilya Vidrin, academic research-practitioner Andrew Weil, founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine
Art
Paul Bartlett (painter)
Business
Agnes Chu, businesswoman and producer who oversaw original content at the launch of Disney+ in 2019 and president of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) including media brands such as GQ, The New Yorker and Vogue Mark Penn, chairman and chief executive officer of Stagwell, chief strategy officer of Microsoft Corporation, and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller John Train, investment advisor and author
Education
Herbert R. Kohl, educator who founded the open classroom movement
Entertainment Matthew Bohrer, actor Andy Borowitz, writer, comedian, actor Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor Amy Brenneman, actress Nicholas Britell, film composer and producer Ben Cosgrove, composer and multi-instrumentalist Tommy Lee Jones, actor Rashida Jones, actress Marty Kaplan, writer and producer for Walt Disney Studios, chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Douglas Kenney, co-founder of National Lampoon, comedy writer, producer, and actor in Animal House and Caddyshack John Lithgow, actor Donal Logue, actor James Murdoch, media owner Conan O'Brien, talk show host Natalie Portman, actress Whit Stillman, writer-director Tom Werner, producer, Red Sox co-owner Sabrina Wu, writer, comedian, and actor Alan "Scooter" Zackheim, reality show winner Beauty and the Geek
Journalism Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times Adam Gopnik, writer for The New Yorker Hendrik Hertzberg, principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine, speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, and editor of The New Republic Walter Isaacson, chair and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The New York Times George Plimpton, sports journalist who helped found The Paris Review Frank Rich, essayist and liberal op-ed columnist with The New York Times Reihan Salam, conservative political commentator, president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, executive editor of National Review, a contributing editor at National Affairs, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic Alessandra Stanley, co-founder of Air Mail Andrew Sullivan, founder of the political blog The Daily Dish Richard Tofel, former president of ProPublica Fareed Zakaria, editor, author, commentator
Literature James Agee, novelist, screenwriter, poet, author Conrad Aiken, author John Ashbery, poet, writer Robert Benchley, writer and actor John Berendt, writer Earl Derr Biggers, novelist and playwright T. S. Eliot, poet, author Robert Frost, poet Donald Hall, poet Seamus Heaney, poet Leslie Jamison, novelist and essayist Norman Mailer, writer Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer Prize winning author, maritime historian, and retired Rear Admiral George Plimpton, writer, journalist George Santayana, philosopher, poet, novelist Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, author, winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Wallace Stevens, poet Trumbull Stickney, poet John Updike, writer John Hall Wheelock, poet
Politics Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan Charles Joseph Bonaparte, United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Navy Hamilton Fish II, United States Congress Jay Rockefeller, United States Senate Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States James Roosevelt, U.S. House of Representatives, chairman of the California Democratic Party Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States Chuck Schumer, United States Senate Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense, director of the Office of Management and Budget, California State Assembly, and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission William Weld, Massachusetts Governor
Other Lionel de Jersey Harvard, collateral descended of Harvard College founder
Fictional members James "Toofer" Spurlock, fictional character on television show 30 Rock
References Notes
External links Signet Society website