Phi Eta Sigma is an American freshman honor society that was founded at the University of Illinois on March 22, 1923. Following is a list of some of its notable members.

Academia

Nancy Bentley, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania Anthony E. Clark, Sinologist, historian and writer William Dudley Geer, dean of the School of Business at Samford University Leigh Gerdine, president of Webster University and founder of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Paul G. Halpern, naval historian at Florida State University George Hilton Jones III, historian and college professor Kristen Kroll, stem cell biologist and Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine David M. Lampton, director of China studies emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University Ben Lawton, president of the University of Wisconsin's board of regents, physician, thoracic surgeon, and healthcare-reformer Charles G. Overberger, chair of chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the University of Michigan Mercedes Richards, astronomy and astrophysics professor Floyd Van Nest Schultz, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Purdue University Seymour I. Schwartz, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the University of Illinois system Martin King Whyte, sociology professor emeritus at Harvard University

Astronauts

Joseph P. Allen, astronautBiographical Data: Joseph P. Allen (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut (Former). Houston: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. December 1993. Accessed December 20, 2024. James P. Bagian, physician, astronaut and engineerBiographical Data: James P. Bagian (M.D., P.E.)  NASA Astronaut (Former). Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, May 1995. Accessed December 20, 2024. Charles E. Brady Jr., astronaut, physician and Navy captain Dale Gardner, astronautBiographical Data: Dale A. Gardner NASA Astronaut (Deceased). Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, February 2014. Accessed December 20, 2024. J. Wayne Littles, eighth director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Steven R. Nagel, test pilot, astronaut and engineerBiographical Data: Steven Ray Nagel (Colonel, USAF, RET.) NASA Astronaut (Former). Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, February 2015. Robert L. Stewart, NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States ArmyBiographical Data: Robert L. Steward (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (Former). Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 1993. Accessed December 20, 2024. David Wolf, astronaut, medical doctor, and electrical engineerBiographical Data: David A. Wolfe (BSEE, M.D.) NASA Astronaut (Former). Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 2013. Accessed December 20, 2024.

Entertainment

Allison Kreiger, model

Law

James G. Exum, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives Gabriel Marques, attorney, fiscal officer of Nassau County, New York, and an adjunct professor at Molloy College William C. Mims, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Attorney General of Virginia, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Wilkes C. Robinson, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims Aaron Twerski, professor at Brooklyn Law School and dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law

Military

John F. Bolt, U.S. naval aviator and flying ace A. Ernest Fitzgerald, member of the Senior Executive Service in the United States Air Force, and a prominent U.S. government whistleblower Clyde Kenneth Harris, one of the "Monuments Men" during World War II Robert L. Stewart, NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States Army

Politics

Rob Bryan, North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives James G. Exum, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and member of the North Carolina House of Representatives William C. Mims, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Attorney General of Virginia, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Kenneth D. Schisler, Maryland House of Delegates and chair of the Maryland Public Service Commission William F. Winter, Governor of Mississippi, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, Treasurer of Mississippi, and Mississippi House of RepresentativesBolton, Charles C., 'College and Campaigning', William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography (Jackson, MS, 2013; online edn, Mississippi Scholarship Online, 20 Mar. 2014), accessed 20 Dec. 2024.

Sports

Geary Eppley, University of Maryland athletic director Lance Parker, professional soccer player Mike Petri, rugby union player and coach

Other Robert B. Patterson, founder of the first Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist organization

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