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Also Known As	Collegiate School • Yale College
Date	1701 - present
Notable Alumni	Benjamin Silliman • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • Robert A.M. Stern • Harold Bloom • James E. Rothman • Philip Dybvig • John B. Fenn • Lyman Spitzer • Ernest Orlando Lawrence • James Comer • Edmund S. Phelps • Lars Onsager • Dumas Malone • Vincent Scully • George W. Bush • Clarence Thomas • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Jonathan Edwards • Samuel A. Alito, Jr. • Brett Kavanaugh • George H.W. Bush • Min Jin Lee • John C. Calhoun • Larry Kramer • Vivek Murthy • Henry Winkler • Thorstein Veblen • Meryl Streep • William Howard Taft • Michael Harrington • Gerald Ford • Alan J. Pakula • Prescott S. Bush • Samuel F.B. Morse • Ron DeSantis • Samantha Power • Sigourney Weaver • Vivek Ramaswamy • Ben Carson • Noah Webster • Josh Hawley • Eli Whitney • John Bolton • Kehinde Wiley • Audrey Flack • Judith Butler • Jonathan Majors • George Roy Hill • Paul Giamatti • John Kerry • Lina Khan • Maya Lin • Wangechi Mutu • Stacey Abrams • Sheila Hicks • James A. Robinson • Francis Collins • Barkley L. Hendricks • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Stephen Greenblatt • Angela Bassett • Edward Norton • Frances McDormand • Jeremy Strong • Claes Oldenburg • Robert A. Dahl • Michael Bennet • Garry Wills • Ben Sasse • Jerry Brown • Catharine A. MacKinnon • Tony Shalhoub • Bob Woodward • Amy Klobuchar • Janet Yellen • Arthur Laffer • Eddie Lampert • Norman Foster • Jill Abramson • Alan Dershowitz • Anita Hill • Mario Monti • Richard Serra • Gary Hart • Robert D. Putnam • Richard Rogers • Naomi Wolf • Michael Cimino • Robert Penn Warren • Sonia Sotomayor • Robert Moses • Indra Nooyi • Murray Gell-Mann • Bill Nelson • Garry Trudeau • Carl Woese • Ann Hamilton • Martin Puryear • Michael Mukasey • Anne Wojcicki • Tom Wolfe • David McCullough • Brian K. Kobilka • Tom Steyer • Cole Porter • Arlen Specter • Sinclair Lewis • William Nordhaus • Robert A. Taft • Douglas Diamond • Cory Booker • Pat Robertson • Stanley Tigerman • Robert Maynard Hutchins • Richard Blumenthal • Porter Goss • Grace Hopper • John Negroponte • Camille Paglia • Jennifer Connelly • Abe Fortas • Theodore R. Sizer • Evelyn Granville • Paul Krugman • Charles Yanofsky • David Duchovny • Moses Coit Tyler • Henry Luce • Philip C. Curtis • I. Michael Heyman • Peter A. Diamond • Howard Dean • Harry Nyquist • John Guare • Ernesto Zedillo • Roberto Crispulo Goizueta • Tansu Çiller • Sheldon Whitehouse • Samuel Seabury • Alfred G. Gilman • Brice Marden • Gordon Gould • Peter Ackroyd • Archibald MacLeish • Les Aspin • Raymond Davis, Jr. • Frederick Wiseman • Roni Horn • Thornton Wilder • William Rainey Harper • Cyrus Vance • Chris Coons • Eric Bentley • Anderson Cooper • John Barrasso • George A. Akerlof • John B. Goodenough • Stephen Vincent Benét • Eddie Eagan • Eleanor Holmes Norton • John Griggs Thompson • McGeorge Bundy • Thomas McGuane • Crown Princess Victoria • Easley Blackwood, Jr. • Frederick W. Smith • William Kunstler • W. Edwards Deming • Nannerl Overholser Keohane • Matthew Barney • Eleanor J. Gibson • Byron R. White • Edward Alexander Bouchet • Robert F. Wagner • Stanley Fish • Wilbur Olin Atwater • Gloria Naylor • Reginald Marsh • David Lee • Frederic Remington • James Henry Breasted • Owen Dodson • Frank Shorter • George H. Whipple • Clarence Day • Andrew Dickson White • Frederick Barnard • Charles Rockwell Lanman • John Trumbull • David Bushnell • Dickinson Woodruff Richards • Josephine Humphreys • Aldo Leopold • Richard Anuszkiewicz • Roger Shepard
Related People	John Hay Whitney • Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage • Anna M. Richardson Harkness • Kingman Brewster, Jr. • Elihu Yale • Alfred Whitney Griswold • Jeremiah Dummer • George Peabody • James Rowland Angell • Benjamin Silliman • Theodore Dwight Woolsey • A. Bartlett Giamatti