John C. Bogle ’51
Bogle dramatically disrupted the worlds of finance and investing with his Vanguard Group, inventing the index fund and making it available to the
Cornel West *80
West is a theologian and public intellectual who taught in Princeton’s African American studies department and ran for president as a third-party
Wendy Kopp ’89
Kopp famously created the public service corps Teach for America from the ideas in her Princeton thesis.
Meg Whitman ’77
Whitman is a businesswoman who has served at top levels of major companies including eBay and Hewlett Packard. She is currently the U.S. ambassador to
Brooke Shields ’87
A former child star known for provocative films including Blue Lagoon, Shields is an actress, model, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur.
Eric Schmidt ’76
Schmidt was executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, and received Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Award in 2017.
James Stewart ’32
Stewart polished his acting chops at Princeton’s Triangle Club and later found a permanent place in American cinema, perhaps most famously by playing
George F. Kennan 1925
Kennan was a scholar and diplomat who worked to contain Soviet communism during the Cold War and famously authored a 1946 foreign policy document
Bill Bradley ’65
Bradley starred on the Tigers’ basketball team before playing for a decade with the New York Knicks. He served as a democratic U.S. senator from New
Richard Feynman *42
A scientist and mathematician, Feynman made many contributions to theoretical physics and received a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on quantum
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was a physicist who directed the Institute for Advanced Study and led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb and end World War
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