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Yale has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields. This includes U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush;[188] heads of state, including Italian prime minister Mario Monti,[189] Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller,[190] Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo,[191] German president Karl Carstens,[192] Philippine president José Paciano Laurel,[193] Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison,[194] and Malawian president Peter Mutharika;[195] U.S. Supreme Court Justices Taft, Sonia Sotomayor,[196] Samuel Alito,[197] Clarence Thomas, [197] and Brett Kavanaugh; Secretaries of State John Kerry,[198] Hillary Clinton,[199] Cyrus Vance,[200] and Dean Acheson;[201] U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott,[202] Robert Rubin,[203] Nicholas F. Brady,[204] and Steven Mnuchin;[205] and United States Attorneys General Nicholas Katzenbach,[206] John Ashcroft,[207] and Edward H. Levi.[208] Confederate States Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Attorney General; Judah P. Benjamin. Some royals have attended, among them: Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden,[210] Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo;

 

In the arts, Yale alumni include authors Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, John Hersey, Thornton Wilder, Doug Wright, William Matthews, and Tom Wolfe; actors, directors, playwrights, and producers Tarell Alvin McCraney,[211] Jodie Foster,[212] Paul Newman, Henry Winkler, Vincent Price, Meryl Streep,[213] Sigourney Weaver,[214] Angela Bassett,[215] Elia Kazan, George Roy Hill, Douglas Wick, Claire Danes, Edward Norton, Lupita Nyong'o,[216] James Whitmore, Oliver Stone, Brian Dennehy, Joshua Malina, and Sam Waterston; composers Charles Ives, Douglas Moore and Cole Porter; visual artists Matthew Barney, Eva Hesse, Alex Israel, Brice Marden, Wangechi Mutu,[217] Richard Serra, and Kehinde Wiley;[218] fine art photography popularizer Sam Wagstaff; entertainer Rudy Vallee; photographer and writer Nicholas Muellner; and architectural critic Alexandra Lange.

 

In business, Time magazine co-founder Henry Luce,[219] Morgan Stanley founder Harold Stanley, Blackstone Group founder Stephen A. Schwarzman,[220] Boeing and United Airlines founder William Boeing, FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings Edward Lampert, Time Warner president Jeffrey Bewkes, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann, sports agent Donald Dell, and investor/philanthropist Sir John Templeton all hail from Yale.

 

In academia, distinguished Yale graduates and faculty have included theologian and religious scholar Kathryn Tanner, philosopher of religion John E. Hare, literary critic and historian Henry Louis Gates, economists Irving Fischer, Mahbub ul Haq, and Paul Krugman; Nobel laureates in Physics, Ernest Lawrence and Murray Gell-Mann; Fields Medalist John G. Thompson; Human Genome Project director Francis S. Collins; "father of biochemistry" Russell Henry Chittenden; neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing; pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper; chairman of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee Clark Blanchard Millikan; education philosopher Robert Maynard Hutchins; pioneer in fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrot; mathematician/chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs; and U.S. National Women's Hall of Fame member and biochemist Florence B. Seibert.

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Former Yale students in the sporting arena include "The perfect oarsman" Rusty Wailes; Olympic silver medalist rower Josh West; Olympic silver and bronze medalist Sada Jacobson; runner Frank Shorter; baseball executives Theo Epstein and George Weiss, and baseball players Ron Darling, Bill Hutchinson, and Craig Breslow; basketball player Chris Dudley; football players Dick Jauron, Kenny Hill, Calvin Hill, Gary Fencik, Chuck Mercein, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and "Father of American Football" Walter Camp; nine-time U.S. Squash men's champion Julian Illingworth; ice hockey player Chris Higgins; figure skater Sarah Hughes; swimmer Don Schollander; and Olympic figure skater Nathan Chen.

 

Yale also counts among its former students Secretary of State, Secretary of War and U.S. Senator John C. Calhoun;[221] Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver; urban planner Robert Moses; child psychologist Benjamin Spock; architects Maya Lin, Eero Saarinen and Norman Foster; television personalities Stone Phillips, Dick Cavett and Anderson Cooper; pundits Garry Trudeau, William F. Buckley, Jr. and Fareed Zakaria; pioneer in electrical applications Austin Cornelius Dunham; inventors Samuel F.B. Morse, Eli Whitney, and John B. Goodenough; patriot and "first spy" Nathan Hale; lexicographer Noah Webster; and theologians Jonathan Edwards and Reinhold Niebuhr.