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