Famous History Majors
Past, Present, and Future
U.S. Presidents
George W. Bush John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Franklin Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Other U.S. Government Officials
US Senators:
Bill Bradley
Max Cleland
Orrin Hatch
Henry Cabot Lodge George McGovern
George J. Mitchell
U.S. Supreme Court Justices:
Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonin Scalia
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Journalists
Chris “Boomer” Berman (ESPN Sportscaster)
Wolf Blitzer (CNN Reporter)
David Brancaccio (PBS host)
Seymour Hersch (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist)
Charles Kuralt (CBS Reporter)
Andres Martinez (editor, Los Angeles Times)
Bill O’Reilly (Fox News host)
Charlie Rose (PBS host)
John Schwartz (New York Times science reporter)
Ray Suarez (PBS correspondent)
Arts and Sciences
J. Carter Brown (Director, U.S. National Gallery of Art)
Robert Fogel (Nobel Prize-winning economist)
Tony Horwitz (author)
Elena Kagan (Dean, Harvard Law School)
Irving Kristol (author)
Franklin S. Odo (Director, Smithsonian Institution)
Annie Proulx (Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist)
Ayn Rand (novelist, philosopher)
Business Executives
Carly Fiorina (CEO, Hewlett Packard Corporation)
Lee Iacocca (CEO, Chrysler Corporation)
Robert Johnson (CEO, BET TV)
James Kilts (CEO, Gillette Corporation)
Samuel Palmisano (CEO, IBM Corporation)
Ben Silverman (Co-Chairman, NBC TV)
Martha Stewart (CEO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)
Howard Stringer (CEO, Sony Corporation)
Entertainers
Sean Astin (actor)
Ellen Barkin (actor)
Jimmy Buffet (singer)
Dean Cain (actor)
Steve Carell (comedian, actor)
Julia Child (chef, author, TV personality)
Sacha Baron Cohen (comedian, actor)
Larry David (actor, writer, “Seinfeld” co-creator)
Brian Dennehy (actor)
Janeane Garofalo (actor)
Katharine Hepburn (actor)
Lauryn Hill (singer)
Chris Meloni (actor)
Edward Norton (actor)
Conan O’Brien (comedian)
Michael Palin (comedian, actor)
Athletes
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (NBA)
Bill Bradley (NBA)
Andrew DeClercq (NBA)
Grant Hill (NBA)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Olympian)