Class of 1993

Russell Baker
Recipient of Two Pulitzer Prizes

Raymond G. Chambers
Financier and Philanthropist

Betty Comden
Musical Comedy Author

Pat Conroy
Author

Marian Wright Edelman
Children's Defense Fund

John Grisham
Author

Jerry Jones
Super Bowl Championship

Wynonna and Naomi Judd
Country Music

Henry W. Kendall, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
Genetics

Charles Kuralt
Broadcast Journalism

Sherry Lansing
Motion Picture Production

Rudolph A. Marcus, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Agnes Nixon
Television Hall of Fame

Sumner N. Redstone
Global Television Network

Dr. Robert H. Schuller
The Crystal Cathedral

Vincent J. Scully, Ph.D.
Architectural Historian and Teacher

Robert A.M. Stern
Architecture

Twyla Tharp
Dancer and Choreographer

E. Donnall Thomas, M.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

James D. Wolfensohn
Financier and Patron of the Arts

Capt. John W. Young, USN
Astronaut

Class of 1994

Art Buchwald
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Humorist

Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Craftsman

Jerry Colangelo
Sports Entrepreneur

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Human Genome Project

Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaker and Screenwriter

Jan Davidson, Ph.D.
Education Software Entrepreneur

Robert De Niro
Internationally Honored Actor

Rita Dove
Poet Laureate of the United States

Dominick Dunne
Best-Selling Novelist

Michael D. Eisner
Entertainment Executive

Harrison Ford
Motion Picture Actor

David Foster
Producer, Arranger and Composer

Whoopi Goldberg
Actress and Activist

David Halberstam
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist

Bruce T. Halle
Retailing

Jon M. Huntsman
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Donna Karan
Fashion Design

Story Musgrave, M.D.
Astronaut

John Napier
Theatre Design

Ralph J. and Brian L. Roberts
Telecommunications

Richard J. Roberts, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Judith Rodin, Ph.D.
President, University of Pennsylvania

Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, USA
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Carlos Slim Helú
Teléfonos de México

Michael Smith, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

George F. Smoot III, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Lesley Stahl
Broadcast Journalism

Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Astronaut and Oceanographer

Bernie Taupin
Songwriters Hall of Fame

Class of 1995

James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History

Hon. George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States

Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.
Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Patricia D. Cornwell
Best-Selling Novelist

Bill Cosby
Entertainment

Kenneth J. Feld
Entertainment Entrepreneur

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
Education and Literature

Frank O. Gehry
Architecture Gold Medal

Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court of the United States

Donald J. Hall
Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Lady Bird Johnson
Congressional Gold Medal

Tom Johnson
Journalism and Media

Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion

James M. McPherson, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History

Jerome H. Lemelson
Inventor and Philanthropist

Peggy Noonan
Author and Columnist

Sir Trevor Nunn
Theatrical Direction

Tom Osborne
Collegiate Football Coach

Arnold Palmer
Athlete of the Decade

Rosa L. Parks
Civil Rights Activist

Martin Rodbell, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Terry S. Semel
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Martha Stewart
Multi-Media Lifestyle Empire

Joseph H. Taylor, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Mike Wallace
Broadcast Journalism

Tim D. White, Ph.D.
The Dawn of Humanity

Richard Wilbur
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry

Robin Williams
Comedian, Actor and Activist

Lanford Wilson
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Bob Woodward
Investigative Reporter

Class of 1996

Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Former Mayor of San Francisco

James H. Clark, Ph.D.
Technology Entrepreneur

Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D.
Educator and Historian

Sam Donaldson
Broadcast Journalism

John Hope Franklin, Ph.D.
Educator and Historian

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History

Amy Grant
Gospel and Pop Music Singer

Gilbert M. Grosvenor
National Geographic Society

John Guare
Award-winning Playwright

Peter E. Haas
Levi Strauss & Co.

Dorothy Hamill
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame

Scott Hamilton
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame

William A. Haseltine, Ph.D.
Biotechnology

Gordon B. Hinckley
Religion

James Earl Jones
National Medal of Arts

Herbert D. Kelleher
Founder, Southwest Airlines Co.

Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame

Richard Meier
Architecture

Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Ph.D.
Computer Technology

George A. Olah, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Martin L. Perl, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

F. Sherwood Rowland, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

R.L. Stine
"Goosebumps" Series

Picabo Street
Downhill Ski Race Champion

Amy Tan
Best-Selling Novelist

Lillian Vernon
Mail-Order Entrepreneur

Kent R. Weeks, Ph.D.
Egyptology

Prof. Elie Wiesel
Nobel Prize for Peace

Katarina Witt
Olympic Gold Medalist

Robert Zemeckis
Motion Picture Production

Class of 1997

Leon D. Black
Financier and Investor

Hon. Stephen Breyer
Supreme Court of the United States

Barbara Pierce Bush
Advocate of Family Literacy

Gerhard Casper, Ph.D.
President, Stanford University

Robert F. Curl, Jr., Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Lawrence J. Ellison
Information Technology

Gloria Estefan
Pop-Music Superstar

Vince Gill
Country Music

Daniel S. Goldin
Space Exploration

James H. Goodnight, Ph.D.
Computer Software

John S. Hendricks
Founder, The Discovery Channel

Ron Howard
Motion Picture Production

Coretta Scott King
Pioneer of Civil Rights

David M. Lee, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

François Michelin
International Manufacturing

Joyce Carol Oates
National Book Award

Robert C. Richardson, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Cal Ripken, Jr.
Baseball All-Star

Cokie Roberts
Broadcast Journalism

Bert Vogelstein, M.D.
Molecular Genetics

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
Prostrate Cancer Surgeon

Sanford I. Weill
Financier and Philanthropist

Edward E. Whitacre, Jr.
Telecommunications

William Julius Wilson, Ph.D.
Sociology

Edward Witten, Ph.D.
Theoretical Physicist

Class of 1998

Stephen E. Ambrose, Ph.D.
Biographer and Historian

James A. Baker III
Presidential Medal of Freedom

Paul D. Boyer, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

David Breashears
Filmmaker and Mountaineer

Eli Broad
Financier and Civic Leader

James Cameron
Master Storyteller and Filmmaker

Hon. Richard B. Cheney
46th Vice President of the United States

Steven Chu, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander

Michael Dell
Founder, Dell Computer Corp.

David A. Duffield
Computer Software

Morgan Freeman
Master Screen Craftsman

Millard and Linda Fuller
Founders, Habitat for Humanity

Agnes Gund
National Medal of Arts

David Ho, M.D.
AIDS Research

Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D.
Communications

James V. Kimsey
Founder, America Online

William L. Mack
Real Estate Development

Barry Marshall, M.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Robert Pinsky, Ph.D.
Poet Laureate of the United States

Lee R. Raymond, Ph.D.
Petroleum Industry

Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Carol Shields
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Donna Shirley
Mars Exploration Program

Sen. Alan K. Simpson
Legendary Political Career

Frederick W. Smith
Founder, Federal Express Corp.

Hon. Ted Stevens
United States Senate

Hon. George J. Tenet
Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Alice Waters
Culinary Revolution

Andrew Weil, M.D.
Integrative Medicine

Ian Wilmut, Ph.D.
Pioneering Genetic Research

Class of 1999

A. Scott Berg
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Keith L. Black, M.D.
Pioneering Neurosurgeon

David Bonderman
Financier

Stephen M. Case
Chairman, America Online

Prof. Georges Charpak
Nobel Prize in Physics

Judah Folkman, M.D.
Pioneering Cancer Research

Shelby Foote
Novelist and Historian

Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul

Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D.
and Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Howard Gardner, Ph.D.
Multiple Intelligences

John D. Gearhart, M.Sc., Ph.D.
and James Thomson, V.M.D., Ph.D.
Human Stem Cell Research

H.E. Bronislaw Geremek
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Katharine Graham
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Grant Hill
Basketball All-Star

Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke
Diplomacy

Holly Hunter
Academy Award-winning Actress

Eric Lander, Ph.D.
Molecular Genetics

Robert B. Laughlin, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Kathleen and William Magee, M.D.
Founders, Operation Smile

Kurt Masur
Legendary Conductor

Red McCombs
Entrepreneur and Sportsman

Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Gen. Robert F. McDermott, USAF
Business and Military Service

William D. Phillips, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Bertrand Piccard
First Balloonists to Circle the Globe

Abe Pollin
Sportsman and Philanthropist

Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lord Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal

Joseph E. Robert, Jr.
Real Estate Investments

Pleasant T. Rowland
Creator of "American Girl"

Janet Davison Rowley, M.D., D.Sc.
National Medal of Science

Stephen A. Schwarzman
Investment Banking

Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Fame

Trisha Yearwood
Country Music "Vocalist of the Year"

Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Publishing and Real Estate

Class of 2000

Sir Roger Bannister
Athletics and Medicine

Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.
Real Estate Investments

Hon. Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister, Pakistan

Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
and Carol Greider, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Gustavo Cisneros
International Media

Clive Davis
Music Industry

Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, Ph.D.
Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur

Sir David Frost
Broadcaster and Commentator

Arthur Golden
Novelist

Hon. Mikhail Gorbachev
Nobel Prize for Peace

Sue Grafton
Mystery Writer

Lauryn Hill
Singer and Songwriter

Jeremy Irons
Academy Award for Best Actor

Gen. James L. Jones, USMC
Commandant, United States Marine Corps

Justin Kaplan
Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Vinod Khosla
Venture Capitalist

Sir Aaron Klug
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Raymond Kurzweil
National Medal of Technology

Ricardo Legorreta
Architecture Gold Medal

Maya Lin
Artist and Architect

Edna O'Brien
Novelist

Pierre Omidyar
Founder and Chairman, eBay

Dean Ornish, M.D.
Preventive Medicine

Peter Raven, Ph.D.
Conservationist and Biologist

George Rathmann, Ph.D.
Biotechnology Revolution

Lord Jacob Rothschild
Financier and Philanthropist

Salman Rushdie
Author

Oliver Sacks, Ph.D.
Neurologist and Author

Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.
Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

Ruth J. Simmons
President, Brown University

Charles Simonyi, Ph.D.
Computer Software

Brendan Sullivan, Jr.
Defense Attorney Extraordinaire

Gerard 't Hooft
Nobel Prize in Physics

Sir John Vane
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Hon. Lech Walesa
Nobel Prize for Peace

John Williams
Award-winning Composer

Ahmed Zewail, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Class of 2001

Hon. Ehud Barak
Former Prime Minister, Israel

George F. Bass
Underwater Archaeologist

Gary Becker
Nobel Prize in Economics

Frank Bennack, Jr.
President, Hearst Corporation

Jeffrey Bezos
Founder and CEO, Amazon.com

J. Carter Brown
National Gallery of Art

Col. Eileen Collins, USAF
Space Shuttle Pilot

Garth Fagan
Broadway Choreographer

Hon. Bill Frist, M.D.
United States Senate

Ernest J. Gaines
Award-winning Novelist

John L. Hennessy, Ph.D.
President, Stanford University

Tracy Kidder
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

Herbert Kroemer, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D.
Conservation Biologist

Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.
Evolutionary Biologist

Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Jeremiah Osteriker, Ph.D.
Provost, Princeton University

Dan Rather
CBS News Journalist

Roger Sant
Chairman, AES Corporation

Michael E. Thornton
Medal of Honor

Class of 2002

Zhores Alferov, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

H.R.H. Bandar Aziz
Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.

Chuck Berry
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Bono
Musician and Activist

Hon. William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States

Hon. Richard M. Daley
Mayor of Chicago

Enya
Grammy Award-winning Musician

Xingjian Gao
Nobel Prize in Literature

Paul Greengard
Nobel Prize in Medicine

John Hume
Nobel Prize for Peace

H.E. Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan

Hon. Henry Kissinger, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize for Peace

Sir Harold Kroto
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Frank P. Lowy
Founder and Chairman, Westfield Holdings

H.E. Lennart Meri
President of the Republic of Estonia

Sen. George J. Mitchell
Presidential Medal of Freedom

Sir Paul Nurse
Nobel Prize in Medicine

H.E. Andres Pastrana Arango
President of the Republic of Columbia

Jose Ramos-Horta
Nobel Prize for Peace

Gil Shwed
Security Software Pioneer

Peter Sutherland
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Rt. Hon. David Trimble
Nobel Prize for Peace

Class of 2003

H.E. José Maria Aznar Lopez
President of Spain

Hon. Hillary Clinton
United States Senate

Hon. Tom Daschle
United States Senate

Maestro Plácido Domingo
Internationally Acclaimed Tenor

Bob Dylan
Rock and Roll of Fame

Anthony Fauci, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Mikhail Fridman
International Oil and Banking Entrepreneur

Thomas L. Friedman
Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting

Hon. Rudolph Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City

Donald E. Graham
Chairman and CEO, Washington Post Co.

Prof. Robert Langer
Biomedical Engineering

Leonard Lauder
Chairman and CEO, The Estée Lauder Co.

Hon. Trent Lott
United States Senate

Hon. John McCain
United States Senate

H.E. Shimon Peres
Nobel Prize for Peace

Hon. Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court of the United States

Amb. Robert S. Strauss
Law and Public Service

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Nobel Prize for Peace

H.E. Alvaro Uribe Velez
President of the Republic of Colombia

Class of 2004

H.M. King Abdullah
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Alexei A. Abrikosov, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Dame Julie Andrews
Legend of Stage and Screen

Maria Asunción Aramburuzabala
Mexico's Brewing Empire

Emilio Azcárraga Jean
International Multimedia Empire

John N. Bahcall, Ph.D.
Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society

Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor of New York City

Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Co-founders, Google Inc.

Santiago Calatrava
Gold Medal for Architecture

José Carreras
Internationally Acclaimed Tenor

Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey

Carlos Ghosn
President and CEO, Nissan Motor Company

Emmylou Harris
Musician and Humanitarian

Martha Ingram
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

B.B. King
"King of the Blues"

Mike Lazaridis
Developer of the BlackBerry

Meave E. Leakey, Ph.D.
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist

Hon. John Lewis
Champion of Civil Rights

Norman Mailer
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist

H.E. Yoweri Museveni
President of the Republic of Uganda

Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
Academy Award-winning Producer

Sally Ride, Ph.D.
First American Woman in Space

Sir John Sulston
Nobel Prize in Medicine

John Updike
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction

Class of 2005

H.M. Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Edward Albee
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama

Richard B. Axel, M.D. and Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine

Yogi Berra
Baseball Hall of Fame

Sir John R.H. Bond
Chairman, HSBC Holdings

Aaron Ciechanover, M.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Katie Couric
Co-Anchor, "The Today Show"

Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Prize for Peace

Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress

John Fogerty
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales
Attorney General of the United States

David J. Gross, Ph.D. and Frank Wilczek, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

Carolina Herrera
First Lady of Fashion

Susan J. Hockfield, Ph.D.
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Irving
National Book Award

Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy
Supreme Court of the United States

Bernard Kouchner, M.D.
Founder, Doctors Without Borders

Hon. Norman Y. Mineta
U.S. Secretary of Transportation

H.E. Festus G. Mogae
President of the Republic of Botswana

Prof. Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize for Literature

Itzhak Perlman
Virtuoso of the Violin

Paul Rusesabagina
Hero of "Hotel Rwanda"

Tim Russert
Moderator, "Meet the Press"

John E. Sexton, Ph.D.
President, New York University

Stephen Sondheim
Award-winning Composer and Lyricist

Hon. Lawrence H. Summers
President, Harvard University

H.E. Abdoulaye Wade
President of Senegal

Denzel Washington
Oscar for Best Actor

Tom Wolfe
America's Master Novelist

Class of 2006

James L. Balsillie
Developer of the BlackBerry

Hon. William T. Coleman, Jr.
Presidential Medal of Freedom

Sheryl Crow
Award-winning Singer and Songwriter

Richard Dawkins, Ph.D.
Evolutionary Biologist

Joan Didion
National Book Award

Jamie Dimon
CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Mohamed ElBaradei, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize for Peace

Carlos Fuentes
Author, Scholar and Diplomat

Robert H. Grubbs, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John L. Hall, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Physics

H.R.H. Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
Crown Prince of Bahrain

Peter R. Jackson
Oscar for Best Director

Samuel L. Jackson
Actor and Activist

Wendy Kopp
Founder and President, Teach for America

Bernard L. Marcus
Co-Founder, Home Depot

Hon. John D. Negroponte
Director of National Intelligence

Hon. Nancy Pelosi
Minority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives

Sonny Rollins
Greatest Living Jazz Soloist

David M. Rubenstein
Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Henry Samueli, Ph.D.
Inventor, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

A. Michael Spence, Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Economics

Julie Taymor
Theater, Opera and Film Director

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Legendary Opera Singer

Gore Vidal
National Book Award

Hon. Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles

William (Bill) Wrigley, Jr.
Industrialist and Philanthropist

Class of 2007

Andre Agassi
Sportsman and Philanthropist

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
Father of the World Wide Web

Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn
Kings of Country Music

Laura Bush
First Lady of the United States

Brian J. Druker, M.D.
Developer
Gleevec Anticancer Drug

Nora Ephron
Author and Filmmaker

Laurence D. Fink
CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

Dr. Ian Frazer
Developer
Cervical Cancer Vaccine

The Honorable Chuck Hagel
United States Senate

General Michael V. Hayden
Director
Central Intelligence Agency

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist
and Environmentalist

Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback

Dr. John C. Mather
Nobel Prize in Physics

Dr. Craig C. Mello
Nobel Prize in Medicine

John Morgridge
Pioneer of Silicon Valley

The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate

General Peter Pace
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Honorable
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Dana Priest
Pulitzer Prize for Journalism

Harold Prince
Broadway Producer
and Director

The Honorable Harry Reid
Majority Leader
United States Senate

Hilary Swank
Two Oscars for Best Actress

Rex W. Tillerson
Chairman and CEO
Exxon Mobil Corporation

Calvin Trillin
Humorist and Novelist

Lawrence Wright
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health