This list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a recent U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.

Academia

Michael K. Young, current President of Texas A&M University, formerly President of University of Washington

Business

Lee Kun-Hee, former chairman of Samsung and one of the world's richest people
Dina Merrill, billionaire co-founder of RKO Pictures

Economics

Politics

United States

U.S. Cabinet

U.S. Governors

U.S. Senators

Senator J. William Fulbright, founder of the Fulbright Program

U.S. Representatives

Sitting U.S. Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania
Sitting U.S. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida
Sitting U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley of California
Former U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania
Former U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros of California

U.S. mayors

Other U.S. officials

Eddie Farnsworth, former President pro tempore of the Arizona Senate
JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia
Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump

International

Heads of state and government

Cabinet ministers

Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia

Other figures

Diplomacy

U.S. Ambassadors

Michael Punke, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, current Vice President of Amazon Web Services

State Department officials

Other diplomats

Law

U.S. Circuit Judges

U.S. District Judges

Senior Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews, the first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. District Court

U.S. State Supreme Courts

Attorneys General

Hsu Mo, founding Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

International judges

Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court

Military

Journalism

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine

Pulitzer Prize

Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work on U.S. Global surveillance based on disclosures by Edward Snowden

Activism

Tom Fitton, current President of Judicial Watch

Entertainment

Alec Baldwin, Golden Globe-winning actor
Courteney Cox, actress

First Family and royalty

Religion

Sciences

Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist

Athletics

Olympics

Other

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