Washington University in St. Louis Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Harold Ramis

Actor, writer, director (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day)

BA (English Lit)

1966

Peter Sarsgaard

Award-winning actor (Boys Don’t Cry, Flight Plan)

N/A

N/A

Tennessee Williams

Iconic playwright (A Streetcar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie)

Attended (no degree)

N/A

Bob Behnken

NASA astronaut, Chief of Astronaut Office

BS Physics / BSME

1992

William H. Webster

Only person to head both the FBI and CIA

JD

N/A

J. C. R. Licklider

Pioneer of computer science and AI

BS

1937

Julian W. Hill

Co-inventor of nylon

BS

1924

Clyde Cowan

Co-discoverer of the neutrino

AM, PhD

1949

Earl Sutherland

Nobel Prize in Medicine for hormone action mechanisms

MD

1942

Edwin G. Krebs

Nobel laureate in Medicine (protein phosphorylation)

MD

1943

Daniel Nathans

Nobel laureate in Medicine (restriction enzymes)

MD

1954

Arnold W. Donald

CEO of Carnival Corporation

BS

N/A

Jim McKelvey

Co-founder of Square, Inc.

N/A

N/A

George Zimmer

Founder of Men's Wearhouse

N/A

N/A

Avram Glazer

Chairman of Manchester United

N/A

N/A

Ken Cooper

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

N/A

N/A

Hank Klibanoff

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

N/A

N/A

Steve Fossett

Adventurer and record-setting aviator

MBA

N/A

Charles Nagel

Founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

N/A

N/A

Thomas Lamb Eliot

Founder of Reed College

MA

N/A

Abram Sachar

Founding President of Brandeis University

N/A

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