This is an incomplete list of current and former members of the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.
Name | Class and range | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
Cleveland Abbe | 1883–1884 | professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau | [1] |
Cleveland Abbe Jr. | 1895–1899 | professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College | [1] |
Truman Abbe | 1903 | surgeon | [1] |
Philip Abelson | 1953 | physicist | [2] |
Henry Adams | 1878 | historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient | [3][4][1] |
Henry Carter Adams | 1889 | professor of political economy at the University of Michigan | [1] |
James Truslow Adams | writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner | [3] | |
Leason Adams | geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute | [5] | |
Alvey A. Adee | 1887–1889 | United States Secretary of State | [1] |
Jesse C. Adkins | judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | [5] | |
Cyrus Adler | 1890 | Educator, librarian | [1] |
Fred C. Ainsworth | 1887–1888 | U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general | [1] |
Clyde Bruce Aitchison | Interstate Commerce Commissioner | [5][6][7] | |
Charles Henry Alden | 1893–1897 | first president of the Army Medical School | [1] |
Asa O. Aldis | 1880–1884 | Judge and diplomat | [1] |
John Merton Aldrich | associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum | [5] | |
Dean C. Allard | naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center | [8] | |
Charles Herbert Allen | 1888–1890 | Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress | [1] |
Eugene Thomas Allen | pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution | [5] | |
Harvey J. Alter | 1970 | medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [9][10] |
Benjamin Alvord | 1878 | mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster | [1] |
Henry Elijah Alvord | 1895 | Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1] |
Nicholas Longworth Anderson | 1886–1887 | U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers | [1] |
Eliphalet F. Andrews | 1880–1896 | painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art | [3][1] |
Lincoln Clark Andrews | U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | [5] | |
Earl C. Arnold | attorney, academic, college administrator | [5] | |
William Harris Ashmead | 1892 | Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian | [1] |
John Vincent Atanasoff | 1957 | computer pioneer, built the first digital computer | [9] |
Wilbur Olin Atwater | 1899 | professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist | [1] |
Albert William Atwood | 1928 | author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post | [11][12][13] |
James Percy Ault | Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher | [5] | |
Louis Winslow Austin | Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards | [5] | |
Michael Auslin | writer | [4] | |
Cyrus Cates Babb | 1892 | civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey | [1][14] |
Ernest Adna Back | Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture | [5][15] | |
Henry Bacon | 1888 | architect | [1] |
Barbara A. Bailar | 1988 | mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association | [16] |
Jennings Bailey | judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | [5] | |
Vernon Orlando Bailey | Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture | [5] | |
H. Foster Bain | geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. | [5] | |
George Washington Baird | 1895 | Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy | [1][17][5] |
Spencer Fullerton Baird | 1878 | ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian | [4][1][18] |
Marcellus Bailey | 1878–1885,
1866–1890 |
patent lawyer | [1] |
Frank Baker | 1882 | physician and superintendent of the National Zoo | [4][1] |
Marcus Baker | 1884 | cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution | [4][1] |
Aram Bakshian Jr. | Author and speechwriter for three presidents | [19] | |
Albertus H. Baldwin | 1899 | commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission | [1][20][21][5] |
Carleton Roy Ball | botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry | [5] | |
John Chandler Bancroft | 1890–1898 | sculptor | [1][22] |
Orion M. Barber | politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals | [5] | |
Edward Chester Barnard | 1899 | topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey | [1] |
Job Barnard | 1903 | associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | [1] |
John Russell Bartlett | 1886–1897 | oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral | [4][1] |
Paul Wayland Bartlett | 1914 | sculptor | [9][3] |
Henry Askew Barton | first director of the American Institute of Physics | [23] | |
Paul Bartsch | malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum | [5] | |
Carl Barus | 1885–1895 | physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University | [4][24][1] |
Ray S. Bassler | geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum | [5] | |
Frederick John Bates | physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department | [5] | |
Newton Lemuel. Bates | 1878–1881, 1884 | surgeon general of the U.S. Navy | [4][25][1] |
Louis Agricola Bauer | 1899 | geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. | [1][5] |
Nathan D. Baxter | bishop of the Episcopal Church | [26] | |
Clifton Bailey Beach | 1896 | member of the U.S. Congress | [1] |
George Ferdinand Becker | 1890 | geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey | [1] |
George Beadle | geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [3] | |
Truxtun Beale | 1902 | diplomat | [1][5] |
Tarleton Hoffman Bean | 1883 | ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution | [4][1] |
Thomas M. Beggs | 1955 | painter | [3][27][9] |
Alexander Graham Bell | 1880 | scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society | [28][4][1][29] |
Charles J. Bell | 1883 | co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company | [1][5] |
Chichester Bell | 1881–1887 | chemist and inventor | [1] |
Samuel Flagg Bemis | historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University | [5] | |
Marcus Benjamin | 1896 | chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum | [1][5] |
Charles Bendire | 1888 | ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army | [1] |
Arden L. Bement Jr. | 1980 | engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation | |
Andrew H. Berding | journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs | [30] | |
Patricia Wilson Berger | librarian, president of the American Library Association | [31] | |
Emil Bessels | 1878 | zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution | [4][1] |
John M. Bevan | university professor | [32] | |
Albert Burnley Bibb | 1892–1899 | architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University | [1] |
Ernest Percy Bicknell | director of the American Red Cross | [5][33] | |
Julius Bien | 1885 | artist, publisher, lithographer | [1] |
Frank Hagar Bigelow | 1890 | professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau | [1] |
John Bigelow Jr. | U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park | [5] | |
John Shaw Billings | 1878 | librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General | [34][4][1] |
Henry H. Bingham | 1881–1889 | Congressman from Pennsylvania | [1] |
Theodore A. Bingham | 1897–1898 | U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington | [1] |
Claude Hale Birdseye | chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey | [5][35] | |
Rogers Birnie | 1886 | co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley | [1] |
William Herbert Bixby | U.S. Army brigadier general | [5] | |
Henry Campbell Black | 1892 | lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary | [1][5] |
William Murray Black | 1897–1898 | Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | [1] |
Harry Blackmun | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | [16][36] | |
James P. Blair | 1998 | photographer with National Geographic | [37] |
William Bodde Jr. | U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati | [38] | |
Ernest L. Bogart | economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association | [5] | |
Henry Carrington Bolton | 1888 | chemist | [1] |
Robert Whitney Bolwell | professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies | [5][39] | |
Stephen Bonsal | journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History | [5] | |
Daniel J. Boorstin | Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize | [3][36] | |
William A. Boring | 1901 | architect | [1] |
Clement Lincoln Bouvé | attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office | [5] | |
John Wesley Bovee | 1902 | gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons | [1][40][5] |
Adam Giede Böving | entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum | [5] | |
Norman L. Bowen | geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington | [5] | |
William Bowie | geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey | [5] | |
Francis Tiffany Bowles | 1882–1901 | chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy | [4][41][42][1] |
Alpheus Henry Bowman | brigadier general U.S. Army | [5] | |
George Lothrop Bradley | 1883 | artist | [1][43] |
Frank B. Brady | engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation | [44][45] | |
Charles John Brand | chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture | [5] | |
Louis Brandeis | 1915–1932 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | [46][5] |
Gregory Breit | Mathematical physicist, academic | [5] | |
Lyman James Briggs | Physicist and engineer | [47][5] | |
David Brinkley | journalist | [36] | |
Alfred Hulse Brooks | 1895 | geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey | [1][5] |
Glenn Brown | 1888 | architect | [1][5] |
Henry Billings Brown | 1897 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | [1] |
Joseph Stanley Brown | 1881–1885, 1894 | assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield | [1] |
Lester R. Brown | environmental analyst | [48] | |
Stimson Joseph Brown | 1900 | professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory | [1] |
John Mills Browne | 1883–1884 | surgeon general of the U.S. Navy | [1][49] |
Arnold W. Brunner | 1902 | Architect and historian | [1] |
Kirk Bryan | Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University | [5] | |
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan | journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star | [5][50] | |
Albert H. Bumstead | cartographer | [5] | |
William E. Bunney Jr. | 1982 | Psychiatrist, academic | [51] |
Horatio C. Burchard | 1879–1886 | director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index | [1] |
George K. Burgess | physicist | [34] | |
Swan Moses Burnett | 1879 | surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine | [52][4][53][9] |
Arthur F. Burns | economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany | [38] | |
Vannevar Bush | electrical engineer | [52] | |
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown | sculptor | [5] | |
Charles Henry Butler | lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court | [5] | |
Robert W. Cairns | 1954 | chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society | [2] |
Edgar B. Calvert | Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau | [5][54] | |
Charles R. Cameron | U.S. Foreign Service | [5] | |
Frank Kenneth Cameron | 1895 | soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina | [1][55] |
Edward Kernan Campbell | chief judge of the Court of Claims | [5] | |
Marius Robinson Campbell | 1896 | geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey | [1][56][5] |
Henry W. Cannon | 1884 | Comptroller General of the United States | [4][1] |
Stephen Capps | geologist, U.S. Geological Survey | [5][57] | |
Horace Capron | 1879 | United States Commissioner of Agriculture | [1] |
David Carliner | attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute | [58] | |
Frances Carpenter | Folklorist and photographer | [59] | |
Wilbur J. Carr | assistant secretary of State, diplomat | [5] | |
William George Carr | educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association | [60] | |
William Kearney Carr | 1903 | Philosopher, physician, author | [1][61] |
John Merven Carrère | 1905 | architect | [3] |
Henry A. P. Carter | 1881 | businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii | [4][1] |
Philip L. Cantelon | 1984 | academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated | [62] |
Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr. | 1894 | major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist | [1][5] |
James McKeen Cattell | 1902 | first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly | [1] |
Bruce Catton | historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History | [63][3] | |
Joan R. Challinor | chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science | [64][65] | |
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin | 1883–1889 | geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology | [1] |
Steve Charnovitz | Legal scholar, writer, educator | [66] | |
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor | 1902 | author, novelist | [1] |
Victor King Chesnut | 1896 | botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants | [1][67][5] |
Colby Mitchell Chester | U.S. Navy admiral | [5] | |
John White Chickering | 1878–1880 | Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb | [68][1] |
George B. Chittenden | 1881 | Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division
of the U.S. Geological Survey |
[4][69][70][1] |
Hong-Yee Chiu | astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | [71] | |
Martha E. Church | 1988 | geographer and president of Hood College | [16] |
Earle H. Clapp | forester | [5] | |
Alonzo Howard Clark | 1889 | naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution | [1] |
Austin Hobart Clark | zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum | [5] | |
Edgar E. Clark | attorney | [5] | |
William Bullock Clark | 1895 | professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University | [1] |
William Mansfield Clark | chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service | [5] | |
Bruce C. Clarke | 1968 | U.S. army general | [2] |
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke | 1883 | chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey | [4][1][5] |
Stanwood Cobb | educator | [72] | |
Theodore I. Coe | architect | [73] | |
Roberta Cohen | executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution | [74][75] | |
William Colby | CIA director | [36] | |
Charles Cleaves Cole | 1894–1895 | associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia | [1] |
William Byron Colver | chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers | [5] | |
Rita R. Colwell | 1988 | microbiologist | [16] |
Arthur Compton | physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics | [3][52] | |
Karl Taylor Compton | physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology | [76] | |
Wilson Martindale Compton | lawyer, president of the State College of Washington | [5] | |
Charles Arthur Conant | 1899 | assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist | [1] |
James B. Conant | chemist | [52] | |
David H. Condon | 1967–1996 | architect | [9] |
Willis Conover | radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour | [77] | |
Holmes Conrad | 1895–1900, 1903 | attorney, Solicitor General of the United States | [1] |
Nancy Conrad | teacher, author | [78] | |
Joseph A. Conry | 1935 | consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission | [9] |
Orator F. Cook | botanist | [79][5] | |
Luis Felipe Corea | 1890–1902 | minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua | [1][80] |
Frederic René Coudert Sr. | 1897–1899 | lawyer | [1] |
Elliott Coues | 1879 | ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories | [1] |
Frederick Vernon Coville | 1892 | chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1][18][5] |
J. Harry Covington | politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia | [5] | |
Allyn Cox | 1973 | painter | [9] |
Thomas Craig | 1879–1890 | mathematician at Johns Hopkins University | [1] |
William Crentz | 1962–2002 | Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels | [9] |
Oscar Terry Crosby | 1896 | electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League | [1][81][82] |
Charles Whitman Cross | 1888 | geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey | [1][5] |
George Crossette | Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society | [11][83] | |
Barbara Culliton | science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature | [84][65] | |
Hugh S. Cumming | surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service | [5] | |
Harry F. Cunningham | architect | [5][85][86] | |
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry | 1895 | educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman | [1] |
George Edward Curtis | 1889–1893 | meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer | [1][87] |
William Eleroy Curtis | 1886 | journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics;
Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition |
[1][88][89] |
William Parker Cutter | 1894 | chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress;
director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library |
[1][90] |
Charles William Dabney | 1894 | university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1] |
William Healey Dall | 1887 | naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History | [1][5] |
Joan Danziger | 2003 | sculptor | [3][9] |
Nelson Horatio Darton | 1899 | geologist with U.S. Geological Survey | [1][5] |
Joseph E. Davies | Lawyer and diplomat | [5] | |
Arthur Powell Davis | 1895 | civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey | [1] |
Bancroft Davis | 1886–1892 | attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S. | [4][1] |
Charles Henry Davis | 1878 | rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey | [1] |
George Whitefield Davis | 1881–1885 | engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone | [1] |
James Cox Davis | director general of the Federal Railroad Administration | [5][91] | |
John Davis | 1886–1887 | associate justice of the Court of Claims | [1] |
Arthur Louis Day | geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington | [5] | |
David Talbot Day | 1889–1893, 1901 | chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey | [1] |
Sara Day | 2014 | author of historical nonfiction | [92][93] |
Frederic Adrian Delano | railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve | [5] | |
John Howard Dellinger | telecommunication engineer | [5] | |
Laura DeNardis | endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University | [94] | |
Tyler Dennett | editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography | [5] | |
Leon E. Dessez | 1903 | architect | [1] |
Dozier A. DeVane | attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. | [5] | |
Arthur E. Dewey | 2003 | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration | [95] |
Lyster Hoxie Dewey | botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture | [5] | |
Roscoe DeWitt | architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II | [96] | |
Edwin Grant Dexter | educator | [5] | |
Joseph Silas Diller | 1885 | assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic | [4][97][1][5] |
Alvin E. Dodd | consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association | [5] | |
Charles Richards Dodge | 1894 | Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1][98][99] |
Edward W. Donn Jr. | 1896 | architect | [1] |
Marion Dorset | 1902 | chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1][100][101][5] |
George Amos Dorsey | 1902 | ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History | [1] |
Noah Ernest Dorsey | physicist | [5] | |
Edward Morehouse Douglas | 1887 | geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey | [102][1] |
Alexander Wilson Drake | 1884–1887 | artist, art director of The Century Magazine | [1] |
Allen Drury | writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize | [3] | |
Horace Bookwalter Drury | Economist, academic, author | [5] | |
Paul du Quenoy | historian, professor, Fulbright scholar | [103] | |
Charles Benjamin Dudley | 1900 | chemist | [1] |
William Ward Duffield | 1894–1897 | superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | [1] |
Arthur William Dunn | national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer | [5] | |
Edward Dana Durand | 1903 | director of the United States Census Bureau | [1] |
Clarence Dutton | 1878 | geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey | [34][4][1] |
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight | 1878–1882 | librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State | [1] |
William Sylvester Eames | 1900 | architect | [1] |
John Robie Eastman | 1878 | astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy | [1][104][105][106] |
Edward D. Easton | 1883–1902 | founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company | [4][1] |
Burton Edelson | U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA | [107] | |
Henry White Edgerton | attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | [5] | |
John Joy Edson | 1896–1898 | president, Washington Loan & Trust Company | [1][5] |
Lawrence Edwards | innovator in aerospace and ground transportation | ||
Maurice F. Egan | 1898 | Professor, author, diplomat | [1] |
Edward Eggleston | 1901 | Novelist, historian | [1] |
William Snyder Eichelberger | astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy | [5][108] | |
Churchill Eisenhart | mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards | [109] | |
Milton Courtright Elliott | Lawyer and judge | [5] | |
Samuel Franklin Emmons | 1882–1892 | geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America | [4][1] |
Mordecai Thomas Endicott | 1896 | Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps | [1][110][111][5] |
Carl Engel | pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress | [5] | |
William Phelps Eno | father of traffic safety | [5] | |
Jesse Frederick Essary | journalist | [5] | |
Edward Trantor Evans | senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey | [102] | |
Robley D. Evans | 1883–1901 | U.S. Navy admiral | [1] |
Barton Warren Evermann | 1898 | ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries | [1] |
William M. Ewing | 1942 | geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient | [2] |
David Fairchild | 1898 | Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture | [1][5] |
Tom Farer | academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico | [112] | |
Guy Otto Farmer | lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board | [113] | |
Arthur Briggs Farquhar | 1902 | Businessman and writer | [1] |
John Barclay Fassett | 1886–1887 | Medal of Honor recipient | [1] |
Oliver Lanard Fassig | 1893 | meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University | [1] |
Clarence Norman Fenner | geologist | [5] | |
Henry G. Ferguson | geologist with U.S. Geological Survey | [5] | |
Thomas B. Ferguson | 1879–1880 | United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries | [1] |
Alan Fern | scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress | [65][44][114][115] | |
Bernhard Fernow | 1887 | director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry | [1] |
Jesse Walter Fewkes | chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution | [5] | |
George Wilton Field | biologist | [5] | |
Albert Kenrick Fisher | 1902 | biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist | [1][5] |
Walter Kenrick Fisher | 1902 | biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter | [1] |
John Fitterer | 1973 | educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities | [116] |
J. A. Henry Flemer | 1886–1888 | architect | [4][117][1] |
James Milton Flint | 1880 | medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum | [1][118] |
Allen Ripley Foote | 1891 | political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association | [1][119] |
Paul D. Foote | physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering | [5] | |
Kenneth M. Ford | computer scientist | [63] | |
William H. Forwood | 1903 | surgeon general of the U.S. Army | [1] |
John W. Foster | 1889 | Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat | [1] |
William Dudley Foulke | 1902 | Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer | [1] |
Harry Crawford Frankenfield | senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau | [5] | |
John Hope Franklin | 1963 | historian | [63][120] |
James E. Freeman | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington | [5] | |
Herbert Friedenwald | 1894 | author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee | [1][5] |
Daniel Mortimer Friedman | judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims | [121] | |
Paul L. Friedman | judge | [122][123] | |
Ed Frost | sculptor | [3] | |
Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr. | 1900 | architect | [1][5] |
Ira Noel Gabrielson | entomologist | [124] | |
Frank E. Gaebelein | 1965 | educator, author, editor of Christianity Today | [116] |
Arthur Burton Gahan | entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture | [5] | |
John Kenneth Galbraith | economist | [125] | |
Edward Miner Gallaudet | 1878 | first president of Gallaudet University | [4][1] |
Beverly Thomas Galloway | 1894 | chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture | [1][5] |
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James Leal Greenleaf | Landscape architect and civil engineer | ||
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