January 23, 2008: Features

Who should have made the list of the 25 most influential alumni of all time?
Click here to see the list of approximately 250 alumni considered by the panel.

PAW readers respond to the list with comments and suggestions.
Click here to see letters from alumni.

To offer your own views, write to paw@princeton.edu or to “Influential Princetonians,” Princeton Alumni Weekly, 194 Nassau Street, Suite 38, Princeton, NJ, 08542.


Portraits of influence
Alumni who made history

By Michael Witte ’66

Click on the illustration below to read about each person. You can also select individuals by name in the index below.

Portraits of influence


Who’s who in the illustration: Numbers in parentheses represent the rankings on the PAW panel’s list.

Portraits of influence key
1 Benjamin Rush 1760 (No. 7)
2 Charles Scribner 1840 (No. 17)
3 John Foster Dulles 1908 (No. 10)
4 Ralph Nader ’55 (No. 25/Tied)
5 Donald Rumsfeld ’54 (No. 25/Tied)
6 John Rawls ’43 *50 (No. 4)
7 Alan Turing *38 (No. 2)
8 Alfred Barr ’22 *23 (No. 21)
9 Jeffrey Moss ’63 (No. 12)
10 Jeff Bezos ’86 (No. 20)
11 Robert Venturi ’47 *50 (No. 19)
12 George Kennan ’25 (No. 6)
13 John Bogle ’51 (No. 23)
14 Paul Volcker ’49 (No. 15)
15 Nicholas Katzenbach ’43 (No. 16)
16 Richard Feynman *42 (No. 14)
17 John Bardeen *36 (No. 5)
18 Wendy Kopp ’89 (No. 13)
19 Laurance Rockefeller ’32 (No. 18)
20 Gary Becker ’51 (No. 11)
21 George Shultz ’42 (No. 9)
22 F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 (No. 8)
23 Norman Thomas 1905 (No. 24)
24 James Madison 1771 (No. 1)
25 Woodrow Wilson 1879 (No. 3)
26 Philip Freneau 1771 (No. 22)

 

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