List of Phi Kappa Phi members
Phi Kappa Phi is an international collegiate honor society. Following is a list of notable members of Phi Kappa Phi.
Academia[edit]
Presidents[edit]
- Joseph E. Aoun, 7th president of Northeastern University
- Amine Bensaid, president of Al Akhawayn University
- John R. Brazil, president of Trinity University
- Vernon D. Crawford, dean and interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
- James Creese, president of the Drexel Institute of Technology
- Peter M. Donohue, president of Villanova University
- Milton Stover Eisenhower, president of three major American universities
- Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego
- Abram W. Harris, president of Northwestern University and the University of Maine, a founder of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Delta Tau
- Matina Horner, sixth president of Radcliffe College
- Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Leon H. Johnson, president of Montana State University
- Robert Khayat, chancellor of the University of Mississippi
- Carolyn Meyers, president of Jackson State University
- Tedd L. Mitchell, fifth chancellor of the Texas Tech University System
- Frederick D. Patterson, president of what is now Tuskegee University and founder of the United Negro College Fund
- L. Timothy Perrin, sixth president of Lubbock Christian University
- Roger C. Poole, twice as interim president of The Citadel
- Lou Anna Simon, 20th president of Michigan State University
- James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University
- Teresa A. Sullivan, 8th president of the University of Virginia
- Bertrand M. Tipple, founder and president of Methodist International College in Rome, Italy
- Michael A. Wartell, chancellor emeritus of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
- Richard F. Wilson, 18th President Illinois Wesleyan University
Provosts and vice presidents[edit]
- Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah, vice chancellor of Kwara State University and vice chancellor of University of Abuja
- David Silva, provost and academic vice president of Salem State University
Deans[edit]
- Paul R. Cunningham, surgeon and medical educator and one of the few African American medical deans
- William Henry Emerson, chemistry professor and dean at Georgia Tech
- William Dudley Geer, dean of the School of Business at Samford University
- Jon L. Mills, dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
- Robert Morris Ogden, dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
- Elyn Saks, associate dean and professor at the University of Southern California Gould Law School
- William Vernon Skiles, professor of mathematics and dean at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mildred Bertha Thurow Tate, first Dean of Women at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- William Tate, dean of men at the University of Georgia
Department chairs[edit]
- Jaime Homero Arjona, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Connecticut
- Herman Churchill, founding chairman of the History Department of Rhode Island State College
- Benjamin Hsiao, chair of the chemistry department at Stony Brook University
- Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist and the director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami
- Wilbur R. LePage, professor and department chair of electrical and computer engineering at Syracuse University
- William D. Metz, chairman of the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island
- Christopher McKnight Nichols, chair in national security studies and professor of history at Ohio State University
- Theodore Schultz, Nobel Memorial Prize–winning economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics
- William A. Wimsatt, chairman of the Department of Zoology at Cornell University
Faculty[edit]
- Doris Twitchell Allen, psychologist and professor
- Stephen Ambrose, historian and professor
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher, professor, and awardee of the National Humanities Medal
- Peter B. Armentrout, chemistry professor at the University of Utah
- Robert Ashford, professor of law at the Syracuse University College of Law,
- George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor
- Erle Bartley, agricultural science professor at Kansas State University
- Ann Bermingham, professor of art history emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Mark Boyce, professor of population ecology in the University of Alberta
- Charles Congden Carpenter, professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma
- Frances St John Chappelle, assistant in psychology at the University of Nevada
- Mary Ethel Creswell, home economist and university professor
- Eugene Current-Garcia, Auburn University professor emeritus of American literature and founding editor of the Southern Humanities Review
- Shane Davis, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia
- David Herbert Donald, historian and professor
- Michael P. Doyle, regents professor of food microbiology at the University of Georgia
- Harry Morton Fitzpatrick, professor of mycology at Cornell University
- Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy in Southeastern Louisiana University
- Barry Glassner, professor of sociology
- John Graham, financial economist and professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- Larissa Grunig, public relations theorist and professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park
- Susan Haack, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami
- Claude Hall, historian and professor
- Laurin L. Henry, professor and researcher in presidential transitions
- Douglas W. Jones, computer scientist at the University of Iowa
- Edward A. Jones, linguist and college professor
- Edward L. Kaplan, mathematician and professor at Oregon State University
- Mark L. Knapp, distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin
- John Knox, meteorologist and professor at the University of Georgia
- Riki Kobayashi, professor of chemical engineering at Rice University
- Dickran Kouymjian, professor of Armenian Studies at the California State University, Fresno
- Louis LaPierre, professor of ecology
- Peter Lasersohn, professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mary M. Lepper, political scientist and scholar of public administration
- Kyle D. Logue, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School
- Patricia Yancey Martin, professor of sociology emerita at Florida State University
- Florence Marie Mears, professor of mathematics at The George Washington University
- Ole Moen, professor emeritus in American Civilization at the University of Oslo
- Elizabeth Ann Nalley, chemist and professor of chemistry at Cameron University
- Michael P. Nelson, professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University
- Emmanuel Nnadozie, educator, economist, and professor of economics
- Andrea Grimes Parker, computer scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech
- Alison Dundes Renteln, professor at the University of Southern California
- Connie S. Rosati, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Ronald J. Rychlak, professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law
- Shlomo Sawilowsky, professor of educational statistics at Wayne State University
- Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago
- Steffen Schmidt, faculty of Iowa State University
- Floyd Van Nest Schultz, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Purdue University
- Sally Terry, political science professor at Tufts University
- Robert Trundle, philosopher, author, and college professor
- W. Harry Vaughan, professor of ceramic engineering at the Georgia School of Technology
- Michael Vocino, librarian and professor at the University of Rhode Island
- Valree Fletcher Wynn, first African-American professor at Cameron University
- Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist, professor, and head of the Goucher College robotics lab
- Maxine Baca Zinn, sociologist and professor
- Blaž Zupan, computer scientist and university professor
Art and architecture[edit]
- Agnes Ballard, architect
- Lamar Dodd, artist
- Leslie Erganian, artist who works in photography, collage, assemblage, and animation
- Victoria Fu, visual artist
- Glenna Goodacre, sculptor, designer of the Vietnam Women's Memorial
- Joe Lewis, artist
- Harold Lohner, printmaker and designer of freeware and shareware fonts
- Richard Mawdsley, artist
- Joana Ricou, artist
- William Rupp, modernist architect considered part the Sarasota School of Architecture
- Frank Albert Waugh, pioneer of landscape architecture
Business[edit]
- James Barksdale, president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation
- Charles T. Carpenter, banker who was taken hostage by the Dalton Gang
- Robert E. Freed, amusement park owner
- Felipe Gozon, chairman of GMA Network
- Ray O. Johnson, CEO of Technology Innovation Institute and former Lockheed Martin chief technology officer
- William N. Kinnard, real estate educator, author, and expert
- Alice Marriott, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Robert A. McDonald, chairman, president, and CEO of Procter & Gamble
- Claude H. Nash, cofounded, CEO, and chairman of ViroPharma Incorporated and CEO of Bloodstone Ventures
- Soni Oyekan, chemical engineer and president and CEO of Prafis Energy Solutions
- Donald Weder, inventor and president of Highland Supply Corporation
- John Zeglis, president of AT&T and the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of AT&T Wireless
Education[edit]
- Marilyn Barrueta, public school teacher and inductee in the National Teachers Hall of Fame
- Alma Mary Hamilton, high school teacher
- Laura Temple, educational missionary
- Emily Stipes Watts, chair of the Illinois Board of Higher Education
- P. K. Yonge, founding member of the Florida Board of Control, the governing body of the State University System of Florida
Entertainment[edit]
- Nilo Alcala, composer
- Ernie Anastos, Emmy Award winning television news anchor and talk show host
- William Bolcom, composer and pianist, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, and a Grammy Award
- David Brubeck, jazz musician
- Paul Comi, actor
- Gaby Concepcion, television host and actress
- Karl Engemann, record industry executive, producer, and entertainment industry personal manager
- Renee Fleming, opera singer and Grammy Award winner
- Roswell Clifton Gibbs, chairman of the Department of Physics at Cornell University
- Margie Holmes, psychologist and Filipina television host
- Arlie Honeycutt, Miss North Carolina 2012
- Steve Inskeep, host of Morning Edition and Up First on National Public Radio
- Sharon Jordan, actress
- Ellis Marsalis, jazz musician
- Resh Marhatta, actor and filmmaker
- Gulimina Mahamuti, pianist
- Deborah Norville, television anchor for Inside Edition and member of the board of directors at Viacom Corporation
- Timothy Rhea, director of bands and music activities at Texas A&M University
- Christopher Rouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- George Shannon, actor
- Kathy Smith, filmmaker
- Regina Hansen Willman, composer
Government[edit]
- Jonathan S. Adelstein, former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
- Jolly Bugarin, director of the National Bureau of Investigation
- H. N. Cheng, research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Agricultural Research Service
- Asher Hobson, agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Mary Gregory Jewett, preservationist and historian who ran the Georgia Historical Commission
- Niklaus Grunwald, biologist and plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service
- John E. Nixon, director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget
- Peter Rheinstein, former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official
- Bobelle Sconiers Harrell, pilot who was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal(as part of the Civil Air Patrol
Law[edit]
- Charles Bayley Adams, President of the Vermont State Senate and a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Stephen H. Anderson, Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Fernande R. V. Duffly, associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Shiro Kashiwa, Attorney General of Hawaii, judge of the United States Court of Claims, and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Dale A. Kimball, senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah
- Jose P. Perez, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Vincent Ragosta, Rhode Island Superior Court justice
- Jane A. Restani, senior United States Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
- Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association during the Watergate scandal
- William Howard Taft, 10th Chief Justice of the United States and 27th President of the United States
Literature and journalism[edit]
- John Balaban, poet
- David Baldacci, novelist
- Gaétan Brulotte, writer
- Lela E. Buis, speculative fiction writer, playwright, poet and artist
- Julie Cantrell, editor and best-selling author
- Turner Catledge, senior executive of The New York Times
- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
- Robert B. Downs, author and librarian
- Ernest J Gaines, author, MacArthur Foundation fellow, and awardee of the National Humanities Medal
- Alex Grant, poet
- John Grisham, author
- R. S. Gwynn, poet
- Charles W. Henderson, author who writes about military history
- Harold Kaese, sports writer, best known for covering Major League Baseball
- W. Patrick Lang, author, commentator on the Middle East, special forces officer, and intelligence executive
- Lucky Meisenheimer, author
- Kathleen Parker, nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post
- Stephanie Saul, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist known for her work at Newsday and The New York Times
- George Edward Stanley, author of books for children
- Harvey Wasserman, investigative reporter and senior editor of The Columbus Free Press
- John Noble Wilford, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Military[edit]
- Edward K. Beale, retired United States Coast Guard Commander
- Jody A. Breckenridge, United States Coast Guard admiral
- William Allen Knowlton, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
- Ray Mabus, 75th United States Secretary of the Navy
- Walter Wojdakowski, retired United States Army Major General
Politics[edit]
- H. Gardner Ackley, economist and former United States ambassador to Italy
- Charles Bayley Adams, President of the Vermont State Senate and a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Ellis Arnall, 69th governor of Georgia
- Enrique Belo, member of the Philippine Batasang Pambansa
- Kathleen Blanco, 54th governor of Louisiana
- Bill Birchfield, politician, lawyer, and civic leader in Jacksonville, Florida
- Walt Brown, politician and former presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA
- William Denis Brown III, Louisiana State Senate (1968–1976)[1]
- Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
- Eric Chua, Singapore Member of Parliament
- Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State
- Thad Cochran, United States Senator
- Charles J. Davis, Michigan House of Representatives
- Mike Davis, California State Assemblyman
- Raul Daza, member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
- Luis Ernesto Derbez, Mexico's Secretary of Economy and Secretary of Foreign Affairs;
- Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
- Tim Flakoll, North Dakota State Senator
- Henry H. Fowler, 58th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
- Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States
- Alberto Gutman, member of the Florida Senate and Florida House of Representatives
- Nathaniel Edwin Harris, 61st governor of Georgia
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, United States Senator
- Marjorie Holt, United States Congresswoman
- Mark Hutchison, 34th lieutenant governor of Nevada and Nevada Senate
- William Marion Jardine, United States Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassador
- Alf Landon, 26th governor of Kansas and United States presidential nominee
- Jose P. Laurel, 3rd president of the Philippines
- Loren Legarda, senator of the Republic of the Philippines
- Orie Loucks, ecologist and professor at Miami University Department of Zoology.
- Ferdinand Marcos, 10th president of the Philippines and kleptocrat
- Jon L. Mills, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Edward Perkins, former United States Ambassador and director of the United States Diplomatic Corps
- Russell Peterson, 66th governor of Delaware
- Phil Preis, lawyer and candidate for governor in Louisiana
- Jalaluddin Rakhmat, member of the People's Representative Council
- Fidel V. Ramos, 12th president of the Philippines
- Harry Reid, United States Senate Majority Leader
- Emma Ridgway, Washington House of Representatives
- Mitt Romney, 70th governor of Massachusetts
- Carlos P. Romulo, president of the Fourth Session of United Nations General Assembly
- Robert Walter Scott, 67th governor of North Carolina
- James Graves Scrugham, 14th governor of Nevada
- Harry Shiver, Alabama House of Representatives
- Robert L. F. Sikes, United States Congressman
- Trent Sisemore, Mayor of Amarillo, Texas
- William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States
- Morris Udall, U.S. Representative
- Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and prisoner of war in the 2011 Libyan Civil War
Religion[edit]
- Carolyn Tanner Irish, 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah
- Stephen E. Robinson, Mormon religious scholar
Science and technology[edit]
- James P. Bagian, physician, engineer, and former NASA astronautStephen Bowen, NASA astronaut
- Samuel T. Durrance, scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist
- Douglas Engelbart, inventor and internet pioneer
- Maria Elizabeth Fernald, entomologist
- Bernard A. Harris, Jr., first African American to spacewalk
- Ora Willis Knight, naturalist and the state mineralogist for Maine
- Tim Kopra, NASA astronaut and former commander of the International Space Station
- Craig D. Idso, founder, president, and chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
- Wendy Lawrence, NASA astronaut
- Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir
- Franklin Matthias, civil engineer who directed the construction of the Hanford nuclear site
- James A. McDivitt, commander of Gemini 4 and Apollo 9
- George Andrew Olah, Nobel Prize–winning chemist
- Rahul Pandit, condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Ronald Parise, scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist
- Linus Pauling, Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Ida Rhodes, mathematician who was influential in early computer development
- Yvette Richardson, meteorologist
- Claude Shannon, the father of information theory
- Norman Thagard, NASA astronaut
- Kathryn C. Thornton, scientist and a former NASA astronaut
Sports[edit]
- Robelyn Garcia, professional basketball player
- Bob DuPuy, former president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball
- Melvin Ejim, professional basketball player
- Ted Howard, soccer executive
- Shelby Metcalf, college basketball coach
- Rosalie Passovoy, tennis player
- Jim Tressel, former head football coach at Ohio State University
- Marshall Tyler, head coach of the Rhode Island Rams football
- Dallas Ward, head football coach at the University of Colorado in Boulder
References[edit]
- ^ "William Denis Brown, III". Monroe News-Star, March 9, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.