Editing Fulbright Program (section)

== Notable alumni ==
Fulbright alumni have occupied key roles in government, academia, and industry. Of the more than 325,000 alumni:
* 89 have received the [[Pulitzer Prize]]<ref name=notable/>
* 78 have been [[MacArthur Fellows]]<ref name=notable/>
* 62 have received a Nobel Prize<ref name=notable/>
* 40 have served as head of state or government<ref>{{cite web
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* 10 have been elected to the [[US Congress|U.S. Congress]]
* 1 has served as secretary general of the United Nations

=== List of selected group of notable Fulbright grant recipients ===
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* [[William Drea Adams|William D. "Bro" Adams]], university administrator and [[National Endowment for the Humanities|NEH]] [[Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities|Chair]] (2014–2017)
* [[Edward Albee]], recipient (three times) of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]
* [[Karim Alrawi]], recipient of the [[Samuel Beckett Award]] for the Performing Arts, President of Egyptian [[International Pen|Pen]] 
* [[Francis Andersen]], Australian Hebrew and biblical studies scholar
* [[Claire Andrade-Watkins]], academic, film director
* [[Paula Arai]], [[Buddhist studies]] scholar<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2022 |title=Paula K. Arai |url=https://www.shin-ibs.edu/academics/faculty/parai/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Institute of Buddhist Studies |language=en-US |publication-place=Berkeley, California}}</ref>
* [[John Ashbery]], American poet<ref>{{cite web|last1=Piccinnini|first1=Douglas|title=Ashbery in Paris: Out of School|url=http://jacketmagazine.com/37/piccinnini-ashbery.shtml|website=Jacket 2|access-date=October 8, 2015|date=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083413/http://jacketmagazine.com/37/piccinnini-ashbery.shtml|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas]], Uruguayan American Professor of Food Engineering and Director of the Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food at Washington State University
* [[George Benneh]], Ghanaian academic, university administrator and public servant
* [[Christopher Charles Benninger]], recipient of the [[Indian Institute of Architects]] Gold Medal for contribution to architecture in (2004)
* [[Victor Bianchini]], U.S. federal judge, California State superior court judge, retired  Colonel of U.S. Marine Corps; former law school dean
* [[Amy Biehl]], anti-Apartheid activist murdered in South Africa
* [[Harold Bloom]], literary theorist and critic
* [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]], Egyptian politician and Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1992–1996
* [[Michael Broyde]] (born 1964), American law professor
* [[Kofi Abrefa Busia]], Ghanaian academic and Prime Minister of Ghana (1969–1972)
* [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]], President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002<ref>{{cite web | url=http://members.fulbright.org/?prize_cardosa | title=Fernando Henrique Cardoso | publisher=Fulbright Association | access-date=November 11, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111055234/http://members.fulbright.org/?prize_cardosa | archive-date=November 11, 2014 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Kyle Carey]], Celtic American musician<ref>{{cite web | title=Featured Fulbrighter – Kyle Carey | url=http://www.fulbright.ca/featured-fulbrighters/ms-kyle-carey/364.html | work=Fulbright Canada | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143312/http://www.fulbright.ca/featured-fulbrighters/ms-kyle-carey/364.html | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Bob Carr]], Australian politician<ref>{{cite web | title=Announcing our Inaugural Conference Keynote – Professor the Hon Bob Carr | url=https://fulbrightalumni.org.au/news/5053477 | first=Vanessa | last=Adams | work=Fulbright Australia | date=August 29, 2017 | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141144/https://fulbrightalumni.org.au/news/5053477 | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Ron Castan]], Australian Constitutional law barrister<ref>{{cite web | title=ADJOURNMENT | url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansardr%2F1999-10-21%2F0097;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F1999-10-21%2F0091%22}}</ref>
* [[Lenora Champagne]], playwright, performance artist and director<ref>{{cite web | title=Traps by Lenora Champagne | url=http://theoldstonehouse.org/event/traps-by-lenora-champagne/ | publisher=[[Old Stone House (Washington, D.C.)|Old Stone House]] | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142148/http://theoldstonehouse.org/event/traps-by-lenora-champagne/ | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Dante R. Chialvo]], scientist<ref>{{cite web | title=Chialvo Named Fellow of the American Physical Society |date=January 22, 2008 | url=https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/01/chialvo.html | publisher=[[Northwestern University]] | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162041/https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/01/chialvo.html | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Dale Chihuly]], glass sculptor and entrepreneur<ref>{{cite news | title=Glass that'll bowl you over |url-access=subscription | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/02/23/glass-thatll-bowl-you-over/9b32d960-8a19-4929-ba2a-2a947f59ad97/ | first=Jo Ann | last=Lewis | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=February 23, 1996 | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143601/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/02/23/glass-thatll-bowl-you-over/9b32d960-8a19-4929-ba2a-2a947f59ad97/ | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Mark Choate]], American historian, soldier, and diplomat<ref>{{cite news | title=J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board 1998 |url=https://www.https://www.chronicle.com/article/j-william-fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-28377// | newspaper=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] | date=March 26, 1999 | access-date=September 23, 2024 }}</ref>
*[[Eugenie Clark]], American ichthyologist and founder of [[Mote Marine Laboratory]]
*[[George C. Clerk]], Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist pioneer<ref name=":21">{{Cite web|url=https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/264613-daniel-p-clerk/posts/49989-in-memoriam-george-carver-clerk-87|title=In memoriam: George Carver Clerk, 87|date=June 13, 2019|website=Nature Research Ecology & Evolution Community|language=en|access-date=June 13, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804054905/https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/49989-in-memoriam-george-carver-clerk-87|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":23">{{Cite journal|date=July 2019|title=Obituary of George Carver Clerk, 1931–2019|url=https://www.isppweb.org/newsletters/pdf/49_7.pdf|journal=ISPP Newsletter|publisher=International Society for Plant Pathology|volume=49|issue=7|pages=5|access-date=July 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701171541/https://www.isppweb.org/newsletters/pdf/49_7.pdf|archive-date=July 1, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Nathan Collett]], filmmaker<ref>{{cite web | title=2006 Fellowship Recipients | url=https://ahf.usc.edu/recipients/2006-2/ | publisher=[[University of Southern California]] | access-date=June 9, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612175515/https://ahf.usc.edu/recipients/2006-2/ | archive-date=June 12, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cies.org/grantee/george-clerk|title = George Clerk &#124; Fulbright Scholar Program}}</ref>
* [[Aaron Copland]], recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]]
* [[Leah Curtis (composer)|Leah Curtis]], Australian composer<ref>{{cite web|title='New' alumnus wins prestigious Fulbright postgraduate award|url=http://www.newcollege.unsw.edu.au/news/award/new-alumnus-wins-prestigious-fulbright-postgraduate-award|work=New College, University of New South Wales|access-date=October 28, 2012}}</ref> 
* [[Myanna Dellinger]], Danish-American law professor
* [[Arthur Deshaies]], artist, printmaker, professor and head of the graphic workshop, Florida State University<ref name="Spartanburg Herald-Journal Aug 2011">{{cite news |title=Arthur Emillien Deshaies |work=Spartanburg Herald-Journal |location=Spartanburg, South Carolina |date=August 3, 2011 |page=4 }}</ref>
* [[Rita Dove]], U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]
* [[Eugenia Del Pino]], Ecuadorian developmental biologist
* [[Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny]], Egyptian materials scientist
*[[Alfredo E. Evangelista]], Filipino archeologist and director of the Anthropology division of the [[National Museum of the Philippines]]
*[[Glynnis Fawkes]], archeological illustrator and graphic novelist <ref>{{Fisher, April. “From archeology sites to comic book pages: Burlington cartoonist Glynnis 
Fawkes.” Burlington Free Press. January 19, 2023. https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2023/01/19/from-artifact-to-comic-book-art-burlington-cartoonist-glynnis-fawkes/69815288007/.}}</ref> 
* [[Eric Foner]], recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]]
* [[John Hope Franklin]], historian and [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient
* [[Maryellen Fullerton]], lawyer and law professor and interim dean at [[Brooklyn Law School]]
* [[Radhika Gajjala]],  a communications and a cultural studies professor,
* [[Philip A. Gale]], British chemist and university administrator
* [[Vicente Blanco Gaspar]], ambassador of Spain
* [[Ashraf Ghani]], the President of Afghanistan<ref>{{cite news |date= December 30, 2019 |title= Ashraf Ghani Fast Facts |url= https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/08/world/ashraf-ghani-fast-facts/index.html |work= CNN |access-date= February 25, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200226190009/https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/08/world/ashraf-ghani-fast-facts/index.html |archive-date= February 26, 2020 |url-status= live }}</ref> 
* [[Gabby Giffords]], [[United States Representative]] for [[Arizona's 8th congressional district]] 
* [[Walter Gonzalez Gonzalez]] (1924–1979), first Fulbright scholar to the United States from Bolivia, President of the Society of Bolivian Engineers ("Sociedad de Ingenieros de Bolivia").<ref>{{cite news |last=Jaldin |first=Marcelo  |date=November 13, 2022 |title=Premio Walter Gonzalez: la Excelencia Académica de Ingenieria Civil |trans-title=Walter Gonzalez Prize: Academic Excellence in Civil Engineering |url=https://www.la-razon.com/la-revista/2022/11/13/premio-walter-gonzalez-la-excelencia-academica-de-ingenieria-civil/  |language=Spanish |work=La Razon  |location=La Paz, Bolivia |access-date=September 21, 2023}}</ref>   
* [[Robert A. Gorman]] (born 1937), law professor at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]
* [[Wendy Greengross]] (1925–2012), general practitioner and broadcaster<ref name="ONDB">{{cite ODNB|last1=Bayfield |first1=Tony |title=Greengross [married name Katz, later Kates], Wendy Elsa (1925–2012) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/106704 |publisher=OUP |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/106704 |access-date=November 26, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Nigel Healey]], Vice Chancellor, [[Fiji National University]]
* [[Edward Herrmann]], actor 
*[[Robert Hess (college president)|Robert Hess]] (1938–1994), President of [[Brooklyn College]]
*[[John Honnold]] (1915–2011), American law professor at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]
* [[Ross Horning]], American historian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96688146/two-sf-fulbrights-going-to-india/ |title=Two S.F. Fulbrights Going to India |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=May 17, 1967 |accessdate=March 3, 2022}}</ref>
* Brad K. Hounkpati, founder of [[Grain de Sel Togo, Inc]]
*[[Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt]] (1893–1980), economist, considered the inventor of the modern day [[United States Consumer Price Index|Consumer Price Index]]<ref name="Luckett2021">{{Cite web |title=Hoyt, Elizabeth Ellis |url=https://isubios.pubpub.org/pub/zsgo3ul3/release/1 |last=Luckett |first=Dudley |website=pubpub.org |date=July 30, 2021 |access-date=April 20, 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Julia Ioffe]] (born 1982), Russian-born American journalist
* [[Michael Janis]], glass sculptor and educator <ref>{{cite web|url=https://fulbright.org/2021/07/19/strong-heart-of-glass-michael-janis-united-kingdom-2012/|title=Strong Heart of Glass – Michael Janis |publisher=Fulbright.org |date=May 28, 2021 |accessdate=January 4, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Rahul M. Jindal]], Indian-American transplant surgeon at [[Uniformed Services University]].
*[[Roberta Karmel]] (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at [[Brooklyn Law School]], and first female [[Securities and Exchange Commission appointees|Commissioner]] of the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]].
*[[Charles Kennedy]], British politician
* [[Suzanne Klotz]], painter and sculptor<ref>{{cite web|last1=Klotz|first1=Suzanne|title=Fulbright Scholar|url=http://www.cies.org/fulbright-scholars?field_scholar_type_tid%5B%5D=1&field_first_name_value=Suzanne&field_last_name_value=Klotz&field_field_of_study_term_tid=All&title=&field_project_title_value=&title_1=&field_grant_dates_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_grant_dates_value2%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=|website=Fulbright Scholar Program|access-date=March 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006104550/http://www.cies.org/fulbright-scholars?field_scholar_type_tid%5B%5D=1&field_first_name_value=Suzanne&field_last_name_value=Klotz&field_field_of_study_term_tid=All&title=&field_project_title_value=&title_1=&field_grant_dates_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&field_grant_dates_value2%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=|archive-date=October 6, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Koh Tsu Koon]], Malaysian politician
* [[Cy Kuckenbaker]], American filmmaker
* [[Carrie Lam]], the [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong]] from 2017 to 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/carrie-lam-hong-kong-leader-who-ushered-in-era-of-beijings-supremacy|title=Carrie Lam: Hong Kong leader who ushered in era of Beijing's supremacy|publisher=Straits Times|date=April 4, 2022|accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Karen LaMonte]], sculptor<ref>{{cite web |last1=Oldknow |first1=Tina |title=Meet the Artist: Karen LaMonte |url=https://www.cmog.org/transcript/meet-artist-karen-lamonte |website=Corning Museum of Glass |access-date=February 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008072826/http://www.cmog.org/transcript/meet-artist-karen-lamonte |archive-date=October 8, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Jeffrey W. Legro]], political scientist and professor
* [[Ben Lerner]], writer
* [[Bernadette Lim]], American physician and community organizer
* [[John Lithgow]], actor
* [[Dolph Lundgren]], actor
* [[Jamil Mahuad]], President of Ecuador from 1998 to 2000
* [[John Atta Mills]], legal scholar and President of Ghana (2009–2012)
* [[Baidyanath Misra]], former Vice-Chancellor of the [[Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology]]
* [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], [[United States Senator]] and diplomat
* [[Robert Nozick]],<ref>Juntin Wintle, [https://books.google.com/books?id=991tT3wSot0C&dq=Makers%20of%20modern%20culture%20By%20Justin%20Wintle&pg=PP1 Makers of modern culture], Routledge 2002.</ref> American political philosopher
* [[Joan Oates]], archaeologist
* [[Lisa Orr]], potter and teacher of ceramics<ref>https://www.themarksproject.org/marks/orr</ref>
* [[Mikael Owunna]], photographer
* [[Linus Pauling]], awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] and the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
* [[Hugh V. Perkins]], American professor (UMCP), author, and education developer in Pakistan, 1958-1959
* [[Sylvia Plath]], poet, recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1982
* [[Niharica Raizada]], actress
* [[Ian Rankin]], author 
* [[Alec Rasizade]], American historian, author of [[Algorithm of Rasizade|Rasizade's algorithm]].
*[[Anand Reddi]], global health research, public health advocate and biotech executive 
* [[Maria Ressa]], awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
* [[Alexis Ringwald]], former CEO of LearnUp, a [[Manpower Group]] company.
* [[Berenice Robinson]], author and composer.
* [[Theodore Roethke]], poet, recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1954 and the [[National Book Award for Poetry]] in 1959 and 1965  
* [[Margaret Vardell Sandresky]], composer, organist and theorist
* [[Juan Manuel Santos]], the former President of Colombia from 2010 and 2018. Recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 2016<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Laurels|magazine=[[Tufts Magazine]]|year=2010|url=http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2010/planet-tufts/laurels.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219213507/http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2010/planet-tufts/laurels.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 19, 2010|access-date=July 5, 2013|location=Medford, MA|issn=1535-5063|oclc=45710313}}</ref>
* [[Philip Schultz]] poet<ref name=winners>{{cite web | title=Fulbrighters & Pulitzer Prize Winners | url=http://fulbright.state.gov/notable-alumni/pulitzer-prize-winners | publisher=[[U.S. Department of State]] | access-date=October 28, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616232321/http://fulbright.state.gov/notable-alumni/pulitzer-prize-winners | archive-date=June 16, 2012 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[E. Anne Schwerdtfeger]], composer and choral conductor
* [[Heather J. Sharkey]], historian of the Middle East and Africa at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]
* [[Wallace Shawn]], actor and playwright
*[[Mahi R. Singh]], physics professor at [[University of Western Ontario]]
* [[Jane Smiley]], recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
* Paul Reed Smith, 1953–2008, Business IT manager, University of Seattle 
* [[Williametta Spencer]], composer
* [[Henry Steiner]], Austrian graphic designer 
* [[Joseph Stiglitz]], recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]]
* [[Herbert Storing]], Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the [[University of Virginia]]
* [[Robert S. Summers]], law professor at [[Cornell Law School]]
* [[Rishi Sunak]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
* [[Merze Tate]], first black woman to attend the [[University of Oxford]], first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from [[Harvard University]]
* [[Sergio Troncoso]], author of ''[[From This Wicked Patch of Dust]]'', ''[[Crossing Borders: Personal Essays]]'', and ''[[The Nature of Truth]]''
* [[Sasha Velour]], queen, artist, and winner of [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 9)|season nine of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'']]
* [[Eudora Welty]], recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
* [[C. Vann Woodward]], recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]]
* [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]], American poet<ref name=winners/> 
* [[James Wright (poet)|James Wright]], American poet<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=Jeffrey|title=Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry|date=2005|publisher=UGA Press|location=Athens, GA|page=145|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KsP32CLGtcC&q=adrienne%20rich%20fulbright&pg=PP1|access-date=October 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610172032/https://books.google.com/books?id=3KsP32CLGtcC&lpg=PA145&ots=YAEtqNYfFA&dq=adrienne%20rich%20fulbright&pg=PP1|archive-date=June 10, 2016|url-status=live|isbn=9780820326634}}</ref>
* [[Muhammad Yunus]], awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] {{div col end}}