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List of Boston University people

This is a list of notable faculty members and alumni of Boston University.

Legend

The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent BU schools and colleges:

Academy Awards

Pulitzer Prize winners

Academia

Activism, clergy

Arts and culture

Art

Music

Popular culture

Business

Film, television, and theatre

Film and television

List of notable alumni in the film and television industry listed by graduation year.

Theatre

Journalism, news broadcasting and radio

Full list of notable alumni in the journalism, news broadcasting and radio section.

Literature and poetry

Politics, government, and law

Officials may have served in other capacities previously listed. In such cases, the name is left unlinked, but the description will indicate the location of a linked entry.

U.S. Governors

U.S. Senators

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. diplomats, federal agencies and appointments

U.S. judiciary

U.S. state officials

Boston University graduates have been elected to all six Massachusetts state Constitutional offices. Alumni include the first female officers for Attorney General of Massachusetts and Treasurer of Massachusetts and the first African-American Attorney General of Massachusetts.

U.S. state legislators

U.S. municipal

International government, politics, and royalty

Military, Navy

Law

Other

Other

Sports

Hockey

U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

*Craig, Eruzione, O'Callahan and Silk were inducted as members of the 1980 Winter Olympics hockey team, known as the 'Miracle on Ice

U.S. Olympians

This is a list of Boston University alumni who have played on an Olympic team.

U.S. National Hockey League

Head Coaches in the NHL

In total, there have been 92 former Terriers to make the NHL, with John Aiken being the first in 1957 and Shane Bowers being the most recent.

The Terriers have had 23 players who were chosen in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft as of the 2024–2025 season:

Other athletes

Notable faculty members

Nobel laureates

Fulbright Scholars

Guggenheim Fellows

  • Bonnie Costello – William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English; 1990
  • Theodore Antoniou – composer; professor of music; 1978
  • David Aronson – painter; emeritus professor of art; 1960
  • Saul Bellow – novelist; University Professor; 1948 and 1955
  • Alicia Borinsky – professor of Latin American and comparative literature; 2001 Latin American and Caribbean Fellow
  • Robert V. Bruce – professor emeritus of History; 1957
  • Charles Capper – professor of history; 1994
  • Robert Dallek – professor of history; 1973
  • Norman Dello Joio – composer; university professor and professor emeritus of music; 1944 and 1945
  • Leslie D. Epstein – director, Creative Writing Program; 1977
  • Thomas F. Glick – professor of history; 1987
  • Gennady Gorelik – research fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science; 1995 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Jaakko Hintikka – professor of philosophy; 1987
  • Caroline A. Jones – associate professor of Art History; 1999 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Howard Clark Kee – William Goodwin Aurelio Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies; 1966
  • Nancy Kopell – professor of mathematics; 1984
  • Leonid A. Levin – professor of computer science; 1993
  • Ralph Lombreglia – instructor in Creative Writing; 1996 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Debraj Ray – former professor of economics; 1997 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Maureen Raymo – research associate professor of earth sciences; 2003 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Abner Shimony – emeritus professor of philosophy and physics; 1972 US and Canadian Fellow
  • Murad Taqqu – professor of mathematics; 1987
  • Ibram X. Kendi – author, director of Center for Antiracist Research; 2019
  • Josephine Halvorson – College of Fine Arts professor of art and chair of graduate studies in painting; 2021

MacArthur Fellows

  • Jim Collins – fellow, MacArthur Foundation, professor of biomedical engineering
  • Nancy Kopell – fellow, MacArthur Foundation, professor of mathematics

Rhodes Scholars

  • Jim Collins – Rhodes Scholar, professor of biomedical engineering
  • Michael Hasselmo – Rhodes Scholar, professor of psychology
  • Jon Westling – Rhodes Scholar, former president of Boston University

Film, performing arts, television, radio

Other

References