Kyrie Irving
Duke University — Class of ~2014 (est.)
SportsAmerican basketball player
Luol Deng
Duke University — Class of ~2007 (est.)
SportsSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
Melinda Gates
Duke University — Class of ~1986 (est.)
OtherAmerican philanthropist
Rand Paul
Duke University — Class of ~1985 (est.)
PoliticsUnited States Senator from Kentucky since 2011
Jared Harris
Duke University — Class of ~1983 (est.)
Arts & EntertainmentBritish actor
Tim Cook
Duke University — Class of ~1982 (est.)
BusinessAmerican business executive
William G. Kaelin
Duke University — Class of ~1979 (est.)
EducationAmerican Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
Gregg L. Semenza
Duke University — Class of ~1978 (est.)
Arts & EntertainmentAmerican physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
Brian Kobilka
Duke University — Class of ~1977 (est.)
OtherAmerican physiologist
Robert Lefkowitz
Duke University — Class of ~1965 (est.)
ScienceAmerican physician and biochemist
Ricardo Lagos
Duke University — Class of ~1960 (est.)
PoliticsChilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
Robert Coleman Richardson
Duke University — Class of ~1959 (est.)
ScienceAmerican physicist
Sylvia A. Earle
Duke University — Class of ~1957 (est.)
OtherAmerican oceanographer
Ron Paul
Duke University — Class of ~1957 (est.)
PoliticsAmerican politician (born 1935)
Fred Brooks
Duke University — Class of ~1953 (est.)
TechnologyAmerican computer scientist (1931–2022)
William Styron
Duke University — Class of ~1947 (est.)
OtherAmerican novelist and essayist
Charles Hard Townes
Duke University — Class of ~1937 (est.)
Science20th-century American physicist
Jerome Bruner
Duke University — Class of ~1937 (est.)
EducationAmerican psychologist and scholar
Richard Nixon
Duke University — Class of ~1935 (est.)
Politicspresident of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)
