College-Specific

Duke University Alumni

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.

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Kyrie Irving

Duke University — Class of ~2014 (est.)

Sports

American basketball player

Luol Deng

Duke University — Class of ~2007 (est.)

Sports

South Sudanese-British basketball player

Melinda Gates

Duke University — Class of ~1986 (est.)

Other

American philanthropist

Rand Paul

Duke University — Class of ~1985 (est.)

Politics

United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011

Jared Harris

Duke University — Class of ~1983 (est.)

Arts & Entertainment

British actor

Tim Cook

Duke University — Class of ~1982 (est.)

Business

American business executive

William G. Kaelin

Duke University — Class of ~1979 (est.)

Education

American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University

Gregg L. Semenza

Duke University — Class of ~1978 (est.)

Arts & Entertainment

American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers

Brian Kobilka

Duke University — Class of ~1977 (est.)

Other

American physiologist

Robert Lefkowitz

Duke University — Class of ~1965 (est.)

Science

American physician and biochemist

Anne Tyler

Duke University — Class of ~1963 (est.)

Other

American novelist

Ricardo Lagos

Duke University — Class of ~1960 (est.)

Politics

Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006

Robert Coleman Richardson

Duke University — Class of ~1959 (est.)

Science

American physicist

Ron Paul

Duke University — Class of ~1957 (est.)

Politics

American politician (born 1935)

Sylvia A. Earle

Duke University — Class of ~1957 (est.)

Other

American oceanographer

Fred Brooks

Duke University — Class of ~1953 (est.)

Technology

American computer scientist (1931–2022)

William Styron

Duke University — Class of ~1947 (est.)

Other

American novelist and essayist

Charles Hard Townes

Duke University — Class of ~1937 (est.)

Science

20th-century American physicist

Jerome Bruner

Duke University — Class of ~1937 (est.)

Education

American psychologist and scholar

Richard Nixon

Duke University — Class of ~1935 (est.)

Politics

president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 (1913–1994)