Study Abroad and Public Figures
Study abroad can provide an important window onto the world, and can shape subsequent career choices. Many important American public, cultural and political leaders have studied abroad including:
- Carl Albert, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
- Maya Angelou, Poet
- Curtis Barnette, Chairman, Bethlehem Steel
- James Billington, Librarian of Congress
- John Brademas, President, New York University
- Hal Bruno, Political Director, ABC News
- Max Burns, U.S. Representative
- Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell, U.S. Senator
- Wesley Clark, General, USA (Ret’d)
- Bill Clinton, 42nd President
- Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator
- Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Representative
- Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate
- W.E.B. Dubois, Author/Educator
- Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropologist
- Renee Fleming, Soprano
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winning Economist
- Theodore Seuss Geisel, Author
- Margaret Greenfield, Washington Post Writer
- Joseph Heller, Author
- John Hersey, Author
- John Irving, Author
- Stacey Keach, Actor
- Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- John Lithgow, Actor
- Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator
- Daniel P. Moynihan, Diplomat & U.S. Senator
- Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., President, Georgetown
- Derek Bok, President, Harvard University
- Alfred Partoll, Senior Vice President, AT&T
- Philip Pearlstein, Painter
- Thomas Pickering, Diplomat and Business Leader
- Paul Robeson, Singer
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
- Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
- John Tower, U.S. Senator
- David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director, CIA
- Katherine Harris, U.S. Representative
- James Oberstar, U.S. House of Representatives
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
- Sylvia Plath, Author
- Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- Walt Rostow, Presidential Adviser
- Paul Sarbanes, U.S. Senator
- James Watson, Nobel Prize Winning Biochemist
- Gene Wilder, Actor
- George Will, Syndicated Columnist
- Heather Wilson, U.S. Representative