Notable Fellow Phi Beta Kappa Members

  • President George H. W. Bush (Yale 1947)
  • Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole (Duke 1965)
  • Chief Justice of The Supreme Court William Rehnquist (Stanford 1948)
  • Judge Harry Blackmun (Harvard 1929)
  • Judge Anthony Kennedy (Stanford 1958)
  • Judge John Paul Stevens (Chicago 1941)
  • Judge Byron White (Colorado 1938)
  • Isaac Asimov (Boston University 1959)
  • Leonard Berstein (Harvard 1964)
  • Daniel Boorstin (Harvard 1964)
  • Tom Brokaw (South Dakota 1983)
  • Francis Ford Coppola (Hofstra 1976)
  • Christie Hefner (Brandeis 1973)
  • Henry Kissinger (Harvard 1950)
  • Kris Kristofferson (Pomona 1958)
  • Linda Lavin (William & Mary 1983)
  • Sylvia Field Porter (Hunter College 1933)
  • Dean Rusk (Davidson 1931)
  • Jonas Salk (City College of New York 1955)
  • Pat Schroeder (Minnesota 1961)
  • Stephen Sondheim (Williams 1950)
  • Gloria Steinem (Smith 1955)
  • John Updike (Harvard 1954)
  • Caspar Weinberger (Harvard 1938)
  • Jane Addams (Northwestern 1918)
  • Alexander Graham Bell (Amherst 1918)
  • Pearl Buck (Randolph Macon Women's College 1932)
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Missouri 1902)
  • Ella Grasso (Mount Holyoke 1940)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bowdoin 1925)
  • Henry James (Harvard 1872)
  • Helen Keller (Radcliffe 1904)
  • Helen Wills Moody (Cornell 1925)
  • Paul Robeson (Rutgers 1919)
  • Nelson Rockefeller (Dartmouth 1930)
  • George Santayana (Harvard 1886)
  • William T. Sherman (Dartmouth 1866)
  • Booker T. Washington (Harvard 1904)
  • Daniel Webster (Dartmouth 1801)
  • Eli Whitney (Yale 1792)

*excerpted from an article about PBK in Delta Airlines Magazine

Updated: 06/18/2020 01:57PM