List of Duke University people

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As of 2024, 16 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Duke University. The following list includes only those who have graduated from Duke or spent at least one year as a postdoctoral researcher/medical resident/visiting professor or two years as a faculty member at Duke.

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• Charles Townes (A.M. in physics, 1937), 1964 Nobel laureate in physics and winner of the 2005 Templeton Prize,{{cite web|title=Charles Townes|url=https://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?townesc|publisher=The Array of Contemporary American Physicists|access-date=30 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160223153726/https://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?townesc|archive-date=February 23, 2016|df=mdy-all}} National Medal of Science (1982)
• Gertrude B. Elion (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1971 to 1983 and research professor from 1983 to 1999), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine{{cite book|last1=Wayne|first1=Tiffany K.|title=American Women of Science Since 1900: Essays A-H. Vol.1|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-1598841589|page=370}}
• George H. Hitchings (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1970–1985), 1988 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine{{cite news|last1=Weatherall|first1=Miles|title=Obituary: George Hitchings|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-george-hitchings-1151262.html|access-date=30 December 2015|newspaper=The Independent|date=20 March 1998}}
• Hans Dehmelt (Post-Doc. 1952–1955), 1989 Nobel laureate in physics,{{cite web|title=Hans Dehmelt — Curriculum Vitae|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-cv.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=30 December 2015}} recipient of the National Medal of Science (1995)
• Martin Rodbell (adjunct professor of cell biology from 1991 to 1998), 1994 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicineBulletins of Duke University (from 1991 to 1998), published by Duke University{{cite journal|title=Nobel laureate Martin Rodbell Dies|journal=Environmental Health Perspectives|date=January 1999|volume=107|issue=1|page=A9|pmc=1566302|doi=10.1289/ehp.99107a9|pmid=9872722}}{{cite news|last1=Barnes|first1=Bart|title=Nobel Winner Martin Rodbell Dies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/12/11/nobel-winner-martin-rodbell-dies/9f0cd772-0112-4b59-b57d-964100fcfda9/|access-date=31 December 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 11, 1998}}
• Robert Coleman Richardson (Ph.D. in physics, 1966), 1996 Nobel laureate in Physics{{cite web|title=Robert C. Richardson — Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/richardson-bio.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=30 December 2015}}
• Peter Agre (vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medicine Center from 2005 to December 2007), 2003 Nobel laureate in chemistry{{cite web|title=Nobel laureate Peter Agre to Lead Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute|url=http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2007/agre-jhmri.html|publisher=Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health|access-date=3 January 2016|date=October 24, 2007}}{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Brian W.|title=Return of the Laureate|url=http://jhsphmag.nts.jhu.edu/2007/Fall/news_briefs/return_of_the_laureate/|publisher=Johns Hopkins Public Health|access-date=3 January 2016|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305022344/http://jhsphmag.nts.jhu.edu/2007/Fall/news_briefs/return_of_the_laureate/|url-status=dead}}
• Robert Lefkowitz (James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, joined Duke in 1973), 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.{{cite web|title=Robert J. Lefkowitz — Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2012/lefkowitz-bio.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=3 January 2016}} National Medal of Science (2007)
• Brian Kobilka (Post-Doc. 1984–1989), 2012 Nobel laureate in chemistry{{cite web|title=Brian K. Kobilka — Biographical|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2012/kobilka-bio.html|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=3 January 2016}}
• Paul L. Modrich (James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, joined Duke in 1976), 2015 Nobel laureate in Chemistry{{cite web|title=Paul Modrich Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry|date=October 7, 2015 |url=https://today.duke.edu/2015/10/modrichnobel|publisher=Duke Today|access-date=3 January 2016}}
• William Kaelin Jr. (B.S. 1979, M.D. 1982), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine{{cite web|title = Trustee wins Nobel Prize|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/10/duke-trustee-william-kaelin-jr-nobel-prize-physiology-medicine|access-date=2019-10-07}}
• Simon Johnson (Associate Professor at the Fuqua School of Business from 1991 to 1997), 2024 Nobel laureate in Economics{{cite web|title=Simon Johnson|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2024/johnson/facts/|access-date=14 October 2024}}
• Gregg L. Semenza (Pediatrics Residency), 2019 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• George Smith (Visiting Professor 1983–1984), 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry{{cite web|title = 2018 Nobel Prize winner did much of his work at Duke University| date=October 3, 2018| url=https://abc11.com/science/2018-nobel-prize-winner-did-much-of-his-work-at-duke/4402640/|access-date=3 October 2018}}

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In the absence of a Nobel Prize in Computer science, the Turing Award generally is recognized as the highest honor in the subject and the "Nobel Prize of computing." As of 2015, 3 Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Duke University.

• Frederick P. Brooks (A.B. 1953), software engineer and computer scientist, known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers; National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate in 1985, IEEE John von Neumann Medal laureate in 1993 and Turing Award laureate in 1999{{cite web|last1=Booch|first1=Grady|title=Frederick ("Fred") Brooks|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/brooks_1002187.cfm|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=31 December 2015}}
• Edmund M. Clarke (M.A. 1968; faculty, 1976–1978), computer scientist; academic; developed model checking; Turing Award laureate in 2007{{cite web|last1=Kirkpatrick|first1=Ted|title=Edmund Melson Clarke|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/clarke_1167964.cfm|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=31 December 2015}}
• John Cocke (B.S. 1945, Ph.D. 1956), considered the father of the RISC computer architecture, Turing Award laureate in 1987, National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate in 1991 and National Medal of Science in 1994{{cite web|last1=Burke|first1=Michael G.|last2=Sarkar|first2=Vivek|title=John Cocke|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/cocke_2083115.cfm|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=31 December 2015}}

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• Ricardo Lagos (Ph.D. 1966), former president of Chile{{Cite web|url=https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/notable-alumnus-ricardo-f-lagos|title=Ricardo Lagos|website=gradschool.duke.edu|publisher=Duke Graduate School|access-date=May 3, 2016}}
• Richard Nixon (J.D. 1937), 37th president of the United States{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/n000116|title=Richard Milhous Nixon|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=February 19, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025/01/duke-university-richard-nixon-duke-law-alumnus-only-united-states-president-from-duke-foreign-policy-watergate-vice-president-congressman-resigned-in-disgrace-introduction|title=Richard Nixon, the Blue Devil: The making of the only Duke alumnus to become president of the United States|last=Wang|first=Audrey|date=January 9, 2025|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=February 19, 2025}}

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• David Addington (J.D. 1981), chief of staff to former vice president Dick Cheney{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/politics/in-cheneys-new-chief-a-bureaucratic-master.html|title=In Cheney's New Chief, a Bureaucratic Master|last=Jehl|first=Douglas|date=November 2, 2005|website=The New York Times|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• Claude Allen (J.D. 1990), White House domestic policy advisor
• Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I
• Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former United States senator for North Carolina; former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission; former United States Secretary of Transportation; former United States Secretary of Labor; former president of the American Red Cross{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/dole101399.htm|title=Dole Campaign's Role: Bridging Past, Future|last=Drehle|first=David|date=October 13, 1999|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• W. Neil Eggleston (A.B. 1975), White House Counsel under President Barack Obama{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/business/dealbook/neil-eggleston-ex-white-house-counsel-to-obama-returns-to-kirkland-ellis.html|title=Neil Eggleston, Ex-White House Counsel to Obama, Returns to Kirkland & Ellis|last=Olson|first=Elizabeth|date=April 24, 2017|website=The New York Times|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• Danielle C. Gray (A.B. 2000), Cabinet Secretary, senior advisor to President Barack Obama{{cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-qa-danielle-gray-00|title=Forever Duke Q&A: Danielle Gray '00|last=Holder|first=Christina|date=October 13, 2015|website=Duke Magazine|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• John P. Hannah (A.B. 1984), Assistant for National Security to former vice president Dick Cheney{{cite web|url=https://jinsa.org/person/john-hannah/|title=John Hannah Biography|website=Jewish Institute for National Security of America|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• John Hillen (A.B. 1988), former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs{{cite web|url=https://vandenbergcoalition.org/experts/the-hon-john-hillen/|title=John Hillen – The Vandenberg Coalition|website=Vandenberg Coalition|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• John Koskinen (A.B. 1961), Commissioner of Internal Revenue (2013–2017), former deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget{{cite web|url=https://physics.duke.edu/news/distinguished-alumnus-john-koskinen-looks-back-over-varied-career|title=Distinguished Alumnus John Koskinen Looks Back Over Varied Career|date=February 5, 2013|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), United States Secretary of Commerce, 1977–79{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2010/07/kreps.html|title=Juanita Kreps, former Duke Professor, U.S. Secretary Dies|date=July 6, 2010|website=DukeToday|publisher=Duke University|access-date=May 9, 2021}}
• Reggie Love (A.B. 2005), personal aide to President Barack Obama{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2015/02/reggielove|title=Reggie Love: Power Forward|last=Holder|first=Christina|date=February 12, 2015|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• Derek Lyons (A.B. 2004, B.S. 2004), White House Staff Secretary and Counselor to President Donald J. Trump{{cite web|url=https://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-ffsb/ffsb-members/derek-lyons|title=Derek Lyons Biography|website=United States Department of State|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Stephen Miller (A.B. 2007), Senior Advisor to former President Donald J. Trump{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/stephen-miller-duke-donald-trump|title=How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke's Campus to Trump's West Wing|last=Cohan|first=William|date=May 30, 2017|publisher=Vanity Fair|access-date=May 30, 2017}}
• Macon Phillips (A.B. 2000), White House Director of New Media with oversight responsibility for Whitehouse.gov{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/macon-phillips|title=Macon Philips – White House Author|website=obamawhitehouse.archives.gov|date=January 10, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Daniel Calhoun Roper (A.B. 1888), United States Secretary of Commerce under Franklin Delano Roosevelt{{cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/essays/roper-1933-secretary-of-commerce|title=Daniel C. Roper Biography|website=University of Virginia Miller Center|date=October 4, 2016 |access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Sonal Shah (M.A. 1994), director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, former head of the Global Development Initiative at Google.org{{cite web|url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/sonal-shah|title=Sonal Shah Biography|website=Harvard Kennedy School|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired four-star general, 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014), 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999–2003){{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/23/us/shinseki-profile/index.html|title=Shinseki couldn't weather firestorm over scandal that 'anguished' him|last=Fantz|first=Ashley|date=May 30, 2014|website=CNN|access-date=January 7, 2024}}
• Daleep Singh (A.B. 1997), Deputy National Security Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden{{cite web|url=https://www.bruegel.org/people/daleep-singh|title=Daleep Singh Biography|date=December 11, 2024 |publisher=Bruegel.org|access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Doug Sosnik (A.B. 1979), senior advisor and political director to former President Bill Clinton{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/06/us/public-lives-a-white-house-adviser-moves-from-hardball-to-hoops.html|title=Public Lives; A White House Adviser Moves From Hardball to Hoops|last=Broder|first=John|date=March 6, 2000|website=The New York Times|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Tommy Sowers (A.B. 1998), Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs{{cite web|url=https://governmentrelations.duke.edu/2018/11/02/five-questions-with-tommy-sowers/|title=Five Questions with Tommy Sowers|date=November 2, 2018 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Kenneth Starr (J.D. 1973), former United States Solicitor General, Independent Counsel during the Whitewater Affair{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122813284/ken-starr-whitewater-independent-counsel-dies|title=Ken Starr, the prosecutor on the Clinton Whitewater investigation, has died at 76|last=Sullivan|first=Becky|date=September 13, 2022|website=NPR|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• James Young (M.D. 1955), MC USN, Attending White House Physician to Kennedy and Johnson, 1963-1966{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/09/James-Young-Kennedys-doctor-dies/53351213032966/|title=James Young, Kennedy's doctor dies|last=Lee|first=N.H.|date=June 9, 2008|website=United Press International|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Jared Weinstein (A.B. 2002), personal assistant to former President George W. Bush{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/adam-grossman-02-and-jared-weinstein-02|title=Adam Grossman '02 and Jared Weinstein '02|last=Adams|first=Patrick|date=November 30, 2004|website=Duke Magazine|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 11, 2021}}
• Daniel I. Werfel (M.P.P. 1997), Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Current{{cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2023/03/duke-university-alum-daniel-werfel-confirmed-as-next-irs-commissioner-internal-revenue-services|title=Duke alum Daniel Werfel confirmed as next IRS Commissioner|last=Lu|first=Jazper|date=March 9, 2023|website=Duke Chronicle|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Jeffrey Zients (B.S. 1988), United States Chief Performance Officer, (2009-2013); White House Chief of Staff, Current{{cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2023/01/duke-university-alum-jeff-zients-to-be-tapped-as-next-white-house-chief-of-staff|title=Duke alum Jeff Zients to be tapped as next White House Chief of Staff|last=lu|first=Jazper|date=January 22, 2023|website=Duks Chronicle|access-date=January 10, 2024}}

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• Angela Alsobrooks (A.B. 1993), United States Senator from Maryland{{cite web|url=https://www.angelaalsobrooks.com|title=Angela Alsobrook|publisher=Alsobrooks for Senate|access-date=November 6, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000382|title=Angela Alsobrooks|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=February 8, 2025}}
• Mo Cowan (A.B. 1991), former United States Senator from Massachusetts{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=C001099|title=Mo Cowan|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2013/04/cowan50th-0|title=Cowan honors legacy of first black students|last=Jackson|first=Camille|date=April 14, 2013|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 11, 2021}}
• Shelley Moore Capito (A.B. 1975), United States senator from West Virginia, former U.S. representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=c001047|title=Shelley Moore Capito|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2014/07/capitocongressionalbreakfast|title=Shelley Moore Capito: Following the unexpected path|last=Dack|first=Alyssa|date=July 1, 2014|website=DukeToday|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 7, 2017}}
• Elizabeth Dole (A.B. 1958), former United States senator for North Carolina; former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission; former United States Secretary of Transportation; former United States Secretary of Labor; former president of the American Red Cross{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=d000601|title=Elizabeth Dole|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}
• Edward Gurney (LL.M. 1948), former United States Senator from Florida{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=g000531|title=Edward Gurney|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}
• Everett Jordan (A.B.), former U.S. senator from North Carolina{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000267|title=Everett Jordan|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Ted Kaufman (B.S.E. 1960), United States senator of Delaware{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=k000373|title=Ted Kaufman|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}
• Bob Krueger (A.M. 1959), former U.S. representative and Senator from Texas{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=k000333|title=Bob Krueger|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}
• Lee Slater Overman (A.B. 1874), former United States Senator from North Carolina{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/O000140|title=Lee Slater Overman|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Rand Paul (M.D. 1988), United States Senator from Kentucky{{Cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=P000603|title=Rand Paul|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=July 6, 2020}}
• James B. Pearson (A.B. 1942), United States senator from Kansas{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000166|title=James Pearson|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}

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• Hugh Quincy Alexander (1932), former U.S. representative from North Carolina (1953–1963){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000094|title=Hugh Quincy Alexander|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Robert Franklin Armfield, former Congressman from North Carolina, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000278|title=Robert Franklin Armfield|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Morris Brooks (A.B. 1975), former U.S. representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001274|title=Mo Brooks|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Maurice G. Burnside (Ph.D. 1937), former Congressman from West Virginia{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001131|title=Maurice Gwinn Burnside|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Bradley Byrne (A.B. 1977), U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001289|title=Bradley Byrne|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Jim Courter (J.D. 1966), former Congressman from New Jersey{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000809|title=Jim Courter|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Nick Galifianakis (A.B. 1951, J.D. 1953), U.S. representative from North Carolina (1967–1973){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000015|title=Nick Galifianakis|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Lisa Gladden (A.B. 1986), Maryland State Representative, Annapolis, Maryland{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2017/01/11/baltimore-sen-lisa-gladden-resigns-from-general-assembly/|title=Baltimore Senator Lisa Gladden resigns from General Assembly|last=Dresser|first=Michael|date=January 11, 2017|website=Baltimore Sun|access-date=January 3, 2024}}
• Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (A.B. 1897), Democratic US Representative from North Carolina{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000250|title=Hannibal Lafayette Godwin|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
• Tom Grady (J.D., 1982), Republican U.S. representative from Florida{{cite web|url=https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4433|title=Tom Grady Biography|publisher=Florida House of Representatives|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Robin Hayes (A.B. 1967), Congressman of North Carolina's 8th district (1998–present){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H001029|title=Robin Hayes|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
• Paul B. Henry (A.M., Ph.D. 1968), U.S. representative from Michigan and Michigan State Senator{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000514|title=Paul B. Henry|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=June 6, 2024}}
• Henry Hyde (X. 1947), former U.S. representative of Illinois
• Bob Inglis (A.B. 1981), U.S. representative of South Carolina{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/I000023|title=Bob Inglis|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Erica Lee Carter (M.P.P. 2006), U.S. representative for {{ushr|TX|18}} (2024–present){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000605|title=Erica Lee Carter|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=November 21, 2024}}
• Mike Levin (J.D. 2005), U.S. representative for California's 49th congressional district (2018–present){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000593|title=Mike Levin|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Dan Lipinski (Ph.D. 1998), Congressman for Illinois' 3rd district (2005–present){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000563|title=Daniel Lipinski|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), Congressman from New York (1976–1987){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000516|title=Stanley Lundine|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former Georgia state judge, former U.S. representative of Georgia{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M001145|title=Denise Majette|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Ron Paul (M.D. 1961), U.S. representative from Texas (1997–2013); 2008 Republican Presidential candidate{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000583|title=Ronald Paul|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Scott Peters (A.B. 1980), U.S. representative for California's 52nd congressional district{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000608|title=Scott Peters|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Ben Quayle (A.B, 1998), U.S. representative from Arizona; son of former U.S. vice president Dan Quayle{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/Q000024|title=Benjamin Quayle|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Nick Rahall (A.B. 1971), Congressman for West Virginia (1977–2015){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000011|title=Nick Rahall|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Dave Trott (J.D. 1985), U.S. representative from Michigan (2015–2019){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000475|title=David Trott|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Basil Lee Whitener (J.D. 1937), U.S. representative from North Carolina (1957–1968){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000410|title=Basil Lee Whitener|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=August 6, 2024}}

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• R. Gregg Cherry (A.B. 1913), governor of North Carolina (1945–1949){{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-gregg-cherry/|title=R. Gregg Cherry Biography|date=January 2021 |publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Eric Greitens (A.B. 1996), governor of Missouri (2017–2018){{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/eric-greitens/|title=Eric Greitens Biography|date=January 11, 2021 |publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (B.S.), governor of Florida (1967–1971)
• William B. Umstead (J.D 1921), governor of North Carolina (1953–1954)
• Bob Wise (A.B. 1970), governor of West Virginia (2001–2005){{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/bob-wise/|title=Gov. Bob Wise Biography|date=January 18, 2021 |publisher=National Governors Association|access-date=August 2, 2024}}
• J. B. Pritzker (A.B. 1987), governor of Illinois (2018–present){{cite web|url=https://polisci.duke.edu/news/jb-pritzker-our-2022-distinguished-alumni|title=JB Pritzker is our 2022 Distinguished Alumni|date=May 9, 2022|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 30, 2024}}

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• George Venable Allen (A.B. 1920), U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1946–1948; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1948–1949; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1949–1953{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/12/archives/george-v-allen-is-dead-at-66-one-of-16-career-ambassadors.html|title=George V. Allen Is Dead at 66; One of 16 Career Ambassadors|date=July 12, 1970|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 8, 2025}}
• Todd C. Chapman (A.B. 1983), U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (2016–2019); U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (2020–2021){{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/249299.htm|title=Todd C. Chapman Biography|website=United States Department of State|access-date=February 8, 2025}}
• Robert Sherwood Dillon (A.B. 1951), U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (1981–1983){{cite web|url=https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/members-1/dillon/robert-s.|title=Robert S. Dillon Biography|publisher=The American Academy of Diplomacy|access-date=February 8, 2025}}
• William Eacho (A.B. 1976), U.S. Ambassador to Austria (2009–2013){{cite web|url=https://archive.transatlanticrelations.org/fellows/william-eacho/|title=William Eacho – Distinguished Fellow|publisher=Center For Transatlantic Relations|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Cynthia G. Efird (A.M.), U.S. Ambassador to Angola (2004–2007){{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/e/34321.htm|title=Cynthia G. Efird Biography|publisher=U.S. Department of State|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Robert C. Frasure (Ph.D 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Estonia (1992–1994){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/20/obituaries/robert-c-frasure-53-envoy-on-bosnia-mission-is-killed.html|title=Robert C. Frasure, 53, Envoy On Bosnia Mission, Is Killed|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|date=August 20, 1995|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Gordon D. Giffin (A.B. 1971), U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1997–2001){{cite web|url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/giffin_gordon.html|title=Gordon D. Giffin Biography|publisher=U.S. Department of State|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Mark Gitenstein (A.B. 1968), former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, President Biden's nominee for Ambassador to the European Union{{cite web|url=https://useu.usmission.gov/ambassador-mark-gitenstein/|title=Ambassador Mark Gitenstein – Ambassador of the United States of America to the European Union|website=U.S. Mission to the European Union|date=January 28, 2022 |access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Richard Graber (A.B. 1978), former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/73034.htm|title=Richard Graber biography|publisher=U.S. Department of State|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Jaime Aleman Healy (J.D. 1978), Panamanian Ambassador to the USA (2009–2011){{cite web|url=https://law.duke.edu/news/jaime-aleman-78|title=Jaime Aleman Healy Biography – Duke Law School|publisher=Duke Law School|access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Stuart E. Jones (A.B. 1982), United States Ambassador to Jordan (2011–2014); United States Ambassador to Iraq (2014–present){{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/108291.htm|title=Biography of Stuart E. Jones|website=United States Department of State|date=August 15, 2008 |access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Robert Jordan (A.B. 1967), former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/j/5496.htm|title=Biography of Robert W. Jordan|publisher=United States Department of State|access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Bob Krueger (M.A. 1959), U.S. Ambassador to Burundi during the Clinton administration{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000333|title=Robert Krueger|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Philip Lader (A.B. 1966), Ambassador to the United Kingdom, chairman of the WPP Group{{cite web|url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/lader.html|title=Biography of Philip Lader – Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain And Northern Ireland|publisher=United States Department of State|access-date=March 16, 2025}}
• Steven Lett (B.S.E. 1980), diplomat; head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
• Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (A.B. 1950), United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and to the Soviet Union under Ronald Reagan
• Walter P. McConaughy (A.B. 1930), former United States Ambassador to Burma, South Korea, Pakistan, and Taiwan
• David McKean (J.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg (2016–2017), Director of Policy Planning (2013–2016)
• Geeta Pasi (A.B. 1984), U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti (2011–2017) and Chad (2016–2018)
• Manuel Sager (LL.M. 1985), ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
• Elizabeth Verville (A.B. 1961), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs

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• Kate Lee Harris Adams (B.F.A., 1941), aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II
• William Atwater (M.A., Ph.D. 1982), retired captain in the US Marines; author, historian, and director of the US Army Ordnance Museum
• Walter E. Boomer (B.S. 1960), retired general, former assistant commandant, US Marine Corps, Desert Storm Commander; business executive
• Frank Bowman (B.S. 1966), retired admiral, former Chief of Naval Personnel, former director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, US Navy; Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• Winston Choo (MA, History), retired lieutenant-general, former Chief of Defence Force (1974–1992) in the Singapore Armed Forces{{cite web|url=http://www.acsclass57.com/bio/winston_choo.htm|title=Winston Choo Wee Leong}}{{cite web |url=http://infopediatalk.nl.sg/biographies/SIP_1539_2009-06-30/ |title=Winston Choo Wee Leong | InfopediaTalk |access-date=2009-10-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708050804/http://infopediatalk.nl.sg/biographies/SIP_1539_2009-06-30/ |archive-date=July 8, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}
• Edward H. Deets (1979), rear admiral in the United States Navy
• Martin E. Dempsey (M.A. 1984), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Charles S. Hamilton (B.S. 1974), rear admiral in the United States Navy
• John L. Helgerson (M.S., Ph.D.), former CIA Inspector General
• James W. Holsinger (M.D. 1964), retired major general in the United States Army Reserve, physician, nominated to become the 18th Surgeon General of the United States
• Gilmary M. Hostage III (B.S.E. 1977), United States Air Force four-star general, currently serving as the commander of Air Combat Command
• Vergel L. Lattimore, brigadier general in the Air National Guard
• Ng Jui Ping (MA, History), retired lieutenant-general; former Chief of Defence Force (1992–1995) in the Singapore Armed Forces{{cite web |url=http://www.sa-bs.com/index.php?site=whoweare&name=ng| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090516023040/http://www.sa-bs.com/index.php?site=whoweare&name=ng |archive-date=2009-05-16 |title=Lieutenant-General (Retired) Ng Jui Ping |url-status=usurped}}
• Eric Schoomaker (residency and fellowship), Surgeon General of the United States Army
• Clarence O. Sherrill, lieutenant colonel during World War I, military aide to Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge{{cite web | url=https://www.nps.gov/people/clarence-o-sherrill.htm | title=Clarence O. Sherrill | publisher=National Park Service | accessdate=January 27, 2025}}
• Eric Shinseki (A.M. 1976), retired four-star general, 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs; 34th Chief of Staff of the Army
• Michael J. Silah (A.B. 1992), rear admiral in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, Director, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, and director, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
• Kevin R. Slates, retired rear admiral in the United States Navy
• Brett Velicovich, Fox News contributor and former United States Army intelligence.
• Blake Wayne Van Leer (B.S. 1945), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy. Led SeaBee program and the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze.

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• James P. Bassett (L.L.M. 2023), Associate Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.courts.nh.gov/our-courts/supreme-court/about/justices/senior-associate-justice-james-p-bassett|title=Senior Associate Justice James P. Bassett|publisher=New Hampshire Judicial Branch|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Scott Brister (A.B. 1977), former justice, Texas Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.txcourts.gov/15thcoa/about-the-court/justices/chief-justice-scott-brister/|title=Chief Justice Scott Brister Biography|publisher=Texas Judicial Branch|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Cheri Beasley (L.L.M. 2018), Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.jamsadr.com/beasley/|title=Hon. Cheri Beasley Biography|publisher=jamsadr.com|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Patricia E. Campbell-Smith (B.S. 1987), former chief judge, United States Court of Federal Claims under President Barack Obama{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/courts/us-court-federal-claims-campbell-smith-patricia-elaine|title=U.S. Court of Federal Claims: Campbell-Smith, Patricia Elaine|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Aileen Cannon (A.B. 2003), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/cannon-aileen-mercedes|title=Cannon, Aileen Mercedes|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• J. Michelle Childs (L.L.M. 2016), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina{{cite web|url=https://law.duke.edu/news/judge-j-michelle-childs-mjs-16-address-class-2022-convocation|title=Judge J. Michelle Childs MJS ’16 to address class of 2022 at Convocation|date=March 24, 2022|publisher=Duke Law School|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Robert L. Clifford (L.L.B. 1950), former associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.njcourts.gov/public/museum/meet-the-justices/associate-justice-robert-l-clifford|title=Associate Justice Robert L. Clifford|publisher=New Jersey Courts|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Ann Covington (A.B. 1963), former chief justice, Missouri Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=131596|title=Judge Ann Covington Biography|publisher=Missouri Courts|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Laura Crane (A.B. 2003), nominated by President Biden to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia{{cite web|url=https://source.washu.edu/2009/05/crane-has-the-ability-to-look-at-both-sides-of-the-law/|title=Crane has the ability to look at both sides of the law|last=Daues|first=Jessica|date=May 13, 2009|publisher=The Source of Washington University in St Louis|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Michael Dreeben (J.D. 1981), Deputy Solicitor General{{cite web|url=https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/michael-dreeben/|title=Michael Dreeben –Lecturer on Law|publisher=Harvard Law School|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Allyson Duncan (J.D. 1975), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit{{cite web|url=https://trustees.duke.edu/allyson-k-duncan-l75/|title=Allyson K. Duncan L'75 – Duke Board of Trustees|publisher=Duke University Board of Trustees|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Christine M. Durham (J.D. 1971), former chief justice, Utah Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.ali.org/profile/4199|title=The Hon. Christine M. Durham|publisher=The American Law Institute|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Orinda Evans (A.B. 1965), senior judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/evans-orinda-dale|title=Evans, Orinda Dale|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Richard Mark Gergel (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1979), judge, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina{{cite web|access-date=March 22, 2025 |publisher=Federer Judicial Center |title=Gergel, Richard Mark |url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/gergel-richard-mark}}
• Karen L. Henderson (A.B. 1966), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/henderson-karen-lecraft|title=Henderson, Karen LeCraft|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Todd M. Hughes (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/hughes-todd-michael|title=Hughes, Todd Michael|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Susan Illston (A.B. 1970), senior judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/illston-susan-yvonne|title=Illston, Susan Yvonne|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=March 22, 2025}}
• Barbara Jackson (L.L.M. 2014), associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbar.org/news/ncba-honors-justice-judges/|title=NCBA Honors Justice, Judges|date=January 17, 2019|publisher=North Carolina Bar Association|access-date=March 22, 2024}}
• Jeffrey W. Johnson (B.A. 1982), associate justice, California Court of Appeal
• Jill Karofsky (B.A. 1988), justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Jane L. Kelly (A.B. 1987), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Timothy J. Kelly (A.B. 1991), judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• Kathryn Hackett King (A.B. 2003), justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
• Denise Majette (J.D. 1979), former Georgia state judge; former United States representative of Georgia
• Michael R. Morgan (A.B. 1976), associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
• David Nahmias (A.B. 1986), associate justice, Supreme Court of Georgia; former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia
• Paul Martin Newby (A.B. 1977), Chief Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
• Susan Owens (A.B. 1971), associate justice, Washington Supreme Court
• William H. Pauley III (A.B. 1974, J.D. 1977), judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Cary Douglas Pugh (A.B. 1987), judge, United States Tax Court
• Robin L. Rosenberg (J.D. 1989), Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Veronica M. Sanchez (A.B. 1996), nominated by President Biden to serve as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Gary Stein (A.B. 1954, J.D. 1956), former associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
• Allison Jones Rushing (J.D. 2007), United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Vijay Shanker (A.B. 1994), nominated by President Joseph Biden to serve on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• John J. Tharp, Jr. (A.B. 1982), judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Michael B. Thornton (J.D. 1982), former chief judge, United States Tax Court
• Patricia Timmons-Goodson (L.L.M. 2014), former associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
• Gerald B. Tjoflat (L.L.B. 1957), chief judge emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
• John M. Tyson (M.B.A. 1988), judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals
• Peter Verniero (J.D. 1984), associate justice, New Jersey Supreme Court; former Attorney General of New Jersey
• Justin R. Walker (A.B. 2004), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Charles K. Wiggins (J.D. 1976), justice, Washington Supreme Court
• Don Willett (A.M. 1992, J.D. 1992), judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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• Ward Armstrong (B.A. 1977), lawyer and politician{{cite web|url=https://www.wardarmstronglaw.com/about-ward|title=About Ward Armstrong|website=Armstrong & Armstrong Attorneys at Law|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Charlie Condon (J.D. 1978), former Attorney General of South Carolina
• Jack Conway (A.B. 1991), former Attorney General of Kentucky{{cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/jack-conway-91-follows-his-heart|title=Jack Conway '91 Follows His Heart|last=Flynn|first=Louise|date=September 30, 2014|website=Duke Magazine|access-date=November 19, 2024}}
• Eric Dick (M.S. 2023), lawyer and President of the Harris County Department of Education since 2017, known for specializing in resolving property insurance claim disputes[https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/gardening/article/Houstonians-post-freeze-cleanup-should-include-15970209.php "Houstonians’ post-freeze cleanup should include preventive fixes for mold"], Houston Chronicle, Feb. 22, 2021.[https://www.harriscountygop.com/our-elected-officials/county-school-trustee/ "Our Elected Officials"], Harris County Republican Party, accessed July 9, 2023.
• Robert Dove (Ph.D. 1964), parliamentarian of the United States Senate
• Marc Elias (J.D. 1993, M.A. 1993), Founding Partner at Elias Law Group LLP, General Counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign
• Jeffrey L. Fisher (A.B. 1992), professor at Stanford Law School
• John Harmon (J.D. 1969), former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel
• Stanley Hilton (J.D. 1975), lawyer and activist
• Larry Klayman (A.B. 1973), public interest lawyer{{cite web|url=https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/klayman|title=Biography of Larry Klayman|publisher=Freedom Watch}}
• Jeffrey Lichtman (J.D. 1990), defense attorney for John Gotti, Fat Joe, and The Game{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/nyregion/for-a-lawyer-whos-angry-a-gotti-is-therapy.html|title=For a Lawyer Who's Angry, a Gotti is Therapy|last=Finn|first=Robert|date=September 30, 2005|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 22, 2020}}
• Andrew G. McCabe (A.B. 1990), former Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/02/prosecutors-drop-charges-duke-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-trump|title=Prosecutor's drop charges against Duke alum, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe|last=Morrison|first=Maria|date=February 17, 2020|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=August 22, 2020}}
• Dan McCarthy (J.D. 1983), chief prosecutor of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Navy
• Doha Mekki (B.A.), former acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division
• C. Allen Parker, presiding partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (A.B. 1967), professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia, one of the first five African American undergraduates admitted to Duke in 1963{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2019/10/duke-flags-lowered-wilhelmina-reuben-cooke-first-five-african-american-undergraduate-duke|title=Duke Flags Lowered: Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, A 'First Five' African American Undergraduate at Duke, Dies at 72|website=DukeToday|date=October 30, 2019 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=October 30, 2019}}
• Russell M. Robinson, II (L.L.B. 1956), founding partner of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
• Eric Rothschild (A.B. 1989), lead attorney for Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
• Susan Scafidi (A.B.), founder and president of the Fashion Law Institute, a nonprofit organization located at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City
• Rodney A. Smolla (J.D. 1978), author; first amendment scholar; 11th president of Furman University
• Ellen Stiefler (A.B. 1980), intellectual property attorney
• Zephyr Teachout (A.M. 1999, J.D. 1999), associate professor of law at Fordham University, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor of New York

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• John H. Adams (J.D. 1962), co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Maya Ajmera (M.P.P. 1993), founder and president of The Global Fund for Children{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/maya-ajmera-mpp-93|title=Maya Ajmera M.P.P '93|last=Station|first=Elizabeth|date=November 30, 2006|publisher=Duke Magazine|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Barbara Arnwine (J.D. 1976), executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1989 to 2015
• William Barber II (M.Div. 1989), member of the NAACP national board of directors{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/10/rev-william-barber-ii-duke-divinity-alum-wins-macarthur-foundation-genius-grant|title=Rev William Barber II, Duke Divinity alum, wins MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant|last=Li|first=Xinchen|date=October 5, 2018|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Jainey K. Bavishi (A.B. 2003), Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• Mary Duke Biddle (A.B. 1907), daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
• Lisa Borders (A.B. 1979), chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation; vice president of Global Community Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2019/05/lisa-borders-life-lessons|title=Lisa Borders' Life Lessons|last=Borders|first=Lisa|date=May 12, 2019|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• Charlotte Bunch (A.B. 1966), author and human rights activist
• Susan Bysiewicz (J.D. 1986), Lt. governor of Connecticut (since 2019), Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1999–2011)
• Benjamin Chavis, Jr. (MDiv 1980), civil rights activist, executive director of the NAACP{{cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2023/12/rev-dr-benjamin-chavis-named-inaugural-environmental-justice-and-racial-equity-fellow|title=Rev Dr. Benjamin Chavis Named Inaugural Environmental Justice and Racial Equity Fellow|date=December 8, 2023|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Eugene A. Conti, Jr. (M.A. public policy, Ph.D. anthropology 1978), Asst. Secretary USDOT, Secretary of Transportation, NCDOT
• Peter Cook (A.B. 1989), Pentagon press secretary for Defense Secretary Ash Carter
• Dave A. Chokshi (A.B. 2003), Health Commissioner of New York City
• Pete Crossland (Ph.D. 1966), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Chris Daly, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
• Marjorie Dannenfelser (A.B. 1988), President of the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization that seeks to advance anti-abortion women in politics
• Marisa T. Darden (J.D. 2008), nominee to serve as United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
• Chris Dorworth (M.B.A. 2006), member of the Florida House of Representatives
• Allan Fels (Ph.D.), chairperson of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
• Nelson M. Ford (B.A.), former United States Under Secretary of the Army
• Andrew Giuliani (A.B. 2009), Special Assistant to the President and associate director of the Office of Public Liaison for President Donald Trump{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/nyregion/25golf.html|title=Forced off Duke's Varsity Golf team, Giuliani's son Files a Lawsuit|last=Cowen Leigh|first=Alison|date=July 25, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 31, 2021}}
• Susan M. Gordon (B.S. 1980), Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Director for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency{{cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2020/02/national-security-expert-sue-gordon-named-rubenstein-fellow-duke|title=National Security Expert Sue Gordon Named Rubenstein Fellow at Duke|last=Kramer|first=Erin|date=February 13, 2020|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 10, 2024}}
• Josh Hammer (B.S. 2011), columnist and political commentator
• John Hanger (A.B. 1979), Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection, candidate for governor of Pennsylvania
• Suhani Jalota (A.B. 2016), social activist{{Cite web|url=https://baldwinscholars.duke.edu/content/suhani-jalota|title=Suhani Jalota|website=baldwinscholars.edu|publisher=Duke University Baldwin Scholars|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Deborah Lee James (A.B. 1979) United States Secretary of the Air Force
• Shavar Jeffries (A.B. 1996), civil rights attorney, candidate for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
• B.J. Lawson (B.S.E 1996, M.D. 2000), Republican politician
• Jerry Meek (A.B. 1993, J.D. 1997), chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party
• Kimeli Wilson Naiyomah (M.I.D.P,), Kenyan author
• Neil Newhouse (A.B. 1974), Republican pollster
• Brendan Nyhan (Ph.D. 2009), author and political columnist
• Jesse Panuccio (A.B. 2003), former acting Associate Attorney General of the United States
• Muhammad Ali Pate (M.B.A. 2006), former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria
• Art Pope (J.D. 1981), Budget Director for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
• Robert Satloff (A.B. 1983), executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (A.B. 1939), philanthropist
• Eleanor Smeal (A.B. 1961, LL.D 1991), political activist; president of the Feminist Majority Foundation; former president of the National Organization for Women
• Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), chair, board of trustees, Kresge Foundation
• Emiliana Vegas, professor of practice at the graduate school of education, Harvard University
• Damon Wilson (A.B. 1995), executive vice president at the Atlantic Council of the United States, former senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council
• Howard Wolfson (M.A. 1991), Democratic political strategist, deputy mayor of New York City for governmental affairs
• Celeste Rohlfing (Ph.D u.d.), Deputy Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation

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• Ed Austin (A.B. 1948), mayor of Jacksonville (1991–1995)
• Bill Campbell (J.D. 1977), mayor of Atlanta (1994–2002)
• J. Kane Ditto (A.B.), mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (1989–1997)
• Vijayalakshmi Gadwal, mayor of Hyderabad, India (2021–present)
• Sylvia Kerckhoff (M.A. 1960), mayor of Durham, North Carolina (1993–1997)
• Stan Lundine (A.B. 1961), former mayor of Jamestown, former Congressman and Lieutenant governor of New York
• Enrique Peñalosa (A.B. 1978), mayor of Bogotá, Colombia (1998–2000, 2016–2019)
• Steve Schewel (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1982), mayor of Durham, North Carolina (2017–present){{Cite web|url=https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/schewel-stephen|title=Steve Schewel|website=duke.edu|publisher=Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy|access-date=August 19, 2020}}
• Nick Tennyson (A.B. 1972) mayor of Durham (1997–2001)

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• Austin M. Allran (A.B. 1974), member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• Dan Blue (J.D.), former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1981–2002
• Bob Blumenfield (B.A. 1989), current Los Angeles City Council member, former California State Assembly member, 2009-2013,
• Samuel Bogley (A.B), former Lieutenant governor of Maryland
• F. Vernon Boozer (A.B 1958), former member of Maryland Senate, 1981–1999
• Jason Carter (A.B. 1997), Democratic Party nominee for governor of Georgia; member of the Georgia State Senate; grandson of President Jimmy Carter
• Mike Connolly (B.A. 2003), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Justin Fairfax (A.B. 2000), Lieutenant governor of Virginia{{Cite web|url=https://www.ltgov.virginia.gov/about-us/#Lieutenant%20Governor's%20Bio|title=Justin E. Fairfax|publisher=Lieutenant governor of Virginia|access-date=July 17, 2020|archive-date=August 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817081309/https://www.ltgov.virginia.gov/about-us/#Lieutenant%20Governor's%20Bio|url-status=dead}}
• J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party
• Raj Goyle (A.B. 1997), member of the Kansas House of Representatives
• Ember Reichgott Junge (J.D. 1977), former State Senator from Minnesota
• Herb Kirsh, former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
• Bill Kramer (J.D. 1994), former Majority Leader, Wisconsin State Assembly
• Evelyn Murphy (A.B. 1965, Ph.D. 1981), former Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts
• Robert Sheheen (A.B. 1965), former Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives
• Lura S. Tally (A.B. 1942), member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1973–1983, and the North Carolina Senate, 1983–1995
• Mike Turzai (J.D. 1987), nominee for speaker of the Pennsylvania House Representatives, former Republican Caucus (Majority) Leader
• Floyd McKissick Jr. (J.D. 1983), member of the North Carolina Senate
• Merle Davis Umstead (B.A. 1926), First Lady of North Carolina
• Kelli Ward (B.S. 1991), former state senator from Arizona{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/08/kelli-ward-senate-candidate-alum-in-hot-water-for-attacking-john-mccain-hours-before-he-died|title=Senate candidate, alum takes heat for campaign staffer's criticism of McCain hours before he died|last=Butchireddygari|first=Likhitha|date=August 28, 2018|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=July 21, 2020}}
• Scott Wiener (B.A. 1992), member of the California State Senate

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• Lekso Aleksishvili (M.A. 2004), former Georgian Minister of Finance
• Michael Bassett (Ph.D. 1961), former cabinet minister and member of the Parliament of New Zealand{{Cite web|url=http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/biography.php|title=Biography – Dr Michael Bassett|access-date=December 19, 2021}}
• Arkady Dvorkovich (M.S. 1997), Russian deputy prime minister for industry and energy, former chief economic advisor to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev{{Cite web|url=http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/8/biography|title=Dvorkovich Arkady – President of Russia|access-date=July 9, 2013}}
• Amit Mitra (Ph.D. 1978), Finance Minister of the Indian State of West Bengal; economist; member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/amit-mitra-named-principal-chief-advisor-to-west-bengal-cm-and-finance-dept-121110901626_1.html|title=Amit Mitra named Principal Chief Advisor to West Bengal CM and finance depot|newspaper=Business Standard India|date=November 9, 2021|access-date=November 10, 2021|last1=Dutt|first1=Ishita Ayan}}
• Aditi Singh (M.M.S. 2013), member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
• David Usupashvili (M.A. 1999), chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia
• Samir Nuriyev (MIDP 2005), Head of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan{{cite web|url=https://www.azernews.az/nation/158043.html|title=Samir Nuriyev vows to do his best to justify Azerbaijan president's confidence|date=November 2, 2019|website=azernews.az|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Selim Selimi (MIDP 2010), former Kosovo Minister of Justice{{cite web|url=https://sanford.duke.edu/story/faces50-selim-selimi-midp-10/|title=Faces@50: Selim Selimi, MIDP '10|date=September 2, 2021|publisher=Duke Sanford School of Public Policy|access-date=August 4, 2024}}}}

• Hashim bin Al Hussein (X), Prince of Jordan{{Cite web|url=https://scoopempire.com/prince-hashim-of-jordan-is-the-one-that-got-away-yas/|title=Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein is Jordan's Gift to Humanity|last=Marwan|first=Samar|date=June 21, 2016|access-date=August 7, 2016}}
• Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (B.A. 2005), 14th child of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar{{cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/people/sheikha-al-mayassa-bint-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani/|title=Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani|website=Business of Fashion|date=November 14, 2022 |access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Sheikha Hind bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, daughter of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani{{cite web|url=https://www.qf.org.qa/about/profile/her-excellency-sheikha-hind-bint-hamad-al-thani|title=Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani|website=Qatar Foundation|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Prince Charles-Henri de Lobkowicz (B.A.), third son of Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz and Princess Marie-Françoise of Bourbon-Parma

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• Paul Auerbach (B.S. 1973, M.D. 1977), physician; a leading voice in the area of wilderness medicine; founder and past president of the Wilderness Medical Society
• Bernard Chan Pak-li (Ph.D. 2003), Ping Shek representative in the Kwun Tong District Council of Hong Kong, 2007–2013
• D. Todd Christofferson (J.D. 1972), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Patricia Wright Gwyn (B.A. 1951), First Lady of Reidsville, first woman Chair of the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners
• Jillian Johnson (B.A. 2003), Mayor Protempore of Durham, North Carolina
• Kevin J. Martin (M.P.P. 1993), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Charlie Soong (X. 1881), Duke's first international student and patriarch of the Soong Dynasty
• Daniel Tarullo (M.A. 1974), member of the board of governors of the United States Federal Reserve, Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice at Harvard Law School
• Paul Teller (B.A. 1993), executive director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee{{cite news|newspaper=Politico | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60035.html | title=GOPers chant 'fire him' at RSC staffer | author= Bresnahan, John & Jake Sherman | date=July 27, 2011 | access-date=July 27, 2011 }}{{cite news|url=http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/career/featured-alumni-3|title=Featured Alum: Paul Teller|publisher=Duke University|access-date=February 2, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719191027/http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/career/featured-alumni-3|archive-date=July 19, 2011|df=mdy-all}}
• Frederic Whitehurst (Ph.D. 1980), former supervisory special agent in the FBI Laboratory
• Mike Woodard (A.B. 1981), Durham, North Carolina City Council member
• Ken Harbaugh (B.S. 1996), president of Team Rubicon
• Alexander Volzhin, Russian chess grandmaster

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{{columns-list|*Shaikha Al-Bahar, CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait; named the 85th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes

• John A. Allison IV (M.B.A. 1974), chairman (and former CEO), BB&T
• John Angelos, executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles
• Steven Black (A.B. 1974), vice-chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chairman of Wells Fargo
• Roy J. Bostock (A.B. 1962), former chairman of Bcom3 Group, Inc.; namesake of Bostock Library
• Wallace E. Boston, Jr. (A.B. 1974), president and chief executive officer, American Public University System
• Jack O. Bovender, Jr. (A.B. 1967, MHA 1969), chairman and CEO of HCA
• Jonathan Browning (M.B.A.), CEO of Volkswagen Group of America
• Lewis B. Campbell (B.S.E. 1968), CEO of Textron
• John Canning, Jr., founder of private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners; co-owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
• John Chambers (attended 1967-1968; X. 1968), CEO of Cisco Systems
• Mickey Conlon (A.B., 1998), celebrity real estate broker and star of HGTV's reality television series Selling New York
• Tim Cook (M.B.A. 1988), CEO of Apple Inc.{{Cite web|url=https://trustees.duke.edu/trustees/tim-cook-b%E2%80%9988|title=Tim Cook B'88|publisher=Duke University Board of Trustees|access-date=July 11, 2020|archive-date=February 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201093650/https://trustees.duke.edu/trustees/tim-cook-b%E2%80%9988|url-status=dead}}
• Eddy Cue (B.S.), Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services
• Husein Cumber (A.B. 1997), Chief Strategy Officer of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI)
• Tom Davin (B.A. 1979), former COO of Taco Bell Corporation and CEO of Panda Restaurant Group
• Grant DePorter (M.B.A.), restaurateur
• Chad Dickerson (A.B. 1993), CEO of Etsy
• Gary Dickinson (B.S. 1960), automotive industry executive
• Fred Ehrsam (B.S. 2010), co-founder of Coinbase
• Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
• Jeffrey Fox (B.S. 1984), president and CEO of Convergys
• Heath Freeman (A.B. 2002), Managing Director of Alden Global Capital
• J. B. Fuqua (G.Hon 1973), chairman of the board of The Fuqua Companies, founder of the J.B. Fuqua Foundation, namesake of Duke's Fuqua School of Business
• Steven Galanis (B.A. 2010), CEO of Cameo
• Melinda Gates (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1987), co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation{{Cite web|url=https://giving.duke.edu/news/my-giving-story-melinda-gates|title=My Giving Story: Melinda Gates|date=November 20, 2015|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• David Gibbs, (M.B.A. 1988), former CEO, Pizza Hut; CEO, Yum! Brands
• David R. Goode (A.B. 1962), chairman, president, and CEO of Norfolk Southern
• William H. Gross (B.S. 1966), founder and chief investment officer, PIMCO, the world's largest bond fund
• Brian Hamilton (M.B.A. 1990), co-founder and former chairman, Sageworks;{{cite web|url=https://www.sageworksinc.com/directors.aspx|title=Leadership Team|website=Sageworksinc.com|access-date=14 November 2017}} founder, Inmates to Entrepreneurs{{cite web|url=https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/05/18/sageworks-founder-cashes-out-to-focus-on-a-new-journey-helping-inmates/|title=Sageworks founder cashes out to focus on a new 'journey:' Helping inmates|website=WRAL TechWire|date=May 18, 2018|access-date=21 April 2020}}
• Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (A.B. 1991), British viscount; chairman of the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail
• Gerald Hassell (B.A. 1973), chairman and CEO, Bank of New York Mellon
• William A. Hawkins (B.S. 1976), CEO of Medtronic
• Sally Hogshead (B.A. 1991), CEO of Fascinate, Inc.
• Betsy Holden (A.B.), CEO of Kraft Foods, 2001–2003{{Cite web|url=https://trustees.duke.edu/trustees/betsy-d-holden-t77|title=Betsy Holden T'77|publisher=Duke University Board of Trustees|access-date=July 30, 2020}}
• Amy Hood (A.B. 1994), first female CFO of Microsoft
• John Idzik, Jr. (A.M. 1993), former general manager of the NFL's New York Jets{{cite web|url=http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/544821/ryan-ohalloran/2015-02-25/report-jaguars-expected-hire-former-jets-gm-consultant|title=Jaguars hire former Jets GM John Idzik as consultant}}
• David Bronson Ingram (A.B. 1985), chairman of Ingram Entertainment
• W. Bruce Johnson (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), interim chief executive officer and president, Sears Holdings Corporation
• William D. Johnson (B.A.), chairman, president and CEO of Progress Energy
• Tom Kain (A.B. 1986), Nike's director of Global Marketing (Soccer)
• Bruce Karsh (A.B. 1977), co-founder and president of Oaktree Capital Management
• Chris Kempczinski (A.B. 1991), CEO of McDonald's{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mcdonald-ceo-factbox/factbox-meet-mcdonalds-new-ceo-chris-kempczinski-idUSKBN1XE1JU|title=Meet McDonald's new CEO: Chris Kempczinski|date=November 4, 2019|publisher=Reuters|access-date=July 21, 2020}}
• Lesa Kennedy (B.A. 1983), CEO of International Speedway Corporation; member of the board of directors of NASCAR
• Zach Kleiman (J.D. 2013), General Manager of the Memphis Grizzlies; 2022 NBA Executive of the Year
• David Kohler (B.A.) President and CEO of Kohler Company
• John A. Koskinen (A.B. 1961), president of US Soccer Foundation, former deputy director, Office of Management and Budget
• Michael Lamach (M.B.A.), CEO and Chairman of Ingersoll Rand
• Howard Lerman (A.B. 2002), founder and CEO of Yext
• David Lauren (A.B., 1993), senior vice president at Polo Ralph Lauren{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/a-day-in-the-life-of-david-lauren-1443630691|title=A Day in the life of David Lauren|last=Ross|first=Christopher|date=September 30, 2015|publisher=Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 26, 2021}}
• Dylan Lauren (A.B., 1996), president and founder of Dylan's Candy Bar
• Dan Levitan (1979), co-founder and managing partner, Maveron
• Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (A.B., J.D.), French billionaire businessman
• Gary Lynch (J.D. 1975), former chief legal officer and vice chairman of Morgan Stanley
• John J. Mack (A.B. 1968), CEO of Morgan Stanley; former CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston
• Aslaug Magnusdottir (LL.M. 1998), Icelandic co-founder and former CEO of Moda Operandi
• Marijke Mars (born 1965), billionaire heiress and businesswoman
• Mathew Martoma (born 1974 as Ajai Mathew Mariamdani Thomas), hedge fund portfolio manager, convicted of insider trading
• Steven Marks (A.B. 1989, J.D. 1992), general counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America
• Michael Marsicano (A.B. 1977, M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1982), President and CEO of the Foundation for the Carolinas
• Aubrey McClendon (A.B. 1981), CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy
• Dan McCready (B.A. 2005), entrepreneur and candidate for US House of Representatives
• Bart McDade (A.B. 1981), former president and COO of Lehman Brothers, tasked with saving the firm towards the end of its existence
• Hardy McLain (born 1952), hedge fund manager, managing partner CVC Capital Partners
• Lalit Modi (A.B. 1986), Modi Enterprises Scion, chairman and founder of Indian Premier League
• Carter Murray (A.B. 1997), CEO of DraftFCB
• Raymond Nasher (1943), real estate developer, philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
• Peter Nicholas (A.B. 1964), founder and chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation
• Edward Nixon (B.S. 1952), entrepreneur and last surviving brother of former US President Richard Nixon{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/obituaries/edward-nixon-dead.html|title=Edward Nixon, 88, Presidents Brother and Champion, Is Dead|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=February 28, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• Stephen Pagliuca (1977), part owner of the Boston Celtics, managing director of Bain Capital{{Cite web|url=https://trustees.duke.edu/trustees/stephen-g-pagliuca-t77|title=Stephen G. Pagliuca T'77|publisher=Duke University Board of Trustees|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• Robert A. Pascal (A.B. 1957), entrepreneur and politician
• Aaron Patzer (B.S.E 2002), founder and CEO of Mint
• J. Michael Pearson (B.S. 1981), chairman and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals
• Hilda Pinnix-Ragland (M.B.A. 1986). First African-American vice president at Progress Energy Inc and Duke Energy{{cite news |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/midtown-raleigh-news/article10275806.html |title=Carolina Country Club admits its first African-American couple|date=July 8, 2013 |newspaper=The News & Observer |place=Raleigh, North Carolina}}
• Deb Liu (B.S.E), CEO of Ancestry.com
• Vitor Olivier (B.S. 2011), CTO of Nubank
• Poman Lo (A.B. 1999), founder of Bodhi and Friends
• Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. (B.S.E. 1947), former CEO of Pfizer, philanthropist, namesake of Duke's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering
• Robert M. Price (B.S. 1952), CEO of the Control Data Corporation
• J. B. Pritzker (A.B.), managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group, principal owner of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and TransUnion Corporation, one of the 400 richest Americans
• Joanna Rees (B.S.), venture capitalist
• Jeffrey Reich (A.B. 1979), former senior managing director of Bear Stearns
• Mark Reuss (M.B.A. 1990), head of global product development at General Motors; former president of GM North America
• William Neal Reynolds, president of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, brother of Richard Joshua Reynolds
• Allard Roen, businessman from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Carlsbad, California
• Andrew Rosen (A.B. 1982), chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc.
• Drew Rosenhaus (J.D. 1990), NFL sports agent
• David M. Rubenstein (A.B. 1970), billionaire co-founder of The Carlyle Group{{Cite web|url=https://giving.duke.edu/article/david-rubenstein-70-on-what-sets-duke-apart|title=David Rubenstein '70 on what sets Duke apart|website=givingtoDuke|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 25, 2020|archive-date=July 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725123559/https://giving.duke.edu/article/david-rubenstein-70-on-what-sets-duke-apart|url-status=dead}}
• Liu Ruopeng (Ph.D. 2009), Chinese billionaire co-founder of Kuang-Chi Group
• Georg Schaeffler (J.D. 1999), owner of the Schaeffler Group; currently the wealthiest person in Germany
• Alan Schwartz (A.B. 1972), CEO, Bear Stearns
• Granville Semmes, founder of 1-800-Flowers{{cite news|first=John|last=Pope|title=Granville Semmes, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS, dies at 84 |url=http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/04/granville_semmes_founder_of_1-.html |work=The Times-Picayune|date=April 5, 2012|access-date=May 2, 2012}}
• Malvinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 1998), Indian former chairman and CEO of Ranbaxy Laboratories; chairman of Fortis Hospitals and Religare Financial Services; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
• Shivinder Mohan Singh (M.B.A. 2000), Indian managing director of Fortis Healthcare; Advisory Board Member of AIESEC India; one of the twenty richest Indians in the world
• David B. Snow Jr. (M.S. 1978), chairman and CEO of Medco Health Solutions, a Fortune 100 company
• Jimmy Soni (A.B. 2007), managing editor of the Huffington Post
• Robert K. Steel (A.B. 1973), chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, president and CEO, Wachovia
• Joseph R. Swedish (M.H.A. 1979), CEO of WellPoint (now Anthem), the second-largest health insurance provider in the US
• David S. Taylor (B.S.E 1980), president and CEO at Procter & Gamble
• Christian Van Thillo (M.B.A. 1989), CEO of De Persgroep
• Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), CEO of National Geographic Society
• Bill Timmerman (1968), chairman, president, and CEO of SCANA
• Randall L. Tobias, former CEO of Eli Lilly and Company; served as U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance and Administrator of USAID, with the rank of ambassador
• David Trott (J.D. 1985), businessman; Republican politician
• Ashok Varadhan (A.B. 1993), co-head of global banking and markets at Goldman Sachs; became one of the firm's youngest partners at the age of 29
• Poornima Vijayashanker (B.S. 2004), entrepreneur and engineer
• James L. Vincent (B.S. 1961), chairman and CEO, Biogen Idec
• Jeffrey Vinik (B.S. 1981), chairman, president, and CEO of Vinik Asset Management, owner of Tampa Bay Lightning
• Karl von der Heyden (1962), German-American vice chairman and CFO, Pepsico, Inc., namesake of the von der Heyden pavilion at Duke
• G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (A.B. 1975), president and CEO, General Motors Corporation
• Jeff Williams (M.B.A. 1991), COO of Apple
• Gary L. Wilson (A.B. 1962), director of The Walt Disney Company; co-chairman of Northwest Airlines; namesake of Wilson Rec Center at Duke
• Charles Xiaolin Wang (J.D. 1999), Chinese lawyer and automotive businessman
• Lee Waite (MBA 1983), President and CEO of Citigroup Holdings Japan
• Thomas S. White, Jr. (1965), asset manager
• William Wrigley, Jr. II (B.A.), chairman, president, CEO Wrigley Company
• Gao Xiqing (J.D. 1986), general manager and chief investment officer of the China Investment Corporation

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• M. Katherine Banks (Ph.D. 1989), 24th president of Texas A&M University
• Rick Brewer, president of Louisiana College
• Christopher Celenza (Ph.D. 1996), James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
• John Chandler (B.D. 1952, Ph.D. 1954), former president of Williams College
• Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (MEd 1937), president of St. Mary's Junior College
• Margaret Cuninggim, dean of women at the University of Tennessee and at Vanderbilt University
• Charles L. Flynn, Jr. (Ph.D.), president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent
• W. Kent Fuchs (B.S.E. 1977), president of the University of Florida, former provost of Cornell University
• Pamela Gann (J.D. 1973), president of Claremont McKenna College and former dean of Duke University School of Law
• Geoffrey Garrett (Ph.D.), political scientist, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania{{cite web|title=Geoffrey Garret: Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about-the-dean/|website=Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=March 24, 2017}}
• Susan Henking (B.A. 1977), president of Shimer College; scholar of religious studies
• Susan Herbst (B.A. 1984), president of University of Connecticut; political scientist
• Matthew S. Holland (M.A., Ph.D.), president of Utah Valley University
• A. D. Kirwan (Ph.D., 1947), seventh president of the University of Kentucky
• Benjamin Ladner (Ph.D. 1970), former president of American University
• Samuel Lander (A.M. 1855), founder and first president of Lander University
• Theodore E. Long (A.M 1968), president of Elizabethtown College
• Mirta Martin (B.S. 1982), ninth president of Fort Hays State University
• Lloyd B. Minor (residency), scientist, surgeon, and dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
• Marie Lynn Miranda (B.S., 1985), data scientist, 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago
• Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr. (Th.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1967), ancient language scholar; authority on the origin of the alphabet; former president of Southern Virginia University and King College
• David P. Roselle (Ph.D. 1965), president, University of Delaware
• David E. Sweet (Ph.D., 1968), founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College
• Jill Tiefenthaler (A.M., Ph.D.), former president of Colorado College; former provost of Wake Forest University
• Beth Winkelstein (Ph.D. 1999), deputy provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• Theodore Ziolkowski (A.B. 1951), former dean of the graduate school, Princeton University
• Jeffrey Vitter (M.B.A. 2002), 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi

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• Arun Agrawal (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1992), professor at the University of Michigan
• R. Michael Alvarez (Ph.D. 1992), professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology
• Dan Ariely (Ph.D. 1998), professor of behavioral economics at Duke and head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab, author of Predictably Irrational
• Susan Athey (A.B. 1991), professor of economics at Harvard University and winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
• Noël Bakhtian (B.S. 2005), director of the Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
• Michael J. Battle (B.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995), Episcopal moral theologian
• Roy Baumeister (M.A. 1976), psychologist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Stephen B. Baylin (B.S., M.D. 1968), Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Johns Hopkins University
• Mark F. Bear (B.S. 1979), professor of neuroscience at MIT; member of the National Academy of Medicine
• Sherilynn Black (Ph.D.), neuroscientist and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at Duke
• Shree Bose (M.D., Ph.D. 2023), grand prize winner of the inaugural Google Science Fair in 2011
• Susan H. Brandt, historian
• Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Ph.D. 2002), Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School
• Bill Brown (A.B.), distinguished professor of English at the University of Chicago
• Robin M. Canup (B.S.), astrophysicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the Harold C. Urey Prize
• Barry F. Cooper (Ph.D. 1969), Canadian political scientist
• Thomas Daniel (Ph.D.), biologist, won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
• Jon Danielsson (Ph.D. 1991), director of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science
• Sara Danius (Ph.D. 1997), permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, a Royal Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Kenneth A. Dodge (Ph.D. 1978), William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University
• David L. Downie (A.B. 1983), author, professor of politics and environment policy at Fairfield University
• David Efird (A.B. 1995), philosopher and lecturer at the University of York
• Garrett Epps (J.D. 1991), legal scholar, professor at the University of Baltimore
• Thomas Eugene Flanagan (Ph.D.), conservative Canadian political scientist
• R. Edward Freeman (A.B. 1973), philosopher and professor of business administration, known for the stakeholder theory
• Maryellen Fullerton (B.A. 1968), lawyer and interim dean and law professor of law at Brooklyn Law School
• Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962), psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College
• John Graham (Ph.D. 1994), economist
• Huck Gutman, Ph.D. from Duke; professor of English at the University of Vermont and political advisor to Bernie Sanders
• Craig Hanks, Ph.D. from Duke; professor of philosophy at Texas State University
• Dagmar Herzog (A.B., 1983), distinguished professor of history, the Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Craig Henriquez (B.S.E., 1981, Ph.D., 1988), professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University
• Douglas Hodgkin (Ph.D.), political scientist; author; professor at Bates College
• D. Kern Holoman (B.A. 1969), Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, DavisSlonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura (2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011162718/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3491805745.html "Holoman, D(allas) Kern"]. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
• Robert A. Jarrow (B.S. 1974), Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
• Siddharth Kara (B.A.), expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking
• Kevin Lane Keller (Ph.D. 1986), E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
• Anne R. Kenney (B.A. 1972), Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell University Library
• Rachel E. Klevit (Post Doc), professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Walter J. Koch (Post Doc 1991-1995), director of the Center for Translational Medicine, professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology, and W.W. Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at Temple University
• M. A. R. Koehl (Ph.D. 1976), professor at the University of California, Berkeley; member of the National Academy of Sciences; awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990
• Juanita M. Kreps (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1948), professor, economist, United States Secretary of Commerce
• Josh Kun (B.A. 1993), professor of communication at the University of Southern California and MacArthur Fellow 2016
• Bruce R. Kuniholm (M.A. 1972, M.A.P.P.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1976), professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy; expert on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
• Luciano L'Abate (Ph.D. 1956), the father of relational theory; author of 50 books in the field of American psychology
• Frank Lentricchia (Ph.D. 1960), literary critic; professor of literature at Duke University
• Jerry B. Lincecum (Ph.D.), emeritus professor of English; author; affiliated with Austin College in Sherman, Texas{{cite web| url= http://www.humanitiestexas.org/programs/speakers/presentations/jerry-bryan-lincecum|title=Jerry Bryan Lincecum |publisher=Humanities Texas |access-date=August 10, 2012}}
• Jerome Loving (Ph.D.), professor of American literature and culture at the University of Texas at Austin{{cite web|title=Jerome Loving|url=https://english.tamu.edu/dr-jerome-loving/|website=Department of English|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|access-date=October 30, 2017}}
• Marc Lynch (A.B.), professor of political science at George Washington University
• Khaled Mattawa (Ph.D. 2009), Libyan poet, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
• Raven I. McDavid, Jr., linguist, dialectologist
• Lionel W. McKenzie (B.S. 1939), economist
• Allan Meltzer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1955), economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisors for Presidents Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
• Duane Mitchell (M.D., Ph.D. 2001), assistant vice president for research, associate dean for translational science and Clinical Research, and director of the University of Florida (UF) Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (Ph.D. 1994), musicologist
• Richard L. Morrill (Ph.D. 1968), chancellor of the University of Richmond
• Robert L. Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
• Chip Mosher, education columnist, poet, teacher
• Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, and critic; professor at Dartmouth College
• Joseph Gaither Pratt (A.B. 1931, M.A. 1933, Ph.D. 1936), psychologist
• Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author and professor of literature at Duke
• Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Ph.D. 2004), associate professor with joint appointment in the departments of sociology and epidemiology, and Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities at McGill University
• William Bee Ravenel III (M.A.), Head of the English Department at Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia), mentor to Senator and Presidential Candidate John S. McCain III
• John A. Rich (M.D. 1984), chair of the department of health management and policy at Drexel University; 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
• Charles C. Richardson (B.S. 1959, M.D. 1960), biochemist, professor at Harvard University
• Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago
• Claudia Scott (M.A., Ph.D. 19971), public policy professor
• Shauna Shapiro, professor of psychology at Santa Clara University
• Baba Shiv (Ph.D. 1996), professor of marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business
• Eric Stach (B.S.E. 1992), materials scientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Glen Stassen (Ph.D.), ethicist; Baptist theologian; son of former Minnesota governor and nine-time Presidential candidate Harold Stassen
• Omari Swinton (M.A. 2003, Ph.D 2007), economist, head of the National Economic Association
• Robert Tally (A.B. 1990, J.D. 2001), professor of English at Texas State University
• John E. Thomas (Ph.D. 1959), medical ethicist
• J. Anderson Thomson (A.B. 1970), trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
• Robert M. Townsend (A.B. 1970), professor of economics at MIT and two-time winner of the Frisch Medal (1998, 2012)
• Jenny Tung (B.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2010), evolutionary anthropologist, received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019
• Peter Turchin (Ph.D. 1985), Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics"
• Sam Wang (Post Doc), neuroscientist, professor and best-selling author
• Daniel T. Willingham (A.B. 1983), professor of psychology at the University of Virginia
• Nikolai Khokhlov (Ph.D.), professor of psychology at California State University, San Bernardino, former KGB officer
• William Kaelin, Jr. (A.B. 1978, M.D. 1982), professor of medicine at Harvard University, recipient of the 2016 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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• David H. Adams, heart valve surgery and mitral valve repair
• Raymond Delacy Adams (M.D. 1936), professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School; chief of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Nita Ahuja (M.D. 1993), chair of the department of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine
• Waleed Al-Salam (Ph.D. 1958), mathematician
• Eben Alexander (M.D. 1980), neurosurgeon and best-selling author
• Linda Austin (M.D. 1976), psychiatrist
• Lenox Baker (M.D. 1973), physician, public servant
• Lt. Andy Baldwin, The Bachelor, lieutenant, and doctor
• Ketan Ramanlal Bulsara (M.D. 1996), chief of neurosurgery at the University of Connecticut
• Ian Barbour (M.S. 1946), physicist, theologian, and recipient of the Templeton Prize in 1999
• Charles E. Brady, Jr. (M.D. 1975), astronaut
• John C. Browne (Ph.D.), former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Jerome Bruner (A.B. 1937), psychologist and professor
• David R. Bryant (Ph.D. 1961), organic chemist
• John Buse (Ph.D. 1985, M.D. 1986), former president of the American Diabetes Association
• Jacquelyn Campbell (B.S.N 1968), Anna D. Wolf Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Member of the National Academy of Medicine
• C. Thomas Caskey (M.D. 1963), medical geneticist and biomedical entrepreneur
• Iain Cheeseman (B.S. 1997), assistant professor at MIT
• George M. Church (B.S. 1974), father of most current sequencing and array technologies; helped initiate the Human Genome Project; professor at Harvard Medical School
• Daniel J. Clancy (A.B. 1985), computer scientist, engineering director for Google Book Search
• Marcus Conant (B.S. 1957, M.D. 1961), dermatologist and AIDS researcher
• Richard Cytowic (B.A. 1973), neuroscientist and leading authority on the field of synesthesia
• Rose May Davis (Ph.D. 1929), chemist; first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. at Duke
• William DeVries (GME 1971–1979), pioneer of artificial organs
• Scott Dulchavsky (surgical fellowship), chairman of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Henry Ford Hospital
• Sylvia Earle (Ph.D., 1966), marine biologist; chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Jim Ellis, co-creator of Usenet with Tom Truscott
• Robert Everett (B.S. 1942), National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate (1989)
• Paul Farmer (B.S. 1982), infectious disease specialist; winner of MacArthur Award; subject of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tracy Kidder's biography Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Robert Fischell (B.S. 1951), physicist, inventor, holder of more than 200 U.S. and foreign medical patents, National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate in 2015{{cite web|title=Fischell to Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation|url=http://www.eng.umd.edu/html/news/news_story.php?id=9495|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=5 January 2016}}
• C. Stephen Foster (B.S. 1965), ophthalmologist, developed the "step ladder approach to care" for treating patients with ocular inflammatory disease
• Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. (M.D. 1958), cancer researcher; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association of American Physicians
• Irwin Fridovich (Ph.D. 1955), biochemist, member of the National Academy of Science
• Craig Gentry (B.S. 1995), computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award
• Ken Gergen (Ph.D. 1962), psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College
• Myron L. Good (Ph.D. 1951), particle physicist
• Antonella Grassi (Ph.D. 1990), mathematician; fellow of the American Mathematical Society
• Eugene Gu (M.D. 2015), president and CEO of the Ganogen Research Institute
• Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise group at Microsoft
• Robert S. Haltiwanger (B.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1986), chairman of the department of biochemistry and cell biology at Stony Brook University
• Mark S. Humayun (M.D. 1989), recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2015), member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering
• Krithi Karanth (Ph.D.), conservation biologist
• George A. Keyworth, II (Ph.D. 1968), physicist; presidential science advisor; former board member of Hewlett-Packard
• Cassie Kozyrkov (Ph.D. 2012), Chief Decision Scientist, Google
• Martin Kratt (B.S.), Zoologist and children's television host
• Anita Layton (B.S. 1994), Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics at Duke University
• Sarah Lisanby (B.S. 1987, M.D. 1991), psychiatrist; director of translational research at The National Institute of Mental Health
• Martin J. Lohse (Post-Doc.), physician and pharmacologist
• Derek Lowe (Ph.D. 1988), medicinal chemist
• John M. MacDougal (Ph.D. 1984), botanist
• Robert Malkin (Ph.D. 1993), biomedical engineer; fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• Jennifer Manlove (Ph.D. 1993), sociological research scientist at Child Trends
• Peter V. E. McClintock (Post-Doc. 1968), physicist
• Yi Fang Xiong (M.S. 2011), CEO of Ehang Technology
• Joe M. McCord (Ph.D. 1970), biochemist; discovered the enzyme superoxide dismutase
• Frank B. McDonald (B.S. 1948), astrophysicist; former chief scientist of NASA; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Michelle McMurry-Heath (M.D./Ph.D. 2000), doctor, immunologist, policymaker, and current CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
• Delano Meriwether (M.D. 1967), physician, head of the United States Government 1976 swine flu immunization program
• Tony Mills (A.B. 1982, M.D. 1986), physician specializing in the treatment of HIV and AIDS
• Radhe Mohan (Ph.D. 1969), medical physicist and radiation treatment safety pioneer
• Harold A. Mooney (Ph.D. 1960), former president of the Ecological Society of America; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Robert Morris (Ph.D. 1969), psychologist, Koestler professor at the University of Edinburgh
• Terry Myerson (B.S. 1992), head of Microsoft's operating systems engineering group
• Bert W. O'Malley (residency), distinguished professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Dana S. Nau (Ph.D. 1979), professor of computer science at the University of Maryland; fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Victoria Chibuogu Nneji (Ph.D. 2019), computer scientist, design and innovation strategist, and a lecturing fellow, known for her research on robotics and autonomous transportation.{{Cite web|title=The 10: These Black Women in Computer Science Are Changing the Face of Tech|url=https://www.theroot.com/the-10-these-black-women-in-computer-science-are-chang-1792811265|access-date=2021-03-01|website=The Root|date=March 17, 2017 |language=en-us}}
• George B. Pegram (B.A. 1895), conducted pioneering research on the behavior of neutrons and played a key role in the administration of the Manhattan Project
• Sheldon Pinnell (A.B.), dermatologist; lead scientist of SkinCeuticals
• Freda Porter (Ph.D. 1991), applied mathematician and environmental scientist known as one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in the mathematical sciences{{Cite web|title=They Believed They Could So They Did|work=ONR Distinguished Lecture Series|publisher=Office of Naval Research|url=https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Conference-Event-ONR/distinguished-lecture-series/distinguished-lecture-series-porter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412083950/https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Conference-Event-ONR/distinguished-lecture-series/distinguished-lecture-series-porter|archive-date=2020-04-12|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-10-27}}
• Daniel Colón-Ramos (Ph.D. 2003), Dorys McConnell Duberg Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine
• Thomas Reardon (M.S. 2010), inventor of Internet Explorer
• Walter Rudin (A.B. 1947, Ph.D. 1949), mathematician, recipient of the Leroy P. Steele Prize awarded by the American Mathematical Society
• Michael Ryschkewitsch (Ph.D. 1978), NASA Chief Engineer
• Alan R. Saltiel (A.B. 1975), director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan
• Arun Kumar Shukla (Post-Doc 2006-2011), professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, awarded the Infosys Prize
• Sir John Skehel (Post-Doc 1968–1971), British virologist
• Dylan Smith, co-founder and chief financial officer of Box
• Henry Yan (B.S.E. 2016), product manager at Facebook, CPO of Hub Blockchain
• William Kennedy Smith, founder of Physicians Against Land Mines
• Michael Tomasello (B.A. 1972), director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; professor at Duke University; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Joseph Travis (Ph.D. 1980), biologist; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; former president of the American Society of Naturalists
• Tom Truscott, co-creator of Usenet with Jim Ellis
• Luis von Ahn, inventor of CAPCHA and the Google image labeler; awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006
• Olaf von Ramm (Ph.D. 1973), first patent on a 3-D ultrasound, later developed the first electronically steered matrix-array 3-D ultrasound imager
• Ge Wang, creator of the ChucK programming language
• Lewis W. Wannamaker (M.D. 1946), biochemist; recipient of the Robert Koch Prize; member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
• R. Sanders Williams (M.D. 1974), president of Gladstone Institutes; professor of medicine at UCSF
• Blake S. Wilson (B.S.E.E 1974), co-developer of the cochlear implant; recipient of the 2013 Lasker Award for clinical research
• Melanie Wood (B.S. 2003), mathematician
• Ricardo J. Komotar (B.S. 1999), academic neurosurgeon
• John H. Gibbons (Ph.D. 1954), American scientist, nuclear physicist, and internationally recognized expert in technologies for energy efficiency and energy resource conservation
• Louis Pillemer, (B.S. 1932), immunologist; discoverer of properdin
• John H. Sampson (Ph.D. 1996, M.B.A. 2011), world-renowned neurosurgeon
• David Tab Rasmussen (Ph.D. 1986), paleontologist
• Brittany Wenger (B.S. 2017), winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012
• Anne D. Yoder (Ph.D. 1992), Braxton Craven Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Duke University

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• Ainehi Edoro (Ph.D. 2016), founder and editor of Brittle Paper
• Arthur Talmage Abernethy (A.M. 1891, Trinity College), journalist, theologian, minister, first North Carolina Poet Laureate
• Dorsey Armstrong (Ph.D. 1998), editor-in-chief of Arthuriana
• Douglas Brunt (A.B. 1993), novelist and entrepreneur
• John W. Campbell (B.S. 1932), science fiction writer
• Fred Chappell (A.B. 1961, A.M. 1964), North Carolina Poet Laureate, novelist
• Lucy Corin (A.B. 1992), novelist and short story writer; awarded Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Guy Davenport (B.A. 1948), author, Thasos and Ohio, National Review contributor
• G. William Domhoff (A.B. 1958), author of the controversial bestseller Who Rules America?
• David Drake (J.D. 1972), author of science fiction and fantasy literature
• Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author, television presenter, zookeeper
• Elizabeth A. Fenn (A.B. 1981), American historian, recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
• Ben Fountain (J.D. 1983), award-winning author of fiction
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.(Ph.D. 1979), American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker. 1981 MacArthur Fellow.
• Paul Goldberg (A.B. 1981), novelist, The Yid, and editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter
• Josephine Humphreys (A.B. 1967), novelist
• Mac Hyman (A.B. 1947), author of No Time for Sergeants
• Russell Kirk (A.M. 1941), author of The Conservative Mind
• Nathaniel Lande (B.A. 1956), author, filmmaker, and former creative director of Time magazine
• Peter Maas (A.B. 1949), author of novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico, later made into movies
• Dan Mallory (A.B. 2001), best-selling author of The Woman in the Window
• Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
• Lydia Millet (M.E.M. 1996), author of novels Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Everyone's Pretty
• Peggy Payne (1970), author, Sister India
• Noel Perrin (A.M., 1950), scholar, essayist, critic, professor at Dartmouth College
• Michael Peterson (A.B. 1965), author, politician, convicted of murdering his wife in 2003
• Reynolds Price (A.B 1955), author; James B. Duke professor of literature at Duke
• Lynn Veach Sadler, poet, author, and playwright
• Haun Saussy (A.B., 1981), university professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago; formerly at Stanford University, where he chaired the comparative literature department, and Yale University
• William Seale (Ph.D. 1965), American historian and author
• Frank G. Slaughter (B.A. 1926), novelist and physician
• Margaret Taylor Smith (A.B. 1947), author, social activist, chair of Kresge Foundation
• William C. Styron (A.B. 1947), author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice
• Anne Tyler (A.B. 1961), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer of short stories
• Haim Watzman (B.A. 1978), writer
• Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (MDiv), writer
• Richard Zimler (A.B. 1977), novelist, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon,The Warsaw Anagrams and The Gospel According to Lazarus (novel)

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• Michael Best (A.B. 1962), former principal artist of the Metropolitan Opera
• Les Brown (A.B. 1936), musician, Les Brown & The Band of Renown; Jazz Hall of Fame inductee, 1999
• Michael Ching (A.B. 1980), composer
• Bill Cunliffe (A.B. 1978), Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist{{cite news |title= Grammy Awards: List of Winners: Music |newspaper= The New York Times |quote= Instrumental Arrangement ... "West Side Story Medley," Bill Cunliffe |date= January 31, 2010 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/music/01grammylist.html |access-date= June 7, 2010}}
• SarahAnne Perel (B.A. 2020), ballerina
• Mike Posner (B.S. 2010), musician
• Tyler Rice (B.S. 2010), music producer, NBA and EA Sports
• William Stone (B.A., 1966), operatic baritone
• Oleg Timofeyev (Ph.D. 1999), musicologist

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• Jamal Harrison Bryant (MDiv), senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church

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• Ian Abrams, co-creator of the CBS TV series Early Edition, Undercover Blues, Rolling Thunder
• Andy Baldwin (B.S. 1999), The Bachelor, lieutenant, and doctor
• Jayne Brook (1982), actress, Chicago Hope{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayne-brook-769b83250|title=Jayne Brook Profile|publisher=LinkedIn|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Ryan Carnes (X. 2004), actor, Desperate Housewives, Eating Out{{cite web|url=https://www.fandango.com/people/ryan-carnes-106351|title=Ryan Carnes Biography|website=Fandango.com|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Bailey Chase (B.A. 1995), actor, Longmire{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2007/9/21/1245760.aspx|title=Roth: Saving Grace – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Jack Coleman (A.B. 1980), actor, Heroes, Dynasty, Days of Our Lives{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0171059/bio/|title=Jack Coleman Biography|website=m.imdb.com|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Robert L. Cook (B.S. 1973), Academy Award-winning software-programmer whose computer-graphics program, RenderMan, is used in many contemporary films
• Kara DioGuardi (A.B. 1993), songwriter for musicians including Carlos Santana, Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears, American Idol judge{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/look-her-now|title=Kara DioGuardi|website=dukemagazine|date=June 2010 |publisher=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=June 1, 2010}}
• Paul W. Downs (B.A. 2004), actor, Broad City, and co-creator of Hacks
• Lee McGeorge Durrell (Ph.D. 1979), author, television presenter, zookeeper
• René Echevarria (A.B. 1984), producer, The 4400, Dark Angel, Now and Again; screenwriter, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Ray Francis, modelClemens, Samuel. "Pageantry", Lulu Press. August 2022
• Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War photojournalist
• Annabeth Gish (A.B. 1992), actress, X-Files, The West Wing{{cite web|url=https://baldwinscholars.duke.edu/profile/annabeth-gish/|title=Annabeth Gish Profile – Duke Baldwin Scholars|website=Duke University Baldwin Scholars|access-date=January 8, 2024}}
• Kevin Gray (A.B. 1980), Broadway actor, Phantom on Broadway after Michael Crawford{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/remembering-alumnus-kevin-gray|title=Kevin Gray|website=dukemagazine|date=July 28, 2015 |publisher=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=July 28, 2015}}
• Emmett Grogan (attended), founder of the Diggers theatre
• Emma D. Miller (B.A. 2012), Documentary filmmaker
• John Gromada (A.B. 1986), Broadway composer and sound designer
• Jared Harris (B.F.A. 1984), Emmy-nominated actor, Mad Men, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• David Hudgins, television writer, Friday Night Lights
• Ken Jeong (B.S. 1990), comedian, physician, actor, Community, Knocked Up, Role Models, The Hangover films{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/ken-jeong-a-dukie-for-life/2011/05/21/AFPTIZ8G_blog.html|title=Ken Jeong: A Dukie for life|last=Chaney|first=Jen|date=May 21, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 23, 2020}}
• Eric Kirsten (A.B. 1991), screenwriter, Midnight Sun
• Belle Knox (B.A. 2016), pornographic actress{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2018/03/12/what-comes-next-for-the-duke-porn-star/|title=What comes next for Belle Knox?|last=Miller Rhett|first=Joshua|date=March 12, 2018|publisher=New York Post|access-date=June 9, 2020}}
• Cody Ko (A.B. 2012), YouTube personality and Computer Scientist{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomward/2019/05/30/cody-ko-is-the-most-interesting-youtuber-in-the-world/|title=Cody Ko Is The Most Interesting YouTuber In The World|last=Ward|first=Tim|date=May 30, 2019|work=Forbes|access-date=June 9, 2020}}
• Martin Kratt (B.S. 1989), creator and star of PBS's Zoboomafoo
• Rossana Lacayo (B.S. 1979), Nicaraguan photographer and pioneer filmmaker
• Alisa Lepselter (A.B. 1985), editor of director Woody Allen's films since 1999
• Keith Lucas (attended law school), Academy Award-nominated writer and producer of Judas and the Black Messiah
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford (J.D. 1913), folk musician
• Russell Marcus, TV producer of Married With Children; creator of Family Rules, Brandy & Mr Whiskers and Corn & Peg{{cite web|title=Russell Marcus|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-marcus-5103a034|website=Linkedin|access-date=November 17, 2019}}
• Cindy Marina, (transferred to USC), model television presenter, former volleyball player, Miss Universe Albania 2019{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster/cindy-marina/7536|title=Cindy Marina Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Tucker Max (J.D. 2001), author of the New York Times bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell; internet celebrity (TuckerMax.com)
• Ben Mulroney (A.B. 1997), host of Canadian Idol and eTalk Daily; son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
• Alexi Murdoch, singer-songwriter
• Stephanie (B.S. 2009) and Matthew Patrick (B.S. 2009), hosts of the webseries Game Theory on YouTube
• Ellary Porterfield (A.B. 2011), actress, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Sugar, Hidden Palms
• Mike Posner (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, Cooler Than Me, Please Don't Go
• Charles Randolph-Wright, director, writer, and producer
• Retta (B.S. 1992), stand-up comedian and actress, Parks and Recreation
• Monty Sarhan (J.D. 1999), CEO of SkyShowtime
• Teddy Schwarzman (J.D. 2006), Academy Award-nominated film producer, The Imitation Game; former corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Tre’ Scott (A.B. 2015), Tony Award-winning producer
• Rebecca Sealfon (Ph.D. 2009), internet celebrity and winner of 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee
• David H. Steinberg (J.D. 1993), screenwriter and film director; wrote screenplays for American Pie 2, Slackers, National Lampoon's Barely Legal, and American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
• Travis Lane Stork (B.S. 1994), reality star of ABC's Bachelor 8 and host of the Daytime Emmy Award winning daytime talk show, The Doctors (talk show)
• Mike Stud (A.B. 2010), singer, songwriter, A Toast to Tommy (2011), Relief (2013), Closer (2014), These Days (2016)
• Danya Taymor (A.B. 2010), Tony Award-winning theatre director
• Rita Volk (B.S. 2009), actress and model, known for her role as Amy Raudenfeld in the MTV hit romantic comedy series Faking It
• Randall Wallace (A.B. 1971), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Braveheart; also wrote screenplay for Pearl Harbor and wrote and directed The Man in the Iron Mask and We Were Soldiers
• Patrick Williams (A.B. 1961), Academy Award-nominated composer for movies and TV; Emmy and Grammy winner
• Robert Yeoman (A.B. 1973), Academy Award-nominated cinematographer, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, and The Grand Budapest Hotel

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• Dan Abrams (A.B. 1988), chief legal correspondent for ABC News, host of Verdict with Dan Abrams, former general manager of MSNBC{{cite web|url=https://dan-abrams.com/about-me/|title=Dan Abrams Biography|website=dan-abrams.com|date=February 25, 2020 |access-date=January 4, 2024}}
• Diana Butler Bass (Ph.D. 1991), columnist and author{{cite web|url=https://fsp.duke.edu/events/christianity-conversations-1-bass/|title=Contemporary Conversations In Christianity: Diana Butler Bass|website=Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University|access-date=January 4, 2024}}
• J. Bowyer Bell (doctorate 1959), historian, artist and art critic{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/author-who-had-a-unique-insight-into-the-thinking-of-republicans-1.373956|title=Author who had a unique insight into the thinking of republicans|date=September 6, 2003|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=January 4, 2024}}
• Dan Bernstein (A.B.), sports journalist, WSCR radio host{{cite web|url= http://wscr.cbslocal.com/dan-bernstein/|title= Dan Bernstein|access-date= April 4, 2009|archive-date= May 24, 2010|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100524152801/http://wscr.cbslocal.com/dan-bernstein/|url-status= dead}}
• John Carreyrou (A.B. 1994), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-carreyrou|title=John Carreyrou Biography – Investigative Reporter for New York Times Business Section|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Jessica Faye Carter (J.D. 2002, M.B.A. 2002), author, columnist, social media entrepreneur{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/author/jessica-faye-carter|title=Jessica Faye Carter|publisher=Business Insider|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Michelle Charlesworth (A.B. 1992), WABC-TV anchor and reporter{{cite web|url=https://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/michelle-charlesworth/|title=Michelle Charlesworth Biography|website=abc7ny.com|access-date=January 22, 2024}}
• Seth Davis (A.B. 1992), Sports Illustrated columnist and college basketball analyst for CBS Sports{{Cite web|url=https://www.viacomcbspressexpress.com/cbs-sports-network/shows/inside-college-basketball/bios?id=seth-davis|title=Seth Davis biography|work=CBS Sports|access-date=July 8, 2020|archive-date=July 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709021015/https://www.viacomcbspressexpress.com/cbs-sports-network/shows/inside-college-basketball/bios?id=seth-davis|url-status=dead}}
• Laila el-Haddad (A.B. 2000), Palestinian journalist
• Alex Epstein (A.B.), writer, founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress
• John Feinstein (A.B. 1977), sports journalist
• Clay Felker (A.B. 1951), Founding Editor of New York Magazine
• Edward L. Fike (class of 1941), journalist and publisher in California, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.
• Sean Flynn (X. 1963), actor and Vietnam War photojournalist
• Cornelia Grumman (B.S. 1985), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Kerry Hannon (A.B. 1982), best-selling author
• Nia-Malika Henderson (B.A.), journalist, senior political reporter for CNN{{Cite web|url=https://trinity.duke.edu/videos/a-conversation-with-nia-malika-henderson|title=A Conversation with CNN's Nia-Malika Henderson '96|website=trinity.duke.edu|publisher=Trinity College of Art's and Sciences|access-date=July 8, 2020|archive-date=July 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710160244/https://trinity.duke.edu/videos/a-conversation-with-nia-malika-henderson|url-status=dead}}
• Melissa Harris-Perry (M.A., Ph.D. 1999), author, television host and political commentator{{cite web|url=https://indyweek.com/news/two-years-dropped-msnbc-duke-alum-melissa-harris-perry-going-away/|title=Two years after being dropped by MSNBC, Duke Alum Melissa Harris-Perry Isn't Going Away|last=Kenney|first=Carl|date=August 22, 2018|website=IndyWeek.com|access-date=January 4, 2024}}
• David Hartman (A.B. 1956), first host of Good Morning America on ABC{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/20/arts/television-the-quiet-life-as-pursued-by-david-hartman.html|title=Television; The Quiet Life as Pursued by David Hartman|last=Rifkin|first=Glenn|date=August 20, 1995|website=The New York Times|access-date=January 8, 2024}}
• John Harwood (A.B. 1978), National Political Editor of The Wall Street Journal, frequent panelist on Washington Week{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/profiles/john-harwood|title=John Harwood – CNN Profiles|publisher=CNN|access-date=July 23, 2020}}
• Mangesh Hattikudur (A.B. 2001), co-founder of mental floss with Will Pearson
• Ben Jacobs (J.D.), political reporter for The Guardian
• Louis Isaac Jaffe, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Hugo Lindgren (A.B. 1990), editor of The New York Times Magazine
• Mark Mazzetti (A.B. 1996), The New York Times national security correspondent and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Scott McCartney (A.B. 1982), travel editor and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, author
• Sean McManus (A.B. 1977), president of CBS News and CBS Sports
• Susannah Meadows (A.B. 1995), senior writer for Newsweek
• Richard A. Oppel, Jr. (A.B. 1990), journalist, reported for The New York Times from Iraq, Israel and Washington, D.C.
• Will Pearson (A.B. 2001), co-founder of mental floss with Mangesh Hattikudur
• Windland Smith Rice (X. 1992), photographer, daughter of Frederick W. Smith, billionaire founder of FedEx
• Nabeel Qureshi (M.A.), Christian apologetic, author and speaker.
• Charlie Rose (A.B. 1964, J.D. 1968), journalist, former CBS News anchor, 60 Minutes contributor{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/21/i-am-by-nature-civil-the-rise-of-charlie-rose/?outputType=amp|title=Charlie Rose: The rise and plummet of a man who preached 'character and integrity'|last=Swenson|first=Kyle|date=November 21, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=June 9, 2020}}
• Jim Rosenfield (A.B. 1981), WCBS-TV anchor
• Michael Ruhlman (A.B. 1985), nonfiction author
• Scott Savitt (A.B. 1985), author of Crashing the Party, recognized expert on China
• John Seigenthaler, Jr. (B.S. 1978), Al Jazeera America news anchor, formerly at NBC News and MSNBC
• A. M. Secrest (A.B. 1944, M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), journalist and Nieman Fellow
• Elizabeth Spiers (A.B. 1999), founding editor of Gawker.com{{cite web|url=https://hart.sanford.duke.edu/story/elizabeth-spiers/|title=Elizabeth Spiers – Duke Hart Leadership Program|website=Sanford School of Public Policy|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 22, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reckon.news/podcast/2021/04/elizabeth-spiers-on-her-southern-roots-the-bubble-and-the-future-of-media.html|title=Elizabeth Spiers on her Southern roots, the 'Bubble' and the future of media|last=Hammontree|first=John|date=April 16, 2021|website=reckon.news|access-date=January 22, 2024}}
• Susan Tifft (A.B. 1973), writer and editor for Time magazine; professor at Sanford School of Public Policy{{Cite news|url=https://today.duke.edu/2010/04/tifft.html|title=Popular Professor, Journalist Susan Tifft Passes Away Thursday|date=April 1, 2010|newspaper=Duke Today|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 23, 2020}}
• Kelly Tilghman (A.B. 1991), broadcaster for The Golf Channel; the PGA Tour's first female lead golf announcer{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/kelly-tilghman/18264|title=Kelly Tilghman – 1990-91 Women's Golf – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Jim Toomey (B.S.E. 1983), syndicated cartoonist of Sherman's Lagoon{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/forever-duke-qa-jim-toomey|title=Forever Duke Q&A: Jim Toomey|last=Holder|first=Christina|date=May 1, 2015|website=dukemagazine|publisher=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=August 1, 2020}}
• Judy Woodruff (A.B. 1968), NBC's White House correspondent and Washington correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, anchor at CNN{{Cite web|url=https://polisci.duke.edu/alumni/judy-woodruff|title=Judy Woodruff|website=duke.edu|publisher=Duke University Department of Political Science|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• JJ Ramberg (A.B. 1992), host of MSNBC's weekend business program Your Business{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2016/11/goodshop-founder-jj-ramberg-%E2%80%9892-entrepreneurship-takes-right-attitude|title=Goodshop Founder JJ Ramberg '92: Entrepreneurship Takes the Right Attitude|publisher=Duke University|access-date=November 18, 2016}}
• Barry Svrluga (A.B. 1993), national baseball writer for The Washington Post
• Craig Whitlock (A.B. 1990), writer for The Washington Post and author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/craig-whitlock/|title=Craig Whitlock Biography|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 22, 2024}}

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• Sally Dalton Robinson, philanthropist and board member of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation{{cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/alumni-love-affair-duke|title=Alumni Love Affair with Duke|date=October 1, 2006|website=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=January 22, 2024}}

:See also men's basketball players, women's basketball players, and football players.

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• Lou Allen, former professional football player{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AlleLo20.htm|title=Lou Allen|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Jackson Anderson, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/jackson-anderson/9778|title=Jackson Anderson – 2012 Football Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Troy Andrew, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AndrTr20.htm|title=Troy Andrew|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Kenny Anunike, former NFL player, current defense line coach for Fordham Rams{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/kenny-anunike/9889|title=Kenny Anunike – 2013 Football Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Bill Bailey, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BailBi20.htm|title=Bill Bailey|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Patrick Bailey, NFL linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BailPa99.htm|title=Patrick Bailey|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Brian Baldinger (1982), former National Football League offensive lineman; commentator for Fox{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BaldBr20.htm|title=Brian Baldinger|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Graham Barton, NFL player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/graham-barton/19201|title=Graham Barton – 2023 – Football – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Tony Benjamin, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BenjTo00.htm|title=Tony Benjamin|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Ben Bennett, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/ben-bennett/23|title=Ben Bennett (2011) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Josh Blackwell, NFL player for Chicago Bears{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/josh-blackwell/17130|title=Josh Blackwell – 2021 Football Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 22, 2025}}
• Al Blades Jr., NFL player, current free agent{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/al-blades-jr/19298|title=Al Blades Jr. – 2023 – Football – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Issac Blakeney, former NFL player
• Lamar Blount, former NFL player
• Jake Bobo, NFL player for Seattle Seahawks
• Anthony Boone, former professional football player
• Breon Borders, former NFL player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/breon-borders/10220|title=Breon Borders – 2016 – Football – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Chase Brice, professional football player (transferred to Appalachian State){{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/chase-brice/16288|title=Chase Brice Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• Dave Brown (1991), ten seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants and Arizona Cardinals{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowDa00.htm|title=Dave Brown|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Charles Bowser (1982), NFL linebacker, 4th round draft pick{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BowsCh20.htm|title=Charles Bowser|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Jalon Calhoun, CFL player for the Edmonton Elks
• DeWayne Carter, NFL player for Buffalo Bills
• Michael Carter II, NFL player for New York Jets
• Chris Castor, former NFL player
• Wes Chesson, former NFL player
• Takoby Cofield, former professional football player
• Chris Combs, former NFL player
• Bill Cox, former NFL player
• Fred Crawford, former NFL player
• Randy Cuthbert, former NFL player
• Wray Carlton (1965), American Football League all star, Buffalo Bills fullback and all-time leading rusher from the AFL years{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CarlWr00.htm|title=Wray Carlton|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Jeremy Cash (2016), NFL linebacker, All-American defensive back{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CashJe00.htm|title=Jeremy Cash|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}
• Ross Cockrell (2014), NFL cornerback, New York Giants{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CockRo00.htm|title=Ross Cockrell|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}
• Jamison Crowder (2014), NFL wide receiver, Washington Redskins{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CrowJa00.htm|title=Jamison Crowder|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/jamison-crowder/10026|title=Jamison Crowder – 2014 Football Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Mike Curtis, NFL All Pro linebacker with the Baltimore Colts; Super Bowl V champion{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CurtMi00.htm|title=Mike Curtis|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Al DeRogatis (1948), Pro Bowl tackle for the New York Giants; later lead analyst for the NFL on NBC{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DeRoAl00.htm|title=Al DeRogatis|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Anthony Dilweg (1989), former NFL quarterback, enjoyed brief success with the Green Bay Packers{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DilwAn00.htm|title=Anthony Dilweg|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Dave Dunaway, NFL wide receiver{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DunaDa20.htm|title=Dave Dunaway|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Matt Daniels, former NFL player
• Evan Deckers, NFL player for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Victor Dimukeje, NFL player for Arizona Cardinals
• Jim Duncan, former NFL player
• Mataeo Durant, professional football player
• Blaine Earon, former NFL player
• George Edwards, NFL assistant coach
• Jeff Faris, head coach at Austin Peay State University
• Ray Farmer, scouting consultant for Los Angeles Rams
• John Farquhar, former NFL player
• Ryan Fowler, NFL linebacker, New York Jets{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FowlRy20.htm|title=Ryan Fowler|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Lennie Friedman NFL offensive lineman, 2nd round draft pick{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FrieLe20.htm|title=Lennie Friedman|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Mark Gilbert, professional football player
• Joe Giles-Harris, NFL player for Jacksonville Jaguars
• Keith Gill, commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference
• Scotty Glacken, former NFL player
• Billy Granville, former NFL player
• Noah Gray, NFL player for Kansas City Chiefs
• Bob Grupp, former NFL player
• Buzz Guy, former NFL player
• Thomas Hennessy, NFL long snapper{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HennTh00.htm|title=Thomas Hennessy|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Cedric Jones, NFL wide receiver{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JoneCe00.htm|title=Cedric Jones|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Daniel Jones, (Class of 2018), No.6 overall pick in 2019 NFL draft, NFL Quarterback for Indianapolis Colts{{Cite news|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JoneDa05.htm|title=Daniel Jones|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/daniel-jones/10471|title=Daniel Jones – 2018 Football Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 20, 2025}}
• Sonny Jurgensen, Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JurgSo00.htm|title=Sonny Jurgensen|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Kevin Lewis, NFL linebacker{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LewiKe23.htm|title=Kevin Lewis|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Thaddeus Lewis (2012), NFL quarterback{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LewiTh01.htm|title=Thaddeus Lewis|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Patrick Mannelly, NFL long snapper{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MannPa20.htm|title=Patrick Mannelly|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• George McAfee, Hall of Fame halfback who played for the Chicago Bears{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McAfGe20.htm|title=George McAfee|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Max McCaffrey (2016), NFL wide receiver, San Francisco 49ers{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCaMa01.htm|title=Max McCaffrey|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|access-date=August 4, 2024}}
• Scottie Montgomery, Arena Football League wide receiver/defensive back{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/scottie-montgomery/1330|title=Scottie Montgomery – Assistant Coach/Wide Receivers – Football – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 21, 2025}}
• Ed Newman (1973), NFL offensive guard; 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins; Super Bowl VIII champion{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/N/NewmEd00.htm|title=Ed Newman|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Ayanga Okpokowuruk, football player
• Clarence "Ace" Parker, Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Yanks, and New York Yankees{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/P/ParkAc20.htm|title=Ace Parker|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Lucas Patrick (2016), American football, guard, Green Bay Packers
• Tommy Prothro, former head coach of the Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers
• Tawambi Settles, player of gridiron football
• Drew Strojny, NFL football offensive tackle
• Laken Tomlinson, NFL offensive guard, San Francisco 49ers; 1st round draft pick{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TomlLa01.htm|title=Laken Tomlinson|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}
• Benjamin Watson (transferred to Georgia), former NFL tight end{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WatsBe00.htm|title=Ben Watson|publisher=Pro-Football-Refrerence.com|access-date=January 4, 2024}}

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{{columns-list|

• Wayne Ambler, Major League Baseball (MLB) player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/amblewa01.shtml|title=Wayne Ambler|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=September 26, 2023}}
• Bob Brower, former MLB player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/browebo01.shtml|title=Bob Brower|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=September 26, 2023}}
• Chris Capuano (2000), former MLB player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/capuach01.shtml|title=Chris Capuano|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=September 26, 2023}}
• Claude Corbitt, former MLB player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/corbicl01.shtml|title=Claude Corbitt|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=September 26, 2023}}
• Lawrence "Crash" Davis, former MLB player (see also Bull Durham)
• Nate Freiman, (B.A. 2009) former MLB player{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/freimna01.shtml|title=Nate Freiman|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/nate-freiman/5125|title=Nate Freiman Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Bryce Jarvis (attended three years), MLB player for Arizona Diamondbacks{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=jarvis000bry|title=Bryce Jarvis|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 13, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/bryce-jarvis/15652|title=Bryce Jarvis Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Ryan Jackson, former MLB player{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksry01.shtml|title=Ryan Jackson|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/hall-of-fame/ryan-jackson/6|title=Ryan Jackson (2018) Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Kenny Koplove, former professional baseball player; played internationally for Israel{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/philadelphia-phillies/how-are-members-phillies-doing-world-baseball-classic|title=How Are Members of the Phillies Doing in the World Baseball Classic?|website=nbcsports.com|date=March 17, 2017 |publisher=NBC|access-date=April 13, 2022}}
• Jake Lemmerman, former professional baseball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/jake-lemmerman/5159|title=Jake Lemmerman Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Joey Loperfido, MLB player for Houston Astros{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/joey-loperfido/16661|title=Joey Liperfido Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=loperf000joe|title=Joey Loperfido Stats|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Bill McCahan, former MLB player
• Matt Mervis, MLB player for Chicago Cubs{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mervis000mat|title=Matt Mervis|website=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=September 26, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/matt-mervis/15659|title=Matt Mervis Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Ned Martin, former play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ned-martin/|title=Ned Martin Biography|website=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Quinton McCracken, former MLB player{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccraqu01.shtml|title=Quinton McCracken|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Dan Otero, former MLB pitcher{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oteroda01.shtml|title=Dan Otero|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Scott Schoeneweis, former MLB pitcher, member of the 2002 World Series Champion Anaheim Angels{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schoesc01.shtml|title=Scott Schoeneweis|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Al Spangler, former MLB player
• Graeme Stinson, professional baseball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/graeme-stinson/5476|title=Greame Stinson|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=August 25, 2019}}
• Marcus Stroman, MLB pitcher, Chicago Cubs{{Cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stromma01.shtml|title=Marcus Stroman|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2015}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/baseball/roster/marcus-stroman/5229|title=Marcus Stroman Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Eric Tipton, former MLB player{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tiptoer01.shtml|title=Eric Tipton|publisher=Baseball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Mike Trombley, former MLB pitcher
• Hal Wagner, former MLB player

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• Alaa Abdelnaby (1990), former professional basketball player, college basketball analyst{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/abdelal01.html|title=Alaa Abdelnaby|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Mark Alarie (1986), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/alarima01.html|title=Mark Alarie|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame?hof=45|title=Mark Alarie (1999) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 17, 2024}}
• Grayson Allen (2018), No. 21 pick of the 2018 NBA draft, professional basketball player, Phoenix Suns{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/allengr01.html|title=Grayson Allen|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/grayson-allen/4426|title=Grayson Allen Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Tommy Amaker (1987), Harvard University head basketball coach{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2005/12/14/220666.aspx|title=Tommy Amaker|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Tate Armstrong (1977), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/armstta01.html|title=Tate Armstrong|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• William Avery (2023), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/averywi01.html|title=William Avery|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://247sports.com/college/duke/Article/1999-point-guard-william-avery-will-return-to-Duke-to-pursue-the-completion-of-his-undergraduate-degree-134887338/|title=Former Blue Devil William Avery returning to Duke|access-date=August 29, 2019}}
• Gene Banks (B.A. 1981), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/banksge01.html|title=Gene Banks|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Bob Bender (1980), former professional basketball coach{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1998/03/18/for-bender-just-like-old-times/9791405e-2a91-4f9e-b2d3-8553c72f0753/|title=For Bender, Just Like Old Times|last=Scherr|first=Rich|date=March 18, 1998|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Eric Boateng (transferred to Arizona State), former professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/eric-boateng/4264|title=Eric Boateng Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Jamal Boykin (transferred to California), former professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jamal-boykin/4265|title=Jamal Boykin Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Joe Belmont, former professional basketball player and coach{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/belmojo01.html|title=Joe Belmont|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Tony Barone (1971), former basketball coach and scout{{cite web|url=https://www.dukebasketballreport.com/2019/6/26/18759366/former-blue-devil-tony-barone-dies-duke-basketball-bubas-era|title=Former Blue Devil Tony Barone Dies|last=King|first=JD|date=June 26, 2019|website=Duke Basketball Report|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Kenny Blakeney (1995), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/12/duke-basketball-kenny-blakeney-howard-mako-medical-duke-classic-makur-maker-the-shot|title=Howard head coach, former Duke captain Kenny Blakeney discusses MTE, Makur Maker, The Shot and more|last=Kolin|first=Kevin|date=December 4, 2020|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=January 31, 2021}}
• Marvin Bagley III, professional basketball player, No. 2 pick of the 2018 NBA draft, NBA player for Washington Wizards{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/baglema01.html|title=Marvin Bagley III|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/marvin-bagley-iii/4427|title=Marvin Bagley III Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Alison Bales (2007), former professional player (WNBA){{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/alison-bales/2452|title=Alison Bales Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• RJ Barrett, No.3 overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft, NBA player for Toronto Raptors{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/barrerj01.html|title=RJ Barrett|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 23, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/rj-barrett/4441|title=RJ Barrett Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Lexie Brown (2018), WNBA player for the Los Angeles Sparks{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/wnba/players/b/brownle02w.html|title=Lexie Brown|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=July 2, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/lexie-brown/2587|title=Lexie Brown Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Paolo Banchero, NBA player for Orlando Magic{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/banchpa01.html|title=Paolo Banchero|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=January 2, 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/paolo-banchero/17230|title=Paolo Banchero Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Joey Baker (2022), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/joey-baker/17223|title=Joey Baker Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://balldurham.com/2022/07/06/duke-basketball-joey-baker-finished/|title=Duke Basketball: Joey Baker officially finished with Blue Devil career|last=Connelly|first=Kevin|date=July 6, 2022|website=Ball Durham|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Marques Bolden (attended three years), professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=211021390&DB_OEM_ID=4200&Q_SEASON=2018|title=Marques Bolden Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 23, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/boldema01.html|title=Marques Bolden|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Shane Battier (2001), former professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/battish01.html|title=Shane Battier|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/hall-of-fame/shane-battier/9|title=Shane Battier (2016) – Hall of Fame – Duke Athletics|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Alana Beard (2004), former professional basketball player in the WNBA{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/wnba/players/b/beardal01w.html|title=Alana Beard|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2020/1/24/former-duke-great-alana-beard-retires.aspx|title=Former Duke Great Alana Beard Retires|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 24, 2020}}
• Jay Bilas (A.B. 1986, J.D. 1992), ESPN sports commentator{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/86ers|title=Jay Bilas|last=Sumner|first=Jim|date=January 31, 2006|publisher=Duke Magazine|access-date=July 5, 2020}}
• Carlos Boozer (B.A. 2020), former professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/boozeca01.html|title=Carlos Boozer|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/hall-of-fame/carlos-boozer/150|title=Carlos Boozer (2022) – Duke Sports Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 17, 2024}}
• Elton Brand (attended two years), former professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brandel01.html|title=Elton Brand|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame?hof=1|title=Elton Brand (2018) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 17, 2024}}
• Henry Cole (1921), former basketball player and coach
• Seth Curry (2013), NBA Player for Charlotte Hornets{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryse01.html|title=Seth Curry|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=December 26, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/seth-curry/4362|title=Seth Curry Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 16, 2024}}
• Jeff Capel (1997), men's basketball assistant coach, former head coach at the University of Oklahoma{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/jeff-capel/627|title=Jeff Capel Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Chris Carrawell (2000), former professional basketball player, current assistant coach for Duke Blue Devils men's basketball{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/chris-carrawell/4621|title=Chris Carrawell Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Chris Collins (1996), men's basketball associate head coach{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/staff-directory/chris-collins/162|title=Chris Collins Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Vernon Carey Jr., NBA player for Charlotte Hornets{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/careyve01.html|title=Vernon Carey Jr.|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=June 7, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/vernon-carey-jr-/11771|title=Vernon Carey Jr Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Wendell Carter Jr., No. 7 pick of the 2018 NBA draft, NBA player for Orlando Magic{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/cartewe01.html|title=Wendell Carter Jr.|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/wendell-carter/4431|title=Wendell Carter Jr Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Quinn Cook (2015), NBA player, for Los Angeles Lakers{{Cite news|url= https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/cookqu01.html|title=Quinn Cook|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 19, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/quinn-cook/4388|title=Quinn Cook Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Andre Dawkins (2014), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dawkian01.html|title=Andre Dawkins|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Brian Davis (1992), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/hoop-profiles-brian-davis|title=Brian Davis|website=dukemagazine|date=March 31, 2002 |publisher=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=July 18, 2020}}
• Johnny Dawkins (1986), University of Central Florida head basketball coach, former Duke associate head basketball coach and former professional basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dawkijo01.html|title=Johnny Dawkins|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/johnny-dawkins/52|title=Johnny Dawkins (1996) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Javin DeLaurier (2020), professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/javin-delaurier/11772|title=Javin DeLaurier Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 2, 2020}}
• Sean Dockery (2006), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/sean-dockery/4268|title=Sean Dockery Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Kenny Dennard (1981), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dennake01.html|title=Kenny Dennard|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://dukereport.com/alumni/kenny-dennard-playing-jagged-edge-sfortosis/|title=Kenny Dennard: Playing on the Jagged Edge|last=Fortosis|first=Steve|date=August 21, 2014|website=Dukereport.com|access-date=August 21, 2014|archive-date=July 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713140522/http://dukereport.com/alumni/kenny-dennard-playing-jagged-edge-sfortosis/|url-status=dead}}
• Randy Denton (1971), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dentora01.html|title=Randy Denton|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Luol Deng, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/denglu01.html|title=Luol Deng|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Charles "Lefty" Driesell, former college basketball coach (Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, Georgia State)
• Chris Duhon (2004), former professional basketball player; assistant coach for Marshall University{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/duhonch01.html|title=Chris Duhon|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Trevon Duval, professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/duvaltr01.html|title=Trevon Duval|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=July 5, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/trevon-duval/4433|title=Trevon Duval Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Mike Dunleavy Jr. (attended three years), former professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dunlemi02.html|title=Mike Dunleavy Jr|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Daniel Ewing (2005), professional basketball player, Maccabi Ashdod of the Israeli Premier League{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/e/ewingda01.html|title=Daniel Ewing|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Danny Ferry (1989), former Cleveland Cavaliers general manager, former professional basketball player, member of 2003 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/f/ferryda01.html|title=Danny Ferry|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame?hof=33|title=Danny Ferry (2004) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Kyle Filipowski (attended two years), NBA player for Utah Jazz{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kyle-filipowski/19445|title=Kyle Filipowski Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=July 23, 2024}}
• Pat Garrity (M.B.A. 2011), former professional basketball player and investment professional{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2015/01/22/former-magic-forward-pat-garrity-begins-an-nba-front-office-career-in-detroit/|title=Former Magic forward Pat Garrity begins an NBA Front office career in Detroit|last=Robbins|first=Josh|date=January 22, 2015|website=Orlando Sentinel|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Mike Gminski (1980), ACC/ Raycom sports commentator (jersey retired){{Cite news|url= https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gminsmi01.html|title=Mike Gminski|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/hall-of-fame/mike-gminski/53|title=Duke Sports Hall of Fame: Mike Gminski|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Harry Giles III, 20th pick of 2017 NBA draft, NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilesha01.html|title=Harry Giles|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 19, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/harry-giles/4414|title=Harry Giles Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Miela Goodchild (2022), professional basketball player for Perth Lynx{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/miela-goodchild/17239|title=Miela Goodchild Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2024}}
• Jacob Grandison (grad), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jacob-grandison/18365|title=Jacob Grandison Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Jordan Goldwire (2021), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jordan-goldwire/16337|title=Jordan Goldwire Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Chelsea Gray (2014), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/chelsea-gray/2537|title=Chelsea Gray Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Haley Gorecki (2019), professional basketball player (WNBA){{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/haley-gorecki/11762|title=Haley Gorecki Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=July 23, 2020}}
• AJ Griffin, NBA player for Atlanta Hawks{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/aj-griffin/17231|title=AJ Griffin Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Dick Groat, former professional baseball and basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite web|url= https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/groatdi01.html|title=Dick Groat|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Michael Gbinije (Transferred to Syracuse), professional basketball player, Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gbinimi01.html|title=Michael Gbinije|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=August 25, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Michael Gbinije |url=https://gleague.nba.com/player/michael-gbinije/ |website=NBA G League |access-date=4 April 2022}}
• Lindsey Harding (2007), professional basketball player, Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA (jersey retired){{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/lindsey-harding/2456|title=Lindsey Harding|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Dave Henderson (1986), 1991 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2013/1/17/205990384.aspx|title=Blue Devil Vault: David Henderson|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=January 17, 2013}}
• Gerald Henderson Jr. (attended three years), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hendege02.html|title=Gerald Henderson|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Phil Henderson (1990), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2013/2/18/206463381.aspx|title=Duke Mourns the loss of Phil Henderson|date=February 18, 2013|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Art Heyman (1963), former professional basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/heymaar01.html|title=Art Heyman|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Grant Hill (B.A. 1994), former professional basketball player, member of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (jersey retired){{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hillgr01.html|title=Grant Hill|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/grant-hill/12|title=Grant Hill (2016) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 20, 2024}}
• Matthew Hurt (attended two years), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/matthew-hurt/16338|title=Matthew Hurt Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=October 23, 2021}}
• Rodney Hood, NBA player for the Los Angeles Clippers{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hoodro01.html|title=Rodney Hood|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/rodney-hood/4377|title=Rodney Hood Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Nick Horvath (2004), West Sydney Razorbacks professional basketball player
• Bobby Hurley (1993), former professional basketball player (jersey retired), head coach at Arizona State{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hurlebo01.html|title=Bobby Hurley|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame?hof=25|title=Bobby Hurley (2011) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 17, 2024}}
• Brandon Ingram, NBA player for New Orleans Pelicans, No. 2 pick in the 2016 NBA draft{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/i/ingrabr01.html|title=Brandon Ingram|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=July 2, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/brandon-ingram/4400|title=Brandon Ingram Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Kyrie Irving, professional basketball player, Dallas Mavericks; No. 1 pick in the 2011 NBA draft; 2011–2012 NBA Rookie of the Year, 2016 NBA Champion{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/i/irvinky01.html|title=Kyrie Irving|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/kyrie-irving/4338|title=Kyrie Irving Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Frank Jackson, NBA player for Detroit Pistons{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jacksfr01.html|title=Frank Jackson|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 23, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/frank-jackson/4415|title=Frank Jackson Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Nate James (2001), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/nate-james/3969|title=Nate James Bio – Duke University|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=July 26, 2020}}
• Amile Jefferson (2016), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jeffeam01.html|title=Amile Jefferson|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/amile-jefferson/4416|title=Amile Jefferson Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Chase Jeter (attended two years; transferred to Arizona), basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/chase-jeter/4417|title=Chase Jeter Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 1, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2699627-chase-jeter-to-transfer-from-duke-after-sophomore-season|title=Chase Jeter to Transfer from Duke After Sophomore Season|date=March 23, 2017|last=Wells|first=Adam|website=Bleacher Report|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Dahntay Jones (2003), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jonesda02.html|title=Dahntay Jones|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/dahntay-jones/11549|title=Dahntay Jones Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 20, 2024}}
• Jalen Johnson, NBA player for the Atlanta Hawks{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/johnsja05.html|title=Jalen Johnson|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=October 23, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jalen-johnson/16343|title=Jalen Johnson Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Matt Jones (2017), professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209273483&DB_OEM_ID=4200&Q_SEASON=2016|title=Matt Jones Bio – Duke University|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 13, 2019}}
• Tre Jones (attended two years), NBA player for San Antonio Spurs{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jonestr01.html|title=Tre Jones|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=June 22, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/tre-jones/11775|title=Tre Jones Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=August 5, 2024}}
• Tyus Jones, NBA player for Washington Wizards{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jonesty01.html|title=Tyus Jones|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Billy King, former president and general manager of the Brooklyn Nets{{cite web |title=Billy King NBA & ABA Basketball Executive Record |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/executives/kingbi99x.html |website=Basketball-Reference.com |access-date=4 April 2022 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2014/10/dkubball|title=Billy King|website=DukeToday|date=October 13, 2014 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=October 13, 2014}}
• Ed Koffenberger, played both basketball and tennis at Duke, Duke's first two-sport athlete{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/hall-of-fame/ed-koffenberger/95|title=Duke Sports Hall of Fame: Ed Koffenberger|website=GoDuke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Greg Koubek (1991), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://dukereport.com/alumni/greg-koubek-fight-minutes-sfortosis/|title=Greg Koubek: The Fight for Minutes|last=Fortosis|first=Steve|date=June 20, 2014|website=DukeReport.com|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-date=August 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814001229/https://dukereport.com/alumni/greg-koubek-fight-minutes-sfortosis/|url-status=dead}}
• Doug Kistler, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kistldo01.html|title=Doug Kistler|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Ryan Kelly (2013), professional basketball player, Sun Rockers Shibuya of the B.League{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kellyry01.html|title=Ryan Kelly|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=March 6, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ryan-kelly/4367|title=Ryan Kelly Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Joe Kennedy, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kennejo01.html|title=Joe Kennedy|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Luke Kennard (attended two years), NBA player for the Memphis Grizzlies{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kennalu01.html|title=Luke Kennard|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/luke-kennard/4419|title=Luke Kennard Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Trevor Keels, NBA player for New York Knicks{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/trevor-keels/17232|title=Trevor Keels Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Antonio Lang (1994), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/langan02.html|title=Antonio Lang|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Christian Laettner (1992), former professional basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/laettch01.html|title=Christian Laettner|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Dereck Lively II, NBA player for Dallas Mavericks{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=18359|title=Dereck Lively II Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Tricia Liston (2014), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/tricia-liston/2543|title=Tricia Liston Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Trajan Langdon (1999), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/langdtr01.html|title=Trajan Langdon|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Alex Murphy, professional basketball player in the LEB Oro league{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/alex-murphy/4368|title=Alex Murphy Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2024}}
• Corey Maggette, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maggeco01.html|title=Corey Maggette|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• David McClure (2009), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/david-mcclure/4311|title=David McClure|website=GoDuke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=August 23, 2021}}
• Josh McRoberts, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mcrobjo01.html|title=Josh McRoberts|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/josh-mcroberts/4284|title=Josh McRoberts Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 20, 2024}}
• Jared McCain, NBA player for Philadelphia 76ers{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jared-mccain/19455|title=Jared McCain Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=July 23, 2024}}
• Jeff Mullins, professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors and head basketball coach at UNC Charlotte (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mullije01.html|title=Jeff Mullins|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Gary Melchionni, former professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/melchga01.html|title=Gary Melchionni|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=January 19, 2024}}
• Lee Melchionni (2006), former professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/lee-melchionni/4272|title=Lee Melchionni Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Wendell Moore Jr. (attended three years), NBA player for Minnesota Timberwolves{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/wendell-moore-jr-/17225|title=Wendell Moore Jr Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/moorewe01.html|title=Wendell Moore Jr|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• DeMarcus Nelson, professional basketball player, Panathinaikos in Greece{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/demarcus-nelson/4299|title=DeMarcus Nelson|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Greg Newton (1997), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/greg-newton/13314|title=Greg Newton|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 12, 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://greensboro.com/blue-devils-greg-newton-is-academically-ineligible/article_4431e3ae-ab71-5f33-922c-1e8a9f39ff1f.html|title=Blue Devils' Greg Newton Is Academically Ineligible|date=March 3, 1995|publisher=Greensboro News & Record|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Martin Nessley, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/nesslma01.html|title=Martin Nessley|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Alex O'Connell (attended three years; transferred to Creighton), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/alex-o-connell/11777|title=Alex O'Connell Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 5, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://247sports.com/college/duke/article/alex-oconnell-duke-blue-devils-basketball-transfer-145262916/|title=Alex O'Connell transferring from Duke|last=Rowe|first=Adam|date=March 21, 2020|website=The Devil's Den|publisher=247 Sports|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Leaonna Odom (2020), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/leaonna-odom/11765|title=Leaonna Odom Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• Jahlil Okafor, No. 3 of the 2015 NBA draft, professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/okafoja01.html|title=Jahlil Okafor|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jahlil-okafor/4394|title=Jahlil Okafor Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Semi Ojeleye (transferred to SMU), professional basketball player for Valencia Basket{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/semi-ojeleye/4380|title=Semi Ojeleye Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2024}}
• Cherokee Parks, former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parksch02.html|title=Cherokee Parks|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Jabari Parker, professional basketball player, Boston Celtics; No. 2 of the 2014 NBA draft{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parkeja01.html|title=Jabari Parker|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jabari-parker/4382|title=Jabari Parker Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Marshall Plumlee (2016), former basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/plumlma02.html|title=Marshall Plumlee|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/marshall-plumlee/4407|title=Marshall Plumlee Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 20, 2024}}
• Mason Plumlee (2013), professional basketball player, Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/plumlma01.html|title=Mason Plumlee|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/mason-plumlee/4370|title=Mason Plumlee Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Miles Plumlee (2012), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/plumlmi01.html|title=Miles Plumlee|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/miles-plumlee/4357|title=Miles Plumlee Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Haley Peters, professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2018/9/10/211770951.aspx|title=Catching up with former Blue Devil Haley Peters|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=September 10, 2018}}
• Shavlik Randolph, former professional basketball player {{cite web |title=Shavlik Randolph Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/randosh01.html |website=Basketball-Reference.com |access-date=4 April 2022 |language=en}}
• Sofía Roma (2018), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/sofia-roma/2607|title=Sofia Roma Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• JJ Redick (A.B. 2006), NCAA's all-time leader in three-point field goals, former professional basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/redicjj01.html|title=JJ Redick|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/j-j--redick/4278|title=JJ Redick Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Austin Rivers, professional basketball player, last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/riverau01.html|title=Austin Rivers|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/austin-rivers/4358|title=Austin Rivers Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Cam Reddish, No.8 pick in the 2019 NBA draft, NBA player for Los Angeles Lakers{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/reddica01.html|title=Cam Reddish|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/cam-reddish/4449|title=Cam Reddish Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Justin Robinson (2020), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/justin-robinson/11778|title=Justin Robinson Bio – Duke University|website=GoDuke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=August 7, 2020}}
• Ángela Salvadores, professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/angela-salvadores/2569|title=Angela Salvadores Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=June 5, 2024}}
• DJ Steward, professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/dj-steward/16344|title=DJ Steward Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=October 23, 2021}}
• Jon Scheyer,(Class of 2010) American-Israeli McDonald's All American, All-American basketball player for national champion 2009–10 Duke basketball team,{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/sports/basketball/scheyer-plays-in-israel-while-still-hoping-to-play-in-nba.html | title=Experience in Israel Fuels Scheyer's N.B.A. Hopes| newspaper=The New York Times| date=2012-03-24| last1=Strauss| first1=Ben}} current Duke men's basketball coach
• Adam Silver (1984), commissioner and chief operating officer of the NBA{{Cite news|url=https://today.duke.edu/2023/05/adam-silver-lesson-graduates-secret-game|title=Adam Silver: Lesson for Graduates from 'The Secret Game'|website=Duke Today|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Cassius Stanley, NBA player for Indiana Pacers{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/stanlca01.html|title=Cassius Stanley|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=June 7, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/cassius-stanley/11780|title=Cassius Stanley Bio – 2019-20 Men's Basketball Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=May 26, 2024}}
• Kyle Singler (2011), former professional basketball player{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/singlky01.html|title=Kyle Singler|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Nolan Smith (2011), 2010 national champion, current Duke men's basketball assistant coach{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithno01.html|title=Nolan Smith|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Quin Snyder (B.A. 1989, J.D., M.B.A. 1995), former University of Missouri head coach; former Austin Toros of the NBDL head coach; head coach of the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/snydequ01c.html|title=Quinn Snyder|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=January 21, 2024}}
• Rasheed Sulaimon (attended three years; transferred to Maryland), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/rasheed-sulaimon/4384|title=Rasheed Sulaimon|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 7, 2017}}
• Jim Spanarkel, former professional basketball player, NBA and college basketball commentator{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/spanaji01.html|title=Jim Spanarkel|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Jayson Tatum, NBA player for the Boston Celtics, #3 overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/tatumja01.html|title=Jayson Tatum|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=June 9, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jayson-tatum/4423|title=Jayson Tatum Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Jordan Tucker (transferred to Butler), professional basketball player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2017/12/31/211691056.aspx|title=Jordan Tucker to Transfer from Duke|date=December 31, 2017|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=December 29, 2023}}
• Gary Trent Jr., NBA player for the Toronto Raptors{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/trentga02.html|title=Gary Trent Jr|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/gary-trent/4437|title=Gary Trent Jr Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Derryck Thornton (transferred to USC), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://dukereport.com/duke-basketball/what-went-wrong-with-derryck-thornton-duke-daldridge/|title=What went wrong with Derryck Thornton & Duke?|last=Aldridge|first=David|date=April 14, 2016|website=Dukereport.com|access-date=August 23, 2021|archive-date=August 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823200539/https://dukereport.com/duke-basketball/what-went-wrong-with-derryck-thornton-duke-daldridge/|url-status=dead}}
• Tyler Thornton (2014), former professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/tyler-thornton/4385|title=Tyler Thornton Bio – Duke University|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 4, 2014}}
• Lance Thomas (2010), 2010 national champion (captain); 10th on Duke's all-time list of offensive rebounds; professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/thomala01.html|title=Lance Thomas|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}
• Michele Van Gorp, former professional basketball player (WNBA){{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/michele-van-gorp/349|title=Michelle Van Gorp Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Abby Waner, former professional basketball player (WNBA){{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/abby-waner/2486|website=goduke.com|title=Abby Waner|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Elizabeth Williams, professional basketball player (WNBA){{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/elizabeth-williams/2557|title=Elizabeth Williams|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 6, 2015}}
• Mark Williams (attended two years), NBA player for Charlotte Hornets{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/mark-williams/17228|title=Mark Williams Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=January 2, 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willima07.html|title=Mark Williams|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=January 2, 2023}}
• Jason Williams, former professional basketball player (jersey retired), college basketball commentator and analyst for ESPN{{Cite news|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willija03.html|title=Jay Williams|work=www.basketball-reference.com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Shelden Williams, Duke's all-time leader in rebounds and blocked shots, former professional basketball player (jersey retired){{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willish02.html|title=Shelden Williams|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Justise Winslow, NBA player for Portland Trail Blazers{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/winslju01.html|title=Justice Winslow|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=April 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/justise-winslow/4397|title=Justice Winslow Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 20, 2025}}
• Jack White (2020), professional basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jack-white/11781|title=Jack White|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=August 15, 2020}}
• Dariq Whitehead, NBA player for Brooklyn Nets{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/dariq-whitehead/18356|title=Dariq Whitehead Bio – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=September 27, 2023}}
• Zion Williamson, No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA draft, NBA player for the New Orleans Pelicans{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/willizi01.html|title=Zion Williamson|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=June 22, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/zion-williamson/4453|title=Zion Williamson Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=April 19, 2020}}
• Steve Wojciechowski, former Marquette men's basketball head coach{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/staff-directory/steve-wojciechowski/161|title=Steve Wojciechowski Bio – Assistant Coach – Duke University|website=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=May 26, 2024}}

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• Skip Alexander, professional golfer{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2005/12/14/220664.aspx|title=Skip Alexander|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=December 14, 2005}}
• Beth Bauer, professional golfer{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/beth-bauer/7583|title=Beth Bauer|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=November 12, 2013}}
• Laetitia Beck, Israeli professional golfer{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/laetitia-beck/15594|title=Laetitia Beck|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=May 7, 2014}}
• Amanda Blumenherst, professional golfer{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/amanda-blumenherst/15561|title=Amanda Blumenherst|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=June 8, 2008}}
• Céline Boutier, professional golfer{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/celine-boutier/15608|title=Céline Boutier Bio – 2015-16 Women's Golf Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=May 26, 2024}}
• Jenny Chuasiriporn, professional golfer{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/jenny-chuasiriporn/24|title=Jenny Chuasiriporn (2011) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Max Greyserman (born 1995), professional golfer on the PGA Tour{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-golf/roster/max-greyserman/298|title=Max Greyserman – 2016-17 – Men's Golf – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Liz Janangelo, professional golfer{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/liz-janangelo/7607|title=Liz Janangelo – 2005-06 Women's Golf Roster – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Brittany Lang, professional golfer{{cite web|access-date=March 19, 2025 |publisher=Duke Blue Devils |title=Brittany Lang – 2004-05 Women's Golf Roster – Duke University |url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/brittany-lang/7603}}
• Leona Maguire (Irish), number 1 Women's World Amateur, Duke senior{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/leona-maguire/15625|title=Leona Maguire – 2017-18 Women's Golf – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Lisa Maguire, Irish amateur golfer{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-golf/roster/lisa-maguire/15626|title=Lisa Maguire – 2017-18 Women's Golf – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• Bill Mallon, orthopedic surgeon, professional golfer, leading authority on the history of the Olympic Games
• Joe Ogilvie, professional golfer
• Leif Olson, professional golfer
• Mike Souchak, professional golfer, winner of 15 PGA events
• Kevin Streelman, professional golfer
• Art Wall, Jr., professional golfer, winner of 1959 Masters{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2020/4/5/mens-golf-on-this-date-blue-devil-art-wall-wins-1959-masters.aspx|title=Art Wall Jr.|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=April 5, 2020}}

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• Stephen Amritraj (B.A. 2006), professional tennis player
• Drew Cannon (B.S. 2012), statistician and sports writer; on Boston Celtics staff
• Jordan Cila (born 1982), Major League Soccer midfielder
• Matt Danowski, professional lacrosse player for New Jersey Pride
• Andy Frankenberger, professional poker player and former equity derivatives trader
• Danielle Goldstein (born 1985), American-Israeli show jumper
• Paulie Harraka, NASCAR racer{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2012/04/harrakarace|title=Duke student Paulie Harraka takes to NASCAR track in Rockingham sunday|website=DukeToday|date=April 13, 2012 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=April 13, 2012}}
• Jay Heaps, Head Coach of the New England Revolution as of November 2011; former player for the New England Revolution MLS team; former Duke basketball and soccer player{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/jay-heaps/19|title=Jay Heaps (2013) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Sarah Hirshland (born 1975), chief executive officer of the United States Olympic Committee
• Nancy Hogshead, Olympic gold medal winner in swimming{{cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/05/duke-swimming-blast-from-the-past-nancy-hogshead-makar-olympics-champion-woman|title=Blast from the past: Olympic champion and former Duke swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar is working to make sports safer|last=Wang|first=Emily|date=May 24, 2024|website=Duke Chronicle|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Hiroshi Hoketsu (A.M. 1968), Japanese equestrian rider who debuted in the 1964 Summer Olympics and continues to compete today in the 2012 Summer Olympics{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2008/8/11/1552597|title=Japanese Dressage Rider Hoketsu Is Oldest Olympian And Duke Grad|date=August 11, 2008|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Matthew Jacobs, martial arts expert; frequently appears in Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Abigail Johnston won a silver medal in synchronized diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics while an undergraduate at Duke and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics while attending Duke Medical School{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/espnw/athletes-life/article/14376035/how-abby-johnston-manages-olympic-training-med-school|title=How Abby Johnston Manages Olympic Training -- And Med School|date=December 15, 2015}}
• Randy Jones, competed in four Olympics as member of U.S. bobsledding teams{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/randy-jones/8|title=Randy Jones (2018) – Duke Athletics Hall of Fame|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=February 10, 2025}}
• Jacob Kasper, professional wrestler{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/wwe/story/_/id/23606591/wwe-collegiate-wrestling-standout-jacob-kasper-next-big-star-world-pro-wrestling|title=In search of its next star: How the WWE recruited Duke wrestler Jacob Kasper|website=ESPN|last=Joyner|first=K.C.|accessdate=September 15, 2021|date=October 7, 2020}}
• John Kerr, soccer player; winner of Hermann Trophy for top collegian; first American player in the Football League First Division (now known as the Premiership); Duke's head coach
• Jason Kreis, professional soccer player and coach
• Alison Levine (M.B.A. 2000), mountain climber and explorer; the only woman in the world to have completed the Explorers Grand Slam, reaching the summit of the highest mountain on each continent and skiing to the North and South Poles
• Nick McCrory, Olympic diver{{Cite web|url=https://www.teamusa.org/usa-diving/athletes/nick-mccrory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915045344/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-diving/athletes/Nick-McCrory|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2015|title=Nick McCrory|publisher=United States Olympic Committee|access-date=October 3, 2012}}
• Ibtihaj Muhammad (B.A. 2007), 2016 Olympic fencer and bronze team medalist{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/fencing/roster/ibtihaj-muhammad/5532|title=Ibtihaj Muhammad Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=August 6, 2024}}
• Gunnar Peterson (B.A. 1985), fitness expert, author and motivational speaker
• Vanessa Rousso, professional poker player
• Shannon Rowbury, professional track athlete, middle distance runner
• Morgan Reid (2017), professional soccer player{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/morgan-reid/9039|title=Morgan Reid|website=GoDuke.com|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=July 4, 2019}}
• Philip Schwalb, founder of National Sports Museum of America
• Jillian Schwartz, Olympic pole vaulter
• Dave Sime, champion sprinter, won a silver medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics
• Andrew Skurka (A.B. 2003), first person to complete the 7,700 sea-to-sea-route spanning North America
• Steven Solomon, Australian track and field, 2012 Olympics, Duke indoor 400m record holder
• Jessica Rae Springsteen, nationally ranked equestrian; daughter of Bruce Springsteen
• Becca Ward, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in fencing; three-time NCAA champion in individual women's sabre (2009, 2011, 2012){{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2014/10/becca-ward-what-fencing-taught-her-about-politics|title=Becca Ward on what fencing taught her about politics|last=Staff Today|first=Duke|date=October 19, 2014|website=duke.edu|publisher=Duke University|access-date=December 11, 2020}}
• Sean Davis (soccer), captain of the New York Red Bulls
• Andrew Wenger, professional soccer player and first draft pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft

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• Bill Adair, founder of the website PolitiFact{{cite web|url=https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/bill-adair/|title=Bill Adair Profile|website=Sanford School of Public Policy|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• David Aers, James B. Duke Professor of English, expert on medieval and Renaissance literature and theology{{cite web|url=https://provost.duke.edu/profile/david-aers/|title=David Aers Profile|website=Duke University|access-date=January 9, 2024}}
• Pankaj K. Agarwal, computer scientist, known for his research on computational geometry
• Susan Alberts, primatologist, co-director of Amboseli Baboon Research Project{{cite web|url=https://scholars.duke.edu/person/alberts|title=Susan C. Alberts – Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology|publisher=Duke University|access-date=November 19, 2024}}
• John Aldrich, political scientist, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Samuel Alito, associate justice of the US Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://law.duke.edu/news/lives-law-supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito|title=Lives in the Law: Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito|date=September 15, 2010|publisher=Duke University School of Law|access-date=November 19, 2024}}
• Nancy Andrews, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Duke University School of Medicine{{Cite web|url=https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/news-and-communications/med-school-blog/former-school-medicine-dean-nancy-andrews-honored-portrait-unveiling|title=Former School of Medicine Dean Nancy Andrews Honored at Portrait Unveiling|date=March 30, 2018|publisher=Duke University School of Medicine|access-date=July 11, 2020|archive-date=July 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713213918/https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/news-and-communications/med-school-blog/former-school-medicine-dean-nancy-andrews-honored-portrait-unveiling|url-status=dead}}
• Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics, author of Predictably Irrational
• Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of English; critic of 18th- and 19th-century novels; editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction
• Frank Asche, marine economist
• Valerie Ashby, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences{{cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/05/trinity-college-dean-valerie-ashby-reflects-on-time-at-duke-university|title='It's all about the people': Trinity College Dean Valerie Ashby reflects on her time at Duke|last=Reddy|first=Anisha|date=May 23, 2022|website=Duke Chronicle|access-date=January 6, 2024}}
• Owen Astrachan (M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992), distinguished computer scientist
• Emanuel Azenberg, producer of American theater who has won 40 Tony awards
• Lorena S. Beese, biochemist, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• Adrian Bejan, mechanical engineering professor, inventor of constructal theory and namesake of the Bejan number
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda, biomedical engineer
• Peter B. Bennett, founder and former president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network
• Philip Bennett, former managing editor of The Washington Post
• James Berger, statistician, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
• Paul Berliner, ethnomusicologist
• Chris Beyrer, director of the Duke Global Health Institute, member of the National Academy of Medicine
• Tim Bollerslev, economist, expert on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
• Raphael M. Bonelli, professor of neurology and psychiatry
• James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
• Geoffrey Brennan, philosopher associated with rational actor theory
• Hubert Bray, mathematician, known for having proved the Riemannian Penrose inequality
• David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
• Thomas Brothers, musicologist, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009
• Kelly D. Brownell, scientist, professor, expert on obesity; named as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine in 2006
• Frank Bruni, columnist for The New York Times
• Caroline Bruzelius, art historian, expert on medieval architecture
• Robert Bryant, chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, fellow of the American Mathematical Society, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Allen Buchanan, philosopher
• Al Buehler, chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation department; United States Olympic Track coach at the 1972, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympics; member of North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2015/04/buehlerretirement|title=After 60 Years, A Final Lap For Al Buehler|last=Roth|first=Bryan|date=April 21, 2015|website=DukeToday|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 30, 2020}}
• Robert Calderbank, former vice president of AT&T; recipient of the Shannon Award in electrical engineering
• Bruce Caldwell, economist
• Blanche Capel, James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology
• William Chafe, American historian
• Yuan-Tsong Chen, physician scientist, known for developing a recombinant enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease
• Rey Chow, postcolonial, cultural critic
• Dorie Clark, author and executive education professor
• Sarah Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Philip J. Cook, professor of public policy
• Miriam Cooke, literary critic
• Missy Cummings, professor of aeronautics, one of the US Navy's first female fighter pilots
• Sandy Darity, Jr., economist
• Ingrid Daubechies, first woman president of the International Mathematical Union; recipient of MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and NAS Award in Mathematics
• Cathy Davidson, author
• Geraldine Dawson, former chief science officer of Autism Speaks
• Walter E. Dellinger III, law professor, former United States Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton
• Martin E. Dempsey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Kenneth A. Dodge, psychologist
• Bruce Donald, computer scientist, fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEE, recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship
• Ariel Dorfman, novelist, playwright, human rights activist, 1992 winner of the Laurence Olivier Award
• Fred Dretske, philosopher of mind, winner of the Jean Nicod Prize
• Prasenjit Duara, historian
• Patrick Duddy, former ambassador to Venezuela
• Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., deputy Judge Advocate General
• Rick Durrett, mathematician, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• Victor J. Dzau, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine; pioneering translational research scientist
• Herbert Edelsbrunner, computer scientist, winner of the Alan T. Waterman Award
• Carla Ellis, computer scientist, fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Sir Harold Evans, author; editor of The Times; exposed Soviet spies
• Wendy Ewald, photographer, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992
• Peter Feaver, political scientist; served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
• Michael Ferejohn, expert on ancient philosophy
• Eric Finkelstein, health economist, professor at Duke-NUS Medical School
• Anne Firor Scott, historian, recipient of the National Humanities Medal
• Owen Flanagan, philosopher of mind, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
• Allen Frances, world-renowned psychiatrist
• Connel Fullenkamp, director of undergraduate studies in economics, member of the IMF's finance team
• John Hope Franklin, civil rights activist, historian, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
• Ernestine Friedl, professor emerita in cultural anthropology; former president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association; known for her work on gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
• Allan Friedman, neurosurgeon
• Takanori Fukushima, neurosurgeon
• Alan Enoch Gelfand, James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences
• Sharon Gerecht, biomedical engineer; member of the National Academy of Medicine
• David Gergen, former Duke professor; Duke trustee; adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2004/07/gergen_0704.html|title=David Gergen Named to Duke Board of Trustees|date=July 7, 2004|publisher=Duke Today|website=duke.edu|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Michael Allen Gillespie, political scientist
• Jay Golden, environmental engineer
• David Goldstein, population geneticist{{cite news|author=Wade, Nicholas|title=A Dissenting Voice as the Genome Is Sifted to Fight Disease|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/16prof.html|date=September 15, 2008|work=The New York Times |access-date=September 16, 2008}}
• Mark Goodacre, theologian
• Matthias Gromeier, developer of the PVSRIPO virus that has recently shown to be effective in treating cancer
• Gordon Hammes, biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Moo-Young Han, discoverer of the quark color charge
• Michael Hardt, literature professor and Marxist, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire and Multitude
• Brian Hare, evolutionary anthropologist, director of Duke Canine Cognition Center
• Campbell Harvey, economist
• Hashim Al-Hashimi, James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology; recipient of the 2020 NAS Award in Molecular Biology.
• Stanley Hauerwas, theologian and author
• N. Katherine Hayles, postmodern literary critic; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Richard B. Hays, theologian
• Sheng Yang He, plant biologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
• Dan Heath, bestselling author of Made to Stick
• Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
• Amy H. Herring, biostatistician
• Oscar Hijuelos, novelist; first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction
• Brigid Hogan, developmental biologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Kevin Hoover, economist
• Jerry F. Hough, political scientist, author, and professor
• Calvin Howell, physicist
• Tony Jun Huang, William Bevan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Reinhard Hütter, Catholic theologian
• Fredric Jameson, Marxist literary theorist; former chair of the Literature Program
• Andrew Janiak, philosopher
• Ashley E. Jardina, political scientist and author
• Erich Jarvis, neurobiologist, professor at Rockefeller University
• Abdul Sattar Jawad, literary theorist, fled Mustansiriya University after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
• Bruce Jentleson, director of Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to vice president Al Gore
• Wu Jinglian, economist
• Kimberly S. Johnson, professor of medicine and director of Duke REACH Equity (Duke Center for Research to Advance Health Care Equity)
• Nan Marie Jokerst, electrical engineer, in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Triangle Women in STEM leader
• James A. Joseph, former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
• Samuel Katz, virologist, known for the development of the measles vaccine
• Richard Kay, paleontologist
• David Kirsch, oncologist
• Alexander Kiselev, mathematician
• Peter Klopfer, zoologist, civil rights advocate and educator
• Jack Knight, legal theorist
• Harold G. Koenig, psychiatrist
• Claudia Koonz, feminist historian
• Sally Kornbluth, provost and James B. Duke Professor of pharmacology and cancer biology
• Ashutosh Kotwal, Fritz London Distinguished Professor of Physics,{{cite web |url=https://www.phy.duke.edu/content/ashutosh-v-kotwal |title=Ashutosh V. Kotwal | Duke Physics |access-date=2016-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311101659/https://www.phy.duke.edu/content/ashutosh-v-kotwal |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} Fellow of AAAS,{{Cite web | url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-members-elected-fellows-2 | title=AAAS Members Elected as Fellows}} APS{{Cite web | url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2008&unit_id=&institution=Duke+University | title=APS Fellow Archive}} and Sloan Foundation{{Cite web | url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows | title=Past Fellows | access-date=March 17, 2017 | archive-date=March 14, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows | url-status=dead }}
• Rachel Kranton, economist, fellow of the Econometric Society, recipient of the Blaise Pascal Chair
• Timur Kuran, Turkish economist
• Kara Lawson, Duke women's basketball head coach (2020–present){{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2020/7/11/kara-lawson-named-fifth-womens-basketball-head-coach.aspx|title=Kara Lawson Named Fifth Women's Basketball Head Coach|date=July 11, 2020|website=Duke Blue Devils|publisher=Duke University|access-date=January 6, 2024}}
• Pedro Lasch, artist and assistant research professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
• Bruce Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion
• Mark Leary, psychologist
• Frank Lentricchia, literary critic
• David F. Levi, jurist
• Nan Lin, sociologist
• Jason Locasale, professor of pharmacology, internationally recognized for his contributions to the modern understanding of metabolism
• Martin J. Lohse, German physician and pharmacologist doing research on G protein-coupled receptors
• Julian Lombardi, computer scientist, inventor
• Nathaniel Mackey, poet and novelist, recipient of the 2015 Bollingen Prize and the 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• Nancy MacLean, historian
• Bruce Maggs, professor of computer science, founding employee of Akamai Technologies
• Robert Malkin, biomedical engineer, fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• J. Lorand Matory, chair of the department of African and African American Studies
• Achille Mbembe, philosopher and political scientist
• Mark McCahill, creator of Internet Gopher, POP mail, and Croquet; coined the phrase "surfing the Web"
• Mark McClellan, former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
• Thomas Carlos Mehen, nuclear physicist
• Walter Mignolo, literary theorist
• Terrie Moffitt, pioneering researcher in the development of antisocial behavior
• Toril Moi, literary theorist associated with feminist theory
• Christopher Monroe, quantum physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Ebrahim Moosa, religious scholar
• V. Y. Mudimbe, philosopher associated with philosophy of language, phenomenology, and structuralism
• Norman Myers, British environmentalist
• Mark Anthony Neal, author
• Lenhard Ng, mathematician, child mathematical prodigy
• Miguel Nicolelis, pioneer of brain-machine interfaces
• Mohamed Noor, evolutionary biologist; 2008 recipient of the Darwin–Wallace Medal{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2018/10/mohamed-noor-named-trinity-college-dean-natural-sciences|title=Mohamed Noor Named Trinity College Dean of Natural Sciences|last=Staff Today|first=Duke|date=October 29, 2018|website=duke.edu|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 8, 2020}}
• Wayne Norman, expert on political philosophy
• Jean Fox O'Barr, feminist teacher, scholar, and administrator; founded women's studies program at Duke
• Linwood Pendleton, former chief economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Henry Petroski, civil engineer and writer{{cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2023/06/henry-petroski-poet-laureate-technology-and-professor-engineering-and-history-dies|title=Henry Petroski, Poet Laureate of Technology and Professor of Engineering and History, Dies|date=June 14, 2023|website=DukeToday|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 28, 2023}}
• Arlie Petters, pioneer in the mathematical theory and mathematical physics of gravitational lensing; professor of mathematics, physics, and business administration
• Lillian Pierce, mathematician
• Orrin H. Pilkey, geologist
• Robert Plonsey, biomedical engineer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Amilcare Porporato, civil engineer
• Reynolds Price, author and professor of literature
• Kathy Alexis Psomiades, associate professor of English, specializing in Victorian poetry and novel theory
• Dale Purves, professor of Neurobiology and Medical Doctor
• Anne Pusey, primatologist, director of Jane Goodall Institute Research Center
• Jonathan D. Quick, family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security
• Christian R. H. Raetz, professor of biochemistry and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Sarah Bloom Raskin, former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
• William Raspberry, Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism; syndicated columnist for The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner
• Paul Rehak, archaeologist
• Madan M. Rehani, medical physicist
• John Reif, computer scientist; fellow of the AAAS, IEEE and ACM
• Michael Reiter, James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science, fellow of the ACM
• Jane S. Richardson, professor of biochemistry; developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, method of representing the 3D structure of proteins, MacArthur Fellow
• Alexander Rosenberg, philosopher; winner of Lakatos Award in philosophy of science, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
• Benjamin Rossman, computer scientist
• Kathy Rudy, social constructionist
• Omid Safi, professor of Islamic Studies
• David H. Sanford, philosopher
• Nicola Scafetta, physicist
• Tad Schmaltz, editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy
• Christopher H. Schroeder, former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy for the United States Department of Justice
• Barbara Ramsay Shaw, chemist, cancer researcher, expert on signal transduction
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, philosopher
• David Smith, invisibility cloak pioneer; awarded the Descartes Prize in 2005
• Tommy Sowers, Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs
• J. E. R. Staddon, behavioral psychologist
• Orin Starn, cultural anthropologist
• Kristine Stiles, art historian
• Vahid Tarokh, electrical engineer, recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship
• John Terborgh, conservation biologist, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1996
• Jenny Tung, evolutionary anthropologist, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/09/duke-professor-jenny-tung-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant-winner-2019|title=Duke professor wins $625,000 MacArthur Genius Grant|last=Luzum|first=Nathan|date=September 25, 2019|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=August 1, 2020}}
• Timothy Tyson, historian
• Cindy Lee Van Dover, professor of biological oceanography
• Hans J. Van Miegroet, professor of art history
• Tuan Vo-Dinh, biophysicist
• Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering; first patent on a 3-D ultrasound
• Geoffrey Wainwright, Methodist theologian
• Xiao-Fan Wang, cancer biologist
• E. Roy Weintraub, economist
• Ben Wildman-Tobriner, physician; Olympic gold medalist
• Huntington F. Willard, human geneticist; former president of American Society of Human Genetics; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• E.O. Wilson, biologist, "the father of sociobiology and biodiversity", National Medal of Science (1976)
• Lauren Winner, author and journalist
• Judy Woodruff, news anchor, journalist
• Vanessa Woods, internationally published Australian scientist, author and journalist
• Weitao Yang, chemist
• Anne Yoder, biologist, director of Duke Lemur Center{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2018/06/anne-yoder-stepping-down-duke-lemur-center|title=Anne Yoder Stepping Down at Duke Lemur Center|website=DukeToday|date=June 12, 2018 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=June 12, 2018}}
• Hongkai Zhao, mathematician
• Anthony Zinni, decorated general}}

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• D. Bernard Amos, immunologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Norman B. Anderson, CEO of the American Psychological Association
• Wolfgang Bibel, one of the founders of the research area of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher, author of In My Father's House and The Ethics of Identity
• Srinivas Aravamudan, professor of English, literature and Romance studies; dean of humanities; specialist in 18th-century and postcolonial literature; author
• Clay Armstrong, physiologist; recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Gairdner Foundation International Award for contributions to medical science
• James Arthur, mathematician, former president of the American Mathematical Society
• George James Augustine, neuroscientist
• Katharine Banham, associate professor of psychology, emerita
• John Spencer Bassett, historian who initiated the Bassett Affair, an important victory for academic freedom
• Robert Bates, Eaton Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University
• Upendra Baxi, legal scholar
• Andrea Bertozzi, mathematician
• Helen Bevington, poet and author
• Utpal Bhattacharya, expert on business ethics
• Lawrence Biedenharn, theoretical nuclear physicist
• Harry Binswanger, objectivist philosopher and philosopher of mind
• Mary L. Boas, mathematician
• Ralph Boas, mathematician, recipient of the Lester R. Ford Award
• James Bonk, chemist. Dean's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of 50 years of teaching
• Edgar Bowers, poet, For Louis Pasteur, Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989, Guggenheim Fellowship twice
• Joseph Penn Breedlove (B.A. 1898, M.A. 1902), first University Librarian
• David S. Broder, current Washington Post and former New York Times reporter
• H. Keith H. Brodie, psychiatrist, educator and eventual president of Duke
• David Allan Bromley, nuclear physicist, scientific advisor to US President George H. W. Bush, recipient of National Medal of Science (1988)
• Hubie Brown, assistant men's basketball coach (1969–1972); NBA coach and commentator
• John Buettner-Janusch, anthropologist
• Michael Byers, Canadian legal scholar and nonfiction author
• Leonard Carlitz, mathematician
• Tina Campt, associate professor of women's studies and history; director of Graduate Studies
• Ziv Carmon, professor of business administration at INSEAD
• John W. Cell, professor of history at Duke.{{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=Rick |title=John Cell: The Passing of a Leading Comparative Scholar of South Africa and the United States |journal=Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies |date=2002 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1 |doi=10.1080/17533170200303103 |s2cid=146925612 }}
• Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor, constitutional scholar
• Randolph Chitwood, first cardio-thoracic surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in North America
• Amy Chua, best-selling author
• George Elliott Clarke, author, poet
• G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Kalman J. Cohen, economist, pioneer of market micro-structure
• Roger Corless, theologian who made significant contributions to interfaith dialogue
• John Shelton Curtiss, historian, James B. Duke Professor
• Chuck Daly, assistant men's basketball coach (1963–1969); NBA coach{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2009/5/9/3735844.aspx|title=Former Duke Assistant/NBA Coaching Legend Chuck Daly Passes Away|last=Information Sports|first=Duke|date=May 9, 2009|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• Barun De, historian
• Sara J. Dent, anaesthesiologist
• Burton Drayer, radiologist; authority on the use of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosing neurological disorders
• Mike Duffy, television host
• Eleanor Lansing Dulles, politician involved in the affairs of post-World War II Germany, Bretton Woods Conference, US State Department
• Paul Ebert, cardiovascular surgeon
• Michael Ehlers, Chief Scientific Officer at life sciences venture capital firm Apple Tree Partners
• Elliot Engel, writer, dramatist, and lecturer
• William M. Fairbank, physicist known for his work on liquid helium; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Stanley Fish, former chair of the English Department, deconstructionist literary critic
• Wallace Fowlie, author and poet, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947
• Clara Franzini-Armstrong, cell biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Bertram Fraser-Reid, organic chemist
• Robert C. Frasure, ambassador to Estonia
• Henry Louis Gates, chair of African-American Studies at Harvard{{Cite web|url=https://abc11.com/archive/6931365/|title=Gates called Duke experience racist|date=July 24, 2009|website=abc11.com|publisher=ABC 11|access-date=July 17, 2020}}
• Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist, known for introducing the random neural network and the eponymous G-networks
• David Gergen, political analyst, adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton
• John Jay Gergen, mathematician
• S. Malcolm Gillis, prominent economist, former president of Rice University
• René Girard, philosopher, literary critic, and historian; member of the Académie française
• Peter J. Gomes, preacher and theologian from Harvard University's Divinity School
• Craufurd Goodwin, economist
• Lawrence Goodwyn, writer and political theorist
• Andrew Gordon, Japanese Historian
• Walter Gordy, physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Gail Goestenkors, Duke women's basketball head coach (1992–2007){{Cite web|url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/g-force|title=Gail Goestenkors|website=duke.edu|date=June 2003 |publisher=Duke Alumni Association|access-date=July 12, 2020}}
• Phillip Griffiths, mathematician; fellow of the American Mathematical Society, recipient of the Wolf Prize
• Paul Magnus Gross, chemist, former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Julia Grout, chair of the Women's Department of Health and Physical Education, 1924–1964
• Allan Gurganus, author
• William Baskerville Hamilton, historian
• Philip Handler, biochemist; two-term president of the National Academy of Sciences; winner of the National Medal of Science
• Gerald Heard, philosopher, historian
• Robert L. Hill, biochemist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Charles Honorton, parapsychologist
• Calvin B. Hoover, founder of the field of comparative economic systems, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Harry Truman in 1947.
• Sally Hughes-Schrader, zoologist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Aldous Huxley, novelist, mystic
• Jacquelyne Jackson, sociologist
• Daniel James, British historian
• Harold Jenkins
• Randy Jirtle, biologist, known for his contribution to the field of epigenetics
• Kristina M. Johnson, Under Secretary of Energy for the Obama Administration; former dean of the Pratt School of Engineering; former director of Boston Scientific Corporation
• Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
• Wolfgang Joklik, virologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Edward E. Jones, social psychologist, developed fundamental attribution error
• Alice Kaplan, author, chair of the French department at Yale
• Lawrence C. Katz, neurobiologist
• Randall Kenan, author
• Robert Keohane, neoliberal scholar of international relations
• Kim Sung-Hou, structural biologist and biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Claudia Koonz, feminist historian
• Stephen Kovacs (1972–2022), saber fencer and fencing coach, charged with sexual assault, died in prison{{Cite web|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/somerset/police-fire/nj-fencing-coach-columbia-u-champ-who-sexually-assaulted-2-teens-lied-under-oath-prosecutor/818871/|title=NJ Fencing Coach, Columbia U Champ Who Sexually Assaulted 2 Teens Lied Under Oath: Prosecutor|author=Cecilia Levine|date=October 26, 2021|website=Somerset Daily Voice}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/somerset/2021/10/fencing-coach-charged-with-sex-assaults-began-preying-on-teens-on-europe-utah-trips-authorities-say.html|title=Fencing coach charged with sex assaults began preying on teens at out-of-state competitions, authorities say|author=Jeff Goldman|date=October 28, 2021|website=NJ.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://docplayer.net/84625039-Duke-university-fencing-media-guide.html|title=Stephen Kovacs; Assistant Coach; 3rd Season |website=Duke University Fencing Media Guide|page=5|date=2013}} While at Duke he mentored three-time NCAA women's saber champion Becca Ward. Half a dozen years later Kovacs was accused of sexually assaulting two fencing students elsewhere, and he died in prison in 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/somerset/obituaries/nj-fencing-coach-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-2-teens-dies-in-jail-report/824174/|title=NJ Fencing Coach Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 2 Teens Dies In Jail: Report|date=January 19, 2022|website=Somerset Daily Voice|author=Cecilia Levine}}
• Paul J. Kramer, biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Juanita M. Kreps, United States Secretary of Commerce
• Anne O. Krueger, World Bank Chief Economist
• Weston La Barre, anthropologist, worked in ethnography
• Thomas LaBean, leading researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology
• Howard Nathaniel Lee, former mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Bernard Lefkowitz, sociologist, journalist, investigative reporter
• Raphael Lemkin, human rights activist; coined the word "genocide"
• H. Gregg Lewis, labor economist
• Sarah Lisanby, psychiatrist
• Michael L. Littman, computer scientist
• Daniel A. Livingstone, limnologist, recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award
• Fritz London, physicist, won the Lorentz Medal
• Alasdair MacIntyre, philosopher, virtue ethicist
• John Madey, developer of the free electron laser
• Ernest Mario, pharmaceutical industry executive
• Mathew D. McCubbins, Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law
• William McDougall, psychologist, author of An Introduction to Social Psychology
• George McLendon, biochemist, winner of Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry and Guggenheim fellowship
• Joanne P. McCallie, Duke women's basketball head coach (2007–2020){{Cite web|url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2020/07/duke-womens-basketball-joanne-p-mccallie-reflects-career-looks-ahead|title='Ultimate Challenge': Joanne P. McCallie reflects on Duke career, looks ahead|last=Kolin|first=Evan|date=July 11, 2020|publisher=Duke Chronicle|access-date=August 1, 2020}}
• Warren Meck, neuroscientist
• Karl Menger, mathematician
• Edwin Mims, professor of English literature
• Marie Lynn Miranda, data scientist and children's environmental health researcher
• John Wilson Moore, pioneering biophysicist
• Alberto Moreiras, professor of Romance Studies
• David R. Morrison, mathematician; Guggenheim Fellow; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Thom Mount, film producer; president of the Producers Guild of America
• Francis Joseph Murray, mathematician and founder of functional analysis; winner of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
• Toshio Narahashi, pharmacologist, the "founding father of neurotoxicology"
• Karen Neander, philosopher of mind
• Charles Nemeroff, psychiatrist, known for work in treating depression
• Hans Neurath, biochemist, leading researcher in the field of protein chemistry
• Laura Niklason, professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering
• Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, theoretical physicist
• Albert Outler, Methodist theologian
• G. B. Pegram, key administrator of Manhattan Project
• William Howell Pegram, chemist
• Sallie Permar, pediatrician-in-chief at Weill Cornell Medical Center; chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine.
• Anton Peterlin, physicist
• Ernest C. Pollard, professor of biophysics
• David Price, United States representative
• James Rachels, philosopher and cultural relativist
• Stojan Radic, electrical engineer
• Joseph B. Rhine, psychologist and parapsychologist; founder of modern studies of psychical phenomena
• Louisa E. Rhine, parapsychologist
• Sidarta Ribeiro, Brazilian neuroscientist
• John Ridpath, intellectual historian
• Sócrates Rizzo, former mayor of Monterrey; former governor of Nuevo León
• Dennis A. Rondinelli, international development policy expert at the Sanford School of Public Policy
• Mary Ellen Rudin, mathematician
• David Sabiston, cardiac surgeon, one of the pioneers of coronary bypass surgery
• Guy Salvesen, biochemist, known for his work in the field of apoptosis
• E. P. Sanders, British Academy member; leading figure in the third Historical Jesus movement
• Michael Scharf, lawyer, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
• David Scheffer, diplomat
• William H. Schlesinger, biogeochemist, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, figure in the field of comparative physiology, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, feminist theorist, literary theorist, expert in gender studies
• Lori Ann Setton, biomedical engineer
• Michael Sheetz, cell biologist, recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
• Beth A. Simmons, international relations scholar, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Elwyn L. Simons, paleontologist and primate conservationist
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith, literary theorist
• Brian Cantwell Smith, scholar who conducts research in the fields of cognitive science, computer science, information studies, philosophy, and ontology
• Cordwainer Smith, author
• Joseph Tyree Sneed, III, U.S. Deputy Attorney General, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Ralph Snyderman, biotech entrepreneur
• David Soskice, political economist
• Joseph J. Spengler, economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought
• Hertha Sponer, physicist
• Eugene A. Stead, medical educator, founder of the physician assistant profession
• William Stern, psychologist, philosopher
• Kenneth B. Storey, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
• Charles Tanford, protein chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Edward D. Thalmann, expert in hyperbaric medicine
• Fritz Thurstone (1932–2005), pioneer of ultrasound technology
• Paul Tillich, theologian
• Peter Ungar, paleoanthropologist
• Sander Vanocur, ABC and NBC correspondent; The Washington Post television editor; The New York Times reporter
• W. Kip Viscusi, economist
• Steven Vogel, biologist, James B. Duke Professor of Biology{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2015/11/stevenvogel|title=Duke flags lowered: Biomechanics Pioneer Steven Vogel Dies|website=DukeToday|date=November 30, 2015 |publisher=Duke University|access-date=November 30, 2015}}
• Robert Ward, composer
• Kenny Williams, author, winner of the MidAmerica Award
• Mary Lou Williams, composer
• Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000
• William H. Willimon, Methodist theologian
• Eric Winer, medical oncologist
• Kwasi Wiredu, philosopher
• Karl Zener, parapsychologist

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• 2022 to present: Jon Scheyer
• 1981 to 2022: Mike Krzyzewski, five-time national champion men's basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/mike-krzyzewski/3607|title=Mike Krzyzewski Bio – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=November 8, 2018}}
• 1975 to 1980: Bill Foster{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2016/1/8/210621087.aspx|title=Former Duke Head Coach Bill Foster Passes Away – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=December 10, 2021}}
• 1974: Neill McGeachy
• 1970 to 1973: Bucky Waters
• 1960 to 1969: Vic Bubas, member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
• 1951 to 1959: Harold Bradley
• 1943 to 1950: Gerry Gerard
• 1929 to 1942: Eddie Cameron, namesake of Cameron Indoor Stadium and member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
• 1925 to 1928: George Buchheit
• 1923 to 1924: J.S. Burbage
• 1922: James Baldwin
• 1921: Floyd Egan
• 1920: W.J. Rothensies
• 1919: H.P. Cole
• 1917 to 1918: Chick Doak
• 1916: Bob Doak
• 1914 to 1915: Noble Clay
• 1913: Joseph Brinn
• 1906 to 1912: W.W. Card

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• 2024 to present: Manny Diaz{{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/news/2023/12/7/duke-names-manny-diaz-head-football-coach|title=Duke Names Manny Diaz Head Football Coach|date=December 7, 2023|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• 2022 to 2024: Mike Elko {{cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/mike-elko/4315|title=Mike Elko – Head Coach – Football Coaches – Duke University|publisher=Duke Blue Devils|access-date=March 19, 2025}}
• 2007 to 2021: David Cutcliffe{{Cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2007/12/cutcliffe.html|title=David Cutcliffe Named Head Football Coach at Duke|last=Staff Today|first=Duke|date=December 15, 2007|publisher=Duke University|access-date=July 11, 2020}}
• 2003 to 2007: Ted Roof{{Cite web|url=https://goduke.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/ted-roof/1325|title=Ted Roof|website=goduke.com|publisher=Duke Athletics|access-date=September 3, 2007}}
• 1999 to 2003: Carl Franks
• 1994 to 1998: Fred Goldsmith
• 1990 to 1993: Barry Wilson
• 1987 to 1989: Steve Spurrier, ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1989
• 1983 to 1986: Steve Sloan
• 1979 to 1982: Shirley "Red" Wilson
• 1971 to 1978: Mike McGee
• 1966 to 1970: Tom Harp
• 1951 to 1965: William D. "Bill" Murray
• 1946 to 1950: Wallace W. Wade
• 1942 to 1945: Eddie Cameron, namesake of Cameron Indoor Stadium and member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
• 1931 to 1941: Wallace W. Wade, namesake of Wallace Wade Stadium and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• 1926 to 1930: James "Jimmy" DeHart
• 1925: James P. "Pat" Herron
• 1924: Howard H. Jones
• 1923: S.M. Alexander
• 1922: Herman Steiner
• 1921: James A. Baldwin
• 1920: Floyd J. Egan
• 1888 to 1889 : Dr. John F. Crowell

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• In The Man in the Moon takes place as Maureen Trant, played by Emily Warfield, is preparing to attend Duke in the fall. Emma Seneshen, a character who appears briefly during the film's opening, is also mentioned to be a Duke student{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/the-man-in-the-moon-0etubi/ |title=Saturday Night at the Movies {{!}} The Man in the Moon {{!}} Season 2024 {{!}} PBS |language=en |access-date=2024-07-06 |via=www.pbs.org}}
• In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, character Benjamin Barry (portrayed by Matthew McConaughey) is shown to be a Duke alumni{{Cite web |title=The t-shirt Duke University Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) in How to get dumped in 10 lessons |url=https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/movie/how-to-lose-a-guy-in-10-days/163455/the-t-shirt-duke-university-benjamin-barry-matthew-mcconaughey-in-how-to-get-dumped-in-10-lessons |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Spotern |language=en}}

• In 9-1-1, the story line of Season 2 Episode 2 mentions that the top recruits wanted to go to either "Duke or Stanford"{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Whitney |date=2018-09-24 |title=9-1-1 Season 2 Episode 2 Review: 7.1 |url=https://www.tvfanatic.com/2018/09/9-1-1-season-2-episode-2-review-71/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=TV Fanatic |language=en}}
• In JAG, USMC Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie (portrayed by Catherine Bell) graduated from Duke University School of Law{{cite episode |title=Act of Terror |series=JAG |series-link=JAG (TV series) |network=CBS |date=October 27, 1998 |season=4 |number=6}}
• In The Newsroom, Sloan Sabbath (portrayed by Olivia Munn) is mentioned to have 2 Ph.D.'s from Duke{{Cite web |title=More Than Great Legs – Sloan Sabbith Character Study |url=https://utopia77.rssing.com/chan-21781356/article10.html |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=utopia77.rssing.com}}
• In The White Lotus, main characters Timothy and Saxon Ratliff (portrayed by Patrick Schwarzenegger) are Duke alumni. Duke is a central theme of the show's third season{{Cite web |last=Franklin |first=McKinley |date=2025-04-06 |title=Duke Has Checked Out of ‘The White Lotus,’ but What Do Its Students Think of That Controversial Scene? |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-white-lotus-duke-student-alum-reaction-1236182789/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
• In One Tree Hill, Nathan Scott (portrayed by James Lafferty) received a scholarship to play basketball at Duke though his offer was rescinded when he was caught point shaving{{Cite web |last=Kettle |first=Harry |date=2019-12-17 |title=10 One Tree Hill Moments That Broke Our Heart |url=https://screenrant.com/one-tree-hill-saddest-heartbreaking-scenes/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}
• In The West Wing, Sam Seaborn (portrayed by Rob Lowe whose son attended Duke in real life{{Cite web |date=2023-03-16 |title=Rob Lowe is starring in a new show with his son: What to know about his kids |url=https://www.today.com/parents/celebrity/rob-lowe-sons-kids-rcna74980 |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}) graduated from Duke University School of Law{{Cite web |title=I'm a match to Sam Seaborn from The West Wing |url=https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Sam-Seaborn.The-West-Wing |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=www.charactour.com |language=en}}

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