The following is a partial list of famous Phi Beta Kappa Society members.
Miscellaneous Notables
Historical Miscellaneous Notables
Presidents of the United States
Religious Leaders
Supreme Court Judges
Cabinet Members and Presidential Appointees
Men and Women of Letters
Historians and Philosophers
Statesmen
Scholars and Educators
Jurists
Scientists
Inventors, Explorers
Business Administrators
Other Members

Miscellaneous Notables:
Isaac Asimov, Boston University, 1969h
Leonard Bernstein, Harvard University, 1964h
James Billington (Librarian of Congress), Princeton University, 1950
Daniel Boorstin (former Librarian of Congress), Harvard University, 1934
Tom Brokaw, University of South Dakota, 1983a
Lynne Cheney, Colorado Colelge, 1962
Glenn Close, College of William and Mary (?)
Francis Ford Coppola, Hofstra University, 1976a
Hugh Downs, Washington & Lee University, 1969h
Elizabeth Drew, Wellesley College, 1957 (?)
Betty Friedan, Smith College, 1941
Mark Goodson, University of California, Berkeley, 1937
Meg Greenfield, Smith College, 1952
Christie Hefner, Brandeis University, 1973
Karen Hughes, Virginia Tech, 1978
Henry Kissinger, Harvard University, 1950
Kris Kristofferson, Pomona College, 1958
Linda Lavin, College of William & Mary, 1983a
Arthur Levitt, Jr., Williams College, 1952
Marv Levy, Coe College, 1950
Flora Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1942
Peyton Manning, University of Tennessee, 1997
John Clark Mitchell II, Yale University, 1938
Sylvia Field Porter, Hunter College, 1933
Frank Press (pres., Nat'l Academy of Science), City College of New York, 1944
Dean Rusk, Davidson College, 1931
Jonas Salk, City College of New York, 1955A
Phyllis S. Schlafly, Washington University, 1944
Patricia Schroeder, University of Minnesota, 1961
L. William Seidman (former chmn., FDIC), Dartmouth College, 1943
Hugh Sidey, Iowa State University, 1975a
Eleanor Cutri Smeal, Duke University, 1961
Howard K. Smith, Tulane University, 1936
Stephen Sondheim, Williams College, 1950
Susan Sontag, Washington University, 1992h
Gloria Steinem, Smith College, 1955
Julie Taymor, Oberlin College, 1974
John Updike, Harvard University, 1954
Caspar Weinberger, Harvard University, 1938

Historical Miscellaneous Notables:
Alexander Graham Bell, Amherst College, 1907h
William Cullen Bryant, Harvard University, 1817/Williams College, 1864h
Pearl S. Buck, Randolph?Macon Woman's College, 1932a
Richard E. Byrd, University of Virginia, 1927a
John C. Calhoun, Yale University, 1804
Benjamin N. Cardozo, Columbia University, 1804
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, University of Missouri, 1902h
William O. Douglass, Whitman College, 1920
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard University, 1916h
Robert Frost, Harvard University, 1916h
Ella Grasso, Mount Holyoke College, 1940
Learned Hand, Harvard University, 1893
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bowdoin College, 1825
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard University, 1829
Charles Evans Hughes, Brown University, 1909
Washington Irving, Yale University, 1833h/Harvard University, 1833h
Henry James, Harvard University, 1872h
Helen Keller, Radcliffe College, 1904h
Water Lippmann, Harvard University, 1910
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin College, 1825
Horace Mann, Brown University, 1830a
John Marshall, College of William and Mary, 1780
Cyrus McCormick, Princeton University, 1912
Helen Willis Moody, Cornell University, 1925a
Samuel F. B. Morse, Yale University, 1810
Robert E. Peary, Bowdoin College, 1877
Paul Robeson, Rutgers University, 1919
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Brown University, 1897
Nelson Rockefeller, Dartmouth College, 1930
Carl Sandburg, Harvard University, 1928h
General William T. Sherman, Dartmouth College, 1886h
Lowell Thomas (?)
Booker T. Washington, Harvard University, 1904h
Daniel Webster, Brown University, 1900
Eli Whitney, Yale University, 1792

Presidents of the United States:
John Quincy Adams, Harvard University, 1787
Chester A. Arthur, Union College, 1848
George H. W. Bush, Yale University, 1947
Jimmy Carter, Kansas State University, 1991h
Grover Cleveland, Princeton University, 1907h
Bill Clinton, Georgetown University, 1968
Calvin Coolidge, Amherst College, 1921a
James A. Garfield, Williams College, 1864a
Rutherford B. Hayes, Kenyon College, 1880a
Franklin Pierce, Bowdoin College, 1825a
Franklin Roosevelt, Harvard University, 1929a/Hobart College, 1929h
Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard University, 1880
William Howard Taft, Yale University, 1878
Martin Van Buren, Union College, 1830h
Woodrow Wilson, Wesleyan University, 1889h

Religious Leaders:
Henry Ward Beecher, Amherst College, 1853a
Phillips Brooks, Harvard University, 1855
William Ellery Channing (?)
Henry Sloane Coffin, Yale University, 1897
Avery Dulles, Harvard University, 1940
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Colgate University, 1900
Edward Everett Hale, Harvard University, 1839
Rufus M. Jones, Haverford College, 1899a
Shailer Mathews, Colby College, 1896a
Francis J. McConnell, DePauw University, 1909h
Sister Antonia McHugh, College of St. Catherine, 1938h

Supreme Court Judges:
Harry Blackmun, Harvard University, 1929
Anthony M. Kennedy, Stanford University, 1958
Lewis R. Powell, Jr., Washington & Lee University, 1929
William H. Rehnquist, Stanford University, 1948
David H. Souter, Harvard University, 1961
John Paul Stevens, University of Chicago, 1941
Byron R. White, University of Colorado, 1938

Cabinet Members and Presidential Appointees (former and present):
Daivd Ayres, University of Missouri, 1986
Elizabeth H. Dole, Duke University, 1958
Karen Hughes, Virginia Tech, 1978
Arthur Levitt, Jr., Williams College, 1952
Larry Lindsey, Bowdoin College, 1976
Lynn Morley Martin, University of Illinois, 1960
Gale Norton, University of Denver, 1975
Condoleezza Rice, University fo Denver, 1974
Susan Rice, Stanford University, 1985
Louis W. Sullivan, Morehouse College, 1975a
Robert Zoellick, Swarthmore College, 1975

Men and Women of Letters:
Henry Adams, Harvard University, 1872a/Dartmouth College, 1821/Johns Hopkins University, 1898a
Irvin Babbitt, Harvard University, 1908
Van Wyck Brooks, Harvard University, 1908
William Cullen Bryant, Harvard University, 18 1 7/Williams College, 1864h
Pearl S. Buck, Randolph?Macon Woman's College, 1932a
James Branch Cabell, College of William and Mary, 1921 a
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, University of Missouri, 1902h
Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Bowdoin College, 1915
Michael Crichton, Harvard University, 1964
Richard Henry Dana, Harvard University, 1835a
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard University, 1835a
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ohio State University, 1916h
Robert Frost, Harvard University, 1916h
Ellen Glasgow, College of William and Mary, 1920h
Bret Harte, Harvard University, 1870h
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bowdoin College, 1825
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard University, 1829
Washington Irving, Yale University, 1833h/Harvard University, 1833h
Henry James, Harvard University, 1872h
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin College, 1825
James Russell Lowell, Harvard University, 1846a
Archibald MacLeish, Yale University, 1915
Paul Elmer More, Washington University, 1914a
Christopher Morley, Haverford College, 1910
Carl Sandburg, Harvard University, 1928h
Bayard Taylor, Harvard University, 1850h
John Greenleaf Whittier, Harvard University, 1888h

Historians and Philosophers:
George Bancroft, Harvard University, 1817/Dartmouth College, 1839
Charles A. Beard, DePauw University, 1898
Edward Channing, Harvard University, 1886a
John Dewey, University of Vermont (?)
William Ernest Hocking, Stanford University, 1906h
William James (?)
John Lathrop Motley, Harvard University, 1831
Francis H. Parkman (?)
William H. Prescott, Harvard University, 1814
Josiah Royce (?)
George Santayana, Harvard University, 1886
Alfred North Whitehead, 1925h

Statesmen:
Charles Francis Adams, Harvard University, 1804a
Newton D. Baker, Washington & Lee University, 1924a
Jeb Bush, University of Texas, Austin, 1974
Norman H. Davis, College of William and Mary, 1923h
Edward Everett, Harvard University, 1811
John Hay, Brown University, 1858
Jospeh Lieberman, Yale University, 1964
Henry Cabot Lodge, Harvard University, 1894a
Dwight D. Morrow, Amherst College, 1895
Jack Riggs, University of Idaho, 1976
Elihu Root, Amherst College, 1867
William Henry Seward, University of Pennsylvania, 1926 (?)
Henry L. Stimson, Yale University, 1888
Norman Thomas, Princeton University, 1905
Daniel Webster, Brown University, 1900
Paul Wellstone, University of North Carolina, 1965
Corinee Gieseke Wood, University of Illinois, 1977

Scholars and Educators:
Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, 1882
James Bryant Conant, Harvard University, 1914
Charles William Elliott, Harvard University, 1853
Basil L. Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins University, 1896h
Jame J. Heckman, Colorado College, 1965
Mark Hopkins, Williams College, 1864a
Robert M. Hutchins, Yale University, 1921
George Lyman Kittredge, Harvard University, 1882
A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University, 1877
Horace Mann, Brown University, 1830a
Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown University, 1893
William Allan Neilson, Harvard University, 1913h
Michael Porter, Princeton University, 1969
Louise Pound, University of Nebraska, 1896a
William Graham Sumner, Yale University, 1863
Booker T. Washington, Harvard University, 1904h

Jurists:
Forence E. Allen, University of Wisconsin, 1900
Louis D. Brandeis, Harvard University, 1895h
Benjamin N. Cardozo, Columbia University, 1889
Rufus Choate, Dartmouth College, 1819
William O. Douglas, Whitman College, 1920
Felix Frankftirter, City University of New York, 1902
Learned Hand, Harvard University, 1893
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Harvard University, 1829
Charles Evans Hughes, Brown University, 1909
John Marshall, College of William and Mary, 1780
John Bassett Moore (?)
Owen J. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, 1895
Harlan F. Stone, Amherst College, 1894
Joseph Story, Harvard University, 1798

Scientists:
Louis Agassiz, Harvard University, 1849h
Alexis Carrel, Dartmouth College, 1838h
Arthur Compton, College of Wooster, 1928a
Edwin Grant Conklin, Johns Hopkins University, 1896a
Asa Gray, Harvard University, 1842h
Joseph Henry, Union College, 1828h
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, University of South Dakota, 1936a
Albert A. Michelson, University of Chicago, 1902h
Robert A. Millikan, Oberlin College, 1910a
Florence R. Sabin, Smith College, 1911 a

Inventors, Explorers:
Alexander Graham Bell, Amherst College, 1907h
Richard E. Byrd, University of Virginia, 1927a
Samuel F. B. Morse, Yale University, 18 10
Robert E. Peary, Bowdoin College, 1877
Michael I. Pupin, Columbia University, 1883
Eli Whitney, Yale University, 1792

Business Administrators:
Julius H. Barnes, (?)
Barnard M. Baruch, CUNY 1889
Jeff Bezos, Princeton University, 1986
Otto Kahn, College of William and Mary, 1928h
Cyrus McCormick, Princeton University, 1912
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Brown University, 1897
Owen D. Young, St. Lawrence University, 1902a

Other Members:
Joseph Bentonelli, University of Oklahoma, 1920
Ralph Adams Cram, Harvard University, 1912h
E.J. Dionne, Harvard University, 1973
Gano Dunn, CUNY, 1889
Marsha Johnson Evans, Occidental College, 1968
Stuart Eizenstat, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963
Glenn Frank, Northwestern University, 1912
Tom Goodwin, West Virginia University, 1966
David J. Jefferson, University of Southern California, 1986
Alvin S. Johnson, University of Nebraska, 1897
Marv Levy, Coe College, 1950
John Meacham, The University of the South, 1991
Peyton Manning, University of Tennessee, 1997
Melissa Stark, Univeristy of Virginia, 1985
Olga Samaroff Stokowski, University of Pennsylvania, 1935h
Lorado Taft, Northwestern University, 1905h
Dorothy Thompson, (?)

(?) means that either the person could not be found in the directory or, more likely, that there were two or more people with the same name and it could not determine which was the correct person. 
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Updated: 11 October 2003