This is a list of notable members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Names are listed followed by the school attended and the graduation year.Unless otherwise cited, the referenced alumni can be found in:
Arts John Brougham, New York Graduate 1857, 19th century actor, dramatist, and orator Thomas Thackeray Swinburne, University of Rochester 1892, Poet Fitz James O'Brien, New York Graduate 1857, New York Literary Bohemian, science fiction pioneer Robert Frost, Dartmouth 1896, four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Alexander Woollcott, Hamilton 1896, drama critic NY Times, Herald-Tribune, Sun. Norman H. Hackett, Michigan 1898, actor Stanton Griffis, Cornell 1910, former Chairman of Board of Paramount Pictures and Madison Square Garden Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Dartmouth 1915, film producer Paramount and MGM Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, President of US Chamber of Commerce, Motion Picture Association of America Pat Ballard, Penn 1922, composer of the #1 song of 1954 "Mr. Sandman" Frank Thomas, Stanford 1933, Thumpers (Bambi) creator John Dunning, UCLA 1939, film editor, Oscar winner for Ben Hur Tad Mosel, Amherst 1944, Pulitzer Prize for All the Way Home Gardner McKay, Cornell 1953, actor, drama critic John Nichols, Hamilton 1962, author The Milagro Bean Field War The Sterile Cuckoo Joseph J. Ellis, William and Mary 1965, author Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, His Excellency James Woods, MIT 1969, actor Kary Antholis, Bowdoin 1984, documentary producer Charles "Chip" Esten, William and Mary 1987, actor/comedian, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tufts 1996, actor from Heroes Hasan Piker, Rutgers 2013, online streamer,
Medicine Frank Lahey, Harvard 1904, Founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic
Park Dietz, Cornell 1970, Renowned Forensic Psychologist
Public life M. D. Ball, College of William and Mary 1854, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and collector of customs for the Alaska Territory Allen Beach, Union 1849, Lt. Governor of New York, Secretary of State of New York John C. Nicholls, William and Mary 1853, Georgia (Rep.) William D. Bloxham, William and Mary 1854, Governor of Florida Clement Hall Sinnickson, Union 1855, New Jersey (Rep.) Frederick George Bromberg, Harvard 1858, Alabama (Rep.) John Hay, Brown 1858, Abraham Lincoln's secretary, Secretary of State Henry J. Spooner, Brown 1860, Rhode Island (Rep.) William W. Thomas, Jr., Bowdoin 1860, US Minister (Ambassador) to Norway and Sweden Henry R. Gibson, Hobart 1862, Tennessee (Rep.) Daniel N. Lockwood, Union 1865, New York (Rep.) John Bayard McPherson, Princeton 1866, Judge, US Court of Appeals Hosea M. Knowlton, Tufts 1867, Chief Prosecutor in Lizzie Borden case, Attorney General of Massachusetts John W. Griggs, Lafayette 1868, Governor of New Jersey, Attorney General Nathan F. Dixon, III, Brown 1869, US Senator from Rhode Island John Bellamy, Virginia 1875, Senator North Carolina Walter R. Stiness, Brown 1877, Rhode Island (Rep.) James McLachlan, Hamilton 1878, California (Rep.) Thomas B. Kyle, Dartmouth 1880, Ohio (Rep.) Frederick C. Stevens, Bowdoin 1881, Minnesota (Rep.) Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Bowdoin 1881, Maine (Rep.) John A. Dix, Cornell 1883, Governor of New York Gonzalo de Quesada, CCNY 1888, architect of Cuban Independence Movement (statue at Havana Park)
John H. Bartlett, Dartmouth 1894, Governor of New Hampshire Joseph Irwin France, Hamilton 1895, US Senator from Maryland Rollin B. Sanford, Tufts 1897, New York (Rep.) James A. Hamilton, Rochester 1898, New York Secretary of State Harlan W. Rippey, Rochester 1898, US District Court Judge/New York Court of Appeal Judge Earle S. Warner, Hobart 1902, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur W. Coolidge, Tufts 1903, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts William F. Love, Rochester 1903, New York Supreme Court Justice Frank Henry Buck, Berkeley 1907, California (Dem.) Maurice E. Crumpacker, Michigan 1909, Oregon (Rep.) Allen J. Furlow, Michigan 1916, Minnesota (Rep.) Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, US Chamber of Commerce President Irving M. Ives, Hamilton 1919, Senator New York Louis P. Beaubien, McGill 1925, Senator of Canada from Quebec Lane Dwinell, Dartmouth 1928, Governor of New Hampshire Herman T. Schneebeli, Dartmouth 1930, Pennsylvania (Rep.) Philleo Nash, Wisconsin 1932, Presidential Adviser for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, led integration of US Armed Forces Henry P. Smith, Dartmouth 1933, New York (Rep.)
John W. Tuthill, William and Mary 1932, Ambassador to Brazil Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan 1940, Michigan (Rep.) Robert L. Leggett, Berkeley 1948, California (Rep.) Joseph B. Benedetti, William and Mary 1951, Virginia (Rep.) Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin 1953, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jerry Lewis, UCLA 1956, California (Rep.) Wesley C. Uhlman, Washington 1956, Mayor of Seattle Hugh Rodham, Penn State 1972, Public Defender and Brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton Bruce Rauner, Dartmouth 1978, Governor of Illinois Michael K. Powell, William and Mary 1985, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission
Education Elmer H. Capen, Tufts 1860, President of Tufts University William Leslie Hooper, Tufts 1877, Acting President of Tufts University Frederick W. Hamilton, Tufts 1880, President of Tufts University Ernest W. Huffcut, Cornell 1884, Dean of Cornell Law School, Legal Advisor to New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown 1893, President of Amherst College Guy S. Ford, Wisconsin 1895, President of University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa Hollis Godfrey, Tufts 1895, President of Drexel University Samuel P. Capen, Tufts 1898, President of the University of Buffalo Frank E. Compton, Wisconsin 1898, Creator of Compton's Encyclopedia Edmund Ezra Day, Dartmouth 1905, President of Cornell University Chauncey S. Boucher, Michigan 1909, President of University of West Virginia/Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Robert E. Doherty, Illinois 1909, President of Carnegie Mellon University Erwin Schell, MIT 1912, Dean of MIT Department of Business and Engineering Leonard Carmichael, Tufts 1921, President of Tufts University, Secretary of Smithsonian Alvin D. Chandler, William and Mary 1922, President of College of William and Mary Francis H. Horn, Dartmouth 1930, President of the University of Rhode Island Norman Topping, Washington 1930, Chancellor of the University of Southern California Julian Gibbs, Amherst 1946, President of Amherst College Richard M. Freeland, Amherst 1963, President of Northeastern University
Scholarship William Leete Stone, Jr., Brown 1858, historian Stephen M. Babcock, Tufts 1886, inventor of the Babcock Centrifuge (butterfat testing) Henry Crampton, CCNY 1893, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Herbert E. Bolton, Wisconsin 1895, President of the American Historical Association Carlos Baker, Dartmouth 1932, Hemingway biographer, scholar of Princeton University
Lester C. Thurow, Williams 1960, Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management
Military Raymond W. Bliss, Tufts 1910, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Army John W. Cudmore, Toronto 1958, surgeon and US Army major general Silas B. Hays, Iowa State 1924, former Surgeon General of the United States Army Arthur Japy Hepburn, Dickinson 1896, Admiral Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet William Lamb, William and Mary 1853, Civil War "Hero of Fort Fisher" Benjamin P. Lamberton, Dickinson 1862, Admiral U.S. Navy Donald B. MacMillan, Bowdoin 1897, Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral, U.S.N. Robert Lee Scott Jr., Arizona State 1932, U.S. General Franklin Guest Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1859, U.S. Army brigadier general Eben Swift, Dickinson 1874, Major General U.S. Army Henry Goddard Thomas, Bowdoin 1858, Brigadier General U.S. Army first regular officer to command United States Colored Troops Colonel William Loyd Osborne, UCLA 1936, Assistant Chief of Staff at the 6th Army, Presidio of San Francisco. Distinguished Service Cross, Combat Infantry Badge, and inductee to the Ranger Hall of Fame.
Architecture John William Merrow, Dartmouth 1897 Raymond M. Hood, Brown 1902, Rockefeller Center and Chicago Tribune
Business Howard Melville Hanna, Union 1859, President of M.A. Hanna Co. and Globe Iron Works Eugene Grace, Lehigh 1899, Chairman of the Board of Bethlehem Steel Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin 1902, President of the Manufacturers Trust Co
Dwight Follett, Illinois 1925, President of Follett Corporation Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., Brown 1932, President of TWA, Chancellor of Brown University Charles K. Fletcher Jr., Stanford 1950, Chairman of the Home Federal Saving Assoc Mark H. McCormack, William and Mary 1950, CEO International Management Group William J. Henry, William and Mary 1963, President Time Life Books, Inc. Michael R. Burns, Arizona State 1980, Vice Chairman of Lionsgate Jack D. Furst, Arizona State 1981, Partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. Robert Cleave, Arizona State University 1985, President and Chairman, Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Michael J. Saylor, MIT 1987, Founder MicroStrategy Tom First, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars Tom Scott, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars Samer Hamadeh, Stanford 1991, Co-founder of Vault.com
Engineering and science Alexander Lyman Holley, Brown 1853, Bessemer Steel, statue in Washington Square, NYC Frederick Vernon Coville, Cornell 1887, Botanist, Founder of the United States National Arboretum William Henry Brewer, Yale 1889, Botanist, Chair of Agriculture at Yale Charles Hook Tompkins, George Washington 1906, Founder of Charles H. Tompkins Construction Company Dan Geer, MIT 1972, computer security specialist Peter Diamandis, MIT 1983, space flight entrepreneur
Sport Edward Marsh, Lehigh 1894, gold medalist 1900 Olympics – rowing William Wilson Talcott, Michigan 1901, Quarterback of team inspiring "The Victors" Harold A. Fisher, CCNY 1902, College Basketball Hall of Fame Member, author of first college basketball rules Edward Lindberg, Tufts 1909, gold and bronze medalist at the 1912 Olympics - track Wally Snell, Brown 1913, player Boston Red Sox Leon Tuck, Dartmouth 1915, silver medalist 1920 Olympics – hockey Jackson Keefer, Brown 1925, All-American 1924, 1925, early NFL player Providence Steam Roller 1926, Dayton Triangles 1928 Walter Francis O'Malley, Pennsylvania 1926, owner of Brooklyn/LA Dodgers William F. McAfee, Jr., Michigan 1929, player Chicago White Sox John W. Allyn, Lafayette 1939, owner of Chicago White Sox Donald Canham, Michigan 1941, University of Michigan Athletic Director Harry Dalton, Amherst 1950, Executive VP Milwaukee Brewers William P. Ficker, Berkeley 1950, Winner of America's Cup Race Benjamin L. Abruzzo, Illinois 1952, Crewmember of "Double Eagle II" (first trans-Atlantic balloon flight) Mark Donohue, Brown 1959, Indianapolis 500 Winner Ned Gillette, Dartmouth 1967, Olympic skier and explorer Darrin Nelson, Stanford 1981, Stanford All-American, player Minnesota Vikings Jeffrey L. Ballard, Stanford 1982, baseball player for Baltimore Orioles Chuck Muncie, Berkeley 1975, player New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers James Lofton, Stanford 1978, NFL wide receiver, 2004 NFL Hall of Fame Inductee
Garin Veris, Stanford 1985, player New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers John Brody, Tufts 1995, Major League Baseball Senior VP of Corporate Sales and Marketing Sean Morey, Brown 1999, player New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Cardinals 1999–present Chas Gessner, Brown 2003, player New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2003–present Nick Thompson, Wisconsin 2004, MMA fighter Zak DeOssie, Brown 2007, player 2007 4th round draft pick New York Giants