List of American University people

This is a sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to the American University in Washington, D.C.

Notable alumni This is a list of notable alumni of AU. Some particularly notable individuals are also listed in the main University article. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The degree, school and year of graduation is noted when available.

Government, politics, society, and royalty Atiaf Alwazir – Lebanese human rights activist Erik Altieri – executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), CAS Charles R. Black, Jr. – chief campaign adviser for Senator John McCain in the 2008 US presidential election; lobbyist for BKSH & Associates Juan Mari Brás – Puerto Rican independence advocate, founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, WCL Julie E. Cram – lobbyist and Republican operative Quentin Fulks – campaign manager, SPA/MA '15 Patricia Harrison – co-chair of the Republican National Committee, SIS Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – politician, son of Vice President Hubert Humphrey Princess Iman – daughter of King Hussein bin Talal and Queen Noor of Jordan, half-sister to King Abdullah II of Jordan Julia Imene-Chanduru – diplomat, has served as deputy permanent representative of Namibia to the United Nations in New York and permanent representative of Namibia to the United Nations Office in Geneva Paul D. Irving – sergeant-at-arms of the United States House of Representatives Sara Dunlap Jackson – National Archives and Records Administration archivist, Military Archives Division Nancy Jacobson – Democratic Party fundraiser, SPA/MA Rosalie Gardiner Jones – suffragette, DCL '22 Prince Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain – son of Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince and prime minister of Bahrain Victor Kamber – labor union activist and political consultant WCL/JD Petra Kelly – founder of Germany's Green Party, SIS/BA '70 Pan Suk Kim – South Korean professor of public administration, researcher, scholar Koko Kondo, born Koko Tanimoto – prominent atomic bomb survivor (Hiroshima) and international peace activist, '69 Corey Lewandowski – campaign manager for Senator Bob Smith and Donald Trump Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen – lawyer, member of the Ethiopian imperial family Mindy Myers – Democratic political strategist and campaign executive, SPA/BA '98 Bob Odell – former member of the New Hampshire Senate. Alice Paul – feminist, author of the Equal Rights Amendment, WCL/LLM '27 PhD '28 Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo – daughter of Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet Nicholas Sarwark – chairman of the U.S. Libertarian Party (2014–present) V. Lance Tarrance, Jr. – leading Republican Party pollster and political strategist, SPA/MA Edmundo González Urrutia – diplomat and president-elect of Venezuela Edward von Kloberg III – lobbyist, CAS

Foreign heads of state, deputy heads of state, and ministers Pongpol Adireksarn – deputy prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand Lisiate ‘Akolo – member of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga and Cabinet of Tonga minister for Labour, Commerce and Industries Julius Maada Bio – current president and former military head of state of Sierra Leone under the National Provisional Ruling Council junta government of 1996, SIS/MA Allen Chastanet – former prime minister of Saint Lucia Sheikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa – crown prince and prime minister of Bahrain; Commander-In-Chief of the Bahrain Defense Force, SPA '92 Ousmane Issoufi Maïga – prime minister of the Republic of Mali Keith Mitchell – prime minister of Grenada, CAS/PhD '79 Samuel Lewis Navarro – first vice president and foreign minister of Panama, KSB/MBA '81 Longin Pastusiak – marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, '62 Mauricio Pimiento – senator of Colombia; governor of the Cesar Department of Colombia, WCL Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer – president of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government of 2004–2005, vice president of Iraq under the Iraqi Transitional Government of 2005

Ambassadors, diplomats, and foreign ministers Morton I. Abramowitz – United States ambassador to Turkey and Thailand; director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Liliana Ayalde – United States ambassador to Brazil Doreen Bogdan-Martin – director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union; candidate for secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, SIS/MA Herman Jay Cohen – United States ambassador to Gambia and Senegal, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, SIS/MA '62 John B. Craig – United States ambassador to Oman; director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State, SIS/BA Arturo Cruz, Jr. – ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States David B. Dunn – United States ambassador to Togo and Zambia, MA Murat Salim Esenli – ambassador of Turkey to China, SPA/BA '84 Marc Ginsberg – United States ambassador to Morocco, BA Reno L. Harnish – United States ambassador to Azerbaijan, SIS/MA Cam Henderson – former chief of Protocol of the United States Cameron R. Hume – United States ambassador to Indonesia Abdul Ilah Khatib – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan; United Nations special envoy to Libya during the 2011 Libyan civil war, SIS/MA Carol Laise – United States ambassador to Nepal, director general of the United States Foreign Service and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, SPA/BA '38 Nizar Bin Obaid Madani – deputy foreign minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, SIS/MA '71, SIS/PhD '77 Jean Elizabeth Manes – current civilian deputy and foreign policy advisor to General Laura J. Richardson, former United States ambassador to El Salvador, SPA/MPA '96 Francis E. Meloy, Jr. – United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Lebanon; assassinated in Beirut in 1976 Connie Morella – United States ambassador to the OECD, former US representative, professor at Hamline University Vincent Obsitnik – United States ambassador to Slovakia; business executive at IBM, Unisys and Litton, KSB/MBA Charles Pergler – ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the United States and Japan, WCL/LLM John Peurifoy – United States ambassador to Greece, Thailand and Guatemala Khadija al-Salami – press and cultural attaché and director of the Yemeni Information Centre at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris; first female Yemeni film producer, SOC '90 Omar Samad – ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada, former CNN analyst Saeed Mohammed Al Shamsi – ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Germany, Australia, India and New Zealand, SIS/PhD Kantathi Suphamongkhon – foreign minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, former Thai member of Parliament, SIS/MA Lawrence Palmer Taylor – United States ambassador to Estonia, MA Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani – State of Qatar ambassador to the United States of America Esteban Edward Torres – ambassador to UNESCO; United States representative from California, '66 Richard Verma – United States ambassador to India Richard Noyes Viets – United States ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan Marilyn Ware – United States ambassador to Finland Dessima Williams – ambassador of Grenada to the United Nations, PhD Curtin Winsor, Jr. – United States ambassador to Costa Rica, SIS/MA '64, SIS/PhD'71

United States senators and representatives Ken Bentsen, Jr. – United States representative from Texas, SPA/MPA '85 James Bilbray – United States representative from Nevada; Nevada state senator, CAS/BA '62, WCL/JD '65 Don Bonker – United States representative from Washington, MA Dave Brat – United States representative from Virginia, chair of the Economics Department of Randolph–Macon College, CAS/PhD '95 Julia Brownley – United States representative from California, MBA '79 Robert Byrd – United States senator from West Virginia, WCL '63 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. – United States representative from South Carolina, governor of South Carolina, SPA/MA '85 Thomas Downey – United States representative from New York, WCL/JD '80 Gwen Graham – United States representative from Florida, WCL/JD '88 Lawrence Joseph Hogan – United States representative from Maryland, county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, '65 Tim Huelskamp – United States representative from Kansas; Kansas state senator, SPA/PhD '95 Chris Jacobs – United States representative from New York, MA Michael J. Kopetski – United States representative from Oregon, BA '71 Rick Lazio – United States representative from New York, WCL Donald Manzullo – United States representative from Illinois, SPA '67 Betsy Markey – United States representative from Colorado, MPA '83 Sarah McBride – United States representative from Delaware's at-large congressional district BA ‘13 Donald McEachin– United States representative from Virginia, BS '82 Jim McGovern – United States representative from Massachusetts, CAS/BA '81, SPA/MA '84 Connie Morella – United States representative from Maryland, United States ambassador to the OECD, MA '67 Mike Panetta – United States shadow representative from the District of Columbia, SPA '93, '94 Loretta Sanchez – United States representative from California, KSB '84 Edward Schrock – United States representative from Virginia MA ‘75 Bill Shuster – United States representative from Pennsylvania, KSB/MBA Bud Shuster – United States representative from Pennsylvania, PhD '67 Haley Stevens – United States representative from Michigan Paul Strauss – United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia, SPA '86, WCL '93 Robin Tallon – United States representative from South Carolina, BA '94 Esteban Edward Torres – United States representative from California; ambassador to UNESCO, '66 Susan Wild – United States representative from Pennsylvania BA ‘78

United States government and military William J. Boarman – Public Printer of the United States under President Barack Obama Walter E. Boomer – Marine Corps general and commanding officer of all Marines in the Gulf War Gary Cohn – director of the National Economic Council Julia Curlee – CIA officer and a director at the United States National Security Council Cari M. Dominguez – 12th chair of the United States' Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, SIS/BA, SIS/MA Kenneth Duberstein – White House Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan SPA/MA '66 Marguerite M. Engler – acting scientific director of the National Institute of Nursing Research's division of intramural research BS '78, MS '81 Arthur S. Flemming – United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, SPA/MA '28 Anne N. Foreman – former general counsel of the Air Force and United States Under Secretary of the Air Force, WCL Jacques Gansler – former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, CAS/PhD Faisal Gill – Department of Homeland Security senior policy adviser; Republican Virginia House of Delegates candidate, BA, WCL/JD Shuwanza Goff – political advisor, served as the director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs under Joe Biden, MA '08 Bo Gritz – United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War; radio host Paul Hackett – Iraq War veteran, 2006 United States Senate candidate from Ohio, and trial lawyer, Washington Semester Virginia Hall – spy during World War II; only civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross award during World War II Edward Lee Howard – CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 John Albert Knebel – United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford, WCL/JD '65 John Macy – director of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States Government administrator and civil servant Gordon H. Mansfield – United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, WCL Barry McCaffrey – White House drug czar under President Bill Clinton, retired United States Army general, NBC News and MSNBC military analyst