Notable Phi Beta Kappa Members


Phi Beta Kappa members are dynamic civic and business leaders, noted scientists and researchers, artists and athletes, activists and philanthropists, technology innovators, and trailblazers in all walks of life. Regardless of discipline, all Phi Beta Kappa members represent outstanding academic achievement in the liberal arts and sciences, and a commitment to the spirit of learning for all of life. 
 

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Sonia Sotomayor


ΦBK, Princeton University

 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

W.E.B. Du Bois


ΦBK, Fisk University

 

Civil Rights Activist
& Author

Amanda Gorman


ΦBK, Harvard University

 

Poet & Activist

Ellen Ochoa


ΦΒΚ, San Diego
State University

 

Engineer & Astronaut

Stephen Sondheim


ΦΒΚ, Williams College

 

Composer & Lyricist

John Roberts


ΦBK, Harvard University

 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Ta-Nehisi Coates


ΦBK, Oregon State University

 

Author, Journalist &
Comic Book Writer

Mina Kimes


ΦBK, Yale University

 

Sports Journalist &
NFL Analyst

Kerry Washington


ΦBK, George Washington
University

 

Actor & Activist

Pete Buttigieg


ΦΒΚ, Harvard University

 

U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Dwight D. Eisenhower


ΦBK, Columbia University

 

U.S. President

Rita Dove


ΦBK, Miami University

 

U.S. Poet Laureate

Mazie Hirono


ΦBK, University of Hawaii

 

U.S. Senator

Christiane Amanpour


ΦBK, University of
Rhode Island

 

News Anchor & Journalist

Condoleeza Rice


ΦBK, University of Denver

 

U.S. Secretary of State

Franklin D. Roosevelt


ΦBK, Harvard University

 

U.S. President

Tristan Walker


ΦΒΚ, SUNY Stony Brook

 

Technology Entrepreneur
& Philanthropist

Roger Tsien


ΦBK, Harvard University

 

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Wes Moore


ΦBK, Johns Hopkins University

 

Author & Philantropist

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)


ΦBK, University of Missouri

 

Author & Humorist

Suzan-Lori Parks


ΦBK, Mount Holyoke College

 

Playwright & Screenwriter

Helen Keller


ΦBK, Harvard University

 

Author, Political Activist,
& Lecturer

Viet Thanh Nguyen


ΦBK, UC Berkeley

 

Novelist

Elijah Cummings


ΦBK, Howard University

 

Former
U.S. Representative

Vera Rubin


ΦBK, Vassar College

 

Astronomer

Siddhartha Mukherjee


ΦBK, Stanford University

 

Doctor & Author

Luis Walter Alvarez


ΦBK, University of Chicago

 

Physicist, Inventor, and
Nobel Prize Winner

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