Politics and Government:
* Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the United States)
* James Madison (4th President of the United States)
* Aaron Burr (3rd Vice President of the United States)
* Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th President of the United States)
* Jeff Bezos (Former CEO of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin)
* Michelle Obama (Former First Lady of the United States)
* Jeb Bush (Former Governor of Florida)
* John F. Kerry (Former Secretary of State)
* Mitt Romney (Former Governor of Massachusetts, Presidential Candidate)
* Al Gore (Former Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner)
* David S. Broder (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist)
Business and Finance:
* Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon)
* David S. Salomon (Former CEO of Salomon Brothers)
* John Sculley (Former CEO of Apple)
* Peter Thiel (Co-founder of PayPal, early investor in Facebook)
* Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX)
* David Einhorn (Hedge fund manager)
* Carl Icahn (Billionaire investor)
Science and Academia:
* Albert Einstein (Theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate)
* John Nash (Mathematician, Nobel laureate, subject of "A Beautiful Mind")
* Eric Kandel (Neuroscientist, Nobel laureate)
* Daniel Kahneman (Psychologist, Nobel laureate)
* Thomas S. Kuhn (Philosopher of science, author of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
* Freeman Dyson (Physicist, author of "Disturbing the Universe")
Arts and Literature:
* F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author of "The Great Gatsby")
* James Baldwin (Novelist, essayist, playwright)
* Toni Morrison (Novelist, Nobel laureate)
* Philip Roth (Novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner)
* John Updike (Novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner)
* Joshua Bell (Violinist)
* Yo-Yo Ma (Cellist)
Other Notable Figures:
* Malcolm X (Civil rights activist)
* John Forbes Nash Jr. (Mathematician, Nobel laureate, subject of "A Beautiful Mind")
* David Brinkley (Television journalist)
* Stephen Sondheim (Composer and lyricist)
* Brian Williams (Television journalist)
This is just a small sampling of the many famous individuals who have been part of the Princeton community. The university's impact on its graduates and their contributions to society is undeniable.