Many important Americans studied abroad as part of their undergraduate and graduate educations. Take a look and see who you recognize on this list. This is just a sampling of the leaders who have studied abroad. Why don’t you join them?
Maya Angelou, Poet
Curtis Barnette, Chairman, Bethlehem Steel
James Billington, Librarian of Congress
Hal Bruno, Political Director, ABC news
Wesley Clark, General, USA (ret'd)
Bill Clinton, 42nd President
Rita Dove, U.S. Poet laureate
W.E.B. Dubois, Author/educator
Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropologist
Renee Fleming, Soprano
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winning economist
Theodore Seuss Geisel, Author
Margaret Greenfield, Washington Post
Joseph Heller, Author
John Hersey, Author
John Irving, Author
Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
John Lithgow, Actor
Thomas Pickering, Diplomat and business leader
Sylvia Plath, Author
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director, CIA
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
Walt Rostow, Presidential Adviser
James Watson, Nobel Prize Winning biochemist
Gene Wilder, Actor
George Will, Syndicated Columnist
Many past and present senators and congressman, including Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell, Thad Cochran, Katherine Harris, Richard Lugar, Paul Sarbanes, David Vitter, Heather Wilson, Daniel P. Moynihan and John Tower.