Alpha Delta Phi is a social fraternity located in colleges and university in North America. It has both collegiate and honorary members. Following are some of its notable members.
Name | Chapter | Notable | Reference |
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George Fisk Comfort | Middletown | art historian, founder the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Everson Museum of Art | [1] |
Louis Agassiz Fuertes | Cornell | ornithological artist | [2] |
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin | Amherst | Architect, author, and instructor at Columbia School of Engineering | [3] |
Daniel Huntington | Hamilton | Hudson River School artist | [3] |
Stephen Irwin | Toronto | architect | [4] |
Russell Sturgis | Manhattan | Architect and art critic | [3] |
William Robert Ware | Harvard | architect, professor of architecture at MIT, founded the School of Architecture at Columbia University | [3] |
Name | Chapter | Notability | Reference |
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Bernie Bierman | Minnesota | University of Minnesota football coach | [5] |
Andy Enfield | Johns Hopkins | head basketball coach at University of Southern California | [6] |
Robert Garrett | Princeton | Olympic medalist | [7] |
Jeremy Glick | Rochester | U.S. National Collegiate judo champion, 9/11 passenger | [8] |
Otto Graham | Northwestern | Pro Football Hall of Fame, professional football quarterback | [9] |
Terry Gurnett | Rochester | head coach of women's soccer, won 400 Division III games, setting a record | [10] |
Miller Pontius | Peninsular | All-American; assistant football coach, University of Tennessee and University of Michigan | [11] |
Dick Rifenburg | Peninsular | All-American End, University of Michigan; played with Detroit Lions, sports radio host | [12] |
Bill Smith | Hamilton | general manager of the Minnesota Twins | [13] |
Neil Snow | Peninsular | All-American football player | [14] |
Frank Steketee | Peninsular | All-American football player | [15] |
Joseph Wear | Yale | Olympic tennis medalist | [7] |
Jeremy Laurence | Kenyon | American college rugby coach |
Name | Chapter | Notability | Reference |
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Henry Ward Beecher | Amherst | congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker | [28] |
William Henry Goodrich | Yale | clergyman, namesake of the Goodrich Social Settlement | [29] |
Charles Edward Grinnell | Harvard | clergyman, lawyer, and writer | [2] |
Theodore B. Lyman | Hamilton | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina | [30] |
Herbert Shipman | Madison | suffragan bishop, Episcopal Diocese of New York | [2] |
Name | Chapter | Notability | Reference |
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Fredric March | Wisconsin | actor | [28] |
Chris Miller | Dartmouth | co-screenwriter, National Lampoon's Animal House | [57] [58] |
Ben Stein | Columbia | actor and author | [59] |
Grant Tinker | Dartmouth | president of NBC | [60] |
Franchot Tone | Cornell | actor | [61] |
Monty Woolley | Yale | actor | [62] |
Name | Chapter | Notable | Reference |
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Charles Francis Adam | Harvard | U.S. Secretary of the Navy | [7] |
Thomas Ewing Jr. | Brunonian | General, U.S. Army; chief justice Kansas Supreme Court, U.S. House of Representatives | [39] |
Jacob H. Sharp | Alabama | Brigadier General, Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army | [2] |
Henry E. Tremain | Manhattan | Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer | [2] |
Name | Chapter | Notability | Reference |
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Frederick Madison Allen | California | pioneer in diabetes | [87] |
Farrington Daniels | Minnesota | pioneer in solar energy; chairman of chemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison | [88] |
Michael Gazzaniga | Dartmouth | founder of the field of cognitive neuroscience | [89] |
Theodore Luqueer Mead | Cornell | Naturalist, entomologist, and horticulturist | [2] |
James Fraser Mustard | Toronto | scientist, co-founder, and dean of McMaster Faculty of Medicine | [34] |
Kenneth Ouriel | Rochester | vascular surgeon and chief of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic | [90] [91] |
Augustus Post | Amherst | aviation and automotive pioneer, founder of American Automobile Association | [92] |
Charles Wardell Stiles | Middletown | zoologist, parasitologist with U.S. Department of Agriculture | [3] |
Daniel M. Tani | Lambda Phi | NASA astronaut | [93] |
Josiah Whitney | Yale | California State Geologist; namesake of Mount Whitney | [2] |
Walter Wyman | Amherst | physician, Surgeon General of the United States | [3] |
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