Prominent Alumni

Presidents
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt*
- Gerald R. Ford
- George H.W. Bush
- George W. Bush

 Politicians
- Ted Stevens (Sen. from Alaska)
- George Pataki (Governor of NY)
- Dean Acheson (Sec. of State)
- Sidney Souers (Founder of the CIA)
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Sen. from Mass.)

 Dekes Who Weren't Republicans
- Franklin D. Roosevelt*
- Sargent Schriver (Peace Corps.)
- Edward Bellamy (socialist writer)
- Cole Porter (Broadway composer)

Sports Figures
- George Steinbrenner
- Thomas Landry
- Calvin Hill
Modern Tycoons
- Herb Kelleher (Southwest Air)
- Don Fisher (The Gap)
- Fred Smith (FedEx)
- Theodore J. Forstmann (finance)
- Craig McCaw (communications) 

 Old-School Tycoons
- John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
- Irving Chase
- Otis Chandler
- William Randolph Hearst
- Howard Heinz

 Scientists
- Melvil Dewey (information science)
- Edward Bausch (optics)
- John F Enders (1954 Nobel Prize)

Ubermen
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan)
- Harold Janss, (Founder of Westwood and early supporter of our chapter)

* Franklin Roosevelt was a member of a defunct chapter at Harvard.