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==Notable people==
{{Main|List of Brandeis University people}}
{{Cleanup gallery|date=April 2024}}

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File:Roderick MacKinnon, M.D..jpg|[[Roderick MacKinnon]] (BA, 1978) Winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2003
File:Drew Weissman Life Science medalist.jpg|[[Drew Weissman]] (BA, MA, 1981) Winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 2023
File:Edward Witten.jpg|[[Edward Witten]] (BA, 1971) Theoretical physicist and [[Fields Medal]] recipient
File:Leslie Lamport.jpg|[[Leslie Lamport]] (PhD, 1972) [[Turing Award]]–winning computer scientist and inventor of the first algorithm for reading the state of an arbitrary distributed system
File:Uhlenbeck Karen 1982 (cropped).jpg|[[Karen Uhlenbeck]] (PhD, 1968) First (and to-date only) woman to win the [[Abel Prize]] in Mathematics
File:Eve Marder.jpg|[[Eve Marder]] (BA, 1965) recipient of the [[Kavli Prize]] in Neuroscience (2016) and [[National Medal of Science|National Medals of Science]] (2023).
File:Robert Zimmer By Eric Guo.jpg|[[Robert Zimmer]] (BA, 1968) Mathematician and president of the [[University of Chicago]] from 2006 to 2021
File:Thomas Friedman 2005 (5).jpg|[[Thomas Friedman]] (BA, 1975) Three-time [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner
File:Margo Jefferson 2015.jpg|[[Margo Jefferson]] (BA, 1970) [[Pulitzer Prize for Criticism]] winner
File:Vbalki.jpg|[[V. Balakrishnan (physicist)]] (PhD, 1970) Indian theoretical physicist
File:Mitch Albom's book signing 2010-09-02.jpg|[[Mitch Albom]] (BA, 1979) New York Times Best Selling Author of ''[[Tuesdays with Morrie]]''
File:Angela Davis crop.png|[[Angela Davis]] (BA, 1965) American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author
File:Adam Cheyer, 2008.png|[[Adam Cheyer]] (BA, 1988) Co-founder of [[Siri]] and former director of engineering for the [[iPhone]]
File:Christie Hefner.jpg|[[Christie Hefner]] (BA, 1974) Former CEO of [[Playboy Enterprises]].
File:Debra Messing at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|[[Debra Messing]] (BA, 1990) Emmy Award–winning actress
File:David I. Kertzer historian.jpg|[[David Kertzer]] (PhD 1974) [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize–winning]] historian (2014).
File:Sidney blumenthal 2006.jpg|[[Sidney Blumenthal]] (BA, 1969) Journalist and political operative known for his association with [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]] 
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Among the better-known graduates are co-creators of the television show ''[[Friends]]'' [[David Crane (producer)|David Crane]] and [[Marta Kauffman]], political activists [[Abbie Hoffman]] and [[Angela Yvonne Davis|Angela Davis]], journalists [[Thomas Friedman]] and [[Paul Solman]], Congressman [[Stephen J. Solarz]], physicist and Fields medalist [[Edward Witten]], mathematician and Abel Prize recipient [[Karen Uhlenbeck]], novelist [[Ha Jin]], political theorist [[Michael Walzer]], actresses [[Debra Messing]] and [[Loretta Devine]], philosopher [[Michael Sandel]], olympic silver medalist fencer [[Tim Morehouse]], social and psychoanalytic theorist [[Nancy Chodorow]], author [[Mitch Albom]], filmmakers [[Debra Granik]] and [[Jonathan Newman]], music producer [[Jon Landau]],<ref>{{Cite web|title = Jon Landau '68 {{!}} Brandeis Magazine|url = http://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2013/summer/featured-stories/bq-landau.html|website = Brandeis Magazine|access-date = 2015-09-05|archive-date = 2015-09-05|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150905100844/http://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2013/summer/featured-stories/bq-landau.html|url-status = live}}</ref> and computer scientist [[Leslie Lamport]].

Among the distinguished faculty, present and past, are mathematician [[Heisuke Hironaka]], a Fields medalist, biologists and Nobel laureates [[Michael Rosbash]] and [[Jeffrey C. Hall]], composers [[Arthur Victor Berger|Arthur Berger]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Martin Boykan]], [[Eric Chasalow]], [[Irving Fine]], [[Donald Martino]], [[David Rakowski]], [[Harold Shapero]], and [[Yehudi Wyner]], social theorist [[Herbert Marcuse]], psychologist [[Abraham Maslow]], linguist [[James Pustejovsky]], human rights activist [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Anita Hill]], historian [[David Hackett Fischer]], economist [[Thomas Sowell]], chemist [[S Katharine Hammond]], diplomat [[Dennis Ross]], children's author [[Margret Rey]], former United States Secretary of Labor [[Robert Reich]], sociologist [[Morrie Schwartz]], poets [[Olga Broumas]] and [[Adrienne Rich]], author [[Stephen McCauley]], virologist and author of [[Fields Virology]] [[Bernard N. Fields]] and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist [[Eileen McNamara]].