- Presidents of the United States
- Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi
- Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
- Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
- George H. W. Bush, Phi
- George W. Bush, Phi
- Vice Presidents of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
- Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
- George H. W. Bush, Phi
- J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi
- Sitting State Governors
- George Pataki, New York
- Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, Louisiana
- Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska
- Don Siegelman, Psi, Alabama
- 106th U. S. Congress
- Senator Ted Stevens, Theta Rho, Alaska
- Congressman Cass Ballenger, Sigma, North Carolina
- Congressman Pete Stark, Sigma Tau, California
- Newspaper Publishers & Editors
- Whitelaw Reid, Kappa, Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
- William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher, Hearst Newspapers
- Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho, Publisher, Los Angeles Times
- Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi, Publisher, Houston Chronicle
- Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
- Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher, Crain Communications
- Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
- John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi
- Harold H. Burton, Theta
- Potter Stuart, Phi
- Other Famous Dekes
- William Simon, Rho - Former Secretary of the Treasury
- John F. Akers, Phi - Past President of I.B.M.
- Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi - President of the Republic of
Cuba
- Charles Ives, Phi - Pulitzer Prize winner in Music
- Yuan Schikau, Phi - Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader
- Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the
C.I.A.
- Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal System
- Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge
- Robert A. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the North Pole
- Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut, walked on the moon
- Business Founders, Presidents, and Chairmen
- J. Pierpont Morgan, Alpha - financier
- Irving H. Chase, Phi - Chase Manhattan Bank
- Dean Witter, Jr., Phi - Dean Witter & Co.
- Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals
- William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum
- Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties
- Howard Johnson, Phi - Howard Johnson Motor Inns
- James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble
- Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines
- Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express
- Prominent Sporting Figures
- Paul Brown, Kappa - coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of
Cincinnati Bengals
- Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys
- Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State football coach
- George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees
- Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold medals in swimming in 1964
Olympics
- Calvin Hill, Phi - Yale football star
- Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner of Major League Baseball
- In the Entertainment World
- Dick Clark, Phi Gamma - hosted American Bandstand
- Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor
- Cole Porter, Phi - composer
- Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer
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