List of Princeton University people

This list of Princeton University people include notable alumni (graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated with Princeton University.

People who have given public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars; studied as non-degree students; received honorary degrees; or served as administrative staff at the university are excluded from the list.

Summer school attendees and visitors are generally excluded from the list, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years.

President of the Medical Association of China Albert Einstein was one of many scholars at the independent Institute for Advanced Study not formally associated with the university but nevertheless closely linked to it.

Here are listed alumni who made notable contributions to science and technology outside academia.

James Madison , Father of the U.S. Constitution , fourth President of the United States , member of the Princeton Class of 1771, and Princeton's first graduate student.