List of Peace Corps volunteers

Business

• Patricia Cloherty, Chairman and CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners, former Chairman of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund, Deputy Administration for the U.S. Small Business Administration
• Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix
• Michael McCaskey, chairman of the board, Chicago Bears
• Bob Haas, Chairman Emeritus of Levi Strauss & Co., son of Walter A. Haas Jr., and the great-great-grandnephew of the company's founder, Levi Strauss
• Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

  Journalists

• T. D. Allman, journalist/author
• Peter Hessler, author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze; Oracle Bones; Country Driving. Staff writer, New Yorker
• Roger K. Lewis, Washington Post columnist, architect, author, cartoonist
• Maureen Orth, journalist, author, and a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine
• George Packer, journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
• Ben Bradlee Jr., journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years
• Tony D'Souza, novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel and short story writer
• Leon Dash, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post
• Arnold Hano, editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work, A Day in the Bleachers, frequent contributor to such publications as The New York Times, Sport, Sports Illustrated, and TV Guide
• Laurence Leamer, associate editor at Newsweek anc contributor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and Playboy

  Literature and non-fiction

• Mildred D. Taylor, African-American writer known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South
• Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong, The Tie That Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Eventide, Benediction, Our Souls at Night
• Paul Theroux, author of Mosquito Coast and Great Railway Bazaar
• Roland Merullo, author of Leaving Losapas, In Revere, In Those Days, Breakfast with Buddha,
• Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Island, winner of the American Book Award
• Moritz Thomsen, author of Living Poor
• Richard Wiley, author of Ahmed's Revenge and Soldiers in Hiding, winner of PEN/Faulkner Award
• Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist
• George B. Hutchinson, Author of In Search of Nella Larsen
• Charles Murray, American libertarian political scientist, author, and columnist. Well known for Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 and his controversial book The Bell Curve
• John Perkins, Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Mark T. Sullivan, author who writes mystery and suspense novels with James Patterson

  Art and architecture

• Martin Puryear, sculptor
• Wayne Chabre, sculptor
• Joel Shapiro, sculptor
• Roger K. Lewis, architect, professor of architecture, journalist

  Music

• Kinky Friedman, Texas singer, songwriter, novelist, politician
• Mary Kim Joh, Korean-American music composer, academic and medical research scientist.

  Television, film, theater, and radio

• Chris Matthews, host of NBC's Hardball
• Bob Vila, Host of Television show "This Old House"
• Bob Beckel, political analyst, Bob Beckel & Associates
• Taylor Hackford, movie producer of Ray, An Officer and a Gentleman; and The Devil's Advocate
• Joanie Laurer, American professional wrestler, glamour model, pornographic film actress, and bodybuilder.
• Richard Sanders, actor best known for playing Les Nessman on WKRP in Cincinnati
• Marco Werman, Werman is the host of Public Radio International's The World
• Marissa Aroy, Filipino-American director and producer. She directed the documentaries Sikhs in America
• Rajiv Joseph, American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist
• Milt Kogan, actor
• Judith Dwan Hallet, Documentary filmmaker

  Activism and aid

• Ken Hackett, president, Catholic Relief Services and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See
• Sapreet Kaur, civil rights activist and executive director of the Sikh Coalition
• Cindy Marano, economic justice and women's rights activist
• Carl Pope, former Executive Director of the Sierra Club
• Gregory Stanton, He is the founder and president of Genocide Watch, the founder and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the founder and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide

  Government

• M. Peter McPherson, served as a special assistant to President Gerald Ford, administrator of USAID
• Timothy Kraft, retired political consultant; campaign manager in 1980 for U.S. President Jimmy Carter
• John T. Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 2009–2013
• Peter Navarro, American heterodox economist, who currently serves as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Industrial Policy, and the Director of the White House National Trade Council
• Robert Pastor, member of the National Security Council

  Elected office

• Christopher Dodd, Former U.S. Senator, Connecticut
• Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin and wife Jessica Doyle
• Steve Driehaus, U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Sam Farr, U.S. Representative from California
• John Garamendi, State of California Insurance Commissioner, US Congressman from California
• Tony P. Hall, Former US Congressman from Ohio, Former Ambassador to the FAO
• Joseph P. Kennedy III, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Mike Honda, U.S. Representative from California
• Thomas J. Murphy Jr., mayor of the City of Pittsburgh, PA
• Thomas Petri, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Michael A. Rice, Rhode Island State Representative
• Christopher Shays, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut
• Bob Taft, served as governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007.
• Paul Tsongas Former US Senator, candidate for President in 1992
• James Walsh, former U.S. Representative from New York
• Mike Ward, former U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• Paul B. Henry, former U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Tom Wolf, 47th and current Governor of Pennsylvania,
• Jason Carter Lawyer and politician from the state of Georgia. Carter is a former state senator and was the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor
• Chris Beutler, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
• Jim Courter, Former U.S. Representatives from New Jersey
• Kitty Piercy, Mayor of Eugene, Oregon
• Rodger Randle, former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma

  Peace Corps Directors

• Aaron S. Williams, former Peace Corps Director,
• Ron Tschetter, 17th Director of The Peace Corps
• Carol Bellamy, 13th Director of the Peace Corps, former head of UNESCO, president of World Learning
• Mark Schneider, former Peace Corps Director, senior vice president of International Crisis Group
• Carrie Hessler-Radelet, the 19th Director of the Peace Corps,
• Mark L. Schneider, The 15th Director of the Peace Corps,

  Law

• Drew S. Days III, served as United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton and first African American Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1980
• Jim Gray, American jurist and writer. Presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California and vice presidential nominee for the libertarian party in 2012
• Sarah Parker, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court

  Foreign service

• Christopher R. Hill, American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from 2009 to 2010
• Vicki Huddleston, ambassador to Mali and Madagascar, Charge de affaires to Haiti and Ethiopia, and Principal Officer to the US Interests Section in Havana
• Darryl N. Johnson, ambassador to Thailand
• Kathleen Stephens, ambassador to South Korea
• Victor L. Tomseth, ambassador to Laos and hostage in the Iran hostage crisis
• Richard Boucher, American diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2009 until 2013
• Robert Blackwill, United States Ambassador to India, and United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq
• Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Malta
• Charles C. Adams Jr., former United States Ambassador to Finland,
• Frank Almaguer, served as United States Ambassador to Honduras
• Michael R. Arietti, United States ambassador to the nation of Rwanda
• Michael Corbin, United States Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
• Joseph R. Donovan Jr., diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Indonesia
• Laurence Foley, American diplomat who was assassinated outside his home in Amman, Jordan.
• Gordon Gray III, Minister-Counselor and former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia
• Edmund Hull, United States Ambassador to Yemen
• John Limbert, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran
• Stephen Schwartz United States Ambassador to Somalia
• J. Christopher Stevens, former U.S. Ambassador to Libya
• Larry L. Palmer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States.

  Education

• James H. Fowler, American social scientist specializing in social networks, cooperation, political participation, and genopolitics
• Victor H. Mair, American Sinologist and professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania
• Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Allan Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan
• Clark Gibson, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
• Roger K. Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of Maryland
• William G. Moseley, Professor of Geography, Macalester College
• Joseph Opala, Historian at James Madison University, studied the "Sierra Leone-Gullah Connection"
• Michael A. Rice, professor, University of Rhode Island
• Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Michael J. Snarskis, Archaeologist, University of Costa Rica, Discoverer of Guardiria - the first area of human occupation in Costa Rica
• Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He contributes to the "Economic View" column, which appears every fifth Sunday in The New York Times
• Dirk Ballendorf, Guamanian historian and professor of Micronesian studies
• Guy Consolmagno, American research astronomer, Jesuit religious brother, and Director of the Vatican Observatory.
• José Gómez, labor and civil rights activist and educator
• Bruce Cumings, American historian of East Asia, former chair of the history department at the University of Chicago
• John Haugeland, chair of the Chicago philosophy department
• Joseph S. Murphy, American President of Queens College, President of Bennington College, and Chancellor of the City University of New York

  Science and medicine

• Mae Jemison, American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut
• Joseph M. Acaba, American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut
• Ina May Gaskin, Certified Professional Midwife, author, known as the "Mother of Modern Midwifery"
• Charles Snead Houston, high-altitude medical researcher and mountaineer
• Gene Carl Feldman, oceanographer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Carle M. Pieters, noted American planetary scientist

  Other

• Lillian Carter nurse, mother of President Jimmy Carter