Notable and Famous Former Debaters
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
Jackson Browne, singer/songwriter
Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States
Marsha Clark, prosecutor
Johnny Cochran, defense attorney
Harry Connick, Jr., singer/songwriter
William Jefferson Clinton, former President of the United States
Thomas Foley, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
John Graham, Director, Institute for Policy Studies at Harvard
Phil Gramm, U.S. Senator and Republican Candidate for President
Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
Arianna Huffington, conservative TV commentator
Lee Iacocca, CEO Chrysler
Lyndon Johnson, former President of the United States
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States
Gerald Kogan, former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Allan Lichtman, political commentator and analyst
Richard Lugar, U.S. Senate and Republican candidate for President
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
Michael Mazarr, Analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Editor of the Washington Quarterly
George McGovern, former member of the U.S. Senate and Democratic Presidential Candidate
Zell Miller, former Governor of Georgia
Edmund Muskie, former member of the U.S. Senate and Candidate for Vice President and Secretary of State
Richard Nixon, former President of the United States
Jane Pauley, news anchor
Brad Pitt, Hollywood actor
Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas
Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and director of the Department of Homeland Security
Hillary Rodham Clinton, NY senator and former First Lady of the United States
Susan Rook, News Anchor for CNN
Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
Franklin Roosevelt, former President of the United States
Antonin Scalia, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Ted Sorenson, Presidential speechwriter
Michael Stipe, lead singer of REM
Larry Summers, former economic advisor to the World Bank and President Clinton
G. Maxwell Taylor, former Joint Chiefs of Staff
Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain
Laurence Tribe, Preeminent Constitutional Law Scholar
Ted Turner, owner of CNN
Woodrow Wilson, former President of the United States
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host