If there is anything the general public knows about DKE, it is the names of some of the Fraternity's members. DKE is a small fraternity as fraternities go. What is exceptional about prominent DKE alumni is not that there are so many of them, but that they represent such a large percentage of the membership. Here are just a few... 

 

• Presidents of the United States
• Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi 
• Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha 
• Gerald R. Ford, Omicron 
• George H. 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 W. Bush, Phi, Texas
• Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, Louisiana
• Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska
• 105th U. S. Congress
• Senator Ted Stevens, Theta Rho, Alaska
• Senator John Chaffee, Phi, Rhode Island
• Congressman Bob Livingston, Tau Lambda, Louisiana
• 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