Daily broadsheet, published since 1877. Acquired at auction from Edward McLean in 1933 by Eugene Meyer; the paper was then passed through the Graham Family until 2013, when the Post was sold to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. See also The Washington Post Co..
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Maryon Allen |
Politician |
30-Nov-1925 |
|
US Senator from Alabama, 1978 |
| Mike Allen |
Journalist |
21-Jun-1964 |
|
Politico |
| Joseph Alsop |
Journalist |
11-Oct-1910 |
28-Aug-1989 |
Matter of Fact |
| Jack Anderson |
Columnist |
19-Oct-1922 |
17-Dec-2005 |
Uncovered CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro |
| Anne Applebaum |
Author |
25-Jul-1964 |
|
Gulag: A History |
| Chuck Babington |
Journalist |
? |
|
Washington Post political editor |
| Peter Baker |
Journalist |
c. 1964 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Dan Balz |
Journalist |
c. 1946 |
|
Washington Post political reporter |
| Michael Barone |
Pundit |
19-Sep-1944 |
|
Almanac of American Politics |
| Peter Beinart |
Columnist |
1971 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Peter Benchley |
Novelist |
8-May-1940 |
11-Feb-2006 |
Jaws |
| Carl Bernstein |
Journalist |
14-Feb-1944 |
|
Broke the Watergate story |
| Clifford K. Berryman |
Cartoonist |
2-Apr-1869 |
11-Dec-1949 |
Political cartoonist |
| Jeffrey H. Birnbaum |
Columnist |
c. 1955 |
|
K Street Confidential |
| Joan Biskupic |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
USA Today Supreme Court reporter |
| Douglas A. Blackmon |
Journalist |
6-Sep-1964 |
|
Slavery by Another Name |
| Ben Bradlee |
Editor |
26-Aug-1921 |
21-Oct-2014 |
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| David Broder |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1929 |
9-Mar-2011 |
Washington Post reporter |
| David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Tina Brown |
Editor |
21-Nov-1953 |
|
Powerhouse magazine editor |
| Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
| Elisabeth Bumiller |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
New York Times Washington correspondent |
| Lou Cannon |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1933 |
|
Reagan |
| Chris Cillizza |
Journalist |
20-Feb-1976 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Richard Cohen |
Columnist |
1941 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Steve Coll |
Journalist |
8-Oct-1958 |
|
Ghost Wars |
| Bob Considine |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1906 |
25-Sep-1975 |
Ghostwriter, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
| Janet Cooke |
Journalist |
23-Jul-1954 |
|
Caught writing fake news |
| Timothy Curran |
Journalist |
? |
|
Roll Call editor |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Michael Drosnin |
Journalist |
c. 1944 |
|
The Bible Code |
| William M. Drozdiak |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
American Council on Germany |
| Ervin S. Duggan |
Government |
30-Jun-1939 |
|
CEO of PBS, 1994-99 |
| David A. Fahrenthold |
Journalist |
c. 1978 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Jonathan Finer |
Journalist |
c. 1976 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| Dan Froomkin |
Columnist |
c. 1963 |
|
Huffington Post writer and media critic |
| Michael Gerson |
Politician |
1965 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Philip Geyelin |
Journalist |
27-Feb-1923 |
9-Jan-2004 |
Former editor, The Washington Post |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
Columnist |
3-Sep-1963 |
|
The Tipping Point |
| James Glassman |
Publisher |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Roll Call editor |
| Jeffrey Goldberg |
Journalist |
22-Sep-1965 |
|
Atlantic Monthly |
| Donald E. Graham |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1945 |
|
CEO of Washington Post |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Philip L. Graham |
Publisher |
18-Jul-1915 |
3-Aug-1963 |
Washington Post publisher, 1947-63 |
| Meg Greenfield |
Journalist |
27-Dec-1930 |
13-May-1999 |
The Washington Post |
| Lloyd Grove |
Columnist |
c. 1954 |
|
Gossip columnist |
| George Hager |
Journalist |
c. 1950 |
|
USA Today economics reporter |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| John F. Harris |
Journalist |
c. 1963 |
|
Politico editor-in-chief |
| Louis Harris |
Business |
6-Jan-1921 |
|
Pollster, Louis Harris and Associates |
| Sam Harris |
Author |
9-Apr-1967 |
|
The End of Faith |
| Paul Hendrickson |
Author |
29-Apr-1944 |
|
Hemingway's Boat |
| Herblock |
Cartoonist |
13-Oct-1909 |
7-Oct-2001 |
Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post |
| Fred Hiatt |
Columnist |
30-Apr-1955 |
|
Washington Post Editorial Page Editor |
| Jim Hoagland |
Journalist |
22-Jan-1940 |
|
The Washington Post |
| David E. Hoffman |
Journalist |
1953 |
|
The Dead Hand |
| Brit Hume |
Journalist |
22-Jun-1943 |
|
Fox News DC correspondent |
| Gwen Ifill |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1955 |
|
Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour |
| David Ignatius |
Columnist |
1950 |
|
Washington Post op-ed columnist |
| Michael Isikoff |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
Reporter who broke Lewinsky story |
| Susan Jacoby |
Author |
4-Jun-1945 |
|
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism |
| Haynes Johnson |
Journalist |
9-Jul-1931 |
24-May-2013 |
Sleepwalking Through History |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. |
Publisher |
1946 |
|
Washington Post publisher, 2000-08 |
| Robert Kagan |
Government |
26-Sep-1958 |
|
Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC |
| Robert G. Kaiser |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1943 |
|
So Damn Much Money |
| Michiko Kakutani |
Critic |
9-Jan-1955 |
|
Quirky New York Times book critic |
| Kitty Kelley |
Author |
4-Apr-1942 |
|
Controversial biogratrix |
| Ronald Kessler |
Journalist |
31-Dec-1943 |
|
Inside the CIA |
| Colbert King |
Columnist |
20-Sep-1939 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Michael Kinsley |
Pundit |
9-Mar-1951 |
|
Founding editor of Slate |
| Ezra Klein |
Journalist |
9-May-1984 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Kevin Klose |
Government |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of National Public Radio |
| Tony Kornheiser |
Journalist |
13-Jul-1948 |
|
Pardon the Interruption |
| Nick Kotz |
Journalist |
16-Sep-1932 |
|
Judgment Days |
| Charles Krauthammer |
Columnist |
13-Mar-1950 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Howard Kurtz |
Journalist |
1-Aug-1953 |
|
Media critic |
| Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
| David Laventhol |
Publisher |
15-Jul-1933 |
8-Apr-2015 |
President of Times Mirror, 1987-93 |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
Journalist |
15-Mar-1976 |
|
New York Times reporter |
| Thomas W. Lippman |
Journalist |
c. 1939 |
|
Washington Post Mideast Correspondent |
| David Lodge |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1935 |
|
How Far Can You Go? |
| James Mann |
Author |
18-Sep-1946 |
|
Rise of the Vulcans |
| David Maraniss |
Journalist |
6-Aug-1949 |
|
First in His Class |
| Ruth A. Marcus |
Columnist |
1958 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Judith Martin |
Columnist |
13-Sep-1938 |
|
Miss Manners |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Mary McGrory |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1918 |
21-Apr-2004 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberal Icon |
| Eugene Meyer |
Publisher |
31-Oct-1875 |
17-Jul-1959 |
Washington Post publisher, 1933-47 |
| Dana Milbank |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1968 |
|
Washington Post White House reporter |
| David Mills |
Screenwriter |
20-Nov-1961 |
30-Mar-2010 |
Writer for The Wire |
| Michele Norris |
Radio Personality |
7-Sep-1961 |
|
NPR host, All Things Considered |
| Tim O'Brien |
Novelist |
1-Oct-1946 |
|
Going After Cacciato |
| Don Oberdorfer |
Journalist |
28-May-1931 |
23-Jul-2015 |
The Washington Post |
| Kathleen Parker |
Columnist |
c. 1954 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Drew Pearson |
Journalist |
13-Dec-1897 |
1-Sep-1969 |
Washington Merry-Go-Round |
| Walter Pincus |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1932 |
|
Washington Post reporter with CIA ties |
| Dana Priest |
Journalist |
c. 1959 |
|
Washington Post Pentagon reporter |
| Jane Bryant Quinn |
Journalist |
5-Feb-1939 |
|
Personal finance columnist |
| William Raspberry |
Columnist |
12-Oct-1935 |
17-Jul-2012 |
The Washington Post |
| Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
| David Remnick |
Editor |
29-Oct-1958 |
|
Editor of The New Yorker |
| Thomas Ricks |
Journalist |
25-Sep-1955 |
|
Fiasco |
| Eugene H. Robinson |
Journalist |
12-Mar-1954 |
|
Associate Editor, Washington Post |
| Jennifer Rubin |
Blogger |
? |
|
Washington Post blogger |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
Newsweek columnist |
| Tom Shales |
Critic |
3-Nov-1948 |
|
TV critic |
| Mark Shields |
Columnist |
25-May-1937 |
|
Shields and Brooks |
| Paul Taylor |
Journalist |
3-Sep-1949 |
|
See How They Run |
| Jim VandeHei |
Journalist |
1972 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Sander Vanocur |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1928 |
|
ABC and NBC correspondent |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Gene Weingarten |
Columnist |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Below the Beltway |
| Jonathan Weisman |
Journalist |
c. 1966 |
|
Wall Street Journal |
| Katharine Weymouth |
Publisher |
c. 1966 |
|
Washington Post publisher |
| Lally Weymouth |
Journalist |
3-Jul-1943 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Michael Wilbon |
Sports Journalist |
19-Nov-1958 |
|
Co-host of Pardon the Interruption |
| Roger Wilkins |
Educator |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Author, blackademic |
| Juan Williams |
Pundit |
10-Apr-1954 |
|
Fox News commentator |
| George C. Wilson |
Journalist |
11-Jul-1927 |
|
Bridge of No Return |
| Jules Witcover |
Columnist |
16-Jul-1927 |
|
Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist |
| Tom Wolfe |
Author |
2-Mar-1931 |
|
Bonfire of the Vanities |
| Bob Woodward |
Journalist |
26-Mar-1943 |
|
Broke the Watergate story |
| Jonathan Yardley |
Critic |
27-Oct-1939 |
|
Influential book critic |