The society has had numerous members in the past who have been actively involved in the charity. Some of them are as follows:
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Secretary of StateDean Acheson
- SenatorNelson W. Aldrich
- AmbassadorWinthrop W. Aldrich
- BusinessmanJohn Jacob Astor IV
- BusinessmanWilliam Waldorf Astor
- Secretary of StateZbigniew Brzezinski
- PhilanthropistJohn Nicholas Brown II
- SenatorPrescott Bush
- Columbia University PresidentNicholas Murray Butler
- PhilanthropistAndrew Carnegie
- NATO Secretary GeneralLord Carrington
- JournalistWalter Cronkite
- AmbassadorJohn W. Davis
- Vice PresidentCharles G. Dawes
- AdmiralWilliam J. Crowe
- SenatorChauncey Depew
- CIA DirectorAllen W. Dulles
- Secretary of StateJohn Foster Dulles
- AmbassadorJames W. Gerard
- GeneralAlexander Haig
- Ambassador to the United StatesEdward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
- Ambassador Averell Harriman
- AmbassadorJoseph P. Kennedy
- AmbassadorHenry R. Luce
- FinancierJohn Pierpont Morgan Sr.
- FinancierJohn Pierpont Morgan Jr.
- CongressmanOgden Reid
- AmbassadorWhitelaw Reid
- PublisherOgden Mills Reid
- PublisherWhitelaw Reid (journalist)
- Supreme Court JusticeSandra Day O’Connor
- New Jersey GovernorThomas Kean
- Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger
- Attorney GeneralElliot Richardson
- Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld
- General of the ArmyGeorge C. Marshall
- Secretary of the TreasuryAndrew W. Mellon
- Secretary of the TreasuryHenry Morgenthau Jr.
- Oil RefinerJohn D. Rockefeller
- BankerDavid Rockefeller
- Vice PresidentNelson Rockefeller
- Secretary of StateElihu Root
- BankerJacob Schiff
- Secretary of StateGeorge Shultz
- PublisherArthur Ochs Sulzberger
- Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
- Secretary of StateCyrus Vance
- FED ChairmanPaul Volcker
- Secretary of DefenseCaspar Weinberger
- AmbassadorJohn Hay Whitney
- BankerFelix M. Warburg
- BankerPaul Warburg
- TheologianRobin Ward
- World Bank PresidentJames Wolfensohn
- CIA DirectorJames Woolsey