• Source: List of Deerfield Academy alumni

The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically. See also Category:Deerfield Academy alumni.




Pre-1900


George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College
John Williams (1817–1899), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian
Mary Tenney Castle (1819-1907), missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii
Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor
William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut




Classes of the 1920s


Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design.




Classes of the 1930s


Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist
Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Douglas Kennedy (1915-1973), actor
Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), academic and activist
Edwin W. Martin (1917–1991), U.S. Ambassador to Burma
John Edward Sawyer (1917–1995), president of Williams College
Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019), Manhattan district attorney
James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
Thomas Hedley Reynolds (1920-2009), President of Bates College
William Zinsser (1922-2015), writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher
Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor
Ian Barbour (1923-2013), Templeton Prize winner
Charles Merrill Jr. (born 1920), writer, teacher and philanthropist
John Mecklin (1918-1971), writer and journalist




Classes of the 1940s


Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
David S. Dodge (1922 – January 20, 2009), vice-president for administration (1979–83), acting president (1981–82) and president (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut
Thomas Keating (1923–2018), monk
Arthur Nims (1923-2019), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
Charles Clapp (1923-2004), Judge of United States Tax Court
Dickinson R. Debevoise (1924-2015), District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
Ogden R. Reid (1925-2019), U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient
Daniel C. Searle (1926-2007), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
John Ashbery (1927–2017), poet
James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
Carl Richard Woese (1928-2012), biologist, discovered archeabacteria
Allen Stack (1928–1999), Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
John Gunther Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book Death Be Not Proud
Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
John McPhee (born 1931), nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
Hoddy Hildreth (1931-2019), member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth




Classes of the 1950s


Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
Nelson Doubleday Jr. (1933-2015), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
Robert Hazard Edwards (born 1934), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
Thomas C. Reed (born 1934), Secretary of the Air Force
Warren Zimmermann (1934–2004), final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
James M. Banner Jr. (born 1935), historian
Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III (born 1937), former owner of Anchor Brewing Company
Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
Eric Widmer (born 1939), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy
David H. Koch (1940-2019), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
David Childs (born 1941), architect




Classes of the 1960s


Don Abbey, real estate businessman
Bruce Faulkner Caputo (born 1943), U.S. Congressman from New York
Robert Beavers (born 1949), experimental filmmaker
Pete Varney (born 1949), Major League Baseball player
Stephen G. Smith (born 1949), journalist
Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher
Peter Gabel (born 1947), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host




Classes of the 1970s


Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
Jeffrey Bewkes (born 1953), CEO of Time Warner
Nigel Newton (born 1955), publisher, founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
Kerry Emanuel (born 1955), scholar
Buddy Teevens (born 1956), Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
Ken Bentsen Jr. (born 1959), U.S. Congressman from Texas
Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959), son of Sunny von Bulow and a member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar




Classes of the 1980s


King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission from 2006 to 2013
Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
Craig Janney (born 1967), NHL player
Chris Waddell (born 1968), gold medalist Paralympic skier
Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon
Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio
Milton Sands III (born c. 1969), admiral in the United States Navy




Classes of the 1990s


Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael Sucsy (born 1973), acclaimed filmmaker, Grey Gardens
Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974), photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV
Prince Ali bin Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and Vice President of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
Marty Reasoner (born 1977), retired National Hockey League center
Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
Adriana Cisneros (born 1979), media mogul
Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
Jay Newton-Small, Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell
Chase Coleman III, class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management
Bom Kim, class of 1996, Korean-American Billionaire and founder of Coupang
Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, American novelist




Classes of the 2000s


Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
David Branson Smith (born 1984), award-winning screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
Ty McCormick (born 1987), award-winning foreign correspondent
Molly Schaus (born 1988), U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
Alex Killorn (born 1988), professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League
Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League




Classes of the 2010s


Osama Khalifa, squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship
Kevin Roy, professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
Liam Holowesko, professional cyclist
Sam Lafferty, professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
Hunter Long, professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams
Jacob Lee (born 1994), singer songwriter featured on The Voice
Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour




Classes of the 2020s


Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor




References

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• Phillips Exeter Academy
• List of Deerfield Academy alumni
• Deerfield Academy
• Dominic Sessa
• Phillips Exeter Academy
• Deerfield Beach High School
• List of Benet Academy alumni
• List of Williams College people
• Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois)
• Ayesha Kapur
• List of boarding schools in the United States