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The following is a list of Hopkins School people in alphabetical order. This includes alumni and/or faculty from Hopkins in any of its past forms (Hopkins School, Hopkins Grammar School).
Academia
= College and university presidents and deans
=Guido Calabresi (1949) – Dean of the Yale Law School; U.S. Court of Appeals judge
Dale G. Caldwell (1978) – education and religious leader and the first Black president of Centenary University
Timothy Dwight V (1845) – president of Yale University
Arthur Hadley (1872) – president of Yale University
Harold Hongju Koh (1971) – Dean of the Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
Jonathan Levin (1990) – economist and president of Stanford University
Abraham Pierson (1664) – first rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1816) – president of Yale University
= Scholars and professors
=Phoebe C. Ellsworth (1961) – social psychologist and professor at the University of Michigan
Hanna Holborn Gray (1946) – historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago
Benjamin Silliman (1833) – early professor of science
Richard P. Strong (unknown class) – tropical medicine professor at Harvard who did significant work on plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases
Thomas Anthony Thacher (1831) – classicist, college administrator
Nim Tottenham (1992) – professor of psychology at Columbia University, where she leads the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
Ansley Wilcox (1870) – scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt
= Other
=Sherman Day Thacher (1879) – founder of The Thacher School
John Davenport (n/a) – founder of New Haven, early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school; regarded as Hopkins' founder
Art and literature
= Authors
=John Denison Champlin Jr. (1852) – nonfiction writer and editor
Mei Chin (1993) – novelist and food critic
Elisha Cooper (1989) – author and illustrator
Nicholas Dawidoff (1981) – author
Trey Ellis (1980) – novelist
C.E. Poverman (1962) – fiction author
Marrion Wilcox (1874) – author and editor
Theodore Winthrop (1841) – author
= Artists
=William Morris Hunt (1834) – painter
Dan Wasserman (1967) – political cartoonist
Business
Julian Wheeler Curtiss (unknown class) – president of the Spalding sports equipment company and a pioneering promoter of golf in the United States
Louis R. Ehrich (unknown class) – businessman, art dealer, and politician
Henry Farnam (1870) – railroad president
John Geanakoplos (1971) – economist
George G. Haven, Jr. (unknown class) – businessman
John Malone (1959) – telecommunications mogul
Civil Society
= Clergy
=Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1864) – Episcopal Bishop
Benjamin Brewster (1878) – Episcopal Bishop of Maine
Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. (1849) – Third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
Asa Drury (n/a) – rector of Hopkins from 1829 to 1831
John Punnett Peters (1868) – Episcopal clergyman, archaeologist, professor, author
= Activists
=William Eno (1877) – road safety advocate and inventor
John Huggins (did not graduate) – Black Power activist, leader of the Black Panther Party
Entertainment and music
= Film, television, and theater
=Nicholas Britell (1999) – three-time Academy Award nominated film composer, pianist, and film producer
George DiCenzo (1958) – actor, arts activist
Alexander DiPersia (2000) – film actor
Marcus Giamatti (1980) – actor, musician, writer and director; best known for starring in the CBS drama series Judging Amy
Scott Lowell (1983) – actor, best known for Queer as Folk
Jonathan Mostow (1979) – film director, writer, and producer
= Music
=Henry Durand (1877) – songwriter of Yale alma mater, "Bright College Years"
Charles Ives (1894) – classical composer and insurance executive
Harry Rowe Shelley (1876) – composer, organist, music professor
Dick Wingate (1970) – music industry and digital entertainment executive
Government and politics
= Governors of the United States
=Simeon E. Baldwin (1857) – Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor of Connecticut
Roger Sherman Baldwin (1807) – U.S. Senator, Governor of Connecticut, defense attorney in Amistad case
Henry W. Edwards (1793) – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut
Edward Hopkins (n/a) – Colonial Governor of Connecticut, Hopkins' first benefactor
William Hoppin (1824) – Governor of Rhode Island
William Henry Hunt (1874) – federal and state judge, territorial governor of Puerto Rico
= United States Executive Branch officials
=Wilson S. Bissell (1865) – United States Postmaster General
Julian Gerwirtz (2008) – diplomat, historian, and poet; Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in the Biden administration
Edward House (1877) – diplomat, political adviser to Woodrow Wilson
Gaillard Hunt (unknown class) – first Department of State Historian
Francisco Palmieri (1979) – Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
John Addison Porter (unknown class) – journalist, and the first person to hold the position of "Secretary to the President" under President William McKinley
= United States Congress
=U.S. Senators
Orris Ferry (1840) – U.S. Congressman, Senator
James Hillhouse (1769) – U.S. Congressman, Senator
Selden Palmer Spencer (1880) – lawyer, United States Senator for Missouri
U.S. Representatives
Henry Baldwin (1793) – U.S. Congressman, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Augustus Brandegee (1845) – U.S. House of Representatives
William Henry Stiles (1825) – United States Representative for Georgia, U.S. chargé d'affaires to Vienna, Confederate colonel 60th GA
James W. Wadsworth (unknown class) – U.S. Representative from New York
Washington F. Willcox (1858) – U.S. Representative from Connecticut
= Military
=George W. Baird (1859) – US army officer; recipient of the Medal of Honor
Frederick H. Dyer (unknown class) – drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Joseph Mansfield (1817) – American Civil War Major General
Alfred Terry (1838) – American Civil War Major General, military commander of the Dakota Territory
William Chester Minor (1902) – army surgeon, psychiatric patient, and lexicographical researcher
= Judges
=Horace R. Buck (1872) – justice of the Montana Supreme Court
Sarah A. L. Merriam (1989) – attorney serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Edwards Pierrepont (1833) – New York Supreme Court justice; Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General
= Other U.S. Political Figures
=Samuel Greco (2011) – American politician, attorney, and Naval officer who currently serves as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives representing the 19th district
Jared Ingersoll (1762) – delegate to the Continental Congress; signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania; Federalist vice presidential candidate
Law
Marc Kasowitz (1970) – trial lawyer and partner of the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres; former personal outside attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump
Benjamin Matthias Nead (1866) – historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician.
Morris Woodruff Seymour (1862) – historian, judge, and attorney
Thomas Thacher (1867) – lawyer
James D. Torreyson (unknown class) – eighth attorney general of the U.S state of Nevada
Ben Wizner (1989) – American lawyer, writer, and civil liberties advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union; lead attorney of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Media and communications
Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, scholar, and journalist
Clare Morgana Gillis (1994) – journalist; former hostage of the Libyan Civil War
Frederick E. Goodrich (unknown class) – journalist and political figure who worked for The Boston Post for fifty-four years
Carolyn Hax (1984) – advice columnist for the Washington Post
Justin Kutcher (1998) – sports commentator
Samantha Vinograd (2001) – American journalist and national security analyst at CNN
Science and technology
Michael L. J. Apuzzo (1957) – Academic neurosurgeon, editor, futurist
Jean Bennett (1972) – biomedical engineer
Edward Bouchet (1870) – physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
Lisa DeAngelis (unknown class) – neuro-oncologist and Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1854) – father of Thermodynamics
John Hays Hammond (1873) – mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers
Paul MacCready (1943) – aeronautical engineer
Robert Tuttle Morris (1877) – surgeon and writer
Newton Morton (1947) – founder of modern genetic epidemiology
James Davenport Whelpley (unknown class) – physician, author, editor, inventor, and metallurgist
Sports
Andy Bloch (1987) – professional poker player
Walter Camp (1876) – founder of modern American football
Ben Crosby (1888) – college football player and coach
Jumping Jack Jones (unknown class) – MLB baseball pitcher, dentist and voice trainer
Spencer Lovejoy (2016) – professional squash player
Alexis Sablone (2004) – goofy-footed American professional skateboarder; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Teddy Vlock (2016) – former professional equestrian representing Israel and the United States of America; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Ben Washburne (2019) – 2024 Paralympics silver medalist for rowing
Matt Weiss (2001) – football coach who most recently was the quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator for the Michigan Wolverines; served as a coach in multiple capacities for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL)
Miscellaneous
Ernest Flagg (1876) – architect
Chauncey Goodrich (1804) – editor of the Webster's Dictionary
Henry Murphy (1895) – architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House
Harry Whitney (unknown class) – sportsman, adventurer, and author