- Source: List of Phillips Exeter Academy people
The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.
Founder
John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of board of trustees 1781–1795
Principals
Benjamin Abbot – principal 1788–1838
Gideon Lane Soule – principal 1838–1873
Albert C. Perkins – principal 1873–1883
Walter Quincy Scott – president of Ohio State University; principal 1884–1889
Charles Everett Fish – principal 1890–1895
Harlan P. Amen – principal 1895–1913
Lewis Perry – principal 1914–1946
William Saltonstall – principal 1946–1963
William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim principal 1963–1964
Richard W. Day – principal 1964–1973
Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; principal 1974–1987
Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; principal 1987–1997
Tyler Tingley – principal 1997–2009
Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; principal 2009–2015
Lisa MacFarlane – principal 2015–2018
William Knox Rawson – interim principal 2018, principal 2019–present
Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy
John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797
Daniel Dana – president of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; board of trustees 1809–1843
John Taylor Gilman – delegate to the Continental Congress; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1795–1827
Ashur Ware – federal judge; instructor 1804–1805
Nathan Hale – editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807
Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807
Nathan Lord – president of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
James Walker – president of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817
Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1828–1830
Jeremiah Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; judge; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1830–1842
Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833–1835
Joseph Gibson Hoyt – chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840–1858
Andrew Preston Peabody – Unitarian clergyman and author; board of trustees, 1843–1885
Amos Tuck – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; board of trustees 1853–1879
George A. Wentworth – author of textbooks on mathematics; faculty 1857–1892; board of trustees 1899–1906
Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882
Charles H. Bell – governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883
George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883–1887
T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – director of scholarships
Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty
Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960
Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967
Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
Michael S. Greco – president of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968
George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975
David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977
Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993
Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021
Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
Willie Perdomo – current instructor in English
Notable alumni
= 1780s
=Benjamin Ives Gilman (c. 1783) – Ohio pioneer
George Sullivan (c. 1783) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Nathaniel Thayer (c. 1783) – Unitarian minister
Daniel Tilton (c. 1783) – one of the first three judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory
Josiah Bartlett Jr. (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Smith (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
George B. Upham (c. 1785) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Daniel Meserve Durell (c. 1789) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party
= 1790s
=Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher
David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
John Noyes (1791) – U.S. representative from Vermont
Lewis Cass (1792) – brigadier general; governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. senator from Michigan; U.S. Secretary of State; Democratic candidate for president
William Ladd (1793) – pacifist, founder and first president of American Peace Society
Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) – Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat
Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
= 1800s
=Samuel Livermore (1800) – legal scholar
Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts
Abiel Chandler (1802) – merchant, philanthropist
Joseph Cogswell (1802) – educator, editor, library administrator
William Plumer Jr. (1802) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
James Carr (1803) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
John Perkins Cushing (1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman
Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. representative from New York State
Theodore Lyman (1804) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
John Lauris Blake (1806) – minister and prolific author
Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate
Zachariah Allen (1807) – manufacturer and inventor
Joseph Blunt (1807) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney
Edward Everett (1807) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts, ambassador to Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State; president of Harvard University
Nathaniel Appleton Haven (1807) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
James Freeman Dana (1809) – chemist; science author
Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author
William Thorndike (1809) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate
= 1810s
=John Sherburne Sleeper (1807) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
William Willis (1808) – mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
John Adams Dix (1810) – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; governor of New York; U.S. Minister to France; Railroad President
Horace Hooker (1810) – Congregationalist minister; author
William Robinson (ca. 1810) – school founder
Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – president of Hampden-Sydney College
George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; ambassador to the United Kingdom
John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Jared Sparks (1811) – president of Harvard University
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
David Barker Jr. (1812) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. (1812) – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College
William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author
Charles Paine (1813) – governor of Vermont
Samuel Edmund Sewall (1813) — lawyer; politician; abolitionist; suffragist
James Wilson II (1813) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Andrew Leonard Emerson (1814) – first mayor of Portland, Maine
Gideon Lane Soule (1816) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873
Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
George Lunt (1818) – politician, author, editor, poet
John Dennison Russ (1818) – physician; innovator in the education of the blind
Jonathan Chapman (1819) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) – humanitarian, author
Russell Sturgis (1819) – merchant, banker
= 1820s
=John P. Hale (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain
Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States
Alpheus Felch (1821) – U.S. senator from Michigan; governor of Michigan
Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
Ephraim Peabody (1821) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
John Langdon Sibley (1821) – Librarian of Harvard University
Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Thomas Tingey Craven (1822) – rear admiral, United States Navy
George Yeaton Sawyer (1822) - lawyer and politician, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
Samuel Foster Haven (1823) – archeologist, anthropologist
Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist
John Hodgdon (1823) – president of the Maine State Senate; mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist
George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. representative from Maine
Edward Henry Durell (1826) – mayor of New Orleans, federal judge
Henry Francis Harrington (1828) – editor of the Boston Herald
Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana
Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist
Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War general (Union); U.S. representative from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts
Edward Fox (1829) – federal judge
Timothy Roberts Young (1829) – U.S. representative from Illinois
Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist
Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer
= 1830s
=Henry Gardner (1831) – governor of Massachusetts
Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
William Henry Chandler (1832) – politician from Connecticut
Edmund Burke Whitman (1833) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; superintendent of National Cemeteries
Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – governor of New Hampshire
Charles Jervis Gilman (1835) – U.S. representative from Maine
Fitz John Porter (1835) – Civil War general (Union)
John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. representative from Wisconsin
William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Ezra Abbot (1836) – New Testament scholar
Amos Tappan Akerman (1836) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872
Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
Augustus Lord Soule (1837) – associate justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, chancellor of the University of Buffalo
= 1840s
=James Camp Tappan (1840) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Henry W. Cleaveland (1841) – architect
Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
James Cooley Fletcher (1842) – missionary, diplomat, author
Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) – astronomer
Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury
Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
William Fessenden Allen (1846) – Privy Councillor to King of Hawaii; chairman of the advisory council of the Provisional Government of Hawaii; member of the executive council of the Republic of Hawaii
Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician
William Dorsheimer (1847) – U.S. representative from New York; lieutenant governor of New York
Charles Franklin Dunbar (1847) – editor; political economist; dean of faculty, Harvard University; president of the American Economic Association
Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist
William Robert Ware (1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University
Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator
= 1850s
=Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) – business magnate; art collector
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
George Bates Nichols Tower (c. 1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author
Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – governor of New Hampshire
Charles Pomeroy Otis (1855) – educator; author
Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) – justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. representative from Illinois
Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy
Edward Rowland Sill (1857) – poet
George W. Atherton (1858) – president of Pennsylvania State University
William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. representative from Kansas
Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
= 1860s
=Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
William M.R. French (1860) – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
James Greeley Flanders (1861) – Wisconsin politician
Marshall Snow (1861) – acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
John White Chadwick (1862) – Unitarian minister and writer
Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, New York
John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. representative from Louisiana
Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of Life magazine
George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
Robert Hallowell Richards (1865) – mining engineer; metallurgist
Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
Edward R. Bacon (1867) – railroad president; financier; art collector
John Hubbard (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – brigadier general, U.S. Army
Robert Franklin Pennell (1868) – educator and scholar
Charlemagne Tower Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. senator from New Jersey
= 1870s
=August Belmont Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator
Ulysses S. Grant Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Samuel L. Powers (1870) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
Albert D. Bosson (1871) – mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
Nelson Taylor Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
Melville Bull (1873) – lieutenant governor of Rhode Island; U.S. representative from Rhode Island
Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. representative from New York
Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative headmaster of Lawrenceville School
George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
William Bancroft (1874) – businessman; brigadier general; mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Benjamin Newhall Johnson (1874) – attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest
Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
Guy Carleton Phinney (1874) – real estate developer
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Harlan P. Amen (1875) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913
William De Witt Hyde (1875) – president of Bowdoin College
Henry Shute (1875) – author
William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – lieutenant governor of New York
H. H. Holmes (1877?) – serial killer
Charles MacVeagh (1877) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan
William W. Stickney (1877) – governor of Vermont
Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. representative from New Jersey
William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson
= 1880s
=Joseph Adna Hill (1881) – statistician; devised the method of equal proportions
Thomas Parker Sanborn (1881) – poet; inspiration for the protagonist of Santayana's The Last Pilgrim
Charles Augustus Strong (1881) – philosopher and psychologist
William Woodward Baldwin (1882) – Third Assistant Secretary of State
Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, lieutenant governor of Montana
Edmund Wilson Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
Gordon Woodbury (1882) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) – U.S. Secretary of War
William Mann Irvine (1884) – academic, founding headmaster of Mercersburg Academy
Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer
Bradley Palmer (1884) – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
John Scammon (1884) – president of the New Hampshire State Senate; associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
James D. Denegre (1885) – Minnesota state senator and lawyer
William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, U.S. representative from New York
Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. representative from Illinois
George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. representative from New York
Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; governor of Pennsylvania
Guy H. Preston (1885) – US Army brigadier general
George Rublee (1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1885) – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football"
Augustus Noble Hand (1886) – federal judge
Tim Shinnick (1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
William Wurtenburg (1886) – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; football coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician
Theodore Davis Boal (1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect
Bob Huntington (1887) – U.S. Open Tennis Doubles champion (1891, 1892); architect
James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) – federal judge
George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, ambassador to Greece
Curtis Hidden Page (1887) – scholar, author, translator
William Rhode (1887) – All-American football player; won national championship as football coach at Yale
Frank Barbour (1888) – football player; football coach at the University of Michigan, businessman
John Cranston (1888) – All-American football player; football coach at Harvard University
Robert Boal Fort (1888) – Illinois politician
Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of board of directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Lee McClung (1888) – All-American football player; Treasurer of the United States
Horace Tracy Pitkin (1888) – missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion
Frank St. John Sidway (1888) – New York State politician
Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner
= 1890s
=Butler Ames (1890) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Carroll Bond (1890) – chief judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
Henry M. Crane (1891) – automotive engineer and pioneer
George Lawrence Day (1890) – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
Marshall Newell (1890) – All-American football player; football coach at Cornell University
Lewis Stevenson (1890) – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois Secretary of State
William Boyce Thompson (1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
Julian Coolidge (1891) – mathematician; president of the Mathematical Association of America
Henry M. Crane (c. 1891) – pioneering automobile designer
Louis W. Hill (1891) – railroad magnate
John Howland (1891) – pediatrician
Henry McKee Minton (1891) – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) – composer, music critic
Hiland Orlando Stickney (1892) – football coach at University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University
Charles Loring (1893) – Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
William Belmont Parker (1893) – author and editor
Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (1894) – architect
Lawrence B. Hamlin (1895) – purveyor of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, fined for false advertising
George R. Stobbs (1895) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Charles R. Forbes (1896) – director of the Veterans' Bureau
Doc Powers (c. 1896) – professional baseball player
Walter Dearborn (1897) – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
William F. Donovan (1897) – athletic ringer; football coach at Harvard University
Burt Z. Kasson (1897) – politician from New York State
Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) – educator
Robert William Sawyer (1898) – journalist, conservationist
Samuel Davis Wilson (1898) – mayor of Philadelphia
Barry Faulkner (1899) – muralist
Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer
= 1900s
=Arthur Nash (1900) – architect
Myron E. Witham (1900) – All-American football player; football coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado
Swinburne Hale (1901) – civil rights attorney; a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; poet
James Hogan (1901) – All-American football player
Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player; football coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier
Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman
Samuel M. Harrington (1902) – brigadier general
J. W. Knibbs (1902) – football player; football coach at University of California, Berkeley
James Cooney (1903) – All-American football player
Sterling Dow (1903) – classical archaeologist and epigrapher
Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician
Hugo W. Koehler (1903) – U.S. Navy commander; military attaché to Russia
Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer
Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army major general, commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
Howard Jones (1904) – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) – All-American football player; Yale football coach
Jim McCormick (1904) – All-American football player; football coach at Princeton
F. Harold Van Orman (1904) – lieutenant governor of Indiana
Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge
Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
Thomas C. Coffin (1906) – U.S. representative from Idaho
Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – U.S. Secretary of Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt (did not graduate)
Andrew Tombes (1906) – comedian and character actor
Justin Woodward Harding (c. 1907) – federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg
Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist
Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
Frank M. Dixon (c. 1908) – governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
Walter William Spencer Cook (c. 1909) – Spanish Medieval art historian and professor
John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run
= 1910s
=Wayne G. Borah (1910) – federal judge
J. Ira Courtney (1910) – Olympic sprinter and baseball player (1912)
Allen Dulles (1910) – U.S. Director of Central Intelligence
Rustin McIntosh (1910) – pediatrician
Edwin Charles Parsons (1910) – rear admiral of the United States Navy
Olin M. Jeffords (1911) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Robert Nathan (1912) – novelist and poet
Phelps Putnam (1912) – poet
Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
Harold Weston (1912) – modernist painter
William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. representative from Maryland
Harry Worthington (1913) – Olympic long jumper (1912)
John Amen (1914) – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
Amos N. Blandin, Jr. (1914) - Supreme Court Justice State of New Hampshire
Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer
Howard Hawks (1914) – film director
Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
Charles Bierer Wrightsman (c. 1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist
Art Braman (1915) – NFL football player
Eddie Casey (1915) – All-American football player; head coach of the Washington Redskins
Richard F. Cleveland (1915) – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant
Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist
Louis M. Loeb (1915) – president of the New York City Bar Association
Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
Stephen Potter (1915) – first American naval aviator to shoot down a German seaplane
John Cowles Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
Frederick Cunningham (1917) – Olympic fencer (1920)
Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer
Donold Lourie (1917) – All-American football player; businessman; government official
Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect
Robert B. Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. representative from Illinois
George H. Love (1918) – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; chairman of the board of Chrysler
Francis T. P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat
Norris Cotton (1919) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire
Haddie Gill (1919) – pitcher for Cincinnati Reds
David Granger (1919) – Olympic bobsledder (1928–silver medal)
Donald Oenslager (1919) – Tony Award-winning scenic designer
Phra Bisal Sukhumvit (1919) – Thai chief of Department of Highways, urban planner
= 1920s
=James Tinkham Babb (1920) – librarian and book collector
Mark Brunswick (c. 1920) – composer
Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian
Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer
Herb Treat (1920) – All-American football player; player-coach of the Boston Bulldogs
C. Bradford Welles (1920) – classicist
James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist
Richard Luman (1921) – All-American football player; Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Laurence Stoddard (1921) – Olympic coxswain (1924–gold medal)
Weston Adams (c. 1922) – principal owner and president of the Boston Bruins
Montgomery Atwater (1922) – pioneer in avalanche research and forecasting; author
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
Bayes Norton (1922) – Olympic sprint runner (1924)
Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy
Jarvis Hunt (c. 1923) – 79th president of Massachusetts Senate
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (1923) – federal judge
John Chase (1924) – Olympic ice hockey player (1932–silver medal)
Howard Francis Corcoran (1924) – federal judge
Sidney Darlington (1924) – engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
John F. "Jack" Hasey (1924) – officer in the French Foreign Legion; C.I.A. officer; officer in the Légion d'honneur
Tracy Jaeckel (1924) – Olympic fencer (1932–bronze medal, 1936)
George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry
John H. H. Phipps (1924) – businessman, conservationist, philanthropist, champion polo player
William Saltonstall (1924) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1946–1963
Edmund Berkeley (1925) – computer scientist; author
John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China
Lincoln Kirstein (1925) – writer; co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate)
Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic
Richard B. Sewall (1925) – Yale English professor; biographer
Kent Smith (c. 1925) – actor
Walworth Barbour (1926) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics, owner of the Boston Bruins
Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University
Red Rolfe (1927) – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, manager of the Detroit Tigers
James Agee (1928) – author and critic
Morton Bartlett (1928) – sculptor and photographer
Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive
Albert E. Kahn (1928) – blacklisted journalist and photographer
Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Hickman Price (1928) – business executive; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher
Whiting Willauer (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time director of scholarships at the academy; uncle of John Irving (1961)
Edwin Gillette (1929) – cameraman, inventor of animation technique
Sam Knox (c. 1929) – guard for the Detroit Lions
William Ernest Gillespie (1929) – interim principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
Henry Babcock Veatch (1929) – neo-Aristotelian philosopher
= 1930s
=Joseph H. Burchenal (1930) – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award
John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – president of the Vermont State Senate
Francis Spain (1930) – captain of the 1936 U.S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal)
Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect
Larry Bogart (1931) – critic of nuclear power
Macdonald Carey (1931) – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
John Crosby (1931) – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
George Haskins (1931) – law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard S. Salant (1931) – president of CBS News
Sonny Tufts (1931) – film and television actor
Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist
Richard Pike Bissell (1932) – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (The Pajama Game)
Germain Glidden (1932) – national squash champion, painter, muralist, cartoonist and founder of the National Art Museum of Sport
Milton Green (1932) – world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 Olympics
John Toland (1932) – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (The Rising Sun)
Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman
Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore"
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian
Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher
Robert Livingston Allen (1934) – linguist, developer of Sector Analysis
Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter
William H. Blanchard (1934) – four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Richard Walker Bolling (c. 1934) – U.S. representative from Missouri (did not graduate)
William Coors (c. 1934) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer
Thomas P. Whitney (1934) – diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist
Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright
Elkan Blout (1935) – inventor; biochemist; awarded National Medal of Science
R. W. B. Lewis (1935) – literary scholar and critic
Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman
Joseph Coors (1935) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge
Hugh Gregg (1935) – governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
David Hall (c. 1935) – recorded sound archivist
William Verity Jr. (c. 1935) – U.S. Secretary of Commerce
James T. Aubrey (c. 1936) – president of CBS and MGM
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1936) – business historian
Thomas Clinton (1936) – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, president of Amherst College
George M. Prince (c. 1936) – co-creator of synectics
Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
John Tyler Bonner (c. 1937) – biologist
Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) – federal judge
Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter
Douglas Knight (1937) – president of Duke University
Alfred A. Knopf Jr. (1937) – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1937) – biochemist; editor of Science
Charles Mergendahl (1937) – novelist, playwright, television scriptwriter
Robert H. B. Baldwin (1938) – Undersecretary of the Navy; chairman and president of Morgan Stanley
Lex Barker (1938) – actor
T. Clark Hull (1938) – lieutenant governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court justice
Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) – U.S. Attorney General; vice-president of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968)
Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor
Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Sloan Wilson (1938) – author (did not graduate)
Forman S. Acton (1939) – computer scientist
Alfred Atherton (1939) – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Ward Chamberlin (1939) – public broadcasting executive
John Holt (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author
= 1940s
=George Christopher Archibald (1940) – British economist
William J. Conklin (c. 1940) – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia
Lloyd L. Duxbury (c. 1940) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General; head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the civil rights era
Bud Palmer (1940) – professional basketball player (NY Knicks); jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events
Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Harold R. Tyler Jr. (1940) – federal judge
William C. Campbell (1941) – two-time president of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist
Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels
Robert B. Choate Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. (1942) – president of the College of William & Mary
Lloyd Stephen Riford Jr. (1942) – New York State politician
Bagley Wright (1942) – developer; investor; arts patron and fine art collector
John G. King (1943) – physicist
Roberts Bishop Owen (1943) – U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat
Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
Frederic M. Richards (1943) – biochemist and biophysicist
Julian Roosevelt (1943) – Olympic sailor (1948, 1952–gold medal, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972)
Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman
John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
Gore Vidal (1943) – author
Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
Willis Barnstone (1944) – poet, memoirist, translator
Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor
Kenneth W. Ford (1944) – physicist
George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
John Glenn Beall Jr. (1945) – U.S. representative from Maryland; U.S. senator from Maryland
James P. Gordon (1945) – invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was later awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1964)
Fred Kingsbury (1945) – Olympic rower (1948–bronze medal)
John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. (1946) – numismatist
Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor
Will Holt (c. 1946) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor
Cervin Robinson (1946) – architectural photographer
Robert L. Belknap (c. 1947) – scholar of Russian literature and dean at Columbia University
John Cowles Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
Bill Felstiner (1947) – socio-legal scholar
Donald Hall (1947) – poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
Glenn D. Paige (1947) – political scientist
John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
Haviland Smith (1947) – C.I.A. station chief
Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar
Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota
Frederic B. Ingram (1948) – businessman
Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter (The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs)
Don Whiston (1948) – Olympic ice hockey player (1952–silver medal)
Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
Adair Dyer (1949) – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
Bo Goldman (1949) – screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman), winner of two Academy Awards
Albert L. Hopkins (1949) – computer designer
Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
John Kerr (1949) – actor
James Smith (1949) – Olympic sport shooter (1956)
= 1950s
=Bill Briggs (1950) – "father of extreme skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
Tom Corcoran (1950) – Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960); four-time U.S. national champion alpine skier
M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) – psychiatrist; author (did not graduate)
George Eman Vaillant (1951) – psychiatrist
Walter Darby Bannard (1952) – abstract painter and University of Miami professor
Robert Cowley (1952) – military historian
Pierre S. du Pont IV (1952) – U.S. representative from Delaware, governor of Delaware
Thomas Ehrlich (1952) – president of Indiana University
Cyrus Hamlin (1952) – literary critic and theorist
Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) – career diplomat; ambassador to Togo
Karl Ludvigsen (1952) – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; Macarthur Fellow
Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer
Harold Russell Scott Jr. (1952) – Broadway actor and director
David Wight (1952) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
Robert G. Wilmers (1952) – businessman
Richard S. Arnold (1953) – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
Bud Konheim (1953) – businessman
Earl J. Silbert (1953) – prosecutor in Watergate case
Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) – owner of the Montreal Alouettes football club
Jonathan Aldrich (1954) – poet
William Becklean (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
Peter B. Bensinger (1954) – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration
T. Alan Broughton (1954) – poet
Michael Z. Hobson (c. 1954) – executive vice president of Marvel Comics
James F. Hoge Jr. (1954) – editor of Foreign Affairs
Christopher Jencks (1954) – sociologist
David Merwin (1954) – Olympic sprint canoer (1956)
Robert Morey (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
George Beall (1955)– prosecutor of Vice President Spiro Agnew
G. Bradford Cook (1955) – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Charles D. Ellis (1955) – investment consultant; author; founder of Greenwich Associates
John Gager (1955) – professor of religion at Princeton University
Richard Maltby Jr. (1955) – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon
Tom Whedon (1955) – television screenwriter
Phil Wilson (c. 1955) – jazz trombonist
Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer
Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
Dennis Johnson (1956) – composer, mathematician
J. Vinton Lawrence (1956) – C.I.A. operative; caricaturist
Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian
John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, United Nations, and Iraq; U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, the first Director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
Peter Georgescu (1957) – author, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam
Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator
Herbert Kohler Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate)
Terry Lenzner (1957) – lawyer
Jack McCarthy (1957) – writer and slam poet
Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. representative from Colorado; U.S. senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Don Briscoe (1958) – television actor
George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
Warren Hoge (1958) – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at The New York Times (did not graduate)
David Lamb (1958) – reporter, bureau chief at The Los Angeles Times (did not graduate)
George de Menil (1958) – French economist
Stephen Robert (1958) – philanthropist and businessman, CEO of Oppenheimer & Co
Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
John M. Walker Jr. (1958) – chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
David M. Eddy (1959) – physician
David Rockefeller Jr. (1959) – philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher
Charles Janeway (1959) – immunologist
Tom Mankiewicz (1959) – screenwriter, director, producer
Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (1959) – educator, president of Yale University
= 1960s
=Alvin P. Adams, Jr. (1960) – ambassador to Peru, Haiti, and Djibouti
Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist
Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
John Irving (1961) – author, The World According to Garp
George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1961) – deputy mayor of New York City; president of the New York City Board of Education
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (1961) – curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art
Kenneth Bacon (1962) – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International
Evan A. Davis (1962) – president of the New York City Bar Association
Chester E. Finn Jr. (1962) – educator; president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Larry Hough (1962) – Olympic rower (1968–silver medal, 1972)
Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, editor at large of City Journal
Gregory B. Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; White House Counsel; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial
Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer
Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art
Paul Magriel (1964) – professional backgammon and poker player; author
Peter Coors (1965) – president, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley
Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author
Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; mayor of Phoenix
Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; governor of New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate)
Helmut Panke (1965) – president, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist
James Earl Coleman Jr. (1966) – attorney
Kent Conrad (1966) – U.S. senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. representative from Iowa; political commentator
Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) – U.S. representative from California
David Olney (1966) – folk singer/songwriter
Mark Ethridge (1967) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher
Jonathan Galassi (1967) – president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
Curt Hahn (1967) – filmmaker
Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist
Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, journalist, Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School
Geoffrey Biddle (1968) – photographer
Peter Galassi (1968) – curator
Tom Birmingham (1968) – president of the Massachusetts Senate
Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist
John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
Jerome Karabel (1968) – scholar
Thomas Lennon (1968) – documentary filmmaker
Steve Mantis (1968) – Canadian politician
Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
Dowell Myers (1968) – professor
Anthony Davis (1969) – composer and jazz pianist
Peter W. Galbraith (1969) – diplomat, author, ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate)
John C. Harvey Jr. (1969) – Admiral, US Navy; Commander US Fleet Forces Command; Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor
John McTiernan (1969) – filmmaker
= 1970s
=Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel
Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
Scott McConnell (1970) – journalist
Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic
Joyce Maynard (1971) – author
Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer, keyboardist for Tom Petty
Roland Merullo (1971) – author
Banthoon Lamsam (1971) – banker
Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author
Howard Brookner (1972) – film director
Robert J. Fisher (1972) – former chairman of the board, Gap, Inc.
Shigehisa Kuriyama (1972) – historian of medicine
Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman and politician; 89th governor of Connecticut
W. Drake McFeely (1972) – chairman and president of W.W. Norton & Company
Thomas G. Osenton (1972) – author; president, CEO, and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company
Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist
Eric Breindel (1973) – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
Paul Romer (1973) – chief economist of the World Bank, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2018
Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College
Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
Emery Brown (1974) – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
Stephen Mandel (1974) – hedge fund manager
William S. Fisher (1975) – businessman and investor
Alix M. Freedman (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Laurie Hays (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Joseph Lykken (1975) – physicist
John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, presidential candidate, 2020
Ronald Chen (1976) – dean of Rutgers law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey
Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist
Anne Marden (1976) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988–silver medal)
Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America
David McKean (1976) – author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author
James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
James Rubin (1977) – former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Aug. 1997 – Apr. 2000)
James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of Harvard Business Review; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
Michael Lynton (1978) – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
Paul Villinski (1978) – sculptor (did not graduate)
Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards
John J. Fisher (1979) – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
Jonathan Smith (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1984–bronze medal, 1992)
Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988)
Hansen Clarke – U.S. representative from Michigan (did not graduate)
William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. – Boston area music promoter (did not graduate)
= 1980s
=Ted Hope (1980) – independent film producer, including The Ice Storm and Happiness
Heather Cox Richardson (1980) – historian
Richard Stockton Rush III (1980) – founder and CEO of OceanGate
Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist
Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
Nancy Jo Sales (1982) – journalist; author
Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
Nicholas Perrin (1982) – former dean of Wheaton Graduate School and 16th president of Trinity International University.
Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
Charles Cameron Ludington (1983) – historian
Henry Blodget (1984) – editor and CEO of Business Insider
Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
David Chipman (1984) – ATF agent and gun control activist
Stephanie Stebich (1984) – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Roland Tec (1984) – writer, director
Vanessa Friedman (1985) – fashion critic
Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician
Edmund Perry (1985) – African-American teenager shot and killed by NYPD officers; inspiration to Michael Jackson
Maya Forbes (1986) – screenwriter and television producer
David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter
Christine Harper (1987) – chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News
Tal Keinan (c. 1987) – Israeli entrepreneur, financier
Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
Peter Orszag (1987) – director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama
China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
Claudine Gay (1988) – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, President and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager
Jeff Locker (c. 1989) – actor
Joon Kim (1989) – acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
= 1990s
=Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media
Katherine Reynolds Lewis (1990) – author
Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, former head of Phillips Academy of Andover
Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor
Jeff Wilner (1990) – tight end for the Green Bay Packers
Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist
Trish Regan (1991) – television news anchor
Eunice Yoon (1991) – television new anchor
Roxane Gay (1992) – author
Jason Hall (1992) – screenwriter (American Sniper); director
Quentin Palfrey (1992) – lawyer, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts candidate, 2018
Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
Rajanya Shah (1992) – Olympic rower (2000)
Brandon Williams (1992) – basketball player
Andrew Yang (1992) – entrepreneur, presidential candidate, 2020
Gregory W. Brown (1993) – composer
John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
Aomawa Shields (1993) – astronomer, TED Fellow
Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert
Drew Magary (1994) – journalist, humor columnist, and novelist
Alex Okosi (1994) – media executive
Philip Andelman (1995) – music video director
Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower (2004)
Sarah Milkovich (1996) – planetary geologist, engineer
Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist; creator and host of Song Exploder
Tom Cochran (1996) – Obama administration official
Luke Bronin (1997) – mayor of Hartford
Zach Iscol (1997) – US Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, 2021 comptroller candidate for New York City
Susie Suh (1997) – musician
Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
Joy Fahrenkrog (1998) – member of the United States archery team
Georgia Gould (1998) – Olympic mountain biker (2008, 2012–bronze medal)
Sabrina Kolker (1998) – Olympic rower (2004, 2008)
Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
Kirstin Valdez Quade (1998) – writer
Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
Paul Yoon (1998) – novelist
Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships
= 2000s
=Sam Fuld (2000) – Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics; general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player
Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
Heather Jackson (2002) – triathlete and track cyclist
Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008, 2012–bronze medal)
Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook
Shani Boianjiu (2005) – author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower (2012)
Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle
= 2010s
=Caroline Calloway (2010) – media personality
Duncan Robinson (2013) – NBA player for the Miami Heat and former player for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
Nicole Heavirland (2014) – USA rugby player
Zhuo Qun Song (2015) – the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal
Jacob Grandison, 2017, College Basketball player for Holy Cross, Illinois and Duke
Rudi Ying (2017) – Supreme Hockey League hockey player
References
Further reading
Harris, Bernard C.; Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni-Alumnae, A Listing of the Trustees, Principals, Members of the Faculty Emeriti, and All Living Alumni and Alumnae ; Harris Publishing Company (White Plaines, New York), 19th Edition, PAH-W121-1M-18.1V
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