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List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Choate Rosemary Hall, also known informally simply as Choate. A private, college-preparatory, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, it took its present name and began a coeducational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments: the Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in Wallingford, moved later to Greenwich, Connecticut).

Contents

A

  • Edward Albee '46, Pulitzer-winning playwright
  • Lauren Ambrose (did not graduate), film and TV actress
  • William Attwood '37, diplomat and journalist

    • B

  • William Sims Bainbridge '58, sociologist
  • Felix Barker (exchange student), British historian, theatre and film critic, president of The Critics' Circle
  • Florieda Batson '21, hurdler, 1922 Olympian
  • Nat Benchley '64, writer, actor, producer
  • Joseph Beninati, real estate developer and private equity investor
  • Stephen Bogardus '72, Obie-winning stage actor
  • Chester Bowles '19, governor of Connecticut, US ambassador to India

    • C

  • Arne H. Carlson '53, governor of Minnesota
  • Dov Charney '87, head of American Apparel
  • Noah Charney '98, novelist and art historian
  • Tanay Chheda '14, film actor
  • Julie Chu 2001, Olympic hockey player
  • Glenn Close '65, actress
  • Lewis Augustus Coffin 1908, architect
  • Geoffrey Cowan '60, Emmy-winning producer, playwright, director
  • Cason Crane 2011, mountain climber
  • Caresse Crosby 1910 (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet
  • Jamie Lee Curtis '76, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actress

    • D

  • John Danilovich '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Costa Rica, CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation
  • Mathieu Darche '96, NHL ice hockey player
  • Chris Denorfia '98, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs
  • Bruce Dern (did not graduate), actor
  • Tom Dey '83, film director
  • Lorenzo di Bonaventura '76, film producer, president of Warner Brothers
  • Donna Dickenson '63, philosopher, medical ethicist
  • John Dos Passos 1911, novelist
  • Michael Douglas '63, two-time Oscar-winning actor
  • John T. Downey '47, spy, prisoner of war, judge
  • Paul Draper '54, winemaker
  • Andres Duany '67, architect, urban planner, founder of the New Urbanism movement
  • Avery Dulles '36, educator, philosopher, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Matt Dunne '88, Vermont state senator and state representative

    • E

  • Walter D. Edmonds '21, historical novelist

    • F

  • Caterina Fake '86, founder of Flickr
  • Robert Fitzgerald '29, poet, critic, classicist, translator
  • Geoffrey S. Fletcher '88, Oscar-winning screenwriter and film director
  • Katherine B. Forrest '82, U.S. federal judge

    • G

  • Oliver M. Gale '27, advertising and public relations pioneer
  • Bruce Gelb '45, president of Clairol, U.S. ambassador to Belgium
  • Paul Giamatti '85, Emmy- and SAG-winning actor
  • Philip Gourevitch '79, journalist, author
  • James Griffin '51, philosopher
  • Roy Richard Grinker '79, anthropologist

    • H

  • William O. Harbach '40, Emmy- and Peabody-winner, founding producer of The Tonight Show and The Steve Allen Show
  • Amanda Hearst 2002, heiress, journalist, philanthropist
  • Buck Henry '48, comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter
  • Hong Jung-wook '89, Korean entrepreneur and ex-politician
  • Brian Hartzer '85, CEO of Westpac Banking Corporation

    • I

  • Kim Insalaco '99, Olympic hockey player

    • J

  • Hardy Jones '61, conservationist filmmaker, author

    • K

  • Bob Kasten '60, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
  • William Kaufmann '35, Cold War strategist
  • John F. Kennedy '35, 35th President of the United States
  • Joseph Kennedy Jr. '33, naval pilot
  • Sarah Kernochan '65, novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and Oscar-winning director
  • Whitman Knapp '27, U.S. federal judge
  • Hilary Knight 2007, Olympic hockey player
  • Herbert Kohler, Jr. '57, president of the Kohler Company
  • Ben Kurland (did not graduate), film and TV actor

    • L

  • James Laughlin '32, poet and founder of New Directions Publishing
  • Alan Jay Lerner '36, creator of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi, winner of three Oscars and three Tonys
  • Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg (did not graduate), stage and television director, actor, writer
  • Alan Lomax '30, pioneering ethnomusicologist, folklorist, oral historian

    • M

  • Robert McCallum, Jr. '64, U.S. ambassador to Australia
  • Douglas McGrath '76, actor, director, screenwriter
  • Ali MacGraw '56, Golden Globe-winning actress
  • George J. Mead 1911, aircraft engineer, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney
  • Paul Mellon '25, philanthropist, art collector, donor of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Gallery of Art East Wing
  • Peter Rodgers Melnick '76, film, theater, and television composer
  • Tift Merritt '94, singer, songwriter
  • Helen Stevenson Meyner '46, U.S. Congresswoman from New Jersey
  • Rebecca Miller '80, actress, screenwriter, director, novelist
  • William T. Monroe '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Bahrain
  • Emil "Bus" Mosbacher '39, yachtsman, America's Cup winner, U.S. Chief of Protocol
  • Robert Mosbacher '44, U.S. Secretary of Commerce

    • N

  • Nicholas Negroponte '61, founder of MIT Media Lab and One Laptop per Child
  • Philip Nel '88, scholar of children's literature
  • Bruce Nelson '58, history professor
  • Douglass North '38, Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Victoria Nuland '79, US ambassador to NATO, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

    • O

  • Terry O'Neill '70, feminist, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)

    • P

  • Laurie L. Patton '79, president of Middlebury College, poet, translator
  • James Peck '32, World War II pacifist, Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement
  • Josephine Pucci 2009, U.S. Women's National Hockey Team member
  • Jim Pyne '90, NFL player

    • R

  • Prince Anthony Stanislas Radziwill '78, Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer of Primetime Live
  • Luis Armando Roche '57, Venezuelan film director
  • Rick Rosenthal '66, award-winning film and TV director
  • Angela Ruggiero '98, Olympic hockey player, U.S. member of the International Olympic Committee

    • S

  • Nicholas Schaffner '70, author, journalist
  • Jamie Schroeder '99, American rower, Olympic gold-medalist, Oxford Blue, winner of The Boat Race
  • John Burnham Schwartz '83, novelist
  • Martha Schwendener '85, lead singer and songwriter of Bowery Electric
  • Maria Semple '82, novelist and screenwriter
  • Frederick Charles Shrady '28, sculptor, painter, awarded the Légion d'honneur
  • Michael David Shulman (did not graduate), writer, artist, philanthropist
  • Bill Simmons '88, sportswriter
  • Hedrick Smith '51, New York Times editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Emmy-winning PBS producer
  • Lee Smith '80, journalist
  • Window Snyder '93, digital security innovator
  • Gustaf Sobin '53, poet, novelist, and belle-lettrist
  • Khari Stephenson 2000, MLS soccer player and member of the Jamaica national football team
  • Roger L. Stevens '28, theatrical producer, founding chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center
  • Adlai Stevenson '18, two-time Democratic presidential candidate, governor of Illinois, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
  • James Surowiecki '84, author, New Yorker staff writer

    • T

  • Ivanka Trump 2000, heiress, fashion model, and businesswoman

    • V

  • Chris Vlasto '84, Emmy-winning producer of Good Morning America and 20/20

    • W

  • Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuk 2003, heir presumptive to the throne of Bhutan
  • Frank "Muddy" Waters '43, American college football coach
  • Katharine Way '20, Manhattan Project nuclear physicist
  • H. Bradford Westerfield '44, political scientist
  • James Whitmore '40, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor
  • David Williams '86, NHL ice hockey player
  • Geoffrey Wolff '55, novelist and belle-lettrist

    • Y

  • Alexander Morgan Young '88, president of production at 20th Century Fox
  • Philip Young '27, Dean of the Columbia Business School and U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands

    • Z

  • Paul Zaloom '70, puppeteer, actor, and educator

    • References

    List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni Wikipedia
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