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The following is a list of notable alumni of Lawrenceville School, a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school located in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, New Jersey.

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A

  • George Akerlof (born 1940; class of 1958), Nobel Laureate for Economics
  • Knowlton Ames (class of 1886), All-American football player at Princeton and head football coach at Purdue University
  • Garth Ancier (born 1957), President of the WB Network
  • A. Piatt Andrew (class of 1889), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1910–1912) and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
  • Walter Gresham Andrews (1889-1949; class of 1908), United States House of Representatives from New York (1889–1943)

    • B

  • David Baird, Jr. (1881-1955; class of 1899), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
  • Dewey F. Bartlett (1919-1979; class of 1938), former Governor of Oklahoma and member of the United States Senate
  • Dierks Bentley (born 1975; class of 1993), country music singer
  • Bill Berkson (class of 1957), poet
  • Barton Biggs (1932-2012; class of 1951), former Morgan Stanley Chief Global Strategist; current money manager running Traxis Partners
  • Thomas Pickens Brady (1903-1973; class of 1923), jurist, segregationist, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court
  • George Houston Brown (1810–1865), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in, the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855
  • Frederick Buechner (born 1926; class of 1943), novelist
  • Dennis Bushyhead (1826-1898; class of 1843), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
  • Fox Butterfield (born 1939; class of 1957), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times

    • C

  • Jay Carney (born 1965; class of 1983), 29th White House Press Secretary; former TIME Washington Bureau Chief; former White House correspondent
  • Charles Chaplin, Jr. (1925–1968), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin
  • Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin
  • John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), jurist and airline executive
  • Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973; class of 1911), film director best known for King Kong (1933)

    • D

  • Alan D'Andrea (class of 1974), cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School
  • Richard Dean (1956–2006), fashion and advertising photographer, model, and former player in Canadian Football League
  • William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect
  • Christopher DeMuth (born 1946; class of 1964), President of the American Enterprise Institute

    • E

  • Michael Eisner (born 1942; class of 1960), former CEO of The Walt Disney Company

    • F

  • Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (born 1945; class of 1963), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to United States
  • Maurice Ferré (born 1935; class of 1953), former Mayor of the city of Miami (1973–1985)
  • Major Sir Hamish Forbes (1916–2007; class of 1934), British Army officer who served in the Welsh Guards during World War II; POW decorated for numerous escape attempts
  • Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990; class of 1937), publisher of Forbes magazine
  • Clint Frank (1915-1992; class of 1934), Winner of the 1937 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award. Team Captain and All-American football player at Yale University
  • Charles Fried (born 1935; class of 1952), Harvard Law School professor and former United States Solicitor General

    • G

  • George Gallup, Jr. (1930–2011; class of 1948), pollster and author
  • Roy Geronemus (born 1958; class of 1971), physician and Chairman of the Board of the New York Stem Cell Foundation
  • Robert F. Goheen (1919-2008; class of 1936), 16th President of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India
  • Billy Granville (class of 1992), former Cincinnati Bengals player
  • Samuel D. Gross (1805-1884; attended 1822-1825), academic trauma surgeon
  • Peter Johnson Gulick (1796-1877; class of 1822), pioneer Protestant missionary to Hawaii (1828–74) with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; patriarch of the missionary-rich (1820s to 1960s) Gulick clan; co-founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall (1825–1930); spiritual parent to today's Princeton Evangelical Fellowship)
  • William Stryker Gummere (class of 1867), captain of the Princeton football team; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
  • John Gutfreund (born 1929; class of 1947), former CEO of Salomon Brothers

    • H

  • Richard Halliburton (1900-1939; class of 1917), author, adventurer
  • Randolph Apperson Hearst (1915-2000; class of 1934), former chairman of the Hearst Corporation and son of William Randolph Hearst
  • Lydia Hearst-Shaw (born 1984; class of 2002), model, daughter of Patricia Hearst
  • Lars Hernquist (class of 1973), theoretical astrophysicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Armond Hill (class of 1972), former NBA player, current assistant coach for the Boston Celtics
  • Walter E. Hussman, Jr. (class of 1964), newspaper publisher and chief executive officer of WEHCO Media, Inc.
  • Glenn Hutchins (class of 1973), co-founder, Silver Lake Partners

    • I

  • John Nichol Irwin II

    • J

  • Owen Johnson (1878-1952; class of 1895), author of Lawrenceville Stories
  • Rupert Johnson, Jr. (class of 1958), vice chairman of Franklin Resources

    • L

  • Duke Lacroix (born 1993; class of 2011), professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Indy Eleven in the North American Soccer League.
  • Butler Lampson (born 1943; class of 1960), computer scientist; 1992 ACM Turing Award winner
  • William M. Lanning (class of 1866), U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1903–1904)
  • Preston Lea (attended 1859-1860), Governor of Delaware (1905–1909)
  • Aldo Leopold (1887-1948; class of 1905), father of ecology; author of A Sand County Almanac
  • Huey Lewis (born 1950 as Hugh Cregg; class of 1967), musician
  • Alexander S. Lilley (class of 1888), first football coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes
  • Hall Lyons (1923-1998; class of c. 1940), Louisiana oilman and politician

    • M

  • John Van Antwerp MacMurray (born 1881; class of 1898), diplomat
  • Ricardo Maduro (born 1946; class of 1963), former President of Honduras
  • Joseph Moncure March (1899–1977), poet
  • Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter
  • William H. Masters (1915-2001; class of 1934), human sexuality researcher and co-founder of the Masters & Johnson Institute
  • Donald C. McGraw (1897–1974; class of 1917), former President of McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Harold McGraw, Jr. (1918-2010; class of 1936), former CEO of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc
  • James M. McIntosh (1828-1862; attended 1837-1840), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army
  • John Baillie McIntosh (1829-1888; attended 1837-1840), brigadier general in the Union Army
  • James Merrill (1926-1995; class of 1943), poet
  • Dennis Michie (1870-1898; class of 1888), first football head coach at Army, namesake of Michie Stadium
  • Clement Woodnutt Miller (1916–1962), U.S. Representative from California
  • Paul Moravec (born 1957), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning composer
  • Geoff Morrell (class of 1987), former Press Secretary of the Department of Defense
  • Tinsley Mortimer (born 1976), socialite
  • Patrick Erin Murphy (born 1983; class of 2002), Congressman (D-FL), representing Florida's 18th Congressional District.

    • N

  • Joakim Noah (born 1985; class of 2004), basketball player for the Chicago Bulls

    • O

  • Jarvis Offutt (1894-1918; class of 1913), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base
  • Charles Smith Olden (1799-1876; attended 1810-1814), 19th Governor of New Jersey, 1860-1863
  • A. Dayton Oliphant (1887-1963), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1945 to 1946, and again from 1948 to 1957.

    • P

  • Joel Parker (1816-1888; attended 1834-1837), 20th Governor of New Jersey, 1863-1866 and 1871–1874
  • Horace Porter (1837-1921; class of 1854), Union Army Brigadier General who was awarded the Medal of Honor
  • Rodman M. Price (1816–1894; attended 1834-1837), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives 1851-1853; 17th Governor of New Jersey 1854-1857

    • R

  • Jim Rash (born 1970; class of 1990), actor; winner of the 2012 Oscar for best adapted screenplay (The Descendants); Craig "Dean" Pelton on NBC's Community
  • Andrew Horatio Reeder (attended 1822-1825), first Governor of the Kansas Territory (1854-55)
  • Laurence A. Rickels (born 1954), theorist and philosopher, known for his work on vampires, the devil, technology and science fiction
  • William P. Ross (1820-1891; attended 1837-1840), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
  • Bob Ryan (born 1946; class of 1964), sportswriter for The Boston Globe; ESPN analyst and contributor

    • S

  • Bobby Sanguinetti (class of 2006), Vancouver Canucks player
  • Julian Larcombe Schley (class of 1898), Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1932–1936)
  • Paul Schmidtberger '82, author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition
  • Gene Scott (1937-2006; class of 1956), tennis player and founder of Tennis Week magazine
  • Hugh L. Scott (1853-1934; class of 1869), Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (West Point)
  • Charles Scribner I (attended 1834-1837), publisher and founder of Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Cotter Smith (born 1949; class of 1968), actor
  • Sheridan Snyder (class of 1954), biotechnology entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Fred Mustard Stewart (1932–2007; class of 1950), novelist
  • William H. Stovall (1895–1970; class of 1913), World War I flying ace; World War II veteran; businessman
  • Bandar bin Sultan (born 1945), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States 1983-2005

    • T

  • Brandon Tartikoff (1949-1997; class of 1966), former NBC programming chief
  • Buddy Temple (born 1942), lumber magnate and former politician from Lufkin, Texas
  • Randall Thompson (1899-1984), music composer and director of the Curtis Institute from 1939-1941
  • Taki Theodoracopulos (born 1937), international journalist
  • Joseph Tsai, Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group

    • W

  • Frederic C. Walcott (class of 1886), U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1929–1935)
  • Rawleigh Warner, Jr., former president and CEO of Mobil
  • Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (born 1931; class of 1949), former Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator
  • Meredith Whitney (born 1969; class of 1988), former research analyst at Oppenheimer
  • J. Harvie Wilkinson III (born 1944), United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
  • Brian Willison (born 1977; class of 1995), businessman
  • Alfred Alexander Woodhull (class of 1852), Brigadier General and Army surgeon
  • J. Butler Wright (1877-1939; class of 1895), diplomat; U.S. representative in Hungary, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia and Cuba

    • Y

  • Welly Yang (class of 1990), actor
  • Monica Yunus (class of 1995), operatic soprano in the Metropolitan Opera

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