List of Lawrenceville School alumni

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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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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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John Nichol Irwin II

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Owen Johnson (1878-1952; class of 1895), author of Lawrenceville Stories

Rupert Johnson, Jr. (class of 1958), vice chairman of Franklin Resources

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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

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Welly Yang (class of 1990), actor

Monica Yunus (class of 1995), operatic soprano in the Metropolitan Opera

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