This is a list of notable alumni from New Trier High School, a four-year high school in Winnetka, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, including alumni from the former New Trier East and New Trier West high schools:
Film and theater
Ann-Margret (1959), actress and entertainer
Adam Baldwin (1980), television actor
Ralph Bellamy (1922), theater and film actor
Beck Bennett (2003), Saturday Night Live cast member
Carlos Bernard (1980), television actor
John Byrum (1965), film producer, director and screenwriter
Liz Callaway (1978), musical theatre actress
Katie Chang (2013), actress
William Christopher, television actor
Lisa Darr (1981), television actress
Bruce Dern (1954), film actor
Christine Ebersole (1971), actress and singer
James Eckhouse, television actor
Neal Edelstein (1987), film director and producer
Charlton Heston (1941), film actor and political activist
Rock Hudson (1944), film actor
Jake Johnson (1996), actor, comedian, screenwriter
Mike Kelley (1985), television writer and producer
Virginia Madsen (1979), actress
Lauren Marcus (2003), actress
Liesel Matthews (2002), actress and heiress
Kim Milford (1968), actor
Penelope Milford (1966), actress
John R. Montgomery (1975), television producer
Hugh O'Brian (did not graduate), actor
Jeffrey Price, member of a screenwriting team with Peter S. Seaman
Betsy Randle (1968), television actress
Mark Romanek (1977), music video and film director, writer, and producer
Charlotte Ross, television actress
Mary Kate Schellhardt (1997), film actress
Rusty Schwimmer (1980), actress
Michael Shannon, actor
Hal Sparks (1988), actor and comedian
David Strassman, performer and ventriloquist
Lili Taylor (1985), film actress
Nico Tortorella (2006), actor
Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1984), television actor
Rainn Wilson (1984), comic actor
Terence H. Winkless, film and TV producer, director and writer
Edward Zwick (1970), film and television director and producer
Government and politics
Judy Biggert (1955), U.S. Representative
Marc Cohen (1982), City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem in Sugar Hill, Georgia
Bob Dold (1987), U.S. Representative
Rahm Emanuel (1977), U.S. Representative, White House Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago
David H. Hoffman (1984), federal prosecutor and Chicago's inspector general
Fred Karger (1968), Republican gay rights advocate
Mark Kirk (1977) U.S. Representative and Senator
Thomas Miller (1966), U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999–2001) and Greece (2001–04).
Martha Minow (1972), Dean of Harvard Law School
Charles H. Percy (1937), U.S. Senator
Michael S. Rogers (1977), U.S. Navy four-star admiral and director of the National Security Agency
Carol Ronen, Illinois State Representative and State Senator
Donald Rumsfeld (1950), U.S. Representative, White House Chief of Staff and U.S. Secretary of Defense
Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
James D. Swan, Wisconsin State Senator
Richard S. Williamson (1967), U.S. Ambassador and diplomat
Journalism and letters
Julia Allison Baugher (1999), media personality, journalist and blogger
Elizabeth Brackett (1959), television news correspondent
Ann Compton (1965), television news reporter and correspondent
Chet Coppock (1966), radio sportscaster
Brian D'Amato (1976), novelist and sculptor
Alan Goldsher (1984), novelist and ghostwriter
Walter Jacobson (1955), local television news personality
Maria Howard Kernahan (1980), novelist and author of children's books
Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), engineer and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author
Archibald MacLeish (did not graduate), writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Nell Minow (1970), film critic and author in the field of corporate governance
Stephen Moore (1978), economist, journalist and commentator
Henry H. Neff (1991), author and illustrator
Juliet Law Packer (1970), television writer and poet
Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer
Sarah Ruhl (1992), playwright and MacArthur Fellow.
Sheldon Siegel (1976), attorney and bestselling author
Thomas A. Stewart (1966), business journalist and editor
John Stossel (1965), author, commentator and investigative journalist
Penelope Trunk (1985), author, blogger, and entrepreneur
Scott Turow (1966), lawyer and novelist
Donovan Webster (1977), journalist, author, editor, and filmmaker
David Charles Abell (1976), conductor
Mike Bloomfield (did not graduate), rock and blues guitarist
Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter
Marshall Chess, music executive and producer
Kristine Flaherty (2003), rapper
Jeff Harnar (1977), cabaret singer
Al Jourgensen (attended), musician
Kate Liu (2012), pianist, 3rd Prize winner of XVII International Chopin Piano Competition
Liz Phair (1985), singer-songwriter
Dave Samuels (1966), jazz vibraphonist who played with Spyro Gyra and the Caribbean Jazz Project
William Susman (1978), composer of concert and film music
Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist for the bands The Damned Things and Fall Out Boy
Peter Van de Graaff (1979), musician, bass baritone and classical radio host on WFMT
Matt Walker (1987), rock musician and former drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins
Aaron Weinstein (2003), jazz violinist
Pete Wentz (attended), bassist for the bands Black Cards and Fall Out Boy
The Ying Quartet is a string quartet started by four siblings who are all alumni: David (1981), Daniel (1985), Phillip (1986), and Janet (1988)
Science and technology
Bruce Alberts (1956), biochemist, president of the National Academy of Sciences and editor in chief of the journal Science
Todd Golub (1981), cancer researcher, director of the cancer program at the Broad Institute
Mary-Claire King (1963), geneticist
Michael Peskin (1969), physicist
Martin Rocek (1971), physicist
Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963), physicist
Jack Steinberger (1938), co-recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics (he donated his Nobel medal to the New Trier science department)
Kenneth Suslick (1970), chemist
Ross Baumgarten (1973), baseball pitcher
Ben Braun (1971), men's collegiate basketball coach
Pete Burnside (1948), baseball pitcher
John Castino (1973), baseball infielder
Al Culver, NFL offensive tackle
Mike Huff (1981), baseball outfielder
Robert Jeangerard, basketball player, 1956 Olympics gold medalist
Chuck Lindstrom, baseball catcher and coach
Matt Lottich, former Stanford basketball star and current head coach of the Valparaiso University men's basketball team
Bruce Matthews (attended), NFL offensive lineman and coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Clay Matthews (1974), NFL linebacker (1978–93)
Chuck Mercein (1961), NFL running back
Phoebe Mills, athlete, gymnastics bronze medalist in 1988 Summer Olympics
John Moore (2009), NHL player
Mike Pyle (1957), NFL center
Jack Riley (1933), Olympic wrestler and NFL offensive tackle
Fred Schmidt, swimmer
Tommy Wingels (2006), NHL player
Ivan Albright, painter associated with magic realism
Bobbi Brown, make-up artist, author, and founder of a line of cosmetics
Ari Emanuel, talent agent and founder of the Endeavor Agency
Anna Halprin (Ann Schuman) (1938), modern dancer
Stieg Hedlund (1983), video game designer
Dewitt Jones, photographer and film producer known for his association with the National Geographic Society
Sharon Percy Rockefeller, former First Lady of West Virginia and the chief executive officer of WETA-TV
Denise Siegel, photographer, visual artist and writer
Nancy Spero (1944), feminist artist
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, white supremacist spree killer
Larry Sweeney, real name Alex Whybrow, professional wrestler and manager
Charlie Trotter (1977), chef, restaurateur and author
Brad Will (1988), anarchist, activist, and documentary filmmaker who was killed in Mexico
Ryan Zoghlin (1985), artist and photographer
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