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List of New Trier High School alumni

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:

Contents

Business

  • Douglas Conant, president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company
  • Chris Cox (2000), Vice President of Product of Facebook
  • John Donahoe (1978), president and CEO of eBay (2008–2015), chairman of PayPal (2015–present)
  • Christie Hefner (1970), former CEO of Playboy Enterprises
  • Charles F. Knight (1953), chairman emeritus of Emerson Electric Co.
  • James McNerney (1967), president of GE Lighting (1995–97), president of GE Aircraft Engines (1997–2000), president and CEO of 3M (2000–05), and currently the CEO of Boeing (2005–present)

    • 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

    • Music

  • 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

    • Sports

  • 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

    • Others

  • 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

    • References

    List of New Trier High School alumni Wikipedia
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