The following is a list of notable alumni from Phillips Exeter Academy.
Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy
John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; President of Board of Trustees 1781-1795
John Pickering - Federal Judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781-1782
Benjamin Abbot – Principal 1788-1838
Daniel Dana - President of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; Board of Trustees 1809-1843
John Taylor Gilman – Delegate to the Continental Congress; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1795-1827
Ashur Ware - Federal Judge; instructor 1804-1805
Nathan Hale - editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805-1807
Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician (1807)
Nathan Lord - President of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; faculty member 1809-1812
Henry Ware, Jr. - mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812-1814
James Walker - President of Harvard University; faculty 1814-1815
Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1828-1830
Jeremiah Smith – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, Judge; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1830-1842
Francis Bowen – Philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833-1835
Joseph Gibson Hoyt – Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840-1858
Andrew Preston Peabody — Unitarian clergyman and author; Board of Trustees, 1843-1885
Amos Tuck - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; Board of Trustees 1853-1879
Charles H. Bell – Governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879-1883
George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883-1887
T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – Director of Scholarships
Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947-1988
Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in History Department 1955-1960
Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958-1967
Richard G. Brown – faculty 1962-1997
Cabot Lyford - sculptor; faculty 1963-1986
Michael S. Greco – President of American Bar Association; faculty 1965-1968
David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty
Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; faculty (1974-1987)
Jeffrey Harrison – faculty
Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; Principal 2009–present
Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
Tyler Tingley – Principal 1997-2009
Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1783) – Ohio pioneer
George Sullivan (1783) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Nathaniel Thayer (1783) – Unitarian minister
Samuel Smith (1784) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
George B. Upham (1785) – United States Representative from New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, Jr. (c. 1786) – United States Representative from New Hampshire
Daniel Tilton (1786) – one of the first two judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory
Daniel Meserve Durell (1789) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party
Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher
David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Daniel French (Attorney General) (1791) – Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire; grandfather of Daniel Chester French
John Noyes (1791) – U.S. Representative from Vermont
Lewis Cass (1792) – Brigadier General; Governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Senator from Michigan; U.S. Secretary of State; Democratic candidate for President
William Ladd (1793) – pacifist, founder and first President of American Peace Society
Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) - Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. Representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat
Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
James Clark (c1798) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate
Henry Wadsworth (1799) — killed in the explosion of the USS Intrepid during the First Barbary War
Samuel Livermore (c. 1800) – legal scholar
Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies Merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts
Abiel Chandler (1802) – merchant, philanthropist
Joseph Cogswell (1802) – educator, editor, library administrator
William Plumer, Jr. (1802) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
James Carr (1803) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
John Perkins Cushing (1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman
Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. Representative from New York State
Theodore Lyman (1804) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
John Lauris Blake (1806) – minister and prolific author
Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – President of the Massachusetts State Senate
Zachariah Allen (1807) – manufacturer and inventor
Edward Everett (1807) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts, Ambassador to Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State; President of Harvard University
Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
Joseph Blunt (c. 1808) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney
James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
James Freeman Dana (1809) – chemist; science author
Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author
William Thorndike (1809) - President of the Massachusetts State Senate
Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
John Adams Dix (1810) – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; U.S. Minister to France; Railroad President
William Willis (1810) – Mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – President of Hampden-Sydney College
George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Horace Hooker (c. 1811) – Congregationalist minister; author
John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Jared Sparks (1811) – President of Harvard University
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
David Barker, Jr. (1812) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Cartland (1812) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Acting Governor of New Hampshire
Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1812) – Professor; Acting President of Bowdoin College
William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author
John Sherburne Sleeper (c. 1812) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
Charles Paine (1813) – Governor of Vermont
James Wilson II (1813) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Andrew L. Emerson (c. 1816) – first Mayor of Portland, Maine
Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – Governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) – humanitarian, author
John Dennison Russ (1819?) — physician; innovator in the education of the blind
Russell Sturgis (1819) – merchant, banker
George Lunt (c. 1820) – politician, author, editor, poet
Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; 14th President of the United States
John Sullivan (Attorney General) (1820) – Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire
Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
John Langdon Sibley (1821) – librarian of Harvard University
Jonathan Chapman (1822?) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and President of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Thomas Tingey Craven (Rear Admiral) (1822) – Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) – U.S. Senator from Michigan; Governor of Michigan
Samuel Haven (1822) – archeologist, anthropologist
Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist
John Hodgdon (1823) – President of the Maine State Senate, Mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
Ephraim Peabody (1823) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
George Yeaton Sawyer (1823) – Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist
George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts
John Parker Hale (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. President; Ambassador to Spain
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from Maine
Samuel Stillman Boyd (1826) – Judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
Edward Henry Durell (1826) – Mayor of New Orleans, Federal Judge
Silas Holman Hill (1828) – Acting Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – Federal Judge; President of the University of Louisiana
Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist
Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War General (Union); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts
Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist
Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer
Edward Fox (1830) – federal judge
Henry F. Harrington (1830) — Editor of the Boston Herald
Henry Gardner (1831) – Governor of Massachusetts
Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – Mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
Timothy R. Young (c. 1831) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
Theodore Chase Woodman (1831) — Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Nathaniel Holmes (1833) – Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri
Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – Governor of New Hampshire
Edmund Burke Whitman (c. 1834) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; Superintendent of National Cemeteries
William Henry Chandler (1835) – politician from Connecticut
Fitz John Porter (1835) – Civil War General (Union)
John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Jonas M. Tebbets (1835) – Arkansas judge and politician; sentenced to death for supporting the Union army, but released
Ezra Abbot (1836) – New Testament scholar
Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
Nathanial Gordon (1838) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; philanthropist
George Walker (attorney) (1838) – politician; banker; diplomat; U.S. Consul-General in Paris
Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872
John W. Kingman (1839) – one of the first three judges in Wyoming Territory; proponent of women's suffrage
E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, Chancellor of the University of Buffalo
James Camp Tappan (c. 1841) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – President of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
James Cooley Fletcher (1842) – missionary, diplomat, author
Charles J. Gilman (c. 1842) – U.S. Representative from Maine
Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) – astronomer
Augustus Lord Soule (1842) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Rodney M. Stimson (c. 1843) – Ohio politician; State Librarian of Ohio; newspaper publisher and editor
Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
Bernard Crosby Whitman (c. 1843) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
Henry W. Cleaveland (c. 1844) – architect
E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury
Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician
William Dorsheimer (1847) – U.S. Representative from New York; Lieutenant Governor of New York
Charles Franklin Dunbar (1847) — editor; political economist; Dean of Faculty, Harvard University; President of the American Economic Association
Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist
William Robert Ware (1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University
William Fessenden Allen (1848) – Privy Councillor to King of Hawaii; Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Provisional Government of Hawaii; member of the Executive Council of the Republic of Hawaii
Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator
Elias H. Cheney (c1850) – newspaper editor; New Hampshire politician; U.S. Consul in Cuba, Bolivia, and Curaçao
Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) - business magnate; art collector
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
George Bates Nichols Tower (c1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author
Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – Governor of New Hampshire
Jeremiah Smith (1852) – New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice; Harvard Law School professor
Francis Ormond French (1854) - President of The Manhattan Trust Company
Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) – Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy
Ira G. Hoitt (1857) — California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Edward Rowland Sill (1857) – poet
George W. Atherton (1858) – President of Pennsylvania State University
William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. Representative from Kansas
Horace Stuart Cummings (1858) – lawyer; businessman; politician; New Hampshire Secretary of State
Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first Dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
William M.R. French (1860) – first Director of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; US Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
James Greeley Flanders (1861) — Wisconsin politician
Marshall Snow (1861) – Acting Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
John White Chadwick (1862) — Unitarian minister and writer
Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn, New York
John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. Representative from Louisiana
Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and President of Life magazine
George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
Robert Hallowell Richards (1865) — mining engineer; metallurgist
Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
Walter Clifford (1867) - Mayor of New Bedford, Massachusetts
John Hubbard (admiral) (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – Brigadier General, U.S. Army
Charlemagne Tower, Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Milton A. Shumway (1869) – Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
August Belmont, Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator
Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Samuel Leland Powers (1870) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
Albert D. Bosson (1871) – Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
Nelson Taylor, Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
George Herbert Bridgman (1872) – U.S. Minister to Bolivia
Orrando Perry Dexter (1872) – Adirondack landowner and assassination victim
Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
Frederick Winthrop Thayer (1872) – invented and patented the catcher's mask for baseball
George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
Melville Bull (1873) – U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. Representative from New York
Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative Headmaster of Lawrenceville School
George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
John Ponder Saulsbury (1873) – Delaware Secretary of State
William Bancroft (1874) – businessman; Brigadier General; Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Benjamin Newhall Johnson (1874) - attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest
Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
Guy Carleton Phinney (1874) – real estate developer
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
James A. Tufts (1874) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate
William DeWitt Hyde (1875) – President of Bowdoin College
Henry Shute (1875) – author
William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – Lieutenant Governor of New York
Charles MacVeagh (1877) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan
William W. Stickney (1877) – Governor of Vermont
Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. Representative from New Jersey
William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson
Frank Hamlin (1880) — son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin; lawyer
Joseph Adna Hill (1881) — statistician; devised the method of equal proportions
Thomas Parker Sanborn (1881) - poet; inspiration for the protagonist of Santayana's The Last Pilgrim
Charles Augustus Strong (1881) – philosopher and psychologist
William Woodward Baldwin (1882) – Third Assistant Secretary of State
Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana
Edmund Wilson, Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
Gordon Woodbury (1882) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Dwight Wilder Quint (1883) — newspaper editor; author; poet; critic
Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) – U.S. Secretary of War
Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer
Bradley Palmer (1884) – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
John Scammon (1884) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, US Representative from New York
Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. Representative from New York
Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; Governor of Pennsylvania
George Rublee (1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1885) – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football"
Augustus Noble Hand (1886) — federal judge
Tim Shinnick (1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
William Wurtenburg (1886) – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; Football Coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician
Theodore Davis Boal (1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect
Bob Huntington (1887) — U.S. Open Tennis Doubles champion (1891, 1892); architect
James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) – federal judge
George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Ambassador to Greece
Curtis Hidden Page (1887) – scholar, author, translator
William Rhodes (American football) (1887) — All-American football player; won national championship as Football Coach at Yale
Frank Barbour (1888) – football player; Football Coach at the University of Michigan, businessman
John Cranston (American football) (1888) - All-American football player; Football Coach at Harvard University
Robert Boal Fort (1888) — Illinois politician
Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Lee McClung (1888) – All-American football player; Treasurer of the United States
Horace Tracy Pitkin (1888) — missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion
Frank St. John Sidway (1888) — New York State politician
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. (1888) — advisor to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace; Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary
Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
Robert Lee Word (1888) — Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner
Butler Ames (1890) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Carroll Bond (1890) – Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
George Lawrence Day (1890) – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
Marshall Newell (1890) - All-American football player; Football Coach at Cornell University
Lewis Stevenson (1890) – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois Secretary of State
William Boyce Thompson (1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
Benjamin Stickney Cable (1891) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Julian Coolidge (1891) – mathematician; President of the Mathematical Association of America
Louis W. Hill (1891) – railroad magnate
Henry McKee Minton (1891) – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) – composer, music critic
Hiland Orlando Stickney (1892) — Football Coach at University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University
Charles Loring (1893) – Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
William Belmont Parker (1893) - author and editor
Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (1894) – architect
Lawrence B. Hamlin (1895) — purveyor of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, fined for false advertising
George R. Stobbs (1895) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Charles R. Forbes (1896) – Director of the Veterans' Bureau
Charles C. Catron (1897) — Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
Walter Dearborn (1897) – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
Burt Z. Kasson (1897) – politician from New York State
Joseph Jay Bamberger (1898) – film director and producer
Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) – educator
Robert William Sawyer (1898) – journalist, conservationist
Samuel Davis Wilson (1898) – Mayor of Philadelphia
Barry Faulkner (1899) – muralist
Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer
Antonio Apache (1900) – impostor, cultural impresario (did not graduate)
Frederick C. Fairbanks (1900) – son of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks; lawyer; publisher; caused scandal by eloping
Arthur Nash (1900) - architect
John F. Dore (1901) – Mayor of Seattle
James Hogan (American football) (1901) — All-American football player
Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player; Football Coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier
Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman
J. W. Knibbs (1902) — football player; Football Coach at University of California, Berkeley
Ferdinand Quentin Morton (1902) — Tammany Hall political boss of Harlem; Chairman of the New York City Civil Service Commission; Commissioner of the Negro National League
James Cooney (1903) — All-American football player
Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician
Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer
Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army Major General, Commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
Howard Jones (1904) - football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) - All-American football player; Yale football coach
Jim McCormick (American football) (1904) — All-American football player; Football Coach at Princeton
F. Harold Van Orman (1904) — Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge
Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
Thomas Coffin (1906) – U.S. Representative from Idaho
Hubert d'Autremont (1906) - President of the Arizona State Senate
Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Tombes (1906) — comedian and character actor
Justin Woodward Harding (1907?) — federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg
Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist
Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
Frank M. Dixon (1908?) – Governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
John Paul Jones — Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run
Wayne G. Borah (1910) – federal judge
J. Ira Courtney (1910) — Olympic sprinter and baseball player (1912)
Allen Dulles (1910) - U.S. Director of Central Intelligence
Edwin C. Parsons (1910) – Rear Admiral of the United States Navy
Olin M. Jeffords (1911) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Robert Nathan (1912) – novelist and poet
Phelps Putnam (1912) – poet
Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
Harold Weston (1912) – modernist painter
William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. Representative from Maryland
Harry Worthington (1913) — Olympic long jumper (1912)
John Amen (1914) – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer
Howard Hawks (1914) – film director
Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
Charles Bierer Wrightsman (1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist
Eddie Casey (1915) - All-American football player; Head Coach of the Washington Redskins
Richard Folsom Cleveland (1915) – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant
Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist
Louis M. Loeb (1915) – President of the New York City Bar Association
Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
John Cowles, Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
Frederick Cunningham (1917) — Olympic fencer (1920)
Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer
Donald Lourie (1917) – All-American football player; businessman; government official
Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect
Robert Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
George H. Love (1918) – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
Francis T.P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat
Norris H. Cotton (1919) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Haddie Gill (1919) — pitcher for Cincinnati Reds
David Granger (1919) – 1928 Olympic silver medalist (five-man bobsleigh)
Donald Oenslager (1919) – Tony Award-winning scenic designer
James Tinkham Babb (1920) - librarian and book collector
Mark Brunswick (c. 1920) - composer
Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian
Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer
Herb Treat (1920) - All-American football player; player-coach of the Boston Bulldogs
C. Bradford Welles (1920) – classicist
Francis Grover Cleveland (1921) – son of President Grover Cleveland; actor
James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist
Richard Luman (1921) — All-American football player; Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Laurence Stoddard (1921) — Olympic coxwain (1924, gold medal)
Weston Adams (1922c) – principal owner and President of the Boston Bruins
Montgomery Atwater (1922) - pioneer in avalanche research and forecasting; author
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
John W. Nason (1922) – President of Swarthmore College; negotiated acceptance of interned Japanese-American students to colleges
Bayes Norton (1922) — Olympic Sprint runner (1924)
Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy
Jarvis Hunt (1923) – President of the Massachusetts State Senate
Elliott Merrick (1923) - bestselling author
Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr. (1923) – federal judge
John Chase (ice hockey) (1924) — Olympic ice hockey player (1932—silver)
Howard Francis Corcoran (1924) — federal judge
Sidney Darlington (1924) - engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
John F. "Jack" Hasey (1924) - officer in the French Foreign Legion; C.I.A. officer; Officer in the Légion d'honneur
Tracy Jaeckel (1924) — Olympic fencer (1932- bronze medal, 1936)
George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry
John H. H. Phipps (1924) - businessman, conservationist, philanthropist, champion polo player
Edmund Berkeley (1925) - computer scientist; author
John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China
Lincoln Kirstein (1925) – writer; co-founder and General Director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate)
Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic
Kent Smith (c. 1925) – actor
Walworth Barbour (1926) - U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics, owner of the Boston Bruins
Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University
Red Rolfe (1927) – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, Manager of the Detroit Tigers
James Agee (1928) – author and critic
Morton Bartlett (1928) - sculptor and photographer
Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive
Albert E. Kahn (1928) - blacklisted journalist and photographer
Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Hickman Price (1928) — business executive; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher
Whiting Willauer (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time Director of Scholarships at the Academy; uncle of John Irving (1961)
Edwin Gillette (1929) – cameraman, inventor of animation technique
Sam Knox (1929?) — guard for the Detroit Lions
William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
Henry Babcock Veatch (1929) - neo-Aristotelian philosopher
Richard Walker Bolling – U.S. Representative from Missouri (did not graduate)
Joseph Burchenal (1930) – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award
Pierre S. du Pont (1930) – President of DuPont, manager of General Motors
John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – President of the Vermont State Senate
Francis Spain (1930) – Captain of the 1936 U. S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal)
Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect
Larry Bogart (1931) – critic of nuclear power
Macdonald Carey (1931) – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
John Crosby (1931) – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
Richard S. Salant (1931) – President of CBS News
Sonny Tufts (1931) – film and television actor
Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist
Richard Pike Bissell (1932) – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (The Pajama Game)
Milton Green (1932) — world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 olympics
John Toland (1932) – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (The Rising Sun)
Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman
Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore"
Richard French (1933) – musicologist; Yale professor
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian
Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher
Robert Livingston Allen (1934) — linguist, developer of Sector Analysis
Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter
William H. Blanchard (1934) – four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer
Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright
Elkan Blout (1935) - inventor; biochemist; awarded National Medal of Science
R.W.B. Lewis (1935) — literary scholar and critic
Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman
Joseph Coors (1935) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge
Hugh Gregg (1935) – Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
David Hall (c. 1935) – recorded sound archivist
William Verity, Jr. (c. 1935) – Secretary of Commerce
James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936) – President of CBS and MGM
Thornton Bradshaw (1936) - Chairman and CEO of RCA
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1936) – business historian
Thomas Clinton (1936) – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, President of Amherst College
George M. Prince (c. 1936) — co-creator of synectics
Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) – federal judge
Douglas Knight (1937) – President of Duke University
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. (1937) – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. (1937) — biochemist; Editor of Science
Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter
Robert H. B. Baldwin (1938) - Undersecretary of the Navy; Chairman and President of Morgan Stanley
Lex Barker (1938) – actor
T. Clark Hull (1938) – Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court Justice
Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) – U.S. Attorney General; Vice-President of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968)
Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor
Arthur A. Seeligson, Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Sloan Wilson (1938) – author (did not graduate)
Forman S. Acton (1939) - computer scientist
Alfred Atherton (1939) – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Ward Chamberlin (1939) – public broadcasting executive
John Holt (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author
James Sloane (1939) — Olympic hockey player (1948)
George Christopher Archibald (1940) — British economist
Lloyd L. Duxbury (1940c) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General; head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era
Bud Palmer (1940) – professional basketball player (NY Knicks); jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events
Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Harold R. Tyler, Jr. (1940) – federal judge
William C. Campbell (golfer) (1941) — two-time President of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist
Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels
Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
William Bell Dinsmoor, Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. (1942) – President of the College of William & Mary
Lloyd Stephen Riford, Jr. (1942) – New York State politician
John G. King (1943) - physicist
Roberts Bishop Owen (1943) — U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat
Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
Frederic M. Richards (1943) - biochemist and biophysicist
Julian Roosevelt (1943) – Olympic sailor (1948, 1952-gold medal, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972)
Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman
John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
Gore Vidal (1943) – author
Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
Willis Barnstone (1944) — poet, memoirist, translator
Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor
Kenneth W. Ford (1944) — physicist
Edward Lamont (1944) – politician, grandson of Thomas W. Lamont (1888)
George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
J. Glenn Beall, Jr. (1945) – U.S. Representative from Maryland; U.S. Senator from Maryland
James P. Gordon (1945) – Invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was later awarded Nobel Physics prize in 1964)
Fred Kingsbury (1945) — Olympic rower (1948-bronze medal)
John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
Theodore V. Buttrey, Jr. (1946) - numismatist
Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor
Will Holt (1946?) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor
Cervin Robinson (1946) - architectural photographer
John Cowles, Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
Bill Felstiner (1947) — socio-legal scholar
Donald Hall (1947) – poet; US Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
Glenn D. Paige (1947) - political scientist
John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
Haviland Smith (1947) - C.I.A. Station Chief
Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar
Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota
Frederic B. Ingram (1948) — businessman
Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter ("The Thomas Crown Affair," "Bullitt," "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs")
Don Whiston (1948) — Olympic ice hockey player (1952—silver)
Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – Governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
Adair Dyer (1949) – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
Bo Goldman (1949) – screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman), winner of two Academy Awards
Albert L. Hopkins (1949) — computer designer
Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
John Kerr (1949) – actor
James Smith (sport shooter) (1949) — Olympic sport shooter (1956)
Bill Briggs (skier) (1950) — "Father of Extreme Skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
Tom Corcoran (skier) (1950) — Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960); four time U.S. national champion alpine skier
M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) – psychiatrist; author (did not graduate)
George Eman Vaillant (1951) - psychiatrist
Walter Darby Bannard (1952) – abstract painter
Robert Cowley (1952) – military historian
Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) – U.S. Representative from Delaware, Governor of Delaware
Thomas Ehrlich (1952) – President of Indiana University
Cyrus Hamlin (professor) (1952) - literary critic and theorist
Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) – career diplomat; Ambassador to Togo
Karl Ludvigsen (1952) – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; MacArthur Fellow
Datus Proper (1952) - U.S. Foreign Service Officer; author of works on fishing and hunting
Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer
Harold Russell Scott, Jr. (1952) – Broadway actor and director
David Wight (1952) - Olympic gold medalist (1956, crew)
Robert G. Wilmers (1952) – businessman
Richard S. Arnold (1953) – former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
Bud Konheim (1953) — businessman
Earl J. Silbert (1953) – prosecutor in Watergate case
Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) – owner of the Montreal Allouettes Football Club
Jonathan Aldrich (1954) — poet
William Becklean (1954) - Olympic Gold medalist (1956, crew)
Peter B. Bensinger (1954) – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency
James F. Hoge, Jr. (1954) – editor of Foreign Affairs
Christopher Jencks (1954) – sociologist
David Merwin (1954) - Olympic sprint canoer (1956)
Robert Morey (1954) - Olympic gold medalist (1956, crew)
G. Bradford Cook (1955) – Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Charles D. Ellis (1955) — investment consultant; author; founder of Greenwich Associates
John Gager (1955) – Professor of Religion at Princeton University
Richard Maltby, Jr. (1955) – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator
Joseph Nadeau (1955) - New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – Governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon
Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer
Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
J. Vinton Lawrence (1956) - C.I.A. Operative; caricaturist
Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian
John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, The Philippines, and Iraq; the first Director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
Wilson L. Condon (1957) – Attorney General of the State of Alaska
Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator
Herbert Kohler, Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate)
Jack McCarthy (writer) (1957) - writer and slam poet
Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. Representative from Colorado; U.S. Senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Don Briscoe (1958) – television actor
George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
Warren Hoge (1958) – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at The New York Times (did not graduate)
David Lamb (1958) – reporter, bureau chief at The Los Angeles Times (did not graduate)
George de Menil (1958) — French economist
Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) – Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) – Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher
Charles Janeway (1959) - immunologist
Tom Mankiewicz (1959) – screenwriter, director, producer
Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1959) – educator, President of Yale University
Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist
Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
John Irving (1961) – author; has written more books and short stories set at Exeter than any other alum author
George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (1961) – Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, President of the New York City Board of Education
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr (1961) — Curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art
Kenneth Bacon (1962) – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International
Evan A. Davis (1962) – President of the New York City Bar Association
Chester E. Finn, Jr. (1962) – educator; President of Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Larry Hough (1962) — Olympic rower (1968-silver medal, 1972)
Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, Editor at Large of City Journal
Henry Burkhardt III (1963) – co-founder of Data General, Encore Computer, and Kendall Square Research
Gregory Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial; represented father of Elián González in child custody/refugee case; foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama; White House Counsel to President Obama; now at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and coordinating defense of Goldman Sachs before the SEC
Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer
Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art
Peter Coors (1965) – President, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley
Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author
Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; Mayor of Phoenix
Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate)
Helmut Panke (1965) – President, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist
James Earl Coleman, Jr. (1966) – attorney
Kent Conrad (1966) – U. S. Senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. Representative from Iowa; political commentator
Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) – U.S. Representative from California
David Olney (1966) — folk singer/songwriter
Mark Ethridge (1967) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher
Jonathan Galassi (1967) – President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
Curt Hahn (1967) – filmmaker
Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist
Tom Birmingham (1968) – President of the Massachusetts Senate
Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist
John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
Anthony Davis (composer) (1969) — composer and jazz pianist
John R. Ettinger (1969) – lawyer and philanthropist
Peter W. Galbraith (1969) – diplomat, author, Ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate)
John C. Harvey, Jr. (1969) – Vice Admiral; Chief of Naval Personnel Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor
Alex Martinez (judge) (1969) - Colorado Supreme Court Justice
John McTiernan (1969) – filmmaker
Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel
Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
Scott McConnell (1970) journalist
Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic
Joyce Maynard (1971) – author
Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer, keyboardist for Tom Petty
Roland Merullo (1971) – author
Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author
Howard Brookner (1972) — film director
Robert J. Fisher (1972) – former Chairman of the Board, Gap, Inc.
Shigehisa Kuriyama (1972) — historian of medicine
Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman; cable television executive; MBA, Yale School of Management; Democratic nominee for Senator from Connecticut in 2006, defeated by Joseph Lieberman
Mike Lynch (1972) – television sports broadcaster
W. Drake McFeely (1972) - Chairman and President of W.W. Norton & Company
Thomas G. Osenton (1972) — author; President, CEO, and Publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company
Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist
Eric Breindel (1973) – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
Paul Romer (1973) – Chief Economist of the World Bank
Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College
Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
Emery Brown – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
William S. Fisher (1975) – businessman and investor
Alix M. Freedman (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Laurie Hays (1975) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Joseph Lykken (1975) – physicist
John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist
Ronald Chen (1976) - dean of Rutger's law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey
Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist
Anne Marden (1976) - Olympic rower (1984-silver medal, 1988-silver medal)
Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America
David McKean (diplomat) (1976) — author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author
James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
James Rubin (1977) – former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Aug. 1997 — Apr. 2000)
James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of Harvard Business Review; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
Michael Lynton (1978) – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
Paul Villinski (1978) — sculptor (did not graduate)
Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards
John J. Fisher (1979) – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
Chip Hourihan (1979) — film producer (Frozen River) and director
Jonathan Smith (rower) (1979) — Olympic rower (1984-silver medal, 1984-bronze medal, 1992)
Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic rower (1984-silver medal, 1988)
Hansen Clarke – U.S. Representative from Michigan (did not graduate)
William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. did not graduate Boston Area Music Promoter
Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
Kim McLarin (1982) — novelist
Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
Nancy Jo Sales (1982) — journalist; author
Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
Henry Blodget (1984) — Editor and CEO of Business Insider
Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
Vanessa Friedman (1985) — fashion critic
Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician
Edmund Perry (1985) – inspiration to Michael Jackson
Maya Forbes (1986) — screenwriter and television producer
David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter
Christine Harper (1987) — chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News
Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
Peter Orszag (1987) – Director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama
China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager
Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media
Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, head of Phillips Academy of Andover
Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor
Jeff Wilner (1990) - tight end for the Green Bay Packers
Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist
Trish Regan (1991) – television news anchor
Roxane Gay (1992) – author
Jason Hall (screenwriter) (1992) — screenwriter ("American Sniper"); director
Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
Rajanya Shah (1992) — Olympic Coxwain (2000)
John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
Tarek Masoud (1993) – scholar, political science professor
Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert
Philip Andelman (1995) - music video director
Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower 2004, Men's Quadruple Sculls
Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist, The One AM Radio
Luke Bronin (1997) – Mayor of Hartford
Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
Joy Fahrenkrog (1998) - member of the United States Archery Team
Georgia Gould (1998) — Olympic mountain biker (2008, 2012-bronze medal)
Sabrina Kolker (1898) - Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008)
Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
Paul Yoon (1998) - novelist
Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships
Sam Fuld (2000) – Major League outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics
William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player
Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook
Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008, 2012—bronze)
Shani Boianjiu (2005) – writer
Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower (2012)
Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player
Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle
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