The following is a list of notable alumni of The Hill School. The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor
John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language
James Baker III, 1948 – Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Chris Bala, 1997 – professional ice hockey player
Perry Richardson Bass – investor and philanthropist
Manoj Bhargava, 1972 – inventor of 5-hour Energy
Pinckney Benedict, 1982 – screenwriter and author
Josiah Bunting III, 1957 – educator
Malcolm Borg, Chairman of North Jersey Media Group
Butch van Breda Kolff, Professional basketball player and coach in the NBA
Robert Davis Carey, 1896 – governor and senator from Wyoming
John Dickson Carr, 1925 – author
Sabin Carr, 1924 – Olympic athlete
Bernard Chan, 1983 – Hong Kong politician and businessman
William F. Clinger, 1947 – former Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97, US Navy (1951–55, Lt.)
Henry S. Coleman, c. 1944 – educator
Chris Collingwood, 1985 – singer, songwriter, member of rock band Fountains of Wayne
Paul Collins, 1986 – historian and memoirist
James Cromwell, 1958 – Academy Award-nominated television and film actor
Briggs Swift Cunningham, 1926 – sportsman, motor enthusiast; won America's Cup yacht race in 1958
Hugh DeHaven, 1914 – professor at Cornell University and "Father of Crash Survivability"
Kingman Douglass, 1914 – investment banker; deputy director of CIA
Lincoln Ellsworth, 1919 – polar explorer, first to sight geographic North Pole along with explorer Roald Amundsen
John Heaphy Fellowes, 1951 – U.S. Navy captain, pilot, and P.O.W. during the Vietnam War
Leonard Firestone, 1927 – US Ambassador to Belgium, 1974–77, US Navy (WWII, Lt.)
Mitchell Froom, 1971 – record producer and musician
Clarence Fincke, Captain of Yale Football team, Hill Football coach
George Garrett, 1941 – poet, novelist, educator
Wolcott Gibbs, class of '20 but did not graduate – writer for The New Yorker
S. C. Gwynne, Class of '70. Bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist
Harry Hamlin, 1970 – actor
Dick Harter, 1948 – assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers
Frederick Herreshoff, 1904 – amateur golfer
Mahlon Hoagland, 1940 – discoverer of transfer RNA
Randy Hopper, 1985 – Wisconsin State Senator
Roger Horchow, 1945 – Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
Clark Hoyt, 1960 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
James Calhoun Humes, 1952 – speechwriter
Lamar Hunt, 1951 – businessman
Nelson Bunker Hunt, did not graduate – scion of the Hunt Oil Company family; donated the costs to renovate his namesake building on campus
Thad Hutcheson, 1933 – politician
Sam Horner, NFL halfback, defensive back and punter
Ralph Hills, USA Olympian shot putter, bronze medallist
Lewis Lehrman, 1956 – politician, businessman, author
Robert A. Lovett, 1914 – fourth United States Secretary of Defense
Bill Luders, Notable naval architect
Steven Lisberger, American film director and producer, directed Tron
Patrick Maher (attended) – author
James A. Michener, 1931 – author; faculty, department of English
Frank Pace, 1929 – Secretary of the Army; CEO of General Dynamics
Alan J. Pakula, 1944 – Hollywood director and producer
George Patton IV, 1942 – Major General in the United States Army; son of World War II General George Patton
Norman Pearlstine, 1960 – publisher
Lionel Pincus, 1948 – co-founder of Warburg Pincus
William Porter, 1944 – Olympic athlete
Winston L. Prouty, 1924 – U.S. Senator from Vermont (1959–1971)
William Proxmire, 1934 – U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (D)
William Thomas Quick, Class of 1964, but did not graduate – writer, screenwriter, blogger
Pat Rissmiller, 1998 – NHL athlete
Robert F. Rockwell, 1903 – United States Congressman from Colorado
Frank Runyeon, 1971 – actor, two-time Emmy Award winner
Len Sassaman, 1998 – computer scientist and biohacker
Peter Schaffer, 1980 – lawyer and sports agent; clients include Barry Sanders, Hakeem Nicks, Joe Thomas, Russell Okung, Phil Taylor, Trevor Pryce. Star of the Esquire Network docuseries titled "The Agent."
Jon Shirley, 1956 – former President of Microsoft
Ernest Simpson, 1915 – British shipping tycoon best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later would marry the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, elder brother of King George VI
Kenneth F. Simpson. congressman
Lane Smith, attended in 1955, did not graduate – character actor
Jerry Stahl, 1971 – novelist, screenwriter
David Stein, 1979 – radio personality
Oliver Stone, 1964 – Academy Award-winning producer/director
William Irvin Swoope, 1888 – United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
Daniel Willard Streeter, hunter, adventurer and author
Harold E. Talbott, 1907 – aviator and President of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, which manufactured more wartime aircraft overall than any other U.S. plant; third Secretary of the Air Force; selected the permanent site for the Air Force Academy
Baird Tipson, Dr., 1961 – President of Washington College
Franchot Tone, Class of 1923, but did not graduate – character actor
Juan T. Trippe, 1917 – airline pioneer, founder of Pan Am
Bobby Troup – composer of "Route 66", musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner
Donald Trump Jr., 1996 – son of Donald Trump
Eric Trump, 2002 – son of Donald Trump; Hill board of trustees
John M. Walker, 1927 – physician and investment banker
Douglas "Sandy" A. Warner III, 1964 – former CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co.
Harry Elkins Widener, 1902 – businessman; son of wealthy businessman George Dunton Widener; grandson of wealthy railroad tycoon Peter A.B. Widener; two buildings donated in his name
Edmund Wilson, 1912 – writer
Tom Wolf, 1967 – 47th Governor of Pennsylvania (2015–present)
Tobias Wolff, Class of 1964, but was expelled for forging information for admission – writer, novelist, English and writing professor at Stanford
Sidney Wood, Wimbledon tennis champion
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