•
Virginia Abernethy (born 1934), anthropologist •
Dan Abrams (class of 1984), chief legal affairs anchor for
ABC News •
Josh Appelbaum, television writer •
Sosie Bacon (born 1992), actress •
Charlie Barnet (1913–1991), jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader •
Jacqueline Barton (born 1952), chemist •
Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), historian •
Cliff Bayer (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer •
Lisa Birnbach (born 1956, class of 1974), author of
The Official Preppy Handbook •
Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), U.S. senator from
Connecticut •
Niesha Butler, basketball player, actress •
DJ Cassidy (born 1981), DJ, record producer •
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920–1948), socialite •
Garrett Chalfin (born 2004), crossword constructor for
The New York Times •
Louis Ozawa Changchien (born 1975), actor •
Chevy Chase (born 1943), actor •
Suzan Johnson Cook (born 1957), pastor and activist •
Jonathan Dean (1924–2014), United States ambassador to
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks •
Richard Engel (born 1973), NBC News chief foreign correspondent •
Harry Enten (born 1988), political journalist •
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), artist and social activist •
Varian Fry (1907–1967), journalist who ran a program helping thousands of Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Germany •
Peter Galison (born 1955), Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University •
Alexander Garvin (1941–2021), urban planner •
James Gleick (born 1954), science writer •
Leopold Godowsky Jr. (1900–1983), co-creator of the first color transparency film •
Rachel Hadas (born 1948), poet, teacher, essayist, and translator •
Calvin Hill (born 1947, class of 1965), former
NFL player •
Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), journalist and author •
John Kao (born 1950), author and strategic advisor •
Claude Kelly (born 1980), singer, songwriter and music producer •
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), president of the United States, attended Riverdale's Lower School •
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. senator •
Ron Kim (born 1979), politician •
Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004), conductor •
Gerard Koeppel (born 1975), author, historian, and journalist •
Robert Krulwich (born 1947), radio and television journalist •
John Lahr (born 1941), theater critic •
Lee MacPhail (1917–2012), Baseball Hall-of-Fame front-office executive •
Chloe Malle (born 1985), head of editorial content at
Vogue •
Leopold Mannes (1899–1964), co-creator of
Kodachrome, the first color transparency film •
Nick McDonell (born 1984), author •
Fred Melamed (born 1956), actor •
Howard Milstein, real estate developer •
Steven Mnuchin (born 1962)
United States Secretary of the Treasury 2017–2021 •
Wes Moore (born 1978), governor of Maryland •
Tim Morehouse (born 1978), fencer, 2008 Olympic silver medalist •
William C. W. Mow (born 1936), entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of
Bugle Boy Industries •
André Nemec (born 1972), screenwriter •
Ed Rendell (born 1944), governor of Pennsylvania •
Cesar Romero (1907–1994), actor •
Clifford Ross (born 1952), photographer and artist •
Tracee Ellis Ross (born 1972), actress •
Andy Russell, founder and CEO of Trigger Media •
Carly Simon (born 1943), singer •
Scott Snyder, author •
Jordana Spiro (born 1977), actor •
Max Stafford-Clark, English theatre director •
Jason Strauss (born 1974), co-founder and co-CEO of
Tao Group Hospitality •
Ratan Tata (1937–2024), former chairman of Tata Group •
Peter Vack, actor •
Jeffrey Vinik (born 1959), owner of the
Tampa Bay Lightning •
Joss Whedon (born 1964), writer, director, and executive producer; creator of several television series (
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Angel,
Firefly,
Serenity) •
David Yazbek (born 1961), composer, lyricist, writer for
Broadway and TV, including
The Full Monty, ''
The Band's Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' •
Tim Zagat (class of 1957), restaurant critic •
Michael Zakarin, guitarist for
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