List of Phillips Academy alumni

• Joseph Carter Abbott, Union Army general; North Carolina congressman and lawyer • Hafsat Abiola, Nigerian political activist; winner of 1999 Women to Watch Award from the Association of Women's Development (graduated 1992) • Ernie Adams, director of Football Research, New England Patriots (graduated 1971) • Chris Agee, poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland (graduated 1974) • Wallace M. Alexander (1869–1939), heir, corporate director, philanthropist • Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist at Newsweek (graduated 1975) • Julia Alvarez, author (graduated 1967) • Adelbert Ames Jr., scientist • Carl Andre, minimalist artist (graduated 1953) • James T. Austin, 22nd Massachusetts attorney general (graduated 1794) ==B==

• Thomas J. Baldrige, Pennsylvania attorney general and Superior Court president judge (graduated 1892) • Sullivan Ballou, Union soldier (graduated 1849) • Alexander Bannwart, businessman (graduated 1902) • Charles Barber, author on mental health and psychiatric issues • John Barres, current Roman Catholic bishop of Rockville Centre • Ed Bass, Texas billionaire philanthropist (graduated 1963) • Robin Batteau, composer, singer-songwriter (graduated 1965) • James Phinney Baxter III, former president of Williams College and Pulitzer Prize winner • Willow Bay, CNN news anchor (graduated 1981) • Henry C. Beck III, CEO, The Beck Group (graduated 1973) • Bruce Beemer, former Pennsylvania attorney general and current Pennsylvania inspector general (graduated 1987) • Bill Belichick, coach of New England Patriots (graduated 1971) • James Bell, New Hampshire politician and lawyer • Charles R. Bentley, glaciologist and geophysicist • Paul R. Berger, engineering professor and IEEE fellow (graduated 1981) • John Berman, CNN senior news anchor and journalist (graduated 1990) • Michael Beschloss, historian (graduated 1973) • Hiram Bingham III, archaeologist; rediscovered ruins of Machu Picchu (graduated 1894) • David B. Birney, Union general in the American Civil War • Jennifer Bishop, Baltimore-based photojournalist (graduated 1975) • H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist (graduated 1972) • Les Blank, independent documentary filmmaker (graduated 1954) • Humphrey Bogart, actor (attended 1918; expelled) • Paul Bremer, diplomat notable for his role as administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq following the 2003 invasion (graduated 1959) • Johnny Broaca, professional baseball player • Richard Brodhead, president of Duke University (graduated 1964) • Michael Burlingame, historian (graduated 1960) • John Horne Burns, author (graduated 1933) • Edgar Rice Burroughs, author (student until 1894, then transferred to Michigan Military Academy) • George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. president (graduated 1942) • George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. president (graduated 1964) • Jeb Bush, governor of Florida (graduated 1971) ==C==

• Norman Cahners, publisher and athlete; qualified for 1936 Olympics but boycotted because games were held in Nazi Germany • Jonathan G. Callahan, former Wisconsin assemblyman • Johnson N. Camden Jr., former United States senator from Kentucky • Steven Cantor, film director and producer; STEP, Dancer, Chasing Tyson, Between Me and My Mind • Isaac N. Carleton, educator, president of the American Institute of Instruction (graduated 1855) • Lincoln Chafee, former Rhode Island senator (graduated 1971) • Levi Chamberlain, missionary • Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times (graduated 1946) • Chang Hee-jin, South Korean Olympic swimmer (graduated 2005) • Thomas Chapin, jazz saxophonist (graduated 1975) • Sarah Chayes, expert in religious studies and former Kandahar field director (graduated 1980) • Susan Chira, editor, The New York Times (graduated 1976) • Shouson Chow, Hong Kong businessman and leader (graduated 1881) • George M. Church, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School; pioneer of human genetics (graduated 1972) • Sloane Citron, magazine publisher (graduated 1974) • Stephen Carlton Clark, art collector and philanthropist; founder of the Baseball Hall of Fame (graduated 1899?) • Christian Clemenson, Emmy Award-winning film and television actor (graduated 1976) • Harlan Cleveland, U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Lyndon B. Johnson (graduated 1934) • Raymond C. Clevenger, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (graduated 1955) • Thomas Cochran, banker and philanthropist to Phillips Academy (graduated 1890) • Charles Codding, New Jersey legislator from 1894 to 1895 • Olivia Coffey, won the gold medal in the quad sculls at the 2015 World Rowing Championships as well as competed in 2016 Summer Olympics & The Boat Race 2018 (graduated 2007) • William Sloane Coffin, reverend and peace activist (graduated 1942) • Edwin J. Cohn, protein scientist and blood fractionation expert (graduated 1911) • Donald B. Cole, instructor in history and dean of Phillips Exeter Academy (graduated 1940) • Frank Converse, actor (graduated 1956) • Michael Copley, musician • Joseph Cornell, sculptor (graduated 1921) • Justin Cronin, author (graduated 1980) • Sumner McKnight Crosby, art historian (graduated 1928) • Bill Cunliffe, Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, and jazz pianist (graduated 1974) • Peter Currie, Netscape executive, investor, and charter trustee of Phillips Academy (graduated 1974) ==D==

• William Damon, author, psychologist, and Stanford University educator (graduated 1963) • Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of Self magazine (graduated 1978) • John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times (graduated 1960) • Robert Darnton, historian (graduated 1957) • Benjamin Darrow, New York district attorney (graduated 1879) • Justin Dart Jr., advocate for the rights of disabled people (graduated 1949) • Natalie E. Dean (née Exner), assistant professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida (graduated 2005) • Jonathan Dee, author (graduated 1980) • Dana Delany, actress (graduated 1974) • Sarah Demers, physicist (graduated 1994) • Zak DeOssie, professional football player for the New York Giants; Super Bowl-winning long snapper (graduated 2003) • George Horatio Derby, humorist (graduated 1838) • Norman Dodd, banker, financial adviser and head investigator for the Reece Committee (graduated 1918) • Tim Draper, venture capital investor and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) • Warren Fales Draper, publisher, educator, and philanthropist; significant donor to Phillips Academy; namesake of Draper Hall and Draper Cottage (graduated 1843) • Bill Drayton, entrepreneur, coined the phrase "social entrepreneur" • Charles Duits, writer • Teddy Dunn, actor (graduated 1999) ==E==

• Richard Eder, literary critic; winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism • Carol Edgarian, author (graduated 1980) • Alonzo Elliot, composer • Trey Ellis, novelist, screenwriter (graduated 1980) • Sam Endicott, singer-songwriter and vocalist for The Bravery (graduated 1992) • David B. Ensor, CNN correspondent (graduated 1969) • Harold Perry Erskine, sculptor and architect • Walker Evans, photographer (graduated 1922) ==F==

• Charles Finch, author (graduated 1998) • Charles B. Finch, businessman and political activist • Tom Finkelpearl, NYC commissioner of cultural affairs (graduated 1974) • Paul Finnegan, co-founder of Madison Dearborn Partners(graduated 1971) • David Fishelson, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker (graduated 1974) • Charles L. Flint, lawyer, educator, first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, fourth president of the University of Massachusetts and one of its original founders (graduated 1854) • Thomas C. Foley, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland (graduated 1971) • John Murray Forbes, railroad entrepreneur and philanthropist who re-established Milton Academy • Theodore J. Forstmann, billionaire businessman and philanthropist • Hollis Frampton, avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, and theoretician (attended 1951 to 1954; never received diploma) • Peter Franchot, state comptroller of Maryland • Andy Frankenberger, poker champion • Ziwe Fumudoh, comedian (graduated 2010) ==G==

• Robert A. Gardner, two-time U.S. Amateur golf champion • Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management (graduated 1964) • Glenn Gass, rock 'n' roll educator (dropped out upper year, would have graduated 1974) • Isaac Wheeler Geer, railroad executive • A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University and seventh Major League Baseball commissioner (graduated 1956) • Nils Gilman, historian and futurist (graduated 1989) • Salvador Gómez-Colón, youth activist (graduated 2020) • Stephanie Gosk, journalist and correspondent for NBC News (graduated 1990) • David Graeber, professor of anthropology; anarchist (graduated 1978) • Anthony Grafton, noted scholar (graduated 1967) • Richard Theodore Greener, first African-American to graduate from Harvard College (graduated 1865) • Horatio Greenough, sculptor known for U.S. government commissions The Rescue (1837–50), George Washington (1840), and The Discovery of America (1840–43) • James Greenway, curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, renowned ornithologist, lt. commander U.S. Navy, intelligence officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence (graduated 1926) • John Campbell Greenway, general, U.S. Army, Rough Rider, intelligence officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence, mining magnate (graduated 1895 [PhB]) • David L. Gunn, former president of Amtrak (graduated 1955) • Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduated 1968) ==H==

• Roderick Stephen Hall, OSS agent murdered by the SS in 1945 (graduated 1934) • Peter Halley, artist (graduated 1971) • George Hamlin, tenor; Victor recording artist 1905–1916 (graduated 1889) • Thomas H. Harvey Jr., U.S. Army officer and Distinguished Service Cross recipient (graduated 1954) • Garnet Hathaway, ice hockey forward for the NHL's Washington Capitals (graduated 2010) • Julian Hatton, abstract landscape artist (graduated 1974) • Brian Henson, president of Jim Henson Productions (graduated 1982) • Samuel Prescott Hildreth, pioneer physician, scientist, and chronicler of the early settlement of the Northwest Territory • Frank Lauren Hitchcock, MIT mathematician (graduated 1892?) • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., author (graduated 1825) • Fred A. Howland, secretary of state of Vermont and president of National Life Insurance Company (graduated 1883) • Thomas J. Hudner Jr., U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient (graduated 1943) • Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook; publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic (graduated 2002) • Angela Hur, author (graduated 1998) ==I==

• Eugen Indjic, classical pianist (graduated 1965) • Robert Ingersoll, former United States deputy secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (graduated 1933) ==J==

• Thomas H. Jackson, former president of the University of Rochester (graduated 1968) • Edward Hopkins Jenkins, director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (graduated 1868) • Clay Johnson III, deputy director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (graduated 1964) • Osgood Johnson, 5th principal of Phillips Academy (graduated 1823) ==K==

• Peter Kapetan (1956–2008), Broadway actor, singer, and dancer (graduated 1974) • Marsha Kazarosian, trial attorney (graduated 1974) • R. Crosby Kemper Jr., banker and philanthropist, namesake of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art • Charles West Kendall, U.S. representative, lawyer, and newspaper editor • Mel Kendrick, artist (graduated 1967) • John F. Kennedy Jr., publisher, son of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy (graduated 1979) • Max Kennedy, author (expelled) • Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. representative from Rhode Island (graduated 1986) • Vanessa Kerry, physician and health care administrator who founded the non-profit Seed Global Health, daughter of John Kerry • Prince Rahim Aga Khan, son of the Aga Khan IV (graduated 1990) • Victor K. Kiam, businessman and owner of the New England Patriots (graduated 1944) • Brian Kibler, game designer and professional Magic: the Gathering player • Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize winner for Soul of the New Machine (graduated 1963) • Richard H. Kimball, venture capitalist (graduated 1974) • William King, first governor of Maine (graduated 1781) • Karl Kirchwey, poet (graduated 1974) • Jonathan Philip Klein, dog behavior consultant (graduated 1974) • John Kluge Jr., philanthropist, investor, son of John Kluge (graduated 2001) • William Standish Knowles, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (graduated 1935) • Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologist (graduated 1945) • Chris Kreider, player for Boston College hockey team, and then New York Rangers (graduated 2010) • Erik S. Kristensen, lieutenant commander, United States Navy SEALs; killed in action during Operation Red Wings (graduated 1991) • James Simon Kunen, author, journalist known for writing The Strawberry Statement ==L==

• Raymond A. Lamontagne, philanthropist • John Lardner, sports writer (graduated 1929) • Ring Lardner Jr., Academy Award-winning screenwriter • Frank Lavin, former undersecretary for International Trade of the U.S. Department of Commerce (graduated 1975) • George Ayres Leavitt, early New York publisher (graduated 1840) • Gary Lee, journalist, travel writer (graduated 1974) • Nate Lee, writer, senior editor of Newcity in Chicago (graduated 1974) • Jack Lemmon, actor (graduated 1943) • Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese ambassador to the United States (did not graduate) • I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, disbarred lawyer, government official, policy advisor, and novelist (graduated 1968) • Caroline Lind, two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing (graduated 2002) • Gordon Lish, editor, author, and teacher (graduated 1952) • Seth Lloyd, physicist and researcher in quantum information theory (graduated 1978) • David Longstreth, founding member of rock band The Dirty Projectors • Alfred Lee Loomis, pioneer of ultrasonics (graduated 1905) • Phillips Lord, radio program writer, creator, producer and narrator • Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman, City of Lowell, Massachusetts named after him (graduated 1786) ==M==

• Heather Mac Donald, political commentator (graduated 1974) • Moses Macdonald, US congressman (graduated 1827) • Torbert MacDonald, lawyer and politician • Lisa MacFarlane, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy (graduated 1975) • April March, musician and animator • Mozhan Marnò, actress, writer, director • George Perkins Marsh, diplomat and philologist; credited as one of the first environmentalists (graduated 1816) • John Marsh, early pioneer and settler in California; often regarded as the first person to practice medicine in California (graduated 1818) • Othniel Charles Marsh, first professor of paleontology at Yale University (graduated 1856) • Laurel Massé, founding member of The Manhattan Transfer (expelled 1969) • Marcia McCabe, daytime television actor (graduated 1973 from Abbot) • Barry R. McCaffrey, U.S. general, drug czar (graduated 1960) • Vance C. McCormick, politician and businessman; chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles • Walsh McDermott, medical researcher and public health doctor • Joe McGlone, football player • James P. McLane Jr., three-time Olympic champion (graduated 1949) • Scott Mead, investment banker, photographer, and former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs (graduated 1973) • Jonathan Meath, children's TV producer and Santa Claus (graduated 1974) • Thomas C. Mendenhall, expert of collegiate rowing and former president of Smith College (graduated 1928) • Thomas Mesereau, attorney whose clients include Robert Blake and Michael Jackson (graduated 1969) • Charles A. Meyer, former assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs (graduated 1935) • Marvin Minsky, expert on artificial intelligence, robotics, and computers (graduated 1944) • Paul Monette, author and activist (graduated 1963) • John U. Monro, academic administrator and dean of Harvard College • William Henry Moody, U.S. Supreme Court justice (graduated 1871) • Edwin V. Morgan, United States ambassador to Brazil 1912–1933 • Samuel Morse, inventor of the single-wire telegraph and Morse Code (graduated 1805) • Seth Moulton, U.S. congressman representing Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District (graduated 1997) • Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch; chairman of News Corporation (graduated 1990) • Charles B. G. Murphy, writer and philanthropist; honored with the Charles B.G. Murphy professorship at Yale University (graduated 1923) • Gerald Clery Murphy, artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross (graduated 1908) • Patrick O. Murphy, mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts ==N==

• Ted Nace, computer publisher, anti-coal activist (graduated 1974) • Joseph Hardy Neesima, founder of Doshisha University in Japan (graduated 1867) • Sara Nelson, former editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly (graduated 1974) • Guy Nordenson, structural engineer (graduated 1973) • William D. Nordhaus, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (graduated 1959) • Lisa Anne Novelline, children's book author ==O==

• Jens David Ohlin, dean of Cornell Law School (graduated 1992) • Richard O'Kane, recipient of the Medal of Honor (graduated 1930) • Frederick Law Olmsted, architect and designer of Central Park (graduated 1838) • Kevin Olusola, cellist and member of a cappella group Pentatonix (graduated 2006) ==P==

• Peter Palandjian, CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation • Steven C. Panagiotakos, senator • U.S. Army Major General James Parker, awarded the Medal of Honor (graduated 1870) • Rufus Parks, Wisconsin politician • Henry Day Penfield, mayor of Evanston, Illinois • Jonathan Penner, actor on Survivor: Cook Islands, Survivor: Micronesia, and Survivor: Philippines • Ross Perlin, linguist and author (graduated 2001) • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, early feminist author • Gerard Piel, journalist (graduated 1933) • Gilbert Pillsbury, forced to leave Andover after founding its first Abolitionist Society, Massachusetts state senator (1854) • David Pingree, MacArthur Award-winning Brown University writer (graduated 1950) • Katie Porter, U.S. congresswoman representing California's 45th Congressional District (graduated 1992) • Jane Pratt, publisher, founder of Jane magazine (graduated 1980) ==Q==

• Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston, 1823–1828; president of Harvard College, 1828–1845 (graduated 1786) ==R==

• Sarah Rafferty, actress (graduated 1989) • Herbert H. Ramsay, attorney and president of the United States Golf Association who created many of the standards used in professional golfing (graduated 1905) • Henry Riggs Rathbone, congressman and lawyer from Illinois; his parents were with Abraham Lincoln when he was shot at Ford's Theater (graduated 1887) • C. Cybele Raver, developmental psychologist (graduated 1982) • Paul Reardon, justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (graduated 1927) • DeForest Richards, fifth governor of Wyoming • Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist (graduated 1997) • Robin L. Rosenberg, U.S. District Court judge (graduated 1979) • Charles Ruff, lawyer who defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in 1999 (graduated 1956) • Richard S. Rust, forced to leave Andover after founding its first Abolitionist Society, founder of Wilberforce University, namesake of Rust College • Frederic Rzewski, composer and pianist (graduated 1954) ==S==

• Charles G. Sawtelle, U.S. Army brigadier general • Will Scharf, assistant to the president and White House staff secretary (graduated 2004) • Pierce Schenck, business executive from Dayton, Ohio • Stacy Schiff, journalist, biographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Véra Nabokov (graduated 1978) • G. David Schine, entrepreneur, businessman, and political activist • Cory Schneider, New Jersey Devils goaltender (graduated 2004) • Peter Sellars, theater director (graduated 1975) • Tanya Selvaratnam, author, actor, producer, and activist (graduated 1988) • Robert B. Semple Jr., associate editor for the New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for environmental editorial writing (graduated 1954) • James Shannon, former U.S. representative from Massachusetts and former Massachusetts attorney general (graduated 1969) • Duncan Sheik, musician (graduated 1988) • Charles Sheldon, leader of the Social Gospel movement (graduated 1879) • George Pearson Smith, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (graduated 1958) • Peter Plympton Smith, assistant director-general for education at UNESCO and first president of California State University, Monterey Bay (graduated 1964) • Andong Song, first China-born hockey player to be drafted in the National Hockey League (NHL) (graduated 2016) • James Spader, actor (class of 1978; dropped out) • Lyman Spitzer, physicist (graduated 1931) • Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (graduated 1921) • Alfred E. Stearns, educator and 9th headmaster of Phillips Academy (graduated 1890) • Robert B. Stearns, founder of Bear Stearns (graduated 1906) • Joshua Steiner, financier (graduated 1983) • Frank Stella, painter (graduated 1954) • Alexander Stille, journalist (graduated 1974) • Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state under President Hoover, secretary of war under presidents Taft, F. Roosevelt and Truman • William H. Sumner, son of Governor Increase Sumner; graduated from Harvard College in 1799; practiced law; general in the Massachusetts militia; wrote The History of East Boston • Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army general during World War II (graduated 1911) • William Irvin Swoope, U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania ==T==

• Oscar Tang, Chinese-American investment banker and philanthropist; chairman of board of trustees of Phillips Academy and largest donor in Phillips Academy history (graduated 1956) • William Davis Taylor, publisher and chair of the Boston Globe (graduated 1927) • Thomas D. Thacher (1881–1950), one-time solicitor general of the United States • Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek • Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief of Wired (graduated 1993) • William R. Timken, former U.S. ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush (graduated 1956) • Rufus Tobey (1873), founder of Tufts Childrens Hospital • William Tong, Connecticut state representative • Alexander Trowbridge, U.S. secretary of commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president, National Association of Manufacturers (graduated 1947) • Augustus Trowbridge, physicist and Princeton University professor • Ming Tsai, chef and restaurateur (graduated 1982) ==U==