List of Deerfield Academy alumni
The List of Deerfield Academy alumni is a dynamic list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically.
Pre-1900
- George Grennell Jr., U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
- Edward Hitchcock, president of Amherst College
- John Williams, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
- George Sheldon, politician and historian
- Mary Tenney Castle, missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii
- Rufus Saxton, Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor
- William Lincoln Higgins, U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
Classes of the 1920s
- Paul Langdon Ward, president of Sarah Lawrence College
- J. B. Jackson, writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design.
Classes of the 1930s
- Budd Schulberg, screenwriter and novelist
- Hastings Keith, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Douglas Kennedy, actor
- Lyman Kirkpatrick, inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- H. Stuart Hughes, academic and activist
- Edwin W. Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Burma
- John Edward Sawyer, president of Williams College
- Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney
- James Colgate Cleveland, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
- Thomas Hedley Reynolds, President of Bates College
- William Zinsser, writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher
- Gordon MacRae, singer and actor
- Ian Barbour, Templeton Prize winner
- Charles Merrill Jr., writer, teacher and philanthropist
- John Mecklin, writer and journalist
Classes of the 1940s
- Talcott Williams Seelye, U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
- John Chafee, U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
- David S. Dodge, vice-president for administration, acting president and president of the American University in Beirut
- Thomas Keating, monk
- Arthur Nims, Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
- Charles Clapp, Judge of United States Tax Court
- Dickinson R. Debevoise, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- John Weinberg, chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Ogden R. Reid, U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Henry W. Kendall, physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient
- Daniel C. Searle, heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
- John Ashbery, poet
- James Wadsworth Symington, U.S. Congressman from Missouri
- Carl Richard Woese, biologist, discovered archeabacteria
- Allen Stack, Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
- George Quincey Lumsden Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
- Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Malcolm H. Kerr, President of the American University of Beirut
- John McPhee, nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
- Hoddy Hildreth, member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth
Classes of the 1950s
- Rodman Rockefeller, philanthropist
- Edward Hoagland, writer
- Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire Mellon family heir, and philanthropist
- Nelson Doubleday Jr., former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
- Robert Hazard Edwards, president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
- Thomas C. Reed, Secretary of the Air Force
- Warren Zimmermann, final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
- James M. Banner Jr., historian
- Steven C. Rockefeller, philanthropist
- Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III, former owner of Anchor Brewing Company
- Kit Bond, U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
- Eric Widmer, headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy
- David H. Koch, billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
- David Childs, architect
Classes of the 1960s
- Don Abbey, real estate businessman
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo, U.S. Congressman from New York
- Robert Beavers, experimental filmmaker
- Pete Varney, Major League Baseball player
- Stephen G. Smith, journalist
- Steven Brill, journalist and publisher
- Edwin S. Grosvenor, editor and publisher
- Peter Gabel, law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
- Howie Carr, journalist and radio host
- Winthrop H. Smith Jr., former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc.
Classes of the 1970s
- Stephen Hannock, painter
- Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner
- Nigel Newton, publisher, founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
- Kerry Emanuel, scholar
- Buddy Teevens, Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
- Ken Bentsen Jr., U.S. Congressman from Texas
- Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg, son of Sunny von Bulow and a member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
- Haun Saussy, scholar
Classes of the 1980s
- King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan
- Robert M. McDowell, commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission from 2006 to 2013
- Matthew Fox, actor
- Mark Rockefeller, philanthropist
- Mike Trombley, Major League Baseball player
- Nestor Carbonell, actor
- Craig Janney, NHL player
- Chris Waddell, gold medalist Paralympic skier
- Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon
- Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- Adam S. Weinberg, president of Denison University
- Milton Sands III, admiral in the United States Navy
Classes of the 1990s
- Chris Klug, bronze medalist, U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Michael Sucsy, acclaimed filmmaker, Grey Gardens
- Prince Hussain Aga Khan, photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV
- Prince Ali bin Hussein, Jordanian royal and Vice President of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
- Marty Reasoner, retired National Hockey League center
- Randal Williams, National Football League player
- Peter Cambor, actor
- Adriana Cisneros, media mogul
- Jamie Hagerman, bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
- Jay Newton-Small, Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell
- Chase Coleman III, class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management
- Bom Kim, class of 1996, Korean-American billionaire and founder of Coupang
- Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, American novelist
Classes of the 2000s
- Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
- David Branson Smith, award-winning screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
- Ben Lovejoy, retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
- Ty McCormick, foreign correspondent
- Molly Schaus, U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
- Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
- Alex Killorn, professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League
- Willy Workman, American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Classes of the 2010s
- Osama Khalifa, squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship
- Kevin Roy, professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
- Liam Holowesko, professional cyclist
- Sam Lafferty, professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
- Hunter Long, professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams
- Jacob Lee, singer-songwriter
- Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour
Classes of the 2020s
- Dominic Sessa, actor
- Elic Ayomanor, Canadian football player
See Also
- :Category:Deerfield Academy alumni.