List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.

Founder

John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of board of trustees 1781–1795

Principals

Benjamin Abbot – principal 1788–1838
Gideon Lane Soule – principal 1838–1873
Albert C. Perkins – principal 1873–1883
Walter Quincy Scott – president of Ohio State University; principal 1884–1889
Charles Everett Fish – principal 1890–1895
Harlan P. Amen – principal 1895–1913
Lewis Perry – principal 1914–1946
William Saltonstall – principal 1946–1963
William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim principal 1963–1964
Richard W. Day – principal 1964–1973
Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; principal 1974–1987
Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; principal 1987–1997
Tyler Tingley – principal 1997–2009
Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; principal 2009–2015
Lisa MacFarlane – principal 2015–2018
William Knox Rawson – interim principal 2018, principal 2019–present

Notable faculty members and trustees

John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797
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; assistant teacher 1807
Nathan Lord – president of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
James Walker – president of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817
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
George A. Wentworth – author of textbooks on mathematics; faculty 1857–1892; board of trustees 1899–1906
Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882
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
Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty
Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960
Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967
Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
Michael S. Greco – president of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968
George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975
David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977
Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993
Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021
Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
Willie Perdomo – current instructor in English

Notable alumni

1780s

Benjamin Ives Gilman – Ohio pioneer
George Sullivan – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Nathaniel Thayer – Unitarian minister
Daniel Tilton – one of the first three judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory
Josiah Bartlett Jr. – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
George B. Upham – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Daniel Meserve Durell – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party

1790s

Dudley Leavitt – publisher, writer, teacher
David L. Morril – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
John Noyes – U.S. representative from Vermont
Lewis Cass – 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 – pacifist, founder and first president of American Peace Society
Nathaniel Upham – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Samuel Conner – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
John Adams Harper – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Edward Little – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Joseph Stevens Buckminster – Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
Daniel Webster – U.S. representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat
Leverett Saltonstall I – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

1800s

Samuel Livermore – legal scholar
Richard Saltonstall Rogers – East Indies merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts
Abiel Chandler – merchant, philanthropist
Joseph Cogswell – educator, editor, library administrator
William Plumer Jr. – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
James Carr – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
John Perkins Cushing – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
Augustine Heard – entrepreneur and businessman
Nicholas B. Doe – U.S. representative from New York State
Theodore Lyman – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Lucius Manlius Sargent – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
John Lauris Blake – minister and prolific author
Benjamin T. Pickman – president of the Massachusetts State Senate
Zachariah Allen – manufacturer and inventor
Joseph Blunt – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney
Edward Everett – 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
Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Benjamin Kendrick Pierce – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
James H. Duncan – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
James Freeman Dana – chemist; science author
Samuel Luther Dana – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author
William Thorndike – president of the Massachusetts State Senate

1810s

John Sherburne Sleeper – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
William Willis – mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
Thomas Bulfinch – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
John Adams Dix – U.S. secretary of the Treasury; U.S. senator from New York; governor of New York; U.S. minister to France; railroad president
Horace Hooker – Congregationalist minister; author
William Robinson – school founder
Jonathan P. Cushing – president of Hampden-Sydney College
George Bancroft – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; ambassador to the United Kingdom
John G. Palfrey – clergyman, U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Jared Sparks – president of Harvard University
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
David Barker Jr. – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College
William Bourne Oliver Peabody – Unitarian minister, author
Charles Paine – governor of Vermont
Samuel Edmund Sewall – lawyer; politician; abolitionist; suffragist
James Wilson II – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Andrew Leonard Emerson – first mayor of Portland, Maine
Gideon Lane Soule – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873
Nathaniel Gookin Upham – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
George Lunt – politician, author, editor, poet
John Dennison Russ – physician; innovator in the education of the blind
Jonathan Chapman – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Thomas Wilson Dorr – governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
Alfred L. Elwyn – humanitarian, author
Russell Sturgis – merchant, banker

1820s

John P. Hale – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain
Franklin Pierce – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States
Alpheus Felch – U.S. senator from Michigan; governor of Michigan
Josiah S. Little – speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
Ephraim Peabody – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
John Langdon Sibley – librarian of Harvard University
Alfred W. Craven – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Thomas Tingey Craven – rear admiral, United States Navy
George Yeaton Sawyer – lawyer and politician, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
Samuel Foster Haven – archeologist, anthropologist
Richard Hildreth – historian, political theorist
John Hodgdon – president of the Maine State Senate; mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
Forrest Shepherd – geologist
George Bradburn – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith – U.S. representative from Maine
Edward Henry Durell – mayor of New Orleans, federal judge
Henry Francis Harrington – editor of the Boston Herald
Theodore Howard McCaleb – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana
Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, educationalist
Benjamin Butler – Civil War general ; U.S. representative from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts
Edward Fox – federal judge
Timothy Roberts Young – U.S. representative from Illinois
Charles Turner Torrey – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
Jeffries Wyman – naturalist and anatomist
Morrill Wyman – physician and social reformer

1830s

Henry Gardner – governor of Massachusetts
Horace G. Hutchins – mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
William Henry Chandler – politician from Connecticut
Edmund Burke Whitman – quartermaster, U.S. Army; superintendent of National Cemeteries
Nathaniel B. Baker – governor of New Hampshire
Charles Jervis Gilman – U.S. representative from Maine
Fitz John Porter – Civil War general
John F. Potter – U.S. representative from Wisconsin
William B. Small – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
Ezra Abbot – New Testament scholar
Amos Tappan Akerman – U.S. attorney general, 1870–1872
Charles H. Bell – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
Augustus Lord Soule – associate justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
E. Carleton Sprague – lawyer, politician, chancellor of the University of Buffalo

1840s

James Camp Tappan – Civil War general, speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Henry W. Cleaveland – architect
Paul A. Chadbourne – president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
James Cooley Fletcher – missionary, diplomat, author
Jonathan Homer Lane – astronomer
Elijah B. Stoddard – mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
E. C. Banfield – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; solicitor of the United States Treasury
Charles Cogswell Doe – chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
William Fessenden Allen – 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
Curtis Coe Bean – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
George Francis Richardson – Massachusetts politician
William Dorsheimer – U.S. representative from New York; lieutenant governor of New York
Charles Franklin Dunbar – editor; political economist; dean of faculty, Harvard University; president of the American Economic Association
Richard Sylvester – journalist
William Robert Ware – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University
Christopher Langdell – legal scholar, jurist and educator

1850s

Frederick Lothrop Ames – business magnate; art collector
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn – author, journalist, abolitionist
Uriah Smith – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
George Bates Nichols Tower – civil and mechanical engineer; author
Benjamin Smith Lyman – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
Benjamin F. Prescott – governor of New Hampshire
Charles Pomeroy Otis – educator; author
Wheelock G. Veazey – justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient
George E. Adams – U.S. representative from Illinois
Marcellus Bailey – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
Frank W. Hackett – assistant secretary of the United States Navy
Edward Rowland Sill – poet
George W. Atherton – president of Pennsylvania State University
William Ripley Brown – U.S. representative from Kansas
Charles Ezra Greene – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
Edward Tuck – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
George S. Morison – leading bridge designer
Henry B. Lovering – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

1860s

Jeremiah Curtin – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
William M.R. French – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago
Robert Todd Lincoln – son of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
James Greeley Flanders – Wisconsin politician
Marshall Snow – acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
John White Chadwick – Unitarian minister and writer
Augustus Van Wyck – Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, New York
John E. Leonard – U.S. representative from Louisiana
Elisha B. Maynard – mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
John Ames Mitchell – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of Life magazine
George Thomas Tilden – architect
Wilmon W. Blackmar – Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Rufus Brown – Hebrew Bible scholar
Robert Hallowell Richards – mining engineer; metallurgist
Joseph Lyman Silsbee – architect
William Gardner Hale – classical scholar
Edward R. Bacon – railroad president; financier; art collector
John Hubbard – rear admiral, U.S. Navy
Herbert H. D. Peirce – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
Herbert Baxter Adams – educator and historian
Winfield Scott Edgerly – brigadier general, U.S. Army
Robert Franklin Pennell – educator and scholar
Charlemagne Tower Jr. – U.S. ambassador to Russia and Germany
Frank O. Briggs – U.S. senator from New Jersey

1870s

August Belmont Jr. – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
Erastus Brainerd – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
Nathan Haskell Dole – author and translator
Ulysses S. Grant Jr. – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
Samuel L. Powers – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Sylvester Primer – linguist and philologist
Albert D. Bosson – mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
Nelson Taylor Jr. – politician from Connecticut
Philip Hale – music critic
Oscar Richard Hundley – federal judge
Frank H. Pope – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
George Edward Woodberry – poet and literary critic
Melville Bull – lieutenant governor of Rhode Island; U.S. representative from Rhode Island
Henry G. Danforth – U.S. representative from New York
Robert O. Harris – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
James Cameron Mackenzie – transformative headmaster of Lawrenceville School
George Arthur Plimpton – publisher and philanthropist
William Bancroft – businessman; brigadier general; mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Benjamin Newhall Johnson – attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest
Ogden Mills – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
Guy Carleton Phinney – real estate developer
Frederick Winslow Taylor – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Harlan P. Amen – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913
William De Witt Hyde – president of Bowdoin College
Henry Shute – author
William Morton Grinnell – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Winsor – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
Timothy L. Woodruff – lieutenant governor of New York
H. H. Holmes – serial killer
Charles MacVeagh – U.S. Ambassador to Japan
William W. Stickney – governor of Vermont
Willard S. Augsbury – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
Sherman Hoar – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Walter I. McCoy – U.S. representative from New Jersey
William Schaus – entomologist
Henry Grier Bryant – explorer, writer
S. Percy Hooker – politician from New York State
Moses King – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
Francis S. Peabody – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

1880s

Joseph Adna Hill – statistician; devised the method of equal proportions
Thomas Parker Sanborn – poet; inspiration for the protagonist of Santayana's The Last Pilgrim
Charles Augustus Strong – philosopher and psychologist
William Woodward Baldwin – Third Assistant Secretary of State
Frank G. Higgins – football player, lawyer, politician, lieutenant governor of Montana
Edmund Wilson Sr. – attorney general of New Jersey
Gordon Woodbury – U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy
Joseph H. Walker – speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Larz Anderson – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Lindley Miller Garrison – U.S. Secretary of War
William Mann Irvine – academic, founding headmaster of Mercersburg Academy
Wallace Nutting – photographer
Bradley Palmer – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
John Scammon – president of the New Hampshire State Senate; associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
James D. Denegre – Minnesota state senator and lawyer
William A. Chanler – explorer, soldier, U.S. representative from New York
Morton D. Hull – U.S. representative from Illinois
George Hunter – authority on decorative art
Walter W. Magee – U.S. representative from New York
Gifford Pinchot – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; governor of Pennsylvania
Guy H. Preston – US Army brigadier general
George Rublee – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Amos Alonzo Stagg – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football"
Augustus Noble Hand – federal judge
Tim Shinnick – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
William Wurtenburg – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; football coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician
Theodore Davis Boal – U.S. Army colonel; architect
Bob Huntington – U.S. Open Tennis Doubles champion ; architect
James Madison Morton Jr. – federal judge
George Higgins Moses – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, ambassador to Greece
Curtis Hidden Page – scholar, author, translator
William Rhode – All-American football player; won national championship as football coach at Yale
Frank Barbour – football player; football coach at the University of Michigan, businessman
John Cranston – All-American football player; football coach at Harvard University
Robert Boal Fort – Illinois politician
Thomas Lamont – partner and chairman of board of directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Lee McClung – All-American football player; treasurer of the United States
Horace Tracy Pitkin – missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion
Frank St. John Sidway – New York State politician
Samuel Washington Weis – painter
Robert D. Farquhar – architect
Ogden H. Hammond – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Booth Tarkington – Pulitzer Prize winner

1890s

Butler Ames – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Carroll Bond – chief judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
Henry M. Crane – automotive engineer and pioneer
George Lawrence Day – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient
Marshall Newell – All-American football player; football coach at Cornell University
Lewis Stevenson – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois secretary of state
William Boyce Thompson – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
Julian Coolidge – mathematician; president of the Mathematical Association of America
Henry M. Crane – pioneering automobile designer
Louis W. Hill – railroad magnate
John Howland – pediatrician
Henry McKee Minton – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
Winfred Thaxter Denison – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
Daniel Gregory Mason – composer, music critic
Hiland Orlando Stickney – football coach at University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University
Charles Loring – chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
William Belmont Parker – author and editor
Carl Frelinghuysen Gould – architect
Lawrence B. Hamlin – purveyor of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, fined for false advertising
George R. Stobbs – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
Charles R. Forbes – director of the Veterans' Bureau
Doc Powers – professional baseball player
Walter Dearborn – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
William F. Donovan – athletic ringer; football coach at Harvard University
Burt Z. Kasson – politician from New York State
Roscoe Conkling Bruce – educator
Robert William Sawyer – journalist, conservationist
Samuel Davis Wilson – mayor of Philadelphia
Barry Faulkner – muralist
Robert Leavitt – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
Charles M. Olmsted – aeronautical engineer

1900s

Arthur Nash – architect
Myron E. Witham – All-American football player; football coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado
Swinburne Hale – civil rights attorney; a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; poet
James Hogan – All-American football player
Walter Nelles – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Foster Rockwell – All-American football player; football coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier
Ralph B. Strassburger – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
Joseph Gilman – All-American football player, businessman
Samuel M. Harrington – brigadier general
J. W. Knibbs – football player; football coach at University of California, Berkeley
James Cooney – All-American football player
Sterling Dow – classical archaeologist and epigrapher
Nicholas V. V. Franchot II – businessman and New York State politician
Hugo W. Koehler – U.S. Navy commander; military attaché to Russia
Samuel Abraham Marx – architect and interior designer
Jay R. Benton – Massachusetts attorney general
Edwin F. Harding – U.S. Army major general, commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
Howard Jones – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
T. A. Dwight Jones – All-American football player; Yale football coach
Jim McCormick – All-American football player; football coach at Princeton
F. Harold Van Orman – lieutenant governor of Indiana
Harrie B. Chase – federal judge
Richard Grozier – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
Roger Sherman Hoar – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
William Rand – Olympic athlete
Thomas C. Coffin – U.S. representative from Idaho
Haniel Long – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
Henry Morgenthau Jr. – U.S. Secretary of Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt
Andrew Tombes – comedian and character actor
Justin Woodward Harding – federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg
Ed Wheelan – cartoonist
Robert Benchley – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
Frank M. Dixon – governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party
Arthur Bluethenthal – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
Walter William Spencer Cook – Spanish Medieval art historian and professor
John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player ; world record holder in the mile run

1910s

Wayne G. Borah – federal judge
Horatio Colony – poet and novelist
J. Ira Courtney – Olympic sprinter and baseball player
Allen Dulles – U.S. director of Central Intelligence
Rustin McIntosh – pediatrician
Edwin Charles Parsons – rear admiral of the United States Navy
Olin M. Jeffords – chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Robert Nathan – novelist and poet
Phelps Putnam – poet
Donald Ogden Stewart – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
Harold Weston – modernist painter
William D. Byron – U.S. representative from Maryland
Hunt Wentworth –socialite and businessman
Harry Worthington – Olympic long jumper
John Amen – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
Amos N. Blandin, Jr. – Supreme Court justice, State of New Hampshire
Arthur Freed – film producer
Howard Hawks – film director
Joseph Frank Wehner – fighter pilot
Charles Bierer Wrightsman – fine arts collector and philanthropist
Art Braman – NFL football player
Eddie Casey – All-American football player; head coach of the Washington Redskins
Richard F. Cleveland – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant
Lawrence Dennis – author and economist
Louis M. Loeb – president of the New York City Bar Association
Drew Pearson – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
Stephen Potter – first American naval aviator to shoot down a German seaplane
Nathaniel Wollf – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
John Cowles Sr. – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
Frederick Cunningham – Olympic fencer
Werner Janssen – conductor and composer
Donold Lourie – All-American football player; businessman; government official
Cyril Wilcox – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
Frederick James Woodbridge – architect
Robert B. Chiperfield – U.S. representative from Illinois
Jocko Conlon – professional baseball player
George H. Love – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; chairman of the board of Chrysler
Francis T. P. Plimpton – lawyer and diplomat
Norris Cotton – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire
Haddie Gill – pitcher for Cincinnati Reds
David Granger – Olympic bobsledder
Donald Oenslager – Tony Award-winning scenic designer
Phra Bisal Sukhumvit – Thai chief of Department of Highways, urban planner

1920s

James Tinkham Babb – librarian and book collector
Mark Brunswick – composer
Corliss Lamont – humanist and civil libertarian
Jess Sweetser – amateur golfer
Herb Treat – All-American football player; player-coach of the Boston Bulldogs
C. Bradford Welles – classicist
James Greenway – ornithologist
Richard Luman – All-American football player; speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Laurence Stoddard – Olympic coxswain
Weston Adams – principal owner and president of the Boston Bruins
Montgomery Atwater – pioneer in avalanche research and forecasting; author
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
Bayes Norton – Olympic sprint runner
Laurence Duggan – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy
Jarvis Hunt – 79th president of Massachusetts Senate
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. – federal judge
John Chase – Olympic ice hockey player
Howard Francis Corcoran – federal judge
Sidney Darlington – engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
John F. "Jack" Hasey – officer in the French Foreign Legion; CIA officer; officer in the Légion d'honneur
Tracy Jaeckel – Olympic fencer
George E. Kimball – professor of quantum chemistry
John H. H. Phipps – businessman, conservationist, philanthropist, champion polo player
William Saltonstall – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1946–1963
Edmund Berkeley – computer scientist; author
John K. Fairbank – academic and historian of China
Lincoln Kirstein – writer; co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet
Dwight Macdonald – author and critic
Richard B. Sewall – Yale English professor; biographer
Kent Smith – actor
Walworth Barbour – U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Walter A. Brown – original owner of the Boston Celtics, owner of the Boston Bruins
Richard W. Leopold – historian at Northwestern University
Red Rolfe – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, manager of the Detroit Tigers
James Agee – author and critic
Morton Bartlett – sculptor and photographer
Jack R. Howard – broadcasting executive
Albert E. Kahn – blacklisted journalist and photographer
Tex McCrary – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
Hart Day Leavitt – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Hickman Price – business executive; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Paul Sweezy – economist and publisher
Whiting Willauer – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
Robert H. Bates – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – long-time director of scholarships at the academy; uncle of John Irving
Edwin Gillette – cameraman, inventor of animation technique
Sam Knox – guard for the Detroit Lions
William Ernest Gillespie – interim principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
William Howard Stein – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
Henry Babcock Veatch – neo-Aristotelian philosopher

1930s

Joseph H. Burchenal – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award
John A. M. Hinsman – president of the Vermont State Senate
Francis Spain – captain of the 1936 U.S. Olympic hockey team
Eliot Butler Willauer – architect
Larry Bogart – critic of nuclear power
Macdonald Carey – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
John Crosby – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
George Haskins – law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard S. Salant – president of CBS News
Sonny Tufts – film and television actor
Bruce H. Billings – physicist
Richard Pike Bissell – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award
Germain Glidden – national squash champion, painter, muralist, cartoonist and founder of the National Art Museum of Sport
Milton Green – world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 Olympics
John Toland – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
Adolph Coors III – businessman
Richard Dorson – "father of American folklore"
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. – historian
Charles E. Tuttle – publisher
Robert Livingston Allen – linguist, developer of Sector Analysis
Nathaniel Benchley – author, screenwriter
William H. Blanchard – four-star general, vice chief of staff of the United States Air Force
Richard Walker Bolling – U.S. representative from Missouri
William Coors – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
Gordon Kay – movie producer
Thomas P. Whitney – diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist
Robert W. Anderson – playwright
Elkan Blout – inventor; biochemist; awarded National Medal of Science
R. W. B. Lewis – literary scholar and critic
Tom Slick – inventor and businessman
Joseph Coors – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
David D. Furman – New Jersey attorney general, New Jersey Superior Court judge
Hugh Gregg – governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg
David Hall – recorded sound archivist
William Verity Jr. – U.S. Secretary of Commerce
James T. Aubrey – president of CBS and MGM
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. – business historian
Thomas Clinton – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
Calvin Plimpton – physician, president of Amherst College
George M. Prince – co-creator of synectics
Robert Samuel Salzer – vice admiral of the United States Navy
John Tyler Bonner – biologist
Lee Parsons Gagliardi – federal judge
Nelson Gidding – screenwriter
Douglas Knight – president of Duke University
Alfred A. Knopf Jr. – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
Daniel E. Koshland Jr. – biochemist; editor of Science
Charles Mergendahl – novelist, playwright, television scriptwriter
Robert H. B. Baldwin – undersecretary of the Navy; chairman and president of Morgan Stanley
Lex Barker – actor
T. Clark Hull – lieutenant governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court justice
Nicholas Katzenbach – U.S. attorney general; vice-president of IBM; father of John Katzenbach
Alexander Saxton – historian, novelist, and university professor
Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Sloan Wilson – author
Forman S. Acton – computer scientist
Alfred Atherton – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Ward Chamberlin – public broadcasting executive
John Holt – educational critic, activist, and author

1940s

George Christopher Archibald – British economist
William J. Conklin – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia
Lloyd L. Duxbury – speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Burke Marshall – 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 – professional basketball player ; jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events
Lloyd Shapley – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
Harold R. Tyler Jr. – federal judge
William C. Campbell – two-time president of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
Neil MacNeil – journalist
Anton Myrer – author of war novels
Robert B. Choate Jr. – businessman and political activist
Nathaniel Davis – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. – president of the College of William & Mary
Lloyd Stephen Riford Jr. – New York State politician
Bagley Wright – developer; investor; arts patron and fine art collector
John G. King – physicist
Roberts Bishop Owen – U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat
Robert B. Rheault – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
Frederic M. Richards – biochemist and biophysicist
Julian Roosevelt – Olympic sailor
Roger Sonnabend – hotelier and businessman
John Thomson – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
Gore Vidal – author
Whitney Balliett – writer for The New Yorker
Willis Barnstone – poet, memoirist, translator
Robinson O. Everett – judge and law professor
Kenneth W. Ford – physicist
George Plimpton – author, editor, journalist, actor
Henry N. Cobb – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
John Glenn Beall Jr. – U.S. representative from Maryland; U.S. senator from Maryland
James P. Gordon – invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes
Fred Kingsbury – Olympic rower
John Knowles – author, A Separate Peace
James R. Lilley – U.S. Ambassador to China
William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
Charles W. Bailey II – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist
Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. – numismatist
Michael Forrestal – government aide, legal advisor
Will Holt – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
Ramsay MacMullen – professor of history at Yale University
Wallace Nutting – four-star general
F. D. Reeve – author, poet, translator, editor
Cervin Robinson – architectural photographer
Robert L. Belknap – scholar of Russian literature and dean at Columbia University
John Cowles Jr. – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
Bill Felstiner – socio-legal scholar
Donald Hall – poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
Richard W. Murphy – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
Glenn D. Paige – political scientist
John Pittenger – lawyer and academic
Haviland Smith – CIA station chief
Herbert P. Wilkins – chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
David Bevington – literary scholar
Douglas M. Head – attorney general of Minnesota
Frederic B. Ingram – businessman
Alan Trustman – screenwriter
Don Whiston – Olympic ice hockey player
Carlos Romero Barceló – governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
Adair Dyer – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
Bo Goldman – screenwriter, winner of two Academy Awards
Albert L. Hopkins – computer designer
Thomas P. Hoving – museum director, author, publisher
John Kerr – actor
James Smith – Olympic sport shooter

1950s

Bill Briggs – "father of extreme skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
Tom Corcoran – Olympic alpine skier ; four-time U.S. national champion alpine skier
M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist; author
George Eman Vaillant – psychiatrist
Walter Darby Bannard – abstract painter and University of Miami professor
Robert Cowley – military historian
Pierre S. du Pont IV – U.S. representative from Delaware, governor of Delaware
Thomas Ehrlich – president of Indiana University
Cyrus Hamlin – literary critic and theorist
Harmon Elwood Kirby – career diplomat; ambassador to Togo
Karl Ludvigsen – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
David Mumford – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; Macarthur Fellow
Robert D. Richardson – historian and biographer
Harold Russell Scott Jr. – Broadway actor and director
David Wight – Olympic rower
Robert G. Wilmers – businessman
Richard S. Arnold – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
Hodding Carter III – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Michael von Clemm – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
Bud Konheim – businessman
Earl J. Silbert – prosecutor in Watergate case
Robert C. Wetenhall – owner of the Montreal Alouettes football club
Jonathan Aldrich – poet
William Becklean – Olympic rower
Peter B. Bensinger – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration
T. Alan Broughton – poet
Michael Z. Hobson – executive vice president of Marvel Comics
James F. Hoge Jr. – editor of Foreign Affairs
Christopher Jencks – sociologist
David Merwin – Olympic sprint canoer
Robert Morey – Olympic rower
George Beall – prosecutor of Vice President Spiro Agnew
G. Bradford Cook – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Charles D. Ellis – investment consultant; author; founder of Greenwich Associates
John Gager – professor of religion at Princeton University
Richard Maltby Jr. – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV – governor of West Virginia; U.S. senator from West Virginia
Peter Sears – Poet Laureate of Oregon
Tom Whedon – television screenwriter
Phil Wilson – jazz trombonist
Gordon Park Baker – American-English philosopher
William Bayer – crime fiction writer
Stewart Brand – editor, author, Internet pioneer
H. John Heinz III – U.S. representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
Dennis Johnson – composer, mathematician
J. Vinton Lawrence – CIA operative; caricaturist
Theodore Stebbins – art historian
John Negroponte – U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, United Nations, and Iraq; U.S. deputy secretary of state, the first director of National Intelligence
Peter Benchley – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter
Peter Georgescu – author, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam
Bill Keith – banjo innovator
Herbert Kohler Jr. – businessman
Terry Lenzner – lawyer
Jack McCarthy – writer and slam poet
Tim Wirth – U.S. representative from Colorado; U.S. senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
John Winslow Bissell – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Don Briscoe – television actor
George Gilder – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
Warren Hoge – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at The New York Times
David Lamb – reporter, bureau chief at The Los Angeles Times
George de Menil – French economist
Stephen Robert – philanthropist and businessman, CEO of Oppenheimer & Co
Robert Thurman – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
John M. Walker Jr. – chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
David M. Eddy – physician
David Rockefeller Jr. – philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
Morris S. Arnold – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Daniel Dennett – philosopher
Charles Janeway – immunologist
Tom Mankiewicz – screenwriter, director, producer
Hayford Peirce – writer
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. – educator, president of Yale University
Jan Schreiber – poet

1960s

Alvin P. Adams, Jr. – ambassador to Peru, Haiti, and Djibouti
Robert Mehrabian – materials scientist
Charles Horman – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
Charles C. Krulak – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Jerrold Speers – Maine state treasurer
John Irving – author, The World According to Garp
George W. S. Trow – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
Peter Simon – actor
Robert F. Wagner Jr. – deputy mayor of New York City; president of the New York City Board of Education
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. – curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art
Kenneth Bacon – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International
Evan A. Davis – president of the New York City Bar Association
Chester E. Finn Jr. – educator; president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Larry Hough – Olympic rower
Myron Magnet – conservative author, editor at large of City Journal
Gregory B. Craig – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; White House Counsel; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial
Gordon Gahan – photographer
Craig Roberts Stapleton – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
Willy Eisenhart – writer on art
Paul Magriel – professional backgammon and poker player; author
Peter Coors – president, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
David Darst – managing director, Morgan Stanley
Barry Golson – editor, journalist, author
Terry Goddard – attorney general of Arizona; mayor of Phoenix
Judd Gregg – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; governor of New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire
Helmut Panke – president, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. – psychiatrist
Charlie Smith – poet, novelist
James Earl Coleman Jr. – attorney
Kent Conrad – U.S. senator from North Dakota
David Eisenhower – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
Fred Grandy – actor; U.S. representative from Iowa; political commentator
Steven T. Kuykendall – U.S. representative from California
David Olney – folk singer/songwriter
Mark Ethridge – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher
Jonathan Galassi – president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
Curt Hahn – filmmaker
Lawrence Lasker – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
Frank Teruggi – journalist
Lincoln Caplan – author, journalist, Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School
Geoffrey Biddle – photographer
Peter Galassi – curator
Tom Birmingham – president of the Massachusetts Senate
Edward Hallowell – psychiatrist
John Katzenbach – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach
Jerome Karabel – scholar
Thomas Lennon – documentary filmmaker
Steve Mantis – Canadian politician
Michael Fossel – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
Dowell Myers – professor
Anthony Davis – composer and jazz pianist
Peter W. Galbraith – diplomat, author, ambassador to Croatia
John C. Harvey Jr. – Admiral, US Navy; Commander US Fleet Forces Command; Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Christopher Kimball – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
Jack Gilpin – movie and television actor
John McTiernan – filmmaker

1970s

Robert Bauer – attorney, White House Counsel
Nicholas Callaway – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
Scott McConnell – journalist
Alex Beam – journalist, social critic
Joyce Maynard – author
Benmont Tench – musician and producer, keyboardist for Tom Petty
Roland Merullo – author
Banthoon Lamsam – banker
Eben Alexander – neurosurgeon and author
Howard Brookner – film director
Robert J. Fisher – former chairman of the board, Gap, Inc.
Shigehisa Kuriyama – historian of medicine
Ned Lamont – businessman and politician; 89th governor of Connecticut
W. Drake McFeely – chairman and president of W.W. Norton & Company
Thomas G. Osenton – author; president, CEO, and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company
Bobby Shriver – activist, attorney, journalist
Eric Breindel – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
Rusty Magee – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
Paul Romer – chief economist of the World Bank, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2018
Clayton Spencer – president of Bates College
Paul Sullivan – pianist and composer
Emery Brown – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
Andrew Holtz – journalist
Stephen Mandel – hedge fund manager
William S. Fisher – businessman and investor
Alix M. Freedman – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Laurie Hays – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Joseph Lykken – physicist
John O. McGinnis – legal theorist
Brooks D. Simpson – author, historian
Tom Steyer – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, presidential candidate, 2020
Ronald Chen – dean of Rutgers law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey
Anne Marden – Olympic rower
Ginna Sulcer Marston – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America
David McKean – author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
Norb Vonnegut – author
James F. Conant – philosopher
James Rubin – former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
James Somerville – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
Suzy Welch – journalist, author, and former editor of Harvard Business Review
Catherine Disher – actress
Mark Driscoll – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
Michael Lynton – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
Paul Villinski – sculptor
Michael Cerveris – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards
John J. Fisher – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
Jonathan Smith – Olympic rower
Andrew Sudduth – Olympic rower
Hansen Clarke – U.S. representative from Michigan
William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. – Boston area music promoter

1980s

Ted Hope – independent film producer, including The Ice Storm and Happiness
Heather Cox Richardson – historian
Richard Stockton Rush III – founder and CEO of OceanGate
Greg Daniels – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
Dave Douglas – jazz trumpeter and composer
Pamela Erens – novelist
Paul Klebnikov – journalist; murdered in Moscow
Sarah Lyall – reporter, The New York Times
Dan Brown – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
Kim McLarin – novelist
Stephen Metcalf – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine
Nancy Jo Sales – journalist; author
Cosy Sheridan – folk singer and songwriter
Nicholas Perrin – former dean of Wheaton Graduate School and 16th president of Trinity International University.
Gwynneth Coogan – Olympic athlete
Adam Guettel – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
Chang-Rae Lee – author
Charles Cameron Ludington – historian
Henry Blodget – editor and CEO of Business Insider
Julie Livingston – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
David Chipman – ATF agent and gun control activist
Stephanie Stebich – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Roland Tec – writer, director
Vanessa Friedman – fashion critic
Shinichi Mochizuki – mathematician
Edmund Perry – teenager shot and killed by NYPD officers; inspiration to Michael Jackson
Maya Forbes – screenwriter and television producer
David Folkenflik – National Public Radio reporter
Christine Harper – chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News
Tal Keinan – Israeli entrepreneur, financier
Kenji Yoshino – law school professor, author
Peter Orszag – director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama
China Forbes – musician
Claudine Gay – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, president and dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
Niel Brandt – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
David Goel – hedge fund manager
Jeff Locker – actor
Joon Kim – acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

1990s

Jon Bonné – journalist
Michael Crowley – journalist
Adrian Dearnell – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media
Katherine Reynolds Lewis – author
Jeff Ma – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Alessandro Nivola – actor
John Palfrey – educator, scholar, law professor, former head of Phillips Academy of Andover
Brian Shactman – television news anchor
Jeff Wilner – tight end for the Green Bay Packers
Jonathan Orszag – economist
Trish Regan – television news anchor
Eunice Yoon – television new anchor
Roxane Gay – author
Jason Hall – screenwriter ; director
Quentin Palfrey – lawyer, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts candidate, 2018
Jedediah Purdy – author, law school professor
Rajanya Shah – Olympic rower
Brandon Williams – basketball player
Andrew Yang – entrepreneur, presidential candidate, 2020
Gregory W. Brown – composer
John Forté – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
Aomawa Shields – astronomer, TED Fellow
Debby Herbenick – human sexuality expert
Drew Magary – journalist, humor columnist, and novelist
Alex Okosi – media executive
Philip Andelman – music video director
Sloan DuRoss – Olympic rower
Sarah Milkovich – planetary geologist, engineer
Ketch Secor – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
Hrishikesh Hirway – musician and vocalist; creator and host of Song Exploder
Tom Cochran – Obama administration official
Luke Bronin – mayor of Hartford
Zach Iscol – US Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, 2021 comptroller candidate for New York City
Susie Suh – musician
Win Butler – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
Joy Fahrenkrog – member of the United States archery team
Georgia Gould – Olympic mountain biker
Sabrina Kolker – Olympic rower
Mike Morrison – professional ice hockey player
Kirstin Valdez Quade – writer
Soce, the elemental wizard – rapper and producer
Paul Yoon – novelist
Mike Blomquist – U.S. National Team ; 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships

2000s

Sam Fuld – Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics; general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
William Butler – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
Tom Cavanagh – National Hockey League player
Adam D'Angelo – founder of Quora, first chief technology officer of Facebook
Heather Jackson – triathlete and track cyclist
Andréanne Morin – Canadian Olympic rower
Mark Zuckerberg – founder of Facebook
Shani Boianjiu – author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
Nicholas la Cava – Olympic rower
Josh Owens – professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Erik Per Sullivan – actor; "Dewey" on ''Malcolm in the Middle''

2010s

Caroline Calloway – media personality
Duncan Robinson – NBA player for the Miami Heat and former player for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
Nicole Heavirland – USA rugby player
Zhuo Qun Song – the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal
Jacob Grandison – college basketball player for Holy Cross, Illinois and Duke
Rudi Ying – Supreme Hockey League hockey player

2020s

Hunter Ryerson – columnist for ''The Michigan Daily''