List of Phillips Academy alumni

A

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

  B

• Thomas J. Baldrige, Pennsylvania Attorney General and Superior Court President Judge
• Sullivan Ballou, Union Soldier
• Charles Barber, author on mental health and psychiatric issues
• John Barres, current Roman Catholic Bishop of Rockville Centre
• Robin Batteau, composer, singer-songwriter
• James Phinney Baxter, former president of Williams College and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ed Bass, Texas Billionaire Philanthropist
• Willow Bay, CNN news anchor
• Henry C. Beck III, CEO The Beck Group
• Bruce Beemer, former Pennsylvania Attorney General and current Pennsylvania Inspector General
• Bill Belichick, coach of New England Patriots
• James Bell, New Hampshire politician and lawyer
• Charles R. Bentley, glaciologist and geophysicist
• John Berman, CNN senior news anchor and journalist
• Michael Beschloss, historian
• Hiram Bingham III, archaeologist; rediscovered ruins of Machu Picchu
• David B. Birney, Union General in the American Civil War
• H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, author of and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Les Blank, award-winning independent documentary filmmaker
• Humphrey Bogart, actor
• Paul Bremer, diplomat notable for his role as Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq following the 2003 invasion
• Johnny Broaca, professional baseball player
• Richard Brodhead, president of Duke University
• John Horne Burns, author
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
• George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President
• George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President
• Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida

  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, award winning film director and producer. STEP, Dancer, Chasing Tyson, Between Me and My Mind, and others.
• Isaac N. Carleton, educator and a president of the American Institute of Instruction
• Lincoln Chafee, former Rhode Island senator
• Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times
• Chang Hee-jin, South Korean Olympic swimmer
• Thomas Chapin, jazz saxophonist
• Sarah Chayes, expert in religious studies and former Kandahar field director
• Susan Chira, editor, The New York Times
• George M. Church, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School; pioneer of human genetics
• Sloane Citron, magazine publisher
• Stephen Carlton Clark, art collector and philanthropist; founder of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Christian Clemenson, Emmy Award-winning film and television actor
• Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Lyndon B. Johnson
• 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.
• Raymond C. Clevenger, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Thomas Cochran, banker and philanthropist to Phillips Academy
• William Sloane Coffin, reverend and peace activist
• Donald B. Cole, instructor in history and dean of Phillips Exeter Academy
• Frank Converse, actor
• Michael Copley, musician
• Joseph Cornell, sculptor
• Justin Cronin, author
• Bill Cunliffe, Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, and jazz pianist
• Peter Currie, Netscape executive, investor, and charter trustee of Phillips Academy

  D

• William Damon, author, psychologist, and Stanford University educator
• Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of Self magazine
• John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times
• Robert Darnton, historian
• Benjamin Darrow, New York district attorney
• Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., advocate for the rights of disabled people
• Natalie E. Dean, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida
• Jonathan Dee, author
• Dana Delany, actress
• Zak DeOssie, professional football player for the New York Giants; Super Bowl-winning long snapper
• Norman Dodd, banker, financial adviser and head Investigator for the Reece Committee
• Tim Draper, American venture capital investor and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• Warren Fales Draper, publisher, educator, and philanthropist; significant donor to Phillips Academy; namesake of Draper Hall and Draper Cottage
• Bill Drayton, entrepreneur, coined the phrase "social entrepreneur"
• Charles Duits, writer
• Teddy Dunn, actor

  E

• Carol Edgarian, author
• Alonzo Elliot, composer
• Trey Ellis, novelist, screenwriter
• Sam Endicott, singer-songwriter and vocalist for The Bravery
• David B. Ensor, CNN correspondent
• Walker Evans, photographer

  F

• Charles Finch, author
• Charles B. Finch, businessman and political activist
• Tom Finkelpearl, NYC commissioner of cultural affairs
• Paul Finnegan co-founder of Madison Dearborn Partners
• David Fishelson, Broadway producer, playwright, filmmaker
• 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
• Thomas C. Foley, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
• 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
• Peter Franchot, State Comptroller of Maryland
• Andy Frankenberger, poker champion
• Ziwe Fumudoh, comedian

  G

• Robert A. Gardner, two-time U.S. Amateur golf champion
• Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management
• Glenn Gass, rock 'n' roll educator,
• Isaac Wheeler Geer, railroad executive
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University and seventh Major League Baseball Commissioner
• Stephanie Gosk, journalist and correspondent for NBC News
• David Graeber, professor of anthropology; anarchist
• Anthony Grafton, noted scholar
• Glenn H. Greenberg, Managing Director and Founder of Brave Warrior Advisors
• Richard Theodore Greener, first African-American to graduate from Harvard College
• G. Lauder Greenway, Chairman, Metropolitan Opera Association, and Director, New York Philharmonic. Long time companion of Ailsa Mellon Bruce
• 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
• John Campbell Greenway, General, U.S. Army, Rough Rider, Intelligence officer with the Office of Naval Intelligence, Mining Magnate
• David L. Gunn, former president of Amtrak
• Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  H

• Roderick Stephen Hall, OSS agent murdered by the SS in February 1945
• Garnet Hathaway, ice hockey forward for the NHL’s Washington Capitals
• Peter Halley, artist
• George Hamlin, tenor; Victor recording artist 1905–1916
• Julian Hatton, abstract landscape artist
• Brian Henson, president of Jim Henson Productions
• Frank Lauren Hitchcock, MIT mathematician
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., author
• Fred A. Howland, Secretary of State of Vermont and President of National Life Insurance Company
• Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook; publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic
• Angela Hur, author

  I

• Robert Ingersoll, former United States Deputy Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

  J

• Thomas H. Jackson, former president of the University of Rochester
• Clay Johnson III, deputy director of the United States Office of Management and Budget
• Osgood Johnson, 5th Principal of Phillips Academy

  K

• Stefan Kaluzny, co-founder of Sycamore Partners,
• Peter Kapetan, Broadway actor, singer, and dancer
• Marsha Kazarosian, trial attorney
• R. Crosby Kemper Jr., American banker and philanthropist, namesake of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• Charles West Kendall, U.S. Representative, lawyer, and newspaper editor
• John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy
• Max Kennedy, author
• Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
• 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
• Victor K. Kiam, businessman and owner of the New England Patriots
• Brian Kibler, game designer and professional player
• Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize winner for Soul of the New Machine
• Earl Killian, computer scientist with over 25 patents
• Richard H. Kimball, venture capitalist
• William King, first Governor of Maine
• Karl Kirchwey, poet
• Jonathan Philip Klein, dog behavior consultant
• William Standish Knowles, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologist
• Chris Kreider, player for Boston College hockey team, and then New York Rangers
• Erik S. Kristensen, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy SEALs; killed in action during Operation Red Wings

  L

• John Lardner, sports writer
• Ring Lardner, Jr., Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• Frank Lavin, former Undersecretary for International Trade of the U.S. Department of Commerce
• George Ayres Leavitt, early New York publisher
• Gary Lee, journalist, travel writer
• Nate Lee, writer, senior editor of Newcity in Chicago
• Jack Lemmon, actor
• Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese ambassador to the United States
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, disbarred lawyer, government official, policy advisor, and novelist
• Gordon Lish, editor, author, and teacher
• Seth Lloyd, physicist and researcher in quantum information theory
• David Longstreth, founding member of rock band The Dirty Projectors
• Alfred Lee Loomis, pioneer of ultrasonics
• Phillips Lord, radio program writer, creator, producer and narrator
• Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman, City of Lowell, Massachusetts named after him

  M

• Heather Mac Donald, political commentator
• Moses Macdonald, US Congressman
• Lisa MacFarlane, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
• April March, musician and animator
• Mozhan Marnò, actress, writer, director
• George Perkins Marsh, diplomat and philologist; credited as one of the first environmentalists
• John Marsh, early pioneer and settler in California; often regarded as the first person to practice medicine in California
• Othniel Charles Marsh, first professor of paleontology at Yale University
• Priscilla Martel, restaurateur and food expert
• Laurel Massé, founding member of The Manhattan Transfer
• Barry R. McCaffrey, teacher of national securities studies at West Point
• 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
• Scott Mead, investment banker, photographer, and former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs
• Jonathan Meath, children's TV producer and Santa Claus
• Thomas C. Mendenhall, expert of collegiate rowing and former president of Smith College
• Thomas Mesereau, attorney whose clients include Robert Blake and Michael Jackson
• Charles A. Meyer, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
• Marvin Minsky, expert on artificial intelligence, robotics, and computers
• Paul Monette, author and activist
• William Henry Moody, U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Edwin V. Morgan, United States Ambassador to Brazil 1912-1933
• Samuel Morse, inventor of the single-wire telegraph and Morse Code
• Seth Moulton, U.S. Congressman representing Massachusetts's 6th Congressional District
• Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch; former executive director of News Corporation
• Charles B. G. Murphy, writer and philanthropist; honored with the Charles B.G. Murphy professorship at Yale University
• Patrick O. Murphy, mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts

  N

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

  O

• Richard O'Kane, recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Frederick Law Olmsted, architect and designer of Central Park
• Kevin Olusola, cellist and member of a cappella group Pentatonix

  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
• Rufus Parks, Wisconsin politician
• Jonathan Penner, actor on ', ', and
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, early feminist author
• Gerard Piel, journalist
• David Pingree, MacArthur Award-winning Brown University writer
• Katie Porter, U.S. Congresswoman representing California's 45th Congressional District
• Jane Pratt, publisher, founder of Jane magazine

  Q

• Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston, 1823–1828; president of Harvard College, 1828-1845

  R

• Sarah Rafferty, actress
• Henry Riggs Rathbone, congressman and lawyer from Illinois; his parents were with Abraham Lincoln when he was shot at Ford's Theater
• DeForest Richards, fifth Governor of Wyoming
• Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
• Charles Ruff, lawyer who defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in 1999
• Robin L. Rosenberg, U.S. District Court Judge
• Frederic Rzewski, composer and pianist

  S

• Sawyer, Richard Craig Delaney Nuclear engineer, MIT Ph D 1964,.
• Stacy Schiff, journalist, biographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov
• G. David Schine, entrepreneur, businessman, and political activist
• Cory Schneider, New Jersey Devils goaltender
• Peter Sellars, theater director
• Tanya Selvaratnam, author, actor, producer, and activist
• Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate editor for the New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for environmental editorial writing
• James Shannon, former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and former Massachusetts Attorney General
• Duncan Sheik, musician
• Charles Sheldon, leader of the Social Gospel movement
• Peter Plympton Smith, assistant director-general for education at UNESCO and first president of California State University, Monterey Bay
• Andong Song, first China-born hockey player to be drafted in the National Hockey League
• James Spader, actor
• Lyman Spitzer, physicist
• Benjamin Spock, pediatrician
• Alfred E. Stearns, American educator and 9th Headmaster of Phillips Academy
• Robert B. Stearns, founder of Bear Stearns
• Joshua Steiner, financier
• Frank Stella, painter
• Alexander Stille, journalist
• 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
• 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
• William Davis Taylor, publisher and chair of the Boston Globe
• Thomas D. Thacher, one-time Solicitor General of the United States
• Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek
• Nicholas Thompson, Editor in Chief of Wired
• William R. Timken, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush
• William Tong, Connecticut state representative
• Alexander Trowbridge, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president, National Association of Manufacturers
• Ming Tsai, chef and restaurateur

  U

• Robert Uihlein, Jr., businessman and polo player
• James Ramsey Ullman, writer and mountaineer

  V

• Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox
• Willard Lamb Velie, grandson of John Deere; developed advanced engines for automobiles and airplanes
• William Vickrey, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1996
• James von Klemperer, American architect

  W

• Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
• Gar Waterman, sculptor
• Daniel S. Weld, professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington
• Theodore Dwight Weld, abolitionist
• George Whipple, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1933 for cure for pernicious anemia
• George M. Whitesides, professor of chemistry at Harvard University
• Reed Whittemore, poet and twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
• Olivia Wilde, actress
• Dick Wolf, Emmy Award-winning television producer of Miami Vice and Law & Order
• Dudley Wolfe, yachtsman, skier and mountaineer
• Francesca Woodman, photographer
• Leonard Woods, fourth president of Bowdoin College
• Christopher A. Wray, Director of the FBI
• Philip K. Wrigley, manufacturer of Wrigley's Chewing Gum
• Timothy Wynter, competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

  Y

• Tachi Yamada, president of the Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Jesse Colin Young, musician

  Z

• Dan Zanes, member of The Del Fuegos; celebrated children's music writer