Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Wilbraham & Monson Academy is a private college-preparatory school in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1804, it is a four-year boarding and day secondary school. It offers grades 6–12 and a postgraduate year. The School is located in the center of the town of Wilbraham, from Boston and from New York City.
Notable alumni
- Henry Barnard, educator
- Alfred Ely Beach, inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer
- Rick Bennett, NHL ice hockey player and college coach
- Mary Ann Booth, microscopist
- Henry Billings Brown, associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Wrote majority opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson
- Tyrell Burgess, Bermudian professional soccer player with Vancouver Whitecaps FC
- Kraisak Choonhavan, member of Thailand Senate for Nakhon Ratchasima Province ; former chairman of the Thai Senate's Foreign Relations Committee
- Russell H. Conwell, minister and founder of Temple University - 1859
- Winthrop Murray Crane, US Senator
- Emily Norcross Dickinson, mother of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson
- Kyle Filipowski, Duke University and NBA basketball player
- Richard Fuld, former CEO Lehman Brothers
- Wong Fun, first Western-trained doctor in China, graduated from University of Edinburgh - 1855
- Wenyen Gabriel, South Sudanese-American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Bill Guerin, retired NHL hockey player; general manager of Minnesota Wild; four-time Stanley Cup champion
- William Stewart Halstead, surgeon, studied at Monson Academy for a time
- Ratcliffe Hicks, Connecticut state legislator, industrialist, lawyer, and benefactor of the University of Connecticut
- Kim Hyun-jong, South Korean trade minister under Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
- Galway Kinnell, poet
- Christine Ladd-Franklin, mathematician, logician and psychologist - 1865
- Oliver Marcy, served as acting President of Northwestern University twice, while also serving as a professor of natural history
- Patrick Mazeika, baseball player
- Pat Phelan, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution
- Nitya Pibulsonggram, Thai Ambassador to the US, Foreign Minister of Thailand
- Humphrey Pickard, Canadian first president of Mount Allison University
- Charles Pratt, oil tycoon and founder of the Pratt Institute
- William Rice, Methodist Episcopal minister, author, and librarian
- Joey Santiago, band member of the Pixies
- Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand secretary-general of SEATO
- Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and women's rights advocate
- William Strong, lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Mark Warburton, gymnast
- Yung Wing, first Chinese graduate of an American university - 1854