The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of

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, a preparatory school in

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, founded in 1781.

Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy

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

John Pickering John Pickering may refer to: * John Pickering (dramatist), author of the play ''Horestes'' first published in 1567 * John Pickering (MP) (1585–1628), MP for Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency), Northamptonshire, 1626 * John Pickering (s ...

– federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782 *

Paine Wingate Paine Wingate (May 14, 1739March 7, 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Early ...

– New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809 * Benjamin Abbot – principal 1788–1838 * Nicholas Emery – judge on the

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; assistant teacher 1797 *

Gideon Lane Soule Gideon Lane Soule (; July 25, 1796 – May 28, 1879) was an American educator, and the third List of Phillips Exeter Academy Principals, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Soule was born in Freeport, Maine, in 1796 to Moses and Martha Soule. H ...

– principal 1838–1873 * Daniel Dana – president of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; board of trustees 1809–1843 *

John Taylor Gilman John Taylor Gilman (December 19, 1753September 1, 1828) was a farmer, shipbuilder and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 and was the fifth governor of New Hampshire for 1 ...

– 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 Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured b ...

– editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807 *

Alexander Hill Everett Alexander Hill Everett (March 19, 1792 – June 28, 1847) was an American diplomat, politician, and Boston man of letters. Everett held diplomatic posts in the Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and China. His translations of European literature, publish ...

– diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807 *

Nathan Lord Nathan or Natan may refer to: People *Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name *Nathan (surname) *Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible * Nathan (son of David), biblical figure, son of King David an ...

– 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 Francis Bowen (; September 8, 1811 – January 22, 1890) was an American philosopher, writer, and educationalist. Biography He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was educated at Mayhew School, Boston, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harva ...

– 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 Amos Tuck (August 2, 1810 – December 11, 1879) was an American attorney and politician in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party. Early life and education Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a s ...

– U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; board of trustees 1853–1879 * Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882 * Albert C. Perkins – principal 1873–1883 * Charles H. Bell – Governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883 *

George Lyman Kittredge George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved i ...

– faculty 1883–1887 * Walter Quincy Scott – president of

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; principal 1884–1889 * Charles Everett Fish – principal 1890–1895 * Harlan P. Amen – principal 1895–1913 * T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty * H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – director of scholarships * Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty *

Lewis Perry Lewis Perry (January 3, 1877 – January 27, 1970) was an American educator and the eighth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Lewis Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on January 3, 1877, to Arthur Latham Perry, a prominent economist ...

– principal 1914–1946 * William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim principal 1963–1964 *

William Saltonstall William Gurdon Saltonstall (November 11, 1905 – December 18, 1989) was an American educator and writer, and the ninth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Early life Saltonstall was born in Milton, Massachusetts to the wealthy Saltonstall ...

– principal 1946–1963 *

Donald B. Cole Donald Barnard Cole (March 31, 1922 – October 5, 2013), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was professor emeritus at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and the author of books on early American history, including ''Martin Van Buren and the Amer ...

– historian; faculty 1947–1988 *

Dandridge MacFarlan Cole Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (February 19, 1921 – October 29, 1965) was an American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author. Biography Parents, education, and military service Cole was born February 19, 1921 in Sandusky, Ohio to Robert ...

– American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy *

Winthrop Jordan Winthrop Donaldson Jordan (November 11, 1931 – February 23, 2007) was an American historian and professor who specialized in the history of slavery in the United States and racism against Black Americans. His 1968 work ''White Over Black: A ...

– historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960 *

Frederick Buechner Carl Frederick Buechner ( ; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Minister (Christianity), minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his work encompassed d ...

– writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967 * Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986 * Richard W. Day – principal 1964–1973 * Michael S. Greco – president of

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; faculty 1965–1968 *

George Crowe George Daniel Crowe (March 22, 1921 – January 18, 2011) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 702 games in the major leagues as a first baseman and pinch hitter between and . Before joining minor league baseball in 19 ...

– ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975 *

David P. Robbins David Peter Robbins (12 August 1942 in Brooklyn – 4 September 2003 in Princeton) was an American mathematician. He is most famous for introducing alternating sign matrices.. He is also known for his work on generalizations of Heron's formula o ...

– mathematician; faculty 1972–1977 *

Dolores Kendrick Dolores Kendrick (September 7, 1927 – November 7, 2017) was an American poet, and served as the second Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. Her book ''The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women'' won the Anisfield-Wolf Award. ...

– Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993 * Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; principal 1974–1987 * Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; principal 1987–1997 * Tyler Tingley – principal 1997–2009 *

Thomas Hassan Thomas Edward Hassan is an American educator who served as the first gentleman of New Hampshire from 2013 to 2017 as the husband of governor Maggie Hassan.. He has served as the President of School Year Abroad since June 2016. Previously, he wor ...

– faculty 1989–present; principal 2009–2015 *

Dan Brown Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his Thriller (genre), thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels ''Angels & Demons'' (2000), ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), ''The Lost Symbol'' (2009), ''In ...

– ''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 Olutoyin "Toyin" Augustus (born 24 December 1979) is a Nigerian hurdler who competes in the 100 metres hurdles. She began her career with a win at the African Championships in Athletics in 2006, easily beating the opposition to the 100 m ...

– Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021 * Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present *

Lisa MacFarlane Lisa MacFarlane (born 1958) is an American Teacher, educator who served as the 15th List of Phillips Exeter Academy Principals, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Previously she served as the Provost (education), provost and Vice President for ...

– principal 2015–2018 *

Willie Perdomo Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author. He is the author of ''The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon'' (Penguin Poets, 2014), a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist, ''Where a Nickel Costs a Dime'' ( W. W. Norto ...

– current instructor in English

Notable alumni

1780s

Benjamin Ives Gilman Benjamin Ives Gilman (1852–1933) was notable as the Secretary of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1893 to 1925. Beginning with the museum as a curator and librarian, he held a variety of positions during this time. As Secretary, he focused ...

(c. 1783) – Ohio pioneer * George Sullivan (c. 1783) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire *

Nathaniel Thayer Rev. Nathaniel Thayer I (July 11, 1769 – June 23, 1840) was a congregational Unitarian minister. Early life Nathaniel Thayer was born in Hampton, New Hampshire to Ebenezer Thayer and Martha Olivia Cotton. His father was a pastor in Hampton ...

(c. 1783) – Unitarian minister * Daniel Tilton (c. 1783) – one of the first three judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory * Josiah Bartlett Jr. (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * Samuel Smith (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * George B. Upham (c. 1785) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire *

Daniel Meserve Durell Daniel Meserve Durell (July 20, 1769 – April 29, 1841) was an American attorney and Democratic-Republican politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member o ...

(c. 1789) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; member of

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1790s

Lewis Cass, 14th United States Secretary of War

* Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher * David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire * Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – judge on the

* John Noyes (1791) – U.S. representative from Vermont *

Lewis Cass Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He w ...

(1792) – 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 William Ladd (May 10, 1778 – April 9, 1841) was one of the earliest United States, American anti-war activists, and the first president of the American Peace Society. Biography Ladd was born in Exeter, New Hampshire as a direct lineal descenda ...

(1793) – pacifist, founder and first president of American Peace Society *

Nathaniel Upham Nathaniel Upham (June 9, 1774 – July 10, 1829) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire. Early life Upham was born in Deerfield in the Province of New Hampshire on June 9, 1774, pursued classical stud ...

(1793) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. representative from

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

John Adams Harper John Adams Harper (November 2, 1779 – June 18, 1816) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Early life Born in Derryfield, New Hampshire, Harper attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1794. He studied ...

(c. 1794) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist *

Joseph Stevens Buckminster Joseph Stevens Buckminster (May 26, 1784 – June 9, 1812) was an influential Unitarian preacher in Boston, Massachusetts, and a leader in bringing the German higher criticism of the Bible to America. Biography Born in Portsmouth, New Hampsh ...

(1795) – Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism *

Daniel Webster Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, ...

(1796) – U.S. representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. senator from

; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat *

Leverett Saltonstall I Leverett Saltonstall (June 13, 1783 – May 8, 1845), was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who also served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, President of the Massachusetts Senate, ...

(1798) – U.S. representative from

1800s

* Samuel Livermore (1800) – legal scholar *

Richard Saltonstall Rogers Richard Saltonstall Rogers (January 13, 1790 – June 11, 1873) was an early American shipping merchant and was possibly the inspiration for a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Scarlet Letter''. Early life Rogers was born on January 13, ...

(1800) –

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merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros.,

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Abiel Chandler Abiel Chandler (1777–1851) was a native of New Hampshire who prospered as a commission merchant in Boston, Massachusetts during the early nineteenth century. He was the seventh of eight children born to Daniel and Sarah Chandler in Concord, Ne ...

(1802) – merchant, philanthropist *

Joseph Cogswell Joseph Green Cogswell (September 27, 1786 – November 26, 1871) was an American librarian, bibliographer and an innovative educator. Education Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Cogswell received a grammar school education in Ipswich, and attend ...

(1802) – educator, editor, library administrator * William Plumer Jr. (1802) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * James Carr (1803) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts *

John Perkins Cushing John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 – April 12, 1862), called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist. His sixty-foot pilot schooner, the ''Sylph'', won the first recorded American ya ...

(1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist *

Augustine Heard Augustine Heard (March 30, 1785 – September 14, 1868) was an American entrepreneur, businessman and trader, and founder of the Augustine Heard & Co. firm in China. Early career Augustine Heard was born into a wealthy merchant family of Ips ...

(c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman * Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. representative from New York State *

Theodore Lyman Theodore Lyman may refer to: * Theodore B. Lyman (1815–1893), American bishop * Theodore Lyman II (1792–1849), American philanthropist, politician, and author * Theodore Lyman III (1833–1897), American natural scientist, military staff offic ...

(1804) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts *

Lucius Manlius Sargent Lucius Manlius Sargent (June 25, 1786 – June 2, 1867) was an American author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate who was a member of the prominent Sargent family of Boston. Early life Sargent was born in Boston, the youngest of seven child ...

(1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate *

John Lauris Blake John Lauris Blake (December 21, 1788 – July 6, 1857) was an American clergyman and bestselling author. He is best known as the author of the '' General Biographical Dictionary''. Life He was born on 21 December 1788 in Northwood, New Hampshire ...

(1806) – minister and prolific author * Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate *

Zachariah Allen Zachariah Allen (September 15, 1795 – March 17, 1882) was an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Providence, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown Universit ...

(1807) – manufacturer and inventor *

Joseph Blunt Joseph Blunt (February 1792June 16, 1860, was an American lawyer, author, editor, and politician from New York. In 1858, he was appointed New York County district attorney. Early life Blunt was born on February 1792 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. ...

(1807) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney *

Edward Everett Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Mass ...

(1807) – 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 (1807) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire *

Benjamin Kendrick Pierce Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (August 29, 1790 – April 1, 1850) was a career officer in the United States Army. He was a son of New Hampshire Governor Benjamin Pierce and brother of President Franklin Pierce. Benjamin K. Pierce was a veteran of t ...

(1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of

Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was a northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity ...

; son of Benjamin Pierce * James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts *

James Freeman Dana James Freeman Dana (born in Amherst, New Hampshire, 23 September 1793; died in New York City, 14 April 1827) was an American chemist. Biography He graduated from Harvard in 1813, and from the medical school in 1817. He studied with Dr. John G ...

(1809) – chemist; science author * Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author * William Thorndike (1809) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate

1810s

George Bancroft United States Secretary of Navy c

John Sherburne Sleeper John Sherburne Sleeper (1794–1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist (who used the pseudonym of Hawser Martingale), journalist and politician. Life at sea Sleeper spent 22 years in the merchant marine service shipping out of the p ...

(1807) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician * William Willis (1808) – Mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president *

Thomas Bulfinch Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867) was an American author born in Newton, Massachusetts, known best for ''Bulfinch's Mythology'', a posthumous combination of his three volumes of mythologies. Life Bulfinch belonged to a well-educat ...

(1810) – author of ''

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'' *

John Adams Dix John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Souther ...

(1810) – 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 Horace Hooker (March 1793-December 17, 1864) was an American Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist minister and author. He was the son of Elijah and Susanna (Seymour) Hooker, and was born in Kensington Society, Berlin, Connectic ...

(1810) – Congregationalist minister; author * William Robinson (benefactor) (ca. 1810), school founder * Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – president of Hampden-Sydney College *

George Bancroft George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and internati ...

(1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the

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; ambassador to the United Kingdom *

John G. Palfrey John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 – April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity ...

(1811) – clergyman, U.S. representative from Massachusetts *

Jared Sparks Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 – March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard College from 1849 to 1853. Biography Born in Willington, Connecticut, Sparks studied in the common s ...

(1811) – president of Harvard University * Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman * David Barker Jr. (1812) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire *

Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. Alpheus Spring Packard (December 23, 1798 – July 13, 1884) was an American academic who was a professor for more than 40 years at Bowdoin College. Trained as a minister, he was an educator, librarian, and acting President of Bowdoin College f ...

(1812) – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College * William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author *

Charles Paine Charles Paine (April 15, 1799 – July 6, 1853) was an American Whig politician, woolen mill owner, merchant, railroad builder, and the 15th governor of Vermont. Biography Paine was the son of Elijah Paine and Sarah (Porter) Paine, and was bo ...

(1813) – Governor of Vermont *

Samuel Edmund Sewall Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799–1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. He co-founded the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, lent his legal expertise to the Underground Railroad, and served a term in the Massachusetts Senate as ...

(1813) — lawyer; politician; abolitionist; suffragist *

James Wilson II James Wilson II (March 18, 1797 – May 29, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, son of James Wilson (1766–1839). Life Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, James Wilson II attended New Ipswich Academy and the academies at ...

(1813) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire * Andrew Leonard Emerson (1814) – first mayor of Portland, Maine *

(1816) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873 * Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat *

George Lunt George Lunt (December 31, 1803 – May 17, 1885) was an American editor, lawyer, author, and politician. George's ancestor, Henry Lunt, was one of the original settlers of Newbury (1635). His grandfather's exploits with John Paul Jones were ...

(1818) – politician, author, editor, poet *

John Dennison Russ John Dennison Russ (September 1, 1801 – March 1, 1881) was an American physician and co-founder of the New York Institute for the Blind and Children's Village with 23 others. Russ, son of Parker and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Russ, was born in Esse ...

(1818) – physician; innovator in the education of the blind * Jonathan Chapman (1819) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts *

Thomas Wilson Dorr Thomas Wilson Dorr (November 5, 1805December 27, 1854), was an American politician and reformer in Rhode Island, best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion. Early life, family, and education Thomas Wilson Dorr was born in Providence, Rhode Isla ...

(1819) – Governor of

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; leader of the eponymous

Dorr Rebellion The Dorr Rebellion (1841–1842) (also referred to as Dorr's Rebellion, Dorr's War or Dorr War) was an attempt by disenfranchised residents to force broader democracy in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of ...

Alfred L. Elwyn Alfred Langdon Elwyn (9 July 1804 – 15 March 1884) was an American physician, author and philanthropist. He was a pioneer in the education and care of people with mental and physical disabilities. He was one of the founding officers of the Penns ...

(1819) – humanitarian, author *

Russell Sturgis Russell Sturgis (; October 16, 1836 – February 11, 1909) was an American architect and art critic of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870. Sturgis was born in Baltimore Count ...

(1819) – merchant, banker

1820s

Benjamin Franklin Butler politician - Brady-Handy

John Parker Hale John Parker Hale (March 31, 1806November 19, 1873) was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again fro ...

(1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain *

(1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States *

Alpheus Felch Alpheus Felch (September 28, 1804June 13, 1896) was the fifth governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan. Early life Felch was born in Limerick (in modern-day Maine, then a part of Massachusetts). He was left an orphan at the age of th ...

(1821) – U.S. senator from Michigan; Governor of Michigan * Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives * Ephraim Peabody (1821) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist *

John Langdon Sibley John Langdon Sibley (December 29, 1804 – December 9, 1885) was the librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1877. Biography John Langdon Sibley was born in Union, Maine on December 29, 1804, the son of Dr. Jonathan Sibley and his wife, né ...

(1821) – Librarian of Harvard University * Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers * Thomas Tingey Craven (1822) – Rear Admiral, United States Navy *

Samuel Foster Haven Samuel Forster Haven (May 28, 1806 – September 5, 1881) was an American archeologist and anthropologist. Haven was born to Judge Samuel and Betsy Haven in Dedham, Massachusetts. He took a degree from Amherst College, then studied law at Harv ...

(1822) – archeologist, anthropologist *

Richard Hildreth Richard Hildreth (June 28, 1807 – July 11, 1865), was an American journalist, author and historian. He is best known for writing his six-volume ''History of the United States of America'' covering 1497–1821 and published 1840-1853. Historian ...

(1823) – historian, political theorist * John Hodgdon (1823) – president of the Maine State Senate; Mayor of Dubuque, Iowa * Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist *

George Bradburn George Bradburn (March 4, 1806 – July 26, 1880) was an American politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts known for his support for abolitionism and women's rights. He attended the 1840 conference on Anti-Slavery in London where he ...

(1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts *

Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (Brentwood, New Hampshire, November 23, 1806; Deering, Maine, October 14, 1876) was a U.S. lawyer, legislator, and telegraph pioneer and financier. He was elected from the state of Maine to the United States Hous ...

(c. 1824) – U.S. representative from Maine *

Edward Henry Durell Edward Henry Durell (July 14, 1810 – March 29, 1887) was the 25th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana and the United States District Court for the ...

(1826) – Mayor of New Orleans, federal judge * Henry Francis Harrington (1828) – editor of the Boston Herald *

Theodore Howard McCaleb Theodore Howard McCaleb (February 10, 1810 – April 29, 1864) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana, the United States District Court for the Eastern Di ...

(1828) – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana *

(1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist *

Benjamin Butler Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts. Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler is best ...

(1829) – Civil War general (Union); U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts * Edward Fox (1829) – federal judge * Timothy Roberts Young (1829) – U.S. representative from Illinois *

Charles Turner Torrey Charles Turner Torrey (November 21, 1813 – May 9, 1846) was a leading American Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist. Although largely lost to historians until recently, Torrey pushed the abolitionist movement to more political and ...

(1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison *

Jeffries Wyman Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 – September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage. Career He graduated Harvard College in 183 ...

(1829) – naturalist and anatomist *

Morrill Wyman Morrill Wyman (July 25, 1812 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts – January 30, 1903 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American physician and social reformer. Best known today for his work on hay fever, he was one of the most respected doctors o ...

(1829) – physician and social reformer

1830s

Henry Gardner Henry Joseph Gardner (June 14, 1819 – July 21, 1892) was the List of Governors of Massachusetts, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1855 to 1858. Gardner, a Know Nothing, was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of ...

(1831) – Governor of Massachusetts * Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – Mayor of Charlestown, MassachusettsPhillips Exeter Academy (1884), ''Exercises at the Centennial Celebration of the founding of Phillips Exeter Academy'', Exeter, MA: Phillips Exeter Academy, p. 56. * William Henry Chandler (1832) – politician from Connecticut *

Edmund Burke Whitman Edmund Burke Whitman (October 18, 1812 – September 2, 1883) was a quartermaster during the American Civil War. After the war he was Superintendent of National Cemeteries where he developed the principles for the selection of new United States N ...

(1833) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; superintendent of National Cemeteries * Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – Governor of New Hampshire * Charles Jervis Gilman (1835) – U.S. representative from

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

Fitz John Porter Fitz John Porter (August 31, 1822 – May 21, 1901) (sometimes written FitzJohn Porter or Fitz-John Porter) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He is most known for his performance at the Se ...

(1835) – Civil War general (Union) * John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. representative from

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

* William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire *

Ezra Abbot Ezra Abbot (April 28, 1819, Jackson, MaineMarch 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American biblical scholar. Life and writings Abbot was born at Jackson, Maine, April 28, 1819; son of Ezra and Phebe Abbot. He was educated at Phillips Ex ...

(1836) – New Testament scholar * Amos Tappan Akerman (1836) –

U.S. Attorney General The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...

, 1870–1872 * Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire * Augustus Lord Soule (1837) – associate justice of

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the court of last resort, highest court in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the SJC claims the di ...

* E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, chancellor of the University of Buffalo

1840s

James Camp Tappan James Camp Tappan (September 9, 1825 – March 19, 1906) was an American lawyer from Helena who served as the 31st speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899. A member of the Democratic Party, Tappan previously ser ...

(1840) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives * Henry W. Cleaveland (1841) – architect * Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts *

James Cooley Fletcher James Cooley Fletcher (1823–1901) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary with strong activities in Brazilian lands. Fletcher was born in Indianapolis, the son of Calvin Fletcher, a banker and one of the first settlers of Indiana. Jame ...

(1842) – missionary, diplomat, author *

Jonathan Homer Lane Jonathan Homer Lane (August 9, 1819 – May 3, 1880) was an American astrophysicist and inventor. Biography Lane's parents were Mark and Henrietta (née Tenny) Lane and his education was at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampsh ...

(1842) – astronomer * Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts * E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury * Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court * William Fessenden Allen (1846) – 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 (1846) – delegate from the

Territory of Arizona The Territory of Arizona (also known as Arizona Territory) was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863, until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of ...

to the U.S. House of Representatives * George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician *

William Dorsheimer William Dorsheimer (February 5, 1832 in Lyons, Wayne County, New York – March 26, 1888 in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia) was an American lawyer, journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician. Early life Dorsheimer was born on February ...

(1847) – U.S. representative from New York; Lieutenant Governor of New York *

Charles Franklin Dunbar Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830 – 1900) was an American economist. He held the first Chair of Political Economy at the Harvard University in 1871. He graduated from Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League resea ...

(1847) – editor; political economist; dean of faculty, Harvard University; president of the American Economic Association * Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist *

William Robert Ware William Robert Ware (May 27, 1832 – June 9, 1915), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect, author, and founder of two important American architectural schools. He received his o ...

(1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University * Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator

1850s

* Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) – business magnate; art collector *

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, teacher, author, reformer, and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist, and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biograp ...

(1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist *

Uriah Smith Uriah Smith (May 3, 1832 – March 6, 1903) was a Seventh-day Adventist author, minister, educator, and theologian who is best known as the longest serving editor of the ''Review and Herald'' (now the ''Adventist Review'') for over 50 years. Ur ...

(1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian * George Bates Nichols Tower (c. 1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author *

Benjamin Smith Lyman Benjamin Smith Lyman (11 December 1835 – 30 August 1920) was an American mining engineer, surveyor, and an amateur linguist and anthropologist. Biography Benjamin Smith Lyman was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard U ...

(1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist * Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – Governor of New Hampshire * Charles Pomeroy Otis (1855) – educator; author *

Wheelock G. Veazey Wheelock Graves Veazey (December 5, 1835 – March 22, 1898) was an American attorney, judge, and government official. Veazey served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. During the Ameri ...

(1855) – justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg) * George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. representative from Illinois * Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone * Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy *

Edward Rowland Sill Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841February 27, 1887) was an American poet and educator. Biography Born in Windsor, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 1861, where he was Class Poet and a member of Skull and Bones. He engaged in business in ...

(1857) – poet * George W. Atherton (1858) – president of Pennsylvania State University *

William Ripley Brown William Ripley Brown (July 16, 1840 – March 3, 1916) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from Kansas. Born in Buffalo, New York, Brown studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. He went on to atte ...

(1858) – U.S. representative from

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

* Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering *

Edward Tuck Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck, a found ...

(1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist * George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer * Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

1860s

Jeremiah Curtin Jeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 – 14 December 1906) was an American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator. Curtin had an abiding interest in languages and was conversant with several. From 1883 to 1891 he was employed by the Bureau of Am ...

(1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist *

William M.R. French William Merchant Richardson French (1843–1914) was an American engineer. French first came to Chicago in 1867 to pursue a career in civil engineering and landscaping. While working in Chicago, he garnered a national reputation for his lectures ...

(1860) – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago *

Robert Todd Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company presi ...

(1860) – son of President

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom * James Greeley Flanders (1861) – Wisconsin politician * Marshall Snow (1861) – acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis *

John White Chadwick John White Chadwick (October 19, 1840 – December 11, 1904) was an American writer and clergyman of the Unitarian Church. Biography He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker early in life, but decided to furt ...

(1862) – Unitarian minister and writer * Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, New York * John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. representative from Louisiana * Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court *

John Ames Mitchell John Ames Mitchell (January 17, 1845 – June 29, 1918) was an American publisher, architect, artist and novelist. He was co-founder, editor, and publisher of the original ''Life'' magazine, in which he was a contributing artist, and the au ...

(1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of ''Life'' magazine * George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect *

Wilmon W. Blackmar Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar (July 25, 1841 – July 16, 1905) was a United States military officer who fought with the Union Army as a member of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 1st West Virginia Cavalry during the American Civil War. He receiv ...

(1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks) * Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar *

Robert Hallowell Richards Robert Hallowell Richards (August 26, 1844 – March 27, 1945) was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Maine. In 1868, with the first class to leave the institution, he graduated from the Massachusetts ...

(1865) – mining engineer; metallurgist *

Joseph Lyman Silsbee Joseph Lyman Silsbee (November 25, 1848 – January 31, 1913) was a significant American architect during the 19th and 20th centuries. He was well known for his facility of drawing and gift for designing buildings in a variety of styles. His most ...

(1865) – architect *

William Gardner Hale William Gardner Hale (February 9, 1849June 23, 1928), American classical scholar, was born in Savannah, Georgia to a resident New England family.G.L. Hendrickson, "William Gardner Hale," 24 Classic J. 167-73 (Dec. 1928). Hale was a graduate of P ...

(1866) – classical scholar * Edward R. Bacon (1867) – railroad president; financier; art collector * John Hubbard (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy *

Herbert H. D. Peirce Herbert Henry Davis Peirce (May 11, 1849 – December 5, 1916) was a United States diplomat who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1901 to 1906 and as United States Ambassador to Norway, U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1906 to 1911. ...

(1867) – diplomat;

Third Assistant Secretary of State Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) is a title used for many executive positions in the United States Department of State, ranking below the under secretaries. A set of six assistant secretaries reporting to the under secretary for political affairs ...

; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of

C. S. Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...

Herbert Baxter Adams Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 – July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian who brought German rigor to the study of history in America; a founding member of the American History Association; and one of the earliest ed ...

(1868) – educator and historian *

Winfield Scott Edgerly Winfield Scott Edgerly (May 29, 1846 – September 10, 1927) was an officer in the United States Army in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in New Hampshire in 1846, he attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1870. H ...

(1868) – brigadier general, U.S. Army * Robert Franklin Pennell (1868) – educator and scholar * Charlemagne Tower Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany * Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. senator from New Jersey

1870s

William DeWitt Hyde president of Bowdoin College

* August Belmont Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack * Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington * Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator *

Ulysses S. Grant Jr. Ulysses S. "Buck" Grant Jr. (July 22, 1852 – September 25, 1929) was an American attorney and entrepreneur. He was the second son of President Ulysses S. Grant. Early life and education Grant was born in Bethel, Ohio, on July 22, 1852. He gra ...

(c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President

Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...

* Samuel L. Powers (1870) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts *

Sylvester Primer Sylvester Primer (1842–1912) was an American linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work in 1887 on the dialect of the European-American residents of Charleston, South Carolina. He published language studies in both English and Ger ...

(1870) – linguist and philologist * Albert D. Bosson (1871) – Mayor of

Chelsea, Massachusetts Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. As of the 2020 census, Chelsea had a population of 40,787. With a total area of just 2.46 s ...

* Nelson Taylor Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut *

Philip Hale Philip Hale (March 5, 1854 in Norwich, Vermont – November 30, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American music critic. Hale attended Yale, where he served on the fourth editorial board of ''The Yale Record''. After graduating in 1876, ...

(1872) – music critic *

Oscar Richard Hundley Oscar Richard Hundley (October 30, 1855 – December 22, 1921) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Education and career Born in Limestone County, Alabama, Hundley receiv ...

(1872) – federal judge * Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician *

George Edward Woodberry George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.''The Book Buyer'', Volume 8, p.7, (1892) Charles Scribner's Sons, New Yor/ref> Biography Education Woodberry was born in Bev ...

(1872) – poet and literary critic *

Melville Bull Melville Bull (September 29, 1854 – July 5, 1909) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Bull attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard University in 1877. He ...

(1873) – Lieutenant Governor of

; U.S. representative from

* Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. representative from New York *

Robert O. Harris Robert Orr Harris (November 8, 1854 – June 13, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, son of Benjamin Winslow Harris. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Harris attended the common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Ha ...

(1873) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts * James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative headmaster of Lawrenceville School *

George Arthur Plimpton George Arthur Plimpton (July 13, 1855 – July 1, 1936) was an American publisher and philanthropist. Life and career Plimpton was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, the son of Priscilla Guild (Lewis) and Calvin Gay Plimpton. He was the son and grand ...

(1873) – publisher and philanthropist *

William Bancroft William Amos Bancroft (April 26, 1855 – March 11, 1922) was a Massachusetts businessman, soldier and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and on the Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and as the Mayor of Cambrid ...

(1874) – businessman; brigadier general; Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts * Benjamin Newhall Johnson (1874) – attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest * Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist *

Guy Carleton Phinney Guy Carleton Phinney (1851–1893) was a real estate developer in Seattle. Career Phinney made a fortune in Canadian real estate in the later half of the 19th century. In 1881, he relocated from Nova Scotia to Seattle. Phinney was successful in the ...

(1874) – real estate developer *

Frederick Winslow Taylor Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1909, Taylor summed up hi ...

(1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

* Harlan P. Amen (1875) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913 *

William De Witt Hyde William De Witt Hyde (September 23, 1858 – June 29, 1917) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for thirty-two years, from 1885 to his death in 1917. Biography Bor ...

(1875) – president of Bowdoin College * Henry Shute (1875) – author *

William Morton Grinnell William Morton Grinnell (February 28, 1857 – February 9, 1906) was a United States diplomat, lawyer, banker and author. Early life William Morton Grinnell was born in New York City on February 28, 1857, the son of William F. Grinnell and Ma ...

(1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat;

* Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist * Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – Lieutenant Governor of New York *

H. H. Holmes Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he ...

(1877?) – American serial killer *

Charles MacVeagh Charles MacVeagh (June 6, 1860 – December 4, 1931) was an American lawyer and diplomat.

(1877) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan * William W. Stickney (1877) – Governor of

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

* Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State *

Sherman Hoar Sherman Hoar (July 30, 1860 – October 7, 1898), was an American lawyer, member of Congress representing Massachusetts, and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts. As a young man he was the model for the head of the John Harvard statue no ...

(1878) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts *

Walter I. McCoy Walter Irving McCoy (December 8, 1859 – July 17, 1933) was a United States representative from New Jersey and later was an United States federal judge, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Educa ...

(1878) – U.S. representative from New Jersey *

William Schaus William Schaus (January 11, 1858 in New York City – June 20, 1942) was an American Entomology, entomologist who became known for his major contribution to the knowledge and description of new species of the Neotropical realm, Neotropical Lepidop ...

(1878) – entomologist * Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer * S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State *

Moses King Moses hbo, מֹשֶׁה, Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ, ); syr, ܡܘܫܐ, Mūše; ar, موسى, Mūsā; grc, Mωϋσῆς, Mōÿsēs () is considered the most important pro ...

(1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks *

Francis S. Peabody Francis Stuyvesant Peabody (July 24, 1859 – August 27, 1922) was an American businessman who founded Peabody Coal, and became a wealthy coal baron. Biography Francis S. Peabody was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 24, 1859. His father was ...

(1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

1880s

Lindley Garrison, BW photo portrait, 1913

Joseph Adna Hill Joseph Adna Hill (1860–1938) was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire. Hill was descended from "an elite, old-line New England family," and attended many well-regarded educational institutions: after graduating from ...

(1881) – statistician; devised the method of equal proportions * Thomas Parker Sanborn (1881) – poet; inspiration for the protagonist of Santayana's ''The Last Pilgrim'' * Charles Augustus Strong (1881) – philosopher and psychologist *

William Woodward Baldwin William Woodward Baldwin (June 23, 1862 – 1954) was a United States lawyer who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1896 to 1897. Biography William Woodward Baldwin was born on June 23, 1862, the son of Summerfield and Frances ...

(1882) –

* Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana * Edmund Wilson Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

Gordon Woodbury Gordon Woodbury (1863–1924) was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1920 to 1921. Biography Woodbury was born in New York City in 1863 and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire. He was educated at Harvard University and then retu ...

(1882) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy * Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives *

Larz Anderson Larz Anderson (August 15, 1866 – April 13, 1937) was an American diplomat and ''bon vivant''. He served as second secretary at the United States Legation to the Court of St James's, London; as first secretary and later '' chargé d'affai ...

(1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan *

Lindley Miller Garrison Lindley Miller Garrison (November 28, 1864 – October 19, 1932) was an American lawyer from New Jersey who served as Secretary of War under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson between 1913 and 1916. Biography Early years Lindley Miller Garrison ...

(1884) – U.S. Secretary of War *

William Mann Irvine William Mann Irvine (October 13, 1865 – June 11, 1928) was an American academic and founding headmaster of Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Early life and education Irvine was born on October 13, 1865, in Bedford, Pennsylvani ...

(1884) – academic, founding headmaster of

Mercersburg Academy Mercersburg Academy (formerly Marshall College and Mercersburg College) is an independent selective college-preparatory boarding & day high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania in the United States. Founded in 1893, the school enrolls approximat ...

* Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer * Bradley Palmer (1884) – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference * John Scammon (1884) – president of the New Hampshire State Senate; associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court * James D. Denegre (1885) - Minnesota state senator and lawyer *

William A. Chanler William Astor "Willie" Chanler (June 11, 1867 – March 4, 1934) was an American soldier, explorer, and politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York. He was a son of John Winthrop Chanler. After spending several years exploring Eas ...

(1885) – explorer, soldier, U.S. representative from New York *

Morton D. Hull Morton Denison Hull (January 13, 1867 – August 20, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hull attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1885. He graduated from Har ...

(1885) – U.S. representative from

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...

* George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art * Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. representative from New York *

Gifford Pinchot Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor of Pennsy ...

(1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; Governor of Pennsylvania *

George Rublee George Rublee (1868–1957) was a U.S. lawyer who involved himself with state and national political reform during the Progressive Era (1910-1918) and with international affairs from 1917 to 1945. Rublee spent much of his childhood in Europe, whi ...

(1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson *

Amos Alonzo Stagg Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football. He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfie ...

(1885) – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football" *

Augustus Noble Hand Augustus Noble Hand (July 26, 1869 – October 28, 1954) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals ...

(1886) – federal judge *

Tim Shinnick Timothy James "Good-Eye" Shinnick (November 6, 1867 – May 18, 1944), was a Major League Baseball second baseman from to . He played for the Louisville Colonels. Shinnick's professional baseball career started in 1887. After his two seasons i ...

(1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels *

William Wurtenburg William Charles Wurtenburg (December 24, 1863 – March 26, 1957) was an American college football player and coach. Born and raised in Western New York to German parents, Wurtenburg attended the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, where ...

(1886) – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; football coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician *

Theodore Davis Boal Theodore Davis Boal, also known as Terry Boal (June 14, 1867 – August 22, 1938), was an American army officer and architect. He entered into several partnerships over his career, the Boal and Harnois architectural firm in Denver, Colorado and a ...

(1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect *

Bob Huntington Robert Palmer Huntington Jr. (January 15, 1869 – March 12, 1949) was an American tennis player. He was the grandson of New York born Indiana pioneer Judge Elisha Mills Huntington. Architectural career Huntington joined the architectural firm ...

(1887) – U.S. Open Tennis Doubles champion (1891, 1892); architect * James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) – federal judge * George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. senator from

, ambassador to Greece *

Curtis Hidden Page Curtis Hidden Page (April 4, 1870-December 13, 1946Date from ''New York Times'' obituary "DR. CURTIS H. PAGE; Retired Professor of English at Dartmouth..." published Dec. 13, 1946.) was a United States educator and writer. Biography He was born ...

(1887) – scholar, author, translator * William Rhode (1887) – All-American football player; won national championship as football coach at Yale *

Frank Barbour Francis Edward Barbour (April 3, 1870 – February 4, 1948) was an American football player, coach, and businessman. He played quarterback for the Yale University football team in 1890 and 1891 and helped lead the 1891 Yale team to a perfect 13� ...

(1888) – football player; football coach at the University of Michigan, businessman * John Cranston (1888) – All-American football player; football coach at Harvard University * Robert Boal Fort (1888) – Illinois politician * Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of board of directors of J.P. Morgan & Co. *

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(1888) – All-American football player; Treasurer of the United States *

Horace Tracy Pitkin Horace Tracy Pitkin (1869–1900) was a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions who was killed in China during the Boxer Uprising in 1900. Yale China Mission, (now the Yale-China Association), was founded in his memor ...

(1888) – missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion * Frank St. John Sidway (1888) – New York State politician *

Samuel Washington Weis Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956) was an American cotton broker, painter and sketch artist. Early life and education Samuel Weis was born in Natchez, Mississippi to Caroline (née Mayer) (1841–1885) and Julius Weis (1826–1909). His fathe ...

(1888) – painter *

Robert D. Farquhar Robert David Farquhar (23 February 1872 – 6 December 1967) was an architect working in California from 1905 to 1940. Early life Farquhar was born in Brooklyn, the son of David Webber Farquhar (1844–1905) and Sarah Malvina Joslyn. He atten ...

(1889) – architect *

Ogden H. Hammond Ogden Haggerty Hammond (October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956) was an American businessman, politician and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Spain from 1925 to 1929. He was the father of Millicent Fenwick, a four-term Republican P ...

(1889) – U.S. Ambassador to

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Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitze ...

(1889) –

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winner

1890s

Butler Ames Butler Ames (August 22, 1871 – November 6, 1954) was an American politician, engineer, soldier and businessman. He was the son of Adelbert Ames and grandson of Benjamin Franklin Butler, both decorated generals in the Union Army during the Ame ...

(1890) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts * Carroll Bond (1890) – chief judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals *

Henry M. Crane Henry Middlebrook Crane (June 16, 1874 – January 21, 1956) was an American engineer and pioneer in the automobile industry.Gardner, Lester D. (1922)''Who's Who in American Aeronautics''.New York: The Gardner, Moffit, Co. p. 37 – via Hat ...

(1891) – automotive engineer and pioneer * George Lawrence Day (1890) – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion) *

Marshall Newell Marshall "Ma" Newell (April 2, 1871 – December 24, 1897) was an American football player and coach, "beloved by all those who knew him" and nicknamed "Ma" for the guidance he gave younger athletes. After his sudden and early death, Harvard Unive ...

(1890) – All-American football player; football coach at Cornell University * Lewis Stevenson (1890) – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois Secretary of State *

William Boyce Thompson William Boyce Thompson (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the significant early twentieth centu ...

(1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist *

Julian Coolidge Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28, 1873 – March 5, 1954) was an American mathematician, historian and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department. Biography Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Har ...

(1891) – mathematician; president of the Mathematical Association of America *

Louis W. Hill Louis Warren Hill (May 19, 1872– April 27, 1948), was an American railroad executive. He was the president and board chairman of the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pa ...

(1891) – railroad magnate *

John Howland John Howland (February 23, 1673) accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the to settle in Plymouth Colony. He was an indentured servant and in later years an executive assistant and personal secretary ...

(1891) – pediatrician *

Henry McKee Minton Henry McKee Minton (25 December 1870 - 29 December 1946) was an African-American doctor who was one of the founders of Sigma Pi Phi and was Superintendent of the Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia for twenty-four years. Early years Henry McKee Mint ...

(1891) – physician, co-founder of

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* Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines *

Daniel Gregory Mason Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Ma ...

(1892) – composer, music critic *

Hiland Orlando Stickney Hiland Orlando Stickney (February 19, 1867 – October 6, 1911) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Grinnell College in 1893 and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1894 to 1895. In 1899, H ...

(1892) – football coach at University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University * Charles Loring (1893) – Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court * William Belmont Parker (1893) – author and editor *

Carl Frelinghuysen Gould Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (24 November 1873 – 4 January 1939) also spelled Carl Freylinghausen Gould, was an architect in the Pacific Northwest, and founder and first chair of the architecture program at the University of Washington. As the lea ...

(1894) – architect * Lawrence B. Hamlin (1895) – purveyor of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, fined for false advertising * George R. Stobbs (1895) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts * Charles R. Forbes (1896) – director of the

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* Walter Dearborn (1897) – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education * William F. Donovan (1897) – athletic ringer; football coach at Harvard University * Burt Z. Kasson (1897) – politician from New York State * Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) – educator * Robert William Sawyer (1898) – journalist, conservationist *

Samuel Davis Wilson Samuel Davis Wilson (August 31, 1881 – August 19, 1939) was an American politician; he served as the 86th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1936 until his death in 1939. Early life and career Wilson was born in Boston Boston (), officially t ...

(1898) – Mayor of Philadelphia *

Barry Faulkner Barry Faulkner (full name: Francis Barrett Faulkner; July 12, 1881 – October 27, 1966) was an American artist primarily known for his murals. During World War I, he and sculptor Sherry Edmundson Fry organized artists for training as camouflage s ...

(1899) – muralist * Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles *Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer

1900s

*Arthur Nash (architect), Arthur Nash (1900) – architect *Myron E. Witham (1900) – All-American football player; football coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado *Swinburne Hale (1901) – civil rights attorney; a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; poet *James Hogan (American football), James Hogan (1901) – All-American football player *Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties UnionSolon DeLeon with Irma C. Hayssen and Grace Poole (eds.), ''The American Labor Who's Who.'' New York: Hanford Press, 1925; pg. 170. *Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player; football coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier *Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder *Joseph Gilman (American football guard), Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman *Samuel M. Harrington (1902) – brigadier general *J. W. Knibbs (1902) – football player; football coach at University of California, Berkeley *James Cooney (American football), James Cooney (1903) – All-American football player *Sterling Dow (1903) – American classical archaeologist and epigrapher *Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician *Hugo W. Koehler (1903) – U.S. Navy commander; military attaché to Russia *Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer *Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General *Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army major general, commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II *Howard Jones (American football coach), Howard Jones (1904) – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC *T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) – All-American football player; Yale football coach *Jim McCormick (American football), Jim McCormick (1904) – All-American football player; football coach at Princeton *F. Harold Van Orman (1904) – Lieutenant Governor of Indiana *Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge *Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of ''The Boston Post''; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi *Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author *William Rand (athlete), William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles) *Thomas C. Coffin (1906) – U.S. representative from Idaho *Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic *Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – U.S. Secretary of Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt (did not graduate) *Andrew Tombes (1906) – comedian and character actor *Justin Woodward Harding (c. 1907) – federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg *Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist *Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of ''The New Yorker''; actor *Frank M. Dixon (c. 1908) – Governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats") *Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot *Walter William Spencer Cook (c. 1909) – Spanish Medieval art historian and professor *John Paul Jones (athlete), John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run

1910s

*Wayne G. Borah (1910) – federal judge *J. Ira Courtney (1910) – Olympic sprinter and baseball player (1912) *Allen Dulles (1910) – U.S. Director of Central Intelligence *Rustin McIntosh (1910) – pediatrician *Edwin Charles Parsons (1910) – Rear Admiral of the United States Navy *Olin M. Jeffords (1911) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court *Robert Nathan (1912) – novelist and poet *Phelps Putnam (1912) – poet *Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, ''The Philadelphia Story'' *Harold Weston (1912) – modernist painter *William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. representative from Maryland *Harry Worthington (1913) – Olympic long jumper (1912) *John Amen (1914) – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials *Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer *Howard Hawks (1914) – film director *Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot *Charles Bierer Wrightsman (c. 1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist *Eddie Casey (1915) – All-American football player; head coach of the Washington Redskins *Richard F. Cleveland (1915) – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant *Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist *Louis M. Loeb (1915) – president of the New York City Bar Association *Drew Pearson (journalist), Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist *Stephen Potter (officer), Stephen Potter (1915) – first American naval aviator to shoot down a Germany, German seaplane *John Cowles Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company *Frederick Cunningham (1917) – Olympic fencer (1920) *Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer *Donold Lourie (1917) – All-American football player; businessman; government official *Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect *Robert B. Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. representative from Illinois *George H. Love (1918) – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; chairman of the board of Chrysler *Francis T. P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat *Norris Cotton (1919) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire *Haddie Gill (1919) – pitcher for Cincinnati Reds *David Granger (bobsleigh), David Granger (1919) – Olympic bobsledder (1928–silver medal) *Donald Oenslager (1919) – Tony Award-winning scenic designer *Phra Bisal Sukhumvit (1919) – Thai chief of Department of Highways, urban planner

1920s

*James Tinkham Babb (1920) – librarian and book collector *Mark Brunswick (c. 1920) – composer *Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian *Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer *Herb Treat (1920) – All-American football player; player-coach of the Boston Bulldogs *C. Bradford Welles (1920) – classicist *James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist *Richard Luman (1921) – All-American football player; Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives *Laurence Stoddard (1921) – Olympic coxswain (1924–gold medal) *Weston Adams (c. 1922) – principal owner and president of the Boston Bruins *Montgomery Atwater (1922) – pioneer in avalanche research and forecasting; author *Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of

*Bayes Norton (1922) – Olympic sprint runner (1924) *Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy *Jarvis Hunt (c. 1923) – 79th president of Massachusetts Senate *Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (1923) – federal judge *John Chase (ice hockey), John Chase (1924) – Olympic ice hockey player (1932–silver medal) *Howard Francis Corcoran (1924) – federal judge *Sidney Darlington (1924) – engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom *John F. "Jack" Hasey (1924) – officer in the French Foreign Legion; C.I.A. officer; officer in the Légion d'honneur *Tracy Jaeckel (1924) – Olympic fencer (1932–bronze medal, 1936) *George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry *John H. H. Phipps (1924) – businessman, conservationist, philanthropist, champion polo player *

(1924) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1946–1963 *Edmund Berkeley (1925) – computer scientist; author *John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China *Lincoln Kirstein (1925) – writer; co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate) *Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic *Richard B. Sewall (1925) – Yale English professor; biographer *Kent Smith (c. 1925) – actor *Walworth Barbour (1926) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel *Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics, owner of the Boston Bruins *Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University *Red Rolfe (1927) – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, manager of the Detroit Tigers *James Agee (1928) – author and critic *Morton Bartlett (1928) – sculptor and photographer *Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive *Albert E. Kahn (1928) – blacklisted journalist and photographer *Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer" *Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts *Hickman Price (1928) – business executive; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce *Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher *Whiting Willauer (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica * Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, Phillips Exeter Academy, PEA; mountaineer * H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time director of scholarships at the academy; uncle of John Irving (1961) *Edwin Gillette (1929) – cameraman, inventor of animation technique *Sam Knox (c. 1929) – guard for the Detroit Lions * William Ernest Gillespie (1929) – interim principal of Phillips Exeter Academy *William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972 *Henry Babcock Veatch (1929) – neo-Aristotelian philosopher

1930s

*Joseph H. Burchenal (1930) – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award *John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – president of the Vermont State Senate *Francis Spain (1930) – captain of the 1936 U.S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal) *Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect *Larry Bogart (1931) – critic of nuclear power *Macdonald Carey (1931) – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards *John Crosby (media critic), John Crosby (1931) – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist *George Haskins (1931) – law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School *Richard S. Salant (1931) – president of CBS News *Sonny Tufts (1931) – film and television actor *Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist *Richard Pike Bissell (1932) – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (''The Pajama Game'') * Germain Glidden (1932) – national Squash (sport), squash champion, painter, muralist, cartoonist and founder of the National Art Museum of Sport *Milton Green (1932) – world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 Olympics *John Toland (author), John Toland (1932) – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (''The Rising Sun'') *Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman *Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore" *Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian *Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher *Robert Livingston Allen (1934) – linguist, developer of Sector Analysis *Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter *William H. Blanchard (1934) – four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force *Richard Walker Bolling (c. 1934) – U.S. representative from Missouri (did not graduate) *William Coors (c. 1934) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company *Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer *Thomas P. Whitney (1934) – diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist *Robert Anderson (playwright), Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright *Elkan Blout (1935) – inventor; biochemist; awarded National Medal of Science *R. W. B. Lewis (1935) – literary scholar and critic *Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman *Joseph Coors (1935) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company *David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge *Hugh Gregg (1935) – Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965) *David Hall (sound archivist), David Hall (c. 1935) – recorded sound archivist *William Verity Jr. (c. 1935) – U.S. Secretary of Commerce *James T. Aubrey (c. 1936) – president of CBS and MGM *Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1936) – business historian *Thomas Clinton (1936) – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Presbyterian Church *Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, president of Amherst College *George M. Prince (c. 1936) – co-creator of synectics *Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy *John Tyler Bonner (c. 1937) – biologist *Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) – federal judge *Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter *Douglas Knight (1937) – president of Duke University *Alfred A. Knopf Jr. (1937) – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers *Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1937) – biochemist; editor of ''Science (journal), Science'' *Charles Mergendahl (1937) – novelist, playwright, television scriptwriter *Robert H. B. Baldwin (1938) – Undersecretary of the Navy; chairman and president of Morgan Stanley *Lex Barker (1938) – actor *T. Clark Hull (1938) – Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court justice *Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) –

; vice-president of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968) *Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor *Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder *Sloan Wilson (1938) – author (did not graduate) *Forman S. Acton (1939) – computer scientist *Alfred Atherton (1939) – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt *Ward Chamberlin (1939) – public broadcasting executive *John Holt (educator), John Holt (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author

1940s

*George Christopher Archibald (1940) – British economist *William J Conklin, William J. Conklin (c. 1940) – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia *Lloyd L. Duxbury (c. 1940) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives *Burke Marshall (1940) – 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 (1940) – professional basketball player (NY Knicks); jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events *Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics *Harold R. Tyler Jr. (1940) – federal judge *William C. Campbell (golfer), William C. Campbell (1941) – two-time president of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame *Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist *Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels *Robert B. Choate Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist *Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland *William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian *Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. (1942) – president of the College of William & Mary *Lloyd Stephen Riford Jr. (1942) – New York State politician *Bagley Wright (1942) – developer; investor; arts patron and fine art collector *John G. King (physicist), John G. King (1943) – physicist *Roberts Bishop Owen (1943) – U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat *Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for ''Apocalypse Now'' *Frederic M. Richards (1943) – biochemist and biophysicist *Julian Roosevelt (1943) – Olympic sailor (1948, 1952–gold medal, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972) *Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman *John Thomson (diplomat), John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN *Gore Vidal (1943) – author *Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for ''The New Yorker'' *Willis Barnstone (1944) – poet, memoirist, translator *Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor *Kenneth W. Ford (1944) – physicist *George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled) *Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners *John Glenn Beall Jr. (1945) – U.S. representative from Maryland; U.S. senator from Maryland * James P. Gordon (1945) – invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was later awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1964) *Fred Kingsbury (1945) – Olympic rower (1948–bronze medal) *John Knowles (1945) – author, ''A Separate Peace'' *James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China *William E. Schluter –

politician *Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (''Seven Days in May'') *Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. (1946) – numismatist *Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor *Will Holt (c. 1946) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist *Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University * Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general *F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor *Cervin Robinson (1946) – architectural photographer *Robert L. Belknap (c. 1947) – scholar of Russian literature and dean at Columbia University *John Cowles Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist *Bill Felstiner (1947) – socio-legal scholar *Donald Hall (1947) – poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007 *Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia *Glenn D. Paige (1947) – political scientist *John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic *Haviland Smith (1947) – C.I.A. station chief *Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court *David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar *Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota *Frederic B. Ingram (1948) – businessman *Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter (''The Thomas Crown Affair'', ''Bullitt'', ''They Call Me Mr. Tibbs'') *Don Whiston (1948) – Olympic ice hockey player (1952–silver medal) *Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – Governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives *Adair Dyer (1949) – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court *Bo Goldman (1949) – screenwriter (''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''Scent of a Woman''), winner of two Academy Awards *Albert L. Hopkins (1949) – computer designer *Thomas Hoving, Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School) *John Kerr (actor), John Kerr (1949) – actor *James Smith (sport shooter), James Smith (1949) – Olympic sport shooter (1956)

1950s

*Bill Briggs (skier), Bill Briggs (1950) – "Father of Extreme Skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame *Tom Corcoran (skier), Tom Corcoran (1950) – Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960); four-time U.S. national champion alpine skier *M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) – psychiatrist; author (did not graduate) *George Eman Vaillant (1951) – psychiatrist *Walter Darby Bannard (1952) – abstract painter *Robert Cowley (1952) – military historian *Pierre S. du Pont IV (1952) – U.S. representative from Delaware, Governor of Delaware *Thomas Ehrlich (1952) – president of Indiana University *Cyrus Hamlin (professor), Cyrus Hamlin (1952) – literary critic and theorist *Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) – career diplomat; ambassador to Togo *Karl Ludvigsen (1952) – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant *David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; Macarthur Fellow *Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer *Harold Russell Scott Jr. (1952) – Broadway actor and director *David Wight (rower), David Wight (1952) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal) *Robert G. Wilmers (1952) – businessman *Richard S. Arnold (1953) – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock *Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs *Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist *Bud Konheim (1953) – businessman *Earl J. Silbert (1953) – prosecutor in Watergate case *Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) – owner of the Montreal Alouettes football club *Jonathan Aldrich (1954) – poet *William Becklean (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal) *Peter B. Bensinger (1954) – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration *T. Alan Broughton (1954) – poet *Michael Z. Hobson (c. 1954) – executive vice president of Marvel Comics *James F. Hoge Jr. (1954) – editor of ''Foreign Affairs'' *Christopher Jencks (1954) – sociologist *David Merwin (1954) – Olympic sprint canoer (1956) *Robert Morey (rower), Robert Morey (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal) *George Beall (attorney), George Beall (1955)– prosecutor of Vice President Spiro Agnew *G. Bradford Cook (1955) – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission *Charles D. Ellis (1955) – investment consultant; author; founder of Greenwich Associates *John Gager (1955) – professor of religion at Princeton University *Richard Maltby Jr. (1955) – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator *Jay Rockefeller, John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – Governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia *Peter Sears (poet), Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon *Tom Whedon (1955) – television screenwriter *Phil Wilson (trombonist), Phil Wilson (c. 1955) – jazz trombonist *Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher *William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer *Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer *H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. senator from Pennsylvania *Dennis Johnson (composer), Dennis Johnson (1956) – composer, mathematician *J. Vinton Lawrence (1956) – C.I.A. operative; caricaturist *Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian *John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, United Nations, and Iraq; United States Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, the first Director of National Intelligence *Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (''Jaws (film), Jaws'') *Peter Georgescu (1957) – author, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam *Bill Keith (musician), Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator *Herbert Kohler Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate) *Terry Lenzner (1957) – lawyer *Jack McCarthy (1957) – writer and slam poet *Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. representative from Colorado; U.S. senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation *John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey *Don Briscoe (1958) – television actor *George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute *Warren Hoge (1958) – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at ''The New York Times'' (did not graduate) *David Lamb (journalist), David Lamb (1958) – reporter, bureau chief at ''The Los Angeles Times'' (did not graduate) *George de Menil (1958) – French economist *Stephen Robert (1958) – philanthropist and businessman, CEO of Oppenheimer & Co *Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism *John M. Walker Jr. (1958) – chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit *David M. Eddy (1959) – physician *David Rockefeller Jr. (1959) – philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller *Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit *Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher *Charles Janeway (1959) – immunologist *Tom Mankiewicz (1959) – screenwriter, director, producer *Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer *Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (1959) – educator, president of Yale University

1960s

*Alvin P. Adams, Jr. (1960) – ambassador to Peru, Haiti, and Djibouti *Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist *Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup *Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps *Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer *John Irving (1961) – author, ''The World According to Garp'' *George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to ''The New Yorker'' *Peter Simon (actor), Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor *Robert F. Wagner Jr. (deputy mayor), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1961) – deputy mayor of New York City; president of the New York City Board of Education *Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (1961) – curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art *Kenneth Bacon (1962) – United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International *Evan A. Davis (1962) – president of the New York City Bar Association *Chester E. Finn Jr. (1962) – educator; president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation *Larry Hough (1962) – Olympic rower (1968–silver medal, 1972) *Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, editor at large of ''City Journal (New York), City Journal'' *Gregory B. Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; White House Counsel; defended President Bill Clinton, Clinton in impeachment trial *Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer *Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic *Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art *Paul Magriel (1964) – professional backgammon and poker player; author *Peter Coors (1965) – president, Adolph Coors Brewing Co. *David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley *Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author *Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; Mayor of Phoenix *Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate) *Helmut Panke (1965) – president, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) *Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist *Charlie Smith (American poet), Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist *James Earl Coleman Jr. (1966) – attorney *Kent Conrad (1966) – U.S. senator from North Dakota *David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat *Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. representative from Iowa; political commentator *Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) – U.S. representative from California *David Olney (1966) – folk singer/songwriter *Mark Ethridge (1967) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher *Jonathan Galassi (1967) – president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet *Curt Hahn (1967) – filmmaker *Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of ''Sneakers (1992 film), Sneakers'' *Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist *Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, journalist, Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School *Geoffrey Biddle (1968) – photographer *Peter Galassi (1968) – curator *Tom Birmingham (1968) – president of the Massachusetts Senate *Edward Hallowell (psychiatrist), Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist *John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) *Thomas Lennon (filmmaker) (1968) – documentary filmmaker *Steve Mantis (1968) – Canadian politician *Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the ''Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine'' *Dowell Myers (1968) – professor *Anthony Davis (composer), Anthony Davis (1969) – composer and jazz pianist *Peter W. Galbraith (1969) – diplomat, author, ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate) *John C. Harvey Jr. (1969) – Admiral, US Navy; Commander US Fleet Forces Command; Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations *Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of ''Cook's Illustrated''; host of ''America's Test Kitchen'' *Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor *John McTiernan (1969) – filmmaker

1970s

Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, official portrait

Hansen Clarke, Official Portrait, 112th Congress

*Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel *Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer *Scott McConnell (1970) – journalist *Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic *Joyce Maynard (1971) – author *Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer, keyboardist for Tom Petty *Roland Merullo (1971) – author *Banthoon Lamsam (1971) – banker *Eben Alexander (author), Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author *Howard Brookner (1972) – film director *Robert J. Fisher (1972) – former chairman of the board, Gap, Inc. *Shigehisa Kuriyama (1972) – historian of medicine *Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman and politician; 89th Governor of Connecticut *W. Drake McFeely (1972) – chairman and president of W.W. Norton & Company *Thomas G. Osenton (1972) – author; president, CEO, and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company *Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist *Eric Breindel (1973) – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post *Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist *Paul Romer (1973) – chief economist of the World Bank, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2018 *Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College *Paul Sullivan (composer), Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer *Emery Brown (1974) – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist *Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist *Stephen Mandel (hedge fund manager), Stephen Mandel (1974) – hedge fund manager *William S. Fisher (1975) – businessman and investor *Alix M. Freedman (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *Laurie Hays (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *Joseph Lykken (1975) – physicist *John McGinnis, John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist *Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian *Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, American 2020 United States presidential election, presidential candidate, 2020 *Ronald Chen (1976) – dean of Rutgers law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey *Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist *Anne Marden (1976) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988–silver medal) *Ginna Marston, Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership at Drugfree.org, Partnership for a Drug Free America *David McKean (diplomat), David McKean (1976) – author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg *Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author *James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher *James Rubin (1977) – former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Aug. 1997 – Apr. 2000) *James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC *Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of ''Harvard Business Review''; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch *Catherine Disher (1978) – actress *Mark Driscoll (screenwriter), Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter *Michael Lynton (1978) – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc. *Paul Villinski (1978) – sculptor (did not graduate) *Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards *John J. Fisher (1979) – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics *Chip Hourihan (1979) – independent film producer (''Frozen River, Amateur'') and director *Jonathan Smith (rower), Jonathan Smith (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1984–bronze medal, 1992) *Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988) *Hansen Clarke – U.S. representative from Michigan (did not graduate) *Billy Ruane (music promoter), William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. – Boston area music promoter (did not graduate)

1980s

* Ted Hope (1980) – independent film producer, including ''The Ice Storm'' and ''Happiness (1998 film), Happiness'' *Heather Cox Richardson (1980) – historian * Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including ''The Simpsons''; adapted U.S. version of ''The Office'' from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards * Dave Douglas (trumpeter), Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer * Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist * Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow * Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, ''The New York Times'' *

(1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, ''The Da Vinci Code'' * Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist * Stephen Metcalf (writer), Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at ''Slate'' magazine (did not graduate) * Nancy Jo Sales (1982) – journalist; author * Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter * Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992) * Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed ''The Light in the Piazza (musical), The Light in the Piazza''; winner of six Tony Awards * Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author *Charles Cameron Ludington (1983) – historian * Henry Blodget (1984) – editor and CEO of ''Business Insider'' * Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow *David Chipman (1984) – AFT Agent and gun control activist *Stephanie Stebich (1984) – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum *Roland Tec (1984) – writer, director * Vanessa Friedman (1985) – fashion critic * Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician * Edmund Perry (1985) – African-American teenager shot and killed by NYPD officers; inspiration to Michael Jackson * Maya Forbes (1986) – screenwriter and television producer * David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter * Christine Harper (1987) – chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News *Tal Keinan (c. 1987) – Israeli entrepreneur, financier * Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author * Peter Orszag (1987) – director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama * China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini) * Claudine Gay (1988) – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University * Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University * (1989) – archaeologist, professor, documentary host * David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager *Jeff Locker (c. 1989) – actor * Joon Kim (1989) – Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

1990s

*Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist *Michael Crowley (journalist), Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist *Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media *Katherine Reynolds Lewis (1990) – author *Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film ''21 (2008 film), 21'' and the book ''Bringing Down the House (book), Bringing Down the House'' by Ben Mezrich *Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor *John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, head of Phillips Academy of Phillips Andover, Andover *Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor *Jeff Wilner (1990) – tight end for the Green Bay Packers *Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist *Trish Regan (1991) – television news anchor *Eunice Yoon (1991) – television new anchor *Roxane Gay (1992) – author *Jason Hall (screenwriter), Jason Hall (1992) – screenwriter (''American Sniper''); director *Quentin Palfrey (1992) – lawyer, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts candidate, 2018 *Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor *Rajanya Shah (1992) – Olympic rower (2000) *Brandon Williams (basketball, born 1975), Brandon Williams (1992) – basketball player *Andrew Yang (entrepreneur), Andrew Yang (1992) – entrepreneur, American 2020 United States presidential election, presidential candidate, 2020 *Gregory W. Brown (1993) – composer *John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist *Aomawa Shields (1993) – Astronomer, TED Fellow *Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert *Drew Magary (1994) – journalist, humor columnist, and novelist *Alex Okosi (1994) – media executive *Philip Andelman (1995) – music video director *Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower (2004) *Sarah Milkovich (1996) – planetary geologist, engineer *Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show *Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist; creator and host of Song Exploder *Tom Cochran (technologist), Tom Cochran (1996) – Obama administration official *Luke Bronin (1997) – Mayor of Hartford *Zach Iscol (1997) – US Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, 2021 New York City Comptroller election, 2021 comptroller candidate for New York City *Susie Suh (1997) – musician *Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire *Joy Fahrenkrog (1998) – member of the United States Archery Team *Georgia Gould (1998) – Olympic mountain biker (2008, 2012–bronze medal) *Sabrina Kolker (1998) – Olympic rower (2004, 2008) *Mike Morrison (ice hockey), Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player *Kirstin Valdez Quade (1998) – writer *Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer *Paul Yoon (1998) – novelist *Michael Blomquist, Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships

2000s

*Sam Fuld (2000) – 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), William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire *Tom Cavanagh (ice hockey), Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player *Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook *Heather Jackson (2002) – American triathlete and track cyclist, *Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008, 2012–bronze medal) *Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook *Shani Boianjiu (2005) – author of ''The People of Forever Are Not Afraid'' *Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower (2012) *Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C., Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League *Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on ''Malcolm in the Middle''

2010s

* Caroline Calloway (2010) – media personality * Duncan Robinson (basketball), Duncan Robinson (2013) – NBA player for the Miami Heat and former player for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team * Nicole Heavirland (2014) – USA rugby player *Zhuo Qun Song (2015) – the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal * Jacob Grandison, 2017, College Basketball player for Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball, Holy Cross and Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball, Illinois * Ying Rudi, Rudi Ying (2017) – Supreme Hockey League hockey player

In fiction

* 2 Broke Girls – Caroline Channing, one of the two lead characters, delivered the line “All those who pitched business models to Warren Buffett as a member of the Phillips Exeter Entrepreneurs Club raise their hands. Holla!” in 2 Broke Girls (season 1)#ep7, Season 1 Episode 7, "And the Pretty Problem". * American Psycho – The narrator, Patrick Bateman, graduated in the class of 1980 * Dharma & Greg – Gregory Montgomery graduated from Exeter, Harvard, and Stanford Law. * ''In Revere, in Those Days –'' This novel by Roland Merullo is about a boy who, instead of attending public school in his predominantly Italian town in Massachusetts, attends Exeter and plays hockey. * Infinitely Polar Bear – Cam Stuart, the protagonist, played by Mark Ruffalo, claims to have been kicked out of both Exeter and Harvard. * Love Story (novel), Love Story – Oliver Barrett IV attended Exeter. * Marvel Comics – Warren Worthington III, aka Angel (Marvel Comics), Angel, attended Exeter as a child; he eventually sets up a scholarship at the school for "mutant kids".''X-Terminators'' #1, written by Louise Simonson (Marvel Comics, October 1988), p. 11. Later, X-Terminators members Tabitha Smith, Boom-Boom, Rictor, and Skids (comics), Skids also attend the school * Robert Langdon (book series), Robert Langdon – Robert Langdon, the main character, attended Exeter *The Prince of Tides – Herbert Woodruff, from the film and the The Prince of Tides (novel), novel of the same name, went to Exeter, as did his son (Bernard) in the book. * The West Wing – Associate Supreme Court Justice candidate Peyton Cabot Harrison III attended Exeter * Trading Places – Louis Winthorpe III attended Exeter