List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

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

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Founder

• John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of board of trustees 1781–1795^[1]

Principals

• Benjamin Abbot – principal 1788–1838^[1]
• Gideon Lane Soule – principal 1838–1873
• Albert C. Perkins – principal 1873–1883
• Walter Quincy Scott – president of Ohio State University; principal 1884–1889
• Charles Everett Fish – principal 1890–1895
• Harlan P. Amen – principal 1895–1913^[2]
• Lewis Perry – principal 1914–1946
• William Saltonstall – principal 1946–1963
• William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim principal 1963–1964^[3]
• Richard W. Day – principal 1964–1973
• Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; principal 1974–1987^[4]
• Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; principal 1987–1997
• Tyler Tingley – principal 1997–2009^[5]
• Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; principal 2009–2015^[6]
• Lisa MacFarlane – principal 2015–2018
• William Knox Rawson – interim principal 2018, principal 2019–present^[7]

Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy

Paine Wingate

John Taylor Gilman

James Walker

See also: List of Phillips Exeter Academy principals

Charles H. Bell

Frederick Buechner

Thomas Hassan

Dan Brown

Dolores Kendrick

• John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
• Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
• Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797^[8]
• Daniel Dana – president of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; board of trustees 1809–1843
• John Taylor Gilman – delegate to the Continental Congress; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1795–1827^[9]
• Ashur Ware – federal judge; instructor 1804–1805
• Nathan Hale – editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807
• Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807^[10]
• Nathan Lord – president of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
• Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
• James Walker – president of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
• William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817^[11]
• Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy^[12]
• Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1828–1830^[1]
• Jeremiah Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; judge; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1830–1842^[1]
• Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833–1835^[1]
• Joseph Gibson Hoyt – chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840–1858^[13]
• Andrew Preston Peabody – Unitarian clergyman and author; board of trustees, 1843–1885
• Amos Tuck – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; board of trustees 1853–1879
• George A. Wentworth – author of textbooks on mathematics; faculty 1857–1892; board of trustees 1899–1906
• Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882^[14]
• Charles H. Bell – governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883^[15]
• George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883–1887^[10]
• T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty^[16]
• H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – director of scholarships^[17]
• Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty^[18]
• Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988^[19]
• Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
• Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960^[20]
• Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967^[21]
• Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
• Michael S. Greco – president of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968^[22]
• George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975^[23]
• David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977^[24]
• Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993^[25]
• Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993^[26]
• Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present^[27]
• Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present^[28]
• Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present^[29]
• Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021^[30]
• Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
• Willie Perdomo – current instructor in English

Notable alumni

1780s

Josiah Bartlett Jr.

• Benjamin Ives Gilman (c. 1783) – Ohio pioneer^[1]
• George Sullivan (c. 1783) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[1]
• Nathaniel Thayer (c. 1783) – Unitarian minister^[1]
• Daniel Tilton (c. 1783) – one of the first three judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory^[31]
• Josiah Bartlett Jr. (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[32]
• Samuel Smith (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[33]
• George B. Upham (c. 1785) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[34]
• Daniel Meserve Durell (c. 1789) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party^[1]

1790s

Lewis Cass

Daniel Webster

• Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher^[35]
• David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire^[36]
• Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[8]
• John Noyes (1791) – U.S. representative from Vermont^[1]
• Lewis Cass (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^[37]
• William Ladd (1793) – pacifist, founder and first president of American Peace Society^[38]
• Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[39]
• Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[40]
• John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[40]
• Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist^[41]
• Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) – Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism^[1]
• Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat^[42]
• Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[43]

1800s

Edward Everett

James H. Duncan

• Samuel Livermore (1800) – legal scholar^[1]
• Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts^[44][45]
• Abiel Chandler (1802) – merchant, philanthropist^[46]
• Joseph Cogswell (1802) – educator, editor, library administrator^[47]
• William Plumer Jr. (1802) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[48]
• James Carr (1803) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[49]
• John Perkins Cushing (1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist^[1]
• Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman^[50]
• Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. representative from New York State^[51]
• Theodore Lyman (1804) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts^[1]
• Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate^[1]
• John Lauris Blake (1806) – minister and prolific author^[1]
• Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate^[1]
• Zachariah Allen (1807) – manufacturer and inventor^[52]
• Joseph Blunt (1807) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney^[1]
• Edward Everett (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^[53]
• Nathaniel Appleton Haven (1807) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[14]
• Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce^[54]
• James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[55]
• James Freeman Dana (1809) – chemist; science author^[56]
• Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author^[57]
• William Thorndike (1809) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate^[58]

1810s

John Adams Dix

George Bancroft

Thomas Wilson Dorr

• John Sherburne Sleeper (1807) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician^[1]
• William Willis (1808) – mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president^[1]
• Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology^[59]
• John Adams Dix (1810) – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; governor of New York; U.S. Minister to France; Railroad President^[1][60]
• Horace Hooker (1810) – Congregationalist minister; author^[1]
• William Robinson (ca. 1810) – school founder
• Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – president of Hampden-Sydney College^[1]
• George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; ambassador to the United Kingdom
• John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[61]
• Jared Sparks (1811) – president of Harvard University^[62]
• Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman^[63]
• David Barker Jr. (1812) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[64]
• Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. (1812) – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College^[65]
• William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author^[11]
• Charles Paine (1813) – governor of Vermont^[1][66]
• Samuel Edmund Sewall (1813) — lawyer; politician; abolitionist; suffragist
• James Wilson II (1813) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[1][67]
• Andrew Leonard Emerson (1814) – first mayor of Portland, Maine^[1]
• Gideon Lane Soule (1816) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873^[66]
• Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat^[68]
• George Lunt (1818) – politician, author, editor, poet^[69]
• John Dennison Russ (1818) – physician; innovator in the education of the blind^[1]
• Jonathan Chapman (1819) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts^[70]
• Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion^[71]
• Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) – humanitarian, author^[72]
• Russell Sturgis (1819) – merchant, banker^[1]

1820s

Franklin Pierce

Alpheus Felch

Benjamin Butler

• John P. Hale (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain^[73]
• Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States^[74]
• Alpheus Felch (1821) – U.S. senator from Michigan; governor of Michigan^[75]
• Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives^[76]
• Ephraim Peabody (1821) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist^[1]
• John Langdon Sibley (1821) – Librarian of Harvard University^[77]
• Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers^[1]
• Thomas Tingey Craven (1822) – rear admiral, United States Navy^[1]
• George Yeaton Sawyer (1822) - lawyer and politician, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court^[1][78]
• Samuel Foster Haven (1823) – archeologist, anthropologist^[1]
• Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist^[79]
• John Hodgdon (1823) – president of the Maine State Senate; mayor of Dubuque, Iowa^[80]
• Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist^[1]
• George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts^[81]
• Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. representative from Maine^[82]
• Edward Henry Durell (1826) – mayor of New Orleans, federal judge^[83]
• Henry Francis Harrington (1828) – editor of the Boston Herald^[1]
• Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana^[84]
• Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist^[85]
• Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War general (Union); U.S. representative from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts^[86]
• Edward Fox (1829) – federal judge^[1]
• Timothy Roberts Young (1829) – U.S. representative from Illinois^[1]
• Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison^[87]
• Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist^[1]
• Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer^[1]

1830s

Henry Gardner

Nathaniel B. Baker

Amos T. Akerman

• Henry Gardner (1831) – governor of Massachusetts^[88]
• Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts^[89]
• William Henry Chandler (1832) – politician from Connecticut^[1]
• Edmund Burke Whitman (1833) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; superintendent of National Cemeteries^[90]
• Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – governor of New Hampshire^[91]
• Charles Jervis Gilman (1835) – U.S. representative from Maine^[92]
• Fitz John Porter (1835) – Civil War general (Union)^[93]
• John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. representative from Wisconsin^[94]
• William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[95]
• Ezra Abbot (1836) – New Testament scholar^[57]
• Amos Tappan Akerman (1836) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872^[96]
• Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire^[97]
• Augustus Lord Soule (1837) – associate justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court^[98]
• E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, chancellor of the University of Buffalo^[99]

1840s

Paul A. Chadbourne

Elijah B. Stoddard

• James Camp Tappan (1840) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives^[100][101]
• Henry W. Cleaveland (1841) – architect^[1]
• Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts^[1]
• James Cooley Fletcher (1842) – missionary, diplomat, author^[102]
• Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) – astronomer^[103]
• Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts^[1]
• E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury^[89]
• Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court^[104]
• 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^[1]
• Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives^[105]
• George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician^[1]
• William Dorsheimer (1847) – U.S. representative from New York; lieutenant governor of New York^[35]
• Charles Franklin Dunbar (1847) – editor; political economist; dean of faculty, Harvard University; president of the American Economic Association^[106]
• Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist^[107]
• William Robert Ware (1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University^[35]
• Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator^[108]

1850s

Benjamin F. Prescott

George W. Atherton

• Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) – business magnate; art collector
• Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
• Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
• George Bates Nichols Tower (c. 1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author^[109]
• Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
• Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – governor of New Hampshire
• Charles Pomeroy Otis (1855) – educator; author
• Wheelock G. Veazey (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 (1857) – poet
• George W. Atherton (1858) – president of Pennsylvania State University
• William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. representative from Kansas
• Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
• Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
• George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
• Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

1860s

Robert Todd Lincoln

Herbert Baxter Adams

• Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
• William M.R. French (1860) – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom^[110]
• James Greeley Flanders (1861) – Wisconsin politician
• Marshall Snow (1861) – acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
• John White Chadwick (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^[111]
• Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
• John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of Life magazine
• George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
• Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
• Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
• Robert Hallowell Richards (1865) – mining engineer; metallurgist
• Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
• William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
• Edward R. Bacon (1867) – railroad president; financier; art collector
• John Hubbard (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
• Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
• Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
• Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – brigadier general, U.S. Army
• Robert Franklin Pennell (1868) – educator and scholar^[14]
• Charlemagne Tower Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
• Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. senator from New Jersey

1870s

August Belmont Jr.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

William De Witt Hyde

Walter I. McCoy

• 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. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant^[112]
• Samuel L. Powers (1870) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
• Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
• Albert D. Bosson (1871) – mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
• Nelson Taylor Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
• Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
• Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
• Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
• George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
• Melville Bull (1873) – lieutenant governor of Rhode Island; U.S. representative from Rhode Island
• Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. representative from New York
• Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
• James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative headmaster of Lawrenceville School
• George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
• William Bancroft (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 (1874) – real estate developer
• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Harlan P. Amen (1875) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913^[2]
• William De Witt Hyde (1875) – president of Bowdoin College
• Henry Shute (1875) – author
• William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
• Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
• Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – lieutenant governor of New York
• H. H. Holmes (1877?) – serial killer
• Charles MacVeagh (1877) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan
• William W. Stickney (1877) – governor of Vermont
• Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
• Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
• Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. representative from New Jersey^[113]
• William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
• Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
• S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
• Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
• Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

1880s

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Lindley Miller Garrison

Gifford Pinchot

Booth Tarkington

Daniel Gregory Mason

George R. Stobbs

• Joseph Adna Hill (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 (1882) – Third Assistant Secretary of State
• Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, lieutenant governor of Montana
• Edmund Wilson Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
• Gordon Woodbury (1882) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
• Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
• Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) – U.S. Secretary of War
• William Mann Irvine (1884) – academic, founding headmaster of Mercersburg Academy
• 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^[114]
• William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, U.S. representative from New York
• Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. representative from Illinois
• George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
• Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. representative from New York
• Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; governor of Pennsylvania^[115]
• Guy H. Preston (1885) – US Army brigadier general^{[116][117][118]}
• George Rublee (1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
• Amos Alonzo Stagg (1885) – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football"^[119]
• Augustus Noble Hand (1886) – federal judge
• Tim Shinnick (1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
• William Wurtenburg (1886) – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; football coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician
• Theodore Davis Boal (1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect
• Bob Huntington (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 New Hampshire, ambassador to Greece
• Curtis Hidden Page (1887) – scholar, author, translator
• William Rhode (1887) – All-American football player; won national championship as football coach at Yale
• Frank Barbour (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.
• Lee McClung (1888) – All-American football player; Treasurer of the United States
• Horace Tracy Pitkin (1888) – missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion
• Frank St. John Sidway (1888) – New York State politician
• Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
• Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
• Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
• Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner^[120]

1890s

• Butler Ames (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 (1891) – automotive engineer and pioneer
• George Lawrence Day (1890) – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
• Marshall Newell (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 (1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
• Julian Coolidge (1891) – mathematician; president of the Mathematical Association of America
• Henry M. Crane (c. 1891) – pioneering automobile designer
• Louis W. Hill (1891) – railroad magnate
• John Howland (1891) – pediatrician
• Henry McKee Minton (1891) – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
• Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
• Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) – composer, music critic
• Hiland Orlando Stickney (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 (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 Veterans' Bureau
• Doc Powers (c. 1896) – professional baseball player^[1]
• 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 (1898) – mayor of Philadelphia
• Barry Faulkner (1899) – muralist
• Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
• Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer

1900s

Jay R. Benton

Edwin F. Harding

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

• 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 (1901) – All-American football player
• Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union^[121]
• 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 (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 (1903) – All-American football player
• Sterling Dow (1903) – 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^[122]
• 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 (1904) – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
• T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) – All-American football player; Yale football coach
• 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 (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)^[123]
• 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^[124]
• 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^[125]
• John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run

1910s

Robert Nathan

Howard Hawks

Robert B. Chiperfield

Norris Cotton

• 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
• Amos N. Blandin, Jr. (1914) - Supreme Court Justice State of New Hampshire
• Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer
• Howard Hawks (1914) – film director^[126]
• Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
• Charles Bierer Wrightsman (c. 1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist^[127]
• Art Braman (1915) – NFL football player^[128]
• 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 (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
• Stephen Potter (1915) – first American naval aviator to shoot down a German seaplane^[129]
• Nathaniel Wollf (1916?) – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
• 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
• Cyril Wilcox (1917) – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
• Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect
• Robert B. Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. representative from Illinois
• Jocko Conlon (c. 1918) – professional baseball player (did not graduate)^[130]
• 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 (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^[131]

1920s

Kent Smith

Walter A. Brown

• 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 Abraham Lincoln
• 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^[132]
• Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (1923) – federal judge
• 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
• William Saltonstall (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,^[133] 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^[134]
• 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, 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^[3]
• William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
• Henry Babcock Veatch (1929) – neo-Aristotelian philosopher

1930s

William H. Blanchard

Richard Walker Bolling

Hugh Gregg

William Verity Jr.

Douglas Knight

• 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 (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 champion, painter, muralist, cartoonist and founder of the National Art Museum of Sport^[135][136]
• Milton Green (1932) – world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 Olympics
• 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)^[137]
• William Coors (c. 1934) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company^[138]
• Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer
• Thomas P. Whitney (1934) – diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist
• Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright^[139]
• 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 (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
• 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^[140]
• 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
• Charles Mergendahl (1937) – novelist, playwright, television scriptwriter^[141][142]
• 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) – U.S. Attorney General; 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 (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author

1940s

Lloyd Shapley

Robert B. Rheault

George Plimpton

James R. Lilley

Donald Hall

Carlos Romero Barceló

• George Christopher Archibald (1940) – British economist
• William J. Conklin (c. 1940) – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia^[143]
• 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 (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 (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 (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
• Gore Vidal (1943) – author^[144]
• 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)^[145]
• Fred Kingsbury (1945) – Olympic rower (1948–bronze medal)
• John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace^[146]
• James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
• William E. Schluter – New Jersey 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^[147]
• 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 P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
• John Kerr (1949) – actor
• James Smith (1949) – Olympic sport shooter (1956)

1950s

Pierre S. du Pont IV

David Mumford

Jay Rockefeller

Tim Wirth

Robert Thurman

Tom Mankiewicz

Daniel Dennett

• Bill Briggs (1950) – "father of extreme skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
• 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 and University of Miami professor
• 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 (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 (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
• Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
• Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
• Bud Konheim (1953) – businessman^[148]
• 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^[149]
• 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 (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
• George Beall (1955)– prosecutor of Vice President Spiro Agnew^[150]
• 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
• John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia^[151]
• Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon
• Tom Whedon (1955) – television screenwriter^[152]
• Phil Wilson (c. 1955) – jazz trombonist^[153]
• Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
• William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer
• Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer^[154]
• H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
• Dennis Johnson (1956) – composer, mathematician^[155]
• 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; U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, the first Director of National Intelligence^[156]
• Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
• Peter Georgescu (1957) – author, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam^[157]
• Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator
• Herbert Kohler Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate)
• Terry Lenzner (1957) – lawyer^[158]
• 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 (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^[159]
• 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^[160]
• 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

Charles C. Krulak

John Irving

Craig Roberts Stapleton

Judd Gregg

Kent Conrad

• 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^[161]
• Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
• John Irving (1961) – author, The World According to Garp^[162]
• George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
• Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
• 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) – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International^[163][164]
• 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
• Gregory B. Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; White House Counsel; defended President 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)^[165]
• Helmut Panke (1965) – president, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
• Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
• Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist
• James Earl Coleman Jr. (1966) – attorney
• Kent Conrad (1966) – U.S. senator from North Dakota^[166]
• 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
• 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^[167]
• Geoffrey Biddle (1968) – photographer
• Peter Galassi (1968) – curator
• Tom Birmingham (1968) – president of the Massachusetts Senate
• Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist
• John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
• Jerome Karabel (1968) – scholar
• Thomas Lennon (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 (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

Ned Lamont

Bobby Shriver

Paul Romer

Tom Steyer

Hansen Clarke

• Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel^[168]
• 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 (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^[169]
• 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^[170]
• 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^[171]
• Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College
• Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
• Emery Brown (1974) – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
• Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
• 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 O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
• Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
• Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, presidential candidate, 2020
• Ronald Chen (1976) – dean of Rutgers law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey
• Anne Marden (1976) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988–silver medal)
• Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America^[172][173]
• David McKean (1976) – author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
• Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author^[174]
• James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
• James Rubin (1977) – former 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, and former editor of Harvard Business Review
• Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
• Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter^[175]
• 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
• 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)
• William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. – Boston area music promoter (did not graduate)

1980s

Peter R. Orszag

Niel Brandt

• Ted Hope (1980) – independent film producer, including The Ice Storm and Happiness
• Heather Cox Richardson (1980) – historian^[176]
• Richard Stockton Rush III (1980) – founder and CEO of OceanGate
• 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 (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
• Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
• Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
• Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
• Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code^[177]
• Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist
• 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
• Nicholas Perrin (1982) – former dean of Wheaton Graduate School and 16th president of Trinity International University.
• Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
• Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
• Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author^[178]
• 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) – ATF agent and gun control activist^[179]
• Stephanie Stebich (1984) – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum^[180]
• 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^[181]
• Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
• Peter Orszag (1987) – director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama^[182]
• China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
• Claudine Gay (1988) – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, President and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University^[157][183]
• Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
• David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager^[184]
• Jeff Locker (c. 1989) – actor
• Joon Kim (1989) – acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York^[185]

1990s

Alessandro Nivola

John Palfrey

John Forté

• Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
• Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
• Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media^[186]
• Katherine Reynolds Lewis (1990) – author^[187]
• Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
• Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
• John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, former head of Phillips Academy of Andover
• Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor^[188]
• 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^[189]
• Roxane Gay (1992) – author
• Jason Hall (1992) – screenwriter (American Sniper); director
• Quentin Palfrey (1992) – lawyer, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts candidate, 2018^[190]
• Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
• Rajanya Shah (1992) – Olympic rower (2000)^[191]
• Brandon Williams (1992) – basketball player^[192]
• Andrew Yang (1992) – entrepreneur, presidential candidate, 2020^[193]
• Gregory W. Brown (1993) – composer^[194]
• John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
• Aomawa Shields (1993) – astronomer, TED Fellow
• Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert^[195]
• Drew Magary (1994) – journalist, humor columnist, and novelist
• Alex Okosi (1994) – media executive^[196]
• Philip Andelman (1995) – music video director
• Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower (2004)^[197]
• Sarah Milkovich (1996) – planetary geologist, engineer^[198]
• Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
• Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist; creator and host of Song Exploder
• Tom Cochran (1996) – Obama administration official
• Luke Bronin (1997) – mayor of Hartford
• Zach Iscol (1997) – US Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, 2021 comptroller candidate for New York City^[199]
• 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)^[191]
• Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
• Kirstin Valdez Quade (1998) – writer^[200]
• Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
• Paul Yoon (1998) – novelist
• Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships^[201]

2000s

Sam Fuld

Mark Zuckerberg

• 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^[202]
• William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire^[203]
• Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player^[204]
• Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook^[205]
• Heather Jackson (2002) – triathlete and track cyclist
• Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008, 2012–bronze medal)^[206]
• Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook^[207]
• Shani Boianjiu (2005) – author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid^[208]
• Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower (2012)^[209]
• Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League^[210]
• Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle^[211]

2010s

Duncan Robinson

• Caroline Calloway (2010) – media personality^[212]
• Duncan Robinson (2013) – NBA player for the Miami Heat and former player for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team^[213]
• Nicole Heavirland (2014) – USA rugby player^[214]
• 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, Illinois and Duke
• Rudi Ying (2017) – Supreme Hockey League hockey player^[215]