Notable Alumni

Tony Abbott ’49 - Pulitzer-prize nominated author

 

Ben Aronson ’73 – Urban landscape artist

 

André Bishop ’62 - Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater; winner of 13 Tony awards and 4 Pulitzer prizes

 

James Blakely ’25 – Actor in early Hollywood and studio executive

 

Tarah Donoghue Breed ’97 -  Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady Laura Bush

 

Doug Brown ’79 – National Hockey League right-winger

 

Suzanne Walker Buck ’86 - Rector, Chatham Hall School

 

Stephen Chao ’70 -  entrepreneur and media executive, former President of Fox Television, 1992; former President of USA Network, 1998-2001

 

Victor Chapman ’03 – the first American flying ace to be killed in WWI

 

Michael D. Coe ’41 - Yale Professor, archeologist, Mesoamerican scholar

 

Griffin Dunne ’71 - Actor

 

Hamilton Fish ’00 – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1920-1945

 

Peter Fonda ’54 -  Actor

 

George Foreman III ’94 – Boxer and Entrepreneur

 

Topher Grace ’94 – Actor

 

C. Boyden Gray ’56 – White House Counsel and Ambassador to the European Union

 

James Houghton ’50 - President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Prince Hashim bin Hussein ’96 - Prince of Jordan

 

Heyward Isham ’40, United States Ambassador to Haiti, 1974-1977

 

Toby Kimball ’57 – NBA player for the Boston Celtics, San Diego Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, Kansas City Kings, Philadelphia 76ers and New Orleans Jazz

 

James Kunen ’62 – journalist, lawyer, writer; editor at People Magazine, Director of Communications at Time Warner; author of The Strawberry Statement

 

John Leavitt ’82 – Developer of Lycos, the first Internet search engine

 

David McKean ’72 – Ambassador to Luxembourg

 

Katie Touhey Moore ’86 – Program Director, International Fund for Animal Welfare

 

Nicholas Negroponte ’58 - founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab

J. Robert Seyffert ’67 – award-winning painter

 

Robert E. Sherwood ’09 – Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

 

Rae Eun Sun ’94 – Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Youngone Corporation

 

Kendall Tucker ’07 - CEO and Founder of Polis, a startup working to improve mobile canvassing and in-person analytics. Named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” for Law & Policy in 2017

 

James Jeremiah Wadsworth ’18 – United States Ambassador to the United Nations, 1960-61

 

Faith Wallace Gadsden ’98 – Founder and Director, the Archimedes Project

 

Damian Woetzel ’81 – President of The Julliard School; Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet, 1989-2008

 

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. ’31 – Golden Globe-winning actor

 

Fabrizio Zangrilli ’88 – Alpinist who has scaled Everest and K2 (among others); featured in K2: Siren of the Himalayas