Notable Alumni: Short List

This short list of 100 alumni serves as a representative sampling from our larger database of notable alumni, which is accessible by clicking on the “Notable Alumni: Long List” link to the left. Inclusion on this list is not meant to indicate any special distinction; indeed, we will periodically change the people appearing on this list as a way of highlighting the diverse nature of our alumni body.

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1700s

Josiah Quincy III

Class of 1778

  • Congressman [1805-13]
  • 2nd mayor of Boston [1823-28]
  • President, Harvard University [1828-45]
  • Namesake, Boston’s Quincy Market [1826]

John Brown Cutting

Class of 1781

  • Apothecary General, Continental Army [1777-80]
  • Jefferson confidant [1788-89]
  • US London agent seeking release of impressed American sailors [1790]

Samuel Holyoke

Class of 1785

  • Composer, compiler & teacher of sacred music
  • Cofounder & 1st headmaster, Groton Academy, now Lawrence Academy [1793]

Francis Cabot Lowell

Class of 1786

  • Pioneering industrialist, developer of corporate finance for industry
  • Founder, New England cotton textile industry
  • Lowell, Massachusetts named in his honor [1826]

William Tudor

Class of 1786

  • Cofounder & editor
  • North American Review [1815]
  • Coiner of the phrase "the Athens of America" as a Boston epithet
  • US consul, Lima [1824-27]
  • US chargé d’affaires, Rio de Janeiro [1827-30]

Timothy Flint

Class of 1795

  • Missionary & explorer, Valley of the Mississippi [1815-30]
  • First of many missionaries educated at PA
  • Author "Recollections of the Last Ten Years Passed in the Valley of the Mississippi" [1826], "Geography and History of the Western States" [1828]

Levi Konkapot

Class of 1799

  • Member of the Stockbridge Tribe [Stockbridge Munsee Tribe, Mohican Indians]
  • 1st Native American student at Andover
  • Member, Indian Company, War of 1812

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1800s

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Class of 1802

  • Artist & inventor
  • Portraitist & genre painter [ca.1810-40]
  • Inventor of the telegraph & Morse Code [1832-1844]
  • 1st US experimenter and proponent of photography [1839-]

William Wheelwright

Class of 1814

  • Entrepreneur in Latin America
  • US consul, Guayaquil, Ecuador [1824-29]
  • Developer of steam shipping, port facilities, railroads, telegraph and mines in Chile & Argentina [1835-72]
  • His statue stands in Plaza Wheelwright, Valparaiso [1877]
  • Philanthropist in support of his birthplace, Newburyport, Massachusetts

George Perkins Marsh

Class of 1816

  • Environmentalist, philologist, diplomat
  • "The Father of the American Environmental Movement" - "Man & Nature" [1865] was a pioneering study of ecology
  • Authority on the origins & history of English and Scandinavian languages
  • Congressman [1843-49]
  • US minister to Turkey [1852-54] & Italy [1861-82]

Theodore Dwight Weld

Class of 1820

  • Abolitionist
  • Editor, The Emancipator [1836-40]
  • Corresponding secretary, New York Anti-Slavery Society [1837-43]
  • Coauthor, "American Slavery As It Is" [1839], with the exception of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," regarded as the most influential anti-slavery publication in the US

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Class of 1823

  • Journalist, editor & poet
  • The highest-paid magazine writer of his day
  • Chronicler of manners & mores in the US & Europe during the 1830s & 40s
  • Author, "American Scenery" [1840]
  • Financial backer, promoter & publisher of Edgar Allen Poe, including "The Raven" [1845]
  • Founder & editor, The Home Journal [1846-67]

John Evans

Class of 1825

  • Geologist & explorer
  • Leader, US Geological Survey [1847-60] in Nebraska, Oregon & Washington
  • Explorer of the Nebraska Badlands
  • Discoverer, Fossil Butte [1856]
  • Member, Chiriqui Isthmus Expedition [1860]

Pandia “Zeus” Ralli

Class of 1825

  • Greek refugee [following Turkish Massacre of 1822]
  • Andover’s first student from Europe
  • Head, Ralli Brothers - a major international commodities trading firm - & its London headquarters [ca.1845-65]

Henrietta Jackson Hamlin

Class of 1829

  • The first of many early Abbot graduates who became missionaries
  • Served & died at Constantinople [1837-50]
  • An inspirational biography, "Light on the Dark River" by Margarette Woods Lawrence, appeared in 1854

Mary Williams Chapin

Class of 1834

  • Mount Holyoke instructor [1843-50] & principal [1850-65]

Gustavus Vasa Fox

Class of 1835

  • Naval officer in the Mexican-American War & Civil War
  • Relieved Major Anderson & remnant brigade at Fort Sumter [April, 1861]
  • Assistant secretary of the Navy [1861-65], proponent of iron-clad warships
  • In an essay published in 1882, proposed Samana Cay in the Bahamas was 1st island reached by Christopher Columbus

Frederick Law Olmsted

Class of 1838

  • Landscape architect
  • Author, conservationist
  • America’s pre-eminent 19th-century landscape architect
  • Designer of New York’s Central Park [1858-], Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system, and many other parks, campuses, estates, etc.
  • Phillips Academy was his successor firm’s longest-standing client [1891-1965]
  • Author, "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom" (1861)
  • Proponent of conservation and the creation of national parks

Moses Gerrish Farmer

Class of 1841

  • Electrical engineer, telegrapher & inventor of early electric dynamos & electric light bulbs [1847-76]
  • His Salem, MA home was the 1st in the world lit by electric lights [1859]

Maria Susana Cummins

Class of 1845

  • Popular author
  • Her 1st novel, "The Lamplighter," was an international bestseller in 1854 & became widely popular in stage adaptations

William LeBaron Jenney

Class of 1846

  • Engineer & architect
  • Designer of Civil War fortifications & encampments
  • Chicago structural engineer & architect [1867-1900]
  • Developer of steel frame construction and fireproofing for tall buildings
  • Designer, Home Insurance Building [1884-], world’s 1st true skyscraper

Joseph Mansfield Brown

Class of 1848

  • Captain, Harvard crew
  • Organizer, 1st intercollegiate athletic contest in US: Harvard vs. Yale crew [1852]

William Francis Bartlett

Class of 1854

  • Civil War brigadier general, repeatedly wounded & cited for bravery
  • Taken prisoner, Battle of Petersburg [1864]
  • Famous as an advocate for reconciliation between the North & South following speeches at Harvard’s Memorial Hall [1874] & at Battle of Lexington Centennial observances [1875]
  • Memorial poem by John Greenleaf Whittier [1878], statue by Daniel Chester French erected in Massachusetts State House [1905]

Othniel Charles Marsh

Class of 1856

  • Paleontologist
  • Nephew & protégé of George Peabody
  • Professor of paleontology, Yale [1866 -]
  • Leader, pioneering paleontological expeditions in American West
  • Director, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale [1875-99]

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps II

Class of 1858

  • Novelist & short-story writer
  • Her Civil War novel "The Gates Ajar," an international bestseller [1868-69]

Joseph Ward

Class of 1861

  • Congregational missionary, Dakota Territory [1868-]
  • Organizer, Yankton Academy [1872], founder & 1st president, Yankton College [1881-], 1st in the Upper Mississippi Valley
  • Promoter, South Dakota statehood [-1889]
  • 1 of 2 South Dakota leaders represented in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall [1963]

Richard Theodore Greener

Class of 1865

  • First African-American graduate of Andover & then Harvard
  • Professor, USC [1873-77]
  • Dean, Howard University Law School [1879-98], Republican campaign orator [1876-84]
  • Leader in effort to build Grant’s Tomb in New York [1885-92]
  • US diplomat & commercial agent, Vladivostok [1898-1905]

Joseph Hardy Neesima

Class of 1867

  • First Asian to graduate from Phillips Academy
  • Founder, Doshisha University, Kyoto [1875]

William Stewart Halsted

Class of 1869

  • Leading American surgeon of the late 19th century
  • 1st chief of surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital [1889-], Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical School [1892-]
  • Founder of the residence training system
  • Pioneer of modern surgical fundamentals
  • Early leader in surgical treatment of breast cancer, arterial aneurysms
  • One of the "Four Doctors" [1905] portrayed by John Singer Sargent

William Henry Moody

Class of 1872

  • Attorney, progressive politician associated with Theodore Roosevelt
  • Junior prosecutor, Lizzie Borden murder trial [1893]
  • Massachusetts Republican congressman [1895-1902]
  • Secretary of the Navy [1902-04]
  • Attorney general [1904-06]
  • Associate justice, US Supreme Court [1906-10]

Charles Monroe Sheldon

Class of 1877

  • Topeka-based Congregational minister, theologian & temperance advocate
  • Leader of the Social Gospel movement
  • Author of "In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?" [1897], since published in 21 languages
  • Still in print, more than 30 million copies have been sold

Walter F. Willcox

Class of 1880

  • Pioneering demographer
  • Professor of economics & statistics, Cornell [1891-31]
  • Co-director, US Census [1900]
  • President, American Statistical Association [1911-12]
  • President, American Economic Association [1915]

Sir Chentung Liang Cheng

Class of 1882

  • Chinese diplomat also known as Pi Yuk Liang
  • First secretary, Chinese Delegation, 60th Jubilee, Queen Victoria [1897]
  • Minister to US [1903-08]
  • Ambassador to Germany [1909-11]

Alfred I. Du Pont

Class of 1882

  • Industrialist, investor & philanthropist
  • A founder & shaper of the modern DuPont Company [1902-17]
  • Politically progressive
  • Founder, Nemours Foundation [1936], devoted to improving children’s health

Henry L. Stimson

Class of 1883

  • Attorney & statesman
  • US attorney, NY Southern District [1906-10]
  • Secretary of war [1911-13]
  • Governor general, the Philippines [1927-29]
  • Secretary of state [1929-33]
  • Secretary of war [1940-45]
  • President, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees [1935-46]

Edwin V. Morgan

Class of 1886

  • Diplomat, serving as US minister/ambassador to Cuba, Uruguay & Paraguay, Portugal & Brazil [1910-34]
  • Leading promoter of Inter-American comity

Henry Solon Graves

Class of 1888

  • Forester & conservationist
  • organizer, Yale School of Forestry [1901]
  • Co-founder, US Forest Service
  • Director, US Forest Service [1910-20]
  • Dean, Yale School of Forestry [1922-39]
  • Leader in efforts to save California Redwoods
  • Namesake, Henry Solon Graves Grove, Redwoods State Park [1926]

Charles Greeley Abbot

Class of 1891

  • Astrophysicist
  • Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [1906-44]
  • Secretary, Smithsonian Institution [1928-44]
  • Pioneer in developing solar energy power production [patents ca. 1922-73]
  • Recipient, National Academy of Sciences Draper Medal [1910], American Academy of Arts & Sciences Rumford Prize [1915]
  • Namesake, the Moon’s Abbot Crater

John Campbell Greenway

Class of 1892

  • Business executive & mining engineer
  • Much-decorated participant in the Spanish-American War, as a Rough Rider, & First World War
  • Ultimately promoted to rank of brigadier general [1922]
  • Developed iron mines, Western Mesabi Range, Minnesota [1905-10]
  • Developed copper mines, Ajo, Arizona [1911-25]
  • Leader in efforts to dam Colorado River as water supply for Arizona
  • Statue by Gutzon Borglum in Statuary Hall, US Capitol

Hiram Bingham

Class of 1894

  • Explorer, archeologist, aviator & politician
  • Rediscovered Machu Picchu [1911]
  • Lieutenant governor of Connecticut [1922-24]
  • Republican senator from Connecticut [1924-33]
  • Promoter of aviation

Marlborough Churchill

Class of 1896

  • Brigadier general
  • Head of military intelligence during World War I
  • Instrumental in founding MI-8, America’s first peacetime cryptanalytic organization [1920s]

George Hoyt Whipple

Class of 1896

  • Pathologist & medical researcher
  • Discoverer of lipodystrophia intestinalis [1907], since known as Whipple’s disease
  • Recipient, Nobel Prize [1934] for research leading to a cure for pernicious anemia

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1900s

William Clarence Matthews

Class of 1901

  • Outstanding shortstop for Andover & Harvard, barred from Major League baseball because he was black
  • As an attorney, associated with Booker T. Washington & later Marcus Garvey
  • A Republican, Matthews served as a US Attorney [1913-] & was appointed to the Justice Department by Calvin Coolidge [1925]
  • Presented a list of demands for the "recognition of colored Republicans"
  • Namesake, Ivy League Baseball Championship Trophy [2006]

John Gould Fletcher

Class of 1904

  • Poet, author
  • Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [1939, 1946]

Robert B. Stearns

Class of 1906

  • Founder, Bear, Stearns & Company, investment bank & brokerage house [1923-]

Elizabeth Watts

Class of 1908

  • Teacher / director / trustee, Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky [1909-93]
  • "Kentucky Colonel" by vote of state legislature
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1982]

Henry Wise Hobson

Class of 1910

  • Episcopal bishop, Southern Ohio [1930-59]
  • Dubbed "the fighting bishop," Hobson was a decorated veteran of World War I & the leader & spokesman for Fight for Freedom, Inc. [1939-41], a national organization advocating US entry into World War II
  • President, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees [1947-66]

Edwin Cohn

Class of 1911

  • Biochemist & medical researcher, specialist in chemistry of proteins & human blood fractionation
  • Developer of practical cure for pernicious anemia [1928] based on research begun by George Whipple [PA1896]
  • Developer of systems for the utilization of all components of blood for medical transfusions, work of critical importance during World War II
  • Coauthor "Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides" [1943]

Adam Gimbel

Class of 1912

  • Retailer
  • As president of Saks Fifth Avenue [1926-69], created the nation’s largest specialty chain

George Peter Murdock

Class of 1915

  • Anthropologist & innovator in cross-cultural research
  • Chair, Yale Anthropology Department
  • Chair, National Academy of Sciences, Behavioral Sciences National Research Council [1964-]
  • Founder, Ethnology journal
  • Author, "Social Structure" [1949], "Ethnographic Atlas" [1967], "Atlas of World Cultures" [1981]
  • Recipient, Viking Medal [1949], Huxley Medal [1971]

Elisabeth Luce Moore

Class of 1919

  • Leader in social service agencies, educational institutions & philanthropy [1930s-90s]
  • Henry Luce Foundation Board of Trustees [1936-99]
  • Chair, USO National Council, WWII
  • President, United Board for Christian Education in Asia
  • Chair, US Institute of International Education
  • Chair, YMCA foreign division
  • Chair, Institute for International Education
  • Chair, Board of Trustees, State University System of New York [1968-78]

Humphrey Bogart

Class of 1920

  • Academy Award-winning movie actor, with leading roles in "Petrified Forest" [1936], "Casablanca" [1943], "The Big Sleep" [1946], "Treasure of Sierra Madre" [1948], "The African Queen" [1951]
  • Ranked by the American Film Institute “Hollywood’s greatest male film star” [1999]

Joseph Cornell

Class of 1921

  • Surrealist assemblagist & creator of shadow boxes [active 1930s-60s]

Benjamin Spock

Class of 1921

  • Pediatrician, influential author and authority on child rearing, "Baby & Child Care" [1946 et seq.]
  • Social activist
  • Member of the all-Yale crew team that took gold at the 1924 Olympics
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1980]

Emilio Collado

Class of 1927

  • Treasury & State department economist [1934-44]
  • Member, American negotiating team, Bretton Woods Conference [1944]
  • 1st US executive director, World Bank [1947]

Gerhard Gesell

Class of 1928

  • Washington attorney & judge
  • chair, presidential Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services [1961-67]
  • US district judge, Washington, DC [1967-93]
  • Presided Pentagon Papers trial [1971], Watergate break-in trials [1972-73], Iran-Contra trials[1986]

Thomas M. Lasater

Class of 1929

  • Rancher & cattle breeder, Texas & Colorado
  • Developer of Beefmaster cattle [1931-], recognized as a distinct breed by the USDA [1954]

Despina Plakias Messinesi

Class of 1929

  • Editor, Vogue magazine [1941-92]

Donna Brace Ogilvie

Class of 1930

  • Chair, National Board, Girls Inc. [1972-]
  • Benefactor, Girls Inc., Stanford Hospital, Yale University, Abbot Academy & Phillips Academy
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1997]

William S. Vickrey

Class of 1931

  • Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics [1996] for economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information

Harlan Cleveland

Class of 1934

  • Rhodes Scholar [1938-39]
  • Assistant secretary of state for international organizations [1961-65]
  • US ambassador to NATO [1965-69]
  • President, University of Hawaii [1969-74]
  • Director, Aspen Institute Program in International Affairs [1974-80]
  • Founding dean, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota [1980-90]
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1968]

Marion Harper Jr.

Class of 1934

  • Ad man
  • Developer of advertising research & the competitive agency system
  • President/chair, McCann-Erickson [1948-60]
  • Founder, president & chairman, Interpublic Group [1961-68], world’s largest P.R. firm

William Knowles

Class of 1935

  • Chemist
  • Nobel Prize, chemistry [2002] for development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis

Robert C. Macauley

Class of 1941

  • Founder, AmeriCares [1982] international relief agency, which has provided more than $7 billion in aid
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1989]
  • Recipient, US Government Jefferson Award for Public Service [1991]

George H. W. Bush

Class of 1942

  • Texas Republican congressman [1967-71]
  • United Nations ambassador [1971-73]
  • Chairman, Republican National Committee [1972-74]
  • Chief, US Liaison Office, People’s Republic of China [1974-76]
  • CIA director [1976-77]
  • Vice president [1981-89]
  • 41st President of the United States [1989-93]
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1981]
  • Coauthor, "A World Transformed" [1998]
  • Author, "All the Best" [1999]
  • Namesake, aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [commissioned 2009]

Thomas J. Hudner Jr.

Class of 1943

  • Navy aviator
  • Recipient, Medal of Honor for action in the Korean War [1950]
  • Commissioner, Massachusetts Dept. of Veterans Services [1991-99]

Jack Lemmon

Class of 1943

  • Movie actor, comedian best known for roles in "Mr. Roberts" [1955], "Some Like It Hot" [1959], "The Apartment" [1960] & "Save the Tiger" [1973]
  • Academy Award, Best Supporting Actor [1955], Best Actor in a Leading Roll [1973]
  • Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor Award [1979, -82]
  • Golden Globe Award, Best Comedy Actor [1959, -60, -72]

Julia Tavares de Alvarez

Class of 1944

  • Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations [1978-], known as "the Ambassador on Aging"

Lawrence Kohlberg

Class of 1945

  • Psychologist & theorist on moral development
  • Creator, "Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development" [1958]
  • Professor, U Chicago, Harvard [1961-87]
  • Namesake, Kohlberg Memorial Lecture [1988]

Otis Chandler

Class of 1946

  • Publisher, Los Angeles Times [1960-80], winner, Pulitzer public service prizes [1966, -69, -71, -76, -78]
  • Called "the last great 20th-century newspaper publisher"

Winthrop D. Jordan

Class of 1949

  • Historian and professor of history
  • Author, "White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812" [1968], winner, Parkman Prize, Bancroft Prize, Emerson Award & National Book Award for History [1969], Jules & Frances Landry Prize [1992]

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Class of 1949

  • Anthropologist specializing in African tribal societies & author on diverse subjects, including "The Harmless People" [1959], "The Old Way: A Story of the First People" [2006], "The Hidden Life of Dogs" [1993]

Robert H. Pelletreau Jr.

Class of 1953

  • US Ambassador to Bahrain [1979-80], Tunisia [1987-91], Egypt [1991-93]
  • Assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs [1994-97]

Henry E. Riggs

Class of 1953

  • Professor of engineering, Stanford
  • Founder, Stanford Institute for Management of High-Technology Companies [1975-83]
  • President, Harvey Mudd College [1988-97]
  • Founding president, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences [1997-2003]

Frank Stella

Class of 1954

  • Painter, printmaker & sculptor [1950s-]
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1979]

Thomas Hale Jr.

Class of 1955

  • Medical missionary in Nepal [1970-]
  • author, "Living Stones of the Himalayas" [1993], "On Being a Missionary" [1995], "On the Far Side of Liglig Mountain" [2000]
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1980]

George Bundy Smith

Class of 1955

  • Jurist
  • Associate justice, New York Supreme Court [1980-86], associate justice, New York Court of Appeals [1992-2006]
  • Author, Appeals Court decision in "People v. LaValle" [2004] which terminated the death penalty in New York State
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [1985]

Constance Brinckerhoff

Class of 1959

  • Molecular biologist specializing in matrix metalloproteinases
  • Professor, Dartmouth Medical School & associate dean of science [1991-]
  • Recipient, National Institute of Health Merit Award
  • Master, American College of Rheumatology [2008]

William Bradford Reynolds

Class of 1960

  • Attorney
  • Assistant solicitor general & assistant attorney general for civil rights, Reagan Administration [1981-88]
  • Represented government before the Supreme Court in the Bob Jones University civil rights case [1982]

William A. "Bill" Drayton

Class of 1961

  • Social entrepreneur
  • As EPA assistant administrator [1977-81], launched emissions trading
  • Founder/president/CEO/chairman, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public [1980-]
  • Chairman, American Environmental Safety Council [1981-85]
  • Recipient, MacArthur Fellowship [1984-89], Public Service Achievement Award, Common Cause [1999], Fuess Award [2009]

Sally Mandel

Class of 1962

  • Author, best-selling romance novels
  • "Change of Heart" [1979], "Portrait of a Married Woman" [1986], "Out of the Blue" [2002]

George W. Bush

Class of 1964

  • Managing general partner, Texas Rangers baseball team [1989-94]
  • Governor of Texas [1995-2000]
  • 43rd President of the United States [2001-2009]

Mary Wilkes Eubanks

Class of 1965

  • Anthropologist & botanist
  • Senior research scientist, Duke University
  • Researcher on maize origin, evolution & improvement
  • President, Sun Dance Genetics [2002-]
  • Recipient, Fuess Award [2000]

Jeffrey K. MacNelly

Class of 1965

  • Cartoonist
  • Creator of comic strip "Shoe" [1977]
  • Recipient Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons [1972, -78 & -85], Fuess Award [1979], Overseas Press Club Thomas Nast Award [1985] for cartoons on international affairs

Julia Alvarez

Class of 1967

  • Novelist, poet & essayist
  • Author, "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" [1991], "In a Time of Butterflies" [1994], "Once Upon a Quinceanera" [2007]

Ann McKeever Hatch

Class of 1967

  • Founder & director, Capp Street art installations project, San Francisco [1983-]
  • Founder, Oxbow School, Napa, CA, high-school arts immersion program [1997-]

Dorothy L. Cheney

Class of 1968

  • Primate researcher, baboon social behavior & language
  • Biology professor, U Pennsylvania
  • Coauthor, "Baboon Metaphysics" [2007]

Wendy Ewald

Class of 1969

  • Photographer
  • Pioneer in photography collaborations with children around the world
  • Founder, Literacy through Photography Program [1990]
  • Fellow, Duke Center for Documentary Studies
  • Recipient, Lyndhurst Prize [1986], MacArthur Fellowship [1992]
  • "Wendy Ewald: Secret Games, Collaborative Works with Children 1969–1999" published 2000

Bill Belichick

Class of 1971

  • National Football League coach [1975-]
  • Head coach, Cleveland Browns [1985-90], head coach, New England Patriots [2000-], with a perfect 16-0 season 2007 & Super Bowl wins in 2001, 2003 & 2004
  • named NFL Coach of the Year 2003, 2007

Susan McCouch

Class of 1971

  • Plant geneticist specializing in increasing rice yields
  • International Rice Research Institute [1990-95]
  • Professor, plant breeding & genetics, Cornell [1995-]
  • Recipient, Thai Golden Sickle Award [2007]

Maud Lavin

Class of 1972

  • Art & cultural historian
  • Author, "The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch" [1993], "Clear New World: Culture, Politics & Graphic Design" [2001]

Peter Sellars

Class of 1975

  • Opera & stage director
  • Recipient, MacArthur Award [1983], Lillian Gish Award [2005]

Stacy Schiff

Class of 1978

  • Biographer
  • "Vera…" [1999], winner, Pulitzer Prize [2000]
  • "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" [2005], winner, George Washington Book Prize [2006]

Maro Chermayeff

Class of 1980

  • Documentary filmmaker & producer
  • "The Kindness of Strangers" [1998], "Julliard" [2003], producer & director, 10-hour PBS documentary "Carrier" [2008], recipient, Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography [2008]

Juan Mario Laserna Jaramillo

Class of 1986

  • General director of Public Credit, Colombia (1999 - 2002)
  • Director, Central Bank of Columbia [2005-]

Duncan Sheik

Class of 1988

  • Singer-songwriter, composer
  • "Barely Breathing" [1996]
  • Composer, musical "Spring Awakening," winner Tony Award for Best Score [2007]

Hafsat Abiola

Class of 1992

  • Nigerian human rights activist
  • Executive director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
  • Recipient, Global Leaders of Tomorrow Award, Davos Economic Forum [2000]
  • Ashoka Innovators for the Public Fellow [2003]

Charles Forelle

Class of 1998

  • Journalist
  • Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [2007], Wall Street Journal coverage of corporate backdating of stock options

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2000s

Christopher R. Hughes

Class of 2002

  • Cofounder and spokesman, Facebook [2004-2007]
  • Coordinator, online organizing, Barack Obama presidential campaign [2007-2008]

Caroline Lind

Class of 2002

  • All-American, Princeton Women’s Crew Team [2004, 2006]
  • NCAA women’s 8 gold medalist [2006]
  • Member, US National Crew Team, winner, Remenham Challenge Cup, Henley [2006]
  • Gold medalist, women’s 4 & 8, US National Championships, & bronze in pairs [2007]
  • World championship gold medalist, women’s 8 [2006 & 2007]
  • Gold medalist, US Olympic Crew Team Women’s 8 [2008]

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