List of Phillips Academy alumni

The following is a list of famous past students of Phillips Academy (also known as Phillips Andover and Andover) and of the former Abbot Academy (Phillips became coeducational in 1973 by merging with its sister school).

Andover alumni are often called Old Phillipians.

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A

*Hafsat Abiola, Nigerian political activist; winner, 1999 Women to Watch award, Association of Women's Development (graduated 1992)
*Julia Alvarez, author (graduated Abbot 1967)
*Adelbert Ames, Jr., scientist
*Carl Andre, minimalist artist (graduated 1953)
*Ernie Adams, Director of Football Research, New England Patriots (graduated 1971)

B

*Sullivan Ballou, Union Soldier during the American Civil War (graduated 1849)
*James Phinney Baxter, former President of Williams College and Pulitzer Prize Winner (graduated 1918)
*Willow Bay, CNN news anchor (graduated 1981)
*Bill Belichick, coach of New England Patriots. (graduated 1971)
*James Bell, New Hampshire politician and lawyer
*Michael Beschloss, historian (graduated 1973)
*Hiram Bingham III, Archaeologist; rediscovered ancient ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru (graduated 1894)
*H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, author of "" and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist (graduated 1972)
*Les Blank, award-winning independent documentary film maker (graduated 1954)
*Humphrey Bogart, actor (1918) (Expelled)
*L. Paul Bremer, (graduated 1959)
*Richard Brodhead, President of Duke University (graduated 1964)
*Edgar Rice Burroughs, author (Student until 1894) (Transferred to MMA)
*George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President (graduated 1942)
*George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President (graduated 1964) [" [http://www.bushchildhoodhome.org/bush_history.html History and research] ." "George W. Bush Childhood Home".]
*Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (graduated 1971)

C

*Isaac N. Carleton, Educator and a President of the American Institute of Instruction (graduated 1855)
*Jeff Carleton, writer (graduated 1984)
*Michael Copley, musician
*Lincoln Chafee, former Senator of Rhode Island (graduated 1971)
*Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times (graduated 1946)
*Sarah Chayes, expert in religious studies and former Kandahar field director (graduated 1980)
*Christian Clemenson, an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor (graduated 1976) ["Boston Legal" biography at http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=001654&type=clemenson]
*Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador NATO under President Lyndon B. Johnson (graduated 1934)
*Raymond Charles Clevenger III, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (graduated 1955)
*William Sloane Coffin, Reverend and Peace Activist (graduated 1942)
*Donald B. Cole, Instructor in History and Dean, Phillips Exeter (graduated 1940)
*Frank Converse, actor (graduated 1956)
*Joseph Cornell, sculptor (graduated 1921)
*Joseph Cooley, NBDL basketball player (graduated 2004)

D

*Lucy Danziger, Editor in Chief of SELF Magazine (graduated 1978)
*John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times (graduated 1960
*Benjamin Darrow, New York District Attorney (graduated 1879)
*Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., advocate for rights of disabled people (graduated 1949)
*Dana Delany, actress (graduated 1974)
*Zak DeOssie, football player for the New York Giants (graduated 2003)
*Bill Drayton, noted entrepreneur who coined the phrase social entrepreneur.
*Carroll Dunham, artist (graduated 1967)
*Teddy Dunn, actor (graduated 1999)

E

*Jesse Ehrenfeld, physician at Harvard Medical School
*David B. Ensor, CNN correspondent (graduated 1969)
*Walker Evans, photographer (graduated 1922)

F

*Charles B. Finch, businessman and political activist.
*Kathryn Finney, author (summer 1992)
*Thomas C. Foley, current United States Ambassador to Ireland. (graduated 1971)
*John Murray Forbes, railroad entrepreneur
*Hollis Frampton, avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, and theoretician. (Attended 1951 to 1954; never received diploma)
*Peter Franchot, State Comptroller of Maryland.

G

*Robert A. Gardner, two-time U.S. Amateur golf champion
*Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management (graduated 1964)
*Isaac Wheeler Geer, Railroad Executive
*A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University and seventh MLB Commissioner (graduated 1956)
*David Graeber, a renowned Anarchist and professor of Anthropology.
*Anthony Grafton, noted scholar (graduated 1967)
*Richard Theodore Greener, first black to graduate from Harvard College. (graduate 1865)
*David L. Gunn, former President of Amtrak (graduated 1955)

H

*Lon Haber, actor (graduated 1995)
*Peter Halley, artist (graduated 1971)
*William Halsted, M.D., Surgeon, Johns Hopkins Hospital (graduated 1870)
*Walter H. Haydock, Jr., Officer, United States Marine Corps (graduated 2004)
*Brian Henson, President of Jim Henson Productions (graduated 1982)
*Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., author (graduated 1825)
*Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient (graduated 1943)
*Angela Hur, author (graduated 1998) [citation|title=Class Notes, Class of 1998|date=Spring/Summer 2007|accessdate=2008-03-14|last=Niarchos|first=Zoe|publisher=Phillips Academy|url=http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/PAA/cpages/chapterpage.jsp?chapter=38&org=PAA]
*Chris Hughes, co-founder of the social networking site Facebook, Online Technology Guru, Barack Obama Presidential Campaign (graduated 2002)

I

*Robert Ingersoll, former United States Deputy Secretary of State from 1974 to 1976 under both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. (graduated 1933)

J

*Thomas H. Jackson, former President of the University of Rochester. (graduated 1968)
*Clay Johnson III, deputy director of the United States Office of Management and Budget. (graduated 1964)

K

*Charles W. Kendall, U.S. Representative, lawyer, newspaper editor
*John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy (graduated 1979)
*Patrick J. Kennedy, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (graduated 1986)
*Richard Kerry, father of John Kerry
*Vanessa Kerry, daughter of John Kerry (graduated 1995)
*Prince Rahim Aga Khan, Spiritual leader from Pakistan (graduated 1990)
*Victor K. Kiam, famous businessman and owner of the New England Patriots (graduated 1944)
*Dow Kim, former Executive President at Merrill Lynch (graduate 1979
*Tracy Kidder, author (graduated 1963)
*William S. Knowles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 (graduated 1935)
*Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologist (graduated 1945)

L

*Ring Lardner Jr., noted screenwriter
*Frank Lavin, current Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce (graduated 1975)
*Jack Lemmon, actor (graduated 1943)
*Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, Ambassador of China to the United States (graduated 1881)
*I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former lawyer, government official, policy advisor, novelist, and convicted felon whose prison sentence was commuted. (graduated 1968)
*Gordon Lish, editor, author, teacher. (graduated 1952)
*Alfred Lee Loomis, father of ultrasonics (graduated 1905)

M

*Vance C. McCormick, an American politician and prominent businessman; chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles.
*Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian), expert of collegiate rowing and former President of Smith College. (graduated 1928)
*Thomas Mesereau, attorney (clients include Robert Blake and Michael Jackson) (graduated 1969)
*John Marsh, first school teacher in old NW Territory and wrote first Dakota Indian dictionary and an early advocate for California joining the American Union (graduated 1818)
*Othniel Charles Marsh, first professor of paleontology at Yale University (graduated 1856)
*Barry R. McCaffrey, teacher of national securities studies at West Point (graduated 1960)
*Marvin Minsky, noted authority on artificial intelligence, robotics and computers.
*William H. Moody, United States Supreme Court justice (graduated 1871)
*Samuel Morse, inventor of telegraph and Morse Code (graduated 1805)
*Paul Monette, author and activist (graduated 1963)
*Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former Executive Director of News Corporation (graduated 1990)

N

*Joseph Hardy Neesima, founder of Doshisha University in Japan (graduated 1867)
*William D. Nordhaus, noted economist (graduated 1959)

O

*Richard H. O'Kane, recipient of the Medal of Honor (graduated 1930)
*Frederick Law Olmsted, architect and designer of Central Park (graduated 1828)

P

*James Parker, soldier during World War I (graduated [1870)
*Gerard Piel, noted journalist (graduated 1933
*David Pingree, MacArthur Award-winning Brown University classicist writer. (graduated 1950).
*Jane Pratt, publisher, founder of "Jane" magazine (graduated 1980)

Q

*Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston, 1823-1828; president of Harvard College, 1828-1845 (graduated 1786)

R

*Henry Riggs Rathbone, congressman and lawyer from Illinois. His parents were with Abraham Lincoln when he was shot at Ford's Theater. (graduated 1887)
*Pete Robbins jazz saxophonist (graduated 1997)
*Charles E. Rounds, Jr., lawyer, professor of law at Suffolk University Law School
*Charles F.C. Ruff, judge who defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in 1999. (graduated 1956)

*Stacy Schiff, journalist, biographer, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov, (graduated 1978)
*G. David Schine, entrepreneur, businessman, political activist
*Cory Schneider, Vancouver Canucks goalie prospect (graduated 2004)
*Herbert Scoville, Nuclear physicist, Los Alamos; chief scientist in President Kennedy's U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (graduated 1933)
*Peter Sellars, theatre director (graduated 1975)
*Robert B. Semple, Jr., associateeditor for the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner for environmental editorial writing. (graduated 1954)
*James Shannon, Former U.S. Representative for Massachusetts and former Massachusetts attorney general. (graduated 1969)
*Duncan Sheik, musician (graduated 1988)
*Charles Monroe Sheldon, leader of the Social Gospel movement (graduated 1879)
*Peter P. Smith, assistant director-general for education at UNESCO and founder of the University of Monterey Bay. (graduated 1964)
*James Spader, actor (1978) (dropped out)
*Lyman Spitzer, physicist (graduated 1931)
*Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (graduated 1921)
*Frank Stella, painter (graduated 1954)
*Henry Stimson, Secretary of State under President Hoover, Secretary of War under Presidents Taft, F. Roosevelt and Truman; Governor-General of the Philippines; member of five presidential administrations (graduated 1883)
*Richard K. Sutherland, U. S. Army general during World War II (graduated 1911)
*William Irvin Swoope, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania

T

*William Davis Taylor, publisher and Chairman of the Board of the "Boston Globe" (graduated 1927)
*Joseph Teller, author (graduated 1924)
*Thomas D. Thacher (1881-1950), one-time Solicitor General of the United States. [ [http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/aboutosg/thacher.htm Thomas D Thacher] , United States Department of Justice. Accessed February 14, 2008.]
*William R. Timken, current United States Ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush. (graduated 1956)
*Ming Tsai, chef and restaurateur (graduated 1982)
*Alexander B. Trowbridge, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president, National Association of Manufacturers (graduated 1947). [Saxon, Wolfgang. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/us/28trowbridge.html?scp=1&sq=Alexander+Buel+Trowbridge&st=nyt "Alexander Trowbridge, 76, Ex-Secretary of Commerce, Dies"] , "The New York Times", April 28, 2006.]
*Oscar Tang

U

*James Ramsey Ullman, avid mountaineer (graduated 1925)

V

*Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox (graduated 1932)

W

*Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
*Theodore Weld, abolitionist (graduated 1820)
*George Hoyt Whipple, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1933 for cure for pernicious anemia.
*Reed Whittemore, poet and twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
*George M. Whitesides, professor of chemistry at Harvard University.
*Olivia Wilde, actor (graduated 2002)
*Dick Wolf, television series creator and producer
*Leonard Woods, fourth president of Bowdoin College
*Philip Wrigley, manufacturer, Wrigley's Chewing Gum (graduated 1915)

Z

*Dan Zanes, member of the Del Fuegos, celebrated children's music writer (graduated 1979)
*Warren Zanes, member of the Del Fuegos, Vice President of Education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (graduated 1983)

References

* [http://www.andover.edu/about_andover/notable_alums.htm List of Alumni from Andover.edu]