List of Deerfield alumni

The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted by decade of birth. See also .

1780s

* George Grennell, Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts

1790s

* Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College

1810s

* George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian

1820s

* Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor

1860s

* William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut

1910s

* Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
* Budd Schulberg (born 1914), screenwriter and novelist
* Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
* Leonard Meeker (born 1916), U.S. Ambassador to Romania
* Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
* H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), academic and activist
* Edwin W. Martin (1917–1991), U.S. Ambassador to Burma
* John Edward Sawyer (1917–1995), president of Williams College
* Robert Morgenthau (born 1919), Manhattan district attorney

1920s

* James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
* William Zinsser (born 1920), writer
* Gordon MacRae (1921-1986), singer and actor
* Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
* John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
* Thomas Keating (born 1923), monk
* Arthur Nims (born 1923), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
* William Stoltzfus, Jr. (born 1924), U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman
* William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006), minister, attended without graduating
* John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
* Ogden R. Reid (born 1925), U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
* Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize
* John Ashbery (born 1927), poet
* James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
* Carl Richard Woese (born 1928), Major American Biologist, Discovered Archeabacteria
* Allen Stack (1928–1999), Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
* John Gunther, Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book "Death Be Not Proud"
* B.K. Johnson (1929-2001), heir to King Ranch and great grand son of Richard King

1930s

* Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
* John McPhee (born 1931), writer
* Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
* Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
* Richard Mellon Scaife (born 1932), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
* Robert Hazard Edwards (born 1934), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
* Thomas C. Reed (born 1934), Secretary of the Air Force
* Warren Zimmermann (1935–2004), final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
* Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
* Joseph Verner Reed (born 1937), U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
* Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
* Eric Widmer (born 1939), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy

1940s

* David H. Koch (born 1940), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
* David Childs (born 1941), architect
* Bruce Faulkner Caputo (born 1943), U.S. Congressman from New York
* Robert Beavers (born 1949), experimental filmmaker
* Pete Varney (born 1949), Major League Baseball player

1950s

* Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
* Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
* Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host
* Jeffrey Bewkes (born 1953) CEO of Time Warner
* Nigel Newton(born 1955), Publisher, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
* Kerry Emanuel (born 1955), scholar
* Buddy Teevens (born 1956), Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
* Ken Bentsen, Jr. (born 1959), U.S. Congressman from Texas

1960s

* Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar
* King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
* Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. (born 1964), philanthropist
* Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
* Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
* Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
* Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
* Chris Waddell (born 1968), Gold Medalist Paralympic skier
* Andrew Trees (born 1968), author of "Academy X"

1970s

* Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
* Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
* Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
* Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor

1980s

* Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), Bronze Medalist U.S. women's hockey player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

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