List of Boston Latin School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Boston Latin School. Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded in 1635 and located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest public school in the United States.

* Edwin Hale Abbot
* Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
* Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
* Roger Adams
* Samuel Adams, Boston Tea Party organizer
* Ed Ames
* James Barnes
* John L. Bates
* Orson Bean
* Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, abolitionist
* Jonathan Belcher
* Jeremy Belknap
* Bernard Berenson, art historian
* Joseph Young Bergen
* Thomas Bernard
* Leonard Bernstein, composer
* John Blanchard (Pennsylvania) [Jenks, Henry Fitch. Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School, Established in 1635. Boston: Boston Latin Alumni Association, 1886. p. 335]
* Edwin Blashfield
* James Bowdoin
* Joe Boyd Vigil, composer
* Thomas Mayo Brewer [Jenks, Henry Fitch. Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School, Established in 1635. Boston: Boston Latin Alumni Association, 1886. p. 336]
* Phillips Brooks
* Walter A. Brown
* Joseph Stevens Buckminster
* Raymond Bartlett Stevens
* Charles Bulfinch, architect
* Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist
* Mather Byles
* Edward Clarke Cabot [Jenks, Henry Fitch. Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School, Established in 1635. Boston: Boston Latin Alumni Association, 1886. p. 338]
* Godfrey Lowell Cabot
* William Ellery Channing, poet
* William Henry Channing, writer, philosopher
* Francis James Child
* Rufus Choate
* Benjamin Church
* William Conant Church
* James Freeman Clarke
* Richard A. Clarke, White House advisor
* Cid Corman, poet
* Anthony Cortese
* Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer
* Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
* Thomas Cushing
* Timothy Cutler
* Francis Dana
* Charles Henry Davis
* Raimundo de Ovies
* Charles Devens
* Edward Payson Dutton
* Charles William Eliot, Harvard University president
* Samuel Atkins Eliot
* Christine Elise
* Ralph Waldo Emerson, author
* William Eustis
* William Maxwell Evarts
* Edward Everett
* William Everett
* Aaron Feuerstein
* Arthur Fiedler, conductor
* Howard Finn
* Thomas Finneran
* John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald
* John Bernard Fitzpatrick
* Francis Ford (judge)
* James Freeman
* Octavius Brooks Frothingham
* James A. Gallivan
* Grant Gilmore, American legal scholar
* Richard Saltonstall Greenough, sculptor
* Christopher Gore, Massachusetts governor
* Mike Gorman, Boston Celtics announcer
* Benjamin A. Gould
* John Chipman Gray, professor at Harvard Law School
* Edward Everett Hale
* Rebecca Hall folk singer and songwriter
* Robert B. Hall
* Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton
* John Hancock, U.S. statesman
* Nat Hentoff, columnist, civil libertarian
* Henry Lee Higginson
* George Stillman Hillard
* Sidney Homer
* William Hooper
* John Galen Howard, architect
* Charles Hale Hoyt, playwright
* Leavitt Hunt, early photographer, attorney
* Richard Morris Hunt
* Thomas Hutchinson
* Charles Jackson
* Jonathan Jackson
* Joseph Kennedy, entrepreneur, political figure
* John King, journalist, reporter
* Meredith Kline, theologian
* Henry Knox
* Chaim Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch rabbi
* Samuel Pierpoint Langley, scientist, early aviator
* Samuel Langdon, clergyman, educator
* William L. Langer
* John Leverett, soldier, governor
* Howard Lindsay
* James Lloyd
* Edward Lawrence Logan
* James Lovell, educator, statesman
* Augustus Lowell
* Charles Russell Lowell
* Edward G. Loring
* Jonathan Mason
* Cotton Mather, author, minister
* Samuel Joseph May
* Wade McCree, Jr., U.S. solicitor general
* Robert F. McDermott
* Henry A. Miley, Jr.
* Paul Mockapetris, engineer
* Alfred Moore
* John Lothrop Motley
* William Francis Murray
* Barry Newman, actor
* Jack O'Callahan, ice hockey player
* David Ochterlony
* Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist party leader
* Andrew Oliver
* William Parmenter
* Isaac Parker
* Andrew Puopolo, victim of highly publicized 1976 murder
* Robert Treat Paine
* William Dandridge Peck
* Thomas Handasyd Perkins
* Edward Charles Pickering
* Dr. John Phillips
* Wendell Phillips
* William Dummer Powell
* Josiah Quincy II
* Sumner Redstone, entertainment mogul
* Allen Rosenberg
* Frederick P. Salvucci
* George Santayana, philosopher, author
* Marvin Schindler
* Roger Hale Sheaffe
* Samuel Francis Smith
* Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
* Clifton Sprague. U.S. Vice Admiral
* Guy L. Steele, Jr., computer scientist
* William Stimpson
* Solomon Stoddard
* Horatio Storer
* William Stoughton
* William H.H. Stowell, U.S. congressman
* John Hubbard Sturgis
* Charles Sumner, U.S. senator
* Joseph Henry Thayer
* Edward Tuckerman
* Frederic Tudor
* William Tudor
* Isadore Twersky, philosopher
* Royall Tyler
* Andrew Viterbi, engineer, philanthropist
* John Collins Warren
* Archbishop John Joseph Williams
* Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr.
* Theodore White, journalist
* Justin Winsor, writer, historian
* John Winthrop
* Robert Charles Winthrop
* John Joseph Wright
* Daniel Yankelovich, social scientist

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