List of famous Phillips Academy alumni

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The following is a list of famous past students of Phillips Academy and/or Abbot Academy (Phillips coeducated in 1973 by merging with its sister school).

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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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)

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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)
Michael Beschloss, historian (graduated 1973)
H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights 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 (graduated 1894)
George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President (graduated 1942)
George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President (graduated 1964)
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (graduated 1971)

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Isaac N. Carleton, Educator and a President of the American Institute of Instruction (graduated 1855)
Lincoln Chafee, Junior 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)
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)
Frank Converse, actor (graduated 1956)
Joseph Cornell, sculptor (graduated 1921)
Otis Chandler, Former publisher, Los Angeles Times (graduated 1946)

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John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times (graduated 1960
Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., advocate for rights of disabled people (graduated 1949)
Dana Delany, actress (graduated 1974)
Bill Drayton, noted entrepreneur who coined the phrase social entrepreneur.
Carroll Dunham, artist (graduated 1967)
Teddy Dunn, actor (graduated 1999)

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David B. Ensor, CNN correspondent (graduated 1969)
Walker Evans, photographer (graduated 1922)

[edit] F

Thomas Foley, current United States Ambassador to Ireland. (graduated 1971)
John Murray Forbes, railroad entrepreneur

[edit] G

Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management (graduated 1964)
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University and seventh MLB Commissioner (graduated 1956)
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)

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Peter Halley, artist (graduated 1971)
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)
Chris Hughes, One of the creators of the social networking site Facebook (graduated 2001)

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

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

[edit] K

Britton Keeshan, youngest person to climb the Seven Summits (graduated 2000)
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, Prince of Pakistan (graduated 1990)
Victor K. Kiam, famous businessman and owner of the New England Patriots (graduated 1944)
Tracy Kidder, author (graduated 1963)
William S. Knowles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 (graduated 1935)
Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologist (graduated 1945)

[edit] L

Ring Lardner Jr., noted screenwriter
Franklin L. Lavin is the current Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce. Lavin used to be the United States Ambassador to Singapore. (graduated 1975)
Jack Lemmon, actor (graduated 1943)
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff and assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush. (graduated 1968)
Gordon Lish, editor, author, teacher. (graduated 1952)
Alfred Lee Loomis, father of ultrasonics (graduated 1905)

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Thomas C. Mendenhall, U.S. physicist 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

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

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

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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)

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

[edit] R

Charles F.C. Ruff, judge who defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial in 1999. (graduated 1956)

[edit] S

Stacy Schiff, journalist, biographer, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov, (graduated ...)
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., associated editor 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)
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)
William Irvin Swoope, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania

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William Davis Taylor, publisher and Chairman of the Board of the Boston Globe (graduated 1927)
Joseph Teller, author (graduated 1924)
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)