List of Hopkins School people

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The following is a list of Hopkins School people in alphabetical order. This includes alumni and/or faculty from Hopkins in any of its past forms (Hopkins School, Hopkins Grammar School). ^[1][2][3][4]

Name	Class of	Famous for
Henry Baldwin	1793	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Roger Sherman Baldwin	1807	U.S. Senator, Governor of Connecticut
Simeon Eben Baldwin	1857	Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor of Connecticut
Wilson S. Bissell	1865	United States Postmaster General
Andy Bloch[5]	1987	Professional poker player
Edward Bouchet	1870	Physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
Guido Calabresi	1949	US Court of Appeals judge, Dean of the Yale Law School
Mei Chin	1993	Novelist and food critic
Walter Camp	1876	Founder of modern American football
John Davenport	n/a	Early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school Regarded as Hopkins' co-founder
Timothy Dwight V	1845	President of Yale University
Henry W. Edwards	1793	U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut
William Eno	1877	Road safety advocate and inventor
Henry Farnam	1870	Railroad president
Orris Ferry	1840	U.S. Congressman, Senator
Ernest Flagg	1876	Architect
Josiah Willard Gibbs	1854	Mathematical physicist
Chauncey Goodrich	1804	Editor of the Webster's Dictionary
Arthur Hadley	1872	President of Yale University
John Hays Hammond	1873	Mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers
James Hillhouse	1769	U.S. Congressman, Senator
Edward Hopkins	n/a	Hopkins' first benefactor, willed Hopkins School its starting money Regarded as Hopkins' co-founder
William Hoppin	1824	Governor of Rhode Island
Edward House	1877	Diplomat, political advisor
William Henry Hunt	1874	Federal and State judge, Territorial governor of Puerto Rico
William Morris Hunt	1834	Painter
Jared Ingersoll	1762	Delegate to the Continental Congress Signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania Federalist vice presidential candidate
Charles Ives	1894	Composer and Insurance executive
Harold Hongju Koh	1971	Dean of the Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
Paul MacCready	1943	Aeronautical engineer
John Malone	1959	Telecommunications mogul
Joseph Mansfield	1817	American Civil War Major General (posthumous promotion)
Henry Murphy	1895	Architect, Designed Hopkins' early campus at its current location and Baldwin Hall
Edwards Pierrepont	1833	New York Supreme Court justice Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain United States Attorney General
Abraham Pierson	1664	First rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School
Benjamin Silliman	1833	Early professor of science
Alfred Terry	1838	American Civil War Major General, Military commander of the Dakota Territory
George Totten	1826	Engineer for railroads and the Panama Canal
Henry Hotchkiss Townshend	1893	Lawyer and historian
Theodore Winthrop	1841	Author
Theodore Dwight Woolsey	1816	President of Yale University

[edit] References

1. ^ Various promotional materials with lists of graduates by Hopkins School archivist Thom Peters, ca 2005. Retrieved in 2006
2. ^ Part 2 of Celebrity Prep Schools list last updated on November 24, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
3. ^ Harold Koh speaks to Parent Council on the Hopkins School website from October 28, 2004. Retrieved March 31, 2006.
4. ^ From Hopkins' Baldwin Hall to China's Memorial Hall" for Views on the Hill Spring/Summer '06 by Thom Peters.
5. ^ Andy Bloch's Myspace from MySpace.com. Retrieved February 3, 2007.