List of Deerfield alumni

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

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 1780s 2 1790s 3 1810s 4 1820s 5 1860s 6 1910s 7 1920s 8 1930s 9 1940s 10 1950s 11 1960s 12 1970s 13 1980s 14 References

[edit] 1780s

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

[edit] 1790s

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

[edit] 1810s

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

[edit] 1820s

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

[edit] 1860s

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1920s

• James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
• William Zinsser (born 1920), writer
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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"

[edit] 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

[edit] 1980s

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

[edit] References

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