List of Phillips Academy alumni
The following is a list of famous past students of Phillips Academy (also known as Phillips Andover and Andover) and of the former Abbot Academy (Phillips became coeducational in 1973 by merging with its sister school).
Andover alumni are often called Old Phillipians.
A
- Hafsat Abiola, Nigerian political activist; winner, 1999 Women to Watch award, Association of Women's Development (graduated 1992)
- Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor and Columnist, Newsweek magazine, (graduated 1975)[1]
- Julia Alvarez, author (graduated Abbot 1967)
- Adelbert Ames, Jr., scientist
- Carl Andre, minimalist artist (graduated 1953)
- Ernie Adams, Director of Football Research, New England Patriots (graduated 1971)
- Chris Agee, poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland
B
- Sullivan Ballou, Union Soldier during the American Civil War (graduated 1849)
- Charles Barber, author writing on mental health and psychiatry
- John Barres, current Roman Catholic bishop of Allentown
- 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)
- James Bell, New Hampshire politician and lawyer
- Michael Beschloss, historian (graduated 1973)
- Hiram Bingham III, Archaeologist; rediscovered ancient ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru (graduated 1894)
- 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 (Student until 1894) (Transferred to MMA)
- George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President (graduated 1942)
- George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President (graduated 1964)[2]
- Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (graduated 1971)
C
- Isaac N. Carleton, Educator and a President of the American Institute of Instruction (graduated 1855)
- Norman Cahners, Publisher and athlete, qualified for 1936 Olympics, but boycotted because games were to be held in Nazi Germany.
- Michael Copley, musician
- Lincoln Chafee, former Senator of Rhode Island (graduated 1971)
- Otis Chandler, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times (graduated 1946)
- Thomas Chapin (1957–1998), jazz saxophonist
- Sarah Chayes, expert in religious studies and former Kandahar field director (graduated 1980)
- George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. Pioneer of human genetics (graduated 1972)[3]
- Christian Clemenson, an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor (graduated 1976)[4]
- 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)
- Donald B. Cole, Instructor in History and Dean, Phillips Exeter Academy (graduated 1940)
- Frank Converse, actor (graduated 1956)
- Joseph Cornell, sculptor (graduated 1921)
- Justin Cronin, author (graduated 1980)
- Bill Cunliffe, Grammy Award winning composer, arranger, jazz pianist, (graduated 1974)[5]
- Peter Currie, Netscape executive, investor, Charter Trustee (graduated 1974)[6][7]
D
- Lucy Danziger, Editor in Chief of SELF Magazine (graduated 1978)
- John Darnton, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times (graduated 1960
- Benjamin Darrow, New York District Attorney (graduated 1879)
- Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., advocate for rights of disabled people (graduated 1949)
- Jonathan Dee, author (graduated 1980)
- Dana Delany, actress (graduated 1974)
- Zak DeOssie, football player for the New York Giants (graduated 2003) Super Bowl winning long snapper
- Bill Drayton, noted entrepreneur who coined the phrase social entrepreneur.
- Teddy Dunn, actor (graduated 1999)
E
F
- Charles B. Finch, businessman and political activist.
- Charles Finch, author (graduated 1998)
- Kathryn Finney, author (summer 1992)
- Charles L. Flint, lawyer, educator, first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, fourth president of the University of Massachusetts and one of its original founders. (graduated 1854)
- Thomas C. Foley, former United States Ambassador to Ireland. (graduated 1971)
- John Murray Forbes, railroad entrepreneur and philanthropist who re-established Milton Academy
- Theodore Forstmann, billionaire businessman and philanthropist
- Hollis Frampton, avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, and theoretician. (Attended 1951 to 1954; never received diploma)
- Peter Franchot, State Comptroller of Maryland.
G
- Robert A. Gardner, two-time U.S. Amateur golf champion
- Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management (graduated 1964)
- Isaac Wheeler Geer, Railroad Executive
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University and seventh MLB Commissioner (graduated 1956)
- David Graeber, a professor of Anthropology and Anarchist.
- Anthony Grafton, noted scholar (graduated 1967)
- Richard Theodore Greener, first African-American to graduate from Harvard College. (graduated 1865)
- David L. Gunn, former President of Amtrak (graduated 1955)
- Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduated 1968)
H
- Peter Halley, artist (graduated 1971)
- George Hamlin, tenor; Victor recording artist (1905–1916), Class of 1889[9]
- Julian Hatton, abstract landscape artist, (graduated 1974)
- 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)
- Angela Hur, author (graduated 1998)[10]
- Chris Hughes, co-founder of the social networking site Facebook, Online Technology Guru, Barack Obama Presidential Campaign (graduated 2002)
I
J
K
- Peter Kapetan, Broadway actor, singer, dancer 1956–2008 (graduated 1974)[11]
- Charles W. Kendall, U.S. Representative, lawyer, newspaper editor
- John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy (graduated 1979)
- Patrick J. Kennedy, Former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (graduated 1986)
- Prince Rahim Aga Khan, Son of the Aga Khan IV (graduated 1990)
- Victor K. Kiam, businessman and owner of the New England Patriots (graduated 1944)
- Tracy Kidder, author (graduated 1963), Pulitzer Prize for Soul of the New Machine (1982)[12]
- Earl Killian, computer scientist with 25+ patents (graduated 1974)[13][14]
- William S. Knowles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 (graduated 1935)
- Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologist (graduated 1945)
L
- Ring Lardner Jr., Academy Award winning screenwriter of M*A*S*H, member of the Hollywood Ten
- Frank Lavin, current Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce (graduated 1975)
- Alan J. Leavitt, light harness horse breeder, author. (graduated 1963)
- George Ayres Leavitt, early New York publisher (graduated 1840)
- Gary Lee, journalist, travel writer (graduated 1974)[15][16]
- Nate Lee, writer, senior editor of Newcity in Chicago (graduated 1974)[17][18]
- Jack Lemmon, actor (graduated 1943)
- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former lawyer, government official, policy advisor, novelist. (graduated 1968)
- Gordon Lish, editor, author, teacher. (graduated 1952)
- Alfred Lee Loomis, father of ultrasonics (graduated 1905)
M
- Vance C. McCormick, an American politician and prominent businessman; chair of the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles.
- Scott Mead, an investment banker and a photographer; Former Partner and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company (Graduated 1973)
- Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian), expert of collegiate rowing 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)
- Laurel Massé, founding member of Manhattan Transfer, (expelled 1969)
- Charles A. Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State (graduated 1935)
- Barry R. McCaffrey, teacher of national securities studies at West Point (graduated 1960)
- Priscilla Martel, restauranteur and food expert (graduated 1974)[19]
- Jonathan Meath, award–winning children's TV producer and famous Santa Claus (graduated 1974)[20][21]
- Marvin Minsky, noted authority on artificial intelligence, robotics and computers.
- William H. Moody, United States Supreme Court justice (graduated 1871)
- Emily Moore, American poet (graduated 1995)
- 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 (graduated 1990)
- Charles B. G. Murphy, Writer and Philanthropist Yale (graduated 1923) Honored with the Charles B. G. Murphy professorship
N
O
P
Q
R
Albert Santana president
S
- Stacy Schiff, journalist, biographer, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov (graduated 1978)
- G. David Schine, entrepreneur, businessman, political activist
- Cory Schneider, Vancouver Canucks Backup Goaltender (graduated 2004)
- Peter Sellars, theatre director (graduated 1975); MacArthur Award (1983)
- Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate 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 first president of the California State University, Monterey Bay. (graduated 1964)
- James Spader, actor (Class of 1978) (dropped out)
- 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
- Richard K. Sutherland, U. S. Army general during World War II (graduated 1911)
- William Irvin Swoope, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
T
U
V
W
- Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
- Gar Waterman, sculptor (graduated 1974)[28][29]
- Theodore Weld, abolitionist (graduated 1820)
- George Hoyt Whipple, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1933 for cure for pernicious anemia.
- Reed Whittemore, poet and twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
- George M. Whitesides, professor of chemistry at Harvard University.
- Olivia Wilde, actress (graduated 2002)
- Dick Wolf, television series creator and producer, creator of Law and Order
- Francesca Woodman, photographer
- Leonard Woods, fourth president of Bowdoin College
- Philip Wrigley, manufacturer, Wrigley's Chewing Gum (graduated 1915)
Y
Z
References
- ^ Staff writer (January 24, 2008). "Heffner Adds More Guests for Next Two WPAA Live Political Broadcasts". Phillips Academy. http://www.andover.edu/About/Newsroom/Pages/HeffnerAddsMoreGuestsforNextTwoWPAALivePoliticalBroadcasts.aspx. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
- ^ "History and research." George W. Bush Childhood Home.
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- ^ "Grammy Awards: List of Winners: Music". The New York Times. January 31, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/music/01grammylist.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-06-07. "Instrumental Arrangement ... “West Side Story Medley,” Bill Cunliffe"
- ^ "Yu, Zuckerberg and the Facebook fallout". Reuters. Apr 1, 2009. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout/. Retrieved 2010-10-14. "In a back-to-the-future move, former Netscape CFO Peter Currie will be the key adviser to Facebook about financial matters,"
- ^ Executive profile (2010). "Currie Capital LLC". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=87505&privcapId=23090617&previousCapId=19153&previousTitle=Benchmark%20Capital. Retrieved 2010-10-14. "Mr. Peter L. S. Currie is the President at Currie Capital LLC. ..."
- ^ "Notable alumni -- long list". Phillips Academy. 1992. http://www.andover.edu/about/notablealumni/longlist/Pages/1900s.aspx. Retrieved 2010-10-08. "Sam Endicott -- Singer-songwriter & instrumentalist; a founder & lead vocalist for The Bravery; record and music video director & producer"
- ^ "About -- 1800s". Andover. 2011-04-06. http://www.andover.edu/about/notablealumni/longlist/Pages/1800s.aspx. Retrieved 2011-04-06. "Tenor; Victor recording artist [1905-1916]"
- ^ Niarchos, Zoe (Spring/Summer 2007). Class Notes, Class of 1998. Phillips Academy. http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/PAA/cpages/chapterpage.jsp?chapter=38&org=PAA. Retrieved 2008-03-14
- ^ "In Memoriam". Northwestern University. Winter 2008. http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2008/alumninews/inmemoriam.html. Retrieved 2010-11-22. "Peter Kapetan (C78), 51, New York City, June 4. An actor, singer and dancer, Mr. Kapetan enjoyed a theater career that spanned almost three decades. He most recently appeared on Broadway in The Wedding Singer as a Ronald Reagan impersonator and ensemble member..."
- ^ "Phillips Academy - Notable Alumni - Literature, Publishing & Journalism". Phillips Academy. 2009. http://wwwdev.andover.edu/About/Notable%20Alumni/Pages/LiteraturePublishingJournalism.aspx. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ "Technical Advisory Board". Stretch. 2010-11-26. http://www.stretchinc.com/corporate/board.php. Retrieved 2010-11-26. "Earl has many areas of expertise including computer architecture, DSP, compilers, operating systems and networking. He is the former Chief Architect of Tensilica and Silicon Graphics MIPS division, and Co-founder of QED (acquired by PMC-Sierra). As one of the original architects of the MIPS processor and the microarchitect of the Tensilica processor, he assists Stretch in its processor direction. With a plethora of patents and publications and his deep knowledge of the semiconductor industry, Earl is a true asset to the TAB."
- ^ United States Patent Application 20060101369 (2006-05-11). "Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same". U.S. Patents Online. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0101369.html. Retrieved 2010-11-26. "... Killian, Earl A. (Los Altos Hills, CA, US)"
- ^ Ken Ringle (August 6, 1998). "The New Yorker's Literary Lion Cub". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/remnick.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
- ^ "Notable Alumni in the field of Journalism". Phillips Academy. 2011-02-12. http://www.andover.edu/About/Newsroom/TheMagazine/Fall09/Pages/OldBlue.aspx. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
- ^ "List of Books by Nate Lee". Paperback Swap. 2010-10-31. http://www.paperbackswap.com/Nate-Lee/author/. Retrieved 2010-10-31. "2010 - Words From the Cross and 5 Other Dramas for Tweens (Paperback) 2007 - What a Story!: And Five Other Dramas for Tweens (Paperback) 2006 - Don't Miss the Bus and five Other Dramas for Tweens (Paperback) 2005 -..."
- ^ Staff writer (October 2009). "Performance Advertising: Theater, Dance, Comedy, Opera". NewCity Network. http://newcitynetwork.com/advertising-marketing/performance-advertising-theater-dance-comedy-opera/. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ ELIZABETH MAKER (December 11, 2005). "CONNECTICUT AT ITS BEST; On an Open Fire, Much More Than Chestnuts". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E0D61131F932A25751C1A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-10-20. "Priscilla Martel, throw in fall and winter for guests who include Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and the chef Jacques P?n, both of whom live in Chester."
- ^ "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". Game Shows Wiki. 1993. http://gameshows.wikia.com/wiki/Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego%3F. Retrieved 2010-11-13. "The show received the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in 1993. ... The programs were produced by Howard Blumenthal, Jonathan Meath, and Ariel Schwartz."
- ^ Liam Murphy (October 26, 2009). "Jonathan Meath ’74 Pursued Children’s Television Production After Cultivating His Interests at PA". The Philippian. http://phillipian.net/article/8829. Retrieved 2010-11-13. "Jonathan Meath ’74, ... “Andover encouraged me to develop my skills as a creative individual. The teachers understood that creative arts are also an intellectual pursuit,” Meath said. This original interest led Mr. Meath to co-found Andanzura, a children’s television production company. Meath’s interest in the arts blossomed during his time at Andover."
- ^ Monadnock Summer (August 8, 2004). "Ted Nace: Confessions Of A Recovering Capitalist". New Hampshire Public Radio (nhpr). http://www.nhpr.org/node/6718. Retrieved 2010-11-19. "... he worked as an editor at PC World magazine and as a columnist for Publish! and Computer Currents magazines. Together with Michael Gardner, he founded the computer book publishing company Peachpit Press in 1985 and served as publisher until 1996,"
- ^ "Sara Nelson appears on CBS's The Early Show". CBS News The Early Show. December 9, 2009. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5949798n. Retrieved 2010-10-05. "'O' magazine's Sara Nelson showed off her holiday book picks for everyone on your gift list.. Sara Nelson appeared with CBS's Harry"
- ^ Jack Gray (1999). "Reminiscences from Reunion 1999: year (G+25), courtesy of Jack Gray.". Andover's BlueLink. http://andoveralumni.net/classes/1974/chapterpage3.html. Retrieved 2010-10-05. "New Yorkers Sara Nelson and Margaret Downs rushed back to campus to enjoy the Abbot tea with restaurateur Priscilla Martel."
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- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Alexander Trowbridge, 76, Ex-Secretary of Commerce, Dies", The New York Times, April 28, 2006.
- ^ "Phillips Academy-1800s". Andover. http://wwwdev.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/LongList/Pages/1800a.aspx. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^ "Thea Buxbaum, Gar Waterman". The New York Times. June 29, 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/style/thea-buxbaum-gar-waterman.html. Retrieved 2010-10-19. "Gar Waterman, a sculptor, ... works in marble, bronze and wood, graduated from Dartmouth College. He is a son of Susanna and Stanton A. Waterman of Lawrenceville, N.J."
- ^ Margaret Reuland (September 13, 2002). "A hidden secret in subdued Westville". Yale Daily News. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2002/sep/13/a-hidden-secret-in-subdued-westville/. Retrieved 2010-10-19. "Sculptor Gar Waterman ...organic forms that seem to sprout perpetually. It is with this energy, which he calls "the energy of germination" that Waterman ..."
- ^ Adam Bryant (interviewer), Adam Bryant (February 27, 2010). "Talk to Me. I’ll Turn Off My Phone.". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/business/28corner.html. Retrieved 2010-11-01. "This interview with Tachi Yamada, M.D., president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program, ... His outlook was always international. Very early, he sent me to the United States. I was 15. He sent me to a boarding school, Andover."
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