List of Deerfield Academy alumni

The List of Deerfield Academy alumni is a dynamic list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically.

Pre-1900

• George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. congressman from Massachusetts
• Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College
• John Williams (1817–1899), presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
• George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian
• Mary Tenney Castle (1819–1907), missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii
• Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army brigadier general awarded Medal of Honor
• William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. congressman from Connecticut

Classes of the 1920s

• Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
• J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design

Classes of the 1930s

• Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist
• Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. representative from Massachusetts
• Douglas Kennedy (1915–1973), actor
• 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 (1919–2019), Manhattan district attorney
• James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. congressman from New Hampshire
• Thomas Hedley Reynolds (1920–2009), president of Bates College
• William Zinsser (1922–2015), writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher
• Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor
• Ian Barbour (1923–2013), Templeton Prize winner
• Charles Merrill Jr. (born 1920), writer, teacher and philanthropist
• John Mecklin (1918–1971), writer and journalist

Classes of the 1940s

• 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
• David S. Dodge (1922–2009), vice-president for administration (1979–83), acting president (1981–82) and president (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut
• Thomas Keating (1923–2018), monk
• Arthur Nims (1923–2019), chief judge of United States Tax Court
• Charles Clapp (1923–2004), judge of United States Tax Court
• Dickinson R. Debevoise (1924–2015), district judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
• Ogden R. Reid (1925–2019), U.S. congressman from New York, U.S. ambassador to Israel
• Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient
• Daniel C. Searle (1926–2007), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
• John Ashbery (1927–2017), poet
• James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. congressman from Missouri
• Carl Richard Woese (1928–2012), biologist, discovered archeabacteria
• Allen Stack (1928–1999), gold medalist, U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
• George Quincey Lumsden Jr. (born 1930), U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
• Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), president of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Malcolm H. Kerr (1931–1984), president of the American University of Beirut
• John McPhee (born 1931), nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
• Hoddy Hildreth (1931–2019), member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth

Classes of the 1950s

• Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
• Edward Hoagland (1932–2026), writer
• Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014), billionaire Mellon family heir, and philanthropist
• Nelson Doubleday Jr. (1933–2015), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
• 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 (1934–2004), final U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia
• James M. Banner Jr. (born 1935), historian
• Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
• Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III (born 1937), former owner of Anchor Brewing Company
• 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
• David H. Koch (1940–2019), billionaire, Libertarian vice-presidential candidate in 1984
• David Childs (born 1941), architect

Classes of the 1960s

• Don Abbey, real estate businessman
• 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
• Stephen G. Smith (born 1949), journalist
• Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
• Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher
• Peter Gabel (born 1947), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
• Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host
• Winthrop H. Smith Jr. (born 1949), former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co.; chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc.

Classes of the 1970s

• Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
• 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
• Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959), son of Sunny von Bulow; member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
• Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar

Classes of the 1980s

• King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
• Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission 2006–2013
• Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
• Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
• Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
• Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
• Craig Janney (born 1967), NHL player
• Chris Waddell (born 1968), gold medalist Paralympic skier
• Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon
• Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
• Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University
• Milton Sands III (born c. 1969), admiral in the United States Navy

Classes of the 1990s

• Chris Klug (born 1972), bronze medalist, U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Michael Sucsy (born 1973), filmmaker, Grey Gardens
• Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974), photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV
• Prince Ali bin Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and vice president of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
• Marty Reasoner (born 1977), retired National Hockey League center
• Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
• Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
• Adriana Cisneros (born 1979), media mogul
• Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
• Jay Newton-Small, Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell
• Chase Coleman III, class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management
• Bom Kim, class of 1996, Korean-American billionaire and founder of Coupang
• Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, novelist

Classes of the 2000s

• Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
• David Branson Smith (born 1984), screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
• Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
• Ty McCormick (born 1987), foreign correspondent
• Molly Schaus (born 1988), U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
• Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
• Alex Killorn (born 1988), professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League
• Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

Classes of the 2010s

• Osama Khalifa, squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship
• Kevin Roy, professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
• Liam Holowesko, professional cyclist
• Sam Lafferty, professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
• Hunter Long, professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams
• Jacob Lee (born 1994), singer-songwriter
• Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour

Classes of the 2020s

• Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor
• Elic Ayomanor, Canadian football player

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