This is a list of notable alumni of Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York.
- Desiree Akhavan '02, director, writer, actress; winner 2018 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
- Peter Lewis Allen '74, academic, executive coach, author
- Pedro ÃÂlvarez '05, Major League baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles
- Harrison Bader âÂÂ12, Major League baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins
- Erik Barnouw, writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor
- William Barr, U.S. attorney general under President George H. W. Bush and the first term of Donald Trump
- Alex Berenson, spy novelist, former reporter for The New York Times
- Josh Bernstein âÂÂ89, host of The History Channel's Digging For the Truth
- Ilse Bischoff, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author
- Alan Blinken, former United States ambassador to Belgium (1993âÂÂ97)
- Donald M. Blinken, investment banker, former ambassador to Hungary
- Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon
- Amy S. Bruckman, âÂÂ83, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Robert Caro âÂÂ53, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Elliott Carter, composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner
- Chao-chu Chi, returned to China and became interpreter for Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong
- Roy Cohn, aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial, mentor to Donald Trump
- David Cornstein, US ambassador to Hungary
- Joseph Cumming, Yale scholar and pastor
- John Dall, actor
- Jerome Alan Danzig, reporter, news producer, and adviser to New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
- Peter Deutsch, former congressman
- Valentine Davies, class of 1923, author of Miracle on 34th Street
- Bethany Donaphin, class of 1998, Head of Operations at the Women's National Basketball Association
- Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times
- Martin Duberman, class of 1948, author and gay rights historian
- Seymour Durst, real estate developer
- Morris Leopold Ernst, lawyer and co-founder the American Civil Liberties Union
- Charles Evans, founder of fashion house Evan-Piccone, and producer of Tootsie
- Halley Feiffer, class of 2003, playwright
- Ivan Fisher, lawyer
- Marc Fisher, class of 1976, writer and editor for The Washington Post
- Doris Fleischman, writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist
- Jennifer Fleiss, entrepreneur and co-founder of Rent the Runway
- Peter B. Freund, sports team owner
- Alan Furst, novelist
- Henry Geldzahler, class of 1953, art critic, curator, New York City Cultural Affairs commissioner (1977âÂÂ1982)
- Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy
- Mark Gerstein, bioinformatics professor, Yale University
- Alison Gertz, early AIDS activist
- Bill Green, Republican member of the US House of Representatives from New York
- Alexandra Guarnaschelli, executive chef and food television personality
- Betty Hall, politician, New Hampshire state representative
- Joshua Hammer, journalist and author
- Leland Hayward, Hollywood agent and Broadway producer
- Anthony Hecht, poet
- Robert Heilbroner, economist, historian of economic thought, author
- Marsha Hunt, actress
- Anjli Jain, venture capitalist
- E. J. Kahn, class of 1933, pillar of The New Yorker, author and journalist
- Rockwell Kent, illustrator and painter
- Jack Kerouac, class of 1940, writer and Beat Literature iconoclast
- Richard Kluger, class of 1952, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Edward Koren, New Yorker cartoonist
- Herbert J. Kramer, class of 1939, director of Public Affairs at the Office of Economic Opportunity under the Johnson administration
- Robert Ledley, class of 1943, inventor of whole-body CT scanner, biomedical computing pioneer
- Sir Thomas Legg, senior British civil servant
- Tom Lehrer, political satirist and math professor
- David Leonhardt, economics columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, 2011
- Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives
- Andrew Levitas, artist and filmmaker
- Anthony Lewis, class of 1944, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner
- Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights leader and former congressman
- Joshua Malina, actor and member of the cast of the television series The West Wing
- David Mandel, class of 1988, television writer and producer for Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Jonathan Marks, class of 1971, anthropologist
- Michael Mazur, artist
- Dorothy Miner, class of 1922, art historian and curator at the Walters Art Museum
- Dwight C. Miner, class of 1922, professor of history at Columbia University
- Lucy Monroe, operatic soprano
- Belle Moskowitz, likely class of 1893, early twentieth century progressive reformer and political advisor, referred to in her New York Times obituary as the most powerful woman in U.S. politics
- Martin Moynihan, class of 1946, ethologist and founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama
- James Murdoch, media executive; son of Rupert Murdoch
- Donald Newhouse, publisher
- Samuel Newhouse, media executive
- Rebecca Oppenheimer, class of 1990, astrophysicist
- Ilario Pantano, class of 1989, former marine, political figure
- Nelson Peltz (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor
- Mark Penn, pollster and political consultant
- Mary Petty, illustrator
- Kenneth Pollack, analyst and author on Middle East affairs
- Generoso Pope, Jr., founder of the National Enquirer and American Media, Inc.
- Thomas S. Power, led Strategic Air Command
- Paul Rapoport, co-founder of New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Giles Sutherland Rich, patent attorney, author of the 1952 Patent Act, judge of the U.S. Customs and Patent Appeals and later U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Renée Richards, class of 1952 (graduated as Richard Raskind), professional tennis player, author, ophthalmologist, and trans rights activist
- Scott Rogowsky, class of 2003, comedian and host of HQ Trivia
- Daniel Rose, real estate developer, philanthropist, essayist
- David S. Rose, entrepreneur, investor and author
- Elihu Rose, real estate developer and military historian
- Frederick P. Rose, builder and philanthropist
- Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs
- Jonathan F. P. Rose, urban planner and real estate developer
- Evan Rosen, journalist, strategist, author of The Culture of Collaboration and The Bounty Effect
- Jon Rubinstein, computer scientist and electrical engineer; a primary co-creator of the iPod and iMac
- Edward Thomas Ryan, class of 1980, Harvard microbiologist, immunologist
- James Salter, class of 1942, writer
- David Sanders, class of 1979, biologist
- Marion K. Sanders, class of 1921, journalist, editor, author
- Barry Scheck, class of 1967, member of legal team that successfully defended O. J. Simpson; attorney and founder of the Innocence Project
- James Schlesinger, former secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations and former secretary of energy in the Carter Administration
- Doug Schoen, political pollster, consultant and pundit; former partner of HM classmate Mark Penn
- John Searle, philosopher
- Charles Seife, class of 1989, mathematician and author
- Noah Shachtman, class of 1989, editor of The Daily Beast
- Gil Shaham, class of 1989, violinist
- Orli Shaham, class of 1993, pianist
- John Simon, New York Magazine critic and author
- Andrew Solomon, class of 1981, writer
- Jerry Speyer, class of 1958, a founder of Tishman Speyer
- Eliot Spitzer, former governor and attorney general of New York
- Austin Stark, award-winning filmmaker
- Edward Steinfeld, class of 1984, noted political scientist
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times
- Robert W. Sweet, United States district court judge
- Robert Tishman, real estate developer and co-founder of Tishman Speyer
- Beatrice Warde, writer and scholar on typography, author of âÂÂThe Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be InvisibleâÂÂ
- Paul Francis Webster, class of 1926, Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning songwriter
- Gertrude Weil, class of 1897 (or 1898?), suffragist, labor rights activist, civil rights and anti-lynching activist, and Zionist
- William Carlos Williams, class of 1903, medical doctor and poet; Pulitzer Prize winner
- Ben Yagoda, journalist and author
- Rafael Yglesias, novelist and screenwriter
- Paul Zimmerman, senior football writer for Sports Illustrated
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