List of Deerfield Academy alumni

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

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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.^[1]

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 – January 20, 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
• John Gunther Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book Death Be Not Proud
• Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 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 (born 1932), writer
• Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
• 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^[2]
• 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^[3]
• 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

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 and a 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 from 2006 to 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,^[4][5] former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
• Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio
• 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), acclaimed 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, American novelist

Classes of the 2000s

• Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
• David Branson Smith (born 1984), award-winning screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
• Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
• Ty McCormick (born 1987), award-winning 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 featured on The Voice
• Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour

Classes of the 2020s

• Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor

References

1. Horowitz, Helen (2020). Traces of J. B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America. University of Virginia Press. pp. 7, 14. ISBN 9780813943350. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
2. Prial, Frank (11 July 1984). "Wine Talk". New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
3. "South Hadley alum Don Abbey offers more than just moral support for Tigers". masslive.com. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
4. "2 From 85 Named top GCs in CA – Deerfield Academy". Deerfield.edu. Deerfield Academy. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
5. "The Common Room". Deerfield Magazine. 71 (1): 68. Fall 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2023.