# List of Horace Mann School alumni

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
* Pedro Alvarez '05, Major League baseball player
* Harrison Bader ‘12, Major League baseball outfielder for the New York Mets
* Erik Barnouw, writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor
* William Barr, U.S. attorney general under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump
* Alex Berenson, spy novelist, former reporter for The New York Times
* Josh Bernstein ‘89 – 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 (1993–1997)
* Donald M. Blinken, investment banker, former ambassador to Hungary
* Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon
* Amy S. Bruckman, ‘83, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
* Robert Caro‘53, 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
* 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
* Alan Furst, novelist
* Henry Geldzahler, class of 1953, art critic, curator, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner, (1977–1982)
* 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
* Robert Heilbroner, economist, historian of economic thought, author
* Anthony Hecht, poet
* 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
* Edward Koren, New Yorker cartoonist
* Richard Kluger, class of 1952, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
* 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
* 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 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 “The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible”
* Paul Francis Webster, class of 1926, Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning songwriter
* William Carlos Williams, class of 1903, medical doctor and poet; Pulitzer Prize winner
* Gertrude Weil, class of 1897 (or 1898?), suffragist, labor rights activist, civil rights and anti-lynching activist, and Zionist
* Ben Yagoda, journalist and author
* Rafael Yglesias, novelist and screenwriter
* Paul Zimmerman, senior football writer for Sports Illustrated