# List of Phillips Exeter Academy people

The following is a list of notable faculty, trustees, and alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire, founded in 1781.

## Founder

* John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; president of board of trustees 1781–1795

## Principals

* Benjamin Abbot – principal 1788–1838
* Gideon Lane Soule – principal 1838–1873
* Albert C. Perkins – principal 1873–1883
* Walter Quincy Scott – president of Ohio State University; principal 1884–1889
* Charles Everett Fish – principal 1890–1895
* Harlan P. Amen – principal 1895–1913
* Lewis Perry – principal 1914–1946
* William Saltonstall – principal 1946–1963
* William Ernest Gillespie – Latin instructor 1939–1967, vice principal, dean of faculty, interim principal 1963–1964
* Richard W. Day – principal 1964–1973
* Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; principal 1974–1987
* Kendra Stearns O'Donnell – painter; principal 1987–1997
* Tyler Tingley – principal 1997–2009
* Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; principal 2009–2015
* Lisa MacFarlane – principal 2015–2018
* William Knox Rawson – interim principal 2018, principal 2019–present

## Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy

* John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782
* Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; trustee 1787–1809
* Nicholas Emery – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; assistant teacher 1797
* Daniel Dana – president of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; board of trustees 1809–1843
* John Taylor Gilman – delegate to the Continental Congress; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1795–1827
* Ashur Ware – federal judge; instructor 1804–1805
* Nathan Hale – editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805–1807
* Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician; assistant teacher 1807
* Nathan Lord – president of Dartmouth College; faculty 1809–1812
* Henry Ware Jr. – mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812–1814
* James Walker – president of Harvard University; faculty 1814–1815
* William Bourne Oliver Peabody – minister and author; assistant instructor 1817
* Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
* Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1828–1830
* Jeremiah Smith – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; judge; governor of New Hampshire; president of board of trustees 1830–1842
* Francis Bowen – philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833–1835
* Joseph Gibson Hoyt – chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840–1858
* Andrew Preston Peabody – Unitarian clergyman and author; board of trustees, 1843–1885
* Amos Tuck – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; board of trustees 1853–1879
* George A. Wentworth – author of textbooks on mathematics; faculty 1857–1892; board of trustees 1899–1906
* Robert Franklin Pennell – scholar and classicist; faculty 1871–1882
* Charles H. Bell – governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879–1883
* George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883–1887
* T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
* H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – director of scholarships
* Robert H. Bates – mountaineer; faculty
* Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947–1988
* Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author; faculty 1949–1953, physics and astronomy
* Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in history department 1955–1960
* Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958–1967
* Cabot Lyford – sculptor; faculty 1963–1986
* Michael S. Greco – president of American Bar Association; faculty 1965–1968
* George Crowe – ice hockey coach; faculty 1969–1975
* David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty 1972–1977
* Dolores Kendrick – Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; faculty 1972–1993
* Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993
* Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present
* Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present
* Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present
* Olutoyin Augustus – Nigerian hurdler; instructor in physical education 2011–2021
* Thomas W. Simpson – faculty 2008–present
* Willie Perdomo – current instructor in English

## Notable alumni
### 1780s

* Benjamin Ives Gilman (c. 1783) – Ohio pioneer
* George Sullivan (c. 1783) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Nathaniel Thayer (c. 1783) – Unitarian minister
* Daniel Tilton (c. 1783) – one of the first three judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory
* Josiah Bartlett Jr. (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Samuel Smith (c. 1784) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* George B. Upham (c. 1785) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Daniel Meserve Durell (c. 1789) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party

### 1790s

* Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher
* David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
* Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
* John Noyes (1791) – U.S. representative from Vermont
* Lewis Cass (1792) – brigadier general; governor of Michigan Territory, U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. senator from Michigan; U.S. Secretary of State; Democratic candidate for president
* William Ladd (1793) – pacifist, founder and first president of American Peace Society
* Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
* Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) – Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
* Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat
* Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

### 1800s

* Samuel Livermore (1800) – legal scholar
* Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts
* Abiel Chandler (1802) – merchant, philanthropist
* Joseph Cogswell (1802) – educator, editor, library administrator
* William Plumer Jr. (1802) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* James Carr (1803) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* John Perkins Cushing (1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
* Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman
* Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. representative from New York State
* Theodore Lyman (1804) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
* Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
* John Lauris Blake (1806) – minister and prolific author
* Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate
* Zachariah Allen (1807) – manufacturer and inventor
* Joseph Blunt (1807) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney
* Edward Everett (1807) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; U.S. senator from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts, ambassador to Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State; president of Harvard University
* Nathaniel Appleton Haven (1807) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
* James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* James Freeman Dana (1809) – chemist; science author
* Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author
* William Thorndike (1809) – president of the Massachusetts State Senate

### 1810s

* John Sherburne Sleeper (1807) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
* William Willis (1808) – mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
* Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
* John Adams Dix (1810) – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; governor of New York; U.S. Minister to France; Railroad President
* Horace Hooker (1810) – Congregationalist minister; author
* William Robinson (ca. 1810) – school founder
* Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – president of Hampden-Sydney College
* George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; ambassador to the United Kingdom
* John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* Jared Sparks (1811) – president of Harvard University
* Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
* David Barker Jr. (1812) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. (1812) – professor; acting president of Bowdoin College
* William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author
* Charles Paine (1813) – governor of Vermont
* Samuel Edmund Sewall (1813) — lawyer; politician; abolitionist; suffragist
* James Wilson II (1813) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Andrew Leonard Emerson (1814) – first mayor of Portland, Maine
* Gideon Lane Soule (1816) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1838–1873
* Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
* George Lunt (1818) – politician, author, editor, poet
* John Dennison Russ (1818) – physician; innovator in the education of the blind
* Jonathan Chapman (1819) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
* Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
* Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) – humanitarian, author
* Russell Sturgis (1819) – merchant, banker

### 1820s

* John P. Hale (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. president; ambassador to Spain
* Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire; 14th president of the United States
* Alpheus Felch (1821) – U.S. senator from Michigan; governor of Michigan
* Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
* Ephraim Peabody (1821) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
* John Langdon Sibley (1821) – Librarian of Harvard University
* Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
* Thomas Tingey Craven (1822) – rear admiral, United States Navy
* George Yeaton Sawyer (1822) - lawyer and politician, justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
* Samuel Foster Haven (1823) – archeologist, anthropologist
* Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist
* John Hodgdon (1823) – president of the Maine State Senate; mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
* Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist
* George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts
* Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. representative from Maine
* Edward Henry Durell (1826) – mayor of New Orleans, federal judge
* Henry Francis Harrington (1828) – editor of the Boston Herald
* Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – federal judge; president of the University of Louisiana
* Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist
* Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War general (Union); U.S. representative from Massachusetts; governor of Massachusetts
* Edward Fox (1829) – federal judge
* Timothy Roberts Young (1829) – U.S. representative from Illinois
* Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
* Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist
* Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer

### 1830s

* Henry Gardner (1831) – governor of Massachusetts
* Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
* William Henry Chandler (1832) – politician from Connecticut
* Edmund Burke Whitman (1833) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; superintendent of National Cemeteries
* Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – governor of New Hampshire
* Charles Jervis Gilman (1835) – U.S. representative from Maine
* Fitz John Porter (1835) – Civil War general (Union)
* John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. representative from Wisconsin
* William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire
* Ezra Abbot (1836) – New Testament scholar
* Amos Tappan Akerman (1836) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872
* Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire
* Augustus Lord Soule (1837) – associate justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
* E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, chancellor of the University of Buffalo

### 1840s

* James Camp Tappan (1840) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
* Henry W. Cleaveland (1841) – architect
* Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
* James Cooley Fletcher (1842) – missionary, diplomat, author
* Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) – astronomer
* Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
* E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury
* Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
* William Fessenden Allen (1846) – Privy Councillor to King of Hawaii; chairman of the advisory council of the Provisional Government of Hawaii; member of the executive council of the Republic of Hawaii
* Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
* George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician
* William Dorsheimer (1847) – U.S. representative from New York; lieutenant governor of New York
* Charles Franklin Dunbar (1847) – editor; political economist; dean of faculty, Harvard University; president of the American Economic Association
* Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist
* William Robert Ware (1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University
* Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator

### 1850s

* Frederick Lothrop Ames (1851) – business magnate; art collector
* Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
* Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
* George Bates Nichols Tower (c. 1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author
* Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
* Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – governor of New Hampshire
* Charles Pomeroy Otis (1855) – educator; author
* Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) – justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
* George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. representative from Illinois
* Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
* Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy
* Edward Rowland Sill (1857) – poet
* George W. Atherton (1858) – president of Pennsylvania State University
* William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. representative from Kansas
* Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
* Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
* George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
* Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts

### 1860s

* Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
* William M.R. French (1860) – first director of the Art Institute of Chicago
* Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
* James Greeley Flanders (1861) – Wisconsin politician
* Marshall Snow (1861) – acting chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
* John White Chadwick (1862) – Unitarian minister and writer
* Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, New York
* John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. representative from Louisiana
* Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; associate justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
* John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect; writer; publisher, co-founder and president of Life magazine
* George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
* Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
* Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
* Robert Hallowell Richards (1865) – mining engineer; metallurgist
* Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
* William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
* Edward R. Bacon (1867) – railroad president; financier; art collector
* John Hubbard (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
* Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
* Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
* Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – brigadier general, U.S. Army
* Robert Franklin Pennell (1868) – educator and scholar
* Charlemagne Tower Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
* Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. senator from New Jersey

### 1870s

* August Belmont Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
* Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
* Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator
* Ulysses S. Grant Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
* Samuel L. Powers (1870) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
* Albert D. Bosson (1871) – mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
* Nelson Taylor Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
* Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
* Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
* Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
* George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
* Melville Bull (1873) – lieutenant governor of Rhode Island; U.S. representative from Rhode Island
* Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. representative from New York
* Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative headmaster of Lawrenceville School
* George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
* William Bancroft (1874) – businessman; brigadier general; mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Benjamin Newhall Johnson (1874) – attorney, historian, owner of Breakheart Hill Forest
* Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
* Guy Carleton Phinney (1874) – real estate developer
* Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
* Harlan P. Amen (1875) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1895–1913
* William De Witt Hyde (1875) – president of Bowdoin College
* Henry Shute (1875) – author
* William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
* Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
* Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – lieutenant governor of New York
* H. H. Holmes (1877?) – serial killer
* Charles MacVeagh (1877) – U.S. Ambassador to Japan
* William W. Stickney (1877) – governor of Vermont
* Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
* Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. representative from New Jersey
* William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
* Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
* S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
* Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
* Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

### 1880s

* Joseph Adna Hill (1881) – statistician; devised the method of equal proportions
* Thomas Parker Sanborn (1881) – poet; inspiration for the protagonist of Santayana's The Last Pilgrim
* Charles Augustus Strong (1881) – philosopher and psychologist
* William Woodward Baldwin (1882) – Third Assistant Secretary of State
* Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, lieutenant governor of Montana
* Edmund Wilson Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
* Gordon Woodbury (1882) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
* Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
* Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
* Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) – U.S. Secretary of War
* William Mann Irvine (1884) – academic, founding headmaster of Mercersburg Academy
* Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer
* Bradley Palmer (1884) – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
* John Scammon (1884) – president of the New Hampshire State Senate; associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
* James D. Denegre (1885) – Minnesota state senator and lawyer
* William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, U.S. representative from New York
* Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. representative from Illinois
* George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
* Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. representative from New York
* Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; governor of Pennsylvania
* Guy H. Preston (1885) – US Army brigadier general
* George Rublee (1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
* Amos Alonzo Stagg (1885) – All-American football player; won national championships as Football Coach at U. of Chicago; "grandfather of football"
* Augustus Noble Hand (1886) – federal judge
* Tim Shinnick (1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
* William Wurtenburg (1886) – played on two national championship football teams at Yale; football coach at Navy and Dartmouth; physician
* Theodore Davis Boal (1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect
* Bob Huntington (1887) – U.S. Open Tennis Doubles champion (1891, 1892); architect
* James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) – federal judge
* George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. senator from New Hampshire, ambassador to Greece
* Curtis Hidden Page (1887) – scholar, author, translator
* William Rhode (1887) – All-American football player; won national championship as football coach at Yale
* Frank Barbour (1888) – football player; football coach at the University of Michigan, businessman
* John Cranston (1888) – All-American football player; football coach at Harvard University
* Robert Boal Fort (1888) – Illinois politician
* Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of board of directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
* Lee McClung (1888) – All-American football player; Treasurer of the United States
* Horace Tracy Pitkin (1888) – missionary beheaded during Boxer Rebellion
* Frank St. John Sidway (1888) – New York State politician
* Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
* Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
* Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
* Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner

### 1890s

* Butler Ames (1890) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* Carroll Bond (1890) – chief judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
* Henry M. Crane (1891) – automotive engineer and pioneer
* George Lawrence Day (1890) – a.k.a. John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
* Marshall Newell (1890) – All-American football player; football coach at Cornell University
* Lewis Stevenson (1890) – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois Secretary of State
* William Boyce Thompson (1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
* Julian Coolidge (1891) – mathematician; president of the Mathematical Association of America
* Henry M. Crane (c. 1891) – pioneering automobile designer
* Louis W. Hill (1891) – railroad magnate
* John Howland (1891) – pediatrician
* Henry McKee Minton (1891) – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
* Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
* Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) – composer, music critic
* Hiland Orlando Stickney (1892) – football coach at University of Wisconsin and Oregon State University
* Charles Loring (1893) – Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* William Belmont Parker (1893) – author and editor
* Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (1894) – architect
* Lawrence B. Hamlin (1895) – purveyor of Hamlin's Wizard Oil, fined for false advertising
* George R. Stobbs (1895) – U.S. representative from Massachusetts
* Charles R. Forbes (1896) – director of the Veterans' Bureau
* Doc Powers (c. 1896) – professional baseball player
* Walter Dearborn (1897) – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
* William F. Donovan (1897) – athletic ringer; football coach at Harvard University
* Burt Z. Kasson (1897) – politician from New York State
* Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) – educator
* Robert William Sawyer (1898) – journalist, conservationist
* Samuel Davis Wilson (1898) – mayor of Philadelphia
* Barry Faulkner (1899) – muralist
* Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
* Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer

### 1900s

* Arthur Nash (1900) – architect
* Myron E. Witham (1900) – All-American football player; football coach at Purdue and the University of Colorado
* Swinburne Hale (1901) – civil rights attorney; a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; poet
* James Hogan (1901) – All-American football player
* Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
* Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player; football coach at Yale and Navy; won national championship coaching at Yale; hotelier
* Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
* Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman
* Samuel M. Harrington (1902) – brigadier general
* J. W. Knibbs (1902) – football player; football coach at University of California, Berkeley
* James Cooney (1903) – All-American football player
* Sterling Dow (1903) – classical archaeologist and epigrapher
* Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician
* Hugo W. Koehler (1903) – U.S. Navy commander; military attaché to Russia
* Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer
* Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
* Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army major general, commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
* Howard Jones (1904) – football coach; won national championships coaching Yale and USC
* T. A. Dwight Jones (1904) – All-American football player; Yale football coach
* Jim McCormick (1904) – All-American football player; football coach at Princeton
* F. Harold Van Orman (1904) – lieutenant governor of Indiana
* Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge
* Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
* Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
* William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
* Thomas C. Coffin (1906) – U.S. representative from Idaho
* Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
* Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – U.S. Secretary of Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt (did not graduate)
* Andrew Tombes (1906) – comedian and character actor
* Justin Woodward Harding (c. 1907) – federal judge; trial judge at Nuremberg
* Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist
* Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
* Frank M. Dixon (c. 1908) – governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
* Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot
* Walter William Spencer Cook (c. 1909) – Spanish Medieval art historian and professor
* John Paul Jones – Olympic runner and baseball player (1912); world record holder in the mile run

### 1910s

* Wayne G. Borah (1910) – federal judge
* J. Ira Courtney (1910) – Olympic sprinter and baseball player (1912)
* Allen Dulles (1910) – U.S. Director of Central Intelligence
* Rustin McIntosh (1910) – pediatrician
* Edwin Charles Parsons (1910) – rear admiral of the United States Navy
* Olin M. Jeffords (1911) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Robert Nathan (1912) – novelist and poet
* Phelps Putnam (1912) – poet
* Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
* Harold Weston (1912) – modernist painter
* William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. representative from Maryland
* Harry Worthington (1913) – Olympic long jumper (1912)
* John Amen (1914) – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
* Amos N. Blandin, Jr. (1914) - Supreme Court Justice State of New Hampshire
* Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer
* Howard Hawks (1914) – film director
* Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
* Charles Bierer Wrightsman (c. 1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist
* Art Braman (1915) – NFL football player
* Eddie Casey (1915) – All-American football player; head coach of the Washington Redskins
* Richard F. Cleveland (1915) – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant
* Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist
* Louis M. Loeb (1915) – president of the New York City Bar Association
* Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
* Stephen Potter (1915) – first American naval aviator to shoot down a German seaplane
* Nathaniel Wollf (1916?) – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
* John Cowles Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
* Frederick Cunningham (1917) – Olympic fencer (1920)
* Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer
* Donold Lourie (1917) – All-American football player; businessman; government official
* Cyril Wilcox (1917) – Harvard student implicated in the Secret Court of 1920
* Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect
* Robert B. Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. representative from Illinois
* George H. Love (1918) – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; chairman of the board of Chrysler
* Francis T. P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat
* Norris Cotton (1919) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire
* Haddie Gill (1919) – pitcher for Cincinnati Reds
* David Granger (1919) – Olympic bobsledder (1928–silver medal)
* Donald Oenslager (1919) – Tony Award-winning scenic designer
* Phra Bisal Sukhumvit (1919) – Thai chief of Department of Highways, urban planner

### 1920s

* James Tinkham Babb (1920) – librarian and book collector
* Mark Brunswick (c. 1920) – composer
* Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian
* Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer
* Herb Treat (1920) – All-American football player; player-coach of the Boston Bulldogs
* C. Bradford Welles (1920) – classicist
* James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist
* Richard Luman (1921) – All-American football player; Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
* Laurence Stoddard (1921) – Olympic coxswain (1924–gold medal)
* Weston Adams (c. 1922) – principal owner and president of the Boston Bruins
* Montgomery Atwater (1922) – pioneer in avalanche research and forecasting; author
* Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
* Bayes Norton (1922) – Olympic sprint runner (1924)
* Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy
* Jarvis Hunt (c. 1923) – 79th president of Massachusetts Senate
* Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (1923) – federal judge
* John Chase (1924) – Olympic ice hockey player (1932–silver medal)
* Howard Francis Corcoran (1924) – federal judge
* Sidney Darlington (1924) – engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
* John F. "Jack" Hasey (1924) – officer in the French Foreign Legion; C.I.A. officer; officer in the Légion d'honneur
* Tracy Jaeckel (1924) – Olympic fencer (1932–bronze medal, 1936)
* George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry
* John H. H. Phipps (1924) – businessman, conservationist, philanthropist, champion polo player
* William Saltonstall (1924) – principal of Phillips Exeter, 1946–1963
* Edmund Berkeley (1925) – computer scientist; author
* John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China
* Lincoln Kirstein (1925) – writer; co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate)
* Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic
* Richard B. Sewall (1925) – Yale English professor; biographer
* Kent Smith (c. 1925) – actor
* Walworth Barbour (1926) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel
* Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics, owner of the Boston Bruins
* Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University
* Red Rolfe (1927) – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, manager of the Detroit Tigers
* James Agee (1928) – author and critic
* Morton Bartlett (1928) – sculptor and photographer
* Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive
* Albert E. Kahn (1928) – blacklisted journalist and photographer
* Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
* Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
* Hickman Price (1928) – business executive; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce
* Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher
* Whiting Willauer (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
* Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
* H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time director of scholarships at the academy; uncle of John Irving (1961)
* Edwin Gillette (1929) – cameraman, inventor of animation technique
* Sam Knox (c. 1929) – guard for the Detroit Lions
* William Ernest Gillespie (1929) – interim principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
* William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
* Henry Babcock Veatch (1929) – neo-Aristotelian philosopher

### 1930s

* Joseph H. Burchenal (1930) – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award
* John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – president of the Vermont State Senate
* Francis Spain (1930) – captain of the 1936 U.S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal)
* Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect
* Larry Bogart (1931) – critic of nuclear power
* Macdonald Carey (1931) – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
* John Crosby (1931) – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
* George Haskins (1931) – law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
* Richard S. Salant (1931) – president of CBS News
* Sonny Tufts (1931) – film and television actor
* Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist
* Richard Pike Bissell (1932) – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (The Pajama Game)
* Germain Glidden (1932) – national squash champion, painter, muralist, cartoonist and founder of the National Art Museum of Sport
* Milton Green (1932) – world record holder in the high hurdles; boycotted 1936 Olympics
* John Toland (1932) – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (The Rising Sun)
* Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman
* Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore"
* Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian
* Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher
* Robert Livingston Allen (1934) – linguist, developer of Sector Analysis
* Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter
* William H. Blanchard (1934) – four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
* Richard Walker Bolling (c. 1934) – U.S. representative from Missouri (did not graduate)
* William Coors (c. 1934) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
* Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer
* Thomas P. Whitney (1934) – diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist
* Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright
* Elkan Blout (1935) – inventor; biochemist; awarded National Medal of Science
* R. W. B. Lewis (1935) – literary scholar and critic
* Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman
* Joseph Coors (1935) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
* David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge
* Hugh Gregg (1935) – governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
* David Hall (c. 1935) – recorded sound archivist
* William Verity Jr. (c. 1935) – U.S. Secretary of Commerce
* James T. Aubrey (c. 1936) – president of CBS and MGM
* Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1936) – business historian
* Thomas Clinton (1936) – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
* Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, president of Amherst College
* George M. Prince (c. 1936) – co-creator of synectics
* Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
* John Tyler Bonner (c. 1937) – biologist
* Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) – federal judge
* Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter
* Douglas Knight (1937) – president of Duke University
* Alfred A. Knopf Jr. (1937) – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
* Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1937) – biochemist; editor of Science
* Charles Mergendahl (1937) – novelist, playwright, television scriptwriter
* Robert H. B. Baldwin (1938) – Undersecretary of the Navy; chairman and president of Morgan Stanley
* Lex Barker (1938) – actor
* T. Clark Hull (1938) – lieutenant governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court justice
* Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) – U.S. Attorney General; vice-president of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968)
* Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor
* Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
* Sloan Wilson (1938) – author (did not graduate)
* Forman S. Acton (1939) – computer scientist
* Alfred Atherton (1939) – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
* Ward Chamberlin (1939) – public broadcasting executive
* John Holt (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author

### 1940s

* George Christopher Archibald (1940) – British economist
* William J. Conklin (c. 1940) – architect, archeologist; designer of United States Navy Memorial, co-designer of Reston, Virginia
* Lloyd L. Duxbury (c. 1940) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
* Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General; head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the civil rights era
* Bud Palmer (1940) – professional basketball player (NY Knicks); jump shot pioneer; sportscaster; New York City Commissioner of Public Events
* Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
* Harold R. Tyler Jr. (1940) – federal judge
* William C. Campbell (1941) – two-time president of the USGA; member of the World Golf Hall of Fame
* Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist
* Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels
* Robert B. Choate Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
* Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
* William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
* Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. (1942) – president of the College of William & Mary
* Lloyd Stephen Riford Jr. (1942) – New York State politician
* Bagley Wright (1942) – developer; investor; arts patron and fine art collector
* John G. King (1943) – physicist
* Roberts Bishop Owen (1943) – U.S. State Department legal advisor and diplomat
* Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
* Frederic M. Richards (1943) – biochemist and biophysicist
* Julian Roosevelt (1943) – Olympic sailor (1948, 1952–gold medal, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972)
* Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman
* John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
* Gore Vidal (1943) – author
* Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
* Willis Barnstone (1944) – poet, memoirist, translator
* Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor
* Kenneth W. Ford (1944) – physicist
* George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
* Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
* John Glenn Beall Jr. (1945) – U.S. representative from Maryland; U.S. senator from Maryland
* James P. Gordon (1945) – invented the Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was later awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1964)
* Fred Kingsbury (1945) – Olympic rower (1948–bronze medal)
* John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
* James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
* William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
* Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
* Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. (1946) – numismatist
* Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor
* Will Holt (c. 1946) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
* Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
* Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
* F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor
* Cervin Robinson (1946) – architectural photographer
* Robert L. Belknap (c. 1947) – scholar of Russian literature and dean at Columbia University
* John Cowles Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
* Bill Felstiner (1947) – socio-legal scholar
* Donald Hall (1947) – poet; U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
* Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
* Glenn D. Paige (1947) – political scientist
* John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
* Haviland Smith (1947) – C.I.A. station chief
* Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
* David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar
* Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota
* Frederic B. Ingram (1948) – businessman
* Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter (The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs)
* Don Whiston (1948) – Olympic ice hockey player (1952–silver medal)
* Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
* Adair Dyer (1949) – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
* Bo Goldman (1949) – screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman), winner of two Academy Awards
* Albert L. Hopkins (1949) – computer designer
* Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
* John Kerr (1949) – actor
* James Smith (1949) – Olympic sport shooter (1956)

### 1950s

* Bill Briggs (1950) – "father of extreme skiing;" member U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
* Tom Corcoran (1950) – Olympic alpine skier (1956, 1960); four-time U.S. national champion alpine skier
* M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) – psychiatrist; author (did not graduate)
* George Eman Vaillant (1951) – psychiatrist
* Walter Darby Bannard (1952) – abstract painter and University of Miami professor
* Robert Cowley (1952) – military historian
* Pierre S. du Pont IV (1952) – U.S. representative from Delaware, governor of Delaware
* Thomas Ehrlich (1952) – president of Indiana University
* Cyrus Hamlin (1952) – literary critic and theorist
* Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) – career diplomat; ambassador to Togo
* Karl Ludvigsen (1952) – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
* David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; Macarthur Fellow
* Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer
* Harold Russell Scott Jr. (1952) – Broadway actor and director
* David Wight (1952) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
* Robert G. Wilmers (1952) – businessman
* Richard S. Arnold (1953) – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
* Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
* Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
* Bud Konheim (1953) – businessman
* Earl J. Silbert (1953) – prosecutor in Watergate case
* Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) – owner of the Montreal Alouettes football club
* Jonathan Aldrich (1954) – poet
* William Becklean (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
* Peter B. Bensinger (1954) – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration
* T. Alan Broughton (1954) – poet
* Michael Z. Hobson (c. 1954) – executive vice president of Marvel Comics
* James F. Hoge Jr. (1954) – editor of Foreign Affairs
* Christopher Jencks (1954) – sociologist
* David Merwin (1954) – Olympic sprint canoer (1956)
* Robert Morey (1954) – Olympic rower (1956–gold medal)
* George Beall (1955)– prosecutor of Vice President Spiro Agnew
* G. Bradford Cook (1955) – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
* Charles D. Ellis (1955) – investment consultant; author; founder of Greenwich Associates
* John Gager (1955) – professor of religion at Princeton University
* Richard Maltby Jr. (1955) – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator
* John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia
* Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon
* Tom Whedon (1955) – television screenwriter
* Phil Wilson (c. 1955) – jazz trombonist
* Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
* William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer
* Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer
* H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
* Dennis Johnson (1956) – composer, mathematician
* J. Vinton Lawrence (1956) – C.I.A. operative; caricaturist
* Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian
* John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, United Nations, and Iraq; U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, the first Director of National Intelligence
* Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
* Peter Georgescu (1957) – author, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam
* Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator
* Herbert Kohler Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate)
* Terry Lenzner (1957) – lawyer
* Jack McCarthy (1957) – writer and slam poet
* Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. representative from Colorado; U.S. senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
* John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
* Don Briscoe (1958) – television actor
* George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
* Warren Hoge (1958) – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at The New York Times (did not graduate)
* David Lamb (1958) – reporter, bureau chief at The Los Angeles Times (did not graduate)
* George de Menil (1958) – French economist
* Stephen Robert (1958) – philanthropist and businessman, CEO of Oppenheimer & Co
* Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
* John M. Walker Jr. (1958) – chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
* David M. Eddy (1959) – physician
* David Rockefeller Jr. (1959) – philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
* Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
* Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher
* Charles Janeway (1959) – immunologist
* Tom Mankiewicz (1959) – screenwriter, director, producer
* Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer
* Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (1959) – educator, president of Yale University

### 1960s

* Alvin P. Adams, Jr. (1960) – ambassador to Peru, Haiti, and Djibouti
* Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist
* Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
* Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
* Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
* John Irving (1961) – author, The World According to Garp
* George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
* Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
* Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1961) – deputy mayor of New York City; president of the New York City Board of Education
* Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (1961) – curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art
* Kenneth Bacon (1962) – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International
* Evan A. Davis (1962) – president of the New York City Bar Association
* Chester E. Finn Jr. (1962) – educator; president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
* Larry Hough (1962) – Olympic rower (1968–silver medal, 1972)
* Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, editor at large of City Journal
* Gregory B. Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; White House Counsel; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial
* Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer
* Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
* Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art
* Paul Magriel (1964) – professional backgammon and poker player; author
* Peter Coors (1965) – president, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
* David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley
* Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author
* Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; mayor of Phoenix
* Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. representative from New Hampshire; governor of New Hampshire; U.S. senator from New Hampshire (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate)
* Helmut Panke (1965) – president, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
* Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
* Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist
* James Earl Coleman Jr. (1966) – attorney
* Kent Conrad (1966) – U.S. senator from North Dakota
* David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
* Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. representative from Iowa; political commentator
* Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) – U.S. representative from California
* David Olney (1966) – folk singer/songwriter
* Mark Ethridge (1967) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher
* Jonathan Galassi (1967) – president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
* Curt Hahn (1967) – filmmaker
* Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
* Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist
* Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, journalist, Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School
* Geoffrey Biddle (1968) – photographer
* Peter Galassi (1968) – curator
* Tom Birmingham (1968) – president of the Massachusetts Senate
* Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist
* John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
* Jerome Karabel (1968) – scholar
* Thomas Lennon (1968) – documentary filmmaker
* Steve Mantis (1968) – Canadian politician
* Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
* Dowell Myers (1968) – professor
* Anthony Davis (1969) – composer and jazz pianist
* Peter W. Galbraith (1969) – diplomat, author, ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate)
* John C. Harvey Jr. (1969) – Admiral, US Navy; Commander US Fleet Forces Command; Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
* Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
* Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor
* John McTiernan (1969) – filmmaker

### 1970s

* Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel
* Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
* Scott McConnell (1970) – journalist
* Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic
* Joyce Maynard (1971) – author
* Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer, keyboardist for Tom Petty
* Roland Merullo (1971) – author
* Banthoon Lamsam (1971) – banker
* Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author
* Howard Brookner (1972) – film director
* Robert J. Fisher (1972) – former chairman of the board, Gap, Inc.
* Shigehisa Kuriyama (1972) – historian of medicine
* Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman and politician; 89th governor of Connecticut
* W. Drake McFeely (1972) – chairman and president of W.W. Norton & Company
* Thomas G. Osenton (1972) – author; president, CEO, and publisher of The Sporting News Publishing Company
* Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist
* Eric Breindel (1973) – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
* Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
* Paul Romer (1973) – chief economist of the World Bank, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2018
* Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College
* Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
* Emery Brown (1974) – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
* Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
* Stephen Mandel (1974) – hedge fund manager
* William S. Fisher (1975) – businessman and investor
* Alix M. Freedman (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* Laurie Hays (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* Joseph Lykken (1975) – physicist
* John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
* Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
* Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, presidential candidate, 2020
* Ronald Chen (1976) – dean of Rutgers law school and advocate general for the State of New Jersey
* Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist
* Anne Marden (1976) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988–silver medal)
* Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America
* David McKean (1976) – author; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
* Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author
* James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
* James Rubin (1977) – former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Aug. 1997 – Apr. 2000)
* James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
* Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of Harvard Business Review; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
* Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
* Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
* Michael Lynton (1978) – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
* Paul Villinski (1978) – sculptor (did not graduate)
* Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards
* John J. Fisher (1979) – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
* Jonathan Smith (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1984–bronze medal, 1992)
* Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic rower (1984–silver medal, 1988)
* Hansen Clarke – U.S. representative from Michigan (did not graduate)
* William J. "Billy" Ruane Jr. – Boston area music promoter (did not graduate)

### 1980s

* Ted Hope (1980) – independent film producer, including The Ice Storm and Happiness
* Heather Cox Richardson (1980) – historian
* Richard Stockton Rush III (1980) – founder and CEO of OceanGate
* Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
* Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
* Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
* Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
* Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
* Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
* Kim McLarin (1982) – novelist
* Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
* Nancy Jo Sales (1982) – journalist; author
* Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
* Nicholas Perrin (1982) – former dean of Wheaton Graduate School and 16th president of Trinity International University.
* Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
* Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
* Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
* Charles Cameron Ludington (1983) – historian
* Henry Blodget (1984) – editor and CEO of Business Insider
* Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
* David Chipman (1984) – ATF agent and gun control activist
* Stephanie Stebich (1984) – director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Roland Tec (1984) – writer, director
* Vanessa Friedman (1985) – fashion critic
* Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician
* Edmund Perry (1985) – African-American teenager shot and killed by NYPD officers; inspiration to Michael Jackson
* Maya Forbes (1986) – screenwriter and television producer
* David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter
* Christine Harper (1987) – chief financial correspondent at Bloomberg News
* Tal Keinan (c. 1987) – Israeli entrepreneur, financier
* Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
* Peter Orszag (1987) – director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama
* China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
* Claudine Gay (1988) – professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies, President and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
* Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
* David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager
* Jeff Locker (c. 1989) – actor
* Joon Kim (1989) – acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

### 1990s

* Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
* Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
* Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media
* Katherine Reynolds Lewis (1990) – author
* Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
* Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
* John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, former head of Phillips Academy of Andover
* Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor
* Jeff Wilner (1990) – tight end for the Green Bay Packers
* Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist
* Trish Regan (1991) – television news anchor
* Eunice Yoon (1991) – television new anchor
* Roxane Gay (1992) – author
* Jason Hall (1992) – screenwriter (American Sniper); director
* Quentin Palfrey (1992) – lawyer, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts candidate, 2018
* Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
* Rajanya Shah (1992) – Olympic rower (2000)
* Brandon Williams (1992) – basketball player
* Andrew Yang (1992) – entrepreneur, presidential candidate, 2020
* Gregory W. Brown (1993) – composer
* John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
* Aomawa Shields (1993) – astronomer, TED Fellow
* Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert
* Drew Magary (1994) – journalist, humor columnist, and novelist
* Alex Okosi (1994) – media executive
* Philip Andelman (1995) – music video director
* Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower (2004)
* Sarah Milkovich (1996) – planetary geologist, engineer
* Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
* Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist; creator and host of Song Exploder
* Tom Cochran (1996) – Obama administration official
* Luke Bronin (1997) – mayor of Hartford
* Zach Iscol (1997) – US Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, 2021 comptroller candidate for New York City
* Susie Suh (1997) – musician
* Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
* Joy Fahrenkrog (1998) – member of the United States archery team
* Georgia Gould (1998) – Olympic mountain biker (2008, 2012–bronze medal)
* Sabrina Kolker (1998) – Olympic rower (2004, 2008)
* Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
* Kirstin Valdez Quade (1998) – writer
* Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
* Paul Yoon (1998) – novelist
* Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships

### 2000s

* Sam Fuld (2000) – Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics; general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies
* William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
* Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player
* Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
* Heather Jackson (2002) – triathlete and track cyclist
* Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower (2004, 2008, 2012–bronze medal)
* Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook
* Shani Boianjiu (2005) – author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
* Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower (2012)
* Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle

### 2010s

* Caroline Calloway (2010) – media personality
* Duncan Robinson (2013) – NBA player for the Miami Heat and former player for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
* Nicole Heavirland (2014) – USA rugby player
* Zhuo Qun Song (2015) – the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal
* Jacob Grandison, 2017, College Basketball player for Holy Cross, Illinois and Duke
* Rudi Ying (2017) – Supreme Hockey League hockey player