# List of St. Paul's School alumni

The following is a list of alumni of St. Paul's School. SPS is a preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
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* Y
* Z

## A

* Robert Allerton SPS Form of 1889, philanthropist; gave Allerton Garden on Kauai to the nation
* Michael J. Arlen, author of Exiles and Passage to Ararat (winner of the National Book Award); longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker
* Norman Armour 1905, United States ambassador
* John Jacob Astor IV, member of the Astor family who died on the RMS Titanic

## B

* Hobey Baker 1909, collegiate hockey player and World War I pilot
* E. Digby Baltzell 1932, sociologist responsible for popularizing the term "WASP"
* Matthew Winthrop Barzun, U.S. ambassador
* Alexis I. du Pont Bayard, lieutenant governor of Delaware
* Roland W. Betts 1964, CEO of Chelsea Piers, L.P. and major Republican Party contributor
* Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. 1915, ambassador during World War II to eight governments in exile
* Charles E. Bohlen, diplomat
* Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
* James Bond, did not graduate; namesake for Ian Fleming's fictional spy
* Marshall Latham Bond, owner of sled dog inspiration of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
* Daniel Baugh Brewster, U.S. senator from Maryland

## C

* Lorene Cary 1974, author of Black Ice, an autobiography detailing her experiences with the school; founder of Art Sanctuary in Philadelphia
* Alfred M. Coats (1869–1942), Scottish-American industrialist from Providence, R.I.
* Francis Parkman Coffin, electrical engineering pioneer
* Parker Corning 1893, U.S. congressman from New York
* Archibald Cox 1930, Watergate Special Prosecutor
* Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing

## D

* Frank H. Davis, Vermont State Treasurer
* Clarence Day 1892, humorist, author, and playwright
* Alexis Denisof, television, film and stage actor (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
* Harmar D. Denny, Jr., U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania
* Charles S. Dewey, U.S. congressman
* Marshall Dodge 1953, Yankee humorist
* Lucy Barzun Donnelly 1991, award-winning film and television producer
* Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol for the Kennedy administration; ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco
* Annie Duke, 1983, tournament poker champion, winner of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (2004)

## E

* The Baron Eden of Winton, 9th and 7th Bt, British Conservative politician
* Grenville T. Emmet 1893, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Austria
* John Franklin Enders 1915, Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine
* William R. Everdell, historian and author

## F

* Timothy Ferriss, entrepreneur and bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek
* Hamilton Fish, Jr. 1890, first American to die while charging San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War
* William Henry Furness III 1883, explorer and ethnologist

## G

* James Rudolph Garfield, politician, son of President James A. Garfield
* Rufus Gifford 1992, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
* Jeff Giuliano 1998, National Hockey League (NHL) player
* Malcolm Gordon 1887, member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
* Mark Gordon c. 1975, Wyoming state treasurer, rancher-businessman
* J. Peter Grace 1932, industrialist and sportsman
* Archibald Gracie IV, attended United States Military Academy (did not graduate), RMS Titanic survivor, author of Titanic: A Survivor's Story
* Eliza Griswold 1991, journalist/poet, author of New York Times bestseller The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
* Frank Tracy Griswold III 1955, 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
* A. R. Gurney 1948, playwright and novelist

## H

* Jeff Halpern 1994, NHL player
* Edward Harkness 1893, philanthropist after whom the Harkness table is named
* Huntington Hartford 1929, A&P heir, graduated after 8 years
* William Randolph Hearst 1881, newspaper publisher (did not graduate)
* Kelly Heaton 1990, sculptor, seer, scientist, and spiritualist known for her combination of visual art with analog electrical engineering
* Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. 1918, most celebrated American polo player of all time and World War I fighter-pilot (left school as president of Sixth Form)
* H. Allen Holmes 1950, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
* Amory Houghton Sr. 1917, U.S. Ambassador to France
* Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr. 1945, U.S. congressman (R-NY); CEO of Corning Glass Works
* Clement Hurd 1926, author and illustrator of children's books, including Goodnight Moon

## J

* Annie Jacobsen 1985, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author

## K

* Michael Kennedy 1976, son of Robert F. Kennedy
* John Kerry 1962, U.S. senator (D-MA), 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and 68th U.S. Secretary of State
* Shamus Khan 1996, sociologist and author
* Alan Khazei, founder of City Year
* Frederick Joseph Kinsman, ecclesiastical historian
* Sol Kumin, businessman and racehorse owner
* Benjamin Kunkel, novelist and political economist

## L

* Beirne Lay, Jr. 1927, author, Twelve O'Clock High
* Howard Lederer, tournament poker champion, winner of two World Series of Poker titles, and two World Poker Tour titles
* Janice Y.K. Lee 1990, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher
* John Lindsay 1940, U.S. congressman, former mayor of New York City

## M

* Michel McQueen Martin 1976, journalist for ABC and NPR
* Cord Meyer, CIA official
* Rick Moody 1979, novelist, author of The Ice Storm
* Paul Moore, Jr. 1937, 13th Episcopal bishop of New York
* William Moore 1933, president and chairman of the board, Bankers Trust
* J. P. Morgan, Jr. 1884, banker and philanthropist
* Junius Spencer Morgan II 1884, banker and art collector
* Samuel Eliot Morison, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard University professor
* Robert Mueller 1962, director of the FBI 2001–13, Special Counsel in 2017 U.S. election investigation

## N

* Philip Neal 1986, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet
* Francis Augustus Nelson, architect
* Judd Nelson 1978, actor, The Breakfast Club, Making the Grade

## O

* Catherine Oxenberg 1979, actress

## P

* Peter Pennoyer, 1975, architect, great-grandson of J. P. Morgan Jr.
* Maxwell Perkins 1903, noted editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Harry Boone Porter, Episcopal clergyman, author, editor of The Living Church magazine
* Robert Post 1928, prominent journalist and member of the Writing 69th
* Lewis Thompson Preston 1944, president of the World Bank

## R

* Jonathan Reckford 1980, CEO of Habitat for Humanity
* Whitelaw Reid, Jr., 1931, Chairman of the New York Herald Tribune and The Fresh Air Fund
* Marcus T. Reynolds, 1886, prominent architect in Albany, New York
* S. Dillon Ripley, 1932, 8th Director of the Smithsonian Institution (1964 to 1984) and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
* Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy 1905, Conservative MP, British Peer

## S

* Hermann von Wechlinger Schulte, anatomist and dean of Creighton University School of Medicine
* Charles Scribner III 1909, president of Charles Scribner's Sons
* Roger Shattuck, Proust scholar
* Alex Shoumatoff, literary journalist and environmentalist
* Lockhart Steele, 1992, blogger and journalist; founder of Curbed and former editorial director of Vox Media
* Anson Phelps Stokes II, 1896, philanthropist and Secretary of Yale University
* Anson Phelps Stokes III 1922, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts
* Edward L. Stokes, congressman (R) from Pennsylvania
* Nicholas Stoller, writer and director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Yes Man, and Get Him to the Greek
* Don Sweeney 1984, general manager of the Boston Bruins; former NHL player

## T

* William Howard Taft IV 1962, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, NATO ambassador
* Van Taylor, U.S. representative from Texas
* William Davis Taylor 1950, publisher of The Boston Globe
* Charles W. Thayer, diplomat
* Augusta Read Thomas, composer of orchestral music; chair of the Board of the American Music Center
* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, president, Canadian National Railway; Vanderbilt University football coach 1894; knighted by George V
* Garry Trudeau 1966, Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist

## V

* Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., member of the Vanderbilt family; became a notable Thoroughbred racehorse/race track owner
* Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr., wealthy businessman; died on the RMS Lusitania
* Cornelius Vanderbilt III
* James Vanderbilt 1994, Hollywood screenwriter

## W

* David Walton 1997, television and film actor
* Owen West, U.S. military officer and writer
* Charles H. Whipple, US Army brigadier general
* Sheldon Whitehouse 1973, U.S. senator (D-RI)
* Theodore Stark Wilkinson 1905, vice-admiral of the United States Navy during World War II
* Caroline Randall Williams 2006, poet/author, co-author of Soul Food Love
* John Gilbert Winant 1909, twice governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War II
* Owen Wister, writer
* Andrew Wylie, literary agent

## Z

* Alan "Scooter" Zackheim 2001, winner of the third season of Beauty and the Geek
* Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 1936, film and television actor