# List of Deerfield Academy alumni

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

## 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.

## 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
* 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
* 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, 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
* Elic Ayomanor, football player