# List of Hopkins School people

The following is a list of Hopkins School people in alphabetical order. This includes alumni and/or faculty from Hopkins in any of its past forms (Hopkins School, Hopkins Grammar School).

## Academia
### College and university presidents and deans

* Guido Calabresi (1949) – Dean of the Yale Law School; U.S. Court of Appeals judge
* Dale G. Caldwell (1978) – education and religious leader and the first Black president of Centenary University
* Timothy Dwight V (1845) – president of Yale University
* Arthur Hadley (1872) – president of Yale University
* Jonathan Levin (1990) – economist and president of Stanford University
* Abraham Pierson (1664) – first rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School
* Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1816) – president of Yale University

### Scholars and professors

* Phoebe C. Ellsworth (1961) – social psychologist and professor at the University of Michigan
* Hanna Holborn Gray (1946) – historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago
* Henry Phelps Johnston (1862) – historian of the American Revolutionary War and professor at the City College of New York
* Benjamin Silliman (1833) – early professor of science
* Richard P. Strong (unknown class) – tropical medicine professor at Harvard who did significant work on plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases
* Thomas Anthony Thacher (1831) – classicist, college administrator
* Nim Tottenham (1992) – professor of psychology at Columbia University, where she leads the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
* Ansley Wilcox (1870) – scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt

### Other

* Sherman Day Thacher (1879) – founder of The Thacher School
* John Davenport (n/a) – founder of New Haven, early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school; regarded as Hopkins' founder

## Art and literature
### Authors

* John Denison Champlin Jr. (1852) – nonfiction writer and editor
* Mei Chin (1993) – novelist and food critic
* Elisha Cooper (1989) – author and illustrator
* Nicholas Dawidoff (1981) – author
* Trey Ellis (1980) – novelist
* C.E. Poverman (1962) – fiction author
* Marrion Wilcox (1874) – author and editor
* Theodore Winthrop (1841) – author

### Artists

* William Morris Hunt (1834) – painter
* Dan Wasserman (1967) – political cartoonist

## Business

* Julian Wheeler Curtiss (unknown class) – president of the Spalding sports equipment company and a pioneering promoter of golf in the United States
* Louis R. Ehrich (unknown class) – businessman, art dealer, and politician
* Henry Farnam (1870) – railroad president
* John Geanakoplos (1971) – economist
* George G. Haven, Jr. (unknown class) – businessman
* John Malone (1959) – telecommunications mogul

## Civil Society
### Clergy

* Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1864) – Episcopal Bishop
* Benjamin Brewster (1878) – Episcopal Bishop of Maine
* Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. (1849) – Third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
* Asa Drury (n/a) – rector of Hopkins from 1829 to 1831
* John Punnett Peters (1868) – Episcopal clergyman, archaeologist, professor, author

### Activists

* William Eno (1877) – road safety advocate and inventor
* John Huggins (did not graduate) – Black Power activist, leader of the Black Panther Party

## Entertainment and music
### Film, television, and theater

* Nicholas Britell (1999) – Primetime Emmy Award-winning and three-time Academy Award nominated film composer, pianist, and film producer
* George DiCenzo (1958) – actor, arts activist
* Alexander DiPersia (2000) – film actor
* Marcus Giamatti (1980) – actor, musician, writer and director; best known for starring in the CBS drama series Judging Amy
* Scott Lowell (1983) – actor, best known for Queer as Folk
* Jonathan Mostow (1979) – film director, writer, and producer

### Music

* Henry Durand (1877) – songwriter of Yale alma mater, "Bright College Years"
* Charles Ives (1894) – classical composer and insurance executive
* Harry Rowe Shelley (1876) – composer, organist, music professor
* Dick Wingate (1970) – music industry and digital entertainment executive

## Government and politics
### Governors of the United States

* Simeon E. Baldwin (1857) – Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor of Connecticut
* Roger Sherman Baldwin (1807) – U.S. Senator, Governor of Connecticut, defense attorney in Amistad case
* Henry W. Edwards (1793) – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut
* Edward Hopkins (n/a) – Colonial Governor of Connecticut, Hopkins' first benefactor
* William Hoppin (1824) – Governor of Rhode Island
* William Henry Hunt (1874) – federal and state judge, territorial governor of Puerto Rico

### United States Executive Branch officials

* Wilson S. Bissell (1865) – United States Postmaster General
* Julian Gerwirtz (2008) – diplomat, historian, and poet; Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in the Biden administration
* Edward House (1877) – diplomat, political adviser to Woodrow Wilson
* Gaillard Hunt (unknown class) – first Department of State Historian
* Harold Hongju Koh (1971) – Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, Dean of the Yale Law School
* Francisco Palmieri (1979) – Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
* John Addison Porter (unknown class) – journalist, and the first person to hold the position of "Secretary to the President" under President William McKinley

### United States Congress
#### U.S. Senators

* Orris Ferry (1840) – U.S. Congressman, Senator
* James Hillhouse (1769) – U.S. Congressman, Senator
* Selden Palmer Spencer (1880) – lawyer, United States Senator for Missouri

#### U.S. Representatives

* Henry Baldwin (1793) – U.S. Congressman, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Augustus Brandegee (1845) – U.S. House of Representatives
* William Henry Stiles (1825) – United States Representative for Georgia, U.S. chargé d'affaires to Vienna, Confederate colonel 60th GA
* James W. Wadsworth (unknown class) – U.S. Representative from New York
* Washington F. Willcox (1858) – U.S. Representative from Connecticut

### Military

* George W. Baird (1859) – US army officer; recipient of the Medal of Honor
* Frederick H. Dyer (unknown class) – drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War
* Joseph Mansfield (1817) – American Civil War Major General
* Alfred Terry (1838) – American Civil War Major General, military commander of the Dakota Territory
* William Chester Minor (1902) – army surgeon, psychiatric patient, and lexicographical researcher

### Judges

* Horace R. Buck (1872) – justice of the Montana Supreme Court
* William S. Case (1881) – associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1919 to 1921
* Sarah A. L. Merriam (1989) – attorney serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
* Edwards Pierrepont (1833) – New York Supreme Court justice; Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General

### Other U.S. Political Figures

* Samuel Greco (2011) – American politician, attorney, and Naval officer who currently serves as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives representing the 19th district
* Jared Ingersoll (1762) – delegate to the Continental Congress; signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania; Federalist vice presidential candidate

## Law

* Marc Kasowitz (1970) – trial lawyer and partner of the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres; former personal outside attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump
* Benjamin Matthias Nead (1866) – historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician.
* Morris Woodruff Seymour (1862) – historian, judge, and attorney
* Thomas Thacher (1867) – lawyer
* James D. Torreyson (unknown class) – eighth attorney general of the U.S state of Nevada
* Ben Wizner (1989) – American lawyer, writer, and civil liberties advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union; lead attorney of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

## Media and communications

* Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, scholar, and journalist
* Clare Morgana Gillis (1994) – journalist; former hostage of the Libyan Civil War
* Frederick E. Goodrich (unknown class) – journalist and political figure who worked for The Boston Post for fifty-four years
* Carolyn Hax (1984) – advice columnist for the Washington Post
* Justin Kutcher (1998) – sports commentator
* Samantha Vinograd (2001) – American journalist and national security analyst at CNN

## Science and technology

* Michael L. J. Apuzzo (1957) – Academic neurosurgeon, editor, futurist
* Jean Bennett (1972) – biomedical engineer
* Edward Bouchet (1870) – physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
* Lisa DeAngelis (unknown class) – neuro-oncologist and Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
* Josiah Willard Gibbs (1854) – father of Thermodynamics
* John Hays Hammond (1873) – mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers
* Paul MacCready (1943) – aeronautical engineer
* Robert Tuttle Morris (1877) – surgeon and writer
* Newton Morton (1947) – founder of modern genetic epidemiology
* James Davenport Whelpley (unknown class) – physician, author, editor, inventor, and metallurgist

## Sports

* Andy Bloch (1987) – professional poker player
* Walter Camp (1876) – founder of modern American football
* Ben Crosby (1888) – college football player and coach
* Jumping Jack Jones (unknown class) – MLB baseball pitcher, dentist and voice trainer
* Spencer Lovejoy (2016) – professional squash player
* Alexis Sablone (2004) – goofy-footed American professional skateboarder; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
* Teddy Vlock (2016) – former professional equestrian representing Israel and the United States of America; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
* Ben Washburne (2019) – 2024 Paralympics silver medalist for rowing
* Matt Weiss (2001) – football coach who most recently was the quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator for the Michigan Wolverines; served as a coach in multiple capacities for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL)

## Miscellaneous

* Ernest Flagg (1876) – architect
* Chauncey Goodrich (1804) – editor of the Webster's Dictionary
* Henry Murphy (1895) – architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House
* Harry Whitney (unknown class) – sportsman, adventurer, and author