# List of The Hill School alumni

NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * *NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE• Only people who already have a Wikipedia article may appear here. This establishes notability. • The article must mention how they are associated with the school. • The fact of their association should have a reliable source cited, or it should be stated in their Wikipedia article. • All others will be deleted without further explanation. END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * *END OF NOTICE The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of The Hill School. The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

## A

* Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor
* William Arrowsmith, 1941 – professor

## B

* John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language
* James Baker III, 1948 – Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
* Chris Bala, 1997 – professional ice hockey player
* Perry Richardson Bass – investor and philanthropist
* Manoj Bhargava, 1972 – inventor of 5-hour Energy
* Pinckney Benedict, 1982 – screenwriter and author
* George Packer Berry – Dean of Harvard Medical School
* Josiah Bunting III, 1957 – educator, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute
* Butch van Breda Kolff, Professional basketball player and coach in the NBA
* Irving T. Bush, businessman
* William Whiting Borden, missionary, heir of Borden fortune
* Cleve Benedict, 1953 – West Virginian Congressman
* Curtis Bok, 1915 – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
* Hans Brase, 2012 – German Basketball player
* George Bradley

## C

* Robert Davis Carey, 1896 – governor and senator from Wyoming
* John Dickson Carr, 1925 – author
* Sabin Carr, 1924 – Olympic athlete
* Bernard Chan, 1983 – Hong Kong politician and businessman
* William F. Clinger, 1947 – former Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97, US Navy (1951–55, Lt.)
* Henry S. Coleman, c. 1944 – educator
* Chris Collingwood, 1985 – singer, songwriter, member of rock band Fountains of Wayne
* Paul Collins, 1986 – historian and memoirist
* James Cromwell, 1958 – Academy Award-nominated television and film actor
* Briggs Cunningham, 1926 – sportsman, motor enthusiast; won America's Cup yacht race in 1958
* Jay Clayton
* Seward Collins – Distributist, Anti-modernist
* Evans Clark (1888–1970), writer committed first to Communist and Socialist causes and then liberal socio-economic issues.

## D

* Hugh DeHaven, 1914 – professor at Cornell University and "Father of Crash Survivability"
* Kingman Douglass, 1914 – investment banker; deputy director of CIA
* Jack G. Downing, 1958 – Director of the National Clandestine Service under President Bill Clinton

## E

* Lincoln Ellsworth, 1919 – polar explorer, first to sight geographic North Pole along with explorer Roald Amundsen
* German Horton Hunt Emory
* Nick Eppehimer – professional basketball player
* Brett Eppehimer – professional basketball player

## F

* John Heaphy Fellowes, 1951 – U.S. Navy captain, pilot, and POW during the Vietnam War
* Leonard Firestone, 1927 – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1974–77, US Navy (WWII, Lt.)
* Clarence Fincke – Captain of Yale Football team, Hill Football coach
* Harold Furth, 1947 – scientist
* Morton Fetterolf – Pennsylvania State Senator
* William Fincke – pacifist minister
* Walter Forbes, 1961 – notable fraudulent executive
* Wilson P. Foss Jr., 1910 – board chair New York Trap Rock Corporation, art dealer and collector of Asian art

## G

* George Garrett, 1941 – poet, novelist, educator
* Chris Gebhard, 1992 – business owner, Pennsylvania state senator
* Wolcott Gibbs, class of '20 but did not graduate – writer for The New Yorker
* S. C. Gwynne, 1970 – bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist
* Caleb Frank Gates, 1922 – Chancellor of the University of Denver

## H

* Harry Hamlin, 1970 – actor
* Dick Harter, 1948 – assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers
* Laning Harvey, 1903 – Pennsylvania state senator
* Frederick Herreshoff, 1904 – amateur golfer
* Ralph Hills, 1921 – Olympic shot putter, physician
* Mahlon Hoagland, 1940 – discoverer of transfer RNA
* Randy Hopper, 1985 – Wisconsin State Senator
* Roger Horchow, 1945 – Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
* Clark Hoyt, 1960 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* James Calhoun Humes, 1952 – speechwriter
* Lamar Hunt, 1951 – businessman
* Nelson Bunker Hunt, did not graduate – scion of the Hunt Oil Company family; donated the costs to renovate his namesake building on campus
* Thad Hutcheson, 1933 – politician
* Sam Horner, 1956 – NFL halfback, defensive back and punter
* Ralph Hills – USA Olympian shot putter, bronze medallist

## J

* Alexander Jerrems

## K

* Bob Kudelski, 1983 – professional ice hockey player, 1994 NHL All Star
* Theo Killion – CEO 2010–14 tenure led the failing Zale Corporation back from near-bankruptcy
* Eric King – NFL player

## L

* Lewis Lehrman, 1956 – politician, businessman, author
* Robert A. Lovett, 1914 – fourth United States Secretary of Defense
* Bill Luders – notable naval architect
* Steven Lisberger – American film director and producer, directed Tron
* Josiah K. Lilly Jr.

## M

* James A. Michener, 1931 – author; faculty, department of English
* Alberto Mestre, 1982 – Olympian swimmer
* Charles William Mayo
* Spencer Moseley – CEO of Railway Express Agency
* Devereux Milburn – Big Four polo player

## P

* Frank Pace, 1929 – Secretary of the Army; CEO of General Dynamics
* Alan J. Pakula, 1944 – Hollywood director and producer
* George Patton IV, 1942 – Major General in the United States Army; son of World War II General George Patton
* Norman Pearlstine, 1960 – a former top editor at The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc., Bloomberg L.P. and The Los Angeles Times
* Lionel Pincus, 1948 – co-founder of Warburg Pincus
* William Porter, 1944 – Olympic athlete
* Winston L. Prouty, 1924 – U.S. Senator from Vermont (1959–1971)
* William Proxmire, 1934 – U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (D)
* Edward E. Paramore Jr. – screenwriter
* David Paton – founder of Orbis International
* Stephen Puth – Singer; Brother of Charlie Puth

## Q

* William Thomas Quick, 1964 – novelist, screenwriter, blogger. Named the Blogosphere.

## R

* Parviz C. Raji – Iranian Diplomat
* William S. Reyburn, Congressman for Pennsylvania
* Pat Rissmiller, 1998 – NHL athlete
* Robert F. Rockwell, 1903 – United States Congressman from Colorado
* William A. Roosma, U.S. Army major general
* Peter Rummell, CEO of St. Joe Company
* Frank Runyeon, 1971 – actor, two-time Emmy Award winner
* Marshall Rutter – lawyers, arts patron, co-founder of the Los Angeles Master Chorale

## S

* Len Sassaman, 1998 – computer scientist and biohacker; candidate for Satoshi
* Peter Schaffer, 1980 – lawyer and sports agent
* Jon Shirley, 1956 – former president of Microsoft
* Ernest Simpson, 1915 – British shipping tycoon best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married the former Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, elder brother of George VI
* Kenneth F. Simpson – congressman
* Lane Smith, attended in 1955, did not graduate – character actor
* Jerry Stahl, 1971 – novelist, screenwriter
* David Stein, 1979 – radio personality
* Oliver Stone, 1964 – Academy Award-winning producer/director
* William Irvin Swoope, 1888 – United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
* Daniel Willard Streeter – hunter, adventurer and author
* Barry Sheen, 1937 – British judge
* Stephen Sohn, 2005 – Korean-American Model

## T

* Harold E. Talbott, 1907 – aviator and president of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, which manufactured more wartime aircraft overall than any other U.S. plant; third secretary of the Air Force; selected the permanent site for the Air Force Academy
* Baird Tipson, Dr., 1961 – former president of Washington College
* Kevin Tkachuk – professional rugby player; faculty, department of History
* Franchot Tone, Class of 1923, but did not graduate – prominent, Oscar-nominated actor of American stage, film and television productions
* Juan T. Trippe, 1917 – airline pioneer, founder of Pan Am
* Bobby Troup – composer of "Route 66", musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner
* Donald Trump Jr., 1996 – son of Donald Trump
* Eric Trump, 2002 – son of Donald Trump; Hill board of trustees
* Roswell Tripp

## U

* David Vogel Uihlein, Sr. – heir to the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

## V

* John Van Voorhis, 1919 – New York Supreme Court Judge

## W

* John M. Walker, 1927 – physician and investment banker
* Douglas "Sandy" A. Warner III, 1964 – former CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co.
* Laurence Hawley Watres, 1900 – U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
* Harry Elkins Widener, 1902 – businessman; son of wealthy businessman George Dunton Widener; grandson of wealthy railroad tycoon Peter A.B. Widener; two buildings donated in his name
* Edmund Wilson, 1912 – writer
* Tom Wolf, 1967 – 47th Governor of Pennsylvania (2015–2023)
* Tobias Wolff, Class of 1964, but was expelled for forging information for admission – writer, novelist, English and writing professor at Stanford
* Sidney Wood – Wimbledon tennis champion
* Irving Price Wanger – congressman
* Benjamin Drake Wright

## Y

* Richard Yuengling Sr., 1933 – President of Yuengling Brewery