page_title: List of Punahou School alumni
section_title: Other cultural notables
hierarchical_section_title: List of Punahou School alumni / Cultural notables / Other cultural notables
caption_attribution_description: Color Portrait of Sun Yat-Sen (孫文, 孫中山, 孫逸仙)
context_page_description: This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School. An asterisk indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.
  Numerous athletic, educational, cultural, business, and government leaders of significance to the State of Hawaii have been excluded, as well as most University of Hawaii and other State of Hawaii educators, and Hawaii-based entertainers, and artists.
context_section_description: 1869 Alexander Cartwright III—early player of baseball with Punahou classmates; son of baseball's inventor, Alexander Cartwright, Jr.
  1875* Lorrin A. Thurston—leader of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, owner of Honolulu Advertiser, early player of baseball with Cartwrights
  1883* Sun Yat-Sen—founding president of the Republic of China, founder of the Kuomintang (attended 1882-83)
  '27 Ellery Chun (Yale)—creator of the Aloha shirt
  '34 Stanley Livingston, Jr. (Yale)—America's Cup Hall of Fame inductor, and recipient of the Silver Star
  '41 William M. C. Lam (MIT)—Lam Partners architectural lighting, e.g., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
  '48 Samuel Van Culin (Princeton)—Canon Ecumenist at Washington National Cathedral, Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, England and St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem
  '55* Ron Jacobs—co-creator of American Top 40
  '57 Abe P. Takahashi (Michigan State)—Bureau Director of Michigan State Police
  '58 Jerry Berman (Berkeley)—Chief Legislative Counsel of ACLU, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of Center for Democracy and Technology
  '61 Henry Y. H. Kim (Annapolis)—US Forest Service pilot killed in action; Henry Y. H. Kim Aviation Facility (Prescott National Forest)
  '62 Charles L. Veach (Air Force Academy)—astronaut, two shuttle missions; Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Force Commendation Medal
  '65 Charlie Wedemeyer (Michigan State)—medical survivor celebrated in Emmy Award-winning film, Quiet Victory
  '66 Gary R. Weidner (Wisconsin)—Chancellor's Award-winning booster at University of Wisconsin Green Bay
  '67 Susan M. Sandlin (American U)—American Kennel Club judge of Maltese, Shih Tzu, and Yorkshire Terriers
  '70 Arthur Johnsen, artist and painter of Hawaiiana, including The Goddess Pele
  '72 Nainoa Thompson (UH)—navigator of the Hōkūleʻa establishing Polynesian diaspora, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Kamehameha Schools
  '75 Lindy Vivas (UCLA)—Fresno State women's volleyball coach, plaintiff awarded largest compensation for retaliation under Title IX discrimination statute
  '76 Judi Andersen—Miss Hawaii, Miss USA, and runner-up Miss Universe
  '79 Quentin Kawananakoa (USC)—current claimant to head of Hawaiian kingdom, Hawaii state representative, Republican minority leader
  '80 Kevin Edward Brown (Washington & Lee)—Project manager of CloudSat and CALIPSO, NASA Exceptional Service Medal
  '81 Scott Seetow (Arizona)—Division Director for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
  '86 Richard Y. Lee (Yale)—college defensive tackle, internet executive, casualty of September 11, 2001 attacks
  '87 Heather Malia Ho (Boston)—executive pastry chef at Windows on the World, North Tower 107th Floor, casualty of September 11, 2001 attacks
  '89 Adriana Yvonne Iwalani Spray—Paris model under Elite Model Management
  '89* Brook Mahealani Lee—Miss Hawaii USA and Miss Universe 1997 (attended 1981-1987)
  '95 Candes Gentry (UH)—Miss Hawaii USA 1999
  '95 Kealoha (MIT)—Performance poet (Hawaii's first Poet Laureate and National Poetry Slam Legend), storyteller, and Hawaii's SlamMaster
  '96* Ehren Watada (HPU)—Army Lieutenant involved in Iraq War court-martial mistrial over command responsibility (attended 199?-93)
  '96* Lena Yada—professional wrestler and actress (attended 1992-1996)
  '02* Kiwi Camara (HPU)—youngest matriculate of Harvard Law School, catalyst for racial scandal (attended 1990-95?)
  '12 Penelope Ng Pack (American U)—Miss Hawaii 2018
caption: Republic of China President Sun Yat Sen
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