List of Horace Mann School alumni

See also: Category:Horace Mann School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York.

• Desiree Akhavan '02, director, writer, actress; winner 2018 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize ^[1]
• Pedro Álvarez '05, Major League baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles ^{[2] [3]}
• Harrison Bader ‘12, Major League baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins ^{[4] [5]}
• Erik Barnouw, writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor ^[6]
• William Barr, U.S. attorney general under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump ^[7]
• Alex Berenson, spy novelist, former reporter for The New York Times ^[8]
• Josh Bernstein ‘89 – host of The History Channel's Digging For the Truth ^[9]
• Ilse Bischoff, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author ^[10]
• Alan Blinken, former United States ambassador to Belgium (1993–1997) ^[11]
• Donald M. Blinken, investment banker, former ambassador to Hungary ^[11]
• Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon
• Amy S. Bruckman, ‘83, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology ^[12]
• Robert Caro‘53, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner ^[6]
• Elliott Carter, composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner ^[13]
• Chao-chu Chi Returned to China and became interpreter for Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.
• Roy Cohn, aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial, mentor to Donald Trump ^{[14] [15]}
• David Cornstein, US ambassador to Hungary ^[16]
• Joseph Cumming, Yale scholar and pastor
• John Dall, actor
• Jerome Alan Danzig, reporter, news producer, and adviser to New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller ^[17]
• Peter Deutsch, former congressman ^[18]
• Valentine Davies, class of 1923, author of Miracle on 34th Street
• Bethany Donaphin, class of 1998, Head of Operations at the Women's National Basketball Association
• Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times
• Martin Duberman, class of 1948, author and gay rights historian. ^[6]
• Seymour Durst, real estate developer ^[19]
• Morris Leopold Ernst, lawyer and co-founder the American Civil Liberties Union ^[6]
• Charles Evans, founder of fashion house Evan-Piccone, and producer of Tootsie
• Halley Feiffer, class of 2003, playwright
• Ivan Fisher, lawyer
• Marc Fisher, class of 1976, writer and editor for The Washington Post
• Doris Fleischman, writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist ^[20]
• Jennifer Fleiss, entrepreneur and co-founder of Rent the Runway
• Alan Furst, novelist ^[6]
• Henry Geldzahler, class of 1953, art critic, curator, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner, (1977–1982) ^[6]
• Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
• Mark Gerstein, bioinformatics professor, Yale University
• Alison Gertz, early AIDS activist ^[21]
• Bill Green, Republican member of the US House of Representatives from New York
• Alexandra Guarnaschelli, executive chef and food television personality
• Betty Hall, politician, New Hampshire state representative ^[22]
• Joshua Hammer, journalist and author
• Leland Hayward, Hollywood agent and Broadway producer
• Robert Heilbroner, economist, historian of economic thought, author ^[6]
• Anthony Hecht, poet ^[6]
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Anjli Jain Venture Capitalist.
• E. J. Kahn, class of 1933, pillar of The New Yorker , author and journalist ^[6]
• Rockwell Kent, illustrator and painter
• Jack Kerouac, class of 1940, writer and Beat Literature iconoclast ^[6]
• Edward Koren, New Yorker cartoonist
• Richard Kluger, class of 1952, author and Pulitzer Prize winner ^[6]
• Herbert J. Kramer, class of 1939, Director of Public Affairs at the Office of Economic Opportunity under the Johnson administration.
• Robert Ledley, class of 1943, inventor of whole-body CT scanner, biomedical computing pioneer ^[23]
• Sir Thomas Legg, senior British civil servant ^[24]
• Tom Lehrer, political satirist and math professor ^[25]
• David Leonhardt, economics columnist for The New York Times , Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, 2011
• Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives ^[6]
• Andrew Levitas, artist and filmmaker
• Anthony Lewis, class of 1944, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner ^[6]
• Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights leader and former congressman ^[6]
• Joshua Malina, actor and member of the cast of the television series The West Wing
• David Mandel, class of 1988, television writer and producer for Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Jonathan Marks, class of 1971, anthropologist
• Michael Mazur, artist ^[26]
• Dorothy Miner, class of 1922, art historian and curator at the Walters Art Museum
• Dwight C. Miner, class of 1922, professor of history at Columbia University
• Lucy Monroe, operatic soprano ^[27]
• Belle Moskowitz, likely class of 1893, early twentieth century progressive reformer and political advisor, referred to in her New York Times obituary as the most powerful woman in U.S. politics
• Martin Moynihan, class of 1946, ethologist and founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama ^[28]
• James Murdoch, media executive; son of Rupert Murdoch ^[29]
• Donald Newhouse, publisher
• Samuel Newhouse, media executive ^[30]
• Rebecca Oppenheimer class of 1990, astrophysicist
• Ilario Pantano class of 1989, former marine, political figure
• Nelson Peltz (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor
• Mark Penn, pollster and political consultant
• Mary Petty, illustrator ^[31]
• Kenneth Pollack, analyst and author on Middle East affairs ^[32]
• Generoso Pope, Jr., founder of the National Enquirer and American Media, Inc.
• Thomas S. Power, led Strategic Air Command
• Paul Rapoport, co-founder of New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis
• Ryan Reiss, incoming summer analyst at Piper Sandler
• Giles Sutherland Rich, patent attorney, author of the 1952 Patent Act, judge of the U.S. Customs and Patent Appeals and later U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Renée Richards, class of 1952 (graduated as Richard Raskind), professional tennis player, author, ophthalmologist, and Trans Rights activist
• Scott Rogowsky, class of 2003, comedian and host of HQ Trivia
• Daniel Rose, real estate developer, philanthropist, essayist
• David S. Rose, entrepreneur, investor and author
• Elihu Rose, real estate developer and military historian
• Frederick P. Rose, builder and philanthropist
• Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Jonathan F. P. Rose, urban planner and real estate developer
• Evan Rosen, journalist, strategist, author of The Culture of Collaboration and The Bounty Effect
• Jon Rubinstein, computer scientist and electrical engineer. A primary co-creator of the iPod and iMac
• Edward Thomas Ryan, class of 1980, Harvard microbiologist, immunologist
• James Salter, class of 1942, writer ^[6]
• David Sanders, class of 1979, biologist
• Marion K. Sanders, class of 1921, journalist, editor, author
• Barry Scheck, class of 1967, member of legal team that successfully defended O. J. Simpson; attorney and founder of the Innocence Project ^[6]
• James Schlesinger, former secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations and former secretary of energy in the Carter Administration
• Doug Schoen, political pollster, consultant and pundit; former partner of HM classmate Mark Penn
• John Searle, philosopher
• Charles Seife, class of 1989, mathematician and author
• Noah Shachtman, class of 1989, editor of The Daily Beast
• Gil Shaham, class of 1989, violinist
• Orli Shaham, class of 1993, pianist
• John Simon, New York Magazine critic and author
• Andrew Solomon, class of 1981, writer
• Jerry Speyer, class of 1958, a founder Tishman Speyer
• Eliot Spitzer, former governor and attorney general of New York ^[33]
• Austin Stark, award-winning filmmaker ^[34]
• Edward Steinfeld, class of 1984, noted political scientist ^{[35] [ citation needed ]}
• Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times
• Robert W. Sweet, United States District Court Judge
• Robert Tishman, real estate developer and co-founder of Tishman Speyer
• Beatrice Warde, writer and scholar on typography, author of “The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible” ^[36]
• Paul Francis Webster, class of 1926, Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning songwriter ^[37]
• William Carlos Williams, class of 1903, medical doctor and poet; Pulitzer Prize winner ^[6]
• Gertrude Weil, class of 1897 (or 1898?), suffragist, labor rights activist, civil rights and anti-lynching activist, and Zionist ^[38]
• Ben Yagoda, journalist and author ^[39]
• Rafael Yglesias, novelist and screenwriter ^[40]
• Paul Zimmerman, senior football writer for Sports Illustrated ^[41]

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