List of Hotchkiss School alumni

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This is a list of notable alumni of the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).

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Academia

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Willard F. Enteman II 1955 Bowdoin College president [1]
Arthur Lehman Goodhart 1908 Oxford’s University College master and legal scholar [1]
Alfred Whitney Griswold 1924Yale University president [1]
Benjamin Woods Labaree 1945 Williams College dean [1]
Leonard Woods Labaree 1915Yale history professor [1]
Roger Sherman Loomis 1905 Columbia English professor [1]
Scotty McLennan 1966Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan [1]
Jerome J. Pollitt 1953Yale art history professor [1]
Walter W. Taylor 1931 Conjunctive archaeology founder and professor [1]
Nader Tehrani 1981Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union [1] [2]
Christopher Winship 1968Harvard sociology professor [1] [1]

Art and architecture

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Peter Arno 1922 The New Yorker cartoonist [1]
Thomas Hoving 1949Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [1]
Gerald Clery Murphy 1907Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross [1]
Samuel Wagstaff 1940Art curator and museum director [1]
Evans Woollen III 1945Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis [1] [3]

Business

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Jonathan Bush 1949 George H. W. Bush's brother and investment banker
William H. T. Bush 1956Investment banker [4]
Roy D. Chapin Jr. 1933 American Motors CEO [1]
Granger K. Costikyan 1925 Armenian-American banker
Edsel Ford 1958 Ford Motor Company executive
Henry Ford II 1936 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
William Clay Ford Sr. 1943 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
William Clay Ford Jr. 1975 Ford Motor Company executive [1]
Briton Hadden 1915 Time co-founder [1]
Robert Lehman 1908 Lehman Brothers executive [1]
David McCord Lippincott 1943 McCann Erickson creative director and copywriter [1]
Henry Luce 1916 Time co-founder [1]
Mark Mays 1981 Clear Channel Communications executive [1]
Raymond McGuire 1975Former head of Investment Banking at Citigroup
Forrest Mars Jr. 1949 Mars, Inc. executive [1]
John Mars 1953 Mars, Inc. executive [1]
Philip W. Pillsbury 1920 Pillsbury Company executive [1]
John Shedd Reed 1935 Santa Fe Railway executive [1]
Harold Stanley 1904 Morgan Stanley founder [1]
John L. Thornton 1972 Goldman Sachs executive [1]
William von Mueffling 1986Cantillon Capital Management founder

Entertainment

NameClassNotabilityReferences
John G. Avildsen 1955Film director of Rocky and the The Karate Kid [1]
Max Carlish Documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award
Elizabeth Chandler 1982Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl Wants [1]
John Crosby 1944Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of Arts [1]
Bradford Dillman 1947Film actor [1]
Peter Duchin 1954Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment [1]
Frederick "Dennis" Greene 1968Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of Law [1]
John H. Hammond 1929Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen [1]
Leland Hayward 1920 Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer [1]
Peter H. Hunt 1957Theater and television director, recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776 [1]
Allison Janney 1977 Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress [1]
Esko Laine 1980 Double bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [1]
Chris Meledandri 1977Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation [1]
Douglas Moore 1911 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [1]
Ben Mulroney 1993Host of Canadian Idol [1]
Scott Powell 1966Member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon [1]
Roswell Rudd 1954 Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist [1]
Burr Steers Filmmaker and actor
Chris Wallace 1963Broadcast journalist [1]
Tom Werner 1967Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show , 3rd Rock from the Sun , The Cosby Show [1]

Government and diplomacy

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Victor Ashe 1963 United States Ambassador to Poland [1]
Malcolm Baldrige Jr. 1940 United States Secretary of Commerce [1]
Donald B. Easum 1942 United States Ambassador to Nigeria and United States Assistant Secretary of State [1]
G. McMurtrie Godley 1935 United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder of the Glimmerglass Opera [1]
Hallett Johnson 1904 United States Ambassador to Costa Rica [1]
Winston Lord 1955 United States Ambassador to China [1]
Livingston T. Merchant 1922 United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs [1]
Clark T. Randt Jr. 1964 United States Ambassador to China [1]
Strobe Talbott 1954 Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings Institution [1]
Paul Warnke Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Arthur K. Watson 1938 United States Ambassador to France [1]
Charles Yost 1956 United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Laos, Syria, and Morocco [1]

Law

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Samuel H. Blackmer Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court [5]
Robert Bork United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judge [1]
Lisa Brown 1978General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack Obama [1]
Eli Whitney Debevoise 1917Attorney and founder of Debevoise & Plimpton [1]
Peter Hall 1966Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont [1]
Jon Ormond Newman 1949Judge of the United States court of appeals [1]
Potter Stewart 1933 Justice of the US Supreme Court [1]

Literature and journalism

NameClassNotabilityReferences
José Camprubí 1897 La Prensa owner [6]
Edwin Denby 1919Poet and dance critic [1]
Tom Dolby 1994Author [7]
Varian Fry 1926Journalist and "the American Schindler" [1]
John Hersey 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale’s Pierson College master [1]
Lewis H. Lapham 1952Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly [1]
William Loeb 1923Publisher of the Union Leader newspaper [1]
Peter Matthiessen 1945 National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008 [1]
Archibald MacLeish 1911Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [1]
Julia Quinn 1987Romantic novelist [1]
Tom Reiss 1982Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography [1]
MacKenzie Scott 1988Novelist [1]

Medicine and science

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Alexandra Golby 1985 Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School [1]
David Hawkins 1931Science philosopher and Manhattan Project’s official historian
Charles Snead Houston 1931Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher [1]
Dickinson W. Richards Jr. 1913 Nobel Prize laureate [1]

Military

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Thaddeus Beal 1935 Under Secretary of the Army [1]
Douglas Campbell 1913First aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying ace [1]
Artemus Gates 1911 World War I hero and Under Secretary of the Navy [1]
Roswell Gilpatric 1924 Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense [1]
Frank O'Driscoll Hunter 1913Chief of the First Air Force in World War II [1]
Paul Nitze 1924 Secretary of the Navy [1]
Elliott B. Strauss 1921 Rear Admiral and key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy [1]

Ministry

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Margot Käßmann 1975Bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin , first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in Germany [1]
Henry Knox Sherrill 1907 Bishop of Massachusetts and Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church [1]

Politics

NameClassNotabilityReferences
R. Lawrence Coughlin 1946 United States House of Representatives [1]
Charles Edison 1909 Governor of New Jersey [1]
Frederick Vanderbilt Field 1923Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific Relations [8]
Philip Goodhart 1944British politician [1]
Porter J. Goss 1956 United States House of Representatives and Director of the CIA [1]
Ernest Gruening 1903 Governor of Alaska and United States Senate [1]
William Kirk Kaynor United States House of Representatives
Lawrence M. Judd 1906 Governor of Hawaii [1]
Robert D. Orr 1936 Governor of Indiana [1]
William Warren Scranton 1935 Governor of Pennsylvania and United States Ambassador to the United Nations [1]
Jerry Voorhis 1919 United States House of Representatives [1]

Sports

NameClassNotabilityReferences
Edwin F. Blair 1920All-American lineman for the undefeated Yale's 1923 football team [1]
Caitlin Cahow 2003 Olympic bronze and silver medalist in hockey [1]
Luke Glendening NHL forward [9]
Matt Herr NHL forward
Fred Kammer 1930 Olympic bronze medalist in hockey [1]
Hank Ketcham 1910All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame [10]
Gina Kingsbury 2000Olympic gold medalist in hockey for Canada [1]
Torrey Mitchell 2004 NHL forward [1]
Marshall Rifai 2016NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs
Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond 1921Yale University football player and coach [1]
Peter Revson Formula One race car driver.
Shavar Thomas Major League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football Team
Fay Vincent 19588th MLB Baseball Commissioner [1]

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