Hotchkiss School is a private, day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Following are some of its notable alumni. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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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 | 1924 | Yale University president | [1] |
Benjamin Woods Labaree | 1945 | Williams College dean | [1] |
Leonard Woods Labaree | 1915 | Yale history professor | [1] |
Roger Sherman Loomis | 1905 | Columbia English professor | [1] |
Scotty McLennan | 1966 | Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan | [1] |
Jerome J. Pollitt | 1953 | Yale art history professor | [1] |
Walter W. Taylor | 1931 | Conjunctive archaeology founder and professor | [1] |
Nader Tehrani | 1981 | Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union | [1] [2] |
Christopher Winship | 1968 | Harvard sociology professor [1] | [1] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Peter Arno | 1922 | The New Yorker cartoonist | [1] |
Thomas Hoving | 1949 | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | [1] |
Gerald Clery Murphy | 1907 | Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross | [1] |
Samuel Wagstaff | 1940 | Art curator and museum director | [1] |
Evans Woollen III | 1945 | Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis | [1] [3] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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John G. Avildsen | 1955 | Film director of Rocky and The Karate Kid | [1] |
Max Carlish | Documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award | ||
Elizabeth Chandler | 1982 | Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl Wants | [1] |
John Crosby | 1944 | Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of Arts | [1] |
Bradford Dillman | 1947 | Film actor | [1] |
Peter Duchin | 1954 | Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment | [1] |
Frederick "Dennis" Greene | 1968 | Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of Law | [1] |
John H. Hammond | 1929 | Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen | [1] |
Leland Hayward | 1920 | Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer | [1] |
Peter H. Hunt | 1957 | Theater 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 | 1977 | Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation | [1] |
Douglas Moore | 1911 | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer | [1] |
Ben Mulroney | 1993 | Host of Canadian Idol | [1] |
Scott Powell | 1966 | Member 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 | 1963 | Broadcast journalist | [1] |
Tom Werner | 1967 | Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show , 3rd Rock from the Sun , The Cosby Show | [1] |
Thunder Keck | 2017 | WWE wrestler | [5] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Samuel H. Blackmer | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court | [6] | |
Robert Bork | United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judge | [1] | |
Lisa Brown | 1978 | General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack Obama | [1] |
Eli Whitney Debevoise | 1917 | Attorney and founder of Debevoise & Plimpton | [1] |
Peter Hall | 1966 | Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont | [1] |
Jon Ormond Newman | 1949 | Judge of the United States court of appeals | [1] |
Potter Stewart | 1933 | Justice of the US Supreme Court | [1] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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José Camprubí | 1897 | La Prensa owner | [7] |
Edwin Denby | 1919 | Poet and dance critic | [1] |
Tom Dolby | 1994 | Author | [8] |
Varian Fry | 1926 | Journalist and "the American Schindler" | [1] |
John Hersey | 1932 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale's Pierson College master | [1] |
Lewis H. Lapham | 1952 | Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly | [1] |
William Loeb | 1923 | Publisher of the Union Leader newspaper | [1] |
Peter Matthiessen | 1945 | National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008 | [1] |
Archibald MacLeish | 1911 | Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | [1] |
Julia Quinn | 1987 | Romantic novelist | [1] |
Tom Reiss | 1982 | Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography | [1] |
MacKenzie Scott | 1988 | Novelist | [1] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Alexandra Golby | 1985 | Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School | [1] |
David Hawkins | 1931 | Science philosopher and Manhattan Project's official historian | |
Charles Snead Houston | 1931 | Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher | [1] |
Dickinson W. Richards Jr. | 1913 | Nobel Prize laureate | [1] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Thaddeus Beal | 1935 | Under Secretary of the Army | [1] |
Douglas Campbell | 1913 | First 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 | 1913 | Chief 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] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Margot Käßmann | 1975 | Bishop 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] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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R. Lawrence Coughlin | 1946 | United States House of Representatives | [1] |
Charles Edison | 1909 | Governor of New Jersey | [1] |
Frederick Vanderbilt Field | 1923 | Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific Relations | [9] |
Philip Goodhart | 1944 | British 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] |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Edwin F. Blair | 1920 | All-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 | [10] | |
Stephen Greenberg | 1966 | 2nd Deputy Commissioner of Baseball | [11] |
Matt Herr | NHL forward | ||
Fred Kammer | 1930 | Olympic bronze medalist in hockey | [1] |
Hank Ketcham | 1910 | All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame | [12] |
Gina Kingsbury | 2000 | Olympic gold medalist in hockey for Canada | [1] |
Torrey Mitchell | 2004 | NHL forward | [1] |
Marshall Rifai | 2016 | NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs | |
Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond | 1921 | Yale 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 | 1958 | 8th MLB Baseball Commissioner | [1] |
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