Notable Alumni: short list

Name Class Areas of Note
William Coleman 1778 Political ally of Alexander Hamilton; First editor, New York Evening Post (1801-1829), leading Federalist and later Jacksonian newspaper
Levi Hutchins 1778 At 14, a fifer in the Massachusetts Militia, 1775; Privateer and later prisoner of war, 1779-1790; Clockmaker, 1787
Francis Cabot Lowell 1786 Pioneering industrialist, developer of corporate finance for industry; Founder, New England cotton textile industry; Lowell, Massachusetts named in his honor, 1826
Samuel Love Jr. 1787 Officer in the Revolution, 1776-; Virginia planter and early breeder of thoroughbred racehorses
Timothy Alden 1790 Founder and first president, Allegheny College, 1815
Joseph Tuckerman 1791 Unitarian minister; “Father of American social work”; Advocate for reforms benefitting the poor of Boston, 1825-1838
Timothy Flint 1795 Missionary and explorer on the American frontier, 1815-1830; Author, Geography of the Western United States (1828)
John Ball Brown 1798 Medical pioneer in orthopedic surgery; Founder, Boston Orthopedic Institution, 1838, the first orthopedic surgery in the United States
Levi Konkapot 1799 Member, Stockbridge [Stockbridge Munsee] Tribe; First Native American student at Andover; Reservation teacher; Member, Indian Company, War of 1812
Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1802 Artist and inventor; Portraitist and genre painter [ca.1810-1840]; Inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code [1832-1844]; First US experimenter and proponent of photography [1839-]
George Corbin Washington 1803 Grand-nephew, George Washington; President, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; Maryland congressman [1827-1833]; US commissioner to settle claims, Cherokee Treaty, 1844
Joseph Emerson Worcester 1805 Lexicographer and geographer; Author, A Geographical Dictionary (1816); Worcester’s Dictionary of the English Language (1860) was the first to include synonyms
Daniel Poor 1805 Missionary and educator in Sri Lanka and India [1816-1855]; Founder of 40 schools; Namesake, Daniel Poor Memorial Library [1926], American College, Madurai
Eleazar Lord 1810 Banker, railroad investor and writer on business affairs; President, Erie Railroad [1833-1835], Manhattan Insurance Co.; Philanthropist; benefactor, New York Sunday School Union
George Perkins Marsh 1816 Environmentalist, philologist, diplomat; “The Father of the American Environmental Movement”; Author, Man and Nature, 1865; a pioneering study of ecology; Authority on the origins and history of English and Scandinavian languages; Congressman, 1843-1849; US minister to Turkey, 1852-1854, and Italy, 1861-1882
Theodore Dwight Weld 1820 Abolitionist; Editor, The Emancipator, 1836-1840; Corresponding secretary, New York Anti-Slavery Society, 1837-1843; Coauthor, American Slavery As It Is (1839), with the exception of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, regarded as the most influential anti-slavery publication in the United States
Isaac Ray 1822 Physician, founder of forensic psychiatry; Founding director, Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence, 1845-1867; Author, Medical Jurisprudence (1838), Mental Hygiene (1863)
Nathaniel Parker Willis 1823 Journalist, editor, and poet; The highest-paid magazine writer of his day; Chronicler of manners and mores in the US and Europe, 1830s-1840s; Author, American Scenery (1840); Financial backer, promoter, and publisher of Edgar Allan Poe including “The Raven” [1845]; Founder and editor, The Home Journal, 1846-1867
Henrietta Jackson Hamlin 1829 The first of many early Abbot Academy graduates who became missionaries; Served and died at Constantinople, 1837-1850; An inspirational biography, “Light on the Dark River” by Margarette Woods Lawrence, appeared in 1854
Isaac Ingalls Stevens 1833 Army engineer, Mexican War, 1847-1848; Surveyor, northern route, transcontinental railroad, 1853; First governor, Washington Territory [1853-1857]; Washington Territorial Representative to Congress [1857-61]; Civil War major general, killed in the Battle of Chantilly, 1862
Mary Williams Chapin 1834 Mount Holyoke instructor, 1843-1850, principal, 1850-1865
Josiah Whitney 1836 Geologist & geographer; Author, Metallic Wealth of the United States (1854); California state geologist, 1860-1874; Namesake, Mount Whitney, tallest in the Lower 48; Professor of geology, Harvard, 1865-1896
George Horatio Derby 1838 Army topographical engineer; humorist; Surveyor in California, Oregon and Washington [1850s]; Author, Phoenix’s Pictorial and Front Room Companion [1851], “The Squibob Papers” [1865]
Frederick Law Olmsted 1838 America’s preeminent 19th-century landscape architect; Designer, New York’s Central Park, 1858, Boston’s Emerald Necklace and many other parks, campuses, subdivisions, estates, etc.; Phillips Academy his successor firm’s longest-standing client, 1891-1965; Author, Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom (1861), Yosemite and Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report (1865); Conservationist and proponent of national parks
Maria Susana Cummins 1845 Author of popular fiction; First novel, The Lamplighter, an international bestseller in 1854 and widely successful in stage adaptations
William LeBaron Jenney 1846 Civil War-era Army engineer, designing fortifications and encampments; Chicago structural engineer and architect [1867-1900]; Developer of steel frame construction and fireproofing for tall buildings; Jenney’s Home Insurance Building [1884-] was the world’s 1st true skyscraper
David Hewes 1847 San Francisco boomtown-era contractor and developer [1849-]; Creator of much of downtown San Francisco through landfill; Creator of the ceremony and gold spike marking completion of the transcontinental railroad [1869]
William H. Ward 1852 Editor, New York Independent [1869-1913]; Authority on Babylonian seals; organizer, Wolfe Babylonian Expedition; President, American Oriental Society [1890-1894, 1909-1910]
Samuel Warren Abbott 1854 Public health pioneer and medical statistician; Civil War surgeon [1862-1865]; medical examiner [1872-1884]; Founding secretary, Massachusetts State Board of Health [1886-1904]; Author, Past and Present Condition of Public Health [1882], Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: A Forty Year Summary [1895]
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps II 1858 Novelist and short-story writer; Her Civil War novel, The Gates Ajar, a bestseller [1868-1869]
Mary Mirriam 1858 Missionary in West Africa [ca.1860-1864]; Teacher, Freedmen’s Schools [1864-1874]; Author, “Home Life in Africa” [1867]
Richard Theodore Greener 1865 First African American graduate of Andover and then Harvard; Professor, University of South Carolina [1873-1877]; Dean, Howard University Law School [1879-1898], Republican campaign orator [1876-1884]; Leader in effort to build Grant’s Tomb in New York [1885-1892]; US diplomat and commercial agent, Vladivostok [1898-1905]
Alice Stone Blackwell 1867 Journalist and leader in women’s suffrage movement; Editor, Woman’s Journal [1881-1918]; Champion of Armenian rights and literature [1890s]; Author, Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman’s Rights [1930]
Joseph Hardy Neesima 1867 First Asian to graduate from Phillips Academy; Founder, Doshisha University, Kyoto (1875), now the largest private educational institution in Japan
Boudinot Currie Atterbury 1869 Medical missionary in China [1877-1896], later to Chinese communities in New York and Pasadena; Recipient, Chinese Imperial Order of the Double Dragon [1896]
Edward Martin 1872 A founder, the Harvard Lampoon [1876]; Founder and first editor, Life humor magazine [1883-1936]
Charles Moore 1874 Architectural and city planning critic and patron of design; Chairman, United States Commission of Fine Arts [1915-1937]; Proponent of the City Beautiful Movement
Henry Granville Sharpe 1876 “Father of the Quartermaster Corps”; Major general, Spanish-American War and World War I; Author, treatises on military supply and procurement
Walter F. Willcox 1880 Professor of economics and statistics, Cornell [1891-1931]; Co-director, US Census [1900]; President, American Statistical Association [1911-1912]; President, American Economic Association [1915]
Laura Billings Lee 1881 Philanthropist and social activist; Builder and owner of model tenements in New York [1900-1915]; Leader, Charities Organization Society [1902-1938]
Chentung Liang Cheng 1882 Chinese diplomat; Minister to the United States [1903-1908]; Ambassador to Germany [1909-1911]; Knighted by Queen Victoria [1897]
Henry L. Stimson 1883 Attorney and statesman; United States Secretary of Sar [1911-13]; Governor general, the Philippines [1927-29]; United States Secretary of State [1929-33]; United States Secretary of War [1940-1945]; President, Phillips Academy Board of Trustees [1935-1946]
Henry Solon Graves 1888 Forester and environmentalist; Organizer, Yale School of Forestry [1900], dean [1922-1939]; Cofounder, US Forest Service [1901], director [1910-1920]; Leader in effort to save California redwoods; Namesake, Henry Solon Graves Grove, Redwoods State Park [1926]
Frank Hinkey 1891 Andover’s most celebrated football player; All-American defenseman, Yale [1891-1894]; One of only three players named All-American four years running; Pop Warner named Hinkey “the greatest football player of all time”
W.T.B. Williams 1893 Advocate for African American education; Agent, General Education Board [ca. 1900-1930]; President, American Teachers Association [1911-1912]; Dean, Tuskegee University [1930s]; Recipient, NAACP Springarn Medal [1934]
Hiram Bingham 1894 Explorer, archeologist, aviator, and politician; Rediscoverer of Machu Picchu [1911]; Lieutenant governor of Connecticut [1922-1924]; Republican senator from Connecticut [1924-1933]; Promoter of aviation
George Hoyt Whipple 1896 Pathologist and medical researcher; Discoverer of lipodystrophia intestinalis (1907), “Whipple’s Disease”; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Medicine [1934] for research leading to a cure for pernicious anemia
Adelbert Ames II 1898 Pioneer in the psychology of optics; Creator of optical illusions: Ames Window, Ames Room [1934]; Research director, Dartmouth Eye Institute [1935-1947]; Recipient, American Optical Society Tillyer Medal [1955]
William Clarence Matthews 1901 Outstanding shortstop for Andover and Harvard; Barred from Major League baseball because he was black; Attorney to Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey; A Republican, Matthews served as a US Attorney [1913-] and was appointed to the Justice Department by Calvin Coolidge [1925-]; Namesake, Ivy League Baseball Championship Trophy [2006]
Alfred Lee Loomis 1905 Investment banker, philanthropist, and physicist; “father” of ultrasonics; Inventor, Aberdeen Chronograph [1918], LORAN navigation [ca. 1942]; Founder and funder, Loomis Physics Laboratory [1926-1940]; Director of radar development, World War II; Described by Franklin Roosevelt as second only to Churchill as the civilian most responsible for Allied victory
Elizabeth Watts 1908 Teacher (later director and trustee), Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky [1909-1993]; Voted a “Kentucky Colonel” by state legislature; Recipient, Fuess Award [1982]
Edwin Cohn 1911 Biochemist and medical researcher, specialist in chemistry of proteins and human blood fractionation; Developer of practical cure for pernicious anemia (1928) based on research of George Whipple [PA 1896]; Developer of systems for the utilization of all components of blood for medical transfusions, work critical during World War II; Coauthor, “Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides” [1943]
Richard K. Sutherland 1911 Lieutenant General, World War II; Chief of staff to General Douglas MacArthur; Presiding officer at Japan’s surrender, ending the war [1945]
Adam Gimbel 1912 Retailer; President, Saks Fifth Avenue [1926-69]; Creator of the nation’s largest specialty chain
Winthrop H. Smith 1912 Stockbroker; Managing director, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith [1940-1961]
Elisabeth Luce Moore 1919 Leader in social service organizations, educational institutions, and philanthropy [1930s-1990s]; Henry Luce Foundation Board of Trustees [1936-199]; Chair, USO National Council, World War II; Chair, US Institute of International Education; Chair, YMCA Foreign Division; Chair, Institute for International Education; Chair, Board of Trustees, State University System of New York [1968-1978]
Humphrey Bogart 1920 Actor best known for film roles in “Petrified Forest” [1936], “The Maltese Falcon” [1941], “Casablanca” [1943], “The Big Sleep” [1946], “Treasure of Sierra Madre” [1948], “The African Queen” [1951]; Academy Award, Best Actor [1951]; Per the American Film Institute, “Hollywood’s greatest male star”
Joseph Cornell 1921 Artist: surrealist assemblagist and creator of shadow boxes [active 1930s-1960s]
Emilio Collado 1927 United States Treasury and State Department economist [1934-44]; Member, American negotiating team, Bretton Woods Conference, 1944; First US executive director, World Bank, 1947
Despina Plakias Messinesi 1929 1929
Donna Brace Ogilvie 1930 Chair, National Board, Girls Inc. [1972-]; Benefactor: Girls Inc., Stanford Hospital, Yale University, Abbot Academy, and Phillips Academy; Recipient, Fuess Award [1997]
Arthur Murray Preston 1931 Torpedo boat commander, World War II; Recipient, Medal of Honor for gallantry [1944]
William S. Vickrey 1931 Economist; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics [1996] for economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
Lyman Spitzer 1931 Leader in plasma physics & space astronomy; Chair, Princeton Astrophysical Sciences Dept. [1947-] and Plasma Physics Laboratory [1951-1967]; Designer, first telescope-bearing satellite; Champion of what became the Hubble Space Telescope [1946-1990]; Recipient, National Medal of Science [1979]; Namesake, Spitzer Space Telescope [2003]
William Knowles 1935 Chemist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002, for development of catalytic asymmetric synthesis
Mary “Maria” Curtis-Verna 1939 Dramatic soprano; La Scala debut [1949], Metropolitan Opera debut [1957]
George H. W. Bush 1942 Texas congressman [1967-1971]; United Nations ambassador [1971-1973]; Chairman, Republican National Committee [1972-1974]; Chief, US Liaison Office, People’s Republic of China [1974-1976]; CIA director [1976-1977]; Recipient, Fuess Award [1981]; Vice President of the United States [1981-1989]; 41st President of the United States [1989-1993]; Coauthor, “A World Transformed” [1998]; Namesake, aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush [2009]
Jack Lemmon 1943 Movie actor, remembered especially for roles in “Mr. Roberts” [1955], “Some Like It Hot” [1959], “The Apartment” [1960], “Days of Wine & Roses” [1962], “The Odd Couple” [1968], “Save the Tiger” [1973], “Missing” [1982], “Grumpy Old Men” [1993]; Academy Award [1955, 1973]; Cannes Film Festival, Best Actor Award [1979, 1982]; Golden Globe Award, Best Comedy Actor [1959, 1960, 1972]
Elihu Lauterpacht 1944 British attorney, specialist in international law, and inter-state litigation before the International Court of Justice; Founder & 1st director, Research Centre for International Law [now Lauterpacht Centre], Cambridge University [1984-95]; QC [1970], CBE [1989], knighted [1996]
Julia Tavares de Alvarez 1944 Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations [1978-], known as “the Ambassador on Aging”
George “Fritz” Jewett 1945 Chair, 5 America’s Cup syndicates [1973-2000], winning with “Freedom” [1980] & “Stars and Stripes” [1987]; Chair, San Francisco Asian Art Commission and Asian Art Museum [1967-]
Clemency Chase Coggens 1951 Archeologist, specialist in Ancient Mesoamerica; Coauthor, “Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well of Chechen Itza” [1984]; Advocate for archeological preservation
Peter Chermayeff 1953 Architect and filmmaker; Creator of the modern-day landmark aquarium, beginning with the New England Aquarium [1962-1969]; National Aquarium, Baltimore [1975-81]; Osaka Aquarium [1987-1990]; Lisbon Oceanarium [1994-1998]; Recipient, Fuess Award [1979]
George Bundy Smith 1955 Jurist; Associate justice, New York Supreme Court [1980-1986]; Associate justice, New York Court of Appeals [1992-2006]; author, decision in “People v. LaValle” terminating the death penalty in New York State [2004]; Recipient, Fuess Award [1985]
Cecile Erickson Mactaggart 1957 Collector and philanthropist; “Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection” [2009], Royal Ontario Museum
Jesse Colin Young 1959 Singer/songwriter; Lead singer, The Youngbloods [1965-72]; “Get Together” a top-ten hit [1969]
Christopher McKee 1960 Physicist; specialist in intrastellar gases; Professor of physics and astronomy, University of California, Berkeley [1974-]; Director, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory [1985-1998]
Edward Bass 1963 Philanthropist; Lead donor, Biosphere II [1985-], Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies [1991-], Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth [1998-]
Tachi Yamada 1963 Physician, pharmaceutical executive, global healthcare funder; Gastroenterologist; chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medical School, [-1996]; GlaxoSmithKline R&D chairman [1999-2005]; President, Gates Foundation Global Health Programs [2006]
George W. Bush 1964 Managing general partner, Texas Rangers baseball team [1989-1994]; Governor of Texas [1995-2000]; President of the United States [2001-2009]
Mary Wilkes Eubanks 1965 Anthropologist and botanist; Senior research scientist, Duke, studying the origin, evolution and improvement of maize; President, Sun Dance Genetics [2002-]; Recipient, Fuess Award [2000]
Julia Alvarez 1967 Novelist, poet, and essayist; Author, How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents [1991], In a Time of Butterflies [1994], Once Upon a Quinceanera [2007]
James B. Steinberg 1970 Foreign policy analyst; Director, State Department planning staff [1994-1996]; Deputy national security advisor [1996-2000]; Director, foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution [2001-2005]; Dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy [2005-2008]; Deputy secretary of state [2009-]
Bill Belichick 1971 National Football League head coach; Cleveland Browns [1985-1990], New England Patriots [2000-]; Winner of five Super Bowls [2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016]; Founder, Bill Belichick Foundation
Maud Lavin 1972 Art and cultural historian; Author, The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch [1993], Clear New World: Culture, Politics & Graphic Design [2001]
H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger 1972 Journalist; Recipient, Pulitzer Prize, Investigative Reporting [1987]; Author, Friday Night Lights [1988], A Prayer for the City [1998], Three Nights in August [2005]
William F. Owen Jr. 1973 Physician: specialist in kidney disease and transplantation; President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey [2007-]
Guy Nordenson 1973 Structural engineer; Professor, Princeton School of Architecture [1995-]; NYC Public Design Commission (2006-2015); Author, “Tall Buildings” (2003), “WTC Emergency Building Damage Assessment” (2004), “Seven Structural Engineers” (2008), “On the Water | Palisade Bay (2010), “Patterns and Structure” (2010), “Reading Structures” (2016)
Rob Long 1983 Television writer and producer: “Cheers,” “George and Leo”; National Public Radio (NPR) commentator and host, “Martini Shot”; Contributor to SLATE, National Review
Chas Fagan 1984 Painter and sculptor, presidential portrait artist; California’s Fagan statue of Ronald Reagan installed in Statuary Hall, US Capital Building [2009]
Rosanne Adderley 1985 Historian, specialist in the African Diaspora; Author, ‘New Negroes from Africa’: Slave Trade Abolition; Free African Settlement in the…Caribbean [2006]; Recipient, Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association [2007]
Juan Mario Laserna Jaramillo 1986 Economist; General director of Public Credit, Colombia (1999-2002); Director, Central Bank of Colombia [2005-]
Ed Ronan 1987 National Hockey League [1991-98]; Team member, Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens [1993]
Rahim Aga Khan 1990 Executive director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, the world’s second largest private, nonprofit economic development foundation
Hafsat Abiola 1992 Nigerian human rights activist; Executive director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy; Global Leaders of Tomorrow Award, Davos Economic Forum [2000]; Fellow, Ashoka Innovators for the Public [2003]
Katherine Hays 1994 Software innovator and entrepreneur; Cofounder and COO/CFO, Massive, Inc. [2002-2006]; CEO, GenArts [2008-]
Seth Moulton 1997 Marine Corps officer, multiple tours in Iraq [2003-]; Commentator of the Iraq War [2006-]; U.S. Congressman
Charles Forelle 1998 Journalist; Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service [2007], Wall Street Journal coverage of corporate backdating of stock options
Caroline Lind 2002 All-American, Princeton Women’s Crew Team [2004, 2006]; US National Crew Team, winner, Remenham Cup, Henley [2006]; World championship gold medalist, Women’s Eight [2006, 2007]; Gold medalist, US Olympic Crew Team Women’s Eight [2008]
Christopher R. Hughes 2002 Cofounder and spokesman, Facebook [2004-2007]; Coordinator, online organizing, Barack Obama presidential campaign [2007-2008]
Jae-Kyu Lee 2008 Member, US Computational Linguistics Olympiad team, gold medal winners, 7th International Linguistics Olympiad [2008]