List of Deerfield Academy alumni
The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted by decade of birth.
1780s
- George Grennell, Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
1790s
- Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College
1810s
- George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian
1820s
- Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor
1860s
- William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
1910s
- Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
- Budd Schulberg (born 1914), screenwriter and novelist
- Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
- Leonard Meeker (born 1916), U.S. Ambassador to Romania
- Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), academic and activist
- Edwin W. Martin (1917–1991), U.S. Ambassador to Burma
- John Edward Sawyer (1917–1995), president of Williams College
- Robert Morgenthau (born 1919), Manhattan district attorney
1920s
- James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
- William Zinsser (born 1920), writer
- Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
- John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
- Thomas Keating (born 1923), monk
- Arthur Nims (born 1923), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
- William Stoltzfus, Jr. (born 1924), U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman
- William Sloane Coffin (1924–2006), minister, attended without graduating
- John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Ogden R. Reid (born 1925), U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize
- John Ashbery (born 1927), poet
- James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
- Carl Richard Woese (born 1928), Major American Biologist, Discovered Archeabacteria
- Allen Stack (1928–1999), Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
- John Gunther, Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book Death Be Not Proud
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1930s
- Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- John McPhee (born 1931), writer
- Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
- Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
- Richard Mellon Scaife (born 1932), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
- Robert Hazard Edwards (born 1934), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
- Thomas C. Reed (born 1934), Secretary of the Air Force
- Warren Zimmermann (1935–2004), final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
- Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
- Joseph Verner Reed (born 1937), U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
- Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
- Eric Widmer (born 1939), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy
1940s
- David H. Koch (born 1940), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
- David Childs (born 1941), architect
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo (born 1943), U.S. Congressman from New York
- Robert Beavers (born 1949), experimental filmmaker
- Pete Varney (born 1949), Major League Baseball player
1950s
- Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
- Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
- Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host
- Jeffrey Bewkes (born 1953) CEO of Time Warner
- Nigel Newton(born 1955), Publisher, Founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
- Kerry Emanuel (born 1955), scholar
- Buddy Teevens (born 1956), Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
- Ken Bentsen, Jr. (born 1959), U.S. Congressman from Texas
1960s
- Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar
- King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
- Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. (born 1964), philanthropist
- Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
- Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
- Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
- Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
- Chris Waddell (born 1968), Gold Medalist Paralympic skier
- Andrew Trees (born 1968), author of "Academy X"
1970s
- Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
- Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
- Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
1980s
- Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), Bronze Medalist U.S. women's hockey player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
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