List of Kent School people
Appearance
This list contains notable people associated with Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, including alumni and current and former faculty.
Alumni
Arts and entertainment
- John Biddle, yachting cinematographer and lecturer; inducted into America's Cup Hall of Fame
- Gordon Clapp, actor NYPD Blue
- Ted Danson, Emmy & Golden Globe winning actor, notably in Cheers[1]
- Emme, plus-size supermodel[2]
- Peter Farrelly, writer, producer, director (Outside Providence, Dumb and Dumber)
- Mamie Gummer (daughter of Meryl Streep), actress
- Joseph Kaiser, Metropolitan Opera star - operatic tenor
- Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy & American Dad animated series
- Daniel Richter, choreographer, actor 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Kaiwen Li, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
- Roger Sessions, class of 1911, composer, critic, teacher of music
- KT Tunstall, musician[3]
- Treat Williams, actor
Athletics
- David Quinn, class of 1984, hockey player for Minnesota North Stars & coach for Lake Erie Monsters
Business
- Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, Chairman of Daily Mail & General Trust (post-graduate year)
Engineering and science
- Schuyler V. Cammann, class of 1931, anthropologist
- Ilhi Synn, class of 1958, educator
- Bruno H. Zimm, class of 1938, polymer chemist and DNA researcher
Government and politics
- His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland, second in line to the Swedish Throne (left in his tenth year to attend finishing school)
- Jacob D. Beam, US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969–73
- L. Paul Bremer, US Presidential Envoy & "Administrator of Iraq" after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (left in late 1950s for Phillips Academy)
- Peter Carlisle, Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu [4]
- Richard Dearlove, former Chief of MI6, British Secret Intelligence Service (1999–2004)[5]
- Hamilton Fish IV, Congressman from New York, 1969–95
- Draper Kauffman, class of 1929, Navy Rear Admiral - considered father of Navy Frogmen & grandfather of Navy SEALs[6]
- Stewart McKinney, Congressman from Connecticut
- J. Fife Symington Jr., class of 1929, airline pioneer & former US Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago
- Cyrus Vance, class of 1935, former US Secretary of State
- Marie L. Yovanovitch, class of 1976, former US Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic; current US Ambassador to Armenia
- Baroness Scott of Needham Market, President of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrat Party & member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament.
Writers, journalists and Publishers
- Oliver Butterworth, class of 1933, writer & educator
- James Gould Cozzens, novelist, Pulitzer Prize recipient in 1949 for Guard of Honor; authored By Love Possessed
- Vine Deloria, Jr., class of 1951, American Indian author, theologian, historian, activist
- P. G. Downes, class of 1928, explorer, educator, author
- Rowland Evans, class of 1939, columnist, journalist, co-host of "Evans & Novak" on CNN
- Charles P. Kindleberger, class of 1928, historical economist, author
- Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, award winning documentary film maker & bestselling historical author
- Christopher McDougall, class of 1981, bestselling author
- John Rawls, class of 1939, political philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice[7]
- Serge Schmemann, class of 1963, reporter Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting recipient in 1991[8]
Faculty
- William H. Armstrong, Kent teacher for decades; author of "Study is Hard Work" & the novel, Sounder, which received the Newbery Medal in 1970 & made into an Oscar nominated movie
References
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- ^ "Ted Danson", Saturday Evening Post, May 1, 2007. Retrieved on March 12, 2008. "Actor and environmentalist Ted Danson's first starring role was on the basketball team at Connecticut's Kent School in 1961, before his interest in acting emerged while attending Stanford University."
- ^ Witchel, Alex."Size 14, 190 Pounds: A Model Figure", The New York Times, March 12, 1997. Retrieved on December 3, 2007. "When she was high-school age, her family moved back to the States, settling in Houston, and Emme attended the Kent School in Connecticut, where she joined the rowing team, sealing a life's passion for strenuous exercise."
- ^ Thomason, Carmel. "KT's got one eye on the future", Manchester Evening News, March 10, 2005. Retrieved on February 24, 2008. "After school, having learned to play the piano, flute and guitar, she left her native St Andrews to take up a scholarship at Kent School in Connecticut, New England, where she formed her first band, The Happy Campers."
- ^ Peter B. Carlisle, National District Attorneys Association. Retrieved on December 3, 2007.
- ^ New MI6 spymaster named, BBC News, February 25, 1999. Retrieved on February 13, 2008.
- ^ National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum. "Navy SEAL History", Navy UDT-SEAL Museum webpage, 2004. Retrieved on October 25, 2007.
- ^ Gewertz, Ken. "John Rawls, influential political philosopher, dead at 81", Harvard University Gazette, November 25, 2002. Retrieved on July 24, 2008.
- ^ Serge Schmemann - Executives Biographies - The New York Times Company