List of Deerfield Academy alumni

The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted by decade of birth. See also Category:Deerfield Academy alumni.

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1780s

• George Grennell, Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts

1790s

• Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College

1810s

• John Williams (1817–1899), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• 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

Classes of the 1920s

• Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College

Classes of the 1930s

• Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist
• Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Douglas Kennedy (1915-1973), actor
• 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
• James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
• Thomas Hedley Reynolds (1920-2009), President of Bates College
• William Zinsser (born 1922), writer
• Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor
• Ian Barbour (1923-2013), Templeton Prize winner
• Charles Merrill Jr. (born 1920), writer, teacher and philanthropist
• John Mecklin (1918-1971), writer and journalist

Classes of the 1940s

• 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
• David S. Dodge (1922 – January 20, 2009) was the Vice-President for Administration (1979–83), Acting President (1981–82) and President (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut
• Thomas Keating (born 1923), monk
• Arthur Nims (born 1923), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
• Dickinson R. Debevoise (born 1924), District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• 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 recipient
• Daniel C. Searle (1926-2007), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
• John Ashbery (born 1927), poet
• James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
• Carl Richard Woese (1928-2012), 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
• Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
• John McPhee (born 1931) Nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
• Hoddy Hildreth (born 1931), member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth

Classes of the 1950s

• Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
• Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
• Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
• Nelson Doubleday, Jr. (born 1933), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
• 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
• 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
• David H. Koch (born 1940), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
• David Childs (born 1941), architect

Classes of the 1960s

• 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
• Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
• Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher
• Peter Gabel (born 1947), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
• Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host

Classes of the 1970s

• Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
• 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
• Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959), son of Sunny von Bulow and a member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
• Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar

Classes of the 1980s

• King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
• Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission
• Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
• Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
• Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
• Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
• Craig Janney (born 1967), NHL player
• Chris Waddell (born 1968), gold medalist Paralympic skier
• Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon

Classes of the 1990s

• Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Michael Sucsy (born 1973), acclaimed filmmaker, Grey Gardens
• Michael Glazer (born 1976), television producer and Hollywood entertainment columnist
• Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and Vice President of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
• Marty Reasoner (born 1977), professional ice hockey center currently playing for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League
• Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
• Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
• Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

Classes of the 2000s

• Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), professional ice hockey defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey league
• Molly Schaus (born 1988), U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
• Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
• Alex Killorn (born 1988), professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey league