The List of Deerfield Academy alumni is a dynamic list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically.
Pre-1900 George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. congressman from Massachusetts Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College John Williams (1817–1899), presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian Mary Tenney Castle (1819–1907), missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army brigadier general awarded Medal of Honor William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. congressman from Connecticut
Classes of the 1920s Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design
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 (1919–2019), 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 (1922–2015), writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor Ian Barbour (1923–2013), Templeton Prize winner Charles Merrill Jr. (1920-2017), 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 (1922–2009), vice-president for administration (1979–83), acting president (1981–82) and president (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut Thomas Keating (1923–2018), monk Arthur Nims (1923–2019), chief judge of United States Tax Court Charles Clapp (1923–2004), judge of United States Tax Court Dickinson R. Debevoise (1924–2015), 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 (1925–2019), 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 (1927–2017), 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 George Quincey Lumsden Jr. (1930–2026), U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), president of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom Malcolm H. Kerr (1931–1984), president of the American University of Beirut John McPhee (born 1931), nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker Hoddy Hildreth (1931–2019), 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 (1932–2026), writer Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014), billionaire Mellon family heir, and philanthropist Nelson Doubleday Jr. (1933–2015), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets Thomas C. Reed (1934–2024), secretary of the Air Force Warren Zimmermann (1934–2004), final U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia Robert Hazard Edwards (1935–2025), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College James M. Banner Jr. (born 1935), historian Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III (born 1937), former owner of Anchor Brewing Company Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. senator from and governor of Missouri Eric Widmer (1940–2025), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy David H. Koch (1940–2019), billionaire, Libertarian vice-presidential candidate in 1984 David Childs (1941–2025), architect
Classes of the 1960s Don Abbey, real estate businessman 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 Stephen G. Smith (born 1949), journalist Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher Peter Gabel (1947–2022), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host Winthrop H. Smith Jr. (born 1949), former executive vice president of Merrill; chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc.
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 (1956–2023), 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; 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 2006–2013 Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University 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 Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz Milton Sands III (born c. 1969), admiral in the United States Navy Matt Scannell, (born 1970), 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), filmmaker, Grey Gardens Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974), photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV Prince Ali bin Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and vice president of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006 Jay Newton-Small (born 1975), Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell Chase Coleman III (born 1975), class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management Marty Reasoner (born 1977), retired National Hockey League center Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor Bom Kim (born 1978), class of 1996, Korean-American billionaire and founder of Coupang Adriana Cisneros (born 1979), media mogul Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, novelist
Classes of the 2000s Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings David Branson Smith (born 1984), screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League Ty McCormick (born 1987), foreign correspondent 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 Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Classes of the 2010s Kevin Roy (born 1993), professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League Jacob Lee (born 1994), singer-songwriter Osama Khalifa (born 1995), squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship Sam Lafferty (born 1995), professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League Brandon Wu (born 1997), professional golfer on the PGA Tour Hunter Long (born 1998), professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams Liam Holowesko (born 2000), professional cyclist
Classes of the 2020s Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor Elic Ayomanor (born 2003), Canadian football player
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