This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School, a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. An asterisk (*) indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class. Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.

Olympic athletes and other world champions Beach volleyball '90 Kevin Wong (UCLA)—2000 '91 Stein Metzger (UCLA)—2004 '10 Taylor Crabb (Long Beach State)—2021

Diving '69 Keala O'Sullivan (Hawaii)—1968 bronze medalist

Dressage (equestrian) '72* Sandy Pflueger—1984 (attended 1959–69)

Kayaking '92 Kathryn Colin (Washington)—2000, 2004 '97 Andrew Bussey (UC Irvine)—2004

Sailing '66 David Rockwell McFaull (Cornell)—1976 silver medalist '72 Michael Jon Rothwell—1976 silver medalist '76 Keani Reiner

Surfing '10 Carissa Moore, first Olympic gold medal in women's short board surfing in 2020

Swimming

'24* Mariechen Wehselau Jackson—1924 gold and silver medalist (attended 1912–23) '24 Helen Moses '25* Warren Kealoha—1920 gold medalist (youngest male US gold in swimming), 1924 gold medalist (attended 1920–22) '27 Buster Crabbe (Southern Cal)—1928 bronze medalist, 1932 gold medalist (see also below) '47 Dick Cleveland (Hawaii, Ohio State)—1952, four-time world record holder, International Swimming Hall of FameRichard Cleveland / World-Class Swimmer , by Pat Gee, Honolulu Star Bulletin, July 30, 2002 '67 Brent Thales Berk (Stanford)—1968 '76 Chris Woo (Indiana)—1976 2009 Christel Simms (USC)—2008

Volleyball '66 Miki Briggs McFadden (USC)—1968 '92 Mike Lambert (Stanford)—1996, 2000 '98 Lindsey Berg (Minnesota)—2004, 2008, and 2012 silver medalist 2008 Erik Shoji (Stanford)—2016, 2020

Water polo '84 Christopher Duplanty (UC Irvine)—silver medalist 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 '97 Sean Kern (UCLA)—2000 '99 Brandon Brooks (UCLA)—2004, 2008 silver medalist

Track '72 Henry Marsh (BYU)—1976, 1980 team, 1984, 1988

Other world champion athletes and recent All-Americans '99 Elisa Au (Hawaii)—3-time World Karate Federation World Champion, Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, 2005 best amateur athlete, Sullivan Award finalistElisa Au: Putting up a fight, by Catherine Toth, Honolulu Advertiser, July 16, 2002.Who is the top amateur athlete? USA Today, March 7, 2005Black belts and big scoldings, by Kalani Simpson, April 10, 2005

Athletes

Football '27 Henry Thomas "Hank" "Honolulu" Hughes (Oregon State)—original Boston Braves football player in 1932 (10 games) '48 Herman Clark (Oregon State)—Chicago Bears offensive lineman 1952-57 (52 games) '48 Jim Clark (Oregon State)—Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1952-53 (20 games) and Hawaii state senatorBuffanblu football runs in family , by Rod Ohira, Honolulu Star Bulletin, August 3, 1999 '49 Charlie Ane Jr. (USC)—Detroit Lions offensive lineman 1953-59 (83 games), team captain for two NFL championships and two-time Pro Bowl selection '59* Ray Schoenke (Southern Methodist)—Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins offensive lineman 1963-75 (145 games), unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor, 1998, founding president of American Hunters and Shooters Association (attended 1956–58) '64 Norm Chow (Utah)—CFL player, former Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator, former University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa head coach

'71 Arnold Morgado, Jr. (Hawaii)—Kansas City Chiefs running back 1977-80 (52 games), city councilman '71 Charles "Kale" Ane III (Michigan State)—offensive lineman for Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers, 1975-1981 (105 games) '74 Mosi Tatupu (USC)—New England Patriots running back 1978-91 (199 games), one Super Bowl, one Pro Bowl, college football Mosi Tatupu Award, father of Lofa Tatupu '78 Mark Tuinei (Hawaii)—Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman 1983-97 (195 games), two Pro Bowls and three Super Bowls '80 John Kamana III (USC)—Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons running back (5 games) '09 Manti Teʻo (Notre Dame)—signed by the San Diego Chargers, 2012 Heisman Trophy finalist '12 DeForest Buckner (Oregon)—NFL defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 '12 Kaʻimi Fairbairn (UCLA)—NFL place kicker for the Houston Texans '18 Andrei Iosivas (Princeton)—NFL wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals '19 Marist Liufau (Notre Dame)—NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys

Baseball '81* Joey Meyer, Jr. (Hawaii)—Milwaukee Brewers first baseman 1988-89 (156 games) '97 Justin Wayne (Stanford)—Florida Marlins pitcher 2002-04 (pitched in 26 games) '14 KJ Harrison

Tennis '63 Jim Osborne (Utah)—5-time Grand Prix tennis circuit doubles winner

Golf '97 Parker McLachlin (UCLA)—winner on PGA Tour, 4-time top-10 finisher in 53 events (2001–2008) '99 Bridget Dwyer (UCLA)—#9 on LPGA Futures Tour, #2 on The Big Break VIDwyer beaten in 'Big Break IV' final, Honolulu Advertiser, December 13, 2006 2007 Michelle Wie (Stanford)—2-time LPGA winner, winning Solheim Cup team member, 36-time top-10 finisher '16 Allisen Corpuz (USC)—2023 U.S. Women's Open champion, LPGA Tour golfer, Solheim Cup team member.

Surfing '65 Fred Hemmings, Jr.—1968 world surfing champion, Hawaii state senator, Republican minority leader '66 Gerry Lopez—1972 and 1973 Pipeline Masters champion (see also below) '67 Jeff Hakman—1974 and 1975 world surfing champion and founder of Quiksilver (see also below) '10 Carissa Moore—2011 ASP Women's World Tour Champion; multiple ASP Elite victories; 2010 ASP Rookie of the Year and 11 National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA) titles; 2020 gold medalist

Mixed martial arts '09 Ilima-Lei Macfarlane—professional mixed martial artist, inaugural and former Bellator MMA Flyweight Champion

Medical doctors

'45 Calvin C.J. Sia (Dartmouth)—developer and leading advocate of the nationwide Medical Home concept for pediatric care and federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program

'69 Dale T. Umetsu (Columbia)—endowed professor of pediatrics at Harvard

Other educators and researchers

Administrators and general subjects '70 Robert Spitzer (Gonzaga)—president of Gonzaga University

Law and business '33 Honorable Samuel P. King—federal district court judge, Ninth Circuit; co-author, Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust '48 Isaac Shapiro (Columbia)—Professor of Law at NYU and Columbia, Working but Poor: America's Contradiction, The Soviet Legal System '54 Robert M. Seto (Saint Louis U)—emeritus professor of Law at Regent University, federal patent and contracts judge '61 William Ouchi (Williams)—endowed professor of Business at UCLA, U Chicago, and Stanford, Theory Z and Making Schools Work, Chief of Staff of LA Mayor Richard Riordan Science '46 Alison Kay (Mills)—malacologist and Fulbright scholar, Shells of Hawaii, Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands

Logic, philosophy, mathematics, computing and engineering '79 Ronald Loui (Harvard)—professor of computer science at Wash U, patent holder on packet processing hardware, Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning and Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Social science

'31* (?) Paul Linebarger, a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith—instructor in government at Harvard, professor of Political Science at Duke and Johns Hopkins, fifteen books of science fiction, five nonfiction works including Psychological Warfare, Bronze Star, Army Major, helped form Office of War Information, advisor to CIA and John F. Kennedy, buried at Arlington National Cemetery (attended 1919–20) '43 Joyce Lebra Chapman (Minnesota)—Fulbright Scholar, emerita professor of History at Colorado, nine books on women and Asia '68 Patrick Vinton Kirch (Penn)—endowed professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, elected to American Philosophical Society, nine books on oceanic and Polynesian prehistory '78 John Lie (Harvard)—endowed professor of sociology at UC Berkeley and U Illinois, dean of international studies, six books on Korea, Japan, and two textbooks on sociology

Civil rights leaders

1859 Samuel C. Armstrong (Williams)—defeated Pickett's Charge at Battle of Gettysburg and commanded 8th U.S. Colored Troops, founding president of Hampton University and mentor of Booker T. Washington, honorary LLD from Harvard; subject of Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited and Armstrong: A Biographical Study; Armstrong High School (Richmond, Virginia) '14 Elbert Tuttle (Cornell)—chief judge of US Court of Appeals 1954-68 appointed by Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the Fifth Circuit Four ruling on Southern desegregation cases, Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary LLD from Harvard, subject of book Unlikely Heroes, inductee of International Civil Rights Walk of Fame (Atlanta), oldest serving federal judge at 98, brigadier general, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit, Elbert Parr Tuttle US Court of Appeals and Anti Defamation League's Elbert P. Tuttle Jurisprudence Award '29* John W. Gardner (Stanford)—subject of PBS documentary Uncommon American, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Secretary of HEW 1965-68 under Lyndon Johnson, launched Medicare, Common Cause, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Urban Coalition, Model UN, and White House Fellows Program, Marine Corps Captain at Office of Strategic Services, head of Carnegie Foundation, professor at Mount Holyoke College and Stanford, offered Robert F. Kennedy's vacated Senate seat (declined), author of seven books including speeches and papers of John F. Kennedy, John W. Gardner Center (Stanford University) and John W. Gardner Leadership Award (attended 1920–22)

Other elected representatives, government appointees, judges

United States presidents '79 Barack Obama (Columbia)—44th president of the United States 2008–2016, Democratic US senator from Illinois 2004-2008

U.S. senators

1892 Hiram Bingham (Yale)—Republican US senator from Connecticut 1924–33, discoverer of Machu Picchu, lecturer at Harvard and Princeton, professor of History at Yale, spouse of the Tiffany fortune heiress, buried at Arlington National Cemetery, possible inspiration for Indiana Jones '90 Brian Schatz (Pomona)—Democratic US senator from Hawaii, former lieutenant governor of Hawaii

U.S. representatives

1889 Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaole (St. Matthews)—Hawaiian prince, delegate to the US House of Representatives from Hawaii 1903–22 1891* Henry Alexander Baldwin (MIT)—Republican delegate to US Congress from Hawaii 1921–23 (attended 1886–88) '15 Joseph Farrington (Wisconsin)—Republican US congressman from Hawaii 1943-54 '39* Otis Pike (Princeton)—Democratic US congressman from New York 1961–79, decorated USMC World War II pilot, known for work on environment, Pike Committee investigations of Richard Nixon's intelligence abuses, Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area (Long Island, New York) (attended 1927–29) '87 Charles Djou (Penn)—Republican US congressman from Hawaii 2010-2011 (finishing Neil Abercrombie's term), and major in the Army Reserve

Presidential appointees

1864 Sanford Dole (Williams)—appointed first territorial governor of Hawaii and federal judge by William McKinley 1881 Walter Frear (Yale)—appointed third territorial governor of Hawaii and federal judge by Theodore Roosevelt 1896 William Castle, Jr. (Harvard)—assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Japan under Calvin Coolidge, undersecretary of state for Herbert Hoover, Harvard Board of Overseers 1905 Lawrence M. Judd (Penn)—appointed seventh territorial governor of Hawaii by Herbert Hoover 1908 William Charles Achi, Jr. (Stanford)—appointed territorial judge by Woodrow Wilson '33 Samuel Pailthorpe King (Yale)—appointed federal judge by Richard Nixon '47 John M. Steadman (Yale)—appointed judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan '50 Alan Cooke Kay (Princeton)—appointed federal judge by Ronald Reagan