List of Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Central High School in Philadelphia.

A Leon Abbett – former New Jersey governor (112th Class)Hogarty, Richard A.. "Abbett, Leon." Encyclopedia of New Jersey. 2nd ed. 2004. Print. Henry David Abraham – psychiatrist, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient (214th Class) Elliott Abrams – AccuWeather meteorologist, chief forecaster (223rd Class) Raymond Pace Alexander – judge, civil rights lawyer (127th Class) Harrison Allen - physician and anatomist Anthony G. Amsterdam – civil rights lawyer, professor at NYU (200th Class) Dave Appell – musician, record producer Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz – poet and author (255th Class) Joe Augustyn – screenwriter, producer (229th Class)

B Michael Bacon – singer, songwriter, musician, and film score composer (224th Class) James P. Bagian – astronaut, physician (228th Class) Cosmo Baker – DJ, music producer, and turntablist (251st Class) Albert C. Barnes – art collector, founder of Barnes Foundation educational art institution (92nd Class) Reds Bassman – football player Edward R. Becker – Federal Judge (194th Class) Bernard R. Bell – Vice-President, World Bank (150th Class) John C. Bell Jr. – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (75th Class) Isadore H. Bellis – Philadelphia City Councilman (1xx Class) Upton Birnie Jr. – U.S. Army major general (graduated 1896) Barry Bloom – infectious disease scientist, WHO (202nd Class) Jim Braude – talk radio host (225th Class) Leo Braudy – cultural historian and film critic (211th Class) King Britt – DJ and record producer (245th Class) William H. Brown, III – former Chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (185th Class) Lou Bruce – Major League Baseball outfielder (104th Class) Doc Bushong – Major League Baseball catcher and dentist (graduated 1876)

C George Campbell Jr. – President of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (220th Class) Robert B. Carney – Admiral, USN (118th Class) Philip Casnoff – actor (226th Class) Cassidy – rapper (would have been the 259th Class, but he did not graduate from Central High School) Lewis C. Cassidy – Attorney General of Pennsylvania Morris I. ("Moose") Charlap – Broadway composer (186th Class) Noam Chomsky – linguist and political activist (184th Class) Ben Clime – professional football player Mark B. Cohen – Pennsylvania state legislator, Judge, Common Pleas Court (225th Class) Frank "Tick" Coleman – one of the first three known African-American Eagle Scouts, educator (156th Class) Joel Cook – U.S. Congressman, journalist (33rd Class) Tarzan Cooper – basketball player for the New York Renaissance Bill Cosby - entertainer (did not graduate)

D Samuel Dash – professor at Georgetown Law (178th Class) George Davidson – English/American geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer (5th Class) Anthony F. DePalma – orthopedic surgeon and professor James DePreist – orchestra conductor (202nd Class) Francis Xavier Dercum - physician John H. Dialogue – shipbuilder in Camden, New Jersey (5th Class) DJ Drama (Tyree Simmons) – hip hop artist and DJ (255th Class) Ronald Donatucci – politician, Pennsylvania State Representative, Philadelphia Register of Wills Ignatius L. Donnelly – author, politician, U.S. Congressman (13th Class) Rel Dowdell – filmmaker (248th Class) Joseph William Drexel – banker, philanthropist (13th Class)

E Thomas Eakins – painter (38th Class, 1861) George W. Edmonds - U.S. Congressman Joshua Eilberg – U.S. Congressman (168th Class) Ira Einhorn – environmental activist, participant in first Earth Day, convicted murderer Arnold Eisen – Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (228th Class) Duane Eubanks – jazz trumpeter, and brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks (245th Class) Robin Eubanks – jazz trombonist, professor at Oberlin Conservatory, and brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks (231st Class)

F Alvan R. Feinstein – Professor of Medicine, Yale University (177th Class) Douglas J. Feith – former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a major architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq (230th Class) Norman Fell – actor on Three's Company (176th Class) Samuel Simeon Fels – manufacturer, philanthropist (72nd Class) Lee Felsenstein – personal computer pioneer and activist (219th Class) Louis Filler – historian, writer, and professor at Antioch College (151st Class, 1929) Larry Fine – Larry of the Three Stooges (132nd Class) Phil Freelon – architect (230th Class) Larry Friedman – basketball player Phillip Frost – physician, pharmaceuticals executive, philanthropist (200th Class) Charles Lewis Fussell – landscape artist (34th Class, 1857)

G William Glackens – painter, co-founder of the Ashcan School art movement (92nd Class) W. Wilson Goode Jr. – Philadelphia City Councilman at Large, son of former mayor W. Wilson Goode (241st Class) E. Urner Goodman – early leader of the Boy Scouts of America (114th Class) Oscar Goodman – mayor of Las Vegas, mob defense lawyer (left after 10th grade) Charles Goren – bridge player and author (132nd Class) Kermit Gosnell – abortion doctor found guilty of murder (211th Class) John Trout Greble - Union army officer (1850) Shelly Gross – theatrical producer, author (170th Class) Richard Grossman – jazz pianist (204th Class) Lee Guber – theatrical producer (170th Class) Daniel Guggenheim – industrialist and philanthropist (66th Class) Simon Guggenheim – industrialist, financier, philanthropist, U.S. Senator for Colorado (87th Class) Alfred Guzzetti – documentary and experimental filmmaker and professor of visual and experimental studies at Harvard University (214th Class)

H Henry Schell Hagert – District Attorney of Philadelphia Eric M. Hammel – military historian, writer and publisher (221st Class) Stephen J. Harmelin – White House Aide (1964-1965), Managing Partner, Dilworth, Paxon (206th Class) John Harbeson – architect with H2L2 (111th Class) Joe Harris – mathematician at Harvard University (232nd Class) Joseph Smith Harris – President of the Reading Railroad (24th Class) Marvin Haskin - radiologist Ari Hoenig – jazz drummer (251st Class) Quiara Alegría Hudes – playwright and author (254th Class)

I Noel Ignatiev – scholar, historian, and activist (210th Class) Albert Innaurato – playwright, theater director, and writer (224th Class)

J Major Jackson – poet and professor at Vanderbilt University (245th Class) Bushrod Washington James (1836-1903) - surgeon, homeopathist, writer, and philanthropist

K Louis Kahn – architect (134th Class) Alex Karp – CEO of Palantir Technologies (244th Class) Sam Katz – perennial Philadelphia Republican mayoral candidate (226th Class) Edward (Ted) Kaufman – U.S. Senator from Delaware (206th Class) Charles Keinath – college basketball player and coach Alexander Kendrick – broadcast journalist (149th Class) Daniel Kevles – historian of science at Yale and California Institute of Technology (205th Class) Mark Kramer – jazz pianist, physician-neuroscientist (220th Class) Joseph L. Kun – Judge, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (106th Class)

L Cato T. Laurencin – orthopedic surgeon, professor, chemical engineer (235th Class) Conrad C. Lautenbacher – Navy Vice Admiral (213th Class) Thomas F. Lewis – member, U.S. House Of Representatives (1942) Betty Liu – news anchor for Bloomberg Television (250th Class) Alain LeRoy Locke – author, philosopher, first African-American Rhodes Scholar (107th Class) Walter P. Lomax, Jr. – physician, philanthropist (192nd Class) Jerome Lowenthal – classical pianist, chair of Juilliard School Piano Department (192nd Class)

M Lawrence S. Margolis – Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims (199th Class) John Marzano – Major League Baseball catcher and broadcast analyst (240th Class) Gary K. Michelson – orthopedic spinal surgeon (225th Class) Jeffrey Milarsky – conductor of contemporary music (243rd Class) Roger M. Milgrim – intellectual property lawyer and treatise author (202nd Class) Thomas Francis Miller – architect Charles Karsner Mills – neurologist James T. Mitchell – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell – founder of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity Louis J. Mordell – mathematician at the University of Cambridge (111th Class) Joel Myers – founder of AccuWeather (208th Class)

N Robert N. C. Nix Jr. – former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (186th Class)

O Eric Owens – opera singer (247th Class)

P Robert E. Pattison – 19th Governor of Pennsylvania (55th Class) Thomas May Peirce – founder of Peirce College (32nd Class) David Pincus – clothing manufacturer, art collector (181st Class) Hilary Putnam – philosopher (182nd Class)

R Jed S. Rakoff – United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York (215th Class) David Raksin – composer, "Grandfather of Film Music" such as "Laura" (153rd Class) Conyers Read – historian (graduated 1899)'READ, Conyers, educator', in The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (J. T. White, 1965), p. 54 Ralph T. Reed – former CEO of American Express (114th Class) William Reed – sprinter (247th Class) David L. Reich – academic anesthesiologist and professor; President & Chief Operating Officer of the Mount Sinai Hospital, and President of Mount Sinai Queens (236th Class) Shawn Rivera – singer, songwriter, and producer best known for being a member of R&B group Az Yet (251st Class) Allen Rosenberg – rower and rowing coach (192nd Class) Albert Rosenthal – portrait artist and etcher Arnold Roth – cartoonist, humorist (186th Class) Leo Stanton Rowe – US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (89th Class) Kal Rudman – Radio and TV pioneer, philanthropist (188th Class)

S Shunsuke Sato – world-renowned violinist and conductor (261st Class) Morton Livingston Schamberg – modern artist Eliot Shorr-Parks – Eagles reporter for 94.1 WIP Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz – meteorologist at the NBC affiliate WCAU in Philadelphia (227th Class) Robert Serber – physicist on Manhattan Project (146th Class) Joseph Shallit – mystery novelist (156th Class) Arthur M. Shapiro – ecologist (220th Class) Bree Sharp – singer and songwriter (252nd Class) Harry Shuman – Major League Baseball player Lee M. Silver – professor of molecular biology, Princeton University (227th Class) Richard Bruce Silverman – chemistry professor, inventor of Lyrica (221st Class) John French Sloan – painter (92nd Class) Henry Slonimsky – professor Albert Henry Smyth – History professor and curator of the American Philosophical Society Allan Snyder – optical physics, neuroscience, founder of Centre for the Mind (211th Class) Dan C Snyder – sculptor and ceramicist (225th Class) Lee A. Solomon – New Jersey Supreme Court Justice (230th Class) Ben Stahl – labor and civil rights activist Julie Stevens – actress, film director and producer (246th Class) Frank R. Stockton – writer and humorist (19th Class) Charles Stone III – film and ad director (243rd Class) Sharif Street – Pennsylvania State Senator (251st Class)

T Fred Tappert – professor of physics, University of Miami John Baxter Taylor Jr. – track and field athlete, first African-American Olympic gold medalist (107th Class) Teller – magician, part of "Penn and Teller" (224th Class) Howard Temin – geneticist, shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine (196th Class) Elihu Thomson – inventor, one of the founders of the General Electric Company (55th Class) Richard B. Teitelman – judge (223rd Class) George Alfred Townsend (1860) – journalist and novelist Arthur Tracy – vaudeville performer, singer, actor, known as "The Street Singer" (130th Class)

V William Scott Vare – U.S. Congressman (1912-1927), Pennsylvania State Senator (1922-1923), U.S. Senator-Elect (1927-1929), Republican political boss in Philadelphia

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