This is a list of notable alumni of Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York.
Desiree Akhavan '02, director, writer, actress; winner 2018 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Peter Lewis Allen '74, academic, executive coach, author Pedro Álvarez '05, Major League baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles Harrison Bader ‘12, Major League baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins Erik Barnouw, writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor William Barr, U.S. attorney general under President George H. W. Bush and the first term of Donald Trump Alex Berenson, spy novelist, former reporter for The New York TimesFreedlander, David. "Does the King of the COVID-19 Contrarians Have a Case? Alex Berenson, thriller writer, former Timesman, and marijuana alarmist, thinks scientists, politicians, and the media are fueling coronavirus hysteria. Some scientists think he’s dead wrong. 'He should go back to school to learn some science,' says one.", Vanity Fair, April 16, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2021. "Berenson’s upbringing seems tailor-made for the media elite, growing up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attending Horace Mann and then Yale, where he graduated in 1994." Josh Bernstein ‘89, host of The History Channel's Digging For the Truth Ilse Bischoff, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author Alan Blinken, former United States ambassador to Belgium (1993–97) Donald M. Blinken, investment banker, former ambassador to Hungary Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon Amy S. Bruckman, ‘83, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology Robert Caro ‘53, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Elliott Carter, composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Chao-chu Chi, returned to China and became interpreter for Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong Roy Cohn, aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial, mentor to Donald Trump David Cornstein, US ambassador to Hungary Joseph Cumming, Yale scholar and pastor John Dall, actor Jerome Alan Danzig, reporter, news producer, and adviser to New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Peter Deutsch, former congressman Valentine Davies, class of 1923, author of Miracle on 34th Street Bethany Donaphin, class of 1998, Head of Operations at the Women's National Basketball Association Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times Martin Duberman, class of 1948, author and gay rights historian Seymour Durst, real estate developer Morris Leopold Ernst, lawyer and co-founder the American Civil Liberties Union Charles Evans, founder of fashion house Evan-Piccone, and producer of Tootsie Halley Feiffer, class of 2003, playwright Ivan Fisher, lawyer Marc Fisher, class of 1976, writer and editor for The Washington Post Doris Fleischman, writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist Jennifer Fleiss, entrepreneur and co-founder of Rent the Runway Peter B. Freund, sports team owner Alan Furst, novelist Henry Geldzahler, class of 1953, art critic, curator, New York City Cultural Affairs commissioner (1977–1982) Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy Mark Gerstein, bioinformatics professor, Yale University Alison Gertz, early AIDS activist Bill Green, Republican member of the US House of Representatives from New York Alexandra Guarnaschelli, executive chef and food television personality Betty Hall, politician, New Hampshire state representative Arthur Julian Harvey, born 1932, Harvey Organics lawsuit, organic blueberry farmer, peace activist, friend of Adam Clymer and collected stamps in high school with Dr. Bart, husband to Elizabeth, father to Emily and Max, grandfather to Jonah, Ruby, Alice and Gemma Joshua Hammer, journalist and author Leland Hayward, Hollywood agent and Broadway producer Anthony Hecht, poet Robert Heilbroner, economist, historian of economic thought, author Marsha Hunt, actress Anjli Jain, venture capitalist E. J. Kahn, class of 1933, pillar of The New Yorker, author and journalist Rockwell Kent, illustrator and painter Jack Kerouac, class of 1940, writer and Beat Literature iconoclast Richard Kluger, class of 1952, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Koren, New Yorker cartoonist Herbert J. Kramer, class of 1939, director of Public Affairs at the Office of Economic Opportunity under the Johnson administration Robert Ledley, class of 1943, inventor of whole-body CT scanner, biomedical computing pioneer Sir Thomas Legg, senior British civil servant Tom Lehrer, political satirist, songwriter, and math professor David Leonhardt, economics columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, 2011 Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives Andrew Levitas, artist and filmmaker Anthony Lewis, class of 1944, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights leader and former congressman Joshua Malina, actor and member of the cast of the television series The West Wing David Mandel, class of 1988, television writer and producer for Curb Your Enthusiasm Jonathan Marks, class of 1971, anthropologist Michael Mazur, artist Dorothy Miner, class of 1922, art historian and curator at the Walters Art Museum Dwight C. Miner, class of 1922, professor of history at Columbia University Lucy Monroe, operatic soprano26 Nov 1939, Page 6 - The Klamath News at Newspapers.com Belle Moskowitz, likely class of 1893, early twentieth century progressive reformer and political advisor, referred to in her New York Times obituary as the most powerful woman in U.S. politics Martin Moynihan, class of 1946, ethologist and founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama James Murdoch, media executive; son of Rupert Murdoch Donald Newhouse, publisher Samuel Newhouse, media executive Rebecca Oppenheimer, class of 1990, astrophysicist Ilario Pantano, class of 1989, former marine, political figure Nelson Peltz (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor Mark Penn, pollster and political consultant Mary Petty, illustrator Kenneth Pollack, analyst and author on Middle East affairs"A Hawk Who Earned His Feathers Under Clinton", The Forward, November 1, 2002. Generoso Pope, Jr., founder of the National Enquirer and American Media, Inc. Thomas S. Power, led Strategic Air Command Paul Rapoport, co-founder of New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis Giles Sutherland Rich, patent attorney, author of the 1952 Patent Act, judge of the U.S. Customs and Patent Appeals and later U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Renée Richards, class of 1952 (graduated as Richard Raskind), professional tennis player, author, ophthalmologist, and trans rights activist Scott Rogowsky, class of 2003, comedian and host of HQ Trivia Daniel Rose, real estate developer, philanthropist, essayist David S. Rose, entrepreneur, investor and author Elihu Rose, real estate developer and military historian Frederick P. Rose, builder and philanthropist Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs Jonathan F. P. Rose, urban planner and real estate developer Evan Rosen, journalist, strategist, author of The Culture of Collaboration and The Bounty Effect Jon Rubinstein, computer scientist and electrical engineer; a primary co-creator of the iPod and iMac Edward Thomas Ryan, class of 1980, Harvard microbiologist, immunologist James Salter, class of 1942, writer David Sanders, class of 1979, biologist Marion K. Sanders, class of 1921, journalist, editor, author Barry Scheck, class of 1967, member of legal team that successfully defended O. J. Simpson; attorney and founder of the Innocence Project James Schlesinger, former secretary of defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations and former secretary of energy in the Carter Administration Doug Schoen, political pollster, consultant and pundit; former partner of HM classmate Mark Penn John Searle, philosopher Charles Seife, class of 1989, mathematician and author Noah Shachtman, class of 1989, editor of The Daily Beast Gil Shaham, class of 1989, violinist Orli Shaham, class of 1993, pianist John Simon, New York Magazine critic and author Andrew Solomon, class of 1981, writer Jerry Speyer, class of 1958, a founder of Tishman Speyer Eliot Spitzer, former governor and attorney general of New York Austin Stark, award-winning filmmaker Edward Steinfeld, class of 1984, noted political scientist Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times Robert W. Sweet, United States district court judge Robert Tishman, real estate developer and co-founder of Tishman Speyer Beatrice Warde, writer and scholar on typography, author of “The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible” Paul Francis Webster, class of 1926, Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning songwriterPaul Francis Webster Biography, PoemHunter.com. Accessed August 31, 2021. "He attended the Horace Mann School (Riverdale, Bronx, New York), graduating in 1926, and then went to Cornell University from 1927 to 1928 and New York University from 1928 to 1930, leaving without receiving a degree." Gertrude Weil, class of 1897 (or 1898?), suffragist, labor rights activist, civil rights and anti-lynching activist, and ZionistHuaman, Jaime. "Gertrude Weil", NCPedia. Accessed August 31, 2021. "After graduating from Goldsboro public schools, Gertrude was sent to New York to study at the Horace Mann School, a preparatory school affiliated with Columbia University." William Carlos Williams, class of 1903, medical doctor and poet; Pulitzer Prize winner Ben Yagoda, journalist and author"Angela Simeone Weds Ben Yagoda, a Film Critic", The New York Times, May 18, 1987. Accessed August 31, 2021. "Mr. Yagoda, who graduated from the Horace Mann School and Yale College, is a writer and film critic for The Philadelphia Daily News." Rafael Yglesias, novelist and screenwriterWhitman, Alden. "Youth Who Left School Is a Novelist at 17", The New York Times, February 2, 1972. Accessed August 31, 2021. "Hide Fox, And All After describes student life in a mythical Cabot School, a thin disguise for Rafael's own experiences at the Horace Mann School, which he entered after spending six grades at P.S. 173." Paul Zimmerman, senior football writer for Sports IllustratedPaul Zimmerman, Pro Football Archives. Accessed August 31, 2021. "High School: Horace Mann (Bronx, NY)"
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