Choate Rosemary Hall - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Edward Albee, playwright
• Lauren Ambrose, film and TV actress
• Florieda Batson, hurdler, 1922 Olympian
• Stephen Bogardus, Obie-winning stage actor
• Lorenzo di Bonaventura, film producer, former president of Warner Brothers, developer of Transformers
• Chester Bowles, Governor of Connecticut and undersecretary in the Kennedy Administration
• Arne H. Carlson, former Governor of Minnesota
• Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel
• Noah Charney, novelist and art historian
• Tanay Chheda, child actor (currently attends Choate)
• Julie Chu, Olympic hockey player
• Glenn Close, five-time Oscar-nominated actress
• Lewis Augustus Coffin, architect
• Caresse Crosby (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet, founder of Black Sun Press
• Jamie Lee Curtis, actress

• Mathieu Darche, forward for the Montreal Canadiens
• Chris Denorfia, outfielder for the San Diego Padres
• Bruce Dern (did not graduate), actor
• Tom Dey, director
• John Dos Passos, novelist
• Michael Douglas, two-time Oscar-winning actor
• John T. Downey, spy, prisoner of war, and judge
• Paul Draper, winemaker of Ridge Vineyards
• Andres Duany, architect, urban planner, founder of the New Urbanism movement
• Avery Dulles, educator, philosopher, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Matt Dunne, Vermont State Senator and State Representative
• Walter D. Edmonds, historical novelist
• Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr
• Robert Fitzgerald, poet, critic, and translator
• Geoffrey S. Fletcher, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Precious, film director

• Oliver M. Gale, advertising and public relations pioneer
• Bruce Gelb, former president of Clairol, former ambassador to Belgium
• Paul Giamatti, Oscar-nominated actor
• Philip Gourevitch, journalist, editor of The Paris Review
• Roy Richard Grinker, anthropologist and author of Unstrange Minds
• Amanda Hearst, heiress
• Buck Henry, comedian, screenwriter
• Jung-Wook Hong, Korean Congressman
• Kim Insalaco, Olympic hockey player
• Hardy Jones, conservationist filmmaker and author
• Bob Kasten, U.S. Senator
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
• Joseph Kennedy Jr., war hero
• Sarah Kernochan, novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and two-time Oscar-winning director
• Whitman Knapp, federal judge

• Hilary Knight, Olympic hockey player
• Herbert Kohler, president of the Kohler Company
• James Laughlin, poet and founder of New Directions Publishing
• Alan Jay Lerner, librettist of My Fair Lady and Camelot
• Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg (did not graduate), stage and television director, actor, writer
• Alan Lomax, pioneering ethnomusicologist, folklorist, oral historian
• Ali MacGraw, actress and haute couture model
• Robert McCallum, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Australia
• Douglas McGrath, actor, director, screenwriter
• Paul Mellon, philanthropist, art collector
• Tift Merritt, singer, songwriter
• Rebecca Miller, actress, screenwriter, director, novelist
• William T. Monroe, former U.S. ambassador to Bahrain.
• Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, yachtsman, twice winner of the America's Cup, Chief of Protocol of the United States
• Robert Mosbacher, former Secretary of Commerce

• Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab
• Bruce Nelson, Dartmouth history professor, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• Douglass North, Nobel Laureate in Economics
• Victoria Nuland, permanent U.S. Representative to NATO
• Terry O'Neill, feminist, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Josephine Pucci, USA Women's National Hockey Team
• Bruce Replogle, music manager, & publicist
• Rick Rosenthal, award-winning film and TV director
• Angela Ruggiero, Olympic hockey player
• John Burnham Schwartz, novelist
• Martha Schwendener, lead singer and songwriter of Bowery Electric
• Bill Simmons, sportswriter, ESPN's "The Sports Guy"
• Hedrick Smith, New York Times editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Emmy-winning PBS producer

• Lee Smith, journalist at The Weekly Standard.
• Roger L. Stevens, theatrical producer, founding chairman of the Kennedy Center and of the National Endowment for the Arts
• Adlai Stevenson, Governor of Illinois, UN Ambassador, two-time Democratic presidential candidate
• James Surowiecki, author, New Yorker staff writer
• Ivanka Trump, fashion model and businesswoman
• Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuk, Prince of Bhutan
• Frank "Muddy" Waters, American college football coach
• H. Bradford Westerfield, chair of Yale political science department, teacher of Presidents
• James Whitmore, film and Tony-winning stage actor
• Geoffrey Wolff, novelist and belle-lettrist
• Alexander Morgan Young, president of production at 20th Century Fox
• Philip Young, Dean of the Columbia Business School and United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
• Paul Zaloom, puppeteer, actor, and educator