Groton School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of Groton School include:

• Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, presidential advisor to Johnson
• Joseph Alsop, important and famous political journalist after World War II
• Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghanaian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, considered one of Africa's most important writers
• Hugh D. Auchincloss, stockbroker and lawyer
• James C. Auchincloss, United States Representative from New Jersey
• Louis Auchincloss, author, winner of the National Medal of Arts
• Tracy Barnes, CIA officer, one of the planners of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba.
• Donald Beer, 1956 Olympic gold medallist in men's eights, rowing
• Francis Biddle, Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941–1945), Chief American Justice of the Nuremberg Trials
• George Biddle, artist
• Hiram Bingham IV, American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France during World War II
• Jonathan Brewster Bingham, United States Representative from New York
• Richard M. Bissell, Jr., CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Bay of Pigs Invasion planner, father of U-2; formed the basis for Matt Damon's character in the The Good Shepherd
• McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
• William Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's brother, foreign affairs advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
• Bill Camp, OBIE Award winning actor
• Sam Chauncey, Yale University administrator
• Hamilton Coolidge, World War I Flying Ace
• Jim Cooper, United States Representative from Tennessee
• Erastus Corning II, mayor of Albany, New York
• Laurence Curtis, United States Representative from Massachusetts
• Bronson M. Cutting, United States Senator from New Mexico
• F. Trubee Davison, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency
• C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to France
• RP Eddy, Director at the White House National Security Council, United Nations Diplomat, CEO of Ergo
• Adrian S. Fisher, Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• Ned Freed, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)
• Peter Gammons, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, baseball writer and commentator
• Alex Gansa, Former writer for the TV show '24'
• Ward Goodenough, Anthropologist known for his studies in the southern Pacific islands.
• Gerrit Graham, actor
• Joseph Grew, Ambassador to Japan before WWII, Under Secretary of State
• Ashbel Green Gulliver, former dean of Yale Law School
• Gordon Gund, formerly the principal owner of the NBA franchise, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the co-owner of the NHL franchise, San Jose Sharks
• Fred Gwynne, actor
• Pierpont M. Hamilton, United States Army Air Forces Major General, recipient of the Medal of Honor
• E. Roland Harriman, financier and philanthropist
• W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Governor of New York
• C. Ezekiel "Zeke" Hawkins, Student Academy Awards nominee Brought abuse charges against the school.
• Stuart Heintzelman, United States Army Major General
• Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore, Irish peer
• Stephen Hill, Executive Vice President at Black Entertainment Television and trustee of Groton School
• Christopher Isham, Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, ABC News
• Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy
• Howard Kingsbury, 1924 Olympic gold medallist in men's eights, rowing
• Peter Landon, a fictional Foreign Service officer depicted in Tobias Wolff's In Pharaoh's Army
• James Lawrence, 1928 Olympic gold medallist in men's coxed fours, rowing
• Hunter Lewis, author
• Peter Magowan, managing general partner, San Francisco Giants
• Harry Mathews, poet
• Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Joseph Medill McCormick, United States Senator from Illinois
• Robert R. McCormick, publisher, Chicago Tribune
• Henry Sturgis Morgan, Grandson of JP Morgan
• J. P. Morgan, Jr., Banker, Son of JP Morgan
• Newbold Morris, President of the New York City Council under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
• Daniyal Mueenuddin, Pakistani author
• Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes.
• Henry Nuzum, rower in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics
• John Parker, fourth place finish at the 1988 Olympics in men's eights, rowing
• James Graham Parsons, Ambassador to Laos and Sweden, Deputy U.S. Representative to SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 1970–1972
• Alexandra Paul, actress, star of Baywatch
• Endicott Peabody, former Governor of Massachusetts
• Fuller Potter, abstract-expressionist artist
• Stanley Rogers Resor, Secretary of the Army, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., career CIA officer, soldier, scholar, linguist, and grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congressman, Naval Officer
• James Roosevelt, United States Representative from California, Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
• Kermit Roosevelt, successful businessman, service in both World Wars, son of Theodore Roosevelt,
• Kermit Roosevelt, Jr, career CIA organized Operation Ajax
• Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.'s brother and son of President T. Roosevelt, fought and died in World War I
• Quentin Roosevelt II, Theodore Roosevelt's grandson and nephew of Q. Roosevelt, above, killed in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances in China in 1948
• Tadd Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's nephew, who was slightly older than his uncle, and attended Groton at the same time.
• Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Teddy Roosevelt, Led the D-day assault on Utah Beach, recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Eugene Rostow, Under-Secretary of State under President Johnson, head of Arms Control Agency
• Tom Rush, singer/songwriter
• Robert C. Scott, United States Representative from Virginia
• Sarah Sewall, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
• Ellery Sedgwick, editor
• Frederick Sheffield, 1924 Olympic gold medallist in men's eights, rowing
• Curtis Sittenfeld, author
• John Train, investment adviser and author
• Cyrus Vance, Jr., Manhattan District Attorney
• Andrés Velasco, Finance Minister of Chile
• George Herbert Walker III, former ambassador to Hungary and board member of the New York Stock Exchange
• Bradford Washburn, photographer, director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939–1980 and Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment) 1985–2007
• Sherwood Washburn, physical anthropologist
• Elisabeth Waterston, actress, The Prince and Me
• James Waterston, actor, Dead Poets Society
• Sam Waterston, actor, notably Law & Order's Jack McCoy
• J. Watson Webb, Jr., film editor
• Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State under FDR
• Harry Payne Whitney, businessman and thoroughbred horsebreeder
• John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Britain, newspaper publisher
• Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange
• William Payne Whitney, philanthropist and businessman