Lawrenceville School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

The following are some notable alumni of the Lawrenceville School.

• George Akerlof (born 1940,; class of 1958), Nobel Laureate for Economics.
• Walter Gresham Andrews (1889-1949; class of 1908), United States House of Representatives from New York (1889–1943).
• Garth Ancier (born 1957), President of the WB Network.
• David Baird, Jr. (1881-1955; class of 1899), U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
• Bandar bin Sultan (born 1945), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005.
• Dewey F. Bartlett (1919-1979; Class of 1938), former Governor of Oklahoma and member of the United States Senate.
• Dierks Bentley (born 1975; Class of 1993), country music singer.
• Barton Biggs '51 – former Morgan Stanley Chief Global Strategist and current money manager running Traxis Partners.
• George Houston Brown (1810-1865) represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in, the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855.
• Frederick Buechner '46 – Novelist.
• Dennis Bushyhead (1826-1898), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
• Fox Butterfield (born 1939; class of 1957), Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist for The New York Times.
• Jay Carney (born 1965; Class of 1983), 29th White House Press Secretary, former TIME Washington Bureau Chief and former White House correspondent.
• Charles Chaplin, Jr. (1925-1968), actor who was the son of Charlie Chaplin.
• Sydney Chaplin (1926-2009), actor who was the son of Charlie Chaplin.
• John Cobb Cooper (1887-1967), jurist and airline executive.
• Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973; class of 1911), film director best known for his 1933 film King Kong
• Alan D'Andrea, cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School.
• Richard Dean (1956-2006), fashion and advertising photographer, model, and former player in Canadian Football League.
• William Adams Delano (1874-1960), architect.
• Christopher DeMuth (born 1946; Class of 1964), President of the American Enterprise Institute.
• Michael Eisner (born 1942; class of 1960), former CEO of The Walt Disney Company.
• Maurice Ferre (born 1935; class of 1953), former Mayor of the city of Miami (1973–1985).
• Major Sir Hamish Forbes, Bt, MBE, MC 1916–2007 Champion of Gaelic Culture – POW decorated for numerous escape attempts.
• Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990), publisher of Forbes magazine.
• Clint Frank '34 – Winner of the 1937 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award. Team Captain and All-American football player at Yale University.
• Charles Fried (born 1935), Harvard Law School professor and former United States Solicitor General.
• George Gallup (1901–1984), pollster.
• Robert F. Goheen (1919-2008; Class of 1936), 16th President of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India.
• Samuel D. Gross (1805-1884), academic trauma surgeon.
• Peter Johnson Gulick (1796-1877; class of 1822), pioneer Protestant missionary to Hawaii (1828–74) with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, patriarch of the missionary-rich (1820s to 1960s) Gulick clan, co-founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall (1825–1930, spiritual parent to today's Princeton Evangelical Fellowship)
• John Gutfreund (born 1929), former CEO of Salomon Brothers.
• Randolph Apperson Hearst (1915-2000; class of 1934), former chairman of the Hearst Corporation and son of William Randolph Hearst.
• Lydia Hearst-Shaw (born 1984; class of 2002), model, daughter of Patricia Hearst.
• Armond Hill '72, former NBA player, current assistant coach for the Boston Celtics.
• Richard Halliburton (1900-1939), author, adventurer.
• Owen Johnson (1878-1952; class of 1895), author of the Lawrenceville Stories.
• Butler Lampson (born 1943), computer scientist and 1992 ACM Turing Award winner
• Aldo Leopold (1887-1948; class of 1905), father of Ecology, author of A Sand County Almanac.
• Huey Lewis (born 1950 as Hugh Cregg; class of 1967), musician.
• John Van Antwerp MacMurray (born 1881; class of 1898), diplomat.
• Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977), poet.
• Ricardo Maduro (born 1946; class of 1963), former President of Honduras.
• Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), painter.
• William H. Masters (1915-2001), human sexuality researcher and co-founder of the Masters & Johnson Institute.
• Harold McGraw, Jr. (1918-2010; class of 1936), former CEO of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
• James M. McIntosh (1828-1862), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.
• John Baillie McIntosh (1829-1888), brigadier general in the Union Army.
• James Merrill (1926-1995; class of 1943), poet.
• Dennis Michie (1870-1898), first football head coach at Army, namesake of Michie Stadium.
• Clement Woodnutt Miller (1916-1962), U.S. Representative from California.
• Paul Moravec (born 1957), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning composer.
• Tinsley Mortimer (born 1976), socialite.
• Joakim Noah '04 (born 1985), basketball player for Chicago Bulls.
• Jarvis Offutt (1894-1918), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base.
• Charles Smith Olden (1799-1876), 19th Governor of New Jersey, from 1860–1863.
• Joel Parker (1816-1888), 20th Governor of New Jersey, from 1863–1866 and 1871–1874.
• Horace Porter (1837-1921), Union Army Brigadier General who was awarded the Medal of Honor.
• Rodman M. Price (1816–1894), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853, and served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey, from 1854–1857.
• Jim Rash (born 1970; class of 1990), winner of the 2012 Oscar for best adapted screenplay (The Descendants); currently playing Craig "Dean" Pelton on NBC's Community.
• Laurence A. Rickels, theorist and philosopher, known for his work on vampires, the devil, technology and science fiction.
• William P. Ross (1820-1891), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
• Bob Ryan '64, sportswriter for The Boston Globe and ESPN analyst/contributor.
• Paul Schmidtberger '82, author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition
• Gene Scott (1937-2006; class of 1956), tennis player and founder of Tennis Week magazine
• Hugh L. Scott (1853-1934; class of 1869), Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (West Point).
• Cotter Smith (born 1949; class of 1968), actor.
• Sheridan Snyder '54 – Biotechnology entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• William H. Stovall (1895–1970; class of 1913), World War I flying ace and World War II veteran, businessman.
• Brandon Tartikoff (1949-1997; class of 1966), former NBC programming chief.
• James Brainerd Taylor 1823 – Second Great Awakening evangelist, cousin of famed 18th-century Protestant missionary David Brainerd, primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall (1825–1930, spiritual parent to today's Princeton Evangelical Fellowship), see http://www.UncommonChristian.com
• Buddy Temple (born 1942), lumber magnate and former politician from Lufkin, Texas
• Taki Theodoracopulos (born 1937), international journalist.
• Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (born 1945), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to United States.
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (born 1931; class of 1949), former Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator.
• Meredith Whitney (born 1969; class of 1988), former research analyst at Oppenheimer.
• J. Harvie Wilkinson III (born 1944), United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
• Brian Willison (born 1977; class of 1995), businessman.
• J. Butler Wright (1877-1939; class of 1895), diplomat who served as U.S. representative in Hungary, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia and Cuba.
• Welly Yang (class of 1990), actor.