New Rochelle High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni sorted by graduation date.

• Edward A. Batchelor (Unknown graduation date) (1883–1968), sportswriter and charter member of the Baseball Writers Association of America
• Elia Kazan 1926 - Academy Award winning Director
• James Gregory 1930 - stage, screen and TV actor
• Marion West Higgins 1932 - first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Henry Heimlich 1937 - Inventor, Heimlich Maneuver
• Gloria Oden 1939 - African American poet
• Don Hewitt 1940 - Producer, 60 Minutes
• Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. 1943 - Billionaire, co-founder of private equity firms KKR and Kohlberg & Co.
• Richard Kahn 1947 - President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• Lou Jones 1950 - Olympic Gold Medalist
• Louis Rukeyser 1950 - TV Personality, Economic Commentator
• Jesse Arnelle 1950 - football and basketball star at Penn State University
• Leslie H. Gelb 1955 - President, Council on Foreign Relations
• Harry Macklowe 1955 - Chairman And CEO Macklowe Properties Real Estate Investment
• William S. Rukeyser 1957 - Journalist
• Johnny Counts 1958 - played professional football for the New York Giants
• Drew S. Days, III 1959 - Solicitor General of the United States, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
• Lawrence M. Small 1959 - 11th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Richard Roundtree 1961 - Actor - John Shaft
• Barrie M. Osborne 1962 - Film Producer & 2004 Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings)
• Claude "Butch" Harmon, Jr. 1962 - golf professional and former coach of Tiger Woods
• Andrea Mitchell 1963 - Journalist
• Russell T. Lewis 1965 - CEO of The New York Times Company
• George Starke 1966 - Washington Redskins - Tackle - "Head Hog"
• Alan Menken 1967 - Composer, Lyricist
• Jeralyn Merritt 1967 – Criminal defense attorney, legal analyst, blogger
• Guy Davis 1970 - musician, son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
• Gloria Borger 1970 - CBS special correspondent
• Christopher Edley, Jr. 1970 - Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
• Michael Kaiser 1971 - President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Glynnis O'Connor 1973 - Actress
• Rachel Vail 1984 - Children's author
• Clifford J. Levy 1985 - Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
• Craig Carton 1987 - Noted sports radio personality
• Devon Hughes 1990 - Professional wrestler "Brother Devon" formerly known as "D-Von Dudley"
• Cristina Teuscher 1996 - Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer
• Jennifer Hyman - 1998 - Entepreneur
• Tom Koehler 2004 -Miami Marlins Pitcher
• Courtney Greene 2005 - Jacksonville Jaguars Free Safety
• Ray Rice 2005 - Baltimore Ravens Running Back. Reserve on 2009 AFC Pro Bowl team.

Alan Frumin 1964 - Parliamentarian Emeritus United States Senate