Prominent Alumni
The following is a select list of notable alumni of Northfield Mount Hermon School sorted by graduation year. NMH has the largest living alumni population among all boarding schools in America, totaling more than 25,000 in 2011.
- Lee de Forest, 1893, controversial radio pioneer
- William G. Morgan, 1893, inventor of volleyball
- Pixley Seme, 1902, founder of the African National Congress
- Henry Roe Cloud, 1906, educator and government official
- DeWitt Wallace, 1907, founder of Reader's Digest
- Monroe W. Smith, 1919, founder of American Youth Hostels
- S. Prestley Blake, 1934, founder of Friendly Ice Cream
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1937, poet
- Tad Mosel, 1940, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright for All the Way Home
- James W. McLamore, 1943, founder of Burger King
- William C. Pryor, 1950, Washington, D.C. Appellate Court Chief Judge
- David Hartman, 1952, television host
- William R. Rhodes, 1953, Chairman of Citicorp and Chairman Emeritus of the NMH Board of Trustees
- June Jordan, 1953, poet, professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
- J. Stapleton Roy, 1953, senior United States diplomat and ambassador to China, Indonesia and Singapore
- Edward W. Said, 1953, Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic
- Neil Sheehan, 1954, author
- Frank Shorter, 1965, Olympic runner
- William Ackerman, 1967, founder of Windham Hill Records and 2005 Grammy Award winner
- Natalie Cole, 1968, Grammy Award-winning vocalist
- Amy Domini, 1968, the "first lady of social investing"
- Dore Gold, 1972, former Israeli ambassador to the UN
- Valerie Jarrett, 1974, Senior Advisor to Barack Obama
- Helen DeWitt, 1975, novelist
- Laura Linney, 1982, actress
- Dylan Brody, 1982, humorist, author, comedian, playwright, and poet
- Kim Raver, 1985, actress
- Arn Chorn-Pond, 1986, activist and musician
- Uma Thurman, 1988, actress
- Misha Collins, 1992, actor
- YaYa DaCosta, 2000, actress
- Kimmie Weeks, 2001, human rights activist; winner of the 2007 BR!CK award
- Dallas Baker, 2002, professional football player
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