Senn High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Cliff Aberson was a professional football player with the NFL Green Bay Packers (1946) and a Major League Baseball outfielder (1947–49) with the Chicago Cubs.
• Buddy Bregman, musical arranger, record producer and composer
• Carlos Eire, historian, writer, professor at Yale University, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, winner 2003 National Book Award, nonfiction.
• Joseph Epstein is a writer, essayist, and editor.
• Jimmy Evert is a tennis coach whose students included Jennifer Capriati and his daughter Chris Evert.
• William Friedkin is an Academy Award–winning film director (The French Connection, The Exorcist).
• Shecky Greene, comedian
• Alan Hargesheimer was a professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Kansas City Royals.
• Barbara Harris is a former actress on stage, television, and screen (Nashville, Freaky Friday). She won a Tony Award in 1967 for Passionella.
• Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) was a political cartoonist and 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree. In 1950, he coined the term "McCarthyism".
• Gene Honda is a media spokesman and public address announcer (Chicago White Sox, Chicago Blackhawks) and has worked for the Big 10 Conference and the NCAA.
• John Jakes, first author with 3 books on NY Times Best Seller List
• Harvey Korman was a comedic actor who won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the Carol Burnett Show. He is also remembered for film roles such as in Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.
• Lou Levy, jazz bebop artist
• Allan Katz, writer/producer M*A*S*H
• William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., novelist and editor
• Clayton Moore was an actor best known for his portrayal of The Lone Ranger.
• Lois Nettleton was an actress who acted in film and on television for nearly six decades.
• Mike North, Emmy winner, host of television & radio sports shows
• Anita O'Day, jazz singer
• Irna Phillips, creator of the first radio & TV soap operas
• Fritz Pollard, Jr., won a bronze medal in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1936 Olympics.
• Harold Ramis is a comedy writer, director, and actor (Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Analyze This).
• Annette Rogers won gold medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1932 Olympics and 1936 Olympics
• William Russo (musician), jazz arranger and composer
• Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award & Tony Award winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He also helped create television series such as The Patty Duke Show, Hart to Hart, and I Dream of Jeannie.
• Scott Simon is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning writer.
• Lee Stern is a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade best known as a minority owner of the Chicago White Sox and president of Chicago's former NASL soccer team, the Chicago Sting.
• Stanley Tigerman, architect & designer
• Burr Tillstrom is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning puppeteer. He created the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show.