Notable Parents
Notable parents of past and present Sidwell Friends students include:
- Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, 44th President of the United States and First Lady of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt, 29th President of the United States
- Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
- Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and First Lady of the United States
- Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States
- Rodney E. Slater, 13th US Secretary of Transportation
- Douglas Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland
- Hunter Biden, Son of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden and former chair of Amtrak Board of Directors
- David Gregory, Host of Meet the Press on NBC
- Debra L. Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Black Entertainment Television
- Robert L. Johnson, Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television and former owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats
- Sheila Johnson, Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television and owner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics
- Doreen Gentzler, Evening news anchor at WRC-TV
- Seth Goldman (businessman), Founder of Honest Tea
- Merrick Garland, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Federal Judge
- Seth Waxman, 41st Solicitor General of the United States
- Bob Woodward, Washington Post investigative reporter who broke the Watergate Scandal
- Wanya Morris, Member of the R&B group Boyz II Men
- Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- David A. Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
- Judy Woodruff, former host of Inside Politics on CNN
- Al Hunt, Executive Washington editor for Bloomberg News
- Christopher Hitchens, author, essayist, and journalist
- Jane Mayer, investigative journalist for The New Yorker
- Vali Nasr, Iranian-American political science expert
- Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent
- Delano Meriwether, 1971 United States Indoor Track and Field Champion, and first African American accepted into Duke University School of Medicine,.
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