and now for Andovers List...separated by category
Art
Carl Andre '53 ?Internationally-known sculptor
Joseph Cornell '21 (d.) ? Internationally-known artist; best know for his "box" art
Carroll Dunham '67 ? Influential American painter, known for expressionistic, eye-popping color and combination of biomorphism, cartooning and abstraction
Walker Evans '22 (d.) ? Photographer; won fame for Depression-era photos in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Cleve Gray '36 (d.) ? Painter known for large-scale, vividly colorful abstract compositions
Horatio Greenough , student in 1814-1815 (d.) ? Designer of Bunker Hill Monument; first American sculptor of international reputation
Mel Kendrick '67 ? Sculptor, known for innovative wood sculpture and cast work in bronze, rubber and plastic; 2002 recipient of Academy Award in Art
Angela Lorenz '83 ? Book artist; her limited editions represented in 50 public collections
William B. Macomber Jr. '40 (d.) ? Former president of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; former U.S. ambassador to Turkey
Beaumont Newhall '26 (d.) ? Photo historian; founder, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Frank Stella '54 ?Leading American abstract artist in painting and metal reliefs
George C. Tooker '38 ? Internationally-known painter
Business and industry
William S. Beinecke '32 ? Former chairman of the board, The Sperry & Hutchinson Co.
Broughton H. Bishop '45 ? Chairman, CEO, Pendleton Woolen Mills
William W. Boeschenstein '44 ? Retired chairman, CEO and president, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
Harry M. Cornell Jr. '47 ? Chairman emeritus, former CEO, Leggett & Platt, Inc.
Ted Forstmann '57 ? Founding general partner, N.Y. investment firm Forstmann Little & Co.; co-founder, Children's Scholarship Fund
Richard L. Gelb '41 (d.) ? Chairman emeritus, Bristol-Myers Co.
David L. Gunn '55 ? President, Amtrak
John Hess '72 ? Chairman & CEO, Amerada Hess Corp.
Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) ? President, Remington Products, Inc.; former owner, New England Patriots football team
John D. Macomber '46 ? Former president, Celanese Corporation; chairman, Export-Import Bank of U.S.
Richard A . Moore '32 (d.) ? Ambassador to Ireland; president, Western Broadcasting
Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. '58 ? Former president and co-CEO, TIME-Warner, Inc.
Robert W. Sarnoff '35 (d.) ? Former president, RCA and NBC
Whitney Stevens '44 ? Former chairman, J.P. Stevens Co.
Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 ? See Government and public service
L. Stanton Williams '37 ? Former president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries
Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) ? Manufacturer, Wrigley's Chewing Gum; owner, Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field
Thomas H . Wyman (d.) '47 ? Former chairman and CEO of CBS
Economics
William D. Nordhaus '59 ? Economist; member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Carter administration
William S. Vickrey '31 (d.)? Nobel Prize-winning economist
Education
James Phinney Baxter '18 (d.) ? Former president, Williams College; Pulitzer Prize winner
Chris Bischof '88?Founder, Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, Calif., for disadvantaged students
Fitzgerald B. Bramwell '62 ? Vice president for research and graduate studies, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Kentucky
Richard H. Brodhead '64 ? President-elect, Duke University; Professor of English and Dean, Yale College
Rebecca Tyler Brown Abbot 1837 (d.) ? First assistant principal, Hampton Institute
Jeffrey Garten '64 ? Dean, Yale School of Management
A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) ? Former president, Yale University; commissioner of baseball
Anthony Grafton '67 ? Professor of history and chair, Council of the Humanities, Princeton; winner of Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award
Richard Theodore Greener 1865 (d.) ? Teacher, editor, lawyer, diplomat; first black graduate, Harvard; law dean, Howard University; U.S. Consul, Vladivostok and Bombay
Ann McKeever Hatch '67 ? Founder, Oxbow School, Napa Valley, Calif., high school art immersion program; philanthropist; founder, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
Thomas H. Jackson '68 ? President, University of Rochester
John T. Kirkland 1786 (d.) ? President of Harvard, 1810-1828
Thomas C. Mendenhall '28 (d.) ? Former president, Smith College
Elizabeth Luce Moore '18 ? Former SUNY board president; former chair Institute for International Education and YWCA International Division
Joseph Hardy Neesima 1867 (d.) ? Founder, Doshisha University, largest private university in Japan; first Japanese ordained Congregational minister
David Pingree '50 ? MacArthur Award-winning Brown University classicist
David J. Smith '62 ? Educator; developer of award-winning curriculum, "Mapping the World by Heart; children's book author, "If the World Were a Village"
Peter P. Smith '64 ? Assistant director-general for education, UNESCO; founding president, California State University, Monterey Bay
Thomas P. Smith , Andover student in 1838 (d.) ? Leader in Boston's black community seeking black separatist "Smith Schools"
David J. Steinberg '55 ? President, Long Island University
Engineering and Architecture
William LeBaron Jenny 1846 (d.) ? Builder of first skyscraper
Guy Nordenson '73 ? Associate professor, Princeton School of Architecture; founder, Structural Engineers Association of New York
Frederick Law Olmsted 1838 (d.) ? Landscape architect; designed New York's Central Park
Entertainment and the arts
Leslie H. Blank Jr. '54 ? Award-winning independent documentary film maker
Humphrey Bogart '20 (d.) ? Film actor
Tom Chapin '75 (d.) ? Band leader and composer, The Thomas Chapin Trio; former musical director, Lionel Hampton Band
Frank Converse '56 ? Actor
Dana Delany '74 ? Actress, producer; winner of Emmy Awards in 1989 and 1992 for ABC-TV's China Beach
Hollis W. Frampton Jr. '54 (d.) ? Internationally-known film maker
Brian Henson '82? President, Jim Henson Productions
Eugen Indjic '65 ? Internationally renowned concert pianist
Theresa Koff '86? Writer, producer, NBC-TV's Law & Order
Jack Lemmon '43 (d.) ? Academy Award-winning actor in Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger; Emmy Award winner for TV miniseries Tuesdays with Morrie
Jonathan Meath '74 - Children's TV producer, PBS's Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and ZOOM
Daniel R. Pinkham Jr. '40 ? Internationally-known composer
Thomas S. Seligson '64 ? CBS producer; writer of Parade Magazine profiles
Peter Sellars '75 ? Opera, theatre, film director; MacArthur Fellow and Emmy Award winner; former artistic director, Los Angeles Festival and American National Theatre
Duncan Sheik '88 ? Singer-songwriter; Top 20 hit Barely Breathing; gold album Duncan Sheik
Samuel Francis Smith, Seminary 1832 (d.) ? Wrote national hymn "America" while Andover Theological Seminary student
Robert Smythe '78 ? Founder, artistic director, Mum Puppettheatre; 1998 Guggenheim Fellow
James Spader '78 ? Actor; co-star, TV's Boston Legal; Best Actor Award, 1989 Cannes Film Festival
Ming Tsai '82? Chef; star of public television's Simply Ming; owner of Blue Ginger restaurant; author of Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai.
Richard A. Wolf '64 ? Creator, executive producer, NBC-TV's Law & Order, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, Wolf Films
Dan Zanes '79 ? Recording artist; member of the Del Fuegos; most recent CDs of children's music, House Party, Night Time!, Family Dance
Warren Zanes '83 ? Vice president of education, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; member of the Del Fuegos
Exploration
Ian Baker '75 ? Himalayan explorer, Buddhist scholar, photographer, author; discovered Hidden Falls of Tsangpo; named National Geographic Explorer for the Millennium
Hiram Bingham 1894 (d.) ? Archaeologist; rediscovered ancient ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru
Britton Keeshan '00 ? Youngest person to complete the Seven Summits by climbing the tallest peaks on seven continents, including Mt. Everest in May 2004.
Government and public service
Paul "Jerry" Bremer '59 ? U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, appointed by President George W. Bush; former ambassador to the Netherlands and President Reagan's ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism
George Bush '42 ? 41st President of the United States
George W. Bush '64 ? 43rd President of the United States
John "Jeb" Bush '71 ? Governor of Florida
Lincoln D. Chafee '71 ? U.S. Senator, Republican-Rhode Island
Harlan Cleveland '34 ? Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; former U.S. ambassador to NATO
Raymond C. Clevenger III '55 ? Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Walter J.P. Curley '40 ? Ambassador to France; former ambassador to Ireland
Edward E. Elson '52 ? Former ambassador to Denmark; founding director, National Public Radio
Annie Edwards, Abbot 1855 (d.) ? First woman postmaster in U.S., Rockford, Ill.
Thomas Foley '71 ? Director of private sector development, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
Gerhard A. Gesell '28 (d.) ? U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia; prominent in Watergate, Oliver North trials
Robert Ingersoll '33 ? Deputy secretary of state under President Nixon; former U.S. ambassador to Japan
Clay Johnson III '64 ? Deputy director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Patrick J. Kennedy '86? U.S. Representative, Democrat-Rhode Island
Franklin L. Lavin '75 ? U.S. ambassador to Singapore
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 ? Former director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Clinton administration; four-star Army general and Desert Storm commander; teacher of national securities studies at West Point
William H. Moody 1871 (d.) ? U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. '53 ? Ambassador to Tunisia; U.S. liaison with PLO
Lovett C. Peters '32 ? Founder, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Anthony Quainton '51 ? Diplomat in residence, American University; former president, National Policy Association; former director general, U.S. Foreign Service; adviser on antiterrorist policy to every president since Gerald Ford
Josiah Quincy 1786 (d.) ? Mayor of Boston, 1823-1828; president of Harvard College, 1828-1845
W. Bradford Reynolds '60 ? Former U.S. assistant attorney general, Reagan administration
Charles F.C. Ruff '56 (d.) ? Chairman, Fair Labor Association; White House Counsel during Clinton impeachment trial; member of Watergate Special Prosecution Force
James Shannon '69 ? Former U.S. Representative, Massachusetts; former Massachusetts attorney general
Henry L. Stimson 1883 (d.) ? Secretary of War under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman; member of five presidential administrations; FDR's key adviser on atomic policy
Alexander B. Trowbridge '47 ? U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Lyndon Johnson; former president, National Association of Manufacturers
William Ury '70 ? See Literature and writing
Christopher A. Wray '85? Chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division
Journalism and publishing
Sam Allis '64 ? Columnist, Boston Globe; correspondent, Time magazine
Jonathan H. Alter '75 ? Senior editor/ columnist, Newsweek; contributing correspondent, NBC News
Willow Bay '81? CNN News anchor
H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger III '72 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author of Friday Night Lights
Melissa Biggs Bradley '85 ? Senior editor, Town & Country magazine
Otis Chandler '46 ? Former publisher, Los Angeles Times
Kenneth J. Cooper '73 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter
Lucy Danziger '78 ? Editor-in-chief, Self magazine
John Darnton '60 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, New York Times
David B. Ensor '69 ? CNN correspondent
William Hamilton '58 ? Syndicated New Yorker cartoonist; author; playwright
John F. Kennedy Jr. '79 (d.) ? Publisher, George magazine
William E. "Bill" Littlefield Jr. '66 ? Host of NPR's Only a Game; author; award-winning journalist; sports commentator
Jeffrey K. MacNelly '65 (d.) ? Creator of Shoe cartoon; editorial cartoonist; winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
Despina Plakias Messinesi '29 (d.) ? Former travel editor, fashion editor, Vogue magazine
Seth A. Mydans '64 ? New York Times foreign correspondent
Gerard Piel '33 ? Former publisher and president, Scientific American
Jane Pratt '80 ? Editor-in-chief, Jane magazine; author
Robert B. Semple Jr. '54 ? Associate editor, editorial page, New York Times; Pulitzer Prize winner for environmental editorial writing
William Davis Taylor '27 (d.) ? Former publisher, chairman of the board, Boston Globe
Evan Thomas '69 ? Assistant managing editor, Newsweek; author, Robert Kennedy: His Life
Literature and writing
Julia Alvarez '67 ? Critically acclaimed poet, novelist; author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; professor of English, Middlebury College
Michael R. Beschloss '73 ? See Social action and community service
Edgar Rice Burroughs 1894 (d.) ? Author of Tarzan novels
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) ? Poet, literary leader and doctor
Tracy Kidder '63 ? Pulitzer Prize-winning author; novelist
Ring Lardner Jr . '32 (d.) ? Author, Hollywood screen writer ( MASH )
Lucy Lippard '54 ? Cultural critic; feminist; theorist; political activist; author, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place
Gordon Lish '52 ? Influential literary figure; author, Krupp's Lulu ; Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; founder of two literary magazines; teacher
Paul Monette '63 (d.) ? Writer; poet; AIDS activist; English teacher; winner, National Book Award for Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Stacy Schiff '78 ? Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, Vera
Charles Monroe Sheldon 1879 (d.) ? Pastor; author of religious novel, In His Steps, which outsold every book except the Bible.
Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) ? Author; authority on child-rearing; anti-war activist
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas '49 ? Author
Shelby Tucker '53 ? Travel author, Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma; world traveler and adventurer
James Ramsey Ullman '25 (d.) ? Author, The White Tower; chronicler of mountaineering
William Ury '70 ? Best-selling author, Getting to Yes; international peace negotiator
Medicine
Bernard Ackerman '54 ? Former director, Institute for Dermatopatholgy, Jefferson Medical College; founder, Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology; board member, Coalition and Center for Ethical Medical Testimony
Alexander de Lahunta '51 ? World-class neuroanotomist, clinical neurologist, neuropathologist; author; James Law Professor of Anatomy, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Louis J. Elsas II '54 ? Director, Division of Medical Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine; president, Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825 (d.) ? See Literature and writing
Paul McHugh '48 ? Psychiatrist-in-chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital; co-chairman, Ethics Committee at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology; author, Genes, Brain, and Behavior
David Nathan '47 ? President emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; 1990 National Medal of Science winner
Benjamin Spock '21 (d.) ? See Literature and writing
Chris Weatherley-White '50 ? Plastic surgeon with Operation Smile, bringing reconstructive surgery to children in Third World nations
Military
Sullivan Ballou 1849 (d.) ? Civil War major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers who died at the Battle of Bull Run. His letter to his wife Sarah was featured in the PBS series, The Civil War.
Capt. (ret.) Thomas J. Hudner Jr. '43 ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; commissioner of Veterans Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey '60 ? See Government and public service
Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard H. O'Kane '30 (d.) ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; author
Major General James Parker 1870. (d.) ? Commissioned in 1876, he served through World War I. For valor displayed during the Spanish-American War, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Arthur Murray Preston '31 (d.) ? Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor for action as World War II torpedo boat commander
Lt.-Gen. Sir John Watts '48 (d.) ? Distinguished British commander of special forces; Chief of Defense Staff in Oman; knighted.
Science
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot 1891 (d.) ? Pioneer in astrophysics and solar energy; headed Smithsonian Institution
Constance Brinckerhoff '59 ? Molecular biologist; professor, Dartmouth Medical School; recipient of Merit award from National Institutes of Health
Mary Wilkes Eubanks '65 ? Botanist; senior research scientist, Duke University; president, Sun Dance Genetics
Nicholas J. Hadley '72 ? Physicist; professor of physics, University of Maryland; member of team that discovered the Quark
William S. Knowles '35 ? Winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
Alfred Lee Loomis '05 (d.) ? Physicist, lawyer, investment banker; invented Loran radar system; director of radar research in WWII; father of ultrasonics
Othniel Charles Marsh 1856 (d.) ? First professor of paleontology, Yale; established Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History
Marvin Minsky '45 ? Authority on artificial intelligence, computers, robotics
Samuel F.B. Morse 1805 (d.) ? Inventor of telegraph, Morse code; painter and president of National Academy of Design
George Pieczenik '61 ? Biochemist in genetic research; associate professor at Rutgers University
Gerard Piel '33 ? See Journalism and publishing
Herbert Scoville '33 (d.) ? Nuclear physicist, Los Alamos; chief scientist in President Kennedy's U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Lyman Spitzer Jr. '31 (d.)? International leader in stellar dynamics, plasma physics, thermonuclear fusion, space astronomy; designer of first telescope-bearing satellite; author of idea of placing large telescope in space and driving force behind development of Hubble Space Telescope.
George Hoyt Whipple 1896 (d.) ? Winner of 1933 Nobel Prize for cure for pernicious anemia
George M. Whitesides '57 ? Professor of chemistry, Harvard; 1998 National Medal of Science winner
Social action and community service
Hafsat Abiola '92 ? Nigerian political activist; winner, 1999 Women to Watch award, Association of Women's Development
Prince Rahim Aga Khan '90 ? Executive director, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, world's second largest private economic development foundation
John Badman III '62 ? Chairman, The Conference of Patriotic and Historical Societies
Michael R. Beschloss '73 ? Award-winning historian; author; Annenberg senior fellow; director, Annenberg Project on Television and U.S. Foreign Policy
Sarah Chayes '80?Director, Project BALCO, market-based production cooperative in rural Southern Afghanistan; former Kandahar field director, Afghans for Civil Society; former foreign correspondent, National Public Radio
William Sloane Coffin Jr. '42 ? Minister, Riverside Church, New York; former chaplain, Yale; civil rights proponent and peace activist
Justin W. Dart Jr. '49 (d.) ? Advocate for rights of disabled people; primary force behind Americans with Disabilities Act; Medal of Freedom recipient
Edith Williamson Kean '54 ? Director of landscape design for Green Thumb, New York City Parks and Recreation Department
Robert C . Macauley '41 ? Founder and director, Americares, international relief agency
Kathryn L. Mulvey '84 ? Executive director of Infact, public interest group that targets corporate abuse
Benjamin Spock, M.D. '21 (d.) ? See Literature and writing
Audrey Synnott '54 ? Sister of Mercy; coordinator of sisters' associates program serving healthcare facilities and schools
Theodore Weld 1820 (d.) ? Abolitionist; anti-slavery agitator with Edmund Quincy, Class of 1817
Heather White '76 ? Founder of Verite, non-profit organization that monitors factory conditions for goods produced by child labor and sweatshops
Sports and athletics
William S. "Bill" Belichick '71 ? Head coach, New England Patriots, Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII and XXXIX Champions
A. Bartlett Giamatti '56 (d.) ? See Education
Victor K . Kiam '44 (d.) ? See Business and industry
James P. McLane '49 ? Olympic swimming champion; winner of three gold and one silver medals at 1948 and 1952 Olympics; International Swimming Hall of Fame
William L. Veeck Jr. '32 (d.) ? Owner, Chicago White Sox
Philip K. Wrigley '15 (d.) ? See Business and industry
so don't even think of comparing Hyde to a REAL PREP SCHOOL. :razz: