List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Choate Rosemary Hall, also known informally simply as Choate. A private, college-preparatory, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, it took its present name and began a coeducational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments: the Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in Wallingford, moved later to Greenwich, Connecticut).

A

 * Edward Albee '46, Pulitzer-winning playwright
 * Lauren Ambrose (did not graduate), film and TV actress
 * William Attwood '37, diplomat and journalist

B

 * William Sims Bainbridge '58, sociologist
 * Felix Barker (exchange student), British historian, theatre and film critic, president of The Critics' Circle
 * David N. Barkhausen, Illinois state legislator and lawyer
 * Florieda Batson '21, hurdler, 1922 Olympian
 * Nat Benchley '64, writer, actor, producer
 * Joseph Beninati, real estate developer and private equity investor
 * Stephen Bogardus '72, Obie-winning stage actor
 * Chester Bowles '19, governor of Connecticut, US ambassador to India

C

 * Arne H. Carlson '53, governor of Minnesota
 * Dov Charney '87, head of American Apparel
 * Noah Charney '98, novelist and art historian
 * Tanay Chheda 2014, film actor
 * Julie Chu 2001, Olympic hockey player
 * Kristen Clarke '93, Civil Rights lawyer
 * Glenn Close '65, actress
 * Jeff Coby '13, Haitian-American basketball player
 * Lewis Augustus Coffin 1908, architect
 * Geoffrey Cowan '60, American lawyer, professor, author, and non-profit executive.
 * Cason Crane 2011, mountain climber
 * Caresse Crosby 1910 (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet
 * Jamie Lee Curtis '76, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress

D

 * John Danilovich '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Costa Rica, CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation
 * Mathieu Darche '96, NHL ice hockey player
 * Chris Denorfia '98, MLB baseball player
 * Bruce Dern (did not graduate), actor
 * Tom Dey '83, film director
 * Lorenzo di Bonaventura '76, film producer, president of Warner Brothers
 * Donna Dickenson '63, philosopher, medical ethicist
 * John Dos Passos 1911, novelist
 * Michael Douglas '63, two-time Oscar-winning actor
 * John T. Downey '47, spy, prisoner of war, judge
 * Paul Draper '54, winemaker
 * Andres Duany '67, architect, urban planner, founder of the New Urbanism movement
 * Avery Dulles '36, educator, philosopher, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Matt Dunne '88, Vermont state senator and state representative

E

 * James R. Eddy '49, veteran, lawyer, politician, judge
 * Walter D. Edmonds '21, historical novelist

F

 * Caterina Fake '86, founder of Flickr
 * Jonathan Fanton '61, academic and foundation president
 * Robert Fitzgerald '29, poet, critic, classicist, translator
 * Geoffrey S. Fletcher '88, Oscar-winning screenwriter and film director
 * Katherine B. Forrest '82, U.S. federal judge

G

 * Oliver M. Gale '27, advertising and public relations pioneer
 * Bruce Gelb '45, president of Clairol, U.S. ambassador to Belgium
 * Paul Giamatti '85, Emmy- and SAG-winning actor
 * Philip Gourevitch '79, journalist, author
 * James Griffin '51, philosopher
 * Roy Richard Grinker '79, anthropologist

H

 * Jin Ha 2008, American actor known for his roles in the TV series Devs, Love Life, and Pachinko in addition to the musical Hamilton
 * William O. Harbach '40, Emmy- and Peabody-winner, founding producer of The Tonight Show and The Steve Allen Show
 * Amanda Hearst 2002, heiress, journalist, philanthropist
 * Buck Henry '48, comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter
 * Hong Jung-wook '89, Korean entrepreneur and ex-politician
 * Brian Hartzer '85, chairman, BeyondPay

I

 * Kim Insalaco '99, Olympic hockey player
 * Brett Icahn businessman

J

 * Eric M. Javits '48, American ambassador, nephew of Senator Jacob Javits
 * Hardy Jones '61, conservationist filmmaker, author

K

 * Bob Kasten '60, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
 * William Kaufmann '35, Cold War strategist
 * John F. Kennedy '35, 35th President of the United States
 * Joseph Kennedy Jr. '33, naval pilot
 * Sarah Kernochan '65, novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and Oscar-winning director
 * Whitman Knapp '27, U.S. federal judge
 * Hilary Knight 2007, Olympic hockey player
 * John K. Koelsch '41, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Herbert Kohler, Jr. '57, president of the Kohler Company
 * Ben Kurland (did not graduate), film and TV actor

L

 * James Laughlin '32, poet and founder of New Directions Publishing
 * Alan Jay Lerner '36, creator of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi, winner of three Oscars and three Tonys
 * Elad Levy '89, leader, researcher, innovator, for the treatment of stroke in neurosurgery
 * Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg (did not graduate), stage and television director, actor, writer
 * Alan Lomax '30, pioneering ethnomusicologist, folklorist, oral historian

M

 * Robert McCallum Jr. '64, U.S. ambassador to Australia
 * Douglas McGrath '76, actor, director, screenwriter
 * Ali MacGraw '56, Golden Globe-winning actress
 * George J. Mead 1911, aircraft engineer, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney
 * Paul Mellon '25, philanthropist, art collector, donor of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Gallery of Art East Wing
 * Peter Rodgers Melnick '76, film, theater, and television composer
 * Tift Merritt '93, singer-songwriter
 * Helen Stevenson Meyner '46, U.S. Congresswoman from New Jersey
 * Rebecca Miller '80, actress, screenwriter, director, novelist
 * William T. Monroe '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Bahrain
 * Emil "Bus" Mosbacher '39, yachtsman, America's Cup winner, U.S. Chief of Protocol
 * Robert Mosbacher '44, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
 * Robert Mosbacher Jr. '69, Republican Politician and Former President and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corporation

N

 * Abdi Nazemian '94, Iranian-American writer, recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
 * Nicholas Negroponte '61, founder of MIT Media Lab and One Laptop per Child
 * Philip Nel '88, scholar of children's literature
 * Bruce Nelson '58, history professor
 * Douglass North '38, Nobel Laureate in Economics
 * Victoria Nuland '79, U.S. ambassador to NATO, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

O

 * Terry O'Neill '70, feminist, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
 * Emily Oster '98, economist and author
 * Ifeoma Ozoma, technology policy researcher

P

 * Laurie L. Patton '79, 17th president of Middlebury College and president of American Academy of Religion in 2019
 * James Peck '32, World War II pacifist, Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement
 * Stacey Plaskett '84, U. S. Virgin Islands delegate to the United States House of Representatives
 * Josephine Pucci 2009, U.S. Women's National Hockey Team member
 * Jim Pyne '90, NFL player

R

 * Prince Anthony Stanislas Radziwill '78, Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer of Primetime Live
 * Luis Armando Roche '57, Venezuelan film director
 * Rick Rosenthal '66, award-winning film and TV director
 * Angela Ruggiero '98, Olympic hockey player, U.S. member of the International Olympic Committee
 * Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe nominated actress

S

 * Nicholas Schaffner '70, author, journalist
 * Jamie Schroeder '99, American rower, Olympic gold-medalist, Oxford Blue, winner of The Boat Race
 * John Burnham Schwartz '83, novelist
 * Martha Schwendener '85, lead singer and songwriter of Bowery Electric
 * Maria Semple '82, novelist and screenwriter
 * Frederick Charles Shrady '28, sculptor, painter, awarded the Légion d'honneur
 * Michael David Shulman (did not graduate), writer, artist, philanthropist
 * Bill Simmons '88, sportswriter
 * Hedrick Smith '51, New York Times editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Emmy-winning PBS producer
 * Lee Smith '80, journalist
 * Window Snyder '93, digital security innovator
 * Gustaf Sobin '53, poet, novelist, and belle-lettrist
 * Khari Stephenson 2000, MLS soccer player and member of the Jamaica national football team
 * Roger L. Stevens '28, theatrical producer, founding chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center
 * Adlai Stevenson '18, two-time Democratic presidential candidate, governor of Illinois, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
 * James Surowiecki '84, author, New Yorker staff writer

T

 * Ivanka Trump 2000, heiress, fashion model, entrepreneur, and presidential advisor

U

 * Ian Underwood '59, multi instrumentalist, member of the Mothers of Invention.

V

 * Chris Vlasto '84, Emmy-winning producer of Good Morning America and 20/20

W

 * Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuk 2003, heir presumptive to the throne of Bhutan
 * Frank "Muddy" Waters '43, American college football coach
 * Katharine Way '20, Manhattan Project nuclear physicist
 * H. Bradford Westerfield '44, political scientist
 * George Whipple III '73, lawyer and society reporter for NY1
 * James Whitmore '40, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor
 * David Williams '86, NHL ice hockey player
 * Geoffrey Wolff '55, novelist and belle-lettrist

Y

 * Alexander Morgan Young '88, president of production at 20th Century Fox
 * Philip Young '27, Dean of the Columbia Business School and U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands

Z

 * Paul Zaloom '70, puppeteer, actor, and educator