List of Deerfield Academy alumni

The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically. See also Category:Deerfield Academy alumni.

Pre-1900

 * George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
 * Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College
 * John Williams (1817–1899), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian
 * Mary Tenney Castle (1819-1907), missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii
 * Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor
 * William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut

Classes of the 1920s

 * Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
 * J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design.

Classes of the 1930s

 * Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist
 * Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
 * Douglas Kennedy (1915-1973), actor
 * Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
 * H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), academic and activist
 * Edwin W. Martin (1917–1991), U.S. Ambassador to Burma
 * John Edward Sawyer (1917–1995), president of Williams College
 * Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019), Manhattan district attorney
 * James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
 * Thomas Hedley Reynolds (1920-2009), President of Bates College
 * William Zinsser (1922-2015), writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher
 * Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor
 * Ian Barbour (1923-2013), Templeton Prize winner
 * Charles Merrill Jr. (born 1920), writer, teacher and philanthropist
 * John Mecklin (1918-1971), writer and journalist

Classes of the 1940s

 * Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
 * John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
 * David S. Dodge (1922 – January 20, 2009), vice-president for administration (1979–83), acting president (1981–82) and president (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut
 * Thomas Keating (1923–2018), monk
 * Arthur Nims (1923-2019), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
 * Charles Clapp (1923-2004), Judge of United States Tax Court
 * Dickinson R. Debevoise (1924-2015), District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
 * John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
 * Ogden R. Reid (1925-2019), U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
 * Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient
 * Daniel C. Searle (1926-2007), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
 * John Ashbery (1927–2017), poet
 * James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
 * Carl Richard Woese (1928-2012), biologist, discovered archeabacteria
 * Allen Stack (1928–1999), Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
 * John Gunther Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book Death Be Not Proud
 * Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
 * John McPhee (born 1931), nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
 * Hoddy Hildreth (1931-2019), member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth

Classes of the 1950s

 * Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
 * Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
 * Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
 * Nelson Doubleday Jr. (1933-2015), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
 * Robert Hazard Edwards (born 1934), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
 * Thomas C. Reed (born 1934), Secretary of the Air Force
 * Warren Zimmermann (1934–2004), final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
 * James M. Banner Jr. (born 1935), historian
 * Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
 * Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III (born 1937), former owner of Anchor Brewing Company
 * Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
 * Eric Widmer (born 1939), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy
 * David H. Koch (1940-2019), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
 * David Childs (born 1941), architect

Classes of the 1960s

 * Don Abbey, real estate businessman
 * Bruce Faulkner Caputo (born 1943), U.S. Congressman from New York
 * Robert Beavers (born 1949), experimental filmmaker
 * Pete Varney (born 1949), Major League Baseball player
 * Stephen G. Smith (born 1949), journalist
 * Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
 * Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher
 * Peter Gabel (born 1947), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
 * Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host

Classes of the 1970s

 * Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
 * Jeffrey Bewkes (born 1953), CEO of Time Warner
 * Nigel Newton (born 1955), publisher, founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
 * Kerry Emanuel (born 1955), scholar
 * Buddy Teevens (born 1956), Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
 * Ken Bentsen Jr. (born 1959), U.S. Congressman from Texas
 * Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959), son of Sunny von Bulow and a member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
 * Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar

Classes of the 1980s

 * King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
 * Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission from 2006 to 2013
 * Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
 * Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
 * Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
 * Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
 * Craig Janney (born 1967), NHL player
 * Chris Waddell (born 1968), gold medalist Paralympic skier
 * Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon
 * Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
 * Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio
 * Milton Sands III (born c. 1969), admiral in the United States Navy

Classes of the 1990s

 * Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
 * Michael Sucsy (born 1973), acclaimed filmmaker, Grey Gardens
 * Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974), photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV
 * Prince Ali bin Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and Vice President of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
 * Marty Reasoner (born 1977), retired National Hockey League center
 * Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
 * Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
 * Adriana Cisneros (born 1979), media mogul
 * Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
 * Jay Newton-Small, Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell
 * Chase Coleman III, class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management
 * Bom Kim, class of 1996, Korean-American Billionaire and founder of Coupang
 * Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, American novelist

Classes of the 2000s

 * Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
 * David Branson Smith (born 1984), award-winning screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
 * Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
 * Ty McCormick (born 1987), award-winning foreign correspondent
 * Molly Schaus (born 1988), U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
 * Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
 * Alex Killorn (born 1988), professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League
 * Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League

Classes of the 2010s

 * Osama Khalifa, squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship
 * Kevin Roy, professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
 * Liam Holowesko, professional cyclist
 * Sam Lafferty, professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
 * Hunter Long, professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams
 * Jacob Lee (born 1994), singer songwriter featured on The Voice
 * Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour

Classes of the 2020s

 * Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor