List of Horace Mann School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York.


 * Desiree Akhavan '03, director, writer, actress; winner 2018 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
 * Pedro Alvarez '05, Major League baseball player
 * Harrison Bader ‘12, Major League baseball outfielder for the New York Mets
 * Erik Barnouw, writer, critic, documentary filmmaker, Columbia University professor
 * William Barr, U.S. Attorney General under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump
 * Alex Berenson, spy novelist, former reporter for The New York Times
 * Josh Bernstein ‘89 – host of The History Channel's Digging For the Truth
 * Ilse Bischoff, painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author
 * Alan Blinken, former United States Ambassador to Belgium (1993–1997)
 * Donald M. Blinken, investment banker, former Ambassador to Hungary
 * Adam Brook, thoracic surgeon
 * Amy S. Bruckman, ‘83, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
 * Robert Caro‘53, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Elliott Carter, composer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner
 * Chao-chu Chi Returned to China and became interpreter for Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.
 * Roy Cohn, aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial
 * David Cornstein, US ambassador to Hungary
 * Joseph Cumming, Yale scholar and pastor
 * John Dall, actor
 * Jerome Alan Danzig, reporter, news producer, and adviser to New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
 * Peter Deutsch, former congressman
 * Valentine Davies, class of 1923, author of Miracle on 34th Street
 * Bethany Donaphin, class of 1998, Head of Operations at the Women's National Basketball Association
 * Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times
 * Martin Duberman, class of 1948, author and gay rights historian.
 * Seymour Durst, real estate developer
 * Morris Leopold Ernst, lawyer and co-founder the American Civil Liberties Union
 * Charles Evans, founder of fashion house Evan-Piccone, and producer of Tootsie
 * Halley Feiffer, class of 2003, playwright
 * Ivan Fisher, prominent lawyer
 * Marc Fisher, class of 1976, writer and editor for The Washington Post
 * Doris Fleischman, American writer, public relations executive, and feminist activist
 * Jennifer Fleiss, entrepreneur and co-founder of Rent the Runway
 * Alan Furst, novelist
 * Henry Geldzahler, class of 1953, art critic, curator, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner, (1977–1982)
 * Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
 * Mark Gerstein, bioinformatics professor, Yale University
 * Alison Gertz, early AIDS activist
 * Bill Green, Republican member of the US House of Representatives from New York
 * Alexandra Guarnaschelli, executive chef and food television personality
 * Betty Hall, politician, New Hampshire state representative
 * Joshua Hammer, journalist and author
 * Leland Hayward, Hollywood agent and Broadway producer
 * Robert Heilbroner, economist, historian of economic thought, author
 * Anthony Hecht, poet
 * Marsha Hunt, actress
 * E. J. Kahn, class of 1933, pillar of The New Yorker, author and journalist
 * Rockwell Kent, famous American illustrator and painter
 * Jack Kerouac, class of 1940, writer and Beat Literature iconoclast
 * Edward Koren, New Yorker cartoonist
 * Richard Kluger, class of 1952, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Herbert J. Kramer, class of 1939, Director of Public Affairs at the Office of Economic Opportunity under the Johnson administration.
 * Robert Ledley, class of 1943, inventor of whole-body CT scanner, biomedical computing pioneer
 * Sir Thomas Legg, senior British civil servant
 * Tom Lehrer, political satirist and math professor
 * David Leonhardt, economics columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, 2011
 * Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives
 * Andrew Levitas, artist and filmmaker
 * Anthony Lewis, class of 1944, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner
 * Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights leader and former congressman
 * Joshua Malina, actor and member of the cast of the television series The West Wing
 * David Mandel, class of 1988, television writer and producer for Curb Your Enthusiasm
 * Jonathan Marks, class of 1971, anthropologist
 * Michael Mazur, artist
 * Dorothy Miner, Class of 1922, art historian and curator at the Walters Art Museum
 * Dwight C. Miner, Class of 1922, professor of history at Columbia University
 * Lucy Monroe, operatic soprano
 * Martin Moynihan, class of 1946, ethologist and founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama
 * James Murdoch, media executive; son of Rupert Murdoch
 * Donald Newhouse, publisher
 * Samuel Newhouse, media executive
 * Rebecca Oppenheimer class of 1990, astrophysicist
 * Ilario Pantano class of 1989, former marine, political figure
 * Nelson Peltz (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor
 * Mark Penn, one of the United States' premier pollsters and political consultants
 * Mary Petty, illustrator
 * Kenneth Pollack, analyst and author on Middle East affairs
 * Generoso Pope, Jr., founder of the National Enquirer and American Media, Inc.
 * Thomas S. Power, led Strategic Air Command
 * Paul Rapoport, co-founder of New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center and Gay Men's Health Crisis
 * Giles Sutherland Rich, patent attorney, author of the 1952 Patent Act, judge of the U.S. Customs and Patent Appeals and later U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * Renée Richards, class of 1952 (graduated as Richard Raskind), professional tennis player, author, ophthalmologist, and Trans Rights activist
 * Scott Rogowsky, class of 2003, comedian and host of HQ Trivia
 * Daniel Rose, real estate developer, philanthropist, essayist
 * David S. Rose, entrepreneur, investor and author
 * Elihu Rose, real estate developer and military historian
 * Frederick P. Rose, builder and philanthropist
 * Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs
 * Jonathan F. P. Rose, urban planner and real estate developer
 * Evan Rosen, journalist, strategist, author of The Culture of Collaboration and The Bounty Effect
 * Jon Rubinstein, computer scientist and electrical engineer. A primary co-creator of the iPod and iMac
 * Edward Thomas Ryan, class of 1980, Harvard microbiologist, immunologist
 * James Salter, class of 1942, writer
 * David Sanders, class of 1979, biologist
 * Marion K. Sanders, class of 1921, journalist, editor, author
 * Barry Scheck, class of 1967, member of legal team that successfully defended O. J. Simpson; attorney and founder of the Innocence Project
 * James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense in the Nixon and Ford administrations and former Secretary of Energy in the Carter Administration
 * Doug Schoen, political pollster, consultant and pundit; former partner of HM classmate Mark Penn
 * John Searle, philosopher
 * Charles Seife, class of 1989, mathematician and author
 * Noah Shachtman, class of 1989, editor of The Daily Beast
 * Gil Shaham, class of 1989, violinist
 * Orli Shaham, class of 1993, pianist
 * John Simon, New York Magazine critic and author
 * Andrew Solomon, class of 1981, writer
 * Jerry Speyer, class of 1958, a founder Tishman Speyer
 * Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York
 * Austin Stark, award-winning filmmaker
 * Edward Steinfeld, class of 1984, noted political scientist
 * Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times
 * Robert W. Sweet, United States District Court Judge
 * Robert Tishman, real estate developer and co-founder of Tishman Speyer
 * Beatrice Warde, writer and scholar on typography, author of “The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible”
 * Paul Francis Webster, class of 1926, Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning songwriter
 * William Carlos Williams, class of 1903, medical doctor and poet; Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Gertrude Weil, class of 1897 (or 1898?), suffragist, labor rights activist, civil rights and anti-lynching activist, and Zionist
 * Ben Yagoda, journalist and author
 * Rafael Yglesias, novelist and screenwriter
 * Paul Zimmerman, senior football writer for Sports Illustrated