List of Loomis Chaffee School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Loomis Chaffee School. Also called LC or Loomis, the Loomis Chaffee School is a college preparatory school located in Windsor, Connecticut.

A

 * John Ashmead 1934 – writer, educator, author of The Mountain and the Feather, writer for The Atlantic, book reviewer for The Philadelphia Bulletin

B

 * Deborah Baker 1977 – biographer and essayist known for A Blue Hand: The Beats in India, a biography of Allen Ginsberg that focuses on his time in India.
 * Stephen R. Barnett – American legal scholar
 * Peter Barton 1969 – British military historian, author and filmmaker specialising in trench warfare during World War I.
 * Jerome Beatty Jr. 1935 – twentieth-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines.
 * Andrew Berenzweig 1995 – professional ice hockey player, Nashville Predators
 * Gerald Warner Brace 1918 – writer, educator, sailor, and boat builder
 * Peter C. Brinckerhoff 1970 – writer, educator of nonprofits
 * Mark Brown 1977 – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles (1984) and Minnesota Twins (1985)
 * Harry G. Broadman 1973 – foreign trade and investment negotiator, global business growth strategist, corporate director, private equity investor, economist, litigation dispute expert, author and journalist.
 * Frank Bruni 1982 – reporter, food critic, and columnist, The New York Times; author of Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
 * Jacob Bryson 2016 - professional ice hockey player, Buffalo Sabres
 * Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who fought for equal representation in the Connecticut General Assembly.

C

 * Jesse Camp 1997 – video jockey, media personality
 * David E. Cane 1962 – American biological chemist serving as the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Emeritus at Brown University.
 * Richard Adams Carey 1969 – American writer best known for Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman.
 * Jonathan Carroll 1967 – author of The Land of Laughs, Voice of Our Shadow, Bones of the Moon, A Child Across the Sky, Black Cocktail, Sleeping in Flame, Outside the Dog Museum, After Silence, From the Teeth of Angels
 * John Chamberlain 1920 – was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist and literary critic.
 * Benjamin Cheever 1967 – author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death
 * Pauline Chen 1982 – surgeon, author, and The New York Times columnist
 * Aaron Civale 2013 – American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians of the MLB.
 * Chris Cillizza 1994 – political journalist at CNN and author
 * Larry Collins 1947 – author of Is Paris Burning?
 * Nancy W. Collins 1991 – Columbia University professor
 * Neal Conan – American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent who worked for National Public Radio and hosted Talk the Nation.
 * Alfred V. Covello 1950 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Former Connecticut Supreme Court Justice.
 * Alexander M. Cutler 1969 – former chairman and CEO of an American multinational power management company known as the Eaton Corporation.

D

 * Bianca D'Agostino 2007 – soccer player for the Boston Breakers
 * Damon Daunno 2003 – Tony and Grammy-nominated American actor, musician, and composer known for playing Curly McLain in the Broadway revival of Oklahoma!
 * Adam Davies 1990 – American author known for The Frog King.
 * Bob Davis – Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Ruthie Davis 1980 – founder, designer, and president of luxury shoe brand Ruthie Davis
 * Myron "Moe" W. Drabowsky 1953 – Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles and other teams
 * Guilford Dudley Jr. 1925 – United States Ambassador to Denmark

E

 * David Edelstein 1977 – film critic for New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, the New York Post, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix
 * Warren William Eginton 1941 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
 * Alexander Eliot 1936 – American writer who served as art editor for Time Magazine. He was best known for his works on spirituality and myth.
 * James F. English Jr. 1944 — former bank executive and President of Trinity College.
 * Lord David Ennals (one-year student) – British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights who served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.

F

 * Scott Fankhouser 1994 – former American ice hockey goaltender who used to be the Assistant Coach for the Cincinnati Cyclones. He is currently the assistant manager of Swonder Ice Arena in Evansville Indiana.
 * Diana Farrell 1983 – Founding President and CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Deputy Assistant on Economic Policy to President Barack Obama

G

 * Betty Gilpin 2004 – Emmy-nominated American actress known for her performances in the Netflix comedy series GLOW and Nurse Jackie.
 * Pete Grannis 1960 – former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and member of the New York State Assembly.
 * Ella T. Grasso 1936 – first woman elected Governor of Connecticut and the first woman elected governor of any US state without following her husband.
 * Jack Gould (1914–1993) – influential television and radio critic and reporter for The New York Times from 1944 to 1972.

H

 * John A. Hall 1964 – Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University
 * Benjamin Hedges 1926 – Olympic track and field athlete (1928)
 * Chris Hedges 1975 – Fellow at Nation Institute; professor at Princeton University; author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning; former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times; former correspondent, National Public Radio; member of team winning 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism; 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
 * Liana Hinds 2011 – American-born Trinidadian footballer who plays as a defender for Swedish club Sundsvalls DFF and the Trinidad and Tobago women's national team.
 * Allan Hobson 1951 – American psychiatrist, dream researcher, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School who is known for his research on rapid eye movement sleep.
 * Henry R. Horsey 1943 – Delaware Supreme Court justice
 * Sirena Huang 2012 – Taiwanese American concert violinist
 * Morris N. Hughes, Jr. 1963 – American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Burundi

I

 * Robert Grant Irving 1958 – author of Indian Summer

K

 * Charles Kaiser 1968 – American author, journalist, and acting director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College.
 * David E. Kaiser 1965 – professor of history, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; author of American Tragedy, Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, and Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race
 * Robert G. Kaiser 1960 – managing editor of and associate editor and senior correspondent for The Washington Post; author of "Russia from the Inside" and "Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't".
 * Jamie Kennedy 1974 - Canadian chef and recipient of the Order of Canada
 * Ray Kidder 1941 – American physicist and nuclear weapons designer
 * Henry R. Kravis 1963 – billionaire, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
 * Corby Kummer 1974 – restaurant critic for Boston magazine and editor at The Atlantic magazine
 * Alexander Kuo 1957 – American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist who served as Professor of English at Washington State University.
 * Joshua Kurlantzick 1994 – American Journalist and Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.

L

 * Pete Larson 1962 – former American football Running back for the Washington Redskins
 * Neil Lebhar 1968 – American Anglican Bishop who served as the first bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese
 * Tom Lehrer 1943 – musical satirist, entertainer, and mathematician
 * Nicholas M. Loeb – businessman and son of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.
 * Tony Lupien 1935 – American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a left-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox, grandfather of John Cena.

M

 * David Margolick 1970 – Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair; National Legal Affairs Correspondent, The New York Times; author of At the Bar, Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink
 * Andrea McCarren 1981 – television journalist and educator
 * Taylor Mead 1942 – American writer, actor, and performer known for his appearances in Andy Warhol's underground films.
 * Terry Melcher – musician, songwriter ("Kokomo") and producer, The Beach Boys and The Byrds; son of Doris Day
 * Nana Mensah 2001 — American actress, writer, and director.
 * Geoff Muldaur 1961 – American singer, songwriter, solo guitarist and a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band.
 * Matthew M. Murray 1989 – Major League Baseball pitcher, Boston Red Sox (1995)
 * John Garvan Murtha 1959 – Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.

N

 * John Nichols 1958 – American Novelist known for the New Mexico trilogy
 * Charles Hollister Noble – American historical novelist and screenwriter

O

 * John Peter Oleson 1964 – Canadian classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology
 * Richard Ottinger 1946 – American legal educator and politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for eight terms.

P

 * David Park – American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.
 * Richard Plepler 1977 – former chairman and CEO of HBO.
 * J.J. Philbin 1992 - American producer and screenwriter known for her work on The O.C.

R

 * David M. Raup 1950 – University of Chicago Paleontologist.
 * Betsy Reed 1986 – journalist and editor-in-chief of The Intercept and editor of The Nation.
 * Howie Richmond 1935 – American music publisher and music industry executive.
 * Richard Rifkind 1948 – American Cancer Researcher who served as chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of the Sloan Kettering Institute.
 * Thomas D. Ritter 1970 – lawyer, lobbyist, and retired politician from Connecticut who was the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
 * Selden Rodman 1927 – prolific U.S. writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing.
 * Adam Rome 1976 – American environmental historian who teaches environmental history and environmental non-fiction at the University at Buffalo.
 * John D. Rockefeller III 1925 – philanthropist
 * Winthrop Rockefeller 1931 – first Republican Governor of Arkansas

S

 * Keith Scribner 1980 – American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist, and educator.
 * Richard Scudder 1931 – American newspaper pioneer, newspaper publisher, journalist, and co-founder of the MediaNews Group.
 * Edward H. Shortliffe 1965 – biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist who pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
 * George P. Shultz 1938 – former United States Secretary of State
 * George Selden 1947 – author of The Cricket in Times Square and other children's classics
 * Joyce Sidman 1974 – American children's writer
 * R. Peter Straus 1940 – American media Proprietor who served as president of WMCA and chairman of Strauss News, member of the Sulzberger Family.
 * Steven Strogatz 1976 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, recipient of Presidential Young Investigator Award, author of SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, math blogger for The New York Times (2010)
 * John Chabot Smith 1932 – American journalist with the Washington Post, White House correspondent, and author of Alger Hiss: The True Story, an account sympathetic to Hiss.
 * Lyman Maynard Stowe 1930 – American physician and the first dean of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945 – chairman and publisher of The New York Times

T

 * John Terry 1968 – film and television actor, Against the Grain, A Dangerous Woman, Iron Will, Lost
 * Jeremiah Tower 1961 – celebrity chef credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.
 * James B. Twitchell 1962 – author and former professor of English at University of Florida

U

 * Gretchen Ulion 1990 – Olympic gold medalist, U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team, Nagano, Japan 1998

W

 * Katherine Waterston 1998 – actor Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
 * Geoffrey Wawro 1978 – Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas
 * Nancy Weber 1959 – American writer known primarily for The Life Swap
 * Benjamin C. Wedeman 1979 – American journalist and war correspondent
 * William Wemple 1930 – American lawyer who served in the United States Navy Reserve as a Lieutenant Commander and as General Counsel of the Navy
 * Mike Whalen 1979 – athlete and coach for Williams College and Wesleyan University
 * A.B.C. Whipple 1936 – journalist for Life magazine, author, and historian
 * James Widdoes 1972 – film and television actor, director, and producer: Animal House (actor), Charles in Charge (actor), Night Court (actor), Dave's World (director/actor), My Wife and Kids (director/actor), 8 Simple Rules... For Dating My Teenage Daughter (director/producer), Two and a Half Men (director)
 * David Wild 1980 – Senior Editor, Rolling Stone; host of Musicians (Bravo television)
 * Robert Winters 1949 – President and CEO of The Prudential Insurance Company of America
 * Jason Wu 2001 – fashion designer (designed First Lady Michelle Obama's inaugural ball gown and other pieces)

Z

 * Drew Zingg 1973 – American rock, blues, soul and jazz guitarist, best known for his performing with Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs

Faculty

 * Eric Wollencott Barnes – American educator, diplomat, actor, and author.
 * Kalena Bovell – American conductor who currently serves as assistant conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
 * John Horne Burns – American writer who was best known for his novel The Gallery (1947).
 * Miriam Butterworth 1936 – American educator, activist, and politician who taught at Loomis Chaffee.
 * Germaine Cheruy – French costume designer, artist, and intellectual. Madame Cheruy taught art programs at Loomis Chaffee.
 * René Cheruy – French soldier, educator, and artist. He served as a French professor and French Department Head at Loomis Chaffee. During his time as a soldier he received the Legion of Honor.
 * William V. D'Antonio – Italian-American sociologist and educator.
 * John W. Howe – American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. He served as the Loomis School's chaplain.
 * Evelyn Beatrice Longman – American sculptor who married Headmaster Nathaniel Horton Batchelder and taught sculpting classes at the Loomis School.
 * Vincent Schaefer – American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. He was director of the Atmospheric Science Center at the Loomis School in Connecticut.