List of Riverdale Country School alumni

This list of alumni of Riverdale Country School includes graduates and students who did not graduate.

List of alumni

 * Dan Abrams (class of 1984), chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News.
 * Virginia Abernethy (born 1934), anthropologist
 * Josh Appelbaum, television writer
 * Sosie Bacon (born 1992), actress
 * Charlie Barnet (1913–1991), jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
 * Jacqueline Barton (born 1952), chemist
 * Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), historian
 * Cliff Bayer (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer
 * Lisa Birnbach (born 1956, class of 1974), author of The Official Preppy Handbook
 * Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
 * Niesha Butler, basketball player, actress.
 * DJ Cassidy (born 1981), DJ, record producer.
 * Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920–1948), socialite.
 * Louis Ozawa Changchien (born 1975), actor
 * Chevy Chase (born 1943), actor
 * Suzan Johnson Cook (born 1957), pastor and activist.
 * Jonathan Dean (1924–2014), United States Ambassador to Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks
 * Richard Engel (born 1973), NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
 * Harry Enten (born 1988), political journalist
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), artist and social activist
 * Varian Fry (1907–1967), journalist who ran a program helping thousands of Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Germany.
 * Peter Galison (born 1955), Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University
 * Alexander Garvin (1941–2021), urban planner
 * James Gleick (born 1954), science writer.
 * Leopold Godowsky Jr. (1900–1983), co-creator of the first color transparency film
 * Rachel Hadas (born 1948), poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
 * Calvin Hill (born 1947, class of 1965), former NFL player
 * Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), journalist and author
 * John Kao (born 1950), author and strategic advisor
 * Claude Kelly (born 1980), singer, songwriter and music producer.
 * Ron Kim (born 1979), politician
 * John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), President of the United States, attended Riverdale's Lower School
 * Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. senator
 * Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004), conductor
 * Gerard Koeppel (born 1975), author, historian, and journalist
 * Robert Krulwich (born 1947), radio and television journalist
 * John Lahr (born 1941), theater critic
 * David Levin (born 1963), CEO of McGraw-Hill Education
 * Leopold Mannes (1899–1964), co-creator of Kodachrome, the first color transparency film
 * Lee MacPhail (1917–2012), Baseball Hall-of-Fame front-office executive
 * Megan McArdle (born 1973), blogger and journalist
 * Nick McDonell (born 1984), author
 * Fred Melamed (born 1956), actor
 * Howard Milstein, real estate developer
 * Steven Mnuchin (born 1962) United States Secretary of the Treasury 2017–2021
 * Wes Moore (born 1978), Governor of Maryland
 * Tim Morehouse (born 1978), fencer who was a 2008 Olympic silver medalist
 * William C. W. Mow (born 1936), entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy Industries
 * André Nemec (born 1972), screenwriter
 * Robin Pogrebin (born 1965), journalist
 * Ed Rendell (born 1944), Governor of Pennsylvania.
 * Cesar Romero (1907–1994), actor.
 * Clifford Ross (born 1952), photographer and artist
 * Tracee Ellis Ross (born 1972), actress
 * Andy Russell, founder and CEO of Trigger Media
 * Carly Simon (born 1943), singer.
 * Scott Snyder, author.
 * Jordana Spiro (born 1977), actor.
 * Max Stafford-Clark, an English theatre director
 * Ratan Tata (born 1937), chairman of Tata Group
 * Jeffrey Vinik (born 1959), owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
 * Joss Whedon (born 1964), writer, director, and executive producer; creator of several television series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity)
 * David Yazbek (born 1961), composer, lyricist, writer of Broadway shows and TV including The Full Monty, The Band's Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, etc.
 * Tim Zagat (class of 1957), restaurant critic
 * Michael Zakarin, guitarist for The Bravery