List of St. Paul's School alumni

The following is a list of alumni of St. Paul's School. SPS is a preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

A

 * Robert Allerton SPS Form of 1889, philanthropist; gave Allerton Gardens on Kauai to the nation
 * Michael J. Arlen, author of Exiles and Passage to Ararat (winner of the National Book Award); longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker
 * Norman Armour 1905, United States ambassador
 * John Jacob Astor IV, member of the Astor family who died on the RMS Titanic

B

 * Hobey Baker 1909, collegiate hockey player and World War I pilot
 * E. Digby Baltzell 1932, sociologist responsible for popularizing the term WASP
 * Matthew Winthrop Barzun, U.S. ambassador
 * Alexis I. du Pont Bayard, lieutenant governor of Delaware
 * Roland W. Betts 1964, CEO of Chelsea Piers, L.P. and major Republican Party contributor
 * Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. 1915, ambassador during World War II to eight governments in exile
 * Charles E. Bohlen, diplomat
 * Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * James Bond, did not graduate; namesake for Ian Fleming's fictional spy
 * Marshall Latham Bond, owner of sled dog inspiration of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
 * Daniel Baugh Brewster, U.S. senator from Maryland

C

 * Lorene Cary 1974, author of Black Ice, an autobiography detailing her experiences with the school; founder of Art Sanctuary in Philadelphia
 * Alfred M. Coats (1869–1942), Scottish-American industrialist from Providence, R.I.
 * Francis Parkman Coffin, electrical engineering pioneer
 * Parker Corning 1893, U.S. congressman from New York
 * Archibald Cox 1930, Watergate Special Prosecutor
 * Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing

D

 * Frank H. Davis, Vermont State Treasurer
 * Clarence Day 1892, humorist, author, and playwright
 * Alexis Denisof, television, film and stage actor (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 * Harmar D. Denny, Jr., U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania
 * Charles S. Dewey, U.S. congressman
 * Marshall Dodge 1953, Yankee humorist
 * Lucy Barzun Donnelly 1991, award-winning film and television producer
 * Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol for the Kennedy administration; ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco
 * Annie Duke, 1983, tournament poker champion, winner of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (2004)

E

 * The Baron Eden of Winton, 9th and 7th Bt, British Conservative politician
 * Grenville T. Emmet 1893, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Austria
 * John Franklin Enders 1915, Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine
 * William R. Everdell, historian and author

F

 * Timothy Ferriss, entrepreneur and bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek
 * Hamilton Fish, Jr. 1890, first American to die while charging San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War
 * William Henry Furness III 1883, explorer and ethnologist

G

 * James Rudolph Garfield, politician, son of President James A. Garfield
 * Rufus Gifford 1992, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
 * Jeff Giuliano 1998, National Hockey League (NHL) player
 * Malcolm Gordon 1887, member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
 * Mark Gordon c. 1975, Wyoming state treasurer, rancher-businessman
 * J. Peter Grace 1932, industrialist and sportsman
 * Archibald Gracie IV, attended United States Military Academy (didn't graduate), RMS Titanic survivor, author of Titanic: A Survivor's Story
 * Eliza Griswold 1991, journalist/poet, author of New York Times bestseller The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
 * Frank Tracy Griswold III 1955, 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * A. R. Gurney 1948, playwright and novelist

H

 * Jeff Halpern 1994, NHL player
 * Edward Harkness 1893, philanthropist after whom the Harkness table is named
 * Huntington Hartford 1929, A&P heir, graduated after 8 years
 * William Randolph Hearst 1881, newspaper publisher (didn't graduate)
 * Kelly Heaton 1990, sculptor, seer, scientist, and spiritualist known for her combination of visual art with analog electrical engineering.
 * Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. 1918, most celebrated American polo player of all time and World War I fighter-pilot (left school as president of Sixth Form)
 * H. Allen Holmes 1950, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
 * Amory Houghton Sr. 1917, U.S. Ambassador to France
 * Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr. 1945, U.S. congressman (R-NY); CEO of Corning Glass Works
 * Clement Hurd 1926, author and illustrator of children's books, including Goodnight Moon

J

 * Annie Jacobsen 1985, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author

K

 * Michael Kennedy 1976, son of Robert F. Kennedy
 * John Kerry 1962, U.S. senator (D-MA), 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and 68th U.S. Secretary of State
 * Shamus Khan 1996, sociologist and author
 * Alan Khazei, founder of City Year
 * Frederick Joseph Kinsman, ecclesiastical historian
 * Sol Kumin, businessman and racehorse owner
 * Benjamin Kunkel, novelist and political economist

L

 * Beirne Lay, Jr. 1927, author, Twelve O'Clock High
 * Howard Lederer, tournament poker champion, winner of two World Series of Poker titles, and two World Poker Tour titles
 * Janice Y.K. Lee 1990, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher
 * John Lindsay 1940, U.S. congressman, former mayor of New York City

M

 * Michel McQueen Martin 1976, journalist for ABC and NPR
 * Cord Meyer, CIA official
 * Rick Moody 1979, novelist, author of The Ice Storm
 * Paul Moore, Jr. 1937, 13th Episcopal bishop of New York
 * William Moore 1933, president and chairman of the board, Bankers Trust
 * J. P. Morgan, Jr. 1884, banker and philanthropist
 * Junius Spencer Morgan II 1884, banker and art collector
 * Samuel Eliot Morison, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard University professor
 * Robert Mueller 1962, director of the FBI 2001–13, Special Counsel in 2017 U.S. election investigation

N

 * Philip Neal 1986, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet
 * Francis Augustus Nelson, architect
 * Judd Nelson 1978, actor, The Breakfast Club, Making the Grade

O

 * Catherine Oxenberg 1979, actress

P

 * Peter Pennoyer, 1975, architect, great-grandson of J. P. Morgan Jr.
 * Maxwell Perkins 1903, noted editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Harry Boone Porter, Episcopal clergyman, author, editor of The Living Church magazine
 * Robert Post 1928, prominent journalist and member of the Writing 69th
 * Lewis Thompson Preston 1944, President of the World Bank

R

 * Jonathan Reckford 1980, CEO of Habitat for Humanity
 * Whitelaw Reid, Jr., 1931, Chairman of the New York Herald Tribune and The Fresh Air Fund
 * Marcus T. Reynolds, 1886, prominent architect in Albany, New York
 * S. Dillon Ripley, 1932, 8th Director of the Smithsonian Institution (1964 to 1984) and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
 * Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy 1905, Conservative MP, British Peer

S

 * Hermann von Wechlinger Schulte, anatomist and dean of Creighton University School of Medicine
 * Charles Scribner III 1909, President of Charles Scribner's Sons
 * Roger Shattuck, Proust scholar
 * Alex Shoumatoff, literary journalist and environmentalist
 * Lockhart Steele, 1992, blogger and journalist; founder of Curbed and former editorial director of Vox Media
 * Anson Phelps Stokes II, 1896, philanthropist and Secretary of Yale University
 * Anson Phelps Stokes III 1922, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts
 * Edward L. Stokes, congressman (R) from Pennsylvania
 * Nicholas Stoller, writer and director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Yes Man, and Get Him to the Greek
 * Don Sweeney 1984, General Manager of the Boston Bruins; former NHL player

T

 * William Howard Taft IV 1962, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, NATO ambassador
 * Van Taylor, U.S. representative from Texas
 * William Davis Taylor 1950, publisher of The Boston Globe
 * Charles W. Thayer, diplomat
 * Augusta Read Thomas, composer of orchestral music; chair of the Board of the American Music Center
 * Sir Henry Worth Thornton, President, Canadian National Railway; Vanderbilt University football coach 1894; knighted by George V
 * Garry Trudeau 1966, Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist

V

 * Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., member of the Vanderbilt family; became a notable Thoroughbred racehorse/race track owner
 * Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr., wealthy American businessman; died on the RMS Lusitania
 * Cornelius Vanderbilt III
 * James Vanderbilt 1994, Hollywood screenwriter

W

 * David Walton 1997, television and film actor
 * Owen West, U.S. military officer and writer
 * Sheldon Whitehouse 1973, U.S. senator (D-RI)
 * Theodore Stark Wilkinson 1905, Vice-Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II
 * Caroline Randall Williams 2006, poet/author, co-author of Soul Food Love
 * John Gilbert Winant 1909, twice Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War II
 * Owen Wister, writer
 * Andrew Wylie, literary agent

Z

 * Alan "Scooter" Zackheim 2001, winner of the third season of Beauty and the Geek
 * Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 1936, film and television actor