List of The Hill School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of The Hill School. The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

A

 * Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor
 * William Arrowsmith, 1941 – professor

B

 * John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language
 * James Baker III, 1948 – Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
 * Chris Bala, 1997 – professional ice hockey player
 * Perry Richardson Bass – investor and philanthropist
 * Manoj Bhargava, 1972 – inventor of 5-hour Energy
 * Pinckney Benedict, 1982 – screenwriter and author
 * George Packer Berry – Dean of Harvard Medical School
 * Josiah Bunting III, 1957 – educator, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute
 * Butch van Breda Kolff, Professional basketball player and coach in the NBA
 * Irving T. Bush, businessman
 * William Whiting Borden, missionary, heir of Borden fortune
 * Cleve Benedict, 1953 – West Virginian Congressman
 * Curtis Bok, 1915 – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
 * Hans Brase, 2012 – German Basketball player
 * George Bradley

C

 * Robert Davis Carey, 1896 – governor and senator from Wyoming
 * John Dickson Carr, 1925 – author
 * Sabin Carr, 1924 – Olympic athlete
 * Bernard Chan, 1983 – Hong Kong politician and businessman
 * William F. Clinger, 1947 – former Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97, US Navy (1951–55, Lt.)
 * Henry S. Coleman, c. 1944 – educator
 * Chris Collingwood, 1985 – singer, songwriter, member of rock band Fountains of Wayne
 * Paul Collins, 1986 – historian and memoirist
 * James Cromwell, 1958 – Academy Award-nominated television and film actor
 * Briggs Cunningham, 1926 – sportsman, motor enthusiast; won America's Cup yacht race in 1958
 * Jay Clayton
 * Seward Collins – Distributist, Anti-modernist
 * Evans Clark (1888–1970), writer committed first to Communist and Socialist causes and then liberal socio-economic issues.

D

 * Hugh DeHaven, 1914 – professor at Cornell University and "Father of Crash Survivability"
 * Kingman Douglass, 1914 – investment banker; deputy director of CIA
 * Jack G. Downing, 1958 – Director of the National Clandestine Service under President Bill Clinton

E

 * Lincoln Ellsworth, 1919 – polar explorer, first to sight geographic North Pole along with explorer Roald Amundsen
 * German Horton Hunt Emory
 * Nick Eppehimer – professional basketball player
 * Brett Eppehimer – professional basketball player

F

 * John Heaphy Fellowes, 1951 – U.S. Navy captain, pilot, and POW during the Vietnam War
 * Leonard Firestone, 1927 – U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1974–77, US Navy (WWII, Lt.)
 * Clarence Fincke – Captain of Yale Football team, Hill Football coach
 * Harold Furth, 1947 – scientist
 * Morton Fetterolf – Pennsylvania State Senator
 * William Fincke – pacifist minister
 * Walter Forbes, 1961 – notable fraudulent executive
 * Wilson P. Foss Jr., 1910 – board chair New York Trap Rock Corporation, art dealer and collector of Asian art

G

 * George Garrett, 1941 – poet, novelist, educator
 * Chris Gebhard, 1992 – business owner, Pennsylvania state senator
 * Wolcott Gibbs, class of '20 but did not graduate – writer for The New Yorker
 * S. C. Gwynne, 1970 – bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist
 * Caleb Frank Gates, 1922 – Chancellor of the University of Denver

H

 * Harry Hamlin, 1970 – actor
 * Dick Harter, 1948 – assistant coach of the Philadelphia 76ers
 * Laning Harvey, 1903 – Pennsylvania state senator
 * Frederick Herreshoff, 1904 – amateur golfer
 * Ralph Hills, 1921 – Olympic shot putter, physician
 * Mahlon Hoagland, 1940 – discoverer of transfer RNA
 * Randy Hopper, 1985 – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Roger Horchow, 1945 – Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
 * Clark Hoyt, 1960 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
 * James Calhoun Humes, 1952 – speechwriter
 * Lamar Hunt, 1951 – businessman
 * Nelson Bunker Hunt, did not graduate – scion of the Hunt Oil Company family; donated the costs to renovate his namesake building on campus
 * Thad Hutcheson, 1933 – politician
 * Sam Horner, 1956 – NFL halfback, defensive back and punter
 * Ralph Hills – USA Olympian shot putter, bronze medallist

J

 * Alexander Jerrems

K

 * Bob Kudelski, 1983 – professional ice hockey player, 1994 NHL All Star
 * Theo Killion – CEO 2010–14 tenure led the failing Zale Corporation back from near-bankruptcy
 * Eric King – NFL player

L

 * Lewis Lehrman, 1956 – politician, businessman, author
 * Robert A. Lovett, 1914 – fourth United States Secretary of Defense
 * Bill Luders – notable naval architect
 * Steven Lisberger – American film director and producer, directed Tron
 * Josiah K. Lilly Jr.

M

 * James A. Michener, 1931 – author; faculty, department of English
 * Alberto Mestre, 1982 – Olympian swimmer
 * Charles William Mayo
 * Spencer Moseley – CEO of Railway Express Agency
 * Devereux Milburn – Big Four polo player

P

 * Frank Pace, 1929 – Secretary of the Army; CEO of General Dynamics
 * Alan J. Pakula, 1944 – Hollywood director and producer
 * George Patton IV, 1942 – Major General in the United States Army; son of World War II General George Patton
 * Norman Pearlstine, 1960 – a former top editor at The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc., Bloomberg L.P. and The Los Angeles Times
 * Lionel Pincus, 1948 – co-founder of Warburg Pincus
 * William Porter, 1944 – Olympic athlete
 * Winston L. Prouty, 1924 – U.S. Senator from Vermont (1959–1971)
 * William Proxmire, 1934 – U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (D)
 * The Pullman Twins (George, Jr. and Walter (Sanger) Pullman) – attended for a term
 * Edward E. Paramore Jr. – screenwriter
 * David Paton – founder of Orbis International
 * Stephen Puth – Singer; Brother of Charlie Puth

Q

 * William Thomas Quick, 1964 – novelist, screenwriter, blogger. Named the Blogosphere.

R

 * Pat Rissmiller, 1998 – NHL athlete
 * Robert F. Rockwell, 1903 – United States Congressman from Colorado
 * Frank Runyeon, 1971 – actor, two-time Emmy Award winner
 * William S. Reyburn, Congressman for Pennsylvania
 * William A. Roosma, U.S. Army major general
 * Peter Rummell, CEO of St. Joe Company
 * Parviz C. Raji – Iranian Diplomat

S

 * Len Sassaman, 1998 – computer scientist and biohacker; candidate for Satoshi
 * Peter Schaffer, 1980 – lawyer and sports agent
 * Jon Shirley, 1956 – former President of Microsoft
 * Ernest Simpson, 1915 – British shipping tycoon best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, elder brother of King George VI
 * Kenneth F. Simpson – congressman
 * Lane Smith, attended in 1955, did not graduate – character actor
 * Jerry Stahl, 1971 – novelist, screenwriter
 * David Stein, 1979 – radio personality
 * Oliver Stone, 1964 – Academy Award-winning producer/director
 * William Irvin Swoope, 1888 – United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
 * Daniel Willard Streeter – hunter, adventurer and author
 * Barry Sheen, 1937 – British judge
 * Stephen Sohn, 2005 – Korean-American Model

T

 * Harold E. Talbott, 1907 – aviator and President of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, which manufactured more wartime aircraft overall than any other U.S. plant; third Secretary of the Air Force; selected the permanent site for the Air Force Academy
 * Baird Tipson, Dr., 1961 – former President of Washington College
 * Franchot Tone, Class of 1923, but did not graduate – prominent, Oscar-nominated actor of American stage, film and television productions
 * Juan T. Trippe, 1917 – airline pioneer, founder of Pan Am
 * Bobby Troup – composer of "Route 66", musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner
 * Donald Trump Jr., 1996 – son of Donald Trump
 * Eric Trump, 2002 – son of Donald Trump; Hill board of trustees
 * Roswell Tripp

U

 * David Vogel Uihlein, Sr. – heir to the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

V

 * John Van Voorhis, 1919 – New York Supreme Court Judge

W

 * John M. Walker, 1927 – physician and investment banker
 * Douglas "Sandy" A. Warner III, 1964 – former CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co.
 * Laurence Hawley Watres, 1900 – U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
 * Harry Elkins Widener, 1902 – businessman; son of wealthy businessman George Dunton Widener; grandson of wealthy railroad tycoon Peter A.B. Widener; two buildings donated in his name
 * Edmund Wilson, 1912 – writer
 * Tom Wolf, 1967 – 47th Governor of Pennsylvania (2015–2023)
 * Tobias Wolff, Class of 1964, but was expelled for forging information for admission – writer, novelist, English and writing professor at Stanford
 * Sidney Wood – Wimbledon tennis champion
 * Irving Price Wanger – congressman
 * Benjamin Drake Wright

Y

 * Richard Yuengling Sr., 1933 – President of Yuengling Brewery