List of St. Paul's School alumni

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 ; 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
• 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
• Francis Bohlen, 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 in Philadelphia
• Francis Parkman Coffin, electrical engineering pioneer
• Parker Corning 1893, U.S. congressman from New York
• Archibald Cox 1930, Watergate Special Prosecutor

  D

• Frank H. Davis, Vermont State Treasurer
• Clarence Day 1892, humorist, author, and playwright
• Alexis Denisof, television, film and stage actor
• 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, tournament poker champion, winner of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions

  E

• Sir John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, 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 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, 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
• 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
• Amory Houghton Sr. 1917, U.S. Ambassador to France
• Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr. 1945, U.S. congressman ; CEO of Corning Glass Works
• Clement Hurd 1926, author and illustrator of children's books, including Goodnight Moon
• John G. W. Husted, Jr., first fiancé of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  I

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, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and 68th U.S. Secretary of State
• Shamus Khan, sociologist and author
• Alan Khazei, founder of City Year
• Frederick Joseph Kinsman, ecclesiastical historian
• Sol Kumin, businessman and racehorse owner
• Benjamin Kunkel, author and critic

  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
• Katherine "Katy" Lederer 1990, poet/author
• 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
• Burnet Maybank III 1974, lawyer, author, and first head of South Carolina Department of Revenue
• 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

• 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
• Lewis Thompson Preston 1944, President of the World Bank

  Q

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 and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy 1905, Conservative MP, British Peer

  S

• 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 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

  U

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
• 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

  X

Y

Z

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