List of Phillips Exeter Academy alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni from Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Notable faculty members and trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy

• John Phillips – founder of Phillips Exeter; President of Board of Trustees 1781-1795^[1]
• John Pickering - Federal Judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781-1782
• Salmon P. Chase - U.S. Senator from Ohio; Governor of Ohio; U.S. Treasury Secretary; Chief Justice of the U.S.; instructor 1785-1786
• Benjamin Abbot – Principal 1788-1838^[1]
• Daniel Dana - President of Dartmouth College; instructor 1789–91; Board of Trustees 1809-1843
• John Taylor Gilman – Delegate to the Continental Congress; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1795-1827^[2]
• Ashur Ware - Federal Judge; instructor 1804-5
• Nathan Hale - editor and publisher; introduced regular editorial commentary; instructor 1805-1807
• Alexander Hill Everett – diplomat and politician (1807)^[3]
• Nathan Lord - President of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; faculty member 1809-1812
• Henry Ware, Jr. - mentor to Ralph Waldo Emerson; instructor, 1812-14
• James Walker - President of Harvard University; faculty 1814-1815
• Ebenezer Adams – first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy^[4]
• Nathaniel Appleton Haven – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1828-1830^[5]
• Jeremiah Smith – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, Judge; Governor of New Hampshire; President of Board of Trustees 1830-1842^[5]
• Francis Bowen – Philosopher, writer, and educationalist; faculty 1833-1835^[5]
• Joseph Gibson Hoyt – Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis; faculty 1840-1858^[6]
• Amos Tuck - U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; founder of the Republican Party; Board of Trustees 1853-1879
• Charles H. Bell – Governor of New Hampshire; trustee 1879-1883^[7]
• George Lyman Kittredge – faculty 1883-1887^[8]
• T.A. Dwight Jones – faculty
• H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell – Director of Scholarships^[9]
• Donald B. Cole – historian; faculty 1947-1988^[10]
• Winthrop Jordan – historian; faculty member in History Department 1955-1960^[11]
• Frederick Buechner – writer; theologian; Religion and English faculty and School Minister 1958-1967
• Richard G. Brown – faculty 1962-1997^[12]
• Michael S. Greco – President of American Bar Association; faculty 1965-1968^[13]
• David P. Robbins – mathematician; faculty^[14]
• Stephen G. Kurtz – historian; faculty (1974-1987)^[15]
• Jeffrey Harrison – faculty^[16]
• Thomas Hassan – faculty 1989–present; Principal 2009–present^[17]
• Dan Brown – New York Times bestselling author; faculty 1993^[18]
• Tyler Tingley – Principal 1997-2009^[19]
• Todd Hearon – faculty 2003–present^[20]
• Michael Golay – historian; faculty 1999–present^[21]
• Gwynneth Coogan – U.S. Olympian; faculty 2002–present^[22]

1780s

• Benjamin Ives Gilman (1783) – Ohio pioneer
• George Sullivan (1783) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Nathaniel Thayer (1783) – Unitarian minister
• Samuel Smith (1784) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• George B. Upham (1785) – United States Representative from New Hampshire^[23]
• Josiah Bartlett, Jr. (c. 1786) – United States Representative from New Hampshire^[24]
• Daniel Tilton (1786) – one of the first two judges in Mississippi Territory, Supreme Court of Mississippi Territory^[25]
• Daniel Meserve Durell (1789) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; member of Democratic-Republican Party

1790s

• Dudley Leavitt (1790) – publisher, writer, teacher^[26]
• David L. Morril (1790) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
• Nicholas Emery (c. 1791) – Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[27]
• Daniel French (Attorney General) (1791) – Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire; grandfather of Daniel Chester French
• John Noyes (1791) – U.S. Representative from Vermont
• Lewis Cass (1792) – Brigadier General; Governor of Michigan Territory, Secretary of War; U.S. Senator from Michigan; U.S. Secretary of State; Democratic candidate for President^[28]
• William Ladd (1793) – pacifist, founder and first President of American Peace Society
• Nathaniel Upham (1793) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire^[29]
• Samuel Conner (1794) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts^[30]
• John Adams Harper (c. 1794) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire^[31]
• Edward Little (1794) – attorney, entrepreneur, philanthropist
• Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1795) - Unitarian minister and promulgator of Higher Criticism
• Daniel Webster (1796) – U.S. Representative who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; diplomat^[32]
• Leverett Saltonstall I (1798) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts^[33]
• James Clark (c1798) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate

1800s

• Samuel Livermore (c. 1800) – legal scholar
• Richard Saltonstall Rogers (1800) – East Indies Merchant, N. L. Rogers & Bros., Salem, Massachusetts^[34][35]
• Abiel Chandler (1802) – merchant, philanthropist
• Joseph Cogswell (1802) – educator, editor, library administrator
• William Plumer, Jr. (1802) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• James Carr (1803) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• John Perkins Cushing (1803) – China merchant, opium smuggler, philanthropist
• Augustine Heard (c. 1803) – entrepreneur and businessman
• Nicholas B. Doe (1804) – U.S. Representative from New York State
• Theodore Lyman (1804) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
• Lucius Manlius Sargent (1804) – author, antiquarian, and temperance advocate
• John Lauris Blake (1806) – minister and prolific author
• Benjamin T. Pickman (1806) – President of the Massachusetts State Senate
• Zachariah Allen (1807) – manufacturer and inventor
• Edward Everett (1807) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts, Ambassador to Great Britain; U.S. Secretary of State; President of Harvard University
• Benjamin Kendrick Pierce (1807) – U.S. Army officer; brother of Franklin Pierce; son of Benjamin Pierce
• Joseph Blunt (c. 1808) – author; editor; politician; New York County District Attorney
• James H. Duncan (1808) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• James Freeman Dana (1809) – chemist; science author
• Samuel Luther Dana (1809) – chemist; agricultural science specialist; science author

1810s

• Thomas Bulfinch (1810) – author of Bulfinch's Mythology
• John Adams Dix (1810) – Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York
• William Willis (1810) – Mayor of Portland, Maine; railroad president
• Jonathan P. Cushing (1811) – President of Hampden-Sydney College
• George Bancroft (1811) – historian, Secretary of the Navy; founder of the United States Naval Academy; Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Horace Hooker (c. 1811) – Congregationalist minister; author
• John G. Palfrey (1811) – clergyman, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Jared Sparks (1811) – President of Harvard University
• Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – businessman
• David Barker, Jr. (1812) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Samuel Cartland (1812) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Acting Governor of New Hampshire^[36]
• Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1812) – Professor; Acting President of Bowdoin College
• William Bourne Oliver Peabody (1812) – Unitarian minister, author
• John Sherburne Sleeper (c. 1812) – sailor, ship master, novelist, journalist, politician
• Charles Paine (1813) – Governor of Vermont
• James Wilson II (1813) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Andrew L. Emerson (c. 1816) – first Mayor of Portland, Maine
• Nathaniel Gookin Upham (1816) – Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; railroad president; diplomat
• Thomas Wilson Dorr (1819) – Governor of Rhode Island; leader of the eponymous Dorr Rebellion
• Alfred L. Elwyn (1819) – humanitarian, author
• Russell Sturgis (1819) – merchant, banker

1820s

• George Lunt (c. 1820) – politician, author, editor, poet
• Franklin Pierce (1820) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; 14th President of the United States^[37]
• John Sullivan (Attorney General) (1820) – Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire
• Josiah S. Little (1821) – Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
• John Langdon Sibley (1821) – librarian of Harvard University
• Jonathan Chapman (1822?) – Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
• Alfred W. Craven (1822) – civil engineer; founding member and President of the American Society of Civil Enginers
• Thomas Tingey Craven (Rear Admiral) (1822) – Rear Admiral, United States Navy
• Alpheus Felch (c. 1822) – U.S. Senator from Michigan; Governor of Michigan^[38]
• Samuel Haven (1822) – archeologist, anthropologist
• Richard Hildreth (1823) – historian, political theorist
• John Hodgdon (1823) – President of the Maine State Senate, Mayor of Dubuque, Iowa
• Ephraim Peabody (1823) – Unitarian minister; abolitionist
• George Yeaton Sawyer (1823) – Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Forrest Shepherd (1823) – geologist
• George Bradburn (1824) – politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts^[39]
• John Parker Hale (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; abolitionist; Free Soil candidate for U.S. President; Ambassador to Spain^[40]
• Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (c. 1824) – U.S. Representative from Maine^[41]
• Samuel Stillman Boyd (1826) – Judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
• Edward Henry Durell (1826) – Mayor of New Orleans, Federal Judge
• Silas Holman Hill (1828) – Acting Mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Theodore Howard McCaleb (1828) – Federal Judge; President of the University of Louisiana
• Francis Bowen (1829) – philosopher, writer, educationalist^[42]
• Benjamin Butler (1829) – Civil War General (Union); U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts
• Charles Turner Torrey (1829) – abolitionist; convicted of stealing slaves, died in prison
• Jeffries Wyman (1829) – naturalist and anatomist
• Morrill Wyman (1829) – physician and social reformer

1830s

• Edward Fox (1830) – federal judge
• Henry Gardner (1831) – Governor of Massachusetts
• Horace G. Hutchins (1831) – Mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts
• Timothy R. Young (c. 1831) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
• Nathaniel Holmes (1833) – Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri
• Nathaniel B. Baker (1834) – Governor of New Hampshire
• Edmund Burke Whitman (c. 1834) – quartermaster, U.S. Army; Superintendent of National Cemeteries
• William Henry Chandler (1835) – politician from Connecticut
• Fitz John Porter (1835) – Civil War General (Union)
• John F. Potter (1835) – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• William B. Small (c. 1835) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Jonas M. Tebbets (1835) – Arkansas judge and politician; sentenced to death for supporting the Union army, but released^[43]
• Ezra Abbot (1836) – New Testament scholar
• Charles H. Bell (1837) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Governor of New Hampshire
• Nathanial Gordon (1838) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; philanthropist^[44]
• George Walker (attorney) (1838) – politician; banker; diplomat; U.S. Consul-General in Paris
• Amos Tappan Akerman (c.1839) – U.S. Attorney General, 1870–1872
• John W. Kingman (1839) – one of the first three judges in Wyoming Territory; proponent of women's suffrage^[45]
• E. Carleton Sprague (1839) – lawyer, politician, Chancellor of the University of Buffalo

1840s

• James Camp Tappan (c. 1841) – Civil War general (CSA), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
• Paul A. Chadbourne (1842) – President of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts
• James Cooley Fletcher (1842) – missionary, diplomat, author
• Charles J. Gilman (c. 1842) – U.S. Representative from Maine
• Jonathan Homer Lane (1842) – astronomer
• Augustus Lord Soule (1842) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Rodney M. Stimson (c. 1843) – Ohio politician; State Librarian of Ohio; newspaper publisher and editor
• Elijah B. Stoddard (1843) – Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Bernard Crosby Whitman (c. 1843) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
• Henry W. Cleaveland (c. 1844) – architect
• E. C. Banfield (1845) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Solicitor of the United States Treasury
• Charles Cogswell Doe (1845) – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court^[46]
• Curtis Coe Bean (1846) – delegate from the Territory of Arizona to the U.S. House of Representatives
• George Francis Richardson (1846) – Massachusetts politician
• William Dorsheimer (1847) – U.S. Representative from New York; Lieutenant Governor of New York^[47]
• Richard Sylvester (1847) – journalist
• William Robert Ware (1847) – architect, founder of architecture programs at MIT and Columbia University^[47]
• William Fessenden Allen (1848) – Privy Councillor to King of Hawaii; Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Provisional Government of Hawaii; member of the Executive Council of the Republic of Hawaii
• Christopher Langdell (1848) – legal scholar, jurist and educator

1850s

• Elias H. Cheney (c1850) – newspaper editor; New Hampshire politician; U.S. Consul in Cuba, Bolivia, and Curacao^[48]
• Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1851) – author, journalist, abolitionist
• Uriah Smith (1851) – Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian
• George Bates Nichols Tower (c1851) – civil and mechanical engineer; author^[49]
• Benjamin Smith Lyman (1852) – mining engineer, surveyor, linguist
• Benjamin F. Prescott (1852) – Governor of New Hampshire
• Jeremiah Smith (1852) – New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice; Harvard Law School professor^[50]
• Wheelock G. Veazey (1855) – Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Gettysburg)
• George E. Adams (1856) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
• Marcellus Bailey (1856) – patent attorney; worked on the patents for the telephone
• Frank W. Hackett (1857) – Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy
• Edward Rowland Sill (1857) – poet
• George W. Atherton (1858) – President of Pennsylvania State University
• William Ripley Brown (1858) – U.S. Representative from Kansas
• Horace Stuart Cummings (1858) – lawyer; businessman; politician; New Hampshire Secretary of State
• Charles Ezra Greene (1858) – civil engineer; author; first Dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering
• Edward Tuck (1858) – banker, diplomat, philanthropist
• George S. Morison (1859) – leading bridge designer
• Henry B. Lovering (1859) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

1860s

• Jeremiah Curtin (1860) – translator of Native American and Slavic languages; folklorist
• William M.R. French (1860) – first Director of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Robert Todd Lincoln (1860) – son of President Abraham Lincoln; US Secretary of War; U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom
• Marshall Snow (1861) – Acting Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
• Augustus Van Wyck (1862) – Supreme Court Justice of Brooklyn, New York
• John E. Leonard (1863) – U.S. Representative from Louisiana^[51]
• Elisha B. Maynard (1863) – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts; Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court
• John Ames Mitchell (1863) – architect, writer, publisher, co-founder and President of Life magazine
• George Thomas Tilden (1863) – architect
• Wilmon W. Blackmar (1864) – Medal of Honor recipient (Civil War: Battle of Five Forks)
• Charles Rufus Brown (1865) – Hebrew Bible scholar
• Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1865) – architect
• William Gardner Hale (1866) – classical scholar
• John Hubbard (admiral) (1867) – Real Admiral, U.S. Navy
• Herbert H. D. Peirce (1867) – diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Ambassador to Norway; brother of C. S. Peirce
• Herbert Baxter Adams (1868) – educator and historian
• Winfield Scott Edgerly (1868) – Brigadier General, U.S. Army
• Charlemagne Tower, Jr. (1868) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany
• Frank O. Briggs (1869) – U.S. Senator from New Jersey
• Milton A. Shumway (1869) – Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

1870s

• August Belmont, Jr. (1870) – banker; owner and breeder of thoroughbreds, builder of Belmont Park racetrack
• Erastus Brainerd (1870) – museum curator; newspaper editor; publicist for Seattle, Washington
• Nathan Haskell Dole (1870) – author and translator
• Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (c. 1870) – entrepreneur; son of President Ulysses S. Grant
• Samuel Leland Powers (1870) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Sylvester Primer (1870) – linguist and philologist
• Albert D. Bosson (1871) – Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts
• Nelson Taylor, Jr. (1871) – politician from Connecticut
• George Herbert Bridgman (1872) – U.S. Minister to Bolivia^[52]
• Orrando Perry Dexter (1872) – Adirondack landowner and assassination victim^[53]
• Philip Hale (1872) – music critic
• Oscar Richard Hundley (1872) – federal judge
• Frank H. Pope (1872) – newspaper reporter; Massachusetts politician
• Frederick Winthrop Thayer (1872) – invented and patented the catcher's mask for baseball
• George Edward Woodberry (1872) – poet and literary critic
• Melville Bull (1873) – U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
• Henry G. Danforth (1873) – U.S. Representative from New York
• Robert O. Harris (1873) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• James Cameron Mackenzie (1873) – transformative Headmaster of Lawrenceville School
• George Arthur Plimpton (1873) – publisher and philanthropist
• John Ponder Saulsbury (1873) – Delaware Secretary of State^[54]
• William Bancroft (1874) – businessman; Brigadier General; Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Ogden Mills (1874) – financier; owner of thoroughbreds; philanthropist
• Guy Carleton Phinney (1874) – real estate developer
• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1874) – efficiency innovator; management theorist and consultant; president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• James A. Tufts (1874) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate^[55]
• William DeWitt Hyde (1875) – President of Bowdoin College
• Henry Shute (1875) – author
• William Morton Grinnell (1876) – lawyer; banker; diplomat; Third Assistant Secretary of State
• Robert Winsor (1876) – financier, investment banker, and philanthropist
• Timothy L. Woodruff (1876) – Lieutenant Governor of New York
• William W. Stickney (1877) – Governor of Vermont
• Willard S. Augsbury (1878) – businessman, banker, and politician from New York State
• Sherman Hoar (1878) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Walter I. McCoy (1878) – U.S. Representative from New Jersey^[56]
• William Schaus (1878) – entomologist
• Henry Grier Bryant (1879) – explorer, writer
• S. Percy Hooker (1879) – politician from New York State
• Moses King (1879) – editor and publisher of travel guidebooks
• Francis S. Peabody (1879) – coal baron, ally of Adlai Stevenson

1880s

• Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880) – "grandfather of football"
• Charles Augustus Strong (1881) – philosopher and psychologist
• William Woodward Baldwin (1882) – Third Assistant Secretary of State
• Frank G. Higgins (1882) – football player, lawyer, politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana
• Edmund Wilson, Sr. (1882) – Attorney General of New Jersey
• Joseph H. Walker (1883) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Larz Anderson (1884) – businessman, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
• Lindley Miller Garrison (1884) – U.S. Secretary of War
• Wallace Nutting (1884) – photographer
• Bradley Palmer (1884) – attorney, businessman, philanthropist, part of American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
• John Scammon (1884) – President of the New Hampshire State Senate; Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
• William A. Chanler (1885) – explorer, soldier, US Representative from New York
• Morton D. Hull (1885) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
• George Hunter (1885) – authority on decorative art
• Walter W. Magee (1885) – U.S. Representative from New York
• Gifford Pinchot (1885) – first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service; Governor of Pennsylvania
• George Rublee (1885) – diplomat, advisor to Woodrow Wilson
• Tim Shinnick (1886) – professional baseball player: second baseman for the Louisville Colonels
• William Wurtenburg (1886) – college football player, coach, physician
• Theodore Davis Boal (1887) – U.S. Army colonel; architect
• James Madison Morton Jr. (1887) – federal judge
• George Higgins Moses (1887) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, Ambassador to Greece
• Curtis Hidden Page (1887) – scholar, author, translator
• Frank Barbour (1888) – football player, coach, businessman
• Thomas Lamont (1888) – partner and chairman of Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan & Co.
• Lee McClung (1888) – Treasurer of the United States
• Samuel Washington Weis (1888) – painter
• Robert D. Farquhar (1889) – architect
• Ogden H. Hammond (1889) – U.S. Ambassador to Spain
• Booth Tarkington (1889) – Pulitzer Prize winner

1890s

• Butler Ames (1890) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Carroll Bond (1890) – Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the U.S. State of Maryland, the Court of Appeals
• George Lawrence Day (1890) – aka John Mapes Adams, Medal of Honor recipient (Boxer Rebellion)
• Lewis Stevenson (1890) – son of Vice President Adlai Stevenson; Democratic Party leader; Illinois Secretary of State
• William Boyce Thompson (1890) – mining engineer, financier, philanthropist
• Julian Coolidge (1891) – mathematician; President of the Mathematical Association of America
• Louis W. Hill (1891) – railroad magnate
• Henry McKee Minton (1891) – physician, co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi
• Winfred Thaxter Denison (1892) – Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
• Daniel Gregory Mason (1892) – composer, music critic
• Charles Loring (1893) – Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
• Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (1894) – architect
• George R. Stobbs (1895) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Charles R. Forbes (1896) – Director of the Veterans' Bureau
• Walter Dearborn (1897) – experimental psychologist; specialist in reading education
• Burt Z. Kasson (1897) – politician from New York State
• Joseph Jay Bamberger (1898) – film director and producer
• Roscoe Conkling Bruce (1898) – educator
• Robert William Sawyer (1898) – journalist, conservationist
• Samuel Davis Wilson (1898) – Mayor of Philadelphia
• Barry Faulkner (1899) – muralist
• Robert Leavitt (1899) – Olympic gold medalist, 110m hurdles
• Charles M. Olmsted (1899) – aeronautical engineer

1900s

• Antonio Apache (1900) – impostor, cultural impresario (did not graduate)
• Frederick C. Fairbanks (1900) – son of Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks; lawyer; publisher; caused scandal by eloping^[57]
• John F. Dore (1901) – Mayor of Seattle^[58]
• Walter Nelles (1901) – a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union^[59]
• Foster Rockwell (1901) – All-American football player, coach, hotelier
• Ralph B. Strassburger (1901) – businessman, thoroughbred owner and breeder
• Joseph Gilman (1902) – All-American football player, businessman
• Nicholas V. V. Franchot II (1903) – businessman and New York State politician
• Samuel Abraham Marx (1903) – architect and interior designer
• Jay R. Benton (1904) – Massachusetts Attorney General
• Edwin F. Harding (1904) – U.S. Army Major General, Commander of 32nd Infantry Division during WW II
• Harrie B. Chase (1905) – federal judge
• Richard Grozier (1905) – owner, publisher, and editor of The Boston Post; responsible for exposing Charles Ponzi
• Roger Sherman Hoar (1905) – lawyer, politician, science fiction author
• William Rand (1905) – Olympic athlete (1908, 110m hurdles)
• Thomas Coffin (1906) – U.S. Representative from Idaho
• Haniel Long (1906) – poet, novelist, publisher and academic
• Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1906) – Secretary of the Treasury
• Ed Wheelan (1907) – cartoonist
• Robert Benchley (1908) – author; member of original staff of The New Yorker; actor
• Frank M. Dixon (1908?) – Governor of Alabama; a founder of the States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats")
• Arthur Bluethenthal (1909) – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot

1910s

• Wayne G. Borah (1910) – federal judge
• Edwin C. Parsons (1910) – Rear Admiral of the United States Navy
• Olin M. Jeffords (1911) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
• Robert Nathan (1912) – novelist and poet
• Phelps Putnam (1912) – poet
• Donald Ogden Stewart (1912) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Philadelphia Story
• Harold Weston (1912) – modernist painter
• William D. Byron (1913) – U.S. Representative from Maryland
• John Amen (1914) – prosecutor of government corruption, head of the U.S. Interrogation Division at the Nuremberg Trials
• Arthur Freed (1914) – film producer
• Howard Hawks (1914) – film director
• Joseph Frank Wehner (1914) – fighter pilot
• Charles Bierer Wrightsman (1914) – fine arts collector and philanthropist
• Richard Folsom Cleveland (1915) – son of President Grover Cleveland; civil servant
• Lawrence Dennis (1915) – author and economist
• Louis M. Loeb (1915) – President of the New York City Bar Association
• Drew Pearson (1915) – newspaper reporter, author, columnist
• John Cowles, Sr. (1917) – co-owner of the Cowles Media Company
• Werner Janssen (1917) – conductor and composer
• Donald Lourie (1917) – businessman, government official, college football player
• Frederick James Woodbridge (1917) – architect
• Robert Chiperfield (1918) – U.S. Representative from Illinois
• George H. Love (1918) – businessman; industrialist; coal baron; Chairman of the Board of Chrysler
• Francis T.P. Plimpton (1918) – lawyer and diplomat
• Norris H. Cotton (1919) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
• David Granger (1919) – 1928 Olympic silver medalist (five-man bobsleigh)
• Donald Oenslager (1919) – Tony Award-winning scenic designer

1920s

• Corliss Lamont (1920) – humanist and civil libertarian
• Jess Sweetser (1920) – amateur golfer
• C. Bradford Welles (1920) – classicist
• Francis Grover Cleveland (1921) – son of President Grover Cleveland; actor
• James Greenway (1921) – ornithologist
• Weston Adams (1922c) – principal owner and President of the Boston Bruins
• Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1922) – great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln
• John W. Nason (1922) – President of Swarthmore College; negotiated acceptance of interned Japanese-American students to colleges
• Laurence Duggan (1923) – head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State; Soviet spy
• Jarvis Hunt (1923) – President of the Massachusetts State Senate
• Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr. (1923) – federal judge
• Sidney Darlington (1924) - engineer and inventor; winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• George E. Kimball (1924) – professor of quantum chemistry
• John K. Fairbank (1925) – academic and historian of China
• Lincoln Kirstein (1925) – writer, co-founder and General Director of the New York City Ballet (did not graduate)
• Dwight Macdonald (1925) – author and critic
• Kent Smith (c. 1925) – actor
• Walter A. Brown (1926) – original owner of the Boston Celtics,^[60] owner of the Boston Bruins
• Richard W. Leopold (1926) – historian at Northwestern University
• Red Rolfe (1927) – All-Star New York Yankee third baseman, Manager of the Detroit Tigers
• James Agee (1928) – author and critic
• Jack R. Howard (1928) – broadcasting executive
• Tex McCrary (1928) – journalist, radio and television talk-show innovator, political "fixer"
• Hart Day Leavitt (1928) – longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
• Paul Sweezy (1928) – economist and publisher
• Whiting Willauer (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Costa Rica
• Robert H. Bates (1929) – instructor in English, PEA; mountaineer
• H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929) – long-time Director of Scholarships at the Academy; uncle of John Irving (1961)
• Edwin Gillette (1929) – cameraman, inventor of animation technique
• William Howard Stein (1929) – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1972
• Richard Walker Bolling – U.S. Representative from Missouri (did not graduate)

1930s

• Joseph Burchenal (1930) – oncologist; winner of the Lasker Award
• Pierre S. du Pont (1930) – President of DuPont, manager of General Motors
• John A. M. Hinsman (1930) – President of the Vermont State Senate
• Francis Spain (1930) – Captain of the 1936 U. S. Olympic hockey team (bronze medal)
• Eliot Butler Willauer (1930) – architect
• Larry Bogart (1931) – critic of nuclear power
• Macdonald Carey (1931) – film and television actor, winner of two Emmy Awards
• John Crosby (1931) – newspaper columnist, media critic, suspense novelist
• Richard S. Salant (1931) – President of CBS News
• Sonny Tufts (1931) – film and television actor
• Bruce H. Billings (1932) – physicist
• Richard Pike Bissell (1932) – author and playwright, winner of Tony Award (The Pajama Game)
• John Toland (1932) – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (The Rising Sun)
• Adolph Coors III (1933) – businessman
• Richard Dorson (1933) – "father of American folklore"
• Richard French (1933) – musicologist; Yale professor
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1933) – historian
• Charles E. Tuttle (1933) – publisher
• Nathaniel Benchley (1934) – author, screenwriter
• William H. Blanchard (1934) – four-star general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Gordon Kay (1934) – movie producer
• Robert W. Anderson (1935) – playwright
• Tom Slick (c. 1935) – inventor and businessman
• Joseph Coors (1935) – CEO, Coors Brewing Company
• David D. Furman (1935) – New Jersey Attorney General, New Jersey Superior Court judge
• Hugh Gregg (1935) – Governor of New Hampshire, father of Senator Judd Gregg (1965)
• David Hall (c. 1935) – recorded sound archivist
• William Verity, Jr. (c. 1935) – Secretary of Commerce
• James T. Aubrey, Jr. (c. 1936) – President of CBS and MGM
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1936) – business historian
• Thomas Clinton (1936) – executive of Deutsche Bank, philanthropist, early advocate of the formation of the Presbyterian Church
• Calvin Plimpton (1936) – physician, President of Amherst College
• Robert Samuel Salzer (1936) – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
• Lee Parsons Gagliardi (1937) – federal judge
• Douglas Knight (1937) – President of Duke University
• Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. (1937) – co-founder of Atheneum Publishers
• Nelson Gidding (1937) – screenwriter
• Lex Barker (1938) – actor
• T. Clark Hull (1938) – Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut; Connecticut Supreme Court Justice
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1938) – U.S. Attorney General; Vice-President of IBM; father of John Katzenbach (1968)
• Alexander Saxton (c. 1938) – historian, novelist, and university professor
• Arthur A. Seeligson, Jr. (1938) – oilman, rancher, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
• Sloan Wilson (1938) – author (did not graduate)
• Alfred Atherton (1939) – U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
• Ward Chamberlin (1939) – public broadcasting executive
• John Holt (1939) – educational critic, activist, and author
• Bud Palmer (c. 1939) – professional basketball player

1940s

• Lloyd L. Duxbury (1940c) – Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
• Burke Marshall (1940) – U.S. Assistant Attorney General; head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era
• Lloyd Shapley (1940) – winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Harold R. Tyler, Jr. (1940) – federal judge
• Neil MacNeil (1941) – journalist
• Anton Myrer (1941) – author of war novels
• Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1942) – businessman and political activist
• Nathaniel Davis (1942) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Chile, and Switzerland
• William Bell Dinsmoor, Jr. (1942) – classical archaeologist and architectural historian
• Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. (1942) – President of the College of William & Mary
• Lloyd Stephen Riford, Jr. (1942) – New York State politician
• Robert B. Rheault (1943) – U.S. military officer; conspirator in the Green Beret Affair; inspiration for Apocalypse Now
• Roger Sonnabend (1943) – hotelier and businessman
• John Thomson (1943) – UK High Commissioner to India; UK Ambassador to the UN
• Gore Vidal (1943) – author
• Whitney Balliett (1944) – writer for The New Yorker
• Robinson O. Everett (1944) – judge and law professor
• Edward Lamont (1944) – politician, grandson of Thomas W. Lamont (1888)
• George Plimpton (1944) – author, editor, journalist, actor (expelled)
• Henry N. Cobb (1944) – architect and founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
• J. Glenn Beall, Jr. (1945) – U.S. Representative from Maryland; U.S. Senator from Maryland
• James P. Gordon (1945) – discovered Maser as a graduate student at Columbia University with Charles H. Townes (who was awarded Nobel Physics prize in 1964 for development of masers and lasers)^[61]
• John Knowles (1945) – author, A Separate Peace
• James R. Lilley (1945) – U.S. Ambassador to China
• William E. Schluter – New Jersey politician
• Charles W. Bailey II (1946) – political reporter, newspaper editor, political novelist (Seven Days in May)
• Michael Forrestal (1946) – government aide, legal advisor
• Will Holt (1946?) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist
• Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University
• Wallace Nutting (1946) – four-star general
• F. D. Reeve (1946) – author, poet, translator, editor
• Julian Roosevelt (1946) – Olympic gold medalist in sailing
• John Cowles, Jr. (1947) – newspaper editor and publisher; philanthropist
• Donald Hall (1947) – poet; US Poet Laureate, 2006–2007
• Richard W. Murphy (1947) – diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia
• John Pittenger (c. 1947) – lawyer and academic
• Herbert P. Wilkins (1947) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• David Bevington (1948) – literary scholar
• Douglas M. Head (1948) – Attorney General of Minnesota
• Alan Trustman (1948) – screenwriter ("The Thomas Crown Affair," "Bullitt," "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs")
• Carlos Romero Barceló (1949) – Governor of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the U.S. House of Representatives
• Adair Dyer (1949) – attorney, passed the International Family Law through the Supreme Court
• Bo Goldman (1949) – screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman), winner of two Academy Awards
• Thomas P. Hoving (1949) – museum director, author, publisher (expelled; graduated from Hotchkiss School)
• John Kerr (1949) – actor

1950s

• M. Scott Peck (c. 1951) – psychiatrist; author (did not graduate)
• Walter Darby Bannard (1952) – abstract painter
• Robert Cowley (1952) – military historian
• Pierre S. du Pont, IV (1952) – U.S. Representative from Delaware, Governor of Delaware
• Thomas Ehrlich (1952) – President of Indiana University
• Harmon Elwood Kirby (1952) – career diplomat; Ambassador to Togo
• Karl Ludvigsen (1952) – automotive journalist, author, historian, and design consultant
• David Mumford (1952) – mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal; MacArthur Fellow
• Robert D. Richardson (1952) – historian and biographer
• Harold Russell Scott, Jr. (1952) – Broadway actor and director
• Robert G. Wilmers (1952) – businessman
• Richard S. Arnold (1953) – former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; namesake of federal courthouse in Little Rock
• Hodding Carter III (1953) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
• Michael von Clemm (1953) – businessman, restaurateur, anthropologist
• Robert C. Wetenhall (1953) – owner of the Montreal Allouettes Football Club
• Peter B. Bensinger (1954) – administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency
• Earl J. Silbert (1953) – prosecutor in Watergate case
• James F. Hoge, Jr. (1954) – editor of Foreign Affairs
• Christopher Jencks (1954) – sociologist
• G. Bradford Cook (1955) – Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• John Gager (1955) – Professor of Religion at Princeton University
• Richard Maltby, Jr. (1955) – theater producer, director, and lyricist; screenwriter; crossword puzzle creator
• John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (1955) – Governor of West Virginia; U.S. Senator from West Virginia
• Peter Sears (1955) – Poet Laureate of Oregon
• Gordon Park Baker (1956) – American-English philosopher
• William Bayer (1956) – crime fiction writer
• Stewart Brand (1956) – editor, author, Internet pioneer
• H. John Heinz III (1956) – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
• Theodore Stebbins (1956) – art historian
• John Negroponte (1956) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, The Philippines, and Iraq; the first Director of National Intelligence
• Peter Benchley (1957) – journalist, presidential speechwriter, author, screenwriter (Jaws)
• Wilson L. Condon (1957) – Attorney General of the State of Alaska
• Bill Keith (1957) – banjo innovator
• Herbert Kohler, Jr. (1957) – businessman (did not graduate)
• Tim Wirth (1957) – U.S. Representative from Colorado; U.S. Senator from Colorado; current head of the United Nations Foundation
• John Winslow Bissell (1958) – judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Don Briscoe (1958) – television actor
• George Gilder (1958) – writer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute
• Warren Hoge (1958) – reporter, bureau chief, and editor at The New York Times (did not graduate)
• David Lamb (1958) – reporter, bureau chief at The Los Angeles Times (did not graduate)
• Robert Thurman (1958) – first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk in 1964; leading expert on Tibetan Buddhism
• John M. Walker, Jr. (1958) – Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• David Rockefeller, Jr. (1959) – Philanthropist and businessman, descendant of John D. Rockefeller
• Morris S. Arnold (1959) – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Daniel Dennett (1959) – philosopher
• Tom Mankiewicz (1959) – screenwriter, director, producer
• Hayford Peirce (1959) – writer
• Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1959) – educator, President of Yale University

1960s

• Robert Mehrabian (c. 1960) – materials scientist
• Charles Horman (1960) – journalist, victim of Chilean coup
• Charles C. Krulak (1960) – 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
• Jerrold Speers (1960) – Maine State Treasurer
• John Irving (1961) – author; has written more books and short stories set at Exeter than any other alum author
• George W. S. Trow (1961) – novelist, playwright, short story writer, longtime contributor to The New Yorker
• Peter Simon (c. 1961) – actor
• Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (1961) – Deputy Mayor of the City of New York, President of the New York City Board of Education
• Kenneth Bacon (1962) – Department of Defense spokesman; president of Refugees International^[62][63]
• Evan A. Davis (1962) – President of the New York City Bar Association
• Chester E. Finn, Jr. (1962) – educator; President of Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
• Myron Magnet (1962) – conservative author, Editor at Large of City Journal
• Henry Burkhardt III (1963) – co-founder of Data General, Encore Computer, and Kendall Square Research
• Gregory Craig (1963) – attorney; assistant Secretary of State; defended President Clinton in impeachment trial; represented father of Elián González in child custody/refugee case; foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama; White House Counsel to President Obama; now at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and coordinating defense of Goldman Sachs before the SEC
• Gordon Gahan (1963) – photographer
• Craig Roberts Stapleton (1963) – U.S. Ambassador to France and Czech Republic
• Willy Eisenhart (1964) – writer on art
• Peter Coors (1965) – President, Adolph Coors Brewing Co.
• David Darst (1965) – managing director, Morgan Stanley
• Barry Golson (c. 1965) – editor, journalist, author
• Terry Goddard (1965) – Attorney General of Arizona; Mayor of Phoenix
• Judd Gregg (1965) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, (withdrew as U.S. Commerce Secretary-designate)
• Helmut Panke (1965) – President, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW)
• Harrison "Skip" Pope Jr. (1965) – psychiatrist
• Charlie Smith (1965) – poet, novelist
• Kent Conrad (1966) – U. S. Senator from North Dakota
• David Eisenhower (1966) – grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States; namesake of the Camp David presidential retreat
• Fred Grandy (1966) – actor; U.S. Representative from Iowa; political commentator
• Steven T. Kuykendall (1966) – U.S. Representative from California
• James Earl Coleman, Jr. (1966) – attorney
• Mark Ethridge (1967) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; novelist; screenwriter; publisher
• Jonathan Galassi (1967) – President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; poet
• Curt Hahn (1967) – filmmaker
• Lawrence Lasker (1967) – producer and screenwriter of Sneakers
• Frank Teruggi (1967) – journalist
• Tom Birmingham (1968) – President of the Massachusetts Senate
• Edward Hallowell (1968) – psychiatrist
• John Katzenbach (1968) – author; son of Nicholas Katzenbach (1938)
• Michael Fossel (1968) – editor of the Journal of Anti-Ageing Medicine
• John R. Ettinger (1969) – lawyer and philanthropist
• Peter W. Galbraith (1969) – diplomat, author, Ambassador to Croatia (did not graduate)
• John C. Harvey, Jr. (1969) – Vice Admiral; Chief of Naval Personnel Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
• Christopher Kimball (1969) – founder of Cook's Illustrated; host of America's Test Kitchen
• Jack Gilpin (1969) – movie and television actor
• John McTiernan (1969) – filmmaker

1970s

• Robert Bauer (1970) – attorney, White House Counsel
• Nicholas Callaway (1970) – publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer
• Alex Beam (1971) – journalist, social critic
• Joyce Maynard (1971) – author
• Benmont Tench (1971) – musician and producer
• Roland Merullo (1971) – author
• Eben Alexander (1972) – neurosurgeon and author
• Robert J. Fisher (1972) – former Chairman of the Board, Gap, Inc.
• Ned Lamont (1972) – businessman; cable television executive; MBA, Yale School of Management; Democratic nominee for Senator from Connecticut in 2006, defeated by Joseph Lieberman
• Mike Lynch (1972) – television sports broadcaster
• Bobby Shriver (1972) – activist, attorney, journalist
• Eric Breindel (1973) – neoconservative writer, editorial page editor of the New York Post
• Rusty Magee (1973) – comedian, actor and composer/lyricist
• Clayton Spencer (1973) – president of Bates College
• Paul Sullivan (1973) – pianist and composer
• Emery Brown – neuroscientist and anesthesiologist
• Andrew Holtz (1974) – journalist
• William S. Fisher (1975) – businessman and investor
• Alix M. Freedman (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Joseph Lykken (1975) – physicist
• John O. McGinnis (1975) – legal theorist
• Brooks D. Simpson (1975) – author, historian
• Tom Steyer (1975) – asset manager, philanthropist, environmentalist
• Charlie Hunter (1976) – artist
• Ginna Sulcer Marston (1976) – advertising director for the Partnership for a Drug Free America^[64][65]
• Norb Vonnegut (1976) – author
• James F. Conant (1977) – philosopher
• James Somerville (1977) – minister, First Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia); former minister of First Baptist Church of Washington, DC
• Suzy Welch (1977) – journalist; author; former editor of Harvard Business Review; married to former GE CEO Jack Welch
• Catherine Disher (1978) – actress
• Mark Driscoll (1978) – Emmy Award-winning screenwriter^[66]
• Michael Lynton (1978) – CEO of Sony Entertainment Inc.
• Michael Cerveris (1979) – Broadway and movie actor; winner of two Tony Awards
• John J. Fisher (1979) – majority owner of the Oakland Athletics
• Andrew Sudduth (1979) – Olympic athlete (rowing, men's eight, silver, 1984, single scull, 6th, 1988)
• Hansen Clarke – U.S. Representative from Michigan (did not graduate)

1980s

• Greg Daniels (1981) – producer, including The Simpsons; adapted U.S. version of The Office from the BBC version; winner of four Emmy Awards
• Dave Douglas (1981) – jazz trumpeter and composer
• Pamela Erens (1981) – novelist
• Paul Klebnikov (1981) – journalist; murdered in Moscow
• Sarah Lyall (1981) – reporter, The New York Times
• Dan Brown (1982) – former instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy; bestselling author, The Da Vinci Code
• Stephen Metcalf (1982) – critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine (did not graduate)
• Cosy Sheridan (1982) – folk singer and songwriter
• Gwynneth Coogan (1983) – Olympic athlete (10,000m, 1992)
• Adam Guettel (1983) – musical theater composer; composed The Light in the Piazza; winner of six Tony Awards
• Chang-Rae Lee (1983) – author
• Julie Livingston (1984) – public health historian, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
• Shinichi Mochizuki (1985) – mathematician
• Edmund Perry (1985) – inspiration to Michael Jackson
• David Folkenflik (1987) – National Public Radio reporter
• Kenji Yoshino (1987) – law school professor, author
• Peter Orszag (1987) – Director of U.S. Office of Management & Budget under President Barack Obama^[67]
• China Forbes (1988) – musician (lead singer of Pink Martini)
• Niel Brandt (1988) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University
• David Goel (1989) – hedge fund manager^[68]

1990s

• Jon Bonné (1990) – journalist
• Michael Crowley (1990) – journalist
• Adrian Dearnell (1990) – Franco-American financial journalist; CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media^[69]
• Jeff Ma (1990) – part of MIT blackjack team, basis of the film 21 and the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
• Alessandro Nivola (1990) – actor
• John Palfrey (1990) – educator, scholar, law professor, head of Phillips Academy of Andover
• Brian Shactman (1990) – television news anchor
• Jonathan Orszag (1991) – economist
• Trish Regan (1991) – television news anchor
• Roxane Gay (1992) – author
• Jedediah Purdy (1992) – author, law school professor
• John Forté (1993) – musician, recording artist, composer, music producer, educator, activist
• Debby Herbenick (1994) – human sexuality expert
• Sloan DuRoss (1995) – Olympic rower 2004, Men's Quadruple Sculls^[70]
• Ketch Secor (1996) – musician and vocalist, Old Crow Medicine Show
• Hrishikesh Hirway (1996) – musician and vocalist, The One AM Radio
• Luke Bronin (1997) – Mayor of Hartford
• Win Butler (1998) – musician; lead singer of Arcade Fire
• Mike Morrison (1998) – professional ice hockey player
• Soce, the elemental wizard (c. 1998) – rapper and producer
• Paul Yoon (1998) - novelist
• Mike Blomquist (1999) – U.S. National Team (rowing); 2005 Men's 8+l gold medal at 2005 World Championships^[71]

2000s

• Sam Fuld (2000) – Major League outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins, and Oakland Athletics
• William Butler (2001) – musician; multi-instrumentalist of Arcade Fire
• Tom Cavanagh (2001) – National Hockey League player
• Adam D'Angelo (2002) – founder of Quora, first Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
• Mark Zuckerberg (2002) – founder of Facebook
• Andréanne Morin (2002) – Canadian Olympic rower
• Shani Boianjiu (2005) – writer
• Nicholas la Cava (2005) – Olympic rower
• Josh Owens (2007) – professional basketball player
• Erik Per Sullivan (2009) – actor; "Dewey" on Malcolm in the Middle

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Further reading

• Harris, Bernard C.; Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni-Alumnae, A Listing of the Trustees, Principals, Members of the Faculty Emeriti, and All Living Alumni and Alumnae ; Harris Publishing Company (White Plaines, New York), 19th Edition, PAH-W121-1M-18.1V