List of Choate Rosemary Hall alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Choate Rosemary Hall, also known informally simply as Choate. A private, college-preparatory, boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, it took its present name and began a coeducational system with the merger in 1971 of two single-sex establishments: the Choate School (founded in 1896 in Wallingford) and Rosemary Hall (founded in 1890 in Wallingford, moved later to Greenwich, Connecticut).

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

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## A[edit]

Edward Albee '46

* Edward Albee '46, Pulitzer-winning playwright[1]
* Lauren Ambrose (did not graduate), film and TV actress
* William Attwood '37, diplomat and journalist

## B[edit]

* William Sims Bainbridge '58, sociologist
* Felix Barker (exchange student), British historian, theatre and film critic, president of The Critics' Circle
* David N. Barkhausen, Illinois state legislator and lawyer[2]
* Florieda Batson '21, hurdler, 1922 Olympian
* Nat Benchley '64, writer, actor, producer
* Joseph Beninati, real estate developer and private equity investor
* Stephen Bogardus '72, Obie-winning stage actor
* Chester Bowles '19, governor of Connecticut, US ambassador to India

## C[edit]

Glenn Close '65 Jamie Lee Curtis '76

* Arne H. Carlson '53, governor of Minnesota
* Dov Charney '87, head of American Apparel
* Noah Charney '98, novelist and art historian
* Tanay Chheda 2014, film actor
* Julie Chu 2001, Olympic hockey player
* Kristen Clarke '93, Civil Rights lawyer[3]
* Glenn Close '65, actress
* Jeff Coby '13, Haitian-American basketball player
* Lewis Augustus Coffin 1908, architect
* Geoffrey Cowan '60, American lawyer, professor, author, and non-profit executive.
* Cason Crane 2011, mountain climber
* Caresse Crosby 1910 (Mary Phelps Jacob, Mrs. Harry Crosby), socialite, poet
* Jamie Lee Curtis '76, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress

## D[edit]

John Dos Passos '11 Michael Douglas '63

* John Danilovich '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Costa Rica, CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation
* Mathieu Darche '96, NHL ice hockey player
* Chris Denorfia '98, MLB baseball player[4]
* Bruce Dern (did not graduate), actor
* Tom Dey '83, film director
* Lorenzo di Bonaventura '76, film producer, president of Warner Brothers
* Donna Dickenson '63, philosopher, medical ethicist
* John Dos Passos 1911, novelist[5]
* Michael Douglas '63, two-time Oscar-winning actor
* John T. Downey '47, spy, prisoner of war, judge
* Paul Draper '54, winemaker
* Andres Duany '67, architect, urban planner, founder of the New Urbanism movement
* Avery Dulles '36, educator, philosopher, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
* Matt Dunne '88, Vermont state senator and state representative

## E[edit]

* James R. Eddy '49, veteran, lawyer, politician, judge
* Walter D. Edmonds '21, historical novelist

## F[edit]

* Caterina Fake '86, founder of Flickr
* Jonathan Fanton '61, academic and foundation president
* Robert Fitzgerald '29, poet, critic, classicist, translator
* Geoffrey S. Fletcher '88, Oscar-winning screenwriter and film director
* Katherine B. Forrest '82, U.S. federal judge

## G[edit]

Paul Giamatti '85

* Oliver M. Gale '27, advertising and public relations pioneer
* Bruce Gelb '45, president of Clairol, U.S. ambassador to Belgium
* Paul Giamatti '85, Emmy\- and SAG-winning actor
* Philip Gourevitch '79, journalist, author
* James Griffin '51, philosopher
* Roy Richard Grinker '79, anthropologist

## H[edit]

* Jin Ha 2008, American actor known for his roles in the TV series Devs, Love Life, and Pachinko in addition to the musical Hamilton
* William O. Harbach '40, Emmy\- and Peabody-winner, founding producer of The Tonight Show and The Steve Allen Show
* Amanda Hearst 2002, heiress, journalist, philanthropist
* Buck Henry '48, comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter
* Hong Jung-wook '89, Korean entrepreneur and ex-politician
* Brian Hartzer '85, chairman, BeyondPay

## I[edit]

* Kim Insalaco '99, Olympic hockey player
* Brett Icahn businessman

## J[edit]

* Eric M. Javits '48, American ambassador, nephew of Senator Jacob Javits
* Hardy Jones '61, conservationist filmmaker, author

## K[edit]

President John F. Kennedy '35 proposes the Moon-landing program in a speech to Congress, May 25, 1961

* Bob Kasten '60, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
* William Kaufmann '35, Cold War strategist
* John F. Kennedy '35, 35th President of the United States
* Joseph Kennedy Jr. '33, naval pilot
* Sarah Kernochan '65, novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, and Oscar-winning director
* Whitman Knapp '27, U.S. federal judge
* Hilary Knight 2007, Olympic hockey player
* John K. Koelsch '41, Medal of Honor recipient
* Herbert Kohler, Jr. '57, president of the Kohler Company
* Ben Kurland (did not graduate), film and TV actor

## L[edit]

* James Laughlin '32, poet and founder of New Directions Publishing
* Alan Jay Lerner '36, creator of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi, winner of three Oscars and three Tonys
* Elad Levy '89, leader, researcher, innovator, for the treatment of stroke in neurosurgery
* Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg (did not graduate), stage and television director, actor, writer
* Alan Lomax '30, pioneering ethnomusicologist, folklorist, oral historian

## M[edit]

Paul Mellon '25

* Robert McCallum Jr. '64, U.S. ambassador to Australia
* Douglas McGrath '76, actor, director, screenwriter
* Ali MacGraw '56, Golden Globe-winning actress
* George J. Mead 1911, aircraft engineer, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney
* Paul Mellon '25, philanthropist, art collector, donor of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Gallery of Art East Wing
* Peter Rodgers Melnick '76, film, theater, and television composer
* Tift Merritt '93, singer-songwriter
* Helen Stevenson Meyner '46, U.S. Congresswoman from New Jersey
* Rebecca Miller '80, actress, screenwriter, director, novelist
* William T. Monroe '68, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Bahrain
* Emil "Bus" Mosbacher '39, yachtsman, America's Cup winner, U.S. Chief of Protocol
* Robert Mosbacher '44, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
* Robert Mosbacher Jr. '69, Republican Politician and Former President and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corporation

## N[edit]

* Abdi Nazemian '94, Iranian-American writer, recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
* Nicholas Negroponte '61, founder of MIT Media Lab and One Laptop per Child
* Philip Nel '88, scholar of children's literature
* Bruce Nelson '58, history professor
* Douglass North '38, Nobel Laureate in Economics
* Victoria Nuland '79, U.S. ambassador to NATO, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

## O[edit]

* Terry O'Neill '70, feminist, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
* Emily Oster '98, economist and author
* Ifeoma Ozoma, technology policy researcher

## P[edit]

* Laurie L. Patton '79, 17th president of Middlebury College and president of American Academy of Religion in 2019
* James Peck '32, World War II pacifist, Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement
* Stacey Plaskett '84, U. S. Virgin Islands delegate to the United States House of Representatives
* Josephine Pucci 2009, U.S. Women's National Hockey Team member
* Jim Pyne '90, NFL player

## R[edit]

* Prince Anthony Stanislas Radziwill '78, Emmy\- and Peabody-winning producer of Primetime Live
* Luis Armando Roche '57, Venezuelan film director
* Rick Rosenthal '66, award-winning film and TV director
* Angela Ruggiero '98, Olympic hockey player, U.S. member of the International Olympic Committee
* Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe nominated actress

## S[edit]

Adlai Stevenson '18 in the Oval Office with President Truman in 1952 Roger L. Stevens '28

* Nicholas Schaffner '70, author, journalist
* Jamie Schroeder '99, American rower, Olympic gold-medalist, Oxford Blue, winner of The Boat Race
* John Burnham Schwartz '83, novelist
* Martha Schwendener '85, lead singer and songwriter of Bowery Electric
* Maria Semple '82, novelist and screenwriter
* Frederick Charles Shrady '28, sculptor, painter, awarded the Légion d'honneur
* Michael David Shulman (did not graduate), writer, artist, philanthropist
* Bill Simmons '88, sportswriter
* Hedrick Smith '51, New York Times editor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Emmy-winning PBS producer
* Lee Smith '80, journalist
* Window Snyder '93, digital security innovator
* Gustaf Sobin '53, poet, novelist, and belle-lettrist
* Khari Stephenson 2000, MLS soccer player and member of the Jamaica national football team
* Roger L. Stevens '28, theatrical producer, founding chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center
* Adlai Stevenson '18, two-time Democratic presidential candidate, governor of Illinois, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
* James Surowiecki '84, author, New Yorker staff writer

## T[edit]

* Ivanka Trump 2000, heiress, fashion model, entrepreneur, and presidential advisor

## U[edit]

* Ian Underwood '59, multi instrumentalist, member of the Mothers of Invention.

## V[edit]

* Chris Vlasto '84, Emmy-winning producer of Good Morning America and 20/20

## W[edit]

* Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuk 2003, heir presumptive to the throne of Bhutan
* Frank "Muddy" Waters '43, American college football coach
* Katharine Way '20, Manhattan Project nuclear physicist
* H. Bradford Westerfield '44, political scientist
* George Whipple III '73, lawyer and society reporter for NY1[6]
* James Whitmore '40, Tony\- and Emmy-winning actor
* David Williams '86, NHL ice hockey player
* Geoffrey Wolff '55, novelist and belle-lettrist

## X[edit]

## Y[edit]

* Alexander Morgan Young '88, president of production at 20th Century Fox
* Philip Young '27, Dean of the Columbia Business School and U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands

## Z[edit]

* Paul Zaloom '70, puppeteer, actor, and educator

## References[edit]

1. ^ Graduation years of alumni are taken from the Alumni Directory (online login), supplemented by "Notable Alumni" at www.choate.edu/about/history/notable-alumni, and the Choate Rosemary Hall Bulletin
2. ^ 'Illinois Blue Book 1995-1996,' Biographical Sketch of David N. Barkhausen, pg. 95
3. ^ "Two alumnae nominated to key roles in Biden administration". Choate News. 22 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
4. ^ Borges, David (June 20, 2011). "Southington native Chris Denorfia making a name for himself with Padres". New Haven Register. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
5. ^ Jean-Paul Sartre, "John Dos Passos and 1919," in Literary Essays, transl. Annette Michelson (New York, 1957), p. 90
6. ^ "Choate Rosemary Hall Bulletin | Winter '16 by Choate Rosemary Hall - Issuu". issuu.com. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-03.