List of St. Paul's School alumni

This article is about alumni of St Paul's School, Concord. For alumni of St Paul's School, London, see List of Old Paulines.

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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^[1]
• 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
• 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

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 (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.^[2]
• 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

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 (1964 to 1984) 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 (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

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 (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

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

References

1. Noel F. Busch (October 4, 1943). "Ambassador Biddle: As multiple envoy to governments-in-exile, he is foremost U.S. expert on postwar plans and problems of Europe's courageous little nations". Life magazine. pp. 106–114, 117–120. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
2. "Formnotes". St. Paul's School Alumni Horae. Retrieved 2021-08-31.