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Robert Allerton SPS Form of 1889, philanthropist; gave Allerton Gardens on Kauai to the nation (A)
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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 (A)
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Norman Armour 1905, United States ambassador (A)
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John Jacob Astor IV, member of the Astor family who died on the RMS Titanic (A)
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Hobey Baker 1909, collegiate hockey player and World War I pilot (B)
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E. Digby Baltzell 1932, sociologist responsible for popularizing the term WASP (B)
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Matthew Winthrop Barzun, U.S. ambassador (B)
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Roland W. Betts 1964, CEO of Chelsea Piers, L.P. and major Republican Party contributor (B)
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. 1915, ambassador during World War II to eight governments in exile (B)
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Charles E. Bohlen, diplomat (B)
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Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (B)
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James Bond, did not graduate; namesake for Ian Fleming's fictional spy (B)
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Marshall Latham Bond, owner of sled dog inspiration of Jack London's The Call of the Wild (B)
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Daniel Baugh Brewster, U.S senator from Maryland (B)
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Lorene Cary 1974, author of Black Ice, an autobiography detailing her experiences with the school; founder of Art Sanctuary in Philadelphia (C)
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Francis Parkman Coffin, electrical engineering pioneer (C)
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Parker Corning 1893, U.S. congressman from New York (C)
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Archibald Cox 1930, Watergate Special Prosecutor (C)
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Frank H. Davis, Vermont State Treasurer (D)
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Clarence Day 1892, humorist, author, and playwright (D)
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Alexis Denisof, television, film and stage actor (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (D)
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Harmar D. Denny, Jr., U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania (D)
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Charles S. Dewey, U.S. congressman (D)
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Marshall Dodge 1953, Yankee humorist (D)
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Lucy Barzun Donnelly 1991, award-winning film and television producer (D)
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Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol for the Kennedy administration; ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco (D)
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Annie Duke, tournament poker champion, winner of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions (2004) (D)
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Sir John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, British Conservative politician (E)
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Grenville T. Emmet 1893, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Austria (E)
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John Franklin Enders 1915, Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine (E)
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William R. Everdell, historian and author (E)
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Timothy Ferriss, entrepreneur and bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek (F)
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Hamilton Fish, Jr. 1890, first American to die while charging San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War (F)
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William Henry Furness III 1883, explorer and ethnologist (F)
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James Rudolph Garfield, politician, son of President James A. Garfield (G)
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Rufus Gifford 1992, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (G)
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Jeff Giuliano 1998, National Hockey League (NHL) player (G)
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Malcolm Gordon 1887, member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame (G)
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Mark Gordon c. 1975, Wyoming state treasurer, rancher-businessman (G)
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J. Peter Grace 1932, industrialist and sportsman (G)
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Archibald Gracie IV, attended United States Military Academy (didn't graduate), RMS Titanic survivor, author of Titanic: A Survivor's Story (G)
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Eliza Griswold 1991, journalist/poet, author of New York Times bestseller The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (G)
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Frank Tracy Griswold III 1955, 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (G)
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A. R. Gurney 1948, playwright and novelist (G)
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Jeff Halpern 1994, NHL player (H)
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Edward Harkness 1893, philanthropist after whom the Harkness table is named (H)
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Huntington Hartford 1929, A&P heir, graduated after 8 years (H)
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William Randolph Hearst 1881, newspaper publisher (didn't graduate) (H)
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Kelly Heaton 1990, sculptor, seer, scientist, and spiritualist known for her combination of visual art with analog electrical engineering. (H)
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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)
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Amory Houghton Sr. 1917, U.S. Ambassador to France (H)
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Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr. 1945, U.S. congressman (R-NY); CEO of Corning Glass Works (H)
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Clement Hurd 1926, author and illustrator of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (H)
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John G. W. Husted, Jr., first fiancé of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (H)
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Annie Jacobsen 1985, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author (J)
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Michael Kennedy 1976, son of Robert F. Kennedy (K)
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John Kerry 1962, U.S. senator (D-MA), 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and 68th U.S. Secretary of State (K)
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Shamus Khan, sociologist and author (K)
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Alan Khazei, founder of City Year (K)
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Frederick Joseph Kinsman, ecclesiastical historian (K)
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Sol Kumin, businessman and racehorse owner (K)
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Benjamin Kunkel, author and critic (K)
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Beirne Lay, Jr. 1927, author, Twelve O'Clock High (L)
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Howard Lederer, tournament poker champion, winner of two World Series of Poker titles, and two World Poker Tour titles (L)
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Katherine "Katy" Lederer 1990, poet/author (L)
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Janice Y.K. Lee 1990, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher (L)
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John Lindsay 1940, U.S. congressman, former mayor of New York City (L)
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Michel McQueen Martin 1976, journalist for ABC and NPR (M)
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Rick Moody 1979, novelist, author of The Ice Storm (M)
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Paul Moore, Jr. 1937, 13th Episcopal bishop of New York (M)
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William Moore 1933, president and chairman of the board, Bankers Trust (M)
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J. P. Morgan, Jr. 1884, banker and philanthropist (M)
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Junius Spencer Morgan II 1884, banker and art collector (M)
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Samuel Eliot Morison, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard University professor (M)
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Robert Mueller 1962, director of the FBI 2001–13, Special Counsel in 2017 U.S. election investigation (M)
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Philip Neal 1986, principal dancer for the New York City Ballet (N)
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Francis Augustus Nelson, architect (N)
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Judd Nelson 1978, actor, The Breakfast Club, Making the Grade (N)
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Catherine Oxenberg 1979, actress (O)
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Maxwell Perkins 1903, noted editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald (P)
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Harry Boone Porter, Episcopal clergyman, author, editor of The Living Church magazine (P)
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Lewis Thompson Preston 1944, President of the World Bank (P)
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Jonathan Reckford 1980, CEO of Habitat for Humanity (R)
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Whitelaw Reid, Jr., 1931, Chairman of the New York Herald Tribune and The Fresh Air Fund (R)
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Marcus T. Reynolds, 1886, prominent architect in Albany, New York (R)
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S. Dillon Ripley, 1932, 8th Director of the Smithsonian Institution (1964 to 1984) and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (R)
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Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy 1905, Conservative MP, British Peer (R)
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Charles Scribner III 1909, President of Charles Scribner's Sons (S)
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Roger Shattuck, Proust scholar (S)
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Alex Shoumatoff, literary journalist and environmentalist (S)
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Lockhart Steele, 1992, blogger and journalist; founder of Curbed and former editorial director of Vox Media (S)
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Anson Phelps Stokes II, 1896, philanthropist and Secretary of Yale University (S)
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Anson Phelps Stokes III 1922, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts (S)
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Edward L. Stokes, congressman (R) from Pennsylvania (S)
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Nicholas Stoller, writer and director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Yes Man, and Get Him to the Greek (S)
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Don Sweeney 1984, General Manager of the Boston Bruins; former NHL player (S)
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William Howard Taft IV 1962, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, NATO ambassador (T)
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Van Taylor, U.S. representative from Texas (T)
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William Davis Taylor 1950, publisher of The Boston Globe (T)
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Charles W. Thayer, diplomat (T)
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Augusta Read Thomas, composer of orchestral music; Chair of the Board of the American Music Center (T)
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Sir Henry Worth Thornton, President, Canadian National Railway; Vanderbilt University football coach 1894; knighted by George V (T)
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Garry Trudeau 1966, Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury cartoonist (T)
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., member of the Vanderbilt family; became a notable Thoroughbred racehorse/race track owner (V)
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr., wealthy American businessman; died on the RMS Lusitania (V)
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Cornelius Vanderbilt III (V)
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James Vanderbilt 1994, Hollywood screenwriter (V)
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David Walton 1997, television and film actor (W)
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Owen West, U.S. military officer and writer (W)
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Sheldon Whitehouse 1973, U.S. senator (D-RI) (W)
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Caroline Randall Williams 2006, poet/author, co-author of Soul Food Love (W)
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John Gilbert Winant 1909, twice Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War II (W)
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Owen Wister, writer (W)
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Alan "Scooter" Zackheim 2001, winner of the third season of Beauty and the Geek (Z)
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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 1936, film and television actor (Z)
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