List of Hopkins School people

The following is a list of Hopkins School people in alphabetical order. This includes alumni and/or faculty from Hopkins in any of its past forms (Hopkins School, Hopkins Grammar School).^[1][2][3][4]

Academia

College and university presidents and deans

• Guido Calabresi (1949) – dean of the Yale Law School; U.S. Court of Appeals judge
• Dale G. Caldwell (1978) – education and religious leader and the first Black president of Centenary University
• Timothy Dwight V (1845) – president of Yale University
• Arthur Hadley (1872) – president of Yale University
• Jonathan Levin (1990) – economist and president of Stanford University
• Abraham Pierson (1664) – first rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School
• Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1816) – president of Yale University

Scholars and professors

• Phoebe C. Ellsworth (1961) – social psychologist and professor at the University of Michigan
• Hanna Holborn Gray (1946) – historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago
• Henry Phelps Johnston (1862) – historian of the American Revolutionary War and professor at the City College of New York
• Benjamin Silliman (1833) – early professor of science
• Richard P. Strong (unknown class) – tropical medicine professor at Harvard who did significant work on plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases
• Thomas Anthony Thacher (1831) – classicist, college administrator
• Nim Tottenham (1992) – professor of psychology at Columbia University, where she leads the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
• Ansley Wilcox (1870) – scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt

Other

• Sherman Day Thacher (1879) – founder of The Thacher School
• John Davenport (n/a) – founder of New Haven, early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school; regarded as Hopkins' founder

Art and literature

Authors

• John Denison Champlin Jr. (1852) – nonfiction writer and editor
• Mei Chin (1993) – novelist and food critic
• Elisha Cooper (1989) – author and illustrator
• Nicholas Dawidoff (1981) – author
• Trey Ellis (1980) – novelist
• C.E. Poverman (1962) – fiction author
• Marrion Wilcox (1874) – author and editor
• Theodore Winthrop (1841) – author

Artists

• George Henry Durrie (unknown class) – landscape painter
• William Morris Hunt (1834) – painter
• Thomas Prichard Rossiter (unknown class) – painter
• Dan Wasserman (1967) – political cartoonist

Business

• Julian Wheeler Curtiss (unknown class) – president of the Spalding sports equipment company and a pioneering promoter of golf in the United States
• Louis R. Ehrich (unknown class) – businessman, art dealer, and politician
• Henry Farnam (1870) – railroad president
• John Geanakoplos (1971) – economist
• George G. Haven, Jr. (unknown class) – businessman
• John Malone (1959) – telecommunications mogul

Civil society

Bishop Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr.

Clergy

• Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1864) – Episcopal bishop
• Benjamin Brewster (1878) – Episcopal bishop of Maine
• Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. (1849) – third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
• Asa Drury (n/a) – rector of Hopkins from 1829 to 1831
• John Punnett Peters (1868) – Episcopal clergyman, archaeologist, professor, author

Activists

• William Eno (1877) – road safety advocate and inventor
• John Huggins (did not graduate) – Black Power activist, leader of the Black Panther Party

Entertainment and music

Nicholas Britell

Film, television, and theater

• Nicholas Britell (1999) – Primetime Emmy Award-winning and three-time Academy Award nominated film composer, pianist, and film producer
• George DiCenzo (1958) – actor, arts activist
• Alexander DiPersia (2000) – film actor
• Marcus Giamatti (1980) – actor, musician, writer and director; best known for starring in the CBS drama series Judging Amy
• Scott Lowell (1983) – actor, best known for Queer as Folk
• Jonathan Mostow (1979) – film director, writer, and producer

Music

• Henry Durand (1877) – songwriter of Yale alma mater, "Bright College Years"
• Charles Ives (1894) – classical composer and insurance executive
• Harry Rowe Shelley (1876) – composer, organist, music professor
• Dick Wingate (1970) – music industry and digital entertainment executive

Government and politics

James Hillhouse

Henry Baldwin

Governors

• Simeon E. Baldwin (1857) – chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, governor of Connecticut
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (1807) – U.S. senator, governor of Connecticut, defense attorney in Amistad case
• Henry W. Edwards (1793) – U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and governor of Connecticut
• Edward Hopkins (n/a) – colonial governor of Connecticut, Hopkins' first benefactor
• William Hoppin (1824) – governor of Rhode Island
• William Henry Hunt (1874) – federal and state judge, territorial governor of Puerto Rico

Executive branch officials

• Wilson S. Bissell (1865) – United States Postmaster General
• Julian Gewirtz (2008) – diplomat, historian, and poet; Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in the Biden administration
• Edward House (1877) – diplomat, political adviser to Woodrow Wilson
• Gaillard Hunt (unknown class) – first Department of State Historian
• Harold Hongju Koh (1971) – Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, dean of the Yale Law School
• Francisco Palmieri (1979) – Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
• John Addison Porter (unknown class) – journalist, and the first person to hold the position of "Secretary to the President" under President William McKinley

United States Congress

U.S. senators

• Orris Ferry (1840) – U.S. congressman, Senator
• James Hillhouse (1769) – U.S. congressman, Senator
• Selden Palmer Spencer (1880) – lawyer, United States senator for Missouri

U.S. representatives

• Henry Baldwin (1793) – U.S. congressman, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Augustus Brandegee (1845) – member of U.S. House of Representatives
• William Henry Stiles (1825) – United States representative for Georgia, U.S. chargé d'affaires to Vienna, Confederate colonel 60th GA
• James W. Wadsworth (unknown class) – U.S. representative from New York
• Washington F. Willcox (1858) – U.S. representative from Connecticut

Military

• George W. Baird (1859) – US army officer; recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Frederick H. Dyer (unknown class) – drummer boy in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Joseph Mansfield (1817) – American Civil War major general
• William Chester Minor (1902) – Army surgeon, psychiatric patient, and lexicographical researcher
• Alfred Terry (1838) – American Civil War major general, military commander of the Dakota Territory

Judges

• Horace R. Buck (1872) – justice of the Montana Supreme Court
• William S. Case (1881) – associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1919 to 1921
• Sarah A. L. Merriam (1989) – attorney serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Edwards Pierrepont (1833) – New York Supreme Court justice; Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General

Other U.S. political figures

• Samuel Greco (2011) – politician, attorney, and Naval officer who currently serves as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives representing the 19th district
• Jared Ingersoll (1762) – delegate to the Continental Congress; signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania; Federalist vice presidential candidate

Law

• Marc Kasowitz (1970) – trial lawyer and partner of the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres; former personal outside attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump
• Benjamin Matthias Nead (1866) – historian, author, newspaper editor, lawyer, and politician
• Morris Woodruff Seymour (1862) – historian, judge, and attorney
• Thomas Thacher (1867) – lawyer
• James D. Torreyson (unknown class) – eighth attorney general of the U.S state of Nevada
• Ben Wizner (1989) – lawyer, writer, and civil liberties advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union; lead attorney of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

Media and communications

• Lincoln Caplan (1968) – author, scholar, and journalist
• Clare Morgana Gillis (1994) – journalist; former hostage of the Libyan Civil War
• Frederick E. Goodrich (unknown class) – journalist and political figure who worked for The Boston Post for fifty-four years
• Carolyn Hax (1984) – advice columnist for the Washington Post
• Justin Kutcher (1998) – sports commentator
• Samantha Vinograd (2001) – journalist and national security analyst at CNN

Science and technology

Josiah Willard Gibbs

• Michael L. J. Apuzzo (1957) – Academic neurosurgeon, editor, futurist
• Jean Bennett (1972) – biomedical engineer
• Edward Bouchet (1870) – physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university
• Lisa DeAngelis (unknown class) – neuro-oncologist and Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Josiah Willard Gibbs (1854) – father of thermodynamics
• John Hays Hammond (1873) – mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers
• Paul MacCready (1943) – aeronautical engineer
• Robert Tuttle Morris (1877) – surgeon and writer
• Newton Morton (1947) – founder of modern genetic epidemiology
• James Davenport Whelpley (unknown class) – physician, author, editor, inventor, and metallurgist

Sports

• Andy Bloch^[5] (1987) – professional poker player
• Walter Camp (1876) – founder of modern American football
• Ben Crosby (1888) – college football player and coach
• Jumping Jack Jones (unknown class) – MLB baseball pitcher, dentist and voice trainer
• Spencer Lovejoy (2016) – professional squash player
• Alexis Sablone (2004) – goofy-footed professional skateboarder; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
• Teddy Vlock (2016) – former professional equestrian representing Israel and the United States of America; competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
• Billy Walik – former football wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles (NFL)
• Ben Washburne (2019) – 2024 Paralympics silver medalist for rowing
• Matt Weiss (2001) – football coach who most recently was the quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator for the Michigan Wolverines; served as a coach in multiple capacities for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL)

Miscellaneous

• Ernest Flagg (1876) – architect
• Chauncey Goodrich (1804) – editor of the Webster's Dictionary
• Charles J. Hoadly (unknown class) – librarian and historian who served as State Librarian and director of the Connecticut State Library
• Henry Murphy (1895) – architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House
• Harry Whitney (unknown class) – sportsman, adventurer, and author