The following is a list of notable Deerfield Academy alumni, sorted chronologically. See also Category:Deerfield Academy alumni.
This article contains dynamic lists that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Pre-1900
- George Grennell Jr. (1786–1877), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
- Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), president of Amherst College
- John Williams (1817–1899), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
- George Sheldon (1818–1916), politician and historian
- Mary Tenney Castle (1819-1907), missionary and philanthropist in Hawaii
- Rufus Saxton (1824–1908), Union Army Brigadier General awarded Medal of Honor
- William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957), U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
Classes of the 1920s
- Paul Langdon Ward (1911–2005), president of Sarah Lawrence College
- J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design.
Classes of the 1930s
- Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), screenwriter and novelist
- Hastings Keith (1915–2005), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Douglas Kennedy (1915-1973), actor
- Lyman Kirkpatrick (1916–1995), inspector general and executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), academic and activist
- Edwin W. Martin (1917–1991), U.S. Ambassador to Burma
- John Edward Sawyer (1917–1995), president of Williams College
- Robert Morgenthau (1919-2019), Manhattan district attorney
- James Colgate Cleveland (1920–1995), U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
- Thomas Hedley Reynolds (1920-2009), President of Bates College
- William Zinsser (1922-2015), writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher
- Gordon MacRae (1921–1986), singer and actor
- Ian Barbour (1923-2013), Templeton Prize winner
- Charles Merrill Jr. (born 1920), writer, teacher and philanthropist
- John Mecklin (1918-1971), writer and journalist
Classes of the 1940s
- Talcott Williams Seelye (1922–2006), U.S. Ambassador to Syria and Libya
- John Chafee (1922–1999), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Rhode Island; Secretary of the Navy under President Richard Nixon
- David S. Dodge (1922 – January 20, 2009), vice-president for administration (1979–83), acting president (1981–82) and president (1996–97) of the American University in Beirut
- Thomas Keating (1923–2018), monk
- Arthur Nims (1923-2019), Chief Judge of United States Tax Court
- Charles Clapp (1923-2004), Judge of United States Tax Court
- Dickinson R. Debevoise (1924-2015), District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- John Weinberg (1925–2006), chairman of Goldman Sachs
- Ogden R. Reid (1925-2019), U.S. Congressman from New York, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient
- Daniel C. Searle (1926-2007), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
- John Ashbery (1927–2017), poet
- James Wadsworth Symington (born 1927), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
- Carl Richard Woese (1928-2012), biologist, discovered archeabacteria
- Allen Stack (1928–1999), Gold Medalist U.S. swimmer at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
- John Gunther Jr. (1929–1947), son of author John Gunther and focus of his book Death Be Not Proud
- Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (born 1931), President of the National Geographic Society, 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- John McPhee (born 1931), nonfiction writer, wrote The Headmaster, regular contributor to The New Yorker
- Hoddy Hildreth (1931-2019), member of the Maine House of Representatives and conservationist; son of Governor of Maine Horace Hildreth
Classes of the 1950s
- Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000), philanthropist
- Edward Hoagland (born 1932), writer
- Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014), media mogul and philanthropist, "The Republican George Soros"
- Nelson Doubleday Jr. (1933-2015), former owner of the publishing house Doubleday and the New York Mets
- Robert Hazard Edwards (born 1934), president of Carleton College; president of Bowdoin College
- Thomas C. Reed (born 1934), Secretary of the Air Force
- Warren Zimmermann (1934–2004), final U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
- James M. Banner Jr. (born 1935), historian
- Steven C. Rockefeller (born 1936), philanthropist
- Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III (born 1937), former owner of Anchor Brewing Company
- Kit Bond (born 1939), U.S. Senator from and Governor of Missouri
- Eric Widmer (born 1939), headmaster of Deerfield Academy; headmaster of King's Academy
- David H. Koch (1940-2019), billionaire, Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984
- David Childs (born 1941), architect
Classes of the 1960s
- Don Abbey, real estate businessman
- Bruce Faulkner Caputo (born 1943), U.S. Congressman from New York
- Robert Beavers (born 1949), experimental filmmaker
- Pete Varney (born 1949), Major League Baseball player
- Stephen G. Smith (born 1949), journalist
- Steven Brill (born 1950), journalist and publisher
- Edwin S. Grosvenor (born 1951), editor and publisher
- Peter Gabel (born 1947), law academic and associate editor of Tikkun, son of actors Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel
- Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist and radio host
Classes of the 1970s
- Stephen Hannock (born 1951), painter
- Jeffrey Bewkes (born 1953), CEO of Time Warner
- Nigel Newton (born 1955), publisher, founder of Bloomsbury Publishing
- Kerry Emanuel (born 1955), scholar
- Buddy Teevens (born 1956), Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College
- Ken Bentsen Jr. (born 1959), U.S. Congressman from Texas
- Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959), son of Sunny von Bulow and a member of the aristocratic principality of Auersperg
- Haun Saussy (born 1960), scholar
Classes of the 1980s
- King Abdullah II al-Hussein of Jordan (born 1962)
- Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission from 2006 to 2013
- Matthew Fox (born 1966), actor
- Mark Rockefeller (born 1967), philanthropist
- Mike Trombley (born 1967), Major League Baseball player
- Nestor Carbonell (born 1967), actor
- Craig Janney (born 1967), NHL player
- Chris Waddell (born 1968), gold medalist Paralympic skier
- Matt Scannell, lead vocalist and founding member of Vertical Horizon
- Ted Ullyot, former Facebook general counsel, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- Adam S. Weinberg (born 1965), president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio
- Milton Sands III (born c. 1969), admiral in the United States Navy
Classes of the 1990s
- Chris Klug (born 1972), Bronze Medalist U.S. snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Michael Sucsy (born 1973), acclaimed filmmaker, Grey Gardens
- Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974), photographer and second son of Aga Khan IV
- Prince Ali bin Hussein (born 1975), Jordanian royal and Vice President of FIFA; attended for a year without graduating, made honorary graduate of the Class of 2006
- Marty Reasoner (born 1977), retired National Hockey League center
- Randal Williams (born 1978), National Football League player
- Peter Cambor (born 1978), actor
- Adriana Cisneros (born 1979), media mogul
- Jamie Hagerman (born 1981), bronze medalist, U.S. women's hockey, player at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
- Jay Newton-Small, Bloomberg News and Time magazine reporter covering the White House and US politics; CEO and co-founder of MemoryWell
- Chase Coleman III, class of 1993, investor and founder of Tiger Global Management
- Bom Kim, class of 1996, Korean-American Billionaire and founder of Coupang
- Hannah Pittard, class of 1997, American novelist
Classes of the 2000s
- Tunji Balogun, CEO of Def Jam Recordings
- David Branson Smith (born 1984), award-winning screenwriter of Ingrid Goes West and Adrift
- Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), retired ice hockey defenseman in the National Hockey League
- Ty McCormick (born 1987), award-winning foreign correspondent
- Molly Schaus (born 1988), U.S. women's hockey player at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
- Paul Johnson Calderon, television personality and fashion journalist
- Alex Killorn (born 1988), professional ice hockey forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League
- Willy Workman (born 1990), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Classes of the 2010s
- Osama Khalifa, squash player, winner of 2017 Squash National Championship
- Kevin Roy, professional ice hockey forward for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
- Liam Holowesko, professional cyclist
- Sam Lafferty, professional ice hockey forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
- Hunter Long, professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams
- Jacob Lee (born 1994), singer songwriter featured on The Voice
- Brandon Wu, professional golfer on the PGA Tour
Classes of the 2020s
- Dominic Sessa (born 2002), actor
References
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- "South Hadley alum Don Abbey offers more than just moral support for Tigers". masslive.com. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
- "2 From 85 Named top GCs in CA – Deerfield Academy". Deerfield.edu. Deerfield Academy. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- "The Common Room". Deerfield Magazine. 71 (1): 68. Fall 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2023.