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).
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
- Harold Hongju Koh (1971) – Dean of the Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
- 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
- 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
- William Morris Hunt (1834) – 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
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
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Film, television, and theater
- Nicholas Britell (1999) – 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
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Governors of the United States
- 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
United States Executive Branch officials
- Wilson S. Bissell (1865) – United States Postmaster General
- Julian Gerwirtz (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
- 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) – 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
- Alfred Terry (1838) – American Civil War Major General, military commander of the Dakota Territory
- William Chester Minor (1902) – army surgeon, psychiatric patient, and lexicographical researcher
Judges
- Horace R. Buck (1872) – justice of the Montana Supreme Court
- 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) – American 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) – American 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) – American journalist and national security analyst at CNN
Science and technology
- 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 (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 American 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
- 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
- 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
References
- Various promotional materials with lists of graduates by Hopkins School archivist Thom Peters, ca 2005. Retrieved in 2006
- Part 2 of Celebrity Prep Schools list last updated on November 24, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
- Harold Koh speaks to Parent Council Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine on the Hopkins School website from October 28, 2004. Retrieved March 31, 2006.
- From Hopkins' Baldwin Hall to China's Memorial Hall" for Views on the Hill Spring/Summer '06 by Thom Peters.
- Andy Bloch's Myspace from MySpace.com. Retrieved February 3, 2007.