Hotchkiss School is a private, day and boarding schoo in Lakeville, Connecticut. Following are some of its notable alumni. Former pupils are known as Pythians (even entrance year) or Olympians (odd entrance year).
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willard F. Enteman II | 1955 | Bowdoin College president | [1] | |
| Arthur Lehman Goodhart | 1908 | Oxford's University College master and legal scholar | ||
| Alfred Whitney Griswold | 1924 | Yale University president | ||
| Benjamin Woods Labaree | 1945 | Williams College dean | ||
| Leonard Woods Labaree | 1915 | Yale history professor | ||
| Roger Sherman Loomis | 1905 | Columbia English professor | ||
| Scotty McLennan | 1966 | Stanford dean for religious life, inspiration for Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan | ||
| Jerome J. Pollitt | 1953 | Yale art history professor | ||
| Walter W. Taylor | 1931 | Conjunctive archaeology founder and professor | ||
| Nader Tehrani | 1981 | Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union | [2] | |
| Christopher Winship | 1968 | Harvard sociology professor |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Arno | 1922 | The New Yorker cartoonist | ||
| Thomas Hoving | 1949 | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||
| Gerald Clery Murphy | 1907 | Artist, socialite, CEO of Mark Cross | ||
| Samuel Wagstaff | 1940 | Art curator and museum director | ||
| Evans Woollen III | 1945 | Architect, principal and founder of Woollen, Molzan and Partners, Indianapolis | [3] |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John G. Avildsen | 1955 | Film director of Rocky and The Karate Kid | ||
| Max Carlish | Documentary filmmaker; recipient of a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award | |||
| Elizabeth Chandler | 1982 | Screenwriter of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and What A Girl Wants | ||
| John Crosby | 1944 | Founder and director of the Santa Fe Opera; recipient of National Medal of Arts | ||
| Bradford Dillman | 1947 | Film actor | ||
| Peter Duchin | 1954 | Leader and organizer Peter Duchin Orchestras and Duchin Entertainment | ||
| Frederick "Dennis" Greene | 1968 | Founder and lead singer of Sha Na Na and professor at the University of Dayton School of Law | ||
| John H. Hammond | 1929 | Executive and producer at Columbia Records; discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen | ||
| Leland Hayward | 1920 | Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer | ||
| Peter H. Hunt | 1957 | Theater and television director, recipient of a Tony Award for the musical 1776 | ||
| Allison Janney | 1977 | Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress | ||
| Esko Laine | 1980 | Double bass player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | ||
| Chris Meledandri | 1977 | Founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Animation | ||
| Douglas Moore | 1911 | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer | ||
| Ben Mulroney | 1993 | Host of Canadian Idol | ||
| Scott Powell | 1966 | Member of the rock group Sha Na Na; orthopedic surgeon | ||
| Roswell Rudd | 1954 | Grammy-nominated jazz trombonist | ||
| Burr Steers | Filmmaker and actor | |||
| Chris Wallace | 1963 | Broadcast journalist | ||
| Tom Werner | 1967 | Co-founder of Carsey-Werner Company, whose productions include That '70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Cosby Show | ||
| Thunder Keck | 2017 | WWE wrestler | [5] |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Ashe | 1963 | United States Ambassador to Poland | ||
| Malcolm Baldrige Jr. | 1940 | United States Secretary of Commerce | ||
| Donald B. Easum | 1942 | United States Ambassador to Nigeria and United States Assistant Secretary of State | ||
| G. McMurtrie Godley | 1935 | United States Ambassador to Laos and co-founder of the Glimmerglass Opera | ||
| Hallett Johnson | 1904 | United States Ambassador to Costa Rica | ||
| Winston Lord | 1955 | United States Ambassador to China | ||
| Livingston T. Merchant | 1922 | United States Ambassador to Canada and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs | ||
| Clark T. Randt Jr. | 1964 | United States Ambassador to China | ||
| Strobe Talbott | 1954 | Deputy Secretary of State, journalist, diplomat, president of Brookings Institution | ||
| Paul Warnke | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs | |||
| Arthur K. Watson | 1938 | United States Ambassador to France | ||
| Charles Yost | 1956 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel H. Blackmer | Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court | [6] | ||
| Robert Bork | United States Solicitor General, Conservative legal scholar, judge | |||
| Lisa Brown | 1978 | General Counsel of the United States Department of Education, staff secretary to President Barack Obama | ||
| Eli Whitney Debevoise | 1917 | Attorney and founder of Debevoise & Plimpton | ||
| Peter Hall | 1966 | Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont | ||
| Jon Ormond Newman | 1949 | Judge of the United States court of appeals | ||
| Potter Stewart | 1933 | Justice of the US Supreme Court |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Camprubí | 1897 | La Prensa owner | [7] | |
| Edwin Denby | 1919 | Poet and dance critic | ||
| Tom Dolby | 1994 | Author | [8] | |
| Varian Fry | 1926 | Journalist and "the American Schindler" | ||
| John Hersey | 1932 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945 winner and Yale's Pierson College master | ||
| Lewis H. Lapham | 1952 | Editor of Harper's Magazine and Lapham's Quarterly | ||
| William Loeb | 1923 | Publisher of the Union Leader newspaper | ||
| Peter Matthiessen | 1945 | National Book Award winner 1979, 1980, and 2008 | ||
| Archibald MacLeish | 1911 | Winner of 1933 and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | ||
| Julia Quinn | 1987 | Romantic novelist | ||
| Tom Reiss | 1982 | Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography | ||
| MacKenzie Scott | 1988 | Novelist |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Golby | 1985 | Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery and radiology at Harvard Medical School | ||
| David Hawkins | 1931 | Science philosopher and Manhattan Project's official historian | ||
| Charles Snead Houston | 1931 | Physician and early high altitude pulmonary edema researcher | ||
| Dickinson W. Richards Jr. | 1913 | Nobel Prize laureate |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thaddeus Beal | 1935 | Under Secretary of the Army | ||
| Douglas Campbell | 1913 | First aviator in an American unit to achieve the status of flying ace | ||
| Artemus Gates | 1911 | World War I hero and Under Secretary of the Navy | ||
| Roswell Gilpatric | 1924 | Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Secretary of Defense | ||
| Frank O'Driscoll Hunter | 1913 | Chief of the First Air Force in World War II | ||
| Paul Nitze | 1924 | Secretary of the Navy | ||
| Elliott B. Strauss | 1921 | Rear Admiral and key Allied staff officer for the Invasion of Normandy |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margot Käßmann | 1975 | Bishop of Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover Landesbischöfin, first chairwoman of Evangelical Church in Germany | ||
| Henry Knox Sherrill | 1907 | Bishop of Massachusetts and Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. Lawrence Coughlin | 1946 | United States House of Representatives | ||
| Charles Edison | 1909 | Governor of New Jersey | ||
| Frederick Vanderbilt Field | 1923 | Political activist, staff member of Institute of Pacific Relations | [9] | |
| Philip Goodhart | 1944 | British politician | ||
| Porter J. Goss | 1956 | United States House of Representatives and Director of the CIA | ||
| Ernest Gruening | 1903 | Governor of Alaska and United States Senate | ||
| William Kirk Kaynor | United States House of Representatives | |||
| Lawrence M. Judd | 1906 | Governor of Hawaii | ||
| Robert D. Orr | 1936 | Governor of Indiana | ||
| William Warren Scranton | 1935 | Governor of Pennsylvania and United States Ambassador to the United Nations | ||
| Jerry Voorhis | 1919 | United States House of Representatives |
| Name | Class | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin F. Blair | 1920 | All-American lineman for the undefeated Yale's 1923 football team | ||
| Caitlin Cahow | 2003 | Olympic bronze and silver medalist in hockey | ||
| Luke Glendening | NHL forward | [10] | ||
| Stephen Greenberg | 1966 | 2nd Deputy Commissioner of Baseball | [11] | |
| Matt Herr | NHL forward | |||
| Fred Kammer | 1930 | Olympic bronze medalist in hockey | ||
| Hank Ketcham | 1910 | All-American lineman for Yale (1911–1913), inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame | [12] | |
| Gina Kingsbury | 2000 | Olympic gold medalist in hockey for Canada | ||
| Torrey Mitchell | 2004 | NHL forward | ||
| Marshall Rifai | 2016 | NHL defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
| Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond | 1921 | Yale University football player and coach | ||
| Peter Revson | Formula One race car driver. | |||
| Shavar Thomas | Major League Soccer player for the Jamaica National Football Team | |||
| Fay Vincent | 1958 | 8th MLB Baseball Commissioner |