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][5]
Henry Baldwin
Bishop Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr.
Josiah Willard Gibbs
James Hillhouse
Theodore Winthrop
Name |
Class of |
Notability |
Michael L. J. Apuzzo |
1957 |
Academic neurosurgeon, editor, futurist |
Henry Baldwin |
1793 |
U.S. Congressman, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Roger Sherman Baldwin |
1807 |
U.S. Senator, Governor of Connecticut, defense attorney in Amistad case |
Simeon Eben Baldwin |
1857 |
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor of Connecticut |
Wilson S. Bissell |
1865 |
United States Postmaster General |
Andy Bloch[6] |
1987 |
Professional poker player |
Edward Bouchet |
1870 |
Physicist, first person of color to earn a Ph.D. from an American university |
Nicholas Britell |
1999 |
Composer, Pianist, and Film Producer |
Guido Calabresi |
1949 |
US Court of Appeals judge, Dean of the Yale Law School |
Walter Camp |
1876 |
Founder of modern American football |
Mei Chin |
1993 |
Novelist and food critic |
Kevin Colleran[7] |
1999 |
One of the first 10 employees of social networking company Facebook |
Elisha Cooper |
1989 |
Author and Illustrator |
Henry Farnam |
1870 |
Railroad president |
John Davenport |
n/a |
Founder of New Haven, early advocate for the founding of a New Haven grammar school; regarded as Hopkins' co-founder |
Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. |
1849 |
Third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan |
Nicholas Dawidoff |
1981 |
Author |
George DiCenzo |
1958 |
Actor, Arts Activist |
Asa Drury |
n/a |
Rector of Hopkins from 1829–1831 |
Henry Durand |
1877 |
Songwriter of Yale alma mater, "Bright College Years" |
Timothy Dwight V |
1845 |
President of Yale University |
Henry W. Edwards |
1793 |
U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut |
Trey Ellis |
1980 |
Novelist |
William Eno |
1877 |
Road safety advocate and inventor |
Orris Ferry |
1840 |
U.S. Congressman, Senator |
Ernest Flagg |
1876 |
Architect |
John Geanakoplos |
1971 |
Economist |
Josiah Willard Gibbs |
1854 |
Father of Thermodynamics |
Chauncey Goodrich |
1804 |
Editor of the Webster's Dictionary |
Arthur Hadley |
1872 |
President of Yale University |
John Hays Hammond |
1873 |
Mining engineer, helped in founding of De Beers |
Carolyn Hax |
1984 |
Advice Columnist for the Washington Post |
James Hillhouse |
1769 |
U.S. Congressman, Senator |
Edward Hopkins |
n/a |
Colonial Governor of Connecticut, Hopkins' first benefactor, willed Hopkins School its starting money; regarded as Hopkins' co-founder |
William Hoppin |
1824 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
Edward House |
1877 |
Diplomat, political adviser to Woodrow Wilson |
William Henry Hunt |
1874 |
Federal and state judge, territorial governor of Puerto Rico |
William Morris Hunt |
1834 |
Painter |
Jared Ingersoll |
1762 |
Delegate to the Continental Congress; signer of the United States Constitution for Pennsylvania; Federalist vice presidential candidate |
Charles Ives |
1894 |
Classical composer and insurance executive |
Harold Hongju Koh |
1971 |
Dean of the Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights |
Justin Kutcher |
1998 |
Sports Commentator |
Paul MacCready |
1943 |
Aeronautical engineer |
John Malone |
1959 |
Telecommunications mogul |
Joseph Mansfield |
1817 |
American Civil War Major General (posthumous promotion) |
Henry Murphy |
1895 |
Architect; designed Nationalist Chinese monuments as well as Hopkins' 1925 campus, Baldwin Hall, and Hopkins House |
Edwards Pierrepont |
1833 |
New York Supreme Court justice; Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General |
Abraham Pierson |
1664 |
First rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate School |
Benjamin Silliman |
1833 |
Early professor of science |
Alfred Terry |
1838 |
American Civil War Major General, military commander of the Dakota Territory |
George Totten |
1826 |
Engineer for railroads and the Panama Canal |
Henry Hotchkiss Townshend |
1893 |
Lawyer and historian |
Dan Wasserman |
1967 |
Political cartoonist |
Theodore Winthrop |
1841 |
Author |
Theodore Dwight Woolsey |
1816 |
President of Yale University |
Jonathan Mostow |
1979 |
Film director, writer, and producer |
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 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.
- ↑ Kevin Colleran '99 returns to Hopkins. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
- ↑ Andy Bloch's Myspace from MySpace.com. Retrieved February 3, 2007.
- ↑ Kevin Colleran '99 returns to Hopkins. Retrieved March 15, 2013.