- Yardley Chittick
C. Yardley Chittick (born October 22, 1900) has for several years been the oldest living patent attorney in the United States. Chittick lives at the Pleasant View Retirement Community in Concord, New Hampshire, adjacent to St. Paul's School. He makes occasional appearances at the nearby Franklin Pierce Law Center, which is recognized for its strong patent program, and which awarded Chittick an honorary degree in 2005. - Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, patterns and offset lithography. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history. - Dr. John Phillips
Dr. John Phillips (1719 - 1795) and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips, founded the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1781. His nephew, Samuel Phillips, Jr., founded the nearby Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778. These two schools, longtime rivals in interscholastic sports as Harvard is to Yale, are among the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States. - James Spader
James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as "sex, lies, and videotape" (for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival), "Stargate", and "Secretary", as well as his role as the lead character in the TV series "Boston Legal". - Samuel Phillips Jr.
Samuel Phillips, Jr. (b. February 5, 1752 - 1802) was very briefly Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1801. His abbreviated term was due to his death in Essex County, Massachusetts in 1802. He served in several governmental positions and is considered a pioneer in American education. Phillips was born in North Andover, Massachusetts and is alumnus of Governor Dummer Academy, class of 1767, and Harvard University class of 1771. - Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life. - Ted Sizer
Ted Sizer is arguably the leading educational reformer in the United States. In 1984, he founded the Coalition of Essential Schools and is currently serving as its chair emeritus. Ted received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale, and his doctorate from Harvard. He held several teaching positions before becoming Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and, subsequently, the Headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. - Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Known especially for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show "China Beach" (1988–91), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Delany was born in New York City. After growing up in Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, then Wesleyan University. - Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. He lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. He has recently indicated that he is thinking of leaving the Republican Party. He is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown, … - Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Jr. (born June 5, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts, died December 18, 2006 in Natick, Massachusetts) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Pinkham was one of America's most active composers during his lifetime. - Vanessa Kerry
Vanessa Kerry graduated summa cum laude from Yale University (PC '99) and received a BS with distinction in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, to later enroll at Harvard Medical School. In 2004, she took a leave of absence from Harvard to work on her father's campaign for President. During this time she focused on youth outreach and participation, health care and global health issues, women's issues, and the environment. - Oscar Tang
Oscar L. Tang, a New York financier and philanthropist, is a graduate of Phillips Academy '56 and received his engineering B.S. from Yale University and his business administration M.B.S. from Harvard University. A native of Shanghai, China, he fled from the Communist revolution in his home country with his family in 1949. He enrolled at Phillips Academy as a 10th grader and currently serves as the President of the Board of Trustees there, as of April 2004. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 - October 7,1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. - Paul Monette
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945, Lawrence, Massachusetts - February 10, 1995, Los Angeles, California) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships and later, his battle with AIDS. Monette graduated from Phillips Academy in 1963 and later Yale University in 1967, conflicted about his sexual identity. He moved to Boston, where he taught writing and literature at Milton Academy for a number of years, … - Moses Stuart
Moses Stuart (March 26, 1780 - January 4, 1852), an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut. He was reared on a farm graduating with highest honours at Yale in 1799; in 1802 he was admitted to the Connecticut bar and was appointed as a tutor at Yale, where he remained for two years. In 1806 Stuart became the pastor of the Centre (Congregational) Church of New Haven, … - Davis Elkins
Davis Elkins (January 24, 1876 - January 5, 1959) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted as a private in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, becoming assistant adjutant general in 1898. Elkins was an industrialist with interests in railroads, banking, utilities, … - Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey (b. November 17 1942, Taunton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Army General. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy, where he had been the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also a NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as a consultant for BR McCaffrey Associates. In addition to serving as a professor at the USMA, … - James Hatfield
James Howard Hatfield (January 7, 1958 - July 18, 2001) was an American author. Hatfield was the author of "Fortunate Son", a book which alleges that George W. Bush received preferential treatment throughout his life, from his early schooling at Andover, Yale, and Harvard, to his business connections in Midland and his personal ownership interest in the Texas Rangers baseball team, to his candidacy for Governor and President. - Joseph Hardy Neesima
was the founder of Doshisha University and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Japan. Niijima was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo). In 1864, laws on national isolation were still in effect in Japan, and Japanese people were not permitted to travel overseas without government permission. However, Niijima had read extensively on various rangaku topics, and at the age of 21, managed to find illegal passage on a foreign ship for the United States, … - Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes co-founded and served as spokesperson for the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Hughes currently serves as a consultant for the popular site, but primarily acts as coordinator of online organizing within the Barack Obama presidential campaign. He also served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006. - Stacy Schiff
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and guest columnist for [[The New York Times]]. Biography Schiff is a graduate of Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from William ... - Sullivan Ballou
Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 - July 28, 1861), was a lawyer, politician, and major in the United States Army. He is best remembered for the eloquent letter he wrote to his wife a week before he and his Rhode Island militia fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. __TOC_ - George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia." Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians. - Jane Pratt
Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of "Sassy" and "Jane". - Jonathan Adelstein
Jonathan Steven Adelstein is currently one of the United States FCC Commissioners. He was sworn in as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on December 3, 2002, and sworn in for a new five-year term on December 6, 2004. Before joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as a staff member in the United States Senate. For the last seven years, he was a senior legislative aide to United States Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), … - Michael Beschloss
Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of eight books, including his most recent work, the magnificent bestseller, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 . Called "the nation's leading Presidential historian," by Newsweek , Beschloss has made history himself, serving as the first Presidential Historian for NBC News-the first time any major network has created such a position. - William Henry Moody
William Henry Moody (December 23 1853 - July 2 1917) was an American politician and jurist, who held positions in all three branches of the Government of the United States. Born a son of farmers in Newbury, Massachusetts, Moody graduated from Phillips Academy in 1872 and from Harvard in 1876, where he was a classmate and friend of future President Theodore Roosevelt. - George Bundy Smith
George Bundy Smith (born 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a retired judge in New York State. Smith grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended Phillips Academy, where he was the only African-American in the Class of 1955. He received an A.B. degree from Yale University in 1959 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1962. In 1961, William Sloane Coffin invited second-year law student Smith to go to Montgomery, Alabama as a Freedom Rider. - Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 - March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1931, received his BA from Yale University in 1935, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, where he was advised by Henry Norris Russell. He is one of the key figures of 20th century physics, who helped lay down the fundamentals of the physics of plasmas and the astrophysics of the interstellar medium. - Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith (November 11, 1765 - April 25, 1842) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, brother of Jeremiah Smith and uncle of Robert Smith. Born in Peterboro, New Hampshire, Smith attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and served as moderator in town meetings, 1794-1811. Smith was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815). - Britton Keeshan
Britton Keeshan (born December 1, 1981), a graduate of Phillips Academy, Middlebury College, and Dartmouth College, is one of the the youngest persons to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents (the Seven Summits). He accomplished this feat on May 24, 2004, when he successfully summited Mount Everest. He was 22 years and 179 days old and held the record until June 2005, until 21-year-old Jake Meyer took it. - Thomas J. Hudner Jr.
Thomas Jerome Hudner, Jr., is a United States Navy officer who received America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Korean War. Hudner attended the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts before entering the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. Following service in surface ships and ashore, he attended flight school and was designated a Naval Aviator in August 1949. - Richard Theodore Greener
Richard Theodore Greener was the first African-American graduate of Harvard College and dean of the Howard University law school. Richard Greener was born in Philadelphia in 1844 and moved with his mother to Boston when he was about nine. He had to quit school in his mid-teens to earn money for his family, but one of his employers helped him to enroll in Oberlin College. After three years at Oberlin, Greener transferred to Harvard and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1870, … - H. G. Bissinger
H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger (b. November 1, 1954, in New York City) is an American journalist. In 1987, while writing for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his story on corruption in the Philadelphia court system. He is also the author of the article "Shattered Glass," featured in the magazine "Vanity Fair," where he is a contributing editor; the article was later adapted for the 2003 film of the same name. - Josiah Quincy III
Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 - July 1, 1864) was a U.S. educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805-1813), Mayor of Boston (1823-1828), and President of Harvard University (1829-1845). The historic Quincy Market in downtown Boston is named in his honor. Quincy was born in Boston, the son of Josiah Quincy II. He entered Phillips Academy, Andover, when it opened in 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1790, studied law, … - Joseph Ward
Joseph Ward (May 5, 1838 - December 11, 1889) was born at Perry Center, New York. After attending public schools, he taught and farmed before entering Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University and Andover Theological Seminary. Accepting a missionary appointment, he was ordained in 1869 at Yankton, capital of the Dakota Territory, where he organized and directed church efforts. - John Rockwell
John Rockwell (born 1940 in Washington D.C.) is a music critic, editor, and dance critic. He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in German culture. Rockwell began his journalistic career at the "Oakland Tribune" and the "Los Angeles Times". In 1972 he began writing at "New York Times", first as a classical music critic and reporter, … - Alexander Buel Trowbridge
Alexander Buel Trowbridge III was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. Alexander Trowbridge was born on December 12, 1929 in Englewood, New Jersey. As a young man he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1947, graduating from Princeton University in 1951. After World War II he worked with various reconstruction efforts. - Charles Sheldon
Charles Sheldon (February 26, 1857 Wellsville, New York - February 24, 1946) was an American minister in the Congregational churches and leader of the Social Gospel movement. Sheldon is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (Class of 1879). He became an advocate of the late nineteenth century stream of thought known as Christian Socialism. His theological outlook focused on the practicalities of the moral life, … - David Pingree
David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933 - November 11, 2005), late University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. He had joined the History of Mathematics Department at Brown University in 1971, eventually holding the chair until his death on November 11, 2005. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut on January 2, 1933, …
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