Hotchkiss School

The Hotchkiss School is a private, coeducational preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA.

Alumni

• Victor Ashe US Ambassador to Poland
• John G. Avildsen Film Director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
• Mackenzie Bezos Author, wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
• Robert Bork Conservative legal scholar, former Solicitor-General of the US
• Jonathan Bush President of Riggs Bank, uncle of George W., brother of George H. W.
• William Bush Chairman of Bush-O'Donnell, uncle of George W., brother of George H. W.
• Walter P Chrysler, Jr Industrialist and art collector, son of Walter Chrysler
• Herbert Dow Founder of Dow Chemical Company
• Charles Edison Governor of New Jersey, son of Thomas Edison,
• Edsel Ford President of Ford Motor Company, son of Henry Ford
• Henry Ford II President of Ford Motor Company
• William Clay Ford, Jr. CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Varian Fry journalist and 'the American Schindler'
• Arthur Lehman Goodhart Legal scholar, Master of University College, Oxford
• Porter J. Goss Director of the CIA
• Alfred Whitney Griswold President of Yale
• Ernest Gruening Governor of Alaska, US Senator
• Briton Hadden Co-founder of Time Magazine with Henry Luce
• John Hammond Record Producer (discovered Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen)
• Leland Hayward Hollywood and Broadway agent and producer
• John Hersey Pulitzer Prize winning author
• Allison Janney Emmy Award winning Actress
• Lawrence M. Judd Governor of Hawaii
• Lewis H. Lapham Editor of Harper's Magazine
• David McCord Lippincott Novelist
• William Loeb conservative newspaper proprietor
• Sheridan Lord Artist
• Winston Lord US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1985-1989
• Henry Luce Co-founder of Time Magazine with Briton Hadden
• Archibald MacLeish Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Forrest Mars Jr. CEO of Mars, Incorporated, billionaire
• John Mars, billionaire
• Peter Matthiessen Naturalist and Writer
• Douglas Stuart Moore Composer
• Ben Mulroney Host of Canadian Idol, son of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
• Gerald Murphy Precisionist Artist
• Paul Nitze Secretary of the Navy, architect of US policy towards the Soviet Union
• Clark T. Randt, Jr. US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 2001-
• Tom Reiss Author
• Dickinson W. Richards Nobel Prize winner
• William Warren Scranton Governor of Pennsylvania, US Ambassador to the UN
• Marc Simenon Writer and film director, son of Georges Simenon
• Harold Stanley Founder, Morgan Stanley
• Potter Stewart Justice of the US Supreme Court
• Strobe Talbott Journalist and diplomat
• John Thornton President, Goldman Sachs
• Fay Vincent Baseball Commissioner
• Arthur Kittredge Watson Chairman of IBM, US Ambassador to France
• Tom Werner Chairman of the Boston Red Sox and co-founder of Casey Werner, producers of "The Cosby Show", "3rd Rock" and "That 70"s Show"
• Charles Yost US Ambassador to the UN