Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy (also known as Andover and Phillips Andover) is a coed high school for boarding and day students grades 9-12 located in Andover, Massachusetts, near Boston.

Notable students and alumni

• Julia Alvarez, author (graduated Abbot 1967)
• Adelbert Ames, Jr., Scientist
• Willow Bay, News Anchor
• Bill Belichick, coach of New England Patriots (graduated 1971)
• L. Paul Bremer (graduated 1959)
• Humphrey Bogart, actor (c. 1917; it should be noted that he was expelled. One story says that he threw a groundskeeper into Rabbit Pond; another says that he was expelled for a combination of bad grades and drinking/smoking. In actuality, he had poor grades and his father pulled him out at the end of the year.)
• Richard Brodhead, President, Duke University (graduated 1964)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
• George H. W. Bush (1936 - 1942)
• George W. Bush (graduated 1964)
• Jeb Bush (graduated 1971)
• Lincoln Chafee (graduated 1971)
• Liz Claman
• William Sloane Coffin (graduated 1942)
• Joseph Cornell, scupltor (1917 - 1921)
• Dana Delany, actress (graduated 1974)
• Walker Evans, photographer (c. 1920)
• John Murray Forbes, railroad entrepreneur
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, Yale University President and 7th MLB Commissioner (graduated 1956)
• Peter Halley, artist (graduated 1975)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., author (graduated 1825)
• John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher (1976 - 1999)
• Richard Kerry, father of John Kerry
• Vanessa Kerry, daughter of John Kerry (graduated 1995)
• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Jack Lemmon (graduated 1943)
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (graduated 1968)
• Samuel Morse, inventor (graduated 1805)
• Paul Monette, author and activist (graduated 1963)
• Joseph Hardy Neesima, founder of Doshisha University in Japan (graduated 1867)
• Jane Pratt, publisher (graduated 1980)
• Peter Sellars, theatre director (graduated 1975)
• Duncan Sheik, musician (graduated 1988)
• James Spader, actor (c. 1977)
• Lyman Spitzer. physicist
• Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (c. 1921)
• Frank Stella, painter
• Henry Stimson, politician (graduated 1883)
• William Davis Taylor (graduated 1927)
• Ming Tsai, chef and restaurateur (graduated 1982)
• Josiah Dwight Whitney, geologist (c. 1835)
• Dick Wolf, television producer (graduated 1964)
• Philip Wrigley (c. 1911)
• Bill Veeck, MLB owner
• Britton Keeshan, youngest person to climb the Seven Summits (graduated 2000)
• Olivia Wilde, actor (graduated 2002)