Notable Alumni
- Robert E. Rich, Sr., founder of Rich Products Corporation, was the starting center for the Bennett High School football team which lost the 1930 Harvard Cup to South Park 13–2.
- Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazard TV show was a 1948 Bennett grad.
- Michael Bennett (1961), who wrote the Broadway musical A Chorus Line dropped his last name, DiFiglia, when he went to Broadway.
- Bob Lanier, Basketball Hall of Famer, graduated from Bennett in 1966
- Rick James, funk superstar, played in the Bennett High School Band.
- Beverly Johnson, fashion model, was a graduate of Bennett High School. She was the first Black cover model for Vogue (magazine).
- John Elliot (1914–1972), songwriter
- Catherine Ryan Hyde, novelist, author of Pay It Forward
- David Lucas (born David Helfman), music producer and jingle writer, attended Bennett in the 1950s but then transferred to a school in Florida.
- Antoine Thompson, former New York State Senator
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