George School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Ralph E. Gomory '46, is an American applied mathematician and executive

• Donzaleigh Abernathy, actress, daughter of Rev. Ralph Abernathy
• Edward G. Biester, Jr., U.S. Congressperson
• Julian Bond, '57, civil rights leader and chairman of the NAACP
• Lael Brainard, '79, Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution
• Mario Capecchi, '56, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panthers leader, wife of Eldridge Cleaver
• Ennis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby
• Blythe Danner, '60, actress, mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• Kevin Davis, actor, one of the Black Panthers in the film Forrest Gump
• Keir Dullea, '54, actor
• Howard Thomas Hallowell, Sr., founder of the Standard Pressed Steel Company (now SPS Technologies, Inc.), after whom the campus's Hallowell Arts Center is named
• James Hammerstein, Broadway director and producer
• Jessica Helfand, author, columnist, and lecturer on graphic design
• Gwendolyn Holbrow, '75, artist
• Darlington Hoopes, politician, Socialist Party of America candidate for U.S. president in 1952 and 1956
• Stephen Lang, actor
• J. Howard Marshall, businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith
• Robert Mills, '44, physicist
• Meredith Monk, dancer, composer, and choreographer
• Roy Mottahedeh, '57, Iranian/Middle Eastern scholar, 1982 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship
• George Segal, actor
• Andrew Scheinman, '66, film maker, cofounder of Castle Rock Entertainment
• Stephen Sondheim, '46, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer/lyricist
• Henry S. Taylor, '60, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
• John Templeton, Jr, '58, philanthropist, president of the Templeton Foundation
• Dawn Timmeney, news anchor for WCAU TV in Philadelphia
• Charles Walton, '39, holder of the first patent for RFID technology
• Alex Westerman, VP Creative Guthy-Renker
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson, '52, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics
• David Binder, '49, New York Times Journalist,