South Notables
- Marisa Catalina Casey, class of 1997, co-author of Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, is the Founder and Executive Director of the arts education nonprofit Starting Artists, Inc. located in Brooklyn, NY.
- Priyanka Chopra, class of 1999, Bollywood actress and Miss World 2000.
- John Krasinski, class of 1997, actor for NBC's comedy The Office.
- Ben Kurland, class of 2002, an actor in The Artist which won 5 Academy Awards.
- Bill Lichtenstein, class of 1974, Peabody Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, radio producer.
- Jonathan Mann, class of 1965, World Health Organization chief against AlDS.
- Roger Myerson, class of 1969, was one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007 "'for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory'."
- B. J. Novak, class of 1997, co-executive producer, writer, and actor for NBC's comedy The Office.
- Eli Roth, class of 1990, film director, producer, writer, and actor. Co-starred with Novak in Inglourious Basterds.
- Josh Altman, class of 1997, real estate agent and participant on Million Dollar Listing.
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