Sidwell Friends School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of Sidwell Friends include:

• Nick Friedman (2000), Entrepreneur
• Anne Applebaum (1982), journalist and author
• Jon Bernthal (1995), actor
• Ann Brashares (1985), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series of books
• Oteil Burbridge (1982), bassist for the Allman Brothers Band
• Setsuko Chichibu (1928), Princess of Japan
• Chelsea Clinton (1997), daughter of President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Tricia Nixon Cox (1964) daughter of President Richard Nixon
• John Dickerson (1987), journalist, political commentator, and writer.
• David W. Dennis (1929), Indiana congressman
• John Deutch (1956), CIA Director, MIT professor
• Margaret Edson (1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit
• Dan Froomkin (1981), journalist and Huffington Post columnist
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (1969), Federal Reserve Board Former Vice Chairman
• Ana Gasteyer (1985), actress
• Doug Gansler (1981), State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland (1999—2007), Attorney General of the State of Maryland, (2007- )
• Charles Gibson (1961), ABC World News Tonight anchor, former host of ABC's Good Morning America
• Walter Gilbert (1949), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
• Paul Goldstein (1994), professional tennis player, 4-time NCAA Champion and All-American at Stanford, 2-time USTA 18 & Under national champion.
• James K Glassman (1965), editorialist, syndicated columnist, and author
• Hanna Holborn Gray (1947 or 1948), historian and Provost of Yale University and later the President of University of Chicago
• Davis Guggenheim (1982), film director An Inconvenient Truth among others
• William Henry Harrison (1914 or 1915), Republican Representative from Wyoming and great-great-grandson of President William Henry Harrison
• Tony Horwitz (1976), journalist and author
• Clara Jeffery (1985), Editor of Mother Jones magazine
• Sonya Clark (1985), artist
• Thomas Kail (1995), director
• John Katzenbach (1968), author
• Philip S. Khoury (1967), Ford International Professor of History & Associate Provost, MIT
• Jair Lynch (1989), Gymnast, 1996 Olympic Silver Medalist in parallel bars
• Campbell McGrath (1980), poet and winner of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
• Nana Meriwether (2003), 2012 Miss Maryland and 2012 Miss USA Runner-Up.
• Daniel Mudd (1976), former CEO of Fannie Mae
• Jeffrey Mumford (1973), composer
• Robert Newmyer (1974), film producer
• Bill Nye (1973), television personality and scientist
• Archibald Roosevelt (1912?), son of Theodore Roosevelt
• Scott Sanders (1986) Director of Black Dynamite
• Ben Shenkman (1986), actor
• Susan Shreve (1957), professor, author and novelist
• Andrew Szanton (1981), author
• Ed Tapscott (1971), former Washington Wizards Interim Head Coach
• Baratunde Thurston (1995), comedian
• Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky, Soviet ambassador to the United Nations
• Alexandra Tydings (1989), actress
• Robert Watson, computer scientist
• Robin Weigert (1987), actress
• William Zantzinger, subject of a Bob Dylan song

The following notable people attended Sidwell but graduated elsewhere:

• George A. Akerlof, Nobel Prize winner for Economics & current Faculty member at University of California, Berkeley
• Kara Lawson (1999, left in 1996) WNBA player and star at the University of Tennessee, 5th pick of the 2003 WNBA Draft.
• Charles Lindbergh (attended 1913-1915)
• Roger Mason (1999, left in 1996) NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs and star at the University of Virginia, 31st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft.
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1966, left in 1961), daughter of Richard Nixon
• John Dos Passos, (attended 1902-1903)
• Root Boy Slim
• Nancy Reagan, former First Lady (attended the elementary school 1925-1928)
• Gore Vidal (1943, left in 1936)