Notable Alumni
- (includes alumni of Anchorage High School prior to the construction of West)
- Ty Conklin, professional ice hockey goaltender currently with the Detroit Red Wings
- Eric Croft, class of 1982, attorney and Democratic politician
- David Cuddy, class of 1970, retired banker, businessman and Republican politician
- Mike Doogan, class of 1966, writer, former columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, retiring member of the Alaska House of Representatives
- James Gottstein, class of 1971, attorney involved in psychiatry issues and a member of a prominent pioneer Anchorage family
- George A. Lingo, attended Anchorage High School in its earliest years, graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle; businessman, politician and government official in territorial days
- William Oefelein, former NASA astronaut; flew as pilot of the STS-116 space shuttle mission
- Paul O'Neill, class of 1954, 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Don Simpson, Hollywood film producer
- Bill Stolt, class of 1920, mayor of Anchorage from 1941 to 1944, Anchorage businessman for many decades (most prominently as the owner of Stolt's Home Center)
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