Brooks School - Notable Brooksians

Notable Brooksians

• Barry Bingham, Jr. (1933–2006), United States newspaper publisher and television and radio executive, the last descendant of the Bingham family that controlled Louisville, Kentucky's daily newspapers, a television station, and two radio stations for much of the 20th century
• Barry M. Bowen '63, environmentalist, entrepreneur, statesman
• Henry M. Buhl '48, humanitarian
• Kier Byrnes '91, founding member and front man for the punk/country band Three Day Threshold
• Jake Burton Carpenter, founder and chairman of Burton Snowboards
• Charlie Davies '04, United States professional soccer striker who currently plays in the Danish Superliga for Randers FC, 2008 Olympian.
• William R. Ferris '60, United States author and scholar, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, co-founder of the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Steve Forbes '66, son of Malcolm Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, former Republican candidate in the United States presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000
• Charles H.W. Foster '45, environmentalist, author
• Mike Fucito '04, United States professional soccer striker who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.
• Robert L. Gerry, III '56, American businessman
• Andrew Jackson '83, educator, historian
• William W. Kellogg, Ph.D. '35, geophysicist, meteorologist
• John LeBoutillier, '71, former U.S. Congressman and political columnist
• Elle Logan '06, United States rower, Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Summer Olympics, rowing
• Charles P. Lyman, Ph.D. '32, biologist, educator
• Henry Lyman '33, conservationist, publisher
• Daniel Lyons, journalist and the Fake Steve Jobs
• Edward F. MacNichol, Dr. '36, research scientist, educator
• Jeep MacNichol '85, drummer for The Samples
• Anne McNamara '07, Reporter, WAVY-TV
• Samuel P. Peabody '44, humanitarian, educator
• Anthony Perkins, actor
• Thomas Collier Platt, Jr. '43, son of Thomas C. Platt, federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Tim Prentice, sculptor
• Daniel Reardon '79, preservationist
• Lorenzo Semple, Jr. '40, screenwriter
• Huntington Sheldon, Dr. '47, medicine
• Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur, first African in space, founder of Canonical Ltd., providing leadership for the Ubuntu Linux distribution
• James Spader, actor (Faculty Child)
• Wells Stabler, Ambassador '37, foreign service
• Parker Stevenson, actor
• Sam Waterston, actor (Faculty Child)