Notable Alumni
Mercersburg has produced many outstanding individuals, including 48 Olympians (and nine gold medalists), seven Rhodes Scholars, several Fulbright Scholars, a Nobel Prize winner, two Academy Award winners, two Emmy Award winners, and a Golden Globe winner.
Medal of Honor recipients
- Joel T. Boone 1909
- Eugene B. Fluckey 1930
- Ralph Talbot 1916
Nobel Prize recipient
- Burton Richter 1948 (for physics, 1976)
Olympic gold medalists
- Robert Leavitt 1903
- Ted Meredith 1912
- Allen Woodring 1918
- Harry Glancy 1924
- Bill Carr 1929
- Charles Moore Jr. 1947
- Richard Saeger 1982
- Betsy Mitchell 1983
- Melvin Stewart 1988
Academy Award winners
- James Stewart 1928
- Benicio del Toro 1985
Rhodes Scholars
- Robert N. Cunningham Jr. 1921
- Edward F. D'Arms 1921
- Laurence A.L. Scott 1924
- Dudley L. Harley 1927
- James M. Tunnell 1928
- Robert H. Michelet 1930
- Cresson H. Kearny 1933
Others
- Joe Birmingham 1904 - former Major League Baseball player; first manager of the Cleveland Indians
- Wilbert W. White Jr. 1907 - decorated World War I flying ace
- Stewart H. Appleby 1909 - former U.S. congressman from New Jersey
- John Coolidge 1924 and Calvin Coolidge II '25 - sons of President Calvin Coolidge
- Bump Hadley 1924 - former major-league pitcher and Boston Red Sox television broadcaster
- John Payne 1932 - actor, Miracle on 34th Street
- Walter Farley 1935 - author, The Black Stallion series
- Harry Hughes 1944 - former governor of Maryland
- H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest 1949 - founder of Suburban Cable (sold to Comcast in 2000) and member of the Forbes 400
- Dick Thornburgh 1950 - former governor of Pennsylvania and United States Attorney General
- Bill Baldwin 1953 - science-fiction author, The Helmsman series
- Nicholas Taubman 1953 - U.S. Ambassador to Romania; former CEO of Advance Auto Parts
- Dick Cass 1964 - president, Baltimore Ravens (National Football League)
- Dean Taylor 1969 - vice president-baseball operations/assistant general manager, Kansas City Royals
- Peggy Northrop 1972 - editor-in-chief, Reader's Digest
- John E. Jones III, 1973, U.S. District Judge who decided the Dover Intelligent Design Case
- Jim Irsay 1978 - owner, Indianapolis Colts
- William Davies 1979 - screenwriter, Flushed Away, Twins, Grumpy Old Men
- Michael Davies 1985 - executive producer, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Wife Swap, Power of 10
- Luke Ebbin 1985 - composer and Grammy-nominated record producer
- Sean Kanan 1985 - actor, The Karate Kid, Part III, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful
- Vanessa Branch 1990 - actress, Pirates of the Caribbean, Orbit Gum commercials; was Miss Vermont 1994
- Gabriel Hammond 1997 - founder of SteelPath Advisors/Alerian
- Rebecca Lowe 1999 - TV sportscaster, ESPN UK (formerly with the BBC and Setanta Sports)
- Emily Maynard 2004 - winner of The Bachelor (Season 15), star of The Bachelorette (season 8)
- Josh Edgin 2006 - pitcher, New York Mets
- Vincent Rey 2006 - linebacker, Cincinnati Bengals
- Christian Binford 2011 - pitcher, Kansas City Royals organization
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