Notable Alumni
- Harold Taylor Andrews, killed in action, Battle of Cambrai, 1917; the first Portland native to die in World War I
- Rear Admiral Albert Cleaves, World War II commander of Cruiser-Transport Force
- LeBaron Coakley, illustrator and political cartoonist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Washington Post
- John Ford (John Martin Feeney), film director
- John Lynch, U.S. Representative
- Admiral Robert E. Peary, explorer, first to claim to reach the North Pole
- Edward S. Pennell, USMC, a Navy Cross recipient for his actions at Iwo Jima in February 1945
- Quinton Porter, professional football player
- Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- John Calvin Stevens, architect, pioneer of Shingle Style
- Sewall C. Strout, U.S. federal court judge
- Dave Epstein, Television Meteorologist, WCVB,TV Boston, Massachusetts
- Dave Littlefield, Former Major League Baseball executive, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Wyatt Allen, Olympic gold and bronze medalist in rowing
- Captain Robert Russell Williams, Jr., USN, commanding officer, USS Finback (SS-230)
- John F. MacVane, authored the school's song at age 15 when he was a student, World War II radio correspondent, journalist
- James Phinney Baxter III
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