Roxbury Latin School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• John Bowles (1667) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• John Wise (1669) – clergyman credited with revolutionary phrase "no taxation without representation"
• James Pierpont (1677) – principal founder of Yale University
• Paul Dudley (1686) – Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1745–1751) and Attorney General of Massachusetts (1702–1718)
• Joseph Warren (1755) – Continental Army General who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, surgeon
• Increase Sumner (1763) – governor of Massachusetts (1797–1799), Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782–1797)
• John Warren (1767) – founder of Harvard Medical School, renowned surgeon
• Francis Cabot Lowell (1789) – businessman, member of Boston Lowell family, founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
• Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. (1796) – Royal Society and Harvard University fellow
• Edmund M. Wheelwright (1872) – architect, designer of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts landmarks such as Longfellow Bridge, Horticultural Hall, and Jordan Hall
• George Lyman Kittredge (1875) – influential literary scholar and professor at Harvard University
• Edwin Upton Curtis (1878) - 34th and youngest-ever Mayor of Boston
• Arthur Vining Davis (1884) – president of Aluminum Company of America (1910–1949), major educational benefactor in United States
• Robert W. Wood (1887) – American physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1890) - landscape architect and journalist
• Edward Lee Thorndike (1891) – famed psychologist, former professor at Columbia, member of National Academy of Sciences
• William Welles Hoyt (1894) – medal winner in the pole vault at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens
• James Dole (1895) – founder of the Hawaiian Company in Honolulu, Hawaii currently known as Dole Food Company
• Malcolm Whitman (1895) – tennis star, U.S. open champion in 1898, 1899, and 1900, member of original Davis Cup team and of Tennis Hall of Fame
• Paul Dudley White (1903) – "Father of Modern Cardiology," noted cardiologist, founder of American Heart Association
• James B. Sumner (1906) – noted chemist, recipient of 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• James Bryant Conant (1910) – president of Harvard University, ambassador to Germany
• Marland P. Billings (1919) – noted geologist, Penrose Medal winner, Harvard University professor
• Albert Hamilton Gordon (1919) – Wall Street businessman, philanthropist
• Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. (ca. 1945) - retired CEO of Lamar Advertising Company and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Richard W. Murphy (1947) – former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mauritania, Philippines, television commentator
• Richard Barnet (1948) – activist, scholar, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies
• Jared Diamond (1954) – noted biologist, author and Pulitzer Prize-winner for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Paul G. Kirk (1956) – former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Christopher Lydon (1958) – radio broadcaster and former host of NPR's "The Connection"
• David R. Godine (1960) - publisher
• Peter Rodman (1961) - former Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Peter Derow (1961) - voice alteration innovator, renowned historian, scholar; lecturer at Oxford University
• Peter Ivers (1964) - musician, composer, host of New Wave Theatre
• Michael J. Astrue (1974) - current Commissioner of Social Security Administration
• John R. Connolly (1991) - at-large member of Boston City Council
• Stuart McNay (2000) - member of Team USA's sailing team in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics
• Stefan Jackiw (2003) - classical violinist