Notable Alumni
- Clifford Whittingham Beers, mental health pioneer
- Jules Blankfein, Physician & Founder: Physician's Hospital (NYC)
- William Edward Boeing, aviator
- John Vernou Bouvier III, stockbroker and socialite
- Chester Bowles, American politician
- J. Twing Brooks, U. S. congressman
- Henry Boardman Conover, ornithologist
- Charles Benjamin Dudley, chemist
- Isadore Dyer, physician
- Lee De Forest, electronics inventor
- Francis I. du Pont, chemist
- Joseph W. Frazer, automobile magnate
- James Terry Gardiner, surveyor and engineer
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist and physical chemist
- T. Keith Glennan, first NASA administrator
- John Campbell Greenway, American mining, steel and railroad executive, soldier
- Harold L. Green, chain store founder
- Harry Frank Guggenheim, businessman, philanthropist
- Daniel Webster Hering, physicist
- John Hays Hammond, mining engineer, philanthropist, faculty member. He endowed a program at Sheff in mining and metallurgy and accepted a professorship. Hammond Laboratory is named for him.
- John Hays Hammond, Jr., inventor, “father of radio control’’
- Robert J. Huber, Michigan politician, businessman
- Tony Hulman (1924) businessman, owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1945–1977
- Treat Baldwin Johnson, chemist
- Clarence King, American geologist and mountaineer
- Duane Lyman, architect
- Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontologist
- Champion Mathewson, metallurgist
- Truman Handy Newberry, American businessman and politician
- Thomas Wharton Phillips, U. S. Congressman
- William North Rice, geologist and theologian
- Stanley Pickett Rockwell (1907), metallurgist and co-inventor of the Rockwell hardness test
- William Thompson Sedgwick, bacteriologist and public health scientist
- George B. Selden, lawyer and inventor
- Sidney Irving Smith, zoologist
- James Graham Phelps Stokes, philanthropist, publicist, and political activist
- Zhan Tianyou, Chinese railroad engineer, "father of China's railroad"
- Edward de Villafranca, noted educator, AP and IB exam developer.
- Thomas Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox for 44 years
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