St. Paul Academy and Summit School - Notable Alumni/ae

Notable Alumni/ae

• F. Scott Fitzgerald attended the school from 1908-1911. Later, he became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His works include The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise.
• Karen Ashe ('72) is director of the Neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease Research Laboratory at the University of Minnesota
• Ann Bancroft ('74) was the first woman to successfully complete expeditions across the Arctic and Antarctic.
• James J. Barnes ('50) is a historian, Rhodes Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, and Harvard University Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
• Charles Berde ('69) is a Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and is co-founder and director of the Pain Treatment Service at Children's Hospital Boston.
• Leo Cullen (soccer) ('94) is a former American soccer player.
• John Doar ('40) was a prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s, who most notably defended James Meredith in his attempt to enroll in the then-segregated University of Mississippi. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
• Catherine "Cack" Ferrell ('02) was a professional runner for Nike who represented the United States at the 2007 World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa and at the 2007 Pan-Am Games, where she won the silver medal in the 5000 meter run.
• Paul Georgieff ('01) was a contestant on season six of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV.
• Christopher Gores ('96) played soccer professionally for a team in Puerto Rico.
• Reynolds Guyer ('53) invented the Nerf children's toys.
• Stanley S. Hubbard ('51) is the founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, which owns TV stations across Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, and New Mexico (including the Twin Cities ABC affiliate KSTP).
• Seth Janus ('91) is program director of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Minnesota
• Rebecca Jarvis ('99) is a financial reporter for CNBC and was a finalist on The Apprentice (Season 4)
• Dave Kansas ('85) Prominent financial writer
• Roger G. Kennedy ('44) served as Director of the National Park Service and of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He was a Vice President of the Ford Foundation and has worked for the departments of Labor, Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education.
• Manuel Lagos ('90) Played soccer professionally and for the United States national team during the Olympics.
• Steven Levitt ('85) is the author of 2005 New York Times bestselling book Freakonomics. He led the SPA Quiz Bowl team to nationals two years in a row as a high school student.
• Joan Mondale ('48) is the wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale.
• William Pedersen ('56), partner in Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, is the lead architect on the Shanghai World Financial Center, one of the world's tallest buildings.
• Tony Sanneh ('90) is a professional soccer player who has won two Major League Soccer Cups and played every minute for the United States in the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan.
• Davidson Sommers ('22) was an international policy expert who served as general counsel to the World Bank, Vice Chairman of the Overseas Development Council, Chairman of the Board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and as an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• John Tate ('42) is an internationally renowned number theorist and winner of the 2010 Abel Prize
• George Tesar (’69) is chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Cleveland Clinic
• Jean West ('45) served as a commissioner of the St. Paul Port Authority and as president of West Premium Corporation.
• Andrew Youn ('96) founded the One Acre Fund, an NGO in Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi. Youn was named by Forbes as one of the top 30 social entrepreneurs in the world.