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==Notable alumni== {{main|List of Phillips Academy alumni}}<gallery mode="packed"> File:George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_(cropped).jpg|President [[George H. W. Bush]] File:George-W-Bush.jpeg|President [[George W. Bush]] File:Josiah Quincy 1772-1864.jpg|[[Josiah Quincy III]] File:BurroughsEdgarRice.jpg|[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] File:Jessica_Livingston_in_2007.jpg|[[Jessica Livingston]] File:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr 1859-cropped.jpg|[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]] File:Humphrey Bogart publicity.jpg|[[Humphrey Bogart]] File:Jack Lemmon - 1968.jpg|[[Jack Lemmon]] File:Bill Belichick 2012 Shankbone.JPG|[[Bill Belichick]] File:Lachlan Murdoch in May 2013.jpg|[[Lachlan Murdoch]] </gallery> Andover has educated two U.S. presidents ([[George H. W. Bush]] and [[George W. Bush]]), a [[Supreme Court Justice|Supreme Court justice]] ([[William Henry Moody]]), six [[Medal of Honor]] recipients (Civil War: 2; Spanish–American War: 1; World War II: 2; Korean War: 1),<ref name="andover.edu">{{cite web |title=Andover and the Military » Alumni Military Register » Medal of Honor Recipients |url=http://www.andover.edu/Alumni/Military/Register/Pages/MedalofHonorRecipients.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405220713/http://www.andover.edu/Alumni/Military/Register/Pages/MedalofHonorRecipients.aspx |archive-date=April 5, 2012 |access-date=October 30, 2011}}</ref> five [[Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]] (making it one of only four secondary schools in the world to have educated five or more Nobel Prize winners), as well as winners of [[Tony Award|Tony]], [[Grammy Award|Grammy]], [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] and [[Academy Awards]]. It has educated numerous billionaires, including venture capitalist [[Tim Draper]]; private equity pioneer [[Theodore J. Forstmann|Ted Forstmann]]; oil heir and environmental philanthropist [[Ed Bass]]; [[Aga Khan V|Rahim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan V]], 50th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, and media heir [[Lachlan Murdoch]]. {{div col|colwidth=30em|small=yes}} ===Other notable alumni=== *[[Alexander Trowbridge]], [[United States Secretary of Commerce|U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] *[[Anjali Sud]], American Businesswoman, CEO of [[Tubi]] *[[Benjamin Spock]], pediatrician *[[Bill Drayton]], social entrepreneur *[[Bill Veeck]], owner of the [[Chicago White Sox]] and [[Cleveland Indians]] *[[Buzz Bissinger]], journalist *[[Carl Andre]], artist *[[Julia Alvarez]], writer *[[Charles Ruff]], White House Counsel to [[Bill Clinton]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shakow |first=Patricia |date=2000-02-05 |title=Honorable Charles F. C. Ruff |url=https://dcchs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/charles-f-c-ruff-complete-oral-history.pdf |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit}}</ref> *[[Chris Hughes]], co-founder of [[Facebook]] *[[Christopher A. Wray|Christopher Wray]], Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation *[[David B. Birney]], Union General during the Civil War *[[David Graeber]], anthropologist and activist *[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], author known for creating [[Tarzan of the Apes]] and [[John Carter of Mars]]; *[[Bill Belichick]], coach for the [[New England Patriots]] and recipient of eight [[Super Bowl]] rings *[[Humphrey Bogart]], an Academy Award-winning actor considered to be one of the greatest stars of American cinema *[[Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]], an early feminist and social reformer *[[Francis Cabot Lowell]], instrumental figure in the [[American Industrial Revolution]] and namesake of [[Lowell, Massachusetts]] *[[George Church (geneticist)|George Church]], geneticist *[[Harlan Cleveland]], [[U.S. ambassador to NATO|U.S. Ambassador to NATO]] *[[Heather Mac Donald]], political commentator *[[Henry L. Stimson]], [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] and [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] *[[Hiram Bingham III]], [[Governor of Connecticut]] and U.S. Senator who rediscovered [[Machu Picchu]] *[[Jack Lemmon]], actor *[[James Bell (New Hampshire politician)|James Bell]], U.S. Senator from [[New Hampshire]] *[[Jeb Bush]], former [[List of governors of Florida|Governor of Florida]], [[2016 United States presidential election in North Carolina|2016 presidential candidate]], and member of [[Bush family|the Bush family]] *[[Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck]], King of [[Bhutan]] *[[Philip K. Wrigley]], chewing gum manufacturer *[[John Berman]], news anchor *[[John Darnton]], journalist *[[Dana Delany]], actress *[[John F. Kennedy Jr.]], lawyer, journalist, and son of President [[John F. Kennedy]] *[[Johnson N. Camden Jr.]], U.S. Senator from [[Kentucky]] *[[Jonathan Alter]], journalist for ''[[Newsweek]]'' and bestselling author *[[Jonathan Dee]], Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist *[[Joseph Carter Abbott]], [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[North Carolina]] and colonel in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] *[[Joseph Cornell]], influential avant-garde artist and filmmaker *[[Josiah Quincy III]], [[Mayor of Boston]], President of [[Harvard University]] *[[Kristen Faulkner]], road cyclist *[[Karl Kirchwey]], poet *[[Katie Porter]], [[U.S. Representative]] for [[California's 45th congressional district]] *[[Lincoln Chafee]], U.S. Senator and [[Governor of Rhode Island]] *[[Lucy Danziger]], editor-in-chief of [[Self (magazine)|''Self'']] *[[Michael Beschloss]], historian *[[Norman Cahners]], publisher *[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], writer *[[Olivia Wilde]], director and actress *[[Patrick J. Kennedy]], U.S. Representative for [[Rhode Island's 1st congressional district]] and member of [[Kennedy family|the Kennedy family]] *[[Peter Currie (businessman)|Peter Currie]], CFO of [[Netscape Navigator|Netscape]] *[[Peter Halley]], postmodernist painter and essayist central to the development of [[Neogeo (art)]] in 1980s New York *[[Raymond C. Clevenger]], Senior U.S. Circuit Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]] *[[Richard H. Brodhead]], president of [[Duke University]] *[[Richard Theodore Greener]], first African-American graduate of [[Harvard University|Harvard]] *[[Robert B. Stearns]], co-founder of [[Bear Stearns]] *[[Sara Nelson (editor)|Sara Nelson]], editor-in-chief of ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' *[[Sarah Rafferty]], actress *[[Scooter Libby]], political advisor during the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]] *[[Sokhary Chau]], politician and mayor *[[Seth Moulton]], U.S. Representative for [[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district]] and [[2020 United States elections|2020 presidential candidate]] *[[Stephen Carlton Clark]], founder of the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] *[[Sullivan Ballou]], Union Civil War officer remembered for a letter written to his wife before he was killed at the [[First Battle of Bull Run|Battle of Bull Run]] *[[Theodore Dwight Weld]], prominent abolitionist. *[[Thomas C. Foley]], [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Ireland|U.S. Ambassador to Ireland]] *[[Tracy Kidder]], Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist *[[Vanessa Kerry]], physician, CEO [[Seed Global Health]], [[World Health Organization]] Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health *[[Vance C. McCormick]], Chair of the [[Democratic National Committee|DNC]] and of the American delegation at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] *[[Victor Kiam]], owner of the New England Patriots and entrepreneur *[[Walker Evans]], photojournalist *[[Charles L. Flint]], co-founder of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] *[[A. Bartlett Giamatti]], president of [[Yale University]] *[[Walter Boardman Kerr]], WWII correspondent for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' and author *[[William Damon]], noted psychologist and educator *[[William King (governor)|William King]], first [[Governor of Maine]] and prominent proponent for Maine's statehood *[[William R. Timken]], [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Germany|U.S. Ambassador to Germany]] *[[Willow Bay]], journalist for the [[HuffPost|''Huffington Post'']] *[[Jens David Ohlin]], Cornell Law Dean and legal scholar *[[Luke Cole]], Environmental lawyer and activist{{div col end}}
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