Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is an

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co-educational day school in

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, educating students from pre-kindergarten (called Beginners) through twelfth grade. Graduates of the school include three of the 27 Presidential Scholars from Massachusetts since the inception of the program in 1964; the school is a member of the

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group and the

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global education association.

Origins

1883, George Henry Browne's School During the year 1882–1883, before Browne & Nichols came into formal existence, founder George H. Browne taught his small group of students in two rooms in Harvard's Felton Hall. Browne & Nichols School (B&N) was founded in 1883 by George Henry Browne, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate who, having embarked on a career as a teacher of Latin and English literature, attracted the attention of his former professors Francis J. Child and

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. Seeking an alternative to the Cambridge public schools, Child and Norton recruited Browne to teach their three sons and two other boys. At the end of that year, Browne enlisted his Harvard classmate Edgar H. Nichols to join him as the co-head of a new college preparatory school, which opened in the fall with an enrollment of 17, a number that quickly expanded. With the formation of the school in 1883, instruction took place at 11 Appian Way, with the addition of another building at 8 Garden Street. Radcliffe College, which now occupies this land, wished to expand here, and so it made an exchange with B&N, which relocated in 1897 to a new brick building at 20 Garden Street. That building was designed by Edgar Nichols's sister-in-law, Minerva Parker Nichols, and is said to be "the first important building by a woman architect." 1889, Jeanette Markham's School The Buckingham School was named and incorporated in 1902, but the first schoolhouse was opened in 1892, known as Miss Markham's School after its founding headmistress. Because Jeanette Markham had been conducting classes for small children in a private school since at least 1889, that is the year from which Buckingham dates its beginning. Markham came to Cambridge from Atchison, Kansas to pursue an education at the recently founded women's college later named Radcliffe. Upon arriving in Cambridge, she found a home with Colonel

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on Buckingham Street, to whom she is said to have become "virtually an elder daughter" (59). After she began teaching in a neighbor's home, another neighbor, Mrs. Richard H. Dana, offered to build a schoolhouse and living quarters nearby, where the school began with 12 students. That schoolhouse continues to be part of BB&N's Lower School campus to this day.

Athletics

Rowing

The name of the school's athletic teams, "the Knights", has its origins in a 1920s ''

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'' article which referred to the rowing team in particular, undefeated against the likes of

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and

Kent School Kent School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Kent, Connecticut. Founded in 1906, it is affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It educates around 520 boys and girls in grades 9–12. Kent was one of the first schools ...

, as "the Black Knights of the Charles", itself a reference to the

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. In addition to taking the team name, Browne & Nichols also took black and white as its colors after the article. The Buckingham School's colors, blue and gold, were made the combined school's colors after the merger. The school was the first American schoolboy crew to win the

Henley Royal Regatta Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a Rowing (sport), rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. It was established on 26 March 1839. It diffe ...

in Henley-on-Thames, England, winning the Thames Challenge Cup in 1929. ''The Washington Post'' commented:

"The Thames Challenge Cup, prize of England's famous rowing tournament, was captured today by eight young oarsmen from the Browne and Nichols School...The American boys, after each victory, gave a fine display of school spirit and overflowing "pep" which added to their already great popularity on the river...Their success was the more impressive when it is considered that the average age of the oarsmen is younger than the average of their defeated rivals. The boys will be received by the American Ambassador at London Monday and then will begin an educational tour of England."

Tennis

In 2004, the girls varsity tennis team became ISL Champions for the first time in school history. The boys varsity tennis team won the New England Class B Tournament in 2004, the 2005 ISL Championship, and finished second in the 2007 New England Class B Tournament.

Other sports

BB&N also has both girls' and boys' hockey teams.

Notable alumni

Browne & Nichols

* Edward Burlingame Hill, class of 1888, American composer *

Langdon Warner Langdon Warner (1 August 1881 – 9 June 1955) was an American archaeologist and art historian specializing in East Asian art. He was a professor at Harvard and the Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard's Fogg Museum. He is reputed to be one of th ...

, class of 1898, archaeologist, art historian, and member of World War II

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* Richard Norton, archaeologist, professor, director of the

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* Arthur L. Conger, class of 1899, noted theosophist and writer * Alfred V. Kidder, class of 1903, preeminent early twentieth century archaeologist of the American Southwest and Mesoamerica *

Thomas Dudley Cabot Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897 – June 8, 1995) was an American businessman. He also became the U.S. Department of State's Director of Office of International Security Affairs. Early life Cabot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His fathe ...

, class of 1913, American businessman and philanthropist *

William Bosworth Castle William Bosworth Castle (October 21, 1897 – August 9, 1990) was an American physician and physiologist who transformed hematology from a "descriptive art to a dynamic interdisciplinary science." Life Castle was born to William E. Castle and ...

, class of 1914, American physician and pioneer in field of

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* Tadeusz Adamowski, class of 1918, hockey player on Polish Olympic Team (1928), coach of national team *

Sherwin Badger Sherwin Campbell Badger (August 29, 1901 – April 8, 1972) was an American figure skater who competed in singles and pairs. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1901, and died on April 8, 1972, in Sherborn, Massachusetts. In 1918 ...

, class of 1918, national figure skating champion and Silver Medal Olympian *

John Moors Cabot John Moors Cabot (December 11, 1901 – February 24, 1981) was an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to five nations during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-America ...

, class of 1919, U.S. Ambassador to five nations,

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professor * Robert Bradford, class of 1920,

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* Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, class of 1924, congressman from

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and chancellor of

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth ...

, politician and major figure behind the Social Security Act *

Eliot Noyes Eliot Fette Noyes (August 12, 1910 – July 18, 1977) was an American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the Otis College of Art and Design, IBM Aerospace Research Cen ...

, class of 1927, architect and industrial designer *

John Caskey John Langdon Caskey (1908–1981) was an American archaeologist and classical scholar. He directed the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1949 to 1959, and was head of the Classics department at the University of Cincinnati from 19 ...

, class of 1927, American archaeologist and excavator of Troy *

George C. Homans George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is bes ...

, class of 1927, American sociologist and founder of behavioral sociology *

C. Conrad Wright Charles Conrad Wright (February 9, 1917 – February 17, 2011) was an American religious historian and scholar of American Unitarianism and congregational polity. He served on the faculty of Harvard Divinity School from 1954 to 1987 and continue ...

, class of 1933, scholar and American religious historian *

Charles Pence Slichter Charles Pence Slichter (January 21, 1924 – February 19, 2018) was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance and superconductivity. He was awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science "for establishing nuclear ma ...

, class of 1941, nuclear physicist and winner of the National Medal of Science *

Robert Brink Robert Greenleaf Brink (Boston, 30 March 1924 - Boston, 24 October 2014) was an American violinist, conductor, and educator. He was a professor of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. He performed with the harpsichordi ...

, class of 1942, violinist, conductor, professor, who premiered works by

Walter Piston Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter ...

Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 2022.C ...

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, and Daniel Pinkham * Richard A. Smith, class of 1942, president of

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, later CEO of

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Roger Longrigg Roger Erskine Longrigg (1 May 1929 – 26 February 2000) was a prolific British novelist. As well as publishing some books under his own name, he principally wrote popular novels in a wide range of different styles, using different pseudonyms for ...

, class of 1945, Scottish-born author of 55 popular novels *

Giles Constable Giles Constable (1 June 1929 – 17 January 2021) was an English historian of the Middle Ages. Constable was mainly interested in the religion and culture of the 11th and 12th centuries, in particular the abbey of Cluny and its abbot Peter ...

, class of 1946, educator and historian of the Middle Ages * Kirk Bryan, class of 1947,

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regarded as founder of numerical ocean modeling *

Charles Colson Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as ...

, class of 1949, chief counsel to President

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indictee *

Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, Perkins began his career as a teenager in summer stock theater, summer stock programs, although he acted in films before his time on Broadway the ...

, class of 1950, actor most famous for '' Psycho'', '' Equus'', and '' Friendly Persuasion'' * Jonathan Moore, class of 1950, government official specializing in foreign affairs *

Allan Rosenfield Allan Rosenfield (April 28, 1933 – October 12, 2008) was an advocate for women's health during the worldwide AIDS pandemic as dean of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Early life Rosenfield was born in Brookline, Massachusetts ...

, class of 1951, physician and advocate for women's health *

Anton Kuerti Anton Emil Kuerti, OC (born July 21, 1938) is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. He has developed international recognition as a solo pianist.

, class of 1952, pianist *

Robert M. O'Neil Robert Marchant O'Neil (October 16, 1934 – September 30, 2018) was an American lawyer and educator. A specialist in constitutional law, he served as president of the University of Virginia (1985-1990) and created the Thomas Jefferson Cente ...

, class of 1952, college president and founder of the

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Peter Haskell Peter Haskell (October 15, 1934 – April 12, 2010) was an American actor who worked primarily in television. Early years Haskell attended Browne & Nichols and later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard University following a two-year st ...

, class of 1953, film and television actor * Nam Pyo Suh, class of 1955, president of

KAIST KAIST (originally the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a national university, national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the ...

Truman Bewley Truman Fassett Bewley (born July 19, 1941) is an American economist. He is the Alfred Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. Originally specializing in mathematical economics and general equilibrium theory, since the late 1990s Bewley ...

, class of 1959, economist, authority on sticky wages and namesake of Bewley models *

Deirdre McCloskey Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald Nansen McCloskey; September 11, 1942) is an American economist and academic. Since 2023 she has been a Distinguished Scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute i ...

, class of 1960, economist, historian, and rhetorician *

Paul Michael Glaser Paul Michael Glaser (born Paul Manfred Glaser; March 25, 1943) is an American actor, director, and writer whose career has spanned five decades. He made his acting debut in the television series ''Love Is a Many Splendored Thing'' and went on ...

, class of 1961 (did not graduate), actor *

Chris Burden Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including ''Shoot (Burden), Shoot'' (1971) ...

, class of 1964, performance/conceptual artist *

Paul Williams Paul Williams may refer to: Authors * Paul Williams (Crawdaddy) (1948–2013), American music and science fiction journalist; founder of ''Crawdaddy'' and the Philip K. Dick Society * Paul Williams (Irish journalist) (born 1964), Irish journalis ...

, class of 1965, founder of '' Crawdaddy'' magazine *

Ben Bradlee Jr. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at ''The Boston Globe'' for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation in ...

, class of 1966, ''

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'' journalist and author *

Dave Hynes David E. Hynes (born April 17, 1951) is an American former professional ice hockey player who played 22 games in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins in 1973–75 as well as 22 games in the World Hockey Association for the New Englan ...

, class of 1969, former professional hockey player for the

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Jeffrey Lurie Jeffrey Robert Lurie (born September 8, 1951) is an American businessman, documentary film producer, and owner of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) since 1994. As a film producer he has three Academy Awards to his cre ...

, class of 1969, owner of

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Andy Pratt (singer-songwriter) Andy Pratt (born January 25, 1947) is an American rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In the 1970s, he made a number of experimental records, of which "Avenging Annie" was a commercial hit. Career Pratt's demo recording of ''Aven ...

, class of 1969, rock music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist *

Alexander Vershbow Alexander Russell "Sandy" Vershbow (born July 3, 1952) is an American diplomat and former Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From October 2005 to October 2008, he was the United States Ambassador to South Korea. ...

, class of 1970, former Ambassador to the

Republic of Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

, former Ambassador to Russia, former Ambassador to

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* Dennis Choi, class of 1970, educator and neuroscientist * Patrick Sullivan, class of 1971, former general manager of

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Jere Burns Jere Eugene Burns II (; born October 15, 1954) is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television. He played the roles of ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series '' Dear John'', DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullert ...

, class of 1973, actor

Buckingham

Katharine Sergeant Angell White Katharine Sergeant Angell White (born Katharine Sergeant; September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977) was an American writer and the fiction editor for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1925 to 1960.Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced ...

, class of 1910, writer and fiction editor for ''

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'' magazine, 1925–1960 *

Helen B. Taussig Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, 1898 – May 20, 1986) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the l ...

, class of 1912, cardiologist and founder of field of pediatric cardiology * Helenka Pantaleoni, class of 1914, silent film actress and humanitarian * Eleanor Sayre, class of 1934, museum curator and authority on prints of

Francisco Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish Romanticism, romantic painter and Printmaking, printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Hi ...

Joanne Simpson Joanne Simpson (formerly Joanne Malkus, born Joanne Gerould; March 23, 1923 – March 4, 2010) was the first woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, which she received in 1949 from the University of Chicago.Atlas D and Lemone ...

, class of 1940, NASA's lead weather researcher and first woman to earn a Ph.D. in meteorology * Eleanor Sanger, class of 1946, Emmy Award-winning TV sports producer * Margaret Bryan Davis, class of 1949, distinguished ecologist specializing in palynology and paleoecology *

Svetlana Alpers Svetlana Leontief Alpers (née Leontief; born February 10, 1936) is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book ''The Art of Describing'' ...

, class of 1953, noted art historian and author of ''The Art of Describing'' *

Susan Howe Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements.

, class of 1955, poet, scholar, essayist, and critic *

Jane Holtz Kay Jane Holtz Kay (born Jane Holtz; July 7, 1938, Boston – died November 4, 2012) was an American urban design and architecture critic. A columnist for ''The Nation'', ''The Boston Globe'' and ''The New York Times'', she authored three books on the ...

, class of 1956, urban design and architecture critic *

Fanny Howe Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940, in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry ...

, class of 1958, poet, short story writer, and novelist * Toby Lerner Ansin, Class of 1959, Founder, Miami City Ballet *

Ellen Goodman Ellen Goodman (born April 11, 1941) is an American journalist and syndicated columnist. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator. Career Goodman's career began as a researcher and reporter for ''Newsweek'' magazi ...

, class of 1959,

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-winning journalist *

Margaret Atherton Margaret Atherton (born 1943) is an American philosopher and feminist historian who is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and was a Distinguished Professor of ...

, Class of 1961, historian and philosopher *

Annalena Tonelli Annalena Tonelli (2 April 1943 – 5 October 2003) was an Italian Catholic lay missionary and social activist. She worked for 33 years in East Africa, where she focused on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, campaigns for erad ...

, Class of 1962, social activist known as "Mother Teresa of Somalia" *

Sylvia Poggioli Sylvia Poggioli ( , ; born 19 May 1946) (Bad link) is a retired American radio reporter best known for her work with National Public Radio. She was the network's longtime senior European correspondent. Early life Poggioli was born in Providen ...

, Class of 1964,

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European Correspondent * Mary Lord, Class of 1971, journalist *

Susan Butcher Susan Howlet Butcher (December 26, 1954 – August 5, 2006) was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five ...

, Class of 1972, dog musher and four-time winner of the

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BB&N

John Grayken John Patrick Grayken (born June 1956) is an American-born Irish billionaire financier, the founder and chairman of the private equity firm Lone Star Funds. Forbes magazine ranked Grayken 424th in the list of World's Billionaires and listed hi ...

, class of 1974, founder and chairman of Lone Star funds *

André Balazs André Tomas Balazs (born January 31, 1957) is an American businessman and hotelier. He is president and chief executive officer of André Balazs Properties, a portfolio of hotels across the United States and residences in New York, especially i ...

, class of 1975, hotelier and residential developer *

Hilary Bok Hilary Bok (born 1959) is an American philosopher currently serving as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University. Bok received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her ...

, class of 1976,

Henry R. Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazines. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the Ameri ...

Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at the

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

. *

Charles Bailyn Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College. Education He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in ...

, class of 1977, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at

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and inaugural dean of faculty at

Yale-NUS College Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, it was the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asi ...

David Fialkow David P. Fialkow (born October 18, 1958) is a billionaire venture capitalist and an Oscar winning documentary filmmaker and producer. He is the co-founder of General Catalyst, a $40bn venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth invest ...

, class of 1977, venture capitalist * James E. Baker, class of 1978, former Chief Judge of the

United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (in case citations, C.A.A.F. or USCAAF) is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States Armed Forces on active duty and other persons ...

Kate Davis Kathryn L. "Kate" Davis (born February 4, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist. Early life Davis started learning music on the violin. She moved to the Pacific Northwest in middle school and began to study the double bass. She pl ...

, class of 1978, documentary filmmaker *

Reed Hastings Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman of Netflix, Inc., which provides the Netflix streaming service. Hastings serves on a number of boards and works with various ...

, class of 1978, founder and CEO of

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* Jonathan Collier, class of 1979, television writer for ''

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'' and others *

Abigail Johnson Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman heiress and the CEO of Fidelity Investments. Her family and their affliates own approximately 40% of Fidelity Investments, which was founded by her grand ...

, class of 1980,

Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments, formerly known as Fidelity Management & Research (FMR), owned by FMR LLC and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides financial services. Established in 1946, the company is one of the largest asset managers in the ...

Wendy Artin Wendy Artin is an American painter. She primarily works in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light with surfaces on architecture and the human body. Artin grew up in Newton, Ma ...

, class of 1980, internationally exhibited painter * David Cohen, class of 1981, attorney and Deputy Director of the

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from 2015–17 *

Melinda McGraw Melinda McGraw (born October 25, 1968) is an American actress. She has appeared in movies such as ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), ''Wrongfully Accused'' (1998), and '' Skateland'' (2010), and is also known for her television performances on ''Mad Men ...

, class of 1981, film and television actress *

Michael Sloan Michael Sloan is an American freelance illustrator. In 2018, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning along with Jake Halpern, for their comic ''Welcome to the New World''. In 2020, Halpern and Sloan published a graphic novel under the s ...

, class of 1981,

-winning illustrator and co-creator of comic ''Welcome to the New World'' * David Kris, class of 1984, lawyer and national security expert *

Peter Ocko Peter Ocko (sometimes credited as Pete Ocko) is an American television writer and producer. Ocko has had a very diverse 30-year career in television and has written and produced for a number of popular television series throughout the 1990s, 200 ...

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, class of 1984,

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, investor in Facebook and LinkedIn * Michael Moynihan, class of 1987 (did not graduate), journalist, publisher and musician *

Nicole Cherubini Nicole Cherubini (born 1970, Boston, MA) is an American visual artist and sculptor working primarily in ceramics. She lives and works in New York. Early life and education Nicole Cherubini was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970. She graduate ...

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Peter Beinart Peter Alexander Beinart (; born February 28, 1971) is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator. A former editor of ''The New Republic'', he has also written for ''Time'', ''The Atlantic'', and ''The New York Review of ...

, class of 1989, editor of New Republic and

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* Agata Passent, class of 1991, Polish journalist and writer *

Alison Folland Alison Folland (born August 10, 1978) is an American actress and filmmaker. Folland was born in Boston to a travel agent mother and a cardiologist father. She grew up in Wellesley, and attended high school at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a priv ...

, class of 1997, award-winning film actress *

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, class of 1997, actress and writer on NBC's ''The Office''; creator and star of Fox's ''

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'' * Courtney Kennedy, class of 1997, US National Hockey Team player * Scott Belsky, class of 1998, entrepreneur, author, co-creator of online portfolio platform

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, class of 1999, Representative for Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District *

Rachel Platten Rachel Ashley Platten (born May 20, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015 and released her mainstream debut single, "Fight Song (Ra ...

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Josh Zakim Josh Zakim (born December 16, 1983) is an American politician, attorney, and community activist from Boston. He formerly served on the Boston City Council representing District 8, Boston, District 8, which includes Boston's Back Bay, Boston, Back ...

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, class of 2004, noted figure skater; Miss Massachusetts 2010 * Jack Carlson class of 2005, U.S. national team rower,

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bronze medalist, author * Sarah Bullard, class of 2007, professional women's lacrosse player *

Jake Rosenzweig Jake Rosenzweig (born April 14, 1989 in London) is an English-born American former racing driver. Career Karting Much of Rosenzweig's early karting career was contested in the United Kingdom, with him competing in Super 1 karting championships. ...

, class of 2007, racing driver * Marina Keegan, class of 2008, author of ''The Opposite of Loneliness'' *

Stephanie McCaffrey Stephanie Ann McCaffrey (born February 18, 1993) is an American former soccer player who played as a forward. During her career, she made six appearances for the United States women's national team. Early career McCaffrey attended Buckingham B ...

, class of 2011, professional soccer player * Andrew Chin, class of 2011, baseball player *

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References

External links

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