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Name
Class year
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Edwin Hale Abbot
1854
Lawyer, railroad executive
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
1819
U.S. Congressman , Ambassador to Great Britain
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
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Union Army General
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
1729
Governor of Massachusetts , Boston Tea Party organizer
Ed Ames
Ed Ames
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Popular singer, actor
James Barnes
James Barnes
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Union Army general
John L. Bates
John L. Bates
1819
Governor of Massachusetts
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
1826
Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer , abolitionist , speaker
Jonathan Belcher
Jonathan Belcher
1689
Colonial governor of Massachusetts , New Hampshire , New Jersey
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson
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Art historian
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Thomas Bernard
1763
Colonial governor of Maryland
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
1935
Conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, pianist
George Tyler Bigelow
George Tyler Bigelow
1824
chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield
1861
Artist
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin
1734
Governor of Massachusetts
Thomas Mayo Brewer
Thomas Mayo Brewer
1826
Naturalist
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
1846
Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church
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Robert A. Brooks
1949
Telecommunications pioneer
Raymond Bartlett Stevens
Raymond Bartlett Stevens
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U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire
Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch
1770
Architect of the U.S. Capitol
Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch
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Mythologist , banker
Andrea Campbell
Andrea Campbell
Lawyer and politician (Massachusetts attorney general and former Boston City Council member)
Francis James Child
Francis James Child
1840
Scholar, educationist , folklorist
James Freeman Clarke
James Freeman Clarke
1821
Unitarian Clergyman, author
Richard A. Clarke
Richard A. Clarke
1968
Chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council
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Marshall Cogan
1955
Investor, banker, entrepreneur; founder of United Automotive Group and investment banking firm Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt
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Cid Corman
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Poet, translator, editor
Joseph W. Cullen
Joseph W. Cullen
1954
Cancer researcher and scientist
Thomas Cushing
Thomas Cushing
1740
Acting Governor of Massachusetts
Timothy Cutler
Timothy Cutler
1690
Episcopal clergyman and rector of Yale College
Francis Dana
Francis Dana
1751
Lawyer, jurist , statesman , delegate to the Continental Congress
Charles Henry Davis
Charles Henry Davis
1815
Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
Charles Devens
Charles Devens
1829
Lawyer, jurist , statesman , Union Army general
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Paul A. Dever
1918
Governor of Massachusetts
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Edward Payson Dutton
1844
Book publisher
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Ayo Edebiri
2013
Comedian, writer, producer, and actress
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
1844
President of Harvard University
Samuel Atkins Eliot
Samuel Atkins Eliot
1809
U.S. Congressman , Mayor of Boston
Christine Elise McCarthy
Christine Elise McCarthy
1983
Film and television actress
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1817
Essayist, philosopher, poet, orator, leader of the Transcendentalist movement, Unitarian clergyman
William Eustis
William Eustis
1761
Governor of Massachusetts , United States Secretary of War
William Maxwell Evarts
William Maxwell Evarts
1828
United States Attorney General , Secretary of State
Edward Everett
Edward Everett
1805
Governor of Massachusetts , U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator
William Everett
William Everett
1852
U.S. Congressman
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Aaron Feuerstein
1943
Owner and CEO of Malden Mills
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Arthur Fiedler
1907
Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
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Thomas Finneran
1967
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
John F. Fitzgerald
John F. Fitzgerald
1880
Mayor of Boston , U.S. Congressman
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Tom Fitzgerald
1929
The Boston Globe sports journalist and recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy and the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award
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John Bernard Fitzpatrick
1826
Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston
James Freeman
James Freeman
1766
Unitarian clergyman and writer
James A. Gallivan
James A. Gallivan
1884
U.S. Congressman
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Dave Gettleman
1968
General manager of the New York Giants
Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore
1765
Governor of Massachusetts , U.S. Senator
Nathaniel Gorham
Nathaniel Gorham
1746
President of the Continental Congress , signer of the United States Constitution
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Mike Gorman
1965
Television play-by-play commentator for the Boston Celtics
Benjamin A. Gould
Benjamin A. Gould
1835
Astronomer
Robert Grant
Robert Grant
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Novelist, probate court judge
John Chipman Gray
John Chipman Gray
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Harvard Law School professor
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Adolphus W. Green
1859
Attorney, businessman, founder of Nabisco
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Richard Saltonstall Greenough
1829
Sculptor
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale
1831
Author, Unitarian clergyman
Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton
Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton
1883
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
John Hancock
John Hancock
1745
Merchant, President of the Second Continental Congress , first Governor of Massachusetts
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Nat Hentoff
1941
Historian, novelist, jazz critic, columnist, civil libertarian
Henry Lee Higginson
Henry Lee Higginson
1846
Businessman, philanthropist, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
William Hooper
William Hooper
1749
Member of the Continental Congress , signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
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Physician, abolitionist, advocate of education for the blind
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John Hull
1637
Merchant, military officer, and politician in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Leavitt Hunt
1839
Attorney , photography pioneer, brother of Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt
1843
Architect, founder of the American Institute of Architects and the Municipal Art Society
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson
1716
Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
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Charles Jackson
1784
Jurist , judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Joseph Kennedy
Joseph Kennedy
1908
Businessman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom , first Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
John King
John King
1981
Journalist, reporter
Henry Knox
Henry Knox
1758
Bookseller , chief artillery officer of the Continental Army , first U.S. Secretary of War
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Yehuda Krinsky
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Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
Samuel Pierpoint Langley
Samuel Pierpoint Langley
1845
Astronomer , physicist , inventor of the bolometer , pioneer of aviation
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Philip J. Landrigan
1959
Epidemiologist , pediatrician
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Samuel Langdon
1734
US Congregational clergyman, President of Harvard University
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William L. Langer
1912
chairman of the history department at Harvard University , head of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services
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Norman B. Leventhal
1933
Developer and manager of office buildings, housing, and hotels
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Joseph R. Levenson
1937
University of California, Berkeley Historian of China
John Leverett the Younger
John Leverett the Younger
1669
President of Harvard College
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Howard Lindsay
1907
Broadway producer, playwright, librettist , director, actor
James Lloyd
James Lloyd
1776
U.S. Senator
Edward Lawrence Logan
Edward Lawrence Logan
1894
Militia officer, jurist ; namesake of Logan International Airport
Ruthzee Louijeune
Ruthzee Louijeune
2004
At-large Boston City Council member
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James Lovell
1744
Educator, delegate to the Continental Congress
Augustus Lowell
Augustus Lowell
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Businessman, philanthropist
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Burton Malkiel
1949
Economist, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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Charles F. Manski
1966
Econometrician
Jonathan Mason
Jonathan Mason
1774
U.S. Senator
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather
1669
New England Puritan minister , author, pamphleteer
Wade McCree Jr.
Wade McCree Jr.
1937
First African American judge appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit; second African American solicitor general
Robert F. McDermott
Robert F. McDermott
1955
Brigadier General ; first permanent Dean of the Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy ; Chairman and CEO of USAA
James F. McNulty Jr.
James F. McNulty Jr.
1943
U.S. Congressman from Arizona
Martin Milmore
Martin Milmore
1859
Sculptor
Alfred Moore
Alfred Moore
1763
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Perez Morton
Perez Morton
1760
Lawyer; Patriot during the Revolution
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Hosea Ballou Morse
1866
Sinologist , Chinese Maritime Customs Service
John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley
1824
Historian
Barry Newman
Barry Newman
1948
Actor
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Jack O'Callahan
1975
Professional ice hockey player and member of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team
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David Ochterlony
1766
British general
Harrison Gray Otis
Harrison Gray Otis
1773
Federalist party leader, U.S. Senator , Mayor of Boston
Andrew Oliver
Andrew Oliver
1713
Merchant, public official
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Isaac Parker
1777
U.S. Congressman
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William Parmenter
1800
U.S. Congressman
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine
1738
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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William Dandridge Peck
1771
America's first native entomologist , professor at Harvard College
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
1822
Abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator
Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering
1857
Astronomer , physicist
William Dummer Powell
William Dummer Powell
1762
Lawyer, judge, political figure in Upper Canada
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J. Pickering Putnam
1860
Architect and designer
Josiah Quincy II
Josiah Quincy II
1754
Lawyer
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Sumner Redstone
1940
Majority owner and Chairman of the Board of National Amusements ; majority owner of CBS Corporation , Viacom , MTV Networks , BET , Paramount Pictures , and DreamWorks
Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich
1911
Silent film actress
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George T. Richardson
188?
journalist, playwright, theatre critic
Marie Mercury Roth
Marie Mercury Roth
synthetic organic chemist
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Stan Salett
1955
National Education Policy Advisor (an architect of Upward Bound, Head Start); Civil Rights Organizer; Author
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George Sanderson
Pennsylvania State Senator and 10th mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
George Santayana
George Santayana
1878
Philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist
Winthrop Sargent
Winthrop Sargent
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Secretary of Northwest Territory, Governor of Mississippi Territory
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Benjamin I. Schwartz
1934
Harvard University historian of China
Roger Hale Sheaffe
Roger Hale Sheaffe
1770
American-born General in the British Army
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff
1822
Twentieth mayor of Boston
Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith
1828
Baptist minister , journalist, author, wrote lyrics of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee "
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Guy L. Steele Jr.
1972
Computer scientist
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Julian Steele
1925
Social worker and activist, Massachusetts' first African American town moderator, state agency head
Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey
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Lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader
William Stoughton
William Stoughton
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Judge during Salem Witch Trials ; Acting Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner
1821
U.S. Senator , leader of the Radical Republicans
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Joseph Henry Thayer
1842
Biblical scholar
Edward Tuckerman
Edward Tuckerman
1827
Botanist , professor
Frederic Tudor
Frederic Tudor
1793
Founder of the Tudor Ice Company
Edward D. Townsend
Edward D. Townsend
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Adjutant General of the United States Army , 1869–1880
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William Tudor
1758
Lawyer
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Isadore Twersky
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Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University
Royall Tyler
Royall Tyler
1765
Jurist , playwright
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Henry Van Brunt
1844
Architect, architectural writer
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Andrew Viterbi
1952
Electrical engineer , philanthropist
John Collins Warren
John Collins Warren
1786
Surgeon, pioneer of ether anesthesia
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Clifton R. Wharton Jr.
1943
Economist, first African-American university president and chairman of a Fortune 100 corporation, United States Deputy Secretary of State
Helen Magill White
Helen Magill White
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First woman in the United States to earn a PhD
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Theodore White
1932
Political journalist, historian, novelist
Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop
1821
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives , U.S. Senator
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John Joseph Wright
1927
Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church , Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
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Daniel Yankelovich
1942
Public opinion analyst, social scientist