List of Haverford School people

This list of Haverford School people catalogs notable alumni of The Haverford School, a private school in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Academia, art, and media

Robert M. Ayres – architect active in San Antonio; son of Atlee Ayres
Lyle Bettger – actor^[1]
Jennifer Finney Boylan — author; transgender activist
Chuck Brodsky – folk artist and activist
Alec Brownstein – humorist and author
Douglas Brunt – entrepreneur and novelist, married to Megyn Kelly
Britton Chance, 1931 – Olympic gold medalist in sailing; University of Pennsylvania professor of biochemistry, biophysics, physical chemistry, and radiological physics
John DiIulio, 1976 – political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania; first director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives initiated by President George W. Bush
Henry Drinker – attorney and musicologist
Al Hunt, 1960 – managing editor of Bloomberg News
Arthur Crew Inman – diarist
James Lavino, 1991 – composer
Walter Mellor – architect
John Powers Middleton – television and film producer
Peter Morris, 1991 – playwright; author of Guardians
Maxfield Parrish, 1888 – painter and illustrator
Eric Thal, 1983 – stage and film actor
Frank S. Welsh, 1958 – President of Welsh Color and Conservation, Inc.; son of artist and furniture decorator Suzanne S. Welsh
Bradley Whitford – actor; attended but did not graduate

Ben T. Elliott – speechwriter for politicians and corporations
Douglas Hemphill Elliott – member of House of Representatives
Oscar Goodman, 1957 – Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada
John Hickenlooper, 1970 – United States Senator, former Mayor of Denver and Governor of Colorado, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate.
W. Thacher Longstreth, 1937 – former Philadelphia City Councilman

Shizz Alston, 2015 – collegiate basketball player for Temple and professional basketball player
Bert Bell, 1914 – NFL commissioner and founder of the Philadelphia Eagles
Ben Bentil (born 1995) - Ghanaian basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Will Barker – former offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys
Ernest Cozens, 1907 – football player, President of the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association
John duPont – member of the prominent Du Pont family; ornithologist, philatelist, philanthropist, coach, and sports enthusiast
Bob Folwell – football player and coach
Bill Fritz – pole vaulter
Mike Mayock, 1976 – former NFL player and NFL analyst, current General Manager of the Oakland Raiders
Asim Richards, 2019 – NFL offensive guard for the Dallas Cowboys
Steve Sabol, 1960 – President of NFL Films
Henry Sayen – cricketer
Dave Stilley – lacrosse player in Major League Lacrosse
Jeremiah White, 2000 – professional soccer player

Michael Dubin, 1997, – founder and CEO of Dollar Shave Club
Jeffrey E. Perelman – billionaire; CEO of JEP Management company
Ronald Perelman, 1960 – billionaire; controlling owner of MacAndrews & Forbes
John S. Middleton – former owner of John Middleton Co., part owner of the Philadelphia Phillies^[2]
William McNabb- CEO of Vanguard Group

Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, 1898 – two-time Medal of Honor recipient; USS Butler (DD-636) ; Major General in the US Marine Corps; Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia; political speaker and author; nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker"
Robert Clarkson Clothier, Class of 1903, Wall Street Journal reporter; World War I Army officer; representative for Secretary of War; 14th president of Rutgers University (1932-1951); president of the New Jersey Constitutional Convention (1947)^[3]^[4]
Pete Conrad – naval aviator, astronaut, 3rd man to walk on the Moon; attended Haverford from Kindergarten through 11th grade but was expelled as a result of his dyslexia.
Justin W. Lewis – music teacher
James Rogers McConnell, 1908 – military aviator; a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille in the French Air Service in World War I; honored by the Aviator statue at the University of Virginia and France's Croix de Guerre

Charles "Pete" Conrad – astronaut, third man to walk on the Moon; attended Haverford from kindergarten through 11th grade but was expelled because of his dyslexia.
Richard W. Thorington Jr. – zoologist
H. Richard Winn – neurosurgeon

Harold Boatrite – composer; former music teacher
W. D. Ehrhart – poet, writer, scholar, Vietnam veteran; "the dean of Vietnam war poetry;" member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War; 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts
Joe Iacone – football coach
Doug Knight – lacrosse coach and math teacher
John Nagl – former headmaster of the school

^ Aaker, Everett (2006). Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-6409-8. Pp. 49-51.
^ "Area cigar firm fetches $2.9 billion Middleton has been puffin' since 1856". philly-archives. Archived from the original on October 13, 2013. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
^ Frusciano, Thomas J. (University Archivist). Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Robert C. Clothier - Rutgers President, 1932 to 1951, originally published in "Leadership on the Banks: Rutgers' Presidents, 1766–2004", Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
^ Staff. "Dr. R. C. Clothier, Ex-Rutgers Head; University President from 1932-51, Dies at 85" in The New York Times (20 March 1970).