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- Edgar Brawley (Class of 1874) – first black graduate and later president of two southern colleges
- Christy Mathewson (Class of 1902) – baseball hall of famer
- Edward B. Lewis (Class of 1936) – Nobel Prize winner in medicine in 1995
- Webster Whitmore (Class of 1936) – inventor credited with design of rocket engine that powered the first Bell Aircraft XS1 rocket aircraft
- William Hoeveler (Class of 1947) – Federal District Court judge, Miami; presided over Noriega trial
- Jane Brown Maas (Class of 1953) – creator of the "I Love NY" campaign
- Philip Roth (Class of 1954) – one of America's foremost contemporary writers, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction literature
- Kunitake Ando (Class of 1965) – president of Sony Corporation
- Susan Sullivan Dunlap (Class of 1965) – mystery writer
- Edward Herrmann (Class of 1965) – Emmy–award winning actor (played the father in The Gilmore Girls TV series)
- James McCloskey (Class of 1966) – humanitarian, founder of Centurion Ministries; advocate for those on Death Row whom he believes are wrongfully accused
- D'Anna Fortunato (Class of 1967) – opera singer
- Susan Crawford (Class of 1969) – first woman judge of U.S. Court of Military Appeals
- Daniel Buraczeski (Class of 1970) – artistic director and jazz dance choreographer
- Doreen Bolger (Class of 1971) – executive director, Baltimore Museum of Art
- Leslie Moonves (Class of 1971) – president and CEO of CBS
- David Weinberger (Class of 1972) – Web philosopher, commentator on NPR, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and editor of JOHO, the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization
- Mark Morganelli (Class of 1977) – jazz trumpeter, record producer
- Rob Andrews (Class of 1979) – U.S. congressman from New Jersey
- Todd Buchholz (Class of 1983) – economist and author of Market Shock and eight other books; a former director of economic policy at the White House
- John McPherson (Class of 1983) – syndicated cartoonist of "Close to Home"
- Richard Johnson (Class of 1984) – founder of HotJobs
- Bill Westenhofer (Class of 1990) – Academy Award winner for visual effects
- Doug Lebda (Class of 1992) – founder of LendingTree
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