C. Ledyard Blair (1867–1949; class of 1886), founder of investment bank Blair & Co., delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Jersey, Governor of the New York Stock Exchange, owner of
Blairsden and the
C. Ledyard Blair House[12]
Alan D'Andrea (class of 1974), cancer researcher and the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at
Harvard Medical School[2]
Maurice Ferré (born 1935; class of 1953), former Mayor of the city of Miami (1973–1985)[16]
Major Sir
Hamish Forbes (1916–2007; class of 1934), British Army officer who served in the Welsh Guards during
World War II;
POW decorated for numerous escape attempts[2][27]
Lars Hernquist (class of 1973), theoretical astrophysicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[2]
^George Akerlof: Nobel Prize Autobiography, accessed April 2, 2007. "The Princeton Country Day School ended at grade nine. At that point most of my classmates dispersed among different New England prep schools. Both for financial reasons and also because they preferred that I stay at home, my family sent me down the road to the Lawrenceville School."
^Rasmussen, Tracy.
"His life is like a country song", Reading Eagle, March 22, 2007. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Raised in Phoenix, Ariz., his parents sent him across the country to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey to keep him out of trouble."
^"Brady, Thomas P., 1903–1973", Civil Rights Digital Library. Accessed July 24, 2014. "He attended the Lawrenceville Preparatory School, New Jersey, and graduated in 1923."
^Halickman, Joshua.
"Braimoh leads Jerusalem in Champions League", The Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2020. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Braimoh, who clinched the game for Jerusalem, was born in Nigeria. The 6-foot-8 forward moved to New York with his parents in 2001 and attended the United Nations International High School as well as The Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey before heading to Rice University."
^Times Topics: Jay Carney, The New York Times, updated March 17, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, N.J., and then Yale."
^Peters, Jeremy W.
"Tests for a New White House Spokesman", The New York Times, March 16, 2011. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, and then Yale. But he did not have the blue-blood, silver-spoon-in-mouth pedigree of many of his peers."
^Senator Bill Doyle,
Vermont General Assembly. Accessed February 15, 2020. "He was educated at Spring Lake Grammar School, New Jersey; Manasquan High School, New Jersey; Lawrenceville School"
^
abWeisman, Steven R.
"Saudi Arabia's Longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Is Resigning", The New York Times, July 21, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Like Prince Bandar, Prince Turki was educated in the United States, at the Lawrenceville School and Georgetown University, but is said to be a more cautious, ascetic and intellectual figure unlikely to cut the same swath that his predecessor did, especially in establishing intimate ties with powerful Americans."
^James, George.
"Malcolm Forbes, Publisher, Dies at 70", The New York Times, February 26, 1990. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Young Forbes attended the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he majored in politics and economics."
^"Frank Is Unanimous Selection As Yale's 1937 Football Leader; Star Halfback, Kelley and Pond Are Among Speakers at Dinner, After Which Eli Gridiron Squad Disbands – Williams Wins the Managerial Competition, With Wickwire Next.", The New York Times, November 24, 1936.
^Taylor Jr., Stuart.
"Man In The News: Charles Fried; Court Voice Of Reaganism", The New York Times, October 24, 1985. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Mr. Fried attended public schools in New York City, the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey ('where I think the most important things I learned were Latin and Greek') and Princeton University, where he studied comparative literature and philosophy."
^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from
the original(PDF) on September 9, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2015.{{
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link) [Link dead since 2013-07-07
^Robert F. Goheen Papers, 1939-2008 (bulk 1939-2000): Finding AidArchived July 10, 2012, at
archive.today,
Princeton University Library. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Robert (Bob) Francis Goheen was born on August 15, 1919, in Vengurla, India, where his father, Robert H.H. Goheen, a doctor, and his mother Anne Goheen-Ewing, a teacher, were Presbyterian missionaries. In 1934, Goheen moved to the United States to finish his high school education at the Lawrenceville School, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Graduating with honors after two years, he entered Princeton University as member of the class of 1940."
^John C. Green, Princetoniana Museum. Accessed January 3, 2021. "Green was born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and was a member of the first class to enter what became the Lawrenceville School."
^Richard Halliburton Papers, 1916–1975: Finding Aid ,
Princeton University Library. Accessed April 15, 2012. "The papers span Halliburton's short but adventurist life: from his telling fifth form, Lawrenceville School essay Disillusioned, through his Princeton University years (Princeton class of 1921), his years of worldwide travel, lecturing, and writing, to his posthumously-published autobiography of letters to his parents (1940).
^Staff.
"Owen Johnson", Time, March 31, 1924. Accessed April 15, 2012. "When Owen Johnson was a boy at Lawrenceville, he must have played the part of a boy for all it was worth; likewise when he was at Yale, where it is known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat."
^Friedman, Matt.
"Meet Joe Kyrillos, a nice guy trying to unseat powerful U.S. Sen. Menendez", NJ Advance Media for
NJ.com, October 21, 2012, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed January 3, 2021. "And Joe, the oldest of four, went to some of Jersey’s most exclusive schools: the Rumson Country Day School and the Lawrenceville School, before heading off to Hobart College."
^John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers, 1715–1988 (bulk 1913–1942): Finding Aid,
Princeton University Library. Accessed September 3, 2012. "The correspondence with both his parents documents MacMurray's life at boarding school in New Jersey (Captain Wilson’s Collegiate Institute at Newton 1891–1895 and Lawrenceville School 1895–1898), which is supplemented by Junius Wilson’s correspondence with the headmasters of both institutes (Subseries 2A)."
^
abc"Celebrating The Bicentennial Of The Lawrenceville School"[permanent dead link],
Rush D. Holt in the Congressional Record - Extensions of Remarks, September 29, 2010. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Lawrenceville has a proud history of public service. Graduates include three New Jersey Governors, Charles Olden, Joel Parker and Rodman Price, who also served as a Member of Congress; Lowell P. Weicker, who served as both Senator and Governor of Connecticut; Charles Fried, who was appointed by President Reagan as Solicitor General of the United States; J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, who sits on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; Ricardo Maduro, who was President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006; Brigadier General Horace Porter, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union Army; and World War I Aviator, Jarvis Offutt for whom Offutt Air Force Base is named."
^
abHunter, Jefferson.
"Joseph Moncure March: Poem Noir Becomes Prizefight Film"Archived December 15, 2012, at the
Wayback Machine, The Hudson Review, Summer 2008. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Never a particularly good student, March was sent to the Lawrenceville School for finishing.... In its handsome hardbound volume, with illustrations by March’s Lawrenceville classmate Reginald Marsh, The Wild Party was a success"
^Severo, Richard.
"William H. Masters, a Pioneer in Studying and Demystifying Sex, Dies at 85", The New York Times, February 19, 2001. Accessed March 14, 2012. "William Howell Masters was born Dec. 27, 1915, in Cleveland to Francis Wynne Masters and Estabrooks Taylor Masters, who were well off and who saw to it that their son was given an excellent education. He was sent to the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., after which he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y."
^Army Football: From Michie to the New Millennium,
CSTV. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Yet, little of this history would be possible without the efforts of Dennis Mahan Michie, who was born at West Point on April 10, 1870. Michie attended Lawrenceville Prep when of high school age and learned to play the game of football quite well."
^Caramanica, Jon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/arts/music/chi-modu-dead.html "Chi Modu, Photographer Who Defined 1990s Hip-Hop, Dies at 54"], The New York Times, May 29, 2021. Accessed December 20, 2022. "His parents later returned to Nigeria, but Mr. Modu stayed behind and graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and received a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness economics from Rutgers University’s Cook College in 1989."
^Clark, Kristen M.
"Patrick Murphy aims his youthful political exuberance at U.S. Senate seat", Miami Herald, June 3, 2016, updated August 13, 2016. Accessed January 3, 2021. "By his senior year, Murphy said he was in conversations to play baseball at the University of Miami and a few other schools. But instead, he opted to take a “post-graduate year” after graduating from Palmer Trinity. Murphy went to the elite Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 2001-02, where tuition, room and board this year is about $58,000 a year."
^"Lucky Duck: Nikita Nesterenko ’20 makes his NHL debut with the Anaheim Ducks",
Lawrenceville School, March 23, 2023. Accessed March 29, 2023. "Four years ago, it wasn’t a staggering leap of imagination to project Nikita Nesterenko ’20 as a future National Hockey League player. As a Fourth Former in 2018-19, Nesterenko scored 30 goals for Big Red on his way to a 59-point season and a selection to the All-U.S.A. Hockey third team."
^Ryan, Bob.
"Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. Accessed December 24, 2008. "Because the University of Florida's Joakim Noah exists, Armond Hill's heretofore unquestioned status as the Best Player in the History of The Lawrenceville School is in jeopardy."
^Laurence Arthur Rickels - BiographyArchived April 13, 2015, at the
Wayback Machine,
European Graduate School. Accessed March 14, 2012. "Very early in his career in 1972, Laurence Rickels received Second Place for the Morton Prize for his work on inhibited mourning as a pathogenic force in Nazi concentration camp survivors. This was the result of an independent study he did just south of Princeton at The Lawrenceville School."
^Ryan, Bob.
"Noah was prepped to win", The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006. accessed March 14, 2012. "The Lawrenceville School is a distinguished prep school located in Lawrenceville, N.J., a small community equidistant from Trenton and Princeton.... A wealthy alum named Edwin Lavino, Class of 1905, provided a way-ahead-of-its-time Field House in 1950 (colleges would crave it today) and it was inside that building that Hill, Class of 1972 and Noah, Class of 2004, took Lawrenceville basketball to its greatest heights; yes, sadly, even higher than when Yours Truly performed for the varsity more than 40 years ago."
^Hageny, John Christian.
"Hockey: Where are they now? Call Lawrenceville's Sanguinetti a Hurricane",
NJ.com, February 24, 2013. Accessed February 8, 2018. "Bobby Sanguinetti was born in Trenton, grew up a New York Rangers fan and even wore number 22 for a time in his career in honor of his favorite player, Brian Leetch, while skating at Lawrenceville.... The following year he enrolled at The Lawrenceville School in Mercer County where he played his freshman and sophomore seasons amassing six goals, 22 assists and 28 points in 51 games under coach Etienne Bilodeau."
^Staff.
"Sally J. Ferguson Manhasset Bride; She Is Escorted by Father at Marriage to Sheridan G. Snyder, Virginia Senior", The New York Times, August 17, 1957. Accessed January 3, 2021. "The Congregational Church of Manhasset was the scene this afternoon of the marriage of Miss Sally Jayne Ferguson to Sheridan Gray Snyder.... The bridegroom, a senior at the University of Virginia, where he and his bride will continue their studies, attended the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School and was graduated from Friends Academy in Locust Valley."
^Franks, Norman; Dempsey, Harry.
American Aces of World War I, p. 76,
Osprey Publishing, 2001.
ISBN1-84176-375-6. Accessed July 5, 2011. "William H Stovall came from Stovall, Mississippi, born in 1895, on the family cotton plantation, the son of a civil war colonel. Graduating from Lawrenceville School, New Jersey, in 1913 he moved to Yale in 1916."
^Weinraub, Bernard.
"The Talk of Hollywood; Anti-Semitism Film Strikes a Chord With Its Producers", The New York Times, September 14, 1992. Accessed July 5, 2011. "'It was such an eerie coincidence that when I got to Paramount, this project that I had nothing to do with in the first place looked like it was a homage to my own experiences at prep school,' said Mr. Tartikoff, who grew up in Freeport, L.I., and attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., from 1962 to 1966."
^"Nomination of Henry J. Taylor to be United States Ambassador to Switzerland" (Press release). U.S. Department of State. April 12, 1957. Retrieved August 3, 2022. Mr. Taylor was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 2, 1902, the son of Henry Noble and Eileen O'Hare Taylor. He was graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1920 and from the University of Virginia in 1924.
^"Taki Theodoracopulos", The Guardian. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Taki Theodoracopulos was born on August 11, 1937, in Greece. He was educated in the United States at The Lawrenceville School, New Jersey; at the University of Virginia; and in England at
Pentonville Prison, just outside London."
^Stokes, Mary Channing.
"Profile: Randall Thompson", The Harvard Crimson, June 5, 1950. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Thompson began his musical career under the auspices of the family cook, who taught him to read and play hymns on an old melodion. His education continued under the mathematics teacher at Lawrenceville School, where Thompson's father taught English."
^"Former Chairman Of FTC, Roosevelt Aide Dies At 90", The York Gazette and Daily (February 19, 1966), p. 2, 15.
^Knapp, Krystal.
"Lawrenceville School receives largest gift in 207-year history", Planet Princeton, June 21, 2017. Accessed January 3, 2021. "The Lawrenceville School has received the largest single gift in its 207-year history. Joseph Tsai, a 1982 graduate of the private school in Lawrence Township, and his wife, Clara Tsai, have made a major gift through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation to support the school’s strategic plan."
^Martin, Douglas.
"Rawleigh Warner Jr., Brash Chairman of Mobil, Dies at 92", The New York Times, July 2, 2013. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Rawleigh Warner Jr. was born on Feb. 13, 1921, in Chicago and grew up in the city’s northern suburbs. He followed his father to the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Princeton, from which he graduated in 1943."
^Alex Westlund Class of 2010, New Jersey High School Ice Hockey Hall of Fame. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Westlund posted a 2.70 goals against average in his high school career and went on to have a solid collegiate career at Yale.... In 1991-92 he led Lawrenceville to an 18-6 mark, a year in which the Mercer County school had no Post-Graduates on its roster."
^Birger, John.
"The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown"Archived October 15, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine, CNNMoney, August 6, 2008. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Whitney, 38, grew up in Bethesda, Md., one of three daughters born to Richard Whitney, a venture capitalist and onetime official in Richard Nixon's Department of Commerce (but not part of the famous Whitney clan that includes Eli and John Hay Whitney), and Barbara Gentry, an executive recruiter. She prepped at Lawrenceville, graduated from Brown University in 1992 (Whitney and I overlapped at Brown but didn't know each other), and has been working in Wall Street research pretty much ever since."
^Sontag, Deborah.
"The Power of the Fourth", The New York Times, March 9, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "A warm, gracious and patrician Virginian, Wilkinson, 58, appears slight and owlish in his civilian clothes -- blue blazer, gold buttons -- yet commanding in his robes. The son of a banker, the future judge attended boarding school at Lawrenceville and college at Yale before returning to Virginia to study law."
^Kim, Suki.
"Q&A: The Meaning of Asian-American", Newsweek, July 10, 2003. Accessed November 7, 2011. "Once, I showed up at an audition for an all-American role, and they said, oh, you are not exactly what we are looking for, and I said, what do you mean?, I went to Lawrenceville boarding school [in New Jersey] and Columbia University, why am I not all-American?"