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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9–12 and postgraduates, located on 619 acres (2.51 km) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, 50 miles (80 km) north of Boston.
Early alumni include US Senator Daniel Webster ...
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary...
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- 1954
John K. Fairbank
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Robert Todd Lincoln
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End Date:
- 1860
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Sam Fuld
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Win Butler
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He was born Edwin Farnham...
Dan Brown
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John Negroponte
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily football, and an overall athletic pioneer. He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Playing at...
Amos T. Akerman
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George Plimpton
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Plimpton was born in New York, the son of Pauline (née...
Daniel Webster
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John Irving
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Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
Franklin Pierce
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Pierce was a Democrat and a ...
Gordon Gahan
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Edmund Wilson, Sr.
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Wilson was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey in 1863...
William E. Schluter
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Schluter was born on November 5, 1927 in Bronxville, New York to Frederic E. and Charlotte M....
Greg Craig
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Wallace H. Nutting
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Lucius Manlius Sargent
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John E. Leonard
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Leonard attended...
Walter I. McCoy
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Ralph B. Strassburger
Ralph Beaver Strassburger (March 26, 1883 - March 5, [1959) was an American businessman born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, who was also a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire...
Carroll Bond
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Bond was born in Baltimore, Maryland to James Bond and Elizabeth Lyon Bond,...
Richard S. Arnold
Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a judge of the U.S. District Court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Two presidents, Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, considered naming Arnold to the United...
John F. Potter
John Fox Potter nicknamed "Bowie Knife Potter" (May 11, 1817 – May 18, 1899) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Wisconsin.
Born in Augusta, Maine, Potter attended common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law and...
Brooks D. Simpson
Brooks Donohue Simpson, an American historian, is ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He was born August 4, 1957, in Freeport, New York. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated in 1975; four years later he...
Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lambert Lyall is an American-born English journalist, who currently works as London correspondent for The New York Times.
Lyall is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, class of 1981 and of Yale University.
Lyall has been married to the author...
Michael von Clemm
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Hodding Carter III
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Carter was born in New Orleans to journalist and publisher William Hodding...
Andrew Singer
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Adam Guettel
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Josiah Bartlett Jr.
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Josiah was born to Josiah and Mary Bartlett in...
Gwynneth Coogan
Gwynneth Coogan (born Gwynneth Hardesty on August 21, 1965 in Trenton, New Jersey) is a former Olympic athlete, educator and mathematician.
Hardesty attended Phillips Exeter Academy for two years, where she played squash and field hockey. She then...
Kenji Yoshino
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Alessandro Nivola
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Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts....
Ned Lamont
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Dwight Macdonald
Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was an American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical.
Macdonald was born in New York City and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. His first job was as a trainee...
William D. Byron
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Suzy Welch
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End Date:
- 1977
John McGinnis
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John Forté
John Forté (born January 30, 1975) is a rapper, producer, Forté was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. He won a full scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1993.
Forté began his professional music career...
Catherine Disher
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Corliss Lamont
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John M. Walker, Jr.
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Laurence Duggan
Laurence Duggan (1905–December 20, 1948), was head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II. In 1948, Duggan fell to his death from the window of his office in New York, ten days after being questioned...
Michael Cerveris
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Cerveris was born in Bethesda, Maryland and raised in Huntington, West Virginia by a professor of music father and a dancer mother who met while students at the...
Paul Monette
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.
Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and went on to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1963...
End Date:
- 1963
China Forbes
China Forbes (born April 29, 1970) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Pink Martini.
Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father is American of French/Scottish descent, and her mother is...
Lawrence Lasker
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Peter Benchley
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William Butler
William Pierce Butler (born October 6, 1982) is a band member of the band Arcade Fire. He is the brother of Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler. William plays synthesiser, bass, guitar and percussion. He is known for his spontaneity and antics during...
David Hall
David Hall (born December 16, 1916 in New Rochelle, New York) is a sound archivist and writer.
Hall's parents were Fairfax and Eleanor Raeburn (Remy) Hall. He married Bernice Dobkin on June 8, 1940. Their children are Marion Hall Hunt, Jonathan Hall...
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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George Gilder
George F. Gilder (born November 29, 1939, in New York City) is an American writer, techno-utopian intellectual, Republican Party activist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and...
