The following is a list of notable alumni of Lawrenceville School, a coeducational, independent college preparatory boarding school located in the historic Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, New Jersey.
A
George Akerlof (born 1940; class of 1958), Nobel laureate for Economics
Knowlton Ames (class of 1886), All-American football player at Princeton and head football coach at Purdue University Garth Ancier (born 1957), President of the WB Network A. Piatt Andrew (class of 1889), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1910–1912) and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts Walter Gresham Andrews (1889–1949; class of 1908), United States House of Representatives from New York (1889–1943)
B
David Baird Jr. (1881–1955; class of 1899), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Dewey F. Bartlett (1919–1979; class of 1938), former Governor of Oklahoma and member of the United States Senate Dierks Bentley (born 1975; class of 1993), country music singer Bill Berkson (class of 1957), poet Barton Biggs (1932–2012; class of 1951), former Morgan Stanley Chief Global Strategist; current money manager running Traxis Partners Thomas Pickens Brady (1903–1973; class of 1923), jurist, segregationist, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court C. Ledyard Blair (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 Suleiman Braimoh (born 1989), Nigerian-American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League George Houston Brown (1810–1865), represented in the United States House of Representatives, 1853–1855 Frederick Buechner (born 1926; class of 1943), novelist Dennis Bushyhead (1826–1898; class of 1843), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Fox Butterfield (born 1939; class of 1957), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times
C
Jay Carney (born 1965; class of 1983), 29th White House Press Secretary; former Time Washington Bureau Chief; former White House correspondent Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925–1968), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin Sydney Chaplin (1926–2009), actor; son of Charlie Chaplin Korawad Chearavanont (class of 2012), entrepreneur; grandson of Dhanin Chearavanont John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), jurist and airline executive Merian C. Cooper (1893–1973; class of 1911), film director best known for King Kong (1933)
D
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 Richard Dean (1956–2006), fashion and advertising photographer, model, and former player in Canadian Football League Frederick B. Deknatel (1905–1973; class of 1924), art historian William Adams Delano (1874–1960), architect Christopher DeMuth (born 1946; class of 1964), President of the American Enterprise Institute William T. Doyle (born 1926), member of the Vermont Senate from the Washington Vermont Senate District, 1969–2017, the longest-serving state legislator in Vermont history Barrows Dunham (1905–1995; class of 1922), author and former Head of Philosophy Department at Temple University in Philadelphia
E
Michael Eisner (born 1942; class of 1960), former CEO of The Walt Disney Company
F
Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (born 1945; class of 1963), Saudi Arabia's ambassador to United States Jane Ferguson (born 1984, class of 2004, journalist Maurice Ferré (born 1935; class of 1953), former Mayor of the city of Miami (1973–1985) 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 Malcolm Forbes (1919–1990; class of 1937), publisher of Forbes magazine Clint Frank (1915–1992; class of 1934), winner of the 1937 Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award; Team Captain and All-American football player at Yale University Charles Fried (born 1935; class of 1952), Harvard Law School professor and former United States Solicitor General N. Howell Furman (1892–1965), professor of analytical chemistry who helped develop the electrochemical uranium separation process as part of the Manhattan Project