List of Riverdale Country School alumni

This list of alumni of Riverdale Country School includes graduates and students who did not graduate.

List of alumni

• Dan Abrams (class of 1984), chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News.
• Virginia Abernethy (born 1934), anthropologist
• Josh Appelbaum, television writer
• Sosie Bacon (born 1992), actress
• Charlie Barnet (1913–1991), jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
• Jacqueline Barton (born 1952), chemist
• Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), historian
• Cliff Bayer (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer
• Lisa Birnbach (born 1956, class of 1974), author of The Official Preppy Handbook
• Richard Blumenthal (born 1946), U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
• Niesha Butler, basketball player, actress.
• DJ Cassidy (born 1981), DJ, record producer.
• Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920–1948), socialite.
• Louis Ozawa Changchien (born 1975), actor
• Chevy Chase (born 1943), actor
• Suzan Johnson Cook (born 1957), pastor and activist.
• Jonathan Dean (1924–2014), United States Ambassador to Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks
• Richard Engel (born 1973), NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
• Harry Enten (born 1988), political journalist
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), artist and social activist
• Varian Fry (1907–1967), journalist who ran a program helping thousands of Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Germany.
• Peter Galison (born 1955), Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University
• Alexander Garvin (1941–2021), urban planner
• James Gleick (born 1954), science writer.
• Leopold Godowsky Jr. (1900–1983), co-creator of the first color transparency film
• Rachel Hadas (born 1948), poet, teacher, essayist, and translator
• Calvin Hill (born 1947, class of 1965), former NFL player
• Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), journalist and author
• John Kao (born 1950), author and strategic advisor
• Claude Kelly (born 1980), singer, songwriter and music producer.
• Ron Kim (born 1979), politician
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), President of the United States, attended Riverdale's Lower School
• Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. senator
• Carlos Kleiber (1930–2004), conductor
• Gerard Koeppel (born 1975), author, historian, and journalist
• Robert Krulwich (born 1947), radio and television journalist
• John Lahr (born 1941), theater critic
• David Levin (born 1963), CEO of McGraw-Hill Education
• Leopold Mannes (1899–1964), co-creator of Kodachrome, the first color transparency film
• Lee MacPhail (1917–2012), Baseball Hall-of-Fame front-office executive
• Megan McArdle (born 1973), blogger and journalist
• Nick McDonell (born 1984), author
• Fred Melamed (born 1956), actor
• Howard Milstein, real estate developer
• Steven Mnuchin (born 1962) United States Secretary of the Treasury 2017–2021
• Wes Moore (born 1978), Governor of Maryland
• Tim Morehouse (born 1978), fencer who was a 2008 Olympic silver medalist
• William C. W. Mow (born 1936), entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy Industries
• André Nemec (born 1972), screenwriter
• Robin Pogrebin (born 1965), journalist
• Ed Rendell (born 1944), Governor of Pennsylvania.
• Cesar Romero (1907–1994), actor.
• Clifford Ross (born 1952), photographer and artist
• Tracee Ellis Ross (born 1972), actress
• Andy Russell, founder and CEO of Trigger Media
• Carly Simon (born 1943), singer.
• Scott Snyder, author.
• Jordana Spiro (born 1977), actor.
• Max Stafford-Clark, an English theatre director
• Ratan Tata (born 1937), chairman of Tata Group
• Jeffrey Vinik (born 1959), owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
• Joss Whedon (born 1964), writer, director, and executive producer; creator of several television series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity)
• David Yazbek (born 1961), composer, lyricist, writer of Broadway shows and TV including The Full Monty, The Band's Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, etc.
• Tim Zagat (class of 1957), restaurant critic
• Michael Zakarin, guitarist for The Bravery

References

1. Riverdale Country School
2. Riverdale, Bronx
3. List of Bronx High School of Science alumni
4. Ethical Culture Fieldston School
5. Louis Ozawa Changchien
6. Riverdale Collegiate Institute
7. List of Collegiate School (New York City) alumni
8. List of New York University alumni
9. Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy
10. Jonathan Dean (ambassador)
11. List of University of Notre Dame alumni
12. Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa)
13. List of high schools in New York City
14. Zach Dean
15. Oakland High School (Tennessee)
16. Brett Young (singer)
17. State University of New York at Purchase
18. Lisa Birnbach
19. André Nemec
20. Claude Kelly