List of New Trier High School alumni

New Trier High School is a public four-year high school located in Winnetka, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. A number of former New Trier students have become notable in their own right.

Notable alumni of New Trier High School (including the former New Trier East and New Trier West high schools) include:

Actors

* Ann-Margret (1959), actress
* Adam Baldwin (1980), actor ("Chuck")
* Ralph Bellamy (1922), actor
* Carlos Bernard (1980), actor (Tony Almeida in "24")
* Liz Callaway (1978), musical theatre actress and singer ("Anastasia")
* William Christopher, actor ("M*A*S*H")
* Bruce Dern, actor
* Christine Ebersole (1971), Tony Award-Winning actress and singer
* Charlton Heston (1941), Academy Award-Winning actor, former president of the National Rifle Association
* Rock Hudson (1944), actor
* Virginia Madsen (1979), actress, starred in 2004's "Sideways"
* Lauren Marcus (2003), actress, "The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks"
* Penelope Milford (1966), actress, Academy Award Nominee 1978 "Coming Home"
* Hugh O'Brian (1941), actor
* Liesel Pritzker (aka Liesel Matthews) (2002), child actress, sued family for one billion dollars
* Betsy Randle, actress
* Charlotte Ross, actress ("NYPD Blue", "Days of Our Lives")
* Hal Sparks (1988), actor/comedian
* Lili Taylor (1985), actress
* Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1984), actor (currently acting in a recurring role in HBO's "The Wire")
* Rainn Wilson (1984), actor, Dwight Schrute in NBC's "The Office"

Business executives

* Douglas Conant, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, 2001-present [ [http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/kwo/sum01/facultynews/conant.htm Recipe for success: Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant '76 talks strategy] ]
* Christie Hefner (1970), CEO of Playboy Enterprises
* Mark Hogan (1969), President of Magna International, 2004-2007; formerly an executive at GM
* James McNerney (1967), CEO of Boeing
* Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., chairman emeritus of ACNielsen
* Alex Zoghlin (dropped out in 1988), software entrepreneur, co-founded Orbitz, where he worked from 2000-2003
* Raul Valdes-Perez (1974), co-founder and CEO of Vivisimo, an enterprise search software company

Musicians

* Dave Samuels (1966), jazz vibraphonist of Spyro Gyra, The Caribbean Jazz Project
* Jennifer Armstrong (1975), musician / storyteller
* Mike Bloomfield, rock music and blues guitarist
* Scott Bennett (1983), musician currently in the Brian Wilson band
* Gary Novak (1987), drummer, played with Chick Corea, Alanis Morissette, and others.
* Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter
* David Goldblatt (1977), jazz pianist, member of Mark Isham's studio band. Played on soundtrack for the Jodie Foster movie, "Little Man Tate".
* Jeff Harnar (1977), New York-based cabaret singer
* Al Jourgensen , musician
* Liz Phair (1985), singer
* Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist for Fall Out Boy
* Pete Wentz (attended), bassist for Fall Out Boy
* Matt Walker, rock musician and former drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins

Politicians and government officials

*Jean (Stovall) Anderson (1941), first African-American female, Office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore City
* Judy Biggert (1955), Republican member of the House of Representatives
* Karna Small Bodman (1955), Ronald Reagan's deputy press secretary, former Senior Director of the National Security Council
* Rahm Emanuel (1977), congressman, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton
* Mark Kirk (1977), U.S. congressman
* Thomas Miller (1966), former U.S. Ambassador to Greece and Bosnia
* Charles Percy (1937), U.S. Senator (1967-1985)
* Donald Rumsfeld (1950), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, (1975-1977, 2001-2006)

ports figures

* Michael Alter, co-founder and co-owner of the Chicago Sky
* Ben Braun (1971), men's basketball coach (Rice University (2008-), University of California, Berkeley (1996-2008))
* Pete Burnside (1948), Major League Baseball pitcher (1955-1963, New York-San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, Baltimore Orioles) [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/burnspe01.shtml Pete Burnside Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com] ]
* Rick Hahn (1989), Vice President/Assistant General Manager of the Chicago White Sox [ [http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/team/exe_bios/hahn_rick.html Chicago White Sox: Front Office] ]
* Mike Huff (1981), Major League Baseball player (1989-1996)
* Clay Matthews (1974), pro football player (Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons, 1978-1993), played in Pro Bowl four times
* Bruce Matthews (attended), pro football player (Houston Oilers-Tennessee Oilers-Tennessee Titans, 1983-2000), elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
* Ross Baumgarten (1973), major league baseball player (Chicago White Sox 1978-1981, Pittsburgh Pirates 1982)
* Mike Pyle (1957), pro football player (Chicago Bears 1961-1969, played in the 1963 Pro Bowl)
* John Castino (1973), Major League Baseball player. (Minnesota Twins) 1979 AL Rookie of The Year
* Larry Sweeney, professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeney

cientists

* Todd Golub (1981) cancer researcher, director of the Cancer program at the Broad Institute
* Mary-Claire King (1963), geneticist
* Michael Peskin (1969), physicist
* Martin Rocek (1971) Physicist, State University of New York at Stony Brook
* Dennis J. Selkoe (1961), Alzheimer's Disease researcher at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine; Potamkin Prize recipient, 1989 [http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/information/pub/MayBdRep.pdf]
* Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963), physicist
* Jack Steinberger (1938), Nobel Prize winning physicist (who donated the medal to the science department) [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-autobio.html Jack Steinberger bio @nobelprize.org] ]

Writers and journalists

* Richard Cohen, contributing writer at "The New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", "Harper's", "GQ", "Rolling Stone", "Details", and other magazines
* Ann Compton (1965), ABC News reporter
* Walter Jacobson (1955), award-winning television news personality
* Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer
* Sarah Ruhl (1992), playwright
* John Stossel (1965), ABC News reporter
* Penelope Trunk (Adrienne Roston) (1985), author, blogger and Boston Globe reporter
* Scott Turow (1966), author and lawyer
* Brian Hewitt (1968), Golf Channel commentator
* Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), science fiction author
* Julia Allison (2000), newspaper columnist and regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, commentator on Fox News Channel

Newsmakers

* David Biro (attended until his arrest in 1990), murderer of Richard and Nancy Langert
* Laurie Dann (1976), perpetrator of a school shooting in Winnetka
* Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois
* Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, white supremacist spree killercite web
url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/06/impc.00.html
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title = True Believers; Hot Rocks; Breach of Faith
date = August 6, 2000, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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* Brad Will, anarchist, activist, and documentary filmmaker who was killed in Mexico

Others

* Ivan Albright, artist
* Bobbi Brown, internationally renowned make-up artist, author
* Craig Baumgarten (1967), producer
* Neal Edelstein, producer ("The Ring", "Mulholland Drive", "The Straight Story")
* Ari Emanuel, talent agent. Character Ari Gold of HBO's "Entourage" is based on Emanuel.
* Anna Halprin (Ann Shuman)(1938), modern dancer
* Stieg Hedlund (1983), video game designer ("Diablo", "Diablo II", "StarCraft")
* Mike Kelley (1985), creator and executive producer ("Swingtown"), writer ("The O.C.", "Jericho")
* Drew Lane, radio personality at WRIF in Detroit, Michigan
* Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality, Coast to Coast AM
* Rear Admiral Robert D. Reilly Jr., commander of the Military Sealift Command
* Mark Romanek (1977), music video and film director, writer, producer ("One Hour Photo")
* Walter Sorg (1966), radio personality at WILS in Lansing, Michigan
* Nancy Spero, artist,
* David Strassman, performer and ventriloquist
* Charlie Trotter (1977), Chicago chef
* Terence H. Winkless, producer, director, writer
* Ryan Zoghlin (1985), artist
* Edward Zwick (1970), director ("The Last Samurai", "Glory", "Courage Under Fire", "The Siege", "Blood Diamond"), co-creator, writer, producer ("Quarterlife")

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