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Notable Alumni

Horace Mann • Wendy Carlos • Kevin Young • Lynn Nottage • Richard Fleischer • Samuel Gridley Howe • Lois Lowry • Ted Chiang • Charles Evans Hughes • Ottessa Moshfegh • Marilynne Robinson • John Krasinski • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • André Leon Talley • Emma Watson • Curtis Yarvin • Todd Haynes • Jeffrey Eugenides • Taryn Simon • Guido Imbens • Laura Linney • Maggie Hassan • Ken Starr • Janet Yellen • Ira Glass • Aga Khan V • Jessica Meir • Edwidge Danticat • Cecile Richards • Jim Yong Kim • Chloe Malle • Douglas Diamond • John Bates Clark • John D. Rockefeller, Jr. • Stephen L. Buchwald • Nicanor Parra • Rudolph Fisher • Fritz Pollard • John Davis Pierce • Thomas J. Watson, Jr. • John Hope • Abby Lillian Marlatt • Mary Emma Woolley • Richard Kostelanetz • Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth

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