Phillips Academy Alumni have transcended the school’s motto non sibi and left an indelible mark on the world.
There are countless questions asked and answered at Phillips Academy, but few carry the weight of expectation as does the one posed to all students throughout their schooling: What will you do? It’s a tough one to answer at such a young age, but any Andover student wanting inspiration need look no further than the school’s extraordinary alumni, an ever-growing community of the great and the good who have made a difference in the wider world.
Reaching into every facet of life-from entertainment and the arts to business, industry, technology, government and public service, journalism, the military, science, medicine, and sport-graduates of Phillips Academy have taken the school’s non sibi motto and turned it into a clarion call for outstanding achievement.
Rebecca Dowling Adams ’94
Fighter jet pilot
Bill Belichick ’71
Coach of the New England Patriots
H.G. ‘Buzz’ Bissinger ’72
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
George H.W. Bush ’42
41st U.S. President
George W. Bush ’64
43rd U.S. President
Sarah Chayes ’80
Founded a food co-operative in Afghanistan
George Church ’72
Pioneer of human genetics
Bill Cunliffe ’74
Grammy Award winning composer
Dana Delany ’74
Actress
Christina Fink ’82
Human rights activist in Burma
Jeffrey Garten ’64
Dean of Yale School of Management
Chris Hughes ’02
Co-founder of Facebook
John F. Kennedy Jr. ’79
Publisher
William S. Knowles ’35
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jack Lemmon ’43
Actor
James P. McLane ’49
Olympian
Frank Stella ’54
Painter
Tachi Yamada ’63
President of the Global Health Program
Samuel Morse 1805
Inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1825
Poet and author
Frederick Law Olmsted 1838
Architect and designer of Central Park
Hiram Bingham 1894
Rediscovered ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru