List of New Trier High School alumni
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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 include:
Actors and actresses
- Ann-Margret (1959), actress
- Adam Baldwin (c. 1980), actor
- Ralph Bellamy (1922), actor
- Carlos Bernard (1966), 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), actress and singer
- Charlton Heston (1941), actor, former president of the National Rifle Association
- Rock Hudson (1944), actor
- Virginia Madsen (1979), actress, starred in 2004's Sideways
- Hugh O'Brian (1941), actor
- Liesel Pritzker (aka Liesel Matthews) (2002), child actress, sued family for one billion dollars
- Charlotte Ross, actress (NYPD Blue, Days of Our Lives)
- Mary Kate Schellhardt (1997), child actress (Free Willy 2, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Apollo 13)
- Hal Sparks (1988), actor/comedian
- Lili Taylor (1985), actress
- Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1983), actor (The Hudsucker Proxy, Singles, Fat Man and Little Boy, currently acting in a recurring role in HBO's The Wire)
- Rainn Wilson, actor, Dwight Schrute in NBC's The Office
Businesspeople
- Christie Hefner (1970), CEO of Playboy Enterprises
- Mark Hogan (1969), President of Magna International
- Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., chairman emeritus of ACNielsen
- Alex Zoghlin (dropped out in 1988), software entrepreneur, was the first employee and CTO of Orbitz (2000-2003)
Musicians
- Scott Bennett (1983), musician currently in the Brian Wilson band
- Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter
- Al Jourgensen (attended in the mid sixties), musician
- Liz Phair (1985), singer
- Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist for Fall Out Boy
- Matt Walker, rock musician and former drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins
- Pete Wentz (attended from 1993-1994), bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy
- Dave Samuels (1966) jazz vibraphonist of Spyro Gyra, The Caribbean Jazz Project
- David Goldblatt (1977) jazz pianist, member of of Mark Isham's studio band. Wrote soundtrack for the Jodie Foster movie, "Little Man Tate".
Politicians and government officials
- 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), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1975-1977, 2001-present)
- Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois
Sports figures
- Michael Alter, co-founder and co-owner of the Chicago Sky
- Ben Braun (1971), head men's basketball coach at the University of California
- Pete Burnside (1948), Major League Baseball player (1955-1963)
- Rick Hahn, assistant general manager of the Chicago White Sox
- Mike Huff (1981), Major League Baseball player (1989-1996, L.A. Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, and Chicago White Sox)
- Clay Matthews (1974), pro football player (Cleveland Browns 1978-1993, played in several Pro Bowls)
- Mike Pyle (1957), pro football player (Chicago Bears 1961-1969, played in the 1963 Pro Bowl)
Scientists
- Michael Peskin (1969), physicist
- Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D. (1961), prominent Alzheimer's Disease researcher at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine
- Jack Steinberger (1938), Nobel Prize winning physicist (who donated the medal to the science department)
Writers and journalists
- Richard Cohen, contributing writer at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, GQ, Rolling Stone, Details, and other magazines, wrote a book about New Trier and living in Glencoe
- Ann Compton (1965), ABC News reporter
- Walter Jacobson (1955), award-winning television newsperson
- Scott Turow (1966), author and lawyer
Others
- Ivan Albright, artist
- Bobbi Brown, internationally renowned make-up artist, author
- Stieg Hedlund (1983), video game designer (Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft)
- Mark Romanek (1977), music video and film director, writer, producer (One Hour Photo)
- Charlie Trotter (1977), Chicago chef
- Edward Zwick (1970), director (The Last Samurai, Glory, Courage Under Fire, The Siege)