89 Notable alumni of Trinity College

Henry Joel Scudder was a United States representative from New York.

William Shepperd Ashe was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a Democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina between 1849 and 1855.

Samuel Hart was an American Episcopal clergyman, classicist, and liturgical scholar.

Henry W. King was a Free Soil politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who served as Ohio Secretary of State 1850–1852.

William Woodruff Niles was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, United States, and served as such from 1870 until his death in 1914.

Steven Newsome was an American arts and museum administrator. Newsome grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He attended Trinity College, Hartford and Emory University. He is the former Chief of the Office of Cultural and Educational Services in the Division of History and Cultural Program at the Department of Housing and Community Development, in Annapolis, Maryland. He was Executive Director of...

Henry Titus Welles was a lawyer, businessman and Democratic politician who served as the first mayor of St. Anthony, Minnesota.

Harmon Sheldon Graves was an American college football player, coach, and lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University in 1893 and the United States Military Academy from 1894 to 1895, compiling a career head coaching record of 15–7. He coached the Pittsburgh Athletic Club football team late in the 1895 season. Graves played football as a...

Joseph Francis Ryter was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

George Abisha Woodward was a jurist and a colonel in the United States Army, who was made a brigadier general on the retired list in recognition of his military service between 1861 and 1879.

John Watrous Beckwith was the Second Bishop of Georgia. He was the 86th bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA).

Abner Jackson was an American minister and teacher and President of Hobart College in Geneva, New York from 1858 to 1867 and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1867 until his death, where he had originally studied and taught. At Trinity in the 1840s and 1850s he was Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. Whilst president of Hobart he was...

William G. Thomas III is an American historian. He is a Professor of History and the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research focuses on the Southeastern United States, including slavery, the American Civil War and the New South. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.

George Keith Funston was an American businessman who served as president of Trinity College, Hartford, from 1945 to 1951 and president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1951 to 1967.

Verner Warren Clapp was a librarian, writer, and polymath.

Joseph Mabbett Warren was a U.S. representative from New York.

George Rainsford Fairbanks was a lawyer, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Florida State Senator, president of Florida Fruit Growers Association and the Florida Fruit Exchange; editor of the Florida Mirror; the author of books on Florida history; and the founder and president of Florida Historical Society. He lived in Fernandina Beach. He is listed as a Great Floridian.

John Collins Covell was a 19th-century American educator and school administrator specializing in deaf education in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.

George A. Bachrach is the former president of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, having former careers as an American politician, attorney, and journalism professor at Boston University.

Clarence Denton "C. D." Tuska was an early radio experimenter and amateur operator, who also became one of the first radio receiver manufacturers. He is best known as the co-founder, along with Hiram Percy Maxim, of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). He was also the original editor and owner of the amateur radio publication QST, which he subsequently sold...

Alfred Harding was the second Episcopal Bishop of Washington. He was elected in 1909 to succeed Henry Yates Satterlee, the first bishop of the diocese (1896–1908). Harding was de facto dean of Washington National Cathedral from 1909 until 1916.

Brigadier General James Brailsford Erwin was a United States Army officer who served in the American Indian Wars, the Philippine–American War from 1899 to 1902, the Pancho Villa Expedition from 1915 to 1916 and briefly led the 6th Division towards the end of World War I in 1918.

Caroline Maria Hewins was an American librarian.

Isaac Edwin Crary was an American lawyer and politician. He was the first elected U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan. He served in the Michigan House of Representatives including as Speaker.

Sydney George Fisher was a United States lawyer and historian, and is best known for his work The True History of the American Revolution.

Percival Wood Clement was an American politician who served as the 57th governor of Vermont from 1919 to 1921.

Joseph Buffington was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Charles Collins Van Zandt was the 34th Governor of Rhode Island.

Michael A. Battle Sr. is an American diplomat, chaplain, and academic administrator who had served as United States ambassador to Tanzania. He previously served as ambassador to the African Union from 2009 to 2013.

Aaron Matthew Westbrooks is an Irish former professional basketball player. He played for the Irish Under 20 national team, and the senior national team.

Karen Ann Rubin is an entrepreneur. She joined HubSpot where she co-hosted HubSpot TV, and was entrepreneur-in-residence at Matrix Partners in 2013-2014. In 2014, she joined Quantopian as Vice President of Product Management. In 2015 she authored a study that shows that women-led companies perform better than average. She started her career in 2004 in investment banking.

Tom Santopietro is an American author and Broadway theater manager. He worked for 25 years in the New York theater scene, managing over 30 Broadway shows.

William Ross Cotter was an American politician from Connecticut. A Democratic, he served in the United States House of Representatives for Connecticut's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1981.

David Maitland Armstrong was Charge d'Affaires to the Papal States (1869), American Consul in Rome (1869–71), and Consul General in Rome (1871–73). He was also an important stained-glass artist and a painter.

William Gwinn Mather was an American industrialist.

Robert L. King is an American higher education leader and former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. He previously served as president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Other notable positions include having served Monroe County, New York Executive and as Chancellor of the State University of New York. On July 11, 2019, He...

Henry McBride was an American politician who served as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Washington from 1900 to 1901 and as the fourth governor of Washington from 1901 to 1905.

Dudley Buck was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books, most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence of the Organ in History, which was published in New York City in 1882.

Josiah Cleaveland Cady was an American architect known for his Romanesque Revival designs. He was also a founder of the American Institute of Architects.

Ernest de Koven Leffingwell was an arctic explorer, geologist and Spanish–American War veteran.

Kevin B. Anderson is an American sociologist, Marxist humanist, author, and professor. Anderson is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He was previously Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb and Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Women's Studies at Purdue University.

Thomas Joseph Meskill Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He previously served as the 82nd governor of Connecticut, as a United States representative from Connecticut, and as the mayor of New Britain, Connecticut. He is noted as having served in all three branches of government and at the...

Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D, L.H.D. was an American historian and professor at Yale University whose Colonial Period of American History, vol. 1 of 4, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1935. Among his other books are British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Johns Hopkins Press, 1908), co-author of the 1910 publication titled A bibliography...

John Henry Hobart Ward was an American soldier who fought in the Mexican–American War and in the American Civil War. Ward joined the army in 1842 and fought in multiple battles in the Mexican–American war, including the Battle of Monterrey, where he was wounded. After leaving the army, he served successively as the assistant commissary general and commissary general for...

Eduardo Alberto "Eddie" Perez is an American politician who served as the 65th mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, from 2001 to 2010. Prior to entering politics, Perez worked as a community organizer. Perez served as the first mayor who was also the CEO of the city, a setup known as a Strong Mayor.

Linda Wells is an American journalist and founder of Allure magazine and the makeup brand Flesh.

Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist who wrote on business and the economy in a column published twice weekly in The Washington Post. His tenure at the WaPo ended on March 3, 2021. Pearlstein received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity" at The Washington Post. In...

Varun Ram Ramasamy is an American basketball player who played for the Maryland Terrapins. He was one of the few players in the NCAA of Indian descent. Ram previously competed for Trinity College.

Jon Entine is an American science journalist. After working as a network news writer and producer for NBC News and ABC News, Entine moved into print journalism. Entine has written seven books and is a contributing columnist to newspapers and magazines. He is the founder and executive director of the science advocacy group the Genetic Literacy Project, and a former...

James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and as Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).

A. E. Douglass (July 5, 1867 in Windsor, Vermont – March 20, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle, and founded the discipline of dendrochronology, which is a method of dating wood by analyzing the growth ring pattern. He started his discoveries in this field in 1894 when...

Edward Miner Gallaudet, was the first president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. (then known as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind from 1864 until 1894 and then Gallaudet College from 1894 to 1986) from 1864 to 1910.

Thomas Doherty is an American publisher and the founder of the science fiction and fantasy book publisher Tor Books. He started as a salesman for Pocket Books and rose to be Division Sales Manager. From there, he went to Simon & Schuster as National Sales Manager, then became publisher of paperbacks at Grosset & Dunlap, including Tempo Books, in 1969....

Frank Francis Fasi was an American politician who was the longest-serving mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, serving for 22 years. He also served as a territorial senator and member of the Honolulu City Council. To date, he remains the last Republican mayor of Honolulu.

Jim Shepard is an American novelist and short story writer who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College.

Anna Benjamin David is an American publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality.

John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on St. Stephen's day, known as Boxing Day in the UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found...

Peter Alsop is an American musician whose work has ranged from satirical music for adults to children's music.

Thomas Langrell Harris was an American lawyer who was a soldier in the United States Army and U.S. representative from Illinois in the mid-19th century.

Matthew Browning Prince is an American billionaire businessman and executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$5.5 billion as of February 2025, Prince is the wealthiest person in Utah.

Samuel H. Kennedy is an American professional baseball executive who is the president and chief executive officer of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) and CEO of Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

Francisco Xavier Serbiá Queipo is a financial commentator, syndicated columnist, and was news anchor of CNN Dinero at CNN en Español, from 2010 to 2023. Serbiá is also a former member of the boy band Menudo.

Neil Patel is a British-American lawyer, hedge fund manager, conservative political advisor, and publisher. He is the co-founder and publisher of The Daily Caller.

Samuel Adams Wisner is an American rapper, singer and songwriter.

Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920) and was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. The following year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor...

Daniel Meyer is a New York City restaurateur and the founder and executive chairman of the Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG).

Christine Callaghan Quinn is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she formerly served as the Speaker of the New York City Council. She was the third person to hold this office. She was the first female Speaker. She was the first Speaker to be born in Glen Cove, New York. And she was the first openly lesbian...

Myron "Mike" Kellin was an American stage and screen actor. He won an Obie Award for his performance in the original Off-Broadway run of American Buffalo, and was nominated for a Tony Award for the Broadway musical Pipe Dream. He was also known for his starring role as Chief petty officer Willie Miller on the 1960s television sitcom The Wackiest...

Ariel Geltman Graynor is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Sopranos (2001), Fringe (2009–2010), Bad Teacher (2014), I'm Dying Up Here (2017), and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). In film, she has starred in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), The Sitter (2011), For a Good Time, Call......

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the...

Kelly Jean Killoren Bensimon is an American real estate agent, author, a former Editor of Elle Accessories, and a former model. She appeared as a full-time cast member on the Bravo television series The Real Housewives of New York City from seasons 2 to 4.

Rachel Ashley Platten is an American singer, songwriter, and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015. Platten is best known for her single "Fight Song", which peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, topped charts in the UK, and peaked within the top ten of multiple charts...

David Chang is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, podcaster, and television personality. He is the founder of the Momofuku restaurant group. In 2009, his restaurant Momofuku Ko was awarded two Michelin stars, which the restaurant retained each year until its closure in 2023. In 2011, he co-founded the food magazine Lucky Peach, which lasted for 25 quarterly volumes into...

Jesse Bailey Watters is an American conservative political commentator and television program host on the Fox News cable television network. He frequently appeared earlier in his media career on The O'Reilly Factor, the political talk show hosted by commentator/moderator Bill O'Reilly, and became recognized for his man-on-the-street interviews, featured in his segment there of "Watters' World", which, in 2015, eventually...

Mary McCormack is an American actress.

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American right-wing political activist and commentator who hosts Tucker on X and The Tucker Carlson Show. since 2023. He previously hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023 when his contract with Fox News was terminated. An advocate of President Donald Trump, Carlson has been described...

John Michael Farren is a former American lawyer who served as Deputy White House Counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President under the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009. Farren also served as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the United States Department of Commerce and head of the...

Richard Thomas Nolan was a canon of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut and a former college professor of philosophy and religious studies. He is the editor/coauthor of The Diaconate Now (Corpus-World, 1968), and coauthor of Living Issues In Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1995), Living Issues in Ethics (Wadsworth 1982 and iUniverse 2000), and Soul Mates: More than Partners...

Barbara Bailey Kennelly is an American politician. She is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.

George Frederick Will is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator. He writes columns for The Washington Post on a regular basis and provides commentary for NewsNation. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". Will won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

Isaac Nevett Steele was an American diplomat and lawyer who was "universally recognized for years as the leader of the Maryland Bar."

Jane Maria Swift is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served as the 69th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2003 and, concurrently, as acting governor from April 2001 to January 2003. She was the first woman to perform the duties of governor of Massachusetts. At the time she became acting governor, Swift was 36 years old, making...

Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen /ˈfreɪlɪŋˌhaɪsən/ is an American former politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1995 to 2019. The district includes most of Morris County, an affluent suburban county west of New York City. A member of the Republican Party, Frelinghuysen served as chair of the House Appropriations Committee from 2017...

Kevin Sullivan was the White House Communications Director, also known as the Assistant to the President for Communications, from July 24, 2006, until January 20, 2009. From April 2005 to July 2006 he was the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach at the United States Department of Education.

Paul Reid Johnson Calderon is an American writer, television personality, and socialite known for starring alongside Tinsley Mortimer in The CW's 2010 television series High Society.

James Ewing Mears, also J. Ewing Mears M.D., LL.D. was a surgeon and author. He was a pioneer in jaw and mouth surgeries. He was the first to propose the use of Gasserian ganglionectomy for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. He was the first surgeon in the United States to successfully perform a subcutaneous osteotomy for the relief of old...

Joseph Orlando Prewitt Díaz is a retired psychologist who specialized in psychosocial theory. He received the APA International Humanitarian Award from American Psychological Association