Illustrious Alumni

A Sampling of Bucks and Montgomery County Alumni
(To suggest other alumni for inclusion, please contact us)

Arts and Entertainment

Candace Allen – Miss District of Columbia USA 2006, Cheltenham
Brian Baker – Former Sprint Pitchman, William Tennent
Susan Bernheim Winston – Emmy Award-winning television producer, Cheltenham
Barbara Snedeker Bates – Editor & Author, Cheltenham
Allison Blackwell, Broadway Vocalist/Actress, Springfield Township
Michael Brecker – Grammy Award-winning Jazz artist, Cheltenham
Randy Brecker – Grammy Award-winning Jazz artist, Cheltenham
Andrew Bryniarski – Actor, North Penn
Steve Capus – Executive Editor of NBC News, William Tennent
Chris Collingwood – Lead Singer, Fountains of Wayne, Pennridge
Laurie Colwin – Author & Columnist, Cheltenham
James Farquhar – Civic Leader & Philanthropist, Cheltenham
Maggie Friedman – Producer, Screenwriter, Cheltenham
Jillian Parry Fry – 2000 Miss Teen USA, Council Rock North
Pamela Fryman – TV sitcom director, Harriton
Tom Fulp – Website and Flash Game Creator, Pennridge
Anthony Green – Lead Singer, Circa Survive, Council Rock North
Justin Guarini – 2002 American Idol Runner-Up, Central Bucks East
Werner Gundersheimer – Director, Folger Shakespeare Library, Cheltenham
Jon Hensley – Actor, Central Bucks West
Marshall Herskovitz – Producer/Director, Lower Merion
Donald Hunsberger, Composer and Conductor, Former Director of the Eastman School of Music, Souderton
Elizabeth Hur, Correspondent/Anchor, ABC News, Upper Dublin
Trina Schart Hyman – Artist & Illustrator, Cheltenham High School
Karen Folger Jacobs – Author, Screenwriter & Educator, Cheltenham
Aaron Jay Kernis – 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Music, Bensalem
Richard Kind – Actor, Pennsbury
Lewis Klein – Television Pioneer & Educator, Cheltenham
Suzy Kolber – ESPN Sunday Night Football Sideline Reporter, Upper Dublin
Maxine Winokur Kumin – Poet & Novelist, Cheltenham
Sky Lakota-Lynch, Broadway Actor currently in “Dear Evan Hansen,” North Penn
Richard Levinson – Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
William Link – Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
David Lu, Associate Principal Timpanist, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Upper Dublin
Mary Ellen Mark – Photojournalist, Cheltenham
Melanie Mayron – Emmy Award Winning Actress & Director, Wissahickon
Elizabeth Mencel (Rozes)- Singer/Performer, North Penn
Nancy Meyers – Hollywood Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Lower Merion
James A. Michener – Novelist, CB West (formerly Doylestown)
Alecia Beth Moore (Pink)- Singer/Performer, CB West
Annie Morton – International Model, Neshaminy
Andrew Neu, Jazz Musician and Arranger, Hatboro-Horsham
Anthony Nuccio, Actor Touring Company “Rock of Ages,” North Penn
John Oates – Member of Hall & Oates, North Penn
Donald Pike – Emmy Award-Winning Technical Manager, Cheltenham
Sarah Pribis, Broadway Actor, Wissahickon
Bernard Rothschild – Architect, Cheltenham
Jesse Ruben, Acoustic Singer/Songwriter, Lower Moreland
Bob Saget, Actor/Comedian, Abington
Lisa Salters – ESPN Sideline Reporter/Correspondent, Upper Merion
Roger Scott – Musician & Educator, Cheltenham
Lisa Scottoline – Author, Lower Merion
Stephen A. Schwartzman – Chair, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Abington
Chuck Sheetz – Emmy-Award-Winning Animator & Director, The Simpsons, Spring-Ford
Ann Shoket – Editor-In-Chief of Seventeen magazine, Pennsbury
Shwa – Singer/Songwriter, Council Rock North
Josh Singer – Emmy-Nominated Writer & Producer, Upper Dublin
Michael B. Sisak, III, Award-winning national journalist, The New York Times, Upper Dublin
Michael Smerconish – CNN Host, Author & Columnist, Central Bucks West
Kenny Solms – Television Writer & Producer, Cheltenham
Matt Spicer – Writer, Producer, Actor and Cinematographer, Upper Moreland
Jerry Spinelli – Children’s Author, Newberry Medal Winner, Norristown
Stefan Springman – TV Producer/Host, Central Bucks East
Melissa Stein – Poet, Upper Dublin
Jon Steinburg – TV Producer, Screenwriter, Cheltenham
Richard Suckle – Producer, Golden Globe Award Winner, Cheltenham
Stephen Susco – Screenwriter, Central Bucks East
John Tartaglia – Broadway Actor, Upper Dublin
Josh Tower – Broadway Actor, Upper Dublin
Kuhoo Verma, Hollywood Actor “The Big Sick,” North Penn
Mike Vogel – Actor, William Tennent
Katie Walder – Actress, Lower Moreland Township
Tom Warburton, Animator/Producer/Director/Writer/Designer, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, Upper Dublin
Liza Weil – Actress, North Penn
Kenya D. Williamson – Novelist, Screenwriter, Actress, Neshaminy
Steve Young – TV Writer, Author, Neshaminy

Business

Fred Allegrezza, Computer Technology Innovator/Inventor/Entrepreneur, Upper Dublin
Amar G. Bose, Chairman & Founder, Bose Corporation, Abington
William Eagleson, Jr. – Banking Executive, Cheltenham
David “West Coast Dave” Hershenson – Dotcom Entrepreneur, Pennsbury
Arthur Magill – Industrialist & Philanthropist, Cheltenham
Bill Mensch – Microprocessor Pioneer; Founder, Chairman & CEO Western Design Center, Pennridge
Greg Moyer – General Manager, VOOM HD Networks, North Penn
Michael Rubin – E-Commerce Entrepreneur, Colonial

Education

Jill Biden – Former Second Lady of the United States, English Professor, Upper Moreland
Michael Brown – Former Dean/Professor, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
JoAnne A. Epps, Executive Vice President and Provost/Professor of Law at Temple University, Cheltenham
Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer – Harvard University Administrator, Cheltenham
Jordan Hyatt, J.D., Ph.D., Nationally Recognized Scholar in Criminology, Upper Dublin
Craig Littlepage – College Administrator & Educator, Cheltenham
Perry Triplett – Local Historian, Cheltenham

Law and Government

Hon. R. Stephen Barrett, Esq – Judge, Springfield
Ashton Carter – Former U.S Secretary of Defense, Abington
Paul Clymer – Former Member, PA House of Representatives, Pennridge
Roy Cornell – Former PA State Representative, Hatboro-Horsham
Willard Curtin – Former Legislator, U.S. House of Representatives, Morrisville Borough
Madeleine Dean, U.S. Representative, Abington
Andrew Egendorf – Attorney & Entrepreneur, Cheltenham
Risa Vetri Ferman, Judge Montco Court of Common Pleas, Abington
Fred Fielding – Former White House Counsel, Central Bucks West
Glenn A. Fine – Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Cheltenham
Wilmot E. Fleming – State Senator, Cheltenham
Jon D. Fox – Former U.S. Congressman, Cheltenham
James C. Greenwood – Former U.S. Congressman, Council Rock North
Jill Kelley – Key Figure, FBI Investigation, Lower Moreland
Rep. Ro Khanna, Academic/Lawyer/Politician, Council Rock
Edwin Kneedler – Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, North Penn
Richard S. Lowe – Judge, Cheltenham
John Lynch, J.D., Former Major, U.S. Army Rangers, Upper Dublin
Robert J. Myers – Social Security Expert, Cheltenham
Jonathan Netanyahu – Officer, Israeli Defense Forces, Cheltenham
Valerie Plame – Former CIA Officer; Wife of Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Lower Moreland
Norma Levy Shapiro – Former Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Cheltenham
Ronald Shapiro – Attorney, Cheltenham
Christopher Stamper, D.P.A., Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired/Aviator/Instructor, Joint Warfighting Department at Air Command Staff College, Upper Dublin
Todd Stephens – PA State Representative, Hatboro-Horsham
Omar Toor – Largest Private Firm, Pennsbury
Kurt Volker – Former Permanent U.S. Ambassador, NATO, Hatboro-Horsham
William Yarnall, III, Chief Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Strategic Airlift Maintenance Supt./Air Bases worldwide, Upper Dublin

Science and Medicine

Steven Altschuler – M.D., Former President & CEO, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Lower Merion
Michael S. Brown, MD – 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Cheltenham
Sherwood Chang – Space Scientist & Natural Historian, Cheltenham
Denis A. Cortese, MD – Emeritus Presidentand CEO of the Mayo Clinic, Cheltenham
Nancy Guest Cummings, MD – Physician, Cheltenham
Winnifred Berg Cutler – Biologist & Author, Cheltenham
Thomas Doyle, M.D., Pediatric Cardiologist/Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Children’s Hospital — Vanderbilt University, Upper Dublin
Peter S. Eagleson, ScD – Scientist & Educator, Cheltenham
David Eskin, MD – Former Chief of Staff, Abington Memorial Hospital, Cheltenham
James Hay, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Family Physician, Past President – California Medical Association, Upper Dublin
Doris Retinger Helms – Biologist & Educator, Cheltenham
George Krauss – Engineer & Educator, Cheltenham
Horace MacVaugh, III, MD – Naval Surgeon & Educator, Cheltenham
Margaret Mead – Anthropologist, CB West (formerly Doylestown)
Dr. Thomas Rosko – Director of Psychosomatic Medicine in
the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Wissahickon
Richard Rothman – Surgeon, Founder of the Rothman Institute, Cheltenham
David Saxon – Physicist, Educator & Administrator, Cheltenham
Kathy Shaw, M.D., M.S.C.E., Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician/Endowed Chair, Emergency Medicine — Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/Professor and Associate Chair, Pediatrics — University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Upper Dublin
Robert C. Solomon, PhD – Author & Educator, Cheltenham

Sports

Josh Adams, Philadelphia Eagles Running Back, Central Bucks South
Chris Bahr – Former NFL Placekicker, Cincinnati Bengals; Soccer Midfielder, Philadelphia Atoms, Neshaminy
Matt Bahr – Former NFL Placekicker, Super Bowl Champ, Pittsburgh Steelers, Neshaminy
Len Barker – Former MLB Pitcher, Texas Rangers, Neshaminy
Steve Bono – Former Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl champion (XXIV); Pro Bowl selection (1995); AFC Player of the Year (1995); Norristown Area
Adele Boyd – Athlete, Coach & Official, Cheltenham
Kobe Bryant – Former NBA Player, Los Angeles Lakers, Lower Merion
Matt Carroll – Former NBA Player, Charlotte Bobcats, Hatboro-Horsham
Jay Caufield – Former NHL Right-Winger, Pittsburgh Penguins, North Penn
Kermit Cintron – Former Boxer, William Tennent
Frank Coonelly – President, Pittsburgh Pirates, Centennial School District
Rob Cragg – 1976 USA Olympic Diving Team, Upper Dublin
Joe Daley – Professional Golfer, Colonial
Susan Francia – Olympic Rower, Abington
Steve Frey – Former Professional Baseball Player, William Tennent
Kim Gallagher – U.S. Track Olympian, Upper Dublin
Eddie George – Former NFL All-Pro Running Back, Abington
Scott Green – Former NFL Referee, Central Bucks West
Bob Grupp – Former NFL Punter, Kansas City Chiefs, Neshaminy
Donald Haldeman – 1976 Summer Olympics Trapshooting Gold Medalist, Souderton
Dick Hart – Former NFL Guard, Philadelphia Eagles, Morrisville Borough
Al Holbert – American Automobile Racing Driver, Central Bucks West
Sam Hollenbach – Former NFL Quarterback, Washington Redskins, Pennridge
Reggie Jackson – Former Right-Fielder, Cheltenham
Tommy Lasorda, MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher and Manager, Norristown
Tim Lewis – Former NFL Cornerback, Green Bay Packers, Assistant Coach for the Atlanta Falcons, Pennridge
Will Lewis – Former NFL Cornerback, Director of College Scouting, Kansas City Chiefs, Pennridge
John C. McHugh – Former Head Wrestling Coach, U. of Maryland (College Park), Cheltenham
Brandon McManus, NFL Kicker, 2016 Superbowl Champion Denver Broncos, North Penn
Tom Mitchell – Former NFL Tight End, San Francisco 49ers, Colonial
Jamie Moyer – Former Pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies, Souderton
Danny Napoleon – Former MLB Left Fielder, NY Mets, Morrisville Borough
Mike Pettine – Defensive Coordinator, Green Bay Packers, Central Bucks West
Virginia Redford – Athlete, Coach & Educator, Cheltenham
Louis Riddick – Former NFL Safety, San Francisco 49ers, Pennridge
Robb Riddick – Former NFL Running Back, Buffalo Bills, Pennridge
Harry Schuh – Former NFL Offensive Tackle, Oakland Raiders
Bryan Scott – Former NFL Player, Buffalo Bills, Central Bucks East
Mike Senica – NASCAR Driver, Professional Wrestler, Central Bucks West
Steve Shull – Former NFL Linebacker, Miami Dolphins, Neshaminy
Scott Stankavage – Former NFL Quarterback, Denver Broncos, Central Bucks East
Michael Stiles – Former Senior Vice President, Philadelphia Phillies, Upper Dublin
Wallace Triplett – Former NFL Halfback, Cheltenham
Troy Vincent – Former NFL Defensive Back, Pennsbury
Shawn Wooden – Former NFL Free Safety, Abington
Jay Wright- Head Basketball Coach, Villanova University, Council Rock