1. Conrad Hilton
Born in New Mexico, Conrad Hilton attended the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico, and went on to found one of the world’s largest hotel chains – Hilton Hotels. His start in the lodging business began at home, however, when he helped his father turn their house by the railroad tracks into an inn for salesmen; renting out rooms at $2.50 per night. Later, he bought hotels in Texas and then expanded into California, New York, Illinois and beyond.
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2. John Kerry
The current Senator from Massachusetts spent many of his younger days at boarding schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He first attended the Fessenden School and then high school at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. At St. Paul’s he became interested in politics and worked hard at improving his public speaking skills. From there he went on to Yale and had his first opportunity to rub elbows with the Kennedys. He eventually worked on JFK’s campaign before initiating his own political career in Massachusetts. But he is perhaps best known for his 2004 bid for the presidency, which he lost against incumbent George Bush.
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3. Liz Claiborne
Born in Belgium to a prominent Louisiana family, Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne moved back to Louisiana at a young age and attended St. Timothy’s boarding school in Stevenson, Maryland, before heading off to Europe to study art. Her father did not believe she needed formal education so she did not attend college. She won the Jacques Heim National Design Contest in 1949 and moved to New York City to work for a number of clothiers as a sketch artist. Frustrated at the companies’ inability to design for women, she started her own company in 1976. It made the Fortune 500 in 1986 with $1.2 billion in sales. Claiborne retired from the company in 1989 and passed away in 2007 from a rare form of cancer.
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4. Matthew Perry
Born in Williamstown, Mass., but raised in Canada, Matthew Perry attended private day and boarding school Ashbury College in Ottawa, Ontario. His interest in acting was sparked in seventh grade and at 15 he moved to Los Angeles to live with his father, John Bennett Perry, also an actor. A nationally-ranked Canadian junior tennis player, Perry planned to enroll at the University of Southern California but changed plans when he was offered a role on “Boys Will Be Boys.” He is most famous for his role as Chandler Bing on the TV show, “Friends,” which ran from 1994 to 2004.
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5. Owen Wilson
Best known as a movie actor, Owen Wilson is the oldest of the three Wilson brothers, including Andrew and Luke, both of whom are also actors. Raised in Texas, Wilson was kicked out of St. Mark’s Academy in Dallas and ultimately finished high school at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico. He went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he met his friend and mentor, Wes Anderson. Wilson and Anderson have written several screenplays together, although he is better known for the big budget movies he has starred in, including You, Me and DuPree, The Wedding Crashers and Night at the Museum.
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6. Natalie Cole
The daughter of famed crooner Nat “King” Cole, Natalie was raised in Los Angeles but attended high school on the East Coast, at Northfield Mount Hermon boarding school in Mount Hermon, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she had her start as a singer at a local club named The Pub. She caught the attention of two R&B producers who helped her release her own album. She earned a Grammy award in 1975 followed by several more vocal awards. Although Cole worked hard to develop her own musical style, it was her 1991 duet with her father that brought her the most commercial success.
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7. Roger Staubach
Roger Staubach is perhaps best known for being a Dallas Cowboys quarterback, but his football career started back in high school. After graduating from a Catholic high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, Staubach spent a post-high school year at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico, and then went on to play at the United States Naval Academy. It was there that he demonstrated considerable skill on the field. For his skills and success, he was awarded the Heisman Trophy and was later drafted by the Dallas Cowboys, where he played from 1969 to 1979. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame and is on ESPN’s list of the Top 25 Football Players in College Football History.
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8. Oliver Platt
The son of a diplomat, actor Oliver Platt spent much of his early years hopping between Asia, the Middle East and Washington, DC. He attended the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado, and then went on to Tufts University, in Boston. He had been bitten by the acting bug at age nine, thanks to having seen a riveting performance by Morgan Freeman at the Kennedy Center, and ended up staying in Boston after college, performing in local theatre. He then headed to New York City, got an agent and began performing at the Punch Line Theatre, where acquaintance Bill Murray saw him and recommended him for a part in Married to the Mob. Since then, Platt’s star has risen and he has become well known for playing quirky parts on TV and in movies.
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9. Bode Miller
Bode Miller grew up in the White Mountains of eastern New Hampshire without running water or electricity, picking up his first set of skis at the age of three. By 11, he was competing and later attended Carrabassett Valley Academy Ski and Snowboard School, Carrabassett Valley, Maine, to hone his skills. He was a state champion in tennis but was a true competitor on the slopes. He earned a spot on the 1996 U.S. Ski Team and came back from Salt Lake City in 2002 with two silver medals. The next year he medaled at the World Championships and in 2005 won the overall World Cup title. In 2010 he became the most decorated Alpine skier ever after medaling at the Olympics. That same year he signed a four-year contract with the U.S. Ski Team, so expect to see him again in the 2014 Olympics.
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10. Kara DioGuardi
Kara DioGuardi grew up in New Rochelle, New York and after graduating from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, headed to Duke University, where she enrolled in the school’s opera program. However, halfway through her degree, DioGuardi switched to a pre-law major and ultimately graduated with a degree in political science. Following graduation she didn’t go to law school, but instead took a job as an assistant to the editor-in-chief of Billboard magazine, where she could continue to learn more about the music world. She continued to work on her solo career and had a break-through when she handed Paula Abdul a demo of her work and was subsequently flown out to Los Angeles to work with her. She became a successful songwriter and was most recently the fourth judge on the eighth season of American Idol.
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11. John F. Kennedy
While most Americans remember John F. Kennedy as our 35th president, few know that he is also the only president to ever win a Pulitzer prize. His book, Profiles in Courage, earned him that honor, in the history category. His journalism training began in childhood, thanks to top-notch schooling in the Boston area and at boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. He later graduated from Harvard, served in the Navy and then entered politics by being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for his home state of Massachusetts. He went on to become a Senator and then president, before being assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. During his tenure he established the Peace Corps, faced and resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis, created the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and forged ahead with the U.S. Space program.
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12. Seth Wescott
The snowboard cross Olympic champion was born in North Carolina but headed north, to Carrabassett Valley, Maine, to the Carrabassett Valley Academy, for high school. His early love of skiing and then snowboarding gave him a headstart when snowboard cross became an Olympic sport. He was the first snowboarder to win a medal in that event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Since 2000, Wescott has won four national championships and seven medals in the snowboard cross at the X Games. He again won gold in the snowboard cross at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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13. Wayne Rogers
Before being cast as Trapper John in the hit TV series M*A*S*H, Wayne Rogers had grown up in Birmingham, Alabama, attended The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, graduated from Princeton and served in the Navy. After some smaller parts in several TV shows, he planned to audition for the role of Hawkeye Pierce but decided Trapper John was less cynical and more likeable. He got the part but left after only three seasons as he saw his character’s importance on the show diminishing in the shadow of the popular Alan Alda. He also had a problem with the show’s morals clause, which gave them the opportunity to fire him if he ever did anything objectionable. Later, he admitted that if he had known that show would last 11 seasons, he would have stuck with it longer. In addition to being an actor, director, screenwriter and TV star, Rogers is a well-know investor and stocks analyst to Fox News.
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14. Vince McMahon
While many successful people will point to boarding school as the place that shaped them, Vince McMahon may be one of the first students to shape the school he attended – Fishburne Military Academy in Waynesboro, Virginia. He was the first student in the school’s history to be court-martialed, almost. Fortunately, he was permitted to graduate and went on to East Carolina College before following in his father’s footsteps – whom he did not meet until he was 12 - and entering the wrestling entertainment industry. He proved himself to his father and took over the business in 1982. Since then the popularity of wrestling entertainment has skyrocketed into a multibillion dollar industry. Today he is chairman of the World Wrestling Federation and a character in his own right.
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15. Donald Trump
The product of the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, real estate mogul and investor Donald Trump grew up in Queens and later attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. On graduating, he joined his father’s real estate investment company, the Trump Organization and began specializing in middle-class rental property in the metro New York Area, just like his father. After some large successes, Trump turned his attention to larger, more visible projects in Manhattan. He built his fortune based on major real estate projects, hit some tough times and was forced to file bankruptcy, but fought his way back. Today he is perhaps most associated with his TV show, The Apprentice.
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16. George Walker Bush
Like his father, the 41st president of the United States, George Walker Bush, the 43rd president, graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. From there he attended Yale University, was commissioned into the Texas Air National Guard and then earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. After helping his father become elected president, former president Bush ran for governor of Texas and won, setting the stage for his 2000 run for the presidency. He subsequently won and served two terms as president.
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17. Steve Carrell
One of today’s funniest men grew up in Concord, Massachusetts and attended Middlesex School, a private boarding school, also in Concord. After graduating from Denison University in Ohio, he took acting classes with Chicago’s Second City troupe. He performed with the Second City crew and began earning guest spots on TV shows, such as Jon Stewart’s Daily Show as a correspondent. His breakout performance was opposite Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty, which led to a part in the movie version of Bewitched and his own screenplay, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. He has won awards for his role as Michael Scott on The Office, but his future seems to be on the big screen.
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18. Glenn Close
You might be surprised to know that although Glenn Close is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, she spent 15 of her formative years as part of a cult that her parents had joined. When she broke away and entered traditional educational institutions, such as Choate and then the College of William and Mary, she began to study the theatre seriously. She is perhaps best known for her role as Alex in the movie Fatal Attraction, but Close’s body of work goes far beyond the silver screen. She has played roles on TV as well as on Broadway and off-Broadway, for which she has won numerous awards. She has won three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for an Oscar five times.
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19. King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, King of Jordan
The eldest son of the late King Hussein, King Abdullah was educated at schools in both England and the U.S., including Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Upon graduation, King Abdullah headed to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then spent a year at Oxford University. After serving in the Royal Jordanian Air Force, King Abdullah entered Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He continued his military career, earning the rank of Major General in 1998. He assumed the throne on the death of his father, in 1999.
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20. Jane Fonda
The daughter of actor Peter Fonda, Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda was perhaps destined to follow in his footsteps. But her early life was spent as a model and dancer while studying at Emma Willard in Troy, New York. She went on to graduate from Vassar College and then went to Paris to study art. On her return, she went to the Actor’s Studio and was told she had real talent – something no one had ever told her. Encouraged, she began pursuing an acting career in earnest. The winner of two Academy Awards, Fonda is best known for her role in campy Barbarella. Later in her career, however, she earned kudos for her performances in Klute and Coming Home. Her acting success has been overshadowed in some respects by her vocal opposition to the Vietnam War and her later foray into exercise videos. Her strong performance in Strange Interlude in 2009, on Broadway, has caught the attention of critics and earned her a Tony nomination.
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