• John Adams, 1775
    • Attended First Continental Congress; Signed Declaration of Independence; First US Vice President, 1789; Second US President, 1796
  • John Quincy Adams, 1788
    • US Senator; Secretary of State under President James Monroe; Sixth US President, 1825-1829; US Representative
  • Phillips Brooks, 1855
    • Clergyman; lyricist of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”; namesake of Phillips Brooks House Associtation
    • Performed in the Pudding; It is rumored that he was cast for his height (he was around 6 foot 3)
  • Henry Hobson Richardson, 1859
    • Architect; designed Trinity Church, First Baptist Chruch, and Sever Hall amongst others; invented Richardson Romanesque style
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861
    • Served on the US Supreme Court for 30 years; Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
    • Performed in three Pudding productions, including 1860’s Raising the Wind
  • Robert Todd Lincoln, 1864
    • Two-time Secretary of War (under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur) and US Ambassador to the Court of St. James (under President Benjamin Harrison)
    • Vice President of HPC and Member of HPT
  • Charles Follen McKim, 1867
    • Architect and Founder of McKim, Mead, and White responsible for the Boston Public Library and Penn Station amongst others
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, 1872
    • Massachusetts Senator; US Senate majority leader; Best known for his battles with President Woodrow Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles; Successfully prevented the US entry to the League of Nations
    • Performed in and wrote Pudding shows
  • Edmund March Wheelwright, 1876
    • City Architect of Boston; Architect of the Longfelllow Bridge and the Harvard Lampoon Castle, among other projects
    • Performed in the Pudding and was Artist
  • Francis Attwood, 1880 (did not graduate)
    • Artist/cartoonist for Cosmopolitan and Life Magazine
    • Artist for the Pudding, designed sets and props
  • Theodore Roosevelt, 1880
    • 26th President of the United States
    • Secretary; referred to the then-dingy theater space as “the shed”.
  • Owen Wister, 1882
    • Author. Wrote The Virginian, effectively inventing the Western genre as we know it. Dedicated it to Teddy Roosevelt
    • Wrote 1882’s Dido and Aeneas, which brought the Pudding widespread acclaim and was the impetus to build 12 Holyoke St.
  • William Randolph Hearst, 1885 (did not graduate)
    • Newspaper, publishing and business magnate; Publisher of The San Francisco Examiner and The New York Journal; US Representative
    • Played a character named Pretzel; was expelled from Harvard after presenting his teachers with chamber pots instead of pudding pots, was expunged from all Harvard records
  • George Santayana, 1886
    • Famous man-of-letters and historian: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” and “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    • Played Lady Elfrida in 1885’s Robin Hood
  • JP Morgan, Jr., 1886
    • Helped to rescue the America economy during the Banking Panic of 1907; Prominent financier and investment banker
    • Business manager for 1889’s The Duenna; Ironically, given his later financial successes, nearly bankrupted the Pudding while he was the manager
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1904
    • 32nd President of the United States; New York State Senator; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; New York Governor
    • Played a chorus girl in HPT 59:Catnippers; Treasurer
  • Harry Elkins Widener, 1907
    • Book Collector; Died on the Titanic; Mother donated Widener Library in his memory
    • Performed in HPT 63: The Lotus-Eaters
  • John S. Reed, 1910
    • Journalist and prominent member of the American Communist Labor Party; Best known for his first hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. Buried in the Kremlin Necropolis
    • Wrote the lyrics for HPT 66: Diana’s Debut
  • Robert Benchley, 1912-1913
    • Columnist for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair; Algonquin Round Table member; Academy Award winner for his short film How to Sleep; appearances in many other films
    • Cast member in HPT 67: The Crystal Gazer and HPT 68: Below Zero
  • Robert Sherwood, 1918
    • Playwright, editor, screenwriter; Algonquin Round Table member; Sat on the board of Vanity Fair with Robert Benchley; wrote many notable American plays, including The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946 Academy Award for Best Screenplay
    • Wrote HPT 74: Barnum Was Right
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1924
    • United States Senator from Massachusetts; US Ambassador to United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See
    • Lyricist for HPT 77: Take A Brace
  • Alistair Cooke, 1932
    • American and British radio and television personality; host of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS for 22 seasons; Foreign correspondent for the London Times; Hosted Letter from America on BBC for fifty five years
    • Directed HPT 88: Hades, the Ladies
  • Archibald Cox, 1934
    • Law professor; Served as the US Solicitor General under President Kennedy; first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal; Journal of Legal Studies “Most cited legal scholars of the 20th century”
    • Assistant Manager HPT 87: Step Lively
  • John F. Kennedy, 1940
    • 35th US President; US Senator; US Representative
    • Active Member in the Hasty Pudding Club
  • Alan Jay Lerner, 1940
    • Won three Tony Awards and three Oscars for his work as a librettist, which included writing the book for movies Gigi, My Fair Lady, and An American in Paris; With fellow Harvard grad (and honorary Krok) Leonard Bernstein, wrote Lonely Men of Harvard
    • Wrote and participated in HPT 92: So Proudly We Hail and HPT 93: Fair Enough; often played pool with JFK in Farkas Hall
  • Jack Lemmon, 1947
    • Actor in more than 60 films, including Some Like It Hot and The Odd Couple; received two Academy Awards 
    • First performed in drag in HPT: 97 Proof of the Pudding; President of the Pudding in 1947; Man of the Year in 1973
  • George Plimpton, 1948-1950
    • Sports writer for Sports Illustrated; known for co-founding and editing The Paris Review; Author of Paper Lion, among other books; has made cameo appearances in many shows and films
    • Performed in the Pudding
  • Fred Gwynne, 1951
    • Acted in sitcoms like Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters; Known for his role as Judge Chamberlain Haller in My Cousin Vinny
    • Played Pablo in HPT 101: Tomorrow is Manaña and the Sheriff in HPT 102: Heart of Gold
  • Ted Kennedy, 1956
    • United States Senator from MA; Lion of the Senate
    • Active Hasty Pudding Club member
  • Erich Segal, 1958
    • Wrote both novel and screenplay version of Love Story
    • Wrote HPT 110: The Big Fizz
  • Stockard Channing, 1965
    • Three-time Emmy and one-time Tony award winning actress; played Betty Rizzo in Grease film and First Lady Abby Bartlet in The West Wing
    • Tech member in HPT 116: William Had The Words; got her last name from marrying Pudding Member, Walter Channing
  • William Weld, 1966
    • 68th Governor of Massachusetts; Federal prosecutor in the US Justice Department
    • Performed in the cast of HPT 116, 117, and 118; Cast VP in 1966
  • Doug Kenney, 1968
    • Co-founder of the National Lampoon; wrote Animal House and Caddyshack
    • Performed in HPT 118: Right Up Your Alley and HPT 119: A Hit And A Myth
  • Mark O’Donnell, 1976
    • Along with Thomas Meehan, received the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Hairspray; Again with Meehan, wrote the 2007 film adaptation for Hairspray
    • Writer and librettist for three Pudding productions
  • Grover Norquist, 1978
    • Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform
    • Production Assistant for HPT 128: Tots in Tinsletown
  • Deval Patrick, 1978
    • 71st Governor of Massachusetts
    • Active Member of the Hasty Pudding Club
  • Charlie Baker, 1979
    • 72nd Governor of Massachusetts; CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
    • Active Member of the Hasty Pudding Club
  • Paris Barclay, 1979
    • First African-American and openly gay President of the Directors Guild of America; Directed music videos for stars like Janet Jackson, LL Cool Jay, and Bob Dylan; Directed over 120 episodes for major television shows like Glee, The West Wing, and Lost; Earned two Emmy Awards for NYPD Blue; Executive producer of FX’s highest rated series ever, Sons of Anarchy
    • Wrote the music for HPT 129: Cardinal Knowledge and HPT 131: Overtures in Asia Minor
  • Phil Murphy, 1979
    • 56th Governor of New Jersey; U.S. Ambassador to Germany
    • President of HPT 131: Overtures in Asia Minor; Cast VP of HPT 130: A Thousand Clones; four year cast member as Jeanette Tickdrift in HPT 128: Tots in Tinseltown, Reston Peace in HPT 129: Cardinal Knowledge, Xylo Phone in HPT 130: A Thousand Clones, and Carson O’Genick in HPT 131: Overtures in Asia Minor
  • Andy Borowitz, 1980
    • Creator of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; Co-produced Pleasantville; Creator of The Borowitz Report, a satire news website; New York Times bestselling author; first recipient of the National Press Club award for humor; Contributing writer for The New Yorker, The Borowitz Report
    • Wrote HPT 130: A Thousand Clones
  • Dean Norris, 1985
    • Actor with numerous roles, most notably as Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad
    • Performed in HPT 135: Of Mines and Men; video here
  • Paul Felix, 1987
    • Walt Disney animator and visual development designer for Mulan, Tarzan, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Brother Bear, among others; Production designer for Lilo and Stitch; Art director for Bolt
    • Artist for the HPT 138: Between the Sheiks
  • Peter Sagal, 1987
    • Playwright and host of the NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
    • Cast member in HPT 137 and HPT 138; co-author of HPT 138: Between the Sheiks
  • Larry O’Keefe, 1991
    • Composer and lyricist for Bat Boy: The Musical; Sarah, Plain and Tall; and Legally Blonde: The Musical; and Heathers: The Musical
    • Performed in HPT 140 and HPT 143 shows; Composed HPT 142 and HPT 143 (book by Mo Rocca); Co-authored HPT 145 with Nell Benjamin and Mark O’Keefe
  • Mo Rocca, 1991
    • Was a regular contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and NBC’s The Tonight Show and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann; Specializes in political satire; Currently featured on CBS News Sunday Morning and My Grandmother’s Raviloli 
    • President of HPT in 1990; Authored HPT 142: Suede Expectations; Performed in HPT 140, 141, 142, and 143
  • Nell Benjamin, 1993
    • Co-wrote Cam Jansen; Sarah, Plain and Tall; and Legally Blonde: The Musical; wrote The Explorers Club
    • Co-wrote HPT 145: Romancing the Throne with the O’Keefe brothers; on Tech Crew for HPT 143, 144, and 145
  • David Javerbaum, 1993
    • Former Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; Recipient of 11 Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and Television Critics Association Awards for Best Comedy and Best News Show; co-author/producer for America (The Book) and Earth (The Book). Last Testament of God.
    • Lyricist and co-author for HPT 144: Up Your Ante and HPT 146: A Forum Affair
  • Mark O’Keefe, 1993
    • Screenwriter for Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty and Click 
    • Co-authored HPT 145: Romancing the Throne with brother Larry and Nell Benjamin
  • Rashida Jones, 1997
    • Actress in Boston Public, The Office, I Love You, Man, The Social Network, and Parks and Recreation, among other shows and movie
    • Co-composed the score for HPT 149: Me and My Galaxy; Businees Staff member HPT 147 and HPT 149
  • BJ Novak, 2001
    • Actor and writer for The Office. Appeared in Inglorious Basterds. Author.
    • Active Member of Hasty Pudding Club
  • Megan Amram, 2010
    • Author; writer for Parks and Recreation, Science…For Her.
    • Co-writer of HPT 161: Acropolis Now and HPT 162: Commie Dearest with Alexandra Petri (‘10) as part of the Pudding’s first all-female writing team