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Occasionally, people ask about rowers/scullers/coaches who became
famous people. The following is an attempt to develop a list. If you can think of anyone to add, please send a message with name,
place rowed/sculled/coached and why they're widely known.
bmiller@rowinghistory.net
Dean Acheson (Secretary of State) rowed at Yale
Pierre deCourbertin (founded Modern Olympics)
Anita DeFranz (USOC/IOC) rowed at Conn. College
Charles Eliot (Harvard president) rowed at Harvard
Averill Harriman (statesman) rowed at Yale
Graham Hill (Formula One champion) stroked London RC VIII 1953
John Lehman (Secretary of the Navy)
George Mallory (1928 Mt. Everest Expedition) rowed at Magdalene College
William Middendorf (Secretary of the Navy) rowed at Harvard
Admiral Chester Nimitz, stroked Navy 1905
Gregory Peck (film star) rowed at Cal-Berkeley
Stanley Resor (Secretary of the Army) rowed at Yale
Teddy Roosevelt (U.S. President) sculled at Harvard
Leverett Saltonstall (Governor/US Senator of Massachusetts) rowed at Harvard
Capt. Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (astronaut) rowed at Navy
Dr. Benjamin Spock (baby MD/author) rowed at Yale-Gold Medal 1924
John L. Sullivan (boxer) sculler
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) rowed at Cambridge
Payne Whitney (investments) rowed at Yale
Dean Witter (investments) rowed at Cal-Berkeley
Hugh Laurie (actor/comedian) rowed at Eton/Cambridge/Henley RR/Jr. Worlds
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (Ruled Tonga 1967-2006) rowed at school
Edward Norton (actor) rowed at Yale
Richard Hillary (UK WWII pilot/hero, author) rowed at Oxford
Stephen Hawking (physicist) coxed at Oxford
Vincent L Price (actor) rowed freshman crew at Yale, Class of 1933
Anderson Cooper (news journalist) coxed at Yale
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