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New Trier High School is a public four-year high school located in Winnetka, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. A number of former New Trier students have become notable in their own right.

Notable alumni of New Trier High School (including the former New Trier East and New Trier West high schools) include:

Contents 1 Actors 2 Businesspeople 3 Musicians 4 Politicians and government officials 5 Sports figures 6 Scientists 7 Writers and journalists 8 Newsmakers 9 Others

• Ann-Margret (1959), actress
• Adam Baldwin (c. 1980), actor
• Ralph Bellamy (1922), actor
• Carlos Bernard (1980), actor (Tony Almeida in 24)
• Liz Callaway (1978), musical theatre actress and singer (Anastasia)
• William Christopher, actor (M*A*S*H)
• Bruce Dern, actor
• Christine Ebersole (1971), actress and singer
• Charlton Heston (1941), actor, former president of the National Rifle Association
• Rock Hudson (1944), actor
• Virginia Madsen (1979), actress, starred in 2004's Sideways
• Penelope Milford (1968), actress, Academy Award Nominee 1978 Coming Home
• Hugh O'Brian (1941), actor
• Liesel Pritzker (aka Liesel Matthews) (2002), child actress, sued family for one billion dollars, got half
• Charlotte Ross, actress (NYPD Blue, Days of Our Lives)
• Hal Sparks (1988), actor/comedian
• Lili Taylor (1985), actress
• Jim True-Frost (aka Jim True) (1983), actor (currently acting in a recurring role in HBO's The Wire)
• Rainn Wilson (1984), actor, Dwight Schrute in NBC's The Office

• Christie Hefner (1970), CEO of Playboy Enterprises
• Mark Hogan (1969), President of Magna International
• Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., chairman emeritus of ACNielsen
• Alex Zoghlin (dropped out in 1988), software entrepreneur, co-founded Orbitz (2000-2003)

• Scott Bennett (1983), musician currently in the Brian Wilson band
• Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter
• David Goldblatt (1977) jazz pianist, member of Mark Isham's studio band. Played on soundtrack for the Jodie Foster movie, "Little Man Tate".
• Al Jourgensen (attended in the mid sixties), musician
• Liz Phair (1985), singer
• Dave Samuels (1966) jazz vibraphonist of Spyro Gyra, The Caribbean Jazz Project
• Joe Trohman (2002), guitarist for Fall Out Boy
• Pete Wentz (2002), bassist for Fall Out Boy
• Matt Walker, rock musician and former drummer of The Smashing Pumpkins

• Judy Biggert (1955), Republican member of the House of Representatives
• Karna Small Bodman (1955), Ronald Reagan's deputy press secretary, former Senior Director of the National Security Council
• Rahm Emanuel (1977), congressman, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton
• Mark Kirk (1977), U.S. congressman
• Thomas Miller (1966), former U.S. Ambassador to Greece and Bosnia
• Charles Percy (1937), U.S. Senator (1967-1985)
• Donald Rumsfeld (1950), former U.S. Secretary of Defense, (1975-1977, 2001-2006)

• Michael Alter, co-founder and co-owner of the Chicago Sky
• Ben Braun (1971), head men's basketball coach at the University of California
• Pete Burnside (1948), Major League Baseball player (1955-1963)
• Rick Hahn, assistant general manager of the Chicago White Sox
• Mike Huff (1981), Major League Baseball player (1989-1996)
• Clay Matthews (1974), pro football player (Cleveland Browns 1978-1993, played in several Pro Bowls)
• Ross Baumgarten (1973), major league baseball player ([Chicago Whitesox] 1978-1981, [Pittsburgh Pirates] 1982)
• Mike Pyle (1957), pro football player (Chicago Bears 1961-1969, played in the 1963 Pro Bowl)
• John Castino-Major League Baseball Player. (Minnesota Twins) 1979 AL Rookie of The Year
• Grace Hutchins, NCAA women's ice hockey for the Wisconsin Badgers (2002-2006), won the national championship in 2006
• Larry Sweeney, professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeney

• Jack Steinberger (1938), Nobel Prize winning physicist (who donated the medal to the science department)
• Dennis J. Selkoe (1961), Alzheimer's Disease researcher at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine; Potamkin Prize recipient, 1989
• Rafael Sorkin ( valedictorian, 1963), physicist
• Mary-Claire King (1963), geneticist
• Michael Peskin (1969), physicist

• Richard Cohen, contributing writer at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, GQ, Rolling Stone, Details, and other magazines
• Ann Compton (1965), ABC News reporter
• Walter Jacobson (1955), award-winning television news personality
• Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer
• John Stossel (1965), ABC News reporter
• Scott Turow (1966), author and lawyer
• Julia Allison (2000), newspaper columnist and regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, commentator on Fox News Channel

• Laurie Dann (1976), perpetrator of a school shooting in Winnetka
• Jack Ryan, former candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois
• Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, white supremacist spree killer
• Brad Will, anarchist, activist, and documentary filmmaker who was killed in Mexico

• Ivan Albright, artist
• Bobbi Brown, internationally renowned make-up artist, author
• Ari Emanuel, talent agent. Character Ari Gold of HBO's Entourage is based on Emanuel.
• Stieg Hedlund (1983), video game designer (Diablo, Diablo II, StarCraft)
• Edward Zwick (1970), director (The Last Samurai, Glory, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, Blood Diamond)
• Mark Romanek (1977), music video and film director, writer, producer (One Hour Photo)
• Charlie Trotter (1977), Chicago chef
• Template:Ryan Zoghlin (1985), Artist