List of Punahou School alumni

This is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School, a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii.

An asterisk (*) indicates a person who attended Punahou but did not graduate with senior class.

Parents and children of alumni are noted only if they have made significant achievements in the same field or activity.

‘65 Robert Klein (Stanford)-Associate Justice Supreme Court of Hawaii The main reference for this page is the Punahou School Alumni Directory 1841-1991 Harris Publishing, New York, 1991.

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Warren Kealoha , 1920 and 1924 gold medalist in swimming
Buster Crabbe , 1928 bronze and 1932 gold medalist in swimming, then Hollywood leading man
Lindsey Berg , two-time silver medalist setter for US Volleyball, 2004, 2008, and 2012
Norm Chow , former NFL offensive coordinator
Manti Te'o , NFL rookie linebacker
Michelle Wie , LPGA winner
Fred Hemmings , state senator and world surfing champion, 1968
Carissa Moore , surfing champion, 2011
General Samuel Chapman Armstrong , founder of Hampton University, one of many heroes at Gettysburg
U.S. Senator from Connecticut Hiram Bingham III , Professor of History at Yale and explorer, possible inspiration for Indiana Jones
Secretary of HEW John W. Gardner , architect of the Great Society , Professor of Management, and Education at Stanford, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
U.S. President Barack Obama , formerly U.S. Senator from Illinois, Constitutional Law Lecturer at University of Chicago
Honorable Judge Elbert Tuttle , brigadier general, leader of the federal court that desegregated the South, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Brian Schatz , US Senator and Hawaii Lieutenant Governor
Hawaiian Prince Kūhiō , 20-year delegate to the U.S. Congress
Interim Republican Congressman from Hawaii, Henry Baldwin
Democratic U.S. Congressman from New York for 19 years, Otis Pike , Pike committee investigator of Richard Nixon
Interim Republican U.S. Congressman from Hawaii in 2010, Charles Djou
Honorable Judge Sanford Dole , first Governor of Hawaii
Honorable Judge Walter Frear , third Governor of Hawaii
Lawrence Judd , seventh Governor of Hawaii
Honorable Judge William Charles Achi, Jr. , Territorial Judge
William Castle, Jr. , Appointee of Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
Albert Francis Judd , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii
USMC major general Ross T. Dwyer , USMC Aide to the Secretary of the Navy
US Army Captain Francis Wai , Awarded Medal of Honor in World War II
Lt General Donald Prentice Booth , commander of the Fourth US Army and High Commissioner of Okinawa
Lt General Stanley "Swede" Larsen, Deputy Commander, US Army, Pacific
US Army major general Stephen Tom, Chief of Staff, Pacific Command
US Army Lt Col Mark Solomons '79
US Navy rear admiral Gordon Chung-Hoon
US Navy vice admiral Tom Copeman
US Navy rear admiral Alma Grocki
Lieutenant General Ben Webster, NATO AIRSOUTH commander
Brigadier General C.B. Stewart, Ph.D. in nuclear physics
Air National Guard major general Gregory B. Gardner
Air National Guard major general Michael H. Tice
Conrad Herwig , Down Beat 's 3-time #1 jazz trombonist
Bob Shane , Grammy Award -winning Kingston Trio guitarist
melody. , J-pop 3-time top-10 artist
Carrie Ann Inaba , dancer, choreographer, and reality show judge
Oscar nominee Joan Blondell
Actress and singer Teri Ann Linn
Leading actress Kelly Preston
Actress Sarah Wayne Callies
Film director and TV series creator Rod Lurie
AOL co-founder and philanthropist Steve Case
eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar
David Boynton , prolific naturalist photographer
Lorrin A. Thurston , early baseball player and anti-monarchy politician
Republic of China President Sun Yat Sen
USAF Colonel Charles L. Veach , shuttle astronaut
Miss Universe Brook Mahealani Lee