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Philadelphia, PA

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Central High School

School:

Central High School

Phone:

215-276-5262

Location:

USA, PA, Philadelphia, 19141
1700 W Olney Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141

Mailing:

1700 W Olney Ave Philadelphia, PA 19141

ZIP:

19141

City:

Philadelphia

County:

Philadelphia

Status:

Operational, Magnet, Title I Eligible

Level:

High School

Grades offered:

09-12

Total students:

2436

Students/Teachers:

22.10

Notable alumni:

Leon Abbett - former New Jersey governor (112th Class)

Elliott Abrams - AccuWeather meteorologist, chief forecaster (223rd Class)

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - poet and author (255th Class)

Joe Augustyn - screenwriter, producer (229th Class)

James P. Bagian - NASA astronaut, physician (228th Class)

Albert C. Barnes - art collector, founder of world-renowned Barnes Foundation educational art institution (92nd Class)

John C. Bell, Jr. - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (75th Class)

Jim Braude - talk radio host (225th Class)

Leo Braudy - cultural historian and film critic

King Britt - DJ and record producer

William H. Brown, III - former Chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (185th Class)

George Campbell, Jr. - President, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (220th Class)

Philip Casnoff - actor (226th Class)

Morris I. ("Moose") Charlap - broadway composer (186th Class)

Noam Chomsky - linguist and political activist (184th Class)

Mark B. Cohen - Pennsylvania State Legislative Leader (225th Class)

Frank "Tick" Coleman - one of the first three known African-American Eagle Scouts, educator (156th Class)

Joel Cook - U.S. Congressman, journalist (33rd Class)

Tarzan Cooper - Hall of Fame basketball player for the New York Renaissance

Bill Cosby - comedian and entertainer (left after 10th grade- 204th Class)

Cassidy - rapper

Samuel Dash - professor at Georgetown Law (178th Class)

James DePreist - orchestra conductor (202th Class)

John H. Dialogue - major shipbuilder in Camden, New Jersey (5th Class)

Ignatius L. Donnelly - author, politician, U.S. Congressman (13th Class)

Joseph William Drexel - banker, philanthropist (13th Class)

Thomas Eakins - painter (38th Class)

Douglas J. Feith - former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a major architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq (230th Class)

Norman Fell - actor, best known as Mr. Roper on Three's Company (176th Class)

Samuel Simeon Fels - manufacturer, philanthropist (72nd Class)

Lee Felsenstein - personal computer pioneer and activist (219th Class)

Louis Filler - historian, writer, and professor at Antioch College

Larry Fine - Larry of the Three Stooges (132nd Class)

William Glackens - painter, co-founder of the Ashcan School art movement (90th Class)

W. Wilson Goode, Jr. - Philadelphia City Councilman at Large, son of former mayor W. Wilson Goode

E. Urner Goodman - early leader of the Boy Scouts of America (114th Class)

Oscar Goodman - Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, famed mob defense lawyer whose clients included Meyer Lansky and "Lefty" Rosenthal (left after 10th grade)

Charles Goren - champion bridge player and author (130th Class)

Shelly Gross - theatrical producer, author (170th Class)

Lee Guber - theatrical producer (170th Class)

Daniel Guggenheim - industrialist and philanthropist, most powerful member of famed Guggenheim family (66th Class)

Simon Guggenheim - industrialist, financier, philanthropist, U.S. Senator from Colorado (87th Class)

John Harbeson - architect with H2L2 (111th Class)

Joe Harris - mathematician at Harvard University working in algebraic geometry

Joseph Smith Harris - President of the Reading Railroad (24th Class)

Quiara Alegr?a Hudes - playwright and author, best known for writing the book for the musical In the Heights (254th Class)

Albert Innaurato - playwright, theater director, and writer (225th Class)

Major Jackson - poet and professor at University of Vermont (245th Class)

Louis Kahn - world-renowned architect (134th Class)

Sam Katz - perennial Philadelphia Republican Mayoral Candidate (226th class)

Charles Keinath - four-time All-American basketball player for Penn, played on national college champions in both basketball (190708) and football (1908)

Alexander Kendrick - broadcast journalist (149th Class)

Daniel Kevles - historian of science at Yale University and California Institute of Technology

Cato T. Laurencin - orthopaedic surgeon, professor, chemical engineer (235th Class)

Conrad C. Lautenbacher - Navy Vice Admiral (213th Class)

Alain LeRoy Locke - author, philosopher, first African-American Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the arts (107th Class)

Dr. I.(Israel) M. Levitt - author, Director Emeritus of the Fels Planetarium (146th class)

Jerome Lowenthal - classical pianist, chair of Juilliard School Piano Department (192nd Class)

John Marzano - Major League Baseball catcher and broadcast analyst (240th Class)

Gary K. Michelson - orthopedic spinal surgeon with over 900 medical patents (225th Class)

Jeffrey Milarsky - conductor of contemporary music (243rd Class)

Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell - founder of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity

Louis J. Mordell - mathematician at University of Cambridge (111th Class)

Joel Myers - founder of AccuWeather (208th Class)

Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. - former Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (186th Class)

Eric Owens - opera singer (247th Class)

Robert E. Pattison - former Governor of Pennsylvania (55th Class)

Ramon L. Posel - founder of Ritz Theatres (186th Class)

Hilary Putnam - philosopher (182nd Class)

David Raksin - composer, "Grandfather of Film Music" (153rd Class)

Ralph T. Reed - former CEO of American Express (114th Class)

Arnold Roth - cartoonist, humorist (186th Class)

Ralph Schlosstein - co-founder of BlackRock Investments (227th Class)

Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz - WCAU (TV), NBC 10 chief meteorologist (227th Class)

Bree Sharp - singer and songwriter (252nd Class)

Israel "Buddy" Shenker - author and journalist (First Honor Man 177th Class)

Tyree Simmons (aka DJ Drama) - hip hop artist and DJ (255th Class)

John French Sloan - painter (92nd Class)

Julie Stevens - actress, film director and producer (246th Class)

Frank R. Stockton - writer and humorist (19th Class)

Charles Stone III - film director and creator of the popular US advertising campaign, "Whassup?" for Budweiser beer, son of journalist Chuck Stone (243rd Class)

John Baxter Taylor, Jr. - track and field athlete, first African-American Olympic Gold Medalist (107th Class)

Teller - magician, silent half of the comedy magic duo known as Penn & Teller (224th Class)

Howard Temin - geneticist, shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine (196th Class)

Dylan Tichenor - Academy Award-nominated film editor for his work in There Will Be Blood (245th Class)

Arthur Tracy - world famous vaudeville performer, singer, actor, known as "The Street Singer" (130th Class)

John Wallowitch - composer, songwriter and cabaret performer (181st Class)

Louis J. Weichmann - one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution in the conspiracy trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination

Andrew Weil - physician, author, proponent of integrative medicine (212th Class)

Edward Weinberger - TV producer and writer, winner of three Emmys (204th Class)

Stephen William White - translator of Jules Verne and secretary of the Northern Central Railway (31st class)

R. Seth Williams - District Attorney of Philadelphia, 2010Present (244th Class)

Alexander Woolcott - renowned drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, journalist, author, member of the Algonquin Round Table (110th Class)