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The following list contains only notable graduates and former students of
Columbia College , the undergraduate liberal arts division of
Columbia University , and its predecessor, from 1754 to 1776, King's College. For a full list of individuals associated with the university as a whole, see the
List of Columbia University people . An asterisk (*) indicates a former student who did not graduate.
Founding fathers of the United States
John Jay (King's 1764), President of the
Continental Congress ; first
Chief Justice of the United States ; author of five of
The Federalist papers; first
Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the
Articles of Confederation ; architect of
Jay Treaty with Great Britain
Robert Livingston (King's 1764), a writer of the
Declaration of Independence as part of the
Committee of Five ; first
United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs ; negotiator of the
Louisiana Purchase
Egbert Benson (King's 1765), delegate to the
Continental Congress ,
U.S. Representatives , first
New York State Attorney General ,
chief justice of the
New York Supreme Court
Gouverneur Morris (King's 1768), represented
Pennsylvania in the
Continental Congress ; authored much of the
United States Constitution ;
United States Ambassador to France ;
United States Senator from
New York
Alexander Hamilton * (King's 1776),
American Revolutionary War officer,
aide-de-camp to
George Washington ; most prolific writer of
The Federalist Papers ; first
United States Secretary of the Treasury , portrayed on the
ten-dollar bill ; founder of the
Bank of New York
Scholars
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop
Benjamin Moore ; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of
The Night Before Christmas
John Anthon (1801), jurist
John Church Hamilton (1809), son of
Alexander Hamilton , American historian
Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the
Anthon Transcript
Henry Drisler (1839), classical scholar and acting president of Columbia College
Julius Sachs (1867), founder of
Dwight School , professor at
Teachers College, Columbia University and scion of the
Goldman–Sachs family
William Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the
United States Olympic Committee
Felix Adler (1870), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the
Ethical Culture movement and the
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Brander Matthews (1871), first professor of dramatic literature in the United States
Charles Waldstein (A.M. 1873), Anglo-American
archeologist , director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and
American School of Classical Studies at Athens ; first Jewish American athlete in the
Olympic Games
John Aaron Browning (1875), American educator, founder of the
Browning School
Richard T. Ely (1876), American economist, founder and president of the
American Economic Association
Edward Washburn Hopkins (1878), professor of
Sanskrit at
Yale University
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), American
economist
William Archibald Dunning (1881), founder of the
Dunning School of
Reconstruction
James Chidester Egbert Jr. (1881), classical scholar and educator
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1881), American Zionist scholar, founder of the first Jewish fraternity
Zeta Beta Tau
Harry Thurston Peck (1881), literary critic and editor of
The Bookman
A. V. Williams Jackson (1883), American specialist on
Indo-European languages
Charles Knapp (1887), classical scholar
Frank Moore Colby (1888), American historian and editor of
The New International Encyclopedia
Charles Sears Baldwin (1888), American scholar and professor of rhetoric at
Yale University
John Dyneley Prince (1888), American linguist;
United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
George Louis Beer (1892), renowned historian of the
"Imperial school"
Benjamin Lord Buckley (1892), American educator, founder and headmaster of
Buckley School
Judah A. Joffe (1893), Yiddish philologist
William Robert Shepherd (1893), American
cartographer , historian
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald (1895), American
Hispanic scholar
Joel Elias Spingarn (1895), professor of comparative literature
Mortimer Lamson Earle (1896), American classical scholar
Alfred L. Kroeber (1896), pioneering
cultural anthropologist
Frederick Paul Keppel (1898), American educator, former president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Frank Sutliff Hackett (1899), American educator, founder of
Riverdale Country School
John Erskine (1900),
Great Books pioneer
Alexander Goldenweiser (1902), Russian-born
anthropologist and
sociologist
Emanuel Goldenweiser (1903), economist and president of the
American Economic Association
Robert Livingston Schuyler (1903), scholar on American history, president of the
American Historical Association
Carlton J. H. Hayes (1904), pioneering cultural historian; former
United States Ambassador to Spain
Edward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Frank Speck (1904), anthropologist, professor at the
University of Pennsylvania
William Stuart Messer (1905), professor of Latin at
Dartmouth College , recipient of a 1922
Rome Prize
Mark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the
Rómulo Pico Adobe
Edwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar;
Sterling Professor at the
Yale Law School
Richard F. Bach (1909),
curator with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at
Bryn Mawr College
F. Stuart Chapin (1909), American sociologist and former president of the
American Sociological Association
Harold Gould Henderson (1910), American Japanologist and former president of the
Japan Society , founder of the
Haiku Society of America
Armin K. Lobeck (1911), American
cartographer
Carl Zigrosser (1911), curator of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lawrence K. Frank (1912),
social scientist ; vice president of the
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and co-initiator of the
Macy conferences
Arthur MacMahon (1912), American political scientist, president of the
American Political Science Association
Clarence Manning (1912), prominent
slavicist at
Columbia University
Parker LeRoy Moon (1913), professor and managing editor of the
Political Science Quarterly
Benjamin Graham (1914), economist who pioneered
value investing
Herbert Schneider (1915),
German American professor of philosophy and
religious studies scholar
Irwin Edman (1916), philosopher
Thomas Munro (1916), art historian at
Case Western Reserve University and curator at
Cleveland Museum of Art
John Herman Randall Jr. (1918), philosopher
Kenneth Burke * (1920), American literary theorist and philosopher
Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1920), professor of
literature at
Hunter College ; expert on
Edgar Allan Poe
Richard McKeon (1920), philosopher
Frank Tannenbaum (1920), Austrian-American
historian ,
sociologist , and
criminologist ; founder of the
Labeling theory in
criminology
Fritz Roethlisberger (1921), management theorist at
Harvard Business School
Louis M. Hacker (1922), professor of economics and proponent of
adult education
Yuan Tung-li (1922), former director of the
National Library of China ,
Peking University professor
Mortimer Adler * (1923), philosopher and
Great Books pioneer
Robert Beverly Hale (1923), curator of American paintings at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander Lesser (1923), anthropologist known for his documentation of the
Kitsai language
Arthur V. Loughren (1923), electrical engineer, former president of the
Institute of Radio Engineers
Leslie White (1923), American anthropologist known for his theories of the evolution of culture and for the scientific study of culture
John Gassner (1924), historian of theater,
Sterling Professor at
Yale University
Meyer Schapiro (1924), art historian
Joseph Campbell (1925), mythologist
Jerome Klein (1925), American art historian and co-founder of the
American Artists' Congress
William York Tindall (1925),
James Joyce scholar at
Columbia University
Lionel Trilling (1925), literary critic
Dwight C. Miner (1926), historian
Jacques Barzun (1927), cultural historian
Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie , historian, scholar of
Anglo-Saxon literature
Robert C. Schnitzer (1927), arts teacher and administrator
Francis Steegmuller (1927),
Flaubert scholar
Gustave Von Groschwitz (1927), former director of the
Carnegie Museum of Art
Carl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics
Leon Keyserling (1928), head of the
Council of Economic Advisers under
Harry S Truman
Edgar Lorch (1928), mathematics department chairman at
Columbia University
Junius Bird (1930), American archaeologist and former curator of South American Archaeology at the
American Museum of Natural History
Eli Ginzberg (1930), professor of economics at
Columbia University
Niels Henry Sonne (1930), rare book collector and head librarian at
General Theological Seminary
Maxwell Geismar (1931), American literary critic, author, and professor at
Sarah Lawrence College
Francis Joseph Murray (1932), mathematician who developed the
Von Neumann algebra with
John von Neumann
Walter H. Rubsamen (1933), professor of a musicology at the
University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph Leon Blau (1934), professor of religion at
Columbia University
M. A. Fitzsimons (1934), historian at the
University of Notre Dame , editor of
The Review of Politics
Alan Gewirth (1934), American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, author of
Reason and Morality
Robert M. Adams (1935), Kafka scholar and professor at the
University of California, Los Angeles
Frederick Hartt (1935), Michelangelo expert, professor at
University of Virginia , member of the
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
Herbert Aptheker (1936),
Marxist historian and political activist
Maurice Matloff (1936), Chief Historian of the
United States Army from 1970 to 1981
John Alexander Moore (1936), professor of zoology at
University of California, Riverside
Joseph Greenberg (1936), prominent linguist known for work in
linguistic typology and
genetic classification of languages
Carl E. Schorske (1936), cultural historian and winner of the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for History
Quentin Anderson (1937), cultural historian and literary critic
Charles Frankel (1937), political philosopher,
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Herbert Hyman (1939), American sociologist and expert on
Opinion polling
Herbert E. Klarman (1939), American professor of the economics of healthcare at
New York University
Barry Ulanov (1939), English professor and scholar of jazz and religion
Robert J. Alexander (1940), American political activist, writer, and professor at
Rutgers University
John Hine Mundy (1940), British-American medievalist, professor at
Columbia University , former president of the
Medieval Academy of America
Donald Barr (1941), American educator and author; former headmaster of
Dalton School ; initiated the
Columbia University Science Honors Program
Ted de Bary (1941), East Asian studies expert and
provost of
Columbia University
Leon Henkin (1941), mathematician and logician at
University of California, Berkeley
Donald Keene (1942), scholar of Japanese culture
Robert Lekachman (1942), economist
Philip Yampolsky (1942), scholar of
Zen
Buddhism
Francesco Cordasco (1943), professor of education at
Montclair State University
Bernard Russell Gelbaum (1943), professor of mathematics at
University of California, Irvine
Martin S. James (1943), American art historian, translator of
Piet Mondrian
Martin J. Klein (1943), American historian of science and recipient of the
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Bernard Weisberger (1943), American historian of the
Reconstruction Era
Alan Hoffman (1944),
mathematician known for constructing the
Hoffman–Singleton graph
Bruce Mazlish (1944), American historian and professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , son-in-law of
David Rockefeller
Richard Popkin (1944), American philosopher
Jack Greenberg (1945), counsel for the
NAACP , in which capacity he argued
Brown v. Board of Education ; former professor at Columbia Law School and dean of
Columbia College
Murray Rothbard (1945), leading exponent of the
Austrian School of economics
Gilbert Y. Steiner (1945), American scholar of social policy and fourth president of the
Brookings Institution
Richard Heffner (1946), professor and host of
The Open Mind
Fritz Stern (1946), Seth Low Professor of History Emeritus; pre-eminent in German studies
George Herbert Borts (1947), economist at
Brown University and managing editor of
The American Economic Review from 1969 to 1980
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1947),
Classical archaeologist and architectural historian
John Michael Montias (1947), American economist and art historian at
Yale University
Harold E. Pagliaro (1947), professor of English literature at
Swarthmore College
Howard Stein (1947), philosopher at the
University of Chicago
Lambros Comitas (1948), anthropologist
Elihu Katz (1948), sociologist and communication scholar, known for developing the
two-step flow of communication theory
Norman Kelvin (1948), literary scholar, professor at
City College of New York and
Graduate Center, CUNY
Victorino Tejera (1948), professor of philosophy and comparative literature at
Stony Brook University
Uriel Weinreich (1948), linguist and professor at
Columbia University
Albert Elsen (1949), professor at
Stanford University and
Auguste Rodin expert
Donald M. Friedman (1949), professor of Renaissance literature at
University of California, Berkeley
Marvin Harris (1949), American anthropologist famous for developing
cultural materialism
Anthony Leeds (1949), anthropologist, professor at
Boston University
Robert F. Murphy (1949), professor of anthropology at
Columbia University
Arthur Melvin Okun (1949), chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers , proposed
Okun's law
William Rubin (1949), curator at the
Museum of Modern Art
James P. Shenton (1949), American historian, professor of
Columbia University , mentor of
Bancroft Prize winners
John D. Rosenberg (1950), American scholar of
Victorian literature , professor at
Columbia University
Burton Watson (1950), American scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature
George Keller (1951), professor of higher education studies at the
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Rothschild (1951), professor of
Central European and
Eastern European history at
Columbia University
Immanuel Wallerstein (1951), sociologist who defined
world-systems theory
A. James Gregor (1952), professor of political science at the
University of California, Berkeley
George Kateb (1952), professor of political science at
Princeton University
Elliott Mendelson (1952), American
logician ; professor of
mathematics at
Queens College, City University of New York
Andrew P. Vayda (1952), professor emeritus of
anthropology and
ecology at
Rutgers University
Melvin Ember (1953), professor of the
City University of New York and editor of
Cross-Cultural Research
Julian Wolpert (1953), professor of urban planning at the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Demetrios James Caraley (1954), editor of
Political Science Quarterly and president of the
Academy of Political Science
Peter Kenen (1954), provost,
Columbia University and expert in
Optimum currency area theory
Henry Littlefield (1954), educator, author, historian who initiated
political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Stephen Orgel (1954), Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar
David Rosand (1954), Art historian,
Columbia University
Haldon Chase (1955), Denver-based archeologist, early figure of the
Beat Generation
Warren I. Cohen (1955), historian at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Harry N. Scheiber (1955), professor and director of the
Institute for Legal Research at the
UC Berkeley School of Law
Jerry Fodor (1956), philosopher at
Rutgers University
Roy Lubove (1956), professor of social welfare at the
University of Pittsburgh
Seymour J. Mandelbaum (1956), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Kenneth Silverman (1956), professor at
New York University and
Pulitzer Prize -winning biographer
Robert Alter (1957), professor of
Hebrew and
comparative literature at the
University of California, Berkeley ; president of the
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Stanley Corngold (1957), professor of literature at
Princeton University
George Dargo (1957), American legal scholar, professor at
New England Law Boston
Erich S. Gruen (1957), American
classicist and
ancient historian ; president of the
Society for Classical Studies in 1992
Stanley Insler (1957), American philologist and professor at
Yale University
Jonathan Lubin (1957), professor of mathematics at
Brown University ; introduced
Lubin–Tate formal group law
Robert Chazan (1958), professor of Judaic studies at
New York University
Gerald Feldman (1958), American historian who specializes in 20th-century German history; professor at
University of California, Berkeley
Robert M. Fogelson (1958), American urban historian at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert W. Hanning (1958), professor of English literature at
Columbia University
Neil Harris (1958), professor of art history at the
University of Chicago
Joachim Neugroschel (1958), prolific multilingual translator
David Rothman (1958), professor of social medicine and president of the
Institute on Medicine as a Profession
John Clubbe (1959), professor of English at the
University of Kentucky
Benjamin Cohen (1959), political economist and authority on
International political economy
Richard Fremantle (1959), Anglo-American art historian, son of writer
Anne Fremantle
Robert Nozick (1959),
libertarian philosopher known for his book
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Isser Woloch (1959), historian of the
French Revolution
Arnold A. Offner (1959), professor of history at
Lafayette College and past president of
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Riordan Roett (1959), political scientist and Latin American specialist at
Johns Hopkins University
Bruce M. Stave (1959), American historian specializing in
oral history and
urban history
Alvin Goldman (1960), professor of philosophy at
Rutgers University and leading figure in
epistemology
William Landes (1960), economist and professor at
University of Chicago Law School
Rudolf Makkreel (1960), professor of philosophy at
Emory University
Thomas Vargish (1960), professor of English at
Dartmouth College
Eugene Bardach (1961), public policy scholar, professor at
University of California, Berkeley
Marshall Berman (1961), urbanologist
Martin Eidelberg (1961), art historian at
Rutgers University
David Konstan (1961), professor of classics at
New York University
Victor Hao Li (1961), professor at
Stanford Law School , President of
East–West Center from 1981 to 1989
Donald F. Roberts (1961), professor of communications at
Stanford University
David Syrett (1961), professor of military history at
Queens College, City University of New York ; former president of the
New York Military Affairs Symposium
Zvi Gitelman (1962),
Jewish scholar at the
University of Michigan
Ken Jowitt (1962), American
political scientist and professor at
University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow of the
Hoover Institution
Stephen Koss (1962), American historian on British history
Joel Moses (1962), mathematician,
Institute Professor at and provost of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence S. Wittner (1962), historian on peace movements
Peter Winn (1962), professor of history at
Tufts University
Richard Alba (1963), American sociologist, professor at
Graduate Center, CUNY
David Berlinski (1963), American mathematician, professor at
Eric Foner (1963), preeminent historian of
Reconstruction , winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History and former president of
American Historical Association
David Orme-Johnson (1963), professor of
psychology at the
Maharishi University of Management
Michael Klare (1963), professor of security studies at
Hampshire College
Victor Margolin (1963), professor of
design history at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonah Raskin (1963), American writer, professor on counterculture
Howard Spodek (1963), American historian specializing in urban studies; professor at
Temple University
Robert J. Art (1964), professor of
international relations at
Brandeis University
Richard P. Appelbaum (1964), professor of sociology at
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonathan R. Cole (1964), American sociologist and
provost of
Columbia University from 1989 to 2003
Peter S. Donaldson (1964), professor of English literature at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Epstein (1964), libertarian law scholar
Richard S. Kayne (1964), professor of
linguistics at
New York University
Peter Kolchin (1964), professor at the
University of Delaware and winner of the 1988
Bancroft Prize
John H. Langbein (1964),
Sterling Professor at Yale Law School
Peter K. Machamer (1964), American philosopher and
historian of science ; professor at the
University of Pittsburgh
Mike Wallace (1964), historian and winner of the 1999
Pulitzer Prize for History for
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Jonathan Goldberg (1964), professor at
Emory University
Michael M. Gunter (1964), professor at
Tennessee Technological University , authority in
Kurdish studies
Miles Orvell (1964), professor at
Temple University , former editor of the
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Jonathan M. Weiss (1964), American scholar of
French literature and
politics
George R. Goldner (1965), former curator at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
J. Bruce Jacobs (1965), Australian orientalist who specialized in Taiwan studies, professor at
Monash University
Richard Kagan (1965), American historian, professor of
Spanish history at
Johns Hopkins University
Richard Taruskin (1965), American
musicologist
Walter Reich (1965), former director of
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and professor at
George Washington University
Mark Steiner (1965), professor of philosophy at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Raymond Geuss (1966), specialist in
Jürgen Habermas
Steven Handel (1966), restoration ecologist, professor at
Rutgers University
Michael Hechter (1966), professor of political science at
Arizona State University
Ira Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor at
Columbia University
Mark D. Naison (1966), former political activist; professor of history at
Fordham University
T. J. Pempel (1966), professor of
political science and former director of the Institute of Asian Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley
Roger Sanjek (1966), professor of anthropology at
Queens College, City University of New York
David Weissbrodt (1966), legal scholar at the
University of Minnesota Law School known for drafting the
Minnesota Protocol
Jay Winter (1966), World War I specialist at
Yale University
Paul Gewirtz (1967), constitutional law scholar
Karl Klare (1967),
Critical Legal Studies theorist
Norman Friedman (1967), American author and naval analyst
Mott T. Greene (1967), historian of science, professor at
University of Puget Sound
Reza Sheikholeslami (1967),
Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at
Wadham College, Oxford
Jeremy Siegel (1967), professor of the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Terrell Carver (1968), political theorist; professor at the
University of Bristol
Samuel R. Gross (1968), professor at the
University of Michigan Law School ; editor of the
National Registry of Exonerations project
Charles Lindholm (1968), University Professor of Anthropology at
Boston University
Alfred W. McCoy (1968),
historian of
Southeast Asia ; professor at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lawrence Susskind (1968), urban planner and mediator; professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerry Avorn (1969), professor at the
Harvard Medical School
William Boone Bonvillian (1969), scholar of innovation technology policy, former director of
MIT 's
Washington, D.C. office
Chris Iijima (1969), legal scholar, folksinger
Andrei Markovits (1969), professor of comparative politics at the
University of Michigan
Michel Rosenfeld (1969), constitutional law scholar
Mark Rosenzweig (1969), professor of economics at
Yale University
Michael D. Aeschliman (1970), professor at
Boston University and
Università della Svizzera italiana
Steven M. Cohen (1970), sociologist, director of
Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Sheldon Danziger (1970), political scientist at the
University of Michigan
Lennard J. Davis (1970), professor of English at the
University of Illinois at Chicago , specialist in
disability studies
John D'Emilio (1970), professor of history and
gender studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago ; winner of the
Bill Whitehead Award in 2013
Samuel Estreicher (1970), professor at the
New York University School of Law
Peter Grossman (1970), professor of economics at
Butler University ; columnist,
The Indianapolis Star
Robert A. Leonard (1970), American forensic linguist at
Hofstra University and former member of rock band
Sha Na Na
Michael P. Mezzatesta (1970), art historian, director of the
Nasher Museum of Art from 1987 to 2003
Paul Starr (1970), sociologist; co-founder of
The American Prospect and winner of the 1984
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Paul Berman (1971), historian and social critic
Philip Nord (1971), historian and professor at
Princeton University
Steven J. Ross (1971), historian and professor at
University of Southern California , 2018
Pulitzer Prize for History finalist
Roy Rosenzweig (1971), historian and director of the
Center for History and New Media at
George Mason University
Scott Atran (1972), American anthropologist; director at
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presidential scholar at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Joel Black (1972), literature and film scholar
Michael Gerrard (1972), professor at
Columbia Law School
Jerome Groopman (1972),
Harvard Medical School professor and medical writer for
The New Yorker
Robert Hymes (1972), professor of Chinese history at
Columbia University , winner of two
Joseph Levenson Book Prizes
George Klosko (1972), professor of philosophy at the
University of Virginia
Mark J. Roe (1972), professor at
Harvard Law School
John Servos (1972), professor and historian of science; president of the
History of Science Society
David Stern (1972), professor of Hebrew literature at
Harvard University
Tom R. Tyler (1972), professor of psychology at
Yale Law School
Harold Aram Veeser (1972), professor at
City College of New York , known for contribution to
new historicism
Sean Wilentz (1972), historian and winner of the
Bancroft Prize ; chair of
American Studies at
Princeton University
Angelo Falcón (1973), political scientist, President and Founder of the
National Institute for Latino Policy
Steven Messner (1973), sociologist, professor of the
University at Albany, SUNY , former president of the
American Society of Criminology
William C. Sharpe (1973), professor of English at
Barnard College
Stewart Sterk (1973), professor of law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Richard Briffault (1974), professor of law at
Columbia Law School
David S. Katz (1974), professor of early modern European history at
Tel Aviv University
James R. Russell (1974), professor of
Ancient Near Eastern studies at
Harvard University
Steven Simon (1974), Middle East expert and former executive director of
International Institute for Strategic Studies -US; former senior director in the
United States National Security Council
Haruo Shirane (1974), professor of Japanese literature of
Columbia University
Jonathan Crary (1975), art critic, essayist, professor of art at
Columbia University
Robert S. Levine (1975), professor of American literature at
University of Maryland, College Park
Alexander J. Motyl (1975), professor of political science at
Rutgers University
David Albert (1976), professor of philosophy at
Columbia University
Louis Putterman (1976), professor of economics at
Brown University
Thomas Alan Schwartz (1976), professor of history at
Vanderbilt University
Barry Bergdoll (1977), chief curator of Architecture and Design at the
Museum of Modern Art
M. Gregg Bloche (1977), professor at
Georgetown University Law Center
Franco Mormando (1977), historian of Italy, professor at
Boston College
James S. Shapiro (1977), Shakespearean authority
Peter Christopher (1978), writer and professor at
Georgia Southern University
Jorge Duany (1978), director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at
Florida International University
Jay M. Harris (1978), professor of
Jewish studies at
Harvard University
William D. Hartung (1978), director of the Arms & Security Project at the
Center for International Policy
Kevin Salatino (1978), curator at
Art Institute of Chicago , former director of the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art and
Huntington Library 's art collection
Jeffry Frieden (1979), professor and department chair of political science at
Harvard University
Steve Fuller (1979), American philosopher, sociologist in the field of
science and technology studies
Alexander George (1979), professor of philosophy at
Amherst College ; founder of AskPhilosophers.org
Timothy Gilfoyle (1979), professor of history at
Loyola University Chicago
Mark Statman (1980), professor emeritus of literary studies at
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Sahotra Sarkar (1981), professor of philosophy at the
University of Texas at Austin
Alan Tansman (1981), scholar of Japanese literature at
University of California, Berkeley
Michael Bérubé (1982), professor of literature and cultural studies
David Makovsky (1982), Middle East Scholar
Eugene Rogan (1982), professor and director of
St Antony's College, Oxford 's Middle East Centre
James L. Gelvin (1983), professor of history at
University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Ravina (1983), professor of Japanese history at the
University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Zimmerman (1983), Professor of History of Education at the
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Gideon Rosen (1984), professor of philosophy at
Princeton University
Jordan Sand (1984), professor Japanese history at
Georgetown University
Thomas Sugrue (1984), historian of the 20th century United States
Jamsheed Choksy (1985), chair of Eurasian studies at
Indiana University Bloomington
Noam Elkies (1985), mathematician, youngest full professor at
Harvard
William Deresiewicz (1985), literary critic
Louis Warren (1985), professor of Western U.S. history at the
University of California, Davis
Alexander Argüelles (1986), American polyglot and professor at the
American University in the Emirates ; son of poet
Ivan Argüelles
Tobias Hecht (1986), American
anthropologist ,
ethnographer , and
translator ; winner of the 2002
Margaret Mead Award
Alva Noë (1986), professor of philosophy at
University of California, Berkeley
Anthony B. Pinn (1986), professor of religion at
Rice University
Ritu Birla (1987), historian of modern South Asia, director of
University of Toronto 's Asian Institute
Scott J. Shapiro (1987), professor of law and philosophy at
Yale Law School , director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy
Irene Tucker (1987), literary critic, professor at
University of California, Irvine
Katherine B. Crawford (1988), professor of
gender studies and history at
Vanderbilt University
Leslie M. Harris (1988), expert on
African-American history at
Northwestern University
Claudio Saunt (1989), professor at the
University of Georgia , author of
Unworthy Republic
Nicholas Birns (1988),
Tolkien scholar
William H. Sherman (1988), director of the
Warburg Institute ,
University of London
Stephanie Stebich (1988), director of
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Stephanos Bibas (1989), professor of law and criminology at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School , judge for the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Karen Chapple (1989), scholar of
Urban planning at
University of California, Berkeley
Jesús Escobar (1989), professor of
Art History at
Northwestern University , expert in early modern art of Spain and Italy
Daniel Halberstam (1989), professor of law at the
University of Michigan Law School
Stephanie Aaronson (1990), American economist and vice president of
Brookings Institution
Rhea Anastas (1990), art historian, critic, curator and professor at
University of California, Irvine
Matthew Connelly (1990), professor of international and global history at
Columbia University
Juliet Koss (1990), art historian, professor at
Scripps College
Jennifer Lee (1990), sociologist, professor of
Columbia University
Catherine Prendergast (1990), professor of English at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Benjamin Frommer (1991), American historian, professor at
Northwestern University
Mary Pattillo (1991), professor of
African-American studies at
Northwestern University
Cynthia A. Young (1991), professor of
African-American studies at
Pennsylvania State University
Robert T. Miller (1992), professor of
law at the
University of Iowa
Matthew Shum (1992), professor of economics at
California Institute of Technology
Victor Fleischer (1993), professor of law at
University of California, Irvine
Valerie Purdie Greenaway (1993), professor of psychology and first African American to receive tenure in the sciences at
Columbia University
Michelle Hartman (1993), professor of Arabic and francophone literature at
McGill University
Soyoung Lee (1993), chief curator of the
Harvard Art Museums
Seth Rockman (1993), professor at
Brown University , co-recipient of the 2010
Merle Curti Award
David Rosen (1993), professor at
Trinity College , Connecticut, recipient of the 2013
James Russell Lowell Prize
David Eisenbach (1994), historian on media and politics; narrator,
10 Things You Don't Know About
François Furstenberg (1994), historian at
Johns Hopkins University
Katerina Harvati (1994), professor of paleoanthropology at the
University of Tübingen , identified the earliest known sample of the remains of
modern humans outside Africa
Ayanna Thompson (1994), professor of English at
Arizona State University , President of the
Shakespeare Association of America
David H. Webber (1995), professor of law at
Boston University School of Law
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer (1995), professor of religious studies at
Northwestern University , expert on the
Talmud
Lara Bazelon (1996), professor of law at
University of San Francisco School of Law
Gabriella Coleman (1996), American
anthropologist known for her work in
hacker culture and online activism; professor at
McGill University
Elena Conis (1996), American historian of medicine at
University of California, Berkeley
Leah DeVun (1997), professor of gender studies at
Rutgers University
Jessica Greenberg (1997), social anthropologist and professor at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Lauren Winner (1997), historian, professor at
Duke Divinity School
Brooke Holmes (1998), American classicist, professor at
Princeton University
Alison Gass (1998), former chief curator of the
Cantor Arts Center , director of the
Smart Museum of Art and the
Institute of Contemporary Art San José
Louis Hyman (1999), economic historian, professor at
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations , author of
Debtor Nation
Adrianne Wadewitz (1999), American feminist scholar and noted
Wikipedian
Yehuda Kurtzer (2000), president of the
Shalom Hartman Institute , son of ambassador
Daniel C. Kurtzer
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (2000), professor of history at
The New School
Fotini Christia (2001), Greek political scientist, professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joya Powell (2001),
Bessie Awards -winning choreographer and educator
Agnia Grigas (2002), political scientist and author
Cassie Mogilner Holmes (2002), professor at the
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Daniel Immerwahr (2002), professor of history of
Northwestern University and recipient of the
Merle Curti Award
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (2003), professor at
Northern Kentucky University ,
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Rujeko Hockley (2005), curator of the
Whitney Museum of American Art and the 2019
Whitney Biennial
Susanna Berger (2007), art historian, professor at
University of Southern California
Ashley James (2009), first black curator of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
University presidents and administrators
John M. Mason (1789),
provost of
Columbia College and president of
Dickinson College
Philip Milledoler (1793), fifth president of
Rutgers University
Nathaniel Fish Moore (1802), eighth
President of Columbia University
Isaac Ferris (1816), third President of
New York University
James Hall Mason Knox (1841), 8th president of
Lafayette College
John Aikman Stewart (1841), businessman, banker, acting president of
Princeton University
John Howard Van Amringe (1860), mathematician and Dean of Columbia College
Seth Low (1870), president of
Columbia University and
mayor of New York City
Nicholas Murray Butler (1882), president of
Columbia University , chairman of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and
Nobel Peace Prize winner, founder of
Horace Mann School and the
College Board
Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1883), Episcopal missionary and president of
St. John's University, Shanghai from 1888 to 1941
Thomas Fiske (1885), professor of
mathematics at
Columbia University ; acting
dean of
Barnard College ; president of the
American Mathematical Society from 1902 to 1904; secretary of the
College Board
Frank Pierrepont Graves (1890), former president of the
University of Washington ,
University of Wyoming ;
Commissioner of Education of the State of New York from 1921 to 1940
Frank D. Fackenthal (1906), acting president of
Columbia University
Dixon Ryan Fox (1911),
Union College president from 1934 to 1945
Louis L. Kaplan (1922), acting chancellor of
University of Maryland, Baltimore County and president of
Baltimore Hebrew University
Frederick Burkhardt (1933), president emeritus of the
American Council of Learned Societies and third president of
Bennington College
James S. Coles (1936), ninth president of
Bowdoin College
William C. Fels (1937), fourth president of
Bennington College
George James (1937),
Commissioner of Health of the City of New York , dean of the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine , president of
Mount Sinai Health System
James C. Fletcher (1940), president of the
University of Utah and
administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Herbert A. Deane (1942), political scientist, vice provost of
Columbia University
Martin Meyerson (1942), president of the
University of Pennsylvania
Henry S. Coleman (1946), acting dean of
Columbia College, Columbia University during the
Columbia University protests of 1968
Steven Marcus (1948),
George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and Dean of Columbia College
Carl Hovde (1950), professor of English and Dean of Columbia College following the
Columbia University protests of 1968 .
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Rudolph H. Weingartner (1950), former provost of the
University of Pittsburgh , former dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at
Northwestern University
Ralph Lowenstein (1951), dean of the
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
Michael I. Sovern (1951), president of
Columbia University
Richard N. Rosett (1953), dean of the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business ,
Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis , and chairman of
National Bureau of Economic Research
Robert L. Friedheim (1955), former director of the
USC School of International Relations
Calvin B. T. Lee (1955), former chancellor of
University of Maryland, Baltimore County and acting president of
Boston University
Robert E. Paaswell (1956), American civil engineer, former interim president of
City College of New York and CEO of
Chicago Transit Authority
Kenneth Gros Louis (1959), Chancellor of
Indiana University system
Richard A. Merrill (1959), 7th dean of the
University of Virginia School of Law
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1959), president of the
University of Hartford and of
George Washington University
David C. Levy (1960), dean of the
Parsons School of Design and president of the
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Steven M. Cahn (1966), provost and acting president of
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (1970), executive vice president and provost of
Bard College
David Rubin (1970), American professor of communications and dean of
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Alan Cooper (1971),
provost of
Jewish Theological Seminary of America , former member of
Sha Na Na
William Germano (1972), dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at
Cooper Union , former editor-in-chief of
Columbia University Press
Saul Levmore (1973), commercial law scholar, former dean of the
University of Chicago Law School
Ronald Mason Jr. (1974), president of the
University of the District of Columbia and former president of
Southern University
Reynold Verret (1976), president of
Xavier University of Louisiana
Gregory F. Ball (1977), American psychologist, dean of the
University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Thomas Worcester (1977), American
Jesuit academic, president of
Regis College, Toronto , professor of the
University of Toronto
Alan Kadish (1977), President of the
Touro College and University System
Ralph Keen (1979), professor and dean of the honors college at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
Colin Crawford (1980), 24th dean of the
University of Louisville School of Law and incoming dean of the
Golden Gate University School of Law
Samuel Hoi (1980), president of the
Maryland Institute College of Art
Daniel Gordis (1981), vice president of
Shalem College , Israel's first
liberal arts college
Mark C. Gordon (1981), first president and dean of the
Mitchell Hamline School of Law , former president of
Defiance College and dean of the
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Donald S. Siegel (1981), economist and director of the School of Public Affairs at
Arizona State University
Deborah Waxman (1989), president of
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and
Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
Jonathan H. Earle (1990), dean of
Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at
Louisiana State University
Melissa Michelson (1990), dean of arts and sciences at
Menlo College
Melanie Jacobs (1991), dean of the
University of Louisville School of Law and
Michigan State University College of Law
Ashish Jha (1992), dean of the
Brown University School of Public Health and former professor of the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sarah Bunin Benor (1997), vice provost of
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion , recipient of 2019
Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature
Actors
John B. Mason (1880), American stage actor
Ralph Morgan (1904), co-founder of
Actors Equity and first president of the
Screen Actors Guild
Nat Pendleton (1916), portrayer of
Eugen Sandow in
The Great Ziegfeld and silver-medal wrestler in the
1920 Summer Olympics
James Cagney * (1922), winner of the
Academy Award for his portrayal of
George M. Cohan in
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cornel Wilde * (1933), star of
The Greatest Show on Earth ,
Beach Red , and
Academy Award nominee for
A Song to Remember
Richard Ney (1940), actor,
Mrs. Miniver ; husband of
Greer Garson
Dolph Sweet (1948), played Carl Canisky in
Gimme a Break!
Sorrell Booke (1949), played
Boss Hogg in
The Dukes of Hazzard
Stephen Strimpell (1954), star of
Mister Terrific
George Segal (1955), star of
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ,
Ship of Fools and
Just Shoot Me! , winner of the
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1965
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 1973
Brian Dennehy (1960), winner of the
Tony Award and the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for
Death of a Salesman
Don Briscoe (1962), American actor,
Dark Shadows
Roger Davis (1962), American actor,
Dark Shadows ,
Alias Smith and Jones
William Finley (1963), film actor; co-star of
Phantom of the Paradise
Jared Martin (1965), actor,
Dallas
Ben Stein (1966), host of
Win Ben Stein's Money ; speechwriter for former US President
Richard M. Nixon
Gerrit Graham * (1970), film actor and songwriter
Ed Harris * (1973),
Academy Award -nominated actor and director,
Apollo 13 ,
The Truman Show ,
Pollock ,
Westworld
Richard Thomas * (1973), star of
The Waltons
Robert Wisdom (1976), actor,
Nashville ,
The Wire ,
Prison Break
Mario Van Peebles (1978), star of
Heartbreak Ridge and
Sonny Spoon
Jack Koenig (1981), actor
Matt Salinger (1983), actor son of
J.D. Salinger
Robert Maschio (1988), actor on
Scrubs
Matthew Fox (1989), star of
Party of Five and
Lost
Soterios Johnson (1990), American radio journalist and
WNYC host
Schuyler Grant (1993), American actress, great-niece of
Katharine Hepburn
Rachel DeWoskin (1994), actress and author,
Foreign Babes in Beijing
Jean Louisa Kelly (1994), star of
Mr. Holland's Opus
Amanda Peet (1994), star of the TV series
Jack & Jill and
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , and the film
The Whole Nine Yards
Cara Buono (1995), star of
Third Watch and
Stranger Things
Casey Affleck (1998),
Golden Globe and
Academy Award -nominated actor for
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , and actor in
Good Will Hunting and
Ocean's Eleven
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1999),
Golden Globe -winning actress for
The Honourable Woman , and star in
Secretary ,
Stranger than Fiction and
The Dark Knight
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1999), actor,
Girls
Liza Weil (1999), actress,
The Gilmore Girls
Amir Arison (2000), actor in
The Blacklist
Charlotte Newhouse (2001), actress and producer of
Comedy Central 's
Idiotsitter
Jesse Bradford (2002), actor in
Flags of Our Fathers and
Bring It On
Jake Gyllenhaal * (2002),
Academy Award -nominated actor for
Brokeback Mountain , star of
Jarhead and
Donnie Darko
Brandon Victor Dixon (2003),
Tony Award -nominated broadway actor starring in
Scottsboro Boys
Rachel Nichols (2003), actress,
Continuum ,
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Jenny Slate (2004), cast member,
Saturday Night Live
Anna Paquin * (2004), winner of the
Academy Award for
The Piano
Rider Strong (2004), star of
Boy Meets World
Julia Jones (2005), actress in
The Twilight Saga and
Dexter: New Blood
Julia Stiles (2005), star of
Save the Last Dance and
Mona Lisa Smile
Kate McKinnon (2006),
Emmy winning actress and comedian,
Saturday Night Live
Grace Parra (2006), actress, screenwriter, TV host
Emmy Rossum * (2008),
Golden Globe -nominated actress of
The Phantom of the Opera and
The Day After Tomorrow
Hal Scardino (2008), child actor known for his role in
The Indian in the Cupboard
Jeremy Blackman (2009), appeared in
Magnolia
Max Minghella (2009), appeared in
Syriana and
Art School Confidential
Spencer Treat Clark (2010), appeared in
Gladiator ,
Mystic River , and
Unbreakable
Asher Grodman (2010), actor,
Ghosts
Sarah Steele (2011), actress,
Spanglish
Remy Zaken (2012), actress on
Spring Awakening
Jin Ha (2013), actor,
Love Life ,
Devs
Devyn Tyler (2013), actress,
Clarice and
Snowfall
Gabby Beans (2014), actress,
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nominee
Kelsey Chow (2014), actress,
Pair of Kings
Cinta Laura (2014), actress and singer
Sofia Vassilieva (2014), actress,
Eloise at the Plaza ,
Eloise at Christmastime
Marjana Chowdhury (2015), model, actress, philanthropist and beauty queen
Hari Nef (2015),
transgender model, actress, and writer; signed to
IMG Models
Ben Platt * (2016), actor and singer,
Pitch Perfect ,
The Book of Mormon ,
Dear Evan Hansen , transferred to
Columbia University School of General Studies
Katie Chang * (2017), actress,
The Bling Ring ,
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Timothée Chalamet * (2017),
Academy Award -nominated actor,
Call Me by Your Name
Sami Gayle (2018), actress,
Blue Bloods ,
Candy Jar ,
Vampire Academy
Kenny Ridwan (2021), actor,
The Goldbergs
Emily Robinson (2021), actress,
The Orphans' Home Cycle ,
Eighth Grade
Kiera Allen (2022), actress,
Run
Peyton Elizabeth Lee (2026), actress,
Andi Mack
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Avantika Vandanapu (2027), actress,
Mean Girls
Activists
Samuel Cutler Ward (1831), lobbyist known as the "King of the Lobby"
Henry Bergh * (1834), founder of the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Arthur B. Spingarn (1897), civil rights activist; elected president of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1965; namesake of the
Moorland–Spingarn Research Center at
Howard University
George Marshall (1926), political activist and conservationist
John B. Trevor Jr. (1931), director and treasurer of the
Pioneer Fund
David Crook (1935), British-born Communist ideologue, activist, spy, husband of
Isabel Crook , professor at
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Robert Gnaizda (1957), lawyer, activist, and co-founder of advocacy group
Greenlining Institute
Morris J. Amitay (1958), lobbyist, former executive director of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Richard Grossman (1965), critic and organizer against
corporate power, former director of
Greenpeace USA
Brian Flanagan (1968), former member of the
Students for a Democratic Society and
Weather Underground
David Gilbert (1966), leader of
Students for a Democratic Society and participant in the deadly
1981 Brink's robbery with
Kathy Boudin , the mother of his child
Chesa Boudin
Ted Gold * (1968), student activist, leader of the
Students for a Democratic Society and member of the
Weatherman group who died in the 1970
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
John Jacobs (1969), student activist, member of
Students for a Democratic Society and the
Weather Underground , went into hiding after the fatal 1970
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Mark Rudd (1969), president of
Students for a Democratic Society and member of the
Weather Underground
Stephen Donaldson (1970), bisexual political activist, founder of the
Student Homophile League at Columbia, the oldest college
LGBTQ organization in the world
David Kaczynski (1970), anti-death penalty activist, brother of
Unabomber
Theodore Kaczynski
Robert Roth * (1970), American activist associated with the
Students for a Democratic Society
Sheena Wright (1990), CEO of the
United Way of
New York City
David Kaiser (1991), American philanthropist, environmental activist, president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, great-great-grandson of
John D. Rockefeller
Benjamin Jealous (1994), president of the
NAACP
Ai-jen Poo (1996), activist, recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
Risë Wilson (1997), activist
Anna Baltzer (2002), activist for Palestinian human rights
Ady Barkan (2006), activist and organizer for
Center for Popular Democracy
Tourmaline (2006), activist and filmmaker
Emma Sulkowicz (2015), American performance activist known for
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) and
Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol
Coleman Hughes (2020), American activist and writer on issues of race and racism
Henry Williams (2022), political activist and chief of staff of the
Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign
Artists and architects
James Renwick Jr. (1836),
Gothic Revival architect who designed
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Charles C. Haight (1861), American architect who designed the old campus of
Columbia University , numerous buildings at
Yale University as well as the campus of
General Theological Seminary
Walter Satterlee (1863), American figure and genre painter
Lockwood de Forest * (1872), American artist, interior and furniture designer
Devereux Emmet (1883), pioneering
golf course architect who designed the golf course at the
Congressional Country Club
Henry Martyn Congdon (1854), architect and designer
William Ordway Partridge (1885), sculptor who built the
statue of Thomas Jefferson at
Columbia University ,
Kauffmann Memorial , and the statue of
Pocahontas in
Jamestown, Virginia
Goodhue Livingston (1888), founder of the architectural firm
Trowbridge & Livingston
Henry Shrady (1894), sculptor known for the
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Julian Clarence Levi (1896), architect, watercolorist, philanthropist
Gilbert White (1900), American painter
Henry Rutgers Beekman (1903), American watercolorist
Ely Jacques Kahn (1904), commercial architect who designed the
Municipal Asphalt Plant , the
Film Center Building ,
120 Wall Street ,
399 Park Avenue ,
One Penn Plaza , and
1095 Avenue of the Americas
Rockwell Kent * (1907), illustrator
Eric Gugler (1911), architect who designed the current
Oval Office
Albert Mayer (1916), American planner who designed the master plan of
Chandigarh
Isamu Noguchi * (1926), sculptor, namesake of the
Noguchi table and
Noguchi Museum , designer of the
Moerenuma Park ,
Bayfront Park , and the
Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
Charles Alston (1929), artist
Ad Reinhardt (1935), Abstract Expressionist artist and critic
Arthur Rothstein (1935), photographer for the
Farm Security Administration and
Look magazine
Vincent Kling (1938), architect, co-founder of
KlingStubbins
Ed Rice (1940), American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter
Charles Saxon (1940), cartoonist
Burton Silverman (1949), painter
George S. Zimbel (1951), photographer
Frederick C. Baldwin (1955), photographer
Edward Koren (1957), cartoonist
John Giorno (1958), artist, subject of
Andy Warhol 's first movie,
Sleep
Robert A. M. Stern (1960), traditionalist architect, dean of the
Yale School of Architecture
Scott Burton (1962), urban sculptor
Bernard Cywinski (1962), architect and co-founder of the firm
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson , which designed the
Liberty Bell center in
Philadelphia , the
Apple Fifth Avenue store, and the
Seattle City Hall
Stephen A. Lesser (1966), architect
Gordon Gahan (1967)*, photographer for
National Geographic
Edwin Schlossberg (1967), designer, author, artist; husband of
Caroline Kennedy
Francis Levy (1969), comic book artist
Greg Wyatt (1971), sculptor-in-residence at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine , known for designing the
Peace Fountain
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (1974), photographer and documentary filmmaker
Michael Middleton Dwyer (1975), American architect known for his restoration works
James Sanders (1976), architect who co-wrote
New York: A Documentary Film with
Ric Burns '78
Ephraim Rubenstein (1978), artist
Peter Pennoyer (1980), architect known for the renovation of the
Colony Club and the
Knickerbocker Club , great-great-grandson of
J.P. Morgan
John Arcudi (1983), cartoonist for
DC Comics and creator of
The Mask and
Major Bummer
Jacob Collins (1986), American realist painter, founder of the
Grand Central Academy of Art
Lance Hosey (1987), architect, author of
The Shape of Green ;
Chief sustainability officer of the global architectural firm
RTKL Associates
Matthew Weinstein (1987), American visual artist, son of American physician
I. Bernard Weinstein
Christopher Payne (1990), photographer
Peter Mendelsund (1991), creative director of
The Atlantic , graphic designer
Rachel Feinstein (1993), sculptor
Alison Castle (1995), photographer and book editor, daughter of artist
Wendell Castle
Ricardo Cortés (1995), illustrator,
It's Just a Plant
Damon Winter (1997),
Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer for
The New York Times
Damon Rich (1997), urban designer, 2017
MacArthur Fellow
Nicola López (1998), American artist, professor at the
Columbia University School of the Arts
Emily Abruzzo (2000), co-founder of
Abruzzo Bodziak Architects
Steffani Jemison (2003), American artist
Ariel Schrag (2003), American cartoonist
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (2010), Thai-American artist known for the project
Beyond Curie
Athletes
Hall of Famer
Eddie Collins
Hall of Famer
Lou Gehrig
Olympian
Nicole Ross
John Cox Stevens (1803), founder and first
commodore of the
New York Yacht Club , won the first
America's Cup trophy in 1851
Reginald Sayre (1881),
orthopedic surgeon and Olympic
sport shooter
Charles Sands (1887), American athlete who won the gold medal in
Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Oliver Campbell (1891), American
tennis player ; youngest male winner of the
US Open Singles title from 1890 to 1990
Charles Townsend (1893), first
Olympic fencer from the
Ivy League ; silver medalist in the
1904 Summer Olympics
Gustavus Town Kirby (1895), president of the
United States Olympic Committee from 1920 to 1924, and
Amateur Athletic Union from 1911 to 1913
Leo Fishel (1899), first Jewish pitcher in
Major League Baseball
Harold Weekes (1903), football player for the
Columbia Lions , member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
Harry A. Fisher (1905),
basketball coach for
Columbia ,
United States Military Academy ,
St. John's ; member of the
Basketball Hall of Fame
Robert LeRoy (1905), two-time silver medalist in the
1904 Summer Olympics
Eddie Collins (1907), baseball player for the
Chicago White Sox and member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
Marcus Hurley (1908),
cyclist who won four gold medals in
Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Jay Gould II * (1911), American
real tennis player,
Olympic gold medalist in 1908 and world champion from 1914 to 1916; great-grandson of financier
Jay Gould
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Ted Kiendl (1911),
National Basketball Player of the Year in 1911; corporate lawyer, argued
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins before the Supreme Court in 1938
George Smith (1916), pitcher for the
Philadelphia Phillies
Millard Bloomer (1920),
Olympic fencer
Harold Bloomer (1924),
Olympic fencer
Lou Gehrig * (1925), first baseman for the
New York Yankees and member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
Walter Koppisch (1925), football player for the
New York Giants , member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
Ralph Furey (1928), football player, athletic director of
Columbia University from 1943 to 1968
Art Smith (1928), baseball player for the
Chicago White Sox
Fresco Thompson (1928), baseball player for the
Philadelphia Phillies
Hugh Alessandroni (1929),
Olympic bronze medalist fencer
Norman Armitage (1931),
Olympic bronze medalist fencer; first person to be inducted into the
USFA Hall of Fame
Lou Bender (1932), pioneer player with the
Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball; later a successful trial attorney
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George Gregory Jr. (1933), first African American basketball player to be selected as
All-American
Alfred Skrobisch (1933),
Olympic fencer
Cliff Montgomery (1934), led the
Columbia Lions football team to victory in the
Rose Bowl
John O'Brien (1938), basketball player for the
Akron Wingfoots
Ben Johnson (1938), American sprinter who rivaled
Jesse Owens
Sid Luckman (1939), NFL Hall of Fame
Chicago Bears quarterback
Ken Germann (1943), football coach, athletic director of
Columbia University , and former
Southern Conference commissioner
Paul Governali (1943), football player for the
Boston Yanks and
New York Giants
Walt Budko (1948), basketball player for
Baltimore Bullets and
Philadelphia Warriors
Bruce Gehrke (1948), football player for
New York Giants
Bill Swiacki (1948), player for
New York Giants , member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
Lou Kusserow (1949), football player for
Hamilton Tiger-Cats and
New York Yanks
John Azary (1951), basketball player, recipient of the
Haggerty Award
Jack Molinas (1953),
NBA player for the
Fort Wayne Pistons
Jack Rohan (1953), head coach of the
Columbia Lions men's basketball team from 1961 to 1974, and 1990 to 1995
George Shaw (1953), American
Olympic
triple jumper
Richard Ballantine * (1967), cyclist and cycling advocate; son of
Ian Ballantine '38 of
Ballantine Books
James Margolis (1958), Olympic fencer
James Melcher (1961), Olympian fencer, president of
Fencers Club and hedge fund manager
Robert Contiguglia (1963), soccer player, former president of the
United States Soccer Federation
Peter Salzberg (1964), head coach of
Vermont Catamounts men's basketball from 1972 to 1981
Archie Roberts (1965), former football player for the
Miami Dolphins and cardiac surgeon
Jim McMillian (1968),
NBA player for the
Los Angeles Lakers ,
Buffalo Braves ,
New York Knicks and
Portland Trail Blazers
Dave Newmark (1968),
NBA player for the
Chicago Bulls ; also played for Israeli team
Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.
Marty Domres (1969), football player for
San Diego Chargers and
Baltimore Colts
Heyward Dotson (1970), basketball player
George Starke (1971), offensive lineman for the
Washington Redskins
Henry Bunis (1975), two-time
All-American tennis player, runner-up in 1977
Chilean Open
Rick Fagel (1975), professional tennis player
Vitas Gerulaitis * (1975), champion tennis player
Thomas Losonczy (1975), American
Olympic fencer, winner of the
Congressional Gold Medal
Alton Byrd (1979), basketball player
Eric Fromm (1980), tennis player
John Witkowski (1983), football player for
Detroit Lions and
Houston Oilers
Gene Larkin (1984), member of the
Minnesota Twins 1987 and 1991
World Series championship teams
Amr Aly (1985), soccer player who won the
Hermann Trophy as the top college player of the year 1984; member of the
1984 U.S. Olympic Soccer Team and indoor soccer team
Los Angeles Lazers
Stephen Trevor (1986),
Olympic fencer
Kyra Tirana Barry (1987), team leader for U.S. Women's National wrestling team
Caitlin Bilodeaux (1987),
Olympic fencer
Howard Endelman (1987), American tennis player
Phil Williamson (1987), tennis player for
Antigua and Barbuda
Bob Cottingham (1988),
Olympic fencer
Jon Normile (1989),
Olympic fencer
Frank Seminara (1989),
Major League Baseball
pitcher for the
San Diego Padres and the
New York Mets
Tom Auth (1990), Olympic rower
Christine Vardaros (1991), professional cyclist
Ann Marsh (1994),
Olympic fencer
Ríkharður Daðason (1996), Icelandic soccer player
Marcellus Wiley (1997), football player for the
Buffalo Bills ,
San Diego Chargers and
Dallas Cowboys
Dan Kellner (1998), fencer
Pellegrino Matarazzo (1999), head coach of
VfB Stuttgart
Matt Napoleon (1999),
Olympic soccer goalkeeper
Cristina Teuscher (2000),
Olympic gold medalist swimmer
Jedediah Dupree (2001),
NCAA Champion fencer
Veljko Urošević (2003),
Serbian
Olympic rower
Fernando Perez (2004), Outfielder for the
Tampa Bay Rays
Jeremiah Boswell (2005), professional
basketball player for
BC Sliven ,
KK Strumica , and
KK Torus
Delilah DiCrescenzo (2005), American long-distance runner, inspiration and subject of the Grammy-nominated song
Hey There Delilah
Michael Quarshie (2005),
Finnish
American football player who played for the
Oakland Raiders and
Frankfurt Galaxy
Lisa Nemec (2006), Croatian long-distance runner
Miloš Tomić (2006),
Serbian
Olympic rower
Erison Hurtault (2007), Dominican sprinter
James Leighman Williams (2007), American fencer who won silver in the
2008 Summer Olympics
Emily Jacobson (2008), fencer
İhsan Emre Vural (2008), Turkish rower for
Galatasaray S.K.
Sherif Farrag (2009), Egyptian-American
Olympic fencer
Nicholas la Cava (2009),
Olympic rower
Jeff Spear (2010),
Olympic fencer
Daria Schneider (2010), fencer
Jeff Adams (2011),
Houston Texans
offensive tackle
Nicole Ross (2011),
Olympic fencer
Isadora Cerullo (2013), Brazilian-American
Olympic rugby player
Katie Meili (2013),
Olympic swimmer,
Pan American Games and
2016 Summer Olympics gold medalist
Josh Martin (2013),
Kansas City Chiefs
linebacker
John Gregorek Jr. (2014), American middle-distance runner
David Najem (2014), American soccer player for
New Mexico United and the
Afghanistan national football team
Nadia Eke (2015), Ghanaian
triple jumper ,
African Championships gold medalist in 2016
Kristine Musademba (2015), American
figure skater
Max Schnur (2015), tennis player playing on the
ATP Challenger Tour
Nzingha Prescod (2015),
Olympic fencer
Ramit Tandon (2015), professional
squash player
Jakub Buczek (2016), Canadian
Olympic rower
Sasha DiGiulian (2016), world champion climber
Jacqueline Dubrovich (2016),
Olympic fencer
Maodo Lô (2016), German basketball player for
Brose Bamberg
Robb Paller (2016), American-Israeli
Olympic baseball player
Jeff Coby (2017), American basketball player for
Xuventude Baloncesto
Cameron Nizialek (2017), football player for
Atlanta Falcons
Akua Obeng-Akrofi (2018), Ghanaian sprinter
Charlotte Buck (2018), Olympic rower
Osama Khalifa (2018), #1 ranked college squash player in the United States for the 2016–2017 season
Camille Zimmerman (2018), American basketball player for
Norrköping Dolphins
Yasmeen Al-Dabbagh (2019), Saudi Arabian sprinter
Jessica Antiles (2019), American swimmer who won silver and bronze medals in the
2017 Maccabiah Games
Dylan Castanheira (2019), American soccer player, goalkeeper for
Fort Lauderdale CF
Sophie Whitehouse (2019), goalkeeper for
Republic of Ireland women's national football team
Mike Smith (2020), American basketball player
Anthony Jackie Tang (2020), Hong Kong tennis player
John Tanguay (2020), American rower who won a silver medal in the
2020 Summer Paralympics
Dylan Geick * (2021), American wrestler and internet personality
Velavan Senthilkumar (2021),
British Junior Open Squash champion and
Asian Junior Squash champion
Nastasya Generalova (2023), American gymnast and model
Olivia Giaccio (2024), Olympic freestyle skier
Evita Griskenas (2024), American
Rhythmic gymnast
Camden Pulkinen (2024), American
Figure Skater
Abbey Hsu (2024), American basketball player
Businesspeople
Henry Rutgers (1766),
Revolutionary War hero, businessman, philanthropist, and namesake of
Rutgers University
Leffert Lefferts (1794), first president of
Long Island Bank
William Bard (1798), son of physician
Samuel Bard , founder and first president of
New York Life Insurance Company
Stephen Price (1799), theatrical manager who managed
Park Theatre in Manhattan and
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London
William Backhouse Astor Sr. * (1811), son of
John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Roosevelt * (attended, year unknown), member of the
Roosevelt family , one of the founders of the
Chemical Bank ; great-grandfather of
Theodore Roosevelt
James H. Roosevelt (1819), founder of
Roosevelt Hospital
Robert Goelet Sr. (1828), American banker and real estate developer who was associated with the founding of the
Chemical Bank
Bradish Johnson (1831), American industrialist involved in the
Swill milk scandal
Robert L. Cutting (1830), co-founder of the
Continental Bank of New York and president of the
New York Stock Exchange
Henry T. Anthony (1832), photographer, vice-president of the
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
Adrian G Iselin * (1837), financier, banker
Edward Anthony (1838), photographer and founder of
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company , largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century
John Jacob Astor III (1839), son of
William Backhouse Astor Sr.
William Henry Vanderbilt * (1841), eldest son of
Cornelius Vanderbilt ; president of the
New York Central Railroad ,
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway ,
Canada Southern Railway , and
Michigan Central Railroad
Robert Morrison Olyphant (1842), heir to trading company
Olyphant & Co. and president of the
Delaware and Hudson Railway
Charles Carow * (1844), businessman son of shipping magnate
Isaac Carow , father of first lady
Edith Carow Roosevelt
Frederic W. Rhinelander (1847), 3rd president of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1849), son of
William Backhouse Astor Sr. and husband of
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor , co-founder of
The Four Hundred list of socialites and
Florida Yacht Club
Robert L. Cutting Jr. (1856), American banker and clubman, son of
Robert L. Cutting '30
George Lovett Kingsland (1856), American merchant and railroad executive, son of
New York City mayor
Ambrose Kingsland
Goold H. Redmond (1857), American banker and sportsman
Charles Henry Marshall (1858), American businessman, former
Commissioner of Docks and Ferries of the City of New York , grandfather of publisher
Marshall Field IV
John Crosby Brown (1859), heir to investment bank
Brown Bros. & Co. , which later became
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. , the oldest
private bank in the United States
Emory McClintock (1859),
actuary ; president of the
American Mathematical Society and the
Actuarial Society of America
Robert Goelet (1860), real estate developer
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1863), American socialite, heir to the
Stuyvesant family fortune
J. Hooker Hamersley (1865), American heir, lawyer, and poet; former president of the
Knickerbocker Club
Shipley Jones (1868), American banker and clubman
William Bayard Cutting (1869), financier, philanthropist, namesake of the
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park
Robert Fulton Cutting (1871), American financier
George Beach de Forest Jr. (1871), American capitalist, bibliophile, and art collector
Stuyvesant Fish (1871), president of the
Illinois Central Railroad
James Montaudevert Waterbury Sr. (1873), industrialist, co-founder of the
New York Yacht Club
Isaac Newton Seligman (1876), heir to American investment bank
J. & W. Seligman & Co.
T. J. Oakley Rhinelander (1878), American heir and real estate developer who owned the
Schönburg castle in Germany
William Fellowes Morgan Sr. (1880), businessman, philanthropist
George Henry Warren II (1880), stockbroker and real estate developer who co-founded the
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company
Eugene Higgins (1882), American heir and philanthropist
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (1882), American socialite and sportsman
Marshall Orme Wilson (1882), banker and socialite, son-in-law of
William Backhouse Astor Jr.
George M. La Monte * (1884), chairman of
Prudential Financial from 1925 to 1927
Joseph P. Knapp * (1884), businessman, philanthropist, founder of
Ducks Unlimited
Temple Bowdoin (1885), former executive of
J.P. Morgan & Co.
Benjamin Guggenheim * (1887), American businessman, son of
Meyer Guggenheim and member of the
Guggenheim family
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. (1887), banker, prominent figure in
Thoroughbred
horse racing
Richard Stevens (1890), attorney and real estate developer in
Hoboken, New Jersey , grandson of inventor
John Stevens and son of
Stevens Institute of Technology founder
Edwin Augustus Stevens
Cortlandt F. Bishop (1891), American aviator and book collector, grandson of philanthropist
Benjamin Hazard Field
Howard Gould * (1894), financier, son of railroad tycoon
Jay Gould
Joseph Peter Grace Sr. (1894), businessman, polo player, heir to
W. R. Grace and Company ; founder of
Pan American-Grace Airways and
Grace National Bank
Samuel Bloomingdale (1895), businessman, heir to the
Bloomingdale's department store fortune
Dexter M. Ferry Jr. (1898), director of
D.M. Ferry & Co. ; member of the
Michigan House of Representatives
Charles A. Dana (1902), philanthropist who founded the
Dana Foundation and
Dana Holding Corporation
John Knowles Fitch (1902), founder of
Fitch Ratings , one of the
Big Three rating agencies
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (1903), chairman of the
Remington Arms Company , husband of
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
George Earle Warren (1903), Vice President of
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pendleton Dudley (1906), public relations executive, founder of
Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy
William Gage Brady Jr. (1908),
Chairman of Citigroup from 1948 to 1952
Edmond Guggenheim (1908), American mining executive, grandson of
Meyer Guggenheim
Ward Melville (1909), founder of the
Melville Corporation that owned
CVS Health ,
Marshalls , and
Thom McAn shoes; helped the establishment of
Stony Brook University and
Stony Brook Village Center
John Vernou Bouvier III * (1914), American
stockbroker and
socialite , father of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , transferred to
Yale College after two years
Armand G. Erpf (1917), senior partner at
Loeb, Rhoades & Co. , chairman of the
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company , financial architect of the
New York magazine
Alan H. Kempner (1917), American stockbroker and publishing executive, son-in-law of banker
Carl M. Loeb
Lindsley F. Kimball (1917), former president of
United Service Organizations and
National Urban League
Charles Bierer Wrightsman (1918), American oil executive and art collector
Armand Hammer (1919), philanthropist, chairman of
Occidental Petroleum , namesake of
Hammer Museum and
Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
George E. Jonas (1919), partner in Pellessier-Jonas-Rivet Manufacturing Co., philanthropist and founder of
Camp Rising Sun
S. Marshall Kempner (1919), American investment banker, and brother-in-law of
Peggy Guggenheim
John S. Sinclair (1920), fourth president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia , former president of
The Conference Board
Charles M. Brinckerhoff (1922), former CEO and chairman of
Anaconda Copper , world's largest producer of copper
Morris Schapiro (1923), American investment banker, grandfather of painter
Jacob Collins '86 and brother of art historian
Meyer Schapiro '24
Lawrence Wien (1925), real estate magnate and philanthropist who owns the
Empire State Building
Francis Levien (1926), lawyer, director of
Gulf and Western Industries , namesake of
Levien Gymnasium
Herbert Hutner (1928), private investment banker, attorney, and philanthropist; fourth husband of socialite
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ivan Veit (1928), former executive vice president of
The New York Times
Nathan S. Ancell (1929), co-founder of furniture company
Ethan Allen
Ira D. Wallach (1929), head of
Central National-Gottesman , the largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products
Benedict I. Lubell (1930), American oilman, philanthropist
Arthur Ross (1931), philanthropist, businessman; vice president of
Central National-Gottesman ; namesake of
Arthur Ross Pinetum in
Central Park
Henry G. Walter Jr. (1931), businessman, former chairman and CEO of
International Flavors & Fragrances and pioneer in
aromatherapy
Robert D. Lilley (1933), former president of
AT&T from 1972 to 1976 and the
New Jersey Bell Telephone Company from 1965 to 1970
Macrae Sykes (1933), investment banker, former chairman of the
American Stock Exchange
Robert David Lion Gardiner (1934), banker, landowner, 16th
Lord of the manor of
Gardiners Island , direct descendant of 17th century English settler
Lion Gardiner
Arnold A. Saltzman (1936), businessman, diplomat, art collector, philanthropist
George J. Ames (1937), philanthropist, banker at
Lazard Freres
John Kluge (1937), billionaire, chairman and founder of
Metromedia ; America's richest person from 1989 to 1990; namesake of the
John W. Kluge Center and
Kluge Prize at the
Library of Congress
Vincent Sardi Jr. * (1937), American restaurateur, owner of
Sardi's , son of
Vincent Sardi, Sr.
Fred D. Thompson (1937), president and chief executive of
Family Circle , vice president of
The New York Times
Grover Connell (1939), American rice trader known for political campaign contributions
Howard Pack (1939), chairman and president of
Seatrain Lines
Daniel Edelman (1940), founder of the world's largest
public relations firm
Edelman
Elliott Sanger (1943), co-founder of classical radio channel
WQXR-FM and advocate of
FM broadcasting
Wylie F. L. Tuttle (1944), American real estate developer who spearheaded the construction of
Tour Montparnasse
Robert Rosencrans (1949), founding chairman of
C-SPAN and president of
UA-Columbia Cablevision
Norton Garfinkle (1951), economist, businessman, public servant; chairman of the
Future of American Democracy Foundation
Mark N. Kaplan (1951), CEO of
Drexel Burnham Lambert and
Engelhard
Harvey M. Krueger (1951), CEO of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and vice chairman of
Lehman Brothers
Alan Wagner (1951), first president of
Disney Channel
Roone Arledge (1952), former president of
ABC News and winner of 36
Emmys ; creator of
20/20 ,
Nightline ,
Monday Night Football ,
ABC World News Tonight and
Primetime
Alan N. Cohen (1952), former co-owner of the
Boston Celtics and the
Brooklyn Nets ; former chairman and CEO of the
Madison Square Garden Corporation
Lawrence K. Grossman (1952), president of
PBS from 1976 to 1984 and
NBC News from 1985 to 1988
Richard Wald (1952), former president of
NBC News from 1973 to 1977
Robert A. Belfer (1955), American oilman and philanthropist, namesake of the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
Harvard University
Thomas Ludlow Chrystie II (1955), first
Chief Financial Officer of
Merrill Lynch & Company and creator of the
Cash Management Account
Alfred Lerner (1955), chairman of
MBNA Bank and ex-owner of the
Cleveland Browns
Richard Ravitch (1955), chairman of the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the
Bowery Savings Bank
Sid Sheinberg (1955), head of
Universal Pictures
Barry F. Sullivan (1955), chairman and CEO of
First Chicago Bank , deputy mayor of
New York City under
David Dinkins
Edward Botwinick (1956), IT entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Timeplex
Franklin A. Thomas (1956), former president of
The Ford Foundation
James R. Barker (1957), Chairman of
Interlake Steamship Company , former chairman and CEO of
Moore-McCormack
Peter L. Buttenwieser (1958), American educator,
Democratic Party fundraiser, member of the
Lehman family
Allen Rosenshine (1959), founder of the
Omnicom Group , chairman and CEO of
BBDO
Doug Morris (1960), CEO of
Sony Music Entertainment and former CEO of
Universal Music Group
Bernard Selz (1960), fund manager, philanthropist and anti-vaccination supporter
Frank Lorenzo (1961), former chairman of
Eastern Airlines ,
Texas Air Corporation and
Texas International Airlines
Douglas H. McCorkindale (1961), former chairman and CEO of
Gannett
William Campbell (1962), chairman of the board of
Intuit , former board director of
Apple Inc. ; founder of
Claris
Sanford Greenberg (1962), American investor, author and philanthropist
Kenneth Lipper (1962), financier and deputy mayor of New York City;
Academy Award -winning producer of
The Holocaust documentary
The Last Days
Jerry Speyer (1962), billionaire, founding partner, chairman and CEO of
Tishman Speyer and chairman of the
Museum of Modern Art
Robert Kraft (1963), chairman and CEO of
The Kraft Group ; owner of the
New England Patriots
Mark H. Willes (1963), former president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis , CEO and Publisher of
Los Angeles Times and
Deseret Management Corporation
Harry Saal (1963), co-founder of
Network General Corporation , developer of the
Sniffer
Steven Clifford (1964), former CEO of
King Broadcasting Company and
National Mobile Television
Arthur Cutler (1965), restaurateur, founder of Carmine's, Ollie's, and owner of
Murray's Sturgeon Shop
Ed Goodgold (1965), music industry executive and former manager of
Sha Na Na , coined the term "
trivia "
Michael Gould (1966), former CEO of
Bloomingdale's
Julian Geiger (1967), former CEO of
Aéropostale and current CEO of
Crumbs Bake Shop
Richard Sackler (1967), billionaire chairman and president of
Purdue Pharma known for the development of
Oxycontin
Denny Greene (1971), former executive at
Columbia Pictures , professor at
University of Dayton School of Law , and member of
Sha Na Na
Mark E. Kingdon (1971), hedge fund manager, president of Kingdon Capital Management
Philip L. Milstein (1971), former chairman and CEO of
Emigrant Savings Bank , son of billionaire real estate developer
Seymour Milstein
Christopher M. Jeffries (1972), American real estate developer, former husband of
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
Marc Porat (1972),
entrepreneur in information technology and sustainable materials; co-founder of
General Magic
John R. Eckel Jr. (1973), founder, CEO and chairman of
Copano Energy
Finbarr O'Neill (1973), former CEO of
J.D. Power
Fred Seibert (1973), TV producer and first creative director of
MTV
Robert B. Simon (1973), art dealer and historian who discovered Da Vinci's
Salvator Mundi
Albie Hecht (1974), founder of
Spike TV , head of
HLN , and former president of
Nickelodeon ; creator of
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards ;
Academy Award -nominated producer
Alan Goodman (1974),
MTV founding executive and
Nickelodeon executive
Gara LaMarche (1976), former president and CEO of
The Atlantic Philanthropies ; president of advocacy group
Democracy Alliance
J. Ezra Merkin (1976), American financier, hedge fund manager; former chairman of
GMAC Inc.
John Slosar (1978), chairman of
Swire Pacific and
Cathay Pacific airlines
Daniel E. Straus (1978), founder of
CareOne LLC and former vice chairman of
Memphis Grizzlies
Jeph Loeb (1979), television writer and EVP of
Marvel Television , four-time
Eisner Award winner
Sami Mnaymneh (1981), American billionaire, private equity executive, co-founder of
H.I.G. Capital
Charles Murphy (1981), hedge fund manager, executive of
Fairfield Greenwich Group
Tom Glocer (1981), former CEO of
Thomson Reuters and
Reuters
Christopher Radko (1981), businessman and designer, founder of the eponymous Christmas ornaments company
Donald F. Ferguson (1982),
Chief technology officer at
Dell and Professor of Professional Practice in
Computer Science at
Columbia University
Wayne Allyn Root (1983), business mogul, TV personality and producer, author, 2008
Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee
Daniel S. Loeb (1983), billionaire, hedge fund manager, founder of
Third Point Management
Kai-Fu Lee (1983), Taiwanese IT Venture Capitalist, founder of
Google China and Microsoft Research Asia
Steve Perlman (1983), founder and CEO of
Artemis Networks ; inventor of
QuickTime ,
MSN TV ,
pCell , and
Mova Contour facial motion capture technology
Jonathan Abbott (1984), president and CEO of
WGBH Educational Foundation
Randy Lerner (1984), billionaire, ex-owner of
Cleveland Browns and
Aston Villa F.C. , son of billionaire
Alfred Lerner '55
James Satloff (1984), founder of
Liberty Skis and former president and CEO of
C.E. Unterberg, Towbin
Mehmet Omer Koç (1985), Turkish billionaire and member of the prominent
Koç family of Turkey; son of billionaire
Rahmi Koç and grandson of
Vehbi Koç ; chairman of
Koç Holding , Turkey's largest conglomerate
Nikolas Tsakos (1985), Greek shipping magnate, former chairman of the
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners and husband of Greek fashion designer
Celia Kritharioti
Noam Gottesman (1986), billionaire, hedge fund manager, and co-founder of
GLG Partners
Daniel Ninivaggi (1986), CEO of
Lordstown Motors and Chairman of
Garrett Motion , former CEO of
Federal-Mogul and CEO of
Icahn Enterprises
Alex Navab (1987), head of the Americas Private Equity Business of
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Ben Horowitz (1988), technology entrepreneur, co-founder of software company
Opsware and venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz , son of conservative writer
David Horowitz '59
Dirk Edward Ziff (1988), billionaire businessman, son of publishing magnate
William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Jonathan Lavine (1988), business executive, co-managing partner of
Bain Capital and chief investment officer of Bain Capital Credit
Anita Lo (1988), celebrity chef and restaurateur
Danielle Maged (1989),
Fox Networks Group executive
Joanne Ooi (1989), former
creative director of
Shanghai Tang ; CEO of
Clean Air Network and
Plukka
Paul Greenberg (1990), former CEO of
CollegeHumor and current CEO of
Nylon
Prem Parameswaran (1990), CFO of
Eros International Plc and member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
William von Mueffling (1990), hedge fund manager, President of Cantillon Capital Management
Christoph Westphal (1990), American biomedical entrepreneur, founder of
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals ,
Acceleron Pharma , and
OvaScience
Marko Ahtisaari (1991), Finnish entrepreneur; founding CEO of
Dopplr ; son of
Martti Ahtisaari , tenth
President of Finland and
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Claude Arpels (1991), investor, entrepreneur, grandson of
Julien Arpels and heir to the
Van Cleef & Arpels fortune
Tewodros Ashenafi (1991), founder and CEO of Ethiopian company
SouthWest Energy
Jack Hidary (1991), financier and entrepreneur, co-founder of the
Automotive X Prize and
EarthWeb/Dice Inc.
E. Javier Loya (1991), CEO of OTC Global Holdings and minority owner in
Houston Texans
Zia Chishti (1992), American entrepreneur and founder of
Afiniti and
Align Technology
Erik Feig (1992),
Lionsgate co-president and former president of
Summit Entertainment ; producer of
Step Up series,
Escape Plan ,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eugene Kashper (1992), owner of
Pabst Brewing Company
Rob Speyer (1992), president of
Tishman Speyer , son of billionaire
Jerry Speyer '62
Thad Sheely (1993), former COO of
Atlanta Hawks
Shawn Landres (1994), social entrepreneur, co-founder of Jewish philanthropic organization
Jumpstart
Welly Yang (1994), real estate developer; former actor and playwright
Ann Kim (1995),
James Beard Foundation Award -winning restaurateur in
Minneapolis
Matt Pincus (1995), founder of
Songs Music Publishing , son of
Warburg Pincus co-founder
Lionel Pincus
Arnold Kim (1996), founder of
MacRumors
Daniel M. Ziff (1996), third youngest billionaire hedge fund manager in the U.S., son of publishing magnate
William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Li Lu (1996), former student leader of the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , and American
investment banker , founder of Himalaya Capital
Michelle Patron (1996), director of sustainability at
Microsoft
Scott Sartiano (1997), American restaurateur
Roo Rogers (1998), entrepreneur, business designer, writer, son of British architect
Richard Rogers
Amol Sarva (1998), founder of Knotel,
Peek , and
Virgin Mobile USA
Amanda Steinberg (1999), American wealth advisor and founder of DailyWorth
Shazi Visram (1999), founder of
Happy Family
Peter Kujawski (2000), Chairman of
Focus Features
Robert Reffkin (2000), co-founder and CEO of
Compass, Inc.
Zvi Mowshowitz (2001), founder of
MetaMed and former
Magic: The Gathering world champion
Daryl Ng (2001), executive director of
Sino Group , son of Singaporean real estate billionaire
Robert Ng
Courtney Reum (2001), American investor who founded VeeV spirits
Adriana Cisneros (2002), Vice Chairman and CEO of
Grupo Cisneros ; daughter of Venezuelan media mogul
Gustavo Cisneros
Ellen Gustafson (2002), businesswoman, social entrepreneur, food activist, co-founder of
FEED Projects and former spokesperson for the
World Food Programme
Peter Koechley (2003), co-founder of
Upworthy and former managing editor of
The Onion
Aaron Bay-Schuck (2003), CEO and co-chairman of
Warner Records , stepson of
Star Trek actor
Leonard Nimoy
Carter Reum (2003), American author and entrepreneur, founder of VEEV Spirits and known for his romance with socialite
Paris Hilton
Anna Fang (2004), Chinese investor, CEO of
ZhenFund
Jamie Hodari (2004), co-founder of
Industrious
Alicia Yoon (2004), founder of Peach and Lily, a Korean skincare store based in New York
Doug Imbruce (2005), founder of
Qwiki and Podz
John Kluge Jr. (2005), American philanthropist, investor, activist, son of
John Kluge '37
Alana Mayo (2006), president of
Orion Pictures
Liesel Pritzker Simmons (2006), former
child actress ,
A Little Princess ; granddaughter of businessman
Abram Nicholas Pritzker , heiress to the
Hyatt hotels fortune,
philanthropist
Wayne Ting (2006), CEO of
Lime
Marco Zappacosta (2007), co-founder and CEO of
Thumbtack , son of
Logitech founder
Pierluigi Zappacosta
Adam Pritzker (2008), co-founder of
General Assembly , grandson of
Jay Pritzker
Jared Hecht (2009), co-founder of
GroupMe
Ariana Rockefeller (2009), American fashion designer and great-great-granddaughter of
John D. Rockefeller
Zach Sims * (2012), co-founder of
Codecademy
Beverly Leon (2014), former midfielder of
Sunderland A.F.C. Ladies , CEO of Local Civics
Nicole LaPointe Jameson (2016), CEO of
Evil Geniuses
Jonah Reider (2016), chef, founder of the supper club
Pith
Korawad Chearavanont * (2017), Thai internet entrepreneur and grandson of
Dhanin Chearavanont
Journalism and media figures
Arts critics
Gustav Kobbé (1877), opera scholar and music critic of the
New York Herald
Clifton Fadiman (1925), book critic for
The New Yorker and judge for the
Book of the Month Club
Edward Downes (1933), music critic, former host on the
Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts , son of music critic
Olin Downes
Ralph J. Gleason (1938), music critic for the
San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of
Rolling Stone
Eugene Williams (1938), jazz critic, founder of
Jazz Information
Allan Temko (1947), architecture critic of the
San Francisco Chronicle and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Andrew Sarris (1951), film critic
Martin Gottfried (1955), critic, author, and biographer
Donald Kuspit (1955), art critic
Morris Dickstein (1961), cultural critic and professor at
The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Denby (1965), film critic for
The New Yorker
Michael Feingold (1966), lead theater critic for
The Village Voice
Martin Filler (1970), architecture critic
Gerrit Henry (1972), art critic, author, poet
Jed Perl (1972), art critic; son of Nobel laureate
Martin Lewis Perl GSAS '55
Lucy Sante (1976), literary critic
Tim Page (1979), music critic of
The Washington Post and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Jonathan Beller (1985), cultural critic, professor at
Pratt Institute
Michael Riedel (1989), theater critic for
New York Post
Ben Ratliff (1990), journalist and music critic
Neil Strauss (1991), music critic and best-selling author
Justin Shubow (1999), architectural critic, former chairman and member of the
United States Commission of Fine Arts
Helena Andrews (2002), pop culture critic
Broadcasters
Robert Siegel (1968), host of
All Things Considered on
National Public Radio
Jim Gardner (1970), anchor for
WPVI-TV news in
Philadelphia
Christopher Kimball (1973), celebrity chef, editor-in-chief of
Cook's Illustrated and host of
America's Test Kitchen
George Whipple III (1977), lawyer and society correspondent for
NY1
Pimm Fox (1982),
Bloomberg Radio and
Bloomberg Television anchorman
Fred Katayama (1982), anchor on
Reuters Television
James Rubin (1982),
Sky News anchorman; former
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the
Clinton Administration ; spokesman for the presidential campaigns of
Wesley Clark and
John Kerry ; husband of
Christiane Amanpour
George Stephanopoulos (1982),
ABC News personality; senior advisor to U.S. President
Bill Clinton 's administration
Greg Burke (1982), former
Fox News correspondent and director the
Holy See Press Office
Claire Shipman (1986),
ABC News correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen (1987),
CNN 's senior medical correspondent
Alexandra Wallace (1988), executive producer of
NBC Nightly News
Soterios Johnson (1990), host of
Morning Edition on
National Public Radio
Alexis Glick (1994), anchorwoman for the
Fox Business Network
Suzy Shuster (1994),
Emmy Award -winning sportscaster with
ABC Sports
Max Kellerman (1998), American
boxing commentator and host of
HBO World Championship Boxing
Gideon Yago (2000),
MTV News correspondent
Jonathan Lemire (2001), journalist and host of
MSNBC 's
Way Too Early
Charlotte MacInnis (2002),
China Central Television anchor known by the
stage name Ai Hua; host of
Growing up with Chinese
Buzzy Cohen (2007),
Jeopardy! guest host and contestant, co-host of
The Chase
Meghan McCain (2007), former co-host of
The View , blogger and daughter of Arizona senator
John McCain
Editors
Francis Pharcellus Church (1859), editorial writer for the
New York Sun and author of
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Horatio Sheafe Krans (1894), author and editor
Simeon Strunsky (1900), literary editor of the
New York Evening Post and editorial writer for
The New York Times
Lester Markel (1914), The section of
The New York Times edited by Markel, "Review of the Week", won the Special Awards and Citations
Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
Daniel Longwell (1922), co-founder and managing editor of
Life
Theodore M. Bernstein (1924), assistant managing editor of
The New York Times
Herbert Solow (1924), editor of
Fortune
Groff Conklin (1927),
science fiction anthologist
Emanuel Freedman (1931), foreign editor of
The New York Times
James Wechsler (1935), editorial page editor of the
New York Post
David Perlman (1939), former science editor of the
San Francisco Chronicle
Lester Bernstein (1940), former editor-in-chief of
Newsweek
Werner Wiskari (1941), international news editor of
The New York Times
Lucien Carr (1946), editor for
United Press International
Byron Dobell (1947), editor of
American Heritage ,
Esquire ; mentor to journalists
Tom Wolfe ,
David Halberstam , and
Mario Puzo
Charles Peters (1949), founder and former editor-in-chief of
The Washington Monthly
Ashbel Green (1950), senior editor and vice president of
Alfred A. Knopf
Emile Capouya (1951), literary editor of
The Nation from 1969 to 1981
Robert Gottlieb (1952), editor of
The New Yorker and president of
Alfred A. Knopf
Lawrence Van Gelder (1953), editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of
The New York Times
Max Frankel (1952),
Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of
The New York Times
Richard Locke (1962), critic, essayist and first editor of new incarnation of
Vanity Fair magazine
Leslie Pockell (1962), editor for
Grand Central Publishing
Carey Winfrey (1963), editor-in-chief of
Smithsonian magazine from 2001 to 2011
Clark Hoyt (1964), public editor of
The New York Times
Myron Magnet (1966), editor of
City Journal from 1994 to 2006,
National Humanities Medal recipient
Chilton Williamson (1969), editor of the Chronicles magazine for the
Rockford Institute
Richard Snow (1970), editor of
American Heritage magazine
Paul Spike (1970), first American editor of
Punch
Leon Wieseltier (1974), literary editor,
The New Republic
Scott McConnell (1975), founding editor of
The American Conservative
Dean Baquet (1978),
Pulitzer Prize -winning executive editor of
The New York Times
John Glusman (1978), editor-in-chief of
W. W. Norton & Company
Marcus Brauchli (1983), former managing editor,
The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of
The Washington Post
Michael Caruso (1983), former editor-in-chief of
Smithsonian who coined the term "
elevator pitch "
Max Alexander (1987), senior editor of
People
Dave Kansas (1990), COO of
American Public Media Group ; former editor-in-chief of
TheStreet.com
Charles Ardai (1991), founder of
Juno and
Hard Case Crime
Janice Min (1991), former editor of
Us Weekly , co-president and chief creative officer of
Guggenheim Partners , head of
The Hollywood Reporter and
Billboard
Tim Griffin (1992), former editor-in-chief of
Artforum , director and chief curator of
The Kitchen
Michael Schaffer (1995), editor of
Washingtonian and former editor of
Washington City Paper
Franklin Foer (1996), editor,
The New Republic
Marco Roth (1996), co-founder and editor of
n+1
Christopher Bollen (1998), journalist, essayist, and former editor-in-chief of
Interview Magazine
Eli Sanders (1999), associate editor of
The Stranger and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2012
Sam Dolnick (2002), assistant managing editor of
The New York Times , member of the
Ochs-Sulzberger family
Yoni Appelbaum (2003), senior editor for politics,
The Atlantic
Matthew Continetti (2003), associate editor and writer,
The Weekly Standard
Will Welch (2003), editor-in-chief of
GQ
Bari Weiss (2007), editor at
Tablet and
The New York Times
op-ed section
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2008), journalist and senior editor of
The Nation
Journalists
William Henry Leggett (1837), botanist and journalist who founded the
Torrey Botanical Bulletin
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1867),
muckraking journalist, "father of investigative journalism"
Herbert Agar (1919), journalist and historian, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934
Matthew Josephson (1920), American journalist credited with popularizing the term "
Robber baron "
Herbert Matthews (1922), foreign correspondent for
The New York Times who first reported
Fidel Castro alive in the Sierra Maestra
David Cort (1924), foreign news editor at
Life magazine
William Brown Meloney V (1926), American journalist, son of noted journalist
Marie Mattingly Meloney
Ernest Cuneo (1927), president,
North American Newspaper Alliance
Harold Isaacs (1930), American journalist and MIT Professor who wrote extensively on the
Chinese Civil War
Peter C. Rhodes (1933), American journalist who worked for
United Press International and the
United States Office of War Information
Harry Schwartz (1940), editorial writer for
The New York Times
Phelan Beale Jr. (1944), journalist; first cousin of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Charles E. Silberman (1945), author and journalist
Kennett Love (1948), journalist for
The New York Times
David Wise (1951), author of
espionage and
national security nonfiction
Daniel S. Greenberg (1953), American science journalist, brother of
Jack Greenberg '45
Barry Schweid (1953),
Associated Press correspondent
Walter Karp (1955), journalist, historian, contributing editor to
Harper's Magazine
Warren Boroson (1957), journalist; editor of
Fact Magazine
William E. Burrows (1960), author and journalist; founder of the
Alliance to Rescue Civilization
Thomas Lippman (1961), journalist and author specializing in the Middle East, correspondent for
The Washington Post
Lars-Erik Nelson (1962),
New York Daily News columnist
Allen Young (1962), journalist, author, political activist
Bernard L. Stein (1963), American journalist and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1998
Michael Drosnin (1966), journalist and author on the
Bible code
Juan Gonzalez (1969),
New York Daily News columnist
Jeffrey Bruce Klein (1969), investigative journalist and co-founder of
Mother Jones
James Simon Kunen (1970), author of articles for
Newsday ,
People ,
The New York Times Magazine and the novel
The Strawberry Statement
Glenn Frankel (1971), journalist for
The Washington Post , winner of the 1989
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Juris Kaža (1971), journalist for Latvian News Agency
LETA
Jonathan Freedman (1972), American journalist and winner of the 1987
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
John Brecher (1973), American journalist and wine critic for
The Wall Street Journal
Michael Wolff (1975), media columnist for
New York Magazine and
Vanity Fair , author of controversial book
Fire and Fury on
Donald Trump
Bill Minutaglio (1976), American journalist, biographer of
George W. Bush
D. D. Guttenplan (1978), London correspondent and current editor of
The Nation
Michael Musto (1978), gossip columnist for
The Village Voice
Andrea di Robilant (1979), Italian journalist for
La Stampa and professore
Tim Weiner (1979),
Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter for
The New York Times specializing in national security matters
Kevin Baker (1980), freelance journalist and novelist
John Leland (1981), journalist for
The New York Times
Jason Zweig (1982), financial journalist and columnist for
The Wall Street Journal
Barry C. Lynn (1983), American journalist, senior fellow at the
New America Foundation
Ashley Kahn (1983), Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, and producer
Daniel Wattenberg (1983), American journalist for
The Washington Times , son of neoconservative pundit
Ben J. Wattenberg
N.J. Burkett (1984), award-winning correspondent for
WABC-TV
Matthew Cooper (1984),
Time magazine White House correspondent and defendant in the
Valerie Plame investigation
Tom Watson (1984), journalist, entrepreneur
Thomas Vinciguerra (1985), journalist, editor and author
Naftali Bendavid (1986), Congress correspondent for
The Wall Street Journal
Susan Benesch (1986), journalist,
free speech advocate
Elizabeth Rubin (1987), American journalist for
The New York Times Magazine , sister of
Bloomberg News executive editor
James Rubin '82
Aram Roston (1988), American investigative journalist
Edward Lewine (1989), author and freelance journalist
Sam Marchiano (1989), television sportscaster, documentarian and activist, daughter of sportscaster
Sal Marchiano
David Streitfeld (1989), book reporter for
The Washington Post ; winner of the 2013
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Caroline Glick (1991), Israeli journalist, editor, writer
Warren St. John (1991), journalist for
The New York Times and former CEO of
Patch
Michael J. Socolow (1991), broadcast journalist and professor at the
University of Maine
Jesse Eisinger (1992), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for
ProPublica
Jean H. Lee (1992), former
Associated Press bureau chief in
Pyongyang and
Seoul
Jori Finkel (1992), art reporter for
The New York Times and
Los Angeles Times
Olivier Knox (1992), chief Washington correspondent for
Sirius XM and former president of the
White House Correspondents' Association
Jim Frederick (1993), American author and journalist
Russell Gold (1993), journalist for
The Wall Street Journal and
Pulitzer Prize -finalist
Michael Rothfeld (1993), journalist for
The Wall Street Journal and winner of the 2019
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Brad Stone (1993), journalist for
Bloomberg Business
Anne Kornblut (1994), correspondent for
The Washington Post , winner of the 2014
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Joshua Prager (1994), journalist and author who writes on historical secrets
Jodi Kantor (1996), writer and former editor on culture and politics for
The New York Times , winner of the 2018
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Harriet Ryan (1996), journalist and winner of the 2019
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Robin Shulman (1996), freelance journalist
Kate Kelly (1997), journalist for
The New York Times
Nicholas Kulish (1997), Berlin bureau chief for
The New York Times and novelist
Patrick Radden Keefe (1999), writer and investigative journalist
David Epstein (2002), investigative reporter at
ProPublica and author of the New York Times bestseller
The Sports Gene
Nick Schifrin (2002),
Al Jazeera America 's Middle East correspondent
Ben Casselman (2003), economics reporter at
The New York Times
Jonah Lehrer (2003), former writer for
The New Yorker discharged for falsifying quotes
Poppy Harlow (2005), correspondent for
CNN
Sarah Maslin Nir (2005), investigative journalist for
The New York Times
Marc Tracy (2007), journalist for
The New York Times , recipient of a 2011
National Magazine Award and a 2012
National Jewish Book Award
Linette Lopez (2008), journalist for
Business Insider involved in the
December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensions
Nellie Bowles (2010), technology journalist for
The New York Times
Cecilia Reyes (2015), winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2022
Pundits
Frank Chodorov (1907), conservative activist, founder of the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute , editor of
The Freeman
Arnold Beichman (1934), conservative critic
Ralph de Toledano (1938), conservative commentator, editor of
National Review and
Newsweek
Joseph Kraft (1947), political columnist, speechwriter for
John F. Kennedy
Jules Witcover (1949), columnist,
The Baltimore Sun
Norman Podhoretz (1950), a "father of
neoconservatism ", editor of
Commentary Magazine and author of Making It
Jeffrey Hart (1952), conservative cultural critic and advisor to the
Dartmouth Review
David Horowitz (1959), conservative commentator and activist; author of the
Academic Bill of Rights
Herbert London (1960), conservative activist; former professor at
New York University and first dean of the
Gallatin School of Individualized Study ; former president of conservative think tank
Hudson Institute
D. Keith Mano (1963), conservative political commentator for
National Review
Lawrence Auster (1971),
Traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist
Andrew Levy (1988), conservative commentator and host of
Red Eye on
Fox News
Sports journalists
Legal and judicial figures
Richard Harison (1764), first
United States Attorney for the District of New York
Peter van Schaack (1767), American loyalist and attorney
Abraham Van Vechten (1780s), two-time
New York Attorney General
Anthony Bleecker (1791), lawyer and founding member of the
New-York Historical Society
Samuel Jones Jr. (1793),
Recorder of New York City ;
Chancellor of New York; Chief Justice of the New York City
Superior Court
Augustus B. Woodward (1793), first
Chief Justice of the
Michigan Territory ; one of the founders of the
University of Michigan
Thomas Phoenix (1795),
New York County District Attorney
Pierre C. Van Wyck (1795),
New York County District Attorney ;
Recorder of New York City
William P. Van Ness (1797), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Sampson Simson (1800), attorney, philanthropist, remembered as the "father of
Mount Sinai Hospital "
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1804), son of
Alexander Hamilton , attorney, soldier, and member of the
New York State Assembly
Hugh Maxwell (1808),
New York County District Attorney and
Collector of the Port of New York
Matthew C. Paterson (1809),
New York County District Attorney
Ogden Hoffman (1812), former
New York State Attorney General ,
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York , and U.S. congressman from New York
Frederic de Peyster (1819), New York attorney
Theodore Sedgwick III (1829),
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Blatchford (1837), associate justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court , Chief judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Ogden Hoffman Jr. (1840), judge on the
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
William Colford Schermerhorn (1840), lawyer, philanthropist, trustee of
Columbia University
Peter B. Sweeny * (1840s),
New York County District Attorney in 1858
Alexander McCue (1845),
Solicitor of the United States Treasury from 1885 to 1888
Joseph Larocque (1849), attorney; president of the
New York City Bar Association
Frederic René Coudert Sr. (1850), lawyer, founder of international law firm
Coudert Brothers
Myer J. Newmark * (1850s), youngest city attorney in the history of Los Angeles
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1857), lawyer and social reformer who founded the
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ; grandson of
U.S. Vice President
Elbridge Gerry
Gabriel Mead Tooker (1859), American lawyer and clubman, father in law of
Whitney Warren of architectural firm
Warren and Wetmore
Edgar M. Cullen (1860),
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Egerton Leigh Winthrop (1860), American lawyer and socialite
Emile Henry Lacombe (1863), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Henry Rutgers Beekman (1865), judge on the
New York Supreme Court , former
Corporation Counsel of New York City and
Parks Commissioner
George Goelet Kip (1865), American lawyer, heir and member of the
Goelet family
George Gosman DeWitt (1867), lawyer, philanthropist, former president of the
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
Nicholas Fish II (1867), attorney, diplomat, investment banker; son of
United States Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish
Willard Bartlett (1869),
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Lewis Cass Ledyard * (1871), personal counsel to
J. P. Morgan and namesake partner of
Carter Ledyard & Milburn , transferred to
Harvard University after freshman year
Frederic Bronson (1871), lawyer and treasurer for
New York Life and Trust Company , grandson of
American Revolutionary War surgeon
Isaac Bronson
Thomas C. Bach (1875), judge on the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Montana
Francis S. Bangs (1878), attorney at
Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and McVeigh and trustee of
Columbia College
Frederick William Holls (1878), lawyer, publicist, Secretary of the United States delegation to the
Hague Peace Conference
Edward De Peyster Livingston (1882), American lawyer and society leader during the
Gilded Age
Randolph B. Martine (1885),
New York County District Attorney from 1885 to 1887
John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (1886), lawyer and stockbroker, grandfather of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ,
Lee Radziwill and
Edith Bouvier Beale
Benjamin Cardozo (1889), associate justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court
William Bondy (1890), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Irving Lehman (1896), chief judge of the
New York Court of Appeals , son of
Mayer Lehman and member of the
Lehman family
Joseph M. Proskauer (1896), lawyer, judge, co-founder of international law firm
Proskauer Rose
Frederic Kimber Seward (1899), corporate lawyer and
Titanic survivor
Arthur Garfield Hays (1902), counsel for the
American Civil Liberties Union and lawyer in the
Scopes Trial
Benjamin Kaye (1904), lawyer, playwright, co-founder of international law firm
Kaye Scholer
George Z. Medalie (1905),
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1931 to 1933 and Republican nominee for the
United States Senate in
New York in 1932
Irwin Untermyer (1907), American jurist, civic leader, son of
Samuel Untermyer
Alexander Holtzoff (1908), judge on the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Paul Windels (1908), former
Corporation Counsel of New York City and co-founder of the
Lycée Français de New York
Emil N. Baar (1913),
New York Supreme Court justice and former chairman of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Albert Levitt (1913), judge on the
District Court of the Virgin Islands
Peter I. B. Lavan (1915), lawyer and philanthropist and namesake of
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Raymond L. Wise (1916), American attorney and director of the
American Civil Liberties Union
Horace Manges (1917), American attorney, name partner of
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Benjamin Buttenwieser (1919), partner of
Kuhn, Loeb , president of the
United Jewish Appeal , grandson-in-law of
Mayer Lehman and
Adolph Lewisohn
Alfred Egidio Modarelli (1920), judge on the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
George Rosling (1920), judge on the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Archie Owen Dawson (1921), judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Louis Nizer (1922), legendary trial lawyer who wrote
My Life in Court
Joseph Carmine Zavatt (1922), judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Alan J. Altheimer (1923), lawyer and managing partner of
Altheimer & Gray
Milton Handler (1923), antitrust expert and
Columbia Law School professor
John T. Cahill (1924),
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and founding partner of
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Paul R. Hays (1924), judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ; wrote majority opinion that found
I Am Curious (Yellow) to be not obscene
Frank Hogan (1924),
District Attorney of New York City
George Jaffin (1924), attorney and philanthropist; major patron of
Yaacov Agam
Morton Baum (1925), lawyer and arts patron, former chairman of
New York City Center
Frederick van Pelt Bryan (1925), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Abraham Feller (1925), general counsel to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Trygve Lie , close friend of
Alger Hiss
Jerome L. Greene (1926), lawyer, philanthropist
Murray Gurfein (1926), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York , famous for presiding over the
Pentagon Papers case
Herbert M. Singer (1926), lawyer, philanthropist, former director of
PepsiCo and president of
Beth Israel Medical Center
Edmund Louis Palmieri (1926), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Milton Pollack (1927), judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Silverman (1928), justice on the
New York Supreme Court ; partner at
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who represented
J. Robert Oppenheimer and
Otto Frank , father of
Anne Frank
Arthur Krim (1930), partner in Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon and co-chairman of
United Artists
Gerald Dickler (1931), lawyer, chairman of the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation and founding member of
Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Charles Miller Metzner (1931), judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Lawrence E. Walsh (1932), independent counsel in the
Iran-Contra affair ; 4th
United States Deputy Attorney General
William Golub (1934), lawyer and advisor to Governor
Nelson Rockefeller
Harold Leventhal (1934), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
John Slate (1935), lawyer and name partner of
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Daniel Mortimer Friedman (1937), judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , last chief judge of the
United States Court of Claims , and acting
Solicitor General of the United States
Wilfred Feinberg (1940), judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Hugh H. Bownes (1941), judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Richard Kuh (1941),
New York County District Attorney and prosecutor of
Lenny Bruce for obscenity
Leonard I. Garth (1942), senior judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Charles L. Brieant (1944), judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jack Greenberg (1945), civil rights lawyer who argued the
Brown v. Board of Education case before the
United States Supreme Court
Roy Cohn (1946), attorney and counsel to Sen.
Joseph McCarthy
Arthur Lazarus Jr. (1947), American Indian rights lawyer, argued
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians and was involved in the
Black Hills Land Claim
John Lowenthal (1947), lawyer and documentary filmmaker known for his defense of
Alger Hiss
Norman Dorsen (1950), professor at the
New York University School of Law and former president of the
American Civil Liberties Union
Robert O. Harris (1951), labor lawyer and Chairman of the
National Mediation Board
Norman Marcus (1953),
New York City Planning Commission general counsel and zoning expert
Richard H. Stern (1953), attorney and law professor
David Braun (1954), music industry lawyer, former president of
PolyGram Records
Alvin Hellerstein (1954), US federal judge
Isaac Shapiro (1954), head of international practice at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom , former president of
Japan Society
Clarence Benjamin Jones (1956), attorney and advisor to
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jerome H. Kern (1957), founder of
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz , former CEO of
Playboy and
Colorado Symphony
Bernard Nussbaum (1958),
White House counsel under
Bill Clinton
Ezra G. Levin (1959), lawyer, co-chair of international law firm
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
David G. Trager (1959), judge on the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Robert Abrams (1960),
Bronx
Borough President and
New York State Attorney General
Frank Tuerkheimer (1960),
Watergate prosecutor and former
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin
José A. Cabranes (1961), judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals ; first
Puerto Rican to sit in a
U.S. District Court ; current Trustee of
Columbia University
Michael B. Mukasey (1963),
Attorney General of the United States ; former chief judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
David Saxe (1963), associate justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department and former judge on the
New York Supreme Court
Peter Zimroth (1963),
Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and assistant
New York County District Attorney , professor at the
New York University School of Law
Barry Kamins (1965),
New York City Criminal Court judge and professor at the
Fordham University School of Law and
Brooklyn Law School
Howard Matz (1965), senior judge of the
United States District Court for the Central District of California
Flemming L. Norcott Jr. (1965), former Associate Justice of the
Connecticut Supreme Court
Joel Klein (1967), assistant
Attorney General of the United States ;
Chancellor of the
New York City Department of Education
Anthony C. Moscato (1967), acting
Inspector General of the Department of Justice and director of the
Executive Office for United States Attorneys
David M. Becker (1968), two-time general counsel of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Nicholas G. Garaufis (1969), judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and former chief counsel of the
Federal Aviation Administration
Jonathan D. Schiller (1969), lawyer, co-founder of
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Eric Eisner (1970), lawyer, former president of
The Geffen Company and founder of the
Young Eisner Scholars program
William Barr (1971),
Attorney General of the United States
Arthur Engoron (1971), judge presiding over the
New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization
Arthur Helton (1971), lawyer,
refugee advocate
Gerard E. Lynch (1972), judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Gary Stephen Katzmann (1973), judge on the
United States Court of International Trade
Robert Katzmann (1973), judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Eric Holder (1973),
United States Attorney General under
Barack Obama ,
Deputy Attorney General under
Bill Clinton ,
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia , judge of the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Jonathan Cuneo (1974), American lawyer, founding partner of
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
Abbe Lowell (1974), partner at
Chadbourne & Parke , Chief Minority Counsel during the
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Jeffrey L. Kessler (1975), co-chairman of
Winston & Strawn ; former Global Litigation Chair at
Dewey & LeBoeuf
Douglas Letter (1975), general counsel to the
United States House of Representatives since 2018
J. Richard Cohen (1976), former president of the
Southern Poverty Law Center
Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. (1978), federal judge of the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Rolando Acosta (1979), associate justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Frank J. Aquila (1979), American corporate lawyer, partner at
Sullivan & Cromwell
Umar Ata Bandial (1979), justice of the
Supreme Court of Pakistan and former chief justice of
Lahore High Court
Lanny A. Breuer (1980),
United States Assistant Attorney General for the
Criminal Division
Ronald Weich (1980),
United States Assistant Attorney General for the
Office of Legislative Affairs
Paul Feinman (1981), judge of the
New York Court of Appeals
Michael H. Cohen (1983), healthcare law attorney, professor at
Harvard Medical School
Miguel Estrada (1983), controversial nominee to the
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Steven Reich (1983), CEO of
Deutsche Bank Trust Company and former
associate deputy attorney general from 2011 to 2013
Gary R. Brown (1985), judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
John H. Chun (1991), judge and nominee to the
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
Andrew Ceresney (1993), chair of litigation practice at
Debevoise & Plimpton and former head of enforcement at the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Veronica S. Rossman (1993), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Nancy Abudu (1996), lawyer and nominee to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury (1998), lawyer and nominee to the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Roy Altman (2004), judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Raph Graybill (2010), attorney, chief legal counsel to
Steve Bullock and Democratic candidate in the
2020 Montana Attorney General election
Shana Knizhnik (2010), American lawyer and author known for her book Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Military leaders
Rudolphus Ritzema (1758), officer during the
American Revolutionary War
Edward Antill (1762),
colonel and military engineer of the
Continental Army who fought in the
Battle of Quebec
Nicholas Fish (177-),
American Revolutionary War officer
John Doughty (1770), served as
Commanding General of the United States Army in 1784
Stephen Lush (1770),
American Revolutionary War officer
Robert Troup (1774), soldier, lawyer, jurist, roommate of
Alexander Hamilton at King's College
Samuel Auchmuty (1775), British general,
Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and commander of the
Madras Army
Marinus Willett (1776),
colonel of the
Continental Army , leader of the
Sons of Liberty and 48th
Mayor of New York City
John Chrystie (1806),
Colonel of the
United States Army during the
War of 1812
Stephen Kearny * (1812), Conqueror of California in the
Mexican–American War
Charles Wilkes (1818), leader of the
United States Exploring Expedition to survey the Pacific Ocean; instigator of the
Trent Affair during the
American Civil War
Philip Kearny (1833),
United States Army officer
Henry M. Judah * (1840),
United States Army officer during the
Mexican–American War and the
American Civil War
John Watts de Peyster * (1840),
Civil War general, military critic and historian
Edward E. Potter (1842), officer during the
American Civil War
Augustus van Horne Ellis * (1844),
Civil War general
William Cutting * (1851), American lawyer and soldierp
Henry Eugene Davies (1857),
Civil War general
William McNeill Whistler * (1857), American
Confederate soldier and surgeon, brother of
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Alfred Thayer Mahan * (1858), president, U.S.
Naval War College and author of
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
William Jay (1859), American soldier and lawyer, 40th president of the
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York and great-grandson of first U.S. chief justice
John Jay
Alister Greene (1875), American soldier and leader during the
Gilded Age
Duncan Elliot (1884), American soldier and banker
Hamilton Fish II (1895), first American killed in the
Spanish–American War
Ulysses S. Grant III * (1902), grandson of
Ulysses S. Grant , entered with the class of 1902 but transferred to
United States Military Academy
Donald Armstrong (1909), brigadier general and commandant of the
Army Industrial College
John H. Hilldring * (1916), United States
Major General and former
Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas
Melvin Krulewitch (1916), United States
Major General and president of the
New York State Athletic Commission
John F. "Jack" Hasey * (1940), American captain in the
French Foreign Legion ; recipient of the
Order of Liberation
Musicians, composers, and lyricists
Burnet Tuthill (1909), musicologist, conductor, founder and secretary of the
National Association of Schools of Music
Roy Webb (1910), composer for
Notorious and
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Richard Hale (1914), opera and concert singer; narrator,
Peter and the Wolf
Oscar Hammerstein II (1916), lyricist for
Show Boat ,
Oklahoma! and
The King and I , among other
Broadway musical hits
Howard Dietz (1917), director of publicity for
MGM and lyricist for "
Dancing in the Dark "
Lorenz Hart (1918), lyricist for
Pal Joey and other
Broadway musical hits
Richard Rodgers * (1923), composer and collaborator with
Lorenz Hart and
Oscar Hammerstein II ; wrote music for
Carousel ,
The Sound of Music , and
Victory at Sea , among many others, one of the only two people to have won an
Emmy , a
Grammy , an
Oscar , a
Tony Award , and a
Pulitzer Prize
Elie Siegmeister (1927), composer, music teacher, writer on music
Richard Franko Goldman (1930), composer, music professor, president of the
Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977
Milton Katims (1930), conductor, music director of the
Seattle Symphony from 1954 to 1976
Mordecai Bauman (1935), American
baritone
Emerson Buckley (1936), conductor,
The Crucible ,
The Ballad of Baby Doe ; director of the
Florida Grand Opera from 1950 to 1973
Eddie Sauter (1936), jazz musician
Elliott Schwartz (1936), American composer and professor emeritus of
Bowdoin College
John La Touche * (1937), lyricist for
Cabin in the Sky and
The Golden Apple
Howard Shanet (1939), conductor and composer, former head of
Columbia University 's music department
Leonard B. Meyer (1940), composer, author, philosopher known for his contributions to the
Aesthetic theory of music
Orrin Keepnews (1943), jazz record producer and winner of the 1988
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and
Best Historical Album .
Mort Lindsey (1944), musical director for
Judy Garland and
Merv Griffin
Dick Hyman (1948), musical director for
Arthur Godfrey ; composer or arranger for
Hannah and Her Sisters and
The Purple Rose of Cairo ;
Emmy Award winner
Philip Springer (1950), composer known for writing the song
Santa Baby
Randy Starr (1951), dentist and composer for
Elvis Presley
Eric Salzman (1954), composer, producer, critic; founder of the
American Music Theater Festival and composer-in-residence of the
Center for Contemporary Opera
Malcolm Frager (1955), American piano virtuoso
Mike Berniker (1957), American musical producer and winner of nine
Grammy Awards
Billy Goldenberg (1957), American composer and winner of four
Emmy Awards
John Corigliano (1959), winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Music and
Academy Award for Best Original Score
Edward Kleban (1959), lyricist for
A Chorus Line
David Bromberg * (1960s),
Grammy Award -nominated American musician
Art Rosenbaum (1960),
Grammy Award -winning art professor and musician at
Georgia State University
Charles Wuorinen (1961), serialist composer and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Music for
Time's Encomium
Charlie Morrow (1962), American sound artist and musician
Joel Krosnick (1963), chamber musician and member of the
Juilliard String Quartet
David Rubinson (1963), record and music producer of
Apocalypse Now , founder of
San Francisco Records and
The Automatt recording studio
Art Garfunkel (1965), singer of
Simon and Garfunkel , famous for the song "
The Sound of Silence "
Daniel Waitzman (1965), flutist and composer
Kenneth Ascher (1966),
Academy Award -nominated jazz pianist; writer of "
Rainbow Connection " from
The Muppet Movie
David Schiff (1967), composer
Tom Werman (1967), former record producer for
Epic Records
Billy Cross (1968), American guitarist, singer, and producer who lives in Denmark
Jon Bauman (1969), "Bowzer" of
Sha Na Na
James "Plunky" Branch (1969), jazz musician
Cameron Brown (1969), jazz bassist
Emanuel Ax (1970), concert
pianist
Marc Copland (1970),
jazz pianist and
composer
Scott Simon (1970), member of
Sha Na Na
Frederick "Dennis" Greene (1971), member of
Sha Na Na ; professor of law at the
University of Dayton
Armen Donelian (1972), jazz pianist
Jocko Marcellino (1972), member of
Sha Na Na
Phil Schaap (1973),
Charlie Parker authority and multiple
Grammy Award winner for engineering, production, and album notes
Eugene Drucker (1973),
Grammy Award -winning violinist, member of the
Emerson String Quartet
Sam Morrison (1973), saxophonist
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro (1973), American composer and conductor
Richard Einhorn (1975), American composer,
Voices of Light
Phil Kline (1975), American composer
Paul Phillips (1978), conductor, composer, and music scholar at
Brown University
Erik Friedlander (1982), American
cellist , son of American photographer
Lee Friedlander
Robbie Fulks * (1984),
Grammy Award -nominated American
alternative country singer-songwriter
Dave Nachmanoff (1986), award-winning American folk singer and sideman to
Al Stewart
John Bohlinger (1988), musician and music director on NBC program
Nashville Star
Laura Cantrell (1989), country musician
Peter J. Nash (1989), member of
3rd Bass
Mac McCaughan (1990), member of indie rockband
Superchunk and founder of
Merge Records
Richard Carrick (1993), pianist, composer, professor at
Berklee College of Music
Gil Shaham (1993), violinist
Jefferson Friedman (1996), American composer
Tom Kitt (1996), American composer, co-winner of the 2010
Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the
Tony Award for Best Original Score for his score of the musical
Next to Normal
R. Luke DuBois (1997), composer and artist
Lauryn Hill * (1997),
Grammy Award -winning R&B singer and songwriter, and member of
The Fugees
Sean Lennon * (1997), singer and songwriter, and son of
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono
Orli Shaham (1997), pianist
Yelena Dudochkin (1998), Ukrainian-American soprano
Scott Hoffman (1999), known by the stage name
Babydaddy , member of the rock band
Scissor Sisters
The Two Man Gentlemen Band , modern musical duo that consists of Fuller Condon (2000) and Andy Bean (2001)
Mason Bates (2000),
Grammy Award -winning composer
Tom Frank (2000), journalist, former member of indie-rock band
Jonathan Fire*Eater
Hikaru Utada * (2000), Japanese pop star
Alicia Keys * (2001),
Grammy Award -winning R&B singer and songwriter
Brian Weitz (2001), founding member of experimental band
Animal Collective
Emily and Julia Bruskin (2002), members of the
Claremont Trio
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Ken-David Masur (2002), musical director of the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra , son of conductor
Kurt Masur
Ariana Ghez (2003),
oboist
Nico Muhly (2003), American contemporary classical music composer
Anna Bulbrook (2004), American violinist formerly member of indie band
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alisa Weilerstein (2004), American cellist and 2011
MacArthur Fellow
Tristan Perich (2004), contemporary composer and sound artist
Peter Cincotti (2005),
pianist
Ellen Reid (2005), composer and recipient of the 2019
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Patrick Higgins (2006), composer, musician, producer
Michael Barimo (2006), pop singer and
whistler
Rostam Batmanglij (2006), member of alt-rock band
Vampire Weekend
Ezra Koenig (2006), member of alt-rock band
Vampire Weekend
Chris Tomson (2006), member of alt-rock band
Vampire Weekend
Chris Baio (2007), member of alt-rock band
Vampire Weekend
Call Me Ace or Anthony Patterson (2011), American rapper
Adam Met (2013), member of pop band
AJR
Danny Mercer (2013), singer, songwriter and producer
Nathan Chan (2014), cellist
Conrad Tao (2015), composer, pianist, violinist
Jack Met * (2019), member of pop band
AJR
Maude Latour (2022), singer-songwriter
Playwrights, screenwriters, producers, and directors
Henry Churchill de Mille (1875), playwright and
Georgist ; father of film pioneers
Cecil B. DeMille and
William C. deMille
William C. deMille (1900), screenwriter, director, playwright; second president of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ; co-founder of the
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Edgar Allan Woolf (1901), screenwriter,
The Wizard of Oz
George Middleton (1902), playwright and president of the
Dramatists Guild of America
Herman Mankiewicz (1917), drama critic for
The New Yorker and co-winner of the
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for
Citizen Kane
Morrie Ryskind * (1917), winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama with
George S. Kaufman for
Of Thee I Sing and co-writer of
The Cocoanuts ,
Animal Crackers , and
A Night at the Opera
Sam Spewack (1919), winner of the
Tony Award for the book of
Kiss Me, Kate
Sidney Buchman (1923), screenwriter for
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and winner of the
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Guy Endore (1923), screenwriter for
The Story of G.I. Joe
Alvah Bessie (1924), screenwriter for
Objective, Burma! and one of the
Hollywood Ten
Ferrin Fraser (1927), radio scriptwriter for
Little Orphan Annie and
Frank Buck
Joseph Mankiewicz (1928),
Academy Award -winning writer and director of
All About Eve and
A Letter to Three Wives
Frank S. Nugent (1929), screenwriter for
Fort Apache ,
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , and
The Quiet Man
Robert F. Blumofe (1930), producer of
Bound for Glory , nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture
Ben Maddow (1930), screenwriter for
The Asphalt Jungle ,
God's Little Acre and
The Mephisto Waltz
Albert Maltz (1930), screenwriter for
Destination Tokyo and one of the
Hollywood Ten
Arnold M. Auerbach (1932),
Primetime Emmy Award -winning American comedy writer
William Ludwig (1932),
Academy Award -winning screenwriter,
Interrupted Melody
Martin Manulis (1935),
CBS television and movie producer,
Days of Wine and Roses ,
The Best of Broadway ,
Climax! ,
Suspense ; creator of
Playhouse 90 ; former president of
20th Century Fox Television
Charles H. Schneer (1940), film producer known for his collaboration with
Ray Harryhausen
I.A.L. Diamond (1941), screenwriting partner of
Billy Wilder ; co-author of
Some Like It Hot ; co-winner of the
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for
The Apartment
Don M. Mankiewicz (1942), television and film writer;
Academy Award nominee for
I Want to Live!
Steve Krantz (1943), screenwriter and film producer,
Fritz the Cat
Ernest Kinoy (1947), television writer of
Murrow ,
Roots , and
Victory at Entebbe
Merrill Brockway (1948),
Emmy Award -winning American television producer
Saul Turteltaub (1954),
Emmy Award -nominated television writer and producer
William Kronick (1955), American film and television writer, director and producer
Stephen Schenkel (1956), American TV producer,
All My Children
Milton Moses Ginsberg (1957), American director,
Coming Apart
Doran William Cannon (1959), screenwriter of
Skidoo and
Brewster McCloud
Richard Pearlman (1959), former director of the
Washington National Opera as well as the training program at the
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Terrence McNally (1960),
Tony Award -winning playwright; author of
Kiss of the Spider Woman and
Ragtime
Michael Kahn (1961),
Artistic director of the
Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
Brian De Palma (1962), director of
Scarface ,
The Untouchables and
Carrie
Crawford Kilian (1962), Canadian novelist and professor at
Capilano University
Thomas H. Connell III (1964), chief stage manager of the
Metropolitan Opera
Christopher Trumbo (1964), screenwriter,
The Don Is Dead ; son of noted screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo
Paul Hirsch (1966), film editor, won the
Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for his work on
Star Wars
John Litvack (1966), EVP and head of programming at The
WB Network
Arthur Albert (1969), American cinematographer and television director
Hoyt Hilsman (1970), playwright and screenwriter, son of former
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and
Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Roger Hilsman
Glenn Switkes (1972), director and
environmentalist
Jim Jarmusch (1975), writer/director of the
Coffee and Cigarettes series
Howard Brookner (1976), director,
Burroughs: The Movie ,
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Bill Condon (1976), winner of the
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for
Gods and Monsters , director of
Kinsey and
Dreamgirls
Ric Burns (1978), documentary filmmaker,
New York: A Documentary Film ,
The Civil War
Tony Kushner (1978),
Academy Award -nominated screenwriter; winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama and
Tony Award for
Angels in America
Michael Lehmann (1978), director of
Heathers ,
40 Days and 40 Nights ,
The Truth About Cats and Dogs and
Hudson Hawk
Cyril Christo (1982), filmmaker, son of
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Ron Simons (1982), producer, four-time
Tony Award winner
P. J. Pesce (1983), co-creator of
The Adventures of Chico and Guapo , director of
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Lodge Kerrigan (1985), American motion picture screenwriter and director of
Rebecca H.
Scott McGehee (1985), director of
Uncertainty
Katharina Otto-Bernstein (1986),
Emmy Award -nominated filmmaker, producer, screenwriter daughter of German Industrialist
Werner Otto , billionaire heiress to the
Otto GmbH fortune
Cecily Rhett (1987), film editor,
Stranger Inside
Garth Stein (1987),
Academy Award -winning producer,
The Lunch Date
Dan Futterman (1989), two-time
Academy Award nominee for writing
Capote and
Foxcatcher
Jessica Bendinger (1988), writer of
Bring it On and for
Sex and the City
Andrew W. Marlowe (1988), creator of
Castle ; writer of
Air Force One ,
End of Days , and
Hollow Man
Lawrence Trilling (1988), showrunner of
Parenthood and
Goliath
Maiken Baird (1989), documentary film producer,
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Sam Bisbee (1990),
Emmy Award -winning producer and composer
Gina Fattore (1990), producer and writer of
Dawson's Creek ,
Gilmore Girls ,
Parenthood , creator of
Dare Me
Jeff Rake (1990), television producer, writer of
Boston Legal and creator of
Manifest and
The Mysteries of Laura
Dede Gardner (1990),
Academy Award -winning producer of
12 Years a Slave ; president of
Plan B Entertainment
Jenji Kohan (1991), television writer, producer, creator of
Orange Is the New Black and
Weeds
Ari Gold (1992), filmmaker, director of
Adventures of Power
Elizabeth Craft (1993), producer, screenwriter,
Fantasy Island ,
The 100 ,
Lie to Me
Ethan McSweeny (1993), former artistic director of the
American Shakespeare Center , recipient of a 2018
Helen Hayes Award
Brian Yorkey (1993), American playwright, co-winner of the 2010
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the musical
Next to Normal
Anna Winger (1993), American screenwriter, creator of miniseries
Deutschland 83 ,
Deutschland 86 , and
Unorthodox
Imara Jones (1994), political journalist and director
Nicole Kassell (1994), director and producer of
Watchmen , winner of the 2020
Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
Tim Carvell (1995), head writer of
The Daily Show and executive producer of
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Josh Fox (1995),
Academy Award -nominated documentary director,
Gasland
Adam Egypt Mortimer (1995), director of
Daniel Isn't Real ,
Archenemy
Henry Alex Rubin (1995),
Academy Award -nominated director,
Murderball
Julius Sharpe (1995), television writer and showrunner of
Making History and
United We Fall
Ramin Bahrani (1996), writer-director of
Man Push Cart ,
Chop Shop and
Fahrenheit 451 , 2021
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominee
Moira Demos (1996), American filmmaker who produced famous
Netflix documentary
Making a Murderer
Yana Gorskaya (1996),
Academy Award -nominated film editor,
Spellbound
Cetywa Powell (1996), American director and fine art photographer
Courtney Lilly (1997), television producer, showrunner of
Black-ish ,
Grown-ish ,
Mixed-ish
Nancy Schwartzman (1997), director,
Roll Red Roll
Beau Willimon (1999), creator and producer of
House of Cards and writer of the play
Farragut North
Vikram Gandhi (2000), director,
Kumaré ,
Barry , reporter for
Vice
Andrew Goldberg (2000), creator of
Netflix series
Big Mouth
Ned Benson (2001), director,
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Dan Harris (2001),
Saturn Award -winning American screenwriter,
X2 ,
Superman Returns ; director,
Imaginary Heroes
Andrew Neel (2001), American filmmaker, director of
King Kelly ,
Goat
Anna Boden (2002), co-writer of
Half Nelson and director of
Sugar ,
Captain Marvel
Tze Chun (2002), award-winning director,
Children of Invention
Lang Fisher (2002), co-creator of
Never Have I Ever , writer of
30 Rock and
Brooklyn Nine-Nine ,
Peabody Award winner in 2008
Susanna Fogel (2002),
Emmy Award and
BAFTA Award -nominated director\
Will Graham (2002), creator of the
Onion News Network , showrunner of
Mozart in the Jungle ,
Peabody Award winner in 2008
Ashley Lyle (2002), screenwriter, showrunner of
Yellowjackets
Justin Marks (2002), screenwriter,
The Jungle Book ,
Counterpart
Katori Hall (2003), American playwright,
The Mountaintop , winner of the 2021
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Raamla Mohamed (2003),
Emmy Award -nominated screenwriter,
Little Fires Everywhere
Graham Moore (2003), winner of the 2015
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his screenplay of
The Imitation Game
Lucia Aniello (2004), director of
Rough Night and
Time Traveling Bong
Gabe Liedman (2004), creator of
Q-Force , writer of
Brooklyn Nine-Nine ,
PEN15 ,
Inside Amy Schumer and
Kroll Show
Zhang Mo (2005), Chinese director, daughter of
Zhang Yimou
Laura Goode (2006), author, columnist, and producer of
Farah Goes Bang
Matt Kaplan (2006), producer of young adult films,
To All the Boys franchise
Meera Menon (2006), Indian American director,
Equity
Lilly Burns (2009), American television producer, co-founder of
Jax Media and president of
Imagine Entertainment
Eli Bush (2009), American
film and
theatre producer and winner of the
Golden Globe Award in 2018 for
Lady Bird
Jason Fuchs (2009), American actor and screenwriter,
Pan ,
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Jessica Kingdon (2009),
Academy Award -nominated Chinese American documentary director
Nuotama Bodomo (2010), Ghanaian filmmaker and co-writer of sketch comedy
Random Acts of Flyness on
HBO
Sabaah Folayan (2013), director of documentary
Whose Streets?
Political and diplomatic figures
United States political and diplomatic figures
Philip Van Cortlandt (1758), soldier, statesman,
United States Congressman from
New York
Anthony Hoffman (1760), member of the
New York State Senate
Gilbert Livingston (1760), member of the
New York Provincial Congress
Gulian Verplanck (1768),
Speaker of the New York State Assembly and president of the
Bank of New York from 1791 to 1799
Philip Pell (1770), delegate for
New York to the
Congress of the Confederation
Richard Varick (King's 1776),
Mayor of New York City and
American Revolutionary War figure; aide-de-camp of
Benedict Arnold and private secretary of
George Washington
David A. Ogden (178-),
United States Congressman from
New York
DeWitt Clinton (1786),
Governor of New York who initiated the construction of the
Erie Canal ; also served as
United States Senator from
New York
James Cochran (1788),
United States Congressman from
New York
Daniel C. Verplanck (1788),
United States Congressman from
New York
John Peter Van Ness (1789),
United States Congressman from
New York and mayor of Washington, D.C.
George Graham (1790), acting
U.S. Secretary of War under
James Madison and
James Monroe ;
Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1823 to 1830
John Graham (1790), secretary of the
Orleans Territory ;
U.S. Minister to Portugal ; acting
United States Secretary of State in 1817
Jotham Post Jr. (1792),
United States Congressman from
New York
John Randolph of Roanoke * (1792),
planter ,
United States Congressman from
Virginia ,
United States Senate from
Virginia ,
United States Ambassador to Russia ; founder of the
American Colonization Society
George Clinton Jr. (1793), brother of
DeWitt Clinton , and
United States Congressman from
New York
George Izard * (1793), general, politician; second
Governor of the Territory of Arkansas
James Parker (1793),
United States Congressman from
New Jersey
Peter A. Jay (1794), son of Chief Justice
John Jay ; member of
New York State Assembly and
Recorder of New York City
Cyrus King (1794),
United States Congressman from
Massachusetts
John Ferguson (1795),
Mayor of New York City
Daniel D. Tompkins (1795),
Vice President of the United States ;
Governor of New York
Rensselaer Westerlo (1795),
United States Congressman from
New York
Edward Philip Livingston (1796), member of the
New York State Senate , great-great-grandfather of
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rudolph Bunner (1798),
United States Congressman from
New York
John M. Bowers (1800s),
United States Congressman from
New York
Gulian C. Verplanck (1801),
United States Congressman from
New York and chairman of the
United States House Committee on Ways and Means
Gouverneur Kemble (1803),
United States Congressman from
New York and founder of the
West Point Foundry
John L. Lawrence (1803), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Alpheus Sherman (1803), member of the
New York State Senate
James Alexander Hamilton (1805), son of
Alexander Hamilton , soldier, acting
United States Secretary of State under president
Andrew Jackson , and
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1829 to 1834
Edmund H. Pendleton (1805),
United States Congressman from
New York , great-nephew of
Edmund Pendleton , first
Chief Justice of Virginia
Samuel B. Romaine (1806),
Speaker of the New York State Assembly
Egbert Benson (1807), member of the
Board of Aldermen of New York City and 4th president of the
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York , nephew of founding father
Egbert Benson
Henry H. Ross (1808),
United States Congressman from
New York
Peter Dumont Vroom (1808), U.S. Minister to
Prussia and
Governor of New Jersey
John Fine (1809),
United States Congressman from
New York
John Slidell (1810),
Confederate minister to France and a central figure of the
Trent Affair during the
American Civil War ;
United States Senator from
Louisiana , brother-in-law of Admiral
Matthew C. Perry
Charles G. Ferris (1811),
United States Congressman from
New York
Van Brugh Livingston (1811),
Chargé d'Affaires to Ecuador
Nathanael G. Pendleton (1813),
United States Congressman from
Ohio
Samuel L. Gouverneur (1817), postmaster of New York City, private secretary, nephew, and son-in-law of President
James Monroe
James I. Roosevelt (1815),
United States Congressman from
New York ; brother of
Cornelius Roosevelt
William Beach Lawrence (1818), U.S.
chargé d'affaires for Great Britain and acting governor of
Rhode Island
William F. Havemeyer (1823), three-time
Mayor of New York City
William Duer (1824),
United States Congressman from
New York
John McKeon (1825): U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York;
United States Congressman from
New York
Hamilton Fish (1827),
US Secretary of State ;
Governor of New York ;
United States Senator from
New York
John Henry Hobart Haws (1827),
United States Congressman from
New York
John D. Van Buren (1829), member of
New York State Assembly
Henry Ledyard (1830),
Mayor of Detroit ; president of
Newport Hospital
Henry Nicoll (1830),
United States Congressman from
New York
Henry C. Murphy (1830),
United States Congressman from
New York ; former
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
John L. O'Sullivan (1831),
US Minister to Portugal ; journalist who coined the term "
Manifest Destiny "; publisher of
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
James William Beekman (1834), member of the
New York State Senate ; vice-president of the
New York Hospital
Isaac C. Delaplaine (1834),
United States Congressman from
New York
John Richardson Thurman (1835),
United States Congressman from
New York
John Jay (1836), grandson of Chief Justice
John Jay ;
United States Minister to Austro-Hungary ; president of the
American Historical Association
John Vanderbilt (1837), judge, member of the
New York State Senate
William Ward Duffield (1841), officer, member of the
Michigan Senate , superintendent of the
U.S. National Geodetic Survey
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1842), former
Mayor of New York City and planner of the
first line of the
New York City Subway system; Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1877, son in law of philanthropist
Peter Cooper
Edward Cooper (1842), former
Mayor of New York City and son of industrialist
Peter Cooper
Nicholas B. La Bau (1844), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
John Winthrop Chanler (1847),
United States Congressman from
New York
Horace Carpentier (1848), first mayor of
Oakland, California and president of the
Overland Telegraph Company
A. Bleecker Banks * (1850s),
Mayor of Albany, New York ; member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Galen A. Carter (1850), member of the
Connecticut Senate
Stewart L. Woodford (1854),
Lieutenant Governor of New York and
U.S. Minister to Spain
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1858),
United States Congressman from
New Jersey
George Lockhart Rives (1868),
United States Assistant Secretary of State and chairman of the Columbia trustees
Hamilton Fish II (1869),
Speaker of the New York State Assembly and
U.S. Congressman
Thomas C. E. Ecclesine (1870), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Seth Low (1870),
Mayor of New York City and president of
Columbia University
Oscar Solomon Straus (1871), first Jewish U.S. Cabinet secretary,
U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor under
Theodore Roosevelt , and
U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , first president of the
American Jewish Historical Society
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1871), first
Mayor of New York City to preside over all five boroughs
Robert Ray Hamilton (1872), member of
New York State Assembly , great-grandson of
Alexander Hamilton
P. Henry Dugro (1876),
United States Congressman from
New York
Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. * (1877),
Governor of New York ;
United States Congressman from
New York
Thomas G. Patten (1879),
United States Congressman from
New York
Thomas F. Magner (1882),
United States Congressman from
New York
Thomas Ewing III (1883), 33rd commissioner of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Herbert L. Satterlee (1883),
Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909, son-in-law of
J. P. Morgan
William Sulzer (1884),
Governor of New York
J. Mayhew Wainwright (1884),
U.S. Congressman and
Assistant Secretary of War
Charles Henry Turner (1888),
United States Congressman from
New York ;
Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1893
James W. Gerard (1890),
United States Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917
Victor M. Allen (1892), member of the
New York State Senate
John F. Carew (1893),
United States Congressman from
New York
Harvey R. Kingsley (1893),
President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate
Edward Lazansky (1895),
Secretary of State of New York
Carl L. Alsberg (1896), 2nd
Commissioner of Food and Drugs , head of the
Food and Drug Administration from 1912 to 1921
Lewis Einstein (1898),
U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and
U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica
John Purroy Mitchel (1899),
Mayor of New York City
Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1899),
U.S. Minister to El Salvador and
U.S. Minister to Ecuador
Charles H. Tuttle (1899),
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and 1930
Republican nominee for
Governor of New York
Henry W. Shoemaker (1901), folklorist, historian, diplomat;
United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1930 to 1933
Martin C. Ansorge (1903),
United States Congressman from
New York
Stanley M. Isaacs (1903),
Manhattan
Borough president from 1938 to 1942
Allen J. Bloomfield (1094), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Fred Biermann (1905),
United States Congressman from
Iowa
John Collier (1906), U.S.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Meyer Robert Guggenheim * (1907),
United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1953 to 1954, grandson of
Meyer Guggenheim
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (1907),
United States Senator from
Wyoming
James W. Mott (1909),
United States Congressman from
Oregon
Emanuel Celler (1910), 39th
Dean of the United States House of Representatives ;
United States Congressman from
New York
William Langer (1910),
United States Senator and
Governor of North Dakota
Laurence Steinhardt (1913), former
United States Ambassador to Sweden ,
Peru ,
the Soviet Union ,
Turkey ,
Czechoslovakia and
Canada ; the first
United States Ambassador to be killed in office
Henry Frank Holthusen (1915), American lawyer, diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia nominee
Samuel Irving Rosenman (1915), 1st
White House Counsel to presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Harry S. Truman , name partner of
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Frederic René Coudert Jr. (1918),
United States Congressman from
New York
Harold F. Linder (1921), president of the
Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968; former
United States Ambassador to Canada
Arthur Levitt Sr. (1921), longest-serving
New York State Comptroller ; father of
Arthur Levitt , Chairman of the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Joseph Zaretzki (1922),
Majority Leader of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1974
Louis M. Rousselot (1923),
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Environment from 1970 to 1971
Joseph Campbell (1924), fourth
Comptroller General of the United States
Arthur F. Burns (1925),
Chairman of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Ambassador to
West Germany
Bernard M. Shanley (1925),
White House Counsel from 1953 to 1955;
Secretary to the President of the United States under
Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1955 to 1957
Joseph F. Finnegan (1928), director of the
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1955 to 1961
Wolf Ladejinsky (1928), American agricultural economist and researcher and key adviser on
land reform in Asian countries
James T. O'Connell (1928),
United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 1957 to 1961
James J. Reynolds (1928),
United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 1967 to 1969
William H. Shaw (1930), Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs from 1966 to 1968
Boris Shishkin (1930), member of the
President's Committee on Civil Rights and head of the
AFL–CIO Department of Civil Rights
Arthur E. Goldschmidt (1932),
United States Ambassador to the
United Nations Economic and Social Council from 1967 to 1969
Reed Harris (1932), former deputy director of the
United States Information Agency and victim of
McCarthyism
James Hagerty (1934),
White House Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961
Hickman Price (1934), Assistant Secretary in the
United States Department of Commerce from 1961 to 1963;
Kaiser-Frazer and
Willys executive
Faubion Bowers * (1935), General
Douglas MacArthur 's
interpreter and
Aide-de-camp during the Allied
Occupation of Japan
Hunter Meighan (1935), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Thomas Karamessines (1938),
Deputy Director of CIA for Operations from 1967 to 1973
A. Gerdes Kuhbach (1938), executive director of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1973 to 1977
Thibaut de Saint Phalle (1939), director of the
Export–Import Bank of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Arthur R. Albohn (1942), member of the
New Jersey General Assembly
Richard T. Davies (1942), former
United States Ambassador to Poland
David E. Mark (1943), former
United States Ambassador to Burundi
J. Owen Zurhellen, Jr. (1943), first
United States Ambassador to Suriname
Christian H. Armbruster (1944), member of the
New York State Assembly and the
New York State Senate
Harold Brown (1945),
U.S. Secretary of Defense and president of the
California Institute of Technology
Albert Burstein (1947),
Democratic Party politician and former
Majority leader of the
New Jersey General Assembly
Edward N. Costikyan (1947),
Democratic Party politician and reformer who oversaw the dismantling of
Tammany Hall ; partner at
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Gardiner L. Tucker (1947), former director of
IBM Research and
Assistant Secretary of Defense for System Analysis, Assistant
Secretary General of NATO
Jonathan Dean (1948), United States Representative for
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions negotiations from 1979 to 1981
Roy H. McVicker (1948),
United States Congressman for
Colorado's 2nd congressional district
Monteagle Stearns (1948), former
United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast and
United States Ambassador to Greece
Eugene Rossides (1949), American lobbyist, football player drafted by the
New York Giants in 1949, founder of the
American Hellenic Institute , former
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Donald A. Beattie (1951), Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Solar Applications in the
United States Department of Energy and Assistant Administrator of the
Energy Research and Development Administration
Lawrence Pezzullo (1951), former
United States Ambassador to Uruguay ,
Nicaragua , and special envoy to
Haiti ; executive director of
Catholic Relief Services from 1983 to 1992
Eric M. Javits (1952), former Ambassador and Permanent U.S. Representative to the
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2001 to 2003;
United States Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2003 to 2009
James D. Theberge (1952), former
United States Ambassador to Chile and
Nicaragua
G. Norman Anderson (1954), former
United States Ambassador to Sudan
David J. Bardin (1954), Deputy Administrator of the
Federal Energy Administration and Commissioner of the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
William Haddad (1954), American political operative, lobbyist, and journalist,
Peace Corps founding official, aide to the
Kennedy family , and grandson-in-law of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard E. Benedick (1955), president emeritus of the
National Council for Science and the Environment , ambassador, and chief United States negotiator to the
Montreal Protocol
John L. Hirsch (1957),
United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1995 to 1998
Morton Halperin (1958),
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ,
Director of Policy Planning for the U.S.
State Department , and member of
Richard Nixon 's
Enemies List
Shelby Brewer (1959),
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy from 1981 to 1984
Benjamin Huberman (1959), acting director of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy and acting
Science Advisor to the President in 1981
Pat Mullins (1959), Chairman of the
Republican Party of Virginia
Constantine Menges (1960), national security aide to
Ronald Reagan
James E. Connor (1961),
White House Cabinet Secretary and
Staff secretary to President
Gerald Ford
Brooks Firestone (1961), member of the
California State Assembly from the
35th district from 1994 to 1998, founder of
Firestone Vineyard and grandson of
Harvey S. Firestone
Harvey Goldschmid (1962), professor at
Columbia Law School , commissioner of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2002 to 2005
John A. McMullen (1963), Vermont businessman and
Republican Party candidate for the
United States Senate representing
Vermont in
1998 ,
2004 , and
Vermont Attorney General in 2012
Jeff Bell (1965),
Republican nominee for
United States Senate from
New Jersey in
1978 ,
1982 , and in
2014
Mark T. Cox IV (1966), former United States alternate executive director to the
World Bank
Allan I. Mendelowitz (1966), former chairman and director of the
Federal Housing Finance Board
Raymond Burghardt (1967), former director, and chairman of the
American Institute in Taiwan and
U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
Dick Morris (1967), political strategist and advisor to President
Bill Clinton and Mexican President
Felipe Calderón
Mark C. Minton (1967), former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, and former president of the
Korea Society
Robert Delahunty (1968), Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Homeland Security from 2002 to 2003; professor at
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Judd Gregg (1969),
United States Senator from
New Hampshire ;
Governor of New Hampshire ;
United States Congressman
Jerrold Nadler (1969),
United States Congressman from
New York
Daniel L. Feldman (1970), member of the
New York State Assembly from the 45th district
Dov Zakheim (1970),
Under Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2004; advisor to the US presidential administrations of
Ronald Reagan and
George W. Bush
Bob Hackett (1971), member of the
Ohio Senate from the 10th district
Luis J. Lauredo (1972),
United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2001 to 2003
Eric D. Coleman (1973), member of the
Connecticut Senate
Frank Dermody (1973), Democratic leader of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Stephen J. Flanagan (1973), former
United States National Security Council senior director for Central and Eastern Europe
Steven Simon (1973), former
United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa
Bradford Higgins (1974),
Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and
Chief Financial Officer of the
United States Department of State
Robert Wunderlich (1975), mayor of
Beverly Hills, California
Donald Yamamoto (1975), former U.S. Ambassador to
Ethiopia ,
Djibouti , and
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs , current
United States Ambassador to Somalia
Gilberto de Jesús (1976), former
Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Justice from 1997 to 1999
Mozelle W. Thompson (1976), commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission from 1997 to 2004
Howard W. Gutman (1977), former
United States Ambassador to Belgium
Robert E. Martinez (1977), 8th
Virginia Secretary of Transportation and deputy administrator of the
United States Maritime Administration
David Paterson (1977), first
African American
Governor of New York
Karl Dean (1978), mayor of
Nashville
Christopher Dell (1978), career diplomat, former
US ambassador to Zimbabwe ,
Angola , and
Kosovo
Martin J. Dunn (1979), former mayor of
Holyoke, Massachusetts and member of the
Massachusetts Senate
Jim McGreevey (1978), 53rd
Governor of New Jersey
Andres Alonso (1979), former CEO of
Baltimore City Public Schools
Timothy Horrigan (1979), member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Randal Quarles (1981), 15th
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance , chair of the
Financial Stability Board and vice chairman of the
Federal Reserve
Andrew C. McCarthy (1981),
Assistant United States Attorney and columnist for
National Review
Charles J. O'Byrne (1981), Secretary to the
Governor of New York
Michael Waldman (1982), speechwriter for president
Clinton ; president of the
Brennan Center for Justice
John Solecki (1982), U.S. official for the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , kidnapped in Pakistan by the
Balochistan Liberation United Front in 2009
Barack Obama (1983), 44th
President of the United States and first
African American to hold the office; former
Senator from
Illinois ; winner of the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Victor Cha (1983), foreign policy expert;
President Bush 's top advisor on North Korean affairs
Jay Lefkowitz (1984),
George W. Bush 's special envoy for
Human rights in North Korea
Steven Waldman (1984), senior advisor to the
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and founder of
Beliefnet
John Delaney (1985),
United States Congressman for
Maryland's 6th congressional district and candidate in the
2020 United States presidential election
Julius Genachowski (1985),
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Hector Morales (1985),
United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2008 to 2009
Daniel Lewis Foote (1986), former
United States Ambassador to Zambia
Michael Mundaca (1986), former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Sharon Block (1987), Acting Administrator of the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs , former member of the
National Labor Relations Board and professor at
Harvard Law School
David M. Friedman (1987), current
United States Ambassador to Israel
Matt Gonzalez (1987),
Green Party San Francisco mayoral candidate and independent 2008 candidate for vice president running with
Ralph Nader
Tim Kelly (1989), 74th mayor of
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Julie Menin (1989), former chairperson of
Manhattan Community Board 1 and former commissioner of the
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
Dave Hunt (1990), 65th
Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and majority leader from 2007 to 2009
Michael Leiter (1991), Principal Deputy Director of the
National Counterterrorism Center and former Deputy Chief of Staff for the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Melissa Mark-Viverito (1991), Speaker of the
New York City Council
Benjamin Lawsky (1992), attorney and New York City's first Superintendent of Financial Services
Peter Hatch (1992), Commissioner of the
New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
Eric Garcetti (1992), member of the
Los Angeles City Council and current
Mayor of Los Angeles , nominee to be
United States Ambassador to India
Rohit Aggarwala (1993), Commissioner of the
New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Matt Brown (1993),
Secretary of State of Rhode Island from 2003 to 2007; co-founder of non-partisan group
Global Zero
Alan D. Cohn (1993), Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk of the
United States Department of Homeland Security
Amit Bose (1994), Acting Administrator of the
Federal Railroad Administration
Karthik Ramanathan (1994), Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
Frank Scaturro (1994), lawyer, public advocate who spearheaded the restoration of
Grant's Tomb ; Republican candidate for
New York's 4th congressional district
Radhika Fox (1995), Acting Assistant Administrator for Water of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Beto O'Rourke (1995),
United States Congressman for
Texas's 16th congressional district and candidate in the
2020 United States presidential election
Rebekah Gee (1997), secretary of the
Louisiana Department of Health , daughter of
Ohio State University president
E. Gordon Gee
Jay Carson (1999), executive director of
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group ; former press secretary for
Hillary Clinton and
Howard Dean 's presidential campaigns
John Ray Clemmons (1999), member of the
Tennessee House of Representatives from the 55th district
George Demos (1999), former
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prosecutor and Republican candidate for
New York's 1st congressional district
Robert Karem (2000),
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and former acting
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
David Segal (2001), member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives
Robby Mook (2002), political campaign strategist and campaign manager for Virginia governor
Terry McAuliffe , former executive director of
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ; campaign manager for
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
Sam Arora (2003), member of the
Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2015
Cyrus Habib (2003),
Lieutenant Governor of Washington , first and only
Iranian American elected to a state office in the United States
Adam Jentleson (2003), former deputy chief of staff to
Harry Reid and columnist of
GQ
Nikil Saval (2005), former editor of
N+1 , member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate
Josie Raymond (2007), member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives from the 31st district
Ruthzee Louijeune (2008), at-large member of the
Boston City Council
Sara Jacobs (2011), member of the
United States House of Representatives for
California's 53rd congressional district , granddaughter of
Qualcomm founder
Irwin M. Jacobs
Peter Meijer (2012), American politician, member of the
United States House of Representatives for
Michigan's 3rd congressional district , grandson of
Frederik Meijer , founder of
Meijer hypermarkets
Shaun Abreu (2013), American politician, Democratic nominee for
New York City's 7th City Council district
Julia Salazar * (2014), member of
New York State Senate for
Democratic Socialists of America
Foreign political and diplomatic figures
Henry Cruger * (1758), member of the
Parliament of Great Britain from 1774 to 1790 and the
New York State Senate
Isaac Wilkins (1760), judge, member of the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Thomas Henry Barclay (1772),
United Empire Loyalist ; member of the
6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Tang Shaoyi * (1882), first premier of the
Republic of China
William Sanford Evans (1895),
Manitoba politician,
Mayor of Winnipeg from 1909 to 1911
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1906), founder and president of the
African National Congress
Wellington Koo (1909),
President of the Republic of China and China's ambassador to the United States; Chinese delegate to the
Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and the
League of Nations ; judge on the
International Court of Justice from 1957 to 1967
Jun Ke Choy (1915), former mayor of
Hangzhou , chairman of
China Merchants Group , and founder of the
Chinese Culture Center
Yu Tsune-chi (1922), Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Spain, delegate to the
San Francisco Conference ,
United Nations and the
International Labour Organization
Mario Laserna Pinzón (1948),
Colombian diplomat and educator; founded the
Universidad de Los Andes
Colin Hughes (1949), first commissioner of the
Australian Electoral Commission
Uldis-Ivars Grava (1958),
Latvian parliamentarian, former director of
Latvijas Televīzija and chairman of
American Latvian Association
Johan Jorgen Holst (1960),
Norwegian
Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs; heavily involved with the
Oslo Accords
Yossi Alpher (1964), former
Mossad officer and director of the
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at
Tel Aviv University
Dore Gold (1975),
Israeli political advisor and diplomat; former ambassador to the United States
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1975),
President of Estonia
Carson Wen (1975), three-time
Hong Kong deputy to the
National People's Congress and former vice chairman of the
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Geoffrey Onyeama (1977), Nigerian
Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015, son of Nigerian justice
Charles Onyeama
Michael Oren (1977), Israeli historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States
Miloon Kothari (1979),
United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing
Kim Hyun-jong (1981), former South Korean
Minister of Trade and Special Advisor to President
Moon Jae-in
Ken Ofori-Atta (1984), Ghanaian economist and investment banker and current
Minister for Finance and Economic Planning , member of the
Ofori-Atta family
Akiva Tor (1985), Israeli ambassador to
South Korea
Abdullah bin Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud (2010),
Saudi Arabia 's permanent representative to the
United Nations in
Vienna , ambassador to
Austria ,
Slovakia and
Slovenia , great-grandson of
Ibn Saud
Publishers
George Haven Putnam * (1864), publisher of
G. P. Putnam's Sons , son of publisher
George Palmer Putnam
Henry S. Harper (1888), director of
Harper and Brothers ,
Titanic survivor
Bernard H. Ridder (1903), publisher of
The St. Paul Dispatch and
The Pioneer Press , chairman emeritus of
Ridder Publications
Alfred Harcourt (1904) and
Donald Brace (1904), founders of
Harcourt Brace
Joseph E. Ridder (1907), publisher of
The Journal of Commerce and chairman of
Ridder Publications
John Neville Wheeler (1908), founder and owner of the
North American Newspaper Alliance and
Bell Syndicate
Harold Latham (1909), editor-in-chief of
Macmillan Inc. known for discovering
Margaret Mitchell
Alfred A. Knopf (1912), founder and chairman of
Alfred A. Knopf
George T. Delacorte Jr. (1913), founder of
Dell Publishing
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1913), publisher of
The New York Times
Douglas Black (1916), president of
Doubleday and Company
Bennett Cerf (1920), founder of
Random House
Donald S. Klopfer * (1922), founder of
Random House
Richard L. Simon (1920) and
Max Lincoln Schuster (1919), co-founders of
Simon & Schuster
Elliott V. Bell (1925), former editor and publisher of
Businessweek
David A. Boehm (1934), founder of
Sterling Publishing
Robert Giroux (1936), chairman of
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ian Ballantine (1938), founder of
Ballantine Books
Walter B. Pitkin Jr. (1938), editor-in-chief and executive vice president of
Bantam Books
William D. Carey (1940), executive officer of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and publisher of
Science from 1975 to 1987
Robert Bleiberg (1943), former publisher and managing editor of
Barron's
Gilman Kraft (1947), former owner and publisher of
Playbill
Jason Epstein (1949), editorial director of
Random House and co-founder of the
New York Review of Books
Bernard Shir-Cliff (1949), editor of
Ballantine Books and
Warner Books
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1951), publisher of
The New York Times
Lee Guittar (1953), former publisher of the
San Francisco Examiner ,
The Denver Post ,
Dallas Times Herald , and president of
USA Today
Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr. (1956), former publisher of the
Miami Herald and the
United States Ambassador to Spain from 1992 to 1993
Peter Mayer (1956), publisher of
Overlook Press and former CEO of
Penguin Books
Daniel Leab (1957), historian,
antiquarian and publisher book catalogues, former editor of
Labor History
Donald Welsh (1965), founding publisher of outdoors magazine
Outside
Albert Scardino (1970), publisher of
The Georgia Gazette and
Pulitzer Prize winner in 1984
Louis Rossetto (1971), founder and publisher of
Wired magazine
David Rothkopf (1977), CEO and editor of
Foreign Policy magazine
John R. MacArthur (1978), president and publisher of
Harper's magazine, grandson of billionaire
John D. MacArthur , benefactor of the
MacArthur Fellows Program
Jake Dobkin (1998), co-founder and publisher of
Gothamist franchise
Religious figures
Samuel Provoost (1758), third
Presiding Bishop of the American
Episcopal Church
John Beardsley (1761),
Church of England clergyman in Canada; chaplain of the
Loyal American Regiment
Benjamin Moore (King's 1768), second bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of New York and president of Columbia College
Philip Frederick Mayer (1799),
Lutheran clergyman; founder of the
Pennsylvania
Bible Society , the first of its kind in the United States
Henry Onderdonk (1805), second
Episcopal
bishop of Pennsylvania
Jackson Kemper (1809), first missionary bishop of the
Episcopal Church in the United States
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (1809), fourth bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of New York
Richard Fish Cadle (1813),
Episcopalian priest and first superior of
Nashotah House
Manton Eastburn (1817), fourth bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Henry John Whitehouse (1821), second bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
George Washington Bethune * (1823), theologian and preacher
John Chester Backus * (1830), American Presbyterian minister
Morgan Dix (1848), priest, theologian, rector of
Trinity Church
William Edmond Armitage (1849), second bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
George Franklin Seymour (1850), first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Springfield
James DeKoven (1851), leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the
Episcopal Church
Marvin Vincent (1854), Presbyterian minister and professor at the
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Daniel S. Tuttle (1857), first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Idaho ,
Montana , and
Utah
William David Walker (1859), first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota
Henry Y. Satterlee (1863), first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Washington ; established the
Washington National Cathedral
Bernard Drachman (1882), leader of
Orthodox Judaism ; former president of the
Orthodox Union
Herbert Shipman (1890),
Suffragan bishop in the
Episcopal Diocese of New York
Stephen Samuel Wise (1892), rabbi and
Zionist leader
Frederick Herbert Sill (1895), Anglican monk and founder of the
Kent School
Henry S. Whitehead (1904), rector, and author of
horror fiction
[8]
Vedder Van Dyck (1918), fifth bishop in the
Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
Walter M. Higley (1922), sixth bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
M. Moran Weston (1930), Episcopal priest, social activist, and businessman who co-founded
Carver Federal Savings Bank
Arthur Lelyveld (1933), rabbi, president of the
American Jewish Congress and first Jewish editor-in-chief of the
Columbia Daily Spectator
Moshe Davis (1936), rabbi and founder of
Camp Ramah
Paul van K. Thomson (1937),
Roman Catholic priest, professor at
Providence College
Thomas Merton (1938), Trappist monk, writer, humanist; author of
The Seven Storey Mountain
Robert Farrar Capon (1946), Episcopal priest and author
Wesley Frensdorff (1948), former Episcopal bishop of
Nevada
Haskel Lookstein (1953),
Modern Orthodox
Rabbi ; spiritual leader of
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and principal of
Ramaz School since 1966
Harold Kushner (1955), rabbi and writer
Adi Da (1961), born Franklin Albert Jones, American spiritual teacher; founder of a
new religious movement , Adidam
Michael Lerner (1964), liberal rabbi and editor of
Tikkun magazine
Elliot N. Dorff (1965), conservative rabbi, chairman of the
Rabbinical Assembly 's
Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
Joseph Goldstein (1965), American
vipassana expert
Alan Senauke (1969),
Soto Zen priest, folk musician, and poet residing at the
Berkeley Zen Center ; former director of the
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Taigen Dan Leighton (1971),
Soto Zen priest and teacher, academic at the
Institute of Buddhist Studies
C. John McCloskey (1975), Catholic priest who helped prominent figures convert to Catholicism, including
Newt Gingrich ,
Bernard Nathanson ,
Sam Brownback , and
Lawrence Kudlow
Haviva Ner-David (1991), Israeli feminist activist and rabbi
Sharon Brous (1995), first woman to be named most influential rabbi by
Newsweek
Scientists and inventors
Samuel Bard * (1763), personal physician to
George Washington ; founder of the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
John Stevens (King's 1768), builder of the first oceangoing
steamboat in the United States
Nicholas Romayne * (1774), physician, president of the
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
David Hosack (1790), physician, botanist, educator
John Eatton Le Conte (1800), American naturalist
[9]
Samuel Akerly (1804), physician, Co-founder of the
New York Institute for the Education of the Blind
Valentine Mott (1806), American surgeon pioneer
James Renwick (1807), English-American scientist and engineer, professor of
Natural philosophy at
Columbia University ; father of architect
James Renwick Jr.
John Brodhead Beck (1813), New York physician
Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto (1816), Dutch-born Jewish American physician, former president of the
Willoughby Medical College
Henry James Anderson (1818), scientist and educator who participated in the U.S.
Dead Sea exploration expedition
Alfred Charles Post (1822), American surgeon, professor at
New York University School of Medicine S
Horatio Allen (1823), imported the
Stourbridge Lion , first successful steam locomotive to run in the United States
John Clarkson Jay (1827), American physician and notable
conchologist , grandson of
John Jay
Alfred W. Craven (1829), chief engineering of
Croton Aqueduct ; founding member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
Edward S. Renwick (1839), mechanical engineer, patent expert
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1841), chemist, president of the
National Academy of Sciences and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Ogden Doremus * (1842), chemist and physician
Cornelius Rea Agnew (1849), physician who helped founding the
Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Henry Carrington Bolton (1862), chemist and bibliographer of science
Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1863), American physician, nephew of
Hamilton Fish '27
Rudolph August Witthaus (1867), American
toxicologist
Frederick Remsen Hutton (1873), engineer, president of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sylvanus Albert Reed (1874), aerospace engineer who developed the modern metal aircraft propeller, for which won the 1925
Collier Trophy
William Hallock (1879), American physicist, professor at
Columbia University
William Barclay Parsons (1879), chief engineer of the
first line of the
New York City Subway system, founder of multinational engineering firm
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Michael I. Pupin (1879), physicist, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for biography
Henry Crampton (1893), American
evolutionary biologist
Harold Jacoby (1894), astronomer and professor at
Columbia University
John Duer Irving (1896),
geologist , professor at
Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale University
Richard Weil (1896), American physician, professor at
Weill Cornell Medicine , son-in-law of
Isidor Straus
Hans Zinsser (1899), American
physician ,
bacteriologist , prolific author
Marston T. Bogert (1890), former president of the
American Chemical Society and the
Society of Chemical Industry
William King Gregory (1900), American
zoologist ,
primatologist ,
paleontologist
Reuben Ottenberg (1902),
physician and
haematologist
Clinton Gilbert Abbott (1903), ornithologist, naturalist, director of the
San Diego Natural History Museum
Irving Langmuir (1903), winner of the 1932
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Calvin Kendall (1906), winner of the 1950
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Harold E. B. Pardee (1906), pioneer in electrocardiogram research, namesake of Pardee's sign
Grover Loening (1908), American aircraft manufacturer, founder of
Loening Aeronautical Engineering ; developed the
Loening Model 23 which won the 1921
Collier Trophy
Michael Heidelberger (1909), immunologist, "father of modern immunology"
Ernst Philip Boas (1910), American physician and professor at
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons , son of German-American anthropologist
Franz Boas
Hermann Joseph Muller (1910), geneticist and winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ralph Randles Stewart (1911), botanist and founder of the
National Herbarium, Islamabad
Ludlow Griscom (1912), pioneer in field
ornithology
John Howard Northrop (1912), winner of the 1946
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Calvin Bridges (1912), geneticist, protege of
Thomas Hunt Morgan known for his contribution to
genetics
Irving H. Pardee (1912), American neurologist, husband of
Abby Rockefeller
Alfred Sturtevant (1912), geneticist, protege of
Thomas Hunt Morgan and winner of the
National Medal of Science
James Chapin (1916), American
ornithologist ; 17th president of
The Explorers Club
Seeley G. Mudd (1917), American physician and philanthropist, former dean of
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Harold Alexander Abramson (1919), early advocate of
Psychedelic therapy
Augustus Braun Kinzel (1919),
metallurgist and first president of the
National Academy of Engineering
William V. Silverberg (1919), founder of the
American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
Sherman Fairchild * (1920), founder of
Fairchild Aircraft ,
Fairchild Industries ,
Fairchild Camera and Instrument as well as
Fairchild Semiconductor
Francis Bitter (1925), American physicist, inventor of
Bitter electromagnets
Howard Bruenn (1925), personal physician to
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albert Charles Smith (1926), American
botanist , former director of the
National Museum of Natural History and the
Arnold Arboretum
Konrad Lorenz * (1926), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jerrold R. Zacharias (1926), nuclear physicist, professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Streitwieser (1927), American
chemist known for his contributions to
Physical organic chemistry
Julian M. Sturtevant (1927), American chemist at
Yale University
Raymond D. Mindlin (1928), American engineer,
Medal for Merit and
ASME Medal recipient
Harold Charles Bold (1929), American botanist
Jule Eisenbud (1929), American psychiatrist known for research into
parapsychology
Theodore Lidz (1930),
Sterling Professor of psychiatry at Yale; expert on
Schizophrenia
Judd Marmor (1930), American
psychoanalyst and
psychiatrist on homosexuality
Herbert L. Anderson (1931), director of the
Enrico Fermi Institute , professor of the
University of Chicago
Paul E. Queneau (1931), professor of metallurgical engineering at
Dartmouth College
Bernard Glueck Jr. (1933), American psychiatrist, former president of the
American Psychopathological Association
Irving Kaplan (1933), American chemist, professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leo Rangell (1933),
psychoanalyst ; president of the
International Psychoanalytical Association and the
American Psychoanalytic Association
John K. Lattimer (1935), urologist, ballistics expert, and inveterate collector
Emanuel Papper (1935),
anesthesiologist , dean of the
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine from 1969 to 1981
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1935), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Marshak (1936), president of the
American Physical Society and president of the
City College of New York
Julian Schwinger (1936), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics ; posited the
Schwinger effect
Barry Commoner (1937), leading American environmentalist, former editor of
Science Illustrated magazine
Francis J. Ryan (1937), professor of zoology at
Columbia University
Boris Jacobsohn (1938), Professor of Physics at the
University of Washington
David B. Hertz (1939), operations research scholar known for pioneering the
Monte Carlo methods in finance
Victor Wouk (1939), pioneer in the development of
electric and
hybrid vehicles
Julius Ashkin (1940), American nuclear physicist, brother of
Arthur Ashkin '47
Jeremiah Stamler (1940), epidemiologist, expert in the field of preventive cardiology, professor emeritus at
Northwestern University
Ulrich P. Strauss (1941), chemist at
Rutgers University , 1971
Guggenheim Fellow
Bruce Wallace (1941), geneticist, professor at
Virginia Tech
Robert S. Wallerstein (1941), American psychoanalyst and former president of the
International Psychoanalytical Association and director of the
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute , brother of political scientist
Immanuel Wallerstein '51
Kimball Chase Atwood III (1942), geneticist, professor at
Columbia University Medical School
Leon Davidson (1942), chemical engineer known for his work in the
Manhattan Project and the study of
Unidentified Flying Objects
Karl Koopman (1943),
chiropterologist and curator at the
American Museum of Natural History
Robert G. Shulman (1943), biophysicist,
Sterling Professor emeritus at
Yale University
Seymour Jonathan Singer (1943), cell biologist and professor at the
University of California, San Diego
Enoch Callaway (1943), psychiatrist, professor at the
University of California, San Francisco
Arnold Cooper (1944),
psychoanalyst ; professor at
Weill Cornell Medical College and former president of the
American Psychoanalytic Association
Robert Jastrow (1944), astronomer, founder of NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space Studies and conservative think tank
George C. Marshall Institute
Joshua Lederberg (1944), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arnold Scheibel (1944), professor of neuroscience at the
University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred P. Wolf (1944), nuclear and
organic chemist ; research professor at
New York University
Paul Marks (1945), geneticist, president emeritus of the
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , former editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Jack Oliver (1945), professor of
seismology at
Columbia University and
Cornell University
Malvin Ruderman (1945), American physicist known for discovering the
RKKY interaction
Leonard Shengold (1946), psychiatrist at
New York University known for study on
child abuse
Albert Starr (1946), noted
cardiovascular surgeon , winner of the 2007
Lasker Award
Arthur Ashkin (1947), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
Robert A. Frosch (1947), fifth administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Norton Zinder (1947), American scientist who discovered bacterial
transduction
Frank I. Marcus (1948), American
cardiologist and professor at
University of Arizona Medical Center
Frederick Reif (1948), professor of physics and psychology at
Carnegie Mellon University , recipient of the 1994
Robert A. Millikan Award
Robert Neil Butler (1949), president of the
International Longevity Center and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
William Chinowsky (1949), American astrophysicist and professor at the
University of California, San Diego
Edgar Housepian (1949), neurosurgeon, co-founder of the
Fund for Armenian Relief
Benjamin Widom (1949), professor of
chemistry at
Cornell University ; recipient of the
Boltzmann Medal in 1998
Noel Corngold (1950), American physicist at
California Institute of Technology
Edwin Kessler (1950), first director of the
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Gerald Weissmann (1950), cell biologist, liposome inventor, essayist
Arthur H. Westing (1950), American ecologist and researcher at
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Leon Cooper (1951), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972
Richard A. Gardner (1952), psychiatrist known for researching
Parental alienation syndrome
Edgar Haber (1952), former president of
Bristol-Myers Squibb and professor at
Harvard Medical School
Donald E. Ross (1952), engineer and managing partner at
Jaros, Baum & Bolles
William Carl Burger (1953),
botanist , curator at the
Field Museum of Natural History
Gerald Feinberg (1953), physicist who coined the term "
tachyon "
Bernard Friedland (1953), professor and engineer,
New Jersey Institute of Technology , recipient of the 1982
Rufus Oldenburger Medal
Arthur Gottlieb (1953), American immunologist, professor at
Tulane University School of Medicine
Eliot S. Hearst (1953), psychologist, professor at
Indiana University
Charles Kadushin (1953), psychologist at the
City University of New York , recipient of the 2009
Marshall Sklare Award
Donald R. Olander (1953), professor of nuclear engineering at
University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas P. Samios (1953), former director of the
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Melvin Schwartz (1953), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988
Wallace Smith Broecker (1953), professor of
environmental science at
Columbia University , developed the idea of a global "
conveyor belt " linking ocean circulation
Richard K. Bernstein (1954), physician and advocate for
Low-carbohydrate diet
Henry Buchwald (1954), professor of surgery and
biomedical engineering at
University of Minnesota
Neil D. Opdyke (1955), geologist
Alvin F. Poussaint (1956), professor of psychiatry and dean of freshmen at the
Harvard Medical School
A. Charles Catania (1957), American psychologist, professor at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sheldon Saul Hendler (1957), American scientist, physician, and musician
Ralph Feigin (1958), American
pediatrician ; former president and CEO of
Baylor College of Medicine and physician-in-chief of
Texas Children's Hospital
Roald Hoffman (1958), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Norbert Hirschhorn (1958), American public health physician and developed the
Oral rehydration therapy
Gerald T. Keusch (1958), professor of the
Boston University School of Public Health and director of the
John E. Fogarty International Center at the
National Institutes of Health
Harlan Lane (1958), professor of psychology at
Northeastern University
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1958), physicist at the
College of William & Mary
Joseph L. Fleiss (1959), professor of
biostatistics at the
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Allan Franklin (1959), American physicist, historian of science at
University of Colorado Boulder
Paul B. Kantor (1959), American information scientist, professor at
Rutgers University
Michael Lesch (1960), physician and medical educator who identified the
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
Ira Black (1961), American physician and neuroscientist, advocate of
Stem cell research; former president of
Society for Neuroscience
Kenneth C. Edelin (1961), American physician known for his support of
abortion rights and former chairman of
Planned Parenthood
Eugene Milone (1961), astronomer, professor at the
University of Calgary
Robert Pollack (1961), American biologist who studies the intersections between science and religion
Samuel Strober (1961), immunologist at
Stanford Medical School , co-founder of
Dendreon
Charles Cantor (1962),
molecular geneticist ;
chief science officer at
Sequenom
Armando Favazza (1962), American author and psychiatrist at the
University of Missouri
Stephen Larsen (1962), American psychologist and founding board member of the
Joseph Campbell Foundation
Robert Lefkowitz (1962), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jeffrey Mandula (1962), physicist known for the
Coleman–Mandula theorem
Allen Neuringer (1962), American
psychologist , prominent in the field of the
experimental analysis of behavior
Russell F. Warren (1962), surgeon-in-chief of the
Hospital for Special Surgery from 1993 to 2003 and team doctor for the
New York Giants
Farhad Ardalan (1963), Iranian
High Energy physicist and professor at
Sharif University and the
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics .
Harvey Cantor (1963), American immunologist, professor of microbiology & immunobiology at
Harvard Medical School
David B. Cohen (1963),
psychologist , professor at the
University of Texas at Austin
Allen Frances (1963), American
psychiatrist at
Duke University and founding editor of the
Journal of Personality Disorders and the
Journal of Psychiatric Practice
David George Hitlin (1963), physicist at the
California Institute of Technology
Michael Lubell (1963), American physicist, professor of the
City College of New York
Kenneth X. Robbins (1963), psychiatrist, scholar on expatriate communities in
India
Richard Waldinger (1963), computer scientist, fellow of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Allan Blaer (1964), American
physicist and professor who is in charge of the
Columbia University Science Honors Program
Frederick Kantor (1964), Physicist, inventor of glancing incidence X-ray telescope
Richard A. Muller (1964), professor of physics at the
University of California, Berkeley ; winner of the
MacArthur Fellowship in 1982 and the
Alan T. Waterman Award in 1978; founder of climate science institute
Berkeley Earth
Kenneth Prager (1964), American physician, professor at
Columbia University Medical Center , brother of commentator
Dennis Prager
Mark C. Rogers (1964), American physician, former CEO of
Duke University Health System
Michael Terman (1964),
Columbia University Medical Center psychologist
Norman Christ (1965), physicist, professor at
Columbia University
Niles Eldredge (1965), collaborator of
Stephen Jay Gould and curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the
American Museum of Natural History
Alan I. Green (1965), professor at
Geisel School of Medicine , nephew of
Herman Wouk
Stuart Newman (1965), developmental and evolutionary biologist
Allen Steere (1965), rheumatologist and pioneering investigator of
Lyme disease
Sylvain Cappell (1966), American mathematician, professor at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Barry S. Coller (1966), father of
Abciximab , Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at
Rockefeller University
Peter Gray (1966), American
psychologist ; professor at
Boston College
Brian Weiss (1966),
psychiatrist noted for his research on
reincarnation and
past life regression
Richard Axel (1967), winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying the operations of the
olfactory system
Nai Phuan Ong (1967), Professor of Physics at
Princeton University
Nick Scoville (1967), professor of astronomy at
California Institute of Technology
Robert Wald (1968), American theoretical physicist at the
University of Chicago
Sidney R. Nagel (1969),
University of Chicago physicist specializing in the complex physics of everyday materials
Thomas B. Kornberg (1970), American
biochemist who was the first to purify and characterize
DNA polymerase II and
DNA polymerase III
Harold J. Vinegar (1970), former chief scientist for physics of
Shell plc , professor at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Franklin G. Miller (1971), bioethicist at the
National Institutes of Health
Eric Rose (1971), American
cardiothoracic surgeon known for performing the first successful paediatric
heart transplant and former president of the
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Paul S. Appelbaum (1972),
psychiatrist credited with conceptualizing the idea of
therapeutic misconception
Steven M. Bellovin (1972), professor of
computer science at
Columbia University and chief technologist of
Federal Trade Commission
Rick L. Danheiser (1972), American chemist and chair of the faculty at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mitchell Kronenberg (1973), American immunologist, former president of the
La Jolla Institute for Immunology and secretary of the
American Association of Immunologists
Stephen M. Barr (1974), author and professor of physics and astronomy at the
University of Delaware
David Jablonski (1974), professor of geophysical sciences at
University of Chicago
Mark G. Lebwohl (1974), American
dermatologist and president of the
American Academy of Dermatology
Robert F. Murphy (1974), American computational biologist and professor at
Carnegie Mellon University
Steven Kahn (1975), astrophysicist, professor at
Stanford University and director of the
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Andrew Witkin (1975), professor of computer science at
Carnegie Mellon University and
Pixar senior scientist, recipient of the 2006
Academy Scientific and Technical Award
Steven L. Goldstein (1976), geochemist, professor at
Columbia University
John Markowitz (1976), psychiatrist, professor at
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Douglas Rivers (1977), professor at
Stanford University , chief scientist of global polling firm
YouGov
David Tannor (1978), chemist, professor at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
George Yancopoulos (1980), American billionaire biomedical scientist and CSO of
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Carl Haber (1980), physicist and winner of the
MacArthur Fellowship in 2013
Jonathan E. Aviv (1981), American surgeon known for inventing the
Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing with Sensory Testing technique and developing the
Transnasal esophagoscopy method
Adrian R. Krainer (1981), co-winner of the 2018
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Neil Shubin (1982), paleontologist and co-discoverer of
Tiktaalik , provost of the
Field Museum of Natural History
Michael Travisano (1983), evolutionary biologist and professor at
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Peter Lunenfeld (1984),
critic and
theorist of
digital media
Peter Marks (1985), director of the
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and member of the
White House Coronavirus Task Force
James Nowick (1985), professor of chemistry at the
University of California, Irvine
Eric M. Genden (1987), American head and neck surgeon who performed the first jaw transplant using the patient's jaw and bone marrow
Geoffrey Miller (1987), psychologist, professor at the
University of New Mexico
Leslie B. Vosshall (1987),
neurobiologist known for her contributions in the field of
olfaction
Patrick Ball (1988), data scientist, executive director of the
Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Rebecca N. Wright (1988), American computer scientist and professor at
Barnard College , former director at
DIMACS
Jonathan Rosand (1989), professor of
neurology at
Harvard Medical School , son of art historian
David Rosand '59
Christopher S. Ahmad (1990), head team physician of the
New York Yankees and professor of
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jennifer Ashton (1991), physician, author, host of lifestyle talk show
The Revolution
Virginia Cornish (1991), professor of chemistry at
Columbia University and recipient of the 2009
Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
Carl Marci (1991), neuroscientist and professor at
Harvard Medical School
Peter DiMaggio (1992), structural engineer, co-CEO of
Thornton Tomasetti
Damon Horowitz (1993),
Google 's in-house philosopher
Chris Wiggins (1993), professor of applied mathematics at
Columbia University , chief data scientist of
The New York Times
Rebecca Oppenheimer (1994), curator in
astrophysics the
American Museum of Natural History
Demetre Daskalakis (1995), physician and gay health activist, White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator
Laura Kaufman (1997), chemist, professor at
Columbia University
Beth Willman (1998), American
astronomer at
Haverford College
Kate Brauman (2000), water scientist at the
University of Minnesota , daughter of chemist
John Isaiah Brauman
Alex K. Shalek (2004), professor at
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kerstin Perez (2005), particle physicist and professor at
Columbia University
Daniel Harlow (2006), professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , winner of the 2019
New Horizons in Physics Prize
Aaron Roth (2006), professor of computer science at
University of Pennsylvania
Andrea Young (2006), American
experimental physicist at the
University of California, Santa Barbara , winner of the 2018
New Horizons in Physics Prize
Julia Kalow (2008), American chemist, professor at
Northwestern University
Calvin Sun (2008), emergency room doctor notable for his first-hand reporting on the
COVID-19 pandemic in
New York City
Spies
John Vardill (1766), American loyalist educator, pamphleteer, spy
William Joseph Donovan (1905), head of the
Office of Strategic Services , predecessor to the
Central Intelligence Agency , "Father of American Intelligence"
Isaiah Oggins (1920), communist activist and Soviet spy
Whittaker Chambers * (1924), Soviet spy and accuser of
Alger Hiss
Nathaniel Weyl (1931), operative in the
Ware group of Soviet spies in the United States
Victor Perlo (1933), leader of the
Perlo group of Soviet spies in the United States
Frank Snepp (1965), former
CIA station chief for
Saigon during the
Vietnam War
Writers
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), purported author of
A Visit From St. Nicholas
Robert Charles Sands (1815), poet and writer
Charles Fenno Hoffman (1825), poet, translator, and editor, founder of
The Knickerbocker magazine
Cornelius Mathews * (1834), American writer of the
Young America movement
Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1835),
literary biographer in the
Young America movement
George Templeton Strong (1838), noted diarist; founder of the
United States Sanitary Commission and the
Union League Club of New York
Edgar Fawcett (1867), novelist
William Dudley Foulke (1869), American literary critic, journalist, and reformer; former
United States Civil Service Commission Commissioner
Duffield Osborne (1879), author
John Kendrick Bangs (1883), author, satirist, editor of
Puck magazine
John Armstrong Chaloner (1883), American writer and activist, brother of
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and
William A. Chanler , son of
John Winthrop Chanler '47, husband of
Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
Albert Payson Terhune (1893), author,
dog breeder , journalist,
Further Adventures of Lad
Guy Wetmore Carryl (1895), humorist,
Fables for the Frivolous
Melville Henry Cane (1900), poet; winner of the
Robert Frost Medal in 1971
Joyce Kilmer (1908), poet and author of
Trees
Randolph Bourne (1912), essayist and public intellectual
Harold Lamb (1915), writer, screenwriter
Gustav Davidson (1919), poet, secretary of the
Poetry Society of America
Paul Gallico * (1919), author of
The Poseidon Adventure
Louis Zukofsky (1922), co-founder and leading theorist of the
Objectivist poets
James Warner Bellah (1923), Western and pulp writer whose stories formed the basis of such
John Ford classics as
Fort Apache ,
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , and
Rio Grande .
Corey Ford * (1923), humorist,
The John Riddell Murder Case
Henry Morton Robinson (1923), author of
The Cardinal and
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Cornell Woolrich (1923), mystery writer and author of
Rear Window
Clifford Dowdey (1925), author on the American Civil War
Herman Wouk (1934), author of
War and Remembrance and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
The Caine Mutiny
John Berryman (1936), winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Paul Smith (1936), author of Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.
Robert Lax (1938), minimalist poet
Ed Rice (1940),
Beat Generation writer
Walter Farley (1941), author of
The Black Stallion and its many sequels
Thomas Gallagher (1941), winner of a 1960
Edgar Award and
National Book Award for Fiction finalist
Gerald Green (1942), writer of
Holocaust and
The Last Angry Man , co-creator of
NBC 's
The Today Show
Richard de Mille * (1944), writer and investigative journalist, son of director
Cecil B. DeMille
Jack Kerouac * (1944),
Beat generation author of
On the Road
Leonard Koppett (1944), sportswriter; recipient of the
J. G. Taylor Spink Award and the
Curt Gowdy Media Award
Walter Wager (1944), mystery writer whose book
58 Minutes was adapted into
Die Hard 2
Herbert Gold (1946),
Beat Generation novelist
Daniel Hoffman (1947), poet; 22nd
United States Poet Laureate
Hiag Akmakjian (1948), author
Allen Ginsberg (1948),
Beat generation poet; author of
Howl
Frederick Karl (1948), literary biographer famous for his work on
Joseph Conrad
Stanley Loomis (1948), American expatriate writer
Charles Simmons (1948), American author, winner of the 1965
William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel
Louis Simpson (1948), American poet; winner of the 1964
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John Clellon Holmes (1949),
Beat Generation novelist,
Go.
John Hollander (1950), poet,
MacArthur Fellow and winner of the
Bollingen Prize
Richard Howard (1951), translator and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Anthony Robinson (1953), English professor and novelist
Ralph Schoenstein (1953), humorist
Dan Wakefield (1955), novelist, journalist, screenwriter
John J. Clayton (1956), fiction writer, novelist
Robert Silverberg (1956), science fiction writer, recipient of the
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 2004
Paul Zweig (1956), poet, memoirist, 1976
Guggenheim Fellow
George Bellak (1957), American television writer
Richard P. Brickner (1957), writer, 1983
Guggenheim Fellow
Raymond Federman (1957), French–American novelist and academic; author,
Double or Northing
Lawrence Shainberg (1958), writer of
Zen Buddhism
Jerome Charyn (1959), novelist
Jay Neugeboren (1959), novelist, essayist, short story writer
Robert T. Westbrook * (1968), writer, son of syndicated columnist
Sheilah Graham Westbrook
Phillip Lopate (1964), essayist and fiction writer
Ron Padgett (1964), poet and translator, winner of the
Shelley Memorial Award in 2009 and
Robert Frost Medal in 2018
Steven Millhauser (1965), novelist and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Aaron Fogel (1967), poet
Eric Van Lustbader (1967), espionage and thriller novelist, writer of
Jason Bourne novels
Thomas Hauser (1968), author of nonfiction and biographer
David Shapiro (1968), poet,
literary critic , professor at
William Paterson University
Hilton Obenzinger (1969), novelist, poet, history and criticism writer
Paul Auster (1970),
postmodern writer; author of
The New York Trilogy ,
Moon Palace , and the
Brooklyn Follies
Bob Holman (1970), poet and activist identified with the
oral tradition
David Lehman (1970), poet, editor of
The Best American Poetry series
Joshua Rubenstein (1971), writer, winner of a
National Jewish Book Award in 2002
Alex Abella (1972), Cuban-American writer
Brad Gooch (1973), writer, professor of English at
William Paterson University
John Prados (1973), author and historian on
World War II and the
Cold War
Todd McEwen (1975), writer, professor at the
University of Kent
Stephen O'Connor (1975), American writer and professor at
Sarah Lawrence College
Damien Bona (1977), chronicler of the
Academy Awards
Mason Wiley (1977), co-author of
The Official Preppy Handbook
Kevin Baker (1980), novelist and freelance journalist
Jeffrey Harrison (1980), poet who won the 1988
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Lou Antonelli (1981), science fiction writer
Douglas Sadownick (1981), writer and psychologist
Michael Friedman (1982), novelist and author
Michael Azerrad (1983), author, journalist, musician
Thomas Dyja (1984), writer, historian, winner of the 1997
Casey Award
David Rakoff (1986), comedic essayist
Louise Wareham Leonard (1987), writer
Al Weisel (1987), freelance writer
Adrienne Brodeur (1988), author, program director at
Aspen Institute
Glen Hirshberg (1988), author, recipient of the 2007
Shirley Jackson Award
Adam Mansbach (1988), author and former professor of
literature at
Rutgers University–Camden
Darryl Pinckney (1988), novelist, playwright, and essayist
Mako Yoshikawa (1988), novelist, professor at
Emerson College
Ben Coes (1989), author of political thriller and espionage novels
Wade Graham (1989), author, historian, environmentalist
G. Winston James (1989), poet, author, activist
Robert Salkowitz (1989), author on technology innovation
Carol Guess (1990), novelist and poet; professor at
Western Washington University
John Reed (1990), novelist; author of
Snowball's Chance
David S. Levinson (1991), American short-story writer and novelist
Robert Kolker (1991), writer, author of
Hidden Valley Road
Kelly Link (1991),
Hugo Award -winning American author; founder of
Small Beer Press ; editor of
St. Martin's Press 's
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Loren Goodman (1991),
postmodern poet, professor at
Underwood International College
Andrew Carroll (1992), author, editor, activist, and historian
Jordan Davis (1992), poet
John Bemelmans Marciano (1992), American children's book author and illustrator, grandson of
Ludwig Bemelmans , author of
Madeline
Marie Mutsuki Mockett (1992), American writer
Melissa de la Cruz (1993), writer known for work in
young adult fiction
Jay Michaelson (1993), writer and LGBTQ activist
Maxine Swann (1994), fiction writer
Robert Westfield (1994), writer who won two
Lambda Literary Awards
Megan McCafferty (1995), chick lit writer,
Jessica Darling series, which were plagiarized by
Kaavya Viswanathan
Tova Mirvis (1995), author
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur (1996), author and Islamic activist
Fredrik Stanton (1996), author of
Great Negotiations and former publisher for the
Columbia Daily Spectator
Aravind Adiga (1997),
Man Booker Prize -winning novelist
Jamel Brinkley (1997), American author, winner of the 2018
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
John Coletti (1997), American author
Gotham Chopra (1997), author, son of health advocate
Deepak Chopra
Lauren Grodstein (1997), author, professor of
Rutgers University–Camden
Abdi Nazemian (1998), Iranian-American author, winner of the 2017
Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
Trevor Shane (1998), writer
Daniel Alarcón (1999), novelist
Katherine Howe (1999), novelist, author of
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Rebecca Pawel (1999), author of
mystery novels ; winner of the 2004
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (2001), author, winner of a 2018
Lambda Literary Award and
Chautauqua Prize
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (2003), French poet, translator, musician
Ben Dolnick (2004), writer, son of American biographer
Edward Dolnick , member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns
The New York Times
Danielle Valore Evans (2004), American fiction writer
Adam Gidwitz (2004), author of best selling children's books
Alaya Dawn Johnson (2004), author and winner of the 2015
Andre Norton Award
Tongo Eisen-Martin (2004), poet laureate of
San Francisco
Sidik Fofana (2005), public school teacher and writer, winner of a 2023
Whiting Award
Victoria Loustalot (2006), American writer of memoir and essays
Crystal Hana Kim (2009), writer,
If You Leave Me
Morgan Parker (2010), poet and
Cave Canem Fellow
Rachel Heng (2011), Singaporean writer
Ben Philippe (2011), author, screenwriter, recipient of the 2020
William C. Morris Award
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (2012), British-American writer, recipient of the
Betty Trask Award and the
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Sylvia Khoury (2012), American writer and playwright, recipient of a 2021
Whiting Award
Yanyi (2013), American poet
Miscellaneous
John Parke Custis * (1777), stepson of
George Washington
Philip Hamilton (1800), eldest son of
Alexander Hamilton and
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
David Augustus Clarkson (1810), landowner and grandson-in-law of
Robert R. Livingston
James Lenox (1818), bibliophile, founder of the
Lenox Library , later incorporated into the
New York Public Library ; also founder of the
Presbyterian Hospital
John Lloyd Stephens (1822), explorer, archaeologist, Special Ambassador to Central America, and president of the
Panama Railroad
William R. Travers (1838), founder of the
Travers Stakes
William H. Herriman (1849), expatriate American
art collector
Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt * (1850), son of
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Augustus Newbold Morris (1860), American socialite and former president of
The Metropolitan Club
Winthrop Rutherfurd (1884), American socialite known for his romance with
Consuelo Vanderbilt and marriage to
Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd , mistress of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gavin Arthur (1922), San Francisco
astrologer and
sexologist and a grandson of
U.S. President
Chester A. Arthur
Oswald Jacoby (1922), American
bridge player
Fred Glazer (1958),
librarian and director of the West Virginia Library Commission
Arthur MacArthur IV (1960), son of
General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur
Ashrita Furman (1976), holder of the most
Guinness Book of World Records records
Daniel Kottke (1977), college friend of
Steve Jobs and 12th employee of
Apple Inc.
Sergey Kudrin (1981), American chess grandmaster and three-time winner of the
U.S. Open Chess Championship
Peter Bacanovic (1984),
Martha Stewart 's stockbroker; involved in the
ImClone scandal
Annie Duke (1987), professional poker player
Greg Giraldo (1987), stand-up comedian
Anna Ivey (1994), admissions counsellor
Chubby Hubby or Aun Koh (1996), Singaporean food and travel blogger
Emily Drabinski (1997), American librarian and educator, president of the
American Library Association
Tinsley Mortimer (1999),
socialite and television personality
Chloe Arnold (2002), Internationally acclaimed tap dancer
La Carmina (2005), alternative blogger on Gothic and Japanese pop culture
Alison Desir (2007), activist, runner
John Cochran (2009), winner of
Survivor: Caramoan
Leeza Mangaldas (2011), Indian podcaster and sex educator
Sara Ali Khan (2016), daughter of Indian actor, director
Saif Ali Khan and actress
Amrita Singh
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