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This list of alumni of
Ethical Culture Fieldston School includes graduates and non-graduate former students.
A. G. Sulzberger – the chairman of
The New York Times Company and the publisher of
The New York Times
Jill Abramson – former executive editor of
The New York Times
[1]
Clifford Alexander Jr. – former Secretary of the Army
[2]
George J. Ames – former
Lazard executive
Joseph Amiel – author
[3]
Diane Arbus – photographer
[4]
Mary T. Bassett – Physician and public health researcher and public advocate
Leon Black – financier,
Apollo Management and
Drexel Burnham Lambert
[5]
Richard D. Brown – historian of colonial and revolutionary-era America; professor emeritus at the
University of Connecticut
Nancy Cantor – chancellor,
Syracuse University
[6]
Peter H. Christensen – academic
Jerry Craft – Children's book author; American cartoonist
Sofia Coppola – Oscar-winning writer/director (attended middle school at Fieldston)
[7]
Andrew Delbanco – critic and author. Director,
American studies ,
Columbia University
[8]
Nicholas Delbanco – novelist
[9]
David Denby – film critic,
The New Yorker
[7]
Ralph de Toledano – author
[10]
Glen de Vries – American entrepreneur in the field of medical science and pharmacology
Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician
Douglas Durst – real estate magnate
Francis Fergusson – literary critic and writer
Rita Gam – film actress
Jim Gardner – longtime
WPVI-TV news anchor
Alan Gilbert – music director of the
New York Philharmonic
Ailes Gilmour – dancer
Leonie Gilmour – educator and writer
Rob Glaser – internet pioneer
Matt Goldman , performance artist. Co-founder,
Blue Man Group
Maggie Haberman – The New York Times political reporter
Patricia Harris – Former Deputy Mayor of NYC, President of Bloomberg Philanthropies
Judith Lewis Herman – psychiatrist
Susie Linfield – author, critic, editor and NYU Professor
Charles Herman-Wurmfeld – film director
Robert Jervis – political scientist.
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor,
Columbia University
Elizabeth Jonas (neurologist) – physician, neuroscientist, and professor,
Yale School of Medicine
Bess Kalb – comedic writer, author and writer
Rodney Jones – jazz guitarist
Jeffrey Katzenberg – film producer, media mogul
[11]
Yosuke Kawasaki – violinist
Sinah Estelle Kelley – chemist
William Melvin Kelley – author (A Different Drummer , Dunfords Travels Everywhere )
Charlie King – New York civic leader and politician
Arthur Kinoy – civil rights lawyer
Ernest Kinoy – screenwriter
Walter Koenig – actor
Joseph Kraft – public affairs columnist
Jake Lamar – author, writer and playwright
Louise Lasser – actress
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – author,
The New York Times book reviewer
Sean Ono Lennon – musician (did not graduate from Fieldston)
Eda LeShan – child psychologist and author
Carl P. Leubsdorf – Washington bureau chief, Dallas Morning News
Doug Liman – film director (
Bourne Identity ,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith )
Andrew Litton – conductor, New York City Ballet
Beulah Livingstone – motion picture publicist
[12]
Douglas Lowenstein – president and CEO of
Private Equity Council , founder and former president of
Entertainment Software Association
Douglas Lowy – cancer biologist; director of U.S. National Cancer Institute
Staughton Lynd – peace activist and civil rights activist
Jeffrey Lyons – film critic,
WNBC-TV , New York City
Mark A. Michaels – author and sexuality educator
Bob Marshall – conservationist, writer, and the founder of
The Wilderness Society
Andy Marvel – award-winning musician
Grace M. Mayer – curator at
The Museum of the City of New York and
The Museum of Modern Art
Jane Mayer – best selling author, investigative journalist,
The New Yorker
Zach McGowan – actor
Marguerita Mergentime – industrial designer
Nicholas Meyer – film director
Jo Mielziner – stage designer
Olivette Miller – jazz harpist
Marvin Minsky – pioneer in artificial intelligence at MIT
Tim Minton – television journalist and media executive
Alfred Mirsky – cell biologist
Jeannette Mirsky – writer
Frederic S. Mishkin – governor of the
Federal Reserve Board
Joan Morgan – Jamaican-American writer and author
Robert M. Morgenthau – retired
New York County District Attorney
Robert Moses – urban planner and public official
Howard Nemerov – former United States
Poet Laureate
Gabriel Olds – actor, writer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), physicist, scientific director of the
Manhattan Project , "Father of the Atomic Bomb"
[13]
Eleanor Pepper (1904–1997), architect, interior designer[
citation needed ]
Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024), poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry
[14]
Emanuel R. Piore (1908–2000, class of 1926)chief scientist of IBM, and electrical engineering pioneer
[15]
Belva Plain (1915–2010), author
[16]
Susan Poser (born 1963), President of
Hofstra University
[17]
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939), author[
citation needed ]
Eve M. Troutt Powell – Historian of Middle East Studies[
citation needed ]
Edward R. Pressman (1943–2023), film producer
[18]
Richard Ravitch – business and civic leader
Nancy Reiner – graduating as Nancy Russek, cover artist of
Jimi Hendrix album
The Cry of Love (1971), among others
Menachem Z. Rosensaft – attorney and founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Survivors
Dan Rottenberg – journalist and author
Muriel Rukeyser – poet and playwright
David Sarasohn – associate editor and syndicated columnist for
The Oregonian newspaper
James H. Scheuer – US Congressman (NY)
Gil Scott-Heron – musician[
citation needed ]
Nicole Seligman – lawyer,
Sony executive
Cynthia Propper Seton – novelist
Robert B. Sherman – composer, lyricist, screenwriter, painter
Laura Silber – author, former journalist and Vice President for Advocacy and Communications at the Open Society Foundations
Mariko Silver – former president of Bennington College, President of Luce Foundation
Lucy Simon – composer, singer
Stephen Slesinger – creator of the Red Ryder comic strip
Tess Slesinger – author/screenwriter
Alan B. Slifka – Investor and philanthropist; founder of Big Apple Circus
Jay Smooth – radio host and cultural commentator
Donald J. Sobol – author of juvenile short stories; creator of
Encyclopedia Brown
Stephen Sondheim – composer; attended the Fieldston Lower School
Dan Squadron –
New York State Senator
Andy Stein – musician
Stewart Stern – screenwriter
Paul Strand – photographer and filmmaker
James Toback – filmmaker
Richard Tofel – journalist, attorney, administrator, non fiction writer
Doris Ulmann – photographer of
Appalachia
Laurence Urdang – lexicographer, dictionary editor
[19]
Helen Valentine – founder of
Seventeen magazine
Elliot Villar – actor
Barbara Walters – TV news
[7]
Andrew Weisblum – Oscar-nominated film editor
Andrew Weissmann – attorney and professor
Chris Wink , performance artist; co-founder,
Blue Man Group
Howard Wolfson – deputy mayor of New York City
Jane C. Wright – oncologist
[20]
Keith L. T. Wright –
New York State Assemblyman
Sheryl WuDunn –
investment banker ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist
Adam Yarmolinsky – academic and author who served in the
Kennedy ,
Johnson and
Carter administrations
Eli Zabar – New York City restaurateur
Lynn Zelevansky – museum curator
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