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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 PurchaseEgbert 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 CourtGouverneur 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 YorkAlexander 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==
Scholars
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop Benjamin Moore; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of The Night Before ChristmasJohn Anthon (1801), jurist • John Church Hamilton (1809), son of Alexander Hamilton, American historian • Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the Anthon TranscriptHenry 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 familyWilliam Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the United States Olympic CommitteeFelix Adler (1870), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the Ethical Culture movement and the Ethical Culture Fieldston SchoolBrander 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 GamesJohn Aaron Browning (1875), American educator, founder of the Browning SchoolRichard T. Ely (1876), American economist, founder and president of the American Economic AssociationEdward Washburn Hopkins (1878), professor of Sanskrit at Yale UniversityEdwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), American economistWilliam Archibald Dunning (1881), founder of the Dunning School of ReconstructionJames Chidester Egbert Jr. (1881), classical scholar and educator • Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1881), American Zionist scholar, founder of the first Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta TauHarry Thurston Peck (1881), literary critic and editor of The BookmanA. V. Williams Jackson (1883), American specialist on Indo-European languagesCharles Knapp (1887), classical scholar • Frank Moore Colby (1888), American historian and editor of The New International EncyclopediaCharles Sears Baldwin (1888), American scholar and professor of rhetoric at Yale UniversityJohn Dyneley Prince (1888), American linguist; United States Ambassador to YugoslaviaGeorge Louis Beer (1892), renowned historian of the "Imperial school"Benjamin Lord Buckley (1892), American educator, founder and headmaster of Buckley SchoolJudah 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 anthropologistWilliam Popper (1896), Orientalist and professor • Frederick Paul Keppel (1898), American educator, former president of the Carnegie Corporation of New YorkFrank Sutliff Hackett (1899), American educator, founder of Riverdale Country SchoolJohn Erskine (1900), Great Books pioneer • Alexander Goldenweiser (1902), Russian-born anthropologist and sociologistEmanuel Goldenweiser (1903), economist and president of the American Economic AssociationRobert Livingston Schuyler (1903), scholar on American history, president of the American Historical AssociationCarlton J. H. Hayes (1904), pioneering cultural historian; former United States Ambassador to SpainEdward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesisFrank Speck (1904), anthropologist, professor at the University of PennsylvaniaWilliam Stuart Messer (1905), professor of Latin at Dartmouth College, recipient of a 1922 Rome PrizeMark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the Rómulo Pico AdobeEdwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar; Sterling Professor at the Yale Law SchoolRichard F. Bach (1909), curator with the Metropolitan Museum of ArtRhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr CollegeF. Stuart Chapin (1909), American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological AssociationHarold Gould Henderson (1910), American Japanologist and former president of the Japan Society, founder of the Haiku Society of AmericaArmin K. Lobeck (1911), American cartographerCarl Zigrosser (1911), curator of the Philadelphia Museum of ArtLawrence K. Frank (1912), social scientist; vice president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and co-initiator of the Macy conferencesArthur MacMahon (1912), American political scientist, president of the American Political Science AssociationClarence Manning (1912), prominent slavicist at Columbia UniversityParker LeRoy Moon (1913), professor and managing editor of the Political Science QuarterlyBenjamin Graham (1914), economist who pioneered value investingHerbert 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 ArtJohn 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 PoeRichard McKeon (1920), philosopher • Frank Tannenbaum (1920), Austrian-American historian, sociologist, and criminologist; founder of the Labeling theory in criminologyFritz Roethlisberger (1921), management theorist at Harvard Business SchoolLouis M. Hacker (1922), professor of economics and proponent of adult educationYuan 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 ArtAlexander Lesser (1923), anthropologist known for his documentation of the Kitsai languageArthur V. Loughren (1923), electrical engineer, former president of the Institute of Radio EngineersLeslie 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 UniversityMeyer Schapiro (1924), art historian • Joseph Campbell (1925), mythologist • Jerome Klein (1925), American art historian and co-founder of the American Artists' CongressWilliam 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 ArtCarl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics • Leon Keyserling (1928), head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Harry S TrumanEdgar Lorch (1928), mathematics department chairman at Columbia UniversityJunius Bird (1930), American archaeologist and former curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural HistoryEli Ginzberg (1930), professor of economics at Columbia UniversityNiels Henry Sonne (1930), rare book collector and head librarian at General Theological SeminaryMaxwell Geismar (1931), American literary critic, author, and professor at Sarah Lawrence CollegeFrancis Joseph Murray (1932), mathematician who developed the Von Neumann algebra with John von NeumannWalter H. Rubsamen (1933), professor of a musicology at the University of California, Los AngelesJoseph Leon Blau (1934), professor of religion at Columbia UniversityM. A. Fitzsimons (1934), historian at the University of Notre Dame, editor of The Review of PoliticsAlan Gewirth (1934), American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, author of Reason and MoralityRobert M. Adams (1935), Kafka scholar and professor at the University of California, Los AngelesFrederick Hartt (1935), Michelangelo expert, professor at University of Virginia, member of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives programHerbert 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, RiversideJoseph 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 HistoryQuentin Anderson (1937), cultural historian and literary critic • Charles Frankel (1937), political philosopher, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural AffairsHerbert Hyman (1939), American sociologist and expert on Opinion pollingHerbert E. Klarman (1939), American professor of the economics of healthcare at New York UniversityBarry Ulanov (1939), English professor and scholar of jazz and religion • Robert J. Alexander (1940), American political activist, writer, and professor at Rutgers UniversityJohn Hine Mundy (1940), British-American medievalist, professor at Columbia University, former president of the Medieval Academy of AmericaDonald Barr (1941), American educator and author; former headmaster of Dalton School; initiated the Columbia University Science Honors ProgramTed de Bary (1941), East Asian studies expert and provost of Columbia UniversityLeon Henkin (1941), mathematician and logician at University of California, BerkeleyDonald Keene (1942), scholar of Japanese culture • Robert Lekachman (1942), economist • Philip Yampolsky (1942), scholar of Zen BuddhismFrancesco Cordasco (1943), professor of education at Montclair State UniversityBernard Russell Gelbaum (1943), professor of mathematics at University of California, IrvineMartin S. James (1943), American art historian, translator of Piet MondrianMartin J. Klein (1943), American historian of science and recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for History of PhysicsBernard Weisberger (1943), American historian of the Reconstruction EraAlan Hoffman (1944), mathematician known for constructing the Hoffman–Singleton graphBruce Mazlish (1944), American historian and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, son-in-law of David RockefellerRichard 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 CollegeMurray 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 InstitutionRichard Heffner (1946), professor and host of The Open MindFritz 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 UniversityHarold E. Pagliaro (1947), professor of English literature at Swarthmore CollegeHoward Stein (1947), philosopher at the University of ChicagoLambros 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, CUNYVictorino Tejera (1948), professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Stony Brook UniversityUriel Weinreich (1948), linguist and professor at Columbia UniversityAlbert Elsen (1949), professor at Stanford University and Auguste Rodin expert • Donald M. Friedman (1949), professor of Renaissance literature at University of California, BerkeleyMarvin Harris (1949), American anthropologist famous for developing cultural materialismAnthony Leeds (1949), anthropologist, professor at Boston UniversityRobert F. Murphy (1949), professor of anthropology at Columbia UniversityArthur Melvin Okun (1949), chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, proposed Okun's lawWilliam Rubin (1949), curator at the Museum of Modern ArtJames 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 UniversityBurton Watson (1950), American scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature • George Keller (1951), professor of higher education studies at the University of PennsylvaniaJoseph Rothschild (1951), professor of Central European and Eastern European history at Columbia UniversityImmanuel Wallerstein (1951), sociologist who defined world-systems theoryA. James Gregor (1952), professor of political science at the University of California, BerkeleyGeorge Kateb (1952), professor of political science at Princeton UniversityElliott Mendelson (1952), American logician; professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New YorkAndrew P. Vayda (1952), professor emeritus of anthropology and ecology at Rutgers UniversityMelvin Ember (1953), professor of the City University of New York and editor of Cross-Cultural ResearchJulian Wolpert (1953), professor of urban planning at the Princeton School of Public and International AffairsDemetrios James Caraley (1954), editor of Political Science Quarterly and president of the Academy of Political SciencePeter 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 OzStephen Orgel (1954), Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar • David Rosand (1954), Art historian, Columbia UniversityHaldon Chase (1955), Denver-based archeologist, early figure of the Beat GenerationWarren I. Cohen (1955), historian at University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyHarry N. Scheiber (1955), professor and director of the Institute for Legal Research at the UC Berkeley School of LawJerry Fodor (1956), philosopher at Rutgers UniversityRoy Lubove (1956), professor of social welfare at the University of PittsburghSeymour J. Mandelbaum (1956), professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of DesignKenneth 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 WritersStanley Corngold (1957), professor of literature at Princeton UniversityGeorge Dargo (1957), American legal scholar, professor at New England Law BostonErich 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 UniversityJonathan Lubin (1957), professor of mathematics at Brown University; introduced Lubin–Tate formal group lawRobert Chazan (1958), professor of Judaic studies at New York UniversityGerald Feldman (1958), American historian who specializes in 20th-century German history; professor at University of California, BerkeleyRobert M. Fogelson (1958), American urban historian at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRobert W. Hanning (1958), professor of English literature at Columbia UniversityNeil Harris (1958), professor of art history at the University of ChicagoJoachim Neugroschel (1958), prolific multilingual translator • David Rothman (1958), professor of social medicine and president of the Institute on Medicine as a ProfessionJohn Clubbe (1959), professor of English at the University of KentuckyBenjamin Cohen (1959), political economist and authority on International political economyRichard Fremantle (1959), Anglo-American art historian, son of writer Anne FremantleRobert Nozick (1959), libertarian philosopher known for his book Anarchy, State, and UtopiaIsser Woloch (1959), historian of the French RevolutionArnold A. Offner (1959), professor of history at Lafayette College and past president of Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsRiordan Roett (1959), political scientist and Latin American specialist at Johns Hopkins UniversityBruce M. Stave (1959), American historian specializing in oral history and urban historyAlvin Goldman (1960), professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and leading figure in epistemologyWilliam Landes (1960), economist and professor at University of Chicago Law SchoolRudolf Makkreel (1960), professor of philosophy at Emory UniversityThomas Vargish (1960), professor of English at Dartmouth CollegeEugene Bardach (1961), public policy scholar, professor at University of California, BerkeleyMarshall Berman (1961), urbanologist • Martin Eidelberg (1961), art historian at Rutgers UniversityDavid Konstan (1961), professor of classics at New York UniversityVictor 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 UniversityDavid Syrett (1961), professor of military history at Queens College, City University of New York; former president of the New York Military Affairs SymposiumZvi Gitelman (1962), Jewish scholar at the University of MichiganKen Jowitt (1962), American political scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow of the Hoover InstitutionStephen Koss (1962), American historian on British history • Joel Moses (1962), mathematician, Institute Professor at and provost of the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLawrence S. Wittner (1962), historian on peace movements • Peter Winn (1962), professor of history at Tufts UniversityRichard Alba (1963), American sociologist, professor at Graduate Center, CUNYDavid 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 AssociationDavid Orme-Johnson (1963), professor of psychology at the Maharishi University of ManagementMichael Klare (1963), professor of security studies at Hampshire CollegeVictor Margolin (1963), professor of design history at the University of Illinois at ChicagoJonah Raskin (1963), American writer, professor on counterculture • Howard Spodek (1963), American historian specializing in urban studies; professor at Temple UniversityRobert J. Art (1964), professor of international relations at Brandeis UniversityRichard P. Appelbaum (1964), professor of sociology at University of California, Santa BarbaraJonathan 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 TechnologyRichard Epstein (1964), libertarian law scholar • Richard S. Kayne (1964), professor of linguistics at New York UniversityPeter Kolchin (1964), professor at the University of Delaware and winner of the 1988 Bancroft PrizeJohn H. Langbein (1964), Sterling Professor at Yale Law School • Peter K. Machamer (1964), American philosopher and historian of science; professor at the University of PittsburghMike Wallace (1964), historian and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Jonathan Goldberg (1964), professor at Emory UniversityMichael M. Gunter (1964), professor at Tennessee Technological University, authority in Kurdish studiesMiles Orvell (1964), professor at Temple University, former editor of the Encyclopedia of American StudiesJonathan M. Weiss (1964), American scholar of French literature and politicsGeorge R. Goldner (1965), former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtJ. Bruce Jacobs (1965), Australian orientalist who specialized in Taiwan studies, professor at Monash UniversityRichard Kagan (1965), American historian, professor of Spanish history at Johns Hopkins UniversityRichard Taruskin (1965), American musicologistWalter Reich (1965), former director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and professor at George Washington UniversityMark Steiner (1965), professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of JerusalemRaymond Geuss (1966), specialist in Jürgen HabermasSteven Handel (1966), restoration ecologist, professor at Rutgers UniversityMichael Hechter (1966), professor of political science at Arizona State UniversityIra Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor at Columbia UniversityMark D. Naison (1966), former political activist; professor of history at Fordham UniversityT. J. Pempel (1966), professor of political science and former director of the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of California, BerkeleyRoger Sanjek (1966), professor of anthropology at Queens College, City University of New YorkDavid Weissbrodt (1966), legal scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School known for drafting the Minnesota ProtocolJay Winter (1966), World War I specialist at Yale UniversityPaul 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 SoundReza Sheikholeslami (1967), Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at Wadham College, OxfordJeremy Siegel (1967), professor of the Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaTerrell Carver (1968), political theorist; professor at the University of BristolSamuel 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 UniversityAlfred W. McCoy (1968), historian of Southeast Asia; professor at the University of Wisconsin–MadisonLawrence Susskind (1968), urban planner and mediator; professor at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJerry Avorn (1969), professor at the Harvard Medical SchoolWilliam 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 MichiganMichel Rosenfeld (1969), constitutional law scholar • Mark Rosenzweig (1969), professor of economics at Yale UniversitySteven M. Cohen (1970), sociologist, director of Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public ServiceSheldon Danziger (1970), political scientist at the University of MichiganLennard J. Davis (1970), professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specialist in disability studiesJohn 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 LawPeter Grossman (1970), professor of economics at Butler University; columnist, The Indianapolis StarRobert A. Leonard (1970), American forensic linguist at Hofstra University and former member of rock band Sha Na NaMichael 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 NonfictionPaul Berman (1971), historian and social critic • Philip Nord (1971), historian and professor at Princeton UniversitySteven 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 UniversityScott Atran (1972), American anthropologist; director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presidential scholar at John Jay College of Criminal JusticeJoel Black (1972), literature and film scholar • Michael Gerrard (1972), professor at Columbia Law SchoolJerome Groopman (1972), Harvard Medical School professor and medical writer for The New YorkerRobert 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 VirginiaMark J. Roe (1972), professor at Harvard Law SchoolJohn Servos (1972), professor and historian of science; president of the History of Science SocietyDavid Stern (1972), professor of Hebrew literature at Harvard UniversityTom R. Tyler (1972), professor of psychology at Yale Law SchoolHarold Aram Veeser (1972), professor at City College of New York, known for contribution to new historicismSean Wilentz (1972), historian and winner of the Bancroft Prize; chair of American Studies at Princeton UniversityAngelo Falcón (1973), political scientist, President and Founder of the National Institute for Latino PolicySteven Messner (1973), sociologist, professor of the University at Albany, SUNY, former president of the American Society of CriminologyWilliam C. Sharpe (1973), professor of English at Barnard CollegeStewart Sterk (1973), professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawRichard Briffault (1974), professor of law at Columbia Law SchoolDavid S. Katz (1974), professor of early modern European history at Tel Aviv UniversityJames R. Russell (1974), professor of Ancient Near Eastern studies at Harvard UniversitySteven 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 CouncilHaruo Shirane (1974), professor of Japanese literature of Columbia UniversityJonathan Crary (1975), art critic, essayist, professor of art at Columbia UniversityRobert S. Levine (1975), professor of American literature at University of Maryland, College ParkAlexander J. Motyl (1975), professor of political science at Rutgers UniversityDavid Albert (1976), professor of philosophy at Columbia UniversityLouis Putterman (1976), professor of economics at Brown UniversityThomas Alan Schwartz (1976), professor of history at Vanderbilt UniversityBarry Bergdoll (1977), chief curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern ArtM. Gregg Bloche (1977), professor at Georgetown University Law CenterFranco Mormando (1977), historian of Italy, professor at Boston CollegeJames S. Shapiro (1977), Shakespearean authority • Peter Christopher (1978), writer and professor at Georgia Southern UniversityJorge Duany (1978), director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at Florida International UniversityJay M. Harris (1978), professor of Jewish studies at Harvard UniversityWilliam D. Hartung (1978), director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International PolicyKevin 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 UniversitySteve Fuller (1979), American philosopher, sociologist in the field of science and technology studiesAlexander George (1979), professor of philosophy at Amherst College; founder of AskPhilosophers.org • Timothy Gilfoyle (1979), professor of history at Loyola University ChicagoMark Statman (1980), professor emeritus of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal ArtsSahotra Sarkar (1981), professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at AustinAlan Tansman (1981), scholar of Japanese literature at University of California, BerkeleyMichael 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 AngelesMark Ravina (1983), professor of Japanese history at the University of Texas at AustinJonathan Zimmerman (1983), Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of EducationGideon Rosen (1984), professor of philosophy at Princeton UniversityJordan Sand (1984), professor Japanese history at Georgetown UniversityThomas Sugrue (1984), historian of the 20th century United States • Jamsheed Choksy (1985), chair of Eurasian studies at Indiana University BloomingtonNoam Elkies (1985), mathematician, youngest full professor at HarvardWilliam Deresiewicz (1985), literary critic • Louis Warren (1985), professor of Western U.S. history at the University of California, DavisAlexander Argüelles (1986), American polyglot and professor at the American University in the Emirates; son of poet Ivan ArgüellesTobias Hecht (1986), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator; winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead AwardAlva Noë (1986), professor of philosophy at University of California, BerkeleyAnthony B. Pinn (1986), professor of religion at Rice UniversityRitu 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, IrvineKatherine B. Crawford (1988), professor of gender studies and history at Vanderbilt UniversityLeslie M. Harris (1988), expert on African-American history at Northwestern UniversityClaudio Saunt (1989), professor at the University of Georgia, author of Unworthy RepublicNicholas Birns (1988), Tolkien scholar • William H. Sherman (1988), director of the Warburg Institute, University of LondonStephanie Stebich (1988), director of Smithsonian American Art MuseumStephanos 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 CircuitKaren Chapple (1989), scholar of Urban planning at University of California, BerkeleyJesús 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 SchoolStephanie Aaronson (1990), American economist and vice president of Brookings InstitutionRhea Anastas (1990), art historian, critic, curator and professor at University of California, IrvineMatthew Connelly (1990), professor of international and global history at Columbia UniversityJuliet Koss (1990), art historian, professor at Scripps CollegeJennifer Lee (1990), sociologist, professor of Columbia UniversityCatherine Prendergast (1990), professor of English at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBenjamin Frommer (1991), American historian, professor at Northwestern UniversityMary Pattillo (1991), professor of African-American studies at Northwestern UniversityCynthia A. Young (1991), professor of African-American studies at Pennsylvania State UniversityRobert T. Miller (1992), professor of law at the University of IowaMatthew Shum (1992), professor of economics at California Institute of TechnologyVictor Fleischer (1993), professor of law at University of California, IrvineValerie Purdie Greenaway (1993), professor of psychology and first African American to receive tenure in the sciences at Columbia UniversityMichelle Hartman (1993), professor of Arabic and francophone literature at McGill UniversitySoyoung Lee (1993), chief curator of the Harvard Art MuseumsSeth Rockman (1993), professor at Brown University, co-recipient of the 2010 Merle Curti AwardDavid Rosen (1993), professor at Trinity College, Connecticut, recipient of the 2013 James Russell Lowell PrizeDavid Eisenbach (1994), historian on media and politics; narrator, ''10 Things You Don't Know About'' • François Furstenberg (1994), historian at Johns Hopkins UniversityKaterina Harvati (1994), professor of paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, identified the earliest known sample of the remains of modern humans outside AfricaAyanna Thompson (1994), professor of English at Arizona State University, President of the Shakespeare Association of AmericaDavid H. Webber (1995), professor of law at Boston University School of LawBarry Scott Wimpfheimer (1995), professor of religious studies at Northwestern University, expert on the TalmudLara Bazelon (1996), professor of law at University of San Francisco School of LawGabriella Coleman (1996), American anthropologist known for her work in hacker culture and online activism; professor at McGill UniversityElena Conis (1996), American historian of medicine at University of California, BerkeleyLeah DeVun (1997), professor of gender studies at Rutgers UniversityJessica Greenberg (1997), social anthropologist and professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignLauren Winner (1997), historian, professor at Duke Divinity SchoolBrooke Holmes (1998), American classicist, professor at Princeton UniversityAlison Gass (1998), former chief curator of the Cantor Arts Center, director of the Smart Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art San JoséLouis Hyman (1999), economic historian, professor at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, author of Debtor NationAdrianne Wadewitz (1999), American feminist scholar and noted WikipedianYehuda Kurtzer (2000), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, son of ambassador Daniel C. KurtzerNatalia Mehlman Petrzela (2000), professor of history at The New SchoolFotini Christia (2001), Greek political scientist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJoya 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 ManagementDaniel Immerwahr (2002), professor of history of Northwestern University and recipient of the Merle Curti AwardJessica 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 BiennialSusanna Berger (2007), art historian, professor at University of Southern CaliforniaAshley James (2009), first black curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ==University presidents and administrators==
University presidents and administrators
John M. Mason (1789), provost of Columbia College and president of Dickinson CollegePhilip Milledoler (1793), fifth president of Rutgers UniversityNathaniel Fish Moore (1802), eighth President of Columbia UniversityIsaac Ferris (1816), third President of New York UniversityJames Hall Mason Knox (1841), 8th president of Lafayette CollegeJohn Aikman Stewart (1841), businessman, banker, acting president of Princeton UniversityJohn Howard Van Amringe (1860), mathematician and Dean of Columbia College • Seth Low (1870), president of Columbia University and mayor of New York CityNicholas 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 BoardFrancis 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 BoardFrank 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 UniversityDixon 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 UniversityFrederick Burkhardt (1933), president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies and third president of Bennington CollegeJames S. Coles (1936), ninth president of Bowdoin CollegeWilliam C. Fels (1937), fourth president of Bennington CollegeGeorge James (1937), Commissioner of Health of the City of New York, dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, president of Mount Sinai Health SystemJames C. Fletcher (1940), president of the University of Utah and administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationHerbert A. Deane (1942), political scientist, vice provost of Columbia UniversityMartin Meyerson (1942), president of the University of PennsylvaniaHenry S. Coleman (1946), acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968Steven 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. • Rudolph H. Weingartner (1950), former provost of the University of Pittsburgh, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern UniversityRalph Lowenstein (1951), dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and CommunicationsMichael I. Sovern (1951), president of Columbia UniversityRichard 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 ResearchRobert L. Friedheim (1955), former director of the USC School of International RelationsCalvin B. T. Lee (1955), former chancellor of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and acting president of Boston UniversityRobert E. Paaswell (1956), American civil engineer, former interim president of City College of New York and CEO of Chicago Transit AuthorityKenneth Gros Louis (1959), Chancellor of Indiana University system • Richard A. Merrill (1959), 7th dean of the University of Virginia School of LawStephen Joel Trachtenberg (1959), president of the University of Hartford and of George Washington UniversityDavid C. Levy (1960), dean of the Parsons School of Design and president of the Corcoran Gallery of ArtSteven M. Cahn (1966), provost and acting president of Graduate Center of the City University of New YorkDimitri B. Papadimitriou (1970), executive vice president and provost of Bard CollegeDavid Rubin (1970), American professor of communications and dean of S. I. Newhouse School of Public CommunicationsAlan Cooper (1971), provost of Jewish Theological Seminary of America, former member of Sha Na NaWilliam Germano (1972), dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Cooper Union, former editor-in-chief of Columbia University PressSaul Levmore (1973), commercial law scholar, former dean of the University of Chicago Law SchoolRonald Mason Jr. (1974), president of the University of the District of Columbia and former president of Southern UniversityReynold Verret (1976), president of Xavier University of LouisianaGregory F. Ball (1977), American psychologist, dean of the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social SciencesThomas Worcester (1977), American Jesuit academic, president of Regis College, Toronto, professor of the University of TorontoAlan Kadish (1977), President of the Touro College and University SystemRalph Keen (1979), professor and dean of the honors college at the University of Illinois at ChicagoColin Crawford (1980), 24th dean of the University of Louisville School of Law and incoming dean of the Golden Gate University School of LawSamuel Hoi (1980), president of the Maryland Institute College of ArtDaniel Gordis (1981), vice president of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts collegeMark 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 LawDonald S. Siegel (1981), economist and director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State UniversityDeborah Waxman (1989), president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist CommunitiesJonathan H. Earle (1990), dean of Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at Louisiana State UniversityMelissa Michelson (1990), dean of arts and sciences at Menlo CollegeMelanie Jacobs (1991), dean of the University of Louisville School of Law and Michigan State University College of LawAshish Jha (1992), dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and former professor of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthSarah Bunin Benor (1997), vice provost of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, recipient of 2019 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature ==Actors==
Actors
John B. Mason (1880), American stage actor • Ralph Morgan (1904), co-founder of Actors Equity and first president of the Screen Actors GuildNat Pendleton (1916), portrayer of Eugen Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld and silver-medal wrestler in the 1920 Summer OlympicsJames Cagney* (1922), winner of the Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle DandyRoger De Koven* (c. late 1920s), actor on stage, radio, film and TV; star of Peabody Award-winning radio drama Against the StormCornel Wilde* (1933), star of The Greatest Show on Earth, Beach Red, and Academy Award nominee for A Song to RememberRichard Ney (1940), actor, Mrs. Miniver; husband of Greer GarsonDolph Sweet (1948), played Carl Canisky in Gimme a Break!Sorrell Booke (1949), played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of HazzardStephen Strimpell (1954), star of Mister TerrificGeorge 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 SalesmanDon Briscoe (1962), American actor, Dark ShadowsRoger Davis (1962), American actor, Dark Shadows, Alias Smith and JonesWilliam Finley (1963), film actor; co-star of Phantom of the ParadiseJared Martin (1965), actor, DallasBen Stein (1966), host of ''Win Ben Stein's Money''; speechwriter for former US President Richard M. NixonGerrit Graham* (1970), film actor and songwriter • Ed Harris* (1973), Academy Award-nominated actor and director, Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock, WestworldRichard Thomas* (1973), star of The WaltonsRobert Wisdom (1976), actor, Nashville, The Wire, Prison BreakMario Van Peebles (1978), star of Heartbreak Ridge and Sonny SpoonJack Koenig (1981), actor • Matt Salinger (1983), actor son of J.D. SalingerRobert Maschio (1988), actor on ScrubsMatthew Fox (1989), star of Party of Five and LostSoterios Johnson (1990), American radio journalist and WNYC host • Schuyler Grant (1993), American actress, great-niece of Katharine HepburnRachel DeWoskin (1994), actress and author, Foreign Babes in BeijingJean 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 YardsCara Buono (1995), star of Third Watch and Stranger ThingsCasey 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 KnightEbon Moss-Bachrach (1999), actor, GirlsLiza Weil (1999), actress, The Gilmore GirlsAmir Arison (2000), actor in The BlacklistCharlotte Newhouse (2001), actress and producer of Comedy Central's IdiotsitterJesse Bradford (2002), actor in Flags of Our Fathers and Bring It OnJake Gyllenhaal* (2002), Academy Award-nominated actor for Brokeback Mountain, star of Jarhead and Donnie DarkoBrandon Victor Dixon (2003), Tony Award-nominated broadway actor starring in Scottsboro BoysRachel Nichols (2003), actress, Continuum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of CobraJenny Slate (2004), cast member, Saturday Night LiveAnna Paquin* (2004), winner of the Academy Award for The PianoRider Strong (2004), star of Boy Meets WorldJulia Jones (2005), actress in The Twilight Saga and Dexter: New BloodJulia Stiles (2005), star of Save the Last Dance and Mona Lisa SmileKate McKinnon (2006), Emmy winning actress and comedian, Saturday Night LiveGrace Parra (2006), actress, screenwriter, TV host • Emmy Rossum* (2008), Golden Globe-nominated actress of The Phantom of the Opera and The Day After TomorrowHal Scardino (2008), child actor known for his role in The Indian in the CupboardJeremy Blackman (2009), appeared in MagnoliaMax Minghella (2009), appeared in Syriana and Art School ConfidentialSpencer Treat Clark (2010), appeared in Gladiator, Mystic River, and UnbreakableAsher Grodman (2010), actor, GhostsSarah Steele (2011), actress, SpanglishRemy Zaken (2012), actress on Spring AwakeningJin Ha (2013), actor, Love Life, DevsDevyn Tyler (2013), actress, Clarice and SnowfallGabby Beans (2014), actress, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nominee • Kelsey Chow (2014), actress, Pair of KingsCinta Laura (2014), actress and singer • Sofia Vassilieva (2014), actress, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at ChristmastimeMarjana Chowdhury (2015), model, actress, philanthropist and beauty queen • Hari Nef (2015), transgender model, actress, and writer; signed to IMG ModelsBen Platt* (2016), actor and singer, Pitch Perfect, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, transferred to Columbia University School of General StudiesKatie Chang* (2017), actress, The Bling Ring, ''A Birder's Guide to Everything'' • Timothée Chalamet* (2017), Academy Award-nominated actor, Call Me by Your NameSami Gayle (2018), actress, Blue Bloods, Candy Jar, Vampire AcademyKenny Ridwan (2021), actor, The GoldbergsEmily Robinson (2021), actress, ''The Orphans' Home Cycle, Eighth Grade'' • Kiera Allen (2022), actress, RunPeyton Elizabeth Lee (2026), actress, Andi MackAvantika Vandanapu (2027), actress, Mean Girls == Activists ==
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 ChildrenArthur 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 UniversityGeorge Marshall (1926), political activist and conservationist • John B. Trevor Jr. (1931), director and treasurer of the Pioneer FundDavid Crook (1935), British-born Communist ideologue, activist, spy, husband of Isabel Crook, professor at Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityRobert Gnaizda (1957), lawyer, activist, and co-founder of advocacy group Greenlining InstituteMorris J. Amitay (1958), lobbyist, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security AffairsRichard Grossman (1965), critic and organizer against corporate power, former director of Greenpeace USABrian Flanagan (1968), former member of the Students for a Democratic Society and Weather UndergroundDavid 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 BoudinTed 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 explosionJohn 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 explosionMark Rudd (1969), president of Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weather UndergroundStephen 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 KaczynskiRobert Roth* (1970), American activist associated with the Students for a Democratic SocietySheena Wright (1990), CEO of the United Way of New York CityDavid Kaiser (1991), American philanthropist, environmental activist, president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, great-great-grandson of John D. RockefellerBenjamin Jealous (1994), president of the NAACPAi-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 DemocracyTourmaline (2006), activist and filmmaker • Emma Sulkowicz (2015), performance activist known for Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) and ''Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol'' • Coleman Hughes (2020), 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==
Artists and architects
James Renwick Jr. (1836), Gothic Revival architect who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral, New YorkCharles 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 SeminaryWalter 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 ClubHenry 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, VirginiaGoodhue Livingston (1888), founder of the architectural firm Trowbridge & LivingstonHenry 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 AmericasRockwell Kent* (1907), illustrator • Eric Gugler (1911), architect who designed the current Oval OfficeAlbert Mayer (1916), American planner who designed the master plan of ChandigarhIsamu 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 GardenCharles 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 KlingStubbinsEd Rice (1940), American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter • Charles Saxon (1940), cartoonist • Burton Silverman (1949), painter • George S. Zimbel (1951), photographer • Jeh V. Johnson (1953), architect, and educator at Vassar CollegeFrederick C. Baldwin (1955), photographer • Edward Koren (1957), cartoonist • John Giorno (1958), artist, subject of Andy Warhol's first movie, SleepRobert A. M. Stern (1960), traditionalist architect, dean of the Yale School of ArchitectureScott 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 HallStephen A. Lesser (1966), architect • Gordon Gahan (1967)*, photographer for National GeographicEdwin Schlossberg (1967), designer, author, artist; husband of Caroline KennedyFrancis Levy (1969), comic book artist • Greg Wyatt (1971), sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, known for designing the Peace FountainTimothy 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. MorganJohn Arcudi (1983), cartoonist for DC Comics and creator of The Mask and Major BummerJacob Collins (1986), American realist painter, founder of the Grand Central Academy of ArtLance Hosey (1987), architect, author of The Shape of Green; chief sustainability officer of the global architectural firm RTKL AssociatesMatthew Weinstein (1987), American visual artist, son of American physician I. Bernard WeinsteinChristopher 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 CastleRicardo Cortés (1995), illustrator, ''It's Just a Plant'' • Damon Winter (1997), Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The New York TimesDamon Rich (1997), urban designer, 2017 MacArthur FellowNicola López (1998), American artist, professor at the Columbia University School of the ArtsEmily Abruzzo (2000), co-founder of Abruzzo Bodziak ArchitectsSteffani Jemison (2003), American artist • Ariel Schrag (2003), American cartoonist • Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (2010), Thai-American artist known for the project Beyond Curie ==Athletes==
Athletes
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 shooterCharles Sands (1887), American athlete who won the gold medal in Golf at the 1900 Summer OlympicsOliver Campbell (1891), 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 OlympicsGustavus 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 BaseballHarold Weekes (1903), football player for the Columbia Lions, member of the College Football Hall of FameHarry A. Fisher (1905), basketball coach for Columbia, United States Military Academy, St. John's; member of the Basketball Hall of FameRobert LeRoy (1905), two-time silver medalist in the 1904 Summer OlympicsEddie Collins (1907), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and member of the Baseball Hall of FameMarcus Hurley (1908), cyclist who won four gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer OlympicsJay Gould II* (1911), real tennis player, Olympic gold medalist in 1908 and world champion from 1914 to 1916; great-grandson of financier Jay GouldTed 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 PhilliesMillard 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 FameWalter Koppisch (1925), football player for the New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of FameRalph Furey (1928), football player, athletic director of Columbia University from 1943 to 1968 • Art Smith (1928), baseball player for the Chicago White SoxFresco Thompson (1928), baseball player for the Philadelphia PhilliesHugh Alessandroni (1929), Olympic bronze medalist fencer • Norman Armitage (1931), Olympic bronze medalist fencer; first person to be inducted into the USFA Hall of FameLou Bender (1932), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball; later a successful trial attorney • 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 BowlJohn O'Brien (1938), basketball player for the Akron WingfootsBen Johnson (1938), sprinter who rivaled Jesse OwensSid 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 WarriorsBruce Gehrke (1948), football player for New York Giants • Bill Swiacki (1948), player for New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of FameLou Kusserow (1949), football player for Hamilton Tiger-Cats and New York YanksJohn Azary (1951), basketball player, recipient of the Haggerty AwardJack Molinas (1953), NBA player for the Fort Wayne PistonsJack 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 BooksJames 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 FederationPeter 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 BlazersDave 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 ColtsHeyward Dotson (1970), basketball player • George Starke (1971), offensive lineman for the Washington RedskinsHenry Bunis (1975), two-time All-American tennis player, runner-up in 1977 Chilean OpenRick Fagel (1975), professional tennis player • Vitas Gerulaitis* (1975), champion tennis player • Thomas Losonczy (1975), American Olympic fencer, winner of the Congressional Gold MedalAlton Byrd (1979), basketball player • Eric Fromm (1980), tennis player • John Witkowski (1983), football player for Detroit Lions and Houston OilersGene 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 LazersStephen 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), tennis player • Phil Williamson (1987), tennis player for Antigua and BarbudaBob 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 MetsTom 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 CowboysDan Kellner (1998), fencer • Pellegrino Matarazzo (1999), head coach of VfB StuttgartMatt 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 RaysJeremiah Boswell (2005), professional basketball player for BC Sliven, KK Strumica, and KK TorusDelilah DiCrescenzo (2005), American long-distance runner, inspiration and subject of the Grammy-nominated song Hey There DelilahMichael Quarshie (2005), Finnish American football player who played for the Oakland Raiders and Frankfurt GalaxyLisa 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 OlympicsEmily 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 tackleNicole 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 linebackerJohn Gregorek Jr. (2014), middle-distance runner • David Najem (2014), American soccer player for New Mexico United and the Afghanistan national football teamNadia Eke (2015), Ghanaian triple jumper, African Championships gold medalist in 2016 • Kristine Musademba (2015), figure skaterMax Schnur (2015), tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger TourNzingha 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 BambergRobb Paller (2016), American-Israeli Olympic baseball player • Jeff Coby (2017), American basketball player for Xuventude BaloncestoCameron Nizialek (2017), football player for Atlanta FalconsAkua Obeng-Akrofi (2018), Ghanaian sprinter • Charlotte Buck (2018), Olympic rower • Osama Khalifa (2018), #1 ranked college squash player in the United States for the 2016–17 season • Camille Zimmerman (2018), American basketball player for Norrköping DolphinsYasmeen Al-Dabbagh (2019), Saudi Arabian sprinter • Jessica Antiles (2019), American swimmer who won silver and bronze medals in the 2017 Maccabiah GamesDylan Castanheira (2019), soccer player, goalkeeper for Fort Lauderdale CFSophie Whitehouse (2019), goalkeeper for Republic of Ireland women's national football teamMike Smith (2020), basketball player • Anthony Jackie Tang (2020), Hong Kong tennis player • John Tanguay (2020), American rower who won a silver medal in the 2020 Summer ParalympicsDylan Geick* (2021), wrestler and internet personality • Velavan Senthilkumar (2021), British Junior Open Squash champion and Asian Junior Squash champion • Nastasya Generalova (2023), gymnast and model • Olivia Giaccio (2024), Olympic freestyle skier • Evita Griskenas (2024), Rhythmic gymnastCamden Pulkinen (2024), figure skater • Abbey Hsu (2024), basketball player ==Businesspeople==
Businesspeople
Henry Rutgers (1766), Revolutionary War hero, businessman, philanthropist, and namesake of Rutgers UniversityLeffert Lefferts (1794), first president of Long Island BankWilliam Bard (1798), son of physician Samuel Bard, founder and first president of New York Life Insurance CompanyStephen 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 AstorCornelius Roosevelt* (attended, year unknown), member of the Roosevelt family, one of the founders of the Chemical Bank; great-grandfather of Theodore RooseveltJames H. Roosevelt (1819), founder of Roosevelt HospitalRobert Goelet Sr. (1828), banker and real estate developer who was associated with the founding of the Chemical BankBradish Johnson (1831), industrialist involved in the Swill milk scandalRobert L. Cutting (1830), co-founder of the Continental Bank of New York and president of the New York Stock ExchangeHenry T. Anthony (1832), photographer, vice-president of the E. & H. T. Anthony & CompanyAdrian 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 RailroadRobert Morrison Olyphant (1842), heir to trading company Olyphant & Co. and president of the Delaware and Hudson RailwayCharles Carow* (1844), businessman son of shipping magnate Isaac Carow, father of first lady Edith Carow RooseveltFrederic W. Rhinelander (1847), 3rd president of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtWilliam 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 ClubRobert 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 KingslandGoold 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 IVJohn 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 AmericaRobert 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 ClubShipley Jones (1868), American banker and clubman • William Bayard Cutting (1869), financier, philanthropist, namesake of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkRobert 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 RailroadJames Montaudevert Waterbury Sr. (1873), industrialist, co-founder of the New York Yacht ClubIsaac 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 CompanyEugene 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 UnlimitedTemple Bowdoin (1885), former executive of J.P. Morgan & Co.Benjamin Guggenheim* (1887), American businessman, son of Meyer Guggenheim and member of the Guggenheim familyRichard Thornton Wilson Jr. (1887), banker, prominent figure in Thoroughbred horse racingRichard 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 StevensCortlandt F. Bishop (1891), American aviator and book collector, grandson of philanthropist Benjamin Hazard FieldHoward Gould* (1894), financier, son of railroad tycoon Jay GouldJoseph Peter Grace Sr. (1894), businessman, polo player, heir to W. R. Grace and Company; founder of Pan American-Grace Airways and Grace National BankSamuel 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 RepresentativesCharles A. Dana (1902), philanthropist who founded the Dana Foundation and Dana Holding CorporationJohn 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 DodgeGeorge Earle Warren (1903), Vice President of Chase Manhattan BankPendleton Dudley (1906), public relations executive, founder of Dudley-Anderson-YutzyWilliam Gage Brady Jr. (1908), Chairman of Citigroup from 1948 to 1952 • Edmond Guggenheim (1908), American mining executive, grandson of Meyer GuggenheimWard 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 CenterJohn 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. LoebLindsley F. Kimball (1917), former president of United Service Organizations and National Urban LeagueCharles 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 WestGeorge E. Jonas (1919), partner in Pellessier-Jonas-Rivet Manufacturing Co., philanthropist and founder of Camp Rising SunS. Marshall Kempner (1919), American investment banker, and brother-in-law of Peggy GuggenheimJohn S. Sinclair (1920), fourth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, former president of The Conference BoardCharles 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 BuildingFrancis Levien (1926), lawyer, director of Gulf and Western Industries, namesake of Levien GymnasiumHerbert Hutner (1928), private investment banker, attorney, and philanthropist; fourth husband of socialite Zsa Zsa GaborIvan Veit (1928), former executive vice president of The New York TimesNathan S. Ancell (1929), co-founder of furniture company Ethan AllenIra 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 ParkHenry G. Walter Jr. (1931), businessman, former chairman and CEO of International Flavors & Fragrances and pioneer in aromatherapyRobert 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 ExchangeRobert David Lion Gardiner (1934), banker, landowner, 16th Lord of the manor of Gardiners Island, direct descendant of 17th century English settler Lion GardinerArnold A. Saltzman (1936), businessman, diplomat, art collector, philanthropist • George J. Ames (1937), philanthropist, banker at Lazard FreresJohn 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 CongressVincent 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 TimesGrover Connell (1939), American rice trader known for political campaign contributions • Howard Pack (1939), chairman and president of Seatrain LinesDaniel Edelman (1940), founder of the world's largest public relations firm EdelmanElliott Sanger (1943), co-founder of classical radio channel WQXR-FM and advocate of FM broadcastingWylie F. L. Tuttle (1944), American real estate developer who spearheaded the construction of Tour MontparnasseRobert Rosencrans (1949), founding chairman of C-SPAN and president of UA-Columbia CablevisionNorton Garfinkle (1951), economist, businessman, public servant; chairman of the Future of American Democracy FoundationMark N. Kaplan (1951), CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert and EngelhardHarvey M. Krueger (1951), CEO of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and vice chairman of Lehman BrothersAlan Wagner (1951), first president of Disney ChannelRoone 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 PrimetimeAlan 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 UniversityThomas Ludlow Chrystie II (1955), first chief financial officer of Merrill Lynch & Company and creator of the Cash Management AccountAlfred Lerner (1955), chairman of MBNA Bank and ex-owner of the Cleveland BrownsRichard Ravitch (1955), chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bowery Savings BankSid Sheinberg (1955), head of Universal PicturesBarry F. Sullivan (1955), chairman and CEO of First Chicago Bank, deputy mayor of New York City under David DinkinsEdward Botwinick (1956), IT entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Timeplex • Franklin A. Thomas (1956), former president of The Ford FoundationJames R. Barker (1957), Chairman of Interlake Steamship Company, former chairman and CEO of Moore-McCormackPeter L. Buttenwieser (1958), American educator, Democratic Party fundraiser, member of the Lehman familyAllen Rosenshine (1959), founder of the Omnicom Group, chairman and CEO of BBDODoug Morris (1960), CEO of Sony Music Entertainment and former CEO of Universal Music GroupBernard Selz (1960), fund manager, philanthropist and anti-vaccination supporter • Frank Lorenzo (1961), former chairman of Eastern Airlines, Texas Air Corporation and Texas International AirlinesDouglas H. McCorkindale (1961), former chairman and CEO of GannettWilliam Campbell (1962), chairman of the board of Intuit, former board director of Apple Inc.; founder of ClarisSanford 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 DaysJerry Speyer (1962), billionaire, founding partner, chairman and CEO of Tishman Speyer and chairman of the Museum of Modern ArtRobert Kraft (1963), chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group; owner of the New England PatriotsMark H. Willes (1963), former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, CEO and Publisher of Los Angeles Times and Deseret Management CorporationHarry Saal (1963), co-founder of Network General Corporation, developer of the SnifferSteven Clifford (1964), former CEO of King Broadcasting Company and National Mobile TelevisionArthur Cutler (1965), restaurateur, founder of Carmine's, Ollie's, and owner of Murray's Sturgeon ShopEd Goodgold (1965), music industry executive and former manager of Sha Na Na, coined the term "trivia" • Michael Gould (1966), former CEO of Bloomingdale'sJulian Geiger (1967), former CEO of Aéropostale and current CEO of Crumbs Bake ShopRichard Sackler (1967), billionaire chairman and president of Purdue Pharma known for the development of OxycontinDenny Greene (1971), former executive at Columbia Pictures, professor at University of Dayton School of Law, and member of Sha Na NaMark 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 MilsteinChristopher M. Jeffries (1972), American real estate developer, former husband of Princess Yasmin Aga KhanMarc Porat (1972), entrepreneur in information technology and sustainable materials; co-founder of General MagicJohn R. Eckel Jr. (1973), founder, CEO and chairman of Copano EnergyFinbarr O'Neill (1973), former CEO of J.D. PowerFred Seibert (1973), TV producer and first creative director of MTVRobert B. Simon (1973), art dealer and historian who discovered Da Vinci's Salvator MundiAlbie 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 AllianceJ. 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 GrizzliesJeph 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. CapitalCharles Murphy (1981), hedge fund manager, executive of Fairfield Greenwich GroupTom Glocer (1981), former CEO of Thomson Reuters and ReutersChristopher 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 ManagementKai-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 FoundationRandy 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, TowbinMehmet 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 KrithariotiNoam Gottesman (1986), billionaire, hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG PartnersDaniel Ninivaggi (1986), CEO of Lordstown Motors and Chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Federal-Mogul and CEO of Icahn EnterprisesAlex Navab (1987), head of the Americas Private Equity Business of Kohlberg Kravis RobertsBen 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 PlukkaPaul Greenberg (1990), former CEO of CollegeHumor and current CEO of NylonPrem 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 OvaScienceMarko 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 EnergyJack 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 TexansZia Chishti (1992), American entrepreneur and founder of Afiniti and Align TechnologyErik Feig (1992), Lionsgate co-president and former president of Summit Entertainment; producer of Step Up series, Escape Plan, Mr. & Mrs. SmithEugene Kashper (1992), owner of Pabst Brewing CompanyRob Speyer (1992), president of Tishman Speyer, son of billionaire Jerry Speyer '62 • Thad Sheely (1993), former COO of Atlanta HawksShawn Landres (1994), social entrepreneur, co-founder of Jewish philanthropic organization JumpstartWelly Yang (1994), real estate developer; former actor and playwright • Ann Kim (1995), James Beard Foundation Award-winning restaurateur in MinneapolisMatt Pincus (1995), founder of Songs Music Publishing, son of Warburg Pincus co-founder Lionel PincusArnold Kim (1996), founder of MacRumorsDaniel 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 CapitalMichelle Patron (1996), director of sustainability at MicrosoftScott Sartiano (1997), American restaurateur • Roo Rogers (1998), entrepreneur, business designer, writer, son of British architect Richard RogersAmol Sarva (1998), founder of Knotel, Peek, and Virgin Mobile USAAmanda Steinberg (1999), American wealth advisor and founder of DailyWorth • Shazi Visram (1999), founder of Happy FamilyPeter Kujawski (2000), Chairman of Focus FeaturesRobert 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 NgCourtney Reum (2001), American investor who founded VeeV spirits • Adriana Cisneros (2002), Vice Chairman and CEO of Grupo Cisneros; daughter of Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo CisnerosEllen Gustafson (2002), businesswoman, social entrepreneur, food activist, co-founder of FEED Projects and former spokesperson for the World Food ProgrammePeter Koechley (2003), co-founder of Upworthy and former managing editor of The OnionAaron Bay-Schuck (2003), CEO and co-chairman of Warner Records, stepson of Star Trek actor Leonard NimoyCarter Reum (2003), American author and entrepreneur, founder of VEEV Spirits and known for his romance with socialite Paris HiltonAnna Fang (2004), Chinese investor, CEO of ZhenFundJamie Hodari (2004), co-founder of IndustriousAlicia 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 PicturesLiesel Pritzker Simmons (2006), former child actress, A Little Princess; granddaughter of businessman Abram Nicholas Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt hotels fortune, philanthropistWayne Ting (2006), CEO of LimeMarco Zappacosta (2007), co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, son of Logitech founder Pierluigi ZappacostaAdam Pritzker (2008), co-founder of General Assembly, grandson of Jay Pritzker and member of the Pritzker familyJared Hecht (2009), co-founder of GroupMeAriana Rockefeller (2009), American fashion designer and great-great-granddaughter of John D. RockefellerZach Sims* (2012), co-founder of CodecademyBeverly Leon (2014), former midfielder of Sunderland A.F.C. Ladies, CEO of Local Civics • Nicole LaPointe Jameson (2016), CEO of Evil GeniusesKorawad Chearavanont* (2017), Thai internet entrepreneur and grandson of Dhanin Chearavanont ==Journalism and media figures==
Journalism and media figures
Arts criticsGustav Kobbé (1877), opera scholar and music critic of the New York HeraldClifton Fadiman (1925), book critic for The New Yorker and judge for the Book of the Month ClubEdward Downes (1933), music critic, former host on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, son of music critic Olin DownesRalph J. Gleason (1938), music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of Rolling StoneEugene Williams (1938), jazz critic, founder of Jazz InformationAllan Temko (1947), architecture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for CriticismAndrew 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, CUNYDavid Denby (1965), film critic for The New YorkerMichael Feingold (1966), lead theater critic for The Village VoiceMartin 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 CriticismJonathan Beller (1985), cultural critic, professor at Pratt InstituteMichael Riedel (1989), theater critic for New York PostBen 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 ArtsHelena Andrews (2002), pop culture critic BroadcastersRobert Siegel (1968), host of All Things Considered on National Public RadioJim Gardner (1970), anchor for WPVI-TV news in PhiladelphiaChristopher 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 NY1Pimm Fox (1982), Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television anchorman • Fred Katayama (1982), anchor on Reuters TelevisionJames 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 AmanpourGeorge 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 OfficeClaire Shipman (1986), ABC News correspondent • Elizabeth Cohen (1987), CNN's senior medical correspondent • Alexandra Wallace (1988), executive producer of NBC Nightly NewsSoterios Johnson (1990), host of Morning Edition on National Public RadioAlexis Glick (1994), anchorwoman for the Fox Business NetworkSuzy Shuster (1994), Emmy Award-winning sportscaster with ABC SportsMax Kellerman (1998), boxing commentator and host of HBO World Championship BoxingGideon Yago (2000), MTV News correspondent • Jonathan Lemire (2001), journalist and host of MSNBC's Way Too EarlyCharlotte MacInnis (2002), China Central Television anchor known by the stage name Ai Hua; host of Growing up with ChineseBuzzy Cohen (2007), Jeopardy! guest host and contestant, co-host of The ChaseMeghan McCain (2007), former co-host of The View, blogger and daughter of Arizona senator John McCain EditorsFrancis Pharcellus Church (1859), editorial writer for the New York Sun and author of Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa ClausHoratio Sheafe Krans (1894), author and editor • Simeon Strunsky (1900), literary editor of the New York Evening Post and editorial writer for The New York TimesLester 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 LifeTheodore M. Bernstein (1924), assistant managing editor of The New York TimesHerbert Solow (1924), editor of FortuneGroff Conklin (1927), science fiction anthologist • Emanuel Freedman (1931), foreign editor of The New York TimesJames Wechsler (1935), editorial page editor of the New York PostDavid Perlman (1939), former science editor of the San Francisco ChronicleLester Bernstein (1940), former editor-in-chief of NewsweekWerner Wiskari (1941), international news editor of The New York TimesLucien Carr (1946), editor for United Press InternationalByron Dobell (1947), editor of American Heritage, Esquire; mentor to journalists Tom Wolfe, David Halberstam, and Mario PuzoCharles Peters (1949), founder and former editor-in-chief of The Washington MonthlyAshbel Green (1950), senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. KnopfEmile Capouya (1951), literary editor of The Nation from 1969 to 1981 • Robert Gottlieb (1952), editor of The New Yorker and president of Alfred A. KnopfLawrence Van Gelder (1953), editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York TimesMax Frankel (1952), Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of The New York TimesRichard Locke (1962), critic, essayist and first editor of new incarnation of Vanity Fair magazine • Leslie Pockell (1962), editor for Grand Central PublishingCarey Winfrey (1963), editor-in-chief of Smithsonian magazine from 2001 to 2011 • Clark Hoyt (1964), public editor of The New York TimesMyron 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 InstituteRichard Snow (1970), editor of American Heritage magazine • Paul Spike (1970), first American editor of PunchLeon Wieseltier (1974), literary editor, The New RepublicScott McConnell (1975), founding editor of The American ConservativeDean Baquet (1978), Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of The New York TimesJohn Glusman (1978), editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton & CompanyMarcus Brauchli (1983), former managing editor, The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of The Washington PostMichael Caruso (1983), former editor-in-chief of Smithsonian who coined the term "elevator pitch" • Max Alexander (1987), senior editor of PeopleDave Kansas (1990), COO of American Public Media Group; former editor-in-chief of TheStreet.comCharles Ardai (1991), founder of Juno and Hard Case CrimeJanice Min (1991), former editor of Us Weekly, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Partners, head of The Hollywood Reporter and BillboardTim Griffin (1992), former editor-in-chief of Artforum, director and chief curator of The KitchenMichael Schaffer (1995), editor of Washingtonian and former editor of Washington City PaperFranklin Foer (1996), editor, The New RepublicMarco Roth (1996), co-founder and editor of n+1Christopher Bollen (1998), journalist, essayist, and former editor-in-chief of Interview MagazineEli 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 AtlanticMatthew Continetti (2003), associate editor and writer, The Weekly StandardWill Welch (2003), editor-in-chief of GQBari Weiss (2007), editor at Tablet and The New York Times op-ed section • Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2008), journalist and senior editor of The Nation JournalistsWilliam Henry Leggett (1837), botanist and journalist who founded the Torrey Botanical BulletinHenry 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 MeloneyErnest Cuneo (1927), president, North American Newspaper AllianceHarold Isaacs (1930), American journalist and MIT Professor who wrote extensively on the Chinese Civil WarPeter C. Rhodes (1933), American journalist who worked for United Press International and the United States Office of War InformationHarry Schwartz (1940), editorial writer for The New York TimesPhelan Beale Jr. (1944), journalist; first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisCharles E. Silberman (1945), author and journalist • Kennett Love (1948), journalist for The New York TimesDavid 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 MagazineWilliam E. Burrows (1960), author and journalist; founder of the Alliance to Rescue CivilizationThomas Lippman (1961), journalist and author specializing in the Middle East, correspondent for The Washington PostLars-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 codeJuan Gonzalez (1969), New York Daily News columnist • Jeffrey Bruce Klein (1969), investigative journalist and co-founder of Mother JonesJames Simon Kunen (1970), author of articles for Newsday, People, The New York Times Magazine and the novel The Strawberry StatementGlenn Frankel (1971), journalist for The Washington Post, winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International ReportingJuris Kaža (1971), journalist for Latvian News Agency LETAJonathan Freedman (1972), American journalist and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial WritingJohn Brecher (1973), American journalist and wine critic for The Wall Street JournalMichael Wolff (1975), media columnist for New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, author of controversial book Fire and Fury on Donald TrumpBill Minutaglio (1976), American journalist, biographer of George W. BushD. D. Guttenplan (1978), London correspondent and current editor of The NationMichael Musto (1978), gossip columnist for The Village VoiceAndrea 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 TimesJason Zweig (1982), financial journalist and columnist for The Wall Street JournalBarry C. Lynn (1983), American journalist, senior fellow at the New America FoundationAshley Kahn (1983), Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, and producer • Daniel Wattenberg (1983), American journalist for The Washington Times, son of neoconservative pundit Ben J. WattenbergN.J. Burkett (1984), award-winning correspondent for WABC-TVMatthew 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 JournalSusan 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 MarchianoDavid Streitfeld (1989), book reporter for The Washington Post; winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory ReportingCaroline Glick (1991), Israeli journalist, editor, writer • Warren St. John (1991), journalist for The New York Times and former CEO of PatchMichael J. Socolow (1991), broadcast journalist and professor at the University of MaineJesse Eisinger (1992), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublicaJean H. Lee (1992), former Associated Press bureau chief in Pyongyang and SeoulJori Finkel (1992), art reporter for The New York Times and Los Angeles TimesOlivier Knox (1992), chief Washington correspondent for Sirius XM and former president of the White House Correspondents' AssociationJim 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 ReportingBrad Stone (1993), journalist for Bloomberg BusinessAnne Kornblut (1994), correspondent for The Washington Post, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public ServiceJoshua 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 ServiceHarriet Ryan (1996), journalist and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative ReportingRobin Shulman (1996), freelance journalist • Kate Kelly (1997), journalist for The New York TimesNicholas 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 GeneNick Schifrin (2002), Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent • Ben Casselman (2003), economics reporter at The New York TimesJonah Lehrer (2003), former writer for The New Yorker discharged for falsifying quotes • Poppy Harlow (2005), correspondent for CNNSarah Maslin Nir (2005), investigative journalist for The New York TimesMarc Tracy (2007), journalist for The New York Times, recipient of a 2011 National Magazine Award and a 2012 National Jewish Book AwardLinette Lopez (2008), journalist for Business Insider involved in the December 15, 2022 Twitter suspensionsNellie Bowles (2010), technology journalist for The New York TimesCecilia Reyes (2015), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2022 PunditsFrank Chodorov (1907), conservative activist, founder of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, editor of The FreemanArnold Beichman (1934), conservative critic • Ralph de Toledano (1938), conservative commentator, editor of National Review and NewsweekJoseph Kraft (1947), political columnist, speechwriter for John F. KennedyJules Witcover (1949), columnist, The Baltimore SunNorman Podhoretz (1950), a "father of neoconservatism", editor of Commentary Magazine and author of Making ItJeffrey Hart (1952), conservative cultural critic and advisor to the Dartmouth ReviewDavid Horowitz (1959), conservative commentator and activist; author of the Academic Bill of RightsHerbert 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 InstituteD. Keith Mano (1963), conservative political commentator for National ReviewLawrence Auster (1971), Traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist • Andrew Levy (1988), conservative commentator and host of Red Eye on Fox News Sports journalistsJeremy Gaige (1951), chess archivist and journalist • Paul Zimmerman (1955), football writer for Sports Illustrated known as "Dr. Z" • Robert Lipsyte (1957), sports writer for The New York Times, correspondent for ABC News and host of The Eleventh HourChet Forte (1957), first director of Monday Night FootballSteven Krasner (1975), sports journalist famous for covering the Boston Red Sox for The Providence Journal from 1986 to 2008 • Bob Klapisch (1979), sports writer for The Record and Fox SportsGary Cohen (1981), television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets ==Legal and judicial figures==
Legal and judicial figures
Richard Harison (1764), first United States Attorney for the District of New YorkPeter van Schaack (1767), American loyalist and attorney • Abraham Van Vechten (1780s), two-time New York Attorney GeneralAnthony Bleecker (1791), lawyer and founding member of the New-York Historical SocietySamuel Jones Jr. (1793), Recorder of New York City; Chancellor of New York; Chief Justice of the New York City Superior CourtAugustus B. Woodward (1793), first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory; one of the founders of the University of MichiganThomas Phoenix (1795), New York County District AttorneyPierre C. Van Wyck (1795), New York County District Attorney; Recorder of New York CityWilliam P. Van Ness (1797), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkSampson 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 AssemblyHugh Maxwell (1808), New York County District Attorney and Collector of the Port of New YorkMatthew C. Paterson (1809), New York County District AttorneyOgden 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 YorkSamuel 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 YorkOgden Hoffman Jr. (1840), judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaWilliam 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 AssociationFrederic René Coudert Sr. (1850), lawyer, founder of international law firm Coudert BrothersMyer 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 GerryGabriel Mead Tooker (1859), lawyer and clubman, father in law of Whitney Warren of architectural firm Warren and WetmoreEdgar M. Cullen (1860), Chief Judge of the New York Court of AppealsEgerton Leigh Winthrop (1860), lawyer and socialite • Emile Henry Lacombe (1863), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitHenry Rutgers Beekman (1865), judge on the New York Supreme Court, former Corporation Counsel of New York City and Parks CommissionerGeorge Goelet Kip (1865), lawyer, heir and member of the Goelet familyGeorge Gosman DeWitt (1867), lawyer, philanthropist, former president of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New YorkNicholas Fish II (1867), attorney, diplomat, investment banker; son of United States Secretary of State Hamilton FishWillard Bartlett (1869), Chief Judge of the New York Court of AppealsLewis 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 BronsonThomas C. Bach (1875), judge on the Supreme Court of the Territory of MontanaFrancis S. Bangs (1878), attorney at Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and McVeigh and trustee of Columbia CollegeFrederick William Holls (1878), lawyer, publicist, Secretary of the United States delegation to the Hague Peace ConferenceEdward De Peyster Livingston (1882), lawyer and society leader during the Gilded AgeRandolph 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 BealeBenjamin Cardozo (1889), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme CourtWilliam Bondy (1890), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkIrving Lehman (1896), chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, son of Mayer Lehman and member of the Lehman familyJoseph M. Proskauer (1896), lawyer, judge, co-founder of international law firm Proskauer RoseFrederic Kimber Seward (1899), corporate lawyer and Titanic survivorArthur Garfield Hays (1902), counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and lawyer in the Scopes TrialBenjamin Kaye (1904), lawyer, playwright, co-founder of international law firm Kaye ScholerGeorge 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 UntermyerAlexander Holtzoff (1908), judge on the United States District Court for the District of ColumbiaPaul Windels (1908), former Corporation Counsel of New York City and co-founder of the Lycée Français de New YorkEmil N. Baar (1913), New York Supreme Court justice and former chairman of the Union of American Hebrew CongregationsAlbert Levitt (1913), judge on the District Court of the Virgin IslandsPeter I. B. Lavan (1915), lawyer and philanthropist and namesake of Stroock & Stroock & LavanRaymond L. Wise (1916), attorney and director of the American Civil Liberties UnionHorace Manges (1917), attorney, name partner of Weil, Gotshal & MangesBenjamin Buttenwieser (1919), partner of Kuhn, Loeb, president of the United Jewish Appeal, grandson-in-law of Mayer Lehman and Adolph LewisohnAlfred Egidio Modarelli (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the District of New JerseyGeorge Rosling (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkArchie Owen Dawson (1921), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkLouis Nizer (1922), legendary trial lawyer who wrote My Life in CourtJoseph Carmine Zavatt (1922), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkAlan J. Altheimer (1923), lawyer and managing partner of Altheimer & GrayMilton 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 & ReindelPaul 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 AgamMorton Baum (1925), lawyer and arts patron, former chairman of New York City CenterFrederick van Pelt Bryan (1925), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkAbraham Feller (1925), general counsel to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Trygve Lie, close friend of Alger HissJerome 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 CenterEdmund Louis Palmieri (1926), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkMilton Pollack (1927), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkSamuel 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 FrankArthur Krim (1930), partner in Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon and co-chairman of United ArtistsGerald 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 AppealsLawrence E. Walsh (1932), independent counsel in the Iran-Contra affair; 4th United States Deputy Attorney GeneralWilliam Golub (1934), lawyer and advisor to Governor Nelson RockefellerHarold Leventhal (1934), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitJohn Slate (1935), lawyer and name partner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & FlomDaniel 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 StatesWilfred Feinberg (1940), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitHugh H. Bownes (1941), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitRichard 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 CircuitCharles L. Brieant (1944), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkJack Greenberg (1945), civil rights lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the United States Supreme CourtRoy Cohn (1946), attorney and counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthyArthur Lazarus Jr. (1947), American Indian rights lawyer, argued United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians and was involved in the Black Hills Land ClaimJohn Lowenthal (1947), lawyer and documentary filmmaker known for his defense of Alger HissNorman Dorsen (1950), professor at the New York University School of Law and former president of the American Civil Liberties UnionRobert O. Harris (1951), labor lawyer and Chairman of the National Mediation BoardNorman 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 RecordsAlvin Hellerstein (1954), US federal judge • Isaac Shapiro (1954), head of international practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, former president of Japan SocietyClarence 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 SymphonyBernard Nussbaum (1958), White House counsel under Bill ClintonEzra G. Levin (1959), lawyer, co-chair of international law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & FrankelDavid G. Trager (1959), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkRobert Abrams (1960), Bronx Borough President and New York State Attorney GeneralFrank Tuerkheimer (1960), Watergate prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of WisconsinJosé 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 YorkDavid 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 CourtPeter 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 LawBarry Kamins (1965), New York City Criminal Court judge and professor at the Fordham University School of Law and Brooklyn Law SchoolHoward Matz (1965), senior judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of CaliforniaFlemming L. Norcott Jr. (1965), former Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme CourtJoel Klein (1967), assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chancellor of the New York City Department of EducationAnthony C. Moscato (1967), acting Inspector General of the Department of Justice and director of the Executive Office for United States AttorneysDavid M. Becker (1968), two-time general counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionNicholas 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 AdministrationJonathan D. Schiller (1969), lawyer, co-founder of Boies Schiller Flexner LLPEric 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 StatesArthur Engoron (1971), judge presiding over the New York civil investigation of The Trump OrganizationArthur Helton (1971), lawyer, refugee advocate • Gerard E. Lynch (1972), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkGary Stephen Katzmann (1973), judge on the United States Court of International TradeRobert Katzmann (1973), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitEric 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 ColumbiaJonathan Cuneo (1974), lawyer, founding partner of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLPAbbe Lowell (1974), partner at Chadbourne & Parke, Chief Minority Counsel during the Impeachment of Bill ClintonJeffrey L. Kessler (1975), co-chairman of Winston & Strawn; former Global Litigation Chair at Dewey & LeBoeufDouglas Letter (1975), general counsel to the United States House of Representatives since 2018 • J. Richard Cohen (1976), former president of the Southern Poverty Law CenterJoseph A. Greenaway Jr. (1978), federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of New JerseyRolando Acosta (1979), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial DepartmentFrank J. Aquila (1979), corporate lawyer, partner at Sullivan & CromwellUmar Ata Bandial (1979), justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and former chief justice of Lahore High CourtLanny A. Breuer (1980), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal DivisionRonald Weich (1980), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative AffairsPaul Feinman (1981), judge of the New York Court of AppealsMichael H. Cohen (1983), healthcare law attorney, professor at Harvard Medical SchoolMiguel Estrada (1983), controversial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. CircuitSteven 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 YorkJohn H. Chun (1991), judge and nominee to the United States District Court for the Western District of WashingtonAndrew Ceresney (1993), chair of litigation practice at Debevoise & Plimpton and former head of enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionVeronica S. Rossman (1993), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitNancy Abudu (1996), lawyer and nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CircuitNusrat Jahan Choudhury (1998), lawyer and nominee to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkRoy Altman (2004), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of FloridaRaph Graybill (2010), attorney, chief legal counsel to Steve Bullock and Democratic candidate in the 2020 Montana Attorney General electionShana Knizhnik (2010), lawyer and author known for her book Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ==Military leaders==
Military leaders
Rudolphus Ritzema (1758), officer during the American Revolutionary WarEdward Antill (1762), colonel and military engineer of the Continental Army who fought in the Battle of QuebecNicholas 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 ArmyMarinus Willett (1776), colonel of the Continental Army, leader of the Sons of Liberty and 48th Mayor of New York CityJohn Chrystie (1806), Colonel of the United States Army during the War of 1812Stephen Kearny* (1812), Conqueror of California in the Mexican–American WarCharles Wilkes (1818), leader of the United States Exploring Expedition to survey the Pacific Ocean; instigator of the Trent Affair during the American Civil WarPhilip Kearny (1833), United States Army officer • Henry M. Judah* (1840), United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil WarJohn Watts de Peyster* (1840), Civil War general, military critic and historian • Edward E. Potter (1842), officer during the American Civil WarAugustus van Horne Ellis* (1844), Civil War general • William Cutting* (1851), American lawyer and soldier • Henry Eugene Davies (1857), Civil War general • William McNeill Whistler* (1857), American Confederate soldier and surgeon, brother of James Abbott McNeill WhistlerAlfred Thayer Mahan* (1858), president, U.S. Naval War College and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon HistoryWilliam 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 JayAlister Greene (1875), American soldier and leader during the Gilded AgeDuncan Elliot (1884), American soldier and banker • Hamilton Fish II (1895), first American killed in the Spanish–American WarUlysses S. Grant III* (1902), grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, entered with the class of 1902 but transferred to United States Military AcademyDonald Armstrong (1909), brigadier general and commandant of the Army Industrial CollegeJohn H. Hilldring* (1916), United States Major General and former Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied AreasMelvin Krulewitch (1916), United States Major General and president of the New York State Athletic CommissionJohn F. "Jack" Hasey* (1940), American captain in the French Foreign Legion; recipient of the Order of Liberation ==Musicians, composers, and lyricists==
Musicians, composers, and lyricists
Burnet Tuthill (1909), musicologist, conductor, founder and secretary of the National Association of Schools of MusicRoy Webb (1910), composer for Notorious and Abe Lincoln in IllinoisRichard Hale (1914), opera and concert singer; narrator, Peter and the WolfOscar 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 PrizeElie 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 baritoneEmerson 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 CollegeJohn La Touche* (1937), lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden AppleHoward 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 GriffinDick 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 BabyRandy Starr (1951), dentist and composer for Elvis PresleyEric Salzman (1954), composer, producer, critic; founder of the American Music Theater Festival and composer-in-residence of the Center for Contemporary OperaMalcolm Frager (1955), piano virtuoso • Mike Berniker (1957), musical producer and winner of nine Grammy Awards • Billy Goldenberg (1957), composer and winner of four Emmy Awards • John Corigliano (1959), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and Academy Award for Best Original ScoreEdward Kleban (1959), lyricist for A Chorus LineDavid Bromberg* (1960s), Grammy Award-nominated American musician • Art Rosenbaum (1960), Grammy Award-winning art professor and musician at Georgia State UniversityCharles Wuorinen (1961), serialist composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Time's Encomium'' • Charlie Morrow (1962), sound artist and musician • Joel Krosnick (1963), chamber musician and member of the Juilliard String QuartetDavid 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 MovieDavid Schiff (1967), composer • Tom Werman (1967), former record producer for Epic RecordsBilly Cross (1968), American guitarist, singer, and producer who lives in Denmark • Jon Bauman (1969), "Bowzer" of Sha Na NaJames "Plunky" Branch (1969), jazz musician • Cameron Brown (1969), jazz bassist • Emanuel Ax (1970), concert pianistMarc Copland (1970), jazz pianist and composerScott Simon (1970), member of Sha Na NaFrederick "Dennis" Greene (1971), member of Sha Na Na; professor of law at the University of DaytonArmen Donelian (1972), jazz pianist • Jocko Marcellino (1972), member of Sha Na NaPhil 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 QuartetSam Morrison (1973), saxophonist • Michael Jeffrey Shapiro (1973), American composer and conductor • Richard Einhorn (1975), American composer, Voices of LightPhil Kline (1975), American composer • Paul Phillips (1978), conductor, composer, and music scholar at Brown UniversityErik Friedlander (1982), American cellist, son of American photographer Lee FriedlanderRobbie Fulks* (1984), Grammy Award-nominated American alternative country singer-songwriter • Dave Nachmanoff (1986), award-winning American folk singer and sideman to Al StewartJohn Bohlinger (1988), musician and music director on NBC program Nashville StarLaura Cantrell (1989), country musician • Peter J. Nash (1989), member of 3rd BassMac McCaughan (1990), member of indie rockband Superchunk and founder of Merge RecordsRichard Carrick (1993), pianist, composer, professor at Berklee College of MusicGil 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 NormalR. Luke DuBois (1997), composer and artist • Lauryn Hill* (1997), Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and songwriter, and member of The FugeesSean Lennon* (1997), singer and songwriter, and son of John Lennon and Yoko OnoOrli Shaham (1997), pianist • Yelena Dudochkin (1998), Ukrainian-American soprano • Scott Hoffman (1999), known by the stage name Babydaddy, member of the rock band Scissor SistersThe 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*EaterHikaru 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 CollectiveEmily and Julia Bruskin (2002), members of the Claremont TrioKen-David Masur (2002), musical director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, son of conductor Kurt MasurAriana Ghez (2003), oboistNico Muhly (2003), American contemporary classical music composer • Anna Bulbrook (2004), American violinist formerly member of indie band The Airborne Toxic EventAlisa Weilerstein (2004), American cellist and 2011 MacArthur FellowTristan Perich (2004), contemporary composer and sound artist • Peter Cincotti (2005), pianistEllen Reid (2005), composer and recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for MusicPatrick Higgins (2006), composer, musician, producer • Michael Barimo (2006), pop singer and whistlerRostam Batmanglij (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire WeekendEzra Koenig (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire WeekendChris Tomson (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire WeekendChris Baio (2007), member of alt-rock band Vampire WeekendCall Me Ace or Anthony Patterson (2011), American rapper • Adam Met (2013), member of pop band AJRDanny Mercer (2013), singer, songwriter and producer • Nathan Chan (2014), cellist • Conrad Tao (2015), composer, pianist, violinist • Jack Met* (2019), member of pop band AJRMaude Latour (2022), singer-songwriter ==Playwrights, screenwriters, producers, and directors==
Playwrights, screenwriters, producers, and directors
Henry Churchill de Mille (1875), playwright and Georgist; father of film pioneers Cecil B. DeMille and William C. deMilleWilliam 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 ArtsEdgar Allan Woolf (1901), screenwriter, The Wizard of OzGeorge Middleton (1902), playwright and president of the Dramatists Guild of AmericaHerman Mankiewicz (1917), drama critic for The New Yorker and co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Citizen KaneMorrie 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 OperaSam Spewack (1919), winner of the Tony Award for the book of Kiss Me, KateSidney Buchman (1923), screenwriter for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Here Comes Mr. JordanGuy Endore (1923), screenwriter for The Story of G.I. JoeAlvah Bessie (1924), screenwriter for Objective, Burma! and one of the Hollywood TenFerrin Fraser (1927), radio scriptwriter for Little Orphan Annie and Frank BuckJoseph Mankiewicz (1928), Academy Award-winning writer and director of All About Eve and A Letter to Three WivesFrank S. Nugent (1929), screenwriter for Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and The Quiet ManRobert F. Blumofe (1930), producer of Bound for Glory, nominated for the Academy Award for Best PictureBen 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 TenArnold M. Auerbach (1932), Primetime Emmy Award-winning American comedy writer • William Ludwig (1932), Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Interrupted MelodyMartin 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 TelevisionCharles H. Schneer (1940), film producer known for his collaboration with Ray HarryhausenI.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 ApartmentDon M. Mankiewicz (1942), television and film writer; Academy Award nominee for I Want to Live!Steve Krantz (1943), screenwriter and film producer, Fritz the CatErnest Kinoy (1947), television writer of Murrow, Roots, and Victory at EntebbeMerrill 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 ChildrenMilton Moses Ginsberg (1957), American director, Coming ApartDoran William Cannon (1959), screenwriter of Skidoo and Brewster McCloudRichard Pearlman (1959), former director of the Washington National Opera as well as the training program at the Lyric Opera of ChicagoTerrence McNally (1960), Tony Award-winning playwright; author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and RagtimeMichael Kahn (1961), Artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. • Brian De Palma (1962), director of Scarface, The Untouchables and CarrieCrawford Kilian (1962), Canadian novelist and professor at Capilano UniversityThomas H. Connell III (1964), chief stage manager of the Metropolitan OperaChristopher Trumbo (1964), screenwriter, The Don Is Dead; son of noted screenwriter Dalton TrumboPaul Hirsch (1966), film editor, won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for his work on Star WarsJohn Litvack (1966), EVP and head of programming at The WB NetworkArthur 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 HilsmanGlenn Switkes (1972), director and environmentalistJim Jarmusch (1975), writer/director of the Coffee and Cigarettes series • Howard Brookner (1976), director, Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the Civil WarsBill Condon (1976), winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Gods and Monsters, director of Kinsey and DreamgirlsRic Burns (1978), documentary filmmaker, New York: A Documentary Film, The Civil WarTony Kushner (1978), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Angels in AmericaMichael Lehmann (1978), director of Heathers, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Hudson HawkCyril Christo (1982), filmmaker, son of Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeRon 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 UncertaintyKatharina 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 InsideGarth Stein (1987), Academy Award-winning producer, The Lunch DateDan Futterman (1989), two-time Academy Award nominee for writing Capote and FoxcatcherJessica Bendinger (1988), writer of Bring it On and for Sex and the CityAndrew W. Marlowe (1988), creator of Castle; writer of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow ManLawrence Trilling (1988), showrunner of Parenthood and GoliathMaiken Baird (1989), documentary film producer, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot SpitzerSam 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 LauraDede Gardner (1990), Academy Award-winning producer of 12 Years a Slave; president of Plan B EntertainmentJenji Kohan (1991), television writer, producer, creator of Orange Is the New Black and WeedsAri Gold (1992), filmmaker, director of Adventures of PowerElizabeth Craft (1993), producer, screenwriter, Fantasy Island, The 100, Lie to MeEthan McSweeny (1993), former artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center, recipient of a 2018 Helen Hayes AwardBrian Yorkey (1993), American playwright, co-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the musical Next to NormalAnna Winger (1993), American screenwriter, creator of miniseries Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86, and UnorthodoxImara 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 SeriesTim Carvell (1995), head writer of The Daily Show and executive producer of Last Week Tonight with John OliverJosh Fox (1995), Academy Award-nominated documentary director, GaslandAdam Egypt Mortimer (1995), director of ''Daniel Isn't Real, Archenemy''Henry Alex Rubin (1995), Academy Award-nominated director, MurderballJulius Sharpe (1995), television writer and showrunner of Making History and United We FallRamin 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 MurdererYana Gorskaya (1996), Academy Award-nominated film editor, SpellboundCetywa Powell (1996), American director and fine art photographer • Courtney Lilly (1997), television producer, showrunner of Black-ish, Grown-ish, Mixed-ishNancy Schwartzman (1997), director, Roll Red RollBeau Willimon (1999), creator and producer of House of Cards and writer of the play Farragut NorthVikram Gandhi (2000), director, Kumaré, Barry, reporter for ViceAndrew Goldberg (2000), creator of Netflix series Big MouthNed Benson (2001), director, The Disappearance of Eleanor RigbyDan Harris (2001), Saturn Award-winning American screenwriter, X2, Superman Returns; director, Imaginary HeroesAndrew Neel (2001), American filmmaker, director of King Kelly, GoatAnna Boden (2002), co-writer of Half Nelson and director of Sugar, Captain MarvelTze Chun (2002), award-winning director, Children of InventionLang 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 YellowjacketsJustin Marks (2002), screenwriter, The Jungle Book, CounterpartKatori Hall (2003), American playwright, The Mountaintop, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for DramaRaamla Mohamed (2003), Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, Little Fires EverywhereGraham Moore (2003), winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his screenplay of The Imitation GameLucia Aniello (2004), director of Rough Night and Time Traveling BongGabe Liedman (2004), creator of Q-Force, writer of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, PEN15, Inside Amy Schumer and Kroll ShowZhang Mo (2005), Chinese director, daughter of Zhang YimouLaura Goode (2006), author, columnist, and producer of Farah Goes BangMatt Kaplan (2006), producer of young adult films, To All the Boys franchise • Meera Menon (2006), Indian American director, EquityLilly Burns (2009), American television producer, co-founder of Jax Media and president of Imagine EntertainmentEli Bush (2009), American film and theatre producer and winner of the Golden Globe Award in 2018 for Lady BirdJason Fuchs (2009), American actor and screenwriter, Pan, Ice Age: Continental DriftJessica 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 HBOSabaah Folayan (2013), director of documentary Whose Streets? ==Political and diplomatic figures==
Political and diplomatic figures
United States political and diplomatic figuresPhilip Van Cortlandt (1758), soldier, statesman, United States Congressman from New YorkAnthony Hoffman (1760), member of the New York State SenateGilbert Livingston (1760), member of the New York Provincial CongressGulian 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 ConfederationRichard 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 WashingtonDavid A. Ogden (178-), United States Congressman from New YorkDeWitt Clinton (1786), Governor of New York who initiated the construction of the Erie Canal; also served as United States Senator from New YorkJames Cochran (1788), United States Congressman from New YorkDaniel C. Verplanck (1788), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn 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 YorkJohn 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 SocietyGeorge Clinton Jr. (1793), brother of DeWitt Clinton, and United States Congressman from New YorkGeorge Izard* (1793), general, politician; second Governor of the Territory of ArkansasJames Parker (1793), United States Congressman from New JerseyPeter A. Jay (1794), son of Chief Justice John Jay; member of New York State Assembly and Recorder of New York CityCyrus King (1794), United States Congressman from MassachusettsJohn Ferguson (1795), Mayor of New York CityDaniel D. Tompkins (1795), Vice President of the United States; Governor of New YorkRensselaer Westerlo (1795), United States Congressman from New YorkEdward Philip Livingston (1796), member of the New York State Senate, great-great-grandfather of Eleanor RooseveltRudolph Bunner (1798), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn M. Bowers (1800s), United States Congressman from New YorkGulian C. Verplanck (1801), United States Congressman from New York and chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and MeansGouverneur Kemble (1803), United States Congressman from New York and founder of the West Point FoundryJohn L. Lawrence (1803), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateAlpheus Sherman (1803), member of the New York State SenateJames 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 VirginiaSamuel B. Romaine (1806), Speaker of the New York State AssemblyEgbert 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 BensonHenry H. Ross (1808), United States Congressman from New YorkPeter Dumont Vroom (1808), U.S. Minister to Prussia and Governor of New JerseyJohn Fine (1809), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn 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. PerryCharles G. Ferris (1811), United States Congressman from New YorkVan Brugh Livingston (1811), Chargé d'Affaires to EcuadorNathanael G. Pendleton (1813), United States Congressman from OhioSamuel L. Gouverneur (1817), postmaster of New York City, private secretary, nephew, and son-in-law of President James MonroeJames I. Roosevelt (1815), United States Congressman from New York; brother of Cornelius RooseveltWilliam Beach Lawrence (1818), U.S. chargé d'affaires for Great Britain and acting governor of Rhode IslandWilliam F. Havemeyer (1823), three-time Mayor of New York CityWilliam Duer (1824), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn McKeon (1825): U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York; United States Congressman from New YorkHamilton Fish (1827), US Secretary of State; Governor of New York; United States Senator from New YorkJohn Henry Hobart Haws (1827), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn D. Van Buren (1829), member of New York State AssemblyHenry Ledyard (1830), Mayor of Detroit; president of Newport HospitalHenry Nicoll (1830), United States Congressman from New YorkHenry C. Murphy (1830), United States Congressman from New York; former United States Ambassador to the NetherlandsJohn L. O'Sullivan (1831), US Minister to Portugal; journalist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"; publisher of The United States Magazine and Democratic ReviewJames William Beekman (1834), member of the New York State Senate; vice-president of the New York HospitalIsaac C. Delaplaine (1834), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn Richardson Thurman (1835), United States Congressman from New YorkJohn Jay (1836), grandson of Chief Justice John Jay; United States Minister to Austro-Hungary; president of the American Historical AssociationJohn Vanderbilt (1837), judge, member of the New York State SenateWilliam Ward Duffield (1841), officer, member of the Michigan Senate, superintendent of the U.S. National Geodetic SurveyAbram 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 CooperEdward Cooper (1842), former Mayor of New York City and son of industrialist Peter CooperNicholas B. La Bau (1844), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateJohn Winthrop Chanler (1847), United States Congressman from New YorkHorace Carpentier (1848), first mayor of Oakland, California and president of the Overland Telegraph CompanyA. Bleecker Banks* (1850s), Mayor of Albany, New York; member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateGalen A. Carter (1850), member of the Connecticut SenateStewart L. Woodford (1854), Lieutenant Governor of New York and U.S. Minister to SpainJacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1858), United States Congressman from New JerseyGeorge 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. CongressmanThomas C. E. Ecclesine (1870), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateSeth 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 SocietyRobert 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 HamiltonP. Henry Dugro (1876), United States Congressman from New YorkBenjamin Barker Odell Jr.* (1877), Governor of New York; United States Congressman from New YorkThomas G. Patten (1879), United States Congressman from New YorkThomas F. Magner (1882), United States Congressman from New YorkThomas Ewing III (1883), 33rd commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark OfficeHerbert L. Satterlee (1883), Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909, son-in-law of J. P. MorganWilliam Sulzer (1884), Governor of New YorkJ. Mayhew Wainwright (1884), U.S. Congressman and Assistant Secretary of WarCharles 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 SenateJohn F. Carew (1893), United States Congressman from New YorkHarvey R. Kingsley (1893), President pro tempore of the Vermont State SenateEdward Lazansky (1895), Secretary of State of New YorkCarl 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 RicaJohn Purroy Mitchel (1899), Mayor of New York CityMontgomery Schuyler Jr. (1899), U.S. Minister to El Salvador and U.S. Minister to EcuadorCharles H. Tuttle (1899), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and 1930 Republican nominee for Governor of New YorkHenry W. Shoemaker (1901), folklorist, historian, diplomat; United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1930 to 1933 • Martin C. Ansorge (1903), United States Congressman from New YorkStanley 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 SenateFred Biermann (1905), United States Congressman from IowaJohn Collier (1906), U.S. Commissioner of Indian AffairsMeyer Robert Guggenheim* (1907), United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1953 to 1954, grandson of Meyer GuggenheimJoseph C. O'Mahoney (1907), United States Senator from WyomingJames W. Mott (1909), United States Congressman from OregonEmanuel Celler (1910), 39th Dean of the United States House of Representatives; United States Congressman from New YorkWilliam Langer (1910), United States Senator and Governor of North DakotaLaurence 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 officeHenry Frank Holthusen (1915), 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 RosenmanFrederic René Coudert Jr. (1918), United States Congressman from New YorkHarold F. Linder (1921), president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968; former United States Ambassador to CanadaArthur Levitt Sr. (1921), longest-serving New York State Comptroller; father of Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange CommissionJoseph 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 StatesArthur F. Burns (1925), Chairman of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Ambassador to West GermanyBernard 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 McCarthyismJames 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 JapanHunter Meighan (1935), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateThomas 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 AssemblyRichard T. Davies (1942), former United States Ambassador to PolandDavid E. Mark (1943), former United States Ambassador to BurundiJ. Owen Zurhellen, Jr. (1943), first United States Ambassador to SurinameChristian H. Armbruster (1944), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State SenateHarold Brown (1945), U.S. Secretary of Defense and president of the California Institute of TechnologyAlbert Burstein (1947), Democratic Party politician and former Majority leader of the New Jersey General AssemblyEdward N. Costikyan (1947), Democratic Party politician and reformer who oversaw the dismantling of Tammany Hall; partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & GarrisonGardiner L. Tucker (1947), former director of IBM Research and Assistant Secretary of Defense for System Analysis, Assistant Secretary General of NATOJonathan 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 districtMonteagle Stearns (1948), former United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast and United States Ambassador to GreeceEugene 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 TreasuryDonald 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 AdministrationLawrence 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 NicaraguaG. Norman Anderson (1954), former United States Ambassador to SudanDavid J. Bardin (1954), Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionWilliam Haddad (1954), American political operative, lobbyist, and journalist, Peace Corps founding official, aide to the Kennedy family, and grandson-in-law of Franklin D. RooseveltRichard E. Benedick (1955), president emeritus of the National Council for Science and the Environment, ambassador, and chief United States negotiator to the Montreal ProtocolJohn 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 ListShelby 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 VirginiaConstantine Menges (1960), national security aide to Ronald ReaganJames E. Connor (1961), White House Cabinet Secretary and Staff secretary to President Gerald FordBrooks 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. FirestoneHarvey 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 2014Mark T. Cox IV (1966), former United States alternate executive director to the World BankAllan I. Mendelowitz (1966), former chairman and director of the Federal Housing Finance BoardRaymond Burghardt (1967), former director, and chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan and U.S. Ambassador to VietnamDick Morris (1967), political strategist and advisor to President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Felipe CalderónMark C. Minton (1967), former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, and former president of the Korea SocietyRobert Delahunty (1968), Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Homeland Security from 2002 to 2003; professor at University of St. Thomas School of LawJudd Gregg (1969), United States Senator from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; United States CongressmanJerrold Nadler (1969), United States Congressman from New YorkDaniel 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. BushBob 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 SenateFrank Dermody (1973), Democratic leader of the Pennsylvania House of RepresentativesStephen 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 StateRobert Wunderlich (1975), mayor of Beverly Hills, CaliforniaDonald Yamamoto (1975), former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, current United States Ambassador to SomaliaGilberto 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 BelgiumRobert E. Martinez (1977), 8th Virginia Secretary of Transportation and deputy administrator of the United States Maritime AdministrationDavid Paterson (1977), first African American Governor of New YorkKarl Dean (1978), mayor of NashvilleChristopher Dell (1978), career diplomat, former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Angola, and KosovoMartin J. Dunn (1979), former mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts SenateJim McGreevey (1978), 53rd Governor of New JerseyAndres Alonso (1979), former CEO of Baltimore City Public SchoolsTimothy Horrigan (1979), member of the New Hampshire House of RepresentativesRandal Quarles (1981), 15th Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, chair of the Financial Stability Board and vice chairman of the Federal ReserveAndrew C. McCarthy (1981), Assistant United States Attorney and columnist for National ReviewCharles J. O'Byrne (1981), Secretary to the Governor of New YorkMichael Waldman (1982), speechwriter for president Clinton; president of the Brennan Center for JusticeJohn 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 PrizeVictor 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 KoreaSteven Waldman (1984), senior advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and founder of BeliefnetJohn Delaney (1985), United States Congressman for Maryland's 6th congressional district and candidate in the 2020 United States presidential electionJulius Genachowski (1985), Chairman of the Federal Communications CommissionHector Morales (1985), United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2008 to 2009 • Daniel Lewis Foote (1986), former United States Ambassador to ZambiaMichael Mundaca (1986), former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the TreasurySharon 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 SchoolDavid M. Friedman (1987), current United States Ambassador to IsraelMatt Gonzalez (1987), Green Party San Francisco mayoral candidate and independent 2008 candidate for vice president running with Ralph NaderTim Kelly (1989), 74th mayor of Chattanooga, TennesseeJulie Menin (1989), former chairperson of Manhattan Community Board 1 and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer AffairsDave 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 IntelligenceMelissa Mark-Viverito (1991), Speaker of the New York City CouncilBenjamin 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 ProtectionEric Garcetti (1992), member of the Los Angeles City Council and current Mayor of Los Angeles, nominee to be United States Ambassador to IndiaRohit Aggarwala (1993), Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental ProtectionMatt Brown (1993), Secretary of State of Rhode Island from 2003 to 2007; co-founder of non-partisan group Global ZeroAlan D. Cohn (1993), Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk of the United States Department of Homeland SecurityAmit Bose (1994), Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad AdministrationKarthik Ramanathan (1994), Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial MarketsFrank Scaturro (1994), lawyer, public advocate who spearheaded the restoration of Grant's Tomb; Republican candidate for New York's 4th congressional districtRadhika Fox (1995), Acting Assistant Administrator for Water of the United States Environmental Protection AgencyBeto O'Rourke (1995), United States Congressman for Texas's 16th congressional district and candidate in the 2020 United States presidential electionRebekah Gee (1997), secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, daughter of Ohio State University president E. Gordon GeeJay 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 districtRobert Karem (2000), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and former acting Under Secretary of Defense for PolicyDavid Segal (2001), member of the Rhode Island House of RepresentativesRobby 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, 2016Sam 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 GQNikil Saval (2005), former editor of N+1, member of the Pennsylvania State SenateJosie Raymond (2007), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 31st district • Ruthzee Louijeune (2008), president of the Boston City CouncilSara Jacobs (2011), member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 53rd congressional district, granddaughter of Qualcomm founder Irwin M. JacobsPeter 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 districtJulia Salazar* (2014), member of New York State Senate for Democratic Socialists of America Foreign political and diplomatic figuresHenry Cruger* (1758), member of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1774 to 1790 and the New York State SenateIsaac Wilkins (1760), judge, member of the Nova Scotia House of AssemblyThomas Henry Barclay (1772), United Empire Loyalist; member of the 6th General Assembly of Nova ScotiaTang Shaoyi* (1882), first premier of the Republic of ChinaWilliam Sanford Evans (1895), Manitoba politician, Mayor of Winnipeg from 1909 to 1911 • Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1906), founder and president of the African National CongressWellington 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 CenterYu Tsune-chi (1922), Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Spain, delegate to the San Francisco Conference, United Nations and the International Labour OrganizationMario Laserna Pinzón (1948), Colombian diplomat and educator; founded the Universidad de Los AndesColin Hughes (1949), first commissioner of the Australian Electoral CommissionUldis-Ivars Grava (1958), Latvian parliamentarian, former director of Latvijas Televīzija and chairman of American Latvian AssociationJohan Jorgen Holst (1960), Norwegian Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs; heavily involved with the Oslo AccordsYossi Alpher (1964), former Mossad officer and director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv UniversityDore Gold (1975), Israeli political advisor and diplomat; former ambassador to the United States • Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1975), President of EstoniaCarson 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 KongGeoffrey Onyeama (1977), Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015, son of Nigerian justice Charles OnyeamaMichael 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-inKen 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 KoreaAbdullah 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==
Publishers
George Haven Putnam* (1864), publisher of G. P. Putnam's Sons, son of publisher George Palmer PutnamHenry 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 PublicationsAlfred Harcourt (1904) and Donald Brace (1904), founders of Harcourt BraceJoseph E. Ridder (1907), publisher of The Journal of Commerce and chairman of Ridder PublicationsJohn Neville Wheeler (1908), founder and owner of the North American Newspaper Alliance and Bell SyndicateHarold Latham (1909), editor-in-chief of Macmillan Inc. known for discovering Margaret MitchellAlfred A. Knopf (1912), founder and chairman of Alfred A. KnopfGeorge T. Delacorte Jr. (1913), founder of Dell PublishingArthur Hays Sulzberger (1913), publisher of The New York TimesDouglas Black (1916), president of Doubleday and CompanyBennett Cerf (1920), founder of Random HouseDonald S. Klopfer* (1922), founder of Random HouseRichard L. Simon (1920) and Max Lincoln Schuster (1919), co-founders of Simon & SchusterElliott V. Bell (1925), former editor and publisher of BusinessweekDavid A. Boehm (1934), founder of Sterling PublishingRobert Giroux (1936), chairman of Farrar, Straus and GirouxIan Ballantine (1938), founder of Ballantine BooksWalter B. Pitkin Jr. (1938), editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Bantam BooksWilliam 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 PlaybillJason Epstein (1949), editorial director of Random House and co-founder of the New York Review of BooksBernard Shir-Cliff (1949), editor of Ballantine Books and Warner BooksArthur Ochs Sulzberger (1951), publisher of The New York TimesLee Guittar (1953), former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, The Denver Post, Dallas Times Herald, and president of USA TodayRichard 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 BooksDaniel Leab (1957), historian, antiquarian and publisher book catalogues, former editor of Labor HistoryDonald Welsh (1965), founding publisher of outdoors magazine OutsideAlbert 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 ProgramJake Dobkin (1998), co-founder and publisher of Gothamist franchise ==Religious figures==
Religious figures
Samuel Provoost (1758), third Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal ChurchJohn Beardsley (1761), Church of England clergyman in Canada; chaplain of the Loyal American RegimentBenjamin 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 PennsylvaniaJackson Kemper (1809), first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United StatesBenjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (1809), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New YorkRichard Fish Cadle (1813), Episcopalian priest and first superior of Nashotah HouseManton Eastburn (1817), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of MassachusettsHenry John Whitehouse (1821), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ChicagoGeorge Washington Bethune* (1823), theologian and preacher • John Chester Backus* (1830), American Presbyterian minister • Morgan Dix (1848), priest, theologian, rector of Trinity ChurchWilliam Edmond Armitage (1849), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of MilwaukeeGeorge Franklin Seymour (1850), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of SpringfieldJames DeKoven (1851), leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Episcopal ChurchMarvin Vincent (1854), Presbyterian minister and professor at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New YorkDaniel S. Tuttle (1857), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, Montana, and UtahWilliam David Walker (1859), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North DakotaHenry Y. Satterlee (1863), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington; established the Washington National CathedralBernard Drachman (1882), leader of Orthodox Judaism; former president of the Orthodox UnionLeon Harrison (1886), rabbi of Temple Israel in St. Louis • Herbert Shipman (1890), Suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New YorkStephen Samuel Wise (1892), rabbi and Zionist leader • Frederick Herbert Sill (1895), Anglican monk and founder of the Kent SchoolHenry S. Whitehead (1904), rector, and author of horror fictionVedder Van Dyck (1918), fifth bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of VermontWalter M. Higley (1922), sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New YorkM. Moran Weston (1930), Episcopal priest, social activist, and businessman who co-founded Carver Federal Savings BankArthur Lelyveld (1933), rabbi, president of the American Jewish Congress and first Jewish editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily SpectatorMoshe Davis (1936), rabbi and founder of Camp RamahPaul van K. Thomson (1937), Roman Catholic priest, professor at Providence CollegeThomas Merton (1938), Trappist monk, writer, humanist; author of The Seven Storey MountainRobert Farrar Capon (1946), Episcopal priest and author • Wesley Frensdorff (1948), former Episcopal bishop of NevadaHaskel 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, AdidamMichael Lerner (1964), liberal rabbi and editor of Tikkun magazineElliot N. Dorff (1965), conservative rabbi, chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and StandardsJoseph 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 FellowshipTaigen Dan Leighton (1971), Soto Zen priest and teacher, academic at the Institute of Buddhist StudiesC. John McCloskey (1975), Catholic priest who helped prominent figures convert to Catholicism, including Newt Gingrich, Bernard Nathanson, Sam Brownback, and Lawrence KudlowHaviva Ner-David (1991), Israeli feminist activist and rabbi • Sharon Brous (1995), first woman to be named most influential rabbi by Newsweek ==Scientists and inventors==
Scientists and inventors
Samuel Bard* (1763), personal physician to George Washington; founder of the Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsJohn 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 SurgeonsDavid Hosack (1790), physician, botanist, educator • John Eatton Le Conte (1800), American naturalist • Samuel Akerly (1804), physician, Co-founder of the New York Institute for the Education of the BlindValentine 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 CollegeHenry 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 MedicineS • 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 JayAlfred W. Craven (1829), chief engineering of Croton Aqueduct; founding member of the American Society of Civil EngineersEdward 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 ScienceRobert Ogden Doremus* (1842), chemist and physician • Cornelius Rea Agnew (1849), physician who helped founding the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat HospitalHenry Carrington Bolton (1862), chemist and bibliographer of science • Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1863), American physician, nephew of Hamilton Fish '27 • Rudolph August Witthaus (1867), American toxicologistFrederick Remsen Hutton (1873), engineer, president of the American Society of Mechanical EngineersSylvanus Albert Reed (1874), aerospace engineer who developed the modern metal aircraft propeller, for which won the 1925 Collier TrophyWilliam Hallock (1879), American physicist, professor at Columbia UniversityWilliam Barclay Parsons (1879), chief engineer of the first line of the New York City Subway system, founder of multinational engineering firm Parsons BrinckerhoffMichael I. Pupin (1879), physicist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography • Henry Crampton (1893), American evolutionary biologistHarold Jacoby (1894), astronomer and professor at Columbia UniversityJohn Duer Irving (1896), geologist, professor at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale UniversityRichard Weil (1896), American physician, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, son-in-law of Isidor StrausHans Zinsser (1899), American physician, bacteriologist, prolific author • Marston T. Bogert (1890), former president of the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical IndustryWilliam King Gregory (1900), American zoologist, primatologist, paleontologistReuben Ottenberg (1902), physician and haematologistClinton Gilbert Abbott (1903), ornithologist, naturalist, director of the San Diego Natural History MuseumIrving Langmuir (1903), winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEdward Calvin Kendall (1906), winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineHarold 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 TrophyMichael 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 BoasHermann Joseph Muller (1910), geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineRalph Randles Stewart (1911), botanist and founder of the National Herbarium, IslamabadLudlow Griscom (1912), pioneer in field ornithologyJohn Howard Northrop (1912), winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCalvin Bridges (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan known for his contribution to geneticsIrving H. Pardee (1912), American neurologist, husband of Abby RockefellerAlfred Sturtevant (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan and winner of the National Medal of ScienceJames Chapin (1916), American ornithologist; 17th president of The Explorers ClubSeeley G. Mudd (1917), American physician and philanthropist, former dean of Keck School of Medicine of USCHarold Alexander Abramson (1919), early advocate of Psychedelic therapyAugustus Braun Kinzel (1919), metallurgist and first president of the National Academy of EngineeringWilliam V. Silverberg (1919), founder of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic PsychiatrySherman Fairchild* (1920), founder of Fairchild Aircraft, Fairchild Industries, Fairchild Camera and Instrument as well as Fairchild SemiconductorFrancis Bitter (1925), American physicist, inventor of Bitter electromagnets • Howard Bruenn (1925), personal physician to Franklin D. RooseveltAlbert Charles Smith (1926), American botanist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History and the Arnold ArboretumKonrad Lorenz* (1926), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineJerrold R. Zacharias (1926), nuclear physicist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAndrew Streitwieser (1927), American chemist known for his contributions to Physical organic chemistryJulian M. Sturtevant (1927), American chemist at Yale UniversityRaymond 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 parapsychologyTheodore Lidz (1930), Sterling Professor of psychiatry at Yale; expert on SchizophreniaJudd Marmor (1930), American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist on homosexuality • Herbert L. Anderson (1931), director of the Enrico Fermi Institute, professor of the University of ChicagoPaul E. Queneau (1931), professor of metallurgical engineering at Dartmouth CollegeBernard Glueck Jr. (1933), American psychiatrist, former president of the American Psychopathological AssociationIrving Kaplan (1933), American chemist, professor at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeo Rangell (1933), psychoanalyst; president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic AssociationJohn K. Lattimer (1935), urologist, ballistics expert, and inveterate collector • Emanuel Papper (1935), anesthesiologist, dean of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami from 1969 to 1981 • Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1935), winner of the Nobel Prize in PhysicsRobert Marshak (1936), president of the American Physical Society and president of the City College of New YorkJulian Schwinger (1936), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics; posited the Schwinger effectBarry Commoner (1937), leading American environmentalist, former editor of Science Illustrated magazine • Francis J. Ryan (1937), professor of zoology at Columbia UniversityBoris Jacobsohn (1938), Professor of Physics at the University of WashingtonDavid B. Hertz (1939), operations research scholar known for pioneering the Monte Carlo methods in financeVictor 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 UniversityUlrich P. Strauss (1941), chemist at Rutgers University, 1971 Guggenheim FellowBruce Wallace (1941), geneticist, professor at Virginia TechRobert 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 SchoolLeon Davidson (1942), chemical engineer known for his work in the Manhattan Project and the study of Unidentified Flying ObjectsKarl Koopman (1943), chiropterologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural HistoryRobert G. Shulman (1943), biophysicist, Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale UniversitySeymour Jonathan Singer (1943), cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San DiegoEnoch Callaway (1943), psychiatrist, professor at the University of California, San FranciscoArnold Cooper (1944), psychoanalyst; professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and former president of the American Psychoanalytic AssociationRobert Jastrow (1944), astronomer, founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and conservative think tank George C. Marshall InstituteJoshua Lederberg (1944), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineArnold Scheibel (1944), professor of neuroscience at the University of California, Los AngelesAlfred P. Wolf (1944), nuclear and organic chemist; research professor at New York UniversityPaul Marks (1945), geneticist, president emeritus of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical InvestigationJack Oliver (1945), professor of seismology at Columbia University and Cornell UniversityMalvin Ruderman (1945), American physicist known for discovering the RKKY interactionLeonard Shengold (1946), psychiatrist at New York University known for study on child abuseAlbert Starr (1946), noted cardiovascular surgeon, winner of the 2007 Lasker AwardArthur Ashkin (1947), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 • Robert A. Frosch (1947), fifth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNorton Zinder (1947), American scientist who discovered bacterial transductionFrank I. Marcus (1948), American cardiologist and professor at University of Arizona Medical CenterFrederick Reif (1948), professor of physics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, recipient of the 1994 Robert A. Millikan AwardRobert Neil Butler (1949), president of the International Longevity Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWilliam Chinowsky (1949), American astrophysicist and professor at the University of California, San DiegoEdgar Housepian (1949), neurosurgeon, co-founder of the Fund for Armenian ReliefBenjamin Widom (1949), professor of chemistry at Cornell University; recipient of the Boltzmann Medal in 1998 • Noel Corngold (1950), American physicist at California Institute of TechnologyEdwin Kessler (1950), first director of the National Severe Storms LaboratoryGerald Weissmann (1950), cell biologist, liposome inventor, essayist • Arthur H. Westing (1950), American ecologist and researcher at Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteLeon Cooper (1951), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 • Richard A. Gardner (1952), psychiatrist known for researching Parental alienation syndromeEdgar Haber (1952), former president of Bristol-Myers Squibb and professor at Harvard Medical SchoolDonald E. Ross (1952), engineer and managing partner at Jaros, Baum & BollesWilliam Carl Burger (1953), botanist, curator at the Field Museum of Natural HistoryGerald 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 MedalArthur Gottlieb (1953), American immunologist, professor at Tulane University School of MedicineEliot S. Hearst (1953), psychologist, professor at Indiana UniversityCharles Kadushin (1953), psychologist at the City University of New York, recipient of the 2009 Marshall Sklare AwardDonald R. Olander (1953), professor of nuclear engineering at University of California, BerkeleyNicholas P. Samios (1953), former director of the Brookhaven National LaboratoryMelvin 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 dietHenry Buchwald (1954), professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at University of MinnesotaNeil D. Opdyke (1955), geologist • Alvin F. Poussaint (1956), professor of psychiatry and dean of freshmen at the Harvard Medical SchoolA. Charles Catania (1957), American psychologist, professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore CountySheldon 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 HospitalRoald Hoffman (1958), winner of the Nobel Prize in ChemistryNorbert Hirschhorn (1958), American public health physician and developed the Oral rehydration therapyGerald 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 HealthHarlan Lane (1958), professor of psychology at Northeastern UniversityHans Christian von Baeyer (1958), physicist at the College of William & MaryJoseph L. Fleiss (1959), professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthAllan Franklin (1959), American physicist, historian of science at University of Colorado BoulderPaul B. Kantor (1959), American information scientist, professor at Rutgers UniversityMichael Lesch (1960), physician and medical educator who identified the Lesch–Nyhan syndromeIra Black (1961), American physician and neuroscientist, advocate of Stem cell research; former president of Society for NeuroscienceKenneth C. Edelin (1961), American physician known for his support of abortion rights and former chairman of Planned ParenthoodEugene Milone (1961), astronomer, professor at the University of CalgaryRobert Pollack (1961), American biologist who studies the intersections between science and religion • Samuel Strober (1961), immunologist at Stanford Medical School, co-founder of DendreonCharles Cantor (1962), molecular geneticist; chief science officer at SequenomArmando Favazza (1962), American author and psychiatrist at the University of MissouriStephen Larsen (1962), American psychologist and founding board member of the Joseph Campbell FoundationRobert Lefkowitz (1962), winner of the Nobel Prize in ChemistryJeffrey Mandula (1962), physicist known for the Coleman–Mandula theoremAllen Neuringer (1962), American psychologist, prominent in the field of the experimental analysis of behaviorRussell F. Warren (1962), surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery from 1993 to 2003 and team doctor for the New York GiantsFarhad 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 SchoolDavid B. Cohen (1963), psychologist, professor at the University of Texas at AustinAllen Frances (1963), American psychiatrist at Duke University and founding editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric PracticeDavid George Hitlin (1963), physicist at the California Institute of TechnologyMichael Lubell (1963), American physicist, professor of the City College of New YorkKenneth X. Robbins (1963), psychiatrist, scholar on expatriate communities in IndiaRichard Waldinger (1963), computer scientist, fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceAllan Blaer (1964), American physicist and professor who is in charge of the Columbia University Science Honors ProgramFrederick 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 EarthKenneth Prager (1964), American physician, professor at Columbia University Medical Center, brother of commentator Dennis PragerMark C. Rogers (1964), American physician, former CEO of Duke University Health SystemMichael Terman (1964), Columbia University Medical Center psychologist • Norman Christ (1965), physicist, professor at Columbia UniversityNiles Eldredge (1965), collaborator of Stephen Jay Gould and curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural HistoryAlan I. Green (1965), professor at Geisel School of Medicine, nephew of Herman WoukStuart Newman (1965), developmental and evolutionary biologist • Allen Steere (1965), rheumatologist and pioneering investigator of Lyme diseaseSylvain Cappell (1966), American mathematician, professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesBarry S. Coller (1966), father of Abciximab, Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at Rockefeller UniversityPeter Gray (1966), American psychologist; professor at Boston CollegeBrian Weiss (1966), psychiatrist noted for his research on reincarnation and past life regressionRichard Axel (1967), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying the operations of the olfactory systemNai Phuan Ong (1967), Professor of Physics at Princeton UniversityNick Scoville (1967), professor of astronomy at California Institute of TechnologyRobert Wald (1968), American theoretical physicist at the University of ChicagoSidney 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 IIIHarold J. Vinegar (1970), former chief scientist for physics of Shell plc, professor at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevFranklin G. Miller (1971), bioethicist at the National Institutes of HealthEric 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 TransplantationPaul S. Appelbaum (1972), psychiatrist credited with conceptualizing the idea of therapeutic misconceptionSteven M. Bellovin (1972), professor of computer science at Columbia University and chief technologist of Federal Trade CommissionRick L. Danheiser (1972), American chemist and chair of the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMitchell Kronenberg (1973), American immunologist, former president of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and secretary of the American Association of ImmunologistsStephen M. Barr (1974), author and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of DelawareDavid Jablonski (1974), professor of geophysical sciences at University of ChicagoMark G. Lebwohl (1974), American dermatologist and president of the American Academy of DermatologyRobert F. Murphy (1974), American computational biologist and professor at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySteven Kahn (1975), astrophysicist, professor at Stanford University and director of the Large Synoptic Survey TelescopeAndrew Witkin (1975), professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and Pixar senior scientist, recipient of the 2006 Academy Scientific and Technical AwardSteven L. Goldstein (1976), geochemist, professor at Columbia UniversityJohn Markowitz (1976), psychiatrist, professor at Columbia College of Physicians and SurgeonsDouglas Rivers (1977), professor at Stanford University, chief scientist of global polling firm YouGovDavid Tannor (1978), chemist, professor at the Weizmann Institute of ScienceGeorge Yancopoulos (1980), American billionaire biomedical scientist and CSO of Regeneron PharmaceuticalsCarl 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 SciencesNeil Shubin (1982), paleontologist and co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, provost of the Field Museum of Natural HistoryMichael Travisano (1983), evolutionary biologist and professor at University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesPeter Lunenfeld (1984), critic and theorist of digital mediaPeter Marks (1985), director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and member of the White House Coronavirus Task ForceJames Nowick (1985), professor of chemistry at the University of California, IrvineEric 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 MexicoLeslie B. Vosshall (1987), neurobiologist known for her contributions in the field of olfactionPatrick Ball (1988), data scientist, executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis GroupRebecca N. Wright (1988), American computer scientist and professor at Barnard College, former director at DIMACSJonathan 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 SurgeonsJennifer Ashton (1991), physician, author, host of lifestyle talk show The RevolutionVirginia Cornish (1991), professor of chemistry at Columbia University and recipient of the 2009 Pfizer Award in Enzyme ChemistryCarl Marci (1991), neuroscientist and professor at Harvard Medical SchoolPeter DiMaggio (1992), structural engineer, co-CEO of Thornton TomasettiDamon Horowitz (1993), Google's in-house philosopher • Chris Wiggins (1993), professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, chief data scientist of The New York TimesRebecca Oppenheimer (1994), curator in astrophysics the American Museum of Natural HistoryDemetre Daskalakis (1995), physician and gay health activist, White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator • Laura Kaufman (1997), chemist, professor at Columbia UniversityBeth Willman (1998), American astronomer at Haverford CollegeKate Brauman (2000), water scientist at the University of Minnesota, daughter of chemist John Isaiah BraumanAlex K. Shalek (2004), professor at Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyKerstin Perez (2005), particle physicist and professor at Columbia UniversityDaniel Harlow (2006), professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics PrizeAaron Roth (2006), professor of computer science at University of PennsylvaniaAndrea Young (2006), American experimental physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, winner of the 2018 New Horizons in Physics PrizeJulia Kalow (2008), American chemist, professor at Northwestern UniversityCalvin Sun (2008), emergency room doctor notable for his first-hand reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City ==Spies==
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 HissNathaniel 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==
Writers
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), purported author of A Visit From St. NicholasRobert 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 movementEvert Augustus Duyckinck (1835), literary biographer in the Young America movementGeorge Templeton Strong (1838), noted diarist; founder of the United States Sanitary Commission and the Union League Club of New YorkEdgar 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 TroubetzkoyAlbert Payson Terhune (1893), author, dog breeder, journalist, Further Adventures of LadGuy Wetmore Carryl (1895), humorist, Fables for the FrivolousMelville Henry Cane (1900), poet; winner of the Robert Frost Medal in 1971 • Joyce Kilmer (1908), poet and author of TreesRandolph Bourne (1912), essayist and public intellectual • Harold Lamb (1915), writer, screenwriter • Gustav Davidson (1919), poet, secretary of the Poetry Society of AmericaPaul Gallico* (1919), author of The Poseidon AdventureLouis Zukofsky (1922), co-founder and leading theorist of the Objectivist poetsJames 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 CaseHenry Morton Robinson (1923), author of The Cardinal and A Skeleton Key to Finnegans WakeCornell Woolrich (1923), mystery writer and author of Rear WindowClifford 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 MutinyJohn Berryman (1936), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryRobert 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 ShowRichard de Mille* (1944), writer and investigative journalist, son of director Cecil B. DeMilleJack Kerouac* (1944), Beat generation author of On the RoadLeonard Koppett (1944), sportswriter; recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award and the Curt Gowdy Media AwardWalter Wager (1944), mystery writer whose book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2Herbert Gold (1946), Beat Generation novelist • Daniel Hoffman (1947), poet; 22nd United States Poet LaureateHiag Akmakjian (1948), author • Allen Ginsberg (1948), Beat generation poet; author of HowlFrederick Karl (1948), literary biographer famous for his work on Joseph ConradStanley 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 PoetryJohn Clellon Holmes (1949), Beat Generation novelist, Go.John Hollander (1950), poet, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Bollingen PrizeRichard Howard (1951), translator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAnthony 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 FellowGeorge Bellak (1957), American television writer • Richard P. Brickner (1957), writer, 1983 Guggenheim FellowRaymond Federman (1957), French–American novelist and academic; author, Double or NorthingLawrence Shainberg (1958), writer of Zen BuddhismJerome Charyn (1959), novelist • Jay Neugeboren (1959), novelist, essayist, short story writer • Robert T. Westbrook* (1968), writer, son of syndicated columnist Sheilah Graham WestbrookPhillip 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 DreamerAaron 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 UniversityHilton Obenzinger (1969), novelist, poet, history and criticism writer • Paul Auster (1970), postmodern writer; author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and the Brooklyn FolliesBob Holman (1970), poet and activist identified with the oral traditionDavid 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 UniversityJohn Prados (1973), author and historian on World War II and the Cold WarTodd McEwen (1975), writer, professor at the University of KentStephen O'Connor (1975), American writer and professor at Sarah Lawrence CollegeDamien Bona (1977), chronicler of the Academy AwardsMason Wiley (1977), co-author of The Official Preppy HandbookKevin Baker (1980), novelist and freelance journalist • Jeffrey Harrison (1980), poet who won the 1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling ScholarshipLou 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 AwardDavid Rakoff (1986), comedic essayist • Louise Wareham Leonard (1987), writer • Al Weisel (1987), freelance writer • Adrienne Brodeur (1988), author, program director at Aspen InstituteGlen Hirshberg (1988), author, recipient of the 2007 Shirley Jackson AwardAdam Mansbach (1988), author and former professor of literature at Rutgers University–CamdenDarryl Pinckney (1988), novelist, playwright, and essayist • Mako Yoshikawa (1988), novelist, professor at Emerson CollegeBen 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 UniversityJohn 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 RoadKelly 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 CollegeAndrew 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 MadelineMarie Mutsuki Mockett (1992), writer • Melissa de la Cruz (1993), writer known for work in young adult fictionJay Michaelson (1993), writer and LGBTQ activist • Maxine Swann (1994), fiction writer • Robert Westfield (1994), writer who won two Lambda Literary AwardsMegan McCafferty (1995), chick lit writer, Jessica Darling series, which were plagiarized by Kaavya ViswanathanTova 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 SpectatorAravind Adiga (1997), Man Booker Prize-winning novelist • Jamel Brinkley (1997), author, winner of the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceJohn Coletti (1997), American author • Gotham Chopra (1997), author, son of health advocate Deepak ChopraLauren Grodstein (1997), author, professor of Rutgers University–CamdenAbdi Nazemian (1998), Iranian-American author, winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Debut FictionTrevor Shane (1998), writer • Daniel Alarcón (1999), novelist • Katherine Howe (1999), novelist, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance DaneRebecca Pawel (1999), author of mystery novels; winner of the 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First NovelAlex Marzano-Lesnevich (2001), author, winner of a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and Chautauqua PrizeFiona Sze-Lorrain (2003), French writer, poet, translator, musician • Ben Dolnick (2004), writer, son of American biographer Edward Dolnick, member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns The New York TimesDanielle Valore Evans (2004), fiction writer • Adam Gidwitz (2004), author of best selling children's books • Alaya Dawn Johnson (2004), author and winner of the 2015 Andre Norton AwardTongo Eisen-Martin (2004), poet laureate of San FranciscoSidik Fofana (2005), public school teacher and writer, winner of a 2023 Whiting AwardVictoria Loustalot (2006), writer of memoir and essays • Crystal Hana Kim (2009), writer, If You Leave MeMorgan Parker (2010), poet and Cave Canem FellowRachel Heng (2011), Singaporean writer • Ben Philippe (2011), author, screenwriter, recipient of the 2020 William C. Morris AwardRowan Hisayo Buchanan (2012), British-American writer, recipient of the Betty Trask Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel AwardSylvia Khoury (2012), American writer and playwright, recipient of a 2021 Whiting AwardYanyi (2013), American poet ==Miscellaneous==
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John Parke Custis* (1777), stepson of George WashingtonPhilip Hamilton (1800), eldest son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler HamiltonDavid Augustus Clarkson (1810), landowner and grandson-in-law of Robert R. LivingstonJames Lenox (1818), bibliophile, founder of the Lenox Library, later incorporated into the New York Public Library; also founder of the Presbyterian HospitalJohn Lloyd Stephens (1822), explorer, archaeologist, Special Ambassador to Central America, and president of the Panama RailroadWilliam R. Travers (1838), founder of the Travers StakesWilliam H. Herriman (1849), expatriate American art collectorCornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt* (1850), son of Cornelius VanderbiltAugustus Newbold Morris (1860), socialite and former president of The Metropolitan ClubWinthrop Rutherfurd (1884), socialite known for his romance with Consuelo Vanderbilt and marriage to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, mistress of Franklin D. RooseveltGavin Arthur (1922), San Francisco astrologer and sexologist and a grandson of U.S. President Chester A. ArthurOswald Jacoby (1922), 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 MacArthurAshrita 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 ChampionshipPeter 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), librarian and educator, president of the American Library AssociationTinsley 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: CaramoanLeeza Mangaldas (2011), Indian podcaster and sex educator • Sara Ali Khan (2016), daughter of Indian actor, director Saif Ali Khan and actress Amrita Singh ==References==
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