Notable alumni •
Chris Algieri, 2007, professional boxer and former
WBO junior welterweight title holder •
Michael R. Anastasio, Ph.D., 1980, physicist; 9th director of
Los Alamos National Laboratory •
Thomas Balcerski, 2008, author, historian; professor of history at
Eastern Connecticut State •
Kim Barnes Arico, current head coach of the
Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team (transferred) •
Bruce Bawer, Ph.D., 1983, Norway-based literary, film, and culture critic; gay rights activist •
Joy Behar, 1966, co-host of
The View •
Pat Benatar, musician,
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee (dropped out) •
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Ph.D., 2005, Sociologist and expert on gender and labor issues; professor of sociology at
Montclair State University and editor for
Contemporary Sociology •
Spencer Black, educator and politician who represented
Madison, Wisconsin in the
Wisconsin State Assembly •
Mark Bridges, 1983,
Academy Award-winning costume designer •
Adrien Brody, youngest winner of the
Academy Award for Best Actor for
The Pianist (2002) •
Dan Clawson, Ph.D., 1978, sociologist and activist •
Harris Cooper, Hugo L. Blomquist Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duke University •
Patricia S. Cowings, 1970, aerospace psychophysiologist •
Steve Cuozzo, 1971, journalist, contributor to the
New York Post •
Dabuz, 2017, professional
Super Smash Bros. player •
Buck Dharma, lead guitarist and sole constant member of rock band
Blue Öyster Cult •
Glenn Dubin, 1978, billionaire hedge fund manager •
Patricia Eddington, former member of
New York State Assembly; currently
Brookhaven, New York, Town Clerk •
Carolyn Ellis, Ph.D., 1981, sociologist •
Ayşe Erzan, Ph.D., 1976, theoretical physicist •
Diane Farr, 1995, actress on
Numbers and
Rescue Me •
Hume Feldman, Ph.D., 1993, physicist; professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Kansas •
Jonine Figueroa, Ph.D., 2004, epidemiologist; senior investigator and distinguished scholar at the
National Cancer Institute •
Lee A. Fleisher, M.D., chief medical officer and director of the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. •
Marie-Josée Fortin, Ph.D., 1992, ecologist •
Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician •
Robert L. Gallucci, 1968, diplomat, author, academic •
Steven K. Galson, 1978, former acting
Surgeon General of the United States •
David Gelernter, 1982, computer science professor at
Yale and
Unabomber victim •
Richard Gelfond, 1976, CEO of
IMAX Corporation •
Rohini Godbole, Ph.D., 1979, physicist •
Christine Goerke, 1994, dramatic soprano •
Carol K. Hall, Ph.D., 1972, chemical engineer; Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at
North Carolina State University •
Victoria Hart, 2010, YouTube personality, educator, inventor •
Brosl Hasslacher, Ph.D., 1971, theoretical physicist •
Daria Hazuda, 1989, biochemist; discovered the first
HIV Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors •
Carl Heastie, 1990,
Speaker of the New York State Assembly 2015–present, Assemblymember from the 83rd Assembly District, 2001–present •
Julia Heiman, Ph.D., 1975, sexologist and psychologist; sixth director of
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at
Indiana University •
John L. Hennessy, 1975, tenth president of
Stanford University, 2017
Turing Award winner •
Scott Higham, 1982, winner of
2002 Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism •
Mitch Horowitz, 1988, PEN Award-winning historian and former vice-president,
Penguin Random House •
Leslie Irvine, Ph.D., 1997, sociologist specializing in human-animal interaction •
Travis Jankowski, 2012,
MLB player •
Peter R. Jennings, Canadian physicist and entrepreneur; created,
MicroChess •
Suzanne Bennett Johnson, Ph.D., 1974, psychologist and past president of the
American Psychological Association (APA) •
Latoya Joyner, 2008, assembly member for the 77th District of the New York State Assembly •
Rinat Kedem, Ph.D., 1993, mathematician and physicist •
Mark Kishlansky, 1970, historian •
Tom Koehler, 2008, former MLB pitcher •
Melanie Kreis, 1994, German businesswoman, chief financial officer,
Deutsche Post •
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, first woman and first African-American president and CEO of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation •
Marshall Leonard, M.D., 2016, former
Major League Soccer player •
Steve Levy, 1981, 7th
County Executive of
Suffolk County, New York •
Kevin Kwan Loucks, 2013, CEO of
Chamber Music America •
Gilda Lyons, Ph.D., 2005, composer, vocalist, and visual artist •
Steven Mackey, 1980, composer, electric guitarist, Professor of Composition at
Princeton University •
James L. Manley, Ph.D., 1976, biologist •
Kevin M. McCoy, 1978, U.S. vice admiral; 42nd commander of
Naval Sea Systems Command •
Jeffrey Meldrum, Ph.D., 1989, anatomist, cryptozoologist, Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at
Idaho State University •
Mark Mizruchi, Ph.D., 1980, sociologist •
Leah Modigliani, Ph.D., 2010, Associate Professor of Visual Studies at
Tyler School of Art and Architecture at
Temple University •
Dianne Morales (born 1967), non-profit executive and political candidate •
Momina Mustehsan, Pakistani singer, musician, and social activist •
Richie Narvaez, 1986, 1988, novelist •
Joe Nathan, 1997, six-time MLB All-Star and
Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer •
Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean politician •
Jon Oringer, 1997, billionaire founder and CEO of
Shutterstock •
Vinay Pathak, Indian actor •
Sandy Pearlman, 1966, music producer and band manager for
Blue Öyster Cult,
Black Sabbath •
Andrew S. Penson, billionaire real estate developer •
Nan Phinney, 1972,
accelerator physicist at
SLAC, program coordinator for the world's first linear collider •
Carolyn Porco, 1974, planetary scientist •
Colin Quinn, comedian, director, writer, actor •
Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Ph.D., 1995, immunologist; Emil R. Unanue Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology and Pathology at
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri •
Sumathi Rao, Ph.D., 1983, physicist •
Jef Raskin, 1964,
Apple manager and creator of the
Macintosh •
Dominick Reyes, 2013, mixed martial artist, currently #14 in the
UFC light heavyweight rankings •
Burton Rocks, 1994, sports attorney and current agent of
Paul DeJong •
G. Samantha Rosenthal, 2015, historian, writer, and professor at
Roanoke College •
Ranjan Roy, Ph.D., 1974, mathematics professor at
Beloit College •
Deane Rykerson, 1972, architect, served in the
Maine House of Representatives •
Peter Sarnow, Ph.D., 1982, German virologist; professor of microbiology and immunology at
Stanford University •
Laura Schlessinger, 1968, talk radio host •
Andrew Sega, 1997, video game music composer •
Lasana M. Sekou, B.A., 1982, poet, author, publisher •
Ashoke Sen, Ph.D., 1982, Indian theoretical physicist •
Charles N. Serhan, 1978, experimental pathologist, Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia (Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) at
Harvard Medical School •
Chia Shen, 1983, computer scientist, a program director at the
National Science Foundation •
Drew Shindell, Ph.D., 1995, physicist and climate specialist based at
Duke University •
Duane Silverstein, 1974, award-winning conservationist, executive director of
Seacology •
Tanya M. Smith, Ph.D., 2004, human evolutionary biologist; professor at the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution,
Griffith University,
Australia •
Eric Stach, M.B.A., 2018, materials scientist; professor at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Bettie M. Steinberg, 1976, chief scientific officer for
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research •
T. Bill Sutherland, Ph.D., 1968, theoretical physicist; Emeritus Professor of Physics at the
University of Utah •
Henry Swieca, B.A., 1979, billionaire hedge fund founder •
Kara Thomas, 2013, author of young adult fiction •
Jaw-Shen Tsai, Ph.D., 1983, physicist •
Michael Tuts, Ph.D., 1979, particle physicist; professor and chair of the
Columbia University Physics Department. •
Peter Ungar, Ph.D., 1992, evolutionary biologist and paleoanthropologist at the
University of Arkansas. •
Gabriel Vicéns, D.M.A., 2022, Puerto Rican composer, guitarist, and visual artist •
Jameel Warney, 2016, former NBA player •
Kent Washington, 1978, basketball player •
Bernd Würsig, Ph.D., 1978, marine mammal behavioral ecologist; professor emeritus at
Texas A&M University •
Daniel Zamora, 2015, MLB pitcher •
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, PhD, 1976, mathematician
Notable faculty •
Anissa Abi-Dargham, psychiatrist •
Qanta Ahmed, British-American physician specializing in
sleep disorders, author, women's rights activist, journalist, and public commentator •
Alan Alda, actor •
Luis Alvarez-Gaume, theoretical physicist •
Katherine Aubrecht, chemist •
Barry Barish, experimental physicist, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics •
Elizabeth M. Boon, biochemist •
Ken A. Dill, biophysicist and chemist •
Simon Donaldson, mathematician, 1984 Fields Medal, 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics •
Richard Dyer-Bennet, singer of folk music •
Kenji Fukaya, mathematician •
James Glimm, mathematician, former president of American Mathematical Society •
Bernard Greenhouse,
cellist, one of the founding members of the
Beaux Arts Trio •
Yusuf Hannun, molecular biologist, biochemist •
Alfred Kazin, writer and literary critic •
Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist •
John Milnor, mathematician, 1962 Fields Medal, 2011 Abel Prize •
Mary C. Rawlinson, philosophy professor •
Wolf Schäfer, historian •
Stanley Siegel, psychotherapy •
Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies •
Dennis Sullivan, mathematician, 2022 Abel Prize •
Esther Takeuchi, chemical engineer •
Patricia Wright, primatologist •
C.N. Yang, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, one of the first Chinese Nobel laureates •
Alexander Zamolodchikov, physicist •
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