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Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
Julius Axelrod 1933 –
Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970
Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972
Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in
Chemistry , 1985
Robert Hofstadter 1935 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961
Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985
Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959
Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988
Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978
Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005
John O'Keefe , 1963 – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014
Rhodes Scholars
Chancellors
Matthew Goldstein – former chancellor of the City University of New York (1999-2013).
Politics, government and sociology
Herman Badillo 1951 – former Congressman and Chairman of
CUNY 's Board of Trustees, an architect of the University's academic rebirth
Bernard M. Baruch 1889 –
Wall Street financier; adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from
Woodrow Wilson to
John F. Kennedy
Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
Daniel Bell – sociologist, professor at
Harvard University
Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at
Rutgers University
Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian American elected to the
New Jersey General Assembly
Henry Cohen 1943 – Director of
Föhrenwald DP Camp; founding dean of the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at
The New School
Suzanne DiMaggio - long-time analyst of U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia and the Middle East
Benjamin B. Ferencz 1920 – international jurist
Abraham Foxman – National Director of the
Anti-Defamation League
Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court , 1939-1962
George Friedman – founder of
Stratfor , author, professor of
political science , security and defense analyst
Nathan Glazer – sociologist and professor at Harvard University
Irving Howe – coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
Robert T. Johnson 1972 –
Bronx District Attorney
Henry Kissinger – Nobel Peace Prize and Secretary of State,
National Security Advisor (did not graduate)
Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978-1989
Irving Kristol 1940 –
neoconservative pundit
Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist; editor of
Encounter 1958-1991
Milton Leitenberg 1955 - American arms control expert
Guillermo Linares 1975 – first
Dominican-American
New York City Council member
Colin Powell –
United States Secretary of State (2001–2005);
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) and
U.S. Army
General ;
National Security Advisor (1987–1989)
Sal Restivo 1965 – pioneer ethnographer of science; one of the founders of the sociology of mathematics; founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science
Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the
Cold War
Robert F. Wagner Sr. –
United States Senator from New York, 1927-1949
Michele Wallace 1975 – major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
Stephen Samuel Wise 1891 – Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist
Marilyn Zayas 1965 - Judge, Ohio's First District Court of Appeals
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The arts
Maurice Ashley 1993 – first African-American
International Chess Grandmaster
Paddy Chayefsky – playwright and screenwriter; wrote
Marty ,
Hospital and
Altered States
Carl Dreher 1917 – sound engineer, nominated for
Sound Recording Academy Awards for the films
The Gay Divorcee and
I Dream Too Much
Ira Gershwin 1918 – lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of
George Gershwin
Marv Goldberg 1964 – music historian in the field of
rhythm & blues
Hazelle Goodman 1986 – stage, screen and TV actress; first African-American to hold a leading role in a
Woody Allen film,
Deconstructing Harry
Arthur Guiterman – humorous poet
Luis Guzmán – actor
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – lyricist (
The Wizard of Oz ,
Finian's Rainbow )
Judd Hirsch 1960 – actor
Alvin Hollingsworth - painter, co-organizer of African American artist contributors to
1963 March on Washington , and early comic book artist
Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – screenwriter (
North by Northwest ,
The Sound of Music ,
Sweet Smell of Success ,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? )
David Margulies – actor
Jackie Mason – comedian and actor
Sterling Morrison 1970 – musician, co-founder of
The Velvet Underground
Zero Mostel 1935 – actor
Faith Ringgold 1959 – artist and children's book author and illustrator
Edward G. Robinson 1914 – actor
Richard Schiff 1983 –
Emmy Award-winning actor; star of
The West Wing (his character,
Toby Ziegler , also attended CCNY)
Ben Shahn – artist
Gabourey Sidibe – actress
Alfred Stieglitz 1884 – photographer
Eli Wallach 1938 MA – actor
Literature and journalism
Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor,
Barron's
Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar
Dan Daniel 1910 – Dean of American Sportswriters
Davidson Garrett 1988- American poet
Gary Gruber 1962 – best selling author, educator, physicist
Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990
Pulitzer Prize for his novel
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Jack Kroll 1937 – culture editor,
Newsweek
Paul Levinson – author of
The Plot to Save Socrates and
The Silk Code ; winner of
Locus Award , 1999
Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author; won 1967
Pulitzer Prize and a
National Book Award for his novel
The Fixer , National Book Award for
The Magic Barrel ; also wrote
The Natural (1952)
Montrose Jonas Moses – author
Walter Mosley 1991 MA – best-selling author whose novels about
private eye
Easy Rawlins have received
Edgar and
Golden Dagger Awards
Michael Oreskes 1975 – Executive Editor of the
International Herald Tribune
Mario Puzo – bestselling novelist, screenwriter,
The Godfather
Selwyn Raab – investigative journalist for
The New York Times
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Alexander Rosenberg 1967 – novelist and philosopher
A.M. Rosenthal 1949 – won the 1960
Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Was Executive Editor of The New York Times
Henry Roth – novelist and author of
Call It Sleep , a novel on the Jewish immigrant experience
Robert Scheer – journalist and radio host
Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief,
Business Week
Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters
Upton Sinclair 1897 BA – author of
The Jungle (1906)
Robert Sobel 1951 BSS, 1952 MA – best-selling author of business histories
Gary Weiss 1975 – investigative journalist; author of Born to Steal (2003) and Wall Street Versus America (2006)
Science and technology
Solomon Asch – psychologist, known for the
Asch conformity experiments
Julius Blank – engineer, member of the "
traitorous eight " who founded
Silicon Valley
Marvin Chester 1952 – physicist,
quantum physics emeritus professor at
UCLA
Adin Falkoff – engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the
APL language interactive system
Richard D. Gitlin 1964 – engineer, co-invention of DSL
Bell Labs
George Washington Goethals 1887 –
civil engineer , best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the
Panama Canal
Dan Goldin 1962 – 9th and longest-tenured administrator of
NASA
Walter S. Graf – cardiologist, pioneer in creation of emergency paramedic care system
Robert E. Kahn 1960 – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the
TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the
Turing Award in 2004
Allen Kent – pioneer of
information science , especially mechanized information retrieval
Gary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of
naturalistic decision making
Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer
Solomon Kullback – mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
Lewis Mumford – historian of technology
Charles Lane Poor – noted astronomer
Mario Runco, Jr. 1974 – astronaut
Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk
polio vaccine
Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of
patient-controlled analgesia
Abraham Sinkov – mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer
Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory
Victor Twersky 1943 – physicist, scattering theory
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[4] –
physicist and
IEEE Fellow renowned for his contributions to the
multiple scattering
theory ; professor of
applied mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at
University of Illinois at Chicago (1966-1990)
Business
Sports
Fictional alumni
See also
References and further reading
S. Willis Rudy, College of the City of New York 1847–1947 , 1949.
James Traub , City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College , 1994.
Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture , 1997.
Sandra S. Roff, et al.,
From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997 , 2000.