List of City College of New York alumni
Notable alumni
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Nobel laureates
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Julius Axelrod 1933 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry , 1985Robert Hofstadter 1935 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005John O'Keefe , 1963 – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014Rhodes Scholars
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Chancellors
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Matthew Goldstein – former chancellor of the City University of New York (1999-2013).Politics, government and sociology
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Herman Badillo 1951 – former Congressman and Chairman of CUNY 's Board of Trustees, an architect of the University's academic rebirthBernard 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 1977Daniel 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 EastBenjamin B. Ferencz 1920 – international juristAbraham Foxman – National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , 1939-1962George Friedman – founder of Stratfor , author, professor of political science , security and defense analystNathan Glazer – sociologist and professor at Harvard UniversityIrving 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, 1978-1989Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative punditMelvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist; editor of Encounter Milton Leitenberg 1955 - American arms control expertGuillermo Linares 1975 – first Dominican-American New York City Council memberColin 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 ScienceJulius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War Robert F. Wagner Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927-1949Michele Wallace 1975 – major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studiesStephen Samuel Wise 1891 – Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activistMarilyn Zayas 1965 - Judge, Ohio's First District Court of Appeals [1] The arts
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Maurice Ashley 1993 – first African-American International Chess Grandmaster Paddy Chayefsky – playwright and screenwriter; wrote Marty Hospital Altered States Carl Dreher 1917 – sound engineer, nominated for Sound Recording Academy Awards for the films The Gay Divorcee 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 poetLuis Guzmán – actorE.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – lyricist (The Wizard of Oz Finian's Rainbow Judd Hirsch 1960 – actorAlvin Hollingsworth - painter, co-organizer of African American artist contributors to 1963 March on Washington , and early comic book artistErnest Lehman 1937 (BS) – screenwriter (North by Northwest The Sound of Music Sweet Smell of Success Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? David Margulies – actorJackie Mason – comedian and actorSterling Morrison 1970 – musician, co-founder of The Velvet Underground Zero Mostel 1935 – actorFaith Ringgold 1959 – artist and children's book author and illustratorEdward G. Robinson 1914 – actorRichard Schiff 1983 – Emmy Award-winning actor; star of The West Wing Toby Ziegler , also attended CCNY)Ben Shahn – artistGabourey Sidibe – actressAlfred Stieglitz 1884 – photographerEli Wallach 1938 MA – actorLiterature and journalism
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Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholarDan Daniel 1910 – Dean of American SportswritersDavidson Garrett 1988- American poetGary Gruber 1962 – best selling author, educator, physicistOscar 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 The Silk Code Locus Award , 1999Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author; won 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his novel The Fixer The Magic Barrel The Natural Montrose Jonas Moses – authorWalter Mosley 1991 MA – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger AwardsMichael 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 [2] Alexander Rosenberg 1967 – novelist and philosopherA.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 Robert Scheer – journalist and radio hostStephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European mattersUpton Sinclair 1897 BA – author of The Jungle Robert Sobel 1951 BSS, 1952 MA – best-selling author of business historiesGary Weiss 1975 – investigative journalist; author of Born to Steal (2003) and Wall Street Versus America (2006)Science and technology
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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 systemRichard 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 systemRobert E. Kahn 1960 – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004Allen Kent – pioneer of information science , especially mechanized information retrievalGary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneerSolomon Kullback – mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneerLewis Mumford – historian of technologyCharles Lane Poor – noted astronomerMario Runco, Jr. 1974 – astronautJonas 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 pioneerDavid B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designerLeonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theoryVictor Twersky 1943 – physicist, scattering theory[3] [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
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Fictional alumni
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See also
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References and further reading
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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
