List of City University of New York alumni
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This is a list of alumni of City University of New York, United States, organised alphabetically by surname.
| Name | Grad. | College | Notable for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Arrow | 1940 | City | economist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Robert Aumann | 1950 | City | mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Albert Axelrod | City | Olympic foil fencer | |
| Herman Badillo | 1951 | City | civil rights activist and first Puerto Rican elected to the US Congress |
| Daniel Bukantz | City | Olympic foil fencer | |
| Abram Cohen | City | Olympic foil, épée, and saber fencer | |
| Arlene Davila | 1996 | City | author and Anthropology and American Studies professor at New York University |
| Rubén Díaz Jr. | 2005 | Lehman | Bronx Borough President |
| Rubén Díaz Sr. | 1976 | Lehman | NYC Council Member, Pastor |
| Jeffrey Dinowitz | 1975 | Lehman | NYS Assembly Member |
| Jesse Douglas | 1916 | City | mathematician and winner of one of the first two Fields Medals |
| Eliot Engel | 1969 | Lehman | Member of the US House of Representatives, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Abraham Foxman | City | national director, Anti-Defamation League | |
| Felix Frankfurter | 1902 | City | US Supreme Court Justice |
| Denise Galloway | 1975 | City | Cancer researcher and medical academic |
| Harold Goldsmith | 1952 | City | Olympic foil and épée fencer |
| Andy Grove | 1960 | City | Chairman and CEO, Intel Corporation |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | 1937 | City | mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Letitia James | 1982 | Lehman | NYS Attorney General |
| Barbara Joans | 1974 | anthropologist who researched biker culture | |
| Jane Katz | 1963 | City | Olympic swimmer |
| Henry Kissinger | City | US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor | |
| Leonard Kleinrock | 1957 | City | computer scientist, Internet pioneer |
| Guillermo Linares | 1975 | City | New York City Council member, first Dominican-American City Council member and Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs |
| Nathaniel Lubell | 1936 | City | Olympic foil, saber, and épée fencer |
| Samuel Lubell | City | pollster, journalist, and National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist | |
| Lisa Nakamura | 1993 1996 | City | Director and Professor of the Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Charles Neider | City | Author, Scholar | |
| Barnett Newman | 1927 | City | abstract expressionist artist |
| John O'Keefe | City | 2014 Nobel laureate in Medicine | |
| Colin Powell | 1958 | City | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State |
| Mario Puzo | City | novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter for Best Adapted Screenplay (1972, 1974). | |
| Faith Ringgold | 1955 | City | feminist, writer and artist |
| Saul Rogovin | City
BMCC |
Professional baseball player | |
| A. M. Rosenthal | 1949 | City | executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers; Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation's government and society |
| Rochelle Saidel | City | author, founder of the Remember the Women Institute | |
| Jonas Salk | 1934 | City | developed the first polio vaccine |
| Daniel Schorr | 1939 | City | Emmy award winning broadcast journalist for CBS-TV and National Public Radio |
| Elliott Fitch Shepard | 1855 | City | lawyer, banker, and a founder of the New York State Bar Association |
| James Strauch | City | Olympic épée fencer | |
| Bernard Weinraub | City | journalist and playwright | |
| Henry Wittenberg | City | Olympic champion wrestler | |
| Egemen Bağış | Baruch | Turkish politician, government minister | |
| Abraham Beame | 1928 | Baruch | born Abraham Birnbaum; mayor of New York City |
| Robin Byrd | Baruch | host of public access program The Robin Byrd Show (dropped out)[1] | |
| Barbara A. Cornblatt | 1977 | Baruch | professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine |
| Fernando Ferrer | Baruch | New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005 | |
| Sidney Harman | 1939 | Baruch | founder and executive chairman of Harman Kardon |
| Marcia A. Karrow | Baruch | member of New Jersey General Assembly | |
| James Lam | 1983 | Baruch | author, risk management consultant |
| Ralph Lauren | Baruch | born Ralph Lifshitz; chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren (dropped out) | |
| Dolly Lenz | Baruch | New York City real estate agent | |
| Dennis Levine | Baruch | prominent player in the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s | |
| Jennifer Lopez | Baruch | actress, singer, dancer (dropped out) | |
| Craig A. Stanley | Baruch | member of New Jersey General Assembly since 1996.[2] | |
| Tarkan | Baruch | Turkish language singer | |
| Bella Abzug | 1942 | Hunter | born Bella Savitzky; feminist; political activist; US Representative, 1971–1977 |
| Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick | 1963 | Hunter | first Hispanic woman named to the New York State Court of Appeals |
| Robert R. Davila | 1965 | Hunter | president of Gallaudet University and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired |
| Ruby Dee | 1945 | Hunter | Emmy-nominated actress and civil rights activist |
| Martin Garbus | 1955 | Hunter | First amendment attorney |
| Florence Howe | 1950 | Hunter | founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY |
| Audre Lorde | 1959 | Hunter | African-American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and activist |
| Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou | 1991 | Hunter | Foreign Minister of Mauritania and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva |
| Soia Mentschikoff | 1934 | Hunter | first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president of the Association of American Law Schools |
| Thomas J. Murphy Jr. | 1973 | Hunter | three-term mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994–2006 |
| Pauli Murray | 1933 | Hunter | first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N.O.W |
| Edward Thomas Brady | John Jay | (MA), trial attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina | |
| Jennings Michael Burch | John Jay | author of the 1984 best-selling memoir They Cage the Animals at Night | |
| Marcos Crespo | John Jay | (BA), New York State Assemblyman representing district 85[3] | |
| Edward A. Flynn | John Jay | Chief of the Milwaukee Police Department | |
| Petri Hawkins-Byrd | 1989 | John Jay | Judge Judy bailiff |
| Henry Lee | 1972 | John Jay | forensic scientist and founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science |
| Miguel Martinez | John Jay | (BS), member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on July 14, 2009 | |
| Eva Norvind | John Jay | (MA), actor and director | |
| Pauley Perrette | John Jay | actor best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS | |
| Ronald Rice | John Jay | New Jersey State Senator | |
| Ariel Rios | John Jay | undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), killed in the line of duty | |
| Imette St. Guillen | John Jay | criminal justice graduate student murdered in February 2006. A scholarship was created in her name | |
| Scott Stringer | John Jay | Comptroller, Borough president of Manhattan, and member of the New York State Assembly | |
| Dorothy Uhnak | John Jay | (BA), novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police Department | |
| Bill Baird | 1955 | Brooklyn | reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League |
| Barbara Aronstein Black | 1953 | Brooklyn | Dean of Columbia Law School |
| Barbara Levy Boxer | 1962 | Brooklyn | anti-war activist, environmentalist, US representative, 1982–1993, and US senator |
| Mel Brooks | 1956 | Brooklyn | born Melvin Kaminsky; Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning director, writer, and actor |
| Shirley Chisholm | 1946 | Brooklyn | first African-American US Congresswoman, 1968–1982. Candidate for US president, 1972 |
| Bruce Chizen | 1978 | Brooklyn | president & CEO, Adobe Systems |
| Manuel F. Cohen | 1933 | Brooklyn | Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman |
| Paul Cohen | 1953 | Brooklyn | Fields Medal-winning mathematician |
| Stanley Cohen | 1943 | Brooklyn | biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine), 1986 |
| Robert A. Daly | Brooklyn | CEO of Warner Bros. and Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| Alan M. Dershowitz | 1959 | Brooklyn | Harvard Law School professor and author |
| Jerry Della Femina | 1957 | Brooklyn | Chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners |
| Dan DiDio | 1983 | Brooklyn | comic book editor and executive for DC Comics |
| Benjamin Eisenstadt | 1954 | Brooklyn | creator of Sweet'N Low and founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation |
| Sandra Feldman | 1960 | Brooklyn | president, American Federation of Teachers |
| James Franco | Brooklyn | Golden Globe Award-winning actor | |
| Nikki Franke | 1972 | Brooklyn | Olympic foil fencer |
| Ralph Goldstein | Brooklyn | Olympic épée fencer | |
| Sterling Johnson Jr. | 1963 | Brooklyn | Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Gata Kamsky | 1999 | Brooklyn | chess grandmaster and five-time US chess champion |
| Saul Katz | 1960 | Brooklyn | president of the New York Mets |
| Edward R. Korman | 1963 | Brooklyn | Senior United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Marvin Kratter | 1937 | Brooklyn | owner of the Boston Celtics |
| Don Lemon | 1996 | Brooklyn | reporter, CNN |
| Leonard Lopate | 1967 | Brooklyn | host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC |
| Michael Lynne | 1961 | Brooklyn | CEO of New Line Cinema |
| Marjorie Magner | 1969 | Brooklyn | Chairman of Gannett |
| Marty Markowitz | 1970 | Brooklyn | New York State Senator; Brooklyn Borough President |
| Paul Mazursky | 1951 | Brooklyn | film director, writer, producer; actor |
| Frank McCourt | 1967 | Brooklyn | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis |
| Stanley Milgram | 1954 | Brooklyn | social psychologist |
| Jerry Moss | 1957 | Brooklyn | co-founder of A&M Records |
| Barry Munitz | 1963 | Brooklyn | Chancellor of California State University |
| Gloria Naylor | 1981 | Brooklyn | novelist; Winner National Book Award |
| Peter Nero | 1956 | Brooklyn | born Bernard Nierow; pianist and pops conductor; Grammy Award winner |
| Harvey Pitt | 1965 | Brooklyn | Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Rosemary S. Pooler | 1959 | Brooklyn | United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Jason K. Pulliam | 1995; 1997 | Brooklyn | United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
| Barry Salzberg | 1974 | Brooklyn | CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu |
| Bernie Sanders | Brooklyn | US senator representing Vermont | |
| Steve Schirripa | 1980 | Brooklyn | actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos |
| Irwin Shaw | 1934 | Brooklyn | born Irwin Shamforoff; O. Henry Award-winning author |
| Timothy Shortell | 1992 | Brooklyn | Writer, critic of religion |
| Joel Harvey Slomsky | 1967 | Brooklyn | Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
| Jimmy Smits | 1980 | Brooklyn | Emmy Award-winning actor; NYPD Blue and L.A. Law |
| Maynard Solomon | 1950 | Brooklyn | co-founder of Vanguard Records |
| Lisa Staiano-Coico | 1976 | Brooklyn | president of City College of New York |
| Frank Tarloff | Brooklyn | Academy Award-winning screenwriter | |
| Benjamin Ward | 1960 | Brooklyn | first black New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–1989 |
| Iris Weinshall | 1975 | Brooklyn | Vice Chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation |
| Jack B. Weinstein | 1943 | Brooklyn | Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Walter Yetnikoff | 1953 | Brooklyn | CEO of CBS Records |
| Philip Zimbardo | 1954 | Brooklyn | social psychologist |
| Joy Behar | 1964 | Queens | comedian, television personality |
| Jerry Colonna | Queens | venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach | |
| Joseph Crowley | Queens | member of the US House of Representatives, 1999–2019 | |
| Alan Hevesi | Queens | New York State Comptroller, New York State Assemblyman, Queens College professor | |
| Cheryl Lehman | 1975 | Queens | Professor of Accounting, Hofstra University |
| Helen Marshall | Queens | Queens Borough President | |
| Donna Orender | Queens | WNBA president | |
| Jerry Seinfeld | 1976 | Queens | actor and comedian |
| Charles Wang | Queens | founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders | |
| Carl Andrews | Medgar Evers | New York state senator | |
| Yvette Clarke | Medgar Evers | Congresswoman, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 11th and 9th congressional districts | |
| Richard Carmona | 1973 | Bronx | Surgeon General of the United States |
| Kid Chaos | 1991 | Bronx | British rock Bassist and Guitarist who played in incarnations of hard rock bands such as The Cult |
| The Kid Mero | Bronx | Co-host of Desus & Mero | |
| Annabel Palma | 1991 | Bronx | NYC Council member, 2004–2017 |
| Cardi B | BMCC | Rapper | |
| Queen Latifah | BMCC | Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer | |
| Adam Saleh | BMCC | YouTuber and boxer | |
| Mirko Savone | BMCC | Italian voiceover actor | |
| Assata Shakur | BMCC | Former member of Black Liberation Army, 1970–1981 | |
| Gabourey Sidibe | BMCC | American actress | |
| Michael K. Williams | BMCC | American actor | |
| Riddick Bowe | Kingsborough | Professional boxer, 1989–2008 | |
| Mauriel Carty | Kingsborough | Anguillan sprinter | |
| Andrew Dice Clay | Kingsborough | Stand-up comedian, actor, musician and producer | |
| Pete Falcone | Kingsborough | Professional baseball pitcher | |
| Jeff Koinange | 1989 | Kingsborough | Journalist and host of Jeff Koinange Live |
| Phillipe Nover | Kingsborough | Mixed martial artist | |
| Larry Seabrook | 1972 | Kingsborough | NYC Council member, 2002–2012 |
| Aesha Waks | Kingsborough | Actress | |
| Khandi Alexander | Queensborough | Dancer, choreographer, and actress | |
| Sandra "Pepa" Denton | Queensborough | Rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa | |
| Cheryl "Salt" James | Queensborough | Rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa | |
| Nayan Padrai | Queensborough | Screenwriter, producer and director | |
| Joe Santagato | Queensborough | YouTuber, comedian and podcaster | |
| Elly Gross | 1993 | LaGuardia | A holocaust survivor and author of several Holocaust related books of poetry and prose |
| DJ JP | LaGuardia | The official DJ to Pop Smoke | |
| Reby Sky | LaGuardia | Professional wrestler and model | |
| Elliot Wilson | LaGuardia | Journalist, television producer, and magazine editor |
References
[edit]- ^ Morris, Bob. "Cable's First Lady Of Explicit", The New York Times, June 23, 1996. Retrieved December 3, 2007. "At 17, Ms. Byrd got her graduate equivalency diploma and then pursued advertising design at Baruch College but dropped out in her senior year.
- ^ Assemblyman Stanley's Legislative Website Archived October 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 27, 2007.
- ^ "New York State Assemblymember Marcos A. Crespo". New York State Assembly. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2013.