List of Brooklyn College alumni

This is a list of alumni of Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Academia

Chancellors, deans, and presidents

• Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), economist and President of Michigan State University
• American popular culture
• Samuel Baskin (B.A. 1942), psychologist and educational reformer and first President of the Union Institute & University
• Columbia University School of Law
• Carmen Fariña (M.S.Ed. 1968), New York City Schools Chancellor
• Leon M. Goldstein (died 1999), President of Kingsborough Community College, and acting Chancellor of the City University of New York
• Hebrew Union College and leader in the Reform Judaism movement^[1]
• Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; Dean at Yale University
• Jeffrey Kraus (B.A. 1978), Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, (Wagner College) 2018–2021
• Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), Chancellor, California State University (1991–98)
• Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University
  in Sydney, Australia
• Lisa Staiano-Coico, aka Lisa S. Coico (B.S. 1976), president of City College of New York
• Robert S. Stone (B.A. 1942), pioneering pathologist; Deans of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, University of Oregon School of Medicine, and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine; Director of The National Institutes of Health 1973–1975
• Donald P. Zingale (B.A. 1967), president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill

Anthropology

• Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University, has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology
• Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and associate professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University
• American Association of Anatomists
• Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist, known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Kalahari desert
  in south-western Africa
• Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis

• macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the Post Keynesian
  school in economics
• Israel Kirzner (B.A. 1954), economist
• David Laibman (M.A. 1969), professor emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College; Editor of Science & Society
• Richard Scheffler (M.A. 1967), Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the Graduate School of Public Health, his research focuses on applying health economics to public policy both nationally and globally

History

• Frank J. Coppa
  (B.A. 1960), historian, author, and educator who has written widely on the Papacy
• Michael S. Cullen (B.A. 1962), historian, journalist and publicist, based in Berlin; credited with inspiring Christo and Jeanne-Claude to wrap the Reichstag
• Jules Davids (B.A. 1942), Professor of Diplomatic History at Georgetown University, aided John F. Kennedy in writing Profiles in Courage
• Hal Draper (B.A. 1934), American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Melvyn Dubofsky (B.A. 1955), professor of history and sociology at the Binghamton University, and a well-known labor historian
• Holocaust
• John A. Garraty (B.A. 1941), historian, biographer, and president of the Society of American Historians
• Eugene Genovese (B.A. 1953), historian of the American South and American slavery
• Wilson Center
  in Washington, DC
• Judith R. Goodstein (B.A. 1960), historian of science, historian of mathematics, book author, and University Archivist Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology
• Greg Grandin (B.A. 1991), historian; professor of history at New York University; winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History
• Oscar Handlin (B.A. 1934), Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, author
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (B.A. 1942), historian and conservative cultural critic
• Elisheva Carlebach Jofen (B.A. 1976), scholar of early modern Jewish history
• Thomas Kessner (B.A. 1963), American historian, a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, specializing in social history and the history of New York City
• Holocaust
• Aileen S. Kraditor (B.A. 1950) American historian, specializing in the history of feminism
• Moses Rischin (B.A. 1947), Jewish historian and Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University
• Michele R. Salzman (B.A. 1973), Classicist at the University of California, Riverside, scholar of the religious and social history of Late Antiquity
• Queens College
• Joel H. Silbey (B.A. 1955), historian and President White Professor of History at Cornell University
• Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States
• Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America

Law

• Alan S. Becker (B.A. 1966), Attorney, member of the Florida House of Representatives, 1972–1978
• Jules Coleman (B.A. 1968), scholar of law and jurisprudence and the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School
• Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959), Harvard Law School
  professor and author
• Stephen Gillers (B.A. 1964), New York University School of Law professor and expert in legal ethics
• Gerald Gunther (A.B. 1949), William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, among the 20 most widely cited legal scholars of the 20th century
• St. John's University

Mathematics

• Anatole Beck (B.A. 1951), mathematician, known for his Linear search problem
• Paul Cohen (1953), winner of the Fields Medal
• Violet Haas (B.A. 1947), American applied mathematician specializing in control theory and optimal estimation; professor of electrical engineering at Purdue
• Elaine Koppelman (B.A. 1957), mathematician; James Beall Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College
• Allen R Miller (B.S. 1965), mathematician and major contributor to the field of special functions, especially confluent hypergeometric functions
• Teri Perl (B.A. 1947), American mathematics educator, co-founder of The Learning Company, pioneering educational software publisher
• Discrete and Computational Geometry
• Irving Reiner (B.A. 1944), mathematician, dealt with representation theory of algebras and groups, and number theory
• Theodore J. Rivlin (B.A. 1948), mathematician, specializing in approximation theory
• Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), American/Canadian mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory
• dimension theory, topology, and electronic circuit design
• Gerard Washnitzer (B.S. 1947), mathematician

Philosophy

• Barbara Joans (B.A. 1956), anthropologist who researched biker culture
• Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and specialist in Objectivism and Aristotle
• Eli Hirsch (B.A. 1960), philosopher, the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University
• Christia Mercer (B.A. 1974), Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University
• Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), philosopher concerned with the philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of mass communication
• Ben-Ami Scharfstein (B.A. 1939), prominent Israeli philosopher; winner of the 2005 Israel Prize
• Israel Scheffler (B.A. 1945), philosopher of science and education
• Eli Uncyk (B.A., cum laude, 1967); Articles Editor, N.Y.U Law School Journal of International Law and Politics, attorney

Political science

• political scientist
  specializing in American public opinion and voting behavior
• Dennis Hale (M.A. 1969), political scientist; Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College
• Political Science at Rutgers University
• political scientist, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University
• Marvin Schick (B.A. 1956), Hunter College and New School for Social Research political science and constitutional law professor, known for his work in Jewish education
• Mitchell A. Seligson (B.A. 1967) Centennial Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, founder of the Latin American Public Opinion Project
• Aaron Wildavsky (B.A. 1954), political scientist

Sociology

• Pagan community in the United States
• sociologist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Leo Bogart (B.A 1941), sociologist, media and marketing expert
• sociologist, professor, specialized on genocide
  , human rights, collective violence and other issues
• sociologist
  and LeRoy Neiman Term chair Professor of Sociology at UCLA
• Seymour M. Miller (B.A. 1943), economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University

Other

• Joyce Sparer Adler (B.A. 1935), critic, playwright, teacher and Melville scholar
• William Alfred (B.A. 1948), playwright and professor of English literature at Harvard University
• Women's Studies
  , Jewish Women's Studies, and Lesbian Studies
• Livia Bitton-Jackson (B.A. 1961) academic, author and a Holocaust survivor
• J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
• Zvi Bodie (B.A. 1965), Boston University Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management and expert in pension finance
• St. John's College, Annapolis and a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal
• Jules Chametzky (B.A. 1950), literary critic, writer, editor, and unionist
• Classical Chinese poetry
• Patricia Cronin (M.F.A. 1995),
  feminist
  visual artist.
• stratigrapher, geologist and first woman president of the Geological Society of America
• Dorothy Dinnerstein (B.A. 1943), feminist academic and activist
• Kenneth B. Eisenthal (B.A. 1954), Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry Chair at Columbia University and pioneering physical chemist
• Sandra Feldman (B.A 1960), President, American Federation of Teachers
• Aryeh Frimer (B.A. 1968), Professor of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University
• Marilyn Gittell (B.A. 1952), education reformer, founder of the Urban Affairs Review
• Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
• Martin Haberman (B.A. 1953), educator and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who developed interviewing techniques for identifying teachers and principals who will be successful in working with poor children.
• University of Boston
• Raul Hilberg (B.A. 1948), Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)
• Zoia Horn (B.A. 1939), first librarian ever jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
• Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California
  (USC)
• Paul Ilie (B.A. 1954), specialist in modern and contemporary Spanish literature
• pacifist
  and feminist
• Annette Kolodny (B.A. 1962), feminist literary critic and activist
• Sheldon Krimsky (B.S. 1963), Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
• statistical physics and statistical mechanics, George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Rutgers University
• Sandra Leiblum (B.A. 1965), author, lecturer, and researcher in sexology
• Leslie Libow (B.A. 1954), professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine
  at the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine, author of one of the first geriatric-medicine textbooks in the United States
• Edith H. Luchins (B.A. 1942), Gestalt psychologist and mathematician; first female professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Nancy Lynch (B.A. 1968), mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; winner of the 2007 Knuth Prize for contributions to the foundations of computer science
• economics of uncertainty
• Joseph Natoli (B.A. 1966), academic, known for works on postmodernism
• Feminist Art Journal
• John Parascandola (B.A. 1963), medical historian
• musicologist, known for having musically analyzed every Beatles
  song released
• linguist; President of the Linguistic Society of America
  ; pioneer in linguistic pragmatics
• Gerald J. Prince (B.A. 1963), academic and literary theoretician at the University of Pennsylvania and leading scholar of narrative poetics; shaped the discipline of narratology
• Dennis Raphael (B.S. 1972), health policy professor at York University in Toronto
• Buddy Ratner(B.S. 1967), professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering and director of the Research Center for Biomaterials at the University of Washington
• Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago
  , Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Rosen (B.A. 1955), theoretical biologist and Professor of Biophysics at Dalhousie University
• Hebrew Scriptures
• Public Budgeting and Finance
• Ivan Schulman (B.A. 1953), major scholar of Spanish American Modernismo and the leading US scholar of the works of José Martí
  .
• Salvatore J. Stolfo (B.S. 1974), professor of computer science at Columbia University and an expert in computer security
• Albert Szabo (B.A. 1948), architect, educator, artist, and professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
• DNA fingerprinting
  techniques for use in the study of small mammals
• Eve Tetaz (B.A. 1954), public school teacher known for nonviolent civil resistance during protests against the war and occupation of Iraq
• Jay Tischfield (B.A. 1967), MacMillan Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University
• Frank P. Tomasulo (B.A. 1967), film professor, author, and academic administrator at Ithaca College, Georgia State University, Southern Methodist University, and Florida State University; Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Film & Video and Cinema Journal
• Edward Baron Turk (B.A. 1967), author, arts critic, and educator who writes mainly on the culture of France
• Regina Weinreich (B.A. 1970), writer, journalist, teacher, and scholar of the artists of the Beat Generation
• Bruce Winick (B.A. 1965), the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami and theorist on mental health law
• Jitu Weusi (M.S. 1996), American educator, community leader, writer, activist, and jazz and arts promoter.
• Yeshiva of Flatbush
  high school
• disability rights activist
  and mathematics professor
• Rose Zimbardo (B.A., 1956), professor of English literature

Business

• Fred Bass (B.A. 1949), owner of New York City's Strand Bookstore
• TrimTabs Investment Research, Inc.
• Joseph Cassano (B.A. 1977), head of Financial Product division at American International Group 1987–2008
• Adobe Systems
• mutual funds
• Robert A. Daly, CEO of Warner Bros. and Los Angeles Dodgers
• Sweet'N Low, designer of the modern sugar packet, and the founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation
• Irwin Federman (B.S. 1956), businessman, philanthropist and General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners
• Jerry Della Femina (A.A. 1957), chairman and CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners
• investment banker, author, teacher, and matchmaker
• Richard LaMotta (B.A. 1969), inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich
• Marjorie Magner (B.S. 1969), Chairman of Gannett
• Jerry Moss (B.A. 1957), co-founder of A&M Records
• Ira Rennert (B.A. 1955), billionaire investor and businessman
• Steve Riggio (B.A. 1974), CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
• Trump Organization
• Deloitte LLP
• financial futures
  "
• Citizens Communications
• BitInstant
• Agnes Varis (B.A. 1950), President and founder of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals
• Lester Wunderman (B.A. 1938), advertising executive considered the creator of modern-day direct marketing
• Sigi Ziering (B.S. 1953), German-born American business executive, playwright and philanthropist

Entertainment

• Letty Aronson (B.A. 1964), film producer; sister of Woody Allen
• Tony Award
  -nominated actor
• Sandy Baron (B.A. 1957), comedian, stage, film, and television actor
• Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
• SoHo Rep
• Alvin Boretz (B.A. 1942), television writer for GE Theater, Playhouse 90, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Dr. Kildare, The Defenders, and Kojak
• crossover classical and jazz
  musician
• Henry Chan (M.S. 1973), film and television director
• Jordan Charney (B.A. 1961), character actor
• Dominic Chianese (B.A. 1961), film, television and theatre actor, known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series The Sopranos
• Joan Cullman (born Joan Paley), Tony Award Broadway producer
• police drama Hill Street Blues
• musical theater
  actor and singer
• Joel Eisenberg (B.A. 1985), author, screenwriter, and producer
• Golden Globe Award
  -winning film and TV actor, author
• Richard Frankel (B.A. 1968), six-time Tony Award-winning theatrical producer
• Devery Freeman (B.A. 1935), prolific screenwriter, novelist and union activist who helped to establish the Writers Guild of America
• Takeshi Fukunaga (B.A. 2007), Japanese filmmaker; Out of My Hand
• Philip S. Goodman (B.A. 1948), screenwriter, producer, and director
• psychotherapist
• entertainment journalist
  and TV personality
• C. Bernard Jackson (B.A. 1948), playwright who founded the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles
• Milt Jamin (B.A. 1963), American voice and film actor.
• Marvin Kaplan (B.A. 1947), character actor, president of Los Angeles chapter of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists 1989–95; 2003–05
• Robert Kerman (B.A. 1970), actor
• Woodie King, Jr.
  (M.F.A. 1999), director and producer of stage and screen, and founding director of the New Federal Theatre
• Mousa Kraish (B.A. 1998), actor and director
• Tuli Kupferberg (B.A. 1948), counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs
• Jean-Claude La Marre (B.A. 1992), Haitian-American writer, director, and film and television actor
• Obafemi Lasode (M.A. 1984), Nigerian veteran film actor, songwriter, playwright, film producer and director
• Ken Lerner (B.A. 1970), television and film actor
• Academy Award
  -nominated actor
• Edie Locke, editor-in chief of Mademoiselle^[2]
• Michael Lynne (B.A. 1961), co-founder and CEO of New Line Cinema
• Steve Malzberg (B.A. 1982), conservative radio broadcaster and host of The Steve Malzberg Show on the WOR Radio Network
• Paul Mazursky (B.A. 1951), Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, known for An Unmarried Woman, Harry and Tonto and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, among others; producer; actor
• Neil Meron (B.A. 1976), film producer, won Academy Award for Chicago in 2003
• Jared Mezzocchi (M.F.A. 2009), multimedia theater director, theatrical designer
• National Radio Hall of Fame
• Oren Moverman (B.A. 1992), Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
• E! Entertainment
  TV Network
• Barry Oringer (B.A. 1958), prolific producer and screenwriter
• Eric Overmyer (M.F.A. 1982), television writer and producer; The Wire
• Marcel Peragine (B.A. 1975, M.S. 1981), an American film editor and musician-composer who lives and works in Germany
• Gil Portes (M.S. 1971), award-winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter
• Richard Portnow (B.A. 1967), actor, known for recurring role in The Sopranos
• Dennis Prager (B.A. 1970), syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, ethicist, and public speaker, founder of PragerU.
• Brian "Q" Quinn, comedian, stars in the popular TV show Impractical Jokers
• Mark Rappaport (B.A. 1964), independent/underground film director
• David Rayfiel (B.A. 1947), screenwriter, frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack
• Richard Reicheg (B.A. 1962, MA 1973), actor, folk singer, and songwriter, known for the song "Looking for an Echo"
• Jason Reischel (M.A. 2016), singer-songwriter who sometimes goes by the stage name My Cousin, The Emperor.
• Howard Rosenman (B.A. 1965), producer and motion picture executive
• mentalist and mind reader
• ventriloquist, "lifetime dean" of the Society of American Magicians
• Steve Schirripa (B.A. 1980), actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos
• Citizen Kafka (Richard Shulberg), (B.A. 1969), radio personality and folk musician
• Roger S. H. Schulman (B.A. 1980), film and television writer and producer, co-wrote the animated feature Shrek
• Stuart Seide (B.A. 1967), artistic director of the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, France, and the first American to direct the Comédie-Française
• Emmy Award
  in 1990
• Frank Tarloff (B.A. 1936), blacklisted American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Father Goose
• Woodstock Festival
• Adrianne Tolsch (B.A. 1961), comedian long associated with Catch a Rising Star
• Frank P. Tomasulo, PhD (B.A. 1967), award-winning film and media professor, noted journal editor and critic
• Tom Topor (B.A. 1961), playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
• Musical Chairs
  , which made him the first African-American game show host
• Naren Weiss (M.F.A. 2015), actor, playwright, and model
• Andrew D. Weyman (B.A. 1973), television director and producer
• Fawn Yacker (B.A. 1973), founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor, filmmaker, producer and cinematographer, known for her 2009 documentary Training Rules
• Henry Yuk (B.A. 1972), veteran American television and theater actor born in China's Guangdong Province and raised in Brooklyn
• Jason Zimbler (M.F.A. 2005), Environmentalist, former child actor, best known for Clarissa Explains It All (1991–1994)
• Family Matters, director of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  (2002)

• Mark Barkan (B.A. 1956), songwriter and record producer and the musical director for the television show The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
• Benjamin Bierman (M.M. 2002), jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader
• Susan Birkenhead (B.A. 1957), lyricist
• Benjamin Boretz (B.A. 1954), 20th- and 21st-century composer and music theorist
• folk singer
  , radio host, musicologist
• Isidore Cohen (B.A 1941), chamber musician, violinist, and member of the Juilliard String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio
• MTV Networks
  , now an independent producer
• Eddie Daniels (B.A. 1963), jazz clarinet and alto and tenor saxophone player; also a classical music clarinetist
• Deborah Drattell (B.A. 1976), composer, best known for opera
• Rebekah Driscoll (M.M. 2012), composer
• Sylvia Fine (B.A. 1933), lyricist; wife of comedian Danny Kaye
• musical theater
• DreamWorks SKG
• Daniel Glass (B.A. 1977), music industry producer
• Henry Gross (B.A. 1972), singer-songwriter and founding member of the retro pop group Sha Na Na
• Larry Harlow (musician) aka Lawrence Ira Khan (B.A. 1963), salsa composer, pianist, and musician
• Fred Hellerman (B.A. 1949), folk singer, guitarist, producer and songwriter, primarily known as one of the members of The Weavers
• Cihan Kaan (B.S. 1999), musician; filmmaker; author; recorded electronic music under the alias "8Bit"
• Kim Ji-hyun, South Korean singer
• Harvey Lichtenstein (B.A. 1951), President and Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Bob Margolis (B.A. 1974, M.M. 1977), composer of concert music and owner of Manhattan Beach Music Publishers
• Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (B.A. 1949), folk singer (as Gladys Young), composer and teacher
• A & M Records
• Enisa Nikaj (B.B.A. 2017), also known as Enisa, Montenegrin-American singer songwriter
• Sonny Ochs (B.A. 1970), music producer, radio host, sister of singer-songwriter Phil Ochs
• Arturo O'Farrill (BMus 1996), jazz musician and current pianist, composer, and director for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
• Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
  "
• Doc Pomus (attended, 1943–45), blues singer, songwriter and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Rafael Scarfullery (B.M. 1993), Dominican classical guitarist
• Harrison Sheckler (M.M. 2021), pianist and composer
• Maynard Solomon (B.A. 1950), co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and musicologist
• David Sardy
  music producer, film composer
• Jason Stanyek (B.M. 1990), ethnomusicologist, composer, and guitarist; professor at the University of Oxford
• Dirk Weiler (M.M. 2002), singer and actor
• Sony Music
  executive

Government, law, and public policy

General

• Cy A Adler (B.A. 1950), president of Shorewalkers, Inc.; author, organizer, and conservationist, advocate for shoreline issues in and around New York City
• Garifuna
  community activist
• Bill Baird (B.A. 1955), reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League
• 6th Legislative District
  from 1978 to 1980
• cryptanalyst, and National Security Agency
  officer
• United States Senator (D
  – California)
• Frank J. Brasco (B.A. 1955), member of the United States House of Representatives 1967–75
• United States Ambassador to Iceland
  1981–1985
• Erin Byrnes (M.S. 2010), member of the Michigan House of Representatives for the 15th district since 2023
• Congresswoman
  , 1968–82
• Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed (B.S. 1973), educator and representative for District 92 of the Florida House of Representatives
• Securities and Exchange Commission
  , 1964–69
• New York Assembly
• LGBT rights activist and retired domestic violence
  counselor
• Donald J. Devine (M.A. 1965), political scientist; author; former director of the United States Office of Personnel Management
• Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel (B.A. 1952), author, preservationist, curator, and chairwoman of the New York State Council on the Arts
• Martin Malave Dilan (B.A. 1984), represented District 17 in the New York State Senate 2009–19
• Bob Dole (attended 1943-1944), United States Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican Presidential Nominee^[3]
• Bernard Edelman (B.A. 1968), Vietnam War veteran, author, editor, photographer, documentary filmmaker, public official and curator focused on the experience of fellow Vietnam War veterans
• Speaker
  1979–1986
• Leonard Garment (B.A. 1946), White House Counsel
• Phillip Goldfeder (B.A. '04), Democratic New York State Assembly member from the borough of Queens
  , 2011–2016.
• Victor Gotbaum (B.A. 1948), labor leader
• Ari Harow (B.A. 2000), former Chief of Staff of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• Cynthia Harrison (B.A. 1966), historian who taught at George Washington University and is an advocate for gender equality
• Syed Fahad Hashmi (B.A. 2003), convicted terrorist^[4]
• Dov Hikind (M.A. 1981), New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly District 48
• Herbert E. Horowitz (B.A. 1952), American Ambassador to Gabon (1986–1989)
• Rhoda Jacobs
  (B.A. 1962), represents District 42 in Brooklyn in the New York State Assembly, where she serves as Assistant Speaker
• Ellen Jaffee (B.A. 1965), represents District 55 in the New York State Assembly
• Kimberly Jean-Pierre
  (B.F.A. 2006), represents the 11th Assembly District in the New York State Assembly
• ultra-nationalist politician who co-founded the Jewish Defense League and served one term in Israel's Knesset
• Roberta Kalechofsky (B.A. 1952), writer, feminist, and animal rights activist; founder of Jews for Animal Rights
• Vera Katz (B.A. 1955), mayor of Portland, Oregon, 1993–2005
• Ivan Lafayette
  (B.A. 1951), member of the New York State Assembly since 1977 and Deputy Speaker of the New York State Assembly since 2006
• League for the Revolutionary Party
• Howard L. Lasher (B.A. 1965), New York State Assemblyman and New York City Councilman; first Orthodox Jew elected to state office in New York
• Burma
• Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Alan Maisel (Adv. Cert. 1990), New York State Assemblyman representing District 59
• Borough President
  (2001–2013)
• George Martinez (B.A 1998), educator, activist, artist, and hip-hop political pioneer
• Speaker
  1987–1991
• Joan Millman (B.A. 1962), New York State Assemblywoman representing District 52
• Elvin Nimrod, Grenada Minister for Legal Affairs and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Manfred Ohrenstein (B.A. 1948), New York State Senate Minority Leader
• 26th Legislative district
  in the New Jersey Senate
• United States Ambassador to Jamaica
  since 2022
• Mary Pinkett (B.A. 1974), first African-American New York City Councilwoman, serving the 28th and 35th districts from 1974 to 2001
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Deputy Mayor of New York City
• Nuremberg Trials
• Gene Russianoff (B.A. 1974), staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, New York City-based public transport advocacy group
• gay rights movement
• John L. Sampson (B.A. 1987), represents District 19 in the New York State Senate where he serves in a leadership position as chairman of the Democratic Conference.
• Bernie Sanders (attended 1959–1960), United States Senator for Vermont^[5]
• James Sanders, Jr.
  (B.A. 1984), represents the 10th Senatorial District in the New York State Senate
• Bernice Sandler (B.A. 1948), the 'Godmother of Title IX'
• transportation engineer, believed responsible for popularizing the word gridlock
• Murray Seeman (B.A. 1934), lawyer, real estate developer, and community leader
• Frank Serpico (A.A. 1959), New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer famous for testifying against police corruption
• Al Sharpton (1975), civil rights activist
• Norman Siegel (B.A. 1965), director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 1985–2000
• Susan Silbey (B.A. 1962), sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for her work on popular legal consciousness
• David Sive (B.A. 1943), attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law
• Eleanor Sobel (B.A. 1967), State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives, 1998–2006
• Pamela Talkin (B.S. 1968, M.A. 1971), Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold this position
• William L. Taylor (B.A. 1952), attorney and civil rights advocate^[6]
• Seymour R. Thaler (B.A. 1940), member of the New York State Senate 1959–1971
• Mark Treyger (B.A. 2005, M.A. 2009, M.S.Ed 2012), member of the New York City Council, representing District 47
• Beatrice N. Vaccara (B.A. 1943), economist and economic statistician; head of the Bureau of Industrial Economics at the United States Department of Commerce
• Eliezer Waldman (B.A. 1959), Israeli rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990
• Benjamin Ward (B.A. 1960), first African American New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–89
• John Earl Warren Jr. (Attended 1965–66), United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War
  .
• Iris Weinshall (B.A. 1975), vice chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
• Moses M. Weinstein (B.A. 1934), lawyer and politician
• Warren Weinstein (B.A. 1963), contractor; director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates kidnapped by al-Qaeda in August 2011 and killed in January 2015 by a US-led drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
• Speaker
  1991–1994
• Jumaane Williams (B.A. 2001, M.A. 2005), Democratic politician, member of the New York City Council
• Lynne Williams (M.A. 1975), Maine politician and former chairperson of the Maine Green Independent Party
• lesbian rights, and reproductive rights
• Stanley Yolles (B.A. 1939), psychiatrist head of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1964 to 1970

Judges

• Roger Andewelt (B.A. 1967), judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1987 to 2001
• Noach Dear (B.S. 1975), New York Supreme Court judge
• New York
• Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
• WorldCom, Enron, and Chrysler
• United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York
• Edward R. Korman (B.A. 1963), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• New York State Supreme Court
• Second Circuit
• Attorney General
  , 1994–96
• Jason K. Pulliam (B.A. 1995; M.A. 1997), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
• Joel Harvey Slomsky (B.A. 1967), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• William C. Thompson (B.A. 1949), Brooklyn's first African American State Senator; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
• Jack B. Weinstein (B.A. 1943), Columbia Law School professor and Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Attorneys

• criminal defense attorney
• George Carroll (B.A. 1943), lawyer who was important civic figure in Contra Costa County, California and the city of Richmond
• Jay Goldberg (B.A. 1954), trial attorney, formerly a member of the Justice Department in the Kennedy administration
• Robert M. Kaufman (B.A. 1951), attorney, partner with the law firm Proskauer Rose, and former president of the New York City Bar Association
• Harvey R. Miller (B.A. 1954), bankruptcy lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Jay Neveloff (B.A.1971), real estate lawyer with the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel known for representing Donald Trump and his companies.
• Touro College

Journalism

• television news
  television producer
• Charlotte Brooks (B.A. 1940), photographer and photojournalist
• Stu Bykofsky (B.A. 1965), journalist and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News
• Thom Calandra (B.A. 1979), founding editor and chief columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com
• KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh
  , 1973–2001
• Emmy award winner, and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
• Sylvan Fox (B.A. 1951), journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Chief Technology Officer
  of The New York Times
• play-by-play of a baseball
  game
• Nigerian journalist, editor and founder of Newswatch
  magazine; killed by mail bomb in his home
• Robert Greenfield (B.A. 1967), author, journalist and screenwriter
• New York Times columnist, James Beard Foundation Award
  award winner.
• Yossi Klein Halevi (B.A. 1975), Israeli journalist; columnist for The New Republic
• Charles Lachman (B.A. 1974), Executive Producer of the news magazine program Inside Edition
• Victor Lasky (B.A 1940), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and syndicated newspaper columnist
• Victoria Law (B.A. 2002), anarchist activist, and writer; co-founder of Books Through Bars
• Don Lemon (B.A. 1996), news anchor, CNN
• Marvin E. Newman (B.A. 1949), artist and photographer
• Stanley Newman
  (B.S. 1973), puzzle creator, editor, and publisher
• Stanley Penn, journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting
• ThisDay Newspaper, and Chief Press Secretary to Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, the Ibom State
  Governor
• Abraham Rabinovich (B.A. 1956), Israeli historian and journalist
• WGN Radio
  in Chicago, Illinois.
• Harold Schonberg
  (B.A. 1937), Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times
• Fortune Magazine
• Dorothy Sucher [B.A. 1954], her reporting for a Maryland newspaper led to landmark Supreme Court case, Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler, which the paper won; author
• Watergate
  break-in
• Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
• Glenn Thrush (B.A. 1990), journalist, pundit, and author. He has been the White House correspondent for The New York Times since 2017
• Gina Trapani (M.S 1998), tech blogger, web developer, writer, and founder of the Lifehacker blog

Literature and the arts

• Kwesi Abbensetts (B.A. 2012), Guyanese photographer based in New York City
• Cecile Abish (B.A. 1953), artist known for sculpture and photography
• Sam Abrams (B.A. 1958), "The Old Pothead Poet", Rochester Institute of Technology professor, Whitman scholar
• Jack Adler (B.A. 1942), award-winning cover artist and colorist for DC Comics
• Puerto Rican community activist, poet, writer, translator, and director of the Museo del Barrio
  in New York City
• Arab-American
  science fiction and fantasy writer and poet
• Mario Amaya (B.A. 1954), art critic; shot by Valerie Solanas during her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol
• Suzanne Anker (B.A. 1967), visual artist, theorist and pioneer in Bio Art
• Rilla Askew (M.F.A 1989), Oklahoma-based short story writer and novelist
• ecofeminist
  artist
• Annie Baker (M.F.A. 2009), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• flautist and Professor of flute at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas
• Clare Barron (M.F.A. 2016), playwright and actor, won the 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting for You Got Older and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dance Nation
• Jennifer Bartlett (M.A. 2004), poet, editor, and disability activist
• Chloë Bass (M.F.A. 2011), American conceptual artist who works in performance and social practice
• bas-relief
• African American
  poet, novelist, and critic
• Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at American University
• Eddie Berganza (B.A. 1986), Group Editor for DC Comics
• Karen Berger (B.A. 1979), editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
• St. Mark's Poetry Project
  from 2003 to 2007
• Florence Bonime (B.A. 1975), American novelist; published under the name Florence Cummings
• Michael Bradford (M.F.A. 2000), playwright and former artistic director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre
• Inner Sanctum Mysteries and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater
• Anatole Broyard (attended 1937–41, did not graduate), writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times
• Madelyn Byrne (M.M. 1993), noted composer of both acoustic and computer music
• Emil Cadoo (B.A. 1952), American photographer
• young adult fiction author, best known for her 1983 novel Behind the Attic Wall
• underground newspaper
  (1966–68)
• Garrard Conley (M.F.A. 2020), American author and LGBTQ activist known for his autobiography Boy Erased: A Memoir
• art historian
  , and writer on art
• Patricia Cronin (M.F.A. 1988), Rome Prize-winning feminist visual artist
• Amanda Davis (M.F.A. 1998), writer; author of "Wonder When You'll Miss Me"
• J. M. DeMatteis (B.A. 1976), writer of comic books
• Thomas Devaney (MFA 1998), poet and 2014 Pew Fellow in the Arts
• Kristoffer Díaz (MFA, 2009), American playwright, screenwriter, and educator; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Dan DiDio (B.A. 1983), comic book editor and executive for DC Comics
• Sante D'Orazio (B.A. 1978), fashion photographer
• abstract expressionist painter, former critic for ARTnews
• Hillard Elkins (B.A. 1950), theatre and film producer
• Edgar Award
  -winning mystery author
• conceptual artist
• Jane Freilicher (B.A. 1947), representational painter and member of the informal New York School
• Robert Friend (B.A. 1934), Israeli poet and translator
• Georgia College
• Gregory William Frux (M.F.A. 1985), traditional realist artist, working mainly in the landscape genre
• Elizabeth Gaffney (M.F.A. 1997), novelist and staff editor of The Paris Review, 1989–2005
• Elliott Galkin (B.A. 1943), music critic of The Baltimore Sun, director of the Peabody Institute, and sometime conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
• Mike Garson (B.A. 1970), pianist; has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins
• Ja'Tovia Gary (B.A. 2012), American artist and filmmaker whose works explore black feminist themes
• Joe Glazer (B.A. 1938), folk musician often referred to as "labor's troubadour"
• feminist
  painter
• David Gordon (B.F.A. 1956), dancer, choreographer, theatre director, writer
• Shirley Gorelick (B.A. 1944), painter of psychological realism
• Richard Grayson (B.A. 1973, M.F.A. 1976), writer, political activist and performance artist
• Irving Greenfield (B.A. 1950), prolific author of more than 300 novels
• Iranian-American
  writer
• Jean Halpert–Ryden (attended in the 1930s), painter^[7]
• John Harlacher (B.A. 2000), actor, stage director, and filmmaker responsible for the horror film Urchin (2007)
• Irving Harper (B.A. 1937), noted 20th-century industrial designer
• Marvin Heiferman (B.A. 1968), influential American photography curator and writer
• Michelle Herman (B.A. 1976), writer and Professor of English at Ohio State University, and director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing
• Lee Israel (B,A, 1961), noted author who became a literary forger and thief; subject of 2018 film Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Angela Jansen (B.A. 1951) American painter, sculptor, print-maker and photographer
• Chester Kallman (B.A. 1941), poet, librettist, and translator; collaborator with W. H. Auden
• Howard Kaminsky (B.A. 1961), publisher, author and film producer
• Karen Karnes (B.A. 1946), ceramist, known for her earth-toned stoneware ceramics
• Ben Katchor (B.A. 1975), cartoonist, creator of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
• Ada Katz (B.S. 1950), wife and model of Alex Katz
• Sibyl Kempson (M.F.A. 2007), playwright and performer
• Daniel Keyes (B.A. 1950. M.A. '61), author known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon
• harmonium
  , composition)
• Binnie Kirshenbaum (M.F.A. 1984), novelist, short story writer, Columbia University creative writing professor
• Sibyl Kempson (M.F.A. 2007), playwright and performer
• Frances Koncan (M.F.A. 2013) Anishinaabe-Slovene journalist, theater director, and playwright from Couchiching First Nation who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• abstract expressionist
  painter
• Marni Kotak (M.F.A. 2006), artist known for her durational performance/exhibition "The Birth of Baby X," in which she gave birth to her son
• Margia Kramer (B.A. 1961), documentary visual artist, writer and activist
• Albert Kresch (B.A. 1943), New York School painter and one of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery
• Bernard Krigstein (B.A. 1940), illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics
• Mort Künstler (B.A. 1946), painter and illustrator of the American Civil War
• Ezra Laderman (B.A. 1950), composer of classical music
• Gabriel Laderman (B.A. 1952), painter and important exponent of the Figurative revival
• Abshalom Jac Lahav (M.F.A. 2008) Israeli-born, New York City–based artist known for his portraits of historical figures in modern contexts
• experimental theater
  , artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
• Alan Lelchuk (B.A. 1960), novelist
• Sam Levenson (B.A. 1934), humorist, author
• Fred Lonberg-Holm (B.M. 1988), cello player and composer
• public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC
• OBIE Award-winning New Ohio Theatre
  in New York City
• Jackson Mac Low (B.A. 1958), poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
• Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj (M.F.A. 2011), Indo-Afro-Caribbean American theater director, playwright, producer and activist.
• John Mahon (B.A. 1952), historian, author of New York's Fighting 69th
• Wallace Markfield (B.A. 1947), comic novelist, film critic
• Paule Marshall (B.A. 1953), author, novelist (Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Praisesong for the Widow (1983))
• Cris Mazza (M.F.A. 1983), novelist, short story and non-fiction writer
• Frank McCourt (M.A. 1967), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
• Dennis McFarland (B.A. 1975), novelist; The Music Room (1990)
• Michael McKenzie (B.A. 1973), artist, publisher, curator, and writer
• Murray Mednick (B.A. 1962), playwright
• Sharon Mesmer (M.F.A. 1990), writer and poet of the Flarf poetry movement
• Annette Michelson (B.A. 1948), art and film critic and writer whose work contributed to the fields of cinema studies and the avant-garde in visual culture.
• Richard P. Minsky (B.A. 1968), scholar of bookbinding and a book artist
• Emily Mitchell (M.F.A. 2005), Anglo-American novelist
• figurative painting
  and transitional styles
• Gloria Naylor (B.A. 1981), novelist; Winner National Book Award
• Grammy Award
  -winning pianist; conductor; composer
• Harold Norse (B.A. 1938), poet and novelist
• Marco Oppedisano (B.M. 1996), guitarist and composer of electroacoustic music
• Iris Owens (B.A. 1951), also known by her pseudonym, Harriet Daimler, American novelist
• Maia Cruz Palileo (M.F.A. 2008), artist
• Sephardic Jewry
• Angelo Parra (M.F.A. 1995), playwright
• Benjamin Jason Parris (B.S. 1984), educator, museum planner, and author of fantasy series Wade of Aquitaine
• Lincoln Peirce (M.F.A. 1987), cartoonist of the comic strip Big Nate
• Jed Perl (M.F.A. 1974), art critic, formerly with The New Republic from 1994 to 2014
• Robert Phillips
  (M.A. 1982), Classical guitarist, composer, educator, and Head of Performing Arts at All Saints' Academy
• Dutch American
  theatre director and choreographer
• librettist
  , editor and editor emerita of American Letters & Commentary
• Burton Raffel (B.A. 1948), teacher, poet and translator of Beowulf, Horace, Rabelais and Cervantes
• Naomi Ragen (B.A. 1971), American-Israeli author, playwright and women's rights activist
• Elaine Reichek (B.A. 1963), New York-based visual artist, whose work often concerns the history of the embroidered sampler
• librettist; performs in English and Yiddish, specializing in Yiddish theatre
  and songs
• Naomi Rosenblum (B.A. 1948), historian of photography, author of A World History of Photography (1984) and A History of Women Photographers (1994)
• Martha Rosler (B.A. 1965), artist active in video, photo-text, installation, and performance
• Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
  (1979–1995)
• Matthue Roth (M.F.A. 2014), columnist, author, poet, spoken word performer, video game designer, and screenwriter.
• Theodore Isaac Rubin (B.A. 1946), psychiatrist and author; wrote story for the film David and Lisa (1962)
• Howard Sackler (B.A. 1950), Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and playwright, known for 1967 play The Great White Hope
• PHSColograms, art that combines photography, holography, sculpture, and computer graphics
• Kristina "Tina" Satter (M.F.A. 2008), playwright and director
• performance poet
  , author of the novel Push (1996)
• Millicent Selsam (B.A. 1932), children's author
• Irwin Shaw (born Irwin Shamforoff; B.A. 1934), playwright, screenwriter, and short-story author and novelist (The Young Lions, Rich Man, Poor Man); winner of two O. Henry Awards
• ABC Family
• Shraga Silverstein (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1954) Rabbi, educator and prolific author and translator
• Walter Skolnik (B.A. 1955), composer and musical educator
• young adult fiction
• Robert Kimmel Smith (B.A. 1951), children's author, known for Chocolate Fever (1972) and Jane's House (1982)
• Sasson Soffer (B.A. 1954), abstract painter and sculptor
• literary critic
  , and editor
• Laurie Spiegel (B.A. 1975), electronic-music composer, inventor
• Ed Spielman (A.A. 1965), writer and producer, one of the creators of the TV series Kung Fu; also creator of the TV series The Young Riders and Dead Man's Gun
• thrillers
• Claire Sterling (B.A. 1940), author and journalist, author of The Terror Network (1981)
• Ronald Tavel (B.A. 1957), screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory
• literary journal Literary Veganism
  : An Online Journal
• David Trinidad (M.F.A. 1990), poet
• protopunk duo Suicide
• Jericho Vincent (B.A. 2007), author and memoirist; Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood (2014)
• Chiqui Vicioso (B.A. 1979), poet, writer, sociologist and Dominican diplomat
• Malvin Wald (B.A. 1936), screenwriter, authored the 1948 police drama The Naked City
• race
  "
• Marion Winik (M.F.A. 1983), journalist and author, best known for her work on NPR's All Things Considered
• Richard Winston (B.A. 1939) and Clara Brussel Winston (B.A. 1939), translators of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, Hermann Hesse, and Rolf Hochhuth.
• Leah Nanako Winkler (M.F.A. 2018), Japanese American playwright whose play God Said This won the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize.
• Adrianne Wortzel (B.A. 1964), contemporary artist who uses robotics
• St. Mark's Poetry Project
• John Yau (M.F.A. 1978), critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer
• Rafi Zabor (B.A. 1967), music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist
• folk painter
• comic-book writer, co-creator if the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics, and a founder of Ovie Entertainment
• Feenie Ziner (B.A. 1941), American children's literature writer and professor at the University of Connecticut
• Harriet Zinnes (M.A. 1944), American poet, fiction writer, translator, art critic, literary scholar and professor

Religion

• J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics
• Buddhist monk, second president of the Buddhist Publication Society
  , 1984–2002
• Reeve Brenner (B.A. 1958), Reform rabbi
  , inventor and author
• the Episcopal Church
• Mariano Di Gangi (B.A. 1943), prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC)
• Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University, noted for his Argument from nonbelief
• Civil Rights Movement, and a close friend to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Sylvia Ettenberg (B.A 1938), Jewish educator and one of the founders of the Camp Ramah camping movement
• Susie Fishbein (B.A. 1986), Orthodox Jewish kosher cookbook author, and cooking teacher
• Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (B.A. 1961), senior disciple and biographer of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
• Blu Greenberg (B.A. 1957), co-founder and first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; active in the movement to bridge Judaism and feminism
• Judaica
  authentication expert
• David Weiss Halivni (B.A. 1953), American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud
• Norma Joseph (B.A. 1966), Canadian professor, Orthodox Jewish feminist, and activist
• Adina Miles
  (B.A. 2009, M.S. 2012), better known as FlatbushGirl, comedian, activist and political candidate, who has attracted attention for her challenges to Orthodox Jewish standards for women
• Novominsker Rebbe
• Shais Rishon (B.A. 2005), pen name MaNishtana, an African-American Orthodox rabbi, activist, and writer
• Buddhist teacher and proponent of anapanasati
  (mindful breath meditation)
• Queens, NY and Dean of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
  1998–2010
• Jacob J. Schacter (B.A. 1973), University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University
• Pinchas Stolper (B.A. 1952), Orthodox rabbi, writer, and spokesman
• Herbert Tarr (B.A. 1949), Reform rabbi who left his pulpit to become a novelist and humorist
• Eliezer Waldman(B.A. 1959), Israeli Orthodox rabbi and former politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990
• Tzvi Hersh Weinreb (B.A. 1962), Executive Vice President Emeritus of the Orthodox Union
• Isaiah Zeldin (B.A. 1941) rabbi
• Chaim Dovid Zwiebel (B.A. 1975), Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America

Science and technology

Biochemistry and chemistry

• microbial toxins
• Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine
  , 1986)
• Garvan-Olin Medal
• plant biology, microbiology, marine biology, phytochemistry, and photosynthesis
• Alan Lambowitz (B.S. 1968), professor in Molecular Biosciences and Oncology at the University of Texas at Austin, pioneer of bio-molecular processes and concepts, such as intron splicing
• Jerry March (M.S. 1953), chemist and author of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry
• synthetic lubricant
  for car and truck engines and Esso Extra Gasoline, containing a detergent additive advertisers claimed "Put a Tiger in Your Tank"
• Barnett Rosenberg (B.S. 1948), chemist, known for his discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin
• Howard Sachs (B.S. 1949), biochemist; pioneer the study of neuroendocrinology
• Nicholas Sand (B.A. 1966), clandestine chemist and early proponent of psychedelics
• adult-onset diabetes
• antibacterial
  compounds
• Harry Wiener (B.S. 1945) chemist, physician and psychologist, and pioneer in cheminformatics and chemical graph theory

Computer science

• Martin Goetz (B.A. 1953), pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry; holds the first U.S. software patent
• Lawrence Landweber (B.S. 1963), Internet pioneer, helped develop CSNET, founding member and president of the Internet Society
• non-monotonic reasoning
• TSS/360
  systems
• Gerard Salton (B.S. 1950), pioneering computer scientist in the field of information retrieval
• Joan Targ (B.A. 1960), pioneer in computer education and older sister of chess champion Bobby Fischer

Mathematics

• Milton Abramowitz (B.A. 1940, M.S. 1942), mathematician, co-author of the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (1964)
• Ruth Aaronson Bari (B.A. 1939), mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
• applied mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
• Sol Garfunkel (B.A. 1963), mathematician and long-time executive director of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
• Edna Grossman (B.S. 1968), mathematician
• Frank Harary (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1945), mathematician, specializing in graph theory
• William Kantor (B.S. 1964), mathematician, specializing in group theory and geometry.
• Julian Keilson (B.S. 1947), mathematician, known for his work in probability theory
• Seymour Lipschutz (B.A. 1952, M.A. 1956), author of technical books on pure mathematics and probability, including a collection of Schaum's Outlines
• Abraham Nemeth (B.S. 1940), mathematician and inventor; developed the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation
• Gloria Olive (B.A. 1944), New Zealand academic mathematician
• Stanley Osher (B.A. 1962), pioneering mathematician in applied mathematics, computational science, and scientific computing
• Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory; the Baumslag–Solitar groups are named after him and Gilbert Baumslag, after their joint 1962 paper on these groups

Meteorology

• Frank Field (B.S. 1947), meteorologist and science editor
• Seymour Hess (B.A. 1941), meteorologist and planetary scientist
• Lester Machta (B.A. 1939) American meteorologist, first director of the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Raphael Miranda (B.S. 2006), meteorologist and weather producer at WNBC in New York City

Physics

• Alexander Calandra (B.A 1935), scientist, educator, and author, professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis
• Esther M. Conwell (B.S. 1942), physicist, contributed to development of semiconductors and lasers
• Stanley Deser (B.S. 1949), physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, especially as co-developer of ADM formalism, Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University
• Robert Ehrlich (B.S. 1959), American particle physicist and educator; author of books about the tachyon, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light
• Jerry Goldstein (B.S. 1993), space physicist and professor
• David L. Goodstein (B.S. 1960), physicist, educator, and Vice-Provost and Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor of the California Institute of Technology
• Abraham Klein (B.A. 1947), theoretical physicist
• Arthur Oliner (B.A. 1941), physicist and electrical engineer, best known for his contributions to engineering electromagnetics and antenna
  theory
• electron microscopy
  , and membrane biophysics
• Charles M. Sommerfield (B.S. 1953), high-energy physicist and one of the namesakes of the Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound
• Larry Spruch (B.A. 1943), physicist specializing in theoretical atomic physics and astrophysics
• Sheldon Stone (B.S. 1967), physicist at Syracuse University best known for his work in experimental elementary particle physics, including the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment
• liquid rocket
  engines

Psychiatry and Psychology

• David Bakan (B.A. 1942), Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and York University
• Robert A. Baron (B.A. 1964), Professor of Psychology and Wellington Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management
• UC Berkeley, creator, with his wife Jeanne Block, of the Block Study
  , a longitudinal study of children in Los Angeles
• The Johns Hopkins University
  ; clinical neuropsychologist
• William Breitbart (B.S. 1973), psychiatrist, leader in the fields of psychosomatic medicine, psycho-oncology, and palliative care
• mental health care, and Dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University
• Emory L. Cowen (B.A. 1944), psychologist who pioneered the promotion of wellness in mental health
• Leah J. Dickstein (B.A. 1955, M.A. 1961), American psychiatrist; founder and president of the Association of Women Psychiatrists
• psychoanalyst known for his work on sexual orientation and gender identity
• burnout
• Marvin Goldfried (B.A. 1957), psychologist, co-founder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration
• Howard E. Gruber
  (B.A. 1943), psychologist and pioneer of the psychological study of creativity
• Howard S. Hoffman (M.A. 1953), experimental psychologist
• systems psychologist
• Louise Kaplan (B.A. 1950), psychologist and psychoanalyst best known for her research into sexual perversion and fetishism
• John Jay College
  of Criminal Justice in New York
• social ethics at Harvard University, known for his work on conflict resolution in the Middle East
• Howard H. Kendler (B.A. 1940), psychologist who conducted research on latent and discrimination learning
• feminist, known for her pioneering work on the development of gender identity
• Carol Nadelson (B.A. 1957), American psychiatrist; first female president of the American Psychiatric Association
• Intensive Journal Method
• Leanne Rivlin (B.A. 1952), pioneer in environmental psychology
• Milton Rokeach (B.A. 1941), professor of social psychology and developer of the Rokeach Value Survey
• Julian Rotter (B.A. 1937), psychologist, pioneered research on locus of control
• Janina Scarlet (B.A. 2005, M.A. 2008) Ukrainian-born American author and clinical psychologist known for utilizing popular culture references in treating patients
• EMDR
• Irwin Silverman (B.A. 1958), professor of psychology at York University, best known for work in evolutionary psychology and sex differences in intelligence
• hypnotist
• Dorothy Tennov (B.A. 1950), psychologist, introduced the term "limerence" to describe the state of being in love
• social psychologist involved in criminology and criminal justice
  administration
• Rhoda Unger (B.A. 1960), feminist psychologist, pioneering figure in the Association for Women in Psychology
• Beatrice A. Wright (B.A. 1938), psychologist known for her work in rehabilitation counseling
• Stanford Prison Experiment

• Annette Aiello (B.A. 1972), entomologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; specialist in butterflies
• behavioral geneticist
  .
• bioethicist and director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine
• bioethicist and professor emerita at the University of Washington, authority on the translation
  of novel genomic technologies
• endocrinologist who has developed therapies for osteoporosis, endometriosis, fibroid disease, and infertility
• aesthetic
  quality of her science photographs
• nephrologist, inventor of the first portable dialysis
  machine
• sounding rockets to conduct research for solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
  ; Wolf Prize in Physics
• Flybase
• genetic networks
• Dicotyledons
• Madelyn Gould (B.A. 1972) is the Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University, notable for her study of youth suicide
• epidemiologist, founded the Radiation and Public Health Project
• fluorescence-activated cell sorter which revolutionized the study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells; recipient of the Kyoto Prize
  in 2006
• Howard W. Jaffe (B.A. 1942), geologist and mineralogist; a pioneer in the study of the crystal chemistry of rock-forming minerals
• neuropsychological tests, including the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
  and the Boston Naming Test
• Selna Kaplan (B.S. 1948), pediatric endocrinologist
• Sol Katz (B.A. 1978), geologist, computer scientist, and early pioneer of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
• Joel S. Levine (B.S. 1964), planetary scientist at NASA, author, and research professor in applied science at the College of William & Mary
• Stephen P. Maran (B.S. 1959), astronomer and popularizer; author of Astronomy for Dummies
• Arthur Nowick (B.A. 1943), materials scientist
• William E. Paul (B.A. 1956), immunologist and co-discoverer of interleukin 4
• forensic anthropologist, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
• George Plafker (B.A. 1949), geologist and seismologist, known for pioneering research in subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska
• American Type Culture Collection, best known for her work enhancing fungal preservation protocols and describing coelomycetous
  fungal species
• feminist
• plastic surgeon
  , author and inventor
• Joseph D. Schulman (B.S. 1962), specialist in human genetics and infertility; founder the Genetics & IVF Institute
• carcinogenicity of diesel exhaust
• Henry Spira (B.A. 1958), pioneering animal rights activist
• Dennis P. Tarnow (B.A. 1968), dentist and pioneer in implant research
• Edward Taub (B.S. 1953), behavioral neuroscientist on faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
• orthopaedic surgeon
  and film producer
• Wolf V. Vishniac (B.A. 1945), microbiologist; inventor of the "Wolf Trap," which tests for the possibility of life existing on other planets; namesake of the crater Vishniac on Mars
• Michael Weitzman (B.A. 1968), pediatrician specializing in public health and policy including groundbreaking research on lead poisoned children, prenatal tobacco and childhood secondhand smoke exposure, and childhood nutrition and obesity

Sports

Baseball

• Hy Cohen, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs
• Saul Katz (B.A. 1960), President/CEO of the New York Mets
• Sam Nahem (attended 1933–35), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Marius Russo (attended 1932–34), Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees (1939–43, 1946); All-Star in 1941
• Eddie Turchin, Major League Baseball player
• Richard Wilpon (B.A. 1960), Member of the New York Mets board of directors

Basketball

• Philippine Patriots
• Phil Farbman (1924–1996), basketball player in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Philadelphia Warriors and Boston Celtics
• American Basketball League
  (ABL)
• St. John's University and University of New Mexico; now ESPN
  broadcast analyst
• Bill Green (M.A. 1967), basketball All-American
• Mel Hirsch (B.A. 1943), professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics, 1946–47
• Marvin Kratter (1937), owner of Boston Celtics
• Johnny Most (B.A. 1947), sports announcer; radio voice of the Boston Celtics
• Tom Sealy, basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters and in the National Basketball League

Chess

• U.S. Champion
  , current World Rapid Chess Champion, current US Chess Champion
• Alex Lenderman
  (attended 2007–2009), Russian-American chess grandmaster; U16 (under 16 years old) 2005 world chess champion
• Max Pavey (M.A. 1948), chess master
• International Master
  ; US Junior Chess Champion
• International Master

Soccer

• Jonathan Akpoborie, Nigerian soccer player
• Mirsad Huseinovic (attended 1988–92), Yugoslavian-born U.S. soccer player
• Ernest Inneh, Nigerian-American soccer player
• New York Cosmos
  player
• Antonio Superbia (B.S. 1994), retired Brazilian-American soccer player and coach.

Other

• Karen Allison (B.A. 1961), American-Canadian bridge player, winner of five national championships
• Donald Aronow (B.A. 1950), designer, builder and racer of the Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speed boat
• Clifton Bertrand (M.S.Ed 1971, Advanced Certificate 1975), Trinidadian sprinter who competed at the 1960 Olympic Games and 1964 Olympic Games
• long-distance runner; first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon
• Nikki Franke (B.S. 1972), Olympic foil fencer and fencing coach
• athletics director at St. Francis College; first Latina athletic director in NCAA Division I
  sports
• Ralph Goldstein (1913–1997), Olympic épée fencer
• Pearson Jordan (B.S. 1990), Barbadian sprinter who competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Allie Sherman, (B.A. 1943), President of OTB; NFL player and coach of the New York Giants football team, 1961–68
• Sydne Vogel (B.S. 2009), former competitive figure skater, 1997 World Junior champion

References