Nobel laureates Politics, government, and sociology
Herman Badillo 1951 Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of TrusteesDaniel Bell - sociologist, professor at Harvard UniversityBernard M. Baruch 1889 - Wall Street financier and adviser to American PresidentsAbraham D. Beame 1928 - mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977Stephen Bronner - political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers UniversityUpendra J. Chivukula - first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General AssemblyHenry Cohen 1943 - Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at the The New SchoolFelix Frankfurter 1902 - justice of the U.S. Supreme CourtGeorge Friedman - founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analystNathan Glazer - neoconservative political punditSidney Hook - 1923 - writer and philosopherIrving Howe - coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"Ed Koch 1945 - mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989Irving Kristol 1940 - neoconservative punditAbraham Foxman - National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Robert T. Johnson 1972 - Bronx District AttorneyMelvin J. Lasky 1938 - anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991Guillermo Linares 1975 - the first Dominican-American New York City Council MemberColin L. Powell 1961- United States Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General, National Security AdvisorAlexander Rosenberg - Lakatos Award -winning philosopher at Duke University Julius Rosenberg - infamous convicted spy during the Cold WarRobert F. Wagner Sr . - United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949Michelle Wallace 1975 - a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studiesStephen Samuel Wise 1891- Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.
The arts
Stanley Kubrick 1946 - Film Director.Maurice Ashley 1993 - the first black International Chess Grandmaster.Paddy Chayevsky - famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote Marty , Hospital and Altered States Ira Gershwin 1918 - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George GershwinMarv Goldberg 1964 - Music historian in the field of rhythm & bluesHazelle Goodman 1986 - Stage, screen and TV actressSterling Morrison 1970 - Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground"Arthur Guiterman , humorous poetBen Shahn - artistLuis Guzmán - actorE.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 - American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz , Finian's Rainbow )Judd Hirsch 1960 - ActorDavid Margulies - ActorJackie Mason - Comedian and ActorZero Mostel 1935 - ActorEdward G. Robinson 1914 - ActorFrank J. Sciame 1974- ArchitectRichard Schiff 1983 - Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing Alfred Stieglitz 1884- photographerEli Wallach 1938 (MA) - actorWilliam Gati 1981, 1982, 1984 (BS, BArch, MArch) - Architect and educatorErnest Lehman 1937 (BS) - ScreenwriterCornel Wilde 1935 - ActorRon Carter - Jazz musician
Literature and journalism
Ernesto Quiñonez 1996 (BA, MA) national bestselling author of "Bodega Dreams" and other titles.Alan Abelson 1942 - columnist, former editor, Barron's Joe Cioffi 1982 - meteorologist, currently doing weather for WPIX-TV in New YorkMorris Raphael Cohen - philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholarOscar Hijuelos 1975 - won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love A.M. Rosenthal 1949 - former executive editor of The New York Times Mario Puzo - best-selling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather Walter Mosley 1991 (MA) - best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.Paul Levinson - author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999)Michael Oreskes 1975 - executive editor of The International Herald Tribune Henry Roth - novelistUpton Sinclair 1897 (BA) - author (The Jungle {1906})Dan Daniel 1910 - dean of American sportswritersGary Weiss 1975 - Investigative journalist, authorJack Kroll 1937 - culture editor, Newsweek Stephen Shepard 1961 - editor in chief, Business Week Robert Scheer Daniel Schorr - veteran newscaster and commentator for CBS , CNN , and NPR Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) - author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award)A.H. Raskin - former labor editor, The New York Times Anatole Shub - editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters.Robert Sobel - 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) - best-selling author of business histories.Clyde Haberman 1966 - New York Times Ray Romano 1978 - Actor from Everybody Loves Raymond
Science and technology
Solomon Asch - psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experimentsJulius Blank - engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon ValleyCharles DeLisi 1963 (BA) - scientist, "Father of the Human Genome Project"Adin Falkoff - engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive systemGeorge Washington Goethals 1887 - civil engineer, supervised construction and the opening of the Panama CanalDan Goldin - served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.Herman Hollerith - early computer pioneer, invented Key punch Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004Gary A. Klein 1964 - research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision makingLeonard Kleinrock 1957 - Internet pioneerSolomon Kullback - Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneerMichael A. Liguori 1979 - listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York MagazineAlbert Medwin 1949 BSEE - engineer and inventor, developed CMOS integrated circuit technologyLewis Mumford - historian of technologyCharles Lane Poor - noted astronomerHoward Rosenblum 1950 BSEE - NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)Mario Runco, Jr . 1974 - astronaut.Jonas Salk 1934 - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)Philip H. Sechzer 1934 - anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)Abraham Sinkov - Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneerDavid B. Steinman 1906 - engineer; bridge designer (Class 1906)Leonard Susskind 1962 - physicist, string theoryMichio Kaku - Theoretical Physicist and co-founder of string field theory
Business
Robert Catell 1958 - CEO of KeySpan.Andrew Grove
1960 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and
chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997, who donated
$26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006.Stanley H. Kaplan 1939 - founded Kaplan Educational Services.Jack Rudin 1941 - real estate developer.Jonathan Better 1949 - real estate investor.Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of the fastest growing ad agency in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck .
Sports
Red Holzman 1942 - legendary basketball coach for the New York KnicksHarold Goldsmith
1952 - a foil and epee fencer, won the 1952 NCAA foil championship,
competed in three Olympiads for the US, won 2 Pan American Games gold
medals and 2 silver medalsHenry Wittenberg - Olympic wrestler, won gold medal at 1948 Olympics and silver medal in 1952Ed Warner - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [47] Ed Roman - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [48] Floyd Layne - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [49] Al Roth - player involved in the CCNY basketball scandal [50]
Fictional
Lennie Briscoe (unknown) - character from the TV show Law & Order
Brian Flanagan (unknown) - character from the 1988 film Cocktail
Gordon Gekko (unknown) - character from the 1987 film Wall Street
Toby Ziegler (unknown) - character from the TV show The West Wing
Nancy (unknown) - character from the 1971 film Bananas
