List of City College of New York alumni

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

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List of City College of New York alumni

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

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