List of Columbia College people

The following list contains only notable graduates and former students of Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of Columbia University, and its predecessor, from 1754 to 1776, King's College. For a full list of individuals associated with the university as a whole, see the List of Columbia University people. An asterisk (*) indicates a former student who did not graduate.

Founding fathers of the United States[]

John Jay (King's 1764), President of the Continental Congress; first Chief Justice of the United States; author of five of The Federalist papers; first Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation; architect of Jay Treaty with Great Britain
Robert Livingston (King's 1764), a writer of the Declaration of Independence as part of the Committee of Five; first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs; negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
Egbert Benson (King's 1765), delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Representatives, first New York State Attorney General, chief justice of the New York Supreme Court
Gouverneur Morris (King's 1768), represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress; authored much of the United States Constitution; United States Ambassador to France; United States Senator from New York
Alexander Hamilton* (King's 1776), American Revolutionary War officer, aide-de-camp to George Washington; most prolific writer of The Federalist Papers; first United States Secretary of the Treasury, portrayed on the ten-dollar bill; founder of the Bank of New York

Scholars[]

Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop Benjamin Moore; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of The Night Before Christmas
John Anthon (1801), jurist
John Church Hamilton (1809), son of Alexander Hamilton, American historian
Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the Anthon Transcript
Henry Drisler (1839), classical scholar and acting president of Columbia College
Julius Sachs (1867), founder of Dwight School, professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and scion of the Goldman–Sachs family
William Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the United States Olympic Committee
Felix Adler (1870), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the Ethical Culture movement and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Brander Matthews (1871), first professor of dramatic literature in the United States
Charles Waldstein (A.M. 1873), Anglo-American archeologist, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and American School of Classical Studies at Athens; first Jewish American athlete in the Olympic Games
John Aaron Browning (1875), American educator, founder of the Browning School
Richard T. Ely (1876), American economist, founder and president of the American Economic Association
Edward Washburn Hopkins (1878), professor of Sanskrit at Yale University
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), American economist
William Archibald Dunning (1881), founder of the Dunning School of Reconstruction
James Chidester Egbert Jr. (1881), classical scholar and educator
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1881), American Zionist scholar, founder of the first Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau
Harry Thurston Peck (1881), literary critic and editor of The Bookman
A. V. Williams Jackson (1883), American specialist on Indo-European languages
Charles Knapp (1887), classical scholar
Frank Moore Colby (1888), American historian and editor of The New International Encyclopedia
Charles Sears Baldwin (1888), American scholar and professor of rhetoric at Yale University
John Dyneley Prince (1888), American linguist; United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
George Louis Beer (1892), renowned historian of the "Imperial school"
Benjamin Lord Buckley (1892), American educator, founder and headmaster of Buckley School
Judah A. Joffe (1893), Yiddish philologist
William Robert Shepherd (1893), American cartographer, historian
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald (1895), American Hispanic scholar
Joel Elias Spingarn (1895), professor of comparative literature
Mortimer Lamson Earle (1896), American classical scholar
Alfred L. Kroeber (1896), pioneering cultural anthropologist
Frederick Paul Keppel (1898), American educator, former president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Frank Sutliff Hackett (1899), American educator, founder of Riverdale Country School
John Erskine (1900), Great Books pioneer
Alexander Goldenweiser (1902), Russian-born anthropologist and sociologist
Emanuel Goldenweiser (1903), economist and president of the American Economic Association
Robert Livingston Schuyler (1903), scholar on American history, president of the American Historical Association
Carlton J. H. Hayes (1904), pioneering cultural historian; former United States Ambassador to Spain
Edward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Mark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the Rómulo Pico Adobe
Edwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar; Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School
Richard F. Bach (1909), curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College
F. Stuart Chapin (1909), American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association
Harold Gould Henderson (1910), American Japanologist and former president of the Japan Society, founder of the Haiku Society of America
Armin K. Lobeck (1911), American cartographer
Carl Zigrosser (1911), curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lawrence K. Frank (1912), social scientist; vice president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and co-initiator of the Macy conferences
Arthur MacMahon (1912), American political scientist, president of the American Political Science Association
Clarence Manning (1912), prominent slavicist at Columbia University
Parker LeRoy Moon (1913), professor and managing editor of the Political Science Quarterly
Benjamin Graham (1914), economist who pioneered value investing
Herbert Schneider (1915), German American professor of philosophy and religious studies scholar
Irwin Edman (1916), philosopher
John Herman Randall Jr. (1918), philosopher
Kenneth Burke* (1920), American literary theorist and philosopher
Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1920), professor of literature at Hunter College; expert on Edgar Allan Poe
Richard McKeon (1920), philosopher
Frank Tannenbaum (1920), Austrian-American historian, sociologist, and criminologist; founder of the Labeling theory in criminology
Fritz Roethlisberger (1921), management theorist at Harvard Business School
Louis M. Hacker (1922), professor of economics and proponent of adult education
Mortimer Adler* (1923), philosopher and Great Books pioneer
Robert Beverly Hale (1923), curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander Lesser (1923), anthropologist known for his documentation of the Kitsai language
Leslie White (1923), American anthropologist known for his theories of the evolution of culture and for the scientific study of culture
John Gassner (1924), historian of theater, Sterling Professor at Yale University
Meyer Schapiro (1924), art historian
Joseph Campbell (1925), mythologist
Jerome Klein (1925), American art historian and co-founder of the American Artists' Congress
William York Tindall (1925), James Joyce scholar at Columbia University
Lionel Trilling (1925), literary critic
Jacques Barzun (1927), cultural historian
Robert C. Schnitzer (1927), arts teacher and administrator
Francis Steegmuller (1927), Flaubert scholar
Gustave Von Groschwitz (1927), former director of the Carnegie Museum of Art
Carl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics
Leon Keyserling (1928), head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Harry S Truman
Edgar Lorch (1928), mathematics department chairman at Columbia University
Junius Bird (1930), American archaeologist and former curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History
Eli Ginzberg (1930), professor of economics at Columbia University
Niels Henry Sonne (1930), rare book collector and head librarian at General Theological Seminary
Maxwell Geismar (1931), American literary critic, author, and professor at Sarah Lawrence College
Walter H. Rubsamen (1933), professor of a musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph Leon Blau (1934), professor of religion at Columbia University
Alan Gewirth (1934), American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, author of Reason and Morality
Frederick Hartt (1935), Michelangelo expert, professor at University of Virginia, member of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
Herbert Aptheker (1936), Marxist historian and political activist
John Alexander Moore (1936), professor of zoology at University of California, Riverside
Joseph Greenberg (1936), prominent linguist known for work in linguistic typology and genetic classification of languages
Carl E. Schorske (1936), cultural historian and winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for History
Quentin Anderson (1937), cultural historian and literary critic
Charles Frankel (1937), political philosopher, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Herbert Hyman (1939), American sociologist and expert on Opinion polling
Herbert E. Klarman (1939), American professor of the economics of healthcare at New York University
Barry Ulanov (1939), English professor and scholar of jazz and religion
Robert J. Alexander (1940), American political activist, writer, and professor at Rutgers University
Donald Barr (1941), American educator and author; former headmaster of Dalton School; initiated the Columbia University Science Honors Program
Ted de Bary (1941), East Asian studies expert and provost of Columbia University
Leon Henkin (1941), mathematician and logician at University of California, Berkeley
Donald Keene (1942), scholar of Japanese culture
Robert Lekachman (1942), economist
Philip Yampolsky (1942), scholar of Zen Buddhism
Francesco Cordasco (1943), professor of education at Montclair State University
Martin S. James (1943), American art historian, translator of Piet Mondrian
Martin J. Klein (1943), American historian of science and recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
Bernard Weisberger (1943), American historian of the Reconstruction Era
Alan Hoffman (1944), mathematician known for constructing the Hoffman–Singleton graph
Bruce Mazlish (1944), American historian and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, son-in-law of David Rockefeller
Richard Popkin (1944), American philosopher
Jack Greenberg (1945), counsel for the NAACP, in which capacity he argued Brown v. Board of Education; former professor at Columbia Law School and dean of Columbia College
Murray Rothbard (1945), leading exponent of the Austrian School of economics
Gilbert Y. Steiner (1945), American scholar of social policy and fourth president of the Brookings Institution
Richard Heffner (1946), professor and host of The Open Mind
Fritz Stern (1946), Seth Low Professor of History Emeritus; pre-eminent in German studies
George Herbert Borts (1947), economist at Brown University and managing editor of The American Economic Review from 1969 to 1980
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1947), Classical archaeologist and architectural historian
John Michael Montias (1947), American economist and art historian at Yale University
Lambros Comitas (1948), anthropologist
Uriel Weinreich (1948), linguist and professor at Columbia University
Albert Elsen (1949), professor at Stanford University and Auguste Rodin expert
Marvin Harris (1949), American anthropologist famous for developing cultural materialism
Robert F. Murphy (1949), professor of anthropology at Columbia University
Arthur Melvin Okun (1949), chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, proposed Okun's law
William Rubin (1949), curator at the Museum of Modern Art
Burton Watson (1950), American scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature
George Keller (1951), professor of higher education studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Rothschild (1951), professor of Central European and Eastern European history at Columbia University
Immanuel Wallerstein (1951), sociologist who defined world-systems theory
A. James Gregor (1952), professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley
Elliott Mendelson (1952), American logician; professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York
Andrew P. Vayda (1952), professor emeritus of anthropology and ecology at Rutgers University
Melvin Ember (1953), professor of the City University of New York and editor of Cross-Cultural Research
Julian Wolpert (1953), professor of urban planning at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Demetrios James Caraley (1954), editor of Political Science Quarterly and president of the Academy of Political Science
Peter Kenen (1954), provost, Columbia University and expert in Optimum currency area theory
Henry Littlefield (1954), educator, author, historian who initiated political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Stephen Orgel (1954), Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar
David Rosand (1954), Art historian, Columbia University
Harry N. Scheiber (1955), professor and director of the Institute for Legal Research at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Jerry Fodor (1956), philosopher
Kenneth Silverman (1956), professor at New York University and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
Robert Alter (1957), professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley; president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Erich S. Gruen (1957), American classicist and ancient historian; president of the Society for Classical Studies in 1992
Stanley Insler (1957), American philologist and professor at Yale University
Jonathan Lubin (1957), professor of mathematics at Brown University; introduced Lubin–Tate formal group law
Gerald Feldman (1958), American historian who specializes in 20th-century German history; professor at University of California, Berkeley
Joachim Neugroschel (1958), prolific multilingual translator
David Rothman (1958), professor of social medicine and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession
Benjamin Cohen (1959), political economist and authority on International political economy
Richard Fremantle (1959), Anglo-American art historian, son of writer Anne Fremantle
Robert Nozick (1959), libertarian philosopher known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Isser Woloch (1959), historian of the French Revolution
Arnold A. Offner (1959), professor of history at Lafayette College and past president of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Bruce M. Stave (1959), American historian specializing in oral history and urban history
Alvin Goldman (1960), professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and leading figure in epistemology
Rudolf Makkreel (1960), professor of philosophy at Emory University
Marshall Berman (1961), urbanologist
Victor Hao Li (1961), professor at Stanford Law School, President of East–West Center from 1981 to 1989
Donald F. Roberts (1961), professor of communications at Stanford University
David Syrett (1961), professor of military history at Queens College, City University of New York; former president of the New York Military Affairs Symposium
Zvi Gitelman (1962), Jewish scholar at the University of Michigan
Ken Jowitt (1962), American political scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow of the Hoover Institution
Stephen Koss (1962), American historian on British history
Joel Moses (1962), mathematician, Institute Professor at and provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence S. Wittner (1962), historian on peace movements
Peter Winn (1962), professor of history at Tufts University
Eric Foner (1963), preeminent historian of Reconstruction, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and former president of American Historical Association
David Orme-Johnson (1963), professor of psychology at the Maharishi University of Management
Victor Margolin (1963), professor of design history at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonah Raskin (1963), American writer, professor on counterculture
Howard Spodek (1963), American historian specializing in urban studies; professor at Temple University
Robert J. Art (1964), professor of international relations at Brandeis University
Jonathan R. Cole (1964), American sociologist and provost of Columbia University from 1989 to 2003
Richard Epstein (1964), libertarian law scholar
Richard S. Kayne (1964), professor of linguistics at New York University
Peter Kolchin (1964), professor at the University of Delaware and winner of the 1988 Bancroft Prize
John H. Langbein (1964), Sterling Professor at Yale Law School
Peter K. Machamer (1964), American philosopher and historian of science; professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Mike Wallace (1964), historian and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Jonathan Goldberg (1964), professor at Emory University
Michael M. Gunter (1964), professor at Tennessee Technological University, authority in
Jonathan M. Weiss (1964), American scholar of French literature and politics
George R. Goldner (1965), former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
J. Bruce Jacobs (1965), Australian orientalist who specialized in Taiwan studies, professor at Monash University
Richard Taruskin (1965), American musicologist
Walter Reich (1965), former director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and professor at George Washington University
Mark Steiner (1965), professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Raymond Geuss (1966), specialist in Jürgen Habermas
Steven Handel (1966), restoration ecologist, professor at Rutgers University
Michael Hechter (1966), professor of political science at Arizona State University
Ira Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor at Columbia University
Mark D. Naison (1966), former political activist; professor of history at Fordham University
T. J. Pempel (1966), professor of political science and former director of the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Jay Winter (1966), World War I specialist at Yale University
Paul Gewirtz (1967), constitutional law scholar
Karl Klare (1967), Critical Legal Studies theorist
Norman Friedman (1967), American author and naval analyst
Reza Sheikholeslami (1967), Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at Wadham College, Oxford
Jeremy Siegel (1967), professor of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Terrell Carver (1968), political theorist; professor at the University of Bristol
Samuel R. Gross (1968), professor at the University of Michigan Law School; editor of the National Registry of Exonerations project
Alfred W. McCoy (1968), historian of Southeast Asia; professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lawrence Susskind (1968), urban planner and mediator; professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerry Avorn (1969), professor at the Harvard Medical School
William Boone Bonvillian (1969), scholar of innovation technology policy, former director of MIT's Washington, D.C. office
Chris Iijima (1969), legal scholar, folksinger
Andrei Markovits (1969), professor of comparative politics at the University of Michigan
Michel Rosenfeld (1969), constitutional law scholar
Mark Rosenzweig (1969), professor of economics at Yale University
Steven M. Cohen (1970), sociologist, director of Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Sheldon Danziger (1970), political scientist at the University of Michigan
Lennard J. Davis (1970), professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specialist in disability studies
John D'Emilio (1970), professor of history and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago; winner of the Bill Whitehead Award in 2013
Samuel Estreicher (1970), professor at the New York University School of Law
Peter Grossman (1970), professor of economics at Butler University; columnist, The Indianapolis Star
Robert A. Leonard (1970), American forensic linguist at Hofstra University and former member of rock band Sha Na Na
Paul Starr (1970), sociologist; co-founder of The American Prospect and winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Paul Berman (1971), historian and social critic
Philip Nord (1971), historian and professor at Princeton University
Steven J. Ross (1971), historian and professor at University of Southern California, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History finalist
Roy Rosenzweig (1971), historian and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Scott Atran (1972), American anthropologist; director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presidential scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Joel Black (1972), literature and film scholar
Jerome Groopman (1972), Harvard Medical School professor and medical writer for The New Yorker
Mark J. Roe (1972), professor at Harvard Law School
John Servos (1972), professor and historian of science; president of the History of Science Society
Sean Wilentz (1972), historian and winner of the Bancroft Prize; chair of American Studies at Princeton University
Angelo Falcón (1973), political scientist, President and Founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy
Stewart Sterk (1973), professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
David S. Katz (1974), professor of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University
James R. Russell (1974), professor of Ancient Near Eastern studies at Harvard University
Steven Simon (1974), Middle East expert and former executive director of International Institute for Strategic Studies-US; former senior director in the United States National Security Council
Haruo Shirane (1974), professor of Japanese literature of Columbia University
Jonathan Crary (1975), art critic, essayist, professor of art at Columbia University
Robert S. Levine (1975), professor of American literature at University of Maryland, College Park
Alexander J. Motyl (1975), professor of political science at Rutgers University
David Albert (1976), professor of philosophy at Columbia University
Barry Bergdoll (1977), chief curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
James S. Shapiro (1977), Shakespearean authority
Peter Christopher (1978), writer and professor at Georgia Southern University
Jorge Duany (1978), director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at Florida International University
William D. Hartung (1978), director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Jeffry Frieden (1979), professor and department chair of political science at Harvard University
Steve Fuller (1979), American philosopher, sociologist in the field of science and technology studies
Alexander George (1979), professor of philosophy at Amherst College; founder of AskPhilosophers.org
Timothy Gilfoyle (1979), professor of history at Loyola University Chicago
Mark Statman (1980), professor emeritus of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Sahotra Sarkar (1981), professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin
Michael Bérubé (1982), professor of literature and cultural studies
David Makovsky (1982), Middle East Scholar
Eugene Rogan (1982), professor and director of St Antony's College, Oxford's Middle East Centre
James L. Gelvin (1983), professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Ravina (1983), professor of history at Emory University
Jonathan Zimmerman (1983), Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Gideon Rosen (1984), professor of philosophy at Princeton University
Thomas Sugrue (1984), historian of the 20th century United States
Jamsheed Choksy (1985), chair of Eurasian studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Noam Elkies (1985), mathematician, youngest full professor at Harvard
William Deresiewicz (1985), literary critic
Louis Warren (1985), professor of Western U.S. history at the University of California, Davis
Alexander Argüelles (1986), American polyglot and professor at the American University in the Emirates; son of poet Ivan Argüelles
Tobias Hecht (1986), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator; winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award
Alva Noë (1986), professor of philosophy at University of California, Berkeley
Anthony B. Pinn (1986), professor of religion at Rice University
Ritu Birla (1987), historian of modern South Asia, director of University of Toronto's Asian Institute
Scott J. Shapiro (1987), professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School, director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy
Katherine B. Crawford (1988), professor of gender studies and history at Vanderbilt University
Leslie M. Harris (1988), expert on African-American history at Northwestern University
Claudio Saunt (1989), professor at the University of Georgia, author of Unworthy Republic
William H. Sherman (1988), director of the Warburg Institute, University of London
Stephanie Stebich (1988), director of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Stephanos Bibas (1989), professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Karen Chapple (1989), scholar of Urban planning at University of California, Berkeley
Jesús Escobar (1989), professor of Art History at Northwestern University, expert in early modern art of Spain and Italy
Daniel Halberstam (1989), professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School
Stephanie Aaronson (1990), American economist and vice president of Brookings Institution
Rhea Anastas (1990), art historian, critic, curator and professor at University of California, Irvine
Matthew Connelly (1990), professor of international and global history at Columbia University
Jennifer Lee (1990), sociologist, professor of Columbia University
Ben Ratliff (1990), journalist and music critic
Benjamin Frommer (1991), American historian, professor at Northwestern University
Mary Pattillo (1991), professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University
Cynthia A. Young (1991), professor of African-American studies at Pennsylvania State University
Robert T. Miller (1992), professor of law at the University of Iowa
Valerie Purdie Greenaway (1993), professor of psychology and first African American to receive tenure in the sciences at Columbia University
Michelle Hartman (1993), professor of Arabic and francophone literature at McGill University
David Eisenbach (1994), historian on media and politics; narrator, 10 Things You Don't Know About
Katerina Harvati (1994), professor of paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, identified the earliest known sample of the remains of modern humans outside Africa
Ayanna Thompson (1994), professor of English at Arizona State University, President of the Shakespeare Association of America
Gabriella Coleman (1996), American anthropologist known for her work in hacker culture and online activism; professor at McGill University
Elena Conis (1996), American historian of medicine at University of California, Berkeley
Jessica Greenberg (1997), social anthropologist and professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Lauren Winner (1997), historian, professor at Duke Divinity School
Brooke Holmes (1998), American classicist, professor at Princeton University
Louis Hyman (1999), economic historian, professor at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, author of Debtor Nation
Adrianne Wadewitz (1999), American feminist scholar and noted Wikipedian
Yehuda Kurtzer (2000), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, son of ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (2000), professor of history at The New School
Joya Powell (2001), Bessie Awards-winning choreographer and educator
Daniel Immerwahr (2002), professor of history of Northwestern University and recipient of the Merle Curti Award
Rujeko Hockley (2005), curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the 2019 Whitney Biennial
Ashley James (2009), first black curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

University presidents and administrators[]

John M. Mason (1789), provost of Columbia College and president of Dickinson College
Philip Milledoler (1793), fifth president of Rutgers University
Nathaniel Fish Moore (1802), eighth President of Columbia University
Isaac Ferris (1816), third President of New York University
James Hall Mason Knox (1841), 8th president of Lafayette College
John Aikman Stewart (1841), businessman, banker, acting president of Princeton University
John Howard Van Amringe (1860), mathematician and Dean of Columbia College
Seth Low (1870), president of Columbia University and mayor of New York City
Nicholas Murray Butler (1882), president of Columbia University, chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Nobel Peace Prize winner, founder of Horace Mann School and the College Board
Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1883), Episcopal missionary and president of St. John's University, Shanghai from 1888 to 1941
Thomas Fiske (1885), professor of mathematics at Columbia University; acting dean of Barnard College; president of the American Mathematical Society from 1902 to 1904; secretary of the College Board
Frank Pierrepont Graves (1890), former president of the University of Washington, University of Wyoming; Commissioner of Education of the State of New York from 1921 to 1940
Frank D. Fackenthal (1906), acting president of Columbia University
Dixon Ryan Fox (1911), Union College president from 1934 to 1945
Louis L. Kaplan (1922), acting chancellor of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and president of Baltimore Hebrew University
Frederick Burkhardt (1933), president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies and third president of Bennington College
James S. Coles (1936), ninth president of Bowdoin College
William C. Fels (1937), fourth president of Bennington College
George James (1937), Commissioner of Health of the City of New York, dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, president of Mount Sinai Health System
James C. Fletcher (1940), president of the University of Utah and administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Martin Meyerson (1942), president of the University of Pennsylvania
Henry S. Coleman (1946), acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968
Steven Marcus (1948), George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and Dean of Columbia College
Carl Hovde (1950), professor of English and Dean of Columbia College following the Columbia University protests of 1968.^[1]
Michael I. Sovern (1951), president of Columbia University
Richard N. Rosett (1953), dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and chairman of National Bureau of Economic Research
Calvin B. T. Lee (1955), former chancellor of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and acting president of Boston University
Robert E. Paaswell (1956), American civil engineer, former interim president of City College of New York and CEO of Chicago Transit Authority
Kenneth Gros Louis (1959), Chancellor of Indiana University system
Richard A. Merrill (1959), 7th dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1959), president of the University of Hartford and of George Washington University
David C. Levy (1960), dean of the Parsons School of Design and president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Steven M. Cahn (1966), provost and acting president of Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Alan Cooper (1971), provost of Jewish Theological Seminary of America, former member of Sha Na Na
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (1970), executive vice president and provost of Bard College
David Rubin (1970), American professor of communications and dean of S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Saul Levmore (1973), commercial law scholar, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School
Ronald Mason Jr. (1974), president of the University of the District of Columbia and former president of Southern University
Gregory F. Ball (1977), American psychologist, dean of the University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alan Kadish (1977), President of the Touro College and University System
Ralph Keen (1979), professor and dean of the honors college at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Colin Crawford (1980), 24th dean of the University of Louisville School of Law and incoming dean of the Golden Gate University School of Law
Samuel Hoi (1980), president of the Maryland Institute College of Art
Daniel Gordis (1981), vice president of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college
Deborah Waxman (1989), president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
Melissa Michelson (1990), dean of arts and sciences at Menlo College
Ashish Jha (1992), dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and former professor of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Actors[]

John B. Mason (1880), American stage actor
Ralph Morgan (1904), co-founder of Actors Equity and first president of the Screen Actors Guild
Nat Pendleton (1916), portrayer of Eugen Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld and silver-medal wrestler in the 1920 Summer Olympics
James Cagney* (1922), winner of the Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cornel Wilde* (1933), star of The Greatest Show on Earth, Beach Red, and Academy Award nominee for A Song to Remember
Richard Ney (1940), actor, Mrs. Miniver; husband of Greer Garson
Dolph Sweet (1948), played Carl Canisky in Gimme a Break!
Sorrell Booke (1949), played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard
Stephen Strimpell (1954), star of Mister Terrific
George Segal (1955), star of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ship of Fools and Just Shoot Me!, winner of the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1965 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 1973
Brian Dennehy (1960), winner of the Tony Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Death of a Salesman
Don Briscoe (1962), American actor, Dark Shadows
Roger Davis (1962), American actor, Dark Shadows, Alias Smith and Jones
William Finley (1963), film actor; co-star of Phantom of the Paradise
Jared Martin (1965), actor, Dallas
Ben Stein (1966), host of Win Ben Stein's Money; speechwriter for former US President Richard M. Nixon
Gerrit Graham* (1970), film actor and songwriter
Ed Harris* (1973), Academy Award-nominated actor and director, Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock, Westworld
Richard Thomas* (1973), star of The Waltons
Robert Wisdom (1976), actor, Nashville, The Wire, Prison Break
Mario Van Peebles (1978), star of Heartbreak Ridge and Sonny Spoon
Matt Salinger (1983), son of J.D. Salinger
Robert Maschio (1988), actor on Scrubs
Matthew Fox (1989), star of Party of Five and Lost
Soterios Johnson (1990), American radio journalist and WNYC host
Schuyler Grant (1993), American actress, great-niece of Katharine Hepburn
Rachel DeWoskin (1994), actress and author, Foreign Babes in Beijing
Jean Louisa Kelly (1994), star of Mr. Holland's Opus
Amanda Peet (1994), star of the TV series Jack & Jill and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and the film The Whole Nine Yards
Cara Buono (1995), star of Third Watch and Stranger Things
Casey Affleck (1998), Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actor for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and actor in Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1999), Golden Globe-winning actress for The Honourable Woman, and star in Secretary, Stranger than Fiction and The Dark Knight
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1999), actor, Girls
Liza Weil (1999), actress, The Gilmore Girls
Amir Arison (2000), actor in The Blacklist
Charlotte Newhouse (2001), actress and producer of Comedy Central's Idiotsitter
Jesse Bradford (2002), actor in Flags of Our Fathers and Bring It On
Jake Gyllenhaal* (2002), Academy Award-nominated actor for Brokeback Mountain, star of Jarhead and Donnie Darko
Brandon Victor Dixon (2003), Tony Award-nominated broadway actor starring in Scottsboro Boys
Rachel Nichols (2003), actress, Continuum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Jenny Slate (2004), cast member, Saturday Night Live
Anna Paquin* (2004), winner of the Academy Award for The Piano
Rider Strong (2004), star of Boy Meets World
Julia Jones (2005), actress in The Twilight Saga and Westworld
Julia Stiles (2005), star of Save the Last Dance and Mona Lisa Smile
Kate McKinnon (2006), Emmy winning actress and comedian, Saturday Night Live
Grace Parra (2006), actress, screenwriter, TV host
Emmy Rossum* (2008), Golden Globe-nominated actress of The Phantom of the Opera and The Day After Tomorrow
Hal Scardino (2008), child actor known for his role in The Indian in the Cupboard
Jeremy Blackman (2009), appeared in Magnolia
Max Minghella (2009), appeared in Syriana and Art School Confidential
Spencer Treat Clark (2010), appeared in Gladiator, Mystic River, and Unbreakable
Asher Grodman (2010), actor, Ghosts
Sarah Steele (2011), actress, Spanglish
Remy Zaken (2012), actress on Spring Awakening
Jin Ha (2013), actor, Love Life, Devs
Kelsey Chow (2014), actress, Pair of Kings
Cinta Laura (2014), actress and singer
Sofia Vassilieva (2014), actress, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime
Marjana Chowdhury (2015), model, actress, philanthropist and beauty queen
Hari Nef (2015), transgender model, actress, and writer; signed to IMG Models
Ben Platt* (2016), actor and singer, Pitch Perfect, The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen, transferred to Columbia University School of General Studies
Katie Chang* (2017), actress, The Bling Ring, A Birder's Guide to Everything
Timothée Chalamet* (2017), Academy Award-nominated actor, Call Me by Your Name
Sami Gayle (2018), actress, Blue Bloods, Candy Jar, Vampire Academy
Kenny Ridwan (2021), actor, The Goldbergs
Emily Robinson (2021), actress, The Orphans' Home Cycle, Eighth Grade
Kiera Allen (2022), actress, Run

Activists[]

Samuel Cutler Ward (1831), lobbyist known as the "King of the Lobby"
Henry Bergh* (1834), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Arthur B. Spingarn (1897), civil rights activist; elected president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1965; namesake of the Moorland–Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
George Marshall (1926), political activist and conservationist
Robert Gnaizda (1957), lawyer, activist, and co-founder of advocacy group Greenlining Institute
Morris J. Amitay (1958), lobbyist, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Richard Grossman (1965), critic and organizer against corporate power, former director of Greenpeace USA
Brian Flanagan (1968), former member of the Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground
David Gilbert (1966), leader of Students for a Democratic Society and participant in the deadly 1981 Brink's robbery with Kathy Boudin, the mother of his child Chesa Boudin
Ted Gold* (1968), student activist, leader of the Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weatherman group who died in the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
John Jacobs (1969), student activist, member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground, went into hiding after the fatal 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Mark Rudd (1969), president of Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weather Underground
Stephen Donaldson (1970), bisexual political activist, founder of the Student Homophile League at Columbia, the oldest college LGBTQ organization in the world
David Kaczynski (1970), anti-death penalty activist, brother of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski
Sheena Wright (1990), CEO of the United Way of New York City
David Kaiser (1991), American philanthropist, environmental activist, president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, great-great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller
Benjamin Jealous (1994), president of the NAACP
Ai-jen Poo (1996), activist, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
Anna Baltzer (2002), activist for Palestinian human rights
Ady Barkan (2006), activist and organizer for Center for Popular Democracy
Tourmaline (2006), activist and filmmaker
Emma Sulkowicz (2015), American performance activist known for Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) and Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol
Henry Williams (2022), political activist and chief of staff of the Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign

Artists and architects[]

James Renwick Jr. (1836), Gothic Revival architect who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Charles C. Haight (1861), American architect who designed the old campus of Columbia University, numerous buildings at Yale University as well as the campus of General Theological Seminary
Walter Satterlee (1863), American figure and genre painter
Lockwood de Forest* (1872), American artist, interior and furniture designer
Devereux Emmet (1883), pioneering golf course architect who designed the golf course at the Congressional Country Club
Henry Martyn Congdon (1854), architect and designer
William Ordway Partridge (1885), sculptor who built the statue of Thomas Jefferson at Columbia University, Kauffmann Memorial, and the statue of Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia
Goodhue Livingston (1888), founder of the architectural firm Trowbridge & Livingston
Henry Shrady (1894), sculptor known for the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Gilbert White (1900), American painter
Ely Jacques Kahn (1904), commercial architect who designed the Municipal Asphalt Plant, the Film Center Building, 120 Wall Street, 399 Park Avenue, One Penn Plaza, and 1095 Avenue of the Americas
Rockwell Kent* (1907), illustrator
Eric Gugler (1911), architect who designed the current Oval Office
Albert Mayer (1916), American planner who designed the master plan of Chandigarh
Isamu Noguchi* (1926), sculptor, namesake of the Noguchi table and Noguchi Museum, designer of the Moerenuma Park, Bayfront Park, and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
Charles Alston (1929), artist
Ad Reinhardt (1935), Abstract Expressionist artist and critic
Arthur Rothstein (1935), photographer for the Farm Security Administration and Look magazine
Ed Rice (1940), American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter
Charles Saxon (1940), cartoonist
Burton Silverman (1949), painter
George S. Zimbel (1951), photographer
Frederick C. Baldwin (1955), photographer
Edward Koren (1957), cartoonist
John Giorno (1958), artist, subject of Andy Warhol's first movie, Sleep
Robert A. M. Stern (1960), traditionalist architect, dean of the Yale School of Architecture
Scott Burton (1962), urban sculptor
Bernard Cywinski (1962), architect and co-founder of the firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which designed the Liberty Bell center in Philadelphia, the Apple Fifth Avenue store, and the Seattle City Hall
Stephen A. Lesser (1966), architect
Gordon Gahan (1967)*, photographer for National Geographic
Edwin Schlossberg (1967), designer, author, artist; husband of Caroline Kennedy
Francis Levy (1969), comic book artist
Greg Wyatt (1971), sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, known for designing the Peace Fountain
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (1974), photographer known for producing The Black List
Michael Middleton Dwyer (1975), American architect known for his restoration works
James Sanders (1976), architect who co-wrote New York: A Documentary Film with Ric Burns '78
Peter Pennoyer (1980), architect known for the renovation of the Colony Club and the Knickerbocker Club, great-great grandson of J.P. Morgan
John Arcudi (1983), cartoonist for DC Comics and creator of The Mask and Major Bummer
Jacob Collins (1986), American realist painter, founder of the Grand Central Academy of Art
Lance Hosey (1987), architect, author of The Shape of Green; Chief sustainability officer of the global architectural firm RTKL Associates
Matthew Weinstein (1987), American visual artist, son of American physician I. Bernard Weinstein
Rachel Feinstein (1993), sculptor
Alison Castle (1995), photographer and book editor, daughter of artist Wendell Castle
Ricardo Cortés (1995), illustrator, It's Just a Plant
Damon Winter (1997), Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The New York Times
Damon Rich (1997), urban designer, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Steffani Jemison (2003), American artist
Ariel Schrag (2003), American cartoonist
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (2010), Thai-American artist known for the project Beyond Curie

Athletes[]

Hall of Famer Eddie Collins

Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig

Olympian Nicole Ross

John Cox Stevens (1803), founder and first commodore of the New York Yacht Club, won the first America's Cup trophy in 1851
Reginald Sayre (1881), orthopedic surgeon and Olympic sport shooter
Charles Sands (1887), American athlete who won the gold medal in Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Oliver Campbell (1891), American tennis player; youngest male winner of the US Open Singles title from 1890 to 1990
Charles Townsend (1893), first Olympic fencer from the Ivy League; silver medalist in the 1904 Summer Olympics
Gustavus Town Kirby (1895), president of the United States Olympic Committee from 1920 to 1924, and Amateur Athletic Union from 1911 to 1913
Leo Fishel (1899), first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball
Harold Weekes (1903), football player for the Columbia Lions, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Harry A. Fisher (1905), basketball coach for Columbia, United States Military Academy, St. John's; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Robert LeRoy (1905), two-time silver medalist in the 1904 Summer Olympics
Eddie Collins (1907), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Marcus Hurley (1908), cyclist who won four gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Jay Gould II* (1911), American real tennis player, Olympic gold medalist in 1908 and world champion from 1914 to 1916; great-grandson of financier Jay Gould^[2]
Ted Kiendl (1911), National Basketball Player of the Year in 1911; corporate lawyer, argued Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins before the Supreme Court in 1938
George Smith (1916), pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
Millard Bloomer (1920), Olympic fencer
Harold Bloomer (1924), Olympic fencer
Lou Gehrig* (1925), first baseman for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Walter Koppisch (1925), football player for the New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Ralph Furey (1928), football player, athletic director of Columbia University from 1943 to 1968
Art Smith (1928), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
Fresco Thompson (1928), baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
Hugh Alessandroni (1929), Olympic bronze medalist fencer
Norman Armitage (1931), Olympic bronze medalist fencer; first person to be inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame
Lou Bender (1932), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball; later a successful trial attorney^[3]
George Gregory Jr. (1933), first African American basketball player to be selected as All-American
Alfred Skrobisch (1933), Olympic fencer
Cliff Montgomery (1934), led the Columbia Lions football team to victory in the Rose Bowl
John O'Brien (1938), basketball player for the Akron Wingfoots
Ben Johnson (1938), American sprinter who rivaled Jesse Owens
Sid Luckman (1939), NFL Hall of Fame Chicago Bears quarterback
Ken Germann (1943), football coach, athletic director of Columbia University, and former Southern Conference commissioner
Paul Governali (1943), football player for the Boston Yanks and New York Giants
Walt Budko (1948), basketball player for Baltimore Bullets and Philadelphia Warriors
Bruce Gehrke (1948), football player for New York Giants
Bill Swiacki (1948), player for New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Lou Kusserow (1949), football player for Hamilton Tiger-Cats and New York Yanks
John Azary (1951), basketball player, recipient of the Haggerty Award
Jack Molinas (1953), NBA player for the Fort Wayne Pistons
Jack Rohan (1953), head coach of the Columbia Lions men's basketball team from 1961 to 1974, and 1990 to 1995
George Shaw (1953), American Olympic triple jumper
Richard Ballantine* (1967), cyclist and cycling advocate; son of Ian Ballantine '38 of Ballantine Books
James Margolis (1958), Olympic fencer
James Melcher (1961), Olympian fencer, president of Fencers Club and hedge fund manager
Robert Contiguglia (1963), soccer player, former president of the United States Soccer Federation
Peter Salzberg (1964), head coach of Vermont Catamounts men's basketball from 1972 to 1981
Archie Roberts (1965), former football player for the Miami Dolphins and cardiac surgeon
Jim McMillian (1968), NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers
Dave Newmark (1968), NBA player for the Chicago Bulls; also played for Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.
Marty Domres (1969), football player for San Diego Chargers and Baltimore Colts
George Starke (1971), offensive lineman for the Washington Redskins
Henry Bunis (1975), two-time All-American tennis player, runner-up in 1977 Chilean Open
Rick Fagel (1975), professional tennis player
Vitas Gerulaitis* (1975), champion tennis player
Thomas Losonczy (1975), American Olympic fencer, winner of the Congressional Gold Medal
Alton Byrd (1979), basketball player
Eric Fromm (1980), tennis player
John Witkowski (1983), football player for Detroit Lions and Houston Oilers
Gene Larkin (1984), member of the Minnesota Twins 1987 and 1991 World Series championship teams
Amr Aly (1985), soccer player who won the Hermann Trophy as the top college player of the year 1984; member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Soccer Team and indoor soccer team Los Angeles Lazers
Stephen Trevor (1986), Olympic fencer
Kyra Tirana Barry (1987), team leader for U.S. Women's National wrestling team
Caitlin Bilodeaux (1987), Olympic fencer
Howard Endelman (1987), American tennis player
Phil Williamson (1987), tennis player for Antigua and Barbuda
Bob Cottingham (1988), Olympic fencer
Jon Normile (1989), Olympic fencer
Frank Seminara (1989), Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets
Tom Auth (1990), Olympic rower
Christine Vardaros (1991), professional cyclist
Ann Marsh (1994), Olympic fencer
Ríkharður Daðason (1996), Icelandic soccer player
Marcellus Wiley (1997), football player for the Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys
Dan Kellner (1998), fencer
Pellegrino Matarazzo (1999), head coach of VfB Stuttgart
Matt Napoleon (1999), Olympic soccer goalkeeper
Cristina Teuscher (2000), Olympic gold medalist swimmer
Jedediah Dupree (2001), NCAA Champion fencer
Veljko Urošević (2003), Serbian Olympic rower
Fernando Perez (2004), Outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays
Jeremiah Boswell (2005), professional basketball player for BC Sliven, KK Strumica, and KK Torus
Delilah DiCrescenzo (2005), American long-distance runner, inspiration and subject of the Grammy-nominated song Hey There Delilah
Michael Quarshie (2005), Finnish American football player who played for the Oakland Raiders and Frankfurt Galaxy
Lisa Nemec (2006), Croatian long-distance runner
Miloš Tomić (2006), Serbian Olympic rower
Erison Hurtault (2007), Dominican sprinter
James Leighman Williams (2007), American fencer who won silver in the 2008 Summer Olympics
Emily Jacobson (2008), fencer
İhsan Emre Vural (2008), Turkish rower for Galatasaray S.K.
Sherif Farrag (2009), Egyptian-American Olympic fencer
Nicholas la Cava (2009), Olympic rower
Jeff Spear (2010), Olympic fencer
Daria Schneider (2010), fencer
Jeff Adams (2011), Houston Texans offensive tackle
Nicole Ross (2011), Olympic fencer
Isadora Cerullo (2013), Brazilian-American Olympic rugby player
Katie Meili (2013), Olympic swimmer, Pan American Games and 2016 Summer Olympics gold medalist
Josh Martin (2013), Kansas City Chiefs linebacker
John Gregorek Jr. (2014), American middle-distance runner
David Najem (2014), American soccer player for New Mexico United and the Afghanistan national football team
Nadia Eke (2015), Ghanaian triple jumper, African Championships gold medalist in 2016
Kristine Musademba (2015), American figure skater
Max Schnur (2015), tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour
Nzingha Prescod (2015), Olympic fencer
Ramit Tandon (2015), professional squash player
Jakub Buczek (2016), Canadian Olympic rower
Sasha DiGiulian (2016), world champion climber
Jacqueline Dubrovich (2016), Olympic fencer
Maodo Lô (2016), German basketball player for Brose Bamberg
Robb Paller (2016), American-Israeli Olympic baseball player
Jeff Coby (2017), American basketball player for Xuventude Baloncesto
Cameron Nizialek (2017), football player for Atlanta Falcons
Akua Obeng-Akrofi (2018), Ghanaian sprinter
Charlotte Buck (2018), Olympic rower
Osama Khalifa (2018), #1 ranked college squash player in the United States for the 2016–2017 season
Camille Zimmerman (2018), American basketball player for Norrköping Dolphins
Yasmeen Al-Dabbagh (2019), Saudi Arabian sprinter
Jessica Antiles (2019), American swimmer who won silver and bronze medals in the 2017 Maccabiah Games
Dylan Castanheira (2019), American soccer player, goalkeeper for Fort Lauderdale CF
Mike Smith (2020), American basketball player
Anthony Jackie Tang (2020), Hong Kong tennis player
John Tanguay (2020), American rower who won a silver medal in the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Dylan Geick* (2021), American wrestler and internet personality
Velavan Senthilkumar (2021), British Junior Open Squash champion and Asian Junior Squash champion
Nastasya Generalova (2023), American gymnast and model
Olivia Giaccio (2024), Olympic freestyle skiier
Evita Griskenas (2024), American Rhythmic gymnast
Samir Banerjee (2025), American tennis player who won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles

Businesspeople[]

Henry Rutgers (1766), Revolutionary War hero, businessman, philanthropist, and namesake of Rutgers University
Leffert Lefferts (1794), first president of Long Island Bank
William Bard (1798), son of physician Samuel Bard, founder and first president of New York Life Insurance Company
Stephen Price (1799), theatrical manager who managed Park Theatre in Manhattan and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London
William Backhouse Astor Sr.* (1811), son of John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Roosevelt* (attended, year unknown), member of the Roosevelt family, one of the founders of the Chemical Bank; great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt
James H. Roosevelt (1819), founder of Roosevelt Hospital
Robert Goelet Sr. (1828), American banker and real estate developer who was associated with the founding of the Chemical Bank
Bradish Johnson (1831), American industrialist involved in the Swill milk scandal
Robert L. Cutting (1830), co-founder of the Continental Bank of New York and president of the New York Stock Exchange
Henry T. Anthony (1832), photographer, vice-president of the E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
Adrian G Iselin* (1837), financier, banker
Edward Anthony (1838), photographer and founder of E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century
John Jacob Astor III (1839), son of William Backhouse Astor Sr.
William Henry Vanderbilt* (1841), eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; president of the New York Central Railroad, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Canada Southern Railway, and Michigan Central Railroad
Robert Morrison Olyphant (1842), heir to trading company Olyphant & Co. and president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway
Charles Carow* (1844), businessman son of shipping magnate Isaac Carow, father of first lady Edith Carow Roosevelt
Frederic W. Rhinelander (1847), 3rd president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1849), son of William Backhouse Astor Sr. and husband of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, co-founder of The Four Hundred list of socialites and Florida Yacht Club
Robert L. Cutting Jr. (1856), American banker and clubman, son of Robert L. Cutting '30
George Lovett Kingsland (1856), American merchant and railroad executive, son of New York City mayor Ambrose Kingsland
Goold H. Redmond (1857), American banker and sportsman
Charles Henry Marshall (1858), American businessman, former Commissioner of Docks and Ferries of the City of New York, grandfather of publisher Marshall Field IV
John Crosby Brown (1859), heir to investment bank Brown Bros. & Co., which later became Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the oldest private bank in the United States
Emory McClintock (1859), actuary; president of the American Mathematical Society and the Actuarial Society of America
Robert Goelet (1860), real estate developer
Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1863), American socialite, heir to the Stuyvesant family fortune
J. Hooker Hamersley (1865), American heir, lawyer, and poet; former president of the Knickerbocker Club
Shipley Jones (1868), American banker and clubman
William Bayard Cutting (1869), financier, philanthropist, namesake of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park
Robert Fulton Cutting (1871), American financier
George Beach de Forest Jr. (1871), American capitalist, bibliophile, and art collector
Stuyvesant Fish (1871), president of the Illinois Central Railroad
James Montaudevert Waterbury Sr. (1873), industrialist, co-founder of the New York Yacht Club
Isaac Newton Seligman (1876), heir to American investment bank J. & W. Seligman & Co.
T. J. Oakley Rhinelander (1878), American heir and real estate developer who owned the Schönburg castle in Germany
William Fellowes Morgan Sr. (1880), businessman, philanthropist
George Henry Warren II (1880), stockbroker and real estate developer who co-founded the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company
Eugene Higgins (1882), American heir and philanthropist
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (1882), American socialite and sportsman
Marshall Orme Wilson (1882), banker and socialite, son-in-law of William Backhouse Astor Jr.
George M. La Monte* (1884), chairman of Prudential Financial from 1925 to 1927
Joseph P. Knapp* (1884), businessman, philanthropist, founder of Ducks Unlimited
Temple Bowdoin (1885), former executive of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Benjamin Guggenheim* (1887), American businessman, son of Meyer Guggenheim and member of the Guggenheim family
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. (1887), banker, prominent figure in Thoroughbred horse racing
Richard Stevens (1890), attorney and real estate developer in Hoboken, New Jersey, grandson of inventor John Stevens and son of Stevens Institute of Technology founder Edwin Augustus Stevens
Cortlandt F. Bishop (1891), American aviator and book collector, grandson of philanthropist Benjamin Hazard Field
Howard Gould* (1894), financier, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould
Joseph Peter Grace Sr. (1894), businessman, polo player, heir to W. R. Grace and Company; founder of Pan American-Grace Airways and Grace National Bank
Samuel Bloomingdale (1895), businessman, heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune
Dexter M. Ferry Jr. (1898), director of D.M. Ferry & Co.; member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Charles A. Dana (1902), philanthropist who founded the Dana Foundation and Dana Holding Corporation
John Knowles Fitch (1902), founder of Fitch Ratings, one of the Big Three rating agencies
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (1903), chairman of the Remington Arms Company, husband of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
George Earle Warren (1903), Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank
Pendleton Dudley (1906), public relations executive, founder of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy
William Gage Brady Jr. (1908), Chairman of Citigroup from 1948 to 1952
Edmond Guggenheim (1908), American mining executive, grandson of Meyer Guggenheim
Ward Melville (1909), founder of the Melville Corporation that owned CVS Health, Marshalls, and Thom McAn shoes; helped the establishment of Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Village Center
John Vernou Bouvier III* (1914), American stockbroker and socialite, father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, transferred to Yale College after two years
Armand G. Erpf (1917), senior partner at Loeb, Rhoades & Co., chairman of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, financial architect of the New York magazine
Alan H. Kempner (1917), American stockbroker and publishing executive, son-in-law of banker Carl M. Loeb
Lindsley F. Kimball (1917), former president of United Service Organizations and National Urban League
Charles Bierer Wrightsman (1918), American oil executive and art collector
Armand Hammer (1919), philanthropist, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, namesake of Hammer Museum and Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
George E. Jonas (1919), partner in Pellessier-Jonas-Rivet Manufacturing Co., philanthropist and founder of Camp Rising Sun
S. Marshall Kempner (1919), American investment banker, and brother-in-law of Peggy Guggenheim
Charles M. Brinckerhoff (1922), former CEO and chairman of Anaconda Copper, world's largest producer of copper
Morris Schapiro (1923), American investment banker, grandfather of painter Jacob Collins '86 and brother of art historian Meyer Schapiro '24
Lawrence Wien (1925), real estate magnate and philanthropist who owns the Empire State Building
Francis Levien (1926), lawyer, director of Gulf and Western Industries, namesake of Levien Gymnasium
Herbert Hutner (1928), private investment banker, attorney, and philanthropist; fourth husband of socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ivan Veit (1928), former executive vice president of The New York Times
Nathan S. Ancell (1929), co-founder of furniture company Ethan Allen
Ira D. Wallach (1929), head of Central National-Gottesman, the largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products
Benedict I. Lubell (1930), American oilman, philanthropist
Arthur Ross (1931), philanthropist, businessman; vice president of Central National-Gottesman; namesake of Arthur Ross Pinetum in Central Park
Henry G. Walter Jr. (1931), businessman, former chairman and CEO of International Flavors & Fragrances and pioneer in aromatherapy
Robert D. Lilley (1933), former president of AT&T from 1972 to 1976 and the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company from 1965 to 1970
Macrae Sykes (1933), investment banker, former chairman of the American Stock Exchange
Robert David Lion Gardiner (1934), banker, landowner, 16th Lord of the manor of Gardiners Island, direct descendant of 17th century English settler Lion Gardiner
Arnold A. Saltzman (1936), businessman, diplomat, art collector, philanthropist
George J. Ames (1937), philanthropist, banker at Lazard Freres
John Kluge (1937), billionaire, chairman and founder of Metromedia; America's richest person from 1989 to 1990; namesake of the John W. Kluge Center and Kluge Prize at the Library of Congress
Howard Pack (1939), chairman and president of Seatrain Lines
Daniel Edelman (1940), founder of the world's largest public relations firm Edelman
Elliott Sanger (1943), co-founder of classical radio channel WQXR-FM and advocate of FM broadcasting
Wylie F. L. Tuttle (1944), American real estate developer who spearheaded the construction of Tour Montparnasse
Robert Rosencrans (1949), founding chairman of C-SPAN and president of UA-Columbia Cablevision
Norton Garfinkle (1951), economist, businessman, public servant; chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation
Mark N. Kaplan (1951), CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert and Engelhard
Harvey M. Krueger (1951), CEO of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and vice chairman of Lehman Brothers
Alan Wagner (1951), first president of Disney Channel
Roone Arledge (1952), former president of ABC News and winner of 36 Emmys; creator of 20/20, Nightline, Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight and Primetime
Alan N. Cohen (1952), former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets; former chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation
Lawrence K. Grossman (1952), president of PBS from 1976 to 1984 and NBC News from 1985 to 1988
Richard Wald (1952), former president of NBC News from 1973 to 1977
Robert A. Belfer (1955), American oilman and philanthropist, namesake of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
Thomas Ludlow Chrystie II (1955), first Chief Financial Officer of Merrill Lynch & Company and creator of the Cash Management Account
Alfred Lerner (1955), chairman of MBNA Bank and ex-owner of the Cleveland Browns
Richard Ravitch (1955), chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bowery Savings Bank
Sid Sheinberg (1955), head of Universal Pictures
Barry F. Sullivan (1955), chairman and CEO of First Chicago Bank, deputy mayor of New York City under David Dinkins
Franklin A. Thomas (1956), former president of The Ford Foundation
James R. Barker (1957), Chairman of Interlake Steamship Company, former Chairman and CEO of Moore-McCormack
Peter L. Buttenwieser (1958), American educator, Democratic Party fundraiser, member of the Lehman family
Allen Rosenshine (1959), founder of the Omnicom Group, chairman and CEO of BBDO
Doug Morris (1960), CEO of Sony Music Entertainment and former CEO of Universal Music Group
Bernard Selz (1960), fund manager, philanthropist and anti-vaccination supporter
Frank Lorenzo (1961), former chairman of Eastern Airlines, Texas Air Corporation and Texas International Airlines
Douglas H. McCorkindale (1961), former chairman and CEO of Gannett
William Campbell (1962), chairman of the board of Intuit, former board director of Apple Inc.; founder of Claris
Sanford Greenberg (1962), American investor, author and philanthropist
Kenneth Lipper (1962), financier and deputy mayor of New York City; Academy Award-winning producer of The Holocaust documentary The Last Days
Jerry Speyer (1962), billionaire, founding partner, chairman and CEO of Tishman Speyer and chairman of the Museum of Modern Art
Robert Kraft (1963), chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group; owner of the New England Patriots
Mark H. Willes (1963), former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, CEO and Publisher of Los Angeles Times and Deseret Management Corporation
Michael Gould (1966), former CEO of Bloomingdale's
Julian Geiger (1967), former CEO of Aéropostale and current CEO of Crumbs Bake Shop
Richard Sackler (1967), billionaire chairman and president of Purdue Pharma known for the development of Oxycontin
Denny Greene (1971), former executive at Columbia Pictures, professor at University of Dayton School of Law, and member of Sha Na Na
Mark E. Kingdon (1971), hedge fund manager, president of Kingdon Capital Management
Philip L. Milstein (1971), former chairman and CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank, son of billionaire real estate developer Seymour Milstein
Christopher M. Jeffries (1972), American real estate developer, former husband of Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
Marc Porat (1972), entrepreneur in information technology and sustainable materials; co-founder of General Magic
John R. Eckel Jr. (1973), founder, CEO and chairman of Copano Energy
Fred Seibert (1973), TV producer and first creative director of MTV
Albie Hecht (1974), founder of Spike TV, head of HLN, and former president of Nickelodeon; creator of Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards; Academy Award-nominated producer
Alan Goodman (1974), MTV founding executive and Nickelodeon executive
Gara LaMarche (1976), former president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies; president of advocacy group Democracy Alliance
J. Ezra Merkin (1976), American financier, hedge fund manager; former chairman of GMAC Inc.
John Slosar (1978), chairman of Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific airlines
Daniel E. Straus (1978), founder of CareOne LLC and former vice chairman of Memphis Grizzlies
Jeph Loeb (1979), television writer and EVP of Marvel Television, four-time Eisner Award winner
Sami Mnaymneh (1981), American billionaire, private equity executive, co-founder of H.I.G. Capital
Charles Murphy (1981), hedge fund manager, executive of Fairfield Greenwich Group
Tom Glocer (1981), former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
Donald F. Ferguson (1982), Chief technology officer at Dell and Professor of Professional Practice in Computer Science at Columbia University
Wayne Allyn Root (1983), business mogul, TV personality and producer, author, 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee
Daniel S. Loeb (1983), billionaire, hedge fund manager, founder of Third Point Management
Kai-Fu Lee (1983), Taiwanese IT Venture Capitalist, founder of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia
Steve Perlman (1983), founder and CEO of Artemis Networks; inventor of QuickTime, MSN TV, pCell, and Mova Contour facial motion capture technology
Randy Lerner (1984), billionaire, ex-owner of Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa F.C., son of billionaire Alfred Lerner '55
James Satloff (1984), founder of Liberty Skis and former president and CEO of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin
(1984), former president and COO of MTV Networks
Mehmet Omer Koç (1985), Turkish billionaire and member of the prominent Koç family of Turkey; son of billionaire Rahmi Koç and grandson of Vehbi Koç; chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest conglomerate
Nikolas Tsakos (1985), Greek shipping magnate, former chairman of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners and husband of Greek fashion designer Celia Kritharioti
Noam Gottesman (1986), billionaire, hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners
Daniel Ninivaggi (1986), CEO of Lordstown Motors and Chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Federal-Mogul and CEO of Icahn Enterprises
Alex Navab (1987), head of the Americas Private Equity Business of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Ben Horowitz (1988), technology entrepreneur, co-founder of software company Opsware and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, son of conservative writer David Horowitz '59
Dirk Edward Ziff (1988), billionaire businessman, son of publishing magnate William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Jonathan Lavine (1988), business executive, co-managing partner of Bain Capital and chief investment officer of Bain Capital Credit
Anita Lo (1988), celebrity chef and restaurateur
Danielle Maged (1989), Fox Networks Group executive
Joanne Ooi (1989), former creative director of Shanghai Tang; CEO of Clean Air Network and Plukka
Paul Greenberg (1990), former CEO of CollegeHumor and current CEO of Nylon
Prem Parameswaran (1990), CFO of Eros International Plc and member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
William von Mueffling (1990), hedge fund manager, President of Cantillon Capital Management
Christoph Westphal (1990), American biomedical entrepreneur, founder of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Acceleron Pharma, and OvaScience
Marko Ahtisaari (1991), Finnish entrepreneur; founding CEO of Dopplr; son of Martti Ahtisaari, tenth President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Claude Arpels (1991), investor, entrepreneur, grandson of Julien Arpels and heir to the Van Cleef & Arpels fortune
Tewodros Ashenafi (1991), founder and CEO of Ethiopian company SouthWest Energy
Jack Hidary (1991), financier and entrepreneur, co-founder of the Automotive X Prize and EarthWeb/Dice Inc.
E. Javier Loya (1991), CEO of OTC Global Holdings and minority owner in Houston Texans
Ken Shubin Stein (1991), activist investor, hedge fund manager
Zia Chishti (1992), American entrepreneur and founder of Afiniti and Align Technology
Erik Feig (1992), Lionsgate co-president and former president of Summit Entertainment; producer of Step Up series, Escape Plan, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Eugene Kashper (1992), owner of Pabst Brewing Company
Rob Speyer (1992), president of Tishman Speyer, son of billionaire Jerry Speyer '62
Shawn Landres (1994), social entrepreneur, co-founder of Jewish philanthropic organization Jumpstart
Welly Yang (1994), real estate developer; former actor and playwright
Ann Kim (1995), James Beard Foundation Award-winning restaurateur in Minneapolis
Matt Pincus (1995), founder of Songs Music Publishing, son of Warburg Pincus co-founder Lionel Pincus
Arnold Kim (1996), founder of MacRumors
Daniel M. Ziff (1996), third youngest billionaire hedge fund manager in the U.S., son of publishing magnate William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Li Lu (1996), former student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and American investment banker, founder of Himalaya Capital
Michelle Patron (1996), director of sustainability at Microsoft
Scott Sartiano (1997), American restauranter
Roo Rogers (1998), entrepreneur, business designer, writer, son of British architect Richard Rogers
Amol Sarva (1998), founder of Knotel, Peek, and Virgin Mobile USA
Amanda Steinberg (1999), American wealth advisor and founder of DailyWorth
Shazi Visram (1999), founder of Happy Family
Peter Kujawski (2000), Chairman of Focus Features
Robert Reffkin (2000), co-founder and CEO of Compass, Inc.
Zvi Mowshowitz (2001), founder of MetaMed and former Magic: The Gathering world champion
Daryl Ng (2001), executive director of Sino Group, son of Singaporean real estate billionaire Robert Ng
Courtney Reum (2001), American investor who founded VeeV spirits
Adriana Cisneros (2002), Vice Chairman and CEO of Grupo Cisneros; daughter of Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros
Ellen Gustafson (2002), businesswoman, social entrepreneur, food activist, co-founder of FEED Projects and former spokesperson for the World Food Programme
Peter Koechley (2003), co-founder of Upworthy and former managing editor of The Onion
Aaron Bay-Schuck (2003), CEO and co-chairman of Warner Records, stepson of Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy
Carter Reum (2003), American author and entrepreneur, founder of VEEV Spirits and known for his romance with socialite Paris Hilton
Alicia Yoon (2004), founder of Peach and Lily, a Korean skincare store based in New York
John Kluge Jr. (2005), American philanthropist, investor, activist, son of John Kluge '37
Alana Mayo (2006), president of Orion Pictures
Liesel Pritzker Simmons (2006), former child actress, A Little Princess; granddaughter of businessman Abram Nicholas Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt hotels fortune, philanthropist
Marco Zappacosta (2007), co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, son of Logitech founder Pierluigi Zappacosta
Adam Pritzker (2008), co-founder of General Assembly, grandson of Jay Pritzker
Jared Hecht (2009), co-founder of GroupMe
Ariana Rockefeller (2009), American fashion designer and great-great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller
Zach Sims* (2012), co-founder of Codecademy
Nicole LaPointe Jameson (2016), CEO of Evil Geniuses
Korawad Chearavanont* (2017), Thai internet entrepreneur and grandson of Dhanin Chearavanont

Journalism and media figures[]

Arts critics[]

Gustav Kobbé (1877), opera scholar and music critic of the New York Herald
Clifton Fadiman (1925), book critic for The New Yorker and judge for the Book of the Month Club
Edward Downes (1933), music critic, former host on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, son of music critic Olin Downes
Ralph J. Gleason (1938), music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of Rolling Stone
Eugene Williams (1938), jazz critic, founder of Jazz Information
Allan Temko (1947), architecture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Andrew Sarris (1951), film critic
Martin Gottfried (1955), critic, author, and biographer
Donald Kuspit (1955), art critic
Morris Dickstein (1961), cultural critic and professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Denby (1965), film critic for The New Yorker
Michael Feingold (1966), lead theater critic for The Village Voice
Martin Filler (1970), architecture critic
Gerrit Henry (1972), art critic, author, poet
Jed Perl (1972), art critic; son of Nobel laureate Martin Lewis Perl GSAS '55
Lucy Sante (1976), literary critic
Tim Page (1979), music critic of The Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Michael Riedel (1989), theater critic for New York Post
Neil Strauss (1991), music critic and best-selling author
Justin Shubow (1999), architectural critic, former chairman and member of the United States Commission of Fine Arts

Broadcasters[]

Robert Siegel (1968), host of All Things Considered on National Public Radio
Jim Gardner (1970), anchor for WPVI-TV news in Philadelphia
Christopher Kimball (1973), celebrity chef, editor-in-chief of Cook's Illustrated and host of America's Test Kitchen
Pimm Fox (1982), Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television anchorman
Fred Katayama (1982), anchor on Reuters Television
James Rubin (1982), Sky News anchorman; former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration; spokesman for the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark and John Kerry; husband of Christiane Amanpour
George Stephanopoulos (1982), ABC News personality; senior advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration
Greg Burke (1982), former Fox News correspondent and director the Holy See Press Office
Claire Shipman (1986), ABC News correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen (1987), CNN's senior medical correspondent
Alexandra Wallace (1988), executive producer of NBC Nightly News
Soterios Johnson (1990), host of Morning Edition on National Public Radio
Alexis Glick (1994), anchorwoman for the Fox Business Network
Suzy Shuster (1994), Emmy Award-winning sportscaster with ABC Sports
Max Kellerman (1998), American boxing commentator and host of HBO World Championship Boxing
Gideon Yago (2000), MTV News correspondent
Jonathan Lemire (2001), journalist and host of MSNBC's Way Too Early
Charlotte MacInnis (2002), China Central Television anchor known by the stage name Ai Hua; host of Growing up with Chinese
Meghan McCain (2007), former co-host of The View, blogger and daughter of Arizona senator John McCain

Editors[]

Francis Pharcellus Church (1859), editorial writer for the New York Sun and author of Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Horatio Sheafe Krans (1894), author and editor
Simeon Strunsky (1900), literary editor of the New York Evening Post and editorial writer for The New York Times
Lester Markel (1914), The section of the New York Times edited by Markel, "Review of the Week", won the Special Awards and Citations Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
Daniel Longwell (1922), co-founder and managing editor of Life
Theodore M. Bernstein (1924), assistant managing editor of The New York Times
Herbert Solow (1924), editor of Fortune
Groff Conklin (1927), science fiction anthologist
Emanuel Freedman (1931), foreign editor of The New York Times
James Wechsler (1935), editorial page editor of the New York Post
David Perlman (1939), former science editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
Lester Bernstein (1940), former editor-in-chief of Newsweek
Werner Wiskari (1941), international news editor of The New York Times
Lucien Carr (1946), editor for United Press International
Byron Dobell (1947), editor of American Heritage, Esquire; mentor to journalists Tom Wolfe, David Halberstam, and Mario Puzo
Charles Peters (1949), founder and former editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly
Ashbel Green (1950), senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf
Emile Capouya (1951), literary editor of The Nation from 1969 to 1981
Robert Gottlieb (1952), editor of The New Yorker and president of Alfred A. Knopf
Max Frankel (1952), Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of The New York Times
Richard Locke (1962), critic, essayist and first editor of new incarnation of Vanity Fair magazine
Leslie Pockell (1962), editor for Grand Central Publishing
Carey Winfrey (1963), editor-in-chief of Smithsonian magazine from 2001 to 2011
Clark Hoyt (1964), public editor of The New York Times
Myron Magnet (1966), editor of City Journal from 1994 to 2006, National Humanities Medal recipient
Chilton Williamson (1969), editor of the Chronicles magazine for the Rockford Institute
Richard Snow (1970), editor of American Heritage magazine
Leon Wieseltier (1974), literary editor, The New Republic
Scott McConnell (1975), founding editor of The American Conservative
Dean Baquet (1978), Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of The New York Times
John Glusman (1978), editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton & Company
Marcus Brauchli (1983), former managing editor, The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of The Washington Post
Michael Caruso (1983), former editor-in-chief of Smithsonian who coined the term "elevator pitch"
Max Alexander (1987), senior editor of People
Dave Kansas (1990), COO of American Public Media Group; former editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com
Charles Ardai (1991), founder of Juno and Hard Case Crime
Janice Min (1991), former editor of Us Weekly, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Partners, head of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard
Michael Schaffer (1995), editor of Washingtonian and former editor of Washington City Paper
Franklin Foer (1996), editor, The New Republic
Marco Roth (1996), co-founder and editor of n+1
Christopher Bollen (1998), journalist, essayist, and former editor-in-chief of Interview Magazine
Eli Sanders (1999), associate editor of The Stranger and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2012
Sam Dolnick (2002), assistant managing editor of The New York Times, member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family
Yoni Appelbaum (2003), senior editor for politics, The Atlantic
Matthew Continetti (2003), associate editor and writer, The Weekly Standard
Bari Weiss (2007), editor at Tablet and The New York Times op-ed section
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (2008), journalist and senior editor of The Nation

Journalists[]

William Henry Leggett (1837), botanist and journalist who founded the Torrey Botanical Bulletin
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1867), muckraking journalist, "father of investigative journalism"
Herbert Agar (1919), journalist and historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934
Matthew Josephson (1920), American journalist credited with popularizing the term "Robber baron"
Herbert Matthews (1922), New York Times foreign correspondent who first reported Fidel Castro alive in the Sierra Maestra
David Cort (1924), foreign news editor at Life magazine
William Brown Meloney V (1926), American journalist, son of noted journalist Marie Mattingly Meloney
Ernest Cuneo (1927), president, North American Newspaper Alliance
Harold Isaacs (1930), American journalist and MIT Professor who wrote extensively on the Chinese Civil War
Peter C. Rhodes (1933), American journalist who worked for United Press International and the United States Office of War Information
Harry Schwartz (1940), editorial writer for The New York Times
Phelan Beale Jr. (1944), journalist; first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Charles E. Silberman (1945), author and journalist
Kennett Love (1948), journalist for The New York Times
David Wise (1951), author of espionage and national security nonfiction
Daniel S. Greenberg (1953), American science journalist, brother of Jack Greenberg '45
Barry Schweid (1953), Associated Press correspondent
Walter Karp (1955), journalist, historian, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine
Warren Boroson (1957), journalist; editor of Fact Magazine
William E. Burrows (1960), author and journalist; founder of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization
Thomas Lippman (1961), journalist and author specializing in the Middle East, correspondent for The Washington Post
Lars-Erik Nelson (1962), New York Daily News columnist
Allen Young (1962), journalist, author, political activist
Bernard L. Stein (1963), American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1998
Michael Drosnin (1966), journalist and author on the Bible code
Juan Gonzalez (1969), New York Daily News columnist
Jeffrey Bruce Klein (1969), investigative journalist and co-founder of Mother Jones
James Simon Kunen (1970), author of articles for Newsday, People, The New York Times Magazine and the novel The Strawberry Statement
Juris Kaža (1971), journalist for Latvian News Agency LETA
Jonathan Freedman (1972), American journalist and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
John Brecher (1973), American journalist and wine critic for The Wall Street Journal
Michael Wolff (1975), media columnist for New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, author of controversial book Fire and Fury on Donald Trump
D. D. Guttenplan (1978), London correspondent and current editor of The Nation
Michael Musto (1978), gossip columnist for The Village Voice
Andrea di Robilant (1979), Italian journalist for La Stampa and professore
Tim Weiner (1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times specializing in national security matters
Kevin Baker (1980), freelance journalist and novelist
John Leland (1981), journalist for The New York Times
Barry C. Lynn (1983), American journalist, senior fellow at the New America Foundation
Ashley Kahn (1983), Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, and producer
Daniel Wattenberg (1983), American journalist for The Washington Times, son of neoconservative pundit Ben J. Wattenberg
N.J. Burkett (1984), award-winning correspondent for WABC-TV
Matthew Cooper (1984), Time magazine White House correspondent and defendant in the Valerie Plame investigation
Tom Watson (1984), journalist, entrepreneur
Thomas Vinciguerra (1985), journalist, editor and author
Naftali Bendavid (1986), Congress correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Rubin (1987), American journalist for The New York Times Magazine, sister of Bloomberg News executive editor James Rubin '82
Aram Roston (1988), American investigative journalist
Edward Lewine (1989), author and freelance journalist
Sam Marchiano (1989), television sportscaster, documentarian and activist, daughter of sportscaster Sal Marchiano
David Streitfeld (1989), book reporter for The Washington Post; winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Caroline Glick (1991), Israeli journalist, editor, writer
Warren St. John (1991), journalist for The New York Times and former CEO of Patch
Jesse Eisinger (1992), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica
Jori Finkel (1992), art reporter for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Olivier Knox (1992), chief Washington correspondent for Sirius XM and former president of the White House Correspondents' Association
Jim Frederick (1993), American author and journalist
Russell Gold (1993), journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer Prize-finalist
Michael Rothfeld (1993), journalist for The Wall Street Journal and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Brad Stone (1993), journalist for Bloomberg Business
Anne Kornblut (1994), correspondent for The Washington Post, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Joshua Prager (1994), journalist and author who writes on historical secrets
Jodi Kantor (1996), writer and former editor on culture and politics for The New York Times, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Harriet Ryan (1996), journalist and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Robin Shulman (1996), freelance journalist
Kate Kelly (1997), journalist for The New York Times
Nicholas Kulish (1997), Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times and novelist
Patrick Radden Keefe (1999), writer and investigative journalist
David Epstein (2002), investigative reporter at ProPublica and author of the New York Times bestseller The Sports Gene
Nick Schifrin (2002), Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent
Jonah Lehrer (2003), former writer for The New Yorker discharged for falsifying quotes
Poppy Harlow (2005), correspondent for CNN
Sarah Maslin Nir (2005), investigative journalist for The New York Times
Nellie Bowles (2010), technology journalist for The New York Times

Pundits[]

Frank Chodorov (1907), conservative activist, founder of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, editor of The Freeman
Arnold Beichman (1934), conservative critic
Ralph de Toledano (1938), conservative commentator, editor of National Review and Newsweek
Joseph Kraft (1947), political columnist, speechwriter for John F. Kennedy
Jules Witcover (1949), columnist, The Baltimore Sun
Norman Podhoretz (1950), a "father of neoconservatism", editor of Commentary Magazine and author of Making It
Jeffrey Hart (1952), conservative cultural critic and advisor to the Dartmouth Review
David Horowitz (1959), conservative commentator and activist; author of the Academic Bill of Rights
Herbert London (1960), conservative activist; former professor at New York University and first dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study; former president of conservative think tank Hudson Institute
Lawrence Auster (1971), Traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist
Andrew Levy (1988), conservative commentator and host of Red Eye on Fox News

Sports journalists[]

Jeremy Gaige (1951), chess archivist and journalist
Paul Zimmerman (1955), football writer for Sports Illustrated known as "Dr. Z"
Robert Lipsyte (1957), sports writer for The New York Times, correspondent for ABC News and host of
Chet Forte (1957), first director of Monday Night Football
Steven Krasner (1975), sports journalist famous for covering the Boston Red Sox for The Providence Journal from 1986 to 2008
Bob Klapisch (1979), sports writer for The Record and Fox Sports
Gary Cohen (1981), television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets

Legal and judicial figures[]

Richard Harison (1764), first United States Attorney for the District of New York
Peter van Schaack (1767), American loyalist and attorney
Abraham Van Vechten (1780s), two-time New York Attorney General
Anthony Bleecker (1791), lawyer and founding member of the New-York Historical Society
Samuel Jones Jr. (1793), Recorder of New York City; Chancellor of New York; Chief Justice of the New York City Superior Court
Augustus B. Woodward (1793), first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory; one of the founders of the University of Michigan
Thomas Phoenix (1795), New York County District Attorney
Pierre C. Van Wyck (1795), New York County District Attorney; Recorder of New York City
William P. Van Ness (1797), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Sampson Simson (1800), attorney, philanthropist, remembered as the "father of Mount Sinai Hospital"
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1804), son of Alexander Hamilton, attorney, soldier, and member of the New York State Assembly
Hugh Maxwell (1808), New York County District Attorney and Collector of the Port of New York
Matthew C. Paterson (1809), New York County District Attorney
Ogden Hoffman (1812), former New York State Attorney General, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and U.S. congressman from New York
Frederic de Peyster (1819), New York attorney
Theodore Sedgwick III (1829), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Blatchford (1837), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Ogden Hoffman Jr. (1840), judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
William Colford Schermerhorn (1840), lawyer, philanthropist, trustee of Columbia University
Peter B. Sweeny* (1840s), New York County District Attorney in 1858
Alexander McCue (1845), Solicitor of the United States Treasury from 1885 to 1888
Joseph Larocque (1849), attorney; president of the New York City Bar Association
Frederic René Coudert Sr. (1850), lawyer, founder of international law firm Coudert Brothers
Myer J. Newmark* (1850s), youngest city attorney in the history of Los Angeles
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1857), lawyer and social reformer who founded the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; grandson of U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry
Gabriel Mead Tooker (1859), American lawyer and clubman, father in law of Whitney Warren of architectural firm Warren and Wetmore
Edgar M. Cullen (1860), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Egerton Leigh Winthrop (1860), American lawyer and socialite
Emile Henry Lacombe (1863), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
George Goelet Kip (1865), American lawyer, heir and member of the Goelet family
Nicholas Fish II (1867), attorney, diplomat, investment banker; son of United States Secretary of State Hamilton Fish
Willard Bartlett (1869), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Lewis Cass Ledyard* (1871), personal counsel to J. P. Morgan and namesake partner of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, transferred to Harvard University after freshman year
Frederic Bronson (1871), lawyer and treasurer for New York Life and Trust Company, grandson of American Revolutionary War surgeon Isaac Bronson
Thomas C. Bach (1875), judge on the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana
Francis S. Bangs (1878), attorney at Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and McVeigh and trustee of Columbia College
Edward De Peyster Livingston (1882), American lawyer and society leader during the Gilded Age
Randolph B. Martine (1885), New York County District Attorney from 1885 to 1887
John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (1886), lawyer and stockbroker, grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwill and Edith Bouvier Beale
Benjamin Cardozo (1889), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William Bondy (1890), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Irving Lehman (1896), chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, son of Mayer Lehman and member of the Lehman family
Joseph M. Proskauer (1896), lawyer, judge, co-founder of international law firm Proskauer Rose
Arthur Garfield Hays (1902), counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and lawyer in the Scopes Trial
Benjamin Kaye (1904), lawyer, playwright, co-founder of international law firm Kaye Scholer
George Z. Medalie (1905), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1931 to 1933 and Republican nominee for the United States Senate in New York in 1932
Irwin Untermyer (1907), American jurist, civic leader, son of Samuel Untermyer
Alexander Holtzoff (1908), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Emil N. Baar (1913), New York Supreme Court justice and former chairman of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Albert Levitt (1913), judge on the District Court of the Virgin Islands
Peter I. B. Lavan (1915), lawyer and philanthropist and namesake of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Raymond L. Wise (1916), American attorney and director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Horace Manges (1917), American attorney, name partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Benjamin Buttenwieser (1919), partner of Kuhn, Loeb, president of the United Jewish Appeal, grandson-in-law of Mayer Lehman and Adolph Lewisohn
Alfred Egidio Modarelli (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
George Rosling (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Archie Owen Dawson (1921), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Louis Nizer (1922), legendary trial lawyer who wrote My Life in Court
Joseph Carmine Zavatt (1922), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Alan J. Altheimer (1923), lawyer and managing partner of Altheimer & Gray
Milton Handler (1923), antitrust expert and Columbia Law School professor
John T. Cahill (1924), U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and founding partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Paul R. Hays (1924), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; wrote majority opinion that found I Am Curious (Yellow) to be not obscene
Frank Hogan (1924), District Attorney of New York City
George Jaffin (1924), attorney and philanthropist; major patron of Yaacov Agam
Morton Baum (1925), lawyer and arts patron, former chairman of New York City Center
Frederick van Pelt Bryan (1925), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Abraham Feller (1925), general counsel to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Trygve Lie, close friend of Alger Hiss
Jerome L. Greene (1926), lawyer, philanthropist
Murray Gurfein (1926), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, famous for presiding over the Pentagon Papers case
Herbert M. Singer (1926), lawyer, philanthropist, former director of PepsiCo and president of Beth Israel Medical Center
Edmund Louis Palmieri (1926), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Milton Pollack (1927), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Silverman (1928), justice on the New York Supreme Court; partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who represented J. Robert Oppenheimer and Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
Arthur Krim (1930), partner in Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon and co-chairman of United Artists
Gerald Dickler (1931), lawyer, chairman of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and founding member of Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Charles Miller Metzner (1931), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Lawrence E. Walsh (1932), independent counsel in the Iran-Contra affair; 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
William Golub (1934), lawyer and advisor to Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Harold Leventhal (1934), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
John Slate (1935), lawyer and name partner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Daniel Mortimer Friedman (1937), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, last chief judge of the United States Court of Claims, and acting Solicitor General of the United States
Wilfred Feinberg (1940), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Hugh H. Bownes (1941), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Richard Kuh (1941), New York County District Attorney and prosecutor of Lenny Bruce for obscenity
Leonard I. Garth (1942), senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Charles L. Brieant (1944), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jack Greenberg (1945), civil rights lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the United States Supreme Court
Roy Cohn (1946), attorney and counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Arthur Lazarus Jr. (1947), American Indian rights lawyer, argued United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians and was involved in the Black Hills Land Claim
Norman Dorsen (1950), professor at the New York University School of Law and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union
Robert O. Harris (1951), labor lawyer and Chairman of the National Mediation Board
Richard H. Stern (1953), attorney and law professor
David Braun (1954), music industry lawyer, former president of PolyGram Records
Alvin Hellerstein (1954), US federal judge
Clarence Benjamin Jones (1956), attorney and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.
Bernard Nussbaum (1958), White House counsel under Bill Clinton
Ezra G. Levin (1959), lawyer, co-chair of international law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
David G. Trager (1959), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Robert Abrams (1960), Bronx Borough President and New York State Attorney General
José A. Cabranes (1961), judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals; first Puerto Rican to sit in a U.S. District Court; current Trustee of Columbia University
Michael B. Mukasey (1963), Attorney General of the United States; former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
David Saxe (1963), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department and former judge on the New York Supreme Court
Peter Zimroth (1963), assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and assistant New York County District Attorney, professor at the New York University School of Law
Barry Kamins (1965), New York City Criminal Court judge and professor at the Fordham University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School
Howard Matz (1965), senior judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Flemming L. Norcott Jr. (1965), former Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Joel Klein (1967), assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
Anthony C. Moscato (1967), acting Inspector General of the Department of Justice and director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys
David M. Becker (1968), two-time general counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Nicholas G. Garaufis (1969), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and former chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration
Jonathan D. Schiller (1969), lawyer, co-founder of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Eric Eisner (1970), lawyer, former president of The Geffen Company and founder of the Young Eisner Scholars program
William Barr (1971), Attorney General of the United States
Arthur Helton (1971), lawyer, refugee advocate
Gerard E. Lynch (1972), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Gary Stephen Katzmann (1973), judge on the United States Court of International Trade
Robert Katzmann (1973), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Eric Holder (1973), United States Attorney General under Barack Obama, Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Jonathan Cuneo (1974), American lawyer, founding partner of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
Paul S. Diamond (1974), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Abbe Lowell (1974), partner at Chadbourne & Parke, Chief Minority Counsel during the Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Jeffrey L. Kessler (1975), co-chairman of Winston & Strawn; former Global Litigation Chair at Dewey & LeBoeuf
Douglas Letter (1975), general counsel to the United States House of Representatives since 2018
Vincent L. Briccetti (1976), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
J. Richard Cohen (1976), former president of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. (1978), federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Rolando Acosta (1979), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Frank J. Aquila (1979), American corporate lawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
Umar Ata Bandial (1979), justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and former chief justice of Lahore High Court
Lanny A. Breuer (1980), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Ronald Weich (1980), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs
Paul Feinman (1981), judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Michael H. Cohen (1983), healthcare law attorney, professor at Harvard Medical School
Miguel Estrada (1983), controversial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Steven Reich (1983), CEO of Deutsche Bank Trust Company and former Associate Deputy Attorney General from 2011 to 2013
Gary R. Brown (1985), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Victor Allen Bolden (1986), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Neil Gorsuch (1988), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
John H. Chun (1991), judge and nominee to the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
Andrew Ceresney (1993), chair of litigation practice at Debevoise & Plimpton and former head of enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Veronica S. Rossman (1993), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Nancy Abudu (1996), lawyer and nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury (1998), lawyer and nominee to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Roy Altman (2004), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Shana Knizhnik (2010), American lawyer and author known for her book Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Military leaders[]

Rudolphus Ritzema (1758), officer during the American Revolutionary War
Edward Antill (1762), colonel and military engineer of the Continental Army who fought in the Battle of Quebec
Nicholas Fish (177-), American Revolutionary War officer
John Doughty (1770), served as Commanding General of the United States Army in 1784
Stephen Lush (1770), American Revolutionary War officer
Robert Troup (1774), soldier, lawyer, jurist, roommate of Alexander Hamilton at King's College
Samuel Auchmuty (1775), British general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and commander of the Madras Army
Marinus Willett (1776), colonel of the Continental Army, leader of the Sons of Liberty and 48th Mayor of New York City
John Chrystie (1806), Colonel of the United States Army during the War of 1812
Stephen Kearny* (1812), Conqueror of California in the Mexican–American War
Charles Wilkes (1818), leader of the United States Exploring Expedition to survey the Pacific Ocean; instigator of the Trent Affair during the American Civil War
Philip Kearny (1833), United States Army officer
Henry M. Judah* (1840), United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
John Watts de Peyster* (1840), Civil War general, military critic and historian
Edward E. Potter (1842), officer during the American Civil War
Augustus van Horne Ellis* (1844), Civil War general
William Cutting* (1851), American lawyer and soldierp
Henry Eugene Davies (1857), Civil War general
William McNeill Whistler* (1857), American Confederate soldier and surgeon, brother of James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Alfred Thayer Mahan* (1858), president, U.S. Naval War College and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
William Jay (1859), American soldier and lawyer, 40th president of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York and great-grandson of first U.S. chief justice John Jay
Alister Greene (1875), American soldier and leader during the Gilded Age
Duncan Elliot (1884), American soldier and banker
Hamilton Fish II (1895), first American killed in the Spanish–American War
Ulysses S. Grant III* (1902), grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, entered with the class of 1902 but transferred to United States Military Academy
John H. Hilldring* (1916), United States Major General and former Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas
Melvin Krulewitch (1916), United States Major General and president of the New York State Athletic Commission
John F. "Jack" Hasey* (1940), American captain in the French Foreign Legion; recipient of the Order of Liberation

Musicians, composers, and lyricists[]

Roy Webb (1910), composer for Notorious and Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Richard Hale (1914), opera and concert singer; narrator, Peter and the Wolf
Oscar Hammerstein II (1916), lyricist for Show Boat, Oklahoma! and The King and I, among other Broadway musical hits
Howard Dietz (1917), director of publicity for MGM and lyricist for "Dancing in the Dark"
Lorenz Hart (1918), lyricist for Pal Joey and other Broadway musical hits
Richard Rodgers* (1923), composer and collaborator with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II; wrote music for Carousel, The Sound of Music, and Victory at Sea, among many others, one of the only two people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony Award, and a Pulitzer Prize
Elie Siegmeister (1927), composer, music teacher, writer on music
Richard Franko Goldman (1930), composer, music professor, president of the Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977
Milton Katims (1930), conductor, music director of the Seattle Symphony from 1954 to 1976
Mordecai Bauman (1935), American baritone
Emerson Buckley (1936), conductor, The Crucible, The Ballad of Baby Doe; director of the Florida Grand Opera from 1950 to 1973
Eddie Sauter (1936), jazz musician
Elliott Schwartz (1936), American composer and professor emeritus of Bowdoin College
John La Touche* (1937), lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden Apple
Howard Shanet (1939), conductor and composer, former head of Columbia University's music department
Leonard B. Meyer (1940), composer, author, philosopher known for his contributions to the Aesthetic theory of music
Orrin Keepnews (1943), jazz record producer and winner of the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and Best Historical Album.
Mort Lindsey (1944), musical director for Judy Garland and Merv Griffin
Dick Hyman (1948), musical director for Arthur Godfrey; composer or arranger for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Purple Rose of Cairo; Emmy Award winner
Philip Springer (1950), composer known for writing the song Santa Baby
Eric Salzman (1954), composer, producer, critic; founder of the American Music Theater Festival and composer-in-residence of the Center for Contemporary Opera
Malcolm Frager (1955), American piano virtuoso
Mike Berniker (1957), American musical producer and winner of nine Grammy Awards
Billy Goldenberg (1957), American composer and winner of four Emmy Awards
John Corigliano (1959), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and Academy Award for Best Original Score
Edward Kleban (1959), lyricist for A Chorus Line
David Bromberg* (1960s), Grammy Award-nominated American musician
Charles Wuorinen (1961), serialist composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Time's Encomium
Joel Krosnick (1963), chamber musician and member of the Juilliard String Quartet
David Rubinson (1963), record and music producer of Apocalypse Now, founder of San Francisco Records and The Automatt recording studio
Art Garfunkel (1965), singer of Simon and Garfunkel, famous for the song The Sound of Silence
Kenneth Ascher (1966), Academy Award-nominated jazz pianist; writer of Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie
David Schiff (1967), composer
Tom Werman (1967), former record producer for Epic Records
Billy Cross (1968), American guitarist, singer, and producer who lives in Denmark
Jon Bauman (1969), "Bowzer" of Sha Na Na
James "Plunky" Branch (1969), jazz musician
Cameron Brown (1969), jazz bassist
Emanuel Ax (1970), concert pianist
Marc Copland (1970), jazz pianist and composer
Scott Simon (1970), member of Sha Na Na
Frederick "Dennis" Greene (1971), member of Sha Na Na; professor of law at the University of Dayton
Armen Donelian (1972), jazz pianist
Jocko Marcellino (1972), member of Sha Na Na
Phil Schaap (1973), Charlie Parker authority and multiple Grammy Award winner for engineering, production, and album notes
Eugene Drucker (1973), Grammy Award-winning violinist, member of the Emerson String Quartet
Sam Morrison (1973), saxophonist
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro (1973), American composer and conductor
Richard Einhorn (1975), American composer, Voices of Light
Phil Kline (1975), American composer
Paul Phillips (1978), conductor, composer, and music scholar at Brown University
Erik Friedlander (1982), American cellist, son of American photographer Lee Friedlander
Dave Nachmanoff (1986), award-winning American folk singer and sideman to Al Stewart
John Bohlinger (1988), musician and music director on NBC program Nashville Star
Laura Cantrell (1989), country musician
Peter J. Nash (1989), member of 3rd Bass
Mac McCaughan (1990), member of indie rockband Superchunk and founder of Merge Records
Richard Carrick (1993), pianist, composer, professor at Berklee College of Music
Gil Shaham (1993), violinist
Jefferson Friedman (1996), American composer
Tom Kitt (1996), American composer, co-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Original Score for his score of the musical Next to Normal
R. Luke DuBois (1997), composer and artist
Lauryn Hill* (1997), Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and songwriter, and member of The Fugees
Sean Lennon* (1997), singer and songwriter, and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Orli Shaham (1997), pianist
Yelena Dudochkin (1998), Ukrainian-American soprano
Scott Hoffman (1999), known by the stage name Babydaddy, member of the rock band Scissor Sisters
The Two Man Gentlemen Band, modern musical duo that consists of Fuller Condon (2000) and Andy Bean (2001)
Mason Bates (2000), Grammy Award-winning composer
Tom Frank (2000), journalist, former member of indie-rock band Jonathan Fire*Eater
Hikaru Utada* (2000), Japanese pop star
Alicia Keys* (2001), Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and songwriter
Brian Weitz (2001), founding member of experimental band Animal Collective
Ken-David Masur (2002), musical director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, son of conductor Kurt Masur
Ariana Ghez (2003), oboist
Nico Muhly (2003), American contemporary classical music composer
Anna Bulbrook (2004), American violinist formerly member of indie band The Airborne Toxic Event
Alisa Weilerstein (2004), American cellist and 2011 MacArthur Fellow
Tristan Perich (2004), contemporary composer and sound artist
Peter Cincotti (2005), pianist
Ellen Reid (2005), composer and recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Patrick Higgins (2006), composer, musician, producer
Michael Barimo (2006), pop singer and whistler
Rostam Batmanglij (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire Weekend
Ezra Koenig (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire Weekend
Chris Tomson (2006), member of alt-rock band Vampire Weekend
Chris Baio (2007), member of alt-rock band Vampire Weekend
Call Me Ace or Anthony Patterson (2011), American rapper
Adam Met (2013), member of pop band AJR
Danny Mercer (2013), singer, songwriter and producer
Nathan Chan (2014), cellist
Conrad Tao (2015), composer, pianist, violinist
Jack Met* (2019), member of pop band AJR

Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors[]

Henry Churchill de Mille (1875), playwright and Georgist; father of film pioneers Cecil B. DeMille and William C. deMille
William C. deMille (1900), screenwriter, director, playwright; second president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; co-founder of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
Edgar Allan Woolf (1901), screenwriter, The Wizard of Oz
George Middleton (1902), playwright and president of the Dramatists Guild of America
Herman Mankiewicz (1917), drama critic for The New Yorker and co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane
Morrie Ryskind* (1917), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with George S. Kaufman for Of Thee I Sing and co-writer of The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, and A Night at the Opera
Sam Spewack (1919), winner of the Tony Award for the book of Kiss Me, Kate
Sidney Buchman (1923), screenwriter for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Guy Endore (1923), screenwriter for The Story of G.I. Joe
Alvah Bessie (1924), screenwriter for Objective, Burma! and one of the Hollywood Ten
Ferrin Fraser (1927), radio scriptwriter for Little Orphan Annie and Frank Buck
Joseph Mankiewicz (1928), Academy Award-winning writer and director of All About Eve and A Letter to Three Wives
Frank S. Nugent (1929), screenwriter for Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and The Quiet Man
Robert F. Blumofe (1930), producer of Bound for Glory, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Ben Maddow (1930), screenwriter for The Asphalt Jungle, God's Little Acre and The Mephisto Waltz
Albert Maltz (1930), screenwriter for Destination Tokyo and one of the Hollywood Ten
Arnold M. Auerbach (1932), Primetime Emmy Award-winning American comedy writer
William Ludwig (1932), Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Interrupted Melody
Martin Manulis (1935), CBS television and movie producer, Days of Wine and Roses, The Best of Broadway, Climax!, Suspense; creator of Playhouse 90; former president of 20th Century Fox Television
Charles H. Schneer (1940), film producer known for his collaboration with Ray Harryhausen
I.A.L. Diamond (1941), screenwriting partner of Billy Wilder; co-author of Some Like It Hot; co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Apartment
Don M. Mankiewicz (1942), television and film writer; Academy Award nominee for I Want to Live!
Steve Krantz (1943), screenwriter and film producer, Fritz the Cat
Ernest Kinoy (1947), television writer of Murrow, Roots, and Victory at Entebbe
Saul Turteltaub (1954), Emmy Award-nominated television writer and producer
William Kronick (1955), American film and television writer, director and producer
Stephen Schenkel (1956), American TV producer, All My Children
Milton Moses Ginsberg (1957), American director, Coming Apart
Doran William Cannon (1959), screenwriter of Skidoo and Brewster McCloud
Richard Pearlman (1959), former director of the Washington National Opera as well as the training program at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Terrence McNally (1960), Tony Award-winning playwright; author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime
Michael Kahn (1961), Artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
Brian De Palma (1962), director of Scarface, The Untouchables and Carrie
Crawford Kilian (1962), Canadian novelist and professor at Capilano University
Christopher Trumbo (1964), screenwriter, The Don Is Dead ; son of noted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
Paul Hirsch (1966), film editor, won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for his work on Star Wars
Arthur Albert (1969), American cinematographer and television director
Hoyt Hilsman (1970), playwright and screenwriter, son of former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Roger Hilsman
Glenn Switkes (1972), director and environmentalist
Jim Jarmusch (1975), writer/director of the Coffee and Cigarettes series
Howard Brookner (1976), director, Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Bill Condon (1976), winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Gods and Monsters, director of Kinsey and Dreamgirls
Ric Burns (1978), documentary filmmaker, New York: A Documentary Film, The Civil War
Tony Kushner (1978), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Angels in America
Michael Lehmann (1978), director of Heathers, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Hudson Hawk
Ron Simons (1982), producer, four-time Tony Award winner
P. J. Pesce (1983), co-creator of The Adventures of Chico and Guapo, director of From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Lodge Kerrigan (1985), American motion picture screenwriter and director of Rebecca H.
Scott McGehee (1985), director of Uncertainty
Katharina Otto-Bernstein (1986), Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker, producer, screenwriter daughter of German Industrialist Werner Otto, billionaire heiress to the Otto GmbH fortune
Cecily Rhett (1987), film editor, Stranger Inside
Garth Stein (1987), Academy Award-winning producer, The Lunch Date
Dan Futterman (1989), two-time Academy Award nominee for writing Capote and Foxcatcher
Jessica Bendinger (1988), writer of Bring it On and for Sex and the City
Andrew W. Marlowe (1988), creator of Castle; writer of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man
Lawrence Trilling (1988), showrunner of Parenthood and Goliath
Maiken Baird (1989), documentary film producer, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Sam Bisbee (1990), Emmy Award-winning producer and composer
Gina Fattore (1990), producer and writer of Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, Parenthood, creator of Dare Me
Jeff Rake (1990), television producer, writer of Boston Legal and creator of Manifest and The Mysteries of Laura
Dede Gardner (1990), Academy Award-winning producer of 12 Years a Slave; president of Plan B Entertainment
Jenji Kohan (1991), television writer, producer, creator of Orange Is the New Black and Weeds
Ari Gold (1992), filmmaker, director of Adventures of Power
Brian Yorkey (1993), American playwright, co-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the musical Next to Normal
Anna Winger (1993), American screenwriter, creator of miniseries Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86, and Unorthodox
Imara Jones (1994), political journalist and director
Nicole Kassell (1994), director and producer of Watchmen, winner of the 2020 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
Tim Carvell (1995), head writer of The Daily Show and executive producer of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Adam Egypt Mortimer (1995), director of Daniel Isn't Real, Archenemy
Henry Alex Rubin (1995), Academy Award-nominated director, Murderball
Ramin Bahrani (1996), writer-director of Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Fahrenheit 451, 2021 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominee
Moira Demos (1996), American filmmaker who produced famous Netflix documentary Making a Murderer
Yana Gorskaya (1996), Academy Award-nominated film editor, Spellbound
Cetywa Powell (1996), American director and fine art photographer
Nancy Schwartzman (1997), director, Roll Red Roll
Beau Willimon (1999), creator and producer of House of Cards and writer of the play Farragut North
Andrew Goldberg (2000), creator of Netflix series Big Mouth
Ned Benson (2001), director, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Dan Harris (2001), Saturn Award-winning American screenwriter, X2, Superman Returns; director, Imaginary Heroes
Andrew Neel (2001), American filmmaker, director of King Kelly, Goat
Anna Boden (2002), co-writer of Half Nelson and director of Sugar, Captain Marvel
Tze Chun (2002), award-winning director, Children of Invention
Lang Fisher (2002), co-creator of Never Have I Ever, writer of 30 Rock and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Peabody Award winner in 2008
Susanna Fogel (2002), Emmy Award and BAFTA Award-nominated director
Justin Marks (2002), screenwriter, The Jungle Book, Counterpart
Katori Hall (2003), American playwright, The Mountaintop, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Raamla Mohamed (2003), Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, Little Fires Everywhere
Graham Moore (2003), winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his screenplay of The Imitation Game
Lucia Aniello (2004), director of Rough Night and Time Traveling Bong
Gabe Liedman (2004), creator of Q-Force, writer of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, PEN15, Inside Amy Schumer and Kroll Show
Zhang Mo (2005), Chinese director, daughter of Zhang Yimou
Laura Goode (2006), author, columnist, and producer of Farah Goes Bang
Meera Menon (2006), Indian American director, Equity
Eli Bush (2009), American film and theatre producer and winner of the Golden Globe Award in 2018 for Lady Bird
Jason Fuchs (2009), American actor and screenwriter, Pan, Ice Age: Continental Drift
Nuotama Bodomo (2010), Ghanaian filmmaker and co-writer of sketch comedy Random Acts of Flyness on HBO
Sabaah Folayan (2013), director of documentary Whose Streets?

Political and diplomatic figures[]

United States political and diplomatic figures[]

Philip Van Cortlandt (1758), soldier, statesman, United States Congressman from New York
Anthony Hoffman (1760), member of the New York State Senate
Gilbert Livingston (1760), member of the New York Provincial Congress
Gulian Verplanck (1768), Speaker of the New York State Assembly and president of the Bank of New York from 1791 to 1799
Philip Pell (1770), delegate for New York to the Congress of the Confederation
Richard Varick (King's 1776), Mayor of New York City and American Revolutionary War figure; aide-de-camp of Benedict Arnold and private secretary of George Washington
David A. Ogden (178-), United States Congressman from New York
DeWitt Clinton (1786), Governor of New York who initiated the construction of the Erie Canal; also served as United States Senator from New York
James Cochran (1788), United States Congressman from New York
Daniel C. Verplanck (1788), United States Congressman from New York
John Peter Van Ness (1789), United States Congressman from New York and mayor of Washington, D.C.
George Graham (1790), acting U.S. Secretary of War under James Madison and James Monroe; Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1823 to 1830
John Graham (1790), secretary of the Orleans Territory; U.S. Minister to Portugal; acting United States Secretary of State in 1817
Jotham Post Jr. (1792), United States Congressman from New York
John Randolph of Roanoke* (1792), planter, United States Congressman from Virginia, United States Senate from Virginia, United States Ambassador to Russia; founder of the American Colonization Society
George Clinton Jr. (1793), brother of DeWitt Clinton, and United States Congressman from New York
George Izard* (1793), general, politician; second Governor of the Territory of Arkansas
James Parker (1793), United States Congressman from New Jersey
Peter A. Jay (1794), son of Chief Justice John Jay; member of New York State Assembly and Recorder of New York City
Cyrus King (1794), United States Congressman from Massachusetts
John Ferguson (1795), Mayor of New York City
Daniel D. Tompkins (1795), Vice President of the United States; Governor of New York
Rensselaer Westerlo (1795), United States Congressman from New York
Edward Philip Livingston (1796), member of the New York State Senate, great-great-grandfather of Eleanor Roosevelt
Rudolph Bunner (1798), United States Congressman from New York
John M. Bowers (1800s), United States Congressman from New York
Gulian C. Verplanck (1801), United States Congressman from New York and chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means
Gouverneur Kemble (1803), United States Congressman from New York and founder of the West Point Foundry
John L. Lawrence (1803), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Alpheus Sherman (1803), member of the New York State Senate
James Alexander Hamilton (1805), son of Alexander Hamilton, soldier, acting United States Secretary of State under president Andrew Jackson, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1829 to 1834
Edmund H. Pendleton (1805), United States Congressman from New York, great-nephew of Edmund Pendleton, first Chief Justice of Virginia
Samuel B. Romaine (1806), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
Egbert Benson (1807), member of the Board of Aldermen of New York City and 4th president of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, nephew of founding father Egbert Benson
Henry H. Ross (1808), United States Congressman from New York
Peter Dumont Vroom (1808), U.S. Minister to Prussia and Governor of New Jersey
John Fine (1809), United States Congressman from New York
John Slidell (1810), Confederate minister to France and a central figure of the Trent Affair during the American Civil War; United States Senator from Louisiana, brother-in-law of Admiral Matthew C. Perry
Charles G. Ferris (1811), United States Congressman from New York
Van Brugh Livingston (1811), Chargé d'Affaires to Ecuador
Nathanael G. Pendleton (1813), United States Congressman from Ohio
Samuel L. Gouverneur (1817), postmaster of New York City, private secretary, nephew, and son-in-law of President James Monroe
James I. Roosevelt (1815), United States Congressman from New York; brother of Cornelius Roosevelt
William Beach Lawrence (1818), U.S. chargé d'affaires for Great Britain and acting governor of Rhode Island
William F. Havemeyer (1823), three-time Mayor of New York City
William Duer (1824), United States Congressman from New York
John McKeon (1825): U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York; United States Congressman from New York
Hamilton Fish (1827), US Secretary of State; Governor of New York; United States Senator from New York
John Henry Hobart Haws (1827), United States Congressman from New York
John D. Van Buren (1829), member of New York State Assembly
Henry Ledyard (1830), Mayor of Detroit; president of Newport Hospital
Henry Nicoll (1830), United States Congressman from New York
Henry C. Murphy (1830), United States Congressman from New York; former United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
John L. O'Sullivan (1831), US Minister to Portugal; journalist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"; publisher of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
James William Beekman (1834), member of the New York State Senate; vice-president of the New York Hospital
Isaac C. Delaplaine (1834), United States Congressman from New York
John Richardson Thurman (1835), United States Congressman from New York
John Jay (1836), grandson of Chief Justice John Jay; United States Minister to Austro-Hungary; president of the American Historical Association
John Vanderbilt (1837), judge, member of the New York State Senate
William Ward Duffield (1841), officer, member of the Michigan Senate, superintendent of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1842), former Mayor of New York City and planner of the first line of the New York City Subway system; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1877, son in law of philanthropist Peter Cooper
Edward Cooper (1842), former Mayor of New York City and son of industrialist Peter Cooper
Nicholas B. La Bau (1844), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
John Winthrop Chanler (1847), United States Congressman from New York
Horace Carpentier (1848), first mayor of Oakland, California and president of the Overland Telegraph Company
A. Bleecker Banks* (1850s), Mayor of Albany, New York; member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Galen A. Carter (1850), member of the Connecticut Senate
Stewart L. Woodford (1854), Lieutenant Governor of New York and U.S. Minister to Spain
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1858), United States Congressman from New Jersey
George Lockhart Rives (1868), United States Assistant Secretary of State and chairman of the Columbia trustees
Hamilton Fish II (1869), Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman
Thomas C. E. Ecclesine (1870), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Seth Low (1870), Mayor of New York City and president of Columbia University
Oscar Solomon Straus (1871), first Jewish U.S. Cabinet secretary, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor under Theodore Roosevelt, and U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, first president of the American Jewish Historical Society
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1871), first Mayor of New York City to preside over all five boroughs
Robert Ray Hamilton (1872), member of New York State Assembly, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton
P. Henry Dugro (1876), United States Congressman from New York
Benjamin Barker Odell Jr.* (1877), Governor of New York; United States Congressman from New York
Thomas G. Patten (1879), United States Congressman from New York
Thomas F. Magner (1882), United States Congressman from New York
Thomas Ewing III (1883), 33rd commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Herbert L. Satterlee (1883), Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909, son-in-law of J. P. Morgan
William Sulzer (1884), Governor of New York
J. Mayhew Wainwright (1884), U.S. Congressman and Assistant Secretary of War
Charles Henry Turner (1888), United States Congressman from New York; Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1893
James W. Gerard (1890), United States Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917
Victor M. Allen (1892), member of the New York State Senate
John F. Carew (1893), United States Congressman from New York
Harvey R. Kingsley (1893), President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate
Edward Lazansky (1895), Secretary of State of New York
Carl L. Alsberg (1896), 2nd Commissioner of Food and Drugs, head of the Food and Drug Administration from 1912 to 1921
Lewis Einstein (1898), U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica
John Purroy Mitchel (1899), Mayor of New York City
Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1899), U.S. Minister to El Salvador and U.S. Minister to Ecuador
Charles H. Tuttle (1899), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and 1930 Republican nominee for Governor of New York
Henry W. Shoemaker (1901), folklorist, historian, diplomat; United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1930 to 1933
Martin C. Ansorge (1903), United States Congressman from New York
Stanley M. Isaacs (1903), Manhattan Borough president from 1938 to 1942
Allen J. Bloomfield (1094), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Fred Biermann (1905), United States Congressman from Iowa
John Collier (1906), U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Meyer Robert Guggenheim* (1907), United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1953 to 1954, grandson of Meyer Guggenheim
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (1907), United States Senator from Wyoming
James W. Mott (1909), United States Congressman from Oregon
Emanuel Celler (1910), 39th Dean of the United States House of Representatives; United States Congressman from New York
William Langer (1910), United States Senator and Governor of North Dakota
Laurence Steinhardt (1913), former United States Ambassador to Sweden, Peru, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia and Canada; the first United States Ambassador to be killed in office
Henry Frank Holthusen (1915), American lawyer, diplomat, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia nominee
Samuel Irving Rosenman (1915), 1st White House Counsel to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, name partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman
Frederic René Coudert Jr. (1918), United States Congressman from New York
Harold F. Linder (1921), president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968; former United States Ambassador to Canada
Arthur Levitt Sr. (1921), longest-serving New York State Comptroller; father of Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Joseph Zaretzki (1922), Majority Leader of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1974
Louis M. Rousselot (1923), Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Environment from 1970 to 1971
Joseph Campbell (1924), fourth Comptroller General of the United States
Arthur F. Burns (1925), Chairman of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
Bernard M. Shanley (1925), White House Counsel from 1953 to 1955; Secretary to the President of the United States under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1955 to 1957
Joseph F. Finnegan (1928), director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1955 to 1961
Wolf Ladejinsky (1928), American agricultural economist and researcher and key adviser on land reform in Asian countries
James T. O'Connell (1928), United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 1957 to 1961
James J. Reynolds (1928), United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 1967 to 1969
William H. Shaw (1930), Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs from 1966 to 1968
Boris Shishkin (1930), member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights and head of the AFL-CIO Department of Civil Rights
Arthur E. Goldschmidt (1932), United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council from 1967 to 1969
Reed Harris (1932), former deputy director of the United States Information Agency and victim of McCarthyism
James Hagerty (1934), White House Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961
Hickman Price (1934), Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce from 1961 to 1963; Kaiser-Frazer and Willys executive
Faubion Bowers* (1935), General Douglas MacArthur's interpreter and Aide-de-camp during the Allied Occupation of Japan
Hunter Meighan (1935), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Thomas Karamessines (1938), Deputy Director of CIA for Operations from 1967 to 1973
Thibaut de Saint Phalle (1939), director of the Export–Import Bank of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Arthur R. Albohn (1942), member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Richard T. Davies (1942), former United States Ambassador to Poland
David E. Mark (1943), former United States Ambassador to Burundi
J. Owen Zurhellen, Jr. (1943), first United States Ambassador to Suriname
Christian H. Armbruster (1944), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Harold Brown (1945), U.S. Secretary of Defense and president of the California Institute of Technology
Albert Burstein (1947), Democratic Party politician and former Majority leader of the New Jersey General Assembly
Edward N. Costikyan (1947), Democratic Party politician and reformer who oversaw the dismantling of Tammany Hall; partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Gardiner L. Tucker (1947), former director of IBM Research and Assistant Secretary of Defense for System Analysis, Assistant Secretary General of NATO
Jonathan Dean (1948), United States Representative for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions negotiations from 1979 to 1981
Roy H. McVicker (1948), United States Congressman for Colorado's 2nd congressional district
Monteagle Stearns (1948), former United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast and United States Ambassador to Greece
Eugene Rossides (1949), American lobbyist, football player drafted by the New York Giants in 1949, founder of the American Hellenic Institute, former United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Donald A. Beattie (1951), Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Solar Applications in the United States Department of Energy and Assistant Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration
Lawrence Pezzullo (1951), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay, Nicaragua, and special envoy to Haiti; executive director of Catholic Relief Services from 1983 to 1992
Eric M. Javits (1952), former Ambassador and Permanent U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2001 to 2003; United States Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2003 to 2009
James D. Theberge (1952), former United States Ambassador to Chile and Nicaragua
G. Norman Anderson (1954), former United States Ambassador to Sudan
David J. Bardin (1954), Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
William Haddad (1954), American political operative, lobbyist, and journalist, Peace Corps founding official, aide to the Kennedy family, and grandson-in-law of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard E. Benedick (1955), president emeritus of the National Council for Science and the Environment, ambassador, and chief United States negotiator to the Montreal Protocol
John L. Hirsch (1957), United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1995 to 1998
Morton Halperin (1958), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, and member of Richard Nixon's Enemies List
Shelby Brewer (1959), Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy from 1981 to 1984
Benjamin Huberman (1959), acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and acting Science Advisor to the President in 1981
Pat Mullins (1959), Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia
Constantine Menges (1960), national security aide to Ronald Reagan
James E. Connor (1961), White House Cabinet Secretary and Staff secretary to President Gerald Ford
Brooks Firestone (1961), member of the California State Assembly from the 35th district from 1994 to 1998, founder of Firestone Vineyard and grandson of Harvey S. Firestone
Harvey Goldschmid (1962), professor at Columbia Law School, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2002 to 2005
John A. McMullen (1963), Vermont businessman and Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate representing Vermont in 1998, 2004, and Vermont Attorney General in 2012
Jeff Bell (1965), Republican nominee for United States Senate from New Jersey in 1978, 1982, and in 2014
Mark T. Cox IV (1966), former United States alternate executive director to the World Bank
Allan I. Mendelowitz (1966), former chairman and director of the Federal Housing Finance Board
Raymond Burghardt (1967), former director, and chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
Dick Morris (1967), political strategist and advisor to President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Felipe Calderón
Mark C. Minton (1967), former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, and former president of the Korea Society
Robert Delahunty (1968), Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Homeland Security from 2002 to 2003; professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law
Judd Gregg (1969), United States Senator from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; United States Congressman
Jerrold Nadler (1969), United States Congressman from New York
Daniel L. Feldman (1970), member of the New York State Assembly from the 45th district
Dov Zakheim (1970), Under Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2004; advisor to the US presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush
Bob Hackett (1971), member of the Ohio Senate from the 10th district
Luis J. Lauredo (1972), United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2001 to 2003
Eric D. Coleman (1973), member of the Connecticut Senate
Frank Dermody (1973), Democratic leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Stephen J. Flanagan (1973), former United States National Security Council senior director for Central and Eastern Europe
Steven Simon (1973), former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa
Bradford Higgins (1974), Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer of the United States Department of State
Robert Wunderlich (1975), mayor of Beverly Hills, California
Donald Yamamoto (1975), former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, current United States Ambassador to Somalia
Gilberto de Jesús (1976), former Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Justice from 1997 to 1999
Mozelle W. Thompson (1976), commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 1997 to 2004
Howard W. Gutman (1977), former United States Ambassador to Belgium
Robert E. Martinez (1977), 8th Virginia Secretary of Transportation and deputy administrator of the United States Maritime Administration
David Paterson (1977), first African American Governor of New York
Karl Dean (1978), mayor of Nashville
Christopher Dell (1978), career diplomat, former US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Angola, and Kosovo
Martin J. Dunn (1979), former mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts Senate
Jim McGreevey (1978), 53rd Governor of New Jersey
Andres Alonso (1979), former CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools
Timothy Horrigan (1979), member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Randal Quarles (1981), 15th Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, chair of the Financial Stability Board and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve
Andrew C. McCarthy (1981), Assistant United States Attorney and columnist for National Review
Charles J. O'Byrne (1981), Secretary to the Governor of New York
Michael Waldman (1982), speechwriter for president Clinton; president of the Brennan Center for Justice
John Solecki (1982), U.S. official for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, kidnapped in Pakistan by the Balochistan Liberation United Front in 2009
Barack Obama (1983), 44th President of the United States and first African American to hold the office; former Senator from Illinois; winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Victor Cha (1983), foreign policy expert; President Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs
Jay Lefkowitz (1984), George W. Bush's special envoy for Human rights in North Korea
Steven Waldman (1984), senior advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and founder of Beliefnet
John Delaney (1985), United States Congressman for Maryland's 6th congressional district and candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election
Julius Genachowski (1985), Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Hector Morales (1985), United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2008 to 2009
Daniel Lewis Foote (1986), former United States Ambassador to Zambia
Michael Mundaca (1986), former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Sharon Block (1987), Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, former member of the National Labor Relations Board and professor at Harvard Law School
David M. Friedman (1987), current United States Ambassador to Israel
Matt Gonzalez (1987), Green Party San Francisco mayoral candidate and independent 2008 candidate for vice president running with Ralph Nader
Tim Kelly (1989), 74th mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Julie Menin (1989), former chairperson of Manhattan Community Board 1 and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
Dave Hunt (1990), 65th Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and majority leader from 2007 to 2009
Michael Leiter (1991), Principal Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Melissa Mark-Viverito (1991), Speaker of the New York City Council
Benjamin Lawsky (1992), attorney and New York City's first Superintendent of Financial Services
Peter Hatch (1992), Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
Eric Garcetti (1992), member of the Los Angeles City Council and current Mayor of Los Angeles, nominee to be United States Ambassador to India
Rohit Aggarwala (1993), Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Matt Brown (1993), Secretary of State of Rhode Island from 2003 to 2007; co-founder of non-partisan group Global Zero
Alan D. Cohn (1993), Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk of the United States Department of Homeland Security
Amit Bose (1994), Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration
Karthik Ramanathan (1994), Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
Frank Scaturro (1994), lawyer, public advocate who spearheaded the restoration of Grant's Tomb; Republican candidate for New York's 4th congressional district
Radhika Fox (1995), Acting Assistant Administrator for Water of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Beto O'Rourke (1995), United States Congressman for Texas's 16th congressional district and candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election
Rebekah Gee (1997), secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, daughter of Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee
Jay Carson (1999), executive director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; former press secretary for Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean's presidential campaigns
John Ray Clemmons (1999), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 55th district
George Demos (1999), former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prosecutor and Republican candidate for New York's 1st congressional district
Robert Karem (2000), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and former acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
David Segal (2001), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Robby Mook (2002), political campaign strategist and campaign manager for Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, former executive director of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; campaign manager for Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
Sam Arora (2003), member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2015
Cyrus Habib (2003), Lieutenant Governor of Washington, first and only Iranian American elected to a state office in the United States
Adam Jentleson (2003), former deputy chief of staff to Harry Reid and columnist of GQ
Nikil Saval (2005), former editor of N+1, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Josie Raymond (2007), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 31st district
Sara Jacobs (2011), member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 53rd congressional district, granddaughter of Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs
Peter Meijer (2012), American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, grandson of Frederik Meijer, founder of Meijer hypermarkets
Shaun Abreu (2013), American politician, Democratic nominee for New York City's 7th City Council district
Julia Salazar* (2014), member of New York State Senate for Democratic Socialists of America

Foreign political and diplomatic figures[]

Henry Cruger* (1758), member of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1774 to 1790 and the New York State Senate
Isaac Wilkins (1760), judge, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Thomas Henry Barclay (1772), United Empire Loyalist; member of the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
Tang Shaoyi* (1882), first premier of the Republic of China
William Sanford Evans (1895), Manitoba politician, Mayor of Winnipeg from 1909 to 1911
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1906), founder and president of the African National Congress
Wellington Koo (1909), President of the Republic of China and China's ambassador to the United States; Chinese delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and the League of Nations; judge on the International Court of Justice from 1957 to 1967
Jun Ke Choy (1915), former mayor of Hangzhou, chairman of China Merchants Group, and founder of the Chinese Culture Center
Mario Laserna Pinzón (1948), Colombian diplomat and educator; founded the Universidad de Los Andes
Uldis-Ivars Grava (1958), Latvian parliamentarian, former director of Latvijas Televīzija and chairman of American Latvian Association
Johan Jorgen Holst (1960), Norwegian Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs; heavily involved with the Oslo Accords
Yossi Alpher (1964), former Mossad officer and director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
Dore Gold (1975), Israeli political advisor and diplomat; former ambassador to the United States
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1975), President of Estonia
Carson Wen (1975), three-time Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and former vice chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong
Geoffrey Onyeama (1977), Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015, son of Nigerian justice Charles Onyeama
Michael Oren (1977), Israeli historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States
Kim Hyun-jong (1981), former South Korean Minister of Trade and Special Advisor to President Moon Jae-in
Ken Ofori-Atta (1984), Ghanaian economist and investment banker and current Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, member of the Ofori-Atta family
Akiva Tor (1985), Israeli ambassador to South Korea
Abdullah bin Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud (2010), Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna, ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia, great-grandson of Ibn Saud

Publishers[]

George Haven Putnam* (1864), publisher of G. P. Putnam's Sons, son of publisher George Palmer Putnam
Bernard H. Ridder (1903), publisher of The St. Paul Dispatch and The Pioneer Press, chairman emeritus of Ridder Publications
Alfred Harcourt (1904) and Donald Brace (1904), founders of Harcourt Brace
Joseph E. Ridder (1907), publisher of The Journal of Commerce and chairman of Ridder Publications
John Neville Wheeler (1908), founder and owner of the North American Newspaper Alliance and Bell Syndicate
Alfred A. Knopf (1912), founder and chairman of Alfred A. Knopf
George T. Delacorte Jr. (1913), founder of Dell Publishing
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1913), publisher of The New York Times
Douglas Black (1916), president of Doubleday and Company
Bennett Cerf (1920), founder of Random House
Donald S. Klopfer* (1922), founder of Random House
Richard L. Simon (1920) and Max Lincoln Schuster (1919), co-founders of Simon & Schuster
Elliott V. Bell (1925), former editor and publisher of Businessweek
Robert Giroux (1936), chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ian Ballantine (1938), founder of Ballantine Books
Walter B. Pitkin Jr. (1938), editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Bantam Books
William D. Carey (1940), executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and publisher of Science from 1975 to 1987
Robert Bleiberg (1943), former publisher and managing editor of Barron's
Gilman Kraft (1947), former owner and publisher of Playbill
Jason Epstein (1949), editorial director of Random House and co-founder of the New York Review of Books
Bernard Shir-Cliff (1949), editor of Ballantine Books and Warner Books
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1951), publisher of The New York Times
Lee Guittar (1953), former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, The Denver Post, Dallas Times Herald, and president of USA Today
Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr. (1956), former publisher of the Miami Herald and the United States Ambassador to Spain from 1992 to 1993
Peter Mayer (1956), publisher of Overlook Press and former CEO of Penguin Books
Daniel Leab (1957), historian, antiquarian and publisher book catalogues, former editor of Labor History
Donald Welsh (1965), founding publisher of outdoors magazine Outside
Albert Scardino (1970), publisher of The Georgia Gazette and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1984
Louis Rossetto (1971), founder and publisher of Wired magazine
David Rothkopf (1977), CEO and editor of Foreign Policy magazine
John R. MacArthur (1978), president and publisher of Harper's magazine, grandson of billionaire John D. MacArthur, benefactor of the MacArthur Fellows Program
Jake Dobkin (1998), co-founder and publisher of Gothamist franchise

Religious figures[]

Samuel Provoost (1758), third Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church
John Beardsley (1761), Church of England clergyman in Canada; chaplain of the Loyal American Regiment
Benjamin Moore (King's 1768), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and president of Columbia College
Philip Frederick Mayer (1799), Lutheran clergyman; founder of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, the first of its kind in the United States
Henry Onderdonk (1805), second Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania
Jackson Kemper (1809), first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (1809), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Richard Fish Cadle (1813), Episcopalian priest and first superior of Nashotah House
Manton Eastburn (1817), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Henry John Whitehouse (1821), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
George Washington Bethune* (1823), theologian and preacher
John Chester Backus* (1830), American Presbyterian minister
Morgan Dix (1848), priest, theologian, rector of Trinity Church
William Edmond Armitage (1849), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
George Franklin Seymour (1850), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield
James DeKoven (1851), leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Episcopal Church
Marvin Vincent (1854), Presbyterian minister and professor at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Daniel S. Tuttle (1857), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, Montana, and Utah
William David Walker (1859), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota
Henry Y. Satterlee (1863), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington; established the Washington National Cathedral
Bernard Drachman (1882), leader of Orthodox Judaism; former president of the Orthodox Union
Herbert Shipman (1890), Suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Stephen Samuel Wise (1892), rabbi and Zionist leader
Frederick Herbert Sill (1895), Anglican monk and founder of the Kent School
Henry S. Whitehead (1904), rector, and author of horror fiction^[4]
Vedder Van Dyck (1918), fifth bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
Walter M. Higley (1922), sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York
M. Moran Weston (1930), Episcopal priest, social activist, and businessman who co-founded Carver Federal Savings Bank
Arthur Lelyveld (1933), rabbi, president of the American Jewish Congress and first Jewish editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator
Moshe Davis (1936), rabbi and founder of Camp Ramah
Paul van K. Thomson (1937), Roman Catholic priest, professor at Providence College
Thomas Merton (1938), Trappist monk, writer, humanist; author of The Seven Storey Mountain
Robert Farrar Capon (1946), Episcopal priest and author
Haskel Lookstein (1953), Modern Orthodox Rabbi; spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and principal of Ramaz School since 1966
Harold Kushner (1955), rabbi and writer
Adi Da (1961), born Franklin Albert Jones, American spiritual teacher; founder of a new religious movement, Adidam
Michael Lerner (1964), liberal rabbi and editor of Tikkun magazine
Elliot N. Dorff (1965), conservative rabbi, chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
Joseph Goldstein (1965), American vipassana expert
Alan Senauke (1969), Soto Zen priest, folk musician, and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center; former director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Taigen Dan Leighton (1971), Soto Zen priest and teacher, academic at the Institute of Buddhist Studies
C. John McCloskey (1975), Catholic priest who helped prominent figures convert to Catholicism, including Newt Gingrich, Bernard Nathanson, Sam Brownback, and Lawrence Kudlow
Sharon Brous (1995), first woman to be named most influential rabbi by Newsweek

Scientists and inventors[]

Samuel Bard* (1763), personal physician to George Washington; founder of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
John Stevens (King's 1768), builder of the first oceangoing steamboat in the United States
Nicholas Romayne* (1774), physician, president of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
David Hosack (1790), physician, botanist, educator
John Eatton Le Conte (1800), American naturalist^[5]
Valentine Mott (1806), American surgeon pioneer
James Renwick (1807), English-American scientist and engineer, professor of Natural philosophy at Columbia University; father of architect James Renwick Jr.
John Brodhead Beck (1813), New York physician
Henry James Anderson (1818), scientist and educator who participated in the U.S. Dead Sea exploration expedition
Alfred Charles Post (1822), American surgeon, professor at New York University School of MedicineS
Horatio Allen (1823), imported the Stourbridge Lion, first successful steam locomotive to run in the United States
John Clarkson Jay (1827), American physician and notable conchologist, grandson of John Jay
Alfred W. Craven (1829), chief engineering of Croton Aqueduct; founding member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Edward S. Renwick (1839), mechanical engineer, patent expert
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1841), chemist, president of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Ogden Doremus* (1842), chemist and physician
Cornelius Rea Agnew (1849), physician who helped founding the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Henry Carrington Bolton (1862), chemist and bibliographer of science
Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1863), American physician, nephew of Hamilton Fish '27
Rudolph August Witthaus (1867), American toxicologist
Frederick Remsen Hutton (1873), engineer, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sylvanus Albert Reed (1874), aerospace engineer who developed the modern metal aircraft propeller, for which won the 1925 Collier Trophy
William Hallock (1879), American physicist, professor at Columbia University
William Barclay Parsons (1879), chief engineer of the first line of the New York City Subway system, founder of multinational engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff
Michael I. Pupin (1879), physicist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography
Henry Crampton (1893), American evolutionary biologist
Harold Jacoby (1894), astronomer and professor at Columbia University
John Duer Irving (1896), geologist, professor at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University
Richard Weil (1896), American physician, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, son-in-law of Isidor Straus
Hans Zinsser (1899), American physician, bacteriologist, prolific author
Marston T. Bogert (1890), former president of the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry
William King Gregory (1900), American zoologist, primatologist, paleontologist
Reuben Ottenberg (1902), physician and haematologist
Irving Langmuir (1903), winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Calvin Kendall (1906), winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Grover Loening (1908), American aircraft manufacturer, founder of Loening Aeronautical Engineering; developed the Loening Model 23 which won the 1921 Collier Trophy
Michael Heidelberger (1909), immunologist, "father of modern immunology"
Ernst Philip Boas (1910), American physician and professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, son of German-American anthropologist Franz Boas
Hermann Joseph Muller (1910), geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ralph Randles Stewart (1911), botanist and founder of the National Herbarium, Islamabad
Ludlow Griscom (1912), pioneer in field ornithology
John Howard Northrop (1912), winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Calvin Bridges (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan known for his contribution to genetics
Alfred Sturtevant (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan and winner of the National Medal of Science
James Chapin (1916), American ornithologist; 17th president of The Explorers Club
Seeley G. Mudd (1917), American physician and philanthropist, former dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC
Harold Alexander Abramson (1919), early advocate of Psychedelic therapy
Augustus Braun Kinzel (1919), metallurgist and first president of the National Academy of Engineering
Sherman Fairchild* (1920), founder of Fairchild Aircraft, Fairchild Industries, Fairchild Camera and Instrument as well as Fairchild Semiconductor
Howard Bruenn (1925), personal physician to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albert Charles Smith (1926), American botanist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History and the Arnold Arboretum
Konrad Lorenz* (1926), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Streitwieser (1927), American chemist known for his contributions to Physical organic chemistry
Raymond D. Mindlin (1928), American engineer, Medal for Merit and ASME Medal recipient
Harold Charles Bold (1929), American botanist
Theodore Lidz (1930), Sterling Professor of psychiatry at Yale; expert on Schizophrenia
Judd Marmor (1930), American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist on homosexuality
Herbert L. Anderson (1931), director of the Enrico Fermi Institute, professor of the University of Chicago
Bernard Glueck Jr. (1933), American psychiatrist, former president of the American Psychopathological Association
Leo Rangell (1933), psychoanalyst; president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association
John K. Lattimer (1935), urologist, ballistics expert, and inveterate collector
Emanuel Papper (1935), anesthesiologist, dean of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine from 1969 to 1981
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1935), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Marshak (1936), president of the American Physical Society and president of the City College of New York
Julian Schwinger (1936), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics; posited the Schwinger effect
Barry Commoner (1937), leading American environmentalist, former editor of Science Illustrated magazine
Boris Jacobsohn (1938), Professor of Physics at the University of Washington
Victor Wouk (1939), pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles
Julius Ashkin (1940), American nuclear physicist, brother of Arthur Ashkin '47
Jeremiah Stamler (1940), epidemiologist, expert in the field of preventive cardiology, professor emeritus at Northwestern University
Robert S. Wallerstein (1941), American psychoanalyst and former president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, brother of political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein '51
Leon Davidson (1942), chemical engineer known for his work in the Manhattan Project and the study of Unidentified Flying Objects
Karl Koopman (1943), chiropterologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History
Robert G. Shulman (1943), biophysicist, Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale University
Seymour Jonathan Singer (1943), cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego
Enoch Callaway (1943), psychiatrist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco
Arnold Cooper (1944), psychoanalyst; professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Robert Jastrow (1944), astronomer, founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and conservative think tank George C. Marshall Institute
Joshua Lederberg (1944), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Alfred P. Wolf (1944), nuclear and organic chemist; research professor at New York University
Paul Marks (1945), geneticist, president emeritus of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation
Jack Oliver (1945), professor of seismology at Columbia University and Cornell University
Malvin Ruderman (1945), American physicist known for discovering the RKKY interaction
Albert Starr (1946), noted cardiovascular surgeon, winner of the 2007 Lasker Award
Arthur Ashkin (1947), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
Robert A. Frosch (1947), fifth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Norton Zinder (1947), American scientist who discovered bacterial transduction
Frank I. Marcus (1948), American cardiologist and professor at University of Arizona Medical Center
Robert Neil Butler (1949), president of the International Longevity Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Benjamin Widom (1949), professor of chemistry at Cornell University; recipient of the Boltzmann Medal in 1998
Edwin Kessler (1950), first director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory
Gerald Weissmann (1950), cell biologist, liposome inventor, essayist
Leon Cooper (1951), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972
Richard A. Gardner (1952), psychiatrist known for researching Parental alienation syndrome
Edgar Haber (1952), former president of Bristol-Myers Squibb and professor at Harvard Medical School
William Carl Burger (1953), botanist, curator at the Field Museum of Natural History
Gerald Feinberg (1953), physicist who coined the term "tachyon"
Nicholas P. Samios (1953), former director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Melvin Schwartz (1953), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988
Wallace Smith Broecker (1953), professor of environmental science at Columbia University, developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking ocean circulation
Richard K. Bernstein (1954), physician and advocate for Low-carbohydrate diet
Henry Buchwald (1954), professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at University of Minnesota
Neil D. Opdyke (1955), geologist
Alvin F. Poussaint (1956), professor of psychiatry and dean of freshmen at the Harvard Medical School
Sheldon Saul Hendler (1957), American scientist, physician, and musician
Ralph Feigin (1958), American pediatrician; former president and CEO of Baylor College of Medicine and physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital
Roald Hoffman (1958), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Norbert Hirschhorn (1958), American public health physician and developed the Oral rehydration therapy
Harlan Lane (1958), professor of psychology at Northeastern University
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1958), physicist at the College of William & Mary
Joseph L. Fleiss (1959), professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Allan Franklin (1959), American physicist, historian of science at University of Colorado Boulder
Michael Lesch (1960), physician and medical educator who identified the Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
Ira Black (1961), American physician and neuroscientist, advocate of Stem cell research; former president of Society for Neuroscience
Kenneth C. Edelin (1961), American physician known for his support of abortion rights and former chairman of Planned Parenthood
Eugene Milone (1961), astronomer, professor at the University of Calgary
Robert Pollack (1961), American biologist who studies the intersections between science and religion
Charles Cantor (1962), molecular geneticist; chief science officer at Sequenom
Stephen Larsen (1962), American psychologist and founding board member of the Joseph Campbell Foundation
Robert Lefkowitz (1962), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jeffrey Mandula (1962), physicist known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem
Allen Neuringer (1962), American psychologist, prominent in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior
Russell F. Warren (1962), surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery from 1993 to 2003 and team doctor for the New York Giants
Farhad Ardalan (1963), Iranian High Energy physicist and professor at Sharif University and the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.
Harvey Cantor (1963), American immunologist, professor of microbiology & immunobiology at Harvard Medical School
David B. Cohen (1963), psychologist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Allen Frances (1963), American psychiatrist at Duke University and founding editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice
Richard Waldinger (1963), computer scientist, fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Allan Blaer (1964), American physicist and professor who is in charge of the Columbia University Science Honors Program
Frederick Kantor (1964), Physicist, inventor of glancing incidence X-ray telescope
Richard A. Muller (1964), professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley; winner of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1982 and the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1978; founder of climate science institute Berkeley Earth
Mark C. Rogers (1964), American physician, former CEO of Duke University Health System
Norman Christ (1965), physicist, professor at Columbia University
Niles Eldredge (1965), collaborator of Stephen Jay Gould and curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History
Stuart Newman (1965), developmental and evolutionary biologist
Allen Steere (1965), rheumatologist and pioneering investigator of Lyme disease
Peter Gray (1966), American psychologist; professor at Boston College
Brian Weiss (1966), psychiatrist noted for his research on reincarnation and past life regression
Richard Axel (1967), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying the operations of the olfactory system
Nai Phuan Ong (1967), Professor of Physics at Princeton University
Robert Wald (1968), American theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago
Sidney R. Nagel (1969), University of Chicago physicist specializing in the complex physics of everyday materials
Thomas B. Kornberg (1970), American biochemist who was the first to purify and characterize DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III
Eric Rose (1971), American cardiothoracic surgeon known for performing the first successful paediatric heart transplant and former president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Paul S. Appelbaum (1972), psychiatrist credited with conceptualizing the idea of therapeutic misconception
Steven M. Bellovin (1972), professor of computer science at Columbia University and chief technologist of Federal Trade Commission
Rick L. Danheiser (1972), American chemist and chair of the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen M. Barr (1974), author and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware
David Jablonski (1974), professor of geophysical sciences at University of Chicago
Mark G. Lebwohl (1974), American dermatologist and president of the American Academy of Dermatology
Steven Kahn (1975), astrophysicist, professor at Stanford University and director of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Douglas Rivers (1977), professor at Stanford University, chief scientist of global polling firm YouGov
George Yancopoulos (1980), American billionaire biomedical scientist and CSO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Carl Haber (1980), physicist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2013
Jonathan E. Aviv (1981), American surgeon known for inventing the Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing with Sensory Testing technique and developing the Transnasal esophagoscopy method
Adrian R. Krainer (1981), co-winner of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Neil Shubin (1982), paleontologist and co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, provost of the Field Museum of Natural History
Peter Lunenfeld (1984), critic and theorist of digital media
Peter Marks (1985), director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force
Eric M. Genden (1987), American head and neck surgeon who performed the first jaw transplant using the patient's jaw and bone marrow
Geoffrey Miller (1987), psychologist, professor at the University of New Mexico
Leslie B. Vosshall (1987), neurobiologist known for her contributions in the field of olfaction
Rebecca N. Wright (1988), American computer scientist and professor at Barnard College, former director at DIMACS
Jonathan Rosand (1989), professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, son of art historian David Rosand '59
Christopher S. Ahmad (1990), head team physician of the New York Yankees and professor of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jennifer Ashton (1991), physician, author, host of lifestyle talk show The Revolution
Virginia Cornish (1991), professor of chemistry at Columbia University and recipient of the 2009 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
Carl Marci (1991), neuroscientist and professor at Harvard Medical School
Damon Horowitz (1993), Google's in-house philosopher
Chris Wiggins (1993), professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, chief data scientist of The New York Times
Rebecca Oppenheimer (1994), curator in astrophysics the American Museum of Natural History
Beth Willman (1998), American astronomer at Haverford College
Alex K. Shalek (2004), professor at Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrea Young (2006), American experimental physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, winner of the 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize
Julia Kalow (2008), American chemist, professor at Northwestern University
Calvin Sun (2008), emergency room doctor notable for his first-hand reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City

Spies[]

John Vardill (1766), American loyalist educator, pamphleteer, spy
William Joseph Donovan (1905), head of the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, "Father of American Intelligence"
Isaiah Oggins (1920), communist activist and Soviet spy
Whittaker Chambers* (1924), Soviet spy and accuser of Alger Hiss
Nathaniel Weyl (1931), operative in the Ware group of Soviet spies in the United States
Victor Perlo (1933), leader of the Perlo group of Soviet spies in the United States
Frank Snepp (1965), former CIA station chief for Saigon during the Vietnam War

Writers[]

Clement Clarke Moore (1798), purported author of A Visit From St. Nicholas
Robert Charles Sands (1815), poet and writer
Charles Fenno Hoffman (1825), poet, translator, and editor, founder of The Knickerbocker magazine
Cornelius Mathews* (1834), American writer of the Young America movement
Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1835), literary biographer in the Young America movement
George Templeton Strong (1838), noted diarist; founder of the United States Sanitary Commission and the Union League Club of New York
Edgar Fawcett (1867), novelist
William Dudley Foulke (1869), American literary critic, journalist, and reformer; former United States Civil Service Commission Commissioner
Duffield Osborne (1879), author
John Kendrick Bangs (1883), author, satirist, editor of Puck magazine
John Armstrong Chaloner (1883), American writer and activist, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and William A. Chanler, son of John Winthrop Chanler '47, husband of Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
Albert Payson Terhune (1893), author, dog breeder, journalist, Further Adventures of Lad
Guy Wetmore Carryl (1895), humorist, Fables for the Frivolous
Melville Henry Cane (1900), poet; winner of the Robert Frost Medal in 1971
Joyce Kilmer (1908), poet and author of Trees
Randolph Bourne (1912), essayist and public intellectual
Paul Gallico* (1919), author of The Poseidon Adventure
Louis Zukofsky (1922), co-founder and leading theorist of the Objectivist poets
James Warner Bellah (1923), Western and pulp writer whose stories formed the basis of such John Ford classics as Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande.
Corey Ford* (1923), humorist, The John Riddell Murder Case
Henry Morton Robinson (1923), author of The Cardinal and A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Cornell Woolrich (1923), mystery writer and author of Rear Window
Clifford Dowdey (1925), author on the American Civil War
Herman Wouk (1934), author of War and Remembrance and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny
John Berryman (1936), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Paul Smith (1936), author of Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.
Robert Lax (1938), minimalist poet
Ed Rice (1940), Beat Generation writer
Walter Farley (1941), author of The Black Stallion and its many sequels
Gerald Green (1942), writer of Holocaust and The Last Angry Man, co-creator of NBC's The Today Show
Richard de Mille* (1944), writer and investigative journalist, son of director Cecil B. DeMille
Jack Kerouac* (1944), Beat generation author of On the Road
Leonard Koppett (1944), sportswriter; recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award and the Curt Gowdy Media Award
Walter Wager (1944), mystery writer whose book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2
Herbert Gold (1946), Beat Generation novelist
Daniel Hoffman (1947), poet; 22nd United States Poet Laureate
Allen Ginsberg (1948), Beat generation poet; author of Howl
Frederick Karl (1948), literary biographer famous for his work on Joseph Conrad
Stanley Loomis (1948), American expatriate writer
Charles Simmons (1948), American author, winner of the 1965 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel
Louis Simpson (1948), American poet; winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John Clellon Holmes (1949), Beat Generation novelist, Go.
John Hollander (1950), poet, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Bollingen Prize
Richard Howard (1951), translator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Anthony Robinson (1953), English professor and novelist
Ralph Schoenstein (1953), humorist
Dan Wakefield (1955), novelist, journalist, screenwriter
Robert Silverberg (1956), science fiction writer, recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 2004
George Bellak (1957), American television writer
Jerome Charyn (1959), novelist
Jay Neugeboren (1959), novelist, essayist, short story writer
Robert T. Westbrook* (1968), writer, son of syndicated columnist Sheilah Graham Westbrook
Phillip Lopate (1964), essayist and fiction writer
Ron Padgett (1964), poet and translator, winner of the Shelley Memorial Award in 2009 and Robert Frost Medal in 2018
Steven Millhauser (1965), novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Aaron Fogel (1967), poet
Eric Van Lustbader (1967), espionage and thriller novelist, writer of Jason Bourne novels
Thomas Hauser (1968), author of nonfiction and biographer
David Shapiro (1968), poet, literary critic, professor at William Paterson University
Hilton Obenzinger (1969), novelist, poet, history and criticism writer
Paul Auster (1970), postmodern writer; author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and the Brooklyn Follies
Jim Dunnigan (1970), author, military-political analyst, wargame designer
Bob Holman (1970), poet and activist identified with the oral tradition
David Lehman (1970), poet, editor of The Best American Poetry series
Alex Abella (1972), Cuban-American writer
Brad Gooch (1973), writer, professor of English at William Paterson University
Todd McEwen (1975), writer, professor at the University of Kent
Stephen O'Connor (1975), American writer and professor at Sarah Lawrence College
Damien Bona (1977), chronicler of the Academy Awards
Mason Wiley (1977), co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook
Kevin Baker (1980), novelist and freelance journalist
Jeffrey Harrison (1980), poet who won the 1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Lou Antonelli (1981), science fiction writer
Douglas Sadownick (1981), writer and psychologist
Michael Azerrad (1983), author, journalist, musician
Thomas Dyja (1984), writer, historian, winner of the 1997 Casey Award
David Rakoff (1986), comedic essayist
Adrienne Brodeur (1988), author, program director at Aspen Institute
Glen Hirshberg (1988), author, recipient of the 2007 Shirley Jackson Award
Adam Mansbach (1988), author and former professor of literature at Rutgers University–Camden
Darryl Pinckney (1988), novelist, playwright, and essayist
Mako Yoshikawa (1988), novelist, professor at Emerson College
Ben Coes (1989), author of political thriller and espionage novels
Robert Salkowitz (1989), author on technology innovation
Carol Guess (1990), novelist and poet; professor at Western Washington University
John Reed (1990), novelist; author of Snowball's Chance
David S. Levinson (1991), American short-story writer and novelist
Robert Kolker (1991), writer, author of Hidden Valley Road
Kelly Link (1991), Hugo Award-winning American author; founder of Small Beer Press; editor of St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Loren Goodman (1991), postmodern poet, professor at Underwood International College
Andrew Carroll (1992), author, editor, activist, and historian
Jordan Davis (1992), poet
John Bemelmans Marciano (1992), American children's book author and illustrator, grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of Madeline
Marie Mutsuki Mockett (1992), American writer
Melissa de la Cruz (1993), writer known for work in young adult fiction
Jay Michaelson (1993), writer and LGBTQ activist
Maxine Swann (1994), fiction writer
Robert Westfield (1994), writer who won two Lambda Literary Awards
Megan McCafferty (1995), chick lit writer, Jessica Darling series, which were plagiarized by Kaavya Viswanathan
Tova Mirvis (1995), author
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur (1996), author and Islamic activist
Fredrik Stanton (1996), author of Great Negotiations and former publisher for the Columbia Daily Spectator
Aravind Adiga (1997), Man Booker Prize-winning novelist
Jamel Brinkley (1997), American author, winner of the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
John Coletti (1997), American author
Gotham Chopra (1997), author, son of health advocate Deepak Chopra
Abdi Nazemian (1998), Iranian-American author, winner of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
Daniel Alarcón (1999), novelist
Katherine Howe (1999), novelist, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Rebecca Pawel (1999), author of mystery novels; winner of the 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (2003), French poet, translator, musician
Ben Dolnick (2004), writer, son of American biographer Edward Dolnick, member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns The New York Times
Danielle Valore Evans (2004), American fiction writer
Adam Gidwitz (2004), author of best selling children's books
Alaya Dawn Johnson (2004), author and winner of the 2015 Andre Norton Award
Tongo Eisen-Martin (2004), poet laureate of San Francisco
Victoria Loustalot (2006), American writer of memoir and essays
Crystal Hana Kim (2009), writer, If You Leave Me
Morgan Parker (2010), poet and Cave Canem Fellow
Rachel Heng (2011), Singaporean writer
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (2012), British-American writer, recipient of the Betty Trask Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Yanyi (2013), American poet

Miscellaneous[]

John Parke Custis* (1777), stepson of George Washington
Philip Hamilton (1800), eldest son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
David Augustus Clarkson (1810), landowner and grandson-in-law of Robert R. Livingston
James Lenox (1818), bibliophile, founder of the Lenox Library, later incorporated into the New York Public Library; also founder of the Presbyterian Hospital
John Lloyd Stephens (1822), explorer, archaeologist, Special Ambassador to Central America, and president of the Panama Railroad
William R. Travers (1838), founder of the Travers Stakes
William H. Herriman (1849), expatriate American art collector
Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt* (1850), son of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Augustus Newbold Morris (1860), American socialite and former president of The Metropolitan Club
Winthrop Rutherfurd (1884), American socialite known for his romance with Consuelo Vanderbilt and marriage to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gavin Arthur (1922), San Francisco astrologer and sexologist and a grandson of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur
Oswald Jacoby (1922), American bridge player
Fred Glazer (1958), librarian and director of the West Virginia Library Commission
Arthur MacArthur IV (1960), son of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Ashrita Furman (1976), holder of the most Guinness Book of World Records records
Daniel Kottke (1977), college friend of Steve Jobs and 12th employee of Apple Inc.
Sergey Kudrin (1981), American chess grandmaster and three-time winner of the U.S. Open Chess Championship
Peter Bacanovic (1984), Martha Stewart's stockbroker; involved in the ImClone scandal
Annie Duke (1987), professional poker player
Greg Giraldo (1987), stand-up comedian
Anna Ivey (1994), admissions counsellor
Chubby Hubby or Aun Koh (1996), Singaporean food and travel blogger
Tinsley Mortimer (1999), socialite and television personality
Chloe Arnold (2002), Internationally acclaimed tap dancer
John Cochran (2009), winner of Survivor: Caramoan
Sara Ali Khan (2016), daughter of Indian actor, director Saif Ali Khan and actress Amrita Singh

References[]

^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82", The New York Times, September 10, 2009. Accessed September 11, 2009.
^ "Columbia Alumni News". 1921.
^ Mallozzii, Vincent M. "Lou Bender, Columbia Star Who Helped Popularize Basketball in New York, Dies at 99", The New York Times, September 12, 2009. Accessed September 13, 2009.
^ "Columbia Alumni News". 1921.
^ http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/le-conte-john.pdf

[1] Hevesi, Dennis. "Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82", The New York Times, September 10, 2009. Accessed September 11, 2009.

[2] "Columbia Alumni News". 1921.

[3] Mallozzii, Vincent M. "Lou Bender, Columbia Star Who Helped Popularize Basketball in New York, Dies at 99", The New York Times, September 12, 2009. Accessed September 13, 2009.

[4] "Columbia Alumni News". 1921.

[5] ttp://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/le-conte-john.pdf

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