List of Cornell University people

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Cornellians are persons affiliated with Cornell University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Cornellians.

40 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or students, placing it among the top ten universities in the world in numbers of Nobel affiliates.

Cornell's faculty for the 2005-06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a World Food Prize winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three National Medal of Science winners, two Wolf Prize winners, five MacArthur award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award winners, 20 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, three Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners.

1 Alumni
2 Faculty
3 Fictional Cornellians
4 University Presidents
5 Trustees
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 Further reading

[edit] Alumni

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[edit] Nobel laureates

Physics

Isidor Isaac Rabi (B.Chem. 1919; graduate study 1921-23, transferred) - Physics 1944
Sheldon Lee Glashow (B.A. 1954 Physics) - Physics 1979
Steven Weinberg (B.A. 1954 Physics) - Physics 1979
Douglas D. Osheroff (M.S. 1971 Physics, Ph.D. 1973 Physics) - Physics 1996

Peace, Literature, or Economics

John Mott (B.S. 1888 Philosophy) - Peace 1946
Pearl S. Buck (M.A. 1925 English Literature) - Literature 1938
Toni Morrison (M.A. 1955 English, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1997-2003) - Literature 1993
Robert Fogel (B.A. 1948 Economics) - Economics 1993
Robert F. Engle (M.S. 1966 Physics, Ph.D. 1969 Economics) - Economics 2003

Physiology or Medicine

Hermann Joseph Muller (graduate study 1911-12) - Physiology or Medicine 1946
George Wells Beadle (Ph.D. 1931 Genetics) - Physiology or Medicine 1958
Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948-64) - Physiology or Medicine 1968
Barbara McClintock (B.S. 1923 Botany, M.A. 1925 Botany, Ph.D. 1927 Plant Genetics; Assistant Professor of Genetics, 1927-31; A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965-74) - Physiology or Medicine 1983

[edit] Government

[edit] Heads of State

Jamshid Amuzegar (B.S. 1945 Engineering, Ph.D. 1951) - Prime Minister of Iran, 1977-78
Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol (LL.M. 2002, J.S.D. 2005) - Princess of Thailand ^[1]
Lee Teng-hui (Ph.D. 1968 Agricultural Economics) - President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 1988-2000
Mario García Menocal (B.S. 1888 Engineering) - President of Cuba, 1913–21

[edit] U.S. Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks

Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 Government) - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
Samuel W. Bodman (B.S. 1961 Chemical Engineering) - Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2001-03; Secretary of Energy, 2005-present
Lincoln D. Faurer - Director, National Security Agency
Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969) - National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, 2005-present
C. Everett Koop (M.D. 1941) - Surgeon General, 1982-89
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (undergrad 1909-10, 1912-13, dropped out) - Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45
Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939) - Governor of Maine, 1955-59; Senator from Maine, 1959-80; Vice Presidential Candidate, 1968; Secretary of State, 1980-81
Samuel Pierce (B.A. 1947, J.D. 1949; Trustee, 1972-77, 1978-82) - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, 1981-89
Thomas C. Reed (B.S. 1956 Mechanical Engineering) - Secretary of the Air Force under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1976-77
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 Chemistry; Professor) - Attorney General under Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937) - Attorney General, 1957-61), Secretary of State, 1969-73), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, 1973
Paul Wolfowitz (B.A. 1965 Mathematics and Chemistry) - Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, 2001-05), President of the World Bank, 2005-present

[edit] U.S. Senators, Governors, Supreme Court

Joseph B. Foraker (B.A. 1869) - Governor of Ohio, 1886-90). Senator, Ohio, 1897-1909). One of eight members of Cornell's first graduating class.
Douglas H. Ginsburg (B.S. 1970) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (B.A. 1954 Government) - U.S. Supreme Court associate justice
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (1924) - Representative, Missouri 11th District, 1935-40). Senator, Missouri, 1951-60).
Philip H. Hoff (J.D. 1951) - Governor of Vermont, 1963-69). First Democrat to serve in that position since the Civil War.
Goodwin Knight (graduate study 1919-20) - Governor of California, 1953-59
Chuck Robb (undergrad 1957-58, transferred) - Senator, Virginia, 1989-2001

[edit] U.S. Congressmen

John G. Alexander (J.D. 1916) - Minnesota 3rd District, 1939-41
Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982) - New Jersey 1st District, 1990-present
Andrew Biemiller (B.A. 1926) - Wisconsin, 1945-47, 1949-51
Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1921) - Michigan, 1939-47
Abraham Lincoln Brick (undergrad) - Indiana, 1899-1908
Barber Conable (B.A. 1942 Medieval History, LL.B. 1948) - New York 37th District, 1965-73; 35th District, 1973-83; 30th District, 1983-85; President of the World Bank, 1986-91
Maurice Connolly (1897) - Iowa, 1913-15
Thomas Joseph Downey (B.S. 1970) - New York 2nd District, 1975-93
Charles Tappan Dunwell (undergrad 1869-1872, transferred) - New York, 1903-08
Bob Filner (B.A. 1963 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1973 History of Science) - California 50th District, 1993-2003), 51st District, 2003-present
Gabrielle Giffords (M.R.P. 1996) - Arizona, 8th District, 2007-present
Norman Judd Gould (M.E. 1899) - New York, 1915-23
Gilbert Gude (B.S. 1948) - Maryland 8th District, 1967-77
Edwin Arthur Hall - New York, 1939-53
Reuben Locke Haskell (L.L.B. 1898) - New York, 1915-19
Joseph Clifford Hendrix (studies 1870-73; Trustee) - New York, 1893-95
Frank Horton (L.L.B. 1947) - New York 36th District, 1963-73), 34th District, 1973-83), 29th District, 1983-93
Charles Samuel Joelson (B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939) - New Jersey, 1961-69
Clarence Evans Kilburn (1916) - New York, 1940-65
Mark Kirk (B.A. 1981 History) - Illinois 10th District, 2001-present
Charles Blakeslee Law (law studies) - New York, 1905-11
Gary Alcide Lee (graduate study 1963) - New York, 1979-83
Norman F. Lent (L.L.B. 1957) - New York 5th District, 1971-73), 4th District, 1973-93
Lewis Henry, 1909) - New York, 1922-23
Richard Dean McCarthy (graduate study) - New York, 1965-71
Clement Woodnutt Miller, 1946 Industrial & Labor Relations) - California, 1959-62
Robert J. Mrazek (B.A. 1967 Government) - New York 3rd District, 1983-93
James R. Olin (B.E.E. 1943) - Virginia, 1983-93
Richard Ottinger (B.A. 1950) - New York, 1965-71, 1975-85); Founder and second staff member of the Peace Corps, 1961-64); Dean of Pace Law School, 1994-99
Edward Worthington Pattison (B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957) - New York, 1975-79
James Parker (1887) - New York 29th District, 1913-33
John Raymond Pillion (L.L.B. 1927) - New York, 1953-65
Alexander Pirnie (1924, J.D. 1926) - New York 34th District, 1959-63), 32nd District, 1963-73
Daniel A. Reed (1898) - New York 43rd District, 1919-45, 1953-59), 45th District, 1945-53
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (B.A. 1933) - Wisconsin, 1955-83
Howard Winfield Robison (1937, law 1939) - New York, 1958-75
James A. Roe (School of Military Aeronautics 1917) - New York, 1945-47
George Shiras III (1881) - Pennsylvania, 1903-05
Henry P. Smith III (law 1936) - New York, 1965-75
James Harding Southard (1874) - Ohio, 1895-1907
Sam Steiger - (Arizona, 1967-77
Elmer E. Studley (1894) - New York, 1933-35
Frank Sundstrom (1924) - New Jersey 11th District, 1943-49
Paul Harold Todd, Jr. (B.S. 1942) - Michigan, 1965-67), CEO of Planned Parenthood, 1967-70
William Edgar Tuttle, Jr. (undergrad 1887-89) - New Jersey, 1911-15
George Ernest Waldo (undergrad 1868-70) - New York, 1905-09
John De Witt Warner (1872) - New York, 1891-95
John S. Wold (M.S. 1939) - Wyoming, 1969-71

[edit] Diplomats

William Brownfield (1974) - U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, 2004-present
Chan Heng Chee (M.A. 1967 Government) - Singapore's ambassador to the U.S., 1996-)
Alan Keyes (undergrad 1968-69, transferred) - Diplomat, U.S. Presidential candidate, 1996, 2000), U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland, 1988, 1992) and Illinois, 2004
Jerome H. Holland (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941) - First black member of the New York Stock Exchange, President of Delaware State University, 1953-60) and Hampton University, 1960-70), U.S. ambassador to Sweden, 1970-73), chairman of the American Red Cross, 1979-85
Edwin Jackson Kyle (M.S. 1902) - U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, 1945-48; namesake of Kyle Field
Sol Linowitz (J.D. 1938, Trustee, 1966-95) - Diplomat, Ambassador, Chairman of Xerox, 1960-66), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, 1998
Hu Shih (B.A. 1914) - China's ambassador to the U.S., 1938-42), philosopher, poet
Sao-Ke Alfred Sze (B.A. 1901) - China's ambassador to the U.S. and later UK, founding member of World Bank, First Chinese student to attend Cornell
Willard Straight (B.Arch. 1901) - American diplomat, investment banker, publisher, World War I veteran, namesake of Willard Straight Hall

[edit] Judges and Lawyers

Floyd Abrams (B.A. 1956) - Co-Counsel, The New York Times "Pentagon Papers" case
Mark J. Bennett (J.D. 1979) - First Republican Attorney General of Hawaii in 40 years
Boris Bittker (B.A. 1938) - Prominent professor
Leonie Brinkema (J.D. 1976) - U.S. District Court Judge
Harry T. Edwards (B.A. 1962 Industrial & Labor Relations) - Chief justice, U.S. Court of Appeals
Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg - Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Cornell Undergraduate (1964 -1968) and Cornell Law School (1968-1970)
Edith Jones (B.A. 1971 Economics) - Justice, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Walter Chadwick Noyes (1888) - Justice, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Philip Perry (J.D. 1990) - General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security
Max Rosenn (B.A. 1929) - Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jan Schlichtmann (J.D. 1977) - Civil action lawyer whose story was made into the film A Civil Action, in which Schlichtmann is played by John Travolta
Jack L. Stempler (LL.B. 1948) - Award-winning distinguished civilian service in U.S. Department of Defense as counsel and assistant to secretaries of defense, 1948–81); executive of LTV Aerospace Corporation, 1982–92
Elbert Tuttle (B.A. 1918, LL.B. 1923) - Chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals; ruled on many fundamental 1954 civil-rights cases
Amy St. Eve (B.A. 1987, J.D. 1990) - U.S. District Court Judge

[edit] Others

Owen Pataki (Undergrad 2006-) - Son of New York State Governor George Pataki
Stephen Friedman (B.A. 1959; Trustee, 1993-) - Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2005-), former assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush (2002-04) and director of the National Economic Council, 2003-04; former chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, 1990-94.
Jesse Root Grant (undergrad 1874-77, dropped out) - Son of U.S. President Ulysses S Grant
Mark J. Green (B.A. 1967) - Government consumer-affairs activist, New York Public Advocate, 1994-2001
Sudeen Kelly (J.D. 1976) - Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the New Mexico Public Service Commission
Donald Kerr (B.S. 1963) - Assistant Director of the F.B.I., former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (Ph.D. 1950) - Governor of Bihar, India, 1979-85, 1993-98
Stephen D. Krasner (B.A. 1963) - Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, professor of political science at Stanford University
Edward M. House (undergrad 1877-80, dropped out) - Foreign policy advisor for Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Florence Kelley (B.A. 1882) - Political and social reformer
Harold O. Levy (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977) - Chancellor of NY City Schools 2000-02
Kyle E. McSlarrow (Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy
Roberto Prats (B.A. 1990 Public Political Analysis and Economics) - Senator of Puerto Rico
Anna E. Roosevelt (did not graduate) - Daughter of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt

[edit] Natural Sciences and related fields

Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics

[edit] Mathematics

Norbert Wiener (graduate study 1910-1911, transferred) - Mathematician, founder of the study of cybernetics
William F. Friedman (B.S. 1914 Genetics) - Considered by many to be one of the greatest cryptologists of all time

[edit] Physics

Malcolm Beasley (B.E.P. 1962, Ph.D. 1968) - Physicist
Harry Kroger (Ph.D. 1962) - Physicist and electrical engineer
Hubert Reeves (Ph.D. 1960) - Astrophysicist
Ted Taylor (Ph.D. 1956 Theoretical Physics) - Director of Project Orion and designer of many small nuclear weapons

[edit] Astronomy

Frank Drake (B.A. 1952 Engineering Physics; Professor of Astronomy, 1964-84) - SETI researcher, known for the Drake equation
Vera Rubin (M.A. 1951) - Astronomer known for contributions to the study of dark matter
Steven Squyres (B.A. 1978 Geology, Ph.D. 1982 Planetary Science; Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy) - Astronomer, principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity
Jill Tarter (B.S. 1965) - Astronomer, Director of the Center for SETI Research

[edit] Chemistry

Harry W. Coover Jr. (M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944) - Prolific product inventor, notably cyanoacrylate adhesives (Super Glue); member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Walter McCrone (B.S. 1938 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1942 Organic Chemistry) - Leading expert in microscopy, best known for work on the Shroud of Turin and the Vinland map
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (M.E. 1911) - Inventor of Freon and tetra-ethyl lead
Benjamin Widom (Ph.D. 1953; Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry 1954-) - Physical chemist awarded the Boltzmann Medal

[edit] Computer science and Engineering

Robert L. Cook (M.S. 1981 Computer Graphics) - Academy Award for creation of RenderMan rendering software
Andrew C. Greenberg (B.S. 1979) - Co-creator of the massively successful early computer game Wizardry
Morton Heilig (1943) - Early virtual reality pioneer, inventor
William Higinbotham (graduate study) - Developer of Tennis for Two, 1958, one of the earliest video games
Jon Kleinberg (B.S. 1993, Professor of Computer Science) - MacArthur Fellow, researcher of combinatorial network structure
Robert S. Langer (B.S. 1970 Chemical Engineering) - Leading figure in biochemical engineering, author of over 500 patents and 800 scientific papers
Marc Levoy (B.Arch. 1976, M.S. 1978 Architecture) - Developed technology and algorithms for digitizing 3D objects that led to the Digital Michelangelo Project
Stephen Marschner (Ph.D. 1998; Assistant Professor of Computer Science) - Co-winner of a 2004 technical achievement Academy Award for developing a commercial animation method for digitally simulating subsurface light scattering in translucent materials
Douglas McIlroy (B.E.P. 1954) - Inventor of the pipes and filters architecture of Unix and the concept of software componentry
Al Seckel - Creator of the Darwin Fish
Jerry M. Woodall (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering) - Inventor of the red LED
Robert Woodhead - Co-creator of the massively successful early computer game Wizardry and co-founder of AnimEigo

[edit] Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition

Robert C. Baker (B.S. 1943; Professor) - Inventor of the chicken nugget
John Henry Comstock (B.S. 1874; Professor) - Pioneer in entomology research and education
Milislav Demerec (Ph.D. 1923 Genetics) - Geneticist and long serving director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Keith Downey (Ph.D. 1961) - Inventor of canola oil
Arthur Rose Eldred (B.S. 1916 Agriculture) - America's first Eagle Scout, 1912), agriculturalist
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (B.A 1897; Lecturer 1923-?) - Ornithologist and illustrator
Veranus Alva Moore (B.S. 1887; Professor of Veterinary Medicine 1896-1908), Dean of Vet School, 1908-29) - Bacteriologist and pathologist
Roger Morse (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955; Professor) - Apiculture author, teacher, researcher
John Niederhauser (Ph.D. 1943 Plant Pathology; Professor 1943-1947) - Winner of the World Food Prize, "Mr Potato"
Jean W. Pape (M.D. 1975; Professor) - Pioneering infectious disease expert

[edit] Medicine

Robert Atkins (M.D. 1955) - Creator of the Atkins Diet and an author on health and nutrition
Emily Dunning Barringer (B.S. 1897) - First female ambulance surgeon in the U.S.
Jane Brody (B.S. 1962) - Author and journalist on health and nutrition
Rhonda Cornum (B.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) - U.S. Army pilot, flight surgeon, medical researcher, and commander of combat hospitals
Adrienne Denese (M.D.) - Anti-aging expert and author of Dr. Denese's Secrets for Ageless Skin
Dean Edell (B.A. 1963 Zoology, M.D. 1967) - Physician and media personality
Anthony S. Fauci (M.D. 1966) - Director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. 1950) - Inventor of the world's first successful artificial pacemaker
Henry Heimlich (B.A. 1941, M.D. 1943) - Inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
Helen Irlen (B.S. 1967) - Developer of a color-filtered treatment for a form of dyslexia known as scotopic sensitivity syndrome or Irlen Syndrome
C. Everett Koop (M.D. 1941) - Surgeon General of the United States under president Ronald Regan
Philip Levine (M.D. 1923) - Immunohematologist; discovered the Rh factor in blood in 1939.
Robert Millman (undergrad; Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, Medical College) - Drug abuse expert, former Medical Director for Major League Baseball
Alvin F. Poussaint (M.D. 1960) - Child-rearing expert
Daniel Elmer Salmon (D.V.M. 1872) - Namesake of salmonella; first D.V.M. in the United States
Benjamin Spock (medical residency; Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College, 1933-47) - Author of Baby and Child Care, one of the best selling books of all time

[edit] NASA astronauts

Edward T. Lu

Ellen S. Baker (M.D. 1978) - Lead Astronaut for Medical Issues, Johnson Space Center
Daniel T. Barry (B.S.E.E. 1975) - Astronaut, contestant on CBS reality program Survivor: Exile Island
Jay C. Buckey, Jr.) - B.S.E.E. 1977, M.D. 1981) - Astronaut
Martin J. Fettman (B.S. 1976 Animal Nutrition, M.S. 1970 Nutrition, D.V.M 1970; Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecturer 1994) - Payload specialist
Mae Jemison (M.D. 1981; A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1999-2005) - First African-American woman to travel in space; member of National Women's Hall of Fame; chemical engineer, physician, teacher
G. David Low (B.S.M.E. 1980) - Astronaut
Edward T. Lu (B.S.E.E. 1984) - Astronaut and physicist
Donald A. Thomas (M.S. 1980 Materials Science, Ph.D. 1982 Materials Science) - Astronaut

[edit] Social sciences

[edit] Economics

Abby Joseph Cohen (B.A. 1973 Economics) - Eminent Wall Street stock strategist
Francis Fukuyama (B.A. 1974 Classics) - Political economist, philosopher
Claudia Goldin (B.A. 1967) - Noted economist
Frank H. Knight (Ph.D. 1916) - Influential scholar-economist, one of the original leaders of the "Chicago School" of economic theory
Thorstein Veblen (graduate study 1891-92, transferred) - Economist, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class

[edit] Psychology

Joyce Brothers

Edwin G. Boring (1908, Ph.D. 1915 Psychology; Instructor of Psychology 1913-18) - Historian of psychology
Urie Bronfenbrenner (B.A. 1938 Psychology and Music; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Psychology) - Psychologist, pioneer in developmental psychology (Ecological Systems Theory), founder of field Human Ecology, co-founder of national Head Start program
Joyce Brothers (B.S. 1947) - Author, psychologist, and television personality
James Maas (M.A., Ph.D.; Professor of Psychology) - Psychologist, coined the term "power nap"
Abraham Maslow (undergrad 1928-29, transferred) - Psychologist best known for his Hierarchy of Human Needs

[edit] Anthropology, sociology, other social science

Edward Bernays (B.S. 1912 Agriculture) - Public relations practitioner, author of Propaganda
Ken Blanchard (B.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1967) - Management consultant, co-author of The One Minute Manager
Gordon G. Chang (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) - Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown : North Korea Takes On the World, one of the original set of Student Trustees
William McNeill (Ph.D. 1947) - Historian, author of The Rise of the West
John Naisbitt (Best-selling writer in the area of futures studies
Tom Peters (B.C.E. 1965, M.C.E. 1966) - Business management motivational guru
Stephen Skowronek (Ph.D. 1979) - Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at Yale
Julian Steward (B.A. 1925 Zoology and Biology) - Anthropologist best known for his development of a scientific theory of cultural evolution
William Irwin Thompson (Ph.D. 1966; Professor) - Cultural historian, social critic, poet, philosopher of science
James Weinstein (B.A. 1949 Government) - Author and publisher of In These Times
Tan Chee- Beng (Ph.D., 1979, Cornell University, Department of Anthropology.) - Professor Department of Anthropology The Chinese University of Hong Kong

[edit] Humanities

[edit] Philosophy

Thomas Nagel (B.A. 1958) - Philosopher, author of What is it like to be a bat?

[edit] Literature

Harold Bloom

E.B. White

Thomas Pynchon

Diane Ackerman (M.F.A. 1973 Poetry, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978) - Author, poet, and naturalist
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred (M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994) - Scholar, author, and advisor to indigenous nations
Morris Bishop (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1914, Ph.D. 1926; Professor of Romance Literature) - Biographer, author, humorist, wrote the preeminent history of the university, A History of Cornell
Harold Bloom (B.A. 1952) - Literary and cultural scholar-critic
Susan Brownmiller (B.A. 1956) - Feminist author and activist
Murray Burnett (B.A. 1931) - Author of the play Everybody Comes to Rick's, which was turned into the film Casablanca
George Lincoln Burr (B.A. 1881; John Stambaugh Professor of History 1888-?) - U.S. historian, diplomat, author, and educator
George Cockcroft (B.A. 1954) - Author, The Dice Man, uses the pen name Luke Rhinehart
Junot Díaz (M.F.A. 1995) - Critically acclaimed short-story writer
Alice Dunbar-Nelson - Poet, journalist, political activist, Harlem Renaissance influence
Richard Fariña (B.A. 1962 English) - Author, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, folk singer
Jessie Redmon Fauset (B.A. 1905) - Prolific author from the Harlem Renaissance
William Flesch (Ph.D. 1984 English) - Literary critic
Alice Fulton (M.F.A. 1982; Ann S. Bowers Distinguished Professor of English) - Poet, author, feminist, MacArthur Fellow
William H. Gass (Ph.D. 1954 Philosophy) - Author, essayist
David B. Goodstein (B.A. 1954) - Pioneering gay-rights advocate and publisher
Lynne Hanley (B.A. English) - Literary critic
Minfong Ho (B.A. Economics) - Chinese-American author
Laura Z. Hobson - Author, Gentleman's Agreement, which was made into the film of the same name
Clifford Irving (B.A. 1951) - Author of the infamous Howard Hughes biography hoax
Anne LaBastille (B.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1969) - Author and award-winning conservationist
Lorrie Moore (M.F.A. 1982) - Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist
George Jean Nathan (1904) - Author, critic
Nicholas Nicastro (B.A. 1985 English, M.A. 1991 Archaeology, Ph.D. 2003 Psychology) - Historical novelist
Thomas Perry (B.A. 1969) - Novelist, Edgar Award winner.
Thomas Pynchon (B.A. 1959 English) - Author, Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49
Kenneth Roberts (B.A. 1908) - Novelist, Northwest Passage
Laura Riding (attended 1918-21) - Poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, leader in modernism.
Matt Ruff (B.A. 1988) - Author, Fool on the Hill
Joanna Russ (B.A. 1957 English; Professor) - Feminist author, The Female Man
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (undergrad) - Critical theorist, literature professor
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Ph.D. 1967 Comparative Literature) - Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak?
William Strunk Jr. (Ph.D. 1896; Professor) - Author of The Elements of Style
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1905; Professor of History 1915-17) - Author of the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature
Kurt Vonnegut (undergrad 1941-1943, dropped out) - Author, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.
Lauren Weisberger (B.A. 1999 English) - Author, The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing
E. B. White (B.A. 1921) - Author, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little; Co-author, The Elements of Style

[edit] History

[edit] Music

Robert Alexander Anderson (1916) - Composer, wrote Christmas song Mele Kalikimaka
Harry Chapin (dropped out) - Folk musician, Cat's in the Cradle
Henrique de Curitiba (M.F.A. 1981) - Polish-Brazilian composer
Mack David - Eight-time Academy Award nominee for songs including Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo
Joscelyn Godwin (Ph.D. 1969 Musicology) - Musicologist, translator, historian of the esoteric
Greg Graffin (Ph.D. 1991 Evolutionary Biology) - Lead singer in the band Bad Religion
Laurens Hammond (B.S. 1916 Mechanical Engineering) - Inventor of the Hammond organ
Jesse Harris (B.A.) - Grammy-award winning songwriter who wrote "Don't Know Why" and "Come Away with Me", songs popularized by the artist Norah Jones
Huey Lewis (undergrad 1967-69, dropped out) - Rock musician, Huey Lewis and the News
Robert Moog (Ph.D. 1965) - Inventor of the Moog synthesizer
Steve Reich (B.A. 1957) - Composer
Christopher Rouse (1958) - Classical composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
Cary Sherman (1968) - President of the Recording Industry Association of America
Steven Stucky (D.M.A. 1978; Professor of Music Composition) - Pulitzer Prize winning composer
Paul Francis Webster (undergrad 1927-28, transferred) - Academy and Grammy Award-winning lyricist
Peter Yarrow (B.A. 1959) - Folksinger, Peter, Paul and Mary

[edit] Architecture and design

Edmund Bacon (B.Arch. 1932) - Urban planner, reshaped Philadelphia, 1949-70
Alan Chimacoff (B.Arch. 1963) - Architect
Gilmore David Clarke (B.S. 1913 Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering) - Designed the Central Park Zoo and the Unisphere
Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. 1955) - A foremost practitioner of deconstructivism in American architecture
M. Arthur Gensler (B.Arch. 1958) - Architect
Gisue Hariri (B.Arch. 1980) - New York City-based architect
Mojgan Hariri (B.Arch. 1981) - New York City-based architect
Robert Trent Jones, 1931) - Designer of about 500 golf courses
Raymond M. Kennedy (B.Arch. 1915) - Designed Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Rem Koolhaas (M.Arch.) - Dutch architect, journalist, and screenwriter
David Macpherson (Civil Engineering) - City planner for San Antonio, Texas, designed Santa Fe Railroad
Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) - Founded the Mapua Institute of Technology
Richard Meier (B.Arch. 1957, Professor) - Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal winner
M. Blake Middleton (B.Arch. 1978, M.Arch. 1981) - Architect
Enrique Norten (M.Arch. 1980) - Mexican architect, professor, 2003 World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition jury member
Chad Oppenheimer (B.Arch.) - Architect
Nathaniel Owings (B.Arch. 1927) - Partner of architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Steven Peterson (M.Arch.) - Architect
Susan Rodriguez (B.Arch.) - Architect
Richard Shreve (B.Arch.) - Partner of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon that designed the Empire State Building
Derek Tynan (M.Arch.) - Architect
Philip Will, Jr (B.Arch. 1928) - Partner of architectural firm Perkins+Will and President of the American Institute of Architects
E. Stewart Williams (B.Arch.) - Palm Springs, California-based architect with a distinctive modernist style
Ricardo Zurita (B.Arch. 1984) - Architect

[edit] Fine arts and photography

James De La Vega (B.A. 1993) - Mural artist
Ginnie Gardiner (B.F.A. 1974) - Massurrealist painter
Susan Rothenberg (B.F.A. 1967) - Painter
Pat Lipsky (B.F.A. 1963) - Painter
Jason Seley (B.A. 1940) - Sculptor
Frederick Sommer (M.A. 1927 Landscape Architecture) - Photographer
Hugh Troy (undergrad 1922-27, did not graduate) - Artist, famous prankster

[edit] Media

[edit] Journalism

Eric Alterman (B.A. 1982 History and Government) - Liberal author and columnist
Hillary Andrews (B.A. 1992) - Meteorologist on The Weather Channel
Margaret Bourke-White (B.A. 1927) - Photojournalist
C.J. Chivers (B.A. 1987) - Foreign correspondent, The New York Times
Charles Collingwood (B.A. 1939) - Broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent
Ann Coulter (B.A. 1984) - Conservative author and columnist
Pam Coulter (B.A. 1976) - ABC News Radio Correspondent
Michael Dirda (Ph.D. 1975, Comparative Literature) - Pulitzer Prize winning book critic for the Washington Post
Jeffrey Gettleman (B.A. 1994) - Foreign correspondent, The New York Times
Philip Gourevitch (B.A. 1986) - Editor, The Paris Review
Carolyn Gusoff (B.A. 1984) - reporter and anchor with WNBC in New York City
John Hassel (B.A. 1991) - Journalist, co-winner of Pulitzer Prize for newspaper reporting
Austin Kiplinger (B.A. 1939) - Journalist, editor of The Kiplinger Letter, founder of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, winner of the Peabody Award
Marc Lacey (B.A. 1987) - foreign correspondent, The New York Times
Eric Lichtblau (B.A. 1987 English and Political Science) - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for national reporting with The New York Times
Kal Lindenberg (B.A. 1971) - copy editor, Foreign desk, The New York Times
Sari Locker (B.S. 1990) – Television sex educator, credits include Lifetime TV talk show host and WCBS-TV News reporter, books include The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex.
Bill Maher (B.A. 1978 English) - Comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist
James C. McKinley, Jr. (B.A. 1984) - foreign correspondent, The New York Times
Philip Merrill (B.A. 1955 Government, Trustee) - Owner and publisher of The Capital Daily Newspaper in Annapolis, MD and Washingtonian magazine; international statesman; advisor to U.S. Presidents
Summer Rayne Oakes (B.S. 2004 Natural Resources, Entomology, G.I.S.) - model and actress Eco 4 the World, Editor for Lucire, producer of S4 Newsletter
Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979) - News anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster who currently hosts Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
Aric J. Press (B.S. 1971) - Editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer magazine
Gordon F. Sander (B.A. 1972) - Journalist, historian, and photographer
Dick Schaap (B.S. 1955) - Sports newscaster on ABC and ESPN, two Emmy Awards, author and co-author of 33 books
Kate Snow (B.S. 1991 Communication) - Journalist, co-anchor of Good Morning America
Andrew Ross Sorkin (B.S. 1999) - Chief Mergers and Acquisitions reporter for The New York Times
Frank Sullivan, 1914) - American journalist, humorist, and author, long associated with The New Yorker, whose Christmas poem he composed each year for 50 years
Howard Taubman (B.A. 1929) - Chief Music Critic and Chief Theater Critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s
William T. Vollmann (B.A. 1981 Comparative Literature) - Journalist, Author of numerous books on war, including a seven volume treatise on violence
Whit Watson, 1993) - Announcer on Sun Sports
Sheryl WuDunn (B.A. 1981 European History) - Journalist at The New York Times, co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, winner of the George Polk Award in 1989, and winner of the Overseas Press Club in 1990.

[edit] Film, television, theatre

Christopher Reeve

Ted Berkman (1933) - Screenwriter, authored Bedtime for Bonzo
Josh Bernstein (B.A. 1993 Anthropology and Psychology) - Host of "Digging for the Truth" on the History Channel
Lee Bienstock (B.S. 2005 Policy Analysis & Management) - Businessman and 2nd place on the fifth edition of the NBC reality show The Apprentice
Dane Clark (bachelors 1930s) - Actor, Moonrise
Jordan Clarke (B.A. 1973 Philosophy, M.F.A. 1973 Acting) - Actor, starred in Guiding Light, winner of a Daytime Emmy for "Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series"
Ellen Albertini Dow (B.A. 1935 Theater, M.A. 1938 Theater) - Actress, Wedding Crashers, the rapping grandmother in The Wedding Singer
Dan Duryea (B.A. English) - Actor
Art Fleming - Original Jeopardy! host, 1964-75
Allen Funt (B.A. 1934 Fine Arts) - Producer, created Candid Camera
Eric Garcia (transferred 1992) - Writer, author of Matchstick Men
Harold Gould (M.A. 1948 Theater, Ph.D. 1953 Dramatic Speech and Literature; Professor of Speech and Drama) - Stage, screen, and television actor
Howard Hawks - American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era, with direction including Scarface (1932), His Girl Friday (1940), The Big Sleep (1946) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Catherine Hicks (M.F.A. 1976?) - Annie Camden on 7th Heaven
Sidney Kingsley (B.A. 1928) - Playwright, screenwriter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for the drama Men in White
Arthur Laurents (B.A. 1937 English) - Playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits include West Side Story, Rope, and Gypsy
Jane Lynch (M.F.A Theater) - Actress
Bill Maher (B.A. 1977) - Actor, comedian, talk-show host
Carol Mendelsohn (B.A. 1973) - Television producer, credits include C.S.I.
Adolphe Menjou (B.S. Engineering) - Actor, famous for his roles in The Sheik and The Three Musketeers, and Paths of Glory. Nominated for an Academy Award, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ronald D. Moore (failed out 1985) - Writer/Producer of Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica; two-time Hugo Award winner, nominated for Emmy Award
Frank Morgan (undergrad 1908-09, dropped out) - Actor, played The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Academy Award recipient
John Myung (undergrad) - Poker player
Bill Nye (B.S. 1977 Mechanical Engineering, M.Eng. 1977, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2001-06) - The Science Guy; science education advocate
Summer Rayne Oakes (B.S. 2004 Natural Resources, Entomology, G.I.S.) - model and actress Eco 4 the World, Editor for Lucire, producer of S4 Newsletter
Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979 Communication Arts) - Sports commentator, news anchor
Peter Ostrum (D.V.M. 1984) - Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Richard Price (B.S. 1971) - Author, The Wanderers and 6 other novels; Academy Award nominated screenwriter for The Color of Money and Clockers
Christopher Reeve (B.A. 1974 Theater Arts and English) - Actor, best known for Superman
Jason Reich (B.A. 1998) - Emmy Award winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Christopher Rich (M.A. Theater Arts) - Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown
Andrea Savage (B.A. Political Science and Spanish, minor in Law Studies) - Actress, Dog Bites Man
Thelma Schoonmaker (B.A. 1961) - Film editor, received the Academy Award for Raging Bull, The Aviator & The Departed
Robert Smigel (undergrad 1978-80, transferred) - Puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog; first head writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien; author of "TV Funhouse" animations on Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Smits (M.F.A. 1982) - Actor
Ken Sunshine (1970) - Publicist
Tim Squyres (B.A. 1981) - Academy Award nominated film editor, best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Masaki Takai (Founder of AnimEigo
Jennifer Tipton (B.A. 1958) - Award-winning theatre and dance lighting designer
Franchot Tone (undergrad) - Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Mutiny on the Bounty, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Mary Woronov (did not graduate) - Actress, member of Andy Warhol's The Factory

David Starr Jordan, founding president of Stanford University

M. Carey Thomas, founder of Bryn Mawr College

[edit] Education

William Bagley (Ph.D. 1900 Psychology and Education) - American educator and editor
Henry Bienen (B.S. 1960) - President of Northwestern University, 1995-present
John Casper Branner (B.S. 1882) - President of Stanford University, 1913-15); geologist
Daniel Mark Fogel (B.A. 1969 English, M.F.A 1974 Creative Writing, Ph.D. 1976 English) - President of the University of Vermont, 2002-present
Emil Q. Javier (Ph.D. 1969) - President of the University of the Philippines, 1993-99
David Starr Jordan (M.S. 1872, honorary LL.D. 1886) - Founding President of Stanford University, 1891-1913), President of Indiana University, 1885-91), Smithsonian Institution associate
Flemmie Kittrell (M.S. 1930, Ph.D. 1936) - Early advocate of preschool education programs
Jay O. Light (B.S.E. 1963) - Dean of Harvard Business School, 2006-present
Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) - Founder of the Mapúa Institute of Technology and accomplished architect
Michael C. McFarland (B.A. 1969 Physics) - President of College of the Holy Cross, 2000-present
Steven Muller - President of Johns Hopkins University, 1972 to 1990
Ernest Fox Nichols (M.S. 1893, Ph.D. 1897) - President of MIT, 1921-22) and Dartmouth, 1909-16), Professor of physics at Colgate, 1892-98), Dartmouth, 1898-1903), Columbia, 1903-09), and Yale
S. Georgia Nugent (Ph.D. 1978 Classics) - President of Kenyon College, 2003-), the school's first woman president
Kathleen Sullivan (B.A. 1976) - Dean of Stanford Law School, 1999-2004), Professor at Harvard Law School, 1984-93), Professor at Stanford Law School, 2004-present
M. Carey Thomas (B.A. 1877) - Founder and second President of Bryn Mawr College, 1894-1922); suffragist
Randi Weingarten (B.S. 1980 Labor Relations) - President of the United Federation of Teachers
Eric W. Weisstein (B.A. 1990 Physics, minor Astronomy) - Encyclopedist, created and maintains MathWorld, ScienceWorld, and other encyclopedias
George T. Winston (B.A. 1874 Literature, Professor) - President of University of North Carolina, 1891-96), the University of Texas, 1896-99), and North Carolina State University, 1899-1908

[edit] Business

[edit] Founders

Willis Carrier (M.E. 1901) - Founder of Carrier Corporation; inventor of air conditioning
Adolph Coors (B.A. 1907) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
Joseph Coors (B.Chem. 1939, Chem. E. 1940) - Co-founder of Coors Brewing Company
David Duffield (B.E.E. 1962, M.B.A. 1964) - Co-founder of PeopleSoft
David Edgerton (B.S. Hotel Administration) - Co-founder of Burger King
Charles Feeney (B.S. Hotel Administration) - Founder of Duty Free Shops, Founder & Director of Atlantic Philanthropies
Frank Gannett (B.A. 1898) - Founder of Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher; namesake of Gannett Health Center
Paul Graham (B.A.) - Co-founder of Viaweb, sold for $46.6 million to Yahoo! and became Yahoo! Stores; Lisp programmer, author
Leroy Grumman (M.E. 1916) - Founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Myra Hart (B.A. 1962, M.B.A. 1981, Trustee, 1999-) - One of four founders of Staples, Inc., Professor at Harvard Business School
Jeff Hawkins (B.S. 1979 Electrical Engineering) - Founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring; inventor of the Palm Pilot

Irwin Jacobs, Co-founder of Qualcomm

Irwin M. Jacobs (B.E.E. 1956) - Co-founder and Chairman of Qualcomm; UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, philanthropist
James McLamore (B.S. 1947 Hotel Administration) - Co-founder of Burger King
Jeffrey Parker (B.S. 1965, M ENG '66, MBA '70) - Founder of FirstCall Corporation ; CEO of Thomson Financial 86 - 91
Edward Leamington Nichols (B.S. 1875, Professor) - Founder of the Physical Review
Drew Nieporent (B.S. 1977 Hotel Administration) - Owner of Myriad Restaurant Group, which operates 16 restaurants in six U.S. cities
Franklin W. Olin (B.C.E. 1886) - Founder of Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Hall
John M. Olin (B.S. 1913 Chemistry) - Founder of John M. Olin Foundation, President, Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Library
Leland Pillsbury (B.S. 1969 Hotel Administration) Founder, President, and CEO of Thayer Lodging
Rob Ryan (B.A. 1969 College of Arts & Sciences) - Founder of Ascend Communications, sold for $23 billion to Lucent Technologies
Jay Walker (B.S. 1977 Industrial Relations) - Founder of Priceline.com; founder and chairman, Walker Digital
Sanford I. Weill (B.A. 1955 Government) - Former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup; founder of Shearson Loeb Rhoades, sold for $930 million to American Express; namesake of Weill Cornell Medical College
Robin Wolaner (B.S. 1975 Industrial and Labor Relations) - Founder of Parenting Magazine

[edit] Chairpersons, CEO's, Executives

Jeff Bleustein (B.S. 1960 Mechanical Engineering, B.M.E. 1961) - CEO, 1997-2005) and Chairman of Harley-Davidson
Val A. Browning (B.S. 1917 Engineering) - President of Browning Arms Company
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. (undergrad 1906-09, dropped out) - President, 1940-48) and Chairman, 1948-62) of DuPont
Abby Joseph Cohen (B.A. 1973 Economics and Computer Science, Trustee) - Managing Director of Goldman Sachs
Pete Coors (B.S. 1969 Industrial Engineering) - Executive of Coors Brewing Company, Senatorial candidate, 2004
Alonzo Galloway Decker, Jr. (B.E.E. 1929) - CEO of Black & Decker, 1964-75), made the company into a household name
Kenneth T. Derr (B.S. 1959 Mechanical Engineering, M.B.A. 1960, Trustee) - Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation, 1989-99
Jonathan Dolgen (B.S. 1966) - Chairman and CEO of Viacom Entertainment Group, 1994-2004
Dave Dombrowski (undergrad 1974-75, transferred) - President, CEO, and General Manager of the Detroit Tigers
Reginald Fils-Aime (B.S. 1983 Applied Economics) - President of Nintendo's North American division
Edward A. Fox (B.A.) - Founding President and CEO of Sallie Mae, 1973-90
Richard Gomel ) - B.S.) - CEO of Louvre Hotels (Collection includes the Hôtel de Crillon).
Byron Grote (Ph.D. 1981 Quantitative Analysis) - Chief Financial Officer of BP
Charles L. Jarvie (B.S. 1958, M.B.A.) - President of Dr Pepper, 1980-83
George Joblove (B.S. 1976 Computer Science, M.S. 1979 Computer Graphics) - Senior Vice President of Technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks; Founder and manager of the computer graphics department at Industrial Light and Magic
Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1922 Chemistry) - President of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and namesake of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus
Herbert Fisk Johnson III - 5 Cornell degrees 1979-86 - CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and Trustee Emeritus of Cornell
Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1950 Economics) - Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and co-namesake of the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Thomas W. Jones (B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, Trustee) - Principal of TWJ Capital LLC
Douglas Kay (B.S. 1976 Computer Science, M.S. 1979 Computer Graphics) - Chairman of Mondo Media, winner of a technical achievement Academy Award for digital compositing technology at Industrial Light and Magic
Charles Lee (B.A. 1961 Metallurgical Engineering, Trustee) - CEO of Verizon, 1991-2002
Oscar Gustave Mayer (B.A. 1934) - CEO of Oscar Mayer, 1955-66) and was responsible for Oscar Mayer's rapid growth from a $200 million operation to a billion dollar operation.
Stephen McPherson (B.A. 1986 Political Science) - President of ABC Primetime Entertainment, 2004-present
James C. Morgan (B.M.E. 1960, M.B.A. 1963) - Chairman of Applied Materials, the world's largest producer of semiconductor microchip equipment; National Medal of Technology recipient, 1996
Perry Odak (B.S. 1968) - CEO of Ben and Jerry's, 1997-2000), President and CEO of Wild Oats Markets, which earned top-retailer honors among Business Ethics magazine's Top 100 Corporate Citizens
Spencer Truman Olin (B.S. 1921 Mechanical Engineering) - Vice President of Olin Industries; Finance Chairman Republican National Committee; philanthropist; namesake of Olin Laboratory and the Olin Lecture
Frederick D. Patterson (Ph.D. 1933) - Founder of the United Negro College Fund; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1987); educator, philanthropist
William Perez (B.A. 1969 Government) - CEO of Nike, Inc., 2004-06
Lewis Platt (B.S. 1964 Mechanical Engineering) - CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99), Chairman of Boeing, 2003-05
Fernando Poma (B.S. Hotel Administration) - CEO of Real Hotels and Resorts
Justin Rattner (B.S. 1970 Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1972 Computer Science) - Chief Technology Officer of Intel, ABC News Person of the Week for his work on the ASCI Red system (fastest computer in the world, 1996-2000), R&D Magazine's "Scientist of the Year", 1989
Bruce S. Raynor (B.S. 1972 Industrial & Labor Relations) - President of UNITE HERE
Kevin Reilly (President of NBC Entertainment, 2004-present
Irene B. Rosenfeld (B.A. 1975 Psychology, MBA 1977 Business, Ph.D. 1980 Marketing and Statistics) - CEO of Kraft Foods
Jon Rubinstein (B.S. 1978 Electrical Engineering, M.Eng 1979 Electrical Engineering) - Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Computer
Nancy Schlichting (M.B.A. 1979) - CEO of the four-hospital Henry Ford Health System in Detroit
Steven Sinofsky (B.A. 1987 Arts & Sciences) - Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering at Microsoft
Charles E. Sporck (B.S. 1951) - CEO of National Semiconductor, 1967-91
Warren Staley (M.B.A. 1967) - Chairman and CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company; member of President's Export Council under George W. Bush
Terry C. Stewart (M.B.A. 1972, J.D. 1974) - President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kyung-Bae Suh (M.B.A. 1987) - President and CEO of Seoul-based Amore Pacific, among the world's top-30 cosmetics manufacturers
Ratan Tata (B.Arch. 1962 Architecture and Structural Engineering) - Chairman of Tata Group, India's wealthiest business group, 1991-present
Walter C. Teagle (B.S. 1899, Trustee, 1924-54) - President and Chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil)
Andrew Tisch (B.S. 1974 Hotel Administration) - Chairman, Loews Corporation
James Tisch (B.S. 1975 Economics] - President and CEO of Loews Corporation
Myron Charles Taylor (LL.B. 1894) - Chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel, 1932-38), namesake of Myron C. Taylor Hall
Robert Toll (B.A. 1963) - CEO of Toll Brothers, one of Barron's Top 30 CEOs worldwide

[edit] Athletics

See also: Cornell in Professional Sports

[edit] American football

Kevin Boothe (B.S. 2005 Hotel Administration) - Oakland Raiders, 2006-present
Al Dekdebrun (Buffalo Bisons, 1946), Chicago Rockets, 1947), Boston Yanks, 1948), New York Yankees, 1948
Ed Marinaro (B.S. 1972) - Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, and Seattle Seahawks; runner-up for the 1971 Heisman Trophy Award, actor on Hill Street Blues
Seth Payne, 1997) - Jacksonville Jaguars, 1997-2001, Houston Texans, 2001-2007
Lee Reherman (Miami Dolphins, actor on American Gladiators and X-Files
Glenn "Pop" Warner (LL.B. 1894, Football Coach) - Football player and coach, founder of Pop Warner Little Scholars

[edit] Ice hockey

Gary Bettman (B.S. 1974) - Commissioner of the NHL
Ken Dryden (B.A. 1969) - NHL Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender, Canadian Member of Parliament
Ned Harkness (Lacrosse and Hockey head coach) - Head coach and GM of the Detroit Red Wings
David McKee (Goaltender for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Doug Murray, 2003) - Defenceman for San Jose Sharks
Joe Nieuwendyk, 1988) - NHL player, 3-time Stanley Cup champion

[edit] Olympics

See also: Cornell Olympians

Jon Anderson, 1971) - 1972 Olympian, track; winner of 1973 Boston Marathon
Darren Eliot, 1983) - NHL player, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres; 1984 Olympian
Al Hall, 1956) - Four-time Olympian, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), hammer throw
Robert J. Kane, 1934, Director of Athletics) - U.S. Olympic Committee president, 1976-80); inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1986
Peter Pfitzinger (B.S. 1979, M.B.A. 1982) - Marathon, 1984 (11th) and 1988 (14th) Summer Olympics
Kent Manderville, 1993) - NHL player, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins; 1992 Olympian
Travis Mayer (undergrad 2000-01, on leave) - Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist
Charles Moore, 1951, Director of Athletics, 1994-99) - 1952 Olympic gold medalist (hurdles) and silver medalist (1600-meter relay); honored as Golden Olympian, 1996
Pablo Morales (J.D. 1994) - Three-time gold medalist in swimming, 1992 Summer Olympics
Bo Roberson, 1958) - Black athlete with the distinction of being the only person to earn an Ivy League degree, an Olympic medal, a doctorate, and have a career in the N.F.L.^[2]
Jamie Silverstein (undergrad 2002-04, 2006-) - Olympic figure skater

[edit] Other

Bruce Arena (B.S. 1971) - 5-time NCAA Championship coach at the University of Virginia, coach of the U.S. national team
Joe Birmingham (Baseball player, Cleveland Naps, 1906-14
Bryan Colangelo (B.S. 1987) - President and General Manager of the Phoenix Suns, 2005 NBA executive of the year
Jon Daniels (B.S. 1999) - General Manager of the Texas Rangers, youngest GM ever in Major League Baseball
Michael "Mike" G. French (1976) - All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, leading the "Big Red" to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976.
Hughie Jennings (J.D. study 1901-04, dropped out; Baseball Coach, 1899-?) - Baseball Hall of Fame-inducted shortstop; Louisville Colonels, 1891-1893), Baltimore Orioles, 1893-1899), Brooklyn Superbas, 1899-1900, 1903), Philadelphia Phillies, 1901-1902), Detroit Tigers, 1907, 1909, 1912, 1918
Daniel R. Mackesey (1977) - Received NCAA Top Five Award in 1978 for lacrosse and soccer; inducted in National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006
Teddy Mayer (J.D.) - Motor racing team manager
Dick Savitt - tennis player, ranked # 2 in the world.

[edit] Crime

Nick Berg (undergrad 1996-98, transferred) - Businessman beheaded by Islamic militants on May 7, 2004 during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq
Leo Frank (B.S. 1906 Engineering) - Factory owner whose 1915 lynching for rape and murder sparked the reforming of the Ku Klux Klan; subject of the musical Parade
Katrina Leung (B.S. 1976) - Accused spy, case dismissed then later sentenced to terms of plea agreement
Robert Tappan Morris (graduate study 1988-89, suspended) - Author of the Morris Worm, which crippled the Internet in 1988
Michael Ross (B.S. 1981 Agricultural Economics) - Convicted serial killer executed in Connecticut on May 13, 2005
Michael Schwerner (B.A. 1961 Sociology) - Murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights worker murders