List of Stuyvesant High School people

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This article lists notable people associated with Stuyvesant High School in New York City, New York, organized into rough professional areas and listed in order by their graduating class.

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[edit] Mathematics

Stuyvesant High School has produced a steady stream of professional mathematicians, including more leading figures in this field than are associated with most leading universities:

[edit] Physics

Stuyvesant has also produced a steady stream of physicists, including a number of major figures in the field:

[edit] Chemistry

[edit] Life sciences and medicine

[edit] Social sciences

[edit] Technology

  • Walter Landauer (1942) defense technology (formerly President, Purvis Systems) (d. 1998)
  • J. Arthur Greenwood (1943) statistics, applied mathematics (President, Oceanweather).
  • William J. Shanahan (1943) defense technology (Manager of Advanced Systems, Norden, Melville, NY)
  • Harry Bokow (1943) civil engineer; FBI Building, Washington, DC (General Services Administration)
  • Hans Mark (1947) aerospace engineering; served as Deputy Administrator of NASA, and Secretary of the U. S. Air Force
  • Henry Ansell (1953) engineer; pioneered development of devices to aid the handicapped (Penn State)
  • Steven J. Wallach (1962) inventor; former chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard
  • Jim Baumbach (1962) InterNet technology (founder and President, Panix)
  • Ronald J. Grabe (1962) astronaut (NASA)
  • Steven Rothman (1965) computer architecture; codesigner of VAX architecture (DEC)
  • Richard Lary (1965) computer architecture; codesigner of VAX architecture (DEC)
  • Bob Frankston (1966) software; author of the spreadsheet VisiCalc
  • Alan M. Davis (1966) software, requirements engineering, author, entrepreneur
  • Daniel Hirschberg (1967) design of algorithms (UC Irvine)
  • Alvin Martin (1967) speech recognition (Information Technology Laboratory, NIST)
  • Steven M. Bellovin (1968) leading authority on firewalls and Internet security; elected to National Academy of Engineering in 2001 (Columbia University)
  • Reed Kelly (1976) computer security (Lehman Brothers Corporation)
  • Gregory Sorkin (1979) combinatorics, computer science (IBM)
  • Irwin Jungreis (1979) CAD software (founder, Revit Technology Corporation, Waltham, MA)
  • Joel Wein (1981) computer science (Brooklyn Polytech)
  • David Zuckerman (1983) randomness in algorithm theory, coding theory (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Omar Wasow (1988) creator of BlackPlanet.com, Oprah's "tech guy", MSNBC Internet analyst
  • Raymond Lau (1989) author of StuffIt
  • Bram Cohen (1993) author of Bittorrent

[edit] Writers

Note: For Frank McCourt, memorist and author see the main Stuyvesant High School article.

[edit] Music

[edit] Film

Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins

[edit] Journalism, radio, and television

[edit] Educators

Note: there are some duplications here; see Joshua Lederberg (Life Sciences), Neil Grabois (Mathematics), Robert J. Zimmer (Mathematics), all of whom served as presidents of their universities. See also Hans Mark (Technology), who served as Chancellor of the UT system, and Michael Mazzeo (Business). Additionally, Steven Koonin has had a distinguished research career in physics.

[edit] Business

  • Jack Kreindler (1916) restaurateur, founder of 21 Club
  • Jack Nash (1946) chairman of Oppenheimer & Company
  • Saul Katz (1956) president of the New York Mets

[edit] Politics

[edit] Other

[edit] Sports

In recent decades, Stuyvesant High School has certainly not been known as a powerhouse in interscholastic sports (other than fencing, ultimate frisbee, and swimming), so it may be of interest to see that this was not always so:

  • Herbert Vollmer (1914) was 1924 Olympic Bronze Medalist in Water Polo
  • Ray Arcel (1917) International Boxing Hall of Fame
  • Norman Armitage (Cohn) (1923) 6 Olympic fencing teams, 1948 Olympic Bronze Medalist, 17-time national sabre champion
  • Leroy Brown (1923) was 1924 Olympic Silver Medalist, High Jump
  • Frank Hussey (1924) sprinter; 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist
  • Albert Axelrod (1938) was 1960 Olympic Bronze Medalist in foil fencing
  • Jack Molinas (1949), former NBA player and key figure in the NCAA point shaving scandal
  • Charlie Scott (1966), former NBA player and Olympic gold medallist in 1968

[edit] Significant awards

The lists below include several alumni who have won significant awards in their fields of endeavor. Most notable among those are:

[edit] External links

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