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Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Brandeis University.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Notable alumni 1.1 Academia 1.2 Arts and media 1.3 Business 1.4 Government, law and politics 1.5 Science 1.6 Sports 2 Notable faculty and staff

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Academia

• Bonnie Berger: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David Bernstein: Law professor and blogger [1]
• Deborah Bial: Education strategist, Founder and President of Posse Foundation, MacArthur Fellow
• Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Donna Robinson Divine Professor at Smith College
• Jean Bethke Elshtain: Professor at the University of Chicago, feminist, political philosopher
• Daniel A. Foss, Sociologist
• John Hopps: Physicist, Politician
• Arthur Levine: President of Columbia University Teachers College; recently appointed Woodrow Wilson Foundation[2]
• Deborah Lipstadt: Historian[3]
• Fatema Mernissi: Moroccan sociologist.[4]
• Elisa New: Harvard University Professor and wife of Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University [5]
• Alicia Ostriker: Poet, scholar, Professor at Rutgers University
• Philip Rubin: Cognitive scientist, CEO and senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories
• Paul Sally: Mathematician at the University of Chicago
• Fr. Antonio S. Samson: president of Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines[6]
• Judith Shapiro: President, Barnard College
• Thomas M. Shapiro: Sociologist, author [7]
• Robert F.X. Sillerman: Media entrepreneur; CEO of CKX (owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises and American Idol); Chancellor of Long Island University's Southampton College
• Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey Walzer's CV (PDF)
• Robert J. Zimmer: Mathematician, president of the University of Chicago[8]

[edit] Arts and media

• Kathy Acker: Novelist
• Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven^[1]
• Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
• Morton Brilliant: Wikipedia-using campaign manager[9]
• Peter Child: Composer
• Joe Conason: Political columnist for The New York Observer
• David Crane: Co-creator, writer, and executive producer of television series Friends [10]
• Tyne Daly: Actress[11]
• Stuart Damon: Actor- student name - Stewart Zonis - long term role on General Hospital
• Loretta Devine: Actress in television series Boston Public and Grey's Anatomy, and films, including Crash [12]
• Irving Fine: Composer
• Thomas Friedman: Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times; winner of National Book Award and three-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.[13]
• Tony Goldwyn: Actor and director
• Mark Halliday: Poet
• Marshall Herskovitz: Director and producer of the movie Dangerous Beauty; Producer and screenwriter of Last Samurai, Producer of I Am Sam and Traffic.[14]
• Chuck Israels: Jazz musician, bassist
• Margo Jefferson: The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
• Ha Jin: Novelist [15], winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award
• Michael Kaiser: President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
• Marta Kauffman: Executive Producer and co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Friends, and Cocreator of the comedy series Family Album, Dream On and The Powers That Be
• Jon Landau: Music critic, manager and record producer
• Louise Lasser: Actress, ex-wife of Woody Allen
• Peter Lieberson: Composer
• Mark Leyner: Novelist
• Steven Mackey: Composer
• Michael McDowell: Novelist and script writer
• Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation[16]
• Debra Messing: Actress in television series Will & Grace [17]
• Walter Mossberg: Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist[18]
• Josh Mostel: Actor in television shows and films, son of Zero Mostel
• Barry Newman: Actor
• Anand Patwardhan: Documentary filmmaker
• Martin Peretz: Editor-in-chief of The New Republic[19]
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine
• Tom Rapp: Singer/songwriter, previously of Pearls Before Swine
• Theresa Rebeck: Playwright and novelist.
• Jeff Rubens: Bridge player, writer and editor.
• David Ian Salter: Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo[20]
• Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst [21]
• Bob Simon: CBS Television correspondent for 60 Minutes
• Christina Hoff Sommers: Author, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [22]
• Karen Sosnoski: Author and filmmaker
• Penelope Trunk: Author of Brazen Careerist: New Rules for Success [23], columnist, The Boston Globe and Yahoo! Finance[24]
• Jonathan Vankin: Senior Editor, Vertigo Comics
• Robin Weigert: Actress (Calamity Jane in HBO's Deadwood)

[edit] Business

• Leonard Asper: CanWest CEO [25]
• Mitch Caplan: President and CEO, E*TRADE Group [26]
• Jeri Bloch Finard: Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc.[27]
• Ellen Gordon: Chief Operating Officer, Tootsie Roll Industries [28]
• Christie Hefner: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner [29] [30]
• Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and wife of Bob Kraft, owner of New England Patriots
• Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea[31]
• Jeffrey Lurie: Owner of Philadelphia Eagles
• Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson: Vice president of Time Warner Digital Media - Former CEO and president of Sony Interfactive Entertainment and responsible for the introduction of PlayStation
• Robert F.X. Sillerman: Chairman, SFX Entertainment [32]

[edit] Government, law and politics

• Jack Abramoff: Republican activist, founder of International Freedom Foundation, lobbyist (pleaded guilty to three felonies in 2006), writer and producer of the movie Red Scorpion
• Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President Bill Clinton and journalist[33]
• Naomi Reice Buchwald: United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York [34]
• Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop[35]
• Jennifer Casolo: Peace activist
• Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, political activist
• Geir Haarde: Prime Minister of Iceland^[2][3]
• Wakako Hironaka: Member of the Diet of Japan, State Minister, Director-General of the Environment Agency (1993-94)
• Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")[36]
• Naomi Jaffe : Social and political activist, member of the Weatherman (organization).
• Otis Johnson : Mayor of Savannah, Georgia
• Marcel Kahan: Published legal pundit and corporate law professor at the New York University School of Law.
• Joette Katz: Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
• Osman Faruk Loğoğlu: Former Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
• Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice^[4]
• Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia[37]
• George Saitoti: Former Vice President of the Republic of Kenya and former Minister of Finance, Government of Kenya
• Michael Sandel: Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University and former member of the President's Council on Bioethics
• Susan Edith Saxe: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice
• Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996[38]
• Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, New York[39]
• Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989[40]
• Nikolai Vassilliev: Deputy prime minister of Bulgaria [41]
• Laura Whitehorn: Member of the Weatherman (organization), she participated in the Battle of Boston during the Boston Bus Crisis.
• Gerald Zerkin: Attorney for Zacarias Moussaoui.

[edit] Science

• Nathan (Nathaniel)Cohen: Physicist and inventor (see fractal antennas )
• Judith Rich Harris: Psychologist
• Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist and inventor of LaTeX, a widely-used document preparation system
• Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Janet Akyüz Mattei: Turkish-American astronomer and former director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
• Patrick Tufts: Notable computer scientist and inventor
• Karen Uhlenbeck: Mathematician
• Edward Witten: Physicist, Recipient of the Fields Medal in 1990 [42]

[edit] Sports

• Nelson Figueroa: Major League baseball pitcher for the New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates. [43]. Famously traded in a deal that brought Curt Schilling from the Phillies to the Diamondbacks.

[edit] Notable faculty and staff

• Teresa M. Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist
• Robert J. Art: International Politics
• Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor
• Frank Bidart: Poet
• Olga Broumas: Poet
• Mary Baine Campbell: Poet and critic
• Stephen Cecchetti: Economist
• Jacob "Jerry" Cohen: Expert on conspiracy theories (particularly the assassination of JFK)
• J.V. Cunningham: Poet and literary critic
• Thomas Doherty: Film studies expert, author of Pre-Code Hollywood
• Mark Feeney: Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe
• Gordie Fellman: Peace Studies pioneer, author of Rambo and the Dalai Lama
• Irving Fine: Composer
• David Hackett Fischer: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author
• Benny Friedman: Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback; former Athletic Director (1949-1961) and the final Coach of Brandeis' football team (1951-1959)
• Thomas Friedman: columnist for The New York Times; three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; author of The World is Flat and expert on globalization
• Lawrence "Larry" Fuchs: Founder of the American Studies Department at Brandeis and immigration policy expert
• Arthur Green, Jewish spirituality and thought
• Allen Grossman: MacArthur Foundation "genius-award" winning poet and critic
• Timothy J Hickey: Computer scientist
• Anita Hill: Lawyer and social policy expert
• Heisuke Hironaka: Mathematician, Fields Medal winner.
• Irving Howe: Political theorist, Editor and founder of Dissent
• Paul Jankowski: Historian
• William E. Kapelle: Medieval historian
• Dorothee Kern: Biochemist, former basketball player for the German national team
• Walter Laqueur: Historian and political commentator.
• Max Lerner Author, syndicated columnist, and editor
• Martin Levin: Public Policy expert.
• Kanan Makiya: Iraqi dissident, advocate of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq
• Herbert Marcuse: Social theorist and member of the Frankfurt School
• Abraham Maslow: Psychologist noted for humanistic approach
• Eileen McNamara: Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Boston Globe
• Pauli Murray: Feminist and civil rights expert.
• Ulric Neisser: A pioneer in development of cognitive psychology
• Irene Pepperberg: Psychologist noted for research on cognition in animals, particularly for her intensive work with a single African Grey Parrot, Alex
• James Pustejovsky: Linguist, Proposer of Generative Lexicon Theory
• Philip Rahv: Literary and Social Critic, Editor and Founder of "Partisan Review"
• Robert Reich: United States Secretary of Labor, 1993 - 1997, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002
• Margret Rey: Author and illustrator
• Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the United States
• Dennis Ross: Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President Bill Clinton
• Jonathan Sarna: Sociologist and Author
• Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist; subject of Mitch Albom's bestselling novel, Tuesdays with Morrie.
• Marion Smiley: J.P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics
• Thomas Sowell: American economist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Andreas Teuber: Chair, Department of Philosophy, Member and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient, actor in the movie Doctor Faustus.
• Gina Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 MacArthur "Genius" Award
• Stephen J. Whitfield: expert on American Jewish history
• Leslie Zebrowitz: Social Psychologist