List of Hunter College people
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The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Nobel laureates
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - 1977, Medicine
- Gertrude B. Elion - 1988, Medicine
[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners
- James Wright - poet
- Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
[edit] National Medal of Science winners
- Mildred Cohn - 1982, Biological Sciences
- Mildred Dresselhaus - Engineering Sciences
- Gertrude B. Elion
[edit] Presidential Medal of Freedom winners
- Antonia Pantoja - activist
[edit] Science, Technology, Medicine, and Mathematics
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine
- Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
- Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
- Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Arlie Petters - pioneer of Gravitational Lensing
- Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
- Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
- Erich Jarvis - neurologist
- Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer
- Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
- Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
[edit] Business & Economics
- Robert A. Daly - CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Gerard Cafesjian - owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation
- Alan S. Chartock - president and CEO of WAMC
- Mollie Orshansky - developer of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the main poverty measure in the US
- Sylvia Field Porter - economist and journalist
[edit] Law and Politics
[edit] Members of Congress
- Edna F. Kelly - Congresswoman, 1949-1969
- Eliot L. Engel - Congressman, 1989-present
- Bella Abzug - Congresswoman, 1971-1977
[edit] State figures
- Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates
[edit] City figures
- Tony Avella - New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
- Tom Murphy - mayor of Pittsburgh
- John Timoney - Miami chief of police
- Adolfo Carrión Jr. - Bronx borough president
[edit] Lawyers
- Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School
- Floria Lasky - prominent theater lawyer
[edit] Activists
- Antonia Pantoja - activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
- Mamphela Ramphele - Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
- Madeleine Cosman - health care and immigration advocate
- Judith Vladeck - labor lawyer and civil rights advocate
- Sandra Schnur - pioneer of disability rights
- Norma Becker - anti-war activist
- Audre Lorde
[edit] Journalism & News
- Richard Cohen - Washington Post collumnist
- Corine Hegland - award winning journalist
- Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
- Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician and expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict
[edit] Literature
- James Wright - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
- Paule Marshall - author
- Lucy Dawidowicz - author
- Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
- Martin Greif - writer, publisher
- René Taupin - writer
- Grace Andreacchi - writer
- Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
- Colin Channer - writer
- Gary Shteyngart - author
- Malka Lee - poet
[edit] Film, Theater, and Television
- Rhea Perlman - Four-time Emmy award winning actress
- Vin Diesel - actor
- Ellen Barkin - Emmy award winning and Golden Globe nominated actress
- Hugh Downs - broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
- Ed Burns - actor, director
- Daniel Mulloy - award winning screenwriter and film director
- Tina Howe - Tony nominated playwright
- Maitland McDonagh - film critic
- Ruby Dee - actress
- Natasha Leggero - actress and comic
- Lewis Beale - film critic
- Richard Jeni - comedian
- Eva Condon - Broadway actress
- Ephraim Katz - author of The Film Encyclopedia
- Dreya Weber - producer
- Robi Ludwig - TV host
- Judith Crist - film critic
- Esther Rolle - actress
- Al Santos - actor
- Regina Resnik - opera singer
- Evelyn Lear - p[era singer
- Julianne Nicholson - actress
- Suzanne Kaaren - actress
[edit] Art, Architecture, and Engineering
- Robert Altman - Rolling Stone photojournalist
- Maurice Berger - art critic and historian
- Jack Coggins - illustrator
- Francisco Costa - creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
- Mildred Dresselhaus - National Medal of Science winning engineer
- Echo Eggebrecht - painter
- Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
- Ada Louise Huxtable - Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic
- Kathleen Kucka - painter
- Terrance Lindall - artist
- Robert Morris - sculptor
- Dan Walsh - painter
- Eli Wilner - founder of Eli Wilner & Co art gallery
- Brian Wood
[edit] Music
- David S. Sampson - composer
[edit] Military
- Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - Medal of Honor recipient
[edit] Education
- Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
- Dr. Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
- Kay Toliver - mathematics educator
- Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
- John Taylor Gatto
- Burton Pike
[edit] Fictional
[edit] Faculty
- Robert C. Weaver - 1st United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Nydia Velázquez - US Congresswoman, New York 1993-present
- Paul Moravec - Pulitzer Prize winning composer
- Bertram Myron Gross - author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act
- George E. Kimball - pioneer of operations research algorithms
- Leonard Peikoff - philosopher, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
- Norman Finkelstein - political scientist
- Nancy Milford - Pulitzer Prize nominated author
- Peter Carey - novelist
- Buck Clayton - musician
- Gertrude Blanch - pioneer of numerical analysis and computation
- John Avlon - author, speech writer for Rudy Giuliani
- James Aronson - journalist, founder of the National Guardian
- Harry Binswanger - philosopher
- Robert A. Brady - economist
- Rosario Candela - influential architect
- Jacqueline Barton - chemist
- Ruth Sager - geneticist
- José Ferrer Canales - writer, activist
- Meena Alexander - poet and author
- Rosalind E. Krauss - art critic
- Tony Smith - sculptor
- Noah Creshevsky - composer
- Richard Reeves - political author
- Cora DuBois - cultural anthropologist
- John Hollander - poet, literary critic
- Mary Flanagan
- John Henrik Clarke - historian
- Stuart Ewen
- Tina Chang - poet
- Harry Edward Stinson - sculptor
- Carolee Schneemann - artist
- Blake Schwarzenbach - musician
- Lyman Kipp - sculptor
- Emil Draitser - author
- Reiner Leist - photographer
- Dong Kingman - artist
- Seymour Itzkoff - researcher
- William Baziotes - painter
- Susan Crile - painter
- Lionel Trilling - literary critic
- John Kennedy Toole - author
[edit] Non-graduating attendees
- Harry Connick, Jr - musician
- Bobby Darin - musician
- April Lee Hernández - actress
- Nick Valensi - guitarist, The Strokes
- Nikolai Fraiture - bassist, The Strokes
- Grace Paley - writer
[edit] Administration
- Michael P. Riccards - political scientist and author, executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
- Paul LeClerc - president of Hunter College, president and CEO New York Public Library
- David A. Caputo - president of Hunter College, president of Pace University
- Donna Shalala - 10th president of Hunter College, president of University of Miami