List of Brooklyn College alumni

This is a list of Brooklyn College alumni.

Contents 1 Academia 2 Business 3 Entertainment 4 Government, law, and public policy 5 Journalism 6 Literature and the arts 7 Religion 8 Science and technology 9 Sports 10 References

Academia

• Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), economist and President of Michigan State University
• Joyce Sparer Adler (B.A. 1935), critic, playwright, teacher and Melville scholar
• William Alfred (B.A. 1948), playwright and professor of English literature at Harvard University
• Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University, has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology
• Robert A. Baron (B.A. 1964), Professor of Psychology and Wellington Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management
• Barbara Aronstein Black (B.A. 1953), Dean, Columbia University School of Law
• Joseph Berger (B.A. 1949), theoretical sociologist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Leo Bogart (B.A 1941), sociologist, media and marketing expert
• Eva Brann (B.A. 1950), longest-serving tutor (1957–present) at St. John's College, Annapolis and a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal
• Jean Lau Chin (B.S. 1966), professor and dean of the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University
• Jules Davids (B.A. 1942), Professor of Diplomatic History at Georgetown University, aided John F. Kennedy in writing Profiles in Courage
• Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959), Harvard Law School professor and author
• Dorothy Dinnerstein (B.A. 1943), feminist academic and activist
• Melvyn Dubofsky (B.A. 1955), professor of history and sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a well-known labor historian
• Sandra Feldman (B.A 1960), President, American Federation of Teachers
• John A. Garraty (B.A. 1941), historian, biographer, and president of the Society of American Historians
• Eugene Genovese (B.A. 1953), historian of the American South and American slavery
• Stephen Gillers (B.A. 1964), New York University School of Law professor and expert in legal ethics
• David L. Goodstein (B.S. 1960), U.S. physicist, educator, and Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology
• Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and specialist in Objectivism and Aristotle
• Alfred Gottschalk (B.A. 1952), President of Hebrew Union College and leader in the Reform Judaism movement.^[1]
• Oscar Handlin (B.A. 1934), Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, author
• Milton Heumann (B.A. 1968), Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
• Raul Hilberg (B.A. 1948), Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (B.A. 1942), historian and conservative cultural critic
• Zoia Horn (B.A. 1939), first librarian ever jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
• Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; Dean at Yale University
• Saul Kassin (B.A. 1974), psychologist and distinguished professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York
• Israel Kirzner (B.A. 1954), economist
• Annette Kolodny (B.A. 1962), feminist literary critic and activist
• Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University
• David Kranzler (B.A. 1953), historian specializing in those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
• Sheldon Krimsky (B.S. 1963), Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
• Jeffrey Laitman (B.A. 1973), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, President-Elect of the American Association of Anatomists
• Harvey Lichtenstein, (B.A. 1951), President & Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist best known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), chancellor, California State University (1991–98)
• Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), philosopher concerned with the philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of mass communication
• Alan W. Pollack (B.A. 1970), musicologist best known for having musically analysed every Beatles song released.
• Stuart A. Rice (B.S. 1952), physical chemist at the University of Chicago
• Moses Rischin (B.A. 1947), United States Jewish historian and Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University
• Leanne Rivlin (B.A. 1952), pioneer in the field of Environmental Psychology
• Gary A. Robbins (B.S. 1970), geologist at the University of Connecticut, has made contributions to the field of hydrogeology.
• Milton Rokeach (B.A. 1941), Professor of social psychology and developer of the Rokeach Value Survey.
• Julian Rotter (B.A. 1937), psychologist, pioneered research on locus of control
• Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
• Marjorie Shostak (B.A. 1966), anthropologist; specialist in the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa
• Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States
• Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
• Jack B. Weinstein (B.A. 1943), Columbia Law School professor and Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Aaron Wildavsky (B.A. 1954), political scientist
• Elisheva Carlebach Yoffen (B.A. 1976), scholar of early modern Jewish history

Business

• Charles Biderman (B.A. 1967), founder and C.E.O of TrimTabs Investment Research, Inc.
• Joseph Cassano (B.A. 1977), head of Financial Product division at American International Group from 1987–2008
• Bruce Chizen (B.S. 1978), President & CEO, Adobe Systems
• Bernard Cornfeld (B.A. 1950), businessman and international financier, sold investments in US mutual funds
• Jerry Della Femina (A.A. 1957), Chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners
• Benjamin Eisenstadt (B.A. 1954), creator of Sweet'N Low and the founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation
• George Friedman (B.A. 1956), Chairman & CEO, Parallel Communications, Inc.
• Richard LaMotta (B.A. 1969), inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich
• Jerry Moss (B.A. 1957), co-founder of A&M Records
• Ira Rennert (B.A. 1955), investor and businessman
• Steve Riggio (B.A. 1974), CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
• George H. Ross (B.A. 1951), Executive Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Trump Organization
• Barry Salzberg, Chief Executive Officer Deloitte, member of Deloitte’s U.S. Board of Directors, the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Executive Committee, the DTT Global Board of Directors, Deloitte LLP[1]
• Agnes Varis (B.A. 1950), President and founder of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals
• Walter Yetnikoff (B.A. 1955), Columbia Records/Sony Music executive

Entertainment

• Obba Babatundé (B.A. 1974), Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actor
• Sarah Benson (M.F.A.), Award-winning theatre director and artistic director of SoHo Rep.
• Sandy Baron (B.A. 1957), comedian, stage, film, and television actor
• Benjamin Boretz (B.A. 1954), 20th- and 21st-century composer and music theorist
• Oscar Brand (B.S. 1942), folk singer, radio host, musicologist
• Dominic Chianese (B.A. 1961), film, television and theatre actor, perhaps best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos
• Isidore Cohen (B.A 1941), chamber musician, violinist, and member of the Juilliard String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio
• Alex Coletti (B.A. 1987), executive producer and director for MTV Networks, now an independent producer
• Jon Cypher (B.A. 1953), actor best known for his role as Chief of Police Fletcher Daniels in the police drama Hill Street Blues
• Alfred Drake (B.A. 1936), musical theater actor and singer
• Edward Efron (B.S 1960), Oscar Winner; 1972 For the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.
• Sylvia Fine (B.A. 1933), lyricist and the wife of comedian Danny Kaye
• James Franco (M.F.A. 2010), film/TV actor, author
• Gary William Friedman (BA 1958), musician and composer of musical theater
• Daniel Glass (B.A. 1977), music industry producer
• Henry Gross (B.A. 1972), singer-songwriter and founding member of the retro pop group Sha Na Na
• Erica Hayden (M.A. 2008), radio personality, television host and psychotherapist
• Fred Hellerman (B.A. 1949), American folk singer, guitarist, producer and song writer, primarily known as one of the members of The Weavers
• Marvin Kaplan (B.A. 1947), character actor, president of Los Angeles chapter of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists 1989–95; 2003–05
• Woodie King, Jr. (M.F.A. 1999), African-American director and producer of stage and screen, and founding director of the New Federal Theater
• Tuli Kupferberg (B.A. 1948), counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs
• Ken Lerner (B.A. 1970), television and film actor
• Michael Lerner (B.A. 1962), Academy Award-nominated actor
• Michael Lynne (B.A. 1961), co-founder New Line Cinema
• Steve Malzberg (B.A. 1982), conservative radio broadcaster and host of The Steve Malzberg Show on the WOR Radio Network.
• Paul Mazursky (B.A. 1951), film director, best known for Down and Out in Beverly Hills; producer; actor
• Neil Meron (B.A. 1976), film producer, won Academy Award for Chicago in 2003
• Joey Novick (B.A. 1976), comedian, writer and professional public speaker
• Larry Namer(B.A. 1971), founder of E! Entertainment TV Network
• Eric Overmyer (M.F.A. 1982), television writer and producer; The Wire, etc.
• Gil Portes (M.S.1971), award-winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter
• Richard Portnow (B.A. 1967), actor best known for a recurring role in The Sopranos
• Dennis Prager (B.A. 1970), syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, ethicist, and public speaker
• Mark Rappaport (B.A. 1964), independent/underground film director
• Steve Schirripa (B.A. 1980), actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos
• Citizen Kafka (Richard Shulberg), (B.A. 1969), radio personality and folk musician
• Stuart Seide (B.A. 1967), artistic director of the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, France, and the first American to direct the Comédie-Française
• Jimmy Smits (B.A. 1980), actor, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law; won Emmy Award in 1990
• Elliot Tiber, screenwriter, "saved" Woodstock Festival (attended, but did not graduate)
• Tom Topor (B.A. 1961), playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
• Dirk Weiler (M.M. 2002), singer and actor
• Andrew D. Weyman (B.A. 1973), television director and producer
• Joel Zwick (B.A. 1962), theater and television producer, Family Matters, director of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Government, law, and public policy

• Bill Baird (B.A. 1955), reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League
• Barbara Boxer (B.A. 1962), United States Representative and United States Senator (D – California)
• Frank J. Brasco (B.A. 1955), member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967–75
• Shirley Chisholm (B.A. 1946), first African American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–82
• Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed (B.S. 1973), educator and representative for District 92 of the Florida House of Representatives
• Manuel F. Cohen (B.S. 1933), Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1964–69
• William Colton (MSed 1971), represents District 47 in the New York Assembly
• Martin Malave Dilan (B.A. 1984), represents District 17 in the New York State Senate
• Stanley Fink (B.A. 1956), member of the New York State Assembly from 1969 to 1986 and Speaker from 1979 to 1986
• Arthur Gonzalez (M.S. 1976), United States Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, presided over the bankruptcy proceedings for WorldCom, Enron, and Chrysler
• Victor Gotbaum (B.A. 1948), labor leader
• Syed Fahad Hashmi (B.A. 2003), convicted terrorist^[2]
• Dov Hikind (M.A. 1981), New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48
• Rhoda Jacobs (BA 1962), represents District 42 in Brooklyn in the New York State Assembly, where she serves as Assistant Speaker
• Ellen Jaffee (B.A. 1965), represents District 55 in the New York State Assembly
• Sterling Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1963), senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York
• Roberta Kalechofsky (B.A. 1952), writer, feminist and animal rights activist; founder of Jews for Animal Rights.
• Vera Katz (B.A. 1955), Mayor, Portland, Oregon, 1993–2005
• Edward R. Korman (B.A. 1963), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Ivan Lafayette (B.A. 1951), member of the New York State Assembly since 1977 and Deputy Speaker of the New York State Assembly since 2006
• Sy Landy (B.A. 1952), American Trotskyist politician, co-founder of the League for the Revolutionary Party
• Howard L. Lasher (B.A. 1965), New York State Assemblyman and New York City Councilman; first orthodox Jewish person elected to state office in New York
• Doris Ling-Cohan (B.A. 1976), judge on the New York State Supreme Court
• Alan Maisel (Adv. Cert. 1990), New York State Assemblyman representing District 59
• Marty Markowitz (B.A. 1970), New York State Senator; Brooklyn Borough President (2001–present)
• Harvey R. Miller (B.A. 1954), bankruptcy lawyer
• Mel Miller (B.A. 1961), member of the New York State Assembly from 1971 to 1991, and Speaker from 1987 to 1991
• Joan Millman (B.A. 1962), New York State Assemblywoman representing District 52
• Joseph Pennacchio (B.S. 1976), represents the 26th Legislative district in the New Jersey Senate
• N. Nick Perry (B.A. 1978), New York State Assemblyman representing District 58
• Harvey Pitt (B.A. 1965), Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Rosemary S. Pooler (B.A. 1959), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Deborah Poritz (B.A. 1958), first female Chief Justice, New Jersey State Supreme Court; first female New Jersey Attorney General, 1994–96
• Robert Rosenthal (B.A. 1938), highly-decorated World War II pilot and assistant to the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
• Gene Russianoff (B.A. 1974), staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, New York City-based public transport advocacy group
• Edward Sagarin (B.A. 1961), sociologist, pseudonymously wrote The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach (1951), considered one of the most influential works in the history of the gay rights movement
• John L. Sampson (B.A. 1987), represents District 19 in the New York State Senate where he serves in a leadership position as Chairman of the Democratic Conference.
• Sam Schwartz, a.k.a. Gridlock Sam (B.S. 1969), transportation engineer, widely believed responsible for popularizing the word gridlock
• Frank Serpico (A.A. 1959), New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer famous for testifying against police corruption
• Norman Siegel (B.A. 1965), director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 1985–2000
• Joel Harvey Slomsky (B.A. 1967), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Eleanor Sobel (B.A. 1967), State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives, 1998–2006
• Pamela Talkin (B.S. 1968, M.A. 1971), Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold this position
• William L. Taylor (B.A. 1952), attorney and civil rights advocate^[3]
• Benjamin Ward (B.A. 1960), first black New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–89
• Iris Weinshall (B.A. 1975), vice chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
• Moses M. Weinstein (B.A. 1934), lawyer and politician
• Saul Weprin (B.A. 1948), member of the New York State Assembly from 1973 to 1994 and Speaker from 1991 to 1994
• Jumaane Williams (B.A. 2001, M.A. 2005), Democratic politician, member of the New York City Council
• Bruce Winick (B.A. 1965), Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami and theorist on mental health law

Journalism

• Thom Calandra (B.A. 1979), founding editor and chief columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com
• Sylvan Fox (B.A. 1951), journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Robert Greenfield (B.A. 1967), author, journalist and screenwriter
• Yossi Klein Halevi (B.A. 1975), Israeli journalist; columnist for The New Republic
• Victor Lasky (B.A 1940), Pulitzer Prize—winning writer and syndicated newspaper columnist
• Don Lemon (B.A. 1996), reporter, CNN
• Marvin E. Newman (B.A. 1949), artist and photographer
• Stanley Newman (B.S. 1973), puzzle creator, editor, and publisher.
• Milt Rosenberg (B.A. 1946), host of Extension 720 on WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois.
• Abraham Rabinovich (B.A. 1956), Israeli historian and journalist
• Harold Schonberg (B.A. 1937), Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times
• Allan Sloan (B.A. 1966), financial journalist; Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune magazine
• Dorothy Sucher [B.A. 1954], her reporting for a Maryland newspaper led to landmark Supreme Court case, Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler, which the paper won; author

Literature and the arts

• Sam Abrams (B.A. 1958), "The Old Pothead Poet", RIT professor, Whitman scholar
• Ann-Marie Adams (B.A. 2001), editor and publisher of The Hartford Guardian
• Jack Adler (B.A. 1942), award-winning cover artist and colorist for DC Comics
• Jack Agüeros (B.A. 1964), Puerto Rican community activist, poet, writer, translator, and director of the Museo del Barrio in New York City.
• Mario Amaya (B.A. 1954), art critic; shot by Valerie Solanis during her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol
• Rilla Askew (M.F.A 1989), Oklahoma-based short story writer and novelist
• Paul Beatty (M.F.A. 1989), African American poet, novelist, and critic
• Betty T. Bennett (B.A. 1962), scholar on the life of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Karen Berger (B.A. 1979), editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
• Anselm Berrigan (M.F.A. 1998), poet and teacher and artistic director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project from 2003–07
• Himan Brown (B.A. 1934), radio pioneer; producer of radio programming including the Inner Sanctum Mysteries and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater
• Allen Cohen (B.A. 1962), poet, founder and editor of the San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper (1966–68)
• Michael Corris (B.A. 1970), artist, art historian and writer on art.
• J M DeMatteis (B.A. 1976), writer of comic books
• Dan DiDio (B.A. 1983), comic book editor and executive for DC Comics
• Sante D'Orazio (B.A. 1978), fashion photographer
• Hillard Elkins (B.A. 1950), theatre and film producer
• Stanley Ellin (B.A. 1936), Edgar Award-winning mystery author
• Robert Friend (B.A. 1934), Israeli poet and translator
• Elizabeth Gaffney (M.F.A. 1997), novelist and staff editor of The Paris Review, 1989–2005
• Joe Glazer (B.A. 1938), folk musician often referred to as "labor's troubadour"
• Richard Grayson (B.A. 1973, M.F.A. 1976), writer, political activist and performance artist
• Roya Hakakian (B.S. 1990), Jewish Iranian-American writer
• John Harlacher (B.A. 2000), actor, stage director, and filmmaker responsible for the horror film Urchin (2007)
• Michael Isaacson (M.A. 1970), composer of Jewish synagogue music and originator of the Jewish Camp Song movement
• Chester Kallman (B.A. 1941), poet, librettist, and translator; collaborator with W. H. Auden
• Ben Katchor (B.A. 1975), cartoonist, creator of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
• Daniel Keyes (B.A. 1950), author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon
• Amy King (M.F.A. 2000), poet and editor of the literary arts journal, MiPOesias, and the POETICS list
• Binnie Kirshenbaum (M.F.A. 1984), novelist, short story writer, Columbia University creative writing professor
• Albert Kresch (B.A. 1943), New York School painter and one of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery
• Mort Künstler (B.A. 1946), painter and illustrator of the American Civil War
• Ezra Laderman (B.A. 1950), composer of classical music
• Gabriel Laderman (B.A. 1952), painter and important exponent of the Figurative revival
• Young Jean Lee (M.F.A. 2005), OBIE Award-winning playwright and director of experimental theater, Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
• Alan Lelchuk (B.A.), novelist
• Sam Levenson (B.A. 1934), humorist, author
• Fred Lonberg-Holm (B.M. 1988), cello player and composer
• Leonard Lopate (B.A. 1967), host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC
• Jackson Mac Low (B.A. 1958), poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
• Frank McCourt (M.A. 1967), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
• Dennis McFarland (B.A. 1975), novelist; The Music Room (1990)
• John Mahon (B.A. 1952), historian, Author of New York's Fighting 69th
• Wallace Markfield (B.A. 1947), comic novelist, film critic
• Paule Marshall (B.A. 1953), author, novelist (Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Praisesong for the Widow (1983))
• Cris Mazza (M.F.A. 1983), novelist, short story and non-fiction writer
• Murray Mednick (B.A. 1962), playwright
• Sharon Mesmer (M.F.A. 1990), writer and poet of the Flarf poetry movement
• Emily Mitchell (M.F.A. 2005), Anglo-American novelist
• Gloria Naylor (B.A. 1981), novelist; Winner National Book Award
• Peter Nero (B.A. 1956), Grammy Award-winning pianist; conductor; composer
• Harold Norse (B.A. 1938), poet & novelist
• Marco Oppedisano (B.M. 1996), guitarist and composer of electroacoustic music
• Angelo Parra (M.F.A. 1995), playwright
• Benjamin Jason Parris (B.S. 1984), educator, museum planner, and author of fantasy series Wade of Aquitaine
• Lincoln Peirce (M.F.A. 1987), cartoonist for the comic strip "Big Nate"
• Robert Phillips (M.A. 1982), Classical guitarist, composer, educator, and Head of Performing Arts at All Saints' Academy
• Rosalie Purvis (M.F.A. 2007), Dutch American theatre director and choreographer
• Naomi Ragen (B.A. 1971), American-Israeli author, playwright and women’s rights activist
• Martha Rosler (B.A. 1965), artist active in video, photo-text, installation, and performance
• Theodore Isaac Rubin (B.A. 1946), psychiatrist and author; wrote story for the film David and Lisa (1962)
• Howard Sackler (B.A. 1950), screenwriter and playwright, is best known for 1967 play The Great White Hope
• Sasson Soffer (B.A. 1954), abstract painter and sculptor.
• Sapphire (M.F.A. 1995), author and performance poet, author of the novel Push (1996)
• Millicent Selsam (B.A. 1932), children’s author
• Irwin Shaw (B.A. 1934), playwright, screenwriter, and short-story author and novelist (The Young Lions, Rich Man, Poor Man); winner of two O. Henry Awards
• Richard Shulberg (B.A. 1969), radio personality and folk musician
• Jan Slepian (B.A. 1971), author of books for children and young-adult fiction
• Gilbert Sorrentino (B.A. 1957), novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor
• Laurie Spiegel (B.A. 1975), electronic-music composer, inventor
• Claire Sterling (B.A. 1940), author and journalist, author of The Terror Network (1981)
• David Trinidad (M.F.A. 1980), poet
• Alan Vega (B.A. 1960), vocalist for 1970s and 80s electronic protopunk duo Suicide
• Malvin Wald (B.A. 1936), screenwriter, authored the 1948 police drama The Naked City
• Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (M.F.A 1987), New Romantic poet associated with St. Mark's Poetry Project
• John Yau (M.F.A. 1978), critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer

Religion

• J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (B.A. 1966), American Buddhist monk, second president of the Buddhist Publication Society, 1984–2002
• Theodore Drange (B.A. 1955), philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University, noted for his Argument from nonbelief
• Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (B.A. 1961), senior disciple and biographer of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
• Rabbi Yaakov Perlow (B.A. 1955), Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva, current Novominsker Rebbe
• Larry Rosenberg (B.A. 1954), American Buddhist teacher and proponent of anapanasati (mindful breath meditation)
• Jacob J. Schachter (B.A. 1973), University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University
• Pinchas Stolper (B.A. 1952), Orthodox rabbi, writer, and spokesman

Science and technology

• Ruth Aaronson Bari (B.A. 1939), mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
• Richard Bellman (B.A. 1941), applied mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
• Seymour Benzer (B.A. 1942), physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.
• Baruch Brody (B.A. 1962), bioethicist and director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine
• Stanley Cohen (B.A. 1943), biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1986)
• Esther M. Conwell (B.S. 1942), physicist, contributed to development of semiconductors and lasers
• Stanley Deser (B.S. 1949), physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, especially as co-developer of ADM formalism
• Jack Drescher (B.A. 1972), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for his work on sexual orientation
• Frank Field (B.S. 1947), meteorologist and science editor
• Eli Friedman (B.S. 1953), nephrologist, inventor of the first portable dialysis machine
• Herbert Friedman (B.S. 1936), pioneer in the use of sounding rockets to conduct research for solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy
• Martin Goetz (B.A. 1953), pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry; holds the first U.S. software patent
• Jerry Goldstein (B.S. 1993), space physicist and professor
• Jay M. Gould, (B.A. 1936), statistician and epidemiologist, founded the Radiation and Public Health Project
• Martha Greenblatt (B.S. 1962), chemist at Rutgers University, received the 2003 American Chemical Society’s Garvan-Olin Medal
• Edna Grossman (B.S. 1968), mathematician
• Frank Harary (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1945), mathematician, specializing in graph theory
• Ahvie Herskowitz] (B.A. 1974), Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Axiom BioMedical.
• Leonard Herzenberg (B.S. 1952), developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) which revolutionized the study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells, recipient of the Kyoto Prize in 2006
• David Kantor (B.A 1950, M.A. 1952), systems psychologist
• Edith Kaplan (B.A. 1949), creator of several important neuropsychological tests, including the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and the Boston Naming Test.
• Sol Katz (B.A. 1978), geologist, computer scientist and early pioneer of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS)
• Julian Keilson (B.S. 1947), mathematician, best known for his work in probability theory
• Lawrence Landweber (B.S. 1963), Internet pioneer, helped develop CSNET, founding member and president of the Internet Society
• Joel Lebowitz (B.A. 1952), mathematical physicist acknowledged for his contributions to statistical physics and statistical mechanics
• Nancy Lynch (B.A. 1968), mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; winner of the 2007 Knuth Prize for contributions to the foundations of computer science
• Alvin Joseph Melveger (B.S. 1959), chemist specializing in physical chemistry, spectroscopy, biomaterials, and polymers
• Jack Minker (B.S. 1949), authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning
• Abraham Nemeth (B.S. 1940), mathematician and inventor; developed the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation
• Stanley Osher (B.A. 1962), pioneering mathematician in applied mathematics, computational science, and scientific computing
• Fredy Peccerelli (B.S. 1996), forensic anthropologist, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
• Barnett Rosenberg (B.S. 1948), chemist best known for his discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin
• Gerard Salton (B.S. 1950), pioneering computer scientist in the field of information retrieval
• Nicholas Sand (B.A. 1966), clandestine chemist and early proponent of psychedelics
• Joseph D. Schulman (B.S. 1962), specialist in human genetics and infertility; founder the Genetics & IVF Institute
• Henry Spira (B.A. 1958), pioneering animal rights activist
• Dennis P. Tarnow (B.A. 1968), dentist and pioneer in implant research
• Edward Taub (B.S. 1953), behavioral neuroscientist on faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Dorothy Tennov (B.A. 1950), psychologist, introduced the term limerence to describe the state of being in love
• Jay Tischfield (B.A. 1967), MacMillan Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University
• Wolf V. Vishniac (B.A. 1945), microbiologist, inventor of the "Wolf Trap" that tests for the possibility of life existing on other planet. The crater Vishniac on Mars is named in his honor.
• Philip Zimbardo (B.A. 1954), social psychologist and designer of the Stanford Prison Experiment

Sports

• Jonathan Akpoborie, Nigerian soccer player
• Donald Aronow (B.A. 1950), designer, builder and racer of the famous Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speed boat
• Alex Crisano, basketball player for the Philippine Patriots
• Fran Fraschilla (B.A. 1980), basketball coach at Manhattan College, St. John's University and University of New Mexico; now ESPN broadcast analyst
• Bill Green, basketball All American
• Mirsad Huseinovic, Yugoslavian-born U.S. soccer player
• Ernest Inneh, Nigerian-American soccer player
• Gata Kamsky (B.A. 1999), Soviet-born American Chess Grandmaster, three-time U.S. Champion, current World Rapid Chess Champion, current US Chess Champion; as of September 2011, rated No. 1 in the US and No. 10 in the world.
• Alex Lenderman, Russian-American chess grandmaster; U16 (under 16 years old) 2005 world chess champion
• Marius Russo (attended, 1932–34), Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees 1939–43, 1946); All-Star in 1941
• Allie Sherman, (B.A. 1943), President, OTB; NFL player and coach of the New York Giants football team, 1961—68.
• Raymond Weinstein (B.A. 1963), chess player and International Master

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