List of City College of New York people
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the City College of New York.
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Nobel laureates
Politics, government, sociology, philosophy, and religion
- Herman Badillo 1951 Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees
- Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents; author of the Baruch Plan
- Daniel Bell 1939 – sociologist, professor at Harvard University
- Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
- Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
- Frank Caplan – educator, founder of children's educational toy company Creative Playthings
- Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly
- Henry Cohen 1943 – Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at The New School
- Morris Raphael Cohen – graduate of CCNY and professor at CCNY; philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar; the Cohen Library at CCNY is named for him
- Marty Dolin – former Manitoba NDP MLA for Kildonan
- Philip Elman – Justice Department attorney and Federal Trade Commission member, wrote government's brief in Brown v. Board of Education
- Benjamin B. Ferencz – international jurist and criminal justice pioneer; co-winner of the 2009 Erasmus Prize
- Abraham Foxman – National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- George Friedman – founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst
- Nathan Glazer – sociologist, professor at Harvard University; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Paul Goodman – writer, social critic, public intellectual; author of "The Empire City," "Growing Up Absurd," and "Communitas".
- Edmund W. Gordon – founding Director of the Institute for Research on African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) at CCNY
- Stanley Graze – economist and former lecturer at CCNY. Worked in the United Nations, State Department, US Army and the Brookings Institution. MA from Columbia University.
- Sidney Hook 1923 – writer and philosopher
- Benjamin Kaplan 1929 – Helped to write the indictments of Nazi war criminals who were tried at Nuremberg; served as Nuremberg prosecutor; distinguished Harvard law professor
- Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State under Richard Nixon
- Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
- Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative intellectual, professor at New York University
- David Landes 1942 – historian, professor at Harvard University
- Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991
- Albert L. Lewis, conservative rabbi, president of international Rabbinical Assembly
- Guillermo Linares 1975 – the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member
- Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociology, trade unions
- Rachel Lloyd – applied urban anthropology graduate; founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in New York
- Sidney Morgenbesser – philosopher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, known to have witheringly applied Jewish humor to issues in metaphysics and epistemology[2]
- Henry Morgenthau, Sr. – financier and diplomat; as ambassador to Ottoman Empire attempted to warn the world about the Armenian genocide
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan – spent a year at CCNY before he was drafted; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Nathan Glazer; ambassador to the U.N., senator representing New York
- Colin L. Powell 1961– United States Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General, National Security Advisor
- Donald A. Ritchie 1967 – historian, currently historian of the United States Senate
- Alexander Rosenberg – Lakatos Award-winning philosopher at Duke University
- Bertrand Russell – in 1940, invited by the Philosophy Department to become a professor but his appointment was blocked by a suit and timidity on the part of the Board of Higher Education; see more details in City College of New York
- Oscar Schachter 1936 – law professor and United Nations aide
- Henry Schwarzschild -, founder of NCADP, LCDC, and head of ACLU's Capital Punishment project in America
- Morrie Schwartz – sociologist, author, and subject of Tuesdays with Morrie.
- Samuel Turk – rabbi, religious leader, columnist
- Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
- Friedrich Ulfers 1959 – Deconstructionist writer, Dean of Media and Communications at European Graduate School, and NYU professor
- Robert F. Wagner, Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949; introduced the National Labor Relations Act
- Michele Wallace 1975 – a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
- General Alexander S. Webb – second president of the college; winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg
- Stephen Samuel Wise 1891– Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.
Psychology
- Solomon Asch 1928 – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
- Kenneth Clark – CCNY professor who studied attitudes toward race and testified at Brown v. Board of Education
- Isidor Chein 1932 – minority group identification, co-wrote amicus curiae brief in Brown v. Board of Education
- Jacob Cohen – psychologist and statistician, developed the coefficient kappa to assess the reliability of ratings of discrete categories of behavior (e.g., diagnoses of mental disorder); expert on factor analysis and regression analysis
- Morton Deutsch – social psychology, conflict resolution
- Leonard Eron – expert on the development of aggression
- Leon Festinger 1939 – social psychologist. Pioneered experimental social psychology, the theory of cognitive dissonance
- Robert Glaser – educational psychology
- Henry Gleitman – cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics
- Arno Gruen – psychologist and psychoanalyst
- Richard Herrnstein – quantitative analysis of behavior; co-author of The Bell Curve; Harvard professor
- Richard Lazarus – emotion, stress, and coping
- Walter Mischel – social and personality psychology
- Gardner Murphy – professor of psychology at City College
- Hans Strupp – (attended City College but did not graduate) expert in psychotherapy research
- Sigmund Tobias – educational psychology, aptitude-treatment interaction; also published on Jewish refugee experience in Shanghai during World War II[3]
The arts
- Woody Allen attended City College for a brief period of time
- Maurice Ashley 1993 – the first black International Chess Grandmaster.
- Seymour Boardman – New York abstract expressionist
- Joshua Brand – Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer
- Paddy Chayevsky – famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote Marty, The Hospital, and Altered States
- Madeleine Cosman – Author of medieval cookbook
- Julie Dash [1] – filmmaker best known for the dreamy Daughters of the Dust
- Victor Ganz, important collector of contemporary art in the 20th century
- Ira Gershwin 1918 – American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
- William Gibson (playwright) 1938 – Playwright – The Miracle Worker
- Marv Goldberg 1964 – Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
- Hazelle Goodman 1986 – Stage, screen and TV actress
- Bill Graham Music Promoter
- Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
- Luis Guzmán – actor
- E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – American lyricist (Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow)
- Judd Hirsch 1960 – Actor
- Antonio Jerkovic – Photographer
- Arthur Knight 1940 – Movie critic, historian, teacher and TV host
- Stanley Kubrick 1946 – Film Director.
- Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – Screenwriter
- Donald Madden – Stage, television, and screen actor
- David Margulies – Actor
- Jackie Mason – Comedian and Actor
- Jerry Masucci – Founder of Fania Records
- Sterling Morrison 1970 – Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground"
- Zero Mostel 1935 – Actor
- Faith Ringgold – Artist well known for her painted story quilts
- Edward G. Robinson 1914 – Actor
- Chris Rush 1968 – Stand-up comedian
- Frank J. Sciame 1974– Architect/Contractor/Developer
- Hrvoje Slovenc – Photographer
- Richard Schiff 1983 – Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing (played Toby Ziegler; see "Fictional" below)
- Ben Shahn – artist
- Dan Shor – actor
- Gabourey Sidibe – actress, majored in psychology
- Russell Simmons – never finished City College, rap mogul
- Alfred Stieglitz 1884– photographer
- J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner – Forensic Psychologist/Television Personality
- Eli Wallach 1938 (MA) – actor
- Dirk Weiler, singer and actor
- Cornel Wilde 1935 – Actor
- Darko Lungulov 1996 Film Director Here & There-Tribeca Festival 2009-Best NY Narrative Award
Literature and journalism
- Audre Lorde
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Addison Gayle, Jr. 1965 – African American literary critic and teacher
- Larry Neal
- June Jordan
- Barbara Christian
- Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's
- Marc D. Angel- (MA) – rabbinic leader, published author
- Maurice Ashley 1988 – chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and author
- Helen Boyd 1995 – writer, speaker, and educator on gender and transgender theory
- Joe Cioffi 1982 – television meteorologist
- Dan Daniel 1910 – dean of American sportswriters
- Reuben Fine 1932 – chess grandmaster, psychologist, and author
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – novelist, philosopher, MacArthur Fellow
- Vivian Gornick – writer, memoirist, feminist, professor; author of Fierce Attachments (1987)
- Peter Grad 1974 – The Record, Hackensack, NJ Op-Ed Page Editor, technology columnist (The PC Guy)
- Clyde Haberman 1966 – New York Times reporter and columnist
- Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Irving Howe 1940 – author of World of Our Fathers, literary critic, coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
- Bernard Kalb 1951 – journalist and television news correspondent
- Marvin Kalb 1951 – journalist and television news correspondent
- David Karp 1948 – novelist and television writer
- Alfred Kazin – Author of A Walker in the City, literary critic
- Jack Kroll 1937 – culture editor, Newsweek
- Joseph P. Lash 1931 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography winner, author of Eleanor and Franklin
- Paul Levinson – author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999)
- Oscar Lewis 1936 - anthropologist, author, and professor
- Douglas Light 2003 – novelist, screenwriter, short story writer (O. Henry Prize winner, 2003, Grace Paley Prize 2010)
- Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award); author of The Assistant
- Ralph Morse – career photographer for LIFE Magazine; youngest war correspondent in World War II (recipient of the 1995 Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the highest honor in the field of photojournalism)
- Montrose Jonas Moses 1899 – author
- Walter Mosley 1991 (MA) – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.
- Michael Oreskes 1975 – executive editor of The International Herald Tribune
- Mario Puzo – best-selling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather
- Ernesto Quiñonez 1996 (BA, MA) national bestselling author of Bodega Dreams and other titles.
- A.H. Raskin – former labor editor, The New York Times.
- Robert Rosen 1974 (BA, MA) – author of the best-selling biography Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.
- A.M. Rosenthal 1949 – former executive editor of The New York Times.
- Henry Roth 1928 – novelist, author of Call It Sleep
- Robert Scheer – journalist
- Daniel Schorr 1939 – journalist, veteran newscaster and commentator for CBS, CNN, and NPR
- Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week
- Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters.
- Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) – author (The Jungle)
- Robert Sobel – 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) – best-selling author of business histories.
- Earl Ubell - 1948 - Print, tv and radio journalist specializing in science and health reporting.
- Elsie B. Washington (1942–2009), author (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles) of the 1980 book Entwined Destinies, considered the first romance novel featuring African American characters written by an African American author.[4]
- Gary Weiss 1975 – Investigative journalist, author
- Barry Wilner 1973 – Sports Writer (NFL, Olympic Sports) for the Associated Press. 2002 AP Sports Editor Awards for Deadline Writing and Story of the Year. 8-Time Richard Dreyfuss Look-A-Like Contest Winner (2000–2008)
Science and technology
- Solomon A. Berson 1938 – medical scientist at Mt. Sinai Hospital who would probably have won a Nobel with his colleague Rosalyn Yalow had he not died prematurely
- Julius Blank – engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
- Charles DeLisi 1963 (BA) – scientist, "Father of the Human Genome Project"
- Joel S. Engel 1957 – scientist and electrical engineer instrumental in mobile phone technology
- Adin Falkoff – engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
- Mitchell Feigenbaum 1964 – mathematical physicist
- Richard Felder 1962 – engineering professor, coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
- Jeffrey Flier 1969 – dean, Harvard Medical School
- Wolcott Gibbs – distinguished chemistry professor at the Free Academy
- Seymour Ginsburg 1948 – distinguished computer science professor
- George Washington Goethals 1887 – civil engineer, supervised the construction and opening of the Panama Canal
- Joseph Goldberger – Started in engineering; transferred to Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Discovered that B vitamin deficiency was cause of pellagra; paved way for Elvehjem to narrow cause to vitamin B3
- Dan Goldin – served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.
- Andrew S. Grove 1960 – ChE. Founder and Former Chairman of Intel Corp. Dr. Grove donated $26 Million, the largest gift ever received by the City College of New York.
- Gary Gruber 1962 – physicist, testing expert, educator, author
- Herman Hollerith – early computer pioneer, invented Key punch
- Robert E. Kahn – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
- Michio Kaku – CCNY professor; theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory
- Gary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making
- Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer
- Solomon Kullback – Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
- Arthur J. Levenson – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, National Security Agency official, cryptographer, mathematician[5][6]
- Michael A. Liguori 1979 – listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York Magazine
- Valentino Mazzia (1922–1999), forensic anesthesiologist.[7]
- Albert Medwin 1949 BSEE – engineer and inventor, developed CMOS integrated circuit technology
- Lewis Mumford – historian of technology; author of The City in History
- Karl J. Niklas – professor of plant biology at Cornell University.
- Charles Lane Poor – noted astronomer
- Martin Pope 1939 – physical chemist, Davy Medal winner (2006), known for pioneering work in electronic process in organic crystals and polymers, particularly discoveries in area of ohmic contacts
- Emil Post – distinguished professor of mathematics at CCNY
- Jacob Rabinow – an engineer and an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices. Mainly in defense systems, and eventually became Chief of the Electro-Mechanical Ordnance Division at NBS. Scientific achievements: Among them are the President's Certificate of Merit (1948), the Industrial R&D Scientist of the Year Award (1960), the IEEE's Harry Diamond Award (1977), and the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1998). He published his book, Inventing for Fun and Profit, in 1989
- Maurice M. Rapport 1940, biochemist; identified the neurotransmitter serotonin
- Haskell Reich – physicist and scientist for IBM Research. He did his undergraduate degree at City College, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955, joining the research team of Dr. Richard Garwin at Watson Labs.[8][9]
- Saul Rosen 1941 (BS Mathematics) – early computer pioneer, mathematician, engineer, and professor[10]
- Howard Rosenblum 1950 BSEE – NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
- Jack Ruina 1944 BSEE – former director of ARPA
- Mario Runco Jr. 1974 – astronaut.
- Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
- Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
- Abraham Sinkov – Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
- David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer (designed the Mackinac Bridge) and founded the National Society of Professional Engineers; the CCNY engineering building is named for him (Class 1906)
- Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory
- Edgar Villchur (B.A.; M.S. 1940) - American inventor, educator, writer, and founder of Acoustic Research
- Milton Zaslow 1942 – cryptologist, ranking National Security Administration (NSA) official[11]
- Benjamin W. Zweifach 1931 – Professor Emeritus Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego[12]
Business
- Frank Avellino – 1958,[13][14] an accountant involved in the Madoff investment scandal
- Jonathan Better 1949 – real estate investor
- Edward Blank – industrialist and pioneer in the telemarketing industry, founder of Edward Blank Associates, and the United Nations representative for the Jewish National Fund.
- Robert Catell 1958 – CEO of KeySpan
- Andrew Grove 1960 – 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1997, who donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006
- Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), philanthropist who dropped out after becoming a partner in a textile firm and "realized I was making more money than my professors".[15]
- Stanley H. Kaplan 1939 – founded Kaplan Educational Services
- Jack Rudin 1941 – real estate developer
- Melvin Simon 1949 – real estate developer, co-founder of Simon Property Group.
- Bernard Spitzer 1943 – real estate developer
- Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of ad agency in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck
- Millard Drexler – Current chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and formerly the CEO of Gap Inc
- Jerald G. Fishman – Served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996
- Amar Pawar - Pioneer in T - shaped molecular structures for cell building blocks
Sports
Fictional
See also
Notes
- ^ Jerome Karle: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985, Nobel Prize. Accessed September 22, 2009.
- ^ Obituary: Professor Sidney Morgenbesser | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET
- ^ Tobias, Sigmund, Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai, University of Illinois Press, 1999.
- ^ Fox, Margalit. "Elsie B. Washington, a Novelist, Dies at 66", The New York Times, May 16, 2009. Accessed May 18, 2009.
- ^ Schudel, Matt, Arthur J. Levenson Obituary in the Washington Post – Wednesday, September 5, 2007
- ^ Arthur J. Levenson Biography – Arlington National Cemetery
- ^ Severo, Richard. "Valentino Mazzia, 77, Student Of Deaths Under Anesthesia", The New York Times, March 21, 1999. Accessed October 21, 2009.
- ^ "Obituary of Dr. Haskell Reich' – The New York Times, October 15, 1983.
- ^ Brennan, Jean Ford (1971). "The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History", Armonk, New York : IBM Corporation, February 18, 1971. Cf. p.37
- ^ "Saul Rosen: 1922–1991", Purdue University, Information Technology, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
- ^ Milton Zaslow page at the National Security Administration
- ^ Benjamin W. Zweifach page – Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
- ^ "SUMMARY MEMORANDUM: In the Matter of King Arthur ~NY-6066", Securities and Exchange Commission, November 13, 1992, New York Regional Office ("NYRO")
- ^ "Interview with Michael Bienes", PBS FRONTLINE TV documentary "The Madoff Affair", May 2009
- ^ Martin, Douglas. "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89", The New York Times, September 26, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2009.
- ^ a b Goldstein, Joe, "Explosion: 1951 scandals threaten college hoops", ESPN, Wednesday, November 19, 2003
- ^ Berkow, Ira. "Red Holzman, Hall of Fame Coach, Dies at 78", The New York Times, November 15, 1998. Accessed September 15, 2008.