List of Hunter College people

The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Contents 1 Alumni 1.1 Nobel laureates 1.2 Pulitzer Prize winners 1.3 National Medal of Science winners 1.4 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners 1.5 Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics 1.6 Business and economics 1.7 Law and Politics 1.7.1 Members of Congress 1.7.2 State figures 1.7.3 City figures 1.7.4 Lawyers 1.7.5 Activists 1.8 Journalism and news 1.9 Literature 1.10 Film, theater, and television 1.11 Art, architecture, and engineering 1.12 Music 1.13 Military 1.14 Education 1.15 Fictional alumni 1.16 Non-graduating attendees 2 Faculty 3 Administration 4 References

Alumni

Nobel laureates

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - 1977, Medicine
• Gertrude B. Elion - 1988, Medicine

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Holland Cotter - art critic^[1]
• Emily Grenauer - art critic^[2]
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
• Liu Heung Sheng - photographer^[3]
• James Wright - poet

National Medal of Science winners

• Mildred Cohn - 1982, Biological Sciences
• Mildred Dresselhaus - Engineering Sciences
• Gertrude B. Elion

Presidential Medal of Freedom winners

• Antonia Pantoja - activist

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

• Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
• Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
• Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
• Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
• Erich Jarvis - neurologist
• Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
• Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
• Beatrice Mintz - pioneer of mammalian transgenesis
• Arlie Petters - pioneer of Gravitational Lensing
• Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Gillian Reynolds 1988 - third African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T.^[4]
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine
• Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer

Business and 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

Law and Politics

Members of Congress

• Edna F. Kelly - Congresswoman, 1949-1969
• Eliot L. Engel - Congressman, 1989-present
• Bella Abzug - Congresswoman, 1971-1977

State figures

• Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates

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

Lawyers

• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School
• Floria Lasky - prominent theater lawyer

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 - activist, writer, poet

Journalism and news

• Mohamad Bazzi - journalist
• Richard Cohen - Washington Post columnist
• Corine Hegland - journalist
• Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
• Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician and expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict

Literature

• Grace Andreacchi - writer
• Maurice Berger - cultural critic
• Peter Carey - writer
• Colin Channer - writer
• Helen Gray Cone - poet
• Lucy Dawidowicz - author
• Martin Greif - writer, publisher
• Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
• Ada Louise Huxtable - writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
• Colette Inez - poet, academic
• Malka Lee - poet
• Audre Lorde (1959), African-American poet, essayist
• Paule Marshall - author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," Dos Passos Prize for Literature
• Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
• Sylvia Field Porter - economist/journalist
• Sonia Sanchez - poet
• Augusta Huiell Seaman - writer
• Gary Shteyngart - author
• René Taupin - writer
• Ned Vizzini - writer
• Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
• James Wright - poet

Film, theater, and television

• Ellen Barkin - actress
• Lewis Beale - film critic
• Ed Burns - actor, director
• Judith Crist - film critic
• Ruby Dee - actress
• Vin Diesel - actor
• Hugh Downs - broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
• Daniel Mulloy - screenwriter and film director
• Chad Hunt - director
• Tina Howe - Tony nominated playwright
• Maitland McDonagh - film critic
• Natasha Leggero - actress and comic
• Richard Jeni - comedian
• Suzanne Kaaren - actress
• Eva Condon - Broadway actress
• Ephraim Katz - author of The Film Encyclopedia
• Robi Ludwig - TV host
• Rhea Perlman - actress
• Esther Rolle - actress
• Al Santos - actor
• Regina Resnik - opera singer
• Evelyn Lear - p[era singer
• Julianne Nicholson - actress
• Dreya Weber - producer
• Elliot Tiber - screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival

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 - engineer
• Echo Eggebrecht - painter
• Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
• Mel Kendrick - artist
• Kathleen Kucka - painter
• Terrance Lindall - artist
• Robert Morris - sculptor
• Doug Ohlson (1936-2010), abstract artist.^[5]
• Dan Walsh - painter
• Eli Wilner - founder of Eli Wilner & Co art gallery
• Brian Wood - visual artist

Music

• David S. Sampson - composer
• Knoup Tomopoulos - Lead singer of the band Viza

Military

• Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - Medal of Honor recipient

Education

• Dr. Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
• Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
• John Taylor Gatto - author of seminal books on education
• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
• Burton Pike- professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
• Kay Toliver - mathematics educator
• Mak Mitchell - Egocentric Professor of boredom

Fictional alumni

• Chad Kroski

Non-graduating attendees

• Harry Connick, Jr - musician
• Bobby Darin - musician
• Nikolai Fraiture - bassist, The Strokes
• April Lee Hernández - actress
• Grace Paley - writer
• Nick Valensi - guitarist, The Strokes

Faculty

• Meena Alexander - poet and author
• John Avlon - author, speech writer for Rudy Giuliani
• James Aronson - journalist, founder of the National Guardian
• Jacqueline Barton - chemist
• William Baziotes - painter
• Harry Binswanger - philosopher
• Gertrude Blanch - pioneer of numerical analysis and computation
• Robert A. Brady - economist
• José Ferrer Canales - writer, activist
• Rosario Candela - influential architect
• Peter Carey - novelist
• Tina Chang - poet
• John Henrik Clarke - historian
• Buck Clayton - musician
• Susan Crile - painter
• Noah Creshevsky - composer
• Emil Draitser - author
• Cora DuBois - cultural anthropologist
• Stuart Ewen
• Norman Finkelstein - political scientist
• Mary Flanagan
• Helen Frankenthaler - artist
• Bertram Myron Gross - author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act
• John Hollander - poet, literary critic
• Seymour Itzkoff - researcher
• George E. Kimball - pioneer of operations research algorithms
• Dong Kingman - artist
• Lyman Kipp - sculptor
• Rosalind E. Krauss - art critic
• Reiner Leist - photographer
• Nancy Milford - author
• Paul Moravec - composer
• Robert Motherwell - artist
• Leonard Peikoff - philosopher, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
• Richard Reeves - political author
• Ruth Sager - geneticist
• Carolee Schneemann - artist
• Blake Schwarzenbach - musician
• Michael Shernoff - specialist in gay community mental health
• Tony Smith - sculptor
• Harry Edward Stinson - sculptor
• John Kennedy Toole - author
• Lionel Trilling - literary critic
• Nydia Velázquez - US Congresswoman, New York 1993-present
• Robert C. Weaver - 1st United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Administration

• David A. Caputo - president of Hunter College, president of Pace University
• Paul LeClerc - president of Hunter College, president and CEO New York Public Library
• Michael P. Riccards - political scientist and author, executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
• Donna Shalala - 10th president of Hunter College, president of University of Miami

References