List of Queens College people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Queens College, City University of New York.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Contents 1 Notable alumni 1.1 Business 1.2 Education 1.3 Entertainment and media 1.4 Fictional characters 1.5 Government and politics 1.6 Humanities 1.7 Science and technology 1.8 Sports 2 Notable faculty 3 References

Notable alumni

Business

• Jill E. Barad - CEO of Mattel Inc (Responsible for making Barbie a household name) ^[1]
• Robert Bertoldi - Class of '76. CFO of Amphion Innovations PLC and co-founder of VennWorks LLC.
• Frank M. Boccio - Executive Vice President and CAO, New York Life Insurance Company
• Lawrence Cohen - Consultant and Entrepreneur. Former President and CEO of The Merv Griffin Group of Companies
• Jerry Colonna - Well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
• Linda Eagle - Founder and President, The Edcomm Group Banker's Academy (1989–2009).
• Daniel Goodman - CEO of Goodman Strategies
• Dan Hackman - President of Hackman Consulting Corp., author and journalist.
• Alan Lazar - Partner of southern California Law Firm
• Nathan Leventhal - Former President of Lincoln Center
• Allan Loren - Former Chairman & CEO, Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
• Ruth Madoff - Wife of Bernard L. Madoff
• Donna Orender - WNBA president
• Cindy Rakowitz - Division President for Playboy Enterprises (1986-2001)
• Victor H. Ruiz - Graduated with BA Accounting 2009. CFO of Victor and Son Books distributors and one of the inspirations of the characters of the Entourage (TV Series) on HBO
• Leonard Schutzman - Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo
• Jeffrey Steinberger - Trial attorney, TV commentator & analyst
• Charles Wang - founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders
• Robert Wann - Senior Executive VP and CEO of New York Community Bank

Education

• Werner Baer - Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign rifando.

Entertainment and media

• Ted Alexandro - comedian
• Martin Aronstein - theatrical lighting designer
• Joy Behar - comedienne and co-host of The View
• Adrien Brody - Actor , Academy award winner. Attended as student in 1990
• Fran Drescher - actress, The Nanny
• Dennis Elsas - Radio personality: WNEW-FM, WFUV-FM
• Jon Favreau - actor and director, director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2
• Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
• Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor
• Carole King - songwriter and recording artist
• Richard Kline - "Larry Dallas" in Three's Company
• Frank Lopardo - American operatic tenor
• DJ Rekha Malhotra - DJ, Producer, Educator of South Asian music
• Lisa Ratner - Award winning songwriter-producer - (Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Vanessa Williams), attended 1971-1975.
• Mary Murphy - Emmy Award-winning TV anchor
• Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975-1978 - dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years but returned in later years during which he made Dean's list)
• Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders.^[2]
• Neil Rosen- Emmy award winning movie critic, NY1
• Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) - radio talk show personality and author
• Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
• Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
• Paul Simon - musician, Simon and Garfunkel
• Martin Untrojb - Producer, Writer (WCBS Newsradio 880), voice-over artist.
• Salman Ahmad - musician, Junoon

Fictional characters

• George Costanza - Fictional television character from Seinfeld
• Carrie Heffernan - Took courses for law during season 3 of 'King of Queens
• Eric Murphy - Fictional television character from Entourage. Attended for two years before dropping out to become the manager of Vincent Chase.
• Jerry Seinfeld - Fictional television character from "Seinfeld"
• Betty Suarez - Fictional television character from Ugly Betty. Graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Media

Government and politics

• Kevan Abrahams - Nassau County Legislator (D) Nassau County 1st Legislative District
• Gary Ackerman - United States Representative from New York (1983- )
• Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, American political consultant
• Shifra Bronznick - Prominent Jewish Women's rights activist
• Joseph Crowley - United States Representative, New York's 7th congressional district, Queens County Democratic Chairman
• Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist.
• Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
• Alan Hevesi - former New York State Comptroller, former New York State Assemblyman, former Queens College professor
• Dov Hikind - New York State Assemblyman
• Dennis G. Jacobs- Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.^[3]
• Rory I. Lancman - New York state Assemblyman
• Helen Marshall - Queens Borough President
• Hiram Monserrate - former New York State Senator
• Jose Peralta - Former New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator
• Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state Senator

Humanities

• David A. Adler - author
• Bernard Kalb - journalist, media critic, author
• Marvin Kalb - journalist
• Nellie Y. McKay - scholar and co-editor of Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
• Dorothy Rabinowitz - awarded 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
• Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
• Arnold Skemer - novelist and publisher
• Phil Demise Smith - poet, founder of the N. Dodo Band, founder of the Queens College Whereas literary and art magazine
• Elliot Sperling - expert on Tibet

Science and technology

• Kenneth Appel - Mathematician proved four color theorem
• Steven J. Burakoff - cancer specialist and the author of Therepeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990)
• Yuliana Contecha - psychologist
• Richard Laub - paleontologist
• Stanley Milgram - psychologist
• Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
• Nicholas Rescher, philosopher
• Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory^[4]

Sports

• Donna Orender (née Geils), Women's Pro Basketball League All-Star & current WNBA president
• Norm Roberts - former head coach of St. John's University men's basketball team, as well as a former coach and player at Queens College
• Hank Kraft Judo Instructor. Trained many international Judoka.

Notable faculty

Famous faculty at Queens College have included:

• Salman Ahmed, musician, band Junoon
• Benny Andrews, artist
• Herbert Bienstock, a former regional commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Donald Byrd, jazz musician
• Elliott Carter, composer
• Barry Commoner, biologist
• Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
• Bogdan Denitch, sociologist
• Lillian Feder, Writer
• Joshua Freeman, historian
• Andrew Hacker, political scientist
• Michael Harrington, political philosopher
• Samuel Heilman, Sociologist
• Carl G. Hempel, philosopher
• Banesh Hoffmann, mathematician, worked with Albert Einstein
• Chin Kim, violinist
• Leo Kraft, composer
• John Frederick Lange, Jr. , Author
• Elliott Mendelson, mathematician
• Edwin E. Moise, Mathematician
• Thea Musgrave, composer
• Marco Oppedisano, composer
• George Perle, composer
• Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist
• Gregory Rabassa, literary translator
• Stefan Ralescu, mathematician
• Karol Rathaus, composer
• Charles Repole, actor, theater director
• Bruce Saylor, composer
• Carl Schachter, music, schenkerian analyst
• Frank Spencer, Anthopologist, Investigated the Piltdown Man Hoax
• Stephen Steinberg, Sociologist
• Dennis Sullivan, mathematician
• David Syrett, naval historian
• John Tytell, author
• Robert Ward, composer
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
• Roby Young, Soccer coach

References