List of Columbia College people

The following list contains only notable graduates and former students of Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of Columbia University, and its predecessor, from 1754 to 1776, King's College. For a full list of individuals associated with the university as a whole, see the List of Columbia University people. An asterisk (*) indicates a former student who did not graduate.

Founding Fathers of the United States

John Jay (King's 1764), President of the Continental Congress; first Chief Justice of the United States; author of five of The Federalist papers; first Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation; architect of Jay Treaty with Great Britain
Robert Livingston (King's 1764), a writer of the Declaration of Independence; first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs; negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
Egbert Benson (King's 1765), delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Representatives, first New York State Attorney General, chief justice of the New York Supreme Court
Gouverneur Morris (King's 1768), represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress; authored much of the United States Constitution; United States Ambassador to France; United States Senator from New York
Alexander Hamilton* (King's 1776), American Revolutionary War officer, aide-de-camp to George Washington; most prolific writer of The Federalist Papers; first United States Secretary of the Treasury, portrayed on the ten-dollar bill; founder of the Bank of New York

Scholars

Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop Benjamin Moore; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of The Night Before Christmas
John Anthon (1801), jurist
John Church Hamilton (1809), son of Alexander Hamilton, American historian
Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the Anthon Transcript
Henry Drisler (1839), classical scholar and acting president of Columbia College
John Howard Van Amringe (1860), mathematician and Dean of Columbia College
William Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the United States Olympic Committee
Felix Adler (1870), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the Ethical Culture movement and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Brander Matthews (1871), first professor of dramatic literature in the United States
John Aaron Browning (1875), American educator, founder of the Browning School
Charles Waldstein (1875), Anglo-American archeologist, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and American School of Classical Studies at Athens; first Jewish American athlete in the Olympic Games
Richard T. Ely (1876), American economist, founder and president of the American Economic Association
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), American economist
William Archibald Dunning (1881), founder of the Dunning School of Reconstruction
James Chidester Egbert Jr. (1881), classical scholar and educator
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1881), American Zionist scholar, founder of the first Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau
Harry Thurston Peck (1881), literary critic and editor of The Bookman
A. V. Williams Jackson (1883), American specialist on Indo-European languages
Thomas Fiske (1885), professor of mathematics at Columbia University; acting dean of Barnard College; president of the American Mathematical Society from 1902 to 1904; secretary of the College Board
Charles Knapp (1887), classical scholar
Charles Sears Baldwin (1888), American scholar and professor of rhetoric at Yale University
John Dyneley Prince (1888), American linguist; United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
George Louis Beer (1892), renowned historian of the "Imperial school".
William Robert Shepherd (1893), American cartographer, historian
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald (1895), American Hispanic scholar
Joel Elias Spingarn (1895), professor of comparative literature
Mortimer Lamson Earle (1896), American classical scholar
Alfred L. Kroeber (1896), pioneering cultural anthropologist
Frederick Paul Keppel (1898), American educator, former president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
John Erskine (1900), Great Books pioneer
Alexander Goldenweiser (1902), Russian-born anthropologist and sociologist
Robert Livingston Schuyler (1903), scholar on American history, president of the American Historical Association
Carlton J. H. Hayes (1904), pioneering cultural historian; former United States Ambassador to Spain
Edward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Mark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the Rómulo Pico Adobe
Edwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar; Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School
Richard F. Bach (1909), curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College
F. Stuart Chapin (1909), American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association
Armin K. Lobeck (1911), American cartographer
Lawrence K. Frank (1912), social scientist; vice president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and co-initiator of the Macy conferences
Arthur MacMahon (1912), American political scientist, president of the American Political Science Association
Clarence Manning (1912), prominent slavicist at Columbia University
Parker LeRoy Moon (1913), professor and managing editor of the Political Science Quarterly
Benjamin Graham (1914), economist who pioneered value investing
Irwin Edman (1916), philosopher
John Herman Randall Jr. (1918), philosopher
Kenneth Burke* (1920), American literary theorist and philosopher
Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1920), professor of literature at Hunter College; expert on Edgar Allan Poe
Richard McKeon (1920), philosopher
Frank Tannenbaum (1920), Austrian-American historian, sociologist, and criminologist; founder of the Labeling theory in criminology
Louis M. Hacker (1922), professor of economics and proponent of adult education
Mortimer Adler* (1923), philosopher and Great Books pioneer
Robert Beverly Hale (1923), curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alexander Lesser (1923), anthropologist known for his documentation of the Kitsai language
Leslie White (1923), American anthropologist known for his theories of the evolution of culture and for the scientific study of culture
Meyer Schapiro (1924), art historian
Joseph Campbell (1925), mythologist
William York Tindall (1925), James Joyce scholar at Columbia University
Lionel Trilling (1925), literary critic
Jacques Barzun (1927), cultural historian
Robert C. Schnitzer (1927), arts teacher and administrator
Francis Steegmuller (1927), Flaubert scholar
Carl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics
Leon Keyserling (1928), head of the Council of Economic Advisers under Harry S Truman
Edgar Lorch (1928), mathematics department chairman at Columbia University
Eli Ginzberg (1930), professor of economics at Columbia University
Frederick Burkhardt (1933), president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies
Joseph Leon Blau (1934), professor of religion at Columbia University
Alan Gewirth (1934), American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, author of Reason and Morality
Herbert Aptheker (1936), Marxist historian and political activist
Joseph Greenberg (1936), prominent linguist known for work in linguistic typology and genetic classification of languages
Carl E. Schorske (1936), cultural historian and winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for History
Quentin Anderson (1937), cultural historian and literary critic
Charles Frankel (1937), political philosopher
Barry Ulanov (1939), English professor and scholar of jazz and religion
Robert J. Alexander (1940), American political activist, writer, and professor at Rutgers University
Donald Barr (1941), American educator and author; former headmaster of Dalton School; initiated the Columbia University Science Honors Program
Ted de Bary (1941), East Asian studies expert and provost of Columbia University
Donald Keene (1942), scholar of Japanese culture
Robert Lekachman (1942), economist
Philip Yampolsky (1942), scholar of Zen Buddhism
Bernard Weisberger (1943), American historian of the Reconstruction Era
Alan Hoffman (1944), mathematician known for constructing the Hoffman–Singleton graph
Bruce Mazlish (1944), American historian and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jack Greenberg (1945), counsel for the NAACP (1949–84), in which capacity he argued Brown v. Board of Education (1954); professor at Columbia Law School (1984–present)
Murray Rothbard (1945), leading exponent of the Austrian School of economics
Richard Heffner (1946), professor and host of The Open Mind
Fritz Stern (1946), Seth Low Professor of History Emeritus; pre-eminent in German studies
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1947), Classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Eric McKitrick (1949), professor of history at Columbia University
Marvin Harris (1949), American anthropologist famous for developing cultural materialism
Arthur Melvin Okun (1949), chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, proposed Okun's law
Lambros Comitas (1948), anthropologist
Steven Marcus (1948), George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and Dean of Columbia College
Carl Hovde (1950), professor of English and Dean of Columbia College following the Columbia University protests of 1968.^[1]
Burton Watson (1950), American scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature
Joseph Rothschild (1951), professor of Central European and Eastern European history at Columbia University
Immanuel Wallerstein (1951), sociologist who defined world-systems theory
Elliott Mendelson (1952), American logician; professor of mathematics at Queens College, City University of New York
Andrew P. Vayda (1952), professor emeritus of anthropology and ecology at Rutgers University
Demetrios James Caraley (1954), editor of Political Science Quarterly and president of the Academy of Political Science
Peter Kenen (1954), provost, Columbia University
Henry Littlefield (1954), educator, author, historian who initiated political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Stephen Orgel (1954), Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar
David Rosand (1954), Art historian, Columbia University
Jerry Fodor (1956), philosopher
Kenneth Silverman (1956), professor at New York University and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
Robert Alter (1957), professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley; president of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Erich S. Gruen (1957), American classicist and ancient historian; president of the Society for Classical Studies in 1992
Jonathan Lubin (1957), professor of mathematics at Brown University; introduced Lubin–Tate formal group law
Gerald Feldman (1958), American historian who specializes in 20th-century German history; professor at University of California, Berkeley
Joachim Neugroschel (1958), prolific multilingual translator
David Rothman (1958), professor of social medicine and president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession
Benjamin Cohen (1959), political economist and authority on International political economy
Robert Nozick (1959), libertarian philosopher
Isser Woloch (1959), historian of the French Revolution
Rudolf Makkreel (1960), professor of philosophy at Emory University
Marshall Berman (1961), urbanologist
David Syrett (1961), professor of military history at Queens College, City University of New York; former president of the New York Military Affairs Symposium
Zvi Gitelman (1962), Jewish scholar at the University of Michigan
Harvey Goldschmid (1962), professor at Columbia Law School, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2002 to 2005
Ken Jowitt (1962), American political scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow of the Hoover Institution
Joel Moses (1962), mathematician, Institute Professor at and provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence S. Wittner (1962), historian on peace movements
Eric Foner (1963), pre-eminent historian of Reconstruction
David Orme-Johnson (1963), professor of psychology at the Maharishi University of Management
Victor Margolin (1963), professor of design history at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonah Raskin (1963), American writer, professor on counterculture
Howard Spodek (1963), American historian specializing in urban studies; professor at Temple University
Robert J. Art (1964), professor of international relations at Brandeis University
Jonathan R. Cole (1964), American sociologist and provost of Columbia University from 1989 to 2003
Richard Epstein (1964), libertarian law scholar
Richard Kayne (1964), professor of linguistics at New York University
John H. Langbein (1964), Sterling Professor at Yale Law School
Peter K. Machamer (1964), American philosopher and historian of science; professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Mike Wallace (1964), historian and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Jonathan Goldberg (1964), professor at Emory University
Michael M. Gunter (1964), professor at Tennessee Technological University, authority in Kurds
Jonathan M. Weiss (1964), American scholar of French literature and politics
Richard Taruskin (1965), American musicologist
Walter Reich (1965), former director of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and professor at George Washington University
Raymond Geuss (1966), specialist in Jürgen Habermas
Steven Handel (1966), restoration ecologist, professor at Rutgers University
Ira Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor at Columbia University
Mark D. Naison (1966), former political activist; professor of history at Fordham University
T. J. Pempel (1966), professor of political science and former director of the Institute of Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Jay Winter (1966), World War I specialist at Yale University
Paul Gewirtz (1967), constitutional law scholar
Karl Klare (1967), Critical Legal Studies theorist
Norman Friedman (1967), American author and naval analyst
Terrell Carver (1968), political theorist; professor at the University of Bristol
Samuel R. Gross (1968), professor at the University of Michigan Law School; editor of the National Registry of Exonerations project
Alfred W. McCoy (1968), historian of Southeast Asia; professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lawrence Susskind (1968), urban planner and mediator; professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jerry Avorn (1969), professor at the Harvard Medical School
Chris Iijima (1969), legal scholar, folksinger
Andrei Markovits (1969), professor of comparative politics at the University of Michigan
Michel Rosenfeld (1969), constitutional law scholar
Steven M. Cohen (1970), sociologist, director of Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Lennard J. Davis (1970), professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specialist in disability studies
John D'Emilio (1970), professor of history and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago; winner of the Bill Whitehead Award in 2013
Samuel Estreicher (1970), professor at the New York University School of Law
Peter Grossman (1970), professor of economics at Butler University; columnist, The Indianapolis Star
Paul Starr (1970), sociologist; co-founder of The American Prospect and winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Paul Berman (1971), historian and social critic
Roy Rosenzweig (1971), historian and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Scott Atran (1972), American anthropologist; director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presidential scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Joel Black (1972), literature and film scholar
Jerome Groopman (1972), Harvard Medical School professor and medical writer for The New Yorker
Mark J. Roe (1972), professor at Harvard Law School
John Servos (1972), professor and historian of science; president of the History of Science Society
Sean Wilentz (1972), historian and winner of the Bancroft Prize; chair of American Studies at Princeton University
Angelo Falcón (1973), political scientist, President and Founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)
Saul Levmore (1973), commercial law scholar, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School
David S. Katz (1974), professor of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University
James R. Russell (1974), professor of Ancient Near Eastern studies at Harvard University
Steven Simon (1974), Middle East expert and former executive director of International Institute for Strategic Studies-US; former senior director in the United States National Security Council
Haruo Shirane (1974), professor of Japanese literature of Columbia University
Jonathan Crary (1975), art critic, essayist, professor of art at Columbia University
Alexander J. Motyl (1975), professor of political science at Rutgers University
David Albert (1976), professor of philosophy at Columbia University
Barry Bergdoll (1977), chief curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
James S. Shapiro (1977), Shakespearean authority
Peter Christopher (1978), writer and professor at Georgia Southern University
Steve Fuller (1979), American philosopher, sociologist in the field of science and technology studies
Alexander George (1979), professor of philosophy at Amherst College; founder of AskPhilosophers.org
Michael Bérubé (1982), professor of literature and cultural studies
David Makovsky (1982), Middle East Scholar
Gideon Rosen (1984), professor of philosophy at Princeton University
Thomas Sugrue (1984), historian of the 20th century United States
Jamsheed Choksy (1985), chair of Eurasian studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Noam Elkies (1985), mathematician, youngest full professor at Harvard
William Deresiewicz (1985), literary critic
Louis Warren (1985), professor of Western U.S. history at the University of California, Davis
Alexander Argüelles (1986), American polyglot and professor at the American University in the Emirates; son of poet Ivan Argüelles
Tobias Hecht (1986), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator; winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award
Alva Noë (1986), professor of philosopohy at University of California, Berkeley
Ritu Birla (1987), historian of modern South Asia, director of University of Toronto's Asian Institute
Stephanie Stebich (1988), director of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Stephanos Bibas (1989), professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jesús Escobar (1989), professor of Art History at Northwestern University, expert in early modern art of Spain and Italy
Rhea Anastas (1990), art historian, critic, curator and professor at University of California, Irvine
Ben Ratliff (1990), journalist and music critic
Mary Pattillo (1991), professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University
Rohit Aggarwala (1993), American environmental policy advisor, transport planner, historian, professor of Columbia University
David Eisenbach (1994), historian on media and politics; narrator, 10 Things You Don't Know About
Gabriella Coleman (1996), American anthropologist known for her work in hacker culture and online activism; professor at McGill University
Lauren Winner (1997), historian, professor at Duke Divinity School
Louis Hyman (1999), economic historian, professor at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, author of Debtor Nation
Adrianne Wadewitz (1999), American feminist scholar and noted Wikipedian

University presidents

John M. Mason (1789), provost of Columbia College and president of Dickinson College
Philip Milledoler (1793), fifth president of Rutgers University
Nathaniel Fish Moore (1802), eighth President of Columbia University
Isaac Ferris (1816), third President of New York University
John Aikman Stewart (1841), businessman, banker, acting president of Princeton University
Seth Low (1870), president of Columbia University and mayor of New York City
Nicholas Murray Butler (1882), president of Columbia University, chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Francis Lister Hawks Pott (1883), Episcopal missionary and president of St. John's University, Shanghai from 1888 to 1941
Frank Pierrepont Graves (1890), former president of the University of Washington, University of Wyoming; Commissioner of Education of the State of New York from 1921 to 1940
Frank D. Fackenthal (1906), acting president of Columbia University
Dixon Ryan Fox (1911), Union College president from 1934 to 1945
James S. Coles (1936), ninth president of Bowdoin College
James C. Fletcher (1940), president of the University of Utah and administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Martin Meyerson (1942), president of the University of Pennsylvania
Michael I. Sovern (1951), president of Columbia University
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1959), president of the University of Hartford and of George Washington University
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (1970), executive vice president and provost of Bard College
Samuel Hoi (1980), president of the Maryland Institute College of Art
Daniel Gordis (1981), vice president of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college
Deborah Waxman (1989), president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities

Actors

John B. Mason (1880), American stage actor
Ralph Morgan (1904), co-founder of Actors Equity and first president of the Screen Actors Guild
Nat Pendleton (1916), portrayer of Eugen Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld and silver-medal wrestler in the 1920 Summer Olympics
James Cagney* (1922), winner of the Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cornel Wilde* (1933), star of The Greatest Show on Earth, Beach Red, and Academy Award nominee for A Song to Remember
Richard Ney (1940), actor, Mrs. Miniver; husband of Greer Garson
Dolph Sweet (1948), played Carl Canisky in Gimme a Break!
Sorrell Booke (1949), played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard
Stephen Strimpell (1954), star of Mister Terrific
George Segal (1955), star of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ship of Fools and Just Shoot Me!
Brian Dennehy (1960), winner of the Tony Award for Death of a Salesman
Roger Davis (1962), American actor, Dark Shadows, Alias Smith and Jones
William Finley (1963), film actor; co-star of Phantom of the Paradise
Jared Martin (1965), actor, Dallas (1978 TV series)
Ben Stein (1966), host of Win Ben Stein's Money; speechwriter for former US President Richard M. Nixon
Gerrit Graham* (1970), film actor and songwriter
Richard Thomas* (1973), star of The Waltons
Robert Wisdom (1976), actor, Nashville, The Wire, Prison Break
Mario Van Peebles (1978), star of Heartbreak Ridge and Sonny Spoon
Matt Salinger (1983), son of J.D. Salinger
Robert Maschio (1988), actor on Scrubs
Matthew Fox (1989), star of Party of Five and Lost
Soterios Johnson (1990), American radio journalist and WNYC host
Rachel DeWoskin (1994), actress and author, Foreign Babes in Beijing
Jean Louisa Kelly (1994), star of Mr. Holland's Opus
Amanda Peet (1994), star of the TV series Jack & Jill and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and the film The Whole Nine Yards
Cara Buono (1995), star of Third Watch and Stranger Things
Casey Affleck (1998), Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actor for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and actor in Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1999), Golden Globe-winning actress for The Honourable Woman, and star in Secretary, Stranger than Fiction and The Dark Knight
Liza Weil (1999), actress, The Gilmore Girls
Jesse Bradford (2002), actor in Flags of Our Fathers and Bring It On
Jake Gyllenhaal* (2002), Academy Award-nominated actor for Brokeback Mountain, star of Jarhead and Donnie Darko
Brandon Victor Dixon (2003), Tony Award-nominated broadway actor starring in Scottsboro Boys
Rachel Nichols (2003), actress, Continuum, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Jenny Slate (2004), cast member, Saturday Night Live
Anna Paquin* (2004), winner of the Academy Award for The Piano
Rider Strong (2004), star of Boy Meets World
Julia Stiles (2005), star of Save the Last Dance and Mona Lisa Smile
Kate McKinnon (2006), Emmy winning actress and comedian, Saturday Night Live
Grace Parra (2006), actress, screenwriter, TV host
Jeremy Blackman (2009), appeared in Magnolia
Max Minghella (2009), appeared in Syriana and Art School Confidential
Spencer Treat Clark (2010), appeared in Gladiator, Mystic River, and Unbreakable
Sarah Steele (2011), actress, Spanglish
Kelsey Chow (2014), actress, Pair of Kings
Cinta Laura (2014), actress and singer
Sofia Vassilieva (2014), actress, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime
Katie Chang (2017), actress, The Bling Ring, A Birder's Guide to Everything
Timothée Chalamet* (2017), Academy Award-nominated actor, Call Me by Your Name
Sami Gayle (2018), actress, Blue Bloods, Candy Jar, Vampire Academy
Kenny Ridwan (2021), actor, The Goldbergs

Artists and architects

James Renwick Jr. (1836), Gothic Revival architect who designed St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Grace Church, New York, the Free Academy of the City of New York, predecessor to the City College of New York, the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Main Building of Vassar College, and the Renwick Gallery
Walter Satterlee (1863), American figure and genre painter
Lockwood de Forest* (1872), American artist, interior and furniture designer
Devereux Emmet (1883), pioneering golf course architect who designed the golf course at the Congressional Country Club
Henry Martyn Congdon (1854), architect and designer
William Ordway Partridge (1885), sculptor who built the Thomas Jefferson statue in Columbia University, Kauffmann Memorial, and the statue of Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia
Goodhue Livingston (1888), founder of the architectural firm Trowbridge & Livingston, designer of the St. Regis Hotel, 23 Wall Street, Bankers Trust Company Building, Knickerbocker Hotel, Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, New York Society Library, New York Stock Exchange, American Red Cross National Headquarters, the Oregon State Capitol, and the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh
Henry Shrady (1894), sculptor known for the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Ely Jacques Kahn (1904), commercial architect who designed the Municipal Asphalt Plant, the Film Center Building, 120 Wall Street, 399 Park Avenue, One Penn Plaza, and 1095 Avenue of the Americas
Rockwell Kent* (1907), illustrator
Isamu Noguchi* (1926), sculptor, namesake of the Noguchi table and Noguchi Museum, designer of the Moerenuma Park, Bayfront Park, and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
Charles Alston (1929), artist
Ad Reinhardt (1935), Abstract Expressionist artist and critic
Charles Saxon (1940), cartoonist
Burton Silverman (1949), painter
George S. Zimbel (1951), photographer
Edward Koren (1957), cartoonist
Robert A. M. Stern (1960), traditionalist architect, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, designer of 15 Central Park West, 30 Park Place, 520 Park Avenue, 220 Central Park South, Comcast Center in Philadelphia, Mandarin Oriental, Atlanta, Tour Carpe Diem in Paris, the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and two new Residential colleges of Yale University
Scott Burton (1962), urban sculptor
Bernard Cywinski (1962), architect and co-founder of the firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which designed the Liberty Bell center in Philadelphia, the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, and the Seattle City Hall
Gordon Gahan (1967)*, photographer for National Geographic
Greg Wyatt (1971), sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, known for designing the Peace Fountain
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (1974), photographer known for producing The Black List
James Sanders (1976), architect who co-wrote New York: A Documentary Film with Ric Burns '78
Peter Pennoyer (1980), architect known for the renovation of the Colony Club and the Knickerbocker Club
Jacob Collins (1986), American realist painter, founder of the Grand Central Academy of Art
Lance Hosey (1987), architect, author of The Shape of Green; Chief sustainability officer of the global architectural firm RTKL Associates
Ricardo Cortés (1995), illustrator, It's Just a Plant
Damon Winter (1997), Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The New York Times
Damon Rich (1997), urban designer, 2017 MacArthur Fellow

Athletes

John Cox Stevens (1803), founder and first commodore of the New York Yacht Club, won the first America's Cup trophy in 1851
Reginald Sayre (1881), orthopedic surgeon and Olympic sport shooter
Charles Sands (1887), American athlete who won the gold medal in Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Oliver Campbell (1891), American tennis player; youngest male winner of the US Open Singles title from 1890 to 1990
Charles Townsend (1893), first Olympic fencer from the Ivy League; silver medalist in the 1904 Summer Olympics
Gustavus Town Kirby (1895), president of the United States Olympic Committee from 1920 to 1924, and Amateur Athletic Union from 1911 to 1913
Leo Fishel (1899), first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball
Harold Weekes (1903), football player for the Columbia Lions, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Harry A. Fisher (1905), basketball coach for Columbia, United States Military Academy, St. John's; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Robert LeRoy (1905), two-time silver medalist in the 1904 Summer Olympics
Eddie Collins (1907), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Marcus Hurley (1908), cyclist who won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Jay Gould II* (1911), American real tennis player, Olympic gold medalist in 1908 and world champion from 1914 to 1916; great-grandson of financier Jay Gould ^[2]
Ted Kiendl (1911), National Basketball Player of the Year in 1911; corporate lawyer, argued Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins before the Supreme Court in 1938
George Smith (1916), pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
Millard Bloomer (1920), Olympic fencer
Harold Bloomer (1924), Olympic fencer
Lou Gehrig* (1925), first baseman for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Walter Koppisch (1925), football player for the New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Norman Armitage (1931), Olympic bronze medalist fencer; first person to be inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame
Lou Bender (1932), pioneer player with the Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball, who was later a successful trial attorney.^[3]
Art Smith (1928), baseball player for the Chicago White Sox
Fresco Thompson (1928), baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
Hugh Alessandroni (1929), Olympic bronze medalist fencer
George Gregory Jr. (1933), first African American basketball player to be selected as All-American
Cliff Montgomery (1934), led the Columbia Lions football team to victory in the Rose Bowl
John O'Brien (1938), basketball player for the Akron Wingfoots
Ben Johnson (1938), American sprinter who rivaled Jesse Owens
Sid Luckman (1939), NFL Hall of Fame Chicago Bears quarterback
Paul Governali (1943), football player for the Boston Yanks and New York Giants
Walt Budko (1948), basketball player for Baltimore Bullets and Philadelphia Warriors
Bruce Gehrke (1948), football player for New York Giants
Bill Swiacki (1948), player for New York Giants, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Lou Kusserow (1949), football player for Hamilton Tiger-Cats and New York Yanks
John Azary (1951), basketball player, recipient of the Haggerty Award
Jack Molinas (1953), NBA player for the Fort Wayne Pistons
Jack Rohan (1953), head coach of the Columbia Lions men's basketball team from 1961 to 1974, and 1990 to 1995
Richard Ballantine*, cyclist and cycling advocate; son of Ian Ballantine '38 of Ballantine Books
James Margolis (1958), Olympic fencer
James Melcher (1961), Olympian fencer, president of Fencers Club and hedge fund manager
Robert Contiguglia (1963), soccer player, former president of the United States Soccer Federation
Archie Roberts (1965), former football player for the Miami Dolphins and cardiac surgeon
Jim McMillian (1968), NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers
Dave Newmark (1968), NBA player for the Chicago Bulls; also played for Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.
Marty Domres (1969), football player for San Diego Chargers and Baltimore Colts
George Starke (1971), offensive lineman for the Washington Redskins
Henry Bunis, two-time All-American tennis player, runner-up in 1977 Chilean Open
Rick Fagel (1975), professional tennis player
Vitas Gerulaitis* (1975), champion tennis player
Alton Byrd (1979), basketball player
Eric Fromm* (1980), tennis player
John Witkowski (1983), football player for Detroit Lions and Houston Oilers
Gene Larkin (1984), member of the Minnesota Twins 1987 and 1991 World Series championship teams
Amr Aly (1985), soccer player who won the Hermann Trophy as the top college player of the year 1984; member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Soccer Team and indoor soccer team Los Angeles Lazers
Stephen Trevor (1986), Olympic fencer
Caitlin Bilodeaux (1987), Olympic fencer
Phil Williamson (1987), tennis player for Antigua and Barbuda
Bob Cottingham (1988), Olympic fencer
Jon Normile (1989), Olympic fencer
Frank Seminara (1989), Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets
Ann Marsh (1994), Olympic fencer
Ríkharður Daðason (1996), Icelandic soccer player
Marcellus Wiley (1997), football player for the Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys
Dan Kellner (1998), fencer
Cristina Teuscher (2000), Olympic gold medalist swimmer
Jedediah Dupree (2001), NCAA Champion fencer
Veljko Urošević (2003), Serbian Olympic rower
Fernando Perez (2004), Outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays
Emily Jacobson (2004), fencer
Jeremiah Boswell (2005), professional basketball player for BC Sliven, KK Strumica, and KK Torus
Delilah DiCrescenzo (2005), American long-distance runner, inspiration and subject of the Grammy-nominated song Hey There Delilah
Michael Quarshie (2005), Finnish American football player who played for the Oakland Raiders and Frankfurt Galaxy
Lisa Nemec (2006), Croatian long-distance runner
Miloš Tomić (2006), Serbian Olympic rower
Erison Hurtault (2007), Dominican sprinter
James Leighman Williams (2007), Olympic fencer
İhsan Emre Vural (2008), Turkish rower for Galatasaray S.K.
Sherif Farrag (2009), Egyptian-American Olympic fencer
Nicholas la Cava (2009), Olympic rower
Jeff Spear (2010), Olympic fencer
Daria Schneider (2010), fencer
Jeff Adams (2011), Houston Texans offensive tackle
Nicole Ross (2011), Olympic fencer
Isadora Cerullo (2013), Brazilian-American Olympic rugby player
Katie Meili (2013), Olympic swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist
Josh Martin (2013), Kansas City Chiefs Linebacker
Nadia Eke (2015), Ghanaian triple jumper, African Championships gold medalist in 2016
Max Schnur (2015), tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour
Nzingha Prescod (2015), Olympic fencer
Ramit Tandon (2015), professional squash player
Sasha DiGiulian (2016), world champion climber
Maodo Lô (2016), German basketball player for Brose Bamberg
Akua Obeng-Akrofi (2018), Ghanaian sprinter
Osama Khalifa (2018), #1 ranked college squash player in the United States for the 2016-2017 season
Anthony Jackie Tang (2020), Hong Kong tennis player
Velavan Senthilkumar (2021), British Junior Open Squash champion and Asian Junior Squash champion

Businesspeople

Henry Rutgers (1766), Revolutionary War hero, businessman, philanthropist, and namesake of Rutgers University
Leffert Lefferts (1794), first president of Long Island Bank
William Backhouse Astor Sr. (1811), son of John Jacob Astor
Cornelius Roosevelt*, member of the Roosevelt family, one of the founders of the Chemical Bank; great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt
James H. Roosevelt (1819), founder of Roosevelt Hospital
Bradish Johnson (1831), American industrialist involved in the Swill milk scandal
Henry T. Anthony (1832), photographer, vice-president of the E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
Adrian G Iselin* (1837), financier, banker
Edward Anthony (1838), photographer and founder of E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century
John Jacob Astor III (1839), son of William Backhouse Astor Sr.
William Henry Vanderbilt* (1841), eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; president of the New York Central Railroad, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Canada Southern Railway, and Michigan Central Railroad
Robert Morrison Olyphant (1842), heir to trading company Olyphant & Co. and president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway
William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1849), son of William Backhouse Astor Sr. and husband of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, co-founder of The Four Hundred
John Crosby Brown (1859), heir to investment bank Brown Bros. & Co., which later became Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the oldest private bank in the United States
Emory McClintock (1859), actuary; president of the American Mathematical Society and the Actuarial Society of America
Robert Goelet (1860), real estate developer
J. Hooker Hamersley (1865), American heir, lawyer, and poet; former president of the Knickerbocker Club
William Bayard Cutting (1869), financier, philanthropist, namesake of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park
Stuyvesant Fish (1871), president of the Illinois Central Railroad
James Montaudevert Waterbury Sr. (1873), industrialist, co-founder of the New York Yacht Club
Isaac Newton Seligman (1876), heir to American investment bank J. & W. Seligman & Co.
William Fellowes Morgan Sr. (1880), businessman, philanthropist
George M. La Monte (1884), chairman of Prudential Financial from 1925 to 1927
Joseph P. Knapp* (1884), businessman, philanthropist, founder of Ducks Unlimited
Temple Bowdoin (1885), former executive of J.P. Morgan & Co.
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. (1887), banker, prominent figure in Thoroughbred horse racing
Louis Frank Rothschild (1890), investment banker, namesake of investment firm L.F. Rothschild
Howard Gould* (1894), financier, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould
Joseph Peter Grace Sr. (1894), businessman, polo player, heir to W. R. Grace and Company; founder of Pan American-Grace Airways and Grace National Bank
Dexter M. Ferry Jr. (1898), director of D.M. Ferry & Co.; member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Charles A. Dana (1902), philanthropist who founded the Dana Foundation and Dana Holding Corporation
John Knowles Fitch (1902), founder of Fitch Ratings, one of the Big Three rating agencies
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (1903), chairman of the Remington Arms Company, husband of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
William Gage Brady Jr. (1908), Chairman of Citigroup from 1948 to 1952
Ward Melville (1909), creator of Thom McAn shoes; helped the establishment of Stony Brook University
Armand Hammer (1919), philanthropist, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, namesake of Hammer Museum and Armand Hammer United World College of the American West
George E. Jonas (1919), partner in Pellessier-Jonas-Rivet Manufacturing Co., philanthropist and founder of Camp Rising Sun
Morris Schapiro (1923), American investment banker, grandfather of painter Jacob Collins '86 and brother of art historian Meyer Schapiro '24
Lawrence Wien (1925), real estate magnate and philanthropist
Herbert Hutner (1928), private investment banker, attorney, and philanthropist; fourth husband of socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor
Nathan S. Ancell (1929), co-founder of furniture company Ethan Allen
Ira D. Wallach (1929), head of Central National-Gottesman, the largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products
Arthur Ross (1931), philanthropist, businessman; Vice president of Central National-Gottesman; namesake of Arthur Ross Pinetum in Central Park
Arnold A. Saltzman (1936), businessman, diplomat, art collector, philanthropist
John Kluge (1937), billionaire, chairman and founder of Metromedia; America's richest person from 1989–1990; namesake of the John W. Kluge Center and Kluge Prize at the Library of Congress
Howard Pack (1939), chairman and president of Seatrain Lines
Daniel Edelman (1940), founder of the world's largest public relations firm Edelman
Robert Rosencrans (1949), founding chairman of C-SPAN and president of UA-Columbia Cablevision
Norton Garfinkle (1951), economist, businessman, public servant; chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation
Alan Wagner (1951), first president of Disney Channel
Roone Arledge (1952), former president of ABC News and winner of 36 Emmys; creator of 20/20, Nightline, Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight and Primetime
Alan N. Cohen (1952), former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets; former chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation
Alfred Lerner (1955), chairman of MBNA Bank and ex-owner of the Cleveland Browns
Sid Sheinberg (1955), head of Universal Pictures
Franklin A. Thomas (1956), former president of The Ford Foundation
Doug Morris (1960), CEO of Sony Music Entertainment and former CEO of Universal Music Group
Frank Lorenzo (1961), former chairman of Eastern Airlines, Texas Air Corporation and Texas International Airlines
William Campbell (1962), chairman of the board of Intuit, former board director of Apple Inc.; founder of Claris
Kenneth Lipper (1962), financier and deputy mayor of New York City; Academy Award-winning producer of The Holocaust documentary The Last Days
Jerry Speyer (1962), billionaire, founding partner, chairman and CEO of Tishman Speyer and chairman of the Museum of Modern Art
Robert Kraft (1963), chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group; owner of the New England Patriots
Mark H. Willes (1963), former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, CEO and Publisher of Los Angeles Times and Deseret Management Corporation
Michael Gould (1966), former CEO of Bloomingdale's
Julian Geiger (1967), former CEO of Aéropostale and current CEO of Crumbs Bake Shop
Richard Sackler (1960s), billionaire chairman and president of Purdue Pharma known for the development of Oxycontin
Mark E. Kingdon (1971), hedge fund manager, president of Kingdon Capital Management
Marc Porat (1972), entrepreneur in information technology and sustainable materials; co-founder of General Magic
Albie Hecht (1974), founder of Spike TV, head of HLN, and former president of Nickelodeon; creator of Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards; Academy Award-nominated producer
Gara LaMarche (1976), former president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies; president of advocacy group Democracy Alliance
J. Ezra Merkin (1976), American financier, hedge fund manager; former chairman of GMAC Inc.
John Slosar (1978), chairman of Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific airlines
Charles Murphy (1981), hedge fund manager, executive of Fairfield Greenwich Group
Tom Glocer (1981), former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
Donald F. Ferguson (1982), Chief technology officer at Dell
Wayne Allyn Root (1983), business mogul, TV personality and producer, author, 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee
Daniel S. Loeb (1983), billionaire, hedge fund manager, founder of Third Point Management
Kai-Fu Lee (1983), Taiwanese IT Venture Capitalist, founder of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia
Steve Perlman (1983), founder and CEO of Artemis Networks; inventor of QuickTime, MSN TV, pCell, and Mova Contour facial motion capture technology
Ken Ofori-Atta (1984), Ghanaian economist and investment banker and current Minister for Finance and Economic Planning
Randy Lerner (1984), billionaire, ex-owner of Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa F.C., son of billionaire Alfred Lerner '55
Michael Wolf (1984), founder of Activate, and former president of MTV Networks
Ömer Koç (1985), Turkish billionaire and member of the prominent Koç family of Turkey; son of billionaire Rahmi Koç and grandson of Vehbi Koç; chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest conglomerate
Noam Gottesman (1986), billionaire, hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners
Daniel A. Ninivaggi (1986), CEO of Federal-Mogul and former CEO of Icahn Enterprises
Ben Horowitz (1988), technology entrepreneur, co-founder of software company Opsware and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, son of conservative writer David Horowitz '59
Dirk Edward Ziff (1988) billionaire businessman, son of publishing magnate William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Jonathan Lavine (1988), business executive, managing partner and chief investing officer of Sankaty Advisors.
Danielle Maged (1989), Fox Networks Group executive
Joanne Ooi (1989), former creative director of Shanghai Tang; CEO of Clean Air Network and Plukka
Marko Ahtisaari (199-), Finnish entrepreneur; founding CEO of Dopplr; son of Martti Ahtisaari, tenth President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Roo Rogers (199-), entrepreneur, business designer, writer
Daniel M. Ziff (199-), third youngest billionaire hedge fund manager in the U.S., son of publishing magnate William Bernard Ziff Jr.
Paul Greenberg (1990), former CEO of CollegeHumor and current CEO of Nylon
Jack Hidary (1991), financier and entrepreneur, co-founder of the Automotive X Prize and EarthWeb/Dice Inc.
Ken Shubin Stein (1991) activist investor, hedge fund manager
Erik Feig (1992), Lionsgate co-president and former president of Summit Entertainment, producer, Step Up series, Escape Plan, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Rob Speyer (1992), president of Tishman Speyer, son of billionaire Jerry Speyer '62
Shawn Landres (1994), social entrepreneur, co-founder of Jewish philanthropic organization Jumpstart
Welly Yang (1994), real estate developer; former actor and playwright
Arnold Kim (1996), founder of MacRumors
Li Lu (1996), former student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and American investment banker, founder of Himalaya Capital
Scott Sartiano (1997), American restauranter
Amol Sarva (1998), founder of Peek and Virgin Mobile USA
Shazi Visram (1999), founder of Happy Family
Daryl Ng (2001), executive director of Sino Group, son of Singaporean real estate billionaire Robert Ng
Courtney Reum (2001), American investor who founded VeeV spirits
Adriana Cisneros (2002), Vice Chairman and CEO of Grupo Cisneros; daughter of Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros
Ellen Gustafson (2002), businesswoman, social entrepreneur, food activist, co-founder of FEED Projects and former spokesperson for the World Food Programme
Alicia Yoon (2004), founder of Peach and Lily, a Korean skincare store based in New York
Liesel Pritzker Simmons (2006), former child actress, A Little Princess; granddaughter of businessman Abram Nicholas Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt hotels fortune, philanthropist

Journalism and media figures

Arts critics

Gustav Kobbé (1877), opera scholar and music critic of the New York Herald
Clifton Fadiman (1925), book critic for The New Yorker and judge for the Book of the Month Club
Ralph J. Gleason (1938), music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-founder of Rolling Stone
Allan Temko (1947), architecture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Andrew Sarris (1951), film critic
Martin Gottfried (1955), critic, author, and biographer
Morris Dickstein (1961), cultural critic and professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Denby (1965), film critic for The New Yorker
Martin Filler (1970), architecture critic
Gerrit Henry (1972), art critic, author, poet
Jed Perl (1972), art critic; son of Nobel laureate Martin Lewis Perl GSAS '55
Luc Sante (1976), literary critic
Tim Page (1979), music critic of The Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Neil Strauss (1991), music critic and best-selling author

Broadcasters

Robert Siegel (1968), host of All Things Considered on National Public Radio
Jim Gardner (1970), anchor for WPVI-TV news in Philadelphia
Pimm Fox (198-), Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television anchorman
Fred Katayama (1982), anchor on Reuters Television
James Rubin (1982), Sky News anchorman; State Department official under the administration of US President Bill Clinton; spokesman for the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark and John Kerry; husband of Christiane Amanpour
George Stephanopoulos (1982), ABC News personality; senior advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration
Greg Burke (1982), former Fox News correspondent and senior communications adviser with the Vatican's Secretariat of State
Claire Shipman (1986), ABC News correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen (1987), CNN's senior medical correspondent
Alexandra Wallace (1988), executive producer of NBC Nightly News
Soterios Johnson (1990), host of Morning Edition on National Public Radio
Alexis Glick (1994), anchorwoman for the Fox Business Network
Suzy Shuster (1994), Emmy Award-winning sportscaster with ABC Sports
Max Kellerman (1998), American boxing commentator and host of HBO World Championship Boxing
Gideon Yago (2000), MTV News correspondent
Charlotte MacInnis (2002), China Central Television anchor known by the stage name Ai Hua; host of Growing up with Chinese

Editors

Francis Pharcellus Church (1859), editorial writer for the New York Sun and author of Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Victor Rosewater* (1891), managing editor of the Omaha Bee
Horatio Sheafe Krans (1894), author and editor
Simeon Strunsky (1900), literary editor of the New York Evening Post and editorial writer for The New York Times
Theodore M. Bernstein (1924), assistant managing editor of The New York Times
Groff Conklin (1927), science fiction anthologist
James Wechsler (1935), editorial page editor of the New York Post
Lucien Carr (1946), editor for United Press International
Byron Dobell (1947), editor of American Heritage, Esquire; mentor to journalists Tom Wolfe, David Halberstam, and Mario Puzo
Charles Peters (1949), founder and former editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly
Ashbel Green (1950), senior editor and vice president of Alfred A. Knopf
Robert Gottlieb (1952), editor of The New Yorker and president of Alfred A. Knopf
Max Frankel (1952), Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of The New York Times
Richard Locke (1962), critic, essayist and first editor of new incarnation of Vanity Fair magazine
Clark Hoyt (1964), public editor of The New York Times
Chilton Williamson (1969), editor of the Chronicles magazine for the Rockford Institute
Richard Snow (1970), editor of American Heritage magazine
Leon Wieseltier (1974), literary editor, The New Republic
Dean Baquet (1978), Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of The New York Times
John Glusman (1978), editor-in-chief of W. W. Norton & Company
Marcus Brauchli (1983), former managing editor, The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of The Washington Post
Max Alexander (1987), senior editor of People
Dave Kansas (1990), COO of American Public Media Group; former editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com
Charles Ardai (1991), founder of Juno and Hard Case Crime
Janice Min (1991), former editor of Us Weekly, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Partners, head of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard
Michael Schaffer (1995), editor of Washingtonian and former editor of Washington City Paper
Franklin Foer (1996), editor, The New Republic
Marco Roth (1996), one of the editors of n+1
Christopher Bollen (1998), journalist, essayist, and former editor-in-chief of Interview Magazine
Matthew Continetti (2003), associate editor and writer, The Weekly Standard
Bari Weiss (2007), editor at Tablet and The New York Times op-ed section

Journalists

William Henry Leggett (1837), botanist and journalist who founded the Torrey Botanical Bulletin
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1867), muckraking journalist, "father of investigative journalism"
Herbert Agar (1919), journalist and historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934
Matthew Josephson (1920), American journalist credited with popularizing the term "Robber baron"
Herbert Matthews (1922), New York Times foreign correspondent who first reported Fidel Castro alive in the Sierra Maestra
David Cort (1924), foreign news editor at Life magazine
Ernest Cuneo (1927), president, North American Newspaper Alliance
Harold Isaacs (1930), American journalist and MIT Professor who wrote extensively on the Chinese Revolution of 1925–27
Phelan Beale Jr. (1944), journalist; first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Charles E. Silberman (1945), author and journalist
Kennett Love (1948), journalist for The New York Times
David Wise (1951), author of espionage and national security nonfiction
Barry Schweid (1953), Associated Press correspondent
Walter Karp (1955), journalist, historian, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine
Warren Boroson (1957), journalist; editor of Fact Magazine
William E. Burrows (1960), author and journalist; founder of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization
Thomas Lippman (1961), journalist and author specializing in the Middle East, correspondent for The Washington Post
Lars-Erik Nelson (1962), New York Daily News columnist
Allen Young (1962), journalist, author, political activist
Michael Drosnin (1966), journalist and author on the Bible code
Juan Gonzalez (1969), New York Daily News columnist
James Simon Kunen (1970), author of articles for Newsday, People, The New York Times Magazine and the novel The Strawberry Statement
Jeffrey Bruce Klein (1970–71), investigative journalist and co-founder of Mother Jones
John Brecher (1973), American journalist and wine critic for The Wall Street Journal
Michael Wolff (1975), media columnist for New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, author of controversial book Fire and Fury on Donald Trump
D. D. Guttenplan (1978), London correspondent for The Nation
Michael Musto (1978), gossip columnist for The Village Voice
Tim Weiner (1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times specializing in national security matters
Jamal Dajani (197-), broadcast journalist; Peabody Award-winning producer of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East
Barry C. Lynn (197-), American journalist, senior fellow at the New America Foundation
Kevin Baker (1980), freelance journalist and novelist
John Leland (1981), journalist for The New York Times
Ashley Kahn (1983) Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, and producer
Daniel Wattenberg (1983), American journalist for The Washington Times, son of neoconservative pundit Ben J. Wattenberg
N.J. Burkett (1984), award-winning correspondent for WABC-TV
Matthew Cooper (1984), Time magazine White House correspondent and defendant in the Valerie Plame investigation
Tom Watson (1984), journalist, entrepreneur
Thomas Vinciguerra (1985), journalist, editor and author
Naftali Bendavid (1986), Congress correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Rubin (1987), American journalist for The New York Times Magazine, sister of Bloomberg News executive editor James Rubin'82
Aram Roston (1988), American investigative journalist
Edward Lewine (1989), author and freelance journalist
Sam Marchiano (1989), television sportscaster, documentarian and activist, daughter of sportscaster Sal Marchiano
David Streitfeld (1989), book reporter for The Washington Post; winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Caroline Glick (1991), Israeli journalist, editor, writer
Warren St. John (1991), journalist for The New York Times
Jesse Eisinger (1992), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica
Jim Frederick (1993), American author and journalist
Brad Stone (1993), journalist for Bloomberg Business
Anne Kornblut (1994), correspondent for The Washington Post
Joshua Prager (1994), journalist and author who writes on historical secrets
Jodi Kantor (1996), writer and former editor on culture and politics for The New York Times
Nicholas Kulish (1997), Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times and novelist
David Epstein (2002), investigative reporter at ProPublica and author of the New York Times bestseller The Sports Gene
Nick Schifrin (2002), Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent
Jonah Lehrer (2003), former writer for The New Yorker discharged for falsifying quotes
Poppy Harlow (2005), correspondent for CNN
Sarah Maslin Nir (2005), investigative journalist for The New York Times
Nellie Bowles (2010), technology journalist for The New York Times

Pundits

Arnold Beichman (1934), conservative critic
Ralph de Toledano (1938), conservative commentator, editor of National Review and Newsweek
Joseph Kraft (1947), political columnist, speechwriter for John F. Kennedy
Norman Podhoretz (1950), a "father of neoconservatism", editor of Commentary Magazine and author of Making It
Jules Witcover (1951), columnist, The Baltimore Sun
Jeffrey Hart (1952), conservative cultural critic and advisor to the Dartmouth Review
David Horowitz (1959), conservative commentator and activist; author of the Academic Bill of Rights
Herbert London (1960), conservative activist; former professor at New York University and first dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study; former president of conservative think tank Hudson Institute
Lawrence Auster (1971), Traditionalist conservative blogger and essayist
Andrew Levy (1988), conservative commentator and host of Red Eye on Fox News

Sports journalists

Jeremy Gaige (1951), chess archivist and journalist
Paul Zimmerman (1955), football writer for Sports Illustrated known as "Dr. Z"
Robert Lipsyte (1957), sports writer for The New York Times, correspondent for ABC News and host of The Eleventh Hour
Chet Forte (1957), first director of Monday Night Football
Steven Krasner (1975), sports journalist famous for covering the Boston Red Sox for The Providence Journal from 1986 to 2008
Bob Klapisch (1979), sports writer for The Record and Fox Sports
Gary Cohen (1981), television play-by-play announcer for the New York Mets

Legal and judicial figures

Richard Harison (1764), first United States Attorney for the District of New York
Peter van Schaack (1767), American loyalist and attorney
Abraham Van Vechten (178-), two-time New York Attorney General
Anthony Bleecker (1791), lawyer and founding member of the New-York Historical Society
Samuel Jones Jr. (1793), Recorder of New York City; Chancellor of New York; Chief Justice of the New York City Superior Court
Augustus B. Woodward (1793), first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory; one of the founders of the University of Michigan
Thomas Phoenix (1795), New York County District Attorney
Pierre C. Van Wyck (1795), New York County District Attorney; Recorder of New York City
William P. Van Ness (1797), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Sampson Simson (1800), attorney, philanthropist, remembered as the "father of Mount Sinai Hospital"
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1804), son of Alexander Hamilton, attorney, soldier, and member of the New York State Assembly
Hugh Maxwell (1808), New York County District Attorney and Collector of the Port of New York
Matthew C. Paterson (A.M. 1809), New York County District Attorney
Ogden Hoffman (1812), New York State Attorney General (1854–55), U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1841–45), U.S. congressman from New York (1837–41)
Frederic de Peyster (A. M. 1819), New York attorney
Theodore Sedgwick III (1829), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Blatchford (1837), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Ogden Hoffman Jr. (1840), judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Peter B. Sweeny* (1840s), New York County District Attorney in 1858
Alexander McCue (1845), Solicitor of the United States Treasury from 1885 to 1888
Joseph Larocque (1849), attorney; president of the New York City Bar Association
Frederic René Coudert Sr. (1850), lawyer, founder of international law firm Coudert Brothers
Myer J. Newmark* (1850s), youngest city attorney in the history of Los Angeles
Edgar M. Cullen (1860), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Emile Henry Lacombe (1863), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nicholas Fish II (1867), attorney, diplomat, investment banker; son of United States Secretary of State Hamilton Fish
Willard Bartlett (1869), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Thomas C. Bach (1875), judge on the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana
Francis S. Bangs (1878), attorney at Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and McVeigh and trustee of Columbia College
Randolph B. Martine (1885), New York County District Attorney from 1885 to 1887
Benjamin Cardozo (1889), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William Bondy (1890), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Joseph M. Proskauer (1896), lawyer, judge, co-founder of international law firm Proskauer Rose
Arthur Garfield Hays (1902), counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and lawyer in the Scopes Trial
Alexander Holtzoff (1908), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Benjamin Buttenwieser (1919), partner of Kuhn, Loeb, president of the United Jewish Appeal
Alfred Egidio Modarelli (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
George Rosling (1920), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Archie Owen Dawson (1921), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Louis Nizer (1922), legendary trial lawyer
Joseph Carmine Zavatt (1922), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Milton Handler (1923), antitrust expert and Columbia Law School professor
John T. Cahill (1924), U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and founding partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Paul R. Hays (1924), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; wrote majority opinion that found I Am Curious (Yellow) to be not obscene.
Frank Hogan (1924), District Attorney of New York City
George Jaffin (1924), attorney and philanthropist; major patron of Yaacov Agam
Frederick van Pelt Bryan (1925), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jerome L. Greene (1926), lawyer, philanthropist
Murray Gurfein (1926), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, famous for presiding over the Pentagon Papers case
Edmund Louis Palmieri (1926), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Milton Pollack (1927), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Silverman (1928), justice on the New York Supreme Court; partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison who represented J. Robert Oppenheimer and Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
Arthur Krim (1930), partner in Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon and co-chairman of United Artists
Charles Miller Metzner (1931), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Lawrence E. Walsh (1932), independent counsel in the Iran-Contra affair; 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
Harold Leventhal (1934), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Daniel Mortimer Friedman (1937), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; acting Solicitor General of the United States
Wilfred Feinberg (1940), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Hugh H. Bownes (1941), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Richard Kuh (1941), New York County District Attorney and prosecutor of Lenny Bruce for obscenity
Leonard I. Garth (1942), senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Charles L. Brieant (1944), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jack Greenberg (1945), civil rights lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the United States Supreme Court
Roy Cohn (1946), attorney and counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Arthur Lazarus Jr. (1947), American Indian rights lawyer, argued United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians and was involved in the Black Hills Land Claim
Norman Dorsen (1950), professor at the New York University School of Law and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union
Richard H. Stern (1953), attorney and law professor
Clarence Benjamin Jones (1956), attorney and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.
Bernard Nussbaum (1958), White House counsel under Bill Clinton
Ezra G. Levin (1959), lawyer, co-chair of international law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
David G. Trager (1959), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Robert Abrams (1960), Bronx Borough President and New York State Attorney General
José A. Cabranes (1961), judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals; first Puerto Rican to sit in a U.S. District Court; current Trustee of Columbia University
Michael B. Mukasey (1963), Attorney General of the United States; Chief judge (2000–06), judge (1987–2006) of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
David Saxe (1963), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department and former judge on the New York Supreme Court
Barry Kamins (1965), New York City Criminal Court judge and professor at the Fordham University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School
Howard Matz (1965), senior judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Flemming L. Norcott Jr. (1965), former Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Joel Klein (1967), assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
David M. Becker (1968), two-time general counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Nicholas G. Garaufis (1969), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and former chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration
William Barr (1971), Attorney General of the United States
Arthur Helton (1971), lawyer, refugee advocate
Gerard E. Lynch (1972), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Gary Stephen Katzmann (1973), judge on the United States Court of International Trade
Robert Katzmann (1973), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Eric Holder (1973), United States Attorney General under Barack Obama, Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Jonathan Cuneo (1974), American lawyer, founding partner of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
Paul S. Diamond (1974), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Abbe Lowell (1974), partner at Chadbourne & Parke, Chief Minority Counsel during the Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Jeffrey L. Kessler (1975), partner at Winston & Strawn; former Global Litigation Chair at Dewey & LeBoeuf
Vincent L. Briccetti (1976), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. (1978), federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Rolando Acosta (1979), associate justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Frank J. Aquila (1979), American corporate lawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell
Lanny A. Breuer (1980), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Paul Feinman (1981), judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Michael H. Cohen (1983), healthcare law attorney, professor at Harvard Medical School
Miguel Estrada (1983), controversial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Gary Richard Brown (1985), Magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Victor Allen Bolden (1986), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Neil Gorsuch (1988), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Military leaders

Rudolphus Ritzema (1758), officer during the American Revolutionary War
Edward Antill (1762), colonel and military engineer of the Continental Army who fought in the Battle of Quebec
Nicholas Fish (177-), American Revolutionary War officer
John Doughty (1770), served as Commanding General of the United States Army in 1784
Stephen Lush (1770), American Revolutionary War officer
Robert Troup (1774), soldier, lawyer, jurist, roommate of Alexander Hamilton at King's College
Samuel Auchmuty (1775), British general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and commander of the Madras Army
Marinus Willett (1776), colonel of the Continental Army, leader of the Sons of Liberty and 48th Mayor of New York City
John Chrystie (1806), Colonel of the United States Army during the War of 1812
Stephen Kearny* (1812), Conqueror of California in the Mexican–American War
Charles Wilkes (1818), leader of the United States Exploring Expedition to survey the Pacific Ocean; instigator of the Trent Affair during the American Civil War
Philip Kearny (1833), United States Army officer
Henry M. Judah* (1840), United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
John Watts de Peyster* (1840), Civil War general, military critic and historian
Edward E. Potter (1842), officer during the American Civil War
Augustus van Horne Ellis* (1844), Civil War general
Henry Eugene Davies (1857), Civil War general
Alfred Thayer Mahan* (1858), president, U.S. Naval War College and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Hamilton Fish II (1895), first American killed in the Spanish–American War
Ulysses S. Grant III* (1902), grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, entered with the class of 1902 but transferred to United States Military Academy
John H. Hilldring* (1916), United States Major General and former Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas
John F. "Jack" Hasey (1940), American captain in the French Foreign Legion; recipient of the Order of Liberation

Musicians, composers, and lyricists

Roy Webb (1910), composer for Notorious and Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Richard Hale (1914), opera and concert singer; narrator, Peter and the Wolf
Oscar Hammerstein II (1916), lyricist for Show Boat, Oklahoma! and The King and I, among other Broadway musical hits
Howard Dietz (1917), director of publicity for MGM and lyricist for "Dancing in the Dark"
Lorenz Hart (1918), lyricist for Pal Joey and other Broadway musical hits
Richard Rodgers* (1923), composer and collaborator with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II; wrote music for Carousel, The Sound of Music, and Victory at Sea, among many others
Elie Siegmeister (1927), composer, music teacher, writer on music
Richard Franko Goldman (1930), composer, music professor, president of the Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977
Milton Katims (1930), conductor, music director of the Seattle Symphony from 1954 to 1976
Mordecai Bauman (1935), American baritone
Emerson Buckley (1936), conductor, The Crucible, The Ballad of Baby Doe; director of the Florida Grand Opera from 1950 to 1973
Eddie Sauter (1936), jazz musician
Elliott Schwartz (1936), American composer and professor emeritus of Bowdoin College
John La Touche* (1937), lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden Apple
Leonard B. Meyer (1940), composer, author, philosopher known for his contributions to the Aesthetic theory of music
Orrin Keepnews (1943), jazz record producer and winner of the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and Best Historical Album.
Mort Lindsey (1944), musical director for Judy Garland and Merv Griffin
Dick Hyman (1948), musical director for Arthur Godfrey; composer or arranger for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Purple Rose of Cairo; Emmy Award winner
Eric Salzman (1954), composer, producer, critic; founder of the American Music Theater Festival and composer-in-residence of the Center for Contemporary Opera
Malcolm Frager (1955), American piano virtuoso
Mike Berniker (1957), American musical producer and winner of nine Grammy Awards
John Corigliano (1959), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music and Academy Award for Best Original Score
Edward Kleban (1959), lyricist for A Chorus Line
Charles Wuorinen (1961), serialist composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Time's Encomium
Joel Krosnick (1963), chamber musician and member of the Juilliard String Quartet
Art Garfunkel (1965), singer of Simon and Garfunkel, famous for the song The Sound of Silence
Kenneth Ascher (1966), Academy Award-nominated jazz pianist; writer of Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie
David Schiff (1967, composer
Tom Werman (1967), former record producer for Epic Records
Billy Cross (1968), American guitarist, singer, and producer who lives in Denmark
Jon Bauman (1969), "Bowzer" of Sha Na Na
James "Plunky" Branch (1969), jazz musician
Cameron Brown (1969), jazz bassist
Emanuel Ax (1970), concert pianist
Marc Copland (1970), jazz pianist and composer
Frederick "Dennis" Greene (1971), member of Sha Na Na; professor of law at the University of Dayton
Armen Donelian (1972), jazz pianist
Jocko Marcellino (1972), member of Sha Na Na
Phil Schaap (1972), Charlie Parker authority and multiple Grammy Award winner for engineering, production, and album notes
Sam Morrison (1973), saxophonist
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro (1973), American composer and conductor
Richard Einhorn (1975), American composer, Voices of Light
Phil Kline (1975), American composer
Paul Phillips (1978), conductor, composer, and music scholar at Brown University
Erik Friedlander (1982), American cellist, son of American photographer Lee Friedlander
Dave Nachmanoff (1986), award-winning American folk singer and sideman to Al Stewart
John Bohlinger (1988), musician and music director on NBC program Nashville Star
Laura Cantrell (1989), country musician
Peter J. Nash (1989), member of 3rd Bass
Gil Shaham (1993), violinist
Jefferson Friedman (1996), American composer
Tom Kitt (1996), American composer, co-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Original Score for his score of the musical Next to Normal
R. Luke DuBois (1997), composer and artist
Lauryn Hill* (1997), Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and songwriter, and member of The Fugees
Sean Lennon* (1997), singer and songwriter, and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Orli Shaham (1997), pianist
The Two Man Gentlemen Band, modern musical duo that consists of Fuller Condon (2000) and Andy Bean (2001)
Utada Hikaru* (2000), Japanese pop star
Alicia Keys* (2001), Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and songwriter
Brian Weitz (2001), founding member of experimental band Animal Collective
Ariana Ghez (2003), oboist
Nico Muhly (2003), American contemporary classical music composer
Alisa Weilerstein (2004), American cellist and 2011 MacArthur Fellow
Peter Cincotti (2005), pianist
Patrick Higgins (2006) - composer, musician, producer
Michael Barimo (2006), pop singer and whistler
Rostam Batmanglij (2006), member of alt-rock band, Vampire Weekend
Ezra Koenig (2006), member of alt-rock band, Vampire Weekend
Chris Tomson (2006), member of alt-rock band, Vampire Weekend
Chris Baio (2007), member of alt-rock band, Vampire Weekend
Danny Mercer (2013), singer, songwriter and producer
Nathan Chan (2014), cellist
Conrad Tao (2015), composer, pianist, violinist

Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors

Henry Churchill de Mille (1875), playwright and Georgist; father of film pioneers Cecil B. DeMille and William C. deMille
William C. deMille (1900), screenwriter, director, playwright; second president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; co-founder of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
Edgar Allan Woolf (1901), screenwriter, The Wizard of Oz
George Middleton (1902), playwright and president of the Dramatists Guild of America
Herman Mankiewicz (1917), drama critic for The New Yorker and co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane
Morrie Ryskind* (1917), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with George S. Kaufman for Of Thee I Sing and co-writer of The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, and A Night at the Opera
Sam Spewack (1919), winner of the Tony Award for the book of Kiss Me, Kate
Sidney Buchman (1923), screenwriter for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Guy Endore (1923), screenwriter for The Story of G.I. Joe
Alvah Bessie (1924), screenwriter for Objective, Burma! and one of the Hollywood Ten
Ferrin Fraser (1927), radio scriptwriter for Little Orphan Annie and Frank Buck
Joseph Mankiewicz (1928), Academy Award-winning writer and director of All About Eve and A Letter to Three Wives
Frank S. Nugent (1929), screenwriter for Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and The Quiet Man
Robert F. Blumofe (1930), producer of Bound for Glory, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Ben Maddow (1930), screenwriter for The Asphalt Jungle, God's Little Acre and The Mephisto Waltz
Albert Maltz (1930), screenwriter for Destination Tokyo and one of the Hollywood Ten
Arnold M. Auerbach (1932), Primetime Emmy Award-winning American comedy writer
William Ludwig (1932), Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Interrupted Melody
Martin Manulis (1935), CBS television and movie producer, Days of Wine and Roses, The Best of Broadway, Climax!, Suspense; creator of Playhouse 90; former president of 20th Century Fox Television
Charles H. Schneer (1940), film producer known for his collaboration with Ray Harryhausen
I.A.L. Diamond (1941), screenwriting partner of Billy Wilder; co-author of Some Like It Hot; co-winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Apartment
Don M. Mankiewicz (1942), television and film writer; Academy Award nominee for I Want to Live!
Steve Krantz (1943), screenwriter and film producer, Fritz the Cat
Ernest Kinoy (1947), television writer of Murrow, Roots, and Victory at Entebbe
William Kronick (1955), American film and television writer, director and producer
Doran William Cannon (1959), screenwriter of Skidoo and Brewster McCloud
Terrence McNally (1960), Tony Award-winning playwright; author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime (musical)
Michael Kahn (1961), Artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
Brian De Palma (1962), director of Scarface, The Untouchables and Carrie
Christopher Trumbo (1964), screenwriter, The Don Is Dead ; son of noted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
Arthur Albert (1969), American cinematographer and television director
Glenn Switkes (1972), director and environmentalist
Jim Jarmusch (1975), writer/director of the Coffee and Cigarettes series
Bill Condon (1976), winner of the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Gods and Monsters, director of Kinsey and Dreamgirls
Ric Burns (1978), documentary filmmaker, New York: A Documentary Film, The Civil War
Tony Kushner (1978), Academy Award-nominated screenwriter; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Angels in America
Michael Lehmann (1978), director of Heathers, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Hudson Hawk
Ron Simons (1982), producer, four-time Tony Award winner
P. J. Pesce (1983), co-creator of The Adventures of Chico and Guapo, director of From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Lodge Kerrigan (1985), American motion picture screenwriter and director of Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Scott McGehee (1985), director of Uncertainty
Katharina Otto-Bernstein (1986), filmmaker, producer, screenwriter who was nominated for an Emmy Award for producing Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures; president of Film Manufacturers Inc.; daughter of German Industrialist Werner Otto, heir to the Otto GmbH fortune
Cecily Rhett (1987), film editor, Stranger Inside
Garth Stein (1987), Academy Award-winning producer, The Lunch Date
Dan Futterman (1989), two-time Academy Award nominee for writing Capote and Foxcatcher
Jessica Bendinger (1988), writer of Bring it On and for Sex and the City
Andrew W. Marlowe (1988), creator of Castle; writer of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man
Lawrence Trilling (1988), executive producer of Parenthood
Dede Gardner (1990), Academy Award-winning producer of 12 Years a Slave; president of Plan B Entertainment
Jenji Kohan (1991), television writer, producer, creator of Orange Is the New Black and Weeds
Ari Gold (1992), filmmaker, director of Adventures of Power
Brian Yorkey (1993), American playwright, co-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the musical Next to Normal
Tim Carvell (1995), head writer of The Daily Show and executive producer of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Henry Alex Rubin (1995), Academy Award-nominated director, Murderball
Ramin Bahrani (1996), writer-director of Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Fahrenheit 451
Moira Demos (1996), American filmmaker who produced famous Netflix documentary Making a Murderer
Yana Gorskaya (1996), Academy Award-nominated film editor, Spellbound
Cetywa Powell (1996), American director and fine art photographer
Beau Willimon (1999), creator and producer of House of Cards and writer of the play Farragut North
Ned Benson (2001), director, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Dan Harris (2001), Saturn Award-winning American screenwriter, X2, Superman Returns; director, Imaginary Heroes
Andrew Neel (2001), American filmmaker, director of King Kelly, Goat
Anna Boden (2002), co-writer of Half Nelson and director of Sugar, Captain Marvel
Tze Chun (2002), award-winning director, Children of Invention
Katori Hall (2003), American playwright, The Mountaintop
Graham Moore (2003), winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his screenplay of The Imitation Game
Lucia Aniello (2004), director of Rough Night and Time Traveling Bong
Meera Menon (2006), Indian American director, Equity
Jason Fuchs (2009), American actor and screenwriter, Pan (2015 film), Ice Age: Continental Drift
Sabaah Folayan (2013), director of documentary Whose Streets?

Political and diplomatic figures

United States political and diplomatic figures

Philip Van Cortlandt (1758), soldier, statesman, United States Congressman from New York
Anthony Hoffman (1760), member of the New York State Senate
Gilbert Livingston (1760), member of the New York Provincial Congress
Gulian Verplanck (1768), Speaker of the New York State Assembly and president of the Bank of New York from 1791 to 1799
Philip Pell (1770), delegate for New York to the Congress of the Confederation
Richard Varick (King's 1776), Mayor of New York City and American Revolutionary War figure; aide-de-camp of Benedict Arnold and private secretary of George Washington
David A. Ogden (178-), United States Congressman from New York
DeWitt Clinton (1786), Governor of New York who initiated the construction of the Erie Canal; also served as United States Senator from New York
James Cochran (1788), United States Congressman from New York
Daniel C. Verplanck (1788), United States Congressman from New York
John Peter Van Ness (1789), United States Congressman from New York and mayor of Washington, D.C.
George Graham (1790), acting U.S. Secretary of War under James Madison and James Monroe; Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1823 to 1830
John Graham (1790), secretary of the Orleans Territory; U.S. Minister to Portugal; acting United States Secretary of State in 1817
Jotham Post Jr. (1792), United States Congressman from New York
John Randolph of Roanoke* (1792), planter, United States Congressman from Virginia, United States Senate from Virginia, United States Ambassador to Russia; founder of the American Colonization Society
George Clinton Jr. (1793), brother of DeWitt Clinton, and United States Congressman from New York
George Izard* (1793), general, politician; second Governor of the Territory of Arkansas
James Parker (1793), United States Congressman from New Jersey
Peter A. Jay (1794), son of Chief Justice John Jay; member of New York State Assembly and Recorder of New York City
Cyrus King (1794), United States Congressman from Massachusetts
John Ferguson (1795), Mayor of New York City
Daniel D. Tompkins (1795), Vice President of the United States; Governor of New York
Rensselaer Westerlo (1795), United States Congressman from New York
Edward Philip Livingston (1796), member of the New York State Senate, great-great-grandfather of Eleanor Roosevelt
Rudolph Bunner (1798), United States Congressman from New York
John M. Bowers (180-), United States Congressman from New York
Gulian C. Verplanck (1801), United States Congressman from New York and chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means
Gouverneur Kemble (1803), United States Congressman from New York and founder of the West Point Foundry
John L. Lawrence (1803), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Alpheus Sherman (1803), member of the New York State Senate
James Alexander Hamilton (1805), son of Alexander Hamilton, soldier, acting United States Secretary of State under president Andrew Jackson, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1829 to 1834
Edmund H. Pendleton (1805), United States Congressman from New York, great-nephew of Edmund Pendleton, first Chief Justice of Virginia
Samuel B. Romaine (1806), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
Henry H. Ross (1808), United States Congressman from New York
Peter Dumont Vroom (1808), U.S. Minister to Prussia and Governor of New Jersey
John Fine (1809), United States Congressman from New York
John Slidell (1810), Confederate minister to France and a central figure of the Trent Affair during the American Civil War; United States Senator from Louisiana
Charles G. Ferris (1811), United States Congressman from New York
Nathanael G. Pendleton (1813), United States Congressman from Ohio
James I. Roosevelt (1815), United States Congressman from New York; brother of Cornelius Roosevelt
William Beach Lawrence (1818), U.S. chargé d'affaires for Great Britain and acting governor of Rhode Island
William F. Havemeyer (1823), three-time Mayor of New York City
William Duer (1824), United States Congressman from New York
John McKeon (1825): U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York; United States Congressman from New York
Hamilton Fish (1827), US Secretary of State; Governor of New York; United States Senator from New York
John Henry Hobart Haws (1827), United States Congressman from New York
John D. Van Buren (1829), member of New York State Assembly
Henry Ledyard (1830), Mayor of Detroit; president of Newport Hospital
Henry Nicoll (1830), United States Congressman from New York
Henry C. Murphy (1830), United States Congressman from New York; former United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
John L. O'Sullivan (1831), US Minister to Portugal; journalist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"; publisher of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
James William Beekman (1834), member of the New York State Senate; vice-president of the New York Hospital
Isaac C. Delaplaine (1834), United States Congressman from New York
John Richardson Thurman (1835), United States Congressman from New York
John Jay (1836), grandson of Chief Justice John Jay; United States Minister to Austro-Hungary; president of the American Historical Association
John Vanderbilt (1837), judge, member of the New York State Senate
William Ward Duffield (1841), officer, member of the Michigan Senate, superintendent of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1842), Mayor of New York City and planner of the first line of the New York City Subway system; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1877, son in law of philanthropist Peter Cooper
Nicholas B. La Bau (1844), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
John Winthrop Chanler (1847), United States Congressman from New York
Horace Carpentier (1848), first mayor of Oakland, California and president of the Overland Telegraph Company
A. Bleecker Banks* (185-), Mayor of Albany, New York; member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Galen A. Carter (1850), member of the Connecticut Senate
Stewart L. Woodford (1854), Lieutenant Governor of New York and U.S. Minister to Spain
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1858), United States Congressman from New Jersey
George Lockhart Rives (1868), United States Assistant Secretary of State and chairman of the Columbia trustees
Hamilton Fish II (1869), Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman
Thomas C. E. Ecclesine (1870), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Seth Low (1870), Mayor of New York City and president of Columbia University
Oscar Solomon Straus (1871), first Jewish U.S. Cabinet secretary, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor under Theodore Roosevelt, and U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, first president of the American Jewish Historical Society
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1871), first Mayor of New York City to preside over all five boroughs
Robert Ray Hamilton (1872), member of New York State Assembly, great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton
P. Henry Dugro (1876), United States Congressman from New York
Benjamin Barker Odell Jr.* (1877), Governor of New York; United States Congressman from New York
Thomas G. Patten (1879), United States Congressman from New York
Thomas F. Magner (1882), United States Congressman from New York
Thomas Ewing III (1883), 33rd commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Herbert L. Satterlee (1883), Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909
William Sulzer (1884), Governor of New York
J. Mayhew Wainwright (1884), U.S. Congressman and Assistant Secretary of War
Charles Henry Turner (1888), United States Congressman from New York; Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1893
James W. Gerard (1890), United States Ambassador to Germany
Victor M. Allen (1892), member of the New York State Senate
John F. Carew (1893), United States Congressman from New York
Harvey R. Kingsley (1893), President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate
Edward Lazansky (1895), Secretary of State of New York
John Purroy Mitchel (1899), Mayor of New York City
Charles H. Tuttle (1899), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and 1930 Republican nominee for Governor of New York
Henry W. Shoemaker (1901), folklorist, historian, diplomat; United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1930 to 1933
Martin C. Ansorge (1903), United States Congressman from New York
Stanley M. Isaacs (1903), Manhattan Borough president from 1938 to 1942
Allen J. Bloomfield (1094), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Fred Biermann (1905), United States Congressman from Iowa
John Collier (1906), U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (1907), United States Senator from Wyoming
James W. Mott (1909), United States Congressman from Oregon
Emanuel Celler (1910), 39th Dean of the United States House of Representatives; United States Congressman from New York
William Langer (1910), United States Senator and Governor of North Dakota
Laurence Steinhardt (1913), former United States Ambassador to Sweden, Peru, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia and Canada; the first United States Ambassador to be killed in office.
Samuel Irving Rosenman (1915), 1st White House Counsel to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
Frederic René Coudert Jr. (1918), United States Congressman from New York
Harold F. Linder (191-), president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968; former United States Ambassador to Canada
Arthur Levitt Sr. (1921), longest-serving New York State Comptroller; father of Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Joseph Campbell (1924), fourth Comptroller General of the United States
Arthur F. Burns (1925), Chairman of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany
Bernard M. Shanley (1925), White House Counsel from 1953 to 1955; Secretary to the President of the United States under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1955 to 1957
Wolf Ladejinsky (1928), American agricultural economist and researcher and key adviser on land reform in Asian countries
James Hagerty (1934), White House Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961
Faubion Bowers* (1935), General Douglas MacArthur's interpreter and Aide-de-camp during the Allied Occupation of Japan
Hunter Meighan (1935), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Arthur R. Albohn (1942), member of the New Jersey General Assembly
David E. Mark (1943), former United States Ambassador to Burundi
Christian H. Armbruster (1944), member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
Harold Brown (1945), U.S. Secretary of Defense and president of the California Institute of Technology
Albert Burstein (1947), Democratic Party politician and former Majority leader of the New Jersey General Assembly
Edward N. Costikyan (1947), Democratic Party politician and reformer who oversaw the dismantling of Tammany Hall; partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Monteagle Stearns (1948), former United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast and United States Ambassador to Greece
James D. Theberge (1952), former United States Ambassador to Chile and United States Ambassador to Nicaragua
Richard E. Benedick (1955), president of the National Council for Science and the Environment, chief United States negotiator to the Montreal Protocol
Morton Halperin (1958), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, and member of Richard Nixon's Enemies List
Pat Mullins (1959), Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia
Constantine Menges (1960), national security aide to Ronald Reagan
Jeff Bell (1965), Republican nominee for United States Senate from New Jersey in 1978, 1982, and in 2014
Raymond Burghardt (1967), chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
Dick Morris (1967), political strategist and advisor to President Bill Clinton and Mexican President Felipe Calderón
Mark C. Minton (1967), former U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, and current president of the Korea Society
Robert Delahunty (1968), Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Homeland Security from 2002 to 2003; professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law
Judd Gregg (1969), United States Senator from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; United States Congressman
Jerrold Nadler (1969), United States Congressman from New York
Dov Zakheim (1970), Under Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2004; advisor to the US Presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush
Eric D. Coleman (1973), member of the Connecticut Senate
Frank Dermody (1973), Democratic leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Donald Yamamoto (1975), former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Howard W. Gutman (1977), United States Ambassador to Belgium
David Paterson (1977), first African American Governor of New York
Karl Dean (1978), mayor of Nashville
Christopher Dell (1978), career diplomat; former US ambassador to Zimbabwe
Jim McGreevey (1978), Governor of New Jersey
Andres Alonso (1979), former CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools
Randal Quarles (1981), 15th Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; partner at The Carlyle Group
Andrew C. McCarthy (1981), Assistant United States Attorney and columnist for National Review
Charles J. O'Byrne (1981), Secretary to the Governor of New York
Michael Waldman (1982), speechwriter for president Clinton; president of the Brennan Center for Justice
John Solecki (1982), U.S. official for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, kidnapped in Pakistan by the Balochistan Liberation United Front in 2009
Barack Obama (1983), 44th President of the United States and first African American to hold the office; former Senator from Illinois; winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Victor Cha (1983), foreign policy expert; President Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs
Jay Lefkowitz (1984), George W. Bush's special envoy for Human rights in North Korea
Steven Waldman (1984), senior advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and founder of Beliefnet
Julius Genachowski (1985) Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Daniel Lewis Foote (1986), United States Ambassador to Zambia
David M. Friedman (1987), current United States Ambassador to Israel
Matt Gonzalez (1987), Green Party San Francisco mayoral candidate and independent 2008 candidate for vice president running with Ralph Nader
Julie Menin (1989), former chairperson of Manhattan Community Board 1 and current commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
Robert Karem (1990s), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and former acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Dave Hunt (1990), 65th Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and majority leader from 2007 to 2009
Michael Leiter (1991), Principal Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Melissa Mark-Viverito (1991), Speaker of the New York City Council
Benjamin Lawsky (1992), attorney and New York City's first Superintendent of Financial Services
Eric Garcetti (1992), member of the Los Angeles City Council and current Mayor of Los Angeles
Matt Brown (1993), Secretary of State of Rhode Island from 2003 to 2007; co-founder of non-partisan group Global Zero
Frank Scaturro (1994), lawyer, public advocate who spearheaded the restoration of Grant's Tomb; Republican candidate for New York's 4th congressional district
Beto O'Rourke (1995), United States Congressman for Texas's 16th congressional district
Jay Carson (1999), executive director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; former press secretary for Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean's presidential campaigns
George Demos (1999), former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prosecutor and Republican candidate for New York's 1st congressional district
David Segal (2001), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Robby Mook (2002), political campaign strategist and campaign manager for Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, former executive director of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; campaign manager for Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
Sam Arora (2003), member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2015
Cyrus Habib (2003), Lieutenant Governor of Washington, first and only Iranian American elected to a state office in the United States

Foreign political and diplomatic figures

Henry Cruger* (1758), member of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1774 to 1790 and the New York State Senate
Isaac Wilkins (1760), judge, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Thomas Henry Barclay (1772), United Empire Loyalist; member of the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
William Sanford Evans (1895), Manitoba politician, Mayor of Winnipeg from 1909 to 1911
Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1906), founder and president of the African National Congress
Wellington Koo (1909), President of the Republic of China and China's ambassador to the United States; Chinese delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and the League of Nations; judge on the International Court of Justice from 1957 to 1967
Mario Laserna Pinzón (1948), Colombian diplomat and educator; founded the Universidad de Los Andes
Uldis-Ivars Grava (1958), Latvian parliamentarian, former director of Latvijas Televīzija and chairman of American Latvian Association
Johan Jorgen Holst (1960), Norwegian Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs; heavily involved with the Oslo Accords
Yossi Alpher (1964), former Mossad officer and director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University
Perezi Kamunanwire (19--), former ambassador of the Republic of Uganda to the United States and Germany; permanent representative at the United Nations
Dore Gold (1975), Israeli political advisor and diplomat; former ambassador to the United States
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1975), President of Estonia
Michael Oren (1977), Israeli historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States

Publishers

Alfred Harcourt (1904) and Donald Brace (1904), founders of Harcourt Brace
Alfred A. Knopf (1912), founder and chairman of Alfred A. Knopf
George T. Delacorte Jr. (1913), founder of Dell Publishing
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1913), publisher of The New York Times
Douglas Black (1916), president of Doubleday and Company
Bennett Cerf (1920), founder of Random House
Donald S. Klopfer* (1922), founder of Random House
Richard L. Simon (1920) and Max Lincoln Schuster (1919), co-founders of Simon & Schuster
Elliott V. Bell (1925), former editor and publisher of Businessweek
Robert Giroux (1936), chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ian Ballantine (1938), founder of Ballantine Books
Walter B. Pitkin Jr. (1938), editor-in-chief and executive vice president of Bantam Books
William D. Carey (1940), executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and publisher of Science from 1975 to 1987
Jason Epstein (1949), editorial director of Random House and co-founder of the New York Review of Books
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1951), publisher of The New York Times
Peter Mayer (1956), publisher of Overlook Press and former CEO of Penguin Books
Daniel Leab (1957), historian, antiquarian and publisher book catalogues
Donald Welsh (1965), founding publisher of outdoors magazine Outside
Louis Rossetto (1971), founder and publisher of Wired magazine
David Rothkopf (1977), CEO and editor of Foreign Policy magazine
John R. MacArthur (1978), president and publisher of Harper's magazine

Religious figures

Samuel Provoost (1758), third Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church
John Beardsley (1761), Church of England clergyman in Canada; chaplain of the Loyal American Regiment
Benjamin Moore (King's 1768), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and president of Columbia College
Philip Frederick Mayer (1799), Lutheran clergyman; founder of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, the first of its kind in the United States
Henry Onderdonk (1805), second Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania
Jackson Kemper (1809), first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (1809), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Richard Fish Cadle (1813), Episcopalian priest and first superior of Nashotah House
Manton Eastburn (1817), fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Henry John Whitehouse (1821), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
George Washington Bethune* (1823), theologian and preacher
John Chester Backus* (1830), American Presbyterian minister
Morgan Dix (1848), priest, theologian, rector of Trinity Church
William Edmond Armitage (1849), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
George Franklin Seymour (1850), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield
James DeKoven (1851), leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Episcopal Church
Marvin Vincent (1854), Presbyterian minister and professor at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Daniel S. Tuttle (1857), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, Montana, and Utah
William David Walker (1859), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota
Henry Y. Satterlee (1863), first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington; established the Washington National Cathedral
Bernard Drachman (1882), leader of Orthodox Judaism; former president of the Orthodox Union
Herbert Shipman (1890), Suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Stephen Samuel Wise (1892), rabbi and Zionist leader
Frederick Herbert Sill (1895), Anglican monk and founder of the Kent School
Henry S. Whitehead (1904), rector, and author of horror fiction ^[4]
Arthur Lelyveld (1933), rabbi, president of the American Jewish Congress and first Jewish editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator
Moshe Davis (1936), rabbi and founder of Camp Ramah
Thomas Merton (1938), Trappist monk, writer, humanist; author of The Seven Storey Mountain
Robert Farrar Capon (1946), Episcopal priest and author
Haskel Lookstein (1953), Modern Orthodox Rabbi; spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and principal of Ramaz School since 1966
Harold Kushner (1955), rabbi and writer
Adi Da (1961), born Franklin Albert Jones, American spiritual teacher; founder of a new religious movement, Adidam
Michael Lerner (1964), liberal rabbi and editor of Tikkun magazine
Elliot N. Dorff (1965), conservative rabbi, chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
Alan Senauke (1969), Soto Zen priest, folk musician, and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center; former director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Taigen Dan Leighton (1971), Soto Zen priest and teacher, academic at the Institute of Buddhist Studies
C. John McCloskey (1975), Catholic priest who helped prominent figures convert to Catholicism, including Newt Gingrich, Bernard Nathanson, Sam Brownback, and Lawrence Kudlow
Sharon Brous (1995), first woman to be named most influential rabbi by Newsweek

Scientists and inventors

Samuel Bard* (1763), personal physician to George Washington; founder of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
John Stevens (King's 1768), builder of the first oceangoing steamboat in the United States
Nicholas Romayne* (1774), physician, president of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
David Hosack (1790), physician, botanist, educator
John Eatton Le Conte (1800), American naturalist ^[5]
Valentine Mott (1806), American surgeon pioneer
James Renwick (1807), English-American scientist and engineer, professor of Natural philosophy at Columbia University; father of architect James Renwick Jr.
John Brodhead Beck (1813), New York physician
Henry James Anderson (1818), scientist and educator who participated in the U.S. Dead Sea exploration expedition
Alfred Charles Post (1822), American surgeon, professor at New York University School of MedicineS
Horatio Allen (1823), imported the Stourbridge Lion, first successful steam locomotive to run in the United States
Alfred W. Craven (1829), chief engineering of Croton Aqueduct; founding member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Edward S. Renwick (1839), mechanical engineer, patent expert
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (1841), chemist, president of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Ogden Doremus* (1842), chemist and physician
Cornelius Rea Agnew (1849), physician who helped founding the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Henry Carrington Bolton (1862), chemist and bibliographer of science
Stuyvesant Fish Morris (1863), American physician, nephew of Hamilton Fish '27
Rudolph August Witthaus (1867), American toxicologist
Frederick Remsen Hutton (1873), engineer, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sylvanus Albert Reed (1874), aerospace engineer who developed the modern metal aircraft propeller, for which won the 1925 Collier Trophy
William Hallock (1879), American physicist, professor at Columbia University
William Barclay Parsons (1879), chief engineer of the first line of the New York City Subway system, founder of multinational engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff
Michael I. Pupin (1879), physicist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography
Henry Crampton (1893), American evolutionary biologist
Harold Jacoby (1894), astronomer and professor at Columbia University
John Duer Irving (1896), geologist, professor at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University
Hans Zinsser (1899), American physician, bacteriologist, prolific author
Marston T. Bogert (1890), former president of the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry
William King Gregory (1900), American zoologist, primatologist, paleontologist
Reuben Ottenberg (1902), physician and haematologist
Irving Langmuir (1903), winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Calvin Kendall (1906), winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Grover Loening (1908), American aircraft manufacturer, founder of Loening Aeronautical Engineering; developed the Loening Model 23 which won the 1921 Collier Trophy
Michael Heidelberger (1909), immunologist, "father of modern immunology"
Hermann Joseph Muller (1910), geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ralph Randles Stewart (1911), botanist and founder of the National Herbarium, Islamabad
Ludlow Griscom (1912), pioneer in field ornithology
John Howard Northrop (1912), winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Calvin Bridges (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan known for his contribution to genetics
Alfred Sturtevant (1912), geneticist, protege of Thomas Hunt Morgan and winner of the National Medal of Science
James Chapin (1916), American ornithologist; 17th president of The Explorers Club
Harold Alexander Abramson (1919), early advocate of Psychedelic therapy
Augustus Braun Kinzel (1919), metallurgist and first president of the National Academy of Engineering
Konrad Lorenz* (1926), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Streitwieser (1927), American chemist known for his contributions to Physical organic chemistry
Harold Charles Bold (1929), American botanist
Theodore Lidz (1930), Sterling Professor of psychiatry at Yale; expert on Schizophrenia
Leo Rangell (1933), psychoanalyst; president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association
Emanuel Papper (1935), anesthesiologist, dean of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine from 1969 to 1981
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1935), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Marshak (1936), president of the American Physical Society and president of the City College of New York
Julian Schwinger (1936), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics; posited the Schwinger effect
Barry Commoner (1937), leading American environmentalist, former editor of Science Illustrated magazine
Victor Wouk (1939), pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles
Jeremiah Stamler (1940), epidemiologist, expert in the field of preventive cardiology, professor emeritus at Northwestern University
Leon Davidson (1942), chemical engineer known for his work in the Manhattan Project and the study of Unidentified Flying Objects
Karl Koopman (1943), chiropterologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History
Seymour Jonathan Singer (1943), cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego
Arnold Cooper (1944), psychoanalyst; professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Robert Jastrow (1944), astronomer, founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and conservative think tank George C. Marshall Institute
Joshua Lederberg (1944), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Alfred P. Wolf (1944), nuclear and organic chemist; research professor at New York University
Paul Marks (1945), geneticist, president emeritus of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation
Jack Oliver (1945), professor of seismology at Columbia University and Cornell University
Albert Starr (1946), noted cardiovascular surgeon, winner of the 2007 Lasker Award
Arthur Ashkin (1947), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018
Robert A. Frosch (1947), fifth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Frank I. Marcus (1948), American cardiologist and professor at University of Arizona Medical Center
Robert Neil Butler (1949), president of the International Longevity Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Benjamin Widom (1949), professor of chemistry at Cornell University; recipient of the Boltzmann Medal in 1998
Gerald Weissmann (1950), cell biologist, liposome inventor, essayist
Leon Cooper (1951), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972
Richard A. Gardner (1952), psychiatrist known for researching Parental alienation syndrome
William Carl Burger (1953), botanist, curator at the Field Museum of Natural History
Gerald Feinberg (1953), physicist who coined the term "tachyon"
Nicholas P. Samios (1953), former director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Melvin Schwartz (1953), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988
Wallace Smith Broecker (1953), professor of environmental science at Columbia University, developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking ocean circulation
Richard K. Bernstein (1954), physician and advocate for Low-carbohydrate diet
Henry Buchwald (1954), professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at University of Minnesota
Neil D. Opdyke (1955), geologist
Alvin F. Poussaint (1956), professor of psychiatry and dean of freshmen at the Harvard Medical School
Sheldon Saul Hendler (1957), American scientist, physician, and musician
Ralph Feigin (1958), American pediatrician; former president and CEO of Baylor College of Medicine and physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital
Roald Hoffman (1958), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Norbert Hirschhorn (1958), American public health physician and developed the Oral rehydration therapy
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1958), physicist at the College of William & Mary
Joseph L. Fleiss (1959), professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Michael Lesch (1960), physician and medical educator who identified the Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
Ira Black (1961), American physician and neuroscientist, advocate of Stem cell research; former president of Society for Neuroscience
Kenneth C. Edelin (1961), American physician known for his support of abortion rights and former chairman of Planned Parenthood
Eugene Milone (1961), astronomer, professor at the University of Calgary
Robert Pollack (1961), American biologist who studies the intersections between science and religion
Charles Cantor (1962), molecular geneticist; chief science officer at Sequenom
Robert Lefkowitz (1962), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Allen Neuringer (1962), American psychologist, prominent in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior
Farhad Ardalan (1963), Iranian High Energy physicist and professor at Sharif University and the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.
Harvey Cantor (1963), American immunologist, professor of microbiology & immunobiology at Harvard Medical School
David B. Cohen (1963), psychologist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin
Richard Waldinger (1963), computer scientist, fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Allan Blaer (1964), American physicist and professor who is in charge of the Columbia University Science Honors Program
Richard A. Muller (1964), professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley; winner of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1982 and the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1978; founder of climate science institute Berkeley Earth
Norman Christ (1965), physicist, professor at Columbia University
Niles Eldredge (1965), collaborator of Stephen Jay Gould and curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History
Stuart Newman (1965), developmental and evolutionary biologist
Allen Steere (1965), rheumatologist and pioneering investigator of Lyme Disease
Peter Gray (1966), American psychologist; professor at Boston College
Brian Weiss (1966), psychiatrist noted for his research on reincarnation and past life regression
Richard Axel (1967), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying the operations of the olfactory system
Sidney R. Nagel (1969), University of Chicago physicist specializing in the complex physics of everyday materials
Thomas B. Kornberg (1970), American biochemist who was the first to purify and characterize DNA polymerase II and DNA polymerase III
Paul S. Appelbaum (1972), psychiatrist credited with conceptualizing the idea of therapeutic misconception
Steven M. Bellovin (1972), professor of computer science at Columbia University and chief technologist of Federal Trade Commission
Stephen M. Barr (1974), author and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware
Mark G. Lebwohl (1974), American dermatologist and president of the American Academy of Dermatology
Steven Kahn (1975), astrophysicist, professor st Stanford University and director of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
George Yancopoulos (1980), American biomedical scientist and CSO of Regeneron
Carl Haber (1980), physicist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2013
Jonathan E. Aviv (1981), American surgeon known for inventing the Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing with Sensory Testing technique and developing the Transnasal esophagoscopy method
Neil Shubin (1982), paleontologist and co-discoverer of Tiktaalik
Peter Lunenfeld (1984), critic and theorist of digital media
Leslie B. Vosshall (1987), neurobiologist known for her contributions in the field of olfaction
Damon Horowitz (1993), Google's in-house philosopher
Jennifer Ashton (1991), physician, author, host of lifestyle talk show The Revolution
Beth Willman (1998), American astronomer at Haverford College

Spies

John Vardill (1766), American loyalist educator, pamphleteer, spy
William Joseph Donovan (1905), head of the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, "Father of American Intelligence"
Isaiah Oggins (1920), communist activist and Soviet spy
Whittaker Chambers* (1924), Soviet spy and accuser of Alger Hiss
Nathaniel Weyl (1931), operative in the Ware group of Soviet spies in the United States
Victor Perlo (1933), leader of the Perlo group of Soviet spies in the United States
Frank Snepp (1965), former CIA station chief for Saigon during the Vietnam War

Writers

Clement Clarke Moore (1798), purported author of A Visit From St. Nicholas
Robert Charles Sands (1815), poet and writer
Charles Fenno Hoffman (1825), poet, translator, and editor, founder of The Knickerbocker magazine
Cornelius Mathews* (1834), American writer of the Young America movement
Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1835), literary biographer in the Young America movement
George Templeton Strong (1838), noted diarist; founder of the United States Sanitary Commission and the Union League Club of New York
Edgar Fawcett (1867), novelist
William Dudley Foulke (1869), American literary critic, journalist, and reformer; former United States Civil Service Commission Commissioner
Duffield Osborne (1879), author
John Kendrick Bangs (1883), author, satirist, editor of Puck magazine
John Armstrong Chaloner (1883), American writer and activist, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and William A. Chanler, son of John Winthrop Chanler '47, husband of Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
Albert Payson Terhune (1893), author, dog breeder, journalist, Further Adventures of Lad
Guy Wetmore Carryl (1895), humorist, Fables for the Frivolous
Melville Henry Cane (1900), poet; winner of the Robert Frost Medal in 1971
Joyce Kilmer (1908), poet and author of Trees
Randolph Bourne (1912), essayist and public intellectual
Paul Gallico* (1919), author of The Poseidon Adventure
Louis Zukofsky (1922), co-founder and leading theorist of the Objectivist poets
James Warner Bellah (1923), Western and pulp writer whose stories formed the basis of such John Ford classics as Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande.
Corey Ford* (1923), humorist, The John Riddell Murder Case
Henry Morton Robinson (1923), author of The Cardinal and A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Cornell Woolrich (1923), mystery writer and author of Rear Window
Herman Wouk (1934), author of War and Remembrance and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny
John Berryman (1936), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Paul Smith (1936), author of Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.
Robert Lax (1938), minimalist poet
Ed Rice (1940), Beat Generation writer
Walter Farley (1941), author of The Black Stallion and its many sequels
Gerald Green (1942), wrote Holocaust and The Last Angry Man
Jack Kerouac* (1944), Beat generation author of On the Road
Leonard Koppett (1944), sportswriter; recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award and the Curt Gowdy Media Award
Walter Wager (1944), mystery writer whose book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2
Herbert Gold (1946), Beat Generation novelist
Daniel Hoffman (1947), poet; 22nd United States Poet Laureate
Allen Ginsberg (1948), Beat generation poet; author of Howl
Frederick Karl (1948), literary biographer famous for his work on Joseph Conrad
Louis Simpson (1948), American poet; winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
John Clellon Holmes (1949), Beat Generation novelist, Go.
John Hollander (1950), poet, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Bollingen Prize
Richard Howard (1951), translator and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Anthony Robinson (1953), English professor and novelist
Ralph Schoenstein (1953), humorist
Dan Wakefield (1955), novelist, journalist, screenwriter
Robert Silverberg (1956), science fiction writer, recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 2004
Jerome Charyn (1959), novelist
Jay Neugeboren (1959), novelist, essayist, short story writer
Robert T. Westbrook (196-), writer, son of syndicated columnist Sheilah Graham Westbrook
Phillip Lopate (1964), essayist and fiction writer
Ron Padgett (1964), poet and translator
Steven Millhauser (1965), novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Aaron Fogel (1967), poet
Eric Van Lustbader (1967), espionage and thriller novelist, writer of Jason Bourne novels
Thomas Hauser (1968), author of nonfiction and biographer
David Shapiro (1968), poet, literary critic, professor at William Paterson University
Hilton Obenzinger (1969), novelist, poet, history and criticism writer
Paul Auster (1970), postmodern writer; author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and the Brooklyn Follies
Bob Holman (1970), poet and activist identified with the oral tradition
David Lehman (1970), poet, editor of The Best American Poetry series
Alex Abella (1972), Cuban-American writer
Todd McEwen (1975), writer, professor at the University of Kent
Damien Bona (1977), chronicler of the Academy Awards
Kevin Baker (1980), novelist and freelance journalist
Jeffrey Harrison (1980), poet who won the 1988 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
Lou Antonelli (1981), science fiction writer
Michael Azerrad (1983), author, journalist, musician
David Rakoff (1986), comedic essayist
Adam Mansbach (1988), author and former professor of literature at Rutgers University–Camden
Darryl Pinckney (1988), novelist, playwright, and essayist
Mako Yoshikawa (1988), novelist, professor at Emerson College
Ben Coes (1989), author of political thriller and espionage novels
Carol Guess (1990), novelist and poet; professor at Western Washington University
John Reed (1990), novelist; author of Snowball's Chance
Kelly Link (1991), Hugo Award-winning American author; founder of Small Beer Press; editor of St. Martin's Press's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Loren Goodman (1991), postmodern poet, professor at Underwood International College
Andrew Carroll (1992), author, editor, activist, and historian
Jordan Davis (1992), poet
Melissa de la Cruz (1993), writer known for work in young adult fiction
Jay Michaelson (1993), writer and LGBTQ activist
Maxine Swann (1994), fiction writer
Robert Westfield (1994), writer who won two Lambda Literary Awards
Megan McCafferty (1995), chick lit writer, Jessica Darling series, which were plagiarized by Kaavya Viswanathan
Tova Mirvis (1995), author
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur (1996), author and Islamic activist
Fredrik Stanton (1996), author of Great Negotiations and former publisher for the Columbia Daily Spectator
Aravind Adiga (1997), Man Booker Prize-winning novelist
Gotham Chopra (1997), author, son of health advocate Deepak Chopra
Daniel Alarcón (1999), novelist
Katherine Howe (1999), novelist, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Rebecca Pawel (1999), author of mystery novels; winner of the 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (2003), French poet, translator, musician
Ben Dolnick (2004), son of American writer Edward Dolnick, member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family that owns The New York Times
Danielle Valore Evans (2004), American fiction writer
Adam Gidwitz (2004), author of best selling children's books
Nikil Saval (2005), American writer and journalist
Morgan Parker (2010), poet and Cave Canem Fellow

Miscellaneous

John Parke Custis* (1777) stepson of George Washington
Samuel L. Gouverneur (1817), postmaster of New York City and son-in-law of President James Monroe
James Lenox (1818), bibliophile, founder of the Lenox Library, later incorporated into the New York Public Library; also founder of the Presbyterian Hospital
John Lloyd Stephens (1822), explorer, archaeologist, Special Ambassador to Central America, and president of the Panama Railroad
Samuel Cutler Ward (1831), lobbyist
Henry Bergh* (1834), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
William R. Travers (1838), founder of the Travers Stakes
William H. Herriman (1849), expatriate American art collector
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1857), lawyer and social reformer who founded the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; grandson of U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry and father of United States Senate from Rhode Island Peter G. Gerry
Winthrop Rutherfurd (1884), American socialite known for his romance with Consuelo Vanderbilt and marriage to Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Arthur B. Spingarn (1897), civil rights activist; elected president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1965; namesake of the Moorland–Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
George Marshall (1926), political activist and conservationist
Reed Harris (1932), former State Department official and victim of McCarthyism
Robert David Lion Gardiner (1934), last owner, 16th Lord of the manor of Gardiners Island, direct descendant of 17th century English settler Lion Gardiner
John K. Lattimer (1935), urologist, ballistics expert, and inveterate collector
Richard Ravitch (1955), chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bowery Savings Bank
Morris J. Amitay (1958), lobbyist, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
John Giorno (1958), subject of Andy Warhol's first movie, Sleep
Fred Glazer (1958), librarian and director of the West Virginia Library Commission
Arthur MacArthur IV (1960), son of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Richard Grossman (1965), critic and organizer against corporate power
Joseph Goldstein (1965), American vipassana expert
David Gilbert (1966), leader of Students for a Democratic Society and participant in Brink's armored car attack with Kathy Boudin
Edwin Schlossberg (1967), designer, author, artist; husband of Caroline Kennedy
Ted Gold* (1968), student activist, leader of the Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weatherman group
John Jacobs* (1969), student activist, member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground
Francis Levy (1969), comic book artist
Mark Rudd (1969), president of Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weather Underground
Stephen Donaldson (1970), bisexual political activist, founder of the Student Homophile League at Columbia, the oldest college LGBTQ organization in the world
David Kaczynski (1970), brother of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski
Jim Dunnigan (1970), author, military-political analyst, wargame designer
Christopher Kimball (1973), celebrity chef, editor-in-chief of Cook's Illustrated and host of America's Test Kitchen
Fred Seibert (1973), TV producer and first creative director of MTV
Ashrita Furman (1976), holder of the most Guinness Book of World Records records
Douglas Sadownick (1981), writer and psychologist
Peter Bacanovic (1984), Martha Stewart's stockbroker involved in the ImClone scandal.
Annie Duke (1987), professional poker player
Greg Giraldo (1987), stand-up comedian
Anita Lo (1988), celebrity chef and restaurateur
Elana Amsterdam (1989), food blogger and author
John Bemelmans Marciano (1992), American children's book author and illustrator, grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of Madeline
Anna Ivey (1994), admissions counsellor
Benjamin Jealous (1994), president of the NAACP
Ai-jen Poo (1996), activist, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2014
Chubby Hubby or Aun Koh (1996), Singaporean food and travel blogger
Tinsley Mortimer (1999), socialite and television personality
Chloe Arnold (2002), Internationally acclaimed tap dancer
Anna Baltzer (2002), activist for Palestinian human rights
Meghan McCain (2007), blogger and daughter of Arizona senator John McCain
John Cochran (2009), winner of Survivor: Caramoan
Hari Nef (2015), transgender model, actress, and writer; signed to IMG Models
Sara Ali Khan (2016), daughter of Indian actor, director Saif Ali Khan and actress Amrita Singh

References

^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82", The New York Times, September 10, 2009. Accessed September 11, 2009.
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=wM_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=jay+gould+columbia+alumni+news&source=bl&ots=UoDxqCiu_y&sig=ASTF99q2tT6xPCez5GPl6_1HTBQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=64VRVZvAHYXUggSwkoGoAw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=jay%20gould%20columbia%20alumni%20news&f=false
^ Mallozzii, Vincent M. "Lou Bender, Columbia Star Who Helped Popularize Basketball in New York, Dies at 99", The New York Times, September 12, 2009. Accessed September 13, 2009.
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=wM_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
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[1] Hevesi, Dennis. "Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82", The New York Times, September 10, 2009. Accessed September 11, 2009.

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