List of New York University alumni
This list of New York University alumni includes notable graduates and non-graduate former students of New York University .
Legend
The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent NYU schools and colleges:
In 1973, the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged into Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] which in turn merged into NYU to form New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in 2014. In 2015, the school changed its name to NYU Tandon School of Engineering .
Academia and research
Educators
Name
Year
School
Degree
Notability
Reference
John S. Allen
1936
GSAS
Ph.D.
First president of the University of South Florida in Tampa ; interim president of the University of Florida in Gainesville
[ 6] [ 7]
Charles E. Anderson
POLY
Dean at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Miriam Basilio
2002
IFA
Ph.D.
Educator, author and curator at The Museum of Modern Art , NY
[ 8]
Jack Baskin
ENG
Founder of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Samuel Baskin
1974
GSAS
Ph.D.
First president of the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati
[ 9] [ 10]
Eleanor K. Baum
POLY
Cooper Union Engineering School Dean; served as Dean at Pratt Institute ; the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States
Haim Ben-Shahar
Israeli economist and President of Tel Aviv University
Arthur Bienenstock
POLY
Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford University ; former director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
[ 11]
Edward J. Bloustein
1948
WSC
B.A.
Seventeenth president of Rutgers University ; professor at NYU Law
[ 12]
Bruno A. Boley
POLY
Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University ; National Academy of Engineering member
William Boylan
Master of Pedagogy
First president of Brooklyn College
[ 13]
Joyce F. Brown
1971, 1980
GSAS
M.S., Ph.D.
President of the Fashion Institute of Technology
Truesdel Peck Calkins
Founder and first president of Hofstra University
[ 14]
Herbert Carlin
POLY
Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University ; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and École Normale Supérieure , Paris
Rustica Carpio
1956
STEINHARDT
M.A.
Chairperson and first dean of the College of Communication of Polytechnic University of the Philippines ; Dean of the College of Mass Communication at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila ; Fulbright Scholar
Serena Chen
1997
Ph.D
Chair of the Psychology Department at U.C. Berkeley
Frank A. Cipriani
GSAS
M.A., Ph.D.
Fifth President of SUNY Farmingdale
[ 15] [ 16]
K. Mani Chandy
POLY
Chair of engineering and applied sciences at the California Institute of Technology ; National Academy of Engineering member
Kenneth Connor
POLY
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department Head from 2001 to 2008 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; IEEE Fellow
Jessica Garretson Finch
Law
J.D.
Founding president of Finch College
Edgar Fiedler
Economist
[citation needed ]
Jeffrey P. Freidberg
1961, 1962, 1964
POLY
B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Professor emeritus and former head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT (1997–2003); former associate director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
[ 17] [ 18] [ 19]
John Anderson Fry
1986
Stern
M.B.A.
President, Drexel University
Elmer L. Gaden
POLY
Former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at Columbia University; Russ Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member
Michael J. Garanzini
1978
STEINHARDT
M.A.
President and Chancellor, Loyola University Chicago
[ 20] [failed verification ]
Jerome Gavis
POLY
Chairman of the chemical engineering department at Johns Hopkins University ; National Academy of Science member; helped develop methods of separating solid waste components
[ 21]
Alfred Gessow
ENG
Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park ; professor at University of Virginia ; awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal
Dorit Geva
2006
Ph.D.
Founding Dean of undergraduate studies at Central European University
[ 22]
Harold S. Goldberg
POLY
Dean of the Tufts University School of Engineering ; Gordon Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member
Urban Gonnoud
1958
Stern
M.B.A.
15th President of St. Francis College
Martin H. Graham
1952
POLY
Ph.D.
Chair of the Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley ; professor at Rice University; designer of the Rice Institute Computer ; served as Secretary of the Academic Senate, University of California from 1978 to 1980
[ 23]
Martha Greenblatt
POLY
Chair of the Chemistry Department at Rutgers University
Charles Waldo Haskins
POLY
Founder and first dean of New York University Stern School of Business
Gabriel Hawawini
1977
GSAS
Ph.D.
Dean, INSEAD , 2000–2006
[ 24]
Russell K. Hotzler
POLY
President of New York City College of Technology
Michael Hudson
Economics professor
[citation needed ]
Richard Joel
1972, 1975
Law
B.A., J.D.
Fourth president of Yeshiva University , 2003–2017
[ 25]
Peter G. Jordan
POLY
Vice Chancellor of CUNY ; President of Tarrant County College ; dean at New York Institute of Technology ; dean at Adelphi University ; overseer for Colby College
[ 26] [ 27]
Francis Kilcoyne
President of Brooklyn College
[citation needed ]
Kim Won-yong
1959
Ph.D.
'Father of Korean Archaeology', Prof. Seoul National University
John Sterling Kingsley
POLY
Chair of Biology at Tufts University
William B. Kouwenhoven
POLY
Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal ; professor at Johns Hopkins University
Jerome Krase
1973
SOC
Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus and Archivist at Brooklyn College
Paul Kurtz
1948
WSC
B.A.
The "Pope of the unbelievers"
[ 28]
Norman Lamm
POLY
President and chancellor of Yeshiva University
Eugene M. Lang
POLY
Chair emeritus of the Board of Swarthmore College
[ 29]
Howard Lesnick
Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
[citation needed ]
Yehuda (Leo) Levi
POLY
Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology
Samuel Levy
Law
B.A., J.D.
Chairman of the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees
Katharine Culbert Lyall
1969
Stern
M.B.A.
President, University of Wisconsin–Madison ; President of the University of Wisconsin System
Gerald W. Lynch
President of John Jay College
Amy Malek
2005
M.A.
Assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist ; endowed Chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
[ 30]
Newt Margulies
POLY
Dean and Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at California State University, San Marcos; former Dean of the School of Business, University of California, Irvine
[ 31]
James Milliken
1983
Law
J.D.
President of the University of Nebraska ; Chancellor of the City University of New York
[ 32]
Cathy Minehan
STERN
MBA
Dean of the School of Management at Simmons College
Donald Moon
1958
ENG
M.S.
President of Shimer College
[ 33]
A. Michael Noll
POLY
Dean at University of Southern California
[ 34]
Leonard Peikoff
1964
GSAS
Ph.D.
Intellectual heir of Ayn Rand ; leading figure of Objectivism
Fortunato de la Peña
POLY
Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of the Philippines College of Engineering
Shirley D. Peterson
Law
J.D.
President of Hood College ; sat on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College from 1994 to 2007; currently a Trustee Emerita of Bryn Mawr College
Nicanor Reyes, Sr.
1917
Stern
B.A.
Founder and first president of the Far Eastern University in Manila , Philippines
[ 35]
Fazlollah Reza
POLY
Head of Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran ; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McGill University ; Fellow of the IEEE
Virginia P. Ruesterholz
POLY
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology
Wallace S. Sayre
GSAS
Ph.D.
Professor of Columbia University ; namesake of Sayre's law
John P. Schaefer
POLY
President of University of Arizona
Alexander Schure
ENG
President of New York Institute of Technology
W. J. Seeley
POLY
Dean of Duke University 's Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering ; served as chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Duke University; professor at University of Pennsylvania ; director of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
[ 36]
Josef Singer
POLY
President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Lawrence G. Smith
M.D.
Founding dean of Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
Richard E. Sorensen
POLY
Dean of Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech
Richard S. Stein
POLY
Founder and Professor of the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Member of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering; Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kyoto University; National Research Council Fellow at Cambridge University ; Research Associate at Princeton University
Marian Stoltz-Loike
1984
GSAS
Ph.D.
Dean of Lander College for Women and Vice President of Touro College
Paul Tagliabue
Law
J.D.
Chairman of Board of Directors of Georgetown University
Jeremy Travis
Law
J.D.
President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Hermann Viets
POLY
President of Milwaukee School of Engineering
Iris Weinshall
WAG
Vice chancellor at the City University of New York
Herbert George Welch
POLY
President of Ohio Wesleyan University
Samuel Merrill Woodbridge
1838
B.A.
Led New Brunswick seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901
[ 37]
Howard Zinn
1951
CAS
B.A.
Author of A People's History of the United States
Professors, researchers and scientists
Name
Year
School
Degree
Notability
Reference
Gerard A. Alphonse
POLY
2005 president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Geetha Angara
1984
GSAS
Ph.D.
Victim of unsolved 2005 homicide at New Jersey water treatment plant
[ 38]
Boris Aronov
1986, 1989
Courant
M.S., Ph.D.
Computer scientist; professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering ; Sloan Research Fellow
Sylvan Barnet
1948
CAS
B.A.
Shakespearean scholar
Tito Boeri
1990
Ph.D.
Professor at Bocconi University , Milan ; director of Fondazione RDB
Daniel Draper (meteorologist)
1880
Med
Ph.D
Meteorologist and medical doctor
[ 39]
E. Lloyd Du Brul
1937
DENT
D.D.S.
Author of Sicher and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy
Avery Fisher
1929
ARTS
B.S.
Inventor of the first stereo radio-phonograph
Neil Garg
2000
CAS
B.S.
UCLA Professor & Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair
Caroline D. Gentile
1949
M.A.
Associate professor emeritus of education; physical education instructor; longest-serving faculty member of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
[ 40]
Corwin Hansch
GSAS
Ph.D.
Inventor of the Hansch equation
Martin Hellman
1966
ENG
B.S.
Invented public key cryptography ; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame ; Turing Award winner
John Harvey Kellogg
1875
Med
Co-inventor of Kellogg's cereals
Barbara Keyfitz
1970
Courant
Ph.D.
Director of the Fields Institute
David Korn
1969
Courant
Ph.D.
Creator of the Korn shell
Leonard Linkow
1952
DENT
DDS
Pioneer in oral implantology; nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969
[ 41] [ 42]
Erwin Lutwak
POLY
mathematician, inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society
George W. Melville
POLY
Engineer-in-chief of the United States Navy; Congressional Gold Medal winner
Donald J. Metz
POLY
Nuclear engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Ami Miron
POLY
Received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
Lee Morin
1978–1982
Med
M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.
Astronaut
Robert Qiu
1955
Ph.D.
CEO of Wiscom Technologies; professor of electrical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
John Wellborn Root
1969
ARTS
B.S.
Inventor of the floating raft system
Gerald Soffen
Postdoc
Chief scientist of the Viking missions to Mars in 1976
Salvatore Stolfo
1979
Courant
Ph.D.
Professor at Columbia University
Dennis Tito
1962
CAS
B.A.
First commercial space flight customer
Alfred Vail
1836
B.A.
Inventor
Barbara Wertheimer
1960
M.A
Co-founder and director, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Robert M. White
1951
ENG
B.S.
Air Force test pilot
Minoru Yamasaki
1951
GSAS
M.A.
Works include the World Trade Center
Ben Zinn
1961
ENG
B.S.
International soccer player and academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology ; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
[ 43]
Jay Kappraff
POLY
Professor at Cooper Union ; NASA aerospace engineer
Torunn Atteraas Garin
POLY
Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it. Developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee
Pat Villani
POLY
Author of DOS-C, the FreeDOS kernel
Peter Hänggi
POLY
Theoretical physicist best known for his original works on Brownian motion and ratchets, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum)
Alexander Johnston
POLY
Professor at Princeton University
Ernest Bernbaum
POLY
Professor at Harvard University
Ines Mandl
POLY
Professor at Columbia University ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences member; awarded the Garvan-Olin Medal in 1983 for her work on the enzyme collagenase
Frances Hugle
POLY
Microscopic and integrated circuitry pioneer; inventor of tape-automated bonding
James Wood
POLY
Fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Bridge, making cable-lift elevators possible; contributed to the inventions of lockmaking, submarine, design of the modern refrigerator, A/C generator, electric motors, and transformer; held 240 patents
[ 44]
Alan Schriesheim
POLY
Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory ; professor at University of Chicago ; National Academy of Engineering member
Jay Greene
POLY
Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center
Bern Dibner
POLY
Discovered how to connect electrical conductors still used today. Assembled one of the world's most important history of science libraries, now housed at MIT and the National Museum of American History
Norman Gaylord
POLY
Played a prominent role in the development of permeable contact lenses
Charles Camarda
POLY
Astronaut; NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery
Paolo A. Nespoli
POLY
Italian astronaut, mission specialist at STS-120 Space Shuttle mission
Thomas J. Kelly
POLY
Scientist; "father" of the Apollo Lunar Module
Jack Ruina
POLY
DARPA director; MIT professor emeritus
Robert O'Handley
POLY
MS, PhD
MIT professor and research scientist
[ 45]
Michael Strano
1997
POLY
B.S.
Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[ 46] [ 47]
Howard A. Chinn
POLY
Pioneered techniques of analog audio recording, and radio and television broadcasting; was chief audio engineer at CBS , and a researcher at MIT and Harvard .
[ 48] [ 49]
Fredric J. Harris
POLY
Co-inventor of the Blackman-Harris Filter
Hugh John Casey
POLY
Designer of the Pentagon
Samuel Ruben
POLY
Inventor who made lasting contributions to electrochemistry and solid-state technology, including the founding of Duracell ; held more than 300 patents
Ephraim Katzir
POLY
Fourth President of Israel; chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department
Bill Friend
POLY
Chairman of the University of California's President's Council on the National Laboratories; National Academy of Engineering member
Albert Macovski
POLY
Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University ; National Academy of Engineering member
Christos V. Massalas
POLY
Professor at Trinity College, Dublin ; Fulbright scholar
Irwin Kra
POLY
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hamilton Castner
POLY
Industrial chemist; invented methods to produce sodium metal and sodium hydroxide from soda ash and salt respectively; awarded Elliott Cresson Medal
George Glauberman
POLY
Professor at University of Chicago ; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem
Jules Bellisio
POLY
Chief Scientist at Telcordia Technologies
Lew Tucker
POLY
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems
[citation needed ]
Charles D. Strang
POLY
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David J. Thomson
POLY
Professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, and University of Cambridge. Invented the Multitaper
Ronald R. Yager
POLY
Professor at University of California, Berkeley ; invented Ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator
Peter Pershan
POLY
Professor at Harvard University
Judea Pearl
POLY
Professor at UCLA ; awarded Turing Award in 2011; Member of the National Academy of Engineering; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Mischa Schwartz
POLY
Professor at Columbia University ; National Academy of Engineering member
Erol Gelenbe
POLY
Professor at Imperial College London and Duke University ; invented G-networks and random neural network
Steven L. Goldman
POLY
Professor at Lehigh University
Buddy Ratner
POLY
Professor at University of Washington ; National Academy of Engineering member
Ronald Silverman
POLY
Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College ; Professor of Ophthalmic Science at Columbia University Medical Center
Don Torrieri
POLY
Professor at Johns Hopkins University ; research engineer and fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory
Edward A. Frieman
POLY
Professor at Princeton University ; Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ; Guggenheim Fellow
Grigori Perelman
COURANT
Fields Medal winner; proved the soul conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Leopold B. Felsen
POLY
Professor at Boston University ; National Academy of Engineering member; Guggenheim Fellow
Erich E. Kunhardt
POLY
Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology
Bishnu S. Atal
POLY
Professor at University of Washington ; Member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
Robert H. Lieberman
POLY
Professor at Cornell University ; Fulbright scholar
[ 50]
Hugh Seidman
POLY
Professor at University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School
Clayton Hamilton
POLY
Professor at Columbia University
Linda Weiser Friedman
POLY
Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center
George Preti
POLY
Professor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Gerald J. Popek
ENG
Professor at UCLA
Hung-Chang Lin
POLY
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland ; invented the quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit, the lateral transistor, and the wireless microphone ; held 61 patents
Murray S. Klamkin
POLY
Professor at University of Minnesota and SUNY Buffalo
Anthony M. Johnson
POLY
Professor at University of Maryland
Steve Wallach
POLY
Professor at Rice University ; holds 33 patents; member of the National Academy of Engineering
Peter Staecker
POLY
President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ; researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrew Herrmann
POLY
President of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Joel B. Snyder
POLY
President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Eli M. Pearce
POLY
President of the American Chemical Society ; designed fire-resistant polymers.
[ 51]
Morris Janowitz
WSC
Made major contributions to sociological theory
Martin Pope
POLY
Professor emeritus at New York University
Walter Brenner
POLY
Professor at New York University
Bancroft Gherardi, Jr.
POLY
IEEE Edison Medal winner; President of American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; National Academy of Sciences member
Mario Cardullo
POLY
Invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
Robert G. Brown
POLY
Invented the first telephone handset
Joseph Owades
POLY
Inventor of Lite beer
Len Shustek
POLY
Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University
Eugene Fasullo
POLY
Chief Engineer of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Martin Schechter
POLY
Professor and founding director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia
Rossiter W. Raymond
POLY
Professor at Columbia University
Henry L. Bachman
1951, 1954
POLY
BSEE, MSEE
IEEE president in 1987; served as Vice President of BAE Systems ; Fellow of the IEEE
[ 52]
John Gilbert
POLY
Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon; invented devices ranging from a multiple-head pasta extruder for the Ronzoni Company to miniaturized registers for the U.S. Army Signal Corps; Chief Scientist at DuPont
[ 51] [ 53] [ 54]
Henry C. Goldmark
POLY
Designed and installed the Panama Canal locks
Mario Tchou
POLY
Created Olivetti Elea , Italy's first computer
Leopold Just
POLY
Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City , as well as Washington Metro , Ohio Turnpike and Connecticut Turnpike
Jasper H. Kane
POLY
Developed the practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin
Nathan Marcuvitz
POLY
Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT) ; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Jacob Bekenstein
POLY
Wolf Prize in Physics winner; best known for his part in the discovery of what is now called Bekenstein-Hawking radiation
[ 55]
Jerome H. Lemelson
ENG
Holder of 605 patents; established the Lemelson Foundation ; one of the most prolific inventors in American history; several of his inventions and works in the fields in which he patented have made possible, either wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses , industrial robots , cordless telephones , fax machines , videocassette recorders , camcorders , and the magnetic tape drive used in tape players
[ 3]
Ali Akansu
1983, 1987
POLY
M.S., Ph.D.
Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology best known for his contributions to subband and wavelet transforms
Jack M. Sipress
POLY
Contributed to the development of submarine communications facilities; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Benjamin Adler
POLY
Helped develop commercial television
[ 56]
Robert Zwanzig
POLY
Professor at Johns Hopkins University; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Barouh Berkovits
POLY
Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
John B. MacChesney
ENG
Winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize
Gerard J. Foschini
ENG
professor at Princeton University
Lawrence J. Fogel
ENG
Inventor of active noise cancellation
Leonard Greene
ENG
Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Michael I. Yarymovych
ENG
Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1973–1975); Guggenheim Fellow
Alexander H. Flax
ENG
Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1959–1961)
Robert S. Swarz
ENG
Co-director of the Systems Engineering Practice Office of MITRE Corporation
George Doundoulakis
POLY
Designed what was until very recently the largest radio telescope in the world
[ 57]
Helias Doundoulakis
POLY
Patented the suspension system for the largest radio telescope in the world
Ahmed Cemal Eringen
POLY
Turkish-American engineering scientist; professor at Princeton University ; namesake of the Eringen Medal
Henrik Ager-Hanssen
ENG
Norwegian nuclear physicist and businessperson; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Bede Liu
1956, 1960
POLY
M.E.E., D.E.E.
Pioneer in digital signal processing. Professor at Princeton University ; member of the National Academy of Engineering ; Life Fellow of IEEE
[ 58]
Subrata K. Sen
POLY
Joseph F. Cullman III professor and researcher at Yale University
[ 59]
Roy LoPresti
ENG
Worked on the Apollo Moon Program; served as advisor to the US Congress; designed LoPresti Fury ; designed the Grumman American AA-5 ; Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering at Mooney Aviation Company , where he designed the Mooney 201
Robert Sobel
Professor of history at Hofstra University; well-known and prolific writer of business histories
Elliott Skinner
Anthropologist; Guggenheim Fellow
James Ax
POLY
Mathematics professor at Stanford University and Cornell University ; won Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory ; proved Ax–Grothendieck theorem and Ax–Kochen theorem ; Guggenheim Fellow
Russell A. Kirsch
ENG
Developed the first digital image scanner
E. Gail de Planque
1983
GSAS
Ph.D.
Nuclear physicist; first woman to become a Commissioner at the US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); National Academy of Engineering member
Jacob Wolfowitz
1942
Courant
Ph.D.
Statistician and Shannon Award -winning information theorist; professor at Cornell University , Columbia University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; proved Wald–Wolfowitz runs test and Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality
Solomon Berson
1939, 1945
MED
M.S., MD
Developed radioimmunoassay with Rosalyn Yalow , who received a Nobel Prize for their joint work after Berson's death.
[ 60]
Gabriel P. Weisberg
1963
WSC
B.A.
Art historian, Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Minnesota
[ 61]
Cortney Lollar
2002
LAW
J.D.
Distinguished professor of Law at University of Kentucky
[ 62]
Abel Prize recipients
MacArthur Fellows
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Nobel laureates
Academic administrators
Joe Gow (born 1960) (attended West Chester University before transferring to New York University, later transferring to Penn State University , from where he graduated) — American academic, musician, pornographic actor, and university administrator, noted for being fired as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in December 2023 after being outed for filming and starring in consensual pornographic videos with his wife, which they posted to public adult websites (without ever mentioning their names, careers, or university affiliations)
Business
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Kobi Alexander
Stern , M.B.A., 1980
Founder and former CEO of Comverse Technology
Leslie Alexander
CAS B.A.
Attorney and businessman; former owner of the Houston Rockets NBA team
Nicolas Berggruen
Stern , B.S., 1981
Billionaire, founder of Berggruen Institute
[ 86]
Alexander Soros
CAS B.A.
Non-profit executive, heir and philanthropist; son of George Soros
Philip Jaffe
POLY , 1913–14
Co-founder of Amerasia ' involved in the 1945 Amerasia espionage affair
[ 87]
Ursula Burns
POLY , B.S., 1980
Chairman and CEO of Xerox
[ 88]
Charles Ranlett Flint
POLY , B.S., 1868
Founder of IBM
Harvey R. Blau
A.B.; LLM
Chairman and former CEO of Griffon Corporation
Ronald Kramer
Stern , MBA
CEO of Griffon Corporation ; former president and director of Wynn Resorts
Alex Klokus
Stern
Co-founder of Futurism, executive producer
[ 89] [ 90]
James B. Rosenwald
Stern , MBA
Co-founder and managing partner of Dalton Investments LLC
James M. Henderson
Graduate studies
Founder of Henderson Advertising Agency in Greenville, South Carolina ; Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1970
[ 91]
Arthur C. Martinez
POLY , B.S., 1960
Former chairman and CEO of Sears
[ 92]
Robert J. Stevens
POLY , M.S., 1985
Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin
[ 93]
Thor Bjorgolfsson
Stern , B.S., 1991
Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur; known as "Iceland's first billionaire"
David Boies
Law L.L.M., 1967
Founder and Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Jake Burton Carpenter
economics degree 1977 WSUC
Designer of modern snowboard and founder of Burton Snowboards
Ben Cohen
Art Therapy *
Founder of Ben & Jerry's
Robert B. Cohen
1947
Founded Hudson News in 1987
[ 94]
Jane Gordon
CAS B.A.
Jewelry designer
John J. Creedon
Stern 1955, B.S. Law 1957, J.D.
Former CEO and chairman, MetLife
Marvin Davis
ENG , B.S.
CEO of Paramount Pictures
Robert Dow
ENG
Managing partner and chairman of the board of Lord Abbett
Thomas E. Dooley
Stern , M.B.A. 1984
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, CEO and CFO of Viacom
Israel Englander
Stern , B.S. 1972
Hedge fund manager
James Ferragamo
Stern
Businessman
Richard S. Fuld
Stern 1973, M.B.A.
CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Tom Freston
Stern , M.B.A.
MTV Networks
Abraham George
Stern , 1973, 1975, M.B.A, Ph.D.
Founder of The George Foundation and Multinational Computer Models
Kayalakakam M. George
Stern 1948, M.B.A
CEO of Palai Central Bank (1956–60)
Harvey Golub
Stern 1961, B.S.
Chairman and CEO of American Express (1994–2001); Chairman of the American International Group (AIG)
Alan Greenspan
Stern 1948 1950 1977, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve
Robert Greifeld
Stern 1977, M.B.A.
CEO of NASDAQ
Scott Harrison
CAS 1998, B.A.
Founder of Charity: Water
Carl Icahn
MED *
Investor and activist shareholder
Henry Kaufman
Stern 1948, B.A., Stern 1958, Ph.D.
Wall Street financial consultant
Paul Kangas
Stern , M.B.A.
Host of Nightly Business Report
Herb Kelleher
Law 1955, LL.B.
Founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines
Eugene Kleiner
POLY
Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
Nina Freeman
POLY
Video game designer, co-founder of The Code Liberation Foundation
Alan Levin
Stern 1976, M.B.A.
CFO of Pfizer
Paul Levitz
Stern *
President of DC Comics
Martin Lipton
Law 1955, J.D.
Co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
John C. Malone
ENG , M.S.
CEO of Tele-Communications Inc. ; CEO of Liberty Media ; now chairman of Liberty Media , Liberty Global , and Liberty Interactive , all of which he is the majority owner; owns 49% of Starz Inc. and 29% of Discovery Communications
Michael I. Yarymovych
ENG
Vice President of Boeing Company
George Feldstein
ENG , B.S., M.S.
Founder of Crestron Electronics
Cathy Minehan
Stern 1977, M.B.A.
President of Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
Joseph Nacchio
ENG , B.S., Stern , M.B.A.
Chairman and CEO of Qwest
Roy Neuberger
coursework*
Founder of Neuberger & Berman
Marc Rich
CAS , B.A.
Commodities trader and hedge fund manager; indicted for tax evasion
Leonard Riggio
Stern 1964, M.B.A.
CEO and owner of Barnes & Noble
Edouard de Rothschild
Stern 1985, M.B.A.
Rothschild Banque
Jay Schulberg
1961
Advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and Bozell Worldwide ; creator of the "Got Milk? " advertising campaign
[ 95]
W. R. Berkley
Stern
Founder, chairman and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation
William T. Schwendler
ENG , B.S., 1924
Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Grumman
Michael Birck
ENG
Co-founder and current chairman of Tellabs
John Catsimatidis
ENG
Businessman invested in real estate, aviation, and groceries; radio talk show host; owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes
Frederick Gluck
ENG
Chief executive at McKinsey & Company ; Director at Amgen ; serves on the Harvard Business School Board of Directors of the Associates, the Management Education Council of the Wharton School , the U.S. and Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations , and the Board of the International Executive Service Corps
Walter V. Shipley
Stern 1956, B.S.
Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
Larry Silverstein
CAS B.A., 1952
Owner of World Trade Center site
Mark Spitznagel
Courant , M.S.
Investor, hedge fund manager
Stanley Stahl
B.A.
Real estate investor
[ 96]
Leonard N. Stern
Stern 1957, B.S., 1959, M.B.A.
Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business; CEO of The Hartz Group
Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs
Stern , M.B.A.
Member of International Olympic Committee
Sy Syms
CAS B.A., 1946
Founder of Syms Clothing
Henry Taub
Stern 1947, B.S.
Founder of Automatic Data Processing , philanthropist
Maurice Tempelsman
Stern *
Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International Inc. ; former companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
[ 97] [ 98]
Laurence Alan Tisch
Stern 1942, B.Sc.
Media mogul; president and chief executive officer, CBS
Christy Turlington
Gallatin 1999, B.A.
Supermodel
Agnes Varis
Stern 1979, M.B.A.
Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals
Peggy Yu
Stern , M.B.A.
Founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer
Jack Dorsey
Creator of Twitter ; founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
[ 99]
George W. Melville
POLY
Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
Spencer Trask
POLY
Invested and supported entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison 's invention of the electric light bulb and his electricity network; majority shareholder and chairman of The New York Times
Hugh John Casey
POLY
Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority
Michael Horodniceanu
POLY
President of the MTA Capital Construction
Alfred Amoroso
POLY
Former chairman of Yahoo!
John Dionisio
POLY
Chairman and CEO of AECOM
Charles D. Strang
POLY
Chairman, president and CEO of Outboard Marine Corporation
Herbert L. Henkel
POLY
Chairman of Ingersoll Rand
Israel Borovich
POLY
Chairman and CEO of EL AL
Jason Hsuan
POLY
Chairman and CEO of TPV Technology
John Trani
POLY
Former chairman and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker
John Elmer McKeen
POLY
Former chairman and CEO of Pfizer ; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Alfred P. Sloan
POLY
Former chairman and CEO of General Motors
Mark Ronald
POLY
Former chairman and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.
Joseph J. Jacobs
POLY
Former chairman and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
Paul Ferri
POLY
Founder and General Partner of Matrix Partners
Bern Dibner
POLY
Former chairman, founder and CEO of Burndy
Sunil Godhwani
POLY
Chairman and CEO of Religare
Jerome Swartz
POLY
Co-founded Symbol Technologies with POLY graduate Shelley A. Harrison
Samuel Ruben
POLY
Co-founded Duracell
Richard Santulli
POLY , B.S., M.S.
Former chairman, founder and CEO of NetJets ; current chairman and founder of Milestone Aviation Group .
[ 100] [ 101]
Paul Soros
POLY
Founder and former CEO of Soros Associates; brother of George Soros
Michael H. Kappaz
POLY
Chairman and CEO of KM Group
Vincent A. Calarco
POLY
CEO and President of Chemtura
Charles Hinkaty
POLY
Vice president at Citibank
David Sobin
POLY
CEO of BAMnet; founded a DSL company, which was subsequently sold for approximately $50M
Edward P. Gilligan
Stern
Vice Chairman, President of American Express
[ 102] [ 103]
Glenford Myers
POLY
Founder of RadiSys and IP Fabrics
Ami Miron
POLY
Vice president of General Instrument ; senior advisor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University
Stav Prodromou
POLY
Founder and former CEO of Poqet Computer Corporation; former CEO of Alien Technology and Peregrine Semiconductor ; Executive Vice President of Fairchild Semiconductor
Craig G. Matthews
POLY
President, CFO and Chief Operating Officer of KeySpan
Ira Drukier
POLY
Hotelier and philanthropist
Fadi Chehadé
POLY
Founder of RosettaNet ; Chief Executive Officer of ICANN
Nils Lahr
POLY
Co-founder of IBEAM Broadcasting Corporation and Synergy Sports Technology
William C. W. Mow
POLY
Chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy
Charles Waldo Haskins
POLY
Co-founder of Haskins and Sells
Zalman Bernstein
CAS
Businessman and economist
John Paulson
Stern
Hedge fund manager
Kenneth Langone
Stern
Co-founder of The Home Depot
Charles Kushner
CAS
Owner of Kushner Properties
Jared Kushner
Law
President and CEO of Kushner Properties ; owner of The New York Observer
Vincent Tchenguiz
Stern
Investment adviser
Rachelle Friedman
POLY
Founder of J&R
Bill Friend
POLY
Former president of Bechtel
Alan Schriesheim
POLY
Board member of Rohm and Haas
Stephen M. Ross
Law
Real-estate developer; owner of Miami Dolphins NFL team
Robin Wilson
SPS 2004, M.S
Founder and CEO of bedding and interior design company Robin Wilson Home
B. Gerald Cantor
Founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald
Charles Zegar
Computer scientists; one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P.
Richard C. Perry
Stern
Hedge fund manager, owns controlling interest in Barneys New York
[ 104]
Ira Rennert
Stern
Private investor in mining, metals, and heavy industry
Lawrence Babbio, Jr.
Stern
Former vice chairman and president of Verizon
Mark Wilf
Law
President and co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings
Daniel E. Straus
Law
Vice Chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies
Dan Schulman
Stern , M.B.A.
President and CEO of PayPal and chairman of Symantec ; co-founder and former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
George S. Barrett
Stern , M.B.A.
Chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, Inc.
Robert W. Cremin
POLY , B.S.
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Esterline ; Chairman of Dover Corporation
Lorenzo Fertitta
Stern , M.B.A.
Co-founder of Station Casinos
Larry Zimmerman
Stern
CFO of Xerox
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.
Stern
Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Barry Salzberg
Law
CEO of Deloitte
Evan Chesler
Law
Partner and former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
[ 105]
John Carrig
Law
Chief operating officer and president for ConocoPhillips
Robert I. Lipp
Law
Vice Chairman of Citigroup
Robert A. Kindler
Law
Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
John Turitzin
Law
Vice President of Marvel Entertainment
Herb Kelleher
Law
Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of Southwest Airlines
Nick Ivanoff
POLY
President and CEO of Ammann & Whitney ; elected 2014-2015 chairman of American Road and Transportation Builders Association
Peter Guber
Law
Hollywood producer; former chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Steven Florio
Stern
CEO and President of both Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker , as well as publisher of GQ
Barry Zyskind
Stern , M.B.A
Chairman, CEO and President of AmTrust Financial Services
[ 106]
Sashi Reddi
Courant
CEO and founder of App Labs
[ 107]
Link Lauren
Music Business, B.S.
Online content creator, former senior campaign advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
[ 108]
Entertainment
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Lucy Alibar
TSOA
Beasts of the Southern Wild
[ 109]
Paul Thomas Anderson
TSOA 1993*, dropped out after two days
Magnolia , Boogie Nights , There Will Be Blood
Aziz Ansari
Stern 2004, B.S
Actor, Parks and Recreation , Master of None , Human Giant , Scrubs ; stand-up comedian
Ashley Argota
NURSING , current student
True Jackson , VP , Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
Jeff Baena
TSOA
Film writer and director
Sean Baker
TSOA
Director best known for Tangerine , The Florida Project and Anora
[ 110]
Alec Baldwin
TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
Actor, The Hunt for Red October , Pearl Harbor , The Aviator , 30 Rock
Kristen Bell
TSOA 1998–2001*
Veronica Mars , Pulse , Heroes , Forgetting Sarah Marshall , Gossip Girl
Julie Benz
TSOA 1994, B.F.A.
Jawbreaker , Angel , Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Laura Berman
SSW
Sex educator and sex therapist ; host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on the Oprah Winfrey Network
Justin Blanchard
TSOA 2001, B.F.A.
Journey's End (Broadway), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Alexis Bledel
TSOA *
Gilmore Girls , Sin City , Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants , Tuck Everlasting
Rachel Bloom
TSOA
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Barry Bostwick
TSOA
Original Broadway Cast of Grease , Rocky Horror Picture Show , Spin City
Martin Brest
TSOA 1973, B.F.A.
Beverly Hills Cop , Meet Joe Black , Gigli
Lisa Bruce
TSOA
The Theory of Everything
[ 111]
Rustica Carpio
Steinhardt 1956, M.A.
Actress and writer; former dean of the College of Communication and Graduate School of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines ; appointed to Philippine government positions
Susan Cartsonis
TSOA
President of Wind Dance Films
Vinnette Justine Carroll
ARTS 1946, M.A.
First African American woman to direct on Broadway
Lenora Champagne
ARTS 1975, M.A., 1980 PhD.
Playwright, performance artist and director
[ 112]
Jennifer Charles
TSOA 1990, B.F.A.
Musician, writer, and actress
Rachel Chavkin
TSOA
Tony Award nominated director of the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812
[ 113]
Chris Columbus
TSOA
Both Home Alone films, Mrs. Doubtfire , Stepmom , first two Harry Potter films, Rent
Bud Cort
TSOA 1967–1969*
Harold and Maude , MASH , The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Allen Covert
Grandma's Boy , The Wedding Singer
Billy Crudup
TSOA 1994, M.F.A.
Sleepers , Big Fish , Watchmen , Public Enemies
Billy Crystal
TSOA 1970, B.F.A.
Analyze This , Analyze That , City Slickers 1 & 2, When Harry Met Sally
John Cusack
TSOA *
High Fidelity , Con Air
Emira D'Spain
STEINHARDT , STERN
Model, social media influencer
[ 114]
Drea de Matteo
TSOA
The Sopranos , Joey
Julie Delpy
TSOA
Homo Faber , Three Colors: White , Before Sunrise , Before Sunset
Amanda Detmer
TSOA , M.F.A.
Actress
Tony DiSanto
TSOA
Producer
Michael Dougherty
TSOA , M.F.A.
X2 , Superman Returns
Lisa Edelstein
TSOA 1988, B.F.A.
House
Kathryn Erbe
TSOA *
What About Bob? , Law and Order: Criminal Intent
Burcu Esmersoy
SPS *
Turkish anchorwoman, beauty pageant titleholder, journalist, model, and occasional actress
[ 115]
Raul Esparza
TSOA 1992, B.F.A.
Actor
Dakota Fanning
GAL , current student
Actress , I Am Sam , Charlotte's Web , Coraline , The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn
Mitch Fatel
TSOA 1988*
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Comedy Central Presents: Mitch Fatel , Super Retardo CD
[ 116]
Wayne Federman
TSOA 1981*
Curb Your Enthusiasm , Legally Blonde , The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Silicon Valley
Malindi Fickle
B.F.A., 2002
Jacklight , Suck it Up Buttercup
Bridget Fonda
TSOA 1987, B.F.A.
Doc Hollywood , Jackie Brown
Marc Forster
TSOA 1990–1993*
Monster's Ball , Finding Neverland
Bethenny Frankel
WSC 1992
The Real Housewives of New York City , Bethenny Ever After , Bethenny ; creator/owner of Skinnygirl
[ 117]
Griffin Frazen
GAL 2009, B.A.
Grounded For Life
Lady Gaga
TSOA
Singer
Melissa Gallo
TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
One Life to Live , Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Edi Gathegi
TSOA
Gone Baby Gone , House M.D. , CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Twilight , The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Jordan Gelber
TSOA
Avenue Q , The Sopranos , Law & Order: SVU
Gina Gershon
TSOA 1983, B.F.A.
The Insider , Showgirls , Bound
Tavi Gevinson
GAL *
Editor, writer, actress
[ 118] [ 119]
Donald Glover
TSOA 2006, B.F.A
Actor, rapper under the stage name Childish Gambino
Mark Gordon
TSOA
Television and film producer; former president of the Producers Guild of America
Lou Gossett
CAS , 1959, B.A.
Roots , An Officer and a Gentleman
Bryan Greenberg
TSOA *
Prime
Rachel Griffin-Accurso , better known as Ms. Rachel
Master’s degree in music education
YouTuber, social media personality, songwriter, and educator
[ 120]
Peter Guber
Stern , M.B.A.
Mandalay Pictures
Matthew Gray Gubler
TSOA 2002, M.F.A.
Criminal Minds , (500) Days of Summer , 68 Kill , The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Michael C. Hall
TSOA 1996, M.F.A.
Six Feet Under , Dexter
Regina Hall
GSAS 1997, M.A.
Scary Movie
Walter Hampden
POLY
Actor
Wood Harris
TSOA 1983, M.F.A.
Above the Rim
Anne Hathaway
Gallatin, TSOA *
The Princess Diaries , The Devil Wears Prada , Ella Enchanted , Rachel Gets Married , Alice in Wonderland
Ethan Hawke
CAS *
Training Day , Dead Poets Society , Before Sunrise , Before Sunset
Amy Heckerling
TSOA , B.F.A.
Look Who's Talking , Loser , Clueless
Antony Hegarty
TSOA , (E.T.W.) 1992 B.F.A.
Antony and the Johnsons : Swanlights , The Crying Light , I Am a Bird Now (UK Mercury Prize 2005)
Israel Hicks
M.F.A.
Stage director who presented August Wilson 's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle
[ 121]
Philip Seymour Hoffman
TSOA 1989, B.F.A.
Capote , Boogie Nights , Happiness , Magnolia , The Talented Mr. Ripley , Almost Famous
Todd Holoubek
TSOA 2002, B.F.A.
MTV: The State
Wendy Hoopes
TSOA 2002, B.F.A.
Spinster , Killing Cinderella , Daria
Edward Everett Horton
POLY
Character actor
Bryce Dallas Howard
TSOA
The Village , Lady in the Water , Terminator Salvation , Twilight: Eclipse
Shawn Michael Howard
TSOA , B.F.A.
Boycott , Above the Rim , 3000 Miles to Graceland
Neal Huff
TSOA , M.F.A.
Take Me Out , The Little Dog Laughed
Felicity Huffman
TSOA
Transamerica , Desperate Housewives
Mark Indelicato
GAL , current student
Actor
Jim Jarmusch
TSOA *
Stranger than Paradise , Down By Law , Broken Flowers
Tamara Jenkins
TSOA
Slums of Beverly Hills
Alexa Ray Joel
TSOA *
Singer-songwriter, pianist
Kristen Johnston
TSOA , B.F.A.
3rd Rock from the Sun
Hansol Jung
One-year exchange program
Playwright: Wolf Play, Wild Goose Dreams, No More Sad Things
[ 122]
Jeffrey Katzenberg
TSOA *
Shrek ; co-founder of DreamWorks
Daniel Dae Kim
TSOA 1996, M.F.A.
ABC series Lost , CBS Series Hawaii Five-0
Karlie Kloss
GAL , current student
Fashion model
[ 123]
Stanley Kramer
TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
High Noon , Cyrano de Bergerac
Peter Krause
TSOA 1990, M.F.A.
Six Feet Under , Parenthood , 9-1-1
Martin Kunert
TSOA
Voices of Iraq , MTV's Fear
Tony Kushner
TSOA 1984, M.F.A.
Tony Award
Eriq La Salle
TSOA , B.F.A.
ER
Ang Lee
TSOA , M.F.A.
Life of Pi , Brokeback Mountain , Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon , Sense and Sensibility
Spike Lee
TSOA 1982, M.F.A.
Malcolm X , Do the Right Thing , Bamboozled , Jungle Fever
Thomas Lennon
MTV: The State , Reno 911! , Taxi (screenwriter)
Ken Leung
CAS , B.A.
Lost , X-Men: The Last Stand , Shanghai Kiss
Janet Lilly
TSOA 1982, B.A.
Principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
[ 124]
Bai Ling
TSOA 1991–??
Anna and the King
Zoe Lister-Jones
TSOA B.A.
The Little Dog Laughed
Victoria Loke
GAL
Actress
[ 125]
Julia Loktev
M.F.A
The Loneliest Planet , Day Night Day Night , Moment of Impact
Billie Lourd
GAL
Actress
Brigette Lundy-Paine
2015
Actor, Atypical , Bill & Ted Face the Music , I Saw the TV Glow
Bruce Mailman
M.F.A.
Theatre founder of the nightclub The Saint
[ 126]
Charlotte Manson
radio actress
[ 127]
Rooney Mara
GAL *
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , Trash , Her
[ 128]
Demetri Martin
Law
Comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
Jesse L. Martin
TSOA 1989, M.F.A.
Ed Green in Law and Order ; Rent
Mary Stuart Masterson
TSOA *
Fried Green Tomatoes , The Postman
Melina Matsoukas
TSOA *
Director of "We Found Love" by Rihanna, "Diva" by Beyoncé
Dwayne McDuffie
TSOA
Television, film, and comic book writer, producer, and editor
John C. McGinley
TSOA
Intensity , Scrubs , Point Break
Camila Mendes
TSOA 2016
Veronica Lodge on Riverdale
[ 129]
Idina Menzel
TSOA *
Wicked , Rent , Enchanted , Rescue Me , Frozen
Ismail Merchant
Stern , M.B.A.
Co-founded Merchant Ivory Productions
Debra Messing
TSOA 1987, M.F.A.
Will and Grace , NBC's Smash
Leah Meyerhoff
TSOA 2007, M.F.A.
Twitch
Matthew Morrison
TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
Glee , The Hunt for Red October , Pearl Harbor , The Aviator , 30 Rock
Rachel Morrison
TSOA
Fruitvale Station, Cake, Sound of My Voice
[ 130]
Kate Mulgrew
TSOA 1976, A.A.
Star Trek: Voyager , Orange is the New Black
Javier Muñoz
TSOA
Actor who played Usnavi in the Broadway musical In the Heights ; currently playing the titular role in the Hamilton musical
Jeff Nimoy
CAS , B.A.
Naruto , Digimon , Trigun
Jerry O'Connell
TSOA 1997, B.F.A.
Crossing Jordan, Mission to Mars
Charlie O'Connell
TSOA 1995, B.F.A.
Sliders , The Bachelor
Vivek Oberoi
TSOA
Indian actor
Ryan Scott Oliver
TSOA 2007, M.F.A
Musical theatre composer, Mrs. Sharp , Darling , 35MM
Ashley Olsen
GAL *
Full House , It Takes Two , Two of a Kind , New York Minute
Elizabeth Olsen
TSOA 2013
Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene , Avengers: Age of Ultron , Godzilla , In Secret
[ 131]
Mary Kate Olsen
GAL
Full House , It Takes Two , Two of a Kind , New York Minute
Haley Joel Osment
TSOA 2010, B.F.A.
The Sixth Sense , Pay It Forward , AI , Secondhand Lions
Pedro Pascal
TSOA B.F.A.
Game of Thrones , Narcos , The Mandalorian , Wonder Woman 1984
Jeremy Piven
TSOA
Actor and producer; best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage , for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards
Joya Powell
STEINHARDT 2005, M.A.
Bessie Awards winning choreographer and educator
Keith Powell
TSOA
Television actor, 30 Rock
Jorge Pupo
TSOA 1981, B.F.A.
Actor, narrator
Ted Raimi
B.A.
seaQuest DSV , Xena: Warrior Princess
Anthony Rapp
TSOA 1989*
Rent , Six Degrees of Separation , Dazed and Confused
Brett Ratner
TSOA
Tower Heist , New York, I Love You , Rush Hour
AnnaSophia Robb
GAL , current student
Actress
[ 132]
Matt Rogers
CAS
Las Culturistas , I Love That For You , Fire Island
Meg Ryan
CAS , B.A.
When Harry Met Sally... , Sleepless in Seattle , City of Angels , You've Got Mail
Joshua Safran
TSOA
Executive producer and writer of Gossip Girl ; executive producer and showrunner for the second season of Smash ; creator, executive producer and showrunner of Quantico
Adam Sandler
TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
Mr. Deeds , Big Daddy , Punchdrunk Love , Funny People , Hotel Transylvania , Happy Gilmore , Billy Madison , Saturday Night Live , GrownUps
Andy Samberg
TSOA 2000, B.F.A.
The Lonely Island , Saturday Night Live , Hot Rod , Brooklyn 99 , Hotel Transylvania , Popstar , Celeste & Jessie Forever , Storks , The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
Taylor Schilling
TSOA
Actress; Screen Actors Guild Awards winner
Lenny Schultz
B.S.
Comedian and gym teacher
Martin Scorsese
CAS 1964, B.A
Steinhardt 1966, M.A.
The Aviator , Casino , Goodfellas , The Last Temptation of Christ , Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , Gangs of New York
[ 133]
Joshua Seth
CAS , 1991, B.A.
Digimon , Wolf's Rain , Trigun
John Patrick Shanley
Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
Moonstruck ; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Alan Shapiro
TSOA 1981, B.F.A.
The Crush , Flipper , Tiger Town , The Outsiders (series)
Sheetal Sheth
TSOA 1997, B.A.
ABCD; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
M. Night Shyamalan
TSOA
The Sixth Sense , Unbreakable , Signs , The Village , The Last Airbender , Lady in the Water
Neil Simon
ARTS 1944–1945*
The Odd Couple ; winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Barry Sonnenfeld
TSOA *
Oz , Men in Black
Eulalie Spence
B.S. 1937
Her, Fool's Errand (opened on Broadway in 1927)
Cole Sprouse
GAL 2015
Friends , Big Daddy , The Suite Life of Zack and Cody , The Suite Life on Deck , Narrator and Jughead Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series)
[ 134]
Dylan Sprouse
GAL 2015
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody , Big Daddy , The Suite Life on Deck
[ 134]
Morgan Spurlock
TSOA , B.F.A.
Supersize Me
Peter Steinfeld
B.A.
Drowning Mona , Be Cool , 21
[ 135]
Peter Sullivan
TSOA
Director, producer, and screenwriter, Secret Obsession
Maura Tierney
TSOA *
ER , Newsradio , Primary Colors
Shenaz Treasury
Took writing course
MTV's Most Wanted , Ishq Vishk , One Life to Live , Luv Ka The End
[ 136]
Colin Trevorrow
TSOA
Home Base , Safety Not Guaranteed , Jurassic World , The Book of Henry
Skeet Ulrich
NYU
Scream , F.P. Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series)
[ 137]
Sunny Wang
Stern , Tisch , B.A., 2005
Taiwanese actor and model
Casey Wilson
TSOA , 2002
Happy Endings , Saturday Night Live
Chandra Wilson
TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
Grey's Anatomy
Mara Wilson
TSOA , 2009, B.F.A.
Matilda , Mrs. Doubtfire , Miracle on 34th Street
Rainn Wilson
TSOA , M.F.A.
The Office
Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
After.Life
Doug Wright
TSOA 1987
Quills ; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Bowen Yang
CAS B.A.
Saturday Night Live
Edward Lee
CAS B.A.
Celebrity Chef
[ 138]
Music
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Milton Babbitt
B.A., 1935
1986 MacArthur Fellow , 1982 Pulitzer Prize special citation
Arthur Berger
B.A., 1932
Composer
Cy Coleman
Steinhardt
Tony Award for City of Angels 1990, On the Twentieth Century 1978
Betty Comden
Steinhardt
Partner of Adolph Green , recipient of several Tony Awards
Clive Davis
CAS 1953, B.A.
Founder of Arista Records
Neil Diamond
CAS 2003, Hon. Ph.D.
Singer/songwriter
Carlos Dengler
CAS
Interpol 's first bassist/keyboardist
Dave Douglas
Steinhardt , B.A.
Jazz trumpeter
Greg Drudy
Previous student
Interpol 's first drummer
Hayden Dunham
GAL
Musician, performance artist, designer
[ 139]
Fred Ebb
B.A., 1939
1967 Tony Award , 1967 Grammy Award for Cabaret
Colleen Fitzpatrick
B.A., 1991
a.k.a. Vitamin C
Bernard Garfield
B.A., 1948
Bassoonist and composer
Stefani Germanotta
TSOA *
a.k.a. Lady Gaga
Midori Goto
GAL 2000, B.A.; NYU 2005, M.A.
Violinist
[ 140]
DJ Cuppy
Steinhardt
Nigerian music producer; daughter of Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola
Albert Hammond, Jr.
TSOA
The Strokes ' guitarist
Antony Hegarty
TSOA
Mercury prize-winning lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons
Izza (singer)
LSS
singer and rapper
Daniel Kessler
GAL
Interpol 's guitarist/backing vocalist
Paul Banks
GAL
Interpol 's guitarist/lead vocalist
Talib Kweli
previous student
member of rap duo Black Star
[ 141]
Elodie Lauten
Steinhardt 1986, M.A.
Composer
Tania León
Steinhardt
famous conductor, composer of "Scourge of Hyacinths",
Enoch Light
Steinhardt
pioneer of music recording
Melissa Manchester
independent studies, 1970–1971
1982 Grammy Award
[ 142]
Jackie McCullough
M.A. Philosophy
Gospel musician and pastor
David Portner
former student
Founding member of experimental band Animal Collective
Maggie Rogers
B.F.A., 2016
Musician
Jerry Ross
studied under Rudolph Schramm
Composer
Rick Rubin
former student, lived on campus
Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
Carole Bayer Sager
B.A., 1979
1987 Grammy Award
Sajeeb Saha
GAL
a.k.a. Jai Wolf
[ 143]
Blake Schwarzenbach
B.A., 1991
Lead singer for bands Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil
Patti Scialfa
Gallatin; received music degree after transferring from the University Of Miami
Singer and guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
Wayne Shorter
Steinhardt 1956, B.M.E.
Influential hard-bop and modal jazz saxophonist
Russell Simmons
former student
Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
William Oscar Smith
B.A., 1942
Jazz double bassist, known for 1939 Coleman Hawkins recording of Body and Soul
Eileen Southern
Steinhardt 1961, Ph.D.
First African American woman appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard
Louise Talma
B.A., 1927
Composer
Mary Wilson
Gallatin
The Supremes
Austin Wintory
Steinhardt , B.M. , 2005
Grammy-nominated composer for video games and film
Arca
TSOA
Grammy-nominated musician, record producer, and DJ
[ 144]
Elle Varner
TSOA
Singer, songwriter, producer
Dot da Genius
POLY
Singer, record producer and mixing engineer
Dasychira (musician)
TSOA , 2019
Performer, songwriter, producer
A Great Big World
Steinhardt
Singers and songwriters, known for the Grammy Award winning song Say Something
Taylor Swift
Tisch Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree
Singer and songwriter, 11 wins for Grammy Award until 2023
Academy Award winners
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Mahershala Ali
TSOA 2000, M.F.A.
Academy Award 2017, Moonlight ; 2019, Green Book
Woody Allen
TSOA 1953*
Academy Award 1977, Annie Hall ; 1986, Hannah and her Sisters
Michael Arndt
TSOA 1987
Academy Award 2007, Little Miss Sunshine
Elmer Bernstein
ARTS 1942, B.A.
Academy Award 1968, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mark Bridges
ARTS 1987, M.F.A.
Academy Award 2012, The Artist
James L. Brooks
TSOA *
Academy Award 1984, Terms of Endearment
John Canemaker
TSOA
Academy Award 2006, The Moon and the Son
Joel Coen
TSOA , 1978, B.F.A.
Academy Award 1996, Fargo ; 2008, No Country For Old Men
[ 145]
Geoff Fletcher
TSOA 1999, M.F.A.
Academy Award 2010, Precious
Whoopi Goldberg
GSAS
Academy Award 1991, Ghost
[ 146]
Steve Golin
TSOA
Academy Award 2016, Spotlight
[ 147]
Louis Gossett Jr.
ARTS coursework*
Academy Award 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman
Marcia Gay Harden
TSOA 1981, M.F.A.
Academy Award 2000, Pollock
Anne Hathaway
GAL , TSOA
Academy Award 2012, Les Misérables
[ 148]
Bernard Herrmann
WSC student under Percy Grainger
Academy Award 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster
Lora Hirschberg
TSOA 1985, B.F.A.
Academy Award 2011, Inception
Philip Seymour Hoffman
TSOA 1989, B.F.A.
Academy Award 2005, Capote
Angelina Jolie
TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
Academy Award 2000, Girl, Interrupted
Charles Kaufman
TSOA 1980
Academy Award 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Burt Lancaster
TSOA coursework*
Academy Award 1960, Elmer Gantry
Ang Lee
TSOA , M.F.A.
Academy Award 2005, Brokeback Mountain ; 2012, Life of Pi
Spike Lee
TSOA , M.F.A.
Academy Award 2019, BlackKklansman
-
Luke Matheny
TSOA , M.F.A.
Academy Award 2011, God of Love
Alan Menken
ARTS , B.A.
Academy Award 1995, Pocahontas ; 1992, Aladdin ; 1991, Beauty and the Beast ; 1989, The Little Mermaid
[ 149]
László Nemes
TSOA
Academy Award 2016, Son of Saul
[ 147]
Ken Perlin
GSAS 1986, Ph.D.
Academy Award 1997, for the development of Perlin noise
Carole Bayer Sager
CAS 1979, B.A.
Academy Award 1981, Arthur's Theme
Thelma Schoonmaker
TSOA
Academy Award 2005, The Aviator
John Patrick Shanley
Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
Academy Award 1987, Moonstruck
Oliver Stone
TSOA 1970, M.F.A.
Academy Award 1978, Midnight Express ; 1986, Platoon ; 1989, Born on the Fourth of July
Jim Taylor
TSOA 1996
Academy Award 2004, Sideways
Marisa Tomei
TSOA 1983, B.F.A.
Academy Award 1992, My Cousin Vinny
Fred Waller
POLY
Academy Award winner; inventor of Cinerama ; inventor of the Waller Gunnery Trainer ; first to patent the water ski ; made 200 short films for Paramount Pictures
Paul Francis Webster
ARTS 1928–1930 *
Academy Award 1953, "Secret Love "
Victor J. Zolfo
TSOA 1985
Academy Award 2009, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Emmy Award winners
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Woody Allen
TSOA 1953*
Emmy Award 1957
Aziz Ansari
STERN
Emmy Award 2016 for Master of None
[ 150]
Rachel Brosnahan
TSOA 2012, B.F.A.
Emmy Award 2017 for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
Sterling K. Brown
TSOA
Emmy Award 2016 for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
[ 151]
Vinnette Justine Carroll
GSAS 1946, M.A.
Emmy Award 1964 for "Beyond the Blues"
Cy Coleman
Steinhardt
Emmy Award
Ayo Edebiri
TSOA 2017
Emmy Award 2024 for The Bear
Wayne Federman
TSOA
Emmy Award 2022 Producer George Carlin's American Dream
Vince Gilligan
TSOA
Emmy Award , a writer and producer for The X-Files
Emily Harper
TSOA
Emmy Award 2016 for Key & Peele
[ 151]
Tony Kushner
TSOA 1984, M.F.A.
Emmy Award
Harvey Leonard
ENG , M.S.
He received two New England Emmy Awards for outstanding achievement in television weathercasting
Camryn Manheim
TSOA 1987, M.F.A.
Emmy Award for The Practice
Jonathan Meath
TSOA 1979, B.A.
Emmy nominations TV production
[ 152]
Debra Messing
TSOA 1993, M.F.A.
Emmy Award 2003 for Will and Grace
David Milhous
TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
Emmy Award 2017 for Crime Watch Daily
Ami Miron
POLY , M.S.
He received two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
Olivia Smith (journalist)
Steinhardt 2011, B.S.
Emmy Award 2016 for "Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash"
Jonathan Stern
TSOA
Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
[ 151]
Paul Tazewell
TSOA
Emmy Award 2016 for The Wiz Live!
[ 151]
David Wain
TSOA
Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
[ 151]
Jeffrey Wright
TSOA *
Emmy Award 2003
Grammy Award winners
Tony Award winners
Name
Relation to NYU
Tony Awards won
Reference
Nina Arianda
TSOA 2009, M.F.A.
"Best Actress in a Play " for Venus in Fur (2012)
Marc Bell
SPS 1989, M.S.R.E.
Producer; "Best Musical " for Jersey Boys (2006), "Best Play " for August: Osage County (2008), "Best Play" Stereophonic (2024)
[ 156]
Trazana Beverley
TSOA , M.F.A.
"Best Featured Actress in a Play " For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1977)
Barry Bostwick
TSOA , 1968 M.F.A.
"Best Actor in a Musical " for The Robber Bridegroom
Cy Coleman
Steinhardt
Composer, five Tony Awards from 1978 – 1991
Betty Comden
Steinhardt
Librettist, twelve Tony Awards from 1953 – 1991
Fred Ebb
ARTS 1955, B.A.
Lyricist, three Tony Awards: Cabaret (1967), Woman of the Year 1981, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993)
Marcia Gay Harden
TSOA , 1988 M.F.A.
"Best Actress in a Play " for God of Carnage (2009)
Nikki M. James
TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
"Best Featured Actress in a Musical " for The Book of Mormon (2011)
[ 157]
Steve Kazee
TSOA 2005, M.F.A.
"Best Actor in a Musical " for Once (2011)
Bradley King
TSOA , M.F.A.
"Best Lighting Design in a Musical " for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
[ 158]
Tony Kushner
TSOA 1984, M.F.A.
Playwright. "Best Play " Angels in America (part 1 in 1993, part 2 in 1994)
Mimi Lien
TSOA 2003, M.F.A.
"Best Scenic Design in a Musical " for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
[ 158]
Idina Menzel
TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
"Best Actress in a Musical " for Wicked (2004)
Donna Murphy
TSOA 1980, B.F.A.[citation needed ]
"Best Actress in a Musical " for Passion (1994) and The King and I (1996)
Clint Ramos
TSOA 1997, M.F.A
"Best Costume Design in a Play " for Eclipsed (2016)
[ 159]
John Patrick Shanley
Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
Playwright. "Best Play " for Doubt: A Parable (2005)
Stephen Spinella
TSOA , 1982 M.F.A.
"Best Featured Actor in a Play " for Angels in America (part 1, 1993), "Best Actor in a Play " for Angels in America (part 2, 1994)
Paul Tazewell
TSOA 1989, M.F.A
"Best Costume Design in a Musical " for Hamilton (2016)
[ 159]
Barbara Whitman
GAL 1988
Producer, four Tony Awards: Red (2010), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014), Fun Home (2015), The Humans (2016)
[ 159]
Jeff Whitty
TSOA , 1997 M.F.A.
"Best Book " for Avenue Q (2003)
George C. Wolfe
TSOA , M.F.A.
"Best Direction of a Play " for Angels in America (1993), "Best Direction of a Musical " for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (1996)
Frank Wood
TSOA , 1987 M.F.A.
"Best Featured Actor in a Play " for Side Man (1999)
David Zinn
TSOA 1991, B.F.A
"Best Scenic Design in a Play " for The Humans (2016)
[ 159]
Medicine
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Julius Axelrod
Med 1941, M.Sc.
1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arthur Agatston
Med 1973, M.D.
Author of The South Beach Diet
Peter B. Berger
Med 1983, M.D.
Interventional cardiologist and Director of Clinical Research at Geisinger Clinic
Barouh Berkovits
POLY
Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
Fred Chasan
B.A., 1949
Owner of The Chasan Villa
[ 160]
Frederick Cook
Med 1890, M.D.
Explorer
Fred Epstein
WSC 1959, B.A.
Pediatric neurosurgeon
Albert Warren Ferris
Med 1878, A.B.; 1885, A.M.
President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy and Director of Saratoga Springs State Reservation.
[ 161]
William Alexander Hammond
Med 1848, M.D.
Surgeon General, pioneer in neurology
Robert Jarvik
ENG
Co-Inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Jasper H. Kane
POLY
Developed the practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin
William B. Kouwenhoven
POLY
Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator
Joe Landolina
POLY
Invented Vetigel while an undergrad student
Henry Lee
Med 1974–1975, M.S., Ph.D.
Forensic scientist
Maclyn McCarty
Med 1940–1941, Research Fellow
Demonstrated that DNA transmits genetic traits
Walter Reed
Med
Discovered the mosquito transmission of yellow fever
Albert Sabin
Med 1931, M.D.
Developer of the oral vaccine for polio ; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Arthur M. Sackler
Med , M.D.
Founder of Creedmore Institute of Psychobiological Studies
Jonas Salk
Med 1938, M.D.
Discoverer of the Salk vaccine (the first polio vaccine )
Stephen Smith
Med , M.D.
Founder of the American Public Health Association
John G. Trump
POLY
Helped design X-ray machines that provided additional years of life to cancer patients
[ 162]
Politics, law and government
Members of the United States House of Representatives
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Jerome Anthony Ambro
B.A., 1955
United States House of Representatives
Michael McMahon
B.A., 1979
United States House of Representatives
Martha Roby
B.M. , 1998
United States House of Representatives R-AL (2011-2021)
[ 163]
Lawrence J. Smith
United States House of Representatives
William Bernard Barry
Law LL.B., 1925
United States House of Representatives D-NY 1935–1946
Charles Robin Britt
Law LL.M., 1976
United States House of Representatives D-NC 1983–1985
Peter Angelo Cavicchia
Law LL.B., 1908
United States House of Representatives R-NJ 1931–1937
Earl Thomas Coleman
Wagner 1963, M.P.A.
United States House of Representatives D-MO 1976–1993
Maurice Connolly
Law LL.B., 1898
United States House of Representatives D-IA 1921-1921
Irwin Delmore Davidson
B.S., 1927, Law LL.B., 1928
United States House of Representatives
Lawrence Joseph DeNardis
M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989
United States House of Representatives
Diana DeGette
Law J.D., 1982
United States House of Representatives (1997–)
Steven Boghos Derounian
B.A., 1938
United States House of Representatives
Isidore Dollinger
B.C.S., 1925
United States House of Representatives (1949–1959)
Fred J. Eckert
Law postgraduate work
United States House of Representatives , U.S. Ambassador
Francis Edwin Dorn
Wagner, 1936*
United States House of Representatives
Smith Ely
Law LL.B., 1846
United States House of Representatives
Leonard Farbstein
Law LL.B. 1924
United States House of Representatives (1957–1971)
Hamilton Fish IV
Law LL.B. 1957
United States House of Representatives (1969–1995)
Cornelius Edward Gallagher
Law postgraduate 1948
United States House of Representatives (1959–1973)
Jacob A. Geissenhainer
Law LL.B., 1862
United States House of Representatives
Benjamin A. Gilman
Law LL.B., 1950
United States House of Representatives (1983–2003)
Anthony Jerome Griffin
Law LL.B., 1892
United States House of Representatives (1918–1935)
Frank Joseph Guarini
Law , J.D., 1950, LL.M., 1955
United States House of Representatives (1979–1993)
Cecil Landau Heftel
Graduate Work
United States House of Representatives (1977–1986)
Rush D. Holt, Jr.
GSAS , M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981
United States House of Representatives (1999–)
Stanley Nelson Lundine
Law 1964, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1976–1987)
Mitchell Jenkins
Law 1926, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Edward Aloysius Kenney
Law LL.B. 1908
United States House of Representatives (1933–1938)
Franklin Bartlett
Poly 1865
United States House of Representatives (1893 – 1897)
Eugene James Keogh
Stern , B.S.
United States House of Representatives (1937–1967)
Arthur George Klein
Law 1926, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1946–1956)
Fiorello La Guardia
Law 1908, LL.B.,
United States House of Representatives (1916–1934)
Jefferson Monroe Levy
Law 1873, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1911–1915)
John MacCrate
Law 1906, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Vito Marcantonio
Law , LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Raymond Joseph McGrath
M.A., 1968
United States House of Representatives (1981–1993)
Allan Langdon McDermott
Law 1877, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1900–1907)
Thomas Joseph Meskill
Law 1955, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives , Governor of Connecticut
Denis O'Leary
Law 1890, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Nathan David Perlman
Law LL.B. 1907
United States House of Representatives (1920–1927)
Anning Smith Prall
Law 1908, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1923–1935)
Benjamin Rabin
Law 1917, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Leo Frederick Rayfiel
Law 1908, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Charles B. Rangel
Law 1957, B.S.
United States House of Representatives
B. Caroll Reece
Law 1916, M.A.
United States House of Representatives (1921–1961)
[ 164]
Matthew John Rinaldo
Wagner 1979, M.P.A.
United States House of Representatives (1973–1993)
[ 165]
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
Law 1952, LL.M.
United States House of Representatives (1962–1983)
Chris Shays
Stern 1974, M.B.A. Wagner 1978, M.P.A
United States House of Representatives
Isaac Siegel
Law 1901, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Daniel Edgar Sickles
Law 1846, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Andrew Lawrence Somers
coursework*
United States House of Representatives
James Tallmadge, Jr.
1st President of NYU
United States House of Representatives (1817–1819)
Ludwig Teller
Law 1935, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives (1957–1961)
Herbert Tenzer
Law 1927, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Nydia Velázquez
M.A., 1976
United States House of Representatives (1992–)
Elijah Ward
Law 1843, LL.B.
United States House of Representatives
Arthur Vivian Watkins
1909–1910
United States House of Representatives
Leo C. Zeferetti
1963*
United States House of Representatives
Members of the United States Senate
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Lamar Alexander
Law 1965, J.D.
United States Senate
Rudy Boschwitz
Stern M.B.A., 1950, Law J.D., 1953
United States Senate
Edward Irving Edwards
Law , LL.B.
United States Senate (1923–1929), Governor of New Jersey
Henry Drury Hatfield
Med M.D., 1904
United States Senate (1929–1935), Governor of West Virginia
Jacob Javits
CAS 1923, B.A., Law 1926, LL.B.
United States Senate
Morgan Lewis
one of the founders of NYU
Governor of New York (1804–1807)
James Edward Murray
Law 1900, J.D.
United States Senate (1934–1961)
Tasker Lowndes Oddie
Law 1895, LL.B.
United States Senate (1921–1933)
James Aloysius O'Gorman
Law 1887, J.D.
United States Senate (1911–1917)
Bob Packwood
Law 1957, J.D.
United States Senate (1969–1995)
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
B.A., 1929
United States Senate (1963–1981)
Elihu Root
Law 1867, LL.B.
United States Senate
Arthur Walsh
Stern 1915
United States Senate
United States Governors
Ambassadors
Judges
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Shirley Abrahamson
CAS
Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
G. Steven Agee
Law
Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ; former Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Julio M. Fuentes
GSAS M.A.
United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
John Greaney
Law
Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
Cynthia H. Hall
Law
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
[ 168]
William C. Hill
Arts & Science , B.A , 1939Law , J.D. , 1941
Associate Justice, Vermont Supreme Court
[ 169] [ 170]
Dennis G. Jacobs
Law
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judith S. Kaye
Law , LL.B., 1958
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
M. Blane Michael
Law
Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Pauline Newman
Law
Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
William C. Brennan
Law
Justice, New York Supreme Court
Marian P. Opala
Law LL.M.
Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
Thomas Buergenthal
Law J.D., 1960
Judge, International Court of Justice (2000 -)
Doris Ling-Cohan
Law J.D., 1979
Judge, New York State Supreme Court
William A. Wachenfeld
POLY
Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959
Nabil Elaraby
Law LL.M., 1969; J.S.D., 1971
Judge, International Court of Justice
Gonzalo Parra Aranguren
Law LL.M., 1952
Judge, International Court of Justice
Burton B. Roberts
B.A., 1943; Law 1949
Bronx New York Supreme Court judge known for his no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom became the model for the character of Myron Kovitsky in the book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
[ 171]
Richard V. Thomas
NYU Master of Laws
Chief Justice of the Wyoming high court; Member of the Wyoming Supreme Court , 1974–2001
[ 172]
Theodore Trautwein
Law
Judge who sentenced a reporter from The New York Times to 40 days in jail in the "Dr. X" trial of Mario Jascalevich
[ 173]
James Lopez Watson
B.A., 1947
Judge, United States Court of International Trade
Louis Freeh
Law LL.M., 1984
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ; Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1993–2001)
Attorneys
United States Cabinet members, foreign government, royalty, and other
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Alessandra Biaggi
Steinhardt B.A., 2008
New York State Senator
Cristina Federica de Borbon
GSAS M.A., 1991
Princess of Spain
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
United States Commissioner of Education , fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Richard Campagna
M.A.
Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate
Sripati Chandrasekhar
GSAS Ph.D., 1944
Indian Minister of Health and Family Planning under Indira Gandhi
Dae-whan Chang
GSAS Ph.D., 1987, M.A., 1985
Prime Minister, South Korea
[ 174]
Humayun Chaudhry
Physician; CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards
Li-an Chen
GSAS Ph.D.
Secretary of Defence, Taiwan (1990–1993), President of the Control Yuan
Demos Chiang
Stern B.S.
Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek
Eugene Chien
GSAS Ph.D., 1973
Foreign Minister of Taiwan
Chelsea Clinton
Wagner Ph.D. student, 2010–
Former First Daughter; child of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton ; wife of Marc Mezvinsky
George Cromwell
POLY
New York state senator
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.
Law
White House Counsel, 1987–89
Stavros Dimas
GSAS M.A., 1969
European Commissioner for the Environment
William Henry Draper, Jr.
GSAS M.A., 1917
Under Secretary of War and the Army
Juan Carlos Echeverry
GSAS Ph.D., 1996
Finance Minister of Colombia
Mark Everson
GSAS M.S., 1977
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Anthony Foxx
Law
United States Secretary of Transportation ; served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009–2013.
Jason Greenblatt
Law
United States Special Representative for International Negotiations
Carmen Fariña
Former New York City Schools Chancellor , the head of the New York City Department of Education .
Vanita Gupta
Law
Head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice
Ephraim Katzir
POLY
Fourth President of Israel ; chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department
Henry Lee (forensic scientist)
GSAS
Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir
Israeli politician; served as a member of the Knesset, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Deputy Speaker and Deputy Minister of Health
Carl Gatto
POLY
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
Fortunato de la Peña
POLY
Secretary of Science and Technology at the Philippine Department of Science and Technology ; former chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development
Chung Sye-kyun
Wagner M.A., 1983
Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea
Frank Padavan
POLY
New York state senator
George T. Burling
POLY
New York state senator
Ivan Itkin
POLY
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Vincent O'Rourke
POLY
Commanding officer of a number of aviation units as well as the USS Rainier (AE-5) and USS Tripoli (LPH-10) ; two-time recipient of the Navy Cross , the Navy's second highest award for valor
Ed Koch
Law
Mayor of New York City
Bill de Blasio
Mayor of New York City
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Sister of US President Barack Obama ; professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shimon Peres
President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres also served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel.
Teresa Patterson Hughes
Steinhardt
California State Senator
[ 175]
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
Steinhardt
Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States.
Lamar Alexander
Law 1965, J.D.
U.S. Secretary of Education , U.S. Senator from Tennessee
Ruth Balser
Ph.D.
Member of the Mass. House of Representatives (1998–present)
Bill Bell (mayor)
Mayor of Durham, North Carolina.
Michael Benjamin
B.A., 1992
U.S. Senate Candidate
Chi Mui
POLY
First Asian-American Mayor of San Gabriel, California
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Law
Saudi Arabian politician; Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 to 1986; a minister in OPEC for 25 years
Shamma Al Mazrui
UAE Minister of State for Youth
[ 176]
Ali Khatami
POLY
Chief of staff of Iran; brother of former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami
Phil Amicone
ENG
41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York
Rafael Piñeiro
Wagner MPA
First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)
Sal Albanese
Steinhardt
New York City Council member
Mohamed ElBaradei
Law LL.M., 1967
Vice President of Egypt ; Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997–)
Neil Barofsky
Law
SIGTARP, the Special United States Treasury Department Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), from late 2008 until his resignation at the end of March 2011
Isaac Herzog
Israeli politician; chairman of the Labor Party ; was the opposition leader in the 19th Knesset
Maria Olympia
Princess of Greece and Denmark
[ 177]
Guillermo Endara Galimany
Postgraduate work, NYU Law
President of Panama (1989–1994)
John William Gilbert
GSAS
Secretary of State for Transport , Secretary of State for Defence
Rudy Giuliani
Law J.D., 1968
Mayor of New York City (1994–2001)
Camillo Gonsalves
BsC in Global Affairs
Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations (2007– )
[ 178]
John Grenier
Taxation , L.LM, 1955
United States Senate candidate, 1966; Alabama Republican Party chairman; Birmingham lawyer
Seth Harris
Law , J.D., 1990
U.S. Department of Labor , Deputy Secretary of Labor , 2009–; U.S. Department of Labor , Counselor to the Secretary, 1993–2000
Muhammad Hassanein
GSAS M.A., 1966
Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt
Lazarus Joseph
LAW 1912
N.Y. State Senator (21st District 1934–44, 24th District 1945) and Comptroller of the City of New York (1946–1954)
Meir Kahane
GSAS M.A., 1957
Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset
Raymond W. Kelly
Law LL.M.
Police Commissioner of New York, Under Secretary of the Treasury
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Law J.D., 1989
Son of President John F. Kennedy
Fiorello La Guardia
Law 1908, LL.B.
Mayor of New York City (1934–1945)
Samuel Levy
University of the City of New York 1894, B.S.
Manhattan Borough President (1931–1937)
Ying-jeou Ma
Law LL.M., 1976
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Marie-Chantal Miller
IFA
Princess of Greece
Robert Mueller
GSAS M.A. 1967
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under George W. Bush
Callistus Ndlovu
M.A., 1969
Zimbabwean member of parliament and cabinet minister
[ 179]
Giorgos Papakonstantinou
Stern
Minister of Economy & Finance, Greece
[ 180]
Samuel Pierce
Law LL.M., 1952
US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Louis Romano
Ed.D.
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
[ 181]
Vaughn Stewart
Law J.D., 2014
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Queen Sylvia of Buganda
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree 1985
Queen consort of Buganda , the traditional kingdom in central Uganda
[ 182]
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
B.A., 1929
United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Leonard M. Pomata
POLY B.S.
5th Secretary of Technology of Virginia
[ 183]
Elihu Root
Law 1867, LL.B.
Secretary of War (1899–1903), Secretary of State (1905–1909)
Jessica Rosenworcel
Law 1997, J.D.
Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (2021–)
[ 184] [ 185]
Rodney Vandergert
NYU Master of Laws
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka
Ernst Joseph Walch
Law M.C.J., 1981
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liechtenstein
John White
Master's degree in public administration
Louisiana State Superintendent of Education since 2012
[ 186]
Barbara Wright
M.A., Nursing Education
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
[ 187]
Hun Manet
MA
Prime Minister of Cambodia
Activists and advocates
Religion
Press, literature, and arts
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Kathy Acker
Author of Blood and Guts in High School
James Truslow Adams
POLY , 1898
Writer and historian; coined the term "American Dream " in his 1931 book The Epic of America
Warren Adler
B.A., 1949
Author of War of the Roses and Random Hearts
Kenny Albert
CAS 1990, B.A.
Play-by-play broadcaster, New York Rangers and Fox Sports
David Antin
GSAS 1966, M.A.
Recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry
Kelli Arena
TSOA 1985 B.F.A.
CNN reporter and anchor 1985-2009
[ 192]
Ann Shoket
1994, B.A.
Editor in Chief of Seventeen Magazine
Jacob M. Appel
GSAS 2000, M.F.A.
Author of Arborophilia , Creve Coeur ; idiosyncratic bioethicist
[ 193]
Ted Baehr
Law , J.D.
Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission
Maria Bartiromo
CAS , 1987 B.A.
News anchor on CNBC ; author
Venia Bechrakis
M.F.A
Artist
Katherine Behar
2006, M.A
Artist
Leigh Behnke
1976, M.F.A
Artist
Ib Benoh
Steinhardt 1993, D.A.
Artist
[ 194]
Barbara Bloemink
M.F.A. Fine and decorative arts
Author, art historian
[ 195]
Judy Blume
1961 B.S., Education
Writer of children's literature and young adult fiction
Stacey Bradford
M.A., Journalism
Financial journalist, author, and commentator
Rita Mae Brown
Law 1964, M.A.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Eileen Rose Busby
earned B.A. at age 62
Author
Candace Bushnell
CAS , B.A.
Her New York Observer column became the basis for Sex and the City
Elaine Cameron-Weir
2010, MFA
Artist
Bliss Carman
visiting scholar
Canadian poet
Corrine Grad Coleman
M.A.
Women's liberation activist, co-founder of Redstockings
[ 196]
Suzanne Collins
TSOA 1989, M.F.A.
Television writer and novelist, author of the series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy .
[ 197]
Howard Cosell
CAS , B.A.
Sports journalist
Countee Cullen
CAS , 1925, B.A.
Author of Ballad of the Brown Girl , Color, Color
Noon Meem Danish
Former teaching staff
Urdu poet
[ 198]
Miriam Davenport
IFA *
Painter and sculptor
Midge Decter
ARTS *
Journalist
Nieves Zuberbühler
Journalist
Erica De Mane
CAS
Author of The Flavors of Southern Italy
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications
Information artist
[ 199]
Crystal Eastman
Law 1907, LL.B.
Leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism
Stephen Edlich
Fine Arts 1967
Artist, known for collage, sculpture, prints
[ 200]
Ralph Ellison
Faculty 1970–1980
American Academy of Arts & Letters
Warren Farrell
PhD in political science 1974
Educator, gender equality activist and author of seven books including The Myth of Male Power
[ 201]
Wayne Federman
TSOA *
Author of Maravich ; comedian, The Tonight Show
Tom Ford
TSOA *
Design Director for Gucci
William Gaines
CAS 1948, B.A.
Founder of MAD magazine
Michael Gartner
Law 1972, J.D.
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Elizabeth Gilbert
CAS B.A., 1991
Author of Eat, Pray, Love
[ 202]
Jorie Graham
TSOA 1973, B.F.A.
Known for complex metaphors and philosophical content
Adolph Green
WSC 1938*
Met Betty Comden at NYU
Saskia Hamilton
M.A. in English and creative writing, 1991
Poet and scholar of Robert Lowell
[ 203] [ 204]
Raymond P. Hammond
GAL 2000, MA
Editor-in-Chief of New York Quarterly
Sean Hannity
coursework*
Co-host of Hannity and Colmes on Fox News Channel
Joseph Heller
WSC 1948
Author of Catch-22
[ 202]
Perez Hilton
B.A., 2000
Blogger, columnist and television personality.
Safiya Henderson-Holmes
B.A.
Poet, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award
[ 205]
Don Hewitt
coursework*
Creator of 60 Minutes
Idil Ibrahim
Director and producer; founder of Zeila Films
Andrew Jacobs
studied architecture and urban design
New York Times journalist; documentary film director and producer
[ 206]
Jamie Johnson
GAL 2003, B.A.
Filmmaker
[ 207]
David Kaufman
GSAS , M.A.[citation needed ]
Contributor to the Financial Times , The New York Times , Details , and the Fox Business Network
Swati Khurana
GAL 2001, M.A.
Artist and writer
[ 208]
Alen Pol Kobryn
CAS*
Poet
[ 209]
Sally Kohn
Law
Contributor for the Fox News Channel
William Lashner
Law , J.D.
Author of legal thrillers
Ira Levin
ARTS 1950, B.A.
Known for the broadway musical Deathtrap
Paul Levinson
WSC 1974 B.A.; Steinhardt 1979 Ph.D.
Author of The Plot To Save Socrates
Charles Battell Loomis
POLY
Author
Leonard Maltin
WSC , B.A. (journalism)
Film critic on Entertainment Tonight
Demetri Martin
Law *
Comedian, The Daily Show
Carson McCullers
GSAS *
Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Frank McCourt
WSC 1953, B.A.
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or autobiographical Writing
Leonard Michaels
WSC 1953, B.A.
Essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy
Janet Mock
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, M.A.
Author and journalist known for her 2014 memoir Redefining Realness
[ 210]
Davi Napoleon
TSOA 1989 Ph.D.
Arts journalist and reviewer; author of Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater
Daniel Nayeri
Studied writing
Author of Everything Sad Is Untrue
[ 211]
William Phillips
GSAS 1930, M.A.
Co-founder of Partisan Review
James Amos Porter
GSAS , M.A.
Painter and art historian
Dorothy Rabinowitz
GSAS 1960, Ph.D.
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Carole Radziwill
Stern
Journalist, author, and television personality
Herman Raucher
WSC , B.A.
author and screenwriter, Summer of '42 , Ode to Billy Joe
Charles Reznikoff
Law 1916, LL.B.
Objectivist poet
Charlie Rose
Stern 1968, coursework*
Emmy award -winning journalist, television producer, host of PBS 's Charlie Rose Show , and correspondent for CBS 's 60 Minutes
[ 212]
J. D. Salinger
coursework*
Author of Catcher in the Rye .
[ 213]
Gerald Schoenfeld
Law , J.D.
Chairman of the Shubert Organization (1972–2008)
[ 214]
Ben Shahn
Artist
John Patrick Shanley
Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
Recipient of Pulitzer Prize , Academy Award , Tony Award
Arleen Schloss
Education 1965, B.S.
Sound poet, performance and video artist, curator, early childhood educator
Sara Shepard
ARTS *
Author of Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series
George Segal
ENG 1950, B.S.
Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures
Robert Sobel
CAS 1957, Ph.D.
Business historian; author of For Want of a Nail
Danielle Steel
TSOA 1963–1967*
Romance novel author
Darin Strauss
ENG 1996, M.F.A.
Guggenheim-winning novelist; Chang and Eng , The Real McCoy
Harold C. Schonberg
GSAS 1939, M.A.
1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Beth Ames Swartz
1959, M.A.
Artist
[ 215]
John Paul Thomas
GSAS 1954, M.A.
Artist and educator; studied with William Baziotes
Amy Vanderbilt
B.A. 1929
Authority on manners, mores
Brian K. Vaughan
Y: The Last Man , Ex Machina , Pride of Baghdad
Joel Wachs
(born 1939) — Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City
Gene Weingarten
CAS 1972
2008 and 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Saul Williams
GSAS 1995, M.A.
Author of The Seventh Octave and Said the Shotgun to the Head
Robert Anton Wilson
1957–1958
Author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy
James N. Wood
Former Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago (1980–2004); President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust
[ 216]
Gary Schwartz
WSC 1961, B.A.
Art historian
[ 217]
Stephanie Stebich
IFA M.A.
Art historian
[ 218]
Edgar Peters Bowron
IFA 1969, M.A., 1979, Ph.D.
Art historian
[ 219]
Alix Strauss
Author
Pulitizer Prize winners
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
James Truslow Adams
POLY
1921 Pulitzer Prize for History
Milton Babbitt
ARTS 1935, B.A.
1982 Pulitzer Prize , Special Citation , "for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer"
Jorie Graham
undergraduate/Film
1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Michael Gartner
Law 1972, J.D.
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Morton Gould
CAS , studied under Abby Whiteside
1995 Pulitzer Prize for Stringmusic
Galway Kinnell
professor
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Frank McCourt
CAS 1953, B.A.
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Autobiographical Writing
George Perle
GSAS 1956, Ph.D.
1986 Pulitzer Prize for Woodwind Quintet No. 4
Dorothy Rabinowitz
GSAS 1960, Ph.D.
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
James Ford Rhodes
CAS , 1865– *
1916 Pulitzer Prize for History of the Civil War
Harold C. Schonberg
GSAS 1939, M.A.,
1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
William Schuman
Stern *
1943 Pulitzer Prize for A Free Song
John Patrick Shanley
Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Charles Simic
CAS 1966, B.A.
1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (The World Doesn't End )
Neil Simon
CAS 1944–1945*
1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers )
Moneta Sleet Jr.
Master's in journalism
1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (Photo of grieving widow Coretta Scott King )
Irwin Unger
professor
1965 Pulitzer Prize for History (The Greenback Era )
Gene Weingarten
CAS 1968–1972
2008, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Doug Wright
TSOA 1987
2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Lawrence Wright
fellow, Center for Law and Security
2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Sports
As of 2013, NYU has been associated with at least 74 men and 10 women who have participated as athletes, coaches, or managers at Olympic Games , for a total of at least 28 Olympic medals.[ 220]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Chuck Blazer
Stern , B.S.
FIFA Executive Committee member from 1996 to 2013; CONCACAF General Secretary from 1990 until 2011; Executive Vice President of the U.S. Soccer Federation
Nada Al-Bedwawi
Swimmer; competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Bob Arum
CAS , B.A.
Founder and CEO of Top Rank, one of the most successful professional boxing promotion companies in boxing history
Anjelina Belakovskaia
GSAS 2001, M.S.
U.S. Women's Chess Champion 1995, 1996, 1999
Moe Berg
ARTS 1918–1919*
Major League baseball player, spy, quiz show host
Gary Bettman
Law 1977, J.D.
NHL Commissioner
Georgina Bloomberg
Professional equestrian; daughter of former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg
Ralph Branca
Steinhardt
Professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (1944-1956); played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954); three-time All-Star ; in 1951, he allowed a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson , known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World "
Howard Cann
ENG
Olympic shot putter
Tedford H. Cann
Stern
Champion swimmer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor ; world record holder in swimming; Olympian
Ben Carnevale
NYU basketball player 1934–1938; Navy Basketball coach 1947–1967
Colin Cassady
CAS
Professional wrestler signed to AEW , where he performs under the ring name "Big Bill." Was formerly signed to Impact Wrestling and WWE .
[ 221]
Herbert Cohen (fencer)
1962
Olympic fencer
Rudy D'Amico
NBA basketball scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
Phil Edwards (runner)
Won three bronze Olympic medals
Eugene Glazer
1962
Olympic fencer
[ 222]
Hank Greenberg
coursework*
Major League baseball player; five-time All-Star; two-time American League MVP; elected to the Hall of Fame
Gary Gubner
World record-holding shotputter and Olympic weightlifter
Happy Hairston
NBA player, 1971 champion with the Los Angeles Lakers
[ 223]
Carol Heiss
CAS
Gold medal winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960
Nat Holman
Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
Samuel Jones
Olympic gold medalist, high jump, 1904
Julia Jones-Pugliese
National champion fencer and fencing coach
Barry Kramer
Pro basketball player and jurist
Martin Lang (fencer)
1972
Olympic fencer
Norman Lewis (fencer)
Olympic fencer
William H. Maddren
POLY , B.S.
Head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team
Edith Master
Olympic bronze medalist equestrian
Shep Messing
Olympic soccer player and broadcaster
Marvin Miller
CAS , B.S.
Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982
Irv Mondschein
Olympic decathlete and three-time U.S. champion, NCAA high-jump champion, and All-East football player
William Morrissey
Stern , B.S.
Professional wrestler known as Big Cass in WWE and W. Morrissey in Impact Wrestling
Boris Nachamkin
NBA basketball player
Reggie Pearman
Steinhardt
Middle distance runner; competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics
April Jeanette Mendez
TSOA *
Professional wrestler under the name "AJ Lee"; three-time WWE Divas Champion
Colette Nelson
PhD 1998, M.S.
IFBB professional bodybuilder
[ 224]
Satch Sanders
NBA player, 1961–1966; champion with the Boston Celtics , 1968–1969
Mika'il Sankofa
CAS , 1988
Olympic gold medalist, fencing, 1988, 1992
Ollie Satenstein
NFL player
Dolph Schayes
NBA player, 3-time FT% leader, 1-time rebound leader, 12-time All-Star, Hall of Fame, and coach
Babe Scheuer
NFL player
Robert Shmalo
CAS
International ice dancing competitor
Ed Smith
1934
NFL Boston Redskins , Green Bay Packers 1936–1937, Model for Heisman Trophy
[ 225]
Moe Spahn
American Basketball League (MVP)
[ 226]
Ken Strong
All-American, 1928
NFL Staten Island Stapletons , New York Giants 1929–1947, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967
Paul Tagliabue
Law 1965, J.D.
NFL Commissioner
Bill Tanguay
NFL player
Sidney Tannenbaum
Two-time All-American basketball guard; left as NYU all-time scorer; pro player
Mary Washburn
CAS
Competed for the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 metres, where she won the silver medal
Peter Westbrook
Stern
Former sabre fencing champion and Olympic medalist
[ 227]
John Woodruff
GSAS 1941, M.A.
Olympic gold medalist, 800 m, 1936
Cy Block
MLB player Chicago Cubs 1942-1946
Eddie Yost
MLB player for Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, LA Angels 1944–1962; All Star Team 1952; Coachof Washington Senators, NY Mets, Boston Red Sox 1962–1985
Peter Zaremba (athlete)
ENG
Competed for the United States in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the hammer throw, where he won the bronze medal
Other
Fictional
The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university:
See also
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