- List of Columbia University people
This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to
Columbia University .Nobel laureates
As of October 2006, 76 Nobel laureates are associated with Columbia University. 39 Nobel laureates are the alumni of Columbia University. 17 of these alumni have also served on the faculty or staff of the university. There are 37 non-alumni Nobel laureates who have been in service to the university. Columbia University does not count Visiting Professors as one of its own. Only those professors who have spent a year or more at the University are counted.
Alumni
Chemistry 1932 Irving Langmuir (B.S., 1903; M.A., 1906) 1946 John H. Northrop (B.S., 1912; M.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1915) 1972 William H. Stein (Ph.D., 1938) 1981 Roald Hoffmann (B.A., 1958) 1985 Herbert A. Hauptman (M.A., 1939) 1989 Sidney Altman (graduate student, teaching assistant, 1960 to 1962) 2001 William S. Knowles (Ph.D., 1942) 2005 Robert H. Grubbs (Ph.D., 1968) 1971 Simon S. Kuznets (B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926) 1972 Kenneth J. Arrow (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1951) 1976 Milton Friedman (Researcher, 1943 to 1945; Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1937 to 1940 and 1964 to 1965) 1993 Robert W. Fogel (M.A., 1960) 1996 William S. Vickrey (M.A., 1937; Ph.D., 1948; faculty member, 1946 to 1996) 1997 Robert C. Merton (B.S., 1966) Peace 1906 Theodore Roosevelt (Law student, 1880 to 1882) 1931 Nicholas Murray Butler (B.A., 1882; M.A., 1883; Ph.D., 1884, president of Columbia, 1902 to 1945) Physics 1923 Robert A. Millikan (Ph.D., 1895) 1944 I.I. Rabi (Ph.D., 1927; faculty member, 1929 to 1988) 1965 Julian S. Schwinger (B.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1939) 1972 Leon N. Cooper (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1954) 1975 James Rainwater (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1939 to 1986) 1978 Arno A. Penzias (M.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1962) 1980 Val L. Fitch (Ph.D., 1954; faculty member, 1953 to 1954) 1988 Leon M. Lederman (M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951; faculty member, 1951 to 1989) 1988 Melvin Schwartz (B.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958; faculty member, 1958 to 1966, 1991 to 2006) 1989 Norman F. Ramsey (B.A., 1935; Ph.D., 1940; faculty member, 1941 to 1947) 1995 Martin L. Perl (Ph.D., 1955) Physiology ormedicine 1946 Hermann J. Muller (B.A., 1910; M.A., 1911; Ph.D., 1916; faculty member, 1918 to 1920) 1950 Edward C. Kendall (B.S., 1908; M.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1910) 1956 Dickinson W. Richards (M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923; faculty member, 1925 to 1973) 1958 Joshua Lederberg (B.A., 1944; medical student, 1944–1946; faculty member, 1990 to 1999) 1964 Konrad E. Bloch (Ph.D., 1938; faculty member, 1938 to 1946, 1966) 1967 George Wald (M.A., 1928) 1973 Konrad Lorenz (Columbia College, 1922 to 1923) 1976 Baruch S. Blumberg (Grad student in Mathematics, 1946 to 1947; M.D., 1951; resident, 1951–1953; fellow 1953–1955) 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (B.S., 1942; research scientist, 1948 to 1950) 1989 Harold E. Varmus (M.D., 1966; Presbyterian Hospital staff, 1966 to 1968, University Trustee, 2002 to 2005) 1998 Louis J. Ignarro (B.S., 1962) 2004 Richard Axel (A.B., 1967; resident, fellow and research scientist, 1971 to 1978; faculty member, 1978 to present) Faculty, research fellows and others
Chemistry 1934 Harold C. Urey (faculty member, 1929 to 1945) 1960 Willard Libby (research scientist, 1941 to 1944) 2008 Martin Chalfie (William R Kenan Jr. Professor, current Chair of Biological Sciences) 1982 George J. Stigler (research scientist, 1942 to 1945; faculty member, 1947 to 1958) 1987 Robert Solow (fellowship year, 1949 to 1950) 1992 Gary S. Becker (faculty member, 1957 to 1970) 1999 Robert Mundell (faculty member, 1974 to present) 2000 James J. Heckman (faculty member, 1970 to 1974) 2001 Joseph Stiglitz (faculty member, 2001 to present) 2006 Edmund Phelps (faculty member, 1971 to present) Literature 1987 Joseph Brodsky (faculty member, 1978 to 1985) 1991 Nadine Gordimer (faculty member, 1971 to 1972, 1976 to 1978, 1983) 1992 Derek Walcott (faculty member, 1979, 1981 to 1983, 1984) 2006 Orhan Pamuk (visiting scholar, 1985 to 1988; fellow, 2006 to present) Peace Physics 1938 Enrico Fermi (faculty member, 1939 to 1945) 1949 Hideki Yukawa (faculty member, 1949 to 1954) 1955 Polykarp Kusch (faculty member, 1937 to 1972) 1955 Willis E. Lamb (faculty member, 1938 to 1952, 1960 to 1961) 1957 Tsung Dao Lee (faculty member, 1953 to present) 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer (faculty member, 1940 to 1946) 1964 Charles H. Townes (faculty member, 1948 to 1961) 1975 Aage Bohr (faculty member, 1949 to 1950) 1976 Samuel C.C. Ting (faculty member, 1964 to 1967) 1979 Steven Weinberg (faculty member, 1957 to 1959) 1981 Arthur L. Schawlow (faculty member, 1949 to 1951, 1960) 1984 Carlo Rubbia (postdoc at Nevis Laboratories , 1958 to 1960)1988 Jack Steinberger (faculty member, 1950 to 1970, 1985 to 1986, 1988 to 1998) 1998 Horst L. Stormer (faculty member, 1998 to present) 2006 John C. Mather (postdoc in Goddard Institute for Space Studies , 1974 to 1976)Physiology ormedicine 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan (faculty member, 1904 to 1928) 1956 Andre F. Cournand (faculty member, 1935 to 1988) 1969 Salvador E. Luria (faculty member, 1940 to 1942) 1976 D. Carleton Gajdusek (postgraduate training, 1946 to 1947) 1978 Daniel Nathans (intern and medical resident, 1954 to 1959) 1982 Sune Bergström (research fellowship, 1940 to 1941) 1990 E. Donnall Thomas (faculty member, 1955 to 1963) 2000 Eric Kandel (faculty member, 1972 to present) 2004 Linda Buck (postdoctoral fellow, 1980 to 1984; research scientist, 1984 to 1991) Fields Medalists
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Jesse Douglas — (attended Columbia College from 1920–1924) winner of theFields Medal in 1936
*Stephen Smale —Professor of Mathematics, winner of theFields Medal in 1966 and theWolf Prize inMathematics in 2006/7Founding Fathers of the United States
Founding Fathers of the United States are the political leaders who signed theDeclaration of Independence or theUnited States Constitution , or otherwise participated in theAmerican Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.*
Alexander Hamilton —Founding father, co-author ofThe Federalist Papers , the first Secretary of Treasury
*John Jay —Founding Father, First Chief Justice of theUnited States Supreme Court , political theorist
*Robert Livingston—Founding Father, drafter of theDeclaration of Independence , U.S. Minister toFrance , negotiator of theLouisiana Purchase
*Gouverneur Morris —Founding father, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canalPresidents of the United States
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Theodore Roosevelt —(Law) 26thPresident of the United States , Nobel Peace Prize recipient
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt —(Law) 32ndPresident of the United States , consistently been ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in scholarly surveys
*Dwight Eisenhower —Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, President ofColumbia University , 34thPresident of the United States Presidents and Prime Ministers (International)
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Giuliano Amato —(M.A.Law 1963) Prime Minister ofItaly
*Hafizullah Amin —(Ph.D. 1962) President ofAfghanistan
*Toomas Hendrik Ilves —President of Estonia
*Marek Belka —Prime Minister of Poland
*Wellington Koo —President of the Republic ofChina
*Mary Robinson —President ofIreland
*Mikhail Saakashvili —(Law 1994) President of theDemocratic Republic of Georgia (2004–present)
*Tang Shaoyi —Prime Minister of the Republic ofChina
*Abdul Zahir—(M.D.) Prime Minister ofAfghanistan Notable alumni and attendees
Politics, military and law
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Alexander Hamilton — the firstUnited States Secretary of Treasury
*Madeleine Albright —(Ph.D. 1976, LLD [hons.] 1995) 64thUnited States Secretary of State , the first female Secretary of State
*B. R. Ambedkar —(M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1928, LLD [hons.] 1952) A founding father of modernIndia and the architect of its constitution; honoured with theBharat Ratna , India's highest civilian award, given for the highest degree of national service
*William Pelham Barr— (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1973) 77thUnited States Attorney General , 1991–1993
*Samuel Blatchford —U.S. Supreme Court Justice
*Hans Blix —Swedish diplomat
*Boutros Boutros-Ghali —(Fulbright Research Scholar, 1954–1955) Secretary-General of theUnited Nations
*Harold Brown—Secretary of Defense in the Carter Administration; Former president ofCaltech
*Pat Buchanan (Journalism)—Conservative commentator, speechwriter, senior advisor to three U.S. presidents
*Arthur Frank Burns —(B.A. 1925, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1934) Austrian-born U.S. economist, Chairman of theCouncil of Economic Advisers (1953–1956),Chairman of theFederal Reserve System (1970–1978), Ambassador toBonn (1981–1985)
*Benjamin Cardozo — US Supreme Court Justice
*Whittaker Chambers — in the Ware group, famously testified againstAlger Hiss
*Shirley Chisholm —(M.Ed. Teacher's College) First African American woman elected to congress. RepresentedBrooklyn ,New York in congress for seven terms. First African American and first woman to make a serious bid for the presidency of the United States.
*DeWitt Clinton —Governor of New York State,Mayor of New York City, main proponent of the Erie Canal
*Morris Cohen—, subject ofHugh Whitemore 's drama for stage and TV "Pack of Lies"
*Bainbridge Colby — (1891)U.S. Secretary of State
*Colgate Darden —Governor of Virginia, president of the University of Virginia
*Gray Davis —(Law)Governor of California
*John Watts de Peyster —(M.A.)—Major General during theAmerican Civil War , Author, Historian
*Howard Dean —(GS,Pre-med)—ChairmanDemocratic National Committee ,Governor of Vermont
*Thomas E. Dewey —(Law 1925)Governor of New York (1943–1955)
*William Joseph Donovan (Wild Bill)—Wartime head of the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
*William O. Douglas —U.S. Supreme Court justice
*Miguel Estrada —B.A. 1983—controversial nominee to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
*Hamilton Fish —(1827)U.S. Secretary of State ,Governor of New York
*De Witt C. Flanagan (c. 1892), represented ushr|New Jersey|4 from 1902 to 1903. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000185 De Witt Clinton Flanagan] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress ". AccessedSeptember 5 ,2007 .]
*Francis "Gabby" Gabreski—(B.A. 1949) Fighter ace of World War II and Korea
*Ruth Bader Ginsburg —(Law)Associate Justice of theUnited States Supreme Court
*Bela Gold —Economist onVenona list of suspected Soviet subversives who operated in the U.S.
*Dore Gold —(B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1984) U.S.-born Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to theUnited Nations (1997–1999), President of theJerusalem Center for Public Affairs
*Matt Gonzalez —(B.A. 1987) Ralph Nader 2008 vice presidential running mate, former president San Francisco of Board of Supervisors
*Mike Gravel —(B.S. 1956) Democratic Senator from Alaska, candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election
*Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.—(B.A. 1978) Judge of theU.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
*Jack Greenberg—(B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948) litigator of Brown v. Board of Education, Professor atColumbia Law School
*Alan Greenspan —Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, studied for a PhD in economics
*Judd Gregg —Republican Senator from New Hampshire (2005)
*Jim Hightower —Progressive activist
*Johan Jørgen Holst —(B.A. 1960) Norwegian Foreign Minister, The Oslo Accord of 1994 between Israel and the Palestinians
*Charles Evans Hughes — Chief Justice of US Supreme Court;U.S. Secretary of State
*Richard C. Hunter —US Senator from Nebraska (1934-5)
*Jacob Javits —Republican Senator from New York (1957–1981)
*John Jay —first Chief Justice of theU.S. Supreme Court
*Thomas Kean —Governor of New Jersey (1982–1990), President ofDrew University , Chairman of controversial9/11 Commission
*Jeane Kirkpatrick —(Ph.D. 1968, political science) US ambassador to UN under Reagan
*John H. Langbein —(B.A. 1964), legal scholar and professor atYale Law School
*Frank Lautenberg —(B.Sc. 1949, economics) Democratic Senator from New Jersey
*Sander M. Levin —(M.A. 1954, international relations)—US Congressman from Michigan
*Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby—(J.D. 1975) novelist, indicted ex-chief of staff for Vice PresidentDick Cheney and signatory to controversial manifesto "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (2000) of theProject for the New American Century
*John Lindsay —Mayor of New York City (1966–1973)
*Seth Low —University president, Mayor of New York City
*Li Lu —Law/Business, leader of theTiananmen Square protests of 1989
*James McGreevey —(B.A. 1978)Governor of New Jersey (2002–2004). [Halbfinger, David M. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EED81039F934A35752C1A9679C8B63 "Man in the News; Flexibility in Victory; James Edward McGreevey"] , "The New York Times ",November 7 ,2001 . AccessedDecember 4 ,2007 . "He spent three semesters at Catholic University in Washington before transferring to Columbia University, where he majored in political science and graduated in 1978."]
*John McLaughlin— political commentator, host of "The McLaughlin Group " on PBS
*James Meredith —American civil rights movement figure
*Robert Moses —Controversial leader of mid-century urban "renewal" that re-shaped New York mainly through destructive highway projects
*Constance Baker Motley —First African-American woman federal court judge, NYS Senator, Manhattan Borough president
*Michael Mukasey —(B.A. 1963), United States Attorney General (2007–present)
*Barack Obama —(B.A. 1983) Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005), first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election
*Charles J. O'Byrne —(B.A. 1981, J.D. 1984), Secretary to the Governor of New York (2008–present)
*George Pataki —(Law 1970) Governor of New York (1995–2006)
*David Paterson —(B.A. 1977) firstAfrican American Governor of New York
*Victor Perlo — involved inHarold Ware spy ring and Perlo group as shown inVenona list of suspected subversives
*Mario Laserna Pinzón —(B.A. 1948) Colombianstatesman andeducator ; founder, Universidad de los Andes
*Norman Podhoretz —editor of "Commentary", a founder ofNeoconservatism connected with the controversialProject for the New American Century
*Bernard Redmont —(M.S. 1939)
*Stanley Forman Reed —US Supreme Court justice
*William Remington —(M.A. 1940) convicted in the Sound and Myrna groups; killed in prison
*Hyman G. Rickover —USN Admiral, father of the US nuclear submarine fleet
*James P. Rubin—(B.A. 1982, M.A. 1984) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1997–2000)
*Charles F.C. Ruff —(Law) Washington lawyer, represented Anita Hill (vs. Clarence Thomas) and Bill Clinton (impeachment)
*Brent Scowcroft -(M.A., Ph.D.) National Security Advisor under Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush
*Craig Silverman —U.S. Army Judge Advocate, thinker
*Thomas Sowell —African American economist and author
*Ben Stein —(B.A. 1966) Actor, conservative commentator
*George Stephanopoulos —(B.A. 1982) Senior advisor toBill Clinton , television anchor
*Leon Sullivan (M.A. 1947) Civil rights activist, anti-apartheid activist, long-time GM Board Member, and Baptist Minister
*Harlan Fiske Stone —Chief Justice of US Supreme Court;U.S. Attorney General
*Telford Taylor —chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
*George Tenet —(M.I.A.) director ofCentral Intelligence Agency
*Daniel D. Tompkins —6thVice President of the United States ,Governor of New York
*Harry Dexter White —senior Treasury official for FDR, helped found World Bank/IMF, alleged inVenona list to be
*Charles Wilkes —U.S. Navy Admiral, noted for his 1838–1842 Pacific expedition as well as for his role in the "Trent" Affair during the Civil War.
*Prince Hussain Aga Khan (2004) - Elder son of Prince KarimAga Khan IV
*Dov Zakheim —Rabbi, Defense Department comptroller (2001–2004), ex-V.P. of [http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/FTS System Planning Corp.,] signatory to controversial manifesto "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (2000) of theProject for the New American Century Business
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John Jacob Astor III —19th century real estate baron
*Frank Lusk Babbott —(LLB 1880) jute merchant and art patron
*Warren Buffet —(M.B.A.) Investor, president ofBerkshire Hathaway
*Bennett Cerf —Founder ofRandom House
*Jason Epstein —Editorial director atRandom House
*Stephen Friedman—Chairman of Goldman Sachs, National Economic Council director, chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
*Mario Gabelli —investor
*Michael Gould —CEO ofBloomingdale's
*Larry Grossman —former CEO ofPBS andNBC
*Armand Hammer —President, Occidental Petroleum, noted internationalist convicted for illegal campaign donations
*Herman Hollerith —(Engineer of Mines 1879, Ph.D. 1890)- founder of the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor toIBM
*John Kluge —Founder of Metromedia
*Alfred A. Knopf—(B.A. 1912) Founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Publishers
*Robert Kraft —Owner of New England Patriots
*Henry Kravis —(MBA 1969) Investment banker who invented theleveraged buyout
*Randolph Lerner —CEO of MBNA Bank, and owner of Cleveland Browns
*Frank Lorenzo —(B.A. 1961) corporate raider
*John R. MacArthur —(B.A. 1917) President and publisher ofHarper's , the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country
*Eric Ober —Former President ofCBS News division, andFood Network
*Vikram Pandit —(B.S.1976,M.S.1977,Ph.D1986,Trustee) CEO ofCitigroup
*Wayne Allyn Root — (B.A. 1983) Founder & Chairman of Winning Edge International, inducted into Las Vegas Walk of Stars in 2006
*Edwin Schlossberg —(B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971) Founder of ESI Design (also its Principal Designer)
*David O. Selznick —Legendary movie producer
*Robert Shaye —(J.D. 1964) CEO of New Line Cinema
*Lawrence L. Shenfield — (B.A. 1915), Advertising executive and philatelist
*Richard L. Simon —Co-Founder ofSimon & Schuster
*S. Robson Walton —(J.D. 1969) Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart
*Ursula Burns —(M.S. 1981) CEO ofXerox Corporation
*Martha Stewart (Barnard College)Religion and Ministry
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Frederick Buckley Newell (M.A., 1916) —Bishop of The Methodist Church
*Hazen Graff Werner — Bishop of The Methodist Church
*Paula Reimers , RabbiArts and literature
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Max Abramovitz —architect for the Avery Fisher Hall ofLincoln Center .
*Mitch Albom —(M.A., M.B.A.) Author
*John Ashbery —Poet
*Isaac Asimov —(B.S. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) Science fiction author, "I, Robot "
*Paul Auster —(B.A. 1969) Postmodern author, "The New York Trilogy ", "Moon Palace " (named after now-defunct Chinese restaurant near campus)
*Béla Bartók —Composer, pianist, and early scholar inethnomusicology
*James Blish —Science fiction author
*Sidney Buchman —Academy award winning screenwriter
*Jerome Charyn —(B.A. 1959) Novelist
*John Corigliano —(B.A. 1959) American composer
*Kiran Desai — (M.F.A. 1999) novelist, winner of theBooker Prize for fiction
*Alden B. Dow —(B.A. 1931) notedArchitect
*Peter Eisenmann —(M.A.)Architect
*Walter Farley —(B.A. 1941) Author, "The Black Stallion "
*Amanda Filipacchi —(M.F.A) Author, "Nude Men ", "Vapor", "Love Creeps"
*Richard Florida —(Ph.D. 1986) Author, "Rise of the Creative Class"
*Allen Forte —(B.A.) Music theorist, now Battell Professor of Music, Emeritus atYale University
*Nicholas Gage — Author, "Eleni ", "A Place For Us ", "Greek Fire "
*Paul Gallico —Author, "The Snow Goose ", "The Poseidon Adventure ", "The Silent Miaow"
*Federico García Lorca —(1929–1930) poet & playwright
*Allen Ginsberg —(B.A. 1949)Beat Generation poet
*Philip Gourevitch —(M.F.A. 1992) recipient of theNational Book Critics Circle Award , editor ofThe Paris Review
*Edwin Granberry (1920) writer of theBuz Sawyer comic strip
*Gulgee — (1926–2007)Pakistan i artist famous for his paintings andIslamic calligraphy , qualified engineer
*Anthony Hecht —(M.A.)Pulitzer Prize -winning poet
*Joseph Heller —Author, "Catch-22 "
*Henry Beaumont Herts architect
*Langston Hughes —African-American writer and poet
*Jim Jarmusch —filmmaker
*Jack Kerouac —(College 1940–1942; dropped out) Founder of theBeat Generation movement; author, "On the Road "
*Ursula K. Le Guin —(M.A. 1951) Author primarily known forscience fiction andfantasy novels
*Edward MacDowell —American composer, professor of music
*Carson McCullers —Author, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter "
*John Matteson —(PhD.)Pulitzer Prize -winning biographer (2008)
*Isamu Noguchi —Sculptor
*Walker Percy —(M.D. 1941) Winner of theNational Book Award
*James Renwick, Jr. —(B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839)Gothic Revival architect who designedSt. Patrick's Cathedral, New York and theSmithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., among other commissions.
*J.D. Salinger —Author, "The Catcher in the Rye "
*Robert Silverberg — Science fiction author
*Upton Sinclair —Populist author, "The Jungle "; presidential candidate
*Robert A. M. Stern —(B.A. 1960)Postmodern architect
*Hunter S. Thompson — Author, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas "
*Erica Simone Turnipseed ; Writer
*Mark Van Doren —(Ph.D. 1920)Pulitzer Prize -winning poet
*Charles Van Doren —Author, English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film "Quiz Show "
*Eric Van Lustbader —Author, "The Ninja"
*Kara Walker —Artist, Professor of Professional Practice.
*Eudora Welty —(Business, 1930-31, hon. LHD 1982) Pulitzer Prize winning author, "The Optimist's Daughter "
*George Wyatt , sculptor
*Herman Wouk —Pulitzer Prize -winning author, "War and Remembrance "
*Roger Zelazny —Science fiction authorPerforming arts
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Casey Affleck —Golden Globe -nominated and Oscar-nominated actor
*Sarah Atereth —Dance music recording artist, songwriter, and professional dancer (both modern and ballet)
*Emanuel Ax —(B.A. 1970)—Pianist, wonAvery Fisher prize at age 30, won threeGrammy Awards along with cellistYo-Yo Ma ; also awarded the John Jay Award by the University
*Kathryn Bigelow —Director, "Strange Days"
*Jeremy Blackman —(B.A. 2009)—Actor, starred in "Magnolia"
*Sorrell Booke —(B.A. 1949)—Actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the TV series "Dukes of Hazzard "
*Pat Boone —(B.S. 1957)—Singer and Actor
*Joshua Brand (M.A. 1974) -Emmy Award -winning creator of "St. Elsewhere ", "I'll Fly Away", and "Northern Exposure "
*Sidney Buchman —(B.A. 1923)—screenwriter, won an Academy Award for writing for "Here Comes Mister Jordan] .
*Cara Buono —Actress, "Third Watch "
*James Cagney —Actor, "White Heat " and "Yankee Doodle Dandy " (attended first semester)
*Vanessa Carlton —Singer, songwriter
*Peter Cincotti —Pianist, singer, songwriter, actor, model
*Spencer Treat Clark —(B.A. 2010) Actor, "Gladiator", "Mystic River", and "Unbreakable"
*Bill Condon —Academy Award -winning Writer, "Gods and Monsters ", "Chicago ", and Director, "Kinsey" and "Dreamgirls"
*Ossie Davis —Actor
*Brian Dennehy —(B.A. 1960)—Actor
*Brian De Palma —Movie director, "Carrie" and "The Untouchables"
*I.A.L. Diamond —(B.A. 1941) Co-winner of an Academy Award for writing for "The Apartment "
*R. Luke DuBois —(B.A. 1997, M.A. 1999, D.M.A. 2003)—Composer/artist, member of the "Freight Elevator Quartet "
*Fred Ebb —(M.A. 1957)lyricist who collaborated withJohn Kander on such Broadway musicals as Cabaret, Chicago,Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks ofFunny Lady andNew York, New York
*Matthew Fox—(B.A. 1989)Golden Globe -winning Actor, "Lost", "Party of Five "
*Dan Futterman —(B.A. 1989) Actor, "The Birdcage ", "Judging Amy "
*Art Garfunkel —(B.A. 1965) Singer, songwriter ofSimon and Garfunkel
*Joseph Gordon-Levitt —Actor, "3rd Rock from the Sun " (attended four years in GS but did not graduate)
*Lauren Graham — Actress, "Gilmore Girls " (Barnard College; B.A. 1988)
*James Gunn—Film Director (Slither), Screenwriter (Dawn of the Dead, Scooby-Doo), and Novelist (The Toy Collector )
*Jake Gyllenhaal —Academy Award -nominated Actor, "Brokeback Mountain ", star of "Donnie Darko ", "Jarhead" (attended first two years)
*Maggie Gyllenhaal —(B.A. 1999)Golden Globe -nominated Actress, "Secretary ", star in "The Dark Knight"
*Oscar Hammerstein II —Lyricist and librettist of such musicals as thePulitzer Prize -winning "Oklahoma! ", "The King and I " and "The Sound of Music ", collaborator withRichard Rodgers
*Ed Harris —Golden Globe -winning andAcademy Award -nominated Actor (attended first two years)
*Lorenz Hart —Broadway lyricist, collaborator with bothRichard Rodgers andOscar Hammerstein II , wrote such songs as "Blue Moon ", "The Lady is a Tramp " and "My Funny Valentine "
*Utada Hikaru —Japanese pop singer (did not graduate)
*Lauryn Hill —Grammy Award winning R&B singer, one-timeFugees frontwoman (attended first year)
*Katie Holmes —Actress (only attended a summer session)
*Famke Janssen —Actress
*John Kander —(M.A.)lyricist who collaborated withFred Ebb on such Broadway musicals as Cabaret, Chicago,Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks ofFunny Lady andNew York, New York
*Jean Kelly —Actress
*Alicia Keys —Grammy Award winning Singer, composer (attended first year)
*Joel Krosnick —Cellist ; member of theJuilliard String Quartet ; chairman of Cello Department atJuilliard School
*Tony Kushner —(B.A.)Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright, "Angels in America "
*Sean Lennon — Singer and songwriter, son ofJohn Lennon andYoko Ono (attended first year)
*Al Lewis —(Ph.D. 1941)—Actor, "The Munsters ", basketball scout, New York gubernatorial candidate, restaurateur
*Yo-Yo Ma — Renownedcellist (transferred to Harvard University)
*Herman J. Mankiewicz —(B.A. 1917) Won an Academy Award for co-writing "Citizen Kane "; older brother ofJoseph L. Mankiewicz
*Joseph L. Mankiewicz —(B.A. 1928) Won fourAcademy Awards , includingAcademy Award for Best Director and writing. Younger brother ofHerman J. Mankiewicz .
*Terrence McNally —(B.A. 1960) Dramatist, winner of fourTony Awards , anEmmy , aPulitzer Prize , and twoGuggenheim Fellowship s
*Max Minghella —(B.A. 2009)—Actor, starred in "Syriana " and "Art School Confidential "
*Rachel Nichols—Actress, model
*Anna Paquin —Academy Award-winning actress, "The Piano " and "X-Men " (attended first year)
*Lena Park - Popular Korean singer
*Amanda Peet —Actress, "The Whole Nine Yards"
*Anthony Perkins , Actor, best known for his work asNorman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock'sPsycho
*Richard Rodgers —Composer of musicals including thePulitzer Prize -winning "Oklahoma! ", "The King and I ", and "The Sound of Music ", collaborator withOscar Hammerstein II
*Cameron Russell , Fashion model
*George Segal —(B.A. 1955) Actor, "Just Shoot Me! "
*Julia Stiles —(B.A. 2005) Actress, "Save the Last Dance ", "Mona Lisa Smile "
*Rider Strong —Actor, "Boy Meets World "
*Mario Van Peebles —(B.A. 1978) Actor and Director
*Charles Wuorinen —(B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) American musician, pianist, and composerJournalism
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William M. Abrams - (M.A.) senior executive and journalist for theNew York Times ,ABC News andThe Wall Street Journal
*R.W. Apple —(B.S. 1961) Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau chief,New York Times
*Marcus Brauchli, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal
*Jamal Dajani —(B.A. Political Science) Director of Middle Eastern Programming,Link TV , Producer of winner of aPeabody Award
*Max Frankel —(B.A.) Executive editor, New York Times,Pulitzer Prize winner
*Nicholas Gage — Investigative reporter, Foreign Correspondent,The New York Times (1970–1980), Journalist,The Boston Herald Traveler ,The Wall Street Journal
*Ken Hechtman —Maverick journalist jailed by the Afghanistan'sTaliban government as a suspected spy in 2001
*Jay Irving —reporter, cartoonist, father ofClifford Irving who is best known for perpetrating hoax biography ofHoward Hughes
*Leonard Koppett —Acclaimed sports writer, columnist, author
*Joseph Lelyveld —(M.A., Journalism) Executive editor, New York Times
*Robert Lipsyte —(B.A. 1957) winner of anEmmy Award in 1990, host of "The Eleventh Hour" on PBS, correspondent for The New York Times and ABC Nightly News
*Andrés Martinez—(J.D.) Editorial page editor of theLos Angeles Times
*Gabriele Marcotti —(M.A., Journalism) Football writer for The Times, The Sunday Herald, La Stampa, Il Corriere dello Sport, Host of Five Live Sport on Fridays and The Game Podcast
*John L. O'Sullivan —Editor of the "Democratic Review" during the 1840s, coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny "
*Wayne Allyn Root —Spike TV, Discovery Channel, CNBCCreator, Executive Producer, and Host of "Wayne Allyn Root's Winning Edge" and "King of Vegas " Anchorman & Host FNN- Financial News Network
*Claire Shipman —(B.A. 1986) Senior National Correspondent for ABC, winner of anEmmy Award for herCNN coverage of theTiananmen Square protests of 1989 ; her work also contributed to the CNN network winning aPeabody Award for its coverage of theSoviet coup attempt of 1991
*Richard Smith —(M.I.A.) CEO of "Newsweek "
*Ron Suskind —(M.A. 1983)—Pulitzer prize winning journalist, author
*Tiziano Terzani —reporter and correspondent
*Richard Watts, Jr. - longtime theatre critic for the "New York Post "
*Gideon Yago —(B.A. 2000)—MTV News Correspondent
*Helen Dalley - Respected Australian journalist, currently an anchor withSky News Australia cience and technology
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Roy Chapman Andrews —(M.A.)—Dinosaur bone hunter
*Virginia Apgar —(M.D. 1933) Created theApgar score which is used to evaluate the health of newborn babies
*Edwin Armstrong —(B.S. 1913) Inventor of radio circuitry such as theregenerative circuit andFM radio, pioneer infeedback amplifiers
*Oswald Avery —(M.D. 1904) discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information
*John Backus —(B.S. - mathematics, 1949) Inventor ofFortran programming language
*T. Romeyn Beck —(M.D.) forensic medicine pioneer
*Marie Maynard Daly —(Ph.D. 1947), first African American woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
*Charles Drew —(M.D. 1940) Inventor of blood plasma preservation system
*Helen Flanders Dunbar —(Ph.D. 1929) important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine.
*David Eppstein —(Ph.D. 1989) Computer Scientist
*Gordon Gould —(Ph.D., didn't complete), inventor of thelaser
*Stephen Jay Gould —(Ph.D. 1967) Paleontologist and author
*Benjamin Graham —(B.A. 1914) Father of Modern Security Analysis and value investing, taughtWarren Buffett
*Jean Emily Henley —(M.D. 1940) Wrote the first German anesthesia textbook after World War II
*Robert Jastrow —(B.A, M.A. Ph.D.) Astronomer
*Arthur Jensen —(Ph.D. 1956) Educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
*Radovan Karadžić —(M.D. 1975) Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist
*Kai-Fu Lee —(B.S. 1983) former professor atCarnegie Mellon University , former Vice President atApple Computer , former President of Cosmo Software, establishedChina division ofMicrosoft Research , establishing China research division forGoogle
*William Malisoff —(Ph.D.) Scientist accused of being a in theVenona project
*Robert Moog —Inventor of Moog synthesizer
*Joel Moses —(B.A., M.A.)MIT Provost and author ofMacsyma
*Edward Lawry Norton —(M.S. 1925) Electrical Engineer, discovered the Norton circuit equivalent
*William Barclay Parsons —(B.S. 1879) Civil Engineer
*William Perl —physicist imprisoned for five years for his involvement in the Rosenberg ring ofatomic spies
*Michael I. Pupin —(B.S. 1883)—Inventor of telephone transmission coils and scientist, winner of thePulitzer Prize for his autobiography
*Benjamin Spock —(M.D. 1929)—Olympic rower, physician, author
*John Stevens (inventor) —(A.B. 1768)—Built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the US.Astronauts and aviators
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Kenneth D. Bowersox —(M.S. 1979)
*Kevin P. Chilton —(M.S. 1977)
*Amelia Earhart —(attended one semester, 1920)
*William G. Gregory —(M.S. 1980)
*Michael J. Massimino —(B.S. 1984)
*Story Musgrave —(M.D. 1964)
*Eugene H. Trinh —(B.S. 1972)Academics and theorists
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Mortimer Adler —Founder of the Great Books movement
*Claude Ake (Ph.D. 1966)—Nigerian political scientist
*Frederick A.P. Barnard —University president, namesake ofBarnard College
*Jacques Barzun —Historian
*Ruth Benedict —social anthropologist, author of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ", a World War II-era study of Japanese culture
*Walter Block (Ph.D.)—Austrian School free market economist
*Lee Bollinger (JD 1971)—First Amendment scholar; current president of Columbia, former president of theUniversity of Michigan and former Provost ofDartmouth College ; named defendant in two keyaffirmative action cases in theUnited States Supreme Court
*H. Keith H. Brodie (M.D.)—former chancellor (1982–1985) and president (1985–1993) ofDuke University
*Harold Brown —physicist; former president ofCaltech ; former dean of theSchool of Advanced International Studies ofJohns Hopkins University ; former US Secretary of Defense
*Nicholas Murray Butler —Columbia University President, Nobel Laureate
*Joseph Campbell —Noted professor of mythology
*Wm. Theodore de Bary (B.A.)—East Asian studies expert
*James S. Coles former president ofBowdoin College
*Michael Crow —President ofArizona State University
*John Dewey —Philosopher, developed theory of pragmatism
*Donna Robinson Divine political scientist
*Irwin Edman —Philosopher and writer
*Noam Elkies —Noted mathematician
*Richard Epstein —Noted legal scholar
*Livingston Farrand (M.D.)—public health advocate; President of the University of Colorado andCornell University
*Moses Finley -Historian famous for his work on the ancient economy
*Joshua Fishman (Ph.D.)—Distinguished linguist specializing in social linguistics, language and culture, and Yiddish
*Gilberto Freyre (M.A. 1922)—Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian
*Milton Friedman (Ph.D.)—Free market economist
*Gordon Gee (J.D., Ed.D.)—Chancellor ofVanderbilt University and former president ofBrown University ,Ohio State University , theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder and theWest Virginia University
*Frank Goodnow — president ofJohns Hopkins University
*Lynne Hanley —literary critic
*Edward Harris (B.A. 1971)—Archaeologist, inventor of the Harris Matrix
*Jane Jacobs —Urban theorist
*Edward Kasner (Ph.D. 1899)—Mathematician who coined the termgoogol
*Marshall Kay —Noted geologist
*Donald Keene —Japanese studies expert
*Grayson L. Kirk —University President
*Ruth Landes —author, "City of Women" (1947)
*Paul Lazarsfeld —Founder of the University's Bureau for Applied Social Research
*Joshua Lederberg —Nobel prize-winning biologist and former president ofRockefeller University
* [http://www.harveyjlevin.com Harvey J. Levin] (M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953)—communications economics pioneer
*Anthony Marx —president ofAmherst College
*Peter Likins —electrical engineer; president of theUniversity of Arizona ; former president ofLehigh University
*Seymour Martin Lipset
*Paul Massing —Sociologist in the Redhead group of Soviet spies at the university's Institute of Social Research
*Margaret Mead —Noted anthropologist
*Robert A. Millikan (Ph.D. 1895)—Nobel prize-winning physicist; first to measure the charge of the electron; early president ofCaltech (1921–1945)
*Robert Nozick —Philosopher
*Marvin Opler —Noted anthropologist and social psychiatrist
*Michael Oren
*Peter Pouncey —classicist and former president ofAmherst College
*Jehuda Reinharz — president ofBrandeis University
*Nicanor Reyes, Sr. (Ph.D.)—Founder and 1st President of theFar Eastern University in the City of Manila, Philippines
*Thomas Hedley Reynolds —Historian, President ofBates College .
*Judith Rodin (Ph.D.)—Psychologist;Chancellor and formerPresident of theUniversity of Pennsylvania ; and former provost ofYale University
*James R. Russell — Ancient Near Eastern scholar; professor atHarvard University
*Edward Sapir (B.A. 1904, M.A. 1905, Ph.D. 1909)—Linguist and anthropologist
*Lida Lee Tall - sixth president/principal of State Teachers College at Towson (nowTowson University )
*Stephen Joel Trachtenberg —President ofGeorge Washington University
*Lionel Trilling —Literary critic
*David Truman —Political scientist and educator; former president ofMount Holyoke College
*Andrew Truxal (Ph.D. 1928) — President ofHood College andAnne Arundel Community College
*Sean Wilentz (B.A. 1972)—Chair ofAmerican Studies atPrinceton University ; winner of theBancroft Prize in history
*Jay Winter (B.A. 1966)—World War I scholar atYale University
*Aaron D. Wyner (Ph.D. 1963),information theorist noted for his contributions incoding theory . [Burkhart, Ford. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E2DF1E3CF930A25753C1A961958260 "Aaron D. Wyner, 58; Helped Speed Data Around the Globe"] , "The New York Times ",October 13 ,1997 . AccessedNovember 9 ,2007 .]
*Michael K. Young —president of theUniversity of Utah ; former dean of theGeorge Washington University law school
*Howard Zinn (MA, PhD)—historianports
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Roone Arledge —(B.A.) Pioneer of sports and news broadcasting with ABC, "Monday Night Football", "20/20", etc.
*Norman Armitage — 17-time national champion sabre fencer, and 6-time Olympian
*José Raúl Capablanca —World Chess Champion (1921–1927)
*Gary Cohen —(B.A.) New York Mets television play-by-play announcer
*Annie Duke —professionalpoker player
*Lou Gehrig —(1921–1923)Baseball player for theNew York Yankees , enshrined in theBaseball Hall of Fame , suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (now commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease")
*Edward P. Hurt , Morgan's legendary football, basketball and track coach.
*Erison Hurtault , CC '07, runner
*Max Kellerman — (B.A.)ESPN Radio host andHBO boxing analyst
*Dan Kellner — 4-time All-American, NCAA foil champion, national champion, 2-time Pan American gold medalist and 1-time silver medalist, 1-time Maccabiah silver medalist
*Sandy Koufax —Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
*Howard Lederer — Professionalpoker player, brother ofAnnie Duke
*Sid Luckman —(B.A.)American football quarterback , enshrinee of thePro Football Hall of Fame
*Cliff Montgomery —(B.A.)American football quarterback , enshrinee of theCollege Football Hall of Fame , captain and MVP of Rose Bowl winning squad,Silver Star recipient inU.S. Navy
*Mark Pope —(current medical student) Former NBA player
*Paul Robeson —American football All-American, attorney, musician, activist
*Bob Sheppard , sportsannouncer , "Voice of the Yankees"
*William Milligan Sloane —Founder of the U.S. Olympic Committee
*Keeth Smart , Business School, silver medal, fencing, 2008 Olympics
*David Stern —(J.D.) NBA Commissioner
*Cristina Teuscher — (B.A. 2000) Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer
*Marcellus Wiley —(B.A. 1997)American football player, Pro-Bowl defensive end
*James L. Williams—(B.A.) World Class FencerPolitical activists
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Alex Safian co-director of the (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).Notable faculty
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Alfred Aho —Computer Science professor, the "A" in the programming language AWK.
*Hattie Alexander — Professor of Pediatrics, microbiologist
*Samuel J. Danishefsky — Professor of Chemistry, winner of theWolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
*Charles Beard —Historian and co-author of "The Development of Modern Europe"
*Peter Bearman —Professor of Sociology
*Daniel Bell —Professor of Sociology
*J. Bowyer Bell —Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, and Research Associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies
*Jagdish Bhagwati —Economics professor, author of "In Defense of Globalization"
*Franz Boas —Father of American Anthropology
*Lee Bollinger —University President/law professor, First Amendment scholar,Affirmative Action advocate
*Ronald Breslow —University Professor of chemistry, biology, pharmacology, and engineering.
*Alan Brinkley —Professor of American history and University Provost; son of legendary newscasterDavid Brinkley
*Zbigniew Brzezinski —National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
*Richard Bulliet —History professor andMiddle East scholar, author of "Kicked to Death by a Camel"
*John Burgess —Founder of modern political science
*Partha Chatterjee —Anthropologist and scholar of postcolonial nationalism
*Hamid Dabashi —Cultural and literary critic
*Arthur Danto —Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus, renowned art critic
*William Theodore de Bary—Famous scholar and translator ofEast Asia n texts, particularly the classical Chinese canon
*Donald Dewey —Former Economics professor
*John Dewey —Former Philosophy professor
*Nicholas Dirks —Historian and anthropologist of South Asia
*Theodosius Dobzhansky —Researcher in population genetics
*John R. Dunning —physicist and part of theManhattan Project
*Samuel Eilenberg —winner of theWolf Prize inMathematics in 1986
*Arnold Eisen —Chancellor-elect,Jewish Theological Seminary
*Jon Elster —Robert Merton Professor of Social Science, leading theorist ofrational choice theory ,Marxism , andsocial theory
*William Maurice Ewing —Earth scientist and pioneer
*Enrico Fermi —Manhattan Project member, founder ofFermilab , Nobel laureate
*Miloš Forman —Film director, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Amadeus", "The People vs. Larry Flynt "
*Eric Foner —Noted historian, authority on Reconstruction
*David Freedberg —Art historian
*Erich Fromm —Noted psychologist
*Fred W. Friendly —Pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar
*Herbert J. Gans — Professor of Sociology; author of "Popular Culture and High Culture"
*Frank Gehry —Pritzker Prize -wining architect
*Benjamin Graham —Father of value investing, mentor ofWarren Buffett
*Brian Greene —Mathematics and Physics professor, researcher and popular author in String Theory
*Ross Hassig —anthropologist and Mesoamerica scholar
*Richard Hofstadter —Noted historian
*Ralph Holloway —Physical Anthropologist
*Andreas Huyssen —Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
*David Ignatow —Poet, Bollingen Prize-winner
*Kenneth T. Jackson —Preeminent historian ofNew York City
*Eric Kandel —Neuroscientist, 2000 Nobel laureate
*Donald Keene —Japanese studies expert
*Rashid Khalidi —Middle East historian
*Grayson L. Kirk —former president and instrumental in the founding of theUnited Nations Security Council
*Kenneth Koch —Poet
*Tsung Dao Lee —Physics professor, Nobel laureate
*Konrad Lorenz —Psychology professor, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
*Walther Ludwig —Classical Studies professor
*John Anthony McGuckin —Professor of ByzantineChristian Studies
*Margaret Mead —Professor of Anthropology
*Don Melnick —Professor of Environmental Biology and advisor to the UN on environmental issues
*Edward Mendelson — Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
*Robert K. Merton — Professor of Sociology
*Jacob Millman —Professor of Electrical Engineering
*C. Wright Mills —Professor of Sociology
*Eben Moglen —Law and the Internet Society, General Counsel of FSF
*Sidney Morgenbesser —John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
*Robert Mundell —Economics professor, 1999 Nobel laureate in Economics
*Tristan Murail —Professor of Music Composition, French composer
*Mira Nair —Director of "Monsoon Wedding ", film studies professor
*Franz Leopold Neumann —Political science professor, Communist spy in Redhead group
*Victor Perlo —Economics professor, involved in Harold Ware spy ring and Perlo group as shown inVenona list of suspected subversives in the U.S.
*Edmund Phelps —economist andNobel laureate
*Lorenzo da Ponte —professor of Italian language and literature; librettist toWolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
*Charles Lane Poor —Astronomer
*Jeffrey Sachs —Head of the United Nations Millennium Project to end poverty, author ofThe End of Poverty .
*Edward Said —University Professor, professor of English and Comparative Literature, Palestinian activist, author of "Orientalism ", widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
*Andrew Sarris —Film Studies professor and famous auteur theorist
*Simon Schama —History Professor
*James Schamus —Film Studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, screenwriter and producer
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak —English professor
*Joseph Stiglitz —Economics professor, 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics
*Gilbert Stork —winner of theWolf Prize inChemistry in 1995/6
*Mark Strand —Poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Bollingen and Pulitzer Prize-winner
*Robert Thurman —Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, father of actressUma Thurman
*Charles Tilly —Professor of Sociology
*Lionel Trilling —Literary scholar
*Charles Van Doren —English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film "Quiz Show "
*Mark Van Doren —Pulitzer Prize -winning poet
*Kenneth Waltz —Political Science professor and noted neorealism scribe
*Duncan Watts —Professor of Sociology and author of "Six Degrees" and "Small Worlds"
*Harrison White —Professor of Sociology
*Enos Wicher —Professor and named inVenona list of suspected subversives in the U.S., stepfather ofState Department Flora Wovschin
*Peter Woit —Mathematics professor, skeptic ofstring theory
*Chien-Shiung Wu —Physics professor, first woman to head theAmerican Physical Society and the winner of theWolf Prize inPhysics in 1978References
External links
* [http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/nobel_laureates/by_year.html Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/about/main/one/columbianobels.html Nobel Prize Winners in Physics associated with Columbia University]
* [http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/ Columbians Ahead of Their Time] —list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.
* [http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/after/ After Columbia] "Notable Alumni & Former Students" published by the Columbia University Office of Admissions
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