List of Hunter College people

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

=Alumni=

Nobel laureates

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

Pulitzer Prize winners

* James Wright - poet
* Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic

National Medal of Science winners

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

Presidential Medal of Freedom winners

* Antonia Pantoja - activist

cience, technology, medicine, and mathematics

* Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
* Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
* Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
* Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
* Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Arlie Petters - pioneer of Gravitational Lensing
* Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
* Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
* Erich Jarvis - neurologist
* Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer
* Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine

Business and economics

* Robert A. Daly - CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
* Gerard Cafesjian - owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation
* Alan S. Chartock - president and CEO of WAMC
* Mollie Orshansky - developer of the "Orshansky Poverty Thresholds", the main poverty measure in the US
* Sylvia Field Porter - economist and journalist

Law and Politics

Members of Congress

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

tate figures

* Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates

City figures

* Tony Avella - New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
* Tom Murphy - mayor of Pittsburgh
* John Timoney - Miami chief of police
* Adolfo Carrión Jr. - Bronx borough president

Lawyers

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

Activists

* Antonia Pantoja - activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
* Mamphela Ramphele - Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
* Madeleine Cosman - health care and immigration advocate
* Judith Vladeck - labor lawyer and civil rights advocate
* Sandra Schnur - pioneer of disability rights
* Norma Becker - anti-war activist
* Audre Lorde

Journalism and news

* Richard Cohen - Washington Post columnist
* Corine Hegland - award winning journalist
* Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
* Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician and expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict

Literature

* James Wright - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
* Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
* Paule Marshall - author
* Lucy Dawidowicz - author
* Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
* Martin Greif - writer, publisher
* René Taupin - writer
* Grace Andreacchi - writer
* Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
* Colin Channer - writer
* Gary Shteyngart - author
* Malka Lee - poet

Film, theater, and television

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

Art, architecture, and engineering

* Robert Altman - "Rolling Stone" photojournalist
* Maurice Berger - art critic and historian
* Jack Coggins - illustrator
* Francisco Costa - creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
* Mildred Dresselhaus - National Medal of Science winning engineer
* Echo Eggebrecht - painter
* Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
* Ada Louise Huxtable - Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic
* Kathleen Kucka - painter
* Terrance Lindall - artist
* Robert Morris - sculptor
* Dan Walsh - painter
* Eli Wilner - founder of Eli Wilner & Co art gallery
* Brian Wood

Music

* David S. Sampson - composer

Military

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

Education

* Dr. Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
* Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
* John Taylor Gatto
* Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
* Burton Pike
* Kay Toliver - mathematics educator

Fictional alumni

* Chad Kroski

Non-graduating attendees

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

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

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

References