List of Queens College people

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

Notable alumni

Business

*Robert Bertoldi - Class of '76. CFO of Amphion Innovations PLC and co-founder of VennWorks LLC.
* Frank M. Boccio*- Executive Vice President and CAO, New York Life Insurance Company
*Lawrence Cohen - President and CEO of The Merv Griffin Group of Companies
*Jerry Colonna - Well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
*Daniel Goodman - CEO of Goodman Strategies
*Raphael Green - CEO of Bear Sterns
*Nathan Leventhal - Former President of Lincoln Center
*Allan Loren - Former Chairman & CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
*Kenneth Correa - Current Branch Manager at Leading Wall Street firm. Resident of LeFrak City.
*Donna Orender - WNBA president
*Leonard Schutzman - Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo
*Charles Wang - founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders
*Robert Shustak - Hedgefund manager

Government and politics

*Kevan Abrahams - Nassau County Legislator (D) Nassau County 1st Legislative District
*Gary Ackerman - United States Representative from New York (1983- )
*Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, American political consultant
*Joseph Crowley - United States Representative, New York's 7th congressional district, Queens County Democratic Chairman
*Hon. Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist.
*Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
*Alan Hevesi - former New York State Comptroller, former New York State Assemblyman, former Queens College professor
*Dov Hikind - New York State Assemblyman
*Rory Lancman - New York state Assemblyman
*Helen Marshall - Queens Borough President
*Hiram Monserrate - New York City Councilmember
*Jose R. Peralta - New York State Assemblyman
*Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state Senator

Entertainment and media

*Barbara Bach - actress, wife of former Beatle Ringo Starr
*Joy Behar - comedienne and co-host of "The View"
*Adrian Brody - Actor , Academy award winner. Attended as student in 1990
*Fran Drescher - actress, "The Nanny"
*Dennis Elsas - Radio personality: WNEW-FM, WFUV-FM
*Jon Favreau - actor and director (attended 1984-1987, 1988 - dropped out a few credits shy of completing his degree)
*Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
*Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor
*Carole King - songwriter and recording artist
*Richard Kline - "Larry Dallas" in "Three's Company"
*Mary Murphy - Emmy Award-winning TV anchor
*Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975-1978 - dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years)
*Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders. [ [http://msg.com/ourteam_hrose.jsp Howie Rose] , MSG Network. Accessed September 20, 2007. "A graduate of Queens College, Rose’s career began in 1975 when he became one of the original voices for SportsPhone."]
*Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) - radio talk show personality and author
*Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
*Neil Sedaka - singer, pianist, and songwriter
*Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
*George Costanza - fictional television character
*Paul Simon - musician, Simon and Garfunkel
*Ugly Betty Suarez - fictional television character
*Eric Murphy - Fictional televsion character on Entourage (TV series)

Humanities

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

cience and technology

*Richard Laub-paleontologist
*Stanley Milgram - psychologist
*Yuliana Contecha- psychologist
*Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
*Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding 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. Accessed November 9, 2007.]

ports

*Norm Roberts - head coach of St. John's University men's basketball team, as well as a former coach and star player at Queens College

Notable faculty

Famous faculty at Queens College have included
* Charles Repole, actor, theater director
* Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist
* Benny Andrews, artist
* John Tytell, author
* Barry Commoner, biologist
* Thea Musgrave,composer
* Bruce Saylor, composer
* George Perle, composer
* Karol Rathaus, composer
* Joshua Freeman, historian
* David Syrett, naval historian
* Gregory Rabassa, literary translator
* Dennis Sullivan, mathematician
* Stefan Ralescu, mathematician
* Michael Harrington, political philosopher
* Andrew Hacker, political scientist
* Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
* Samuel Heilman, Sociologist
* Salman Ahmed (Junoon), Musician
* Roby Young, Soccer coach
* John Frederick Lange, Jr. , Author

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