List of Brooklyn College alumni

Academia

Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), economist and President of Michigan State University

Joyce Sparer Adler (B.A. 1935), critic, playwright, teacher and Melville scholar

William Alfred (B.A. 1948), playwright and professor of English literature at Harvard University

David Bakan (B.A. 1942), Professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and York University

Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University, has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology

Robert A. Baron (B.A. 1964), Professor of Psychology and Wellington Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management

Samuel Baskin (B.A. 1942), psychologist and educational reformer and first president of the Union Institute & University

Anatole Beck (B.A. 1951), mathematician, known for his Linear search problem

Evelyn Torton Beck (B.A. 1954), scholar and activist who specializes in Women’s Studies, Jewish Women’s Studies, and Lesbian Studies.

Joseph Berger (B.A. 1949), theoretical sociologist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

Barbara Aronstein Black (B.A. 1953), Dean, Columbia University School of Law

Zvi Bodie (B.A. 1965), Boston University Professor of Management and expert in pension finance

Leo Bogart (B.A 1941), sociologist, media and marketing expert

Eva Brann (B.A. 1950), longest-serving tutor (1957–present) at St. John's College, Annapolis and a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal

Alexander Calandra (B.A 1935), scientist, educator, and author, professor of physics at Washington University in Saint Louis

Jules Chametzky (B.A. 1950), literary critic, writer, editor, and unionist

Jonathan Chaves (B.A. 1965), Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the George Washington University and translator of Classical Chinese poetry

Jules Coleman (B.A. 1968), scholar of law and jurisprudence and the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School

Frank J. Coppa (B.A. 1960], American historian, author, and educator who has written widely on the Papacy

Patricia Cronin (M.F.A. 1995), Rome Prize-winning feminist visual artist.

Jules Davids (B.A. 1942), Professor of Diplomatic History at Georgetown University, aided John F. Kennedy in writing Profiles in Courage

Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959), Harvard Law School professor and author

Dorothy Dinnerstein (B.A. 1943), feminist academic and activist

Theodore Draper (B.A. 1933), American historian and political writer; wrote seminal works on the formative period of the American Communist Party, the Cuban Revolution, and the Iran-Contra Affair

Melvyn Dubofsky (B.A. 1955), professor of history and sociology at the Binghamton University, and a well-known labor historian

Yaffa Eliach (B.A. 1967), historian, author, and scholar of Judaic Studies and the Holocaust

Charles Epstein (B.A. 1978), counseling psychologist; NYC hypnotherapist

Helen Fein (B.A. 1955), historical sociologist, professor, specialized on genocide, human rights, collective violence and other issues

Sandra Feldman (B.A 1960), President, American Federation of Teachers

Aryeh Frimer (B.A. 1968), Professor of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University

Herbert J. Freudenberger (B.A. 1952), psychologist, first to describe the symptoms of exhaustion professionally and conduct a comprehensive study on burnout

John A. Garraty (B.A. 1941), historian, biographer, and president of the Society of American Historians

Eugene Genovese (B.A. 1953), historian of the American South and American slavery

Stephen Gillers (B.A. 1964), New York University School of Law professor and expert in legal ethics

Stuart D. Goldman (B.A. 1964) is an American historian, author, and scholar in residence at the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC

David L. Goodstein (B.S. 1960), U.S. physicist, educator, and Vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology

Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and specialist in Objectivism and Aristotle

Alfred Gottschalk (B.A. 1952), President of Hebrew Union College and leader in the Reform Judaism movement

Greg Grandin (B.A. 1991), American historian; professor of history at New York University; finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History

Martin Haberman(B.A. 1953), educator and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee who developed interviewing techniques for identifying teachers and principals who will be successful in working with poor children.

Dennis Hale (M.A. 1969), political scientist; Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College

Oscar Handlin (B.A. 1934), Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, author

Milton Heumann (B.A. 1968), Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University

Raul Hilberg (B.A. 1948), Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)

Gertrude Himmelfarb (B.A. 1942), historian and conservative cultural critic

Eli Hirsch (B.A. 1960), philosopher, the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University

Zoia Horn (B.A. 1939), first librarian ever jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom

Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; Dean at Yale University

Saul Kassin (B.A. 1974), psychologist and distinguished professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York

Israel Kirzner (B.A. 1954), economist

Eva Kollisch (B.A. 1951), writer, literary scholar, pacifist and feminist

Annette Kolodny (B.A. 1962), feminist literary critic and activist

Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University

David Kranzler (B.A. 1953), historian specializing in those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

Sheldon Krimsky (B.S. 1963), Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University

David Laibman (M.A. 1969), Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College; Editor of Science & Society

Jeffrey Laitman (B.A. 1973), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, President-Elect of the American Association of Anatomists

Sandra Leiblum (B.A. 1965), author, lecturer, and researcher in sexology

Harvey Lichtenstein, (B.A. 1951), President and Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Omar Lizardo (B.A. 1997), sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame

Christia Mercer (B.A. 1974), Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University

Allen R Miller (B.S. 1965), mathematician and major contributor to the field of special functions, especially confluent hypergeometric functions

Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist, known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean

Leonard Mirman (B.A. 1963)) Mathematician and economist at the University of Virginia, known for his contributions to economics of uncertainty

[Robert A. Moss} (B.A. 1960) {Chemist} and [Professor} at [Rutgers University] known for contributions to the chemistry of reactive intermediates.

Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), chancellor, California State University (1991–98)

Cindy Nemser (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1964), art historian and writer; founder and editor of the Feminist Art Journal

Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), philosopher concerned with the philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of mass communication

Mary Noe (B.A. 1982), educator; writer; lecturer; Assistant Professor of Law, division of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, St. John's University

John Parascandola (B.A. 1963), medical historian

Alan W. Pollack (B.A. 1970), musicologist, known for having musically analyzed every Beatles song released

Richard M. Pollack (B.A. 1956), geometer and Professor Emeritus at the Courant Institute of New York University; founding co-editor of the journal Discrete and Computational Geometry

Ellen Prince (B.A. 1964), linguist; President of the Linguistic Society of America; pioneer in linguistic pragmatics

Dennis Raphael (B.S. 1972), health policy professor at York University in Toronto

Irving Reiner (B.A. 1944), mathematician, dealt with representation theory of algebras and groups, and number theory

Stuart A. Rice (B.S. 1952), physical chemist at the University of Chicago

Moses Rischin (B.A. 1947), United States Jewish historian and Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University

Leanne Rivlin (B.A. 1952), pioneer in environmental psychology

Milton Rokeach (B.A. 1941), professor of social psychology and developer of the Rokeach Value Survey

Julian Rotter (B.A. 1937), psychologist, pioneered research on locus of control

Ron Sakolsky (B.A. 1966), Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Springfield and a proponent of Low-power broadcasting and Pirate Radio

Jack M. Sasson (B.A. 1962), emeritus Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School whose research focuses primarily on Assyriology and Hebrew Scriptures

Ben-Ami Scharfstein (B.A. 1939), prominent Israeli philosopher; winner of the 2005 Israel Prize

Israel Scheffler (B.A. 1945), philosopher of science and education

Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia

Marjorie Shostak (B.A. 1966), anthropologist; specialist in the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa

Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States

Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis

Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), American and Canadian mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory

Maynard Solomon (B.A. 1950), co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, and musicologist

Lisa Staiano-Coico, aka Lisa S. Coico, (B.S. 1976), president of City College of New York

Salvatore J. Stolfo (B.S. 1974), professor of computer science at Columbia University and a leading expert in computer security

Robert S. Stone (BA 1942), pioneering pathologist; university dean; Director of The National Institutes of Health 1973-1975

Hans Toch (B.A. 1952), prolific author and social psychologist involved in criminology and criminal justice administration

Frank P. Tomasulo (B.A. 1967), film professor, author, and academic administrator at Ithaca College, Georgia State University, Southern Methodist University, and Florida State University; Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Film & Video and Cinema Journal

Henry Wallman (B.S. 1933), mathematician, known for his work in lattice theory, dimension theory, topology, and electronic circuit design

Gerard Washnitzer (B.S. 1947), mathematician

Regina Weinreich (B.A. 1970), writer, journalist, teacher, and scholar of the artists of the Beat Generation

Jack B. Weinstein (B.A. 1943), Columbia Law School professor and Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Aaron Wildavsky (B.A. 1954), political scientist

Beatrice A. Wright (B.A. 1938), psychologist known for her work in rehabilitation counseling

Elisheva Carlebach Jofen (B.A. 1976), scholar of early modern Jewish history

Frieda Zames (B.A. 1954), disability rights activist and mathematics professor

Donald P. Zingale (B.A. 1967), president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill

Business

Harvey Coopersmith (B.A. 1959) Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Music Company, President of Liturgical Music Press, President of Scokis Products Corp., President of American Business Brokers

Fred Bass (B.A. 1949), current owner of New York City's Strand Bookstore

Charles Biderman (B.A. 1967), founder and CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research, Inc.

Joseph Cassano (B.A. 1977), head of Financial Product division at American International Group 1987–2008

Bruce Chizen (B.S. 1978), President and CEO of Adobe Systems

Bernard Cornfeld (B.A. 1950), businessman and international financier, sold investments in mutual funds

Benjamin Eisenstadt (B.A. 1954), creator of Sweet'N Low and the founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation

Irwin Federman (B.S. 1956), businessman, philanthropist and General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners

Jerry Della Femina (A.A. 1957), Chairman and CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners

George Friedman (B.A. 1956), Chairman and CEO of Parallel Communications, Inc.

Robert M. Kaufman (B.A. 1951), New York City attorney, a partner with the law firm Proskauer Rose, and a former president of the New York City Bar Association

Richard LaMotta (B.A. 1969), inventor and principal promoter of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich

Jerry Moss (B.A. 1957), co-founder of A&M Records

Ira Rennert (B.A. 1955), investor and businessman

Steve Riggio (B.A. 1974), CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc.

George H. Ross (B.A. 1951), Executive Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Trump Organization

Barry Salzberg, chief executive officer Deloitte, member of Deloitte's U.S. board of directors, the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Executive Committee, the DTT Global board of directors, Deloitte LLP

Charlie Shrem (B.A. 2012), co-founder and CEO of the Bitcoin startup company BitInstant

Agnes Varis (B.A. 1950), President and founder of Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals

Walter Yetnikoff (B.A. 1955), Columbia Records/Sony Music executive

Entertainment

Letty Aronson (B.A. 1964), film producer; sister of Woody Allen

Obba Babatundé (B.A. 1974), Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actor

Sandy Baron (B.A. 1957), comedian, stage, film, and television actor

Sarah Benson (M.F.A.), theatre director, artistic director of SoHo Rep

Benjamin Bierman (M.M. 2002), Jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader

Susan Birkenhead (B.A. 1957), lyricist

Alvin Boretz (B.A. 1942), television writer for GE Theater, Playhouse 90, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Dr. Kildare, The Defenders, and Kojak

Benjamin Boretz (B.A. 1954), 20th- and 21st-century composer and music theorist

Oscar Brand (B.S. 1942), folk singer, radio host, musicologist

Henry Chan (M.S. 1973), film and television director

Jordan Charney (B.A. 1961), character actor

Dominic Chianese (B.A. 1961), film, television and theatre actor, known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO TV series The Sopranos

Isidore Cohen (B.A 1941), chamber musician, violinist, and member of the Juilliard String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio

Alex Coletti (B.A. 1987), executive producer and director for MTV Networks, now an independent producer

Jon Cypher (B.A. 1953), actor, known for his role as Chief of Police Fletcher Daniels in the police drama Hill Street Blues

Eddie Daniels (B.A. 1963) American, jazz clarinet and alto and tenor saxophone player; also a classical music clarinetist

Alfred Drake (B.A. 1936), musical theater actor and singer

Rebekah Driscoll (M.M. 2012), composer

Edward Efron (B.S 1960), Oscar winner, 1972, for the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing

Sylvia Fine (B.A. 1933), lyricist; wife of comedian Danny Kaye

James Franco (M.F.A. 2010), film and TV actor, author

Richard Frankel (B.A. 1968), six-time Tony Award-winning theatrical producer

Devery Freeman (B.A. 1935), prolific screenwriter, novelist and union activist who helped to establish the Writers Guild of America

Gary William Friedman (B.A. 1958), musician and composer of musical theater

Takeshi Fukunaga (B.A. 2007), Japanese filmmaker; Out of My Hand

Daniel Glass (B.A. 1977), music industry producer

Philip S. Goodman (B.A. 1948), screenwriter, producer, and director

Henry Gross (B.A. 1972), singer-songwriter and founding member of the retro pop group Sha Na Na

Erica Hayden (M.A. 2008), radio personality, television host and psychotherapist

Fred Hellerman (B.A. 1949), folk singer, guitarist, producer and songwriter, primarily known as one of the members of The Weavers

C. Bernard Jackson (B.A. 1948), playwright who founded the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles

Cihan Kaan (B.S. 1999), musician; filmmaker; author; recorded electronic music under the alias "8Bit"

Marvin Kaplan (B.A. 1947), character actor, president of Los Angeles chapter of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists 1989–95; 2003–05

Robert Kerman (B.A. 1970), actor

Woodie King, Jr. (M.F.A. 1999), director and producer of stage and screen, and founding director of the New Federal Theatre

Mousa Kraish (B.A. 1998), actor and director

Tuli Kupferberg (B.A. 1948), counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs

Jean-Claude La Marre (B.A. 1992), Haitian-American writer, director, and film and television actor

Obafemi Lasode (M.A. 1984), Nigerian veteran film actor, songwriter, playwright, film producer and director

Ken Lerner (B.A. 1970), television and film actor

Michael Lerner (B.A. 1962), Academy Award-nominated actor

Michael Lynne (B.A. 1961), co-founder New Line Cinema

Steve Malzberg (B.A. 1982), conservative radio broadcaster and host of The Steve Malzberg Show on the WOR Radio Network

Bob Margolis (B.A. 1974, M.M. 1977), composer of concert music and owner of Manhattan Beach Music Publishers

Paul Mazursky (B.A. 1951), Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, known for An Unmarried Woman, Harry and Tonto and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, among others; producer; actor

Neil Meron (B.A. 1976), film producer, won Academy Award for Chicago in 2003

Jared Mezzocchi (M.F.A. 2009), multimedia theater director, theatrical designer

Oren Moverman (B.A. 1992), Academy Award-nominated filmmaker

Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz (B.A. 1949), folksinger (as Gladys Young), composer and teacher

Jerry Moss (B.A., 1957), co-founder of A & M Records

Larry Namer (B.A. 1971), founder of E! Entertainment TV Network

Sonny Ochs (B.A. 1970), music producer, radio host, sister of singer-songwriter Phil Ochs

Arturo O'Farrill (BMus 1996), jazz musician and current pianist, composer, and director for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Eric Overmyer (M.F.A. 1982), television writer and producer; The Wire

Lee Pockriss (B.A. 1948), songwriter who wrote many well-known popular songs, including "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

Doc Pomus (attended, 1943–45), blues singer, songwriter and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Gil Portes (M.S. 1971), award-winning Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter

Richard Portnow (B.A. 1967), actor, known for a recurring role in The Sopranos

Dennis Prager (B.A. 1970), syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, ethicist, and public speaker

Mark Rappaport (B.A. 1964), independent/underground film director

David Rayfiel (B.A. 1947), screenwriter, frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack

Richard Reicheg (BA 1962, MA 1973), actor, folk singer, and songwriter, known for the song "Looking for an Echo"

Howard Rosenman (B.A. 1965), producer and motion picture executive

Rafael Scarfullery (B.M. 1993), Dominican classical guitarist

George Schindler (B.A. 1952), stage magician, magic consultant, and ventriloquist, "lifetime dean" of the Society of American Magicians

Steve Schirripa (B.A. 1980), actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos

Citizen Kafka (Richard Shulberg), (B.A. 1969), radio personality and folk musician

Roger S. H. Schulman (B.A. 1980), film and television writer and producer, co-wrote the animated feature Shrek

Stuart Seide (B.A. 1967), artistic director of the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, France, and the first American to direct the Comédie-Française

Jimmy Smits (B.A. 1980), actor, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law; won Emmy Award in 1990

Elliot Tiber (attended, but did not graduate), screenwriter, "saved" Woodstock Festival

Tom Topor (B.A. 1961), playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

Adam Wade (M.A. '87), singer, drummer and television actor, noted for his stint as the host of the 1975 CBS game show Musical Chairs, which made him the first African-American game show host

Dirk Weiler (M.M. 2002), singer and actor

Naren Weiss (M.F.A. 2015), actor, playwright, and model

Andrew D. Weyman (B.A. 1973), television director and producer

Fawn Yacker (B.A. 1973), founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor, filmmaker, producer and cinematographer, known for her 2009 documentary Training Rules

Joel Zwick (B.A. 1962), theater and television producer, Family Matters, director of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Government, law, and public policy

Bill Baird (B.A. 1955), reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League

Dorothy Blum (B.A. 1944), American computer scientist, cryptanalyst and National Security Agency officer

Barbara Boxer (B.A. 1962), United States Representative and United States Senator (D – California)

Benjamin Brafman (B.A. 1971), prominent criminal defense attorney

Frank J. Brasco (B.A. 1955), member of the United States House of Representatives 1967–75

Marshall Brement (BA 1951), career United States Foreign Service officer; United States Ambassador to Iceland 1981–1985

Shirley Chisholm (B.A. 1946), first African American U.S. Congresswoman, 1968–82

Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed (B.S. 1973), educator and representative for District 92 of the Florida House of Representatives

Manuel F. Cohen (B.S. 1933), Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1964–69

William Colton (MSed 1971), represents District 47 in the New York Assembly

Donald J. Devine (M.A. 1965), political scientist; author; former director of the United States Office of Personnel Management

Martin Malave Dilan (B.A. 1984), represents District 17 in the New York State Senate

Patricia DiMango (B.A. 1973), television personality and former justice of the Supreme Court of Kings County, New York

Stanley Fink (B.A. 1956), member of the New York State Assembly 1969-1986;Speaker 1979-1986

David Friedman (B.A. 1971), Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department

Jay Goldberg (B.A. 1954) is a well-known American trial attorney in New York City, formerly a member of the Justice Department in the Kennedy administration

Phillip Goldfeder (B.A. '04), Democratic New York State Assembly member from the borough of Queens, 2011-2016.

Arthur Gonzalez (M.S. 1976), United States Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, presided over the bankruptcy proceedings for WorldCom, Enron, and Chrysler

Victor Gotbaum (B.A. 1948), labor leader

Ari Harow (B.A. 2000) former Chief of Staff of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Syed Fahad Hashmi (B.A. 2003), convicted terrorist

Dov Hikind (M.A. 1981), New York State Assemblyman representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48

Rhoda Jacobs (BA 1962), represents District 42 in Brooklyn in the New York State Assembly, where she serves as Assistant Speaker

Ellen Jaffee (B.A. 1965), represents District 55 in the [New York State Assembly

Kimberly Jean-Pierre (B.F.A. 2006), represents the 11th Assembly District in the New York State Assembly

Sterling Johnson, Jr. (B.A. 1963), senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York

Roberta Kalechofsky (B.A. 1952), writer, feminist and animal rights activist; founder of Jews for Animal Rights

Vera Katz (B.A. 1955), mayor, Portland, Oregon, 1993–2005

Larry Kawa (B.S. 1987), American orthodontist and Republican political activist

Edward R. Korman (B.A. 1963), Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Ivan Lafayette (B.A. 1951), member of the New York State Assembly since 1977 and Deputy Speaker of the New York State Assembly since 2006

Sy Landy (B.A. 1952), Trotskyist politician, co-founder of the League for the Revolutionary Party

Mark Lane (J.D., 1951), attorney, author, researcher, and NY State Legislator (1961–62), critic of the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Howard L. Lasher (B.A. 1965), New York State Assemblyman and New York City Councilman; first orthodox Jew elected to state office in New York

Doris Ling-Cohan (B.A. 1976), judge on the New York State Supreme Court

Mark Lowenthal (B.A. 1969), CIA's Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production 2002–2005, where he was a key coordinator and valuator of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom

Alan Maisel (Adv. Cert. 1990), New York State Assemblyman representing District 59

Marty Markowitz (B.A. 1970), New York State Senator; Brooklyn Borough President (2001–2013)

George Martinez (B.A 1998), educator, activist, artist and hip-hop political pioneer

Harvey R. Miller (B.A. 1954), bankruptcy lawyer

Mel Miller (B.A. 1961), member of the New York State Assembly 1971-1991; Speaker 1987-1991

Joan Millman (B.A. 1962), New York State Assemblywoman representing District 52

Joseph Pennacchio (B.S. 1976), represents the 26th Legislative district in the New Jersey Senate

N. Nick Perry (B.A. 1978), New York State Assemblyman representing District 58

Harvey Pitt (B.A. 1965), Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Rosemary S. Pooler (B.A. 1959), Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Deborah Poritz (B.A. 1958), first female Chief Justice, New Jersey State Supreme Court; first female New Jersey Attorney General, 1994–96

Robert Rosenthal (B.A. 1938), highly decorated World War II pilot and assistant to the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

Gene Russianoff (B.A. 1974), staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, New York City-based public transport advocacy group

Edward Sagarin (B.A. 1961), sociologist, pseudonymously wrote The Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach (1951), considered one of the most influential works in the history of the gay rights movement

John L. Sampson (B.A. 1987), represents District 19 in the New York State Senate where he serves in a leadership position as chairman of the Democratic Conference.

Bernie Sanders (attended 1959-1960), United States Senator for Vermont

James Sanders, Jr. (B.A. 1984), represents the 10th Senatorial District in the New York State Senate

Sam Schwartz, aka "Gridlock Sam" (B.S. 1969), transportation engineer, believed responsible for popularizing the word gridlock

Frank Serpico (A.A. 1959), New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer famous for testifying against police corruption

Norman Siegel (B.A. 1965), director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 1985–2000

David Sive (B.A. 1943), an attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law

Joel Harvey Slomsky (B.A. 1967), United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Eleanor Sobel (B.A. 1967), State Representative in the Florida House of Representatives, 1998–2006

Pamela Talkin (B.S. 1968, M.A. 1971), Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold this position

William L. Taylor (B.A. 1952), attorney and civil rights advocate

Seymour R. Thaler (B.A. 1940), member of the New York State Senate 1959-1971

William C. Thompson (B.A. 1949), Brooklyn’s first African American State Senator; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division

Mark Treyger (B.A. '05, M.A. '09, M.S.Ed '12), member of the New York City Council, representing District 47

Eliezer Waldman (B.A. 1959), Israeli rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990

Benjamin Ward (B.A. 1960), first African American New York City Police Commissioner, 1983–89

Iris Weinshall (B.A. 1975), vice chancellor at the City University of New York and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation

Moses M. Weinstein (B.A. 1934), lawyer and politician

Warren Weinstein (B.A. 1963), contractor; director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates kidnapped by al-Qaeda on August 13, 2011 and killed in a January 2015 by a US-led drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Saul Weprin (B.A. 1948), member of the New York State Assembly]1973-1994; Speaker 1991-1994

Jumaane Williams (B.A. 2001, M.A. 2005), Democratic politician, member of the New York City Council

Lynne Williams (M.A. 1975), Maine politician and former chairperson of the Maine Green Independent Party

Bruce Winick (B.A. 1965), Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami and theorist on mental health law

Journalism

Madeline Amgott (B.A. 1942), television news producer

Charlotte Brooks (B.A. 1940), photographer and photojournalist

Stu Bykofsky (B.A. 1965), journalist and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News

Thom Calandra (B.A. 1979), founding editor and chief columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com

John Cigna (A.A. 1956), radio personality at KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, 1973–2001

Stan Fischler (B.A 1954). journalist, historian, hockey broadcaster, five-time Emmy award winner and Lester Patrick Award winner

Sylvan Fox (B.A. 1951), journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner

Marc Frons (B.A. 1977), Chief Technology Officer of The New York Times

Dele Giwa (B.A. 1977), Nigerian journalist, editor and founder of Newswatch magazine; killed by a mail bomb in his home on October 19, 1986

Robert Greenfield (B.A. 1967), author, journalist and screenwriter

Yossi Klein Halevi (B.A. 1975), Israeli journalist; columnist for The New Republic

Charles Lachman (B.A. 1974), Executive Producer of the news magazine program Inside Edition

Victor Lasky (B.A 1940), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and syndicated newspaper columnist

Victoria Law (B.A. 2002), anarchist activist, and writer; co-founder of Books Through Bars

Don Lemon (B.A. 1996), news anchor, CNN

Marvin E. Newman (B.A. 1949), artist and photographer

Stanley Newman (B.S. 1973), puzzle creator, editor, and publisher

Abraham Rabinovich (B.A. 1956), Israeli historian and journalist

Milt Rosenberg (B.A. 1946), host of Extension 720 on WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois.

Harold Schonberg (B.A. 1937), Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times

Allan Sloan (B.A. 1966), financial journalist; Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine

Dorothy Sucher [B.A. 1954], her reporting for a Maryland newspaper led to landmark Supreme Court case, Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler, which the paper won; author

Barry Sussman (B.A. 1956), editor, author, and public opinion analyst; city news editor at The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate break-in

Maia Szalavitz (B.A. 1991), reporter, author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids

Gina Trapani (M.S 1998), tech blogger, web developer, writer and founder of the Lifehacker blog

Literature and the arts

Sam Abrams (B.A. 1958), "The Old Pothead Poet", Rochester Institute of Technology professor, Whitman scholar

Ann-Marie Adams (B.A. 2001), editor and publisher of The Hartford Guardian

Jack Adler (B.A. 1942), award-winning cover artist and colorist for DC Comics

Jack Agüeros (B.A. 1964), Puerto Rican community activist, poet, writer, translator, and director of the Museo del Barrio in New York City

Saladin Ahmed (M.F.A. 2002), Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet

Mario Amaya (B.A. 1954), art critic; shot by Valerie Solanas during her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol

Rilla Askew (M.F.A 1989), Oklahoma-based short story writer and novelist

Helène Aylon (B.A. 1960), multimedia ecofeminist artist

Jennifer Bartlett (M.A. 2004), American poet, editor, and disability activist

Annie Baker (M.F.A. 2009), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Paul Beatty (M.F.A. 1989), African American poet, novelist, and critic

Betty T. Bennett (B.A. 1962), scholar on the life of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Karen Berger (B.A. 1979), editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint

Anselm Berrigan (M.F.A. 1998), poet and teacher and artistic director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project from 2003–07

Himan Brown (B.A. 1934), radio pioneer; producer of radio programming, including the Inner Sanctum Mysteries and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Anatole Broyard (attended 1937–41, did not graduate), writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times

Allen Cohen (B.A. 1962), poet, founder and editor of the San Francisco Oracle underground newspaper (1966–68)

Michael Corris (B.A. 1970), artist, art historian, and writer on art

Patricia Cronin (M.F.A. 1988), Rome Prize-winning feminist visual artist

Amanda Davis (M.F.A. 1998), writer; author of "Wonder When You'll Miss Me"

J. M. DeMatteis (B.A. 1976), writer of comic books

Dan DiDio (B.A. 1983), comic book editor and executive for DC Comics

Sante D'Orazio (B.A. 1978), fashion photographer

Hillard Elkins (B.A. 1950), theatre and film producer

Stanley Ellin (B.A. 1936), Edgar Award-winning mystery author

Yevgeniy Fiks (B.F.A. 1997), multidisciplinary, Post-Soviet conceptual artist

Jane Freilicher (B.A. 1947), representational painter and member of the informal New York School

Robert Friend (B.A. 1934), Israeli poet and translator

Alice Friman (B.A. 1954), poet; Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College

Elizabeth Gaffney (M.F.A. 1997), novelist and staff editor of The Paris Review, 1989–2005

Mike Garson (B.A. 1970), pianist; has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight, and The Smashing Pumpkins

Joe Glazer (B.A. 1938), folk musician often referred to as "labor's troubadour"

David Gordon (B.F.A. 1956), dancer, choreographer, theatre director, writer

Shirley Gorelick (B.A. 1944), painter of psychological realism

Richard Grayson (B.A. 1973, M.F.A. 1976), writer, political activist and performance artist

Roya Hakakian (B.S. 1990), Jewish Iranian-American writer

John Harlacher (B.A. 2000), actor, stage director, and filmmaker responsible for the horror film Urchin (2007)

Irving Harper (B.A. 1937), noted 20th-century industrial designer

Michelle Herman (B.A. 1976), American writer and Professor of English at Ohio State University, and director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing

Chester Kallman (B.A. 1941), poet, librettist, and translator; collaborator with W. H. Auden

Karen Karnes (B.A. 1946),ceramist, known for her earth-toned stoneware ceramics

Ben Katchor (B.A. 1975), cartoonist, creator of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer

Ada Katz (B.S. 1950), wife and model of Alex Katz

Daniel Keyes (B.A. 1950. M.A. '61), author known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon

Binnie Kirshenbaum (M.F.A. 1984), novelist, short story writer, Columbia University creative writing professor

Sibyl Kempson (M.F.A. 2007), American playwright, and performer

Frances Kornbluth (B.A. 1940), abstract expressionist painter

Marni Kotak (M.F.A. 2006), artist known for her durational performance/exhibition “The Birth of Baby X,” in which she gave birth to her son

Albert Kresch (B.A. 1943), New York School painter and one of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery

Mort Künstler (B.A. 1946), painter and illustrator of the American Civil War

Ezra Laderman (B.A. 1950), composer of classical music

Gabriel Laderman (B.A. 1952), painter and important exponent of the Figurative revival

Young Jean Lee (M.F.A. 2005), OBIE Award-winning playwright and director of experimental theater, Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Alan Lelchuk (B.A. 1960), novelist

Sam Levenson (B.A. 1934), humorist, author

Fred Lonberg-Holm (B.M. 1988), cello player and composer

Leonard Lopate (B.A. 1967), host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC

Jackson Mac Low (B.A. 1958), poet, performance artist, composer and playwright

John Mahon (B.A. 1952), historian, Author of New York's Fighting 69th

Wallace Markfield (B.A. 1947), comic novelist, film critic

Paule Marshall (B.A. 1953), author, novelist (Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Praisesong for the Widow (1983))

Cris Mazza (M.F.A. 1983), novelist, short story and non-fiction writer

Frank McCourt (M.A. 1967), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis

Dennis McFarland (B.A. 1975), novelist; The Music Room (1990)

Murray Mednick (B.A. 1962), playwright

Sharon Mesmer (M.F.A. 1990), writer and poet of the Flarf poetry movement

Richard P. Minsky (B.A. 1968), American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist

Emily Mitchell (M.F.A. 2005), Anglo-American novelist

Gloria Naylor (B.A. 1981), novelist; Winner National Book Award

Peter Nero (B.A. 1956), Grammy Award-winning pianist; conductor; composer

Harold Norse (B.A. 1938), poet and novelist

Marco Oppedisano (B.M. 1996), guitarist and composer of electroacoustic music

Angelo Parra (M.F.A. 1995), playwright

Benjamin Jason Parris (B.S. 1984), educator, museum planner, and author of fantasy series Wade of Aquitaine

Lincoln Peirce (M.F.A. 1987), cartoonist of the comic strip Big Nate

Jed Perl (M.F.A. 1974), American art critic, formerly with The New Republic from 1994-2014

Robert Phillips (M.A. 1982), Classical guitarist, composer, educator, and Head of Performing Arts at All Saints' Academy

Rosalie Purvis (M.F.A. 2007), Dutch American theatre director and choreographer

Anna Rabinowitz (B.A. 1953), poet, librettist, editor and editor emerita of American Letters & Commentary

Burton Raffel (B.A. 1948), teacher, poet and translator of Beowulf, Horace, Rabelais and Cervantes

Naomi Ragen (B.A. 1971), American-Israeli author, playwright and women's rights activist

Martha Rosler (B.A. 1965), artist active in video, photo-text, installation, and performance

Norman Rosten (B.A. 1935), poet, playwright, novelist, Poet Laureate of Brooklyn (1979–1995)

Theodore Isaac Rubin (B.A. 1946), psychiatrist and author; wrote story for the film David and Lisa (1962)

Howard Sackler (B.A. 1950), screenwriter and playwright, known for 1967 play The Great White Hope

Sapphire (M.F.A. 1995), author and performance poet, author of the novel Push (1996)

Millicent Selsam (B.A. 1932), children's author

Irwin Shaw (B.A. 1934), playwright, screenwriter, and short-story author and novelist (The Young Lions, Rich Man, Poor Man); winner of two O. Henry Awards

Sara Shepard (M.F.A. 2005), author known for the bestselling Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game book series; both were developed into television series on ABC Family

Shraga Silverstein (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1954) Rabbi, educator and prolific author and translator

Jan Slepian (B.A. 1971), author of books for children and young adult fiction

Robert Kimmel Smith (B.A. 1951), children's author, known for Chocolate Fever (1972) and Jane's House (1982)

Sasson Soffer (B.A. 1954), abstract painter and sculptor

Gilbert Sorrentino (B.A. 1957), novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor

Laurie Spiegel (B.A. 1975), electronic-music composer, inventor

Jason Starr (M.F.A. 1990), Anthony Award- and Barry Award-winning author of crime fiction novels and thrillers

Claire Sterling (B.A. 1940), author and journalist, author of The Terror Network (1981)

Ronald Tavel (B.A. 1957), screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory

David Trinidad (M.F.A. 1980), poet

Alan Vega (B.A. 1960), vocalist for 1970s and 80s electronic protopunk duo Suicide

Leah Vincent (B.A. 2007), author and memoirist; Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood (2014)

Malvin Wald (B.A. 1936), screenwriter, authored the 1948 police drama The Naked City

Adrianne Wortzel (B.A. 1964), contemporary artist who utilizes robotics

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (M.F.A 1987), New Romantic poet associated with St. Mark's Poetry Project

John Yau (M.F.A. 1978), critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer

Rafi Zabor (B.A. 1967), a music journalist- and musician-turned-novelist

Malcah Zeldis (B.A. 1972), twentieth century Jewish American folk painter

Religion

J. David Bleich (B.A. 1960), authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics

Bhikkhu Bodhi (B.A. 1966), American Buddhist monk, second president of the Buddhist Publication Society, 1984–2002

Reeve Brenner (B.A. 1958), Reform rabbi, inventor and author

Mariano Di Gangi (B.A. 1943), prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC)

Theodore Drange (B.A. 1955), philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University, noted for his Argument from nonbelief

Sylvia Ettenberg (B.A 1938), Jewish educator and one of the founders of the Camp Ramah camping movement

Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (B.A. 1961), senior disciple and biographer of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)

Blu Greenberg (B.A. 1957), co-founder and first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; active in the movement to bridge Judaism and feminism

Jonathan Greenstein, antique Judaica authentication expert

David Weiss Halivni (B.A. 1953), American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud

Rabbi Yaakov Perlow (B.A. 1955), Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva, current Novominsker Rebbe

Larry Rosenberg (B.A. 1954), American Buddhist teacher and proponent of anapanasati (mindful breath meditation)

Henry Rosenblum (B.A. 1969), hazzan (cantor) of the Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, NY and Dean of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1998–2010

Jacob J. Schacter (B.A. 1973), University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University

Pinchas Stolper (B.A. 1952), Orthodox rabbi, writer, and spokesman

Herbert Tarr (B.A. 1949), Reform rabbi who left his pulpit to become a novelist and humorist

Science and technology

Milton Abramowitz (B.A. 1940, M.S. 1942), mathematician, co-author of the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (1964)

Annette Aiello (B.A. 1972), entomologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; specialist in butterflies

Ruth Aaronson Bari (B.A. 1939), mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms

Richard Bellman (B.A. 1941), applied mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming

Seymour Benzer (B.A. 1942), physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.

William Breitbart (B.S. 1973), American psychiatrist, leader in the fields of psychosomatic medicine, psycho-oncology, and palliative care

Baruch Brody (B.A. 1962), bioethicist and director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine

Emory L. Cowen (B.A. 1944), psychologist who pioneered the promotion of wellness in mental health

Stanley Cohen (B.A. 1943), biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1986)

Florence Comite (B.A. 1973), endocrinologist who has developed therapies for osteoporosis, endometriosis, fibroid disease, and infertility

Esther M. Conwell (B.S. 1942), physicist, contributed to development of semiconductors and lasers

Stanley Deser (B.S. 1949), physicist known for his contributions to general relativity, especially as co-developer of ADM formalism

Jack Drescher (B.A. 1972), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his work on sexual orientation

Frank Field (B.S. 1947), meteorologist and science editor

Eli Friedman (B.S. 1953), nephrologist, inventor of the first portable dialysis machine

Herbert Friedman (B.S. 1936), pioneer in the use of sounding rockets to conduct research for solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy

Sol Garfunkel (B.A. 1963), mathematician and long-time executive director of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications

Leon Glass, (B.S. 1963), scientist; pioneered mathematical and physical methods to study biological systems, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks

Martin Goetz (B.A. 1953), pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry; holds the first U.S. software patent

Aaron Goldberg (B.A. 1939), botanist; parasitologist; known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons

Jerry Goldstein (B.S. 1993), space physicist and professor

Jay M. Gould, (B.A. 1936), statistician and epidemiologist, founded the Radiation and Public Health Project

Martha Greenblatt (B.S. 1962), chemist at Rutgers University, received the 2003 American Chemical Society's Garvan-Olin Medal

Edna Grossman (B.S. 1968), mathematician

Howard E. Gruber (B.A. 1943), psychologist and pioneer of the psychological study of creativity

Frank Harary (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1945), mathematician, specializing in graph theory

Leonard Herzenberg (B.S. 1952), developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter which revolutionized the study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells; recipient of the Kyoto Prize in 2006

Seymour Hess (B.A. 1941), meteorologist and planetary scientist

Howard S. Hoffman (M.A. 1953), experimental psychologist

David Kantor (B.A 1950, M.A. 1952), systems psychologist

Edith Kaplan (B.A. 1949), creator of several important neuropsychological tests, including the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and the Boston Naming Test.

Sol Katz (B.A. 1978), geologist, computer scientist and early pioneer of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software

Julian Keilson (B.S. 1947), mathematician, known for his work in probability theory

Abraham Klein (B.A. 1947), theoretical physicist

Lawrence Landweber (B.S. 1963), Internet pioneer, helped develop CSNET, founding member and president of the Internet Society

Joel Lebowitz (B.A. 1952), mathematical physicist acknowledged for his contributions to statistical physics and statistical mechanics

Edith H. Luchins (B.A. 1942), Gestalt psychologist and mathematician; first female professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Nancy Lynch (B.A. 1968), mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; winner of the 2007 Knuth Prize for contributions to the foundations of computer science

Larry Manevitz (B.A. 1970), mathematician and computer scientist, professor at University of Haifa; works in neurocomputation and artificial intelligence in computer science and non-standard analysis in mathematical logic. Founder of Caesarea Rothschild Institute for Computer Science Applications and HIACS research centers at U. Haifa.

Stephen P. Maran (B.S. 1959), astronomer and popularizer; author of Astronomy for Dummies

Jerry March (M.S. 1953), chemist and author of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Alvin Joseph Melveger (B.S. 1959), chemist specializing in physical chemistry, spectroscopy, biomaterials, and polymers

Jack Minker (B.S. 1949), authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning

Raphael Miranda(B.S. 2006)is a meteorologist and weather producer at WNBC in New York City.

Abraham Nemeth (B.S. 1940), mathematician and inventor; developed the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation

Arthur Nowick (B.A. 1943), materials scientist

Stanley Osher (B.A. 1962), pioneering mathematician in applied mathematics, computational science, and scientific computing

Fredy Peccerelli (B.S. 1996), forensic anthropologist, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

George Plafker (B.A. 1949), geologist and seismologist, known for pioneering research in subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska

George Radin (B.A. 1951) computer scientist, helped develop the PL/I programming language and design the OS/360 and TSS/360 systems

Estelle Ramey (B.A. 1936), endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist

Buddy Ratner(B.S. 1967), professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering and director of the Research Center for Biomaterials at the University of Washington

Barnett Rosenberg (B.S. 1948), chemist, known for his discovery of the anti-cancer drug cisplatin

Gerard Salton (B.S. 1950), pioneering computer scientist in the field of information retrieval

Nicholas Sand (B.A. 1966), clandestine chemist and early proponent of psychedelics

Michael Salzhauer (B.A. 1993), cosmetic and plastic surgeon, author and inventor

Joseph D. Schulman (B.S. 1962), specialist in human genetics and infertility; founder the Genetics & IVF Institute

Francine Shapiro (B.A. 1968, MA, 1972), psychologist and educator who originated and developed EMDR

Seymour Shapiro (B.S. 1935), organic chemist, known for his pioneering work on a class of drugs used to treat symptoms of adult-onset diabetes

Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory; the Baumslag–Solitar groups are named after him and Gilbert Baumslag, after their joint 1962 paper on these groups

Henry Spira (B.A. 1958), pioneering animal rights activist

Martin Summerfield (B.S. 1936), physicist and rocket scientist, co-founder of Aerojet, and the inventor of regenerative cooling for liquid rocket engines

Robert H. Tamarin (B.A. 1963), emeritus professor of biology, former Dean of the College of Sciences at the University of Massachusetts; developed radioisotope, electrophoretic and DNA fingerprinting techniques for use in the study of small mammals

Joan Targ (B.A. 1960), pioneer in computer education and older sister of chess champion Bobby Fischer

Dennis P. Tarnow (B.A. 1968), dentist and pioneer in implant research

Edward Taub (B.S. 1953), behavioral neuroscientist on faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dorothy Tennov (B.A. 1950), psychologist, introduced the term "limerence" to describe the state of being in love

Jay Tischfield (B.A. 1967), MacMillan Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University

Wolf V. Vishniac (B.A. 1945), microbiologist; inventor of the "Wolf Trap," which tests for the possibility of life existing on other planets; namesake of the crater Vishniac on Mars

Philip Zimbardo (B.A. 1954), social psychologist and designer of the Stanford Prison Experiment

Sports

Jonathan Akpoborie, Nigerian soccer player

Donald Aronow (B.A. 1950), designer, builder and racer of the famous Cigarette, Donzi, and Formula speed boat

Alex Crisano, basketball player for the Philippine Patriots

Nikki Franke (B.S. 1972), fencer and fencing coach

Fran Fraschilla (B.A. 1980), basketball coach at Manhattan College, St. John's University and University of New Mexico; now ESPN broadcast analyst

Bill Green (M.A. 1967), basketball All-American

Mel Hirsch (B.A. 1943), professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics, 1946–47

Mirsad Huseinovic (attended 1988–92), Yugoslavian-born U.S. soccer player

Ernest Inneh, Nigerian-American soccer player

Gata Kamsky (B.A. 1999), Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, four-time U.S. Champion, current World Rapid Chess Champion, current US Chess Champion

Alex Lenderman (attended 2007–2009), Russian-American chess grandmaster; U16 (under 16 years old) 2005 world chess champion

Johnny Most (B.A. 1947), sports announcer; radio voice of the Boston Celtics

Marius Russo (attended, 1932–34), Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees (1939–43, 1946); All-Star in 1941

Allie Sherman, (B.A. 1943), President of OTB; NFL player and coach of the New York Giants football team, 1961—68

Sydne Vogel (B.S. 2009), former competitive figure skater

Raymond Weinstein (B.A. 1963), chess player and International Master