List of City College of New York people
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Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the City College of New York
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...
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Nobel laureates
- Julius AxelrodJulius AxelrodJulius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler...
1933–1970 Nobel laureate in Medicine - Kenneth ArrowKenneth ArrowKenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51....
1940–1972 Nobel laureate in Economics - Robert J. Aumann 1950–2005 Nobel laureate in Economics
- Herbert Hauptman 1937–1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Robert HofstadterRobert HofstadterRobert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."-Biography :Born in New York City, he entered City...
1935–1961 Nobel laureate in Physics - Jerome KarleJerome KarleJerome Karle, born Jerome Karfunkel is an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.-Early life and education:Karle was born in New York City on...
1937–1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry - Henry KissingerHenry KissingerHeinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
1923 - Winner of Nobel Peace Prize - Arthur KornbergArthur KornbergArthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid " together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University...
1937–1959 Nobel laureate in Medicine - Leon M. LedermanLeon M. LedermanLeon Max Lederman is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA...
1943–1988 Nobel laureate in Physics - Arno Penzias 1954–1978 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Julian SchwingerJulian SchwingerJulian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.Schwinger is recognized as one of the...
– transferred to Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
– 1965 Nobel laureate in Physics
Politics, government, sociology, philosophy, and religion
- Herman BadilloHerman BadilloHerman Badillo is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican to be elected to these posts and be a mayoral candidate in the continental United States.-Early years:Badillo was...
1951 Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees - Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents; author of the Baruch PlanBaruch PlanThe Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission in its first meeting in June 1946...
- Daniel BellDaniel BellDaniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism...
1939 – sociologist, professor at Harvard University - Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
- Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
- Frank CaplanFrank CaplanFrank Caplan was a youth worker, educator, folk toy collector, and pioneer in developing and manufacturing educational toys for children...
– educator, founder of children's educational toy company Creative Playthings - Upendra J. ChivukulaUpendra J. ChivukulaUpendra Joge Chivukula is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 17th Legislative District....
– first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly - Henry Cohen 1943 – Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at The New School
- Morris Raphael CohenMorris Raphael CohenMorris Raphael Cohen was an American philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen....
– graduate of CCNY and professor at CCNY; philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar; the Cohen Library at CCNY is named for him - Marty DolinMarty DolinMarty Dolin is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1985 to 1988, representing the north-end Winnipeg riding of Kildonan for the New Democratic Party of Manitoba.Dolin was educated at the City College of New York, the University of the...
– former Manitoba NDPNew Democratic PartyThe New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
MLA for KildonanKildonan (Manitoba electoral district)Kildonan is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The boundaries for the riding maintained their location through the 2008 redistribution.-Kildonan riding :... - Philip ElmanPhilip ElmanPhilip Elman was an American lawyer at the United States Department of Justice and former member of the Federal Trade Commission. He is best known for writing the government's brief in Brown v...
– Justice DepartmentUnited States Department of JusticeThe United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
attorney and Federal Trade CommissionFederal Trade CommissionThe Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
member, wrote government's brief in Brown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which... - Benjamin B. FerenczBenjamin B. FerenczBenjamin Berell' Ferencz is a Romanian-born American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany...
– international jurist and criminal justice pioneer; co-winner of the 2009 Erasmus PrizeErasmus PrizeThe Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch non-profit organization, to individuals or institutions that have made notable contributions to European culture, society, or social science. The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation was founded on 23 June 1958 by... - Abraham FoxmanAbraham FoxmanAbraham H. Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.-Early life:Foxman, an only son, was born in Baranovichi, just months after the USSR took the town from Poland in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and incorporated it into the BSSR. The town is now in Belarus...
– National Director of the Anti-Defamation LeagueAnti-Defamation LeagueThe Anti-Defamation League is an international non-governmental organization based in the United States. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects... - Felix FrankfurterFelix FrankfurterFelix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.-Early life:Frankfurter was born into a Jewish family on November 15, 1882, in Vienna, Austria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Europe. He was the third of six children of Leopold and Emma Frankfurter...
1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - George FriedmanGeorge FriedmanGeorge Friedman is an American political scientist and author. He is the founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and CEO of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor...
– founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst - Nathan GlazerNathan GlazerNathan Glazer is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and for several decades at Harvard University...
– sociologist, professor at Harvard University; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000... - Paul GoodmanPaul Goodman (writer)Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement...
– writer, social critic, public intellectual; author of "The Empire City," "Growing Up AbsurdGrowing Up AbsurdGrowing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society is a non-fiction book written by Paul Goodman and published in 1960. This book analyses the causes and effects of: "the disgrace of the Organised System, of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the...
," and "CommunitasCommunitasCommunitas is a Latin noun commonly referring either to an unstructured community in which people are equal, or to the very spirit of community. It also has special significance as a loanword in cultural anthropology and the social sciences....
". - Edmund W. GordonEdmund W. GordonDr. Edmund W. Gordon , a professor of psychology, "had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology, education and social policy and the implications of his work for the schooling of lower status youth and children of color, in America".Professor Gordon’s career spans professional...
– founding Director of the Institute for Research on African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) at CCNY - Stanley GrazeStanley GrazeStanley Graze, born in New York City. Graze was a second lieutenant in the US Army and economist by profession. He graduated from and lectured at the City College of New York and had a masters degree from Columbia University...
– economist and former lecturer at CCNY. Worked in the United Nations, State Department, US Army and the Brookings Institution. MA from Columbia University. - Sidney HookSidney HookSidney Hook was an American pragmatic philosopher known for his contributions to public debates.A student of John Dewey, Hook continued to examine the philosophy of history, of education, politics, and of ethics. After embracing Marxism in his youth, Hook was known for his criticisms of...
1923 – writer and philosopher - Benjamin KaplanBenjamin KaplanBenjamin Kaplan was an American copyright scholar and jurist. He was also notable as "one of the principal architects" of the Nuremberg trials....
1929 – Helped to write the indictments of Nazi war criminals who were tried at Nuremberg; served as Nuremberg prosecutor; distinguished Harvard law professor - Henry KissingerHenry KissingerHeinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
– Secretary of State under Richard Nixon - Ed KochEd KochEdward Irving "Ed" Koch is an American lawyer, politician, and political commentator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989...
1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989 - Irving KristolIrving KristolIrving Kristol was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism"...
1940 – neoconservative intellectual, professor at New York University - David LandesDavid LandesDavid S. Landes is a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties...
1942 – historian, professor at Harvard University - Melvin J. LaskyMelvin J. LaskyMelvin Jonah Lasky was an American journalist, intellectual, and member of the anti-Communist left. He was the older brother of the influential entertainment lawyer Floria Lasky and Joyce Lasky Reed, the President and founder of the Faberge Arts Foundation and former Director of European Affairs...
1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991 - Albert L. LewisAlbert L. LewisRabbi Albert L. Lewis was a leading American Conservative rabbi, scholar, and author; President of the Rabbinical Assembly , the international organization of Conservative rabbis; and Vice-President of The World Council of Synagogues...
, conservative rabbi, president of international Rabbinical AssemblyRabbinical AssemblyThe Rabbinical Assembly is the international association of Conservative rabbis. The RA was founded in 1901 to shape the ideology, programs, and practices of the Conservative movement. It publishes prayerbooks and books of Jewish interest, and oversees the work of the Committee on Jewish Law and... - Guillermo LinaresGuillermo LinaresGuillermo Linares is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 72nd Assembly District in Manhattan. He is a former New York City councilman and a former New York City Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs.-Life and education:...
1975 – the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member - Seymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin LipsetSeymour Martin Lipset was an American political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and...
– political sociology, trade unions - Rachel LloydRachel LloydRachel Lloyd is an anti-human trafficking advocate and founder and Executive Director of the New York-based Girls Educational and Mentoring Services ....
– applied urban anthropology graduate; founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in New York - Sidney MorgenbesserSidney MorgenbesserSidney Morgenbesser was a Columbia University philosopher. Born in New York City, he undertook philosophical study at the City College of New York and rabbinical study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, then pursued graduate study in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where...
– philosopher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, known to have witheringly applied Jewish humor to issues in metaphysics and epistemology - Henry Morgenthau, Sr.Henry Morgenthau, Sr.Henry Morgenthau was a lawyer, businessman and United States ambassador, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. He was father of the politician Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and the grandfather of Robert M. Morgenthau, who was the District Attorney of...
– financier and diplomat; as ambassador to Ottoman Empire attempted to warn the world about the Armenian genocide - Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
– spent a year at CCNY before he was drafted; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Nathan GlazerNathan GlazerNathan Glazer is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and for several decades at Harvard University...
; ambassador to the U.N., senator representing New York - Colin L. Powell 1961– United States Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General, National Security Advisor
- Donald A. RitchieDonald A. RitchieDonald A. Ritchie is the Historian of the United States Senate.He graduated from the City College of New York and received a Master's Degree and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1969–1971.He was responsible for editing the closed hearing...
1967 – historian, currently historian of the United States Senate - Alexander RosenbergAlexander RosenbergAlexander Rosenberg is an American philosopher, and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.Rosenberg was educated at Stuyvesant High School, the City College of New York and Johns Hopkins University...
– Lakatos AwardLakatos AwardThe Lakatos Award is given annually for a contribution to the philosophy of science which is widely interpreted as outstanding. The contribution must be in the form of a book published in English during the previous six years....
-winning philosopher at Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
– in 1940, invited by the Philosophy Department to become a professor but his appointment was blocked by a suit and timidity on the part of the Board of Higher Education; see more details in City College of New YorkCity College of New YorkThe City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning... - Oscar SchachterOscar SchachterOscar Schachter was an American international law and diplomacy professor, and United Nations aide.Schachter was a native of New York City, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York in 1936, and from Columbia Law School, where he was a Kent scholar and first in his class of 1939...
1936 – law professor and United Nations aide - Henry SchwarzschildHenry SchwarzschildHenry Schwarzschild was an activist for civil rights and human rights. He was a fighter for the American Civil Rights Movement and later on became involved in the fight against capital punishment...
-, founder of NCADP, LCDC, and head of ACLU's Capital Punishment project in America - Morrie SchwartzMorrie SchwartzMorris "Morrie" S. Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie, which was published in 1997 and later made into a movie....
– sociologist, author, and subject of Tuesdays with MorrieTuesdays With MorrieTuesdays with Morrie is a 1997 non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom. The story was later adapted by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on 5 December 1999 and starred Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria...
. - Samuel TurkSamuel TurkRabbi Dr. Samuel A. Turk was an American-born pulpit rabbi whose writings and issues and organizational activism made a mark beyond the congregation he served for 40 years.- Credentials :...
– rabbi, religious leader, columnist - Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
- Friedrich UlfersFriedrich UlfersFriedrich Ulfers is Professor of German at New York University. He is a distinguished fellow, having been awarded several highly regarded honors from New York University. He also is the Dean of the Media and Communications division at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, where he confers on...
1959 – Deconstructionist writer, Dean of Media and Communications at European Graduate SchoolEuropean Graduate SchoolThe European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
, and NYU professor - Robert F. WagnerRobert F. WagnerRobert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...
, Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949; introduced the National Labor Relations ActNational Labor Relations ActThe National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act , is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions , engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in... - Michele WallaceMichele WallaceMichele Faith Wallace is a feminist author and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She became famous in 1979 when, at age 27, she published Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman, a book in which she criticized black nationalism and sexism...
1975 – a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies - General Alexander S. WebbAlexander S. WebbAlexander Stewart Webb was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg...
– second president of the college; winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg - Stephen Samuel WiseStephen Samuel WiseStephen Samuel Wise was an Austro-Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader.-Early life:...
1891– Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.
Psychology
- Solomon AschSolomon AschSolomon Eliot Asch , also known as Shlaym, was an American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology.-Early life and education:...
1928 – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments - Kenneth ClarkKenneth and Mamie ClarkKenneth Bancroft Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark were African-American psychologists who as a married team conducted important research among children and were active in the Civil Rights Movement...
– CCNY professor who studied attitudes toward race and testified at Brown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which... - Isidor CheinIsidor CheinIsidor Chein was a psychologist who conducted research on minority group identification. He co-wrote an amicus curiae brief in the Brown v. Board of Education case. He earned a bachelor's degree from City College in 1932 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1939.Chein's research was mainly...
1932 – minority group identification, co-wrote amicus curiae brief in Brown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of EducationBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which... - Jacob Cohen – psychologist and statistician, developed the coefficient kappa to assess the reliability of ratings of discrete categories of behavior (e.g., diagnoses of mental disorder); expert on factor analysis and regression analysis
- Morton DeutschMorton DeutschMorton Deutsch , is a social psychologist and researcher in conflict resolution.He received a B.S. from the City College of New York in 1939 and his M.A. in 1940 from the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he studied at the MIT under Kurt Lewin, where he was graduated with a Ph.D...
– social psychology, conflict resolution - Leonard EronLeonard EronLeonard David Eron was an American psychologist best known for his Columbia County Longitudinal Study that concluded television viewing led to violence.-Life and career:...
– expert on the development of aggression - Leon Festinger 1939 – social psychologist. Pioneered experimental social psychology, the theory of cognitive dissonance
- Robert GlaserRobert GlaserRobert Glaser is an American educational psychologist, who has made significant contributions to theories of learning and instruction...
– educational psychology - Henry GleitmanHenry GleitmanHenry Gleitman is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.Gleitman was born in Leipzig, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley...
– cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics - Arno GruenArno GruenArno Gruen is a Swiss-German psychologist and psychoanalyst.-Biography:Gruen was born in Berlin in 1923 and emigrated to the United States as a child in 1936 when his parents James and Rosa Gruen fled Germany to save their lives...
– psychologist and psychoanalyst - Richard HerrnsteinRichard HerrnsteinRichard J. Herrnstein was an American researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. He was one of the founders of quantitative analysis of behavior....
– quantitative analysis of behavior; co-author of The Bell CurveThe Bell CurveThe Bell Curve is a best-selling and controversial 1994 book by the Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray...
; Harvard professor - Richard LazarusRichard LazarusRichard S. Lazarus was a psychologist who began rising to prominence in the 1960s, when behaviorists like B. F. Skinner held sway over psychology and explanations for human behavior were often pared down to rudimentary motives like reward and punishment...
– emotion, stress, and coping - Walter MischelWalter MischelWalter Mischel is an American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University.-Early life:...
– social and personality psychology - Gardner MurphyGardner MurphyGardner Murphy was an American psychologist specialising in social and personality psychology, and parapsychology. His career highlights included serving as president of the American Psychological Association, and of the British Society for Psychical Research.Murphy was born on July 8, 1895 in...
– professor of psychology at City College - Hans Strupp – (attended City College but did not graduate) expert in psychotherapy research
- Sigmund Tobias – educational psychology, aptitude-treatment interaction; also published on Jewish refugee experience in Shanghai during World War II
The arts
- Woody AllenWoody AllenWoody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
attended City College for a brief period of time - Maurice AshleyMaurice AshleyMaurice Ashley is a chess grandmaster. In the October 2006 rating lists, he had a FIDE rating of 2465, and a USCF rating of 2520 at standard chess, and 2536 at quick chess. Ashley is associated with Chesswise. In 2005 he wrote the book Chess for Success, relating his experiences and the positive...
1993 – the first black International Chess Grandmaster. - Seymour BoardmanSeymour BoardmanSeymour Boardman was a New York abstract expressionist. Since his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1951, Boardman developed a personal vision and style of his own, following his own path of abstraction...
– New York abstract expressionist - Joshua BrandJoshua BrandJoshua Brand is an American television writer, director, and producer who created St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure with his writing-and-producing partner John Falsey....
– Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning writer, director, and producer - Paddy Chayevsky – famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote MartyMarty (film)Marty is a 1955 American film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. The film enjoyed international success, winning the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture and...
, The HospitalThe HospitalThe Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was awarded the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.-Plot:...
, and Altered StatesAltered StatesAltered States is a 1980 American science fiction-horror film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C... - Madeleine CosmanMadeleine CosmanMadeleine Pelner Cosman was a scholar, a policy analyst, an advocate, a prolific author, and a faculty member at City College of New York...
– Author of medieval cookbook - Julie DashJulie DashJulie Dash is a United States filmmaker. She directed Daughters of the Dust, which in 1991 became the first full-length film with general theatrical release in the United States by an African American woman...
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/03/movies/in-the-old-neighborhood-with-julie-dash-home-is-where-the-imagination-took-root.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all – filmmaker best known for the dreamy Daughters of the DustDaughters of the DustDaughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written, directed and produced by Julie Dash. It tells the story of three generations of Gullah women at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family's migration from the Sea Islands to the American mainland.Featuring an unusual narrative... - Victor GanzVictor GanzVictor Ganz was one of the most important collectors of contemporary art in the 20th century.- Biography :Victor Wendell Ganz was born in New York on April 7, 1913. The son of Saul Ganz and his wife, the former Ruth Wendell, he attended public schools and the City College of New York before going...
, important collector of contemporary art in the 20th century - Ira GershwinIra GershwinIra Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
1918 – American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin - William Gibson (playwright)William Gibson (playwright)William Gibson was an American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.He was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian ancestry...
1938 – Playwright – The Miracle WorkerThe Miracle WorkerThe Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to... - Marv GoldbergMarv GoldbergMarv Goldberg is a writer and music historian in the field of rhythm & blues .Goldberg is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School , City College of New York , and Pace College...
1964 – Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues - Hazelle GoodmanHazelle GoodmanHazelle Goodman is an actress from Trinidad and Tobago. As a child she was inspired to become an actress after viewing The Sound of Music, before her family moved to New York where she was raised in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.- Career :After graduating from City College of New York with a...
1986 – Stage, screen and TV actress - Bill GrahamBill GrahamWilliam Carvel "Bill" Graham, PC QC is a former Canadian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defence, and Leader of the Opposition and interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.-Personal life:...
Music Promoter - Arthur GuitermanArthur GuitermanArthur Guiterman was an American writer best known for his humorous poems.-Life and career:Guiterman was born of American parents in Vienna, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891, and was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo. He was an editor of the Woman's Home Companion and the...
, humorous poet - Luis GuzmánLuis GuzmánLuis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
– actor - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – American lyricist (Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, The Wizard of OzThe Wizard of Oz (1939 film)The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
, Finian's RainbowFinian's RainbowFinian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane. The 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances. Several revivals and a 1968 film version followed. A Broadway revival ran from October 8, 2009 until January 17, 2010...
) - Judd HirschJudd HirschJudd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...
1960 – Actor - Antonio JerkovicAntonio JerkovicAntonio Jerkovic a.k.a Ender is an American educated photographer of Croatian origins. Before moving to New York and committing to photography, Antonio was a documentary filmmaker and journalist in Croatia. His films were shown in Athens, Bucharest, Rome and Zagreb Film Festivals...
– Photographer - Arthur KnightArthur Knight (film critic)Arthur Knight was a movie critic, film historian, professor and TV host.His book The Liveliest Art, first published in 1957, is a history of the cinema used as a text book at colleges and universities throughout the world.-Early life:...
1940 – Movie critic, historian, teacher and TV host - Stanley KubrickStanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
1946 – Film Director. - Ernest LehmanErnest LehmanErnest Lehman was an American screenwriter. He received 6 Academy Award nominations during his screenwriting career...
1937 (BS) – Screenwriter - Donald MaddenDonald MaddenDonald Madden was an American theatre, television, and film actor best known for his role as John Dickinson in the film 1776 and his portrayal of Hamlet onstage in New York.-Life and career:...
– Stage, television, and screen actor - David MarguliesDavid MarguliesDavid Joseph Margulies is an American actor.Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Runya , a nurse and museum worker, and Harry David Margulies, a lawyer. Margulies graduated from City College of New York. Immediately afterward, he made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play Golden 6...
– Actor - Jackie MasonJackie MasonJackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and movie actor.-Early life:Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City....
– Comedian and Actor - Jerry MasucciJerry MasucciJerry Masucci was a co-founder of Fania Records.-Early life:Masucci was born October 7, 1934, in Brooklyn, to parents Urbano and Elvira Masucci. He had a brother named Alex Masucci...
– Founder of Fania RecordsFania RecordsFania Records was a New York based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from an old Cuban song by the singer Reinaldo Bolaño. Fania is known for its promotion of what has become... - Sterling MorrisonSterling MorrisonHolmes Sterling Morrison, Jr. was one of the founding members of the rock group The Velvet Underground, usually playing electric guitar, occasionally bass guitar, and singing backing vocals.-Biography:...
1970 – Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground" - Zero MostelZero MostelSamuel Joel “Zero” Mostel was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version...
1935 – Actor - Faith RinggoldFaith RinggoldFaith Ringgold is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.-Life and artwork:...
– Artist well known for her painted story quilts - Edward G. RobinsonEdward G. RobinsonEdward G. Robinson was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo...
1914 – Actor - Chris RushChris RushChris Rush is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, radio personality and author. He is best known for his stand-up routines and albums along with being a writer and editor on the satirical publication National Lampoon Magazine.-Early life:Rush was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is of...
1968 – Stand-up comedian - Frank J. Sciame 1974– Architect/Contractor/Developer
- Hrvoje SlovencHrvoje SlovencHrvoje Slovenc is a Croatian fine art photographer based in New York City. He holds MS in Biochemistry from University of Zagreb and MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art....
– Photographer - Richard SchiffRichard SchiffRichard Schiff is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award...
1983 – Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing (played Toby Ziegler; see "Fictional" below) - Ben ShahnBen ShahnBen Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.-Biography:...
– artist - Dan ShorDan ShorDaniel Shor is an American veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning over 30 years.- Early life :Shor was born and raised in New York City. Attended McBurney school from 6th thru 8th grade...
– actor - Gabourey SidibeGabourey SidibeGabourey "Gabby" Sidibe is an American actress who made her acting debut in the 2009 film Precious, a role that brought her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.-Early life:...
– actress, majored in psychology - Russell SimmonsRussell Simmons-External links:** * * * * * * from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum* *...
– never finished City College, rap mogul - Alfred StieglitzAlfred StieglitzAlfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form...
1884– photographer - J. Buzz Von OrnsteinerJ. Buzz Von OrnsteinerDr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner aka Dr. Buzz was born in Reno, Nevada. His father was Dr.Samuel Leo Von Ornsteiner, a psychologist and his mother is Estelle Miller, a former parole officer....
– Forensic Psychologist/Television Personality - Eli WallachEli WallachEli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
1938 (MA) – actor - Dirk WeilerDirk WeilerDirk Weiler is a German singer, actor and musical theatre actor.- Biography :Dirk Weiler was born in Neunkirchen , Germany. He showed an interest in the performing arts from a very early age on. He participated in school and community theatre productions...
, singer and actor - Cornel WildeCornel WildeCornel Wilde was an American actor and film director.-Early life:Kornél Lajos Weisz was born in 1912 in Prievidza, Hungary , although his year and place of birth are usually and inaccurately given as 1915 in New York City...
1935 – Actor - Darko Lungulov 1996 Film Director Here & ThereHere and There (film)Here and There is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Starring David Thornton and Branislav Trifunović with supporting turns from Cyndi Lauper, Mirjana Karanović, Jelena Mrđa and Antone Pagan....
-Tribeca FestivalTribeca Film FestivalThe Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
2009-Best NY Narrative Award
Literature and journalism
- Audre LordeAudre LordeAudre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
- Toni Cade BambaraToni Cade BambaraToni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.- Biography :...
- Addison Gayle, Jr. 1965 – African American literary critic and teacher
- Larry NealLarry NealLarry Neal or Lawerence Neal was a scholar of African-American theatre. He is well known for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
- June JordanJune JordanJune Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher and committed activist...
- Barbara ChristianBarbara ChristianBarbara Christian was an author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Alan AbelsonAlan AbelsonAlan Abelson is a veteran financial journalist, and has long written the influential Up and Down Wall Street column in Barron's Magazine. He was editor of Barron's from 1981 until asked to step down in 1992....
1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's - Marc D. AngelMarc D. AngelMarc D. Angel is Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City....
- (MA) – rabbinic leader, published author - Maurice AshleyMaurice AshleyMaurice Ashley is a chess grandmaster. In the October 2006 rating lists, he had a FIDE rating of 2465, and a USCF rating of 2520 at standard chess, and 2536 at quick chess. Ashley is associated with Chesswise. In 2005 he wrote the book Chess for Success, relating his experiences and the positive...
1988 – chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and author - Helen BoydHelen BoydHelen Boyd is the pen name of Gail Kramer, the American author of two books about her relationship with her transgender partner. Her partner is referred to in both books as "Betty Crow", though this is also a pseudonym.-Biography:...
1995 – writer, speaker, and educator on gender and transgender theory - Joe Cioffi 1982 – television meteorologist
- Dan DanielDan Daniel (sportswriter)Dan Daniel , born Daniel Margowitz, was an American sportswriter whose prolific contributions over a long period led him to be called the Dean of American Baseball Writers....
1910 – dean of American sportswriters - Reuben FineReuben FineReuben Fine was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the early 1930s through the 1940s, an International Grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.Fine won five medals in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S...
1932 – chess grandmaster, psychologist, and author - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – novelist, philosopher, MacArthur Fellow
- Vivian GornickVivian GornickVivian Gornick is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University...
– writer, memoirist, feminist, professor; author of Fierce Attachments (1987) - Peter Grad 1974 – The Record, Hackensack, NJ Op-Ed Page Editor, technology columnist (The PC Guy)
- Clyde Haberman 1966 – New York Times reporter and columnist
- Oscar HijuelosOscar HijuelosOscar Jerome Hijuelos is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.- Early life and career :...
1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Irving HoweIrving HoweIrving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...
1940 – author of World of Our Fathers, literary critic, coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual" - Bernard KalbBernard KalbBernard Kalb is a journalist, media critic and author.Born in New York City, he covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News, NBC News and The New York Times. Nearly half that time he was based abroad in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Paris and Saigon.Near the end of his tenure at...
1951 – journalist and television news correspondent - Marvin KalbMarvin KalbMarvin L. Kalb is an American journalist. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy . The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University...
1951 – journalist and television news correspondent - David Karp 1948 – novelist and television writer
- Alfred KazinAlfred KazinAlfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
– Author of A Walker in the City, literary critic - Jack KrollJack KrollJohn Kroll – known as Jack Kroll – was an award-winning Newsweek drama and film critic. His career spanned 37 years – more than half the publication's existence.-Biography:...
1937 – culture editor, Newsweek - Joseph P. LashJoseph P. LashJoseph P. Lash was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in 1972 for Eleanor and Franklin, the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady.-Early...
1931 – Pulitzer Prize for BiographyPulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyThe Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.-1910s:* 1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E...
winner, author of Eleanor and Franklin - Paul LevinsonPaul LevinsonPaul Levinson is an American author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages....
– author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999) - Oscar LewisOscar LewisOscar Lewis was an American anthropologist who is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and for postulating that there was a cross-generational culture of poverty among poor people that transcended national boundaries...
1936 - anthropologist, author, and professor - Douglas LightDouglas LightDouglas Light is an award winning American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. It will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. His second novel, Where Night Stops,...
2003 – novelist, screenwriter, short story writer (O. Henry Prize winner, 2003, Grace Paley Prize 2010) - Bernard MalamudBernard MalamudBernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford...
1936 (BA) – author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award); author of The AssistantThe Assistant (novel)The Assistant is Bernard Malamud's second novel. Set in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, it explores the situation of first- and second-generation Americans in the early 1950s, as experienced by three main characters and the relationships between them: an aging Jewish refugee... - Ralph MorseRalph MorseRalph Morse was a career staff photographer for Life magazine known for his inventive mind and his creative style. Encyclopedias and history books abound with his photos, as he has photographed some of the most widely seen pictures of World War II, the United States space program, and sports...
– career photographer for LIFE Magazine; youngest war correspondent in World War II (recipient of the 1995 Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the highest honor in the field of photojournalism) - Montrose Jonas MosesMontrose Jonas MosesMontrose Jonas Moses was an American author, born in New York, where he graduated from the City College in 1899....
1899 – author - Walter MosleyWalter MosleyWalter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los...
1991 (MA) – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards. - Michael Oreskes 1975 – executive editor of The International Herald Tribune
- Mario PuzoMario PuzoMario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...
– best-selling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather - Ernesto QuiñonezErnesto QuiñonezErnesto Quiñonez is an American novelist. His work received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, the Borders Bookstore Original New Voice selection, and was declared a “Best Book” by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times....
1996 (BA, MA) national bestselling author of Bodega Dreams and other titles. - A.H. Raskin – former labor editor, The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. - Robert Rosen 1974 (BA, MA) – author of the best-selling biography Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John LennonNowhere Man: The Final Days of John LennonNowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, first published in 2000 and written by New York journalist Robert Rosen, who in 1981 had access to John Lennon's diaries, is a controversial account of the ex-Beatle's last five years. The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented...
. - A.M. Rosenthal 1949 – former executive editor of The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. - Henry RothHenry RothHenry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Roth was born in Tysmenitz near Stanislaviv, Galicia, Austro-Hungary...
1928 – novelist, author of Call It SleepCall It SleepCall It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. The book centers on the experiences of a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century.... - Robert ScheerRobert ScheerRobert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...
– journalist - Daniel SchorrDaniel SchorrDaniel Louis Schorr was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio...
1939 – journalist, veteran newscaster and commentator for CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, and NPRNPRNPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting... - Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week
- Anatole ShubAnatole ShubAnatole Shub was an American author, journalist, researcher, editor, news director and Russian public opinion analyst....
– editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters. - Upton SinclairUpton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...
1897 (BA) – author (The JungleThe JungleThe Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel with the intention of portraying the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the corruption of the American meatpacking...
) - Robert SobelRobert SobelRobert Sobel was an American professor of history at Hofstra University, and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories.- Biography :...
– 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) – best-selling author of business histories. - Elsie B. WashingtonElsie B. WashingtonElsie Bernice Washington was an American author whose 1980 work Entwined Destinies has been considered the first romance novel written by an African-American author featuring African-American characters....
(1942–2009), author (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles) of the 1980 book Entwined Destinies, considered the first romance novelRomance novelThe romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
featuring African AmericanAfrican AmericanAfrican Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
characters written by an African American author. - Gary WeissGary WeissGary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street...
1975 – Investigative journalist, author - Barry Wilner 1973 – Sports Writer (NFL, Olympic Sports) for the Associated Press. 2002 AP Sports Editor Awards for Deadline Writing and Story of the Year. 8-Time Richard Dreyfuss Look-A-Like Contest Winner (2000–2008)
Science and technology
- Solomon A. Berson 1938 – medical scientist at Mt. Sinai Hospital who would probably have won a Nobel with his colleague Rosalyn Yalow had he not died prematurely
- Julius BlankJulius BlankJulius Blank was a semiconductor pioneer and a member of the so-called Traitorous Eight associated with Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley....
– engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley - Charles DeLisiCharles DeLisiCharles DeLisi is the Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering at Boston University, and also served as Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 2000...
1963 (BA) – scientist, "Father of the Human Genome Project" - Joel S. EngelJoel S. EngelJoel S. Engel is an American engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks.Born in New York City, he obtained a B.Sc. in engineering at City College of New York...
1957 – scientist and electrical engineer instrumental in mobile phoneMobile phoneA mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
technology - Adin FalkoffAdin FalkoffAdin D. Falkoff Born in New Jersey, a researcher and manager at IBM Research since the 1950s for over forty years before retiring. He collaborated with Ken Iverson from 1960 to 1980 on the design, development, and usage of the APL programming language and its interactive environment...
– engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system - Mitchell FeigenbaumMitchell FeigenbaumMitchell Jay Feigenbaum is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.- Biography :...
1964 – mathematical physicist - Richard FelderRichard FelderRichard M. Felder is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University....
1962 – engineering professor, coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes - Jeffrey Flier 1969 – dean, Harvard Medical School
- Wolcott GibbsOliver Wolcott GibbsFor the writer, see Wolcott Gibbs.Oliver Wolcott Gibbs was an American chemist. He is known for performing the first electrogravimetric analyses, namely the reductions of copper and nickel ions to their respective metals.- Biography:Oliver Wolcott Gibbs was born in New York City in 1822 to...
– distinguished chemistry professor at the Free Academy - Seymour GinsburgSeymour GinsburgSeymour Ginsburg was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, anddatabase theory, in particular; and computer science, in general...
1948 – distinguished computer science professor - George Washington GoethalsGeorge Washington GoethalsGeorge Washington Goethals was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal...
1887 – civil engineer, supervised the construction and opening of the Panama Canal - Joseph GoldbergerJoseph GoldbergerJoseph Goldberger, M.D. was a Hungarian Jewish physician and epidemiologist employed in the United States Public Health Service . He was an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease...
– Started in engineering; transferred to Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Discovered that B vitamin deficiency was cause of pellagraPellagraPellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease most commonly caused by a chronic lack of niacin in the diet. It can be caused by decreased intake of niacin or tryptophan, and possibly by excessive intake of leucine. It may also result from alterations in protein metabolism in disorders such as carcinoid...
; paved way for ElvehjemConrad ElvehjemConrad A. Elvehjem, , was internationally known as a biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified a molecule found in fresh meat and yeast as a new vitamin, nicotinic acid, now called niacin...
to narrow cause to vitamin B3 - Dan Goldin – served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.
- Andrew S. GroveAndrew GroveAndrew Stephen Grove , is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American Businessman/ Engineer, Author & a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the U.S., where he finished his education...
1960 – ChE. Founder and Former Chairman of Intel Corp. Dr. Grove donated $26 Million, the largest gift ever received by the City College of New York. - Gary GruberGary GruberGary R. Gruber is an American physicist, educator, and author who has written many books and software programs for standardized test preparation....
1962 – physicist, testing expert, educator, author - Herman HollerithHerman HollerithHerman Hollerith was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of one of the companies that later merged and became IBM.-Personal life:Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New...
– early computer pioneer, invented Key punchKey punchA keypunch is a device for manually entering data into punched cards by precisely punching holes at locations designated by the keys struck by the operator. Early keypunches were manual devices. Later keypunches were mechanized, often resembled a small desk, with a keyboard similar to a... - Robert E. Kahn – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
- Michio KakuMichio Kakuis an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, the co-founder of string field theory, and a "communicator" and "popularizer" of science...
– CCNY professor; theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theoryString field theoryString field theory is a formalism in string theory in which the dynamics of relativistic strings is reformulated in the language of quantum field theory... - Gary A. KleinGary A. KleinGary Klein is a research psychologist famous for pioneering in the field of naturalistic decision making. By studying experts such as firefighters in their natural environment, he discovered that laboratory models of decision making could not describe it under uncertainty...
1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making - Leonard KleinrockLeonard KleinrockLeonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking...
1957 – Internet pioneer - Solomon KullbackSolomon KullbackSolomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and...
– Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer - Arthur J. Levenson – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, National Security AgencyNational Security AgencyThe National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
official, cryptographer, mathematician - Michael A. Liguori 1979 – listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York Magazine
- Valentino MazziaValentino MazziaValentino D. B. Mazzia was an American physician who served as chairman of the department of anesthesiology at the New York University School of Medicine and was a pioneer in the forensic analysis of deaths occurring during surgical procedures...
(1922–1999), forensic anesthesiologist. - Albert MedwinAlbert MedwinAlbert H Medwin is an American electrical engineer. He holds several US patents, including ones in the field of electronic encoders. Medwin was involved in the early development of integrated circuits while working at RCA in Somerville, New Jersey...
1949 BSEE – engineer and inventor, developed CMOS integrated circuit technology - Lewis MumfordLewis MumfordLewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...
– historian of technology; author of The City in HistoryThe City in HistoryThe City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects is a 1961 National Book Award winner by American historian Lewis Mumford.It was first published by Harcourt, Brace & World .... - Karl J. NiklasKarl J. NiklasKarl J. Niklas is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Cornell University. He is best known for his work on plant biomechanics, allometry, and functional morphology, and for his long-standing contributions to understanding plant evolutionary biology, particularly...
– professor of plant biology at Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. - Charles Lane PoorCharles Lane PoorCharles Lane Poor was an opponent of Einstein's theory of relativity.-Biography:He was born on January 18, 1866 in Hackensack, New Jersey to Edward Erie Poor. He graduated from the City College of New York and received a Ph.D. in 1892 from Johns Hopkins University...
– noted astronomer - Martin PopeMartin PopeMartin Pope is a physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University.His discoveries of ohmic contacts and research in the fields of organic insulators and semiconductors led to techniques enabling organic semiconductors to carry relatively large currents, and to convert electricity...
1939 – physical chemist, Davy MedalDavy MedalThe Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff "for...
winner (2006), known for pioneering work in electronic process in organic crystals and polymers, particularly discoveries in area of ohmic contactOhmic contactAn ohmic contact is a region on a semiconductor device that has been prepared so that the current-voltage curve of the device is linear and symmetric. If the I-V characteristic is non-linear and asymmetric, the contact is not ohmic, but is a blocking or Schottky contact...
s - Emil PostEmil Leon PostEmil Leon Post was a mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.-Early work:...
– distinguished professor of mathematics at CCNY - Jacob RabinowJacob RabinowJacob Rabinow was an engineer who led a truly prolific career as an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices....
– an engineer and an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices. Mainly in defense systems, and eventually became Chief of the Electro-Mechanical Ordnance Division at NBS. Scientific achievements: Among them are the President's Certificate of Merit (1948), the Industrial R&D Scientist of the Year Award (1960), the IEEE's Harry Diamond Award (1977), and the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1998). He published his book, Inventing for Fun and Profit, in 1989 - Maurice M. RapportMaurice M. RapportMaurice M. Rapport was leading biochemist who described the structure of serotonin...
1940, biochemist; identified the neurotransmitter serotoninSerotoninSerotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine is a monoamine neurotransmitter. Biochemically derived from tryptophan, serotonin is primarily found in the gastrointestinal tract, platelets, and in the central nervous system of animals including humans... - Haskell Reich – physicist and scientist for IBM ResearchIBM ResearchIBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....
. He did his undergraduate degree at City College, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 1955, joining the research team of Dr. Richard GarwinRichard GarwinRichard Lawrence Garwin , is an American physicist. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1949, where he worked in the lab of Enrico Fermi.Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J...
at Watson Labs. - Saul Rosen 1941 (BS Mathematics) – early computer pioneer, mathematician, engineer, and professor
- Howard Rosenblum 1950 BSEE – NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
- Jack RuinaJack RuinaJack P. Ruina was professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 until 1997 and currently is a professor emeritus at MIT...
1944 BSEE – former director of ARPA - Mario Runco Jr. 1974 – astronaut.
- Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
1934 – inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccinePolio vaccineTwo polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis . The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. Announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955, it consists of an injected dose of inactivated poliovirus. An oral vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin...
) - Philip H. SechzerPhilip H. SechzerPhilip H. Sechzer was a pioneer in anesthesiology and pain management. He was the inventor of patient-controlled analgesia , now commonly used post-operatively...
1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) - Abraham SinkovAbraham SinkovDr. Abraham Sinkov was a US cryptanalyst.-Biography:Sinkov, the son of immigrants from Russia, was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Brooklyn. After graduating from Boys High School—what today would be called a "magnet school" -- he took his B.S. in mathematics from City College of New York...
– Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer - David B. SteinmanDavid B. SteinmanDavid Bernard Steinman was an American structural engineer. He was the designer of the Mackinac Bridge and many other notable bridges, and a published author. He grew up in New York City's lower Manhattan, and lived with the ambition of making his mark on the Brooklyn Bridge that he lived under...
1906 – engineer; bridge designer (designed the Mackinac BridgeMackinac BridgeThe Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the non-contiguous Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the bridge is the third longest in total suspension in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages...
) and founded the National Society of Professional Engineers; the CCNY engineering building is named for him (Class 1906) - Leonard SusskindLeonard SusskindLeonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology...
1962 – physicist, string theory - Edgar VillchurEdgar VillchurEdgar Marion Villchur was an American inventor, educator, and writer widely known for his 1954 invention of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker which revolutionized the field of high-fidelity equipment...
(B.A.; M.S. 1940) - American inventor, educator, writer, and founder of Acoustic ResearchAcoustic ResearchAcoustic Research was a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that manufactured high-end audio equipment. The brand is now owned by Audiovox. Acoustic Research was well known for the AR-3 series of speaker systems, which used the 12-inch acoustic suspension woofer of the AR-1 with newly designed... - Milton Zaslow 1942 – cryptologist, ranking National Security Administration (NSA) official
- Benjamin W. Zweifach 1931 – Professor Emeritus Bioengineering, University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
Business
- Frank Avellino – 1958, an accountant involved in the Madoff investment scandalMadoff investment scandalThe Madoff investment scandal broke in December 2008 when former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate Ponzi scheme....
- Jonathan Better 1949 – real estate investor
- Edward Blank – industrialist and pioneer in the telemarketingTelemarketingTelemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call.Telemarketing can also include recorded sales pitches...
industry, founder of Edward Blank Associates, and the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
representative for the Jewish National FundJewish National FundThe Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a quasi-governmental, non-profit organisation...
. - Robert Catell 1958 – CEO of KeySpan
- Andrew GroveAndrew GroveAndrew Stephen Grove , is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American Businessman/ Engineer, Author & a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the U.S., where he finished his education...
1960 – 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1997, who donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006 - Joseph GurwinJoseph GurwinJoseph Gurwin was a Lithuanian-born American textile executive who became a philanthropist who contributed to Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. Gurwin arrived in the U.S...
(1920–2009), philanthropist who dropped out after becoming a partner in a textile firm and "realized I was making more money than my professors". - Stanley H. KaplanStanley KaplanStanley H. Kaplan was an American businessman and scholastic test preparation pioneer who founded Kaplan, Inc., in 1938.Kaplan was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents from the present-day countries of Latvia and Belarus...
1939 – founded Kaplan Educational ServicesKaplan, Inc.Kaplan, Inc. is a for-profit corporation headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1938 by Stanley Kaplan. Kaplan provides higher education programs, professional training courses, test preparation materials and other services for various levels of education... - Jack Rudin 1941 – real estate developer
- Melvin SimonMelvin SimonMelvin Simon was an American businessman and film producer, who co-founded the largest shopping mall company in the United States, the Simon Property Group, with his younger brother, Herbert Simon....
1949 – real estate developer, co-founder of Simon Property GroupSimon Property GroupSimon Property Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate company, ranked #1 in the United States as the largest real estate investment trust. Simon is a fully integrated real estate company which operates from five retail real estate platforms: regional malls, Premium Outlet Centers, The...
. - Bernard SpitzerBernard SpitzerBernard Spitzer is an American real estate developer and philanthropist in New York City who built several landmark buildings around the city including The Corinthian which was the largest individual apartment building in New York City when it was built. Spitzer is father of former New York...
1943 – real estate developer - Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of ad agencyKaplan Thaler GroupFounded in 1997 , The Kaplan Thaler Group is an integrated marketing and advertising agency based in New York City. Its capabilities include: digital marketing, such as web development, social media, mobile, and online advertising; direct response, television, print, radio, out of home, and...
in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck - Millard DrexlerMillard DrexlerMillard "Mickey" S. Drexler is the current chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and formerly the CEO of Gap Inc. He has been a director at Apple Inc. since 1999....
– Current chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and formerly the CEO of Gap Inc - Jerald G. FishmanJerald G. FishmanJerald G. Fishman has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996. He is a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc.-Education:...
– Served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996 - Amar Pawar - Pioneer in T - shaped molecular structures for cell building blocks
Sports
- Irwin DambrotIrwin DambrotIrwin Dambrot was a former first-round draft pick of the New York Knicks and the Most Outstanding Player of the 1950 NCAA men's basketball tournament....
– basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving ScandalCCNY Point Shaving ScandalThe CCNY point shaving scandal of 1950-1951 was a college basketball point shaving gambling scandal that involved seven schools in all, with four in Greater New York and three in the Midwest... - Benny FriedmanBenny FriedmanBenjamin "Benny" Friedman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan , Cleveland Bulldogs , Detroit Wolverines , New York Giants , and Brooklyn Dodgers .He is generally considered the first great passer in professional football...
– outstanding quarterback at the University of Michigan and superb NFL player, coached the CCNY football team from 1935 to 1941 - Harold GoldsmithHarold GoldsmithHarold David Goldsmith, known as Hal was an American foil and epee fencer.-College:...
1952 – foil and épée fencer, won the 1952 NCAA foil championship, competed in three Olympiads for the US, won 2 Pan American Games gold medals and 2 silver medals - Sidney HertzbergSidney HertzbergSidney "Sonny" Hertzberg was an American pro basketball player. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Woodmere, New York.-Career:...
– NY Knicks basketball player - Red HolzmanRed HolzmanWilliam "Red" Holzman was an NBA basketball player and coach probably best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973, and was elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985...
1942 – All-American guard at CCNY, 2-time All-Star NBA guard, legendary basketball coach for the New York Knicks, Hall of Famer. - Floyd LayneFloyd LayneFloyd Layne was a basketball player for CCNY who was implicated in the point shaving scandal that rocked college athletics in the 1950s. Layne was instrumental in the team that won the NIT and NCAA championship in 1950 for CCNY...
– basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving ScandalCCNY Point Shaving ScandalThe CCNY point shaving scandal of 1950-1951 was a college basketball point shaving gambling scandal that involved seven schools in all, with four in Greater New York and three in the Midwest...
; later coached the CCNY men's basketball team - Nat MilitzokNat MilitzokNathan "Nat" Militzok was an American basketball player, who played the forward position for various teams, including the New York Knicks.-Early life:...
(1923-2009), basketball player for the New York Knicks - Hank RosensteinHank RosensteinHenry "Hank" Rosenstein was a professional American basketball player in the National Basketball Association ....
– basketball player for the New York Knicks - Barney SedranBarney SedranBarney Sedran was one of the great early pro basketball players in the 1910s and 1920s.-Career:Nicknamed "Mighty Mite", the New York City native who grew up on the Lower East Side, Sedran was a member of the well-known New York Whirlwinds and Cleveland Rosenblums, among many other teams in New...
– Basketball Hall of Fame - Moe SpahnMoe Spahn-Early life, and college basketball career:Spahn, who was Jewish, was born in New York, New York. He attended Bryant High School, in Queens, New York, where he played basketball....
- basketball player - Henry WittenbergHenry WittenbergHenry Wittenberg was a prodigious American wrestler and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. He won two Olympic medals and was the first American wrestler after 1908 to achieve this feat. He at one point in his career wrestled 300 matches without losing...
– Olympic wrestler, won gold medal at 1948 Olympics and silver medal in 1952
Fictional
- Lennie BriscoeLennie BriscoeLeonard W. "Lennie" Briscoe is a fictional character on NBC's long running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order. He was featured on the show for 12 seasons, from 1992 to 2004. He was created by Walon Green and René Balcer, and was portrayed by Jerry Orbach...
– character from the TV show Law & OrderLaw & OrderLaw & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,... - Brian Flanagan – character from the 1988 film Cocktail
- Sam Posner – character from the 1988 film Crossing DelanceyCrossing DelanceyCrossing Delancey is a romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert released in 1988. It is directed by Joan Micklin Silver and based on a play by Susan Sandler, who also wrote the screenplay...
- Gordon GekkoGordon GekkoGordon Gekko is the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both by director Oliver Stone...
– character from the 1987 film Wall Street - Toby ZieglerToby ZieglerTobias Zachary 'Toby' Ziegler is played by Richard Schiff on the television serial drama The West Wing. For most of the series' duration he is White House Communications Director.-Creation and development:...
– character from the TV show The West Wing - Nancy – character from the 1971 film BananasBananas (film)Bananas is a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen, directed by Allen, and starring himself and Louise Lasser. Parts of the plot were based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed on location in New York City, Lima , and various locations in Puerto...
- Don DraperDon DraperDonald "Don" Draper is a fictional character and the protagonist of AMC's television series Mad Men. He is portrayed by 2008 Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm. Until the third season finale, Draper was Creative Director of Manhattan advertising firm Sterling Cooper...
- character from the TV show Mad MenMad MenMad Men is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. The series premiered on Sunday evenings on the American cable network AMC and are produced by Lionsgate Television. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its fourth season on October 17, 2010. Each...
See also
- :Category:City College of New York alumni
- :Category:City College of New York faculty
- List of City College of New York alumni