List of Columbia University alumni and attendees

This is a partial list of notable persons who have or had ties to Columbia University.

Politics, military and law

Business

Robert Agostinelli – co-founder of Rhone Group and Friends of Israel Initiative

His Imperial and Royal Highness Prince Amedeo of Belgium (M.B.A.) – eldest grandson of King
Albert II of Belgium and Archduke of Austria and Prince of Hungary[1]

John Jacob Astor III – 19th-century real estate baron

Frank Lusk Babbott (LL.B. 1880) – jute merchant and art patron

Leonard Blavatnik (M.A.) – Russian-American businessman; founder, chairman and president of

Access Industries[2]

Warren Buffett (M.S. 1951) – investor, president of Berkshire Hathaway[3]

Ursula Burns (M.S. 1981) – CEO of Xerox Corporation (July 1, 2009–); first African-American
woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company[4]

William Campbell (B.A., M.A.) – Chairman of the Board (incumbent as of 2009), former CEO, Intuit,
Inc.; head football coach, Columbia University, 1974–79[5]

Bennett Cerf (B.A. 1919, Litt.B. 1920) – founder of Random House[6][7]

John B. Chambers (M.A., English literature) – deputy head of the Sovereign Debt Ratings Group;
chairman of the Sovereign Debt Committee at Standard and Poor's[8]

Leon G. Cooperman (M.B.A. 1967) – billionaire Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors; former
general partner, Chairman, CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management[9]

Azita Raji (M.B.A. 1991), investment banker, philanthropist, nominated ambassador to Sweden in
2014[10]

Akio Shigemitsu (Shin Dong-Bin) (M.B.A. 1980[11]) – Chairman, Lotte Group (2011–)[12]

Lynn Forester de Rothschild (J.D.) – CEO of E.L. Rothschild (2002–)[13]

Jason Epstein – editorial director at Random House

Stephen Friedman – Chairman of Goldman Sachs; National Economic Council director; chairman
of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board[14]

Mario Gabelli – investor

Carlos Goez (1939–1990), founder of the original Pomander Book Shop[15]

Michael Goodkin (M.B.A.) – quantitative finance entrepreneur; instrumental in development of

computer program pricing of exotic financial derivatives and structured products

James P. Gorman (M.B.A. 1987) – CEO of Morgan Stanley[16]

Noam Gottesman (B.A.) – billionaire, GLG Partners

Michael Gould (B.A. 1966) – CEO of Bloomingdale's[17]

Joseph Peter Grace, Sr. (B.A.) – president and CEO of W. R. Grace and Company[18]

Armand Hammer – President of Occidental Petroleum; internationalist; convicted for illegal

campaign donations[19]

Herman Hollerith (Engineer of Mines 1879, Ph.D. 1890) – founder of the Tabulating Machine
Company, a predecessor to IBM

Ben Horowitz (B.S. 1988) – co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.[20]

Walter C. Johnsen (M.B.A. 1978) – Chairman and CEO of Acme United Corporation

Inez Y. Kaiser, the first African-American woman to run a public relations company with national
clients[21]

John Kluge – founder of Metromedia

Alfred A. Knopf (B.A. 1912) – founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Publishers

Robert Kraft (B.A. 1963) – owner of New England Patriots

Henry Kravis (M.B.A. 1969) – investment banker who invented the leveraged buyout

Sallie Krawcheck (M.B.A. 1992) – former Chairman, CEO of Sanford Bernstein; number seven on
Forbes ' 2005 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women

Jonathan Lavine (B.A. 1988) – Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital and Chief Investment Officer
of Bain Capital Credit

Randolph Lerner (1984) – CEO of MBNA Bank; owner of Cleveland Browns

Dan Loeb (B.A.) – billionaire, founder of Third Point LLC

Frank Lorenzo (B.A. 1961) – corporate raider

Benedict I. Lubell (B.A., J.D.) – oil industry executive[22]

John R. MacArthur (B.A. 1917) – president and publisher of Harper's, the oldest continuously
published monthly magazine in the country

Frank J. Manheim (1934) – Partner, Lehman Brothers; influential in the global success of Hertz
Corp.; Director 20 US corporations; author.

Lynn Martin (M.A.) – banker and computer programmer, 68th president of the New York Stock
Exchange[23]

James Melcher (born 1939) – Olympic fencer and hedge fund manager

Norman B. Norman (B.A. 1934) – advertising executive who co-founded Norman, Craig & Kummel

Timothy L. O'Brien (M.B.A., 1992) – edits and oversees the Sunday Business section of The New
York Times

Eric Ober – former President of CBS News division, and Food Network

Vikram Pandit (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977, M.B.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1986, Trustee) – CEO of Citigroup

Mark J. Penn (Law) – worldwide CEO, public relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of polling
firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates

Isaac Rice (1880), founder of the Electric Boat Company and other businesses, U.S. chess patron

Wayne Allyn Root (B.A. 1983) – founder and chairman of Winning Edge International, inducted
into Las Vegas Walk of Stars in 2006

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (M.B.A.) – Chairman, CEO, J Sainsbury plc (1992–
1997); Deputy Chairman (1988–1992)

Miguel Salis (M.B.A. 1984) – green entrepreneur

Edwin Schlossberg (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971) – founder and principal designer of ESI Design

David O. Selznick – movie producer

Robert Shaye (J.D. 1964) – CEO of New Line Cinema

Lawrence L. Shenfield (B.A. 1915) – advertising executive, philatelist

Richard L. Simon (1920) – co-founder of Simon & Schuster

Epaminondas Stathopoulo – founder and president of The Epiphone Company[24]

Gus Stavros – founder of the Stavros Institute and the Pinellas Education Foundation

Jon Steinberg (M.B.A.) – President and COO BuzzFeed

 Joseph M. Tucci (M.S.) – Chairman, President, and CEO of EMC Corporation (2006–); former
Chairman and CEO of Wang Laboratories

P. Roy Vagelos (M.D. 1954) – Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co.

Alan Wagner (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952) – first president of Disney Channel; East Coast vice president
of programming at CBS; radio personality; opera historian and critic

S. Robson Walton (J.D. 1969) – Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart

Robert K. Watson (M.B.A. 2007) – Market Transformation Expert and Founder of the LEED Green
Building Rating System of U.S. Green Building Council

Andrew Yang (J.D.) – Entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and 2020 US presidential
candidate
Ömer Koç, Chairman of Koç Holding.

Religion and ministry

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Religious figures) for
separate listing of more than 10 religious figures

Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (M.A. 1962) – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
(1991–12); Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–03); Bishop of Pittsburgh (1983–88)

George BonDurant – founder of Point University (1937) and Mid-Atlantic Christian University
(1948)

Sharon Brous (B.A., M.A.) – rabbi and essayist, founder of IKAR

Reuben Clark (J.D.) – prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Carl Henry Clerk (PGDip. 1926), fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast

Jack Cohen (Ph.D.) – Reconstructionist rabbi, educator, philosopher and author

David Ellenson (Ph.D.) – rabbi and eighth president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion

Elliot N. Dorff (Ph.D. 1971) – conservative rabbi

Ira Eisenstein (B.A., Ph.D.) rabbi; co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi
Mordecai Kaplan

John Patrick Foley (M.A.) – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2007–2011);
President of Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1984–2007)
Samuel H. Goldenson (M.A., Ph.D.) – Polish-born rabbi

Herbert S. Goldstein (B.A., M.A.) – prominent rabbi and Jewish leader

Benedict Groeschel (Ph.D. 1971) – Catholic priest, author, psychologist; co-founder of Franciscan
Friars of the Renewal

Leon Harrison (B.A.) – rabbi

Joseph Herman Hertz (Ph.D.) – Jewish Hungarian-born rabbi and Bible scholar; Chief Rabbi of the
United Kingdom (1913–1946) during World War I and World War II

Arthur Hertzberg (Ph.D. 1966) Conservative rabbi; prominent Jewish-American scholar and
activist

Mordecai Kaplan (M.A., Ph.D.) – rabbi; co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi
Ira Eisenstein

[[Charles E. H. Kauvar) (M.A. 1901) – rabbi

Irwin Kula (born 1957) – rabbi and author

Yehuda Kurtzer (born 1977) – American Public Jewish Intellectual

Archbishop Leontios of Cyprus – Archbishop of Cyprus (1947)

Joseph Lookstein – Rabbi and President of Bar-Ilan University

Alexander Lyons (M.A. 1906) – Rabbi

James Francis Aloysius McIntyre – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1953–
1979); Archbishop of Los Angeles (1948–1970)

Thomas Merton (B.A. 1938, studied for M.A.) – 20th-century Catholic writer; student of
comparative religions; Trappist monk; poet; author of The Seven Storey Mountain

In Jin Moon (B.A.) – president of Unification Church of the United States (2009–)

Frederick Buckley Newell (M.A. 1916) – Bishop, Methodist Church

Samuel Provoost (B.A. 1758) – first Chaplain of the United States Senate; first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of New York

Emanuel Rackman (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1933, Ph.D. 1953) – Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-
Ilan University

Paula Reimers (M.A. 1971) – rabbi

 Henry Y. Satterlee (B.A. 1863) – first Episcopal Bishop of Washington (1896–1908); established
Washington National Cathedral

Michael Schudrich (M.A. 1982) – Chief Rabbi of Poland

Mendel Shapiro (J.D.) – Jerusalem lawyer and Modern Orthodox rabbi; author of a notable
halakhic analysis

Jaime Soto (M.S.W. 1986)- American Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Sacramento

Milton Steinberg (Ph.D. 1928) – rabbi and novelist

Diosdado Talamayan (M.A. 1970) – Archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuguegarao

(1986–) in the province of Cagayan on the island of Luzon, Philippines

George W. Webber – President of New York Theological Seminary[25]

Hazen Graff Werner – Bishop, the Methodist Church

Jan Willis (Ph.D.) – African-American Buddhist and Buddhist scholar at Wesleyan University;
called influential by Time magazine, Newsweek (cover story), and Ebony Magazine

Architecture, arts and literature

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia College of Columbia University (Artists and architects; and Writers) and Columbia Law
School (Arts and Letters) for separate listing of more than 90 architects, artists, and writers

Max Abramovitz (1931) – 1961 Rome Prize; designed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the
United Nations complex, and the Assembly Hall

Aravind Adiga (B.A. 1997) – author of The White Tiger and winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize

Mitch Albom (M.A., M.B.A.) – author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, Tuesdays with Morrie, The
Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day

Chester Holmes Aldrich (Ph.B. 1893) – architect and director of the American Academy in Rome
from 1935 until his death in 1940

Jacob M. Appel (M.A., M.Phil.) – author (Creve Coeur) and playwright (Arborophilia, The Mistress
of Wholesome)

Sara Kathryn Arledge – artist

Irene Aronson (B.A. 1960, M.A. 1962) – painter and printmaker

Sean Go, (M.S.R.E.D 2021) – Filipino Pop Artist

John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship, National Book Award, National Book
Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Isaac Asimov (B.S. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) – science fiction author, The Foundation series, "I, Robot";
Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards; 1984 Humanist of the Year

Paul Auster (B.A. 1969) – postmodern author, The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace (named after
now-defunct Chinese restaurant near campus)

Carole B. Balin (M.Phil. 1994; Ph.D. 1998) – professor of Jewish history, author, Reform rabbi

Béla Bartók – musician, composer, pianist, and early scholar in ethnomusicology

Josh Bazell (M.D.) – novelist

Clare Beams (M.F.A, 2006) – novelist and short story writer

James Blish – science fiction author; Nebula Award, Hugo Award; Science Fiction and Fantasy
Hall of Fame (2002)

Helaine Blumenfeld (Ph.D. 1963) – sculptor working in Britain and Italy

Carlos Brillembourg (M.A. 1975) – architect

Mary Griggs Burke – largest private collector of Japanese art outside Japan.[26]

Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown – architect

Jim Carroll – writer (The Basketball Diaries), poet, punk rocker[27]

Duncan Candler (1895) – architect

Lesley Chang – architect

Jerome Charyn (B.A. 1959) – novelist

Caitlin Cherry (M.F.A. 2012) – painter

Jonas Coersmeier – award-winning architect and designer; finalist and first runner-up in the World
Trade Center Memorial Competition

Nancy Cohen (M.F.A. 1984) – sculptor, papermaker and installation artist

Teju Cole (M.Phil.) – novelist, author of Open City

Robin Cook (M.D.) – physician and novelist; novels combine medical writing with thriller genre; his
books have sold nearly 100 million copies
John Corigliano (B.A. 1959) – musician, composer

Rita Cox – librarian, storyteller

E. Wayne Craven (Ph.D. 1963) – art historian and educator

Agnes Denes – conceptual and environmental artist; Rome Prize, works held in over 40 public
museums, including the MoMA, Met and Whitney

Kiran Desai (M.F.A. 1999) – novelist, winner of 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
and the Man Booker Prize, 1998 Betty Trask Award

E. L. Doctorow (graduate study) – author, National Humanities Medal; thrice winner, National
Book Critics Circle Award; Ragtime, Billy Bathgate

Adee Dodge (M.A. 1935) – painter, Navajo code-talker, linguist

Timothy Donnelly (M.F.A.) – poet, 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; professor at Columbia
University

Alden B. Dow (B.A. 1931) – architect; known for his prolific architectural design

Pamela Druckerman (M.A.) – author and freelance journalist living in Paris, France

Louis Dudek (Ph.D.) – Canadian poet, academic and publisher

Albert Elsen (B.A. 1949, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) – art historian and educator

Adam J. Elkhadem (B.A. 2018) – artist and cartoonist

Clifford Percy Evans (B.A.) – architect based in Salt Lake City

Walter Farley (B.A. 1941) – author, The Black Stallion

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (M.A. 1947) – Beat Generation poet, founder of City Lights Bookstore

Amanda Filipacchi (M.F.A) – author, Nude Men, Vapor, Love Creeps

Rolf G. Fjelde (M.F.A.) – playwright, educator and poet, founding President of the Ibsen Society of
America

Amanda Foreman – 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography; author, one of The New York Times
"Ten Best Books of 2011"

Allen Forte (B.A.) – music theorist; Battell Professor of Music, Emeritus at Yale University

Hal Foster (M.A. 1979) – art critic and historian; faculty at Princeton since 1997; Berlin Prize

Katherine Jackson French (1875–1958) – ballad collector[28]

Nicholas Gage (M.A. 1964) – author, Eleni, A Place For Us, Greek Fire

Paul Gallico (1919) – author, The Snow Goose, The Poseidon Adventure, The Silent Miaow

Federico García Lorca (1929–1930) – poet and playwright

Allen Ginsberg (B.A. 1948) – Beat Generation poet; National Book Award for Poetry for The Fall of
America: Poems of These States

Louise Glück – United States Poet Laureate (2003–2004), Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics
Circle Award, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, William Carlos Williams Award,
Nobel Laureate

Philip Gourevitch (M.F.A. 1992) – recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, editor of The
Paris Review

Edwin Granberry (1920) – writer of the Buz Sawyer comic strip

Bette Greene (B.A.) – 1975 Newbery Honor, 1973 Golden Kite Award, New York Times Outstanding
Book Award, ALA Notable Book Award

Ismail Gulgee (engineering) – Pakistani artist noted for his paintings and Islamic calligraphy;
qualified engineer

Elizabeth Hardwick (attended) – writer; co-founder of The New York Review of Books

Anthony Hecht (M.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, United States Poet Laureate (1982–1984),
1983 Bollingen Prize, 1988 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 1997 Wallace Stevens Award, 1999/2000 Frost
Medal

Joseph Heller (M.A. 1949) – author, Catch-22

Henry Beaumont Herts (attended) – architect, known for theater designs

Daniel Hoffman (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1956) – poet, essayist, United States Poet Laureate
(1973–1974)

John Hollander (B.A.) – poet, MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant", Bollingen Prize (1983)

Henry Hornbostel (B.A. 1891) – architect; designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and
monuments in the United States

Langston Hughes – writer and poet

Zora Neale Hurston (B.A. Barnard; graduate study, two years, CU) – author, folklorist,
anthropologist

Ray William Johnson (B.A.) – YouTuber, producer, and actor

Ely Jacques Kahn – commercial architect; designed numerous skyscrapers in New York City in
the twentieth century

Rockwell Kent (B.A.) – painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer

Maude Kerns (M.A. 1906) – pioneering abstract artist from Portland, Oregon, prolific on the East
coast

Jack Kerouac (College 1940–1942; dropped out) – founder of the Beat Generation movement;
author, On the Road

Keorapetse Kgositsile (M.F.A. 1971) – South African poet and political activist; South African
National Poet Laureate in 2006

Diana Kleiner (M.A. 1970, M.Phil. 1974, Ph.D. 1977), art historian

Benjamin Kunkel (M.F.A.) – novelist, founder of n+1

David Kvitko, scholar who analysed the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy

Mpule Kwelagobe (B.A. 2006) – Miss Universe 1999

Leroy Lamis (M.A.) – sculptor and digital artist known for his Plexiglas sculptures

Ursula K. Le Guin (M.A. 1951) – author of science fiction, fantasy novels; 1973 National Book
Award for Young People's Literature; five Hugo Awards, six Nebula awards

Alan Lomax (graduate study) – ethnomusicologist, 1986 National Medal of Arts; 2000 Library of
Congress Living Legend Award; National Book Critics Circle Award

Richard Lowitt (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian, Guggenheim Fellow.[29]

Diego Luzuriaga (Ph.D. 1996) – Ecuadorian composer; 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship[30]

Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition recipient, composer of first Ecuadorian opera,
2006 recipient of the Eugenio Espejo National Prize.

Kuntowijoyo (Ph.D. 1980) – author; 1999 S.E.A. Write Award

Edward MacDowell – composer, professor of music

Sky Macklay (DMA 2018) – composer, oboist, professor at Valparaiso University

Patricia McCormick (M.S. 1985) – author for young adults; 2012 National Book Award (Young
People's Literature), finalist

Carson McCullers – author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Terrence McNally – playwright; winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy Award, a Rockefeller Grant,
the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award

William March – author; highly decorated U.S. Marine; Company K, The Bad Seed

John Matteson (Ph.D. 1999) – Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer (2008)

Kate Millett (Ph.D. 1970) – author of Sexual Politics, feminist and artist

Dorothy Miner (attended) – art historian and curator

Fereydoun Motamed (M.A. 1952) – linguist, Louis de Broglie award winner from the French
Academy (1963)

Isamu Noguchi – sculptor

Georgia O'Keeffe (attended TC 1914–15, studied with Arthur Wesley Dow, TC 1916) – artist;
Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts

Sharon Olds (Ph.D.) – National Book Critics Circle Award; T. S. Eliot Prize; Lamont Poetry Prize;
Poet Laureate, State of New York (1998–2000)

Ron Padgett (B.A.) – poet; 2009 Shelley Memorial Award; member New York School

John Russell Pope (B.S. Arch 1894) – Rome Prize; designed the National Archives, the Jefferson
Memorial in Washington, D.C., the West Building of the National Gallery of Art

Joya Powell (B.A.Latin American Studies and Creative Writing 2001) Bessie Award winning
choreographer and professor

Antoine Predock (B. Arch.) – architect, Rome Prize (1985); AIA Gold Medal (2006), National
Design Award (2007)

Richard Price (M.F.A.) – novelist and screenwriter

Gregory Rabassa (Ph.D.) – literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English; 2006
National Medal of Arts; inaugural U.S. National Book Award (Category Translation)

David Rakoff (B.A. 1986) – Canadian-born writer based in New York City; 2011 Thurber Prize for
American Humor

Claudia Rankine (M.F.A. 1993) – poet; winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize; professor at Pomona
College

James Renwick Jr. (B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839) – Gothic Revival architect; designed St. Patrick's
Cathedral, New York and the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector

Mark Rudman (M.F.A.) – poet; National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry

Karen Russell (M.F.A. 2006) – author, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer
honoree

Friedrich St. Florian (M. Arch. 1961) – Austrian-American architect; Rome Prize; National World
War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

J. D. Salinger – author, The Catcher in the Rye

Anna Pendleton Schenck, architect

Karenna Gore Schiff (J.D. 2000) – author, journalist, and attorney

David Serero (M.S.) – French architect; Rome Prize

Vijay Seshadri (M.F.A. 1988) – winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Robert Silverberg (B.A. 1956) – science fiction author; five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, the
prestigious Prix Apollo; 1999 inductee into Science Fiction Hall of Fame

Mona Simpson (M.F.A.) – novelist, essayist

Upton Sinclair – populist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Jungle; presidential candidate

Laurinda Hope Spear (M.S. 1975) – architect and landscape architect; Rome Prize; one of the
founders of Arquitectonica

Tracy K. Smith (M.F.A. 1997) — United States Poet Laureate (2017–2019)

William Jay Smith – United States Poet Laureate (1968–1970); Rhodes Scholar

Robert A. M. Stern (B.A. 1960) – postmodern architect; Dean of the Yale University School of
Architecture

William Lee Stoddart – architect of U.S. East Coast hotels

Mary Stolz (1936–38) – writer of fiction for children and young adults; Newbery Honors (1962,
1966); 1953 Child Study Children's Book Award

Hunter S. Thompson – author, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; creator of gonzo journalism

Melvin B. Tolson (M.A.) – Liberian Poet Laureate; central character (played by Denzel Washington)
in the movie The Great Debaters (2007)

Wells Tower (M.F.A.) – writer of fiction and non-fiction, two Pushcart Prizes

Erica Simone Turnipseed (M.A.) – writer

 Charles Van Doren (M.A., Ph.D. 1955) – author, English professor whose national disgrace was
the subject of the Oscar-nominated film Quiz Show

Mark Van Doren (Ph.D. 1920) – Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

Eric Van Lustbader (B.A.) – author of thriller and fantasy novels; The Ninja; continuation of the
Bourne series by Robert Ludlum

Eudora Welty (Business, 1930–31, hon. LHD 1982) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Optimist's
Daughter

Frank B. Wilderson III (M.F.A.) – writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and critic

Blanche Colton Williams (M.A., Ph.D.) – author, editor, department head and professor of
literature, and pioneer in women's higher education; first editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories,
serving in that position from 1919 to 1932

Fred F. Willson (B.A. 1902) – architect, Bozeman, Montana; designed many buildings that are
listed on the National Register of Historic Places

James Perry Wilson (B.A. 1914) – architect and painter; designed diorama backgrounds for the
American Museum of Natural History, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Boston
Museum of Science, among others.

Dick Wimmer (M.A. 1974) – novelist

Hana Wirth-Nesher (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. 1977) – literary scholar and Professor of American and
English Studies at Tel Aviv University

Herman Wouk (B.A. 1934) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, War and Remembrance

George Wyatt (B.A. 1971) – sculptor

Mako Yoshikawa (B.A. 1988) – author, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller
translated into six languages

Charles Yu (J.D. 2001) – author, Interior Chinatown

Roger Zelazny (M.A. 1962) – science fiction author; The Chronicles of Amber series; three Nebula
Awards, six Hugo Awards

Performing arts

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Actors; Musicians,
Composers, Lyricists; Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Directors) and Columbia University School of
the Arts

Academy awards

Casey Affleck (B.A. 1998) – Academy Award-winning actor, Manchester by the Sea

Raney Aronson-Rath (JRN'95) – Academy Award-winning producer, 20 Days in Mariupol

Kathryn Bigelow (M.F.A. 1979) – two Academy Awards: director, producer, The Hurt Locker; Time
100; first woman to win Academy Award for directing (2009)

Sidney Buchman (B.A. 1923) – screenwriter, won an Academy Award for writing Mr. Smith Goes
To Washington

Elinor Burkett (M.A. 1988) – Academy Award-winning producer of Music by Prudence

James Cagney (upon the death of his father, dropped out) – two Academy Awards: Best Actor
White Heat and Yankee Doodle Dandy; Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bill Condon (B.A. 1976) – Academy Award-winning writer, Gods and Monsters, Chicago; director,
Kinsey and Dreamgirls

John Corigliano (B.A. 1959) – Academy Award; composer of classical music; 2001 Pulitzer Prize
for Music; 2009 Grammy Award

Adam Davidson (M.F.A. 1991) – Academy Award-winning director for Best Short Subject, The
Lunch Date

I.A.L. Diamond (B.A. 1941) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter for The Apartment

Tan Dun (Ph.D.) – Academy Award-winning Chinese contemporary classical music composer;
scores for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero

Peter Farrelly (M.F.A. 1986) – Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter of Green Book
(film)

Miloš Forman (Hon, 2015) – Academy Award-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest (film) and Amadeus (film)

Dede Gardner – Academy Award-winning co-producer of 12 Years A Slave

William Goldman (M.A. 1956) – two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter; novelist,

playwright
Oscar Hammerstein II (B.A. 1916, studied at Law School 1916–17) – lyricist and librettist; winner
of two Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, and two Grammy Awards,
including musicals such as the Pulitzer–winning Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of
Music; collaborator with Richard Rodgers

Howard Koch (LL.B.) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Casablanca

Jennifer Lee (M.F.A.) – Academy Award-winning co-screenwriter and co-director of Frozen

William Ludwig (B.A. 1932) – screenwriter; co-winner, Academy Award for Interrupted Melody
(1955); founder of Screen Writers Guild (known now as Writers Guild of America)

Sidney Lumet (undergraduate studies interrupted by service during World War II) – Academy
Award-winning film director (nominated five times)

Herman J. Mankiewicz (B.A. 1917) – won an Academy Award for co-writing Citizen Kane; older
brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (B.A. 1928) – won four Academy Awards, including Academy Award for
Best Director; younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz

Graham Moore (B.A. 2003) – won an Academy Award for writing "The Imitation Game"

Veronica Nickel (M.F.A. 2010) – Academy Award-winning co-producer of Moonlight

Edmond O'Brien (B.A.) – Academy Award-winning actor, The Barefoot Contessa

Anna Paquin (on leave of absence, attended first year) – Academy Award-winning actress, The
Piano and X-Men

Richard Rodgers (1923) – composer of musicals; winner of one Academy Award, 11 Tony Awards,
two Pulitzer Prizes, two Emmy Awards and two Grammy Awards; one of two persons to win an
EGOT and a Pulitzer, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The
Sound of Music; collaborator with Oscar Hammerstein II

Maureen Ryan (M.F.A. 1992) – co-produced Academy Award-winning documentary, Man on

Wire[31]

Franklin Schaffner (studied law, education, interrupted by service during World War II) – Academy
Award-winning film director

Thelma Schoonmaker (studied for M.A.) – three-time Academy Award-winning editor for Raging
Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed

David O. Selznick (G.S. 1923) – three-time Academy Award-winning producer of Gone with the
Wind
 Karl Struss (B.A. 1912) -Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Sunrise: A Song of Two
Humans

Steve Tesich (M.A. 1967) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Breaking Away

Allie Wrubel (graduate study in music) – composer, musician, and songwriter, Academy Award
("Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"); Songwriters Hall of Fame

Actors, directors, writers, composers, others

Victoria Ann Lewis (M.A.) – actress and theatre creator

Saheem Ali (M.F.A. 2007) – director, Associate Artistic Director at The Public Theater

Emanuel Ax (B.A. 1970) – pianist, won Avery Fisher prize at age 30, won three Grammy Awards
along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma; awarded John Jay Award by the University

Babydaddy, born Scott Hoffman (B.A.) – member of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters

Ramin Bahrani (B.A. 1996) – director and writer Man Push Cart, Chop Suey, and Goodbye Solo

Chris Baio – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend

Mason Bates (B.A.) – composer of symphonic music; Chicago Symphony's Mead composer in
residence (2010–12)

Rostam Batmanglij – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend

Kelly Killoren Bensimon (B.A. 1998) – author; former model; former editor of Elle Accessories; cast
member of The Real Housewives of New York City[32]

Albert Berger (M.F.A. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated producer of Cold Mountain, Little Miss
Sunshine[33][34]

Jeremy Blackman (B.A. 2009) – actor, Magnolia

John Bohlinger (B.A. 1988) – musician, songwriter, writer, television band leader

Sorrell Booke (B.A. 1949) – actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the TV series The Dukes of
Hazzard

Pat Boone (B.S. 1957) – singer and actor

Jesse Bradford (B.A. 2002) – actor[35]

Joshua Brand (M.A. 1974) – Emmy Award-winning creator of St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away, and
Northern Exposure
David Brown (M.A. 1937) – Academy Award-nominated film producer, Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon,
Driving Miss Daisy

Cara Buono (B.A. 1993) – actress, Third Watch

Wendy Carlos (M.A. 1966) – composer and synthesizer pioneer

Vanessa Carlton – singer, songwriter

Soman Chainani – author of The School for Good and Evil

Timothée Chalamet (attended first year) – Academy Award-nominated actor of Call Me By Your
Name

Lisa Cholodenko (M.F.A. 1998) – screenwriter and film director, Laurel Canyon, The L Word

Peter Cincotti – pianist, singer, songwriter, actor, model

Spencer Treat Clark (B.A. 2010) – actor, Gladiator, Mystic River, and Unbreakable

Ben Cooper – actor of film and television

Federico A. Cordero (M.A., economics) – guitarist of classical music

Pamela Council (M.F.A. 2004) – artist

Joseph Cross – actor, Milk

Ossie Davis (GS 1948) – Golden Globe-nominated actor and activist, Do the Right Thing

Alice T. Days (M.A.) – documentary filmmaker

Brian Dennehy (B.A. 1960) – actor, First Blood, Tommy Boy, Romeo + Juliet, Ratatouille

Brian De Palma (B.A. 1962) – movie director, Carrie, Scarface, Carlito's Way The Untouchables

R. Luke DuBois (B.A. 1997, M.A. 1999, D.M.A. 2003) – musician, composer/artist, member of the
Freight Elevator Quartet

Todd Duncan (M.A.) – baritone opera singer and actor

Fred Ebb (M.A. 1957) – lyricist who collaborated with John Kander on such Broadway musicals
as Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks of
Funny Lady and New York, New York

Jason Everman (B.A. 2013) – guitarist; former member of Nirvana and Soundgarden; Army
Ranger; Green Beret

Peter Farrelly (M.F.A. 1986) – filmmaker, with his brother Bobby Farrelly, There's Something About
Mary, Dumb and Dumber
Adriana Ferreyr – Brazilian actress

William Finley (B.A. 1963) – actor

Matthew Fox (B.A. 1989) – Golden Globe-nominated actor, Lost, Party of Five

James Franco (M.F.A.) – actor, Golden Globe Award; James Dean; Spider-Man trilogy; Pineapple
Express, Milk

Dan Futterman (B.A. 1989) – actor, The Birdcage, Judging Amy

Zach Galligan (B.A. 1986) – actor, Gremlins, Gremlins 2

Bernard Garfield (M.A. 1950) – bassoonist and composer

Art Garfunkel (B.A. 1965, art history; M.A. 1965, mathematics; A.B.D.) – Grammy-award-winning
singer, poet, Golden Globe-nominated actor, songwriter of Simon and Garfunkel

Allen Ginsberg (B.A. 1948) – Beat Generation poet, National Book Award for Poetry; The Fall of
America: Poems of These States

Greg Giraldo (B.A. 1987) – comedian

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (attended four years in GS; did not graduate) – actor, 3rd Rock from the Sun,
(500) Days of Summer

Lauren Graham (Barnard College; B.A. 1988) – actress, Gilmore Girls

James Gunn (M.F.A.) – film director (Slither); screenwriter (Dawn of the Dead, Scooby-Doo);
novelist (The Toy Collector)

Jake Gyllenhaal (attended first two years) – Academy Award-nominated actor, Brokeback
Mountain, star of Donnie Darko, Jarhead

Maggie Gyllenhaal (B.A. 1999) – Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actress, Crazy
Heart, Secretary, The Dark Knight

Katori Hall (B.A. 2003) – playwright, journalist and actress; The Mountaintop

Ed Harris (attended first two years) – Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated
actor, The Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind

Lorenz Hart – Broadway lyricist, collaborator with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II;
wrote such songs as "Blue Moon", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "My Funny Valentine"

Bhupen Hazarika (Ph.D. 1952) – Assamese lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker

Hikaru Utada (did not graduate) – Japanese pop singer; fashion model
Lauryn Hill (attended first year) – Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, musician

Boyd Holbrook – fashion model

Nicole Holofcener (M.F.A.) – film and TV director, screenwriter, Friends With Money, Sex and the
City, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under

Katie Holmes (attended a summer session) – actress

Famke Janssen (B.A. 1992) – actress, GoldenEye, X-Men

Jim Jarmusch (B.A. 1975) – filmmaker, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken
Flowers

Julia Jones (B.A.) – Native American actress, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Judy Joo (B.S)- chef, author, host, Iron Chef UK, Jinjuu Restaurants (https://jinjuu.com/) , Korean
Food Made Simple (https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/korean-food-made-simple)
(season 1 & 2)

John Kander (M.A.) – lyricist who collaborated with Fred Ebb on such Broadway musicals as
Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks of Funny
Lady and New York, New York

Nicole Kassell (B.A. 1994) – director and producer of Watchmen, winner of the 2020 Directors
Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series

Jean Kelly (B.A. 1994) – actress

Alicia Keys (attended first year) – Grammy Award-winning singer, musician, composer

Cinta Laura Kiehl (B.S. 2014) – Indonesian actress (After the Dark and The Ninth Passenger),
singer (Cinta Laura Album), model and ambassador of anti-violence against women and children
by the Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection

Simon Kinberg (M.F.A.) – screenwriter Mr. & Mrs. Smith, X-Men: The Last Stand

Ezra Koenig – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend

Joseph Kosinski (GSAPP) – television commercial and feature film director best known for his
computer graphics and computer generated imagery work

Joel Krosnick (B.A. 1963) – cellist; member of the Juilliard String Quartet; chairman of Cello
Department at Juilliard School

Robert Kurka (M.A. 1948) – composer, musician; the opera and instrumental suite The Good
Soldier Schweik
Tony Kushner (B.A. 1978) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Angels in America

Claire Labine (M.F.A.) – head writer of Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, General Hospital, Where The
Heart Is, Guiding Light

Yves Lavandier – screenwriter, director (Yes, But...), script doctor and author of Writing Drama

Michael Lehmann (B.A. 1978) – director, Heathers, Hudson Hawk

Sean Lennon (attended) – singer and songwriter, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Al Lewis (Ph.D. 1941) – actor, The Munsters; basketball scout; New York gubernatorial candidate;
restaurateur

Yo-Yo Ma (transferred to Harvard University) – cellist

Arthur MacArthur IV (B.A. 1961) – concert pianist, writer, artist

James Mangold (M.F.A. 1991) – filmmaker, Girl, Interrupted and Walk the Line

Amber Marchese (B.A.) – television personality on The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Robert Maschio (B.A. 1988) – actor, Scrubs

Kate McKinnon (B.A. 2006) – actress and comedian

Terrence McNally (B.A. 1960) – dramatist, winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy, a Pulitzer Prize,
and two Guggenheim Fellowships

Eric Milnes – harpsichordist, organist and conductor

Max Minghella (B.A. 2009) – actor, starred in Syriana and Art School Confidential

Greg Mottola (M.F.A. 1991) – film director, Superbad

Hari Nef – actress, model, and writer

Rachel Nichols – actress, model

Ronald Noll (B.A., M.F.A. c.1950) – conductor, music director, and television music supervisor

Frank Nugent (B.A. 1929)— screenwriter, The Searchers, The Quiet Man

Jack O'Brien – jazz musician

Toby Orenstein (B.F.A.) – theatre producer, director, and founder of the Columbia Center for
Theatrical Arts, the Young Columbians, and Toby's Dinner Theatre[36]

Jane Paknia (2022) – American musician

Lena Park (B.A. 2010) – Korean R&B singer

Diane Paulus (M.A. 1997) – 2013 Tony Award; director of theater, opera; Artistic Director,
American Repertory Theater, Harvard University (2009–)

Amanda Peet (B.A. 1995) – actress, The Whole Nine Yards

Kimberly Peirce (M.F.A. 1996) – filmmaker, Boys Don't Cry

Anthony Perkins – actor, best known as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Tess Posner – technologist and musician

Martin Quigley, Jr. (B.A. 1939) – movie trade periodical publisher, author, politician, spy

James Rebhorn (M.F.A. 1972) – actor

Paul Robeson (J.D. 1923) – Basso cantante concert singer, multi-lingual actor

Amber Chardae Robinson (M.F.A. 2015) – actress

Emmy Rossum – actress, Shameless[37]

Henry Alex Rubin (B.A. 1995), Academy Award-nominated director, Murderball

Cameron Russell – fashion model

George Segal (B.A. 1955) – Academy Award-nominated actor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Just
Shoot Me!

Jeffrey Sharp (M.F.A.) – filmmaker, Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me

Jenny Slate (B.A. 2004) – actor, former cast member of Saturday Night Live

Scott Smith (M.F.A. 1990) – author and screenwriter, A Simple Plan

Celine Song (M.F.A. 2014) – Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director, Past Lives

Anil Srinivasan – Classical pianist and music educator

Sarah Steele – actress, Spanglish

Julia Stiles (B.A. 2005) – actress, Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smile

Richard Stoltzman (studied for Ph.D. in music) – clarinetist

Stephen Strimpell (B.A., J.D.) – actor, star of the cult television classic Mister Terrific

Rider Strong (B.A. 2004) – actor, Boy Meets World

Aaron Schwartz (M.F.A.) – actor, director and copyright lawyer in Toronto

Conrad Tao
 Max Terr – pianist, arranger, bandleader, film composer, The Gold Rush, Stairway to Light[38]

Craig Timberlake (M.A.) – stage actor, opera singer, and later Columbia faculty member

Chris Tomson – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend

Darko Tresnjak (B.A. 1998) – theatre director

Claire Unabia (G.S.) – contestant in Cycle 10 of America's Next Top Model

Heidi Vanderbilt – Broadway actress

Mario Van Peebles (B.A. 1978) – actor and director, New Jack City, BAADASSSSS!

Alan Wagner (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952) – first president of the Disney Channel; East Coast vice
president of programming at CBS; radio personality; opera historian and critic

Brian Weitz (B.A., M.P.A) – musician, member of band Animal Collective

Robert Wisdom (B.A. 1976) – actor, The Wire

Charles Wuorinen (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) – musician, pianist, and composer

Remy Zaken (B.A. 2011) – Broadway actress

Brian Yorkey – playwright, screenwriter, Next to Normal, If/Then, 13 Reasons Why

Journalism

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia College of
Columbia University (Journalism and media figures; and Publishers), and Columbia Law School
(Journalists) for separate listing of more than 175 journalists, media figures, and publishers

R.W. Apple (B.S. 1961) – Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau
chief, New York Times

Douglas Black – president of Doubleday and Company, 1946–1963

Marcus Brauchli – managing editor, The Wall Street Journal

A'Lelia Bundles (M.A. journalism) – journalist

Greg Burke (M.A. journalism) – senior communications adviser with the Vatican's Secretariat of
State (2012–)

Diann Burns (M.A. journalism) – television news anchor; nine-time Emmy Award winner

Whittaker Chambers – senior editor at Time, prominent contributor to National Review and other
journals
Hagar Chemali, Political Satirist, Writer, Producer, Television Personality, and Political
Commentator

Gina Chua (M.S. Journalism 1988), executive editor, Reuters[39][40]

May Cutler (M.A. journalism) – Canadian publisher and journalist, founder of Tundra Books and
the first Canadian woman to publish children's books[41]

Jamal Dajani (B.A. Political Science) – Director of Middle Eastern Programming, Link TV, Producer
of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East winner of a Peabody Award

Helen Dalley – Australian journalist; anchor with Sky News Australia

Yuval Elizur (M.S. Journalism) – journalist; covers the Israeli economy, globalization, and
economic warfare; author of 8 books

Stéphanie Fillion (M.A., Journalism), French-Canadian journalist and United Nations

correspondent

Max Frankel (B.A.) – executive editor, New York Times

Melissa Fung (M.A., journalism) – Canadian CBC News journalist

Nicholas Gage – investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, The New York Times (1970–80);
journalist, The Boston Herald Traveler, The Wall Street Journal

Robert Giles – curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Helen Gilmore – editor at Photoplay (also actress, composer)[42]

Caroline Glick (B.A. 1991) – American-Israeli journalist; deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem
Post

Patrick William Graham (B.A.) Canadian journalist and screen writer

Ashbel Green (B.A. 1950, M.A.) – vice president and senior editor at Knopf

Ken Hechtman – maverick journalist jailed by Afghanistan's Taliban government as a suspected

spy in 2001

Jay Irving – reporter, cartoonist; father of Clifford Irving who is best known for perpetrating hoax
biography of Howard Hughes

DeWitt John (M.A. Journalism) – American journalist and editor

Casey Johnston (M.S. Engineering) – fitness writer and influencer

Jay Caspian Kang (M.F.A. 2005) – American writer and television journalist
Neeraj Khemlani (M.S. Journalism 1993) – CBS News President

Edward Klein (B.A., M.A. Journalism) – former foreign editor of Newsweek; former editor in chief
of The New York Times Magazine; bestselling author

Leonard Koppett – sports writer, columnist, author

Steve Kroft – 60 Minutes; winner of three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy Awards

Robert Krulwich (J.D. 1974) – media journalist, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, Emmy
Award, George Polk Award

Howard Kurtz (M.A. Journalism) – journalist and author with a special focus on the media; the
nation's "most influential media reporter"

Bernard Le Grelle (M.S. Journalism 1974) – journalist, author, political adviser, former United
Nations expert and public affairs executive

John Leland (B.A., 1981) – New York Times reporter, author

Joseph Lelyveld (M.A., Journalism) – executive editor, New York Times

Sharon Lerner – American investigative reporter and environmental journalist

Andy Levy – ombudsman, Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, Fox News Channel

A. J. Liebling (M.A. Journalism) – journalist closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935
until his death

Thomas Lippman – journalist, author

Robert Lipsyte (B.A. 1957) – winner of an Emmy Award in 1990, host of The Eleventh Hour on PBS,
correspondent for The New York Times and ABC Nightly News

Henry Demarest Lloyd (J.D.) – "the father of investigative journalism"

John R. MacArthur (B.A. 1978) – President of Harper's Magazine, political author

Cynthia McFadden (J.D.) – ABC news anchor, George Foster Peabody Award

John McWethy – five Emmy Awards, Overseas Press Club Award

Suzanne M. Malveaux (M.S.) – television news reporter; former White House correspondent for
CNN

Gabriele Marcotti (M.A., Journalism) – football writer for The Times, The Sunday Herald, La
Stampa, Il Corriere dello Sport, host of Five Live Sport on Fridays

Andrés Martinez (J.D.) – editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
Judith Miller (B.A. 1969) – former New York Times journalist; shared 2002 Pulitzer Prize for
Explanatory Reporting[43]

Matthew Miller (J.D. 1986) – columnist and author, The Two Percent Solution

Bill Minutaglio (B.A., M.S.) – PEN Center-award-winning author, journalist, professor. Nine books,
including First Son: George W. Bush & The Bush Family Dynasty; City on Fire; The Most Dangerous
Man in America.

Timothy L. O'Brien (M.A., Journalism) – author and journalist; edits and oversees the Sunday
Business section of The New York Times

Rita Omokha (M.S., Journalism) – journalist and author

John L. O'Sullivan – editor of the Democratic Review during the 1840s; coined the phrase
"Manifest Destiny"

Basharat Peer (Journalist) – Kashmiri American journalist, script writer, author, and political
commentator. Author, Curfewed Night

Martin Perlich – radio broadcaster and writer

Michael Reidel New York Post Theater Critic, Author

Ted Rall (B.A. 1991) – editorial cartoonist, Pulitzer finalist, columnist, pundit, author of Revenge of
the Latchkey Kids

Wayne Allyn Root – creator of Spike TV, Discovery Channel, CNBC; Executive Producer and host of
Wayne Allyn Root's Winning Edge and King of Vegas; anchorman and host of Financial News
Network

Claire Shipman (B.A. 1986) – Senior National Correspondent for ABC; winner of an Emmy Award
for her CNN coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; her work contributed to CNN
winning a Peabody Award for its coverage of the Soviet coup attempt of 1991

Howard Simons – former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Allan Sloan – seven-time winner of Gerald Loeb Award

Richard Smith (M.I.A., M.S. 1970) – CEO of Newsweek

Neil Strauss (B.A. 1991) – journalist; author of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup
Artists

Sreenath Sreenivasan (M.S. 1993) – academic administrator, professor and technology journalist

Arthur Hays Sulzberger (M.S. 1993) – publisher of The New York Times (1935–1961)
 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Sr. (B.A. 1951) – publisher and businessman; former publisher of The
New York Times; and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company

Ron Suskind (M.A. 1983) – journalist, author

Tiziano Terzani – reporter and correspondent

Dina Temple-Raston – NPR's counterterrorism correspondent

Liz Trotta – journalist, three Emmy Awards and two Overseas Press Club awards

Mariana van Zeller (M.A. journalism 02) – Portuguese journalist; 2011 Livingston Award; 2010
Peabody Award; 2009 Webby Award

Steven Waldman (B.A.) – political journalist; senior advisor to the Chairman of the United States
Federal Communications Commission (October 2009–)

Richard Watts, Jr. – longtime theatre critic for the New York Post

Bari Weiss (2007) – opinion writer and editor

Gideon Yago (B.A. 2000) – MTV News correspondent

National Book Awards

John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award

John Berryman – National Book Award, Bollingen Prize

Karen Brazell (Ph.D.) – National Book Award

Robert Caro – National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, Francis Parkman
Prize

Lennard J. Davis (B.A., M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., 1976) – National Book Award

E.L. Doctorow – National Book Award, National Humanities Medal, three National Book Critics
Circle Awards

Jason Epstein (B.A. 1949) – National Book Award; co-founded The New York Review of Books

Paula Fox – National Book Award (1983), Hans Christian Andersen Medal

Peter Gay (M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1951) – National Book Award

Allen Ginsberg – National Book Award; one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the
1950s

Stephen Jay Gould – National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
Lillian Hellman (attended) – National Book Award, 1976 Edward MacDowell Medal and Paul
Robeson Award

Herbert Kohl – National Book Award

Jerzy Kosinski (B.A. 1965) – National Book Award

Jane Kramer (M.A.) – National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Magazine Award

Joseph Wood Krutch (M.A., Ph.D.) – National Book Award

Christopher Lasch – National Book Award

Joseph P. Lash (M.A. 1932) – National Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize

Ursula K. Le Guin – National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards

Oscar Lewis (Ph.D.) – National Book Award

Salvador Luria – National Book Award in Science, Nobel Laureate

Bernard Malamud – twice winner of National Book Award, O. Henry Award

Ralph Manheim – National Book Award

Robert Nozick – National Book Award

Walker Percy (M.D. 1941) – National Book Award

Gregory Rabassa (Ph.D.) – National Book Award, National Medal of Arts (2006)

Robert V. Remini (M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1951) – National Book Award; appointed Historian of the
United States House of Representatives

Edward Seidensticker (M.A.) – National Book Award

Francis Steegmuller (B.A. 1927) – twice winner of National Book Award

Gerald Stern (M.A. 1949) – National Book Award, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

T. J. Stiles (Ph.D., A.B.D.) – National Book Award (2009)[44][45]

William Troy – National Book Award

Tim Weiner (M.A.) – National Book Award (2007)

Eudora Welty – National Book Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts

Hans Zinsser (B.A. 1899, A.M. 1903, M.D. 1903) – National Book Award; bacteriologist and
immunologist
Pulitzer Prize winners

Leroy F. Aarons – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (shared)

Elie Abel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (shared)

Herbert Agar – Pulitzer Prize for History

Ayad Akhtar – 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

John Ashbery – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award

Dean Baquet (B.A. 1978) – Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting (1988); managing editor for
news operations, The New York Times

William M. Beecher (M.S.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington correspondent for the
Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times

John Berryman – Pulitzer Prize for poetry

Katherine Boo – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Louis Bromfield – Pulitzer Prize for Early Autumn

Ethan Bronner – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism

Geraldine Brooks – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Edwin Burrows – Pulitzer Prize for History in 1999 for the book Gotham: A History of New York City
to 1898

Robert Neil Butler – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Robert Campbell – Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic

Robert Caro – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Hodding Carter – Pulitzer Prize for his editorials

Margaret Clapp – Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Robert Coles (M.D.) – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1973); Presidential Medal of Freedom,
National Humanities Medal

John Corigliano – Pulitzer Prize for Music, Academy Award, Grammy Award

Holland Cotter (M.Phil) – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2009)[46][47]

Richard Ben Cramer – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Lawrence A. Cremin – Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize

Justin Davidson – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Bob Drogin – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Will Durant – Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Presidential Medal of Freedom

Jim Dwyer – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for Commentary and for Spot News Reporting)

Jesse Eisinger (B.A. 1992) – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting[48]

Andrea Elliott – Pulitzer Prize (2007); reporter, New York Times

Eric Foner – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, Lincoln Prize, and twice winner of the Bancroft Prize

Sue Fox (M.S. 1998) – Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2004)[49][50][51]

Glenn Frankel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, author

Max Frankel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah – 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

Robert Giles – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (under his editorship), current curator of the
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Louise Gluck – 12th U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award,
Bollingen Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature

Juan Gonzalez – Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award

Charles Gordone – Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Oscar Hammerstein II – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Anthony Hecht – U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, Ruth Lilly Poetry
Prize, Frost Medal

Ellis Henican (CSL) – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (shared) (1992)

Marguerite Higgins – first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1951)

Jim Hoagland – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for International Reporting and for
Commentary)

Richard Hofstader – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for History and General Nonfiction)

Michael Holley – Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service (team)

Tony Horwitz – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Richard Howard – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, American Book Award, Pen Translation Prize

Nigel Jaquiss – 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Margo Jefferson – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

William Jorden – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (shared) and U.S. Ambassador to
Panama

Jodi Kantor – 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (shared)

Frederick Kempe – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (both team)

Glenn Kessler – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for Spot News Reporting)

Kathleen Kingsbury – Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing; Opinion Editor of the New York Times

Tom Kitt – Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Tony Award

Carolyn Kizer – Pulitzer Prize, poet, three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, Frost Medal

Edward Kleban – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award

David Kocieniewski (M.A. Journalism 1986) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting[52]

Tony Kushner – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards, Emmy Award, Whiting Writers' Award

Joseph P. Lash (M.A. 1932) – Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1972)

Joseph Lelyveld – Pulitzer Prize, journalist

Leonard Levy (Ph.D.) – 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History

David Levering Lewis – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Bancroft Prize, Francis
Parkman Prize

Steve Liesman – Pulitzer Prize (team leader) for International Reporting

Steve Lohr (JRN 1975) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Zhou Long – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music

Carleton Mabee (Ph.D.) – 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography[53]

Bernard Malamud – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award

John Matteson – Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Terrence McNally – Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards, Emmy Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two
Obie Awards

Eileen McNamara – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, Yankee Quill Award
Louis Menand – Pulitzer Prize for History, Francis Parkman Prize

Carol Marbin Miller – 2018 finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Judith Miller – 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting[43]

Steven Millhauser – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Paul Moravec – Pulitzer Prize for Music

Tad Mosel – Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Amy Ellis Nutt (M.A.) – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[54]

Mirta Ojito – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Sharon Olds – 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Dele Olojede – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, first African-born winner of the Pulitzer
prize

Tim Page – Pulitzer Prize, music critic

Gregory Pardlo – 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Michael Pupin – Pulitzer Prize, physicist

Matt Richtel – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Richard Rodgers – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Carlos P. Romulo – Pulitzer Prize in Correspondhence

Wendy Ruderman – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Morrie Ryskind – Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Eli Sanders (1999) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[55][56][57]

Carl Emil Schorske – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

William Schuman – Pulitzer Prize for Music, president of the Juilliard School of Music, president
of Lincoln Center

Louis Simpson – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Prix de Rome

Upton Sinclair – Pulitzer Prize, wrote over 90 books in many genres, his novel Oil! was the basis of
There Will Be Blood (2007)

R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

 Tracy K. Smith (M.F.A. 1997) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2006 James Laughlin Award; 2005
Whiting Writers' Award

Paul Starr – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Bancroft Prize, Goldsmith Book Prize

T. J. Stiles – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography[45]

Ron Suskind – Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

William Taubman – Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Critics Circle Award

Edwin Way Teale – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Allan Temko – Pulitzer Prize, architectural critic

John Kennedy Toole – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Anne Tyler – Pulitzer Prize (Breathing Lessons), National Book Critics Circle Award (The Accidental
Tourist)

Irwin Unger – Pulitzer Prize for History

Carl Clinton Van Doren – Pulitzer Prize, biographer

Mark Van Doren – Pulitzer Prize

Bill Vlasic (JRN 1982) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

Mike Wallace – Pulitzer Prize for History

Charles Warren – Pulitzer Prize for History

Tim Weiner – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Eudora Welty – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts

Damon Winter (B.A.) – Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (2009)

C. Vann Woodward (M.A. 1932) – Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize

Herman Wouk – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Charles Wuorinen – Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowships

Brian Yorkey – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; 2009 Tony Award for Best Score

MacArthur Fellows

The following alumni are fellows of the MacArthur Fellows Program (known as the "genius grant")
from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. As this is an interdisciplinary award,
fellows are listed here as well as in their fields of accomplishment.

John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship

Jacqueline K. Barton (Ph.D. 1979) – chemist; 1991 MacArthur Fellowship

Terry Belanger (M.A., 1964; Ph.D. 1970) – historian; history of books, manuscripts, and related
objects; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship; founding director of Rare Book School

Edet Belzberg (M.A., 1957) – documentary filmmaker; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship; won Special
Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival (2001)

Paul Berman (M.A.) – leading writer on politics and literature; MacArthur Fellowship

Seweryn Bialer (Ph.D.) – political scientist; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship

Katherine Boo (B.A.) – journalist and author; 2002 MacArthur Fellowship

Rogers Brubaker (Ph.D. 1990) – sociologist; 1994 MacArthur Fellowship

Robert Coles (M.D. 1954) – author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University; 1981
MacArthur Fellowship

Wafaa El-Sadr (MPH) – infectious disease physician; 2008 MacArthur Fellowship; 2009 Rolling
Stone 's "100 People Who Are Changing America", Scientific American 's "10: Guiding Science for
Humanity" and Utne Reader 's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World"

Irving Feldman (M.A. 1953) – poet and professor of English; 1992 MacArthur Fellowship

Randall Forsberg (B.A.) – expert in defense and disarmament as used for promoting democratic
institutions; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship

Stephen Jay Gould (Ph.D. 1967) – paleontologist, author; 1981 MacArthur Fellowship; Linnean
Society of London's Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008); Paleontological Society Medal (2002); Charles
Schuchert Award (1975); Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (twice – 1983, 1990)

Rosanne Haggerty (M.A. Arch.) – housing and community development leader; 2001 MacArthur
Fellowship

Shirley Heath (Ph.D. 1970) – linguistic anthropologist; 1984 MacArthur Fellowship

John Hollander (B.A.) – poet, 1990 MacArthur Fellowship, Bollingen Prize (1983); Poet Laureate,
State of Connecticut (2006–2011)

Richard Howard (B.A. 1951) – poet, literary critic, essayist, translator; MacArthur Fellowship; PEN
Translation Prize; Poet Laureate, State of New York (1994–97)

David Keightley (Ph.D.) – sinologist, historian; 1986 MacArthur Fellowship

Harlan Lane (B.S., M.S. 1958) – psychologist; 1991 MacArthur Fellowship

Lawrence W. Levine (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship

David Levering Lewis (M.A. 1959) – Professor of History; MacArthur Fellowship

Ralph Manheim – English translator of major German, French works; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship;
PEN Translation Prize (1964); PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

Campbell McGrath (M.F.A. 1988) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship; Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,
Pushcart Prize, three Academy of American Poets Prizes

Dinaw Mengestu (M.F.A.) – novelist and writer; 2012 MacArthur Fellowship

Richard A. Muller (B.A.) – physicist; 1982 MacArthur Fellowship; known for astrophysics,
radioisotope dating, optics and climate change

Pepon Osorio (M.A. 1985) – Latino artist; 1999 MacArthur Fellowship

George Oster (Ph.D.) – mathematical biologist; 1984 MacArthur Fellowship

Rosalind P. Petchesky (Ph.D.) – political scientist; 1995 MacArthur Fellowship

Terry Plank (Ph.D. 1993) – geologist, volcanologist and professor, Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory; 2012 MacArthur Fellowship

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (Ph.D.) – archaeologist; 1988 MacArthur Fellowship; Curator of

Archaeology, Field Museum (1991–02)

Meyer Schapiro (B.A., Ph.D.) – Lithuanian-born American art historian; MacArthur Fellowship;
known for forging new art historical methodologies

Stephen Schneider (B.S. 1967, Ph.D., mechanical engineering, plasma physics, 1971) –
environmental biologist, climatologist; 1992 MacArthur Fellowship; Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), to which Schneider made significant contributions, shared in the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize

Carl Emil Schorske (B.A. 1936) – cultural historian; 1981 MacArthur Fellowship

Ricardo Scofidio (M.Arch. 1960) – founder, principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; in 1991, one of the
first architects to win MacArthur Prize "genius grant"

Sally Temple (postdoctoral fellowship) – developmental neuroscientist; innovator in field of stem

cells, specifically neural stem cells; 2008 MacArthur Fellowship

Camilo José Vergara (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. not yet awarded) – writer, photographer, documentarian;
2002 MacArthur Fellowship; 2010 Berlin Prize
 Alisa Weilerstein (B.A. 2004) – cellist; 2011 MacArthur Fellowship

Anders Winroth (M.A., Ph.D.) – professor of medieval history, Yale; 2003 MacArthur Fellowship

Irene J. Winter (Ph.D.) – art historian; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship

Lawrence S. Wittner (B.A. 1962; Ph.D., in history, 1967) historian; MacArthur Fellowship

Eric Wolf (Ph.D.) – anthropologist; MacArthur Fellowship

Charles Wuorinen (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) – composer; 1985 MacArthur Fellowship

National Medal of Science

Jan Drewes Achenbach (post-doc research) – mechanical engineer; National Medal of Science
(2005)

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (M.D. 1904) – German-American physicist; recipient, 2007 National Medal
of Science

Kenneth Arrow (M.S., Ph.D.) – economist; National Medal of Science (2004), John Bates Clark
Medal (1957), von Neumann Theory Prize (1986); Arrow's impossibility theorem

Francisco J. Ayala (Ph.D. 1964) – evolutionary biologist and geneticist, National Medal of Science
(2001)

John Backus (B.S., mathematics, 1949) – co-inventor of Fortran programming language, National
Medal of Science (1975), Turing Award, Draper Prize

Jacqueline K. Barton (Ph.D. 1979) – chemist; National Medal of Science (2011); NSF Waterman
Award (1985), ACS Gibbs Medal (2006), Weizmann Women & Science Award

Baruj Benacerraf (B.S.) – Venezuelan immunologist, National Medal of Science

Konrad Emil Bloch (Ph.D. 1938) – biochemist; 1988 National Medal of Science

Wallace Smith Broecker (B.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1958) – Crafoord Prize in Geoscience, National Medal
of Science

Shu Chien (Ph.D. 1957) – biological scientist, engineer; National Medal of Science; National
Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mildred Cohn (M.S., Ph.D.) – biochemist, National Medal of Science

Daniel C. Drucker (B.S., M.S., Ph.D. 1939) – mechanical engineer; authority on theory of plasticity;
National Medal of Science; Timoshenko Medal; Drucker Medal
Val Logsdon Fitch (Ph.D.) – nuclear physicist, National Medal of Science

Milton Friedman (Ph.D. 1946) – economist; John Bates Clark Medal (1951); National Medal of
Science (1988); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)

James Glimm (Ph.D.) – mathematical physicist, National Medal of Science, Priestley Medal

Louis Plack Hammett (Ph.D.) – physical chemist; creator, Hammett equation, Curtin-Hammett
principle; National Medal of Science, Priestley Medal

Michael Heidelberger (B.S., Ph.D. 1911) – immunologist, Lasker Award, National Medal of Science

Roald Hoffman (B.S. 1958) – chemist, National Medal of Science

Elvin A. Kabat (Ph.D.) – biomedical scientist; National Medal of Science; one of the founding
fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry

Rudolf E. Kálmán (Ph.D. 1957) – electrical engineer, mathematical systems theorist; National
Medal of Science; Kyoto Prize; IEEE Medal of Honor

Joshua Lederberg (B.S.) – molecular biologist; National Medal of Science (1989), Presidential
Medal of Freedom (2006)

Leon M. Lederman (Ph.D.) – experimental physicist, National Medal of Science, Presidential

Medal of Freedom

Robert Lefkowitz (B.A. 1962, M.D. 1966) – physician, Shaw Prize, National Medal of Science

Raymond D. Mindlin (B.A., B.S., C.E., Ph.D.) – mechanician, National Medal of Science,
Presidential Medal for Merit

Walter Munk (undergrad attendee) – physical oceanographer; Crafoord Prize in Geoscience;

National Medal of Science, Kyoto Prize, Vetlesen Prize

Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, National Medal of Science

Julian Schwinger (B.A., M.D.) – theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science

Alfred Sturtevant (Ph.D.) – geneticist, National Medal of Science

Patrick Suppes (Ph.D. 1950) – philosopher, 1990 National Medal of Science; contributions to
philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics

John G. Trump (M.S.) – high-voltage engineer and physicist; National Medal of Science; National
Academy of Engineering

Harold Varmus (M.D. 1941) – Director, National Institutes of Health; Nobel Laureate; National
Medal of Science; president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 Evelyn M. Witkin (Ph.D.) – geneticist; National Medal of Science; National Academy of Sciences;
Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

National Medal of Technology

Jan Drewes Achenbach (post-doc research) – mechanical engineer; 2003 National Medal of
Technology; ASME Medal

Edwards Deming (faculty 1988–93) – statistician; 1987 National Medal of Technology

Walter Lincoln Hawkins (postgraduate research) – chemical engineer, chemist; 1992 National
Medal of Technology; first African-American member, National Academy of Engineering; National
Inventors Hall of Fame

Robert Ledley (B.S., M.S. 1950) – professor of physiology and biophysics; 1997 National Medal of
Technology; National Inventors Hall of Fame; pioneered use of electronic digital computers in
biology and medicine; research lead to invention of whole-body CT scanner;

Arun Netravali (faculty) – computer engineer; 2001 National Medal of Technology; 1991 IEEE
Alexander Graham Bell Medal; President of Bell Laboratories (1999–2001) and former Chief
Scientist for Lucent Technologies

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Scientists and inventors) for
additional listing of more than 28 scientists and inventors, Columbia School of Engineering and
Applied Science for additional listing of more than 55 scientists, engineers, computer scientists and
inventors, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for additional listing of more
than 100 physicians

Saul Amarel (M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence

James Amrhein - Executive director of the Masonry Institute of America

Roy Chapman Andrews (M.A.) – dinosaur bone hunter; Cover of Time Magazine, October 29, 1923

Virginia Apgar (M.D. 1933) – effectively founded the field of neonatology; created the Apgar score
used to evaluate the health of newborn babies

Edwin Howard Armstrong (B.S. 1913) – inventor of radio circuitry such as the regenerative circuit
and FM radio; pioneer in feedback amplifiers; first Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE Medal of
Honor); 1941 Franklin Medal, 1942 Edison Medal; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Mehdi Ashraphijuo (Ph.D. 2016) – mathematician

Oswald Avery (M.D. 1904) – discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information

John Backus (B.S. mathematics, 1949) – inventor of Fortran programming language; won Turing
Award; Draper Prize

T. Romeyn Beck (M.D.) – forensic medicine pioneer

Baruj Benacerraf (B.S.) – Venezuelan immunologist, National Medal of Science

H. I. Biegeleisen (B.S.) – physician and vein expert, pioneer of phlebology

Ira Black (B.A. 1961) – neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of
the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey[58]

Thomas Berry Brazelton (M.D.) – pediatrician; Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Thomas H. Chilton (B.A. 1922) – chemical engineer; a founder of modern chemical engineering
practice; Chilton and Colburn J-factor analogy

Mildred Cohn (M.S. and Ph.D.) – biochemist, National Medal of Science

Marie Maynard Daly (Ph.D. 1947) – first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in
chemistry

Charles Drew (M.D. 1940) – inventor of blood plasma preservation system

Helen Flanders Dunbar (Ph.D. 1929) – important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine

Noam Elkies (B.S.) – three-time Putnam Fellow; mathematician, co-creator of Schoof–Elkies–

Atkin algorithm; chess master

Joseph Engelberger ( B.S. 1946, M.S. 1949) – engineer and entrepreneur, often credited with
being the father of robotics; 1997 Japan Prize

David Eppstein (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – computer scientist, mathematician

James C. Fletcher (B.S.) – physicist, 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA

Ferdinand Freudenstein (Ph.D.) – mechanical engineer, "father of modern kinematics"; National

Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science

Tom Frieden (M.D., MPH) – Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009–);
N. Y. City Health Commissioner (2002–09)

Mercy Amua-Quarshie (obstetrician-gynecologist)

Elmer L. Gaden (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – father of biochemical engineering; fifth recipient of 2009 Fritz
J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize; National Academy of Engineering

Richard D. Gitlin (M.S., Eng. Sc. D.)-co-inventor of DSL at Bell Labs, National Academy of
Engineering

James Glimm (Ph.D.) – mathematical physicist, Priestley Medal, National Medal of Science

Alfred Norton Goldsmith – (Ph.D.) – electrical engineer; IEEE Medal of Honor

Gordon Gould (work toward Ph.D., did not complete) – inventor of the laser

Benjamin Graham (B.A. 1914) – father of modern security analysis and value investing, taught
Warren Buffett

Ione Grogan (M.S. 1928) – mathematician, academic, and educator

Robert Grubbs (Ph.D. 1968) – chemist, 2005 Nobel Laureate

William Stewart Halsted (M.D.) – thought by many to be the most innovative, influential and
important US surgeon

Tsuruko Haraguchi (Ph.D. 1912) – psychologist

Louis Plack Hammett (Ph.D.) – physical chemist; creator of Hammett equation; namesake of
Curtin-Hammett principle; Priestley Medal, National Medal of Science

Benjamin Harrow (B.S. 1911, A.M. 1912 and Ph.D.1913) – biochemist, nutritionist, science writer
and academic

Walter Lincoln Hawkins (postgraduate research) – chemical engineer, chemist; first African-
American member, National Academy of Engineering; 1992 National Medal of Technology;
National Inventors Hall of Fame

Gustav A. Hedlund (M.A.) – mathematician, one of the founders of symbolic and topological
dynamics

Michael Heidelberger – immunologist, Lasker Award, National Medal of Science

Jean Emily Henley (M.D. 1940) – wrote the first German anesthesia textbook after World War II

Herman Hollerith (B.S. 1879, Ph.D.) – statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator; founder
of one of the companies that later merged and became IBM

Robert Jastrow (B.A, M.A. Ph.D.) – astronomer

Arthur Jensen (Ph.D. 1956) – known for work in psychometrics and differential psychology;
educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
Edward Kasner (Ph.D. 1899) – mathematician, coined the term googol; Kasner metric, Kasner
polygon

Michael Katehakis (Ph.D. 1980) – applied mathematics and operations research, Rutgers
University

Marshall Kay (Ph.D. 1929) – geologist; known for stratigraphy; 1971 Penrose Medal

Leon M. Lederman (Ph.D.) – experimental physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, National Medal of
Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom

Robert Ledley (B.S., M.S. 1950) – professor of physiology and biophysics; pioneered use of
electronic digital computers in biology and medicine; research lead to invention of whole-body CT
scanner; National Medal of Technology; National Inventors Hall of Fame

Kai-Fu Lee (B.S. 1983) – prominent figures in Chinese internet sector; established China division,
Microsoft Research; establishing China research division for Google

John W. Marchetti (B.A., B.S. 1925; E.E. 1931) – radar pioneer combining government and
industrial activities

Warren P. Mason (M.A. 1927; Ph.D. 1928) – electrical engineer and physicist, known for founding
distributed-element circuits

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (Ph.D. 1886) – first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics

Robert Mills (B.A.) – Putnam Fellow; physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of
alloys, and many-body theory; Yang-Mills fields

Jocelyn Monroe (B.S., Ph.D.) – winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her
work on neutrino oscillations

Robert Moog (B.S.E.E.) – pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog
synthesizer

Joel Moses (B.A., M.A.) – MIT Provost and Institute Professor, author of Macsyma

Roby Muhamad (Ph.D.) – sociologist and research in social networking and small world
networks[59]

Eva Neer (M.D. 1963) – biochemist, G protein research discoverer

William Nierenberg (Ph.D.) – Putnam Fellow; physicist, worked on Manhattan Project; director,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1965–86)

Jacob Noel-Storr (Ph.D. 2004 Astronomy) – astrophysicist; influential in astronomy education,

outreach, accessibility, equity, inclusion and diversity.
Edward Lawry Norton (M.S. 1925) – electrical engineer, discovered the Norton equivalent circuit

Rebecca Oppenheimer (B.A. 1994) – astrophysicist, discovered the first substellar object outside
the Solar System

Delia Oppo (Ph.D. 1989) – paleoceanography scientist

John Ostrom (Ph.D. 1961) – paleontologist, father of the dinosaur renaissance

Bedabrata Pain (M.S., Ph.D., Applied physics) – Indian inventor; CMOS image sensor, active pixel
sensor, 87 invention patents; film director

William Barclay Parsons (B.S. 1879) – civil engineer

Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, National Medal of Science

Michael I. Pupin (B.S. 1883) – physicist and physical chemist; IEEE Medal of Honor, Edison Medal
for his work in mathematical physics; Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography

Hyman G. Rickover – father of U.S. nuclear submarine fleet; Enrico Fermi Award; U.S. Navy four-
star admiral

Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (M.D. 1960) – cell biology researcher

Ruth Schmidt (M.S. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) – geologist

Daniel Schechter (B.A. 1983) – psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and developmental neuroscience

researcher

Rosa Schupbach (MS) – economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Julian Schwinger (B.A., M.D.) – theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science

George Clark Southworth (graduate study) – radio engineer; pioneering contributions: microwave
radio physics, radio astronomy, waveguides; IEEE Medal of Honor

Benjamin Spock (M.D. 1929) – pediatrician, author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child
Care; Olympic rower

Lao Genevra Simons (B.S. 1908, M.A. 1912, Ph.D. 1924) – mathematician and math historian,
author of Fabre and Mathematics and Other Essays

John Stevens (B.A. 1768) – built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the U.S.

John Stone Stone (1886–1888) – mathematician, physicist, inventor; influential in developing

wireless communication technology, IEEE Medal of Honor

Alfred Sturtevant (Ph.D.) – geneticist, National Medal of Science

Shen-su Sun (Ph.D.) – geochemist

David Tannor (born 1958) – theoretical chemist, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the
Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Evelyn Butler Tilden (M.S., 1926, Ph.D. 1929) – microbiologist at National Institutes of Health

Hing Tong (Ph.D.) – mathematician, algebraic topology; theoretical physics; known for providing
original proof of Katetov–Tong insertion theorem

Joseph F. Traub (Ph.D.) – computer scientist; National Academy of Engineering

Neil deGrasse Tyson (M.Phil. 1989, Ph.D. 1991) – astrophysicist, science communicator; first and
current Director of the Hayden Planetarium

Roy Vagelos (M.D.) – mastered three professions: medicine, science, and business

Anastasia van Burkalow (Ph.D. 1944) – Professor Emerita geology, Hunter College

Harold Varmus (M.D. 1941) – Director of the National Institutes of Health, Nobel Laureate,
National Medal of Science, president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Allen Whipple (M.D.) – surgeon known for pancreatic surgery bearing his name (the Whipple
procedure), as well as Whipple's triad

Terry Jean Wilson (Ph.D. 1983) – geologist, Antarctic researcher

Nellie Choy Wong (Ph.G. 1920) first Chinese woman to become a pharmacist in America

Victor Wouk (B.A. 1939) – scientist and engineer; pioneer in the development of electric and
hybrid vehicles

Rae Wynn-Grant (Ph.D.) – large carnivore ecologist and advocate for diversity in STEM

Lotfi A. Zadeh (Ph.D. 1949) – mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artificial
intelligence researcher; founder of fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic; IEEE Medal of
Honor; National Academy of Engineering

Bruno H. Zimm (B.S. 1941, M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944) – polymer chemist and DNA researcher; in
statistical mechanics, the Zimm–Bragg model
Astronauts and aviators

Michael Massimino

Kenneth D. Bowersox (M.S. 1979)

Kevin P. Chilton (M.S. 1977)

Amelia Earhart (attended one semester, 1920)

William G. Gregory (M.S. 1980)

Gregory H. Johnson (M.S. 1985)

Michael J. Massimino (B.S. 1984)

Story Musgrave (M.D. 1964)

Eugene H. Trinh (B.S. 1972)

Academia: Presidents, chancellors, founders

Carmen Twillie Ambar (J.D.) – ninth woman to Louis T. Benezet (Ph.D. 1942) – president of
lead Douglass College and 13th president of Allegheny College (1948–1955), Colorado
Cedar Crest College College (1955–1963), Claremont Graduate
University (1963–1970) and the University at
George Henry Armacost (Ph.D. 1940) –
Albany (1970–1975)
president of the University of Redlands (1945–
1970)[60] William Bizzell (Ph.D. 1921) – 5th president of
the University of Oklahoma, president of what
Frederick A.P. Barnard – president of
is now Texas A&M University, president of
Columbia; Chancellors of the University of
what is now Texas Woman's University
Mississippi; namesake of Barnard College
Sarah Gibson Blanding (M.A. 1926) – Julian Ashby Burruss (A.M. 1906) – president
president of Vassar College (1946–1964) of James Madison University (1908–1919)
and Virginia Tech (1919–1945)
Joel Bloom (M.A., Ph.D.) – 8th president of
New Jersey Institute of Technology (2012–) Nicholas Murray Butler (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) –
president of Columbia University; Nobel
Lee Bollinger (J.D. 1971) – current president
Laureate; president of Carnegie Endowment
of Columbia; former president of University of
for International Peace
Michigan; former Provost of Dartmouth
College; First Amendment scholar; defendant Alfred Benjamin Butts (Ph.D. 1920) –
in two key affirmative action cases in the chancellor of the University of Mississippi
United States Supreme Court; Chair of the (1935–1946)
Board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Colin Campbell (J.D.) – 13th president of
(2011)
Wesleyan University
Frederick deWolfe Bolman Jr. (Ph.D.) –
Daniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of What a
president of Franklin and Marshall College
Plant Knows, and President of Ben Gurion
(1956–1962)[61]
University of the Negev
Albert H. Bowker (Ph.D. Statistics) –
Margaret Clapp (Ph.D. 1937) – president of
Chancellor of City University of New York
Wellesley College (1949–1966)
(1963–1971) and the University of California,
Berkeley (1971–1980) Felton Grandison Clark (M.A., Ph.D.) –
president of Southern University (1938–
Harvie Branscomb (Ph.D.) – 4th Chancellor of
1969)[63]
Vanderbilt University (1946–1963)
Lotus Delta Coffman (Teachers College) – 5th
H. Keith H. Brodie (M.D.) – chancellor (1982–
president of the University of Minnesota
1985) and president (1985–1993) of Duke
(1920–1938)
University
Charles W. Cole (M.A., Ph.D.) – president of
Harold Brown (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – physicist;
Amherst College (1946–1960) and United
former president of Caltech; former dean,
States Ambassador to Chile (1961–1964)
School of Advanced International Studies of
Johns Hopkins University James S. Coles (B.S. 1936, Ph.D.) – former
president of Bowdoin College
George F. Budd (M.A., Ph.D.) – former
president of Pittsburg State University, former Arthur G. Crane (M.A. 1918, Ph.D. 1920) – first

president of St. Cloud University President of Minot State University, president

of the University of Wyoming (1922–1941),
John H. Bunzel (M.A.) – president of San Jose
20th Governor of Wyoming (January 3, 1949 –
State University (1970–1978)[62]
January 1, 1951)
Michael Crow (faculty) – president of Arizona John R. Everett (M.A. 1943, Ph.D. 1945) –
State University President of Hollins College, first Chancellor of
the Municipal College System of the City of
Howard A. Cutler (Ph.D. 1953 Economics) –
New York, and President of the New School
Chancellor of University of Alaska Fairbanks
for Social Research
1975–1981[64]
Claire Fagin (M.A. Nursing) – President of the
Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1911)
University of Pennsylvania (1993–1994)
– President of St. Mary's Junior College[65]
Livingston Farrand (M.D.) – 4th president of
Richard Cyert (Ph.D. Economics) – sixth
Cornell University and University of Colorado;
President of Carnegie Mellon University
public health advocate
(1972–1990)
Saul Fenster (M.S.) – 6th president of New
Colgate Darden (1923) – chancellor of College
Jersey Institute of Technology (1978–2002)
of William and Mary (1946–47); president of
University of Virginia (1947–59); namesake of John Henry Fischer (M.S. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) –
Darden Graduate School of Business president and dean of Teachers College,
Administration Columbia University for fifteen years; as
school superintendent, made Baltimore the
Henry David (Ph.D.) – president of the New
first large American city to desegregate its
School (1960–1962)[66]
public schools
Nicholas Dirks (faculty) – 10th chancellor-
James C. Fletcher (B.A.) – president of
designate of University of California, Berkeley;
University of Utah; head of NASA
professor of anthropology and history; Dean of
faculty of arts and sciences Guy Stanton Ford (Ph.D. 1903) – 6th president
of the University of Minnesota (1938–1941)
Herman Lee Donovan (Ph.D.) – 4th President
of the University of Kentucky (1941–1956) William Trufant Foster (Ph.D. 1911) – first
president of Reed College (1911–1919)
Blanche Hinman Dow (M.A., Ph.D.) – president
of Cottey College (1949–1965) and president Ellen V. Futter (J.D. 1974) – president of
of the American Association of University Barnard College (1980–93); president of
[67]
Women (1963–1967) American Museum of Natural History

John William Elrod (Ph.D.) – president of Francis Pendleton Gaines (Ph.D.) – president
Washington and Lee University (1995– of Washington and Lee University (1930–
2001)[68] 1959)[69]

Harry Augustus Garfield (Law School) –

president of Williams College (1908–1934)
Gordon Gee (J.D., Ed.D.) – former president of Alvin Saunders Johnson (Ph.D. 1902) –
Brown University; former chancellor of president of the New School (1921–1945)
Vanderbilt University; twice president of, Ohio
George W. Johnson (M.A., Ph.D. English),
State University; president of the University of
president of George Mason University (1979–
Colorado at Boulder and West Virginia
1996)[71]
University
William Hallock Johnson (Ph.D. 1902) –
Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), President of
president of Lincoln University, 1926–1936
Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New
School for Social Research Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones (M.A.) –
president of historically black Grambling State
Frank Goodnow (LL.B. 1882) – president of
University in Grambling, Louisiana, 1936–1977
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas E. Jones (M.A. 1917, Ph.D. 1926) –
Edward Kidder Graham (M.A.) – president of
president of Fisk University (1926–1946) and
the University of North Carolina (1914–1918)
Earlham College
Frank Porter Graham – president of the
Thomas Kean (M.A.) – president of Drew
University of North Carolina (1930–1949)
University; head of 9/11 Commission
Frank Pierrepont Graves (Ph.D. Greek) –
Kenneth H. Keller (B.A.) – 12th president of
president of the University of Wyoming (1896–
the University of Minnesota (1985–1988)
1898) and the University of Washington
(1896–1898) Eamon Kelly (Ph.D.) – former president of
Tulane University
G. Alexander Heard (M.A., Ph.D.) – Chancellor
of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982) Francis Kilcoyne – President of Brooklyn
College
Ernest O. Holland (Ph.D. 1912) – President of
Washington State University (1916–1944) Grayson L. Kirk (faculty) – president of
Columbia
Andrew D. Holt (Ph.D.) – 16th president of the
University of Tennessee (1959–1970) George Latimer (LL.B.) – regent of University
of Minnesota
Carl Hovde (B.A. 1950) – president of the New
School (1945–1950) John LeConte (M.D. 1842) – president of the
University of California Berkeley 1869–1870
George Ivany (M.A. 1962) – 7th president of
and 1875–1881
the University of Saskatchewan (1989–1999)
Joshua Lederberg (B.A. 1944; graduate study)
Walter Proctor Jenney (E.M. 1871, Ph.D. 1877)
– former president of Rockefeller University;
– president of South Dakota School of Mines
Nobel Prize–winning biologist; National Medal
and Technology 1893[70]
of Science; Presidential Medal of Freedom
Umphrey Lee (Ph.D. 1931) – president of Ronald Mason Jr. (B.A., M.A.) – former
Southern Methodist University (1939–1954) president of Jackson State University and
Southern University; current president of the
Ronald D. Liebowitz (Ph.D. 1985) – president
University of the District of Columbia[72]
of Middlebury College (2004–)
Willfred Otto Mauck – eighth president of
Peter Likins (faculty) – electrical engineer;
Hillsdale College 1933–1942[73]
president of University of Arizona; former
president of Lehigh University Martin Meyerson (B.A.) – president of the
University of Pennsylvania; acting chancellor
Raymond Lisle (A.M. 1930) – attorney, officer
of University of California, Berkeley; president
in the US Foreign Service, and Dean of
of State University of New York at Buffalo
Brooklyn Law School
J. Hillis Miller, Sr. (Ph.D. 1933) – fourth
John V. Lombardi (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) –
president of University of Florida (1947–1953)
president of University of Florida (1990–
1999); chancellor of University of John D. Millett (A.M. 1935, Ph.D. 1938) – 16th
Massachusetts Amherst (2002–2007); president of Miami University (1953–1964)
president of Louisiana State University System
Robert A. Millikan (Ph.D. 1895) – early
(2007–2012)
president of Caltech (1921–1945); Nobel
Seth Low (B.A. 1870) – president of Columbia Prize–winning physicist; first to measure the
University; chairman of Tuskegee Institute charge of the electron
(1907–1916)
David Wiley Mullins (Ph.D. 1941) – president
John Barfoot Macdonald (Ph.D. 1953) – 4th of the University of Arkansas (1960–1974)
president of the University of British Columbia
G. Leon Netterville (M.A.) – former president
(1962–1967); Officer of the Order of Canada
of Southern University (1968–1972)[74]
James L. McConaughy (Ph.D. 1913) –
Abraham A. Neuman (B.A. 1909, M.A. 1912) –
president of Wesleyan University and Knox
President of Dropsie College (1940–1966)
College
Frank Newman (M.B.A.) – president of the
Alfred Thayer Mahan (attended two years) –
University of Rhode Island (1974–1983 )[75]
president of U.S. Naval War College; author of
The Influence of Sea Power upon History A. Ray Olpin (Ph.D. 1930) – President of the
Utah University (1946–1964)
Anthony Marx (faculty) – president of Amherst
College Archie Palmer (M.A. 1927) – 8th President of
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
(1938–1942)
Christina Hull Paxson (M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1987) Nicanor Reyes, Sr. (Ph.D.) – founder and first
– 19th president of Brown University (2012–); president of Far Eastern University; president
former Dean and Professor of Economics & of Rockefeller Foundation; former provost of
Public Affairs at Princeton University's Yale University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
Brian C. Rosenberg (M.A., Ph.D.) – 16th
International Affairs
president of Macalester College (2003–)
John H. Payne (M.A.) – President of
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
[76]
Morehead State University (1929–35)
(M.B.A.) – Chancellor of the University of
Mario Laserna Pinzon (B.A.) – founded the Cambridge (elected October 16, 2011)
Universidad de Los Andes
William Schuman (B.S. 1935) – president of
Peter Pouncey (Ph.D. 1969) – classicist; Juilliard School of Music; president of Lincoln
former president of Amherst College Center; inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Music;
founded Juilliard String Quartet; awarded
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (B.A., Ph.D.) – Serbian
National Medal of Arts
physicist and physical chemist; winner of IEEE
Medal of Honor, Edison Medal for his work in Beheruz Sethna (M.Phil., Ph.D.) – president of
mathematical physics University of West Georgia; Professor of
Business at the University
Stuart Rabinowitz (J.D.) – 8th president of
Hofstra University, former Hofstra School of Judith Shapiro (Ph.D.) – former president of
[77]
Law dean. Barnard College; anthropologist

Emanuel Rackman (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1933, Phillip Shriver (Ph.D. 1954) – President of
Ph.D., 1953) – Modern Orthodox rabbi; Miami University (1965–1981)
President of Bar-Ilan University
Kenneth C.M. Sills – former president of
Trudie Kibbe Reed (Ph.D.) – 11th president of Bowdoin College (1918–1952)
Philander Smith College (1998–2004), 5th
Michael Sovern (B.A., Ph.D.) – president of
president of Bethune–Cookman University
Columbia University; Dean of Columbia Law
(2004–2012)
School; professor at Columbia Law School
Jehuda Reinharz (B.S.) – president of
Charles R. Spain (Ph.D.) – president of
Brandeis University
Morehead State University (1951–1954)[78]
Ira Remsen (M.D.) – 2nd president of Johns
Niara Sudarkasa (M.A., Ph.D. Anthropology) –
Hopkins University (1901–1913)
former president of Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania
 Daniel Francis Sullivan (Ph.D. 1971) – 19th Alfred H. Upham (Ph.D. 1908) – President of
president of Allegheny College (1986– the University of Idaho (1920–1928) and
1996)[79] Miami University (1928–1945)[80]

Carrie Sutherlin (M.A. 1926) – president of Meyer Weisgal – President of the Weizmann
president of Arlington Hall Junior College and Institute of Science
Chevy Chase Junior College
John Davis Williams (Ph.D. 1940) – president
Henry Suzzallo (M.A. 1902, Ph.D. 1905) – of Marshall University (1942–1946) and
president of the University of Washington Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
(1915–1926) (1946–1968)

Lida Lee Tall (B.A.) – sixth president/principal George S. Wise – President of Tel Aviv
of State Teachers College at Towson (now University
Towson University)
Harold Wren – dean of three law schools
Clarence Howe Thurber (Ph.D. 1922) –
Robert Herring Wright – first President of what
president of the University of Redlands (1933–
is now East Carolina University (1909–1934)
1937)[60]
John C. Young – president of Centre College
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (B.A. 1959) –
(1830–1857); attended three years before
president of George Washington University
transferring
and the University of Hartford
Michael K. Young (Law faculty) – president of
David Truman (faculty) – political scientist
University of Utah; former dean of George
and educator; former president of Mount
Washington University Law School
Holyoke College
James Fulton Zimmerman (Ph.D. 1925) –
Andrew Truxal (Ph.D. 1928) – president of
president of the University of New Mexico
Hood College and Anne Arundel Community
(1927–1944)[81]
College

Academia: Theorists

See also: above at Nobel Laureates (Alumni) for separate listing of more than 43 academics and
theorists, Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University (Academicians), Columbia
Law School (Academia: University presidents and Legal Academia), and Columbia Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences (Economists-Natural Scientists, Social Scientists) for separate listing of more
than 163 academics and theorists

Mortimer Adler (Ph.D.) – founder of the Great Books movement

Claude Ake (Ph.D. 1966) – Nigerian political scientist

Encarnacion Alzona (Ph.D. 1923) – historian, National Scientist of the Philippines, first Filipino
woman to receive a Ph.D.

Michael Apple (M.A. 1968, Ed.D. 1970) – curriculum theorist

Kenneth Arrow (M.S., Ph.D.) – economist; John Bates Clark Medal, National Medal of Science

E. Digby Baltzell (Ph.D.) – sociologist, credited with the popularization of the acronym WASP

Jacques Barzun (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1932; faculty 1932–75) – historian; 2003 Presidential Medal of
Freedom; 2010 National Humanities Medal

Steven M. Bellovin (B.A.) – computer scientist; one of originators of USENET; co-inventor,

Encrypted key exchange password-authenticated key agreement methods

Ruth Benedict (Ph.D.) – cultural anthropologist, author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, a
World War II-era study of Japanese culture

Theos Casimir Bernard (Ph.D.) – accomplished practitioner of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism;
scholar of religion; explorer

Bernard Berofsky (Ph.D.) – philosopher

J. David Bleich (born 1936) – rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics

Walter Block (Ph.D.) – Austrian School free market economist

Karen Boroff (Ph.D.) – Dean, Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University

Joseph Campbell (B.A., M.A.) – mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in
comparative mythology and comparative religion

John Maurice Clark (Ph.D. 1910) – economist

Robert C. Clark (Ph.D. 1971) – Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (1989–2003)

Rose Laub Coser (Ph.D. 1957) – sociologist, known with medical sociology, role theory, and
sociology of the family

Margaret Cuninggim – served as Dean of Women at the University of Tennessee and at Vanderbilt
University

Robert Dallek (M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) – historian specializing in American presidents; winner of
Bancroft Prize

Wm. Theodore de Bary (B.A.) – East Asian studies expert

Carl Neumann Degler (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Donna Robinson Divine (Ph.D. 1971) – political scientist

Norman Dorsen (B.A. 1950) – Professor of Law at NYU Law School (Constitutional Law, Civil
Liberties, and Comparative Constitutional Law)

Irwin Edman (B.A., Ph.D. 1964) – philosopher and writer

Richard Epstein (B.A. 1964) – considered one of the most influential legal thinkers of modern
times

Yael S. Feldman (Ph.D. 1981) – Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University

Charles Ferster (M.A., Ph.D.) – behavioral psychologist

Moses Finley (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian noted for his work on the ancient economy

Joshua Fishman (Ph.D.) – distinguished linguist specializing in social linguistics, language and
culture, and Yiddish

Richard Florida (Ph.D. 1986) – urban studies theorist; created concept, creative class and its
implications for urban regeneration

George T. Flom (Ph.D. 1900) – distinguished linguist specializing in Scandinavian paleography

and philology

Kenneth A. Frank (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1967) – American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst

Gilberto Freyre (M.A. 1922) – Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian

Milton Friedman (Ph.D.) – free market economist; John Bates Clark Medal, National Medal of
Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom

Raymond Geuss (B.A. 1966, Ph.D 1971) – philosopher, political theorist. Fellow of the British
Academy

Allan Gotthelf (Ph.D. 1975) – philosopher, and a recognized authority on the philosophies of both
Aristotle and Ayn Rand

Lynne Hanley (M.A.) – literary critic

Edward Harris (B.A. 1971) – inventor of the Harris matrix

Sidney Hook (Ph.D. 1927) – philosopher of the Pragmatist school; Presidential Medal of Freedom

J. C. Hurewitz (M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1950) – Middle East scholar, Columbia faculty 1950–84

Jane Jacobs (two years of graduate studies) – urban theorist

Raghbendra Jha (M.Phil 1976, Ph.D. 1978) – economist and an academic

Ira Katznelson (B.A. 1966) – political scientist and historian; When Affirmative Action Was White
(2005)

Donald Keene (B.A. 1942) – Japanese studies expert

Samara Klar (M.A. 2006) – political scientist and founder of Women Also Know Stuff

William Labov (Ph.D. 1964) – linguist, considered the founder of sociolinguistics

Ruth Landes (Ph.D. 1935) – author, City of Women (1947)

Paul Lazarsfeld – major figure in 20th-century American sociology; founder of Columbia

University's Bureau of Applied Social Research

Howard Lesnick (M.A. 1953, LL.B. 1958), Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus,
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Liu Yu (Ph.D.) – Chinese political scientist and writer, faculty at Tsinghua University

Harvey J. Levin (M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953) – communications economics pioneer

Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D. 1949) – sociologist

Paul Massing – sociologist in the Redhead group of Soviet spies at the University's Institute of
Social Research

Margaret Mead (M.S. 1924, Ph.D. 1929) – anthropologist; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Kalinga
Prize

Dwight C. Miner (B.A. 1926, M.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1940) – historian and Moore Collegiate Professor of
History at Columbia

Rache Mesch – scholar of French literature, history, and culture at Yeshiva University

Marysa Navarro (M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1964) – historian

Robert Nozick (B.A. 1959, summa cum laude) – philosopher

Marvin Opler (Ph.D. 1938) – anthropologist and social psychiatrist

Michael Oren (B.A., M.A.) – historian and author; Israeli ambassador to the United States

Charles Patterson (M.A., Ph.D.) – author and historian[82]

Richard Popkin (B.A. 1950, Ph.D.) – academic philosopher, specialized in the history of
enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism
Alvin Poussaint (B.A. 1956) – professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; author of
numerous books on child psychiatry

Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four
U.S. Presidents.

Murray Rothbard (B.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1956) – Austrian school free market economist, father of
modern libertarianism.

Steven Rubenstein (B.A. 1984, M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995) – anthropologist

James R. Russell (B.A.) – Ancient Near Eastern scholar; professor at Harvard University

Marshall Sahlins (Ph.D. 1954) – Cultural anthropologist; author of Stone Age Economics;
professor at University of Chicago

Naomi Sager (B.S.E.E., 1953) – computational linguist; professor at New York University; pioneer
in the field of natural language computer processing

Edward Sapir (B.A. 1904, M.A. 1905, Ph.D. 1909) – linguist and anthropologist, co-creator of Sapir-
Whorf hypothesis

Andrew Sarris (B.A.) – film critic; a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism;
controversialist

Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (Ph.D.) – literary scholar and founder of the theology and literature doctoral
program at the University of Chicago

Anwar Shaikh (M.A., Ph.D. 1973) – Professor of Economics; professor at The New School for
Social Research of New York

Mark Steiner (1942–2020) – professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

Patrick Suppes (Ph.D.) – philosopher, National Medal of Science

Lionel Trilling (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1938) – literary critic

Immanuel Wallerstein (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – sociologist

Victor Wallis (Ph.D. 1970) – political scientist

Eugene P. Watson (advanced study 1960) – namesake of the library at Northwestern State
University in Natchitoches, Louisiana

Helma Wennemers (Ph.D. 1996) – organic chemist

Philip L. White (M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1954) – nationality historian and political activist in Austin, Texas
 Sean Wilentz (B.A. 1972) – Chair of American Studies at Princeton University; winner of the
Bancroft Prize in history

Jay Winter (B.A. 1966) – World War I scholar at Yale University

Thomas Woods (M.Phil., Ph.D.) – historian

Aaron D. Wyner (Ph.D. 1963) – information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory[83]

Howard Zinn (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian

Sports

Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig

Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax

Olympian Shaul Ladany
(center)

Olympian Nicole Ross

Olympian Soren Thompson

Mario Ančić (LL.M. 2013) – Croatian former Jackie Dubrovich (B.A. 2016) -- 2024 Olympic
professional tennis player and current NBA gold medalist, fencing
executive
Annie Duke – professional poker player
Jessica Antiles (2019), competitive swimmer
Devereux Emmet (1885) – golf course
Roone Arledge (B.A.) – pioneer of sports and architect
news broadcasting with ABC; Monday Night
Leo Fishel – Major League Baseball player
Football, 20/20; winner of 37 Emmy Awards
Lou Gehrig – baseball player for the New York
Norman Armitage (A.B and B.S. 1927) – 17-
Yankees; enshrined in the Baseball Hall of
time national champion sabre fencer, and six-
Fame, suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral
time Olympian, USA Fencing Hall of Fame.
Sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's Disease")
Kyra Tirana Barry (B.A. 1987), Team Leader for
Bruce Gehrke (B.A.) – NFL player with New
United States Women's National wrestling
York Giants
team
Vitas Gerulaitis – professional tennis player
Lou Bender (B.A. 1932, LL.M. 1935) – pioneer
player with Columbia Lions and in early pro Joel Glucksman (1970) – Olympic sabre

basketball; later a trial attorney[84] fencer

Edward Scott Bozek (1950–2022) – Olympic Bob Gottlieb – college basketball coach,

épée fencer earned a master's in physical education[85]

William Campbell (B.A.) – Chairman of the Bob Griffin (dropped out in 1970) – American-
Board and former CEO of Intuit, Inc.; head Israeli basketball player, and English Literature

football coach, Columbia University, 1974–79 professor

José Raúl Capablanca – world chess Alen Hadzic (born 1991) – épée fencer,

champion (1921–27) suspended by Columbia under Title IX and

banned by SafeSport for life for sexual
Isadora Cerullo – 2016 Olympic rugby player
misconduct.[86][87][88][89][90]
Gary Cohen (B.A.) – New York Mets television
Edward P. Hurt – Morgan's football, basketball
play-by-play announcer
and track coach
Eddie Collins – Baseball Hall of Fame second
Emily Jacobson (2008) – Olympic sabre
baseman
fencer, junior world champion, USA Fencing
Caryn Davies (J.D. 2013) – rower, stroke seat Hall of Fame
in women's eight; gold medals, 2012 Summer
Ben Johnson (1914–1992), US champion
Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics; silver
sprinter at 100 yards
medal, 2004 Summer Olympics
Jane Katz – Olympic swimmer Troy Murphy (B.A. expected December 2015)
– former NBA player[91]
Max Kellerman (B.A. 1998) – ESPN Radio host
in Los Angeles and HBO boxing analyst Nadine Netter – tennis player

Dan Kellner – four-time All-American, NCAA Dave Newmark – NBA basketball player
foil champion; national champion; two-time
Chris O'Loughlin (M.A. born 1967) – Olympic
Pan American gold medalist; silver medalist;
épée fencer
Maccabiah silver medalist
Robb Paller (born 1993) – American-Israeli
Sandy Koufax – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
baseball player
Stephen Kovacs (1972–2022) – saber fencer
Fernando Perez (born 1983) – former Tampa
and fencing coach, charged with sexual
Bay Rays outfielder, current San Francisco
assault, died in prison
Giants coach
Shaul Ladany (Ph.D. 1968) – world-record-
Mark Pope (M.D. Class of 2010) – former NBA
holding Israeli racewalker; Bergen-Belsen
player; left Columbia before graduation to
survivor; Munich Massacre survivor; Professor
pursue a coaching career; now head coach at
of Industrial Engineering
Brigham Young University
Maya Lawrence (M.A. 2007) – fencer; bronze
Nzingha Prescod (2015) – Olympic foil fencer
medal in the women's team épée, United
States Fencing Team, 2012 Summer Olympics Camden Pulkinen (born 2000) – 2016 Youth
Olympics team member and 2022 Winter
Howard Lederer – professional poker player;
Olympics alternate for Team USA; 2x world
brother of Annie Duke
record holder
Sid Luckman (B.A.) – football quarterback,
Paul Robeson – football All-American,
enshrinee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
attorney, musician, activist
James M. "Jim" McMillian (B.A.) – NBA
Ian Rapoport (B.A. 2002) – National Insider
basketball player
NFL Network
James Melcher (B.A. 1961) – Olympic fencer
Archie Roberts (B.A. 1942) – played with the
and hedge fund manager
Miami Dolphins; subsequently became a
Cliff Montgomery (B.A.) – football cardiac surgeon
quarterback; enshrinee in College Football Hall
Nicole Ross (2013) – Olympic foil fencer
of Fame; captain and MVP of Rose Bowl-
winning squad; Silver Star recipient in U.S. Bob Sheppard (M.A. 1933) – sports

Navy announcer, "Voice of the Yankees"

 William Milligan Sloane – founder of the Jenny Thompson (M.D. 2006) – former
United States Olympic Committee competition swimmer; won 12 medals,
including eight gold medals, in 1992, 1996,
Keeth Smart (MBA 2010) – Olympic saber
2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics
fencer, silver medal, 2008 Summer Olympics
Soren Thompson (MBA 2016) – Olympic épée
Donald Spero (Ph.D.) – Olympic and world
fencer, team épée world champion, USA
champion rower
Fencing Hall of Fame.[92]
David Stern (J.D.) – NBA Commissioner,
LeRoy T. Walker (M.A.) – first black president
1984–2014
of the United States Olympic Committee
Cristina Teuscher (B.A. 2000) – Olympic gold (1992–96)
medal-winning swimmer, 1996
Marcellus Wiley (B.A. 1997) – football player,
Pro Bowl and All-Pro defensive end

James L. Williams (B.A. 2007) – Olympic

saber fencer; silver medal winner, 2008

Activists

See also: notable alumni of Columbia Law School (Activism) and Columbia College (Miscellaneous)
for a separate listing of more than 50 activists

Bella Abzug (LL.M. 1947) – social rights activist and a leader of the women's rights movement

Anna Baltzer – public speaker and Jewish-American pro-Palestinian activist

Edythe Scott Bagley (M.F.A.) – civil rights activist, educator

Ady Barkan (B.A., 2006)- healthcare activist

Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1991) – advocate for public healthcare law at the state and national levels;
co-founded the first AIDS law clinic

Edward Bassett (LL.B. 1886) – one of the founding fathers of modern-day urban planning

Lee Bollinger – advocate for affirmative action, defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v.
Bollinger

Robert L. Carter (LL.M. 1941) – civil rights activist, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
general counsel, in which capacity he argued Brown v. Board of Education II

Julius L. Chambers (LL.M. 1964) – civil rights leader, attorney, and educator; third President and
Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund[93]
Felix Cohen (1928) – advocate for Native American rights, fundamentally shaped federal Native
American law and policy

Roy Cohn (LL.M. 1947) – conservative lawyer who became famous during the investigations of
Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government

Robert Cover (J.D. 1968) – civil rights and international anti-violence activist, professor at Yale
Law School

Annie Elizabeth Delany (D.D.S. 1923) – dentist and civil rights pioneer; subject, New York Times
bestselling oral history, Having Our Say

Sarah Louise Delany (B.A. 1920, M.A. 1925) – educator and civil rights pioneer; subject, New York
Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say

Daniel DeLeon (LL.M. 1878) – socialist newspaper editor, politician, trade union organizer;
regarded as forefather of idea of revolutionary industrial unionism

Albert DeSilver (LL.B. 1913) – a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

William Dudley Foulke (LL.B. 1871) – reformer; principal reformers, New York State and federal
civil service systems; early president of American Suffrage Association

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (LL.B.) – women's rights advocate, co-founded the Women's Rights Law
Reporter; co-authored the first law school casebook on sex discrimination; as chief litigator of the
ACLU's women's rights project, she argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court

Jack Greenberg (B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948) – second President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund; argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,
including Brown v. Board of Education (1954)[94]

Foster Gunnison Jr. (B.A. 1949) – LGBT rights activist and independent archivist

Arthur Garfield Hays (LL.B. 1905) – civil liberties activist, general counsel for the ACLU, notable
trials included Scopes Trial, trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Scottsboro case

Dorothy Height (graduate study) – administrator, educator, and social activist; president of
National Council of Negro Women for forty years; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Congressional
Gold Medal

Huang Wenshan (M.A. 1920s) – Chinese scholar of cultural studies and activist during the May
Fourth Movement[95]

Charles Evans Hughes, one of the co-founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism
Ben Jealous (B.A.) – Rhodes Scholar; president and chief executive officer, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (2008–)

Wang Juntao (Ph.D. Pol. Sci., 2006) – one of alleged heads of 1989 Tiananmen Square
protests[96][97]

Steve Kelly, legal advocate for litigants who could not afford an attorney and for public housing
tenants; consumer advocate

Rushworth Kidder (Ph.D.) – founded the Institute for Global Ethics

William Kunstler (LL.B. 1948) – civil rights and human rights activist; director, American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) (1964–1972); co-founded, Center for Constitutional Rights

Corliss Lamont (Ph.D. 1932), American socialist philosopher, long-time director of ACLU (1932–
1962); 1977 Humanist of the Year; 1981 Gandhi Peace Award

Eugene Lang (M.S. 1940) – philanthropist, Presidential Medal of Freedom

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Ph.D.) – as a teenager, led one of the biggest suffrage parades (https://time
smachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/05/05/100533097.html) in U.S. history; first
Chinese woman (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/books/finish-the-fight-excerpt.html) to
earn a doctorate at Columbia University

Charles K. Lexow, first attorney for the Legal Aid Society of New York City; brother of Clarence
Lexow (class of 1872)

Li Lu (1996) – one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, first student at
Columbia to simultaneously receive B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees

Vilma Socorro Martínez – served for almost ten years as president and general counsel of
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund[98]

Meghan McCain (B.A. 2007) – blogger and daughter of Arizona senator John McCain

James Meredith (L.B. 1968) – American civil rights movement figure, first African-American
student at the University of Mississippi

Constance Baker Motley (LL.B. 1946) – attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (1945–64); Manhattan Borough president (1964–66)

Annie Land O'Berry – activist, relief worker, and philanthropist

Kelly Overton, animal rights activist

Antonia Pantoja (M.S. 1954) – Presidential Medal of Freedom; educator, social worker, feminist,
civil rights leader and founder of ASPIRA
Marshall Perlin (LL.B. 1942) – civil liberties lawyer, defended Soviet spies Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg

Anika Rahman (J.D. 1990) – president and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women (2/2011)[99][100][101]

Paul Rapoport (J.D. 1965) – co-founder of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Community Services Center and the Gay Men's Health Crisis

Michael Ratner (J.D. 1969) – human rights activist on national and international level, current
president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (co-founded by William Kunstler in 1969) –
National Law Journal named him as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States
(2006)

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (B.A. nuclear engineering, 1969) – American Sufi imam, author, and
activist

Paul Robeson (LL.B. 1923) – civil and human rights activist, international social justice activist,
writer, Spingarn Medal

Theodore Roosevelt – progressive reformer, conservationist, a leader of the Republican Party and
the Progressive Party

Menachem Z. Rosensaft (1979) – a leader of the Second Generation Movement of children of

Jewish survivors

Brad R. Roth (LL.M. 1992) – social and human rights activist, critic of torture policies in the
administration of George W. Bush

Charles Ruthenberg (1909) – founder of the Communist Party of America (1919)

Nawal El Saadawi (M.A. 1966) – Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist

Mikheil Saakashvili (LL.M. 1994) – founder and leader of the United National Movement in
Georgia (country), leader of the bloodless "Rose Revolution"

Theodore Shaw, civil rights leader, attorney, and educator; former 5th President and Director-
Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund[102][103][104][105]

Arthur B. Spingarn (B.A. 1897) – leader in fight for civil rights for African Americans, third
president of NAACP

Joel Elias Spingarn (B.A. 1895) – educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist; second president
of NAACP; established Spingarn Medal

Abby Stein (B.A. expected 2019) – trans activist, educator, model, and speaker. First Openly trans
person, and rabbi, from an Ultra Orthodox Jewish community.
 Leon Sullivan (M.A. 1947) – Presidential Medal of Freedom; civil rights activist; anti-apartheid
activist; long-time GM board member; Baptist minister

Franklin A. Thomas – president of the Ford Foundation (1976–91)

Judith Vladeck (1947) – civil rights advocate, particularly on behalf of women; helped set new
legal precedents against sex discrimination and age discrimination

Faye Wattleton (M.S. 1967) – president of the Center for the Advancement of Women, National
Women's Hall of Fame

Charles Weltner (1950) – advocate for racial equality, second individual to receive the John F.
Kennedy Profile in Courage Award

Fictional characters

Grace Adler – Will & Grace

Amy, one of the two leads in Booksmart, played by Kaitlyn Dever, is going to attend Columbia.

Alexis Castle – Castle

Matt Camden and Ruthie Camden – 7th Heaven; originally from Glenoak went to Columbia Med
School.

Dr. Eric Foreman – House, attended undergraduate school at Columbia

Matthew Murdock, Esq. – Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil; Columbia Law School

Dr. Victor Von Doom, Dr. Doom, Marvel Comics supervillain

Marshall Eriksen (alumnus of Columbia Law School) – How I Met Your Mother

Dr. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic – leader of the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four

Benjamin "Ben" Gross – Never Have I Ever; gets accepted into and attends Columbia at the end of
the series

Saskia Kupferberg – The Sopranos; attended Columbia College, Columbia University

Peter Parker – Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films; Columbia University physics student

Meadow Soprano – The Sopranos; alumna of Columbia College, Columbia University

Jessie Spano – Saved by the Bell

Asuka Sugo Future GPX Cyber Formula; Columbia University alumna

Will Truman – Will & Grace

 Serena van der Woodsen – Gossip Girl

Blair Waldorf – Gossip Girl

Jamie Wellerstein – The Last Five Years; attended Columbia but dropped out upon finding
success in writing

Jeff Winger – Community; his diploma from Columbia Law School is discovered to be from the
country of Colombia, and he is forced to attend Greendale Community College

See also

Columbia College of Columbia University

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia University School of General Studies

Barnard College of Columbia University

Columbia Law School

Columbia Business School

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College)

Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Columbia University School of the Arts

School of International and Public Affairs

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