Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Woody Allen |
actor, director, screenwriter |
TSOA 1953* |
Academy Award 1977, Annie Hall; 1986, Hannah and her Sisters |
Elmer Bernstein |
composer |
ARTS 1942, B.A. |
Academy Award 1968, Thoroughly Modern Millie |
John Canemaker |
director |
TSOA |
Academy Award 2006, The Moon and the Son |
Joel Coen |
director |
CAS, 1962- |
Academy Award 1996, Fargo |
Louis Gossett, Jr. |
actor, star basketball player |
ARTS coursework* |
Academy Award 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman |
Marcia Gay Harden |
actress |
TSOA 1981, M.F.A. |
Academy Award 2000, Pollock |
Bernard Herrmann |
composer |
WSC student under Percy Grainger |
Academy Award 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
actor |
TSOA 1989, B.F.A., |
Academy Award 2005, Capote |
Angelina Jolie |
actress |
TSOA 1993* |
Academy Award 1999, Girl, interrupted |
Burt Lancaster |
actor |
TSOA coursework* |
Academy Award 1960, Elmer Gantry |
Charles Kaufman |
screenwriter |
TSOA 1980 |
Academy Award 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Ang Lee |
director |
TSOA, M.F.A. |
Academy Award 2005, Brokeback Mountain |
Alan Menken |
composer |
CAS, B.A. |
Academy Award 1995, Pocahontas; 1992, Aladdin; 1991, Beauty and the Beast |
Carole Bayer Sager |
lyricist, songwriter |
CAS 1979, B.A. |
Academy Award 1981, for "Arthur's Theme" |
Martin Scorsese |
director |
CAS 1964, B.A., GSAS 1966, M.A. |
Academy Award 2007, The Departed, The Aviator, Casino, Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver |
John Patrick Shanley |
playwright |
STEINHARDT 1977, M.A. |
Academy Award 1987, Moonstruck |
Oliver Stone |
director, playwright |
TSOA 1970, M.F.A. |
Academy Award 1978, Midnight Express; 1986, Platoon; 1989, Born on the Fourth of July |
Jim Taylor |
playwright |
TSOA 1996 |
Academy Award 2004, Sideways |
Marisa Tomei |
actress |
TSOA 1983, B.F.A. |
Academy Award 1992, My Cousin Vinny |
Ken Perlin |
professor at NYU |
GSAS 1986, Ph.D. |
Academy Award 1997, for the development of Perlin noise |
Paul Francis Webster |
lyricist |
ARTS 1928 - 1930 * |
Academy Award 1953, for "Secret Love" |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
filmmaker |
TSOA 1993, M.F.A. |
Magnolia, Boogie Nights |
Alec Baldwin |
actor |
TSOA 1993, B.F.A. |
The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator |
Kristen Bell |
actress |
TSOA* |
Veronica Mars, Pulse |
Julie Benz |
actress |
TSOA 1994, B.F.A. |
Jawbreaker, Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer |
Selma Blair |
actress |
TSOA* |
The Fog, Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, Scream 2, Hellboy |
Alexis Bledel |
actress |
TSOA*, |
Gilmore Girls, Sin City |
Barry Bostwick |
actor |
TSOA |
Original Broadway Cast of Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City |
Martin Brest |
director |
TSOA 1973, B.F.A. |
Beverly Hills Cop, Meet Joe Black, Gigli |
James L. Brooks |
producer |
TSOA* |
The Simpsons |
Harry Carey |
actor |
LAW |
Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Red River |
Susan Cartsonis |
president, Wind Dance Films |
TSOA |
|
Vinnette Justine Carroll |
playwright |
ARTS 1946, M.A. |
first African American woman to direct on Broadway |
Chris Columbus |
director |
TSOA |
both Home Alone movies, Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, first two Harry Potter movies, Rent |
Bud Cort |
actor |
TSOA 1967-1969* |
M*A*S*H |
Billy Crudup |
actor |
TSOA 1994, M.F.A. |
Sleepers, Big Fish |
Billy Crystal |
actor |
TSOA 1970, B.F.A. |
Analyze This/That, When Harry Met Sally |
John Cusack |
actor |
TSOA* |
High Fidelity, Con Air |
Julie Delpy |
actress |
TSOA |
Homo Faber, Three Colors: White |
Amanda Detmer |
actress |
TSOA, M.F.A. |
|
Michael Dougherty |
writer |
TSOA, M.F.A. |
X2, Superman Returns |
Kathryn Erbe |
actor |
TSOA* |
What About Bob?, Law and Order: Criminal Intent |
Raul Esparza |
actor |
TSOA 1992, B.F.A. |
|
Wayne Federman |
actor |
TSOA* |
Legally Blonde, 40-Year-Old Virgin, 50 First Dates, Max and Josh |
|
Bridget Fonda |
actress |
TSOA 1987, B.F.A. |
Doc Hollywood, Jackie Brown |
Marc Forster |
director |
TSOA 1990-1993* |
Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland |
Melissa Gallo |
actress |
TSOA 2003, B.F.A. |
One Life to live |
Gina Gershon |
actress |
TSOA 1983, B.F.A. |
The Insider, Showgirls |
Whoopi Goldberg |
actress |
GSAS, Ph.D. |
Ghost, Star Trek: The Next Generation |
Lou Gossett |
actor |
CAS, 1959, B.A. |
Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman |
Bryan Greenberg |
actor |
TSOA* |
Prime |
Peter Gruber |
CEO |
STERN, M.B.A. |
Mandalay Pictures |
Matthew Gray Gubler |
filmmaker, actor |
TSOA 2002, M.F.A. |
Criminal Minds, RV, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
Regina Hall |
actor |
GSAS 1997, M.A. |
Scary Movie |
Wood Harris |
actor |
TSOA 1983, M.F.A. |
Above The Rim |
Anne Hathaway |
actress |
TSOA* |
The Princess Diaries |
Ethan Hawke |
writer, actor |
CAS* |
Training Day, Dead Poets Society |
Amy Heckerling |
director |
TSOA, B.F.A. |
Look who's talking, Loser, Clueless |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
actor |
TSOA 1989, B.F.A., |
Capote, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous |
Todd Holoubek |
actor |
TSOA 2002, B.F.A. |
MTV: The State |
Wendy Hoopes |
actor |
TSOA 2002, B.F.A. |
Spinster, Killing Cinderella, TV SHOW: Daria |
Bryce Dallas Howard |
actress |
TSOA |
The Village, Lady in the Water |
Felicity Huffman |
actress |
TSOA |
Transamerica, Desperate Housewives |
Jim Jarmusch |
director |
TSOA* |
Night on Earth |
Kristen Johnston |
actress |
TSOA, B.F.A. |
3rd Rock from the Sun |
Jeffrey Katzenberg |
producer |
TSOA* |
Shrek, Co-Founder of Dreamworks |
Eriq La Salle |
actor |
TSOA, B.F.A. |
"ER" |
Daniel Dae Kim |
Actor |
TSOA 1996, M.F.A. |
ABC series "Lost" |
Stanley Kramer |
producer |
TSOA 1993, B.F.A. |
High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac |
Martin Kunert |
writer, director, producer |
TSOA |
Voices of Iraq, MTV's Fear |
Tony Kushner |
playwright |
TSOA 1984, M.F.A. |
Tony Award |
Ang Lee |
director |
TSOA, M.F.A. |
Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility |
Spike Lee |
actor, director |
TSOA 1982, M.F.A. |
Malcolm X, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever |
Thomas Lennon |
actor, producer, screenwriter |
|
MTV: The State, Reno 911!, Taxi (screenwriter) |
Bai Ling |
actress, model |
TSOA 1991-?? |
|
Jesse L. Martin |
actor |
TSOA 1989, M.F.A. |
Ed Green in "Law and Order", Rent |
Mary Stuart Masterson |
actress |
TSOA* |
Fried Green Tomatoes, The Postman |
John C. McGinley |
actor |
TSOA |
Intensity, Scrubs, Point Break |
Ismail Merchant |
producer |
STERN, M.B.A. |
co-founded Merchant Ivory Productions |
Jesse Merz |
actor, filmmaker |
TSOA 1996, B.F.A. |
My Own Private Idaho, Homeward Bound |
Debra Messing |
actress |
TSOA 1987, M.F.A. |
Will and Grace |
Kate Mulgrew |
actress |
TSOA 1976, A.A. |
Star Trek Voyager |
Jeff Nimoy |
voice actor, director |
CAS, B.A. |
Naruto, Digimon, Trigun |
Charlie O'Connell |
Actor |
TSOA 1997, B.F.A. |
Sliders, The Bachelor |
Jerry O'Connell |
Actor |
TSOA 1995, B.F.A. |
Crossing Jordan, Mission to Mars |
Ashley Olsen |
actress |
GAL, current student |
Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute |
Mary-Kate Olsen |
actress |
GAL, Dropped out |
Factory Girl, Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute |
Haley Joel Osment |
actor |
TSOA |
The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, AI, Secondhand Lions |
Ted Raimi |
actor |
B.A. |
seaQuest DSV, Xena: Warrior Princess |
Meg Ryan |
actress |
CAS, B.A. |
When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, City of Angels, You`ve Got Mail |
Adam Sandler |
actor, comedian, producer |
TSOA 1991, B.F.A. |
Mr. Deeds, Big Daddy |
Andy Samberg |
comedian |
TSOA, B.F.A. |
SNL |
Martin Scorsese |
director |
CAS 1964, B.A GSAS 1966, M.A. |
The Aviator, Casino, Goodfellas, The last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver |
Joshua Seth |
voice actor, comedy hypnotist |
CAS, 1991, B.A. |
Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Trigun |
John Patrick Shanley |
playwright |
TSOA 1977, M.A. |
Moonstruck; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
Sheetal Sheth |
actress |
TSOA 1997, B.A. |
ABCD; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World |
M. Night Shyamalan |
film director |
TSOA |
The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village |
Neil Simon |
playwright |
ARTS 1944 - 1945* |
The Odd Couple; winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
Morgan Spurlock |
director |
TSOA, B.F.A. |
Supersize Me |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
director |
TSOA* |
Men in Black |
Maura Tierney |
actress |
TSOA* |
ER, News Radio, Primary Colors |
Chandra Wilson |
actress |
TSOA 1991, B.F.A. |
Grey's Anatomy |
Mara Wilson |
actress |
TSOA, current student |
Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street |
Doug Wright |
playwright |
TSOA 1987 |
Quills; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Kenny Albert |
sportscaster |
CAS 1990, B.A. |
|
Kathy Acker |
author |
|
Blood and Guts in High School |
David Antin |
poet |
GSAS 1966, M.A. |
recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry |
Ted Baehr |
media critic |
LAW, J.D. |
chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission |
Maria Bartiromo |
journalist |
CAS, 1987 B.A. |
News anchor on CNBC, has also written 2 books |
Leonard Baskin |
sculptor |
|
noted for his bleak but impressive portrayals of the human figure |
Rita Mae Brown |
author |
LAW 1964, M.A. |
Rubyfruit Jungle |
Candace Bushnell |
columnist |
CAS, B.A. |
New York Observer: Sex and the City |
Erin Clements |
journalist |
CAS, B.A. |
TimeOut NY: Around Town Writer |
Carson McCullers |
novelist |
GSAS* |
author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Countee Cullen |
poet |
GSAS |
author of Ballad of the Brown Girl, Color, Color |
Miriam Davenport |
painter and sculptor |
IFA* |
|
Midge Decter |
journalist |
ARTS* |
|
Crystal Eastman |
lawyer |
LAW 1907, LL.B. |
a leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism |
|
Ralph Ellison |
author |
Faculty 1970-1980 |
Renowed author |
|
Wayne Federman |
stand-up comedian |
TSOA |
comedian that appears on The Tonight Show |
Tom Ford |
designer |
TSOA* |
Design Director for Gucci |
William Gaines |
publisher |
CAS 1948, B.A. |
founder of MAD magazine |
Michael Gartner |
journalist |
LAW 1972, J.D. |
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing |
Yury Gitman |
artist |
TSOA M.F.A. |
inventor of electronic art |
Jorie Graham |
poet |
TSOA 1973, B.F.A. |
known for complex metaphors and philosophical content |
Adolph Green |
lyricist and playwright |
WSC 1938* |
met Betty Comden at NYU |
Sean Hannity |
talk show host |
coursework* |
Co-Host of "Hannity and Colmes" on Fox News Channel |
Joseph Heller |
author |
GSAS 1945* |
"Catch-22" |
Don Hewitt |
journalist |
coursework* |
creator, "60 minutes" |
William Lashner |
author |
LAW, J.D. |
author of legal thrillers |
Ira Levin |
author |
ARTS 1950, B.A. |
known for the broadway musical "Deathtrap" |
Paul Levinson |
author, educator, media commentator |
WSC 1974 B.A.; Steinhardt 1979 Ph.D. |
author of The Plot To Save Socrates |
Leonard Maltin |
film critic |
WSC, B.A. (journalism) |
film critic on Entertainment Tonight |
Demetri Martin* |
Stand up comedian |
LAW, J.D. |
Comedian who appears on The Daily Show |
Leonard Michaels |
author |
WSC 1953, B.A. |
essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy |
Frank McCourt |
author |
WSC 1953, B.A. |
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or autobiographical Writing |
Ken Munch |
playwright |
TSOA 1989 BFA |
Author of The Amnesiac and Infection |
William Phillips |
editor |
GSAS 1930, M.A. |
cofounder of Partisan Review |
James A. Porter |
painter |
GSAS, M.A. |
African American painter and art historian |
Dorothy Rabinowitz |
journalist |
GSAS 1960, Ph.D. |
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary |
Charles Reznikoff |
poet |
LAW 1916, LL.B. |
Objectivist Poet |
Charlie Rose |
journalist |
coursework* |
host of "60 minutes" |
J.D. Salinger |
author |
coursework* |
Catcher in the Rye |
Ben Shahn |
artist |
|
|
John Patrick Shanley |
playwright |
STEINHARDT 1977, M.A. |
recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Tony Award |
Delmore Schwartz |
poet |
|
noted for lyrical descriptions of isolation and the search for identity |
George Segal |
sculptor |
ENG 1950, B.S. |
sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures |
Robert Sobel |
author |
CAS 1957, Ph.d. |
Noted business historian; author For Want of a Nail. |
Danielle Steel |
romance novel author |
TSOA 1963 - 1967* |
|
Darin Strauss |
author |
ENG 1996, M.F.A. |
Guggenheim-winning novelist; Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy |
Harold C. Schonberg |
music critic |
GSAS 1969, M.A. |
1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
Amy Vanderbilt |
journalist |
|
an acknowledged authority on manners, mores |
Brian K. Vaughan |
comic book writer |
|
Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad |
Saul Williams |
poet |
GSAS 1995, M.A. |
The Seventh Octave, She, ,Said the Shotgun to the Head |
Robert Anton Wilson |
author |
1957-1958 |
author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Abraham Balk |
fencer |
1947 |
foil and epee fencer, 5 NCAA gold medals, selected to 1948 Olympics team |
Anjelina Belakovskaia |
grandmaster |
GSAS 2001, M.S. |
US Women's Chess Champion 1995, 1996, 1999 |
Moe Berg |
baseball player |
ARTS 1918-1919* |
Major League baseball Player, spy, quiz show host |
Gary Bettman |
NHL Commissioner |
LAW 1977, J.D. |
|
Howard Cann |
basketball coach |
|
NYU basketball coach 1923-1958 |
Ben Carnevale |
basketball coach |
|
NYU basketball coach |
Hank Greenberg |
baseball player |
coursework* |
Major League baseball player, 5-time All-Star, 2-time American League Most Valuable Player, elected to the Hall of Fame |
Gary Gubner |
shotputter & weightlifter |
|
World record-holding shotputter and Olympic weightlifter |
Happy Hairston |
basketball player |
|
NBA player, 1971 champion with the Los Angeles Lakers |
Carol Heiss |
figure skater |
CAS |
Gold Medal Winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960 |
Samuel Jones |
athlete |
|
Olympic Gold Medalist, high jump, 1902 |
Yong Sung Park |
manager |
STERN 1970, M.B.A. |
President, International Judo Federation, Member of the IOC |
Satch Sanders |
basketball player |
|
NBA player, 1961-1966, 1968-1969 champion with the Boston Celtics |
Mika'il Sankofa |
fencer |
CAS, 1988 |
Olympic gold medalist, fencing, 1988, 1992 |
Robert Shmalo |
figure skater |
CAS |
International ice dancing competitor |
Ken Strong |
football player |
All-American, 1928 |
NFL Staten Island Stapletons, New York Giants 1929-1947, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 |
Paul Tagliabue |
NFL Commissioner |
LAW 1965, J.D. |
|
John Woodruff |
athlete |
ARTS 1939, GSAS 1941, M.A. |
Olympic gold medalist, sprinter, 1936 |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Milton Babbitt |
composer |
B.A., 1935 |
1986 MacArthur Fellow, 1982 Pulitzer Prize special citation |
Arthur Berger |
composer |
B.A., 1932 |
|
Cy Coleman |
composer, pianist |
STEINHARDT |
Tony Award for City of Angels 1990, On the Twentieth Century 1978 |
Betty Comden |
lyricist |
STEINHARDT |
partner of Adolph Green, recipient of several Tony Awards |
Clive Davis |
manager |
CAS, B.A., 1953 |
founder, Arista Records |
Neil Diamond |
singer/songwriter |
CAS, Hon. Ph.D. 2003 |
|
Carlos Dengler |
musician |
CAS |
Interpol's bassist/keyboardist |
Dave Douglas |
jazz trumpeter |
STEINHARDT, B.A. |
|
Greg Drudy |
musician |
previous student |
Interpol's first drummer |
Fred Ebb |
composer |
B.A., 1939 |
1967 Tony Award, 1967 Grammy Award for Cabaret |
Colleen Fitzpatrick |
singer/songwriter |
B.A., 1991 |
a.k.a. Vitamin C |
Albert Hammond, Jr.. |
musician |
TSOA |
The Strokes' guitarist |
Daniel Kessler |
musician |
previous student |
Interpol's guitarist/backing vocalist |
Elodie Lauten |
composer |
STEINHARDT 1986, M.A. |
|
Tania Leon |
composer, conductor |
STEINHARDT |
famous conductor, composer of "Scourge of Hyacinths", |
Marvin David Levy |
composer |
STEINHARDT |
|
Enoch Light |
composer, recording engineer |
STEINHARDT |
pioneer of music recording |
Melissa Manchester |
singer/songwriter |
independent studies, 1970 - 1971 |
1982 Grammy Award |
Midori Goto |
violinist |
M.A., 2001 |
|
Carole Bayer Sager |
songwriter and singer |
B.A., 1979 |
1987 Grammy Award |
Blake Schwarzenbach |
songwriter, singer |
|
Lead singer for bands Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil. Currently teaching English at Hunter College. |
Eileen Southern |
musicologist |
STEINHARDT 1961, Ph.D. |
first African American woman appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard |
Wayne Shorter |
saxophonist |
STEINHARDT 1956, B.M.E. |
among the most influential hard-bop and modal jazz saxophonists |
Louise Talma |
composer |
B.A., 1927 |
|
Rick Rubin |
Producer |
|
Cofounder of Def Jam |
Russell Simmons |
Hip-hop Artist |
|
Cofounder of Def Jam |
Jerry Ross |
composer |
studied under Rudolph Schramm |
|
Mary Wilson |
singer |
GAL |
The Supremes |
|
Anupum Mehrotra |
vocalist |
Administrative Aide in Philosophy Department |
Lead vocalist of Not Now Right Now (Formerly Kervin) |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Warren Adler |
businessman and novelist |
B.A., 1949 |
author of War of the Roses and Random Hearts |
Maria Bartiromo |
television personality |
CAS, B.A., 1987 |
Host of Market Week with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC |
Marc Belzberg |
business executive |
STERN, M.B.A. |
CEO of e-Sims |
Edward H. Bersoff |
businessman |
STERN 1962-1968, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. |
Chairman, Greenwich Associates |
William R. Berkley |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1966, B.S. |
President, WR Berkley Corp. |
Thor Bjorgolfsson |
entrepreneur |
STERN, B.S., 1991 |
Iceland's first billionaire |
Kevin Brine |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1981, M.B.A. |
Brine Management LLC |
Rohit Chaku |
businessman |
CAS B.A., 2002 |
Founder, J.Y. Associates |
Ben Cohen |
businessman |
Art Therapy * |
Founder, Ben & Jerry's |
Jerome H. Coles |
businessman, philanthropist |
CAS B.A., 1935 |
namesake of NYU's Sports Center |
Howard Cosell |
sportscaster |
CAS B.A., 1938; J.D. 1941 |
|
John J. Creedon |
manager |
STERN 1955, B.S. LAW 1957, J.D. |
Former CEO and Chairman, MetLife |
Marvin Davis |
media executive |
coursework* |
CEO, Paramount Pictures |
Renato A. DiPentima |
manager |
STERN, M.B.A. |
President and chief executive, SRA International Inc. |
Israel Englander |
hedge fund manager |
STERN, B.S. 1972 |
billionaire, head of Millennium Funds |
Salvatore Ferragamo |
manager |
STERN, M.B.A. |
Ferragamo Design |
Richard S. Fuld |
CEO |
STERN 1973, M.B.A. |
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. |
Tom Freston |
CEO |
STERN, M.B.A. |
MTV Networks |
Harvey Golub |
banker |
STERN 1961, B.S. |
Chairman of American Express (1994-2001) |
Alan Greenspan |
banker |
STERN 1948 1950 1977, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. |
former Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
Robert Greifeld |
CEO |
STERN 1977, M.B.A. |
CEO, NASDAQ |
Harold Sydney Geneen |
fmr. CEO, ITT |
STERN 1941, B.S. |
Investor, turnaround expert |
H. Dale Hemmerdinger |
businessman |
WSC 1967 |
President, Hemmerdinger Foundation |
Carl Icahn |
Investor |
MEDICINE* |
Billionaire Shareholder Activist |
Henry Kaufman |
banker |
STERN 1948, B.A., STERN 1958, Ph.D. |
Wall Street financial consultant |
Paul Kangas |
journalist |
STERN, M.B.A. |
Host, Nightly Business Report |
Herb Kelleher |
entrepreneur |
LAW 1955, LL.B. |
Founder and CEO, Southwest Airlines |
Abby F. Kohnstramm |
Senior VP, IBM |
STERN, M.B.A. |
|
Eugene Kleiner |
investor |
M.A.,1948 |
one of the original founders of Kleiner Perkins |
Liliana Lovell |
entrepreneur |
STERN, M.B.A. |
Founder of the Coyote Ugly Saloon |
Jeffrey Koo |
CEO |
STERN 1962 |
China Trust Commercial Bank |
Kenneth Langone |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1960, M.B.A. |
Founder, Home Depot |
Alan Levin |
businessman |
STERN 1976, M.B.A. |
CFO, Pfizer |
Paul Levitz |
executive |
coursework* |
President of DC Comics, the oldest comic company in the U.S. |
Martin Lipton |
lawyer |
LAW 1955, J.D. |
Co-Founder, Lipton, Rosen, Wachtell, Katz |
John C. Malone |
CEO of Liberty Media |
M.A. |
billionaire |
Monroe G. Milstein |
business executive |
STERN, M.B.A. |
CEO, Burlington |
Cathy Minehan |
banker |
STERN 1977, M.B.A. |
President, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston |
Joseph Nacchio |
businessman |
STERN 1970, B.S. |
CEO, Quest |
Roy Neuberger |
businessman |
coursework* |
Founder, Neuberger & Berman |
Dean R. O'Hare |
businessman |
STERN 1963, B.S. |
CEO, Chubb Corp. |
Park Chong-sup |
business executive |
STERN, M.B.A. |
CEO, Hyundai Electronics Industries |
Andrew J. Perlman |
researcher |
MED, MD. Ph.D. |
Executive VP, Tularik Inc. |
Chris Policinski |
business executive |
STERN 1982, M.B.A. |
CEO, Land O'Lakes |
Kenneth Quinn |
business executive |
STERN, M.B.A. |
CEO, Citibank Canada |
Marc Rich |
|
CAS, B.A. |
billionaire, commodities trader, criminal |
Leonard Riggio |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1964, M.B.A. |
CEO and owner, Barnes & Noble |
Edouard de Rothschild |
banker |
STERN 1985, M.B.A. |
Rothschild Banque |
Allan L. Schuman |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1955, B.S. |
CEO, Ecolab |
Walter V. Shipley |
banker |
STERN 1956, B.S. |
Chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan Bank |
Larry Silverstein |
real estate developer |
CAS B.A., 1952 |
Owner of World Trade Center site |
Robert Soros |
hedge fund manager |
CAS B.A., 1986 |
Head of Soros fund Management, son of George Soros |
Ernest E. Stempel |
manager |
|
former CEO, A.I.G. |
Leonard N. Stern |
CEO, The Hartz Group |
STERN 1957, B.S., 1959, M.B.A. |
Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business |
Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs |
banker |
STERN, M.B.A. |
GBS Finanzas |
Henry Taub |
president |
STERN 1947, B.S. |
Taub Foundation |
Laurence Alan Tisch |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1942, B.Sc. |
US Media Mogul, billionaire, President & CEO CBS |
Francesco Trapani |
business executive |
STERN, M.B.A. |
CEO of Bulgari |
Christy Turlington |
supermodel |
GAL 1999, B.A. |
|
Agnes Varis |
entrepreneur |
STERN 1979, M.B.A. |
Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals |
Peggy Yu |
entrepreneur |
STERN, M.B.A. |
Founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer |
Mark Zinn |
entrepreneur |
STERN, 1987 B.S. Accounting/Philosophy |
Class Action Claims Specialist |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Jerome Anthony Ambro |
|
B.A., 1955 |
United States House of Representatives |
William Bernard Barry |
D-NY 1935-1946 |
LAW LL.B., 1925 |
United States House of Representatives |
Charles Robin Britt |
D-NC 1983-1985 |
LAW LL.M., 1976 |
United States House of Representatives |
Peter Angelo Cavicchia |
R-NJ 1931-1937 |
LAW LL.B., 1908 |
United States House of Representatives (1931-1937) |
Earl Thomas Coleman |
D-MO 1976-1993 |
WAG 1963, M.P.A. |
United States House of Representatives (1976-1993) |
Maurice Connolly |
D-IA 1921-1921 |
LAW LL.B., 1898 |
United States House of Representatives |
Irwin Delmore Davidson |
|
B.S., 1927, LAW LL.B., 1928 |
United States House of Representatives |
Lawrence Joseph DeNardis |
|
M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989 |
United States House of Representatives |
Diana DeGette |
|
LAW J.D., 1982 |
United States House of Representatives (1997-) |
Steven Boghos Derounian |
|
B.A., 1938 |
United States House of Representatives |
Isidore Dollinger |
|
B.C.S., 1925 |
United States House of Representatives (1949-1959) |
Fred J. Eckert |
|
LAW Postgraduate Work |
United States House of Representatives, U.S. Ambassador |
Francis Edwin Dorn |
|
Wagner, 1936* |
United States House of Representatives |
Smith Ely |
|
LAW LL.B., 1846 |
United States House of Representatives |
Leonard Farbstein |
|
LAW LL.B. 1924 |
United States House of Representatives (1957-1971) |
Hamilton Fish, Jr. |
|
LAW LL.B. 1957 |
United States House of Representatives (1969-1995) |
Cornelius Edward Gallagher |
|
LAW Postgraduate 1948 |
United States House of Representatives (1959-1973) |
Jacob A. Geissenhainer |
|
LAW LL.B., 1862 |
United States House of Representatives |
Benjamin A. Gilman |
|
LAW LL.B., 1950 |
United States House of Representatives (1983-2003) |
Anthony Jerome Griffin |
|
LAW LL.B., 1892 |
United States House of Representatives (1918-1935) |
Frank Joseph Guarini |
|
LAW, J.D., 1950, LL.M., 1955 |
United States House of Representatives (1979-1993) |
Cecil Landau Heftel |
|
Graduate Work |
United States House of Representatives(1977-1986) |
Rush Holt |
|
GSAS, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981 |
United States House of Representatives (1999-) |
Stanley Nelson Lundine |
|
LAW 1964, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives(1976-1987) |
Mitchell Jenkins |
|
LAW 1926, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Edward Aloysius Kenney |
|
LAW LL.B. 1908 |
United States House of Representatives(1933-1938) |
Eugene James Keogh |
|
STERN, B.S. |
United States House of Representatives (1937-1967) |
Arthur George Klein |
|
LAW 1926, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives (1946-1956) |
Fiorello LaGuardia |
|
LAW 1908, LL.B., |
United States House of Representatives (1916-1934) |
|
|
|
Mayor of New York City (1934-1945) |
Jefferson Monroe Levy |
|
LAW 1873, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives (1911-1915) |
John MacCrate |
|
LAW 1906, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Vito Marcantonio |
|
LAW, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Raymond Joseph McGrath |
|
M.A., 1968 |
United States House of Representatives (1981-1993) |
Allan Langdon McDermott |
|
LAW 1877, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives (1900-1907) |
Thomas Joseph Meskill |
|
LAW 1955, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives, Governor of Connecticut |
Denis O`Leary |
|
LAW 1890, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Nathan David Perlman |
|
LAW LL.B. 1907 |
United States House of Representatives (1920-1927) |
Anning Smith Prall |
|
LAW 1908, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives(1923-1935) |
Benjamin Rabin |
|
LAW 1917, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Leo Frederick Rayfiel |
|
LAW 1908, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Charles B. Rangel |
|
LAW 1957, B.S. |
United States House of Representatives |
B. Caroll Reece |
|
LAW 1916, M.A. |
United States House of Representatives(1921-1961) |
Matthew John Rinaldo |
|
WAG 1979, M.P.A. |
United States House of Representatives (1973-1993) |
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal |
|
LAW 1952, LL.M. |
United States House of Representatives (1962-1983) |
Chris Shays |
|
STERN 1974, M.B.A. WAG 1978, M.P.A |
United States House of Representatives |
Isaac Siegel |
|
LAW 1901, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Daniel Edgar Sickles |
|
LAW 1846, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Andrew Lawrence Somers |
|
coursework* |
United States House of Representatives |
James Tallmadge, Jr. |
|
1st President of NYU |
United States House of Representatives (1817-1819) |
Ludwig Teller |
|
LAW 1935, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives (1957-1961) |
Herbert Tenzer |
|
LAW 1927, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Nydia Velázquez |
|
M.A., 1976 |
United States House of Representatives ([1992]-) |
Elijah Ward |
|
LAW 1943, LL.B. |
United States House of Representatives |
Arthur Vivian Watkins |
|
1909-1910 |
United States House of Representatives |
Leo C. Zeferetti |
|
1963* |
United States House of Representatives |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Lamar Alexander |
|
LAW 1965, J.D. |
U.S. Secretary of Education |
Gloria Allred |
feminist lawyer |
GSAS M.A., 1971 |
Category:New York University alumni |
Ruth Balser |
legislator |
Ph.D. |
member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1998 - present) |
Carol Bellamy |
lawyer |
LAW J.D., 1968 |
Executive Director, UNICEF |
David Boies |
lawyer |
LAW LL.M., 1967 |
United States v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore |
Cristina Federica de Borbon |
Princess of Spain |
GSAS M.A., 1991 |
|
Thomas Buergenthal |
legal scholar |
LAW J.D., 1960 |
Judge, International Court of Justice (2000 -) |
Eugene Chien |
politician |
GSAS Ph.D., 1973 |
Secretary of State, Taiwan |
Roberto de Oliveira Campos |
diplomat |
graduate work |
Brazilian Politician and Legislator, ambassador to the U.S. and UK |
Richard Campagna |
lawyer |
M.A. |
Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Candidate |
Sripati Chandrasekhar |
Indian politician |
GSAS Ph.D., 1944 |
Indian Minister of Health and Family Planning under Indira Gandhi |
Dae-Whan Chang |
Korean businessman |
GSAS Ph.D., 1987, M.A., 1985 |
Prime Minister - designate, South Korea |
Clay Constantinou |
diplomat |
LAW LL.M., 1986 |
U.S. Ambassador to Luxemburg |
Doris Ling-Cohan |
judge |
LAW J.D., 1979 |
Judge, New York State Supreme Court |
Stavros Dimas |
politician |
GSAS M.A., 1969 |
European Commissioner for the Environment |
William Donohue |
|
GSAS Ph.D., 1980 |
President, Catholic League |
William Henry Draper Jr |
diplomat |
GSAS M.A., 1917 |
Under Secretary of War and the Army |
Nabil Elaraby |
legal scholar |
LAW LL.M., 1969; J.S.D., 1971 |
Judge, International Court of Justice |
Mohamed ElBaradei |
diplomat |
LAW LL.M., 1967 |
Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (1997-) |
Mark Everson |
politician |
GSAS M.S., 1977 |
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Robert Patrick John Finn |
diplomat |
M.A. |
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Abraham Foxman |
politician |
LAW J.D. |
President of the Anti-Defamation League |
Louis Freeh |
politician |
LAW LL.M., 1984 |
FBI Director (1993-2001) |
Guillermo Endara Galimany |
|
Postgraduate work, NYU Law |
President of Panama (1989-1994) |
John William Gilbert |
politician |
?? |
Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom |
Rudy Giuliani |
politician |
LAW J.D., 1968 |
Mayor of New York City (1994-2001) |
Nancy Grace |
|
LAW LL.M. |
Court TV host |
Muhammad Hassanein |
politician |
GSAS M.A., 1966 |
Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt |
Dorothy Height |
activist |
ARTS B.A., GSAS M.A., 1930 |
American civil and women's rights activist |
Heather M. Hodges |
diplomat |
M.A. |
U.S. Ambassador to Moldova |
T. J. Jemison |
cleric |
?? |
President of the National Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1994 |
Lazarus Joseph |
government executive |
?? |
N.Y. State Senator (21st District 1934-44, 24th District 1945) and Comptroller of the City of New York (1946-1954) |
Meir Kahane |
politician |
GSAS M.A., 1957 |
Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset |
Judith Kaye |
legal scholar |
LAW LL.B., 1958 |
Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals |
Raymond W. Kelly |
government executive |
LAW LL.M. |
Police Commissioner of New York, Under Secretary of the Treasury |
John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
lawyer, journalist |
LAW J.D., 1989 |
Son of President John F. Kennedy |
Chen Li-an |
politician |
GSAS Ph.D. |
Secretary of Defence, Taiwan (1990-1993), President of the Control Yuan |
Marie-Chantal Miller |
wife |
IFA |
Princess of Greece |
Robert Mueller |
politician |
GSAS M.A. 1967 |
FBI Director under George W. Bush |
Romulus Neagu |
politician |
GSAS MA |
Member of the Romanian Parliament, Ambassador |
Gonzalo Parra Aranguren |
legal scholar |
LAW LL.M., 1952 |
Judge, International Court of Justice |
John F. Pierce |
politician |
STERN |
Governor of the Central Bank in Trinidad and Tobago |
Adam Shapiro |
Political activist |
GSAS M.A |
Co-Founder, International Solidarity Movement |
David Steinmann |
lawyer, banker, chairman of JINSA |
CAS B.A., 1962 |
Chairman, JINSA |
Park Yong Sung |
politician |
STERN M.B.A. |
Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce |
Samuel Pierce |
government executive |
LAW LL.M., 1952 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff |
|
B.A., 1929 |
United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare |
Elihu Root |
|
LAW 1867, LL.B. |
Secretary of War (1899-1903), Secretary of State (1905-1909) |
Clifford Sobel |
diplomat |
STERN B.S., 1972 |
U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands |
Ekwow Spio-Garbrah |
diplomat |
STERN graduate studies |
minister of communication, ambassador to the U.S. of the Republic of Ghana |
Christopher A. Thomas |
ambassador |
GSAS M.A., International Relations |
Chairman, Inter-American Economic Council |
James Lopez Watson |
legal scholar |
B.A., 1947 |
Judge, United States Court of International Trade |
Ernst Joseph Walch |
politician |
LAW M.C.J., 1981 |
Secretary of State of Liechtenstein |
Edwin D. Williamson |
government executive |
LAW J.D., 1964 |
Director, White House Office of Government Ethics |
Benjamin H. Wu |
government executive |
B.A., 1985 |
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce |
Ma Ying-jeou |
politician |
LAW LL.M., 1976 |
Major of Taipei, Taiwan Minister of Justice |
Mary Carlin Yates |
diplomat |
M.A., Ph.D. |
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Nicanor Reyes, Sr. |
educator |
STERN, 1917, B.A. |
Founder and 1st President of the Far Eastern University in the Manila, Philippines |
Edward J. Bloustein |
educator |
CAS, B.A. |
President of Rutgers University |
Frank A. Cipriani |
educator |
GSAS, Ph.D. |
President of the University of the State of New York at Farmingdale |
Hugh M. Gloster |
educator |
GSAS, 1943, Ph. D: |
fifth president of Morehouse College |
Friedrich Hayek |
economist |
GSAS 1923-1924, postgraduate |
1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
Gabriel Hawawini |
educator |
GSAS 1977, Ph.D. |
Dean, INSEAD |
Morris Janowitz |
sociologist |
CAS 1941, B.A. |
made major contributions to sociological theory |
Richard M. Joel |
educator |
LAW, J.D. |
4th President of Yeshiva University |
Kim, Won-yong |
archaeologist |
PhD, 1959 |
'Father of Korean Archaeology', Prof. Seoul National University |
Paul Kurtz |
philosopher |
WSC 1948, B.A. |
(The Pope of Unbelievers) |
Katharine Culbert Lyall |
educator |
STERN 1969, M.B.A. |
President, University of Wisconsin |
James Milliken |
philosopher |
CAS 1969, B.A. |
President of the University of Nebraska |
Marc Gustafson |
entrepreneur |
CAS 2007, B.A. |
founder of Reach the World and recipient of the Marshall Scholarship |
Leonard Peikoff |
philosopher (objectivism) |
GSAS 1964, Ph.D. |
Intellectual Heir of Ayn Rand leading figure of Objectivism |
James Ford Rhodes |
historian |
1865* |
1916 Pulitzer Prize for History of the Civil War |
Robert N. Sobel |
historian |
1957, Ph.D. |
Historian best remembered for his business histories |
Jan Zaprudnik |
historian |
1969, Ph.D. |
Leader of the Belarusian community in the US |
Howard Zinn |
Historian |
CAS 1951, B.A. |
author of A People's History of the United States |
Dr. Abraham M. George |
Philanthropist and Entrepreneur |
Stern 1973, M.B.A, 1975, PhD. |
Founder of The George Foundation and Multinational Computer Models |
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
E. Lloyd Du Brul |
dentist, anatomist |
DENT 1937, D.D.S. |
Author of Sicher and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy |
Gertrude B. Elion |
chemist |
MED 1941, M.Sc. |
1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Avery Fisher |
inventor |
ENG 1929, B.S. |
inventor of the first stereo radio-phonograph |
Corwin Hansch |
mathematician |
GSAS Ph.D. |
inventor of the Hansch equation |
Steve Holt |
scientist |
GSAS 1966, Ph.D. |
Director, NASA Godard Space Flight Center |
Eric R. Kandel |
psychoanalyst, psychiatrist |
MED 1955, M.D. |
2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Peter Lax |
mathematician |
GSAS 1947, B.A., 1949, Ph.D. |
2005 Abel Prize laureate |
Martin Hellman |
cryptologist |
GSAS 1966, B.A., |
invented the public key cryptography |
Marvin S. Housman |
businessman |
MED, M.D. |
Chairman, CEO of Axonyx |
John Harvey Kellogg |
businessman |
MED, 1875 |
Co-Inventor of Kellogg's cereals |
Anne Kinney |
scientist |
GSAS 1984, Ph.D. |
Director, Physics and Astronomy Division at NASA |
Lee M.E. Morin |
astronaut |
MED 1978-1982, M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D. |
|
Frederick Reines |
physicist |
GSAS 1944, Ph.D. |
1995 Nobel Prize in Physics |
Clifford Shull |
physicist |
GSAS 1941, Ph.D. |
1994 Nobel Prize in Physics |
John Wellborn Root |
architect |
ARTS 1969, B.S. |
Inventor of the floating raft system |
Dennis Tito |
businessman |
CAS 1962, B.A. |
first commercial space flight customer |
Srinivasa Varadhan |
mathematician |
professor |
recipient of the 2007 Abel Prize |
Alfred Vail |
inventor |
1836, B.A. |
|
George Wald |
scientist |
WSC 1927, B.S. |
1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Robert M. White |
flight engineer |
ENG 1951, B.S. |
Air Force Test Pilot |
Minoru Yamasaki |
architect |
GSAS 1951, M.A. |
works include the World Trade Center |
The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university:
Name |
Occupation |
Relation to NYU |
Noted for |
Edward Altman |
economist |
Professor, 1977 - |
Inventor of the "Z-Score" |
Henry Martyn Baird |
historian |
B.A., 1850, Professor 1859 - 1906 |
Historian of the Huguenots |
William Baumol |
economist |
professor |
member, National Academy of Science |
Saul Bellow |
writer |
Professor |
1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
Baruj Benacerraf |
immunologist |
Professor 1956-1968 |
1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Carl Bernstein |
journalist |
Professor |
1973 Pulitzer Prize (Watergate) |
Marsha Berger |
mathematician |
professor |
member, National Academy of Science |
Ben Bernanke |
economist |
Visiting Professor 1993 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board |
Ned Block |
philosopher |
Professor 1996- |
contributed to matters of consciousness and cognitive science |
Steven Brams |
political scientist |
Professor 1969 - |
best known for his research on voting systems and approval voting |
McGeorge Bundy |
politician |
Professor of History (1979-1989) |
National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy |
Norman Cantor |
historian |
Professor 1978-2004 |
eminent medievalist |
Jorge Castañeda |
politician |
Visiting Professor |
Secretary of State of Mexico |
Domingo Cavallo |
politician |
Guest Lecturer |
former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina |
Jeff Cheeger |
mathematician |
professor |
member, National Academy of Science |
Stephen Cohen |
historian |
Professor |
eminent scholar on history and foreign relations of Russia |
Richard Courant |
mathematician |
|
noted for the development of the finite element method |
Peter F. Drucker |
economist |
Professor, 1950-1972 |
major contributor to management theory |
E.L. Doctorow |
novelist |
Professor |
author of Ragtime |
Robert F. Engle |
economist |
Professor 1999- |
2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
Niall Ferguson |
historian |
Professor |
best known for "Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World" |
Erich Fromm |
psychoanalyst |
Professor of psychiatry 1962 - 1974 |
internationally renowned German-American psychologist and philosopher. |
Carol Gilligan |
ethicist |
Professor |
best known for her on ethical community and ethical relationships |
Stephen Jay Gould |
biologist |
Vincent Astor Visiting Professor |
known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of Punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings |
Percy Grainger |
composer |
Professor 1932-1940 |
inventor of the "Free Music Machine", the forerunner of the synthesizer. |
Mikhail Gromov |
mathematician |
Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics |
made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry |
Avram Hershko |
chemist |
Adjunct Professor 1998- |
2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Sidney Hook |
philosopher |
Professor, 1927-1972 |
prominent philosopher who championed pragmatism |
Tony Judt |
historian |
Professor |
director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute and author of "Postwar" |
Elias Khoury |
novelist |
Professor |
Lebanese writer and critic |
Saul Krugman |
pediatrictian |
Professor |
developed first vaccine against Hepatitis B. |
Spike Lee |
Director, Actor, Producer, Social Activist |
Professor |
Film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts |
Wassily Leontief |
economist |
Professor 1975-1999 |
1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
Otto Loewi |
physicist |
Professor 1940-1961 |
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Elizabeth McHenry |
African American studies |
Professor |
|
Colin McLeod |
geneticist |
Professor 1941-1970 |
established that genes are made of DNA |
Robert S. Mulliken |
physicist, chemist |
Professor 1926-1928 |
1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Gunnar Myrdal |
economist |
Visiting Professor |
1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
Ludwig von Mises |
economist |
Professor 1945-1969 |
leader of the Austrian School of Economics |
Samuel Morse |
inventor |
Professor 1832-?? |
inventor of the Morse Code |
Galway Kinnell |
poet |
Professor 1993 - |
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Pierre N. Leval |
legal scholar |
Professor |
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Theodor Meron |
legal scholar |
Professor |
President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
Thomas Nagel |
philosopher |
Professor |
scholar, philosophy of mind |
Ronald K. Noble |
attorney |
Professor of Law |
Interpol Secretary General 2000-Present |
Bertell Ollman |
political scientist |
Full Professor |
|
Ngugi wa Thiongo |
author |
Visiting Professor |
Kenyan activist |
Conor Cruise O'Brien |
Irish politician and academic |
Professor |
|
Severo Ochoa |
physicist |
Professor 1942-1974 |
1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Henry Bamford Parkes |
historian |
Professor |
author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico |
Adam Penenberg |
journalist |
Professor |
uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass |
F.E. Peters |
Islamicist Historian |
Professor 1961- |
pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
Neil Postman |
media theorist |
1959-2003 |
author, Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder, Media ecology program |
Joseph Ransohoff |
physician |
Professor at NYU 1962-1992 |
|
Curt Sachs |
musicologist |
Professor at NYU 1937-1953 |
co-author of the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme |
Paul A. Samuelson |
economist |
Visiting Professor |
1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
Thomas Sargent |
economist |
Professor |
one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution |
Bob Shrum |
politician |
Professor |
Democratic Political Consultant |
Alan Sokal |
physicist |
Professor |
known for the Sokal Affair |
Darin Strauss |
Novelist |
Adjunct Professor 2000-Present |
Author of Chang & Eng and The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award-winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellow |
Henry Tappan |
philosopher |
Professor of philosophy |
First President of the University of Michigan |
Allen Tate |
poet |
Professor 1948-1951 |
author, "Ode To the Confederate Dead" |
Lewis Thomas |
physician |
Dean, NYU School of Medicine |
|
Vivien Goldman |
musician and music journalist |
Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music |
Wrote the first biography of Bob Marley |
Thomas Wolfe |
novelist |
|
famous American author |
Cheryl D. Mills |
|
|
former Deputy Counsel to President Clinton; lead defense attorney in his 1999 Senate Impeachment |