List of City University of New York alumni
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This is a list of alumni of City University of New York, United States, organised alphabetically by surname.
| Name | Grad. | College | Notable for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Arrow | 1940 | City | economist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Robert Aumann | 1950 | City | mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Albert Axelrod | City | Olympic foil fencer | |
| Herman Badillo | 1951 | City | civil rights activist and first Puerto Rican elected to the US Congress |
| Daniel Bukantz | City | Olympic foil fencer | |
| Abram Cohen | City | Olympic foil, épée, and saber fencer | |
| Arlene Davila | 1996 | City | author and Anthropology and American Studies professor at New York University |
| Rubén Díaz Jr. | 2005 | Lehman | Bronx borough president |
| Rubén Díaz Sr. | 1976 | Lehman | NYC Council member, pastor |
| Jeffrey Dinowitz | 1975 | Lehman | NYS Assembly member |
| Jesse Douglas | 1916 | City | mathematician and winner of one of the first two Fields Medals |
| Eliot Engel | 1969 | Lehman | member of the US House of Representatives, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Abraham Foxman | City | national director, Anti-Defamation League | |
| Felix Frankfurter | 1902 | City | US Supreme Court justice |
| Denise Galloway | 1975 | City | cancer researcher and medical academic |
| Harold Goldsmith | 1952 | City | Olympic foil and épée fencer |
| Andy Grove | 1960 | City | chairman and CEO, Intel Corporation |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | 1937 | City | mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Letitia James | 1982 | Lehman | NYS attorney general |
| Barbara Joans | 1974 | anthropologist who researched biker culture | |
| Jane Katz | 1963 | City | Olympic swimmer |
| Henry Kissinger | City | US secretary of state and national security advisor | |
| Leonard Kleinrock | 1957 | City | computer scientist, Internet pioneer |
| Guillermo Linares | 1975 | City | New York City Council member, first Dominican-American City Council member and commissioner of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs |
| Nathaniel Lubell | 1936 | City | Olympic foil, saber, and épée fencer |
| Samuel Lubell | City | pollster, journalist, and National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist | |
| Lisa Nakamura | 1993 1996 | City | director and professor of the Asian American Studies Program at the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Charles Neider | City | author, scholar | |
| Barnett Newman | 1927 | City | abstract expressionist artist |
| John O'Keefe | City | 2014 Nobel laureate in Medicine | |
| Colin Powell | 1958 | City | chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state |
| Mario Puzo | City | novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter for Best Adapted Screenplay (1972, 1974) | |
| Faith Ringgold | 1955 | City | feminist, writer and artist |
| Saul Rogovin | City
BMCC |
professional baseball player | |
| A. M. Rosenthal | 1949 | City | executive editor of The New York Times who championed the publication of the Pentagon Papers; Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist expelled from Poland in 1959 for his reporting on the nation's government and society |
| Rochelle Saidel | City | author, founder of the Remember the Women Institute | |
| Jonas Salk | 1934 | City | developed the first polio vaccine |
| Daniel Schorr | 1939 | City | Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS-TV and National Public Radio |
| Elliott Fitch Shepard | 1855 | City | lawyer, banker, and a founder of the New York State Bar Association |
| James Strauch | City | Olympic épée fencer | |
| Bernard Weinraub | City | journalist and playwright | |
| Henry Wittenberg | City | Olympic champion wrestler | |
| Egemen Bağış | Baruch | Turkish politician, government minister | |
| Abraham Beame | 1928 | Baruch | born Abraham Birnbaum; mayor of New York City |
| Robin Byrd | Baruch | host of public access program The Robin Byrd Show (dropped out)[1] | |
| Barbara A. Cornblatt | 1977 | Baruch | professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine |
| Fernando Ferrer | Baruch | New York City mayoral candidate in 2001 and 2005 | |
| Sidney Harman | 1939 | Baruch | founder and executive chairman of Harman Kardon |
| Marcia A. Karrow | Baruch | member of New Jersey General Assembly | |
| James Lam | 1983 | Baruch | author, risk management consultant |
| Ralph Lauren | Baruch | born Ralph Lifshitz; chairman and CEO of Polo Ralph Lauren (dropped out) | |
| Dolly Lenz | Baruch | New York City real estate agent | |
| Dennis Levine | Baruch | prominent player in the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s | |
| Jennifer Lopez | Baruch | actress, singer, dancer (dropped out) | |
| Craig A. Stanley | Baruch | member of New Jersey General Assembly since 1996[2] | |
| Tarkan | Baruch | Turkish language singer | |
| Bella Abzug | 1942 | Hunter | born Bella Savitzky; feminist; political activist; US representative, 1971–1977 |
| Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick | 1963 | Hunter | first Hispanic woman named to the New York State Court of Appeals |
| Robert R. Davila | 1965 | Hunter | president of Gallaudet University and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired |
| Ruby Dee | 1945 | Hunter | Emmy-nominated actress and civil rights activist |
| Martin Garbus | 1955 | Hunter | First Amendment attorney |
| Florence Howe | 1950 | Hunter | founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY |
| Audre Lorde | 1959 | Hunter | African-American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and activist |
| Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou | 1991 | Hunter | foreign minister of Mauritania and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva |
| Soia Mentschikoff | 1934 | Hunter | first female partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president of the Association of American Law Schools |
| Thomas J. Murphy Jr. | 1973 | Hunter | three-term mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994–2006 |
| Pauli Murray | 1933 | Hunter | first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N.O.W. |
| Edward Thomas Brady | John Jay | MA, trial attorney and associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina | |
| Jennings Michael Burch | John Jay | author of the 1984 best-selling memoir They Cage the Animals at Night | |
| Marcos Crespo | John Jay | BA, New York state assemblyman representing district 85[3] | |
| Edward A. Flynn | John Jay | chief of the Milwaukee Police Department | |
| Petri Hawkins-Byrd | 1989 | John Jay | Judge Judy bailiff |
| Henry Lee | 1972 | John Jay | forensic scientist and founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science |
| Miguel Martinez | John Jay | BS, member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on July 14, 2009 | |
| Eva Norvind | John Jay | MA, actor and director | |
| Pauley Perrette | John Jay | actor best known for her role as Abby Scuito on NCIS | |
| Ronald Rice | John Jay | New Jersey State senator | |
| Ariel Rios | John Jay | undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), killed in the line of duty | |
| Imette St. Guillen | John Jay | criminal justice graduate student murdered in February 2006; a scholarship was created in her name | |
| Scott Stringer | John Jay | comptroller, borough president of Manhattan, and member of the New York State Assembly | |
| Dorothy Uhnak | John Jay | BA, novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police Department | |
| Bill Baird | 1955 | Brooklyn | reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League |
| Barbara Aronstein Black | 1953 | Brooklyn | dean of Columbia Law School |
| Barbara Levy Boxer | 1962 | Brooklyn | anti-war activist, environmentalist, US representative, 1982–1993, and US senator |
| Mel Brooks | 1956 | Brooklyn | born Melvin Kaminsky; Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning director, writer, and actor |
| Shirley Chisholm | 1946 | Brooklyn | first African-American US congresswoman, 1968–1982; candidate for US president, 1972 |
| Bruce Chizen | 1978 | Brooklyn | president & CEO, Adobe Systems |
| Manuel F. Cohen | 1933 | Brooklyn | Securities and Exchange Commission chairman |
| Paul Cohen | 1953 | Brooklyn | Fields Medal-winning mathematician |
| Stanley Cohen | 1943 | Brooklyn | biochemist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine), 1986 |
| Robert A. Daly | Brooklyn | CEO of Warner Bros. and Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| Alan M. Dershowitz | 1959 | Brooklyn | Harvard Law School professor and author |
| Jerry Della Femina | 1957 | Brooklyn | chairman & CEO, Della Femina, Jeary and Partners |
| Dan DiDio | 1983 | Brooklyn | comic book editor and executive for DC Comics |
| Benjamin Eisenstadt | 1954 | Brooklyn | creator of Sweet'N Low and founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation |
| Sandra Feldman | 1960 | Brooklyn | president, American Federation of Teachers |
| James Franco | Brooklyn | Golden Globe Award-winning actor | |
| Nikki Franke | 1972 | Brooklyn | Olympic foil fencer |
| Ralph Goldstein | Brooklyn | Olympic épée fencer | |
| Sterling Johnson Jr. | 1963 | Brooklyn | Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Gata Kamsky | 1999 | Brooklyn | chess grandmaster and five-time US chess champion |
| Saul Katz | 1960 | Brooklyn | president of the New York Mets |
| Edward R. Korman | 1963 | Brooklyn | senior United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Marvin Kratter | 1937 | Brooklyn | owner of the Boston Celtics |
| Don Lemon | 1996 | Brooklyn | reporter, CNN |
| Leonard Lopate | 1967 | Brooklyn | host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC |
| Michael Lynne | 1961 | Brooklyn | CEO of New Line Cinema |
| Marjorie Magner | 1969 | Brooklyn | chairman of Gannett |
| Marty Markowitz | 1970 | Brooklyn | New York state senator; Brooklyn borough president |
| Paul Mazursky | 1951 | Brooklyn | film director, writer, producer; actor |
| Frank McCourt | 1967 | Brooklyn | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis |
| Stanley Milgram | 1954 | Brooklyn | social psychologist |
| Jerry Moss | 1957 | Brooklyn | co-founder of A&M Records |
| Barry Munitz | 1963 | Brooklyn | chancellor of California State University |
| Gloria Naylor | 1981 | Brooklyn | novelist; winner of National Book Award |
| Peter Nero | 1956 | Brooklyn | born Bernard Nierow; pianist and pops conductor; Grammy Award winner |
| Harvey Pitt | 1965 | Brooklyn | chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Rosemary S. Pooler | 1959 | Brooklyn | United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Jason K. Pulliam | 1995; 1997 | Brooklyn | United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
| Barry Salzberg | 1974 | Brooklyn | CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu |
| Bernie Sanders | Brooklyn | US senator representing Vermont | |
| Steve Schirripa | 1980 | Brooklyn | actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos |
| Irwin Shaw | 1934 | Brooklyn | born Irwin Shamforoff; O. Henry Award-winning author |
| Timothy Shortell | 1992 | Brooklyn | writer, critic of religion |
| Joel Harvey Slomsky | 1967 | Brooklyn | senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
| Jimmy Smits | 1980 | Brooklyn | Emmy Award-winning actor; NYPD Blue and L.A. Law |
| Maynard Solomon | 1950 | Brooklyn | co-founder of Vanguard Records |
| Lisa Staiano-Coico | 1976 | Brooklyn | president of City College of New York |
| Frank Tarloff | Brooklyn | Academy Award-winning screenwriter | |
| Benjamin Ward | 1960 | Brooklyn | first black New York City Police commissioner, 1983–1989 |
| Iris Weinshall | 1975 | Brooklyn | vice chancellor at the City University of New York and commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation |
| Jack B. Weinstein | 1943 | Brooklyn | senior judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
| Walter Yetnikoff | 1953 | Brooklyn | CEO of CBS Records |
| Philip Zimbardo | 1954 | Brooklyn | social psychologist |
| Joy Behar | 1964 | Queens | comedian, television personality |
| Jerry Colonna | Queens | venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach | |
| Joseph Crowley | Queens | member of the US House of Representatives, 1999–2019 | |
| Alan Hevesi | Queens | New York State comptroller, New York state assemblyman, Queens College professor | |
| Cheryl Lehman | 1975 | Queens | professor of Accounting, Hofstra University |
| Helen Marshall | Queens | Queens borough president | |
| Donna Orender | Queens | WNBA president | |
| Jerry Seinfeld | 1976 | Queens | actor and comedian |
| Charles Wang | Queens | founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders | |
| Carl Andrews | Medgar Evers | New York state senator | |
| Yvette Clarke | Medgar Evers | congresswoman, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 11th and 9th congressional districts | |
| Richard Carmona | 1973 | Bronx | Surgeon General of the United States |
| Kid Chaos | 1991 | Bronx | British rock bassist and guitarist who played in incarnations of hard rock bands such as The Cult |
| The Kid Mero | Bronx | co-host of Desus & Mero | |
| Annabel Palma | 1991 | Bronx | NYC Council member, 2004–2017 |
| Cardi B | BMCC | rapper | |
| Queen Latifah | BMCC | singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and producer | |
| Adam Saleh | BMCC | YouTuber and boxer | |
| Mirko Savone | BMCC | Italian voiceover actor | |
| Assata Shakur | BMCC | former member of Black Liberation Army, 1970–1981 | |
| Gabourey Sidibe | BMCC | actress | |
| Michael K. Williams | BMCC | actor | |
| Riddick Bowe | Kingsborough | professional boxer, 1989–2008 | |
| Mauriel Carty | Kingsborough | Anguillan sprinter | |
| Andrew Dice Clay | Kingsborough | stand-up comedian, actor, musician and producer | |
| Pete Falcone | Kingsborough | professional baseball pitcher | |
| Jeff Koinange | 1989 | Kingsborough | journalist and host of Jeff Koinange Live |
| Phillipe Nover | Kingsborough | mixed martial artist | |
| Larry Seabrook | 1972 | Kingsborough | NYC Council member, 2002–2012 |
| Aesha Waks | Kingsborough | actress | |
| Khandi Alexander | Queensborough | dancer, choreographer, and actress | |
| Sandra "Pepa" Denton | Queensborough | rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa | |
| Cheryl "Salt" James | Queensborough | rapper and songwriter, member of Salt-N-Pepa | |
| Nayan Padrai | Queensborough | screenwriter, producer and director | |
| Joe Santagato | Queensborough | YouTuber, comedian and podcaster | |
| Elly Gross | 1993 | LaGuardia | Holocaust survivor and author of several Holocaust-related books of poetry and prose |
| DJ JP | LaGuardia | DJ | |
| Reby Sky | LaGuardia | professional wrestler and model | |
| Elliot Wilson | LaGuardia | journalist, television producer, and magazine editor |