List of Queens College people
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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Queens College, City University of New York.
- Leslie Abramson - attorney, defended Lyle and Erik Menendez[1]
- Russell Artzt - co-founder, Computer Associates[2]
- Gary Barnett - founder of Extell Development Company[3]
- Jill E. Barad - former CEO of Mattel[4]
- David Cancel - serial technology entrepreneur; entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School[5]
- Jerry Colonna - venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach[6]
- Eugene R. Fidell - attorney, Guantanamo Bay detention camp critic[7]
- Mark M. Ford - entrepreneur
- Lee Garfinkel - former CEO of the New York office of Foote, Cone & Belding[8]
- Leonard Grunstein - finance executive
- Charlie Harary - investor and motivational speaker[9]
- Patricia Hynes - former president of the New York City Bar Association[10]
- Frederick S. Jaffe - former vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America[11]
- Stewart Liff - management consultant and author[12]
- Ruth Madoff - wife of Bernard L. Madoff[13]
- Donna Orender - WNBA president[14]
- Cindy Rakowitz - division president for Playboy Enterprises (1986–2001)
- Jeffrey Steinberger - trial attorney, TV commentator and analyst
- Charles Wang - founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders[15]
Education
- Stevanne Auerbach - psychologist, "Dr. Toy"[16]
- Werner Baer - Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign[17]
- Elaine Barkin - music theorist educator
- Warren Bebbington - retired vice-chancellor, University of Adelaide
- Jean-Claude Brizard - CEO of Chicago Public Schools[18]
- Vévé Amasasa Clark - professor of African-American studies at the University of California, Berkeley[19]
- Ester Fuchs - professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University[20]
- Jeffrey Halperin - professor of Psychology
- Arthur M. Langer - professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University, founder of Workforce Opportunity Services[21]
- Cheryl Lehman - accounting academic[22]
- Stephanie Pace Marshall - founder of Illinois Math and Science Academy[23]
- Joseph S. Murphy (1933–1998) - president of Queens College, president of Bennington College, and chancellor of the City University of New York[24]
- Edward John Ray - president of Oregon State University[25]
- Linda Siegel - cognitive psychologist, holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education at the University of British Columbia 1996–2015[26]
Entertainment and media
- Ted Alexandro - comedian[27]
- Martin Aronstein - theatrical lighting designer[28]
- Annet Artani - singer, songwriter, co-wrote "Everytime" with Britney Spears[29]
- Jay Bak - rapper and singer based in South Korea
- Lidia Bastianich - celebrity chef and host of Lidia's Italy[30]
- Joy Behar - comedian and co-host of The View[31]
- Adrien Brody - actor, Academy Award winner, attended in 1990[32]
- Glen Brunman - film and television soundtrack executive and producer[33]
- Danny Burstein - Broadway actor[34]
- Fran Capo - comedian[35]
- Lucille Carra - documentary film producer
- Angelo Corrao - Italian-American film editor
- Jason Cuadrado - director and producer
- Yanna Darili - model, Greek television personality
- Peter Dizozza - composer
- Fran Drescher - actress, producer The Nanny[36]
- Dennis Elsas - radio personality at WNEW–FM, WFUV–FM[37]
- Nargis Fakhri - model and Bollywood actress
- Jon Favreau - actor and director, director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2[38]
- David Zelag Goodman - screenwriter, playwright[39]
- Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer[40]
- Annette Insdorf - film historian and author[41]
- Alan Jacobson - thriller writer[42]
- Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor[43]
- Herb Kaplow - television news correspondent[44]
- Jason Katims - television writer and producer[45]
- Carole King - songwriter and recording artist[46]
- Richard Kline - played "Larry Dallas" on Three's Company[47]
- Carol Leifer - stand-up comedian, writer, actress and producer[48]
- Bob Linden - host and producer of Go Vegan Radio[49]
- Hal Linden - actor, producer, and musician[50]
- Clair Marlo - composer, singer, record producer, songwriter; attended 1976–1977, then went to Berklee College of Music
- Perri Pierre - actor and film producer[51]
- DJ Rekha - DJ, producer, educator of South Asian music
- Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975–1978; dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years, but returned later, during which he made the dean's list)[52]
- Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders[53]
- Neil Rosen - Emmy award-winning movie critic, NY1
- Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) - radio talk show personality and author[54]
- Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
- Jerry Seinfeld - comedian[55]
- Nestor Serrano - actor[56]
- Paul Simon - singer, songwriter, musician, and member of Simon and Garfunkel[57]
- Michael Stewart - playwright[58]
- Bobby Susser - songwriter, record producer, and performer[59]
- Lorenzo Thomas - poet[60]
- Mal Waldron - jazz pianist[61]
- Dorothy Wiggins (born 1925), socialite and social media personality.[62]
- Dennis Wolfberg - comedian[63]
- Marv Wolfman - comic book and animation writer
- Jay Wolpert - television producer, screenwriter
- Ben Younger - screenwriter and director[64]
- Karen Yu (born 1992) - professional wrestler, also known as "Karen Q" and "Wendy Choo".[65]
Fictional characters
- George Costanza - from Seinfeld
- Carrie Heffernan - took courses for law during season 3 of King of Queens
- Eric Murphy - from Entourage; attended for two years before dropping out to become the manager of Vincent Chase
- Jerry Seinfeld - from Seinfeld[66]
- Elliot Stabler - from Law & Order: SVU; first mentioned in S1E6
- Betty Suarez - from Ugly Betty; graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Media[67]
Government and politics
- Gary Ackerman - United States representative from New York (1983–2013)[68]
- Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, chief political consultant for Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016[69]
- Shifra Bronznick - prominent Jewish women's rights activist[70]
- Kema Chikwe - National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP, former aviation minister[71]
- Nikos Christodoulides - president of Cyprus (2023–present)[72]
- Anthony Como - former NYC council member[73]
- Costa Constantinides - nonprofit leader, former NYC council member, Queens College professor[74]
- Joseph Crowley - former United States representative from New York's 7th congressional district (1999–2019), former Queens County Democratic chairman[75]
- Mark Danish - former member, Florida House of Representatives[76]
- Adriano Espaillat - United States representative from New York's 13th congressional district, former member of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly[77]
- Rafael Espinal - executive director of Freelancers Union; former NYC council member[78]
- Arthur J. Finkelstein - GOP political consultant[79]
- Steven W. Fisher - former New York state justice, attorney in Wendy's massacre[80]
- Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist[81]
- Helen W. Gillmor - U.S. federal judge
- Deborah J. Glick - NY state assemblywoman[82]
- Mark M. Goldblatt - political commentator
- Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student[83]
- Dan Halloran - former NYC council member, Theodist
- Julia Harrison - NYC council member[84]
- Alan Hevesi - former New York state comptroller, former New York state assemblyman, former Queens College professor[85]
- Andrew Hevesi - New YorksState assemblyman[86]
- Dov Hikind - former New York state assemblyman[87]
- Blaise Ingoglia - Florida state assembly[88]
- Dennis G. Jacobs - chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[89]
- Jeffrey D. Klein - former New York state senator[90]
- Alan P. Krasnoff - former Chesapeake, Virginia mayor[91]
- Rory I. Lancman - former NYC council member and former New York state assemblyman[92]
- Nathan Leventhal - former NYC deputy mayor, former president, Lincoln Center[93]
- Helen Marshall - former Queens borough president[94]
- Nettie Mayersohn - former member of New York State Assembly[95]
- Joseph McGoldrick (1901–1978) - former NYC comptroller and NY state residential rent control commissioner, lawyer, and professor at Queens College[96]
- Hiram Monserrate - former New York state senator[97]
- Diane Patrick (B.A. 1972) - labor lawyer and former First Lady of Massachusetts (2007–2015)[98]
- Jose Peralta - former New York state assemblyman and New York state senator[99]
- Sylvia Pressler - former judge[100]
- Mario Savio (B.A. 1963) - leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s; during an era of de jure segregation and violence against Civil Rights activists, he registered African Americans living in Mississippi to vote
- Ronald Spadafora - former FDNY chief and supervisor of September 11 rescue and recovery efforts[101]
- Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state senator[102]
- James Vacca - former NYC council member and Queens College professor[103]
- Jeffrey White - former North California district judge[104]
Humanities
- David A. Adler - author[105]
- Yitzchok Adlerstein - rabbi, writer[106]
- Mel Alexenberg - science artist and art educator
- Toni Cade Bambara - author, activist[107]
- Nino Lo Bello - journalist[108]
- Michael Berenbaum - scholar, writer, rabbi[109]
- Ann Birstein - memoirist, Fulbright Scholar[110]
- Erika Bourguignon - anthropologist[111]
- Robert Boyers - literary essayist, cultural critic and memoirist
- Alex Caldiero - poet, scholar of humanities[112]
- Vévé Amasasa Clark - scholar of African American Studies[113]
- Marylyn Dintenfass - painter
- Alan Dugan - poet[114]
- Yael Eckstein - religious activist[115]
- Marc Estrin - political writer
- Jeff Faux - founder of Economic Policy Institute[116]
- Bella Feldman - sculpting innovator
- Marie Ferrarella - romance writer[117]
- Juan Flores - scholar of Latino Studies[118]
- Ellen G. Friedman - author, women's studies
- Ruth Gay - writer about Jewish life[119]
- Jeff Gomez - writer and transmedia producer
- Martin Gottlieb - editor at New York Times[120]
- Robert Hessen - economist, historian
- Cynthia Holz - correspondent and author[121]
- Johanna Hurwitz - children's author[122]
- Jane Irish - ceramicist[123]
- Susan Isaacs - author, essayist, screenwriter
- Bernard Kalb - journalist, media critic, author
- Marvin Kalb - journalist
- Nasser Khalili - scholar, philanthropist
- Bernard Krisher - journalist[124]
- Corky Lee - journalistic photographer[125]
- Judith Lorber - sociologist[126]
- Felipe Luciano - journalist[127]
- Irving Malin - literary critic[128]
- Nellie Y. McKay - scholar and co-editor of Norton Anthology of African-American Literature[129]
- Samuel Menashe - poet, biochemist, veteran[130]
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - political scientist
- Cristina Jiménez Moreta (B.A. 2007) - Ecuadoran immigration activist who co-founded United We Dream[131]
- Joan Nestle - author[132]
- Richard Ofshe - sociologist[133]
- Jim Osman - sculptor
- Claude V. Palisca - professor of music history
- Herbert S Parmet - distinguished historian and political author
- Irene Peslikis - feminist artist
- Mark Podwal - artist and physician[134]
- Shana Poplack - linguistics[135]
- Lina Puerta - artist[136]
- Dorothy Rabinowitz - awarded 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary[137]
- Colleen Randall - abstract painter
- Marcia Resnick - photographer
- Robert Rosenblum - art historian, curator, writer[138]
- John Rowan - Vietnam veteran
- Arlene Rush - artist and sculptor[139]
- Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism[140]
- Joel Shatzky (1943–2020) - writer and literary professor[141]
- Lowery Stokes Sims - former curator at Museum of Arts and Design[142]
- Marilyn Singer - children's author[143]
- Arnold Skemer - novelist and publisher
- Elliot Sperling - expert on Tibet[144]
- Linda Stein - sculptor, feminist (interviewed in Borat)[145]
- Amin Tarzi - Middle East Studies[146]
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn - historian[147]
- Eric Wolf - anthropologist[148]
Music
- Salman Ahmad - musician, Junoon
- Sol Berkowitz - composer and music educator[149]
- Peter Calandra - pianist and composer[150]
- Noel DaCosta - jazz musician, composer[151]
- Tina Chancey - multi-instrumentalist
- Gil Dor - Israeli guitar player[152]
- Leslie Dunner - composer and conductor[153]
- JoAnn Falletta - classical musician and orchestral conductor
- John Feeley - classical guitarist[154]
- Ellie Greenwich - singer, songwriter and producer[155]
- Reri Grist - coloratura soprano[156]
- Herbert Grossman - conductor[157]
- Lisa Gutkin - Grammy-winning violinist[158]
- Edward W. Hardy - composer, violinist[159]
- Antonio Hart - jazz musician[160]
- Conrad Herwig - jazz trombonist[161]
- Douglas Knehans - composer[162]
- Leo Kraft - composer[163]
- Meyer Kupferman - composer and clarinetist[164]
- Paul Lansky - pioneer computer musician and composer at Princeton[165]
- Carolyn Leigh - lyricist, composer[166]
- Mimi Lerner - opera singer[167]
- Lewis Lockwood - musicologist
- Frank Lopardo - operatic tenor[168]
- Marcus Miller - jazz composer[169]
- Tito Munoz - conductor[170]
- Arturo O'Farrill - jazz musician[171]
- Marco Oppedisano - guitarist and composer
- Lou Pearlman - music producer[172]
- Luis Perdomo - pianist[173]
- Raoul Pleskow - composer[174]
- Nancy B. Reich - musicologist[175]
- James Nyoraku Schlefer - composer of Shakuhachi[176]
- Paul Simon - composer, singer, musician, and member of Simon and Garfunkel[177]
- Erika Sunnegårdh - operatic soprano[178]
- George Tsontakis - composer and conductor
- William Westney - classical pianist[179]
- Davide Zannoni - classical music composer
Science and technology
- Kenneth Appel - mathematician, proved four color theorem[180]
- Boris Aronov - computer scientist (computational geometry)[181]
- Inge Auerbacher - chemist, author, playwright, Holocaust survivor[182]
- Steven J. Burakoff - cancer specialist; author of Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990)[183]
- Anne Carter - technology economist[184]
- Arturo Casadevall - molecular microbiologist[185]
- Marie Maynard Daly - biochemist, first African-American woman to earn a Phd in chemistry[186]
- Celso-Ramón García - obstetrician and gynecologist[187]
- Edgar Gilbert - coding theorist[188]
- David Gries - computer scientist[189]
- Mohammad Salman Hamdani - biochemist, cited in the Patriot Act for heroism on 9/11[190]
- Michael Hecht - researcher[191]
- Ira B. Lamster - periodontist and professor of health management
- Richard Laub - paleontologist
- Jerry Lawson - electronic engineer[192]
- Stanley Milgram - psychologist
- Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer[193]
- Howard Moskowitz - market researcher and psychophysicist
- Elizabeth F. Neufeld - geneticist[194]
- Nicholas Rescher - philosopher
- Bernard Salick - entrepreneur, researcher, nephrologist[195]
- Elissa Shevinsky - entrepreneur, information security researcher, feminist
- Russell Targ - physicist
- Alexander L. Wolf - computer scientist, president of Association for Computing Machinery[196]
- Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory[197]
- Bruce M. Zagelbaum - physician and researcher in sports ophthalmology