title: List of City College of New York alumni
text: # List of City College of New York alumni
  
  ## Notable alumni
  
  ### Nobel laureates
  
  * Julius Axelrod 1933 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970
  * Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972
  * Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985
  * Robert Hofstadter 1935 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961
  * Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985
  * Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959
  * Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988
  * Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978
  * Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005
  * John O'Keefe, 1963 – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014
  
  ### Rhodes Scholars
  
  * James T. Molloy 1939
  
  ### Chancellors
  
  * Matthew Goldstein – former chancellor of the City University of New York (1999-2013).
  
  ### Politics, government and sociology
  
  * Herman Badillo 1951 – former Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees, an architect of the University's academic rebirth
  * Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier; adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy
  * Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
  * Daniel Bell – sociologist, professor at Harvard University
  * Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
  * Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly
  * Henry Cohen 1943 – Director of Föhrenwald DP Camp; founding dean of the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at The New School
  * Suzanne DiMaggio - long-time analyst of U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia and the Middle East
  * Benjamin B. Ferencz 1920 – international jurist
  * Abraham Foxman – National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
  * Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1962
  * George Friedman – founder of Stratfor, author, professor of political science, security and defense analyst
  * Nathan Glazer – sociologist and professor at Harvard University
  * Irving Howe – coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
  * Robert T. Johnson 1972 – Bronx District Attorney
  * Henry Kissinger – Nobel Peace Prize and Secretary of State, National Security Advisor (did not graduate)
  * Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978-1989
  * Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative pundit
  * Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist; editor of Encounter 1958-1991
  * Milton Leitenberg 1955 - American arms control expert
  * Guillermo Linares 1975 – first Dominican-American New York City Council member
  * Colin Powell – United States Secretary of State (2001–2005); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) and U.S. Army General; National Security Advisor (1987–1989)
  * Sal Restivo 1965 – pioneer ethnographer of science; one of the founders of the sociology of mathematics; founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science
  * Julius Rosenberg – infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
  * Robert F. Wagner Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927-1949
  * Michele Wallace 1975 – major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
  * Stephen Samuel Wise 1891 – Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist
  * Marilyn Zayas 1965 - Judge, Ohio's First District Court of Appeals
  
  ### The arts
  
  * Maurice Ashley 1993 – first African-American International Chess Grandmaster
  * Paddy Chayefsky – playwright and screenwriter; wrote Marty, Hospital and Altered States
  * Carl Dreher 1917 – sound engineer, nominated for Sound Recording Academy Awards for the films The Gay Divorcee and I Dream Too Much
  * Ira Gershwin 1918 – lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
  * Marv Goldberg 1964 – music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
  * Hazelle Goodman 1986 – stage, screen and TV actress; first African-American to hold a leading role in a Woody Allen film, Deconstructing Harry
  * Arthur Guiterman – humorous poet
  * Luis Guzmán – actor
  * E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow)
  * Judd Hirsch 1960 – actor
  * Alvin Hollingsworth - painter, co-organizer of African American artist contributors to 1963 March on Washington, and early comic book artist
  * Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – screenwriter (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music, Sweet Smell of Success, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
  * David Margulies – actor
  * Jackie Mason – comedian and actor
  * Sterling Morrison 1970 – musician, co-founder of The Velvet Underground
  * Zero Mostel 1935 – actor
  * Faith Ringgold 1959 – artist and children's book author and illustrator
  * Edward G. Robinson 1914 – actor
  * Richard Schiff 1983 – Emmy Award-winning actor; star of The West Wing (his character, Toby Ziegler, also attended CCNY)
  * Ben Shahn – artist
  * Gabourey Sidibe – actress
  * Alfred Stieglitz 1884 – photographer
  * Eli Wallach 1938 MA – actor
  
  ### Literature and journalism
  
  * Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's
  * Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar
  * Dan Daniel 1910 – Dean of American Sportswriters
  * Davidson Garrett 1988- American poet
  * Gary Gruber 1962 – best selling author, educator, physicist
  * Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  * Jack Kroll 1937 – culture editor, Newsweek
  * Paul Levinson – author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code; winner of Locus Award, 1999
  * Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author; won 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his novel The Fixer, National Book Award for The Magic Barrel; also wrote The Natural (1952)
  * Montrose Jonas Moses – author
  * Walter Mosley 1991 MA – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards
  * Michael Oreskes 1975 – Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune
  * Mario Puzo – bestselling novelist, screenwriter, The Godfather
  * Selwyn Raab – investigative journalist for The New York Times
  * Alexander Rosenberg 1967 – novelist and philosopher
  * A.M. Rosenthal 1949 – won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Was Executive Editor of The New York Times
  * Henry Roth – novelist and author of Call It Sleep, a novel on the Jewish immigrant experience
  * Robert Scheer – journalist and radio host
  * Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week
  * Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters
  * Upton Sinclair 1897 BA – author of The Jungle (1906)
  * Robert Sobel 1951 BSS, 1952 MA – best-selling author of business histories
  * Gary Weiss 1975 – investigative journalist; author of Born to Steal (2003) and Wall Street Versus America (2006)
  
  ### Science and technology
  
  * Solomon Asch – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
  * Julius Blank – engineer, member of the "traitorous eight" who founded Silicon Valley
  * Marvin Chester 1952 – physicist, quantum physics emeritus professor at UCLA
  * Adin Falkoff – engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
  * Richard D. Gitlin 1964 – engineer, co-invention of DSL Bell Labs
  * George Washington Goethals 1887 – civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal
  * Dan Goldin 1962 – 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA
  * Walter S. Graf – cardiologist, pioneer in creation of emergency paramedic care system
  * Robert E. Kahn 1960 – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
  * Allen Kent – pioneer of information science, especially mechanized information retrieval
  * Gary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making
  * Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer
  * Solomon Kullback – mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
  * Lewis Mumford – historian of technology
  * Charles Lane Poor – noted astronomer
  * Mario Runco, Jr. 1974 – astronaut
  * Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk polio vaccine
  * Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia
  * Abraham Sinkov – mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
  * David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer
  * Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory
  * Victor Twersky 1943 – physicist, scattering theory – physicist and IEEE Fellow renowned for his contributions to the multiple scattering theory; professor of applied mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (1966-1990)
  
  ### Business
  
  * Andrew Grove 1960 – 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman; TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997; donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006
  * Melvin Simon 1949 – real estate developer, co-founder of Simon Property Group
  
  ### Sports
  
  * Red Holzman 1942 – basketball coach for the New York Knicks
  * Holcombe Rucker 1962 – organizer and namesake of the Rucker Tournament
  
  ## Fictional alumni
  
  * Lennie Briscoe – character from the TV show Law & Order
  * Don Draper – character on the TV show Mad Men
  * Brian Flanagan – character from the 1988 film Cocktail
  * Gordon Gekko – character from the 1987 film Wall Street
  * Nancy – character from the 1971 film Bananas
  * Toby Ziegler – character from the TV show The West Wing
  