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This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to [[Columbia University]].
 
=Nobel Laureates=
==Alumni==
The following table lists Nobel laureates who are alumni. Some alumni may have served on the faculty or staff of the university.
 
===[[Chemistry]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1932]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Irving Langmuir]] </td>
<td> (metallurgical engineering degree, 1903; M.A., 1906) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1946]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[John H. Northrop]] </td>
<td> (B.S., 1912; M.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1915) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1972]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[William H. Stein]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1938) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1981]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Roald Hoffmann]] </td>
<td> (B.A., 1958) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1985]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Herbert A. Hauptman]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1939) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2001]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[William S. Knowles]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1942) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2005]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert H. Grubbs]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1968) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Economics|Economic science]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1971]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Simon S. Kuznets]]</td>
<td> (B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1972]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Kenneth J. Arrow]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1951) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1976]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Milton Friedman]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1964 to 1965) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1993]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert Fogel|Robert W. Fogel]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1960) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1996]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[William Vickrey|William S. Vickrey]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1937; Ph.D., 1948; faculty member, 1946 to 1996) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1997]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert C. Merton]] </td>
<td> (B.S., 1966) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Literature]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
</table>
 
===[[Peace]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1906]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Theodore Roosevelt]] </td>
<td> (Law, 1880 to 1882)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1931]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]&nbsp;&nbsp; </td>
<td> (B.A., 1882; M.A., 1883; Ph.D., 1884, president of Columbia, 1902 to
1945) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Physics]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1923]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert A. Millikan]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1895) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1944]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[I.I. Rabi]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1927; faculty member, 1929 to 1988) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1965]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Julian S. Schwinger]] </td>
<td> (B.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1939) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1972]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Leon N. Cooper]] </td>
<td> (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1954) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1975]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[James Rainwater]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1939 to 1986) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1978]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Arno A. Penzias]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1962) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1980]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Val L. Fitch]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1954; faculty member, 1953 to 1954) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1988]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Leon M. Lederman]] </td>
<td> (M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951; faculty member, 1951 to 1989) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1988]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Melvin Schwartz]] </td>
<td> (B.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958; faculty member, 1958 to 1966, 1991 to present)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1989]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Norman F. Ramsey]] </td>
<td> (B.A., 1935; Ph.D., 1940; faculty member, 1941 to 1947) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1995]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Martin L. Perl]] </td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1955) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Physiology]] or [[Medicine]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1946]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Hermann J. Muller]]</td>
<td> (B.A., 1910; M.A., 1911; Ph.D., 1916; faculty member, 1918 to 1920) &nbsp;
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1950]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Edward C. Kendall]]</td>
<td> (B.S., 1908; M.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1910) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1956]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Dickinson W. Richards]]</td>
<td> (M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923; faculty member, 1925 to 1973) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1958]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Joshua Lederberg]]</td>
<td> (B.A., 1944; faculty member, 1990 to 1999) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1964]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Konrad E. Bloch]]</td>
<td> (Ph.D., 1938; faculty member, 1938 to 1946, 1966) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1967]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[George Wald]]</td>
<td> (M.A., 1928) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1976]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Baruch S. Blumberg]]</td>
<td> (M.D., 1951) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1980]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Baruj Benacerraf]]</td>
<td> (B.S., 1942) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1989]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Harold E. Varmus]]</td>
<td> (M.D., 1966) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1998]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Louis J. Ignarro]]</td>
<td> (B.S., 1962) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2004]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Richard Axel]]</td>
<td> (A.B., 1967; faculty member, 1978 to present) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
==Faculty, Research Fellows, Others==
The following table lists Nobel laureates who have been in service to the university.
 
===[[Chemistry]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1934]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Harold C. Urey]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1929 to 1945) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1960]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Willard Libby]] </td>
<td> (faculty, 1941 to 1944) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1989]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Sidney Altman]] </td>
<td> (graduate student, teaching assistant, 1960 to 1962) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Economics|Economic science]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1982]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[George J. Stigler]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1947 to 1958) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1987]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert Solow]] </td>
<td> (fellowship year, 1949 to 1950) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1992]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Gary S. Becker]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1957 to 1970) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1999]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Robert Mundell]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1974 to present) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2001]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Joseph Stiglitz]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 2001 to present) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Literature]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1987]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Joseph Brodsky]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1978 to 1985) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1991]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Nadine Gordimer]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1971 to 1972, 1976 to 1978, 1983) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1992]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Derek Walcott]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1979, 1981 to 1983, 1984) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Peace]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
</table>
 
===[[Physics]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1938]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Enrico Fermi]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1939 to 1945) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1949]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Hideki Yukawa]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1949 to 1954) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1955]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Polykarp Kusch]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1937 to 1972) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1955]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Willis E. Lamb]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1938 to 1952, 1960 to 1961) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1957]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Tsung Dao Lee]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1953 to present) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1963]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Maria Goeppert Mayer]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1940 to 1946)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1964]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Charles H. Townes]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1948 to 1961) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1975]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Aage Bohr]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1949 to 1950) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1976]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Samuel C.C. Ting]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1964 to 1967) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1979]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Steven Weinberg]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1957 to 1959) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1981]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Arthur L. Schawlow]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1949 to 1951, 1960) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1984]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Carlo Rubbia]] </td>
<td> (research fellow at Nevis, 1958 to 1960) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1988]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Jack Steinberger]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1950 to 1970, 1985 to 1986, 1988 to 1998) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1998]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Horst L. Stormer]] </td>
<td> (faculty member, 1998 to present) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
===[[Physiology]] or [[Medicine]]===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1933]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1904 to 1928) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1956]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Andre F. Cournand]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1935 to 1988) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1969]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Salvador E. Luria]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1940 to 1942) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1973]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Konrad Lorenz]]</td>
<td> (Columbia College, 1922 to 1923) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1976]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[D. Carleton Gajdusek]]</td>
<td> (postgraduate training, 1946 to 1947) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1978]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Daniel Nathans]]</td>
<td> (intern and medical resident, 1954 to 1959) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1982]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Sune Bergström]]</td>
<td> (research fellowship, 1940 to 1941) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[1990]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[E. Donnall Thomas]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1955 to 1963) &nbsp; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2000]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Eric Kandel]]</td>
<td> (faculty member, 1972 to present) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80"> [[2004]] </td>
<td width="180"> [[Linda Buck]]</td>
<td> (postdoctoral fellow 1980 to 1984; associate 1984 to 1991) </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
=Notable alumni=
==Politics, military, and law==
*[[Madeleine Albright]]&mdash;UN Ambassador for President Clinton's first term (1993-1997), Secretary of State for his second term (1997-2001)
*[[Bhimrao Ambedkar]]&mdash;(MA 1915, PhD 1928, LLD 1952 (hon.)) A founding father of modern India, architect of nation's constitution
*[[Hafizullah Amin]]&mdash;the second President of Afghanistan
*[[Marek Belka]]&mdash;[[Prime Minister of Poland]] since March [[2004]]
*[[Marion Davis Berdecio]]&mdash;[[:Category:Accused Soviet spies|Accused Soviet spy]] named in [[:Category:Venona Appendix A|Venona]] list of suspected subversives
*[[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]]&mdash;([[Fulbright Scholar|Fulbright Research Scholar]], 1954-1955) Secretary-General of the [[United Nations]]
*[[Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)|Harold Brown]]&mdash;Secretary of Defense under the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration
*[[Pat Buchanan]] (Journalism)&mdash;Conservative commentator, speechwriter, senior advisor to three U.S. presidents
*[[Arthur Frank Burns]]&mdash;(B.A. 1925, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1934) Austrian-born U.S. economist, Chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] (1953-1956), [[Chairman]] of the [[Federal Reserve System]] (1970-1978), Ambassador to [[Bonn]] (1981-1985)
*[[Benjamin Cardozo]]&mdash;Chief Justice of US Supreme Court
*[[Whittaker Chambers]]&mdash;[[:Category:Accused_Soviet_spies|Accused Soviet spy]] in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Ware_group|Ware group]]
*[[DeWitt Clinton]]&mdash;[[Governor of New York]] State, [[Mayor of New York]] City, main proponent of the Erie Canal
*[[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]]&mdash;[[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]], subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV "Pack of Lies"
*[[Judith Coplon]]&mdash;(B.A. 1943) [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]] in the U.S. Justice Department,
*[[Colgate Darden]]&mdash;Governor of Virginia, president of the University of Virginia
*[[Gray Davis]]&mdash;(Law) [[Governor of California]]
*[[Thomas E. Dewey]]&mdash;(Law 1925) [[Governor of New York]] (1943-1955)
*[[William Donovan]] (Wild Bill)&mdash;Wartime head of the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
*[[William O. Douglas]]&mdash;U.S. Supreme Court justice
*[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]&mdash;(Law) [[Associate Justice]] of the [[United States Supreme Court]]
*[[Bela Gold]]&mdash;economist on [[Venona list]] of suspected Soviet subversives who operated in the U.S.
*[[Dore Gold]]&mdash;(B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1984) U.S.-born Israeli diplomat, former Ambassador to the [[United Nations]] (1997-1999), President of the [[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]
*[[Jack Greenberg (lawyer)|Jack Greenberg]]&mdash;(B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948) litigator of Brown v. Board of Education, Professor at [[Columbia Law School]]
*[[Alan Greenspan]]&mdash;Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, studied for a PhD in economics
*[[Judd Gregg]]&mdash;Republican Senator from New Hampshire (2005)
*[[Alexander Hamilton]]&mdash;Founding father, co-author of [[The Federalist Papers]]
*[[John D. Hawke, Jr]]&mdash;US Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency
*[[Jim Hightower]]&mdash;Progressive activist
*[[Johan Jørgen Holst]]&mdash;(B.A. 1960) Norwegian Foreign Minister, The Oslo Accord of 1994 between Israel and the Palestinians
*[[Charles Evans Hughes]]&mdash;US Supreme Court Justice
*[[Jacob Javits]]&mdash;Republican Senator from New York (1957-1981)
*[[John Jay]]&mdash;Founding Father, First Chief Justice of the [[United States Supreme Court]], political theorist
*[[David Kaczynski]]&mdash;Death penalty opponent
*[[Thomas Kean]]&mdash;Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990), President of [[Drew University]], Chairman of controversial [[9/11 Commission]]
*[[Jeane Kirkpatrick]]&mdash;(Ph.D. 1968, political science) US ambassador to UN under [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]
*[[Wellington Koo]]&mdash;Chinese diplomat
*[[Frank Lautenberg]]&mdash;Democratic Senator from New Jersey (2005)
*[[Scooter Libby|Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby]]&mdash;(J.D. 1975) [[The Apprentice (book)|novelist]], indicted ex-chief of staff for Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] and signatory to controversial manifesto [[Pnac#Controversy|''Rebuilding America's Defenses'']] (2000) of the [[Project for the New American Century]]
*[[John Lindsay]]&mdash;Mayor of New York City (1966-1973)
*[[Robert Livingston (1746-1813)|Robert Livingston]]&mdash;Founding Father, drafter of the [[Declaration of Independence]], U.S. Minister to [[France]], negotiator of the [[Louisiana Purchase]]
*[[Seth Low]]&mdash;University president, Mayor of New York City
*[[Li Lu]]&mdash;Law/Business, leader of the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]]
*[[James McGreevey]]&mdash;(B.A. 1978) Governor of New Jersey (2002-2004)
*[[John McLaughlin (host)|John McLaughlin]]&mdash; political commentator, host of ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'' on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]
*[[James Meredith]]&mdash;American civil rights movement figure
*[[Gouverneur Morris]]&mdash;Founding father, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
*[[Robert Moses]]&mdash;Controversial leader of mid-century urban "renewal" that re-shaped New York mainly through massively destructive highway projects
*[[Constance Baker Motley]]&mdash;First African-American woman federal court judge, NYS Senator, Manhattan Borough president
*[[Barack Obama]]&mdash;(B.A. 1983) Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005), first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review
*[[George Pataki]]&mdash;(Law 1970) Governor of New York (1995-present)
*[[Victor Perlo]]&mdash;[[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]] involved in [[Harold Ware]] spy ring and [[List_of_secret_agents#Perlo_group|Perlo group]] as shown in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives in the U.S.
*[[Mario Laserna Pinzón]]&mdash;(B.A. 1948) Colombian [[statesman]] and [[educator]]; founder, [[Los Andes University|Universidad de los Andes]]
*[[Norman Podhoretz]]&mdash;editor of [[Commentary Magazine]], a founder of [[Neoconservatism]] connected with the controversial [[Project for the New American Century]]
*[[Bernard Redmont]]&mdash;(M.S. 1939) [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]]
*[[Stanley Forman Reed]]&mdash;US Supreme Court justice
*[[William Remington]]&mdash;(M.A. 1940) convicted [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]] in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Sound_and_Myrna_groups|Sound and Myrna groups]]; killed in prison
*[[Hyman G. Rickover]]&mdash;USN Admiral, father of the US nuclear submarine fleet
*[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]&mdash;(Law) 32nd [[President of the United States]]
*[[James Rubin|James P. Rubin]]&mdash;(B.A. 1982, M.A. 1984) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1997-2000)
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]]&mdash;(Law) 26th [[President of the United States]], Nobel Peace Prize recipient
*[[Charles F.C. Ruff]]&mdash;(Law) Washington lawyer, represented Anita Hill (vs. Clarence Thomas) and Bill Clinton (impeachment)
*[[Mikhail Saakashvili]]&mdash;(Law 1994) President of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] (2004-present)
*[[Thomas Sowell]]&mdash;African American economist and author
*[[Ben Stein]]&mdash;(B.A. 1966) Actor, conservative commentator
*[[George Stephanopoulos]]&mdash;(B.A. 1982) Senior advisor to [[Bill Clinton]], television anchor
*[[Harlan Fiske Stone]]&mdash;US Supreme Court Justice
*[[Telford Taylor]]&mdash;chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
*[[George Tenet]]&mdash;(M.A.) controversial director of [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (1997-2004) during the "intelligence failures" leading to 9/11 and the invasion of iraq
*[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]&mdash;6th [[Vice President of the United States]]
*[[Shao-yi Tong]]&mdash;First Prime Minister of the Republic of China
*[http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nathaniel_Weyl Nathaniel Weyl]&mdash;(B.S. 1931) operative in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Ware_group|Ware group]] of communist spies in the U.S. government
*[[Harry Dexter White]]&mdash;senior Treasury official for FDR, helped found World Bank/IMF, alleged in [[Venona list]] to be [[:Category:Accused_Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]]
*[[Enos Wicher]]&mdash;professor and [[:Category: Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] named in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives
*[[Flora Wovschin]]&mdash;[[:Category: Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] in State Department named in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives
*[[Dov Zakheim]]&mdash;Rabbi, Defense Department comptroller (2001-2004), ex-V.P. of [http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/FTS System Planning Corp.,]signatory to controversial manifesto [[Pnac#Controversy|''Rebuilding America's Defenses'']] (2000) of the [[Project for the New American Century]]
 
==Business==
*[[John Jacob Astor III]]&mdash;19th century real estate baron
*[[Wolfgang Bernhard]]&mdash;former COO of Daimler Chrysler, Chairman of Volkswagen
*[[Donald Clifford Brace]]&mdash;(B.A. 1904) Co-Founder of [[Harcourt Brace]]
*[[Warren Buffett]]&mdash;(M.A. Economics) Investor, president of [[Berkshire Hathaway]]
*[[Bennett Cerf]]&mdash;Founder of [[Random House]]
*[[Jason Epstein]]&mdash;Editorial director at [[Random House]]
*[[Stephen Friedman]]&mdash;Chairman of Goldman Sachs, National Economic Council director
*[[Mario Gabelli]]&mdash;investor
*[[Michael Gould]]&mdash;CEO of [[Bloomingdale's]]
*[[Larry Grossman]]&mdash;former CEO of [[PBS]] and [[NBC]]
*[[Armand Hammer]]&mdash;President, Occidental Petroleum, noted internationalist
*[[Alfred Harcourt]]&mdash;(B.A. 1904)&mdash;Co-Founder of [[Harcourt Brace]]
*[[Herman Hollerith]]&mdash;(Engineer of Mines 1879, Ph.D. [[1890]])- founder of the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor to [[IBM]]
*[[John Kluge]]&mdash;Founder of Metromedia
*[[Alfred A. Knopf (person)|Alfred A. Knopf]]&mdash;(B.A. 1912) Founder of [[Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.]] Publishers
*[[Robert Kraft]]&mdash;Owner of New England Patriots
*[[Henry Kravis]]&mdash;(MBA 1969) Investment banker who invented the [[leveraged buyout]]
*[[Rochelle Lazarus]]&mdash;CEO of Ogilvy and Mather
*[[Randolph Lerner]]&mdash;CEO of MBNA Bank, and owner of Cleveland Browns
*[[Frank Lorenzo]]&mdash;(B.A. 1961) corporate raider
*[[John R. MacArthur]]&mdash;(B.A. 1917) President and publisher of [[Harper's]], the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country
*[[George Macy]]&mdash;Founder of Macy's Department Stores
*[[Philip Milstein]]&mdash;CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank
*[[Eric Ober]]&mdash;Former President of [[CBS News]] division, and [[Food Network]]
*[[Ben Rosen]]&mdash;Founder of Compaq
*[[Samuel Rosen]]&mdash;Chairman of 20th Century Fox
*[[Robert Rosencrans]]&mdash;(B.A. 1949) formed the [[USA Network]], inducted into the [[Cable Television]] Hall of Fame in [[2000]]
*[[Edwin Schlossberg]]&mdash;(B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971) Founder of ESI Design (also its Principal Designer)
*[[Max Lincoln Schuster]]&mdash;(B.A. 1919) Co-Founder of [[Simon & Schuster]]
*[[David O. Selznick]]&mdash;Legendary movie producer
*[[Robert Shaye]]&mdash;(J.D. 1964) CEO of New Line Cinema
*[[Richard L. Simon]]&mdash;Co-Founder of [[Simon & Schuster]]
*[[Joe Tucci]]&mdash;(MBA) Chairman of the Board, [[EMC]]
*[[Richard Vault]]&mdash;former president of [[NBC]] News division, former senior vice-president of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News
*[[S. Robson Walton]]&mdash;(J.D. 1969) Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart
 
==Arts and literature==
*[[John Ashbery]]&mdash;Poet
*[[Isaac Asimov]]&mdash;(B.A. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) Science fiction author, ''[[I, Robot]]''
*[[Paul Auster]]&mdash;(B.A. 1969) Postmodern author, ''[[The New York Trilogy]]'', ''[[Moon Palace]]'' (named after now-defunct Chinese restaurant near campus)
*[[Béla Bartók]]&mdash;Composer, pianist, and early scholar in [[ethnomusicology]]
*[[James Blish]]&mdash;Science fiction author
*[[Sidney Buchman]]&mdash;Academy award winning screenwriter
*[[John Corigliano]]&mdash;(B.A. 1959) American composer
*[[Andrew Delbanco]]&mdash;English professor, named Best Cultural Critic by Time Magazine
*[[Peter Eisenmann]]&mdash;(M.A.) [[Architect]]
*[[Walter Farley]]&mdash;(B.A. 1941) Author, ''[[The Black Stallion]]''
*[[Richard Florida]]&mdash;author, "Rise of the Creative Class"
*[[Paul Gallico]]&mdash;Author, ''[[The Snow Goose]]'', ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'', ''[[The Silent Miaow]]''
*[[Federico García Lorca]]&mdash;(1929-1930, dropped out) poet & playwright
*[[Allen Ginsberg]]&mdash;(B.A. 1949) [[Beat Generation]] poet
*[[Anthony Hecht]]&mdash;[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning poet
*[[Joseph Heller]]&mdash;Author, ''[[Catch-22]]''
*[[Siri Huvstedt]]&mdash;(M.A.) Poet & novelist. (Spouse of [[Paul Auster]])
*[[Langston Hughes]]&mdash;African-American writer and poet
*[[Kentaro Kaji]]&mdash;Soi-disant "marshal" of the postmodern monster in conceptualist aesthetics
*[[Jack Kerouac]]&mdash;(College 1940-1942; dropped out) Founder of the [[Beat Generation]] movement; author, ''[[On the Road]]''
*[[Edward MacDowell]]&mdash;American composer, professor of music
*[[Carson McCullers]]&mdash;Author, ''[[The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]''
*[[Isamu Noguchi]]&mdash;Sculptor
*[[J.D. Salinger]]&mdash;Author, ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''
*[[Upton Sinclair]]&mdash;Populist author, ''[[The Jungle]]''; presidential candidate
*[[Robert A. M. Stern]]&mdash;(B.A. 1960) [[Postmodern]] architect
*[[Mark Van Doren]]&mdash;[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning poet
*[[Charles Van Doren]]&mdash;Author, professor, disgraced quiz show contestant
*[[Eric Van Lustbader]]&mdash;Author, ''[[The Ninja]]''
*[[Sophie Wilkins]]&mdash;Editor at [[Alfred A. Knopf]] and translator
*[[Herman Wouk]]&mdash;[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author, ''[[War and Remembrance]]''
*[[Roger Zelazny]]&mdash;Science fiction author
 
==Performing arts==
*[[Emanuel Ax]]&mdash;(B.A. 1970)&mdash;Pianist, won [[Avery Fisher]] prize at age 30, won three [[Grammy Awards]] along with cellist [[Yo-Yo Ma]]; also awarded the John Jay award by the University
*[[Kathryn Bigelow]]&mdash;Director, ''[[Strange Days]]''
*[[Sorrell Booke]]&mdash;(B.A. 1949)&mdash;Actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the weekly series [[Dukes of Hazzard]]
*[[Sidney Buchman]]&mdash;(B.A. 1923)&mdash;screenwriter, won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for writing for ''[[Here Comes Mister Jordan]]''.
*[[James Cagney]]&mdash;(B.A. 1922)&mdash;Actor, ''[[White Heat]]'' and ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]''
*[[Vanessa Carlton]]&mdash;Singer, songwriter
*[[Peter Cincotti]]&mdash;Pianist, singer, songwriter, actor, model
*[[Brian Dennehy]]&mdash;(B.A. 1960)&mdash;Actor
*[[Brian DePalma]]&mdash;Movie director, ''[[Carrie]]'' and ''[[The Untouchables]]''
*[[I.A.L. Diamond]]&mdash;(B.A. 1941) Co-winner of an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for writing for ''[[The Apartment]]''
*[[Matthew Fox (actor)|Matthew Fox]]&mdash;(B.A. 1989) Actor, ''[[Lost (TV series)|Lost]]'', ''[[Party of Five]]''
*[[Dan Futterman]]&mdash;(B.A. 1989) Actor, ''[[The Birdcage]]'', ''[[Judging Amy]]''
*[[Art Garfunkel]]&mdash;(B.A. 1965)&mdash;Of [[Simon and Garfunkel]]
*[[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]]&mdash;Actor, ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''
*[[James Gunn (film maker)|James Gunn]]&mdash;Film Director ([[Slither (2006 movie)|Slither]]), Screenwriter ([[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]], [[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]), and Novelist ([[The Toy Collector]])
*[[Jake Gyllenhaal]]&mdash;Actor, ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', ''[[The Good Girl]]'' (dropped out)
*[[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]&mdash;Actress, ''[[Secretary]]''
*[[Oscar Hammerstein II]]&mdash;Lyricist and librettist of such musicals as the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', ''[[The King and I]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', collaborator with [[Richard Rodgers]]
*[[Ed Harris]] – (dropped out) actor
*[[Utada Hikaru]]&mdash;[[J-pop|Japanese pop]] singer (did not graduate)
*[[Lauryn Hill]]&mdash;R&B singer, one-time [[Fugees]] frontwoman (only attended first year)
*[[Famke Janssen]]&mdash;Actress
*[[Jean Kelly]]&mdash;Actress
*[[Alicia Keys]]&mdash;Singer, composer (briefly attended)
*[[Joel Krosnick]]&mdash;[[Cellist]]; member of the [[Juilliard String Quartet]]; chairman of Cello Department at [[Juilliard School]]
*[[Tony Kushner]]&mdash;(B.A.) [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning playwright, ''[[Angels in America]]''
*[[Al Lewis]]&mdash;(Ph.D. 1941)&mdash;Actor, ''[[The Munsters]]'', basketball scout, New York gubernatorial candidate, restaurateur
*[[William Ludwig]]&mdash;(B.A. 1932) Screenwriter, co-winner of an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] in [[1955]] for ''[[Interrupted Melody]]'', founder of the [[Screen Writers Guild]] (known now as the [[Writers Guild of America]])
*[[Herman J. Mankiewicz]]&mdash;(B.A. 1917) Won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for co-writing ''[[Citizen Kane]]''; older brother of [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
*[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]&mdash;(B.A. 1928) won four [[Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Director]] and writing. Younger brother of [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]].
*[[Terrence McNally]]&mdash;(B.A. 1960) Dramatist, winner of four [[Tony Awards]], an [[Emmy]], a [[Pulitzer Prize]], and two [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s
*[[Rachel Nichols (actress)|Rachel Nichols]]&mdash;Actress, model
*[[Anna Paquin]]&mdash;[[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning actress, ''[[The Piano]]'' and ''[[X-Men]]''
*[[Amanda Peet]]&mdash;Actress, ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]''
*[[Richard Rodgers]]&mdash;Composer of musicals including the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', ''[[The King and I]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', collaborator with [[Oscar Hammerstein]]
*[[George Segal]]&mdash;(B.A. 1955) Actor, ''[[Just Shoot Me]]''
*[[Julia Stiles]]&mdash;(B.A. 2005) Actress, ''[[Save the Last Dance]]'', ''[[Mona Lisa Smile]]''
*[[Suzanne Vega]]&mdash;Singer and songwriter
*[[Charles Wuorinen]]&mdash;(B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) American musician, pianist, and composer
 
==Journalism==
*[[R.W. Apple]]&mdash;(B.A. 1961) Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau chief, [[New York Times]]
*[[Richard L. Berke]]&mdash;Washington editor, New York Times
*[[Max Frankel]]&mdash;(B.A.) Executive editor, New York Times, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner
*[[Ken Hechtman]]&mdash;Maverick journalist jailed by the [[Afghanistan|Afghanistan's]] [[Taliban]] government as a suspected spy in 2001
*[[Jay Irving]]&mdash;reporter, cartoonist, father of [[Clifford Irving]] who is best known for perpetrating hoax autobiography of [[Howard Hughes]]
*[[Leonard Koppett]]&mdash;Acclaimed sports writer, columnist, author
*[[Joseph Lelyveld]]&mdash;(M.A., Journalism) Executive editor, New York Times
*[[Robert Lipsyte]]&mdash;(B.A. 1957) winner of an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1990]], host of ''The Eleventh Hour'' on PBS, correspondent for The New York Times and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] Nightly News
*[[Judith Miller]]&mdash;(B.A. 1969) Ex-correspondent, New York Times (1977-2005), reported now-discredited story of new Iraqi [[WMD]] threat in 2002
*[[John L. O'Sullivan]]&mdash;Editor of the ''Democratic Review'' during the 1840s, coined the phrase ''[[Manifest Destiny]]''
*[[Claire Shipman]]&mdash;(B.A. 1986) Senior National Correspondent for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], winner of an [[Emmy Award]] for her [[CNN]] coverage of the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], winner of the [[1991]] [[Peabody Award]]
*[[Richard Smith]]&mdash;(M.A., International Affairs) CEO of [[Newsweek]]
*[[Tiziano Terzani]]&mdash;reporter and correspondent
*[[Gideon Yago]]&mdash;[[MTV News]] Correspondent
 
==Science and technology==
*[[Roy Chapman Andrews]]&mdash;Dinosaur bone hunter
*[[Virginia Apgar]]&mdash;(M.D. 1933) Created the [[Apgar score]] which is used to evaluate the health of newborn babies
*[[Edwin Armstrong]]&mdash;(B.S. 1913) Inventor of radio circuitry such as the [[regenerative circuit]] and [[FM]] radio, pioneer in [[feedback]] amplifiers
*[[Oswald Avery]]&mdash;(M.D. 1904) discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information
*[[John Backus]]&mdash;(B.A. (mathematics) 1949) Inventor of [[Fortran programming language]]
*[[Charles Drew]]&mdash;(M.D. 1940) Inventor of blood plasma preservation system
*[[Stephen Jay Gould]]&mdash;(Ph.D. 1967)&mdash;Paleontologist and author
*[[Benjamin Graham]]&mdash;B.A. (1914) Father of Modern Security Analysis and value investing, taught [[Warren Buffett]]
*[[Robert Jastrow]]&mdash;(B.A, M.A. Ph.D.) Astronomer
*[[Arthur Jensen]]&mdash;(Ph.D. 1956) Educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
*[[Kai-Fu Lee]]&mdash;(B.S. 1983) former professor at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], former Vice President at [[Apple Computer]], former President of [[Cosmo Software]], established [[China]] division of [[Microsoft Research]], establishing China research division for [[Google]]
*[[William Malisoff]]&mdash;(Ph.D.) Scientist accused of being a [[:Category:Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] in the [[Venona project]]
*[[Robert Moog]]&mdash;Inventor of Moog synthesizer
*[[Joel Moses]]&mdash;(B.A., M.A.) [[MIT]] Provost and author of [[Macsyma]]
*[[Edward Lawry Norton]]&mdash;(M.S. 1925) Electrical Engineer, discovered the Norton circuit equivalent
*[[William Barclay Parsons]]&mdash;(B.S. 1879) Civil Engineer
*[[William Perl]]&mdash; physicist imprisoned for five years for his involvement in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Rosenberg_ring|Rosenberg ring]] of [[atomic spies]]
*[[Michael Pupin]]&mdash;(B.S. 1883)&mdash;Inventor of telephone transmission coils and scientist, winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his autobiography
*[[Benjamin Spock]]&mdash;(M.D. 1929)&mdash;Olympic rower, physician, author
*[[John Stevens]]&mdash;(A.B. 1768)&mdash;Built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the US.
 
==Astronauts==
*[[Kenneth D. Bowersox]]&mdash;(M.S. 1979)
*[[Kevin P. Chilton]]&mdash;(M.S. 1977)
*[[William G. Gregory]]&mdash;(M.S. 1980)
*[[Michael J. Massimino]]&mdash;(B.S. 1984)
*[[Story Musgrave]]&mdash;(M.S. 1964)
*[[Eugene H. Trinh]]&mdash;(B.S. 1972)
 
==Academics and history==
*[[Mortimer Adler]]&mdash;Founder of the Great Books movement
*[[Frederick A.P. Barnard]]&mdash;University president, founder of Barnard College
*[[Jacques Barzun]]&mdash;Historian
*[[Ruth Benedict]] – social anthropologist, author of ''[[The Chrysanthemum and the Sword]]'', a WWII-era study of Japanese culture
*[[Walter Block]]&mdash;PhD in Economics
*[[Franz Boas]]&mdash;Father of American Anthropology
*[[Nicholas Murray Butler]]&mdash;University President, Nobel Laureate
*[[Joseph Campbell]]&mdash;Noted professor of mythology
*[[John Dewey]]&mdash;Philosopher, developed theory of pragmatism
*[[Irwin Edman]]&mdash;Philosopher and writer
*[[Richard Epstein]]&mdash;Noted legal scholar
*[[Livingston Farrand]] (M.D.)&mdash;public health advocate & President of [[Cornell University]]
*[[Eric Foner]]&mdash;DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia
*[[Thomas Hedley Reynolds]]&mdash;Historian, President of [[Bates College]].
*[[Lynne Hanley]]&mdash;literary critic
*[[Jane Jacobs]]&mdash;Urban theorist
*[[Marshall Kay]]&mdash;Noted geologist
*[[Grayson L. Kirk]]&mdash;University President
*[[Paul Lazarsfeld]]&mdash;Founder of the University's Bureau for Applied Social Research
*[http://theawarenesscenter.org/jerroldlevy.html Rabbi Jerrold Levy]&mdash;imprisoned pædophile
*[[Paul Massing]]&mdash;Communist spy at the University's Institute of Social Research
*[[Margaret Mead]]&mdash;Noted anthropologist
*[[Robert Nozick]]&mdash;Philosopher
*[[Marvin Opler]]&mdash;Noted anthropologist and social psychiatrist
*[[Edward Sapir]]&mdash;Linguist and anthropologist
*[[William Sloane]]&mdash;Founder of the U.S. Olympic Committee
*[[Stephen Joel Trachtenberg]]&mdash;President of [[George Washington University]]
*[[Lionel Trilling]]&mdash;Literary critic
*[[David Truman]]&mdash;Political scientist and educator
 
==Sports==
*[[Roone Arledge]]&mdash;(B.A.) Pioneer of sports and news broadcasting with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], "Monday Night Football", "20/20", etc.
*[[José Raúl Capablanca]]&mdash;World Chess Champion (1921-1927)
*[[Annie Duke]]&mdash;professional [[poker]] player
*[[Lou Gehrig]]&mdash;(B.A. 1921–1923) [[Baseball]] player for the [[New York Yankees]], enshrined in the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]], suffered from [[motor neurone disease|Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis]] (now commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease")
*[[Sandy Koufax]]&mdash;Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
*[[Sid Luckman]]&mdash;(B.A.) [[American football]] [[quarterback]], enshrinee of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]
*[[Cliff Montgomery]]&mdash;(B.A.) [[American football]] [[quarterback]], enshrinee of the [[College Football Hall of Fame]], captain and MVP of [[Rose Bowl]] winning squad, [[Silver Star]] recipient in [[U.S. Navy]]
*[[Paul Robeson]]&mdash;[[American football]] All-American, attorney, musician, activist
*[[David Stern]]&mdash;(J.D.) NBA Commissioner
*[[Marcellus Wiley]]&mdash;(B.A. 1997) [[American football]] player, Pro-Bowl defensive end, now with the [[Dallas Cowboys]]
 
==Notable faculty==
*[[Alfred Aho]]&mdash;Computer Science professor, the "A" in the programming language [[AWK programming language|AWK]].
*[[Charles Beard]]&mdash;Historian and co-author of ''The Development of Modern Europe''
*[[Jagdish Bhagwati]]&mdash;Economics professor, author of ''In Defense of Globalization''
*[[Lee Bollinger]]&mdash;University President/law professor, [[First Amendment]] scholar, [[Affirmative Action]] advocate
*[[Alan Brinkley]]&mdash;Professor of American history and University Provost; son of legendary newscaster [[David Brinkley]]
*[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]&mdash;National Security Advisor under the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
*[[Richard Bulliet]]&mdash;History professor and [[Middle East]] scholar, author of ''Kicked to Death by a Camel''
*[[John Burgess]]&mdash;Founder of modern political science
*[[Charles Frederick Chandler]]&mdash;Pioneering chemist, president of the New York Metropolitan Board of Health, inventor of the flush toilet
*[[Arthur Danto]]&mdash;Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus, renowned art critic
*[[Wm. Theodore De Bary|William Theodore De Bary]]&mdash;Famous scholar and translator of [[East Asia]], particularly the classical Chinese canon
*[[John Dewey]]&mdash;Former Philosophy professor
*[[Theodosius Dobzhansky]]&mdash;Researcher in population genetics
*[[Dwight Eisenhower]]&mdash;Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, President of [[Columbia University]], 34th [[President of the United States]]
*[[Jon Elster]]&mdash;Robert Merton Professor of Social Science, leading theorist of [[rational choice theory]], [[Marxism]], and [[social theory]]
*[[William Maurice Ewing]]&mdash;Earth scientist and pioneer
*[[Enrico Fermi]]&mdash;[[Manhattan Project]] member, founder of [[Fermilab]], [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]]
*[[Miloš Forman]]&mdash;Film director, ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', ''[[Amadeus]]'', ''[[The People vs. Larry Flynt]]''
*[[Eric Foner]]&mdash;Noted historian, authority on Reconstruction
*[[Erich Fromm]]&mdash;Noted pyschologist
*[[Fred W. Friendly]]&mdash;Pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar
*[[Benjamin Graham]]&mdash;Father of value investing, mentor of [[Warren Buffet]]
*[[Bradford Garton]]&mdash;Composer
*[[Brian Greene]]&mdash;Mathematics and Physics professor, researcher and popular author in [[Superstring Theory|String Theory]]
*[[Richard Hofstadter]]&mdash;Noted historian
*[[Annette Insdorf]]&mdash;Film studies professor, noted film historian.
*[[Kenneth T. Jackson]]&mdash;Preeminent historian of [[New York City]]
*[[Eric Kandel]]&mdash;Neuroscientist, 2000 [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]]
*[[Kenneth Koch]]&mdash;Poet
*[[Masatake Kuranishi]]&mdash;Mathematician
*[[Tsung Dao Lee]]&mdash;Physics professor, [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]]
*[[Konrad Lorenz]]&mdash;Psychology professor, [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]] (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
*[[Christoph Marcinkowski]]&mdash;Islamic, Iranian, and Southeast Asian Studies
*[[John Anthony McGuckin]]&mdash;Professor of [[Byzantium|Byzantine]] [[Christian]] Studies
*[[Margaret Mead]]&mdash;Professor of Anthropology
*[[Eben Moglen]]&mdash;Law and the Internet Society, General Counsel of [[Free Software Foundation|FSF]]
*[[Sydney Morgenbesser]]&mdash;John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
*[[Robert Mundell]]&mdash;Economics professor, 1999 [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]] in Economics
*[[Mira Nair]]&mdash;Director of ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'', film studies professor
*[[Franz Leopold Neumann]]&mdash;Political science professor, Communist spy in [[List of secret agents#Redhead group|Redhead group]]
*[[Richard Pena]]&mdash;Head of the New York Film Festival, film studies professor
*[[Victor Perlo]]&mdash;Economics professor, [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spymaster]] involved in [[List_of_secret_agents#Ware_group|Harold Ware]] spy ring and [[List_of_secret_agents#Perlo_group|Perlo group]] as shown in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives in the U.S.
*[[Lorenzo da Ponte]] &mdash;professor of Italian language and literature; librettist to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]].
*[[Charles Lane Poor]]&mdash;Astronomer
*[[Mary Robinson]]&mdash;Former President of Ireland; former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
*[[Jeffrey Sachs]]&mdash;Head of the United Nations Millennium Project to end poverty
*[[Edward Said]]&mdash;Former English professor, Palestinian activist, author of ''[[Orientalism]]'', widely considered founder of [[Postcolonial studies]]
*[[Andrew Sarris]]&mdash;Film Studies professor and famous auteur theorist
*[[Simon Schama]]&mdash;History Professor
*[[James Schamus]]&mdash;Film Studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, screenwriter and producer
*[[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]]&mdash;English professor
*[[Joseph Stiglitz]]&mdash;Economics professor, 2001 [[Nobel prize|Nobel laureate]] in Economics
*[[Robert Thurman]]&mdash;Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, father of actress [[Uma Thurman]].
*[[Charles Van Doren]]&mdash;English professor, involved in deception on TV [[quiz show]] ''[[Twenty-One]]''
*[[Kenneth Waltz]]&mdash;Political Science professor and noted neorealism scribe
*[[Enos Wicher]]&mdash;Professor and [[:Category: Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] named in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives in the U.S.
*[[Chien-Shiung Wu]]&mdash;Physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society
 
=See also=
* [[Columbia Law School#Columbia Law School People|Columbia Law School People]]
 
=External links=
*[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/nobel_laureates/by_year.html Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University]
*[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/ Columbians Ahead of Their Time]&mdash;list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.
*[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/after/ After Columbia] "Notable Alumni & Former Students" published by the Columbia University Office of Admissions
 
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