List of Columbia University people: Difference between revisions

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*[[Arthur Frank Burns]]—(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]]—Chief Justice of US Supreme Court

*[[Whittaker Chambers]]—[[:Category:Accused_Soviet_spies|Accused Soviet spy]] in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Ware_group|Ware group]]

*[[DeWitt Clinton]]—[[Governor of New York]] State, [[Mayor of New York]] City, main proponent of the Erie Canal

*[[Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)|Morris Cohen]]—[[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]], subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV "Pack of Lies"

*[[Judith Coplon]]—(B.A. 1943) [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]] in the U.S. Justice Department,

*[[Colgate Darden]]—Governor of Virginia, president of the University of Virginia

*[[Gray Davis]]—(Law) [[Governor of California]]

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*[[Barack Obama]]—(B.A. 1983) Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005), first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review

*[[George Pataki]]—(Law 1970) Governor of New York (1995-present)

*[[Victor Perlo]]—[[: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]]—(B.A. 1948) Colombian [[statesman]] and [[educator]]; founder, [[Los Andes University|Universidad de los Andes]]

*[[Norman Podhoretz]]—editor of [[Commentary Magazine]], a founder of [[Neoconservatism]] connected with the controversial [[Project for the New American Century]]

*[[Bernard Redmont]]—(M.S. 1939) [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]]

*[[Stanley Forman Reed]]—US Supreme Court justice

*[[William Remington]]—(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]]—USN Admiral, father of the US nuclear submarine fleet

*[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]—(Law) 32nd [[President of the United States]]

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*[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]—6th [[Vice President of the United States]]

*[[Shao-yi Tong]]—First Prime Minister of the Republic of China

*[http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Nathaniel_Weyl Nathaniel Weyl]—(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]]—Seniorsenior Treasury official for FDR, helped found World Bank/IMF, alleged in [[Venona list]] to be [[:Category:Accused_Soviet_spies|Soviet spy]]

*[[Enos Wicher]]—professor and [[:Category: Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] named in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives

*[[Flora Wovschin]]—[[:Category: Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] in State Department named in [[Venona list]] of suspected subversives

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*[[John Ashbery]]—Poet

*[[Isaac Asimov]]—(B.A. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) Science fiction author, ''[[I, Robot]]''

*[[Paul Auster]]—(B.A. 1969) Postmodern author, ''[[The New York Trilogy]]'', ''[[Moon Palace]]'' (named after now-defunct Chinese restuarantrestaurant near campus)

*[[Béla Bartók]]—Composer, pianist, and early scholar in [[ethnomusicology]]

*[[James Blish]]—Science fiction author

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*[[Arthur Jensen]]—(Ph.D. 1956) Educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence

*[[Kai-Fu Lee]]—(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]]—(Ph.D.) Scientist accused of being a [[:Category:Soviet spies|Soviet spy]] in the [[Venona project]]

*[[Robert Moog]]—Inventor of Moog synthesizer

*[[Joel Moses]]—(B.A., M.A.) [[MIT]] Provost and author of [[Macsyma]]

*[[Edward Lawry Norton]]—(M.S. 1925) Electrical Engineer, discovered the Norton circuit equivalent

*[[William Barclay Parsons]]—(B.S. 1879) Civil Engineer

*[[William Perl]]— physicist imprisoned for five years for his involvement in the [[List_of_secret_agents#Rosenberg_ring|Rosenberg ring]] of [[atomic spies]]

*[[Michael Pupin]]—(B.S. 1883)—Inventor of telephone transmission coils and scientist, winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his autobiography

*[[Benjamin Spock]]—(M.D. 1929)—Olympic rower, physician, author

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*[[Franz Leopold Neumann]]—Political science professor, Communist spy in [[List of secret agents#Redhead group|Redhead group]]

*[[Richard Pena]]—Head of the New York Film Festival, film studies professor

*[[Victor Perlo]]—Economics professor, [[:Category:Soviet_spies|Soviet spyspymaster]] 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]] —professor of Italian language and literature; librettist to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]].

*[[Charles Lane Poor]]—Astronomer