List of Hunter College people

The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - 1977, Medicine
• Gertrude B. Elion - 1988, Medicine

Pulitzer Prize winners

• James Wright - poet
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic

National Medal of Science winners

• Mildred Cohn - 1982, Biological Sciences
• Mildred Dresselhaus - Engineering Sciences
• Gertrude B. Elion

Presidential Medal of Freedom winners

• Antonia Pantoja - activist

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

• Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
• Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
• Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
• Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
• Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Arlie Petters - pioneer of Gravitational Lensing
• Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
• Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
• Erich Jarvis - neurologist
• Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine
• Matthew G. Coyne - Discovered cure for AIDS, but is notorious for keeping it a secret

Business and economics

• Robert A. Daly - CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
• Gerard Cafesjian - owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation
• Alan S. Chartock - president and CEO of WAMC
• Mollie Orshansky - developer of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the main poverty measure in the US
• Sylvia Field Porter - economist and journalist

Law and Politics

Members of Congress

• Edna F. Kelly - Congresswoman, 1949-1969
• Eliot L. Engel - Congressman, 1989-present
• Bella Abzug - Congresswoman, 1971-1977

State figures

• Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates

City figures

• Tony Avella - New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
• Tom Murphy - mayor of Pittsburgh
• John Timoney - Miami chief of police
• Adolfo Carrión Jr. - Bronx borough president

Lawyers

• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School
• Floria Lasky - prominent theater lawyer

Activists

• Antonia Pantoja - activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
• Mamphela Ramphele - Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
• Madeleine Cosman - health care and immigration advocate
• Judith Vladeck - labor lawyer and civil rights advocate
• Sandra Schnur - pioneer of disability rights
• Norma Becker - anti-war activist
• Audre Lorde

Journalism and news

• Richard Cohen - Washington Post columnist
• Corine Hegland - journalist
• Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
• Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician and expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict

Literature

• James Wright - poet
• Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
• Paule Marshall - author
• Lucy Dawidowicz - author
• Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
• Martin Greif - writer, publisher
• René Taupin - writer
• Grace Andreacchi - writer
• Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
• Colin Channer - writer
• Gary Shteyngart - author
• Malka Lee - poet

Film, theater, and television

• Ellen Barkin - actress
• Lewis Beale - film critic
• Ed Burns - actor, director
• Judith Crist - film critic
• Ruby Dee - actress
• Vin Diesel - actor
• Hugh Downs - broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
• Daniel Mulloy - screenwriter and film director
• Tina Howe - Tony nominated playwright
• Maitland McDonagh - film critic
• Natasha Leggero - actress and comic
• Richard Jeni - comedian
• Suzanne Kaaren - actress
• Eva Condon - Broadway actress
• Ephraim Katz - author of The Film Encyclopedia
• Robi Ludwig - TV host
• Rhea Perlman - actress
• Esther Rolle - actress
• Al Santos - actor
• Regina Resnik - opera singer
• Evelyn Lear - p[era singer
• Julianne Nicholson - actress
• Dreya Weber - producer
• Elliot Tiber - screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival

Art, architecture, and engineering

• Robert Altman - Rolling Stone photojournalist
• Maurice Berger - art critic and historian
• Jack Coggins - illustrator
• Francisco Costa - creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
• Mildred Dresselhaus - engineer
• Echo Eggebrecht - painter
• Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
• Mel Kendrick - artist
• Kathleen Kucka - painter
• Terrance Lindall - artist
• Robert Morris - sculptor
• Dan Walsh - painter
• Eli Wilner - founder of Eli Wilner & Co art gallery
• Brian Wood

Music

• David S. Sampson - composer

Military

• Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - Medal of Honor recipient

Education

• Dr. Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
• Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
• John Taylor Gatto
• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
• Burton Pike
• Kay Toliver - mathematics educator

Fictional alumni

• Chad Kroski

Non-graduating attendees

• Harry Connick, Jr - musician
• Bobby Darin - musician
• Nikolai Fraiture - bassist, The Strokes
• April Lee Hernández - actress
• Grace Paley - writer
• Nick Valensi - guitarist, The Strokes

Faculty

• Meena Alexander - poet and author
• John Avlon - author, speech writer for Rudy Giuliani
• James Aronson - journalist, founder of the National Guardian
• Jacqueline Barton - chemist
• William Baziotes - painter
• Harry Binswanger - philosopher
• Gertrude Blanch - pioneer of numerical analysis and computation
• Robert A. Brady - economist
• José Ferrer Canales - writer, activist
• Rosario Candela - influential architect
• Peter Carey - novelist
• Tina Chang - poet
• John Henrik Clarke - historian
• Buck Clayton - musician
• Susan Crile - painter
• Noah Creshevsky - composer
• Emil Draitser - author
• Cora DuBois - cultural anthropologist
• Stuart Ewen
• Norman Finkelstein - political scientist
• Mary Flanagan
• Bertram Myron Gross - author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act
• John Hollander - poet, literary critic
• Seymour Itzkoff - researcher
• George E. Kimball - pioneer of operations research algorithms
• Dong Kingman - artist
• Lyman Kipp - sculptor
• Rosalind E. Krauss - art critic
• Reiner Leist - photographer
• Nancy Milford - author
• Paul Moravec - composer
• Leonard Peikoff - philosopher, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
• Richard Reeves - political author
• Ruth Sager - geneticist
• Carolee Schneemann - artist
• Blake Schwarzenbach - musician
• Michael Shernoff - specialist in gay community mental health
• Tony Smith - sculptor
• Harry Edward Stinson - sculptor
• John Kennedy Toole - author
• Lionel Trilling - literary critic
• Nydia Velázquez - US Congresswoman, New York 1993-present
• Robert C. Weaver - 1st United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Administration

• David A. Caputo - president of Hunter College, president of Pace University
• Paul LeClerc - president of Hunter College, president and CEO New York Public Library
• Michael P. Riccards - political scientist and author, executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
• Donna Shalala - 10th president of Hunter College, president of University of Miami

References