List of Columbia University alumni and attendees

This is a partial list of notable persons who have or had ties to Columbia University.

Politics, military and law

Business

Robert Agostinelli – co-founder of Rhone Group and Friends of Israel Initiative
His Imperial and Royal Highness Prince Amedeo of Belgium (M.B.A.) – eldest grandson of King Albert II of Belgium and Archduke of Austria and Prince of Hungary^[1]
John Jacob Astor III – 19th-century real estate baron
Frank Lusk Babbott (LL.B. 1880) – jute merchant and art patron
Leonard Blavatnik (M.A.) – Russian-American businessman; founder, chairman and president of Access Industries^[2]
Warren Buffett (M.S. 1951) – investor, president of Berkshire Hathaway^[3]
Ursula Burns (M.S. 1981) – CEO of Xerox Corporation (July 1, 2009–); first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company^[4]
William Campbell (B.A., M.A.) – Chairman of the Board (incumbent as of 2009), former CEO, Intuit, Inc.; head football coach, Columbia University, 1974–79^[5]
Bennett Cerf (B.A. 1919, Litt.B. 1920) – founder of Random House^[6]^[7]
John B. Chambers (M.A., English literature) – deputy head of the Sovereign Debt Ratings Group; chairman of the Sovereign Debt Committee at Standard and Poor's^[8]
Leon G. Cooperman (M.B.A. 1967) – billionaire Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors; former general partner, Chairman, CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management^[9]
Azita Raji (M.B.A. 1991), investment banker, philanthropist, nominated ambassador to Sweden in 2014^[10]
Akio Shigemitsu (Shin Dong-Bin) (M.B.A. 1980^[11]) – Chairman, Lotte Group (2011–)^[12]
Lynn Forester de Rothschild (J.D.) – CEO of E.L. Rothschild (2002–)^[13]
Jason Epstein – editorial director at Random House
Stephen Friedman – Chairman of Goldman Sachs; National Economic Council director; chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board^[14]
Mario Gabelli – investor
Carlos Goez (1939–1990), founder of the original Pomander Book Shop^[15]
Michael Goodkin (M.B.A.) – quantitative finance entrepreneur; instrumental in development of computer program pricing of exotic financial derivatives and structured products
James P. Gorman (M.B.A. 1987) – CEO of Morgan Stanley^[16]
Noam Gottesman (B.A.) – billionaire, GLG Partners
Michael Gould (B.A. 1966) – CEO of Bloomingdale's^[17]
Joseph Peter Grace, Sr. (B.A.) – president and CEO of W. R. Grace and Company^[18]
Armand Hammer – President of Occidental Petroleum; internationalist; convicted for illegal campaign donations^[19]
Herman Hollerith (Engineer of Mines 1879, Ph.D. 1890) – founder of the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor to IBM
Ben Horowitz (B.S. 1988) – co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.^[20]
Walter C. Johnsen (M.B.A. 1978) – Chairman and CEO of Acme United Corporation
Inez Y. Kaiser, the first African-American woman to run a public relations company with national clients^[21]
John Kluge – founder of Metromedia
Alfred A. Knopf (B.A. 1912) – founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Publishers
Robert Kraft (B.A. 1963) – owner of New England Patriots
Henry Kravis (M.B.A. 1969) – investment banker who invented the leveraged buyout
Sallie Krawcheck (M.B.A. 1992) – former Chairman, CEO of Sanford Bernstein; number seven on Forbes' 2005 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Jonathan Lavine (B.A. 1988) – Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital and Chief Investment Officer of Bain Capital Credit
Randolph Lerner (1984) – CEO of MBNA Bank; owner of Cleveland Browns
Dan Loeb (B.A.) – billionaire, founder of Third Point LLC
Frank Lorenzo (B.A. 1961) – corporate raider
Benedict I. Lubell (B.A., J.D.) – oil industry executive^[22]
John R. MacArthur (B.A. 1917) – president and publisher of Harper's, the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country
Frank J. Manheim (1934) – Partner, Lehman Brothers; influential in the global success of Hertz Corp.; Director 20 US corporations; author.
Lynn Martin (M.A.) – banker and computer programmer, 68th president of the New York Stock Exchange^[23]
James Melcher (born 1939) – Olympic fencer and hedge fund manager
Norman B. Norman (B.A. 1934) – advertising executive who co-founded Norman, Craig & Kummel
Timothy L. O'Brien (M.B.A., 1992) – edits and oversees the Sunday Business section of The New York Times
Eric Ober – former President of CBS News division, and Food Network
Vikram Pandit (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977, M.B.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1986, Trustee) – CEO of Citigroup
Mark J. Penn (Law) – worldwide CEO, public relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
Isaac Rice (1880), founder of the Electric Boat Company and other businesses, U.S. chess patron
Wayne Allyn Root (B.A. 1983) – founder and chairman of Winning Edge International, inducted into Las Vegas Walk of Stars in 2006
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (M.B.A.) – Chairman, CEO, J Sainsbury plc (1992–1997); Deputy Chairman (1988–1992)
Miguel Salis (M.B.A. 1984) – green entrepreneur
Edwin Schlossberg (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971) – founder and principal designer of ESI Design
David O. Selznick – movie producer
Robert Shaye (J.D. 1964) – CEO of New Line Cinema
Lawrence L. Shenfield (B.A. 1915) – advertising executive, philatelist
Richard L. Simon (1920) – co-founder of Simon & Schuster
Epaminondas Stathopoulo – founder and president of The Epiphone Company^[24]
Gus Stavros – founder of the Stavros Institute and the Pinellas Education Foundation
Jon Steinberg (M.B.A.) – President and COO BuzzFeed
Joseph M. Tucci (M.S.) – Chairman, President, and CEO of EMC Corporation (2006–); former Chairman and CEO of Wang Laboratories
P. Roy Vagelos (M.D. 1954) – Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co.
Alan Wagner (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952) – first president of Disney Channel; East Coast vice president of programming at CBS; radio personality; opera historian and critic
S. Robson Walton (J.D. 1969) – Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart
Robert K. Watson (M.B.A. 2007) – Market Transformation Expert and Founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System of U.S. Green Building Council
Andrew Yang (J.D.) – Entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and 2020 US presidential candidate

Ömer Koç, Chairman of Koç Holding.

Religion and ministry

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See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Religious figures) for separate listing of more than 10 religious figures

Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (M.A. 1962) – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1991–12); Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–03); Bishop of Pittsburgh (1983–88)
George BonDurant – founder of Point University (1937) and Mid-Atlantic Christian University (1948)
Sharon Brous (B.A., M.A.) – rabbi and essayist, founder of IKAR
Reuben Clark (J.D.) – prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Carl Henry Clerk (PGDip. 1926), fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast
Jack Cohen (Ph.D.) – Reconstructionist rabbi, educator, philosopher and author
David Ellenson (Ph.D.) – rabbi and eighth president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Elliot N. Dorff (Ph.D. 1971) – conservative rabbi
Ira Eisenstein (B.A., Ph.D.) rabbi; co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
John Patrick Foley (M.A.) – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2007–2011); President of Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1984–2007)
Samuel H. Goldenson (M.A., Ph.D.) – Polish-born rabbi
Herbert S. Goldstein (B.A., M.A.) – prominent rabbi and Jewish leader
Benedict Groeschel (Ph.D. 1971) – Catholic priest, author, psychologist; co-founder of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Leon Harrison (B.A.) – rabbi
Joseph Herman Hertz (Ph.D.) – Jewish Hungarian-born rabbi and Bible scholar; Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom (1913–1946) during World War I and World War II
Arthur Hertzberg (Ph.D. 1966) Conservative rabbi; prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist
Mordecai Kaplan (M.A., Ph.D.) – rabbi; co-founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Ira Eisenstein
[[Charles E. H. Kauvar) (M.A. 1901) – rabbi
Irwin Kula (born 1957) – rabbi and author
Yehuda Kurtzer (born 1977) – American Public Jewish Intellectual
Archbishop Leontios of Cyprus – Archbishop of Cyprus (1947)
Joseph Lookstein – Rabbi and President of Bar-Ilan University
Alexander Lyons (M.A. 1906) – Rabbi
James Francis Aloysius McIntyre – American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1953–1979); Archbishop of Los Angeles (1948–1970)
Thomas Merton (B.A. 1938, studied for M.A.) – 20th-century Catholic writer; student of comparative religions; Trappist monk; poet; author of The Seven Storey Mountain
In Jin Moon (B.A.) – president of Unification Church of the United States (2009–)
Frederick Buckley Newell (M.A. 1916) – Bishop, Methodist Church
Samuel Provoost (B.A. 1758) – first Chaplain of the United States Senate; first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Emanuel Rackman (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1933, Ph.D. 1953) – Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University
Paula Reimers (M.A. 1971) – rabbi
Henry Y. Satterlee (B.A. 1863) – first Episcopal Bishop of Washington (1896–1908); established Washington National Cathedral
Michael Schudrich (M.A. 1982) – Chief Rabbi of Poland
Mendel Shapiro (J.D.) – Jerusalem lawyer and Modern Orthodox rabbi; author of a notable halakhic analysis
Jaime Soto (M.S.W. 1986)- American Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
Milton Steinberg (Ph.D. 1928) – rabbi and novelist
Diosdado Talamayan (M.A. 1970) – Archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuguegarao (1986–) in the province of Cagayan on the island of Luzon, Philippines
George W. Webber – President of New York Theological Seminary^[25]
Hazen Graff Werner – Bishop, the Methodist Church
Jan Willis (Ph.D.) – African-American Buddhist and Buddhist scholar at Wesleyan University; called influential by Time magazine, Newsweek (cover story), and Ebony Magazine

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Architecture, arts and literature

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See also: Notable alumni of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia College of Columbia University (Artists and architects; and Writers) and Columbia Law School (Arts and Letters) for separate listing of more than 90 architects, artists, and writers

Max Abramovitz (1931) – 1961 Rome Prize; designed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations complex, and the Assembly Hall
Aravind Adiga (B.A. 1997) – author of The White Tiger and winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize
Mitch Albom (M.A., M.B.A.) – author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day
Chester Holmes Aldrich (Ph.B. 1893) – architect and director of the American Academy in Rome from 1935 until his death in 1940
Jacob M. Appel (M.A., M.Phil.) – author (Creve Coeur) and playwright (Arborophilia, The Mistress of Wholesome)
Sara Kathryn Arledge – artist
Irene Aronson (B.A. 1960, M.A. 1962) – painter and printmaker
Sean Go, (M.S.R.E.D 2021) – Filipino Pop Artist
John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Isaac Asimov (B.S. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) – science fiction author, The Foundation series, "I, Robot"; Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards; 1984 Humanist of the Year
Paul Auster (B.A. 1969) – postmodern author, The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace (named after now-defunct Chinese restaurant near campus)
Carole B. Balin (M.Phil. 1994; Ph.D. 1998) – professor of Jewish history, author, Reform rabbi
Béla Bartók – musician, composer, pianist, and early scholar in ethnomusicology
Josh Bazell (M.D.) – novelist
Clare Beams (M.F.A, 2006) – novelist and short story writer
James Blish – science fiction author; Nebula Award, Hugo Award; Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2002)
Helaine Blumenfeld (Ph.D. 1963) – sculptor working in Britain and Italy
Carlos Brillembourg (M.A. 1975) – architect
Mary Griggs Burke – largest private collector of Japanese art outside Japan.^[26]
Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown – architect
Jim Carroll – writer (The Basketball Diaries), poet, punk rocker^[27]
Duncan Candler (1895) – architect
Lesley Chang – architect
Jerome Charyn (B.A. 1959) – novelist
Caitlin Cherry (M.F.A. 2012) – painter
Jonas Coersmeier – award-winning architect and designer; finalist and first runner-up in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition
Nancy Cohen (M.F.A. 1984) – sculptor, papermaker and installation artist
Teju Cole (M.Phil.) – novelist, author of Open City
Robin Cook (M.D.) – physician and novelist; novels combine medical writing with thriller genre; his books have sold nearly 100 million copies
John Corigliano (B.A. 1959) – musician, composer
Rita Cox – librarian, storyteller
E. Wayne Craven (Ph.D. 1963) – art historian and educator
Agnes Denes – conceptual and environmental artist; Rome Prize, works held in over 40 public museums, including the MoMA, Met and Whitney
Kiran Desai (M.F.A. 1999) – novelist, winner of 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, 1998 Betty Trask Award
E. L. Doctorow (graduate study) – author, National Humanities Medal; thrice winner, National Book Critics Circle Award; Ragtime, Billy Bathgate
Adee Dodge (M.A. 1935) – painter, Navajo code-talker, linguist
Timothy Donnelly (M.F.A.) – poet, 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; professor at Columbia University
Alden B. Dow (B.A. 1931) – architect; known for his prolific architectural design
Pamela Druckerman (M.A.) – author and freelance journalist living in Paris, France
Louis Dudek (Ph.D.) – Canadian poet, academic and publisher
Albert Elsen (B.A. 1949, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) – art historian and educator
Adam J. Elkhadem (B.A. 2018) – artist and cartoonist
Clifford Percy Evans (B.A.) – architect based in Salt Lake City
Walter Farley (B.A. 1941) – author, The Black Stallion
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (M.A. 1947) – Beat Generation poet, founder of City Lights Bookstore
Amanda Filipacchi (M.F.A) – author, Nude Men, Vapor, Love Creeps
Rolf G. Fjelde (M.F.A.) – playwright, educator and poet, founding President of the Ibsen Society of America
Amanda Foreman – 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography; author, one of The New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2011"
Allen Forte (B.A.) – music theorist; Battell Professor of Music, Emeritus at Yale University
Hal Foster (M.A. 1979) – art critic and historian; faculty at Princeton since 1997; Berlin Prize
Katherine Jackson French (1875–1958) – ballad collector^[28]
Nicholas Gage (M.A. 1964) – author, Eleni, A Place For Us, Greek Fire
Paul Gallico (1919) – author, The Snow Goose, The Poseidon Adventure, The Silent Miaow
Federico García Lorca (1929–1930) – poet and playwright
Allen Ginsberg (B.A. 1948) – Beat Generation poet; National Book Award for Poetry for The Fall of America: Poems of These States
Louise Glück – United States Poet Laureate (2003–2004), Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, William Carlos Williams Award, Nobel Laureate
Philip Gourevitch (M.F.A. 1992) – recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, editor of The Paris Review
Edwin Granberry (1920) – writer of the Buz Sawyer comic strip
Bette Greene (B.A.) – 1975 Newbery Honor, 1973 Golden Kite Award, New York Times Outstanding Book Award, ALA Notable Book Award
Ismail Gulgee (engineering) – Pakistani artist noted for his paintings and Islamic calligraphy; qualified engineer
Elizabeth Hardwick (attended) – writer; co-founder of The New York Review of Books
Anthony Hecht (M.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, United States Poet Laureate (1982–1984), 1983 Bollingen Prize, 1988 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 1997 Wallace Stevens Award, 1999/2000 Frost Medal
Joseph Heller (M.A. 1949) – author, Catch-22
Henry Beaumont Herts (attended) – architect, known for theater designs
Daniel Hoffman (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1956) – poet, essayist, United States Poet Laureate (1973–1974)
John Hollander (B.A.) – poet, MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant", Bollingen Prize (1983)
Henry Hornbostel (B.A. 1891) – architect; designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments in the United States
Langston Hughes – writer and poet
Zora Neale Hurston (B.A. Barnard; graduate study, two years, CU) – author, folklorist, anthropologist
Ray William Johnson (B.A.) – YouTuber, producer, and actor
Ely Jacques Kahn – commercial architect; designed numerous skyscrapers in New York City in the twentieth century
Rockwell Kent (B.A.) – painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer
Maude Kerns (M.A. 1906) – pioneering abstract artist from Portland, Oregon, prolific on the East coast
Jack Kerouac (College 1940–1942; dropped out) – founder of the Beat Generation movement; author, On the Road
Keorapetse Kgositsile (M.F.A. 1971) – South African poet and political activist; South African National Poet Laureate in 2006
Diana Kleiner (M.A. 1970, M.Phil. 1974, Ph.D. 1977), art historian
Benjamin Kunkel (M.F.A.) – novelist, founder of n+1
David Kvitko, scholar who analysed the philosophy of Leo Tolstoy
Mpule Kwelagobe (B.A. 2006) – Miss Universe 1999
Leroy Lamis (M.A.) – sculptor and digital artist known for his Plexiglas sculptures
Ursula K. Le Guin (M.A. 1951) – author of science fiction, fantasy novels; 1973 National Book Award for Young People's Literature; five Hugo Awards, six Nebula awards
Alan Lomax (graduate study) – ethnomusicologist, 1986 National Medal of Arts; 2000 Library of Congress Living Legend Award; National Book Critics Circle Award
Richard Lowitt (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian, Guggenheim Fellow.^[29]
Diego Luzuriaga (Ph.D. 1996) – Ecuadorian composer; 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship^[30] Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition recipient, composer of first Ecuadorian opera, 2006 recipient of the Eugenio Espejo National Prize.
Kuntowijoyo (Ph.D. 1980) – author; 1999 S.E.A. Write Award
Edward MacDowell – composer, professor of music
Sky Macklay (DMA 2018) – composer, oboist, professor at Valparaiso University
Patricia McCormick (M.S. 1985) – author for young adults; 2012 National Book Award (Young People's Literature), finalist
Carson McCullers – author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Terrence McNally – playwright; winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy Award, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award
William March – author; highly decorated U.S. Marine; Company K, The Bad Seed
John Matteson (Ph.D. 1999) – Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer (2008)
Kate Millett (Ph.D. 1970) – author of Sexual Politics, feminist and artist
Dorothy Miner (attended) – art historian and curator
Fereydoun Motamed (M.A. 1952) – linguist, Louis de Broglie award winner from the French Academy (1963)
Isamu Noguchi – sculptor
Georgia O'Keeffe (attended TC 1914–15, studied with Arthur Wesley Dow, TC 1916) – artist; Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts
Sharon Olds (Ph.D.) – National Book Critics Circle Award; T. S. Eliot Prize; Lamont Poetry Prize; Poet Laureate, State of New York (1998–2000)
Ron Padgett (B.A.) – poet; 2009 Shelley Memorial Award; member New York School
John Russell Pope (B.S. Arch 1894) – Rome Prize; designed the National Archives, the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the West Building of the National Gallery of Art
Joya Powell (B.A.Latin American Studies and Creative Writing 2001) Bessie Award winning choreographer and professor
Antoine Predock (B. Arch.) – architect, Rome Prize (1985); AIA Gold Medal (2006), National Design Award (2007)
Richard Price (M.F.A.) – novelist and screenwriter
Gregory Rabassa (Ph.D.) – literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English; 2006 National Medal of Arts; inaugural U.S. National Book Award (Category Translation)
David Rakoff (B.A. 1986) – Canadian-born writer based in New York City; 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor
Claudia Rankine (M.F.A. 1993) – poet; winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize; professor at Pomona College
James Renwick Jr. (B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839) – Gothic Revival architect; designed St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York and the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector
Mark Rudman (M.F.A.) – poet; National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
Karen Russell (M.F.A. 2006) – author, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree
Friedrich St. Florian (M. Arch. 1961) – Austrian-American architect; Rome Prize; National World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.
J. D. Salinger – author, The Catcher in the Rye
Anna Pendleton Schenck, architect
Karenna Gore Schiff (J.D. 2000) – author, journalist, and attorney
David Serero (M.S.) – French architect; Rome Prize
Vijay Seshadri (M.F.A. 1988) – winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Robert Silverberg (B.A. 1956) – science fiction author; five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, the prestigious Prix Apollo; 1999 inductee into Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Mona Simpson (M.F.A.) – novelist, essayist
Upton Sinclair – populist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Jungle; presidential candidate
Laurinda Hope Spear (M.S. 1975) – architect and landscape architect; Rome Prize; one of the founders of Arquitectonica
Tracy K. Smith (M.F.A. 1997) — United States Poet Laureate (2017–2019)
William Jay Smith – United States Poet Laureate (1968–1970); Rhodes Scholar
Robert A. M. Stern (B.A. 1960) – postmodern architect; Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture
William Lee Stoddart – architect of U.S. East Coast hotels
Mary Stolz (1936–38) – writer of fiction for children and young adults; Newbery Honors (1962, 1966); 1953 Child Study Children's Book Award
Hunter S. Thompson – author, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; creator of gonzo journalism
Melvin B. Tolson (M.A.) – Liberian Poet Laureate; central character (played by Denzel Washington) in the movie The Great Debaters (2007)
Wells Tower (M.F.A.) – writer of fiction and non-fiction, two Pushcart Prizes
Erica Simone Turnipseed (M.A.) – writer
Charles Van Doren (M.A., Ph.D. 1955) – author, English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film Quiz Show
Mark Van Doren (Ph.D. 1920) – Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
Eric Van Lustbader (B.A.) – author of thriller and fantasy novels; The Ninja; continuation of the Bourne series by Robert Ludlum
Eudora Welty (Business, 1930–31, hon. LHD 1982) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Optimist's Daughter
Frank B. Wilderson III (M.F.A.) – writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and critic
Blanche Colton Williams (M.A., Ph.D.) – author, editor, department head and professor of literature, and pioneer in women's higher education; first editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, serving in that position from 1919 to 1932
Fred F. Willson (B.A. 1902) – architect, Bozeman, Montana; designed many buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places
James Perry Wilson (B.A. 1914) – architect and painter; designed diorama backgrounds for the American Museum of Natural History, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Boston Museum of Science, among others.
Dick Wimmer (M.A. 1974) – novelist
Hana Wirth-Nesher (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. 1977) – literary scholar and Professor of American and English Studies at Tel Aviv University
Herman Wouk (B.A. 1934) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, War and Remembrance
George Wyatt (B.A. 1971) – sculptor
Mako Yoshikawa (B.A. 1988) – author, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller translated into six languages
Charles Yu (J.D. 2001) – author, Interior Chinatown
Roger Zelazny (M.A. 1962) – science fiction author; The Chronicles of Amber series; three Nebula Awards, six Hugo Awards

Performing arts

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See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Actors; Musicians, Composers, Lyricists; Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Directors) and Columbia University School of the Arts

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Academy awards

Casey Affleck (B.A. 1998) – Academy Award-winning actor, Manchester by the Sea
Raney Aronson-Rath (JRN'95) – Academy Award-winning producer, 20 Days in Mariupol
Kathryn Bigelow (M.F.A. 1979) – two Academy Awards: director, producer, The Hurt Locker; Time 100; first woman to win Academy Award for directing (2009)
Sidney Buchman (B.A. 1923) – screenwriter, won an Academy Award for writing Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Elinor Burkett (M.A. 1988) – Academy Award-winning producer of Music by Prudence
James Cagney (upon the death of his father, dropped out) – two Academy Awards: Best Actor White Heat and Yankee Doodle Dandy; Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bill Condon (B.A. 1976) – Academy Award-winning writer, Gods and Monsters, Chicago; director, Kinsey and Dreamgirls
John Corigliano (B.A. 1959) – Academy Award; composer of classical music; 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Music; 2009 Grammy Award
Adam Davidson (M.F.A. 1991) – Academy Award-winning director for Best Short Subject, The Lunch Date
I.A.L. Diamond (B.A. 1941) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter for The Apartment
Tan Dun (Ph.D.) – Academy Award-winning Chinese contemporary classical music composer; scores for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero
Peter Farrelly (M.F.A. 1986) – Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter of Green Book (film)
Miloš Forman (Hon, 2015) – Academy Award-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film) and Amadeus (film)
Dede Gardner – Academy Award-winning co-producer of 12 Years A Slave
William Goldman (M.A. 1956) – two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter; novelist, playwright
Oscar Hammerstein II (B.A. 1916, studied at Law School 1916–17) – lyricist and librettist; winner of two Academy Awards, two Tony Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, and two Grammy Awards, including musicals such as the Pulitzer–winning Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music; collaborator with Richard Rodgers
Howard Koch (LL.B.) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Casablanca
Jennifer Lee (M.F.A.) – Academy Award-winning co-screenwriter and co-director of Frozen
William Ludwig (B.A. 1932) – screenwriter; co-winner, Academy Award for Interrupted Melody (1955); founder of Screen Writers Guild (known now as Writers Guild of America)
Sidney Lumet (undergraduate studies interrupted by service during World War II) – Academy Award-winning film director (nominated five times)
Herman J. Mankiewicz (B.A. 1917) – won an Academy Award for co-writing Citizen Kane; older brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (B.A. 1928) – won four Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Director; younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz
Graham Moore (B.A. 2003) – won an Academy Award for writing "The Imitation Game"
Veronica Nickel (M.F.A. 2010) – Academy Award-winning co-producer of Moonlight
Edmond O'Brien (B.A.) – Academy Award-winning actor, The Barefoot Contessa
Anna Paquin (on leave of absence, attended first year) – Academy Award-winning actress, The Piano and X-Men
Richard Rodgers (1923) – composer of musicals; winner of one Academy Award, 11 Tony Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Emmy Awards and two Grammy Awards; one of two persons to win an EGOT and a Pulitzer, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The Sound of Music; collaborator with Oscar Hammerstein II
Maureen Ryan (M.F.A. 1992) – co-produced Academy Award-winning documentary, Man on Wire^[31]
Franklin Schaffner (studied law, education, interrupted by service during World War II) – Academy Award-winning film director
Thelma Schoonmaker (studied for M.A.) – three-time Academy Award-winning editor for Raging Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed
David O. Selznick (G.S. 1923) – three-time Academy Award-winning producer of Gone with the Wind
Karl Struss (B.A. 1912) -Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Steve Tesich (M.A. 1967) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Breaking Away
Allie Wrubel (graduate study in music) – composer, musician, and songwriter, Academy Award ("Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"); Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Actors, directors, writers, composers, others

Victoria Ann Lewis (M.A.) – actress and theatre creator
Saheem Ali (M.F.A. 2007) – director, Associate Artistic Director at The Public Theater
Emanuel Ax (B.A. 1970) – pianist, won Avery Fisher prize at age 30, won three Grammy Awards along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma; awarded John Jay Award by the University
Babydaddy, born Scott Hoffman (B.A.) – member of the glam rock band Scissor Sisters
Ramin Bahrani (B.A. 1996) – director and writer Man Push Cart, Chop Suey, and Goodbye Solo
Chris Baio – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend
Mason Bates (B.A.) – composer of symphonic music; Chicago Symphony's Mead composer in residence (2010–12)
Rostam Batmanglij – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend
Kelly Killoren Bensimon (B.A. 1998) – author; former model; former editor of Elle Accessories; cast member of The Real Housewives of New York City^[32]
Albert Berger (M.F.A. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated producer of Cold Mountain, Little Miss Sunshine^[33]^[34]
Jeremy Blackman (B.A. 2009) – actor, Magnolia
John Bohlinger (B.A. 1988) – musician, songwriter, writer, television band leader
Sorrell Booke (B.A. 1949) – actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard
Pat Boone (B.S. 1957) – singer and actor
Jesse Bradford (B.A. 2002) – actor^[35]
Joshua Brand (M.A. 1974) – Emmy Award-winning creator of St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure
David Brown (M.A. 1937) – Academy Award-nominated film producer, Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy
Cara Buono (B.A. 1993) – actress, Third Watch
Wendy Carlos (M.A. 1966) – composer and synthesizer pioneer
Vanessa Carlton – singer, songwriter
Soman Chainani – author of The School for Good and Evil
Timothée Chalamet (attended first year) – Academy Award-nominated actor of Call Me By Your Name
Lisa Cholodenko (M.F.A. 1998) – screenwriter and film director, Laurel Canyon, The L Word
Peter Cincotti – pianist, singer, songwriter, actor, model
Spencer Treat Clark (B.A. 2010) – actor, Gladiator, Mystic River, and Unbreakable
Ben Cooper – actor of film and television
Federico A. Cordero (M.A., economics) – guitarist of classical music
Pamela Council (M.F.A. 2004) – artist
Joseph Cross – actor, Milk
Ossie Davis (GS 1948) – Golden Globe-nominated actor and activist, Do the Right Thing
Alice T. Days (M.A.) – documentary filmmaker
Brian Dennehy (B.A. 1960) – actor, First Blood, Tommy Boy, Romeo + Juliet, Ratatouille
Brian De Palma (B.A. 1962) – movie director, Carrie, Scarface, Carlito's Way The Untouchables
R. Luke DuBois (B.A. 1997, M.A. 1999, D.M.A. 2003) – musician, composer/artist, member of the Freight Elevator Quartet
Todd Duncan (M.A.) – baritone opera singer and actor
Fred Ebb (M.A. 1957) – lyricist who collaborated with John Kander on such Broadway musicals as Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks of Funny Lady and New York, New York
Jason Everman (B.A. 2013) – guitarist; former member of Nirvana and Soundgarden; Army Ranger; Green Beret
Peter Farrelly (M.F.A. 1986) – filmmaker, with his brother Bobby Farrelly, There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber
Adriana Ferreyr – Brazilian actress
William Finley (B.A. 1963) – actor
Matthew Fox (B.A. 1989) – Golden Globe-nominated actor, Lost, Party of Five
James Franco (M.F.A.) – actor, Golden Globe Award; James Dean; Spider-Man trilogy; Pineapple Express, Milk
Dan Futterman (B.A. 1989) – actor, The Birdcage, Judging Amy
Zach Galligan (B.A. 1986) – actor, Gremlins, Gremlins 2
Bernard Garfield (M.A. 1950) – bassoonist and composer
Art Garfunkel (B.A. 1965, art history; M.A. 1965, mathematics; A.B.D.) – Grammy-award-winning singer, poet, Golden Globe-nominated actor, songwriter of Simon and Garfunkel
Allen Ginsberg (B.A. 1948) – Beat Generation poet, National Book Award for Poetry; The Fall of America: Poems of These States
Greg Giraldo (B.A. 1987) – comedian
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (attended four years in GS; did not graduate) – actor, 3rd Rock from the Sun, (500) Days of Summer
Lauren Graham (Barnard College; B.A. 1988) – actress, Gilmore Girls
James Gunn (M.F.A.) – film director (Slither); screenwriter (Dawn of the Dead, Scooby-Doo); novelist (The Toy Collector)
Jake Gyllenhaal (attended first two years) – Academy Award-nominated actor, Brokeback Mountain, star of Donnie Darko, Jarhead
Maggie Gyllenhaal (B.A. 1999) – Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actress, Crazy Heart, Secretary, The Dark Knight
Katori Hall (B.A. 2003) – playwright, journalist and actress; The Mountaintop
Ed Harris (attended first two years) – Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor, The Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind
Lorenz Hart – Broadway lyricist, collaborator with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; wrote such songs as "Blue Moon", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "My Funny Valentine"
Bhupen Hazarika (Ph.D. 1952) – Assamese lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker
Hikaru Utada (did not graduate) – Japanese pop singer; fashion model
Lauryn Hill (attended first year) – Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, musician
Boyd Holbrook – fashion model
Nicole Holofcener (M.F.A.) – film and TV director, screenwriter, Friends With Money, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under
Katie Holmes (attended a summer session) – actress
Famke Janssen (B.A. 1992) – actress, GoldenEye, X-Men
Jim Jarmusch (B.A. 1975) – filmmaker, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers
Julia Jones (B.A.) – Native American actress, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Judy Joo (B.S)- chef, author, host, Iron Chef UK, Jinjuu Restaurants, Korean Food Made Simple (season 1 & 2)
John Kander (M.A.) – lyricist who collaborated with Fred Ebb on such Broadway musicals as Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and Kiss of the Spider Woman and the soundtracks of Funny Lady and New York, New York
Nicole Kassell (B.A. 1994) – director and producer of Watchmen, winner of the 2020 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series
Jean Kelly (B.A. 1994) – actress
Alicia Keys (attended first year) – Grammy Award-winning singer, musician, composer
Cinta Laura Kiehl (B.S. 2014) – Indonesian actress (After the Dark and The Ninth Passenger), singer (Cinta Laura Album), model and ambassador of anti-violence against women and children by the Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection
Simon Kinberg (M.F.A.) – screenwriter Mr. & Mrs. Smith, X-Men: The Last Stand
Ezra Koenig – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend
Joseph Kosinski (GSAPP) – television commercial and feature film director best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work
Joel Krosnick (B.A. 1963) – cellist; member of the Juilliard String Quartet; chairman of Cello Department at Juilliard School
Robert Kurka (M.A. 1948) – composer, musician; the opera and instrumental suite The Good Soldier Schweik
Tony Kushner (B.A. 1978) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Angels in America
Claire Labine (M.F.A.) – head writer of Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, General Hospital, Where The Heart Is, Guiding Light
Yves Lavandier – screenwriter, director (Yes, But...), script doctor and author of Writing Drama
Michael Lehmann (B.A. 1978) – director, Heathers, Hudson Hawk
Sean Lennon (attended) – singer and songwriter, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Al Lewis (Ph.D. 1941) – actor, The Munsters; basketball scout; New York gubernatorial candidate; restaurateur
Yo-Yo Ma (transferred to Harvard University) – cellist
Arthur MacArthur IV (B.A. 1961) – concert pianist, writer, artist
James Mangold (M.F.A. 1991) – filmmaker, Girl, Interrupted and Walk the Line
Amber Marchese (B.A.) – television personality on The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Robert Maschio (B.A. 1988) – actor, Scrubs
Kate McKinnon (B.A. 2006) – actress and comedian
Terrence McNally (B.A. 1960) – dramatist, winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy, a Pulitzer Prize, and two Guggenheim Fellowships
Eric Milnes – harpsichordist, organist and conductor
Max Minghella (B.A. 2009) – actor, starred in Syriana and Art School Confidential
Greg Mottola (M.F.A. 1991) – film director, Superbad
Hari Nef – actress, model, and writer
Rachel Nichols – actress, model
Ronald Noll (B.A., M.F.A. c.1950) – conductor, music director, and television music supervisor
Frank Nugent (B.A. 1929)— screenwriter, The Searchers, The Quiet Man
Jack O'Brien – jazz musician
Toby Orenstein (B.F.A.) – theatre producer, director, and founder of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, the Young Columbians, and Toby's Dinner Theatre^[36]
Jane Paknia (2022) – American musician
Lena Park (B.A. 2010) – Korean R&B singer
Diane Paulus (M.A. 1997) – 2013 Tony Award; director of theater, opera; Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater, Harvard University (2009–)
Amanda Peet (B.A. 1995) – actress, The Whole Nine Yards
Kimberly Peirce (M.F.A. 1996) – filmmaker, Boys Don't Cry
Anthony Perkins – actor, best known as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Tess Posner – technologist and musician
Martin Quigley, Jr. (B.A. 1939) – movie trade periodical publisher, author, politician, spy
James Rebhorn (M.F.A. 1972) – actor
Paul Robeson (J.D. 1923) – Basso cantante concert singer, multi-lingual actor
Amber Chardae Robinson (M.F.A. 2015) – actress
Emmy Rossum – actress, Shameless^[37]
Henry Alex Rubin (B.A. 1995), Academy Award-nominated director, Murderball
Cameron Russell – fashion model
George Segal (B.A. 1955) – Academy Award-nominated actor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Just Shoot Me!
Jeffrey Sharp (M.F.A.) – filmmaker, Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me
Jenny Slate (B.A. 2004) – actor, former cast member of Saturday Night Live
Scott Smith (M.F.A. 1990) – author and screenwriter, A Simple Plan
Celine Song (M.F.A. 2014) – Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director, Past Lives
Anil Srinivasan – Classical pianist and music educator
Sarah Steele – actress, Spanglish
Julia Stiles (B.A. 2005) – actress, Save the Last Dance, Mona Lisa Smile
Richard Stoltzman (studied for Ph.D. in music) – clarinetist
Stephen Strimpell (B.A., J.D.) – actor, star of the cult television classic Mister Terrific
Rider Strong (B.A. 2004) – actor, Boy Meets World
Aaron Schwartz (M.F.A.) – actor, director and copyright lawyer in Toronto
Conrad Tao
Max Terr – pianist, arranger, bandleader, film composer, The Gold Rush, Stairway to Light^[38]
Craig Timberlake (M.A.) – stage actor, opera singer, and later Columbia faculty member
Chris Tomson – musician, member of indie band Vampire Weekend
Darko Tresnjak (B.A. 1998) – theatre director
Claire Unabia (G.S.) – contestant in Cycle 10 of America's Next Top Model
Heidi Vanderbilt – Broadway actress
Mario Van Peebles (B.A. 1978) – actor and director, New Jack City, BAADASSSSS!
Alan Wagner (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952) – first president of the Disney Channel; East Coast vice president of programming at CBS; radio personality; opera historian and critic
Brian Weitz (B.A., M.P.A) – musician, member of band Animal Collective
Robert Wisdom (B.A. 1976) – actor, The Wire
Charles Wuorinen (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) – musician, pianist, and composer
Remy Zaken (B.A. 2011) – Broadway actress
Brian Yorkey – playwright, screenwriter, Next to Normal, If/Then, 13 Reasons Why

Journalism

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Perspective

See also: Notable alumni of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia College of Columbia University (Journalism and media figures; and Publishers), and Columbia Law School (Journalists) for separate listing of more than 175 journalists, media figures, and publishers

R.W. Apple (B.S. 1961) – Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau chief, New York Times
Douglas Black – president of Doubleday and Company, 1946–1963
Marcus Brauchli – managing editor, The Wall Street Journal
A'Lelia Bundles (M.A. journalism) – journalist
Greg Burke (M.A. journalism) – senior communications adviser with the Vatican's Secretariat of State (2012–)
Diann Burns (M.A. journalism) – television news anchor; nine-time Emmy Award winner
Whittaker Chambers – senior editor at Time, prominent contributor to National Review and other journals
Hagar Chemali, Political Satirist, Writer, Producer, Television Personality, and Political Commentator
Gina Chua (M.S. Journalism 1988), executive editor, Reuters^[39]^[40]
May Cutler (M.A. journalism) – Canadian publisher and journalist, founder of Tundra Books and the first Canadian woman to publish children's books^[41]
Jamal Dajani (B.A. Political Science) – Director of Middle Eastern Programming, Link TV, Producer of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East winner of a Peabody Award
Helen Dalley – Australian journalist; anchor with Sky News Australia
Yuval Elizur (M.S. Journalism) – journalist; covers the Israeli economy, globalization, and economic warfare; author of 8 books
Stéphanie Fillion (M.A., Journalism), French-Canadian journalist and United Nations correspondent
Max Frankel (B.A.) – executive editor, New York Times
Melissa Fung (M.A., journalism) – Canadian CBC News journalist
Nicholas Gage – investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, The New York Times (1970–80); journalist, The Boston Herald Traveler, The Wall Street Journal
Robert Giles – curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Helen Gilmore – editor at Photoplay (also actress, composer)^[42]
Caroline Glick (B.A. 1991) – American-Israeli journalist; deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post
Patrick William Graham (B.A.) Canadian journalist and screen writer
Ashbel Green (B.A. 1950, M.A.) – vice president and senior editor at Knopf
Ken Hechtman – maverick journalist jailed by Afghanistan's Taliban government as a suspected spy in 2001
Jay Irving – reporter, cartoonist; father of Clifford Irving who is best known for perpetrating hoax biography of Howard Hughes
DeWitt John (M.A. Journalism) – American journalist and editor
Casey Johnston (M.S. Engineering) – fitness writer and influencer
Jay Caspian Kang (M.F.A. 2005) – American writer and television journalist
Neeraj Khemlani (M.S. Journalism 1993) – CBS News President
Edward Klein (B.A., M.A. Journalism) – former foreign editor of Newsweek; former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine; bestselling author
Leonard Koppett – sports writer, columnist, author
Steve Kroft – 60 Minutes; winner of three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy Awards
Robert Krulwich (J.D. 1974) – media journalist, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, Emmy Award, George Polk Award
Howard Kurtz (M.A. Journalism) – journalist and author with a special focus on the media; the nation's "most influential media reporter"
Bernard Le Grelle (M.S. Journalism 1974) – journalist, author, political adviser, former United Nations expert and public affairs executive
John Leland (B.A., 1981) – New York Times reporter, author
Joseph Lelyveld (M.A., Journalism) – executive editor, New York Times
Sharon Lerner – American investigative reporter and environmental journalist
Andy Levy – ombudsman, Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, Fox News Channel
A. J. Liebling (M.A. Journalism) – journalist closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death
Thomas Lippman – journalist, author
Robert Lipsyte (B.A. 1957) – winner of an Emmy Award in 1990, host of The Eleventh Hour on PBS, correspondent for The New York Times and ABC Nightly News
Henry Demarest Lloyd (J.D.) – "the father of investigative journalism"
John R. MacArthur (B.A. 1978) – President of Harper's Magazine, political author
Cynthia McFadden (J.D.) – ABC news anchor, George Foster Peabody Award
John McWethy – five Emmy Awards, Overseas Press Club Award
Suzanne M. Malveaux (M.S.) – television news reporter; former White House correspondent for CNN
Gabriele Marcotti (M.A., Journalism) – football writer for The Times, The Sunday Herald, La Stampa, Il Corriere dello Sport, host of Five Live Sport on Fridays
Andrés Martinez (J.D.) – editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
Judith Miller (B.A. 1969) – former New York Times journalist; shared 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting^[43]
Matthew Miller (J.D. 1986) – columnist and author, The Two Percent Solution
Bill Minutaglio (B.A., M.S.) – PEN Center-award-winning author, journalist, professor. Nine books, including First Son: George W. Bush & The Bush Family Dynasty; City on Fire; The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Timothy L. O'Brien (M.A., Journalism) – author and journalist; edits and oversees the Sunday Business section of The New York Times
Rita Omokha (M.S., Journalism) – journalist and author
John L. O'Sullivan – editor of the Democratic Review during the 1840s; coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
Basharat Peer (Journalist) – Kashmiri American journalist, script writer, author, and political commentator. Author, Curfewed Night
Martin Perlich – radio broadcaster and writer
Michael Reidel New York Post Theater Critic, Author
Ted Rall (B.A. 1991) – editorial cartoonist, Pulitzer finalist, columnist, pundit, author of Revenge of the Latchkey Kids
Wayne Allyn Root – creator of Spike TV, Discovery Channel, CNBC; Executive Producer and host of Wayne Allyn Root's Winning Edge and King of Vegas; anchorman and host of Financial News Network
Claire Shipman (B.A. 1986) – Senior National Correspondent for ABC; winner of an Emmy Award for her CNN coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; her work contributed to CNN winning a Peabody Award for its coverage of the Soviet coup attempt of 1991
Howard Simons – former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Allan Sloan – seven-time winner of Gerald Loeb Award
Richard Smith (M.I.A., M.S. 1970) – CEO of Newsweek
Neil Strauss (B.A. 1991) – journalist; author of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Sreenath Sreenivasan (M.S. 1993) – academic administrator, professor and technology journalist
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (M.S. 1993) – publisher of The New York Times (1935–1961)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Sr. (B.A. 1951) – publisher and businessman; former publisher of The New York Times; and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company
Ron Suskind (M.A. 1983) – journalist, author
Tiziano Terzani – reporter and correspondent
Dina Temple-Raston – NPR's counterterrorism correspondent
Liz Trotta – journalist, three Emmy Awards and two Overseas Press Club awards
Mariana van Zeller (M.A. journalism 02) – Portuguese journalist; 2011 Livingston Award; 2010 Peabody Award; 2009 Webby Award
Steven Waldman (B.A.) – political journalist; senior advisor to the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (October 2009–)
Richard Watts, Jr. – longtime theatre critic for the New York Post
Bari Weiss (2007) – opinion writer and editor
Gideon Yago (B.A. 2000) – MTV News correspondent

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National Book Awards

John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
John Berryman – National Book Award, Bollingen Prize
Karen Brazell (Ph.D.) – National Book Award
Robert Caro – National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, Francis Parkman Prize
Lennard J. Davis (B.A., M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., 1976) – National Book Award
E.L. Doctorow – National Book Award, National Humanities Medal, three National Book Critics Circle Awards
Jason Epstein (B.A. 1949) – National Book Award; co-founded The New York Review of Books
Paula Fox – National Book Award (1983), Hans Christian Andersen Medal
Peter Gay (M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1951) – National Book Award
Allen Ginsberg – National Book Award; one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s
Stephen Jay Gould – National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
Lillian Hellman (attended) – National Book Award, 1976 Edward MacDowell Medal and Paul Robeson Award
Herbert Kohl – National Book Award
Jerzy Kosinski (B.A. 1965) – National Book Award
Jane Kramer (M.A.) – National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Magazine Award
Joseph Wood Krutch (M.A., Ph.D.) – National Book Award
Christopher Lasch – National Book Award
Joseph P. Lash (M.A. 1932) – National Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize
Ursula K. Le Guin – National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards
Oscar Lewis (Ph.D.) – National Book Award
Salvador Luria – National Book Award in Science, Nobel Laureate
Bernard Malamud – twice winner of National Book Award, O. Henry Award
Ralph Manheim – National Book Award
Robert Nozick – National Book Award
Walker Percy (M.D. 1941) – National Book Award
Gregory Rabassa (Ph.D.) – National Book Award, National Medal of Arts (2006)
Robert V. Remini (M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1951) – National Book Award; appointed Historian of the United States House of Representatives
Edward Seidensticker (M.A.) – National Book Award
Francis Steegmuller (B.A. 1927) – twice winner of National Book Award
Gerald Stern (M.A. 1949) – National Book Award, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
T. J. Stiles (Ph.D., A.B.D.) – National Book Award (2009)^[44]^[45]
William Troy – National Book Award
Tim Weiner (M.A.) – National Book Award (2007)
Eudora Welty – National Book Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts
Hans Zinsser (B.A. 1899, A.M. 1903, M.D. 1903) – National Book Award; bacteriologist and immunologist

Pulitzer Prize winners

Leroy F. Aarons – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (shared)
Elie Abel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (shared)
Herbert Agar – Pulitzer Prize for History
Ayad Akhtar – 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
John Ashbery – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award
Dean Baquet (B.A. 1978) – Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting (1988); managing editor for news operations, The New York Times
William M. Beecher (M.S.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times
John Berryman – Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Katherine Boo – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Louis Bromfield – Pulitzer Prize for Early Autumn
Ethan Bronner – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
Geraldine Brooks – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Edwin Burrows – Pulitzer Prize for History in 1999 for the book Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Robert Neil Butler – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Robert Campbell – Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic
Robert Caro – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Hodding Carter – Pulitzer Prize for his editorials
Margaret Clapp – Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Robert Coles (M.D.) – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1973); Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Humanities Medal
John Corigliano – Pulitzer Prize for Music, Academy Award, Grammy Award
Holland Cotter (M.Phil) – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (2009)^[46]^[47]
Richard Ben Cramer – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Lawrence A. Cremin – Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize
Justin Davidson – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Bob Drogin – Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Will Durant – Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jim Dwyer – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for Commentary and for Spot News Reporting)
Jesse Eisinger (B.A. 1992) – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting^[48]
Andrea Elliott – Pulitzer Prize (2007); reporter, New York Times
Eric Foner – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History, Lincoln Prize, and twice winner of the Bancroft Prize
Sue Fox (M.S. 1998) – Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2004)^[49]^[50]^[51]
Glenn Frankel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, author
Max Frankel – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah – 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
Robert Giles – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (under his editorship), current curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Louise Gluck – 12th U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Bollingen Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature
Juan Gonzalez – Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award
Charles Gordone – Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Oscar Hammerstein II – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Anthony Hecht – U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Frost Medal
Ellis Henican (CSL) – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (shared) (1992)
Marguerite Higgins – first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1951)
Jim Hoagland – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for International Reporting and for Commentary)
Richard Hofstader – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for History and General Nonfiction)
Michael Holley – Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service (team)
Tony Horwitz – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Richard Howard – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, American Book Award, Pen Translation Prize
Nigel Jaquiss – 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Margo Jefferson – Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
William Jorden – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (shared) and U.S. Ambassador to Panama
Jodi Kantor – 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (shared)
Frederick Kempe – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (both team)
Glenn Kessler – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for Spot News Reporting)
Kathleen Kingsbury – Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing; Opinion Editor of the New York Times
Tom Kitt – Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Tony Award
Carolyn Kizer – Pulitzer Prize, poet, three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, Frost Medal
Edward Kleban – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award
David Kocieniewski (M.A. Journalism 1986) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting^[52]
Tony Kushner – Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards, Emmy Award, Whiting Writers' Award
Joseph P. Lash (M.A. 1932) – Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1972)
Joseph Lelyveld – Pulitzer Prize, journalist
Leonard Levy (Ph.D.) – 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History
David Levering Lewis – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize
Steve Liesman – Pulitzer Prize (team leader) for International Reporting
Steve Lohr (JRN 1975) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Zhou Long – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Carleton Mabee (Ph.D.) – 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography^[53]
Bernard Malamud – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award
John Matteson – Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Terrence McNally – Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards, Emmy Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards
Eileen McNamara – Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, Yankee Quill Award
Louis Menand – Pulitzer Prize for History, Francis Parkman Prize
Carol Marbin Miller – 2018 finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Judith Miller – 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting^[43]
Steven Millhauser – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Paul Moravec – Pulitzer Prize for Music
Tad Mosel – Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Amy Ellis Nutt (M.A.) – 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing^[54]
Mirta Ojito – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Sharon Olds – 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Dele Olojede – Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, first African-born winner of the Pulitzer prize
Tim Page – Pulitzer Prize, music critic
Gregory Pardlo – 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Michael Pupin – Pulitzer Prize, physicist
Matt Richtel – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Richard Rodgers – twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Carlos P. Romulo – Pulitzer Prize in Correspondhence
Wendy Ruderman – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Morrie Ryskind – Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Eli Sanders (1999) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing^[55]^[56]^[57]
Carl Emil Schorske – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
William Schuman – Pulitzer Prize for Music, president of the Juilliard School of Music, president of Lincoln Center
Louis Simpson – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Prix de Rome
Upton Sinclair – Pulitzer Prize, wrote over 90 books in many genres, his novel Oil! was the basis of There Will Be Blood (2007)
R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Tracy K. Smith (M.F.A. 1997) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2006 James Laughlin Award; 2005 Whiting Writers' Award
Paul Starr – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Bancroft Prize, Goldsmith Book Prize
T. J. Stiles – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography^[45]
Ron Suskind – Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
William Taubman – Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Critics Circle Award
Edwin Way Teale – Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Allan Temko – Pulitzer Prize, architectural critic
John Kennedy Toole – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Anne Tyler – Pulitzer Prize (Breathing Lessons), National Book Critics Circle Award (The Accidental Tourist)
Irwin Unger – Pulitzer Prize for History
Carl Clinton Van Doren – Pulitzer Prize, biographer
Mark Van Doren – Pulitzer Prize
Bill Vlasic (JRN 1982) – 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Mike Wallace – Pulitzer Prize for History
Charles Warren – Pulitzer Prize for History
Tim Weiner – Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Eudora Welty – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Arts
Damon Winter (B.A.) – Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (2009)
C. Vann Woodward (M.A. 1932) – Pulitzer Prize for History, Bancroft Prize
Herman Wouk – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Charles Wuorinen – Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowships
Brian Yorkey – 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; 2009 Tony Award for Best Score

MacArthur Fellows

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The following alumni are fellows of the MacArthur Fellows Program (known as the "genius grant") from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. As this is an interdisciplinary award, fellows are listed here as well as in their fields of accomplishment.

John Ashbery (M.A. 1951) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship
Jacqueline K. Barton (Ph.D. 1979) – chemist; 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
Terry Belanger (M.A., 1964; Ph.D. 1970) – historian; history of books, manuscripts, and related objects; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship; founding director of Rare Book School
Edet Belzberg (M.A., 1957) – documentary filmmaker; 2005 MacArthur Fellowship; won Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival (2001)
Paul Berman (M.A.) – leading writer on politics and literature; MacArthur Fellowship
Seweryn Bialer (Ph.D.) – political scientist; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
Katherine Boo (B.A.) – journalist and author; 2002 MacArthur Fellowship
Rogers Brubaker (Ph.D. 1990) – sociologist; 1994 MacArthur Fellowship
Robert Coles (M.D. 1954) – author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University; 1981 MacArthur Fellowship
Wafaa El-Sadr (MPH) – infectious disease physician; 2008 MacArthur Fellowship; 2009 Rolling Stone's "100 People Who Are Changing America", Scientific American's "10: Guiding Science for Humanity" and Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World"
Irving Feldman (M.A. 1953) – poet and professor of English; 1992 MacArthur Fellowship
Randall Forsberg (B.A.) – expert in defense and disarmament as used for promoting democratic institutions; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
Stephen Jay Gould (Ph.D. 1967) – paleontologist, author; 1981 MacArthur Fellowship; Linnean Society of London's Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008); Paleontological Society Medal (2002); Charles Schuchert Award (1975); Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (twice – 1983, 1990)
Rosanne Haggerty (M.A. Arch.) – housing and community development leader; 2001 MacArthur Fellowship
Shirley Heath (Ph.D. 1970) – linguistic anthropologist; 1984 MacArthur Fellowship
John Hollander (B.A.) – poet, 1990 MacArthur Fellowship, Bollingen Prize (1983); Poet Laureate, State of Connecticut (2006–2011)
Richard Howard (B.A. 1951) – poet, literary critic, essayist, translator; MacArthur Fellowship; PEN Translation Prize; Poet Laureate, State of New York (1994–97)
David Keightley (Ph.D.) – sinologist, historian; 1986 MacArthur Fellowship
Harlan Lane (B.S., M.S. 1958) – psychologist; 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
Lawrence W. Levine (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
David Levering Lewis (M.A. 1959) – Professor of History; MacArthur Fellowship
Ralph Manheim – English translator of major German, French works; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship; PEN Translation Prize (1964); PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Campbell McGrath (M.F.A. 1988) – poet; MacArthur Fellowship; Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Pushcart Prize, three Academy of American Poets Prizes
Dinaw Mengestu (M.F.A.) – novelist and writer; 2012 MacArthur Fellowship
Richard A. Muller (B.A.) – physicist; 1982 MacArthur Fellowship; known for astrophysics, radioisotope dating, optics and climate change
Pepon Osorio (M.A. 1985) – Latino artist; 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
George Oster (Ph.D.) – mathematical biologist; 1984 MacArthur Fellowship
Rosalind P. Petchesky (Ph.D.) – political scientist; 1995 MacArthur Fellowship
Terry Plank (Ph.D. 1993) – geologist, volcanologist and professor, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory; 2012 MacArthur Fellowship
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (Ph.D.) – archaeologist; 1988 MacArthur Fellowship; Curator of Archaeology, Field Museum (1991–02)
Meyer Schapiro (B.A., Ph.D.) – Lithuanian-born American art historian; MacArthur Fellowship; known for forging new art historical methodologies
Stephen Schneider (B.S. 1967, Ph.D., mechanical engineering, plasma physics, 1971) – environmental biologist, climatologist; 1992 MacArthur Fellowship; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to which Schneider made significant contributions, shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Carl Emil Schorske (B.A. 1936) – cultural historian; 1981 MacArthur Fellowship
Ricardo Scofidio (M.Arch. 1960) – founder, principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; in 1991, one of the first architects to win MacArthur Prize "genius grant"
Sally Temple (postdoctoral fellowship) – developmental neuroscientist; innovator in field of stem cells, specifically neural stem cells; 2008 MacArthur Fellowship
Camilo José Vergara (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. not yet awarded) – writer, photographer, documentarian; 2002 MacArthur Fellowship; 2010 Berlin Prize
Alisa Weilerstein (B.A. 2004) – cellist; 2011 MacArthur Fellowship
Anders Winroth (M.A., Ph.D.) – professor of medieval history, Yale; 2003 MacArthur Fellowship
Irene J. Winter (Ph.D.) – art historian; 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
Lawrence S. Wittner (B.A. 1962; Ph.D., in history, 1967) historian; MacArthur Fellowship
Eric Wolf (Ph.D.) – anthropologist; MacArthur Fellowship
Charles Wuorinen (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963) – composer; 1985 MacArthur Fellowship

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National Medal of Science

Jan Drewes Achenbach (post-doc research) – mechanical engineer; National Medal of Science (2005)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (M.D. 1904) – German-American physicist; recipient, 2007 National Medal of Science
Kenneth Arrow (M.S., Ph.D.) – economist; National Medal of Science (2004), John Bates Clark Medal (1957), von Neumann Theory Prize (1986); Arrow's impossibility theorem
Francisco J. Ayala (Ph.D. 1964) – evolutionary biologist and geneticist, National Medal of Science (2001)
John Backus (B.S., mathematics, 1949) – co-inventor of Fortran programming language, National Medal of Science (1975), Turing Award, Draper Prize
Jacqueline K. Barton (Ph.D. 1979) – chemist; National Medal of Science (2011); NSF Waterman Award (1985), ACS Gibbs Medal (2006), Weizmann Women & Science Award
Baruj Benacerraf (B.S.) – Venezuelan immunologist, National Medal of Science
Konrad Emil Bloch (Ph.D. 1938) – biochemist; 1988 National Medal of Science
Wallace Smith Broecker (B.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1958) – Crafoord Prize in Geoscience, National Medal of Science
Shu Chien (Ph.D. 1957) – biological scientist, engineer; National Medal of Science; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mildred Cohn (M.S., Ph.D.) – biochemist, National Medal of Science
Daniel C. Drucker (B.S., M.S., Ph.D. 1939) – mechanical engineer; authority on theory of plasticity; National Medal of Science; Timoshenko Medal; Drucker Medal
Val Logsdon Fitch (Ph.D.) – nuclear physicist, National Medal of Science
Milton Friedman (Ph.D. 1946) – economist; John Bates Clark Medal (1951); National Medal of Science (1988); Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)
James Glimm (Ph.D.) – mathematical physicist, National Medal of Science, Priestley Medal
Louis Plack Hammett (Ph.D.) – physical chemist; creator, Hammett equation, Curtin-Hammett principle; National Medal of Science, Priestley Medal
Michael Heidelberger (B.S., Ph.D. 1911) – immunologist, Lasker Award, National Medal of Science
Roald Hoffman (B.S. 1958) – chemist, National Medal of Science
Elvin A. Kabat (Ph.D.) – biomedical scientist; National Medal of Science; one of the founding fathers of modern quantitative immunochemistry
Rudolf E. Kálmán (Ph.D. 1957) – electrical engineer, mathematical systems theorist; National Medal of Science; Kyoto Prize; IEEE Medal of Honor
Joshua Lederberg (B.S.) – molecular biologist; National Medal of Science (1989), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006)
Leon M. Lederman (Ph.D.) – experimental physicist, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Robert Lefkowitz (B.A. 1962, M.D. 1966) – physician, Shaw Prize, National Medal of Science
Raymond D. Mindlin (B.A., B.S., C.E., Ph.D.) – mechanician, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal for Merit
Walter Munk (undergrad attendee) – physical oceanographer; Crafoord Prize in Geoscience; National Medal of Science, Kyoto Prize, Vetlesen Prize
Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, National Medal of Science
Julian Schwinger (B.A., M.D.) – theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science
Alfred Sturtevant (Ph.D.) – geneticist, National Medal of Science
Patrick Suppes (Ph.D. 1950) – philosopher, 1990 National Medal of Science; contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics
John G. Trump (M.S.) – high-voltage engineer and physicist; National Medal of Science; National Academy of Engineering
Harold Varmus (M.D. 1941) – Director, National Institutes of Health; Nobel Laureate; National Medal of Science; president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Evelyn M. Witkin (Ph.D.) – geneticist; National Medal of Science; National Academy of Sciences; Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

National Medal of Technology

Jan Drewes Achenbach (post-doc research) – mechanical engineer; 2003 National Medal of Technology; ASME Medal
Edwards Deming (faculty 1988–93) – statistician; 1987 National Medal of Technology
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (postgraduate research) – chemical engineer, chemist; 1992 National Medal of Technology; first African-American member, National Academy of Engineering; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Robert Ledley (B.S., M.S. 1950) – professor of physiology and biophysics; 1997 National Medal of Technology; National Inventors Hall of Fame; pioneered use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine; research lead to invention of whole-body CT scanner;
Arun Netravali (faculty) – computer engineer; 2001 National Medal of Technology; 1991 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; President of Bell Laboratories (1999–2001) and former Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics

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See also: Notable alumni of Columbia College of Columbia University (Scientists and inventors) for additional listing of more than 28 scientists and inventors, Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science for additional listing of more than 55 scientists, engineers, computer scientists and inventors, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for additional listing of more than 100 physicians

Saul Amarel (M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence
James Amrhein - Executive director of the Masonry Institute of America
Roy Chapman Andrews (M.A.) – dinosaur bone hunter; Cover of Time Magazine, October 29, 1923
Virginia Apgar (M.D. 1933) – effectively founded the field of neonatology; created the Apgar score used to evaluate the health of newborn babies
Edwin Howard Armstrong (B.S. 1913) – inventor of radio circuitry such as the regenerative circuit and FM radio; pioneer in feedback amplifiers; first Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE Medal of Honor); 1941 Franklin Medal, 1942 Edison Medal; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Mehdi Ashraphijuo (Ph.D. 2016) – mathematician
Oswald Avery (M.D. 1904) – discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information
John Backus (B.S. mathematics, 1949) – inventor of Fortran programming language; won Turing Award; Draper Prize
T. Romeyn Beck (M.D.) – forensic medicine pioneer
Baruj Benacerraf (B.S.) – Venezuelan immunologist, National Medal of Science
H. I. Biegeleisen (B.S.) – physician and vein expert, pioneer of phlebology
Ira Black (B.A. 1961) – neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey^[58]
Thomas Berry Brazelton (M.D.) – pediatrician; Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
Thomas H. Chilton (B.A. 1922) – chemical engineer; a founder of modern chemical engineering practice; Chilton and Colburn J-factor analogy
Mildred Cohn (M.S. and Ph.D.) – biochemist, National Medal of Science
Marie Maynard Daly (Ph.D. 1947) – first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
Charles Drew (M.D. 1940) – inventor of blood plasma preservation system
Helen Flanders Dunbar (Ph.D. 1929) – important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
Noam Elkies (B.S.) – three-time Putnam Fellow; mathematician, co-creator of Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm; chess master
Joseph Engelberger ( B.S. 1946, M.S. 1949) – engineer and entrepreneur, often credited with being the father of robotics; 1997 Japan Prize
David Eppstein (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – computer scientist, mathematician
James C. Fletcher (B.S.) – physicist, 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA
Ferdinand Freudenstein (Ph.D.) – mechanical engineer, "father of modern kinematics"; National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science
Tom Frieden (M.D., MPH) – Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009–); N. Y. City Health Commissioner (2002–09)
Mercy Amua-Quarshie (obstetrician-gynecologist)
Elmer L. Gaden (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – father of biochemical engineering; fifth recipient of 2009 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize; National Academy of Engineering
Richard D. Gitlin (M.S., Eng. Sc. D.)-co-inventor of DSL at Bell Labs, National Academy of Engineering
James Glimm (Ph.D.) – mathematical physicist, Priestley Medal, National Medal of Science
Alfred Norton Goldsmith – (Ph.D.) – electrical engineer; IEEE Medal of Honor
Gordon Gould (work toward Ph.D., did not complete) – inventor of the laser
Benjamin Graham (B.A. 1914) – father of modern security analysis and value investing, taught Warren Buffett
Ione Grogan (M.S. 1928) – mathematician, academic, and educator
Robert Grubbs (Ph.D. 1968) – chemist, 2005 Nobel Laureate
William Stewart Halsted (M.D.) – thought by many to be the most innovative, influential and important US surgeon
Tsuruko Haraguchi (Ph.D. 1912) – psychologist
Louis Plack Hammett (Ph.D.) – physical chemist; creator of Hammett equation; namesake of Curtin-Hammett principle; Priestley Medal, National Medal of Science
Benjamin Harrow (B.S. 1911, A.M. 1912 and Ph.D.1913) – biochemist, nutritionist, science writer and academic
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (postgraduate research) – chemical engineer, chemist; first African-American member, National Academy of Engineering; 1992 National Medal of Technology; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Gustav A. Hedlund (M.A.) – mathematician, one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics
Michael Heidelberger – immunologist, Lasker Award, National Medal of Science
Jean Emily Henley (M.D. 1940) – wrote the first German anesthesia textbook after World War II
Herman Hollerith (B.S. 1879, Ph.D.) – statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator; founder of one of the companies that later merged and became IBM
Robert Jastrow (B.A, M.A. Ph.D.) – astronomer
Arthur Jensen (Ph.D. 1956) – known for work in psychometrics and differential psychology; educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
Edward Kasner (Ph.D. 1899) – mathematician, coined the term googol; Kasner metric, Kasner polygon
Michael Katehakis (Ph.D. 1980) – applied mathematics and operations research, Rutgers University
Marshall Kay (Ph.D. 1929) – geologist; known for stratigraphy; 1971 Penrose Medal
Leon M. Lederman (Ph.D.) – experimental physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Robert Ledley (B.S., M.S. 1950) – professor of physiology and biophysics; pioneered use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine; research lead to invention of whole-body CT scanner; National Medal of Technology; National Inventors Hall of Fame
Kai-Fu Lee (B.S. 1983) – prominent figures in Chinese internet sector; established China division, Microsoft Research; establishing China research division for Google
John W. Marchetti (B.A., B.S. 1925; E.E. 1931) – radar pioneer combining government and industrial activities
Warren P. Mason (M.A. 1927; Ph.D. 1928) – electrical engineer and physicist, known for founding distributed-element circuits
Winifred Edgerton Merrill (Ph.D. 1886) – first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics
Robert Mills (B.A.) – Putnam Fellow; physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory; Yang-Mills fields
Jocelyn Monroe (B.S., Ph.D.) – winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her work on neutrino oscillations
Robert Moog (B.S.E.E.) – pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer
Joel Moses (B.A., M.A.) – MIT Provost and Institute Professor, author of Macsyma
Roby Muhamad (Ph.D.) – sociologist and research in social networking and small world networks^[59]
Eva Neer (M.D. 1963) – biochemist, G protein research discoverer
William Nierenberg (Ph.D.) – Putnam Fellow; physicist, worked on Manhattan Project; director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1965–86)
Jacob Noel-Storr (Ph.D. 2004 Astronomy) – astrophysicist; influential in astronomy education, outreach, accessibility, equity, inclusion and diversity.
Edward Lawry Norton (M.S. 1925) – electrical engineer, discovered the Norton equivalent circuit
Rebecca Oppenheimer (B.A. 1994) – astrophysicist, discovered the first substellar object outside the Solar System
Delia Oppo (Ph.D. 1989) – paleoceanography scientist
John Ostrom (Ph.D. 1961) – paleontologist, father of the dinosaur renaissance
Bedabrata Pain (M.S., Ph.D., Applied physics) – Indian inventor; CMOS image sensor, active pixel sensor, 87 invention patents; film director
William Barclay Parsons (B.S. 1879) – civil engineer
Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, National Medal of Science
Michael I. Pupin (B.S. 1883) – physicist and physical chemist; IEEE Medal of Honor, Edison Medal for his work in mathematical physics; Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography
Hyman G. Rickover – father of U.S. nuclear submarine fleet; Enrico Fermi Award; U.S. Navy four-star admiral
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (M.D. 1960) – cell biology researcher
Ruth Schmidt (M.S. 1939, Ph.D. 1948) – geologist
Daniel Schechter (B.A. 1983) – psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and developmental neuroscience researcher
Rosa Schupbach (MS) – economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Julian Schwinger (B.A., M.D.) – theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science
George Clark Southworth (graduate study) – radio engineer; pioneering contributions: microwave radio physics, radio astronomy, waveguides; IEEE Medal of Honor
Benjamin Spock (M.D. 1929) – pediatrician, author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; Olympic rower
Lao Genevra Simons (B.S. 1908, M.A. 1912, Ph.D. 1924) – mathematician and math historian, author of Fabre and Mathematics and Other Essays
John Stevens (B.A. 1768) – built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the U.S.
John Stone Stone (1886–1888) – mathematician, physicist, inventor; influential in developing wireless communication technology, IEEE Medal of Honor
Alfred Sturtevant (Ph.D.) – geneticist, National Medal of Science
Shen-su Sun (Ph.D.) – geochemist
David Tannor (born 1958) – theoretical chemist, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Evelyn Butler Tilden (M.S., 1926, Ph.D. 1929) – microbiologist at National Institutes of Health
Hing Tong (Ph.D.) – mathematician, algebraic topology; theoretical physics; known for providing original proof of Katetov–Tong insertion theorem
Joseph F. Traub (Ph.D.) – computer scientist; National Academy of Engineering
Neil deGrasse Tyson (M.Phil. 1989, Ph.D. 1991) – astrophysicist, science communicator; first and current Director of the Hayden Planetarium
Roy Vagelos (M.D.) – mastered three professions: medicine, science, and business
Anastasia van Burkalow (Ph.D. 1944) – Professor Emerita geology, Hunter College
Harold Varmus (M.D. 1941) – Director of the National Institutes of Health, Nobel Laureate, National Medal of Science, president and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Allen Whipple (M.D.) – surgeon known for pancreatic surgery bearing his name (the Whipple procedure), as well as Whipple's triad
Terry Jean Wilson (Ph.D. 1983) – geologist, Antarctic researcher
Nellie Choy Wong (Ph.G. 1920) first Chinese woman to become a pharmacist in America
Victor Wouk (B.A. 1939) – scientist and engineer; pioneer in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles
Rae Wynn-Grant (Ph.D.) – large carnivore ecologist and advocate for diversity in STEM
Lotfi A. Zadeh (Ph.D. 1949) – mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher; founder of fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic; IEEE Medal of Honor; National Academy of Engineering
Bruno H. Zimm (B.S. 1941, M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944) – polymer chemist and DNA researcher; in statistical mechanics, the Zimm–Bragg model

Astronauts and aviators

Kenneth D. Bowersox (M.S. 1979)
Kevin P. Chilton (M.S. 1977)
Amelia Earhart (attended one semester, 1920)
William G. Gregory (M.S. 1980)
Gregory H. Johnson (M.S. 1985)
Michael J. Massimino (B.S. 1984)
Story Musgrave (M.D. 1964)
Eugene H. Trinh (B.S. 1972)

Academia: Presidents, chancellors, founders

Carmen Twillie Ambar (J.D.) – ninth woman to lead Douglass College and 13th president of Cedar Crest College
George Henry Armacost (Ph.D. 1940) – president of the University of Redlands (1945–1970)^[60]
Frederick A.P. Barnard – president of Columbia; Chancellors of the University of Mississippi; namesake of Barnard College
Louis T. Benezet (Ph.D. 1942) – president of Allegheny College (1948–1955), Colorado College (1955–1963), Claremont Graduate University (1963–1970) and the University at Albany (1970–1975)
William Bizzell (Ph.D. 1921) – 5th president of the University of Oklahoma, president of what is now Texas A&M University, president of what is now Texas Woman's University
Sarah Gibson Blanding (M.A. 1926) – president of Vassar College (1946–1964)
Joel Bloom (M.A., Ph.D.) – 8th president of New Jersey Institute of Technology (2012–)
Lee Bollinger (J.D. 1971) – current president of Columbia; former president of University of Michigan; former Provost of Dartmouth College; First Amendment scholar; defendant in two key affirmative action cases in the United States Supreme Court; Chair of the Board of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2011)
Frederick deWolfe Bolman Jr. (Ph.D.) – president of Franklin and Marshall College (1956–1962)^[61]
Albert H. Bowker (Ph.D. Statistics) – Chancellor of City University of New York (1963–1971) and the University of California, Berkeley (1971–1980)
Harvie Branscomb (Ph.D.) – 4th Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1946–1963)
H. Keith H. Brodie (M.D.) – chancellor (1982–1985) and president (1985–1993) of Duke University
Harold Brown (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – physicist; former president of Caltech; former dean, School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University
George F. Budd (M.A., Ph.D.) – former president of Pittsburg State University, former president of St. Cloud University
John H. Bunzel (M.A.) – president of San Jose State University (1970–1978)^[62]
Julian Ashby Burruss (A.M. 1906) – president of James Madison University (1908–1919) and Virginia Tech (1919–1945)
Nicholas Murray Butler (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – president of Columbia University; Nobel Laureate; president of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alfred Benjamin Butts (Ph.D. 1920) – chancellor of the University of Mississippi (1935–1946)
Colin Campbell (J.D.) – 13th president of Wesleyan University
Daniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of What a Plant Knows, and President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Margaret Clapp (Ph.D. 1937) – president of Wellesley College (1949–1966)
Felton Grandison Clark (M.A., Ph.D.) – president of Southern University (1938–1969)^[63]
Lotus Delta Coffman (Teachers College) – 5th president of the University of Minnesota (1920–1938)
Charles W. Cole (M.A., Ph.D.) – president of Amherst College (1946–1960) and United States Ambassador to Chile (1961–1964)
James S. Coles (B.S. 1936, Ph.D.) – former president of Bowdoin College
Arthur G. Crane (M.A. 1918, Ph.D. 1920) – first President of Minot State University, president of the University of Wyoming (1922–1941), 20th Governor of Wyoming (January 3, 1949 – January 1, 1951)
Michael Crow (faculty) – president of Arizona State University
Howard A. Cutler (Ph.D. 1953 Economics) – Chancellor of University of Alaska Fairbanks 1975–1981^[64]
Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1911) – President of St. Mary's Junior College^[65]
Richard Cyert (Ph.D. Economics) – sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University (1972–1990)
Colgate Darden (1923) – chancellor of College of William and Mary (1946–47); president of University of Virginia (1947–59); namesake of Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Henry David (Ph.D.) – president of the New School (1960–1962)^[66]
Nicholas Dirks (faculty) – 10th chancellor-designate of University of California, Berkeley; professor of anthropology and history; Dean of faculty of arts and sciences
Herman Lee Donovan (Ph.D.) – 4th President of the University of Kentucky (1941–1956)
Blanche Hinman Dow (M.A., Ph.D.) – president of Cottey College (1949–1965) and president of the American Association of University Women (1963–1967)^[67]
John William Elrod (Ph.D.) – president of Washington and Lee University (1995–2001)^[68]
John R. Everett (M.A. 1943, Ph.D. 1945) – President of Hollins College, first Chancellor of the Municipal College System of the City of New York, and President of the New School for Social Research
Claire Fagin (M.A. Nursing) – President of the University of Pennsylvania (1993–1994)
Livingston Farrand (M.D.) – 4th president of Cornell University and University of Colorado; public health advocate
Saul Fenster (M.S.) – 6th president of New Jersey Institute of Technology (1978–2002)
John Henry Fischer (M.S. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – president and dean of Teachers College, Columbia University for fifteen years; as school superintendent, made Baltimore the first large American city to desegregate its public schools
James C. Fletcher (B.A.) – president of University of Utah; head of NASA
Guy Stanton Ford (Ph.D. 1903) – 6th president of the University of Minnesota (1938–1941)
William Trufant Foster (Ph.D. 1911) – first president of Reed College (1911–1919)
Ellen V. Futter (J.D. 1974) – president of Barnard College (1980–93); president of American Museum of Natural History
Francis Pendleton Gaines (Ph.D.) – president of Washington and Lee University (1930–1959)^[69]
Harry Augustus Garfield (Law School) – president of Williams College (1908–1934)
Gordon Gee (J.D., Ed.D.) – former president of Brown University; former chancellor of Vanderbilt University; twice president of, Ohio State University; president of the University of Colorado at Boulder and West Virginia University
Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
Frank Goodnow (LL.B. 1882) – president of Johns Hopkins University
Edward Kidder Graham (M.A.) – president of the University of North Carolina (1914–1918)
Frank Porter Graham – president of the University of North Carolina (1930–1949)
Frank Pierrepont Graves (Ph.D. Greek) – president of the University of Wyoming (1896–1898) and the University of Washington (1896–1898)
G. Alexander Heard (M.A., Ph.D.) – Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982)
Ernest O. Holland (Ph.D. 1912) – President of Washington State University (1916–1944)
Andrew D. Holt (Ph.D.) – 16th president of the University of Tennessee (1959–1970)
Carl Hovde (B.A. 1950) – president of the New School (1945–1950)
George Ivany (M.A. 1962) – 7th president of the University of Saskatchewan (1989–1999)
Walter Proctor Jenney (E.M. 1871, Ph.D. 1877) – president of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 1893^[70]
Alvin Saunders Johnson (Ph.D. 1902) – president of the New School (1921–1945)
George W. Johnson (M.A., Ph.D. English), president of George Mason University (1979–1996)^[71]
William Hallock Johnson (Ph.D. 1902) – president of Lincoln University, 1926–1936
Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones (M.A.) – president of historically black Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, 1936–1977
Thomas E. Jones (M.A. 1917, Ph.D. 1926) – president of Fisk University (1926–1946) and Earlham College
Thomas Kean (M.A.) – president of Drew University; head of 9/11 Commission
Kenneth H. Keller (B.A.) – 12th president of the University of Minnesota (1985–1988)
Eamon Kelly (Ph.D.) – former president of Tulane University
Francis Kilcoyne – President of Brooklyn College
Grayson L. Kirk (faculty) – president of Columbia
George Latimer (LL.B.) – regent of University of Minnesota
John LeConte (M.D. 1842) – president of the University of California Berkeley 1869–1870 and 1875–1881
Joshua Lederberg (B.A. 1944; graduate study) – former president of Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize–winning biologist; National Medal of Science; Presidential Medal of Freedom
Umphrey Lee (Ph.D. 1931) – president of Southern Methodist University (1939–1954)
Ronald D. Liebowitz (Ph.D. 1985) – president of Middlebury College (2004–)
Peter Likins (faculty) – electrical engineer; president of University of Arizona; former president of Lehigh University
Raymond Lisle (A.M. 1930) – attorney, officer in the US Foreign Service, and Dean of Brooklyn Law School
John V. Lombardi (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) – president of University of Florida (1990–1999); chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst (2002–2007); president of Louisiana State University System (2007–2012)
Seth Low (B.A. 1870) – president of Columbia University; chairman of Tuskegee Institute (1907–1916)
John Barfoot Macdonald (Ph.D. 1953) – 4th president of the University of British Columbia (1962–1967); Officer of the Order of Canada
James L. McConaughy (Ph.D. 1913) – president of Wesleyan University and Knox College
Alfred Thayer Mahan (attended two years) – president of U.S. Naval War College; author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Anthony Marx (faculty) – president of Amherst College
Ronald Mason Jr. (B.A., M.A.) – former president of Jackson State University and Southern University; current president of the University of the District of Columbia^[72]
Willfred Otto Mauck – eighth president of Hillsdale College 1933–1942^[73]
Martin Meyerson (B.A.) – president of the University of Pennsylvania; acting chancellor of University of California, Berkeley; president of State University of New York at Buffalo
J. Hillis Miller, Sr. (Ph.D. 1933) – fourth president of University of Florida (1947–1953)
John D. Millett (A.M. 1935, Ph.D. 1938) – 16th president of Miami University (1953–1964)
Robert A. Millikan (Ph.D. 1895) – early president of Caltech (1921–1945); Nobel Prize–winning physicist; first to measure the charge of the electron
David Wiley Mullins (Ph.D. 1941) – president of the University of Arkansas (1960–1974)
G. Leon Netterville (M.A.) – former president of Southern University (1968–1972)^[74]
Abraham A. Neuman (B.A. 1909, M.A. 1912) – President of Dropsie College (1940–1966)
Frank Newman (M.B.A.) – president of the University of Rhode Island (1974–1983 )^[75]
A. Ray Olpin (Ph.D. 1930) – President of the Utah University (1946–1964)
Archie Palmer (M.A. 1927) – 8th President of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1938–1942)
Christina Hull Paxson (M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1987) – 19th president of Brown University (2012–); former Dean and Professor of Economics & Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
John H. Payne (M.A.) – President of Morehead State University (1929–35)^[76]
Mario Laserna Pinzon (B.A.) – founded the Universidad de Los Andes
Peter Pouncey (Ph.D. 1969) – classicist; former president of Amherst College
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (B.A., Ph.D.) – Serbian physicist and physical chemist; winner of IEEE Medal of Honor, Edison Medal for his work in mathematical physics
Stuart Rabinowitz (J.D.) – 8th president of Hofstra University, former Hofstra School of Law dean.^[77]
Emanuel Rackman (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1933, Ph.D., 1953) – Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University
Trudie Kibbe Reed (Ph.D.) – 11th president of Philander Smith College (1998–2004), 5th president of Bethune–Cookman University (2004–2012)
Jehuda Reinharz (B.S.) – president of Brandeis University
Ira Remsen (M.D.) – 2nd president of Johns Hopkins University (1901–1913)
Nicanor Reyes, Sr. (Ph.D.) – founder and first president of Far Eastern University; president of Rockefeller Foundation; former provost of Yale University
Brian C. Rosenberg (M.A., Ph.D.) – 16th president of Macalester College (2003–)
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (M.B.A.) – Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (elected October 16, 2011)
William Schuman (B.S. 1935) – president of Juilliard School of Music; president of Lincoln Center; inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Music; founded Juilliard String Quartet; awarded National Medal of Arts
Beheruz Sethna (M.Phil., Ph.D.) – president of University of West Georgia; Professor of Business at the University
Judith Shapiro (Ph.D.) – former president of Barnard College; anthropologist
Phillip Shriver (Ph.D. 1954) – President of Miami University (1965–1981)
Kenneth C.M. Sills – former president of Bowdoin College (1918–1952)
Michael Sovern (B.A., Ph.D.) – president of Columbia University; Dean of Columbia Law School; professor at Columbia Law School
Charles R. Spain (Ph.D.) – president of Morehead State University (1951–1954)^[78]
Niara Sudarkasa (M.A., Ph.D. Anthropology) – former president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
Daniel Francis Sullivan (Ph.D. 1971) – 19th president of Allegheny College (1986–1996)^[79]
Carrie Sutherlin (M.A. 1926) – president of president of Arlington Hall Junior College and Chevy Chase Junior College
Henry Suzzallo (M.A. 1902, Ph.D. 1905) – president of the University of Washington (1915–1926)
Lida Lee Tall (B.A.) – sixth president/principal of State Teachers College at Towson (now Towson University)
Clarence Howe Thurber (Ph.D. 1922) – president of the University of Redlands (1933–1937)^[60]
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (B.A. 1959) – president of George Washington University and the University of Hartford
David Truman (faculty) – political scientist and educator; former president of Mount Holyoke College
Andrew Truxal (Ph.D. 1928) – president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College
Alfred H. Upham (Ph.D. 1908) – President of the University of Idaho (1920–1928) and Miami University (1928–1945)^[80]
Meyer Weisgal – President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
John Davis Williams (Ph.D. 1940) – president of Marshall University (1942–1946) and Chancellor of the University of Mississippi (1946–1968)
George S. Wise – President of Tel Aviv University
Harold Wren – dean of three law schools
Robert Herring Wright – first President of what is now East Carolina University (1909–1934)
John C. Young – president of Centre College (1830–1857); attended three years before transferring
Michael K. Young (Law faculty) – president of University of Utah; former dean of George Washington University Law School
James Fulton Zimmerman (Ph.D. 1925) – president of the University of New Mexico (1927–1944)^[81]

Academia: Theorists

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See also: above at Nobel Laureates (Alumni) for separate listing of more than 43 academics and theorists, Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University (Academicians), Columbia Law School (Academia: University presidents and Legal Academia), and Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Economists-Natural Scientists, Social Scientists) for separate listing of more than 163 academics and theorists

Mortimer Adler (Ph.D.) – founder of the Great Books movement
Claude Ake (Ph.D. 1966) – Nigerian political scientist
Encarnacion Alzona (Ph.D. 1923) – historian, National Scientist of the Philippines, first Filipino woman to receive a Ph.D.
Michael Apple (M.A. 1968, Ed.D. 1970) – curriculum theorist
Kenneth Arrow (M.S., Ph.D.) – economist; John Bates Clark Medal, National Medal of Science
E. Digby Baltzell (Ph.D.) – sociologist, credited with the popularization of the acronym WASP
Jacques Barzun (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1932; faculty 1932–75) – historian; 2003 Presidential Medal of Freedom; 2010 National Humanities Medal
Steven M. Bellovin (B.A.) – computer scientist; one of originators of USENET; co-inventor, Encrypted key exchange password-authenticated key agreement methods
Ruth Benedict (Ph.D.) – cultural anthropologist, author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, a World War II-era study of Japanese culture
Theos Casimir Bernard (Ph.D.) – accomplished practitioner of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism; scholar of religion; explorer
Bernard Berofsky (Ph.D.) – philosopher
J. David Bleich (born 1936) – rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
Walter Block (Ph.D.) – Austrian School free market economist
Karen Boroff (Ph.D.) – Dean, Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University
Joseph Campbell (B.A., M.A.) – mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion
John Maurice Clark (Ph.D. 1910) – economist
Robert C. Clark (Ph.D. 1971) – Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (1989–2003)
Rose Laub Coser (Ph.D. 1957) – sociologist, known with medical sociology, role theory, and sociology of the family
Margaret Cuninggim – served as Dean of Women at the University of Tennessee and at Vanderbilt University
Robert Dallek (M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) – historian specializing in American presidents; winner of Bancroft Prize
Wm. Theodore de Bary (B.A.) – East Asian studies expert
Carl Neumann Degler (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Donna Robinson Divine (Ph.D. 1971) – political scientist
Norman Dorsen (B.A. 1950) – Professor of Law at NYU Law School (Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, and Comparative Constitutional Law)
Irwin Edman (B.A., Ph.D. 1964) – philosopher and writer
Richard Epstein (B.A. 1964) – considered one of the most influential legal thinkers of modern times
Yael S. Feldman (Ph.D. 1981) – Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University
Charles Ferster (M.A., Ph.D.) – behavioral psychologist
Moses Finley (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian noted for his work on the ancient economy
Joshua Fishman (Ph.D.) – distinguished linguist specializing in social linguistics, language and culture, and Yiddish
Richard Florida (Ph.D. 1986) – urban studies theorist; created concept, creative class and its implications for urban regeneration
George T. Flom (Ph.D. 1900) – distinguished linguist specializing in Scandinavian paleography and philology
Kenneth A. Frank (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1967) – American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst
Gilberto Freyre (M.A. 1922) – Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian
Milton Friedman (Ph.D.) – free market economist; John Bates Clark Medal, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Raymond Geuss (B.A. 1966, Ph.D 1971) – philosopher, political theorist. Fellow of the British Academy
Allan Gotthelf (Ph.D. 1975) – philosopher, and a recognized authority on the philosophies of both Aristotle and Ayn Rand
Lynne Hanley (M.A.) – literary critic
Edward Harris (B.A. 1971) – inventor of the Harris matrix
Sidney Hook (Ph.D. 1927) – philosopher of the Pragmatist school; Presidential Medal of Freedom
J. C. Hurewitz (M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1950) – Middle East scholar, Columbia faculty 1950–84
Jane Jacobs (two years of graduate studies) – urban theorist
Raghbendra Jha (M.Phil 1976, Ph.D. 1978) – economist and an academic
Ira Katznelson (B.A. 1966) – political scientist and historian; When Affirmative Action Was White (2005)
Donald Keene (B.A. 1942) – Japanese studies expert
Samara Klar (M.A. 2006) – political scientist and founder of Women Also Know Stuff
William Labov (Ph.D. 1964) – linguist, considered the founder of sociolinguistics
Ruth Landes (Ph.D. 1935) – author, City of Women (1947)
Paul Lazarsfeld – major figure in 20th-century American sociology; founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research
Howard Lesnick (M.A. 1953, LL.B. 1958), Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Liu Yu (Ph.D.) – Chinese political scientist and writer, faculty at Tsinghua University
Harvey J. Levin (M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953) – communications economics pioneer
Seymour Martin Lipset (Ph.D. 1949) – sociologist
Paul Massing – sociologist in the Redhead group of Soviet spies at the University's Institute of Social Research
Margaret Mead (M.S. 1924, Ph.D. 1929) – anthropologist; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Kalinga Prize
Dwight C. Miner (B.A. 1926, M.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1940) – historian and Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia
Rache Mesch – scholar of French literature, history, and culture at Yeshiva University
Marysa Navarro (M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1964) – historian
Robert Nozick (B.A. 1959, summa cum laude) – philosopher
Marvin Opler (Ph.D. 1938) – anthropologist and social psychiatrist
Michael Oren (B.A., M.A.) – historian and author; Israeli ambassador to the United States
Charles Patterson (M.A., Ph.D.) – author and historian^[82]
Richard Popkin (B.A. 1950, Ph.D.) – academic philosopher, specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism
Alvin Poussaint (B.A. 1956) – professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; author of numerous books on child psychiatry
Frank Press (M.A., Ph.D.) – geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four U.S. Presidents.
Murray Rothbard (B.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1956) – Austrian school free market economist, father of modern libertarianism.
Steven Rubenstein (B.A. 1984, M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1995) – anthropologist
James R. Russell (B.A.) – Ancient Near Eastern scholar; professor at Harvard University
Marshall Sahlins (Ph.D. 1954) – Cultural anthropologist; author of Stone Age Economics; professor at University of Chicago
Naomi Sager (B.S.E.E., 1953) – computational linguist; professor at New York University; pioneer in the field of natural language computer processing
Edward Sapir (B.A. 1904, M.A. 1905, Ph.D. 1909) – linguist and anthropologist, co-creator of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Andrew Sarris (B.A.) – film critic; a leading proponent of the auteur theory of criticism; controversialist
Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (Ph.D.) – literary scholar and founder of the theology and literature doctoral program at the University of Chicago
Anwar Shaikh (M.A., Ph.D. 1973) – Professor of Economics; professor at The New School for Social Research of New York
Mark Steiner (1942–2020) – professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Patrick Suppes (Ph.D.) – philosopher, National Medal of Science
Lionel Trilling (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1938) – literary critic
Immanuel Wallerstein (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – sociologist
Victor Wallis (Ph.D. 1970) – political scientist
Eugene P. Watson (advanced study 1960) – namesake of the library at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana
Helma Wennemers (Ph.D. 1996) – organic chemist
Philip L. White (M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1954) – nationality historian and political activist in Austin, Texas
Sean Wilentz (B.A. 1972) – Chair of American Studies at Princeton University; winner of the Bancroft Prize in history
Jay Winter (B.A. 1966) – World War I scholar at Yale University
Thomas Woods (M.Phil., Ph.D.) – historian
Aaron D. Wyner (Ph.D. 1963) – information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory^[83]
Howard Zinn (M.A., Ph.D.) – historian

Sports

Mario Ančić (LL.M. 2013) – Croatian former professional tennis player and current NBA executive
Jessica Antiles (2019), competitive swimmer
Roone Arledge (B.A.) – pioneer of sports and news broadcasting with ABC; Monday Night Football, 20/20; winner of 37 Emmy Awards
Norman Armitage (A.B and B.S. 1927) – 17-time national champion sabre fencer, and six-time Olympian, USA Fencing Hall of Fame.
Kyra Tirana Barry (B.A. 1987), Team Leader for United States Women's National wrestling team
Lou Bender (B.A. 1932, LL.M. 1935) – pioneer player with Columbia Lions and in early pro basketball; later a trial attorney^[84]
Edward Scott Bozek (1950–2022) – Olympic épée fencer
William Campbell (B.A.) – Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit, Inc.; head football coach, Columbia University, 1974–79
José Raúl Capablanca – world chess champion (1921–27)
Isadora Cerullo – 2016 Olympic rugby player
Gary Cohen (B.A.) – New York Mets television play-by-play announcer
Eddie Collins – Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman
Caryn Davies (J.D. 2013) – rower, stroke seat in women's eight; gold medals, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics; silver medal, 2004 Summer Olympics
Jackie Dubrovich (B.A. 2016) -- 2024 Olympic gold medalist, fencing
Annie Duke – professional poker player
Devereux Emmet (1885) – golf course architect
Leo Fishel – Major League Baseball player
Lou Gehrig – baseball player for the New York Yankees; enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's Disease")
Bruce Gehrke (B.A.) – NFL player with New York Giants
Vitas Gerulaitis – professional tennis player
Joel Glucksman (1970) – Olympic sabre fencer
Bob Gottlieb – college basketball coach, earned a master's in physical education^[85]
Bob Griffin (dropped out in 1970) – American-Israeli basketball player, and English Literature professor
Alen Hadzic (born 1991) – épée fencer, suspended by Columbia under Title IX and banned by SafeSport for life for sexual misconduct.^[86]^[87]^[88]^[89]^[90]
Edward P. Hurt – Morgan's football, basketball and track coach
Emily Jacobson (2008) – Olympic sabre fencer, junior world champion, USA Fencing Hall of Fame
Ben Johnson (1914–1992), US champion sprinter at 100 yards
Jane Katz – Olympic swimmer
Max Kellerman (B.A. 1998) – ESPN Radio host in Los Angeles and HBO boxing analyst
Dan Kellner – four-time All-American, NCAA foil champion; national champion; two-time Pan American gold medalist; silver medalist; Maccabiah silver medalist
Sandy Koufax – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
Stephen Kovacs (1972–2022) – saber fencer and fencing coach, charged with sexual assault, died in prison
Shaul Ladany (Ph.D. 1968) – world-record-holding Israeli racewalker; Bergen-Belsen survivor; Munich Massacre survivor; Professor of Industrial Engineering
Maya Lawrence (M.A. 2007) – fencer; bronze medal in the women's team épée, United States Fencing Team, 2012 Summer Olympics
Howard Lederer – professional poker player; brother of Annie Duke
Sid Luckman (B.A.) – football quarterback, enshrinee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
James M. "Jim" McMillian (B.A.) – NBA basketball player
James Melcher (B.A. 1961) – Olympic fencer and hedge fund manager
Cliff Montgomery (B.A.) – football quarterback; enshrinee in College Football Hall of Fame; captain and MVP of Rose Bowl-winning squad; Silver Star recipient in U.S. Navy
Troy Murphy (B.A. expected December 2015) – former NBA player^[91]
Nadine Netter – tennis player
Dave Newmark – NBA basketball player
Chris O'Loughlin (M.A. born 1967) – Olympic épée fencer
Robb Paller (born 1993) – American-Israeli baseball player
Fernando Perez (born 1983) – former Tampa Bay Rays outfielder, current San Francisco Giants coach
Mark Pope (M.D. Class of 2010) – former NBA player; left Columbia before graduation to pursue a coaching career; now head coach at Brigham Young University
Nzingha Prescod (2015) – Olympic foil fencer
Camden Pulkinen (born 2000) – 2016 Youth Olympics team member and 2022 Winter Olympics alternate for Team USA; 2x world record holder
Paul Robeson – football All-American, attorney, musician, activist
Ian Rapoport (B.A. 2002) – National Insider NFL Network
Archie Roberts (B.A. 1942) – played with the Miami Dolphins; subsequently became a cardiac surgeon
Nicole Ross (2013) – Olympic foil fencer
Bob Sheppard (M.A. 1933) – sports announcer, "Voice of the Yankees"
William Milligan Sloane – founder of the United States Olympic Committee
Keeth Smart (MBA 2010) – Olympic saber fencer, silver medal, 2008 Summer Olympics
Donald Spero (Ph.D.) – Olympic and world champion rower
David Stern (J.D.) – NBA Commissioner, 1984–2014
Cristina Teuscher (B.A. 2000) – Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, 1996
Jenny Thompson (M.D. 2006) – former competition swimmer; won 12 medals, including eight gold medals, in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics
Soren Thompson (MBA 2016) – Olympic épée fencer, team épée world champion, USA Fencing Hall of Fame.^[92]
LeRoy T. Walker (M.A.) – first black president of the United States Olympic Committee (1992–96)
Marcellus Wiley (B.A. 1997) – football player, Pro Bowl and All-Pro defensive end
James L. Williams (B.A. 2007) – Olympic saber fencer; silver medal winner, 2008

Activists

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See also: notable alumni of Columbia Law School (Activism) and Columbia College (Miscellaneous) for a separate listing of more than 50 activists

Bella Abzug (LL.M. 1947) – social rights activist and a leader of the women's rights movement
Anna Baltzer – public speaker and Jewish-American pro-Palestinian activist
Edythe Scott Bagley (M.F.A.) – civil rights activist, educator
Ady Barkan (B.A., 2006)- healthcare activist
Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1991) – advocate for public healthcare law at the state and national levels; co-founded the first AIDS law clinic
Edward Bassett (LL.B. 1886) – one of the founding fathers of modern-day urban planning
Lee Bollinger – advocate for affirmative action, defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger
Robert L. Carter (LL.M. 1941) – civil rights activist, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund general counsel, in which capacity he argued Brown v. Board of Education II
Julius L. Chambers (LL.M. 1964) – civil rights leader, attorney, and educator; third President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund^[93]
Felix Cohen (1928) – advocate for Native American rights, fundamentally shaped federal Native American law and policy
Roy Cohn (LL.M. 1947) – conservative lawyer who became famous during the investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government
Robert Cover (J.D. 1968) – civil rights and international anti-violence activist, professor at Yale Law School
Annie Elizabeth Delany (D.D.S. 1923) – dentist and civil rights pioneer; subject, New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say
Sarah Louise Delany (B.A. 1920, M.A. 1925) – educator and civil rights pioneer; subject, New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say
Daniel DeLeon (LL.M. 1878) – socialist newspaper editor, politician, trade union organizer; regarded as forefather of idea of revolutionary industrial unionism
Albert DeSilver (LL.B. 1913) – a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
William Dudley Foulke (LL.B. 1871) – reformer; principal reformers, New York State and federal civil service systems; early president of American Suffrage Association
Barrington Dunbar (M.S.) – Quaker sociologist, economist, social worker, and activist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (LL.B.) – women's rights advocate, co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter; co-authored the first law school casebook on sex discrimination; as chief litigator of the ACLU's women's rights project, she argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
Jack Greenberg (B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948) – second President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education (1954)^[94]
Foster Gunnison Jr. (B.A. 1949) – LGBT rights activist and independent archivist
Arthur Garfield Hays (LL.B. 1905) – civil liberties activist, general counsel for the ACLU, notable trials included Scopes Trial, trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Scottsboro case
Dorothy Height (graduate study) – administrator, educator, and social activist; president of National Council of Negro Women for forty years; Presidential Medal of Freedom; Congressional Gold Medal
Huang Wenshan (M.A. 1920s) – Chinese scholar of cultural studies and activist during the May Fourth Movement^[95]
Charles Evans Hughes, one of the co-founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism
Ben Jealous (B.A.) – Rhodes Scholar; president and chief executive officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (2008–)
Wang Juntao (Ph.D. Pol. Sci., 2006) – one of alleged heads of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests^[96]^[97]
Steve Kelly, legal advocate for litigants who could not afford an attorney and for public housing tenants; consumer advocate
Rushworth Kidder (Ph.D.) – founded the Institute for Global Ethics
William Kunstler (LL.B. 1948) – civil rights and human rights activist; director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (1964–1972); co-founded, Center for Constitutional Rights
Corliss Lamont (Ph.D. 1932), American socialist philosopher, long-time director of ACLU (1932–1962); 1977 Humanist of the Year; 1981 Gandhi Peace Award
Eugene Lang (M.S. 1940) – philanthropist, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Ph.D.) – as a teenager, led one of the biggest suffrage parades in U.S. history; first Chinese woman to earn a doctorate at Columbia University
Charles K. Lexow, first attorney for the Legal Aid Society of New York City; brother of Clarence Lexow (class of 1872)
Li Lu (1996) – one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, first student at Columbia to simultaneously receive B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees
Vilma Socorro Martínez – served for almost ten years as president and general counsel of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund^[98]
Meghan McCain (B.A. 2007) – blogger and daughter of Arizona senator John McCain
James Meredith (L.B. 1968) – American civil rights movement figure, first African-American student at the University of Mississippi
Constance Baker Motley (LL.B. 1946) – attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (1945–64); Manhattan Borough president (1964–66)
Annie Land O'Berry – activist, relief worker, and philanthropist
Kelly Overton, animal rights activist
Antonia Pantoja (M.S. 1954) – Presidential Medal of Freedom; educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and founder of ASPIRA
Marshall Perlin (LL.B. 1942) – civil liberties lawyer, defended Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Anika Rahman (J.D. 1990) – president and CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women (2/2011)^[99]^[100]^[101]
Paul Rapoport (J.D. 1965) – co-founder of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center and the Gay Men's Health Crisis
Michael Ratner (J.D. 1969) – human rights activist on national and international level, current president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (co-founded by William Kunstler in 1969) – National Law Journal named him as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States (2006)
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (B.A. nuclear engineering, 1969) – American Sufi imam, author, and activist
Paul Robeson (LL.B. 1923) – civil and human rights activist, international social justice activist, writer, Spingarn Medal
Theodore Roosevelt – progressive reformer, conservationist, a leader of the Republican Party and the Progressive Party
Menachem Z. Rosensaft (1979) – a leader of the Second Generation Movement of children of Jewish survivors
Brad R. Roth (LL.M. 1992) – social and human rights activist, critic of torture policies in the administration of George W. Bush
Charles Ruthenberg (1909) – founder of the Communist Party of America (1919)
Nawal El Saadawi (M.A. 1966) – Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist
Mikheil Saakashvili (LL.M. 1994) – founder and leader of the United National Movement in Georgia (country), leader of the bloodless "Rose Revolution"
Theodore Shaw, civil rights leader, attorney, and educator; former 5th President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund^[102]^[103]^[104]^[105]
Arthur B. Spingarn (B.A. 1897) – leader in fight for civil rights for African Americans, third president of NAACP
Joel Elias Spingarn (B.A. 1895) – educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist; second president of NAACP; established Spingarn Medal
Abby Stein (B.A. expected 2019) – trans activist, educator, model, and speaker. First Openly trans person, and rabbi, from an Ultra Orthodox Jewish community.
Leon Sullivan (M.A. 1947) – Presidential Medal of Freedom; civil rights activist; anti-apartheid activist; long-time GM board member; Baptist minister
Franklin A. Thomas – president of the Ford Foundation (1976–91)
Judith Vladeck (1947) – civil rights advocate, particularly on behalf of women; helped set new legal precedents against sex discrimination and age discrimination
Faye Wattleton (M.S. 1967) – president of the Center for the Advancement of Women, National Women's Hall of Fame
Charles Weltner (1950) – advocate for racial equality, second individual to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award

Fictional characters

Grace Adler – Will & Grace
Amy, one of the two leads in Booksmart, played by Kaitlyn Dever, is going to attend Columbia.
Alexis Castle – Castle
Matt Camden and Ruthie Camden – 7th Heaven; originally from Glenoak went to Columbia Med School.
Dr. Eric Foreman – House, attended undergraduate school at Columbia
Matthew Murdock, Esq. – Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil; Columbia Law School
Dr. Victor Von Doom, Dr. Doom, Marvel Comics supervillain
Marshall Eriksen (alumnus of Columbia Law School) – How I Met Your Mother
Dr. Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic – leader of the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four
Benjamin "Ben" Gross – Never Have I Ever; gets accepted into and attends Columbia at the end of the series
Saskia Kupferberg – The Sopranos; attended Columbia College, Columbia University
Peter Parker – Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films; Columbia University physics student
Meadow Soprano – The Sopranos; alumna of Columbia College, Columbia University
Jessie Spano – Saved by the Bell
Asuka Sugo Future GPX Cyber Formula; Columbia University alumna
Will Truman – Will & Grace
Serena van der Woodsen – Gossip Girl
Blair Waldorf – Gossip Girl
Jamie Wellerstein – The Last Five Years; attended Columbia but dropped out upon finding success in writing
Jeff Winger – Community; his diploma from Columbia Law School is discovered to be from the country of Colombia, and he is forced to attend Greendale Community College

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