List of Hunter College people
The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Alumni[edit]
Nobel laureates[edit]
- Gertrude B. Elion - 1988, Medicine
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - 1977, Medicine
Pulitzer Prize winners[edit]
- Holland Cotter - art critic[1]
- Emily Grenauer - art critic[2]
- Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
- Liu Heung Sheng - photographer[3]
- James Wright - poet
National Medal of Science winners[edit]
- Mildred Cohn - 1982, Biological Sciences
- Mildred Dresselhaus - Engineering Sciences
- Gertrude B. Elion
Presidential Medal of Freedom winners[edit]
- Antonia Pantoja - activist
Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics[edit]
- Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
- Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
- Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
- Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
- Madeline Early - mathematician and university professor
- Elsie Giorgi - physician
- Erich Jarvis - neurologist
- Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
- Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
- Celia Maxwell - infecious disease physician and academic administrator
- Beatrice Mintz - pioneer of mammalian transgenesis
- Arlie Petters - pioneer of gravitational lensing
- Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Gillian Reynolds 1988 - third African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.[4]
- Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine
Business and economics[edit]
- Gerard Cafesjian - owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation)
- Alan S. Chartock - president and CEO of WAMC
- Leon Cooperman - billionaire hedge fund manager
- Robert A. Daly - CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Mollie Orshansky - developer of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the main poverty measure in the US
- Sylvia Field Porter - economist and journalist
- Melvin T. Tukman - co-founder and president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, an investment firm.[5]
Law and politics[edit]
Members of Congress[edit]
- Bella Abzug - Congresswoman, 1971-1977
- Eliot L. Engel - Congressman, 1989–present
- Edna F. Kelly - Congresswoman, 1949-1969
State figures[edit]
- Teresa Patterson Hughes - California State Senator
- Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates
City figures[edit]
- Tony Avella - New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
- Adolfo Carrión Jr. - Bronx borough president
- Tom Murphy - mayor of Pittsburgh
- John Timoney - Miami chief of police
Lawyers[edit]
- Floria Lasky - prominent theater lawyer
- Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School
Activists[edit]
- Norma Becker - anti-war activist
- Madeleine Cosman - health care and immigration advocate
- Alexander Dvorkin - anti-cult activist
- Theodora Lacey - civil rights activist
- Audre Lorde - activist, writer, poet
- Pauli Murray - activist, lawyer, priest, and author
- Antonia Pantoja - activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
- Mamphela Ramphele - Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
- Sandra Schnur - pioneer of disability rights
- Judith Vladeck - labor lawyer and civil rights advocate
Journalism and news[edit]
- Mohamad Bazzi - journalist
- Richard Cohen - Washington Post columnist
- Corine Hegland - journalist
- Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
- Shimon Prokupecz - CNN reporter
- Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician; expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict
Literature[edit]
- Grace Andreacchi - writer
- Maurice Berger - cultural critic
- Peter Carey - writer
- Colin Channer - writer
- Helen Gray Cone - poet
- Lucy Dawidowicz - author
- Martin Greif - writer, publisher
- Kaitlyn Greenidge - writer
- Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
- Ada Louise Huxtable - writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
- Colette Inez - poet, academic
- Swati Khurana - writer
- Malka Lee - poet
- Audre Lorde - poet, essayist
- Paule Marshall - author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," Dos Passos Prize for Literature
- Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
- Melissa Plaut - writer
- Sylvia Field Porter - economist, journalist
- Sonia Sanchez - poet
- Augusta Huiell Seaman - writer
- Sadia Shephard - writer
- Gary Shteyngart - author
- René Taupin - writer
- Ned Vizzini - writer
- Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
- James Wright - poet
- Ricky Anne Loew-Beer - Author, Artist & Photographer (married to fashion designer Ralph Lauren)
Film, theater, and television[edit]
- Ellen Barkin - actress
- Lewis Beale - film critic
- Ed Burns - actor, director
- Eva Condon - Broadway actress
- Judith Crist - film critic
- Ruby Dee - actress
- Vin Diesel - actor
- Hugh Downs - broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
- Tina Howe - Tony-nominated playwright
- Chad Hunt - director
- Richard Jeni - comedian
- Suzanne Kaaren - actress
- Ephraim Katz - author of The Film Encyclopedia
- Evelyn Lear - opera singer
- Natasha Leggero - actress and comic
- Maitland McDonagh - film critic
- Daniel Mulloy - screenwriter and film director
- Julianne Nicholson - actress
- Rhea Perlman - actress
- Dascha Polanco - actress
- Esther Rolle - actress
- Regina Resnik - opera singer
- Al Santos - actor
- Elliot Tiber - screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival
- Florence Ravenel - actress[6]
- Dreya Weber - producer
Art, architecture, and engineering[edit]
- Robert Altman - Rolling Stone photojournalist
- Firelei Báez - artist
- Maurice Berger - art critic and historian
- Jack Coggins - illustrator
- Francisco Costa - creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
- Jules de Balincourt - artist
- Jacqueline Donachie - artist
- Mildred Dresselhaus - engineer
- Echo Eggebrecht - painter
- Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
- Gabriele Evertz - abstract artist
- Denise Green - painter
- Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
- Mel Kendrick - artist
- Kathleen Kucka - painter
- Terrance Lindall - artist
- Robert Morris - sculptor
- Jill Nathanson - painter[7]
- Doug Ohlson - abstract artist[8]
- Lucy Olcott - art historian and dealer
- Danielle Orchard - painter
- Mitchell Silver - urban planner
- Jeff Sonhouse - (MFA 2001), painter[9]
- Louis A. Waldman - art historian
- Dan Walsh - painter
- Brian Wood - visual artist
Music[edit]
- David Sampson - composer
- Ashley Choi - lead singer of the band Ladies' Code[10]
- John Mateer - recording artist
Military[edit]
- Julia Jeter Cleckley - first African-American female line officer to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Army National Guard
- Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - Medal of Honor recipient
Education[edit]
- Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
- Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
- John Taylor Gatto - author of seminal books on education
- Haskel Greenfield - archaeologist at University of Manitoba
- Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) - President of Brooklyn College
- Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
- Burton Pike - professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
- Jennifer Raab - president of Hunter College
- Henning Rübsam - choreographer, dance historian The Juilliard School
- Kay Toliver - mathematics educator
Fictional alumni[edit]
- Chad Kroski
- Harry "Parry" Sagan from The Fisher King
- Daniel Bae from The Sun Is Also a Star
Non-graduating attendees[edit]
- Harry Connick, Jr - musician
- Bobby Darin - musician
- Nikolai Fraiture - bassist, The Strokes
- April Lee Hernández - actress
- Grace Paley - writer
- Nick Valensi - guitarist, The Strokes
- Mitski - musician
Faculty[edit]
- Meena Alexander - poet and author
- James Aronson - journalist, founder of the National Guardian
- John Avlon - author, speech writer for Rudy Giuliani
- Jacqueline Barton - chemist
- William Baziotes - painter
- Harry Binswanger - philosopher
- Gertrude Blanch - pioneer of numerical analysis and computation
- Robert A. Brady - economist
- José Ferrer Canales - writer, activist
- Rosario Candela - influential architect
- Peter Carey - novelist
- Tina Chang - poet
- John Henrik Clarke - historian
- Buck Clayton - musician
- Daniel I. A. Cohen - mathematician and computer scientist
- Janet Cox-Rearick - art historian
- Noah Creshevsky - composer
- Susan Crile - painter
- Emil Draitser - author
- Cora DuBois - cultural anthropologist
- Stuart Ewen
- Norman Finkelstein - political scientist
- Mary Flanagan
- Helen Frankenthaler - artist
- Bertram Myron Gross - author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act
- John Hollander - poet, literary critic
- Seymour Itzkoff - researcher
- George E. Kimball - pioneer of operations research algorithms
- Dong Kingman - artist
- Lyman Kipp - sculptor
- Rosalind E. Krauss - art critic
- Reiner Leist - photographer
- Nancy Milford - author
- Paul Moravec - composer
- Robert Motherwell - artist
- Leonard Peikoff - philosopher, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
- Mina Rees - mathematician[11]
- Richard Reeves - political author
- Ruth Sager - geneticist
- Carolee Schneemann - artist
- Blake Schwarzenbach - musician
- Michael Shernoff - specialist in gay community mental health
- Tony Smith - sculptor
- Harry Edward Stinson - sculptor
- John Kennedy Toole - author
- Lionel Trilling - literary critic
- Nydia Velázquez - U.S. Congresswoman, New York, 1993–present
- Alice von Hildebrand - philosopher and author
- Robert C. Weaver - first U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Blanche Colton Williams, professor of English literature and head of the English department
- Nari Ward, professor of combined media
Administration[edit]
- David A. Caputo - president of Hunter College; president of Pace University
- Paul LeClerc - president of Hunter College; president and CEO of New York Public Library
- Michael P. Riccards - political scientist; author; executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
- Donna Shalala - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; 10th president of Hunter College; president of University of Miami
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- ^ "Company Overview of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, Inc.: Melvin Theodore Tukman". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ "Rialto Players to Offer Mystery Play; Florence Ravenel". The Journal Times. September 29, 1928. p. 8. Retrieved May 4, 2024.
- ^ Rogers, Pat (June 25, 2018). "Artists Converse: Jill Nathanson in Conversation with A.V. Ryan at Berry Campbell". Hamptons Art Hub.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "Doug Ohlson, Painter of Vivid Abstracts, Dies at 73", The New York Times, July 23, 2010. Accessed July 24, 2010.
- ^ Alexandre Keilmann (2016-09-15). "Particulaars: An exhibition of new works by Jeff Sonhouse". BEAST Magazine. ISSN 2418-4799. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ "[더★프로필] '레이디스 코드' 애슐리, "엄친아 리더? 마음은 여려요" :: The Star". Archived from the original on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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