List of City College of New York people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the City College of New York.

Nobel laureates

Kenneth Arrow 1940 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 1972 Robert J. Aumann 1950 – Nobel laureate in Economics, 2005 Julius Axelrod 1933 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1970 Herbert Hauptman 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985 Robert Hofstadter 1935 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961 Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985Jerome Karle: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985, Nobel Prize. Accessed September 22, 2009. Henry Kissinger 1923 (did not graduate) – winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959 Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988 John O'Keefe 1963 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 2014 Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978 Julian Schwinger (transferred to Columbia University) – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

Graduates of Business School (which became Baruch College in 1968)

William F. Aldinger III 1969 – chairman and CEO, HSBC North America Holdings Abraham Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City Akis Cleanthous – former minister of Education and Culture, Cyprus Monte Conner 1986 – senior vice president of Roadrunner Records, A&R Department Michael Grimm – member of United States House of Representatives for New York's 13th congressional district Sidney Harman 1939 – founder and executive chairman of Harman Kardon; owner of Newsweek Ralph Lauren (dropped out) – fashion designer, Polo Carlos D. Ramirez – publisher of El Diario La PrensaRavo, Nick. "Carlos D. Ramirez, 52, Publisher of El Diario", The New York Times, July 13, 1999. Retrieved October 9, 2009. Carl Spielvogel BBA 1957 – former U.S. ambassador to Slovakia Craig A. Stanley – member of New Jersey General Assembly, 1996–2008 George Weissman BBA 1939 – former CEO, Philip Morris International Larry Zicklin 1957 – former chairman, Neuberger Berman

Politics, history, government, sociology, philosophy, and religion

Herman Badillo 1951 – congressman and chairman of CUNY's board of trustees Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier and adviser to American presidents; author of the Baruch Plan Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974–1977 Max Beauvoir 1958 – Haitian Vodou priest and supreme chief Daniel Bell 1939 – sociologist, professor at Harvard University Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University Roswell B. Burchard 1880 – lieutenant governor of Rhode Island 1913–1915 Jacob A. Cantor 1875 – congressman, state senator, Manhattan borough president Frank Caplan – educator, founder of children's educational toy company Creative Playthings Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian-American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly Henry Cohen 1943 – director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; founding dean of the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at The New School Morris Raphael Cohen – graduate of CCNY and professor at CCNY; philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar; namesake of the Cohen Library at CCNY Marty Dolin – former Manitoba NDP MLA for Kildonan Philip Elman – Justice Department attorney and Federal Trade Commission member, wrote government's brief in Brown v. Board of Education Benjamin B. Ferencz – international jurist and criminal justice pioneer; co-winner of the 2009 Erasmus Prize Louis Finkelstein – Conservative Jewish theologian Abraham Foxman – national director of the Anti-Defamation League Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court George Friedman – founder of Stratfor, author, professor of political science, security and defense analyst Nathan Glazer – sociologist, professor at Harvard University; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Daniel Patrick Moynihan Steven Goldberg – president of the sociology department of CCNY Paul Goodman – writer, social critic, public intellectual; author of The Empire City, Growing Up Absurd, and Communitas Edmund Gordon – founding director of the Institute for Research on African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) at CCNY Stanley Graze – economist and former lecturer at CCNY; worked in the United Nations, State Department, US Army and the Brookings Institution; MA from Columbia University Anthony J. Griffin – congressman and state senator Leon Harrison – rabbi Carl G. Hempel – philosopher of science and professor of philosophy at CCNY Sidney Hook 1923 – writer and philosopher Benjamin Kaplan 1929 – helped write the indictments of Nazi war criminals who were tried at Nuremberg; served as Nuremberg prosecutor; distinguished Harvard law professor Charles E. H. Kauvar 1900 – rabbi in Denver, Colorado Henry Kissinger – secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Israel Knox – philosophy professor Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978–1989 Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative intellectual, professor at New York University Diana Lachatanere 1969 – archivist David Landes 1942 – historian, professor at Harvard University Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958–1991 Milton Leitenberg – arms control expert Felix A. Levy 1904 – rabbi Albert L. Lewis – conservative rabbi, president of international Rabbinical Assembly Samuel A. Lewis – politician and philanthropist in the late 19th century; a trustee of the college Guillermo Linares 1975 – first Dominican American New York City Council member Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociology, trade unions Deborah Lipstadt 1969 – historian; combatted Holocaust denial Rachel Lloyd – applied urban anthropology graduate; founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in New York Joseph Lookstein – rabbi and president of Bar-Ilan University Jay Lovestone 1918 – radical political leader and trade union functionaryTed Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster. New York: Random House, 1999; pg. 10. Richard Lowitt (B.A.) – historian, Guggenheim Fellow Sister Jean M. Marshall (M.A.) – received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton in 1999 Sidney Morgenbesser – philosopher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, known to have witheringly applied Jewish humor to issues in metaphysics and epistemology Henry Morgenthau, Sr. – financier and diplomat; as ambassador to Ottoman Empire attempted to warn the world about the Armenian genocide Daniel Patrick Moynihan – spent a year at CCNY before he was drafted; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Nathan Glazer; ambassador to the U.N.; senator representing New York Massimo Pigliucci – scientist and philosopher William Popper – Orientalist and professor Colin L. Powell 1961 – U.S. secretary of state, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army general, national security advisor Jacob S. Raisin – rabbi Simon H. Rifkind 1922 – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Donald A. Ritchie 1967 – historian, currently historian of the United States Senate Alexander Rosenberg – Lakatos Award-winning philosopher at Duke University Julius Rosenberg – executed for espionage during the Cold War Bertrand Russell – invited by the philosophy department in 1940 to become a professor but his appointment was blocked by a suit and timidity on the part of the Board of Higher Education; see the Bertrand Russell Case Bayard Rustin (did not graduate) – African-American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights (an (adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and main organizer of the March on Washington in 1963) Bernice Sandler (M.A. 1950) – the "godmother of Title IX" Oscar Schachter 1936 – law professor and United Nations aide Herbert Schiller 1940 – media critic and communications theorist Livingston Rowe Schuyler (1868–1931), historian and Episcopal priest George D. Schwab 1954 – political scientist, editor and academic, president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy Henry Schwarzschild – founder of NCADP, LCDC, and head of ACLU's Capital Punishment project in America Allen G. Schwartz – U.S. federal judge Morrie Schwartz – sociologist, author, and subject of Tuesdays with Morrie Philip Selznick 1938 – sociologist, organizational theorist Assata Shakur – civil rights activist; involved in May 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which a state trooper was killed Moses J. Stroock 1886 – lawyer Myron Sulzberger – lawyer, politician, and judge Stanley S. Surrey 1929 – tax law scholar, assistant secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy 1961–1969 Samuel Turk – rabbi, religious leader, columnist Friedrich Ulfers 1959 – deconstructionist writer, dean of Media and Communications at European Graduate School, and NYU professor Robert F. Wagner, Sr. – U.S. senator from New York, 1927–1949; introduced the National Labor Relations Act Michele Wallace 1975 – major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies General Alexander S. Webb – second president of the college; winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg Melvyn Weiss (1935–2018, class of 1956) – attorney who co-founded the plaintiff class action law firm Milberg WeissRoberts, Sam. "Melvyn Weiss, Lawyer Who Fought Corporate Fraud, Dies at 82", The New York Times, February 5, 2018. Accessed February 5, 2018. "He helped his father keep the books for small businesses while earning a bachelor’s degree from City College of New York in 1956. Stephen Samuel Wise 1891 – Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist Bertram D. Wolfe 1916 – political activist and historianBertram D. Wolfe, A Life in Two Centuries. New York: Stein and Day, 1981; pg. 152.

Psychology Solomon Asch 1928 – psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments Morton Bard – psychologist, trailblazer in crisis intervention and author of The Crime Victim's Book Isidor Chein 1932 – minority group identification, co-wrote amicus curiae brief in Brown v. Board of Education Kenneth Clark – CCNY professor who studied attitudes toward race and testified at Brown v. Board of Education Jacob Cohen – psychologist and statistician, developed the coefficient kappa to assess the reliability of ratings of discrete categories of behavior (e.g., diagnoses of mental disorder); expert on factor analysis and regression analysis Morton Deutsch – social psychology, conflict resolution Milton Diamond 1955 – known for following up the case of David Reimer Leonard Eron – expert on the development of aggression Leon Festinger 1939 – social psychologist; pioneered experimental social psychology, the theory of cognitive dissonance Robert Glaser – educational psychology Henry Gleitman – cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics Arno Gruen – psychologist and psychoanalyst Samuel Guze – psychiatrist; pioneered the emergence of psychiatry's ability to validly diagnose disorders Richard Herrnstein – quantitative analysis of behavior; co-author of The Bell Curve; Harvard professor Frederick Irving Herzberg – two-factor theory of job satisfaction Richard Lazarus – emotion, stress, and coping Abraham Maslow – psychologist, known for his hierarchy of needs Barry Mehler – psychologist, MA from CCNY, 1972 Walter Mischel – social and personality psychology Gardner Murphy – professor of psychology at City College Charles Nemeroff – chair of psychiatry at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Vera S. Paster – clinical psychologist known for her contributions to ethnic minority issues and mental health Irvin Rock 1947; MA 1948 – professor of psychology at Berkeley, leading researcher on perception Margaret Rosario – clinical psychologist known for her research on human sexuality Irvin S. Schonfeld – psychology faculty member and leading researcher in the field of occupational health psychology