The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent NYU schools and colleges:
Name | Year | School | Degree | Notability | Reference |
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| 1936 | GSAS | Ph.D. | First president of the University of South Florida in Tampa; interim president of the University of Florida in Gainesville | [6] [7] |
| | | | Israeli economist and President of Tel Aviv University | |
| 2002 | IFA | Ph.D. | Educator, author and curator at The Museum of Modern Art, NY | [8] |
| 1974 | GSAS | Ph.D. | First president of the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati | [9] [10] |
| | POLY | | Cooper Union Engineering School Dean; served as Dean at Pratt Institute; the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States | |
| 1948 | WSC | B.A. | Seventeenth president of Rutgers University; professor at NYU Law | [11] |
| | POLY | | Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | | Master of Pedagogy | First president of Brooklyn College | [12] |
| 1971, 1980 | GSAS | M.S., Ph.D. | President of the Fashion Institute of Technology | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | | | Founder and first president of Hofstra University | [13] |
| | POLY | | Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and École Normale Supérieure, Paris | |
| 1956 | STEINHARDT | M.A. | Chairperson and first dean of the College of Communication of Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Dean of the College of Mass Communication at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila; Fulbright Scholar | |
Serena Chen | 1997 | | Ph.D | Chair of the Psychology Department at U.C. Berkeley | |
| | GSAS | M.A., Ph.D. | Fifth President of SUNY Farmingdale | [14] [15] |
| | POLY | | Chair of engineering and applied sciences at the California Institute of Technology; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department Head from 2001 to 2008 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; IEEE Fellow | |
| | Law | J.D. | Founding president of Finch College | |
| 1961, 1962, 1964 | POLY | B.S., M.S., Ph.D. | Professor emeritus and former head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT (1997–2003); former associate director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center | [16] [17] [18] |
| 1986 | Stern | M.B.A. | President, Drexel University | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1978 | STEINHARDT | M.A. | President and Chancellor, Loyola University Chicago | [19] |
| | POLY | | Chairman of the chemical engineering department at Johns Hopkins University; National Academy of Science member; helped develop methods of separating solid waste components | [20] |
Dorit Geva | 2006 | | Ph.D. | Founding Dean of undergraduate studies at Central European University | [21] |
| | POLY | | Dean of the Tufts University School of Engineering; Gordon Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| 1958 | Stern | M.B.A. | 15th President of St. Francis College | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1952 | POLY | Ph.D. | Chair of the Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley; professor at Rice University; designer of the Rice Institute Computer; served as Secretary of the Academic Senate, University of California from 1978 to 1980 | [22] |
| | POLY | | Chair of the Chemistry Department at Rutgers University | |
| 1977 | GSAS | Ph.D. | Dean, INSEAD, 2000–2006 | [23] |
| | POLY | | President of New York City College of Technology | |
| 1972, 1975 | Law | B.A., J.D. | Fourth president of Yeshiva University, 2003–2017 | [24] |
| | POLY | | Vice Chancellor of CUNY; President of Tarrant County College; dean at New York Institute of Technology; dean at Adelphi University; overseer for Colby College | [25] [26] |
| 1959 | | Ph.D. | 'Father of Korean Archaeology', Prof. Seoul National University | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | Chair of Biology at Tufts University | |
| 1948 | WSC | B.A. | The "Pope of the unbelievers" | [27] |
| | POLY | | President and chancellor of Yeshiva University | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1969 | Stern | M.B.A. | President, University of Wisconsin–Madison; President of the University of Wisconsin System | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1983 | Law | J.D. | President of the University of Nebraska; Chancellor of the City University of New York | [28] |
| 1958 | ENG | M.S. | President of Shimer College | [29] |
| 1964 | GSAS | Ph.D. | Intellectual heir of Ayn Rand; leading figure of Objectivism | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of the Philippines College of Engineering | |
| | Law | J.D. | President of Hood College; sat on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College from 1994 to 2007; currently a Trustee Emerita of Bryn Mawr College | |
| | GSAS | Ph.D. | Professor and chair of physics at Case Western Reserve University | |
| 1917 | Stern | B.A. | Founder and first president of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines | [30] |
Wallace S. Sayre | | GSAS | Ph.D. | Professor of Columbia University; namesake of Sayre's law | |
| | POLY | | President of University of Arizona | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | |
| | | M.D. | Founding dean of Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1984 | GSAS | Ph.D. | Dean of Lander College for Women and Vice President of Touro College | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Law | J.D. | Chairman of Board of Directors of Georgetown University | |
| | Law | J.D. | President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice | |
| | POLY | | President of Milwaukee School of Engineering | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | President of Ohio Wesleyan University | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1838 | | B.A. | Led New Brunswick seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901 | [31] |
| 1951 | CAS | B.A. | Author of A People's History of the United States | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | Dean of Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech | |
| | POLY | | Founder and Professor of the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Member of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering; Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kyoto University; National Research Council Fellow at Cambridge University; Research Associate at Princeton University | |
| | POLY | | Head of Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McGill University; Fellow of the IEEE | |
| | POLY | | Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology | |
| | POLY | | Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology | |
| | POLY | | Dean and Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at California State University, San Marcos; former Dean of the School of Business, University of California, Irvine | [32] |
| | POLY | | Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Engineering | |
| | POLY | | Chair emeritus of the Board of Swarthmore College | [33] |
| | POLY | | Founder and first dean of New York University Stern School of Business | |
| | POLY | | Dean at University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| | POLY | | Dean at University of Southern California | [34] |
| | Law | B.A., J.D. | Chairman of the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees | |
| | POLY | | Former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at Columbia University; Russ Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | STERN | MBA | Dean of the School of Management at Simmons College | |
| | ENG | | Founder of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| | ENG | | President of New York Institute of Technology | |
| | ENG | | Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park; professor at University of Virginia; awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal | |
| | POLY | | Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford University; former director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource | [35] |
| | POLY | | Dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering; served as chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Duke University; professor at University of Pennsylvania; director of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory | [36] |
| | WAG | | Vice chancellor at the City University of New York | |
| | | | President of John Jay College | |
| | | | Founder of American Medical Missionary College; invented corn flakes | |
| 2005 | | M.A. | Assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist; endowed Chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater | [37] | |
Name | Year | School | Degree | Notability | Reference |
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| 2000 | CAS | B.S. | UCLA Professor & Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1880 | Med | Ph.D | Meteorologist and medical doctor | [38] |
| 1984 | GSAS | Ph.D. | Victim of unsolved 2005 homicide at New Jersey water treatment plant | [39] |
| 1948 | CAS | B.A. | Shakespearean scholar | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1937 | DENT | D.D.S. | Author of Sicher and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1929 | ARTS | B.S. | Inventor of the first stereo radio-phonograph | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1949 | | M.A. | Associate professor emeritus of education; physical education instructor; longest-serving faculty member of the University of Maine at Presque Isle | [40] |
| | GSAS | Ph.D. | Inventor of the Hansch equation | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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Robert Qiu | 1955 | | Ph.D. | | |
| 1990 | | Ph.D. | Professor at Bocconi University, Milan; director of Fondazione RDB | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1955 | Med | M.D. | 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1947, 1949 | GSAS | B.A., Ph.D. | 2005 Abel Prize laureate | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1952 | DENT | DDS | Pioneer in oral implantology; nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969 | [41] [42] |
| 1966 | ENG | B.S. | Invented public key cryptography; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; Turing Award winner | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1875 | Med | | Co-inventor of Kellogg's cereals | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1970 | Courant | Ph.D. | Director of the Fields Institute | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1969 | Courant | Ph.D. | Creator of the Korn shell | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1986, 1989 | Courant | M.S., Ph.D. | Computer scientist; professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Sloan Research Fellow | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | | Postdoc | Chief scientist of the Viking missions to Mars in 1976 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1979 | Courant | Ph.D. | Professor at Columbia University | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1951 | | Ph.D. | National Academy of Science | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1978–1982 | Med | M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D. | Astronaut | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1949 | Courant | Ph.D. | National Academy of Science | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1944 | GSAS | Ph.D. | 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1941 | GSAS | Ph.D. | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1969 | ARTS | B.S. | Inventor of the floating raft system | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1962 | CAS | B.A. | First commercial space flight customer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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Victor Twersky[43] | 1950 | GSAS | Ph.D. | OSA Fellow, IEEE Fellow and professor (1966–1990) of applied mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1836 | | B.A. | Inventor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1927 | WSC | B.S. | 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1960 | | M.A | Co-founder and director, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1951 | ENG | B.S. | Air Force test pilot | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1951 | GSAS | M.A. | Works include the World Trade Center | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | POLY | | Engineer-in-chief of the United States Navy; Congressional Gold Medal winner | |
| | POLY | | mathematician, inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society | |
| | POLY | | 2005 president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | |
| 1961 | ENG | B.S. | International soccer player and academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Engineering | [44] |
| | POLY | | Received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards | |
| | POLY | | Nuclear engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Cooper Union; NASA aerospace engineer | |
| | POLY | | Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it. Developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee | |
| | POLY | | Author of DOS-C, the FreeDOS kernel | |
| | POLY | | Theoretical physicist best known for his original works on Brownian motion and ratchets, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum) | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Princeton University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Harvard University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Columbia University; American Academy of Arts and Sciences member; awarded the Garvan-Olin Medal in 1983 for her work on the enzyme collagenase | |
| | POLY | | Microscopic and integrated circuitry pioneer; inventor of tape-automated bonding | |
| | POLY | | Fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Bridge, making cable-lift elevators possible; contributed to the inventions of lockmaking, submarine, design of the modern refrigerator, A/C generator, electric motors, and transformer; held 240 patents | [45] |
| | POLY | | Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory; professor at University of Chicago; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center | |
| | POLY | | Discovered how to connect electrical conductors still used today. Assembled one of the world's most important history of science libraries, now housed at MIT and the National Museum of American History | |
| | POLY | | Played a prominent role in the development of permeable contact lenses | |
| | POLY | | Astronaut; NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery | |
| | POLY | | Italian astronaut, mission specialist at STS-120 Space Shuttle mission | |
| | POLY | | Scientist; "father" of the Apollo Lunar Module | |
| | POLY | | DARPA director; MIT professor emeritus | |
| | POLY | MS, PhD | MIT professor and research scientist | [46] |
| 1997 | POLY | B.S. | Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | [47] [48] |
| | POLY | | Pioneered techniques of analog audio recording, and radio and television broadcasting; was chief audio engineer at CBS, and a researcher at MIT and Harvard. | [49] [50] |
| | POLY | | Co-inventor of the Blackman-Harris Filter | |
| | POLY | | Designer of the Pentagon | |
| | POLY | | Inventor who made lasting contributions to electrochemistry and solid-state technology, including the founding of Duracell; held more than 300 patents | |
| | POLY | | Fourth President of Israel; chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department | |
| | POLY | | Chairman of the University of California's President's Council on the National Laboratories; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Trinity College, Dublin; Fulbright scholar | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National Academy of Engineering member; developed rotational radiation therapy; with Robert J. Van de Graaff, developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators | |
| | POLY | | Industrial chemist; invented methods to produce sodium metal and sodium hydroxide from soda ash and salt respectively; awarded Elliott Cresson Medal | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Chicago; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem | |
| | POLY | | Chief Scientist at Telcordia Technologies | |
| | POLY | | Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, and University of Cambridge. Invented the Multitaper | |
| | POLY | | President of American Physical Society; professor at Stanford University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of California, Berkeley; invented Ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Harvard University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at UCLA; awarded Turing Award in 2011; Member of the National Academy of Engineering; Member of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Columbia University; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Imperial College London and Duke University; invented G-networks and random neural network | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Rutgers University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Lehigh University | |
| | GSAS | | Wolf Prize in Physics winner; professor at Princeton University; worked with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, where he helped design nuclear reactors; helped design and build the hydrogen bomb; Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Washington; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College; Professor of Ophthalmic Science at Columbia University Medical Center | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Johns Hopkins University; research engineer and fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Princeton University; Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | COURANT | | Fields Medal winner; proved the soul conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Boston University; National Academy of Engineering member; Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Washington; Member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Cornell University; Fulbright scholar | [51] |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Columbia University | |
| | POLY | | Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor at Johns Hopkins University | |
| | POLY | | Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | |
| | ENG | | Professor at UCLA | |
| | POLY | | Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland; invented the quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit, the lateral transistor, and the wireless microphone; held 61 patents | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Illinois | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Minnesota and SUNY Buffalo | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Stony Brook University; National Academy of Engineering member; holds 40 patents | |
| | POLY | | Professor at University of Maryland | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Rice University; holds 33 patents; member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| | POLY | | President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |
| | POLY | | President of the American Society of Civil Engineers | |
| | POLY | | President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |
| | POLY | | President of the American Chemical Society; designed fire-resistant polymers. | [52] |
| | WSC | | Made major contributions to sociological theory | |
| | POLY | | Professor emeritus at New York University | |
| | POLY | | Professor at New York University | |
| | POLY | | IEEE Edison Medal winner; President of American Institute of Electrical Engineers; National Academy of Sciences member | |
| | POLY | | Invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID) | |
| | POLY | | Invented the first telephone handset | |
| | POLY | | National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner; Charles Stark Draper Prize winner; Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Ameritech; National Academy of Engineering member | |
| | POLY | | Inventor of Lite beer | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University | |
| | POLY | | Chief Engineer of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | |
| | POLY | | Professor and founding director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia | |
| | POLY | | Professor at Columbia University | |
| 1951, 1954 | POLY | BSEE, MSEE | IEEE president in 1987; served as Vice President of BAE Systems; Fellow of the IEEE | [53] |
| | POLY | | Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon; invented devices ranging from a multiple-head pasta extruder for the Ronzoni Company to miniaturized registers for the U.S. Army Signal Corps; Chief Scientist at DuPont | [54] [55] |
| | POLY | | Designed and installed the Panama Canal locks | |
| | POLY | | Created Olivetti Elea, Italy's first computer | |
| | POLY | | Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington Metro, Ohio Turnpike and Connecticut Turnpike | |
| | POLY | | Developed the practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin | |
| | POLY | | Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT); Member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| | POLY | | Wolf Prize in Physics winner; best known for his part in the discovery of what is now called Bekenstein-Hawking radiation | [56] |
| | ENG | | Holder of 605 patents; established the Lemelson Foundation; one of the most prolific inventors in American history; several of his inventions and works in the fields in which he patented have made possible, either wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in tape players | |
| 1983, 1987 | POLY | M.S., Ph.D. | Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology best known for his contributions to subband and wavelet transforms | |
| | POLY | | Contributed to the development of submarine communications facilities; Member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| | POLY | | Helped develop commercial television | [57] |
| | POLY | | Professor at Johns Hopkins University; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| | POLY | | Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker | |
| | ENG | | Winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize | |
| | ENG | | professor at Princeton University | |
| | ENG | | Inventor of active noise cancellation | |
| | ENG | | Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame | |
| | ENG | | Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1973–1975); Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | ENG | | Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1959–1961) | |
| | ENG | | Co-director of the Systems Engineering Practice Office of MITRE Corporation | |
| | POLY | | Designed what was until very recently the largest radio telescope in the world | [58] |
| | POLY | | Developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies; served as the project manager on NASA's Apollo Space Radiation Warning System program; National Academy of Engineering member | [59] |
| | POLY | | Patented the suspension system for the largest radio telescope in the world | |
| | POLY | | Turkish-American engineering scientist; professor at Princeton University; namesake of the Eringen Medal | |
| | ENG | | Norwegian nuclear physicist and businessperson; Member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| 1956, 1960 | POLY | M.E.E., D.E.E. | Pioneer in digital signal processing. Professor at Princeton University; member of the National Academy of Engineering; Life Fellow of IEEE | [60] |
| | POLY | | Joseph F. Cullman III professor and researcher at Yale University | [61] |
| | ENG | | Worked on the Apollo Moon Program; served as advisor to the US Congress; designed LoPresti Fury; designed the Grumman American AA-5; Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering at Mooney Aviation Company, where he designed the Mooney 201 | |
| | | | Professor of history at Hofstra University; well-known and prolific writer of business histories | |
| | | | Anthropologist; Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | POLY | | Mathematics professor at Stanford University and Cornell University; won Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory; proved Ax–Grothendieck theorem and Ax–Kochen theorem; Guggenheim Fellow | |
| | ENG | | Developed the first digital image scanner | |
| 1983 | GSAS | Ph.D. | Nuclear physicist; first woman to become a Commissioner at the US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); National Academy of Engineering member | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1942 | Courant | Ph.D. | Statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist; professor at Cornell University, Columbia University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; proved Wald–Wolfowitz runs test and Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1939, 1945 | MED | M.S., MD | Developed radioimmunoassay with Rosalyn Yalow, who received a Nobel Prize for their joint work after Berson's death. | [62] |
| 1963 | WSC | B.A. | Art historian, Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Minnesota | [63] |
Cortney Lollar | 2002 | LAW | J.D. | Distinguished professor of Law at University of Kentucky | [64] | |
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| Stern, M.B.A., 1980 | Founder and former CEO of Comverse Technology | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS B.A. | Attorney and businessman; former owner of the Houston Rockets NBA team | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, B.S., 1981 | Billionaire, founder of Berggruen Institute | [87] |
| CAS B.A. | Non-profit executive, heir and philanthropist; son of George Soros | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY, 1913–14 | Co-founder of Amerasia' involved in the 1945 Amerasia espionage affair | [88] |
| POLY, B.S., 1980 | Chairman and CEO of Xerox | [89] |
| POLY, B.S., 1868 | Founder of IBM | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| A.B.; LLM | Chairman and former CEO of Griffon Corporation | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, MBA | CEO of Griffon Corporation; former president and director of Wynn Resorts | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | Co-founder of Futurism, executive producer | [90] [91] |
| Stern, MBA | Co-founder and managing partner of Dalton Investments LLC | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Graduate studies | Founder of Henderson Advertising Agency in Greenville, South Carolina; Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1970 | [92] |
| POLY, B.S., 1960 | Former chairman and CEO of Sears | [93] |
| POLY, M.S., 1985 | Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin | [94] |
| Stern, B.S., 1991 | Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur; known as "Iceland's first billionaire" | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law L.L.M., 1967 | Founder and Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| economics degree 1977 WSUC | Designer of modern snowboard and founder of Burton Snowboards | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Art Therapy * | Founder of Ben & Jerry's | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1947 | Founded Hudson News in 1987 | [95] |
| CAS B.A. | Jewelry designer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1955, B.S. Law 1957, J.D. | Former CEO and chairman, MetLife | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG, B.S. | CEO of Paramount Pictures | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Managing partner and chairman of the board of Lord Abbett | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. 1984 | Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, CEO and CFO of Viacom | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, B.S. 1972 | Hedge fund manager | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | Businessman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1973, M.B.A. | CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | MTV Networks | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, 1973, 1975, M.B.A, Ph.D. | Founder of The George Foundation and Multinational Computer Models | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1948, M.B.A | CEO of Palai Central Bank (1956–60) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1961, B.S. | Chairman and CEO of American Express (1994–2001); Chairman of the American International Group (AIG) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1948 1950 1977, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. | Former chairman of the Federal Reserve | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1977, M.B.A. | CEO of NASDAQ | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1998, B.A. | Founder of | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| MED | Investor and activist shareholder | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1948, B.A., Stern 1958, Ph.D. | Wall Street financial consultant | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | Host of Nightly Business Report | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1955, LL.B. | Founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Video game designer, co-founder of The Code Liberation Foundation | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1976, M.B.A. | CFO of Pfizer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | President of DC Comics | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1955, J.D. | Co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG, M.S. | CEO of Tele-Communications Inc.; CEO of Liberty Media; now chairman of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Liberty Interactive, all of which he is the majority owner; owns 49% of Starz Inc. and 29% of Discovery Communications | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Vice President of Boeing Company | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG, B.S., M.S. | Founder of Crestron Electronics | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1977, M.B.A. | President of Federal Reserve Bank, Boston | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG, B.S., Stern, M.B.A. | Chairman and CEO of Qwest | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| coursework* | Founder of Neuberger & Berman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, B.A. | Commodities trader and hedge fund manager; indicted for tax evasion | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1964, M.B.A. | CEO and owner of Barnes & Noble | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1985, M.B.A. | Rothschild Banque | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1961 | Advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and Bozell Worldwide; creator of the "Got Milk?" advertising campaign | [96] |
| Stern | Founder, chairman and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG, B.S., 1924 | Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Grumman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Co-founder and current chairman of Tellabs | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Businessman invested in real estate, aviation, and groceries; radio talk show host; owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Chief executive at McKinsey & Company; Director at Amgen; serves on the Harvard Business School Board of Directors of the Associates, the Management Education Council of the Wharton School, the U.S. and Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of the International Executive Service Corps | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1956, B.S. | Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS B.A., 1952 | Owner of World Trade Center site | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Courant, M.S. | Investor, hedge fund manager | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A. | Real estate investor | [97] |
| Stern 1957, B.S., 1959, M.B.A. | Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business; CEO of The Hartz Group | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | Member of International Olympic Committee | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS B.A., 1946 | Founder of Syms Clothing | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1947, B.S. | Founder of Automatic Data Processing, philanthropist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International Inc.; former companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | [98] [99] |
| Stern 1942, B.Sc. | Media mogul; president and chief executive officer, CBS | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Gallatin 1999, B.A. | Supermodel | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1979, M.B.A. | Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | Founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Creator of Twitter; founder and CEO of Block, Inc. | [100] |
| POLY | Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering | |
| POLY | Invested and supported entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb and his electricity network; majority shareholder and chairman of The New York Times | |
| POLY | Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority | |
| POLY | President of the MTA Capital Construction | |
| POLY | Former chairman of Yahoo! | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of AECOM | |
| POLY | Chairman, president and CEO of Outboard Marine Corporation | |
| POLY | Chairman of Ingersoll Rand | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of EL AL | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of TPV Technology | |
| POLY | Former chairman and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker | |
| POLY | Former chairman and CEO of Pfizer; Member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| POLY | Former chairman and CEO of General Motors | |
| POLY | Former chairman and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. | |
| POLY | Former chairman and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group | |
| POLY | Founder and General Partner of Matrix Partners | |
| POLY | Former chairman, founder and CEO of Burndy | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of Religare | |
| POLY | Co-founded Symbol Technologies with POLY graduate Shelley A. Harrison | |
| POLY | Co-founded Duracell | |
| POLY, B.S., M.S. | Former chairman, founder and CEO of NetJets; current chairman and founder of Milestone Aviation Group. | [101] [102] |
| POLY | Founder and former CEO of Soros Associates; brother of George Soros | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of KM Group | |
| POLY | CEO and President of Chemtura | |
| POLY | Vice president at Citibank | |
| POLY | CEO of BAMnet; founded a DSL company, which was subsequently sold for approximately $50M | |
| Stern | Vice Chairman, President of American Express | [103] [104] |
| POLY | Founder of RadiSys and IP Fabrics | |
| POLY | Vice president of General Instrument; senior advisor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University | |
| POLY | Founder and former CEO of Poqet Computer Corporation; former CEO of Alien Technology and Peregrine Semiconductor; Executive Vice President of Fairchild Semiconductor | |
| POLY | President, CFO and Chief Operating Officer of KeySpan | |
| POLY | Hotelier and philanthropist | |
| POLY | Founder of RosettaNet; Chief Executive Officer of ICANN | |
| POLY | Co-founder of IBEAM Broadcasting Corporation and Synergy Sports Technology | |
| POLY | Chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy | |
| POLY | Co-founder of Haskins and Sells | |
| CAS | Businessman and economist | |
| Stern | Hedge fund manager | |
| Stern | Co-founder of The Home Depot | |
| CAS | Owner of Kushner Properties | |
| Law | President and CEO of Kushner Properties; owner of The New York Observer | |
| Stern | Investment adviser | |
| POLY | Founder of J&R | |
| POLY | Former president of Bechtel | |
| POLY | Board member of Rohm and Haas | |
| Law | Real-estate developer; owner of Miami Dolphins NFL team | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| SPS 2004, M.S | Founder and CEO of bedding and interior design company Robin Wilson Home | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Computer scientists; one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | Hedge fund manager, owns controlling interest in Barneys New York | [105] |
| Stern | Private investor in mining, metals, and heavy industry | |
| Stern | Former vice chairman and president of Verizon | |
| Law | President and co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Vice Chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | President and CEO of PayPal and chairman of Symantec; co-founder and former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA | |
| Stern, M.B.A. | Chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, Inc. | |
| POLY, B.S. | Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Esterline; Chairman of Dover Corporation | |
| Stern, M.B.A. | Co-founder of Station Casinos | |
| Stern | CFO of Xerox | |
| Stern | Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | |
| Law | CEO of Deloitte | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Partner and former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore | [106] |
| Law | Chief operating officer and president for ConocoPhillips | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Vice Chairman of Citigroup | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Vice President of Marvel Entertainment | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of Southwest Airlines | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | President and CEO of Ammann & Whitney; elected 2014-2015 chairman of American Road and Transportation Builders Association | |
| Law | Hollywood producer; former chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern | CEO and President of both Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker, as well as publisher of GQ | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A | Chairman, CEO and President of AmTrust Financial Services | [107] |
| Courant | CEO and founder of App Labs | [108] |
| Music Business, B.S. | Online content creator, former senior campaign advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | [109] | |
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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| TSOA | Beasts of the Southern Wild | [110] |
| TSOA 1993*, dropped out after two days | Magnolia, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 2004, B.S | Actor, Parks and Recreation, Master of None, Human Giant, Scrubs; stand-up comedian | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| NURSING, current student | True Jackson, VP, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Film writer and director | |
| TSOA | Director best known for Tangerine and The Florida Project | [111] |
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A. | Actor, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1998–2001* | Veronica Mars, Pulse, Heroes, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Gossip Girl | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1994, B.F.A. | Jawbreaker, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| SSW | Sex educator and sex therapist; host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on the Oprah Winfrey Network | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2001, B.F.A. | Journey's End (Broadway), | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Gilmore Girls, Sin City, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Tuck Everlasting | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Original Broadway Cast of Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1973, B.F.A. | Beverly Hills Cop, Meet Joe Black, Gigli | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | The Theory of Everything | [112] |
| Steinhardt 1956, M.A. | Actress and writer; former dean of the College of Communication and Graduate School of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines; appointed to Philippine government positions | |
| TSOA | President of Wind Dance Films | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1946, M.A. | First African American woman to direct on Broadway | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1975, M.A., 1980 PhD. | Playwright, performance artist and director | [113] |
| TSOA 1990, B.F.A. | Musician, writer, and actress | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Tony Award nominated director of the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 | [114] |
| TSOA | Both Home Alone films, Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, first two Harry Potter films, Rent | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1967–1969* | Harold and Maude, MASH, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Grandma's Boy, The Wedding Singer | |
| TSOA 1994, M.F.A. | Sleepers, Big Fish, Watchmen, Public Enemies | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1970, B.F.A. | Analyze This, Analyze That, City Slickers 1 & 2, When Harry Met Sally | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | High Fidelity, Con Air | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| STEINHARDT, STERN | Model, social media influencer | [115] |
| TSOA | The Sopranos, Joey | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Homo Faber, Three Colors: White, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Actress | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Producer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | X2, Superman Returns | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1988, B.F.A. | House | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | What About Bob?, Law and Order: Criminal Intent | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| SPS | Turkish anchorwoman, beauty pageant titleholder, journalist, model, and occasional actress | [116] |
| TSOA 1992, B.F.A. | Actor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL, current student | Actress, I Am Sam, Charlotte's Web, Coraline, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn | |
| TSOA 1988* | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy Central Presents: Mitch Fatel, Super Retardo CD | [117] |
| TSOA 1981* | Curb Your Enthusiasm, Legally Blonde, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Silicon Valley | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.F.A., 2002 | Jacklight, Suck it Up Buttercup | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1987, B.F.A. | Doc Hollywood, Jackie Brown | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1990–1993* | Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1992 | The Real Housewives of New York City, Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny; creator/owner of Skinnygirl | [118] |
| GAL 2009, B.A. | Grounded For Life | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Singer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2003, B.F.A. | One Life to Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Gone Baby Gone, House M.D., , Twilight, | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Avenue Q, The Sopranos, | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1983, B.F.A. | The Insider, Showgirls, Bound | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL | Editor, writer, actress | [119] [120] |
| TSOA 2006, B.F.A | Actor, rapper under the stage name Childish Gambino | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Television and film producer; former president of the Producers Guild of America | |
| CAS, 1959, B.A. | Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Prime | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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, better known as Ms. Rachel | Master’s degree in music education | YouTuber, social media personality, songwriter, and educator | [121] |
| Stern, M.B.A. | Mandalay Pictures | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2002, M.F.A. | (500) Days of Summer, Criminal Minds, RV, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1996, M.F.A. | Six Feet Under, Dexter | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1997, M.A. | Scary Movie | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Actor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1983, M.F.A. | Above the Rim | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Gallatin, TSOA* | The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, Ella Enchanted, Rachel Gets Married, Alice in Wonderland | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS | Training Day, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, B.F.A. | Look Who's Talking, Loser, Clueless | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, (E.T.W.) 1992 B.F.A. | Antony and the Johnsons Swanlights, The Crying Light, I Am a Bird Now (UK Mercury Prize 2005)
| < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.F.A. | Stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle | [122] |
| TSOA 1989, B.F.A. | Capote, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2002, B.F.A. | MTV: The State | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2002, B.F.A. | Spinster, Killing Cinderella, Daria | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Character actor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | The Village, Lady in the Water, Terminator Salvation, Twilight: Eclipse | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, B.F.A. | Boycott, Above the Rim, 3000 Miles to Graceland | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Take Me Out, The Little Dog Laughed | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Transamerica, Desperate Housewives | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL, current student | Actor | |
| TSOA | Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Broken Flowers | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Slums of Beverly Hills | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Singer-songwriter, pianist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, B.F.A. | 3rd Rock from the Sun | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| One-year exchange program | Playwright: Wolf Play, Wild Goose Dreams, No More Sad Things | [123] |
| TSOA | Shrek; co-founder of DreamWorks | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1996, M.F.A. | ABC series Lost, CBS Series Hawaii Five-0 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL, current student | Fashion model | [124] |
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A. | High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Dirty Sexy Money, Six Feet Under | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Voices of Iraq, MTV's Fear | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1984, M.F.A. | Tony Award | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, B.F.A. | ER | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1982, M.F.A. | Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | MTV: The State, Reno 911!, Taxi (screenwriter) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, B.A. | Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand, Shanghai Kiss | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1982, B.A. | Principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company | [125] |
| TSOA 1991–?? | Anna and the King | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA B.A. | The Little Dog Laughed | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL | Actress | [126] |
| M.F.A | The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night, Moment of Impact | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL | Actress | |
| 2015 | Actor, Atypical, Bill & Ted Face the Music, I Saw the TV Glow |
| M.F.A. | Theatre founder of the nightclub The Saint | [127] |
| | radio actress | [128] |
| GAL | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Trash, Her | [129] |
| Law | Comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist | |
| TSOA 1989, M.F.A. | Ed Green in Law and Order; Rent | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Fried Green Tomatoes, The Postman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Director of "We Found Love" by Rihanna, "Diva" by Beyoncé | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Television, film, and comic book writer, producer, and editor | |
| TSOA | Intensity, Scrubs, Point Break | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2016 | Veronica Lodge on Riverdale | [130] |
| TSOA | Wicked, Rent, Enchanted, Rescue Me, Frozen | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, M.B.A. | Co-founded Merchant Ivory Productions | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1987, M.F.A. | Will and Grace, NBC's Smash | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2007, M.F.A. | Twitch | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1993, B.F.A. | Glee, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Fruitvale Station, Cake, Sound of My Voice | [131] |
| TSOA 1976, A.A. | Star Trek: Voyager, Orange is the New Black | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Actor who played Usnavi in the Broadway musical In the Heights; currently playing the titular role in the Hamilton musical | |
| CAS, B.A. | Naruto, Digimon, Trigun | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1997, B.F.A. | Crossing Jordan, Mission to Mars | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1995, B.F.A. | Sliders, The Bachelor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Indian actor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2007, M.F.A | Musical theatre composer, Mrs. Sharp, Darling, 35MM | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL | Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2013 | Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla, In Secret | [132] |
| GAL | Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2010, B.F.A. | The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, AI, Secondhand Lions | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA B.F.A. | Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman 1984 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Actor and producer; best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards | |
| STEINHARDT 2005, M.A. | Bessie Awards winning choreographer and educator | |
| TSOA | Television actor, 30 Rock | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1981, B.F.A. | Actor, narrator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A. | seaQuest DSV, | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1989* | Rent, Six Degrees of Separation, Dazed and Confused | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Tower Heist, New York, I Love You, Rush Hour | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL, current student | Actress | [133] |
| CAS, B.A. | When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, City of Angels, You've Got Mail | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Executive producer and writer of Gossip Girl; executive producer and showrunner for the second season of Smash; creator, executive producer and showrunner of Quantico | |
| TSOA 1991, B.F.A. | Mr. Deeds, Big Daddy, Punchdrunk Love, Funny People, Hotel Transylvania, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Saturday Night Live, GrownUps | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2000, B.F.A. | The Lonely Island, Saturday Night Live, Hot Rod, Brooklyn 99, Hotel Transylvania, Popstar, Celeste & Jessie Forever, Storks, The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Actress; Screen Actors Guild Awards winner | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.S. | Comedian and gym teacher | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1964, B.A Steinhardt 1966, M.A. | The Aviator, Casino, Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York | [134] |
| CAS, 1991, B.A. | Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Trigun | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt 1977, M.A. | Moonstruck; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1981, B.F.A. | The Crush, Flipper, Tiger Town, The Outsiders (series) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1997, B.A. | ABCD; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, The Last Airbender, Lady in the Water | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1944–1945* | The Odd Couple; winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Oz, Men in Black | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.S. 1937 | Her, Fool's Errand (opened on Broadway in 1927) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL 2015 | Friends, Big Daddy, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Narrator and Jughead Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series) | [135] |
| GAL 2015 | The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Big Daddy, The Suite Life on Deck | |
| TSOA, B.F.A. | Supersize Me | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A. | Drowning Mona, Be Cool, 21 | [136] |
| TSOA | Director, producer, and screenwriter, Secret Obsession | |
| TSOA | ER, Newsradio, Primary Colors | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Home Base, Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World, The Book of Henry | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| NYU | Scream, F.P. Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series) | [137] |
| Stern, Tisch, B.A., 2005 | Taiwanese actor and model | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, 2002 | Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1991, B.F.A. | Grey's Anatomy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, 2009, B.F.A. | Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | The Office | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 2003, B.F.A. | After.Life | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1987 | Quills; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS B.A. | Saturday Night Live | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> | |
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Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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| TSOA 2000, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2017, Moonlight; 2019, Green Book | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1953* | Academy Award 1977, Annie Hall; 1986, Hannah and her Sisters | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1987 | Academy Award 2007, Little Miss Sunshine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1942, B.A. | Academy Award 1968, Thoroughly Modern Millie | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1987, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2012, The Artist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Academy Award 1984, Terms of Endearment | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Academy Award 2006, The Moon and the Son | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, 1978, B.F.A. | Academy Award 1996, Fargo; 2008, No Country For Old Men | [138] |
| TSOA 1999, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2010, Precious | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS | Academy Award 1991, Ghost | [139] |
| ARTS coursework* | Academy Award 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL, TSOA | Academy Award 2012, Les Misérables | [140] |
| TSOA 1981, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2000, Pollock | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC student under Percy Grainger | Academy Award 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1985, B.F.A. | Academy Award 2011, Inception | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1989, B.F.A. | Academy Award 2005, Capote | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1993, B.F.A. | Academy Award 2000, Girl, Interrupted | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA coursework* | Academy Award 1960, Elmer Gantry | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1980 | Academy Award 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2005, Brokeback Mountain; 2012, Life of Pi | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2019, BlackKklansman | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->- |
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| TSOA, M.F.A. | Academy Award 2011, God of Love | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS, B.A. | Academy Award 1995, Pocahontas; 1992, Aladdin; 1991, Beauty and the Beast; 1989, The Little Mermaid | [141] |
| CAS 1979, B.A. | Academy Award 1981, Arthur's Theme | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Academy Award 2005, The Aviator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Academy Award 2016, Spotlight | [142] |
| TSOA | Academy Award 2016, Son of Saul | |
| Steinhardt 1977, M.A. | Academy Award 1987, Moonstruck | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1970, M.F.A. | Academy Award 1978, Midnight Express; 1986, Platoon; 1989, Born on the Fourth of July | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1996 | Academy Award 2004, Sideways | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1983, B.F.A. | Academy Award 1992, My Cousin Vinny | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1986, Ph.D. | Academy Award 1997, for the development of Perlin noise | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1928–1930 * | Academy Award 1953, "Secret Love" | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Academy Award winner; inventor of Cinerama; inventor of the Waller Gunnery Trainer; first to patent the water ski; made 200 short films for Paramount Pictures | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1985 | Academy Award 2009, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> | |
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Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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| Steinhardt B.A., 2008 | New York State Senator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law LL.M., 1967 | United States v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1991 | Princess of Spain | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | United States Commissioner of Education, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.A. | Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Ph.D., 1944 | Indian Minister of Health and Family Planning under Indira Gandhi | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Ph.D., 1987, M.A., 1985 | Prime Minister, South Korea | [173] |
| | Physician; CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Ph.D. | Secretary of Defence, Taiwan (1990–1993), President of the Control Yuan | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern B.S. | Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Ph.D., 1973 | Foreign Minister of Taiwan | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Wagner Ph.D. student, 2010– | Former First Daughter; child of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; wife of Marc Mezvinsky | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | New York state senator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | White House Counsel, 1987–89 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1969 | European Commissioner for the Environment | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1917 | Under Secretary of War and the Army | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Ph.D., 1996 | Finance Minister of Colombia | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.S., 1977 | U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | United States Secretary of Transportation
- served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009–2013.
| < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | United States Special Representative for International Negotiations | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Former New York City Schools Chancellor, the head of the New York City Department of Education. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Fourth President of Israel; chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department | |
| GSAS | Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Israeli politician; served as a member of the Knesset, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Deputy Speaker and Deputy Minister of Health | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Member of the Alaska House of Representatives | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Secretary of Science and Technology at the Philippine Department of Science and Technology; former chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Wagner M.A., 1983 | Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | New York state senator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | New York state senator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Commanding officer of a number of aviation units as well as the USS Rainier (AE-5) and USS Tripoli (LPH-10); two-time recipient of the Navy Cross, the Navy's second highest award for valor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Mayor of New York City | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Mayor of New York City | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Sister of US President Barack Obama; professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres also served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt | California State Senator | [174] |
| Steinhardt | Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States. | |
| Law 1965, J.D. | U.S. Secretary of Education, U.S. Senator from Tennessee | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1971 | lawyer, talk show host | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Ph.D. | member of the Mass. House of Representatives (1998–present) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Mayor of Durham, North Carolina. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law J.D., 1968 | Executive Director of UNICEF | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1981 and 1987; served as the ambassador to the Netherlands | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A., 1992 | U.S. Senate Candidate | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | First Asian-American Mayor of San Gabriel, California | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Saudi Arabian politician; Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 to 1986; a minister in OPEC for 25 years | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Leader of the Belarusian community in the U.S. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | UAE Minister of State for Youth | [175] |
| POLY | Chief of staff of Iran; brother of former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami | |
| Postgraduate study | Brazilian politician and legislator; ambassador to the U.S. and UK | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | 41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Wagner MPA | First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt | New York City Council member | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law LL.M., 1967 | Vice President of Egypt
- Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997–)
| < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | SIGTARP, the Special United States Treasury Department Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), from late 2008 until his resignation at the end of March 2011 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Israeli politician; chairman of the Labor Party; was the opposition leader in the 19th Knesset | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Princess of Greece and Denmark | [176] |
| Law J.D. | President of the Anti-Defamation League | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law LL.M., 1984 | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1993–2001) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Postgraduate work, NYU Law | President of Panama (1989–1994) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS | Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Defence | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law J.D., 1968 | Mayor of New York City (1994–2001) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| BsC in Global Affairs | Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations (2007–) | [177] |
| Law LL.M. | Court TV host | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Taxation, L.LM, 1955 | United States Senate candidate, 1966; Alabama Republican Party chairman; Birmingham lawyer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law, J.D., 1990 | U.S. Department of Labor, Deputy Secretary of Labor, 2009–; U.S. Department of Labor, Counselor to the Secretary, 1993–2000 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1966 | Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS B.A., GSAS M.A., 1930 | Civil and women's rights activist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Postgraduate study | President of the National Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1994 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| LAW 1912 | N.Y. State Senator (21st District 1934–44, 24th District 1945) and Comptroller of the City of New York (1946–1954) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A., 1957 | Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law LL.M. | Police Commissioner of New York, Under Secretary of the Treasury | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law J.D., 1989 | Son of President John F. Kennedy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1908, LL.B. | Mayor of New York City (1934–1945) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| University of the City of New York 1894, B.S. | Manhattan Borough President (1931–1937) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1986, J.D. | Founder of the Institute for Statehood and Democracy of Ukraine | [178] |
| Law LL.M., 1976 | President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| IFA | Princess of Greece | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS M.A. 1967 | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under George W. Bush | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS Economics | Founder of Global Fund for Women | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.A., 1969 | Zimbabwean member of parliament and cabinet minister | [179] |
| Stern | Minister of Economy & Finance, Greece | [180] |
| Law LL.M., 1952 | US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Ed.D. | Member of the New Jersey General Assembly | [181] |
| GSAS M.A | Co-Founder of International Solidarity Movement | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law J.D., 2014 | Member of the Maryland House of Delegates | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern M.B.A. | Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree 1985 | Queen consort of Buganda, the traditional kingdom in central Uganda | [182] |
| B.A., 1929 | United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY B.S. | 5th Secretary of Technology of Virginia | [183] |
| Law 1867, LL.B. | Secretary of War (1899–1903), Secretary of State (1905–1909) | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1997, J.D. | Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (2021–) | [184] [185] |
| D.D.S. (NYU College of Dentistry, 1975), Ph.D. | Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern graduate studies | Minister of communication, ambassador to the U.S. of the Republic of Ghana | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| NYU Master of Laws | Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law M.C.J., 1981 | Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liechtenstein | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Master's degree in public administration | Louisiana State Superintendent of Education since 2012 | [186] |
| M.A., Nursing Education | Member of the New Jersey General Assembly | [187] |
Vanessa Wruble | M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications | Activist, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington | [188] |
Yu Tsune-chi | Sc.M. and Sc.D. | former Ambassador of the Republic of China to Italy and Spain |
Hun Manet | MA | Prime Minister of Cambodia | | |
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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| | Author of Blood and Guts in High School | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY, 1898 | Writer and historian; coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A., 1949 | Author of War of the Roses and Random Hearts | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1990, B.A. | Play-by-play broadcaster, New York Rangers and Fox Sports | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1966, M.A. | Recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1985 B.F.A. | CNN reporter and anchor 1985-2009 | [189] |
| 1994, B.A. | Editor in Chief of Seventeen Magazine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 2000, M.F.A. | Author of Arborophilia, Creve Coeur; idiosyncratic bioethicist | [190] |
| Law, J.D. | Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, 1987 B.A. | News anchor on CNBC; author | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.F.A | Artist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 2006, M.A | Artist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1976, M.F.A | Artist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt 1993, D.A. | Artist | [191] |
Barbara Bloemink | M.F.A. Fine and decorative arts | Author, art historian | [192] |
| 1961 B.S., Education | Writer of children's literature and young adult fiction | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.A., Journalism | Financial journalist, author, and commentator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1964, M.A. | Rubyfruit Jungle | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| earned B.A. at age 62 | Author | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, B.A. | Her New York Observer column became the basis for Sex and the City | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 2010, MFA | Artist | |
| visiting scholar | Canadian poet | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.A. | Women's liberation activist, co-founder of Redstockings | [193] |
| TSOA 1989, M.F.A. | Television writer and novelist, author of the series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy. | [194] |
| CAS, B.A. | Sports journalist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, 1925, B.A. | Author of Ballad of the Brown Girl, Color, Color | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Former teaching staff | Urdu poet | [195] |
| IFA | Painter and sculptor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS | Journalist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Journalist | |
| CAS | Author of The Flavors of Southern Italy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications | Information artist | [196] |
| Law 1907, LL.B. | Leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Faculty 1970–1980 | American Academy of Arts & Letters | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| PhD in political science 1974 | Educator, gender equality activist and author of seven books including The Myth of Male Power | [197] |
| TSOA | Author of Maravich; comedian, The Tonight Show | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Design Director for Gucci | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1948, B.A. | Founder of MAD magazine | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1972, J.D. | 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS B.A., 1991 | Author of Eat, Pray, Love | |
| TSOA 1973, B.F.A. | Known for complex metaphors and philosophical content | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1938* | Met Betty Comden at NYU | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| M.A. in English and creative writing, 1991 | Poet and scholar of Robert Lowell | [198] [199] |
| GAL 2000, MA | Editor-in-Chief of New York Quarterly | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| coursework* | Co-host of Hannity and Colmes on Fox News Channel | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1948 | Author of Catch-22 | [200] |
| B.A., 2000 | Blogger, columnist and television personality. | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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Safiya Henderson-Holmes | B.A. | Poet, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award | [201] |
| coursework* | Creator of 60 Minutes | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Director and producer; founder of Zeila Films | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| studied architecture and urban design | New York Times journalist; documentary film director and producer | [202] |
| GAL 2003, B.A. | Filmmaker | [203] |
| GSAS, M.A. | Contributor to the Financial Times, The New York Times, Details, and the Fox Business Network | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GAL 2001, M.A. | Artist and writer | [204] |
| CAS* | Poet | [205] |
| Law | Contributor for the Fox News Channel | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law, J.D. | Author of legal thrillers | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1950, B.A. | Known for the broadway musical Deathtrap | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1974 B.A.; Steinhardt 1979 Ph.D. | Author of The Plot To Save Socrates | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY | Author | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC, B.A. (journalism) | Film critic on Entertainment Tonight | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law | Comedian, The Daily Show | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS | Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1953, B.A. | 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or autobiographical Writing | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| WSC 1953, B.A. | Essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, M.A. | Author and journalist known for her 2014 memoir Redefining Realness | [206] |
| TSOA 1989 Ph.D. | Arts journalist and reviewer; author of | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Studied writing | Author of Everything Sad Is Untrue | [207] |
| GSAS 1930, M.A. | Co-founder of Partisan Review | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS, M.A. | Painter and art historian | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1960, Ph.D. | 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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Carole Radziwill | Stern | Journalist, author, and television personality | |
| WSC, B.A. | author and screenwriter, Summer of '42, Ode to Billy Joe | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1916, LL.B. | Objectivist poet | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern 1968, coursework* | Emmy award-winning journalist, television producer, host of PBS's Charlie Rose Show, and correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes | [208] |
| coursework* | Author of Catcher in the Rye. | [209] |
| Law, J.D. | Chairman of the Shubert Organization (1972–2008) | [210] |
| | Artist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt 1977, M.A. | Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Tony Award | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Education 1965, B.S. | Sound poet, performance and video artist, curator, early childhood educator | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS | Author of Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG 1950, B.S. | Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1957, Ph.D. | Business historian; author of For Want of a Nail | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA 1963–1967* | Romance novel author | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG 1996, M.F.A. | Guggenheim-winning novelist; Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1939, M.A. | 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1959, M.A. | Artist | [211] |
| GSAS 1954, M.A. | Artist and educator; studied with William Baziotes | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| B.A. 1929 | Authority on manners, mores | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | , Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | (born 1939) — Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS 1972 | 2008 and 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| GSAS 1995, M.A. | Author of The Seventh Octave and Said the Shotgun to the Head | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1957–1958 | Author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Former Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago (1980–2004); President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust | [212] |
| WSC 1961, B.A. | Art historian | [213] |
| IFA M.A. | Art historian | [214] |
| IFA 1969, M.A., 1979, Ph.D. | Art historian | [215] |
| | Author | |
|
As of 2013, NYU has been associated with at least 74 men and 10 women who have participated as athletes, coaches, or managers at Olympic Games, for a total of at least 28 Olympic medals.[216]
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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| Stern, B.S. | FIFA Executive Committee member from 1996 to 2013; CONCACAF General Secretary from 1990 until 2011; Executive Vice President of the U.S. Soccer Federation | |
| | Swimmer; competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
| CAS, B.A. | Founder and CEO of Top Rank, one of the most successful professional boxing promotion companies in boxing history | < | --Ziegel, Vic. "And in This Corner... Robert Arum." New York Magazine August 28, 1978: 51.--> |
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| GSAS 2001, M.S. | U.S. Women's Chess Champion 1995, 1996, 1999 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ARTS 1918–1919* | Major League baseball player, spy, quiz show host | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1977, J.D. | NHL Commissioner | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Professional equestrian; daughter of former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt | Professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (1944-1956); played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954); three-time All-Star; in 1951, he allowed a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson, known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" | |
| ENG | Olympic shot putter | |
| Stern | Champion swimmer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor; world record holder in swimming; Olympian | |
| | NYU basketball player 1934–1938; Navy Basketball coach 1947–1967 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS | Professional wrestler signed to AEW, where he performs under the ring name "Big Bill." Was formerly signed to Impact Wrestling and WWE. | [217] |
| 1962 | Olympic fencer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NBA basketball scout, and former college and professional basketball coach | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Won three bronze Olympic medals | |
| 1962 | Olympic fencer | [218] |
| coursework* | Major League baseball player; five-time All-Star; two-time American League MVP; elected to the Hall of Fame | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | World record-holding shotputter and Olympic weightlifter | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NBA player, 1971 champion with the Los Angeles Lakers | [219] |
| CAS | Gold medal winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Hall of Fame basketball player and coach | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Olympic gold medalist, high jump, 1904 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | National champion fencer and fencing coach | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Pro basketball player and jurist | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1972 | Olympic fencer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Olympic fencer | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| POLY, B.S. | Head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Olympic bronze medalist equestrian | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | Olympic soccer player and broadcaster | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, B.S. | Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982 | |
| | Olympic decathlete and three-time U.S. champion, NCAA high-jump champion, and All-East football player | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Stern, B.S. | Professional wrestler known as Big Cass in WWE and W. Morrissey in Impact Wrestling | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NBA basketball player | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Steinhardt | Middle distance runner; competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| TSOA | Professional wrestler under the name "AJ Lee"; three-time WWE Divas Champion | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| PhD 1998, M.S. | IFBB professional bodybuilder | [220] |
| | NBA player, 1961–1966; champion with the Boston Celtics, 1968–1969 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS, 1988 | Olympic gold medalist, fencing, 1988, 1992 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NFL player | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NBA player, 3-time FT% leader, 1-time rebound leader, 12-time All-Star, Hall of Fame, and coach | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NFL player | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS | International ice dancing competitor | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| 1934 | NFL Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers 1936–1937, Model for Heisman Trophy | [221] |
| | American Basketball League (MVP) | [222] |
| All-American, 1928 | NFL Staten Island Stapletons, New York Giants 1929–1947, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| Law 1965, J.D. | NFL Commissioner | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | NFL player | < | --Ziegel, Vic. "And in This Corner... Robert Arum." New York Magazine August 28, 1978: 51.--> |
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| | Two-time All-American basketball guard; left as NYU all-time scorer; pro player | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| CAS | Competed for the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 metres, where she won the silver medal | |
| Stern | Former sabre fencing champion and Olympic medalist | |
| GSAS 1941, M.A. | Olympic gold medalist, 800 m, 1936 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | MLB player Chicago Cubs 1942-1946 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| | MLB player for Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, LA Angels 1944–1962; All Star Team 1952; Coachof Washington Senators, NY Mets, Boston Red Sox 1962–1985 | < | --INSERT REFERENCE HERE --> |
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| ENG | Competed for the United States in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the hammer throw, where he won the bronze medal | | |
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