# List of Yeshiva University people

This is a list of notable people associated with Yeshiva University, a private university in New York City. The list includes alumni, attendees, and faculty members past and present of the university.

## Notable alumni
### Academia

* David Berger (born 1943), Dean Emeritus at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Judaic Studies
* Michael Broyde (born 1964), law professor
* Shaye J. D. Cohen (B.A. 1970), Professor of Hebrew Literature & Philosophy at Harvard
* Samuel J. Danishefsky, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
* Professor Laurence Dreyfus, Bach Scholar and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
* Ari L. Goldman, Columbia University professor and journalist
* Paul Gottfried, former professor at Elizabethtown College
* Gary Gruber, author, physicist, testing expert, educator
* A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), University of Pennsylvania Law School law professor
* Matthew Levitt, counterterrorism expert
* Emanuel Rackman (1910–2008), Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University
* Michael Rosenak, Israeli philosopher of Jewish education
* Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch professor of physics at Stanford University
* Steven Winter, Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law at Wayne State University Law School

### Law

* Jeff Ballabon, lawyer
* Noach Dear (1953–2020), New York Supreme Court judge
* Alan Dershowitz, attorney, attended BTA
* Sandra J. Feuerstein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
* Jason Greenblatt, U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations, executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization
* Nat Lewin, attorney
* Abraham David Sofaer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
* Shalom David Stone, attorney; nominee for the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals

### Government and politics

* Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, physician (medical degree)
* Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
* Louis Henkin, jurist
* Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
* Olga A. Mendez, Chairwoman of the New York State Senate Labor Committee
* Grace Meng, Congresswoman from New York (J.D.)
* Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York State Assembly 1994

### Arts and media

* Elon Gold, actor and comedian of Stacked fame, attended MTA
* Eddie Huang, chef, writer, and television personality (J.D. 2008)
* Lucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriter
* Aaron Klein, reporter, radio personality, author
* Yaakov Lemmer, chazzan
* Barbara Olson, television commentator
* Chaim Potok, author, most notably of The Chosen
* Violet Ramis Stiel, daughter of actor/writer/director Harold Ramis and author of Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life With My Dad Harold Ramis
* Josh Saviano, actor
* Nachum Segal, radio host
* Ari Shaffir, comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer
* Laura Sydell, National Public Radio

### Religion

* Nachman Bulman, rabbi
* Shlomo Einhorn, dean of Yavneh Hebrew Academy
* Chaim (Howard) Jachter, rabbi
* Meir Kahane, Orthodox rabbi and Knesset member, attended BTA
* Ezra Labaton, rabbi
* Aharon Lichtenstein, rabbi
* Haskel Lookstein, rabbi
* Dr. Moses Mescheloff, rabbi
* Avigdor Miller, Haredi rabbi
* Shlomo Riskin, rabbi
* Joseph Telushkin, rabbi, lecturer, and author
* Moshe David Tendler, rabbi
* Moshe Weinberger, Haredi rabbi
* Mordechai Willig, rabbi
* Chaim Zimmerman, rabbi
* Meir Soloveichik, rabbi and public thinker
* Hershel Schachter, rabbi
* Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi

### Medicine and sciences

* Raymond Damadian, pioneer of MRI technology
* Samuel J. Danishefsky, chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
* Hillel Furstenberg, mathematician
* Rudolph Leibel, medical researcher
* David Macht, pharmacologist
* Daniel Wise, mathematician
* Martin L. Yarmush, biomedical engineer and physician

### Business

* Stan Kasten, President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, attended MTA
* Ralph Lauren, designer, attended MTA
* Mark Nordlicht, hedge fund manager
* David Samson, Miami Marlins executive (J.D. 1992)
* Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

### Other

* Ryan Turell (born 1999), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers
* Baruch Goldstein, Perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

## Notable faculty and staff

* Danny Ayalon
* Samuel Belkin
* David Berger
* Saul J. Berman, author
* Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)
* J. David Bleich
* Elisheva Carlebach
* Shalom Carmy, theologian and Jewish historian (also alumnus)
* Pinkhos Churgin (1894-1957), first President of Bar-Ilan University
* Bernard Epstein
* Louis Feldman
* Steven Fine
* Joshua Fishman, linguist
* Jekuthiel Ginsburg
* Jason Greenblatt
* Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
* Lawrence Hajioff, Judaic studies faculty
* Elazar Hurvitz, historian
* Richard Joel, president
* David Alan Johnson
* Ephraim Kanarfogel, dean and historian (also alumnus)
* Arthur Komar
* Joy Ladin, Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women (2003-2021)
* Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)
* Joe Lieberman, US Senator
* Bernard Madoff, former Chairman & Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business
* Rachel Mesch, scholar of French literature, history, and culture
* Marysa Navarro, historian
* Adam Zachary Newton
* Michael Rosensweig
* Oliver Sacks, neurologist
* Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)
* Jacob J. Schachter
* Barry Scheck, lawyer
* Lawrence Schiffman
* Shimon Shkop
* Eli Baruch Shulman
* Nahum Slouschz
* Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Rav, (deceased), rabbi and talmudist
* Telford Taylor (deceased), lawyer
* Moshe Tendler, rabbi and medical ethics authority (also alumnus)
* Mayer Twersky, rabbi
* Abraham Weiss (1895–1970), professor of Talmud
* Mordechai Willig, Rosh Kollel (also alumnus)
* Rachel Wischnitzer
* Herman Wouk, author
* Benjamin Yudin, rabbi
* Dov Zakheim, political adviser
* Solomon Zeitlin
* Bob Tufts, former MLB pitcher