# List of Hunter College people

The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.

## Alumni
### Nobel laureates

* Gertrude B. Elion – 1988, Medicine
* Rosalyn Sussman Yalow – 1977, Medicine

### Pulitzer Prize winners

* Holland Cotter – art critic
* Emily Grenauer – art critic
* Ada Louise Huxtable – architecture critic
* Liu Heung Sheng – photographer
* James Wright – poet

### National Medal of Science winners

* Mildred Cohn – 1982, Biological Sciences
* Mildred Dresselhaus – Engineering Sciences
* Gertrude B. Elion

### Presidential Medal of Freedom winners

* Antonia Pantoja – activist

### Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

* Patricia Bath – ophthalmologist
* Marjorie Clarke – environmental scientist
* Mildred Cohn – National Medal of Science winner
* Mary P. Dolciani – mathematician
* Madeline Early – mathematician and university professor
* Elsie Giorgi – physician
* Erich Jarvis – neurologist
* Esther Lederberg – pioneer of bacterial genetics
* Lena Levine – psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
* Celia Maxwell – infectious disease physician and academic administrator
* Beatrice Mintz – pioneer of mammalian transgenesis
* Arlie Petters – pioneer of gravitational lensing
* Mina Rees – mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Gillian Reynolds 1988 – third African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.
* Ruth Teitelbaum – ENIAC programmer
* Rosalyn Sussman Yalow – Nobel prize winner in Medicine

### Business and economics

* Gerard Cafesjian – owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation)
* Alan S. Chartock – president and CEO of WAMC
* Leon Cooperman – billionaire hedge fund manager
* Robert A. Daly – CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
* Mollie Orshansky – developer of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the main poverty measure in the US
* Sylvia Field Porter – economist and journalist
* Melvin T. Tukman – co-founder and president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, an investment firm.

### Law and politics
#### Members of Congress

* Bella Abzug – Congresswoman, 1971–1977
* Eliot L. Engel – Congressman, 1989–present
* Edna F. Kelly – Congresswoman, 1949–1969

#### State figures

* Teresa Patterson Hughes – California State Senator
* Roger Manno – Maryland House of Delegates

#### City figures

* Tony Avella – New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
* Adolfo Carrión Jr. – Bronx borough president
* Tom Murphy – mayor of Pittsburgh
* John Timoney – Miami chief of police

#### Lawyers

* Floria Lasky – prominent theater lawyer
* Soia Mentschikoff – chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School

#### Activists

* Norma Becker – anti-war activist
* Madeleine Cosman – health care and immigration advocate
* Alexander Dvorkin – anti-cult activist
* Theodora Lacey – civil rights activist
* Gertrude Lane – trade unionist
* Audre Lorde – activist, writer, poet
* Pauli Murray – activist, lawyer, priest, and author
* Antonia Pantoja – activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
* Mamphela Ramphele – Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
* Sandra Schnur – pioneer of disability rights
* Judith Vladeck – labor lawyer and civil rights advocate

### Journalism and news

* Mohamad Bazzi – journalist
* Richard Cohen – Washington Post columnist
* Corine Hegland – journalist
* Jack Newfield – muckraking journalist
* Shimon Prokupecz – CNN reporter
* Daniel Seaman – Israeli politician; expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict

### Literature

* Grace Andreacchi – writer
* Maurice Berger – cultural critic
* Peter Carey – writer
* Colin Channer – writer
* Helen Gray Cone – poet
* Lucy Dawidowicz – author
* Martin Greif – writer, publisher
* Kaitlyn Greenidge – writer
* Evan Hunter – author and screenwriter
* Ada Louise Huxtable – writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
* Colette Inez – poet, academic
* Swati Khurana – writer
* Malka Lee – poet
* Audre Lorde – poet, essayist
* Paule Marshall – author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," Dos Passos Prize for Literature
* Barbara McMartin – environmental writer
* Melissa Plaut – writer
* Sylvia Field Porter – economist, journalist
* Sonia Sanchez – poet
* Augusta Huiell Seaman – writer
* Sadia Shephard – writer
* Gary Shteyngart – author
* René Taupin – writer
* Ned Vizzini – writer
* Joan Wolf – writer of romance novels
* James Wright – poet
* Ricky Anne Loew-Beer – Author, Artist & Photographer (married to fashion designer Ralph Lauren)

### Film, theater, and television

* Ellen Barkin – actress
* Lewis Beale – film critic
* Ed Burns – actor, director
* Eva Condon – Broadway actress
* Judith Crist – film critic
* Ruby Dee – actress
* Vin Diesel – actor
* Hugh Downs – broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
* Tina Howe – Tony-nominated playwright
* Richard Jeni – comedian
* Suzanne Kaaren – actress
* Ephraim Katz – author of The Film Encyclopedia
* Evelyn Lear – opera singer
* Natasha Leggero – actress and comic
* Maitland McDonagh – film critic
* Daniel Mulloy – screenwriter and film director
* Julianne Nicholson – actress
* Rhea Perlman – actress
* Dascha Polanco – actress
* Esther Rolle – actress
* Regina Resnik – opera singer
* Al Santos – actor
* Elliot Tiber – screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival
* Florence Ravenel – actress
* Dreya Weber – producer

### Art, architecture, and engineering

* Robert Altman – Rolling Stone photojournalist
* Firelei Báez – artist
* Maurice Berger – art critic and historian
* Jack Coggins – illustrator
* Francisco Costa – creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
* Jules de Balincourt – artist
* Jacqueline Donachie – artist
* Mildred Dresselhaus – engineer
* Echo Eggebrecht – painter
* Arthur Elgort – photographer for Vogue magazine
* Gabriele Evertz – abstract artist
* Denise Green – painter
* Ada Louise Huxtable – architecture critic
* Mel Kendrick – artist
* Kathleen Kucka – painter
* Terrance Lindall – artist
* Robert Morris – sculptor
* Jill Nathanson – painter
* Doug Ohlson – abstract artist
* Lucy Olcott – art historian and dealer
* Danielle Orchard – painter
* Mitchell Silver – urban planner
* Jeff Sonhouse – (MFA 2001), painter
* Richard Tinkler – abstract artist
* Louis A. Waldman – art historian
* Dan Walsh – painter
* Brian Wood – visual artist

### Music

* David Sampson – composer
* Ashley Choi – lead singer of the band Ladies' Code

### Military

* Julia Jeter Cleckley – first African-American female line officer to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Army National Guard
* Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. – Medal of Honor recipient

### Education

* Robert Davila – ninth president of Gallaudet University
* Howard McParlin Davis – prominent art history professor
* John Taylor Gatto – author of seminal books on education
* Haskel Greenfield – archaeologist at University of Manitoba
* Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) – President of Brooklyn College
* Soia Mentschikoff – chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
* Burton Pike – professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
* Jennifer Raab – president of Hunter College
* Henning Rübsam – choreographer, dance historian The Juilliard School
* Kay Toliver – mathematics educator

### Fictional alumni

* Chad Kroski
* Harry "Parry" Sagan from The Fisher King
* Daniel Bae from The Sun Is Also a Star
* Marjorie Morningstar from the novel "Marjorie Morningstar" Marjorie Morningstar (novel)

### Non-graduating attendees

* Harry Connick, Jr – musician
* Bobby Darin – musician
* Nikolai Fraiture – bassist, The Strokes
* April Lee Hernández – actress
* Grace Paley – writer
* Nick Valensi – guitarist, The Strokes
* Mitski – musician

## Faculty

* Meena Alexander – poet and author
* James Aronson – journalist, founder of the National Guardian
* John Avlon – author, speech writer for Rudy Giuliani
* Jacqueline Barton – chemist
* William Baziotes – painter
* Harry Binswanger – philosopher
* Gertrude Blanch – pioneer of numerical analysis and computation
* Robert A. Brady – economist
* José Ferrer Canales – writer, activist
* Rosario Candela – influential architect
* Peter Carey – novelist
* Tina Chang – poet
* John Henrik Clarke – historian
* Buck Clayton – musician
* Daniel I. A. Cohen – mathematician and computer scientist
* Janet Cox-Rearick – art historian
* Noah Creshevsky – composer
* Susan Crile – painter
* Emil Draitser – author
* Cora DuBois – cultural anthropologist
* Stuart Ewen
* Norman Finkelstein – political scientist
* Mary Flanagan
* Helen Frankenthaler – artist
* Bertram Myron Gross – author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act
* John Hollander – poet, literary critic
* Seymour Itzkoff – researcher
* George E. Kimball – pioneer of operations research algorithms
* Dong Kingman – artist
* Lyman Kipp – sculptor
* Rosalind E. Krauss – art critic
* Reiner Leist – photographer
* Nancy Milford – author
* Paul Moravec – composer
* Robert Motherwell – artist
* Leonard Peikoff – philosopher, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
* Mina Rees – mathematician
* Richard Reeves – political author
* Ruth Sager – geneticist
* Carolee Schneemann – artist
* Blake Schwarzenbach – musician
* Michael Shernoff – specialist in gay community mental health
* Tony Smith – sculptor
* Harry Edward Stinson – sculptor
* John Kennedy Toole – author
* Lionel Trilling – literary critic
* Nydia Velázquez – U.S. Congresswoman, New York, 1993–present
* Alice von Hildebrand – philosopher and author
* Robert C. Weaver – first U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
* Blanche Colton Williams, professor of English literature and head of the English department
* Nari Ward, professor of combined media

## Administration

* David A. Caputo – president of Hunter College; president of Pace University
* Paul LeClerc – president of Hunter College; president and CEO of New York Public Library
* Michael P. Riccards – political scientist; author; executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
* Donna Shalala – U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; 10th president of Hunter College; president of University of Miami