Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

The following people are alumni of LaGuardia High School and its two legacy schools, The High School of Music & Art, and the School of Performing Arts High School:

Composers

  • Martin Bresnick
  • Morton Feldman
  • Charles Fox
  • Gerald Fried
  • Joel Hirschhorn
  • Michael Kamen
  • Edward Kleban
  • Meyer Kupferman
  • Ezra Laderman
  • Paul Lansky
  • Mitch Leigh
  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  • Stu Phillips
  • Jonathan Tunick

Conductors

  • Leon Botstein
  • James Conlon
  • Eve Queler
  • Gerard Schwarz
  • David Zinman

Classical instrumentalists

  • Ik-Hwan Bae
  • David Braid
  • Eugene Drucker
  • Stanley Drucker
  • Bernard Garfield
  • David Krakauer
  • Steven Lubin
  • Murray Perahia
  • Joshua Rifkin
  • David Rubinstein
  • Steve Stevens
  • Roland Vamos
  • Arthur Weisberg
  • Pinchas Zukerman

Classical singers

  • Reri Grist
  • Isabel Leonard
  • Catherine Malfitano
  • Julia Migenes

Jazz musicians

  • Terry Burrus
  • Bobby Broom
  • Sterling Campbell
  • Bill Charlap
  • Ray Chew
  • Billy Cobham
  • Eddie Daniels
  • Kenny Drew
  • Béla Fleck
  • Sharon Freeman
  • Eddie Gomez
  • Omar Hakim
  • Chuck Israels
  • Steve Jordan
  • Phyllis Litoff
  • Marcus Miller
  • Charnett Moffett
  • Noel Pointer
  • Shorty Rogers
  • Jeremy Steig
  • Dave Valentin
  • Kenny Washington
  • Larry Willis

Dancers and choreographers

  • Gregg Burge
  • Michael Callen
  • Altovise Davis (née Gore)
  • Christopher Chadman
  • Eliot Feld
  • Annabelle Gamson
  • Arthur Mitchell
  • Michael Peters
  • Desmond Richardson
  • Edward Villella
  • Karen Hauer

Media

  • Chaz Bono
  • David Ehrenstein
  • Max Frankel
  • Peter Frishauf
  • George Lois
  • Bess Myerson
  • Susan Stamberg

Directors and writers

  • Lou Berger
  • Maurice Berger
  • Robert Brustein
  • James Burrows
  • Charles Busch
  • Reggie Rock Bythewood
  • Cecil Castellucci
  • Martin Charnin
  • Graham Diamond
  • Rosalyn Drexler
  • Herb Gardner
  • Diana Gould
  • Peter Hyams
  • Erica Jong
  • Michael Kahn
  • Jonathan Ned Katz
  • James Howard Kunstler
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Lonny Price
  • Esmeralda Santiago
  • Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Ray Tintori
  • Charles Van Doren
  • Sherman Yellen

Producers and entertainment executives

  • Steven Bochco
  • Robert Greenwald
  • Lynne Littman

Singers, songwriters, rappers, pop artists

  • Shelley Ackerman
  • Nat Adderley, Jr.
  • Azealia Banks
  • Carole Bayer Sager
  • Marilyn Bergman
  • Corina Brouder
  • Carol Cardenas
  • Eagle Eye Cherry
  • Inaya Day
  • Lola Falana
  • Wynter Gordon
  • Jean Grae
  • Janis Ian
  • Kelis
  • Domino Kirke
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Lunachicks
  • Maude Maggart
  • Melissa Manchester
  • Men Of Vizion
  • Nicki Minaj
  • Liza Minnelli
  • Dana Dane
  • Linda November
  • Laura Nyro
  • Mark Rivera
  • Aaron Schroeder
  • MC Serch
  • Slick Rick
  • Karen Rodriguez
  • Paul Stanley
  • Elly Stone
  • Pia Toscano
  • Mario Vazquez
  • Daphne Rubin-Vega
  • Suzanne Vega
  • Lisa Velez
  • Eric Weissberg
  • Heather Leigh West
  • Peter Yarrow

Actors and actresses

  • Kirk Acevedo
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Geoffrey Arend
  • Tichina Arnold
  • Morena Baccarin
  • Ellen Barkin
  • Richard Benjamin
  • N'Bushe Wright
  • Julie Bovasso
  • Adrien Brody
  • Christina Vidal
  • Cara Buono
  • Rory Cochrane
  • Charles Busch
  • Northern Calloway
  • Diahann Carroll
  • Thom Christopher
  • Keith David
  • Michael DeLorenzo
  • Dom DeLuise
  • Robert De Niro
  • Alex Désert
  • Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Ron Eldard
  • Omar Epps
  • Donald Faison
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • Carla Gallo
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Rick Gonzalez
  • Cliff Gorman
  • Adrian Grenier
  • Anna Maria Horsford
  • Jackee Harry
  • Ben Harney
  • Monica Keena
  • Paula Kelly
  • Yunjin Kim
  • Dawnn Lewis
  • Shari Lewis
  • Hal Linden
  • Jodi Long
  • Priscilla Lopez
  • Sonia Manzano
  • Janet Margolin
  • Graham Patrick Martin
  • Kenneth McMillan
  • Emily Meade
  • Jim Moody
  • Keith Nobbs
  • Ana Ortiz
  • Al Pacino
  • Corey Parker
  • Sarah Paulson
  • Carl Anthony Payne II
  • Mizuo Peck
  • Elizabeth Peña
  • Brock Peters
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Devin Ratray
  • Tony Roberts
  • Amy Ryan
  • Jennifer Salt
  • Helen Slater
  • Wesley Snipes
  • Susan Strasberg
  • Robin Strasser
  • Glynn Turman
  • Martha Veléz
  • Ben Vereen
  • Jessica Walter
  • Merritt Wever
  • Lesley Ann Warren
  • Marlon Wayans
  • Steven Weber
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Vanessa A. Williams

Architects

  • Charles Gwathmey
  • Robert Siegel

Artists and illustrators

  • Justin Bua
  • James Bama
  • Cora Cohen
  • Rosalyn Drexler
  • Will Elder
  • Audrey Flack
  • Mary Frank
  • Laurence Gartel
  • Milton Glaser
  • Dean Haspiel
  • Joel Iskowitz
  • Al Jaffee
  • Wolf Kahn
  • Allan Kaprow
  • Warren Kremer
  • Harvey Kurtzman
  • Emily Mason
  • Josh Neufeld
  • Reginald Pollack
  • Robert Riger
  • Edward Sorel
  • Susan Schwalb
  • Daniel Schwartz
  • Aaron Shikler
  • Burton Silverman
  • Larry Walker
  • Fred Wilson
  • Marian Zazeela

Designers

  • Milton Glaser
  • Isaac Mizrahi

Other academics

  • Stanley Aronowitz
  • Heather Knight

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