Notable Alumni
- Carl Emil Schorske '32, cultural historian
- Florence Wald, '34, nurse, professor, administrator
- Gordon Gould '38, physicist credited with inventing laser
- Harris Wofford '44, United States Senator from Pennsylvania
- Bob Wilber, '45, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, band leader
- Richard Foreman, '55, playwright, avant-garde theater pioneer
- Ivan Sutherland '55, Internet pioneer
- Richard Holbrooke '58, American diplomat
- Linda McCartney '59, photographer, wife of Paul McCartney
- John Wallach, '60, journalist, author, editor, founder of Seeds of Peace
- David Feldshuh, '61, physician, dramatist, artistic director at Cornell University
- Robert Kuttner, '61, journalist, editor
- Jeffrey Hoffman '62, astronaut
- Nina Totenberg '62, journalist
- Barbara Kopple '64, documentary film director
- Nan Aron, '66, civil rights advocate, public interest lawyer
- Tovah Feldshuh '66, actress
- Nancy Friedman Atlas, '67, United States federal judge
- George Sugihara, '68, theoretical biologist
- Lizabeth Cohen, '69, historian, scholar
- Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson, '69, judge
- Tom Bernstein, '70, films and sport executive
- Judy Cheng-Hopkins, '70, United Nations Commissioner
- John Leventhal, '70, musician, producer, songwriter, recording engineer
- Dan Biederman, '71, urban management pioneer
- Eve Ensler, '71, playwright, performer, activist
- Lydia Cornell (as Lydia Korniloff), '71, actress
- Kenneth I. Juster, '72, government official, lawyer
- Tom Rogers (executive), '72, media executive
- Ross Greenburg, '73, executive for HBO Sports
- Mara Liasson '73, National Public Radio correspondent
- Charles Newirth '73, film producer
- Thomas E. Ricks, '73, journalist
- Richard Stengel '73, editor of Time magazine
- Paul J. Feiner '74, mayor of Greenburg, New York
- Gish Jen '74, novelist
- Rick Moser, '74, National League Football player, actor
- Elisabeth Rosenthal, '74, physician, journalist for The New York Times
- Victoria Redel, '76, poet, fiction writer, professor at Sarah Lawrence College
- Ellen Weiss '77, radio executive
- Eric Alterman '78, Nation columnist
- Brewster Kahle '78, artificial intelligence expert
- Douglas Rushkoff, '79, media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian
- Gary Trauner '79, Wyoming politician
- Aaron Sorkin '79, screenwriter
- Earl G. Graves, Jr. '80, basketball player
- Carolyn Strauss, '81, television executive and producer
- Bryan Reynolds '83, playwright, Shakespeare scholar
- Matthew Kahn, '84, environmental economics scholar
- Alan Schwarz, '86, sportswriter
- David Lascher '90, actor
- Jacob M. Appel '92, bioethics scholar
- Peter Grosz '92, actor
- Dan O'Brien '92, playwright
- Laura Dave '95, novelist
- Andrew Ross Sorkin '95, journalist
- Lisa Donovan, '98, actress
- DJ Shiftee '04, DJ, turntablist, born Samuel Morris Zornow
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