List of New York University alumni

This list of New York University alumni includes notable graduates and non-graduate former students of New York University.

Legend

The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent NYU schools and colleges:

Abbr.	Meaning
*	Did not graduate
CAS	College of Arts and Science
DENT	College of Dentistry
NURSING	Rory Meyers College of Nursing
GAL	Gallatin School of Individualized Study
GSAS	Graduate School of Arts and Science
IFA	Institute of Fine Arts
SPS	School of Professional Studies
ENG	School of Engineering (discontinued/merged; now Tandon)
LAW	School of Law
MED	School of Medicine
POLY	Tandon School of Engineering
SSW	New York University Silver School of Social Work
STEINHARDT	Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
STERN	Stern School of Business
TSOA	Tisch School of the Arts
ARTS	University College of Arts and Sciences (discontinued/merged; now CAS)
WAG	Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
SHA	New York University Shanghai
WSC	Washington Square College (discontinued/merged; now CAS)

In 1973, the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged into Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, which in turn merged into NYU to form New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in 2014. In 2015, the school changed its name to NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Academia and research

Educators

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
	1936	GSAS	Ph.D.	First president of the University of South Florida in Tampa; interim president of the University of Florida in Gainesville
		POLY		Dean at University of Wisconsin, Madison
	2002	IFA	Ph.D.	Educator, author and curator at The Museum of Modern Art, NY
		ENG		Founder of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz
	1974	GSAS	Ph.D.	First president of the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati
		POLY		Cooper Union Engineering School Dean; served as Dean at Pratt Institute; the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States
				Israeli economist and President of Tel Aviv University
		POLY		Vice Provost and Dean of Research at Stanford University; former director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
	1948	WSC	B.A.	Seventeenth president of Rutgers University; professor at NYU Law
		POLY		Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University; National Academy of Engineering member
			Master of Pedagogy	First president of Brooklyn College
	1971, 1980	GSAS	M.S., Ph.D.	President of the Fashion Institute of Technology
				Founder and first president of Hofstra University
		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
		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
William Everdell	1971	NYU	Ph.D.	Dean of Humanities, Saint Ann's School, author of The First Moderns
		Law	J.D.	Founding president of Finch College
				Economist
	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
	1986	Stern	M.B.A.	President, Drexel University
		POLY		Former chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at Columbia University; Russ Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member
	1978	STEINHARDT	M.A.	President and Chancellor, Loyola University Chicago
		POLY		Chairman of the chemical engineering department at Johns Hopkins University; National Academy of Science member; helped develop methods of separating solid waste components
		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
Dorit Geva	2006		Ph.D.	Founding Dean of undergraduate studies at Central European University
		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
	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
		POLY		Chair of the Chemistry Department at Rutgers University
		POLY		Founder and first dean of New York University Stern School of Business
	1977	GSAS	Ph.D.	Dean, INSEAD, 2000–2006
		POLY		President of New York City College of Technology
				Economics professor
	1972, 1975	Law	B.A., J.D.	Fourth president of Yeshiva University, 2003–2017
		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
				President of Brooklyn College
	1959		Ph.D.	'Father of Korean Archaeology', Prof. Seoul National University
		POLY		Chair of Biology at Tufts University
		POLY		Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor at Johns Hopkins University
Jerome Krase	1973	SOC	Ph.D.	Professor Emeritus and Archivist at Brooklyn College
	1948	WSC	B.A.	The "Pope of the unbelievers"
		POLY		President and chancellor of Yeshiva University
		POLY		Chair emeritus of the Board of Swarthmore College
				Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
		POLY		Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology
		Law	B.A., J.D.	Chairman of the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees
	1969	Stern	M.B.A.	President, University of Wisconsin–Madison; President of the University of Wisconsin System
				President of John Jay College
	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
		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
	1983	Law	J.D.	President of the University of Nebraska; Chancellor of the City University of New York
		STERN	MBA	Dean of the School of Management at Simmons College
	1958	ENG	M.S.	President of Shimer College
		POLY		Dean at University of Southern California
	1964	GSAS	Ph.D.	Intellectual heir of Ayn Rand; leading figure of Objectivism
		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
	1917	Stern	B.A.	Founder and first president of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines
		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
Wallace S. Sayre		GSAS	Ph.D.	Professor of Columbia University; namesake of Sayre's law
		POLY		President of University of Arizona
		ENG		President of New York Institute of Technology
		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
		POLY		President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
			M.D.	Founding dean of Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
		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
	1984	GSAS	Ph.D.	Dean of Lander College for Women and Vice President of Touro College
		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
		WAG		Vice chancellor at the City University of New York
		POLY		President of Ohio Wesleyan University
	1838		B.A.	Led New Brunswick seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901
	1951	CAS	B.A.	Author of A People's History of the United States

Professors, researchers and scientists

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
		POLY		2005 president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
	1984	GSAS	Ph.D.	Victim of unsolved 2005 homicide at New Jersey water treatment plant
	1986, 1989	Courant	M.S., Ph.D.	Computer scientist; professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Sloan Research Fellow
	1948	CAS	B.A.	Shakespearean scholar
	1990		Ph.D.	Professor at Bocconi University, Milan; director of Fondazione RDB
	1880	Med	Ph.D	Meteorologist and medical doctor
	1937	DENT	D.D.S.	Author of Sicher and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy
	1929	ARTS	B.S.	Inventor of the first stereo radio-phonograph
	2000	CAS	B.S.	UCLA Professor & Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair
	1949		M.A.	Associate professor emeritus of education; physical education instructor; longest-serving faculty member of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
		GSAS	Ph.D.	Inventor of the Hansch equation
	1966	ENG	B.S.	Invented public key cryptography; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; Turing Award winner
	1875	Med		Co-inventor of Kellogg's cereals
	1970	Courant	Ph.D.	Director of the Fields Institute
	1969	Courant	Ph.D.	Creator of the Korn shell
	1952	DENT	DDS	Pioneer in oral implantology; nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969
		POLY		mathematician, inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society
		POLY		Engineer-in-chief of the United States Navy; Congressional Gold Medal winner
		POLY		Nuclear engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory
		POLY		Received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
	1978–1982	Med	M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.	Astronaut
Robert Qiu	1955		Ph.D.	CEO of Wiscom Technologies; professor of electrical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	1969	ARTS	B.S.	Inventor of the floating raft system
			Postdoc	Chief scientist of the Viking missions to Mars in 1976
	1979	Courant	Ph.D.	Professor at Columbia University
	1962	CAS	B.A.	First commercial space flight customer
	1836		B.A.	Inventor
	1960		M.A	Co-founder and director, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
	1951	ENG	B.S.	Air Force test pilot
	1951	GSAS	M.A.	Works include the World Trade Center
	1961	ENG	B.S.	International soccer player and academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Member of the National Academy of Engineering
		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
		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
	1997	POLY	B.S.	Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
		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.
		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		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
		POLY		Professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, and University of Cambridge. Invented the Multitaper
		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 Lehigh University
		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
		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		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 Minnesota and SUNY Buffalo
		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.
		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		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		POLY		Joseph F. Cullman III professor and researcher at Yale University
		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
	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
	1939, 1945	MED	M.S., MD	Developed radioimmunoassay with Rosalyn Yalow, who received a Nobel Prize for their joint work after Berson's death.
	1963	WSC	B.A.	Art historian, Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Minnesota
Cortney Lollar	2002	LAW	J.D.	Distinguished professor of Law at University of Kentucky

Abel Prize recipients

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
	1949	Courant	Ph.D.	Abel Prize (2015) and 1995 National Medal of Science recipient
	1966	Courant	postdoc	Abel Prize (2007)
	1947, 1949	Courant	B.A., Ph.D.	Abel Prize (2005) and 1986 National Medal of Science recipient

MacArthur Fellows

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
	1935	ARTS	B.A.	1986 MacArthur Fellow
	1956	GSAS	Ph.D.	1974 MacArthur Fellow
	1966	ARTS	B.A.	1983 MacArthur Fellow
	2001	Gallatin	B.A.	2015 MacArthur Fellow
	2003	TSOA	M.F.A.	2015 MacArthur Fellow
	2015	TSOA		2015 MacArthur Fellow
	1997	TSOA	M.F.A	2005 MacArthur Fellow
	2007	TSOA	M.A.	2016 MacArthur Fellow
	1968	Law	J.D.	1983 MacArthur Fellow
	2003	TSOA	B.F.A.	2017 MacArthur Fellow
	2011	GSAS	Ph.D.	2017 MacArthur Fellow

National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
	1943–1948	GSAS	B.A., M.A., Ph.D.	1988 National Medal of Science recipient
	1947, 1949	Courant	B.A., Ph.D.	1986 National Medal of Science recipient and Abel Prize (2005)
		Courant		2014 National Medal of Science recipient
		Courant		1993 National Medal of Science recipient
	1951	GSAS	Ph.D.	1998 National Medal of Science recipient (first woman recipient)
	1944	GSAS	Ph.D.	1985 National Medal of Science recipient and 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
	1931	Med	M.D.	1988 National Medal of Science recipient
	1934	GSAS	postdoc	1970 National Medal of Science recipient
	1929	POLY	B.S.	1983 National Medal of Science recipient
	1964	POLY	Ph.D.	1994 National Medal of Technology recipient
	1976	POLY	M.S.	1995 National Medal of Technology recipient
		POLY	Ph.D.	1999 National Medal of Technology recipient
	1984	TSOA	MFA	2012 National Medal of Arts recipient
	1989	TSOA	BFA	2016 National Medal of Arts recipient; Guggenheim Fellow
	1949	Courant	Ph.D.	1995 National Medal of Science recipient and Abel Prize (2015)
	1966	Courant	postdoc	2010 National Medal of Science recipient
		Law		1995 National Medal of Arts recipient
	1935	GSAS	Ph.D.	1968 National Medal of Science recipient

Nobel laureates

Name	Year	School	Degree	Notability	Reference
				2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
	1941	Med	M.Sc.	1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
				1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
				1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
				1987 Nobel Prize in Literature
	1953	POLY	Postdoc	1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
	1967	Law	LL.M.	2005 Nobel Peace Prize
		*POLY	PhD	1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
				2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
				1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
	1924	GSAS		1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
				2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
				2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
	1955	Med	M.D.	2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Associate Professor 1965–74
				1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
	1947	Med		1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
				1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
				1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
		POLY		1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; won Wolf Prize in Chemistry
				1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
				1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
				1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
			Postgraduate work at biology laboratory of Robert Chambers	1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
				Nobel Peace Prize
	1948	POLY	B.S.	1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
				2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
	1944	GSAS	Ph.D.	1995 Nobel Prize in Physics and 1985 National Medal of Science recipient
	1867	Law	LL.B.	1912 Nobel Peace Prize
			Postgraduate work under Severo Ochoa	2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
				2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
	1941	GSAS	Ph.D.	1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
				1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
	1927	WSC	B.S.	1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
			coursework*	1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Academic administrators

• Joe Gow (born 1960) (attended West Chester University before transferring to New York University, later transferring to Penn State University, from where he graduated) Template:Mdash American academic, musician, pornographic actor, and university administrator, noted for being fired as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in December 2023 after being outed for filming and starring in consensual pornographic videos with his wife, which they posted to public adult websites (without ever mentioning their names, careers, or university affiliations)

Business

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Stern, M.B.A., 1980	Founder and former CEO of Comverse Technology
	CAS B.A.	Attorney and businessman; former owner of the Houston Rockets NBA team
	Stern, B.S., 1981	Billionaire, founder of Berggruen Institute
	CAS B.A.	Non-profit executive, heir and philanthropist; son of George Soros
	POLY, 1913–14	Co-founder of Amerasia' involved in the 1945 Amerasia espionage affair
	POLY, B.S., 1980	Chairman and CEO of Xerox
	POLY, B.S., 1868	Founder of IBM
	A.B.; LLM	Chairman and former CEO of Griffon Corporation
	Stern, MBA	CEO of Griffon Corporation; former president and director of Wynn Resorts
	Stern	Co-founder of Futurism, executive producer
	Stern, MBA	Co-founder and managing partner of Dalton Investments LLC
	Graduate studies	Founder of Henderson Advertising Agency in Greenville, South Carolina; Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1970
	POLY, B.S., 1960	Former chairman and CEO of Sears
	POLY, M.S., 1985	Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin
	Stern, B.S., 1991	Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur; known as "Iceland's first billionaire"
	Law L.L.M., 1967	Founder and Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
	economics degree 1977 WSUC	Designer of modern snowboard and founder of Burton Snowboards
	Art Therapy *	Founder of Ben & Jerry's
	1947	Founded Hudson News in 1987
	CAS B.A.	Jewelry designer
	Stern 1955, B.S. Law 1957, J.D.	Former CEO and chairman, MetLife
	ENG, B.S.	CEO of Paramount Pictures
	ENG	Managing partner and chairman of the board of Lord Abbett
	Stern, M.B.A. 1984	Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, CEO and CFO of Viacom
	Stern, B.S. 1972	Hedge fund manager
	Stern	Businessman
	Stern 1973, M.B.A.	CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
	Stern, M.B.A.	MTV Networks
	Stern, 1973, 1975, M.B.A, Ph.D.	Founder of The George Foundation and Multinational Computer Models
	Stern 1948, M.B.A	CEO of Palai Central Bank (1956–60)
	Stern 1961, B.S.	Chairman and CEO of American Express (1994–2001); Chairman of the American International Group (AIG)
	Stern 1948 1950 1977, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.	Former chairman of the Federal Reserve
	Stern 1977, M.B.A.	CEO of NASDAQ
	CAS 1998, B.A.	Founder of Charity: Water
	MED*	Investor and activist shareholder
	Stern 1948, B.A., Stern 1958, Ph.D.	Wall Street financial consultant
	Stern, M.B.A.	Host of Nightly Business Report
	Law 1955, LL.B.	Founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines
	POLY	Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
	POLY	Video game designer, co-founder of The Code Liberation Foundation
	Stern 1976, M.B.A.	CFO of Pfizer
	Stern*	President of DC Comics
	Law 1955, J.D.	Co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
	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
	ENG	Vice President of Boeing Company
	ENG, B.S., M.S.	Founder of Crestron Electronics
	Stern 1977, M.B.A.	President of Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
	ENG, B.S., Stern, M.B.A.	Chairman and CEO of Qwest
	coursework*	Founder of Neuberger & Berman
	CAS, B.A.	Commodities trader and hedge fund manager; indicted for tax evasion
	Stern 1964, M.B.A.	CEO and owner of Barnes & Noble
	Stern 1985, M.B.A.	Rothschild Banque
	1961	Advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and Bozell Worldwide; creator of the "Got Milk?" advertising campaign
	Stern	Founder, chairman and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation
	ENG, B.S., 1924	Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Grumman
	ENG	Co-founder and current chairman of Tellabs
	ENG	Businessman invested in real estate, aviation, and groceries; radio talk show host; owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes
	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
	Stern 1956, B.S.	Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
	CAS B.A., 1952	Owner of World Trade Center site
	Courant, M.S.	Investor, hedge fund manager
	B.A.	Real estate investor
	Stern 1957, B.S., 1959, M.B.A.	Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business; CEO of The Hartz Group
	Stern, M.B.A.	Member of International Olympic Committee
	CAS B.A., 1946	Founder of Syms Clothing
	Stern 1947, B.S.	Founder of Automatic Data Processing, philanthropist
	Stern*	Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International Inc.; former companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
	Stern 1942, B.Sc.	Media mogul; president and chief executive officer, CBS
	Gallatin 1999, B.A.	Supermodel
	Stern 1979, M.B.A.	Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals
	Stern, M.B.A.	Founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer
		Creator of Twitter; founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
	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.
	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
	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
	SPS 2004, M.S	Founder and CEO of bedding and interior design company Robin Wilson Home
		Founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald
		Computer scientists; one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P.
	Stern	Hedge fund manager, owns controlling interest in Barneys New York
	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
	Law	Vice Chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies
	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
	Law	Partner and former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
	Law	Chief operating officer and president for ConocoPhillips
	Law	Vice Chairman of Citigroup
	Law	Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
	Law	Vice President of Marvel Entertainment
	Law	Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of Southwest Airlines
	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
	Stern	CEO and President of both Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker, as well as publisher of GQ
	Stern, M.B.A	Chairman, CEO and President of AmTrust Financial Services
	Courant	CEO and founder of App Labs
	Music Business, B.S.	Online content creator, former senior campaign advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Entertainment

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	TSOA	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	TSOA 1993*, dropped out after two days	Magnolia, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood
	Stern 2004, B.S	Actor, Parks and Recreation, Master of None, Human Giant, Scrubs; stand-up comedian
	NURSING, current student	True Jackson, VP, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
	TSOA	Film writer and director
	TSOA	Director best known for Tangerine, The Florida Project and Anora
	TSOA 1993, B.F.A.	Actor, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock
	TSOA 1998–2001*	Veronica Mars, Pulse, Heroes, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Gossip Girl
	TSOA 1994, B.F.A.	Jawbreaker, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
	SSW	Sex educator and sex therapist; host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on the Oprah Winfrey Network
	TSOA 2001, B.F.A.	Journey's End (Broadway), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
	TSOA*	Gilmore Girls, Sin City, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Tuck Everlasting
	TSOA	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
	TSOA	Original Broadway Cast of Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City
	TSOA 1973, B.F.A.	Beverly Hills Cop, Meet Joe Black, Gigli
	TSOA	The Theory of Everything
	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
	ARTS 1946, M.A.	First African American woman to direct on Broadway
	ARTS 1975, M.A., 1980 PhD.	Playwright, performance artist and director
	TSOA 1990, B.F.A.	Musician, writer, and actress
	TSOA	Tony Award nominated director of the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812
	TSOA	Both Home Alone films, Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, first two Harry Potter films, Rent
	TSOA 1967–1969*	Harold and Maude, MASH, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
		Grandma's Boy, The Wedding Singer
	TSOA 1994, M.F.A.	Sleepers, Big Fish, Watchmen, Public Enemies
	TSOA 1970, B.F.A.	Analyze This, Analyze That, City Slickers 1 & 2, When Harry Met Sally
	TSOA*	High Fidelity, Con Air
	STEINHARDT, STERN	Model, social media influencer
	TSOA	The Sopranos, Joey
	TSOA	Homo Faber, Three Colors: White, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Actress
	TSOA	Producer
	TSOA, M.F.A.	X2, Superman Returns
	TSOA 1988, B.F.A.	House
	TSOA*	What About Bob?, Law and Order: Criminal Intent
	SPS*	Turkish anchorwoman, beauty pageant titleholder, journalist, model, and occasional actress
	TSOA 1992, B.F.A.	Actor
	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
	TSOA 1981*	Curb Your Enthusiasm, Legally Blonde, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Silicon Valley
	B.F.A., 2002	Jacklight, Suck it Up Buttercup
	TSOA 1987, B.F.A.	Doc Hollywood, Jackie Brown
	TSOA 1990–1993*	Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland
	WSC 1992	The Real Housewives of New York City, Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny; creator/owner of Skinnygirl
	GAL 2009, B.A.	Grounded For Life
	TSOA	Singer
	TSOA 2003, B.F.A.	One Life to Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
	TSOA	Gone Baby Gone, House M.D., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
	TSOA	Avenue Q, The Sopranos, Law & Order: SVU
	TSOA 1983, B.F.A.	The Insider, Showgirls, Bound
	GAL*	Editor, writer, actress
	TSOA 2006, B.F.A	Actor, rapper under the stage name Childish Gambino
	TSOA	Television and film producer; former president of the Producers Guild of America
	CAS, 1959, B.A.	Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman
	TSOA*	Prime
, better known as Ms. Rachel	STEINHARDT	YouTuber, social media personality, songwriter, and educator
	Stern, M.B.A.	Mandalay Pictures
	TSOA 2002, M.F.A.	Criminal Minds, (500) Days of Summer, 68 Kill, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
	TSOA 1996, M.F.A.	Six Feet Under, Dexter
	GSAS 1997, M.A.	Scary Movie
	POLY	Actor
	TSOA 1983, M.F.A.	Above the Rim
	Gallatin, TSOA*	The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, Ella Enchanted, Rachel Gets Married, Alice in Wonderland
	CAS*	Training Day, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
	TSOA, B.F.A.	Look Who's Talking, Loser, Clueless
	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)
	M.F.A.	Stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle
	TSOA 1989, B.F.A.	Capote, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous
	TSOA 2002, B.F.A.	MTV: The State
	TSOA 2002, B.F.A.	Spinster, Killing Cinderella, Daria
Stephanie Hsu	TSOA 2012, B.F.A.	Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
	POLY	Character actor
	TSOA	The Village, Lady in the Water, Terminator Salvation, Twilight: Eclipse
	TSOA, B.F.A.	Boycott, Above the Rim, 3000 Miles to Graceland
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Take Me Out, The Little Dog Laughed
	TSOA	Transamerica, Desperate Housewives
	GAL, current student	Actor
	TSOA*	Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Broken Flowers
	TSOA	Slums of Beverly Hills
	TSOA*	Singer-songwriter, pianist
	TSOA, B.F.A.	3rd Rock from the Sun
	One-year exchange program	Playwright: Wolf Play, Wild Goose Dreams, No More Sad Things
	TSOA*	Shrek; co-founder of DreamWorks
	TSOA 1996, M.F.A.	ABC series Lost, CBS Series Hawaii Five-0
	GAL, current student	Fashion model
	TSOA 1993, B.F.A.	High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac
	TSOA 1990, M.F.A.	Six Feet Under, Parenthood, 9-1-1
	TSOA	Voices of Iraq, MTV's Fear
	TSOA 1984, M.F.A.	Tony Award
	TSOA, B.F.A.	ER
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility
	TSOA 1982, M.F.A.	Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever
		MTV: The State, Reno 911!, Taxi (screenwriter)
	CAS, B.A.	Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand, Shanghai Kiss
	TSOA 1982, B.A.	Principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
	TSOA 1991–??	Anna and the King
	TSOA B.A.	The Little Dog Laughed
	GAL	Actress
	M.F.A	The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night, Moment of Impact
	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
		radio actress
	GAL*	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Trash, Her
	Law	Comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
	TSOA 1989, M.F.A.	Ed Green in Law and Order; Rent
	TSOA*	Fried Green Tomatoes, The Postman
	TSOA*	Director of "We Found Love" by Rihanna, "Diva" by Beyoncé
	TSOA	Television, film, and comic book writer, producer, and editor
	TSOA	Intensity, Scrubs, Point Break
	TSOA 2016	Veronica Lodge on Riverdale
	TSOA*	Wicked, Rent, Enchanted, Rescue Me, Frozen
	Stern, M.B.A.	Co-founded Merchant Ivory Productions
	TSOA 1987, M.F.A.	Will and Grace, NBC's Smash
	TSOA 2007, M.F.A.	Twitch
	TSOA 1993, B.F.A.	Glee, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock
	TSOA	Fruitvale Station, Cake, Sound of My Voice
	TSOA 1976, A.A.	Star Trek: Voyager, Orange is the New Black
	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
	TSOA 1997, B.F.A.	Crossing Jordan, Mission to Mars
	TSOA 1995, B.F.A.	Sliders, The Bachelor
	TSOA	Indian actor
	TSOA 2007, M.F.A	Musical theatre composer, Mrs. Sharp, Darling, 35MM
	GAL*	Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute
	TSOA 2013	Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla, In Secret
	GAL	Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute
	TSOA 2010, B.F.A.	The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, AI, Secondhand Lions
	TSOA B.F.A.	Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman 1984
	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
	TSOA 1981, B.F.A.	Actor, narrator
	B.A.	seaQuest DSV, Xena: Warrior Princess
	TSOA 1989*	Rent, Six Degrees of Separation, Dazed and Confused
	TSOA	Tower Heist, New York, I Love You, Rush Hour
	GAL, current student	Actress
	CAS	Las Culturistas, I Love That For You, Fire Island
	CAS, B.A.	When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, City of Angels, You've Got Mail
	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
	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
	TSOA	Actress; Screen Actors Guild Awards winner
	B.S.	Comedian and gym teacher
	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
	CAS, 1991, B.A.	Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Trigun
	Steinhardt 1977, M.A.	Moonstruck; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	TSOA 1981, B.F.A.	The Crush, Flipper, Tiger Town, The Outsiders (series)
	TSOA 1997, B.A.	ABCD; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
	TSOA	The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, The Last Airbender, Lady in the Water
	ARTS 1944–1945*	The Odd Couple; winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	TSOA*	Oz, Men in Black, Get Shorty
	B.S. 1937	Her, Fool's Errand (opened on Broadway in 1927)
	GAL 2015	Friends, Big Daddy, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Narrator and Jughead Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series)
	GAL 2015	The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Big Daddy, The Suite Life on Deck
	TSOA, B.F.A.	Supersize Me
	B.A.	Drowning Mona, Be Cool, 21
	TSOA	Director, producer, and screenwriter, Secret Obsession
	TSOA*	ER, Newsradio, Primary Colors
	Took writing course	MTV's Most Wanted, Ishq Vishk, One Life to Live, Luv Ka The End
	TSOA	Home Base, Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World, The Book of Henry
	NYU	Scream, F.P. Jones on Riverdale (2017 TV series)
	Stern, Tisch, B.A., 2005	Taiwanese actor and model
	TSOA, 2002	Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live
	TSOA 1991, B.F.A.	Grey's Anatomy
	TSOA, 2009, B.F.A.	Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street
	TSOA, M.F.A.	The Office
	TSOA 2003, B.F.A.	After.Life
	TSOA 1987	Quills; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	CAS B.A.	Saturday Night Live
Edward Lee	CAS B.A.	Celebrity Chef

Music

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	B.A., 1935	1986 MacArthur Fellow, 1982 Pulitzer Prize special citation
	B.A., 1932	Composer
	Steinhardt	Tony Award for City of Angels 1990, On the Twentieth Century 1978
	Steinhardt	Partner of Adolph Green, recipient of several Tony Awards
	CAS 1953, B.A.	Founder of Arista Records
	CAS 2003, Hon. Ph.D.	Singer/songwriter
	CAS	Interpol's first bassist/keyboardist
	Steinhardt, B.A.	Jazz trumpeter
	Previous student	Interpol's first drummer
	GAL	Musician, performance artist, designer
	B.A., 1939	1967 Tony Award, 1967 Grammy Award for Cabaret
	B.A., 1991	a.k.a. Vitamin C
	B.A., 1948	Bassoonist and composer
	TSOA*	a.k.a. Lady Gaga
	GAL 2000, B.A.; NYU 2005, M.A.	Violinist
	Steinhardt	Nigerian music producer; daughter of Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola
	TSOA	The Strokes' guitarist
	TSOA	Mercury prize-winning lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons
	LSS	singer and rapper
	GAL	Interpol's guitarist/backing vocalist
	GAL	Interpol's guitarist/lead vocalist
	previous student	member of rap duo Black Star
	Steinhardt 1986, M.A.	Composer
Tania León	Steinhardt	famous conductor, composer of "Scourge of Hyacinths",
	Steinhardt	pioneer of music recording
	independent studies, 1970–1971	1982 Grammy Award
	M.A. Philosophy	Gospel musician and pastor
	former student	Founding member of experimental band Animal Collective
	B.F.A., 2016	Musician
	studied under Rudolph Schramm	Composer
	former student, lived on campus	Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
	B.A., 1979	1987 Grammy Award
	GAL	a.k.a. Jai Wolf
	B.A., 1991	Lead singer for bands Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil
	Gallatin; received music degree after transferring from the University Of Miami	Singer and guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
	Steinhardt 1956, B.M.E.	Influential hard-bop and modal jazz saxophonist
	former student	Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
	B.A., 1942	Jazz double bassist, known for 1939 Coleman Hawkins recording of Body and Soul
	Steinhardt 1961, Ph.D.	First African American woman appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard
	B.A., 1927	Composer
	Gallatin	The Supremes
Austin Wintory	Steinhardt, B.M., 2005	Grammy-nominated composer for video games and film
Arca	TSOA	Grammy-nominated musician, record producer, and DJ
	TSOA	Singer, songwriter, producer
	POLY	Singer, record producer and mixing engineer
	TSOA, 2019	Performer, songwriter, producer
	Steinhardt	Singers and songwriters, known for the Grammy Award winning song Say Something
	TSOA Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree	Singer and songwriter, 11 wins for Grammy Award until 2023

Academy Award winners

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	TSOA 2000, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2017, Moonlight; 2019, Green Book
	TSOA 1953*	Academy Award 1977, Annie Hall; 1986, Hannah and her Sisters
	TSOA 1987	Academy Award 2007, Little Miss Sunshine
	TSOA 1998 B.F.A	Academy Award 2025, Anora
	ARTS 1942, B.A.	Academy Award 1968, Thoroughly Modern Millie
	ARTS 1987, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2012, The Artist
	TSOA*	Academy Award 1984, Terms of Endearment
	TSOA	Academy Award 2006, The Moon and the Son
	TSOA, 1978, B.F.A.	Academy Award 1996, Fargo; 2008, No Country For Old Men
	TSOA 1999, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2010, Precious
	GSAS	Academy Award 1991, Ghost
	TSOA	Academy Award 2016, Spotlight
	ARTS coursework*	Academy Award 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman
	TSOA 1981, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2000, Pollock
	GAL, TSOA	Academy Award 2012, Les Misérables
	WSC student under Percy Grainger	Academy Award 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster
	TSOA 1985, B.F.A.	Academy Award 2011, Inception
	TSOA 1989, B.F.A.	Academy Award 2005, Capote
	TSOA 1993, B.F.A.	Academy Award 2000, Girl, Interrupted
	TSOA 1980	Academy Award 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	TSOA coursework*	Academy Award 1960, Elmer Gantry
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2005, Brokeback Mountain; 2012, Life of Pi
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2019, BlackKklansman	-
	TSOA, M.F.A.	Academy Award 2011, God of Love
	ARTS, B.A.	Academy Award 1995, Pocahontas; 1992, Aladdin; 1991, Beauty and the Beast; 1989, The Little Mermaid
	TSOA	Academy Award 2016, Son of Saul
	GSAS 1986, Ph.D.	Academy Award 1997, for the development of Perlin noise
	CAS 1979, B.A.	Academy Award 1981, Arthur's Theme
	TSOA	Academy Award 2005, The Aviator
	Steinhardt 1977, M.A.	Academy Award 1987, Moonstruck
	TSOA 1970, M.F.A.	Academy Award 1978, Midnight Express; 1986, Platoon; 1989, Born on the Fourth of July
	TSOA 1996	Academy Award 2004, Sideways
	TSOA 1983, B.F.A.	Academy Award 1992, My Cousin Vinny
	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
	ARTS 1928–1930 *	Academy Award 1953, "Secret Love"
	TSOA 1985	Academy Award 2009, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Emmy Award winners

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	TSOA 1953*	Emmy Award 1957
	STERN	Emmy Award 2016 for Master of None
	TSOA 2012, B.F.A.	Emmy Award 2017 for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2016 for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
	GSAS 1946, M.A.	Emmy Award 1964 for "Beyond the Blues"
	Steinhardt	Emmy Award
	TSOA 2017	Emmy Award 2024 for The Bear
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2022 Producer George Carlin's American Dream
	TSOA	Emmy Award, a writer and producer for The X-Files
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2016 for Key & Peele
	TSOA 1984, M.F.A.	Emmy Award
	ENG, M.S.	He received two New England Emmy Awards for outstanding achievement in television weathercasting
	TSOA 1987, M.F.A.	Emmy Award for The Practice
	TSOA 1979, B.A.	Emmy nominations TV production
	TSOA 1993, M.F.A.	Emmy Award 2003 for Will and Grace
	TSOA 1991, B.F.A.	Emmy Award 2017 for Crime Watch Daily
	POLY, M.S.	He received two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
	Steinhardt 2011, B.S.	Emmy Award 2016 for "Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash"
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2016 for The Wiz Live!
	TSOA	Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
	TSOA*	Emmy Award 2003

Grammy Award winners

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Steinhardt	Grammy Award 2015 for Say Something
	Steinhardt	1992 Grammy Award for The Will Rogers Follies
	Steinhardt	1999 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
	ARTS 1955, B.A.	Grammy Award 1967 for Cabaret
	TSOA* 2003–2005	Grammy Awards 2010, 2011, and 2015 recipient in several categories
	Steinhardt	Grammy Award 2015 for Say Something
		Grammy Award 1966 for her performance of the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg
	TSOA 1970–1971	Grammy Award 1982 for "You Should Hear How She Talks About You"
	TSOA*	Grammy Award 2007 for producer on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
	CAS*	Grammy Award 2012 for producer on Adele's 21, among others
	CAS 1979, B.A.	Grammy Award 1987 for "That's What Friends Are For"
	Steinhardt 1956, B.M.E.	Grammy Award 2004 for the album Alegria
	GAL	Grammy Award 1999 and 2001 with The Supremes

Tony Award winners

Name	Relation to NYU	Tony Awards won	Reference
	TSOA 2009, M.F.A.	"Best Actress in a Play" for Venus in Fur (2012)
	SPS 1989, M.S.R.E.	Producer; "Best Musical" for Jersey Boys (2006), "Best Play" for August: Osage County (2008), "Best Play" Stereophonic (2024)
	TSOA, M.F.A.	"Best Featured Actress in a Play" For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1977)
	TSOA, 1968 M.F.A.	"Best Actor in a Musical" for The Robber Bridegroom
	Steinhardt	Composer, five Tony Awards from 1978 – 1991
	Steinhardt	Librettist, twelve Tony Awards from 1953 – 1991
	ARTS 1955, B.A.	Lyricist, three Tony Awards: Cabaret (1967), Woman of the Year 1981, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993)
	TSOA, 1988 M.F.A.	"Best Actress in a Play" for God of Carnage (2009)
	TSOA 2003, B.F.A.	"Best Featured Actress in a Musical" for The Book of Mormon (2011)
	TSOA 2005, M.F.A.	"Best Actor in a Musical" for Once (2011)
	TSOA, M.F.A.	"Best Lighting Design in a Musical" for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
	TSOA 1984, M.F.A.	Playwright. "Best Play" Angels in America (part 1 in 1993, part 2 in 1994)
	TSOA 2003, M.F.A.	"Best Scenic Design in a Musical" for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
	TSOA 1993, B.F.A.	"Best Actress in a Musical" for Wicked (2004)
	TSOA 1980, B.F.A.	"Best Actress in a Musical" for Passion (1994) and The King and I (1996)
	TSOA 1997, M.F.A	"Best Costume Design in a Play" for Eclipsed (2016)
	Steinhardt 1977, M.A.	Playwright. "Best Play" for Doubt: A Parable (2005)
	TSOA, 1982 M.F.A.	"Best Featured Actor in a Play" for Angels in America (part 1, 1993), "Best Actor in a Play" for Angels in America (part 2, 1994)
	TSOA 1989, M.F.A	"Best Costume Design in a Musical" for Hamilton (2016)
	GAL 1988	Producer, four Tony Awards: Red (2010), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014), Fun Home (2015), The Humans (2016)
	TSOA, 1997 M.F.A.	"Best Book" for Avenue Q (2003)
	TSOA, M.F.A.	"Best Direction of a Play" for Angels in America (1993), "Best Direction of a Musical" for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (1996)
	TSOA, 1987 M.F.A.	"Best Featured Actor in a Play" for Side Man (1999)
	TSOA 1991, B.F.A	"Best Scenic Design in a Play" for The Humans (2016)

Medicine

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Med 1941, M.Sc.	1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
	Med 1973, M.D.	Author of The South Beach Diet
	Med 1983, M.D.	Interventional cardiologist and Director of Clinical Research at Geisinger Clinic
	POLY	Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
	B.A., 1949	Owner of The Chasan Villa
	Med 1890, M.D.	Explorer
	WSC 1959, B.A.	Pediatric neurosurgeon
	Med 1878, A.B.; 1885, A.M.	President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy and Director of Saratoga Springs State Reservation.
	Med 1848, M.D.	Surgeon General, pioneer in neurology
	ENG	Co-Inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart
	POLY	Developed the practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin
	POLY	Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator
	POLY	Invented Vetigel while an undergrad student
	Med 1974–1975, M.S., Ph.D.	Forensic scientist
	Med 1940–1941, Research Fellow	Demonstrated that DNA transmits genetic traits
	Med	Discovered the mosquito transmission of yellow fever
	Med 1931, M.D.	Developer of the oral vaccine for polio; President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
	Med, M.D.	Founder of Creedmore Institute of Psychobiological Studies
	Med 1938, M.D.	Discoverer of the Salk vaccine (the first polio vaccine)
	Med, M.D.	Founder of the American Public Health Association
	POLY	Helped design X-ray machines that provided additional years of life to cancer patients

Politics, law and government

Members of the United States House of Representatives

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	B.A., 1955	United States House of Representatives
	B.A., 1979	United States House of Representatives
	B.M., 1998	United States House of Representatives R-AL (2011-2021)
		United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B., 1925	United States House of Representatives D-NY 1935–1946
	Law LL.M., 1976	United States House of Representatives D-NC 1983–1985
	Law LL.B., 1908	United States House of Representatives R-NJ 1931–1937
	Wagner 1963, M.P.A.	United States House of Representatives D-MO 1976–1993
	Law LL.B., 1898	United States House of Representatives D-IA 1921-1921
	B.S., 1927, Law LL.B., 1928	United States House of Representatives
	M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989	United States House of Representatives
	Law J.D., 1982	United States House of Representatives (1997–)
	B.A., 1938	United States House of Representatives
	B.C.S., 1925	United States House of Representatives (1949–1959)
	Law postgraduate work	United States House of Representatives, U.S. Ambassador
	Wagner, 1936*	United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B., 1846	United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B. 1924	United States House of Representatives (1957–1971)
	Law LL.B. 1957	United States House of Representatives (1969–1995)
	Law postgraduate 1948	United States House of Representatives (1959–1973)
	Law LL.B., 1862	United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B., 1950	United States House of Representatives (1983–2003)
	Law LL.B., 1892	United States House of Representatives (1918–1935)
	Law, J.D., 1950, LL.M., 1955	United States House of Representatives (1979–1993)
	Graduate Work	United States House of Representatives (1977–1986)
	GSAS, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981	United States House of Representatives (1999–)
	Law 1964, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1976–1987)
	Law 1926, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B. 1908	United States House of Representatives (1933–1938)
	Poly 1865	United States House of Representatives (1893 – 1897)
	Stern, B.S.	United States House of Representatives (1937–1967)
	Law 1926, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1946–1956)
	Law 1908, LL.B.,	United States House of Representatives (1916–1934)
	Law 1873, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1911–1915)
	Law 1906, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	M.A., 1968	United States House of Representatives (1981–1993)
	Law 1877, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1900–1907)
	Law 1955, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives, Governor of Connecticut
	Law 1890, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law LL.B. 1907	United States House of Representatives (1920–1927)
	Law 1908, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1923–1935)
	Law 1917, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law 1908, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law 1957, B.S.	United States House of Representatives
	Law 1916, M.A.	United States House of Representatives (1921–1961)
	Wagner 1979, M.P.A.	United States House of Representatives (1973–1993)
	Law 1952, LL.M.	United States House of Representatives (1962–1983)
	Stern 1974, M.B.A. Wagner 1978, M.P.A	United States House of Representatives
	Law 1901, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	Law 1846, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	coursework*	United States House of Representatives
	1st President of NYU	United States House of Representatives (1817–1819)
	Law 1935, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives (1957–1961)
	Law 1927, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	M.A., 1976	United States House of Representatives (1992–)
	Law 1843, LL.B.	United States House of Representatives
	1909–1910	United States House of Representatives
	1963*	United States House of Representatives

Members of the United States Senate

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Law 1965, J.D.	United States Senate
	Stern M.B.A., 1950, Law J.D., 1953	United States Senate
	Law, LL.B.	United States Senate (1923–1929), Governor of New Jersey
	Med M.D., 1904	United States Senate (1929–1935), Governor of West Virginia
	CAS 1923, B.A., Law 1926, LL.B.	United States Senate
	one of the founders of NYU	Governor of New York (1804–1807)
	Law 1900, J.D.	United States Senate (1934–1961)
	Law 1895, LL.B.	United States Senate (1921–1933)
	Law 1887, J.D.	United States Senate (1911–1917)
	Law 1957, J.D.	United States Senate (1969–1995)
	B.A., 1929	United States Senate (1963–1981)
	Law 1867, LL.B.	United States Senate
	Stern 1915	United States Senate

United States Governors

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Law, LL.B.	Governor of New Jersey
	Med M.D., 1904	Governor of West Virginia
	Law 1838-1841	Governor of New York
		Governor of Connecticut
		Governor of Vermont
	TSOA*	Governor of New Hampshire

Ambassadors

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Law LL.M., 1986	United States Ambassador to Luxembourg
	Postgraduate study	Brazilian politician and legislator; ambassador to the U.S. and UK
	Law	United States Ambassador to Israel
	Law	United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1981 and 1987
	Law	United States Ambassador to the United Nations
	M.A.	United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
	CAS	United States Ambassador to Togo
	CAS	United States Ambassador to Fiji
	M.A.	United States Ambassador to Moldova
	Stern B.S., 1972	United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, United States Ambassador to Brazil
	POLY	United States Ambassador to Venezuela
		United States Ambassador to Venezuela
	Stern graduate studies	Ambassador to the U.S. of the Republic of Ghana; Minister of communication
	M.A., Ph.D.	United States Ambassador to Ghana
	M.A.	United States Ambassador to Ghana
		United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
	B.A., LL.B.	United States Ambassador to the CSCE
	B.A.	United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso
		United States Ambassador to NATO
		United States Ambassador to Sweden
Yu Tsune-chi	Sc.M. and Sc.D.	former Ambassador of the Republic of China to Italy and Spain

Judges

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	CAS	Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
	Law	Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; former Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
	GSAS M.A.	United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
	Law	Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
	Law	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
	Arts & Science, B.A, 1939 Law, J.D., 1941	Associate Justice, Vermont Supreme Court
	Law	Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
	Law, LL.B., 1958	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
	Law	Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
	Law	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
	Law	Justice, New York Supreme Court
	Law LL.M.	Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
	Law J.D., 1960	Judge, International Court of Justice (2000 -)
	Law J.D., 1979	Judge, New York State Supreme Court
	POLY	Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959
	Law LL.M., 1969; J.S.D., 1971	Judge, International Court of Justice
	Law LL.M., 1952	Judge, International Court of Justice
	B.A., 1943; Law 1949	Bronx New York Supreme Court judge known for his no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom became the model for the character of Myron Kovitsky in the book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
	NYU Master of Laws	Chief Justice of the Wyoming high court; Member of the Wyoming Supreme Court, 1974–2001
	Law	Judge who sentenced a reporter from The New York Times to 40 days in jail in the "Dr. X" trial of Mario Jascalevich
	B.A., 1947	Judge, United States Court of International Trade
	Law LL.M., 1984	Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1993–2001)

Attorneys

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	GSAS M.A., 1971	Feminist lawyer, talk show host
	Law LL.M., 1967	United States v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore
	Law	Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; married to George Clooney
	Law	United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
	Law	Attorney; Fulbright Scholar
	Law LL.M.	Court TV host
	Law	Lawyer; a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; inventor of the "poison pill"; M&A Master
	Law	57th Attorney General of New Jersey
	Law	Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice
	Law	Oversaw Madoff recoupment
	Law (LL.M.)	Lawyer
	Law	Lawyer and blogger
	Law	Lawyer and blogger
	Law	Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2000 to 2008.
	Law	Entertainment attorney; film, television, and theatre producer
	Law	American attorney and politician who is the 18th and current Attorney General of Washington

United States Cabinet members, foreign government, royalty, and other

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Steinhardt B.A., 2008	New York State Senator
	GSAS M.A., 1991	Princess of Spain
		United States Commissioner of Education, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	M.A.	Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate
	GSAS Ph.D., 1944	Indian Minister of Health and Family Planning under Indira Gandhi
	GSAS Ph.D., 1987, M.A., 1985	Prime Minister, South Korea
		Physician; CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards
	GSAS Ph.D.	Secretary of Defence, Taiwan (1990–1993), President of the Control Yuan
	Stern B.S.	Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek
	GSAS Ph.D., 1973	Foreign Minister of Taiwan
	Wagner Ph.D. student, 2010–	Former First Daughter; child of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; wife of Marc Mezvinsky
	POLY	New York state senator
	Law	White House Counsel, 1987–89
	GSAS M.A., 1969	European Commissioner for the Environment
	GSAS M.A., 1917	Under Secretary of War and the Army
	GSAS Ph.D., 1996	Finance Minister of Colombia
	GSAS M.S., 1977	U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
	Law	United States Secretary of Transportation; served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009–2013.
	Law	United States Special Representative for International Negotiations
		Former New York City Schools Chancellor, the head of the New York City Department of Education.
	Law	Head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice
	POLY	Fourth President of Israel; chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department
	GSAS	Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety
		Israeli politician; served as a member of the Knesset, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Deputy Speaker and Deputy Minister of Health
	POLY	Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
	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
	Wagner M.A., 1983	Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea
	POLY	New York state senator
	POLY	New York state senator
	POLY	Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
	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
	Law	Mayor of New York City
		Mayor of New York City
		Sister of US President Barack Obama; professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa
		President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres also served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel.
	Steinhardt	California State Senator
	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
	Ph.D.	Member of the Mass. House of Representatives (1998–present)
		Mayor of Durham, North Carolina.
	B.A., 1992	U.S. Senate Candidate
	POLY	First Asian-American Mayor of San Gabriel, California
	Law	Saudi Arabian politician; Minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources from 1962 to 1986; a minister in OPEC for 25 years
		UAE Minister of State for Youth
	POLY	Chief of staff of Iran; brother of former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami
	ENG	41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York
	Wagner MPA	First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)
	Steinhardt	New York City Council member
	Law LL.M., 1967	Vice President of Egypt; Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997–)
	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
		Israeli politician; chairman of the Labor Party; was the opposition leader in the 19th Knesset
		Princess of Greece and Denmark
	Postgraduate work, NYU Law	President of Panama (1989–1994)
	GSAS	Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Defence
	Law J.D., 1968	Mayor of New York City (1994–2001)
	BsC in Global Affairs	Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations (2007– )
	Taxation, L.LM, 1955	United States Senate candidate, 1966; Alabama Republican Party chairman; Birmingham lawyer
	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
	GSAS M.A., 1966	Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt
	LAW 1912	N.Y. State Senator (21st District 1934–44, 24th District 1945) and Comptroller of the City of New York (1946–1954)
	GSAS M.A., 1957	Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset
	Law LL.M.	Police Commissioner of New York, Under Secretary of the Treasury
	Law J.D., 1989	Son of President John F. Kennedy
	Law 1908, LL.B.	Mayor of New York City (1934–1945)
	University of the City of New York 1894, B.S.	Manhattan Borough President (1931–1937)
	Law LL.M., 1976	President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
	IFA	Princess of Greece
	GSAS M.A. 1967	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under George W. Bush
	M.A., 1969	Zimbabwean member of parliament and cabinet minister
	Stern	Minister of Economy & Finance, Greece
	Law LL.M., 1952	US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
	Ed.D.	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
	Law J.D., 2014	Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree 1985	Queen consort of Buganda, the traditional kingdom in central Uganda
	B.A., 1929	United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
	POLY B.S.	5th Secretary of Technology of Virginia
	Law 1867, LL.B.	Secretary of War (1899–1903), Secretary of State (1905–1909)
	Law 1997, J.D.	Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (2021–)
	NYU Master of Laws	Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka
	Law M.C.J., 1981	Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liechtenstein
	Master's degree in public administration	Louisiana State Superintendent of Education since 2012
	M.A., Nursing Education	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Hun Manet	MA	Prime Minister of Cambodia

Activists and advocates

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Law J.D., 1968	Executive Director of UNICEF
	Law J.D.	President of the Anti-Defamation League
	ARTS B.A., GSAS M.A., 1930	Civil and women's rights activist
	Postgraduate study	President of the National Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1994
	Law 1986, J.D.	Founder of the Institute for Statehood and Democracy of Ukraine
	GSAS Economics	Founder of Global Fund for Women
	Student	Social media influencer
	Stern M.B.A.	Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce
	GSAS M.A	Co-Founder of International Solidarity Movement
	D.D.S. (NYU College of Dentistry, 1975), Ph.D.	Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
	M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications	Activist, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington
		Leader of the Belarusian community in the U.S.

Religion

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
		Rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
	GSAS Ph.D., 1980	President, Catholic League
	GSAS	Pastor, evangelist, and Christian broadcaster; founded the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Evangelism Explosion International, Westminster Academy, and Knox Theological Seminary
	POLY	Church leader and community advocate in Florida
	New York University Department of Religious Studies	President of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Press, literature, and arts

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
		Author of Blood and Guts in High School
	POLY, 1898	Writer and historian; coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America
	B.A., 1949	Author of War of the Roses and Random Hearts
	CAS 1990, B.A.	Play-by-play broadcaster, New York Rangers and Fox Sports
	GSAS 1966, M.A.	Recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry
	TSOA 1985 B.F.A.	CNN reporter and anchor 1985-2009
	1994, B.A.	Editor in Chief of Seventeen Magazine
	GSAS 2000, M.F.A.	Author of Arborophilia, Creve Coeur; idiosyncratic bioethicist
	Law, J.D.	Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission
Desiree C. Bailey	GSAS 2022, M.F.A.	Poet, Winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
	CAS, 1987 B.A.	News anchor on CNBC; author
	M.F.A	Artist
	2006, M.A	Artist
	1976, M.F.A	Artist
	Steinhardt 1993, D.A.	Artist
Barbara Bloemink	M.F.A. Fine and decorative arts	Author, art historian
	1961 B.S., Education	Writer of children's literature and young adult fiction
	M.A., Journalism	Financial journalist, author, and commentator
	Law 1964, M.A.	Rubyfruit Jungle
	earned B.A. at age 62	Author
	CAS, B.A.	Her New York Observer column became the basis for Sex and the City
	2010, MFA	Artist
	visiting scholar	Canadian poet
	M.A.	Women's liberation activist, co-founder of Redstockings
	TSOA 1989, M.F.A.	Television writer and novelist, author of the series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy.
	CAS, B.A.	Sports journalist
	CAS, 1925, B.A.	Author of Ballad of the Brown Girl, Color, Color
	Former teaching staff	Urdu poet
	IFA*	Painter and sculptor
	ARTS*	Journalist
		Journalist
	CAS	Author of The Flavors of Southern Italy
	Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications	Information artist
	Law 1907, LL.B.	Leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism
	Fine Arts 1967	Artist, known for collage, sculpture, prints
	Faculty 1970–1980	American Academy of Arts & Letters
	PhD in political science 1974	Educator, gender equality activist and author of seven books including The Myth of Male Power
	TSOA*	Author of Maravich; comedian, The Tonight Show
	TSOA*	Design Director for Gucci
	CAS 1948, B.A.	Founder of MAD magazine
	Law 1972, J.D.	1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
	CAS B.A., 1991	Author of Eat, Pray, Love
	TSOA 1973, B.F.A.	Known for complex metaphors and philosophical content
	WSC 1938*	Met Betty Comden at NYU
	M.A. in English and creative writing, 1991	Poet and scholar of Robert Lowell
	GAL 2000, MA	Editor-in-Chief of New York Quarterly
	coursework*	Co-host of Hannity and Colmes on Fox News Channel
	WSC 1948	Author of Catch-22
	B.A., 2000	Blogger, columnist and television personality.
Safiya Henderson-Holmes	B.A.	Poet, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award
	coursework*	Creator of 60 Minutes
		Director and producer; founder of Zeila Films
Template:Sort name	B.S. 1939, architecture	Architect
	studied architecture, urban design	New York Times journalist; documentary film director and producer
	GAL 2003, B.A.	Filmmaker
	GSAS, M.A.	Contributor to the Financial Times, The New York Times, Details, and the Fox Business Network
	GAL 2001, M.A.	Artist and writer
	CAS*	Poet
	Law	Contributor for the Fox News Channel
	Law, J.D.	Author of legal thrillers
	ARTS 1950, B.A.	Known for the broadway musical Deathtrap
	WSC 1974 B.A.; Steinhardt 1979 Ph.D.	Author of The Plot To Save Socrates
	POLY	Author
Robert Wood Lynn	GSAS 2023, M.F.A.	Poet, winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
	WSC, B.A. (journalism)	Film critic on Entertainment Tonight
	Law*	Comedian, The Daily Show
	GSAS*	Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
	WSC 1953, B.A.	1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or autobiographical Writing
	WSC 1953, B.A.	Essayist known for his compelling urban tales of whimsy and tragedy
	Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, M.A.	Author and journalist known for her 2014 memoir Redefining Realness
	TSOA 1989 Ph.D.	Arts journalist and reviewer; author of Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater
	Studied writing	Author of Everything Sad Is Untrue
	GSAS 1930, M.A.	Co-founder of Partisan Review
	GSAS, M.A.	Painter and art historian
	GSAS 1960, Ph.D.	2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Carole Radziwill	Stern	Journalist, author, and television personality
	WSC, B.A.	author and screenwriter, Summer of '42, Ode to Billy Joe
	Law 1916, LL.B.	Objectivist poet
	Stern 1968, coursework*	Emmy award-winning journalist, television producer, host of PBS's Charlie Rose Show, and correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes
	coursework*	Author of Catcher in the Rye.
	Law, J.D.	Chairman of the Shubert Organization (1972–2008)
		Artist
	Steinhardt 1977, M.A.	Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Tony Award
	Education 1965, B.S.	Sound poet, performance and video artist, curator, early childhood educator
	ARTS*	Author of Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series
	ENG 1950, B.S.	Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures
	CAS 1957, Ph.D.	Business historian; author of For Want of a Nail
	TSOA 1963–1967*	Romance novel author
	ENG 1996, M.F.A.	Guggenheim-winning novelist; Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy
	GSAS 1939, M.A.	1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
	1959, M.A.	Artist
	GSAS 1954, M.A.	Artist and educator; studied with William Baziotes
	B.A. 1929	Authority on manners, mores
		Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad
		(born 1939) — Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City
	CAS 1972	2008 and 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
	GSAS 1995, M.A.	Author of The Seventh Octave and Said the Shotgun to the Head
	1957–1958	Author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy
		Former Director and President of the Art Institute of Chicago (1980–2004); President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Yanyi	GSAS 2020, M.F.A.	Poet, Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize
	WSC 1961, B.A.	Art historian
	IFA M.A.	Art historian
	IFA 1969, M.A., 1979, Ph.D.	Art historian
		Author

Pulitizer Prize winners

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	POLY	1921 Pulitzer Prize for History
	ARTS 1935, B.A.	1982 Pulitzer Prize, Special Citation, "for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer"
	undergraduate/Film	1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
	Law 1972, J.D.	2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
	CAS, studied under Abby Whiteside	1995 Pulitzer Prize for Stringmusic
	professor	1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
	CAS 1953, B.A.	1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Autobiographical Writing
	GSAS 1956, Ph.D.	1986 Pulitzer Prize for Woodwind Quintet No. 4
	GSAS 1960, Ph.D.	2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
	CAS, 1865– *	1916 Pulitzer Prize for History of the Civil War
	GSAS 1939, M.A.,	1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
	Stern*	1943 Pulitzer Prize for A Free Song
	Steinhardt 1977, M.A.	2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	CAS 1966, B.A.	1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (The World Doesn't End)
	CAS 1944–1945*	1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers)
	Master's in journalism	1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (Photo of grieving widow Coretta Scott King)
	professor	1965 Pulitzer Prize for History (The Greenback Era)
	CAS 1968–1972	2008, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
	TSOA 1987	2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	fellow, Center for Law and Security	2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

• Alex Pareene, editor-in-chief of Gawker
• Joel Shatzky (1943-2020), writer and literary professor

Sports

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.

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	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
	GSAS 2001, M.S.	U.S. Women's Chess Champion 1995, 1996, 1999
	ARTS 1918–1919*	Major League baseball player, spy, quiz show host
	Law 1977, J.D.	NHL Commissioner
		Professional equestrian; daughter of former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg
	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
	CAS	Professional wrestler signed to AEW, where he performs under the ring name "Big Bill." Was formerly signed to Impact Wrestling and WWE.
	1962	Olympic fencer
		NBA basketball scout, and former college and professional basketball coach
		Won three bronze Olympic medals
	1962	Olympic fencer
	coursework*	Major League baseball player; five-time All-Star; two-time American League MVP; elected to the Hall of Fame
		World record-holding shotputter and Olympic weightlifter
		NBA player, 1971 champion with the Los Angeles Lakers
	CAS	Gold medal winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960
		Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
		Olympic gold medalist, high jump, 1904
		National champion fencer and fencing coach
		Pro basketball player and jurist
	1972	Olympic fencer
		Olympic fencer
	POLY, B.S.	Head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team
		Olympic bronze medalist equestrian
		Olympic soccer player and broadcaster
	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
	Stern, B.S.	Professional wrestler known as Big Cass in WWE and W. Morrissey in Impact Wrestling
		NBA basketball player
	Steinhardt	Middle-distance runner; competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics
	TSOA*	Professional wrestler under the name "AJ Lee"; three-time WWE Divas Champion
	PhD 1998, M.S.	IFBB professional bodybuilder
		NBA player, 1961–1966; champion with the Boston Celtics, 1968–1969
	CAS, 1988	Olympic gold medalist, fencing, 1988, 1992
		NFL player
		NBA player, 3-time FT% leader, 1-time rebound leader, 12-time All-Star, Hall of Fame, and coach
		NFL player
	CAS	International ice dancing competitor
	1934	NFL Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers 1936–1937, Model for Heisman Trophy
		American Basketball League (MVP)
	All-American, 1928	NFL Staten Island Stapletons, New York Giants 1929–1947, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967
	Law 1965, J.D.	NFL Commissioner
		NFL player
		Two-time All-American basketball guard; left as NYU all-time scorer; pro player
	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
		MLB player Chicago Cubs 1942-1946
		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
	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

• Martin Jay Davis (1937–2022), astrologer, author, and Olympic fencer
• Spencer Freedman (born 1998), college basketball player for the Harvard Crimson and NYU Violets
• Jay Horwitz (born 1945), New York Mets executive
• Ruth White (born 1951), Olympic fencer
• Hans Wieselgren (born 1952), Olympic fencer

Other

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	major benefactor	donated the Villa LaPietra Campus to NYU
	major benefactor	namesake of NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
	president of council
	NYU alum, sued NYU	author and activist against antisemitism for Zionist causes
	founder of NYU	Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson
	major benefactor	namesake of NYU's Kimmel Center for Student Life
Ruth Madoff	NYU alum	Widow of Bernie Madoff
	NYU alum	Interior designer
Howard Spira	NYU alum	Gambler and felon
	major benefactor	namesake of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
	major benefactor	namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business
	major benefactor	namesake of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
	CAS 1930, B.A.	Industrial designer
	NYU alum	Tuskegee Airman

Fictional

The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university:

Name	Portrayal	Notability	Reference
Blair Waldorf	played by Leighton Meester	in Gossip Girl
Dan Humphrey	played by Penn Badgley	in Gossip Girl
Vanessa Abrams	played by Jessica Szohr	in Gossip Girl
Georgina Sparks	played by Michelle Trachtenberg	in Gossip Girl
Ross Geller, Professor of paleontology	played by David Schwimmer	in the TV show Friends
Fritz the Cat	voiced by Skip Hinnant	in the film directed by Ralph Bakshi
Will Truman	played by Eric McCormack	in Will and Grace
Grace Adler	played by Debra Messing	in Will and Grace

See also

• Category:New York University alumni
• List of NYU College of Arts and Science people
• List of NYU Stern people
• List of NYU Tandon School of Engineering people
• List of NYU Courant Institute people
• List of NYU GSAS people
• List of NYU Law School people
• List of NYU School of Medicine people
• List of NYU Tisch School of the Arts people
• List of NYU Gallatin people
• List of NYU Steinhardt people
• List of New York University honorary degree recipients
• List of New York University faculty