Cornellians are persons
affiliated with Cornell University
, commonly including alumni, current and former
faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list
of notable Cornellians.
41
Nobel
laureates have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members
or students, placing it among the top ten universities in the world
in numbers of Nobel affiliates.
Cornell's faculty for the 2005-06 academic year included three
Nobel laureates, a
Crafoord Prize winner, two
Turing Award winners, a
Fields Medal winner, two
Legion of Honor recipients, a
World Food Prize winner, an
Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three
National Medal of Science
winners, two
Wolf Prize winners, five
MacArthur award winners, four
Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent
Ecologist Award recipients, a
Carter
G. Woodson
Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award
winners, 20 National Science
Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences
Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of
the American Mathematical
Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime
Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for
Mathematical Physics, three Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck
Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young
Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office
of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award
winners.
Alumni
Nobel laureates
Physics
Peace, Literature, or Economics
Physiology or Medicine
Government
Heads of State
U.S. Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks
- Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 Government)
- National
Security Adviser to President Bill
Clinton, 1997-2001
- Samuel W. Bodman (B.S. 1961 Chemical Engineering) -
Deputy
Secretary of Commerce, 2001-03; Secretary of Energy,
2005-2009
- Lincoln D. Faurer (attended, did not graduate) -
Director, National Security Agency
1981-85
- Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969
Government) - National Security
Adviser to President George W.
Bush, 2005-present
- Eugene K. Jones - (M.A. 1908 Social Science) Member of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, Executive Secretary of the
National Urban League, Founder
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
- C. Everett Koop (M.D. 1941) - Surgeon General of the
United States under president Ronald
Reagan, 1982-89
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
(undergrad 1909-10, 1912-13, dropped out) - Secretary of the Treasury,
1934-45
- Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939) - Governor of
Maine
, 1955-59; Senator from Maine, 1959-80; Vice
Presidential Candidate, 1968; Secretary of State,
1980-81
- Samuel Pierce (B.A. 1947, J.D.
1949; Trustee, 1972-77, 1978-82) - Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, 1981-89
- Thomas C. Reed (B.S. 1956 Mechanical Engineering) -
Secretary of
the Air Force under Gerald Ford and
Jimmy Carter, 1976-77
- Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 Chemistry;
Professor) - Attorney
General under Bill Clinton,
1993-2001
- William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937) - Attorney General, 1957-61),
Secretary of State,
1969-73), Presidential
Medal of Freedom recipient, 1973
- Louis Wade Sullivan (Medical
College Resident) - Founder and Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine,
1975, Secretary
of Health and Human Services under George H. W. Bush,
1989-93
- Paul Wolfowitz (B.A. 1965
Mathematics and Chemistry) - Deputy Secretary of
Defense under George W. Bush, 2001-05, President of the World Bank, 2005-2007
U.S. Senators, Governors, Supreme Court
- Joseph B. Foraker (B.A. 1869) - Governor of
Ohio
, 1886-90). Senator, Ohio, 1897-1909). One of
eight members of Cornell's first graduating class.
- Douglas H. Ginsburg (B.S. 1970) - U.S.
Supreme
Court nominee
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (B.A.
1954
Government) - U.S. Supreme
Court associate justice
- Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (1924) -
Representative, Missouri
11th District, 1935-40). Senator, Missouri,
1951-60).
- Philip H. Hoff (J.D. 1951) - Governor of Vermont
, 1963-69). First Democrat to serve in that
position since the Civil
War.
- Goodwin Knight
(graduate study 1919-20) - Governor of California
, 1953-59
- Chuck Robb
(undergrad 1957-58, transferred) - Senator, Virginia
, 1989-2001
U.S. Congressmen
- John G. Alexander (J.D. 1916) - Minnesota
3rd District, 1939-41
- Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982) - New Jersey
1st District, 1990-present
- Andrew Biemiller (B.A.
1926) -
Wisconsin
, 1945-47, 1949-51
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1921)
- Michigan
, 1939-47
- Abraham
Lincoln Brick (undergrad) - Indiana
, 1899-1908
- Barber Conable (B.A. 1942
Medieval History, LL.B. 1948) - New York
37th District, 1965-73; 35th District, 1973-83;
30th District, 1983-85; President of the World Bank, 1986-91
- Maurice
Connolly (1897) - Iowa
,
1913-15
- Thomas Joseph Downey (B.S.
1970) -
New
York 2nd District, 1975-93
- Bob Filner (B.A. 1963 Chemistry,
Ph.D. 1973 History of Science) - California 50th District, 1993-2003, 51st District,
2003-present
- Gabrielle Giffords (M.R.P.
1996) -
Arizona
, 8th District, 2007-present
- Norman Judd Gould (M.E.
1899) -
New
York, 1915-23
- Gilbert Gude (B.S. 1948) - Maryland
8th District, 1967-77
- Edwin Arthur
Hall - New
York, 1939-53
- Joseph Clifford
Hendrix (studies 1870-73; Trustee) - New York, 1893-95
- Frank Horton (L.L.B. 1947) - New York 36th District, 1963-73), 34th District, 1973-83),
29th District, 1983-93
- Charles Samuel Joelson
(B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939) - New Jersey, 1961-69
- Clarence
Evans Kilburn (1916) - New York, 1940-65
- Mark Kirk (B.A. 1981 History) -
Illinois
10th District, 2001-present
- Gary Alcide
Lee (graduate study 1963) - New York, 1979-83
- Norman F. Lent (L.L.B. 1957) - New York 5th District, 1971-73), 4th District,
1973-93
- Lewis Henry,
1909) - New
York, 1922-23
- Richard
Dean McCarthy (graduate study) - New York, 1965-71
- Clement
Woodnutt Miller, 1946 Industrial & Labor Relations) -
California, 1959-62
- Robert J. Mrazek (B.A. 1967 Government) -
New
York 3rd District, 1983-93
- James R. Olin (B.E.E. 1943) - Virginia, 1983-93
- Richard Ottinger (B.A.
1950) -
New
York, 1965-71, 1975-85); Founder and second staff member
of the Peace Corps, 1961-64); Dean of
Pace Law School, 1994-99
- Edward Worthington
Pattison (B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957) - New York, 1975-79
- James
Parker (1887) - New
York 29th District, 1913-33
- John Raymond Pillion
(L.L.B. 1927) - New York, 1953-65
- Alexander Pirnie (1924, J.D.
1926) -
New
York 34th District, 1959-63), 32nd District,
1963-73
- Daniel A. Reed (1898) - New York 43rd District, 1919-45, 1953-59), 45th District,
1945-53
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss
(B.A. 1933) - Wisconsin, 1955-83
- Howard
Winfield Robison (1937, law 1939) - New York, 1958-75
- James A. Roe (School of Military Aeronautics 1917) -
New
York, 1945-47
- George Shiras
III (1881) - Pennsylvania
, 1903-05
- Henry P. Smith III (law 1936) - New York, 1965-75
- Sam Steiger -
(Arizona, 1967-77
- Elmer E. Studley (1894) - New York, 1933-35
- Frank
Sundstrom (1924) - New
Jersey 11th District, 1943-49
- Paul Harold Todd, Jr.
(B.S. 1942) - Michigan, 1965-67), CEO of Planned Parenthood, 1967-70
- William
Edgar Tuttle, Jr. (undergrad 1887-89) - New Jersey, 1911-15
- George Ernest
Waldo (undergrad 1868-70) - New York, 1905-09
- John De Witt
Warner (1872) - New
York, 1891-95
- John S. Wold (M.S. 1939) - Wyoming
, 1969-71
Diplomats
- William
Brownfield (1974) - U.S. ambassador to Venezuela
, 2004-present
- Chan Heng Chee (M.A. 1967 Government) -
Singapore
's ambassador to the U.S., 1996-
- Arthur Hobson Dean (B.A.
1921, L.L.B. 1923) - internation law expert, chief U.S.
negotiator at Panmunjeom
, assisted with negotiations for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, delegate to
the United Nations,
- Alan Keyes (undergrad 1968-69,
transferred) - Diplomat, U.S. Presidential candidate, 1996, 2000;
U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland (1988, 1992) and Illinois (2004)
- Jerome H. Holland (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941) - First black
member of the New York Stock Exchange
; President of Delaware State University
(1953-60) and Hampton
University
(1960-70); U.S. ambassador to Sweden
, 1970-73;
chairman of the American Red
Cross, 1979-85
- Edwin Jackson Kyle (M.S.
1902) - U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala
, 1945-48; namesake of
Kyle
Field
- Sol Linowitz (J.D. 1938, Trustee,
1966-95) - Diplomat, Ambassador, Chairman of Xerox, 1960-66; Presidential Medal of Freedom
recipient, 1998
- Jacob Gould Schurman,
Professor of Philosophy, President (1886-1892). Ambassador to
Germany (1925-1929)
- Hu Shih (B.A. 1914) - China
's ambassador to the U.S., 1938-42; philosopher;
poet
- Sao-Ke Alfred Sze (B.A.
1901) -
China's ambassador to the U.S. and later UK, founding
member of World Bank; First Chinese student to attend
Cornell
- Willard Straight (B.Arch. 1901)
- American diplomat, investment banker, publisher, World War I veteran, namesake of Willard Straight Hall
Judges and Lawyers
- Floyd Abrams (B.A. 1956) -
Co-Counsel, The New York Times
"Pentagon Papers" case
- Mary Donlon Alger (LLB 1920) -
U.S. Customs Court Judge, Cornell Trustee, and first female
editor-in-chief of the Cornell Law Quarterly
- Mark J. Bennett (J.D. 1979) - First Republican
Attorney General of
Hawaii in 40 years
- Boris Bittker (B.A. 1938) -
Prominent professor
- Leonie Brinkema (J.D. 1976) -
U.S. District Court Judge
- George B. Clementson (B.L. 1892) - Author of
The Road
Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen, the first treatise on
bicycle law.
- Harry T. Edwards (B.A. 1962 Industrial & Labor
Relations) - Chief justice, U.S. Court of Appeals
- Peter T. Farrell (B.A. 1922), Queens County Court
judge who presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton.
- Charles C. Garside (J.D. 1923) - New York City
municipal judge, active in New York State Government
- Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg (B.A. 1970) - Chief Judge
of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, planned presidential nomination to U.S.
Supreme Court announced.
- Michael Goldsmith (B.S 1972,
J.D. 1975) - leading Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) expert and
ALS Advocate.
- Judge Frank H. Hiscock (A.B. 1875) Chief Judge of the New
York Court of Appeals (1916-1926), Chairman of Cornell Board of
Trustees, and decided the Chester
Gillette murder case.
- Edith Jones (B.A. 1971 Economics) -
Justice, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- Walter Chadwick Noyes
(1888) - Justice, United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Philip Perry (J.D. 1990) - General Counsel for the Department of Homeland
Security
- Max Rosenn (B.A. 1929) - Judge on the
U.S.
Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Jan Schlichtmann (J.D. 1977) -
Civil action lawyer whose story was made into the film A Civil Action, in which Schlichtmann is
played by John Travolta
- Leah Ward Sears (B.S. 1976) -
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
- Amy St. Eve (B.A. 1987, J.D. 1990) - U.S. District Court
Judge
- Elbert Tuttle (B.A. 1918, LL.B.
1923) - Chief judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals; ruled on
many fundamental 1954 civil-rights
cases
Others
- Edwin L. Crawford, first county executive of
Broome
County, New York
- Stephen Friedman (B.A.
1959; Trustee, 1993-) - Chairman of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2005-), former assistant
for economic policy to President George
W. Bush (2002-04) and director of
the National Economic
Council, 2003-04; former chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, 1990-94.
- Jesse Root Grant (undergrad
1874-77, dropped out) - Son of U.S. President Ulysses S Grant
- Mark J. Green (B.A. 1967) - Government
consumer-affairs activist, New
York Public Advocate, 1994-2001
- Donald Kerr (B.S. 1963) - Assistant
Director of the F.B.I.
, former Director of Los Alamos
National Laboratory
- Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
(Ph.D. 1950) - Governor of Bihar
, India
, 1979-85,
1993-98
- Stephen D. Krasner (B.A. 1963) - Director of Policy Planning at
the U.S.
State Department, professor of political science at Stanford
University
- Edward M. House (undergrad 1877-80, dropped out) -
Foreign policy advisor for Woodrow
Wilson and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
- Florence Kelley (B.A. 1882) -
Political and social reformer
- Harold O. Levy (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977) - Chancellor of New York City
Schools 2000 - 2002
- Kyle E. McSlarrow (Deputy Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Energy
- Benjamin Nichols (B.S. 1946,
M.S. 1949) - Cornell professor of electrical and computer
engineering and Socialist mayor of Ithaca (1989-1995).
- Roberto Prats (B.A. 1990 Public
Political Analysis and Economics) - Senator of Puerto Rico
- Anna E. Roosevelt (did not graduate) - Daughter of
U.S. President Franklin
Roosevelt
- David
William Thomas (B.A. prior to 1900) - Louisiana
journalist, attorney, educator, politician
- Lt. Col. Matt Urban (B.A. 1941,
History, Government) - Recipient of the Medal of Honor and numerous
other decorations for valor during World
War II
- William
Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire (Ph.D.) - scholar and
Liberal Democrat peer
Natural Sciences and related fields
Mathematics
Physics
Astronomy
Chemistry
Computer science and Engineering
- Robert L. Cook (M.S. 1981 Computer Graphics) - Academy Award for creation of RenderMan rendering software
- Andrew C. Greenberg (B.S. 1979) - Co-creator of
the massively successful early computer game Wizardry
- Donald P. Greenberg (B.C.E. 1958, Ph.D. 1968) -
Computer graphics pioneer and
educator
- Morton Heilig (1943) - Early
virtual reality pioneer, inventor
- Edmund M. Clarke (M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1976) - winner of
the 2007 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing
Award, winner of the IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode
Memorial Award
- William Higinbotham
(graduate study) - Developer of Tennis for Two, 1958, one of the
earliest video games
- Jon Kleinberg (B.S. 1993,
Professor of Computer Science) - MacArthur Fellow, researcher of
combinatorial network structure
- Robert S. Langer (B.S. 1970 Chemical Engineering) -
Leading figure in biochemical engineering, author of over 500
patents and 800 scientific papers
- Marc Levoy (B.Arch. 1976, M.S. 1978
Architecture) - Developed technology and algorithms for digitizing
3D objects that led to the Digital Michelangelo Project
- Douglas McIlroy (B.E.P. 1954) -
Inventor of the pipes and filters
architecture of Unix and the concept of
software componentry
- Al Seckel - Creator of the Darwin Fish
- Robert
Woodhead - Co-creator of the massively successful early
computer game Wizardry and
co-founder of AnimEigo
- Paul Francis - Responsible for IP
Nesting
Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition
Medicine
- Henry Heimlich (B.A. 1941, M.D.
1943) - Inventor of the Heimlich
maneuver
- Philip Levine (M.D.
1923) - Immunohematologist; discovered the Rh factor in blood in
1939.
- Robert Millman (undergrad; Saul
P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Public
Health, Medical College) - Drug abuse expert, former Medical
Director for Major League
Baseball
- Cecilia Mettler (Ph.D. 1938)-
medical historian
- Lt. Gen. James Peake, US Army (ret)
(M.D. 1972) - former Surgeon General of the
United States Army
- Alvin F. Poussaint (M.D. 1960) - Child-rearing
expert
- Daniel Elmer Salmon (D.V.M.
1872) - Namesake of salmonella; first
D.V.M. in the United States
- Benjamin Spock (medical
residency; Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College, 1933-47) -
Author of The Common Sense
Book of Baby and Child Care, one of the best selling books
of all time
- Ida S. Scudder (M.D. 1899, Medical Missionary in
India; Founder of Christian Medical
College & Hospital, Vellore, Tamilandu)
NASA astronauts
Social sciences
Economics
Psychology
Anthropology, sociology, other social science
- Edward Bernays (B.S. 1912
Agriculture) - Public relations practitioner, author of
Propaganda
- Ken Blanchard (B.A. 1961, Ph.D.
1967) - Management consultant, co-author of The One Minute
Manager
- Alfred
Blumstein (B.A., Ph.D) - Criminologist and former dean of the
Heinz School at Carnegie
Mellon University
- Gordon G. Chang (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) - Author of
The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown :
North Korea Takes On the World, one of the original set of
Student Trustees
- Kimberle Crenshaw: Founder of
Critical Race Theory, highly influential black feminist and race
theorist
- Harry Edwards (Ph.D. 1970) - sociologist
noted for work on race and sports, Professor Emeritus at University
of California, Berkeley
- Daniel A. Foss (B.A.) - Sociologist, author of Beyond Revolution: A
New Theory of Social Movements (1986), Freak Culture: Life
Style and Politics (1972)
- William McNeill (Ph.D. 1947)
- Historian, author of The Rise
of the West: A History of the Human Community
- John Naisbitt (Best-selling writer
in the area of futures studies
- Tom Peters (B.C.E. 1965, M.C.E. 1966)
- Business management motivational guru
- Stephen Skowronek (Ph.D.
1979) -
Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at
Yale
- Julian Steward (B.A. 1925 Zoology
and Biology) - Anthropologist best known for his development of a
scientific theory of cultural
evolution
- William Irwin Thompson
(Ph.D. 1966; Professor) - Cultural historian, social critic, poet,
philosopher of science
- James Weinstein (B.A. 1949
Government) - Author and publisher of In These Times
Humanities
Philosophy
Literature
- Diane Ackerman (M.F.A. 1973
Poetry, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978) - Author, poet, and naturalist
- Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
(M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994) - Scholar, author, and adviser to
indigenous nations
- Morris Bishop (B.A. 1913, M.A.
1914, Ph.D. 1926; Professor of Romance Literature) - Biographer,
author, humorist, wrote the preeminent history of the university, A
History of Cornell
- Harold Bloom (B.A. 1952) - Literary
and cultural scholar-critic
- Susan Brownmiller (B.A. 1956)
- Feminist author and activist
- Murray Burnett (B.A. 1931) -
Author of the play Everybody Comes to Rick's, which was
turned into the film Casablanca
- George Lincoln Burr (B.A.
1881; John Stambaugh Professor of History 1888-?) - U.S. historian,
diplomat, author, and educator
- George Cockcroft (B.A. 1954) -
Author, The Dice Man, uses the
pen name Luke Rhinehart
- Junot Díaz (M.F.A. 1995) -
Critically acclaimed, Pulitzer-Prize-winning short-story
writer
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson - Poet,
journalist, political activist, Harlem Renaissance influence
- Roger Evans (B.A. 1974) - Author,
Old Buck: Sexuality, Secrets and the Civil War
- Richard Fariña (B.A. 1962
English) - Author, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to
Me, folk singer
- Jessie Redmon Fauset (B.A.
1905) - Prolific author from the Harlem Renaissance
- Alice Fulton (M.F.A. 1982; Ann S.
Bowers Distinguished Professor of English) - Poet, author,
feminist, MacArthur Fellow
- William H. Gass (Ph.D. 1954 Philosophy) - Author,
essayist
- Lynne Hanley (B.A. English) -
Literary critic
- Minfong Ho (B.A. Economics) -
Chinese-American author
- Laura Z. Hobson - Author, Gentleman's Agreement, which was
made into the film of the same name
- Clifford Irving (B.A. 1951) -
Author of the infamous Howard Hughes
biography hoax
- Anne LaBastille (B.A. 1955,
Ph.D. 1969) - Author and award-winning conservationist
- Lorrie Moore (M.F.A. 1982) -
Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist
- George Jean Nathan (1904) -
Author, critic
- Nicholas Nicastro (B.A. 1985
English, M.A. 1991 Archaeology, Ph.D. 2003 Psychology) - Historical
novelist
- Thomas Perry (B.A. 1969) -
Novelist, Edgar Award winner.
- Thomas Pynchon (B.A. 1959
English) - Author, Gravity's
Rainbow and The Crying
of Lot 49
- Kenneth Roberts (B.A. 1908) -
Novelist, Northwest
Passage
- Laura Riding (attended 1918-21) -
Poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, leader in modernism.
- Matt Ruff (B.A. 1988) - Author,
Fool on the Hill
- Joanna Russ (B.A. 1957 English;
Professor) - Feminist author, The
Female Man
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
(undergrad) - Critical theorist, literature professor
- Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak (Ph.D. 1967 Comparative Literature) - Post-colonialist
theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak?
- William Strunk Jr. (Ph.D.
1896; Professor) - Author of The Elements of Style
- Hendrik Willem van Loon
(1905; Professor of History 1915-17) - Author of the first book to
be awarded the Newbery Medal for an
outstanding contribution to children's literature
- Kurt Vonnegut (undergrad
1941-1943, dropped out) - Author, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.
- Lauren Weisberger (B.A. 1999
English) - Author, The
Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing
- E. B.
White (B.A. 1921) - Author, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little; Co-author, The Elements of Style
History
Glenn C. Altschuler
Music
- Robert Alexander
Anderson (1916) - Composer, wrote Christmas song Mele Kalikimaka
- Herbert Barrett
(B.A. 1930) - Talent manager for hundreds of famous artists from
the 1930s up into the 2000s
- Harry Chapin (dropped out) - Folk
musician, Cat's in the
Cradle
- Henrique de Curitiba
(M.F.A. 1981) - Polish-Brazilian composer
- Mack David - Eight-time Academy Award nominee for songs including
Bibbidi Bobbidi
Boo
- Joscelyn Godwin (Ph.D. 1969
Musicology) - Musicologist, translator, historian of the
esoteric
- Greg Graffin (Ph.D. 1991
Evolutionary Biology) - Lead singer and co-founder of Bad Religion
- Laurens Hammond (B.S. 1916
Mechanical Engineering) - Inventor of the Hammond organ
- Jesse Harris (B.A.) - Grammy-award
winning songwriter who wrote "Don't Know
Why" and "Come Away with Me",
songs popularized by the artist Norah
Jones
- John S. Hilliard (D.M.A. 1983) - Classical
Composer
- Huey Lewis (undergrad 1967-69,
dropped out) - Rock musician, Huey Lewis and the News
- Robert Moog (Ph.D. 1965) - Inventor
of the Moog synthesizer
- Steve Reich (B.A. 1957) -
Composer
- Christopher Rouse
(1958) - Classical composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Roxanne Shanté (PhD) -
Hip-hop artist
- Cary Sherman (1968) - President of
the Recording
Industry Association of America
- Steven Stucky (D.M.A. 1978;
Professor of Music Composition) - Pulitzer Prize winning composer
- Paul Francis Webster
(undergrad 1927-28, transferred) - Academy and Grammy
Award-winning lyricist
- Peter Yarrow (B.A. 1959) -
Folksinger, Peter, Paul and
Mary
Architecture and design
- Edmund Bacon (B.Arch.
1932) -
Urban planner, reshaped Philadelphia
, 1949-70
- Albert Cassell (B.Arch.
1919) -
Designed buildings for Howard University
, Morgan State University
, and Virginia Union
University
- Gilmore David Clarke (B.S.
1913
Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering) - Designed the
Central Park
Zoo
and the Unisphere
- Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. 1955) - A
foremost practitioner of deconstructivism in American
architecture
- Robert Trent Jones, 1931) -
Designer of about 500 golf courses
- Raymond M. Kennedy (B.Arch. 1915) - Designed
Grauman's
Chinese Theatre
- Rem Koolhaas (M.Arch.) - Dutch
architect, journalist, and screenwriter
- David
Macpherson (Civil Engineering) - City planner for San Antonio,
Texas
, designed Santa Fe
Railroad
- Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) - Founded
the Mapua Institute of
Technology
- Richard Meier (B.Arch. 1957,
Professor) - Pritzker Architecture
Prize, AIA Gold Medal winner
- William Henry
Miller (B.Arch 1872) - Designed many iconic buildings on
Cornell's Ithaca campus
- Enrique Norten (M.Arch. 1980) -
Mexican architect, professor, 2003 World Trade Center
Site Memorial Competition jury member
- Richmond
Shreve (B.Arch.) - Partner of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon that
designed the Empire State Building
- Vertner Tandy
(M.Arch.) - Architect who's most famous commission was probably
Villa Lewaro, the mansion of Harlem
millionairess Madam C.J.
Walker, Founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
- Philip Will, Jr (B.Arch.
1928) -
Partner of architectural firm Perkins+Will and President of the American
Institute of Architects
- E. Stewart Williams (B.Arch.) - Palm
Springs, California
-based architect with a distinctive modernist style
Fine arts and photography
Media
Journalism
- Ann Coulter (B.A. 1984) - Book
author and columnist
- Michael Dirda (Ph.D. 1975,
Comparative Literature) - Pulitzer
Prize winning book critic for the Washington Post
- Jeffrey Gettleman (B.A. 1994)
- Foreign correspondent, The New York
Times
- Philip Gourevitch (B.A. 1986)
- Editor, The Paris Review
- Carolyn Gusoff (B.A. 1984) - reporter and
anchor with WNBC
in
New York
City
- Austin H. Kiplinger (B.A. 1939) - Journalist,
editor of The Kiplinger Letter, founder of Kiplinger's Personal Finance
magazine, winner of the Peabody
Award
- John S. Knight - Major newspaper publisher and
editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Eric Lichtblau (B.A. 1987 English
and Political Science) - Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist for national reporting with
The New York Times
- James C. McKinley, Jr. (B.A. 1984) - foreign
correspondent, The New York
Times
- Philip Merrill (B.A. 1955
Government, Trustee) - Owner and publisher of The Capital Daily
Newspaper in Annapolis, MD and
Washingtonian
magazine; international statesman; adviser to U.S. Presidents
- Summer Rayne Oakes (B.S. 2004
Natural Resources, Entomology, G.I.S.) - model and actress Eco 4 the World, Editor for Lucire, producer of S4
Newsletter
- Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979
Communication) - Sportscaster, news anchor and political
commentator; hosts Countdown with Keith
Olbermann on MSNBC.
- Dick Schaap (B.S. 1955) - Sports
newscaster on ABC and
ESPN, two Emmy
Awards, author and co-author of 33 books
- Kate Snow (B.S. 1991 Communication) -
Journalist, co-anchor of Good
Morning America
- Howard Taubman (B.A. 1929) -
Chief Music Critic and Chief Theater Critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and
1960s
- William T. Vollmann (B.A. 1981 Comparative
Literature) - Journalist, Author of numerous books on war,
including a seven volume treatise on violence
- Whit Watson, 1993) - Announcer on
Sun Sports
- Sheryl WuDunn (B.A. 1981 European
History) - Journalist at The New
York Times, co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the
Tienanmen Square
protests of 1989, winner of the George Polk Award in 1989, and winner of
the Overseas Press Club in
1990.
Film, television, theatre
- Ted Berkman (1933) - Screenwriter,
authored Bedtime for
Bonzo
- Josh Bernstein (B.A. 1993
Anthropology and Psychology) - Host of Digging for the Truth on the
History Channel
- Chris Kanik (B.A. 2005 Economics
School of Arts and Sciences) - stand-up comic, actor, writer.
- Lee Bienstock (B.S. 2005 Policy
Analysis & Management) - Businessman and 2nd place on the fifth
edition of the NBC reality show The Apprentice
- Murray Burnett, co-wrote the
play, Everybody Comes to Rick's which was adapted into the
movie Casablanca
- Dane Clark (bachelors 1930s) - Actor,
Moonrise
- Jordan Clarke (B.A. 1973
Philosophy, M.F.A. 1973 Acting) - Actor, starred in Guiding Light, winner of a Daytime Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a
Drama Series
- Bob Clendenin - Actor, Starred in
10 Items or
Less
- Ellen Albertini Dow (B.A.
1935 Theater, M.A. 1938 Theater) - Actress, Wedding Crashers, the rapping
grandmother in The Wedding
Singer
- Dan Duryea (B.A. English) -
Actor
- Art Fleming - Original Jeopardy! host, 1964-75
- Allen Funt (B.A. 1934 Fine Arts) -
Producer, created Candid
Camera
- Eric Garcia (transferred 1992) -
Writer, author of Matchstick
Men
- Joel Gertner (1993 - 1996, dropped
out) - Former ECW personality
- Harold Gould (M.A. 1948 Theater,
Ph.D. 1953 Dramatic Speech and Literature; Professor of Speech and
Drama) - Stage, screen, and television actor
- Howard Hawks (Mechanical
Engineering) - Noted American film director, producer and writer of
the classic Hollywood era; directed Scarface, His Girl
Friday, The Big Sleep, and Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes, among others
- Catherine Hicks (M.F.A. 1976?) -
Annie Camden on 7th Heaven
- Sidney Kingsley (B.A. 1928) -
Playwright, screenwriter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for the drama Men
in White
- Jamie Kovac (B.S. 2001, M.Eng. 2002)
- "Fury" on American
Gladiators
- Arthur Laurents (B.A. 1937
English) - Playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits
include West Side
Story, Rope, and
Gypsy
- Jane Lynch (M.F.A Theater) -
Actress
- Bill Maher (B.A. 1978 English) -
Comedian and Politically
Incorrect satirist
- Carol Mendelsohn (B.A. 1973) -
Television producer, credits include C.S.I.
- Adolphe Menjou (B.S. Engineering)
- Actor, famous for his roles in The Sheik, The Three Musketeers,
and Paths of Glory
- Ronald D. Moore (failed out 1985) - Writer/Producer of
Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the re-imagined Battlestar
Galactica; two-time Hugo Award
winner, nominated for Emmy Award
- Frank Morgan (undergrad 1908-09,
dropped out) - Actor, played The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Academy Award recipient
- John Myung (undergrad)
- Poker player
- Bill Nye (B.S. 1977 Mechanical
Engineering, M.Eng. 1977, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University
Professor, 2001-06) - Star of Bill Nye the Science Guy;
science education advocate
- Summer Rayne Oakes (B.S. 2004
Natural Resources, Entomology, G.I.S.) - model and actress
Eco 4 the World, Editor for
Lucire, producer of S4 Newsletter
- Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979
Communication Arts) - Sports commentator, MSNBC news anchor,
co-host of Football Night
in America of NBC
- Peter Ostrum (D.V.M. 1984) -
Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory
- Richard Price (B.S. 1971)
- Author, The
Wanderers and 6 other novels; Academy Award nominated screenwriter for
The Color of Money and
Clockers
- Christopher Reeve (B.A. 1974
Theater Arts and English) - Actor, best known for starring in
Superman and its
sequels
- Jason Reich (B.S. Communication
1998) - Emmy Award winning writer for
The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart
- Christopher
Rich (M.A. Theater Arts) - Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown
- Andrea Savage (B.A. Political
Science and Spanish, minor in Law Studies) - Actress, Dog Bites Man
- Thelma Schoonmaker (B.A.
1961) - Film editor, received the Academy
Award for Raging Bull,
The Aviator, and The Departed
- Robert Smigel (undergrad 1978-80,
transferred) - Puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic
Dog; first head writer of Late Night with Conan
O'Brien; author of "TV Funhouse" animations on
Saturday Night
Live
- Jimmy Smits (M.F.A. 1982) -
Actor
- Ken Sunshine (1970) -
Publicist
- Tim Squyres (B.A. 1981) - Academy Award nominated film editor, best
known for Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Jennifer Tipton (B.A. 1958) -
Award-winning theatre and dance lighting designer
- Franchot Tone (undergrad) - Actor,
nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Actor for Mutiny on the
Bounty
- Mary Woronov (did not graduate) -
Actress, member of Andy Warhol's
The Factory
- Katarzyna Dolinska (2007) America's Next Top Model Cycle
10 contestant
- Brian Hallisay(degree in
Economics and History) - Actor from the television show
Privileged
Education
- William Bagley (Ph.D.
1900 Psychology and Education) - American educator and editor
- Henry Bienen (B.S. 1960) - President of
Northwestern University
, 1995-present
- John Casper Branner (B.S.
1882) -
President of Stanford University, 1913-15); geologist
- Daniel Mark Fogel (B.A. 1969
English, M.F.A 1974 Creative Writing, Ph.D. 1976 English) -
President of the University of Vermont
, 2002-present
- Joseph Glover (B.A. 1974 Mathematics) -
Provost of the University of Florida
2008-present
- Emil Q. Javier (Ph.D. 1969) - President of the
University of the
Philippines, 1993-99
- David Starr Jordan (M.S.
1872, honorary LL.D. 1886) - Founding President of Stanford
University, 1891-1913), President of Indiana
University
, 1885-91), Smithsonian Institution
associate
- Leslie Jacobs (B.A. 1981) -
Founder of Educate Now, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary
Education, Instrumental in transforming the moribund Orleans Parish
School System after Hurricane
Katrina
- Steven Knapp (M.S. 1977, Ph.D.
1981)
current President of The George Washington
University
- Richard Levao (J.D. 1973) - President of
Bloomfield
College
(2003-)
- Jay O. Light (B.S.E. 1963) - Dean of Harvard
Business School
, 2006-present
- Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) - Founder
of the Mapúa
Institute of Technology and accomplished architect
- Michael C. McFarland (B.A. 1969 Physics) -
President of College of the Holy Cross
, 2000-present
- Lemuel Moss (M.S. 1872) - President
of Indiana University (1875-1884)
- Steven Muller - President of
Johns Hopkins University,
1972 to 1990
- Ernest Fox Nichols (M.S.
1893, Ph.D. 1897) - President of MIT
, 1921-22)
and Dartmouth
, 1909-16), Professor of physics at Colgate
, 1892-98), Dartmouth, 1898-1903), Columbia, 1903-09), and Yale
- Frederick D. Patterson (Ph.D. 1933) - President of
what is now Tuskegee University
, 1935-53); Founder of the United Negro College Fund; 1987
Presidential Medal of
Freedom recipient
- Michelle Rhee (B.S. Government, 1992) -
founder of and President of The
New Teacher Project, appointed Superintendent of Washington, DC
Public Schools
in 2007.
- Carlos E. Santiago (Ph.D. 1982 Economics) -
Chancellor, University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Kathleen Sullivan (B.A.
1976) -
Dean of Stanford Law School,
1999-2004), Professor at Harvard Law School
, 1984-93), Professor at Stanford Law School,
2004-present
- M. Carey Thomas (B.A. 1877) - Founder and
second President of Bryn Mawr College
, 1894-1922); suffragist
- Randi Weingarten (B.S. 1980
Labor Relations) - President of the United Federation of
Teachers
- Eric W. Weisstein (B.A. 1990 Physics, minor
Astronomy) - Encyclopedist, created and maintains MathWorld, ScienceWorld, and other encyclopedias
- Eliot Wigginton (B.A. 1965) -
High school teacher, founder and editor of the Foxfire books
- George T. Winston (B.A. 1874 Literature,
Professor) - President of University of North Carolina
, (1891-96), the University of Texas
, 1896-99), and North
Carolina State University
, 1899-1908
Business
Founders
- Willis Carrier (M.E. 1901) -
Founder of Carrier Corporation;
inventor of air conditioning
- Adolph Coors (B.A. 1907) -
Co-founder of Coors Brewing
Company
- Joseph Coors (B.Chem. 1939, Chem.
E. 1940) - Co-founder of Coors
Brewing Company
- Mac Cummings (B.A. 2001) Co-founder
of Terakeet Corporation; Director of Internet Finance
- David Duffield (B.E.E. 1962,
M.B.A. 1964) - Co-founder of PeopleSoft
- Chuck Feeney (B.S. Hotel
Administration) - Founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, Founder
& Director of Atlantic
Philanthropies
- Frank Gannett (B.A. 1898) -
Founder of Gannett, the largest U.S.
newspaper publisher; namesake of Gannett Health Center
- Paul Graham (B.A.) - Co-founder of
Viaweb, sold for $46.6 million to Yahoo! and became Yahoo! Stores; Lisp programmer, author
- Leroy Grumman (M.E. 1916) -
Founder of Grumman
Aerospace Corporation
- Myra Hart (B.A. 1962, M.B.A.
1981,
Trustee, 1999-) - One of four founders of Staples, Inc., Professor at Harvard
Business School
- Jeff Hawkins (B.S. 1979 Electrical
Engineering) - Founder of Palm, Inc. and
Handspring; inventor of the
Palm Pilot
Chairpersons, CEO's, Executives
- Val A. Browning (B.S. 1917) - President of Browning Arms Company
- Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. (undergrad 1906-09,
dropped out) - President (1940-48) and Chairman (1948-62) of
DuPont
- Abby Joseph Cohen (B.A. 1973
Economics and Computer Science, Trustee) - Managing Director of
Goldman Sachs
- Pete Coors (B.S. 1969 Industrial
Engineering) - Executive of Coors
Brewing Company, Senatorial candidate, 2004
- Kenneth T. Derr (B.S. 1959 Mechanical Engineering,
M.B.A. 1960, Trustee) - Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation, 1989-99
- Dave Dombrowski (undergrad
1974-75, transferred) - President, CEO, and General Manager of the
Detroit Tigers
- Reggie Fils-Aime (B.S. 1983
Applied Economics) - President of Nintendo's North American division
- Byron Grote (Ph.D. 1981 Quantitative
Analysis) - Chief Financial Officer of BP
- Raj Gupta (M.S. 1969 Operations
Research) - CEO and president of Rohm and
Haas
- Herbert Fisk Johnson,
Jr. (B.A. 1922 Chemistry) - President of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and
namesake of the Herbert
F. Johnson Museum
of Art on campus
- Herbert Fisk Johnson
III - 5 Cornell degrees 1979-86 - CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and
Trustee Emeritus of Cornell
- Samuel Curtis Johnson,
Jr. (B.A. 1950 Economics) - Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and
co-namesake of the S.C.
Johnson Graduate School of
Management
- Thomas W. Jones (B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, Trustee) -
Principal of TWJ Capital LLC
- Erick Keller
(B.S.) - COO of KPCB
- William D. Perez (B.A. 1969 Government) - CEO of
Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company, CEO of
Nike,
Inc.
, 2004-06
- Joseph N. Pew, Jr. (M.E. 1908) - Vice President
(1912-1947) and Chairman (1947-1963) of Sun Oil Company; founder of The Pew Charitable Trusts;
namesake of Pew Engineering Quad
- Lewis Platt (B.S. 1964 Mechanical
Engineering) - CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99), Chairman of
Boeing, 2003-05
- Justin Rattner (B.S. 1970
Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1972 Computer Science) - Chief Technology
Officer of Intel
, ABC News Person of the Week for his work on the
ASCI Red system (fastest computer in the
world, 1996-2000), R&D
Magazine's "Scientist of the Year", 1989
- Anand Chandrasekher (B.S.
Computer
Science, Master in Engineering, MBA) - Senior Vice President and
General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group of Intel
Corporation
- Bruce S. Raynor (B.S. 1972 Industrial & Labor
Relations) - President of UNITE HERE
- Kevin Reilly (B.A. 1984) -
President of NBC Entertainment,
2004-present
- Jon Rubinstein (B.S. 1978, M.Eng
1979) - CEO of Palm, Inc., Apple SVP 1997-2006.
- Steven Sinofsky (B.A. 1987) -
President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering at Microsoft
- Warren Staley (M.B.A. 1967) -
Chairman and CEO of Cargill, America's
largest private company; member of President's Export Council under
George W. Bush
- Lowell McAdam (M.E. 1976) -
President & CEO - Verizon
Wireless.
- Ratan Tata (B.Arch. 1962) - Chairman of
Tata Group, India's
wealthiest business group, 1991-present
- Walter C. Teagle (B.S. 1899, Trustee, 1924-54) -
President and Chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil); namesake of Teagle Hall
- Myron Charles Taylor (LL.B.
1894) - Chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel, 1932-38); namesake of Taylor Hall
- Arnold Tremere, Executive Director, Government Official
(Canadian International Grains Institute)
- Rick Tsai (Ph.D 1981) - CEO of
Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
- Harold Uris (B.S. 1925, Trustee
1967-1972) - Real estate investor and builder; namesake of Uris
Hall
Athletics
- See also: Cornell in Professional Sports
American football
- Kevin Boothe (B.S. 2005 Hotel
Administration) - Oakland Raiders,
2006, New York Giants,
2007-present
- Al Dekdebrun - Buffalo Bisons, 1946, Chicago Rockets, 1947), Boston Yanks, 1948), New York Yankees, 1948
- Ed Marinaro (B.S. 1972) - Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, and Seattle Seahawks; runner-up for the 1971
Heisman Trophy Award, actor on
Hill Street Blues
- Seth Payne (1997) - Jacksonville Jaguars, 1997-2001,
Houston Texans, 2001-2007
- Lee Reherman (1988) - Miami Dolphins, actor on American Gladiators and X-Files
- Glenn "Pop" Warner (LL.B.
1894, Football Coach) - Football player and coach, founder of
Pop Warner Little
Scholars
- Derrick Harmon (1984) - San Francisco 49ers 1984-1986
- Gary Wood (1964) - New York Giants 1964-1966, 1968-1969,
New Orleans Saints, 1967
- Pete Gogolak (1964) - Buffalo Bills 1964-1965, New York Giants, 1966-1975 First "soccer
style" kicker in professional "American" football.
Ice hockey
Olympics
- See also: Cornell Olympians
- Jon Anderson (1971) - 1972
Olympian, track; winner of 1973 Boston Marathon
- Darren Eliot (1983) - NHL player,
Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres; 1984 Olympian
- Al Hall (1956) - Four-time
Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), hammer throw
- Robert J.
Kane (1934,
Director of Athletics) - U.S. Olympic Committee president,
1976-80; inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1986
- Kent Manderville (1993) - NHL
player, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins; 1992 Olympian
- Travis Mayer (undergrad 2000-01, on
leave) - Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist
- Charles Moore (1951,
Director of Athletics, 1994-99) - 1952 Olympic gold medalist
(hurdles) and silver medalist (1600-meter relay); honored as Golden
Olympian, 1996
- Pablo Morales (J.D. 1994) -
Three-time gold medalist in swimming, 1992 Summer Olympics
- Bo Roberson (1958) - Black athlete
with the distinction of being the only person to earn an Ivy League
degree, an Olympic medal, a doctorate,
and have a career in the N.F.L.
- Jamie Silverstein (undergrad
2002-04, 2006-) - Olympic figure skater
Other
- Bruce Arena (B.S. 1971) - 5-time
NCAA Championship
coach at the University of Virginia
, coach of Major
League Soccer's D.C. United, coach of the U.S. national team,
coach of MLS's New York Red
Bulls. Present coach of MLS's Los
Angeles Galaxy.
- Joe Birmingham - Baseball player,
Cleveland Naps, 1906-14
- Bryan Colangelo (B.S. 1987) -
President and General Manager of the Toronto Raptors, 2005, 2007 NBA Executive of the Year
- Jon Daniels (B.S. 1999) - General Manager of the Texas Rangers, youngest GM ever in
Major League Baseball
- Michael "Mike" G.
French (1976) -
All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to
1976, leading the "Big Red" to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship
in 1976.
- Joseph Iglehart (1914) -
Chairman of the Board, Baltimore
Orioles, 1955–65.
- Bill Jenkins -
dragracer, ranked eighth on NHRA's Top 50 drivers in
2001
- Hughie
Jennings (J.D. study 1901-04, dropped out; Baseball Coach,
1899-?) - Baseball Hall of Fame
-inducted shortstop; Louisville Colonels, 1891-1893),
Baltimore Orioles, 1893-1899),
Brooklyn Superbas, 1899-1900,
1903), Philadelphia Phillies,
1901-1902), Detroit Tigers, 1907,
1909, 1912, 1918
- Daniel R. Mackesey (1977) - Received NCAA Top Five Award in 1978 for lacrosse and soccer; inducted
in National Lacrosse Hall of
Fame
in 2006
- Teddy Mayer (J.D.) - Motor racing
team manager
- Eamon McEneaney (1977) -
All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1975 to
1977, leading the "Big Red" to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship
in 1976 and 1977. Eamon died in the September 11 attacks on the
World Trade Center.
- Dick Savitt - tennis player, ranked
# 2 in the world.
- Dan Wood (Ph.D. 1977), Five year
Cornell golf and soccer (52-20-6) coach. Later coached professional
teams Tacoma Tides, Colorado Caribous and Atlanta Chiefs. Turned professional golfer in
1980.
Crime
Faculty
Nobel laureates
Physics
Peace, Literature, or Economics
Chemistry
- Peter Debye (Professor of Chemistry,
1940-50; Department Chair) - Chemistry 1936
- James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929-55 and Professor
Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) - Chemistry 1946
- Vincent du Vigneaud
(Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938-67), Professor of
Chemistry, 1967-75) - Chemistry 1955
- Manfred Eigen (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1965-76) - Chemistry 1967
- Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty,
1948-57) - Chemistry 1974
- Roald Hoffmann (Frank H.T. Rhodes
Professor in Humane Letters) - Chemistry 1981
- Henry Taube (Assistant Professor,
1944-46) - Chemistry 1983
- Richard R. Ernst (A.D. White Professor-at-Large,
1996-2002) - Chemistry 1991
Physiology or Medicine
- Herbert Spencer Gasser
(Medical College, 1931-34) - Physiology or Medicine
1944
- Fritz Albert Lipmann
(Research Associate, Medical College, 1939-1941) - Physiology or
Medicine 1953
- Peter Medawar (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1965-71) - Physiology or Medicine 1960
- Haldan Keffer Hartline
(Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940-41) - Physiology or
Medicine 1967
- Har Gobind Khorana (A.D.
White Professor-at-Large, 1974-80) - Physiology or Medicine
1968
- Robert F. Furchgott (Assistant Professor of
biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1941-49) -
Physiology or Medicine 1998
- Paul Greengard (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1981-87) - Physiology or Medicine 2000
Natural Sciences and related fields
Mathematics
- Eugene Dynkin (Professor) -
Mathematics
- Walter Feit (Professor, 1952-64) -
Mathematician, co-author of the Feit-Thompson theorem
- Allen Hatcher (Professor, 1985-) -
Mathematics
- John Irwin Hutchinson
(Professor of Mathematics, 1894-?) - American mathematician
- Saunders Mac Lane (Professor)
- Developer of algebra's category
theory
- Anil Nerode (Goldwin Smith Professor
of Mathematics) - Mathematician
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi
(Professor) - Mathematician
- Paul Olum
(Professor) - Mathematics, President of the University of Oregon
1980-89
- Steven Strogatz (Professor of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994-) - Mathematician
- Éva Tardos (Professor of
Computer Science) - Mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of
the Fulkerson Prize, 1988
- William Thurston (Professor of
Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003-) - Mathematics; Fields medal winner
- Charles F. Van Loan (Chair of the Department of
Computer Science) - Mathematician
Physics
- Robert Bacher (Professor,
1935-1949) - Manhattan Project
leader and member of Atomic Energy
Commission
- Persis Drell (Professor, 1988-2002)
- American particle physicist
- Freeman Dyson (Professor, 1951-53)
- Physics, mathematics
- Mitchell Feigenbaum
(Professor) - Physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the
Feigenbaum constant
- Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold
Lecturer, 1987) - Astrophysicist
- Brian Greene (Professor, 1990-95) -
Theoretical Physicist and Author - specializing in String Theory
- Arthur Kantrowitz (Professor,
1946-56) - Physicist and engineer
- Boyce McDaniel (Professor,
1946-1985) - Manhattan Project
physicist and synchotron designer
- Paul McEuen (Professor, 2001-) -
Physicist, specializes in nanotubes
- Yuri Orlov (Researcher of
Physics, 1986-) - Nuclear physicist, former Soviet dissident and
human rights activist
- Dennis William Sciama
(Professor) - Physicist
- George Paget Thomson
(Non-resident Lecturer, 1929-30) - Nobel Prize, Physics 1937
- Kip Thorne (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1986-92) - Astrophysicist
- Robert R. Wilson (Professor) - Youngest group leader
on the Manhattan Project, first
director of Fermilab
Astronomy
Chemistry
Computer science and Engineering
- Paul Ginsparg (Professor of
Physics and Computing & Information Science, 2001-) - Developer
of the arXiv e-print archive
- Joseph Halpern (Professor of
Computer Science) - Computer scientist
- Juris Hartmanis (Professor,
1965-) - Computer scientist; Turing
Award recipient, 1993
- John Hopcroft (IBM Professor of
Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science) - Turing Award recipient, 1986
- Trevor Pinch (Chair of Science and
Technology Studies Department) - Chair of the Science and
Technology Studies department
- Theodore Paul Wright
(Acting President, 1951) - U.S. aeronautical engineer and
educator
Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition
- Louis Agassiz (Lecturer) -
American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
(Professor) - Botanist, founder of the 4-H
movement, namesake of Bailey Hall
- Joan Jacobs Brumberg
(Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Professor of History, Human
Development, and Gender Studies, 1979-) - Scholar in adolescence,
body image and eating disorders, and related fields
- T. Colin Campbell (Professor) - Nutritionist,
director of the China Project, and
author of The China Study
- Robert Chandler (Professor) -
Winner of the World Food Prize,
1988
- Thomas Eisner (Jacob Gould
Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) - Pioneer of chemical ecology
- Barton Warren Evermann
(Lecturer, 1900-03) - American ichthyologist
- Jane Goodall (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1996-2002) - Naturalist
- Charles
Frederick Hartt (Professor, 1868-?) - Canadian-American
geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the
geology of Brazil
- Graham Kerr (Professor, 1973) -
Chef, "The Galloping Gourmet"
- Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant
Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) -
MacArthur Fellow, 1998); researcher in crop disease resistance
- Katharine Payne (Researcher at
Bioacoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology) - Whale and
elephant researcher
- David Peakall (1968-1975
Laboratory of Ornithology, senior research associate in the Section
of Ecology and Systematics in the Biological Sciences
Division)
- Benoît Roux (Professor) -
Molecular biologist; winner of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in
Chemistry, 1998) from the Royal
Society of Canada
- John C. Sanford (Professor, 1980-98) - Inventor of
the gene gun
- Steven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
of Plant Breeding, 1985-) - Plant breeding and agronomy researcher
- Helen Turley - winemaker
- Herbert John Webber
(Professor, 1907-12) - American plant physiologist, developed the
citrange
- Robert Whittaker (Professor) -
American vegetation ecologist
- Burt Green Wilder (Professor
of Neurology and Vertebrate Zoology, 1867-1910) - American comparative anatomist
- Charles Edward Stevens
(Chairman of Physiology, Biology and Pharmacology, 1961 - 1979) -
Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized expert in the
field of comparative physiology and digestive systems.
Medicine
Geology and geography
Social sciences
Economics
Psychology
Law
- G. Robert Blakey professor of law and director
of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime (1973-80) - author of
the RICO statute and chief counsel to House Select Committee on
Assassinations
- Milton R. Konvitz - head of Liberian codification
project
Anthropology, sociology, other social science
Humanities
Philosophy
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
(Professor, 1986-89) - African Studies philosopher and
novelist
- Max Black
- Allan Bloom (Professor, 1963-70) -
Philosophy and Government, author of Closing of the American
Mind
- Richard Boyd (Professor) -
Philosopher
- Edwin Arthur Burtt
(Professor) Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy in 1941, author
of numerous works on philosophy
- Harold F. Cherniss (Professor) - Author and expert
on the philosophy of Ancient Greece
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Lecturer) - Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar
- James Edwin Creighton
(Professor) - American philosopher
- Terence Irwin
- Anthony Kenny
- Norman Kretzmann
- Norman Malcolm (Professor,
1947-58) - Ludwig Wittgenstein
scholar
- Evander Bradley
McGilvary (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics, 1899-1905) -
American philosophical scholar
- John Rawls (Professor) - Philosopher,
author of A Theory of
Justice, Political
Liberalism, and The Law
of Peoples
- Sydney Shoemaker (Susan Linn
Sage Professor of Philosophy) - Philosopher and metaphysician
- Jason Stanley
- Brian Weatherson (Associate
Professor of Philosophy) - Philosopher, metaphysician
Literature
- M.H. Abrams Author of the Mirror and the
Lamp, acclaimed literary critic
- Frederick Ahl (Professor of
Classics and Comparative Literature) - Classics scholar
- Archie Randolph Ammons
(Professor of Creative Writing, 1964-98) - Poet
- Benedict Anderson (Professor
Emeritus of International Studies) - Author of Imagined Communities
- Charles Edwin Bennett
(Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, 1892-?) - Classicist
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
(Professor of North European Languages, 1874 to 1880) - Author
- Hiram Corson (Professor) -
Professor of literature
- Louis Dyer (Acting Professor of
Greek, 1895-96) - American educator and author
- Max Farrand (Professor) - Author of
American historical subjects
- Betty Friedan (Professor) -
Feminist, author of "The Feminine
Mystique"
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
(Professor, 1985-90) - Afro-American Studies scholar
- Victor Lange (Professor) -
Professor of modern languages
- Vladimir Nabokov (Professor of
European and Russian Literature, 1948-58) - Author of the novel
Lolita
- Adrienne Rich (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1981-87) - Feminist poet
- Nathaniel Schmidt (Professor
of Semitic Languages and Literatures) - American orientalist
- William De Witt
Snodgrass (Professor, 1955-57) - Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Melanie Thernstrom
(Professor) - Author and freelance journalist
- Alvin Toffler (Professor) -
American writer, sociologist, and futurist, Future Shock
- Helena Maria Viramontes
(Professor of English) - Chicana fiction
writer
- Wendy Wasserstein (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 2005-06) - Tony Award
and Pulitzer Prize winning
playwright
History
- Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and
Oriental Literature, 1874-76) - Early 20th century Jewish rationalist and social reformer
- Glenn C. Altschuler, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin
Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the
Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at
Cornell University.
- Carl L. Becker (John Wendell Anderson Professor of
History, 1917-41) - Historian, namesake of Carl Becker House
- David Brion Davis (Professor
of History, 1957-69?) - 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner--scholar of
slavery and American intellectual history
- Anthony Grafton (Professor) -
One of the leading scholars of the Renaissance
- Donald Kagan (Professor) -
Classicist
- Michael Kammen (Professor of
History) - 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Constitution
scholar
- Walter LaFeber (Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow
of History, 1958-2006) - U.S. foreign policy historian
- Goldwin Smith (Professor of
English and Constitutional History, 1868-71) - Historian,
University Reformer, namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall
- Carl Stephenson
(Professor of Medieval history, 1930-54?) - Influential early 20th
century medievalist.
- John Szarkowski (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1983-89) - Influential photography curator,
historian, and critic
- Herbert Tuttle, 19th-century
historian, author, (Professor of international law)
Music
Architecture and design
Fine arts and photography
Media
Journalism, film, television, theatre
- John Cleese (A.D. White
Professor-at-Large, 1999-2006; Provost’s Visiting Professor, 2006-)
- Comedian and actor
- John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class
of '56 University Professor, 2003-06) - Left-wing journalist
Government, law, business
- Iajuddin
Ahmed (Visiting Professor, 1984) - President of Bangladesh
, 2002-09
- Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Professor, 1977-91) - Dean of
Suffolk University Law
School and Indiana
University School of Law
- Lloyd Blankfein (Board of
Overseers, Medical College) - President and CEO, Goldman Sachs, 2006-present
- Andrew Hacker (Professor) -
Political scientist, questioned race, class, and gender in American
society
- E. Roland Harriman (Established the Irving
Sherwood Wright Professorship in Geriatrics, Medical College) -
Financier and philanthropist
- Charles Evans Hughes
(Professor, Law School, 1891-93) - Governor of New York, 1907-10,
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1910-16), U.S. Presidential
candidate, 1916), U.S. Secretary of State, 1921-25), U.S. Supreme
Court Chief Justice, 1930-41
- Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of
Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945-47) - U.S. Senator from
New
York, 1947-59, namesake of Ives Hall
- Robert Jarrow (Ronald P. and Susan
E. Lynch
Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson
Graduate School of Management
) - Expert on derivative securities; co-developer of
Heath-Jarrow-Morton
framework and Jarrow-Turnbull
model
- George McTurnan Kahin
(Professor of Government, 1951-88) - Expert on Southeast Asia and critic of the Vietnam War
- Alfred E. Kahn (Robert
Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Trustee;
Dean of Arts & Sciences) - Advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation; economist
- Cynthia McKinney (Frank H.T.
Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003-06) - U.S.
Representative from Georgia
, 1993-2003, 2005-present
- Edwin Barber Morgan
(Trustee, 1865-74) - U.S. Representative from New York, 1853-59); Director of American Express
- Robert Parris Moses (Frank
H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006-) - Civil
rights leader, creator of the Algebra Project, MacArthur "genius"
- Frances Perkins (Lecturer of
Industrial & Labor Relations (?-1965) - U.S. Secretary of Labor,
1933-45), first female U.S.
Cabinet member
- Richard Neustadt (Professor of
Public Administration, 1952?-54?) - political scientist
specializing in the United States presidency.
Advised American Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.
- Clinton Rossiter (Professor of
Government, 1946-70) - Political scientist
- Frederick A. Sawyer (Professor) - Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, 1873-74; Senator from South Carolina
, 1968-73
- Martin Shefter (Professor of
Government, 1986-) - Political scientist
Education
Athletics
- Bob Blackman
(Head Coach, Football, 1977-82) - Member of the College
Football Hall of Fame
- Charles E. Courtney (Head Coach, Rowing, 1883-1920)
– Noted rower and rowing coach
- Melody Davidson (Head Coach,
Women's Ice Hockey) - Head coach of the Canadian national women's
hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey
team
- Edward Moylan (Head Coach, Tennis
and Squash, 1962-72) - Tennis player
- Michael Slive (Director of
Athletics) - Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference,
2002-present
- Phil Sykes (Interim Head Coach, Field
Hockey, 2003) - U.S. Olympic field hockey defender
Fictional Cornellians
- In
30 Rock, Fat Balls, a potential
addition to Tracy Jordan's entourage is studying hotel
administration at Cornell University.
- In Absurdistan by
Gary Shteyngart, a hotel manager
attended the Cornell
University School of Hotel Administration.
- In Ally McBeal, Ling Woo was editor of the Cornell Law Journal.
- In Altered States, Dr.
Eddie Jessup, played by William Hurt,
is a research scientist at Cornell Medical College.
- In Annie Hall, Herschel
Kominsky has a chair in philosophy at Cornell.
- In Any Given Sunday,
Christina Pagniacci, played by Cameron
Diaz, graduated with an M.B.A. in 1996.
- In American Pie and
other films in the series, Vicky Lathum, played by Tara Reid, attends Cornell.
- In Avenue Q, Princeton had a
B.A. in English from Cornell in early drafts of the play, according
to creator Jeff Marx.
- In Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 2, Joseph Allen is an Ithaca, NY native and
holds a B.A. in international relations.
- In Cat's Cradle by
Kurt Vonnegut, Newt Hoenikker is a
Cornell pre-med student drop-out.
- In Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane, the film's title
character played by Orson Welles, was
expelled.
- In The Counterlife by
Philip Roth, Henry Zuckerman, the
novel's central character, graduated from Cornell.
- In Dark City
(1950), Danny Haley, played by Charlton
Heston, was an undergraduate from 1937 to 1941.
- In Deception Point by
Dan Brown, Gabrielle Ashe has a B.A. in
Government.
- In Dirty Dancing, Neil
attends the Cornell
University School of Hotel Administration.
- In Goats, many of the
main characters attended Cornell.
- In Just Cause, Bobby
Earl, played by Blair Underwood,
attended but did not graduate.
- In Kingdom of
Shadows by Alan Furst, Prince
Hrubal of Northern Transylvania.
- In The Lost
Weekend, Don Birnam, played by Ray
Milland, attended but did not graduate.
- In Me, Myself and
Irene, Irene Waters, the film's title character played by
Renée Zellweger, claims her
major at Cornell was "Turf Management."
- In "Made of Honor", Tom and Hannah
meet at Cornell where Hannah studied fine arts.
- In Megan McCafferty's
novels, Len Levy has an M.D from
Cornell.
- In New Moon, The
Cullens move to Ithaca, where at Cornell, Jasper studies Philosophy
and Carlisle is a professor
- In Numb3rs, Agent Sinclair is a
graduate of Cornell.
- In The
Office, Andy Bernard, a new
officemate from the Stamford branch, boasts that he attended
Cornell, was in an a cappella group named
"Here Comes Treble", started a frisbee
golf team, drank heavily, never studied and still graduated, on
time.
- In Over There,
Pvt. Frank "Dim" Dumphy, played by Luke
Macfarlane, is nicknamed "Dim" for being highly intelligent and
earning a B.S. from Cornell, but ending up in the Army.
- In The Prince of
Tides, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, played by Barbra Streisand.
- In Say Anything...,
Sheila, played by Kim Walker, was
admitted to Cornell and plans to attend.
- In Sex and the City,
Velma Rudin, psychologist in the show's second season, holds two
Cornell degrees.
- In The Simpsons, Sideshow Mel attended Cornell.
- In The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the character Diana
attends Cornell.
- In Spriggan, Rie Yamabishi has a B.A. in Linguistics.
- In Starman, National
Security Agency scientist Mark Shermin wears a Cornell
sweatshirt.
- In Step Up, Nora's
mother wants her to apply to Cornell if her dancing career
fails
- In Ugly Betty, Alexis
Meade's assistant, Nick, is a Cornell graduate.
- In Water for
Elephants, Jacob Jankowski, the narrator, attended
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
University Presidents
- See also: History of the Cornell Presidency
- Also see Ivy League
Presidents.
Trustees
- See also: Cornell University Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is vested with "supreme control" over the
entire university, in accordance to university bylaws. The board's
major responsibilities are to establish the degrees that are
awarded by the university, elect the president, and adopt an annual
plan of financial operation. Day-to-day administration has been
delegated by the
trustees to the president.
There are 64 voting members on the board, including students,
employees, faculty, and alumni that are voted onto the board by
their respective group.
The four ex officio members of the board
are the president of the university, the governor of the state of
New
York, the speaker of the state assembly, and the
president of the state senate. The current chairman of the
board is
Peter C. Meinig.
Chairmen of the Board of Trustees:
Directors of Cornell athletics
Cornell's athletics were for many years run by the CU Athletics
Association, which was financially independent from the University.
Here is a list of people who held paid positions to head Cornell's
athletic endeavors.
| Name |
Tenure |
Title |
| John L. Senior '01 |
1901-07 |
Graduate Manager of Athletics |
| William J. Dugan '07 |
1907-10 |
Graduate Manager of Athletics |
| John H. Scott '09 |
1910-11 |
Graduate Manager of Athletics |
| G. Ervin Kent '11 |
1911-18 |
Graduate Manager of Athletics |
| Romeyn Berry '04 |
1919-35 |
Graduate Manager of Athletics |
| James Lynah '05 |
1935-44 |
Director of Athletics |
| Bob Kane
'34 |
1941-44 |
Acting Director of Athletics |
| Bob Kane
'34 |
1944-71 |
Director of Athletics |
| Bob Kane
'34 |
1971-76 |
Dean of Athletics |
| Jon T. Anderson |
1971-75 |
Director of Athletics |
| Bob Kane
'34 |
1975-76 |
Dean of Athletics |
| Richard D. Schultz |
1976-81 |
Director of Athletics |
| Michael L. Slive |
1981-83 |
Director of Athletics |
| Laing E. Kennedy '63 |
1983-94 |
Director of Athletics |
| Charles H. Moore '51 |
1994-99 |
Director of Athletics |
| J. Andrew Noel Jr. |
1999-present |
Director of Athletics |
See also
References
- Program connects law school and Thailand
- Pace, Eric. "Peter T. Farrell, 91; Judge Who Presided At the
Sutton Trial", The New York Times, November 10,
1992. Accessed October 11, 2009.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/10needham.html?,
checked 4/11/07
- Jamie (Reed) Kovac bio on American Gladiator;
accessed 02-16-2008
- Kennedy, Mac. "BL and The Orioles: Shared Roots,"
Laker Legacy, Spring 2007: 20. - The Boys' Latin
School of Maryland alumni magazine.
-
http://www.cornellbigred.com/Sports/general/2007/History.asp?tab=history
Retrieved 2008-06-25.
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