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List of Cornell University people
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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.
Alumni
Nobel laureates - Graduates
Government / Law / Public Policy
Rob Andrews (J.D. 1982 ) - U.S. Representative from New Jersey 's first congressional district .
Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 ) - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton .
Samuel Bodman , (B.S. 1961 ) - Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department and United States Secretary of Energy under President George W. Bush .
Barber B. Conable (A.B. 1942 , LL.B. 1948 ) - president of the World Bank from 1986 to 1991, Congressional Representative (R -New York ) for nine consecutive terms
Joseph B. Foraker - Governor of Ohio and Senator
Stephen Friedman (A.B. 1959 ) - assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush , and director of the National Economic Council .
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (A.B. 1954 ) - U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
Stephen Hadley (B.A. 1969 ) - National Security Advisor to George W. Bush .
Philip H. Hoff (1951) - The first Democratic Governor of Vermont since the Civil War
Jerome H. Holland (B.S. 1939 , M.S. 1941 ) - businessman; president of Delaware State College (1953–60) and of Hampton Institute (1960–70); U.S. ambassador to Sweden (1970–73); national chairman of the American Red Cross (1979–85).
Alan Keyes (transferred to Harvard ) - Former diplomat and Republican candidate for President (twice) and Senate (twice from Maryland , once from Illinois ).
Goodwin Knight - 31st Governor of California
Stephen D. Krasner (A.B. 1963 ) - professor of political science at Stanford University, appointed Director of Policy Planning at the United States State Department by Condolezza Rice
Sol Linowitz (J.D. 1931 ) - Diplomat, Ambassador, Chairman of Xerox , Presidential Medal of Freedom recipiant
Hu Shih (B.A. 1914 ) - Chinese philosopher , poet , statesman ; championed vernacular Chinese as a literary language.
Lee Teng-hui (Ph.D. 1968 ) - President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Edmund Muskie (LL.B. 1939 ) - Governor of Maine ; U.S. senator , presidential candidate, Secretary of State .
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 ) - United States Attorney General under Bill Clinton .
William P. Rogers (LL.B. 1937 ) - United States Attorney General and Secretary of State .
Michael Ross (1981 ) - Convicted Serial killer ; scheduled to be executed January 26th, 2005, by the State of Connecticut.
Kathleen M. Sullivan (A.B. 1976) - professor at Stanford University, dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 -2004
Paul Wolfowitz (A.B. 1965 ) - United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush , President of the World Bank .
William Vollmann - Journalist, Author of numerous books on war , including a seven volume treatise on violence
Business
Dr. Ken Blanchard - management consultant, co-author The One Minute Manager
Jeff Bleustein (B.S. 1960, M.M.E. 1961) - CEO of Harley-Davidson
Willis Haviland Carrier (M.E. 1901 ) - founder of the Carrier Corporation
Barber B Conable (A.B. 1942 , LL.B. 1948 ) - Congressional representative 1965–85; World Bank president 1986–91
Adolph Coors (A.B. 1907 ) - co-founder of the Coors beer brewing company.
Joseph Coors (B.S. 1939 ) - co-founder of the Coors beer brewing company.
Pete Coors (B.S. 1969 ) - Coors brewery executive and 2004 Senatorial Candidate.
Alonzo Galloway Decker, Jr. (B.E.E. 1929 ) - CEO of Black and Decker
Jonathan Dolgen - Chairman of Viacom
David Duffield (B.E.E. 1962 , M.B.A. 1964 ) - co-founder of PeopleSoft software company
David Edgerton - co-founder of Burger King restaurant chain
Edward A. Fox (M.S. 1981 , Ph.D. 1983 ) - first employee and president of Sallie Mae
Frank E. Gannett (A.B. 1898 ) - founder of Gannett media company
Irwin Jacobs (B.E.E. 1956 ) - founder of Qualcomm , a Fortune 500 company
Herbert F. Johnson (A.B 1922 ) and Samuel C Johnson (A.B 1950) - founder/first executives of SC Johnson and the Johnson family businesses
Austin Kiplinger (A.B. 1939 ) - journalist, editor of The Kiplinger Letter , founder of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, winner of the Peabody Award
Charles Lee (B.S. 1962) - CEO of Verizon
Oscar Gustave Mayer (B.A. 1934 ) - CEO of Oscar Mayer
Jim McLamore - co-founder of Burger King restaurant chain.
Perry Odak - CEO of Ben and Jerry's
Frederick Douglass Patterson (Ph.D. 1933 ) - educator, philanthropist , and founder of the United Negro College Fund ; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom 1987
Tom Peters (B.C.E. 1965 , M.E.C. 1966 ) - business management motivational guru
Lewis Platt (B.S.M.E. 1964 ) - former CEO of Hewlett-Packard , chairman of Boeing
Charles E. Sporck - CEO of National Semiconductor
M. Carey Thomas - Founder and first president of Bryn Mawr
Ratan N Tata (B.Arch. 1962) - Chairman of Tata Sons (India 's wealthiest business group)
Sanford I. Weill (A.B. 1955 )- CEO of Citigroup and co-founder of Salomon Smith Barney , the second largest securities investment firm in the world
Medicine
Social Sciences
Science and Technology
John Casper Branner (1882 , geologist, second president of Stanford University
Willis Haviland Carrier (M.E. 1901 ) - inventor of modern air conditioning technology, founder of the Carrier Corporation
Milislav Demerec (PhD 1923 - geneticist and long serving director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
William F. Friedman (B.S.) - Considered by many to be one of the greatest cryptologists of all time,
Paul Graham (AB) - co-founder of ViaWeb , noted author and evangelist of Lisp , creator of Bayesian spam filters.
Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. 1950 ) - one of the early developers of the implantable artificial pacemaker .
Leroy Grumman (M.E. 1916) - founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Jeff Hawkins (1979 ) - inventor of the PalmPilot and founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring
Laurens Hammond (M.E. 1914 ) - inventor of the Hammond organ
Dr. Irwin Jacobs (B.E.E. 1954 ) - UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, cofounder and CEO of Qualcomm , philanthropist, husband of philanthropist Joan Jacobs (1954 ).
David Starr Jordan (M.S. 1872 ) - spent undergraduate years at Cornell, was a Smithsonian Institution associate, became president of Indiana University and founding president of Stanford University .
Douglas McIlroy (B .E .P . 1954) - Inventor of the pipes and filters architecture of UNIX and the entire software componentry concept
Thomas Midgley (M.E. 1911) - inventor of Freon and tetra-ethyl lead .
Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. - computer worm author
Roger Morse (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - apiculture author, teacher, researcher
Steven Squyres (B.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981) - astronomer, principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity ; former student of Carl Sagan
Ted Taylor (PhD 1956 ) - Director of Project Orion and designer of many small nuclear weapons
Literature
Diane Ackerman (M.F.A. 1973 , Ph.D. 1979 ) - author, poet, and naturalist.
Eric Alterman - liberal author and columnist.
Harold Bloom - literary and cultural scholar-critic.
Murray Burnett (A.B. 1931 ) -- author of the play Everybody Comes to Rick's , which was turned into the film Casablanca
Margaret Bourke-White (A.B. 1927 ) - photojournalist.
Ann Coulter (A.B. 1985 ) - conservative author and columnist.
Richard Fariņa - author and musician.
Jesse Redmon Fauset (A.B 1905 ) - literary editor and mentor; author; active in the Harlem Renaissance.
Alice Fulton (M.F.A. 1982 ) - poet, author, feminist, MacArthur Fellow .
William Gass (Ph.D. 1954) - author, essayist
John Hassell (A.B. 1991 ) - journnalist, co-winner of Pulitzer Prize for newspaper reporting
Toni Morrison (M.A. 1955 ) - novelist; Nobel Prize , Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, author of Song of Solomon.
Thomas Perry (A.B. 1969 ) - novelist; Edgar Award winner.
Thomas Pynchon (A.B. 1959 ) - author, Gravity's Rainbow .
Laura Riding - poet , novelist , essayist , short story writer, leader in modernism .
Matt Ruff (B.A. 1988 )- author.
Kurt Vonnegut - author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions .
E. B. White (A.B. 1921 ) - American essayist, co-author of The Elements of Style , author of Charlotte's Web .
Sheryl WuDunn (A.B. 1981) - journalist at the New York Times , co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , winner of the George Polk Award in 1989, and winner of the Overseas Press Club in 1990.
Entertainment / Music / Sports
Bruce Arena (B.S 1973) - Coach of the United States men's national soccer team
Gary Bettman (B.S. 1974) - commissioner of the NHL
Harry Chapin (did not graduate) - musician.
Ken Dryden (A.B. 1969 ) - NHL Hockey Hall of Fame goalie
Richard Farina - author and folksinger.
Allen Funt (A.B. 1934 ) - producer, created Candid Camera show (arguably the first "reality television ").
Eric Garcia (B.A. 1992 ) - Writer, Author of Matchstick Men
Harold Gould (A.M. 1948 , Ph.D. 1953 ) - stage, screen, and television actor.
Greg Graffin (PhD Zoology 1991 ) - Lead singer in the band Bad Religion
John Hassell (1991) - Pulitzer Prize winner
Sidney Kingsley (A.B. 1928 ) - playwright, screenwriter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for the drama Men in White
Arthur Laurents (A.B. 1937 ) - playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits include Rope , and Gypsy
Huey Lewis - rock musician (Huey Lewis and the News ).
Bill Maher (A.B. 1978 ) - comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist.
Ed Marinaro (1972 ) - actor and football player, runner-up for the 1971 Heisman Trophy Award, acted on Hill Street Blues
Adolphe Menjou (B.S. Engineering) - Actor, famous for his roles in The Sheik and The Three Musketeers , and Paths of Glory . Nominated for an Academy Award , has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Robert Moog (Ph.D. 1965 ) - inventor of the Moog music synthesizer.
Pedro Pablo Morales (J.D. 1994 ) - two-time gold medalist in swimming, 1992 Summer Olympics .
Frank Morgan (did not graduate) - actor, played The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz , Academy Award recipiant
Joe Nieuwendyk - NHL Stanley Cup Champion
Bill Nye (B.S., MEng 1977 ) - the Science Guy.
Keith Olbermann (B.S. 1979 ) - television sports and news commentator.
Christopher Reeve (A.B. 1974 ) - actor, best known for Superman .
Richard J. Price (B.S. 1971 ) - novelist (The Wanderers ) and Academy Award nominated screenwriter (The Color of Money )
Steve Reich (A.B. 1957 ) - composer
Jason Reich (B.A. 1998 ) - Emmy Award winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Dick Schaap (B.S. 1955 ) - sports newscaster on ABC and ESPN , twice winner of the Emmy Award , author and coauthor of thirty-three books
Thelma Schoonmaker (A.B. 1961 ) - film editor, received the Academy Award for Raging Bull and The Aviator
Cary Sherman (1968 ) - President of the Recording Industry Association of America
Jimmy Smits (M.F.A. 1982 ) - actor.
Tim Squyres (A.B. 1981 ) - Academy Award nominated film editor, best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Franchot Tone - Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Mutiny on the Bounty , has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hugh Troy (did not graduate) - Artist, Famous prankster
Mary Woronov (did not graduate) - Actress, member of Andy Warhol's The Factory
Peter Yarrow (A.B. 1959 ) - folksinger (Peter, Paul and Mary ).
Architecture
Faculty
Nobel laureates
Other notable faculty
Anthony Appiah - African Studies philosopher and novelist
Felix Adler - Early 20th Century Jewish rationalist and social reformer
Liberty Hyde Bailey - Founder of the 4-h movement
Allan Bloom , Government - author of Closing of the American Mind
Joan Jacobs Brumberg . Human Development; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fields
John Cleese , A.D. White Professor-at-Large - Comedian and actor
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin , Mathematics
Mitchell Feigenbaum - Physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constant
David Feldshuh - Author of the play Miss Evers' Boys which won an American Play Award , was nominated for a Pulitzer . The movie version won five Emmy Awards
Thomas Gold - astrophysicist , coined the term Magnetosphere
Jane Goodall , A.D. White Professor-at-Large - Primatology. renowned naturalist
Anthony Grafton - One of the leading scholars of the Renaissance
Juris Hartmanis - 1993 Turing Award recipient
Allen Hatcher - Mathematics
John Hopcroft - 1986 Turing Award recipient
Charles Evans Hughes , Law, Presidential Candidate, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Karel Husa - Composer probably best known for his "Music for Prague 1968,"
Saunders Mac Lane - Developer of algebra 's Category Theory
Norman Malcolm - Philosophy - notable Ludwig Wittgenstein scholar
Richard Meier (B.Arch 1957) - architect
Cynthia McKinney , Frank H.T. Rhodes University Professor - controversial Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives
Bill Nye - Television personality in popular science, "The Science Guy"
Vladimir Nabokov - Russian and English language author
Jean W. Pape (M.D. 1975), Medicine: pioneering infectious disease expert
John Pilger , Frank H.T. Rhodes University Professor - left-wing journalist
John Rawls - philosopher , author of A Theory of Justice (1971 ), Political Liberalism , and The Law of Peoples
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960) - United States Attorney General under Bill Clinton .
Clinton Rossiter - Government
Carl Sagan - Space Sciences
John Sanford - Inventor of the gene gun
Duncan Sheik Schwartz Center Resident Artist - Alternative Musician, Grammy -nominated singer-songwriter
Steven Squyres (B.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981), Space Sciences - principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity ; former student of Carl Sagan
Steven H. Strogatz - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Steven Stucky (DMA 1978) - Pulitzer Prize winner
John Szarkowski - Influential photography curator , historian , and critic
Edward B. Titchener - Philosopher, inventor of structuralism
William Thurston , Mathematics, Fields medal winner
Kenneth Wilson - Nobel laureate (Physics 1982).
Robert R. Wilson - The youngest group leader on the Manhattan Project , The first director of Fermilab
Hendrik Willem van Loon - Author of the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature .
Fictional Cornellians
University Presidents
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Last updated: 10-11-2005 21:24:36