List of Queens College people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Queens College, City University of New York.

Business

• Leslie Abramson - Attorney, defended Lyle and Erik Menéndez
• Russell Artzt - Co-founder Computer Associates
• Gary Barnett (real estate developer) - Founder of Extell Development Company
• Jill E. Barad - Former CEO of Mattel
• David Cancel - Serial Technology Entrepreneur and Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School
• Jerry Colonna - Well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
• Eugene R. Fidell - Attorney, Guantanamo Bay detention camp critic
• Mark M. Ford - Entrepreneur
• Lee Garfinkel - Former CEO of the New York office of Foote, Cone & Belding
• Leonard Grunstein - Finance executive
• Charlie Harary - Investor and motivational speaker
• Patricia Hynes - Former president of the New York City Bar Association
• Frederick S. Jaffe - Former vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Alan Lazar - Partner of southern California Law Firm
• Stewart Liff - Management consultant and author
• Ruth Madoff - Wife of Bernard L. Madoff
• Donna Orender - WNBA president
• Cindy Rakowitz - Division President for Playboy Enterprises (1986-2001)
• Jeffrey Steinberger - Trial attorney, TV commentator & analyst
• Charles Wang - founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders

Education

• Stevanne Auerbach - Psychologist, "Dr. Toy"
• Werner Baer - Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Elaine Barkin - Music theorist educator
• Warren Bebbington - retired Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide
• Jean-Claude Brizard - CEO of Chicago Public Schools
• Vévé Amasasa Clark - Professor of African-American studies at the University of California, Berkeley
• Ester Fuchs Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University
• Jeffrey Halperin - Professor of Psychology
• Cheryl Lehman - Accounting academic
• Stephanie Pace Marshall - Founder of Illinois Math and Science Academy
• Joseph S. Murphy (1933-1998) - President of Queens College, President of Bennington College, and Chancellor of the City University of New York
• Edward John Ray - President of Oregon State University
• Linda Siegel - cognitive psychologist, holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education at the University of British Columbia 1996–2015
• Arthur M. Langer - Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University, Founder of Workforce Opportunity Services

Entertainment and media

• Ted Alexandro - comedian
• Martin Aronstein - theatrical lighting designer
• Annet Artani - singer, songwriter, co-wrote "Everytime" with Britney Spears
• Jay Bak - rapper and singer based in South Korea
• Lidia Bastianich - celebrity chef and host of Lidia's Italy
• Joy Behar - comedian and co-host of The View
• Adrien Brody - actor, Academy Award winner, attended as student in 1990
• Glen Brunman - film and television soundtrack executive and producer
• Danny Burstein - Broadway actor
• Fran Capo - comedian
• Lucille Carra - documentary film producer
• Angelo Corrao - Italian American Film Editor
• Jason Cuadrado - director and producer
• Yanna Darili - model, Greek television personality
• Peter Dizozza - composer
• Fran Drescher - actress, producer The Nanny
• Dennis Elsas - radio personality: WNEW–FM, WFUV–FM
• Nargis Fakhri - model and Bollywood actress
• Jon Favreau - actor and director, director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2
• David Zelag Goodman - screenwriter, playwright
• Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
• Neophytos Ioannou - AEA Actor, Singer, Voice Teacher & Audition Coach
• Annette Insdorf - film historian and author
• Alan Jacobson - thriller writer
• Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor
• Herb Kaplow - television news correspondent
• Jason Katims - television writer and producer
• Carole King - songwriter and recording artist
• Richard Kline - "Larry Dallas" in Three's Company
• Carol Leifer - Stand-up comedian, writer, actress and producer
• Bob Linden - host and producer of Go Vegan Radio
• Hal Linden - actor, producer, and musician
• Clair Marlo - composer, singer, record producer, songwriter - went from 1976 to 1977 and then went to Berklee College of Music
• Perri Pierre - actor and film producer
• DJ Rekha Malhotra - DJ, producer, educator of South Asian music
• Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975–1978 – dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years but returned in later years during which he made Dean's list)
• Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders.
• Neil Rosen - Emmy award-winning movie critic, NY1
• Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) – radio talk show personality and author
• Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
• Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
• Nestor Serrano - actor
• Paul Simon - singer, songwriter, musician, and member of Simon and Garfunkel
• Michael Stewart - playwright
• Bobby Susser - songwriter, record producer, and performer
• Lorenzo Thomas - poet
• Mal Waldron - jazz pianist
• Dennis Wolfberg - comedian
• Marv Wolfman - comic book and animation writer
• Jay Wolpert - television producer, screenwriter
• Ben Younger - screenwriter and director
• Karen Yu (born 1992), professional wrestler, also known as "Karen Q" and "Wendy Choo".

Fictional characters

• George Costanza - Fictional television character from Seinfeld
• Carrie Heffernan - Took courses for law during season 3 of 'King of Queens
• Eric Murphy - Fictional television character from Entourage. Attended for two years before dropping out to become the manager of Vincent Chase.
• Jerry Seinfeld - Fictional television character from "Seinfeld"
• Elliot Stabler - Fictional television character from Law & Order: SVU first mentioned in S1E6
• Betty Suarez - Fictional television character from Ugly Betty. Graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Media

Government and politics

• Gary Ackerman - United States Representative from New York (1983-2013)
• Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, chief political consultant for Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016
• Shifra Bronznick - Prominent Jewish Women's rights activist
• Kema Chikwe - National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP, former aviation minister
• Anthony Como - former NYC Council Member
• Costa Constantinides - nonprofit leader, former NYC Council Member, Queens College professor
• Joseph Crowley - former United States Representative from New York's 7th congressional district (1999-2019), former Queens County Democratic Chairman
• Mark Danish - former Florida House of Representatives
• Adriano Espaillat - United States Representative from New York's 13th congressional district, former member of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly
• Rafael Espinal - Executive Director of Freelancers Union former NYC Council Member
• Arthur J. Finkelstein - GOP political consultant
• Steven W. Fisher - former New York State Justice, attorney in Wendy's massacre
• Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist
• Helen W. Gillmor - U.S. Federal Judge
• Deborah J. Glick - NY State Assemblywoman
• Mark M. Goldblatt - Political commentator
• Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
• Dan Halloran - former NYC council member, Theodist
• Julia Harrison - NYC Council Member
• Alan Hevesi - former New York State Comptroller, former New York State Assemblyman, former Queens College professor
• Andrew Hevesi - New York State Assembly
• Dov Hikind - former New York State Assemblyman
• Blaise Ingoglia - Florida state assembly
• Dennis G. Jacobs - Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Jeffrey D. Klein - former New York State senator
• Alan P. Krasnoff - former Chesapeake, Virginia Mayor
• Rory I. Lancman - former NYC Council Member and former New York state Assemblyman
• Nathan Leventhal - former NYC Deputy Mayor, former President, Lincoln Center
• Joseph McGoldrick (1901–1978) - former NYC Comptroller and NY State Residential Rent Control Commissioner, lawyer, and professor at Queens College
• Helen Marshall - former Queens Borough President
• Nettie Mayersohn - former member of New York State Assembly
• Hiram Monserrate - former New York State Senator
• Diane Patrick (B.A. 1972) - labor lawyer and former First Lady of Massachusetts (2007–2015)
• Jose Peralta - Former New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator
• Sylvia Pressler - former Judge
• Ronald Spadafora - former FDNY chief and supervisor of September 11 rescue and recovery efforts
• Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state Senator
• James Vacca - former NYC Council Member and Queens College professor
• Jeffrey White - former North California District Judge

Humanities

• Yitzchok Adlerstein - Rabbi, Writer
• David A. Adler - Author
• Mel Alexenberg - Science Artist and Art Educator
• Amin Tarzi - Middle East Studies
• Toni Cade Bambara - Author, activist
• Nino Lo Bello - Journalist
• Michael Berenbaum - Scholar, writer, Rabbi
• Ann Birstein - Memoirist, Fulbright Scholar
• Erika Bourguignon - Anthropologist
• Robert Boyers - Literary essayist, cultural critic and memoirist.
• Alex Caldiero - Poet, scholar of humanities
• Vévé Amasasa Clark - Scholar of African American Studies
• Marylyn Dintenfass - Painter
• Alan Dugan - Poet
• Yael Eckstein - Religious Activist
• Marc Estrin - Political writer
• Jeff Faux - Founder of Economic Policy Institute
• Bella Feldman - Sculpting innovator
• Marie Ferrarella - Romance writer
• Juan Flores - Scholar of Latino Studies
• Ellen G. Friedman - Author, Woman's studies
• Ruth Gay - Writer about Jewish Life
• Jeff Gomez - Writer and transmedia producer
• Martin Gottlieb - Editor at New York Times
• Robert Hessen - Economist, historian
• Cynthia Holz - Correspondent and Author
• Johanna Hurwitz - Children's Author
• Jane Irish - Ceramicist
• Susan Isaacs - Author, essayist, screenwriter
• Bernard Kalb - Journalist, media critic, author
• Marvin Kalb - Journalist
• Nasser Khalili - Scholar, philanthropist
• Bernard Krisher - Journalist
• Corky Lee - Journalistic Photographer
• Judith Lorber - Sociologist
• Felipe Luciano - Journalist
• Irving Malin - Literary critic
• Nellie Y. McKay - scholar and co-editor of Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
• Samuel Menashe - Poet, Biochemist, Veteran
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Political Scientist
• Joan Nestle - Author
• Richard Ofshe - Sociologist
• Jim Osman - Sculptor
• Claude V. Palisca - professor of music history
• Herbert S Parmet - Distinguished historian and political author
• Irene Peslikis - Feminist artist
• Mark Podwal - Artist and physician
• Shana Poplack - Linguistics
• Lina Puerta - Artist
• Dorothy Rabinowitz - awarded 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
• Colleen Randall – American abstract painter
• Marcia Resnick - Photographer
• Robert Rosenblum - Art historian, curator, writer
• John Rowan - Vietnam Veteran
• Arlene Rush – artist and sculptor
• Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
• Joel Shatzky (1943-2020) - writer and literary professor
• Lowery Stokes Sims - Former curator at Museum of Arts and Design
• Marilyn Singer - Children's author
• Arnold Skemer - novelist and publisher
• Elliot Sperling - Expert on Tibet
• Linda Stein - Sculptor, feminist (interviewed in Borat)
• Rosalyn Terborg-Penn - historian
• Eric Wolf - anthropologist

Music

• Edward W. Hardy - composer, violinist
• Salman Ahmad - musician, Junoon
• Sol Berkowitz - composer and music educator
• Peter Calandra - pianist and composer
• Noel DaCosta - jazz musician, composer
• Tina Chancey - multi-instrumentalist
• Gil Dor - Israeli guitar player
• Leslie Dunner - composer and conductor
• JoAnn Falletta - classical musician and orchestral conductor
• John Feeley - classical guitarist
• Ellie Greenwich - singer, songwriter and producer
• Reri Grist - coloratura soprano
• Herbert Grossman - conductor
• Lisa Gutkin - Grammy winning violinist
• Antonio Hart - jazz musician
• Conrad Herwig - jazz trombonist
• Douglas Knehans - composer
• Leo Kraft - composer
• Meyer Kupferman - composer and clarinetist
• Paul Lansky – pioneer computer musician and composer at Princeton
• Carolyn Leigh - lyricist, composer
• Mimi Lerner - opera singer
• Lewis Lockwood - musicologist
• Frank Lopardo - American operatic tenor
• John Mateer - Singer/songwriter & recording artist.
• Marcus Miller - jazz composer
• Tito Munoz - conductor
• Arturo O'Farrill - jazz musician
• Marco Oppedisano - guitarist and composer
• Lou Pearlman - music producer
• Luis Perdomo - pianist
• Raoul Pleskow - composer
• Nancy B. Reich - musicologist
• James Nyoraku Schlefer - composer of Shakuhachi
• Paul Simon - composer, singer, musician, and member of Simon and Garfunkel
• Erika Sunnegårdh - operatic soprano
• George Tsontakis - composer and conductor
• William Westney - classical pianist
• Davide Zannoni - classical music composer

Science and technology

• Kenneth Appel - Mathematician proved four color theorem
• Boris Aronov - Computer scientist (computational geometry)
• Inge Auerbacher - Chemist, author, playwright, Holocaust survivor
• Steven J. Burakoff - cancer specialist and the author of Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990)
• Anne Carter - Technology economist
• Arturo Casadevall - Molecular microbiologist
• Marie Maynard Daly - Biochemist, first African American woman to earn a Phd in chemistry
• Celso-Ramón García - Obstetrician and gynecologist
• Edgar Gilbert - Coding Theorist
• David Gries - Computer Scientist
• Mohammad Salman Hamdani - Biochemist, cited in the Patriot Act for heroism on 9/11
• Michael Hecht - Researcher
• Richard Laub - Paleontologist
• Ira B. Lamster - Periodontist and professor of health management
• Jerry Lawson - Electronic engineer
• Stanley Milgram - Psychologist
• Bernard Salick - Entrepreneur, researcher, nephrologist
• Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
• Howard Moskowitz - market researcher and psychophysicist
• Elizabeth F. Neufeld - Geneticist
• Nicholas Rescher - Philosopher
• Elissa Shevinsky - Entrepreneur, information security researcher, feminist
• Russell Targ - Physicist
• Alexander L. Wolf - Computer Scientist, president of Association for Computing Machinery
• Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory
• Bruce M. Zagelbaum - Physician and researcher in sports ophthalmology

Sports

• Marilyn Aschner (born 1948) - professional tennis player
• Jane Bartkowicz - tennis player
• Glenn Braica - Men's basketball coach
• Charlie Hoefer - Basketball player
• Gail Marquis - basketball player
• Tre McLean (born 1993) - basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Donna Orender (née Geils; born 1957) - Women's Pro Basketball League All-Star & former WNBA president
• Diana Redman (born 1984) - Israeli soccer player
• Norm Roberts - Assistant men's basketball coach at Kansas

Notable faculty

Famous faculty at Queens College have included:

• Salman Ahmed, musician, band Junoon
• Benny Andrews, artist
• Paul Avrich, historian
• Ben-Zion Bokser, prominent Conservative Rabbi
• Donald Byrd, jazz musician
• Elliott Carter, composer
• Barry Commoner, biologist
• Costa Constantinides, political scientist and urban expert
• Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
• Bogdan Denitch, sociologist
• Joshua Freeman, historian
• Azriel Genack, physicist
• Susanna Grannis, outspoken academic on helping minority students and students with disabilities gain access to education
• Andrew Hacker, political scientist
• Michael Harrington, political philosopher
• Samuel Heilman, Sociologist
• Banesh Hoffmann, mathematician, worked with Albert Einstein
• Chin Kim, violinist
• John Frederick Lange, Jr., author
• Mieczysław Maneli, philosopher and diplomat
• Joseph McElroy, author
• Elliott Mendelson, mathematician
• Edwin E. Moise, mathematician
• Luc Montagnier, virologist, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (endowed professorship, 1997/8–2001)
• Thea Musgrave, composer
• Marco Oppedisano, composer
• Arbie Orenstein, American musicologist, author, and pianist
• George Perle, composer
• Koppel Pinson, historian
• Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist
• Gregory Rabassa, literary translator
• Stefan Ralescu, mathematician
• Karol Rathaus, composer
• Charles Repole, actor, theater director
• Reynold Ruffins, Visual artist and professor emeritus
• Douglas Rushkoff, Media Expert and futurologist
• Roger Sanjek, anthropologist
• Arthur Sard, mathematician
• Bruce Saylor, composer
• Carl Schachter, musician
• Dennis Sullivan, mathematician
• David Syrett, naval historian
• Harold Syrett (1913-1984), President of Brooklyn College
• John Tytell, author
• James Vacca, urban expert
• Robert Ward, composer
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
• Roby Young, Soccer

References

1. List of people from Queens
2. Queens' College, Cambridge
3. Queens
4. College Point, Queens
5. The Queen's College, Oxford
6. List of Swarthmore College people
7. Queens Village, Queens
8. List of Columbia College people
9. Hollis, Queens
10. Scream Queens (2015 TV series)
11. Pomonok, Queens
12. Bayside, Queens
13. The King of Queens
14. List of people associated with New College, Oxford
15. List of United States counties and county equivalents
16. Jamaica, Queens
17. List of bus routes in Queens
18. List of College of William & Mary alumni
19. List of English monarchs
20. Sunnyside, Queens