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This list of New York University alumni includes notable graduates and non-graduate former students of New York University.
Legend
The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent NYU schools and colleges:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Abbr. !! Meaning
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| *
| Did not graduate
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|
| College of Arts and Science
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|
| College of Dentistry
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|
| Rory Meyers College of Nursing
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|
| Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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|
| Graduate School of Arts and Science
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|
| Institute of Fine Arts
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|
| School of Professional Studies
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|
| School of Engineering (discontinued/merged; now Tandon)
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|
| School of Law
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|
| School of Medicine
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|
| Tandon School of Engineering
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|
| New York University Silver School of Social Work
|-
|
| Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
|-
|
| Stern School of Business
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|
| Tisch School of the Arts
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|
| University College of Arts and Sciences (discontinued/merged; now CAS)
|-
|
| Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
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|
| New York University Shanghai
|-
|
| Washington Square College (discontinued/merged; now CAS)
|}
In 1973, the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged into Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, which in turn merged into NYU to form New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in 2014. In 2015, the school changed its name to NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Academia and research
Educators
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
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! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:7%;"| Year
! style="width:7%;"| School
! style="width:11%;"| Degree
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| 1936
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| First president of University of South Florida in Tampa; interim president of University of Florida in Gainesville
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of University of Wisconsin, Madison
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|2002
|IFA
|Ph.D.
|Educator, author and curator at Museum of Modern Art, NY
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| ENG
|
| Founder of Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1974
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| First president of Union Institute & University in Cincinnati
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Cooper Union Engineering School dean; served as dean of Pratt Institute; first female dean of an engineering school in United States
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
|Israeli economist and president of Tel Aviv University
|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Vice provost and dean of research at Stanford University; former director of Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1948
| WSC
| B.A.
| Seventeenth president of Rutgers University; professor at NYU Law
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
| Master of Pedagogy
| First president of Brooklyn College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1971, 1980
| GSAS
| M.S., Ph.D.
| President of Fashion Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Founder and first president of Hofstra University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Director of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and École Normale Supérieure, Paris
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1956
| STEINHARDT
| M.A.
| Chairperson and first dean of College of Communication of Polytechnic University of the Philippines; dean of College of Mass Communication at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila; Fulbright Scholar
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chair of engineering and applied sciences at California Institute of Technology; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Serena Chen
|1997
|
|Ph.D
|Chair of Psychology Department at U.C. Berkeley
|
|-
|
|
| GSAS
| M.A., Ph.D.
| Fifth president of SUNY Farmingdale
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department head 2001–2008 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; IEEE Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|William Everdell
|1971
|NYU
|Ph.D.
|Dean of Humanities, Saint Ann's School, author of The First Moderns
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Economist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Law
| J.D.
| Founding president of Finch College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1961, 1962, 1964
| POLY
| B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
| Professor emeritus and former head of Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT (1997–2003); former associate director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1986
| Stern
| M.B.A.
| President, Drexel University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Former chair of Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at Columbia University; Russ Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1978
| STEINHARDT
| M.A.
| President and chancellor, Loyola University Chicago
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chairman of chemical engineering department at Johns Hopkins University; National Academy of Science member; helped develop methods of separating solid waste components
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| ENG
|
| Chair of Department of Aerospace Engineering and professor at University of Maryland, College Park; professor at University of Virginia; awarded NASA Exceptional Service Medal
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Dorit Geva
|2006
|
|Ph.D.
|Founding dean of undergraduate studies at Central European University
|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of Tufts University School of Engineering; Gordon Prize winner; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1958
| Stern
| M.B.A.
| 15th president of St. Francis College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Joe Gow
|
|
|
|Chancellor of University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| 1952
| POLY
| Ph.D.
| Chair of Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley; professor at Rice University; designer of Rice Institute Computer; secretary of Academic Senate, University of California 1978–1980
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chair of Chemistry Department at Rutgers University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Founder and first dean of New York University Stern School of Business
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1977
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Dean, INSEAD, 2000–2006
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President of New York City College of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Economics professor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1972, 1975
| Law
| B.A., J.D.
| Fourth president of Yeshiva University, 2003–2017
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Vice chancellor of CUNY; president of Tarrant County College; dean of New York Institute of Technology; dean of Adelphi University; overseer of Colby College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| President of Brooklyn College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1959
|
| Ph.D.
| "Father of Korean archaeology", professor at Seoul National University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chair of Biology at Tufts University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor at Johns Hopkins University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Jerome Krase
|1973
|SOC
|Ph.D.
|Professor emeritus and archivist at Brooklyn College
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|-
|
| 1948
| WSC
| B.A.
| "Pope of the unbelievers"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President and chancellor of Yeshiva University
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Chair emeritus of the board of Swarthmore College
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
|
|
| Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Law
| B.A., J.D.
| Chairman of the Yeshiva University board of trustees
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1969
| Stern
| M.B.A.
| President, University of Wisconsin–Madison; president of the University of Wisconsin System
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
|
|
| President of John Jay College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|2005
|
|M.A.
|Assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist; endowed chair and director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean and professor of Management in College of Business Administration at California State University, San Marcos; former dean of School of Business, University of California, Irvine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1983
| Law
| J.D.
| President of the University of Nebraska; chancellor of City University of New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| STERN
| MBA
| Dean of School of Management at Simmons College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1958
| ENG
| M.S.
| President of Shimer College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of University of Southern California
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1964
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Intellectual heir of Ayn Rand; leading figure of Objectivism
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chairman of Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of the Philippines College of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Law
| J.D.
| President of Hood College; on board of trustees of Bryn Mawr College 1994–2007; trustee emerita of Bryn Mawr College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1917
| Stern
| B.A.
| Founder and first president of Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Head of Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran; professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McGill University; fellow of the IEEE
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Chairman of board of trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Wallace S. Sayre
|
|GSAS
|Ph.D.
|Professor of Columbia University; namesake of Sayre's law
|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President of University of Arizona
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| ENG
|
| President of New York Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering; served as chairman of Electrical Engineering Department at Duke University; professor at University of Pennsylvania; director of Naval Ordnance Laboratory
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
| M.D.
| Founding dean of Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Dean of Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Founder and professor of Polymer Science and Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst; member of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering; Fulbright Visiting Professor at Kyoto University; National Research Council Fellow at Cambridge University; research associate at Princeton University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1984
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Dean of Lander College for Women and vice president of Touro College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Law
| J.D.
| Chairman of board of directors of Georgetown University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Law
| J.D.
| President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President of Milwaukee School of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| WAG
|
| Vice chancellor at City University of New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| President of Ohio Wesleyan University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1838
|
| B.A.
| Led New Brunswick seminary as dean and president of the faculty 1883–1901
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1951
| CAS
| B.A.
| Author of A People's History of the United States
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Professors, researchers and scientists
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:7%;"| Year
! style="width:7%;"| School
! style="width:11%;"| Degree
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| 2005 president of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1984
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Victim of unsolved 2005 homicide at New Jersey water treatment plant
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1986, 1989
| Courant
| M.S., Ph.D.
| Computer scientist; professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Sloan Research Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1948
| CAS
| B.A.
| Shakespearean scholar
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Chief scientist at Telcordia Technologies
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Harvard University
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 1990
|
| Ph.D.
| Professor at Bocconi University, Milan; director of Fondazione RDB
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Astronaut; NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of shuttle Discovery
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Designer of the Pentagon
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Industrial chemist; invented methods to produce sodium metal and sodium hydroxide from soda ash and salt respectively; awarded Elliott Cresson Medal
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Pioneered techniques of analog audio recording, and radio and television broadcasting; chief audio engineer at CBS; researcher at MIT and Harvard
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Discovered how to connect electrical conductors still used today; assembled one of the world's most important history of science libraries, now housed at MIT and National Museum of American History
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|1880
|Med
|Ph.D
|Meteorologist and medical doctor
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 1937
| DENT
| D.D.S.
| Author of Sicher and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 1929
| ARTS
| B.S.
| Inventor of first stereo radio-phonograph
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Chairman of University of California's President's Council on the National Laboratories; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 2000
| CAS
| B.S.
| UCLA professor & Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Oversaw development of artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1949
|
| M.A.
| Associate professor emeritus of education; physical education instructor; longest-serving faculty member of University of Maine at Presque Isle
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Chicago; fellow of American Mathematical Society; proved ZJ theorem and Z* theorem
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Chief engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Theoretical physicist best known for his original works on Brownian motion and ratchets, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum)
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Inventor of Hansch equation
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Co-inventor of Blackman-Harris Filter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1966
| ENG
| B.S.
| Invented public key cryptography; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame; Turing Award winner
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Microscopic and integrated circuitry pioneer; inventor of tape-automated bonding
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Princeton University
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Cooper Union; NASA aerospace engineer
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Fourth president of Israel; chief scientist of Israel Defense Department
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1875
| Med
|
| Co-inventor of Kellogg's cereals
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Scientist; "father" of Apollo Lunar Module
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1970
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| Director of Fields Institute
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 1969
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| Creator of Korn shell
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1952
| DENT
| DDS
| Pioneer in oral implantology; nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Mathematician, inaugural fellow of American Mathematical Society
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Columbia University; American Academy of Arts and Sciences member; awarded Garvan-Olin Medal in 1983 for her work on the enzyme collagenase
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Trinity College, Dublin; Fulbright scholar
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Engineer-in-chief of United States Navy; Congressional Gold Medal winner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Nuclear engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2011
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Professor of History, Cornell University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1978–1982
| Med
| M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.
| Astronaut
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Italian astronaut, mission specialist at STS-120 Space Shuttle mission
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
| MS, PhD
| MIT professor and research scientist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|1955
|
|Ph.D.
|CEO of Wiscom Technologies; professor of electrical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
|
|-
|
| 1969
| ARTS
| B.S.
| Inventor of floating raft system
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Inventor who made lasting contributions to electrochemistry and solid-state technology, including founding of Duracell; held more than 300 patents
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| DARPA director; MIT professor emeritus
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Director emeritus and retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory; professor at University of Chicago; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
| Postdoc
| Chief scientist of Viking missions to Mars in 1976
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1979
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| Professor at Columbia University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1997
| POLY
| B.S.
| Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, and University of Cambridge; invented multitaper
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1962
| CAS
| B.A.
| First commercial space flight customer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco Systems
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1836
|
| B.A.
| Inventor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Author of DOS-C, FreeDOS kernel
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
| 1960
|
| M.A
| Co-founder and director, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1951
| ENG
| B.S.
| Air Force test pilot
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Fabricated the steel cables for Brooklyn Bridge, making cable-lift elevators possible; contributed to inventions of lockmaking, submarine, design of modern refrigerator, A/C generator, electric motors, and transformer; held 240 patents
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at University of California, Berkeley; invented ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1951
| GSAS
| M.A.
| Works include World Trade Center
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1961
| ENG
| B.S.
| International soccer player and academic at Georgia Institute of Technology; member of National Academy of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Played prominent role in development of permeable contact lenses
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Harvard University
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at UCLA; awarded Turing Award in 2011; member of National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Columbia University; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Imperial College London and Duke University; invented G-networks and random neural network
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Lehigh University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Washington; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College; professor of Ophthalmic Science at Columbia University Medical Center
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Johns Hopkins University; research engineer and fellow of US Army Research Laboratory
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| POLY
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| Professor at Princeton University; director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Guggenheim Fellow
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| COURANT
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| Fields Medal winner; proved soul conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Boston University; National Academy of Engineering member; Guggenheim Fellow
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|-
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology
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| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Washington; member of National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Cornell University; Fulbright scholar
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|-
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| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, College of William and Mary, and New School
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Columbia University
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| POLY
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| Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center
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| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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| ENG
|
| Professor at UCLA
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| POLY
|
| Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland; invented quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit, lateral transistor, and wireless microphone; held 61 patents
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| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Minnesota and SUNY Buffalo
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| POLY
|
| Professor at University of Maryland
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Rice University; holds 33 patents; member of National Academy of Engineering
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| POLY
|
| President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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| POLY
|
| President of American Society of Civil Engineers
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| POLY
|
| President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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| POLY
|
| President of American Chemical Society; designed fire-resistant polymers
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|
|
| WSC
|
| Made major contributions to sociological theory
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor emeritus at New York University
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at New York University
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|
|
| POLY
|
| IEEE Edison Medal winner; president of American Institute of Electrical Engineers; National Academy of Sciences member
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|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
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|
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| POLY
|
| Invented first telephone handset
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|
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| POLY
|
| Inventor of Lite beer
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|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University
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|
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| POLY
|
| Chief engineer of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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|
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| POLY
|
| Professor and founding director of School of Population and Public Health in Faculty of Medicine at University of British Columbia
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Professor at Columbia University
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|-
|
| 1951, 1954
| POLY
| BSEE, MSEE
| IEEE president in 1987; served as vice president of BAE Systems; fellow of IEEE
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon; invented devices ranging from a multiple-head pasta extruder for the Ronzoni Company to miniaturized registers for U.S. Army Signal Corps; chief scientist at DuPont
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| POLY
|
| Designed and installed Panama Canal locks
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| POLY
|
| Created Olivetti Elea, Italy's first computer
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|
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| POLY
|
| Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington Metro, Ohio Turnpike and Connecticut Turnpike
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
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| POLY
|
| Developed practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Head of experimental group of Radiation Laboratory (MIT); member of National Academy of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| Wolf Prize in Physics winner; best known for his part in discovery of what is now called Bekenstein-Hawking radiation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| ENG
|
| Holder of 605 patents; established Lemelson Foundation; one of the most prolific inventors in American history; several of his inventions and works in the fields in which he patented have made possible, either wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in tape players
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| POLY
|
| Professor at Johns Hopkins University; Fellow of National Academy of Sciences
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Invented cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| ENG
|
| Winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize
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|
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| ENG
|
| Professor at Princeton University
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| ENG
|
| Inventor of active noise cancellation
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| ENG
|
| Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| ENG
|
| Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1959–1961)
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
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| ENG
|
| Co-director of Systems Engineering Practice Office of MITRE Corporation
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Designed what was until very recently the largest radio telescope in the world
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|
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| POLY
|
| Patented suspension system for the largest radio telescope in the world
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|
| POLY
|
| Turkish-American engineering scientist; professor at Princeton University; namesake of Eringen Medal
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
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| ENG
|
| Norwegian nuclear physicist and businessperson; member of National Academy of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1956, 1960
| POLY
| M.E.E., D.E.E.
| Pioneer in digital signal processing; professor at Princeton University; member of National Academy of Engineering; Life Fellow of IEEE
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Joseph F. Cullman III professor and researcher at Yale University
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| ENG
|
| Worked on Apollo Moon Program; served as advisor to US Congress; designed LoPresti Fury; designed Grumman American AA-5; chief engineer and vice president of Engineering at Mooney Aviation Company, where he designed the Mooney 201
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|
|
| Professor of history at Hofstra University; prolific writer of business histories
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|
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| Anthropologist; Guggenheim Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| POLY
|
| Mathematics professor at Stanford University and Cornell University; won Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory; proved Ax–Grothendieck theorem and Ax–Kochen theorem; Guggenheim Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
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| ENG
|
| Developed first digital image scanner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1983
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| Nuclear physicist; first female commissioner at US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission; National Academy of Engineering member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1942
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| Statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist; professor at Cornell University, Columbia University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; proved Wald–Wolfowitz runs test and Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1939, 1945
| MED
| M.S., MD
| Developed radioimmunoassay with Rosalyn Yalow, received a Nobel Prize for their joint work after Berson's death
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1963
| WSC
| B.A.
| Art historian, professor of Art History emeritus, University of Minnesota
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|
|
| ENG
|
| Chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force (1973–1975); Guggenheim Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|}
Abel Prize recipients
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:7%;"| Year
! style="width:7%;"| School
! style="width:11%;"| Degree
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| 1947, 1949
| Courant
| B.A., Ph.D.
| Abel Prize (2005) and 1986 National Medal of Science recipient
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1949
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| Abel Prize (2015) and 1995 National Medal of Science recipient
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1966
| Courant
| postdoc
| Abel Prize (2007)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|}
MacArthur Fellows
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:7%;"| Year
! style="width:7%;"| School
! style="width:11%;"| Degree
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| 1935
| ARTS
| B.A.
| 1986 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1956
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| 1974 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1966
| ARTS
| B.A.
| 1983 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2001
| Gallatin
| B.A.
| 2015 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2003
| TSOA
| M.F.A.
| 2015 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2011
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| 2017 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:7%;"| Year
! style="width:7%;"| School
! style="width:11%;"| Degree
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| 1943–1948
| GSAS
| B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
| 1988 National Medal of Science recipient
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1947, 1949
| Courant
| B.A., Ph.D.
| 1986 National Medal of Science recipient and Abel Prize (2005)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1984
| TSOA
| MFA
| 2012 National Medal of Arts recipient
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1989
| TSOA
| BFA
| 2016 National Medal of Arts recipient; Guggenheim Fellow
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1949
| Courant
| Ph.D.
| 1995 National Medal of Science recipient and Abel Prize (2015)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature
|
|-
|
| 1953
| POLY
| Postdoc
| 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
|style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1967
| Law
| LL.M.
| 2005 Nobel Peace Prize
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| *POLY
| PhD
| 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature
|
|-
|
| 1924
| GSAS
|
| 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|
|-
|
| 1955
| Med
| M.D.
| 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Associate Professor 1965–74
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
| 1947
| Med
|
| 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
|
|-
|
|
| POLY
|
| 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; won Wolf Prize in Chemistry
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
|
|-
|
|
|
| Postgraduate work at biology laboratory of Robert Chambers
| 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Nobel Peace Prize
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1948
| POLY
| B.S.
| 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
|-
|
|
|
|
| 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
|
|-
|
| 1944
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics and 1985 National Medal of Science recipient
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1867
| Law
| LL.B.
| 1912 Nobel Peace Prize
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
| Postgraduate work under Severo Ochoa
| 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
|
|-
|
| 1941
| GSAS
| Ph.D.
| 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
|
|-
|
| 1927
| WSC
| B.S.
| 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|
| coursework*
| 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Business
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A., 1980
| Founder and former CEO of Comverse Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A.
| Attorney and businessman; former owner of Houston Rockets NBA team
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, B.S., 1981
| Billionaire, founder of Berggruen Institute
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A.
| Non-profit executive, heir and philanthropist; son of George Soros
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, 1913–14
| Co-founder of Amerasia; involved in 1945 Amerasia espionage affair
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S., 1980
| Chairman and CEO of Xerox
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S., 1868
| Founder of IBM
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| A.B.; LLM
| Chairman and former CEO of Griffon Corporation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, MBA
| CEO of Griffon Corporation; former president and director of Wynn Resorts
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Co-founder of Futurism, executive producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, MBA
| Co-founder and managing partner of Dalton Investments LLC
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Graduate studies
| Founder of Henderson Advertising Agency in Greenville, South Carolina; Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of South Carolina in 1970
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S., 1960
| Former chairman and CEO of Sears
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, M.S., 1985
| Chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, B.S., 1991
| Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur; known as "Iceland's first billionaire"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law L.L.M., 1967
| Founder and chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Economics degree 1977 WSUC
| Designer of modern snowboard and founder of Burton Snowboards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Art Therapy *
| Founder of Ben & Jerry's
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1947
| Founded Hudson News in 1987
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A.
| Jewelry designer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1955, B.S. Law 1957, J.D.
| Former CEO and chairman, MetLife
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG, B.S.
| CEO of Paramount Pictures
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Managing partner and chairman of the board of Lord Abbett
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A. 1984
| Senior executive vice president, chief administrative officer, CEO and CFO of Viacom
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, B.S. 1972
| Hedge fund manager
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Businessman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1973, M.B.A.
| CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| MTV Networks
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, 1973, 1975, M.B.A, Ph.D.
| Founder of George Foundation and Multinational Computer Models
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1948, M.B.A
| CEO of Palai Central Bank (1956–60)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1961, B.S.
| Chairman and CEO of American Express (1994–2001); chairman of American International Group (AIG)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1948 1950 1977, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
| Former chairman of Federal Reserve
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1977, M.B.A.
| CEO of NASDAQ
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1998, B.A.
| Founder of Charity: Water
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| MED*
| Investor and activist shareholder
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1948, B.A., Stern 1958, Ph.D.
| Wall Street financial consultant
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Host of Nightly Business Report
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1955, LL.B.
| Founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Video game designer, co-founder of Code Liberation Foundation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1976, M.B.A.
| CFO of Pfizer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern*
| President of DC Comics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1955, J.D.
| Co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Cortney Lollar
|Law 2002, J.D.
|Distinguished professor of law at University of Kentucky
|
|-
|
| ENG, M.S.
| CEO of Tele-Communications Inc.; CEO of Liberty Media; now chairman of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Liberty Interactive, all of which he is majority owner; owns 49% of Starz Inc. and 29% of Discovery Communications
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Vice president of Boeing Company
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG, B.S., M.S.
| Founder of Crestron Electronics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1977, M.B.A.
| President of Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG, B.S., Stern, M.B.A.
| Chairman and CEO of Qwest
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| coursework*
| Founder of Neuberger & Berman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Commodities trader and hedge fund manager; indicted for tax evasion
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1964, M.B.A.
| CEO and owner of Barnes & Noble
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1985, M.B.A.
| Rothschild Banque
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1961
| Advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and Bozell Worldwide; creator of "Got Milk?" advertising campaign
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Founder, chairman and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG, B.S., 1924
| Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Grumman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Co-founder and current chairman of Tellabs
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Businessman invested in real estate, aviation, and groceries; radio talk show host; owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Chief executive at McKinsey & Company; director at Amgen; serves on Harvard Business School Board of Directors of the Associates, Management Education Council of Wharton School, U.S. and Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee, Council on Foreign Relations, and board of International Executive Service Corps
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1956, B.S.
| Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A., 1952
| Owner of World Trade Center site
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Courant, M.S.
| Investor, hedge fund manager
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A.
| Real estate investor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1957, B.S., 1959, M.B.A.
| Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business; CEO of Hartz Group
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Member of International Olympic Committee
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A., 1946
| Founder of Syms Clothing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1947, B.S.
| Founder of Automatic Data Processing, philanthropist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern*
| Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International Inc.; former companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1942, B.Sc.
| Media mogul; president and chief executive officer, CBS
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Gallatin 1999, B.A.
| Supermodel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1979, M.B.A.
| Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Founder of dangdang.com, the largest online Chinese language retailer
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|
|
| Creator of Twitter; founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chief of Bureau of Steam Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Invested and supported entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's invention of electric light bulb and his electricity network; majority shareholder and chairman of The New York Times
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman of New York City Transit Authority
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| President of MTA Capital Construction
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman of Yahoo!
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of AECOM
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman, president and CEO of Outboard Marine Corporation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman of Ingersoll Rand
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
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| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of EL AL
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of TPV Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman and CEO of Pfizer; member of National Academy of Engineering
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman and CEO of General Motors
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder and general partner of Matrix Partners
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former chairman, founder and CEO of Burndy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of Religare
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Co-founded Symbol Technologies with POLY graduate Shelley A. Harrison
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Co-founded Duracell
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S., M.S.
| Former chairman, founder and CEO of NetJets; current chairman and founder of Milestone Aviation Group
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder and former CEO of Soros Associates; brother of George Soros
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of KM Group
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| CEO and president of Chemtura
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Vice president at Citibank
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| CEO of BAMnet; founded a DSL company, subsequently sold for approximately $50M
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Vice chairman, president of American Express
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder of RadiSys and IP Fabrics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Vice president of General Instrument; senior advisor at Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder and former CEO of Poqet Computer Corporation; former CEO of Alien Technology and Peregrine Semiconductor; executive vice president of Fairchild Semiconductor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| President, CFO and chief operating officer of KeySpan
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Hotelier and philanthropist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder of RosettaNet; chief executive officer of ICANN
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Co-founder of IBEAM Broadcasting Corporation and Synergy Sports Technology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Co-founder of Haskins and Sells
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Businessman and economist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Hedge fund manager
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Co-founder of The Home Depot
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Owner of Kushner Properties
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| President and CEO of Kushner Properties; owner of The New York Observer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Investment adviser
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Founder of J&R
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Former president of Bechtel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Music Business, B.S.
|Online content creator, former senior campaign advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
|style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Board member of Rohm and Haas
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Real-estate developer; owner of Miami Dolphins
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| SPS 2004, M.S
| Founder and CEO of bedding and interior design company Robin Wilson Home
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|Founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Computer scientists; one of four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Hedge fund manager, owns controlling interest in Barneys New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Private investor in mining, metals, and heavy industry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Former vice chairman and president of Verizon
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| President and co-owner of Minnesota Vikings
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Vice chairman of Memphis Grizzlies
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| President and CEO of PayPal and chairman of Symantec; co-founder and former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health, Inc.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S.
| Chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Esterline; chairman of Dover Corporation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Co-founder of Station Casinos
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| CFO of Xerox
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| CEO of Deloitte
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Partner and former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Chief operating officer and president for ConocoPhillips
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Vice chairman of Citigroup
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Vice chairman of Morgan Stanley
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Vice president of Marvel Entertainment
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Founder, chairman emeritus and former CEO of Southwest Airlines
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| President and CEO of Ammann & Whitney; elected 2014–2015 chairman of American Road and Transportation Builders Association
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Hollywood producer; former chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| CEO and president of Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker; publisher of GQ
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A
| Chairman, CEO and president of AmTrust Financial Services
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Courant
| CEO and founder of App Labs
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|}
Entertainment
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| TSOA
| Beasts of the Southern Wild
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1993*, dropped out after two days
| Magnolia, Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 2004, B.S
| Actor, Parks and Recreation, Master of None, Human Giant, Scrubs; stand-up comedian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| NURSING, current student
| True Jackson, VP, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Film writer and director
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA
|Director, Tangerine, The Florida Project and Anora
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
| Actor, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1998–2001*
| Veronica Mars, Pulse, Heroes, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Gossip Girl
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1994, B.F.A.
| Jawbreaker, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| SSW
| Sex educator and sex therapist; host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on the Oprah Winfrey Network
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2001, B.F.A.
| Journey's End (Broadway), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Gilmore Girls, Sin City, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Tuck Everlasting
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Original Broadway cast of Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1973, B.F.A.
| Beverly Hills Cop, Meet Joe Black, Gigli
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| The Theory of Everything
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1956, M.A.
| Actress and writer; former dean of College of Communication and Graduate School of Polytechnic University of the Philippines; appointed to Philippine government positions
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| President of Wind Dance Films
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1946, M.A.
| First African-American woman to direct on Broadway
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1975, M.A., 1980 PhD.
| Playwright, performance artist and director
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1990, B.F.A.
| Musician, writer, and actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA
|Tony Award-nominated director of Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Both Home Alone films, Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, first two Harry Potter films, Rent
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1967–1969*
| Harold and Maude, M*A*S*H, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Grandma's Boy, The Wedding Singer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1994, M.F.A.
| Sleepers, Big Fish, Watchmen, Public Enemies
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1970, B.F.A.
| Analyze This, Analyze That, City Slickers 1 & 2, When Harry Met Sally
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| High Fidelity, Con Air
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| STEINHARDT, STERN
| Model, social media influencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| The Sopranos, Joey
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Homo Faber, Three Colors: White, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| X2, Superman Returns
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1988, B.F.A.
| House
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Lindsay Ellis
|TSOA, B.A. 2007
|YouTuber, author of Axiom's End
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| TSOA*
| What About Bob?, Law and Order: Criminal Intent
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| SPS*
| Turkish anchorwoman, beauty pageant titleholder, journalist, model, and occasional actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1992, B.F.A.
| [Actor, Hannibal, Law & Order SVU
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL, current student
| Actress, I Am Sam, Charlotte's Web, Coraline, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1988*
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy Central Presents: Mitch Fatel, Super Retardo CD
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1981*
| Curb Your Enthusiasm, Legally Blonde, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Silicon Valley
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.F.A., 2002
| Jacklight, Suck it Up Buttercup
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1987, B.F.A.
| Doc Hollywood, Jackie Brown
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1990–1993*
| Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| WSC 1992
| The Real Housewives of New York City, Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny; creator/owner of Skinnygirl
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2009, B.A.
| Grounded For Life
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Singer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
| One Life to Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Gone Baby Gone, House M.D., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Avenue Q, The Sopranos, Law & Order: SVU
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1983, B.F.A.
| The Insider, Showgirls, Bound
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL*
| Editor, writer, actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2006, B.F.A
| Actor, rapper under the stage name Childish Gambino
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Television and film producer; former president of Producers Guild of America
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, 1959, B.A.
| Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Prime
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| STEINHARDT
| YouTuber, social media personality, songwriter, and educator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Mandalay Pictures
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2002, M.F.A.
| Criminal Minds, (500) Days of Summer, 68 Kill, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1996, M.F.A.
| Six Feet Under, Dexter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1997, M.A.
| Scary Movie
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Actor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1983, M.F.A.
| Above the Rim
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Gallatin, TSOA*
| The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, Ella Enchanted, Rachel Gets Married, Alice in Wonderland
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS*
| Training Day, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, B.F.A.
| Look Who's Talking, Loser, Clueless
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA (E.T.W.) 1992 B.F.A.
| Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights, The Crying Light, I Am a Bird Now (UK Mercury Prize 2005)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.F.A.
| Stage director who presented August Wilson's entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1989, B.F.A.
| Capote, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2002, B.F.A.
| MTV: The State
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2002, B.F.A.
| Spinster, Killing Cinderella, Daria
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Stephanie Hsu
|TSOA 2012, B.F.A.
|Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
|
|-
|
| POLY
| Character actor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| The Village, Lady in the Water, Terminator Salvation, Twilight: Eclipse
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, B.F.A.
| Boycott, Above the Rim, 3000 Miles to Graceland
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Take Me Out, The Little Dog Laughed
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Transamerica, Desperate Housewives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL, current student
| Actor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law, Broken Flowers
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Slums of Beverly Hills
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Singer-songwriter, pianist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, B.F.A.
| 3rd Rock from the Sun
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|One-year exchange program
|Playwright: Wolf Play, Wild Goose Dreams, No More Sad Things
|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Shrek; co-founder of DreamWorks
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Anna Khachiyan
|M.A.
|Co-host of Red Scare podcast
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| TSOA 1996, M.F.A.
|Lost, Hawaii Five-0
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL, current student
| Fashion model
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
| High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1990, M.F.A.
| Six Feet Under, Parenthood, 9-1-1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Voices of Iraq, MTV's Fear
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1984, M.F.A.
| Tony Award
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, B.F.A.
| ER
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Edward Lee
|CAS B.A.
|Celebrity chef
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| TSOA 1982, M.F.A.
| Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| MTV: The State, Reno 911!, Taxi (screenwriter)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Lost, X-Men: The Last Stand, Shanghai Kiss
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1982, B.A.
| Principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1991–??
| Anna and the King
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA B.A.
| The Little Dog Laughed
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
| Actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.F.A
| The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night, Moment of Impact
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
| Actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2015
| Actor, Atypical, Bill & Ted Face the Music, I Saw the TV Glow
|-
|
| M.F.A.
| Theatre founder of nightclub The Saint
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|Radio actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL*
|The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Trash, Her
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Wicked, Rent, Enchanted, Rescue Me, Frozen
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, M.B.A.
| Co-founded Merchant Ivory Productions
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1987, M.F.A.
| Will and Grace, NBC's Smash
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2007, M.F.A.
| Twitch
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
| Glee, The Hunt for Red October, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, 30 Rock
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Fruitvale Station, Cake, Sound of My Voice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1976, A.A.
| Star Trek: Voyager, Orange is the New Black
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Actor, played Usnavi in Broadway musical In the Heights; currently playing titular role in Hamilton
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Naruto, Digimon, Trigun
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1997, B.F.A.
| Crossing Jordan, Mission to Mars
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1995, B.F.A.
|Sliders, The Bachelor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Indian actor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2007, M.F.A
| Musical theatre composer, Mrs. Sharp, Darling, 35MM
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL*
| Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2013
| Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla, In Secret
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|GAL
| Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, New York Minute
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2010, B.F.A.
| The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, AI, Secondhand Lions
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA B.F.A.
| Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman 1984
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Actor and producer; best known for his role as Ari Gold in Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| STEINHARDT 2005, M.A.
| Bessie Awards-winning choreographer and educator
| stule="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Television actor, 30 Rock
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1981, B.F.A.
| Actor, narrator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A.
| seaQuest DSV, Xena: Warrior Princess
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1989*
| Rent, Six Degrees of Separation, Dazed and Confused
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Tower Heist, New York, I Love You, Rush Hour
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL, current student
| Actress
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Las Culturistas, I Love That For You, Fire Island
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, City of Angels, You've Got Mail
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Executive producer and writer of Gossip Girl; executive producer and showrunner for the second season of Smash; creator, executive producer and showrunner of Quantico
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
| Mr. Deeds, Big Daddy, Punchdrunk Love, Funny People, Hotel Transylvania, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Saturday Night Live, GrownUps
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2000, B.F.A.
| The Lonely Island, Saturday Night Live, Hot Rod, Brooklyn 99, Hotel Transylvania, Popstar, Celeste & Jessie Forever, Storks, The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Actress; Screen Actors Guild Awards winner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.S.
| Comedian and gym teacher
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1964, B.A
Steinhardt 1966, M.A.
| The Aviator, Casino, Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Rachel Sennott
|TSOA, 2017
|Bottoms, Shiva Baby, I Love LA
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| CAS, 1991, B.A.
| Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Trigun
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
| Moonstruck; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1997, B.A.
| ABCD, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, The Last Airbender, Lady in the Water
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1944–1945*
| The Odd Couple; winner of 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Oz, Men in Black, Get Shorty
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.S. 1937
| Her, Fool's Errand (opened on Broadway in 1927)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2015
| Friends, Big Daddy, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, narrator and Jughead Jones on Riverdale
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2015
| The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Big Daddy, The Suite Life on Deck
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Director, producer, and screenwriter, Secret Obsession
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| ER, Newsradio, Primary Colors
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Took writing course
|MTV's Most Wanted, Ishq Vishk, One Life to Live, Luv Ka The End
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Home Base, Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World, The Book of Henry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| NYU
| Scream, F.P. Jones on Riverdale
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, Tisch, B.A., 2005
| Taiwanese actor and model
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 2002
| Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
| Grey's Anatomy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 2009, B.F.A.
| Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| The Office
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
| After.Life
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1987
| Quills; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A.
| Saturday Night Live
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Music
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|Arca
| TSOA
| Grammy-nominated musician, record producer, and DJ
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1935
| 1986 MacArthur Fellow, 1982 Pulitzer Prize special citation
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1932
| Composer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Tony Award for City of Angels 1990, On the Twentieth Century 1978
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Partner of Adolph Green, recipient of several Tony Awards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Nigerian music producer; daughter of Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 2019
| Performer, songwriter, producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1953, B.A.
| Founder of Arista Records
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Interpol's first bassist/keyboardist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 2003, Hon. Ph.D.
| Singer/songwriter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Singer, record producer and mixing engineer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt, B.A.
| Jazz trumpeter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Previous student
| Interpol's first drummer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
| Musician, performance artist, designer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1939
| 1967 Tony Award, 1967 Grammy Award for Cabaret
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1948
| Bassoonist and composer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2000, B.A.; NYU 2005, M.A.
| Violinist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Singers and songwriters, known for Grammy Award-winning song "Say Something"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| The Strokes' guitarist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Mercury prize-winning lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|LSS
| Singer and rapper
|
|-
|
| GAL
| Interpol's guitarist/backing vocalist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
| Interpol's guitarist/lead vocalist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Previous student
| Member of rap duo Black Star
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1986, M.A.
| Composer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Tania León
| Steinhardt
| Conductor, composer of "Scourge of Hyacinths"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Pioneer of music recording
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Independent studies, 1970–1971
| 1982 Grammy Award
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A. Philosophy
| Gospel musician and pastor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Former student
| Founding member of experimental band Animal Collective
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.F.A., 2016
| Musician
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Studied under Rudolph Schramm
| Composer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Former student, lived on campus
| Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1979
| 1987 Grammy Award
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
|DJ and producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1991
| Lead singer of bands Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Gallatin; received music degree after transferring from University Of Miami
| Singer and guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1956, B.M.E.
| Influential hard-bop and modal jazz saxophonist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Former student
| Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1942
| Jazz double bassist, known for 1939 Coleman Hawkins recording of Body and Soul
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1961, Ph.D.
| First African American woman appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree
| Singer and songwriter, multiple Grammy Awards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1927
| Composer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Singer, songwriter, producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1991
|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Gallatin
| The Supremes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Austin Wintory
|Steinhardt, B.M., 2005
|Grammy-nominated composer for video games and film
|
|}
Academy Award winners
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| TSOA 2000, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2017, Moonlight; 2019, Green Book
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1953*
| Academy Award 1977, Annie Hall; 1986, Hannah and her Sisters
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1987
| Academy Award 2007, Little Miss Sunshine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1998 B.F.A
| Academy Award 2025, Anora
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1942, B.A.
| Academy Award 1968, Thoroughly Modern Millie
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1987, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2012, The Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Academy Award 1984, Terms of Endearment
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Academy Award 2006, The Moon and the Son
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 1978, B.F.A.
| Academy Award 1996, Fargo; 2008, No Country For Old Men
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1999, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2010, Precious
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS
| Academy Award 1991, Ghost
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Academy Award 2016, Spotlight
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS coursework*
| Academy Award 1982, An Officer and a Gentleman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1981, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2000, Pollock
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL, TSOA
| Academy Award 2012, Les Misérables
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| WSC student under Percy Grainger
| Academy Award 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1985, B.F.A.
| Academy Award 2011, Inception
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1989, B.F.A.
| Academy Award 2005, Capote
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1993, B.F.A.
| Academy Award 2000, Girl, Interrupted
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1980
| Academy Award 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA coursework*
| Academy Award 1960, Elmer Gantry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2005, Brokeback Mountain; 2012, Life of Pi
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2019, BlacKkKlansman
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| Academy Award 2011, God of Love
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS, B.A.
| Academy Award 1995, Pocahontas; 1992, Aladdin; 1991, Beauty and the Beast; 1989, The Little Mermaid
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Academy Award 2016, Son of Saul
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2012, B.F.A.
| Emmy Award 2017 for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Emmy Award 2016 for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1993, M.F.A.
| Emmy Award 2003 for Will and Grace
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1991, B.F.A.
| Emmy Award 2017 for Crime Watch Daily
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, M.S.
| Received two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 2011, B.S.
| Emmy Award 2016 for Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA
| Emmy Award 2016 for Childrens Hospital
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Grammy Award 2015 for "Say Something"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Grammy Award 1966 for her performance of the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1970–1971
| Grammy Award 1982 for "You Should Hear How She Talks About You"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Grammy Award 2007 for producer on Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS*
| Grammy Award 2012 for producer on Adele's 21
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1979, B.A.
| Grammy Award 1987 for "That's What Friends Are For"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1956, B.M.E.
| Grammy Award 2004 for the album Alegria
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL
| Grammy Award 1999 and 2001 with The Supremes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Tony Award winners
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;" class="unsortable"| Tony Awards won
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| TSOA 2009, M.F.A.
| "Best Actress in a Play" for Venus in Fur (2012)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| SPS 1989, M.S.R.E.
| Producer; "Best Musical" for Jersey Boys (2006), "Best Play" for August: Osage County (2008), "Best Play" for Stereophonic (2024)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| "Best Featured Actress in a Play" For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1977)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 1968 M.F.A.
| "Best Actor in a Musical" for The Robber Bridegroom
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Composer, five Tony Awards 1978–1991
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Librettist, 12 Tony Awards 1953–1991
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1955, B.A.
| Lyricist, three Tony Awards: Cabaret (1967), Woman of the Year 1981, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 1988 M.F.A.
| "Best Actress in a Play" for God of Carnage (2009)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2003, B.F.A.
| "Best Featured Actress in a Musical" for The Book of Mormon (2011)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 2005, M.F.A.
| "Best Actor in a Musical" for Once (2011)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA, M.F.A.
|"Best Lighting Design in a Musical" for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1984, M.F.A.
| Playwright, "Best Play" Angels in America (part 1 in 1993, part 2 in 1994)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA 2003, M.F.A.
|"Best Scenic Design in a Musical" for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (2017)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 1997 M.F.A.
| "Best Book" for Avenue Q (2003)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, M.F.A.
| "Best Direction of a Play" for Angels in America (1993), "Best Direction of a Musical" for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk (1996)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA, 1987 M.F.A.
| "Best Featured Actor in a Play" for Side Man (1999)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1991, B.F.A
| "Best Scenic Design in a Play" for The Humans (2016)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1890, M.D.
| Explorer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| WSC 1959, B.A.
| Pediatric neurosurgeon
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1878, A.B.; 1885, A.M.
| President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy, director of Saratoga Springs State Reservation
| style="text-align: center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1848, M.D.
| Surgeon general, pioneer in neurology
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Co-inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Developed practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Invented Vetigel while an undergrad student
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1974–1975, M.S., Ph.D.
| Forensic scientist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1940–1941, research fellow
| Demonstrated that DNA transmits genetic traits
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med
| Discovered the mosquito transmission of yellow fever
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1931, M.D.
| Developer of the oral vaccine for polio; president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med, M.D.
| Founder of Creedmore Institute of Psychobiological Studies
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med 1938, M.D.
| Discoverer of the Salk vaccine (the first polio vaccine)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med, M.D.
| Founder of the American Public Health Association
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Helped design X-ray machines that provided additional years of life to cancer patients
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Politics, law and government
United States representatives
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| B.A., 1955
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1925
| U.S. House of Representatives D-NY 1935–1946
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Poly 1865
|U.S. House of Representatives (1893–1897)
|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1976
| U.S. House of Representatives D-NC 1983–1985
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1908
| U.S. House of Representatives R-NJ 1931–1937
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner 1963, M.P.A.
| U.S. House of Representatives D-MO 1976–1993
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1898
| U.S. House of Representatives D-IA 1921–1921
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.S., 1927, Law LL.B., 1928
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1982
| U.S. House of Representatives (1997–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1938
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.C.S., 1925
| U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1959)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law postgraduate work
| U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. ambassador
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner, 1936*
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1846
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B. 1924
| U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1971)
|
|-
|
| Law LL.B. 1957
| U.S. House of Representatives (1969–1995)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law postgraduate 1948
| U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1973)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1862
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1950
| U.S. House of Representatives (1983–2003)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B., 1892
| U.S. House of Representatives (1918–1935)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, J.D., 1950, LL.M., 1955
| U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1993)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Graduate work
| U.S. House of Representatives (1977–1986)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981
| U.S. House of Representatives (1999–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1926, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B. 1908
| U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1938)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, B.S.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1967)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1926, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1946–1956)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1908, LL.B.,
| U.S. House of Representatives (1916–1934)
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|-
|
| Law 1873, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1911–1915)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Law 1964, LL.B.
|U.S. House of Representatives (1976–1987)
|
|-
|
| Law 1906, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A., 1968
| U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1877, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1900–1907)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|B.A., 1979
|U.S. House of Representatives
|
|-
|
| Law 1955, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives, governor of Connecticut
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1890, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.B. 1907
| U.S. House of Representatives (1920–1927)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1908, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1923–1935)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1917, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1908, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1957, B.S.
| U.S. House of Representatives
|
|-
|
| Law 1916, M.A.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1921–1961)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner 1979, M.P.A.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1973–1993)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|B.M., 1998
|U.S. House of Representatives R-AL (2011–2021)
|
|-
|
| Law 1952, LL.M.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1962–1983)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1974, M.B.A. Wagner 1978, M.P.A
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1846, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1901, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|U.S. House of Representatives
|
|-
|
| coursework*
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1st president of NYU
| U.S. House of Representatives (1817–1819)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1935, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1961)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1927, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A., 1976
| U.S. House of Representatives (1992–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1843, LL.B.
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1909–1910
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1963*
| U.S. House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
United States senators
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Law 1965, J.D.
| U.S. Senate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern M.B.A., 1950, Law J.D., 1953
| U.S. Senate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, LL.B.
| U.S. Senate (1923–1929), governor of New Jersey
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med M.D., 1904
| U.S. Senate (1929–1935), governor of West Virginia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1923, B.A., Law 1926, LL.B.
| U.S. Senate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| one of the founders of NYU
| Governor of New York (1804–1807)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1900, J.D.
| U.S. Senate (1934–1961)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1895, LL.B.
| U.S. Senate (1921–1933)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1887, J.D.
| U.S. Senate (1911–1917)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1957, J.D.
| U.S. Senate (1969–1995)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1929
| U.S. Senate (1963–1981)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1867, LL.B.
| U.S. Senate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1915
| U.S. Senate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
United States governors
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Law, LL.B.
| Governor of New Jersey
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Med M.D., 1904
| Governor of West Virginia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Governor of Connecticut
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Governor of Vermont
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Governor of New Hampshire
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Law 1838–1841
|Governor of New York
|
|}
Ambassadors
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1986
| U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Postgraduate study
| Brazilian politician and legislator; ambassador to the U.S. and UK
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| U.S. ambassador to Israel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands; chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 1981–1987
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| U.S. ambassador to Togo
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| U.S. ambassador to Fiji
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| U.S. ambassador to Moldova
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern B.S., 1972
| U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, U.S. ambassador to Brazil
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| U.S. ambassador to Venezuela
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| U.S. ambassador to Venezuela
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern graduate studies
| Ambassador to the U.S. of the Republic of Ghana; minister of communication
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A., Ph.D.
| U.S. ambassador to Ghana
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| U.S. ambassador to Ghana
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., LL.B.
| U.S. ambassador to the CSCE
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A.
| U.S. ambassador to Burkina Faso
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| U.S. ambassador to NATO
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| U.S. ambassador to Sweden
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Yu Tsune-chi
|Sc.M. and Sc.D.
|Former ambassador of the Republic of China to Italy and Spain
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Judges
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| CAS
| Chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; former justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1984
| Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1993–2001)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A.
| United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Arts & Science, B.A, 1939<br />Law, J.D., 1941
| Associate justice, Vermont Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, LL.B., 1958
| Chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Justice, New York Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M.
| Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1960
| Judge, International Court of Justice (2000–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1979
| Judge, New York State Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1946–1959
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1969; J.S.D., 1971
| Judge, International Court of Justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1952
| Judge, International Court of Justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1943; Law 1949
| Bronx New York Supreme Court judge known for no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom; model for the character Myron Kovitsky in Tom Wolfe's book The Bonfire of the Vanities
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| NYU Master of Laws
| Chief justice of the Wyoming high court; member of Wyoming Supreme Court, 1974–2001
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Law
| Judge who sentenced a reporter from The New York Times to 40 days in jail in the "Dr. X" trial of Mario Jascalevich
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1947
| Judge, United States Court of International Trade
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|}
Attorneys
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1971
| Feminist lawyer, talk show host
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1967
| United States v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; married to George Clooney
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Attorney, Fulbright Scholar
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1977
| Minor role on the evening of the Watergate burglary
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M.
| Court TV host
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Lawyer; founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; inventor of "poison pill"; M&A Master
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| 57th attorney general of New Jersey
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Assistant attorney general in Tax Division of United States Department of Justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Oversaw Madoff recoupment
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law (LL.M.)
| Lawyer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Lawyer and blogger
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Lawyer and blogger
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York 2000–2008
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Entertainment attorney; film, television, and theatre producer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Attorney and politician; 18th and current attorney general of Washington
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
United States cabinet members, foreign government, royalty, and other
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Steinhardt B.A., 2008
|New York state senator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1991
| Princess of Spain
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| U.S. commissioner of education, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D., 1944
| Indian minister of Health and Family Planning under Indira Gandhi
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D., 1987, M.A., 1985
| Prime minister, South Korea
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Physician; CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D.
| Secretary of defence, Taiwan (1990–1993), president of the Control Yuan
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern B.S.
| Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D., 1973
| Foreign minister of Taiwan
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner Ph.D. student, 2010–
| Former First Daughter; child of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| New York state senator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| White House counsel, 1987–89
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1969
| European commissioner for the Environment
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1917
| Under secretary of war and the Army
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D., 1996
| Finance minister of Colombia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.S., 1977
| U.S. commissioner of Internal Revenue
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Former New York City Schools chancellor, head of New York City Department of Education
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| United States secretary of transportation; mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009–2013
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| US special representative for International Negotiations
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Head of Civil Rights Division at United States Department of Justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Executive director of Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Fourth president of Israel; chief scientist of Israel Defense Department
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS
| Commissioner of Connecticut Department of Public Safety
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Israeli politician; served as a member of the Knesset, deputy minister of Internal Affairs, deputy speaker and deputy minister of Health
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Member of Alaska House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Secretary of Science and Technology at Philippine Department of Science and Technology; former chairman of United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner M.A., 1983
| Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| New York state senator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| New York state senator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Commanding officer of a number of aviation units and USS Rainier (AE-5) and USS Tripoli (LPH-10); two-time recipient of the Navy Cross, the Navy's second highest award for valor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Mayor of New York City
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Mayor of New York City
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Sister of US President Barack Obama; professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| President of Israel 2007–2014; served twice as prime minister of Israel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| California state senator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the U.S.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1965, J.D.
| United States secretary of education, U.S. senator from Tennessee
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Ph.D.
| Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives (1998–present)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Mayor of Durham, North Carolina
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1992
| U.S. Senate candidate
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| First Asian-American mayor of San Gabriel, California
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Saudi Arabian politician; minister of Oil (Petroleum) and Mineral Resources 1962–1986; minister in OPEC for 25 years
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| UAE minister of state for youth
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Chief of staff of Iran; brother of former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| 41st mayor of Yonkers, New York
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Wagner MPA
| First deputy commissioner of New York City Police Department
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| New York City Council member
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1967
| Vice president of Egypt; director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1997–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| SIGTARP, special United States Treasury Department inspector general overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program, 2008–2011
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Israeli politician; chairman of the Labor Party; opposition leader in the 19th Knesset
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Princess of Greece and Denmark
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Postgraduate work, NYU Law
| President of Panama (1989–1994)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS
| Secretary of state for transport and defence
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1968
| Mayor of New York City (1994–2001)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| BsC in Global Affairs
| Permanent representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations (2007– )
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Taxation, L.LM, 1955
| U.S. Senate candidate, 1966; Alabama Republican Party chairman; Birmingham lawyer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, J.D., 1990
| U.S. Department of Labor, deputy secretary of labor, 2009–; counselor to the secretary, 1993–2000
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1966
| Minister of finance, Arab Republic of Egypt
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| LAW 1912
| NY state senator (21st District 1934–44, 24th District 1945) and comptroller of the City of New York (1946–1954)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A., 1957
| Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M.
| Police commissioner of New York, under secretary of the Treasury
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1989
| Son of President John F. Kennedy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1908, LL.B.
| Mayor of New York City (1934–1945)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| University of the City of New York 1894, B.S.
| Manhattan borough president (1931–1937)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1976
| President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Hun Manet
|MA
|Prime minister of Cambodia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| IFA
| Princess of Greece
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A. 1967
| Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under George W. Bush
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|M.A., 1969
|Zimbabwean member of parliament and cabinet minister
|
|-
|
| Stern
| Minister of Economy & Finance, Greece
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law LL.M., 1952
| US secretary of Housing and Urban Development
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Ed.D.
| Member of New Jersey General Assembly
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D., 2014
| Member of Maryland House of Delegates
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree 1985
| Queen consort of Buganda, the traditional kingdom in central Uganda
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1929
| U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY B.S.
| 5th secretary of technology of Virginia
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1867, LL.B.
| Secretary of war (1899–1903), secretary of state (1905–1909)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1997, J.D.
| Chairwoman of Federal Communications Commission (2021–)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| NYU Master of Laws
| Permanent secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law M.C.J., 1981
| Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liechtenstein
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Master's degree in public administration
| Louisiana State superintendent of education, 2012–
| style="text-align:center"|
|-
|
| M.A., Nursing Education
| Member of New Jersey General Assembly
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|}
Activists and advocates
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Law J.D., 1968
| Executive director of UNICEF
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law J.D.
| President of Anti-Defamation League
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS B.A., GSAS M.A., 1930
| Civil and women's rights activist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Postgraduate study
| President of National Baptist Convention 1982–1994
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1986, J.D.
| Founder of Institute for Statehood and Democracy of Ukraine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Economics
| Founder of Global Fund for Women
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS M.A
| Co-founder of International Solidarity Movement
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Student
| Social media influencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| D.D.S. (NYU College of Dentistry, 1975), Ph.D.
| Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern M.B.A.
| Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Master's degree in occupational biomechanics, 1981
| Political activist and community organizer fighting for food justice
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications
|Activist, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Leader of the Belarusian community in the U.S.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Religion
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
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|-
|
|
| Rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS Ph.D., 1980
| President, Catholic League
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS
| Pastor, evangelist, and Christian broadcaster; founded Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Evangelism Explosion International, Westminster Academy, and Knox Theological Seminary
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Church leader and community advocate in Florida
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| New York University Department of Religious Studies
| President of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Press, literature, and arts
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
|
| Author of Blood and Guts in High School
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, 1898
| Writer and historian; coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 1949
| Author of War of the Roses and Random Hearts
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1990, B.A.
| Play-by-play broadcaster, New York Rangers and Fox Sports
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1966, M.A.
| Recipient of PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|TSOA 1985 B.F.A.
|CNN reporter and anchor 1985–2009
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1994, B.A.
| Editor in chief of Seventeen
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 2000, M.F.A.
| Author of Arborophilia, Creve Coeur; idiosyncratic bioethicist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, J.D.
| Chairman of Christian Film and Television Commission
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Desiree C. Bailey
|GSAS 2022, M.F.A.
|Poet, winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
|
|-
|
| CAS, 1987 B.A.
| News anchor on CNBC; author
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.F.A
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2006, M.A
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1976, M.F.A
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1993, D.A.
|Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Barbara Bloemink
|M.F.A. Fine and Decorative Arts
|Author, art historian
|
|-
|
| 1961 B.S., Education
| Writer of children's literature and young adult fiction
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A., Journalism
| Financial journalist, author, and commentator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1964, M.A.
| Rubyfruit Jungle
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Earned B.A. at age 62
| Author
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Wrote New York Observer column, the basis for Sex and the City
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 2010, MFA
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Visiting scholar
| Canadian poet
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| Women's liberation activist, co-founder of Redstockings
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1989, M.F.A.
| Television writer and novelist, author of The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Sports journalist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, 1925, B.A.
| Author of Ballad of the Brown Girl, Color, Color
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Former teaching staff
| Urdu poet
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| IFA*
| Painter and sculptor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS*
| Journalist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Journalist
|
|-
|
| CAS
| Author of The Flavors of Southern Italy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Master of Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications
| Information artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1907, LL.B.
| Leader in early 20th-century feminist and civil liberties activism
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Fine Arts 1967
| Artist, known for collage, sculpture, prints
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Faculty 1970–1980
| American Academy of Arts & Letters
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| PhD Political Science 1974
| Educator, gender equality activist, author of seven books including The Myth of Male Power
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Author of Maravich; comedian, The Tonight Show
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Design director for Gucci
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1948, B.A.
| Founder of MAD magazine
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1972, J.D.
| 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS B.A., 1991
| Author of Eat, Pray, Love
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2000, MA
| Editor-in-chief of New York Quarterly
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| coursework*
| Co-host of Hannity and Colmes on Fox News Channel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| WSC 1948
| Author of Catch-22
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A., 2000
| Blogger, columnist and television personality
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Safiya Henderson-Holmes
|B.A.
|Poet, recipient of William Carlos Williams Award
|style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| coursework*
| Creator of 60 Minutes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| M.A.
| Journalist and author
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Director and producer; founder of Zeila Films
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|B.S. 1939, architecture
|Architect
|style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Studied architecture, urban design
| New York Times journalist; documentary film director and producer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| GAL 2003, B.A.
| Filmmaker
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS, M.A.
| Contributor to Financial Times, The New York Times, Details, and Fox Business Network
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GAL 2001, M.A.
| Artist and writer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS*
| Poet
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law
| Contributor to Fox News Channel
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, J.D.
| Author of legal thrillers
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1950, B.A.
| Known for Broadway musical Deathtrap
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| WSC 1974 B.A.; Steinhardt 1979 Ph.D.
| Author of The Plot To Save Socrates
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY
| Author
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Robert Wood Lynn
|GSAS 2023, M.F.A.
|Poet, winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
|
|-
|
| TSOA 1989 Ph.D.
| Arts journalist and reviewer; author of Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Samira Nasr
|M.A. (journalism)
|Editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| Studied writing
| Author of Everything Sad Is Untrue
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Alex Pareene
|
|Editor-in-chief of Gawker
|
|-
|
| GSAS 1930, M.A.
| Co-founder of Partisan Review
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS, M.A.
| Painter and art historian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1960, Ph.D.
| 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Carole Radziwill
|Stern
|Journalist, author, and television personality
|
|-
|
| WSC, B.A.
| Author and screenwriter, Summer of '42, Ode to Billy Joe
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1916, LL.B.
| Objectivist poet
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern 1968, coursework*
| Emmy Award-winning journalist, television producer, host of PBS's Charlie Rose Show, and correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| coursework*
| Author of Catcher in the Rye.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law, J.D.
| Chairman of Shubert Organization (1972–2008)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
| Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Tony Award
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Education 1965, B.S.
| Sound poet, performance and video artist, curator, early childhood educator
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS*
| Author of Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG 1950, B.S.
| Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1957, Ph.D.
| Business historiographer; author of For Want of a Nail
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1963–1967*
| Romance novel author
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG 1996, M.F.A.
| Guggenheim-winning novelist; Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1939, M.A.
| 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1959, M.A.
| Artist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|GSAS 1954, M.A.
|Artist and educator; studied with William Baziotes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| B.A. 1929
| Authority on manners, mores
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|Los Angeles City Council member (1970–2001), president of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1972
| 2008 and 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1995, M.A.
| Author of The Seventh Octave and Said the Shotgun to the Head
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1957–1958
| Author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|Former director and president of Art Institute of Chicago (1980–2004); president and CEO of J. Paul Getty Trust
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Yanyi
|GSAS 2020, M.F.A.
|Poet, winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
|
|-
|Joel Shatzky
|
|Writer and literary professor
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| IFA M.A.
| Art historian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| IFA 1969, M.A., 1979, Ph.D.
| Art historian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Author
|
|}
Pulitizer Prize winners
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| POLY
| 1921 Pulitzer Prize for History
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1935, B.A.
| 1982 Pulitzer Prize, Special Citation, "for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Undergraduate/Film
| 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1972, J.D.
| 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, studied under Abby Whiteside
| 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Stringmusic
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Professor
| 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1953, B.A.
| 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography or Autobiographical Writing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1956, Ph.D.
| 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Woodwind Quintet No. 4
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1960, Ph.D.
| 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, 1865– *
| 1916 Pulitzer Prize for History of the Civil War
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| GSAS 1939, M.A.
| 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern*
| 1943 Pulitzer Prize for A Free Song
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt 1977, M.A.
| 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1966, B.A.
| 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (The World Doesn't End)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1944–1945*
| 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Master's in journalism
| 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (photo of grieving widow Coretta Scott King)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Professor
| 1965 Pulitzer Prize for History (The Greenback Era)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS 1968–1972
| 2008, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA 1987
| 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| fellow, Center for Law and Security
| 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Sports
As of 2013, NYU has been associated with at least 74 men and 10 women who have participated as athletes, coaches, or managers at Olympic Games, for a total of at least 28 Olympic medals.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
|
| Swimmer; competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.A.
| Founder and CEO of Top Rank, one of the most successful professional boxing promotion companies in boxing history
| style="text-align:center;"| <!--Ziegel, Vic. "And in This Corner... Robert Arum." New York Magazine August 28, 1978: 51.-->
|-
|
| GSAS 2001, M.S.
| U.S. Women's Chess Champion 1995, 1996, 1999
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ARTS 1918–1919*
| Major League baseball player, spy, quiz show host
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1977, J.D.
| NHL commissioner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Stern, B.S.
|FIFA Executive Committee member 1996–2013; CONCACAF general secretary 1990–2011; executive vice president of U.S. Soccer Federation
|
|-
|
|
|MLB player, Chicago Cubs 1942–1946
|
|-
|
|
| Professional equestrian; daughter of former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|Steinhardt
| Professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (1944–1956); played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954); three-time All-Star; in 1951, he allowed a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson, known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Olympic shot putter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Champion swimmer; recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor; world record holder in swimming; Olympian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NYU basketball player 1934–1938; Navy basketball coach 1947–1967
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Professional wrestler signed to AEW, performs under ring name "Big Bill"; formerly signed to Impact Wrestling and WWE
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1962
| Olympic fencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NBA basketball scout, former college and professional basketball coach
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Martin Jay Davis
|
|Olympic fencer
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
|
| Won three bronze Olympic medals
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Spencer Freedman
|
|College basketball player for the Harvard Crimson and NYU Violets
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
|1962
| Olympic fencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| coursework*
| Major League baseball player; five-time All-Star; two-time American League MVP; elected to Hall of Fame
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| World record-holding shotputter and Olympic weightlifter
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NBA player, 1971 champion with Los Angeles Lakers
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Gold medal winner, Olympic Winter Games 1960
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Jay Horwitz
|
|New York Mets executive
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
|
| Olympic gold medalist, high jump, 1904
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| National champion fencer and fencing coach
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Pro basketball player and jurist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|1972
| Olympic fencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Olympic fencer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| POLY, B.S.
| Head coach of Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Olympic bronze medalist equestrian
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Olympic soccer player and broadcaster
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, B.S.
| Executive director of Major League Baseball Players Association 1966–1982
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| Olympic decathlete and three-time U.S. champion, NCAA high-jump champion, and All-East football player
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern, B.S.
| Professional wrestler known as Big Cass in WWE and W. Morrissey in Impact Wrestling
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NBA basketball player
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Steinhardt
| Middle-distance runner; competed in 1952 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| TSOA*
| Professional wrestler under the name "AJ Lee"; three-time WWE Divas Champion
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| PhD 1998, M.S.
| IFBB professional bodybuilder
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NBA player, 1961–1966; champion with Boston Celtics, 1968–1969
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS, 1988
| Olympic gold medalist, fencing, 1988, 1992
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NFL player
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NBA player, 3-time FT% leader, 1-time rebound leader, 12-time All-Star, Hall of Fame, and coach
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NFL player
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| International ice dancing competitor
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| 1934
| NFL Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers 1936–1937, model for Heisman Trophy
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| American Basketball League (MVP)
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| All-American, 1928
| NFL Staten Island Stapletons, New York Giants 1929–1947, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1967
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Law 1965, J.D.
| NFL commissioner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
| NFL player
| style="text-align:center;"| <!--Ziegel, Vic. "And in This Corner... Robert Arum." New York Magazine August 28, 1978: 51.-->
|-
|
|
| Two-time All-American basketball guard; left as NYU all-time scorer; pro player
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| CAS
| Competed for U.S. in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 metres; won silver medal
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Stern
| Former sabre fencing champion and Olympic medalist
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Hans Wieselgren
|
|Olympic fencer
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
|
|Olympic fencer
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| GSAS 1941, M.A.
| Olympic gold medalist, 800 m, 1936
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
|
|MLB player for Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, LA Angels 1944–1962; All Star Team 1952; coach of Washington Senators, NY Mets, Boston Red Sox 1962–1985
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| ENG
| Competed for U.S. in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, in the hammer throw; won bronze medal
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}
Other
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;"| Name
! style="width:25%;"| Relation to NYU
! style="width:45%;"| Notability
! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"| Reference
|-
|
| Major benefactor
| Donated Villa LaPietra Campus to NYU
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Major benefactor
| Namesake of NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| President of council
|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| NYU alum, sued NYU
| Author and activist against antisemitism for Zionist causes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Founder of NYU
| Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| Major benefactor
| Namesake of NYU's Kimmel Center for Student Life
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Ruth Madoff
|NYU alum
|Widow of Bernie Madoff
|
|-
|
| NYU alum
| Interior designer
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|Howard Spira
|NYU alum
|Gambler and felon
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| Major benefactor
| Namesake of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
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| Major benefactor
| Namesake of NYU's Stern School of Business
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| Major benefactor
| Namesake of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
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| CAS 1930, B.A.
| Industrial designer
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| NYU alum
| Tuskegee Airman
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Fictional
The following are characters in film, television, literature, and other media that have a connection to the university:
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| Blair Waldorf
| played by Leighton Meester
| in Gossip Girl
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| Dan Humphrey
| played by Penn Badgley
| in Gossip Girl
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| Vanessa Abrams
| played by Jessica Szohr
| in Gossip Girl
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| Georgina Sparks
| played by Michelle Trachtenberg
| in Gossip Girl
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| Ross Geller, professor of paleontology
| played by David Schwimmer
| in the TV show Friends
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| Fritz the Cat
| voiced by Skip Hinnant
| in the film directed by Ralph Bakshi
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| Will Truman
| played by Eric McCormack
| in Will and Grace
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| Grace Adler
| played by Debra Messing
| in Will and Grace
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| Jonathan Byers
| played by Charlie Heaton
| in Stranger Things
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See also
- :Category:New York University alumni
- List of NYU College of Arts and Science people
- List of NYU Stern people
- List of NYU Tandon School of Engineering people
- List of NYU Courant Institute people
- List of NYU GSAS people
- List of NYU Law School people
- List of NYU School of Medicine people
- List of NYU Tisch School of the Arts people
- List of NYU Gallatin people
- List of NYU Steinhardt people
- List of New York University honorary degree recipients
- List of New York University faculty