32 Notable alumni of
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
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CUNY Bernard M Baruch College is 1219th in the world, 431st in North America, and 404th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from CUNY Bernard M Baruch College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Martin Shkreli
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- entrepreneurYouTuberexecutivehedge fund managertelevision producer
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Martin Shkreli is an American investor and businessman. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge funds Elea Capital, MSMB Capital Management, and MSMB Healthcare, the co-founder and former CEO of pharmaceutical firms Retrophin and Turing Pharmaceuticals, and the former CEO of start-up software company Gödel Systems, which he founded in August 2016.
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Ralph Lauren
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand Ralph Lauren, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He stepped down as CEO of the company in September 2015 but remains executive chairman and chief creative officer. As of May 2025, his net worth is estimated at US$11.9 billion.
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Adam Neumann
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- businesspersonentrepreneurinvestor
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Adam Neumann is an Israeli and American businessman, investor, and billionaire. In 2010, he co-founded WeWork with Miguel McKelvey, where he was CEO from 2010 to 2019. In 2019, he co-founded a family office dubbed 166 2nd Financial Services with his wife, Rebekah Neumann, to manage their personal wealth, investing over a billion dollars in real estate and venture startups.
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Tarkan
- Occupations
- composersinger
- Biography
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Tarkan Tevetoğlu is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter.
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Albert Ellis
- Occupations
- behaviour therapistnon-fiction writercognitive scientistpsychologistsex educator
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Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded, and was the President of, the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
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Jack Barsky
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- writersleeper agent
- Biography
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Jack Philip Barsky is an author, former CIO at a Fortune 500 energy firm and former operative of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War had ended, Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies, and held executive technology roles at major U.S. corporations. He was not charged with any crime and was allowed to remain in the United States. His autobiography, Deep Undercover, was published in 2017, and he frequently speaks on his experiences and as an expert on espionage.
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Abraham Beame
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- politician
- Biography
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Abraham David Beame was an English-born American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who served from 1974 to 1977 as the 105th mayor of New York City. Beame presided over the city during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, when the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy.
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Egemen Bağış
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- politician
- Biography
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Egemen Bağış is a former Turkish politician of, former member of the Turkish parliament, the former minister for EU Affairs and chief negotiator of Turkey in accession talks with the European Union and a former ambassador of Turkey to the Czech Republic.
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William Blum
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- historianwriterjournalist
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William Henry Blum was an American author and journalist and a critic of United States foreign policy.
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Yuh-Line Niou
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- politician
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Yuh-Line Niou is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district. The Lower Manhattan district, which is heavily Democratic and over 40% Asian American, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side. Niou is the first Asian American elected to the State Assembly for the district. She was a candidate for Congress in New York's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in 2022.
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Melissa Mark-Viverito
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- politician
- Biography
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Melissa Mark-Viverito is an American Democratic politician and former speaker of the New York City Council from 2014 to 2017, as well as councilmember for the 8th district from 2006 to 2017, representing Concourse, Concourse Village, East Harlem, Highbridge, Longwood, Mott Haven, Port Morris, and Randall's Island.
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Dennis Levine
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- businessperson
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Dennis B. Levine is a corporate consultant and former investment banker. He was a managing director at the investment banking firm Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s. Levine was one of the first of several high-profile insider trading defendants in the Wall Street insider trading investigations of the mid-1980s. As a result of the investigation by and subsequent proceedings, Levine pleaded guilty.
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Carl Heastie
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- politician
- Biography
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Carl Edward Heastie is an American politician from New York. Heastie has served in the New York State Assembly since January 2001, and was elected Speaker of the New York State Assembly on February 3, 2015.
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Fernando Ferrer
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- politician
- Biography
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Fernando James Ferrer is an American politician who was the borough president of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001. Ferrer was a candidate for mayor of New York City in 1997 and 2001 and was the Democratic Party nominee for mayor in 2005, when he was defeated by Michael Bloomberg. Ferrer served on the New York City Council in the 1980s and has served as chairman and vice chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Vanessa Gibson
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- politician
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Vanessa L. Gibson is an American politician who has served as the Borough President of The Bronx since 2022. She served as a member of the New York City Council, representing the 16th district from 2014 to 2021. A Democrat, she was elected Bronx Borough President in November 2021 to a four-year term beginning January 2022, running on a platform focused on recovery from COVID-19 impact, food insecurity and housing instability. She is the first female and first African American Bronx Borough President.
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Arki Dikania Wisnu
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Arki Dikania Wisnu is an American-born Indonesian professional basketball player for Dewa United Banten of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the Baruch Bearcats.
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Rupert Jee
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- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
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Rupert Jee is an American entrepreneur, former deli owner, and television personality who gained fame from his frequent appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, on which he sometimes used the alter ego Kenny. He first appeared on the Late Show during a "Meet the Neighbors" segment on September 20, 1993, and was a frequent accomplice of host David Letterman during the show's many comedic segments. He appeared on the show over 400 times.
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Oscar N. Onyema
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- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- managing director
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Oscar N. OnyemaListen OON, is the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (formerly known as the Nigerian Stock Exchange), an institution that services the largest economy in Africa and champions the development of Africa’s financial markets. Prior to attaining this position, he was the CEO of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (“NSE”) for 10 years. He has widely been recognized as an agent of change in restoring and growing investors’ confidence and advancing Nigeria’s capital markets towards a path of sustainable growth and development. Onyema is the Chairman of two affiliate companies: Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS), the clearing, settlement, and depository for the Nigerian capital market; and NG Clearing Limited, which is the premier Central Counter Party Clearing House (CCP) in Nigeria. He serves on several other boards and committees domestically and internationally including the Pension Commission of Nigeria (PENCOM), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Africa Advisory Group (LAAG), and Membership Committee of the WFE. He served for over 20 years in United States financial markets and the Nigerian information technology sector.
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Trey Martinez Fischer
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- lawyerpolitician
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Ferdinand Frank Fischer III, better known as Trey Martinez Fischer, is an American politician. He is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, and has represented the 116th district since 2019, having previously held the seat from 2001 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Leighann Lord
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United States - Occupations
- actorcomedianwriter
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Leighann Lord is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She performs stand-up comedy, has appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and is a former co-host of the Star Talk Radio podcast. Lord is a co-host for Center for Inquiry's Point of Inquiry podcast and the host of Skeptical Inquirer Presents. She is a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Barry Schwartz
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- journalistblogger
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and blogger who writes about search engines and search engine marketing, and search engine optimization. Schwartz is the founder and currently the editor of Search Engine Roundtable, an online news site covering the search engines and search engine marketing. He also is the CEO & President of RustyBrick, Inc., a New York–based web development company, and a news editor at Search Engine Land, a search engine news site founded by Danny Sullivan. Previously, Schwartz was a writer for Search Engine Watch. He also moderates online and offline panels at Search Engine Watch, and WebmasterWorld's PubCon.
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Michael J. Freeman
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- inventor
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Michael J. Freeman is an American inventor who works in trend analysis, advanced behavioral systems, programming of smart toys, cable television and robotics. He was a professor at three American universities and a consultant to business and governments.
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Pablo Rey
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- printmakerpainter
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Pablo Gabino Rey Sendón is a Spanish painter artist born in Barcelona in 1968.
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Jacqueline Leo
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- journalist
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Jacqueline McCord Leo is an American magazine editor and media producer. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Reader's Digest. Her prior roles included editorial director of Consumer Reports. She was the founder of Child magazine, which was acquired by The New York Times Company, and became editor-in-chief of Family Circle.
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James Lam
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- writer
- Biography
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James Lam is a corporate director, management consultant, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He is President of James Lam & Associates, a risk management consulting firm he founded in early 2002. Lam currently serves as chair of the risk oversight committee and a member of the audit committee on the board of E*TRADE Financial Corporation. He also serves as an independent director and chair of the audit committee of RiskLens, Inc.
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Jacqueline Hernández
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Jacqueline Hernández is a Hispanic-American multimedia businesswoman specializing in multicultural and youth marketing. Hernandez is the CEO and founder of New Majority Ready, a marketing and content development firm. She is the former CMO of NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprise and COO of Telemundo Enterprises and mun2. She currently serves as the Interim CEO of MediaCo and is on the board of directors of Victoria's Secret and MediaCo Holding. Before that, Hernández worked across multiple brands and platforms, including as publisher of People en Español, Teen People, and in various leadership roles at Time, Fortune, CNN International, and Combate Americas.
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Leo C. Zeferetti
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- politician
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Leo C. Zeferetti was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended public schools in the borough. He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 (attaining the rank of petty officer second class as a yeoman) and was an officer of the New York City Department of Correction from 1957 to 1974. During this period, he enrolled at New York University (1963) and Baruch College (1964-1966) but did not take a degree from either institution.
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Michael McDerman
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- television actorscreenwriterstage actor
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Michael McDerman is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and podcast host.
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Jack Orchulli
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Jack Orchulli is an American former founder and CEO of Michael Kors and former political candidate from Connecticut.
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Maryann Keller
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- 1943-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Maryann Keller was an American automotive industry analyst and author. Keller covered the auto industry as a Wall Street analyst from the 1970s until the 1990s. She was last the principal at Maryann Keller & Associates, an automotive consultancy firm she founded in 2001. She died on June 16, 2022, at the age of 78.
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Verna L. Jones
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- politician
- Biography
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Verna L. Jones-Rodwell is an American politician who represented the 44th legislative district in the Maryland State Senate. Senator Jones-Rodwell was also the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland from 2007 to 2008.
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Shirley Elizabeth Barnes
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- 1938-.. (age 88)
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Shirley Elizabeth Barnes is a former United States diplomat and a career Foreign Service officer. She was appointed United States Ambassador to Madagascar from June 29, 1998, to July 28, 2001.
