100 Notable alumni of
CUNY Brooklyn College

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CUNY Brooklyn College is 215th in the world, 93rd in North America, and 90th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from CUNY Brooklyn College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. James Franco

    James Franco
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    screenwriterwriterfilm produceractortelevision presenter
    Biography

    James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

  2. Bernie Sanders

    Bernie Sanders
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Studied psychology
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history but has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, coming second in both campaigns. He is often seen as a leader of the U.S. progressive movement.

  3. Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1926-.. (age 98)
    Occupations
    actorwriterlibrettisttheatrical producervoice actor
    Biography

    Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 19 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

  4. Jimmy Smits

    Jimmy Smits
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    television actorfilm actoractorfilm producer
    Biography

    Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s–1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s–2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family (1995), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), and In the Heights (2021). He also appeared as Bail Organa in the Star Wars franchise and as ADA Miguel Prado in Dexter. From 2012 to 2014, he joined the main cast of Sons of Anarchy as Nero Padilla. Smits also portrayed Elijah Strait in the NBC drama series Bluff City Law.

  5. Alan Dershowitz

    Alan Dershowitz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    university teacherscreenwriterlawyer
    Biography

    Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

  6. Don Lemon

    Don Lemon
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    opinion journalist
    Biography

    Don Lemon is an American television journalist best known for being a host on CNN from 2014 until 2023. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News. Lemon is also a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2002 for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C. snipers. He also received three regional Emmy Awards for his special report on real estate in Chicago and a business feature on craigslist.

  7. David Geffen

    David Geffen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    music executivetelevision producertheatrical producertalent agentrecord producer
    Biography

    David Lawrence Geffen is an American filmmaker, record executive, and entrepreneur. He co-created Asylum Records in 1971 with Elliot Roberts, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994.

  8. Al Sharpton

    Al Sharpton
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politiciantelevision presenterradio personalityfilm actorhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts a weekday radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, which is nationally syndicated by Urban One, and he is a political analyst and weekend host for MSNBC, hosting PoliticsNation.

  9. Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1924-2005 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    In 1946 studied sociology
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Throughout her career, she was known for taking "a resolute stand against economic, social, and political injustices," as well as being a strong supporter of black civil rights and women's rights.

  10. Philip Zimbardo

    Philip Zimbardo
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-.. (age 91)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Studied in 1954
    Occupations
    university teacherscreenwriterpsychologistsocial psychologistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.

  11. Dominic Chianese

    Dominic Chianese
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1931-.. (age 93)
    Occupations
    singeractorexecutive produceranimatorproducer
    Biography

    Dominic Chianese is an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Junior Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II (1974), and Leander in Boardwalk Empire (2011–2013).

  12. Barbara Boxer

    Barbara Boxer
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    In 1962 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    writercongressional staffnewspaper editorpoliticianstockbroker
    Biography

    Barbara Sue Boxer is an American politician, lobbyist and former reporter who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.

  13. Stanley Milgram

    Stanley Milgram
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-1984 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    social psychologistuniversity teacherpsychologistsociologist
    Biography

    Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.

  14. Steve Schirripa

    Steve Schirripa
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    actorwritertelevision producer
    Biography

    Steven Ralph Schirripa is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos, Leo Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Detective Anthony Abetemarco on Blue Bloods. Schirripa is host of two Investigation Discovery series: Karma's A B*tch! and Nothing Personal. He is the voice of Roberto in the Open Season film series.

  15. Herb Edelman

    Herb Edelman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-1996 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Herbert Edelman was an American actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. His best-known role was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak (played by Bea Arthur) on The Golden Girls. He also had a recurring role on the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere.

  16. Linda Sarsour

    Linda Sarsour
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    community organizerhuman rights activistwriterpolitical activist
    Biography

    Linda Sarsour is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. She and her Women's March co-chairs were profiled in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" in 2017.

  17. Saul Bass

    Saul Bass
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1920-1996 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    filmmakergraphic artistdesignerphotographergraphic designer
    Biography

    Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

  18. Larry Sanders

    Larry Sanders
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Lawrence Sanders is an American-British academic, social worker, politician, and former Health and Social Care Spokesperson of the Green Party of England and Wales. He is the older brother of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont, and two-time U.S. presidential candidate.

  19. Brian Quinn

    Brian Quinn
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    television actorcomedian
    Biography

    Brian Michael "Q" Quinn is an American podcaster, improvisational comedian, and actor. He is a member of The Tenderloins, a comedy troupe also consisting of Sal Vulcano, James Murray, and formerly Joe Gatto. Along with the other members of The Tenderloins, he stars in the television series Impractical Jokers, which premiered on December 15, 2011, on TruTV.

  20. Sara Shepard

    Sara Shepard
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    novelistchildren's writerwriter
    Biography

    Sara Shepard is an American author. She is known for the bestselling Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game book series, both of which have been turned into television shows on Freeform.

  21. Ocean Vuong

    Ocean Vuong
    Born in
    Vietnam Flag Vietnam
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    poetwriteruniversity teacheressayist
    Biography

    Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize for his poetry. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant the same year.

  22. Necro

    Necro
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    musicianrapperrecord producer
    Biography

    Ron Raphael Braunstein, professionally known by his stage name Necro, is an American rapper and record producer from New York City. He founded his own independent record label Psycho+Logical-Records in November 1999. He is a member of hip hop groups the Circle of Tyrants and Secret Society together with his older brother Ill Bill, and one-half of The Godfathers alongside Kool G Rap.

  23. Alan Vega

    Alan Vega
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1938-2016 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    sculptorpaintermusiciansinger
    Biography

    Alan Bermowitz, known professionally as Alan Vega, was an American vocalist and visual artist, primarily known for his work with the electronic protopunk duo Suicide.

  24. Paul Mazursky

    Paul Mazursky
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1930-2014 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
    Biography

    Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), An Unmarried Woman (1978), Harry and Tonto (1974), and Enemies, A Love Story (1989). He is also known for directing such films as Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Moon over Parador (1988), and Scenes from a Mall (1991).

  25. Sylvia Fine

    Sylvia Fine
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1913-1991 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    songwriteractorcomposerfilm producerlyricist
    Biography

    Sylvia Fine Kaye was an American lyricist, composer, and producer. Many of her compositions and productions were performed by her husband, comedian Danny Kaye. Fine was a Peabody Award-winner and was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Emmys during her career. She won an Emmy award in 1976 for children's special.

  26. Sharon Jones

    Sharon Jones
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-2016 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life, releasing her first record when she was 40 years old. In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want.

  27. Benjamin Brafman

    Benjamin Brafman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Benjamin Brafman is an American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based law firm Brafman & Associates. Brafman is known for representing many high-profile defendants, including celebrities, accused Mafia members, and political figures.

  28. Bruce Morrow

    Bruce Morrow
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1935-.. (age 89)
    Occupations
    disc jockey
    Biography

    Bruce Morrow is an American radio performer, publicly known as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. The name stuck for six decades.

  29. Iris Weinshall

    Iris Weinshall
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Iris Weinshall is the chief operating officer of The New York Public Library, former vice chancellor at the City University of New York and a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation. Weinshall was appointed Chief Operating Officer by the Library in July 2014, and she began her tenure on September 1, 2014. She is the wife of U.S. Senator and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer.

  30. Ira Rennert

    Ira Rennert
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-.. (age 90)
    Occupations
    financier
    Biography

    Ira Leon Rennert is an American billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO of Renco Group.

  31. Charlie Shrem

    Charlie Shrem
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1989-.. (age 35)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    2008-2012 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    Occupations
    entrepreneur
    Biography

    Charles Shrem IV is an American entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate. He co-founded the now-defunct startup company BitInstant, and is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. In 2014 he was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace. He was released from prison in 2016. In 2017, he joined Jaxx and served as its chief operating officer, and founded cryptocurrency advisory CryptoIQ.

  32. Gata Kamsky

    Gata Kamsky
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.

  33. Jumaane Williams

    Jumaane Williams
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Jumaane D. Williams is an American activist and politician who has served as the New York City Public Advocate since 2019. He is a former member of the New York City Council from the 45th district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Marine Park, and Midwood in Brooklyn.

  34. Marvin Kaplan

    Marvin Kaplan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1927-2016 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
    Biography

    Marvin Wilbur Kaplan was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who was best known as Henry Beesmeyer in Alice (1978–1985).

  35. Paul Beatty

    Paul Beatty
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    novelistwriterpoet
    Biography

    Paul Beatty is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker.

  36. Doc Pomus

    Doc Pomus
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1925-1991 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    songwriterwritermusiciansinger
    Biography

    Jerome Solon Felder, known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012).

  37. Mousa Kraish

    Mousa Kraish
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    Mousa Hussein Kraish is an American actor and director, who has appeared in several Hollywood films including Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich. He is best known for his role as the Jinn in American Gods.

  38. Sandy Baron

    Sandy Baron
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1937-2001 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    stage actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actor
    Biography

    Sandy Baron was an American actor and comedian who performed on stage, in films, and on television. He is best known for his recurring role of Jack Klompus on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.

  39. Malachi Throne

    Malachi Throne
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1928-2013 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
    Biography

    Malachi Throne was an American actor best known as Noah Bain on It Takes a Thief. He also had guest-starring roles on multiple television series, including Star Trek and Batman, and appeared in films and theater.

  40. Mike Garson

    Mike Garson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    Michael David Garson is an American pianist, who has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent, Duran Duran, Free Flight, The Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur and The Pretty Reckless.

  41. Donald Kagan

    Donald Kagan
    Born in
    Lithuania Flag Lithuania
    Years
    1932-2021 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    In 1954 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacheracademicclassical philologistnon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War.

  42. Walter Block

    Walter Block
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1941-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    businesspersonphilosophereconomist
    Biography

    Walter Edward Block is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

  43. Stanley Cohen

    Stanley Cohen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1922-2020 (aged 98)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry and zoology
    Occupations
    biochemistphysiologistendocrinologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Stanley Cohen was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor. He died in February 2020 at the age of 97.

  44. Mark Lane

    Mark Lane
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1927-2016 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    writerlawyerconspiracy theoristpoliticianjurist
    Biography

    Mark Lane was an American attorney, New York state legislator, civil rights activist, and Vietnam war-crimes investigator. Sometimes referred to as a gadfly, Lane is best known as a leading researcher, author, and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Lane authored 10 books on the JFK assassination, including Rush to Judgment,, the 1966 number-one bestselling critique of the Warren Commission and Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, published in 2011.

  45. Annie Baker

    Annie Baker
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    playwrightpedagogueteacher
    Biography

    Annie Baker is an American playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: Circle Mirror Transformation, Nocturama, Body Awareness, and The Aliens. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.

  46. Glenn Thrush

    Glenn Thrush
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    political journalistjournalist
    Biography

    Glenn Thrush is an American journalist, pundit, and author. He is a reporter for The New York Times, formerly a White House correspondent. He is also a contributor for MSNBC, and was previously chief political correspondent at Politico and a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine.

  47. Sid Rosenberg

    Sid Rosenberg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    radio personalityjournalist
    Biography

    Sidney Ferris Rosenberg is an American radio personality. He is currently the host of Sid and Friends in the Morning and "Sid Sports Sunday" plus sports reporter on 77 WABC in New York City.

  48. Israel Kirzner

    Israel Kirzner
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    writeruniversity teachereconomistethicistrabbi
    Biography

    Israel Meir Kirzner is a British-born American economist, historian, rabbi, and Talmudist closely identified with the Austrian School.

  49. Bhikkhu Bodhi

    Bhikkhu Bodhi
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    Bhikkhu
    Biography

    Bhikkhu Bodhi, born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka. He teaches in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

  50. Fran Fraschilla

    Fran Fraschilla
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    basketball playerbasketball coachhead coach
    Biography

    Francis John Fraschilla is an American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach.

  51. Elliot Tiber

    Elliot Tiber
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1935-2016 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    painterwriterscreenwriterlibrettist
    Biography

    Elliot Michael Tiber was an artist, professor, and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.

  52. Peter Nero

    Peter Nero
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1934-2023 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Studied in 1956
    Occupations
    pianistmusicianconductor
    Biography

    Peter Nero was an American pianist and pops conductor. He directed the Philly Pops from 1979 to 2013, and earned two Grammy Awards, including the award for Best New Artist in 1962, as well as a total of 8 nominations.

  53. Rachelle Vinberg

    Rachelle Vinberg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1998-.. (age 26)
    Occupations
    skateboarderactor
    Biography

    Rachelle Vinberg is an American skateboarder and actress. She is best known for starring as Camille, a fictionalized version of herself, in the film Skate Kitchen and the TV series Betty inspired by the real group of female skaters she is a part of.

  54. Marty Markowitz

    Marty Markowitz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Martin Markowitz is an American politician who served as the borough president of Brooklyn, New York City. He was first elected in 2001 after serving 23 years as a New York State Senator. His third and final term ended in December 2013.

  55. Robert A. Daly

    Robert A. Daly
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    business executive
    Biography

    Robert Anthony Daly is an American business executive who has led organizations such as CBS Entertainment, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

  56. Novella Nelson

    Novella Nelson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1939-2017 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
    Biography

    Novella Christine Nelson was an American actress and singer. She established her career as a singer, both on the off-Broadway and Broadway stage and in cabaret-style locales.

  57. Joel Zwick

    Joel Zwick
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    film directortheatrical directorfilm producertelevision director
    Biography

    Joel Rudolf Zwick is an American film director, television director, and theater director. He worked on the television series Perfect Strangers, Full House, and Family Matters, and directed the films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Second Sight, and Fat Albert.

  58. Michael Salzhauer

    Michael Salzhauer
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    plastic surgeon
    Biography

    Michael Salzhauer is an American celebrity doctor who practices plastic surgery. He is active on social media as Dr. Miami, has been on reality TV, has recorded a song, and written a children's book. He runs a plastic surgery practice in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.

  59. Sam Levenson

    Sam Levenson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1911-1980 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    journalisttelevision presenterwriterteacher
    Biography

    Samuel Levenson was an American humorist, writer, teacher, television host, and journalist.

  60. Alfred Drake

    Alfred Drake
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1914-1992 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    television actortheatrical directorstage actorsingerplaywright
    Biography

    Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.

  61. Gloria Naylor

    Gloria Naylor
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1950-2016 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    novelistwriter
    Biography

    Gloria Naylor was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988).

  62. Tuli Kupferberg

    Tuli Kupferberg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1923-2010 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    writersongwritersingerpoetmusician
    Biography

    Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, publisher, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs.

  63. Vera Katz

    Vera Katz
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1933-2017 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Vera Katz was an American Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 49th mayor of Portland, Oregon's most populous city. She grew up in New York City, moving to Portland in 1962, and was elected to the Oregon House in 1972. She served as mayor from 1993 to 2005.

  64. Naren Weiss

    Naren Weiss
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    stage actor
    Biography

    Naren Weiss is an actor, playwright, and former model. He played Osama bin Laden in Kamal Haasan's film on terrorism Vishwaroopam, Dekker in the ABC series Deception, and is known for his work in theatre in India and the United States.

  65. Roya Hakakian

    Roya Hakakian
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    film directorhuman rights activistwriterbiographerreporter
    Biography

    Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American Jewish journalist, lecturer, and writer. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No (Crown), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Grove/Atlantic), and A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious (Knopf).

  66. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

    Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    theologianwriterbiographerpoetpainter
    Biography

    Satsvarupa das Goswami is a senior disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the West as the Hare Krishna movement. Serving as a writer, poet, and artist, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is the author of Bhaktivedanta Swami's authorized biography, Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta. After Prabhupada's death, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami was one of the eleven disciples selected to initiate future disciples. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is one of the first few Westerners ordained by Bhaktivedanta Swami in September 1966. He is a Vaishnava writer, poet, and lecturer, who published over a hundred books including poems, memoirs, essays, novels, and studies based on the Vaishnava scriptures.

  67. Jean-Claude La Marre

    Jean-Claude La Marre
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    screenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producerfilm director
    Biography

    Jean-Claude La Marre is a Haitian-American actor, writer, and director. His acting credits include the films Malcolm X and Dead Presidents. On television, he has guest-starred on New York Undercover, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue. He is also the writer and director of the independent films Gang of Roses and Go for Broke.

  68. Jack B. Weinstein

    Jack B. Weinstein
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1921-2021 (aged 100)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    lawyerjuristuniversity teacherjudge
    Biography

    Jack Bertrand Weinstein was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Until his entry into inactive senior status on February 10, 2020, he maintained a full docket of cases.

  69. Walter Yetnikoff

    Walter Yetnikoff
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-2021 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    record producer
    Biography

    Walter Yetnikoff was an American music industry executive who was the president of CBS Records International from 1971 to 1975 and then president and CEO of CBS Records from 1975 to 1990.

  70. Dmitry Chaplin

    Dmitry Chaplin
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    dancerchoreographer
    Biography

    Dmitry Chaplin is a Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor, best known for being a Top 10 finalist on the second season of the dance competition series So You Think You Can Dance. While competing on the series, he became known for performing shirtless, with one solo routine having him rip off his shirt. In 2009, Chaplin was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his choreography.

  71. Izzy Young

    Izzy Young
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1928-2019 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    music journalistwritermanufacturer
    Biography

    Israel Goodman Young, known as Izzy Young, was a noted figure in the world of folk music, both in America and Sweden. He was once the owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, and from 1973 until his death, owned and operated the Folklore Centrum store in Stockholm.

  72. Leonard Lopate

    Leonard Lopate
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 84)
    Occupations
    radio personality
    Biography

    Leonard Lopate is an American radio personality. He is the host of the radio talk show Leonard Lopate at Large, broadcast on WBAI, and the former host of the public radio talk show The Leonard Lopate Show, broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University, and then later on WBAI, before moving to WNYC.

  73. Robert Rosenthal

    Robert Rosenthal
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1917-2007 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    prosecutorlawyer
    Biography

    Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal was an American lawyer and Army officer. A highly decorated B-17 commander of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, Rosenthal was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. Although bomber crews were only required to complete 25 combat missions in a combat tour to earn the right to rotate home, Rosenthal flew a total of 52 missions and was shot down twice. After the war, Rosenthal served as an assistant to the U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.

  74. Robert Katz

    Robert Katz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-2010 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    writerproducernovelistscreenwriterjournalist
    Biography

    Robert Katz was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author.

  75. Young Jean Lee

    Young Jean Lee
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    university teachercreatorplaywrighttheatrical directorwriter
    Biography

    Young Jean Lee is an American playwright, director, and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018 production of Straight White Men at the Hayes Theater, Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.

  76. Stanley Aronowitz

    Stanley Aronowitz
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-2021 (aged 88)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Studied in 1950
    Occupations
    sociologistpoliticiancultural studies scholar
    Biography

    Stanley Aronowitz was an American sociologist, trade union official, and political activist. A professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center, his longtime political activism and cultural criticism was influential in the New Left movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. He was also an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2012, Aronowitz was awarded the Center for Study of Working Class Life's Lifetime Achievement Award at Stony Brook University.

  77. Arturo O'Farrill

    Arturo O'Farrill
    Born in
    Mexico Flag Mexico
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    university teacherjazz musiciancomposerconductorbandleader
    Biography

    Arturo O'Farrill is a jazz musician, the son of Latin jazz musician, arranger and bandleader Chico O'Farrill, and pianist, composer, and director for the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He is best known for his contributions to contemporary Latin jazz (more specifically Afro-Cuban jazz), having received Grammy Awards and nominations, though he has trained in other forms such as free jazz and experimented briefly with hip hop.

  78. Greg Grandin

    Greg Grandin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    historian
    Biography

    Greg Grandin is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University.

  79. Yossi Klein Halevi

    Yossi Klein Halevi
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Jewish studies
    Occupations
    historianwriteropinion journalistactivistjournalist
    Biography

    Yossi Klein Halevi is an American-born Israeli author and journalist.

  80. Edward Taub

    Edward Taub
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1931-.. (age 93)
    Occupations
    neuroscientist
    Biography

    Edward Taub is a behavioral neuroscientist on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is best known for his involvement in the Silver Spring monkeys case, for making discoveries in the area of neuroplasticity, and developing constraint-induced movement therapy; a family of techniques which helps the rehabilitation of people who have developed learned non-use as a result of suffering neurological injuries from a stroke or other cause.

  81. Paul Tripp

    Paul Tripp
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1911-2002 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    stage actorvoice actorscreenwriterfilm actor
    Biography

    Paul Tripp was an American children's musician, author, songwriter, and television and film actor. He collaborated with a fellow composer, George Kleinsinger. Tripp was the creator of the 1945 "Tubby the Tuba", a piece of classical music for children that has become his best-known work. He authored several books, including Rabbi Santa Claus and Diary of a Leaf.

  82. David Weiss Halivni

    David Weiss Halivni
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1927-2022 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    educatortalmudisttheologianrabbi
    Biography

    David Weiss Halivni was a European-born American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish sciences, and Professor of Talmud. He served as Reish Metivta of the Union for Traditional Judaism's rabbinical school.

  83. Naomi Ragen

    Naomi Ragen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    children's writerwriteractivist
    Biography

    Naomi Ragen is an American-Israeli modern-Orthodox Jewish author and playwright. Ragen lives in Jerusalem, and writes in English. A recurring theme in her fictional works is injustice against women in the Haredi Jewish community. Ragen has been the subject of various lawsuits over claims of plagiarism.

  84. Bill Baird

    Bill Baird
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    human rights activist
    Biography

    Bill Baird is a reproductive rights pioneer, called by some media the "father" of the birth control and abortion-rights movement. He was jailed eight times in five states in the 1960s for lecturing on abortion and birth control. Baird is believed to be the first and only non-lawyer in American history with three Supreme Court victories.

  85. Stanley Shapiro

    Stanley Shapiro
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1925-1990 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    film producerwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    Stanley Shapiro was an American screenwriter and producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films.

  86. Steve Malzberg

    Steve Malzberg
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    radio personality
    Biography

    Stephen D. Malzberg is an American television and radio host, syndicated columnist, and political commentator. He hosted The Steve Malzberg Show, a cable news and opinion show on Newsmax TV. He has also hosted The Steve Malzberg Show and various other radio shows on WABC Radio in NYC and on WOR Radio, also in NYC where his show was syndicated on the WOR Radio Network.

  87. Paul Davidson

    Paul Davidson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    economistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Paul Davidson is an American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the post-Keynesian school in economics. He has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, developing countries' debt) from a position critical of mainstream economics.

  88. Frank Harary

    Frank Harary
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1921-2005 (aged 84)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    Studied in 1938-1945
    Occupations
    university teachermathematician
    Biography

    Frank Harary was an American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory. He was widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory. Harary was a master of clear exposition and, together with his many doctoral students, he standardized the terminology of graphs. He broadened the reach of this field to include physics, psychology, sociology, and even anthropology. Gifted with a keen sense of humor, Harary challenged and entertained audiences at all levels of mathematical sophistication. A particular trick he employed was to turn theorems into games—for instance, students would try to add red edges to a graph on six vertices in order to create a red triangle, while another group of students tried to add edges to create a blue triangle (and each edge of the graph had to be either blue or red). Because of the theorem on friends and strangers, one team or the other would have to win.

  89. Aleksandr Lenderman

    Aleksandr Lenderman
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1989-.. (age 35)
    Occupations
    chess player
    Biography

    Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman is an American chess grandmaster. He won the 2005 World Under-16 Championship in Belfort with a score of 9/10 (+8 −0 =2), becoming the first American to win a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championship since Tal Shaked won the World Junior Championship in 1997.

  90. Shosha Goren

    Shosha Goren
    Born in
    Iraq Flag Iraq
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    actorstage actor
    Biography

    Shosha Goren is an Israeli actress and comedian of Iraqi Jewish descent. She immigrated to Israel in 1951. While on a visit to the United States, she abandoned her position as teacher of Hebrew Literature and Language and went on to pursue her acting career at Brooklyn College in New York. However, in 1980, she returned to Israel with her family.

  91. Irving Greenberg

    Irving Greenberg
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-.. (age 91)
    Occupations
    educatorhistorianphilosopherrabbi
    Biography

    Irving Yitzchak Greenberg, also known as Yitz Greenberg, is an American scholar, author and rabbi. He is known as a strong supporter of Israel, and a promoter of greater understanding between Judaism and Christianity.

  92. Bernice Sandler

    Bernice Sandler
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1928-2019 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    women's rights activist
    Biography

    Bernice Resnick Sandler was an American women's rights activist. She is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s. She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards women on campus, coining the phrase "the chilly campus climate".

  93. Tina Satter

    Tina Satter
    Occupations
    film directorplaywrighttheatrical directorscreenwriter
    Biography

    Kristina "Tina" Satter is an American filmmaker, playwright, and director based in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of the theater company Half Straddle, which formed in 2008 and received an Obie Award grant in 2013. Satter won a Guggenheim in 2020. Satter was described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as "a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas." Her work often deals with subjects of gender, sexual identity, adolescence, and sports.

  94. Sante D'Orazio

    Sante D'Orazio
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    fashion photographerphotographer
    Biography

    Sante D'Orazio is an American photographer. D'Orazio exhibited in the Kunsthaus Munich, Kunsthauswien Vienna, the L.A. County Museum, Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam), Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Cameraworks Gallery (Berlin) Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexico City), and NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. His publications include: A Private View, Sante D'Orazio Photographs, Pam: American Icon, Katlick School, Gianni and Donatella, and Barely Private.

  95. Melvin Konner

    Melvin Konner
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    anthropologistpsychiatrist
    Biography

    Melvin Joel Konner is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He also has a PhD from Harvard University (1973) and a MD from Harvard Medical School (1985).

  96. Reed Farrel Coleman

    Reed Farrel Coleman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    novelist
    Biography

    Reed Farrel Coleman is an American writer of crime fiction and a poet.

  97. Lotti Golden

    Lotti Golden
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    singersinger-songwritercomposer
    Biography

    Lotti Golden is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, poet and artist. Golden is best known for her 1969 debut album Motor-Cycle, on Atlantic Records.

  98. Joel Lebowitz

    Joel Lebowitz
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College
    In 1952 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    Occupations
    university teacherphysicistmathematician
    Biography

    Joel Louis Lebowitz is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics.

  99. Tom Kahn

    Tom Kahn
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1938-1992 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    trade unionist
    Biography

    Tom David Kahn was an American social democrat known for his leadership in several organizations. He was an activist and influential strategist in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a senior adviser and leader in the U.S. labor movement.

  100. R. O. Kwon

    R. O. Kwon
    Occupations
    novelistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    R. O. Kwon is a South Korean–born American author. In 2018, she published her nationally bestselling debut novel The Incendiaries with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.