36 Notable alumni of
New York Institute of Technology
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New York Institute of Technology is 1190th in the world, 425th in North America, and 398th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from New York Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Karine Jean-Pierre
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- politicianpress secretarymilitary chief of staff
- Biography
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Karine Jean-Pierre is a French-American political advisor who served as the White House press secretary from May 2022 to January 2025, and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden from October 2024 to January 2025. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the position of White House press secretary. Previously, she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
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JWoww
- Occupations
- reality television participantmodel
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Jennifer Lynn Farley, also known as JWoww, is an American television personality. She first came to prominence as one of the eight main cast members in the MTV reality series Jersey Shore, and is a main cast member of its spin-offs, Snooki & Jwoww and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. She has also made several appearances on other shows, such as TNA Impact!, Disaster Date and Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. Since 2015, she has starred in the web series Snooki & Jwoww: Moms with Attitude, which started on go90 before moving to the MTV YouTube channel in 2018.
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Tai Chih-yuan
- Occupations
- television presenteractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Andy Tai Chih-yuan is a Taiwanese comedian, actor, show host and YouTuber. He is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology.
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Adam Pascal
- Occupations
- film actorstage actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Adam Pascal is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original Broadway and West End productions of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, for playing the Emcee in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, for playing Freddie Trumper in Chess at the New Amsterdam Theatre and Royal Albert Hall, and for playing Huey Calhoun in the Broadway company of Memphis. More recently, he played William Shakespeare in the Tony Award-winning musical Something Rotten!
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Candice Night
- Occupations
- writersongwriterpoetsinger
- Biography
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Candice Night is an American singer and musician. She has been the vocalist/lyricist and multi-instrumentalist for the traditional folk rock project Blackmore's Night since its origins in 1997 with her husband, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. She is also the backing vocalist for Rainbow from 1994 to 1997 and 2015–present, again with Blackmore. Her first solo album, Reflections, was released in 2011.
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Shelley Hack
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorpoliticianmodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Shelley Marie Hack is an American actress, model, producer, and political activist. She is best known as the face of Revlon's Charlie perfume from the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, and for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of Charlie's Angels (1979–80).
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Chris Distefano
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Christopher Paul Anthony Distefano is an American comedian. Primarily a stand-up comedian, Distefano began his career in entertainment on MTV and MTV2's shows Guy Code and Girl Code. Distefano's first hour-long standup special, Chris Distefano: Size 38 Waist, was released in 2019 by Comedy Central. His second special, Speshy Weshy, premiered on Netflix in May 2022. Distefano co-hosts Hey Babe! podcast with Sal Vulcano from Impractical Jokers and hosts his own podcast, Chrissy Chaos.
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David Barnea
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Studied business administration
- Occupations
- warriorspymilitary officer
- Biography
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David "Dadi" Barnea is the current Director of the Mossad, having taken over from Yossi Cohen in June 2021.
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Chris Algieri
- Occupations
- boxerkickboxernutritionist
- Biography
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Christopher Mark Algieri is an American professional boxer and former kickboxer. In boxing he held the WBO junior welterweight title in 2014 and challenged for the WBO welterweight title later that year; in kickboxing he was an undefeated ISKA World welterweight and WKA World super welterweight champion. Outside of boxing, Algieri works as a nutritionist.
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Doctor Mike
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- Occupations
- family physicianYouTuber
- Biography
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Mikhail "Mike" Oskarovich Varshavski, known online as Doctor Mike, is a Russian-born American YouTuber, internet personality, certified family physician, philanthropist, and professional boxer. His Instagram account went viral after he was featured in BuzzFeed and People magazine named him The Sexiest Doctor Alive in 2015. He has a YouTube channel on which he posts medically themed entertainment videos and debunks false medical claims.
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Yi Won
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yi Won is a great-grandson of Gojong of Korea and one of several who claim to be current head of the House of Yi.
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Rahul Dholakia
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Rahul Dholakia is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award-winning film, Parzania, prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers.
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SonicFox
- Occupations
- professional gamer
- Biography
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Dominique McLean, known professionally as SonicFox, is an American professional esports player of several fighting games. They have topped many tournaments, including seven Evolution Championship Series (EVO) events for five different game franchises. They are the highest paid fighting game esports player in the world as of August 4, 2019, with over $719,204.94 in earnings. McLean was named Esports Player of the Year at The Game Awards 2018 and included in Forbes's 2020 "30 Under 30" for Games.
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Sarah Fisher
- Occupations
- racing automobile driver
- Biography
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Sarah Marie Fisher is an American retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League (IRL, now IndyCar Series) and the Indianapolis 500 intermittently from 1999 to 2010. She also raced in the NASCAR West Series in 2004 and 2005. Fisher took part in 81 IndyCar Series events, achieving a career-best finish of second at the 2001 Infiniti Grand Prix of Miami—the highest placing for a woman in the IRL until Danica Patrick's victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300. In 2002, Fisher was the first female driver to win a pole position in a major American open-wheel race and competed in the Indianapolis 500 nine times, more than any other woman.
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Patri Friedman
- Occupations
- software engineerpoker playernonprofit administrator
- Biography
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Patri Friedman is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit that explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.
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Vithaya Pansringarm
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Vithaya Pansringarm is a Thai actor best known for appearing in Only God Forgives. He is also known in Thailand as "Khun Pu".
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Vincent Connare
- Occupations
- photographerdesignerengineer
- Biography
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Vincent Connare is an American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the fonts Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS, as well as the Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji. Besides text typefaces, he finalized and hinted the font Marlett which has been used for scalable User Interface icons in Microsoft Windows since 1995 and created portions of the font Webdings that was first shipped with Internet Explorer.
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Kevin O'Connor
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- In 1992 graduated with Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Kevin C. O'Connor is an American physician and retired U.S. Army colonel serving as the physician to the president.
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John Antioco
- Born in
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United States - Biography
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John Antioco is an American businessman, known for being the former CEO of the now bankrupt Blockbuster Video who missed an opportunity to purchase Netflix before it became a multi-billion dollar streaming platform. He is now chairman of the board of directors at BRIX Holdings LLC and the Managing Partner of JAMCO Interests LLC.
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Averof Neofytou
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics in economics and accounting
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Averof Neofytou is a Cypriot politician, who was the President of the then-ruling Democratic Rally (DISY) party from 2013 to 2023, and currently serves as Member of the House of Representatives since 2006, having previously served in the position from 1996 to 1999. Prior to his election to parliament, which he briefly left to serve as Minister of Communications and Works, he was active in local politics and served as Mayor of his hometown, Polis, from 1992 to 1996.
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Jared Cohn
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Jared Michael Cohn is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He has directed films such as Buddy Hutchins, Atlantic Rim, and Born Bad, among others, and has directed multiple films for The Asylum.
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Allison Baver
- Occupations
- speed skatershort-track speed skater
- Biography
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Allison Baver is an American retired short track speed skater. A member of the U.S. short track speed skating squad beginning in 2002, Baver earned multiple medals in ISU World Cup competition. Baver competed in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m relay events and trained with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005–2006 season, she was ranked third overall in world rankings. In 2010, she won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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Saifullah Paracha
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Biography
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Saifullah Abdullah Paracha is a citizen of Pakistan who was held, without any charge, in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba for over 18 years. He was released on October 29, 2022. As of May 18, 2021, Saifullah Paracha was approved for release by American authorities after his son Uzair Paracha's conviction was overturned in 2018 and the younger Paracha was repatriated to Pakistan in March 2020.
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Don Cooper
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Donald James Cooper is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who spent parts of four seasons with the Minnesota Twins (1981–1982), Toronto Blue Jays (1983) and New York Yankees (1985). He was the pitching coach for the Chicago White Sox from July 22, 2002, until the end of the 2020 season. Under his tutelage, both Mark Buehrle and Philip Humber pitched perfect games (with the former also getting a no-hitter), Lucas Giolito pitched a no-hitter, and the White Sox won the 2005 World Series. On October 12, 2020, Cooper and the White Sox parted ways after 32 seasons with the organization at various levels.
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Vanessa Córdoba
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Vanessa Córdoba Arteaga is a Colombian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Beşiktaş.
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Iman Mutlaq
- Born in
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Saudi Arabia - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Iman Mutlaq is a Jordanian entrepreneur, businesswoman, financier and social activist. She is the founder and President of multinational financial companies; Sigma Investments and INGOT.
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Humayun Chaudhry
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Humayun Javaid Chaudhry is an American physician and medical educator who is president and chief executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) of the United States, a national non-profit organization founded in 1912 that represents the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories and which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). From 2007 to 2009, he served as Commissioner of Health Services for Suffolk County, New York, the state's most populous county outside New York City. In 2016, he was listed by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders.
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Nicholas Estavillo
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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NYPD Chief of Patrol Nicholas Estavillo, (born March 13, 1945) is a former member of the New York Police Department who in 2002 became the first Puerto Rican and the first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol.
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Alphan Eşeli
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Alphan Eseli; born March 7, 1973, is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Eseli's critically acclaimed first feature film The Long Way Home (2013) has won the Fipresci Prize and the Golden Zenith Award at the 37th Montreal World Film Festival as well as the Best New Talent Award at the 7th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.
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Itzhak Fisher
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Itzhak Fisher, is an Israeli businessman who served as the Founder and General Partner of Pereg Ventures.
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Fang Wong
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Fang A. Wong is a retired United States Army warrant officer who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 2011 to 2012.
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Jim Ferry
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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James A. Ferry Jr. is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UMBC Retrievers men's basketball team. He formerly served as interim head coach for the 2020–2021 season at Penn State and the head men's basketball coach at Duquesne, Long Island, Adelphi, and Plymouth State.
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Jake Sasseville
- Biography
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Jake Sasseville is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imiloa Institute.
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John Brooks
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Brooks is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Senate from the 8th district from 2017 to 2023.
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Manix Auriantal
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Manix Auriantal is a Canadian retired professional basketball player and is now actively dedicated to the next generation of Canadian athletes. He is of Haitian descent. He currently runs a basketball programme for Louis-Joseph Papineau high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Auriantal has played for several teams from his hometown since graduating from the New York Institute of Technology in 2004. He has represented Canada in international competition, and played for them at the AfroBasket 2007.
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Alonzo Short
- Enrolled in New York Institute of Technology
- Graduated with master's degree in business management
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Alonzo Earl Short Jr. is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
