List of Columbia University people
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Cleanup Note: Individuals who serve(d) on the faculty, but are/were not alumni, should be added solely to the Faculty section. We are in the processes of clarifying such individuals from various sections and trying to determine year of the degree from Columbia.
This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.
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Nobel laureates
Chemistry
| 1932 | Irving Langmuir | (metallurgical engineering degree, 1903; M.A., 1906) |
| 1934 | Harold C. Urey | (faculty member, 1929 to 1945) |
| 1946 | John H. Northrop | (B.S., 1912; M.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1915) |
| 1960 | Willard Libby | (faculty, 1941 to 1944) |
| 1972 | William H. Stein | (Ph.D., 1938) |
| 1981 | Roald Hoffmann | (B.A., 1958) |
| 1985 | Herbert A. Hauptman | (M.A., 1939) |
| 1989 | Sidney Altman | (graduate student, teaching assistant, 1960 to 1962) |
| 2001 | William S. Knowles | (Ph.D., 1942) |
Economic science
| 1971 | Simon S. Kuznets | (B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926) |
| 1972 | Kenneth J. Arrow | (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1951) |
| 1976 | Milton Friedman | (Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1964 to 1965) |
| 1982 | George J. Stigler | (faculty member, 1947 to 1958) |
| 1987 | Robert Solow | (fellowship year, 1949 to 1950) |
| 1992 | Gary S. Becker | (faculty member, 1957 to 1970) |
| 1993 | Robert W. Fogel | (M.A., 1960) |
| 1996 | William S. Vickrey | (M.A., 1937; Ph.D., 1948; faculty member, 1946 to 1996) |
| 1997 | Robert C. Merton | (B.S., 1966) |
| 1999 | Robert Mundell | (faculty member, 1974 to present) |
| 2000 | James Heckman | (faculty member, 1970 to 1974) |
| 2001 | Joseph Stiglitz | (faculty member, 2001 to present) |
Literature
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | (faculty member, 1978 to 1985) |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | (faculty member, 1971 to 1972, 1976 to 1978, 1983) |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | (faculty member, 1979, 1981 to 1983, 1984) |
Peace
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | (Law, 1880 to 1882) |
| 1931 | Nicholas Murray Butler | (B.A., 1882; M.A., 1883; Ph.D., 1884, president of Columbia, 1902 to 1945) |
Physics
| 1923 | Robert A. Millikan | (Ph.D., 1895) |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | (faculty member, 1939 to 1945) |
| 1944 | I.I. Rabi | (Ph.D., 1927; faculty member, 1929 to 1988) |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | (faculty member, 1949 to 1954) |
| 1955 | Polykarp Kusch | (faculty member, 1937 to 1972) |
| 1955 | Willis E. Lamb | (faculty member, 1938 to 1952, 1960 to 1961) |
| 1957 | Tsung Dao Lee | (faculty member, 1953 to present) |
| 1963 | Maria Goeppert Mayer | (faculty member, 1940 to 1946) |
| 1964 | Charles H. Townes | (faculty member, 1948 to 1961) |
| 1965 | Julian S. Schwinger | (B.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1939) |
| 1972 | Leon N. Cooper | (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1954) |
| 1975 | James Rainwater | (M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1939 to 1986) |
| 1975 | Aage Bohr | (faculty member, 1949 to 1950) |
| 1976 | Samuel C.C. Ting | (faculty member, 1964 to 1967) |
| 1978 | Arno A. Penzias | (M.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1962) |
| 1979 | Steven Weinberg | (faculty member, 1957 to 1959) |
| 1980 | Val L. Fitch | (Ph.D., 1954; faculty member, 1953 to 1954) |
| 1981 | Arthur L. Schawlow | (faculty member, 1949 to 1951, 1960) |
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia | (research fellow at Nevis, 1958 to 1960) |
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman | (M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951; faculty member, 1951 to 1989) |
| 1988 | Melvin Schwartz | (B.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958; faculty member, 1958 to 1966, 1991 to present) |
| 1988 | Jack Steinberger | (faculty member, 1950 to 1970, 1985 to 1986, 1988 to 1998) |
| 1989 | Norman F. Ramsey | (B.A., 1935; Ph.D., 1940; faculty member, 1941 to 1947) |
| 1995 | Martin L. Perl | (Ph.D., 1955) |
| 1998 | Horst L. Stormer | (faculty member, 1998 to present) |
Physiology or medicine
| 1933 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | (faculty member, 1904 to 1928) |
| 1946 | Hermann J. Muller | (B.A., 1910; M.A., 1911; Ph.D., 1916; faculty member, 1918 to 1920) |
| 1950 | Edward C. Kendall | (B.S., 1908; M.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1910) |
| 1956 | Dickinson W. Richards | (M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923; faculty member, 1925 to 1973) |
| 1956 | Andre F. Cournand | (faculty member, 1935 to 1988) |
| 1958 | Joshua Lederberg | (B.A., 1944; faculty member, 1990 to 1999) |
| 1964 | Konrad E. Bloch | (Ph.D., 1938; faculty member, 1938 to 1946, 1966) |
| 1967 | George Wald | (M.A., 1928) |
| 1969 | Salvador E. Luria | (faculty member, 1940 to 1942) |
| 1973 | Konrad Lorenz | (Columbia College, 1922 to 1923) |
| 1976 | D. Carleton Gajdusek | (postgraduate training, 1946 to 1947) |
| 1976 | Baruch S. Blumberg | (M.D., 1951) |
| 1978 | Daniel Nathans | (intern and medical resident, 1954 to 1959) |
| 1980 | Baruj Benacerraf | (B.S., 1942) |
| 1982 | Sune Bergström | (research fellowship, 1940 to 1941) |
| 1989 | Harold E. Varmus | (M.D., 1966) |
| 1990 | E. Donnall Thomas | (faculty member, 1955 to 1963) |
| 1998 | Louis J. Ignarro | (B.S., 1962) |
| 2000 | Eric Kandel | (faculty member, 1972 to present) |
| 2004 | Richard Axel | (A.B., 1967; faculty member, 1978 to present) |
| 2004 | Linda Buck | (postdoctoral fellow 1980 to 1984; associate 1984 to 1991) |
Politics, military, and law
- Madeleine Albright - President Clinton's Secretary of State
- Hafizullah Amin - was the second President of Afghanistan
- Marek Belka - Prime Minister of Poland since March 2004
- Harold Brown - Secretary of Defense under the Carter Administration
- Pat Buchanan (Journalism) - Conservative commentator, speechwriter, senior advisor to three U.S. presidents
- Arthur Frank Burns - (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1934) Austrian-born U.S. economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1953-1956), Chairman of the Federal Reserve System (1970-1978), Ambassador to Bonn (1981-1985)
- Benjamin Cardozo - Chief Justice of US Supreme Court
- DeWitt Clinton - Former governor of New York State, former mayor of New York City, main proponent of the Erie Canal
- Colgate Darden - Governor of Virginia, president of UVA
- William Donovan (Wild Bill) - wartime head of the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
- Charles Van Doren (GSAS 1959) - see below
- Gray Davis (Law) - former Governor of California
- Thomas E. Dewey - (Law 1925) Governor of New York (1943-1955)
- William O. Douglas - US Supreme Court justice
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali - (Fulbright Research Scholar, 1954-1955) Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg - (Law) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Dore Gold - (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1984) U.S.-born Israeli diplomat, former Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1999), President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- Jack Greenberg - (B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948) litigator of Brown v. Board of Education, Professor at Columbia Law School
- Alan Greenspan - Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, studied for PhD in economics
- Judd Gregg - Republican Senator fron New Hampshire (2005)
- Alexander Hamilton - Founding father, co-author of The Federalist Papers
- John D. Hawke, Jr - US Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency
- Jim Hightower - progressive activist
- Johan Jřrgen Holst - (B.A. 1960) Norwegian Foreign Minister, The Oslo Accord of 1994 between Israel and the Palestinians
- Charles Evans Hughes - US Supreme Court Justice
- Jacob Javits - Republican Senator from New York (1957-1981)
- John Jay - Founding Father, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, political theorist
- Thomas Kean - Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990)
- Jeane Kirkpatrick - (Ph.D. 1968, political science) US ambassador to UN under Reagan
- Wellington V. Koo - Chinese diplomat
- Mario Laserna Pinzón - (B.A. 1948) Colombian statesman and educator; founder, Universidad de los Andes
- Frank Lautenberg - Democratic Senator from New Jersey (2005)
- John Lindsay - Mayor of New York City (1966-1973)
- Robert Livingston - Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Minister to France, negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
- Seth Low - University president, Mayor of New York City
- John McLaughlin - political commentator
- Li Lu - Law/Business, leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- James Meredith - American civil rights movement figure
- James McGreevey (B.A. 1978) - Governor of New Jersey (2002-2004)
- Gouverneur Morris - Founding father, creator of Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
- Robert Moses - leader of mid-century urban "renewal" who re-shaped NYC for better and worse
- Constance Baker Motley - first black woman federal court judge, NYS Senator, Manhattan Borough president
- Barack Obama - (B.A. 1983) Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005), first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review
- George Pataki (Law 1970) - Governor of New York (1995-present)
- Norman Podhoretz - Distinguished editor of Commentary Magazine, a founder of Neoconservatism
- Stanley Forman Reed - US Supreme Court justice
- Hyman G. Rickover - USN Admiral, father of the US nuclear submarine fleet
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Law) - 32nd President of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt (Law) - 26th President of the United States
- Charles F.C. Ruff - (Law) Washington lawyer, represented Anita Hill (vs. Clarence Thomas) and Bill Clinton (impeachment)
- Mikhail Saakashvili (Law 1994) - President of Georgia (2004-present)
- Thomas Sowell
- Ben Stein (B.A. 1966) - actor, conservative commentator
- George Stephanopoulos - (B.A. 1982) Senior advisor to Bill Clinton, television anchor
- Harlan Fiske Stone - US Supreme Court Justice
- Telford Taylor - chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
- George Tenet - (M.A.) Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1997-2004)
- Daniel D. Tompkins - 6th Vice-President of the U.S.
- Shao-yi Tong - first Prime Minister of Republic of China
Business
- John Jacob Astor III - 19th century real estate baron
- Donald Clifford Brace, CC 1904 - Co-Founder of Harcourt Brace
- Warren Buffett (Economics) - Investor, president of Berkshire Hathaway
- Bennett Cerf - Founder of Random House
- Jason Epstein - Editorial director at Random House
- Mario Gabelli - investor*Larry Grossman - former CEO of PBS and NBC
- Michael Gould - CEO of Bloomingdale's
- Larry Grossman - former CEO of PBS and NBC
- Stephen Friedman - Chairman of Goldman Sachs, National Economic Council director
- Armand Hammer - President, Occidental Petroleum, noted internationalist
- Alfred Harcourt, CC 1904 - Co-Founder of Harcourt Brace
- Herman Hollerith, E.M. 1879, PhD 1890- founder of the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor to IBM
- Werner Kluge - founder of Metromedia
- Alfred A. Knopf, CC 1912 - Founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Publishers
- Robert Kraft - Owner of New England Patriots
- Henry Kravis (MBA 1969) - Investment banker who invented the leveraged buyout
- Rochelle Lazarus - CEO of Ogilvy and Mather
- Randolph Lerner - CEO of MBNA Bank, and owner of Cleveland Browns
- Frank Lorenzo, CC 1961 - corporate raider
- George Macy - founder of Macy's Department Stores
- John R. MacArthur, CC 1978 - president and publisher of Harper's, the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country
- Philip Milstein - CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank
- Robert Moog - inventor of Moog synthesizer
- Eric Ober - Former President of CBS News division, and Food Network
- Ben Rosen - Founder of Compaq
- Samuel Rosen - Chairman of 20th Century Fox
- Robert Rosencrans, CC 1949, formed the USA Network, inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2000.
- David O. Selznick - legendary movie producer
- Max Lincoln Schuster, CC 1919, - Co-Founder of Simon & Schuster
- Robert Shaye - CEO of New Line Cinema
- Richard L. Simon - Co-Founder of Simon & Schuster
- Richard Vault - former president of NBC News division, former senior vice-president of ABC News
- S. Robson Walton - Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart
- Wolfgang Bernhard - former COO of Daimler Chrysler, Chairman of Volkswagen
Arts and literature
- John Ashbery – Poet
- Paul Auster (College 1969) – Postmodern author, The New York Trilogy
- Isaac Asimov (College 1939, Ph.D. 1948) – Science fiction author, I, Robot
- Béla Bartók – Composer, pianist, and early scholar in ethnomusicology
- James Blish – SF author
- Andrew Delbanco – English professor, named Best Cultural Critic by Time Magazine
- Mark Van Doren – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Walter Farley (College 1941) – Author, The Black Stallion
- Peter Eisenmann (MA) – architect
- Walter Farley (College 1941) – Author, The Black Stallion
- Paul Gallico – Author, The Snow Goose, The Poseidon Adventure, The Silent Miaow
- Allen Ginsberg (College 1948) – Beat Generation poet
- Langston Hughes – African-American writer and poet
- Joseph Heller – Author, Catch-22
- Kentaro Kaji – Soi-disant "marshal" of the postmodern monster in conceptualist aesthetics
- Jack Kerouac (College 1940–1942; dropped out) – Founder of the Beat Generation movement; author, On the Road
- Eric Van Lustbader – Author, The Ninja
- Carson McCullers – Author, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Isamu Noguchi – Sculptor
- J.D. Salinger – Author, Catcher in the Rye
- Upton Sinclair – Populist author, The Jungle; presidential candidate
- Robert A. M. Stern – postmodern architect
- Sophie Wilkins - (1915-2003) Editor at Alfred A. Knopf and translator
- Herman Wouk – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, War and Remembrance
- Roger Zelazny – SF author
- Katherine Zien – Jewish-American writer and modern drama scholar
Performing arts
- Emanuel Ax, CC 1970 - pianist, won Avery Fisher prize at age 30, won three Grammy Awards along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma; also awarded the John Jay award by the University
- Kathryn Bigelow - director, Strange Days
- Sorrell Booke, CC 1949- actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the weekly series Dukes of Hazzard
- Sidney Buchman, CC 1923 - screenwriter, won an Academy Award for writing for Here Comes Mister Jordan.
- James Cagney, CC 1922 - Legendary Actor, White Heat and Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Brian Dennehy, CC 1960 - Actor
- Brian DePalma- movie director, Carrie and The Untouchables
- I.A.L. Diamond, CC 1941 - co-winner of an Academy Award for writing for The Apartment
- Art Garfunkel, CC 1965 - Of Simon and Garfunkel
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Actor, Donnie Darko, The Good Girl
- Maggie Gyllenhaal - Actress, Secretary
- Oscar Hammerstein II - Lyricist and librettist of such musicals as the Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music, collaborator with Richard Rodgers
- Lauryn Hill - R&B singer, one-time Fugees frontwoman, (only attended first year)
- Jean Kelly - Actress
- Alicia Keys - singer, composer
- Tony Kushner - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Angels in America
- William Ludwig, CC 1932 - screenwriter, co-winner of an Academy Award in 1955 for Interrupted Melody, founder of the Screen Writers Guild (known now as the Writers Guild of America)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, CC 1917, won an Academy Award for co-writing Citizen Kane; older brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, CC 1928, won four Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for writing. Younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
- Terrence McNally, CC 1960, dramatist, winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy, a Pulitzer Prize, and two Guggenheim Fellowships
- Anna Paquin - Academy Award-winning actress, The Piano and X-Men
- Amanda Peet - Actress, The Whole Nine Yards
- Richard Rodgers - Composer of such musicals as the Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music, collaborator with Oscar Hammerstein
- Telly Savalas - Actor
- George Segal, CC 1955- Actor, Just Shoot Me
- Julia Stiles - Actress, Save the Last Dance
Journalism
- R.W. Apple - Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau chief, The New York Times
- Richard L. Berke - Washington editor New York Times
- Max Frankel - Executive editor New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Joseph Lelyveld - Executive editor NY Times
- Robert Lipsyte, CC 1957 - winner of an Emmy Award in 1990, host of The Eleventh Hour on PBS, correspondent for The New York Times and ABC Nightly News
- Claire Shipman, CC 1986 - Senior National Correspondent for ABC, winner of an Emmy Award for her CNN coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, winner of the 1991 Peabody Award
- Richard Smith - CEO of Newsweek
- Gideon Yago - CC 2001 - rising star of MTV News staff
Science and technology alumni
(also see Nobel Laureates above)
- Roy Chapman Andrews - dinosaur bone hunter
- Oswald Avery, M.D. 1904 - discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information
- Edwin Armstrong, B.S. 1913 - Inventor of radio circuitry such as the regenerative circuit and FM radio, pioneer in feedback amplifiers
- Virginia Apgar, M.D. 1933 - created the Apgar score which is used to evaluate the health of newborn babies
- John Backus, B.A. (mathematics) 1949 - inventor of Fortran programming language
- Charles Drew, M.D. 1940 - inventor of blood plasma preservation system
- Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D. 1967 - Paleontologist and author
- Ben Graham, B.A. 1914 - Father of Modern Security Analysis and value investing, taught Warren Buffett
- Robert Jastrow, B.A, M.A. Ph.D. Astronomer
- Arthur Jensen, Ph.D. 1956 - Educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
- Edward Lawry Norton, M.S. 1925 - Electrical Engineer, discovered the Norton circuit equivalent
- William Barclay Parsons, B.S. 1879 - Civil Engineer
- Michael Pupin, B.S. 1883 - inventor of telephone transmission coils and scientist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography
- Benjamin Spock, M.D. 1929 - Medicine Olympic rower, physician, author
- John Stevens, A.B. 1768 - built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the US
Astronaut alumni
- Kenneth D. Bowersox, M.S. 1979
- Kevin P. Chilton, M.S. 1977
- William G. Gregory, M.S. 1980
- Michael J. Massimino, B.S. 1984
- Story Musgrave, M.D. 1964
- Eugene H. Trinh, B.S. 1972
Academics and history
- Mortimer Adler - founder of the Great Books movement
- Frederick A.P. Barnard - University president, founder of Barnard College
- William Theodore de Bary - Leading Asian studies scholar
- Jacques Barzun - historian
- Walter Block - PhD in Economics
- Konrad Emil Bloch
- Franz Boas - Father of American Anthropology
- Joseph Campbell - noted professor of mythology
- Nicholas Butler - University President, United States presidential candidate in 1920, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- John Dewey - Philosopher, developed theory of instrumentalism
- Richard Epstein - Noted legal scholar
- Eric Foner - DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia
- Milton Friedman - Father of the Chicago School of Economics, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
- Jane Jacobs - urban theorist
- Marshall Kay - noted geologist
- Grayson Kirk - University President
- Paul Lazarsfeld
- Margaret Mead - noted anthropologist
- Robert C. Merton - 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Edward Sapir - linguist and anthropologist
- William Sloane - Founder of the U.S. Olympic Committee
- Lionel Trilling - Literary critic
- David Truman — Political scientist and educator
Sports
- Roone Arledge - pioneer of sports and news broadcasting with ABC, "Monday Night Football", "20/20", etc.
- José Raúl Capablanca - World Chess Champion
- Annie Duke - professional poker player
- Amelia Earhart - (Extension) Aviator
- Lou Gehrig - CC 1921–1923 - Baseball player for the New York Yankees, enshrinee of the baseball hall of fame
- Sandy Koufax - (GS) Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Sid Luckman American football quarterback, enshrinee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Paul Robeson (Law) - American football All-American, attorney, musician, activist
- David Stern - NBA Commissioner
- Marcellus Wiley - American football player, Pro-Bowl defensive end, now with the Dallas Cowboys
Faculty
- Alfred Aho - Computer Science professor, the "A" in the programming language AWK.
- Charles Beard
- Jagdish Bhagwati - Economics professor, author of In Defense of Globalization
- Lee Bollinger - University President/law professor, First Amendment scholar, Affirmative Action advocate
- Alan Brinkley - professor of American history and University Provost; son of legendary newscaster David Brinkley
- Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
- Richard Bulliet - History professor and Middle East scholar, author of Kicked to Death by a Camel
- William Theodore De Bary - Famous scholar and translator of East Asia, particularly the classical Chinese canon
- Charles Frederick Chandler - pioneering chemist, president of the New York Metropolitan Board of Health, inventor of the flush toilet
- John Dewey - Former Philosophy professor
- Theodosius Dobzhansky - researcher in population genetics
- Mark Von Doren
- Dwight Eisenhower - Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, President, Columbia University, 34th President of the United States
- William Maurice Ewing - Earth scientist and pioneer
- Enrico Fermi Manhattan Project member, founder of Fermilab, Nobel laureate
- Milos Forman - film director, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Erich Fromm - noted pyschologist
- Fred W. Friendly - Pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar
- Benjamin Graham - father of value investing, mentor of Warren Buffet
- Bradford Garton- Composer
- Brian Greene - Mathematics and Physics professor, researcher and popular author in String Theory
- Richard Hofstadter - noted historian
- Annette Insdorf - film studies professor, noted film historian.
- Kenneth T. Jackson - Preeminent historian of New York City
- Eric Kandel - neuroscientist, 2000 Nobel laureate
- Kenneth Koch - Poet
- Polykarp Kusch - Nobel laureate
- Tsung Dao Lee - Physics professor, Nobel laureate
- Konrad Lorenz - Psychology professor, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
- Eben Moglen - Law and the Internet Society, General Counsel of FSF
- Thomas Hunt Morgan - proved chromosomes are the carrier of genes, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- Robert Mundell - Economics professor, 1999 Nobel laureate in Economics
- Mira Nair - director of Monsoon Wedding, film studies professor
- Richard Pena - head of the New York Film Festival, film studies professor
- Charles Lane Poor - Astronomer
- Jeffrey Sachs - Former head of the World Bank, Economics professor
- Edward Said (d. 2003) - Former English professor, Palestinian activist, author of Orientalism, widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
- Andrew Sarris - Film Studies professor and famous auteur theorist
- Simon Schama - History Professor
- James Schamus - Film Studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, screenwriter and producer
- Gayatri C. Spivak - English professor
- Joseph E. Stiglitz - Economics professor, 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
- Horst Stormer - Applied Physics professor, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Samuel Ting - Physics professor, Nobel laureate
- Charles H. Townes - one of the inventors of the Maser, 1964 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Charles Van Doren - English professor, involved in deception on TV quiz show "Twenty-One"
- William Vickrey - Economics professor, 1996 Nobel laureate in Economics
- Kenneth Waltz - Political Science professor and noted neorealism scribe
- Chien-Shiung Wu - Physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society
- Chen Ning Yang - Physics professor, Nobel laureate
See also
External links
- Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University (http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/nobel_laureates/by_year.html)
- Columbians Ahead of Their Time (http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/) - list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.