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Cornellians are persons affiliated with Cornell University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Cornellians.

40 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or students.

Cornell's faculty for the 2005-06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a World Food Prize winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three National Medal of Science winners, two Wolf Prize winners, five MacArthur award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award winners, 20 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, three Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Isidor Isaac Rabi || B.Chem. 1919, graduate study 1921 || Physics 1944 |- | Sheldon Lee Glashow || B.A. 1954 || Physics 1979 |- | Steven Weinberg || B.A. 1954 || Physics 1979 |- | Douglas D. Osheroff || M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1973 || Physics 1996 |- | John R. Mott || B.S. 1888 || Peace 1946 |- | Pearl S. Buck || M.A. 1925 || Literature 1938 |- | Toni Morrison || M.A. 1955, A.D. White Professor-at-Large || Literature 1993 |- | Robert Fogel || B.A. 1948 History, minor in Economics || Economics 1993 |- | Robert F. Engle || M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 || Economics 2003 |- | Hermann J. Muller || graduate study 1911-12 || Physiology or Medicine 1946 |- | George W. Beadle || Ph.D. 1931 || Physiology or Medicine 1958 |- | Robert W. Holley || Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry, Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry (1948-64) || Physiology or Medicine 1968 |- | Barbara McClintock || B.Sc. 1923 Botany, M.A. 1925 Botany, Ph.D. 1927 Botany, Assistant Professor of Genetics (1927-31), A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1965-74) || Physiology or Medicine 1983 |}

Government

Heads of State

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Jamshid Amuzegar || 1945, Ph.D. 1951 || Prime Minister of Iran (1977-78) |- | Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol || LL.M. 2002, J.S.D. 2005 || Princess of Thailand |- | Lee Teng-hui || Ph.D. 1968 Agricultural Economics || President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1988-2000) |- | Mario García Menocal || B.S. 1888 || President of Cuba (1913–21) |}

U.S. Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Sandy Berger || B.A. 1967 || National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton (1997-2001) |- | Samuel Bodman || B.S. 1961 Chemical Engineering || Deputy Secretary of Commerce (2001-03), Secretary of Energy (2005-) |- | Stephen Hadley || B.A. 1969 || National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush (2005-) |- | C. Everett Koop || M.D. 1941 || Surgeon General (1982-89) |- | Henry Morgenthau, Jr. || did not graduate || Secretary of the Treasury (1934-45) |- | Edmund Muskie || LL.B. 1939 || Governor of Maine (1955-59), Senator from Maine (1959-80), Vice Presidential Candidate (1968), Secretary of State (1980-81) |- | Samuel Pierce || B.A. 1947, J.D. 1949 || Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan (1981-89) |- | Thomas C. Reed || B.S. 1956 Mechanical Engineering || Secretary of the Air Force under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter (1976-77) |- | Janet Reno || B.A. 1960 Chemistry, Professor || Attorney General under Bill Clinton (1993-2001) |- | William P. Rogers || LL.B. 1937 || Attorney General (1957-61), Secretary of State (1969-73), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1973) |- | Paul Wolfowitz || B.A. 1965 Mathematics and Chemistry || Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush (2001-05), President of the World Bank (2005-) |}

U.S. Senators, Governors, Supreme Court

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Joseph B. Foraker || B.A. 1869 || Governor of Ohio (1886-90). Senator, Ohio (1897-1909). One of eight members of Cornell's first graduating class. |- | Douglas H. Ginsburg || B.S. 1970 || U.S. Supreme Court nominee |- | Ruth Bader Ginsburg || B.A. 1954 || U.S. Supreme Court associate justice |- | Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. || 1924 || Representative, Missouri 11th District (1935-40). Senator, Missouri (1951-60). |- | Philip H. Hoff || J.D. 1951 || Governor of Vermont (1963-69). First Democrat to serve in that position since the Civil War. |- | Goodwin Knight || did not graduate || Governor of California (1953-59) |- | Chuck Robb || undergrad 1957-58, transferred || Senator, Virginia (1989-2001) |}

U.S. Congressmen

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | John G. Alexander || J.D. 1916 || Minnesota 3rd District (1939-41) |- | Rob Andrews || J.D. 1982 || New Jersey 1st District (1990-) |- | Andrew Biemiller || B.A. 1926 || Wisconsin (1945-47, 1949-51) |- | Frederick Van Ness Bradley || 1921 || Michigan (1939-47) |- | Abraham Lincoln Brick || undergrad || Indiana (1899-1908) |- | Barber Conable || B.A. 1942 Medieval History, LL.B. 1948 || New York 37th District (1965-73), 35th District (1973-83), 30th District (1983-85); President of the World Bank (1986-91) |- | Maurice Connolly || 1897 || Iowa (1913-15) |- | Thomas Joseph Downey || B.S. 1970 || New York (1975-93) |- | Charles Tappan Dunwell || undergrad 1869-1872, transferred || New York (1903-08) |- | Bob Filner || B.A. 1963 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1973 History of Science || California 50th District (1993-2003), 51st District (2003-) |- | Norman Judd Gould || M.E. 1899 || New York (1915-23) |- | Gilbert Gude || B.S. 1948 || Maryland 8th District (1967-77) |- | Edwin Arthur Hall || || New York (1939-53) |- | Reuben Locke Haskell || L.L.B. 1898 || New York (1915-19) |- | Joseph Clifford Hendrix || studies 1870-73; Trustee || New York (1893-95) |- | Frank Horton || L.L.B. 1947 || New York 36th District (1963-73), 34th District (1973-83), 29th District (1983-93) |- | Charles Samuel Joelson || B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939 || New Jersey (1961-69) |- | Clarence Evans Kilburn || 1916 || New York (1940-65) |- | Mark Kirk || B.A. 1981 History || Illinois 10th District (2001-) |- | Charles Blakeslee Law || law studies || New York (1905-11) |- | Gary Alcide Lee || graduate study 1963 || New York (1979-83) |- | Norman F. Lent || L.L.B. 1957 || New York 5th District (1971-73), 4th District (1973-93) |- | Lewis Henry || 1909 || New York (1922-23) |- | Richard Dean McCarthy || graduate study || New York (1965-71) |- | Thomas Deitz McKeown || studies 1898 || Oklahoma (1917-21, 1923-35) |- | Clement Woodnutt Miller || 1946 Industrial & Labor Relations || California (1959-62) |- | Robert J. Mrazek || B.A. 1967 Government || New York 3rd District (1983-93) |- | James R. Olin || B.E.E. 1943 || Virginia (1983-93) |- | Richard Ottinger || B.A. 1950 || New York (1965-71, 1975-85); Founder and second staff member of the Peace Corps (1961-64); Dean of Pace Law School (1994-99) |- | Edward Worthington Pattison || B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957 || New York (1975-79) |- | James Parker || 1887 || New York (1913-33) |- | John Raymond Pillion || L.L.B. 1927 || New York (1953-65) |- | Alexander Pirnie || 1924, J.D. 1926 || New York 34th District (1959-63), 32nd District (1963-73) |- | Daniel A. Reed || 1898 || New York 43rd District (1919-45, 1953-59), 45th District (1945-53) |- | Henry Schoellkopf Reuss || B.A. 1933 || Wisconsin (1955-83) |- | Howard Winfield Robison || 1937, law 1939 || New York (1958-75) |- | James A. Roe || School of Military Aeronautics 1917 || New York (1945-47) |- | George Shiras III || 1881 || Pennsylvania (1903-05) |- | Henry P. Smith III || law 1936 || New York (1965-75) |- | James Harding Southard || 1874 || Ohio (1895-1907) |- | Sam Steiger || || Arizona (1967-77) |- | Elmer E. Studley || 1894 || New York (1933-35) |- | Frank Sundstrom || 1924 || New Jersey (1943-49) |- | Paul Harold Todd, Jr. || B.S. 1942 || Michigan (1965-67), CEO of Planned Parenthood (1967-70) |- | William Edgar Tuttle, Jr. || undergrad 1887-89 || New Jersey (1911-15) |- | George Ernest Waldo || undergrad 1868-70 || New York (1905-09) |- | John De Witt Warner || 1872 || New York (1891-95) |- | John S. Wold || M.S. 1939 || Wyoming (1969-71) |}

Diplomats

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | William Brownfield || 1974 || U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (2004-) |- | Chan Heng Chee || M.A. 1967 || Singapore's ambassador to the U.S. (1996-) |- | Alan Keyes || class of 1972, transferred || Diplomat, U.S. Presidential candidate (1996, 2000), U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland (1988, 1992) and Illinois (2004) |- | Jerome H. Holland || B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941 || First black member of the New York Stock Exchange, President of Delaware State University (1953-60) and Hampton University (1960-70), U.S. ambassador to Sweden (1970-73), chairman of the American Red Cross (1979-85) |- | Sol Linowitz || J.D. 1938, Trustee (1966-95) || Diplomat, Ambassador, Chairman of Xerox (1960-66), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1998) |- | Hu Shih || B.A. 1914 || China's ambassador to the U.S. (1938-42), philosopher, poet |- | Willard Straight || B.Arch. 1901 || American diplomat, investment banker, publisher, World War I veteran, namesake of Willard Straight Hall |}

Judges and Lawyers

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Floyd Abrams || B.A. 1956 || Co-Counsel, The New York Times "Pentagon Papers" case |- | Mark J. Bennett || J.D. 1979 || First Republican Attorney General of Hawaii in 40 years |- | Leonie Brinkema || J.D. 1976 || U.S. District Court Judge |- | Harry T. Edwards || B.A. 1962 || Chief justice, U.S. Court of Appeals |- | Edith Jones || B.A. 1971 Economics || Justice, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals |- | Philip Perry || J.D. 1990 || General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security |- | Max Rosenn || B.A. 1929 || Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |- | Jan Schlichtmann || J.D. 1977 || Civil action lawyer whose story was made into the film A Civil Action, in which Schlichtmann is played by John Travolta |- | Jack L. Stempler || LL.B. 1948 || Award-winning distinguished civilian service in U.S. Department of Defense as counsel and assistant to secretaries of defense (1948–81); executive of LTV Aerospace Corporation (1982–92) |- | Elbert Tuttle || B.A. 1918, LL.B. 1923 || Chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals; ruled on many fundamental 1954 civil-rights cases |}

Others

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Stephen Friedman || B.A. 1959 || Assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush (2002-04) and director of the National Economic Council (2003-04), former chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group (1990-94). |- | Gabrielle Giffords || M.R.P. 1996 || State senator, Arizona (2003-05) |- | Mark J. Green || B.A. 1967 || Government consumer-affairs activist, New York Public Advocate (1994-2001) |- | Donald Kerr || B.S. 1963 || Assistant Director of the F.B.I., former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory |- | Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai || Ph.D. 1950 || Governor of Bihar, India (1979-85, 1993-98) |- | Stephen D. Krasner || B.A. 1963 || Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, professor of political science at Stanford University |- | Jesse Root Grant || undergrad, dropped out 1877 || Son of U.S. President Ulysses S Grant |- | Edward M. House || undergrad 1877-80, dropped out || Foreign policy advisor for Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt |- | Florence Kelley || B.A. 1882 || Political and social reformer |- | Kyle E. McSlarrow || || Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy |- | Roberto Prats || B.A. 1990 Public Political Analysis and Economics || Senator of Puerto Rico |}

Crime

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Nick Berg || transferred || Businessman beheaded by Islamic militants on May 7, 2004 during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq |- | Leo Frank || B.S. 1906 Engineering || Factory owner whose 1915 lynching for rape and murder sparked the reforming of the Ku Klux Klan; subject of the musical Parade |- | Katrina Leung || B.S. 1976 || Accused spy, case dismissed then later sentenced to terms of plea agreement |- | Michael Ross || B.S. 1981 Agricultural Economics || Convicted serial killer executed in Connecticut on May 13, 2005 |- | Michael Schwerner || B.A. 1961 Sociology || Murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights worker murders |}

Education

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | William Bagley || Ph.D. 1900 Psychology and Education || American educator and editor |- | Henry Bienen || B.S. 1960 || President of Northwestern University (1995-) |- | John Casper Branner || B.S. 1882 || President of Stanford University (1913-15); geologist |- | Daniel Mark Fogel || B.A. 1969 English, M.F.A 1974 Creative Writing, Ph.D. 1976 English || President of the University of Vermont (2002-) |- | Emil Q. Javier || Ph.D. 1969 || President of the University of the Philippines (1993-99) |- | David Starr Jordan || M.S. 1872, honorary LL.D. 1886 || Founding President of Stanford University (1891-1913), President of Indiana University (1885-91), Smithsonian Institution associate |- | Flemmie Kittrell || M.S. 1930, Ph.D. 1936 || Early advocate of preschool education programs |- | Jay O. Light || B.S.E. 1963 || Dean of Harvard Business School (2006-) |- | Michael C. McFarland || B.A. 1969 Physics || President of College of the Holy Cross (2000-) |- | Ernest Fox Nichols || M.S. 1893, Ph.D. 1897 || President of MIT (1921-22) and Dartmouth (1909-16), Professor of physics at Colgate (1892-98), Dartmouth (1898-1903), Columbia (1903-09), and Yale |- | S. Georgia Nugent || Ph.D. 1978 Classics || President of Kenyon College (2003-), the school's first woman president |- | Kathleen Sullivan || B.A. 1976 || Dean of Stanford Law School (1999-2004), Professor at Harvard Law School (1984-93), Professor at Stanford Law School (2004-) |- | M. Carey Thomas || B.A. 1877 || Founder and second President of Bryn Mawr College (1894-1922); suffragist |- | Randi Weingarten || B.S. 1980 Labor Relations || President of the United Federation of Teachers |- | Eric W. Weisstein || B.A. 1990 Physics, minor Astronomy || Encyclopedist, created and maintains MathWorld, ScienceWorld, and other encyclopedias |- | George T. Winston || B.A. 1874 Literature, Professor || President of University of North Carolina (1891-96), the University of Texas (1896-99), and North Carolina State University (1899-1908) |}

Business

Founders

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Willis Carrier || M.E. 1901 || Founder, Carrier Corporation, inventor of air conditioning |- | Adolph Coors || B.A. 1907 || Co-founder, Coors Brewing Company |- | Joseph Coors || B.Chem. 1939, Chem.E. 1940 || Co-founder, Coors Brewing Company |- | David Duffield || B.E.E. 1962, M.B.A. 1964 || Co-founder, PeopleSoft |- | David Edgerton || B.S. || Co-founder, Burger King |- | Frank Gannett || B.A. 1898 || Founder, Gannett; namesake of Gannett Health Center |- | Myra Hart || B.A. 1962, M.B.A. 1981, Trustee (1999-) || One of four founders of Staples, Inc., Professor at Harvard Business School |- | Irwin M. Jacobs || B.E.E. 1956 || Co-founder and Chairman, Qualcomm; UCSD and MIT engineering professor, pioneer of CDMA wireless technology, philanthropist |- | James McLamore || B.S. 1947 || Co-founder, Burger King |- | Drew Nieporent || B.S. 1977 || Owner, Myriad Restaurant Group, which operates 16 restaurants in six U.S. cities |- | Franklin W. Olin || B.C.E. 1886 || Founder, Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Hall |- | John M. Olin || B.S. 1913 || Founder, John M. Olin Foundation, President, Olin Corporation; namesake of Olin Library |- | Rob Ryan || B.A. 1969 || Founder, Ascend Communications, sold for $23 billion to Lucent Technologies |- | Jay Walker || B.S. 1977 Industrial Relations || Founder, Priceline.com; founder and chairman, Walker Digital |- | Sanford I. Weill || B.A. 1955 Government || Former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup; founded Shearson Loeb Rhoades, sold for $930 million to American Express; namesake of Weill Cornell Medical College |- | Robin Wolaner || B.S. 1975 Industrial and Labor Relations || Founder, Parenting Magazine |}

Chairpersons, CEO's, Executives

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Jeff Bleustein || B.S. 1960, B.M.E. 1961 || CEO (1997-2005) and Chairman of Harley-Davidson |- | Val A. Browning || B.S. 1917 Engineering || President of Browning Arms Company |- | Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. || || President of DuPont (1909-74) |- | Abby Joseph Cohen || B.S. Economics || Managing Director of Goldman Sachs |- | Pete Coors || B.S. 1969 Industrial Engineering || Executive of Coors Brewing Company, Senatorial candidate (2004) |- | Alonzo Galloway Decker, Jr. || B.E.E. 1929 || CEO of Black & Decker (1964-75), made the company into a household name |- | Kenneth T. Derr || B.S. 1959 || Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation (1989-99) |- | Jonathan Dolgen || B.S. 1966 || Former chairman and CEO of the Viacom Entertainment Group (1994-2004) |- | Dave Dombrowski || transferred || President, CEO, and General Manager of the Detroit Tigers |- | Reggie Fils-Aime || B.S. 1983 || President of Nintendo's North American division |- | Edward A. Fox || M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983 || First employee and president of Sallie Mae |- | Richard Gomel || B.S. 1992 || CEO of Louvre Hotels |- | Charles L. Jarvie || B.S. 1958 || President of Dr Pepper (1980-83), President of Fidelity Investments Marketing Corp. (1983-84) |- | George Joblove || B.S. 1976, M.S. 1979 || Senior Vice President of Technology at Sony Pictures Imageworks; Founder and manager of the computer graphics department at Industrial Light and Magic |- | Herbert F. Johnson || B.A. 1922 || Executive of S. C. Johnson & Son and the Johnson family businesses |- | Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. || B.A. 1950 || Executive of S. C. Johnson & Son and the Johnson family businesses |- | Thomas W. Jones || B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, Trustee || Principal of TWJ Capital LLC |- | Douglas Kay || B.S. 1976, M.S. 1979 || Chairman of Mondo Media, winner of a technical achievement Academy Award for digital compositing technology at Industrial Light and Magic |- | Charles Lee || B.S. 1962 || CEO of Verizon (1991-2002) |- | Oscar Gustave Mayer || B.A. 1934 || CEO of Oscar Mayer (1955-66) and was responsible for Oscar Mayer's rapid growth from a $200 million operation to a billion dollar operation. |- | Stephen McPherson || B.A. 1986 || President of ABC Primetime Entertainment |- | James C. Morgan || B.M.E. 1960, M.B.A. 1963 || Chairman of Applied Materials, the world's largest producer of semiconductor microchip equipment; National Medal of Technology recipient (1996) |- | Perry Odak || B.S. 1968 || CEO of Ben and Jerry's (1997-2000), President and CEO of Wild Oats Markets, which earned top-retailer honors among Business Ethics magazine's Top 100 Corporate Citizens |- | Spencer T. Olin || B.S. 1921 || Vice President of Olin Industries; Finance Chairman Republican National Committee; philanthropist; namesake of Olin Laboratory and the Olin Lecture |- | Frederick D. Patterson || Ph.D. 1933 || Founder of the United Negro College Fund; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1987); educator, philanthropist |- | William Perez || B.A. 1969 || CEO of Nike (2004-06) |- | Lewis Platt || B.S. 1964 Mechanical Engineering || CEO of Hewlett-Packard (1992-99), Chairman of Boeing (2003-05) |- | Bruce S. Raynor || B.S. 1972 || President of UNITE HERE |- | Irene B. Rosenfeld || B.A. 1975, M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 || CEO of Kraft Foods |- | Nancy Schlichting || M.B.A. 1979 || CEO of the four-hospital Henry Ford Health System in Detroit |- | Steven Sinofsky || B.A. 1987 || Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering at Microsoft |- | Charles E. Sporck || B.S. 1951 || CEO of National Semiconductor (1967-91) |- | Warren Staley || M.B.A. 1967 || Chairman and CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company; member of President's Export Council under George W. Bush |- | Terry C. Stewart || M.B.A. 1972, J.D. 1974 || President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |- | Kyung-Bae Suh || M.B.A. 1987 || President and CEO of Seoul-based Amore Pacific, among the world's top-30 cosmetics manufacturers |- | Ratan Tata || B.Arch. 1962 Architecture and Structural Engineering || Chairman of Tata Group, India's wealthiest business group (1991-) |- | Walter Teagle || B.S. 1900 || President and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) |- | Myron Charles Taylor || LL.B. 1894 || Chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel (1932-38), namesake of Myron C. Taylor Hall |- | Robert Toll || B.A. 1963 || CEO of Toll Brothers, one of Barron's Top 30 CEOs worldwide |}

Medicine

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Robert Atkins || M.D. 1955 || Creator of the Atkins Diet and an author on health and nutrition |- | Emily Dunning Barringer || B.S. 1897 || First female ambulance surgeon in the U.S. |- | Jane Brody || B.S. 1962 || Author and journalist on health and nutrition |- | Joyce Brothers || B.S. 1947 || Author, psychologist, and television personality |- | Rhonda Cornum || B.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1980 || U.S. Army pilot, flight surgeon, medical researcher, and commander of combat hospitals |- | Adrienne Denese || M.D. || Anti-aging expert and author of Dr. Denese's Secrets for Ageless Skin |- | Dean Edell || B.A. 1963 Zoology, M.D. 1967 || Physician and media personality |- | Anthony S. Fauci || M.D. 1966 || Director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |- | Wilson Greatbatch || B.E.E. 1950 || Inventor of the world's first successful artificial pacemaker |- | Henry Heimlich || B.A. 1941, M.D. 1943 || Inventor of the Heimlich maneuver |- | Helen Irlen || B.S. 1967 || Developer of a color-filtered treatment for a form of dyslexia known as scotopic sensitivity syndrome or Irlen Syndrome |- | Philip Levine || M.D. 1923 || Immunohematologist; discovered the Rh factor in blood in 1939. |- | Robert Millman || undergrad, Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, Medical College || Drug abuse expert, former Medical Director for Major League Baseball |- | Alvin F. Poussaint || M.D. 1960 || Child-rearing expert |- | Daniel Elmer Salmon || D.V.M. 1872 || Namesake of salmonella |- | Benjamin Spock || medical residency, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College (1933-47) || Author of Baby and Child Care, one of the best selling books of all time |}

Social sciences

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Edward Bernays || B.S. Agriculture || Public relations practitioner, author of Propaganda |- | Ken Blanchard || B.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1967 || Management consultant, co-author of The One Minute Manager |- | Abby Joseph Cohen || B.A. 1973 Economics || Eminent Wall Street stock strategist |- | Francis Fukuyama || B.A. 1974 Classics || Political economist, philosopher |- | Claudia Goldin || B.A. 1967 || Noted economist |- | Frank H. Knight || Ph.D. 1916 || Influential scholar-economist, one of the original leaders of the "Chicago School" of economic theory |- | William McNeill || Ph.D. 1947 || Historian, author of The Rise of the West |- | Thomas Nagel || B.A. 1958 || Philosopher, author of What is it like to be a bat? |- | John Naisbitt || || Best-selling writer in the area of futures studies |- | Tom Peters || B.C.E. 1965, M.C.E. 1966 || Business management motivational guru |- | Stephen Skowronek || Ph.D. 1979 || Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at Yale |- | Julian Steward || B.A. 1925 Zoology and Biology || Anthropologist best known for his development of a scientific theory of cultural evolution |- | William Irwin Thompson || Ph.D. 1966, Professor || Cultural historian, social critic, poet, philosopher of science |- | Thorstein Veblen || graduate study, 1892 Economics || Economist, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class |- | James Weinstein || B.A. 1949 Government || Author and publisher of In These Times |}

Science and technology

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Robert C. Baker || B.S. 1943, Professor || Inventor of the chicken nugget |- | Malcolm Beasley || B.E.P. 1962, Ph.D. 1968 || Physicist |- | Edwin G. Boring || 1908, Ph.D. 1915 Psychology, Instructor of Psychology (1913-18) || Historian of psychology |- | Urie Bronfenbrenner || B.A. 1938 Psychology and Music; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Psychology || Psychologist, pioneer in developmental psychology (Ecological Systems Theory), founder of field Human Ecology, co-founder of national Head Start program |- | Willis Haviland Carrier || M.E. 1901 || Inventor of modern air conditioning technology, founder of the Carrier Corporation |- | John Henry Comstock || B.S. 1874, Professor || Pioneer in entomology research and education |- | Robert L. Cook || M.S. 1981 Computer Graphics || Academy Award for creation of RenderMan rendering software |- | Harry W. Coover Jr. || M.S. 1943, Ph.D. 1944 || Prolific product inventor, notably cyanoacrylate adhesives (Super Glue); member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame |- | Milislav Demerec || Ph.D. 1923 || Geneticist and long serving director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |- | Keith Downey || Ph.D. 1961 || Inventor of canola oil |- | Frank Drake || B.S. 1952, Professor || SETI researcher, known for the Drake equation |- | Arthur Rose Eldred || B.S. 1916 Agriculture || America's first Eagle Scout (1912), agriculturalist |- | William F. Friedman || B.S. 1914 Genetics || Considered by many to be one of the greatest cryptologists of all time, |- | Louis Agassiz Fuertes || B.A 1897, Professor || Ornithologist and illustrator |- | Paul Graham || B.A. || Co-founder of Viaweb, noted author and evangelist of Lisp, creator of Bayesian spam filters. |- | Andrew C. Greenberg || B.S. 1979 || Co-creator of the massively successful early computer game Wizardry |- | Leroy Grumman || M.E. 1916 || Founder of Grumman Aerospace Corporation |- | Jeff Hawkins || B.S. 1979 Electrical Engineering || Inventor of the Palm Pilot and founder of Palm, Inc. and Handspring |- | Morton Heilig || 1943 || Early virtual reality pioneer, inventor |- | William Higinbotham || graduate study || Inventor of Tennis for Two (1958), one of the earliest video games |- | Jon Kleinberg || B.S. 1993, Professor of Computer Science || MacArthur Fellow, Researcher of combinatorial network structure |- | Robert S. Langer || B.S. 1970 Chemical Engineering || Leading figure in biochemical engineering, youngest person ever to be admitted to all three science Academies, and the most prolific living inventor |- | Marc Levoy || B.Arch. 1976, M.S. 1978 Architecture || Stanford University associate professor of computer science and of electrical engineering; helped develop technology and algorithms for digitizing 3D objects that led to the Digital Michelangelo Project |- | James Maas || M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Psychology || Psychologist, coined the term "power nap" |- | Stephen Marschner || Ph.D. 1998 || Cornell assistant professor of computer science; co-winner of a 2004 technical achievement Academy Award for developing a commercial animation method for digitally simulating subsurface light scattering in translucent materials |- | Abraham Maslow || transferred || Psychologist best known for his Hierarchy of Human Needs |- | Walter McCrone || B.S. 1938 Chemistry, Ph.D. 1942 Organic Chemistry || Leading expert in microscopy, best known for work on the Shroud of Turin and the Vinland map. |- | Douglas McIlroy || B.E.P. 1954 || Inventor of the pipes and filters architecture of UNIX and the entire software componentry concept |- | Thomas Midgley, Jr. || M.E. 1911 || Inventor of Freon and tetra-ethyl lead |- | Veranus Alva Moore || B.S. 1887 || Bacteriologist and pathologist |- | Robert Tappan Morris || graduate study, Computer Science, suspended || Author of the Morris Worm, which crippled the Internet in 1988 |- | Roger Morse || B.S. 1950, M.S. 1953, Ph.D. 1955, Professor || Apiculture author, teacher, researcher |- | Edward Leamington Nichols || B.S. 1875, Professor || Founder of the Physical Review |- | John Niederhauser || Ph.D. 1943 Plant Pathology, Professor (1943-1947) || Winner of the World Food Prize, "Mr Potato" |- | Bill Nye || B.S. 1977 Mechanical Engineering, M.Eng. 1977, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor (2001-06) || The Science Guy; science education advocate |- | Jean W. Pape || M.D. 1975, Professor || Pioneering infectious disease expert |- | Justin Rattner || B.S. 1970 Electrical Engineering, M.S. 1972 Computer Science || Chief Technology Officer of Intel, ABC News Person of the Week for his work on the ASCI Red system (fastest computer in the world, 1996-2000), R & D Magazine's "Scientist of the Year" (1989) |- | Vera Rubin || M.A. 1951 || Astronomer known for contributions to the study of dark matter |- | Jon Rubinstein || B.S. 1978 Electrical Engineering, M.Eng 1979 Electrical Engineering || Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Computer |- | Al Seckel || || Creator of the Darwin Fish |- | Steven Squyres || B.A. 1978 Geology, Ph.D. 1982 Planetary Science, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy || Astronomer, principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity; former student of Carl Sagan |- | Ted Taylor || Ph.D. 1956 || Director of Project Orion and designer of many small nuclear weapons |- | Jill Tarter || B.S. 1965 || Astronomer, Director of Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute |- | Benjamin Widom || Ph.D. 1953, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry (1954-) || Physical chemist |- | Norbert Wiener || graduate study, Philosophy (1910-1911), transferred || Mathematician, founder of the study of cybernetics |- | Jerry M. Woodall || Ph.D. Electrical Engineering || Inventor of the red LED |- | Robert Woodhead || || Co-creator of the massively successful early computer game Wizardry and co-founder of AnimEigo |}

NASA astronauts

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Ellen S. Baker || M.D. 1978 || Lead Astronaut for Medical Issues, Johnson Space Center |- | Daniel T. Barry || B.S.E.E. 1975 || Astronaut, contestant on CBS reality program Survivor: Exile Island |- | Jay C. Buckey, Jr. || B.S.E.E. 1977, M.D. 1981 || Astronaut |- | Martin J. Fettman || B.S. 1976 Animal Nutrition, M.S. 1970 Nutrition, D.V.M 1970, Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecturer (1994) || Payload specialist |- | Mae Jemison || M.D. 1981 || First African-American woman to travel in space; member of National Women's Hall of Fame; chemical engineer, physician, teacher |- | G. David Low || B.S.M.E. 1980 || Astronaut |- | Edward T. Lu || B.S.E.E. 1984 || Astronaut and physicist |- | Donald A. Thomas || M.S. 1980 Materials Science, Ph.D. 1982 Materials Science || Astronaut |}

Literature

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Diane Ackerman || M.F.A. 1973 Poetry, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978 || Author, poet, and naturalist |- | Gerald Taiaiake Alfred || M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994 || Scholar, author, and advisor to indigenous nations |- | Eric Alterman || B.A. 1982 History and Government || Liberal author and columnist |- | Harold Bloom || B.A. 1952 || Literary and cultural scholar-critic |- | Susan Brownmiller || B.A. 1956 || Feminist author and activist |- | Murray Burnett || B.A. 1931 || Author of the play Everybody Comes to Rick's, which was turned into the film Casablanca |- | George Cockcroft || B.A. 1954 || Author, The Dice Man, uses the pen name Luke Rhinehart |- | Junot Díaz || M.F.A. 1995 || Critically acclaimed short-story writer |- | Alice Dunbar-Nelson || || Poet, journalist, political activist, Harlem Renaissance influence |- | Richard Fariña || B.A. 1962 English || Author, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, folk singer |- | Jessie Redmon Fauset || B.A. 1905 || Prolific author from the Harlem Renaissance |- | Alice Fulton || M.F.A. 1982, Ann S. Bowers Distinguished Professor of English || Poet, author, feminist, MacArthur Fellow |- | William H. Gass || Ph.D. 1954 Philosophy || Author, essayist |- | Joscelyn Godwin || Ph.D. 1969 Musicology || Musicologist, translator, historian of the esoteric |- | David B. Goodstein || B.A. 1954 || Pioneering gay-rights advocate and publisher |- | Lynne Hanley || B.A. English || Literary critic |- | Minfong Ho || B.A. Economics || Chinese-American author |- | Laura Z. Hobson || || Author, Gentleman's Agreement, which was made into the film of the same name |- | Clifford Irving || B.A. 1951 || Author of the infamous Howard Hughes biography hoax |- | Anne LaBastille || B.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1969 || Author and award-winning conservationist |- | Lorrie Moore || M.F.A. 1982 || Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist |- | George Jean Nathan || 1904 || Author, critic |- | Nicholas Nicastro || B.A. 1985 English, M.A. 1991 Archaeology, Ph.D. 2003 Psychology || Historical novelist |- | Thomas Perry || B.A. 1969 || Novelist, Edgar Award winner. |- | Thomas Pynchon || B.A. 1959 English || Author, Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49 |- | Kenneth Roberts || 1908 || Novelist, Northwest Passage |- | Laura Riding || attended 1918-21 || Poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, leader in modernism. |- | Matt Ruff || B.A. 1988 || Author, Fool on the Hill |- | Joanna Russ || B.A. 1957 English, Professor || Feminist author, The Female Man |- | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick || undergrad || Critical theorist, literature professor |- | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak || Ph.D. 1967 Comparative Literature || Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |- | William Strunk Jr. || Ph.D. 1896, Professor || Author of The Elements of Style |- | Hendrik Willem van Loon || 1905, Professor of History (1915-17)|| Author of the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature |- | Kurt Vonnegut || undergrad 1941-1943, dropped out || Author, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. |- | Lauren Weisberger || B.A. 1999 English || Author, The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing |- | E. B. White || B.A. 1921 || Author, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little; Co-author, The Elements of Style |}

Journalism

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Hillary Andrews || B.A. 1992 || Meteorologist on The Weather Channel |- | Margaret Bourke-White || B.A. 1927 || Photojournalist |- | Charles Collingwood || B.A. 1939 || Broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent |- | Ann Coulter || B.A. 1984 || Conservative author and columnist |- | Pam Coulter || B.A. 1976 || ABC News Radio Correspondent |- | John Hassel || B.A. 1991 || Journalist, co-winner of Pulitzer Prize for newspaper reporting |- | Austin Kiplinger || B.A. 1939 || Journalist, editor of The Kiplinger Letter, founder of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, winner of the Peabody Award |- | Eric Lichtblau || 1987 || Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for national reporting with The New York Times |- | Bill Maher || B.A. 1978 English || Comedian and Politically Incorrect satirist |- | Philip Merrill || || Owner and publisher of The Capital Daily Newspaper in Annapolis, MD and Washingtonian magazine |- | Aric J. Press || B.S. 1971 || Editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer magazine |- | Gordon F. Sander || B.A. 1972 || Journalist, historian, and photographer |- | Dick Schaap || B.S. 1955 || Sports newscaster on ABC and ESPN, two Emmy Awards, author and co-author of 33 books |- | Kate Snow || 1991 || Journalist, co-anchor of Good Morning America |- | Andrew Ross Sorkin || B.S. 1999 || Chief Mergers and Acquisitions reporter for The New York Times |- | Frank Sullivan || 1914 || American journalist, humorist, and author, long associated with The New Yorker, whose Christmas poem he composed each year for 50 years |- | Howard Taubman || B.A. 1929 || Chief Music Critic and Chief Theater Critic for The New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s |- | William T. Vollmann || B.A. 1981 Comparative Literature || Journalist, Author of numerous books on war, including a seven volume treatise on violence |- | Sheryl WuDunn || B.A. 1981 European History || Journalist at The New York Times, co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, winner of the George Polk Award in 1989, and winner of the Overseas Press Club in 1990. |}

Fine arts

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | James De La Vega || B.A. 1993 || Mural artist |- | Ginnie Gardiner || B.F.A. 1974 || Massurrealist painter |- | Susan Rothenberg || B.F.A. 1967 || Painter |- | Pat Lipsky || B.F.A. 1963 || Painter |- | Jason Seley || B.A. 1940 || Sculptor |- | Frederick Sommer || M.A. 1927 Landscape Architecture || Photographer |- | Hugh Troy || undergrad 1922-27, did not graduate || Artist, famous prankster |}

Film, television, theatre

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Ted Berkman || 1933 || Screenwriter, authored Bedtime for Bonzo |- | Josh Bernstein || B.A. 1993, Anthropology and Psychology || Host of "Digging for the Truth" on the History Channel |- | Lee Bienstock || B.S. 2005 Policy Analysis & Management || Businessman and 2nd place on the fifth edition of the NBC reality show The Apprentice |- | Dane Clark || || Actor, Moonrise |- | Jordan Clarke || B.A. 1973 Philosophy, M.F.A. 1973 Acting || Actor, starred in Guiding Light, winner of a Daytime Emmy for "Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" |- | Ellen Albertini Dow || B.A. 1935 Theater, M.A. 1938 Theater || Actress, Wedding Crashers, the rapping grandmother in The Wedding Singer |- | Dan Duryea || B.A. English || Actor |- | Art Fleming || || Original Jeopardy! host (1964-75) |- | Allen Funt || B.A. 1934 Fine Arts || Producer, created Candid Camera |- | Eric Garcia || transferred 1992 || Writer, author of Matchstick Men |- | Harold Gould || M.A. 1948 Theater, Ph.D. 1953 Dramatic Speech and Literature, Professor of Speech and Drama || Stage, screen, and television actor |- | Catherine Hicks || M.F.A. || Annie Camden on 7th Heaven |- | Sidney Kingsley || B.A. 1928 || Playwright, screenwriter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for the drama Men in White |- | Arthur Laurents || B.A. 1937 English || Playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits include West Side Story, Rope, and Gypsy |- | Jane Lynch || M.F.A Theater || Actress |- | Carol Mendelsohn || B.A. 1973 || Television producer, credits include C.S.I. |- | Adolphe Menjou || B.S. Engineering || Actor, famous for his roles in The Sheik and The Three Musketeers, and Paths of Glory. Nominated for an Academy Award, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |- | Ronald D. Moore || failed out 1985 || Writer/Producer of Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9 and new Battlestar Galactica, two-time Hugo Award winner, nominated for Emmy Award |- | Frank Morgan || did not graduate || Actor, played The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, Academy Award recipient |- | John Myung || undergrad || Poker player |- | Keith Olbermann || B.S. 1979 Communication Arts || Sports commentator, news anchor |- | Peter Ostrum || || Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |- | Richard J. Price || B.S. 1971 || Author, The Wanderers; Academy Award nominated screenwriter for The Color of Money |- | Christopher Reeve || B.A. 1974 Theater Arts and English || Actor, best known for Superman |- | Jason Reich || B.A. 1998 || Emmy Award winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |- | Christopher Rich || M.A. Theater Arts || Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown |- | Andrea Savage || B.A. Political Science and Spanish, minor in Law Studies || Actress, Dog Bites Man |- | Thelma Schoonmaker || B.A. 1961 || Film editor, received the Academy Award for Raging Bull and The Aviator |- | Robert Smigel || transferred || Puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog; first head writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien; author of "TV Funhouse" animations on Saturday Night Live |- | Jimmy Smits || M.F.A. 1982 || Actor |- | Ken Sunshine || || Publicist |- | Tim Squyres || B.A. 1981 || Academy Award nominated film editor, best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |- | Jennifer Tipton || B.A. 1958 || Award-winning theatre and dance lighting designer |- | Franchot Tone || undergrad || Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Mutiny on the Bounty, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |- | Mary Woronov || did not graduate || Actress, member of Andy Warhol's The Factory |}

Music

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Robert Alexander Anderson || 1916 || Composer, wrote Christmas song Mele Kalikimaka |- | Harry Chapin || dropped out || Folk musician, Cat's in the Cradle |- | Henrique de Curitiba || M.F.A. 1981 || Polish-brazilian composer |- | Mack David || || Eight-time Academy Award nominee for songs including Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo |- | Greg Graffin || Ph.D. 1991 Evolutionary Biology || Lead singer in the band Bad Religion |- | Laurens Hammond || M.E. 1916 || Inventor of the Hammond organ |- | Jesse Harris || B.A. || Grammy-award winning songwriter who wrote "Don't Know Why" and "Come Away with Me", songs popularized by the artist Norah Jones |- | Huey Lewis || dropped out in 1969 || Rock musician, Huey Lewis and the News |- | Robert Moog || Ph.D. 1965 || Inventor of the Moog synthesizer |- | Steve Reich || B.A. 1957 || Composer |- | Christopher Rouse || 1958 || Classical composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music |- | Cary Sherman || 1968 || President of the Recording Industry Association of America |- | Steven Stucky || D.M.A. 1978, Professor of music composition || Pulitzer Prize winning composer |- | Paul Francis Webster || did not graduate || Academy and Grammy Award-winning lyricist |- | Peter Yarrow || B.A. 1959 || Folksinger, Peter, Paul and Mary |}

Architecture and design

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Edmund Bacon || B.Arch. 1932 || Urban planner, reshaped Philadelphia (1949-70) |- | Alan Chimicoff || B.Arch. 1963 || Architect |- | Gilmore David Clarke || B.S. 1913 Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering || Designed the Central Park Zoo and the Unisphere |- | Peter Eisenman || B.Arch. 1955 || A foremost practitioner of deconstructivism in American architecture |- | M. Arthur Gensler || B.Arch. 1958 || Architect |- | Gisue Hariri || B.Arch. 1980 || New York City-based architect |- | Mojgan Hariri || B.Arch. 1981 || New York City-based architect |- | Robert Trent Jones || 1931 || Designer of about 500 golf courses |- | Raymond M. Kennedy || B.Arch. 1915 || Designed Grauman's Chinese Theatre |- | Rem Koolhaas || M.Arch. || Dutch architect, journalist, and screenwriter |- | David Macpherson || Civil Engineering || City planner for San Antonio, Texas, designed Santa Fe Railroad |- | Tomas Mapua || B.Arch. 1911 || Founded the Mapua Institute of Technology |- | Richard Meier || B.Arch. 1957, Professor || Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal winner |- | M. Blake Middleton || B.Arch. 1978, M.Arch. 1981 || Architect |- | Enrique Norten || M.Arch. 1980 || Mexican architect, professor, 2003 World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition jury member |- | Chad Oppenheimer || B.Arch. || Architect |- | Nathaniel Owings || B.Arch. 1927 || Partner of architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |- | Steven Peterson || M.Arch. || Architect |- | Susan Rodriguez || B.Arch. || Architect |- | Richard Shreve || B.Arch. || Partner of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon that designed the Empire State Building |- | Derek Tynan || M.Arch. || Architect |- | E. Stewart Williams || B.Arch. || Palm Springs, California-based architect with a distinctive modernist style |- | Ricardo Zurita || B.Arch. 1984 || Architect |}

Athletics

See also: Cornell in Professional Sports

American football

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Kevin Boothe || || Oakland Raiders (2006-) |- | Al Dekdebrun || || Buffalo Bisons (1946), Chicago Rockets (1947), Boston Yanks (1948), New York Yankees (1948) |- | Pete Gogolak || 1964 || Buffalo Bills (1964-65) and New York Giants (1966-75) |- | Derrick Harmon || 1984 || San Francisco 49ers (1984-86); played in Super Bowl XIX |- | Ed Marinaro || B.S. 1972 || Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, and Seattle Seahawks; runner-up for the 1971 Heisman Trophy Award, actor on Hill Street Blues |- | Seth Payne || 1997 || Jacksonville Jaguars (1997-2001), Houston Texans (2001-) |- | Lee Reherman || || Miami Dolphins, actor on American Gladiators and X-Files |- | Glenn "Pop" Warner || LL.B. 1894, Football Coach || Football player and coach, founder of Pop Warner Little Scholars |}

Ice hockey

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Gary Bettman || B.S. 1974 || Commissioner of the NHL |- | Ken Dryden || B.A. 1969 || NHL Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender, Canadian Member of Parliament |- | Ned Harkness || Lacrosse and Hockey head coach || Head coach and GM of the Detroit Red Wings |- | David McKee || || Goaltender for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |- | Doug Murray || 2003 || Defenseman for San Jose Sharks |- | Joe Nieuwendyk || 1988 || NHL player, 3-time Stanley Cup champion |}

Olympics

See also: Cornell Olympians

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Jon Anderson || 1971 || 1972 Olympian, track; winner of 1973 Boston Marathon |- | Darren Eliot || 1983 || Former NHL player, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres; 1984 Olympian |- | Al Hall || 1956 || Four-time Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), hammer throw |- | Robert J. Kane || 1934 || Former U.S. Olympic Committee president, 1976-80; inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1986; director of athletics at Cornell for 36 years |- | Peter Pfitzinger || B.S. 1979, M.B.A. 1982 || marathon, 1984 (11th) and 1988 (14th) Summer Olympics. |- | Kent Manderville || 1993 || Drafted in second round by NHL Calgary Flames, 1989; played on several NHL teams and currently for the Pittsburgh Penguins; 1992 Olympian |- | Travis Mayer || undergrad 2000-01, on leave || Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist |- | Charles Moore || 1951 || 1952 Olympic gold medalist (hurdles) and silver medalist (1600-meter relay); honored as Golden Olympian, 1996; Cornell Director of Athletics, 1994-99 |- | Pablo Morales || J.D. 1994 || three-time gold medalist in swimming, 1992 Summer Olympics. |- | Bo Roberson || 1958 || Black athlete with the distinction of being the only person to earn an Ivy League degree, an Olympic medal, a doctorate, and have a career in the N.F.L.[1] |- | Jamie Silverstein || undergrad 2002-04, 2006- || Olympic figure skater |}

Other

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Bruce Arena || B.S. 1971 || Former coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team |- | Joe Birmingham || || Baseball player, Cleveland Naps (1906-14) |- | Bryan Colangelo || B.S. 1987 || President and General Manager of the Phoenix Suns, 2005 NBA executive of the year |- | Jon Daniels || B.S. 1999 || General Manager of the Texas Rangers, youngest GM ever in Major League Baseball |- | Hughie Jennings || J.D. study 1901-04, dropped out; Baseball Coach (1899-?) || Baseball Hall of Fame-inducted shortstop; Louisville Colonels (1891-1893), Baltimore Orioles (1893-1899), Brooklyn Superbas (1899-1900, 1903), Philadelphia Phillies (1901-1902), Detroit Tigers (1907, 1909, 1912, 1918) |- | Teddy Mayer || J.D. || Motor racing team manager |}

Faculty

Nobel laureates

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Richard P. Feynman || Physics faculty (1945-50) || Physics 1965 |- | Hans Bethe || John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics (1935-2005) || Physics 1967 |- | Hannes Alfven || Distinguished Professor in Engineering || Physics 1970 |- | Robert Schrieffer || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1969-75) || Physics 1972 |- | Kenneth Wilson || Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies (1963-88) || Physics 1982 |- | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1977-83) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics (1989-90) || Physics 1991 |- | David Lee || Professor of Physics || Physics 1996 |- | Robert Coleman Richardson || Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics || Physics 1996 |- | Norman E. Borlaug || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1982-88) || Peace 1970 |- | Wole Soyinka || Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities (1985) || Literature 1986 |- | Octavio Paz || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1972-74) || Literature 1990 |- | Amartya Sen || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1978-84) || Economics 1998 |- | Peter J.W. Debye || Professor and Chairman (1940-50) of Chemistry || Chemistry 1936 |- | James B. Sumner || Professor (1929-55) and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition || Chemistry 1946 |- | Vincent du Vigneaud || Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College (1938-67), Professor of Chemistry (1967-75) || Chemistry 1955 |- | Manfred Eigen || A.D. White Professor-at-Large || Chemistry 1967 |- | Paul J. Flory || Chemistry faculty (1948-57) || Chemistry 1974 |- | Roald Hoffmann || Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters || Chemistry 1981 |- | Henry Taube || Assistant Professor (1944-46) || Chemistry 1983 |- | Richard Ernst || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1998) || Chemistry 1991 |- | Herbert S. Gasser || Medical College (1931-34) || Physiology or Medicine 1944 |- | Fritz Lipmann || Research Associate, Medical College (1939-1941) || Physiology or Medicine 1953 |- | Peter B. Medawar || A.D. White Professor-at-Large || Physiology or Medicine 1960 |- | Haldan Keffer Hartline || Associate Professor, Medical College (1940-41) || Physiology or Medicine 1967 |- | H. Gobind Khorana || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1974-80) || Physiology or Medicine 1968 |- | Robert F. Furchgott || Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College (1941-49) || Physiology or Medicine 1998 |- | Paul Greengard || A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1981-87) || Physiology or Medicine 2000 |}

Mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, computer science

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | James Crafts || Professor || First Cornell professor of chemistry, fourth president of MIT |- | Wilder Dwight Bancroft || Professor || Physical chemist |- | Persis Drell || Professor || American particle physicist |- | Eugene Borisovich Dynkin || Professor || Mathematics |- | Freeman Dyson || Professor || Physics, mathematics |- | Mitchell Feigenbaum || Professor || Physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constant |- | Walter Feit || Professor || Mathematician, co-author of the Feit-Thompson theorem |- | Paul Ginsparg || Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science (2001-) || Developer of the arXiv e-print archive |- | Thomas Gold || John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy || Astrophysicist, coined the term "magnetosphere" |- | Peter Goldreich || Professor || Astrophysicist |- | Joseph Halpern || Professor of Computer Science || Computer scientist |- | Juris Hartmanis || Professor || Computer scientist; Turing Award recipient (1993) |- | Allen Hatcher || Professor || Mathematics |- | Roald Hoffmann || Professor || American theoretical chemist |- | John Hopcroft || Professor || Turing Award recipient (1986) |- | John Irwin Hutchinson || Professor || American mathematician |- | Arthur Kantrowitz || Professor || Physicist and engineer |- | John Gamble Kirkwood || Professor || Chemist |- | Stephen Lee || Professor of Solid State Chemistry || MacArthur Fellow and Sloan Fellow |- | Saunders Mac Lane || Professor || Developer of algebra's category theory |- | Jean-Luc Margot || Professor || Astronomer, awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society (2004) |- | Anil Nerode || Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics || Mathematician |- | Piergiorgio Odifreddi || Professor || Mathematician |- | Yuri Orlov || Professor || Nuclear physicist, former Soviet dissident and human rights activist |- | Trevor Pinch || Professor || Chair of the Science and Technology Studies department |- | Robert Coleman Richardson || Professor || Physicist |- | Carl Sagan || Professor || Space Sciences |- | Edwin Ernest Salpeter || James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus || Astronomer |- | Dennis William Sciama || Professor || Physicist |- | Steven Strogatz || Professor || Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |- | Éva Tardos || Professor of Computer Science || Mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of the Fulkerson Prize (1988) |- | George Paget Thomson || Non-resident Lecturer (1929-30) || Nobel Prize, Physics 1937 |- | William Thurston || Professor || Mathematics; Fields medal winner |- | Charles F. Van Loan || Professor || Current chair of the Department of Computer Science |- | Kenneth G. Wilson || Professor || American physicist, Putnam fellow |- | Robert R. Wilson || Professor || Youngest group leader on the Manhattan Project, first director of Fermilab |- | Aleksander Wolszczan || Professor || Discoverer of first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets. |- | Theodore Paul Wright || Professor || U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator |}

Philosophy

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Kwame Anthony Appiah || Professor (1986-89) || African Studies philosopher and novelist |- | Richard Boyd || Professor || Philosopher |- | Harold F. Cherniss || Professor || Author and expert on the philosophy of Ancient Greece |- | Morris Raphael Cohen || Lecturer || Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar |- | James Edwin Creighton || Professor || American philosopher |- | Norman Malcolm || Professor (1947-58) || Ludwig Wittgenstein scholar |- | Evander Bradley McGilvary || Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics (1899-1905) || American philosophical scholar |- | John Rawls || Professor || Philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples |- | Sydney Shoemaker || Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy || Philosopher and metaphysicist |- | Edward B. Titchener || Professor || Inventor of structuralism, founder of first psychology lab in U.S. |- | Brian Weatherson || Associate Professor of Philosophy || Philosopher, metaphysicist |}

Psychology

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Daryl Bem || Professor || Social psychologist, creator of self-perception theory, |- | Sandra Bem || Professor || Psychologist, created Bem Sex Role Inventory, studies gender roles |- | Thomas Gilovich || Professor of psychology || Researcher of decision making and behavioral economics |- | Paulina Kernberg || Professor || American child psychiatrist and authority on personality disorders |- | Kurt Lewin || Professor || Pioneer of social psychology |}

Music

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | David Borden || Director, Digital Music Program || American composer of minimalist music |- | Karel Husa || Professor (?-1992) || Composer best known for Music for Prague 1968 |- | Hunter Johnson || Professor || American composer |- | Duncan Sheik || Schwartz Center Resident Artist || Alternative Musician, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter |}

Literature, poetry, art, architecture

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Bristow Adams || Professor || American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator |- | Frederick Ahl || Professor || Professor of classics and comparative literature |- | Archie Randolph Ammons || Professor of Creative Writing (1964-98) || Poet |- | Benedict Anderson || Professor || Author of Imagined Communities |- | Morris Bishop || Professor || Biographer, author, humorist, alumnus, Professor of Romance Literature, wrote the preeminent history of the university, A History of Cornell. |- | Allan Bloom || Professor (1963-70) || Government, author of Closing of the American Mind |- | George Lincoln Burr || Professor || U.S. historian, diplomat, author, and educator |- | John Cleese || Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large (?-2006) || Comedian and actor |- | Hiram Corson || Professor || Professor of literature |- | Louis Dyer || Professor || American educator and author |- | Max Farrand || Professor || Author of American historical subjects |- | David Feldshuh || Professor || Author of the play Miss Evers' Boys which won an American Play Award, was nominated for a Pulitzer. The movie version won five Emmy Awards |- | Betty Friedan || Professor || Feminist, author of "The Feminine Mystique" |- | Buckminster Fuller || Professor || Architect and inventor, famous for work with geodesic domes |- | Romaldo Giurgola || Professor || Architect, winner of the AIA Gold Medal |- | Victor Lange || Professor || Professor of modern languages |- | Jacqueline Livingston || Professor || Feminist photographer |- | Alison Lurie || Professor of Literature (1970-) || Pulitzer Prize winning author |- | Vladimir Nabokov || Professor of European and Russian Literature (1948-58) || Author of the novel Lolita |- | John Pilger || Professor || Frank H.T. Rhodes University Professor - left-wing journalist |- | Adrienne Rich || Professor || Feminist poet |- | William De Witt Snodgrass || Professor (1955-57) || Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |- | Melanie Thernstrom || Professor || Author and freelance journalist |- | Helena Maria Viramontes || Professor || Chicana fiction writer |- | Wendy Wasserstein || Professor || Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright |}

Anthropology, sociology, history, geology

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | John Adair || Professor (1948-?) || Anthropologist |- | Felix Adler || Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature (1874-76) || Early 20th century Jewish rationalist and social reformer |- | Carl L. Becker || John Wendell Anderson Professor of History (1917-41) || Historian, namesake of Carl Becker House |- | Charles Edwin Bennett || Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin (1892-?) || Classicist |- | Malcolm Bilson || Professor || Music historian |- | Fred Buttel || Professor of Rural Sociology || Sociologist |- | Dian Fossey || Professor || Anthropologist whose murder was recreated as the film Gorillas in the Mist |- | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. || Professor (1985-90) || Afro-American Studies scholar |- | Jane Goodall || A.D. White Professor-at-Large || Naturalist |- | Anthony Grafton || Professor || One of the leading scholars of the Renaissance |- | Donald Kagan || Professor || Classicist |- | Michael Kammen || Professor of History || 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Constitution scholar |- | Walter LaFeber || Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History (1958-2006) || U.S. foreign policy historian |- | Bronislaw Malinowski || Lecturer (1933) || Founder of social anthropology |- | Heinrich Ries || Professor (1898-?) || American economic geologist |- | Nathaniel Schmidt || Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures || American orientalist |- | Goldwin Smith || Professor of English and Constitutional History (1868-71) || Historian, University Reformer, namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall |- | Richard Swedberg || Professor of Sociology (2002-) || Swedish economic sociologist |- | John Szarkowski || Professor || Influential photography curator, historian, and critic |- | Ralph Stockman Tarr || Professor (1897-?) || American geographer |- | Sidney Tarrow || Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology || Researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology |- | James D. Thompson || Professor || Sociologist |- | Bassam Tibi || A.D. White Professor-at-Large || Political scientist of Islamic countries |- | Alvin Toffler || Professor || American writer, sociologist, and futurist, Future Shock |}

Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Louis Agassiz || Lecturer || American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist |- | Liberty Hyde Bailey || Professor || Botanist, founder of the 4-H movement, namesake of Bailey Hall |- | Joan Jacobs Brumberg || Professor of Human Development and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies || scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fields |- | T. Colin Campbell || Professor || Nutritionist, director of the China Project, and author of The China Study |- | Robert Chandler || Professor || Winner of the World Food Prize (1988) |- | Thomas Eisner || Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology || Pioneer of chemical ecology |- | Barton Warren Evermann || Lecturer (1900-03) || American ichthyologist |- | James Ewing || Professor of Clinical Pathology (1899-?) || American pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's Sarcoma |- | Charles Frederick Hartt || Professor (1868-?) || Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil |- | Robert Foster Kennedy || Professor of Neurology || One of the first to use electroconvulsive treatment to treat psychosis; first to link shell shock and hysteria |- | Graham Kerr || Professor (1973) || Chef, "The Galloping Gourmet" |- | Rebecca J. Nelson || Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture || MacArthur Fellow (1998), researcher in crop disease resistance |- | Georgios Papanikolaou || Researcher at Department of Anatomy, Medical College (1913-?) || Inventor of the Pap smear test for cervical cancer |- | Katharine Payne || Researcher at Bioacoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology || Whale and elephant researcher |- | Benoît Roux || Professor || Molecular biologist; winner of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (1998) from the Royal Society of Canada |- | John C. Sanford || Professor (1980-98) || Inventor of the gene gun |- | Lynn Smaha || Professor || President of the American Heart Association |- | Steven D. Tanksley || Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding (1985-) || Plant breeding and agronomy researcher |- | Herbert John Webber || Professor (1907-12) || American plant physiologist, developed the citrange |- | Robert Whittaker || Professor || American vegetation ecologist |- | Burt Green Wilder || Professor of Neurology and Vertibrate Zoology (1867-1910) || American comparative anatomist |}

Economics, government, law, business

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Iajuddin Ahmed || Visiting Professor (1984) || President of Bangladesh (2002-) |- | Lloyd Blankfein || Medical College Board of Overseers || President and CEO, Goldman Sachs (2006-) |- | Kaushik Basu || Professor of Economics || Indian economist |- | George M. von Furstenberg || Assistant Professor of Economics || Economist |- | Andrew Hacker || Professor || Politicial scientist, questioned race, class, and gender in American society |- | E. Roland Harriman || Established the Irving Sherwood Wright Professorship in Geriatrics, Medical College || Financier and philanthropist |- | Charles Evans Hughes || Professor, Law School (1891-93) || Governor of New York (1907-10), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice (1910-16), U.S. Presidential candidate (1916), U.S. Secretary of State (1921-25), U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice (1930-41) |- | Alfred E. Kahn || Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Trustee; Dean of Arts and Sciences || Advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation; economist |- | Corliss Lamont || Professor || Director (1932-54) and Chairman (1954-95) of the American Civil Liberties Union |- | James Laurence Laughlin || Professor || Founded the Federal Reserve System |- | Cynthia McKinney || Frank H.T. Rhodes University Professor || U.S. Representative from Georgia (1993-2003, 2005-) |- | Frances Perkins || Lecturer of Industrial and Labor Relations (?-1965) || U.S. Secretary of Labor (1933-45), first female U.S. Cabinet member |- | Clinton Rossiter || Professor of Government (1946-70) || Political scientist |- | Frederick A. Sawyer || Professor || Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1873-74), Senator from South Carolina (1968-73) |- | Thomas Sowell || Professor || Economist |- | Holbrook Working || Professor || Economic theorist on hedging, futures prices, market maker behavior, and storage |}

Education

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Sarah Gibson Blanding || Dean of Human Ecology (1941-46) || President of Vassar College (1946-64) |- | Claude L. Kulp || Professor of Education || Educator |- | Don Michael Randel || University Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences || President of the University of Chicago (2000-06) |- | Benjamin Ide Wheeler || Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology || President of the University of California (1899-1919) |}

Athletics

Template:CornellPeopleHeader | Bob Blackman || Head Coach, Football (1977-82) || Member of the College Football Hall of Fame |- | Melody Davidson || Head Coach, Women's Ice Hockey || Head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey team |- | Edward Moylan || Head Coach, Tennis and Squash (1962-72) || Tennis player |- | Michael Slive || Director of Athletics || Current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference |- | Phil Sykes || Interim Head Coach, Field Hockey (2003) || U.S. Olympic field hockey defender |}

Fictional Cornellians
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Bruce Arena
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Edmund Bacon
Hans Bethe
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Margaret Bourke-White
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Joyce Brothers
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Pearl S. Buck
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Willis Carrier
John Cleese
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Ann Coulter
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Richard Feynman
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Betty Friedan
Francis Fukuyama
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Buckminster Fuller
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Allen Funt
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Stephen Hadley
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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
David Starr Jordan
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Edward T. Lu
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Hughie Jennings
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Rem Koolhaas
C. Everett Koop
Bill Maher
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Ed Marinaro
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Sideshow Mel
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Frank Morgan
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Toni Morrison
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Joe Nieuwendyk
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Bill Nye
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Christopher Reeve
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Janet Reno
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Carl Sagan
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Dick Schaap
Goldwin Smith
Jimmy Smits
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Pres. Lee Teng-hui
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Sanford Weill
Paul Wolfowitz
Thorstein Veblen
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Kurt Vonnegut

University Presidents

See also: History of the Cornell Presidency
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David J. Skorton, Cornell president
President Life Tenure
Andrew Dickson White 1832-1918 1866-1885
Charles Kendall Adams 1856-1902 1885-1892
Jacob Gould Schurman 1854-1942 1892-1920
Livingston Farrand 1867-1939 1921-1937
Edmund Ezra Day 1883-1951 1937-1949
Deane Waldo Malott 1898-1996 1951-1963
James A. Perkins 1911-1998 1963-1969
Dale R. Corson b. 1914 1969-1977
Frank H.T. Rhodes b. 1926 1977-1995
Hunter R. Rawlings III b. 1944 1995-2003
Jeffrey S. Lehman (B.A. 1977) b. 1956 2003-2005
David J. Skorton b. 1949 2006-

Trustees

See also: Cornell University Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is vested with "supreme control" over the entire university, in accordance to university bylaws. The board's major responsibilies are to establish the degrees that are awarded by the university, elect the president, and adopt an annual plan of financial operation. Day-to-day administration has been delegated by the trustees to the president. There are 64 voting members on the board, including students, employees, faculty, and alumni that are voted onto the board by their respective group. The four ex officio members of the board are the president of the university, the governor of the state of New York, the speaker of the state assembly, and the president of the state senate. The current chairman of the board is Peter C. Meinig.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Bo You Didn't Know" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-07-27.

References

Further reading


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