Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Horatio Allen | 1823 | President of Erie Railroad, civil engineer, and inventor | [2] [3] |
William Backhouse Astor Sr. | 1811 | Business magnate | |
William Backhouse Astor Jr. | 1849 | Businessman, racehorse owner and breeder, and yachtsman | |
Douglas Black | 1915 | President of Doubleday and Company | [4] [5] |
Stuyvesant Fish | 1871 | Illinois Central Railroad president | [6] [7] |
Robert Goelet | 1860 | Businessman and yachtsman | |
James Lenox | 1818 | President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, bibliophile, and philanthropist | |
Ward Melville | 1909 | Founding president of Thom McAn, Melville Corporation (CVS Health), and philanthropist behind Stony Brook University | [8] |
John Lloyd Stephens | 1822 | Founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company, Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, and author | [9] |
John Aikman Stewart | 1840 | Banker | [10] |
William R. Travers | 1838 | Businessman and first president of the Saratoga Race Course | |
Lawrence Wien | 1925 | Real instate investor and attorney who pioneered real estate syndicates | | |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Charles Anthon | 1815 | Classical scholar and educator | |
William Anthony Aery | 1904 | Professor of social science and director of education at the Hampton Institute, editor of the Southern Workman | [16] [17] [18] |
| 1941 | Dalton School headmaster | [19] |
Wm. Theodore de Bary | 1941 | East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost | [20] |
Jacques Barzun | 1927 | Historian, provost, and University Professor at Columbia University | [21] [22] [23] |
Robert Fulton Cutting | 1871 | President of Cooper Union, financier, and philanthropist | |
Robert Emory | 1831 | President of Dickinson College | |
Dixon Ryan Fox | 1911 | Union College president | [24] [25] |
Mott T. Greene | 1967 | Historian of science and academic | [26] |
Robert Gutman | | Sociologist and a lecturer in social and environmental studies at Princeton University's School of Architecture | [27] [28] [29] |
Frank S. Hackett | 1899 | Educator, founder of Riverdale Country Day School, and pioneer in the Country Day School movement | [30] |
Carl Hovde | 1950 | Columbia College Dean | |
James Hall Mason Knox | 1841 | Lafayette College president | |
Arthur MacMahon | 1912 | | |
Robert Marshak | 1936 | City College of New York president | |
Brander Matthews | 1871 | Academic and literary critic | |
Parker Thomas Moon | 1913 | Political scientist and researcher on international peace | [31] |
| 1802 | President of Columbia College | [32] |
Steven Raphael | 1963 | economist, professor of public policy at Goldman School of Public Policy, and adjunct fellow at Public Policy Institute of California | |
Victoria Rosner | 1990 | Dean of NYU Gallatin School and ean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University | [33] [34] |
Edwin R. A. Seligman | 1878 | Economist and academic | [35] |
William Milligan Sloane | 1868 | Historian, professor at Princeton University, and coach of the first U.S. Olympic team | |
Howard Spodek | 1963 | Professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University | |
Paul van K. Thomson | 1940 | Professor and vice president for academic affairs of Providence College, Catholic priest, and author | [36] |
John Howard Van Amringe | 1860 | Mathematician and the first Dean of Columbia College | |
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein | 1962 | Social theorist, psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles | | |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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James Warner Bellah | 1923 | Western writer | [50] |
| 1925 | BusinessWeek publisher, a financial writer for The New York Times, and New York State Superintendent of Banks | [51] |
John Berryman | 1936 | poet, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | [52] [53] |
Randolph Bourne | 1912 | Essayist and critic | |
McAlister Coleman | 1909 | Journalist, author, and political activist | [54] [55] |
| 1924 | foreign news editor of Life | |
Julien T. Davies | 1866 | Writer | [56] |
Evert Augustus Duyckinck | 1835 | Biographer and publisher | |
Jason Epstein | 1949 | Co-founder of The New York Review of Books, co-founder of Library of America, and founder of Anchor Books | [57] |
Edgar Fawcett | 1867 | Novelist and poet | |
William Dudley Foulke | 1869 | Literary critic, journalist, poet, and reformer | |
Allen Ginsberg | 1948 | Poet, author, and winner of the National Book Award | [58] [59] |
Robert Giroux | 1936 | Publisher, chairman and editor-in-chief of Farrar Straus & Giroux | [60] |
Robert Gottlieb | 1952 | Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and editor of The New Yorker | |
Alfred Harcourt | 1904 | Publisher and co-founder of Harcourt Brace; | |
John Hollander | 1950 | Poet | |
Richard Howard | 1951 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator | [61] |
Joyce Kilmer | 1908 | Poet and literary critic | [62] [63] |
Gustav Kobbé | 1877 | Music critic and author | |
Henry Demarest Lloyd | 1867 | Pioneer muckraking journalist and progressive political activist | [64] |
Jay Michaelson | 1993 | Writer, journalist, professor, rabbi, commentator on CNN, and a columnist for Rolling Stone | |
John L. O'Sullivan | 1831 | Magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny and U.S. Minister to Portugal | |
Sam Quinones | 1964 | Journalist and author | |
Ed Rice | 1940 | Author, publisher, photojournalist, and painter | |
Henry Morton Robinson | 1923 | Novelist | [65] |
Garth Stein | 1987 | Novelist and Academy Award-winning film producer | [66] |
George Templeton Strong | 1838 | Diarist | |
Ralph de Toledano | 1938 | Editor of Newsweek and the National Review, journalist, author, poet, and novelist | |
Thomas Vinciguerra | 1985 | Journalist, editor, author, and founding editor of The Week | [67] |
Walter Wager | 1944 | Novelist | [68] |
Samuel Ward | 1831 | Poet and lobbyist | [69] | |
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Martin C. Ansorge | 1903 | United States House of Representatives | [75] |
| 1925 | New York State Superintendent of Banks, BusinessWeek publisher, and a financial writer for The New York Times | |
Frederic René Coudert Jr. | 1918 | United States House of Representatives from New York and member of New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee | |
Isaac C. Delaplaine | 1834 | United States House of Representatives | |
Charles G. Ferris | 1811 | United States House of Representatives | |
Hamilton Fish | 1827 | United States Secretary of State | |
Hamilton Fish II | 1869 | Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman | |
Nicholas Fish II | 1867 | U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium | |
James W. Gerard | 1890 | U.S. Ambassador to Germany and justice of the New York Supreme Court | |
Samuel L. Gouverneur | 1817 | | |
James Alexander Hamilton | 1805 | Acting U.S. Secretary of State and son of Alexander Hamilton | [76] |
Abram Hewitt | 1842 | Mayor of New York City, United States House of Representatives, ironmaking industrialist, and lawyer | |
Stephen W. Kearny | 1812 | Military Governor of New Mexico and Military Governor of California | |
Harvey R. Kingsley | 1893 | President of the Vermont State Senate, attorney, and judge | [77] |
Wellington Koo | 1909 | Premier and foreign minister of China, Ambassador to the United States, member of the International Court of Justice | [78] [79] |
| 1910 | Governor of North Dakota and U.S. Senate | |
John L. Lawrence | 1803 | | |
William Beach Lawrence | 1818 | Governor of Rhode Island (acting) | |
Hugh Maxwell | 1808 | Collector of the Port of New York and District Attorney of New York City | |
John McKeon | 1825 | U.S. House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York | |
| 1899 | Mayor of New York City and Collector of the Port of New York | [80] |
John L. O'Sullivan | 1831 | U.S. Minister to Portugal and magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny | |
Charles A. Peabody Jr. | 1869 | New York State Assembly | |
Edmund H. Pendleton | 1805 | United States House of Representatives | |
George L. Rives | 1868 | United States Assistant Secretary of State | |
James I. Roosevelt | 1815 | United States House of Representatives and District attorney for Southern New York | |
John Lloyd Stephens | 1822 | Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, author, and a founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company | |
John R. Thurman | 1835 | United States House of Representatives | |
Peter Dumont Vroom | 1808 | Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Minister to Prussia | |
J. Mayhew Wainwright | 1884 | United States Assistant Secretary of War and United States House of Representatives | |
Samuel Ward | 1831 | Lobbyist and poet | | |