Nobel Laureates

• Julius Axelrod - 1970 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Kenneth Arrow - 1972 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Herbert Hauptman - 1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Robert Hofstadter - 1961 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Jerome Karle - 1985 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• Arthur Kornberg - 1959 Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Leon M. Lederman - 1988 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Arno Penzias - 1978 Nobel laureate in Physics

Politics, Government, and Sociology

• Daniel Bell - sociologist, professor at Harvard University
• Bernard M. Baruch - Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents for 40 years, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.
• Abraham D. Beame - mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
• Stephen Bronner - political theorist, professor at Rutgers University
• Nathan Glazer - neoconservative political pundit
• Irving Howe - coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
• Ed Koch - mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
• Irving Kristol - neoconservative pundit
• Colin L. Powell - United States Secretary of State
• Julius Rosenberg - infamous convicted spy during the Cold War

The Arts

• Paddy Chayevsky - famed playwright for the stage and screen, wrote Marty and Altered States
• Ira Gershwin - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
• Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg - American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, others)
• Oscar Hijuelos - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
• Judd Hirsch - American actor

Science and Technology

• Julius Blank - engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
• George Washington Goethals - civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal
• Dan Goldin - served as the 9th and longest-tenured Administrator of NASA.
• Andy Grove - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
• Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004.
• Lewis Mumford - historian of technology
• Charles Lane Poor - noted astronomer
• Jonas Salk - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)