City College of New York

City College was originally situated in downtown Manhattan, then moved to its current location in upper Manhattan village of Manhattanville in 1906, when the classical neo-Gothic campus was erected. In 1953, it bought the campus of the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (which on a 1913 map was shown as The Convent of the Sacred Heart), which added a south section to the campus. It thereby assumed its current layout from 140th Street to 130th Street, from St. Nicholas Terrace, west to Amsterdam Avenue.

Notable alumni

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 Physics
• 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

Rhodes Scholars

• James T. Molloy 1939
• Lev A. Sviridov 2005

Fulbright Scholars

• Vera Grant 1995

Truman Scholars

• Charles Claudio Simpkins 2005

Politics, Government, and Sociology

• Herman Badillo '51, former Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees, was an architect of the University's academic rebirth.
• 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 '28 - mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
• Stephen Bronner - political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
• Felix Frankfurter 1902 - justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, January 30, 1939?August 28, 1962.
• George Friedman - founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst
• Nathan Glazer - neoconservative political pundit
• Irving Howe - coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
• Ed Koch '45 - mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
• Irving Kristol - neoconservative pundit
• Robert T. Johnson '72 - Bronx District Attorney.
• Guillermo Linares '75 - the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member.
• Colin L. Powell - Former United States Secretary of State, 2001 to 2005
• Julius Rosenberg - infamous convicted spy during the Cold War
• Robert F. Wagner Sr. - United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949
• Michelle Wallace '75 - a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies

The Arts

• Maurice Ashley '93 - the first African-American International Chess Grandmaster.
• Paddy Chayevsky - famed playwright for the stage and screen, wrote Marty and Altered States
• Ira Gershwin '18 - American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
• Marv Goldberg - Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
• Hazelle Goodman '86 - Stage, screen and TV actress, was the first African-American to hold a leading role in a Woody Allen film, Deconstructing Harry.
• Arthur Guiterman, humorous poet
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg '18 - American lyricist (The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow, others)
• Oscar Hijuelos '75 - won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
• Judd Hirsch '60 - American actor
• Walter Mosley '91 MA, best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.
• Michael Oreskes '75 - Executive Editor of The International Herald Tribune
• Edward G. Robinson '14 - actor
• A.M. Rosenthal '49, former Executive Editor of The New York Times.
• Richard Schiff '83 - Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing.
• Eli Wallach '38 (MA) - actor
• Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) - Author ( The Jungle (1906) )
• Bernard Malamud '36 (BA) - Author ( The Natural (1952) )

Science and Technology

• Solomon Asch - psychologist, known for the Asch conformity experiments
• Julius Blank - engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
• Adin Falkoff - engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
• George Washington Goethals 1887 - 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.
• Robert E. Kahn - Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004.
• Leonard Kleinrock '57 - Internet pioneer
• Michael A. Liguori '79 - listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York Magazine.
• Lewis Mumford - historian of technology
• Charles Lane Poor - noted astronomer
• Mario Runco, Jr. '74 - astronaut.
• Jonas Salk '34 - inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
• Abraham Sinkov - Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
• Solomon Kullback - Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
• Howard Rosenblum '50 BSEE - NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)

Business

• Robert Catell '58 - CEO of KeySpan.
• Andy Grove '60 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
• Stanley H. Kaplan '39 - founded Kaplan Educational Services.
• Jack Rudin '41 - real estate developer.
• Frank J. Sciame '74 - architect and developer
• Linda Kaplan Thaler '72, the CEO of the fastest growing ad agency in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck.