List of Bronx High School of Science alumni

Academia

• Bruce Ackerman, constitutional law scholar, Yale Law School
• Marshall Berman, professor, City College
• M. Donald Blaufox, nuclear medicine physician and professor
• Harold Brown, former president, California Institute of Technology
• Charles Cogen, president, New York City's United Federation of Teachers and American Federation of Teachers
• Martin S. Fiebert, author, psychologist, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Long Beach
• Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School
• Murray Gerstenhaber, mathematician and lawyer
• Herb Goldberg, author, psychologist, and male liberation movement activist
• Gene Grossman, former chair, Department of Economics, Princeton University
• Martin Jay, historian, University of California Berkeley
• Richard Kadison, mathematician
• Deborah Frank Lockhart, American Mathematical Society fellow
• Andrew Lo, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering
• Beryl Levinger, distinguished professor emerita at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and former chair of the Development Practice and Policy Program
• Daniel Lowenstein, director of the Center for Liberal Arts and Institutions, UCLA and first chairman of California Fair Political Practices Commission
• Lynn Mahoney, president, San Francisco State University
• Anthony Marx, president and CEO of New York Public Library and former president, Amherst College
• Gary Saul Morson, literary critic, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities, Northwestern University
• Richard A. Muller, professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley
• George Ritzer, sociologist
• Michael I. Sovern, former president, Columbia University
• Joan Straumanis, first female president of Antioch College, her alma mater; philosopher and women's studies pioneer at Denison University; dean at Kenyon College, Rollins College, Lehigh University, president also at Metropolitan College of New York.
• Gregory J. Vincent, president, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Jack Russell Weinstein, professor of philosophy and director of Institute for Philosophy in Public Life, University of North Dakota, and NPR radio host
• Barry Wellman, author, sociologist, founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis, Royal Society of Canada fellow, and developer of the theory of "networked individualism"
• Judy Yee, professor of radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Activism and government

• Seth Andrew, educator and founder, Democracy Prep Public Schools
• Jamaal Bailey, New York State senator
• Harold Brown, scientist and former United States Secretary of Defense
• Kwame Turé (Stokely Carmichael), leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party, notable figure in the Civil Rights Movement
• Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist, 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant", 2010 Peabody Award recipient
• Edmond E. Chang, federal judge, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois
• Richard Danzig, lawyer, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Center for a New American Security chairman
• Jeffrey Dinowitz, New York State representative
• Eric Dinowitz, member of the New York City Council from the 11th district
• Harriet Drummond, Alaska state legislator
• Martin Garbus, First Amendment lawyer
• Frank Genese, deputy mayor, Village of Flower Hill NY
• Todd Gitlin, writer, social critic, and former president of Students for a Democratic Society
• Harrison J. Goldin, former New York City Comptroller and former New York State senator
• Alan Grayson former U.S. congressman representing Florida's 8th congressional district
• Howard Gutman, lawyer, actor, and former U.S. ambassador to Belgium
• Alvin Hellerstein, U.S. federal district court judge
• Dora Irizarry, U.S. federal district court judge, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of New York
• Benjamin Kallos, New York City councilman
• G. Oliver Koppell, former New York State attorney general, former New York State representative, former New York City councilman
• Jeffrey Korman, former New York State senator
• Kenneth Kronberg, printing company owner and LaRouche movement activist
• Bill Lann Lee, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General in U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division and first Asian–American to head the division
• Leonard Lauder, businessman, art collector, and heir to the Estee Lauder fortune.
• Ronald Lauder, businessman, art collector, heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; current president of the World Jewish Congress
• Harold O. Levy, former New York City School Chancellor
• John Liu, former New York City councilman, former New York City Comptroller, first Asian–American member of New York City Council, and first to hold citywide office
• Nita Lowey, U.S. congresswoman representing New York's 17th congressional district
• Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City, member of the New York State Assembly
• Edward Mermelstein, former lawyer and businessman, current Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of International Affairs
• Ira Millstein, antitrust lawyer, longest-practicing partner in big law
• Robert Price, New York State Commissioner of Investigation and former Deputy Mayor of New York City.
• Donald L. Ritter, former U.S. congressman representing Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
• Martha Shelley, lesbian activist, feminist, writer, and poet
• Madeline Singas, associate judge, New York Court of Appeals
• Toby Ann Stavisky, member of the New York State Senate
• Terence Tolbert, political operative and consultant for various New York State politicians; was involved in Barack Obama's presidential campaign

Arts

Fine arts

• Elliott Landy, photographer noted for his work with rock musicians, especially for his work at the Woodstock Festival
• Daniel Libeskind, architect whose designs include Freedom Tower, Jewish Museum Berlin, Felix Nussbaum Haus, and the Royal Ontario Museum
• Marilyn Nance, photographer of spirituality and the African diaspora

Performing arts

• Zack Alford, professional drummer,
• Emanuel Azenberg, multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning producer, noted for his long professional relationship with Neil Simon
• James Bethea, television producer and executive
• Mark Boal, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty
• Jessie Cannizzaro, actress, singer, and comedy writer
• Dominic Chianese, singer and actor, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and Junior Soprano on The Sopranos
• Jon Cryer, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor
• Bobby Darin, Oscar-nominated actor, best known for his work as a songwriter and recording artist
• Jon Favreau, screenwriter and actor Rudy and Swingers and director, Elf and Iron Man
• Jonah Falcon, actor and talk show personality
• Michael Hirsh, head of the Cookie Jar group ; founder of Nelvana animation
• Sondra James, actress
• Qurrat Ann Kadwani, television actress, playwright and film producer
• Scott Kempner, rock musician and songwriter
• Don Kirshner, music producer and songwriter, best known for his work with The Monkees and for his television show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
• Kenny Kosek, fiddler
• Adam Lamberg, actor, best known for his role as Gordo on the television series Lizzie McGuire
• James Kyson Lee, actor, best known for his role as Ando Masahashi on the television series Heroes
• Reggie Lucas, musician, songwriter, and record producer best known for having produced the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album.
• Dash Mihok, actor, director, best known for co-starring since 2013 as Brendan "Bunchy" Donovan in the Showtime series Ray Donovan
• Tom Paley, banjo and fiddle player, best known for his association with old-time music; co–founded the New Lost City Ramblers
• Paul Provenza, actor and comedian
• Christopher "Kid" Reid, rap musician, comedian, and actor, best known for being one half of the group Kid 'n Play
• Daphne Maxwell Reid, actress, producer, and former model; first African–American homecoming queen at Northwestern University; first African–American to appear on the cover of Glamour
• Dawn Porter, documentary filmmaker and director
• David Ren, writer, and director
• Esther Scott, film and television actress
• Maggie Siff, actress
• Mel Simon, businessman and film producer
• Karina Smirnoff, professional ballroom Latin dancer, who was featured on seven seasons of Dancing With the Stars
• Worley Thorne, TV screenwriter, script consultant and adjunct assistant professor of English
• Eliot Wald, TV and film writer
• Boaz Yakin, screenwriter and director

Authors and journalists

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Joseph Lelyveld, journalist and author; executive editor at The New York Times ; won the 1986 award for General Nonfiction
• William Safire, author and speechwriter; won the 1978 award for Commentary
• Buddy Stein, editor and publisher of The Riverdale Press won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for writing on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
• William Taubman, professor of political science at Amherst College; won the 2004 award for Biography or Autobiography for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
• Gene Weingarten, reporter and columnist for The Washington Post; won the 2008 and 2010 awards for Feature Writing
• Spencer Ackerman, senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast; was part of a team of editors and reporters awarded the 2014 award for public service journalism, for reporting on Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance programs.
• Robert Samuels, author and staff writer at The New Yorker, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Other authors and journalists

• Judith Baumel, poet; 1987 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award
• Peter S. Beagle, author, singer, and guitarist, best known for The Last Unicorn
• Jennifer Belle, writer
• Joseph Berger,, New York Times reporter, author of memoir "Displaced Persons:Growing Up American After the Holocaust"
• Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar.
• Harold Bloom, influential literary critic, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and Professor of English at Yale University
• Mark Boal, journalist and screenwriter; won two Oscars as screenwriter and producer of The Hurt Locker
• Samuel R. Delany, science fiction author ; recipient of four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards
• E. L. Doctorow, author ; received the National Humanities Medal in 1998
• Danny Fingeroth, comic book writer and editor, known for his work on Spider-Man
• John T. Georgopoulos, fantasy sports journalist, writer and broadcast radio host
• Gerald Jay Goldberg, professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles; novelist and critic
• Jeff Greenfield, television journalist and political analyst for CBS News; author
• Pablo Guzmán, television journalist for WCBS-2 in New York; formerly a spokesman for the Young Lords
• Clyde Haberman, columnist for the New York Times
• Marilyn Hacker, poet, critic, translator, and recipient of the National Book Award
• Ed Kosner, editor of ', ', ', and '.
• Min Jin Lee, acclaimed novelist and author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko.
• Lars-Erik Nelson, correspondent and columnist for the New York Daily News, Newsweek, and Newsday
• Otto Penzler, editor, author, and collector of espionage and thriller books; received an Edgar Award for Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection
• Martin Peretz, former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine
• Kevin Phillips, author and political analyst
• Richard Price, author ; Oscar–nominated screenwriter
• James Sanders, architect, author, filmmaker, Guggenheim Fellow and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
• April Smith, author of novels including Be The One, and Good Morning, Killer, and TV scriptwriter for Lou Grant, Chicago Hope, and Cagney & Lacey
• Dava Sobel, author, best known for her popular expositions in the sciences
• Norman Spinrad, science fiction author ; screenwriter
• Gary Weiss, journalist and author
• Dave Winer, computer scientist and blogger

Business, finance, and economics

Nobel Prize winner

• Claudia Goldin, economic historian and labor economist, 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient

Other business, finance, and economics alumni

• Rose Marie Bravo, vice chairman, Burberry, former president of Saks Fifth Avenue
• Millard Drexler, CEO, J.Crew, former CEO of Gap
• Jerald G. Fishman, CEO, Analog Devices
• Gene Freidman, New York City attorney
• Gedale B. Horowitz, partner, Salomon Brothers, former chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
• David Karp, founder, Tumblr
• Ray King, entrepreneur
• Leonard Lauder, former president and current chairman, Estée Lauder Companies
• Phil Libin, CEO, EverNote
• Lisa Su, CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices

Science

Nobel Prize-winning alumni

• Leon N. Cooper, co–developer of BCS theory; namesake of Cooper pairs
• Sheldon Glashow, physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory
• Roy J. Glauber, physicist who made contributions to the quantum theory of optical coherence
• Russell A. Hulse, astrophysicist who co–discovered the first binary pulsar, providing significant evidence in support of the theory of general relativity
• Robert J. Lefkowitz, biochemist known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors
• Hugh David Politzer, physicist who co–discovered asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics
• Melvin Schwartz, physicist who co–developed the neutrino beam method demonstrating of the doublet structure of the lepton through the discovery of the muon neutrino
• Steven Weinberg, physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory
• Claudia Goldin, economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 for her research in participation and gender pay gaps in the work force.

Other science and engineering alumni

• David Adler, physicist
• Bruce Ames, biologist, inventor of the Ames Test, winner of the National Medal of Science
• Naomi Amir, pediatric neurologist, established first pediatric neurology clinic in Israel
• Allen J. Bard, a chemist, Priestley Medal-recipient, and an influential pioneer of modern electrochemistry.
• Jill Bargonetti, biologist; noted for her work on the function of the oncogene p53
• Hans Baruch, physiologist and inventor
• Ira Black, neuroscientist and stem cell researcher, first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey
• Gregory Chaitin, mathematician, computer scientist, and author; one of the founders of algorithmic information theory; namesake of Chaitin's constant
• Rahul Desikan, neuroscientist and neuroradiologist; known for using 'big data' acquired through ongoing global collaborations, he innovated a variety of cross disciplinary methods to identify novel risk factors for brain diseases
• Rana Fine, physical oceanographer, worked on ocean circulation and ventilation
• Andrew Fraknoi, astronomer
• David J. Glass, skeletal muscle biologist - discovered mechanisms controlling muscle hypertrophy and atrophy; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Michael H. Hart, astrophysicist, author of three books on history
• Martin Hellman, electrical engineer and cryptologist who was instrumental in the development of public-key cryptography; 2015 recipient of the ACM Turing Award
• Leonard Kleinrock, electrical engineer and computer scientist; oversaw the first ARPANET connection to the first node at UCLA; supervised sending the first message over what would become the internet
• Andrew R. Koenig, computer scientist, inventor, and author, retired from Bell Labs
• Leslie Lamport, computer scientist noted for fundamental contributions to theory of computing, including distributed systems and the development of LaTeX; 2013 recipient of the ACM Turing Award; namesake of the Lamport signature and Lamport's scheme
• Norman Levitt, author and mathematics professor at Rutgers University; a figure in the fight against anti-intellectualism; his book Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science inspired the Sokal Affair
• Richard Lindzen, former Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and critic of climate change extremism.
• Barry Mazur, professor of mathematics and Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, a title given to the most distinguished professors at Harvard. Mazur is a recipient of the National Medal of Science and a number of prestigious mathematical prizes, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Marvin Minsky, cognitive scientist, computer scientist and inventor; pioneer in artificial intelligence; co-founder of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; wrote Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine; patented the confocal microscope; recipient of the Turing Award
• Robert Moog, electrical engineer; pioneer in the development of electronic music, notably for the invention of the Moog synthesizers, still produced by his namesake company
• Jay Pasachoff, astronomy professor at Williams College; textbook writer; expert in astronomy education; director of the Hopkins Observatory; Asteroid 5100 Pasachoff is named in his honor
• Stanley Plotkin, medical doctor, author, and co-creator of vaccines for several diseases including rubella, rabies, rotavirus, and cytomegalovirus
• Stuart Alan Rice, theoretical chemist and physical chemist
• Frank Rosenblatt, computer pioneer; noted for designing Perceptron, one of the first artificial feedforward neural networks; namesake of the Frank Rosenblatt Award given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Jun John Sakurai, particle physicist and author, noted for his work on vector mesons; namesake of the Sakurai Prize awarded annually by the American Physical Society
• Myriam Sarachik, solid-state physicist and a former president of the American Physical Society
• Edl Schamiloglu, distinguished professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of New Mexico
• Ben Shneiderman, developer of computer visualization and human-computer interaction
• Lawrence B. Slobodkin, pioneer in the field of modern ecology
• Lisa Su, electrical engineer, CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices
• Leonard Susskind, widely regarded as one of the "fathers" of string theory
• Larry Tesler, helped develop modern graphical user interface, invented the cut, copy, and paste commands
• Joseph F. Traub, computer scientist
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and current director of the Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History; known for his work on educational television, such as NOVA ScienceNOW and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; namesake of Asteroid 13123 Tyson
• Robert Williamson, molecular biologist and professor of medical genetics from 1995 to 2005 at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
• Cynthia Wolberger, professor of biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
• George Yancopoulos, medical researcher in molecular immunology; member of the National Academy of Sciences; founder and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
• Norton Zinder, biologist in the field of molecular biology; known for his discovery of genetic transduction; recipient of the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences in 1966; became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969; led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death

Sports

• Arthur Bisguier, chess grandmaster; 1954 U.S. Chess Champion; won three U.S. Open chess tournaments; played for the U.S. team in five Chess Olympiads
• Robert Ford, radio broadcaster, Houston Astros, one of two full-time African-American play-by-play broadcasters in Major League Baseball
• Michael Kay, New York Yankees sportscaster and current host of The Michael Kay Show
• Jeanette Lee, professional pool player known by her nickname "The Black Widow"
• Ira Rubin, contract bridge player known as "The Beast" for his aggressive playing style and for inventing three famous bidding systems
• Joel Sherman, Scrabble champion
• Herb Stempel, former contestant on the television game show Twenty One, known for his contest against Charles Van Doren, and for his role in exposing the subsequent quiz show scandals
• Benjamin (Benji) Ungar, fencer
• Wolf Wigo, 3-Time Olympic water polo player who was captain of the US National Water Polo Team