List of Queens College people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Queens College, City University of New York.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

[edit] Notable alumni

Robert Bertoldi - Class of '76. CFO of Amphion Innovations PLC and co-founder of VennWorks LLC.
Frank M. Boccio*- Executive Vice President and CAO, New York Life Insurance Company
Lawrence Cohen - President and CEO of The Merv Griffin Group of Companies
Jerry Colonna - Well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur coach
Daniel Goodman - CEO of Goodman Strategies
Raphael Green - CEO of Bear Sterns
Nathan Leventhal - Former President of Lincoln Center
Allan Loren - Former Chairman & CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
Donna Orender - WNBA president
Leonard Schutzman - Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo
Charles Wang - founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders
Robert Shustak - Hedgefund manager

Kevan Abrahams - Nassau County Legislator (D) Nassau County 1st Legislative District
Gary Ackerman - United States Representative from New York (1983- )
Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, American political consultant
Joseph Crowley - United States Representative, New York's 7th congressional district, Queens County Democratic Chairman
Hon. Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist.
Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student
Alan Hevesi - former New York State Comptroller, former New York State Assemblyman, former Queens College professor
Dov Hikind - New York State Assemblyman
Rory Lancman - New York state Assemblyman
Helen Marshall - Queens Borough President
Hiram Monserrate - New York City Councilmember
Jose R. Peralta - New York State Assemblyman
Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state Senator

Barbara Bach - actress, wife of former Beatle Ringo Starr
Joy Behar - comedienne and co-host of The View
Adrian Brody - Actor , Academy award winner. Attended as student in 1990
Fran Drescher - actress, The Nanny
Dennis Elsas - Radio personality: WNEW-FM, WFUV-FM
Jon Favreau - actor and director (attended 1984-1987, 1988 - dropped out a few credits shy of completing his degree)
Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer
Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor
Carole King - songwriter and recording artist
Richard Kline - "Larry Dallas" in Three's Company
Mary Murphy - Emmy Award-winning TV anchor
Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975-1978 - dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years)
Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders.^[1]
Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) - radio talk show personality and author
Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
Paul Simon - musician, Simon and Garfunkel

David A. Adler - author
Nellie Y. McKay - scholar and co-editor of Norton Anthology of African-American Literature
Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism
Arnold Skemer - novelist and publisher
Dorothy Rabinowitz - awarded 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Phil Demise Smith - poet, founder of the N. Dodo Band, founder of the Queens College Whereas literary and art magazine
Elliot Sperling expert on Tibet

Richard Laub-paleontologist
Stanley Milgram - psychologist
Yuliana Contecha- psychologist
Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer
Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory^[2]

Norm Roberts - head coach of St. John's University men's basketball team, as well as a former coach and star player at Queens College

Famous faculty at Queens College have included

^ Howie Rose, MSG Network. Accessed September 20, 2007. "A graduate of Queens College, Rose’s career began in 1975 when he became one of the original voices for SportsPhone."
^ Burkhart, Ford. "Aaron D. Wyner, 58; Helped Speed Data Around the Globe", The New York Times, October 13, 1997. Accessed November 9, 2007.