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Hunter College

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1870 by Thomas Hunter as the Normal College for Women.

Location:
New York City

Founding Date:
1870

Official Website:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bella Abzug
Politician
24-Jul-1920 31-Mar-1998 Feminist and former Congresswoman
Martina Arroyo
Singer
2-Feb-1937   Operatic soprano
Ellen Barkin
Actor
16-Apr-1954   Siesta
Edward Burns
Actor
29-Jan-1968   Saving Private Ryan
Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick
Judge
1942   Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Eleanor Clift
Journalist
1940   Madam President
Richard Cohen
Columnist
1941   Washington Post columnist
Harry Connick, Jr.
Singer
11-Sep-1967   Golden voiced singer/actor
Leon G. Cooperman
Business
c. 1943   Omega Advisors, Inc.
Bobby Darin
Musician
14-May-1936 20-Dec-1973 Mack the Knife
Ruby Dee
Actor
27-Oct-1924   The Jackie Robinson Story
Vin Diesel
Actor
18-Jul-1967   Riddick from Pitch Black
Hugh Downs
Journalist
14-Feb-1921   20/20
Gertrude B. Elion
Scientist
23-Jan-1918 21-Feb-1999 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Martin Garbus
Attorney
8-Aug-1934   Attorney for Lenny Bruce
Valerie Harper
Actor
22-Aug-1940   Rhoda on Mary Tyler Moore
Harry Harrison
Novelist
12-Mar-1925   Stainless Steel Rat series
Rita E. Hauser
Activist
12-Jul-1934   Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Evan Hunter
Novelist
15-Oct-1926 7-Jul-2005 The Blackboard Jungle
Richard Jeni
Comic
14-Apr-1957 10-Mar-2007 A Big Steaming Pile of Me
Audre Lorde
Author
18-Feb-1934 17-Nov-1992 A Burst of Light
Paule Marshall
Novelist
9-Apr-1929   Brown Girl, Brownstones
Michael Massee
Actor
?   Momentum
Gabrielle K. McDonald
Judge
12-Apr-1942   US District Court Judge, Texas, 1979-88
Tom Murphy
Politician
15-Aug-1944   Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1994-2006
Bess Myerson
Model
16-Jul-1924   First Jewish Miss America
Julianne Nicholson
Actor
1-Jul-1971   Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Mollie Orshansky
Economist
9-Jan-1915 18-Dec-2006 Orshansky Index
Grace Paley
Author
11-Dec-1922 22-Aug-2007 The Little Disturbances of Man
Rhea Perlman
Actor
31-Mar-1948   Cheers
Judy Reyes
Actor
5-Nov-1967   Nurse Espinosa on Scrubs
Cybill Shepherd
Actor
18-Feb-1950   Moonlighting
Robert Smigel
Cartoonist
7-Feb-1960   Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Jean Stapleton
Actor
19-Jan-1923   Edith on All In The Family
Pamela Tiffin
Actor
13-Oct-1942   One, Two, Three
Robert Townsend
Actor
6-Feb-1957   A Soldier's Story
Nick Valensi
Guitarist
16-Jan-1981   Guitarist for The Strokes
James Van Praagh
Paranormal
23-Aug-1958   Spiritualist faker
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Physicist
19-Jul-1921   Developed radioimmunoassay technique

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Benjamin Barber
Scholar
2-Aug-1939   Jihad vs. McWorld
Jacqueline K. Barton
Chemist
7-May-1952   Professor of Chemistry at CalTech
Johnnetta B. Cole
Educator
19-Oct-1936   President of Spelman College, 1987-97
Irving Howe
Critic
11-Jun-1920 5-May-1993 Editor of Dissent
Leonard Peikoff
Philosopher
1933   Proseletyzer of objectivism
Albert Shanker
Labor Leader
14-Sep-1928 22-Feb-1997 American Federation of Teachers
John Kennedy Toole
Novelist
7-Dec-1937 26-Mar-1969 A Confederacy of Dunces
Lionel Trilling
Critic
4-Jul-1905 5-Nov-1975 The Liberal Imagination
Nydia Velázquez
Politician
28-Mar-1953   Congresswoman, New York 12th
Robert C. Weaver
Government
29-Dec-1907 17-Jul-1997 US HUD Secretary, 1966-68
James Wright
Poet
13-Dec-1927 25-Mar-1980 The Branch Will Not Break

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hugh Downs
Journalist
14-Feb-1921   20/20
Paul LeClerc
Administrator
28-May-1941   CEO of New York Public Library
Jennifer J. Raab
Educator
c. 1956   President, Hunter College
Donna Shalala
Government
14-Feb-1941   Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001


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