World leaders

• Shimon Peres
  Shimon Peres
  GCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
  
  , President of Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  , Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• Hage Geingob
  Hage Geingob
  Hage Geingob is a Namibian politician who was the first Prime Minister of Namibia following its independence, serving from 1990 to 2002...
  
  , prime minister of Namibia
  Namibia
  Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
  
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  Eleanor Roosevelt
  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...
  
  , political activist, first-lady, United Nations Human Rights Prize recipient

Writers

• Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
  
  ,, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
• Jack Kerouac
  Jack Kerouac
  Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
  
  , On the Road, forerunner of the Beat Generation
  Beat generation
  The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
  
  
• James Baldwin
  James Baldwin (writer)
  James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America,...
  
  , writer Go Tell It on the Mountain
  Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
  Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. The novel examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community...
  
  
• Lorraine Hansberry
  Lorraine Hansberry
  Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays...
  
  , playwright A Raisin in the Sun
  A Raisin in the Sun
  A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
  
  , youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history
• Mario Puzo
  Mario Puzo
  Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...
  
  , author of The Godfather, two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay
• Jamaica Kincaid
  Jamaica Kincaid
  Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda...
  
  
• Suzanne LaFleur, Love, Aubrey
  Love, Aubrey
  Love, Aubrey, by Suzanne LaFleur, is a 2009 children's novel about a young girl recovering from the tragedy of losing her father and sister in an automobile accident, and from the confusion of being abandoned by her grieving mother.- Plot Summary :...
  
  
• Madeleine L'Engle
  Madeleine L'Engle
  Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...
  
  , A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and...
  
  , Newbery Award winner
• William Styron
  William Styron
  William Clark Styron, Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, which included...
  
  , Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Paul Levinson
  Paul Levinson
  Paul Levinson is an American author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages....
  
  , The Plot to Save Socrates
  The Plot To Save Socrates
  The Plot to Save Socrates is a time travel novel by Paul Levinson, first published in 2006. Starting in the near future, the novel also has scenes set in the ancient world and Victorian New York.-Summary:...
  
  
• Mike Doughty
  Mike Doughty
  Mike Doughty is an American indie and alternative rock singer-songwriter. He led the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s, and in the 2000s, became a solo artist...
  
  
• Sean Wilsey
  Sean Wilsey
  Sean Wilsey is the author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It All, which was published by Penguin in 2005. He is the son of Al Wilsey, a San Francisco businessman, and Pat Montandon, a socialite and peace activist, and the stepson of socialite and philanthropist Dede Wilsey...
  
  , author of Oh the Glory of It All
  Oh the Glory of it All
  Oh the Glory of it All , is a work of non-fiction by Sean Wilsey, published by Penguin Press. A humorous coming-of-age memoir, the book chronicles Wilsey's troubled years growing up in a wealthy and prominent San Francisco family.-External links:...
  
  
• Daniel Wolf, co-founder of The Village Voice
  The Village Voice
  The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
  
  

Fine artists

• George Maciunas
  George Maciunas
  George Maciunas was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers...
  
  , founding member of Fluxus
  Fluxus
  Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
  
  
• Shigeko Kubota
  Shigeko Kubota
  is a visual and performance artist born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937. She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s. She became vice chairman of the Fluxus...
  
  , vice-chairman of Fluxus
  Fluxus
  Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
  
  
• Kevin Appel
  Kevin Appel
  -Life and work:Kevin Appel was born in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design , New York in 1990 and his MFA from the University of California in 1995....
  
  , painter
• Rosemary Cove
  Rosemary Cove
  Rosemary Cove is an American sculptor. She was born on January 11, 1936, in New York City.Rosemary Cove is best known for her work with Corten Steel, clay and wax. She also creates painting and collage. Her subject is primarily the female form...
  
  , sculptor
• Jane Frank
  Jane Frank
  Jane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
  
  , painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer and illustrator (named Jane Schenthal when attending New School)
• Julie Harvey
  Julie Harvey
  Julie Harvey is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. Harvey made her Football Ferns début in a 3-0 win over Switzerland on 14 October 1981, and finished her international career with five caps to her credit....
  
  , painter
• Edward Hopper
  Edward Hopper
  Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...
  
  , painter
• Jasper Johns
  Jasper Johns
  Jasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...
  
  , forerunner of pop art
  Pop art
  Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
  
   and minimalism
  Minimalism
  Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
  
  
• Shirley Kaneda, painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
• Julio Rosado del Valle
  Julio Rosado del Valle
  Julio Rosado del Valle , was an internationally known abstract expressionist.-Early years:Rosado del Valle was born in Cataño, Puerto Rico and as a young child would always be drawing or painting. In his primary school his teachers recognized his artistic talents...
  
  , painter
• Norman Rockwell
  Norman Rockwell
  Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
  
   painter and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
• Gavin Spielman
  Gavin Spielman
  Gavin Spielman is an American landscape painter and guitarist working in New York City, New York. He has been mentioned in the Bold Face Names section of The New York Times alongside Annie Leibovitz, Newsday, the Daily News, and many other publications. The Baltimore Sun quoted Gavin saying 'I...
  
  , painter and musician
• Julie Umerle
  Julie Umerle
  Julie Umerle is an abstract painter and contemporary visual artist based in London.-Life and work:Julie Umerle was born in the United States to an English mother and a Polish father...
  
  , painter
• Jay Van Buren, painter
• Janise Yntema
  Janise Yntema
  Janise Yntema is an American painter working in the ancient wax encaustic technique. Her paintings are created from numerous layers of translucent applications of pigmented wax that are fused together with a blowtorch to create a smooth and glossy skin-like surface...
  
  , painter

Fashion designers

• Donna Karan
  Donna Karan
  Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...
  
  , creator of the DKNY
  DKNY
  DKNY is a label of fashion designer Donna Karan. It is also the name of a clothing store in New York City featuring Donna Karan's associated line.-History:...
  
   label
• Gilbert Adrian
• Jeff Banks Welsh, designer and presenter of the BBC's The Clothes Show
• Bill Blass
  Bill Blass
  William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns...
  
  , President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member, co-founder of Council of Fashion Designers of America
• Donald Brooks
  Donald Brooks
  Donald Brooks was an American fashion designer. Though he was very successful, if not as famous as some of his contemporaries, his passion was his work for the stage and film, designing over 3500 costumes...
  
  
• Angela Gisela Brown, former New York fashion designer, now known as Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
• Doo-Ri Chung
  Doo-Ri Chung
  Doo-Ri Chung is a Korean-American fashion designer.-Training and work experience:Chung graduated from The New School university's Parsons division with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion in 1995. After receiving her degree, Chung worked for Geoffrey Beene for six years, rising to the position of...
  
  , Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award winner
• Tom Ford
  Tom Ford
  Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man.-Early life :Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in...
  
  
• Lazaro Hernandez
• Marc Jacobs
  Marc Jacobs
  Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 60 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997...
  
  
• Elois Jenssen
  Elois Jenssen
  Elois Jenssen was an American film and television costume designer.-Career:In 1951, Lucille Ball approached Jensson and asked her if she would be interested in designing costumes for a new situation comedy television series she and her husband Desi Arnaz were readying for CBS...
  
  , costume designer for I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
  
  
• Narciso Rodriguez
  Narciso Rodriguez
  Narciso Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.Rodriguez is the first child and only son of Cuban parents Narciso Rodríguez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez who are of Canarian descent. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion: "They...
  
  
• Lazaro Hernandez
• Isaac Mizrahi
  Isaac Mizrahi
  Isaac Mizrahi is an American TV presenter, fashion designer, and was the creative director of Liz Claiborne. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines.-Early life:...
  
  , four-time CDFA award winner
• Anand Jon
  Anand Jon
  Anand Jon Alexander , know simply as Anand Jon; is a fashion designer who appeared on America's Next Top Model and rose to fame in the fashion industry prior to being indited and convicted of multiple counts of sex crimes against aspiring models.-Career:Jon was born in Kerala, India and came to...
  
  , fashion designer and convicted serial rapist
• Kevin Johnn
  Kevin Johnn
  Kevin Johnn was one of the original twelve contestants of Project Runway on Bravo.-Project Runway:He appeared and starred on the hit Bravo Emmy nominated show Project Runway at age 37...
  
  , Fashion Designer, also on Project Runway
  Project Runway
  Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
  
  
• Derek Lam
  Derek Lam
  Derek Lam is an American fashion designer. He was born in San Francisco, California and is of Chinese American parentage. Lam is the youngest of three children in his fourth-generation family. His parents had a business that imported clothes from Asia, and his grandparents ran a successful garment...
  
  
• Jillian Lewis, fashion Designer, also on Project Runway
  Project Runway
  Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
  
  
• Claire McCardell
  Claire McCardell
  Claire McCardell was an American fashion designer in the arena of ready-to-wear clothing in the 20th century. From the 1930s to the 1950s, she was known for designing functional, affordable, and stylish women’s sportswear within the constraints of mass-production, and is today acknowledged as the...
  
  
• Patrick Robinson
  Patrick Robinson (fashion designer)
  Patrick Robinson is a California-born American fashion designer who has worked for such names as Giorgio Armani, Anne Klein, Perry Ellis, and Paco Rabanne. A graduate from the Parsons School of Design, Robinson has been a member of the Council of Fashion Designers since 1994 and was named one of...
  
  
• Narciso Rodriguez
  Narciso Rodriguez
  Narciso Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.Rodriguez is the first child and only son of Cuban parents Narciso Rodríguez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez who are of Canarian descent. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion: "They...
  
  
• Lela Rose
  Lela Rose
  Lela Rose is an American fashion designer.Lela grew up in Dallas, Texas. She attended University of Colorado where she was a painting and sculpture major and graduated in 1991. She had a business in college making vests from vintage scarves and decided to go into fashion...
  
  
• Behnaz Sarafpour
  Behnaz Sarafpour
  Behnaz Sarafpour is a New York City-based designer who introduced a line of women's apparel bearing her name in 2001.She attended Parsons School of Design, where she was honored with the Golden Thimble Award, and has held design positions at Isaac Mizrahi, Narciso Rodriguez, Richard Tyler, Anne...
  
  
• Willi Smith
  Willi Smith
  Willi Donnell Smith was one of the most successful young African-American fashion designers in fashion history. At the time of his death, his company Williwear Ltd...
  
  
• Peter Som
  Peter Som
  Peter Som is an American fashion designer. He describes his aesthetic as one of "effortless elegance and refined sexiness", and aspires to provide a fresh perspective to modern American fashion.- Background :...
  
  
• Anna Sui
  Anna Sui
  Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. Her luxury brand retails globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing, fragrance, cosmetic, and accessories lines sell at Anna Sui stores in over 50 countries and are also widely distributed at leading department stores...
  
  
• Zang Toi
  Zang Toi
  -Early life:He was born in the Kuala Krai district in the state of Kelantan on 11 June 1961.Toi left his native Malaysia at the age of eighteen, and via Toronto, landed in New York a year later. There he attended Parsons School of Design and apprenticed with Mary Jane Marcasiano and Ronaldus Shamask...
  
  
• Kay Unger
  Kay Unger
  Kay Unger is an American fashion designer, currently she is the creative head and public face of Phoebe Company LLC and its brands; Kay Unger New York, Phoebe Couture, Unger by Kay Unger and Kay J’s by Kay Unger...
  
  
• Jason Wu
  Jason Wu
  Jason Wu is a Manhattan-based Taiwanese American fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Taiwan, Wu moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine and attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in Windsor ,Connecticut. He learned how to sew by designing and...
  
  
• Alexander Wang
  Alexander Wang (designer)
  Alexander Wang is a Taiwanese-American fashion designer.At age 18, he moved to New York to attend Parsons The New School for Design to study fashion design. After dropping out in his sophomore year, he launched his first women's ready-to-wear collection in 2007...
  
  , fashion designer to Michelle Obama
  Michelle Obama
  Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
  
   and Ivana Trump
  Ivana Trump
  Ivana Trump is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.-Early years:...
  
  
• Carmen Marc Valvo
  Carmen Marc Valvo
  Carmen Marc Valvo is an American designer who specializes in evening-wear and high-end cocktail dresses for a line of the same name, which was founded in 1989...
  
  
• Prabal Gurung
  Prabal Gurung
  Prabal Gurung is a Nepalese American Fashion Designer.- History :Prabal Gurung launched his first collection under his own name during New York Fashion Week in February 2009 at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea. For Fall 2010, he staged his first runway show in the Tents at Bryant Park. Gurung's...
  
  

Illustrators and animators

• Peter DeSeve
  Peter DeSeve
  Peter de Sève is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots and the Ice Age trilogy . He received the National...
  
  , Illustrator and Character Designer
• Hidekaz Himaruya, Manga Artist (Hetalia: Axis Powers, Chibi-san Date)
• Julia Gran
  Julia Gran
  Julia Gran was born in New York City. She attended the High School of Art and Design where she majored in animation. Julia graduated from Parsons School of Design....
  
  , Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Children's Book Writer and Illustrator
• Bessie Pease Gutmann
  Bessie Pease Gutmann
  Bessie Pease Gutmann was an American artist and illustrator most noted for her paintings of putti, infants and young children. During the early 1900s Gutmann was considered one of the better-known magazine and book illustrators in the United States. Her artwork was featured on 22 magazine covers...
  
  , Magazine and children's book illustrator in the early 1900s
• Joel Resnicoff
  Joel Resnicoff
  Joel Hirsch Resnicoff was an American artist and fashion illustrator, who incorporated expressionistic art into commercial fashion illustrations, stating his belief that "commercial art is the art of the century." His work did not fit easily into any one category, and "the figures in his...
  
  , Commercial artist and fashion illustrator
• Brian Wood, Graphic novelist, Illustrator, Designer
• Dan Yaccarino
  Dan Yaccarino
  Dan Yaccarino is an American author, illustrator and television producer known for his animated television series, children’s books and award-winning imagery....
  
  , Children's Book Writer and Illustrator
• Thomas La Padula, illustrators

Photographers

• Steven Meisel
  Steven Meisel
  Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...
  
  , fashion photographer
• Stewart Shining
  Stewart Shining
  Stewart Shining is a New York City-based photographer of contemporary actors, musicians, and models. Shining, born in Burlington, Vermont, and who grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota, studied at the Parsons School of Design in the early 1980s and has been commissioned by both Vanity Fair and...
  
  , fashion photographer
• Ryan McGinley
  Ryan McGinley
  Ryan McGinley is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, McGinley was one of the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo...
  
  
• Marion Post Wolcott
  Marion Post Wolcott
  Marion Post was a noted photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. She was born in New Jersey. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village...
  
  
• Jill Enfield
  Jill Enfield
  Jill Enfield born 1954 in Miami Beach, Florida, is a photographer and hand coloring artist best known for her work in alternative photographic processes such as Cyanotype and Collodion process...
  
  

Designers

• Will Wright, creator of The Sims
  The Sims
  The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Its development was led by game designer Will Wright, also known for developing SimCity...
  
  
• Philippe Cramer
  Philippe Cramer
  Philippe Cramer is a Swiss and American designer.He was born in New York and grew up in Geneva. He graduated from Parsons The New School for Design. Philippe Cramer started his own design company and his own brand in 2001...
  
  , Furniture Designer
• Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting
  Focus Lighting
  Focus Lighting is a New York City based Architectural Lighting Design Firm founded by Paul Gregory in 1986. Focus Lighting designed the Entel Tower in Santiago, Chile, which was the first automated color-changing exterior lighting display in the world and the first building to have an automatic...
  
  ), Lighting Designer (Designed floor for film Saturday Night Fever)
• Sun Lee
  Sun Lee
  Lee Ji-sun , also known as Sun Lee in the Western media, is a South Korean who attended Parsons The New School for Design. She is the reigning Miss Korea 2007 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2008 pageant held in Nha Trang, Vietnam with 79 other delegates.-Miss Korea 2007:Lee...
  
  , Miss Korea 2007
• Herbert Muschamp
  Herbert Muschamp
  Herbert Mitchell Muschamp was an American architecture critic.- Early years :Born in Philadelphia, Muschamp described his childhood home life as follows: “The living room was a secret. A forbidden zone. The new slipcovers were not, in fact, the reason why sitting down there was taboo. That was...
  
  , Architectural Critic
• Ai Weiwei
  Ai Weiwei
  Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008...
  
  , Architectural Designer
• Paul Rand
  Paul Rand
  Paul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...
  
  
• Hector Luis Bustamante
  Hector Luis Bustamante
  -Early life:He was born Héctor Luis Bustamante Durango in Medellín, Colombia to Dagoberto Bustamante and Aracelly Durango. Bustamante and his family moved to the United States when he was 12. Bustamante was an allumni of the 1989 Governor's School of New Jersey as an art scholar...
  
  , actor and graphic designer
• Barbara Kruger
  Barbara Kruger
  Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
  
  , Graphic Designer

Musicians

• Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco
  Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...
  
  , singer
• Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...
  
  , MFA, creative writing, 2000
• Alex Skolnick
  Alex Skolnick
  Alexander Nathan Skolnick is an American jazz and metal guitarist. He was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band Testament from 1983 until his departure in 1993...
  
  , Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American progressive metal band founded in 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. Since then, TSO sold nearly 8...
  
  , Testament
  Testament (band)
  Testament is an American metal band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1983. They are often credited as one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
  
   and the Alex Skolnick Trio
  Alex Skolnick Trio
  The Alex Skolnick Trio is an American jazz music trio comprising the guitarist Alex Skolnick, Matt Zebroski on drums, and Nathan Peck on bass. Previously, John Davis played bass for the group. The Trio is known for its inventive jazz take on hard rock and heavy metal "standards"...
  
  
• Larry Harlow, salsa
  Salsa music
  Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...
  
   pioneer, M.A. in Philosophy
• Mike Doughty
  Mike Doughty
  Mike Doughty is an American indie and alternative rock singer-songwriter. He led the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s, and in the 2000s, became a solo artist...
  
  , B.A. from Lang in poetry
• Kelly Chen
  Kelly Chen
  Kelly Chen is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Kelly has also been known as a diva in Asia. She has a great success in Asia Entertainment industry with nearly 20 million record sales of 38 albums...
  
  , Hong Kong Singer
• Melora Creager
  Melora Creager
  Melora Creager, formerly Melora Mather, is an American cellist and singer-songwriter best known for her role as lead singer and chief composer of the cello rock trio Rasputina....
  
  , Musician
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
  Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
  Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is an American painter and lutenist-composer born in Ukraine.-Biography:Turovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1961, when it was part of the Soviet Union. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School...
  
  , Composer, Lutenist and Painter
• Jimmy Urine
  Jimmy Urine
  James Euringer , known professionally as Jimmy Urine, is the lead singer of the band Mindless Self Indulgence, as well as the programmer. He married Chantal Claret, lead singer of Morningwood on January 18, 2008.-Remixes:...
  
  
• Sean Yseult
  Sean Yseult
  Sean Yseult is an American rock musician. She has played various instruments with different bands over the years, most notably her bass work with the band White Zombie. Her father, Michael S. Reynolds, was a noted biographer of Ernest Hemingway...
  
  
• Jake Shears
  Jake Shears
  Jake Shears is the lead male vocalist for the American music group Scissor Sisters.-Early life and education:...
  
  

Actors, directors, and producers

• Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...
  
  
• Stacy Farber
• Charis Michelsen
  Charis Michelsen
  Charis Elisa Michelsen is an American actress, a former model and a make-up artist.-Life and career:Charis Michelsen was born December 30th, 1983 in Boring, Oregon. After high school, she moved to New York City to study art at Parsons School of Design, where a photographer for Harper’s Bazaar...
  
  , actress
• Joel Schumacher
  Joel Schumacher
  Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...
  
  , film director and producer
• Adrian Cronauer
  Adrian Cronauer
  Adrian Cronauer is a former United States Air Force sergeant and radio personality best known as the inspiration for the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam in which he was portrayed by Robin Williams....
  
  
• Paul Dano
  Paul Dano
  Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E. , The Girl Next Door , Little Miss Sunshine , There Will Be Blood , and Where the Wild Things Are .-Early life:Dano was born in New York City, the son of Gladys and Paul Dano...
  
  , Little Miss Sunshine
• Eliza Donovan, Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Jesse Eisenberg
  Jesse Eisenberg
  Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor. He made his screen debut with the comedy-drama television series Get Real from 1999 to 2000...
  
  , The Social Network
• Jonah Hill
  Jonah Hill
  Jonah Hill Feldstein , known professionally as Jonah Hill, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. Hill is best known roles for his roles in Superbad, Knocked Up, and Get Him to the Greek. He made his theatrical debut in I Heart Huckabees, alongside Jason Schwartzman and Dustin...
  
  , "Superbad"
• Kevin Smith
  Kevin Smith
  Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...
  
  , Clerks (did not graduate)
• Beatrice Arthur
  Beatrice Arthur
  Beatrice "Bea" Arthur was an American actress, comedienne and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both...
  
  , theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude
  Maude (TV series)
  Maude was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.Maude starred Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with...
  
  and The Golden Girls
  The Golden Girls
  The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida...
  
  
• Ben Gazzara
  Ben Gazzara
  -Early life:Gazzara was born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina and Antonio Gazzara, who was a laborer and carpenter. Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He actually lived on E. 29th Street and participated in the drama program at...
  
  
• Robert "Rob Zombie
  Rob Zombie
  Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
  
  " Cummings, musician, writer and director
• Harry Hurwitz
  Harry Hurwitz
  Harry Hurwitz was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His film The Projectionist was his directorial debut and also the first acting role for actor/comedian Rodney Dangerfield. He often used the pseudonym "Harry Tampa"...
  
  , film director and artist
• Adam Jasinski
  Adam Jasinski
  Adam Jasinski is the winner of the U.S. series Big Brother 9. Jasinski is a public relations manager from Delray Beach, Florida...
  
  , Winner of Big Brother 9
• Rod Steiger
  Rod Steiger
  Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the...
  
  , On The Waterfront
• Shelley Winters
  Shelley Winters
  Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006...
  
  
• Elaine Stritch
  Elaine Stritch
  Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs...
  
  
• Olivia Palermo
  Olivia Palermo
  Olivia Palermo is an American socialite, model and actress. She was a cast member of the reality television show The City.-Career:...
  
  , NY "socialite", MTV's "The City" co-star
• Peter Falk
  Peter Falk
  Peter Michael Falk was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo...
  
  , B.A. political science, Colombo
• Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears...
  
  

Political activists

• Dr. Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist
• Abraham Foxman
  Abraham Foxman
  Abraham H. Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.-Early life:Foxman, an only son, was born in Baranovichi, just months after the USSR took the town from Poland in the Nazi-Soviet Pact and incorporated it into the BSSR. The town is now in Belarus...
  
  , director Anti-Defamation League
  Anti-Defamation League
  The Anti-Defamation League is an international non-governmental organization based in the United States. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects...
  
  
• Tinga Seisay
  Tinga Seisay
  Samuel Tinga Khendekha Seisay is a Sierra Leonean pro-democracy activist and diplomat.- Early life :Born to a prominent political family, Seisay was educated at the prestigious St. Edward's Secondary School. He began his career as a law enforcement officer after graduating from the Police Training...
  
  , diplomat, pro-democracy activist
• Millicent Fenwick
  Millicent Fenwick
  Millicent Hammond Fenwick was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm...
  
  , editor, politician, diplomat
• Medea Benjamin
  Medea Benjamin
  Medea Benjamin is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with her husband, activist and author Kevin Danaher, fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange...
  
  
• William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League
  Catholic League (U.S.)
  The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to the Catholic League, is an American Catholic anti-defamation and civil rights organization...
  
   president
• Janine Jackson
  Janine Jackson
  Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR , and the co-host and co-producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin --a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country.Jackson graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A...
  
  , MA sociology, program director Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
  Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
  Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a progressive media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986.FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media watch group" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity...
  
  
• Ellen Johnson
  Ellen Johnson
  Ellen Johnson is an activist for atheist rights and the separation of church and state in the United States. She was president of American Atheists from 1995–2008.-Career:...
  
  , MA political science, president American Atheists
  American Atheists
  American Atheists is an organization in the United States dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating for the complete separation of church and state. It provides speakers for colleges, universities, clubs and the news media. It also publishes books and the monthly...
  
  
• Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
  Marist Brothers
  The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
  
  
• Matisyahu
  Matisyahu
  Matthew Paul Miller , better known by his Hebrew name and stage name Matisyahu, is an American Hasidic Jewish reggae and alternative rock musician....
  
  , B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
• Michael Wenger
  Michael Wenger
  Dairyu Michael Wenger is a Sōtō Zen priest and current Dean of Buddhist Studies at the San Francisco Zen Center in San Francisco, California—where he has been a member since 1972. A Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, Wenger is also a former president of the SFZC. He received his M.A. from The New...
  
  , M.A., Zen
  Zen
  Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...
  
   priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
  San Francisco Zen Center
  San Francisco Zen Center , is a network of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the San Francisco Bay area, comprising the City Center or Beginner's Mind Temple, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. The sangha was incorporated by Shunryu...
  
  

Academics

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III
  Franklin Delano "Frank" Roosevelt III is an American economist and the grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.-Family:...
  
   Ph.D., economist
• Eugene Goossen
  Eugene Goossen
  Eugene C. Goossen was an American art critic and art historian who organized more than 60 art exhibitions, wrote essays for catalogues in addition to books on the subject. He was on the faculty of Hunter College, where he headed the art department.Goossen was born in 1921 in Gloversville, New York...
  
   (1921–1997), art critic and historian.
• Stanley Aronowitz
  Stanley Aronowitz
  Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor.-Social Text:...
  
  , B.A., 1968, sociologist
• Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict
  Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist....
  
  , psychological anthropologist, author of "Patterns of Culture", etc.
• Jean L. Cohen
  Jean L. Cohen
  Jean L. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She specializes in contemporary political and legal theory with particular research interests in democratic theory, critical theory, Civil society, gender and the law. She received her PhD in 1979 from the New School for...
  
  , Ph.D. political theorist
• Barbara A. Cornblatt, Ph.D., M.B.A., psychologist
• Uri Davis
  Uri Davis
  Uriel "Uri" Davis is an academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford...
  
  , M.A. anthropology, 1973
• Richard Grathoff
  Richard Grathoff
  Richard Helmut Grathoff is a phenomenologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany.Born on August 30, 1934 in Unna, Westphalia, Germany, he received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in 1969 after studying under Aron Gurwitsch, Thomas...
  
  , Ph.D., 1969, sociologist
• Yossi Sarid
  Yossi Sarid
  Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006...
  
  , M.A. political science, journalist
• Steven Seidman
  Steven Seidman
  Steven Seidman is an American sociologist, currently professor at State University of New York at Albany. "He is a world renowned social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization." He received his A.B....
  
  , sociologist
• Ira Progoff
  Ira Progoff
  Ira Progoff was an American psychotherapist, best known for his development of the Intensive Journal Method while at Drew University. His main interest was in depth psychology and particularly the humanistic adaptation of Jungian ideas to the lives of ordinary people...
  
  , Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
• Mady Hornig
  Mady Hornig
  Mady Hornig, MD is a psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Director of Translational Research in the Center for Infection and Immunity...
  
  , psychiatrist
• Kevin Mattson
  Kevin Mattson
  Kevin Mattson is an American historian and critic.Mattson received his B.A. from the New School and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. For several years he ran the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University,He is the Connor Study Professor of...
  
  , historian and political analyst
• George E. McCarthy
  George E. McCarthy
  George E. McCarthy is a professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.- Education :* M.A., Ph.D. New School for Social Research * M.A., Ph.D. Boston College * B.A. Manhattan College - Career :...
  
   M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
• Sidney Mintz
  Sidney Mintz
  Sidney Wilfred Mintz is an anthropologist best known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Mintz studied at Brooklyn College earning his B.A in 1943. He got his doctoral degree from Columbia University under the supervision of Julian Steward and Ruth Benedict...
  
  , anthropologist
• Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani
  Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
  
   Soc. Sci. D., economist
• Richard Noll
  Richard Noll
  Richard Noll is an author and clinical psychologist. Currently he is Associate Professor of Psychology at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his publications in the history of psychiatry, including two critical volumes on the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung...
  
  , clinical psychologist and writer
• Peter L. Berger
  Peter L. Berger
  Peter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist well known for his work, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge .-Biography:...
  
  , sociologist, co-author of The Social Construction of Reality
  The Social Construction of Reality
  The Social Construction of Reality is a book about the sociology of knowledge written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann and published in 1966....
  
  , Distinguished Alumnus
• Heather Boushey
  Heather Boushey
  Heather Marie Boushey is a senior economist at the Center for American Progress.-Life and career:Boushey was born in Seattle and grew up in Mukilteo, Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A...
  
  , Ph.D., economist

Businesspeople

• Douglas Cliggott
  Douglas Cliggott
  Douglas "Doug" Cliggott is the U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. He was appointed to that position in 2009. Formerly he was the CIO of Dover Management LLC. He joined the Greenwich, CT based firm in December 2006. Cliggott was a managing director and chief investment strategist at J.P....
  
  , chief investment strategist JPMorgan Chase
• Stewart Krentzman
  Stewart Krentzman
  Stewart Krentzman is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Oki Data Americas, Inc., headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Its parent company, $6.2B Oki Electric is based in Tokyo, Japan....
  
  
• Dolly Lenz
  Dolly Lenz
  Dolly Lenz is a real estate agent in New York City who since 1997 has sold more business than any other agent in the United States...
  
  , New York real estate agent
• Bernard L. Schwartz
  Bernard L. Schwartz
  Bernard Leon Schwartz was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., Chairman and CEO of Loral Corp., and president and CEO of Globalstar. He retired from Loral and his positions at its various subsidiaries and affiliates as of...
  
  
• Brian Willison
  Brian Willison
  Brian Willison is the Executive Director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping at The New School.-Early life:...
  
  

Past

• Janet Abu-Lughod
  Janet Abu-Lughod
  Janet L. Abu-Lughod, née Lippman is an American sociologist with major contributions to World-systems theory and Urban sociology.-Family:She was married in 1951–1991 to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod...
  
  
• Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  
• Hannah Arendt
  Hannah Arendt
  Hannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...
  
  
• W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
  
• Jason Bateman
  Jason Bateman
  Jason Kent Bateman is an American television and film actor. After appearing in several 1980s and 1990s sitcoms including It's Your Move, and The Hogan Family, Bateman came to prominence in the early 2000s for playing Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, for which he won a TV Land, a Golden...
  
  
• Seth Benardete
  Seth Benardete
  Seth Benardete was an American classicist and philosopher, long a member of the faculties of New York University and The New School....
  
  
• Franz Boas
  Franz Boas
  Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did...
  
  
• André Breton
  André Breton
  André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
  
  
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
  William F. Buckley, Jr.
  William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
  
  
• John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  
• Edmund Snow Carpenter
  Edmund Snow Carpenter
  Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter was an anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media.-Early life:...
  
  
• Harry Cleaver
  Harry Cleaver
  Harry Cleaver is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, where Cleaver teaches Marxism and Marxist economics. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Dr...
  
  
• Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
  
  
• Stanley Diamond
  Stanley Diamond
  Stanley Diamond was an American poet and anthropologist. As a young man, he identified as a poet, and his disdain for the fascism of the 1930s greatly influenced his thinking....
  
  
• John Dewey
  John Dewey
  John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
  
  
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• John Eatwell
• Millicent Fenwick
  Millicent Fenwick
  Millicent Hammond Fenwick was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm...
  
  
• Sándor Ferenczi
  Sándor Ferenczi
  Sándor Ferenczi was a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school and a close associate of Sigmund Freud.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joel Fink
  Joel Fink
  Joel G. Fink is an actor, director, acting coach and theatre administrator. He is currently a Professor of Theatre for the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he also served as Associate Dean and Founding Director of the...
  
  , Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
• Betty Friedan
  Betty Friedan
  Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist.A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century...
  
  
• Erich Fromm
  Erich Fromm
  Erich Seligmann Fromm was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.-Life:Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am...
  
  
• Robert Frost
  Robert Frost
  Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
  
  
• Donna Gaines
  Donna Gaines
  Donna Gaines is a sociologist, journalist, and social worker in the United States. She is best known for her work on youth suicide, and popular culture.-Expertise:...
  
  
• Alexander Goldenweiser
• Martha Graham
  Martha Graham
  Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
  
  
• Aron Gurwitsch
  Aron Gurwitsch
  Aron Gurwitsch was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American philosopher working in the field of phenomenology. He wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology...
  
  
• Jürgen Habermas
  Jürgen Habermas
  Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
  
  
• Michael Harner
  Michael Harner
  Michael Harner is the founder of the and the formulator of "core shamanism." Harner is known for bringing shamanism and shamanic healing to the contemporary Western world...
  
  
• Robert Heilbroner
  Robert Heilbroner
  Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers , a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard...
  
  
• Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
  
  
• Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...
  
  
• Karen Horney
  Karen Horney
  Karen Horney born Danielsen was a German-American psychoanalyst. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology...
  
  
• Roman Jakobson
  Roman Jakobson
  Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century...
  
  
• Hans Jonas
  Hans Jonas
  Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.Jonas's writings were very influential in different spheres...
  
  
• Horace Kallen
  Horace Kallen
  -Biography:Born in the then German Bernstadt, Silesia to Jacob David Kallen and Esther Rebecca , an Orthodox rabbi and his wife, Kallen came to the United States as a child in 1887. He studied philosophy at Harvard University where he was a student of George Santayana, earning his B.A. in 1903...
  
  
• Ira Katznelson
  Ira Katznelson
  Ira Katznelson is a leading American political scientist and historian, noted for his influential research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States....
  
  
• John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
  
  
• Kenneth Koch
  Kenneth Koch
  Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...
  
  
• Julia Kristeva
  Julia Kristeva
  Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
  
  
• Ernesto Laclau
  Ernesto Laclau
  Ernesto Laclau is an Argentine political theorist often described as post-Marxist.He studied History in Buenos Aires, graduating from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1964, and received a PhD from Essex University in 1977.Since the 1970s he has been Professor of Political Theory at the...
  
  
• Emil Lederer
  Emil Lederer
  Emil Lederer was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist. Purged from his position at Heidelberg University in 1933 for being Jewish, Lederer fled into exile. He helped establish the "University in Exile" at the New School in New York City.-Biography:Lederer was born in 1882 to a Jewish...
  
  
• Emanuel Levenson
  Emanuel Levenson
  Emanuel Levenson was an American classical musician most active from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. Best known at the time as an opera director, he also taught piano and voice, performed as a concert pianist, and founded several arts organizations which survive to this day.A graduate of...
  
  
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
  
  
• Adolph Lowe
  Adolph Lowe
  Adolph Lowe born Adolf Löwe was a German sociologist and economist.- Major publications of Adolph Lowe :*Arbeitslosigkeit und Kriminalität, 1914....
  
  
• Ernest Mandel
  Ernest Mandel
  Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter , was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.-Life:...
  
  
• Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead
  Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
  
  
• Piet Mondrian
  Piet Mondrian
  Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian , was a Dutch painter.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism...
  
  
• Lewis Mumford
  Lewis Mumford
  Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...
  
  
• Reinhold Niebuhr
  Reinhold Niebuhr
  Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian and commentator on public affairs. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to the new Neo-Orthodox theology in the 1930s, explaining how the sin of pride created evil in the world...
  
  
• Claus Offe
  Claus Offe
  Professor Claus Offe is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School...
  
  
• Frank O'Hara
  Frank O'Hara
  Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...
  
  
• Elsie Clews Parsons
  Elsie Clews Parsons
  Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found The New School...
  
  
• Erwin Piscator
  Erwin Piscator
  Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer and, with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal...
  
  
• Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
  Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
  Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. A sometimes controversial academic, he taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research...
  
  
• Wilhelm Reich
  Wilhelm Reich
  Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
  
  
• Herman Rose
  Herman Rose
  Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an American painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting “74th Street Rooftops From Studio."...
  
  
• Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
  
• Alfred Schutz
  Alfred Schütz
  Alfred Schütz was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the [twentieth] century.-Life:Schütz was born in...
  
  
• Ali Shayegan
  Ali Shayegan
  Dr. Ali Shayegan , was an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lived in political exile in New York and New Jersey from 1958. Dr...
  
  
• Leo Strauss
  Leo Strauss
  Leo Strauss was a political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States...
  
  
• Sekou Sundiata
  Sekou Sundiata
  Sekou Sundiata was an African-American poet and performer, as well as a teacher at The New School in New York City. Famous students include musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty. His plays include The Circle Unbroken is a Hard Bop, The Mystery of Love, Udu, and The 51st Dream State...
  
  
• Paul Sweezy
  Paul Sweezy
  Paul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review...
  
  
• Charles Tilly
  Charles Tilly
  Charles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University....
  
  
• Thorstein Veblen
  Thorstein Veblen
  Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement...
  
  
• Max Wertheimer
  Max Wertheimer
  - External links :* * * * *...
  
  
• Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
  
  
• Slavoj Žižek
  Slavoj Žižek
  Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
  
  

Present

• Ágnes Heller
  Ágnes Heller
  Ágnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...
  
  
• Simon Critchley
  Simon Critchley
  Simon Critchley is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political...
  
  
• Elzbieta Matynia
• Jonathan Ames
  Jonathan Ames
  Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. He was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time envy of boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring...
  
  
• Robert Antoni
  Robert Antoni
  Robert Antoni is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head".- Background :...
  
  
• Andrew Arato
• Susan Cheever
  Susan Cheever
  Susan Cheever, , daughter of John Cheever and sister of Benjamin Cheever, is an author whose books include My Name is Bill - Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous, a biography of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson; Home Before Dark, a memoir about her father, John...
  
  
• Jonathan Bach
  Jonathan Bach
  Jonathan Bach is a professor of International affairs.He is the chair of the Global Studies undergraduate program at The New School in New York, where he has taught since 2002. He previously served as Associate and Acting Director of the at The New School. Bach has worked on issues such as...
  
  
• Faisal Devji
  Faisal Devji
  Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at The New School in New York City. Since 2009, Devji is Reader in Modern South Asian...
  
  
• Robert Dunn
• Nancy Fraser
  Nancy Fraser
  Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City...
  
  
• Paul Goldberger
  Paul Goldberger
  Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City...
  
  
• Elana Greenfield
  Elana Greenfield
  Elana Greenfield is an American playwright, and short story writer.-Life:Greenfield was raised in Israel.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from Brown University with an MFA....
  
  
• Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Hitchens
  Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
  
  
• Nina L. Khrushcheva
• Ron Leibman
  Ron Leibman
  -Career:Leibman was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s. He has appeared in many films such as Phar Lap; Where's Poppa?; The Hot Rock; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Super Cops; Up the Academy; Norma Rae; Romantic Comedy; Zorro, The Gay Blade; Garden State; and Rhinestone...
  
  
• Pippin Parker
  Pippin Parker
  Pippin Parker is an American playwright and theatre director. He is Director of The New School for Drama.He is one of the co-founding members of Naked Angels Theater Company in New York City where he was Artistic Director...
  
  
• Austin Pendleton
  Austin Pendleton
  Austin Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Frank Pugliese
  Frank Pugliese
  Frankie Pugliese a TV writer and artistic director. He won a WGA Award for Homicide: Life on the Street episode Night of the Living Dead. He is also a playwright.- Sources :...
  
  
• John Reed
  John Reed (novelist)
  John Reed is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice , Snowball's Chance with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole , and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare...
  
  
• Christopher Shinn
  Christopher Shinn
  Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1975 and currently lives in New York. His plays have been produced around the world.-Life:...
  
  
• Arthur Storch
  Arthur Storch
  Arthur Storch is an American actor and Broadway director. He founded Syracuse Stage in 1974. Productions he has directed include:*Tribute, on Broadway*The Comedy of Errors, at Syracuse Stage...
  
  
• Scott Thornbury
  Scott Thornbury
  Scott Thornbury is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the New School in New York, where he teaches on an on-line MATESOL program...
  
  
• Vladan Nikolic
  Vladan Nikolic
  Vladan Nikolic is a Serbian independent film director, screenwriter and film producer. His awards include the TV Sarajevo Award and Zeta Film Award for Best Screenplay, Telluride Indiefest Best Film Award, and Tiburon International Film Festival Golden Reel Award.Nikolic teaches film directing,...
  
  
• McKenzie Wark
  McKenzie Wark
  McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. He works mainly on media theory, critical theory and new media. His best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.-Life:...
  
  
• Robin Blackburn
  Robin Blackburn
  Robin Blackburn is a British socialist historian, a former editor of New Left Review , an author of essays on Marx, capitalism and socialism, and of books on the history of slavery and on social policy...
  
  
• Reggie Workman
  Reggie Workman
  Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  
  
• Anwar Shaikh
  Anwar Shaikh (economist)
  Anwar M. Shaikh is an American economist, and currently Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of The New School in New York City. His work in political economy has focused on the economic theory and empirical patterns of developed capitalism. He has written on international trade,...
  
  
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
  Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
  Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme and for her writing in publications including the Journal of Human Development, which she founded....
  
  
• Michael Cohen
  Michael Cohen (academic)
  Michael Cohen is Director of the at The New School. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.- History :...
  
  
• Aristide R. Zolberg
• Marcel Kinsbourne
  Marcel Kinsbourne
  Marcel Kinsbourne is an Austrian-born pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who was an early pioneer in the study of brain lateralization. He is presently a Professor of Psychology at both The New School in New York City and the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.Dr. Kinsbourne...