- Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
- Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. He is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile performer who conquered many music genres, including folk, country, pop, and jazz. He was also an award-winning actor, songwriter and music business entrepreneur.
- Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for combining electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force.
- Jon Favreau
Jonathan K. Favreau (born on October 19, 1966) is an American actor and director.
- E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Laurence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of "The Book of Daniel" in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, "Ragtime", was a commercial and critical success. As of 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.
- Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. He grew up in New York City in the Great Depression and went to the Bronx High School of Science. His interest in physics began there at the age of 12.
- Richard Price
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949 in the Bronx, New York) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His books explore the urban world in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. A self-described "middle class Jewish kid", Price grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, has a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and an MFA from Columbia.
- Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic.
- James Kyson Lee
James Kyson Lee (born December 13, 1975) is an American actor who is best known for his role of Ando Masahashi on the NBC television series "Heroes".
- Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born c. 1966) is an American environmental advocate and artist. She is focused on revitalization of her home borough of the Bronx, NY and currently works as the Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSB).
- Harold O. Levy
Harold O. Levy is a former Chancellor of New York City's public schools. He served under Mayor Rudy Giuliani from 2000 to 2002. He currently resides with his wife and two children in New York City. He was a member of the 1970 graduating class of the Bronx High School of Science, and earned a B.S in 1974 from Cornell University and a J.D. in 1979 from Cornell Law School.
- Jon Cryer
Jon Cryer (born on April 16, 1965 in New York, NY), is an American actor, writer and producer. He is currently starring in the CBS comedy series "Two and a Half Men" with Charlie Sheen. In July 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the series. He is the son of Gretchen Cryer and David Cryer, and has two sisters, Robin and Shelley. He is a 1983 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.
- Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include "Going Back to the River" (1990), "Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons" (1986), and "Presentation Piece" (1975), which won the National Book Award.
- H. David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, …
- Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese (pronounced Key-ah-nes-e) (born February 24, 1931 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor and performer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Corrado Soprano on the HBO TV series, "The Sopranos", a role that netted him two Emmy Award nominations. Chianese is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. He worked as a bricklayer with his father and attended night school during the 1950s, …
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932, Brookline, MA) is an American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University. Around 1960 Glashow put forward an initial theory of electroweak interactions, which Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam later developed. For this work the three won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Also, in collaboration with John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, Glashow predicted the charm quark.
- Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include: * "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" (1995) - the genius in question was John Harrison, …
- Morris Meister
Dr. Morris Meister was the founder and first principal of the Bronx High School of Science as well as the first president of Bronx Community College. He is regarded for his support and application of laboratory based methods in science education as well as interdisciplinary study.
- Paul Provenza
Paul Provenza (born July 31, 1957 in New York City) is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. Provenza grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx and graduated in 1975 from the Bronx High School of Science. He then graduated in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania, with the first Theatre Arts degree ever awarded by that Ivy League school. At Penn, he wrote for the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl and was a cast member of The Mask and Wig Club.
- Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations.
- Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman, FRSC (b. 1942) directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. His overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to "networked individualism". He has written more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books.
- Dash Mihok
Dashiell Mihok (born May 24, 1974) is an American actor. Mihok was born in New York City, New York to actor parents and attended the Bronx High School of Science. He was raised in Greenwich Village. He is mostly featured is supporting roles in big box office hits such as "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Perfect Storm", "The Thin Red Line", and "Romeo + Juliet".
- Bruce Ames
Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928), is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds. His research focuses on cancer and aging and he has authored over 500 scientific publications.
- Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him. He is a professor at Brown University. Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, …
- Julie Chen
Julie Suzanne Chen (born January 6, 1970) is an American television personality, news anchor, journalist, and producer who has 12 years of newscasting experience. She is best known for co-anchoring CBS's "The Early Show", alongside Harry Smith and Hannah Storm and for hosting the U.S. version of "Big Brother", the fourth-most successful reality show ever (behind "American Idol", …
- Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author. Norman Spinrad, born in New York City, is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris. He married fellow novelist N. Lee Wood in 1990; they divorced in 2005. They had no children.
- Gregory Chaitin
Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a new incompleteness theorem similar in spirit to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York, where he first developed his theorem while still in his teens.
- Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin (New York) is a professor of Journalism and Sociology at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A contributor to Mother Jones, The Nation and other publications, he is one of America's leading cultural critics. Among his many books are The Whole World is Watching; Inside Prime Time; and Media Unlimited.
- Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
- Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield (b. New York City, June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. He is a Senior Political Correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.
- Daphne Maxwell Reid
Daphne Maxwell Reid (born July 13 1948 in New York City, New York) is an actress. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She received a degree in interior design and architecture from Northwestern University which she attended on a scholarship and was the first African-American woman to be named Homecoming Queen. While at Northwestern she began a modeling career, eventually signing with the Eileen Ford modeling agency.
- Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield (b. New York City, June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents Benjamin and Helen. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1960. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1964, where he served as editor-in-chief of the "Daily Cardinal". He graduated with an LLB degree from the Yale Law School in 1967, …
- Herb Stempel
Herb Stempel (born December 19, 1926) is a television game show contestant who became famous for his participation in the 1950s show "Twenty One", where he had a suspiciously long run of wins in 1956, and for his eventual exposure of what became known as the Quiz show scandals. Stempel had actually been tested at a high IQ (he was a graduate of the famous Bronx High School of Science) and was as knowledgeable as portrayed.
- Joseph Lelyveld
Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the "New York Times" from 1994 to 2001 and is a Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist and author. In all, Lelyveld worked at the "Times" for nearly 40 years, starting out in 1960 as a copy editor and becoming a foreign correspondent within three years. He was replaced by Howell Raines, who resigned in 2003 because of the scandal surrounding the activities of Jayson Blair, a reporter on the National desk.
- Dr. Alexander Taffel
Dr. Alexander Taffel was the second principal of the Bronx High School of Science, a long-time physics teacher and author of three textbooks in Physics. He is a recipient of the NBC Award for Public Service. He is most famous for his tenure as principal of the Bronx High School of Science, during which he nurtured the institution and its international reputation.
- Michael I. Sovern
Michael Ira Sovern (born December 1, 1931) was the 17th president of Columbia University. He is currently the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Sovern was born in the Bronx, three blocks from Yankee Stadium to a dress salesman father and bookkeeper mother. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1949, "summa cum laude" from Columbia College in 1953, and first in his class at Columbia Law School in 1955.
- Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, …
- William Taubman
William Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1962; an M.A. from Columbia University in 1965; a Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1965; and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969.
- Robert Price
Robert Price is an American attorney, investment banker and corporate executive. He was appointed to New York State's Commission of Investigation in 2001. He founded Price Communications in 1981, a media company owning television and radio stations, a cellular telephone system, and the New York Law Journal. Born in the Bronx, Price is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia Law School. He served as Law Clerk to United States District Court Archie Dawson, …
- Harrison J. Goldin
Harrison Jay Goldin (born February 23, 1936 in the Bronx, New York City) is a lawyer and New York politician. He served as New York City Comptroller from 1974 to 1989. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1973 and ran in the 1989 Democratic Primary election for Mayor of New York. During the Kennedy Administration, Goldin was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights.