- John Jay
John Jay (1817-94) was an American lawyer and diplomat, son of William Jay and a grandson of Chief Justice John Jay. He was born in New York City, graduated at Columbia College in 1836, and was admitted to the bar three years later. He early became intensely interested in the antislavery movement, and while still in college (1834) was president of the New York Young Men's Antislavery Society. He was active in the Free Soil Party movement, … - Robert Abrams
Robert Abrams (1938 -)is a politician and lawyer in New York. He served as a member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx in the 1970s. From 1970 to 1979, he served as the Bronx Borough President and "ex officio" member of the New York City Board of Estimate. He is considered a member of the reform wing of the Democratic Party. In 1978, he was elected to the first of four terms as New York State Attorney General. - Robert Mills
Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. While sharing an office at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1954, Chen Ning Yang and Mills proposed a tensor equation for what are now called Yang-Mills fields. This equation reduces to Maxwell's Equations as a special case, … - John Kass
John Kass is a "Chicago Tribune" columnist. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on the South Side of Chicago and grew up there and in Oak Lawn, IL. He held many jobs - retailer, ditch digger, waiter - before becoming a student of film at Columbia College in Chicago. There, he worked in the student newspaper and gained the attention of Daryle Feldmeir, … - Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore (1748 - 1816) was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. He was the father of Clement Clarke Moore by his marriage to Charity Clarke. Having attended King's College, he also served as its acting president during the first year of the American Revolution and, later, president of its successor, Columbia College (now Columbia University). Charity Clarke was the older sister of Mary Clarke, married twice, to Richard Vassal, a planter in Jamaica, … - David Lehman
David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia College and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett Fellow. He is the author of five collections of poems, The Evening Sun (Scribner, 2002), The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry (2000), Valentine Place (1996), Operation Memory (1990), and An Alternative to Speech (1986). - Clement Clarke Moore
Clement Clarke Moore, is best known as the credited author of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (more commonly known today as "Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Clement C. Moore was more famous in his own day as a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College (now Columbia University) and at General Theological Seminary, who compiled a two volume Hebrew dictionary. He was the only son of Benjamin Moore, … - James Kent
James Kent (July 31, 1763 Doansburg, Putnam County, New York – December 12, 1847 New York City) was an American jurist and legal scholar. - Jerry Speyer
Mr. Speyer was one of the two founding partners of Tishman Speyer Properties (TSP), and has been President and CEO since TSP's formation in 1978. Prior to 1978, Mr. Speyer was a Senior Vice President and Director of Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. An active advocate on behalf of New York City, Mr. Speyer has headed many community, business and cultural organizations. - Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. Hammer was CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and development company. - Rufus King
Rufus King (January 26 1814 - October 13 1876) was a newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War. King was born in New York City, the grandson of Rufus King, delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. After graduation from Columbia College, where his father, Charles King, served as president, King enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point. - Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey was born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey in Adams Center, New York in the United States. He attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He graduated in 1874 with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree from Amherst in 1877. - Charles Anthon
Charles Anthon (November 19, 1797 - July 29, 1867) was an American classical scholar, born in New York City. After graduating with honors at Columbia College in 1815, he began the study of law, and in 1819 was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. In 1820 he was appointed assistant professor of Greek and Latin in his old college, full professor ten years later, and at the same time headmaster of the grammar school attached to the college, which post he held until 1864. - John Erskine
John Erskine (October 5 1879 - June 2 1951) was a U.S. educator and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University (A.M., 1901; Ph. D., 1903). Professor Erskine was employed at Columbia and Amherst. - Clarence Page
Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the "Chicago Tribune". He is an occasional panelist on "The McLaughlin Group", a regular contributor of essays to "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Sunday". - Brander Matthews
James Brander Matthews (born February 21, 1852 in New Orleans; died March 31, 1929 in New York City), was a U.S. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. He graduated from Columbia College in 1871 and from Columbia Law School in 1873, but turned to a literary career. From 1892 to 1900 he was professor of literature at Columbia, and thereafter held the chair of dramatic literature. - Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 - June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States. - Martin de Maat
Martin de Maat (1948 - February 15, 2001) was a teacher and artistic director at The Second City in Chicago. He also taught at Columbia College. He studied under Viola Spolin. De Maat and Del Close were the two main figures of the Chicago improvisational comedy scene in the late 80's and throughout the 1990s. De Maat began working at Second City as a teenager washing dishes in the kitchen. He brielfy studied theater at the University of Iowa, … - James Parker
James Parker (March 3, 1776 - April 1, 1868) was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Bethlehem, New Jersey, he moved to Perth Amboy after the Revolution. He graduated from Columbia College (in New York City) in 1793; Parker engaged in the management and settlement of large landed properties left by his father, also as a land surveyor and as a lawyer, although never admitted to the bar. - John Torrey
John Torrey (August 15, 1796 - March 10, 1873) was an American botanist. Torrey was born in New York. When he was 15 or 16 years of age his father received a prison appointment at Greenwich, and there he made the acquaintance of Amos Eaton, a pioneer of natural history studies in America. He thus learned the elements of botany, as well as something of mineralogy and chemistry. In 1815 he began the study of medicine, qualifying in 1818. - Peter Pouncey
Peter Pouncey is a British author and classicist. He was born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, his family reassembled in England, and Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools and at Oxford. He later became a classicist at Columbia University and took up the post of Dean at Columbia College before serving as President of Amherst College from 1984 to 1994. - Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, American scientist and educationalist, was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the 5th of May 1809. In 1828 he graduated, second on the honour list, at Yale University. He was then in turn a tutor at Yale, a teacher (1831—1832) in the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, Connecticut, and a teacher (1832—1838) in the New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. - Michelle Citron
Michelle Citron is a feminist film, video and multimedia producer, scholar and author. She taught at Northwestern University from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, but recently took the position of Chairperson, Interdisciplinary Arts Department, at Columbia College. She grew up in Hawaii and holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her best known film is "Daughter Rite" (1979), … - Joaquin Miller
Joaquin Miller was the pen name of the colorful American poet, essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (March 10, 1841, or alternatively September 8, 1837, or November 10, 1841 - February 17, 1913). His parents were Hulen (sometimes “Hulings”) Miller and Margaret Witt who married January 3, 1836 in Union County, Indiana. Most family researchers give his birth date as September 8, 1837 and his birthplace as Liberty, Union County, … - Francis Pharcellus Church
Francis Pharcellus Church (February 22 1839 - April 11 1906) was an American publisher and editor. He was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from Columbia College in New York City in 1859. With his brother William Conant Church he established the "Army and Navy Journal" in 1863, and "Galaxy" magazine in 1866. He was a lead editorial writer on his brother's newspaper, the "New York Sun", … - Valentine Mott
Valentine Mott (August 20, 1785 - April 26, 1865), American surgeon, was born at Glen Cove, New York. He graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and also spent a winter in Edinburgh. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy he was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia College in 1809. From 1811 to 1834 he was in very extensive practice as a surgeon, and most successful as a teacher and operator. - Wayne Teasdale
Wayne Robert Teasdale (1945 - 20 October 2004), a.k.a. Brother Wayne Teasdale, was an American author, teacher and advocate for causes from environmental responsibility to the homelessness crisis, who espoused what he termed "interspirituality", a belief that all world religions have a commonality that can be experienced through mysticism. Teasdale received a Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University in 1986 and taught at DePaul University, … - James Lenox
James Lenox (19 August 1800 - 17 February 1880) was an American bibliophile and philanthropist, born in New York City. A graduate of Columbia College, Lenox was a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His collection of paintings and books eventually became known as the Lenox Library and later became part of the New York Public Library in 1895. In 1913, the collection was moved to the central library. - Austin E. Quigley
Austin E. Quigley is the Dean of Columbia College, an undergraduate liberal arts division of Columbia University. He has held this position since 1995. Dean Quigley was born in Northumbria, near the English border with Scotland. His parents were both schoolteachers and he was the second of their five children. After attending the local grammar school, he earned his Bachelor's degree in English Literature at Nottingham University. - Jason Epstein
Jason L. Epstein (born August 25, 1928) is an American editor and publisher. A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the Vintage paperbacks, which published such authors as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, E. L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal, and Philip Roth. In 1952, while an editor at Doubleday, he created the Anchor Books imprint. - Jim Verraros
Jim Verraros auditioned for the first season of American Idol at the suggestion of a friend while he was attending Columbia College as a musical theater major in Chicago. Jim was undoubtedly one of the most talented and talked about contestants to ever appear on the hit Fox TV show American Idol. Jim placed 9th on the first season and become one of the most memorable contestants to ever appear on the hit show. - Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti (b. July 11, 1983 in New York City) is a rock/pop singer, songwritter, and pianist. He attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, a section of The Bronx, and Columbia College in New York City. Cincotti started playing a toy piano at the age of three. While in high school, he regularly performed at clubs throughout Manhattan, participated in "Our Sinatra" and performed at the White House. - Irwin Edman
Irwin Edman was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents. Edman spent his high-school years at Townsend Harris Hall, a New York high school for superior pupils. He then attended Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1917, and his Ph.D. in 1920. He became a professor of philosophy at Columbia, … - William Alexander Duer
William Alexander Duer (September 8, 1780 - May 30, 1858) was an American lawyer, jurist, and educator from New York City, grandson of William Alexander, Lord Stirling. He was an Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court (1822-1829) and served as President of Columbia College (now Columbia University) from 1829 to 1842. - Wellington Koo
Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo was a Chinese diplomat and a representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Born in Shanghai in 1887, he went to the United States in 1904 and studied Western culture in order to help China with the problem of imperialism. He spoke perfect fluent English, and came to be interested in China's position in international society. Koo attended Saint John's University, Shanghai, and Columbia College, … - Stuyvesant Fish
Stuyvesant Fish was president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin Niemcewicz, née Kean. A graduate of Columbia College, he was later an executive of the Illinois Central Railroad, and as its president from 1887 to 1906 oversaw its period of greatest expansion. In 1906, he was removed from his position by E. H. Harriman, … - Eric van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader (1946 -) is a writer of fantasy and thriller novels. He is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master. - David Truman
David Bicknell Truman (1913-2003) was is an American academic who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1969-1978. He is also know as for his role as a Columbia University administrator during the Columbia University protests of 1968. - William Barclay Parsons
William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 - May 9, 1932) was a famous American civil engineer. He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms. Parsons received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1879, and a second from Columbia's School of Mines in 1882. Parsons designed the Cape Cod Canal. He was also Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, … - Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński is an Academy Award-winning cinematographer and film director who has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's movies since 1993's "Schindler's List". Kamiński was born in Ziebice, Poland. He left Poland at age of 21, after Jaruzelski imposed martial law in 1981. He emigrated to the United States and attended Columbia College in Chicago from 1982 to 1987, and took up film making as a profession before transferring to the AFI Conservatory, …
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