J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Known as "the father of the atomic bomb"," Oppenheimer lamented the weapon's killing power after it was used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is widely seen as his generation's leading writer of the stage musical. Described by Frank Rich in the "The New York Times" as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater," he is one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize.

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1 1949) is an American poet and musician known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer. He is associated with African American militant activism, and is best known for his poem and song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". He is the son of Jamaican footballer Gil Heron, who was one of the first black professionals to play in the UK.

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.

Diane Arbus was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. (Her first name is pronounced "dee-ANN.")

Robert Moses (December 18 1888-July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although he never held elected office, Moses was arguably the most powerful person in New York City government from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990. "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov" won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus.

Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings.

Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.

James Haas (Jim) Scheuer (February 6, 1920 - August 30, 2005) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was also affiliated with the Liberal Party of New York. Scheuer was born and raised in New York City where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He received a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1942, a Masters degree from Harvard Business School in 1943, …

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", …

Charlie King is an attorney, politician, and civic leader in New York. He was born on June 5 1959 in New York City. After graduating from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he attended Brown University (graduated in 1981), and New York University Law School (graduated in 1987). King served as the chairman of the Democratic County Committee in New York County and has been active in Rockland County politics.

Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr. (born September 21, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman and public servant. He was the first African-American Secretary of the Army. Clifford Alexander Jr was born in New York City and attended the Ethical Culture and Fieldston Schools there; graduated from Harvard University in 1955 and from Yale University Law School in 1958.

Matt Cohler (born in 1977) is an American entrepreneur. Cohler was born in New York, New York. After graduating from st. Bernard's and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he moved to Europe where he worked for a year as a Jazz musician. He returned to the United States in 1996 to attend Yale University. In 1998 he left Yale to work for the systems integration and OSS startup AsiaInfo in Beijing. Cohler returned to Yale in late 1999, graduating in 2001.

Biography of Jordan Bratman : 1977 - Jordan Bratman was born on June 4th. American marketer and the better half of Christina Aguilera.1994 - Jordan Bratman became a music marketer in several music studios in New York.1995 - Graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School. - Received his ...

Jill Abramson Managing Editor, The New York Times

Walter Marvin Koenig (born September 14, 1936) is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Chekov in "Star Trek", and as Bester on the series "Babylon 5".

David Denby is an American film critic who writes for "The New Yorker". At present (2007) he shares this role with Anthony Lane. Denby previously reviewed films for New York magazine. In his 1986 essay, "Can The Movies Be Saved?", Denby made an eerily prescient comment regarding the current president of the United States. Discussing the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he remarked that Ferris was like George Bush, Jr., …

Tess Slesinger (July 16, 1905 - February 21, 1945) was a Jewish-American writer and screenwriter and is credited as being a charter member of the New York intellectual scene. She was born as Theresa Slesinger on July 16, 1905, in New York. She was the fourth child of Anthony Slesinger, a Hungarian-born dress manufacturer, and Augusta (Singer) Slesinger, a prominent psychoanalyst.

Doris Ulmann (1884-1934) was an American photographer, best known for her photographs of the people of Appalachia made between 1928 and 1934. Ulmann grew up in New York City, where she graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Ulmann also graduated from the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography. Other students of the school who went on to become notable photographers include Margaret Bourke-White, Anne Brigman, Dorothea Lange, Paul Outerbridge, …

Jane Mayer (born 1955 in New York City) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1995. In recent years, she has written extensive articles for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition.

Doug Liman (born 1965) is an American film director and producer. Liman began making short films while still in junior high school and studied at International Center of Photography in New York City. While attending Brown University, he helped to co-found the student-run cable television station and served as its first station manager. Liman attended the graduate program at University of Southern California, where he was tapped to helm his first project in 1993, …

Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) is a prolific American prolific lyricist and songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows. He and his wife Marilyn Bergman, whom he married in 1958, were born in the same hospital and raised in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, …

Robert Morris Morgenthau (born July 31, 1919) is currently the District Attorney for New York County, which is coterminous with Manhattan.

Darcy Frey is an American writer from New York. Best known for his 1994 book "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams", Frey has published articles in "The American Lawyer", "Rolling Stone", "Harper's", and "The New York Times Magazine". He is a contributing editor at "Harper's" and "The New York Times Magazine" and the winner of a National Magazine Award and the Livingston Award.

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer, director and novelist best known for his involvement in the "Star Trek" films. He is also well known as the director for the landmark 1983 TV-Movie "The Day After", for which he was nominated for a Best Director Emmy Award. In 1977, Meyer was nominated for an Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for adapting his own 1974 novel, "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", …

Rita Gam (born April 2, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Golden Globe-nominated American film and television actress and documentary film maker. Starting out on Broadway and television, Gam (her real name) moved on to act in films appearing first in the film noir "The Thief" with Ray Milland in 1952. Her first husband was director Sidney Lumet. She appeared in a few more American films before finding work in Europe.

Ralph de Toledano (August 14, 1916 - February 3, 2007) was a major figure in the conservative movement in the United States throughout the second half of the 20th century. A Sephardic Jew born in Morocco, he came to New York as a teenager to attend the Juilliard School. His interests quickly shifted from music to politics, however, …

Carl Philipp Leubsdorf (born March 17, 1938) is a long-time Washington, D.C. political journalist. He is currently Washington Bureau Chief for the "Dallas Morning News," a post he has held since 1981. He previously worked for Associated Press (1960-1975) and the "Baltimore Sun" (1976-1981). He is married to Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for "USA Today".

Stephen Slesinger, was an American radio/television/film producer, creator of comic-book characters, and a pioneer in the licensing of characters for children. From 1923 to 1953, he created, produced, published, developed, licensed or represented most of the popular literary legends of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Andrew Litton (born May 16, 1959, New York City) is an American orchestral conductor. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School, and holds both undergraduate and Masters degrees in music from Juilliard. He was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1994. and is now its Conductor Laureate. He served for twelve seasons as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2006.

Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913-February 12, 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation". One of her most powerful pieces was a group of poems entitled "The Book of the Dead" (1938), documenting the details of the Hawk's Nest incident, …

Richard Ravitch (1933 - present) is a business and civic leader from New York City.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt is an American journalist, critic and novelist. He was the senior daily book reviewer for the "New York Times" for 32 years. Along with several dozen then-prominent writers and political activists (including James Baldwin, Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem) he signed the Violence in Oakland essay, condemning police violence against Black Panther Party members in Oakland, …

Joseph Kraft was an American journalist. After working at the "Washington Post" and the "New York Times" in the 1950s, he became a speechwriter for 1960 Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. Kraft was a graduate of Columbia University. His syndicated column ran in over 200 papers.

Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) was an American theatrical scenic, costume, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He is considered one of the most influential theatre designers of the 20th century, designing the scenery and often the lighting for over 200 productions, many of which became American classics. His Broadway debut was in 1924 with "The Guardsman", in which he designed the scenery and lighting.