This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Queens College, City University of New York.
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- Ted Alexandro - comedian[27]
- Martin Aronstein - theatrical lighting designer[28]
- Annet Artani - singer, songwriter, co-wrote "Everytime" with Britney Spears[29]
- Jay Bak - rapper and singer based in South Korea
- Lidia Bastianich - celebrity chef and host of Lidia's Italy[30]
- Joy Behar - comedian and co-host of The View[31]
- Adrien Brody - actor, Academy Award winner, attended as student in 1990[32]
- Glen Brunman - film and television soundtrack executive and producer[33]
- Danny Burstein - Broadway actor[34]
- Fran Capo - comedian[35]
- Lucille Carra - documentary film producer
- Angelo Corrao - Italian American Film Editor
- Jason Cuadrado - director and producer
- Yanna Darili - model, Greek television personality
- Peter Dizozza - composer
- Fran Drescher - actress, producer The Nanny[36]
- Dennis Elsas - radio personality: WNEW–FM, WFUV–FM[37]
- Nargis Fakhri - model and Bollywood actress
- Jon Favreau - actor and director, director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2[38]
- David Zelag Goodman - screenwriter, playwright[39]
- Marvin Hamlisch - Hollywood and Broadway composer[40]
- Neophytos Ioannou - AEA Actor, Singer, Voice Teacher & Audition Coach[41]
- Annette Insdorf - film historian and author[42]
- Alan Jacobson - thriller writer[43]
- Ron Jeremy - prolific pornographic film actor[44]
- Herb Kaplow - television news correspondent[45]
- Jason Katims - television writer and producer[46]
- Carole King - songwriter and recording artist[47]
- Richard Kline - "Larry Dallas" in Three's Company[48]
- Carol Leifer - Stand-up comedian, writer, actress and producer[49]
- Bob Linden - host and producer of Go Vegan Radio[50]
- Hal Linden - actor, producer, and musician[51]
- Clair Marlo - composer, singer, record producer, songwriter - went from 1976 to 1977 and then went to Berklee College of Music
- Perri Pierre - actor and film producer[52]
- DJ Rekha Malhotra - DJ, producer, educator of South Asian music
- Ray Romano - actor, comedian (attended 1975–1978 – dropped out after accumulating only 15 credits in three years but returned in later years during which he made Dean's list)[53]
- Howie Rose - sportscaster for the New York Mets and New York Islanders.[54]
- Neil Rosen - Emmy award-winning movie critic, NY1
- Michael Savage (formerly known as Michael Weiner) – radio talk show personality and author[55]
- Nancy Savoca - screenwriter, film director and producer
- Jerry Seinfeld - comedian[56]
- Nestor Serrano - actor[57]
- Paul Simon - singer, songwriter, musician, and member of Simon and Garfunkel[58]
- Michael Stewart - playwright[59]
- Bobby Susser - songwriter, record producer, and performer[60]
- Lorenzo Thomas - poet[61]
- Mal Waldron - jazz pianist[62]
- Dennis Wolfberg - comedian[63]
- Marv Wolfman - comic book and animation writer
- Jay Wolpert - television producer, screenwriter
- Ben Younger - screenwriter and director[64]
- Karen Yu (born 1992), professional wrestler, also known as "Karen Q" and "Wendy Choo".[65]
- Gary Ackerman - United States Representative from New York (1983-2013)[68]
- Joel Benenson - Democratic pollster, chief political consultant for Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016[69]
- Shifra Bronznick - Prominent Jewish Women's rights activist[70]
- Kema Chikwe - National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP, former aviation minister[71]
- Nikos Christodoulides - President of Cyprus (2023-present)[72]
- Anthony Como - former NYC Council Member[73]
- Costa Constantinides - nonprofit leader, former NYC Council Member, Queens College professor[74]
- Joseph Crowley - former United States Representative from New York's 7th congressional district (1999-2019), former Queens County Democratic Chairman[75]
- Mark Danish - former Florida House of Representatives[76]
- Adriano Espaillat - United States Representative from New York's 13th congressional district, former member of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly[77]
- Rafael Espinal - Executive Director of Freelancers Union former NYC Council Member[78]
- Arthur J. Finkelstein - GOP political consultant[79]
- Steven W. Fisher - former New York State Justice, attorney in Wendy's massacre[80]
- Marvin E. Frankel - litigator, judge, legal scholar, and human rights activist[81]
- Helen W. Gillmor - U.S. Federal Judge
- Deborah J. Glick - NY State Assemblywoman[82]
- Mark M. Goldblatt - Political commentator
- Andrew Goodman - civil rights worker, murdered in Mississippi at the age of 20 during Freedom Summer of 1964, while still a student[83]
- Dan Halloran - former NYC council member, Theodist
- Julia Harrison - NYC Council Member[84]
- Alan Hevesi - former New York State Comptroller, former New York State Assemblyman, former Queens College professor[85]
- Andrew Hevesi - New York State Assembly[86]
- Dov Hikind - former New York State Assemblyman[87]
- Blaise Ingoglia - Florida state assembly[88]
- Dennis G. Jacobs - Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[89]
- Jeffrey D. Klein - former New York State senator[90]
- Alan P. Krasnoff - former Chesapeake, Virginia Mayor[91]
- Rory I. Lancman - former NYC Council Member and former New York state Assemblyman[92]
- Nathan Leventhal - former NYC Deputy Mayor, former President, Lincoln Center[93]
- Joseph McGoldrick (1901–1978) - former NYC Comptroller and NY State Residential Rent Control Commissioner, lawyer, and professor at Queens College[94]
- Helen Marshall - former Queens Borough President[95]
- Nettie Mayersohn - former member of New York State Assembly[96]
- Hiram Monserrate - former New York State Senator[97]
- Diane Patrick (B.A. 1972) - labor lawyer and former First Lady of Massachusetts (2007–2015)[98]
- Jose Peralta - Former New York State Assemblyman and New York State Senator[99]
- Sylvia Pressler - former Judge[100]
- Ronald Spadafora - former FDNY chief and supervisor of September 11 rescue and recovery efforts[101]
- Toby Ann Stavisky - New York state Senator[102]
- James Vacca - former NYC Council Member and Queens College professor[103]
- Jeffrey White - former North California District Judge[104]
- Yitzchok Adlerstein - Rabbi, Writer[105]
- David A. Adler - Author[106]
- Mel Alexenberg - Science Artist and Art Educator
- Amin Tarzi - Middle East Studies[107]
- Toni Cade Bambara - Author, activist[108]
- Nino Lo Bello - Journalist[109]
- Michael Berenbaum - Scholar, writer, Rabbi[110]
- Ann Birstein - Memoirist, Fulbright Scholar[111]
- Erika Bourguignon - Anthropologist[112]
- Robert Boyers - Literary essayist, cultural critic and memoirist.
- Alex Caldiero - Poet, scholar of humanities[113]
- Vévé Amasasa Clark - Scholar of African American Studies[114]
- Marylyn Dintenfass - Painter
- Alan Dugan - Poet[115]
- Yael Eckstein - Religious Activist[116]
- Marc Estrin - Political writer
- Jeff Faux - Founder of Economic Policy Institute[117]
- Bella Feldman - Sculpting innovator
- Marie Ferrarella - Romance writer[118]
- Juan Flores - Scholar of Latino Studies[119]
- Ellen G. Friedman - Author, Woman's studies
- Ruth Gay - Writer about Jewish Life[120]
- Jeff Gomez - Writer and transmedia producer
- Martin Gottlieb - Editor at New York Times[121]
- Robert Hessen - Economist, historian
- Cynthia Holz - Correspondent and Author[122]
- Johanna Hurwitz - Children's Author[123]
- Jane Irish - Ceramicist[124]
- Susan Isaacs - Author, essayist, screenwriter
- Bernard Kalb - Journalist, media critic, author
- Marvin Kalb - Journalist
- Nasser Khalili - Scholar, philanthropist
- Bernard Krisher - Journalist[125]
- Corky Lee - Journalistic Photographer[126]
- Judith Lorber - Sociologist[127]
- Felipe Luciano - Journalist[128]
- Irving Malin - Literary critic[129]
- Nellie Y. McKay - scholar and co-editor of Norton Anthology of African-American Literature[130]
- Samuel Menashe - Poet, Biochemist, Veteran[131]
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Political Scientist
- Joan Nestle - Author[132]
- Richard Ofshe - Sociologist[133]
- Jim Osman - Sculptor
- Claude V. Palisca - professor of music history
- Herbert S Parmet - Distinguished historian and political author
- Irene Peslikis - Feminist artist
- Mark Podwal - Artist and physician[134]
- Shana Poplack - Linguistics[135]
- Lina Puerta - Artist[136]
- Dorothy Rabinowitz - awarded 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary[137]
- Colleen Randall – American abstract painter
- Marcia Resnick - Photographer
- Robert Rosenblum - Art historian, curator, writer[138]
- John Rowan - Vietnam Veteran
- Arlene Rush – artist and sculptor[139]
- Lloyd Schwartz - Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism[140]
- Joel Shatzky (1943-2020) - writer and literary professor[141]
- Lowery Stokes Sims - Former curator at Museum of Arts and Design[142]
- Marilyn Singer - Children's author[143]
- Arnold Skemer - novelist and publisher
- Elliot Sperling - Expert on Tibet[144]
- Linda Stein - Sculptor, feminist (interviewed in Borat)[145]
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn - historian[146]
- Eric Wolf - anthropologist[147]
- Kenneth Appel - Mathematician proved four color theorem[179]
- Boris Aronov - Computer scientist (computational geometry)[180]
- Inge Auerbacher - Chemist, author, playwright, Holocaust survivor[181]
- Steven J. Burakoff - cancer specialist and the author of Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990)[182]
- Anne Carter - Technology economist[183]
- Arturo Casadevall - Molecular microbiologist[184]
- Marie Maynard Daly - Biochemist, first African American woman to earn a Phd in chemistry[185]
- Celso-Ramón García - Obstetrician and gynecologist[186]
- Edgar Gilbert - Coding Theorist[187]
- David Gries - Computer Scientist[188]
- Mohammad Salman Hamdani - Biochemist, cited in the Patriot Act for heroism on 9/11[189]
- Michael Hecht - Researcher[190]
- Richard Laub - Paleontologist
- Ira B. Lamster - Periodontist and professor of health management
- Jerry Lawson - Electronic engineer[191]
- Stanley Milgram - Psychologist
- Bernard Salick - Entrepreneur, researcher, nephrologist[192]
- Robert Moog - inventor of the Moog synthesizer[193]
- Howard Moskowitz - market researcher and psychophysicist
- Elizabeth F. Neufeld - Geneticist[194]
- Nicholas Rescher - Philosopher
- Elissa Shevinsky - Entrepreneur, information security researcher, feminist
- Russell Targ - Physicist
- Alexander L. Wolf - Computer Scientist, president of Association for Computing Machinery[195]
- Aaron D. Wyner - information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory[196]
- Bruce M. Zagelbaum - Physician and researcher in sports ophthalmology
Famous faculty at Queens College have included:
- Salman Ahmed, musician, band Junoon[203]
- Benny Andrews, artist[204]
- Paul Avrich, historian[205]
- Ben-Zion Bokser, prominent Conservative Rabbi[206]
- Donald Byrd, jazz musician[207]
- Elliott Carter, composer[208]
- Barry Commoner, biologist[209]
- Costa Constantinides, political scientist and urban expert
- Luigi Dallapiccola, composer[210]
- Bogdan Denitch, sociologist[211]
- Joshua Freeman, historian[212]
- Azriel Genack, physicist[213]
- Susanna Grannis, outspoken academic on helping minority students and students with disabilities gain access to education
- Andrew Hacker, political scientist[214]
- Michael Harrington, political philosopher[215]
- Samuel Heilman, Sociologist[216]
- Banesh Hoffmann, mathematician, worked with Albert Einstein[217]
- Chin Kim, violinist[218]
- John Frederick Lange, Jr., author[219]
- Mieczysław Maneli, philosopher and diplomat[220]
- Joseph McElroy, author[221]
- Elliott Mendelson, mathematician[222]
- Edwin E. Moise, mathematician[223]
- Luc Montagnier, virologist, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (endowed professorship, 1997/8–2001)[224]
- Thea Musgrave, composer[225]
- Marco Oppedisano, composer
- Arbie Orenstein, American musicologist, author, and pianist[226]
- George Perle, composer[227]
- Koppel Pinson, historian[228]
- Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist[229]
- Gregory Rabassa, literary translator[230]
- Stefan Ralescu, mathematician[231]
- Karol Rathaus, composer[232]
- Charles Repole, actor, theater director[233]
- Reynold Ruffins, Visual artist and professor emeritus[234]
- Douglas Rushkoff, Media Expert and futurologist[235]
- Roger Sanjek, anthropologist[236]
- Arthur Sard, mathematician[237]
- Bruce Saylor, composer[238]
- Carl Schachter, musician[239]
- Dennis Sullivan, mathematician
- David Syrett, naval historian[240]
- Harold Syrett (1913-1984), President of Brooklyn College[241]
- John Tytell, author[242]
- James Vacca, urban expert[243]
- Robert Ward, composer[244]
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet[245]
- Roby Young, Soccer[246]