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Imran Anwar Innovator Raymond R. Arons Rocket Scientist, Healthcare Expert Isaac Asimov Author Baruj Benacerraf Scientist Moe Berg Catcher and Spy Allan Blaer Physicist Randolph Bourne Critic Courtney C. Brown Administrator Zbigniew Brzezinski Foreign Policy Advisor Patrick Buchanan Presidential Candidate Warren Buffett Investor James Cagney Actor Joseph Campbell Mythologist Roberto Campos Diplomat Ralph Caporale Jr. Educator Bennett Carroccio Hotjobs.com Founder Guy Wetmore Carryl Poet and Humorist Clifford P. Case Statesman Lynn Catterson Art Historian Stanley Chang Surgeon William Theodore de Bary Educator, Scholar John Dewey Philosopher Thomas E. Dewey Crime Fighter William J. Donovan General L. C. Dunn General Wallace Eckert Scientist Niles Eldredge Biologist Jack Elinson Sociomedical Scientist Abraham Fischler Educator William T.R. Fox International-Relations Theoretician Wolfgang Friedmann Mentor D. Carleton Gajdusek Virologist Herbert J. Gans Sociologist Lou Gehrig Athlete Kristine Gebbie Public Health Nurse Eli Ginzberg Economist and Policy Guru Percival Goodman Architect, Planner, Teacher, Designer Maya Gorton Artist A. Arthur Gottlieb Physician-Scientist Peter Gouras Surgeon Benjamin Graham Financial strategist Jack Greenberg Lawyer William Halsted Father of Surgical Subspecialities Alexander Hamilton Statesman Kashif Hasnie Social Scientist Michael Hauben Internet Pioneer, Author Carolyn Heilbrun Writer Ann Hill Advocate Charles Evans Hughes Statesman Zora Neale Hurston Writer and Anthropologist Edward J. Ignall Teacher Theodore C. Janeway Physician Buck Jenkins Athlete Erica Jong Writer Donald Judd Artist Donald Keene Scholar of Japanese literature Howard Koch Screenwriter Paul Lazarsfeld Sociologist Leon M. Lederman Physicist Cyrus Levinthal Biologist Edward MacDowell Composer Marc A. Matsil Ecologist William N. McPhee Sociologist Thomas Merton Monk, Writer Jacques-Louis Monod Musician Rick Moody Writer Hermann Muller Geneticist Preston K. Munter Psychiatrist, Director Barack Obama Politician Georgia O'Keefe Artist Antonia Pantoja Visionary Kellis Parker Law Professor Frances Perkins Cabinet Member Candice Poolman Leader I. I. Rabi Physicist Paul Robeson Singer, Actor, Activist Franklin Delano Roosevelt President Shelley Ann Saltzman Professor Edna Holtzman Senderoff New York City Public School Educator Beheruz N. Sethna University President James Shenton Historian Hans Smit Professor Michael I. Sovern Educator David Stern NBA Commissioner Harlan Fiske Stone Jurist Telford Taylor Jurist Cristina Teuscher Athlete Charles Tilly Sociologist Steven Trokel Opthalmologist Harold C. Urey Chemist Dina Vakil Journalist Arthur T. Vanderbuilt Jurist William S. Vickrey Economist John Montgomery Ward Hall of Famer Herbert Wechsler Faculty William Welch Pathologist Boris Yavitz Scholar Administrator Darlene Yee Health Educator Judy Yee Research Scientist