• Source: List of Bronx High School of Science alumni

The following is a list of notable people who attended the Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx, New York City.




Academia


Paul Sunde, Director of Admissions, Dartmouth College
Bruce Ackerman (1960), constitutional law scholar, Yale Law School
Marshall Berman, professor, City College
M. Donald Blaufox (1952), nuclear medicine physician and professor
Harold Brown, former president, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Charles Cogen, president, New York City's United Federation of Teachers and American Federation of Teachers
Martin S. Fiebert (1956), author, psychologist, professor emeritus, California State University, Long Beach
Jeffrey S. Flier (1964), Dean of Harvard Medical School
Murray Gerstenhaber (born 1927), mathematician and lawyer
Herb Goldberg, author, psychologist, and male liberation movement activist
Gene Grossman (1973), former chair, Department of Economics, Princeton University
Martin Jay (1961), historian, University of California Berkeley
Richard Kadison (1942), mathematician
Jonathan Koppell (1988), 10th President of Montclair State University
Deborah Frank Lockhart (1965), American Mathematical Society fellow
Andrew Lo (1977), professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Daniel Lowenstein (1960), Director of the Center for Liberal Arts and Institutions, UCLA and first chairman of California Fair Political Practices Commission
Lynn Mahoney (1982), president, San Francisco State University
Anthony Marx (1977), president and CEO of New York Public Library and former president, Amherst College
Richard A. Muller, professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley
George Ritzer (1958), sociologist
Michael I. Sovern, former president, Columbia University
Joan Straumanis (1953), former president, Antioch College
Gregory J. Vincent (1979), president, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jack Russell Weinstein (1987), professor of philosophy and Director of Institute for Philosophy in Public Life, University of North Dakota, and NPR radio host
Barry Wellman (1959), author, sociologist, founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis, Royal Society of Canada fellow, and developer of the theory of "networked individualism"
Judy Yee, professor of radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine




Activism and government



Seth Andrew (1996), educator and founder, Democracy Prep Public Schools
Jamaal Bailey (2000), New York State Senator
Harold Brown (1943), scientist and former United States Secretary of Defense (1977–81)
Kwame Turé (Stokely Carmichael) (1960), leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party, notable figure in the Civil Rights Movement
Majora Carter (1984), urban revitalization strategist, 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant", 2010 Peabody Award recipient
Edmond E. Chang (1988), federal judge, U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois
Richard Danzig (1961), lawyer, former U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1998–2001), and Center for a New American Security chariman
Jeffrey Dinowitz (1971), New York State Representative
Eric Dinowitz (2003), member of the New York City Council from the 11th district
Harriet Drummond (1969), Alaska state legislator
Martin Garbus (1951), First Amendment lawyer
Frank Genese (1976), Deputy Mayor, Village of Flower Hill NY
Todd Gitlin (1959), writer, social critic, and former president of Students for a Democratic Society
Harrison J. Goldin (1953), former New York City Comptroller and former New York State Senator
Alan Grayson (1975) former U.S. Congressman representing Florida's 8th congressional district
Howard Gutman, (1973) lawyer, actor, and former U.S. ambassador to Belgium
Alvin Hellerstein (born 1933), U.S. federal district court judge
Dora Irizarry (1972), U.S. federal district court judge, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of New York
Benjamin Kallos (1999), New York City councilman
G. Oliver Koppell (1958), former New York State attorney general, former New York State Representative, former New York City councilman
Jeffrey Korman (1963), former New York State Senator
Kenneth Kronberg (1964), printing company owner and LaRouche movement activist
Bill Lann Lee (1967), former U.S. Assistant Attorney General in U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division and first Asian–American to head the division
Leonard Lauder (1950), businessman, art collector, and heir to the Estee Lauder fortune.
Ronald Lauder (1961), businessman, art collector, heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; current president of the World Jewish Congress
Harold O. Levy (1970), former New York City School Chancellor (2000–02)
Ira Millstein (1943), antitrust lawyer, longest-practicing partner in big law
John Liu (1985), former New York City councilman, former New York City Comptroller, first Asian–American member of New York City Council, and first to hold citywide office
Nita Lowey (1955), U.S. Congresswoman representing New York's 17th congressional district
Edward Mermelstein (1987), former lawyer and businessman, current Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of International Affairs
Robert Price (1950), New York State Commissioner of Investigation and former Deputy Mayor of New York City.
Donald L. Ritter, former U.S. Congressman representing Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district
Martha Shelley, lesbian activist, feminist, writer, and poet
Madeline Singas, Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals
Toby Ann Stavisky, (1956) Member of the New York State Senate
Terence Tolbert (1982), political operative and consultant for various New York State politicians; was involved in Barack Obama's presidential campaign




Arts






= Fine arts

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Elliott Landy (1959), photographer noted for his work with rock musicians, especially for his work at the Woodstock Festival
Daniel Libeskind (1965), architect whose designs include Freedom Tower, Jewish Museum Berlin, Felix Nussbaum Haus, and the Royal Ontario Museum
Marilyn Nance (1971), photographer of spirituality and the African diaspora




= Performing arts

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Zack Alford (1983), professional drummer, (David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, and The B-52's)
Emanuel Azenberg (1951), multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning producer, noted for his long professional relationship with Neil Simon
James Bethea (1982), television producer and executive
Mark Boal (1991), Academy Award-winning screenwriter, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty
Jessie Cannizzaro (2008), actress, singer, and comedy writer
Dominic Chianese (1948), singer and actor, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and Junior Soprano on The Sopranos
Jon Cryer (1983), two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor (Pretty in Pink, Hot Shots!, Two and a Half Men)
Bobby Darin (as Walden Robert Cassotto) (1953), Oscar-nominated actor, best known for his work as a songwriter and recording artist ("Mack the Knife", "Beyond the Sea")
Jon Favreau (1984), screenwriter and actor Rudy and Swingers and director, Elf and Iron Man
Jonah Falcon (1988), actor and talk show personality
Michael Hirsh (c. 1966), head of the Cookie Jar group (animation); founder of Nelvana animation
Sondra James, actress
Qurrat Ann Kadwani, television actress, playwright and film producer
Don Kirshner, music producer and songwriter, best known for his work with The Monkees and for his television show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
James Kyson Lee (1993), actor, best known for his role as Ando Masahashi on the television series Heroes
Reggie Lucas, musician, songwriter, and record producer best known for having produced the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album.
Dash Mihok (c. 1988), actor, director, best known for co-starring since 2013 as Brendan "Bunchy" Donovan in the Showtime series Ray Donovan
Tom Paley (1945), banjo and fiddle player, best known for his association with old-time music; co–founded the New Lost City Ramblers
Paul Provenza (1975), actor and comedian
Christopher "Kid" Reid (1982), rap musician, comedian, and actor, best known for being one half of the group Kid 'n Play
Daphne Maxwell Reid (1966), actress (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Frank's Place), producer, and former model; first African–American homecoming queen at Northwestern University; first African–American to appear on the cover of Glamour
Dawn Porter (1984), documentary filmmaker and director
David Ren (c. 2003), writer, and director
Esther Scott (1971), film and television actress
Maggie Siff (1992), actress (Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, "Billions")
Mel Simon (c. 1943), businessman and film producer
Karina Smirnoff (c. 1996), professional ballroom Latin dancer, who was featured on seven seasons of Dancing With the Stars
Worley Thorne, TV screenwriter, script consultant and adjunct assistant professor of English
Eliot Wald (1962), TV and film writer (Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere)
Boaz Yakin (1983), screenwriter and director
Kenny Kosek (1966), fiddler




Authors and journalists






= Pulitzer Prize winners

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Joseph Lelyveld (1954), journalist and author; Executive Editor at The New York Times (1994–2001); won the 1986 award for General Nonfiction (Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White)
William Safire (1947), author and speechwriter; won the 1978 award for Commentary
Buddy Stein (1959), editor and publisher of The Riverdale Press won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for writing on politics and other issues affecting New York City residents.
William Taubman (1958), professor of political science at Amherst College; won the 2004 award for Biography or Autobiography for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Gene Weingarten (1968), reporter and columnist for The Washington Post; won the 2008 and 2010 awards for Feature Writing
Spencer Ackerman (1998), senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast; was part of a team of editors and reporters awarded the 2014 award for public service journalism, for reporting on Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance programs.
Robert Samuels (2002), author and staff writer at The New Yorker, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (His Name is George Floyd: One's Man Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice).




= Other authors and journalists

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Judith Baumel (1973), poet; 1987 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award
Ed Kosner (1953), editor of Newsweek, New York Magazine, Esquire, and New York Daily News.
Peter S. Beagle (1955), author, singer, and guitarist, best known for The Last Unicorn
Jennifer Belle, writer
Joseph Berger, (1962], New York Times reporter, author of memoir "Displaced Persons:Growing Up American After the Holocaust"
Charles Bernstein, poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar.
Harold Bloom (1947), influential literary critic, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and Professor of English at Yale University
Mark Boal (1991), journalist and screenwriter; won two Oscars as screenwriter and producer of The Hurt Locker
Samuel R. Delany (1960), science fiction author (Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"); recipient of four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards
E. L. Doctorow (1948), author (The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Billy Bathgate, and The March); received the National Humanities Medal in 1998
John T. Georgopoulos (1982), fantasy sports journalist, writer and broadcast radio host
Gerald Jay Goldberg, professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles; novelist and critic
Jeff Greenfield (1960), television journalist and political analyst for CBS News; author (The People's Choice: A Novel)
Pablo Guzmán (as Paul Guzman) (1968), television journalist for WCBS-2 in New York; formerly a spokesman for the Young Lords
Clyde Haberman (1962), columnist for the New York Times
Marilyn Hacker (1959), poet, critic, translator, and recipient of the National Book Award
Danny Fingeroth (1971), comic book writer and editor, known for his work on Spiderman
Lars-Erik Nelson (1959), correspondent and columnist for the New York Daily News, Newsweek, and Newsday
Otto Penzler (1959), editor, author, and collector of espionage and thriller books; received an Edgar Award for Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection
Martin Peretz (1955), former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine
Kevin Phillips (1957), author and political analyst
Richard Price (1967), author (Bloodbrothers, Clockers, Freedomland, Lush Life); Oscar–nominated screenwriter (The Color of Money)
James Sanders (1972), architect, author, filmmaker, Guggenheim Fellow and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter
April Smith (1967), author of novels including Be The One, and Good Morning, Killer, and TV scriptwriter for Lou Grant, Chicago Hope, and Cagney & Lacey
Dava Sobel (1964), author, best known for her popular expositions in the sciences (Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Galileo's Daughter)
Norman Spinrad (1957), science fiction author (The Solarians, Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream); screenwriter ("The Doomsday Machine" from Star Trek)
Gary Weiss (1971), journalist and author
Dave Winer (1972), computer scientist and blogger
Min Jin Lee (1986), acclaimed novelist and author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017).




Business, finance, and economics






= Nobel Prize winner

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Claudia Goldin, economic historian and labor economist, 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient




= Other business, finance, and economics alumni

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Rose Marie Bravo (1969), vice chairman, Burberry, former President of Saks Fifth Avenue
Millard Drexler (1962), CEO, J.Crew, former CEO of Gap
Jerald G. Fishman (1962), CEO, Analog Devices
Gene Freidman (1988), New York City attorney
Gedale B. Horowitz, partner, Salomon Brothers, former chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
David Karp, founder, Tumblr
Ray King, entrepreneur
Leonard Lauder (1950), former president and current chairman, Estée Lauder Companies
Phil Libin (1989), CEO, EverNote
Lisa Su (1986), CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices




Science






= Nobel Prize-winning scientists

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The Bronx High School of Science counts nine Nobel Prize recipients as graduates. Seven of these Nobel laureates received their prize in the field of physics. Robert J. Lefkowitz was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Leon N. Cooper (1947), co–developer of BCS theory; namesake of Cooper pairs
Sheldon Glashow (1950), physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory (shared the 1979 prize with Weinberg)
Roy J. Glauber (1941), physicist who made contributions to the quantum theory of optical coherence
Russell A. Hulse (1966), astrophysicist who co–discovered the first binary pulsar, providing significant evidence in support of the theory of general relativity
Robert J. Lefkowitz (1959), biochemist known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors
Hugh David Politzer (1966), physicist who co–discovered asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics
Melvin Schwartz (1949), physicist who co–developed the neutrino beam method demonstrating of the doublet structure of the lepton through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Steven Weinberg (1950), physicist who proposed the modern electroweak theory
Claudia Goldin (1963), economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 for her research in participation and gender pay gaps in the work force.




= Other science and engineering alumni

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David Adler (1952), physicist
Bruce Ames (1946), biologist, inventor of the Ames Test, winner of the National Medal of Science
Naomi Amir, pediatric neurologist, established first pediatric neurology clinic in Israel
Allen J. Bard, a chemist, Priestley Medal recipient, and an influential pioneer of modern electrochemistry.
Jill Bargonetti (1980), biologist; noted for her work on the function of the oncogene p53
Hans Baruch, physiologist and inventor
Ira Black, neuroscientist and stem cell researcher, first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey
Gregory Chaitin (1964), mathematician, computer scientist, and author; one of the founders of algorithmic information theory; namesake of Chaitin's constant
Rahul Desikan (1995), neuroscientist and neuroradiologist; known for using 'big data' acquired through ongoing global collaborations, he innovated a variety of cross disciplinary methods to identify novel risk factors for brain diseases
Rana Fine, physical oceanographer, worked on ocean circulation and ventilation
Michael H. Hart, astrophysicist, author of three books on history
Martin Hellman (1962), electrical engineer and cryptologist who was instrumental in the development of public-key cryptography; 2015 recipient of the ACM Turing Award
Leonard Kleinrock (1951), electrical engineer and computer scientist; oversaw the first ARPANET connection to the first node at UCLA; supervised sending the first message over what would become the internet
Andrew R. Koenig (1968), computer scientist, inventor, and author, retired from Bell Labs
Leslie Lamport (1957), computer scientist noted for fundamental contributions to theory of computing, including distributed systems and the development of LaTeX; 2013 recipient of the ACM Turing Award; namesake of the Lamport signature and Lamport's scheme
Norman Levitt (1960), author and mathematics professor at Rutgers University; a figure in the fight against anti-intellectualism; his book Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science inspired the Sokal Affair
Richard Lindzen, former Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and critic of climate change extremism.
Barry Mazur, Professor of Mathematics and Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, a title given to the most distinguished professors at Harvard. Mazur is a recipient of the National Medal of Science and a number of prestigious mathematical prizes, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Marvin Minsky (1945), cognitive scientist, computer scientist and inventor; pioneer in artificial intelligence; co-founder of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; wrote Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine; patented the confocal microscope; recipient of the Turing Award
Robert Moog (1952), electrical engineer; pioneer in the development of electronic music, notably for the invention of the Moog synthesizers, still produced by his namesake company
Jay Pasachoff (1959), astronomy professor at Williams College; textbook writer; expert in astronomy education; director of the Hopkins Observatory; Asteroid 5100 Pasachoff is named in his honor
Stanley Plotkin (1948), medical doctor, author, and co-creator of vaccines for several diseases including rubella, rabies, rotavirus, and cytomegalovirus
Stuart Alan Rice, theoretical chemist and physical chemist
Frank Rosenblatt (1946), computer pioneer; noted for designing Perceptron, one of the first artificial feedforward neural networks; namesake of the Frank Rosenblatt Award given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Jun John Sakurai (1951), particle physicist and author, noted for his work on vector mesons; namesake of the Sakurai Prize awarded annually by the American Physical Society
Myriam Sarachik (1950), solid-state physicist and a former president of the American Physical Society
Edl Schamiloglu, distinguished professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of New Mexico
Ben Shneiderman (1964), developer of computer visualization and human-computer interaction
Lawrence B. Slobodkin, pioneer in the field of modern ecology
Lisa Su (1986), Electrical Engineer, CEO and president of Advanced Micro Devices
Leonard Susskind, widely regarded as one of the "fathers" of string theory
Larry Tesler (1961), helped develop modern graphical user interface, invented the cut, copy, and paste commands
Joseph F. Traub, computer scientist
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1976), astrophysicist and current director of the Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History; known for his work on educational television, such as NOVA ScienceNOW and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; namesake of Asteroid 13123 Tyson
Robert Williamson, molecular biologist and professor of medical genetics from 1995 to 2005 at the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Cynthia Wolberger (1979), professor of biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
George Yancopoulos (1976), medical researcher in molecular immunology; member of the National Academy of Sciences; founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Norton Zinder (1945), biologist in the field of molecular biology; known for his discovery of genetic transduction; recipient of the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences in 1966; became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969; led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death
Andrew Fraknoi (1966), astronomer




Sports


Arthur Bisguier, chess grandmaster; 1954 U.S. Chess Champion; won three U.S. Open chess tournaments; played for the U.S. team in five Chess Olympiads
Robert Ford (1997), radio broadcaster, Houston Astros, one of two full-time African-American play-by-play broadcasters in Major League Baseball
Satish Jagnandan (1991), Five-time U.S. Handball Association One-Wall Singles National Champion (2004-2007, 2009); USHA Hall of Fame (2021)
Michael Kay (1978), New York Yankees sportscaster and current host of The Michael Kay Show
Jeanette Lee, professional pool player known by her nickname "The Black Widow"
Ira Rubin (1946), contract bridge player known as "The Beast" for his aggressive playing style and for inventing three famous bidding systems
Joel Sherman (1979), Scrabble champion (1997, World Champion; 2002 US Champion)
Herb Stempel, former contestant on the television game show Twenty One, known for his contest against Charles Van Doren, and for his role in exposing the subsequent quiz show scandals
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar (born 1986), fencer
Wolf Wigo (1991), 3-Time Olympic water polo player who was captain of the US National Water Polo Team




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