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This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University. For further listing of notable Columbians see: Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University; Columbia University School of General Studies; Columbia Law School; Columbia Business School; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College); Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Columbia University School of Professional Studies; Columbia University School of the Arts; the School of International and Public Affairs; and Barnard College. The following lists are incomplete.




Nobel laureates



As of the 2023 awards, 103 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia University as alumni or faculty. Among the 103 laureates, 72 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences; 46 are Columbia alumni (graduates and attendees) and 34 have been long-term academic members of the Columbia faculty; and subject-wise, 33 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject. This list considers Nobel laureates as equal individuals and does not consider their various prize shares or if they received the prize more than once. It includes alumni and faculty of Barnard College after 1900 and those of Bard College by 1944, as well as physicians and long-term medical staff of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital.
In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Columbia University (including emeritus staff). A name marked with a dagger (†) indicates that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).




Fields Medalists






Wolf Prize






Crafoord Prize


Wallace Smith Broecker—(alumnus and faculty) Crafoord Prize in Geoscience (2006), Balzan Prize, National Medal of Science, Vetlesen Prize, among other awards
Peter K. Gregersen—(MD 1976) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)
Richard Lewontin—(MA, Ph.D. 1954) Crafoord Prize in Bioscience (2015)
Peter Molnar (Ph.D. 1970 Geology) Crafoord Prize in Geosciences (2014)
Walter Munk—(undergrad attendee) Crafoord Prize in Geoscience (2010); National Medal of Science, Vetlesen Prize, Kyoto Prize, among other awards
Robert J. Winchester—(faculty) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)




Templeton Prize


Francisco J. Ayala—(Ph.D. 1964) Templeton Prize for life's work in evolutionary biology and genetics (2010), National Medal of Science (2001), among other awards




ACM Turing Award


John Backus—(B.S. 1949, M.A. 1950 Mathematics) Inventor of Fortran programming language, Draper Prize
Alfred Aho—(faculty, 1995 to present) professor of computer science; John von Neumann Medal (2003); ACM Turing Award (2020)
Jeffrey Ullman—(B.S. 1963) professor of computer science at Stanford University; IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2010); ACM Turing Award (2020)




Founding Fathers of the United States


Founding Fathers of the United States are the political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution, or otherwise participated in the American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.

Alexander Hamilton—Founding Father, American Revolutionary War officer and aide-de-camp to George Washington, initiator and co-author of The Federalist Papers, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, economist, one of the first U.S. constitutional lawyers (picture appears on U.S. ten-dollar bill)
John Jay—Founding Father, president of the Continental Congress, co-author of The Federalist Papers, second U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, diplomat, architect of Jay's Treaty with Great Britain
Robert Livingston—Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, first U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, U.S. Minister to France, negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
Gouverneur Morris—Founding Father, author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to France, United States Senator from New York, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
Egbert Benson—Founding Father, member of the Continental Congresses; with Alexander Hamilton, delegate from New York to the Annapolis Convention; ratifier of the United States Constitution; served in the First and Second United States Congresses




Presidents of the United States


Theodore Roosevelt—(law, attended 1880 to 1881) (posthumous J.D., class of 1882), 26th president of the United States (1901–1909); hero of the Spanish–American War (Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded 2001); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; professional historian, explorer, author
Franklin Delano Roosevelt—(law, attended fall of 1904 to spring 1907) (posthumous J.D., class of 1907), 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945); consistently ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in scholarly surveys; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the navy
Dwight Eisenhower—34th president of the United States (1953–1961); Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force; president of Columbia University
Barack Obama—(B.A. 1983) 44th president of the United States (2009–2017); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Democratic senator from Illinois (2005–2008); first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review




Vice presidents of the United States


Daniel D. Tompkins—6th vice president of the United States, 4th governor of New York, declined appointment as United States Secretary of State by President James Madison
Theodore Roosevelt—(Law) 25th vice president of the United States, organized and helped command the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War, Medal of Honor




Presidents and prime ministers (international)






Notable alumni and attendees






Notable faculty


See also above at Nobel Laureates ("Alumni" and "Faculty") for separate listing of 41 notable faculty




University professors


Richard Axel, molecular biology and neuroscience, 1999
Jagdish Bhagwati, economics and law, 2001
Martin Chalfie, biology, 2013
Ruth DeFries, sustainable development, 2016
Michael W. Doyle, international affairs, law, and political science, 2015
Nabila El-Bassel, social work, and public health, 2019
Wafaa El-Sadr, public health, 2013
Saidiya Hartman, English and comparative literature, 2020
Wayne Hendrickson, biochemistry and molecular biophysics
Eric R. Kandel, neurobiology, behavior and learning, 1983
Rosalind E. Krauss, art history, 2005
Jeffrey Sachs, economics, 2016
Simon Schama, history and art history
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English and comparative literature, 2007
Joseph Stiglitz, economics, 2001
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, biomedical engineering, 2017




= University professors emeriti

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Caroline Bynum, history, 1999
Tsung-Dao Lee, theoretical physics




= Former university professors

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Jacques Barzun, cultural history
Ronald Breslow, organic chemistry, 1992
Samuel Eilenberg, mathematics, 1974
R. Kent Greenawalt, jurisprudence and constitutional law, 1991
Louis Henkin, international law, 1981
Donald Keene, Japanese Studies, 1988
Grayson L. Kirk, University President, 1953–68
Robert K. Merton, sociology, 1974
Robert A. Mundell, economics
Ernest Nagel, philosophy
Isidor Isaac Rabi, physics, 1964
Michael Riffaterre, semiotics, theory of literature and French literature, 1982
Edward Said, comparative literature, literary theory, and cultural studies, 1992
Meyer Schapiro, art history
Sol Spiegelman, genetics and microbiology
Fritz Stern, history, 1992
Lionel Trilling, literature, 1970
Jeremy Waldron, law, 2005, left Columbia in 2006




Others


Seth Low Professor of the University Lee C. Bollinger, law
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University Jonathan R. Cole, sociology
John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus of the University Wm. Theodore de Bary, East Asian studies, 1979




Notes






References






External links


Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics associated with Columbia University
Columbians Ahead of Their Time—list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.
After Columbia "Notable Alumni & Former Students" published by the Columbia University Office of Admission

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