• Source: List of Cooper Union alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Awards received by Cooper Union alumni include one Nobel Prize in Physics, a Pritzker Prize, fifteen Rome Prizes, 26 Guggenheim Fellowships, three MacArthur Fellowships, nine Chrysler Design Awards, three American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture, and one Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The school also boasts 39 Fulbright Scholars since 2001, and thirteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships since 2004.
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George G. Adams (engineer), mechanical engineer
John Alcorn (1935–1992), illustrator
Stan Allen, former Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture
David Attie (1920–1982), photographer




B


Donald Baechler, painter
Firelei Báez, artist
Alex Bag, video artist
Elizabeth Gowdy Baker (1860–1927), portraitist
Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture"
Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs
Max Becher, artist and educator
Dave Berg (1920–2002), cartoon artist and main contributor of Mad magazine illustrations
Renata Bernal, painter
Theodore H. Berlin (1917-1962), theoretical physicist
Emile Berliner (1851–1929), invented the vinyl record
Billy Bitzer (1872–1944), cinematographer
Victor Gustav Bloede (1849–1937), chemist and philanthropist; protege' of Peter Cooper
Louise Brann (1906–1982), muralist
Norman Bridwell (1928–2014), cartoonist and creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog
Kadar Brock, contemporary abstract artist
Steve Brodner, cartoonist
Ronald Brookmeyer, public health researcher; professor of biostatistics at UCLA
Dik Browne (1917–1989), cartoonist and creator of Hägar the Horrible
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1936), artist
Lee Brozgol (1941–2021), visual artist, educator, and social worke
Kevin Burke, CEO of Consolidated Edison




C


Albert Carnesale, former chancellor of UCLA and dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
Alfred Clark (1873–1950), inventor, cinematic director, and media executive
Martin Charnin (1934–2019), Tony Award-winning lyricist, writer, and theatre director
Remy Charlip (1929–2012), choreographer, writer, and illustrator
Ching Ho Cheng (1946–1989), artist
John Walter Christie (1865–1944), engineer and inventor
Seymour Chwast, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
Clio Newton, artist
Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist
Anna Conway, painter
Miriam Cooper (1891–1976), actress
E. Miriam Coyrière, educator and entrepreneur
Will Cotton, painter
William L. Coulter (1865–1907), architect
Joshua Lionel Cowen (1877–1965), inventor of the flash-lamp and co-founder of Lionel Corporation
Amy Cutler, artist




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Peggy Deamer, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale
Roy DeCarava (1919–2009), photographer
William Francis Deegan (1882–1932), architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway
Bruce Degen, illustrator for The Magic School Bus
Olvia C. Demetriou, architect, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; Washington Design Center Hall of Fame
Freda Diamond (1905–1998), industrial designer known for designing mass market home goods
Elizabeth Diller, with Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Michael Doret, graphic designer, font designer, lettering artist
Lou Dorfsman (1918–2008), graphic designer art director for CBS
Eric Drooker, painter and author
William Dubilier (1888–1969), inventor of the mica capacitor and radio pioneer
Clive Dym, chair of the engineering department at Harvey Mudd College; professor at Stanford




E


John M. Eargle (1931–2007), Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and musician
Thomas Edison (1847–1931), inventor
Allegra Eggleston (1860–1933), artist and illustrator
Malachi Leo Elliott (1886-1967), architect
Phillip Eng, president of the Long Island Rail Road and general manager of the MBTA
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019), financial advisor and convicted sex offender. Did not graduate.
Mitch Epstein, photographer




F


Isidor Fankuchen (1905-1964), material scientist and solid-state physicist; pioneer of crystallography
Adriana Farmiga, visual artist and Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art
Robert Feintuch, painter
Joel H. Ferziger (1937–2004), mechanical engineer and expert in computational fluid dynamics
Anthony Fiala (1869-1950), American explorer
Irving Fierstein (1915–2009), painter, designer
Liana Finck, cartoonist and author
Israel F. Fischer (1858–1940), US Representative, judge
James Fitzgerald (1851-1922), American jurist and politician
Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker
Audrey Flack, pioneer of photorealism
Max Fleischer (1883–1972), animator, inventor, film director and producer; co-creator of Betty Boop
Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), author and illustrator
Charles R. Forbes (1878–1952), politician and military officer; first Director of the US Veterans' Bureau
Laura Ford, sculptor
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Brad Friedmutter, architect
Martin Feinberg, chemical engineer and mathematician




G


Hope Gangloff, painter
Janet Gardner, filmmaker
Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), architect
Paul Garrin, filmmaker
Louis D. Gibbs, lawyer, politician, judge
Philip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artist
Milton Glaser (1929–2020), graphic designer, creator of the I Love New York logo, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
Harold S. Goldberg, electrical engineer; first chair of the IEEE
Minetta Good (1895–1946), muralist, painter and printmaker
Harry H. Goode (1909-1960), computer engineer and systems engineer; professor at the University of Michigan
Aaron Goodelman, sculptor
Sidney Gordin (1918–1996), visual artist, professor
T.J. Gottesdiener, architect and manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Harold Grad (1923-1986), applied mathematician
Aaron Green (1917-2001), architect and protege of Frank Lloyd Wright; lecturer at Stanford University
Charles Greenfield (1885-1979), engineer
Leonard Gross, mathematician; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Cornell University




H


Hans Haacke, artist
Dimitri Hadzi (1921–2006), sculptor
William Harnett (1848–1892), painter
Irving Harper (1916-2015), industrial designer
Matthew Harrison, film director
Sagi Haviv, partner, Chermayeff & Geismar; designer of the Library of Congress and Armani Exchange logos
Palmer Hayden (1890–1973), artist famous for depictions of African-American life
John Hejduk (1929–2000), one of New York Five, a group of five New York City architects
Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor
Angela Hill, professional mixed martial arts fighter
Julian Hirsch (1922-2003), electrical engineer and audio critic
Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design
Kim Holleman, artist, MIT Media Lab Social Computing Group
Emil Clemens Horst (1867-1940), inventor
Sharon Horvath (born 1958), mixed media artist, painter, educator
Shelby Hughes (1981–2014), artist and designer
Russell Hulse, 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Elizabeth Bullock Humphrey (1841–1889), illustrator




I


Alexander Isley, graphic designer




J


Francis Jehl (1860–1941), electrochemist and inventor
Patty Jenkins, filmmaker
Herman Jessor (1894-1990), architect and engineer
Sandy Jimenez, comic book artist
Bonnie E. John, cognitive psychologist
Crockett Johnson (1906–1975), (David Johnson Leisk), comic strip artist and author of Harold and the Purple Crayon
Willard F. Jones (1890–1967), naval architect, head of National Safety Council's marine section and Vice President of Gulf Oil
Mimi Jung (born 1981), artist




K


Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman
Gideon Kanner, law professor, consultant, author, and lecturer
Michael Kasha (1920–2013), physical chemist, educator, and guitar designer
Alex Katz, figurative artist
Luke A. Keenan (1872-1924), politician
Arthur C. Keller (1901-1983), electrical engineer; pioneer of recording technologies
Otto Kempner (1858-1914), lawyer, politician, and judge
Owen M. Kiernan, member of the New York State Assembly
Owen Kildare (1864-1911), realist writer
Dave King, novelist and poet
William King (1925–2015), artist
R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007), painter
Murray S. Klamkin (1921-2004), mathematician
Vera Klement, professor at the University of Chicago
Herman Charles Koenig (1893–1959), book collector, friend of H. P. Lovecraft
Fred Kohler, inventor, author, and lecturer
Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter
Kathleen Kucka, painter
Heather Kulik, computational materials scientist and chemical engineer; professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moses Kunitz (1887-1978), biochemist
Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993), cartoonist, editor and co-founder of Mad




L


Marisa Lago, attorney; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
Alfred A. Lama (1899–1984), New York State Assemblyman and co-sponsor of Mitchell-Lama housing legislation
Thomas W. Lamb (1871–1942), architect and designer of theaters and cinemas
Morgan Foster Larson (1882–1961), Governor of New Jersey, 1929–1932
Benjamin Lax (1915-2015), solid-state and plasma physicist
Joseph Lechleider (1933-2015), electrical engineer; inventor of DSL technology
Aaron J. Levy (1881-1955), lawyer and politician
Janet Cook Lewis, painter, librarian, and bookbinder
Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
Whitfield Lovell, artist
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981), graphic designer, creative director for publications Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde; designed the typeface ITC Avant Garde
Samuel Lubkin (1906-1972), mathematician and computer scientist; pioneer in the early history of computing
Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator
Wauhope Lynn (1856–1920), lawyer, judge, and politician
Noah Lyon, artist




M


Jay Maisel, photographer
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Fred Marcellino (1939–2001), illustrator
Christian Marclay, artist, composer
Judith Margolis, artist, essayist, book designer, curator
Joseph Margulies (1896–1984), artist
Jacob Marks (1861–1965), lawyer, New York State Senator, Municipal Court Justice
Leonidas D. Marinelli (1906-1974), radiological physicist; founded the field of Human Radiobiology
Alexia Massalin, computer scientist and programmer
Crystal McKenzie, designer
Antonina Roll-Mecak, molecular biophyicist; Chief of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health
Linn Meyers, artist
Abbott Miller, designer
Mike Mills, filmmaker
Matthew Monahan, sculptor
A. Harry Moore (1877–1952), 39th Governor of New Jersey
Toshiko Mori, architect
Jacqueline Moss (1927–2005), art historian, educator
P. Buckley Moss, artist
Michel Mossessian, architect
James H. Mulligan Jr. (1920–1996), American electrical engineer, former executive officer of National Academy of Engineering and president of IEEE
Thomas Maurice Mulry (1855–1916), businessman and philanthropist
Wangechi Mutu, artist
Henry L. Myers (1862-1943), United States senator




N


Roy Nachum, Israeli New York-based contemporary artist
Willa Nasatir (born 1990) BFA 2012, photographer, visual artist
Victor Nellenbogen (1888–1959), architect
Vera Neumann (1907–1993), artist known for colored linen patterns and scarves signed "Vera" by the Vera Company




O


Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacher




P


Victor Papanek (1923–1998), designer and educator; early proponent of ecologically and socially responsible design
Bruce Pasternack (1947–2021), engineer, author, and President and CEO of the Special Olympics
Ruth Pastine, minimalist painter
Randolph Perkins (1871-1936), Republican US Congressman
Eleanore Pettersen (1916–2003), architect
William Gardner Pfann (1917–1982), inventor and materials scientist; known for his development of zone melting
Sylvia Plevritis, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University
Robert Plonsey (1924-2015), electrical engineer; Pfizer-Pratt Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University; known for his work in Bioelectricity
Ron Pompei, architect and founder of Pompei A.D.
Charles E. Pont (1898–1971), painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer
Neal Pozner (1955–1994), artist, editor, writer and designer at DC Comics
Seth Putterman, physicist




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R


Grace Renzi (1922-2011), painter
Andrea Robbins, artist and educator
Morgan Robertson (1861-1915), American writer and self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope
Frank E. Rom (1926-2012), NASA engineer
Otto A. Rosalsky (1873-1936), lawyer and judge
Fred Rosebury (1901-1999), engineer and artist
Charles Rosen (1917–2002), engineer and pioneer in artificial intelligence in development of Shakey the Robot
Morris Rosenfeld (1885–1968), maritime photographer
Reynold Ruffins, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
Jere F. Ryan (1882-1948), builder, businessman, and politician




S


Amy Sadao, Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), Beaux-Arts sculptor, numismatist, and educator
Karen Sandler, lawyer
Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band Skeleton Key
Alfred Sarant (1918–1979), engineer and Soviet spy
Edward Sargent (1842–1914), architect
Richard Sarles, CEO and General Manager of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Augusta Savage (Augusta Christine Fells) (1892-1962), sculptor and teacher
Henry Scheffé (1907-1977), statistician; known for the Lehmann-Scheffe theorem and Scheffe's method
Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter
Mischa Schwartz, professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University
Richard Schwartz, engineer, shared the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for design and development of the first GPS satellites.
Sy Schulman (1926–2012), civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993–1997)
Ricardo Scofidio, with Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Samuel R. Scottron (1841–1908), engineer and inventor, grandfather of entertainer Lena Horne
Georgette Seabrooke (1916–2011), muralist, artist, art therapist and educator
George Segal (1924–2000), Pop Art sculptor and painter
Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), painter, writer, poet, educator
Redmond Simonsen (1942–2005), graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc.
Neal Slavin, photographer
John L. Smith (1889–1950), chemist, pharmaceutical executive, and co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Zak Smith, artist
Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and Superintendent of School Buildings, New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923
Edward Sorel, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
Mark A. Stamaty, cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator
Edwin King Stodola (1914–1992), radio engineer; chief scientist on Project Diana, which bounced radio waves off the moon for the first time in 1946
Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director
William Sulzer (1863-1941), 39th governor of New York
Eric E. Sumner (1923–1993), engineer, inventor, and scientist; contributor to the early development of switching systems




T


Philip Taaffe, painter
Katharine Lamb Tait (1895–1981), artist
Nina Tandon, bioengineer and educator
Adah Belle Thoms (1870-1943), founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
Maximilian Toch (1864–1946), chemist, manufacturer, educator, and early pioneer of art forensics
Hy Turkin (1915–1955), sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopedia




U


Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustrator




V


Jaret Vadera, artist
Stan Vanderbeek (1927–1984), animator
Henry Earle Vaughan (1912-1978), electrical engineer
Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche car designer
Allyson Vieira, artist
Jovan Karlo Villalba, painter
Harold Van Buren Voorhis (1894-1983), chemist




W


Louis Waldman (1892–1982), engineer, labor lawyer, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation
Annie E. A. Walker (1855–1929), portrait artist, one of the first African-American women to complete an institutional art education in the US
Edward J. Wasp (1923–2015), chemical and environmental engineer, pioneer of slurry pipelines
Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952), sculptor
Joseph Weber (1919-2000), American physicist
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), painter
Pennerton West (1913–1965), painter
Alice Wetterlund, comedian
Jack Whitten (1939–2018), painter
Christopher Wilmarth (1943–1987), sculptor
Jerome Witkin, painter
Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer
Dan Witz, painter, street artist
Tobi Wong (1974–2010), designer, artist
Caroline Woolard, artist
Sarah A. Worden Lloyd (1855-1918), painter, art instructor




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Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, chemical engineer, nanotechnology scientist, and educator
Prabda Yoon, writer




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