Notable alumni:Mel Brooks
Neil Diamond
Harvey Keitel
Stephon Marbury
Neil Sedaka
Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig in 1941), class of 1959, television sportscaster.
Ken Auletta (born 1942), class of 1957, author.
Eddie Antar, former businessman/owner of Crazy Eddie.
Paul Berg (born 1926), class of 1943, won 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky in 1926), actor, writer, director, and comedy producer.
Bernard Cornfeld (19271995), businessman and international financier.
Millie Deegan (19192002), professional baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Neil Diamond (born 1941), class of 1958, singer/performer ("The Jewish Elvis").
Rachel Eljashev, MD (born 1965), class of 1983, ophthalmologist, writer, grand-niece of Israel Isidor Elyashev, MD pen-name- Ba'al Machshavot Hebrew for The Thinker- ( ) physician writer -pioneer of Hebrew and Yiddish literature; known as the first Yiddish literary critic, publisher, translator (translated Theodor Herzl's Altneuland from German into Yiddish) and fore-runner of the Zionist Movement
Jerry Ferrara (born 1979), actor, best known for his role as "Turtle" in the HBO series Entourage.
Nelson Figueroa (born 1974), class of 1992, major league pitcher, MLB, Houston Astros
John Forsythe (born Jacob Lincoln Freund; 19182010), class of 1934, film and television actor.
Louis Gossett, Jr. (born 1936), class of 1954, basketball player; Academy Award winning actor.
Howard Greenfield (19361986) songwriter.
Joseph Heller (19231999), class of 1941, author of Catch-22.
Leona Helmsley (19202007), real-estate businesswoman, noted hotelier and "Queen of Mean".
Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide
Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman; the youngest woman elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives
Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkel in 1918), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.
Harvey Keitel, American film/TV actor
Arthur Kornberg (19182007), class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959.
R. Jordan Kreindler, class of 1958, GE Advanced Concepts Center Founder, Vice-President IBM Consulting Group, Chief Special and Advanced Systems Division, Pentagon, Chairman Virginia Safety and Health Codes Commission
Herbie Mann aka Herbert Jay Solomon, jazz flautist
Wallace Markfield, class of 1943, comic novelist
Stephon Marbury (born 1977), class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA).
Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, 1986 World Champion major league baseball player (New York Mets, New York Yankees), manager and coach
Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Arthur Miller (19152005), class of 1932, author and playwright of such works as Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible.
Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! TV network
Victor Niederhoffer, class of 1960, hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician
Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher
Neil Sedaka (born 1939), class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter.
Seymour Shapiro, (born 1916), Class of 1931, Organic Chemist, developed phenformin
Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter
David Sidikman, lawyer; New York State Assemblyman
Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover
Lance Stephenson (born 1990), class of 2009, professional basketball player (NBA) for the Indiana Pacers
Sebastian Telfair, class of 2004, professional basketball player (NBA) for the Minnesota Timberwolves
The Tokens, circa 1955, pop group, famous for their #1 Song Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer
Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1935, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn
Dallas Williams, major league baseball player and coach
Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer |
