Famous alumni from your high school?

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Notable alumni and former students
The Bronx High School of Science counts seven Nobel Prize-winning physicists among its graduates:

Leon N. Cooper 1947, Brown University awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics
Sheldon L. Glashow 1950, Boston University, awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Steven Weinberg 1950, University of Texas at Austin, awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Melvin Schwartz 1949, Columbia University, awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
Russell A. Hulse 1966, Princeton University, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics
H. David Politzer 1966, California Institute of Technology, awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Roy J. Glauber 1941, Harvard University, awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
No other secondary school in the world has seven Nobel laureates as alumni. If Bronx Science were a country, it would be tied at 21st for number of Nobel laureates (as of 2006). [23]

Bronx Science also has five Pulitzer Prize-winning graduates:

William Sherman 1963, reporter at the New York Daily News, awarded 1974
William Safire 1947, author and columnist at The New York Times, awarded 1978
Joseph Lelyveld 1954, Executive Editor at The New York Times, awarded 1986
Bernard L. Stein 1959, Editor of the Riverdale Press, awarded 1998
William Taubman 1958, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, awarded 2004
Six alumni have won the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. President and thus far awarded to 425 scientists and engineers. Bronx Science also counts among its graduates twenty-nine current members of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an honor attained by only about 2,000 American scientists. Twenty-two current members of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and ten current members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are Bronx Science graduates.

Other notable graduates and former students include:

Bruce Ames 1946, biologist, winner of National Medal of Science
Carl Bialik 1997 journalist, Wall Street Journal
Judith Baumel 1973, poet, winner Walt Whitman Award, 1987
Rosemary Bravo 1969, Vice Chairman, Burberry, former President, Saks Fifth Avenue
Harold Brown 1943, former U.S. Secretary of Defense (1977-1981)
Stokely Carmichael 1960, Black Power activist
Majora Carter 1984, recipient of MacArthur Foundation fellowship ("genius grant")
Gregory Chaitin 1964, mathematician, computer scientist
Dominic Chianese 1948, actor (best known as "Uncle Junior" on the HBO series The Sopranos)
Jon Cryer 1983, actor
Richard J. Danzig 1961, 71st Secretary of the U.S. Navy
Bobby Darin (as Walden Robert Cassotto) 1953, singer, songwriter, actor
Samuel Delany 1960, science fiction author
E. L. Doctorow 1948, author of Ragtime and other books
Jon Favreau 1984, actor/director
Jerald G. Fishman, CEO, Analog Devices
Todd Gitlin 1959, writer and social critic
Harrison J. Goldin 1953, former NYC Comptroller
Jeff Greenfield 1960, CNN reporter/commentator
Pablo Guzman (as Paul Guzman) 1968, CBS-2 reporter
Clyde Haberman 1962, NY Times reporter/columnist
Michael Kay 1978, NY Yankees Sportscaster
Leonard Kleinrock, computer scientist
Leslie Lamport, computer scientist
Ronald Lauder 1961, former NYC mayoral candidate and heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, former US Ambassador to Austria
Bill Lann Lee 1967, United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Clinton Administration
James Kyson Lee 1994, actor
Jeanette Lee, professional pool player (attended, did not graduate)
Harold O. Levy 1970, former New York City Schools' Chancellor
Daniel Libeskind 1965, Freedom Tower architect
John Liu 1985, New York City Council Member
Nita Lowey 1955, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Anthony Marx 1977, President, Amherst College
Marvin Minsky 1945, computer scientist
Robert Moog 1952, synthesized music pioneer
Al Nagler, optical engineer, founder of Televue
Jay Pasachoff, astronomy professor
Martin Peretz 1955, editor-in-chief, The New Republic magazine
Kevin Phillips, author and political analyst
Richard Price 1967, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter
Robert Price 1950, NYS Commissioner of Investigation
Paul Provenza 1975, actor
Daphne Maxwell Reid 1966, actress
Ben Shneiderman 1964, pioneering developer of computer visualization and human-computer interaction
April Smith 1967, author, Emmy-nominated television producer and writer
Dava Sobel 1964, author
Michael I. Sovern, former President of Columbia University
Norman Spinrad 1957, science fiction author and screenwriter
Neil deGrasse Tyson 1976, Director, Hayden Planetarium at American Museum of Natural History
Gary Weiss, journalist and author
Barry Wellman 1959, sociologist, founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis
Wolf Wigo 1991, Olympic water polo player
George Yancopoulos 1976, scientist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences

[Bulldog]

A kid from my class was an extra on ER once. That's about it.

[Mr November]

Kevin Smith/Jay Mewes

[Dids]

I got nothing.

I guess Elway went to my middle school for a bit while his Dad was coaching in town.

[SoCalRugger]

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Sarah Carter was in my class. (I guess she is famous enough now to mention?)

She was this hot then also.



And other than that a couple NHL players.

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lucky [censored]

[Al6Jets18]

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I went to Chaminade, a private all boys school in LI, so we had some, Alphonse Damato, Lou Gerstner, Robert Wright, Brian Dennehy, but my local high school in Massapequa LI, is sick; Seinfeld, all the Baldwins, Dee Snyder, Stuttering John, and last but certainly not least the immortal Steve Guttenburg.

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Yeah Pequa!

[Aukai]

Sun Yat-Sen

[JaredL]

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Curious that you didn't mention Barack Obama, Michelle Wie or Nainoa Thompson.

[Aukai]

I went to 'Iolani, not Punahou.

[Bill Murphy]

CBS News reporter Lee Cowan

Not all that famous, but he was actually in my class. As for anyone else in general from ol' JMH, can't think of any off the top of my head tho I think I'm missing one or two.