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City College of New York alumni

  • Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse was born on the 18th of December 1921 in Germany. His family fled the Nazi regime and arrived in the United States in 1935.
  • Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was born on the 26th of July 1928 in New York City's Manhattan borough. He grew up in the Bronx with his parents, Jack and Sadie Kubrick, who…
  • Leon FestingerLeon Festinger was born on the 8th of May 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants named Alex and Sara Solomon Festinger.
  • Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred Kissinger was born on the 27th of May 1923 in Fürth, Bavaria. His family lived under Nazi rule when he was nine years old and Adolf Hitler…
  • David LandesDavid Saul Landes entered the world on the 29th of April 1924. He began his higher education journey at City College of New York in 1942.
  • William Barrett (philosopher)William Christopher Barrett entered the City College of New York at fifteen years old. This precocious start marked a life dedicated to ideas from an early…
  • Upton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. entered the world on the 20th of September 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a liquor salesman while his mother…
  • Stanley WolpertStanley Albert Wolpert stepped onto the docks of Bombay on the 12th of February, 1948, as a young merchant marine engineer with little knowledge of India.
  • Fergus BordewichFergus M. Bordewich was born on the first of November in 1947 within New York City. He grew up in Yonkers, New York during the post-war era.
  • Lewis MumfordLewis Mumford was born on the 19th of October 1895 in Flushing, Queens. He grew up in a household that valued education and culture.
  • Bernard BaruchBernard Mannes Baruch entered the world on the 19th of August 1870 in Camden, South Carolina. He was born into a Jewish family where his father Simon worked…
  • Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the 16th of March 1927. He moved to New York City at age six with his Irish Catholic family.