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Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman was born on the 31st of July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish working-class immigrants from Beregszász in Carpathian…
- Joseph HellerJoseph Heller was born on the 1st of May 1923, in Coney Island. His parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Russia named Lena and Isaac Donald Heller.
- Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan was born on the 6th of March 1926 in the Washington Heights area of New York City. His father Herbert worked as a stockbroker while his mother…
- Charles A. BeardCharles Austin Beard was born on the 27th of November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana. He grew up working on a family farm in the Corn Belt region.
- Lynn ThorndikeLynn Thorndike entered the world on the 24th of July 1882 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was born into a family of scholars and clergy. His father Edward R.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- E. L. DoctorowEdgar Lawrence Doctorow was born on the 6th of January 1931 in the Bronx. His parents were Rose and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of…
- Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on the 13th of May 1937. He grew up as the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother.
- Joan KellyJoan Kelly entered the world on the 29th of March 1928 in Brooklyn. Her father was George V. Kelly and her mother was Ruth Jacobsen.
- Naomi ZackNaomi Zack received her bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966. She attended that institution on a New York State Regents Scholarship.
- Anna SchwartzAnna Jacobson Schwartz entered the world on the 11th of November 1915 in New York City. Her parents were Pauline and Hillel Jacobson.
- Eric FonerEric Foner was born on the 7th of February 1943 in New York City. His father Jack D. Foner worked actively within the trade union movement and campaigned for…
- Nicholas Murray ButlerNicholas Murray Butler was born on the 2nd of April 1862 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His father Henry worked as a manufacturing worker while his mother Mary…