Lebanon,
LaGuardia Community College 1992,
founder and president of Fatbeats,a hip-hop/rap music company.

Russia,
Hunter College 1942,
feminist activist and member of Congress 1971–1977

Japan, New York City College of Technology 1963, founder of Benihana restaurants

Dominica, Lehman College 2006, Soros Fellow

Germany, City College 1950, Nobel Prize in Economics 2005

Poland, City College 1933, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Trinidad,
Hunter College 2006,
Jonas E. Salk Scholar

Spain, City College M.F.A. 2006, Student Academy Award Winner 2006

Peru,
Baruch College 1979,
Founder & Managing Partner, The Argentum Group

Germany,
City College 1889,
Financier and Adviser to Presidents

Lebanon, CUNY BA 1997, Middle East Bureau Chief, Newsday

England, City College 1928, Mayor of New York City, 1974–1977

Eastern Europe, City College 1939, Sociologist

Colombia, Graduate Center, founder, Hostos Cultural and Medicinal Plant Garden

Canada, Brooklyn College 1942, folksinger

Ghana,
John Jay College B.S. 1999,
& M.P.A. 2000, Assistant Chief Security Officer for the U.N. in Kenya

Russia, City College, Oscar-winning screenplay writer

Taiwan/China, City College, Architect, member of CUNY Board of Trustees

Guyana/Barbados,
Brooklyn College 1946,
member of Congress 1969–82 and 1972 presidential candidate

Jamaica, New York City College of Technology, former New York City council member

Dominican Republic,
Queens College 1975 and Graduate Center,
Provost Hostos Community College

Russia, Brooklyn College 1943, biochemist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986

Uzbekistan, Brooklyn College 2006, Jonas E. Salk Scholar

Italy, Brooklyn College 1936, actor, singer; starred in the Broadway productions of Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate and Kismet

Lithuania, Brooklyn College 1967, Graduate Center 1973 Ph.D.; Holocaust survivor; founder, Tower of Life Collection, The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Lithuania/Poland, Hunter College 1937, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988

Canada,
CUNY B.A.,
Journalist, winner of six Emmy Awards, Chief of Television and Radio, United Nations

Italy, Brooklyn College 1957, Chairman and C.E.O., Della Femina, Jeary and Partners advertising agency

Haiti, Baruch College 2002, Managing Director & Partner, Lehman Brothers, Inc.

Hungary,
Baruch College 1952,
real estate entrepreneur

Barbados,
Baruch College 1989,
Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, Johnson & Johnson

Poland,
City College,
National Director, Anti-Defamation League REUVEN FRANK, Canada, City College 1942, President of NBC News

Canada, City College 1942, President of NBC News

Austria,
City College 1902,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Russia, City College 1918, lyricist

Yugoslavia, Graduate Center 2005, Fulbright Fellow

Ecuador,
Queens College B.A. 1981 and M.A. 1985,
Director of Cultural Affairs, Queens Borough President's Office, 1985-2000

Ghana, Borough of Manhattan Community College 1988, co-founder Webb & Waterman, a strategy consulting firm

Romania,
LaGuardia Community College 1997,
Author and lecturer on the Holocaust

Hungary,
City College 1960,
Founder of Intel

Jamaica,
New York City College of Technology 1973,
York College 1978, Mayor of Hempstead, N.Y.

Lithuania, Brooklyn College 1934, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history

Syria and Palestine, Brooklyn College 1941, M.S. 1945, mathematician and the “father” of modern graph theory

Russia, City College 1918, lyricist

Jamaica,
Bronx Community College,
President Golden Krust Bakery

Republic,
Lehman College B.A. 1979,
Graduate Center Ph.D. 1997, Director of the Dominican Studies Institute, City College

Cuba, City College 1975, winner, Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

Austria, Brooklyn College 1948, historian

Polish, City College 1935, Nobel Prize in Physics

Eastern Europe, City College 1942, coach, New York Knicks

Russia, City College 1940, Professor of English, CUNY and author

Germany, Brooklyn College 1955, Mayor of Portland, Oregon

Germany, Hunter College 1934, author, “Up the Down Staircase,” Yiddish scholar

Kenya,
Kingsborough Community College 1989,
CNN Africa correspondent

Macedonia,
College of Staten Island 1998,
Claims Counsel, Zurich American Insurance Company

Austria,
City College 1937,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hungary, New York City College of Technology 1953, co-owner, The Four Seasons Restaurant

Romania,
Queens College 1942,
Manhattan Project physicist; Chairman of Kepco, an electrical company

China,
John Jay College 1972,
Chief Emeritus of the Connecticut State Police Laboratory

Dominican Republic,
City College 1975,
former New York City Council Member

Barbados/Grenada, Hunter College 1959, African American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and activist

Ireland, Borough of Manhattan Community College 1966, Vermont State Senator

Russia, City College 1936, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Barbados, Brooklyn College 1952, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and author

Dominican Republic, John Jay College 1994,New York City Council Member

Russia, Brooklyn College 1951, actor, director and filmmaker

Ireland, Brooklyn College M.A. 1967, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize; author of Angela’s Ashes and ’Tis

Russia, Hunter College 1934, first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president of the American Association of Law Schools

Ukraine, Brooklyn College 1956, conductor and pianist

Tanzania,
City College 2006,
Goldwater Scholar

Cameroon,
La Guardia Community College 2005,
Audre Lorde Scholar

Germany, City College 1954, Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

Jamaica,
City College 1958,
former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State

Trinidad, Hunter College 1940, dancer, choreographer and anthropologist

Italy, City College, author/screenwriter, two-time Academy Award® winner for The Godfather

Ukraine, Hunter College 1942, opera singer

Jamaica, Hunter College B.A./M.A. 1989, Senior Research Physicist at E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company

Canada, City College 1949, Executive Editor of The New York Times

Russia,
City College 1941,
real estate developer

Russia, City College 1918, real estate developer

Nigeria,
York College 2006,
National Science Foundation Fellow

Russia, City College 1934, developed the first polio vaccine

Israel,
Baruch College 1970,
MBA 1975, Managing Partner, NuVerse Advisors LLC

Russia, City College 1938, journalist

Germany,
New York City College of Technology 1958, former president, New York City College of Technology

Russia, Brooklyn College 1934, novelist and film writer; author of The Young Lions and Rich Man, Poor Man

Ukraine, Brooklyn College 2005, Rhodes Scholar

China,
Queens College M.A. 1984,
composer, pianist and MacArthur Fellow

Guyana, Baruch College 1984, Corporate Vice President, The Harris Corporation

Guyana, Baruch College 1984, Corporate Vice President, The Harris Corporation

Dominican Republic, Bronx Community College, Lehman College 2006, ex officio voting member of the CUNY Board of Trustees and the 2005–2006 chair of the University Student Senate

Hungary, Queens College 1963, singer-songwriter, twelve-time Grammy® Award winner

Jamaica,
Baruch College 2006,
United Negro College Fund/Merck Science Initiative Fellow

Guyana,
York College 2005,
Jonas E. Salk Scholar

Puerto Rico and Suriname, Brooklyn College 1980, Emmy Award-winning actor; starred in “L.A. Law,” “NYPD Blue” and “The West Wing”

Hungary, Borough of Manhattan Community College 1973, former television talent promoter and Senior Systems Specialist for GreenPoint Bank

St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
City College,
New York City Council Member

Germany, City College 1884, photographer

Ukraine, City College 2005, Rhodes Scholar

Dominican Republic, Brooklyn College 1979, Founding Director, Dominican Studies Institute, City College, and director, Latino-Latin American Studies, Syracuse University

Dominican Republic,
Lehman College 1996,
post-doctorate research fellow, Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Germany, City College 1898, United States Senator

Eastern Europe, City College M.A. 1938, actor

Germany, Hunter College 1941, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1977

Nigeria,
Medgar Evers College 2005,
Jonas E. Salk Scholar