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* George G. Adams (engineer), mechanical engineer * John Alcorn (artist), John Alcorn (1935–1992), illustrator * Stan Allen, former Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University * Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture * David Attie (1920–1982), photographerB
* Michael Bach, artist, lead technical illustrator on WWII P-51 fighter at North American Aviation * Donald Baechler, painter * Firelei Báez, artist * Alex Bag, video artist * Elizabeth Gowdy Baker (1860–1927), portraitist * Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture" * Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs * Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Max Becher, artist and educator * Dave Berg (cartoonist), Dave Berg (1920–2002), cartoon artist and main contributor of ''Mad (magazine), Mad'' magazine illustrations * Renata Bernal, painter * Theodore H. Berlin (1917-1962), theoretical physicist * Emile Berliner (1851–1929), invented the Gramophone record, vinyl record * Billy Bitzer (1872–1944), cinematographer * Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist), Victor Gustav Bloede (1849–1937), chemist and philanthropist; protege' of Peter Cooper * Louise Brann (1906–1982), muralist * Norman Bridwell (1928–2014), cartoonist and creator of ''Clifford the Big Red Dog'' * Kadar Brock, contemporary abstract artist * Steve Brodner, cartoonist * Ronald Brookmeyer, public health researcher; professor of biostatistics at UCLA * Dik Browne (1917–1989), cartoonist and creator of ''Hägar the Horrible'' * Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1936), artist *Lee Brozgol (1941–2021), visual artist, educator, and social worke * Kevin Burke (CEO), Kevin Burke, CEO of Consolidated EdisonC
* Albert Carnesale, former chancellor of UCLA and dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard * Alfred Clark (director), Alfred Clark (1873–1950), inventor, cinematic director, and media executive * Martin Charnin (1934–2019), Tony Award-winning lyrics, lyricist, writer, and theatre director * Remy Charlip (1929–2012), choreographer, writer, and illustrator * Ching Ho Cheng (1946–1989), artist * John Walter Christie (1865–1944), engineer and inventor * Seymour Chwast, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios * Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist * Anna Conway, painter * Miriam Cooper (1891–1976), actress * E. Miriam Coyrière, educator and entrepreneur * Will Cotton, painter * William L. Coulter (1865–1907), architect * Joshua Lionel Cowen (1877–1965), inventor of the Flash (photography), flash-lamp and co-founder of Lionel Corporation * Amy Cutler, artistD
* Peggy Deamer, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale * Roy DeCarava (1919–2009), photographer * William Francis Deegan (1882–1932), architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway * Bruce Degen, illustrator for ''The Magic School Bus'' * Olvia C. Demetriou, architect, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; Washington Design Center Hall of Fame * Freda Diamond (1905–1998), industrial designer known for designing mass market home goods * Elizabeth Diller, with Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro * Michael Doret, graphic designer, font designer, lettering artist * Lou Dorfsman (1918–2008), graphic designer art director for CBS * Eric Drooker, painter and author * William Dubilier (1888–1969), inventor of the mica capacitor and radio pioneer * Clive Dym, chair of the engineering department at Harvey Mudd College; professor at StanfordE
* John M. Eargle (1931–2007), Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and musician * Thomas Edison (1847–1931), inventorTopper, RobertF
* Isidor Fankuchen (1905-1964), material scientist and solid-state physicist; pioneer of crystallography * Adriana Farmiga, visual artist and Assistant Dean at Cooper Union School of Art * Robert Feintuch, painter * Joel H. Ferziger (1937–2004), mechanical engineer and expert in computational fluid dynamics * Anthony Fiala (1869-1950), American explorer * Irving Fierstein (1915–2009), painter, designer *Liana Finck, cartoonist and author * Israel F. Fischer (1858–1940), US Representative, judge * James Fitzgerald (American jurist, born 1851), James Fitzgerald (1851-1922), American jurist and politician * Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker * Audrey Flack, pioneer of photorealism * Max Fleischer (1883–1972), animator, inventor, film director and producer; co-creator of Betty Boop * Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), author and illustrator * Charles R. Forbes (1878–1952), politician and military officer; first Director of the US Veterans' Bureau * Laura Ford, sculptor * Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States * Brad Friedmutter, architect * Martin Feinberg, chemical engineer and mathematicianG
* Hope Gangloff, painter * Janet Gardner, filmmaker *Lenora Garfinkel (1930–2020), architect * Paul Garrin, filmmaker *Louis D. Gibbs, lawyer, politician, judge * Philip Gips (1931–2019), film poster artist * Milton Glaser (1929–2020), graphic designer, creator of the I Love New York logo, co-founder of Push Pin Studios * Harold S. Goldberg, electrical engineer; first chair of the IEEE * Minetta Good (1895–1946), muralist, painter and printmaker * Harry H. Goode (1909-1960), computer engineer and systems engineer; professor at the University of Michigan * Aaron Goodelman, sculptor * Sidney Gordin (1918–1996), visual artist, professor * T.J. Gottesdiener, architect and manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill * Harold Grad (1923-1986), applied mathematician * Aaron Green (architect), Aaron Green (1917-2001), architect and protege of Frank Lloyd Wright; lecturer at Stanford University * Charles Greenfield (1885-1979), engineer * Leonard Gross, mathematician; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Cornell UniversityH
* Hans Haacke, artist * Dimitri Hadzi (1921–2006), sculptor * William Harnett (1848–1892), painter * Irving Harper (1916-2015), industrial designer * Matthew Harrison (director), Matthew Harrison, film director * Sagi Haviv, partner, Chermayeff & Geismar; designer of the Library of Congress and Armani Exchange logos * Palmer Hayden (1890–1973), artist famous for depictions of African-American life * John Hejduk (1929–2000), one of New York Five, a group of five New York City architects * Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor * Angela Hill (fighter), Angela Hill, professional mixed martial arts fighter * Julian Hirsch (1922-2003), electrical engineer and audio critic * Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design * Kim Holleman, artist, MIT Media Lab Social Computing Group * Emil Clemens Horst (1867-1940), inventor * Shelby Hughes (1981–2014), artist and designer * Russell Hulse, 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics * Elizabeth Bullock Humphrey (1841–1889), illustratorI
* Alexander Isley, graphic designerJ
* Francis Jehl (1860–1941), electrochemist and inventor * Patty Jenkins, filmmaker * Herman Jessor (1894-1990), architect and engineer * Sandy Jimenez, comic book artist * Bonnie E. John, cognitive psychologist * Crockett Johnson (1906–1975), (David Johnson Leisk), comic strip artist and author of ''Harold and the Purple Crayon'' * Willard F. Jones (1890–1967), naval architect, head of National Safety Council's marine section and Vice President of Gulf Oil * Mimi Jung (born 1981), artistK
* Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman * Gideon Kanner, law professor, consultant, author, and lecturer * Michael Kasha (1920–2013), physical chemist, educator, and guitar designer * Alex Katz, figurative artist * Luke A. Keenan (1872-1924), politician * Arthur C. Keller (1901-1983), electrical engineer; pioneer of recording technologies * Otto Kempner (1858-1914), lawyer, politician, and judge * Owen M. Kiernan, member of the New York State Assembly * Owen Kildare (1864-1911), realist writer * Dave King (novelist), Dave King, novelist and poet * William King (artist), William King (1925–2015), artist * R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007), painter * Murray S. Klamkin (1921-2004), mathematician * Vera Klement, professor at the University of Chicago * Herman Charles Koenig (18931959), book collector, friend of H. P. Lovecraft * Fred Kohler (author), Fred Kohler, inventor, author, and lecturer * Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter * Kathleen Kucka, painter * Heather Kulik, computational materials scientist and chemical engineer; professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Moses Kunitz (1887-1978), biochemist * Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993), cartoonist, editor and co-founder of ''Mad (magazine), Mad''L
* Marisa Lago, attorney; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade * Alfred A. Lama (1899–1984), New York State Assemblyman and co-sponsor of Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, Mitchell-Lama housing legislation * Thomas W. Lamb (1871–1942), architect and designer of theaters and cinemas * Morgan Foster Larson (1882–1961), Governor of New Jersey, 1929–1932 * Benjamin Lax (1915-2015), solid-state and plasma physicist * Joseph Lechleider (1933-2015), electrical engineer; inventor of DSL technology * Aaron J. Levy (1881-1955), lawyer and politician * Janet Cook Lewis, painter, librarian, and bookbinder * Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site, World Trade Center * Whitfield Lovell, artist * Herb Lubalin (1918–1981), graphic designer, creative director for publications ''Eros'', ''Fact (U.S. magazine), Fact'', and ''Avant Garde (magazine), Avant Garde''; designed the typeface ITC Avant Garde * Samuel Lubkin (1906-1972), mathematician and computer scientist; pioneer in the early history of computing * Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator * Wauhope Lynn (1856–1920), lawyer, judge, and politician * Noah Lyon, artistM
* Jay Maisel, photographer * Sylvia Plimack Mangold * Fred Marcellino (1939–2001), illustrator * Christian Marclay, artist, composer * Judith Margolis, artist, essayist, book designer, curator * Joseph Margulies (artist), Joseph Margulies (1896–1984), artist * Jacob Marks (1861–1965), lawyer, New York State Senator, Municipal Court Justice * Leonidas D. Marinelli (1906-1974), radiological physicist; founded the field of Human Radiobiology * Alexia Massalin, computer scientist and programmer * Crystal McKenzie, designer * Antonina Roll-Mecak, molecular biophyicist; Chief of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health * Linn Meyers, artist * Abbott Miller, designer * Mike Mills (director), Mike Mills, filmmaker * Matthew Monahan, sculptor * A. Harry Moore (1877–1952), 39th Governor of List of Governors of New Jersey, New Jersey * Toshiko Mori, architect * Jacqueline Moss (1927–2005), art historian, educator * P. Buckley Moss, artist * Michel Mossessian, architect * James H. Mulligan Jr. (1920–1996), American electrical engineer, former executive officer of National Academy of Engineering and president of IEEE * Thomas Maurice Mulry (1855–1916), businessman and philanthropist * Wangechi Mutu, artist * Henry L. Myers (1862-1943), United States senatorN
* Roy Nachum, Israeli New York-based contemporary artist * Willa Nasatir (born 1990) BFA 2012, photographer, visual artist * Victor Nellenbogen (1888–1959), architect * Vera Neumann (1907–1993), artist known for colored linen patterns and scarves signed "Vera" by the Vera CompanyO
* Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacherP
* Victor Papanek (1923–1998), designer and educator; early proponent of ecologically and socially responsible design * Bruce Pasternack (1947–2021), engineer, author, and President and CEO of the Special Olympics * Ruth Pastine, minimalist painter * Randolph Perkins (1871-1936), Republican US Congressman * Eleanore Pettersen (1916–2003), architect * William Gardner Pfann (1917–1982), inventor and materials scientist; known for his development of zone melting * Sylvia Plevritis, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University * Robert Plonsey (1924-2015), electrical engineer; Pfizer-Pratt Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University; known for his work in Bioelectricity * Ron Pompei, architect and founder of Pompei A.D. * Charles E. Pont (1898–1971), painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer * Neal Pozner (1955–1994), artist, editor, writer and designer at DC Comics * Seth Putterman, physicistQ
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* Grace Renzi (1922-2011), painter * Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Andrea Robbins, artist and educator * Morgan Robertson (1861-1915), American writer and self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope * Frank E. Rom (1926-2012), NASA engineer * Otto A. Rosalsky (1873-1936), lawyer and judge * Fred Rosebury (1901-1999), engineer and artist * Charles Rosen (scientist), Charles Rosen (1917–2002), engineer and pioneer in artificial intelligence in development of Shakey the Robot * Reynold Ruffins, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios * Jere F. Ryan (1882-1948), builder, businessman, and politicianS
* Amy Sadao, Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art * Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), Beaux-Arts sculptor, numismatist, and educator * Karen Sandler, lawyer * Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band Skeleton Key (band), Skeleton Key * Alfred Sarant (1918–1979), engineer and Soviet spy * Edward Sargent (architect), Edward Sargent (1842–1914), architect * Richard Sarles, CEO and General Manager of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority * Augusta Savage (Augusta Christine Fells) (1892-1962), sculptor and teacher * Henry Scheffé (1907-1977), statistician; known for the Lehmann-Scheffe theorem and Scheffe's method * Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter * Mischa Schwartz, professor of electrical engineering, Columbia University * Richard Schwartz (engineer), Richard Schwartz, engineer, shared the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for design and development of the first GPS satellites. * Sy Schulman (1926–2012), civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993–1997) * Ricardo Scofidio, with Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro * Samuel R. Scottron (1841–1908), engineer and inventor, grandfather of entertainer Lena Horne * Georgette Seabrooke (1916–2011), muralist, artist, art therapist and educator * George Segal (artist), George Segal (1924–2000), Pop Art sculptor and painter * Emily McGary Selinger (1848–1927), painter, writer, poet, educator * Redmond Simonsen (1942–2005), graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc. * Neal Slavin, photographer * John L. Smith (pharmaceutical executive), John L. Smith (1889–1950), chemist, pharmaceutical executive, and co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers * Zak Smith, artist * Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and Superintendent of School Buildings, New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923 * Edward Sorel, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios * Mark A. Stamaty, cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator * Edwin King Stodola (1914–1992), radio engineer; chief scientist on Project Diana, which bounced radio waves off the moon for the first time in 1946 * Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director * William Sulzer (1863-1941), 39th governor of New York * Eric E. Sumner (1923–1993), engineer, inventor, and scientist; contributor to the early development of switching systemsT
* Philip Taaffe, painter * Katharine Lamb Tait (1895–1981), artist *Nina Tandon, bioengineer and educator * Adah Belle Thoms (1870-1943), founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses * Maximilian Toch (1864–1946), chemist, manufacturer, educator, and early pioneer of art forensics * Hy Turkin (1915–1955), sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopediaU
* Andrea U'Ren, children's book author and illustratorV
* Jaret Vadera, artist * Stan Vanderbeek (1927–1984), animator * Henry Earle Vaughan (1912-1978), electrical engineer * Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche car designer * Allyson Vieira, artist * Jovan Karlo Villalba, painter * Harold Van Buren Voorhis (1894-1983), chemistW
* Louis Waldman (1892–1982), engineer, labor lawyer, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation * Annie E. A. Walker (1855–1929), portrait artist, one of the first African-American women to complete an institutional art education in the US * Edward J. Wasp (1923–2015), chemical and environmental engineer, pioneer of slurry pipelines * Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952), sculptor * Joseph Weber (1919-2000), American physicist * Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), painter * Pennerton West (1913–1965), painter * Alice Wetterlund, comedian * Jack Whitten (1939–2018), painter * Christopher Wilmarth (1943–1987), sculptor * Jerome Witkin, painter * Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer * Dan Witz, painter, street artist * Tobi Wong (1974–2010), designer, artist * Caroline Woolard, artist * Sarah A. Worden Lloyd (1855-1918), painter, art instructorX
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* Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, chemical engineer, nanotechnology scientist, and educator * Prabda Yoon, writerZ
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