Columbia University alumni

American numismatist and archaeologist

Tunisian politician

American historian

American archaeologist and classical scholar (1917–2010)

American politician (1930–2024)

Canadian actress

Contemporary Jewish-American academic

American Catholic archbishop (born 1956)

American writer (1903–1989)

American mathematician (1918–2013)

American physicist and sinologist (1924-2012)

US feminist and historian

American scholar

American film studio executive and producer (1930–2011)

American actor

Turkish engineer and businessperson (born 1978)

Oromo activist, inspiration for the Qeerroo movement

American botanist (1921–1997)

Ukrainian poet (1929–2021)

Nigerian politician

South African economist

Macedonian and Yugoslav economist

UNDP’s Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Africa

American media critic (1919–2000)

American novelist

South African writer (1931–1989)

Afghan-American novelist, journalist, and human rights activist

Moroccan visual artist and designer (1936–2020)

American mathematician (1916–1991)

American writer

American radio personality

American Catholic bishop

American writer (1927–2023)

American physicist and humanitarian (1928-2014)

American writer

American geneticist (1918-1997)

composer (1917–1995)

American journalist

Chinese-American biologist

American banker

American anthropologist (1926–1997)

botanist (1909-1987)

American statistician (1920–2016)

Chinese educator, civil servant and diplomat

American composer (1939-1987)

Jordanian politician

American economist (1899–1975)

American-German classical philologist (1862–1942)

American industrialist

anthropologist, archaeologist, and director of the Latin American Archaeology Program at the National Museum of Natural History (1921–2012)

American writer

American game theorist (1914–1981)

civil rights leader and sister of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nigerian professor and librarian

American diplomat (1928-2009)

political scientist

American historian of Jews in the Middle Ages

American computer programmer

Sri Lankan politician (1901–1972)

Cuban writer (1930–2021)