Editing List of Cornell University alumni

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[[File:Cornell University from McGraw Tower.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Cornell University]], an [[Ivy League]] university founded in 1865 in [[Ithaca, New York]]]]
This '''list of Cornell University alumni''' includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of [[Cornell University]], an [[Ivy League]] university whose main campus is in [[Ithaca, New York]].

As of 2024, Cornell has over 250,000 living alumni.<ref name="factbook" /> Since the university's founding, its alumni have included 25 recipients of [[National Medal of Science]] and [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]] combined, 38 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellows]], 34&nbsp;[[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholars]], 31&nbsp;[[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]],<ref name="factbook">{{cite web|url=http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |title=2009–10 Factbook |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=December 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626082316/http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |archive-date=June 26, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="Rhodes Scholars">{{cite web|url=http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1165899600 |title=Uncle Ezra |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=January 10, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102092343/http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1165899600 |archive-date=January 2, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.rhodesscholar.org/assets/uploads/RS_Number%20of%20Winners%20by%20Institution_1_30_17.pdf |title=Rhodes Scholarships Number of Winners by Institution}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marshallscholarship.org/about/statistics|title=Statistics|website=Marshallscholarship.org|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> 249 elected members of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], 201 elected members of the [[National Academy of Engineering]], and over 190 heads of higher learning institutions.

Cornell is the only university in the world with three female winners of unshared [[Nobel Prizes]] among its graduates; Cornell alumni [[Pearl S. Buck]], [[Barbara McClintock]], and [[Toni Morrison]] each were unshared recipients of the prize.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/10/06/letter-editor-cu-should-embrace-female-nobel-laureates |title=C.U. Should Embrace Female Nobel Laureates |date=October 6, 2010 |newspaper=[[The Cornell Daily Sun]] |access-date=October 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112040311/http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2010/10/06/letter-editor-cu-should-embrace-female-nobel-laureates |archive-date=January 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name="nobel">{{cite web| url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Nobel_Laureates_at_CUk1.shtml | title = Cornell Nobel laureates | publisher = Cornell News Service | access-date = June 6, 2006}}</ref> Many alumni maintain university ties through the university's [[homecoming]]. Its alumni magazine is ''Cornell Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/pdfs/advertisers/09_Ad_Rates_for_Classes.pdf|title=Place a Reunion Ad in Class Notes|publisher=Cornell Alumni News|access-date=December 12, 2010}}</ref> In [[Manhattan]], the university maintains the [[Cornell Club of New York]] for alumni. In 2005, Cornell ranked third nationally among universities and colleges in philanthropic giving from its alumni.<ref name="factbook" /> Alumni are known as ''Cornellians'', many of whom are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.<ref name="factbook" /><ref>{{Cite book | last = Altschuler | first = Glenn C. | author2 = Isaac Kramnick | author3 = R. Laurence Moore | year = 2003 | title = The 100 Most Notable Cornellians | publisher = Cornell University Press | location = [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca, N.Y.]] | isbn = 0-8014-3958-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/100mostnotableco00glen }}</ref>

In contemporary culture, fictional alumni have been portrayed in several films, television shows, and books. In television, [[Andy Bernard]] on ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]'' (2005 to 2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=238&Itemid=71|title=Big Red Yuks on NBC's 'The Office'|publisher=Cornell Alumni News|access-date=December 12, 2010}}</ref> Gary Walsh on ''[[Veep]]'' (2012 to 2019), Tom Kirkman on ''[[Designated Survivor (TV series)|Designated Survivor]]'' (2016 to 2018), [[List of Modern Family characters|Mitchell Pritchett]] on ''[[Modern Family]]'' (2009 to 2020),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibbs |first=Lynn |date=2023-03-10 |title=Every Job Mitchell Had On Modern Family (The Complete Timeline) |url=https://screenrant.com/modern-family-every-job-mitchell-had/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref> [[Tom Wambsgans]] on ''[[Succession (TV series)|Succession]]'' (2018 to 2023),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saulnier |first=Beth |date=2023-04-05 |title=And the Greatest Fictional Cornellian in TV and Movie History Is … ? |url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/fictional-cornellians-winner/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Cornellians {{!}} Cornell University |language=en-US}}</ref> Shane Patton on [[HBO]]'s ''[[The White Lotus]]'' (2021 to present), and Deborah "DJ" Vance Jr. on ''[[Hacks (TV series)|Hacks]]'' (2021 to present) are each Cornell University alumni.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goldsmith |first1=Annie |title=Cornell's President Reacts to That White Lotus Hat Choice |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cornells-president-reacts-white-lotus-171100082.html |website=Yahoo Life |publisher=Yahoo |access-date=25 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825044606/https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cornells-president-reacts-white-lotus-171100082.html |archive-date=25 August 2021 |date=24 August 2021 |quote=the reference made its way to the real-life Cornell president, Martha Pollack. In a recent interview, she was asked about Shane's baseball cap and the ensuing publicity.}}</ref> In films, Christina Pagniacci in ''[[Any Given Sunday]]'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/12/23/sunday/print.html|title=Any Given Sunday|last=Williams|first=Mary Elizabeth|date=December 23, 1999|work=Salon|access-date=February 6, 2012}}</ref> and Natalie Keener in ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]'' (2009)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/01/21/unbearable-lightness-being-a%E2%80%88business-traveler|title=The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Business Traveler|first=Joey|last=Anderson|date=January 21, 2010|access-date=December 12, 2010|work=Cornell Daily Sun|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112042738/http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/01/21/unbearable-lightness-being-a%E2%80%88business-traveler|archive-date=January 12, 2012}}</ref> are both Cornell alumni.

==Academia==
===College and University Leadership===
[[File:Portrait of David Starr Jordan.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[David Starr Jordan]]]]
* [[Zvi Galil]] (Ph.D., 1975) – Dean of the [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing]] (2010–19), President of [[Tel Aviv University]] (2007–09)
* [[Chris Gibson (New York politician)|Chris Gibson]] (MPA 1995, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 1998) – President of [[Siena College]] (2020–23), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[New York (state)|New York]] (2011–17)
* [[Ana Guadalupe]] (Ph.D., 1987) – Chancellor of the [[University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus]] (2009–13)
* [[David Starr Jordan]] (M.S. 1872) – Chancellor of [[Stanford University]] (1913–16), President of [[Stanford University]] (1891–1913), President of [[Indiana University]] (1884–91)
* [[Charnvit Kasetsiri]] (Ph.D. 1972) – Historian and Rector at [[Thammasat University]]
* [[Steven Knapp]] (Ph.D. 1981) – President of [[George Washington University]] (2007–17)
* [[Wendy Raymond]] (B.A. 1982) – President of [[Haverford College]] (2019–present)

===Anthropology and Sociology===
[[File:Kimberlé Crenshaw (40901215153).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Kimberlé Crenshaw]]]]
[[File:Julian Steward (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Julian Steward]]]]
* [[Carol Aneshensel]] (B.S., M.A., Ph.D.), sociologist, professor, and vice chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]'s [[UCLA Fielding School of Public Health|School of Public Health]]
* [[Sarah T. Barrows]] (M.A. 1893), [[phonetician]] and phonetics pioneer
* [[Alfred Blumstein]] (B.A., Ph.D.), criminologist, former dean of the [[Heinz College]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]], and member, [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1998)
* [[Aaron Cicourel]] (Ph.D.), professor emeritus of sociology, [[University of California, San Diego]], 1992 [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] fellow, and 1982 [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] fellow
* [[Kimberlé Crenshaw]] (B.A. 1981), [[critical race theory]] scholar, [[Columbia Law School]]
* [[Harry Edwards (sociologist)|Harry Edwards]] (Ph.D. 1970), sociologist specializing on race and sports and [[University of California, Berkeley]] professor emeritus
* [[Shelly Errington]] (M.A., Ph.D.), [[cultural anthropologist]], professor of anthropology, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], and 1981 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] 
* [[Diana E. Forsythe]] (Ph.D. 1974), anthropologist, [[University of California, San Francisco]], noted for her work on [[artificial intelligence]] and medical informatics
* [[Daniel Foss|Daniel A. Foss]] (B.A.), [[sociologist]] and author of ''Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements'' and''Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics'' 
* [[Ward Goodenough]] (B.A. 1940), anthropologist, [[University of Pennsylvania]], 1971 member of [[National Academy of Sciences]], and 1975 fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] 
* [[Sabine Hyland]] (B.A. 1986), [[anthropologist]], professor of World Christianity at [[University of St Andrews]], specialist on [[Quipu|khipus]] and religion in [[Peru]], and 2019 [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]]
* [[Suzanne Maman]], social scientist and [[HIV/AIDS]] researcher
* [[Erik Mueggler]] (B.A.), anthropologist, professor at the [[University of Michigan]], and 2002 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]]
* [[Mary Racelis]] (B.A. 1954), anthropologist, sociologist, professor at [[Ateneo de Manila University]] and [[University of the Philippines Diliman]], and former [[UNICEF]] Regional Director in [[East Africa|Eastern]] and [[Southern Africa]] 
* [[David M. Schneider]] (B.S. 1940, M.S. 1941), [[cultural anthropologist]] known for studies of [[kinship]], former William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Anthropology, and chairman of Anthropology, [[University of Chicago]] 
* [[G. William Skinner]] (B.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1954), anthropologist and sinologist known for delineation of the [[physiographic macroregions of China]] and 1980 member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]
* [[Julian Steward]] (B.A. 1925 zoology and biology), anthropologist known for development of a scientific theory of [[cultural evolution]] and 1954 member of [[National Academy of Sciences]] 
* [[Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah]] (Ph.D. 1954), [[Social anthropology|social anthropologist]], Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at [[Harvard University]], 1997 recipient of the [[Balzan Prize]], 1998 [[Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize]], and 1994 member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]
* [[Mildred Bertha Thurow Tate]] (Ph.D. 1935), [[Rural sociology|rural sociologist]]
* [[Brackette Williams]] (B.S. 1973), anthropologist and 1997 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]]

===Economics===
[[File:Claudia Goldin (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Claudia Goldin]]]]
[[File:Sanjeev Goyal.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Sanjeev Goyal]]]]
* [[Alice Amsden]] (B.A. 1965), Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economics, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] 
* [[Luc Anselin]] (M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1980), principal developer of [[spatial econometrics]], 2008 member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], and 2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow 
* [[Hugh E. Conway]], labor economist, professor, and construction industry expert
* [[Maureen Cropper]] (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1973 economics), distinguished university professor, [[University of Maryland, College Park]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.econ.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Cropper/Maureen|title=Maureen Cropper – ECON l Department of Economics l University of Maryland|website=Econ.umd.edu|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.energy.umd.edu/faculty/cropper|title=New Faculty Directory Listing – Maryland Energy Innovation Institute|website=Energy.umd.edu|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2008)
* [[Frank Fetter]] (M.A. 1892 philosophy), economist, former president of the [[American Economic Association]], and [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] member 
* [[Austin Frakt]] (B.S. 1994), health care economist and founder, [[The Incidental Economist]]
* [[Robert Gilpin]] (M.S. 1954), [[international political economy]] scholar, professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] at [[Princeton University]], and American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
* [[Garance Genicot]] (M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 1999), economics professor, [[Georgetown University]] 
* [[Claudia Goldin]] (B.A. magna cum laude 1968), economist and 2006 [[National Academy of Sciences]] member
* [[Sanjeev Goyal]] (M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1990 economics), economics professor, [[University of Cambridge]], and [[British Academy]] fellow
* [[Charles Henry Hull]] (1886), economist, historian, and former dean of Cornell University's College of Arts<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/18715/Hull_Charles_Henry_1936.pdf;jsessionid=91A2DCFC8DE6F0FEB46303E9037C412A?sequence=2|format=PDF|title=Charles Henry Hull|website=Ecommons.cornell.edu|access-date=December 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:51314|title=Cornell University Library Digital Collections|website=Digital.library.cornell.edu|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Paul Joskow|Paul L. Joskow]] (B.A. 1968), economist, distinguished fellow of the [[American Economic Association]], [[Econometric Society]], Industrial Organization Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, emeritus at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], past department chair of MIT Department of Economics, and current president of the [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]] 
* [[Ehud Kalai]] (M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1972), game theorist, mathematical economist, James J. O’Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences at [[Northwestern University]], and American Academy of Arts and Sciences and [[Econometric Society]] fellow
* [[Edwin W. Kemmerer]] (Ph.D. 1903), economist at [[Princeton University]] who served as president of the [[American Economic Association]] (1926), known internationally as one of the most prominent so-called [[money doctor]]s, and 1934 American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
* [[Frank Knight]] (Ph.D. 1916), economist and one of the original leaders of the "[[Chicago school (economics)|Chicago School]]" of economic theory
* [[John Williams Mellor]] (BSc 1950; MSc 1951; Ph.D.)
* [[Sendhil Mullainathan]] (B.A. 1993), behavioral economist at [[Harvard University]], co-founder of [[Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab|MIT Poverty Action Lab]], [[MacArthur Foundation]] "genius grant" recipient in 2002, and [[Infosys Prize]] recipient in 2018
* [[Edwin Griswold Nourse]] (1906), agricultural economist, first chairman of the [[US Council of Economic Advisers]], former president of the [[American Economic Association]], [[Brookings Institution]] vice president, [[Guggenheim Fellow]], and 1934 American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
* [[Thorstein Veblen]] (graduate study 1891–92, transferred), economist and author, ''[[The Theory of the Leisure Class]]''

===History===
[[File:Glenn C. Altschuler.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Glenn C. Altschuler]]]]
[[File:Louis R Gottschalk 1959.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Louis R. Gottschalk]]]]
[[File:DIG13977 046-cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[David Oshinsky]]]]
[[File:Richard Pipes 2004.JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Richard Pipes]]]]
* [[Glenn C. Altschuler]] (Ph.D. 1976) – Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and vice president for University Relations at Cornell University
* [[Barbara Watson Andaya]] (Ph.D. 1975) – professor of Asian studies at the [[University of Hawaii]] and director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
* [[Leonard Andaya]] (Ph.D. 1972) – professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Hawaii
* [[John L. Brooke]] (B.A. 1975) – Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at [[Ohio State University]]; recipient of [[Bancroft Prize]] (1995)
* [[Edward Countryman]] (M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1971) – historian and educator; recipient of [[Bancroft Prize]] (1982)
* [[Nancy F. Cott]] (B.A. 1967) – historian, [[Sterling Professor|Sterling Professor of History and American Studies]] at [[Yale University]] and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at [[Harvard University]]; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* [[Charlotte Erickson|Charlotte J. Erickson]] (M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1951) – Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the [[University of Cambridge]] (1983–1990); [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1990) and [[Guggenheim Fellow]] (1966–1967) 
* [[Louis R. Gottschalk]] (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920, Ph.D. 1921) – professor of history (1927–1965), department chair (1937–1942), Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History (1959–1965) at the [[University of Chicago]]
* [[Henry Guerlac]] (B.A. 1932 chemistry, M.A. 1933 biochemistry) – historian of science considered among the pioneers in the development of the academic field of the history of science; president of the [[History of Science Society]] (1957–1960), recipient of the [[George Sarton Medal]] (1973)
* [[Marie Boas Hall]] (Ph.D. 1949) – historian of science; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1955) and of the [[British Academy]] (1994), recipient of the [[George Sarton Medal]] (1981)
* [[Dominick LaCapra]] (B.A., Faculty 1969–) – Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at [[Cornell University]]; member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2006)
* [[Frederic C. Lane]] (B.A. 1921) – historian in [[Medieval history]], professor emeritus of history at [[Johns Hopkins University]]; president of the [[American Historical Association]] (1964–1965); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the [[Medieval Academy of America]]
* [[Melvyn P. Leffler]] (B.S. 1966) – Edward Stettinius Professor and former chairman of the Department of History, dean of the college and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the [[University of Virginia]]; recipient of the [[George Louis Beer Prize]] (2008) and [[Bancroft Prize]] (1993) 
* [[William Leuchtenburg]] (B.A. 1943) – historian, William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]; recipient of [[Bancroft Prize]] and [[North Carolina Award]] for Literature
* [[William H. McNeill]] (Ph.D. 1947) – professor emeritus of History at the [[University of Chicago]]; author of ''[[The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community]]''; recipient of the [[National Humanities Medal]] (2010)
* [[Anthony Milner (historian)|Anthony Milner]] (Ph.D.) – Basham Professor of Asian History, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
* [[David Oshinsky]] (B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967) – historian, winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] in 2006 for his book [[Polio: An American Story]], Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair Emeritus in History at The [[University of Texas at Austin]], Distinguished Scholar in Residence, [[New York University]] 
* [[Milton Osborne]] (Ph.D.) – Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia
* [[Laura Otis]] (Ph.D. 1991 comparative literature) – historian of science and Professor of English at [[Emory University]]; [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (2000)
* [[Richard Pipes]] (graduate of 1945) – historian in Russian history; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of [[National Humanities Medal]] (2007)
* [[M. C. Ricklefs|Merle Calvin Ricklefs]] (Ph.D.) – scholar of the history and current affairs of Indonesia
* [[Clinton Rossiter]] (1939; professor 1947–1970) – historian and political scientist; recipient of the [[Bancroft Prize]] (1954) and the [[Woodrow Wilson Foundation|Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award]] (1953)
* [[James Morton Smith]] (Ph.D. 1951) – historian; recipient of a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1960); director of the [[Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library]] (1976–1984)
* [[Kazys Varnelis (historian)|Kazys Varnelis]] (M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1994) – historian and theorist of architecture, specializing in network culture
* [[Olin Dunbar Wheeler]] (1874) – historian, author, topographer, wrote especially about the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]
* [[David K. Wyatt]] (Ph.D. 1966) – John Stambaugh Professor of History and Asian Studies, emeritus, Cornell University
* [[Mary E. Young]] (Ph.D. 1955) - Professor Emerita at the University of Rochester.<ref name="Women In Academia Report">{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Mary Elizabeth Young, 1929-2021 |url=https://www.wiareport.com/2021/02/in-memoriam-mary-elizabeth-young-1929-2021/ |website=Women In Academia Report |access-date=24 May 2023 |date=26 February 2021}}</ref>

===Law===
* [[Nina Appel]], first female dean of [[Loyola Law School]]
* [[Boris Bittker]] (B.A. 1938), [[Yale Law School]] professor ''emeritus'' and author

===Philosophy===
[[File:Thomas Nagel (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Thomas Nagel]]]]
[[File:Francis Fukuyama 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Francis Fukuyama]]]]
* [[Marilyn McCord Adams]] (Ph.D. 1967) – philosopher; Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]] (2015)
* [[Francis Fukuyama]] (B.A.) – philosopher, political economist, and professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]]
* [[Edmund Gettier]] – philosopher and professor emeritus at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]; owes his reputation to a single three-page paper published in 1963 called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
* [[Matthew Kramer]] (B.A. 1981, philosophy) – philosopher, professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the [[University of Cambridge]]; Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (2014); [[Guggenheim Fellow]] (2001–2002)
* [[John Warwick Montgomery]] (A.B. 1952) – lawyer, professor, theologian, and academic known for his work in the field of Christian apologetics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jwm.christendom.co.uk/|title=JWM's Web Site|access-date=September 10, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Nagel]] (B.A. 1958) – philosopher, author of ''What is it like to be a bat?'' and [[Balzan Prize]] recipient (2008)
* [[Dominik Perler]] (visiting scholar 1991–1992) – professor of philosophy at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin]]; [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize]] recipient (2005) 
* [[John Perry (philosopher)|John Perry]] (Ph.D. 1968) – Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at [[Stanford University]] and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the [[University of California, Riverside]]; [[Jean Nicod Prize]] laureate (1999); member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) and of the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]]
* [[David H. Sanford]] (Ph.D. 1966) – professor of philosophy at [[Duke University]]
* [[J. B. Schneewind]] (B.A.) – professor emeritus of Philosophy at [[Johns Hopkins University]], former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] and former provost of [[Hunter College]] [[City University of New York|CUNY]]; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* [[Samuel Weber]] (Ph.D. 1960) – Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at [[Northwestern University]]; professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
* [[Jessica Wilson]] (Ph.D. 2001) – professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto
* [[Paul Ziff]] (B.F.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics

===Political science===
[[File:Gordon G. Chang by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Gordon G. Chang]]]]
[[File:John Mearsheimer.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[John Mearsheimer]]]]
* [[Benedict Anderson]] (Ph.D. 1967) – Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University; best known for his book ''[[Imagined Communities]]''
* [[Gordon G. Chang]] (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) – author of ''The Coming Collapse of China'' and ''Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World''; one of the original set of Student Trustees
* [[George Friedman]] (Ph.D. 1976) – director of the political analysis and forecasting think tank [[Stratfor]]; author of ''[[The Next 100 Years]]: A Forecast for the 21st Century'' (2009)
* [[Everett Carll Ladd]] (Ph.D.) – political scientist; director of the [[Roper Center for Public Opinion Research]] at the [[University of Connecticut]]
* [[John Mearsheimer]] (Ph.D. 1980) – international relations theorist and professor of political science at [[University of Chicago]] 
* [[Ruth McVey]] (Ph.D. 1961) – co-author, [[Cornell Paper]]
* [[Suzanne Mettler]] (Ph.D. 1994) – political scientist and author
* [[Lee Poh Ping]] (Ph.D. 1974) - political scientist at the [[University of Malaya]]; prominent contributor to the field of international relations and Japanese studies in Malaysia 
* [[William Schonfeld]] (B.A. 1963) - political scientist, author, researcher, educator and university administrator
* [[Wang Shaoguang]] (Ph.D. 1990) – political scientist and leading member of the [[Chinese New Left]]; professor at [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]]
* [[Stephen Skowronek]] (Ph.D. 1979) – Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at [[Yale University]]
* [[William Irwin Thompson]] (Ph.D. 1966; professor) – cultural historian, social critic, poet, philosopher of science

==Architecture and design==

[[File:Peter Eisenman at GSAPP.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Peter Eisenman]]]]
[[File:Richard Meier at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Richard Meier]]]]
* [[Frederick L. Ackerman]] (B.Arch. 1901) – architect and urban planner
* [[Raymond F. Almirall]] (1891) – architect of the Beaux-Arts period, practicing in New York City
* [[Edmund Bacon (architect)|Edmund Bacon]] (B.Arch. 1932) – urban planner, reshaped [[Philadelphia]], 1949–1970
* [[Pietro Belluschi]] (Civil engineering grad) – architect, leader of [[Modernist architecture]]; dean of the architecture and planning school at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (1951–1965); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the [[American Institute of Architects]]; member of the [[National Academy of Design]]; recipient of [[AIA Gold Medal]] (1972), [[National Medal of Arts]] (1991)
* [[Morris Fuller Benton]] (engineering, 1896) – engineer and typeface designer
* [[George Burnap]] (MA, 1910) – landscape architect of [[Meridian Hill Park]] and the first [[White House Rose Garden]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[Albert Cassell]] (B.Arch. 1919) – designed buildings for [[Howard University]], [[Morgan State University]], and [[Virginia Union University]]
*[[Vishaan Chakrabarti]] (B.S. Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and B.A. History of Art 1988)— architect and dean of [[UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design|UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design]]
* [[Peter H. Christensen]] – architectural historian
* [[Gilmore David Clarke]] (B.S. 1913 landscape architecture and civil engineering) – designed the [[Central Park Zoo]] and the [[Unisphere]]
* [[David Colleen]] – architect 
* [[Kimberly Dowdell]] (B.Arch. 2006, trustee) – architect, real estate developer & educator; 100th president of the [[American Institute of Architects]] and first Black woman to serve in the role 
* [[Peter Eisenman]] (B.Arch. 1955) – a foremost practitioner of [[deconstructivism]] in American architecture; [[Wolf Prize in Arts]]
* [[Frederick Earl Emmons]] (1907–1999), architect<ref>{{cite web|title=Frederick Earl Emmons (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/304/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Earl Flansburgh]] (B.Arch. 1954, trustee), [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]-based architect and designer of the Cornell Campus Store
* [[Ruth Reynolds Freeman]] (B.Arch. 1936), architect; first female licensed architect in the state of Vermont.<ref name="SevenDays">{{Cite web |last=Lilly |first=Amy |date=March 9, 2016 |title=Vermont's First Female Architect, Ruth Freeman |url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/home-design/vermonts-first-female-architect-ruth-freeman-3221110 |access-date= |website=Seven Days Vermont}}</ref><ref name="SAH">{{Cite web |last=Colman |first=Devin |title=Modernism in Vermont: The Architecture of Ruth Reynolds Freeman |url=https://sah-archipedia.org/essays/TH-01-ART019 |website=SAH Archipedia}}</ref>
*[[Kathryn Gleason]] (B.S. Landscape architecture, 1979) — Cornell University landscape architect and archaeologist
* [[Edward Brodhead Green]] (1878) Buffalo-based architect
* [[Lawrence Halprin]] (B.A.) – landscape architect, designer, and teacher; recipient of [[National Medal of Arts]] (2002)
* [[Margaret Hicks (architect)|Margaret Hicks]] (B.Arch. 1880) – first female architectural school graduate at Cornell
* [[Douglas Honnold]] (1901–1974) – architect<ref>{{cite web|title=Douglas Honnold (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/218/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Emmett J. Hull]] (1906) – architect<ref>{{cite web|title=Hull, Emmett J. (b.1882 – d.1957)|url=https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=artisanSearch&Name=hull%2C%20emmett%20j.&City=Any&Role=Any|website=[[Mississippi Department of Archives and History]]|access-date=November 5, 2017}}</ref>
* [[William B. Ittner]] (1887) - St. Louis-based architect and designer of school buildings<ref name="ittner">{{citation|url=https://www.landmarks-stl.org/architects/bio/william_b_ittner_faia_1864_1936/|title=William B. Ittner, FAIA (1864–1936)|first=Carolyn Hewes|last=Toft|work=www.landmarks-stl.org|access-date=2021-03-21|publisher=Landmarks Association of St. Louis, Inc.}}</ref>
* [[Lee Jablin|Lee S. Jablin]] (B.Arch. 1971) – founding partner of Harman Jablin Architects
* [[Robert Trent Jones]] (1931) – designer of about 500 golf courses
* [[Henri Jova]] (1949) – architect, key figure in redevelopment of [[Midtown Atlanta]]<ref name="jova">{{citation|work=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?pid=169440942|title=Obituary for Henri Vatable Jova|date=2014-02-02|access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref>
* [[Raymond M. Kennedy]] (B.Arch. 1915, M.Arch. 1916) – designed [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]]<ref name="raymondkennedy">{{citation|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/3340/|title=Raymond McCormick Kennedy Sr.|work=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref>
* [[Rem Koolhaas]] (M.Arch.) – Dutch architect, journalist, and screenwriter, [[Pritzker Prize|Pritzker Architecture Prize]] winner
* [[David Macpherson (engineer)|David Macpherson]] (civil engineering) – city planner for [[San Antonio]], Texas; designed the [[Santa Fe Railroad]]
* [[Khaled Malas]] (M.Arch.) – architect and art historian 
* [[Tomás Mapúa]] (B.Arch. 1911) – founded the [[Mapúa Institute of Technology]]; first [[Philippines|Filipino]] to earn a degree in architecture
* [[Peter Marino]] (1971) – designer of boutique stores for luxury brands, and private residences for wealthy individuals
* [[Richard Meier]] (B.Arch. 1957, professor) – Pritzker Architecture Prize, [[AIA Gold Medal]] winner
* [[William Henry Miller (architect)|William Henry Miller]] (B.Arch. 1872) – designed many iconic buildings on Cornell's Ithaca campus
* [[Enrique Norten]] (M.Arch. 1980) – Mexican architect, professor, 2003 [[World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition]] jury member
* [[Nathaniel A. Owings]] (B.Arch. 1927) – founding partner of [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]] which popularized the International style after World War II
* [[Horace Peaslee]] (B.Arch, 1910) – landscape architect 
* Lawrence Perkins (B.Arch. 1930) and [[Philip Will Jr.]] (B.Arch. 1928) – founding partners of [[Perkins and Will]], designers of seven buildings on the Engineering Quad<ref name="Perkins+Will">{{cite news |last1=Witten |first1=Patti |title=AAP Alumni Lead Upson Hall Transformation |url=https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/aap-alumni-lead-upson-hall-transformation |access-date=September 30, 2018 |publisher=Cornell University AAP |date=May 8, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Emmanuel Pratt]] (B.Arch. 1999) – [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (2019)
* [[Frederick Roehrig]] (1883 architecture) – early 20th-century architect known for landmark buildings in [[Pasadena, California]], including the [[Hotel Green]]
* [[Richmond Shreve]] (B.Arch.) – partner of architectural firm [[Shreve, Lamb and Harmon]], which designed the [[Empire State Building]]
* [[Charles Morse Stotz]] (B.Arch. 1921, master's degree) – architect, historian, and preservationist of [[Western Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{cite web| title =Charles M. Stotz, Photographs, 1901–1975, MSP #21 | work =Library & Archives | publisher = [[Heinz History Center|Senator John Heinz History Center]] | url =http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/stotz.html | access-date =August 21, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Vertner Woodson Tandy]] (MArch) – architect, Villa Lewaro, the mansion of [[Harlem]] millionairess [[Madam C.J. Walker]]; co-founder of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity
* [[Olive Frances Tjaden]] (B.Arch. 1925) pioneering woman architect; donor and namesake of Tjaden Hall<ref name="tjaden">{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/she-shaped-garden-city-style-architect-olive-tjaden-1.13307588|title=A woman who shaped Garden City style|work=Newsday|access-date=2021-03-21|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jan V. White]] (B.Arch. 1951) – [[communication design]]er, educator and writer
* [[E. Stewart Williams]] (B.Arch. 1932) – [[Palm Springs, California]]-based architect with a distinctive [[modernist]] style
* [[David Williston]] (B.A. 1898) – first professionally trained African American landscape architect in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=First African-American landscape architect launched career at Cornell |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/02/first-african-american-landscape-architect-launched-career-cornell |website=Cornell Chronicle |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[Helen Binkerd Young]] (B.Arch. 1900) – architect and lecturer
* [[Ricardo Zurita]] (B.Arch. 1984) – architect and designer of urban public projects

==Art==
[[File:James C. Rockwell Passport Photo.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[James Rockwell]]]]
[[File:Margaret Bourke-White 1955.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Margaret Bourke-White]]]]
* [[Elfriede Abbe]] (1940) – sculptor<ref name="Exhibit1">{{cite news | year=1996 | title=Elfriede Abbe work on exhibit at Cornell's Kroch Library | newspaper=Cornell Chronicle | url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb96/Abbe.dg.html | access-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Richard Artschwager]] (1948) – sculptor, painter
* [[Margaret Bourke-White]] (B.A. 1927) – photojournalist
* [[Joan Danziger]] (B.F.A) – sculptor<ref name="grounds">{{cite web|url=http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/Artist/Joan-Danziger |title=Sculptors on View |publisher=Grounds For Sculpture |access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref>
* [[James De La Vega]] (B.F.A. 1994) – muralist, street artist in [[Harlem, New York]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Allon|first=Janet|title=Neighborhood Report: Making it Work – Bridging Two Worlds: Elite and El Barrio|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/nyregion/neighborhood-report-making-it-work-bridging-two-worlds-elite-and-el-barrio.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 4, 2014|date=March 15, 1998}}</ref> 
* [[Arthur Dove]] (1903) – first abstract expressionist painter in the US
* [[Louise Lawler]] (B.F.A. 1969) – artist and photographer; member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2019)
* [[Pat Lipsky]] (B.F.A. 1963) – painter
* [[Cabot Lyford]] (B.F.A. 1950) – sculptor<ref name=ppheraldo>{{cite news|title=Cabot Lyford obituary |url=http://obituaries.pressherald.com/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/obituary.aspx?pid=177501513 |work=[[Portland Press Herald]] |date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=February 13, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Jill Magid]] (B.F.A. 1995) – performance artist
* [[Enrique Martinez Celaya]] (B.S. applied & engineering physics, 1986) – artist
* [[Amanda Means]] (B.A. 1969)– artist and photographer
* [[James Rockwell]] (B.S. 1904 engineering) – architect and president of [[Meralco]]
* [[John Rosenbaum]] ([[Engineering physics|M.E.P.]] 1957) – kinetic artist and educator
* [[Susan Rothenberg]] (B.F.A. 1967) – painter
* [[Jason Seley]] (B.F.A. 1940) – sculptor
* [[Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian]] (1948–1951) – contemporary Iranian artist<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.artnet.com/artists/monir-shahroudy-farmanfarmaian/biography|title = Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iranian, born 1924)|access-date = December 28, 2014|website = Artnet}}</ref> 
* [[Frederick Sommer]] (M.A. 1927 landscape architecture) – photographer
* [[Beth Ames Swartz]] (BSc 1957) – artist<ref name="Rubin" >{{cite book|last1=Rubin|first1=David S.|title=Reminders of Invisible Light: The Art of Beth Ames Swartz|date=2002|publisher=Hudson Hills Press; Phoenix Art Museum|location=New York; Phoenix, AZ|isbn=1-55595-208-9|pages=10}}</ref>
* [[Hugh Troy]] (B.A. 1922–1927, did not graduate) – artist and famous [[practical joke|prankster]]
* [[Harold Wethey]] (B.A. 1923) – art historian

==Authors and writers==
[[File:Louis-Bromfield-1933.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Louis Bromfield]]]]
[[File:Ann Coulter (49280544082) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ann Coulter]]]]
[[File:Junot Díaz (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Junot Díaz]]]]
[[File:Matt Ruff at the San Francisco Public Library.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Matt Ruff]]]]
[[File:Elsie Singmaster profile circa 1920.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Elsie Singmaster]]]]
[[File:Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Kurt Vonnegut]]]]
[[File:Lauren Weisberger.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Lauren Weisberger]]]]
[[File:EB White and his dog Minnie.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[E. B. White]]]]
* [[Diane Ackerman]] (M.F.A. 1973 poetry, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978) – author, poet, and naturalist
* [[Taiaiake Alfred]] (M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1994) – scholar, author, and adviser to indigenous nations
* [[Melissa Bank]] (M.F.A. 1998) – best-selling author; ''[[The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing]]'', a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and ''The Wonder Spot'', a novel, have been translated into over thirty languages
* [[Edward Bernays]] (B.S. 1912 agriculture) – public relations practitioner, author of ''[[Propaganda (book)|Propaganda]]''
* [[Morris Bishop]] (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1914, Ph.D. 1926; Professor of Romance Literature) – biographer, author, humorist, wrote the preeminent history of the university, ''A History of Cornell''
* [[Ken Blanchard]] (B.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1967) – management consultant, co-author of ''The One Minute Manager''
* [[Harold Bloom]] (B.A. 1951) – literary and cultural scholar-critic; [[Sterling Professor]] of [[Humanities]] at [[Yale University]]; [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1985)
* [[Susan Brownmiller]] (B.A. 1956) – feminist author and activist
* [[Louis Bromfield]] (1914–1916 agriculture) – [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner for best novel for ''[[Early Autumn]]'' (1927) and pioneer of innovative scientific farming concepts
* [[Pearl S. Buck]] (M.F.A. 1924) – author, novelist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1938
* [[NoViolet Bulawayo]] (M.F.A. 2010) – Zimbabwean author of ''[[We Need New Names]]''
* [[Murray Burnett]] (B.A. 1931) – author of the play ''Everybody Comes to Rick's'', which was turned into the film ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''
* [[George Lincoln Burr]] (B.A. 1881; John Stambaugh Professor of History 1888–?) – U.S. historian, diplomat, author, and educator
* [[Fiona Cheong]] (B.A. English; M.F.A. Creative Writing) – author of ''[[The Scent of the Gods]]'', nominated for a National Book Award (1991)
* [[George Cockcroft]] (B.A. 1954) – author, ''[[The Dice Man]]''; uses the pen name [[Luke Rhinehart]]
* [[Ann Coulter]] (B.A. 1984 history) – book author and columnist
* [[Junot Díaz]] (M.F.A. 1995) – critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer; [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (2012)
* [[Alice Dunbar-Nelson]] (attended 1907–1908) – poet, journalist, political activist, [[Harlem Renaissance]] influence
* [[Jane Duran]] – Cuban-born poet, recipient of the [[Forward Poetry Prize]] (1995) and the [[Cholmondeley Award]] (2005)
* [[Barry Eisler]] (J.D. 1989) – author, novelist
* [[Sarah Elbert]] (B.A 1965, M.A 1966, Ph.D. 1974) – scholar
* [[Richard Fariña]] (B.A. 1962 English) – author, ''Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me''; folk singer
* [[Jessie Redmon Fauset]] (B.A. 1905) – author from the [[Harlem Renaissance]]
* [[Nick Fowler]] (B.A. 1989) – musician, poet, author, ''[[A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla]]''
* [[Alice Fulton]] (M.F.A. 1982; Ann S. Bowers Distinguished Professor of English) – poet, author, feminist, [[MacArthur Fellow]] (1991)
* [[William H. Gass]] (Ph.D. 1954 philosophy) – author, essayist
* [[C. S. Giscombe]] (M.F.A. 1975) – poet and professor of English at [[University of California, Berkeley]]; recipient of [[American Book Award]] for ''Prairie Style '' (2008)
* [[Jon Gordon]] (B.A.) – author of ''The Energy Bus''
* [[Martin Hägglund]] (Ph.D. 2009 comparative literature) – literary theorist, philosopher
* [[Lynne Hanley]] (B.A. English) – literary critic
* [[E. D. Hirsch]] (B.A., 1950) – literary critic and educational theorist
* [[Laura Howes]] (B.A. English) – a scholar of Middle English literature
* [[Minfong Ho]] (B.A. Economics) – Chinese-American author
* [[Laura Z. Hobson]] – author, ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]''
* [[Clifford Irving]] (B.A. 1951) – author of the [[Howard Hughes]] biography hoax
* [[Brenda Janowitz]] (1995) – fiction author and attorney
* [[Michelle Knudsen]] (B.A. 1995 English) – ''[[New York Times]]'' best-selling American author of 47 books for young readers
* [[Anne LaBastille]] (B.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1969) – author and award-winning conservationist
* [[Jean Lee Latham]] (B.A., M.A.) – writer specialized in biographies for children or young adults and [[Newbery Medal]] recipient (1956) for her book ''[[Carry On, Mr. Bowditch]]''
* [[Victor LaValle]] (B.A. English) – author
* [[Philipp Meyer]] (B.A. English) – fiction writer and author of ''[[American Rust]]'' and ''The Son''
* [[James H. Morey]] (M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1990) – Medievalist and professor of English at [[Emory University]]
* [[Toni Morrison]] (M.A. 1955 M) - best-selling author, ''[[The Bluest Eye]]'' and ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]''. Nobel Prize in Literature. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
* [[Lorrie Moore]] (M.F.A. 1982) – prize-winning short-story writer and novelist
* [[Manuel Muñoz (writer)|Manuel Muñoz]] (M.F.A. 1998) – author and professor of creative writing
* [[Ira Nadel]] (Ph.D. 1970) – biographer and literary critic
* [[John Naisbitt]] (graduate study) – best-selling writer in the area of [[futures studies]]
* [[George Jean Nathan]] (1904) – author, critic
* [[Iddo Netanyahu]] (did not graduate) – Israeli physician, author and playwright; younger brother of [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]
* [[Nicholas Nicastro]] (B.A. 1985 English, M.A. 1991 archaeology, Ph.D. 2003 psychology) – historical novelist
* [[Téa Obreht]] (MFA 2009) – novelist, ''[[The Tiger's Wife]]''
* [[Stewart O'Nan]] (MFA 1992) – novelist, [[Drue Heinz Literature Prize]]-winning author for ''In the Walled City'' in 1993, author of ''[[Snow Angels (novel)|Snow Angels]]''
* [[Julie Orringer]] (B.A. 1994 English) – short-story writer and novelist
* [[Thomas Perry (author)|Thomas Perry]] (B.A. 1969) – novelist, [[Edgar Award]] winner
* [[Darryl Ponicsan]] (M.A. 1965) – writer best known as the author of the 1971 novel ''[[The Last Detail]]''
* [[Seksan Prasertkul]] (M.A., Ph.D. 1989 political science) – [[Thai people|Thai]] author, [[National Artist of Thailand]] (literature)
* [[Michael Punke]] (J.D. 1989) – author of ''[[The Revenant (novel)|The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge]]'', adapted as the film ''[[The Revenant (2015 film)|The Revenant]]'' (2015)
* [[Thomas Pynchon]] (B.A. 1959 English) – author, ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' and ''[[Mason & Dixon]]''; [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1988)
* [[Kenneth Roberts (author)|Kenneth Roberts]] (B.A. 1908) – novelist, ''[[Northwest Passage (novel)|Northwest Passage]]''
* [[Laura Riding]] (attended 1918–21) – poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, and leader in [[modernism]]
* [[Matt Ruff]] (B.A. 1988) – author, ''[[Fool on the Hill (novel)|Fool on the Hill]]''
* [[Joanna Russ]] (B.A. 1957 English; professor) – feminist author, ''[[The Female Man]]''
* [[Ira Sadoff]] (B.S. 1966 ILR) – poet, novelist, critic, ''True Faith'' 2012, ''Grazing'' 1999, ''Barter'' 2003
* [[Kirkpatrick Sale]] (B.A. 1958 history) – independent scholar and author
* [[Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick]] (undergrad) – critical theorist, literature professor
* [[Elsie Singmaster]] – author, ''[[Swords of Steel]]'', and 1934 [[Newbery Medal]] recipient
* [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]] (Ph.D. 1967 comparative literature), post-colonialist theorist, author, ''Can the Subaltern Speak?'', winner of [[Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy]], and [[Columbia University]] professor
* [[Ellen Stekert]], folklorist and folk musician
* [[William Stokoe]] (B.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1946 English), pioneer researchers on American Sign Language, co-author, ''A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles'' the first attempt to systematically represent and characterize ASL phonology, [[Stokoe notation]] creator
* [[William Strunk Jr.]] (Ph.D. 1896; professor), co-author, ''[[The Elements of Style]]''
* [[Hendrik Willem van Loon]] (1905; Professor of History 1915–17), author of the first book to be awarded the [[Newbery Medal]] for an outstanding contribution to children's literature
* [[William T. Vollmann]] (B.A., Comparative Literature, 1977), novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (undergrad 1941–1944), author, ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'', ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'', and ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]''
* [[James Weinstein (author)|James Weinstein]] (B.A. 1949 government), author and publisher, ''[[In These Times (publication)|In These Times]]''
* [[Lauren Weisberger]] (B.A. 1999 English) – author, ''[[The Devil Wears Prada (novel)|The Devil Wears Prada]]'' and ''Everyone Worth Knowing''
* [[E. B. White]] (B.A. 1921) – author, ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' and ''[[Stuart Little]]'', and co-author, ''[[The Elements of Style]]''
* [[Nicola Yoon]] (B.S. 1994 Electrical Engineering) – novelist, ''[[Everything, Everything (novel)|Everything, Everything]]'' and ''[[The Sun Is Also a Star (novel)|The Sun Is Also a Star]]''

==Business==
===Founders===
[[File:Willis Carrier 1915.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Willis Carrier]]]]
[[File:Joseph Coors, President & CEO, Adolph Coors Company - ME408 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Joseph Coors]]]]
[[File:Dave1.JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[David Duffield]]]]
[[File:FrankGannett.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Frank Gannett]]]]
[[File:JWM Cover Option 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[James McLamore]]]]

[[File:Clarence Winfred Spicer.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Clarence W. Spicer]]]]
[[File:Sanford Weill 2 Shankbone Metropolitan Opera 2009.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Sanford I. Weill]]]]
*[[James Altucher]] (B.S. 1989, Computer Science) - founder of Reset Inc., StockPickr
*[[Richard A. Baker (businessman)|Richard Baker]] (B.S. 1988, hotel administration) – founder, president, and CEO of [[NRDC Equity Partners]] and [[Hudson's Bay Company]], the owner of [[Saks Fifth Avenue]], [[Gilt Groupe]], [[Lord & Taylor]], [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|The Bay]], [[Home Outfitters]], [[Zellers]], and [[Fields (department store)|Fields]]
* [[André Balazs]] (class of 1979) – hotelier and businessman
*[[Aldo Bensadoun]] (attended, transferred) – billionaire founder and executive chairman of the [[ALDO Group]]
*[[Amit Bhatia]] (B.S. 2001) – founder of Swordfish Investments; vice chairman of [[Queen's Park Rangers]]
*[[Wendell Brown]] (B.S. 1982) – co-founder of [[Teleo]], [[eVoice]], [[LiveOps]], and Nularis
*[[Daniel Cane]] (B.S. 1997) – co-founder of [[Blackboard Inc.]]
*[[Willis Carrier]] (M.E. 1901) – founder of [[Carrier Corporation]]; inventor of [[air conditioning]]
* [[Gerald Cassidy (lobbyist)|Gerald Cassidy]] (J.D. 1967) – co-founder and CEO of [[Cassidy & Associates]]
*[[Steve Conine]] (B.S. 1995) – billionaire co-founder of [[Wayfair]]<ref name="wayfairfounders">{{cite web|title=Wayfair founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine at Entrepreneurship Summit NYC 2013|url=http://www.cornell.edu/video/wayfair-founders-niraj-shah-steve-conine-at-entrepreneurship-summit-nyc-2013|website=Cornell University|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
*[[Joseph Coors]] (B.Chem. 1939, chemical engineering 1940) – co-founder of [[The Heritage Foundation]]
*[[Mac Cummings]] (B.A. 2001) – co-founder of Terakeet Corporation; director of Internet Finance
*[[Tom Dinwoodie]] (B.S. 1978, civil and environmental engineering) – Cleantech entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of [[SunPower|SunPower Corporation Systems]] (formerly PowerLight Corporation)
*[[Ira Drukier]] (B.S. 1966 engineering) – hotelier and philanthropist, who donated US$25&nbsp;million in December 2014 to establish the Drukier Institute for Children's Health at the [[Weill Cornell Medical College]]
*[[David Duffield]] (B.E.E. 1962, M.B.A. 1964) – billionaire co-founder of [[PeopleSoft]] and [[Workday, Inc.|Workday]]
*[[John S. Dyson]] (B.S. 1965) – creator of the "I Love NY" campaign; owner of Millbrook Vineyards and Winery
*[[David Edgerton]] (B.A. 1947, hotel administration) – co-founder of [[Burger King Corporation]]
*[[David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)|David Einhorn]] (B.A. 1991) – founder and president of [[Greenlight Capital]]; billionaire hedge fund manager
*[[Chuck Feeney]] (B.S. 1956 hotel administration) – co-founder of [[DFS Group|Duty Free Shoppers Group]]; founder and director of [[Atlantic Philanthropies]]; founder of [[General Atlantic]]; billionaire philanthropist who has given away more than $8&nbsp;billion
*[[Russell W. Galbut]] (B.S. 1974 hotel administration) – co-founder of Crescent Heights, a real estate development company<ref>{{cite web|title=Russell Galbut '74|url=https://sha.cornell.edu/centers-institutes/cref/about/board/galbut.html|website=School of Hotel Administration|publisher=Cornell University|access-date=February 20, 2016}}</ref>
*[[Frank Gannett]] (B.A. 1898) – founder of [[Gannett]], the largest U.S. newspaper publisher; namesake of Gannett Health Center
* [[Art Gensler]] (B.Arch. 1958) – founder and chairman of [[Gensler]]
*[[Stephen Gilfus]] (B.S. 1997) – co-founder of [[Blackboard Inc.]] sold to Providence Equity for $1.6 billion.
*[[Paul Graham (programmer)|Paul Graham]] (B.A.) – co-founder of [[Viaweb]], sold for $46.6&nbsp;million to [[Yahoo!]] and became Yahoo! Stores; [[Lisp programming language|Lisp]] programmer, author, founder of [[Y-Combinator]]
*[[Leroy Grumman]] (B.S. 1916 mechanical engineering) – founder of [[Grumman|Grumman Aerospace Corporation]]; recipient of the [[Medal for Merit]] (1948)
*[[Myra Hart]] (B.A. 1962, M.B.A. 1981, trustee, 1999–) – one of four co-founders of [[Staples, Inc.]]; professor at [[Harvard Business School]]
*[[Jeff Hawkins]] (B.S. 1979 electrical engineering) – founder of [[Palm, Inc.]] and [[Handspring (pda)|Handspring]]; inventor of the [[Palm (PDA)|Palm Pilot]]; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2003)
*[[Christopher Hemmeter]] (B.S. 1962, hotel administration) – founder and chairman of Hemmeter Companies
*[[Irwin M. Jacobs]] (B.E.E. 1956) – billionaire, co-founder and chairman of [[Qualcomm]]; [[UCSD]] and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] engineering professor, pioneer of [[CDMA]] wireless technology, philanthropist; recipient of numerous awards including [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]] (1994), [[Marconi Prize]] (2011), [[IEEE Medal of Honor]] (2013); member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1982)
*[[Stephen A. Jarislowsky]] (B.S. 1946 mechanical engineering) – billionaire businessman and philanthropist; founder, chairman, and CEO of Jarislowsky Fraser Limited
*[[Seth Klarman]] (B.A. 1979) – founder and chairman of the [[Baupost Group]]; hedge fund manager, billionaire
*[[Jules Kroll]] (B.A. 1963) – founder of [[Kroll Inc.]] and the modern investigations, intelligence, and security industry; responsible for tracking the assets of [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]], [[Ferdinand Marcos|Ferdinand]] and [[Imelda Marcos]], and [[Saddam Hussein]]
*[[Robert S. Langer]] (B.S. 1970, chemical engineering) – founder of [[Moderna]]
*[[David Litman]] (1979, 1982) – founder and CEO of [[Hotels.com]]
*[[Yossi Maiman]] – founder and owner of the Merhav Group, a shareholder of the East Mediterranean Gas Company, and former chairman, chief executive officer and president of the [[Ampal-American Israel Corporation]]<ref name="bloombergyosef">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Merhav MNF Ltd.: Yosef A. Maiman|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2971160&privcapId=27407576|website=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=October 21, 2016}}</ref>
*[[James McLamore]] (B.A. 1947, hotel administration) – co-founder of [[Burger King Corporation]]
*[[Gary Mendell]] (B.S. 1979 hotel administration) – founder, chairman, and CEO of [[HEI Hotels & Resorts]]
*[[Robert Warren Miller]] (B.S. 1955, hotel administration) – billionaire co-founder of [[DFS Group|Duty Free Shoppers Group]]
*[[Howard Milstein]] (B.A. 1973) – billionaire real estate developer, financier, and philanthropist; chairman, president, and chief executive officer of [[New York Private Bank & Trust]]
*[[Jeff Morgan]] (B.S. City and Regional Planning) – founder of [[Global Heritage Fund]]
*[[Rohan Murty]] (B.S. Computer Science) – founder of [[Murty Classical Library of India]]
*[[Floyd R. Newman]] (B.S. 1912 chemistry) – founder of Allied Oil Company of Cleveland
*[[Drew Nieporent]] (B.S. 1977 hotel administration) – founder of Myriad Restaurant Group
*[[Franklin W. Olin]] (B.C.E. 1886) – founder of [[Olin Corporation]]; gave a gift to build Olin Hall in memory of his son Franklin W. Olin Jr.
*[[John M. Olin]] (B.S. 1913 chemistry) – founder of [[John M. Olin Foundation]], president, [[Olin Corporation]]; namesake of Olin Library
*[[Spencer Truman Olin]] (B.S. 1921 mechanical engineering) – industrialist and philanthropist; an executive of the [[Olin Corporation]]; [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] leader
*[[Peter Busch Orthwein]] (B.S. 1968, MBA 1969) – co-founder and chairman of [[Thor Industries]]
*[[Nathaniel A. Owings]] – founding partner of [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]] ([[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill|SOM]])
* [[Tom Peters]] (B.C.E. 1965, M.C.E. 1966) – business management motivational guru
*[[Harris Rosen]] (B.S. 1961 hotel administration) – founder of [[Rosen Hotels and Resorts]]; major donor of [[Rosen College of Hospitality Management]] (which was renamed due to his major donation)
*[[Rob Ryan (entrepreneur)|Rob Ryan]] (B.A. 1969) – founder and chairman of [[Ascend Communications]]
*[[William Sanders (businessman)|William Sanders]] (B.S. 1964) – founder of LaSalle Partners (later merged to form [[Jones Lang LaSalle]]); founder and chairman of Security Capital Group Incorporated; former chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT)
*[[Niraj Shah]] (born 1973/74) (B.S. 1995) – billionaire CEO and co-founder of [[Wayfair]]<ref name="wayfairfounders" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/03/10/five-things-you-should-know-about-niraj-shah/67NvrHdIVCnk2PaHHiGDwO/story.html|title=Five things you should know about Niraj Shah|website=The Boston Globe|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
*[[Leonard Schleifer]] (B.S. 1970) – founder and CEO of [[Regeneron Pharmaceuticals]]; billionaire
*[[Seth M. Siegel]] (B.S. 1974, J. D. 1978) – founder of The Beanstalk Group
*[[Robert F. Smith (investor)|Robert F. Smith]] (B.S. chemical engineering) – billionaire investor; founder, chairman, and CEO of [[Vista Equity Partners]]; ranked by ''Forbes'' in 2015 as 268th richest man in America, and the second wealthiest African-American
*[[Elmer Ambrose Sperry]] – founder of [[Sperry Corporation]], known for his invention of [[Gyrostabilizer]] and the [[Gyrocompass]]; recipient of [[John Fritz Medal]] (1927) and [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] from the [[Franklin Institute]] (1929), member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1925)
*[[Clarence W. Spicer]] (engineering student) – founder of what is now [[Dana Holding Corporation]]; engineer, inventor, known for invention of [[Universal joint]]; inductee into the [[Automotive Hall of Fame]]
*[[John A. Swanson]] (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1963) – founder of [[ANSYS]] and [[John Fritz Medal]] winner; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2009)
*[[Jake Swirbul]] (attended) – co-founder of [[Grumman|Grumman Aerospace Corporation]]
*[[Michael Tien]] (B.S. 1972 electrical engineering) – founder and chairman of the apparel retail company [[G2000]]
*[[Robert Tishman|Robert V. Tishman]] (1937) – founder of [[Tishman Speyer Properties]]
*[[Robert I. Toll]] (B.A. 1963) – billionaire, co-founder of [[Toll Brothers]]
*[[Deena Varshavskaya]] – founder and CEO of [[Wanelo]]
* [[Tien Tzuo]] (B.S. 1990 electrical engineering) – founder and CEO of [[Zuora]]
*[[Jay S. Walker|Jay Walker]] (B.S. 1977 industrial relations) – founder of [[Priceline.com]]; founder and chairman of [[Walker Digital]], a billionaire on Forbes list of the world's billionaires ($1.6&nbsp;billion in 2000)
*[[Colston Warne]] (bachelor's 1920, master's 1921 economics) – co-founder of the [[Consumers Union]] and its ''[[Consumer Reports]]'' monthly magazine and served as its president for 43 years;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyseneca/warne.htm |title=Colston Warne's bio on Ancestry}}</ref> professor of economics at [[Amherst College]] (1930–1969)
*[[Sanford I. Weill]] (B.A. 1955 government) – billionaire, former chairman and CEO of [[Citigroup]]; founder of [[Shearson Loeb Rhoades]], sold for $930&nbsp;million to [[American Express]]; namesake of [[Weill Cornell Medical College]]
*[[David Welch (optical engineer)|David F. Welch]] (Ph.D. 1985 electrical engineering) – co-founder, president of [[Infinera|Infinera Corp]]; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2016)
*[[Justin DuPratt White]] (1890) – co-founder of [[White & Case]] law firm; trustee of the [[Cornell University Board of Trustees]] (1928–1939)
*[[John Zimmer]] (B.S. 2006 hotel administration) – co-founder and COO of [[Zimride]]; co-founder and president of [[Lyft]]

===Chairpersons, CEOs, and executives===
[[File:Carl Bass Autodesk.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Carl Bass]]]]
[[File:Mark Bertolini (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mark Bertolini]]]]
[[File:Jhboardman.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Joseph H. Boardman]]]]

[[File:Eric Daniels.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Eric Daniels]]]]
[[File:Red Sox President of Baseball Operations David Dombrowski (23655867925) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[David Dombrowski]]]]
[[File:Robert Kennedy PET 2004 8P2D4388 crop.tif|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Robert D. Kennedy]]]]
[[File:Douglas Leone Web Summit 2021.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Douglas Leone]]]]
[[File:Ratan Tata photo.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ratan Tata]]]]
[[File:President Trump Delivers Remarks at the Economic Club of New York (49056973667) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Andrew Tisch]]]]
[[File:Barry Weiss - Partner &amp; Co-founder of RECORDS, LLC.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Barry Weiss]]]]
* [[Keith Barr (businessman)|Keith Barr]] (B.S. 1992 hotel administration) – CEO of [[InterContinental Hotels Group]] (IHG) (2017–) 
* [[Carl Bass]] (B.A. 1983 mathematics) – former CEO and president of [[Autodesk]] (2006–2017)
* [[Al Bernardin]] (1952) – creator of the [[McDonald's]] [[Quarter Pounder]];<ref name=lat>{{cite news|title=PASSINGS: Bill Mulligan, Al Bernardin |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings13-2010jan13,0,6995247.story|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 13, 2010 |access-date=January 14, 2010 }}</ref> former vice president of Product Development for McDonald's
* [[Mark Bertolini]] (MBA 1984) – CEO and president of [[Aetna]]
* [[Jeffrey Bleustein]] (B.S. 1960, B.M.E 1961) – chairman and former CEO of [[Harley Davidson]]
* [[Joseph H. Boardman]] (B.S. agriculture economics) – president and CEO of [[Amtrak]] (2008–2016), 11th [[Federal Railroad Administration|Federal Railroad Administrator]] (2005–2008), [[New York State]] [[New York State Department of Transportation|Commissioner of Transportation]] (1997–2005)
* [[Val A. Browning]] (B.S. 1917) – president of [[Browning Arms Company]] and American soldier in [[World War I]] 
* [[Walter S. Carpenter Jr.]] (undergrad 1906–09, dropped out) – president (1940–48) and chairman (1948–62) of [[DuPont]]
* [[Abby Joseph Cohen]] (B.A. 1973 economics and computer science, trustee) – partner and Senior Investment Strategist of [[Goldman Sachs]]; president of Global Markets Institute (GMI), Goldman Sachs
* [[Jennie Chua]] (B.S. 1971, hotel administration) – CEO of [[Capitaland|Capitaland Residential]], former CEO of [[Raffles Holdings]]
* [[Adolph Coors II]] (B.A. 1907) – second president of [[Coors Brewing Company]]
* [[Pete Coors]] (B.S. 1969 industrial engineering) – executive of [[Coors Brewing Company]]; Senatorial candidate, 2004
* [[Luciano Coutinho]] (Ph.D. economics) – president of the [[Brazilian Development Bank]] (BNDES)
* [[Eric Daniels]] (B.A. 1973) – former CEO of [[Lloyds Banking Group]]
* [[Alonzo G. Decker Jr.]] (B.S. 1929 electrical engineering) – former president, CEO, and chairman of the board of [[Black & Decker]]; known for developing [[power tool]]s for use in the home, including the first [[cordless]] [[electric drill]] 
* [[Kenneth T. Derr]] (B.S. 1959 mechanical engineering, M.B.A. 1960, trustee) – chairman and CEO of [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron]], 1989–99
* [[Dave Dombrowski]] (undergrad 1974–75, transferred) – president, CEO, and general manager of the [[Detroit Tigers]]
* [[Jennifer Dulski]] (B.A., MBA) – president and chief operating officer of [[Change.org]]
* [[Henry D. Edelman]] (J.D. 1973) – president and CEO of [[Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation]] (Farmer Mac) (1989–2008)
* [[Richard J. Ferris]] (B.S. 1962) – president and CEO of [[United Airlines]] (1976–1987)
* [[Reggie Fils-Aimé]] (B.S. 1983 applied economics) – president and COO of [[Nintendo of America]] (2006–2019)
* [[J. Patrick Gallagher Jr]] (B.A. government) – president, CEO and chairman of [[Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.]]
* [[Pawan Kumar Goenka]] – managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea
* [[Harvey Golub]] (attended 1956–1958) – president (1991–1993), chairman and CEO (1993–2001) of [[American Express]]; chairman of the board at the [[Campbell Soup Company]] (2004–2009); chairman of the [[American International Group]] (AIG) (2009–2010); chairman of the board of Advisors of [[Miller Buckfire]] (2011–)
* [[Byron Grote]] (Ph.D. 1981 quantitative analysis) – chief financial officer of [[BP]]
* [[Rajiv L. Gupta|Raj Gupta]] (M.S. 1969 operations research) – chairman, CEO and president of [[Rohm and Haas]],<ref>{{Cite news |title=DVS CEO Lecture Series Continues With Raj Gupta, President, CEO Rohm and Haas |newspaper=AIChE Newsletter – Delaware Valley Section |volume=53 |issue=3 |page=1 |date=December 2005 |url=http://www.aiche-philadelphia.org/newsletter2005/dvs12-05.pdf |access-date=January 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106050335/http://www.aiche-philadelphia.org/newsletter2005/dvs12-05.pdf |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> chairman of [[Delphi Automotive]] (2015–)
* [[Robert Harrison (financier)|Robert Harrison]] (B.A. 1976 government) – CEO of the [[Clinton Global Initiative]] and [[Cornell University Board of Trustees|chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees]]; [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]
* [[Dan Hesse]] (MBA 1977) – CEO of [[Sprint Nextel]]
* [[Matthew Hiltzik]] (B.S. 1994, ILR) – president and CEO of Hiltzik Strategies, a strategic consulting and communications firm
* [[D. Brainerd Holmes]] (B.S. 1943 electrical engineering) – best known for directing NASA's crewed spaceflight program from September 1961 to June 1963; president of [[Raytheon]] (1976–1986) and chairman of [[Beechcraft]]; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1977)
* [[F. Kenneth Iverson]] (1946, aeronautical engineering) – president of [[Nucor|Nucor Steel]] (1967–1998); inductee into the American Metal Market Steel Hall<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amm.com/HOF-Profile/KenIverson.html|title=Hall of Fame Inaugural Class Profile|website=Amm.com|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> and the American National Business Hall of Fame; recipient of the [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]] (1991) and member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1994)
* [[Walter Johnsen|Walter C. Johnsen]] (B.S 1973, Master of Engineering (chemical) 1974) – chairman and CEO of [[Acme United Corporation]] 
* [[Robert D. Kennedy]] (B.S. 1954 mechanical engineering) – chairman, president, and CEO of [[Union Carbide]] (1986–1995)
* [[Shaygan Kheradpir]] (bachelor's, master's, and doctorate 1979–1987 electrical engineering) – CEO of [[Juniper Networks]] 
* [[Jeff Jacobson (CEO)|Jeff Jacobson]] (M.S. ILR) – CEO of [[Xerox Corporation]] (2017–)
* [[Ken Jautz]] (B.A.) – executive vice president of [[CNN]]; former foreign correspondent for the [[Associated Press]]; former CNN bureau chief in Germany
* [[Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr.]] (B.A. 1922 chemistry) – president of [[S. C. Johnson & Son]]; benefactor and namesake of the [[Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art]] on campus
* [[Herbert Fisk Johnson III]] (5 Cornell degrees 1979–86) – billionaire, CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and Trustee Emeritus of Cornell
* [[Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr.]] (B.A. 1950 economics) – billionaire, chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son; benefactor and co-namesake of the [[S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management]]
* [[S. Curtis Johnson]] (B.S. 1977) – billionaire, former chairman of [[Diversey, Inc.|Diversey]]
* [[Helen Johnson-Leipold]] (B.A. 1978 psychology) – billionaire businesswoman; chairman of [[Johnson Financial Group]], chairman and CEO of [[Johnson Outdoors]] 
* [[Winnie Johnson-Marquart]] (B.S. 1981) – billionaire, president of the Johnson Family Foundation
* [[Thomas W. Jones]] (B.A. 1969, M.R.P. 1972, trustee) – principal of TWJ Capital LLC
* [[Paul Joskow|Paul L. Joskow]] (B.A. 1968) – president of the [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]] since 2008, economist
* [[Charles F. Knight]] (1957, MBA 1959) – chairman (1974–2004), CEO (1973–2000) and president (1986–1988, 1995–1997) of [[Emerson Electric Company]]
* [[Douglas Leone]] (B.S. 1979 mechanical engineering) – venture capitalist and a partner at [[Sequoia Capital]]; billionaire
* [[Oscar G. Mayer Jr.]] (1934) – chairman of [[Oscar Mayer]]
* [[Timothy Mayopoulos]] (B.A. 1980) – president and CEO of [[Fannie Mae]] (2012–2018)
* [[Lowell McAdam]] (M.E. 1976) – chairman and CEO of [[Verizon]]
* [[Mary Meeker]] (MBA 1986 finance) – venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst
* [[Peter C. Meinig]] (B.M.E 1962) – chairman and CEO of [[HM International, LLC]]
* [[Charles N. Mills]] (B.S. 1983, MBA 1984) – CEO of [[Medline Industries]] (1997–)
* [[Jon R. Moeller]] (B.S. 1986, MBA 1988) – CEO of [[Procter & Gamble]]
* [[Brian A. Murdock]] (B.S. 1978 economics) – president and CEO of [[Strategic Investment Group]] (2014–) and former chairman and CEO of TD Asset Management (2009–2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=Brian Murdock President/CEO, Strategic Investment Management LLC |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/2187799-brian-a-murdock |website=Bloomberg |access-date=February 17, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)|Thomas Murphy]] (B.S. 1945) – former chairman and CEO of [[Capital Cities Communications|Capital Cities]]/[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC, Inc.]]; [[Television Hall of Fame]], [[NATPE]] Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
* [[Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos]] (B.A. 1985) - President and COO of Flag Luxury Group
* [[Lubna Olayan]] (B.S. 1977) – CEO of Olayan Financing Company, the holding entity for The [[Olayan Group]]'s operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East
* [[Salil Parekh]] (M.E.) – CEO and managing director of [[Infosys]] (2018–)
* [[James Wentworth Parker]] (class of 1908) – president and general manager of [[DTE Electric Company|Detroit Edison Company]] (1943–1951) and of the [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]] (1942–1943)
* [[William D. Perez]] (B.A. 1969 government) – CEO of [[Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company]], CEO of [[Nike, Inc.]], 2004–06
* [[Victor Peng]] (MEng, electrical engineering) – president and CEO of [[Xilinx]] (2018–)
* [[Sandi Peterson]] (B.A.) – Group Worldwide chairman for [[Johnson & Johnson]]
* [[Joseph N. Pew Jr.]] (M.E. 1908) – vice president (1912–1947) and chairman (1947–1963) of [[Sun Oil Company]]; founder of [[The Pew Charitable Trusts]]; namesake of Pew Engineering Quad
* [[James Pitaro]] (B.S. 1991) – president of [[ESPN]]
* [[Georges Plassat]] – chairman and chief executive officer of [[Carrefour]] (2012–2017)
* [[Lewis Platt]] (B.S. 1964 mechanical engineering) – CEO of [[Hewlett-Packard]] (1992–99); chairman of [[Boeing]], 2003–05
* [[Michael B. Polk]] (B.S. IEOR) – CEO of [[Newell Brands]] (2011–)
* [[Robert Purcell]] – chairman of [[Cornell University Board of Trustees]] (1968–1978)
* [[Justin Rattner]] (B.S. 1970 electrical engineering, M.S. 1972 computer science) – chief technology officer of [[Intel]], [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] Person of the Week for his work on the [[ASCI Red]] system (fastest computer in the world, 1996–2000), ''R&D Magazine''{{'}}s "Scientist of the Year", 1989
* [[Bruce S. Raynor]] (B.S. 1972 industrial & labor relations) – president of [[UNITE HERE]]
* [[George Rea]] (1915) – first paid president of the [[American Stock Exchange|New York Curb Exchange]]<ref>{{cite news|date=April 21, 1939 |title=G. P. Rea New Head of Curb Exchange|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/21/archives/gp-rea-new-head-of-curb-exchange-honolulu-banker-formerly-of.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=April 9, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Kevin Reilly (executive)|Kevin Reilly]] (B.A. 1984) – president of [[NBC]] Entertainment (2004–2007), president (2007–2012) and chairman (2012–2014) of entertainment at [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], president of [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] and [[TNT (U.S. TV network)|TNT]] (2014–)
* [[Irene Rosenfeld]] (B.S. 1975, M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1980) – CEO and chairwoman of [[Kraft Foods]]
* [[Frank Rosenfelt]] (LL.B. 1950) – former CEO of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM) Studio
* [[Jon Rubinstein]] (B.S. 1978, MEng 1979) – CEO of [[Palm, Inc.]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] SVP 1997–2006; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (2005)
* [[Demir Sabancı]] (MBA 1999) – Turkish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist
* [[Vicki Saporta]] (class of 1974) – president and CEO of the [[National Abortion Federation]] (1995–)
* [[Robert Selander]] (B.S. 1972) – president and CEO of [[MasterCard]] (1997–2010)
* [[Daniel Schwartz]] (B.S. 2001 applied economics and management) – CEO of [[Restaurant Brands International]] ([[Burger King Corporation]])
* [[Steven Sinofsky]] (B.A. 1987) – president of [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Windows Live]] Engineering at [[Microsoft]]
* [[Charles E. Sporck]] (B.M.E. 1950) – microelectronics pioneer; co-founded the [[Semiconductor Industry Association]]; CEO and president of [[National Semiconductor]] (1967–1991)
* [[Suh Kyung-bae|Kyung-Bae Suh]] (M.B.A. 1987) – chairman, CEO, and owner of [[Amorepacific Corporation]]
* [[Larry Tanenbaum]] (B.S. 1968), chairman, [[Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment]]
* [[Ratan Tata]] (B.Arch. 1962), chairman, [[Tata Group]]
* [[Myron Charles Taylor]] (LL.B. 1894), chairman and CEO, [[U.S. Steel]], namesake of Taylor Hall, and [[Medal for Merit]] recipient
* [[Walter C. Teagle]] (B.S. 1899, trustee, 1924–54), president and chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now [[ExxonMobil]]) and namesake of Teagle Hall
* [[Andrew Tisch]] (B.S. 1971, hotel administration), chairman, [[Loews Corporation]]
* [[James Tisch]] (B.A. 1975), CEO, [[Loews Corporation]]
* [[Arnold Tremere]] – executive director, government official (Canadian International Grains Institute)
* [[Rick Tsai]] (Ph.D. 1981) – CEO of [[Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company]]
* [[Harold Uris]] (B.S. 1925, trustee 1967–1972) – real estate investor and builder; namesake of Uris Hall
* [[Sophie Vandebroek]] (Ph.D.) – chief technology officer of [[Xerox]] and president of Xerox Innovation Group (2006–)
* [[Charles W. Wason]] (1876) - president of the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railway Company
* [[Randi Weingarten]] (B.S. 1980 ILR) - president of the [[United Federation of Teachers]] (1998−2008) and of the [[American Federation of Teachers]] (2008−)
* [[Barry Weiss]] – chairman and CEO of [[Island Def Jam]] and [[Universal Motown Republic]]
* [[Stephen H. Weiss]] (class of 1957) – investment banker and philanthropist
* [[Tim Wentworth]] (B.S. ILR) – CEO and president of [[Express Scripts]] (2016–)
* [[Mark Whitacre]] (Ph.D. nutritional biochemistry) – COO of [[Cypress Systems]] 
* [[Fuganto Widjaja]] (B.A. 2003) – Indonesian billionaire businessman
* [[Lynton Wilson]] (M.A. economics) – president and CEO of [[Redpath Sugar|Redpath Industries Ltd.]] (1981–1988); vice-chairman of the [[Bank of Nova Scotia]]; at various times president, COO, CEO, and chairman of the board of [[BCE Inc.]] (1990–2000); president and CEO of [[BCE Inc.]] (1992–1993); chairman of [[Nortel|Nortel Networks]] (2000–2005); chairman of [[CAE Inc.]]; chancellor of [[McMaster University]] (2007–2013); Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]; recipient of honorary degrees from six Canadian universities
* [[Dennis Woodside]] (B.S. 1991) – CEO of [[Motorola Mobility]]; president of Google America{{Citation needed|date=March 2015}}
* [[Robert D. Ziff]] (J.D. 1992) – billionaire co-CEO of Ziff Brothers Investments
* [[Stephen Zinser]] – hedge fund manager who co-founded European Credit Management, a financial firm based in London, and served as its CEO

==Education==
{{Main|List of Cornell University alumni (education)}}

==Entertainment==
===Film, radio, television and theatre===
[[File:Howard Hawks head shot.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Howard Hawks]]]]

[[File:Frank Morgan-publicity.JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Frank Morgan]]]]
[[File:C Reeve in Marriage of Figaro Opening night 1985.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Christopher Reeve]]]]
[[File:William Sadler 2019.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[William Sadler (actor)|William Sadler]]]]
[[File:Andrea Savage TFF 2007 Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Andrea Savage]]]]
[[File:Robert Schenkkan, May 2016 DIG13890-041 (cropped)-2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Robert Schenkkan]]]]
[[File:Franchot Tone in Three Loves Has Nancy by Richard Thorpe (1938).png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Franchot Tone]]]]
[[File:Mary Woronov by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mary Woronov]]]]
* [[Robert Ahrens]] (B.A.), film and theatre producer
* [[Ted Berkman]] (1933), screenwriter, ''[[Bedtime for Bonzo]]''
* [[Andrea Berloff]] (B.A.), Oscar-nominated screenwriter, ''[[Straight Outta Compton (film)|Straight Outta Compton]]''
* [[Josh Bernstein]] (B.A. 1993 anthropology and psychology), host, ''[[Digging for the Truth]]'' on the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]
* [[Prashant Bhargava]] (B.A. 1994), filmmaker and director 
* [[Steve Carver]] (B.A.), film director and producer
* [[Dane Clark]] (bachelors 1930s), actor, ''[[Moonrise (film)|Moonrise]]''
* [[Jordan Clarke (actor)|Jordan Clarke]] (B.A. 1973 philosophy, M.F.A. 1973 acting), actor, ''[[Guiding Light]]'', winner of [[Daytime Emmy]] for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
* [[Gia Crovatin]] (B.A.), actress
* [[Gordon Davidson (director)|Gordon Davidson]] (1956) – [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director]] and [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play]]-winning stage and film director; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* [[Maria Dizzia]] (theater) – actress, nominated for the 2010 [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play]] for her performance in ''[[In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)]]''
* [[Ellen Albertini Dow]] (B.A. 1935 theater, M.A. 1938 theater) – actress, ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'' and ''[[The Wedding Singer]]''
* [[Dan Duryea]] (B.A. English) – actor
* [[Rick Elice]] (B.A.) – writer and former stage actor
* [[Negin Farsad]] (B.A. 1998) - stand-up comedian, writer, panelist on ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]''
* [[Scott Ferguson (producer)|Scott Ferguson]] (B.A. Theatre), executive producer, [[Succession (TV series)|Succession]]
* [[Zelda Fichandler]] – doyenne of [[regional theater]] 
* [[Art Fleming]] – original ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' host, 1964 to 1975
* [[Steven Franken]] (B.A. 1950) – actor, best known for his role in ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''
* [[Robert N. Fried]] (B.S., M.S.) – film producer, screenwriter, studio executive and media entrepreneur; Academy Award recipient in 1992 for his short film, ''[[Session Man (film)|Session Man]]''
* [[David F. Friedman]] (1942, electrical engineering) – filmmaker
* [[Allen Funt]] (B.A. 1934 fine arts) – producer, created ''[[Candid Camera]]''
* [[Carla Gallo]] (B.A. theater) – actress notable for recurring roles in the television series ''[[Undeclared]]'', ''[[Carnivàle]]'', ''[[Bones (TV series)|Bones]]'', ''[[Californication (TV series)|Californication]]''
* [[Eric Garcia (writer)|Eric Garcia]] (transferred 1992) – writer, author of ''[[Matchstick Men (novel)|Matchstick Men]]''
* [[Joel Gertner]] (1993–1996, dropped out) – former ''[[Extreme Championship Wrestling|ECW]]'' personality
* [[Sam Gold]] (B.A. English 2000) – theater director and actor; 2015 [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical]] winner for ''[[Fun Home (musical)|Fun Home]]''
* [[Meta Golding]] (theatre arts and international relations) – Haitian-American actress
* [[Harold Gould]] (M.A. 1948 theater, Ph.D. 1953 dramatic speech and literature) – stage, screen, and television actor
* [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]] – playwright, known for [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for his play, ''In Abraham's Bosom'' (1927)
* [[Kovid Gupta]] (M.B.A. 2015) – screenwriter, author, ''[[Kingdom of The Soap Queen: The Story of Balaji Telefilms]]''
* [[Joanna Guy]] (B.A. 2013) – [[Miss Maryland]] 2012
* [[Brian Hallisay]] (degree in economics and history) – actor from the television show ''[[Privileged (TV series)|Privileged]]''
* [[Howard Hawks]] (mechanical engineering) – film director, producer, and writer of the classic Hollywood era; directed ''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]'', ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', ''[[The Big Sleep]]'', and ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)|Gentleman Prefer Blondes]]''
* [[Babette Henry]] (1936, [[hotel administration]]) – television director and producer; directed and produced ''[[Buck Rogers (TV series)|Buck Rogers]]'', directed ''[[Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue]]'' and ''[[That Wonderful Guy]]''<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/606299962/?clipping_id=162456223 "Obituaries: Babette Kiebert"]. ''Monrovia News-Post''. June 26, 1980. p.&nbsp;22. Retrieved January 9, 2025.</ref>
* [[Hugh Herbert]] – actor, playwright and comedian<ref>United Press (March 13, 1952). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1_YaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f00EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3092%2C5449021 "Hugh Herbert, Comedian, Dies; 'Woo-Woo's' Brought Fame to Actor, 66"]. ''The Pittsburgh Press''. p.&nbsp;47. Retrieved August 6, 2022.</ref>
* [[Catherine Hicks]] (M.F.A. 1976?) – actress; played Annie Camden on ''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''
* [[John Hostetter]] (M.A. acting) – actor, played John the stage manager on ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' for 62 episodes<ref name=thr>{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Barnes|title=John Hostetter, Actor on 'Murphy Brown,' Dies at 69 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hostetter-dead-murphy-brown-926489 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=September 7, 2016 |access-date=September 29, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Ricky Jay]] (Hotel) – magician, historian, actor, writer and scholar<ref>{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Mark |title=Secrets of the Magus |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magus |website=New Yorker|date=5 April 1993 |access-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Haine |first1=Peggy |title=He's musician and builder, but don't call him sculptor |url=https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2016/02/15/hes-musician-and-builder-but-dont-call-him-sculptor/80411806/ |website=Ithaca Journal |access-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Githler |first1=Charlie |title=Sui Generis |url=https://www.ithaca.com/opinion/columnists/sui-generis/article_bbd9e904-c227-11e6-a4c9-9f64773be035.html |website=Ithaca Times |date=14 December 2016 |access-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Johnson (writer)|Frederick Johnson]] (B.A. 1978 English) – Emmy and WGA Award-winning television writer; credits include ''[[All My Children]]'', ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'', ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', ''[[As The World Turns]]'', ''[[One Life to Live]]'', ''[[Guiding Light]]''
* [[Sidney Kingsley]] (B.A. 1928) – playwright, screenwriter, winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1934 for the drama ''Men in White''
* [[Mia Korf]] – actress, best known for originating the role of [[Blair Cramer|Blair Daimler Buchanan]] on [[One Life to Live]]
* [[Jamie Kovac]] (B.S. 2001, MEng 2002) – "Fury" on ''[[American Gladiators (2008 TV series)|American Gladiators]]''<ref>[http://www.americangladiatorsblog.com/biographies/jamie-reed-biography Jamie (Reed) Kovac] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219233321/http://www.americangladiatorsblog.com/biographies/jamie-reed-biography |date=February 19, 2008 }} bio on American Gladiator. Retrieved February 16, 2008.</ref>
* [[Ellie Krieger]] (B.S. 1988) – nutritionist, chef, and TV food celebrity
* [[Arthur Laurents]] (B.A. 1937 English) – playwright, screenwriter, director, author, credits include ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'', ''[[Rope (film)|Rope]]'', and ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]''
* [[Lenny Lipton|Leonard "Lenny" Lipton]] – author, filmmaker, and stereoscopic vision system inventor; founder of [[StereoGraphics]]
* [[Jane Lynch]] (M.F.A. 1984 theater) – actress, best known for ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''
* [[Bill Maher]] (B.A. 1978 English) – comedian and satirist, best known for hosting the television series ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'' and ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]''
* [[Rob Marciano]] – journalist and [[meteorologist]]
* [[Ed Marinaro]] – film and television actor.
* [[Louis Massiah]] (B.A. Astrophysics) – documentary filmmaker; [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1996), Tribeca Film Institute Fellow (1990, 1996), Fleisher Founder's Award (2009)
* [[Peter Marx (lawyer)|Peter Marx]] - television host; information law attorney; technology business consultant; producer
* [[Gardner McKay]] (attended for 2 years) – actor, artist, and author known for the lead role in the 1960s TV series ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]''
* [[Carol Mendelsohn]] (B.A. 1973) – television producer; credits include ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|C.S.I.]]''
* [[Adolphe Menjou]] (B.S. engineering) – actor, known for his roles in ''[[The Sheik (film)|The Sheik]]'', ''[[The Three Musketeers (1921 film)|The Three Musketeers]]'', and ''[[Paths of Glory]]''
*[[Justin H. Min]] (B.A. 2011 Government and English) - actor; currently stars as [[List of The Umbrella Academy characters#Number Six / The Horror (Ben Hargreeves)|Ben Hargreeves]] in [[The Umbrella Academy (TV series)|The Umbrella Academy]]
* [[Ronald D. Moore]] (failed out 1985) – writer and producer of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', and the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''; two–time [[Hugo Award]] winner, nominated for an Emmy Award
* [[Frank Morgan]] (undergrad 1908–09, dropped out) – actor who played the Wizard in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', two-time Academy Award nominee
* [[Bill Nye]] (B.S. 1977 mechanical engineering, MEng 1977, Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor 2001–06) – star of ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]''; science education advocate
* [[Adepero Oduye]] (1999) – actress in ''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'' and ''[[Pariah (2011 film)|Pariah]]''
* [[Peter Ostrum]] (D.V.M. 1984) – played [[List of characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory#Charlie Bucket|Charlie Bucket]] in ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''
* [[Evan Parke]] (1990) – actor best known for his role as Hayes in ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''
* [[Ethan Phillips]] (MFA) – actor and playwright
* [[Bill Pidto]] (1987) – a host of ''NHL Live'' on [[NHL Network (United States)|NHL Network]] and former anchor at [[ESPN]], 1993–2008
* [[Richard Price (writer)|Richard Price]] (B.S. 1971) – author, ''[[The Wanderers (Richard Price novel)|The Wanderers]]'' and six other novels; Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for ''[[The Color of Money]]'' and ''[[Clockers (film)|Clockers]]''
* [[Keith Raywood]] (B.A. Architecture, 1980) – Emmy Award-winning production designer
* [[Christopher Reeve]] (B.A. 1974 theater arts and English) – actor, best known for starring in ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'' and its sequels
* [[Jason Reich]] (B.S. Communication 1998) – Emmy Award-winning writer for ''[[The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]''
* [[Christopher Rich (American actor)|Christopher Rich]] (M.A. Theater Arts) – played Miller Redfield on ''[[Murphy Brown]]''
* [[Daniel K. Riskin]] (Ph.D.) –evolutionary biologist and television personality, known for co-hosting the Canadian television series ''[[Daily Planet (TV series)|Daily Planet]]''
* [[Casey Robinson]] – producer, director and screenwriter
* [[Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum]] (B.A.) – director
* [[William Sadler (actor)|William Sadler]] (M.F.A. 1974) – actor, known for films including ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''
* [[Gene Saks]] (B.A. 1943)<ref>{{IBDB name|id=16060|name=Gene Saks}}</ref> – stage and film director, an inductee of the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]]; seven-time nominee and three-time winner of [[Tony Award]]; four-time nominee of [[Drama Desk Award]]
* [[Andrea Savage]] (B.A. Political Science and Spanish, minor in Law Studies), actress, ''[[Dog Bites Man]]''
* [[Dick Schaap]] (B.S. 1955) – sports newscaster on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[ESPN]], two [[Emmy Award]]s, author and co-author of 33 books
* [[Robert Schenkkan|Robert Frederic Schenkkan Jr.]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A]] 1977) – award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor; the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] (1992) for his work ''The Kentucky Cycle'', and the [[Tony Award for Best Play]] (2014) for his drama ''All the Way earned''
* [[Bert Schneider]] – film and television producer, [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]] for producing ''[[Hearts and Minds (film)|Hearts and Minds]]'' (1975)
* [[Thelma Schoonmaker]] (B.A. 1961) – film editor, received the Academy Award for ''[[Raging Bull]]'', ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'', and ''[[The Departed]]''
* [[David Seidler]] (1959) – screenwriter who won [[83rd Academy Awards|83rd]] Academy Award for [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)|Best Original Screenplay]] for ''[[The Kings Speech]]'' (2010)<ref>{{cite news |title=David Seidler '59 Wins Oscar for The Kings Speech |url=http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/02/28/david-seidler-%E2%80%9959-wins-oscar-the%E2%80%88kings%E2%80%88speech |date=February 28, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Cornell Daily Sun]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708193135/http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/02/28/david-seidler-%E2%80%9959-wins-oscar-the%E2%80%88kings%E2%80%88speech |archive-date=July 8, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Robert Smigel]] (undergrad 1978–80, transferred) – puppeteer behind ''[[Triumph the Insult Comic Dog]]''; first head writer of ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''; author of "TV Funhouse" animations on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
* [[Jimmy Smits]] (M.F.A. 1982) – actor
* [[Tim Squyres]] (B.A. 1981) – Academy Award-nominated film editor, best known for ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
* [[Yale Summers]] (Bachelor's Business with honors, 1955) – actor and governing member of the [[Screen Actors Guild]]<ref name=variety>{{cite news|title=Yale Summers dies at 78, 'Daktari' actor served SAG in multiple capacities |url=https://variety.com/2012/scene/news/yale-summers-dies-at-78-1118053591/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=May 6, 2012 |access-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ken Sunshine]] (1970) – publicist
* [[Dominique Thorne]] (B.S. 2019) –actress, known primarily as [[Riri Williams (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Riri Williams/Ironheart]] in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]]
* [[Jennifer Tipton]] (B.A. 1958) – award-winning theatre and dance lighting designer; [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (2008)
* [[Franchot Tone]] (B.A. 1927) – actor, nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
* [[Ming Tsai]] (hotel administration) – celebrity chef of ''Ming's Quest'', a cooking show featured on the [[Fine Living Network]], and ''[[Simply Ming]]'' on [[American Public Television]]
* [[Jerry Wasserman]] (Ph.D. English Literature) – film and television actor; also professor and head of the Department of Theatre and Film at the [[University of British Columbia]]
* [[Andrew Weinberg]] (B.A. 1998) – television writer and co-winner of [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series]] (2007)
* [[Pete van Wieren]] – sportscaster and sports reporter, best known for 33-year career calling [[play-by-play]] for [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[Atlanta Braves]]
* [[David Wild]] – writer and critic in the music and television industries, nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on ''America: A Tribute to Heroes''
* [[Sheri Wilner]] – playwright
* [[Walt Witcover]] – theatre educator, né Walter Witcover Scheinman
* [[Mary Woronov]] (did not graduate) – actress, member of [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[The Factory]]
* [[Paula Vogel]] (1976, M.A, 2016, Ph.D.) – playwright who won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for her play, ''How I Learned to Drive'' (1998)
* [[Teddy Zee]] (B.S. 1979) – film producer, media and technology executive

===Music===
[[File:Harry Chapin-1980.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Harry Chapin]]]]
[[File:2018 RiP - Bad Religion - by 2eight - 3SC6763.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Greg Graffin]]]]
[[File:Bob Moog3.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Robert Moog]]]]
[[File:PeterYarrowByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Peter Yarrow]]]]
* [[Robert Alexander Anderson (composer)|Robert Alexander Anderson]] (1916) – composer, wrote Christmas song "[[Mele Kalikimaka]]"
* [[Ron Altbach]] (’68, B.A. ’69) - keyboardist and songwriter, member of rock band [[King Harvest]], co-founded with fellow Cornell undergraduates Ed Tuleja, Dave Robinson, and Rod Novak<ref>https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/memoriam-may-2023/</ref> 
* [[Russ Barenberg]] – [[Grammy]]–nominated [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] musician
* [[Herbert Barrett (talent manager)|Herbert Barrett]] (B.A. 1930) – talent manager for hundreds of famous artists from the 1930s to 2000s
* [[Harry Chapin]] (did not graduate) – folk musician known for the song "[[Cat's in the Cradle]]"
* [[Henrique de Curitiba]] (M.F.A. 1981) – composer
* [[Mack David]] – eight-time Academy Award nominee for songs including "[[Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo]]"
* [[Kinetics & One Love|Jeremy Dussolliet]] (B.S. 2009) – Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and member of the duo [[Kinetics & One Love]]
* [[Jared Emerson-Johnson]] (B.A. 2003) – video game music composer
* [[Richard Fariña]] – folk musician
* [[Joscelyn Godwin]] (Ph.D. 1969 musicology) – musicologist, translator, historian of the esoteric
* [[Greg Graffin]] (Ph.D. 1991 evolutionary biology) – lead singer and co-founder of [[Bad Religion]]
* [[Laurens Hammond]] (B.S. 1916 mechanical engineering) – inventor of the [[Hammond organ]]
* [[Jesse Harris]] (B.A.) – Grammy Award-winning songwriter who wrote "[[Don't Know Why]]" and "[[Come Away with Me]]", songs popularized by the artist [[Norah Jones]]
* [[Ari Hest]] (attended, transferred) – singer-songwriter
* [[John S. Hilliard]] (D.M.A. 1983) – classical composer
* [[Barry Kernfeld]] (M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1981) – musicologist, jazz saxophonist, known for writing ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''
* [[Alex Kresovich]] (B.S. 2008) – music producer and songwriter
* [[Huey Lewis]] (undergrad 1967–69, dropped out) – rock musician and member of [[Huey Lewis and the News]]
* [[Robert Moog]] (Ph.D. 1965) – inventor of the [[Moog synthesizer]] and founder of [[Moog Music]]
* [[Charles Previn]] (B.A. 1910) – Academy Award-winning film composer, seven-time Academy Award nominee
* [[Steve Reich]] (B.A. 1957) – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, and one of the pioneers of [[minimal music]]; recipient of the [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] (2013)
* [[Christopher Rouse (composer)|Christopher Rouse]] (D.M.A. 1977) – classical composer; winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]]
* [[Cary Sherman]] (1968) – chairman and CEO of the [[Recording Industry Association of America]]
* [[Kinetics & One Love|Tim Sommers]] (B.S. 2010) – Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter and member of the duo [[Kinetics & One Love]]
* [[Oliver Strunk]] (attended from 1917 to 1919 and in 1927) – [[musicologist]] who was on the faculty of [[Princeton University]] from 1937 to 1966; founding member and president (1959–1960) of the [[American Musicological Society]]
* [[Steven Stucky]] (D.M.A. 1978; Professor of Music Composition) – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
* [[Gil Trythall]] (D.M.A. 1960) – composer and pianist
* [[Paul Francis Webster]] (undergrad 1927–1928, transferred) – Academy and [[Grammy Award]]-winning lyricist
* [[Peter Yarrow]] (B.A. 1959) – folk singer, member of [[Peter, Paul and Mary]]
* [[Andy Zax]] (B.A. 1986) twice-[[Grammy]]–nominated producer and music historian, known for his complete audio restoration of the [[Woodstock Festival]]

===Other===
* [[Jason Rohrer]] (B.S. 2000, M.E. 2001) – video game designer
* [[Dave Ross]] – talk show host on [[KIRO-FM]]

==Government and politics==
===Heads of state===
[[File:Václav Klaus Praha 2015 (2) (cropped).JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Václav Klaus]]]]
[[File:PresidentMenocal-Cuba.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mario García Menocal]]]]
[[File:Lee Teng-hui 2004-cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Lee Teng-Hui]]]]
* [[Jamshid Amouzegar]] (B.S. 1945 engineering, Ph.D. 1951), [[Prime Minister of Iran]] from 1977 to 1978
* [[Václav Klaus]] (1969, no degree), [[President of the Czech Republic]] from 2003 to 2013 and [[Prime Minister of the Czech Republic]] from 1992 to 1997<ref>{{cite web |last=Neuharth |first=Dani |url=http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/09/10/czech-president-klaus-%E2%80%9969-speak-cornell |title=Czech President Klaus '69 To Speak at Cornell &#124; The Cornell Daily Sun |publisher=Cornellsun.com |date=September 10, 2010 |access-date=January 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307132557/http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2010/09/10/czech-president-klaus-%E2%80%9969-speak-cornell |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Mario García Menocal]] (B.S. 1888 engineering), [[President of Cuba]] from 1913 to 1921
* [[Lee Teng-hui]] (Ph.D. 1968 [[agricultural economics]]), [[President of the Republic of China]] from 1988 to 2000
* [[Tsai Ing-Wen]] (LL.M. 1980), [[President of the Republic of China]] from 2016 to 2024
* [[Choi Sang-mok]] (Ph.D. 1996), incumbent Acting [[President of South Korea]] and Acting [[Prime Minister of South Korea]]

===U.S. Cabinet and cabinet-level ranks===
[[File:Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1944).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Henry Morgenthau Jr.]]]]
[[File:Janet Reno-us-Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Janet Reno]]]]
[[File:Paul Wolfowitz.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Paul Wolfowitz]]]]
* [[Sandy Berger]] (B.A. 1967) – [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] to [[Bill Clinton|President Bill Clinton]] (1997–2001)
* [[Samuel Bodman]] (B.S. 1961) – [[United States Secretary of Energy]] (2005–09), [[United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury]] (2004–05), [[United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce]] (2001–03)
* [[Jim Bridenstine]] (M.B.A.) – [[Administrator of NASA|Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (2013–18)
* [[Lincoln D. Faurer]] (attended, did not graduate) – Director of the [[National Security Agency]] and Chief of the [[Central Security Service]] (1981–85)
* [[W. Scott Gould]] (B.A.) – [[United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs]] (2009–13)
* [[Stephen Hadley]] (B.A. 1969) – [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] to [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]] (2005–09)
* [[Seth Harris]] (B.S. 1983) – Acting [[United States Secretary of Labor]] (2013), [[United States Deputy Secretary of Labor|Deputy Secretary of Labor]] (2009–14)
* [[Eugene Kinckle Jones]] (M.A. 1908) – Member of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Franklin D. Roosevelt's]] [[Black Cabinet]], Executive Secretary of the [[National Urban League]], Founder of [[Alpha Phi Alpha|Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.]]
* [[C. Everett Koop]] (M.D. 1941) – [[Surgeon General of the United States]] (1982–89), recipient of the [[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]]  (1991)
* [[Henry Morgenthau Jr.]] (undergraduate 1909–10, 1912–13, dropped out) – [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|United States Secretary of Treasury]] (1934–45)
* [[Edmund Muskie]] (LL.B. 1939) – [[United States Secretary of State]] (1980–81), [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]] (1959–80), [[1968 United States presidential election|United States Vice Presidential Candidate]] (1968), [[Governor of Maine]] (1955–59)
* [[James Peake]] (M.D. 1972) – [[Surgeon General of the United States Army]] (2000–04), [[United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs]] (2007–09)
* [[Samuel Pierce]] (B.A. 1947, J.D. 1949) – [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] (1981–89)
* [[Thomas C. Reed]] (B.S. 1956) – [[United States Secretary of the Air Force|Secretary of the Air Force]] (1976–77)
* [[Janet Reno]] (B.A. 1960) – [[United States Attorney General]] (1993–2001)
* [[William P. Rogers]] (LL.B. 1937) – [[United States Attorney General]] (1957–61), [[United States Secretary of State]](1969–73), [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (1973)
* [[Louis Wade Sullivan]] (Medical College Resident) – [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]] (1989–93); Founder, Dean, and President of [[Morehouse School of Medicine]] 
* [[Nancy Sutley]] (B.A.) – [[Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality]] (2009–14)
* [[Daniel I. Werfel]] (B.S. 1993) – [[Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service]] (2023–25), Acting [[Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service]] (2013)
* [[John P. White]] (B.S. 1959) – [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense|Deputy Secretary of Defense]] (1995–97)
* [[Paul Wolfowitz]] (B.A. 1965) – [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense|Deputy Secretary of Defense]] (2001–05), [[President of the World Bank Group|President of the World Bank]] (2005–07)

===U.S. governors===
[[File:John Alden Dix LOC.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[John Alden Dix]]]]
[[File:Senator Joseph B. Foraker.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Joseph B. Foraker]]]]
[[File:EdmundMuskie-GovMaine.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Edmund Muskie]]]]
* [[John Alden Dix]] (attended 1879–1882) – [[Governor of New York]] (1911–12)
* [[Joseph B. Foraker]] (B.A. 1869) – [[Governor of Ohio]] (1886–90), [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Ohio]] (1897–1909), member of Cornell University's first graduating class<ref name="National Governors Association">{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_ohio/col2-content/main-content-list/title_foraker_joseph.html|title= Ohio Governor Joseph Benson Foraker|publisher= National Governors Association |access-date= October 10, 2012}}</ref>
* [[James Benton Grant]] (attended 1873–1874) – [[Governor of Colorado]] (1883–85)
* [[Herbert James Hagerman]] (1890) – [[Governor of New Mexico|Governor of the New Mexico Territory]] (1906–07)
* [[Philip H. Hoff]] (J.D. 1951) – [[Governor of Vermont]] (1963–69)
* [[Goodwin Knight]] (graduate study 1919–20) – [[Governor of California]] (1953–59)
* [[John T. Morrison]] (LL.B. degree 1890) – [[Governor of Idaho]] (1903–05)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_idaho/col2-content/main-content-list/title_morrison_john.html|title=Idaho Governor John T. Morrison|publisher= National Governors Association |access-date= September 19, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Edmund Muskie]] (LL.B. 1939) – [[Governor of Maine]] (1955–59), [[United States Secretary of State]] (1980–81), [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Maine]] (1959–80), United States Vice Presidential Candidate ([[1968 United States presidential election|1968]])
* [[Chuck Robb]] (undergraduate 1957–58, transferred) – [[Governor of Virginia]] (1982–86), [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Virginia]] (1989–2001)
* [[Horace White]] (1887) – [[Governor of New York]] (1910), [[Lieutenant Governor of New York]] (1909–10), [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1896–1908)

===U.S. Senators===
[[File:Chuck Robb (2019).jpeg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Chuck Robb]]]]
* [[Joseph B. Foraker]] (B.A. 1869) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Ohio]] (1897–1909), [[List of governors of Ohio|Governor of Ohio]] (1886–90), member of Cornell University's first graduating class<ref name="National Governors Association"/>
* [[Thomas C. Hennings Jr.]] (1924) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Missouri]] (1951–60), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Missouri]] (1935–40)
* [[Mark Kirk]] (B.A. 1981) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Illinois]] (2011–17), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Illinois]] (2001–11) 
* [[Edmund Muskie]] (LL.B. 1939) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]] (1959–80), [[United States Secretary of State]] (1980–81), [[1968 United States presidential election|United States Vice Presidential Candidate]] (1968), [[Governor of Maine]] (1955–59)
* [[Chuck Robb]] (undergraduate 1957–58, transferred) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Virginia]] (1989–2001), [[Governor of Virginia]] (1982–86)
* [[Elissa Slotkin]] (B.A. 1998) – [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Michigan]] (2025–present), [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Michigan]] (2019–2025), [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs]] (2014–17)

===U.S. Representatives===
[[File:Gabrielle Giffords official portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Gabby Giffords]]]]
* [[John G. Alexander]] (J.D. 1916) – Representative from [[Minnesota]] (1939–41)
* [[Rob Andrews]] (J.D. 1982) – Representative from [[New Jersey]] (1990–2014)
* [[Andrew Biemiller]] (B.A. 1926) – Representative from [[Wisconsin]] (1945–47, 1949–51)
* [[Jim Bridenstine]] (M.B.A) – Representative from [[Oklahoma]] (2013–18), [[Administrator of NASA|Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (2018–21)
* [[Frederick Van Ness Bradley]] (1921) – Representative from [[Michigan]] (1939–47)
* [[Abraham Lincoln Brick]] (undergrad) – Representative from [[Indiana]] (1899–1908)
* [[Katherine Clark]] (J.D.) – Representative from [[Massachusetts]] (2013–present), [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives Minority Whip]] (2023–present), [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives|Assistant Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (2021–23) 
* [[Hansen Clarke]] (B.F.A.) – Representative from [[Michigan]] (2010–13)
* [[Barber Conable]] (B.A. 1942, LL.B. 1948) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1965–85), [[President of the World Bank Group|President of the World Bank]] (1986–91)
* [[Maurice Connolly]] (1897) – Representative from [[Iowa]] (1913–15)
* [[Sharice Davids]] (J.D. 2010) – Representative from [[Kansas]] (2019–present)
* [[Thomas Joseph Downey]] (B.S. 1970) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1975–93)
* [[Beth Van Duyne]] (1995) - Representative from [[Texas]] (2021–present)
* [[Bob Filner]] (B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1973) – Representative from [[California]] (1993–2012), [[Mayor of San Diego]] (2012–13)
* [[Chris Gibson (New York politician)|Chris Gibson]] (MPA 1995, M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 1998) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (2011–17), [[Siena College|President of Siena College]] (2020–23)
* [[Gabby Giffords]] (M.R.P. 1996) – Representative from [[Arizona]] (2007–12), Member of the [[Arizona Senate]] (2003–05), Member of the [[Arizona House of Representatives]] (2001–03)
* [[Norman Judd Gould]] (M.E. 1899) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1915–23)
* [[Gilbert Gude]] (B.S. 1948) – Representative from [[Maryland]] (1967–77)
* [[Edwin Arthur Hall]] – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1939–53)
* [[Nan Hayworth]] (M.D. 1985) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (2011–13)
* [[Joseph C. Hendrix|Joseph Clifford Hendrix]] (1870–73, Trustee) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1893–95)
* [[Lewis Henry]] (1909) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1922–23)
* [[Frank Horton (New York politician)|Frank Horton]] (L.L.B. 1947) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1963–93)
* [[Wesley Hunt]] (M.P.A. 2015, M.B.A. 2015, M.I.L.R. 2016) – Representative from [[Texas]] (2023–present)
* [[Charles Samuel Joelson]] (B.A. 1937, L.L.B. 1939) – Representative from [[New Jersey]] (1961–69)
* [[Clarence Evans Kilburn]] (1916) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1940–65)
* [[Gary Alcide Lee]] (graduate study 1963) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1979–83)
* [[Norman F. Lent]] (L.L.B. 1957) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1971–93)
* [[Richard Dean McCarthy]] (graduate study) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1965–71)
* [[Dan Meuser]] (B.A. 1988) – Representative from [[Pennsylvania]] (2019–present)
* [[Clement Woodnutt Miller]] (B.S. 1946) – Representative from [[California]] (1959–62)
* [[Robert J. Mrazek]] (B.A. 1967) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1983–93)
* [[James R. Olin]] (B.E.E. 1943) – Representative from [[Virginia]] (1983–93)
* [[Richard Ottinger]] (B.A. 1950) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1965–71, 1975–85); founder and second staff member of the [[Peace Corps]] (1961–64), Dean of [[Pace Law School]] (1994–99)
* [[James Parker (New York)|James Parker]] (1887) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1913–33)
* [[Edward Worthington Pattison]] (B.A. 1953, L.L.B. 1957) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1975–79)
* [[John Raymond Pillion]] (L.L.B. 1927) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1953–65)
* [[Alexander Pirnie]] (1924, J.D. 1926) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1959–73)
* [[Daniel A. Reed (politician)|Daniel A. Reed]] (1898) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1919–59)
* [[Henry Schoellkopf Reuss]] (B.A. 1933) – Representative from [[Wisconsin]] (1955–83)
* [[Howard Winfield Robison]] (B.A. 1937, LL.B. 1939) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1958–75)
* [[James A. Roe]] (School of Military Aeronautics 1917) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1945–47)
* [[Kurt Schrader]] (B.A. 1973) – Representative from [[Oregon]] (2009–23), Member of the [[Oregon State Senate|Oregon Senate]] (2003–08), Member of the [[Oregon House of Representatives]] (1997–2003)
* [[George Shiras III]] (1881) –Representative from [[Pennsylvania]] (1903–05)
* [[Henry P. Smith III]] (Law 1936) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1965–75)
* [[James H. Southard]] (law 1874) – Representative from [[Ohio]] (1895–1907)
* [[Melanie Stansbury]] (M.S. 2007) – Representative from [[New Mexico]] (2021–present), Member of the [[New Mexico House of Representatives]] (2019–21)
* [[Sam Steiger]] (attended two years) – Representative from [[Arizona]] (1946–47)
* [[Elmer E. Studley]] (1894) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1933–35)
* [[Frank Sundstrom]] (1924) – Representative from [[New Jersey]] (1943–49)
* [[George Ernest Waldo]] (1872) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1905–1909), Member of the [[New York State Assembly]] (1896)
* [[John De Witt Warner]] (1872) – Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] (1891–95)
* [[John S. Wold]] (M.S. 1939) – Representative from [[Wyoming]] (1969–71)

===Diplomats===
[[File:Alan Keyes.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Alan Keyes]]]]
[[File:Williard Straight, portrait bust LCCN2014680658 (2) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Willard Dickerman Straight]]]]
* [[Parker W. Borg]] ([[Master of Public Administration|MPA]] 1965) – [[United States Ambassador to Mali]] (1981–1984) and [[United States Ambassador to Iceland]] (1993–1996)
* [[William Brownfield]] (1974) – U.S. Ambassador to Chile (2002–2004), [[Venezuela]] (2004–2007), and [[Colombia]] (2007–2010)
* [[Richard Burt]] (B.A. 1969) – [[United States Ambassador to Germany]] (1985–1989); chief negotiator of the [[START I|Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty]] (rank of Ambassador); [[Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs]] (1983–1985)
* [[Dwight L. Bush Sr.]] (B.A. 1979) – businessman; [[United States Ambassador to Morocco]] (2014– )
* [[Henry A. Byroade]] (M.S. 1940 civil engineering) – career diplomat serving as U.S. Ambassador to [[Egypt]] (1955–1956), South Africa (1956–1959), [[Afghanistan]] (1959–1962), [[Burma]] (1963–1968), [[Philippines]] (1969–1973), [[Pakistan]] (1973–1977)
* [[Timothy M. Carney]] (1975–1976 Southeast Asian studies) – [[United States Ambassador to Sudan]] (1995–1997), [[United States Ambassador to Haiti]] (1998–1999)
* [[Chan Heng Chee]] (M.A. 1967 government) – Singapore's Ambassador to the U.S. (1996–2012) and to Mexico (1989–1991)
* [[Arthur Dean (lawyer)|Arthur Hobson Dean]] (B.A. 1921, L.L.B. 1923) – international law expert, chief U.S. negotiator at [[Panmunjeom]], assisted with negotiations for [[Partial Test Ban Treaty|Nuclear Test Ban Treaty]], delegate to the United Nations
* [[Eric S. Edelman]] (B.A. 1972 history) – [[United States Ambassador to Finland]] (1998–2001), [[United States Ambassador to Turkey]] (2003–2005)
* [[Glenn W. Ferguson]] (B.A. 1950 economics, MBA 1951) – [[United States Ambassador to Kenya]], 1966–1969, academic administrator
* [[Robert Ford (poet)|Robert Ford]] (M.A. 1940 history) – Canadian Ambassador to [[Colombia]] (1957–1959), [[Yugoslavia]] (1959–1961), [[Egypt]] and [[Sudan]] (1961–1964), the [[USSR]] (1964–1980) and [[Mongolia]] (1974–1980); a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]]
* [[Daniel Fried]] (B.A. 1974) – career diplomat; [[United States Ambassador to Poland]] (1997–2000) 
* [[William vanden Heuvel]] (Bachelor and Law, editor-in-chief of ''[[Cornell Law Review]]'') – [[Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations|U.S. Ambassador to the European office of the United Nations]] (1977–79) and United States Deputy [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations|Ambassador to the United Nations]] (1979–1981) 
* [[John H. Holdridge]] (1948–1950 Chinese language) – [[United States Ambassador to Singapore]] (1975–1978), [[United States Ambassador to Indonesia]] (1982–1986)
* [[Jerome H. Holland]] (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941) – First black member of the [[New York Stock Exchange]]; president of [[Delaware State University]] (1953–60) and [[Hampton University]] (1960–70); [[United States Ambassador to Sweden]], 1970–73; chairman of the [[American Red Cross]], 1979–85
* [[Makila James]] ('79) – [[United States Ambassador to Swaziland]] (2012–2016)
* [[Alan Keyes]] (undergrad 1968–69, transferred) – diplomat, U.S. presidential candidate, 1996, 2000; U.S. Senate candidate from [[Maryland]] (1988, 1992) and [[Illinois]] (2004)
* [[Edwin Jackson Kyle]] (M.S. 1902) – [[United States Ambassador to Guatemala]], 1945–48; [[namesake]] of [[Kyle Field]]
* [[Sol Linowitz]] (J.D. 1938, trustee, 1966–95) – diplomat, ambassador, chairman of [[Xerox]], 1960–66; [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] recipient, 1998
* [[Simon Mbilinyi]] (BSc) – [[Tanzanian]] Ambassador to [[Belgium]] and [[Luxembourg]], 1985–1989; [[Minister of Finance]] (1995–1996)
* [[C. Steven McGann]] (1975–1978 graduate studies) – [[United States Ambassador to Fiji]], [[United States Ambassador to Kiribati|Kiribati]], [[United States Ambassador to Nauru|Nauru]], [[United States Ambassador to Tonga|Tonga]], and [[United States Ambassador to Tuvalu|Tuvalu]] (2008–2011)
* [[:es:Francisco de Miguel Álvarez|Francisco de Miguel]] (M.A. 1985) – Spanish career diplomat, Spain's Ambassador to Libya
* [[Cameron Munter]] (B.A. 1976) – [[United States Ambassador to Serbia]] (2007–2009), [[United States Ambassador to Pakistan]] (2010–2012)
* [[Michael Punke]] (J.D. 1989) – [[United States Ambassador]] to the [[World Trade Organization]] (2011– )
* [[G. Frederick Reinhardt]] (M.A. 1935) – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to [[South Vietnam]] (1955–1957), to the [[United Arab Republic]] and [[Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen|North Yemen]] (1960–1961) and to Italy (1961–1968)
* [[Hu Shih]] (B.A. 1914) – China's Ambassador to the U.S., 1938–42; philosopher; poet
* [[Moncrieff J. Spear]] (B.A. 1946) – former American diplomat
* [[Willard Dickerman Straight]] (B.Arch. 1901) – diplomat, investment banker, publisher, [[World War I]] veteran, namesake of [[Willard Straight Hall]]
* [[Alfred Sao-ke Sze|Sao-Ke Alfred Sze]] (B.A. 1901) – China's Ambassador to the U.S. and later UK; founding member of World Bank; first Chinese student to attend Cornell
* [[Sandra Louise Vogelgesang]] – [[United States Ambassador to Nepal]] (1994–1997)
* [[Ali Jehangir Siddiqui]] - [[Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States]] (2018), Diplomat, Businessman, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan (2017–2018), Pakistan's Ambassador at Large for Foreign Investment (2019–2022).

===Other U.S. government officials===
[[File:E. M. House LCCN2014700618 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Edward M. House]]]]
[[File:Alan Krueger official portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Alan B. Krueger]]]]
[[File:Anthony Fauci in 2023 02 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Anthony Fauci]]]]
* [[Michael Atkinson (inspector general)|Michael Atkinson]] (J.D. 1991) – [[Inspector General of the Intelligence Community]], involved in the [[Trump–Ukraine scandal]]
* [[Terry Calvani]] (J.D. 1972) – commissioner of the [[Federal Trade Commission]] (1983–1990)
* [[Derek Chollet]] (B.A. 1993) – [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs]] (2012–2014)
* [[Robert Cardillo]] (B.A. 1983 government) – director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2014–2019)<ref>{{cite press release |last=Coats |first=Daniel |date=February 7, 2019 |title=DNI Coats Statement on Retirement of NGA Director Robert Cardillo |url=https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/1953-dni-coats-statement-on-retirement-of-nga-director-robert-cardillo |location=Washington DC |access-date=January 8, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Arun Chaudhary]] (B.A. 1997) – [[White House]] official [[videographer]]<ref>
[http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D1442%26Itemid%3D56%26ed%3D31 Ready for His Close Up] by Beth Saulnier, ''Cornell Alumni Magazine''; Sept/Oct 2012</ref>
* [[David S. Cohen (attorney)|David S. Cohen]] (B.A. 1985, Government) – [[Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Deputy Director]] of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] (2015–2017, 2021–), [[Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing]] (2009–2011)
* [[Walter Cruickshank]] (B.A. Geological Sciences) – deputy director and then acting director of US [[Bureau of Ocean Energy Management]]
* [[Elizabeth B. Drewry]] (Ph.D. 1933) – archivist with the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] and director of the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum]] 
* [[Anthony Fauci]] (M.D. 1966) - [[Chief Medical Advisor to the President|Chief Medical Advisor to the U.S. President]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]<ref name="NIAID">{{cite web |title=Biography Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. NIAID Director |url=http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/ |publisher=NIAID |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030171118/http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/ |archive-date=October 30, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Friedman (economist)|Stephen Friedman]] (B.A. 1959; trustee, 1993–) – chairman of The [[Goldman Sachs|Goldman Sachs Group]], 1990–94; chairman of the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] (2005–09); former Assistant for Economic Policy to President [[George W. Bush]] (2002–04); director of the [[United States National Economic Council]], 2003–04
* [[W. Scott Gould]] (B.A.) - United States [[Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs]], 2013–2017
* [[Jo Handelsman]] (B.S. 1979) – associate director for science at the White House [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] (2014–2017); member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2019)
* [[Howard Hart]] – [[Central Intelligence Agency]] officer
* [[John Hillen]] (MBA) – 15th [[Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs]] (2005–2007)
* [[Edward M. House]] (undergrad 1877–80, dropped out) – Foreign policy advisor for [[Woodrow Wilson]] and [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
* [[Florence Kelley]] (B.A. 1882) – political and social reformer
* [[Donald Kerr]] (B.S. 1963) – assistant director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|F.B.I.]]; former director of [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]
* [[H. David Kotz]] (J.D. 1990) – [[Inspector General]] of the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]]
* [[Stephen D. Krasner]] (B.A. 1963) – [[Director of Policy Planning]] at the [[U.S. State Department]], professor of political science at [[Stanford University]]
* [[Alan Krueger]] (B.S. 1983) – labor economist and former chief economist for the [[US Department of Labor]]; chair of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]], 2011–2013
* [[Celso Lafer]] (Ph.D. 1970) – Foreign Minister (1992–1992, 2001–2002) and Commerce Minister (1999–1999) of Brazil
* [[David R. Macdonald]] (B.S. 1952) – [[United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury]] (Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs) (1974–1976), [[Under Secretary of the Navy]] (1976–1977), Deputy [[U.S. Trade Representative]] (1981–1983)
* [[Debbie Matz]] (B.S.) – Chairman of the [[National Credit Union Administration]] (NCUA) (2009–2016)
* [[Kyle E. McSlarrow]] – Deputy Secretary of the [[U.S. Department of Energy]]
* [[Lenora Moragne]] (Ph.D. 1969) – head of the Division of Nutrition Education and Training at the [[Food and Nutrition Service]] of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
* [[Amy Rosenbaum]] – [[White House Director of Legislative Affairs]], 2016–2017
* [[Adam Segal]] – cybersecurity expert; director at the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]
* [[Raj Shah]] (B.A. 2006 government) – principal deputy press secretary at The [[White House]]
* [[Joseph Simons]] (A.B. 1980 economics and history) – chairman of the [[Federal Trade Commission]] (2018–)
* [[Alexander Vindman]] – American foreign affairs specialist serving on the [[U.S. National Security Council]] as director for European Affairs
* [[Andrew C. Weber]] – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs; Obama administration
* [[Portia Wu]] – [[Employment and Training Administration|assistant secretary of labor for employment and training]] (2014–2017); secretary of the [[Maryland Department of Labor]] (2023–)

===State and local government===
[[File:Mandy Cohen, 2015.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mandy Cohen]]]]
[[File:AssemblymanRichardGottfried.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Richard N. Gottfried]]]]
[[File:FlorenceKelley.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Florence Kelley]]]]
* [[Carol Aichele]] (B.A.), [[Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]] from (2011–2015)
* [[Stephen S. Aichele|Steve Aichele]] (B.A. 1970), Former Chief of Staff to [[Governor of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Governor]] [[Tom Corbett]]
* [[Nicole Alexander-Scott]] (B.Sc. 1997),<ref>{{cite web |title=HEAA 2021 Pandemic HEROES Awardees |url=https://www.human.cornell.edu/alumni/alumni/awards/2021PandemicHEROESAward |website=Alumni Affairs and Development |publisher=Cornell University College of Human Ecology |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref> Director of the [[Rhode Island Department of Health]]
* [[Alan A. Altshuler]] (B.A.), Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation (1971–1975); former dean of the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] and of the [[Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service|Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University]]; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
* [[Jane Amero]] (B.A. 1963), [[Maine Senate|Maine State Senator]] (1992–2000)
* [[Irma Anderson]] (B.S. Nursing), Mayor of [[Richmond, California]] (2001–2006)
* [[Patrice Arent]] (J.D. 1981) – Member of the [[Utah House of Representatives]] (1997 – 2002, 2011–present) and the [[Utah State Senate]] (2003 – 2006)
* [[Byron Baer]] – Member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] (1972–1993) and [[New Jersey Senate|New Jersey State Senator]] (1994–2005)
* [[Roy E. Baldwin]] (B.S. 1970) – Member of [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] (2002–present) 
* [[Calvin Barton]] (1899) – Mayor of [[Norwalk, Connecticut]] (1921–1923)
* [[Ruth Bascom]] (Master's in Social Psychology) – first female mayor of [[Eugene, Oregon]] (1993–1996)
* [[Bob Bastian]] (Veterinary Medicine 1963) – member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] (1999–2008)
*[[George A. Blauvelt]] (1890) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1911, 1912) and [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1913, 1914)
*[[Alex Bores]] (B.S. 2013, ILR) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (2023–)
* [[Peter Bowman]] (B.S. 1960, Electrical Engineering) – [[Maine Senate|Maine State Senator]] (2006–2010)
* [[William B. Broydrick]] – Wisconsin politician
* [[David Carlucci]] (B.S. 2002, ILR) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (2011–2020)
* [[Nelson W. Cheney]] (B.A. 1899) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1916–1929) and [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1930–1938)
* [[Parley Parker Christensen]] – Utah and California politician, Esperantist
* [[Clem S. Clarke]] (two years, Geology) – oilman and Republican politician from Shreveport, Louisiana<ref>{{cite book|title=Reminiscences of Clem S. Clarke: Oral history|author=Historians [[Allan Nevins]] and Frank Ernest Hill|publisher=[[Columbia University]]|location=New York City|date=1951|oclc = 122308295}}</ref>
* [[Mandy Cohen]] (B.S. 2000) – Secretary of the [[North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services]], Director of the [[U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]
* [[Ernest E. Cole]] (B.S. 1895) – [[Commissioner of Education of the State of New York]], 1940–1942
* [[Edwin L. Crawford]] – first county executive of [[Broome County, New York]]
* [[Clifford Crouch|Clifford W. Crouch]] (AAS 1965, dairy science) – [[New York State Assembly]]man
* [[Charles d'Autremont]] (1868–1871) – Mayor of [[Duluth, Minnesota]]
* [[Melissa DeRosa]] (B.A.) – Executive Secretary to Governor Andrew Cuomo
* [[Samuel B. Dicker]] (1911) – 58th Mayor of [[Rochester, New York]] (1939–1955)
* [[Harriet Drummond]] (B.S. 1974) – Member of the [[Alaska House of Representatives]] (2013–present)
* [[Robert Flanagan (politician)|Robert Flanagan]] (J.D. 1974) – Secretary of the [[Maryland Department of Transportation]] (2003–2007) and Member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] (1987–2003)
* [[John Ford (New York state senator)|John Ford]] – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1896–1900)
* [[Vincent J. Gentile]] (B.A.) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1997–2002) and [[New York City Council]]man (2003–2017) 
* [[Kim Gillan]] (Masters 1975) – Member of the [[Montana House of Representatives]] (1996–2004) and of the [[Montana Senate|Montana State Senator]] (2004–2012)
* [[Richard N. Gottfried]] (B.A. 1968) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1971–2022)
* [[Geoffrey Gratwick]] (post-doctoral fellowship) – physician and [[Maine Senate|Maine State Senator]] (2012–)
* [[Mark Green (New York politician)|Mark Green]] (B.A. 1967) – government consumer-affairs activist, [[New York Public Advocate]] (1994–2001)
* [[Dennis Hollingsworth]] (Dairy Science) – Member of [[California State Legislature]] (2000–2010)
* [[Clinton T. Horton]] (B.A. 1898, LL.B. 1899) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1912–1914), [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1915–1916), and Justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]] (1922–1935)
* [[Alyson Huber]] (B.S.) – Member of the [[California State Assembly]] (2008–2012); Judge of the [[Superior Court]] of [[Sacramento County]] in California (2012–)
* [[Tony Hwang]] (B.S.) – Member of the [[Connecticut House of Representatives]] (2009–2015) and [[Connecticut Senate|Connecticut State Senator]] (2015–)
* [[Henry W. Jeffers]] (B.S. 1899) – chairman of the [[New Jersey Republican State Committee]] (1935–1937); inventor of the [[Rotolactor]]
* [[Phyllis Kahn]] (B.A. 1957) – Member of the [[Minnesota House of Representatives]] for more than 40 years (1973–)
* [[Gail Laughlin]] (Law 1898) – lawyer; suffragist; member of the Maine State Senate<ref>{{cite book |last1=Conable |first1=Charlotte Williams |title=Women at Cornell : the myth of equal education |date=1977 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-8014-9167-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/womenatcornellmy0000cona/page/92 92] |url=https://archive.org/details/womenatcornellmy0000cona/page/92 }}</ref>
* [[Gail Lavielle]] (B.A. English) – Member of the [[Connecticut House of Representatives]] (2011–)
* [[Harold O. Levy]] (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977) – [[New York City School Chancellor|Chancellor of New York City Schools]] 2000–2002
* [[William Magee (politician)|William Magee]] (bachelor's degree 1961, agricultural economics) – [[New York State Assembly]]man
* [[Stanley Makowski]] (attended with a certificate from ILR) – Mayor of the City of [[Buffalo, New York]] (1973–1977)
* [[Dan Meuser]] – [[Pennsylvania Department of Revenue|Secretary of Revenue of Pennsylvania]] (2011–2015)
* [[Daneek Miller]] – [[New York City Council]]man (2014–2021)
* [[Wheeler Milmoe]] (A.B. 1917) – member of the [[New York State Assembly]] 1934–1952 and [[New York State Senate]] (1953–1958) 
* [[E. Blackburn Moore]] – member (1933–1967), Speaker (1950–1967) of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]]
* [[Sherman Moreland]] (B.Litt. 1892, LL.B. 1894) – member of the [[New York State Assembly]] (1903–1907) and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]]
* [[Becky Morgan (politician)|Becky Morgan]] (B.S. 1960) – [[California State Senate|California State Senator]] (1984–1993)
* [[Svante Myrick]] (A.B. 2009) – Mayor of [[Ithaca, New York]] (2012–2022); former member of Ithaca Common Council for the 4th Ward
* [[Zellnor Myrie]] (J.D. 2016) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (2019–)
* [[Benjamin Nichols]] (B.S. 1946, M.S. 1949) – Mayor of [[Ithaca, New York]] (1989–1995)
* [[Michael F. Nozzolio]] (Bachelor's ILR, Master's in Public Administration and Agricultural Economics) – [[New York State Assembly]]<nowiki/>man (1983–1992) and the [[New York State Senate]] (1993–2016)
* [[William O'Brien (Minnesota politician)|William O'Brien]] (attended 2 years, mechanical engineering) – Member of the [[Minnesota House of Representatives]] (1963–1967), 11th [[Minnesota State Auditor]] (1969–1971)
* [[Bill O'Neill (New Mexico politician)|Bill O'Neill]] – Member of the [[New Mexico Legislature]] (2009–)
* [[Ralph Perlman]] – Louisiana state budget director, 1967–1988<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-perlman&pid=165013188&fhid=17443#fbLoggedOut|title=Ralph Perlman|newspaper=[[The Advocate (Baton Rouge)|Baton Rouge Morning Advocate]]|access-date=May 31, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Charles Gilbert Peterson]] – Mayor of [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport, New York]]
* [[Fred B. Pitcher]] (B.S. 1888) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1919–1922)
* [[Cuthbert W. Pound]] (1887 law professor) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]]; Chief Justice of the [[New York Court of Appeals]]
* [[Samuel Rabin]] – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1945–1954); [[New York Supreme Court]] Justice 
* [[Elijah Reichlin-Melnick]] (B.A. 2006) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (2021–2023) 
* [[Joseph D. Scholtz]] (B.A. 1912) – Mayor of [[Louisville, Kentucky]] (1937–1941)
* [[Martha Schrader]] (B.A.) – [[Oregon Senate|Oregon State Senator]] (2009–2011); [[Clackamas County, Oregon]] Commissioner (2003–2009, 2012–)
* [[Samuel S. Slater]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|B.L.]] and [[LL.B.]] 1894) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1899–1900) and [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1901–1902)
* [[Gayle Slossberg]] (B.S. 1987) – [[Connecticut Senate|Connecticut State Senator]] (2005–)
* [[William T. Smith]] (1938) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1963–1986)
* [[Ellen Spiegel]] (B.S. 1984) – Member of the [[Nevada Assembly]] (2008–)
* [[Karen Spilka]] (B.A.) – Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] (2001–2005) and [[Massachusetts State Senator]] (2005–)
* [[Thomas J. Surpless]] (1900) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1906–1909)
* [[Gaye Symington]] (M.B.A. 1983) – Member (1996–2009) and Speaker (2005 – 2009) of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]]
* [[Rick Taylor]] (Master's 1998 ILR) – Member of the [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives]] (2007–2010)
* [[James S. Truman]] (Ph.B. 1896, LL.B. 1898) – [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1925–1928)
* [[Alicia Roth Weigel]] (B.A.) – [[Human Rights Commission of Austin (Texas)|Human Rights Commissioner of Austin, Texas]] 
* [[Roy P. Wilcox]] (LL.B. 1897) – Wisconsin politician
* [[Henry D. Williams]] – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1918) and [[New York State Senate|New York State Senator]] (1925–1930)
* [[Mitchell Van Yahres]] (B.S. 1949) – Mayor of [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] (1970–1972); Member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] (1981–2005)
* [[Frank L. Young]] (B.A. 1888) – [[New York State Assembly]]man (1909–1912); Justice of the [[New York Supreme Court|New York State Supreme Court]] (1922–1930)

===Non-U.S. governments===
[[File:Princess Bajrakitiyabha.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Bajrakitiyabha]]]]
[[File:Isaac Herzog, July 2021 (D1233-049).JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Issac Herzog]]]]
[[File:A. R. Kidwai in 2009 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]]]]
[[File:Iyabo Obasanjo.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Iyabo Obasanjo]]]]
* [[Bajrakitiyabha]] (LL.M. 2002, J.S.D. 2005) – Princess of [[Thailand]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Crawford |first=Franklin |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/Law.School.Thailand.html |title=Program connects law school and Thailand |publisher=News.cornell.edu |date=March 6, 2007 |access-date=January 19, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Erwin Engst]] (1941 agro-pastoral studies) – advisor to the People's Republic of China
* [[María del Rosario Guerra]] (M.S. Agricultural Economy) – Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the [[Government of Colombia]] (2006–2010) and Senator of Colombia (2014–)
* [[Armando Samper Gnecco]] (B.S. 1943 agricultural economy) – [[Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Colombia)|Minister of Agriculture]] of [[Colombia]]
* [[Ricardo Hausmann]] (Ph.D. 1981) – former Venezuelan Minister and ex-Chairman of the IMF – World Bank Development Committee
* [[Isaac Herzog]] – [[President of Israel]]
* [[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]] (Ph.D. 1950) – Governor of [[Bihar]] (1979–85, 1993–98), [[West Bengal]] (1998–1999), and [[Haryana]] (2004–2009), India
* [[Chih-Kung Lee]] (M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1987) – [[Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan)|Minister of Economic Affairs]] of the [[Republic of China]] (2016–)
* [[Yatarō Mishima]] (M.A) – 8th Governor of the [[Bank of Japan]] (1913–1919)
* [[Iyabo Obasanjo]] (Ph.D. 1994) – former [[Senate of Nigeria|Nigerian Senator]] (2007–2011); daughter of former Nigerian President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]]
* [[Napsiah Omar]] (B.S. Nutrition and Education) – Malaysian educator and politician
* [[Pan Shih-wei|Shih-wei Pan]] (M.A. Ph.D. ILR) – former Minister of Labor of the [[Republic of China]]
* [[Lim Chuan Poh]] (MBA 1993) – Singaporean civil servant and former army general who served as Chief of the Army (1998–2000) and [[Chief of Defence Force (Singapore)|Chief of Defence Force]] (2000–2003) of the [[Singapore Armed Forces]]
* [[Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero]] (LL.M. 1973) – Minister of [[Ministry of National Defense (Colombia)|National Defence of Colombia]] (1995–1997) and [[Ministry of Justice and Law (Colombia)|Justice and Law of Colombia]] (2011–2012); [[Ambassador of Colombia to the United States]] (1997–1998)
* [[Roberto Prats]] (B.A. 1990 public political analysis and economics) – Senator of [[Puerto Rico]]
* [[Charlie Rodríguez]] (B.A. 1976 in Government and History) – 11th [[president of the Senate of Puerto Rico]] (1997–2000)
* [[Martin Romualdez]] (B.A. 1985 government) – 28th [[Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines]], member of the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines]] from [[Leyte]], (2007–2016), (2019–present)
* [[Chang San-cheng]] (Ph.D. 1981) – Taiwanese politician who was Premier of the [[Republic of China]] from February 1, 2016, until May 20, 2016
* [[José Serra]] (M.A., Ph.D. Economics) – Brazilian politician who served as a Brazil Congressman, Senator, Minister of Planning and Minister of Health, [[Mayor of São Paulo]] and Governor of [[São Paulo state]]
* [[Robert Sopuck]] (M.S. 1975) – member of [[House of Commons of Canada|Canadian Parliament]] (2010–)
* [[Huang Ta-chou]] (Ph.D. 1971 agriculture) – mayor of [[Taipei]] (1990–1994)
* [[Mamintal A.J. Tamano]] (LL.M. 1958) – Filipino statesman; former [[Senate of the Philippines|Senator of the Philippines]]
* [[Martín Travieso]] (Law 1903) – member of the [[Puerto Rico Senate]] (1917–1921), Mayor of [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] (1921–1923), 4th [[Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico]] (1944–1948)
* [[Tsay Ting-kuei|Ting-kuei Tsay]] (Ph.D. 1982) – vice-chairman of Taiwan's [[Environmental Protection Administration (Republic of China)|Environmental Protection Administration]], 2002–2004<ref name="SingTao20140412">{{cite news|url=http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2014-04-12/taiwan1397281850d5001753.html|title=蔡丁貴立院旁紮營1988天|trans-title=Tsay Ting-kuei camps outside Legislative Yuan building for 1988 days|work=[[Sing Tao Daily]] Canada Edition|date=April 12, 2014|access-date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416183517/http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2014-04-12/taiwan1397281850d5001753.html|archive-date=April 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Chang San-cheng]] (Ph.D. 1981) – [[Premier of Taiwan|President of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China]] (2016)
* [[Wu Tsung-tsong]] (M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1987) – minister without portfolio, [[Executive Yuan]], [[Republic of China]] (2016–)
* [[William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire]] (Ph.D.) – scholar and Liberal Democrat peer
* [[Juan Carlos Vega]] (M.S.) - Minister of Economy and Finance of the [[Ecuador|Republic of Ecuador]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas |url=https://www.finanzas.gob.ec/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=www.finanzas.gob.ec}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Juan Carlos Vega set to be Ecuador's new finance minister |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/juan-carlos-vega-set-be-ecuadors-new-finance-minister-2023-11-24/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231124230858/https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/juan-carlos-vega-set-be-ecuadors-new-finance-minister-2023-11-24/ |archive-date=2023-11-24 |access-date=2025-02-02 |work=Reuters |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Journalism and media==
[[File:Jim Axelrod 2017 Peaboy Awards (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Jim Axelrod]]]]
[[File:Edward Jay Epstein (32802723452) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Edward Jay Epstein]]]]
[[File:Farhad Manjoo (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Farhad Manjoo]]]]
[[File:Kate-Snow-Shankbone-2010-NYC.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Kate Snow]]]]
[[File:WuDunn, Sheryl.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Sheryl WuDunn]]]]
* [[Eric Alterman]] (B.A. 1982 history and government) – author and columnist
* [[Jim Axelrod]] (B.A. 1985 history) – national correspondent and reporter for [[CBS News]]
* [[Ken Blum]] – Editor, 48 Hours
* [[Jane Brody]] (1962, Biochemistry) — ''[[The New York Times]]'' health and nutrition journalist<ref>{{cite news |title=Jane Brody Says… |url=http://cornellsun.com/2001/04/10/jane-brody-says/ |access-date=September 7, 2018 |newspaper=Cornell Daily Sun |date=April 10, 2001}}</ref>
* [[Rodney A. Brooks]] (B.S. 1975 – personal finance editor with ''[[USA Today]]''
* [[Marion Hamilton Carter]] (B.S. 1898) - educator, psychologist, journalist, and author
* [[Julius Chambers]] (B.A. 1870) – author, editor, journalist, and travel writer
* [[C.J. Chivers (journalist)|C.J. Chivers]] (B.A. 1987) – foreign correspondent with ''[[The New York Times]]''; winner of [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]] as part of a team of ''The New York Times'' reporters and photographers (2009) and winner of [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing]] (2017)
* [[Charles Collingwood (journalist)|Charles Collingwood]] (B.A. 1939) – broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent
* [[S.E. Cupp]] (B.A. 2000 art history) – co-host of [[MSNBC]]'s ''[[The Cycle (TV program)|The Cycle]]''
* [[Michael Dirda]] (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1977, comparative literature) – Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* [[Edward Jay Epstein]] (B.A., M.A.) – investigative journalist and former political science professor, [[Harvard University]], [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
* [[Jessica Ettinger]] (B.S. 1997) – news anchor with CBS 1010 [[WINS (AM)|WINS]] New York; anchor of ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today Show]]'' Radio, SiriusXM/NBC
* [[David Folkenflik]] (B.A. 1991 arts and sciences) – media correspondent for [[NPR]]
* [[Michael Fremer]] (B.S. 1968 Industrial and Labor Relations) - audiophile journalist<ref>{{cite web|title=How a Cornell ILR Grad became a World Renowned Audio Reviewer|publisher=Cornell University|url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/event/ccgp-how-a-cornell-ilr-grad-became-a-world-renown-audio-reviewer/|access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Jeffrey Gettleman]] (B.A. 1994) – foreign correspondent, ''[[The New York Times]]''; [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]] (2012)
* [[Iser Ginzburg]] (MD 1900), physician and Yiddish journalist
* [[Wendy M. Grossman]] (B.A. 1975) – journalist and blogger
* [[Philip Gourevitch]] (B.A. 1986) – former editor of ''[[The Paris Review]]''; 1998 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] winner
* [[Carolyn Gusoff]] (B.A. 1984) – reporter and anchor with [[WNBC]] in New York City
* [[Sally Jacobsen]] (M.A. Economics) – journalist and foreign correspondent; first woman to serve as international editor of the ''[[Associated Press]]''<ref name=ap>{{cite news |first=Charles J.|last=Hanley |title=Sally Jacobsen, AP's first female international editor, dies |url=https://apnews.com/f099efb531d0478b96556bcb970e5663/Sally-Jacobsen,-AP's-first-female-international-editor,-dies |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=May 12, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Andy Kessler (author)|Andy Kessler]] (B.S. 1980) – "Inside View" columnist, ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' opinion page; author
* [[Neeraj Khemlani]] (1992) – co-president of [[CBS News]]
* [[Aditi Kinkhabwala]] (B.A. American Studies) – sports reporter for [[NFL Network]]
* [[Austin H. Kiplinger]] (B.A. 1939) – journalist; editor of ''The Kiplinger Letter''; founder of ''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'' magazine; winner of the [[Peabody Award]]
* [[John S. Knight]] – major newspaper publisher and editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
* [[Steven Lagerfeld]] (B.A. 1977) – editor of ''[[The Wilson Quarterly]]''
* [[Carl Leubsdorf]] (B.A. 1959 government) – journalist and columnist
* [[Eric Lichtblau]] (B.A. 1987 English and political science) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for national reporting with ''The New York Times''
* [[Roger Lowenstein]] (B.A. 1973) – financial journalist and author of ''[[When Genius Failed]]'' (2000)
* [[Stuart Loory]] (B.A. 1954) – executive and reporter, [[CNN]]
* [[Farhad Manjoo]] (2000) – journalist and author, columnist for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]''
* [[James C. McKinley Jr.]] (B.A. 1984) – foreign correspondent, ''The New York Times''
* [[Anne Morrissy Merick]] (1955) – journalist who broke barriers against women<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/business/media/anne-morrissy-merick-dead-abc-journalist-in-vietnam.html|title=Anne Morrissy Merick, a Pioneer From Yale to Vietnam, Dies at 83|first=Sam|last=Roberts|date=May 9, 2017|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Philip Merrill]] (B.A. 1955 government, trustee) – owner and publisher of ''The Capital Daily Newspaper'' in [[Annapolis, MD]] and ''[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]]'' magazine; international statesman; adviser to U.S. presidents
* [[Jeremy O'Grady]] (M.A. Political Science) – founding editor of ''[[The Week]]'' news digest magazine, and one of its original owners; now its editor-in-chief
* [[Keith Olbermann]] (B.S. 1979 communication arts) – sports commentator, MSNBC news anchor, co-host of ''[[Football Night in America]]'' of [[NBC]]
* [[Jon Ralston]] (B.A. 1981) - journalist, founder of ''The Nevada Independent''
* [[John Andrew Rea]] (B.A. 1869) – editor of ''[[The Olympian]]'', ''[[Minneapolis Tribune]]'', ''[[Bismarck Tribune]]'' and the Dakota edition of the ''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]''
* [[Jeremy Schaap]] (1991) – author, sports journalist, recipient of eight Emmy Awards
* [[Vivian Schiller]] (B.A. Russian) – former CEO of [[NPR]]
* [[Kate Snow]] (B.S. 1991 communication) – journalist, correspondent, [[NBC News]]
* [[Andrew Ross Sorkin]] (B.S. 1999 communication) – journalist, co-anchor of ''[[Squawk Box]]'', author of ''Too Big to Fail''
* [[Sarah Spain]] – ESPN sports journalist
* [[Gerald Stone]] (1957 political science) – Australian television and radio journalist, television executive, and author
* [[Howard Taubman]] (B.A. 1929) – chief music critic and chief theater critic for ''The New York Times'' in the 1950s and 1960s
* [[William T. Vollmann]] (B.A. 1981 comparative literature) – journalist, author of numerous books on war, including a seven-volume treatise on violence
* [[Whit Watson]] (B.A., English, 1993) – announcer on [[Golf Channel]], formerly at [[ESPN]] and [[Sun Sports]]; winner of four Emmy Awards; former Sports Director at [[WVBR]]
* [[Robin Wolaner]] (B.S. 1975 industrial and labor relations) – founder of ''[[Parenting Magazine]]''
* [[Sheryl WuDunn]] (B.A. 1981 European history) – journalist at ''[[The New York Times]]'', co-winner in 1990 of the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage on the [[Tienanmen Square protests of 1989]], winner of the [[George Polk Award]] in 1989, and winner of the [[Overseas Press Club]] in 1990
* [[Robert Zelnick]] (B.S.), journalist, winner of two [[Emmy Awards]] and two [[Gavel Awards]], former [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] correspondent for more than 20 years, and professor of journalism at [[Boston University College of Communication]]

==Law==
{{Further|List of Cornell Law School alumni}}

===Supreme Court justices===
[[File:Ruth Bader Ginsburg official SCOTUS portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]]]
* [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] (B.A. 1954 government) – [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] associate justice 1993–2020<ref>{{Cite news|last=Liptak|first=Adam|date=2019-11-23|title=Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/us/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-hospitalized.html|access-date=2020-06-16|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Saulnier|first=Beth|date=2013-10-29|title=Justice Prevails|url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/justice-prevails/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Cornell Alumni Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Sherman Moreland]] (LL.B. 1894) – [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines|associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]]
* [[Leonardo Quisumbing]] (LL.M.) – [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]]

===Federal judges===
[[File:Ronnie abrams.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ronnie Abrams]]]]
[[File:Ginsburg-Douglas.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Douglas H. Ginsburg]]]]
[[File:Chief circuit judge prost.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Sharon Prost]]]]
[[File:Elbert Tuttle (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Elbert Tuttle]]]]
* [[Ronnie Abrams]] (B.A. 1990) – federal judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] (2012–)
* [[Simon L. Adler]] (LL.B. 1889) – [[United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of New York]]
* [[Mark J. Bennett]] (J.D. 1979) – judge of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] and [[Attorney General of Hawaii]] 
* [[Richard M. Berman]] (B.S. 1964) – senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
* [[Frederic Block]] (LL.B. 1959) – senior judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]]
* [[Robert Boochever]] (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1941) – senior judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]]; chief justice of the [[Alaska Supreme Court]]
* [[Leonie Brinkema]] (J.D. 1976) – U.S. District Court judge
* [[Brian Cogan]] (J.D. 1979) – [[United States federal judge|federal judge]] of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
* [[Christopher C. Conner]] (B.A. 1979) – [[United States federal judge|federal judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania]]
* [[Paul A. Crotty]] (LL.B. 1967) – federal judge, Southern District of New York
* [[Mary H. Donlon]] (LL.B. 1920) – U.S. Customs Court judge; first female editor-in-chief of the ''Cornell Law Quarterly'' and of a U.S. law review
* [[Henry White Edgerton]] (A.B. 1910) – justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit]]
* [[Nancy Garlock Edmunds]] (B.A. 1969) – judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan]]
* [[Harry T. Edwards]] (B.A. 1962 industrial & labor relations) – chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington, D.C.; professor at [[New York University School of Law]]; former professor at [[Duke University School of Law|Duke]], [[Georgetown University Law Center|Georgetown]], [[Harvard Law School|Harvard]], [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|Pennsylvania]], and [[University of Michigan Law School|Michigan]] law schools; author
* [[John T. Elfvin]] (B.E.E. 1942 electrical engineering) – federal judge of the [[U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York]]
* [[Thomas E. Fairchild]] (B.A. 1934) – senior justice (1981–2007) of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] 
* [[Phillip S. Figa]] (J.D. 1976) – federal judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Colorado]]
* [[Paul L. Friedman]] (B.A. 1965) – senior judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]
* [[Nina Gershon]] (B.A. 1962 English) – [[United States magistrate judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]]; senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
* [[Douglas H. Ginsburg]] (B.S. 1970) – chief judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
* [[Peter W. Hall]] (J.D. 1977) – justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]]
* [[Emily C. Hewitt]] (A.B. 1966) – chief judge of the [[United States Court of Federal Claims]]
* [[David N. Hurd]] (B.S. 1959) – judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of New York|U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York]]
* [[Edith Jones]] (B.A. 1971 economics) – justice of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
* [[Barbara Milano Keenan]] (B.A. 1971) – justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit]]; [[List of justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia|justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia]]; justice of the [[Virginia Court of Appeals]] 
* [[Gladys Kessler]] (B.A. 1959) – senior judge for the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]
* [[Frederick Bernard Lacey]] (LL.B. 1948) – judge of the [[U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey]] 
* [[Kenneth K. Lee]] (B.A. 1997) – justice of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] 
* [[Lloyd Francis MacMahon]] (B.A. 1936, LL.B. 1938) – federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
* [[Alison J. Nathan]] (B.A. 1994, J.D. 2000) – judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
* [[Edward Nottingham]] (B.A. 1969) – [[United States federal judge]] in the [[United States District Court for the District of Colorado]]
* [[Walter Chadwick Noyes]] (1888) – [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] judge
* [[Marsha J. Pechman]] (B.A. 1973) – [[United States federal judge|Federal judge]] (1999–2011), Chief [[United States federal judge|Federal judge]] (2011–) of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Washington]]
* [[Pamela Pepper]] (J.D. 1989) – judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin]] (2014–)
* [[Sharon Prost]] – chief justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]]
* [[Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.]] (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1947) – senior judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]
* [[Robin S. Rosenbaum]] (B.A. 1988) – [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida]] judge<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/?page_id=3551|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115071701/http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/?page_id=3551|archive-date=2010-11-15|title=Southern District of Florida &#124; United States District Court}}</ref>
* [[Max Rosenn]] (B.A. 1929) – [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]] judge
* [[Barbara Jacobs Rothstein]] (B.A. 1960) – chief judge of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Washington]]; senior judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]
* [[Amy J. St. Eve]] (B.S. 1987, J.D. 1990) – federal justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] 
* [[Karen Gren Scholer]] (J.D. 1982) - District Judge [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas]]
* [[Frederic Palen Schoonmaker]] (B.A. 1891) – judge for the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]]
* [[Jonathan R. Steinberg]] (B.A. 1960) – justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims]]
* [[Harold Montelle Stephens]] (A.B. 1909) – chief justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit]]
* [[Joseph L. Tauro]] (LL.B. 1956) – [[United States federal judge|federal judge]] for the [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts]]
* [[Elbert Tuttle]] (B.A. 1918, LL.B. 1923) – chief justice, [[U.S. Court of Appeals]]; ruled on many fundamental [[Fifth Circuit Four|1954 civil-rights cases]]
* [[Richard C. Wesley]] (J.D. 1974) – justice of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]]

===State and local judges===
[[File:William F. Bleakley (New York judge Westchester County executive).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[William F. Bleakley]]]]
* [[Barry T. Albin]] (J.D. 1976) – associate justice of the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]]
* [[William F. Bleakley]] (LL.B. 1904) – [[New York Supreme Court]] Justice, first [[Westchester County Executive]]
* [[Leonard C. Crouch]] (Ph.B. 1889) – [[New York Supreme Court]] judge; [[New York Court of Appeals]] justice
* [[William H. Cuddeback]] (B.A. 1874) – [[New York Court of Appeals]] judge
* [[Dana Fabe]] (B.A. 1973) – chief justice of the [[Alaska Supreme Court]]
* [[Peter T. Farrell]] (B.A. 1922) – Queens County Court judge; presided over the trial of bank robber [[Willie Sutton]]<ref>Pace, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/10/obituaries/peter-t-farrell-91-judge-who-presided-at-the-sutton-trial.html "Peter T. Farrell, 91; Judge Who Presided At the Sutton Trial"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 10, 1992. Retrieved October 11, 2009.</ref>
* [[Charles Garside]] (LL.B. 1923) – New York City municipal judge, notable in New York State Government legal affairs
* [[Frank H. Hiscock]] (A.B. 1875) – chief justice of the [[New York Court of Appeals]]; and decided the [[Chester Gillette]] murder case
* [[John A. Kronstadt]] (B.A. 1973) – justice of the [[Los Angeles County Superior Court]]; judge of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California]]
* [[Louis W. Marcus]] (LL.B. 1889) – justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]]
* [[Andrew J. McDonald]] (B.A.) – associate justice of the [[Connecticut Supreme Court]]; member of the [[Connecticut Senate]]
* [[Edward R. O'Malley]] (LL.B. 1891) – justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]] and former [[New York Attorney General]]
* [[Anne M. Patterson]] (J.D. 1983) – associate justice of the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]]
* [[Leah Ward Sears]] (B.S. 1976) – chief justice of the [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]]
* [[Miriam Shearing]] (B.A. Philosophy) – Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Nevada]] (1993–2005)
* [[Lyman H. Smith]] (B.A. and LL.B.) –  justice of the [[New York Supreme Court]]
* [[Harry Taylor (1890s first baseman)|Harry Taylor]] (1893) – associate justice of the [[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division]], Fourth Department (1924–1936). Provided the legal advice that elevated the [[American League]] to major league status as a rival to the [[National League (baseball)|National League]]

===Other judges===
* [[Sang-Hyun Song]] (J.S.D. 1970) – judge (2003–2015) and president (2009–2015) of the [[International Criminal Court]]

===Lawyers===
[[File:Floyd Abrams by Jeff Weiner.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Floyd Abrams]]]]
* [[Floyd Abrams]] (B.A. 1956), co-counsel, ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' case
* [[David Buckel]] (J.D. 1987), [[LGBT]] rights lawyer and environmentalist 
* [[Zachary W. Carter]] (B.A. 1972), [[United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York|U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York]]
* [[George B. Clementson]] (LL.B. 1892) – author of ''[[The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen]]'', the first treatise on [[bicycle law]]
* [[Vijaya Gadde]] (B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations) – general counsel of [[Twitter]] 
* [[Michael Goldsmith]] (B.S. 1972, J.D. 1975) – [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act|RICO]] expert; [[ALS]] advocate
* [[William E. Grauer]] (B.A. 1971, J.D. 1974) – chair of the Standing Committee on Discipline for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]]; chair of the Ethics Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association; partner at [[Cooley LLP]]
* [[Theodore W. Kheel]] (B.A. 1935, law 1937) – attorney; labor mediator
* [[Leonard Leo]] (B.A. 1986, J.D. 1989) – executive vice-president of the [[Federalist Society]]
* [[L. Londell McMillan]] (B.S. 1987 ILR) – entertainment attorney; publisher
* [[Paul C. Ney Jr.]] (B.S. 1980 biology) – [[General Counsel of the Department of Defense]] 
* [[Philip Perry]] (J.D. 1990) – [[General Counsel]] for the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]]
Bram Dresden BA 1963, JD 1974

==Military==
[[File:111-SC-22595 - NARA - 55204893 (cropped) (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[George Bell Jr.]]]]
[[File:1st Marine Division commemorates the 97th anniversary of the battle of Belleau Wood 150531-M-JE159-034.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[John M. Paxton Jr.]]]]
* [[George Bell Jr.]] ([[LL.B.]], 1894), [[United States Army]] [[Major General (United States)|Major General]] who commanded the [[33rd Infantry Division (United States)|33rd Infantry Division]] during [[World War I]] and later the [[VI Corps (United States)|United States VI Corps]]
* [[Bruce C. Clarke]] – [[United States Army]] [[General (United States)|general]]
* [[John P. Craven]] (B.S. 1947) - United States Navy officer, scientist and submarine expert
* [[Alan Louis Eggers]] – United States Army [[Sergeant#United States|sergeant]], [[World War I]]; awarded for heroic actions near Le Catelet, France
* [[Rhonda Cornum]] (Ph.D. 1980 biochemistry and nutrition) – former [[United States Army]] [[Brigadier general]]; former [[prisoner of war]]
* [[George William Goddard]] (1917–1918) - United States Air Force [[brigadier general]] and a pioneer in [[aerial photography]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE WILLIAM GODDARD|url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106944/brigadier-general-george-william-goddard/|access-date=2021-10-12|website=www.af.mil|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Webb Hayes]] (attended 1873–1875) – United States Army brigadier general, [[Philippine–American War]]; awarded for rescue of captives at [[Vigan Island]]
* [[Kenneth Nichols]] (B.S., M.S. civil engineering) – [[United States Army]] [[Major General]] and an engineer who worked on the [[Manhattan Project]]; member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (1968)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/10403/chapter/35|title=Kenneth D. Nicholas – Memorial Tributes: Volume 10 – The National Academies Press|website=Nap.edu|access-date=December 30, 2017|doi=10.17226/10403|isbn=978-0-309-08457-4|year=2002}}</ref>
* [[John M. Paxton Jr.]] (B.S. 1973, MEng 1974) – major general, [[United States Marine Corps]], [[Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps]] 
* [[Erik M. Ross]] (B.A. 1988) – [[U.S. Navy]] admiral
* [[David A. Stafford]] (B.A. 1917) – brigadier general in the [[United States Marine Corps]]<ref name="Cornell University Yearbook 1917">{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924078965039;view=1up;seq=142|title= Cornell University Yearbook 1917|journal= Carnelian|year= 1869|publisher=Hathi Trust Digital Library|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Matt Urban]] (Matty L. Urbanowitz, B.A. 1941, history, government) – United States Army (1941–46) [[lieutenant colonel]], World War II; awarded for valorous actions in France and [[Belgium]]

==Nobel laureates==
[[File:Toni Morrison 2008-2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Toni Morrison]]]]
[[File:Douglas Osheroff 2011-08-08 cropped.JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Douglas Osheroff]]]]
[[File:Steven weinberg 2010.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Steven Weinberg]]]]

===Chemistry===
* [[Eric Betzig]] (M.S. 1985; Ph.D. 1988, applied and engineering physics) – Chemistry, 2014;<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Cornell grads earn Nobel in Chemistry|url=https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2014/10/08/pair-cornell-grads-earn-nobel-chemistry/16915153/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Ithaca Journal|language=en}}</ref> member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2015)
* [[Joachim Frank]] (postdoctoral fellow 1972)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ps.columbia.edu/research/profile/joachim-frank-phd|title=Joachim Frank, PhD|date=June 12, 2017|website=Ps.columbia.edu|access-date=December 30, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009143354/https://www.ps.columbia.edu/research/profile/joachim-frank-phd|archive-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref> – Chemistry, 2017; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2006)
* [[William Moerner]] (Ph.D. 1982, experimental physics) – Chemistry, 2014;<ref name=":0" /> [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry]] (2008); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2007)

===Physics===
* [[Arthur Ashkin]] (Ph.D. 1952 nuclear physics) – Physics 2018; pioneer in Optical tweezers; member of the National Academy of Engineering (1984) and the National Academy of Sciences (1996); recipient of the Harvey Prize (2004)
* [[Sheldon Glashow]] (B.A. 1954 physics) – Physics 1979; [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] (1979); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] since 1977
* [[John Hopfield]] (Ph.D. 1958 physics) - Physics 2024; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1973), the [[American Philosophical Society]], the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of the [[Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize]] (1969), [[Harold Pender Award]] (2002), [[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|Dirac Medal]] (2002), [[Albert Einstein World Award of Science]] (2005); [[Franklin Institute Awards|Benjamin Franklin Medal]] (2019); [[Boltzmann Medal]] (2022); [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1983)
* [[Russell Alan Hulse|Russell Hulse]] — Physics 1993; conducted award-winning research at Cornell's affiliated [[Arecibo Observatory]] (1974) 
* [[John M. Kosterlitz]] — Physics 2016; postdoctoral fellow (1973–1974); fellow of the [[American Physical Society]]; recipient of the [[Maxwell Medal and Prize]] (1981) and the [[Lars Onsager Prize]] (2000); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], since 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20041825.html|title=J. Michael Kosterlitz|website=Nasonline.org|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Douglas D. Osheroff]] (M.S. 1971 physics, Ph.D. 1973 physics) – Physics 1996; [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1981); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], since 1987
* [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]] (B.Chem. 1919; graduate study 1921–23, transferred) – Physics 1944; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]], since 1940
* [[David J. Thouless]] (Ph.D. 1958) – Physics 2016; fellow of the [[Royal Society]], of the [[American Physical Society]] and of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1995); recipient of the [[Maxwell Medal and Prize]] (1973), the [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (1990), the [[Dirac Medal (IOP)|Paul Dirac Medal]] (1993), and the [[Lars Onsager Prize]] (2000)
* [[Steven Weinberg]] (B.A. 1954 physics) – Physics 1979, [[National Medal of Science]] (1991); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1972)

===Peace, literature, or economics===
* [[Pearl S. Buck]] (M.A. 1925 English literature) – [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] 1938
* [[Robert F. Engle]] (M.S. 1966 physics, Ph.D. 1969 economics) – Economics 2003; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2005)
* [[Robert Fogel]] (B.A. 1948 history, minor in economics) – [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] 1993; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1973)
* [[Claudia Goldin]] (B.A. 1967 economics) - [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] 2023; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2006)
* [[Toni Morrison]] (M.A. 1955 English) – A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1997–2003) – Literature 1993; [[National Humanities Medal]] (2000), [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (1988)
* [[John Mott]] (B.S. 1888 philosophy) – [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] 1946

===Physiology or medicine===
* [[George Wells Beadle]] (Ph.D. 1930 genetics) – Physiology or Medicine 1958; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1944), [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (1950)
* [[Robert W. Holley]] (Ph.D. 1947 organic chemistry; professor and department chair in biochemistry, 1948–68) – Physiology or Medicine 1968; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1968), [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (1965)
* [[Barbara McClintock]] (B.S. 1923 botany, M.A. 1925 botany, Ph.D. 1927 cytology; instructor in botany, 1927–31; A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–74) – Physiology or Medicine 1983; [[National Medal of Science]] (1970); [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (1981); [[Wolf Prize in Medicine]] (1981); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1944), [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (1981)
* [[Hermann Joseph Muller]] (graduate study 1911–12) – [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] 1946; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1931)
* [[Jack W. Szostak]] (Ph.D. 1977 biochemistry) – Physiology or Medicine 2009; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1998), [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] (2006)

==Psychology==
[[File:Edwin G. Boring.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Edwin Boring]]]]
[[File:Dr. Joyce Brothers 1988.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Joyce Brothers]]]]
* [[John Wallace Baird]] (Ph.D. 1902 psychology) – Canadian psychologist who served as the 27th president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1918)
* [[I. Madison Bentley]] (Ph.D. 1899) – 34th president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1925–1926); former faculty member and department chair of the Psychology Department at [[Cornell University]]
* [[Edwin Boring]] (1908, Ph.D. 1915 psychology; instructor of psychology 1913–1918) – experimental psychologist and historian of psychology; president of the American Psychological Association (1928), member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1932)
* [[Urie Bronfenbrenner]] (B.A. 1938 psychology and music; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of [[Human development (psychology)|Human Development]] and Psychology) – psychologist, pioneer in developmental psychology ([[Ecological Systems Theory]]), founder of the field of human ecology; co-founder of national [[Head Start Program|Head Start program]]
* [[Joyce Brothers]] (B.S. 1947) – author, psychologist, and television personality
* [[Serena Chen]] – social psychologist
* [[Karl M. Dallenbach]] (Ph.D. 1913; faculty member 1916–1948) – experimental psychologist and editor of the [[American Journal of Psychology]]
* [[John E. Exner]] (Ph.D. 1958 clinical psychology) – psychologist known for [[Rorschach test|Exner system of scoring]]
* [[J. P. Guilford]] (Ph.D. 1927) – a psychologist at the [[University of Southern California]] who served as the president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1950); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1954)
* [[Suzanne Bennett Johnson]] (B.A. 1970 psychology) – a psychologist who served as the president of the American Psychological Association (2012)
* [[James Maas]] (M.A., Ph.D.; Professor of Psychology) – psychologist, coined the term "[[power nap]]"
* [[Abraham Maslow]] (undergrad 1928–29, transferred) – psychologist best known for [[Maslow's hierarchy of needs]]; president of the American Psychological Association (1968)
* [[Helen Neville]] (Ph.D. Neuropsychology) – psychologist and neuroscientist at the [[University of Oregon]]; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (2014); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the [[American Psychological Society]]
* [[Frank Parsons (social reformer)|Frank Parsons]] (B.S. civil engineering) – founder of the field of vocational psychology.
* [[Walter Bowers Pillsbury]] (Ph.D. 1896) – psychologist who was on faculty with the [[University of Michigan]] for his entire career; president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1910–1911), member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1925)
* [[Frank Rosenblatt]] (A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956) – psychologist in the field of artificial intelligence; inventor of the [[perceptron]] algorithm.
* [[Elizabeth Spelke]] (Ph.D.) – cognitive psychologist; psychology professor at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Cornell University]], [[MIT]] and [[Harvard University]]; fellow of the [[Society of Experimental Psychologists]], the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]; member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]; recipient of the 2009 [[Jean Nicod Prize]] 
* [[Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)|Robert Spitzer]] (B.A. 1953 psychology) – professor of psychiatry at [[Columbia University]], known for modernizing the classification of mental disorders and recognizing homosexuality as a non-mental disorder
* [[Louis Leon Thurstone]] (Master of Mechanical Engineering 1912) – pioneer in the fields of [[psychometrics]] and [[psychophysics]]; He conceived the approach to measurement known as the [[law of comparative judgment]], and is well known for his contributions to [[factor analysis]]; president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1933); co-founder and first president of the [[Psychometric Society]] (1936); Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1938)
* [[Margaret Floy Washburn]] (Ph.D. 1894) – psychologist, first female Ph.D. in psychology; president of the [[American Psychological Association]] (1921–1922); member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1931)

==Religion==
[[File:David Saperstein 2015.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[David Saperstein (rabbi)|David Saperstein]]]]
* [[Georgia Harkness]] (1912), Methodist theologian and philosopher<ref>{{cite book |last1=Conable |title=Women at Cornell : the myth of equal education |date=1977 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=0-8014-9167-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/womenatcornellmy0000cona/page/96 96] |url=https://archive.org/details/womenatcornellmy0000cona/page/96 }}</ref>
* [[Homer A. Jack|Homer Alexander Jack]] (B.A. 1936, M.S. 1937, Ph.D. 1940),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uudb.org/articles/homeralexanderjack.html|title=Homer Alexander Jack|website=uudb.org|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> [[Unitarian Universalist]] minister and early activist for peace, disarmament, racial equality and social justice; [[Niwano Peace Prize]] (1984), [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] (1992)
* [[G. Ashton Oldham]] (A.B. 1902), – Episcopal bishop, peace activist, and writer
* [[David Saperstein (rabbi)|David Saperstein]] (B.A.), Reform Jewish leader, former [[United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom]]

==Science and medicine==
{{Main|List of Cornell University alumni (natural sciences)}}
* [[Henry Arthur Callis]] – physician and professor of medicine at [[Howard University]]; one of seven founders of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity, served as its general president in 1915
* [[Roger H. French]] (B.Sc. 1979) - Kyocera Professor in the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
* [[Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell]] (B.A. 1902) – physician and researcher
* [[James A. Shayman]] (B.A. 1976) – physician-scientist, nephrologist, and pharmacologist
* [[Alfreda Bosworth Withington]] – physician and author

==Sports==
{{Further|Category:Cornell Big Red athletes}}

===Baseball===
[[File:Hughie Jennings (2).jpeg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Hughie Jennings]]]]
* [[Joe Birmingham]] – baseball player, [[Cleveland Naps]], 1906–1914
* [[Jon Daniels]] (B.S. 1999) – general manager of the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], youngest GM ever in [[Major League Baseball]]
* [[Bob DuPuy|Robert A. DuPuy]] (J.D. 1973) – former president and chief operating officer of [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB)
* [[Joseph Iglehart]] (1914) – chairman of the board, [[Baltimore Orioles]], 1955–1965<ref>[http://www.realitycharity.com/attachments/1842_attachment1.pdf Kennedy, Mac. "BL and The Orioles: Shared Roots," ''Laker Legacy'', Spring 2007: 20.] – The Boys' Latin School of Maryland alumni magazine. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905075910/http://www.realitycharity.com/attachments/1842_attachment1.pdf |date=September 5, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Hughie Jennings]] (LL.B. study 1901–1904, dropped out; Baseball Coach, 1899–?) – [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]-inducted shortstop; [[Louisville Colonels]] (1891–1893), [[Baltimore Orioles]] (1893–1899), [[Brooklyn Superbas]] (1899–1900, 1903), [[Philadelphia Phillies]] (1901–02), [[Detroit Tigers]] (1907, 1909, 1912, 1918)
* [[Rob Manfred]] (B.S. 1980) – chief operating officer of [[Major League Baseball]];<ref>{{cite press release|date=September 30, 2013 |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130930&content_id=62235348&vkey=pr_mlb&c_id=mlb |title=Commissioner Selig names Rob Manfred as the Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball &#124; MLB.com: News |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=September 30, 2013}}</ref> 10th Commissioner of [[Major League Baseball]]
* [[A. J. Preller]] (B.S. 1999) – general manager of the [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[San Diego Padres]] 2014–
* [[Brandon Taubman]] (B.A. 2007), assistant general manager of the [[Houston Astros]], 2018–2019
* [[Bill Walkenbach]] (B.A. 1998) – Cornell head baseball coach

===Basketball===
* [[Bryan Colangelo]] (B.S. 1987) – president and general manager of the [[Toronto Raptors]], 2005, 2007 [[NBA]] Executive of the Year
* [[Jon Jaques]] – American-Israeli assistant men's basketball coach for [[Cornell University]], who played for [[Ironi Ashkelon]] in Israel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=11697|title=Jon Jaques – 2009–10|website=Cornellbigred.com|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Nat Militzok]] (1923–2009) – New York Knicks basketball player
* [[Larry Weinberg]] – co-founder and president (1975–1988) of the [[NBA]]'s [[Portland Trail Blazers]]

===Football===
[[File:J.C. Tretter.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[JC Tretter]]]]
[[File:Glenn Warner LCCN2014711684 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Pop Warner]]]]
* [[Greg Bloedorn]] (1995) – former NFL offensive lineman and [[long snapper]] for the [[Seattle Seahawks]]
* [[Kevin Boothe]] (B.S. 2005 hotel administration) – former [[Lineman (gridiron football)|lineman]] for the [[Oakland Raiders]] and [[New York Giants]] 
* [[Al Dekdebrun]] – [[Buffalo Bisons]], 1946, [[Chicago Rockets]], 1947, [[Boston Yanks]], 1948, [[New York Yankees (AAFC)|New York Yankees]], 1948
* [[Pete Gogolak]] (1964) – [[Buffalo Bills]] 1964–1965, [[New York Giants]], 1966–1975; first "soccer style" kicker in professional "American" football
* [[Derrick Harmon (running back)|Derrick Harmon]] (1984) – [[San Francisco 49ers]] 1984–1986
* [[Mort Landsberg]] (1919–1970) - NFL player
* [[Bill Lazor]] (1994) – NFL assistant coach
* [[Chad Levitt]] (1997) – [[Oakland Raiders]], [[St. Louis Rams]]
* [[Ed Marinaro]] (B.S. 1972) – [[Minnesota Vikings]], [[New York Jets]], and [[Seattle Seahawks]]; runner-up for the 1971 [[Heisman Trophy]] Award, actor on ''[[Hill Street Blues]]''
* [[Jeff Mathews]] (2014) – quarterback for the [[Hamilton Tiger-Cats]]
* [[Lou Molinet]] (1928) – [[Frankford Yellow Jackets]], 1927 first [[Hispanic-American]] player in the [[National Football League]]
* [[Seth Payne]] (1997) – [[Jacksonville Jaguars]], 1997–2001, [[Houston Texans]], 2001–2007
* [[Lee Reherman]] (1988) – [[Miami Dolphins]], actor on ''[[American Gladiators (1989 TV series)|American Gladiators]]'' and ''[[X-Files]]''
* [[Luke Tasker]] (2013) – [[wide receiver]] for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
* [[JC Tretter]] (2012) – offensive guard for the [[Green Bay Packers]] (2013–2016) and [[Cleveland Browns]] (2017–2021)
* [[Bryan Walters]] (2010) – wide receiver for the [[San Diego Chargers]] 2010–2011, [[Seattle Seahawks]] (2012–2014), [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] (2015–2016)
* [[Pop Warner]] (LL.B. 1894, football coach) – football player and coach; founder of [[Pop Warner Little Scholars]]
* [[Gary Wood]] (1964) – [[New York Giants]] 1964–1966, 1968–1969, [[New Orleans Saints]], 1967
Russ Bevis, 1st soccer style kicker, in the US in College. 1959–1963

===Ice hockey===
[[File:Gary Bettman in 2016 (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Gary Bettman]]]]
[[File:Ben Scrivens - Edmonton Oilers.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ben Scrivens]]]]
* [[Gary Bettman]] (B.S. 1974) – [[Commissioner]] of the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] (1993–)
* [[Byron Bitz]] (2007) – forward for the [[Boston Bruins]] 2008–2010, [[Florida Panthers]] 2010–2011, [[Vancouver Canucks]] 2011–2012
* [[Ken Dryden]] (B.A. 1969) – [[National Hockey League|NHL]] [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] goaltender, six-time [[Stanley Cup]] winner, [[Conn Smythe Trophy]] winner, [[Calder Memorial Trophy]] winner, Canadian Member of Parliament
* [[Colin Greening]] (2010) – Centre for the [[Ottawa Senators]] 2011–2015, [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] 2016–2019
* [[Ned Harkness]] (lacrosse and hockey head coach) – Coach of Cornell NCAA hockey champions in 1967 and 1970; previously RPI coach of 1954 national champs; also head coach and then general manager of the [[Detroit Red Wings]]
* [[David LeNeveu]] – NHL goalie, previously for the [[Phoenix Coyotes]]
* [[Matt Moulson]] (2006) – left wing for the [[Buffalo Sabres]], and previously New York Islanders and Minnesota Wild.
* [[Douglas Murray (ice hockey)|Douglas Murray]] (2003) – defenseman for [[Montreal Canadiens]] and previously San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins, [[Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's team rosters#Sweden|2010 Olympian]]
* [[Riley Nash]] (2007–2010) – centre for the [[Columbus Blue Jackets]], formerly of the [[Boston Bruins]] and [[Carolina Hurricanes]], 2011–present
* [[Lance Nethery]] – NHL player, executive in the German Elite League
* [[Joe Nieuwendyk]] (1988) – [[National Hockey League|NHL]] player, three-time [[Stanley Cup]] champion, [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Olympic gold medalist]]
* [[Ryan O'Byrne]] (2007) – former NHL defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens and [[Colorado Avalanche]]
* [[Rick Olczyk]] (Law 1996) – Assistant general manager of the [[Carolina Hurricanes]]
* [[Joakim Ryan]] (2015) – NHL defenseman for the [[Los Angeles Kings]] and previously for the [[San Jose Sharks]]
* [[Ben Scrivens]] (2010) – former NHL goaltender for the [[Montreal Canadiens]], [[Toronto Maple Leafs]], [[Los Angeles Kings]] and [[Edmonton Oilers]]
* [[Ryan Vesce]] (2004) – right wing for the [[San Jose Sharks]], 2008–2010

===Lacrosse===
* [[Mike French]] (1976) – All-American lacrosse player at Cornell from 1974 to 1976, leading the "Big Red" to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976
* [[Daniel R. Mackesey]] (1977) – received [[Today's Top VIII Award|NCAA Top Five Award]] in 1978 for [[lacrosse]] and soccer; inducted in [[Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame|National Lacrosse Hall of Fame]] in 2006
* [[Eamon McEneaney]] (1977) – All-American lacrosse player at Cornell from 1975 to 1977, leading the "Big Red" to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976 and 1977. Eamon died in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
* [[Rob Pannell]] (2013) – professional lacrosse player for the [[New York Lizards]]; recipient of [[Lt. Raymond Enners Award]] (2013) and [[Tewaaraton Trophy]] (2013)
* [[Max Seibald]] (born 1987) – lacrosse player

===Olympians===
[[File:2020-01-19 Mascot Ceremony Women's Monobob (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Sandro Halank–002.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Jamie Greubel]]]]
[[File:Me and Rebecca Johnston (4691782643).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Rebecca Johnston]]]]
* [[Jon Anderson (runner)|Jon Anderson]] (1971) – 1972 Olympian, track; winner of 1973 Boston Marathon
* [[Edward Cook (athlete)|Edward Tiffin Cook Jr.]] (1910) – men's [[pole vault]] Olympic gold medalist in 1908 [[Summer Olympics]] 
* [[Darren Eliot]] (1983) – NHL player, [[Los Angeles Kings]], [[Detroit Red Wings]], [[Buffalo Sabres]]; 1984 Olympian
* [[Jamie Greubel]] (2006) – [[bronze medalist]] in two-woman [[bobsleigh]] at the 2014 Sochi games 
* [[Muhammad Halim]] (2008) – competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic games, triple jump
* [[Albert Hall (athlete)|Albert Hall]] (1956) – four-time Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968), hammer throw
* [[Rebecca Johnston]] (2012) - four-time Olympic medalist for Canada
* [[Robert Kane (sports administrator)|Robert J. Kane]] (1934, director of athletics) – [[United States Olympic Committee|U.S. Olympic Committee]] president, 1976–1980; inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1986
* [[Kent Manderville]] (1993) – NHL player, [[Calgary Flames]], [[Pittsburgh Penguins]]; 1992 Olympic silver medalist with Team Canada
* [[Edith Master]] (born 1932) – Olympic bronze medalist equestrian
* [[Travis Mayer]] (undergrad 2000–01, on leave) – Olympic freestyle skiing silver medalist
* [[Charles Moore (athlete)|Charles Moore]] (1951, director of Athletics, 1994–1999) – [[Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Olympic gold medalist (hurdles)]] and silver medalist (1600-meter relay); honored as Golden Olympian, 1996
* [[Pablo Morales]] (J.D. 1994) – three-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, [[Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984]] and [[Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992]]
* [[David Curtiss Munson|David Munson]] (1906) – four-mile team Olympic gold medalist in 1904 [[Summer Olympics]]; inducted into the [[Cornell University]] Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988
* [[Richard Pew]] (1956) – [[1956 Summer Olympics]], [[épée|épée fencing]]
* [[Harry Porter]] (1905) – [[1908 Summer Olympics]] high jump gold medalist
* [[Alma Richards]] (1917) – [[1912 Summer Olympics]] high jump gold medalist
* [[Bo Roberson]] (1958) – the only person to earn an Ivy League degree, an [[Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Olympic medal]], a doctorate, and have a career in the [[National Football League|NFL]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/boknows2.pdf | title = The Bo You Didn't Know | access-date = July 27, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060615015506/http://ivyleaguesports.com/documents/boknows2.pdf |archive-date = June 15, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Jamie Silverstein]] (undergrad 2002–2004, 2006–) – Olympic figure skater
*[[Donald Spero]], Olympic rower, world champion, and venture capitalist

===Racing===
* [[Bill Jenkins (dragracer)|Bill Jenkins]] – [[National Hot Rod Association|NHRA]] drag car racer
* [[Teddy Mayer]] (J.D.) – motor racing team manager
* [[Peter Revson]] – race car driver

===Tennis===
* [[William Larned]] – seven-time U.S. tennis championship winner 
* [[Dick Savitt]] (born 1927) – tennis player, ranked No. 2 in the world

===Wrestling===
[[File:Kyle Dake.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Kyle Dake]]]]
[[File:John Diakomihalis (USA) 2021.JPG|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Yianni Diakomihalis]]]]
* [[Kyle Dake]] (B.A. 2013), freestyle wrestling Olympic Gold Medalist in 2020, World Champion (2018, 2019, 2021), World Cup Gold Medalist (2018), four-time NCAA Division I individual national titleholder in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013
* [[Yianni Diakomihalis]], freestyle and folkstyle wrestling, three-time NCAA Division I individual national titleholder in 2018, 2019, and 2021
* [[Joe DeMeo]], U.S. Olympic wrestling assistant coach

===Other===
* [[Bruce Arena]] (B.S. 1971) – five-time [[NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament|NCAA Soccer Championship]] coach at the [[University of Virginia]]; coach of [[Major League Soccer]]'s [[D.C. United]]; coach of [[United States men's national soccer team|U.S. national team]]; coach of MLS's [[New York Red Bulls]]; present coach of MLS's [[Los Angeles Galaxy]]
* [[Olivier Busquet]] – professional poker player
* [[Clarence C. Combs Jr.]] — polo player, two-time winner of the [[Monty Waterbury Cup]]
* [[Brian Hastings (poker player)|Brian Hastings]] – professional poker player
* [[Alexander Kevitz]] (1923) – chess master
*[[Saurabh Netravalkar]] – cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-11-04|title=Former India U-19 speedster Saurabh Netravalkar named US captain|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/former-india-u-19-speedster-saurabh-netravalkar-named-us-captain/story-OD8T4Z0k1U4YmL678RoPlJ.html|access-date=2021-01-27|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>
* [[John Nickles]] (1986) – triathlete; winner of the World Champion Title in the 1999 Hawaii Ultraman World Championship; Ultra Marathon Cycling Association world record holder in 1994
* [[Dave Sarachan]] – head coach of [[Major League Soccer]]'s [[Chicago Fire Soccer Club|Chicago Fire]] (2002–2007)
* [[Doug Smylie|Doug J. Smylie]] (attended and played football for Cornell) – Canadian football player (1945–1953), for the [[Toronto Argonauts]], [[Montreal Alouettes]] and [[Ottawa Rough Riders]]
* [[Donald Spero]] — rower
* [[Jonathan Tamayo]] (B.S. 2008) - professional poker player
* [[Carl F. Ullrich]] (B.S. 1950) – [[Athletic Director]] at [[Army Black Knights|West Point]], 1980–1990; executive director of the [[Patriot League]], 1989–1993
* [[Dan Wood (soccer)|Dan Wood]] (Ph.D. 1977) — five-year Cornell golf and soccer coach (1970s); coached the [[Tacoma Tides]], [[Colorado Caribous]] and [[Atlanta Chiefs]]; turned professional golfer in 1980

==Crime==
[[File:Michael Schwerner (3x4 cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Michael Schwerner ]]]]
[[File:Mark Whitacre (crop).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Mark Whitacre]]]]
* [[Killing of Nick Berg|Nick Berg]] (undergrad 1996–98, transferred) – businessman beheaded by Islamic militants on May 7, 2004, during the [[History of Iraq (2003–2011)|U.S.-led occupation of Iraq]]
* [[Leo Frank]] (B.S. 1906 engineering) – factory manager; lynched in 1915 for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl; later believed to be innocent; subject of the musical ''[[Parade (musical)|Parade]]''
* [[David G. Friehling]] (B.S. 1981) – accountant to Ponzi schemer [[Bernard Madoff]]
* [[Mark Gerard]] (D.V.M., 1962) – perpetrated horse racing fraud, switching horses' identities<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/sports/mark-gerard-76-veterinarian-at-center-of-a-horse-race-fraud.html?_r=1&hpw | work=The New York Times | first=William | last=Grimes | title=Mark Gerard, 76, Veterinarian at Center of a Horse Race Fraud | date=June 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Peter Huang]] (graduate study 1966–did not graduate) – political activist and failed assassin
* [[Katrina Leung]] (B.S. 1976) – accused spy; case dismissed; later sentenced to terms of plea agreement
* [[Robert Tappan Morris]] (graduate study 1988–89, suspended) – author of the [[Morris Worm]], which crippled the Internet in 1988
* [[Michael Bruce Ross|Michael Ross]] (B.S. 1981 agricultural economics) – convicted serial killer executed in [[Connecticut]] on May 13, 2005
* [[Michael Schwerner]] (B.A. 1961 sociology) – victim in the [[murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner]] by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in 1964
* [[Mark Whitacre]] (Ph.D. 1983 nutritional biochemistry) – highest-ranked executive in U.S. history of a Fortune 500 company to turn whistleblower and FBI informant; pleaded guilty to fraud

==Other==
[[File:Ross Marvin.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Ross Gilmore Marvin]]]]
* [[Lisa Daugaard]] (M.A. 1987), 2019 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] and criminal justice reform advocate
* [[Gregory K. Dreicer]] (Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies), curatorial strategist, historian of technology, experience designer, exhibition developer, and museum manager
* [[Eric Erickson (spy)|Eric Erickson]] (1921 engineering), Swedish oil executive who worked for U.S. intelligence during [[World War II]] who became the basis for ''[[The Counterfeit Traitor]]'', a book and film 
* [[Jesse Root Grant]] (undergrad 1874–77, dropped out), son of U.S. President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]
* [[Anna Roosevelt Halsted]] (did not graduate), daughter of U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]
* [[Rutherford P. Hayes]] (B.S. 1880), vice president and acting president of the [[American Library Association]] and third son of US President [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] 
* [[William H. Hinton]] (1941 agronomy and dairy husbandry), farmer and writer
* [[Genevieve Hughes]] (B.A. 1954), one of the 13 original [[Freedom Riders]]<ref>{{Citation|last = Arsenault|first= Raymond|author-link=Raymond Arsenault|year= 2006|title= Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice|place= Oxford|publisher= Oxford University Press|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RZAA-hS178UC&q=arsenault+freedom+riders|isbn= 9780199755813
}}</ref>
* [[Zach Iscol]] (Government 2001), entrepreneur, [[United States Marines|U.S. Marine]], and [[2021 New York City Comptroller election]] candidate
* [[Imogene Powers Johnson]] (B.S. 1952), billionaire and philanthropist
* [[Carol Levine]] (B.A. 1956), [[HIV/AIDS]] policy specialist and 1993 [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]]
* [[Ross Gilmore Marvin]] (B.A. 1905), Arctic explorer with Robert Peary who died during their 1908–1909 expedition
* [[Stephanie Rader]] (B.A. 1937), undercover intelligence agent and 2016 [[Legion of Merit]] recipient
* [[May Gorslin Preston Slosson]] (Ph.D. 1880), suffragist and the first woman in the U.S. to get be awarded a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[philosophy]]

==See also==
* [[List of Cornell University faculty]]
* [[List of Quill and Dagger members]]
* [[Sphinx Head#Notable alumni|Notable alumni of the Sphinx Head Society]]

==References==

=== Notes ===
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book | last = Altschuler | first = Glenn C. | author2 = Isaac Kramnick | author3 = R. Laurence Moore | year = 2003 | title = The 100 Most Notable Cornellians | publisher = [[Cornell University Press]] | location = [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca, N.Y.]] | isbn = 0-8014-3958-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/100mostnotableco00glen }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |title=2006–07 Factbook |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=July 7, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626082316/http://www.cornell.edu/about/facts/cornell_facts.pdf |archive-date=June 26, 2006 }}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Nobel_Laureates_at_CUk1.shtml | title = Cornell Nobel laureates | publisher = Cornell News Service | access-date = June 6, 2006}}
* {{cite web | url = http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=760078800#question9 | title = Question 9 – February 1, 1994 – Movies in which Cornell appears | publisher = Dear Uncle Ezra | access-date = July 22, 2006}}
* {{cite web | url = http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=950763600#question9 | title = Question 9 – February 17, 2000 – Fictional Cornellians | publisher = Dear Uncle Ezra | access-date = July 22, 2006}}
* {{cite web | url = http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=1143694800#question6 | title = Question 6 – March 30, 2006 – Cornell in Literature | publisher = Dear Uncle Ezra | access-date = July 22, 2006}}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.snpp.com/guides/ivy.html | title = Ivy League References on the Simpsons | publisher = The Simpsons Archive | access-date = July 22, 2006 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060712020703/http://www.snpp.com/guides/ivy.html | archive-date = July 12, 2006 }}
* {{cite web | url = http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/pro-cornell.asp | title = Cornellians in Pro Sports | publisher = IvyLeagueSports.com | access-date = July 25, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060704032553/http://ivyleaguesports.com/documents/pro-cornell.asp |archive-date = July 4, 2006}}
* {{cite web | url = https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Abioguide.congress.gov+%22biodisplay%22+%22cornell%22 | title = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | access-date = July 29, 2006}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060704032553/http://ivyleaguesports.com/documents/pro-cornell.asp Cornell in professional sports]
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