New York, United States
Cornell University Alumni
International Students
25
% of international students in the university
6474
Total International Students in the university
Cornell has produced everything from Nobel Prize winners to tech innovators and pop culture icons. Here’s a look at some of its most well-known alumni and what they’re famous for.
|
Alumni Name |
Notable Achievement / Famous For |
Degree |
Graduating Year |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
BA |
1954 |
|
Bill Nye |
“The Science Guy”, TV educator and engineer |
BS |
1977 |
|
Toni Morrison |
Nobel Prize-winning author (Beloved) |
MA |
1955 |
|
Ratan Tata |
Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons |
BArch |
1962 |
|
Christopher Reeve |
Actor (Superman), activist |
BA |
1974 |
|
Ann Coulter |
Conservative political commentator |
BA |
1984 |
|
Keith Olbermann |
Sports and political commentator |
BS |
1979 |
|
Bill Maher |
Comedian, political commentator (Real Time with Bill Maher) |
BA |
1978 |
|
Anthony Fauci |
(Studied at Cornell's Medical School, Weill Cornell) |
MD |
1966 |
|
Janet Reno |
First female U.S. Attorney General |
JD |
1963 |
|
Barbara McClintock |
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist |
PhD |
1927 |
|
E.B. White |
Author (Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little) |
BA |
1921 |
|
Adolph Coors Jr. |
Founder of Coors Brewing Company |
BS |
1907 |
|
Abby Joseph Cohen |
Prominent economist, Goldman Sachs |
BA |
1973 |
|
Paul Wolfowitz |
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, World Bank Pres. |
PhD |
1972 |
|
Ed Helms |
Actor (The Office, The Hangover) |
BA |
1996 |
|
Jeffrey Gettleman |
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
BA |
1994 |
|
Mae Jemison |
First African American woman in space (attended briefly) |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Eric Betzig |
Nobel Prize-winning physicist (super-resolution microscopy) |
PhD |
1988 |
|
Roald Hoffmann |
Nobel Prize-winning chemist |
PhD |
1962 |
|
Howard Hawks |
Influential film director and screenwriter |
BA |
1917 |
|
Harold Varmus |
Nobel Laureate in Medicine, former NIH director |
PhD |
1966 |
|
Jimmy Smits |
Emmy Award-winning actor |
MFA |
1982 |
|
Tsai Ing-wen |
President of Taiwan |
LLM |
1980 |
|
Gabby Giffords |
Former U.S. Congresswoman |
MRP |
1996 |
|
Thomas Pynchon |
Reclusive novelist (Gravity’s Rainbow) |
BA |
1958 |
Students
Cornell University admitted student profiles
GRE
320
TOEFL
106
IELTS
8
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