Columbia University: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Columbia College • King’s College
Date	1754 - present
Notable Alumni	Nicholas Murray Butler • John Oliver Killens • Robert A.M. Stern • Chelsea Clinton • Marie Maynard Daly • Hermann Joseph Muller • Thomas Merton • Tracy K. Smith • Amiri Baraka • Melvin Schwartz • Gregory Rabassa • Marie Ponsot • Lionel Trilling • Richard Axel • Bernard Ogilvie Dodge • John Erskine • James Rainwater • Dickinson Woodruff Richards • Barack Obama • Judith Jarvis Thomson • Jack Kerouac • James Gunn • Abdul El-Sayed • Wendy Carlos • Milton Friedman • Brian De Palma • Keiko Fujimori • William Barr • Irving Langmuir • Caroline Kennedy • Joseph Campbell • Bari Weiss • Elissa Slotkin • Langston Hughes • James McBride • Robert F. Smith • James Franco • Terry McMillan • Roy Cohn • Karine Jean-Pierre • Thomas Sowell • Isaac Asimov • Perry Wallace • Sigrid Nunez • Jacques Pépin • Bill de Blasio • Antony Blinken • Upton Sinclair • Ruth Westheimer • Lynn Conway • Neil Gorsuch • Ernesto Cardenal • Warren Buffett • Kate McKinnon • Alan Greenspan • Margaret Mead • Pat Boone • Ed Harris • Carolee Schneemann • Joan Mitchell • Eric Garcetti • Brian Dennehy • Neil deGrasse Tyson • Madeleine Albright • Paul Auster • John F. Clauser • Neil Postman • Laurie Anderson • Mirra Komarovsky • Gail Boudreaux • Paul Sereno • Pat Buchanan • Peter Eisenman • Paula Fox • Henry Clay Folger • Derek Parfit • Mary Jo White • Edward L. Thorndike • Linda Nochlin • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Marshall Sahlins • Kathryn Bigelow • Margaret Bourke-White • Ursula Burns • William Goldman • Eric Holder • Zhou Long • Francisco J. Ayala • Robert Moses • Claudia Rankine • Robert Kraft • Michael Mukasey • Dorothea Lange • Shirley Chisholm • Robert Millikan • Augusto Boal • Sidney Altman • Nawal El Saadawi • Ursula K. Le Guin • Louise Glück • Harold Varmus • Sheikha al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani • Frances Perkins • Allen Ginsberg • Baruch S. Blumberg • Hans Blix • Mark Van Doren • Simon Kuznets • John Berryman • Kiran Desai • James S. Coleman • Robert C. Merton • Julian Seymour Schwinger • Baruj Benacerraf • Francisco Ayala • C. Vann Woodward • John Ostrom • Clarence H. White • Louis Ignarro • Elizabeth Coatsworth • John Kander • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Thomas E. Dewey • Kate Millett • James Meredith • Donald Judd • Benjamin Spock • Jeane Kirkpatrick • Daniel D. Tompkins • Constance Baker Motley • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. • Anthony Hecht • Edward Sapir • Martha Coolidge • Hyman G. Rickover • Gordon Gould • Arthur Ashkin • A.L. Kroeber • Lou Gehrig • Dan Flavin • Oscar Hammerstein II • George Stephanopoulos • Thérèse Bonney • Kenneth Koch • Kenneth J. Arrow • Alvin E. Roth • James Renwick • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Bernard Malamud • Aaron Douglas • John Ashbery • William Schuman • Carl Rogers • Martin Lewis Perl • Lorrin A. Thurston • Robert H. Grubbs • Virginia Apgar • Walker Percy • Jim Jarmusch • Arthur M. Schlesinger • Robert William Fogel • William Kunstler • Gilberto Freyre • Joan Tower • George Weinberg • Sharon Olds • John Howard Northrop • T. Berry Brazelton • Herbert A. Hauptman • Li Ruigang • Daniel Bell • Terrence McNally • Richard Howard • Dorothy Constance Stratton • Christina H. Paxson • Ad Reinhardt • Claire Trevor • William Colby • Leon Max Lederman • Richard Kostelanetz • Norman Foster Ramsey • Michael Rumaker • Louise McManus • Val Logsdon Fitch • Ali Al Amin Mazrui • Dorothy Canfield Fisher • Story Musgrave • Alfred Corn • Konrad E. Bloch • Howard Dietz • Romare Bearden • Louis Dudek • Jack Tworkov • Fay-Cooper Cole • Anthony Perkins • Roald Hoffmann • Gerard Barnes Lambert • Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali • William S. Knowles • Henry Demarest Lloyd
Related People	Nicholas Murray Butler • Seth Low • Frederick Barnard

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