Notable alumni of Cooper Union

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Awards received by Cooper Union alumni include one Nobel Prize in Physics, a Pritzker Prize, twelve Rome Prizes, 23 Guggenheim Fellowships, three MacArthur Fellowships, nine Chrysler Design Awards, and three American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture. The school also boasts 34 Fulbright Scholars since 2001, and thirteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships since 2004.

A

• John Alcorn, illustrator
• Stan Allen, former Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University
• Daniel Arsham, artist, with alumnus Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture

B

• Alex Bag, video artist
• Elizabeth Gowdy Baker, portraitist
• Shigeru Ban, pioneer of "Paper Architecture"
• Donald Baechler, painter
• Karen Bausman, Rome Prize recipient, the only American woman architect to hold both the Eliot Noyes (Harvard) and Eero Saarinen (Yale) chairs
• Dave Berg, cartoon artist and main contributor of Mad (magazine) illustrations
• Renata Bernal, painter
• Emile Berliner, invented the vinyl record
• Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
• Victor Gustav Bloede, chemist
• Louise Brann, muralist
• Kadar Brock, contemporary abstract artist
• Steve Brodner, cartoonist
• Dik Browne, cartoonist and creator of Hägar the Horrible
• Norman Bridwell, cartoonist and creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog

C

• Albert Carnesale, former chancellor of UCLA and dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
• Martin Charnin, Tony Award-winning lyricist, writer, and theatre director
• Remy Charlip, choreographer, writer, and illustrator
• Ching Ho Cheng, artist
• Seymour Chwast, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
• John Walter Christie, engineer and inventor
• Guy Coheleach, wildlife artist
• Miriam Cooper, actress
• Will Cotton, painter
• Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the flash-lamp
• Amy Cutler, artist

D

• William Francis Deegan, architect and political leader, namesake of the Major Deegan Expressway
• Roy DeCarava, photographer
• Bruce Degen, illustrator for The Magic School Bus
• Elizabeth Diller, with Ricardo Scofidio, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
• Michael Doret, graphic designer, font designer, lettering artist
• Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer art director for CBS
• Eric Drooker, painter
• William Dubilier, inventor of mica capacitor and radio pioneer

E

• John M. Eargle, Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and musician
• Thomas Edison, inventor
• Jeffrey Epstein, investor
• Mitch Epstein, photographer

F

• Joel H. Ferziger, authority in computational fluid dynamics
• Irving Fierstein, painter, designer
• Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker
• Audrey Flack, pioneer of photorealism
• Max Fleischer, animator
• Robert Florczak, artist, illustrator, author, composer
• Laura Ford, sculptor
• Felix Frankfurter, former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Brad Friedmutter, architect

G

• Janet Gardner, filmmaker
• Paul Garrin, filmmaker
• Milton Glaser, graphic designer, creator of the I Love New York logo, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
• T.J. Gottesdiener, architect and manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

H

• Hans Haacke, artist
• Dimitri Hadzi, sculptor
• William Harnett, painter
• Matthew Harrison, film director
• Sagi Haviv, partner, Chermayeff & Geismar; designer of the Library of Congress and Armani Exchange logos
• John Hejduk, one of New York Five a group of five New York City architects
• Eva Hesse, sculptor
• Chuck Hoberman, winner of the Chrysler Design Award for Innovation and Design.
• Kim Holleman, artist, MIT Media Lab Social Computing Group
• Russell Hulse, a 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

I

• Alexander Isley, graphic designer

J

• Patty Jenkins, filmmaker
• Sandy Jimenez, comic book artist
• Crockett Johnson, author of Harold and the Purple Crayon

K

• Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist and writer, creator of Batman
• Alex Katz, figurative artist
• William King, artist
• R.B. Kitaj, painter
• Herman Charles Koenig (1893–1959), book collector, friend of H. P. Lovecraft
• Lee Krasner, painter
• Kathleen Kucka, painter

L

• Alfred A. Lama, New York State Assemblyman and co-sponsor of Mitchell-Lama housing legislation
• Thomas W. Lamb, an architect and designer of theaters and cinemas
• Morgan Foster Larson, Governor of New Jersey from 1929–1932.
• Daniel Libeskind, architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
• Whitfield Lovell, artist
• Herb Lubalin, graphic designer, creative director for publications: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, designed a typeface ITC Avant Garde.
• Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, curator and educator
• Noah Lyon, artist

M

• Jay Maisel, photographer
• Fred Marcellino, illustrator
• Christian Marclay artist, composer
• Sylvia Plimack Mangold
• Joseph Margulies, artist
• Alexia Massalin, computer scientist and programmer
• Abbott Miller, designer
• Mike Mills, filmmaker
• Matthew Monahan, sculptor
• Toshiko Mori, architect
• A. Harry Moore, 39th Governor of New Jersey
• Jacqueline Moss, art historian, educator
• Michel Mossessian, architect
• Wangechi Mutu, artist

N

• Victor Nellenbogen, architect
• Albert Nerken, chemical engineer, industrialist and philanthropist
• Vera Neumann, artist known for colored linen patterns and scarves signed "Vera" by The Vera Company

P

• Victor Papanek, early proponent of ecologically and socially responsible design
• Bruce Pasternack, President and CEO of the Special Olympics
• Eleanore Pettersen, architect
• William Gardner Pfann, known for his development of zone melting
• Ron Pompei, architect and founder of Pompei A.D.
• Charles E. Pont, painter, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer
• Neal Pozner, artist and designer at DC Comics

R

• Reynold Ruffins, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
• Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, artists and educators
• Charles Rosen, engineer and pioneer in artificial intelligence in development of Shakey the Robot

S

• Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor
• Erik Sanko, marionette-maker and leader of the rock band Skeleton Key
• Alfred Sarant, engineer and Soviet spy
• Edward Sargent, 19th century architect
• Richard Sarles, CEO and General Manager of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
• Augusta Savage, sculptor
• Arnold Alfred Schmidt, painter
• Sy Schulman, civil engineer and planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York (1993-1997)
• Ricardo Scofidio, with Elizabeth Diller, the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
• Samuel R. Scottron, inventor, grandfather of entertainer Lena Horne
• Georgette Seabrooke, muralist, artist, art therapist and educator
• George Segal, pop art sculptor
• Redmond Simonsen, graphic artist and game designer at the wargame company Simulations Publications, Inc.
• Neal Slavin, photographer
• Zak Smith, artist
• Charles B.J. Snyder (1860–1945), chief architect and Superintendent of School Buildings, New York City Board of Education, 1891–1923
• Edward Sorel, graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios
• Thaddeus Strassberger, opera director
• Eric E. Sumner, engineer and contributor to the early development of switching systems

T

• Philip Taaffe, painter
• TRUE, artist
• Hy Turkin, sportswriter and editor of the first baseball encyclopedia

U

• Andrea U'Ren, Children's book author and illustrator

V

• Stan Vanderbeek, animator
• Richard Velazquez, Honda and Porsche designer
• Allyson Vieira, artist
• Jovan Karlo Villalba, painter

W

• Louis Waldman, engineer and a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation
• Edward J. Wasp, engineer and pioneer of slurry pipelines
• Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculptor
• Tom Wesselmann, painter
• Alice Wetterlund, comedian
• Jack Whitten, painter
• Christopher Wilmarth, American sculptor
• Jerome Witkin, painter
• Joel-Peter Witkin, fine art photographer
• Dan Witz, painter, street artist
• Tobi Wong, designer, artist
• Caroline Woolard, artist