The list of Hunter College people includes notable graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

• Gertrude B. Elion - 1988, Medicine
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - 1977, Medicine

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Holland Cotter - art critic^[1]
• Emily Grenauer - art critic^[2]
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
• Liu Heung Sheng - photographer^[3]
• James Wright - poet

National Medal of Science winners

• Mildred Cohn - 1982, Biological Sciences
• Mildred Dresselhaus - Engineering Sciences
• Gertrude B. Elion

Presidential Medal of Freedom winners

• Antonia Pantoja - activist

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

• Patricia Bath - ophthalmologist
• Marjorie Clarke - environmental scientist
• Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science winner
• Mary P. Dolciani - mathematician
• Elsie Giorgi - physician
• Erich Jarvis - neurologist
• Esther Lederberg - pioneer of bacterial genetics
• Lena Levine - psychiatrist, gynecologist, pioneer of marriage counseling and birth control
• Celia Maxwell - infecious disease physician and academic administrator
• Beatrice Mintz - pioneer of mammalian transgenesis
• Arlie Petters - pioneer of gravitational lensing
• Mina Rees - mathematician, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Gillian Reynolds 1988 - third African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.^[4]
• Ruth Teitelbaum - ENIAC programmer
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Nobel prize winner in Medicine

Business and economics

• Gerard Cafesjian - owner of West Publishing Corporation (now part of Thomson Corporation)
• Alan S. Chartock - president and CEO of WAMC
• Leon Cooperman - billionaire hedge fund manager
• Robert A. Daly - CEO of Warner Bros. and the Los Angeles Dodgers
• Mollie Orshansky - developer of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, the main poverty measure in the US
• Sylvia Field Porter - economist and journalist
• Melvin T. Tukman - co-founder and president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management, an investment firm.^[5]

Law and politics

Members of Congress

• Bella Abzug - Congresswoman, 1971-1977
• Eliot L. Engel - Congressman, 1989–present
• Edna F. Kelly - Congresswoman, 1949-1969

State figures

• Teresa Patterson Hughes - California State Senator
• Roger Manno - Maryland House of Delegates

City figures

• Tony Avella - New York City councilman, 2009 candidate for mayor
• Adolfo Carrión Jr. - Bronx borough president
• Tom Murphy - mayor of Pittsburgh
• John Timoney - Miami chief of police

Lawyers

• Floria Lasky - prominent theater lawyer
• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard Law School

Activists

• Norma Becker - anti-war activist
• Madeleine Cosman - health care and immigration advocate
• Alexander Dvorkin - anti-cult activist
• Theodora Lacey - civil rights activist
• Audre Lorde - activist, writer, poet
• Pauli Murray - activist, lawyer, priest, and author
• Antonia Pantoja - activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
• Mamphela Ramphele - Rockefeller Foundation trustee, anti-apartheid activist
• Sandra Schnur - pioneer of disability rights
• Judith Vladeck - labor lawyer and civil rights advocate

Journalism and news

• Mohamad Bazzi - journalist
• Richard Cohen - Washington Post columnist
• Corine Hegland - journalist
• Jack Newfield - muckraking journalist
• Shimon Prokupecz - CNN reporter
• Daniel Seaman - Israeli politician; expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict

Literature

• Grace Andreacchi - writer
• Maurice Berger - cultural critic
• Peter Carey - writer
• Colin Channer - writer
• Helen Gray Cone - poet
• Lucy Dawidowicz - author
• Martin Greif - writer, publisher
• Kaitlyn Greenidge - writer
• Evan Hunter - author and screenwriter
• Ada Louise Huxtable - writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
• Colette Inez - poet, academic
• Swati Khurana - writer
• Malka Lee - poet
• Audre Lorde - poet, essayist
• Paule Marshall - author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," Dos Passos Prize for Literature
• Barbara McMartin - environmental writer
• Melissa Plaut - writer
• Sylvia Field Porter - economist, journalist
• Sonia Sanchez - poet
• Augusta Huiell Seaman - writer
• Sadia Shephard - writer
• Gary Shteyngart - author
• René Taupin - writer
• Ned Vizzini - writer
• Joan Wolf - writer of romance novels
• James Wright - poet
• Ricky Anne Loew-Beer - Author, Artist & Photographer (married to fashion designer Ralph Lauren)

Film, theater, and television

• Ellen Barkin - actress
• Lewis Beale - film critic
• Ed Burns - actor, director
• Eva Condon - Broadway actress
• Judith Crist - film critic
• Ruby Dee - actress
• Vin Diesel - actor
• Hugh Downs - broadcaster, 20/20 and The Today Show anchor
• Tina Howe - Tony-nominated playwright
• Chad Hunt - director
• Richard Jeni - comedian
• Suzanne Kaaren - actress
• Ephraim Katz - author of The Film Encyclopedia
• Evelyn Lear - opera singer
• Natasha Leggero - actress and comic
• Maitland McDonagh - film critic
• Daniel Mulloy - screenwriter and film director
• Julianne Nicholson - actress
• Rhea Perlman - actress
• Dascha Polanco - actress
• Esther Rolle - actress
• Regina Resnik - opera singer
• Al Santos - actor
• Elliot Tiber - screenwriter who "saved" Woodstock Festival
• Dreya Weber - producer

Art, architecture, and engineering

• Robert Altman - Rolling Stone photojournalist
• Firelei Báez - artist
• Maurice Berger - art critic and historian
• Jack Coggins - illustrator
• Francisco Costa - creative director of Calvin Klein Collection
• Jules de Balincourt - artist
• Jacqueline Donachie - artist
• Mildred Dresselhaus - engineer
• Echo Eggebrecht - painter
• Arthur Elgort - photographer for Vogue magazine
• Gabriele Evertz - abstract artist
• Denise Green - painter
• Ada Louise Huxtable - architecture critic
• Mel Kendrick - artist
• Kathleen Kucka - painter
• Terrance Lindall - artist
• Robert Morris - sculptor
• Jill Nathanson - painter^[6]
• Doug Ohlson - abstract artist^[7]
• Lucy Olcott - art historian and dealer
• Danielle Orchard - painter
• Mitchell Silver - urban planner
• Jeff Sonhouse - (MFA 2001), painter^[8]
• Louis A. Waldman - art historian
• Dan Walsh - painter
• Brian Wood - visual artist

Music

• David Sampson - composer
• Ashley Choi - lead singer of the band Ladies' Code^[9]
• John Mateer - recording artist

Military

• Julia Jeter Cleckley - first African-American female line officer to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Army National Guard
• Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - Medal of Honor recipient

Education

• Robert Davila - ninth president of Gallaudet University
• Howard McParlin Davis - prominent art history professor
• John Taylor Gatto - author of seminal books on education
• Haskel Greenfield - archaeologist at University of Manitoba
• Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985) - President of Brooklyn College
• Soia Mentschikoff - chief developer of the Uniform Commercial Code and first woman to teach at Harvard University
• Burton Pike - professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
• Jennifer Raab - president of Hunter College
• Henning Rübsam - choreographer, dance historian The Juilliard School
• Kay Toliver - mathematics educator

Fictional alumni

• Chad Kroski
• Harry "Parry" Sagan from The Fisher King
• Daniel Bae from The Sun Is Also a Star

Non-graduating attendees

• Harry Connick, Jr - musician
• Bobby Darin - musician
• Nikolai Fraiture - bassist, The Strokes
• April Lee Hernández - actress
• Grace Paley - writer
• Nick Valensi - guitarist, The Strokes
• Mitski - musician

Faculty

Administration

• David A. Caputo - president of Hunter College; president of Pace University
• Paul LeClerc - president of Hunter College; president and CEO of New York Public Library
• Michael P. Riccards - political scientist; author; executive director of the Hall Institute for Public Policy
• Donna Shalala - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; 10th president of Hunter College; president of University of Miami