Notable Alumni of CUNY Hunter College [Sorted List]

1. Norman Goldman

1959-. (aged 67)

lawyer radio personality

Norman Maurice Goldman is an American attorney and a former political talk radio host.

2. Garance Franke-Ruta

1972-. (aged 54)

journalist author

Garance Franke-Ruta is the executive editor of Inside Philanthropy. She has worked as executive editor of GEN by Medium, Washington editor of Yahoo News and editor in chief of Yahoo Politics, Voices columnist and politics editor of The Atlantic Online, national web politics editor for the Washington Post, senior editor at the American Prospect and senior writer at the Washington...

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3. Murray Sabrin

1946-. (aged 80)

economist academic journalist

Murray Sabrin is a professor of finance in the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College and a perennial candidate for public office in New Jersey.

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4. Mollie Orshansky

1915-2006 (aged 91)

economist mathematician statistician

Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor.

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5. Erich Jarvis

1965-. (aged 61)

neuroscientist researcher

Erich Jarvis is an American professor at Rockefeller University. He is the head of a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning, a critical behavioral substrate for spoken language. By studying animals including songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds, his research attempts to show that bird groups have similar learning abilities to humans in the context of sound, such...

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6. Elizabeth Gertrude Britton

1858-1934 (aged 76)

curator scientific collector bryologist botanical collector botanist

Elizabeth Gertrude Britton was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator. She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton, played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a co-founder of the precursor body to the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. She was an activist for the protection of wildflowers, inspiring local chapter activities...

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7. Chitra Ganesh

1975-. (aged 51)

printmaker artist

Chitra Ganesh is an American visual artist. Her work across media includes charcoal drawings, digital collages, films, web projects, photographs, and wall murals. Ganesh draws from mythology, literature, and popular culture such as comics and anime to reveal feminist and queer narratives from the past and to imagine new visions of the future.

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8. Arlie Petters

1964-. (aged 62)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. Petters became the provost at New York University Abu Dhabi effective September 1, 2020. Petters's research is focused on problems connected to the interplay of gravity and light and employing tools from astrophysics,...

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9. Al Santos

1976-. (aged 50)

screenwriter model television actor film producer film actor

Alfredo Santos is an American actor and former model. Born in New York City, Santos studied Sciences at Hunter College. He is best known for playing the character of Johnny Bishop in the WB TV series Grosse Pointe.

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10. Soia Mentschikoff

1915-1984 (aged 69)

lawyer

Soia Mentschikoff was a Russian American lawyer, law professor, legal scholar and law school dean, best known for her work in the development and drafting of the Uniform Commercial Code. She served as dean of University of Miami School of Law. She was also the first woman to teach at Harvard Law School.

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11. Emma Sheridan Fry

1864-1936 (aged 72)

playwright teacher stage actor educator theatrical producer

Emma Sheridan Fry was an American actress, playwright, and teacher. She started her career as a stage actress and after retiring from that, she became a writer for various periodicals and wrote plays. In 1903, she established the Children's and Young People's Theatre in New York City. Also in that city, she served as director of the Children's Educational Theatre...

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12. Jeremy Bernard

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Jeremy Mill Bernard served as the White House social secretary. Bernard was appointed to the position by President Barack Obama on February 25, 2011. He was the first male, as well as the first gay individual, to serve as the White House social secretary.

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13. Evelyn Lear

1926-2012 (aged 86)

film actor musician opera singer

Evelyn Shulman Lear was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the United States and won a Grammy Award in 1966. She was well known for her musical versatility, having sung all three main female roles in Der Rosenkavalier. Lear was also known for...

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14. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

1967-. (aged 59)

actor radio personality psychologist

Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner aka Dr. Buzz is a licensed forensic psychologist who provided commentary for the TV series CopyCat Killers.

15. Edna F. Kelly

1906-1997 (aged 91)

politician

Edna Flannery Kelly was an American politician who served ten terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1949 to 1969.

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16. Beatrice Mintz

1921-2022 (aged 101)

embryologist geneticist biologist university teacher

Beatrice Mintz was an American embryologist who contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation, and cancer, particularly melanoma. Mintz was a pioneer of genetic engineering techniques and was among the first scientists to generate both chimeric and transgenic mammals.

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17. Jeffrey L. Gurian

1956-. (aged 70)

historian dentist screenwriter

Jeffrey L. Gurian is an American dentist and comedian.

18. Martin Garbus

1934-. (aged 92)

lawyer author

Martin Garbus is an American attorney.

19. Bonnie Schneider

weather presenter

Bonnie Schneider is a national television meteorologist and the author of Extreme Weather, published by Palgrave Macmillan. She appears on The Weather Channel. She previously worked for Headline News, and Bloomberg Television.

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20. Anissa Naouai

1982-. (aged 44)

journalist

Anissa Naouai is an American journalist and former television presenter. She is the CEO of Maffick Media, a Berlin-based digital media company

21. Aaron Elkins

1935-. (aged 91)

writer novelist

Aaron Elkins is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'.

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22. Theodora Lacey

1932-. (aged 94)

teacher

Theodora Smiley Lacey is an American civil rights activist and educator. She helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, fought for voting rights and fair housing, and helped lead the effort to integrate schools in New Jersey.

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23. Tony Avella

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

Anthony Avella Jr. is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the New York State Senate's 11th district in northeast Queens from 2011 to 2019. The district included the mostly affluent neighborhoods of College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, Floral Park, Beechhurst, Malba and Auburndale. Avella also served as a member of the New York...

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24. Robert Holden

1951-. (aged 75)

graphic designer politician

Robert F. Holden is an American professor, graphic designer, and a former New York City Council member from the 30th district, representing the neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, and parts of Woodside and Woodhaven in the borough of Queens.

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25. Rosalyn Drexler

1926-2025 (aged 99)

playwright artist writer painter professional wrestler

Rosalyn Drexler was an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and professional wrestler. Although she had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps best known for her pop art paintings and as the author of the novelization of the film Rocky, under the pseudonym Julia Sorel. Drexler lived and worked in New York City, New York.

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26. Ora Namir

1930-2019 (aged 89)

diplomat politician

Ora Namir was an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset from 1974 until 1996, as well as holding the posts of Minister of the Environment and Minister of Labour and Social Welfare during the 1990s. She later became the country's ambassador to China and Mongolia.

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27. Regina Resnik

1922-2013 (aged 91)

opera singer opera director pedagogue music educator musician

Regina Resnik was an American opera singer who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She began her career as a soprano in 1942 and soon after began a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the Metropolitan Opera that spanned from 1944 until 1983. Under the advice of conductor Clemens Krauss, she began retraining her voice in the mezzo-soprano...

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28. Edna Mae Robinson

1915-2002 (aged 87)

actor dancer musical theatre actor

Edna Mae Robinson was an American dancer, actress, and activist. She was a dancer at the Cotton Club and toured Europe with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. She later became a public figure when she married the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, appearing on the first cover of Jet magazine in 1951. Robinson made her Broadway debut in an all-black version...

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29. Maurice Berger

1956-2020 (aged 64)

art historian curator journalist

Maurice Berger was an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States.

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30. Virginia O'Hanlon

1889-1971 (aged 82)

teacher

Laura Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas was an American educator best known for writing a letter as a child to the New York newspaper The Sun that inspired the 1897 editorial "Is There a Santa Claus?". The editorial, by Francis Pharcellus Church, contains the line "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", and brought attention to O'Hanlon for the rest of her...

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31. Ruth Teitelbaum

1924-1986 (aged 62)

computer scientist engineer programmer mathematician

Ruth Teitelbaum was an American computer programmer and mathematician who was one of the first computer programmers in the world. Teitelbaum was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

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32. Matt Blaze

computer scientist university teacher cryptographer

Matt Blaze is an American researcher who focuses on the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University, and is on the board of directors of the Tor Project.

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33. Pearl Primus

1919-1994 (aged 75)

dancer choreographer anthropologist

Pearl Eileen Primus was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance. Primus' work was a reaction to myths of savagery and the lack of knowledge about...

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34. Phil Klay

1983-. (aged 43)

veteran short story writer writer

Phil Klay is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, Redeployment. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as well as one...

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35. Ada Louise Huxtable

1921-2013 (aged 92)

biographer curator writer art historian newspaperperson

Ada Louise Huxtable was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the urban environment. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984)...

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36. Martina Arroyo

1937-. (aged 89)

music educator social worker opera singer

Martina Arroyo is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success.

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37. Mary Grace Quackenbos

1871-1948 (aged 77)

jurist United States Attorney lawyer police officer

Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the New York University School of Law and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes", starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who...

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38. Suzanne Kaaren

1912-2004 (aged 92)

model stage actor dancer actor film actor

Suzanne Kaaren was an American B-movie actress and dancer who starred in stock film genres of the 1930s and 1940s: horror films, westerns, comedies, and romances.

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39. Viola Harris

1926-2017 (aged 91)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Viola Harris was an American actress known for roles in television, theater, and film from the 1950s to the 2010s.

40. Liz Moore

1983-. (aged 43)

writer university teacher

Liz Moore is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. She is a Professor of English at Temple University where she directs the MFA program in Creative Writing. After a brief time as a musician in New York City, which inspired her first novel, Moore shifted her focus to writing. She received the 2015 Rome Prize in Literature from the American...

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41. Juliya Chernetsky

1982-. (aged 44)

actor

Juliya Chernetsky Denning, is a television personality best known for her stage name Mistress Juliya and the popularity on the music-themed network Fuse.

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42. Joan Banks

1918-1998 (aged 80)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Joan Banks was an American film, television, stage, and radio actress (described as "a soapbox queen"), who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.

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43. Bel Kaufman

1911-2014 (aged 103)

writer novelist university teacher secondary school teacher

Bella Kaufman was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase.

44. Robert C. Weaver

1907-1997 (aged 90)

university teacher economist politician

Robert Clifton Weaver was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Weaver was the first African American to be appointed to a US Cabinet-level position.

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45. Dreya Weber

1961-. (aged 65)

television actor film director actor film actor

Dreya Weber is an American actress, producer, director, and aerialist.

46. Charles Barron

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Charles Barron is an American activist and politician who served in the New York City Council, representing Brooklyn's 42nd district from 2022 to 2023. He previously held the same seat from 2002 to 2013, and served in the New York Assembly from the 60th district between 2015 and 2022.

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47. Eugenie Clark

1922-2015 (aged 93)

marine biologist zoologist ichthyologist

Eugenie Clark, popularly known as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. Clark was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. In addition to being regarded as an authority in marine biology, Clark was popularly recognized and used her...

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48. Esther Lederberg

1922-2006 (aged 84)

geneticist

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. She discovered the bacterial virus lambda phage and the bacterial fertility factor F, devised the first implementation of replica plating, and furthered the understanding of the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction.

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49. Janet MacLachlan

1933-2010 (aged 77)

film actor actor television actor

Janet Angel MacLachlan was an American actress who had roles in such television series as The Rockford Files, The Invaders Alias, All in the Family and The Golden Girls. She is best remembered for her key supporting part in the film Sounder (1972) where she portrayed Camille Johnson, a young teacher. MacLachlan worked with numerous well-known actors and actresses and...

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50. Eleanor Clift

1940-. (aged 86)

pundit author journalist

Eleanor Irene Clift is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author. She is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She is best known as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Clift is a board member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).

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51. Diana Baumrind

1927-2018 (aged 91)

psychologist

Diana Blumberg Baumrind was an American clinical and developmental psychologist known for her research on parenting styles and for her critique of the use of deception in psychological research.

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52. Lawrence Weiner

1942-2021 (aged 79)

muralist illustrator photographer author video installation artist

Lawrence Charles Weiner was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a sculptural medium. For him language could be presented in any format able to discourse with typical art subjects such as: language installed on a...

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53. Mildred Dresselhaus

1930-2017 (aged 87)

university teacher engineer physicist

Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, known as the "Queen of Carbon Science", was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist. She was an institute professor and professor of both physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also served as the president of the American Physical Society, the chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as...

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54. Paula Trueman

1897-1994 (aged 97)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Paula Trueman was an American film, stage and television actress.

55. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

1921-2011 (aged 90)

physician physicist university teacher biophysicist

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was the second woman (after Gerty Cori), and the first American-born woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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56. Sonia Sanchez

1934-. (aged 92)

writer playwright anthologist school teacher poet

Sonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In the 1960s, Sanchez released poems in periodicals targeted towards African-American audiences, and published her debut collection, Homecoming, in 1969....

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57. Jeanne Cagney

1919-1984 (aged 65)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Jeanne Carolyn Cagney was an American film, stage, and television actress.

58. Ellen Cleghorne

1965-. (aged 61)

film actor actor television actor

Ellen Leslye Cleghorne is an American actress and comedian. Cleghorne is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. She was the sketch comedy show's second African-American female repertory cast member, succeeding Danitra Vance in its eleventh season, and the first African-American female cast member to...

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59. Jake Hurwitz

1985-. (aged 41)

podcaster television actor film director actor

Jacob Penn Cooper Hurwitz is an American comedian, writer, actor, and member of the comedy duo Jake and Amir. He was hired by the comedy website CollegeHumor after becoming an intern there in 2006, and has written and appeared in original videos for the website, as well as contributing articles which have been published both online and in print. He...

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60. Jared Bernstein

1955-. (aged 71)

writer economist journalist politician

Jared Bernstein is an American government official who was the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama administration. In 2008, Michael D. Shear described Bernstein as...

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61. Patricia Bath

1942-2019 (aged 77)

physician researcher inventor ophthalmologist

Patricia Era Bath was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a postgraduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New...

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62. Terry Carter

1928-2024 (aged 96)

television actor television director actor film actor

John Everett DeCoste, known professionally as Terry Carter, was an African-American actor and filmmaker, known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the television series McCloud and as Colonel Tigh on the original Battlestar Galactica.

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63. Ned Vizzini

1981-2013 (aged 32)

writer children's writer novelist editorial columnist

Edison Price Vizzini was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name.

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64. Eliot Engel

1947-. (aged 79)

teacher politician

Eliot Lance Engel is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering portions of the north Bronx and southern Westchester County.

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65. Pauli Murray

1910-1985 (aged 75)

priest lawyer university teacher religious leader writer

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil rights movement and expanded legal protection for gender equality.

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66. Bess Myerson

1924-2014 (aged 90)

politician model television actor beauty pageant contestant actor

Bess Myerson was an American politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life. She was a heroine to parts of the Jewish community, where "she was the most famous pretty girl since...

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67. Pamela Tiffin

1942-2020 (aged 78)

television actor model stage actor film actor

Pamela Tiffin Wonso was an American actress and model. She was a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, New Star of the Year – Actress for Summer and Smoke and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for One, Two, Three. She also won a Theatre World Award for her performance in the Broadway play Dinner at Eight.

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68. Nikolai Fraiture

1978-. (aged 48)

musician

Nikolai Philippe Fraiture is an American-French musician best known as the bassist of the rock band The Strokes. Since co-founding the band in 1998, he has released six studio albums with them. Among other creative projects, Fraiture released a solo record under the name Nickel Eye in 2009 and has been the frontman of the band Summer Moon since 2016.

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69. Gertrude B. Elion

1918-1999 (aged 81)

biochemist pharmacist pharmacologist university teacher

Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs. This new method focused on understanding the target of the drug rather than simply using trial-and-error....

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70. Queen Alia of Jordan

1948-1977 (aged 29)

royal consort

Alia Baha ud-din Toukan, also known as Alia Al Hussein (Arabic: علياء الحسين), was Queen of Jordan as the third wife of King Hussein from their marriage on 24 December 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977.

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71. Deepti Naval

1952-. (aged 74)

writer poet film director actor

Deepti Naval is an Indian-American actress, director, and writer, predominantly active in Hindi cinema.

72. Nick Valensi

1981-. (aged 45)

guitarist singer actor musician

Nicholas Valensi is an American musician, best known for his role as lead and rhythm guitarist in the American rock band The Strokes. Since 2001, the band has released six studio albums, some of which Valensi has also contributed keyboards and backing vocals.

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73. Carole Radziwill

1963-. (aged 63)

journalist novelist

Carole Ann Radziwiłł is an American journalist, writer, and television personality. Radziwill, best known for appearing on the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York City from 2012 to 2018, first worked as a journalist and producer for ABC News from 1986 to 2002. Her reporting earned her three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a GLAAD Media...

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74. Esther Rolle

1920-1998 (aged 78)

stage actor dancer television actor actor film actor

Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle became the first...

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75. Ruby Dee

1922-2014 (aged 92)

actor

Ruby Dee was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in...

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76. Dascha Polanco

1982-. (aged 44)

television actor exotic dancer actor film actor

Dascha Yolaine Polanco is a Dominican actress. She is known for portraying the role of Dayanara "Daya" Diaz on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, and for the role of Cuca in the 2021 film In the Heights.

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77. Natasha Leggero

1974-. (aged 52)

television actor comedian voice actor actor film actor

Natasha Leggero is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She rose to fame after appearing as the host of the MTV reality television series The 70s House in 2005, and as a regular roundtable panelist on Chelsea Handler's late-night talk show Chelsea Lately from 2008 to 2014.

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78. Judy Reyes

1967-. (aged 59)

film director television actor film producer actor film actor

Judy Reyes is an American actress, model, and producer, best known for her roles as Carla Espinosa on the NBC/ABC medical comedy series Scrubs (2001–2009), as Zoila Diaz in the Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids (2013–2016), as Annalise "Quiet Ann" Zayas in the TNT crime comedy-drama Claws (2017–2022), and as Selena Soto in ABC crime drama series High Potential (2024–). Reyes...

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79. Harry Connick Jr

1967-. (aged 59)

film producer film actor television actor conductor recording artist

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and former television host. As of 2019, he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20...

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80. Julianne Nicholson

1971-. (aged 55)

television actor film director actor film actor

Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the film August: Osage County (2013) and the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–2009), Masters of Sex (2013–2014), Eyewitness (2016), Mare of Easttown (2021), Paradise and Hacks (both in 2025), the latter three of which earned her nomination for Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two for...

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81. Michael Massee

1955-2016 (aged 61)

voice actor television actor actor film actor

Michael Groo Massee was an American actor. Active on screen for three decades, he frequently portrayed villainous characters. His film roles include Funboy in the dark fantasy The Crow (1994), Newton in the horror anthology Tales from the Hood (1995), Andy in the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), and the Gentleman in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. Massee...

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82. Rhea Perlman

1948-. (aged 78)

actor television actor writer film actor children's writer

Rhea Jo Perlman is an American actress and author. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the popular sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning four, and was nominated for a record six Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television...

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83. Ellen Barkin

1954-. (aged 72)

television actor stage actor film producer film actor

Ellen Rona Barkin is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), The Big Easy (1986), Johnny Handsome, and Sea of Love (both 1989).

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84. Bobby Darin

1936-1973 (aged 37)

singer jazz musician film actor songwriter animator

Walden Robert Cassotto, known by the stage name Bobby Darin, was an American singer, songwriter, and actor who performed pop, swing, folk, rock and roll and country music.

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85. Vin Diesel

1967-. (aged 59)

stage actor film director actor voice actor stunt performer

Mark Sinclair Vincent, known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and filmmaker. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he is best known for portraying Dominic "Dom" Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise.

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86. Evan Hunter

1926-2005 (aged 79)

novelist children's writer science fiction writer author screenwriter

Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre.

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87. Francisco Costa

1964-. (aged 62)

fashion designer

Francisco Costa is a Brazilian designer and the Women's Creative Director of Calvin Klein Collection. Costa won the Council of Fashion Designers America (CFDA) award for Womenswear Designer of the Year in 2006 as well as in 2008. Costa also won the National Design Award in 2009 in the category of Fashion Design. More recently he launched a beauty concept...

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88. Adolfo Carrión, Jr

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Adolfo Carrión Jr. is an American businessman and former elected official from City Island. He served one term as a member of the New York City Council, representing the 14th district. He served for seven years as the borough president of the Bronx, for a year and five months as the first director of the White House Office of Urban...

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89. Bella Abzug

1920-1998 (aged 78)

social activist lawyer politician

Bella Abzug, nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus. She was a leading figure in what came to be known as ecofeminism.

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90. Roya Hakakian

1966-. (aged 60)

human rights defender film director journalist poet reporter

Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American Jewish writer, journalist, and political commentator. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No (Crown), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace (Grove/Atlantic), and A Beginner's...

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91. Elliot Tiber

1935-2016 (aged 81)

writer painter librettist screenwriter

Elliot Michael Tiber was an artist, professor, and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.

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92. Robert A. Daly

1936-. (aged 90)

business executive

Robert Anthony Daly is an American business executive who has led organizations such as CBS Entertainment, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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93. Edward Burns

1968-. (aged 58)

television director actor writer film actor film producer

Edward Fitzgerald Burns is an American actor and filmmaker. He rose to fame with The Brothers McMullen (1995), his low-budget independent film that became successful worldwide. His other film appearances include Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Holiday (2006), 27 Dresses (2008), Man on a Ledge (2012), Friends with Kids (2012), and Alex Cross (2012). Burns directed films such as She's...

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94. Gary Shteyngart

1972-. (aged 54)

novelist writer journalist

Gary Shteyngart is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of six novels (including The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, Vera, or Faith), and a memoir. Much of his work is satirical.

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95. Hugh Downs

1921-2020 (aged 99)

actor composer journalist

Hugh Malcolm Downs was an American television presenter, radio personality, author, and music composer. A regular television presence from the mid 1940s until the late 1990s, he had several successful roles on morning, prime-time, and late-night television. For several years, he held the certified Guinness World Record for the most hours on commercial network television before being surpassed by Regis...

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96. Laura Gibson

1979-. (aged 47)

singer songwriter composer

Laura Anne Gibson is an American singer-songwriter. She currently records for the U.S. independent label Barsuk Records, and the Berlin-based label City Slang. Gibson's most recent album Goners was released October 26, 2018.

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97. Ron Rothstein

1942-. (aged 84)

basketball coach basketball player

Ronald L. Rothstein is an American former professional basketball coach and college basketball player, who has led many different NBA teams. He served as the first head coach for the Miami Heat, and later coached the Detroit Pistons. He has also coached in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In 2007–08, he also filled in for Pat Riley as an...

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98. Alexander Dvorkin

1955-. (aged 71)

church historian Orthodox theologian medievalist religious studies scholar radiographer

Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin is a Russian anti-cult activist. From 1999 to 2012 he was professor and head of the department of the study of new religious movements (cults) at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University. He is currently professor of department of missiology at that university.

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99. Julius von Bismarck

1983-. (aged 43)

researcher performance artist artist installation artist video artist

Julius von Bismarck is a German artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. He attended the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hunter College in New York City.

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100. Audre Lorde

1934-1992 (aged 58)

feminist writer philosopher poet women's rights activist

Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of injustice and oppression. She believed that there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a...

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