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97 Notable alumni of Yeshiva University

Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees

Yeshiva University is ranked #684 in the world and #199 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 97 notable alumni from Yeshiva University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Yeshiva University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Perry Nisen

1. Perry Nisen

1955-. (aged 71)
biologist
Perry Nisen is an American physician and the former chief executive officer of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), and held the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair.
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Sue Wickner

2. Sue Wickner

geneticist microbiologist
Sue Hengren Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist who is a distinguished investigator and the head of the DNA Molecular Biology section of the National Institutes of Health. Her laboratory is under the National Cancer Institute and is located in the Center for Cancer Research.
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Ronald J. Ross

3. Ronald J. Ross

radiologist
Ronald J. Ross is a Cleveland, Ohio radiologist known for research on brain injury in professional and amateur boxers and for the first clinical use of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging on human patients. Ross is also credited with the first use of head and whole body computed tomography imaging (CT) in a private clinical setting in the United States.
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Robyn Klein

4. Robyn Klein

1986-1993 (aged 7)
neuroimmunologist
Robyn S. Klein is an American neuroimmunologist as well as the Vice Provost and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Washington University in St. Louis. Klein is also a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Pathology & Immunology. Her research explores the pathogenesis of neuroinflammation in the central nervous system by probing how immune signalling molecules...
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Harold Basch

5. Harold Basch

1940-2018 (aged 78)
chemist
Harold Basch was a professor of chemistry who specialized in computational chemistry.
Eugene Korn

6. Eugene Korn

1947-. (aged 79)
rabbi
Rabbi Doctor Eugene B. Korn is a lecturer, scholar and educator. He lives in Jerusalem and was formerly Academic Director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Jerusalem. He was also co-director of its Institute for Theological Inquiry. Korn was the founding editor of Meorot: A Forum for Modern Orthodox Discourse (successor to The Edah Journal, which...
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Janina R. Galler

7. Janina R. Galler

1949-. (aged 77)
psychiatrist child psychiatrist nutritionist epidemiologist
Janina R. Galler is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She co-founded the 45-year Barbados Nutrition Study in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas, with the late Sir Dr. Frank C. Ramsey, who was knighted for their joint efforts in eliminating malnutrition from...
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David Solomon Weiss

8. David Solomon Weiss

1953-. (aged 73)
psychologist
David Solomon Weiss is an organizational psychologist and business strategist and author of seven books, including The Leadership Gap, Innovative Intelligence and Leadership-Driven HR.
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Richard C Steiner

9. Richard C Steiner

1945-. (aged 81)
linguist
Richard C. Steiner is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused on texts from as early as the Egyptian Pyramid Texts to as late as medieval biblical interpretation. He is now retired from his position as professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University...
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Lexa Roséan

10. Lexa Roséan

1958-. (aged 68)
psychoanalyst astrologer dancer writer poet
Lexa Roséan, is an American writer, dancer and licensed psychoanalyst as well as a Wiccan high priestess in the neo-Gardnerian Minoan tradition. She lives in New York City.
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Benjamin Yudin

11. Benjamin Yudin

1944-. (aged 82)
rabbi
Benjamin Yudin is an American rabbi and important figure in the New Jersey Jewish community.
Sally Shaywitz

12. Sally Shaywitz

1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher physician
Sally Shaywitz is an American physician-scientist who is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Her research provides the framework for modern understanding of dyslexia.
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Ng'endo Mwangi

13. Ng'endo Mwangi

1936-1989 (aged 53)
physician
Ng'endo Mwangi, also known as Florence Gladwell or Florence Mwangi Mwilu, was Kenya's first woman physician. She set up clinics serving a very large rural population. She was the first Black African woman to attend Smith College, and the first African student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Adam Ferziger

14. Adam Ferziger

1964-. (aged 62)
writer researcher
Adam S. Ferziger is an American intellectual and social historian whose research focuses on Jewish religious movements and religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel.
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Malke Bina

15. Malke Bina

1950-. (aged 76)
educator
Malke Bina is an American rabbanit and the founder and first teacher of Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies. She has a master's degree in Hebrew Bible from Yeshiva University. She is married to a rabbi and is called by the term Rabbanit, which is less common in Modern Orthodox circles. Malke Bina does not consider herself a Rabbi and,...
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Shalom Carmy

16. Shalom Carmy

1949-. (aged 77)
rabbi philosopher
Shalom Carmy is an Orthodox rabbi teaching Jewish studies and philosophy at Yeshiva University, where he is Chair of Bible and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva College and an affiliated scholar at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is also Editor Emeritus of Tradition, an Orthodox theological journal, and formerly wrote a regular column in First Things.
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Herbert Tenzer

17. Herbert Tenzer

1905-1993 (aged 88)
lawyer politician
Herbert Tenzer was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist.
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Mel Alexenberg

18. Mel Alexenberg

1937-. (aged 89)
artist university teacher
Mel Alexenberg is an American-Israeli artist, art educator, and writer recognized for his pioneering work exploring the intersections of art, science, technology and digital culture. He experimental with digital fine art prints in the 1980s that are in 30 museum collections worldwide, circumglobal cyberangel flights honoring Rembrandt in 1989 and in 2019.
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Faranak Margolese

19. Faranak Margolese

1972-. (aged 54)
writer
Faranak Margolese is an American-Israeli writer, best known as the author of Off the Derech, a book about contemporary assimilation in the Orthodox Jewish world.
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Gilah Kletenik

20. Gilah Kletenik

rabbi
Gilah Kletenik is an academic and Open Orthodox rabbi.
Michael Stifelman

21. Michael Stifelman

urologist roboticist
Michael D. Stifelman is an American urologist. He is known for his introducing surgical techniques in urology, including developments in robotic partial nephrectomy, the use of near-infrared fluorescence imaging in renal surgery.
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Sankar Ghosh

22. Sankar Ghosh

1959-. (aged 67)
immunologist researcher microbiologist
Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, who is the Chair and Silverstein & Hutt Family Professor of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Ghosh is best known for his pioneering research on the activation of cellular responses via NF-κB, a transcription factor that plays a critical role in regulating the expression...
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Gerald Blidstein

23. Gerald Blidstein

1938-2020 (aged 82)
historian Judaic scholar university teacher
Gerald Blidstein was professor emeritus of Jewish philosophy at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was the Israel Prize laureate in Jewish philosophy (2006) and had been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2007.
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Dov Rosenblatt

24. Dov Rosenblatt

1981-. (aged 45)
singer-songwriter songwriter
Dov Rosenblatt is an American singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and teacher. Currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, he is best known as the lead singer of the Jewish rock band Blue Fringe, who were credited along with Moshav and Soulfarm with advancing Jewish rock in the early 2000s. He has also been a member of the indie rock bands Fools for...
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Dafna Michaelson Jenet

25. Dafna Michaelson Jenet

1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Dafna Michaelson Jenet is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate representing District 21 from her appointment in September of 2019 to her resignation in February of 2026. She previously served in the Colorado House of Representatives representing House District 32 and, prior to redistricting, District 30, which covered a portion of Adams County...
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Ari L. Goldman

26. Ari L. Goldman

1949-. (aged 77)
journalist
Ari L. Goldman is an American journalist. He is professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former reporter for The New York Times.
Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir

27. Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir

1910-1971 (aged 61)
rabbi lawyer politician
Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1952 until his death.
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

28. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

1937-. (aged 89)
rabbi
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff is an Israeli-American professor of rabbinic literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline & Joseph Gruss Institute in Jerusalem.
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Michael Rosensweig

29. Michael Rosensweig

1956-. (aged 70)
rosh yeshiva rabbi
Michael Rosensweig is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and the Rosh Kollel of the Beren Kollel Elyon.
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Shmuel Herzfeld

30. Shmuel Herzfeld

1974-. (aged 52)
activist rabbi writer
Shmuel Herzfeld is an American Orthodox rabbi. He is the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Elimelech. He previously served as Senior Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and before that as Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. He is a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.
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Rachel Hirschfeld

31. Rachel Hirschfeld

1946-2018 (aged 72)
lawyer
Rachel Hirschfeld was an animal welfare attorney specializing in the area of animal law, pet trusts, and pet protection agreements. She co-produced and was head producer of productions of many plays on and off-Broadway such as Oleanna and Blithe Spirit.
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Yakov Nagen

32. Yakov Nagen

1967-. (aged 59)
rabbi
Yakov Meir Nagen is an American-Israeli rabbi and author. Nagen is a leader in interfaith dialogue and in particular interfaith peace initiatives between Judaism and Islam. He is the Director of the Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue, Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity and the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center. Nagen also teaches at Yeshivat Otniel and has written extensively about...
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Ronald A. DePinho

33. Ronald A. DePinho

1955-. (aged 71)
physician researcher oncologist
Ronald A. DePinho is an American physician and research scientist. He served as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2011 to 2017. DePinho states that his concern for reducing the burden of cancer suffering became his life goal in 1998, when his father died of colon cancer.
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Saul Berman

34. Saul Berman

1939-. (aged 87)
rabbi
Saul J. Berman is an American scholar and Modern Orthodox rabbi.
Gil Student

35. Gil Student

1972-. (aged 54)
rabbi
Gil Ofer Student is the former Book Editor of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine, former Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism. He is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi who serves as a member of the Editorial Committee...
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Rabbi Yehuda Sarna

36. Rabbi Yehuda Sarna

rabbi
Rabbi Yehuda Sarna was the Chief Rabbi of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is also Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and University Chaplain...
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Yehuda Ben-Meir

37. Yehuda Ben-Meir

1939-2025 (aged 86)
author pedagogue lawyer university teacher psychologist
Yehuda Ben-Meir was an Israeli academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Gesher – Zionist Religious Centre between 1971 and 1984.
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Rafael Medoff

38. Rafael Medoff

1959-. (aged 67)
historian
Rafael Medoff is an American professor of Jewish history and the founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is based in Washington, D.C. and focuses on issues related to America's response to the Holocaust.
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Nathan Lewin

39. Nathan Lewin

lawyer
Nathan Lewin is an American attorney who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Erez Lieberman Aiden

40. Erez Lieberman Aiden

1980-. (aged 46)
historian computer scientist philosopher mathematician researcher
Erez Lieberman Aiden is an American research scientist active in multiple fields related to applied mathematics. He is the Department Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Professor of Biosciences at Rice University, and formerly a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google. Using mathematical and computational approaches,...
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Erica Brown

41. Erica Brown

1966-. (aged 60)
biblical scholar
Erica Brown is an American writer and educator who lectures on subjects of Jewish interest. She is a scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, and a consultant to other Jewish organizations. Her "Weekly Jewish Wisdom" column has appeared in The Washington Post. She currently serves as the Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and is...
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Herschel Schacter

42. Herschel Schacter

1917-2013 (aged 96)
military chaplain rabbi
Herschel Schacter was an American Orthodox rabbi and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Ahron Daum

43. Ahron Daum

1951-2018 (aged 67)
Judaic scholar rabbi writer
Ahron Daum was an Israeli-born Modern-Orthodox rabbi, educator, author, and former chief rabbi of Frankfurt am Main from 1987 to 1993. From 1995 until his death in 2018, he was a lecturer at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Marc D. Angel

44. Marc D. Angel

1945-. (aged 81)
rabbi
Marc D. Angel is an Open Orthodox rabbi and author, Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City, a position he has held since 1969.
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David Hazony

45. David Hazony

1969-. (aged 57)
journalist writer
David Yair Hazony is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017, and from 2017 to 2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. In 2020 he became an independent editor with Wicked Son Books. Since 2024, he serves as director and senior fellow at the...
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Michael Aizenman

46. Michael Aizenman

1945-. (aged 81)
mathematician professor physicist
Michael Aizenman is an American-Israeli mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University, working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory.
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Eliezer Waldman

47. Eliezer Waldman

1937-2021 (aged 84)
politician rabbi
Eliezer Waldman was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for Tehiya between 1984 and 1990. Rabbi Waldman was the co-founder and President of Yeshivat Nir Kiryat Arba.
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Daniel C. Kurtzer

48. Daniel C. Kurtzer

1949-. (aged 77)
diplomat
Daniel Charles Kurtzer is an American former diplomat. He served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 1997 to 2001 and as U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005.
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Arthur Schneier

49. Arthur Schneier

1930-. (aged 96)
rabbi
Arthur Schneier is an Austrian American rabbi and human rights activist. Rabbi Schneier has served for over 50 years as the Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Park East Synagogue. While being honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Bill Clinton in 2001, Rabbi Schneier was described as “a Holocaust survivor who has devoted a lifetime to overcoming forces...
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Moshe Weinberger

50. Moshe Weinberger

1957-. (aged 69)
rabbi
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger is an American Chasidic rabbi, educator, author, translator, and speaker. He is the founding rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, New York, and former Mashpia/mashgiach ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). He has recorded more than 5000 lectures on chasidic thought and philosophy as well as Halakha (Jewish law) and a variety of...
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Larry R. Squire

51. Larry R. Squire

1941-. (aged 85)
neuroscientist psychologist
Larry Ryan Squire is an American neuroscientist. He is a professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and a Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego. He is an investigator of the neurological bases of memory, which he studies using animal models and human patients with memory impairment.
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Moshe Koppel

52. Moshe Koppel

1956-. (aged 70)
computer scientist Judaic scholar
Moshe Koppel is an American-Israeli computer scientist, Talmud scholar, political activist and the founder of the Kohelet Policy Forum. He is well known for his research on authorship attribution. Together with Shlomo Argamon and Jonathan Schler, he has shown that statistical analysis of word usage in a document can be used to determine an author's gender, age, native language, and...
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Yishai Fleisher

53. Yishai Fleisher

spokesperson radio personality opinion journalist podcaster broadcaster
Yishai Fleisher serves as the international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron. He is a podcast host, pro-Israel advocate and political advisor. Fleisher speaks English, Hebrew and Russian and has been described as "a go-to Israel expert for international media."
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Steven Greenberg

54. Steven Greenberg

1956-. (aged 70)
theologian rabbi writer
Steven Greenberg is an American rabbi with a rabbinic ordination from the Orthodox rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (RIETS). He is described as the first openly gay Orthodox-ordained Jewish rabbi, since he publicly disclosed he is gay in an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv in 1999 and participated in a 2001 documentary film about gay men and women raised...
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Marc Schneier

55. Marc Schneier

1959-. (aged 67)
rabbi
Marc Schneier is an American rabbi and president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. Schneier previously served as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.
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Norman Lamm

56. Norman Lamm

1927-2020 (aged 93)
chemist university teacher educator rabbi Judaic scholar
Norman Lamm was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, academic administrator, author, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University until he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013.
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Shlomo Sternberg

57. Shlomo Sternberg

1936-2024 (aged 88)
university teacher mathematician topologist
Shlomo Zvi Sternberg was an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory. He also wrote some well-known textbooks.
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David Hartman

58. David Hartman

1931-2013 (aged 82)
rabbi philosopher
David Hartman was an American-Israeli leader and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a Jewish author.
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Michael Eisenberg

59. Michael Eisenberg

1971-. (aged 55)
businessperson
Michael Eisenberg is an American-born Israeli businessman, venture capitalist, and author.
Lucy Kaplansky

60. Lucy Kaplansky

1960-. (aged 66)
composer singer-songwriter singer songwriter
Lucy Kaplansky is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano.
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Shmuly Yanklowitz

61. Shmuly Yanklowitz

1981-. (aged 45)
rabbi
Shmuly Yanklowitz is an American open orthodox rabbi and activist. In March 2012 and March 2013, Newsweek listed Yanklowitz as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America.
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Ryan Turell

62. Ryan Turell

1999-. (aged 27)
basketball player
Ryan K. Turell is an American professional basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Turell played college basketball for Yeshiva University in the Skyline Conference. As a senior in 2021–22, he was the highest scorer across all levels of college basketball with 27.1 points per game and was named NABC DIII National Player of the...
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Jeff Marx

63. Jeff Marx

1970-. (aged 56)
lyricist songwriter composer
Jeff Marx is an American composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez.
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Shlomo Riskin

64. Shlomo Riskin

1940-. (aged 86)
rabbi
Shlomo Riskin is an Orthodox rabbi, and the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; former dean of Manhattan Day School in New York City; and founder and Chancellor of the Ohr...
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Anna Kaplan

65. Anna Kaplan

politician
Anna Kaplan is an Iranian-American politician from Great Neck, New York. A Democrat, she was a member of the New York State Senate, representing New York's 7th State Senate district, which runs from the North Shore to roughly the central part of Western Nassau County on Long Island. She was a member of the so-called "Long Island Six," a group...
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David L. Katz

66. David L. Katz

1963-. (aged 63)
physician food scientist
David L. Katz is an American physician, nutritionist and writer. He was the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center that was founded at Griffin Hospital in 1998. Katz is the founder of True Health Initiative and is an advocate of plant-predominant diets.
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Hillel Furstenberg

67. Hillel Furstenberg

1935-. (aged 91)
university teacher pedagogue mathematician
Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Abel Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory...
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Aharon Lichtenstein

68. Aharon Lichtenstein

1933-2015 (aged 82)
rabbi rosh yeshiva teacher
Aharon Lichtenstein was an Orthodox rabbi, Israel Prize laureate and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (Halakha).
Isaac Ginsburgh

69. Isaac Ginsburgh

1944-. (aged 82)
rabbi
Yitzchak Feivish Ginsburgh sometimes referred to as "the Malakh" (lit. 'the angel') is an American-born Israeli rabbi affiliated with the Chabad movement. In 1996 he was regarded as one of Chabad's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. He is the leader of the Derech Chaim ('The Way of Life') Movement and founder of the Gal Einai Institute, which publishes his written works....
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Yechiel Eckstein

70. Yechiel Eckstein

1951-2019 (aged 68)
writer rabbi
Yechiel Eckstein was an Israeli American rabbi who founded International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983 and led it for many years. The objectives of the organisation were to support Jews in need of financial help, to promote emigration of Jews to Israel, and to support poor soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2003, it was listed as...
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Jason Greenblatt

71. Jason Greenblatt

1966-. (aged 60)
lawyer
Jason Dov Greenblatt is an American lawyer. He was the executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, and his advisor on Israel. In January 2017, he was appointed as an Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump.
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Ahmed Zayat

72. Ahmed Zayat

1962-. (aged 64)
entrepreneur
Ahmed Zayat is an Egyptian-American businessman and owner of Thoroughbred race horses. He is the CEO of Zayat Stables, LLC, a Thoroughbred horse racing business which bred and owns the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Joe Drape of The New York Times described Zayat as "controversial" and "one of the most successful and flamboyant owners in thoroughbred racing."
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Raymond Vahan Damadian

73. Raymond Vahan Damadian

1936-2022 (aged 86)
physicist biophysicist entrepreneur inventor physician
Raymond Vahan Damadian was an American physician, medical researcher, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine.
Rick Strassman

74. Rick Strassman

1952-. (aged 74)
psychiatrist writer
Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in...
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Josh Saviano

75. Josh Saviano

1976-. (aged 50)
actor television actor lawyer
Josh Saviano is an American lawyer and former child actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Pfeiffer, in the ABC television show The Wonder Years.
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Herman Wouk

76. Herman Wouk

1915-2019 (aged 104)
diarist screenwriter novelist writer science fiction writer
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952. Other well-known works included The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (historical novels about World War II), the bildungsroman Marjorie Morningstar; and non-fiction such as This Is...
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Grace Meng

77. Grace Meng

1975-. (aged 51)
lawyer politician
Grace Meng is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district since 2013. Her district is situated within the New York City borough of Queens; it includes Bayside, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Woodside and Rego Park. A member of the...
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Ari Shaffir

78. Ari Shaffir

1974-. (aged 52)
screenwriter podcaster television actor actor
Ari David Shaffir is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer. He produced and hosted the Skeptic Tank podcast from 2010 to 2023. He now hosts the podcast "You Be Trippin'" where he discusses travel experiences and stories. He also co-hosts the podcast Punch Drunk Sports with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tripoli, and is a regular guest on The...
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Neal Hendel

79. Neal Hendel

1952-. (aged 74)
judge advocate
Neal Hendel is an American-born Israeli judge. He was the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Rudolph Leibel

80. Rudolph Leibel

1942-. (aged 84)
geneticist physician
Rudolph Leibel is the Christopher J. Murphy Professor of Diabetes Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of the Division of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics. He is also co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center and executive director of the Russell and Angelica Berrie Program in Cellular Therapy, Co-director of the...
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Albert Vann

81. Albert Vann

1934-2022 (aged 88)
politician
Albert Vann was an American politician and a member of the New York City Council from Brooklyn, representing the 36th district, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. He was a Democrat.
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Scott Jacoby

82. Scott Jacoby

1971-. (aged 55)
DJ producer record producer songwriter
Scott Adam Jacoby is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and recording artist. He is a Grammy Award winner, and has worked with numerous artists in various genres including Coldplay, Cory Henry, Fabolous, Jackie Evancho, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz, John Legend, José James, Kane, Laura Izibor, Maiysha, Naturally 7, Rachel Platten, Ronnie Spector, Sia, Stormzy, Vampire Weekend and...
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Abraham Jacob Multer

83. Abraham Jacob Multer

1900-1986 (aged 86)
lawyer judge politician
Abraham Jacob Multer was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served ten terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1947 to 1967.
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Leon Charney

84. Leon Charney

1938-2016 (aged 78)
lawyer
Leon Charney was an American real estate tycoon, attorney, author, philanthropist, political pundit, media personality and Jewish cantor. He lived in Manhattan in New York City, dividing his time between his residences in Tel Aviv and Boca Raton, Florida. In March 2012, Forbes listed Charney as No. 353 among the wealthiest Americans. He was a graduate of Yeshiva University where...
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Samuel Schafler

85. Samuel Schafler

1929-1991 (aged 62)
historian rabbi
Samuel Schafler was a New York-born rabbi, historian, editor and Jewish educator. He was Superintendent of the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago and President of Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Albert L. Lewis

86. Albert L. Lewis

1917-2008 (aged 91)
writer rabbi
Rabbi Albert L. Lewis was a leading American Conservative rabbi, scholar, and author; President of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of Conservative rabbis; and Vice-President of The World Council of Synagogues. In 2009, the award-winning author, Mitch Albom, wrote about Lewis, his childhood rabbi, as the main character in the non-fiction book, Have a Little Faith. The book,...
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Michael Schudrich

87. Michael Schudrich

1955-. (aged 71)
historian rabbi
Michael Joseph Schudrich is an American-Polish rabbi and the current Chief Rabbi of Poland. He is the oldest of four children of Rabbi David Schudrich and Doris Goldfarb Schudrich.
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Chaim Potok

88. Chaim Potok

1929-2002 (aged 73)
playwright Bible translator writer translator children's writer
Chaim Potok, was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Among the more than a dozen books he authored, his first novel The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
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Eddie Huang

89. Eddie Huang

1982-. (aged 44)
lawyer restaurateur film director
Edwyn Charles Huang is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he...
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Barbara Olson

90. Barbara Olson

1955-2001 (aged 46)
journalist lawyer
Barbara Kay Olson was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.
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Angela Angel

91. Angela Angel

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Angela Angel is an American politician who represented District 25 in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she ran for Congress in Maryland's 4th congressional district in 2022.
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Anna Chao Pai

92. Anna Chao Pai

1935-. (aged 91)
geneticist
Anna Chao Pai is an American geneticist and professor emerita at Montclair State University.
Akira Endō

93. Akira Endō

1933-2024 (aged 91)
biochemist university teacher microbiologist agricultural chemist
Akira Endo was a Japanese biochemist whose research into the relationship between fungi and cholesterol biosynthesis led to the development of statin drugs, which are some of the best-selling pharmaceuticals in history.
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Dipankar Chatterji

94. Dipankar Chatterji

1951-. (aged 75)
academic
Dipankar Chatterji is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. He is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription. He is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of...
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Yosef Bittón

95. Yosef Bittón

Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Yosef Bittón is an Argentinian-born community rabbi and the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.
David Azrieli

96. David Azrieli

1922-2014 (aged 92)
chief executive officer entrepreneur architect manager businessperson
David Joshua Azrieli CM CQ was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canadian and the 401st wealthiest person overall.
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Howard Dean

97. Howard Dean

1948-. (aged 78)
physician politician stockbroker
Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. Later, his implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head...
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