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Columbia University is a private university in New York City and the fifth-oldest in the United States. Columbia is among the most well regarded universities in the world and an Ivy League member. The athletic teams of Columbia are called the Lions. Name these famous people who attended Columbia.
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26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Theodore Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Barack Obama
Founding Father, first secretary of the treasury and main character of a succesful Broadway musical
Alexander Hamilton
Founding Father and first chief justice of the United States
John Jay
Founding Father and first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Robert R. Livingston
United States Secretary of Labor and first female member of any U.S. Cabinet
Frances Perkins
United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 and first woman to hold that post
Madeleine Albright
United States Secretary of State from 2021 to 2025
Antony Blinken
United States attorney general from 1991 to 1993 and again from 2019 to 2020
William Barr
United States attorney general from 2009 to 2015
Eric Holder
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2017
Neil Gorsuch
First black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
Shirley Chisholm
Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019, Democratic Party's nominee for the Senate in 2018, a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2020 and 2022 Texas gubernational election
Beto O'Rourke
Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001 and again from 2003 until his death in 2013
Frank Lautenberg
Governor of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1993 and Senator from New Hampshire from 1993 to 2011
Judd Gregg
Governor of New York from 1995 to 2006
George Pataki
Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010, first legally blind person to become a governor of a U.S. state and the first African-American governor of New York
David Paterson
Governor of Montana from 2013 to 2021
Steve Bullock
Senator from Michigan since 2025
Elissa Slotkin
Mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021
Bill de Blasio
Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006
Alan Greenspan
First Minister of Law and Justice of India and architect of the Indian constitution
B. R. Ambedkar
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021
Ashraf Ghani
President of Paraguay since 2023
Santiago Peña
Economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered one of the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics
Milton Friedman
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest people in the world
Warren Buffett
Chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015, one of the richest men in the world and owner of the Denver Broncos
Rob Walton
CEO of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots
Robert Kraft
CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016 and first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company
Ursula Burns
Co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster
Richard L. Simon
Co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster
M. Lincoln Schuster
Writer, "The Foundation" series "I, Robot"
Isaac Asimov
Author of "The Catcher in the Rye"
J. D. Salinger
Writer, "The New York Trilogy" "The Brooklyn Follies" "Moon Palace"
Paul Auster
Poet, writer and part of the Beat Generation, "Howl"
Allen Ginsberg
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Poet and part of the Beat Generation, "On the Road"
Jack Kerouac
Poet and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Glück
Author of "Catch-22"
Joseph Heller
Author of the "Earthsea" fantasy series
Ursula K. Le Guin
Director, "12 Angry Men" "Dog Day Afternoon" "Network"
Sidney Lumet
Director, "Paterson" "Only Lovers Left Alive" "Stranger Than Paradise"
Jim Jarmusch
Director, "Scarface" "The Untouchables" "Mission: Impossible"
Brian De Palma
Director, "Guardians of the Galaxy" "The Suicide Squad"
James Gunn
Director, "Logan" "Ford v Ferrari" "Walk the Line"
James Mangold
First woman to win the Academy Award for the Best Director, "The Hurt Locker"
Kathryn Bigelow
Director, "Past Lives"
Celine Song
Co-director and writer of "Frozen" and "Frozen II"
Jennifer Lee
Director, "Superbad" "Paul"
Greg Mottola
Director, "The Green Book" "Dumb and Dumber"
Peter Farrelly
Director, "Top Gun: Maverick" "Tron: Legacy" "Oblivion"
Joseph Kosinski
Actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in "Psycho"
Anthony Perkins
Actor who received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in "Manchester by the Sea"
Casey Affleck
Actor, "127 Hours" "Spider-Man" "The Disaster Artist"
James Franco
Actor, "The Truman Show" "Apollo 13" "Pollock"
Ed Harris
Actress, "The Piano" "X-Men" "True Blood"
Anna Paquin
Actress, "GoldenEye" "X-Men" "Taken"
Famke Janssen
Actress, "Stranger Things" "Mad Men" "The Sopranos"
Cara Buono
Actor best known for his role as Jack Shephard in "Lost"
Matthew Fox
Actress best known for her role as Grace Adler in "Will & Grace"
Debra Messing
Actor, "Gladiator" "Unbreakable" "Mystic River"
Spencer Treat Clark
Actress, "The Dark Knight" "Crazy Heart" "White House Down"
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actor, "Brokeback Mountain" "Prisoners" "Zodiac" "Nightcrawler"
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor, "500 Days of Summer" "Inception" "The Dark Knight Rises"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor, "Call Me by Your Name" "Dune" "Beautiful Boy"
Timothée Chalamet
Singer and songwriter best known for his partnership with Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Singer, "A Thousand Miles"
Vanessa Carlton
Astrophysicist and former host of a television show
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Commissioner of the NBA from 1984 to 2014
David Stern
Owner of the Milwaukee Brewers
Mark Attanasio
Hall of Fame first baseman who played 17 seasons for the New York Yankees
Lou Gehrig
Hall of Fame pitcher who played 12 seasons for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
Sandy Koufax
Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Chicago Bears
Sid Luckman
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