Cornell University is a private land-grant university based in Ithaca, New York and an Ivy League member.
The athletic teams of Cornell are called the Big Red.
Name these famous people who attended Cornell.
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Secretary of the Treasury during most of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt who played a major role in the New Deal and proposed to deindustrialise Germany
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
United States attorney general from 1993 to 2001
Janet Reno
President of the World Bank from 2005 to 2007 and United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005
Paul Wolfowitz
Senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017
Mark Kirk
Senator from Michigan since 2025
Elissa Slotkin
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Immunologist, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 and chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022
Anthony Fauci
President of Taiwan from 1988 to 2000
Lee Teng-hui
President of Taiwan since 2016
Tsai Ing-wen
President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013 and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998
Václav Klaus
Long-serving leader of the Young Men's Christian Association who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946
John Mott
First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, "The Good Earth"
Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Prize winning novelist, "Beloved" "Song of Solomon"
Toni Morrison
Writer, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
Kurt Vonnegut
Writer, "Charlotte's Web" "Stuart Little"
E. B. White
Writer, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Lauren Weisberger
Creator of the Heimlich maneuver
Henry Heimlich
Inventor of modern air conditioning
Willis Carrier
Co-founder of Qualcomm
Irwin M. Jacobs
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Co-founder of Burger King
James McLamore
Co-founder of Burger King
David Edgerton
Host of a science education tv show, "The Science Guy"
Bill Nye
Film editor who has received three Academy Awards and is known for her collaboration with Martin Scorsese
Thelma Schoonmaker
Comedian and host of "Real Time" on HBO
Bill Maher
Actor best known for his role of "The Wizard" in "The Wizard of Oz"
Frank Morgan
Former actor whose only role was as Charlie Bucket in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"
Peter Ostrum
Actor best known for his role as Superman
Christopher Reeve
Actor, "The Shawshank Redemption" "Die Hard 2" "Iron Man 3"
William Sadler
Actor, "Star Wars" "In the Heights" "L.A. Law" "NYPD Blue"
Jimmy Smits
Actress known for her role as Sue Sylvester in "Glee"
Jane Lynch
Actor, "The Umbrella Academy" "After Yang"
Justin H. Min
Actress best known for her role as Riri Williams/Ironheart in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Dominique Thorne
Lead vocalist of Bad Religion
Greg Graffin
Commissioner of the NHL since 1993
Gary Bettman
Commissioner of the MLB since 2015
Rob Manfred
President of Baseball operations for the Philadelphia Phillies, former GM and president of the Floria Marlins, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox who has won the World Series twice
Dave Dombrowski
Only person to earn an Ivy League degree, an Olympic medal, a doctorate and have a NFL career