List of Bard College people

Here is a list of notable people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.

Dance

 * Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer

Film, Television and Theatre

 * Raphael Bob-Waksberg, actor, producer, writer (BoJack Horseman)
 * Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
 * Anne Bogart, theater director
 * Jordan Bridges, actor
 * Salvador Carrasco, film director (The Other Conquest)
 * Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers
 * Gia Coppola, film director
 * Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
 * Blythe Danner, actress
 * Mia Farrow, actress
 * Theodore J. Flicker, sculptor/film director
 * Lola Glaudini, actor (The Sopranos)
 * Griffin Gluck
 * Wynne Greenwood
 * Adrian Grenier, actor (Entourage)
 * Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show)
 * Larry Hagman, actor
 * K8 Hardy
 * Todd Haynes, filmmaker
 * Jonah Hill, Actor
 * Ezra Miller, actor
 * Peter Hobbs, actor
 * Gaby Hoffmann, actress
 * Hellin Kay, filmmaker and photographer
 * Lola Kirke, actress
 * Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
 * Annie Korzen, actress, comedian and writer.
 * Rhoda Levine, choreographer, theatre and opera director (NYC Opera) Play it By Ear, children's book writer
 * Olde English, sketch comedy group
 * Adam Conover, comedian, writer, and television host
 * Tracy Nelson, actress
 * Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light
 * Jeff Preiss, filmmaker
 * Rosalie Purvis, theater director
 * Marianne Rendón, actress
 * Peter Sarsgaard, actor
 * Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
 * Peter Stone, playwright
 * Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
 * Lana Wachowski, film and television director, writer and producer
 * Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
 * Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist
 * Yang Jin-mo, South Korean film editor

Music

 * Walter Becker, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
 * Ran Blake, pianist
 * Knox Chandler, musician
 * Frances Bean Cobain, musician and daughter of the late Kurt Cobain from Nirvana (band)
 * Carl Davis, composer and conductor
 * Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
 * Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
 * Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer.
 * Jack Lewis, musician (known as "Lesser Lewis")
 * Gilda Lyons, composer, vocalist, visual artist
 * Soul Khan, hip-hop artist
 * Michael Montes, composer
 * Zeena Parkins, avant-garde harpist
 * Steve Vibert Pouchie Latin Jazz
 * Elliott Sharp, musician
 * Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
 * Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
 * Libby Titus, singer, songwriter and actor
 * Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger
 * Stefan Weisman, composer
 * PWR BTTM
 * Told Slant
 * Bruce Wolosoff, composer
 * Adam Yauch, musician, Beastie Boys
 * Nick Zinner, musician (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)

Visual Arts

 * Sadie Benning, video artist
 * Cecilia Berkovic, artist
 * Nayland Blake, artist
 * Paul Chan, artist
 * Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
 * Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist, model, and musician
 * Adriana Farmiga, visual artist
 * Joanne Greenbaum, painter
 * Duncan Hannah, painter and author
 * David Horvitz, artist
 * Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
 * Holly Lynton, photographer
 * Malerie Marder, photographer
 * Lothar Osterburg, printmaker and multimedia artist
 * Serkan Ozkaya, artist
 * R.H. Quaytman, artist
 * Herb Ritts, photographer
 * Carolee Schneeman, artist
 * Amy Sillman, painter
 * Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist
 * Rudi Stern, multimedia artist
 * Arthur Tress, photographer
 * Tapu Javeri, photographer
 * Xaviera Simmons, artist
 * Daniel Gordon, artist
 * Mary Lum, visual artist

Writing

 * Jedediah Berry, writer
 * Keith Botsford, author, editor, journalist, translator, composer
 * Jesse Browner, novelist, essayist, translator
 * Mary Caponegro, writer
 * Phyllis Chesler, author
 * Chris Claremont, comic book writer (X-Men)
 * Cyrus Console, poet and essayist
 * Rikki Ducornet, writer
 * Andrew Durbin, novelist, editor
 * J.F. Englert, author, poet, journalist
 * Louise Fitzhugh, author
 * Daphne Gottlieb, poet, author
 * Ken Grimwood, author
 * Anthony Hecht, poet
 * Pierre Joris, poet and translator
 * Charlotte Mandell, literary translator
 * Hal Niedzviecki, novelist
 * Albert Jay Nock, author and theorist
 * Daniel Pinkwater, children's author, humorist and NPR commentator
 * Tad Richards, poet and novelist
 * Thomas Rockwell author, How to Eat Fried Worms, Shakespeare Scholar
 * Elizabeth Royte, writer
 * Mary Lee Settle, author, won National Book Award
 * Rachel Sherman, author
 * Juliana Spahr, poet and critic
 * Glenn Stout, author, editor, series editor (The Best American Sports Writing)
 * Wesley Updike, father of John Updike, inspiration for The Centaur
 * Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff, writer
 * John Yau, poet, publisher

Business

 * James Cox Chambers
 * Asher Edelman, investment banker, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint

Fashion

 * Tom Ford, fashion designer and filmmaker

Science

 * Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
 * László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
 * John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist
 * Tatiana Prowell, oncologist
 * Giga Zedania, academic and educational manager in the country of Georgia

Journalism

 * Dylan Byers, media reporter
 * David Cote, critic and writer
 * John Curran, financial journalist
 * Michael Deibert, author and journalist
 * Mark Ebner, journalist and author
 * Ronan Farrow, journalist and author, co-recipient of 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
 * Tim Griffin, curator-in-chief of the Kitchen and editor-in-chief of ArtForum International
 * Alexis Papahelas, journalist
 * Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
 * Richard Rovere, journalist, author
 * Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone)

Other

 * Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
 * Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.
 * Tokata Iron Eyes, Native American activist
 * Andrew J. Nicholson, scholar of Asian religions
 * Susan Playfair (1940-2021), stockbroker, designer, and author
 * Gary Robinson, software engineer, graduated 1979, developed anti-spam algorithms
 * David Rolf, President of SEIU Local 775
 * Bo Bo Nge, Burmese economist, vice governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, and political prisoner

Faculty

 * Peggy Ahwesh
 * Diana Al-Hadid
 * Thurman Barker
 * Jonathan Brent
 * Franklin Bruno
 * Ian Buruma
 * Mary Caponegro
 * Caleb Carr
 * Anne Carson
 * Bruce Chilton
 * Teju Cole
 * Mark Danner
 * Moyra Davey
 * Tim Davis
 * Jeremy Denk
 * John Esposito
 * Gidon Eshel
 * Barbara Ess
 * Elizabeth Frank
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Kyle Gann
 * Jackie Goss
 * Benjamin Hale
 * Ed Halter
 * Michael Hudson
 * Bill T. Jones
 * Jeffrey Kahane
 * Ani Kavafian
 * Ida Kavafian
 * Robert Kelly
 * So Yong Kim
 * Verlyn Klinkenborg
 * David Krakauer
 * Ann Lauterbach
 * An-My Lê
 * Gideon Lester
 * Erica Lindsay
 * Norman Manea
 * Walter Russell Mead
 * Edie Meidav
 * Daniel Mendelsohn
 * Peter N. Miller
 * Bradford Morrow
 * Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad
 * Kamau Amu Patton
 * Gilles Peress
 * Judy Pfaff
 * Francine Prose
 * Kelly Reichardt
 * Jennifer Ringo
 * Lucy Sante
 * Peter Serkin
 * Vik Muniz
 * Stephen Shore
 * Amy Sillman
 * Mona Simpson
 * Michael Specter
 * Richard Teitelbaum
 * Joan Tower
 * George Tsontakis
 * Dawn Upshaw
 * Laura van den Berg
 * Cecelia Watson
 * Lawrence Weschler
 * Mitch Epstein
 * Liz Deschenes
 * Alexander Soros
 * John Ryle

Former faculty

 * Chinua Achebe
 * Andre Aciman
 * JoAnne Akalaitis
 * John Ashbery
 * Artine Artinian
 * Alfred Jules Ayer
 * Bruce Baillie
 * Emily Barton
 * Bernard Iddings Bell
 * Saul Bellow
 * Kenneth M. Bilby
 * Heinrich Blücher (buried in the Bard Cemetery with his wife, Hannah Arendt)
 * Benjamin Boretz
 * James Clarke Chace
 * Paul de Man
 * Jacob Druckman
 * Ralph Ellison
 * Donald Finkel
 * Harvey Fite
 * Heinz Insu Fenkl
 * William Gaddis
 * Leah Gilliam
 * Karen Greenberg
 * Daron Hagen
 * Felix Hirsch
 * Bob Holman
 * William Humphrey
 * Peter Hutton
 * Mat Johnson
 * Joel Kovel
 * Harvey J. Levin
 * Roy Lichtenstein
 * Ken Lum
 * Mary McCarthy
 * Allan McCollum
 * Adolfas Mekas
 * Franco Modigliani
 * Toni Morrison
 * Elizabeth Murray
 * Jacob Neusner
 * Albert Jay Nock
 * Arthur Penn
 * Paul Ramirez Jonas
 * Orhan Pamuk
 * David Rieff
 * Roswell Rudd
 * Mary Lee Settle
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Wadada Leo Smith
 * Wilhelm Sollmann
 * Joseph Somers
 * William Weaver
 * Ted Weiss
 * Ted Weiss