List of Yeshiva University people

This is a list of notable people associated with Yeshiva University, a private university in New York City. The list includes alumni, attendees, and faculty members past and present of the university.

Academia

 * David Berger (born 1943), Dean Emeritus at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Judaic Studies
 * Michael Broyde (born 1964), law professor
 * Shaye J. D. Cohen (B.A. 1970), Professor of Hebrew Literature & Philosophy at Harvard
 * Samuel J. Danishefsky, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
 * Professor Laurence Dreyfus, Bach Scholar and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
 * Ari L. Goldman, Columbia University professor and journalist
 * Paul Gottfried, former professor at Elizabethtown College
 * Gary Gruber, author, physicist, testing expert, educator
 * A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), University of Pennsylvania Law School law professor
 * Matthew Levitt, counterterrorism expert
 * Emanuel Rackman (1910–2008), Modern Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University
 * Michael Rosenak, Israeli philosopher of Jewish education
 * Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch professor of physics at Stanford University
 * Steven Winter, Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law at Wayne State University Law School

Law

 * Jeff Ballabon, lawyer
 * Noach Dear (1953–2020), New York Supreme Court judge
 * Alan Dershowitz, attorney, attended BTA
 * Sandra J. Feuerstein, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
 * Jason Greenblatt, U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations, executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization
 * Nat Lewin, attorney
 * Abraham David Sofaer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
 * Shalom David Stone, attorney; nominee for the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals

Government and politics

 * Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, physician (medical degree)
 * Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * Louis Henkin, jurist
 * Daniel Kurtzer, former Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
 * Olga A. Mendez, Chairwoman of the New York State Senate Labor Committee
 * Grace Meng, Congresswoman from New York (J.D.)
 * Sheldon Silver, Speaker of New York State Assembly 1994

Arts and media

 * Elon Gold, actor and comedian of Stacked fame, attended MTA
 * Eddie Huang, chef, writer, and television personality (J.D. 2008)
 * Lucy Kaplansky, singer-songwriter
 * Aaron Klein, reporter, radio personality, author
 * Yaakov Lemmer, chazzan
 * Barbara Olson, television commentator
 * Chaim Potok, author, most notably of The Chosen
 * Violet Ramis Stiel, daughter of actor/writer/director Harold Ramis and author of Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life With My Dad Harold Ramis
 * Josh Saviano, actor (law degree)
 * Nachum Segal, radio host
 * Ari Shaffir, comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer
 * Laura Sydell, National Public Radio

Religion

 * Nachman Bulman, rabbi
 * Shlomo Einhorn, dean of Yavneh Hebrew Academy
 * Chaim (Howard) Jachter, rabbi
 * Meir Kahane, Orthodox rabbi and Knesset member, attended BTA
 * Ezra Labaton, rabbi
 * Aharon Lichtenstein, rabbi
 * Haskel Lookstein, rabbi
 * Dr. Moses Mescheloff, rabbi
 * Avigdor Miller, Haredi rabbi
 * Shlomo Riskin, rabbi
 * Joseph Telushkin, rabbi, lecturer, and author
 * Moshe David Tendler, rabbi
 * Moshe Weinberger, Haredi rabbi
 * Mordechai Willig, rabbi
 * Chaim Zimmerman, rabbi
 * Meir Soloveichik, rabbi and public thinker
 * Hershel Schachter, rabbi
 * Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi

Medicine and sciences

 * Raymond Damadian, pioneer of MRI technology
 * Samuel J. Danishefsky, chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
 * Hillel Furstenberg, mathematician
 * Rudolph Leibel, medical researcher
 * David Macht, pharmacologist
 * Daniel Wise, mathematician
 * Martin L. Yarmush, biomedical engineer and physician

Business

 * Stan Kasten, President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, attended MTA
 * Ralph Lauren, designer, attended MTA
 * Mark Nordlicht, hedge fund manager
 * David Samson, Miami Marlins executive (J.D. 1992)
 * Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes

Other

 * Ryan Turell, professional basketball player
 * Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers (law degree)
 * Baruch Goldstein, Perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

Notable faculty and staff

 * Danny Ayalon
 * Samuel Belkin
 * David Berger
 * Saul J. Berman, author
 * Benjamin Blech, author (also alumnus)
 * J. David Bleich
 * Elisheva Carlebach
 * Shalom Carmy, theologian and Jewish historian (also alumnus)
 * Pinkhos Churgin (1894-1957), first President of Bar-Ilan University
 * Bernard Epstein
 * Louis Feldman
 * Steven Fine
 * Joshua Fishman, linguist
 * Jekuthiel Ginsburg
 * Jason Greenblatt
 * Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner
 * Lawrence Hajioff, Judaic studies faculty
 * Elazar Hurvitz, historian
 * Richard Joel, president
 * David Alan Johnson
 * Ephraim Kanarfogel, dean and historian (also alumnus)
 * Arthur Komar
 * Joy Ladin, Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women (2003-2021)
 * Norman Lamm, chancellor (also alumnus)
 * Joe Lieberman, US Senator
 * Bernard Madoff, former Chairman & Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business
 * Rachel Mesch, scholar of French literature, history, and culture
 * Marysa Navarro, historian
 * Adam Zachary Newton
 * Michael Rosensweig
 * Oliver Sacks, neurologist
 * Hershel Schachter, rabbi (also alumnus)
 * Jacob J. Schachter
 * Barry Scheck, lawyer
 * Lawrence Schiffman
 * Shimon Shkop
 * Eli Baruch Shulman
 * Nahum Slouschz
 * Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Rav, (deceased), rabbi and talmudist
 * Telford Taylor (deceased), lawyer
 * Moshe Tendler, rabbi and medical ethics authority (also alumnus)
 * Mayer Twersky, rabbi
 * Abraham Weiss (1895–1970), professor of Talmud
 * Mordechai Willig, Rosh Kollel (also alumnus)
 * Rachel Wischnitzer
 * Herman Wouk, author
 * Benjamin Yudin, rabbi
 * Dov Zakheim, political adviser
 * Solomon Zeitlin
 * Bob Tufts, former MLB pitcher