Your Columbians
Your Columbians
During the C250 celebration year, Columbians nominated their own Columbians Ahead of Their Time. See who was nominated, and why.

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Imran Anwar
Innovator

Raymond R. Arons
Rocket Scientist, Healthcare Expert

Isaac Asimov
Author

Baruj Benacerraf
Scientist

Moe Berg
Catcher and Spy

Allan Blaer
Physicist

Randolph Bourne
Critic

Courtney C. Brown
Administrator

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Foreign Policy Advisor

Patrick Buchanan
Presidential Candidate

Warren Buffett
Investor

James Cagney
Actor

Joseph Campbell
Mythologist

Roberto Campos
Diplomat

Ralph Caporale Jr.
Educator

Bennett Carroccio
Hotjobs.com Founder

Guy Wetmore Carryl
Poet and Humorist

Clifford P. Case
Statesman

Lynn Catterson
Art Historian

Stanley Chang
Surgeon

William Theodore de Bary
Educator, Scholar

John Dewey
Philosopher

Thomas E. Dewey
Crime Fighter

William J. Donovan
General

L. C. Dunn
General

Wallace Eckert
Scientist

Niles Eldredge
Biologist

Jack Elinson
Sociomedical Scientist

Abraham Fischler
Educator

William T.R. Fox
International-Relations Theoretician

Wolfgang Friedmann
Mentor

D. Carleton Gajdusek
Virologist

Herbert J. Gans
Sociologist

Lou Gehrig
Athlete

Kristine Gebbie
Public Health Nurse

Eli Ginzberg
Economist and Policy Guru

Percival Goodman
Architect, Planner, Teacher, Designer

Maya Gorton
Artist

A. Arthur Gottlieb
Physician-Scientist

Peter Gouras
Surgeon

Benjamin Graham
Financial strategist

Jack Greenberg
Lawyer

William Halsted
Father of Surgical Subspecialities

Alexander Hamilton
Statesman

Kashif Hasnie
Social Scientist

Michael Hauben
Internet Pioneer, Author

Carolyn Heilbrun
Writer

Ann Hill
Advocate

Charles Evans Hughes
Statesman

Zora Neale Hurston
Writer and Anthropologist

Edward J. Ignall
Teacher

Theodore C. Janeway
Physician

Buck Jenkins
Athlete

Erica Jong
Writer

Donald Judd
Artist

Donald Keene
Scholar of Japanese literature

Howard Koch
Screenwriter

Paul Lazarsfeld
Sociologist

Leon M. Lederman
Physicist

Cyrus Levinthal
Biologist

Edward MacDowell
Composer

Marc A. Matsil
Ecologist

William N. McPhee
Sociologist

Thomas Merton
Monk, Writer

Jacques-Louis Monod
Musician

Rick Moody
Writer

Hermann Muller
Geneticist

Preston K. Munter
Psychiatrist, Director

Barack Obama
Politician

Georgia O'Keefe
Artist

Antonia Pantoja
Visionary

Kellis Parker
Law Professor

Frances Perkins
Cabinet Member

Candice Poolman
Leader

I. I. Rabi
Physicist

Paul Robeson
Singer, Actor, Activist

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President

Shelley Ann Saltzman
Professor

Edna Holtzman Senderoff
New York City Public School Educator

Beheruz N. Sethna
University President

James Shenton
Historian

Hans Smit
Professor

Michael I. Sovern
Educator

David Stern
NBA Commissioner

Harlan Fiske Stone
Jurist

Telford Taylor
Jurist

Cristina Teuscher
Athlete

Charles Tilly
Sociologist

Steven Trokel
Opthalmologist

Harold C. Urey
Chemist

Dina Vakil
Journalist

Arthur T. Vanderbuilt
Jurist

William S. Vickrey
Economist

John Montgomery Ward
Hall of Famer

Herbert Wechsler
Faculty

William Welch
Pathologist

Boris Yavitz
Scholar Administrator

Darlene Yee
Health Educator

Judy Yee
Research Scientist

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