Prominent Union Alumni

Union’s long line of prominent graduates includes:

• Chester A. Arthur, Class of 1848, 21st U.S. president
• Andrea Barrett ’84, National Book Award winner for “Ship Fever and Other Stories” and Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction for “Servants of the Map”
• Ted Berger ’72, bionic brain developer and biomedical pioneer
• Baruch Samuel Blumberg ’46, winner, 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the hepatitis B virus
• Sue Goldie ’84, public health researcher and MacArthur “genius” grant winner
• R. Gordon Gould ’41, inventor of the laser
• Alan Horn ’64, president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros.
• Kathy Magliato ’85, renowned cardiothoracic surgeon
• Phil Robinson ’71, director and screenwriter (“Field of Dreams” and “Sum of All Fears”)
• William Seward, 1820, secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln; negotiator of purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867; New York State governor
• Nikki Stone ’95,  1998 Olympic gold medalist (freestyle aerial ski jumping)
• David Viniar ’76, chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs
• Kate White ’72, Hearst executive and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine