rating system Tom Henderson, NBA basketball player; Olympic medal winner (silver) in 1972 (class of 1969) Bernard Herrmann, composer (class of 1931) Judd Hirsch, actor (class of 1952) Robert Hofstadter, 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (class of 1931) Irving Howe, author, essayist (class of 1936) Irving Jaffee, speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics (Class of 1922) Leo Kadanoff, physicist, National Medal of Science (class of 1953) Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman (class of 1933) Ralph Kaplowitz (1919–2009), professional basketball player Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic film critic Stubby Kaye, actor (class of 1936) Theodore W. Kheel, former New York Labor mediator, civil rights activist, entrepreneur (class of 1931) Benjamin Ralph Kimlau, USAF pilot killed during World War II; square named for him in Chinatown, NYC (class of 1937) Robert Klein (born 1942), comedian, actor, author (class of 1958) George Kleinsinger, composer, Tubby the Tuba (class of 1930) George Kojac, won two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics (class of 1927) Kool Keith, hip hop MC, member of Ultramagnetic MCs and a solo artist (class of 1981) Stanley Kramer, film producer and director (class of 1930) William Kunstler (1919–1995), attorney Burt Lancaster (1913–1994), actor (class of 1930) Don Lane (1933–2009), entertainer, talk-show host, sportscaster. Once the highest paid person on Australian television. (class of 1952) Joseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize author and historian (class of 1927) Ralph Lauren (born 1939), designer (class of 1957) Butch Lee, NBA basketball player (class of 1974) Howard V. Lee, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam, Marine Corps Officer (class of 1951) Stan Lee, (1922–2018) year comic book publisher (class of 1939) Barry Leibowitz (born 1945), American-Israeli basketball player Alfred Leslie, artist (class of 1945) Seymour Leslie, founder of Pickwick International record company; president of MGM Home Video (class of 1940) David Chester Lewis (1884–1975), lawyer, politician, and judge Joe E. Lewis, entertainer (class of 1919) Robert Q. Lewis, actor, television host (class of 1938) Eric Linden, actor (class of 1926) Frank Loesser, composer and lyricist; Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama; Tony Award winner (class of 1926) Eddie Lopat, New York Yankee pitcher (class of 1935) Robert O. Lowery, first black fire commissioner of the FDNY (class of 1934) William E. Macaulay, private equity investor, Forbes 400 billionaire, Chairman and CEO of natural resources buyout firm First Reserve Corporation George Macy, publisher (class of 1917) Vito Marcantonio, US Congressman (class