– astronaut Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk polio vaccine Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia Abraham Sinkov – mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory Victor Twersky 1943 – physicist, scattering theory – physicist and IEEE Fellow renowned for his contributions to the multiple scattering theory; professor of applied mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (1966-1990) Business Andrew Grove 1960 – 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman; TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997; donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006 Melvin Simon 1949 – real estate developer, co-founder of Simon Property Group Sports Red Holzman 1942 – basketball coach for the New York Knicks Holcombe Rucker 1962 – organizer and namesake of the Rucker Tournament Fictional alumni Lennie Briscoe – character from the TV show Law & Order Don Draper – character on the TV show Mad Men Brian Flanagan – character from the 1988 film Cocktail Gordon Gekko – character from the 1987 film Wall Street Nancy – character from the 1971 film Bananas Toby Ziegler – character from the TV show The West Wing See also :Category:City College of New York alumni List of City College of New York people Footnotes References and further reading S. Willis Rudy, College of the City of New York 1847–1947, 1949. James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000. City College of New York