Business
- Frank Avellino – 1958, an accountant involved in the Madoff investment scandal
- Jonathan Better 1949 – real estate investor
- Edward Blank – industrialist and pioneer in the telemarketing industry, founder of Edward Blank Associates, and the United Nations representative for the Jewish National Fund.
- Robert Catell 1958 – CEO of KeySpan
- Andrew Grove 1960 – 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its president, CEO, and chairman, and Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1997, who donated $26,000,000 to CCNY's Grove School of Engineering in 2006
- Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), philanthropist who dropped out after becoming a partner in a textile firm and "realized I was making more money than my professors".
- Stanley H. Kaplan 1939 – founded Kaplan Educational Services
- Jack Rudin 1941 – real estate developer
- Melvin Simon 1949 – real estate developer, co-founder of Simon Property Group.
- Bernard Spitzer 1943 – real estate developer
- Linda Kaplan Thaler 1972, the CEO of ad agency in New York, brought us the Aflac Duck
- Millard Drexler – Current chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and formerly the CEO of Gap Inc
- Jerald G. Fishman – Served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996
- Amar Pawar - Pioneer in T - shaped molecular structures for cell building blocks
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