Noted Alumni, Faculty, and Current Students
- Since its founding 92 years ago, The New School has graduated hundreds of notable alumni, most of whom excelled in creative fields. Among distinguished graduates are Woody Allen, James Baldwin, Peter L. Berger, President Shimon Peres, Donna Karan, Madeleine L'Engle, Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, Jake Shears, Sufjan Stevens, Jean L. Cohen, Bradley Cooper, Tony Curtis, Ani DiFranco, Lorraine Hansberry, Agnes Heller, business executive Stewart Krentzman, opera stars Danielle de Niese and Yonghoon Lee, Tatiana Santo Domingo, Jonah Hill, fashion designers Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, Jack Kerouac, Will Wright, Thomas Luckmann, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Norman Rockwell, Tennessee Williams and Brian Willison.
- Past distinguished faculty have included Woody Allen, W. H. Auden, W. E. B. DuBois, Robert Frost, Martha Graham, Saul K. Padover, Leo Strauss, Eric Hobsbawm, Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano and Stacy Farber are current students at The New School.
- According to the university's "Quick Facts" page, New School has a living alumni pool of over 56,000 and graduates live in 112 different countries.
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