Notable Alumni
- Julia Young * ( professional dancer )
- Jacob J. ("Jack") Lew ('72), President Barack Obama's chief of staff
- Your Boy for Life ('04), Hip Hop recording and performing artist, born Bekim Taci
- Paul Simon ('58) and Art Garfunkel ('58), Grammy Award-winning folk-rock singers of the duo Simon & Garfunkel
- Julio Rumbaut ('70) Well known US media executive and advisor
- Dennis Tito ('58), first space tourist
- Susan Isaacs ('61), novelist and screenwriter
- Ron Pollack ('61), Founding Executive Director of Families USA
- Eugene Fidell ('61), lawyer and expert in military law
- George Low ('43), NASA administrator & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president
- Philip Kantoff, MD, ('72) Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Bob Keeshan, portrayed Captain Kangaroo
- Tatiana Troyanos ('56), mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Jerry Springer ('61) shock television show host & Cincinnati mayor
- Ronnie Earl ('71), Blues guitarist born Ronnie Horvath
- The Ramones ('74+), punk-rock pioneers
- Burt Bacharach ('46), composer
- Francine D. Blau ('63), economist
- Art Buchwald ('43 drop-out), Pulitzer Prize winner
- Elissa Altman ('81), food journalist
- Mia Amber Davis Yard ('91), plus sized model, television producer, actress
- Frank Lorenzo, business magnate
- Marc Rich (non-grad), infamous commodity trader pardoned by Pres. Clinton
- Fred Silverman, television executive
- Leslie Urdang ('72), producer of Hollywood films & New York plays
- Robert Katzmann, Court of Appeals judge
- Moe Harkless ('11) NBA player
- John Vinocur, journalist
- Leslie West, rock guitarist
- Dave Rubinstein, singer of Reagan Youth
- Ernie Grunfeld, former NBA player & current GM of Washington Wizards
- Katharine Weber, novelist
- Reby Sky, Playboy model
- Ian Eagle, American sports announcer
- Ross Meyerson, Emmy Award-winning casting director
- Nathan Leventhal ('59) New York City Deputy Mayor and President of Lincoln Center
- Charles Kelman, Ophthalmologist, inventor, and jazz musician
- Danny Troob ('66), Tony & Academy Award-winning orchestrator & arranger on numerous Disney films & Broadway productions
- Craig Howard ('69), University of Michigan Golfer
- R. Allen Leider ('62), Author, Screenwriter, Film Critic, Actor
- Colonel William Glasser ('66) Bronze Star Medal in Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Morgan Levine ('10) Future coach of the New York Knicks
In fiction:
- Peter Parker (Spider-Man), went to Forest Hills High School from 1962 to 1965; see "Amazing Fantasy" #15 and "Amazing Spider-Man" #1 to #28
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