Midwood High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Woody Allen, Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated actor
  • Noah Baumbach, Academy Award-nominated independent film writer-director
  • Kin Tsang, illustrator
  • Paul Ben-Victor, actor
  • Jacques Berlinerblau, associate professor at Georgetown University and writer
  • Andrew D. Bernstein, Senior Director of NBA Photos
  • Steve Bracey, NBA basketball player
  • Richard Campagna – 2004 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate
  • Mark Cane, American climate scientist and professor at Columbia University
  • Roz Chast, cartoonist
  • Didi Conn, stage, screen and television actress (played Frenchy in the original cast of Grease)
  • John Corigliano, Academy Award-, Pulitzer Prize for Music- and Grammy Award-winning composer
  • Richard Cummings, author, playwright, politician, academic
  • J. M. DeMatteis, writer of comic books
  • Hilly Elkins, theater and film producer
  • Martin J. Fettman, astronaut
  • Henry Gross, singer-songwriter; Sha Na Na.
  • Madeleine Grumet, academic in curriculum theory and feminist theory
  • Gerald Gutierrez, Tony Award-winning stage and film director
  • Rosemary (Simari) Harris, novelist
  • June Jordan, poet
  • Emmanuel Lewis, actor
  • Marc Linder, Contracts Professor - University of Iowa
  • Michael Lynne, movie executive, vintner
  • Robert Markowitz, movie and television director
  • Lawrence A. May, physician, author, and public speaker
  • Wentworth Miller, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor. Though he didn't graduate from Midwood, he did attend for two years in the late 1980s.
  • Joel Moses, former provost, MIT
  • Eric Nadel, Texas Rangers radio announcer since 1979
  • Kevin Parker, New York State Senator
  • Irma S. Raker, lawyer and jurist ⋅
  • Adam Richman, TV host of Man v. Food (Travel Channel)
  • Neil Rosenshein, operatic tenor
  • Andre-Michel Schub, pianist
  • Erich Segal, author, professor, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter
  • Heather Simms, actress
  • Shaun Smith, NFL Football Player
  • Stephen J. Solarz, U.S. Congressman (Brooklyn, NY)- 1975–1993
  • Jason Starr, novelist
  • Sy Syms, businessman and philanthropist
  • Bill Thompson, New York City Comptroller
  • Elliot Tiber, artist and screenwriter, helped arrange Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY
  • Sean Wilentz, Professor of History, Princeton University
  • Victor Williams, actor
  • Zach Zarba, NBA official
  • Jordan G. Stone, TV producer- created Discovery series Stunt Junkies
  • Danielle Aronson, ACLU

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