Queens South High Schools
Districts 27, 28 & 29
Non-affinity Secondary & High Schools

A - F

• Khandi Alexander -  - actress

• Obba Babatundé - motion picture actor, television actor, voice actor

• Burt Bacharach - composer

• Lloyd Banks - , rapper in the group G-Unit

• Richard Bey - radio and television talk show host

• Jimmy Breslin*, acclaimed columnist and author. Pulitzer Prize winner

• Remy Banks * -  rapper

• Bob Beamon - Olympic athlete and former world record holder

• Laurie Bird - , film actress and photographer

• Francine D. Blau - economist

• Anna Blackburne-Rigsby - Former Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals

• Marcie Blane  - pop singer

• Chuck Blazer - sports executive

• Baruch Samuel Blumberg - winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

• Paul Bowles -  author and composer

• Joyce Brothers -  Psychologist and advice columnist and advice columnist

• Byron Brown - mayor of Buffalo, New York

• Calvin Bruton - basketball player, NBA and Australian League.

• Art Buchwald -  Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and cartoonist

• Eddie Buczynski, prominent Wiccan and gay activist

• Lawrence Bush - – author, editor (Jewish Currents)

• Bonnie Bruckheimer* - film and television producer

• William F. Brunner Congressman

• Steve Cangialosi, sports spokesman 

• Mortimer Caplin, Internal Revenue Service commissioner, law professor and tax attorney

• Bill Chadwick - National Hockey League referee and Hall of Famer

• Ching Ho Cheng - artist

• Ron Chernow - author of Hamilton

• The Cleftones*: Charlie James (McGhee) William McClane; Herb Cox; Berman Patterson; and Warren Corbin

• Allen "Bad News Brown" Coage – Olympic bronze medal-winning judoka and professional wrestler

• Roberta F. Colman - biochemist

• William Jelani Cobb  - author

• Richard Cohen - columnist for The Washington Post

• Francis Ford Coppola* -  film director

• Peter Daempfle - author

• Pepa (Sandra Denton) - hip-hop artist, rapper and actress

• Whitfield Diffie - cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography[82]

• Julie Dash - film director[83]

• Ann Druyan - Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning television writer and producer

• Alan Dugan - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

• Ian Eagle, sports announcer

• Ronnie Earl - blues guitarist born Ronnie Horvath

• Jill Eisenstadt - author

• Gilbert Eisner, épée fencer

• Gertrude B. Elion - Nobel Prize winner, 1988 Physiology/Medicine.

• Folorunso Fatukasi — defensive end for the New York Jets

• Daniel L. Feldman - author and politician

• Richard Feynman - winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

• Eugene Fidell - lawyer and expert in military law

• Ashrita Furman - official Guinness World Records setter

G - N

• Marcus Gaither - professional basketball player in France and Israel

• Art Garfunkel - ] Grammy Award-winning folk-rock singer of the duo Simon & Garfunkel

• Jackie Gleason*, American actor.

• Keith Gottfried, former General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a senior official in the administration of President George W. Bush

• Ernie Grunfeld, former NBA player and former GM of the Washington Wizards

• Stephen Jay Gould -  paleontologist, geologist, historian of science

• Maurice Harkless  - NBA player

• Laura Z. Hobson - author

• Carl Icahn - financier and billionaire

• Marty Ingels (born Ingerman), actor

• Susan Isaacs - novelist and screenwriter

• Sheila Jackson-Lee - represents Texas's 18th congressional district

• Dennis Jacobs, Court of Appeals judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

• Alan Jacobson - author

• Charles Jenkins - basketball player, NBA (Philadelphia 76ers)

• Tony Kappen -  professional basketball player

• Robert Katzmann - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

• Charles Kelman - ophthalmologist, inventor, and jazz musician

• Perry Kivolowitz  - Academy Award (SCITECH) winner, business person, teacher

• Gary Kurfirst - promoter, producer, manager, and record label executive inspiring the creation of the Woodstock Festival

• Susan B. Landau - film and television producer

• Cyndi Lauper - singer and composer

• Herbert S. Klein - historian

• Alan M. Kriegsman  - Pulitzer Prize Winner for reporting as a dance critic

• Young Kwok "Corky" Lee - Journalistic Photographer

• Sabor Latino - hip hop artist

• Samuel Leibowitz -  attorney for the Scottsboro Boys

• Gerald S. Lesser - psychologist who played a major role in developing the educational programming included in Sesame Street

• Nathan Leventha - New York City Deputy Mayor, President, Lincoln Center

• Jacob J. ("Jack") Lew - US Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017

• Nancy Lieberman - basketball player

• Herbert London -  candidate for New York mayor and governor

• Jack Lord* (John Joseph Patrick Ryan), American actor and director.

• Frank Lorenzo - business magnate

• Ed Lover - African-American radio personality, and former MTV VJ

• George Low - NASA administrator and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president

• Irving Malin - critic of postmodern fiction, editor, and anthologist

• John N. Mitchell -  Attorney General of the United States

• Najee - jazz and smooth jazz saxophonist and flautist

• Stuart A. Newman -  Evolutionary developmental biologist

O - T

• Walter O'Malley - owner of the Brooklyn and L.A. Dodgers

• Richard (Dick) Parsons, International business leader, former CEO of Time-Warner, Citi-Bank, General-Consul to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Presidential Advisor.

• Anthony Mason - basketball player, NBA (1989–2003), and 2001 All–Star.[12]

• Eric V. Moyé - district judge (State of Texas).

• Mike Mazzei - Wall Street executive

• Letty Cottin Pogrebin - writer and journalist

• Bernadette Peters*, American actress

• Kelly Price - R&B and soul singer, formerly on the Def Soul label.

• The Ramones - punk-rock musicians and pioneers 

• Kenneth Alan Ribet- mathematician

• Burton Richter - winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics

• Norm Roberts, - basketball coach (Queens' College, St. John's).

• Thomas F. Rosenbaum -  President of California Institute of Technology

• Dave Rubinstein, singer of Reagan Youth

• Michael Savage -  author of health and nutrition books, radio talk show host

• Gunther Schuller - Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, author, and conductor

• Paul M. Schwartz - expert in information privacy law and torts, Jefferson E. Peyser Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, and creator of the phrase "YOTO" ("You Only Tort Once")

• Alan Schriesheim - former director and CEO of Argonne National Laboratory

• MC Serch - hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass

• Fred Silverman -  television producer

• Russell Simmons -Entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. 

• Paul Simon* - Grammy Award-winning folk-rock singer of the duo Simon & Garfunkel as well as a solo artist

• Reby Sky - model and wrestler

• Stephen A. Smith - ESPN sports personality and Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist

• Jerry Springer* -  shock television show host and former Cincinnati mayor

• Joseph von Sternberg -  filmmaker

• Dick Stockton* -  sports announcer

• Bobby Susser - award-winning children's songwriter

• Dennis Tito  -  first space tourist

• Danny Troob - Tony- and Academy Award-winning orchestrator and arranger

• Tatiana Troyanos - mezzo-soprano opera singer

• Jermaine Turner, American professional basketball player

U - Z

• Leslie Urdang - film and theatre producer

• Mel Utley basketball player

• Amirah Vann actress

• George Vecsey '56, sportswriter for The New York Times

• Lauren Vélez  - actress

• John Vinocur -  journalist

• Jay Walder — former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

• John Warren - former player for the New York Knicks

• Katharine Weber - novelist

• Leslie West - rock guitarist

• William Westney - Chairman Music Dept. Texas Tech, renowned pianist and music instructor.

• Jason Wingreen, American actor 

• Freedom Williams - African American entertainer and rapper 

• Dolores Wilson - opera singer and musical theatre actress

• Lester Wilson - choreographer

• Steve Wilstein - National Headline Award-winning sports columnist

• Mike Windischmann – professional soccer player

• Joseph Wiseman, American actor.

• Betsy Wollheim, science fiction publisher and editor

• Alfred F. Young -  historian of the American Revolution