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This list of alumni of Ethical Culture Fieldston School includes graduates and non-graduate former students.
- Jill Abramson – former executive editor of The New York Times [1]
- Carolyn Adams – dancer, choreographer, teacher [2]
- Debo Adegbile – civil rights attorney
- Clifford Alexander Jr. – former Secretary of the Army [3]
- George J. Ames – former Lazard executive
- Joseph Amiel – author [4]
- Diane Arbus – photographer [5]
- Mary T. Bassett – Physician and public health researcher and public advocate
- Melinda Beck (illustrator) - artist
- Richard D. Brown – historian of colonial and revolutionary-era America; professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut
- Nancy Cantor – chancellor, Syracuse University [6]
- Peter H. Christensen – academic
- Ernest Courant - physicist, known as the "father of modern particle accelerators"
- Jerry Craft – Children's book author; American cartoonist
- Andrew Delbanco – critic and author. Director, American studies, Columbia University [7]
- Nicholas Delbanco – novelist [8]
- David Denby – film critic, The New Yorker [9]
- Ralph de Toledano – author [10]
- Glen de Vries – American entrepreneur in the field of medical science and pharmacology
- Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician
- Douglas Durst – real estate magnate
- Francis Fergusson – literary critic and writer
- David Frankel – film maker
- Rita Gam – film actress
- Jim Gardner – longtime WPVI-TV news anchor
- Alan Gilbert – music director of the New York Philharmonic
- Ailes Gilmour – dancer
- Leonie Gilmour – educator and writer
- Rob Glaser – internet pioneer
- Matt Goldman, performance artist.
- Maggie Haberman – The New York Times political reporter
- Patricia Harris – Former Deputy Mayor of NYC, President of Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Judith Lewis Herman – psychiatrist
- Susie Linfield – author, critic, editor and NYU Professor
- Charles Herman-Wurmfeld – film director
- Robert Jervis – political scientist. Adlai E. Stevenson Professor, Columbia University
- Elizabeth Jonas (neurologist) – physician, neuroscientist, and professor, Yale School of Medicine
- Bess Kalb – comedic writer, author and writer
- Rodney Jones – jazz guitarist
- Jeffrey Katzenberg – film producer, media mogul [11]
- Yosuke Kawasaki – violinist
- Sinah Estelle Kelley – chemist
- William Melvin Kelley – author (A Different Drummer, Dunfords Travels Everywhere)
- Charlie King – New York civic leader and politician
- Arthur Kinoy – civil rights lawyer
- Ernest Kinoy – screenwriter
- Walter Koenig – actor
- Joseph Kraft – public affairs columnist
- Jake Lamar – author, writer and playwright
- Louise Lasser – actress
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – author, The New York Times book reviewer
- Sean Ono Lennon – musician (did not graduate from Fieldston)
- Eda LeShan – child psychologist and author
- Carl P. Leubsdorf – Washington bureau chief, Dallas Morning News
- Doug Liman – film director ( Bourne Identity , Mr. & Mrs. Smith )
- Andrew Litton – conductor, New York City Ballet
- Beulah Livingstone – motion picture publicist [12]
- Douglas Lowenstein – president and CEO of Private Equity Council, founder and former president of Entertainment Software Association
- Nicholas Lowry - auctioneer, poster expert and media personality
- Douglas Lowy – cancer biologist; director of U.S. National Cancer Institute
- Staughton Lynd – peace activist and civil rights activist
- Jeffrey Lyons – film critic, WNBC-TV, New York City
- Mark A. Michaels – author and sexuality educator
- Bob Marshall – conservationist, writer, and the founder of The Wilderness Society
- Andy Marvel – award-winning musician
- Grace M. Mayer – curator at The Museum of the City of New York and The Museum of Modern Art
- Jane Mayer – best selling author, investigative journalist, The New Yorker
- Zach McGowan – actor
- Marguerita Mergentime – industrial designer
- Nicholas Meyer – film director
- Jo Mielziner – stage designer
- Olivette Miller – jazz harpist
- Marvin Minsky – pioneer in artificial intelligence at MIT
- Tim Minton – television journalist and media executive
- Alfred Mirsky – cell biologist
- Jeannette Mirsky – writer
- Frederic S. Mishkin – governor of the Federal Reserve Board
- Joan Morgan – Jamaican-American writer and author
- Howard Nemerov – former United States Poet Laureate
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, "Father of the Atomic Bomb" [13]
- Jeremiah Ostriker – astrophysicist Columbia University, Princeton University (Provost 1995-2001)
- Eleanor Pepper (1904–1997), architect, interior designer[ citation needed ]
- Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024), poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry [14]
- Emanuel R. Piore (1908–2000, class of 1926)chief scientist of IBM, and electrical engineering pioneer [15]
- Belva Plain (1915–2010), author [16]
- Susan Poser (born 1963), President of Hofstra University [17]
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born 1939), author[ citation needed ]
- Eve M. Troutt Powell – Historian of Middle East Studies[ citation needed ]
- Edward R. Pressman (1943–2023), film producer [18]
- Richard Ravitch – business and civic leader
- Nancy Reiner – graduating as Nancy Russek, cover artist of Jimi Hendrix album The Cry of Love (1971), among others
- Jonathan Rosand – neurologist Massachusetts General Hospital
- Menachem Z. Rosensaft – attorney and founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Survivors
- Dan Rottenberg – journalist and author
- Muriel Rukeyser – poet and playwright
- David Sarasohn – associate editor and syndicated columnist for The Oregonian newspaper
- James H. Scheuer – US Congressman (NY)
- Steven H. Scheuer – film and television historian and critic
- Daniel P. Schrag – climate scientist, geologist Harvard University
- Deborah Schrag – oncologist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Gil Scott-Heron – musician [19]
- Nicole Seligman – lawyer, Sony executive
- Cynthia Propper Seton – novelist
- Laura Silber – author, former journalist and Vice President for Advocacy and Communications at the Open Society Foundations
- Mariko Silver – former president of Bennington College, President of Luce Foundation
- Lucy Simon – composer, singer
- Stephen Slesinger – creator of the Red Ryder comic strip
- Tess Slesinger – author/screenwriter
- Alan B. Slifka – Investor and philanthropist; founder of Big Apple Circus
- Jay Smooth – radio host and cultural commentator
- Donald J. Sobol – author of juvenile short stories; creator of Encyclopedia Brown
- Stephen Sondheim – composer; attended the Fieldston Lower School
- Dan Squadron – New York State Senator
- Andy Stein – musician
- Stewart Stern – screenwriter
- Paul Strand – photographer and filmmaker
- A. G. Sulzberger – the chairman of The New York Times Company and the publisher of The New York Times
- James Toback – filmmaker
- Richard Tofel – journalist, attorney, administrator, non fiction writer
- Doris Ulmann – photographer of Appalachia
- Laurence Urdang – lexicographer, dictionary editor [20]
- Helen Valentine – founder of Seventeen magazine
- Elliot Villar – actor
- Andrew Weisblum – Oscar-nominated film editor
- Andrew Weissmann – attorney and professor
- Chris Wink, performance artist; co-founder, Blue Man Group
- Howard Wolfson – deputy mayor of New York City
- Jane C. Wright – oncologist [21]
- Keith L. T. Wright – New York State Assemblyman
- Sheryl WuDunn – investment banker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Adam Yarmolinsky – academic and author who served in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations
- Eli Zabar – New York City restaurateur
- Lynn Zelevansky – museum curator
