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- J. J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director, and founder of Bad Robot Productions (en)
- Tea Leoni, actress and producer (en)
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance (en)
- Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama; former member of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Caucus; the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer and Whip Jim Clyburn (en)
- Vera Wang, fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection (en)
- E.L. Doctorow, award-winning author whose fiction ranges throughout American social history, from the Civil War to the present (en)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus; the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie (en)
- Alice Walker, author, known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (en)
- Barbara Walters, journalist, writer, and media personality, a regular fixture on morning television and news magazine and evening news shows, and the first female co-anchor of network evening news (en)
- Brian De Palma, film director best known for his suspense and thriller films, often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors (en)
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