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The following is a list of notable people who attended the Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx, New York City.

Academia

Activism and government

Harold Brown
Majora Carter
Richard Danzig
Alan Grayson
Bill Lann Lee
Ronald Lauder
Nita Lowey

Arts

Fine arts

Performing arts

Authors and journalists

Pulitzer Prize winners

Other authors and journalists

Samuel R. Delany
William Safire

Business, finance, and economics

Nobel Prize winner

  • Claudia Goldin, economic historian and labor economist, 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient

Other business, finance, and economics alumni

Science

Nobel Prize-winning scientists

Sheldon Glashow
Roy J. Glauber
Leslie Lamport
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Steven Weinberg

The Bronx High School of Science counts nine Nobel Prize recipients as graduates. Seven of these Nobel laureates received their prize in the field of physics. Robert J. Lefkowitz was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Other science and engineering alumni

Sports

References

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