<p>Any ideas? Obviously, Cornell is relatively younger than a lot of educational institutes in the world, but it still would be nice to have a few names, if it ever came down to name dropping? </p>
<p>Some of the universities I got into in the UK boasted the likes of Adam Smith, so it was just cool to be able to say stuff like that when I was still deciding where I was headed.</p>
<p>[List</a> of Cornell University alumni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cornell_University_alumni]List”>List of Cornell University alumni - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Bill Nye the Science Guy. I don’t think any school can beat that!</p>
<p><a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cornell_University_alumni[/url]”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cornell_University_alumni</a></p>
<p>Gee thanks guys… Cuz, I haven’t already checked the wikipedia link 
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<p>There are a lot of people and a lot of irrelevant details there. Just was wondering if there was someone on the forum with wider knowledge of a specific individual :p</p>
<p>If you’re looking for people like Adam Smith and other 18th century figures you won’t find them as Cornell was founded in the mid 1800’s.</p>
<p>However, in terms of people who are relevant today there are literally hundreds of CEOs, politicians, academics, etc who hold top positions in society.</p>
<p>Some of my favorites are:</p>
<p>Christopher Reeve (played Superman)
Gary Bettman (commissioner of the NHL)
Keith Olbermann (popular television figure)
Janet Reno (former attorney general)</p>
<p>Along with the founders of companies like Burger King, Hotels.com, Qualcomm, Staples, etc.</p>
<p>Just look through that list, it’s seriously loaded</p>
<p>Bill Maher and (antithetically) Ann Coulter.</p>
<p>[Where</a> the Fortune 500 CEOs Went to School - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school]Where”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school)</p>
<p>Barak obaama</p>
<p>While President Obama did not go to Cornell (@chaldo), here are some of my favorites…</p>
<p>US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, authors E.B. White and Toni Morrison, actors Christopher Reeve and Jane Lynch, and of course, Bill Nye. </p>
<p>And while not a graduate, Carl Sagan, the astrophysicist, cosmologist, and science communicator did teach at Cornell for a long time.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Feynman was a professor too!</p>
<p>Henry Hemilich, who invented the Heimlich maneuver. The Duty Free founder, Charles Feeney. Some foreign heads of state/diplomats.</p>
<p>Most of the “super wow” guys are probably from HYP, to be honest. This is a young school.</p>
<p>You just had to drag your HYP fetish in here too.</p>
<p>Well, it’s true, isn’t it? You said so yourself before.</p>
<p>The post was only about Cornell and you just had to drag that in there. Yeah sure if that was the topic I wouldn’t say anything but you are just bringing it in because you can. Given the subjects and the repetitiveness of your posts (AND your questions to people who post on this forum in pms), your attitude, and how you are making these posts just to provoke people like me I am pretty darn certain you are a ■■■■■. Do yourself and us a favor and get off this forum. And yes I do know about your habit of asking posters some inflammatory questions and reposing it on here later and how you like to compare cornell to HYP in nearly all of your posts after the thread in which you managed to offend practically every Cornellian (whether better or worse in different aspects, I don’t care. It’s annoying) . You are one messed up person, as I say again. Or, simply you are that eternal ■■■■■ that we have on this forum, englandern.</p>
<p>All I ask for from you is to stay on topic.</p>
<p>And No, I did not say that before. I said a greater percentage of the kids who get in would be more likely to have connections to those people (or just the super rich in general), but I did not say anything about the kids themselves.</p>
<p>Harvard and Yale are over 200 years older than us, so it’s just a fact that they are going to historically have the more prominent alumni. It doesn’t really say anything about the quality of education. Geez.</p>
<p>I mean, look at where U.S. Presidents and Vice-Presidents went to college. How many do we have? Exactly.</p>
<p>I like how you are avoiding all my accusations and jumping back onto the irrelevancy. This just completely proves my point. Find a new forum, ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Cornellians are very involved with politics (and more so everything else) worldwide. If you read the link i posted at all these are the first paragraphs before it jumps into the list:</p>
<p>"Cornellians are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.**[1][6] Lee Teng-hui was president of Taiwan,[7] Mario Garc</p>
<p>Aside from Ginsburg, none of the politicians are really household names. OP implied that he had already seen that page but was unimpressed, so I was simply clarifying.</p>
<p>Heck, most of those household names didn’t even go to a top school.</p>