Prominent Alumni of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity
Alumni of Zeta Beta Tau are active in many fields of pursuit, including politics, entertainment,
business, sports and journalism.
This page lists some prominent alumni of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.
THE ARTS:
Leonard Bernstein ...........Composer, Conductor
Jack Benny (UCLA) ...........Comedian, Motion Picture Actor
Charles Coburn ..............Motion Picture Actor
Melvin Douglas (chicago) ....Motion Picture Actor
Sidney Factor (USC '37) .....Max Factor Cosmetics
Samuel Goldwyn (Chicago) ....Film Producer, Director, MGM
Jerry Herman (U. of Miami) ..Playwrite: Hello Dolly, La Cage Aux Folles
Robert Klein ................TV Comedian, Motion Picture Actor
Jerry Lawerence (Ohio St.) ..Playwright: Mame
Sheldon Leonard (Union) .....TV Actor, Procducer
Robert Q. Lewis (Michigan) ..Entertainer
Walter Minisch ..............Motion Picture Producer
Donald Newhouse (Syracuse) ..Publishing
Samuel Newhouse (Syracuse) ..Publishing
Michael Ovitz (UCLA) ........Disney
William S. Paley (Penn.) ....Founder and Chairman of the Board, CBS
Arnold Picker (CCNY) ........Chairman of the Board, United Artists
Samuel Rosman (Columbia) ....Chairman of the Board, 20th Century Fox
Gene Stacks (Cornell) .......Actor and Stage Director
William Todman ..............TV Game Show Producer
Ned Tanen (USC) .............Motion Picture Producer
Jack L. Warner (USC) ........President, Warner Brothers
Mike Wallace (Columbia) .....TV New Commentator
Peter Yarrow ................Singer with Peter, Paul and Mary group
Robert Zelnick (Cornell) ....ABC-TV Network, Pentagon Correspondant
ATHLETICS:
Mel Allen ...................Sportscaster
Alan Cohn ...................President, NY Knicks and NY Rangers
Howard Cosell ...............Sports Broadcasting
Donnie Edwards (UCLA)........Professional Football Player
Mike Epstein ................Professional Baseball Player
Sid Gillman (Ohio State) ....Professional Football Coach
Martin Glickman .............Announcer, Sports writer, Hall of Fame
Jeroid Hoffberger ...........Prominent Baseball Executive
Art Heyman (Georgia) ........Prominent Basketball Executive
Sid Luckman (Columbia) ......Pro and College Football Hall of Fames
Jim Nance (Syracuse) ........Former Pro Football player, CBS Announcer
Abe Pollin ..................Owner of Washington Bullets
Aron Rosenburg ..............College Football Hall of Fame
Carrol Rosenbloom (Penn.) ...Owner, Los Angeles Rams
Herman Sarkowsky ............Prominent Professional Football Executive
Dick Schaap .................Sports Broadcasting, Host of ESPN Show
Sonny Werblin (Rutgers) .....Founder, NY Jets
BUSINESS & FINANCES:
Walter Annenberg (Penn.) ....Founder and Publisher, TV Guide
Burton Baskin (Illinois) ....Founder, Baskin Robbins Ice Cream
Henry Block (Penn.) .........H & R Block
Richard Block (Penn.) .......H & R Block
Barry I. Bricken (Maryland) .President, Pants by Barry
Jacob Burns (GWU) ...........Attorney and Businessman in NY
Joseph Dazansky .............President, Giant Foods
Richard L. Fisher (Penn.) ...Fisher Brothers Construction, NY
Samuel Friedland ............Chairman of the Board, Food Fair
William Gaines ..............Publisher, Mad Magazine
Bernard Gimbel (Penn.) ......Chairman of Gimbel's Department Store
Andrew Goodman ..............Chairman of the Board, Bergdorf-Goodman
Armand Hammer (Columbia) ....President, Occidental Petroleum
J. Ira Harris (Michigan) ....Finance
Harvey Krueger (Columbia) ...Managing Director of Shearson Lehman
Jack H. Lehman, III (Penn.) .Shearson Lehaman Brothers
Alfred Lerner (Columbia) ....Banking and Insurance
George Macy (Columbia) ......Macy's Department Store
Stanley Marcus ..............President, Neiman-Marcus Department Stores
Benjamin Michtom (Penn.) ....President, Ideal Toy Corporation
Robert Nederlander ..........Broadway Producer, Former GM of NY Yankees
Jay A. Pritzker .............United Airlines and Hyatt Hotels
Steven S. Seglig (Georgia) ..Businessman and Real Estate Developer
Irving W. Rabb (Harvard) ....Founder, Stop and Shop Chain
Jaqui E. Safra (Penn.) ......International Banking
Alfred E. Taubman ...........Founder, Tubman Co.
Robert Tishman (Cornell) ....President, Tishman Relity
Elmer Winter (Wisconsin) ....President, Manpower, Inc.
David Yunich (Union) ........President, Macy's Department Stores
EDUCATION:
Stephen J. Trachtenberg .....President, George Washington University
POLITICS:
Rudolph Boschwitz ...........Senator, Minnesota
Kenneth M. Duberstein .......Chief of Staff Reagan White House
J. Martin Frost (Missouri) ..Representative, Texas
Benjamin A. Gilman (Penn.) ..New York
Michael Kantor (Vandy) ......White House, Trade Dept. (Clinton)
Julius Kahn .................California
William M. Lehman (Alabama) .Representative Florida
Arthur Levit (Columbia) .....Comptroller, New York State
Marc L. Marks (Alabama) .....Pennsylvania
Abner S. Mikva ..............Illinois
Newton Minnow ...............Former FCC Chairman
Richard L. Newberger ........Senator, Oregon
Richard Ottinger (Cornell) ..Representative, New York
Abraham Ribcoff .............Representative/Senator, Connecticut
Lawrence Smith (NYU-Heights) Representative, Florida
OTHER:
Robert Shapiro (UCLA)
Benjamin N. Cardozo (Union)
Cecil Brown (Western Reserve)
Felix Frankfurter (Harvard)
Rev. Julius Mark (Vanderbilt)
Ben W. Heineman (Michigan)
Abraham N. Sonnabend (Harvard)
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