Nicholas Harper Maguire was the President of Central High School from 1858-1866.

Albert Joseph Rosenthal (March 5, 1919 – March 17, 2010) was an American legal scholar and specialist in constitutional and environmental law. He joined Columbia Law School as a faculty member in 1964 and was appointed as the Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law in 1973. He served as dean of Columbia Law School from 1979 to 1984.