List of Fordham University people
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This is a list of notable Fordham University alumni.
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[edit] Arts and Letters
- Thomas Cahill, best-selling author
- Drew Casper, professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California
- Paddy Chayefsky, playwright, screenwriter (attended, no degree)
- Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling suspense novelist
- Ed Dee, author
- Don DeLillo, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author
- David Kolb, philosopher at Bates College
- John LaFarge, painter, muralist, designer of stained-glass windows
- Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington D.C.
- Virginia O'Hanlon, as a child, wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking about Santa Claus which prompted the famous response "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" (doctorate from Fordham)
- John Dawson Gilmary Shea, author, historian
- James Francis Rhodes, Author, historian, theorist, college professor
[edit] Business
- Raul Alarcon, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO, Spanish Broadcasting System
- Rose Marie Bravo, CEO, Burberry
- Kathleen Brown, Senior Advisor, Head of Public Finance, Western Region, Goldman Sachs*
- Kevin Burke, Chairman, President and CEO, Consolidated Edison*
- Robert M. Calderoni, Chairman and CEO, Ariba
- Michael J. Dolan, Executive Vice President and CFO, Viacom
- John D. Finnegan, Chairman, President and CEO, Chubb Corporation*
- Dennis J. FitzSimons, Chairman, President and CEO, Tribune Company
- Mario Gabelli, Founder, Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, GAMCO Investors
- Victor F. Ganzi, President and CEO, Hearst Corporation
- John Kilcullen, President and Publisher, Billboard Information Group (includes Billboard magazine); started the "For Dummies" series of how-to books for publisher IDG Books
- Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr., Chairman, El Paso Corporation
- Richard T. Mina, President and CEO, Foot Locker, Inc. USA
- Joseph H. Moglia, CEO, TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
- Angelo R. Mozilo, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Countrywide Financial Corporation
- Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO, Xerox
- Finbarr J. O'Neill, President and CEO, Reynolds & Reynolds*
- Frank J. Petrilli, President and CEO, Nexxar Group
- Joseph Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, Banc of America Capital Management (master's degree from Fordham)
- Mary Lou Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Just Ask a Woman (master's degree from Fordham)
- J. Brendan Ryan, Chairman, Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide
- David J. Shea, President and COO, Bowne & Co.
- William S. Stavropoulos, retired Chairman, The Dow Chemical Company
- Donald Trump, business executive (attended, no degree)
- Donald Valentine, founder, Sequoia Capital
- William D. Walsh, Founder & Chairman, Sequoia Associates
[edit] Education
- Timothy S. Healy, S.J., former President, Georgetown University (master's degree from Fordham)
- Fr. Thomas Hopko, Orthodox Christian theologian
- Eamon Kelly, President Emeritus, Tulane University
- James N. Loughran, S.J., former President, Saint Peter's College
- Gerald W. Lynch, former President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- William J. McGill, former President, Columbia University
- Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., President Emeritus, Georgetown University (doctorate from Fordham)
- Gerard Reedy, S.J., former President, College of the Holy Cross
- Paul Reiss, President Emeritus, Saint Michael's College (master's degree from Fordham)
- John Sexton, President, New York University
[edit] Entertainment
- Alan Alda, six-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor
- Ozzie Alfonso, President, Terra Multimedia; Peabody Award and multiple Emmy Award winner
- Prince Lorenzo Borghese, reality star of ABC's ninth edition of The Bachelor (master's degree from Fordham)
- Hugh Brannum, actor, portrayed beloved Mr. Greenjeans character on the children's television show Captain Kangaroo*
- Hilarie Burton, actress, best known for her role as Peyton Sawyer on the TV series One Tree Hill (attended, no degree)
- Thomas Calabro, actor, best known for his role as Dr. Michael Mancini on the TV series Melrose Place
- Patricia Clarkson, Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress
- Theresa Coffino, executive producer of the TV series Extra
- David Copperfield, magician (attended, no degree)
- Kevin Devine, singer/songwriter, Capitol Records
- Faith Evans, Grammy Award-winning singer (attended, no degree)
- Sabina Gadecki, hostess of the internationally syndicated World Poker Tour, which airs on the Travel Channel in the U.S.
- Dan Grimaldi, actor, best known for his work portraying identical twin mobsters, Patsy Parisi and Phillip "Philly Spoons" Parisi, on the TV series The Sopranos
- Pat Harrington, Jr., Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, best known for his role as Schneider on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time
- Jonathan Harris, actor, best known for his TV work as Bradford Webster in The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space
- Bob Keeshan, five-time Emmy Award and three-time Peabody Award-winning star and producer of the children's TV series Captain Kangaroo
- Lou Liberatore, Tony Award-nominated actor for Burn This
- Ted May, three-time Emmy Award-winning director of the children's TV series Sesame Street
- Dylan McDermott, Golden Globe Award-winning actor, best known for his role as defense attorney Bobby Donnell on the TV series The Practice
- Lara Jill Miller, actress, best known for her role as Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the TV sitcom Gimme a Break!*
- Eliza Orlins, contestant on CBS' Survivor: Vanuatu (current student, Fordham Law)
- Annie Parisse, actress, best known for her role as assistant district attorney Alexandra Borgia on the TV series Law & Order
- Joe Patane, cast member of MTV's The Real World: Miami
- Cathie Ryan, singer/Celtic musician
- Amanda Seyfried, actress, Mean Girls, ABC Family's Wildfire, HBO's Big Love
- Karina Smirnoff, world champion professional dancer
- Hunter Tylo, actress, best known for her role as Dr. Taylor Hamilton on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
- Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor
- Jerry Jones, lead singer for the post-hardcore group Trophy Scars
[edit] Law, Politics, and Public Service
- Adrian A. Basora, U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1992-1995)
- Cornelius Blackshear, Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (1985-2005); presided over Pan Am and Spiegel bankruptcies*
- William J. Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1981-1987)
- Denny Chin, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York*
- E. Gerald Corrigan, former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (master's degree and doctorate from Fordham)
- Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General, New York State; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton
- Francis Edwin Dorn, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1961)
- Claire Eagan, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
- John D. Feerick, Dean, Fordham University School of Law (1982-2002)+
- Geraldine Ferraro, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1985) and first woman Vice Presidential candidate of a major political party*
- Vito Fossella, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1998-Present)*
- Robert Giaimo, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1981)
- Michael N. Gianaris, member of the New York State Assembly (2001-Present) and candidate for New York State Attorney General in 2006
- James F. Gill, Chairman, Battery Park City Authority*
- Arthur Gonzalez, Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (1995-Present); presided over Enron Corporation and WorldCom bankruptcies+
- George Harlamon, Mayor Waterbury, Connecticut, (1969-1970)
- Hans H. Hertell, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2001-Present)
- General John "Jack" Keane, retired four-star General and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
- Thomas J. Kelly, a recipient of the Medal of Honor and president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society from 1964 to 1969*
- G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate conspirator, nationally syndicated radio talk show host+
- Joseph M. McLaughlin, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1990-Present)
- Brien McMahon, U.S. Senator (1945-1952)
- Major General Martin Thomas McMahon, American Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- William R. Meagher, former Senior Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under President Nixon
- William Hughes Mulligan, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1971-1981)
- Robert Charles Murray, Medal of Honor recipient
- Tim Murray, former Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, and current Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
- Jerrold Nadler, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1993-Present)*
- General James R. O'Beirne, American Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- Bill Pascrell, Jr., member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1997-Present)
- Marilyn Hall Patel, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California*
- John E. Potter, U.S. Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service
- Adam Clayton Powell IV, member of the New York State Assembly (2000-present)*
- Loretta A. Preska, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York*
- Thomas Vincent Quinn, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1951)
- Anthony M. Santomero, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- James P. Scoblick, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1946-1949)
- Bernard M. Shanley, Deputy Chief of Staff and White House Counsel to President Eisenhower*
- Adam Smith, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1997-Present)
- Thomas Suozzi, Nassau County Executive and candidate for Governor of New York in 2006*
- Peter Vallone, Jr., member of the New York City Council (2002-Present)+
- Peter Vallone, Sr., first and longtime Speaker of the New York City Council+
- Ruth Whitehead Whaley, first African American woman to be admitted to the New York State and North Carolina Bar Associations*
- Malcolm Wilson, Governor of New York (1973-1975)
[edit] Media and Communications
- John Andariese, radio color commentator for the New York Knicks
- Caterina Bandini, news anchor for Boston's NBC affiliate, WHDH-TV
- Louis Boccardi, retired President, The Associated Press
- Mike Breen, sportscaster for NBA games on ABC and ESPN as well as New York Knicks games on MSG Network
- Chris Carrino, radio play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Nets
- Thomas B. Connery, longtime editor of the New York Herald
- Christopher Cuomo, Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News*
- Jack Curry, baseball columnist and reporter for The New York Times
- Pat Dawson, Emmy Award-winning correspondent for NBC News
- Spero Dedes, radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers
- Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Jack Ford, co-anchor of Court TV's Banfield & Ford: Courtside, Peabody Award and two-time Emmy Award winner*
- John Giannone, co-anchor of MSG Network's MSG SportsDesk
- Phil Giubileo, radio play-by-play announcer for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the American Hockey League
- Herbert A. Granath, Chairman Emeritus, ESPN; two-time Emmy Award and two-time Tony Award winner
- Michael Kay, TV play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees
- Greg Kelly, correspondent for Fox News Channel
- Tom Leykis, nationally syndicated radio talk show host (attended, no degree)
- Sal Marchiano, two-time Emmy Award-winning sports anchor for New York City's WB affiliate, WPIX-TV
- Joe McDonald, sports writer
- Malcolm Moran, sportswriter for USA Today, USBWA Hall of Famer
- Lynn Neary, correspondent for NPR
- Charles Osgood, three-time Emmy Award and two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist for CBS, Radio Hall of Famer
- Bob Papa, radio play-by-play announcer for the New York Giants
- Ed Randall, host of WFAN's Talking Baseball
- Tony Reali, host of ESPN's Around the Horn
- Vin Scully, Emmy Award-winning sportscaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball Hall of Famer, Radio Hall of Famer
- Charlie Slowes, radio play-by-play announcer for the Washington Nationals
- Susan L. Taylor, Editorial Director, Essence magazine
- Loretta Tofani, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
[edit] Sports
- Steve Bellán, first Latin American to play Major League Baseball
- Peter A. Carlesimo, former Executive Director, National Invitation Tournament
- P.J. Carlesimo, college and professional basketball coach
- Tom Courtney, two-time Olympic Games gold medalist, held world record in 880-yard run
- Edward J.S. Farrell Olympic Games track competitor, personal coach to Jesse Owens in the 1932 Olympics, and chief counsel to Catholic Relief Services*
- Frankie Frisch, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Pete Harnisch, former Major League All-Star pitcher
- Harry Jacunski, NFL player, college football coach
- Vince Lombardi, football coaching legend, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- John Mara, President and COO, New York Giants*
- Wellington Mara, deceased owner of the New York Giants, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Joe McCluskey, Olympic Games bronze medalist, USATF Hall of Famer
- John Mulcahy, Olympic Games gold and silver medalist
- Gene Orza, COO, Major League Baseball Players Association
- Dan O'Sullivan, former NBA journeyman
- Smush Parker, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers (attended, no degree)
- Steve Ryan, Commissioner, Major Indoor Soccer League
- Alex Wojciechowicz, Pro Football Hall of Famer, College Football Hall of Famer
- John Wolyniec, Major League Soccer player for the Columbus Crew
* Denotes alumni who have earned a Fordham University School of Law degree only.
+ Denotes alumni who have earned a Fordham Law degree in addition to a Fordham undergraduate degree.
