List of Fordham University people

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This is a list of notable alumni of Fordham University, a United States university in New York.

Contents 1 Arts and letters 2 Business 3 Education 4 Entertainment 5 Law, politics, and public service 6 Media and communications 7 Sports 8 References

[edit] Arts and letters

• Thomas Cahill, best-selling author
• Ion Cârja, writer
• 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
• Richard Foerster, Award-winning poet
• 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

[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
• Robert D. Daleo, Executive Vice President and CFO, Thomson Reuters
• 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
• Joe Moglia,^[1] CEO, TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
• Angelo R. Mozilo,^[2] Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Countrywide Financial Corporation
• Anne M. Mulcahy,^[3] 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.
• Eugene Shvidler, Russian-American billionaire, international oil tycoon, #164 on the Forbes magazine list of "400 Richest Americans" in 2007[1]
• 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)
• Justin Brannan, musician and lyricist, Indecision / Most Precious Blood (attended Lincoln Center campus, no degree)
• 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
• Elizabeth Hendrickson, actress, best known for her roles as Frankie and Maggie Stone, as well as her subsequent supercouple pairing, from the daytime drama All My Children
• Bob Keeshan, five-time Emmy Award and three-time Peabody Award-winning star and producer of the children's TV series Captain Kangaroo
• Robert Sean Leonard, Actor
• 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
• Alice Smith, Grammy Award-nominated singer
• Hunter Tylo, actress, best known for her role as Dr. Taylor Hayes on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
• Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor
• Julie White, Tony Award winning actress

[edit] Law, politics, and public service

• Rob Astorino, media personality and member of the Westchester County Board of Legislators
• 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, U.S. Director of Central Intelligence (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 Bill 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)+
• Paul Feiner, Town Supervisor Greenburgh New York (1992-present)
• 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+
• John M. Granville, United States Agency for International Development diplomat assassinated in Sudan
• 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^[4]
• Thomas J. Kelly, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society (1964-1969)*
• G. Gordon Liddy, lawyer, political operative for President Richard Nixon, leader of the "White House Plumber's unit", political pundit and radio 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 Richard Nixon
• William Hughes Mulligan, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1971-1981)
• Edward Murphy, Jr., Senator from New York; United States Senate (1893-1899)
• 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 Dwight D. 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*
• Austin Tobin, executive director of the Port of New York Authority (1942-1972)
• 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
• Justin Brannan, newswriter, radio announcer, blogger (attended Lincoln Center campus, no degree)
• 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
• Eliot Elisofon, photographer, most notably known for his work with Life (magazine)
• Pete Fornatale, radio personality and music historian
• 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
• Vincent Dennery, NFL player for the New York Giants
• Edward J.S. Farrell Olympic Games track competitor, personal coach to Jesse Owens in the 1932 Summer 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 Miami Heat (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 Red Bull New York

* 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.

[edit] References