List of Syracuse University People

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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Syracuse University.

Contents

[edit] Founders

[edit] Benefactors

Syracuse has had many financial supporters, but some stand out by the magnitude of their contributions. Among those who have made large donations commemorated at the university are:

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] Arts and Letters

[edit] Business

  • P.O. Ackley - World-Renowned Gunsmith, CEO, P.O. Ackley Inc.
  • William F. Allyn - CEO, WelchAllyn, Inc.
  • Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal - Founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co
  • Daniel D'Aniello - Founding Partner, The Carlyle Group
  • Steven Barnes - Managing Director, Bain Capital Inc
  • Mark Begor - President & CEO, GE Card Services
  • Bob Berenson - Vice Chairman and General Manager, Grey Global Group
  • Jeffrey Cohen - CEO, Silverado Capital Management
  • Jerome M. Cohen - Chairman, Williams Real Estate Co. (GVA Williams)
  • Angel Collado-Schwarz - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NAZCA Saatchi & Saatchi
  • John Couri - Co-Founder, Duty Free International
  • Arthur Crames - Managing Director/Principal, Bear, Stearns and Co.
  • Gerald B. Cramer - Chairman, Cramer Rosenthal & McGlynn
  • John H. Chapple - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nextel Partners Inc.
  • Nick Donofrio - Senior Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing, IBM
  • Edward Joesph Egan Diefenbach - President & COO, Peoplesolve
  • Winston C. Fisher - Partner in Fisher Brothers, one of New York's pre-eminent builders
  • Bruce Fowle - Architect, Fox & Fowle Architects
  • Sue Frieden - Global Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
  • Walter B. Gerken - Former Chairman and CEO, PIMCO Advisors
  • Kenneth Goodman - President and COO, Forest Laboratories
  • Louis Giuliano - Chairman, President & CEO , ITT Industries
  • Paul Gordon - Managing Director, Bank of New York
  • Adam Gross - Architect, Ayers Saint Gross
  • Irwin Guttag - Legendary Wall Street Arbitraguer and a former Director of the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange
  • Christopher J. Duffy - Senior Financial Analyst
  • Richard Haydon - Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
  • Richard S. Hayden - Architect responsible for restoring the Statue of Liberty
  • Peter Hebert - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital
  • John Heimann - Senior Advisor and former Chairman of Global Financial Institutions, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc
  • Patrick J. Hennigan - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
  • Joyce Hergenhan - Former President, The General Electric Fund
  • JoAnn H. Heisen - Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Johnson & Johnson
  • Joanne Hill - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
  • Sharon Haines Jacquet - Managing Director, JPMorgan Private Bank
  • William James - Director, Lazard Freres & Company
  • Richard Kirshenbaum - Chairman/Executive Creative Director, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners
  • Scott Kronick - President of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide's China operations
  • James D. Kuhn - President, Newmark Knight Frank
  • E. Floyd Kvamme - Partner Emeritus; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Chairman, Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
  • Kenneth Leibler - Chairman & CEO, Boston Options Exchange
  • Robert Menschel - Senior Director, Goldman Sachs Group (founded Wall Street's first successful Institutional Investment department)
  • Walter G. Montgomery - Partner, Robinson Lerer and Montgomery
  • Ronald P. O'Hanley - Vice Chairman, Mellon Financial Corporation
  • Akira Ohtomo - Founder and CEO, Pan Pacific Enterprises, Japan
  • Robert Pearlman - Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
  • Michael Perlis - Managing Partner, SOFTBANK Capital Partners
  • Howard Phanstiel - Chairman and CEO, PacifiCare Health Systems
  • Laique Rehman - CEO, US Petrochemical Industries
  • Jonathan D. Resnick - Managing Director, Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
  • H. John Riley Jr - Former CEO, Cooper Industries
  • Arthur Rock - Legendary investment banker, father of the modern Venture Capital Industry, and Cofounder of the Intel Corporation.
  • David Rockwell - Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group
  • Ian Schrager - Hotelier and former Studio 54 club owner. Pioneered the "boutique hotel" concept.
  • Frederic N. Schwartz - Former Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Co
  • Werner Seligmann - Architect
  • Bob Seltzer - President and CEO, Ogilvy PR Worldwide
  • Susan C. Volcker Penny - Managing Partner, Associated Mezzanine Investors
  • Eugen von Baden-Manners-Schleswig - Entrepreneur and Founder of DIY Enterprises. Baden, Germany
  • Michael G. Thonis - Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC
  • Peter Valdes - Co-Founder, Tivoli Systems (an IBM Company)
  • Martin Whitman - Founder and Chairman, Third Avenue Management
  • Abdallah Yabroudi - Dubai Contracting Company CEO
  • Keisuke Yawata - Venture Capitalist and former president of Applied Materials Japan
  • Gianfranco Zaccai - President and CEO, Design Continuum
  • Subhas Basu - CEO Silicon Interfaces Pvt Ltd, India

[edit] Education

  • Walter Broadnax - President, Clark Atlanta University
  • George Campbell Jr. - President, Cooper Union
  • Kent John Chabotar - President, Guilford College
  • Molly Corbett Broad - Former President, The University of North Carolina
  • Michael M. Crow -President, Arizona State University
  • John Crowley - Vice President for Federal Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • A. Lee Fritschler - former President, Dickinson College
  • Jonathan Gibralter - President, State University of New York College at Farmingdale
  • John Griffith - President, Presbyterian College in South Carolina
  • Kermit L. Hall - Former President, State University of New York at Albany
  • Richard Hersh - President, Trinity College (Connecticut)
  • Anne Hopkins - Former President, The University of North Florida
  • Barry Mills - President, Bowdoin College
  • Sean O'Keefe - Former Chancellor of Louisiana State University (LSU)
  • Jay Oliva - former president, New York University
  • Sanya Popovic - Professor of political science, Barnard College
  • David Potter - President, Delta State University
  • Deborah Stanley - President, State University of New York College at Oswego
  • Donna Shalala - President, University of Miami
  • Mark Emmert - President, University of Washington

[edit] Law and Public Service

  • Nathan Andrisani - prominent attorney at Morgan Lewis
  • Al D'Amato - Former senator from New York.
  • Ali Khalif Galaydh - Former prime minister of Somalia
  • Charles Baquet - Deputy director, the Peace Corps
  • H. Douglas Barclay, - Former State Senator, New York
  • Craig Benson, New Hampshire Governor
  • Joseph R. Biden, Jr. - U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Joseph R. (Beau) Biden, III - Attorney General of Delaware
  • John William Blaney III - U.S. ambassador to Liberia
  • Angus Cameron - Former Senator from Wisconsin
  • John T. Connor - former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
  • David Crane - Former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
  • Richard Danzig - Former Secretary of the Navy
  • Robert Dineen - Senior partner, Shearman & Sterling
  • Robert Duffy - Mayor of Rochester, New York
  • Marc S. Ellenbogen - Chairman, The Global Panel Foundation (Philanthropist)
  • Ronald A. George - Maryland State Delegate
  • James E. Graves, Jr. - Mississippi Supreme Court Justice
  • Arthur T. Hannett - Former Governor of New Mexico.
  • Douglas Holtz-Eakin - Director, Congressional Budget Office and former Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers
  • Randy Kuhl - Congressman, New York
  • Belva A. Lockwood - First woman to receive her party’s nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Tarky Lombardi - Former New York State Senator
  • Oren Lyons - Onondaga Faithkeeper and Global Indigenous Leader
  • Theodore McKee - Federal appeals court judge, Philadelphia
  • Bismarck Myrick - former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia and Lesotho
  • Sean O'Keefe - former NASA administrator
  • Masahide Ota - former Governor of Okinawa, Japan
  • Kenneth Podziba - Commissioner, New York City Sports Commission
  • Elliott I. Portnoy - Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
  • John Prevas - Circuit Court Judge, City of Baltimore
  • Dr. Han W. Pyo - former Korean ambassador to the United Nations
  • Vincent Rogers - Prominent Washington D.C. gay rights activist
  • Steven Rothman - Congressman, New Jersey
  • Warren Rudman - former Senator
  • Donna Shalala - Ex-Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
  • Halim Shafie - deputy secretary general of Malaysia’s Ministry for Energy and Communications
  • Lawrence R. Uhlick - Executive Director and General Counsel of the Institute of International Bankers
  • Mitchel Wallerstein - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counterproliferation policy
  • George Warrington - NJ Transit president and former Amtrak president
  • James Walsh - U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
  • John P. White - Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense

[edit] Media and Communications

  • Marv Albert - sportscaster
  • Damon Amendolara - sportscaster
  • L. Kelly Atkinson, Jr. - Director, NBC Sports
  • Len Berman – sportscaster
  • Matthew Berry - ESPN fantasy sports analyst
  • Tracy Breton - Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Providence Journal
  • Samantha Brown - TV host, best known for her work on several travel programs on the Travel Channel
  • Joe Castiglione - sportscaster
  • Bob Costas - sportscaster, NBC
  • Merrilee Cox - News Director, ABC News Radio
  • Bob Dotson - journalist
  • Fred Dressler - Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable
  • Ian Eagle - sportscaster
  • Marc S. Ellenbogen - syndicated columnist, United Press International (UPI)
  • Alan Frank - President, Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc
  • Eric Frankel - President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution
  • Ruth Fremson - Pulitzer Prize winning News Photographer
  • Marty Glickman – sportscaster
  • Ed Goren - President, Fox Sports
  • Robert Halmi, Jr. - President and CEO, Hallmark Entertainment
  • Michael Harms - Editorial Director, MSN, Emerging Verticals
  • Raymond Jansen - Former Publisher, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Newsday Inc.
  • John Jiloty - Editor in Chief, Inside Lacrosse
  • Megyn Kelly - Co-anchor of the daytime news program "America’s Newsroom" on Fox News
  • Ted Koppel - broadcast journalist, Nightline
  • Larry Kramer - President, CBS Interactive (former President of CBS Marketwatch.com)
  • Steve Kroft - co-editor and news correspondent, "60 Minutes"
  • Michael Kranish - journalist
  • David Levy - President, Turner Entertainment Group
  • L. Ross Love - President and CEO, Blue Chip Broadcasting
  • Harold E. Martin - Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, Montgomery Advertiser in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Mike McAlary - Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
  • Sean McDonough - sportscaster, ESPN
  • Joe McNally - photographer, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, etc.
  • Bob Miron - Chairman & CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
  • Bob Neumeier - American sportscaster for NBC Sports, specializing in thoroughbred racing.
  • Donald Newhouse - President, Advance Publications
  • S.I. Newhouse, Jr. - Chairman & CEO, Advance Publications/ Chairman, Conde Nast Publications
  • Dave Pasch - Sportscaster, ESPN
  • Lowell “Bud” Paxson - Chairman and CEO, Pax TV (also former founder of Home Shopping Network)
  • Howard Polskin - Vice President, Communications, Sony Corporation of America
  • Bob Reichblum - CEO, WebFN
  • Andrew Rizzi - Sports Television Producer
  • Alexander M. Roberts - Media Planner, Carat Media
  • Dave Ryan - Sportscaster, ESPN
  • Donald Sena - Managing Editor, MSN
  • Bob Shannon - Radio DJ/Announcer, CBS-FM New York
  • Arun Shourie - Former Editor, The Indian Express
  • Fred Silverman - Former President, NBC Television
  • Jayson Stark - Journalist/ sportscaster, ESPN
  • Dick Stockton – sportscaster
  • John Sykes - former Chairman and CEO, Infinity Broadcasting (former president of VH1)
  • Kenichi Takemura - commentator/anchorman on Japanese TV programs on politics and economy
  • Pete Thamel - College sports reporter, New York Times
  • Mike Tirico - sportscaster, ABC/ESPN
  • Robin Toner - Domestic Correspondent, The New York Times.
  • Nick Trigony - President, Cox Broadcasting
  • Stephanie Welsh - Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist
  • John Noble Wilford - Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Correspondent
  • John Wildhack - Senior vice president, ESPN
  • Enrico M Woolford - Television Journalist/Anchor, Capitol News GUYANA

[edit] Science, Engineering, Medicine and Exploration

[edit] Sports

[edit] Visual & Performing Arts

[edit] Other

[edit] Notable educators

[edit] Notable commencement speakers & honored guests

[edit] See also