List of Boston College people

Stemming from its nickname as "The Heights," persons affiliated with Boston College have been referred to as Heightsmen, Heightswomen, Heightsonians and Eagles, the latter in reference to the University's mascot, the Eagle. The following is a partial list of notable alumni and faculty.

Contents 1 Notable Boston College alumni 1.1 Arts and literature 1.2 Business 1.3 Education 1.4 Entertainment 1.5 Law, politics, and public service 1.6 Media and communication 1.7 Religion 1.8 Science, technology, and medicine 1.9 Athletics 1.10 Fictional 2 Notable Boston College faculty 2.1 Chemistry 2.2 Economics 2.3 English 2.4 Finance 2.5 History 2.6 Philosophy 2.7 Political science 2.8 Sociology 2.9 Theology 3 References

Notable Boston College alumni

Arts and literature

• Robert Ambrose, Music Director and Conductor, Atlanta Wind Symphony
• James Balog, 1974, photographer
• Gerry Carroll, 1969, novelist
• Zachary Conroy, 2007, Actor, The Bold & The Beautiful
• Peter Dee, 1961, playwright
• Larry Deyab, 1979, painter
• Brendan Galvin, 1960, poet
• George V. Higgins, 1961, JD 1967, novelist
• Charles Hogan, 1989, novelist/screenwriter
• Natalia Majluf, 1988, curator, Museo d'Arte de Lima, Peru
• Joyce McDaniel, 1973, artist, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Joseph McLellan, 1951, MA 1953, music critic, The Washington Post
• Ed McMahon, TV host and personality
• Brian Murphy, nonfiction writer, essayist
• Chris O'Donnell, 1995, actor
• David Plante, 1961, novelist
• Paul Shakespear, 1971, painter
• Elliot Silverstein, 1949, director; president, Artists Rights Foundation
• Karen Sosnoski, author, radio contributor and filmmaker
• John Vernon, 1965, novelist
• C. Dale Young, 1991, poet, physician, editor

Business

• Nikesh Arora, 1995, President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development, Google
• Richard Berman, J.D. 1969, CEO, NexMed
• Kara Grady Boudreau, 1989, vice president, Salomon Smith Barney
• Wayne Budd, 1963, executive vice president, John Hancock Financial Services
• Jack Connors, 1963, chair, Hill, Holliday, Conors, Cosmopulos
• Kathleen Corbet, 1982, CEO, fixed income division, Alliance Capital Management
• Robert F. Cotter, 1973, President and COO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
• Joseph Donahue, S.B. 1978, founder, president, Microtech
• E. Michael Egan, 1976, CEO, TransMolecular
• Sixto Ferro, 1992, vice president, Conchita Foods
• Stephen L. Green, JD 1962, founder of S.L. Green Realty
• Kenneth Kanzler, 1988, vice president, Olympus Corporation
• Christopher George Kennedy, 1985, President of Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., a subsidiary of Vornado Realty Trust, and son of Robert F. Kennedy
• Robert Leonard, 1954, president and CEO, Ticketmaster
• Joseph (Jay) L. Hooley, President and CEO, State Street Corporation
• Ronald Logue, S.B. 1967, M.B.A. 1974, Chairman and former CEO, State Street Corporation
• Peter Lynch, 1965, mutual fund manager for Fidelity
• Harry Markopolos, 1997, Bernard Madoff whistleblower to SEC
• Todd Tosti, 2008, vice president at BlackRock
• Therese Meyers, 1966, CEO, Bouquet Multi Media
• Virginia Mitchell Ryan, 1989, vice president, JP Morgan Chase
• Denise Morrison, 1975, President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
• James Moses, 1979, president, Elderhostel
• Denis O'Brien, MBA 1982, Chairman Digicel
• Theresa Santisi, 1976, partner, KPMG LLP
• Philip W. Schiller, BS 1982, vice president of Apple Computer
• Bill Simon, JD 1982, businessman and former gubernatorial candidate in California
• Patrick Stokes, 1964, president, Anheuser-Busch
• G. Craig Sullivan, 1964, chairman and CEO, The Clorox Company
• Richard Syron, 1966, chairman, president and CEO, Thermo Electron Corporation--currently CEO of Freddie Mac
• Ferit Sahenk, 1989, Head of Turkey's Dogus Holding conglomerate.
• Christian J. Baird, 1999, Managing Director, Thoroughbred Insurance & Financial Services, LLC.

Education

• David R. Anderson, PhD 1978, president, St. Olaf College
• Harold Attridge, 1967, dean, Divinity School, Yale University
• Laurence Barton, 1978, president, Heald College
• Anthony Bryk, 1970, Marshall Field professor of urban studies, University of Chicago
• William Bulger, 1958, professor, Boston College; former president, University of Massachusetts
• Stacey Cements, 1998, founder, Chicago Jesuit Academy
• Peter Dervan, 1967, former chairman, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Robert Drinan, SJ, 1942, former dean, Boston College Law School
• Chester Dunning, MA 1972, PhD 1976, Russian history specialist at Texas A&M University
• Janet Eisner, MA 1969, president, Emmanuel College
• David Ellis, PhD 1987, president, Newbury College
• Paul LaMarche, 1975, vice provost, Princeton University ^[1]
• Brian Linnane, SJ, 1977, president, Loyola College in Maryland
• Deborah C. Peters, MA 1985, Co-Founder and Head of School, The Cambridge School
• Charles William Lyons, SJ, 1904, former president, Boston College, Georgetown, Gonzaga & St Joseph's universities
• Joseph M. McShane, SJ, 1972, president, Fordham University, former president of the University of Scranton
• Ernest Moniz, 1966, chair, Physics Department, MIT; director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center
• J. Keith Motley, PhD 1999, chancellor, University of Massachusetts; first African-American chancellor at UMass-Boston
• Richard A. O'Brien, SJ, 1901, president, Ateneo de Manila (1927–1933)
• Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ, 1951, former president, John Carroll & Loyola Marymount universities
• Elizabeth Poster 1981, dean, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing
• Michael P. Walsh, SJ, 1929, former president, Boston College & Fordham University

Entertainment

• Teddy Dunn, JD 2013, actor best known for portraying Duncan Kane on Veronica Mars
• Craig Finn, 1993, lead singer of The Hold Steady (and formerly Lifter Puller)
• Sean Flahaven, 1995, Broadway composer
• Maile Flanagan, 1987, voice actress for Naruto
• Michael Frazier, 1958, producer
• Gary Gulman, 1993, comedian, Runner-Up in 2004's Last Comic Standing
• Alison Haislip, 2003, Actress/TV Host for Attack of the Show
• Clinton Kelly, 1991, co-host, What Not to Wear, TLC; former magazine editor
• Christine Kane, singer-songwriter
• Thomas McCarthy, 1988, actor and director of The Station Agent
• Mark McLaren, 1984, Broadway conductor
• Leonard Nimoy, 1952, actor
• Chris O'Donnell, 1992, actor
• Rakishi, 1988, born Solofa F. Fatu Jr., professional wrestler
• Mary Parker, 1975, actress
• Ellis Paul, 1987, singer/songwriter
• Amy Poehler, 1993, repertory player for Saturday Night Live and Upright Citizens Brigade
• David Smalley, 1985, rock musician
• Tim Stack, 1978, actor
• Jason Mulgrew, 2001, writer/blogger
• Lori Trespicio, 2001, "Real World X" cast member, singer writer/blogger
• Nancy Walls, comedian, wife of Steve Carell
• Ayla Brown, 2010, singer, American Idol
• Michael Hundgen, 2005, host, TMZ TV
• Mike Najarian, Drummer, State Radio
• Wayne Wilderson, 1989, Actor
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 1999, former reality show contestant of Survivor: The Australian Outback and current co-host on the United States daytime talk show The View.
• Holly Coulson, 1992, Celebrity Music Producer

Law, politics, and public service

• John Connolly (FBI), former FBI agent, currently incarcerated stemming from his relationship with James J. "Whitey" Bulger
• Bruce Ayers, member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1998 - present)
• Peter Blute, BA 1978, Former United States Congressmen and radio talkshow host
• Brigida Benitez, JD 1993, president, Hispanic Bar Association; proposed alternative nominee for the United States Supreme Court ^[2]
• Joseph Brennan, 1958, former Governor of Maine, former United States Congressman
• Scott Brown, JD 1985, Massachusetts state senator; 2006 Massachusetts lieutenant gubernatorial candidate, 2008 US Senator elect
• Edward P. Boland, JD 1936, former United States Congressman; author of the Boland Amendment
• Garrett J. Bradley, BA 1992 & JD 1995, member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2000 - present)
• Wayne Budd, 1963, former United States Associate Attorney General
• William M. Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts state senate and former president of the University of Massachusetts
• R. Nicholas Burns, 1978, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former US Ambassador to NATO, former US Ambassador to Greece
• Gary Buseck, 1972, MS 1974, JD 1980, Executive Director, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
• Andrea Cabral, 1981, Sheriff of Suffolk County, Boston, Massachusetts; first woman and first African-American to hold the position
• Thomas Capano, Lawyer
• Mike Capuano, JD 1977, United States Congressman
• Edward Cashman, A.B. 1965, district court judge, State of Vermont
• Paul Cellucci, 1970, JD 1973, former Governor of Massachusetts, former US Ambassador to Canada
• Robert W. Clifford, JD 1962, Maine Supreme Court justice
• John Cogliano, 1987, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation
• Silvio Conte, 1949, JD 1949, former United States Congressman
• John Curtin, 1954, former president, American Bar Association
• James Michael Curley, 1929, mayor of Boston, United States Congressman, and Governor of Massachusetts
• Bill Delahunt, JD 1967, United States Congressman
• Salvatore DiMasi, 1967, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• John Dooley, LL.B 1968, Vermont Supreme Court justice
• Linda Dorcena Forry, 1996, Second Haitian-American Massachusetts state representative
• Bob Downes, JD 1968, Alaska Superior Court Judge
• Robert Drinan, SJ, 1942, former United States Congressman, human rights advocate; only Catholic priest to serve in Congress
• Joseph R. Driscoll, Jr., BA, member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2003 - present)
• Mark V. Falzone, B.A., member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2000 - present)
• John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, 1885, First Irish-Catholic mayor of Boston, grandfather of John F. Kennedy
• David Flanagan, J.D. 1973, General Counsel, Special Investigation of Hurricane Katrina
• William F. Galvin, 1972, Massachusetts Secretary of State; 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate
• Joseph L. Gormley, 1937, MA 1939, famous FBI agent
• Michael S. Greco, JD 1972, president, American Bar Association
• Patrick Guerriero, MA 1992, executive director, Log Cabin Republicans
• Ken Hackett, BA 1968, President of Catholic Relief Services
• Margaret Heckler, JD 1956, former United States Congresswoman, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, former US Ambassador to Ireland
• Charles F. Hurley, 1913, Governor of Massachusetts
• Cheryl Jacques, 1984, first openly gay state senator; former president, Human Rights Campaign
• Karim Kawar, 1987, Jordanian Ambassador to the United States
• John Kerry, JD 1976, United States Senator, 2004 Democratic candidate for President of the United States
• Edward J. King, 1948, former Governor of Massachusetts and professional football player
• Kenneth I. Kolpan, 1972, Brain Injury Lawyer
• Pat LaMarche, 1982, Maine gubernatorial candidate, 2004 Green Party vice-presidential candidate
• Rachel J. Lamorte, 2010, former Political Director of the College Democrats of America
• Stephen Lynch, 1991, United States Congressman
• Ed Markey, 1968, JD '72, United States Congressman
• Debra Wong Yang, JD 1984, United States Attorney for the Central District of California
• Tip O'Neill, 1936, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Pierre-Richard Prosper, 1985, United States Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues
• Thomas Reilly JD 1970, Attorney General of Massachusetts, 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate
• Warren Rudman, JD 1960, former United States Senator and New Hampshire attorney general
• Michael Rustad, Ph.D, Intellectual Property author, Professor at Suffolk University Law School
• R.T. Rybak, 1978, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Marie St. Fleur, JD 1987, Massachusetts state representative; first Haitian-American elected to the Massachusetts Legislature; 2006 Massachusetts lieutenant gubernatorial candidate
• Thomas P. Salmon, 1954, JD '57, former Governor of Vermont
• Leslie Samuelrich, 1985, co-founder and head, Green Corps
• Bobby Scott, JD 1973, United States Congressman
• Michael D. Scott, MBA 1994, Senior Advisor, Patton Boggs, LLP; former Senior Adviser to the Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury; former Member of the Board of Directors, National Cooperative Bank
• Francis X. Spina, JD 1971, Massachusetts Supreme Court justice
• Michael A. Sullivan, 1982, JD '85, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Michael J. Sullivan, 1979, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; 2006 Massachusetts lieutenant gubernatorial candidate
• Amul Thapar, 1991, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky
• Maurice J. Tobin, 1922, former mayor of Boston, former Governor of Massachusetts, former US Secretary of the Department of Labor
• Kevin White, 1955, former mayor of Boston; longest serving
• Diane Wilkerson, JD 1981, first African-American Massachusetts state senator
• Barbara Wright B.S., member of the New Jersey General Assembly.^[3]
• Debra Wong Yang, JD 1984, United States Attorney for the Central District of California

Media and communication

• Kerry Byrne, 1992, food writer, Boston Herald, Esquire and others, sports writer, Sports Illustrated, founder and 'Pigskin Potentate' ColdHardFootballFacts.com
• Alina Cho, 1993, broadcast news reporter, CNN
• Leonard DeLuca, 1974, senior vice president for programming development, ESPN
• Kenneth Dolan, 1965, author; co-host, The Dolans, syndicated financial talk show, WOR radio network
• Jimm Freedman, 1976, vidotape editor CBS-TV, Emmy award winner with 60 Minutes in New York and at WCBS_TV Los Angeles. Director, Producer and Writer. Editor on Wheel of Fortune 1989-90
• Susan Gianinno, 1970, chair and CEO, Publicis
• Jack Griffin, 1982, publisher, Parade magazine
• Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck, 1999, co-host, The View, ABC
• Jack King, NASA Public Affairs Officer
• Paul LaCamera, MBA 1983, president and general manager, WCVB-TV/Boston
• Steve Lacy, 1997, Anchor and General Assignment Reporter, WCVB-TV/Boston
• Paula Ebben Anchor WBZ-TV/Boston
• Mike Lupica, 1974, author; sports columnist, New York Daily News
• Drew Massey, 1992, founder, publisher, P.O.V. magazine; founder, ManiaTV!
• Julianne Malveaux, 1974, MA '76, nationally syndicated columnist, author, producer
• John McLaughlin, MA 1961, executive producer and host, The McLaughlin Group, PBS
• Mark Mulvoy, 1964, former managing editor, Sports Illustrated
• Thomas Mulvoy, 1964, former managing editor, the Boston Globe
• Brian Murphy, religion editor, Associated Press
• William Perkins, 1976, MBA 1978, president, Wells Greene BDDP
• Luke Russert, 2008, congressional correspondent, NBC News
• Bob Ryan, 1968, sports columnist, the Boston Globe
• Herb Scannell, 1979, president, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon Networks
• Lesley Visser, 1975, sports broadcaster, ESPN
• Dave Wedge, 1993, reporter, political columnist, Boston Herald, writer Revolver (magazine)
• William O. Wheatley, Jr., 1966, former Emmy award winning executive producer, NBC Nightly News; executive vice president, NBC News
• Carter Wilkie, 1988, author, former White House speechwriter

Religion

• Harold Berman, JD 1994, executive director, Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts, writer on issues of intermarriage and Jewish identity
• Thea Bowman, PhD 1989, Franciscan sister, revered evangelist
• Timothy P. Broglio, 1973, Archbishop, Vatican Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
• Richard James Cushing, 1917, Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston
• Matthew D'Isernia, Defender of the Faith
• Robert Drinan, SJ, 1942, human rights advocate, only Catholic priest ever to serve in US Congress
• John Higgins, SJ, 1959, MA 1960, STL 1967, rector, Fairfield University
• John Kallos, a.k.a. John of Amorion, 1955, first American-born bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church; former director, St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, Florida
• Frederick Lawrence, world-renowned scholar of Bernard Lonergan
• Richard Lennon, 1969, Bishop of Cleveland
• Catherine McNamee, CSJ, 'MEd 1955, MA 1958, former president, National Catholic Education Association
• Gerasimos Michaleas, MA 1986, PhD 1993, Metropolitan of San Francisco; Archbishop, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• John Courtney Murray 1926, MA 1927, prominent Jesuit theologian, architect of Vatican II
• William Henry O'Connell 1881, Cardinal-Archbishop of Boston
• Edward O'Flaherty, SJ, 1959, director, ecumenical/interreligious affairs, Boston archdiocese
• Edward Phillips, Eastern Deanery AIDS Relief Program, Archdiocese of Nairobi
• Francis A. Sullivan, SJ, 1944, MA 1945, Jesuit theologian and ecclesiologist

Science, technology, and medicine

• Krastan Blagoev, PhD 1998, Director of Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Robert Cefalo, 1955, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• Gilbert Connelly, 1962, Director of Cardiac Anesthesia, New England Medical Center
• E. Michael Egan, 1976, CEO, TransMolecular
• Joseph L. Gormley, 1937, MA 1939, father of modern forensic science
• Gerald B. Healy, 1963, Otolaryngologist-in-Chief and Surgeon-in-Chief at Children's Hospital Boston
• Paul Nadeau, 1975, MS 1970, geological advisor, Statoil, Norway
• John Pollock, 1987, Assistant Professor, Tufts Cummings Veterinary School
• Carol Picard, MS 1976, PhD 1998, President, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• Richard Ryan, BS 1986, President, Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati
• Susan Sheehy, 1969, Associate Director, Clinical Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Aleksandar Totic, 1988, cofounder and former partner, Netscape
• Kevin J. Tracey, 1979, neurosurgeon and immunologist
• Philip J. Landrigan, epidemiologist and pediatrician
• Ryan Dunkelberg, neurologist and behavioral psychologist
• James Polerecky DDS,1986, Dentist

Athletics

Fictional

• Jack Ryan, character in Tom Clancy's novels
• Frank Galvin, protagonist attorney played by Paul Newman in the 1982 film The Verdict (both undergraduate and law school)
• Father John O'Malley, character in Margaret Coel's Wind River Reservation mystery series
• Dr. Jason Seaver and his wife, Margaret ("Maggie") Malone- Seaver, parents on the long running TV series "Growing Pains"
• Gordon Friedman, character in the self-titled movie about his life

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• Ken Reeves, character in the TV show "The White Shadow", played by actor, Ken Howard.

Notable Boston College faculty

Chemistry

• Amir Hoveyda, developer of the Hoveyda-Grubbs Catalyst
• John Fourkas, American Physical Society fellow, National Science Foundation Award recipient
• Shana Kelly, one of the world's "top 100 innovators" according to the Technology Review magazine

Economics

• Richard Tresch, Massachusetts Professor of the Year
• Arthur Lewbel, Noted for Econometrics, Consumer Demand Analysis

English

• Gerald Dawe, Northern Irish poet who is the Burns Visiting Professor
• Elizabeth Graver, author
• Paul Mariani, author
• Marjorie Howes, scholar of Irish literature
• George O'Har, author

Finance

• Alicia Munnell, former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; leading authority on Social Security and retirement

History

• John Hume, former Northern Ireland politician, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
• Radu Florescu, distinguished Romanian historian, author of successful works on Vlad Dracula
• Thomas O'Connor, Boston historian, best-selling author

Philosophy

• Joseph Flanagan, SJ, director, Lonergan Center
• Peter Kreeft, author, noted conservative, authority on Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, and C. S. Lewis
• Richard Kearney, philosopher
• William J. Richardson, SJ, philosopher and psychoanalyst; known for his groundbreaking work on Martin Heidegger.
• Vanessa Rumble, president, The Søren Kierkegaard Society; Phi Beta Kappa Teacher of the Year
• John Sallis, noted philosopher within Continental philosophy and hermeneutics.

Political science

• William Bulger, former Massachusetts Senate president; former president, University of Massachusetts
• Donald Hafner, former Carter and Reagan nuclear weapons advisor; renowned national security expert
• Marc Landy, author of several widely used political science textbooks; chair, Irish Institute
• R. Shep Melnick, former New Hampshire State Rep.; co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government; nationally respected author on American politics
• Robert S. Ross, associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University; senior advisor of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; member of the Council on Foreign Relations; one of the foremost American specialists on Chinese foreign and defense policy and U.S.-China relations.
• Kay Lehman Schlozman, award-winning author and American political behaviorist; advisory board member of the Campaign Finance Institute; former secretary of the American Political Science Association; New York Times contributor
• Susan Shell, political philosopher and Department Chair; cited Kant scholar
• Alan Wolfe, director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life; bestselling author

Sociology

• Sharlene Hesse-Biber, founder and director of National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, author
• Paul Schervish, director, Center for Wealth and Philanthropy; leading philanthoropy expert
• Juliet Schor, leading expert on American consumerism, author
• John B. Williamson, professor, author, former vice-president Gerontological Society of America

Theology

• Lisa Sowle Cahill, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;former president, Catholic Theological Society of America.
• Pheme Perkins, noted New Testament scholar; former president, Catholic Biblical Association of America.
• Ruth Langer, nationally recognized expert on Jewish liturgy.
• Michael Himes, former academic dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island, New York.

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