List of Canisius College people

This is a list of notable students, alumni, staff and faculty of Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Academia

• James Demske, S.J., B.A. '47 – President of Canisius College (1966–1993)^[1]

Business

• Mary E. Belle '73 – President of Licensing, Jones Apparel Group
• Michael Buczkowski '86 - General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
• Peter M. Cuviello '69 – Vice President and Managing Director, Lockheed Martin
• Calvin Darden '72 – Senior Vice President, United Parcel Service; named 8th most powerful black executive in the U.S. by Fortune magazine
• Michael P. Healy, '70 - Vice President of Original Movies, Disney Channel
• Gene F. Jankowski '55 – former Chairman, CBS Broadcast Group: Chairman and CEO, Jankowski
• Gregory R. Maday '70 – Senior Vice President, Warner Bros.
• Rocco J. Maggiotto '72, MBA ’76 – Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
• George Mathewson '72 – Chairman of the Board, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Jeremiah J. McQuillen '62 – President and CEO, Hytex Decorative Textiles, retired
• Carl J. Montante '64 - founder, President, and Managing Director of Uniland Development; named 2010 Buffalo Outstanding Citizen^[2]
• Charles Moran Jr. - President and COO, Delaware North^[3]
• David J. Nasca '79 - President and CEO, Evans National Bank
• John W. Rowe '66 – Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.; member of the Academy of Science
• Andrew J. Shaevel '88, MBA '90 - CEO, Bobalew Ventures and founder of various other businesses, including Remarketing Services of America (RSA), RSA Solutions, RSA Mortgage Solutions, International Personnel Group (IPG) and SuiteParks, LLC.
• Timothy S. Sommer '94 - Managing Director of Tomahawk Partners (a private equity consulting firm); served in Hon. Rudolph Giuliani Mayor's Office 1997-2002
• Daniel W. Stanton '79 – Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs

Education

• H. James Birx - Professor of Anthropology, Canisius College
• Paul G. Bulger - President of Buffalo State College
• John Hurley - President of Canisius College
• Mark Huson - Professor of Finance, University of Alberta, Faculty of Business
• Paul G. Gassman '57 - former Chair of University of Minnesota Chemistry Department
• Thomas J. Lawley '68 - Dean of the Emory University School of Medicine
• Steven Seegel - author of Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire and Ukraine under Western Eyes; Associate Professor of History at University of Northern Colorado

Journalism

• Anne Burrell '91 – host of the Food Network's Secrets Of a Restaurant Chef
• J. Michael Collins – co-founder of PBS Buffalo; Emmy winner for Executive Producing Reading Rainbow
• Mike Harrington '87 – sportswriter for The Buffalo News
• Norm Hitzges – radio show host for Sports Radio The Ticket
• Elizabeth MacDonald '84 – award-winning business journalist for Fox Business Network, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal
• Marylynn Ryan '84 – CNN Regional Bureau Chief, Southeast
• Michael Scheuer '74 – CBS News terrorism analyst; former CIA employee
• Elaine Sciolino ’70 – author; Paris Bureau Chief for The New York Times
• Cynthia L. Skrzycki '76 – financial columnist for The Washington Post
• Adam Zyglis '04 – editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, winner of 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

Medicine and science

• Thomas J. Dougherty, Ph.D. '55 – Chief of Radiation/Biology Dept., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Thomas J. Lawley, M.D. '68 – Dean, School of Medicine, Emory University
• Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D. '71 – Chairman, Critical Care Medicine & Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Robert J. Lull, M.D. (deceased) '62 – Chief of Nuclear Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
• George E. Schreiner '43 – Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Edward G. Zubler '49, inventor of the halogen lamp^[4]

Politics, government, and law

• Hon. Charles S. Desmond (deceased) '17 – retired Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals
• Hon. Dennis Thomas Flynn, Delegate to Congress from the Oklahoma territory
• Hon. Matthew J. Jasen '37 – retired judge, NY State Court of Appeals; Jasen and Jasen, PC
• Robert A. Klump '79 - Pro Se Attorney, US District Court for the Western District of New York; Associate Director, Frank G. Raichle Pre-Law Center, Canisius College; Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Canisius College
• Hon. John J. LaFalce '61 – former Congressman (NY); Peter Canisius Distinguished University Professor, Canisius College
• Hon. Michael Liebel, Jr. (Class of 1887), former Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania and United States Representative for Pennsylvania
• Hon. Salvatore R. Martoche, JSC '62 – New York State Supreme Court Justice; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
• Hon. Anthony M. Masiello '69 – former Mayor of Buffalo, New York
• James T. Molloy '58 – former Doorkeeper, U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. Henry J. Nowak '57 – former Congressman (NY), U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. L. William Paxon '77 – former Congressman (NY); Senior Advisor, Akin, Gump, Hauer, Strauss & Feld
• Denise O'Donnell, former United States Attorney, candidate for New York State Attorney General and New York State Director of Criminal Justice Services
• Michael Scheuer '74, Ph.D. – former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka Alec Station); Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004; author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
• Robin Schimminger '69 – State Assemblyman
• Dale Volker '63 – State Senator

Religion and theology

• Rev. Leonard G. Hacker, S.J. '35 – Jesuit missionary, Marshall Islands

Sports

• Michael Buczkowski - General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
• Tommy Colella - football player
• Leroy Chollet - basketball player
• Corey Herring '08 − basketball player
• Robert A. MacKinnon '50 – former General Manager, Assistant Coach, New Jersey Nets
• Johnny McCarthy - NBA player and coach; coached Golden Griffins Men's Basketball
• Gerry Meehan - former NHL player and General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres;
• Michael Meeks - basketball player
• Beth Phoenix − WWE professional wrestler
• Dick Poillon − early National Football League player
• Michael F. Smrek '85 – former professional basketball player, NBA Los Angeles Lakers

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