List of Manhattan College people

Academia

Joseph A. Alutto – executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University

Jeanette Brown – former president of the Water Environment Federation

Frederick W. Capshaw – Class of 1966 – President of Community College of Philadelphia from December 15, 1993 until his death at age 53 on June 23, 1998

Edward Countryman – Class of 1966 – distinguished professor of history at Southern Methodist University

Christopher Coyne – Class of 1999 – assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University

David Danahar – Class of 1963 – President of Southwest Minnesota State University

Kevin J. Farley – distinguished professor at Manhattan College

Charles H. Lochmuller – award-winning professor of chemistry at Duke University

George E. McCarthy – National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College

John Neuhauser – 16th president of Saint Michael's College in 2007

William E. O'Connell – Chessie Professor of Finance Emeritus at The College of William and Mary

L. Jay Oliva – 14th President of New York University

Henry Petroski – award-winning professor of civil engineering at Duke University

Ángel Ramos – founder of the National Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind

Katharine Capshaw Smith – award-winning Professor of English at the University of Connecticut

James Vreeland – associate professor of International Relations at Georgetown University

Erick Weinberg – professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University

Donald f. Costello – associate professor emeritus of Computer science and engineering University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Arts and literature

Sam Barone – historical novelist with novels centered on early Antiquity

William Edmund Barrett – author of The Left Hand of God and Lilies of the Field

Nakia D. Johnson, African-American novelist

Paul Mariani – poet, biographer, and essayist -- Internationally Known Poet to Give Reading at Georgian Court University

James Patterson – New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning novelist, author of Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls

Peter Quinn – novelist and essayist author of "The Hour of the Cat", "Banished Children of Eve", and "Looking for Jimmy."

Al Sarrantonio – science fiction, mystery and horror author and winner of the Bram Stoker Award.

Robert Shea – co-author (with Robert Anton Wilson) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy

George A. Sheehan – cardiologist and New York Times bestselling author of Running & Being: The Total Experience

Business

Sam Belnavis – NASCAR owner

John M. Fahey – President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Geographic Society

Frank M. Folsom – former president of RCA Victor and permanent representative of the Holy See

Thomas Gambino – New York mobster and a longtime Caporegime of the Gambino crime family

Frederick W. Gluck '57 – former Vice Chairman of Bechtel and managing partner of McKinsey & Co.

John Horan '40 – former chairman & CEO of Merck

Eugene R. McGrath – former chairman and CEO of Con Edison

Joe Mohen – internet entrepreneur

Roderick McMahon – professional wrestling and boxing promoter; patriarch of the McMahon wrestling family

Thomas J. Moran – president and CEO of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company

Eileen Murray – former CEO of Investment Risk Management LLC

Thomas D. O'Mally '63 – successful commodities trader; former chairman & CEO of Premcor who created the modern independent refining industry

Frederic Salerno – corporate director of Viacom and former vice chairman of Verizon

Stephen G. Thieke '69 – former chairman of the Risk Management Committee of J.P. Morgan & Co.

Joseph M. Tucci – chairman, president and CEO of the EMC Corporation

Entertainment

Frank Campanella – TV and motion picture actor, Captain Video

Joseph Campanella – TV, stage, and motion picture actor, Mannix

Alexandra Chando – actress, Maddie on As the World Turns

Dennis Day – TV and radio personality, The Jack Benny Show

Matthew Doran – TV personality, The Jersey Shore

Barnard Hughes – Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, Hugh Leonard's Da

Mike Mazurki – former professional wrestler and character actor

Melvin Lasky – Actor on MTV's "Rockstars Have Kidnapped My Son"

Hugo Montenegro – TV and movie soundtrack composer, I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts

Glenn Hughes – founding member of The Village People, as the biker.

Courtney Galiano – professional dancer, was on TV show "So You Think You Can Dance"

Liam O'Brien – screenwriter and television producer best known for writing the movie 'Here Comes the Groom

Bob Stei – Radio personality now with WRFF-FM Philadelphia

Donald Bracken – Comedian and radio personality

Journalism

James Brady – New York City celebrity tabloid columnist who created the Page Six gossip column in the New York Post

Don Dunphy – Boxing announcer, Radio Hall of Fame inductee

Jerry Girard – former sportscaster, WPIX

Mario Nacinovich '94 – Managing Partner of the US healthcare practice at AXON and in 2013 became Editor Emeritus Journal of Communication in Healthcare

Jim Ryan – news anchor for WNBC-TV, WNYW and WCBS-TV

Judith West – entrepreneur business woman, political activist, radio personality and hosts her own cable network TV Show, Getting Your Money's Worth

Government and Public Policy

Phil Amicone – 41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York

John J. Boylan – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 15th congressional district

Thomas J. Curry – 30th Comptroller of the Currency of the United States

John J. Delaney – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district

Thomas R. Donahue – former Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

Vincent Forras – 2010 Connecticut United States Senate candidate; founder of The Phoenix Group

John J. Fitzgerald – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district

Charles A. Gargano – Chairman and Commissioner Empire State Development Corporation

Hugh J. Grant – 91st Mayor of New York City

Rudy Giuliani – 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidate and former Mayor of New York City

Ronald Green – head of the United Worker's Party; former member of the House of Assembly of Dominica

Raymond W. Kelly '63 – Commissioner of the New York City Police Department

Arthur J. Lichte – United States Air Force General and Commander of the Air Mobility Command

William Lucas – Wayne County Executive and 1986 Michigan Gubanatorial Candidate

Joseph Maguire – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy

Serphin Maltese – former member of the New York State Senate

John McCarthy ’61 – former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia

Dominic J. Monetta – former Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1991–1993, and Former Director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy from 1989–1991

Thomas McNamara ’62 – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Colombia

Chang Myon – 2nd and 7th Prime Minister of South Korea

Bill Owens (congressman) – U.S. Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district

Jay T. Pisco – Westchester County Commissioner of Public Works and Transportation

Peter J. Powers – former First Deputy Mayor of New York City during Rudy Giuliani Administration

Peter A. Quinn – former U.S. Representative from New York

James Rispoli – Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management

Angelo D. Roncallo – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 3rd congressional district

Russell Schriefer – political strategist and media consultant

José M. Serrano – New York State Senator representing the South Bronx, East Harlem, Yorkville and Roosevelt Island

Thomas Francis Smith – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York

Andrew Lawrence Somers – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 6th congressional district and New York's 10th congressional district

Paul J. Tobin – president and CEO of the United Spinal Association

James J. Walsh – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York

Thomas Michael Whalen III – three-term Mayor of Albany, New York

Law

Anthony V. Cardona (MC1966RIP) – Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, New York Supreme Court

Ronald L. Ellis – Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Joseph Raymond Jackson – former Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

John F. Keenan – Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

John S. Martin – former U.S. Attorney and Judge for United States District for the Southern District of New York

John H. Mark, Jr. – U.S. Army Major JAG (Troop B. Cavalry) and President of St. John's University School of Law Student Body Association ('03)

Math and Science

Kevin Campbell – Principal Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; internationally recognized for his contributions to muscular dystrophy research

James W. Cooley – mathematician, co-author of the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm used in digital processing

Peter J. Denning – award-winning computer scientist best known for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which defeated thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory management policies

Gary J. Foley – Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory

Michael J. Flynn – professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University; recipient of Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

Edward E. Hammer – IEEE Edison Medal for fluorescent lighting research

Valery Havard – botanist for which many Texas plants are named, including the Chisos bluebonnet (Lupinus havardii), Havard oak (Quercus havardii), and Havard's evening primrose (Oenothera havardii)

Michael Walsh – Vehicle emissions engineer and 2005 MacArthur Fellow

Religion

Patrick Ahern – former Auxiliary Bishop of New York

Austin Dowling – former Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Patrick Joseph Hayes – former Cardinal Archbishop of New York

Bryan Joseph McEntegart – former Bishop of Ogdensburg and Brooklyn

John Joseph Mitty – former Archbishop of San Francisco

George Mundelein – former Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago

John Joseph Thomas Ryan – Archbishop for the Military Services and Anchorage

Michael Angelo Saltarelli – former Bishop of Wilmington

Baseball

Luis Castro – second Latin-American to play Major League Baseball

George Chalmers – former Major League Baseball player

Pat Duff – former Major League Baseball catcher/first baseman

Bill Finley – former Major League Baseball catcher/outfielder

Joe Gallagher – former Major League Baseball player

Buddy Hassett – former Major League baseball player

Andy Karl – former Major League Baseball player

Chris Mahoney – former Major League Baseball pitcher

Charlie Meara – former Major League Baseball outfielder

Cotton Minahan – former Major League Baseball pitcher

Mike Parisi – pitcher for Memphis Redbirds, St. Louis Cardinals

Xavier Rescigno – former Major League Baseball player

Matt Rizzotti – infielder for Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, Philadelphia Phillies

Doc Scanlan – former Major League Baseball player

Chuck Schilling – former Major League Baseball player

Brewery Jack Taylor – former Major League Baseball player

Henry Thielman – former Major League Baseball player

Jake Thielman – former Major League Baseball player

Nick Tremark – former Major League Baseball player

Tom Waddell – former Major League Baseball pitcher

Eddie Zimmerman – former Major League Baseball player

Basketball

George Bruns (basketball) – former NBA player

George Bucci – former NBA player

Bill Campion – former basketball player of Manhattan Jaspers, Drafted NBA 1975 Bucks

Neil Cohalan – first professional basketball coach of the New York Knicks

Luis Flores – former NBA point guard, now plays in Greece

Junius Kellogg – former basketball player who blew the whistle on point-shaving scheme; former Harlem Globetrotter

Kevin Laue – He received a scholarship to play Division I basketball for Manhattan College.

Chris Smith (born 1987) – American basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Liga Leumit

Football

Vincent dePaul Draddy – Manhattan College quarterback who developed the Izod and Lacoste brands. College Football Hall of Famer and Chairman of the National Football Foundation. The Vincent dePaul Draddy Trophy is a trophy awarded by the National Football Foundation that is given to the American college football player with the best combination of academics, community service, and on-field performance. It is considered by many to be the "Academic Heisman."

Vic Fusia – former head football coach of the University of Massachusetts

Dick Tuckey – former professional American football running back

Pat Kirwan (football) – Receivers Coach and Personnel Assistant for the New York Jets under Pete Carroll. Currently Senior Football Analyst for the National Football League website.

Frank Gnup – Award winning and all-star Canadian football player, and later legendary coach of the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

Track & field

Lindy Remigino – Gold medalist in 100-meter dash and 4 × 100 relay 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics

Lou Jones – World record holder at 400 meters; gold medalist in 4 × 400 meter relay at the 1956 Mexico City Summer Olympics

Doug Logan – CEO of USA Track & Field; first commission of Major League Soccer

Tom Murphy – Gold medalist in the men's 800 metres event at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago

Aliann Pompey – Olympic sprinter

Brian Kivlan – 26th American to run a 1-mile race in under 4 minutes with a time of 3:57.4 in 1968.

Other Sports

Ryan Hall (grappler) – winner of the The Ultimate Fighter season 22, professional Mixed Martial Artist in the UFC

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