Various notable individuals in many professions attended Villanova University at some point in their educational careers. Many influential and important individuals in the fields of government, business, economics, education, entertainment, arts, fashion, athletics and the sciences are alumni of Villanova.
Arts, entertainment, and journalism
Maria Bello - Golden Globe-nominated actress
Victor Buono - Academy Award-nominated actor
Roxanne Chalifoux - "Crying Piccolo Girl" meme
Bradley Cooper - Academy Award-nominated actor (attended for one year before transferring to Georgetown University)
Jim Croce - recording artist
Michelle Guglielmo - former producer, The People's Court
Tim Hauser - singer and founder of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer
Michael Hollinger - playwright and screenwriter
Vahan Janjigian - former Forbes magazine columnist; author of Even Buffett Isn't Perfect and The Forbes/CFA Institute Investment Course
Keith Jones - Emmy award-winning news anchor and reporter at WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Naomi Karam - News Director at NBC News
Toby Keith - recording artist (attended for one year, received honorary degree)
Monica Malpass - M.A. in political science in 1999; news anchor and reporter for WPVI
Gerald Marzorati - editor of The New York Times Magazine; assistant managing editor of The New York Times
Kacie McDonnell - news anchor, 41 Action News traffic reporter, Kansas City, Missouri
Don McLean - recording artist (attended for three months and did not receive a degree)
Hannah Minx - former YouTube vlogger
Ryan Montbleau - recording artist
Vincent Piazza - actor (attended for a year; did not graduate)
David Rabe - playwright (Hurlyburly) and screenwriter (Casualties of War, The Firm)
Murtaza Razvi - journalist, Senior Assistant Editor and Head of Magazines, Dawn, Political Analyst, The Indian Express
Greg Rikaart - Emmy Award-winning actor, currently starring in the daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless
Fred Santarpia - President, Chief Digital Officer, Condé Nast publications
Jennifer Santiago - Emmy Award-winning reporter, CBS4 News, Miami
Cole Sternberg - visual artist
Philip Terzian - literary editor, The Weekly Standard, author (Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower and the American Century)
Business, law, and economics
Ayman Asfari - British-Syrian businessman, CEO of Petrofac
Stephen Bienko - Olympic gold medalist trainer and entrepreneur
Robert J. Bolger - co-founder, former president and chief executive officer of National Association of Chain Drug Stores
Luke Bowen - co-founder of Evil Genius Beer Company
Christopher J. Carey - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of City National Bank
Robert J. Darretta, Jr. - chief financial officer and vice chairman of Johnson & Johnson
John Drosdick - chief executive officer, Sunoco
John Eleuthère du Pont
Carolyn Everson - VP, Global Marketing Solutions of Facebook
Chris Gheysens (VSB, 1993) - president and CEO of Wawa Inc.
Trevor Hayward - co-founder of Evil Genius Beer Company
John D. Idol - Chairman and CEO of Michael Kors
John Igoe - Director, Real Estate, Design & Construction of Google
Bert Jacobs - co-founder and CEO of Life is good
John P. Jones III - retired chairman, Air Products & Chemicals
Patrick Kerins - venture capitalist and Special Partner at New Enterprise Associates
James Kim - chairman of Amkor Technology
Thomas G. Labrecque - former CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
John Leahy - President of KIND Healthy Snacks
Angelina Mondavi - winemaker and co-proprietor of Dark Matter Wines
Robert F. Moran - interim chief executive officer of GNC; former chairman and CEO of PetSmart
James Mullen - president and chief executive officer, Biogen Idec
James V. O'Donnell - retired CEO of American Eagle Outfitters
Scott O'Neil - CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers
Ronald O. Perelman - billionaire CEO of Mackandrews and Forbes (one semester in 1960, before transferring to University of Pennsylvania)
Paul V. Scura - former Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Bank of Prudential Securities
Michael Silbert - Deputy General Counsel of Urban Outfitters
Paula Sutter - former President of Diane Von Furstenberg
David Worby - trial lawyer who specializes in personal injury cases, most notably Ground Zero illnesses
Education, engineering, and the sciences
Andrew M. Allen - NASA astronaut and space shuttle pilot
William M. Brown - Chairman, President, and CEO of Harris Corporation
Sean M. Carroll - theoretical physicist
Steve Chen - computer engineer, principal architect of Cray X-MP supercomputer
Nance Dicciani - chemical engineer, ranked one of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Brian Glaister - co-founder of Cadence Biomedical
Edward Guinan - astronomer, discovered Neptune's ring system
John L. Hennessy - President of Stanford University
Jamie Hyneman - co-host and Executive Producer of Mythbusters (honorary Doctor of Engineering and co-advisor of VU COE senior capstone project)
Deirdre Imus - Head of the Deidre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
John P. Jones - retired Chairman and CEO of Air Products and Chemicals
Colin D. Joye - engineer, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Christopher Lee - Director of Philanthropy of the Scripps Research Institute
Michael T. McCulloough - VP, Environmental Design and Engineering of Walt Disney Imagineering
Anne Mullins - VP and Chief Information Officer of Lockheed Martin
Alex Pacanowski - co-founder of Cadence Biomedical
Glenn Reitmeier - SVP, Advanced Technology Standards and Policy of NBC Universal
William J. Rhodes - Contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Anne Roby - SVP of Praxair Inc.
Robert Slegelmilch - VP Engineering and Technology, Information Systems and Global Solutions of Lockheed Martin
Susan Ward - former CFO of Shell Midstream Partners
Government, politics, and military
Kelly Ayotte - former U.S. Senator from the State of New Hampshire
Jill Biden - former Second Lady of the United States
Joseph Clancy - current director of the U.S. Secret Service
George B. Crist - General - first Marine to be designated Commander in Chief, Central Command
Christopher G. Donovan - Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Walter Doran - Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
William J. Fallon - Admiral, U.S. Navy, and Commander of United States Central Command
Charlie Gerow - political consultant, commentator and lawyer
David Girard-diCarlo - nominated as the U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Joseph Hare - Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
Kate M. Harper - Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2001
Jerramiah T. Healy - Mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. - former U.S. ambassador to Sweden and former chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb; endowed Villanova's Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies
Thomas J. Kearney - Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
Paul X. Kelley - retired Marine general and former Commandant of the Marine Corps
John LaFalce - former U.S. Congressman from New York state, 1975–2002
Frank J. Larkin - Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate
William J. Martini - district court judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Joseph J. McMenamin - Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps
Charles A. Murphy - member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
Dominic Pileggi - State Senate Majority Leader of Pennsylvania
Stanley A. Prokop - former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1959–1961
James M. Quigley - former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
Ed Rendell - former Pennsylvania governor and general chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2000
Marjorie Rendell - former first lady of Pennsylvania; federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Maite O. Rodriguez - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
John G. Rowland - former Connecticut governor, 1995–2004
Matthew J. Ryan - former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Dick Schulze - former U.S. congressman from the State of Pennsylvania, 1975–1993
Donald William Snyder (J.D. 1982) - Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981-2000; Majority Whip
Xavier Suarez - former Mayor of Miami
Dan Truitt - Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Anthony Zinni - General, U.S. Marine Corps (retired); former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Religion and philosophy
Michael Francis Burbidge - Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
Daniel Mark - Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
John Joseph O'Connor - cardinal and Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York
Sports and athletics
Malik Allen - former professional basketball player, currently an assistant coach with the Detroit Pistons
Ryan Arcidiacono - professional basketball player, currently with the San Antonio Spurs, most outstanding player of the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Paul Arizin - former professional basketball player, member of Basketball Hall of Fame, voted one of the 50 all-time greatest in NBA history in 1996
Al Atkinson - professional football player, starting linebacker for the Super Bowl Champion 1969 New York Jets
James Bell (born 1992) - professional basketball player for Israeli team Hapoel Holon
Michael Bradley - former professional basketball player, NBA and European leagues
Don Bragg - 1960 Olympic pole vaulting gold medalist
Eamonn Coghlan - track and field athlete, four-time Olympian and the only man over age 40 to run a sub-four-minute mile
Ron Delany - track and field athlete, gold medalist in 1500 meters at the 1956 Olympic Games
Denise Dillon - VU Hall of Fame; Drexel University Head Women's Basketball Coach
Jumbo Elliott - track and field coach, inducted into National Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1981
Brian Finneran - former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles ('99) and Atlanta Falcons (2000–2009), Walter Payton Award winner 1997
Michael Fitzmaurice - swimmer, gold medalist in the 1967 Pan American Games; American Record and NCAA Record holder
Chris Ford - former professional basketball player and coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers
Randy Foye - professional basketball player
Stan Galazin - professional football player
Darrun Hilliard - professional basketball player, currently with the Detroit Pistons
Larry James - track and field athlete, 1968 Olympic gold and silver medalist in 1600 m relay and 400 m, respectively; Director of Athletics and Recreation at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Wali Jones - former professional basketball player
Kerry Kittles - former professional basketball player with the New Jersey Nets and Los Angeles Clippers, First Team Basketball All-American 1996
Marty Liquori - track and field athlete, competed in the 1968 Olympics as a freshman in the 1500 meter
Howie Long - former professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, Oakland Raiders (1981–1993), football analyst, actor
Kyle Lowry - professional basketball player, currently with the Toronto Raptors
Art Mahan - former professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies, United States Navy officer, Villanova baseball coach and athletic director
Sydney Maree - track and field athlete, 1988 Olympian, three NCAA titles (1500: 1980, 81; 5000: 1979)
Bill Melchionni - former professional basketball player, number retired by NBA Nets
Jimmy Murray - former general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles, co-founder of Ronald McDonald House
Marcus O'Sullivan - Villanova University Head Coach; three-time indoor world champion; four-time Olympian
Sonia O'Sullivan - track and field athlete, 2000 Olympic silver medalist in 5000 m
Don Paige - track and field All-American, NCAA Champion, Penn Relays Champion and a member of 1980 United States Olympic Team that President Carter banned from competing in Moscow Olympics
Richie Phillips - lawyer, players' agent, former head of MLB Umpires and NBA officials unions
Ed Pinckney - former professional basketball player, MVP of 1985 Final Four, member of 1985 National Championship winning basketball team
John Pinone - Second Team Basketball All-American, 1983
Howard Porter - former professional basketball player, First Team Basketball All-American 1971
Allan Ray - professional basketball player, formerly with the Boston Celtics and currently playing in Italy
Kevin Reilly - former professional football player, linebacker and captain of special teams; ('73) Miami Dolphins, ('73-'74) Philadelphia Eagles and ('75) NE Patriots; currently a motivational speaker; sports broadcaster for Philadelphia Eagles and Villanova Football
Scottie Reynolds - professional basketball player; First Team Basketball All-American 2009
Browning Ross - Olympic long-distance runner (1948 and 1952) and gold medal winner at the 1951 Pan American Games
Mike Seamon - professional soccer player for MLS Seattle Sounders
Rory Sparrow - former professional basketball player
Matt Szczur - professional baseball player, currently with the Chicago Cubs; member of 2009 National Championship winning football team
Tim Thomas - former professional basketball player
Raymond Ventrone - professional football player, 2008 Super Bowl participant with NFL Patriots
Doug West - former professional basketball player; unsuccessfully recruited by then-Pitt assistant coach John Calipari
Brian Westbrook - former professional football player, 2001 Walter Payton Award winner, 2006 Super Bowl participant with Philadelphia Eagles
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