The following is a list of notable graduates of Iona University:

Academics

Christ University CHRIST - Deemed to be University is a deemed to be university in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1969 as Christ College, the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India conferred autonomy to Christ College in 2004. On 22 July 2008 i ...

, Bangalore. * Regis J. Armstrong, professor at The Catholic University of America, expert on St. Francis of Assisi and

Saint Clare of Assisi Clare of Assisi (born Chiara Offreduccio and sometimes spelled Clara, Clair, Claire, Sinclair; 16 July 1194 – 11 August 1253) was an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, ...

* Vincent Boudreau, Thirteenth President of the City College of New York (2017 to present), Interim President of the City College of New York (2016) * James J. McGovern, former president of A.T. Still University

Arts & entertainment

* George Cain (1943–2010), author of ''Blueschild Baby'' * Bud Cort, actor most famous for starring in ''

Harold and Maude ''Harold and Maude'' is a 1971 American romantic black comedy–drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot follows the exploits of Harold Chasen ...

'' and '' MASH'' *

Kathleen P. Deignan Kathleen P. Deignan, CND, (born 17 December 1947), is an Irish-American theologian, author and songwriter of contemporary liturgical music. A Sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame, she is composer-in-residence for Schola Ministries and is th ...

, theologian and singer * Tommy Dreamer (real name: Thomas Laughlin), former WWE professional wrestler and former ECW World Heavyweight Champion * Terry Finn, actress * John Gilchrist, former child actor known for playing 'Little Mikey' in

Life cereal Life is a breakfast cereal produced by the Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. It was formerly made of oats, soy protein concentrate, sodium caseinate and sugar, but now also contains corn flour, whole wheat flour, and rice flour. It ...

commercials * Eileen Ivers, Irish-American musician *

Kyle Kulinski Kyle Edward Kulinski (born January 31, 1988) is an American political commentator and media host. Kulinski is the host and producer of ''The Kyle Kulinski Show'' on his YouTube channel ''Secular Talk'' and is a co-host with his partner Krystal ...

, political commentator and host of ''Secular Talk'' * Tim McCarthy, VP of ESPN Radio * Don McLean, American singer-songwriter most famous for the 1971 album '' American Pie'', containing the songs " American Pie" and "

Vincent Vincent ( la, Vincentius) is a male given name derived from the Roman name Vincentius, which is derived from the Latin word (''to conquer''). People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003), Maltese sculptor *Vincent van Gogh ...

" *

Antonio Broccoli Porto Antonio Broccoli Porto (born September 19, 1955) is an American artist, visual artist and sculptor. Early years Broccoli Porto's father was an Italian national and his mother's family, Porto, claim their Puerto Rican heritage, having originally ...

, Italian-Puerto Rican artist, visual artist and sculptor * Mandy Rose (Amanda Rose Saccomanno), American professional wrestler signed to WWE, television personality, and former fitness and figure competitor * Donald Spoto '63, American

celebrity biographer Celebrity biographers are authors who specialize in writing sensationalized books about the lives of celebrities. Historically, biographers have been limited to those who specialized in literary works on important personalities or those officially ...

Daniel Tobin Daniel Tobin (born January 13, 1958) is an American poet, scholar, editor, and essayist. Life Daniel Tobin was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York to Gerard Tobin and Helen Ruane Tobin. Both parents were of Irish ancestry, and his upbringin ...

, American poet and 2009 Guggenheim Fellow *

Terence Winch Terence Patrick Winch is an Irish-American poet, writer and musician. Biography Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where h ...

, Irish-American poet and songwriter

Business

Laurence Boschetto Laurence Boschetto (born July 28, 1954) is Senior Advisor to the Interpublic Group. He used to be the CEO and President of Draftfcb, a global advertising agency network. He assumed this role in February, 2009, after serving as the president and chi ...

, president & CEO and President of

Draftfcb Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB), is one of the largest global advertising agency networks. It is owned by Interpublic Group and was merged in 2006 with Draft Worldwide, adopting the name Draftfcb. In 2014 the company rebranded itself as FCB. Parent ...

Ron Bruder Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment (EFE), a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create p ...

, American entrepreneur who runs Middle East education non-profits, named on the '' Time 100''. * Ellis E. Cousens, executive vice president, CFO & COO of John Wiley & Sons * Randy Falco, President and CEO of Univision Communications Inc., former chairman and CEO of

AOL LLC AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...

Robert Greifeld Robert Greifeld (born 1957) is an American businessman and was the chairman of Nasdaq, the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. He served as CEO from 2003 to 2016 and was succeeded by Adena Friedman. Grei ...

, chairman and former president/CEO of

NASDAQ The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second ...

* James P. Hynes, founder of

COLT Telecom Group Colt Technology Services Group Limited (formerly COLT Telecom Group S.A.) is a multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Inde ...

Alfred F. Kelly Jr. Alfred Francis Kelly Jr. (born 1958) is an American business executive. Until February 2023, he was the chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Visa Inc., a global digital payments company. In October 2016, Kelly succeeded Charles Scharf, ...

, chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc. * Catherine R. Kinney, former president & co-COO of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). * Maggie Timoney, CEO of Heineken, USA *

John Zaccaro John Anthony Zaccaro (born April 5, 1933) is an American real estate developer and owner of P. Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father Philip Zaccaro. The company acts as a landlord for properties in the Little Italy, Chinatown, and Ea ...

, real estate developer and owner of P. Zaccaro & Company; husband of Geraldine Ferraro

Government

Michael Benedetto Michael Benedetto (born June 2, 1947) is a Member of the New York State Assembly representing the 82nd Assembly District, which covers the Co-op City, Throggs Neck, Westchester Square, City Island, Country Club, and Pelham Bay sections of the ...

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

member *

Ronald Blackwood Ronald Alexander Blackwood (January 19, 1926 – February 22, 2017) was a Jamaican-born American politician who served as the mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, for eleven years from 1985 until 1996. On January 25, 1985, Blackwood became the first ...

, Mayor of

Mount Vernon, New York Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the Borough (New York City), borough of the Bronx. As of t ...

(1985–1996), first elected black mayor in New York state *

John Bonacic John J. Bonacic (born June 14, 1942 in New York City) is a retired politician from New York. A Republican, Bonacic represented New York State Senate District 42 (which includes all or parts of Delaware, Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster Counties) fr ...

New York State Senator The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan compo ...

Timothy C. Idoni Timothy C. Idoni was elected mayor of the city of New Rochelle, New York, in 1991, and was reelected three times. He resigned in January 2006 after having been elected Westchester County Clerk. His term expired at the end of 2009. During his yea ...

, Westchester County Clerk, former mayor of

New Rochelle, New York New Rochelle (; older french: La Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2020, the city had a population of 79,726, making it the seventh-largest in the state of ...

Anthony T. Kane Anthony T. Kane is a former associate justice of the New York Supreme Court. He served in the Appellate Division, Third Department, from 2002 until his retirement in 2009. Early life and education Kane was born in New York City to an Irish-des ...

, former

New York Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...

justice *

Edward R. Reilly Edward R. Reilly (born November 28, 1949) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Maryland Senate, appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to represent District 33 after State Senator Janet Greenip resigned. He then ran a ...

'72,

Maryland state senator The Maryland Senate, sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Senate, is the upper house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. Composed of 47 senators elected from an equal number of constituent single-m ...

Nicholas Spano Nicholas A. Spano (born May 21, 1953) is a Republican politician from New York. Biography Spano's paternal grandfather, also named Nicholas, emigrated with two brothers from the Italian province of Bari to the United States in 1918. Spano's fa ...

, former

New York state senator The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan compo ...

* Kevin Sullivan, former White House Communications Director; honored with the NBA's "lifetime achievement award" for PR * John Sweeney, president of the AFL–CIO

Sports

Mike Bertotti Michael David Bertotti (born January 18, 1970) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during three seasons at the major league level for the Chicago White Sox. He was signed by the White Sox in the 31st round of the 1991 amateur d ...

, former Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox *

Steve Burtt, Sr. Steven Dwayne Burtt (born November 5, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player. The 6'2" point guard played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) sporadically from 1984 until 1993. He also had an established playing career ...

, former professional basketball player in the NBA; Steve and son, Steve Jr. are the all-time leading father-son scoring duo in NCAA history *

Tony DeMeo Tony DeMeo (born July 5, 1948) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York from 1975 to 1978, Mercyhurst College—now known as Mercyhurst University—in Erie, Pennsylvania ...

, college head football coach *

Eleri Earnshaw Eleri Earnshaw (born 17 May 1985) is a football player and coach who has played for the Welsh national team, the New York Magic, and Arsenal Ladies. Earnshaw is currently the assistant coach of Angel City FC in the National Women's Soccer Leagu ...

, current Wales international soccer player and soccer coach *

Kyle Flood Kyle J. Flood (born January 20, 1971) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Texas Longhorns football team. He is also the former head football coach of the Ru ...

, college head football coach * Jerry Flora, college head football coach * Sean Green, former professional basketball player in the NBA *

Richie Guerin Richard Vincent Guerin (born May 29, 1932) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) New York Knicks from 1956 to 1963 and was a player-coach of the St. Louis/Atlan ...

, former professional basketball player and coach in the NBA *

Warren Isaac Joseph Warren Isaac (born August 8, 1943), commonly known as Warren Isaac in the United States and Joe Isaac in Italy, is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He had a standout college career at Iona before playing and coac ...

, former professional basketball player in Europe * Tariq Kirksay, professional basketball player in Europe; member of French national basketball team * Dennis Leonard, former professional baseball player with the

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

Brendan Malone Brendan Thomas Malone (born April 21, 1942) is an American basketball coach. Early life Malone grew up in Astoria, Queens in New York City and graduated from Rice High School. Malone's father, also named Brendan, unloaded freight cars for the R ...

, current professional basketball coach in the NBA *

Scott Machado Michael Scott Machado (born June 8, 1990) is an American-Brazilian professional basketball player for Avtodor Saratov of the VTB United League. He played college basketball for Iona College and represents the Brazilian national basketball team. ...

, former professional basketball player in the NBA. Currently plays professionally in Europe. * Nakiea Miller, professional basketball player * Jason Motte, professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals, who was the closer in Game 7 of the 2011 World Series * Jeff Ruland, former professional basketball player in the NBA; current college basketball coach; star on 1980 Gaels team that went to the NCAA tournament. *

Mindaugas Timinskas Mindaugas Timinskas (born March 28, 1974) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and basketball coach. He represented the senior Lithuanian national basketball team. College career Born in Šilutė, Lithuanian SSR, Timinskas play ...

, former professional basketball player in Europe and member of the

Lithuanian national basketball team The Lithuania men's national basketball team ( lt, Lietuvos nacionalinė vyrų krepšinio rinktinė) represents Lithuania in international basketball competitions. They are controlled by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, the governing body ...

Vito Valentinetti Vito John Valentinetti (September 16, 1928 – August 5, 2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher. His nine-year career included one full season and parts of four others in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Chicago White Sox (19 ...

, former professional baseball player with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators

Religion

* Gerald Thomas Walsh, auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

References

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