This is a list of people associated with Syracuse University, including founders, financial benefactors, notable alumni, notable educators, and speakers.

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

has over 250,000 alumni representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 170 countries and territories.

Founders

Jesse Truesdell Peck Jesse Truesdell Peck (April 4, 1811 – May 17, 1883) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872. Birth and family He was born on April 4, 1811, in Middlefield Center, Otsego County, New York. His family was of Eng ...

– first chairman of the university's board of trustees *

George F. Comstock George Franklin Comstock (1811–1892) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1860 to 1861. Personal life Comstock was born on August 24, 1811, in Williamstown, New York. He graduated fro ...

* George L. Taylor * Charles Andrews

Notable Benefactors

John Dustin Archbold John Dustin Archbold (July 26, 1848 – December 6, 1916) was an American businessman and one of the United States' earliest oil refiners. His small oil company was bought out by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. Archbold rose rapidl ...

– oil *

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...

– steel *

–real estate * Joseph Lubin – real estate * Donald Newhouse – publishing *

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. (born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus; May 24, 1895 – August 29, 1979) was an American broadcasting businessman, as well as a magazine and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of Advance Publications. Early life Newhouse ...

– publishing *

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 – October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. Together with his brother Donald Newhouse, Donald, he owned Advance Publications, founded by their late Sa ...

– publishing *

Eliphalet Remington Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as ''E. Remington'' followed by ''E. Remington & Son'' and then ''E. ...

– firearm *

Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, known as Olivia Sage (September 8, 1828 – November 4, 1918), was an American philanthropist known for her contributions to education and progressive causes. In 1869 she became the second wife of robber baron Russel ...

– philanthropist *

Lyman Cornelius Smith Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850-1910) was an American innovator and industrialist. He is buried in a mausoleum in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York. Early business ventures L.C. Smith's first business venture occurred in 1873, when he opened a ...

– firearm and typewriter magnate *

Thomas J. Watson Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's manageme ...

– IBM * Martin J. Whitman – investment advisor

Notable alumni

Arts and letters

Nilo Alcala Nilo Alcala is a Filipino-American composer and 2019 The American Prize Winner in Composition. He is the first Philippine-born composer to be commissioned by Grammy winner Los Angeles Master Chorale, and also to receive the Aaron Copland House Re ...

– composer, first Philippine-born recipient of the

Aaron Copland House The Aaron Copland House, also known as Rock Hill or Copland House, is the former home of composer Aaron Copland for the last 30 years of his life, and now also a creative center for American music. Located on Washington Street in Cortlandt Manor ...

Residency Award and a

Los Angeles Master Chorale The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional chorus in Los Angeles, California, and one of the resident companies of both The Music Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the t ...

commission *

Julia Alvarez Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents'' (1991), '' In the Time of the Butterflies'' (1994), and ''Yo!'' ...

– poet, novelist, and essayist *

Donna Alvermann Donna Alvermann is an American educator and researcher in the field of Language and Literacy Education whose work focuses on adolescent literacy in and out of school, inclusive of new media and digital literacies. Her most recent research interest ...

– prominent professor and researcher in adolescent and media literacies * Joe Amato – author *

Robb Armstrong Robb Armstrong is an African American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip '' Jump Start''. His comic strip '' Jump Start'' is the most widely syndicated daily strip by an African American in the world. Early life and education Ar ...

– cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start * Brad Anderson – cartoonist of the comic strip

Marmaduke ''Marmaduke'' is a newspaper comic strip revolving around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke, drawn by Brad Anderson from June 1954 to 2015. Publication history The strip was created by Anderson, and sold to the John F. Dille ...

* Maltbie D. Babcock – 19th century clergyman and author *

Harriete Estel Berman Harriete Estel Berman (born 1952) is an American artist known for her sculptures and jewelry made from post-consumer, recycled household goods, and her satirical explorations of women's roles in society. Early life and education Berman was born ...

– artist * Nydia Blas – photographer * James Bishop – painter * Joel Brouwer – poet, educator, and journalist * Gordon Chandler – sculptor *

Wendy Coakley-Thompson Wendy Coakley-Thompson (nee, Wendy Cecille Thompson; born December 27, 1966), is a mainstream fiction author. Coakley-Thompson's work is part of emerging millennial contemporary African-American literature. Coakley-Thompson's fiction addresses ...

– novelist *

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

– novelist; stayed only one semester, later admitting he came "more to play baseball than to study." *

Virginia Cuthbert Virginia Cuthbert Elliot (August 27, 1908, in West Newton, Pennsylvania – January 24, 2001) was an American artist. Life She graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA. She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, the Academie de la ...

– artist * Mabel Potter Daggett – journalist and suffragist * Aleš Debeljak – poet, essayist and sociologist *

Stephen Dunn Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, ''Different Hours,'' and received an Academy Award i ...

– poet, winner of the 2001

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

Birgitta Moran Farmer Birgitta Moran Farmer (1881–1939) was an American artist particularly known for her portrait miniatures. Life Farmer was born in Lyons, New York. She attended Lyons Public School and graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rochester ...

– painter, winner of 1906 Hiram Gee Award in Painting *

Frances Farrand Dodge Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher. Early life and education The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Au ...

– watercolorist and landscape artist *

Paul Finkelman Paul Finkelman (born November 15, 1949) is an American legal historian, the Robert E. and Susan T. Rydell Visiting Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a research affiliate at the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre f ...

– historian *

Moses Finley Sir Moses Israel Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s, resulted ...

– historian *

Carlisle Floyd Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926September 30, 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas. These stage works, for which he wrote the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American South, particularly the Post ...

– opera composer *

Whitney Gaskell Whitney Gaskell (born 1972) is an American author of eight comedic novels published by Bantam Books. Biography Whitney Gaskell was born on February 8, 1972 in Syracuse, New York. She attended Jamesville-DeWitt High School, and earned her Bac ...

– novelist * Sharon Gold – artist and professor *

William Pratt Graham William Pratt Graham (November 24, 1871 – January 10, 1962) was an electrical engineering professor and the sixth chancellor of Syracuse University. Graham was the first alumnus of Syracuse as well as the first non-clergyman to hold that positio ...

– sixth chancellor of Syracuse University *

Clement Greenberg Clement Greenberg () (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formali ...

– art critic * Henry Grethel – fashion designer *

Beth Gylys Beth Ann Gylys (born 1964 Passaic, New Jersey) is a poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University. She has published five poetry collections, three of which have won awards. Early life and education Gylys grew up ...

– poet and professor *

Beth Harrington Beth Harrington (born July 2, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated filmmaker based in Vancouver, Washington, specializing in documentary features. Her documentaries often explore American history, music and culture, ...

– filmmaker and musician *

Michael Herr Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of '' Dispatches'' (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for ''Esquire'' (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The ...

– writer and war correspondent * Susan Joy Hassol – science communicator * Morton L. Janklow – literary agent *

Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...

– novelist *

Betsey Johnson Betsey Johnson (born 1942) is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She also is known for doing a cartwheel ending in a split at the ...

– fashion designer * David N. Johnson – composer, organist, and professor * Joseph S. Kozlowski – portrait artist *

Hilton Kramer Hilton Kramer (March 25, 1928 – March 27, 2012) was an American art critic and essayist. Biography Early life Kramer was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and was educated at Syracuse University, receiving a bachelor's degree in English; ...

– critic, "The Revenge of the Philistines" *

Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captio ...

– collage artist *

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

– sculptor * James F. Light – literary scholar * Mark Lombardi – abstract painter * Jenni Lukac – contemporary artist * John D. MacDonald – novelist *

Don Maloney Donald Michael Maloney (born September 5, 1958) is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player. He is currently the Vice President of Hockey Operations for the Calgary Flames. He was formerly the general manager of the Phoenix/Arizona Coy ...

– Japanophile author * Barry N. Malzberg – science fiction writer * Jerre Mangione – novelist, and scholar of the Italian-American experience *

Robert Mankoff Robert Mankoff (born May 1, 1944Wilson, Craig. "Top drawer at 'The New Yorker' Mankoff makes his imprint as cartoon editor," ''USA Today'' (2 October 1997): D, 1:2.) is an American cartoonist, editor, and author. He was the cartoon editor for ' ...

– cartoonist and editor of ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' *

Donald Martino Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino attended Plainfield High School. He began as a clarinetist, playing jazz for fun and ...

– Pulitzer Prize-winning composer * Clifton E. Marsh – historian of the

African diaspora The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were e ...

Scott McCloud Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: ''Understanding Comics'' (1993), '' Reinventing Comics'' (2000), and ''Making Comics'' (200 ...

– cartoonist and comics theorist *

Jay McInerney John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. (; born January 13, 1955) is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include '' Bright Lights, Big City'', ''Ransom'', '' Story of My Life'', ''Brightness Falls'', and ''The Last of ...

– novelist *

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

– novelist * Robert O'Connor – novelist *

Tom Perrotta Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

– novelist and screenwriter * John Pfahl – photographer and professor *

Salvador Plascencia Salvador, meaning "salvation" (or "saviour") in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese may refer to: * Salvador (name) Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music ** ''Salvador'' (S ...

– novelist * Kim Ponders – novelist *

William Powhida William Powhida (born 1976) is an American visual artist and former art critic. Powhida's work is critical and addresses the contemporary art world. Education Powhida received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Hunter College in January, 20 ...

– artist *

Mary Jo Putney Mary Jo Putney (born in New York) is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She has also published romantic fantasy novels as M.J. Putney. Her books are known for their unusual subject matt ...

– romance novelist *

Jim Ridlon James Arthur Ridlon (born July 11, 1934) is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football and college lacrosse at Syracuse University. After footba ...

– sports painter and sculptor, also a former professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player * M. J. Rose – author and book marketing executive *

William Safire William Lewis Safire (; Safir; December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009Safire, William (1986). ''Take My Word for It: More on Language.'' Times Books. . p. 185.) was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He w ...

– Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator and former ''New York Times'' columnist *

George Saunders George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...

– short-story writer *

Alice Sebold Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American author. She is known for her novels ''The Lovely Bones'' and '' The Almost Moon'', and a memoir, '' Lucky''. ''The Lovely Bones'' was on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list and was adapte ...

– novelist * Laurie Gwen Shapiro – novelist, director, Independent Spirit Award for '' Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale'' *

Esther Baker Steele Esther Baker Steele (, Baker; August 4, 1835 – November 23, 1911) was an American educator, author, editor, and philanthropist of the long nineteenth century. She aided her husband, Dr. Joel Dorman Steele, J. Dorman Steele in his fourteen-week B ...

– educator, author, traveler, philanthropist * Anthony Veasna So – Cambodian-American short story writer *

Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed (; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel ''Torch'' (2006) and the nonfiction books '' Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' (2012), '' Ti ...

– novelist, memoirist, and essayist *

Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth ...

– novelist * William Tester – short story writer * Dorothy Thompson – journalist *

Jack Tippit Jack Tippit (October 19, 1923 – October 14, 1994) was an American cartoonist whose work includes the comic strip ''Amy'', which he produced from 1964 through 1991. Early life Tippit was born in Texas. He graduated from Texas Technological Coll ...

– cartoonist *

Ada Josephine Todd Ada Josephine Todd (also known as Adah J. Todd; June 16, 1858 – October 27, 1904) was an American author and educator. Early life and education Ada (or, "Adah") Josephine Todd was born in Redding, Connecticut, June 16, 1858. Her parents were S ...

– author and educator * Lori Weitzner – textile designer *

Stephanie Welsh Stephanie Welsh (born 27 June 1973) is an American photographer turned midwife. While in journalism, Welsh worked for the Daily Nation in Nairobi and The Palm Beach Post in the 1990s. During her photography career, Welsh became the youngest perso ...

– Pulitzer prize winning photographer turned midwife * Ryan Van Winkle – poet * Irene Vilar – author and literary agent * Kate Vrijmoet – artist *

John A. Williams John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an African American author, journalist, and academic. His novel ''The Man Who Cried I Am'' was a bestseller in 1967. Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection ' ...

– novelist *

Howard Wyeth Howard Pyle Wyeth (April 22, 1944 – March 27, 1996), also known as Howie Wyeth, was an American drummer and pianist. Wyeth is remembered for work with the saxophonist James Moody, the rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, the electric guitarist L ...

– drummer and pianist

Education

Donna Shalala, official portrait, 116th Congress

Molly Corbett Broad Molly Corbett Broad (February 22, 1941 – January 2, 2023) was an American academic administrator who was president of the American Council on Education and the University of North Carolina. Early life and education Molly Corbett was born in ...

– President,

American Council on Education The American Council on Education (ACE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. higher education association established in 1918. ACE's members are the leaders of approximately 1,700 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher educatio ...

* Walter Broadnax – President,

Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Found ...

George Campbell Jr. George Campbell Jr. (born December 2, 1945) was the eleventh president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from July 2000 to July 2011. Education Campbell earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Syracuse University in 197 ...

– former President,

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

Mary Schmidt Campbell Mary Schmidt Campbell (born October 21, 1947), is an American academic administrator and museum curator. She began her tenure as the 10th president of Spelman College on August 1, 2015. Prior to this position, Schmidt Campbell held several positi ...

– President,

Spelman College Spelman College is a private, historically black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman re ...

* Kent John Chabotar – President,

Guilford College Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education (CCE). Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of ...

R. Inslee Clark, Jr. Russell Inslee "Inky" Clark Jr. (1935 – August 3, 1999) was an educator, administrator, and a key player in the transition of the Ivy League into co-education in the 1960s and diversified student bodies to the present from the 1960s. Personal lif ...

– Director of Admissions,

Yale College Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...

* Michael Crow – President,

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

Mark Emmert Mark Allen Emmert (born December 16, 1952) is the current president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He is the fifth CEO of the NCAA; he was named as the incoming president on April 27, 2010, and assumed his duties on November 1, ...

– President,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

– President,

Gratz College Gratz College is a private Jewish college in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. The college traces its origins to 1856 when banker, philanthropist, and communal leader Hyman Gratz and the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia (established in 1849 ...

* Welthy Honsinger Fisher – Founder
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* A. Lee Fritschler – former President,

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

(MPA'60 & PhD '65) *

Jonathan Gibralter Jonathan C. Gibralter (born 1956) is an American academic executive and president of Wells College in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York. Previously, he was also the 14th president of Frostburg State University in Maryland, from August 2006 to June 30 ...

– President,

State University of New York at Farmingdale The State University of New York at Farmingdale (Farmingdale State College or SUNY Farmingdale) is a public college in East Farmingdale, New York. It is part of the State University of New York. The college was chartered in 1912 as a school of ap ...

Shelley Haley Shelley P. Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and (in 2021) President of the Society for Classical Studies. She is an expert in applying Black feminist and critical race ...

– Professor of Classics and Africana Studies,

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

* Kermit L. Hall – former president,

State University of New York at Albany The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

Utah State University Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's ...

* Alice Ilchman – President,

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

* David Knapp – President,

University of Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and a medica ...

* Barry Mills – President,

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...

Sean O'Keefe Sean Charles O'Keefe (born January 27, 1956) is a university professor at Syracuse University Maxwell School, former chairman of Airbus Group, Inc., former Secretary of the Navy, former Administrator of NASA, and former chancellor of Louisiana ...

– former Chancellor,

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

(LSU) *

L. Jay Oliva Lawrence Jay Oliva (September 23, 1933 – April 17, 2014), known as L. Jay Oliva, was the 14th President of New York University. Born in Walden, New York he earned a B.A. from Manhattan College (1955) and a M.A. (1957)/Ph.D. (1960) from Syracuse U ...

– former president,

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

* Joseph Rallo – President,

Angelo State University Angelo State University is a public university in San Angelo, Texas. It was founded in 1928 as San Angelo College. It gained university status and awarded its first baccalaureate degrees in 1967 and graduate degrees in 1969, the same year it too ...

* Mark Reckase – University Distinguished Professor Emeritus,

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

* Kenneth P. Ruscio – President,

Washington and Lee University , mottoeng = "Not Unmindful of the Future" , established = , type = Private liberal arts university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.092 billion (2021) , president = William C. Dudley , provost = Lena Hill , city = Lexingto ...

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presid ...

– President,

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...

* Deborah F. Stanley – President, State University of New York at Oswego *

Mitchel Wallerstein Mitchel B. Wallerstein is an American educator, philanthropist, policy expert, and former senior official of the federal government of the United States. He is the President Emeritus of Baruch College of the City University of New York and is cur ...

– President,

Baruch College Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City. It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates und ...

Investors, industrialists, and executives

* P.O. Ackley – world-renowned Gunsmith, CEO, P.O. Ackley Inc. *

Daniel A. D'Aniello Daniel Anthony D'Aniello (born September 14, 1946) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the cofounder and chairman of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Biography Early life D'Aniello grew up in ...

– co-founder and chairman, The

Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and pri ...

Ben Baldanza Basil Ben Baldanza (born December 3, 1961) is an economist and was the chief executive officer and president of Spirit Airlines from 2005 to 2016, a period in which he led the transformation of the company into an ultra-low-cost carrier. Biogr ...

– airline executive and former CEO of

Spirit Airlines Spirit Airlines Inc. (stylized as spirit) is a major ultra-low-cost U.S. carrier headquartered in Miramar, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. Spirit operates scheduled flights throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Latin Ameri ...

Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud ( ar, الوليد بن طلال آل سعود; born 7 March 1955) is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor, philanthropist and royal. He was listed on ''Time'' magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hu ...

– founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co *

William J. Brodsky William J. Brodsky is an American businessman working as a director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, executive chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges. Education Brods ...

– chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Board Options Exchange *

Stanley Chais Stanley Chais (March 27, 1926 – September 26, 2010) was an American investment advisor, money manager, and philanthropist. He operated " feeder funds" which collected money for funds related to the Madoff investment scandal. The widow, family, ...

(1926–2010) – investment advisor in the Madoff investment scandal *

Dennis Crowley Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare. Education Crowley was born in Medway, Massachusetts to Mary Moraski Crowley and Dennis P Crowley. He ...

– co-founder,

Foursquare (service) Foursquare City Guide, commonly known as Foursquare, is a local search-and-discovery mobile app developed by Foursquare Labs Inc. The app provides personalized recommendations of places to go near a user's current location based on users' previ ...

* Mary C. Daly - President and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco *

Nick Donofrio Nicholas Michael Donofrio (born September 7, 1945) is an American scientist and engineer and was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. Upon retirement, he was selected as an honorary IBM Fell ...

– Senior Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing, IBM *

Bernard Goldberg Bernard Richard Goldberg (born May 31, 1945) is an American author, journalist, and political pundit. Goldberg has won fourteen Emmy Awards and was a producer, reporter and correspondent for CBS News for twenty-eight years (1972–2000) and a p ...

(1948) – Co-founder of

Raymour & Flanigan Raymour & Flanigan is a high-end American furniture retail chain, based in the Northeastern United States. Overview Raymour's Furniture Company, the predecessor of Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, was established by brothers Bernard Goldberg and Ar ...

William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the lat ...

– Director, Lazard Freres & Company *

E. Floyd Kvamme Earl Floyd Kvamme (born 1938) is an American engineer, venture capitalist, and government advisor. Early life The son of Norwegian immigrant parents, Kvamme grew up in Northern California graduating from Jefferson High School of Daly City in 195 ...

– Partner Emeritus; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Chairman, Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under President George W Bush *

Jeff McCormick The 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of Massachusetts, concurrently with the election of Massachusetts' Class II U.S. Senate seat, and other elections to the United States Senate ...

– founder, Saturn Partners, and Independent candidate for governor in the

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* Richard Menschel – (retired) senior director of

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

, philanthropist. * Robert Menschel – (retired) legendary senior director of

, philanthropist, created Wall Street's first institutional department. *

– former Chairman of

Airbus Airbus SE (; ; ; ) is a European Multinational corporation, multinational aerospace corporation. Airbus designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace manufacturer, aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft througho ...

Group, Inc. * Lowell W. Paxson – founder of Home Shopping Network * Kirthiga Reddy – former MD of Facebook India. *

Arthur Rock Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor. Based in Silicon Valley, California, he was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. Early life Rock was born and ...

– venture capitalist, cofounder of

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

and father figure to Apple founder

Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a ...

Vishal Sikka Vishal Sikka (born May, 1967) is the Founder and CEO of Vianai, former CTO of SAP AG, and former CEO of Infosys. He currently also serves on Oracle's board of directors, the supervisory board of the BMW Group and as an advisor to the Stanford ...

– CEO & MD (Designate) Infosys Ltd. *

Abhay Vakil Abhay Arvind Vakil (1951–2021) was an Indian billionaire businessman, and a non-executive director of Asian Paints Ltd, India's largest paint company. As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$6.25 billion. Vakil was among the 100 ...

– Indian businessman & non-executive director of

Asian Paints Ltd Asian Paints Ltd is an Indian multinational paint company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company is engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and distribution of paints, coatings, products related to home décor, bat ...

* Martin J. Whitman – founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Third Avenue Value Fund

Hospitality, real estate, construction, and architecture

Dean Alvord Dean Alvord (December 4, 1856 – April 18, 1941) was an American real estate developer, college professor, and philanthropist known for his real estate developments in the New York City Metropolitan Area and in Florida. He was a relative of both ...

– developer known best for developing

Belle Terre, New York Belle Terre is a village in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 792 at the 2010 census. History The peninsula on which the community of Belle Terre is s ...

Prospect Park South Prospect Park South is a small neighborhood in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, located south of Prospect Park. It is included within the Prospect Park South Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation ...

, and

Roslyn Estates, New York Roslyn Estates is a village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered part of the Greater Roslyn area, which is anchored by the Incorporated Village of Ros ...

. *

Harley Baldwin Harley Baldwin (April 17, 1945 – January 23, 2005) was an American land developer, developer and art dealer who divided his time between residences in Aspen, Colorado, and New York City. He was best known for his successes in the former communit ...

– developer in

Aspen, Colorado Aspen is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,004 at the 2020 United States Census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mounta ...

* Thomas Wilson Boyde Jr. (1905–1981), American architect, first Black architect in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...

* Arthur Bridgman Clark – architect, professor, first head of the Art Department at Stanford University *

Thom Filicia The surname Thom is of Scottish origin, from the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Angus, and is a sept of the Clan MacThomas. Thom is also a first name variant of the abbreviation " Tom" of "Thomas" that holds the "h". People with the surn ...

– interior designer, author, television host *

Bruce Fowle Bruce Fowle is an American architect. He co-founded Fox & Fowle Architects in 1978 and is now Founding Principal Emeritus at FXCollaborative. Fowle's work ranges from high-rise, multi-use complexes to cultural institutions and private homes. Fowl ...

– architect, Fox & Fowle Architects * James Garrison – architect, Garrison Architects * Adam Gross – architect, Ayers Saint Gross *

Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr. Wilbur R. Ingalls Jr., (February 21, 1923 − September 23, 1997) was an American architect from the state of Maine. Ingalls focused mainly on schools, but also designed other types of public buildings such as churches and banks. Early life Wilb ...

– architect *

Lorimer Rich Lorimer Rich (December 24, 1891 – June 2, 1978) was an American architect, born in Camden, New York. He is now best remembered for collaborating with sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones on the winning entry in a nationwide competition to create a ...

– architect, designed the

Tomb of the Unknowns The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a historic monument dedicated to deceased U.S. service members whose remains have not been identified. It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. The World War I "Unknown" is a re ...

in Washington, DC and the

Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, is a war memorial located within Washington Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The memorial honors the thousands of ...

Rome, NY Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which li ...

David Rockwell David Rockwell (born July 25, 1956) is an American architect and designer. He is the founder and president of Rockwell Group, a 250-person cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York City with satellite offices in Madrid ...

– founder and CEO, Rockwell Group * Steve Rubell – former Studio 54 club owner *

Ian Schrager Ian Schrager (born July 19, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, hotelier and real estate developer, credited for co-creating the "boutique hotel" category of accommodation. Originally, he gained fame as co-owner and co-founder of Studio 54. Ear ...

– hotelier and former Studio 54 club owner * Werner Seligmann – architect *

– interior designer, author, television host

Law and public service

* Bob Antonacci – former NYS Senate Member, NYS Supreme Court Judge * Andrew P. Bakaj – U.S. Attorney and lead counsel for the Whisteblower during the Impeachment Inquiry and the subsequent Impeachment of President Donald Trump. *

Craig Benson Craig R. Benson (born October 8, 1954
...

– former New Hampshire Governor * Joe Biden – 46th

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

, 47th

Vice President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...

, U.S. Senator from

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

, Chairman of the

U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. It is generally responsible for overseeing and funding foreign aid pr ...

Beau Biden Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (February 3, 1969 – May 30, 2015) was an American politician, lawyer, and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from Wilmington, Delaware. The oldest child of current U.S. president Joe Bi ...

– former Attorney General of Delaware, son of Joe Biden *

Dave Bing David Bing (born November 24, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player, businessman, and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After starring a ...

– former Mayor of

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

, NBA Hall of Famer *

Carolyn Bourdeaux Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux (born June 3, 1970) is an American educator and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Georgia's 7th congressional district since 2021. The district was based in Gwinnett County, an affluent suburban county ...

– Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 7th district *

Jon Bramnick Jon M. Bramnick (born February 24, 1953) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey Senate since 2022, representing the 21st legislative district. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly, repres ...

– current

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

Assembly Minority Leader * Angus Cameron – former Senator from Wisconsin *

Gary Chan Gary Chan Hak-kan, BBS, JP (born 24 April 1976) is a current member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He represents the New Territories North East constituency and is a member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progre ...

– Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 2008 * George Fletcher Chandler – first Superintendent of the

New York State Police The New York State Police (NYSP) is the state police of the state of New York in the United States. It is part of the New York State Executive Department, and employs over 5,000 sworn state troopers and 711 civilian members. History The State ...

John T. Connor John Thomas Connor (November 3, 1914 – October 6, 2000) was an American government official and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from January 18, 1965 to January 31, 1967. Life and career Connor was born in ...

– former US

Secretary of Commerce The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary rep ...

* David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone *

Al D'Amato Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born August 1, 1937) is an American politician born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He served as United States Senator for New York between 1981 and 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies. ...

– former Senator from New York *

Willy De Clercq Willy Clarisse Elvire Hector, Viscount De Clercq (8 July 1927 – 28 October 2011) was a Belgian liberal politician. De Clercq was born in Ghent, son of Frans de Clercq.Etat présent de la noblesse belge 2015, p. 62 After his law and notariat s ...

– former

European Commissioner for Trade The European Commissioner for Trade (sometimes referred to as the ''EU Trade Commissioner'') is the member of the European Commission responsible for the Common Commercial Policy (EU), European Union's common commercial policy. Responsibilities ...

and External Relations, former Belgian Minister of Finance, Foreign Trade, and Budget; former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister *

John A. DeFrancisco John A. DeFrancisco (born October 16, 1946) is an attorney and Republican politician who formerly represented District 50 in the New York State Senate from 1993 to 2018. Senate District 50 comprises Skaneateles, Pompey, Van Buren, most of Onon ...

– New York State Senator * Robert Duffy – Mayor of

, Lt. Governor, New York State *

Kwabena Dufuor Kwabena Duffuor was the List of Mills government ministers, Finance Minister of Ghana. He has also served as the governor of the Bank of Ghana. He was named as one of the four best Central Bank Governors in the World at an IMF/World Bank meeting ...

– Finance Minister of Ghana and former of Governor,

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. * Ronald A. George – Maryland State Delegate * James E. Graves, Jr. – United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Fifth Circuit, formerly Mississippi Supreme Court Justice * Stanley L. Greigg – member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

from northwestern

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

David Gurfein David Gurfein is an American military veteran. He retired as a U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. Gurfein is currently the CEO of the American nonprofit organization United American Patriots (UAP). Early life Gurfein attended Great Neck South ...

– U.S. Marine Corps

lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...

, and CEO of nonprofit organization United American Patriots *

Steve Hagerty Stephen H. Hagerty (born November 15, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and politician. He was the 21st mayor of Evanston, Illinois from May 8, 2017, to May 10, 2021. A month after Hagerty retired from office, Evanston was recognize ...

– 21st mayor of

Evanston, Illinois Evanston ( ) is a city, suburb of Chicago. Located in Cook County, Illinois, United States, it is situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan. Evanston is north of Downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, Wil ...

Arthur T. Hannett Arthur Thomas Hannett (February 17, 1884 – March 18, 1966) was an American lawyer and politician who rose to become the List of governors of New Mexico, seventh Governor of New Mexico, governor of New Mexico. Biography He was born on Febr ...

– former Governor of

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...

Kathy Hochul Kathleen Hochul ( ; née Courtney; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician serving as the 57th governor of New York since August 24, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor, as well as the first ...

– Congresswoman, New York, Governor, New York State (’80) *

John Katko John Michael Katko (; born November 9, 1962) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 24th congressional district, based in Syracuse, since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previ ...

– Congressman, New York *

Randy Kuhl John Randolph Kuhl Jr. (born April 19, 1943) is an American Republican politician. He is a former member of the New York State Assembly, the New York State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. Kuhl represented New York's 29th ...

– Congressman, New York *

Mordecai Lee Mordecai Lee is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate. Biography Lee was born on August 27, 1948 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University. Curre ...

– Wisconsin State Senator *

Belva A. Lockwood Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician, educator, and author who was active in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements. She was one of the first women lawyers in the United Sta ...

– (GC) First woman to receive her party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the US Supreme Court *

Oren Lyons Oren R. Lyons Jr. (born 1930, Seneca) is a Native American Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan. The Seneca are one of the Six Nations of the historic Haudenosaunee Confederacy.William Magnarelli William B. Magnarelli (born March 20, 1949) is a member of the New York State Assembly, for the 129th district first elected in 1998. He is a Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or demo ...

– New York State Assemblyman *

Joanie Mahoney Joanne M. "Joanie" Mahoney (born 1965) is the fifth president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), in Syracuse, New York. Prior to this, she served as the County Executive of Onondaga County, ...

– Former Onondaga County Executive * Neal P. McCurn – Senior Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New York *

Theodore McKee Theodore Alexander McKee (born June 5, 1947, in Rochester, New York) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He previously served on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in the First ...

– United States Court of Appeals Chief Judge for the Third Circuit * Rodney C. Moen – Wisconsin State Senator *

Toby Moffett Anthony John Moffett, Jr. (born August 18, 1944) is a former American politician from the state of Connecticut. A Democrat, Moffett served in the United States House of Representatives as the member from Connecticut's 6th congressional distri ...

– Former US Congressman from Connecticut * John H. Mulroy – former Onondaga County Executive * Norman A. Mordue – Chief Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New York *

Bismarck Myrick Bismarck Myrick (born December 23, 1940) is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia (1999–2002) and Lesotho (1995–1998). He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a decorated Vietnam War hero. He represented the U. ...

– former US Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia and Lesotho *

– former

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

administrator *

Masahide Ota Masahide (written: 正秀, 正英, 昌秀, 政秀, 政英 or 雅英) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese sprinter *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese basebal ...

– former Governor of Okinawa, Japan * John Prevas – Circuit Court Judge, City of Baltimore *

Elliott Portnoy Elliott I. Portnoy (born November 1, 1965) is an American attorney and the Global chief executive officer of Dentons—a law firm that launched March 28, 2013 with the combination of US/UKMEA firm SNR Denton, Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain and ...

– Chairman of SNR Denton * Steven Rothman – Congressman, New Jersey *

Warren Rudman Warren Bruce Rudman (May 18, 1930November 19, 2012) was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that Pr ...

– former Senator, New Hampshire * Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. – Senior Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New York *

– former Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services, US House of Representatives from Florida *

Salvador del Solar Salvador Alejandro Jorge del Solar Labarthe (; born 1 May 1970) is a Peruvian actor, director and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Peru from March to September 2019, in President Martín Vizcarra's administration. Born in Lima, from ...

– former

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* Glenn T. Suddaby – Justice for the US District Court, Northern District of New York * John H. Terry – former US Congressman *

Sandra L. Townes Sandra Lynn Townes (September 29, 1944 – February 8, 2018) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Early life and education Born in Spartanburg ...

– Justice for the US District Court, Eastern District of New York *

– former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counter-proliferation policy *

Ben Walsh Benjamin Walsh (born July 4, 1979) is an American politician currently serving as the 54th Mayor of Syracuse New York, United States. Walsh assumed office on January 1, 2018 as the first independent mayor of Syracuse and the second without majo ...

– 54th Mayor of Syracuse *

George Warrington George David Warrington (September 19, 1952 – December 24, 2007) was an American transportation official, who served New Jersey Transit for 28 years, latterly in the post of executive director. He grew up in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey ...

–

NJ Transit New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit, and often shortened to NJT, is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania. It operates bu ...

president and former

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

president *

David P. Weber David Paul Weber is an American criminalist, and the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He is the Principal Investigator of a $2.6 million grant by the U.S. Department of H ...

– former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the US Securities and Exchange Commission * John P. White – former Deputy Secretary, US Department of Defense

Media and communications

Russ Alben Bernard Russ Alben (December 27, 1929 – August 26, 2012) was an American advertising executive and composer. He served as the Vice President and Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather from the early 1970s until his retirement in December 1981. ...

– advertising executive, created the Timex tagline, "''

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''" *

Marv Albert Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American retired sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball". From 1967 to 2004, he wa ...

– sportscaster * David Amber – reporter,

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

Damon Amendolara Damon Lawrence Amendolara (born June 21, 1979) is the morning host (6a-10a ET) on the CBS Sports Radio Network, heard across North America. He was promoted to that time slot in March 2017. He previously worked as the evening host for WBZ-FM in Bos ...

– sportscaster * Emily Barkann –

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...

correspondent *

Michael Barkann Michael Barkann (born April 30, 1960, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States) is an American sports host, anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Philadelphia. From 2011-2016, he co-hosted the "Mike and Ike" show on 94 WIP weekdays from 10am - 2pm ...

– sportscaster,

Comcast SportsNet NBC Sports Regional Networks is the collective name for a group of regional sports networks in the United States that are primarily owned and operated by the NBCUniversal division of the cable television company Comcast. The networks were origin ...

, 94WIP Philadelphia *

Len Berman Leonard Berman (born June 14, 1947) is an American television sportscaster and journalist who is based in New York City. He is currently hosting the morning show on WOR-AM along with Michael Riedel. Berman is widely known for his television ...

– sportscaster *

Matthew Berry Matthew J. Berry (born December 29, 1969) is an American writer, columnist, fantasy sports analyst, and television personality. Berry started his career by writing for television and film and creating a few pilots and film scripts with his writin ...

–

fantasy sports analyst *

Paul Bouche Paul Bouche is an American television host, comedian, media personality and television producer. Paul is the host, creator and producer of a variety of television and radio programs and serves as CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Astracanada Product ...

– TV producer - Media Personality *

Contessa Brewer Contessa Brewer (born March 16, 1974) is an American television journalist for CNBC Business News. As a correspondent, she covers casinos and gaming. She is also a substitute anchor. She formerly hosted the MSNBC weekend program ''Caught on Cam ...

– broadcast journalist,

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

Samantha Brown Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including ''Girl Meets Hawaii'', ''Great Vacation Homes'', ''Great Hotels'', ''Passport to Europe'', ' ...

– TV host *

Steve Bunin Steve Bunin (born in Seattle, Washington) is a former ESPN Anchor, a five-time Emmy Award winner and a 16-time Emmy nominee. He is now an Executive Communications Coach for companies around the world. Career Bunin was a news anchor at KING-TV from ...

– sportscaster,

Ryan Burr Ryan Burr (born March 17, 1978, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a sports television journalist. Burr worked for the NBC Sports Group from 2012 to 2021, with his duties mainly consisting of hosting all programs on Golf Channel and college basketball ...

– sportscaster, ESPN, NBC and Golf Channel *

Mary Calvi Mary Calvi (born June 11, 1969) is an American television journalist and author of ''If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love, ''publishing Valentine's Day 2023, which is based on love letters from Gilded Age to ...

– journalist, anchor at WCBS-TV, New York City *

Craig Carton Craig Harris Carton (born January 31, 1969) is an American radio and television personality. He is the co-host of the ''Carton and Roberts'' sports radio program on WFAN (AM) in New York City, and is seen nationally on Fox Sports 1 as host of '' ...

– Co-Host, ''

Boomer and Carton in the Morning ''Boomer and Gio'' (previously ''Boomer and Carton'' from 2007–2017 and ''The Morning Show with Boomer'' in 2017) is a morning drive sports radio program on WFAN-AM and WFAN-FM in New York City. It is hosted by former National Football League ...

'',

WFAN WFAN (660 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the New York metropolitan area while ...

NY *

Joe Castiglione Joseph John Castiglione (born March 2, 1947) is an American radio announcer for the Boston Red Sox baseball team,Joe Castigl ...

– Boston Red Sox radio announcer *

Ernest Chappell Ernest E. Chappell (June 10, 1903 - July 4, 1983)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 53. was an American radio announcer and actor, ...

– radio and television announcerDeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 53. *

Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting ''American Bandstand'' from 1956 to 198 ...

– television personality, ''

American Bandstand ''American Bandstand'', abbreviated ''AB'', is an American music-performance and dance television program that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as the pro ...

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve ''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'' (''NYRE'') is an annual New Year's Eve television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts primarily from New York City's Times Square and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop ev ...

'' * Michael Cole –

WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a as WWE, is an American professional wrestling promotion. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into other fields, including film, American football, and vario ...

commentator * Ed Coleman – sportscaster,

NY *

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*Megyn Kelly – news anchor, Fox News Channel *Ted Koppel – broadcast journalist, "Nightline (US news program), Nightline" *Larry Kramer – President and Publisher of USA Today *Steve Kroft – co-editor and news correspondent, "60 Minutes" *Michael Kranish – journalist *Harold E. Martin – Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, ''Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama Advertiser'' *Mike McAlary – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *Sean McDonough – sportscaster, ESPN *Joe McNally (photographer), Joe McNally – photographer *Jeanne Moos – news correspondent, CNN *Howard Stern Show staff, Will Murray – researcher and segment producer, ''The Howard Stern Show'' *Akshay Nanavati – USMC, author of ''Fearvana'' *Jim Naughtie – British journalist and radio presenter *Diane Nelson (comics), Diane Nelson – President of DC Entertainment *Bob Neumeier – sportscaster, NBC * Donald Newhouse – president, Advance Publications *Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr., S.I. Newhouse, Jr. – Chairman & CEO, Advance Publications/ Chairman, Conde Nast Publications *Jeff Passan – baseball journalist, ESPN *Greg Papa – sportscaster, Oakland Raiders *Dave Pasch – sportscaster, ESPN *Henry Jarvis Raymond – (GWS), Founder of the New York Times *Dave Roberts (broadcaster), Dave Roberts – weatherman, broadcaster and presenter, WPVI-TV *Sam Roberts (radio personality) – broadcaster, SiriusXM - Jim Norton & Sam Roberts,

*Dan Roche – sportscaster, WBZ-TV, Boston, MA *Harry M. Rosenfeld – former editor, "Washington Post" *Dave Ryan (sportscaster), Dave Ryan – sportscaster, ESPN *Robert Scheer – editor-in-chief, ''TruthDig'', former managing editor ''Ramparts'', Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism *Adam Schein – SNY, Sirius XM Satellite radio NFL *Bob Shannon (WCBS-FM), Bob Shannon – radio DJ/Announcer, CBS-FM New York *Arun Shourie – Padma Bhushan recipient, World Bank Economist, former editor of ''Times of India'' and ''Indian Express'' *Anish Shroff – ESPNews anchor *Andrew Siciliano – sportscaster, NFL Network, host of NFL Sunday Ticket#Extra features, DirecTV Red Zone Channel *Fred Silverman – former president, NBC *Lakshmi Singh – newscaster, journalist, NPR *Jayson Stark – journalist, sportscaster, ESPN *Dick Stockton – sportscaster *John Sykes (American businessman), John Sykes – President of iHeartMedia Entertainment Enterprises *Mike Tirico – sportscaster, NBC *Nick Wright (sports personality), Nick Wright – TV host, radio talk show, Fox Sports 1 *Justin Robert Young – podcaster, journalist, comedian and writer *Adam Zucker – sportscaster/anchor, CBS Sports Network

Science, engineering, innovation, medicine, and exploration

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*Joseph A. Ahearn – Civil Engineer of the U.S. Air Force; member of the National Academy of Engineering. *Ishfaq Ahmad (computer science professor), Ishfaq Ahmad – Professor of Computer Science *Betty Lise Anderson – Professor of Optical Science *Albert Baez – developer of the X-ray reflection microscope, physics educator, and father of Joan Baez. *John Boardman (physicist), John Boardman – physics educator, social activist, and gaming authority. *Daniela Bortoletto – experimental particle physicist, Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. *Charles F. Brannock – inventor and manufacturer; inventor of the Brannock Device. *Rubin Braunstein – semiconductor physics, pioneer of Light-emitting diode, LEDs. *Penny Budoff – physician and medical researcher; author of ''No More Hot Flashes and Even More Good News''. *Marilyn Burns (mathematics educator), Marilyn Burns; mathematics educator and the author of over a dozen children's books on mathematics. *

– theoretical physicist who served as the eleventh president of

. *Eileen Collins – NASA astronaut and first female Space Shuttle commander. *Alice Carter Cook – botanist and writer, first woman PhD in botany from an American university *Tesfaye Dinka – Industrial Engineer and Prime Minister of Ethiopia from April to June 1991. *Nina Fedoroff – geneticist and molecular biologist; Science and Technology Adviser to the United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State. Recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2007; member of the National Academy of Sciences. *Joan Feynman – astrophysicist, younger sister of physicist Richard Feynman. *Robert Finn (mathematician), Robert Finn – mathematician and professor. *Edith M. Flanigen – chemist and inventor; winner of the 2014 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. *George E. Fox – biologist and chemical engineer; co-discoverer of the Archaea kingdom of organisms. *Jean Fréchet – chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. *Barry Gingell – internist, nutritionist, computer scientist and HIV/AIDS activism, AIDS activist. *Joshua N. Goldberg – pioneering researcher in general relativity, professor emeritus at Syracuse University. *Gabriela González – former spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences#Awards, National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery (2017); member of the National Academy of Sciences. *Hermann Gummel – semiconductor device physicist; member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering. * – particle physicist, neuroscientist, and author. *John J. Hopfield (spectroscopist), John J. Hopfield – spectroscopist and discoverer of the Absorption band#Absorption bands of interest to the atmospheric physicist, Hopfield bands of molecular oxygen (O₂). *Robert Jarvik – inventor of the first permanently implantable artificial heart *Hongxing Jiang – semiconductor physicist. *Joel Lebowitz – statistical physics, statistical physicist; member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences *Jingyu Lin – semiconductor physicist. *Gilles Martin (businessman), Gilles Martin – French engineer, founder and executive chairman of Eurofins Scientific. *William Ralph Maxon – botanist and pteridologist. *Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou – pioneer in neuroelectric systems and biomedical engineering education. *Pericles A. Mitkas – computer scientist and Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. *Story Musgrave – NASA astronaut. *V. Parmeswaran Nair – theoretical particle physicist, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. *Ezra T. Newman – theoretical physicist, winner of the 2011 Einstein Prize (APS), Einstein Prize. *Joy Osofsky – clinical and developmental psychologist, professor of clinical psychology and psychiatry, psychoanalyst *Yude Pan – forest ecologist. *Martin A. Pomerantz – astrophysicist, president emeritus of the Bartol Research Institute, and pioneer of Antarctic astronomy. *Pierre Ramond – string theorist; winner of the 2004 Oskar Klein Medal. *Harry Frederick Recher – ornithologist; winner of the 1994 D.L. Serventy Medal. *Mark Reed (physicist), Mark Reed – nanotechnology pioneer, Harold Hodgkinson Chair at Yale University. *Elsa Reichmanis – optical and electronic materials; member of the National Academy of Engineering; 2001 recipient of the Perkin Medal. *Karin Rodland – cancer cell biologist; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Laboratory Fellow of the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. *Charles Rosen (scientist), Charles Rosen – robotics; co-founder of Ridge Vineyards. *Joel Rosenbaum – cell biologist; winner of the E. B. Wilson Medal. *Rainer K. Sachs – theoretical astrophysicist, co-discoverer of the Sachs–Wolfe effect. *Pantur Silaban – prominent Indonesian theoretical physicist. *Michael Streicher – developer of stainless steels; winner of the W. R. Whitney Award. *Sultan bin Salman – first Arab, first Muslim and the youngest person to travel to space. *Salvatore Torquato – theoretical scientist who does research at the interface of physics, chemistry, and engineering. *José W. F. Valle – Brazilian-Spanish theoretical physicist noted for work on the mass of neutrinos. *James Tour – organic chemist and nanotechnologist. *Clarence Abiathar Waldo – mathematician and educator known for his role in the 1897 Indiana Pi Bill affair. *Sigi Ziering – industrial physicist, businessman, and philanthropist.

Sports

*Will Allen (cornerback), Will Allen – football player *Doc Alexander – football player and coach *Gary Anderson (placekicker), Gary Anderson – football player, former NFL record holder *Carmelo Anthony – basketball player, Portland Trail Blazers *Julie Archoska – football player *Michael Carter-Williams – basketball player, Orlando Magic *Art Baker (gridiron football), Art Baker – football player *John Barsha – football player *Mathieu Beaudoin (Canadian football), Mathieu Beaudoin – football player *

– basketball player, current mayor of

, Michigan *Jim Boeheim – basketball player and coach, Syracuse University, member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame *Nathan Bombrys – Managing Director of the Glasgow Warriors, a professional Scottish rugby union club *Jim Brown – football player, lacrosse player, actor, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame *Keith Bulluck – football player *Rob Burnett (American football), Rob Burnett – football player *Delone Carter – football player *Irv Constantine – football player *Derrick Coleman – basketball player *Trevor Cooney – pro basketball player *Rakeem Christmas – basketball player *DaJuan Coleman – basketball player, free agent *John Coleman (pitcher), John Coleman – baseball player *Jim Collins (linebacker), Jim Collins – football player *Tom Coughlin – VP football operations, Jacksonville Jaguars *Larry Csonka – football player *Donovin Darius – football player *Al Davis – NFL owner *Ernie Davis – football player, Heisman Trophy winner *John Desko – lacrosse coach *Riley Dixon – NFL punter *Sherman Douglas – basketball player *Dennis DuVal – basketball player *Randy Edsall – college football coach *Joe Ehrmann – football player *Tyler Ennis (basketball), Tyler Ennis—basketball player *David Falk – founder, SFX Basketball Group *Jonny Flynn – basketball player *Dwight Freeney – football player *Jim Frugone – football player *Gary Gait – lacrosse player *Paul Gait – lacrosse player *Jonah Goldman – MLB baseball player *Jerami Grant – pro basketball player, Detroit Pistons *Michael Gbinije — pro basketball player *Donté Greene – pro basketball player *Tim Green – football player *Morlon Greenwood – football player *Marvin Harrison – football player *Jason Hart (basketball), Jason Hart – basketball player *Qadry Ismail – football player *Tanard Jackson – football player *Paul Jappe – football player *Arthur Jones (American football), Arthur Jones – football player; currently competing for the NFL on the Colts *Chandler Jones – football player; currently playing for the Cardinals *Tebucky Jones – football player *Wesley Johnson (basketball), Wesley Johnson – basketball player *Daryl Johnston – football player *Dwayne Joseph – football player *Kris Joseph – basketball player, Brooklyn Nets *Mark Kerr (fighter), Mark Kerr – NCAA Wrestling Champion; retired Mixed martial arts (MMA), MMA fighter; 2-time Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC Heavyweight Tournament Winner *Rob Konrad – football player *Jim Konstanty – major league baseball pitcher *Floyd Little – football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame *Tyler Lydon – basketball player, Denver Nuggets *John Mackey (American football), John Mackey – former NFL tight end, has college award named after him *Olindo Mare – football player, Carolina Panthers *Doug Marrone – football coach *Frank Matteo – football player *Donovan McNabb – football player, Free Agent *Gerry McNamara – basketball player *Don McPherson – football player *Dave Meggyesy – football player *Fab Melo – basketball player *Chris McCullough—basketball player *Eddie Miller (basketball), Eddie Miller – basketball player *Art Monk – football player; NFL Hall of Fame inductee *Tim Moresco – football player *Joe Morris (American football), Joe Morris – football player *Larry Morris (American football running back), Larry Morris – football player *Lawrence Moten – basketball player *Tom Myers (safety), Tom Myers – football player *Jim Nance – football player *Ryan Nassib – football player, New York Giants *Doc Oberlander – former baseball player *Henry Obst – football player *Louis Orr – basketball player *Billy Owens – basketball player *Markus Paul – football player *Greg Paulus – football player and former Duke University basketball player *Scott Pioli – NFL executive *Casey Powell – lacrosse player *Michael Powell (lacrosse player), Mikey Powell – lacrosse player *Ryan Powell (lacrosse player), Ryan Powell – lacrosse player *Myer Prinstein – Olympic medalist *Andy Rautins – basketball player *

– former professional

player and renowned sports painter and sculptor *Jim Ringo – football player *Victor Ross – lacrosse player *Malachi Richardson—basketball player *Mike Rotunda – professional wrestler *Greg Sankey – Commissioner, Southeastern Conference *Danny Schayes – basketball player *Gerhard Schwedes – football player *Scott Schwedes – football player *Sam Sebo – football player *Rony Seikaly – basketball player *Wilmeth Sidat-Singh – football and basketball player *Kaseem Sinceno – football player *Walt Singer – football player *Anthony Smith (safety), Anthony Smith – football player *Walt Sweeney – football player *Kathrine Switzer – marathon runner *Etan Thomas – basketball player *Shamarko Thomas – football player *David Tyree – football player *Dion Waiters – basketball player *John Wallace (basketball), John Wallace – basketball player *Stan Walters – football player *Hakim Warrick – basketball player, Phoenix Suns *Dwayne Washington (basketball), Dwayne Washington – basketball player *Otis Wilson – football player *Ray Witter – football player *Paul Young (footballer, born 1968), Paul Young – Jamaican soccer player/manager *Katie Zaferes – triathlete

Entertainment and performing arts

*Elfriede Abbe – sculptor *Lynn Ahrens – musical theatre lyricist *Martin Bandier – chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV *Darryl Bell – actor *Craig Borten – screenwriter *

– TV Host "A Oscuras Pero Encendidos'; television producer *Eric Bress – film director and screenwriter *Tim Calpin – screenwriter *Warren Casey – writer, lyricist, screenwriter *Felix Cavaliere – singer with The Rascals *Priscilla Chan (singer), Priscilla Chan – singer *Clairo – singer-songwriter *

– host of ''

''; television producer *Ken Goldstein – musician known as "Jack Dempsey"; author *John Curran (director), John Curran – film director and screenwriter *Doug Davis (Business Person), Doug Davis – entertainment lawyer and Grammy Award-winning producer *Taye Diggs – actor *Heather Dubrow – actress; cast member on ''The Real Housewives of Orange County'' *Zach Tyler Eisen – voice actor; voice of Aang on ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' *Peter Falk – actor *Gary Farmer – actor *Vera Farmiga – actress *Wally Feresten – cue card supervisor for ''Saturday Night Live'' *Judy Freudberg – screenwriter *Jami Gong – stand-up comedian *Carl Gottlieb – screenwriter; vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, West *Peter Guber – CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and Co-owner of the Golden State Warriors *Dan Gurewitch – writer *Jay Harrington – actor *Elizabeth Hendrickson – actress *Bob Holz – musician *Miriam Hopkins – actress *Garland Jeffreys – musician *Miss Jones (radio personality), Miss Jones – radio DJ and singer *Irma Kalish – television writer *Joe Klotz – film editor *Lisa Lampanelli – comedian *Frank Langella – actor Frost/Nixon (film), Frost/Nixon *Meg LeFauve – screenwriter ''Inside Out (2015 film)'', ''Captain Marvel (film)'' *Sheldon Leonard – film and television actor, producer, director, and writer *Riki Lindhome – actress *Sam Lloyd – actor, musician *Frank J. Marion, Frank Marion – motion picture pioneer *Andy Mineo – rapper, singer, producer, director, actor and minister *Neal McDonough – actor *Sterling Morrison – musician *Jessie Mueller – Tony-winning actress *Suzanne Pleshette – actress *Mike Pollock (voice actor), Mike Pollock – voice actor *Lou Reed – musician *Kevin Michael Richardson – actor *Sam Roberts (radio personality), Sam Roberts – radio broadcaster *Doug Robinson (producer), Doug Robinson – television producer *Maria Sansone – television presenter *Ken Schretzmann – film editor *Reid Scott (actor), Reid Scott – actor *Tom Everett Scott – actor *Aaron Sorkin – Emmy- and Academy Award-winning screenwriter ''A Few Good Men'', ''The Social Network'', ''The West Wing'', ''Moneyball (film), Moneyball'' *Lexington Steele – actor, director, and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. *Jerry Stiller – actor *Habib Wali Mohammad, Habib Tabani – Pakistani ghazal singer and industrialist *Arielle Tepper – Broadway producer *Mark Tinker – television producer/director *Stephen A. Unger – executive recruiter, media and entertainment business *Jimmy Van Heusen – Academy Award-winning composer *Bill Viola – video artist *Michael H. Weber – screenwriter ''(500) Days of Summer'', ''The Spectacular Now'', ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars'', ''Paper Towns (film), Paper Towns'' *Peter Weller – actor *Vanessa Williams – singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, Miss America *Pete Yorn – musician

Fictional characters

*Rachel Green – protagonist of hit sitcom Friends * Winston Schmidt – protagonist of hit sitcom New Girl * Nick Miller (New Girl), Nick Miller – protagonist of hit sitcom New Girl * List_of_New_Girl_characters#Winston_Bishop, Winston Bishop – protagonist of hit sitcom New Girl * Patrick Warburton – protagonist of hit sitcom Rules of Engagement (TV series) * Terry Jeffords – revealed on Brooklyn Nine-Nine to have played football while attending Syracuse University

Other

*Alexandra Curtis – Miss Rhode Island 2015 *Jane Dempsey Douglass – feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches *Marc S. Ellenbogen – diplomat, philanthropist, President, Prague Society for International Cooperation *Borys Gudziak – Catholic Bishop, Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Metropolitan-Archbishop of Philadelphia (Ukrainian Greek Catholic) *Michael Yeung Ming-cheung – Catholic Bishop, eighth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong *John Zogby – pollster, Zogby International *Neilia Hunter Biden – teacher, first wife of Joe Biden

Notable educators

*William Alston – philosopher. *

– poet, novelist, and essayist. *Richard Arnowitt – theoretical physicist. *Donna Arzt – attorney and legal scholar. *Abhay Ashtekar – theoretical physicist and creator of the Ashtekar variables for quantum gravity; member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. *Ernst Bacon – prolific composer. *A. P. Balachandran – theoretical particle physicist. *Peter Bergmann – won the Einstein Prize (APS), Einstein Prize for research on quantum gravity. *Catherine Bertini – United Nations under-secretary-general, winner of the 2003 World Food Prize. *Raymond Thayer Birge - physicist, subsequent president of the American Physical Society and chair of the University of California, Berkeley physics department. *Howard Boatwright – Music School dean. *Philip Booth (poet), Philip Booth – poet. *Mark Bowick – theoretical physicist noted for work in particle physics and condensed matter physics. *Zachary Braiterman – philosopher and religious studies scholar. *Arthur C. Brooks *Lori Brown (architect), Lori Brown – architect and associate professor. *Horace Campbell – Department of African American Studies and Department of Political Science. *Simon Catterall – theoretical physicist specializing in elementary particles. *Massimo Carmassi – architect. *Bill Cole (musician), Bill Cole – musician, author (Department of African American Studies) *Raymond Carver – short story writer. *David Crane (lawyer), David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor for Special Court of the Sierra Leone *Junot Diaz – writer *Geoffrey C. Fox – theoretical physicist and computer scientist. *Tess Gallagher - poet, essayist, short story writer. *Joshua N. Goldberg – theoretical physicist noted for work on general relativity. *John Langston Gwaltney – African American professor of anthropology, author of ''Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America''. *Per Brinch Hansen – computer scientist. *Douglas Holtz-Eakin – former Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (2003–2005), and chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's John McCain 2008 presidential campaign, 2008 presidential campaign. *Henry Kandrup – theoretical astrophysicist. *Mary Karr – writer and poet. *Bruce Kingma – economist and academic entrepreneur *Arthur Komar – theoretical physicist. *Louis Krasner - violinist. *Edgar Lane – Professor of political science *Melvin Lax – theoretical physicist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences *Cristina Marchetti – theoretical physicist specializing in soft condensed matter physics; member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. *Donald Marolf – theoretical physicist who has worked on quantum gravity and relativity. *Roscoe C. Martin (1903–1972) – Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University from 1949 to 1972. *Janis Mayes – author, literary critic. *Daniel Patrick Moynihan – Senator from New York, political scientist. *Ivan Meštrović – sculptor and artist. *Micere Mugo – poet and playwright (Department of African American Studies, Department of Literature). *Ei-ichi Negishi – chemist, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize. *Romita Ray – art historian *Fritz Rohrlich – theoretical physicist, pioneer of quantum electrodynamics. *Alexander Rosenberg – philosopher and novelist *Peter Saulson – experimental physicist noted for work on gravitational wave astronomy. *

– writer. *Milton Sernett – historian, author (Department of African American Studies, Department of History) *Delmore Schwartz – poet. *Harry Schwartz (journalist), Harry Schwartz – Soviet specialist, ''The New York Times'' editorial writer *Huston Smith – religious studies scholar. *Lee Smolin – theoretical physicist noted for work on quantum gravity. *Rafael Sorkin – theoretical physicist noted for work on quantum gravity. *Sheldon Stone - elementary particle physicist, winner of the Panofsky Prize *Eileen Strempel – soprano, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Fine Arts. *George Sudarshan – theoretical physicist, winner of the Dirac Prize. *Robert Thompson (media scholar), Robert Thompson – media historian. *Mark Trodden – theoretical cosmologist. *Douglas Unger – novelist. *Gabriel Vahanian – theologian, noted figure in the Death of God movement in 1960s. *Peter Van Inwagen – philosopher *Kameshwar C. Wali – theoretical physicist, author. *Johan Wiklund – Entrepreneurship professor and the Al Berg Chair at the Whitman School. *Frances Willard (suffragist), Frances Willard – 19th century educator, Temperance movement, temperance reformer, and Women's suffrage, women's suffragist. *Tobias Wolff – writer.

Notable commencement speakers and honored guests

*2022 – David Muir, Journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight *2020 –

, Congresswoman, New York, Governor, New York State (’80) *2018 – Mary C. Daly, Economist and President Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco Fed *2018 – Kathrine Switzer, Athlete, Author and Activist (’68, G’72) *2017 – Vernon Jordan, African-American Lawyer, Business Executive, and Civil Rights Activist *2016 – Donald Newhouse, President, Advance Publications *2015 – Mary Karr, Poet and Essayist *2014 – David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief, New Yorker *2013 – Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Columnist *2012 − Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright *2011 – J. Craig Venter, American biologist and entrepreneur, President of J. Craig Venter Institute *2010 – Jamie Dimon, CEO JPMorgan Chase & Co. *2009 – Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vice President of the United States of America *2008 – Bob Woodruff, ABC News journalist *2007 – Frank McCourt, author/Pulitzer Prize winner *2006 – Billy Joel, composer and singer *2005 – Jane Goodall, primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist *2004 – Phylicia Rashad, actress *2003 – Bill Clinton, former U.S. president, 1993–2001 *2002 – Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, 1994–2001 *2001 – Eileen Collins, American astronaut *2000 – Ted Koppel, American journalist *1999 – Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator (D-NY), 1999–present *1998 – Robert Fulghum, author, essayist *1996 – Steve Kroft, journalist, long-time correspondent60 Minutes *1995 –

, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001 *1994 – Kurt Vonnegut, novelist *1990 –

, journalist *1989 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (D-NY) *1988 – Malcolm Forbes, publisher of the Forbes magazine *1986 – Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York *1983 – Daniel Boorstin, Director, Library of Congress *1982 – Ted Koppel, journalist *1981 – Alexander Haig, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981–1982 *1980 – Bill Moyers, journalist *1979 – Tom Brokaw, journalist *1978 –

, journalist *1973 – Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-MA), 1962–2009 *1969 – William F. Buckley, journalist *1968 – Walter Cronkite, journalist *1966 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, 1959–1973 *1965 – Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-NY), 1965–1968 *1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson, then U.S. President *1961 – Ayn Rand, novelist *1960 – Harry S. Truman, former U.S. president, 1945–1953 *1959 – Robert Frost, poet *1957 – John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-MA), 1953–1960 *1937 – Herbert Hoover, former U.S. president, 1929–1933 *1930 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, 1928–1932

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