List of College of the Holy Cross alumni

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This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni.[1]

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Artists, poets and authors[]

  • Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect
  • Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist
  • Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States
  • Leo Cullum 1963, cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker[2]
  • Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator
  • Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs
  • Michael Harvey 1980, author of The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor; co-creator of the TV program Cold Case Files
  • Jack Higgins 1976, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times
  • Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling romance author
  • Edward P. Jones 1972, MacArthur Award winner and 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award in Fiction for his novel The Known World
  • Paul LeClerc 1963, President Emeritus of the New York Public Library
  • Karen M. McManus 1991, international bestselling author of "One of Us Is Lying", "Two Can Keep a Secret", "One of Us Is Next", and "The Cousins".
  • Joe McGinniss 1964, bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision, and other books[citation needed]
  • Jay O'Callahan 1960, storyteller
  • Josh Pahigian 1996, author of The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip and more than a dozen other books
  • Barry Reed 1949, Boston trial lawyer and author of The Verdict, which was made into the Oscar-nominated 1982 film starring Paul Newman

Business[]

William E. McKenna 1947, Senior Vice President of Litton Industries, President Hunts Food, Chairman of the Board of Norton Simon Industries. President and Chairman of the Board Technicolor, Chairman of the Board Sambo’s Restaurant.

  • Douglas M. Baker Jr. 1981, CEO of Ecolab Inc.
  • James E. Burke 1947, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson; named one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune Magazine
  • Randall Caudill 1969, president and founder of Dunsford Hill Capital Partners
  • Arthur Ciocca 1959, Chairman and owner, The Wine Group[3]
  • Nicholas D'Agostino Jr. 1960, Chairman, President and CEO, D'Agostino Supermarkets[4]
  • Richard A. Davey 1995, Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation
  • 1947, Chairman of Federated Securities Corp. and Vice Chairman of Federated Investors, Inc.[5]
  • Joanna Geraghty 1990, President/COO of JetBlue
  • 1997, COO of
  • Pedro Heilbron 1979, CEO of Copa Airlines
  • Abraham Elias Issa 1926, Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier acclaimed as "The Father of Jamaican Tourism".
  • 1978, CEO of in Jamaica
  • Joseph John Issa 1989, founder and Chairman of SuperClubs Resorts[6]
  • 1999, Chief Commercial Officer
  • 1988, head of Fidelity Digital Assets at Fidelity Investments
  • James W. Keyes 1977, former Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster, Inc.
  • John Koelmel 1974, President of HARBORcenter, former CEO of First Niagara Financial Group
  • 1990, President of Marriott International
  • Edward J. Ludwig 1973, former Chairman, President, and CEO of Becton Dickinson[7]
  • Victor Luis 1988, President of Coach Inc. (COH)[8]
  • William J. McDonough 1956, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and current Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch
  • Charles E.F. Millard 1954, former Chairman of the Board, CEO Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York
  • William F. O'Neil 1907, founder of the General Tire and Rubber Company
  • John Peterman 1963 (aka J. Peterman), catalog and retail entrepreneur
  • James David Power III 1953, founder of J.D. Power and Associates
  • Roberto Quarta 1971, partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Chairman of Italtel, and former Chairman of BBA Group[citation needed]
  • Loren Ferré Rangel 1992, vice president for new products at El Día, Inc. and a trustee of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
  • Carolyn Risoli 1986, former President of Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs, Inc.[9]
  • Frank Shakespeare 1946, former president of CBS Television; former director of the U.S. Information Agency; Ambassador to Portugal and Ambassador to the Vatican
  • 2002, CFO
  • Joe Shoen 1971, President, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer of AMERCO, the holding company of U-Haul, International
  • Mark Shoen 1967, largest shareholder and former Chairman of AMERCO, the holding company of U-Haul, International
  • John T. Sinnott 1961, retired Vice Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies[10][citation needed]
  • Kieran Suckling 1986, co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity
  • William J. Teuber Jr. 1973, Senior Operating Principal of Bridge Growth Partners and Former Vice Chairman of EMC Corporation[11]
  • 1983, President and CEO, Amarin Corporation and on Board of Directors at
  • Maggie Wilderotter 1977, President and CEO, Frontier Communications; as of 2012 had been named one of the "Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune for four years in a row

Education[]

Professors and researchers[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
John E. Brooks 1949 President Emeritus of College of the Holy Cross and former President from 1970 to 1994, noted for introducing co-education at the college in 1972;member of Religious Studies faculty
Robert L. Devaney 1969 professor, mathematics, Boston University; research interests include complex dynamical systems, chaos, fractals
David Granfield 1943 Professor Emeritus at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC; noted as a canon lawyer for his exposition of the Catholic Church's view on abortion
Jane M. Hawkins 1976 professor, mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; research interests include ergodic theory, smooth dynamical systems, complex dynamics, and computer generated graphics images related to nonpolynomial dynamics
Patrick Francis Healy 1850 first African American to earn a Ph.D. and former President of Georgetown University
Traugott Lawler 1958 medievalist scholar; expert on William Langland; emeritus professor of English at Yale University
Timothy Leary 1942 LSD-pioneering Harvard professor; attended Holy Cross before transferring to West Point
Joseph McCartin 1981 professor of history at Georgetown University; 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University
James McCarthy 1971 President of Suffolk University in Boston
Paul Reiss 1952 14th president of Saint Michael's College, professor and author
Robert K. Wright Jr. 1968 military historian and author

Arts and Entertainment[]

  • Dick Cusack 1950, actor, director and producer
  • Neil Donohoe 1978, Chair and Director of the Theater Division at Boston Conservatory[12]
  • Ann Dowd 1978, Broadway, movie, and television actress; received the National Board of Review award and an Emmy award.
  • Brian Gallivan 1991, improvisational actor and executive producer of CBS TV show The McCarthys
  • Thomas Ian Griffith 1982, actor and writer
  • Brian Gunn 1992, screenwriter
  • Mark Gunn (screenwriter) 1993
  • Dave Holmes 1994, MTV host[13]
  • Neil Hopkins 1999, television and film actor and writer
  • Peter Jankowski 1986, executive producer, Law & Order
  • Douglas Netter 1942, founder, Netter Digital Entertainment and executive producer of Babylon 5
  • Kevin O'Connor 1990, host of PBS's This Old House
  • Thomas F. O'Neil 1937, former Chairman of RKO General Studios, who brought movies to television and experimented with an early coin-operated pay TV system
  • Bartlett Sher 1981, director of Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals South Pacific and The Light in the Piazza
  • 2011, professional wrestling champion
  • Bob Wright 1965, Chairman of the Board and former CEO of NBC Universal; Vice Chairman of General Electric; co-founder of Autism Speaks[14]

Law, politics, and public service[]

United States federal and state court justices[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Andrew Augustine Caffrey 1941 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961
Francis Patrick O'Connor 1950 appointed by Governor Edward King in 1981, served 16 years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Christopher Droney 1976 United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit; nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012
John J. Farley, III 1964 Founding Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1989
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. 1941 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966
John J. Gibbons 1947 former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit [15]
John Greaney 1961 Associate Justice for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School
Edward Francis Harrington 1955 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987
James Patrick Leamy 1912 United States District Judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940
Richard J. Leon 1971 United States District Judge for the District of Columbia; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002
William T. McCarthy 1905 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman
Edward McEntee 1928 Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Matthew Francis McGuire 1921 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman in 1949
Clarence Thomas 1971 Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990

Executive branch and United States Cabinet members[]

  • Joseph A. Califano Jr. 1952, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
  • Broderick D. Johnson 1978, White House Cabinet Secretary for President Obama
  • John William Middendorf II 1945, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Secretary of the Navy

Members of the United States Congress[]

Senators[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Robert P. Casey Jr. 1982 United States Senator for Pennsylvania, served as Pennsylvania Treasurer [16]
John A. Durkin 1959 United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1975 to 1980
Thomas A. Burke 1920 United States Senator for Ohio, served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland; namesake of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Maurice J. Murphy 1950 United States Senator for New Hampshire
David I. Walsh 1893 United States Senator for Massachusetts; Massachusetts' first Irish Catholic governor

Representatives[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Tim Bishop 1972 United States Representative from New York's 1st congressional district [17]
William P. Connery Jr. 1920 United States Representative from Massachusetts
Joseph Daniel Early 1955 United States Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district from 1975 to 1993
Mark DeSaulnier 1974 United States Representative from California
Ambrose Kennedy 1897 United States Representative from Rhode Island
James B. Longley Jr. 1973 United States Representative from Maine's 1st congressional district
Martin B. McKneally 1937 United States Representative from New York
Michael R. McNulty 1969 United States Representative [18]
James P. Moran 1967 United States Representative [19]
Frank William Towey Jr. 1916 United States Representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939
Peter F. Welch 1971 United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat

United States governors[]

  • Bob Casey Sr. 1953, Governor of Pennsylvania 1987–1995
  • Edward D. DiPrete 1955, Governor of Rhode Island 1985–1991
  • David I. Walsh 1893, first Irish Catholic Governor and U.S. Senator for Massachusetts

Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States[]

  • Kevin J. McGuire, 1964 U.S. Ambassador to Namibia[20]
  • John William Middendorf II 1945, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Secretary of the Navy
  • Harry K. Thomas Jr. 1978, U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe[21]

Foreign Government officials[]

  • Henri Bourassa 1890, French Canadian political leader and publisher; ideological father of Canadian nationalism
  • Louis-Rodrigue Masson 1853, Canadian member of Parliament, Senator, and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
  • Jarosław Wałęsa 2001, member of the Sejm, the lower chamber of Poland's Parliament; son of Lech Wałęsa
  • Guillermo F. Pérez-Argüello, 1973, Peruvian/Nicaraguan dual national, UN Official and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil (2002–04), nephew on his father's side of Javier Perez de Cuellar, fifth Secretary General of the United Nations (1920-2020)

Other United States political and legal figures[]

  • John B. Anderson 1957, former mayor of Worcester
  • Jose Cojuangco Jr. 1955, former Philippine Congressman
  • Michael Delaney 1991, New Hampshire Attorney General 2009–present
  • Mark DeSaulnier 1973, representing California's 7th State Senate district
  • Christopher Doherty, 1980, Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania since 2002
  • Daniel M. Donahue 2009, Massachusetts state representative in the 16th Worcester district
  • John Droney 1968, participated in Connecticut state politics; senior partner of Levy & Droney
  • Jon Favreau 2003, chief speechwriter for Barack Obama
  • Joseph H. Gainer 1899, 26th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island[22][23]
  • William Glendon 1941, attorney who specialized in issues relating to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and represented The Washington Post in the Pentagon Papers case
  • Kirby Hendee, Wisconsin State Senator
  • Robert Maheu 1939, lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes.
  • Ed Martin 1992, chairman of the Missouri Republican Party
  • Joseph A. McNamara, U.S. Attorney for Vermont[24]
  • Howard C. Nolan Jr. 1954, former member of the New York State Senate
  • John P. O'Brien 1894, former mayor of New York City
  • Mark Kennedy Shriver 1986, former member of Maryland legislature, Vice President and Managing Director of US Programs for Save the Children
  • Thomas J. Spellacy 1889, political leader and lawyer
  • Kathy Sullivan 1976, attorney and former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party
  • Jane Sullivan Roberts 1976, leads the in-house practice group at Major, Lindsey & Africa; wife of Chief Justice John Roberts
  • Austin J. Tobin 1925, former director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 1942–1972; oversaw the construction of the World Trade Center
  • Ted Wells 1972, lawyer, rated by The National Law Journal as one of America's best white-collar defense attorneys
  • Edward Bennett Williams 1941, trial attorney; former owner of Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Redskins
  • James Assion Wright 1923, lawyer from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. Congress from 1941 to 1945

Military[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Barry M. Costello 1973 United States Navy Commander, United States Third Fleet [25]
Peter H. Daly 1977 United States Navy Vice Admiral (Ret.) and CEO of the United States Naval Institute
Michael A. Healy Prep 1849–1854 Captain, United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of United States Coast Guard), first United States Government ship commander with African-American ancestry
William J. McCarthy 1976 Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, United States Navy
Bruce E. MacDonald 1978 Rear Admiral, Judge Advocate General, United States Navy [26][27]
Bernard E. Trainor 1951 retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, bestselling author, and military analyst for NBC
Kevin Sandkuhler 1975 lawyer, retired Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
Anthony T. Shtogren 1940 retired United States Air Force Major General

Media and communication[]

  • Dave Anderson 1951, New York Times sports columnist, 1981 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary
  • George-Édouard Desbarats 1850, Canadian printer and inventor
  • Chris Matthews 1967, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show
  • 1979, President, Alta Communications
  • Gordon Peterson 1960, broadcast journalist and television news anchor; co-anchor for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and moderator and producer of Inside Washington
  • Dan Shaughnessy 1975, sports columnist for the Boston Globe
  • Bill Simmons 1992, HBO Sports personality, founder of The Ringer, founder of Grantland and formerly ESPN sports columnist and podcaster (Page 2 and The BS report), founder and co-creator of ESPN hit documentary series 30 for 30
  • Ed Walsh 1969, WBZ NewsRadio 1030-AM, morning news anchor

Religion[]

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Most Rev. James Augustine Healy, D.D. 1849 first African American bishop in the United States
Most Rev. Frederick Anthony Donaghy, M.M., D.D. 1925 Maryknoll missionary to China who became the first bishop of Wuzhou; his brother, William A. Donaghy, S.J., served as the president of Holy Cross [28]
Rev. William O'Malley, S.J. 1953 prolific author and teacher of theology at Fordham University; famous for his role in The Exorcist
Msgr. Peter Vaghi 1970 pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland and chaplain of The John Carroll Society in Washington, D.C.

Science, technology, and medicine[]

  • Arthur L. Beaudet, M.D. 1963, Henry and Emma Meyer Professor; Chair of Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine; known for his pioneering work in gene therapy, particularly the muscular dystrophy gene[citation needed]
  • , M.D. 1986, Director of Infectious Disease at Tufts Medical Center, Scientific Advisory Board
  • Edward Bove, M.D. 1968, Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, recognized for his contributions to the repair of congenital heart defects
  • James William Colbert Jr., M.D. 1942, first Provost of Medical University of South Carolina and dean emeritus of St. Louis University School of Medicine
  • James J. Collins, Ph.D. 1987, Rhodes Scholar, 2003 MacArthur Fellow and Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science at MIT
  • , M.D., Ph.D. 1951, Regional anesthesia pioneer and first Chairman of the Anesthesiology Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Gerard Doherty,[29] M.D. 1982, Moseley Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chair of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • John P. Donohue, M.D. 1954, pioneered the development of chemotherapy and nerve sparing surgical techniques for testicular cancer
  • Anthony Fauci, M.D. 1962, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
  • John A. Fallon, M.D., M.B.A. 1970, on the Board of Directors for numerous companies including
  • , M.D. 1982 American Heart Association president.
  • Thomas W. Hungerford, 1959, mathematician and author of many textbooks including Abstract algebra:
  • Joseph P. Kerwin, M.D. 1953, astronaut who spent 28 days in space for the Skylab 2 mission
  • David McDowell, B.A., M.A., M.D. 1985, psychiatrist, author, expert on substance abuse treatment
  • Joseph E. Murray, M.D. 1940, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the first successful kidney transplant
  • William Nolen, M.D. 1950, surgeon and author
  • , M.D. 1997, President and Chief Medical Officer at Livongo.
  • James Augustine Shannon, M.D. 1925, former Director of the National Institutes of Health
  • Tony Stankus, MLS, FSLA 1973. Most published science librarian in the world, 2011-2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2017.1323070[30]
  • Steven Stack 1994, youngest American Medical Association president.
  • Gordon Zubrod, M.D. 1936, received the Lasker Award in 1972 for his work in cancer research

Sports[]

Baseball[]

  • Brian Abraham 2007, World Series Champion with the Boston Red Sox
  • John Joseph "Jack" Barry 1905, shortstop, second baseman, and manager in Major League Baseball, and later a renowned college baseball coach[31]
  • Dick Berardino 1957, player development consultant for the Boston Red Sox
  • Matt Blake 2007, New York Yankees pitching coach
  • Pat Bourque 1969, first baseman in Major League Baseball; played on the 1973 Oakland Athletic World Series Championship team
  • Ownie Carroll 1925, Major League Baseball pitcher for eleven seasons; baseball coach at Seton Hall 1948–1972
  • 2019, drafted by the Chicago White Sox
  • Gene Desautels 1930, catcher in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between 1930 and 1946
  • 2021, RHP for the Irish National Team
  • Joseph "Jumping Joe" Dugan 1920, late Major League Baseball player[32]
  • John Freeman 1927, played for the Boston Red Sox
  • Jack Hoey 1903, MLB outfielder for the Boston Red Sox
  • Dick Joyce 1965, major league pitcher; member of the Cheverus and Holy Cross Hall of Fame; member of Maine Baseball Hall of Fame[31]
  • Art Kenney 1938, LHP in MLB Boston Bees 1938 (Braves) Holy Cross Hall of Fame (2011)
  • Brendan King 2017, RHP drafted by the Chicago Cubs
  • Bill Lefebvre 1938, homered in first at bat as a professional baseball player
  • Jack McKeon 1952, manager for the World Series Champion Florida Marlins
  • Doc McMahon 1908, pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox in their inaugural season
  • Bill Mills 1944, catcher for the 1944 Philadelphia Athletics
  • Joe Mulligan 1934, MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
  • Pete Naton, 1953, catcher for the 1953 Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Al Niemiec 1933, second baseman for the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics
  • James O'Neill 1952, pitcher; won 1952 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award
  • Mike Pazik 1972, drafted by the New York Yankees
  • Louis Sockalexis Prep-1897, first Native American player in major league baseball

Basketball[]

Bob Cousy
Jehyve Floyd
  • Rod Baker 1974, head coach for the ABA Champion Rochester Razorsharks
  • George Blaney 1961, college basketball coach and former player for the New York Knicks
  • Bob Cousy 1950, Basketball Hall of Fame member; former Boston Celtics player and coach
  • Jehyve Floyd (born 1997), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  • Jack Foley 1962, consensus All-American who played for the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks.
  • Kevin Hamilton 2006, professional basketball player and member of the Puerto Rican National Team.
  • Tom Heinsohn 1956, Basketball Hall of Fame member and former Boston Celtics player and coach
  • George Kaftan 1948, retired NBA player and a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame
  • 2020, drafted by the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA
  • Malcolm Miller 2015, first player to sign a two-way contract with the Toronto Raptors
  • Joe Mullaney 1949, drafted by the Boston Celtics and former head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers
  • Dermie O'Connell 1948, former NBA guard
  • Togo Palazzi 1954, played six seasons in the NBA; captain of the Crusaders team that won the 1954 NIT Championship
  • Keith Simmons 2007, professional basketball player
  • Torey Thomas 2006, member of the New York Knicks
  • Michael Vicens 1978, drafted by the New Jersey Nets and played for Puerto Rico in the Olympics
  • Garry Witts 1981, former NBA player

Football[]

  • Bill Adams 1972, former offensive guard in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills
  • Daniel Adams 2006, linebacker for 2007 champion United States national American football team
  • Patrick Barry (Defensive Back) intercepted Doug Flutie on the day he won the Heisman Trophy (Dec 1, 1984)[33]
  • Clyde Christensen, football coach at Holy Cross, later coached in the NFL
  • Kevin Coyle, football coach at Holy Cross, later coached in the NFL
  • Bob Dee 1955, three-sport letterman at the College of the Holy Cross; one of the first players signed by the Boston Patriots
  • 2020, signed by the Arizona Cardinals
  • Mark Duffner, football head coach at Holy Cross, later coached in the NFL
  • Fred Farrier 1994, wide receiver at Holy Cross
  • Gill Fenerty 1986, award-winning all-star running back with the CFL Toronto Argonauts and later with the NFL New Orleans Saints
  • Chandler Fenner 2012, Super Bowl champion as well as CFL Grey Cup Winner
  • Dave Fipp, football coach at Holy Cross, later coached in the NFL
  • Lee Hull 1988, NFL wide receiver coach for the Indianapolis Colts
  • Ed Jenkins 1972, wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and New York Giants
  • Bruce Kozerski 1984, played center for the Cincinnati Bengals for twelve seasons
  • Gordon Lockbaum 1988, College Football Hall of Fame member
  • Anthony Manfreda 1929, played in the NFL; holds the Holy Cross record for most yards gained in a kickoff return
  • 2018, linebacker signed by the Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL
  • Mike McCabe 2012, offensive lineman signed by the Green Bay Packers; his father played for the Washington Redskins
  • Jim Moran 1934, guard in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins; father of James P. Moran Jr.
  • Jon Morris 1964, All-American center; named to the second team, All-Time All-AFL for his years playing for the Boston Patriots
  • Jimmy Murray 2018, offensive lineman signed by the Kansas City Chiefs 2019, 2020, 2021 Offensive Lineman New York Jets
  • Andy Natowich 1940, former running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins
  • Bill Osmanski 1939, Chicago Bears fullback, member of the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team, the College Football Hall of Fame, and a licensed dentist
  • 2018, QB in the NFL and AAF
  • Vince Promuto 1960, Washington Redskins guard from 1960 to 1970
  • George Pyne II, American football player
  • Dominic Randolph 2010, Walter Payton Award candidate and QB for the New York Giants
  • Kalif Raymond 2016, wide receiver and punt returner for the Denver Broncos, New York Giants, New York Jets, and Tennessee Titans
  • Mike Sherman, football coach at Holy Cross, later coached in the NFL
  • Jim Zyntell 1933, offensive lineman in the National Football League[34]

Ice hockey[]

  • 2015, professional hockey player
  • 2017, professional hockey player
  • 2018, ECHL champion
  • Patrick Rissmiller 2002, has played in the NHL for the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers, and Atlanta Thrashers
  • 2007, professional hockey player
  • Jim Stewart 1979, goaltender Boston Bruins

Other sports[]

  • Frank Carroll 1960, Olympic figure skating coach, former competitive skater
  • Bob Daughters 1936, MLB player and former president of the Holy Cross Varsity Club
  • Neil Fingleton 2004, the United Kingdom's tallest British-born man, professional basketball player, actor, and clothing retailer
  • Keitani Graham 2003, competed in London 2012 Olympic Games as a wrestler for Micronesia
  • Paul Harney 1952, professional golfer and golf course owner; won 11 professional events including six on the PGA Tour; in 2005, enshrined into the PGA of America Hall of Fame
  • Andrew Kelly 1917, former world record holder in the 300 yard dash
  • Leo Larrivee 1925, winner of bronze medal in 3000 m team at the 1924 Summer Olympics
  • Patrick McCann, 2013, professional soccer player for Finn Harps FC
  • Alejandro Melean 2010, professional soccer player for the Bolivian club Oriente Petrolero
  • Paul Pearl 1989, men's ice hockey head coach at Holy Cross
  • James F. "Jimmy" Quinn 1928, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  • Richard Regan 1976, Athletic Director at Holy Cross; former operations director of NFL International
  • Kevin Swords 1982, most "capped" player on the Eagles, the U.S. national rugby team; played in the 1987 World Cup Rugby and captained the US team in the 1991 World Cup
  • Willie Turnesa 1938, known as "Willie the Wedge", one of 13 men who have won both the British Amateur (1947) and U.S. Amateur Championships (1938, 1948)
  • Ralph Willard 1967, former NBA coach; head coach of the Holy Cross basketball team

Notable Holy Cross faculty[]

  • Patricia Bizzell, Ph.D., prolific author and former Chairperson of the English Department
  • John Esposito, Ph.D., widely published professor of Islamic Studies; former Holy Cross Middle East Studies and Religious Studies Chair
  • Osvaldo Golijov, Ph.D., Grammy Award-winning composer; assistant professor of music
  • Claudia Koonz, Ph.D., feminist historian of Nazi Germany
  • Shirish Korde, Ph.D., composer; Chair of the Music Department; founder of Neuma Records
  • Joseph T. O'Callahan, first chaplain Medal of Honor recipient; former director of Holy Cross Mathematics Department

Presidents of the College[]

Order Name Position(s) Joined College Ascended presidency Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference
1 Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. President 1843 1843 1845 no [35]
2 President 1845 1848 [35]
3 Rev. John Early, S.J. President 1848 1851 [35]
4 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President 1851 1854 [35]
5 President 1854 1857 [35]
6 President 1857 1861 [35]
7 President 1861 1867
8 President 1867 1869
9 President 1869 1873
10 President 1873 1878
11 President 1878 1883
12 President 1883 1887
13 President 1887 1889
14 President 1889 1893
15 President 1893 1895
16 President 1895 1901
17 President 1901 1906
18 Rev. Thomas E. Murphy, S.J. President 1906 1911
19 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President 1911 1918
20 President 1918 1924
21 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President 1924 1927
22 President 1927 1933
23 President 1933 1939
24 President 1939 1945
25 President 1945 1948
26 President 1948 1954
27 President 1954 1960
28 President 1960 1970
29 Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. President 1970 1994
30 President 1994 1998
Acting President 1998 2000
31 Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. President 2000 2012 [36]
32 President 2012

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