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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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
^Aytac, Selenay; Slutsky, Bruce (2017-04-03). "Authorship Trends of Research Articles Published in Seven Scientific, Technical, Engineering, and Medical (STEM) Library Journals: Analysis of STEM Library Research from 2011–2015". Science & Technology Libraries. 36 (2): 114–134. doi:10.1080/0194262X.2017.1323070. ISSN0194-262X. S2CID67077656.
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