List of Manhattan College people

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This is a list of notable graduates of Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York.

Notable alumni[]

Academia[]

• Joseph A. Alutto – executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University^[1]
• Jeanette Brown – former president of the Water Environment Federation
• Frederick W. Capshaw – Class of 1966^[2] – President of Community College of Philadelphia from December 15, 1993^[3] until his death at age 53 on June 23, 1998^[4]
• Edward Countryman – Class of 1966 – distinguished professor of history at Southern Methodist University^[5]
• Christopher Coyne – Class of 1999 – F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University
• David Danahar – Class of 1963^[6] – President^[7] of Southwest Minnesota State University^[8]
• Kevin J. Farley – distinguished professor at Manhattan College^[9]
• Robert Jastrow – first chairman of NASA's Lunar Exploration Committee, professor at Yale and Dartmouth, recipient of Doctor of Science (honorary)^[10]
• – award-winning professor of chemistry at Duke University^[11]
• George E. McCarthy – National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College
• Kevin V. Mulcahy- Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor Louisiana State University
• – 16th president of Saint Michael's College in 2007^[12]
• William E. O'Connell – Chessie Professor of Finance Emeritus at The College of William and Mary
• L. Jay Oliva – 14th President of New York University
• Henry Petroski – award-winning professor of civil engineering at Duke University
• Ángel Ramos – founder of the National Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind
• Katharine Capshaw Smith – award-winning Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
• James Vreeland – associate professor of International Relations at Georgetown University
• Erick Weinberg – professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University
• Donald f. Costello – associate professor emeritus of Computer science and engineering University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Arts and literature[]

• Sam Barone – historical novelist with novels centered on early Antiquity
• William Edmund Barrett – author of The Left Hand of God and Lilies of the Field^{[citation needed]}
• Nakia D. Johnson, African-American novelist
• Paul Mariani – poet, biographer, and essayist -- Internationally Known Poet to Give Reading at Georgian Court University
• James Patterson – New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning novelist, author of Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls
• Al Sarrantonio – science fiction, mystery and horror author and winner of the Bram Stoker Award.
• Robert Shea – co-author (with Robert Anton Wilson) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• George A. Sheehan – cardiologist and New York Times bestselling author of Running & Being: The Total Experience

Business[]

• John Banks III – President Emeritus of the Real Estate Board of New York^[13]
• Sam Belnavis – NASCAR owner
• John M. Fahey – President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Geographic Society
• Frank M. Folsom – former president of RCA Victor and permanent representative of the Holy See
• Thomas Gambino – New York mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family
• Frederick W. Gluck '57 – former Vice Chairman of Bechtel and managing partner of McKinsey & Co.^{[14][unreliable source?]}
• John Horan '40 – former chairman & CEO of Merck
• Eugene R. McGrath – former chairman and CEO of Con Edison
• Joe Mohen – internet entrepreneur
• Roderick McMahon – professional wrestling and boxing promoter; patriarch of the McMahon wrestling family
• Thomas J. Moran – president and CEO of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company^[15]
• Eileen Murray – former CEO of Investment Risk Management LLC
• Thomas D. O'Mally '63 – successful commodities trader; former chairman & CEO of Premcor who created the modern independent refining industry
• Joseph M. Tucci – chairman, president and CEO of the EMC Corporation
• Stephen Squeri - Chairman and CEO of the American Express
• Richard L. Tomasetti - Bachelors of Civil Engineering, class of 1963 - Founding principal and former chairman of Thornton Tomasetti^[16][17]

Entertainment[]

• Frank Campanella – TV and motion picture actor, Captain Video
• Joseph Campanella – TV, stage, and motion picture actor, Mannix
• Alexandra Chando – actress, Maddie on As the World Turns
• Dennis Day – TV and radio personality, The Jack Benny Show
• Barnard Hughes – Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, Hugh Leonard's Da
• Mike Mazurki – former professional wrestler and character actor
• Hugo Montenegro – TV and movie soundtrack composer, I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts
• Glenn Hughes – founding member of The Village People, as the biker.
• Liam O'Brien – screenwriter and television producer best known for writing the movie 'Here Comes the Groom

Journalism[]

• James Brady – New York City celebrity tabloid columnist who created the Page Six gossip column in the New York Post
• Don Dunphy – Boxing announcer, Radio Hall of Fame inductee
• Jerry Girard – former sportscaster, WPIX
• Mario Nacinovich '94 – Managing Partner of the US healthcare practice at AXON^[18] and in 2013 became Editor Emeritus Journal of Communication in Healthcare^[19]
• Jim Ryan – news anchor for WNBC-TV, WNYW and WCBS-TV
• Judith West – entrepreneur business woman, political activist, radio personality and hosts her own cable network TV Show, Getting Your Money's Worth

Government and public policy[]

• Phil Amicone – 41st Mayor of Yonkers, New York
• John J. Boylan – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 15th congressional district
• Thomas J. Curry – 30th Comptroller of the Currency of the United States
• John J. Delaney – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district
• Thomas R. Donahue – former Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
• John J. Fitzgerald – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 7th congressional district
• Hugh J. Grant – 91st Mayor of New York City
• Rudy Giuliani – 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidate and former Mayor of New York City
• Ronald Green – head of the United Worker's Party; former member of the House of Assembly of Dominica
• Raymond W. Kelly '63 – Commissioner of the New York City Police Department
• Michael Lawler '09 - Member of the New York State Assembly, representing Rockland County
• Arthur J. Lichte – United States Air Force General and Commander of the Air Mobility Command
• William Lucas – Wayne County Executive and 1986 Michigan gubernatorial candidate
• Joseph Maguire – Vice Admiral of the United States Navy
• Serphin Maltese – former member of the New York State Senate
• John McCarthy ’61 – former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia^{[20][unreliable source?]}
• Dominic J. Monetta – former Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1991–1993, and Former Director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy from 1989–1991

• Thomas McNamara ’62 – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
• Chang Myon – 2nd and 7th Prime Minister of South Korea
• Bill Owens (congressman) – U.S. Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district
• Peter A. Quinn – former U.S. Representative from New York
• James Rispoli – Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management
• Angelo D. Roncallo – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 3rd congressional district
• Russell Schriefer – political strategist and media consultant
• José M. Serrano – New York State Senator representing the South Bronx, East Harlem, Yorkville and Roosevelt Island
• Thomas Francis Smith – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York
• Andrew Lawrence Somers – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 6th congressional district and New York's 10th congressional district
• James J. Walsh – former member of U.S. House of Representatives for New York
• Thomas Michael Whalen III – three-term Mayor of Albany, New York

Law[]

• Anthony V. Cardona (MC1966RIP)^[21] – Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, New York Supreme Court
• Ronald L. Ellis – Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Joseph Raymond Jackson – former Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
• John F. Keenan – Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• John S. Martin – former U.S. Attorney and Judge for United States District for the Southern District of New York
• John H. Mark, Jr. – U.S. Army Major JAG (Troop B. Cavalry) and President of St. John's University School of Law Student Body Association ('03)

Math and science[]

• Kevin Campbell – Principal Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; internationally recognized for his contributions to muscular dystrophy research
• James W. Cooley – mathematician, co-author of the FFT (fast Fourier transform) algorithm used in digital processing
• Peter J. Denning – award-winning computer scientist best known for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which defeated thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory management policies
• Michael J. Flynn – professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University; recipient of Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
• Edward E. Hammer – IEEE Edison Medal for fluorescent lighting research
• Valery Havard – botanist for whom many Texas plants are named, including the Chisos bluebonnet (Lupinus havardii), Havard oak (Quercus havardii), and Havard's evening primrose (Oenothera havardii)
• Michael Walsh – Vehicle emissions engineer and 2005 MacArthur Fellow
• Erick Weinberg – physicist at Columbia University

Religion[]

• Patrick Ahern – former Auxiliary Bishop of New York
• Austin Dowling – former Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
• Patrick Joseph Hayes – former Cardinal Archbishop of New York
• Bryan Joseph McEntegart – former Bishop of Ogdensburg and Brooklyn
• John Joseph Mitty – former Archbishop of San Francisco
• George Mundelein – former Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago
• John Joseph Thomas Ryan – Archbishop for the Military Services and Anchorage
• Michael Angelo Saltarelli – former Bishop of Wilmington

Sports[]

Baseball[]

• Luis Castro – second Latin-American to play Major League Baseball
• George Chalmers – former Major League Baseball player
• Pat Duff – former Major League Baseball catcher/first baseman
• Bill Finley – former Major League Baseball catcher/outfielder
• Joe Gallagher – former Major League Baseball player
• Buddy Hassett – former Major League baseball player
• Andy Karl – former Major League Baseball player
• Chris Mahoney – former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Charlie Meara – former Major League Baseball outfielder
• Cotton Minahan – former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Mike Parisi – pitcher for Memphis Redbirds, St. Louis Cardinals
• Xavier Rescigno – former Major League Baseball player
• Matt Rizzotti – infielder for Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Philadelphia Phillies
• Doc Scanlan – former Major League Baseball player
• Chuck Schilling – former Major League Baseball player
• Brewery Jack Taylor – former Major League Baseball player
• Henry Thielman – former Major League Baseball player
• Jake Thielman – former Major League Baseball player
• Nick Tremark – former Major League Baseball player
• Tom Waddell – former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Eddie Zimmerman – former Major League Baseball player

Basketball[]

• David Bernsley (born 1969) - American-Israeli basketball player
• George Bruns – former NBA player
• George Bucci – former NBA player
• Bill Campion – former basketball player of Manhattan Jaspers, drafted NBA 1975 Bucks
• Neil Cohalan – first professional basketball coach of the New York Knicks
• Luis Flores (born 1981) – former NBA point guard, 2009 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Junius Kellogg – former basketball player who blew the whistle on point-shaving scheme; former Harlem Globetrotter
• Kevin Laue – received a scholarship to play Division I basketball for Manhattan College.
• Chris Smith (born 1987) – basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Liga Leumit^[22]

Football[]

• Vincent dePaul Draddy – Manhattan College quarterback who developed the Izod and Lacoste brands. College Football Hall of Famer and Chairman of the National Football Foundation. The Vincent dePaul Draddy Trophy is a trophy awarded by the National Football Foundation that is given to the American college football player with the best combination of academics, community service, and on-field performance. It is considered by many to be the "Academic Heisman."
• Vic Fusia – former head football coach of the University of Massachusetts
• Dick Tuckey – former professional American football running back
• Pat Kirwan (football) – Receivers Coach and Personnel Assistant for the New York Jets under Pete Carroll. Currently Senior Football Analyst for the National Football League website.
• Frank Gnup – Award winning and all-star Canadian football player, and later legendary coach of the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

Track & field[]

• Lindy Remigino – Gold medalist in 100-meter dash and 4 × 100 relay 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics
• Lou Jones – World record holder at 400 meters; gold medalist in 4 × 400 meter relay at the 1956 Mexico City Summer Olympics
• Doug Logan – CEO of USA Track & Field; first commission of Major League Soccer
• Tom Murphy – Gold medalist in the men's 800 meters event at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago
• Aliann Pompey – Olympic sprinter

Other Sports[]

• Ryan Hall (grappler) – winner of The Ultimate Fighter season 22, professional mixed martial artist in the Ultimate Fighting Championship^[23]

References[]