List of Syracuse University people
This is a list of notable individuals associated with Syracuse University.
Founders
- Jesse Truesdell Peck - first Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees
Notable Alumni
Arts and Letters
- Robb Armstrong - cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start.
- Stephen Crane - Novelist. He stayed only one semester, later admitting he came "more to play baseball than to study." [1]
- Adam Davies - Novelist
- Aleš Debeljak - Poet, Essayist and Sociologist
- Stephen Dunn - Poet
- Carlisle Floyd - Critically acclaimed opera composer
- Clement Greenberg - art critic
- Henry Grethel - fashion designer
- Morton Janklow - preeminent literary agent
- Shirley Jackson - Novelist
- Betsey Johnson - fashion designer
- David N. Johnson - American composer, organist, and professor
- Warren Kimble - folk artist
- Joseph S. Kozlowski - portrait artist
- Hilton Kramer - Critic, "The Revenge of the Philistines"
- Barbara Kruger - collage artist
- David Krutz - Author
- Sol LeWitt - Sculptor
- Mark Lombardi - Abstract painter
- John D. MacDonald - Novelist
- Don Maloney - Japanophile author
- Robert Mankoff - cartoonist and Editor of The New Yorker
- Donald Martino - Pulitzer Prize winning Composer
- Scott McCloud - cartoonist and comics theorist
- Jay McInerney - Novelist
- Joyce Carol Oates - Novelist
- Robert O'Connor - Novelist
- Tom Perrotta - American novelist and screenwriter
- Salvador Plascencia - Novelist
- David Ross - Nationally renowned museum director, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- William Safire - Pulitzer Prize winning commentator and former New York Times Columnist
- George Saunders - Acclaimed American writer of short stories
- Alice Sebold – novelist, The Lovely Bones
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro – Novelist, Director, Independent Spirit Award for Keep the River on Your Right
- William Tester - American writer of short stories
- Bill Viola - Video Artist
- John A. Williams (author) - Novelist
- Howard Wyeth - Drummer and pianist
- Mary Jo Putney - romance novelist
- Tim D'Amico - Visual Effects Artist
Business
- P.O. Ackley - World-Renowned Gunsmith, CEO, P.O. Ackley Inc.
- William F. Allyn - CEO, WelchAllyn, Inc.
- Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal - Founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co
- Daniel D'Aniello - Founding Partner, The Carlyle Group
- Steven Barnes - Managing Director, Bain Capital Inc
- Mark Begor - President & CEO, GE Card Services
- Bob Berenson - Vice Chairman and General Manager, Grey Global Group
- Jeffrey Cohen - CEO, Silverado Capital Management
- Jerome M. Cohen - Chairman, Williams Real Estate Co. (GVA Williams)
- Angel Collado-Schwarz - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NAZCA Saatchi & Saatchi
- John Couri - Co-Founder, Duty Free International
- Arthur Crames - Managing Director/Principal, Bear, Stearns and Co.
- Gerald B. Cramer - Chairman, Cramer Rosenthal & McGlynn
- John H. Chapple - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nextel Partners Inc.
- Nick Denofrio - Senior Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing, IBM
- Ed Diefenbach - President & COO, Peoplesolve
- Bruce Fowle - Architect, Fox & Fowle Architects
- Sue Frieden - Global Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
- Walter B. Gerken - Former Chairman and CEO, PIMCO Advisors
- Kenneth Goodman - President and COO, Forest Laboratories
- Louis Giuliano - Chairman, President & CEO , ITT Industries
- Paul Gordon - Managing Director, Bank of New York
- Adam Gross - Architect, Ayers Saint Gross
- Irwin Guttag - Legendary Wall Street Arbitraguer and a former Director of the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange
- Richard Haydon - Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
- Richard S. Hayden - Architect responsible for restoring the Statue of Liberty
- Peter Hebert - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital
- John Heimann - Senior Advisor and former Chairman of Global Financial Institutions, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc
- Patrick J. Hennigan - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
- Joyce Hergenhan - Former President, The General Electric Fund
- JoAnn H. Heisen - Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Johnson & Johnson
- Joanne Hill - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
- Sharon Haines Jacquet - Managing Director, JPMorgan Private Bank
- William James - Director, Lazard Freres & Company
- Richard Kirshenbaum - Chairman/Executive Creative Director, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners
- Scott Kronick - President of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide's China operations
- James D. Kuhn - President, Newmark Knight Frank
- E. Floyd Kvamme - Partner Emeritus; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Chairman, Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
- Kenneth Leibler - Chairman & CEO, Boston Options Exchange
- Robert Menschel - Senior Director, Goldman Sachs Group (founded Wall Street's first successful Institutional Investment department)
- Walter G. Montgomery - Partner, Robinson Lerer and Montgomery
- Ronald P. O'Hanley - Vice Chairman, Mellon Financial Corporation
- Akira Ohtomo - Founder and CEO, Pan Pacific Enterprises, Japan
- Robert Pearlman - Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
- Michael Perlis - Managing Partner, SOFTBANK Capital Partners
- Howard Phanstiel - Chairman and CEO, PacifiCare Health Systems
- Laique Rehman - CEO, US Petrochemical Industries
- Jonathan D. Resnick - Managing Director, Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
- H. John Riley Jr - Former CEO, Cooper Industries
- Arthur Rock - Legendary investment banker and father of the modern Venture Capital Industry. Coined term "venture capitalist". Co-founder and 1st Chairman of the Intel Corporation.
- David Rockwell - Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group
- Ian Schrager - Hotelier and former Studio 54 club owner. Pioneered the "boutique hotel" concept.
- Frederic N. Schwartz - Former Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Co
- Werner Seligmann - Architect
- Bob Seltzer - President and CEO, Ogilvy PR Worldwide
- Peter Valdes - Co-Founder, Tivoli Systems (an IBM Company)
- Susan C. Volcker Penny - Managing Partner, Associated Mezzanine Investors
- Eugen von Baden-Manners-Schleswig - Entrepreneur and Founder of DIY Enterprises. Baden, Germany
- Martin Whitman - Founder and Chairman, Third Avenue Management
- Abdallah Yabroudi - Dubai Contracting Company CEO
- Jason Freydberg- Entrepreneur
- Keisuke Yawata - Venture Capitalist and former president of Applied Materials Japan
- Gianfranco Zaccai - President and CEO, Design Continuum
- Subhas Basu - CEO Silicon Interfaces Pvt Ltd, India
Education
- Walter Broadnax - President, Clark Atlanta University
- George Campbell Jr. - President, Cooper Union
- Kent John Chabotar - President, Guilford College
- Molly Corbett Broad - Former President, The University of North Carolina
- Michael M. Crow -President, Arizona State University
- John Crowley - Vice President for Federal Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- A. Lee Fritschler - former President, Dickinson College
- Jonathan Gibralter - President, State University of New York College at Farmingdale
- John Griffith - President, Presbyterian College in South Carolina
- Kermit L. Hall - Former President, State University of New York at Albany
- Richard Hersh - President, Trinity College (Connecticut)
- Anne Hopkins - Former President, The University of North Florida
- Barry Mills - President, Bowdoin College
- Sean O'Keefe - Former Chancellor of Louisiana State University (LSU)
- Jay Oliva - former president, New York University
- Sanya Popovic - Professor of political science, Barnard College
- David Potter - President, Delta State University
- Deborah Stanley - President, State University of New York College at Oswego
- Donna Shalala - President, University of Miami
- Mark Emmert - President, University of Washington
Law and Public Service
- Nathan Andrisani - prominent attorney at Morgan Lewis
- Al D'Amato - Former senator from New York.
- Ali Khalif Galaydh - Former prime minister of Somalia
- Charles Baquet - Deputy director, the Peace Corps
- H. Douglas Barclay, - Former State Senator, New York
- Craig Benson, New Hampshire Governor
- Joseph R. Biden, Jr. - U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Joseph R. (Beau) Biden, III - Attorney General of Delaware
- John William Blaney III - U.S. ambassador to Liberia
- Angus Cameron - Former Senator from Wisconsin
- John T. Connor - former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- David Crane - Former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Richard Danzig - Former Secretary of the Navy
- Robert Dineen - Senior partner, Shearman & Sterling
- Robert Duffy - Mayor of Rochester, New York
- Marc S. Ellenbogen - Chairman, The Global Panel Foundation (Philanthropist)
- Ronald A. George - Maryland State Delegate
- James E. Graves, Jr. - Mississippi Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur T. Hannett - Former Governor of New Mexico.
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin - Director, Congressional Budget Office and former Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers
- Randy Kuhl - Congressman, New York
- Belva A. Lockwood - First woman to receive her party’s nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Tarky Lombardi - Former New York State Senator
- Oren Lyons - Onondaga Faithkeeper and Global Indigenous Leader
- Theodore McKee - Federal appeals court judge, Philadelphia
- Bismarck Myrick - former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia and Lesotho
- Sean O'Keefe - former NASA administrator
- Masahide Ota - former Governor of Okinawa, Japan
- Kenneth Podziba - Commissioner, New York City Sports Commission
- Elliott I. Portnoy - Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
- John Prevas - Circuit Court Judge, City of Baltimore
- Dr. Han W. Pyo - former Korean ambassador to the United Nations
- Vincent Rogers - Prominent Washington D.C. gay rights activist
- Steven Rothman - Congressman, New Jersey
- Warren Rudman - former Senator
- Donna Shalala - Ex-Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
- Halim Shafie - deputy secretary general of Malaysia’s Ministry for Energy and Communications
- Lawrence R. Uhlick - Executive Director and General Counsel of the Institute of International Bankers
- Mitchel Wallerstein - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counterproliferation policy
- George Warrington - NJ Transit president and former Amtrak president
- James Walsh - U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
- John P. White - Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense
Media and Communications
- Marv Albert - sportscaster
- Damon Amendolara - sportscaster
- L. Kelly Atkinson, Jr. - Director, NBC Sports
- Len Berman – sportscaster
- Matthew Berry - ESPN fantasy sports analyst
- Tracy Breton - Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Providence Journal
- Samantha Brown - TV host, best known for her work on several travel programs on the Travel Channel
Sean Patrick Bowley - High school football, Connecticut Post
- Joe Castiglione - sportscaster
- Bob Costas - sportscaster, NBC
- Merrilee Cox - News Director, ABC News Radio
- Bob Dotson - journalist
- Fred Dressler - Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable
- Ian Eagle - sportscaster
- Marc S. Ellenbogen - syndicated columnist, United Press International (UPI)
- Alan Frank - President, Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc
- Eric Frankel - President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution
- Ruth Fremson - Pulitzer Prize winning News Photographer
- Marty Glickman – sportscaster
- Ed Goren - President, Fox Sports
- Robert Halmi, Jr. - President and CEO, Hallmark Entertainment
- Michael Harms - Editorial Director, MSN, Emerging Verticals
- Raymond Jansen - Publisher, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Newsday Inc.
- Megyn Kelly - Co-anchor of the daytime news program "America’s Newsroom" on Fox News
- Ted Koppel - broadcast journalist, Nightline
- Larry Kramer - President, CBS Interactive (former President of CBS Marketwatch.com)
- Steve Kroft - co-editor and news correspondent, "60 Minutes"
- Michael Kranish - journalist
- David Levy - President, Turner Entertainment Group
- L. Ross Love - President and CEO, Blue Chip Broadcasting
- Harold E. Martin - Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, Montgomery Advertiser in Montgomery, Alabama
- Mike McAlary - Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
- Sean McDonough - sportscaster, ESPN
- Joe McNally - photographer, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, etc.
- Bob Miron - Chairman & CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
- Bob Neumeier - American sportscaster for NBC Sports, specializing in thoroughbred racing.
- Donald Newhouse - President, Advance Publications
- S.I. Newhouse, Jr. - Chairman & CEO, Advance Publications/ Chairman, Conde Nast Publications
- Dave Pasch - Sportscaster, ESPN
- Lowell “Bud” Paxson - Chairman and CEO, Pax TV (also former founder of Home Shopping Network)
- Howard Polskin - Vice President, Communications, Sony Corporation of America
- Bob Reichblum - CEO, WebFN
- Andrew Rizzi - Sports Television Producer
- Alexander M. Roberts - Media Planner, Carat Media
- Dave Ryan - Sportscaster, ESPN
- Donald Sena - Managing Editor, MSN
- Bob Shannon - Radio DJ/Announcer, CBS-FM New York
- Arun Shourie - Former Editor, The Indian Express
- Fred Silverman - Former President, NBC Television
- Jayson Stark - Journalist/ sportscaster, ESPN
- Dick Stockton – sportscaster
- John Sykes - former Chairman and CEO, Infinity Broadcasting (former president of VH1)
- Kenichi Takemura - commentator/anchorman on Japanese TV programs on politics and economy
- Mike Tirico - sportscaster, ABC/ESPN
- Robin Toner - Domestic Correspondent, The New York Times.
- Nick Trigony - President, Cox Broadcasting
- Stephanie Welsh - Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist
- John Noble Wilford - Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Correspondent
- John Wildhack - Senior vice president, ESPN
- Enrico M Woolford - Television Journalist/Anchor, Capitol News GUYANA
Science, Engineering, Medicine and Exploration
- Bill Anselm - Project Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Albert Baez - Developer of the X-ray reflection microscope, physics educator, and father of Joan Baez.
- Rubin Braunstein - co-inventor of the light-emitting diode
- Eileen Collins - NASA astronaut and first female space shuttle commander
- Ghaleb Daouk - clinical director of pediatric nephrology division, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Nina Fedoroff - Leading geneticist and molecular biologist. Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. Recipient of the National Medal of Science.
- Joan Feynman - astrophysicist.
- George E. Fox - biologist and chemical engineer; co-discoverer of the Archaea kingdom of organisms.
- Martin Gellert - Chief, molecular biology, National Institutes of Health.
- John Hanlin - Director, microbiology & thermal process, General Mills.
- Robert Jarvik - inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart.
- Edna Kaneshiro - microbiology biochemist.
- Joel Lebowitz - major contributor to statistical physics. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Alfred U. MacRae - semiconductor physicist, developer of ion implantation. Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
- Story Musgrave - NASA astronaut.
- Paul Pan - leader of the Nuclear Stockpile Complex Modeling and Analysis group, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 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 - noted ornithologist; winner of the 1994 D.L. Serventy Medal.
- Mark Reed - nanotechnology pioneer.
- Elsa Reichmanis - polymers and organic materials researcher, Lucent Technologies.
- Charles Rosen - artificial intelligence pioneer, co-founder of Ridge Vineyards.
- Joel Rosenbaum - cell biologist. Winner of the E. B. Wilson Medal.
- Michael Streicher - developer of stainless steels. Winner of the W. R. Whitney Award.
- James Tour - organic chemist and nanotechnologist.
- Clarence Abiathar Waldo - mathematician and educator noted for his role in the Indiana Pi Bill affair.
Sports
- Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
- Dave Bing – basketball player
- Jim Boeheim – basketball player and coach
- Jim Brown - football, lacrosse legend, actor
- Keith Bulluck - football player
- Derrick Coleman – basketball player
- John Coleman – major-league baseball player
- Tom Coughlin - football coach - New York Giants
- Larry Csonka - football player
- Al Davis - NFL Owner
- Ernie Davis - football player, Heisman Trophy winner
- Sherman Douglas – basketball player
- Randy Edsell - college football Coach
- David Falk - Founder, SFX Basketball Group
- Dwight Freeney - football player
- Gary Gait - lacrosse player
- Paul Gait - lacrosse player
- Tim Green - football player
- Marvin Harrison - football player
- Jason Hart - basketball player
- Qadry Ismail - football player
- Floyd Little - football player
- Donovan McNabb - football player
- Gerry McNamara - basketball player
- Gene Mills - wrestler, 1980 US Olympian, voted the "Athlete of the Year" by the US Olympic Committee
- Art Monk - football player & NFL Hall of Fame inductee
- Joe Morris - football player
- Lawrence Moten - basketball player
- Louis Orr - basketball player
- Casey Powell - lacrosse player
- Mikey Powell - lacrosse player
- Ryan Powell - lacrosse player
- Myer Prinstein - Olympic medalist
- Leo Rautins - basketball player
- Mike Rotundo - professional wrestler
- Rony Seikaly - basketball player
- Wilmeth Sidat-Singh - football and basketball player
- Etan Thomas - basketball player
- David Tyree - football player (New York Giants)
- John Wallace - basketball player
- Hakim Warrick - basketball player
- Dwayne Washington - basketball player
Visual & Performing Arts
- Lynn Ahrens - American musical theatre lyricist
- Candace Bahouth - American needelpoint designer and tapestry weaver
- Martin Bandier - Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, EMI Music Publishing
- Darryl Bell - Actor
- Matthew Berry - Screenwriter, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Married with Children
- Warren Casey - Co-writer of the book, lyrics, and music for Grease
- Priscilla Chan - Singer in Hong Kong
- Dick Clark - Host of "American Bandstand", television producer
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson - Writer
- Taye Diggs - Actor
- Richard Dobbis - Former President, Sony Music International
- Peter Falk - Actor
- Vera Farmiga - Actress The Departed
- Judy Freudberg - Writer for Sesame Street and Writer for the Hollywood movies "An American Tale" and "The Land Before Time"
- Carl Gottlieb - Screenwriter (Jaws) and vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, West
- Peter Guber - Former Studio Head, Columbia Pictures and current CEO of Mandalay Entertainment
- Elizabeth Hendrickson - Actress
- Miriam Hopkins - Actress
- Grace Jones - Iconic Singer, Actress, and Model
- Joe Lamachia - Voice Actor
- Frank Langella - Actor
- Rob Light - Managing Partner/Head of Music, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
- Riki Lindhome - Actress
- Rick March - Stand Up Comedian
- Frank Marion - Motion picture pioneer
- Neal McDonough - Actor, "Band of Brothers", "Tin Man", "Timeline"
- Christopher McGurk - Former Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc (MGM)
- Sterling Morrison - Musician
- Patti Murin - Broadway actress ("Xanadu")
- Eliza Orlins - Survivor: Vanuatu contestant (4th Place)
- Suzanne Pleshette - Actress, The Bob Newhart Show
- Kevin Michael Richardson - Actor, Star of ABC's "Knights of Prosperity."
- Phil Quartararo - Executive Vice-President, EMI Recorded Music North America
- Maria Sansone - Television presenter
- Tom Everett Scott - Actor
- Mark Stevens - President, Time-Life Music
- Lou Reed - Musician
- Aaron Sorkin - Television writer/creator, "The West Wing"
- Jerry Stiller - Actor
- Arielle Tepper - Broadway Producer
- Habib Tabani - legendary Pakistani ghazal singer and industrialist, better known as Habib Wali Mohammad
- Vanessa Williams - Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Dancer
- Pete Yorn - Musician
Other
- Jessica Cutler - infamous blogger, Washingtonienne
- Harold Dorschug - radio engineer
- Eric Miller - Designer of "The Wade" Converse shoe.
- Jennifer Meyer - Jewelry designer and founder of Jennifer Meyer Jewelry
- Lexington Steele - Adult Film Star
- John Zogby - Pollster, Zogby International
Notable educators
- William Alston
- William C. Banks
- Jonathan Bennett
- Catherine Bertini
- Donald T. Cambell
- Junot Diaz
- Per Brinch Hansen
- James Fawcett [2]
- Irene Sargent
- Tobias Wolff
- Raymond Carver
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Ivan Mestrovic
- Sawyer Falk
- Mario Garcia [3]
- Susan Older
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Lawrence Samuleson
- Delmore Schwartz
- Marshall Segal
- Peter Van Inwagen
- Peter Weller
- Robert Thompson
Notable commencement speakers & honored guests
- 2007 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
- 2006 - Billy Joel, American composer and singer
- 2005 - Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
- 2004 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress
- 2003 - Bill Clinton, Former US President, 1993-2001
- 2002 - Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001
- 2001 - Eileen Collins, American astronaut and SU Alumna
- 2000 - Ted Koppel, American journalist and SU Alumnus
- 1999 - Charles Schumer, Current US Senator (D-NY), 1999-Present
- 1998 - Robert Fulghum, American author, primarily of short essays.
- 1995 - Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001, and SU (doctorate) Alumna
- 1994 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
- 1982 - Ted Koppel, American journalist and SU Alumnus
- 1981 - Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982
- 1973 - Edward M. Kennedy, US Senator (D-MA), 1962-Present
- 1969 - William F. Buckley, American journalist
- 1966 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, 1959-1973
- 1965 - Robert F. Kennedy, US Senator (D-NY), 1965-1968
- 1961 - Ayn Rand, Russian novelist
- 1960 - Harry S. Truman, Former US President, 1945-1953
- 1959 - Robert Frost, American poet
- 1957 - John F. Kennedy, US Senator (D-MA), 1953-1960
- 1937 - Herbert Hoover, Former US President, 1929-1933
- 1930 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, 1928-1932