List of Syracuse University people
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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Syracuse University.
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[edit] Founders
- Jesse Truesdell Peck – first Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees
- Wilfred W. Porter
- George F. Comstock
- George L. Taylor
- Charles Andrews
[edit] Benefactors
Syracuse has had many financial supporters, but some stand out by the magnitude of their contributions. Among those who have made transformative donations commemorated at the university are:
- John D. Archbold- oil
- Andrew Carnegie- steel
- George F. Comstock- real estate
- Joseph Lubin- real estate
- Donald Newhouse- publishing
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.- publishing
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.- publishing
- Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage – philanthropist
- Lyman Cornelius Smith- firearm and typewriter magnate
- Thomas J. Watson- IBM
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Arts and Letters
- Julia Alvarez – poet, novelist, and essayist
- Donna Alvermann – prominent professor and researcher in adolescent and media literacies [1]
- Joe Amato (poet) – author
- Robb Armstrong – cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start
- Maltbie D. Babcock – 19th century clergyman and author
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson – novelist
- Stephen Crane – novelist; 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
- Moses Finley – historian
- Carlisle Floyd – opera composer
- Aaron Goldfarb – novelist
- Clement Greenberg – art critic
- Henry Grethel – fashion designer
- Beth Gylys - poet and professor.
- Morton L. Janklow – literary agent
- Shirley Jackson – novelist
- Betsey Johnson – fashion designer
- David N. Johnson – composer, organist, and professor
- Joseph S. Kozlowski – portrait artist
- Hilton Kramer – critic, "The Revenge of the Philistines"
- Barbara Kruger – collage artist
- Sol LeWitt – sculptor
- Mark Lombardi – abstract painter
- John D. MacDonald – novelist
- Don Maloney – Japanophile author
- Barry N. Malzberg science fiction writer
- Jerre Mangione novelist, and scholar of the Italian-American experience
- 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 – novelist and screenwriter
- Salvador Plascencia – novelist
- William Powhida – artist
- Mary Jo Putney – romance novelist
- M. J. Rose - author and book marketing executive
- David Ross[disambiguation needed
] – museum director - William Safire – Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator and former New York Times columnist
- George Saunders – short story writer
- Alice Sebold – novelist
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro – novelist, director, Independent Spirit Award for Keep the River on Your Right
- Lexington Steele – actor, director, and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc.
- William Tester – short story writer
- Irene Vilar – author and literary agent
- Kate Vrijmoet – artist
- John A. Williams (author) – novelist
- Howard Wyeth – drummer and pianist
- Dorothy Thompson – journalist
[edit] Education
- Martin J. Anisman – President, Daemen College
- Molly Corbett Broad – President, American Council on Education
- Walter Broadnax – President, Clark Atlanta University
- George Campbell Jr. – President, Cooper Union
- Kent John Chabotar – President, Guilford College
- R. Inslee Clark, Jr. – Director of Admissions, Yale College
- Michael Crow – President, Arizona State University
- John Crowley – Vice President for Federal Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mark Emmert – President, University of Washington
- Welthy Honsinger Fisher - Founder, World Education and World Literacy Canada.
- A. Lee Fritschler – former President, Dickinson College
- Jonathan Gibralter – President, State University of New York at Farmingdale
- John Griffith[disambiguation needed
] – President, Presbyterian College - Kermit L. Hall – former President, State University of New York at Albany
- Richard Hersh – President, Trinity College (Connecticut)
- Anne Hopkins – former President, University of North Florida
- Alice Ilchman – President, Sarah Lawrence College
- David Knapp – President, University of Massachusetts
- Barry Mills – President, Bowdoin College
- Sean O'Keefe – former Chancellor, Louisiana State University (LSU)
- L. Jay Oliva – former President, New York University
- David Potter – former President, Delta State University
- Joseph Rallo – President, Angelo State University
- Kenneth P. Ruscio – President, Washington and Lee University
- Donna Shalala – President, University of Miami
- Deborah F. Stanley – President, State University of New York at Oswego
- R. Mark Sullivan – President, The College of Saint Rose
- Michael Theall – President, Youngstown State University
[edit] Investors, industrialists, and executives
- Martin J. Whitman – founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Third Avenue Value Fund
- P.O. Ackley – World-Renowned Gunsmith, CEO, P.O. Ackley Inc.
- Al-Waleed bin Talal – founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co
- Steven Barnes – Managing Director, Bain Capital LLC
- William J. Brodsky – Chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Board Options Exchange
- Jeffrey Cohen[disambiguation needed
] – CEO, Silverado Capital Management - Dennis Crowley – Co-Founder, Foursquare (service)
- Nick Donofrio – Senior Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing, IBM
- Bernard Goldberg (1948) – Co-founder of Raymour & Flanigan
- William James – Director, Lazard Freres & Company
- E. Floyd Kvamme – Partner Emeritus; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Chairman, Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under President George W Bush
- Arthur Rock – venture capitalist
- Peter Valdes – co-founder of Tivoli Systems (an IBM Company)
[edit] Hospitality, real estate, construction, and architecture
- Harley Baldwin – developer in Aspen, Colorado
- Bruce Fowle – architect, Fox & Fowle Architects
- Adam Gross – architect, Ayers Saint Gross
- Lorimer Rich – architect, designed the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, DC and the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier in Rome, NY
- David Rockwell – founder and CEO, Rockwell Group
- Steve Rubell – former Studio 54 club owner
- Ian Schrager – hotelier and former Studio 54 club owner
- Werner Seligmann – architect
- Gianfranco Zaccai – President and CEO, Design Continuum
- Thom Filicia – Interior Designer, Author, Television Host
[edit] Law and Public Service
- Adam Leitman Bailey, Esq. - Author of New York Times bestseller Finding The Uncommon Deal: A Top New York Lawyer Explains How To Buy A Home For The Lowest Possible Price[2]; defended the Ground Zero Mosque, victoriously obtaining the right for them to build their community center [3]; obtained winning settlement for restaurant struck by devastating crane on March 15, 2008 [4]; landed largest condominium settlement in New York History. [5] [6]
- Craig Benson, former New Hampshire Governor
- Joseph R. Biden, Jr. – Current Vice-President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Delaware, Former Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Joseph R. (Beau) Biden, III – Attorney General of Delaware
- Angus Cameron – former Senator from Wisconsin
- Gary Chan, Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 2008
- John T. Connor – former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Al D'Amato – former Senator from New York
- Willy De Clercq – former European Commissioner for Trade and External Relations, former Belgian Minister of Finance, Foreign Trade, and Budget; former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister
- Robert Duffy – Mayor of Rochester, New York
- Kwabena Dufuor – Finance Minister of Ghana and former of Governor, Bank of Ghana.
- Ronald A. George – Maryland State Delegate
- David Gordon[disambiguation needed
] – Partner at Latham & Watkins, LLP - James E. Graves, Jr. – Mississippi Supreme Court Justice
- Arthur T. Hannett – former Governor of New Mexico
- Kathy Hochul - Congresswoman, New York
- Randy Kuhl – Congressman, New York
- Mordecai Lee – Wisconsin State Senator
- 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
- Oren Lyons – Onondaga Faithkeeper and Global Indigenous Leader
- Joanie Mahoney – Onondaga County Executive
- Neal P. McCurn – Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- Theodore McKee – federal appeals court judge, Philadelphia
- Rodney C. Moen – Wisconsin State Senator
- John H. Mulroy – former Onondaga County Executive
- Norman A. Mordue – Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- 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
- John Prevas – Circuit Court Judge, City of Baltimore
- Elliott Portnoy – Chairman of SNR Denton
- Steven Rothman – Congressman, New Jersey
- Warren Rudman – former Senator
- Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. – Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- Donna Shalala – former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Glenn T. Suddaby – Justice for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- Sandra L. Townes – Justice for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- Mitchel Wallerstein – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counter-proliferation policy
- George Warrington – NJ Transit president and former Amtrak president
- John P. White – former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense
[edit] Media and communications
- Marv Albert – sportscaster
- David Amber – reporter, ESPN
- Damon Amendolara – sportscaster
- Gary Apple – sports anchor, SNY
- Steve Bunin – sportscaster, ESPN
- Ed Coleman – sportscaster, WFAN NY
- Len Berman – sportscaster
- Matthew Berry – ESPN fantasy sports analyst
- Contessa Brewer – broadcast journalist, MSNBC
- Samantha Brown – TV host
- Joe Castiglione – sportscaster
- Michael Cole – WWE Raw commentator
- Bob Costas – sportscaster, NBC Sports and MLB Network
- Bob Dotson – journalist
- Ian Eagle – sportscaster
- Marty Glickman – sportscaster
- Ariel Helwani - MMA journalist
- Larry Hryb – Xbox Live Director of Programming
- Megyn Kelly – co-anchor of "America’s Newsroom," Fox News Channel
- 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[disambiguation needed
] – president, Turner Entertainment Group - Harold E. Martin – Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman, Montgomery, Alabama Advertiser
- Mike McAlary – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Sean McDonough – sportscaster, ESPN
- Joe McNally – photographer
- Jim Naughtie – British journalist and radio presenter
- Bob Neumeier – sportscaster, NBC
- Donald Newhouse – president, Advance Publications
- S.I. Newhouse, Jr. – Chairman & CEO, Advance Publications/ Chairman, Conde Nast Publications
- Dave Pasch – sportscaster, ESPN
- Harry M. Rosenfeld – former editor, "Washington Post"
- Dave Ryan – sportscaster, ESPN
Stephanie Scarpulla (Senior Manager, Media and Clearance) - MLB Network
- Adam Schein – SNY, Sirius XM Satellite radio NFL
- Bob Shannon – radio DJ/Announcer, CBS-FM New York
- Arun Shourie – former editor, The Indian Express
- Anish Shroff- ESPNews Anchor
- Fred Silverman – former President, NBC
- Lakshmi Singh – newscaster, journalist, NPR
- Jayson Stark – journalist, sportscaster, ESPN
- Dick Stockton – sportscaster
- John Sykes – former Chairman and CEO, Infinity Broadcasting (former president of VH1)
- Mike Tirico – sportscaster, ABC/ESPN
- Craig Carton – Sports talk show host
[edit] Science, engineering, medicine, and exploration
- Joseph A. Ahearn – Civil Engineer of the U.S. Air Force
- Albert Baez – developer of the X-ray reflection microscope, physics educator, and father of Joan Baez.
- Eileen Collins – NASA astronaut and first female space shuttle commander
- Nina Fedoroff – geneticist and molecular biologist; Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. Recipient of the National Medal of Science.
- Joan Feynman – astrophysicist
- Edith M. Flanigen – chemist and inventor
- George E. Fox – biologist and chemical engineer; co-discoverer of the Archaea kingdom of organisms
- Hermann Gummel - semiconductor device physicist; member of the National Academy of Engineering.
- Robert Jarvik – inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart
- Joel Lebowitz – statistical physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Alfred U. MacRae – semiconductor physicist, developer of ion implantation; member of the National Academy of Engineering
- William Ralph Maxon – botanist and pteridologist.
- Story Musgrave – NASA astronaut
- Ezra T. Newman - theoretical physicist, winner of the 2011 Einstein Prize.
- 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 – nanotechnology pioneer
- 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 known for his role in the Indiana Pi Bill affair
[edit] Sports
- Will Allen – football player
- Joe Alexander – NFL football player
- Gary Anderson – football player, former NFL record holder
- Carmelo Anthony – basketball player,New York Knicks
- Dave Bing – basketball player, current mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
- Jim Boeheim – basketball player and coach, member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame
- Jim Brown – football player, lacrosse player, actor, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Keith Bulluck – football player
- Derrick Coleman – basketball player
- John Coleman – baseball player
- Tom Coughlin – football coach, New York Giants
- Larry Csonka – football player
- Donovin Darius – football player
- Al Davis – NFL owner
- Ernie Davis – football player, Heisman Trophy winner
- John Desko – lacrosse coach
- Sherman Douglas – basketball player
- Randy Edsall – college football coach
- David Falk – Founder, SFX Basketball Group
- Mickey Fallon – football player
- Jonny Flynn – basketball player
- Dwight Freeney – football player
- Gary Gait – lacrosse player
- Paul Gait – lacrosse player
- Donte Greene – pro basketball player
- Tim Green – football player
- Morlon Greenwood – football player
- Marvin Harrison – football player
- Jason Hart – basketball player
- Qadry Ismail – football player
- Tanard Jackson – football player
- Tebucky Jones – football player
- Wesley Johnson – basketball player, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Daryl Johnston – football player
- Mark Kerr – Division I national champion wrestler, two-time UFC heavyweight tournament champion
- Rob Konrad – football player
- Jim Konstanty – major league baseball pitcher
- Floyd Little – football player
- John Mackey – former NFL tight end, has college award named after him
- Olindo Mare – football player, Carolina Panthers
- Alex Markham - noted Madden player
Doug Marrone – football coach
- Donovan McNabb – football player, Free Agent
- Gerry McNamara – basketball player
- Don McPherson – football player
- Dave Meggyesy – football player
- Eddie Miller - basketball player
- Gene Mills – wrestler, 1980 US Olympian, voted the "Athlete of the Year" by the U.S. Olympic Committee
- Art Monk – football player; NFL Hall of Fame inductee
- Tim Moresco – football player
- Joe Morris – football player
- Larry Morris – football player
- Lawrence Moten – basketball player
- Louis Orr – basketball player
- Billy Owens – basketball player
- Greg Paulus – football player and former Duke University basketball player
- Casey Powell – lacrosse player
- Mikey Powell – lacrosse player
- Ryan Powell – lacrosse player
- Myer Prinstein – Olympic medalist
- Andy Rautins – basketball player
- Leo Rautins – basketball player
- Jim Ringo – football player
- Victor Ross - lacrosse player
- Mike Rotundo – professional wrestler
- Danny Schayes - basketball player
- Rony Seikaly – basketball player
- Wilmeth Sidat-Singh – football and basketball player
- Anthony Smith – football player
- Etan Thomas – basketball player
- David Tyree – football player
- John Wallace – basketball player
- Hakim Warrick – basketball player, Phoenix Suns
- Dwayne Washington – basketball player
- Paul Young- Jamaican soccer player/manager
[edit] Entertainment and arts
- Lynn Ahrens – musical theatre lyricist
- Darryl Bell – actor
- Matthew Berry – screenwriter
- Eric Bress – film director and screenwriter
- Tim Calpin – screenwriter
- Warren Casey – writer, lyricist, screenwriter
- Priscilla Chan – singer
- Dick Clark – host of American Bandstand; television producer
- John Curran – film director and screenwriter
- Taye Diggs – actor
- Peter Falk – actor
- Gary Farmer – actor
- Vera Farmiga – actress
- Judy Freudberg – screenwriter
- Jami Gong – stand-up comedian
- Carl Gottlieb – screenwriter; vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, West
- Peter Guber – former studio head of Columbia Pictures and current CEO of Mandalay Entertainment
- Jay Harrington – actor
- Elizabeth Hendrickson – actress
- Miriam Hopkins – actress
- Garland Jeffreys – musician
- Miss Jones – radio DJ and singer
- Joe Klotz - film editor
- Lisa Lampanelli – comedian
- Frank Langella – actor Frost/Nixon
- James LaRosa – screenwriter, Tennis Channel blogger
- Riki Lindhome – actress
- Sam Lloyd – actor, musician
- Frank Marion – motion picture pioneer
- Neal McDonough – actor
- Sterling Morrison – musician
- Suzanne Pleshette – actress
- Lou Reed – musician
- Kevin Michael Richardson – actor
- Maria Sansone – television presenter
- Reid Scott – actor
- Tom Everett Scott – actor
- Matt Singer – media personality
- Aaron Sorkin – screenwriter The Social Network, The West Wing, Moneyball
- Mark Stevens[disambiguation needed
] – President, Time-Life Music - Jerry Stiller – actor
- 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
- Vanessa Williams – singer, songwriter, actress, dancer
- Pete Yorn – musician
[edit] Other
- John Zogby – pollster, Zogby International
[edit] Notable educators
- William Alston
- Julia Alvarez – poet, novelist, and essayist
- Donna Artz
- Ernst Bacon
- Jonathan Bennett[disambiguation needed
] - Peter Bergmann – won the Einstein Prize for research on quantum gravity.
- Catherine Bertini
- Philip Booth – poet
- Arthur C. Brooks
- Horace Campbell, Department of African American Studies and Department of Political Science
- Massimo Carmassi
- Linda CartyDepartment of African American Studies and Department of Sociology
- Bill Cole - musician, author (Department of African American Studies)
- Raymond Carver
- David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor for Special Court of the Sierra Leone
- Junot Diaz
- John Langston Gwaltney, African American professor of anthropology, author of Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America
- Per Brinch Hansen
- 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 2008 presidential campaign.
- Mary Karr – poet
- Janis Mayes - Author, literary critic
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan – Senator from New York, political scientist
- Ivan Mestrovic – artist
- Micere Mugo - poet and playwright (Department of African American Studies, Department of Literature)
- Ei-ichi Negishi - chemist, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize.
- Alexander Rosenberg
- George Saunders – writer
- Milton Sernett - historian, author (Department of African American Studies, Department of History)
- Delmore Schwartz – poet
- Huston Smith – religious studies scholar
- Eileen Strempel – soprano, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Fine Arts
- Robert Thompson
- Mark Trodden – theoretical cosmologist
- Betty Miller Unterberger – historian
- Peter Van Inwagen
- Frances Willard
- Tobias Wolff – writer
[edit] Notable commencement speakers & honored guests
- 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
- 1995 – Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001
- 1994 – Kurt Vonnegut, novelist
- 1990 – William Safire, journalist
- 1988 – Malcolm Forbes
- 1986 – Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York
- 1982 – Ted Koppel, journalist
- 1981 – Alexander Haig, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981–1982
- 1979 – Tom Brokaw, journalist
- 1973 – Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-MA), 1962–2009
- 1969 – William F. Buckley, journalist
- 1966 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, 1959–1973
- 1965 – Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (D-NY), 1965–1968
- 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