List of Long Island University people

Below are alumni, benefactors, presidents or chancellors, and other notable people associated with Long Island University.

Alumni

Art

• Bunny Hoest, cartoonist for the comic strip The Lockhorns

Business

• Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates
• Howard Lorber, businessman; investor; CEO of Vector Group; chairman of Nathan's Famous and Douglas Elliman
• Jorge M. Perez, real estate developer, author and political fundraiser; founder of The Related Companies
• Adnan Polat, chairman of Football Club Galatasaray SK; CEO of Ege Seramik
• Terry Semel, former chairman and CEO of Yahoo!; on the Board of Directors of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, The Paley Center for Media, and the Guggenheim Museum
• John Utendahl, founder and owner of Utendahl Group, the largest African American-owned investment banking organization in the US
• Gary Winnick, founder of Global Crossing, Ltd., installing the first undersea cable linking the U.S. and Europe

Judicial

• Rose Bird, first woman to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of California

Media

• A. J. Benza, television show host, actor (Celebrity Fit Club)
• Ted David, senior anchor at CNBC Business Radio
• John Edward McGee, Jr., television host and producer
• Arnold Hano, journalist, author, editor
• Jackee Harry, known for her roles on the television series 227, Another World, and Designing Women, and the Rodney Dangerfield movie Ladybugs
• Alfred R. Kahn, chairman and CEO, 4Kids Entertainment
• Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of ACME Communications
• Brian Kilmeade, television presenter and current co-host of Fox and Friends and Brian the Judge
• Lynda Lopez, news anchor; sister of Jennifer Lopez
• Nancy Hicks Maynard, first black female reporter for the New York Times; she and her husband are the first African Americans to own a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper, Oakland Tribune; they cofounded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
• Burl Osborne, former chairman of the Associated Press and former publisher of the Dallas Morning News
• Sibila Vargas, news anchor
• Larry Wachtel, the "Voice of Wall Street"; former senior vice president at Wachovia; financial analyst at Prudential Financial; respected financial markets commentator on WINS (AM) radio in New York City

Medicine and health

• Ruth Kirschstein, former acting director of the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; namesake of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards

Performing arts

• Ed Lauter, actor
• Dina Meyer, actress
• Nicholas Pileggi, screenwriter and author
• Larry Strong, producer and director
• Denise Vasi, actress

Politics

Mevlut Cavusoglu

• Tim Bishop, representative of the State of New York's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress
• Leon Bogues, former senator who represented the 29th District in the New York State Senate and who was succeeded by David Paterson, New York State's first black governor
• Steven Cymbrowitz, representative of the 45th District in the New York State Assembly
• Tuariki Delamere, former member of parliament for the Eastern Maori (now Ikaroa-Rāwhiti) electorate in the Parliament of New Zealand and cabinet minister, including Minister of Immigration
• Katuutire Kaura, member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia; leader of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia
• Tom Ognibene, former representative of the 30th City Council District in the New York City Council and New York City mayoral candidate
• Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate.
• L. Harvey Smith, representative of the 31st District in the New Jersey General Assembly
• Fred Thiele, representative of the 2nd District in the New York State Assembly
• Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh.
• Mevlut Cavusoglu, incumbent Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey)

Sports and recreation

Sid Gordon

• Hank Beenders, first non-American to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals
• Frank Catalanotto, retired Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
• John Collins, former president and chief executive officer of the National Football League's (NFL) Cleveland Browns
• Daniel de Oliveira, Rookie of the Year 1987, Northeast Conference; first LIU Blackbird soccer player to play with DC United in 1995 Major League Soccer, two-time winner MVP Colin Fowles Trophy, 1987 and 1990; coach of the Venezuelan Youth 15 and 17 National Teams
• Ray Felix, second African American to be named an NBA All-Star; the NBA's first dominant African-American center
• Frido Frey, first German to play in the NBA
• Sid Gordon, two-time All Star major league baseball player
• David Hicks (born 1988), basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Charles Rahmel Jones, played for the NBA's Chicago Bulls
• William King, one of the rare black basketball players in the National Basketball League, predecessor to the NBA
• Joe Machnik, elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on the 2017 builder ballot
• Steve Nisenson, basketball player
• Frank Pia, inventor of the Pia Carry
• Ossie Schectman, a member of the original New York Knickerbockers in their inaugural NBA season in 1946 and inductee in the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame.
• Peter Senerchia, also known as Tazz in WWE, wrestler and commentator, ECW and TNA

Notable faculty

Past

• Vincent de Tourdonnet, one of Canada's foremost writers of musical theatre
• Pee Wee Kirkland, former street basketball player from New York City; taught the "Philosophy of Basketball Coaching"
• Gerda Lerner, pioneer of women's history as an academic discipline

Present

• Bob Brier, noted Egyptologist and one of the world's leading experts on mummies