List of Syracuse University People

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This is a list of notable individuals associated with Syracuse University.

1 Founders
2 Notable Alumni
3 Notable educators
4 Notable commencement speakers & honored guests
5 See also

[edit] Founders

Jesse Truesdell Peck - first Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] Arts and Letters

Stephen Crane - Novelist. He stayed only one semester, later admitting he came "more to play baseball than to study." [1]
Adam Davies - Novelist
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
Warren Kimble - folk artist
Joseph S. Kozlowski- portrait artist
Hilton Kramer - Critic, "The Revenge of the Philistines"
Sol LeWitt - Sculptor
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
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
Alice Sebold – novelist, The Lovely Bones
Robb Armstrong - cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start.

[edit] Business

William F. Allyn - CEO, WelchAllyn, Inc.
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal - Founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co
Daniel D'Aniello - Co-founder and 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
William J. Brodsky - Chairman and CEO, Chicago Board of Options Exchange
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.
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
Adam Gross - Architect, Ayers Saint Gross
Irwin Guttag - Legendary Wall Street Trader and 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
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
William James - Director, Lazard Freres & Company
Richard Kirshenbaum - Chairman/Executive Creative Director, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners
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 Stock Exchange
Robert Menschel - Senior Director, former partner and founder of Goldman's Institutional Investment department, Goldman Sachs Group
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
Michael Perlis - Managing Partner, SOFTBANK Capital Partners
Howard Phanstiel- Chairman and CEO, PacifiCare Health Systems
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 Venture Capital Industry. Coined term "venture capitalist". 1st CEO of Intel.
David Rockwell - Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group
Ian Schrager - Hotelier and former Studio 54 club owner
Frederic N. Schwartz- Former Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Co
Werner Seligmann - Architect
Bob Seltzer- President and CEO, Ogilvy PR Worldwide
Lawrence R. Uhlick - Executive Director and General Counsel of the Institute of International Bankers
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
Keisuke Yawata - Venture Capitalist and former president of Applied Materials Japan

[edit] Education

Walter Broadnax- President, Clark Atlanta University
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
Richard Hersh - President, Trinity College (Connecticut)
Anne Hopkins - President, The University of North Florida
Barry Mills - President, Bowdoin College
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

[edit] Entertainment

Martin Bandier - Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, EMI Music Publishing
Samantha Brown - Host of various shows and specials on the Travel Channel
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
Jason Flom - President and CEO, Virgin Records
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
Miriam Hopkins - Actress
Grace Jones - Iconic Singer, Actress, and Model
Frank Langella - Actor
Rob Light - Managing Partner/Head of Music, Creative Artists Agency
Frank Marion - Motion picture pioneer
Christopher McGurk - Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc (MGM)
Sterling Morrison - Musician
Eliza Orlins - Survivor: Vanuatu contestant (4th Place)
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"
Lexington Steele - Porn actor and businessman
Jerry Stiller - Actor
Arielle Tepper - Broadway Producer
Vanessa Williams - Singer, Actress and Miss America winner
Pete Yorn - Musician

[edit] Law and Public Service

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 Senator from New York
Craig Benson, New Hampshire Governor
Joseph R. Biden - U.S. Senator from Delaware and former presidential candidate
John William Blaney III - U.S. ambassador to Liberia
Sherwood Boehlert- Congressman
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
Douglas Holtz-Eakin - Director, Congressional Budget Office and former Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers
Randy Kuhl - Congressman, New York
Theodore McKee- Federal appeals court judge, Philadelphia
Sean O'Keefe - former NASA administrator and current chancellor of Louisiana State University
Masahide Ota - former Governor of Okinawa, Japan
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
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
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
Al-Waleed bin Talal - HRH Prince of the Saudi Royal Family, he is ranked by Forbes as the eighth richest person in the world.

[edit] Media and Communications

Marv Albert- sportscaster
L. Kelly Atkinson, Jr. - Director, NBC Sports
Len Berman – sportscaster
Joe Castiglione- sportscaster
Bob Costas - sportscaster, NBC
Merrilee Cox - News Director, ABC News Radio
Jessica Cutler - journalist/blogger, Washingtonienne
Bob Dotson - journalist
Fred Dressler - Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable
Ian Eagle - sportscaster
David Falk - Chairman and CEO, SFX Sports Group
Alan Frank - President, Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc
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.
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
L. Ross Love - President and CEO, Blue Chip Broadcasting
Sean McDonough - sportscaster, ESPN
Bob Miron - Chairman & CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
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
Arun Shourie - journalist
Fred Silverman- Former President, NBC Television
Dick Stockton – sportscaster
John Sykes - former Chairman and CEO, Infinity Broadcasting (former president of VH1)
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

[edit] Science, Medicine and Exploration

Bill Anselm - Project Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center
Eileen Collins - NASA astronaut and first female space shuttle commander
Dr. Ghaleb Daouk - clinical director of pediatric nephrology division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Martin Gellert - Chief, molecular biology, National Institutes of Health
Dr. John Hanlin - Director, microbiology & thermal process, General Mills
Robert Jarvik- inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart
Edna Kaneshiro- microbiology biochemist
Story Musgrave - NASA astronaut
Paul Pan- leader of the Nuclear Stockpile Complex Modeling and Analysis group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Elsa Reichmanis- polymers and organic materials researcher, Lucent Technologies

[edit] 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
Tom Coughlin - football coach
Larry Csonka - football player
Al Davis - NFL Owner
Ernie Davis - football player, Heisman Trophy winner
Sherman Douglas – basketball player
Dwight Freeney - football player
Gary Gait - lacrosse player
Paul Gait - lacrosse player
Tim Green - football player
Marvin Harrison - football player
Jason Hart - basketball player
Floyd Little - football player
Donovan McNabb - football player
Gerry McNamara - basketball player
Art Monk - football player
Joe Morris - football player
Louis Orr - basketball player
Casey Powell - lacrosse player
Mikey Powell - lacrosse player
Ryan Powell - lacrosse player
Leo Rautins - basketball player
Rony Seikaly - basketball player
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh - football and basketball player
Etan Thomas - basketball player
John Wallace - basketball player
Hakim Warrick - basketball player
Dwayne Washington - basketball player

[edit] Other

John Zogby - Pollster, Zogby International

[edit] Notable educators

[edit] Notable commencement speakers & honored guests

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
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
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