This is a list of people associated with Syracuse University , including founders, financial benefactors, notable alumni, notable educators, and speakers. Syracuse University has over 250,000 alumni representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 170 countries and territories.
Founders
Jesse Truesdell Peck Notable benefactors
Notable alumni
See also: Category:Syracuse University alumni
Arts and letters
Stephen Dunn Joyce Carol Oates Nilo Alcala – composer, first Philippine-born recipient of the Aaron Copland House Residency Award and a Los Angeles Master Chorale commissionJulia Alvarez – poet, novelist, and essayistDonna Alvermann – prominent professor and researcher in adolescent and media literaciesJoe Amato – authorBrad Anderson – cartoonist of the comic strip Marmaduke Robb Armstrong – cartoonist of the comic strip Jump Start Bonnie August – fashion designerMaltbie D. Babcock – 19th-century clergyman and authorHarriete Estel Berman – artistJames Bishop – painterNydia Blas – photographerJoel Brouwer – poet, educator, and journalistGordon Chandler – sculptorWendy Coakley-Thompson – novelistStephen Crane – novelist; stayed only one semester, later admitting he came "more to play baseball than to study"Virginia Cuthbert – artistMabel Potter Daggett – journalist and suffragistAleš Debeljak – poet, essayist and sociologistStephen Dunn – poet, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Birgitta Moran Farmer – painter, winner of 1906 Hiram Gee Award in PaintingFrances Farrand Dodge – watercolorist and landscape artistPaul Finkelman – historianMoses Finley – historianCarlisle Floyd – opera composerScott Froschauer – artistWhitney Gaskell – novelistSharon Gold – artist and professorWilliam Pratt Graham – sixth chancellor of Syracuse UniversityClement Greenberg – art criticHenry Grethel – fashion designerBeth Gylys – poet and professorWendy Anderson Halperin – illustrator and writer of children's picture booksBeth Harrington – filmmaker and musicianMichael Herr – writer and war correspondentSusan Joy Hassol – science communicatorShirley Jackson – novelistMorton L. Janklow – literary agentBetsey Johnson – fashion designerDavid N. Johnson – composer, organist, and professorJoseph S. Kozlowski – portrait artistHilton Kramer – critic, The Revenge of the Philistines Barbara Kruger – collage artistSol LeWitt – sculptorJames F. Light – literary scholarMark Lombardi – abstract painterFrederick D. Losey – Shakespearian scholar and elocutionist Jenni Lukac – contemporary artistJohn D. MacDonald – novelistJames MacKillop – authorDon Maloney – Japanophile authorBarry N. Malzberg – science fiction writerJerre Mangione – novelist, and scholar of the Italian-American experienceRobert Mankoff – cartoonist and editor of The New Yorker Mary Emma Griffith Marshall - editor and librarianDonald Martino – Pulitzer Prize-winning composerClifton E. Marsh – historian of the African diaspora Scott McCloud – cartoonist and comics theoristJay McInerney – novelistAribert Munzner – painterJoyce Carol Oates – novelistRobert O'Connor – novelistTom Perrotta – novelist and screenwriterJohn Pfahl – photographer and professorSalvador Plascencia – novelistKim Ponders – novelistWilliam Powhida – artistMary Jo Putney – romance novelistJimmy Ridlon – sports painter and sculptor, also a former professional football playerM. J. Rose – author and book marketing executiveWilliam Safire – Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator and former New York Times columnistGeorge Saunders – short-story writerAlice Sebold – novelistHenry Selick – director and animatorLaurie Gwen Shapiro – novelist, director, Independent Spirit Award for Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale Anthony Veasna So – Cambodian-American short story writerEsther Baker Steele – educator, author, traveler, philanthropistCheryl Strayed – novelist, memoirist, and essayistElizabeth Strout – novelistWilliam Tester – short story writerDorothy Thompson – journalistJack Tippit – cartoonistAda Josephine Todd – author and educatorRyan Van Winkle – poetIrene Vilar – author and literary agentKate Vrijmoet – artistLori Weitzner – textile designerStephanie Welsh – Pulitzer prize-winning photographer turned midwifeJohn A. Williams – novelistHoward Wyeth – drummer and pianistEducation
Donna Shalala Molly Corbett Broad – president, American Council on Education Walter Broadnax – president, Clark Atlanta University George Campbell Jr. – former president, Cooper Union Mary Schmidt Campbell – president, Spelman College Kent John Chabotar – president, Guilford College R. Inslee Clark, Jr. – Director of Admissions, Yale College Michael Crow – president, Arizona State University Mark Emmert – president, University of Washington Paul Finkelman – president, Gratz College Welthy Honsinger Fisher – founder, World Education and World Literacy CanadaA. Lee Fritschler – former president, Dickinson College (MPA'60 & PhD '65)Jonathan Gibralter – president, State University of New York at Farmingdale Shelley Haley – Professor of Classics and Africana Studies, Hamilton College Kermit L. Hall – former president, State University of New York at Albany , Utah State University Alice Ilchman – president, Sarah Lawrence College David Knapp – president, University of Massachusetts Jay Maddock – Regents Professor, Texas A&M University Barry Mills – president, Bowdoin College Sean O'Keefe – former Chancellor, Louisiana State University (LSU)L. Jay Oliva – former president, New York University Joseph Rallo – president, Angelo State University Mark Reckase – University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan 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 Mitchel Wallerstein – president, Baruch College Investors, industrialists, and executives
P.O. Ackley – world-renowned gunsmith, CEO, P.O. Ackley Inc.Ben Baldanza – airline executive and former CEO of Spirit Airlines Al-Waleed bin Talal – founder and president, Kingdom Holding CoWilliam J. Brodsky – chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Board Options ExchangeStanley Chais (1926–2010) – investment advisor in the Madoff investment scandalDennis Crowley – co-founder, Foursquare Mary C. Daly – president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoDaniel A. D'Aniello – co-founder and chairman, the Carlyle Group Nick Donofrio – senior vice president, Technology & Manufacturing, IBMBernard Goldberg (1948) – Co-founder of Raymour & Flanigan William James – director, Lazard Freres & CompanyE. Floyd Kvamme – partner emeritus, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; chairman, Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under President George W BushJeff McCormick – founder, Saturn Partners, and Independent candidate for governor in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2014 Richard Menschel – (retired) senior director of Goldman Sachs , philanthropistRobert Menschel – (retired) legendary senior director of Goldman Sachs , philanthropist, created Wall Street's first institutional departmentSean O'Keefe – former chairman of Airbus Group, Inc.Lowell W. Paxson – founder of Home Shopping NetworkKirthiga Reddy – former MD of Facebook IndiaArthur Rock – venture capitalist, co-founder of Intel and father figure to Apple founder Steve Jobs Vishal Sikka – CEO and MD (Designate) Infosys Ltd.Rajesh Subramaniam – CEO and president, FedExAbhay Vakil – Indian businessman and non-executive director of Asian Paints Ltd Martin J. Whitman – founder, co-chiefinvestment officer, Third Avenue Value FundHospitality, real estate, construction, and architecture
Princess Rajwa Al Hussein – architect; member of the Jordanian royal familyDean Alvord – developer known best for developing Belle Terre, New York , Prospect Park South , and Roslyn Estates, New York Harley Baldwin – developer in Aspen, Colorado Thomas Wilson Boyde Jr. (1905–1981) – first Black architect in Rochester, New York Arthur Bridgman Clark – architect, professor, first head of the Art Department at Stanford UniversityThom Filicia – interior designer, author, television hostBruce Fowle – architect, Fox & Fowle ArchitectsJames Garrison – architect, Garrison ArchitectsAdam Gross – architect, Ayers Saint GrossWilbur R. Ingalls, Jr. – architectLorimer 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 GroupSteve Rubell – former Studio 54 club ownerIan Schrager – hotelier and former Studio 54 club ownerWerner Seligmann – architectLaw and public service
Joe Biden Bob Antonacci – former NYS Senate Member, NYS Supreme Court JudgeAmir Hamzah Azizan – Minister of Finance II, MalaysiaAndrew P. Bakaj – U.S. Attorney and lead counsel for the Whisteblower during the Impeachment Inquiry and the subsequent Impeachment of President Donald Trump Rostin Behnam – chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionCraig Benson – former New Hampshire governorBeau Biden – former Attorney General of Delaware, son of Joe Biden Joe Biden – 46th president of the United States , 47th vice president of the United States , U.S. Senator from Delaware , chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Dave Bing – former mayor of Detroit , NBA Hall of FamerCarolyn Bourdeaux – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 7th districtJon Bramnick – current New Jersey Assembly Minority LeaderAngus Cameron – former Senator from WisconsinGary Chan – Member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 2008George Fletcher Chandler – first Superintendent of the New York State Police John T. Connor – former US Secretary of Commerce David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra LeoneAl D'Amato – former Senator from New YorkWilly De Clercq – former European Commissioner for Trade and External Relations , former Belgian Minister of Finance, Foreign Trade, and Budget; former Belgian Deputy Prime MinisterJohn A. DeFrancisco – New York State SenatorRobert Duffy – mayor of Rochester, New York , lt. governor, New York StateKwabena Dufuor – Finance Minister of Ghana and former governor, Bank of Ghana Ronald A. George – Maryland State DelegateJames E. Graves, Jr. – United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Fifth Circuit, formerly Mississippi Supreme Court JusticeStanley L. Greigg – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from northwestern Iowa David Gurfein – U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel , and CEO of nonprofit organization United American Patriots Steve Hagerty – 21st mayor of Evanston, Illinois Arthur T. Hannett – former Governor of New Mexico Kathy Hochul – Congresswoman, New York, Governor, New York State (’80)John Katko – Congressman, New YorkRandy Kuhl – Congressman, New YorkMordecai Lee – Wisconsin State SenatorBelva A. Lockwood (GC) – first woman to receive her party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to argue a case before the US Supreme CourtOren Lyons – Onondaga faithkeeper and global indigenous leaderWilliam Magnarelli – New York State AssemblymanJoanie Mahoney – former Onondaga County ExecutiveNeal P. McCurn – Senior Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New YorkTheodore McKee – United States Court of Appeals Chief Judge for the Third CircuitRodney C. Moen – Wisconsin State SenatorToby Moffett – former US Congressman from ConnecticutNorman A. Mordue – Chief Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New YorkJohn H. Mulroy – former Onondaga County ExecutiveBismarck Myrick – former US Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia and LesothoSean O'Keefe – former NASA administratorMasahide Ota – former Governor of Okinawa, JapanElliott Portnoy – Chairman of SNR DentonJohn Prevas – Circuit Court Judge, City of BaltimoreSteven Rothman – Congressman, New JerseyWarren Rudman – former Senator, New HampshireFrederick J. Scullin, Jr. – Senior Judge for the US District Court, Northern District of New YorkDonna Shalala – former Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services, US House of Representatives from FloridaSalvador del Solar – former prime minister of Peru Glenn T. Suddaby – Justice for the US District Court, Northern District of New YorkJohn H. Terry – former US CongressmanSandra L. Townes – Justice for the US District Court, Eastern District of New YorkHarry L. Twaddle – U.S. Army major generalDeborah VanAmerongen – strategic policy adviserMitchel Wallerstein – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counter-proliferation policyBen Walsh – 54th Mayor of Syracuse George Warrington – NJ Transit president and former Amtrak presidentDavid P. Weber – former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the US Securities and Exchange CommissionJohn P. White – former Deputy Secretary, US Department of DefenseMedia and communications
Russ Alben – advertising executive, created the Timex tagline, "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking "Marv Albert – sportscasterDavid Amber – reporter, ESPN Damon Amendolara – sportscasterMichael Barkann – sportscaster, Comcast SportsNet , 94WIP PhiladelphiaLen Berman – sportscasterMatthew Berry – ESPN fantasy sports analystPaul Bouche – TV producer, media personalityContessa Brewer – broadcast journalist, MSNBC Samantha Brown – TV hostSteve Bunin – sportscaster, ESPN Ryan Burr – sportscaster, ESPN, NBC and Golf ChannelMary Calvi – journalist, anchor at WCBS-TV, New York CityCraig Carton – co-host, Boomer and Carton in the Morning WFAN NYJoe Castiglione – Boston Red Sox radio announcerErnest Chappell – radio and television announcerDick Clark – television personality, American Bandstand , Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Michael Cole – WWE commentatorEd Coleman – sportscaster, WFAN NYBob Costas – sportscaster, NBC Sports and MLB Network Denise D'Ascenzo (1958–2019) – television news anchorwoman (WFSB -TV in Hartford, Connecticut)Bob Dotson – journalistIan Eagle – sportscaster, CBS and YES Emme – plus-size model and TV hostSusan Feeney – journalist, former senior editor for NPR Marty Glickman – sportscasterJeff Glor – anchor, CBS Evening NewsDaniel J. Halstead – publisher of The Syracuse Daily Union (1860), The Syracuse Daily Courier and Union (1860–1869), The Syracuse Daily Courier (1869–1888) and The Syracuse Courier (1888–1898) newspapersScott Hanson – sportscaster, NFL Network, host of NFL RedZone Vaughn Harper – radio DJ, WBLS NY Quiet Storm Ariel Helwani – MMA journalistDeborah Henretta – senior advisor, SSA & Company; retired group president, Procter & GambleLarry Hryb – Xbox Live Director of ProgrammingAvery Yale Kamila – vegan food columnist, Portland Press Herald Megyn Kelly – news anchor, Fox News Channel Ted Koppel – broadcast journalist, Nightline Larry Kramer – president and publisher of USA Today Michael Kranish – journalistSteve Kroft – co-editor and news correspondent, 60 Minutes Chris Licht – former chairman and CEO of CNNMike McAlary – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistSean McDonough – sportscaster, ESPNJoe McNally – photographerJeanne Moos – news correspondent, CNNWill Murray – researcher and segment producer, The Howard Stern Show Akshay Nanavati – USMC, author of Fearvana Jim Naughtie – British journalist and radio presenterDiane Nelson – president of DC Entertainment Bob Neumeier – sportscaster, NBCDonald Newhouse – president, Advance PublicationsS.I. Newhouse, Jr. – chairman and CEO of Advance Publications; chairman of Conde Nast PublicationsGreg Papa – sportscaster, Oakland Raiders Dave Pasch – sportscaster, ESPNJeff Passan – baseball journalist, ESPNHenry Jarvis Raymond – (GWS), Founder of the New York Times Dave Roberts – weatherman, broadcaster and presenter, WPVI-TV Sam Roberts – broadcaster, SiriusXM, Jim Norton & Sam Roberts WWE Dan Roche – sportscaster, WBZ-TV, Boston, MAHarry M. Rosenfeld – former editor, Washington Post Dave Ryan – sportscaster, ESPNRobert Scheer – editor-in-chief of TruthDig Ramparts , professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Adam Schein – SNY, Sirius XM Satellite radio NFLBob Shannon – radio DJ/Announcer, CBS-FM New YorkArun Shourie – Padma Bhushan recipient, World Bank Economist, former editor of Times of India Indian Express Anish Shroff – ESPNews anchorAndrew Siciliano – sportscaster, NFL Network, host of DirecTV Red Zone Channel Fred Silverman – former president, NBCLakshmi Singh – newscaster, journalist, NPRJayson Stark – journalist, sportscaster, ESPNDick Stockton – sportscasterJohn Sykes – president of iHeartMedia Entertainment EnterprisesMike Tirico – sportscaster, NBCPriit Vesilind – journalist, National Geographic Nick Wright – TV host, radio talk show, Fox Sports 1 Justin Robert Young – podcaster, journalist, comedian and writerAdam Zucker – sportscaster/anchor, CBS Sports NetworkScience, engineering, innovation, medicine, and exploration
Eileen Collins Joseph A. Ahearn – civil engineer of the U.S. Air Force ; member of the National Academy of EngineeringIshfaq Ahmad – Professor of Computer ScienceBetty Lise Anderson – Professor of Optical ScienceAlbert Baez – developer of the X-ray reflection microscope, physics educator, and father of Joan Baez John Boardman – physics educator, social activist, and gaming authorityDaniela Bortoletto – experimental particle physicist, Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow at Oxford UniversityCharles F. Brannock – inventor and manufacturer; inventor of the Brannock DeviceRubin Braunstein – semiconductor physics, pioneer of LEDs Penny Budoff – physician and medical researcher; author of No More Hot Flashes and Even More Good News Marilyn Burns ; mathematics educator and the author of over a dozen children's books on mathematicsGeorge Campbell Jr. – theoretical physicist; eleventh president of Cooper Union Eileen Collins – NASA astronaut and first female Space Shuttle commanderAlice Carter Cook – botanist and writer, first woman PhD in botany from an American universityTesfaye Dinka – industrial engineer; Prime Minister of Ethiopia from April to June 1991Nina Fedoroff – geneticist and molecular biologist; Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State ; recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2007; member of the National Academy of Sciences Joan Feynman – astrophysicist, younger sister of physicist Richard Feynman Robert Finn – mathematician and professorEdith M. Flanigen – chemist and inventor; winner of the 2014 National Medal of Technology and Innovation George E. Fox – biologist and chemical engineer; co-discoverer of the Archaea kingdom of organismsJean Fréchet – chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley Barry Gingell – internist, nutritionist, computer scientist and AIDS activist Joshua N. Goldberg – pioneering researcher in general relativity, professor emeritus at Syracuse UniversityGabriela González – former spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration ; winner of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery (2017); member of the National Academy of SciencesHermann Gummel – semiconductor device physicist; member of the National Academy of Engineering John J. Hopfield – spectroscopist and discoverer of the Hopfield bands of molecular oxygen (O2 )Robert Jarvik – inventor of the first permanently implantable artificial heartHongxing Jiang – semiconductor physicist, inventor of the microLED displayJoel Lebowitz – statistical physicist ; member of the National Academy of Sciences Jingyu Lin – semiconductor physicistGilles Martin – French engineer, founder and executive chairman of Eurofins Scientific William Ralph Maxon – botanist and pteridologistEvangelia Micheli-Tzanakou – pioneer in neuroelectric systems and biomedical engineering educationPericles A. Mitkas – computer scientist and Rector of the Aristotle University of ThessalonikiStory Musgrave – NASA astronautV. Parmeswaran Nair – theoretical particle physicist, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New YorkEzra T. Newman – theoretical physicist, winner of the 2011 Einstein Prize Joy Osofsky – clinical and developmental psychologist, professor of clinical psychology and psychiatry, psychoanalystYude Pan – forest ecologistMartin A. Pomerantz – astrophysicist, president emeritus of the Bartol Research Institute , and pioneer of Antarctic astronomyPierre 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, Harold Hodgkinson Chair at Yale UniversityElsa Reichmanis – optical and electronic materials; member of the National Academy of Engineering ; 2001 recipient of the Perkin Medal Karin Rodland – cancer cell biologist; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; Laboratory Fellow of the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Charles Rosen – robotics; co-founder of Ridge Vineyards Joel Rosenbaum – cell biologist; winner of the E. B. Wilson Medal Rainer K. Sachs – theoretical astrophysicist, co-discoverer of the Sachs–Wolfe effect Sultan bin Salman – first Arab, first Muslim and the youngest person to travel to spacePantur Silaban – prominent Indonesian theoretical physicistMichael Streicher – developer of stainless steels ; winner of the W. R. Whitney Award Salvatore Torquato – theoretical scientist who does research at the interface of physics, chemistry, and engineeringJames Tour – organic chemist and nanotechnologistJosé W. F. Valle – Brazilian-Spanish theoretical physicist noted for work on the mass of neutrinos Clarence Abiathar Waldo – mathematician and educator known for his role in the 1897 Indiana Pi Bill affairSigi Ziering – industrial physicist, businessman, and philanthropistSports
Jim Brown Larry Csonka Paul Gait Doc Alexander – football player and coachWill Allen – football playerGary Anderson – football player, former NFL record holderCarmelo Anthony – basketball playerJulie Archoska – football playerArt Baker – football playerJohn Barsha – football playerMathieu Beaudoin – football playerDave Bing – basketball player, current mayor of Detroit , Michigan Jim Boeheim – basketball player and coach, Syracuse University, member of the National Basketball Hall of FameNathan Bombrys – managing director of the Glasgow Warriors , a professional Scottish rugby union clubJim Brown – football player, lacrosse player, actor, member of the Pro Football Hall of FameKeith Bulluck – football playerRob Burnett – football playerDelone Carter – football playerMichael Carter-Williams – basketball player, Orlando MagicRakeem Christmas – basketball playerDaJuan Coleman – basketball player, free agentDerrick Coleman – basketball playerJohn Coleman – baseball playerJim Collins – football playerIrv Constantine – football playerTrevor Cooney – pro basketball playerTom Coughlin – VP football operations, Jacksonville JaguarsLarry Csonka – football playerDonovin Darius – football playerAl Davis – NFL ownerErnie Davis – football player, Heisman Trophy winnerJohn Desko – lacrosse coachRiley Dixon – NFL punterSherman Douglas – basketball playerDennis DuVal – basketball playerRandy Edsall – college football coachJoe Ehrmann – football playerTyler Ennis – basketball playerDavid Falk – founder, SFX Basketball GroupJonny Flynn – basketball playerDwight Freeney – football playerJim Frugone – football playerGary Gait – lacrosse playerPaul Gait – lacrosse playerMichael Gbinije — pro basketball playerJonah Goldman – MLB baseball playerJerami Grant – pro basketball player, Detroit PistonsTim Green – football playerDonté Greene – pro basketball playerMorlon Greenwood – football playerMarvin Harrison – football playerJason Hart – basketball playerQadry Ismail – football playerTanard Jackson – football playerPaul Jappe – football playerWesley Johnson – basketball playerDaryl Johnston – football playerArthur Jones – football player; currently competing for the NFL on the ColtsChandler Jones – football player; currently playing for the CardinalsTebucky Jones – football playerDwayne Joseph – football playerKris Joseph – basketball player, Brooklyn Nets Bill Kellogg , football playerMark Kerr – NCAA Wrestling Champion; retired MMA fighter; 2-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament winnerRob Konrad – football playerJim Konstanty – major league baseball pitcherFloyd Little – football player, Pro Football Hall of FameTyler Lydon – basketball player, Denver NuggetsJohn Mackey – former NFL tight end, has college award named after himOlindo Mare – football player, Carolina PanthersDoug Marrone – football coachFrank Matteo – football playerChris McCullough – basketball playerDonovan McNabb – football player, free agentGerry McNamara – basketball playerDon McPherson – football playerDave Meggyesy – football playerFab Melo – basketball playerEddie Miller – basketball playerArt Monk – football player; NFL Hall of Fame inducteeTim Moresco – football playerJoe Morris – football playerLarry Morris – football playerLawrence Moten – basketball playerTom Myers – football playerJim Nance – football playerRyan Nassib – football player, New York GiantsDoc Oberlander – former baseball playerHenry Obst – football playerLouis Orr – basketball playerBilly Owens – basketball playerMarkus Paul – football playerGreg Paulus – football player and former Duke University basketball playerScott Pioli – NFL executiveCasey Powell – lacrosse playerMikey Powell – lacrosse playerRyan Powell – lacrosse playerMyer Prinstein – Olympic medalistAndy Rautins – basketball playerMalachi Richardson – basketball playerJim Ridlon – former professional football player; renowned sports painter and sculptorJim Ringo – football playerVictor Ross – lacrosse playerMike Rotunda – professional wrestlerAbdi Salim – soccer playerGreg Sankey – Commissioner, Southeastern Conference Danny Schayes – basketball playerGerhard Schwedes – football playerScott Schwedes – football playerSam Sebo – football playerRony Seikaly – basketball playerWilmeth Sidat-Singh – football and basketball playerKaseem Sinceno – football playerWalt Singer – football playerAnthony Smith – football playerWalt Sweeney – football playerKathrine Switzer – marathon runnerEtan Thomas – basketball playerShamarko Thomas – football playerDavid Tyree – football playerDion Waiters – basketball playerJohn Wallace – basketball playerStan Walters – football playerHakim Warrick – basketball player, Phoenix SunsDwayne Washington – basketball playerHoward Washington – basketball playerOtis Wilson – football playerRay Witter – football playerPaul Young – Jamaican soccer player/managerKatie Zaferes – triathleteEntertainment and performing arts
Peter Falk Lou Reed Jerry Stiller Priscilla Chan Elfriede Abbe – sculptorLynn Ahrens – musical theatre lyricistMartin Bandier – chairman and CEO of Sony/ATVDarryl Bell – actorCraig Borten – screenwriterPaul Bouche – TV host of A Oscuras Pero Encendidos Eric Bress – film director and screenwriterTim Calpin – screenwriterWarren Casey – writer, lyricist, screenwriterFelix Cavaliere – singer with The Rascals Priscilla Chan – singerClairo – singer-songwriterDick Clark – host of American Bandstand John Curran – film director and screenwriterDoug Davis – entertainment lawyer and Grammy Award -winning producerTaye Diggs – actorEric J Dubowsky – Emmy and Grammy-winning musician and producerHeather Dubrow – actress; cast member on The Real Housewives of Orange County Zach Tyler Eisen – voice actor; voice of Aang on Avatar: The Last Airbender Peter Falk – actorGary Farmer – actorVera Farmiga – actressWally Feresten – cue card supervisor for Saturday Night Live Judy Freudberg – screenwriterKen Goldstein – musician known as "Jack Dempsey"; authorJami Gong – stand-up comedianCarl Gottlieb – screenwriter; vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, West Peter Guber – CEO of Mandalay Entertainment and co-owner of the Golden State Warriors Dan Gurewitch – writerJay Harrington – actorElizabeth Hendrickson – actressBob Holz – musicianMiriam Hopkins – actressGarland Jeffreys – musicianMiss Jones – radio DJ and singerIrma Kalish – television writerJoe Klotz – film editorLisa Lampanelli – comedianFrank Langella – actor, Frost/Nixon Meg LeFauve – screenwriter of Inside Out Captain Marvel Sheldon Leonard – film and television actor, producer, director, and writerRiki Lindhome – actressSam Lloyd – actor, musicianFrank Marion – motion picture pioneerNeal McDonough – actorAndy Mineo – rapper, singer, producer, director, actor and ministerSterling Morrison – musicianJessie Mueller – Tony-winning actressSuzanne Pleshette – actressMike Pollock – voice actorLou Reed – musicianKevin Michael Richardson – actorSam Roberts – radio broadcasterDoug Robinson – television producerMaria Sansone – television presenterKen Schretzmann – film editor specializing in animated films; winner of the Ace Eddie Award for Toy Story 3 Reid Scott – actorTom Everett Scott – actorAaron Sorkin – Emmy- and Academy Award-winning screenwriter A Few Good Men The Social Network The West Wing Moneyball Lexington Steele – actor, director, and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc.Jerry Stiller – actorHabib Tabani – Pakistani ghazal singer and industrialistAndrew Taggart – member of The Chainsmokers Arielle Tepper – Broadway producerMark Tinker – television producer/directorStephen A. Unger – executive recruiter, media and entertainment businessJimmy Van Heusen – Academy Award-winning composerBill Viola – video artistMichael H. Weber – screenwriter of (500) Days of Summer The Spectacular Now The Fault in Our Stars Paper Towns Peter Weller – actorVanessa Williams – singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, Miss America Pete Yorn – musicianFictional characters
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Notable educators
See also: Category:Syracuse University faculty
Ismail al-Faruqi - philosopher and Islamic scholarWilliam Alston – philosopherJulia Alvarez – poet, novelist, and essayistRichard Arnowitt – theoretical physicistDonna Arzt – attorney and legal scholarAbhay Ashtekar – theoretical physicist and creator of the Ashtekar variables for quantum gravity; member of the U.S. National Academy of SciencesErnst Bacon – prolific composerA. P. Balachandran – theoretical particle physicistPeter Bergmann – won the Einstein Prize for research on quantum gravityCatherine Bertini – United Nations under-secretary-general, winner of the 2003 World Food Prize Raymond Thayer Birge – physicist, president of the American Physical Society and chair of the University of California, Berkeley physics departmentHoward Boatwright – Music School deanPhilip Booth – poetMark Bowick – theoretical physicist noted for work in particle physics and condensed matter physicsZachary Braiterman – philosopher and religious studies scholarArthur C. Brooks Lori Brown – architect and associate professorHorace Campbell – Department of African American Studies and Department of Political ScienceMassimo Carmassi – architectRaymond Carver – short story writerSimon Catterall – theoretical physicist specializing in elementary particlesBill Cole – musician, author (Department of African American Studies)David Crane – former Chief Prosecutor for Special Court of the Sierra LeoneTeresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg – academic administrator and engineering professorJunot Diaz – writerGeoffrey C. Fox – theoretical physicist and computer scientistTess Gallagher – poet, essayist, short story writerJoshua N. Goldberg – theoretical physicist noted for work on general relativityJohn Langston Gwaltney – professor of anthropology, author of Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America Per Brinch Hansen – computer scientistDouglas 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 Henry Kandrup – theoretical astrophysicistMary Karr – writer and poetBruce Kingma – economist and academic entrepreneurArthur Komar – theoretical physicistLouis Krasner – violinistEdgar Lane – professor of political scienceMelvin Lax – theoretical physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences Cristina Marchetti – theoretical physicist specializing in soft condensed matter physics; member of the U.S. National Academy of SciencesDonald Marolf – theoretical physicist who has worked on quantum gravity and relativityRoscoe C. Martin (1903–1972) – Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University from 1949 to 1972Janis Mayes – author, literary criticIvan Meštrović – sculptor and artistDaniel Patrick Moynihan – Senator from New York, political scientistMicere Mugo – poet and playwright (Department of African American Studies, Department of Literature)Ei-ichi Negishi – chemist, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize Romita Ray – art historianFritz Rohrlich – theoretical physicist, pioneer of quantum electrodynamics Alexander Rosenberg – philosopher and novelistPeter Saulson – experimental physicist noted for work on gravitational wave astronomy George Saunders – writerDelmore Schwartz – poetHarry Schwartz – Soviet specialist, The New York Times Milton Sernett – historian, author (Department of African American Studies, Department of History)James Roger Sharp – political historianHuston Smith – religious studies scholarLee Smolin – theoretical physicist noted for work on quantum gravityRafael Sorkin – theoretical physicist noted for work on quantum gravitySheldon Stone – elementary particle physicist, winner of the Panofsky Prize Eileen Strempel – soprano, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Fine ArtsGeorge Sudarshan – theoretical physicist, winner of the Dirac Prize Robert Thompson – media historianMark Trodden – theoretical cosmologistDouglas Unger – novelistGabriel Vahanian – theologian, noted figure in the Death of God movement in 1960sPeter Van Inwagen – philosopherKameshwar C. Wali – theoretical physicist, authorJohan Wiklund – entrepreneurship professor and the Al Berg Chair at the Whitman SchoolFrances Willard – 19th-century educator, temperance reformer , and women's suffragist Tobias Wolff – writerNotable commencement speakers and honored guests
2022 – David Muir , journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight
2020 – Kathy Hochul , Congresswoman from New York, Governor of New York State ('80)
2018 – Mary C. Daly , economist and president of San Francisco Fed
2018 – Kathrine Switzer , athlete, author and activist ('68, G'72)
2017 – Vernon Jordan , lawyer, Business Executive, and civil rights activist
2016 – Donald Newhouse , president, Advance Publications
2015 – Mary Karr , poet and essayist
2014 – David Remnick , editor-in-chief, New Yorker
2013 – Nicholas Kristof , New York Times columnist
2012 − Aaron Sorkin , screenwriter, producer, and playwright
2011 – J. Craig Venter , biologist and entrepreneur, president of J. Craig Venter Institute
2010 – Jamie Dimon , CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
2009 – Joseph R. Biden Jr. , vice president of the US
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 , astronaut
2000 – Ted Koppel , journalist
1999 – Charles Schumer , U.S. Senator (D-NY), 1999–present
1998 – Robert Fulghum , author, essayist
1996 – Steve Kroft , journalist, long-time correspondent, 60 Minutes
1995 – Donna Shalala , Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001
1994 – Kurt Vonnegut , novelist
1990 – William Safire , journalist
1989 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan , U.S. Senator (D-NY)
1988 – Malcolm Forbes , publisher of Forbes
1986 – Mario Cuomo , governor of New York
1983 – Daniel Boorstin , director, Library of Congress
1982 – Ted Koppel , journalist
1981 – Alexander Haig , U.S. Secretary of State, 1981–1982
1980 – Bill Moyers , journalist
1979 – Tom Brokaw , journalist
1978 – William Safire , journalist
1973 – Edward M. Kennedy , U.S. Senator (D-MA), 1962–2009
1969 – William F. Buckley , journalist
1968 – Walter Cronkite , journalist
1966 – Nelson Rockefeller , governor of New York, 1959–1973
1965 – Robert F. Kennedy , U.S. Senator (D-NY), 1965–1968
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson , then U.S. president
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 See also
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