- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone.
- Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss was an American philosopher, known for his work in metaphysics and for his efforts to reverse age discrimination policies at American universities. Born in New York City, he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from City College of New York and his doctorate from Harvard (1929), where he studied under Alfred North Whitehead. He taught at several universities, but spent most of his career at Yale, where he eventually held an endowed chair.
- Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born on June 15, 1965 and his lived his entire life in the Ninth District. He grew up in the SeaTac area of South King County and graduated from Tyee High School in 1983. Adam's father, Ben, worked as a baggage handler at SeaTac airport and was active in the local Machinists' Union. He taught Adam the value of community involvement, public service, and participating in our democracy.
- Vin Scelsa
Vin Scelsa (born Vincent Anthony Scelsa on December 12, 1947 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is the host of a freeform radio show known as "Idiot's Delight". He attended Upsala College in East Orange, NJ, where he spent his early broadcasting years at WFMU. Scelsa originally considered becoming a Roman Catholic priest before pursuing a career in radio.
- Adam Smith
Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. He is a major contributor to the modern perception of economics. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment, he is known primarily as the author of two treatises: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), …
- Avery Cardinal Dulles
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (born August 24, 1918) is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. He is an internationally known author and lecturer. He was born in Auburn, New York, the son of future U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (for whom Dulles Airport is named) and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. His uncle was Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles.
- Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo was elected the 64th Attorney General of New York State on November 7, 2006. As Attorney General, Cuomo is the highest ranking law enforcement officer for the State, responsible for representing New York and its residents in legal matters. Cuomo has a long record of fighting for justice and championing government reform. In 1996 President Clinton nominated Cuomo to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
- Joseph M. McShane
The Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., (b. 19 June 1949) is a Jesuit priest, an American theologian and the current President of Fordham University. He succeeded Father Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J. as the University President in 2003. Before becoming President of Fordham University, Father McShane had previously served as the President of the University of Scranton and Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill.
- Guard
In American and Canadian football, a guard (G) is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team. The guard's job is to protect the quarterback from the oncoming defensive line and linebackers during pass plays, as well as creating openings (holes) for the running backs to head through. Guards perform speed blocking and "pulling"--sprinting out in front of a running back in order to block for him.
- Peter Steinfels
Peter F. Steinfels (born in 1941) is an American journalist and educator best known for his writings on religious topics. A native of Chicago, Illinois, and a lifelong Catholic, Steinfels earned his PhD from Columbia University and joined the staff of the journal "Commonweal" in 1964. He served as a visiting professor at Notre Dame in 1994-95 and then as visiting professor at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2001.
- Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image.
- Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip performed non-violent protests against war and were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
- Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Lewis Nadler, sometimes called Jerry Nadler (born June 13, 1947) is an American politician from New York City. A Democrat, Nadler represents New York's 8th congressional district which includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. Nadler's district includes most of midtown Manhattan, including the site where the World Trade Center stood. It also includes the lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, …
- Joseph A. O'Hare
Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare (1931-) is a Jesuit priest, New York City civic leader and editor. He was a longtime president of Fordham University and, for a brief period, President of Regis High School, a New York City Jesuit High School. O'Hare was born in New York City. He trained for the priesthood at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1961. He taught at Ateneo de Manila from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1967 to 1972.
- John Hughes
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes (June 24, 1797 - January 3, 1864) was the fourth bishop and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York. He was born in County Tyrone, Ireland and followed his parents to the United States. Initially employed as a gardener at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he was admitted as a student, and was ordained a priest on October 15, 1826 and ordained a bishop on January 7, 1838 with the titular see of Basileopolis.
- Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels currently residing in New York City, New York. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and in various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, "Where Are The Children", …
- Kathleen P. King
Dr. Kathleen P. King (born June 8 1958 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and educator. As of 2006 she is a Professor and Director of Fordham University's Regional Educational Technology Center (RETC), Center for Professional Development and Program Director of the graduate program in Adult Education and Human Resource Development at the Graduate School of Education.
- Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell (1879 - 1944) was an Irish poet and lyricist. He wrote as Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil (also Seosamh MacCathmhaoil), which has been Anglicised to Joseph McCahill on occasion. He is now remembered best for words he supplied to traditional airs, such as "My Lagan Love"; his verse was also set to music by Arnold Bax and Ivor Gurney.
- P. J. Carlesimo
Peter J. (P. J.) Carlesimo (born May 30, 1949 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is the current head coach of the Seattle Supersonics and a former college and professional basketball coach, and son of Peter A. Carlesimo who was the longtime coach and athletic director at the University of Scranton and Fordham University.
- John Meyendorff
John Meyendorff was a modern Orthodox scholar, writer, and teacher. His birth name was Ivan Feofilovich Baron von Meyendorff ("Иван Феофилович барон фон Мейендорф") and he was known as "Jean Meyendorff" during his life in France. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Meyendorff completed his secondary education in France and his theological education at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris in 1949.
- Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.
- Bob Hill
Robert G. Hill (born November 24, 1948) is an American basketball coach. He has coached in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Basketball Association, and Italian league. Most recently, he was head coach of the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics from 2006 to 2007.
- Wayne Teasdale
Wayne Robert Teasdale (1945 - 20 October 2004), a.k.a. Brother Wayne Teasdale, was an American author, teacher and advocate for causes from environmental responsibility to the homelessness crisis, who espoused what he termed "interspirituality", a belief that all world religions have a commonality that can be experienced through mysticism. Teasdale received a Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University in 1986 and taught at DePaul University, …
- John Sexton
John Edward Sexton (born 1942) is the fifteenth President of New York University, having held this position since 2002. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, one of the top five law schools in the country according to "U.S. News and World Report". He is also currently the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Sexton holds a B.A. in History (1963), an M.A. in Comparative Religion (1965), …
- Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She is the author of "Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights" (ISBN 0-674-01524-X).
- Dereck Whittenburg
Dereck Whittenburg is the current head men's basketball coach at Fordham University. Prior to coming to Fordham, Whittenburg served as the head coach of the Wagner Seahawks. Whittenburg is perhaps most famous for being a member of the NC State Wolfpack team which won the 1983 NCAA national title. Whittenburg took the final shot of the championship game which was short, but then put back by Lorenzo Charles for the game-winning dunk.
- Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood (born Charles Osgood Wood, III on January 8, 1933) is a radio and television commentator in the United States. His daily program, "The Osgood File", has been broadcast on the CBS Radio Network since 1971. Osgood was born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1954 with a major in economics. While at Fordham, Osgood worked at the university's FM radio station WFUV.
- Brian Davies
Brian Evan Anthony Davies is Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University (1995–), and author of the classic "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion", now available in a third English edition and translated into five Asian and European languages.
- Bob Papa
Bob Papa is currently the radio play-by-play voice for the New York Football Giants and has been calling Giants games since 1995. Prior to that, Bob served as a pre and post game Giants host, dating back to 1988. Over the past two years, Bob has also hosted WFAN's Giants Monday Night Wrap Up Show. During the NFL season, Bob hosts the Yes Network's "This Week In Football", MSG's "Giants On Line" and Fox 5's "Giants Game Plan".
- Bill Pascrell
Bill was first elected to Congress in 1996 after defeating an incumbent Republican congressman. His grassroots campaign took him to town halls and front doors throughout the district. Bill has been reelected every two years, and brings his commitment to the people of the 8th district with him every time he hops on the train to Washington. In the House of Representatives, Bill sits on the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Homeland Security.
- Wellington Mara
Wellington Timothy Mara (August 14 1916 - October 25, 2005) was the co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death and one of the most influential and important figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925. Wellington Mara was an alumnus of the Jesuit schools, Loyola School and Fordham University in New York City.
- Joel Rivera
Joel Rivera (b. 1978) is the current Majority Leader of the New York City Council. At the age of 22, he was the youngest person to be elected to the City Council in its history. He won the seat in a special election, after his father resigned from the seat while Joel was an undergraduate at Fordham University. A year later, at the age of 23, he was the youngest person to be elected Majority Leader.
- Eugene Shvidler
Eugene Shvidler is a graduate of the I. M. Gubkin Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas with a masters degree in applied mathematics, and holds an MBA in finance and MS in international tax from Fordham University. He worked as senior vice president of Sibneft beginning in 1995 and served as president of the company from 1998 through 2005. Mr. Shvidler is currently head of Millhouse LLC. He joined the Highland Gold board of directors in January 2008.
- Mary Bly
Mary Bly (born 1962 in Minnesota) is a professor of English Literature at Fordham University who also writes best-selling Regency romance novels under the pen name Eloisa James. She is the daughter of poet Robert Bly and short-story author Carol Bly.
- Jack Curry
Jack Curry is an American sportswriter for "The New York Times". He is currently the national baseball correspondent for the Times. Before taking over that beat, he covered the Yankees for the Times. In 2000, Curry co-wrote a book with Derek Jeter titled "Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams".
- Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris (November 6, 1914 - November 3, 2002), was an American stage and character actor. In the six decades of his established career in television, two of his best-known roles were villainous characters. In the early 1960s, his first role was that of Michael Rennie's bad guy partner, Bradford Webster on "The Third Man", and as the villainous agent, Dr. Zachary Smith, in the popular 1960s sci-fi series, …
- Smush Parker
William Henry "Smush" Parker (born June 1 1981, in New York, New York) is an American professional basketball player, currently a free agent in the NBA. Smush played shooting guard in college, but moved to point guard in the NBA. The name "Smush" was originally his father's nickname and was handed down to him by his uncle Naid (pronounced Nide), who died when Parker was eight years old.
- Bruce Andrews
Bruce Andrews (born April 1, 1948) is an American poet who was one of the key figures associated with the Language poets (or "L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E" "poets", after the magazine that bears that name).
- Thomas Keating
Fr. Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (b. 1923) is a Cistercian monk and priest. He was born in New York City, and attended Deerfield Academy, Yale University, and Fordham University, graduating in December 1943. He is a founder of the Centering Prayer movement and of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.