- 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.
- Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 - September 3, 1970) was one of the most successful head coaches in the history of American football. He was the driving force of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, leading them in the capture of five NFL championships during his 9 year tenure. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. He owns a 9-1 record in the post-season.
- Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.
- Vin Scully
Vincent Edward "Vin" Scully (born November 29, 1927, in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams. In 50 seasons in Los Angeles (1958-2007), Vin Scully has become a beloved figure. His 57-year tenure with the Dodgers (1950-2007) is the longest of any broadcaster with a single club in professional sports history.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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", …
- Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood.
- Thomas Suozzi
Thomas R. Suozzi (born August 31, 1962 in Glen Cove, New York) is the county executive of Nassau County, New York. He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971. He ran unsuccessfully against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for the race to be Governor of New York in 2006.
- 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.
- Christopher Cuomo
Christopher (Chris) Cuomo (born August 9, 1970 in Queens, New York) is the news anchor for ABC's "Good Morning America." He is the youngest son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and younger brother of New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo began his journalism career as a political policy analyst for CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and later for Fox News Channel. In 1999, Cuomo joined ABC News as a correspondent, …
- Barry Hess
Barry J. Hess, II is an investor and United States Libertarian Party activist. He was the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona in 2000, and the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Arizona in 2002 and 2006. Hess unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination in 2000, and has announced his intention to seek the party's 2008 presidential nomination.
- 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, …
- 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".
- Frankie Frisch
Francis "Frankie" Frisch (September 9, 1898 - March 12, 1973), nicknamed the Fordham Flash, was an American Major League Baseball player of the early 20th century. Frisch was a switch-hitter batter and threw right-handed. Born in the Bronx, New York City, he began his career after graduating from Fordham University, where he had starred in four sports. It was at Fordham where Frisch earned his nickname "The Fordham Flash." After graduation, …
- Joseph M. McLaughlin
Joseph Michael McLaughlin (born 1933) is a federal appellate judge in the United States. McLaughlin obtained his bachelors and law degrees from Fordham University; he obtained an LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and was awarded the LL.D. degree by Mercy College and Fordham University. After service in the U.S. Army, where he was a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two years in private legal practice, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Michael Kay
Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is the main play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees, host of "Centerstage" on the YES Network and the host of "The Michael Kay Show" on WEPN.
- 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), …
- G. Gordon Liddy
George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit. Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy later became an American radio talk show host, actor and political strategist.
- Don Delillo
"I became a writer by living in New York and seeing and hearing and feeling all the great, amazing and dangerous things the city endlessly assembles. And I also became a writer by avoiding serious commitment to anything else." --DeLillo to Jonathan Bing , 1997
- Mike Breen
Mike Breen(born June 26 1965) is a play-by-play commentator for the "NBA on ABC". He also works NBA games for ESPN, and was formerly a play-by-play announcers for New York Giants preseason games, as well as for regular season NFL games on both FOX and NBC. Breen, a 1983 graduate of Fordham University, is currently in his 14th season as an NBA broadcaster, with some of those 14 taking place while Breen worked for NBC up until 2002, …
- Chris Carrino
Chris Carrino is the current radio play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Nets. Now in his fifth season, Carrino has described many of the most memorable moments in Nets history, including their championship runs in 2002 and 2003. He is a graduate of Fordham University, where he voiced the basketball, football, and baseball teams.
- Tony Reali
Anthony Joseph Paul "Tony" Reali (born July 4, 1978 in Staten Island, New York) is the current host of "Around the Horn" on ESPN. He is also the ombudsman or "stat boy" on "Pardon the Interruption". He is often referred to as the Ultimate Sports Guru for his keen intellect and mastery of all sports statistics. He is a Marlboro, New Jersey native and graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey.
- John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 - November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate first break-in and employed Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. in a "security" capacity. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on Long Island in New York.
- Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott (born Mark Anthony McDermott on 26 October 1961) is an American actor, known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the former TV legal drama "The Practice".
- Peter A. Carlesimo
Peter A. Carlesimo (September 2 1915 in Newark, New Jersey - June 22 2003 in Montclair, New Jersey) was a longtime coach and athletic director at the University of Scranton and Fordham University. He is sometimes credited with being the person most responsible for keeping the NIT alive in the late 1970s. Carlesimo was born in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Saint Benedict's Prep.
- John Lafarge
John LaFarge (March 31, 1835-November 14, 1910) was an American painter, stained glass window maker, decorator, and writer. Born in New York City, New York, his interest in art was aroused during his training at Mount St. Mary's University and Fordham University. He had only the study of law in view until he returned from his first visit to Paris, France where he studied with Thomas Couture and enjoyed the most brilliant literary society of the day.
- Steve Bellán
Esteban Enrique Bellán, also known as Esteban, or Steve Bellán ("bel-LYAHN"), was the first Cuban and the first Latin American to play professional baseball in the USA. The Havana-born Bellán also became one of Cuba's first great baseball player-managers, having learned how to play the game while he was a student at St. John's College in New York (now Fordham University) from 1863-1868.
- James Joseph Walsh
James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 (Ph. D., 1892) and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York. In addition to contributing to the New International Encyclopedia and to medical and other journals, he also published a variety of popular works.
- Hunter Tylo
Hunter Tylo (born Deborah Jo Hunter on July 3, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actress of half Cherokee descent. She is also credited as Deborah Morehart; Morehart was the last name of her first husband. She is best known for her role as Dr. Taylor Hamilton Hayes Forrester Marone on "The Bold and the Beautiful", being one of the longest serving castmembers
- William J. Casey
William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 - May 6, 1987) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire US Intelligence Community and personally directed the Central Intelligence Agency. A native of Queens, New York, Casey graduated from Fordham University (1934) and St. John's University School of Law (1937).
- William Hughes Mulligan
William Hughes Mulligan (March 5, 1918 - May 13, 1996) was a United States lawyer, federal appellate judge, and law school dean. Muligan attended Fordham University as an undergraduate, receiving his A.B. in 1939, and Fordham Law School from which he graduated in 1942. After serving in the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II, Mulligan became a law professor at Fordham in 1946.
- Arthur Gonzalez
The Hon. Arthur J. Gonzalez is a United States Bankruptcy Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. Gonzalez received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University in 1969. Following graduation, he worked as a New York City public school teacher until 1982. After earning a law degree, also from Fordham, Gonzalez became an attorney for the Manhattan District Counsel Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
- Malcolm Wilson
Charles Malcolm Wilson (February 26, 1914 - March 13, 2000) was the Governor of New York from December 18, 1973 to December 31, 1974. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1939 to 1958. He also served in the Navy during World War II. In 1958, he was elected lieutenant governor on a gubernatorial ticket with Nelson Rockefeller, and when they won, he served in that position until Rockefeller resigned. Wilson lost the 1974 gubernatorial election to Hugh Carey.
- 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.
- Bob Keeshan
Robert James Keeshan (June 27 1927 - January 23 2004) was an American actor who played the original "Clarabell the Clown" on the "Howdy Doody" television program. He is most famous as the star and title character of the children's show "Captain Kangaroo". Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, New York, and attended Fordham University after serving in the United States Marine Corps reserve during World War II.
- Louis Boccardi
Louis D. Boccardi was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Associated Press (AP), the world’s largest news organization, from 1985 until his retirement in 2003. Prior to assuming the presidency, he served one year as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and 10 years as executive editor in charge of AP's news operations.