- Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. His mother was of Irish Catholic descent, and his father was of Greek descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. Bob's father, John Costas, was an electrical engineer, baseball fan, and gambler. - Taye Diggs
Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs on January 2, 1971 in Rochester, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. - Marv Albert
Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig on June 12, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television and radio sportscaster, honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and is commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball." From 1967 to 2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks". In 2006, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame - Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, … - Sean McDonough
Sean McDonough (born May 13, 1962) is an American television sportscaster. The son of legendary Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough, Sean graduated from Syracuse University in 1984. It was in Syracuse where McDonough began his broadcasting career in 1982 as the play-by-play announcer for the Syracuse Chiefs of the International League. - Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline". - Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965 - 1973). The band gained relatively little notice during its life, but is widely considered by some to be one of the seeds of alternative rock music. - Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is the lead broadcaster for ESPN's presentation of "Monday Night Football". In addition to his "Monday Night Football" duties, Tirico hosts a multitude of programming on ESPN/ABC. He has been host of ABC's golf coverage since 1996, and from 2002 to 2006, he was studio host for ABC's NBA telecasts. Starting in 2007, Tirico will call the NBA Finals for ESPN Radio. - Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, serving as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand", five versions of the Pyramid game show, and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". Clark was long known for his signature closing catchphrase, "For Now, Dick Clark, … - Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the 14th child of a Methodist minister. He died at age 28. - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers. - Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson (born August 10, 1942 in Wethersfield, Connecticut) is a fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows. She took many dance classes as a child and adolescent which inspired her love of costumes. After high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated from Syracuse University where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. - Michelangelo Signorile
Michelangelo Signorile (born December 19, 1960), is a gay American writer and a national talk radio host whose program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada. He is a political liberal, unabashedly, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues. Signorile is noted for his various books and articles on gay and lesbian politics, and is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. - Ian Eagle
Ian Eagle is an American sports announcer calling National Football League (NFL) games on CBS, New Jersey Nets games on the YES Network and hosts "Full Court Press", a basketball talk show with former player Kenny Smith on Sirius Satellite Radio. Other announcing experience include NCAA men's basketball, tennis, the Army-Navy football games, the Army-Navy basketball games, boxing, and NCAA track and field for CBS. He is a graduate of Syracuse University. - Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale. - Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. - Al Davis
Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a jewish American football executive, who currently serves as the president and managing general partner of the NFL's Oakland Raiders. - James Mungro
James Olevia Mungro, II (born February 13, 1978 in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American football running back is a free agent who most recently played for the Indianapolis Colts. He attended Syracuse University. - Donna Shalala
Donna E. Shalala became professor of political science and president of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001. President Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. Prior to joining the University, she served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration for eight years-the longest term in U.S. history. - Pete Yorn
Peter (Pete) Yorn (b. July 27, 1974) is a successful American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition when his music, including the song "Strange Condition", appeared in the 2000 film "Me, Myself & Irene". Yorn also wrote the film's score. - Kirby Dar Dar
Kirby Dar Dar (March 27, 1972 -) was a American professional football player for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He attended Syracuse University and played on Syracuse's football team as a running back. He was signed by the Dolphins as a rookie free agent in 1995 by Don Shula and played as a wide receiver in the 1995, 1996, and 1998 seasons. He was waived October 1, 1998. Kirby Dar Dar currently runs a youth football camp in Syracuse, New York. - Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian, actor, and father of Ben Stiller. - Hilton Kramer
Hilton Kramer (born 1928, Gloucester, Massachusetts) is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator. Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of "Arts Magazine", art critic for "The Nation", and from 1965 to 1982, as an art critic for "The New York Times". - Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, six-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Columbo in the television series "Columbo". Falk's unusual gaze is due to a glass eye that he has had for most of his life. - Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at CBS, ABC and NBC and was at least partly responsible for bringing to television such programs as "Scooby-Doo" (1969-1986), "All in the Family" (1971 - 1979), "The Waltons" (1972 - 1981), "Roots" (1977), and "Charlie's Angels" (1976 - 1981). - Gary Apple
Gary Apple (born August 8, 1960 in Troy, New York) is an American sportscaster. He is a television host for the NBA Television Network and currently the host of SportsNet New York's "Daily News Live". - Michael Cole
Michael Sean Coulthard (born December 8 1968), better known by his stage name of Michael Cole, is the current play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment's "Friday Night SmackDown!". - Dave O'Brien
Dave O'Brien is an American sportscaster who currently broadcasts various events for ESPN television and Westwood One radio. The Quincy, Massachusetts native now joins Joe Castiglione on Boston Red Sox radio broadcasts. O'Brien has called play-by-play for ESPN since 2002, handling MLB, the NBA, college basketball, and soccer (including Major League Soccer's MLS Primetime Thursday and United States men's national soccer team telecasts). - Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is a retired NASA Astronaut. He is now a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky to be his hometown. He has six children, one deceased. His hobbies are chess, flying, gardening, literary criticism, microcomputers, parachuting, photography, reading, running, scuba diving and soaring. - Robert Jarvik
Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 11 May 1946) is an American scientist known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. - Jon Bramnick
Jon Bramnick (born February 24, 1953) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2003, where he represents the 21st legislative district. He was first appointed to the Assembly in 2003 to fill the unexpired term of the vacancy created upon the selection of Thomas Kean Jr. to fill an unexpired New Jersey Senate term. He was elected to a full two year term later that year and was reelected in 2005. - George Campbell Jr.
Dr. George Campbell Jr. (born December 2, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) is President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - John Glatzel
John Glatzel (b. May 27, 1979 in Ellicott City, Maryland) is a professional lacrosse player with the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. Glatzel attended Syracuse University where he was a two-time captain. In 2000 and 2002, Glatzel helped lead the Orangemen to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship. Also in 2002, he was awarded the William C. Schmeisser Award, given to the nation's most outstanding NCAA lacrosse defenseman. - Craig Benson
Craig Benson (born New York City, October 8, 1954) came to public attention by founding Cabletron Systems, now known as Enterasys Networks that became one of the largest employers in New Hampshire, and was governor of the state from January 2003 to January 2005. - Al D'Amato
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato (born August 1, 1937) is a former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. - Mary Schmidt Campbell
Mary Schmidt Campbell, B.A., M.A., PH.D.; HON.: D.F.A., PH.D., Dean, Tisch School of the Arts; Associate Provost for the Arts Mary Schmidt Campbell was appointed Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1991 and Associate Provost for the Arts in December 2004. Campbell is also chair of the Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School since 2000. - L. Jay Oliva
L. Jay Oliva (born 1933 in Walden, New York) was the 14th President of New York University. Dr. Oliva has a B.A. from Manhattan College (1955), and an M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) from Syracuse University. He was a University Fellow at Syracuse, a Fribourg Fellow at the University of Paris, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Born to a Hispanic father, his mother was an Irish-speaker from Ireland, and he has shown much interest and lent NYU to Irish-themed celebrations, … - Will Allen
Will D. Allen (born August 5, 1978 in Syracuse, New York) is an American football cornerback currently playing for the Miami Dolphins. - Wendy Kaufman
Wendy Kaufman (b. 1958 in North Woodmere, New York, USA) is a Jewish American best known for being the spokesperson for Snapple and for her two stints on Celebrity Fit Club. Kaufman was born to a homemaking mother and a father who owned a steel manufacturing company. She attended Lawrence High School and graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 with degrees in film and sociology. - Julia Álvarez
Julia Álvarez is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten. In 1960, the family fled back to the United States, after her father participated in the underground against the military dictator, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Three months later the leaders of the underground, the Mirabal sisters, were murdered.
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