- Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis (born March 30, 1956 in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current head coach of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.
- Mike Brey
Mike Brey (born March 22, 1959 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American college basketball coach. The Bethesda, Maryland native is the men's basketball head coach at University of Notre Dame since July 14, 2000. Brey graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland in 1977. As a two-year letter winner under coach Morgan Wootten, Brey helped the team to a 55-9 mark.
- Brady Quinn
Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn (born October 27, 1984, Columbus, Ohio) is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Quinn was drafted by the Browns in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft with the number 22 pick overall. He attended the University of Notre Dame and set many school records for the Fighting Irish. Brady graduated from Notre Dame with dual degrees in political science and finance.
- Knute Rockne
Knute (pronounced "kah-noot") ("noot" is the anglicized nickname) Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 - March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded by many as the greatest coach in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him, "American football's most-renowned coach.
- Kevin White
Dr. Kevin White (born September 25, 1950) is the Director of Athletics at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He has held this position since March 13, 2000. He held similar positions at Arizona State University, Tulane University, the University of Maine, and Loras College. White is a career educator, having started as a high school coach and teacher at Gulf High School, in New Port Richey, Florida.
- Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and tentative support of intelligent design. His current position is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Calvinist, despite being a professor at a traditionally Catholic university.
- Tyrone Willingham
Lionel Tyrone Willingham, or Ty Willingham (born December 30 1953 in Kinston, North Carolina, USA), is the head football coach at the University of Washington. A football player and graduate of Michigan State University, Willingham held assistant coaching stints at his alma mater, as well as at Central Michigan University, North Carolina State University, Rice University, and Stanford University.
- Jimmy Clausen
Jimmy Clausen (born September 21, 1987, in Thousand Oaks, California) is an American football player. He is a quarterback at the University of Notre Dame and is one of the candidates to replace Brady Quinn as Notre Dame Fighting Irish starting quarterback.
- Joe Montana
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr., (born June 11 1956 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania), nicknamed "Joe Cool" and "The Comeback Kid", is a retired American football player whose professional career in the National Football League (NFL) spanned the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played quarterback (QB) for the next 14 seasons.
- John Adams
John William Adams (born September 22, 1921 in Charleston, Arkansas) was an American football offensive lineman for the NFL's Washington Redskins from 1945 to 1949. He played college football for the University of Notre Dame.
- Theodore Hesburgh
The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, STD (born May 25, 1917 at Syracuse, New York),a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Hesburgh grew up in Syracuse and had wished to become a priest since early childhood. He studied at Notre Dame until his seminary sent him to Italy. He studied in Rome until he was forced to leave due to the outbreak of World War II.
- John I. Jenkins
The Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. (born in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and the 17th and current president of the University of Notre Dame. Father Jenkins was selected to replace outgoing president Fr. Edward "Monk" Malloy, C.S.C. by the University's Board of Trustees on April 30, 2004 and assumed the office of president on July 1, 2005. His formal inauguration took place on September 23, 2005.
- Richard McBrien
Richard Peter McBrien (born 1936) is the Crowley-O'Brien professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. He is the author of several books and articles discussing Catholicism. His stated scholarly interests are ecclesiology, the relationship between religion and politics, and the theological, doctrinal and spiritual facets of the Catholic church.
- Ara Parseghian
Ara Raoul Parseghian (born May 21 1923 in Akron, Ohio) is a former collegiate football coach who served as head coach for three teams, most notably the University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as head coach with the Fighting Irish (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era.
- Christian Smith
Christian Smith, a sociologist of religion and culture, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. Smith’s research focuses primarily on religion in modernity, adolescents, American evangelicalism, and culture.
- John Carlson
John David Carlson (born May 12, 1984, in Litchfield, Minnesota) is an American football player. He plays tight end for the University of Notre Dame.
- Bob Davie
Robert Edwin Davie, Jr. (born September 30, 1954 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania) is a college football analyst and former American college football coach. In 1977, Davie began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona from 1978-79. From 1980-82, he returned to Pittsburgh as linebackers coach and then moved to Tulane as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach from 1983-84.
- Guillermo O'Donnell
Guillermo O'Donnell, born in 1933 in Argentina, is a prominent Argentine political scientist, and "Helen Kellogg Professor" of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Most important among his theoretical contributions to political science is his work on the 'bureaucratic-authoritarian state' and on theories of democracy and the characteristics of the process of democratic transition, …
- Tom Zbikowski
Thomas Michael Zbikowski is an All-American defensive back, punt returner, and strong safety for the University of Notre Dame football team. He grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and attended Buffalo Grove High School in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He also was a Golden Glove boxer, who had an outstanding amateur boxing career. Zbikowski is described by coach Charlie Weis, as "all day tough." His 2005-2006 season was nothing short of sensational.
- Jeff Samardzija
Jeffrey Alan Samardzija (born January 23, 1985 in Merrillville, Indiana) is an American baseball player as a pitcher with the Daytona Cubs, the single-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. He is also a former American football player as a wide receiver at the University of Notre Dame. Formerly a senior, Samardzija was majoring in marketing.
- Edward Sorin
The Very Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C. (1814-1893), a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross was the founder of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
- Mark Noll
Mark Noll comes to the history department at Notre Dame, after 27 years at Wheaton College as a member of the history and theology departments, where he taught a range of courses from American intellectual history and the general history of Christianity to modern British history and the history of history-writing. In coming to Notre Dame, he looks forward to concentrating on fewer subjects.
- Demetrius Jones
Demetrius Jones (born January 3, 1988, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football player. He plays quarterback at the University of Notre Dame and is one of the candidates to replace Brady Quinn as Notre Dame Fighting Irish starting quarterback for the 2007 football season. He will compete with junior Evan Sharpley and incoming freshman Jimmy Clausen. Jones got his nickname "Double D" from his grandmother. Since he occasionally got into trouble as a kid, …
- Muffet McGraw
Muffet McGraw is head coach of the Notre Dame Women's Basketball team. She has been head coach at Notre Dame since 1987. The architect of Notre Dame's rise to prominence on the national women's basketball landscape, McGraw is preparing to begin her 16th season as the head coach of the Fighting Irish.
- Sam Young
Sam Young (born on June 24, 1987 in Coral Springs, Florida) is the current starting right tackle for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.
- Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram Bettis, nicknamed "The Bus" (born February 16, 1972 in Detroit, Michigan), is a former American football halfback for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs of his era, and is fifth on the National Football League's all-time rushing list. He retired in 2006 after a Super Bowl victory. Bettis attended Mackenzie High School in Detroit, and the University of Notre Dame.
- Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880-July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter.
- George Gipp
George "The Gipper" Gipp (February 18, 1895 - December 14, 1920) was a famous college football player who played for the University of Notre Dame.
- Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born American scientist. He is the Emil T. Hofmann professor at the University of Notre Dame, and is noted for research into "scale-free networks" and "biological networks".
- George Marsden
George Marsden (Ph.D. Yale University) is a historian and theologian teacher at University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on fundamentalism and evangelicalism and its influence in America, both historically and in contemporary politics and ideology. Marsden is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div) and Yale University (Ph.D in History). He has taught at Calvin College and Duke University.
- Peter van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at Syracuse University for many years and earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of action. It is largely due to his work ("An Essay on Free Will": Oxford University Press, …
- Robert Audi
Robert Audi (born November 1941) is a philosopher working on ethics, especially intuitionism, at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds a joint appointment in the philosophy department and in business ethics. His 2005 book, "The Good in the Right", updates and strengthens Rossian intuitionism and develops the epistemology of ethics. He has also written important works on epistemology and political philosophy, …
- Corwin Brown
Corwin Brown (born April 25 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is the current defensive coordinator for the University of Notre Dame football team.
- Joe Theismann
Former quarterback for the Washington Redskins. Chosen as one of the 70 greatest Washington Redskins (June 2002). Played college football at Notre Dame. Originally pronounced his last name "THEES-man" until he enrolled, when Notre Dame's sports information department convinced him to change the pronunciation to rhyme with "Heisman." All during his senior season, they would promote him to sportswriters as "Theismann, as in Heisman!" in hopes that he would win enough votes for the Heisman...
- Chris Zorich
Christopher Robert Zorich (born March 13, 1969 in Chicago) is a retired American football player. He was a defensive tackle. An only child of African American and Croatian descent, Zorich was raised by his mother on the South Side of Chicago, where he attended Chicago Vocational High School. He received a scholarship to play football for the University of Notre Dame in 1987, and he would win multiple accolades during his tenure with the Fighting Irish, …
- Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish-born author of novels and short stories. The film rights to several of his books have been purchased, and he has also written a screenplay titled "Julia". He was born in Tipperary, Ireland and is a distant relative of the Irish patriot Michael Collins. He grew up in Ireland, where he was a distance runner.
- Darius Walker
Darius A'Dunte Walker (born October 21, 1985 in Lawrenceville, Georgia) was an American football running back for the University of Notre Dame. He went undrafted in the 2007 NFL Draft. He has signed with the Houston Texans.
- John Finnis
John Finnis (born 1940), an Australian Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and the University of Notre Dame.
- Digger Phelps
Richard "Digger" Phelps (born July 4 1941) is mostly well-known as the coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball team in the 1970s, 1980s and part of the 1990s. The nickname "Digger" derives from his birthplace of Beacon, New York, where his father owned a funeral service.
- Paul Hornung
Paul Vernon Hornung (born December 23, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former all-around athlete who played college basketball but is best known as an American football player. He was an outstanding athlete at Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget High School in Louisville (now closed), having lettered 4 years each in football, basketball and baseball. He was recruited by Bear Bryant to go to Kentucky but chose Notre Dame instead.