- Ed Rendell
Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101
- Victoria Zdrok
Dr. Victoria Nika Zdrok (born March 3, 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a "Playboy" Playmate, "Penthouse" Pet of the Year, a star of elaborate adult videos, an attorney, a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and former goodwill ambassador. As a child in the former Soviet Union, Victoria listened to Voice of America on her father's clandestine radio and diligently studied English with the hope of one day coming to America.
- Jumbo Elliott
James (Jumbo) Elliott (August 8, 1915 - March 22, 1981) was an American athletics coach, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. His achievements include producing five Olympic gold medal winners between 1956 and 1968. Elliott, a college track runner of short and middle distances, graduated from Villanova University in 1935 and returned to coach the track team in 1949 until his death in 1981.
- Anthony Zinni
Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a retired general in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He has been a public critic of the Bush administration and did not support the decision to go to war in Iraq.
- Ed Pinckney
Edward (Ed) Lewis Pinckney (born March 27 1963 in The Bronx, New York) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA. A 6'9" forward, Pinckney led Villanova University to the NCAA title over the Georgetown Hoyas in 1985. He was the recipient of the Tournament's Most Outstanding Player after registering 16 points and 6 rebounds in the 66-64 victory. Also in 1985 he was selected tenth overall by the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Draft.
- Randy Foye
Randy Foye (born September 24, 1983 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. He previously played for Villanova University. He was selected seventh overall in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics, immediately traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, and later traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Foye attended East Side High School in Newark, where he was selected as New Jersey Player of the Year, …
- Kerry Kittles
Kerry Kittles (born June 12 1974 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association in 2004-05. He was raised in New Orleans and attended St. Augustine High School. He is a Roman Catholic who has served as a Eucharistic Minister. The 6' 5", 179lb shooting guard from Villanova University was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the eighth pick in the 1996 NBA Draft.
- Brian Westbrook
Brian Collins Westbrook (Born on September 2, 1979 in Fort Washington, Maryland) is an American football player who currently plays running back for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Paul Arizin
Paul Joseph Arizin (April 9 1928 - December 12 2006), nicknamed "Pitchin' Paul," was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962. He retired with the third highest career point total (16,266) in NBA history, and was named one of the league's 50 greatest players upon its 50th anniversary in 1996.
- David Rabe
David William Rabe (born March 10 1940 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his loose trilogy of plays drawing on his experiences as an Army draftee in Vietnam, "Sticks and Bones" (1969), the Tony Award-winning " The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (1971), and "Streamers" (1976). He has also written "Hurlyburly" (both the play and the screenplay for the film version), …
- Jim Croce
James Joseph Croce, popularly known as Jim Croce (pronounced CRO-chee), was an American singer-songwriter.
- Michael Bradley
Michael Thomas Bradley is an American professional basketball player in the ACB league for the Bruesa GBC. He is a 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), 235 lb (107 kg), power forward. After attending Burncoat High School, he accepted a scholarship to play college basketball at the University of Kentucky. After his sophomore season at Kentucky, Bradley transferred to Villanova University where he starred. That season he averaged 20.8 points per game and 9.8 rebounds per game.
- John G. Rowland
John Grosvenor Rowland (born May 24 1957, Waterbury, Connecticut), was the Governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004; he is a member of the Republican Party. He is married to Patty Rowland, his second wife, and the couple have five children between them. In 2004, Rowland resigned from office during a corruption investigation, and later pleaded guilty in federal court to a one-count with conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud and tax fraud.
- William J. Martini
William J. "Bill" Martini (b. January 10, 1947 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a current United States district court judge. Before his judicial service, Martini was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district (map) in the House of Representatives, where he served from January 3, 1995-January 3, 1997. Martini graduated from Passaic High School, Villanova University in Philadelphia, …
- Sonia O'Sullivan
Sonia O'Sullivan (born November 28, 1969) is an Irish runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the leading female 5000 m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s. Her crowning achievement was a Gold medal at the 1995 World Athletics Championships.She won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics, narrowly beaten by the Romanian Gabriela Szabo and in front of third placed Ethiopian Gete Wami.
- Alvin Williams
Alvin Leon Williams (born August 6 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player of the NBA. He played college basketball at Villanova University. The Portland Trail Blazers drafted him in the second round of the 1997 NBA Draft, and Williams began his career there before going on to play for the Toronto Raptors, joining them in 1998. He appeared in all 82 games for two straight seasons, in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
- John Joseph O'Connor
"His Eminence" John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, (15 January 1920 - 3 May 2000) was the eleventh bishop (eighth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, serving from 1984 until his death in 2000. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.
- John J. Lafalce
John J. LaFalce (b. October 6, 1939) was a congressman from the state of New York from 1975-2002. John J. LaFalce was first elected to the 94th United States Congress in 1974 and re-elected to each succeeding Congress through the 107th, serving his Western New York congressional district for 28 years, from 1975-2002. He served as Chairman of the House Small Business Committee from 1987-1994, and as Ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee from 1998-2002.
- Dwayne McClain
Dwayne Edward McClain (born February 7 1963 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Indiana Pacers in the 2nd round (27th overall) of the 1985 NBA Draft. A 6'6" shooting guard from Villanova University, he played in only one NBA season. As a member of the Pacers during the 1985-86 season, he averaged 3.5 points in 45 games played. McClain was a member of Villanova's National Championship team in 1985.
- Howie Long
Howard Michael "Howie" Long (born January 6, 1960 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is a former American football player who played as a defensive end, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000. Long has been married since June 27, 1982, to the former Diane Addonizio and they have three sons, one of whom, Christopher, plays football at the University of Virginia. The family resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Eamonn Coghlan
Eamon Coghlan (born November 21, 1952 in Dublin) is an Irish 4-time Olympian and retired runner. Coghlan was born in Drimnagh, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He was very small so he had disadvantages against larger runners throughout his career. Coghlan's first running club was the now defunct Celtic Athletic Club. On its break up he moved to the Metropolitan Harriers club where he won the Leinster colleges 5000m title in 1970.
- Allan Ray
Allan Ray (born June 17 1984 in the Bronx, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for four years at Villanova University.
- Xavier Suarez
Xavier L. Suarez (b 1948 in Cuba) was the first Cuban-born mayor of the City of Miami, Florida. Suarez graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in 1967, earned a degree in engineering from Villanova University in 1971, and later studied government and law at Harvard University. He later returned to Miami and built his support in the city's Cuban community, and was sworn in as mayor on November 13, 1985, replacing Puerto Rico-born Maurice Ferre in this office.
- William J. Fallon
Admiral William J. Fallon assumed duties as the commander, U.S. Central Command on March 16, 2007.
- Larry James
George Lawrence ("Larry") James (born November 6, 1947) is a former American athlete. A double medalist at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Larry James also set world records and won NCAA titles during his track career. James won the silver medal in the 400 m with his time of 43.97 seconds at the 1968 Olympics, bettering the existing world record but placing him second behind teammate (and fellow Hall of Famer) Lee Evans (43.86).
- Ron Delany
Ronald Michael Delany (born March 6, 1935), better known as Ron or Ronnie is a former Irish athlete, who specialised in the middle distances. Born in Arklow, Delany studied in the United States at Villanova University, where he was coached by the well-known track coach Jumbo Elliott. His first achievement of note was a place in the final of the 1500 m at the 1954 European Championships in Berne.
- Chris Ford
Christopher Joseph Ford (born January 11, 1949 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA) is a former professional basketball player and head coach. A 6' 5" (1.96 m) guard from Villanova University, he played ten seasons (1972-1982) in the NBA as a member of the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics. Ford is credited with scoring the NBA's first three-point shot for the Boston Celtics on October 12, 1979 in a game against the Houston Rockets at Boston Garden.
- Harold Jensen
Harold Jensen is a former American basketball player. Jensen played for Villanova University from 1983 to 1987. Jensen was a member of the 1985 NCAA Tournament Championship team. Jensen is most remembered for his shooting performance in the 1985 NCAA Tournament, particularly the championship game, in which Jensen converted five out of five field goal attempts. Jensen was named to the 1985 All-NCAA Championship and All-Southeast Region teams.
- Jason Lawson
Jason L. Lawson (born September 2 1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. The 6'11", 211 pound center went to college at Villanova University. Lawson played with the Orlando Magic in the 1997-98 NBA season after being selected by the Denver Nuggets in the 1997 NBA Draft. In his only NBA season he played in 17 games, averaging 4.7 minutes per game, he had a field goal percentage of 60.0%.
- George B. Crist
George B. Crist (born January 23, 1931) is a retired four-star general in the United States Marine Corps and was the first Marine to be designated as a Unified Commander - Commander in Chief, United States Central Command.
- Maria Bello
Maria Elaine Bello (born April 18, 1967) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress.
- Paul X. Kelley
General Paul Xavier Kelley (born November 11, 1928) was the Twenty-eighth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, from 1 July 1983 to 30 June 1987.
- Gerald Marzorati
Gerald Marzorati is the editor of "The New York Times Magazine". He is also the writer of "A Painter of Darkness", a book about Leon Golub.
- John Celestand
John Celestand (born March 6, 1977 in Houston, Texas) is an American professional basketball player. Celestand was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the No. 30 overall pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, as a 6'4" shooting guard out of Villanova University. He was a member of the Lakers' 1999-2000 championship team, and has spent the past several years playing professionally in Italy, France and Germany.
- David Worby
David E. Worby, JD is a New York City veteran trial lawyer who made his fortune from personal injury cases, such as victims of drunk drivers and unjustified police shootings. He is a published author in the "American Trial Lawyers Magazine".
- Jerramiah Healy
Jerramiah T. Healy (born December 1950) is the current Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He ran for the unexpired term of the late Glenn D. Cunningham and was elected in November 2004. In the special election, he defeated Acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith. He was subsequently elected to a full term by a record landslide. Healy entered public service as an assistant prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in 1977.
- Don Bragg
Don Bragg (born 15 May,1935) Penns Grove, NJ was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the pole vault where he won the gold medal. Don Bragg Inducted: 1996, athlete Born: May 15, 1935 - Penns Grove, New Jersey Events Pole Vault - 4.81 m Don Bragg was the last of the great pole vaulters to use a steel pole.
- Alexander Severance
Alexander G. Severance (June 3 1905 - April 1 1985) was a college men's basketball player and coach. Severance graduated from Villanova in 1929. In addition to coaching basketball for Villanova, Severance was a professor of business law at the university. Severance coached the Villanova Wildcats for 25 seasons (1936-1961), compiling a 413-201 (.673) record. Among his former players is Hall of Fame member Paul Arizin.
- Robert J. Darretta Jr.
Robert J. Darretta, Jr. (born 1946 or 1947) is the former chief financial officer and vice chairman of the board for Johnson & Johnson. He has served as CFO since 1997 and he has been with Johnson & Johnson since 1968. He attended Villanova University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics.