- John Carroll
John Carroll is a former basketball head coach for the NBA's Boston Celtics. He coached the latter part of the 2003-2004 season, temporarily replacing Jim O'Brien who had resigned. At the end of the season he was replaced as head coach with Doc Rivers. In addition to coaching the Celtics, Carroll was the Head Basketball Coach at Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, N.J. from 1979-82.
- Ron Everhart
Ron Everhart is the head men's basketball coach at Duquesne University. Previously, he held the same position at Northeastern University and McNeese State University.
- Art Rooney
Arthur Joseph Rooney, Sr. (January 27, 1901 - August 25, 1988) was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise in the National Football League. Rooney was a lifelong resident of the Pittsburgh area having been born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb Coulterville. He graduated from Duquesne Prep, then went on to Duquesne University before founding the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rooney (nicknamed "The Chief") is a beloved figure in the city of Pittsburgh.
- Dan Rooney
Daniel M. Rooney (born July 20, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the owner and chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the National Football League (NFL). He is the son of team founder and former owner Art Rooney. Rooney was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000 for his great success as an owner.
- Suzie McConnell Serio
Suzie McConnell Serio (born July 29, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a women's basketball coach and former player in the United States. She is currently the Head Coach for the women's basketball team at Duquesne University.
- John Clayton
John Clayton (born Johan Clayton) is a National Football League writer and reporter for ESPN. He is a senior writer for ESPN.com and often is recognized by fellow ESPN sportscasters as "The Professor." Clayton began hosting a cable TV sports show in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, while still a student at Churchill Area High School in suburban Pittsburgh. His print journalism career started at a now-defunct Pittsburgh weekly, "Steel City Sports", in 1973.
- Charles J. Dougherty
Charles J. Dougherty is the current President of Duquesne University. He was elected president by its Board of Directors in May 2001. Born in Brooklyn on June 28 1949, Dougherty has been educated in Catholic schools all his life, including St. Anthony’s High School in Smithton, NY. The oldest of four children, Dougherty was the first in his family to attend college. Dougherty and his wife, Sandra, who is a judge on the Nebraska District Court in Douglas County, …
- Alphonso Lingis
Alphonso Lingis (born November 23, 1933 in Crete, Illinois) is an American philosopher, writer and translator, currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and ethics.
- Danny Nee
Danny Nee has been head men's basketball coach as several Division I schools. He was head coach of the Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team for 7 years (1980-1986). Nee helped rebuild the program from several years of losing records, and he helped lead the team to 2 MAC Tournament titles (1983 and 1985), 2 NCAA Tournament appearances (1983 and 1985), and one National Invitation Tournament appearance (1986).
- Joe Negri
Joe Negri (born 1930) is a jazz guitarist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He appeared on the former children's television show Paul Shannon's "Adventure Time". He also appeared as Handyman Negri on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood". Currently he teaches jazz guitar as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has recorded several albums of instrumental guitar music.
- Leigh Bodden
Leigh Edmond Bodden (born September 24, 1981 in Washington, DC), is an American football cornerback for the Cleveland Browns. Bodden signed with the Browns as a undrafted free agent after a stellar career at Division I-AA Duquesne University.
- Mike James
Michael Lamont James (born June 23 1975 in Amityville, New York) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Houston Rockets of the NBA. Following a college career at Duquesne University that saw him finish ranked third all-time in steals (201), fifth in assists (348) and 10th in points (1,411) at the school and included being named to the all Atlantic 10 Conference 1st team in his senior year, he was not drafted.
- Chuck Cooper
Charles Harrison Cooper (September 29, 1926 - February 5, 1984), better known as Chuck Cooper, was one of three players with legitimate claims to be the first African American basketball player in the NBA. Each satisfied a different condition of being "first": *Cooper was the first black player to be drafted by an NBA team, in 1950. *Shortly afterwards, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first black player to sign a contract with an NBA team.
- Maureen Lally-Green
Maureen Lally-Green is a Judge member of the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Lally-Green was born in Sharpsville, Mercer County. She graduated from Duquesne University with a B.S. in 1971 and later its School of Law 1974. In 1998, Lally-Green was appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to the Superior Court, and confirmed by the State Senate. In 1999, Judge Lally-Green was elected for a term of ten years.
- Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer. Born Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), he was the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton (Stanley Vintula, Sr.). At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, Vinton helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, …
- Chip Ganassi
Floyd "Chip" Ganassi (born May 24, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and educated at local Duquesne University) is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner. He is currently the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which operates teams on both the IndyCar and NASCAR circuit. Ganassi began his CART (Champ Car) racing career in 1981 and competed in the Indianapolis 500 five times, with a best finish of 8th in 1983.
- Patrick Juola
Dr. Patrick Juola is a professor of computer science at Duquesne University and an expert in the field of computer linguistics and computer security. His is credited with co-creating the original Biometric word list. Dr. Juola has also created the JGAAP software package, a Java based open source Authorship Attribution suite, along with several students at Duquesne University.
- Matt Smith
Matt Smith (born September 19, 1972) is an attorney and politician from the state of Pennsylvania. Smith, a Democrat, is currently a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. He was elected to the seat in 2006 after defeating young Republican Mark Harris in a high-profile local election. Smith graduated from Rollins College in 1995 and earned his J.D. from Duquesne University in 1999.
- Dick Ricketts
Richard James Ricketts, Jr. (December 4, 1933-March 6, 1988) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward from Duquesne University, Ricketts was selected by the St. Louis Hawks with the first pick of the 1955 NBA Draft. He played three seasons in the NBA with the Hawks and the Royals and scored 1,974 career points.
- Frank Legato
Frank Legato is an American author born in 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA. He is best known for his book "How to Win Millions Playing Slot Machines...or Lose Trying". He is also well known for founding and editing "Casino Gaming" magazine and writing a weekly humorous column about slot machines for "Strictly Slots" magazine. Legato has a bachelors in journalism and a masters in communication from Duquesne University.
- Dorothy Delay
Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor at the Juilliard School. Born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, her pedagogy is considered revolutionary, and she is generally regarded as the most influential American violin teacher of the late 20th century.
- Derrick Alston
Derrick Samuel Alston is an American professional basketball player currently playing in Ankara, Turkey for Türk Telekom B.K. He has also played in the NBA and in countries such as Spain, Croatia, France and Russia (Ural Great). Alston, a power forward/center from Duquesne University, started off his professional career when he was selected 33rd overall in the 1994 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers for whom he played two seasons.
- Francesco Cesareo
Francesco Cesareo, Ph.D. is an American educator and historian. In February 2007, he was selected to become the 16th president of Assumption College, and assumed the presidency on July 1, 2007. Prior to his selection, Dr. Cesareo served as dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this, he served a position as professor at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Norm Nixon
Norman Ellard Nixon (born October 11 1955 in Macon, Georgia, USA) is a retired American professional basketball player for the NBA, who spent ten seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers. He was the 22nd overall pick in the 1977 NBA Draft by the Lakers out of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Carol Brown
Carol Brown was President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, a $50 million private, nonprofit agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2000. The Trust, established in 1984, promotes the cultural and economic growth of downtown Pittsburgh through the development of a fourteen-block arts and entertainment center in downtown Pittsburgh-the Cultural District. Brown's leadership of urban redevelopment in the district has been widely praised.
- Charles Owen Rice
Monsignor Charles Owen Rice (1908-2005) was a Roman Catholic priest and an American labor activist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA to Irish immigrants. His mother died when he was four, and he and his brother were sent to Ireland to be raised by a grandmother. Seven years later he returned to the United States. In 1934, after studies at Duquesne University and Saint Vincent Seminary, he was ordained into the priesthood in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, …
- Damien Pottinger
Damien Pottinger (born January 17, 1982 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a professional soccer player currently plays for the Toronto Lynx in the First Division. After playing college soccer with Duquesne University, Pottinger was selected second overall by Edmonton Aviators in the 2004 A-League draft. Though he never signed a professional contract with the club.
- Bill Hillgrove
Bill Hillgrove is an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sports broadcaster. He is currently the lead play-by-play broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers radio broadcasting network and for the Pitt Panthers football and basketball teams. He worked with a color commentator with a level of excitement almost never found on radio broadcasts. Born William Thomas Hillgrove in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood, he grew up in nearby Garfield.
- Keith Donohue
Keith Donohue (b. 1960) is an American novelist. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he earned his B.A and M.A. from Duquesne University and his Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America. Currently he is Director of Communications for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grant-making arm of the U. S. National Archives in Washington, DC.
- Sihugo Green
Sihugo Green (August 20, 1933-October 4, 1980) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'2" guard from Duquesne University, Green was selected by the Rochester Royals with the first pick of the 1956 NBA Draft, ahead of future Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell. He played nine seasons in the league with four teams and scored 4,636 career points.
- Jim Tucker
James D. Tucker (born December 11, 1932 in Paris, Kentucky) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward from Duquesne University, Tucker played three seasons (1954-1957) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Syracuse Nationals. He averaged 4.1 points per game in his career and won a league championship in 1955. Tucker and teammate Earl Lloyd were the first two African Americans to play on an NBA championship team.
- Aaron Shearer
Aaron Shearer is an American classical guitarist known primarily as a pedagogue. His former students include Manuel Barrueco, Ricardo Cobo, David Tanenbaum, and David Starobin. He has been director of the guitar programs at both Peabody Conservatory and North Carolina School of the Arts. He currently teaches at Duquesne University. Shearer has several publications including his well known "Classical Guitar Technique" method books.
- Vince Palamara
Vince Palamara is a leading civilian authority on the United States Secret Service, especially with regards to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is a 1988 graduate of Duquesne University
- Bud Shuster
Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster (born January 23, 1932) is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1972 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects that critics deride as "pork barrel" spending. Shuster was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Glassport, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954, an M.B.A. from Duquesne University in 1960, …
- John Murray Jr.
John E. Murray Jr. is Chancellor and Professor of Law of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a former dean of both the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Villanova University School of Law. Dr. Murray served as president of Duquesne University from 1988 to 2001, …
- Zola Levitt
Zola Levitt (December 3, 1938 - April 19, 2006) was a Messianic Jewish preacher in Dallas, Texas, who had a strong pro-Israel ministry. He led Zola Levitt Ministries, Inc., a non-profit 501(c) organization for purposes of "evangelism of the unbelievers and the exhortation of the believers". He held music degrees from Duquesne University and Indiana University (doctoral coursework completed), and an Honorary Th.D. from Faith Bible College.
- Aaron L. Mackler
Aaron L. Mackler is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, author, and a bio-ethicist. Mackler is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism and in Bioethics. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. Mackler was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He earned a Ph.D in philosophy from Georgetown University.
- Marquis Duquesne
Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis du Quesne (c. 1700 - 17 September 1778) was a French Governor of New France. He was born in Toulon. Duquesne served from 1752 through 1755, and is best known for his role in the French and Indian War. In 1758 Fort Duquesne, established at the headwaters of the Ohio River at what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, finally fell to the British. Fort Pitt replaced it. After the English were defeated by the French at Yorktown, …
- Magali Cornier Michael
Magali Cornier Michael is a feminist literary theorist and associate professor of English at Duquesne University. She is also the co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Duquesne. Michael received her B.A. from the University of Georgia, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University. She is the author of "Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction" and the forthcoming "Mixing It Up: American Fiction Re-Imagines Community".
- Ed Grier
Ed Grier is president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which comprises the Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure theme parks, the Disneyland Hotel, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, and the Downtown Disney retail, dining and entertainment district. He reports to Al Weiss, president of operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Before joining the Disneyland Resort in July 2006, …