- James M. Shuart
James M. Shuart was the president of Hofstra University from 1976 to 2001. Prior to that he served as a Nassau County official. Also, he served as Assistant President to Hofstra President Clifford Lord during the 1960s in addition to serving as an administrator in the division and then school of education. He is a 1953 graduate of Hofstra and the Hofstra Stadium is named after him. - Loren Stokes
Loren Stokes (born November 12 1983) is an American professional basketball player. He was a senior combo guard at Hofstra University. He is 6'3" and weighs 175 lbs. Stokes is one of only five players in Hofstra Pride history to score at least 2,000 points, amassing 2,148 points over his four year career. A three time first team CAA player, 2004-05 all defensive CAA player, and 2006-07 CAA player of the year, … - Tom Pecora
Tom Pecora is the head men's basketball coach at Hofstra University. - Norm Kent
Norman Elliott (Norm) Kent. (born 18 October, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is a South Florida criminal defense attorney, publisher and radio talk show host. The founder and publisher of The Express, in 1999, Florida's largest gay and lesbian weekly newspaper, he was previously the morning drive talk show host for WFTL-1400 AM from 1989-1997. After surviving a bout with lymphoma, he had another stint at the new WFTL-850 AM from 2002-2005 as a daily talk show host, … - Marques Colston
Marques Colston (born June 5, 1983 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American football wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He was selected in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Hofstra University and some had projected him to be a tight end due to his large size at 6'4" and 231 pounds. Following the trade of receiver Donte' Stallworth, Colston was inserted into the starting lineup for week 1 of the season, … - E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Laurence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of "The Book of Daniel" in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, "Ragtime", was a commercial and critical success. As of 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University. - Nelson Demille
Mr. DeMille, of Garden City, is not certain that "The Gold Coast" will be filmed on the Gold Coast. "We'll have to wait and see," he said. While waiting, he has been watching his book remain a best-seller on Long Island. In a chair fit for a king, and possibly once used by one, Mr. DeMille sat in the Banfi Vinters mansion in Old Brookville signing his books as part of a fund-raising event for the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. - Frank Bowe
Frank G. Bowe is the Dr. Mervin Livingston Schloss Distinguished Professor for the Study of Disabilities at Hofstra University. As a disability rights activist, author, and teacher, he has strung together a series of firsts: Dr. Bowe was the first executive director (CEO) of the first national cross-disability consumer advocacy organization, the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD). - Butch van Breda Kolff
Willem Hendrik "Butch" van Breda Kolff (born October 28, 1922 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American former New York University and professional basketball player and coach. He spent four seasons playing with the New York Knicks of the NBA (1946-50). In 1967 he became head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and guided them to the NBA finals in 1968 and 1969, but losing twice to the Boston Celtics. Van Breda Kolff also coached the Detroit Pistons, … - Speedy Claxton
Craig "Speedy" Claxton (born May 8 1978, in Hempstead, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Prior to the NBA, Claxton played at Hofstra University, where he played under current Villanova University coach Jay Wright. At Hofstra, Claxton led the Pride to the America East Championship defeating the University of Delaware in the championship game at Hofstra Arena. - Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate (b. 1943) is an American essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is the author of three essay collections: "Bachelorhood", "Against Joie de Vivre", and "Portrait of My Body"; two novels, "Confessions of Summer" and "The Rug Merchant"; two poetry collections, … - Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is a prolific author and a professor of history at Tulane University, where he also serves as director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. He is slated to join Rice University and the James Baker Institute on July 1, 2007. The late historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, once called Brinkley "the best of the new generation of American historians." During the early 1990s, … - Alafair Burke
Alafair Burke is an author, law professor, and legal commentator. She received her B.A. in psychology from Reed College completing the senior thesis "Emotion's effects on memory: spatial narrowing of attention." Burke is a graduate of Stanford Law School, served as a deputy district attorney in Portland, Oregon and is now teaching law at Hofstra Law School. She has also written three mystery novels, featuring the detective Samantha Kincaid, … - Robert Sobel
Robert Sobel (February 19 1931 - June 2, 1999) was professor of history at Hofstra University and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories. Sobel was born in the Bronx, in New York City, New York. He completed his B.S.S. (1951) and M.A. (1952) at City College of New York, and after serving in the U.S. Army, obtained a PhD from New York University in 1957. He started teaching at Hofstra in 1956. - Lance Schulters
Lance Schulters (born May 27, 1975 in Guyana) is a professional American football player for the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League. Schulters transferred to Hofstra University after starting two years at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, played four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and three seasons with the Tennessee Titans. - Athan Iannucci
Athan Iannucci is a professional lacrosse player. Iannucci attended Hofstra University. In 2006, he was Hofstra’s second-leading scorer with 80 points (62G, 18A) in 19 games. Iannucci was a First Round Draft pick (8th Overall) by the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League in the 2007 NLL Entry Draft. He was awarded Rookie of the Week Honors in Week 5 and Week 15 of the 2007 season, and was also named to the 2007 All-Rookie team. - Blake Miller
Blake Miller (b. July 9, 1972) is a professional lacrosse player from Manhasset, New York. He is an offensive-minded Midfielder. Miller graduated from Hofstra University in 1996 where he was an Honorable Mention All-American. - Robert A. Baruch Bush
Robert A. Baruch Bush is the Harry H. Rains Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law at Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York. Together with Joseph Folger of Temple University he is the originator, and best known advocate, of the transformative model of mediation. He has authored over two dozen articles and books on mediation and ADR. - Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn (b. 1939, New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, "Different Hours". He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University and at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He owns a home in Cape May County, New Jersey. - Susan Sullivan
Susan Michaelin Sullivan (born November 18, 1942 in New York, New York) is an American actress, most known for her roles in movies, soap operas and television, as Robert Foxworth's later David Selby's wife and Jane Wyman's long-suffering niece and daughter-in-law, Maggie Gioberti Channing, on the 1980s night-time soap opera, "Falcon Crest" (a role she played from 1981 to 1989), and as Thomas Gibson's snobbish country-club mother and owner, … - Joe Jones
Joseph "Joe" Jones is the 20th men's basketball head coach at Columbia University. In 2006-07, his fourth season on Morningside Heights, the Ronkonkoma, New York, native led the Lions to a 7-7 Ivy League finish, their first .500 record since 1999-2000. Their 16-12 overall record was the team's best since 1992-93. Jones succeeded Armond Hill in after the 2002-03 season, when Columbia finished 0-14 in the Ivy League, 2-25 overall. - Devale Ellis
Devale Ellis (born April 2, 1984 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He attended Hofstra University, where he was a teammate of New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston. He went undrafted in the 2006 NFL Draft, but was signed as a free agent after participating in the rookie mini-camp as a tryout player. He was signed to the Lions eight man practice squad on September 3, 2006. - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Kenny Adeleke
Kenny Adeleke {born February 10, 1983 in Queens, New York) is a Nigerian American basketball player who plays in Israel for Hapoel Galil Elyon. Adeleke played basketball and tennis at Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn, New York. During Adeleke's senior year at Paul Robeson High School (The 2000-2001 season), he was named P.S.A.L. Player of the Year by the New York Daily News while averaging 19 points per game and 13 rebounds per game. - Mike Starr
Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American actor known for his large size and unprepossessing face. He has typically been typecast as playing thugs or henchmen, but with the right role his gravelly voice, and the ability to display the humanity of his characters, means he can bring more depth to a role than the script offers. He is a younger brother of actor Beau Starr. - Joe Frank
Joe Frank is an American radio personality, known best for his engaging, often philosophical, monologues and radio dramas. Frank started his career at WBAI in New York, and also served as a co-anchor for the weekend edition of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". In 1986, Frank moved to Santa Monica, California to work at KCRW, where he wrote, produced and performed in a weekly hour-long radio program, … - Doug Shanahan
Doug Shanahan is a professional lacrosse player who plays midfield for the Chicago Machine of Major League Lacrosse. He attended and played college lacrosse at Hofstra University. In 2001 he was the inaugural winner of the Tewaaraton Trophy, which is presented yearly to the nation's top college player. He was a member of the 2002 USA World Lacrosse Championship-winning team, in which he received All-World and Championship MVP honors. - Norman Richardson
Charles Norman (Norm, or Norman) Richardson (born July 24 1979, in Brooklyn, New York, New York) is an American professional basketball player. A 6'5" 190 /200 lb shooting guard, played college basketball at Hofstra University and had a brief stint in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers and Chicago Bulls. Richardson was signed by the Pacers as a free agent on September 21, 2001 for whom he played 3 games before being traded, along with Jalen Rose, Travis Best, … - Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalin (born September 19, 1953) is an American political strategist and consultant. She is known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. In April 2004, she published the book "Letters to My Daughters". In March of 2005, Matalin was chosen to run a new conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster. - Giovanni Carmazzi
Giovanni Carmazzi (born April 14, 1977 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football player. He never played in a regular season NFL game but was on the roster of the San Francisco 49ers as a backup quarterback. He is an alumnus of Jesuit High School in Carmichael, California where he played the Marauders, the Jesuit football team. He was coached by his father, Dan Carmazzi, head coach of the Jesuit Marauders football team. - Charlie Adams
Charlie Adams (born October 23, 1979 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania) is an American football player for the Houston Texans. A wide receiver who played for Hofstra University, he was signed as a college free agent in 2003 by the Denver Broncos. Charlie Adams was a standout in football and track & field at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, PA. He went onto Hofstra University where set records as the all-time leading receiver in school history. - Joe Dubuque
Joe Dubuque (born May 17 1982) is an American amateur wrestler. Dubuque attended Glen Ridge High School in Essex County, New Jersey. Competiting for the Indiana University, Dubuque won an NCAA Division I wrestling title at 125 pounds in 2005, beating Kyle Ott of the University of Illinois 2-0. In 2006 he won the same title, beating Troy Nickerson of Cornell University. Dubuque was an All-American in 2004, wrestling back from a preliminary round pin. - Morton Estrin
Morton Estrin, the noted American pianist, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1923. His career began in 1949 with a well-received recital at Town Hall. He studied with the noted teacher Vera Maurina-Press and others. Estrin is well-known for making the first-ever recording of Alexander Scriabin's complete opus 8 Etudes, which he re-recorded in 1991. Both recordings contain many of the hallmarks of Estrin's style - a robust tone, formidable technique, … - Renauld Williams
Renauld Duvall Williams (born February 23 1981 in Westbury, New York) is an American football linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent out of Hofstra University by the Miami Dolphins. Renauld was a standout running back in High school at Friends Academy and a four year starter. - Tony Skinn
Tony Oludewa Jeffrey Skinn (born February 8, 1983) was a college basketball player who was a starting guard for the Patriots of George Mason University. He has averaged 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game this 2005-2006 season, one marked by the Patriots' surprising run to the Final Four. He scored a season-high of 23 points and hit the game-winning three-point shot with 10.8 seconds left, … - Bobby Muller
Robert O. "Bobby" Muller (b. Long Island, New York, United States, 1946) is an American peace advocate. He grew up in Great Neck, New York and attended Hofstra University. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1967, during the Vietnam War. His commission with the Marines began the same day he received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Hofstra University in 1968, and by September of that year he was a combat lieutenant leading a Marine infantry platoon. - Philip Rosenthal
Philip Rosenthal (born 1960) is a television person who is best known as the the creator and executive producer for the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" (1996-2005). The show was co-produced by Ray Romano, and based in part on Romano's comedy material. Rosenthal's wife, actress Monica Horan, played the role of Amy MacDougall-Barone in "Raymond". - Chris Albrecht
Chris Albrecht was chairman and CEO of Home Box Office from July 2002 until May 2007. In the past, he was president of HBO Original Programming, 1995-2002, and president of HBO Independent Productions, 1990-1995. Albrecht began working at HBO in June 1985 as senior vice president, original programming, West Coast. Before joining HBO, Albrecht worked for five years with the firm International Creative Management. - Gary L Kreps
Gary L. Kreps is a well known Communication scholar. He is currently the Eileen and Steve Mandell Professor of Health Communication, Chair of the Department of Communication, and Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He also serves on the Governing Board of the Center for Social Science Research, and is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at Mason. - Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology.
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