Syracuse University

Notable alumni

• Carl Gottlieb - screenwriter (Jaws) and vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, West
• Stephen Crane - Author. He stayed only one semester, later admiting he came "more to play baseball than to study." http://syracuse.edu/aboutsu/chronology/1870.html
• Joyce Carol Oates - Author
• John D. MacDonald - Author
• Alice Sebold ? novelist, The Lovely Bones.
• Robert O'Connor - Author
• William Safire - journalist
• Arun Shourie - journalist
• Robert Jarvik- inventor of the first permanently-implantable artificial heart
• Story Musgrave - NASA astronaut
• Sean O'Keefe - former NASA administrator
• Eileen Collins - NASA astronaut and first female space shuttle commander
• Donna Shalala - Ex-Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
• Joseph R. Biden - U.S. Senator from Delaware and former presidential candidate
• Al D'Amato, former senator from New York.
• Molly Corbett Broad - President, The University of North Carolina
• Charles Baquet - Deputy director, the Peace Corps
• Richard Danzig - former Secretary of the Navy
• John P. White - Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense
• Mitchel Wallerstein- Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for counterproliferation policy
• Walter G. Montgomery - Partner, Robinson Lerer and Montgomery
• Gerald B. Cramer - Chairman, Cramer Rosenthal & McGlynn
• Angel Collado-Schwarz - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NAZCA Saatchi & Saatchi
• John H. Chapple - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nextel Partners Inc.
• Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin AbdulAziz Alsaud- Founder and President, Kingdom Holding Co
• Eugen von Baden-Manners-Schleswig- Entrepreneur and Founder of DIY Enterprises. Baden, Germany
• Akira Ohtomo- Founder and CEO, Pan Pacific Enterprises, Japan
• Nick Trigony - President, Cox Broadcasting
• Ed Goren- President, Fox Sports
• L. Kelly Atkinson, Jr. - Director, NBC Sports
• Fred Silverman- Former President, NBC Television
• Donald Newhouse - President, Advance Publications
• S.I. Newhouse, Jr. - Chairman & CEO, Advance Publications/ Chairman, Conde Nast Publications
• Bob Miron - Chairman & CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
• John Sykes - Chairman and CEO, Infinity Broadcasting (founder and former president of VH1)
• L. Ross Love - President and CEO, Blue Chip Broadcasting
• Lowell ?Bud? Paxson- Chairman and CEO, Pax TV (also former founder of Home Shopping Network)
• Raymond Jansen - Publisher, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Newsday Inc.
• Alan Frank - President, Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc
• Bob Seltzer- President and CEO, Ogilvy PR Worldwide
• Phil Quartararo - Executive Vice-President, EMI Recorded Music North America
• Larry Kramer - President, CBS Marketwatch.com
• Bob Reichblum - CEO, WebFN
• Richard Kirshenbaum - Chairman/Executive Creative Director, Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners
• Bob Berenson - Vice Chairman and General Manager, Grey Global Group
• Fred Dressler - Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable
• Robert Halmi, Jr. - President and CEO, Hallmark Entertainment
• Howard Polskin - Vice President, Communications, Sony Corporation of America
• Arthur Crames - Managing Director/Principal, Bear, Stearns and Co.
• Patrick J. Hennigan - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
• Steven Barnes - Managing Director, Bain Capital Inc
• Joanne Hill - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Company
• Robert Menschel - Senior Director and founder of the Institutional Investment department, Goldman Sachs Group
• Ronald P. O'Hanley - Vice Chairman, Mellon Financial Corporation
• Daniel D’Aniello - Co-founder and Partner, The Carlyle Group
• Martin Whitman - Founder and Chairman, Third Avenue Management
• Louis Giuliano - Chairman, President & CEO , ITT Industries
• Kenneth Leibler - Chairman & CEO, Boston Stock Exchange
• William J. Brodsky - President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• Irwin Guttag - Legendary Wall Street Trader and former Director of the New York Stock Exchange
• Christopher McGurk - Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc (MGM)
• William F. Allyn - CEO, WelchAllyn, Inc.
• Susan C. Volcker Penny - Managing Partner, Associated Mezzanine Investors
• Michael Perlis - Managing Partner, SOFTBANK Capital Partners
• Jonathan D. Resnick - Managing Director, Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
• Mark Begor - President & CEO, GE Card Services
• John Couri - Co-Founder, Duty Free International
• Ted Koppel - broadcast journalist
• Bob Costas - sportscaster
• Mike Tirico - sportscaster
• Marv Albert- sportscaster
• Sean McDonough - sportscaster
• Marty Glickman ? sportscaster
• Dick Stockton ? sportscaster
• Len Berman ? sportscaster
• Bob Dotson - journalist
• Steve Kroft - journalist
• Bruce Fowle - Architect, Fox & Fowle Architects
• Adam Gross - Architect, Ayers Saint Gross
• Werner Seligmann - Architect
• David Rockwell - Founder and CEO, Rockwell Group
• George Warrington - NJ Transit president and former Amtrak president
• Lou Reed - musician
• Aaron Sorkin - television writer/creator, "The West Wing"
• Frank Marion - Motion picture pioneer
• Dick Clark - Host of "American Bandstand", television producer
• David Falk - Chairman and CEO, SFX Sports Group
• Jerry Stiller - actor
• Peter Falk - actor
• Taye Diggs - actor
• Tom Everett Scott - Actor
• Betsey Johnson - Fashion designer
• Pete Yorn - Musician
• Priscilla Chan - singer in Hong Kong
• Robert Mankoff - cartoonist and Editor of The New Yorker
• Vanessa Williams - Singer, Actress and Miss America winner
• Donovan McNabb - football player
• Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
• Derrick Coleman ? basketball player
• Sherman Douglas ? basketball player
• Dave Bing ? basketball player
• Jim Boeheim ? basketball coach
• Art Monk - football player
• Jim Brown - football, lacrosse legend
• Floyd Little - football player
• Ernie Davis - football player, Heisman Trophy winner.
• Larry Csonka - football player
• Marvin Harrison - football player
• Keith Bulluck - football player
• Al Davis - NFL Owner
• Joe Morris (Football Player)