The Catholic University of America

Notable alumni

Arts

• Harolyn M. Blackwell, B.M. 1977, soprano, Metropolitan Opera
• Philip M. Bosco, B.A. 1957, Tony Award winning actor
• Patricia A. Carroll, B.A. 1949, actress, voice of Ursula in Disney?s The Little Mermaid
• Laurence Luckinbill, M.F.A. 1958, Emmy award winning producer, writer, actor
• Ed McMahon, B.A. 1949, announcer on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and host of "Star Search"
• Martin Puryear, B.A. 1963, sculptor
• Susan Sarandon, B.A. 1968, Academy Award winning actress
• John M. Slattery Jr., B.F.A. 1984, actor
• Paula Vogel, B.A. 1974, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
• Jon Voight, B.A. 1960, Academy Award winning actor.
• Kurt von Finck, B.A. 1995, open-source advocate

Media

• Richard Diefenbach Jr., B.A. 1984, Senior Producer, Fox News Channel
• Mary Alice Dwyer Dobbin, M.F.A. 1967, CEO, Procter & Gamble Productions (producers of "As the World Turns" and "Guiding Light")
• Maureen B. Dowd, B.A. 1973, Columnist for The New York Times
• Alfred Gough, B.A. 1989, Executive Producer of WB?s "Smallville", co-wrote screenplay for Spider-Man 2
• Amy Joyce, B.A. 1996, Columnist for The Washington Post
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower, M.A. 1972, author
• Alberto R. Ortiz, B.A. 1972, Executive Producer, CBS News
• James L. Rowe Jr., B.A. 1969, Sunday Editor The Washington Post
• Angela C. Santomero, B.A. 1990, Co-Creator of Blue's Clues
• Rosanna D. Scotto, B.F.A. 1980, Co-Anchor of FOX-5 News (New York)
• W. Gresham Striegel, B.A. 1990, Senior Producer, Fox News Channel

Science and engineering

• Sanford Berman, M.S. 1961, outspoken, radical librarian
• Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator
• Euphemia Lofton Haynes (deceased), Ph.D. 1943, first African-American female mathematician
• Charles Kaman, B.A. 1940, aviation pioneer and founder of Kaman Aircraft
• Carol Nacy, B.A. 1970, M.S. 1975, Ph.D. 1977, CEO of Sequella, Inc.

Business

• Brian M. Cashman, B.A. 1989, General Manager of the New York Yankees
• Robert E. Craves, B.A. 1965, Co-Founder of Costco Wholesale
• Martin R. Hurney, B.A. 1993, General Manager of the Carolina Panthers
• Edward M. Liddy, B.A. 1968, CEO of Allstate Insurance
• Timothy C. Scheve, B.A. 1980, President of Legg Mason
• Joseph A. Unanue, B.M.E. 1950, CEO of Goya Foods
• James T. Vanderslice, Ph.D. 1966, former President of Dell Computers

Public service and politics

• Edward W. Gillespie, B.A. 1983, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Patrick Guerriero, B.A. 1990, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans
• Thomas R. Harkin, J.D. 1972, U.S. Senator from Iowa
• Mitchell J. Landrieu, B.A. 1982, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
• Terence R. McAuliffe, B.A. 1979, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Martin O?Malley, B.A. 1985, Mayor of Baltimore
• Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D. 1955, former US Ambassador to the Vatican, Burundi, and Uganda
• Richard G. Renzi, J.D. 2002, U.S. Congressman from Arizona
• Timothy Shriver, M.A. 1989, CEO of the Special Olympics
• James Chu-yu Soong, M.S. 1971, Taiwanese politician and founder of the People First Party

Religion

• Rev. Msgr. William P. Fay, Ph.D. 1987, General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Francis Cardinal George, M.A. 1966, Archbishop of Chicago
• Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, S.T.D. 1945, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame
• James Cardinal Hickey (deceased), S.T.L. 1946, retired Archbishop of Washington, DC
• Roger Cardinal Mahony, M.S.W. 1964, Archbishop of Los Angeles
• Rev. Kevin Mackin, four degrees from CUA, President of Siena College
• Most Rev. Sean Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M.Cap., Ph.D. 1978, Archbishop of Boston
• Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Ph.D. 1963, Archbishop of Washington
• John Cardinal O'Connor (deceased), Archbishop of New York
• Justin Cardinal Rigali, S.T.B. 1961, Archbishop of Philadelphia
• Rev. Michael Scanlan, author and Chancellor of the Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen (deceased), J.C.B. 1920, host of Life is Worth Living