List of Alumni of Jesuit Educational Institutions - C

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• Ryan Cabrera - Colombian musician (Jesuit College Preparatory School)
• Rafael Caldera - Venezuelan politician (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola Caracas, Venezuela)
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Spanish dramatist (Jesuit College Madrid)
• Joseph Califano - U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration (Brooklyn Prep and College of the Holy Cross)
• Daniel J. Callaghan - American admiral who won the Medal of Honor in WWII (St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco)
• Tony Canadeo - American football player (Gonzaga University)
• Philip Caputo - American journalist (Loyola University Chicago)
• Ernesto Cardenal - Nicaraguan priest and poet
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton - last surviving (and only Catholic) signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland (College of St. Omer in France)
• Daniel Carroll - American politician, considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (College of St. Omer in Flanders)
• Archbishop John Carroll, SJ - first American archbishop and founder of Georgetown University (College of St. Omer, Flanders)
• Robert P. Casey, Sr. - Governor of Pennsylvania (Scranton Preparatory School and College of the Holy Cross)
• Robert P. Casey, Jr. - US Senator (Scranton Preparatory School and College of the Holy Cross)
• William Casey - American former director of the CIA (Fordham University)
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini - Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (Jesuit College at Genoa)
• Louis Bertrand Castel - French Jesuit mathematician (Jesuit School in Toulouse)
• Fidel Castro - President of Cuba (Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba)
• Raúl Castro - President of Cuba (Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba)
• Paul Cellucci - former US Ambassador to Canada (Boston College)
• Miguel de Cervantes - Spanish author
• Giovanni Ceva - Italian mathematician (Jesuit College in Milan)
• Tommaso Ceva - Italian mathematician (Jesuit College of Brera in Milan)
• François de la Chaise - French priest and father confessor of King Louis XIV and the namesake of the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery (Jesuit College of Lyon)
• Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi politician (Baghdad College)
• Christopher G. Champlin - United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank (College of St. Omer)
• Elwin Bruno Christoffel - German and French mathematician and physicist (Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne)
• Vincent Cianci - American politician (Fairfield University)
• Sandra Cisneros - American author (Loyola University Chicago)
• Walter Ciszek, S.J. - American priest, Russian Catholic Church, accused of being a Vatican spy, GULAG survivor, author, noted spiritual advisor. (Collegium Russicum)
• Tom Clancy, Jr. - American author (Loyola College in Maryland and Loyola High School)
• Will Clark - American baseball player (Jesuit High School, New Orleans)
• Patricia Clarkson - Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress (Fordham University)
• Peter Claver - Roman Catholic saint
• Christopher Clavius - German Jesuit astronomer
• Bill Clinton - President of the United States (Georgetown University)
• Johnnie Cochran - American lawyer (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles)
• Carl Colby - American documentary filmmaker (Georgetown University)
• Billy Collins - American poet (College of the Holy Cross)
• Chris Collins - American hockey player (Boston College)
• Arthur Conan Doyle - British author (Stonyhurst College, United Kingdom)
• Marquis de Condorcet - French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist (Jesuit College in Reims)
• Harry Connick, Jr - American singer, entertainer, movie actor (Jesuit High School, New Orleans)
• Pat Conroy - American writer (Gonzaga High School, Washington, DC) (one year)
• Arthur W. Conway - Irish mathematician and President of University College Dublin, where he had received a Jesuit education as a young man
• Pierre Corneille - French dramatist
• E. Gerald Corrigan - American banker, 7th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Fairfield University and Fordham University)
• Pierre de Coubertin - French pedagogue and historian
• Bob Cousy - American basketball player (College of the Holy Cross)
• Bing Crosby - American entertainer (Gonzaga University, Spokane)
• Johann Baptist Cysat - Swiss mathematician and astronomer (University of Ingolstadt)
• Andrew Cuomo - governor of New York State (Fordham University)