Arts and Letters
- Francis J. Beckwith, Christian philosopher
- Thomas Cahill, best-selling author
- Ion Cârja, writer
- Paddy Chayefsky, playwright, screenwriter (attended, no degree)
- Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling suspense novelist
- Ed Dee, author
- Don DeLillo, National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author
- Richard Foerster, Award-winning poet
- Norman Frauenheim, American pianist and music instructor
- David Kolb, philosopher at Bates College
- John LaFarge, painter, muralist, designer of stained-glass windows
- Virginia O'Hanlon, as a child, wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking about Santa Claus which prompted the famous response "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" (doctorate from Fordham)
- Guillermo Owen, mathematician, game theorist
- John Sanford, author (no degree)
- John Dawson Gilmary Shea, author, historian
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