Notable Alumni
- Robert Abplanalp '40 - inventor of aerosol valve and Founder of Precision Valve Corporation.
- Joseph Bastianich '85-Acclaimed winemaker and restaurateur, also a judge on the television series MasterChef
- Esteban Bellan 1868 - first Latin American professional baseball player
- Arthur Daley '22 - New York Times columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
- Joseph J. DioGuardi '58 - former Republican Congressman and father of Kara DioGuardi
- Jorge I. Dominguez '63 - Harvard University Professor and Latin America scholar
- J. P. Donleavy- Author
- Richard Foerster '67 - Award-winning poet
- Pete Fornatale '63 - music culture books author; disk jockey
- Frankie Frisch '16 - Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, also known as "The Fordham Flash," he is third all-time on the list for World Series hits, behind Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle and just ahead of Joe DiMaggio.
- Mario Gabelli '61 - CEO and Founder of Gabelli Asset Management
- Tony Guida '60 - television and radio news broadcaster
- Robert Hackett '77 - silver medalist in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
- John Halligan (ice hockey) '59 - former New York Rangers public relations director and NHL executive.
- Desmond Harrington - actor
- John Holland (basketball) '07 - European professional basketball player
- John L. Lahey '64 - President of Quinnipiac University
- Gerald Lynch '54- Former President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. After 30 years as president, he retired in 2004 as having tenured the longest senior-level administration in City University of New York history.
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick '49 - Archbishop of Washington D.C.
- Horace McKenna, S.J. '16 - Founder of S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat) and advocate of the Sursum Corda Cooperative.
- Joseph Moglia '67 - CEO of Ameritrade Inc.
- Johnny Murphy '25 - former New York Yankees pitcher who appeared in a total of eight World Series games, pitched 16.1 innings, and had an E.R.A. of 1.10.
- Vin Scully '44 - baseball announcer in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Radio Hall of Fame, American Sportscasters Hall of Fame. He has been broadcasting Dodgers games, first in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, since 1950.
- Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (did not graduate) - attended for a brief time; Commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first all African-American regiment during the American Civil War; portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the 1989 movie Glory
- George Stirnweiss '36 - former second baseman for the New York Yankees who also was the American League batting champion in 1945.
- Donnie Walsh '58 - President of basketball operations for the New York Knicks and former general manager for the Indiana Pacers.
- Malcolm Wilson '29 - Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York.
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