Alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Vito Acconci, Performance Artist and Architect
- Peter Austin, Senior Vice President/Team Leader, Rosenthal & Rosenthal
- Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State University
- Kevin Burke, Chairman, President, and CEO of Consolidated Edison
- Bill Condon, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Edward Conlon, NYPD police officer and bestselling author
- John M. Corridan (1911-1984), Jesuit priest and organized crime fighter on the New York City waterfront in the 1950s, inspiration for Fr. Barry in On the Waterfront
- Kieran Darcy, Staff Writer, ESPNNewYork.com
- John D'Emilio, academic, historian, and activist
- Lou DiBella, boxing promoter
- Anthony J. DiNovi, Co-President of private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners
- John Donvan, ABC News Nightline correspondent
- Anthony Fauci (born 1940), head of the NIAID, AIDS researcher
- Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney and CIA Leak Investigation Special Prosecutor
- Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review
- Greg Giraldo (1965-2010), comedian and television personality
- Frederick Gluck (born 1935), former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 1988-1994
- Robert Giroux (1914-2008), publisher with Farrar, Straus and Giroux and editor of John Berryman
- Pete Hamill (born 1935), writer and columnist, did not graduate, attended until age 16, awarded honorary diploma in 2010
- Rev. Donald J. Harrington, C.M., president of St. John's University, former president of Niagara University
- Andrew P. Harris, M.D., Member of Congress
- Rev. Timothy Healy, S.J. (1923-1992), president of Georgetown University and the New York Public Library
- Robert Hilferty, filmmaker and journalist
- Steve Hirdt, Executive Vice President, Elias Sports Bureau
- Colin Jost, Writing Supervisor at Saturday Night Live, stand up comedian
- Tom Kelly (basketball) (1924-2008), Boston Celtics basketball player, WWII B-17 Bomber Pilot
- John Koeltl, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York; presided over trial of Lynne Stewart
- David Lat, founder and Managing Editor of legal blog, Above the Law
- Joseph M. Leccese, Chairman of Proskauer Rose
- John Leo, author and former columnist, U.S. News & World Report
- Gerard E. Lynch, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and former U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York
- Eugene T. Maleska (1916-1993), editor, New York Times crossword puzzle
- Martin Mannion, Managing Partner of private equity firm Summit Partners
- Mark Mazzetti, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times writer
- Ken McCarthy, Internet commercialization pioneer, educator, activist
- Mac McGarry, host of the Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, Virginia, versions of It's Academic
- Dan McGrath, television writer (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Mission Hill, The PJs and King of the Hill)
- John McGiver (1913-1975), motion picture and television character actor
- Brendan McGuire, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief of the Public Corruption Unit
- Joseph M. McShane, S.J., former president of The University of Scranton and current president of Fordham University
- Charles Nastro, former head of the futures division at Lehman Brothers, former chairman of the National Futures Association
- Frank S. Nugent (1908-1965), New York Times film critic, screenwriter (The Quiet Man, 1952; The Searchers 1956)
- Patrick Quinlan, political activist and author
- Michael Della Rocca, professor of philosophy at Yale University, author and scholar in early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza.
- Ken Rosato, WABC-TV morning anchor
- Jon Sciambi, sportscaster for ESPN
- Jim Sciutto, former senior foreign correspondent for ABC news, Chief of Staff to US Ambassador to China Gary Locke
- Luc Sante, writer and critic
- Mark Torre, Lieutenant of the NYPD Bomb Squad
- Pablo S. Torre, sportswriter for ESPN and Sports Illustrated
- Mike Walczewski, New York Knicks/Madison Square Garden public address announcer
- John Ward, founder of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
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