List of College of the Holy Cross alumni
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This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019–20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni.
Artists, poets and authors
Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect
Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist
Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States
Leo Cullum 1963, cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker
Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator
Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs
Michael Harvey 1980, author of The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor; co-creator of the TV program Cold Case Files
Jack Higgins 1976, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times
Kristan Higgins, romance author
Edward P. Jones 1972, MacArthur Award winner and 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Known World
Paul LeClerc 1963, president emeritus of the New York Public Library
Jack O'Connell 1981, author of noir crime fiction and speculative fiction
Karen M. McManus 1991, author
Joe McGinniss 1964, author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision, and other books
Jay O'Callahan 1960, storyteller
Josh Pahigian 1996, author of The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip and more than a dozen other books
Barry Reed 1949, Boston trial lawyer and author of The Verdict
Business
William J. Abbott 1984, CEO of GAC Media
Douglas M. Baker Jr. 1981, CEO of Ecolab Inc.
James E. Burke 1947, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson; named one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune Magazine
Randall Caudill 1969, president and founder of Dunsford Hill Capital Partners
Richard A. Davey 1995, president, New York City Transit Authority
Joanna Geraghty 1990, chief executive officer of JetBlue
Pedro Heilbron 1979, CEO of Copa Airlines
Abraham Elias Issa 1926, Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier
Joey Issa 1989, founder of Cool Group
Brian P. Kelley 1983, chairman of MPearlRock, former CEO of Keurig Green Mountain and former president of the Coca-Cola Company’s North American operations
James W. Keyes 1977, former chairman and CEO of Blockbuster, Inc.
John Koelmel 1974, president of HARBORcenter, former CEO of First Niagara Financial Group
William J. McDonough 1956, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and current vice chairman of Merrill Lynch
William E. McKenna 1947, former president of Hunts Foods, former chairman Norton Simon Inc. Former chairman and President Technicolor Inc. Former chairman Sambos Rest.
Charles E.F. Millard 1954, former chairman of the board, CEO Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York
William F. O'Neil 1907, founder of the General Tire and Rubber Company
John Peterman 1963 (aka J. Peterman), catalog and retail entrepreneur
James David Power III 1953, founder of J.D. Power and Associates
Roberto Quarta 1971, partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Chairman of Italtel, and former chairman of BBA Group
Loren Ferré Rangel 1992, vice president for new products at El Día, Inc.
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