List of Villanova University alumni
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This list of Villanova University alumni includes notable graduates and non-graduate former students of Villanova University.
Arts, entertainment, and journalism
Maria Bello - Golden Globe-nominated actress
Victor Buono - Academy Award-nominated actor
Ryan J. Condal - screenwriter, TV series co-creator, executive producer
Bradley Cooper - Academy Award-nominated actor (attended for one year before transferring to Georgetown University)
Jim Croce - recording artist
Carmen Gentile - journalist, author and public speaker
David Luis Gonzalez - artist and activist, subject of the Pultizer Prize-winning podcast Suave
Tim Hauser - singer and founder of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer
Michael Hollinger - playwright and screenwriter
Keith Jones - Emmy award-winning news anchor and reporter at WCAU in Philadelphia
Monica Malpass - M.A. in political science in 1999; news anchor and reporter for WPVI
Gerald Marzorati - editor of The New York Times Magazine; assistant managing editor of The New York Times
Kacie McDonnell - Fox News talent, mostly on Fox Business as host of Mansion Global
Don McLean - recording artist (attended for three months and did not receive a degree)
Ryan Montbleau - recording artist
Vincent Piazza - actor (attended for a year; did not graduate)
David Rabe - playwright (Hurlyburly) and screenwriter (Casualties of War, The Firm)
Murtaza Razvi - journalist, senior assistant editor and head of magazines, Dawn, political analyst, The Indian Express
Greg Rikaart - Emmy Award-winning actor; soap opera The Young and the Restless
Jennifer Santiago - Emmy Award-winning reporter, CBS4 News, Miami
Cole Sternberg - visual artist
Diana Sugg - journalist and editor at the Baltimore Sun, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2003
Philip Terzian - literary editor, The Weekly Standard, author (Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower and the American Century)
Mary Walter - on-air personality, radio show host, political commentator
Wheeler Yuta (Paul Gruber) - professional wrestler
Business, law, and economics
Ayman Asfari - British-Syrian businessman, CEO of Petrofac
Stephen Bienko - Olympic gold medalist trainer and entrepreneur
Robert J. Bolger - co-founder, former president and CEO of National Association of Chain Drug Stores
John Drosdick - chief executive officer, Sunoco
Joseph Dugan - president and CEO, L.B. Foster Company
John Eleuthère du Pont - philanthropist
José Fanjul - billionaire sugar baron
Robert Genuario - former Connecticut state senator, Connecticut Superior Court judge
Chris Gheysens (VSB, 1993) - president and CEO of Wawa Inc.
Brian Higgins - billionaire hedge fund manager of King Street Capital Management
James Kim - chairman of Amkor Technology
Thomas G. Labrecque - former CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
James Mullen - president and chief executive officer, Biogen Idec
Jerry Pappert - judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; attorney general of Pennsylvania 2003–2005
Ronald O. Perelman - billionaire CEO of Mackandrews and Forbes (one semester in 1960, before transferring to University of Pennsylvania)
Michael G. Rubin - drop-out billionaire CEO of Fanatics
Paul V. Scura - former executive vice president and head of Investment Bank of Prudential Securities
John Waldron - criminal defense lawyer
David Worby - trial lawyer who specializes in personal injury cases, most notably Ground Zero illnesses
Education, engineering, and the sciences
Andrew M. Allen - NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle pilot
Bridgette Brawner - nurse researcher and professor
Sean M. Carroll - theoretical physicist
Steve Chen - computer engineer, principal architect of Cray X-MP supercomputer
Nance Dicciani - chemical engineer, ranked one of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Tyler Folsom - engineer, academic, and researcher known for his work on autonomous vehicles
Edward Guinan - astronomer, discovered Neptune's ring system
John L. Hennessy - retired president of Stanford University
Jamie Hyneman - co-host and executive producer of MythBusters (honorary doctor of Engineering and co-advisor of VU COE senior capstone project)
Deirdre Imus - head of the Deidre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
Emanuel Rubin - pathologist known for his achievements in clinical and laboratory research, and medical education
Government, politics, and military
Kelly Ayotte - governor of New Hampshire, former U.S. senator, and former attorney general of New Hampshire
Jill Biden - First Lady of the United States
G. T. Bynum - mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma
David A. Christian - retired United States Army captain and former candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
Joseph Clancy - former director of the U.S. Secret Service
George B. Crist - general; first Marine to be designated commander in chief, Central Command
Christopher G. Donovan - speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Peter Doocy - White House correspondent for Fox News
Walter Doran - admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
William J. Fallon - admiral, U.S. Navy, and commander of United States Central Command
Jacob Frey - mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Charlie Gerow - political consultant, commentator and lawyer
D. Barry Gibbons - member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Delaware County, 1961–1962
David Girard-diCarlo - nominated as U.S. ambassador to Austria
Joseph Hare - rear admiral, U.S. Navy
Kate M. Harper - member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2001
Jerramiah T. Healy - mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. - former U.S. ambassador to Sweden and former chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb; endowed Villanova's Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies
Jennifer L. Johnson - U.S. ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia
Paul X. Kelley - retired Marine general and former commandant of the Marine Corps
John LaFalce - former U.S. congressman from New York state, 1975–2002
Frank J. Larkin - sergeant at arms of the U.S. Senate
William J. Martini - district court judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Joseph J. McMenamin - brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps
Nicholas Micozzie - Pennsylvania state representative for the 163rd district (1979–2014)
Ricaurte Vásquez Morales - chairman of the Panama Canal Authority
Charles A. Murphy - member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
Peter O'Keefe - Pennsylvania state representative 1975–1978
Samuel J. Paparo Jr. - admiral, US Navy, 64th commander of the Pacific Fleet
Jerry Pappert - attorney general of Pennsylvania 2003–2005; judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Dominic Pileggi - state senate majority leader of Pennsylvania
Stanley A. Prokop - former U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania, 1959–1961
James M. Quigley - former U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania
Ed Rendell - former Pennsylvania governor and general chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2000
Marjorie Rendell - former first lady of Pennsylvania; federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Stefan Roots - mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania
John G. Rowland - former Connecticut governor, 1995–2004
Matthew J. Ryan - former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Dick Schulze - former U.S. congressman from the State of Pennsylvania, 1975–1993
Donald Snyder (J.D. 1982) - member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981–2000; majority whip
Xavier Suarez - former mayor of Miami
Dan Truitt - member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Michael E. Wegscheider - US Army major general
Anthony Zinni - general, U.S. Marine Corps (retired); former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Religion and philosophy
William Edward Atkinson - Catholic priest with a cause for sainthood
Michael Francis Burbidge - bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington
Pope Leo XIV - 267th pope, born Robert Francis Prevost
Salvador Miranda - church historian
John Joseph O'Connor - cardinal and archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York
Sports and athletics
Malik Allen - former professional basketball player, currently assistant coach with the Miami Heat
Ryan Arcidiacono - professional basketball player, currently with the Windy City Bulls, most outstanding player of the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Paul Arizin - former professional basketball player, member of Basketball Hall of Fame, voted one of the 50 all-time greatest in NBA history in 1996
Al Atkinson - professional football player, starting linebacker for the Super Bowl Champion 1969 New York Jets
James Bell (born 1992) - professional basketball player for Japanese team Passlab Yamagata Wyverns
Christian Benford - professional football player for the Buffalo Bills
Michael Bradley - former professional basketball player, NBA and European leagues
Don Bragg - 1960 Olympic pole vaulting gold medalist
Mikal Bridges - professional basketball player, currently with the New York Knicks
Jalen Brunson - professional basketball player, currently with the New York Knicks
Eamonn Coghlan - track and field athlete, four-time Olympian and the only man over age 40 to run a sub-four-minute mile
Rolando Cruz - three-time Olympic pole vaulter for Puerto Rico
Jim Curtin - former Major League Soccer player and current head coach of the Philadelphia Union
Ron Delany - track and field athlete, gold medalist in 1500 meters at the 1956 Olympic Games
Denise Dillon - VU Hall of Fame; former Drexel University head women's basketball coach; Villanova University head women’s basketball coach
Donte DiVincenzo - professional basketball player, currently with the Minnesota Timberwolves
Tim Donaghy - former professional basketball referee
Jumbo Elliott - track and field coach, inducted into National Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1981
Brian Finneran - former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles ('99) and Atlanta Falcons (2000–2009), Walter Payton Award winner 1997
Chris Ford - former professional basketball player and coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers
Randy Foye - former professional basketball player
Stan Galazin - professional football player
Josh Hart - professional basketball player, currently playing with the New York Knicks
Darrun Hilliard (born 1993) - basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Larry James - track and field athlete, 1968 Olympic gold and silver medalist in 1600 m relay and 400 m, respectively; director of athletics and recreation at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Wali Jones - former professional basketball player
Kerry Kittles - former professional basketball player with the New Jersey Nets and Los Angeles Clippers, First Team Basketball All-American 1996
Marty Liquori - track and field athlete, competed in the 1968 Olympics as a freshman in the 1500 meter
Howie Long - former professional football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, Oakland Raiders (1981–1993), football analyst, actor
Kyle Lowry - professional basketball player, 2019 NBA Champion, currently with the Philadelphia 76ers
Art Mahan - former professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies, United States Navy officer, Villanova baseball coach and athletic director
Sydney Maree - track and field athlete, 1988 Olympian, three NCAA titles (1500: 1980, 81; 5000: 1979)
Bill Melchionni - former professional basketball player, number retired by NBA Nets
John Mellus - professional football player; named All-American while at Villanova
Jimmy Murray - former general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles, co-founder of Ronald McDonald House
Marcus O'Sullivan - Villanova University head coach; three-time indoor world champion; four-time Olympian
Sonia O'Sullivan - track and field athlete, 2000 Olympic silver medalist in 5000 m
Don Paige - track and field athlete
Richie Phillips - lawyer, players' agent, former head of MLB Umpires and NBA officials unions
Ed Pinckney - former professional basketball player, MVP of 1985 Final Four, member of 1985 National Championship winning basketball team
John Pinone - Second Team Basketball All-American, 1983
Howard Porter - former professional basketball player, First Team Basketball All-American 1971
Summer Rappaport - triathlete, 2020 Olympic Games
Allan Ray - former professional basketball player
Kevin Reilly - former professional football player
Scottie Reynolds - professional basketball player for Polish team Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski; First Team Basketball All-American 2009
John Ricco - baseball executive; senior vice president and chief of staff for the New York Mets
Browning Ross - Olympic long-distance runner (1948 and 1952) and gold medal winner at the 1951 Pan American Games
Mike Seamon - professional soccer player for MLS Seattle Sounders
Mike Siani - NFL wide receiver, No. 1 draft choice of the Oakland Raiders
Maddy Siegrist - professional basketball player with the Dallas Wings of the WNBA
Rory Sparrow - former professional basketball player
Art Spector (1920–1987) - Boston Celtics basketball player
Matt Szczur - former professional baseball player; member of 2009 National Championship winning football team
Tim Thomas - former professional basketball player
Raymond Ventrone - former professional football player, currently special teams coach for the Indianapolis Colts; 2008 Super Bowl participant with NFL Patriots
Doug West - former professional basketball player; unsuccessfully recruited by then-Pitt assistant coach John Calipari
Brian Westbrook - former professional football player, 2001 Walter Payton Award winner, 2006 Super Bowl participant with Philadelphia Eagles
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