List of Colgate University people

Colgate alumni

The Arts

• Charles Addams, New Yorker cartoonist known for macabre drawings and creator of The Addams Family
• Ralph Arlyck, documentary filmmaker who has won many awards at film festivals including Sundance and Cannes
• Ivy Austin, television and radio actress
• Ken Baker, E! Chief News Correspondent, Author
• Bob Balaban, television and movie actor
• Joe Berlinger, producer
• Steven Cantor Director and Producer
• Jackie Oshry, Host of The Morning Toast
• Jay Chandrasekhar, director
• Rex Cherryman, actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s
• George Davis, writer/teacher
• Jonathan Glatzer, television writer
• Ted Griffin, film writer
• Kevin Heffernan, actor/comedian
• Lisa Heller, alternative pop artist and songwriter
• James D. Hornfischer, literary agent
• Barnet Kellman, producer and director of film and television and multiple Emmy and DGA Award winner
• R. J. Kern, artist and photographer
• Steve Lemme, actor, comedian
• Brent Maddock, screenwriter
• Paul Mariani, American poet and a professor at Boston College
• Johnny Marks, creator of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," etc.
• Chris Paine, documentary filmmaker
• John Romano, John Romano is an American screenwriter and television writer and producer.
• Martin Ransohoff, film producer
• Peter Rowan, bluegrass musician, songwriter
• David Rosengarten, chef, author and host of the Food Network show Taste
• Todd Rosenthal, Tony Award-winning scenic designer
• Jeffrey Sharp, producer
• Paul Soter, actor/comedian
• Erik Stolhanske, actor/comedian
• Gillian Vigman, actor/comedian
• Mel Watkins, writer, editor, social commentator
• Francesca Zambello, Director of the Glimmerglass Opera and the Washington National Opera
• Broken Lizard, comedy troupe

  Business

• Michael J. Poulos, Chairman, President and CEO of Western National Corporation; Principal Owner & Chairman of Forethought Financial Group, Inc., Vice Chairman and President of American General Corporation
• John Acropolis, labor leader
• Jonathan Michael Ansell, current CEO of Fusion Company
• J. Darius Bikoff, creator, Energy Brands, Inc, makers of Glaceau, vitaminwater, and Glaceau smartwater.
• Lawrence Bossidy, chairman, CEO, Honeywell International; former CEO, AlliedSignal Inc.
• Bruce Buck, partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Chairman, Chelsea Football Club
• Steve Burke, president and CEO, NBCUniversal; former COO, Comcast
• Chase Carey, Vice Chairman of the 21st Century Fox media conglomerate and the Chairman of the Formula One Group
• Ben Cohen, co-founder and president, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
• Peter Comisar, vice chairman, Guggenheim Partners
• Mark Divine, founder of SEALFIT and former United States Navy SEAL
• Robert Duffy, former owner, Duffy Broadcasting
• Cyrus Eaton, chairman, Eaton Corp.
• Julian Farrior, founder and CEO, Backflip Studios
• David Fialkow, co-founder, General Catalyst Partners
• Stephen Howe Jr., U.S. Chairman and Americas Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
• Robert Kindler, Vice Chairman and Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Morgan Stanley
• William Brian Little, founding partner of Forstmann Little & Company, the namesake of Little Hall at Colgate University
• Jim Manzi, former CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
• Raymond W. McDaniel Jr., CEO, Moody's Corporation which operates Moody's Analytics and Moody's Investor Services
• Joseph P. McGrath, head of Barclays America and global head of capital markets
• Peter Mitchell, Chairman & CEO, .
• Douglas Murray, CEO, Big Switch Networks
• Duncan L. Niederauer, former CEO, NYSE Euronext
• Jeffrey Rosenstein, Senior Vice President, General Counsel - Americas Design and Consulting Services Group at AECOM
• Jack Shafer, former division president, Allied Domecq
• Gary Shedlin, chief financial officer, BlackRock; former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
• Thomas H. Weidemeyer, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Parcel Service, current director of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
• Bill Winters, current CEO, Standard Chartered; former co-head of investment banking, JPMorgan Chase
• Noah Wintroub, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, JPMorgan Chase
• Greg Blatt, Match.com

  Culture

• Peter Ackerman, founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
• Jack L. Anson, important leader in the American college interfraternity movement, and was known as "Mr. Fraternity."
• Thomas J. Pilgrim, in 1829, founded the first school in Texas, an all-boys school called the "Austin Academy"
• Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the international fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias
• Tim Walsh, inventor of the game TriBond
• Ed Werner and John Haney, co-inventors of Trivial Pursuit
• Armand Zildjian,, former CEO of the Avedis Zildjian Company, the maker of cymbals, started in 1623 in Istanbul

  Education

• Jack L. Anson, former executive director, North American Interfraternity Conference
• Dr. Samuel H. Archer, fifth president of the Morehouse College, selecting that school's colors to reflect his own alma mater
• Andrew Dolkart, James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University
• Emil Frei, physician, oncologist and the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
• Hall Gardner, currently a professor of International Politics at the American University of Paris
• Charles A S Hall, currently a professor at State University of New York in the College of Environmental Science & Forestry
• A. Thomas McLellan, psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania
• Anthony C. Masi, professor of sociology and management, Provost, McGill University
• Charles Franklin Phillips,, economics professor at Colgate, President of Bates College
• Mark Robbins, dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture
• Kevin M. Ross, president of Lynn University
• William J. Simmons, the second president of the eponymous Simmons College of Kentucky

  Government & Politics

• Doug Bailey, founder of The Hotline
• A. Peter Burleigh, U.S. Ambassador to India, 2011–2012
• Kristie Canegallo, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Implementation, 2014–2017
• James M. Catterson, associate justice, Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, 2004–2012
• James Colgate Cleveland, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, 1963–1981
• E. Virgil Conway, former chairman and CEO, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 1995–2001
• James Courter, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th congressional district, 1983–1991
• Antonio Delgado, U.S. Congressman, New York, 2019-present
• Kathleen A. Doherty, first female U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, 2015–present
• John Durham, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 2018–present
• Perry B. Duryea Jr., Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1969–1974
• Henry D. Edelman, first president and chief executive officer of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
• Peter Feldman, commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Bruce S. Fein, U.S. administrative law judge, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
• Louis Frey, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 9th congressional district, 1973–1979
• Dario Frommer, majority leader of the California State Assembly, 2004–2006
• Alan Frumin, parliamentarian of the United States Senate, 2001–2012
• Drew Gattine, member of the Maine House of Representatives, 2018–present
• Gary A. Lee, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 33rd congressional district, 1979–1983
• Richard Harrington Levet, judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1956–1976
• James Howard Holmes, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, 1998–2001
• Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1930–1941
• Monique Mehta, humanitarian and political activist
• Thomas R. Morgan, USMC General, Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, 1986–1988
• Harlow S. Orton, member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1878 to 1895, the author of Vosburg v. Putney
• Sarah Peake, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 4th Barnstable district
• Peter N. Perretti, Jr. the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1989–1990
• Peter Peyser, former U.S. congressman 1971–1977, 1979–1983
• Adam Clayton Powell, New York congressman and civil rights leader
• William P. Rogers, former U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General
• Mary Gay Scanlon, U.S. Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 2019-present
• Richard B. Spencer, alt-right leader and white nationalist ^,
• Peter Tarnoff, former U.S. Undersecretary of State
• Donald S. Taylor, judge, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Div. 1948–1968
• Dean P. Taylor, U.S. Congressman, New York 1943–1961
• Claudia Tenney, U.S. Congresswoman, New York 2017-2019
• Gary Trauner, politician from Wyoming
• Dennis Vacco, 62nd New York State Attorney General
• Martha M. Walz, Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Perry Warren, Member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2017–present
• F. Clifton White U.S. political consultant, best remembered as the moving force behind the Draft Goldwater Committee
• Elizabeth A. Wolford, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York
• Richard Woolard, United States Navy Captain, Commander of SEAL Team Six, 1987–1990

  Journalism

• Jack Belden, war correspondent, Life, Time, author, China Shakes the World
• Gloria Borger, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Week, CBS special correspondent
• Monica Crowley, Richard Nixon biographer; political and international affairs analyst, Fox
• Thomas A. Dine, president, Radio Free Europe
• Jeff Fager, Chairman CBS News; executive producer, 60 Minutes
• Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent, senior editor, Newsweek
• Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent, bestselling author, New York Times
• Chris Hedges, war correspondent, New York Times
• Bud Hedinger, talk radio host
• Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Los Angeles Times
• , teen magazine editor
• David Lloyd, sportscaster for ESPN
• Austin Murphy,, Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
• Kevin Phillips, publisher, American Political Research Corp.
• Andy Rooney, CBS-TV: 60 Minutes commentator, columnist
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• Rob Stone, Reporter and Commentator, Fox Soccer
• Priit Vesilind, National Geographic Society Expedition's Editor and Senior Writer
• Bob Woodruff, ABC News foreign correspondent
• Lee Woodruff, wife of Bob Woodruff and author of In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

  Literature

• Bill Barich, author of Laughing in the Hills, Hard to Be Good; Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California
• Philip Beard, novelist
• Frederick Busch, author, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate
• Pamela Druckerman, novelist, Bringing Up Bébé
• Kim Edwards, novelist
• James D. Hornfischer, author, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Neptune's Inferno, The Fleet at Flood Tide
• Stephanie LaCava,, author of An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
• Michael Lassell, professional writer and editor
• John McGahern, novelist, Adjunct Professor of English at Colgate
• Nathaniel Schmidt, author, Baptist minister, educator and orientalist
• Theodore Pratt, writer, journalist, author of numerous novels set in Florida

  Religion

• David Standish Ball, bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N.Y.
• George Ricker Berry, Professor of Semitic Languages - also Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School.
• James A. Corbett, co-founder of the Sanctuary movement
• Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor/author
• Joseph Endom Jones, Baptist minister, professor at Virginia Union University
• Philip L. Wickeri, Adviser to the Archbishop of Hong Kong for theological and historical studies and Professor of Church History at Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College

  Science, technology and medicine

• Oswald Avery, helped lead groundbreaking DNA research
• Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist at University of Colorado Boulder, super conducting quantum interference device; arithmetic, population & energy
• David DeWitt, technical fellow at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab at Madison, Wisconsin
• Gerald Fischbach,, Scientific director overseeing the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
• Emil Frei,, Helped to establish the concept of combinatorial chemotherapy as a way of treating cancer
• Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC
• Alan A. Jones, leading researcher in the field of NMR and polymer physics and professor of chemistry at Clark University
• Cris Kobryn, technologist, system architect, entrepreneur
• Rudolph Leibel,, scientist at Columbia University whose co-discovery at Rockefeller University of the hormone leptin, and cloning of the leptin and leptin receptor genes, has had a major role in the area of understanding human obesity.
• Cyrus Colton MacDuffee, former president of the Mathematical Association of America
• A. Thomas McLellan, Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia
• Kevin Padian, President of the National Center for Science Education
• H. Guyford Stever, former head of National Science Foundation/NASA

  Sports

• Ockie Anderson, All-American football player and coach for the Buffalo All Americans Champion in cross country and indoor track
• Peter Baum, 2012 Tewaaraton Trophy winner and first overall pick of the 2012 Major League Lacrosse draft
• Kathryn Bertine, professional racing cyclist, writer and former figure skater and triathlete
• Jamaal Branch, running back, New Orleans Saints practice squad, winner of the 2003 Walter Payton Award for Division I-AA football
• Tad Brown, CEO, Houston Rockets
• Tom Burgess, former quarterback, Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, MVP of 1990 Grey Cup
• Frank Castleman, while at Colgate, he won the silver medal in the 200 metre hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics
• Joe Castiglione, former TV play-by-play man for the Cleveland Indians, currently radio play-by-play man for the Boston Red Sox
• Beth Combs, former basketball coach
• David Conte, Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations and Director of Scouting for the New Jersey Devils
• Brad Dexter, former minor-league hockey player, now assistant coach of the Colgate men's hockey team
• Kiira Dosdall is an American professional ice hockey player. She plays for the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League
• Nate Eachus, running back for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Rich Erenberg, former running back, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Dan Fortmann, Hall of Fame guard, Chicago Bears in the 1930s
• Adonal Foyle, center, Orlando Magic
• David McIntyre,, Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently with the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League.
• David Gagnon , former goalie, Detroit Red Wings
• Kenny Gamble, former running back, Kansas City Chiefs, also an assistant athletic director at Colgate and executive with Reebok
• Greg Hadley, former linebacker and current coach for St. Lawrence University
• Nick Hennessey, offensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills
• Marvin Hubbard, fullback for the Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions
• Ryan Johnston, defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens
• Greg Manusky, former linebacker, Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings, and Kansas City Chiefs, now defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers
• Andy McDonald, center for the St. Louis Blues
• Mike Milbury, former defenseman for the Boston Bruins, former coach for Boston and the New York Islanders, former General Manager of the Islanders, and TV analyst for ESPN, NBC, TSN, and NESN
• Joey Mormina, defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins
• Cory Murphy, defenseman for the New Jersey Devils
• Mark Murphy, former safety, Washington Redskins, former athletic director at Colgate and Northwestern University, president of the Green Bay Packers
• Lyndsay Meyer, competitive ski mountaineer
• Clem Neacy, former end and tackle, Milwaukee Badgers and Chicago Bears
• Bill Parcells, NFL head coach, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
• Babe Parnell, National Football League player
• Steve Poapst, former defenseman, Chicago Blackhawks
• Doug Reffue, vice president for operations for Sports Club/LA
• Eugene Robinson, former safety, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, and Seattle Seahawks
• Lauren Schmetterling, Olympic Gold Medalist, 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
• Dick Sisler, professional baseball player and manager
• Steve Spott, head coach Toronto Marlies
• Ebba St. Claire professional baseball player
• Mark van Eeghen, former running back, Oakland Raiders
• Ernest Vandeweghe, former player for New York Knicks, former surgeon for Los Angeles Lakers
• Ryan Vena, professional arena football player for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers
• Chris Wagner, professional forward for Anaheim Ducks
• Jesse Winchester, center for Ottawa Senators
• Kyle Wilson, center for Columbus Blue Jackets

  Current faculty

• Anthony Aveni, professor of astronomy and anthropology, one of the founders of archaeoastronomy
• Peter Balakian, professor of English, poet and writer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016
• DeWitt Godfrey, associate professor art and art history
• Thomas J. Balonek, professor of physics and astronomy
• Joscelyn Godwin, professor of musicology
• John Knecht, professor of art and art history
• Amy Leventer, professor of geology, Antarctic researcher
• Jane Pinchin, professor of English
• Graham Russell Gao Hodges, professor of history and Africana & Latin American studies

  List of presidents

• Nathaniel Kendrick
• Stephen William Taylor
• George Washington Eaton
• Ebenezer Dodge
• George William Smith
• George Edmands Merrill
• Elmer Burritt Bryan
• George Barton Cutten
• Everett Needham Case
• Vincent MacDowell Barnett, Jr.
• Thomas A. Bartlett
• George D. Langdon, Jr.
• Neil R. Grabois
• Charles Karelis
• Rebecca Chopp
• Jeffrey Herbst
• Brian Casey