List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions
Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities. This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of these institutions.
NOTE: Along with lay men and women, and non-Catholics, included in the list below are also a number of Jesuits.
A
- Florencio Abad - Philippine lawyer and politician
- Tony Abbott - Australian Prime Minister
- Monir Fakhry Abdelnour - Egyptian Minister of Tourism
- Robert Abplanalp - inventor of the aerosol valve; founder of Precision Valve Corporation
- Andy Ackerman - television director and producer, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Two and a Half Men
- Edward Fenech Adami - former President of Malta
- Héctor Aguilar Camín - Mexican writer, journalist and historian
- José Antonio Aguirre - Basque president
- Carlos Alazraki - President and CEO, Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency
- Alan Alda - American movie actor and TV star
- Iyad Allawi - Iraqi politician
- Robert Altman - American film director
- Don Ameche - American actor
- Viswanathan Anand - Indian chess grandmaster
- Ivo Andric - Yugoslavian author and Nobel laureate
- APO Hiking Society - Filipino singing group
- Benigno Aquino, Jr. - Philippine politician
- Benigno Aquino III - Philippine politician and son of Benigno Aquino Jr.
- Guillermo Arriaga - Mexican screenwriter, Universidad Iberoamericana
- Mike Arroyo - husband of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Emilio Azcarraga Jean - President and owner, Televisa
B
- Claude Bachet - French mathematician
- Mohsen Badawi - Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer
- Fr. Eugene Balabin, SJ - Russian Catholic priest, collaborator with Martynov and Gagarin, developer of Jesuit "Slavic" Library at Meudon
- Jakob Balde - German Latinist and poet
- Donald W. Banner - United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
- José Celso Barbosa - medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader
- George Barna - American political pollster
- Kevin Barry - martyr of the Irish War of Independence
- John Barrymore - American Shakespearean actor
- Jyoti Basu - Communist politician from West Bengal, India
- Elgin Baylor - American basketball player
- Steve Bellan - Cuban baseball player
- Saint Robert Bellarmine -
- Pope Benedict XIV - Italian Pope
- Robert Bennett - prominent Washington, D.C. attorney
- William Bennett - former US Secretary of Education and author
- Tom Benson - New Orleans Saints owner
- Joseph Berardino - former CEO of Arthur Andersen
- Matt Berninger - singer-songwriter, primarily known as the frontman of indie rock band The National
- Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ - peace activist, author and professor, Woodstock College
- Philip Berrigan - author and activist
- Rubén Berríos - President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party
- Sabeer Bhatia - founder of Hotmail
- Jacques de Billy - French Jesuit mathematician
- Joan Biskupic - U.S. Supreme Court journalist
- William Peter Blatty - American author
- John Boehner - Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Georg Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer
- Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer
- Fr. Jean Bolland, SJ - educator, scholar, researcher, hagiographer; founder of the Bollandists; original editor and author of the Acta Sanctorum
- Jean-Charles de Borda - French mathematician, physicist, political scientist and sailor
- Julio Borges - Venezuelan activist of Primero Justicia Party
- Gutzon Borglum - American sculptor
- Philip Bosco - Tony-award-winning actor
- Roger Boscovich - Croatian Jesuit astronomer
- Charles Bossut - French mathematician, confrere of the Encyclopaedists
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet - French bishop and theologian
- Robert Bourassa - Quebec politician
- Pat Bowlen - owner of Denver Broncos
- Christopher Brennan - Australian author
- John O. Brennan - US Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security
- Carlos Brito - CEO, InBev
- Isaac Broid Zajman - Mexican architect
- Till Brönner - German musician
- Jerry Brown - American politician
- John Bruton - former Taoiseach of Ireland
- Zbigniew Brzezinski - Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, United States National Security Advisor
- Pat Buchanan - American journalist
- William F. Buckley, Jr. - American author, conservative commentator and public intellectual
- Clara de Buen Richkarday - Mexican architect
- Georges Buffon - French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author
- Luis Buñuel - Spanish filmmaker
- Jim Bunning - American senator and baseball player
- Daniel Burman - film producer
C
- Ryan Cabrera - Colombian musician
- Rafael Caldera - Venezuelan politician
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Spanish dramatist
- Joseph Califano - U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration
- Daniel J. Callaghan - American admiral who won the Medal of Honor in WWII
- Tom Campbell - American educator and former U.S. Representative from California
- Tony Canadeo - American football player
- Philip Caputo - American journalist
- Ernesto Cardenal - Nicaraguan priest and poet
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton - last surviving signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland
- Daniel Carroll - American politician, considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- Archbishop John Carroll, SJ - first American archbishop and founder of Georgetown University
- Robert P. Casey, Sr. - Governor of Pennsylvania
- Robert P. Casey, Jr. - US Senator
- William Casey - American former director of the CIA
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini - Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer
- Louis Bertrand Castel - French Jesuit mathematician
- Fidel Castro - President of Cuba
- Raúl Castro - President of Cuba
- Paul Cellucci - former Governor of Massachusetts and US Ambassador to Canada
- Miguel de Cervantes - Spanish author
- Giovanni Ceva - Italian mathematician
- Tommaso Ceva - Italian mathematician
- François de la Chaise - French priest and father confessor of King Louis XIV; namesake of the Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi politician
- Christopher G. Champlin - United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank
- Jasti Chelameswar - Judge, Supreme Court of India
- Elwin Bruno Christoffel - German and French mathematician and physicist
- Vincent Cianci - American politician
- Sandra Cisneros - American author
- Walter Ciszek, SJ - American priest, Russian Catholic Church; accused of being a Vatican spy; Gulag survivor; author; spiritual advisor
- Tom Clancy, Jr. - American author
- Will Clark - American baseball player
- Patricia Clarkson - Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress
- Peter Claver - Roman Catholic saint
- Christopher Clavius - German Jesuit astronomer
- Brian P. Cleary - American humorist, poet and author of dozens of books
- Bill Clinton - President of the United States
- Johnnie Cochran - American lawyer
- Billy Collins - American poet
- Chris Collins - American hockey player
- Marquis de Condorcet - French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist
- Harry Connick, Jr - American singer, entertainer, movie actor
- Pat Conroy - American writer
- Arthur W. Conway - Irish mathematician and President of University College Dublin, where he had received a Jesuit education as a young man
- Pierre Corneille - French dramatist
- E. Gerald Corrigan - American banker, 7th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Pierre de Coubertin - French pedagogue and historian
- Bob Cousy - American basketball player
- Thomas Crean - Irish and British and Irish Lions rugby player, doctor and Major in the British army
- Darren Criss - American actor
- Bing Crosby - American entertainer
- Andrew Cuomo - governor of New York State
- Johann Baptist Cysat - Swiss mathematician and astronomer
D
- Geoffrey Da Silva - Guyanese politician and administrator
- Arthur Daley - New York Times columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism
- William M. Daley - former United States Secretary of Commerce
- François d'Aguilon - Belgian mathematician and physicist
- Roque Dalton - Salvadoran poet and journalist
- Rubén Darío - Nicaraguan poet
- Raymond J. Dearie - American judge, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- David DeCaires - Guyanese journalist
- Denis Diderot - French Enlightenment philosopher, art critic, and author, co-founder of the Encyclopédie
- Marco Antonio de Dominis - Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science
- Timothy Donahue - Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel
- Christian de Duve - Belgian scientist, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1974
- Charles de Gaulle - former President of France
- Jean-Charles de la Faille - French Jesuit mathematician
- Jean-Luc Dehaene - former Belgian prime minister
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - French mathematician and astronomer
- Don DeLillo - American novelist
- Jacques Delors - French politician
- René Descartes - French philosopher
- Denis Diderot - French philosopher and writer
- Khoa Do - Australian filmmaker
- Dr. John - American musician
- Chris Dodd - American politician
- Charles F. Dolan - American billionaire, the founder of Cablevision
- Tom Dooley - American Catholic physician and humanitarian
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories
- Dan Donovan - U.S. Representative, Fordham Law School
- Rahul Dravid - former Indian cricket captain
- Avery Dulles - American cardinal, professor and theologian; son of Secretary of State Dulles
- Sixto Durán Ballén - former Ecuadorian President
- Will Durant - American philosopher and author
- Richard J. Durbin - American politician
E
- Timothy Egan - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Ignacio Ellacuría - Spanish liberation theologian and professor at Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"
- Keith Ellison - American lawyer and politician
- Nick Enright - Australian playwright
- Juan Ponce Enrile - Philippine politician; former Marcos Defense Minister
- Ahmet Ertegun - American entrepreneur
- Farid Esack - South African scholar, writer and political activist
- Raúl Esparza - American actor
- Patrick Ewing - American basketball player
F
- Kevin Fagan - Australian doctor and World War II hero
- Chris Farley - American comedian and actor
- Michael Farris - chancellor of Patrick Henry College, founder and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association
- Anthony Fauci - Italian-American immunologist
- Jon Favreau - head speechwriter for U.S. President Barack Obama
- Ferdinand II, of the House of Habsburg - reigned as Holy Roman Emperor from 1620 to 1637
- Diego Fernández de Ceballos - Mexican senator
- Geraldine Ferraro - American politician and first woman Vice Presidential candidate
- Anthony Fisher - Australian prelate
- Garret FitzGerald - Irish economist and politician
- Patrick Fitzgerald - American attorney
- Maile Flanagan - American voice actress and comedian
- Justin Fleming - Australian playwright
- London Fletcher - American football player
- Doug Flutie - American football player
- Bernard Foley - Australian Rugby union Player
- John Patrick Foley - Cardinal, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
- Thomas Foley - American politician
- Fontenelle - French author
- William P. Ford - international civil rights attorney
- Michel Foucault - French philosopher
- Vicente Fox - President of Mexico
- Pope Francis -
- Missy Franklin - Olympic swimmer, gold medalist
- Pedro Friedeberg - Mexican painter
- Frankie Frisch - American baseball player, third all-time for most World Series hits
- Mauricio Funes - President of El Salvador
G
- Mario Gabelli - billionaire; founder and CEO of GAMCO Investors
- Fr. Ivan Gagarin, SJ - Russian Catholic polemist and author
- Delia Gallagher - American journalist
- Sourav Ganguly - former Indian cricket captain
- Rich Gannon - Former NFL quarterback and 2002 NFL MVP (St. Joseph's Prep
H
- William Habington - English poet
- Carter Ham - General, United States Army; Commanding General, U.S. Army, Europe
- Michael Harrington - Harvard professor, political activist and author
- Jonathan Harris - actor, best known for his TV work as Bradford Webster in The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space
- Richard Harris - Irish actor
- William Thomas Hart - United States Federal Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Joseph E. Hasten - American banker, CEO of Shorebank
- Francis Hawkins SJ - Jesuit, child prodigy and translator
- Salma Hayek - Mexican actress
- Martin Heidegger - German philosopher
- Jordi Hereu - mayor of Barcelona, Spain
- Roberto Hernández Ramírez - President of Banamex and Member of the Board Citibank
- Andrew Higgins - manufacturer; produced "Higgins boats" during World War II – Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, Nebraska
- Mary Higgins Clark - American writer
- Will Hill - professional football player for the New York Giants
- Alfred Hitchcock - British film director
- Tom Holland - British actor
- Sven Erik Holmes - United States federal judge
- Morihiro Hosokawa - Japanese politician
- Robert Hughes - Australian art critic, writer and television documentary maker
- Vicente Huidobro - Chilean poet
- David Hume - Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
- Saint Alberto Hurtado - Chilean priest and saint, founded the Chilean Trade Union Association
- Zakir Hussain - Indian musician
- Henry Hyde - American politician
- Dan Hynes - American politician
I
- Innocent XI - Pope
- Allen Iverson - NBA All-Star player
J
- Peter Jankowski - television producer
- John Paul I - Pope
- Lyndon B. Johnson - President of the United States
- Paul Johnson - British journalist, historian, speechwriter and author
- Pierre-Marc Johnson - former Quebec Premier
- Edward P. Jones - American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Barnaby Joyce - Australian senator
- James Joyce - Irish novelist
- Raúl Juliá - American actor
K
- Tim Kaine - governor of Virginia
- Abdul Kalam - former President of India
- Sebastian Kappen, SJ - Jesuit priest and liberation theologian
- Brett Kavanaugh – U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Frank Keating - former Governor of Oklahoma
- John Keegan - English military historian
- Bob Keeshan - American actor
- John Kerry - US Senator, 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky - Cossack leader
- Eusebio Kino - Tyrolian Jesuit missionary explorer of present-day California, Arizona and Sonora
- Athanasius Kircher - German Jesuit scholar and polymath
- Curt Kirkwood - American singer in the musical group The Meat Puppets
- Peter Hans Kolvenbach - Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Luke Kuechly - American football player; linebacker for the Carolina Panthers
- Stephen W. Kuffler - scientist; educated by the Jesuits in Austria
- Hans Küng - Swiss Catholic priest, author and theologian
L
- La Condamine - French geographer and mathematician
- Philippe de La Hire - French mathematician
- Jacques Lacan - French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor involved in the psychoanalytic movement
- Maria Elena Lagomasino - CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank from 2001 to 2005
- Jérôme Lalande - French astronomer
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff - German politician
- Francesco Lana de Terzi - Italian aeronautics pioneer
- Nathan Lane - two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of stage, screen, and television
- Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. - Cuban-American celebrity gossip blogger who writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton
- Charles Laughton - English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, and producer
- John Leahy - Chief Operating Officer of Airbus
- Patrick J. Leahy - United States Senator
- Timothy Leary - American psychologist and writer
- Byron Lee - Jamaican music pioneer
- Anthony James Leggett - British professor of physics
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - German mathematician
- Georges Lemaître - Belgian priest and astronomer
- Elmore Leonard - American novelist
- Pietro Leoni - Italian priest of the Russian Catholic Church; survivor of the Gulag; author of Spio dei Vaticano
- G. Gordon Liddy - American political strategist
- John T. Lis - American professor of molecular biology and genetics; 2000 Guggenheim Fellow
- Christopher Loeak - President of the Marshall Islands
- Vince Lombardi - Hall of Fame football coach for the Green Bay Packers
- Bernard Lonergan - Canadian professor and theologian
- Lope de Vega - Spanish Baroque playwright and poet
- Eduardo López de Romaña - President of Peru
- Federico García Lorca - Spanish poet and playwright
- Henri de Lubac - French theologian
- Ruud Lubbers - former Prime Minister of the Netherlands; former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Emmanuel Lubezki - cinematographer
- Peter Lynch - American financial leader
M
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - President of the Philippines
- Charles Mackerras - Australian conductor
- Gustavo Madero Muñoz - Mexican senator
- Lisa Madigan - American attorney general
- Michael Madigan - American politician
- Maurice Maeterlinck - Belgian writer; Nobel Prize-winner for literature
- Ettore Majorana - Italian theoretical physicist
- Tak Wah Mak - Canadian immunologist, molecular biologist, and academic
- Louis Malle - French film director
- Wellington Mara - American football entrepreneur
- Jan Marek Marci - Bohemian mathematician
- Guido de Marco - former president of Malta
- Subcomandante Marcos - Mexican leader of Zapatista Army
- George Martin - British music producer
- Ignacio Martín-Baró - Jesuit priest and liberation theologian
- Fr. Ivan Mikhailovich Martynov, SJ - Russian Catholic priest and expositor of Slavic spiritual and cultural tradition
- Roberto Matta - Chilean painter
- Drea de Matteo - Italian-American actress
- Chris Matthews - journalist
- Gregório de Mattos - major baroque poet of Brazil
- Theodore McCarrick - American Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington D.C.
- Joseph McCarthy - U.S. Senator
- Dylan McDermott - Golden Globe Award-winning actor, known for his roles on TV series The Practice and American Gothic
- William J. McGill - former President, Columbia University
- Joe McGinniss - American author
- John McLaughlin - American TV producer
- Joseph M. McLaughlin - Senior Appellate Judge, U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
- Gregan McMahon - Australian actor and playwright
- Mark McWatt - Guyanese and Caribbean author and poet
- Pierre Méchain - French astronomer and surveyor who contributed to the early study of deep sky objects and comets
- Thomas Patrick Melady - American ambassador; sub-cabinet officer; Senior Diplomat in Residence, The Institute of World Politics
- Lorenzo Mendoza - billionaire and CEO of Empresas Polar
- Bob Menendez - American politician
- Ismail Merchant - American/Indian film producer and director
- Freddie Mercury - British musician
- Marin Mersenne - French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist
- Franz Mesmer - German physician whose ideas spawned the development of hypnosis
- Joseph Michel - French baroque composer
- Barbara Mikulski - United States senator of Maryland
- Jason Miller - American playwright and actor
- John N. Mitchell - U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon
- Lakshmi Mittal - London-based Indian businessman and industrialist
- Dominique Moceanu - American gymnast
- Joe Moglia - Chairman and former CEO of TD Ameritrade
- Molière - father of modern French literature
- Juan Molina - Chilean Jesuit and naturalist
- Luca di Montezemolo - Italian businessman
- Mario Monti - Italian economist and politician
- Jean-Étienne Montucla - French mathematician
- Massimo Moratti - Italian oil tycoon and owner of football club Inter Milan
- Alejandro Moreno - Venezuelan footballer and commentator for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer
- Michael Moriarty - American actor
- Paul Morphy - American chess player
- Andrew Morrison - Guyanese journalist and human rights advocate
- Julian Morrow - Australian comedian and radio host
- George Moscone - Mayor of San Francisco, assassinated in office
- Alonzo Mourning - American basketball player
- Robert Mugabe - President of Zimbabwe
- Anne M. Mulcahy - retired Chairman and CEO of Xerox and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" in 2006
- Arthur Murphy - author, biographer and barrister, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction"
- Mark Murphy, former NFL safety, president and CEO of Green Bay Packers
- Bill Murray - American TV and movie star
- John Courtney Murray - American theologian
- Joseph Murray - American surgeon and Nobel laureate
- Dikembe Mutombo - basketball player from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
N
- Jerrold Nadler - Jewish American politician
- Janet Napolitano - 21st Governor of Arizona, 3rd and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and 23rd Attorney General of Arizona
- Steve Nash - Canadian basketball player who played in the NBA
- Pius Ncube - Archbishop of Bulawayo, human rights activist in Zimbabwe
- Bob Newhart - American actor and comedian
- Gavin Newsom - American politician
- Enrique Norten - Mexican architect
- Gustav Nossal - Australian research biologist
- Henri Nouwen - Dutch Roman Catholic priest and professor of theology
- Garin Nugroho - Indonesian film director
- Aurelio Nuño Morales - Mexican architect
O
- Conor Oberst - American musician
- Bernard O'Brien SJ - New Zealand philosopher
- Pat O'Brien - American actor
- Chris O'Donnell - actor
- Tip O'Neill - American politician
- Sir Anthony O'Reilly - Irish and Lions rugby union teams; businessman
- Charles Osgood - American media commentator
- Tomas Osmeña - Filipino politician
- Paul Otellini - President of Intel Corporation
- Peter O'Toole - Irish actor
- Gerry Ottenheimer - Canadian politician and senator
- Jacques Ozanam - French mathematician
P
- Leon Panetta - 23rd United States Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Obama Administration, former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, former Director, United States Office of Management and Budget, former Member of U.S. Congress, 17th District
- Denis Papin - French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his work with steam power
- Park Geun-hye - President of South Korea
- Parokya ni Edgar - Filipino rock band
- Joe Paterno - American football coach
- Paul VI - Pope
- Alexander Payne - American film writer-director
- Denis Pétau - also known as Petavius, French Jesuit theologian
- Francis Petre - New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin
- Jean Picard - French astronomer and priest
- Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. - Filipino senator
- Donald Pinkel - American medical doctor, founding medical director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Pius XI - Pope
- Pius XII - Pope
- Joseph Mary Plunkett - Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising, for which he was executed
- Amy Poehler - American actress and comedian
- Alexius Sylvius Polonus - Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments
- John E. Potter - U.S. Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service
- Peter Pronovost - Critical care physician, 2008 Time 100 and MacArthur Fellow
- Danny Pudi - American actor
Q
- Francisco de Quevedo - nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
R
- Stefan Raab - German entertainer and comedian
- Karl Rahner - German theologian
- Mariano Rajoy-Spanish Prime Minister 2011-2018
- Narasimhan Ram - editor-in-chief of The Hindu
- Jorge Ramos - journalist with Univision
- Mark Raper - Oceania Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus
- Kiefer Ravena - Filipino basketball player
- Hubert Reeves - astrophysicist
- Matteo Ricci - Italian Jesuit priest responsible for much of the introduction of Western culture to China
- Cardinal Richelieu - French statesman
- Hans Riegel - German entrepreneur
- Arturo Ripstein - film director and producer
- Jose Rizal - national hero of the Philippines, Reformist, Revolutionary; founder of La Liga Filipina; ophthalmologist, author; surgeon; linguist; led independence movement against Spanish rule in the Philippines
- Sam Roberts - Canadian singer
- Maximilien Robespierre - French statesman
- Jacques Rogge - chairman of the International Olympic Committee
- Michel Rojkind - Mexican architect and former musician of Russian descent
- Al Roker - American TV meteorologist
- Óscar Romero - priest and martyr
- Blessed Theodore Romzha - Ruthenian Catholic Church's Bishop of Mukachevo, martyr under Joseph Stalin
- Fr. Heribert Rosweyde - Jesuit priest and hagiographer, original compiler-writer-editor for Acta Sanctorum continued by the Bollandists, taught philosophy at Douai
- Manuel Roxas II - Philippine Senator
- Pete Rozelle - American football commissioner
- Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish painter of the 17th century, Antwerp
- Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón - Spanish politician
- Bill Russell - American basketball player
- Mark Russell - American political comedian
- Tim Russert - America politician and anchorman
- Joseph Russoniello - two-time U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
- Leo Ryan - member of U.S. House Of Representatives assassinated during Jonestown Massacre
S
- Juan Sabines Guerrero - Governor of Chiapas
- Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri - Italian Jesuit and mathematician
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - French writer and aviator
- Grégoire de Saint-Vincent - Jesuit mathematician who independently discovered the Mercator series, the expansion of log in ascending powers of x
- Saint Francis de Sales - Bishop of Geneva, Church Doctor, Clermont, Paris
- Antonin Scalia - American judge
- Christoph Scheiner - German astronomer and Jesuit
- Edward Schillebeeckx - Belgian liberation theologian, professor at University of Nijmegen and priest of the Dominican Order
- Gaspar Schott - German physicist, mathematician and natural philosopher
- Kurt Schuschnigg - Austrian chancellor imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 by Nazi Germany following the Anschluss
- Vin Scully - American sportscaster
- Egon Sendler, SJ - French priest, expert on Eastern Christian iconography
- Antonio Serrano - Mexican film director/screenwriter
- J. Francisco Serrano Cacho - Mexican architect
- John Sexton - President of New York University
- Dennis Shedd - United States federal appellate judge
- Bartlett Sher - Tony-winning theater director
- Mark Kennedy Shriver - CEO, Save the Children
- Don Shula - American football head coach
- Eugene Shvidler - billionaire and international oil tycoon
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, political writer, and one of the chief political theorists of the French Revolution
- Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora - Jesuit priest and early intellectual born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain
- Paul Silas - American basketball player and head coach
- Eugene Edward Siler, Jr. - United States federal appellate judge
- Saravanan Sivakumar - Tamil actor
- Santosh Sivan - Indian cinematographer and film director
- Curtis Sliwa - American founder of the Guardian Angels
- Tom Snyder - American TV/radio talk show host
- Demetrio Sodi - Mexican politician
- Francis Cardinal Spellman - Cardinal and Archbishop of New York
- Tomáš Špidlík, SJ - Czech Jesuit Cardinal, scholar, author and professor
- Jordan Spieth - professional golfer
- Erik Spoelstra - NBA head coach
- Charlie Stayers - Guyanese and West Indian cricketer
- John Stockton - American basketball player
- Yi Su-gwang - Korean scholar; military officer
- Robert Surcouf - French privateer
- Jean-Joseph Surin - French Jesuit mystic
- Peter Sutherland - former DG of GATT; former Attorney General of Ireland; board member at BP and Goldman Sachs
- Kenneth Suzuki - American association executive and magazine editor
- Alexius Sylvius Polonus - Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments
T
- André Tacquet - Belgian mathematician whose work led to the eventual discovery of calculus
- Fr. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ - scholar of Byzantine and other Oriental Christian liturgies
- George Takei - actor
- Talleyrand - French diplomat
- Akbar Tanjung - Indonesian politician and former chairman of the Golkar Party
- Torquato Tasso - Italian Renaissance poet
- Claudio Teehankee - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - French Jesuit philosopher and anthropologist
- Sister Rose Thering - American Dominican nun and activist
- Clarence Thomas - Associate Justice of the American Supreme Court
- Jay Thomas - American actor, comedian and radio talk show host
- Mark Thompson - Director-General of the BBC
- Chris Tiu - Filipino basketball player
- Loretta Tofani - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Alejandro Toledo - President of Peru
- Gerardo Torrado - Mexican footballer
- Evangelista Torricelli - Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer
- Spencer Tracy - American actor
- Daniel J. Travanti - American TV and movie star
- Athanasius Treweek - Australian academic, linguist and code-breaker
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau - former Prime Minister of Canada
- Donald Tsang - Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR
- Robin Tunney - American actress
- Aaron Twerski - Hasidic Jewish rabbi and legal educator
U
- Carmen Wong Ulrich - American author and TV anchor
V
- Peter Vaghi - priest and former politician
- Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin - Belgian mathematician
- Antonio Maria Valsalva - Italian anatomist who coined the term "Eustachian tube"
- Adriaan van Roomen - Belgian mathematician
- Jean Vanier - Canadian philanthropist and founder of L'Arche
- Pierre Varignon - French priest and mathematician
- Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, SJ - Slovak Jesuit priest, professor and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
- Josefina Vázquez Mota - Mexican politician Universidad Iberoamericana
- Ramaswamy Venkataraman - former President of India
- Giambattista Vico - Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist
- António Vieira - Portuguese Jesuit and writer
- Joseph Vijay - Tamil actor
- Pete Visclosky - U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Vincenzo Viviani - Italian mathematician and scientist; a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo
- Voltaire - French author and skeptical master of the Enlightenment
W
- Dwyane Wade - American basketball player
- Benjamin Walker - Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica in all its forms
- Jimmy Walker - mayor of New York City
- Albrecht von Wallenstein - soldier, generalissimo, Imperial Holy Roman Army during the latter part of the 30 Years' War
- Donnie Walsh - President of Basketball Operations, New York Knicks; former General Manager, Indiana Pacers
- Francis Walsingham - Elizabethan spy master
- Denzel Washington - American film actor
- Charles Waterton - English naturalist and explorer
- Adam Weishaupt - German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati
- Frederick Weld - former Prime Minister of New Zealand
- George Wendt - American actor, Campion Jesuit High School
- Edward Douglass White - ninth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- James White - American physician, lawyer and politician; early settler in Tennessee and Louisiana
- Anthony A. Williams - American politician
- Edward Bennett Williams - American trial lawyer
- Malcolm Wilson - Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York
- Gerard Windsor - Australian author
- Terry Wogan - Irish broadcaster
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- Gordon Zubrod - American oncologist who played a role in the introduction of cancer chemotherapy
- Niccolò Zucchi - Italian Jesuit astronomer and physicist