- Source: List of Colgate University people
This is a list of notable students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates associated with Colgate University in the United States. As Colgate is an undergraduate school only, all the graduates listed below earned bachelor's degrees there.
Colgate alumni
= The Arts
=Charles Addams (1933), New Yorker cartoonist known for macabre drawings and creator of The Addams Family
Ralph Arlyck (1962), documentary filmmaker who has won many awards at film festivals including Sundance and Cannes
Ivy Austin (1979), television and radio actress (A Prairie Home Companion, Sesame Street)
Ken Baker (1992), E! Chief News Correspondent, Author
Bob Balaban, television and movie actor
Joe Berlinger (1983), producer (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2; documentary Brother’s Keeper)
Edgar Peters Bowron (1965), art historian
Lin Brehmer (1976), American disc jockey and radio personality at WXRT in Chicago
Steven Cantor (1990) Director and Producer (DANCER, Chasing Tyson, What Remains, Between Me and My Mind, more)
Jay Chandrasekhar (1991), director (Super Troopers, Arrested Development, Club Dread, The Babymakers)
Rex Cherryman (1916), actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s
Kris Cole (1979), Feature Motion Picture Editor
Alison Fields (2001), art historian
Jonathan Glatzer (1991), television writer (Bloodline, Better Call Saul, Succession)
Ted Griffin (1993), film writer (Ocean's Eleven, Matchstick Men)
Kevin Heffernan (1990), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
Lisa Heller (2018), alternative pop artist and songwriter
James D. Hornfischer (1987), literary agent
John J.A. Jannone (1991), composer, animator, film producer (Small Time), founder of Performance and Interactive Media Arts M.F.A. program
Barnet Kellman (1969), producer and director of film and television (Murphy Brown, Mad About You) and multiple Emmy and DGA Award winner
R. J. Kern (2000), artist and photographer
Steve Lemme (1991), actor, comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
Brent Maddock (1972), screenwriter (Short Circuit, Tremors)
Paul Mariani, American poet and a professor at Boston College
Johnny Marks (1931), composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," etc.
Chris Paine (1983), documentary filmmaker (Who Killed the Electric Car?)
John Romano (1970), John Romano is an American screenwriter and television writer and producer.
Martin Ransohoff (1949), founder and chief executive officer of Filmways
Peter Rowan, bluegrass musician, songwriter ("Panama Red")
David Rosengarten, chef, author and host of the Food Network show Taste
Todd Rosenthal (1989), Tony Award-winning scenic designer
Jeffrey Sharp (1989), producer (Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count On Me, Proof)
Paul Soter (1991), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
Erik Stolhanske (1991), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
Gillian Vigman (1994), actor/comedian (Sons and Daughters, MADtv)
Mel Watkins (1962), writer, editor, social commentator
Francesca Zambello (1978), Director of the Glimmerglass Opera and the Washington National Opera
Broken Lizard, comedy troupe (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
Poppy Liu (2013), actress, activist and poet (Sunnyside and Hacks)
= Business
=John Acropolis (1909-1952), labor leader
Warren Anderson (1942), former CEO of Union Carbide
Jonathan Michael Ansell (1972), current CEO of Fusion Company
J. Darius Bikoff (1983), creator, Energy Brands, Inc, makers of Glaceau, vitaminwater, and Glaceau smartwater.
Lawrence Bossidy (1957), chairman, CEO, Honeywell International; former CEO, AlliedSignal Inc.
Bruce Buck (1967), partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Chairman, Chelsea Football Club
Steve Burke (1980), president and CEO, NBCUniversal; former COO, Comcast
Chase Carey (1976), Vice Chairman of the 21st Century Fox media conglomerate and the Chairman of the Formula One Group
Ben Cohen (1973), co-founder and president, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (did not graduate)
John C. Cushman III (1963), founder of Cushman Realty Corporation, then CEO and chairman of global transactions, Cushman & Wakefield
Mark Divine (1985), founder of SEALFIT and former United States Navy SEAL
Robert Duffy (1962), former owner, Duffy Broadcasting
Cyrus Eaton (1941), chairman, Eaton Corp.
David Fialkow (1981), co-founder, General Catalyst Partners
Robert Kindler (1976), Vice Chairman and Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Morgan Stanley
William Brian Little (1964), founding partner of Forstmann Little & Company, the namesake of Little Hall at Colgate University
Jim Manzi (1973), former CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
Raymond W. McDaniel Jr. (1980), CEO, Moody's Corporation which operates Moody's Analytics and Moody's Investor Services
Duncan L. Niederauer (1981), former CEO, NYSE Euronext
Jack Shafer (1966), former division president, Allied Domecq (Dunkin Donuts, Baskin-Robbins)
Thomas H. Weidemeyer (1969), Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Parcel Service, current director of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Bill Winters (1983), (CBE), current CEO, Standard Chartered; former co-head of investment banking, JPMorgan Chase
Carmine Di Sibio (1985), Global Chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young;
= Culture
=Peter Ackerman (1968), founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Jack L. Anson (1948), 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 (1987), inventor of the game TriBond
Armand Zildjian, (1944), former CEO of the Avedis Zildjian Company, the maker of cymbals, started in 1623 in Istanbul
= Education
=Alida Anderson (1991), widely published academic researcher, author and professor of education at American University
Jack L. Anson (1948), former executive director, North American Interfraternity Conference
Dr. Samuel H. Archer (1902), fifth president of the Morehouse College, selecting that school's colors (maroon and white) to reflect his own alma mater
Shepard B. Clough (1923), professor of European history at Columbia University
Andrew Dolkart (1973), James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University
Emil Frei (1944), physician, oncologist and the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Hall Gardner (1976), currently a professor of International Politics at the American University of Paris
Charles A S Hall (1965), 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
Charles Franklin Phillips, (1931), economics professor at Colgate, President of Bates College
Kevin M. Ross (1994), president of Lynn University
William J. Simmons (1868), the second president of the eponymous Simmons College of Kentucky
Herbert Storing (1950), Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia
= Government & politics
=William M. Anderson (1937), New York State Senator 1953-1989
Doug Bailey (1954), founder of The Hotline
Daniel P. Baldwin (?), Indiana Attorney General, 1880-1882
Peter Burleigh (1963), U.S. Ambassador to India (acting), 2011–2012
Kristie Canegallo (2001), White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Implementation, 2014–2017
James M. Catterson (1980), associate justice, Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, 2004–2012
James Colgate Cleveland (1942), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, 1963–1981
E. Virgil Conway (1951), former chairman and CEO, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 1995–2001
James Courter (1963), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th congressional district, 1983–1991
John Dean, White House Counsel, 1970-1973, during the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon, witness to the Watergate scandal.
Antonio Delgado (1999), U.S. Congressman, New York, 2019–present
Kathleen A. Doherty (1985), first female U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, 2015–2019
John Durham (1972), U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 2018–present
Perry B. Duryea Jr. (1942), Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1969–1974
Henry D. Edelman (1970), first president and chief executive officer of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
Peter Feldman (2004), commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Louis Frey (1955), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 9th congressional district, 1973–1979
Dario Frommer (1974), majority leader of the California State Assembly, 2004–2006
Alan Frumin (1968), parliamentarian of the United States Senate, 2001–2012
Drew Gattine (1983), member of the Maine House of Representatives, 2018–present
Edward M. Grout (1861–1931), lawyer and New York City Comptroller
Gary A. Lee (1960), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 33rd congressional district, 1979–1983
Richard Harrington Levet (1916), judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1956–1976
James Howard Holmes (1965), U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, 1998–2001
Charles Evans Hughes (attended), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1930–1941
Patricia A. McInerney, judge, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 1996-2018
Monique Mehta, humanitarian and political activist
Thomas R. Morgan (1952), USMC General, Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, 1986–1988
Harlow S. Orton (1837), member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1878 to 1895, the author of Vosburg v. Putney
Sarah Peake (1979), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 4th Barnstable district
Peter N. Perretti Jr. (1953) the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1989–1990
Peter Peyser (1943), former U.S. congressman 1971–1977, 1979–1983
Adam Clayton Powell (1930), New York congressman and civil rights leader
Arnoldas Pranckevičius (2002), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (2021-2022), Ambassador of Lithuania to the EU (2022-2024)
William P. Rogers (1934), United States Secretary of State, United States Attorney General
Mary Gay Scanlon (1980), U.S. Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 2019–present
Richard B. Spencer (1997), alt-right leader and white nationalist (transferred to the University of Virginia)
Peter Tarnoff (1958), Undersecretary of State, United States Department of State
Donald S. Taylor (1919), judge, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Div. 1948–1968
Dean P. Taylor (1925), U.S. Congressman, New York 1943–1961
Claudia Tenney (1983), U.S. Congresswoman, New York 2017-2023 (NY-22) 2023-present (NY-24)
Ralph W. Thomas (1883), New York State Senator 1910-1914
Gary Trauner (1980), politician from Wyoming
Dennis Vacco (1974), 62nd New York State Attorney General
Martha M. Walz (1983), Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Perry Warren (1984), Member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2017–present
F. Clifton White (1940) U.S. political consultant, best remembered as the moving force behind the Draft Goldwater Committee
Elizabeth A. Wolford (1989), a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York
Paul Carey (1986), appointed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner by President William Jefferson Clinton, confirmed by US Senate in 1997, formerly Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs at the White House, where he served from February 1993, handling banking, financial services; housing; securities; and other related issues. As Northeast Finance Director, Carey played a critical fund raising role in the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign
Edward D. Banta (1986), United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General (three star), serving as the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics since July 9, 2021.
= Journalism
=Jack Belden (1932), war correspondent, Life, Time, author, China Shakes the World
Gloria Borger (1974), CNN, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Week, CBS special correspondent
Monica Crowley (1990), Richard Nixon biographer; political and international affairs analyst, Fox
Thomas A. Dine (1962), president, Radio Free Europe
Jeff Fager (1977), Chairman CBS News; executive producer, 60 Minutes
Howard Fineman (1970), chief political correspondent, senior editor, Newsweek
Michael Gordon (1972), chief military correspondent, bestselling author, New York Times
Chris Hedges (1979), war correspondent, New York Times
Bud Hedinger (1969), talk radio host
Michael Hiltzik (1973), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Los Angeles Times
David Lloyd (1983), sportscaster for ESPN
Austin Murphy, (1983), Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
Kevin Phillips (1961), publisher, American Political Research Corp.
Andy Rooney (1942), CBS-TV: 60 Minutes commentator, columnist
Rob Stone (1991), Reporter and Commentator, Fox Soccer
Priit Vesilind (1964), National Geographic Society Expedition's Editor and Senior Writer
Bob Woodruff (1983), ABC News foreign correspondent
= Literature
=Bill Barich (1965), author of Laughing in the Hills (1980), Hard to Be Good; Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California
Philip Beard (1985), novelist
Frederick Busch (1967), author, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate (1976 to 2003)
Pamela Druckerman (1991), novelist, Bringing Up Bébé (The Penguin Press: 2012)
Kim Edwards (1981), novelist
James D. Hornfischer (1987), author, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Neptune's Inferno, The Fleet at Flood Tide
Stephanie LaCava, (2004), author of An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Michael Lassell (1969), professional writer and editor
John McGahern, novelist, Adjunct Professor of English at Colgate (1981 to 2006)
Nathaniel Schmidt (1887), author, Baptist minister, educator and orientalist
Theodore Pratt, writer, journalist, author of numerous novels set in Florida
= Religion
=David Standish Ball (1950), bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N.Y.
George Ricker Berry (1897), Professor of Semitic Languages - also Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School.
James A. Corbett (1954), co-founder of the Sanctuary movement
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1900), pastor/author
John Tecumseh Jones, (attended 1829), Native American leader, Ottawa translator, Baptist minister, anti-slavery advocate in Kansas, founder of Ottawa University
Joseph Endom Jones (1876), 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 (1900), helped lead groundbreaking DNA research
Albert Allen Bartlett (1944), physicist at University of Colorado Boulder, super conducting quantum interference device; arithmetic, population & energy
David DeWitt (1970), technical fellow at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab at Madison, Wisconsin
Gerald Fischbach, (1960), Scientific director overseeing the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
Emil Frei, (1944), Helped to establish the concept of combinatorial chemotherapy as a way of treating cancer
Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC
Alan A. Jones (1966), leading researcher in the field of NMR and polymer physics and professor of chemistry at Clark University
Cris Kobryn (1974), technologist, system architect, entrepreneur
Rudolph Leibel, (1963), 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 (1917), former president of the Mathematical Association of America (M.A.A)
A. Thomas McLellan (1970), Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia
Kevin Padian (1972), President of the National Center for Science Education
H. Guyford Stever (1938), former head of National Science Foundation/NASA
= Sports
=Ockie Anderson (1916), All-American football player and coach for the Buffalo All Americans Champion in cross country and indoor track (3000m)
Peter Baum (2013), 2012 Tewaaraton Trophy winner and first overall pick of the 2012 Major League Lacrosse draft
Kathryn Bertine (1997), professional racing cyclist, writer and former figure skater and triathlete
Jamaal Branch (2005), running back, New Orleans Saints practice squad, winner of the 2003 Walter Payton Award for Division I-AA football
Tad Brown (1986), CEO, Houston Rockets
Tom Burgess (1986), former quarterback, Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, MVP of 1990 Grey Cup
Frank Castleman (1906), while at Colgate, he won the silver medal in the 200 metre hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Joe Castiglione (1968), 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
Brad Dexter (1996), former minor-league hockey player, now assistant coach of the Colgate men's hockey team
Kiira Dosdall (2009), professional ice hockey player for the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL)
Chris Dunn Olympic high jumper (Munich 1972), NCAA Indoor High Jump Champion (1972)
Nate Eachus (2011), running back for the Kansas City Chiefs
Rich Erenberg (1984), former running back, Pittsburgh Steelers
Dan Fortmann (1936), Hall of Fame guard, Chicago Bears in the 1930s
Adonal Foyle (1998), center, Orlando Magic
David McIntyre, (2010), Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently with the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (NHL).
David Gagnon (1990), former goalie, Detroit Red Wings
Kenny Gamble (1988), former running back, Kansas City Chiefs, also an assistant athletic director at Colgate and executive with Reebok
Milt Graham (1958), former professional football player, Boston Patriots
Greg Hadley (2010), former linebacker and current coach for St. Lawrence University
Nick Hennessey (2009), offensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills
Marvin Hubbard (1968), fullback for the Oakland Raiders (1969–1975), Detroit Lions (1977)
Ryan Johnston (2016), defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens
Greg Manusky (1988), former linebacker, Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings, and Kansas City Chiefs, now defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers
Andy McDonald (2000), center for the St. Louis Blues
Mike Milbury (1974), 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 (2005), defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins
Cory Murphy (2001), defenseman for the New Jersey Devils
Mark Murphy (1977), former safety, Washington Redskins, former athletic director at Colgate and Northwestern University, president of the Green Bay Packers
Lyndsay Meyer (1996), competitive ski mountaineer
Clem Neacy (1924), former end and tackle, Milwaukee Badgers and Chicago Bears
John Orsi (1932), All-American football player, College Football Hall of Fame member
Bill Parcells (1958), NFL head coach, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
Babe Parnell, National Football League player
Steve Poapst (1991), former defenseman, Chicago Blackhawks
Will Rayman (2020), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Mike Reidy (2012), soccer player, USL
Doug Reffue (1992), vice president for operations for Sports Club/LA
Eugene Robinson (1985), former safety, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, and Seattle Seahawks
Lauren Schmetterling (2010), Olympic gold medalist, 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
Dick Sisler (1942), professional baseball player and manager
Steve Spott (1990), head coach Toronto Marlies (OHL)
Ebba St. Claire (1941) professional baseball player
Mark van Eeghen (1974), former running back, Oakland Raiders
Ernest Vandeweghe (1949), former player for New York Knicks, former surgeon for Los Angeles Lakers
Ryan Vena (2000), professional arena football player (quarterback) for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers
Chris Wagner (2014), professional forward for Anaheim Ducks
Jesse Winchester (2008), center for Ottawa Senators
Kyle Wilson (2006), 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
Graham Russell Gao Hodges, professor of history and Africana & Latin American studies
Beth Parks, associate professor of physics & astronomy, editor-in-chief of American Journal of Physics.
List of presidents
Nathaniel Kendrick (1836–1848)
Stephen William Taylor (1851–1856)
George Washington Eaton (1856–1868)
Ebenezer Dodge (1868–1890)
George William Smith (1895–1897)
George Edmands Merrill (1899–1908)
Elmer Burritt Bryan (1909–1921)
George Barton Cutten (1922–1942)
Everett Needham Case (1942–1962)
Vincent MacDowell Barnett Jr. (1963–1969)
Thomas A. Bartlett (1969–1977)
George D. Langdon Jr. (1978–1988)
Neil R. Grabois (1988–1999)
Charles Karelis (1999–2001)
Rebecca Chopp (2002–2009)
Jeffrey Herbst (2010–2015)
Brian Casey (2016–Present)
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