55 Notable alumni of Adelphi University
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Adelphi University is ranked #1,438 in the world and #350 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from Adelphi University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Adelphi University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Harry J. Mott, III
1929-2023 (aged 94)
military personnel
Harry James Mott III was a brigadier general in the United States Army. He was acting chief of the United States Army Reserve, a position he held from August 1, 1986, to November 30, 1986. Mott also was Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve from March 13, 1983, to July 31, 1986, and from December 1, 1986, to August 5,...
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2. Deborah A Nickerson
1954-2021 (aged 67)
genomicist
researcher
Deborah Ann Nickerson was an American human genomics researcher. She was professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington. Nickerson founded and directed of one of the five clinical sites of the Gregor Consortium and was a major contributor to many genomics projects, including the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project.
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3. Eduardo Vilaro
1964-. (aged 62)
business executive
Eduardo Vilaro is a Cuban-American dancer, choreographer, educator, and artistic director & CEO of Ballet Hispánico. He first joined Ballet Hispánico as a principal dancer in 1985, leaving for Chicago a decade later to further his education and found the Luna Negra Dance Theater, for which he was artistic director. He returned to Ballet Hispánico in 2009 as artistic director,...
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4. William C. Wallace
1856-1901 (aged 45)
lawyer
politician
William Copeland Wallace was a U.S. Representative from New York.
5. Steven Vincent
choreographer
Steven Vincent is an American choreographer, dancer, teacher and entertainer. He is best known for his role in the 1969 Broadway play, George M! with Mickey Rooney and as a recurring choreographer at the Players Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
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6. Larry Zimmerman
1944-. (aged 82)
business executive
Lawrence A. Zimmerman, also known as Larry Zimmerman, is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Xerox Corporation from June 1, 2002, to April 2011.
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7. Rebecca Tobey
1948-. (aged 78)
sculptor
Rebecca Tobey is an American artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who creates ceramic, brass, and patina animal sculptures in both modern and abstract styles. Along with her husband, Gene, she worked for decades to create animal forms. Her artworks, inspired by the mythologies of the Native Americans, have been commissioned by the government and private institutions, and exhibited worldwide.
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8. Ron Atanasio
1956-. (aged 70)
association football player
Ron Atanasio is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward.
9. Edmund H. Driggs
1865-1946 (aged 81)
politician
Edmund Hope Driggs was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1897 to 1901.
10. John J. Phelan, Jr
1931-2012 (aged 81)
businessperson
financier
John Joseph Phelan Jr. was an American financier who served as president and later chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, where he introduced computerized trading technology. Phelan's leadership tenure at the NYSE included the 1987 stock market crash, during which he declined to halt trading. Phelan's calm and confident manner was widely praised. After the crash,...
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11. John M. Kennedy, Jr
politician
John M. Kennedy Jr. is a politician from Suffolk County, New York. In 2014, he was elected to Suffolk County Comptroller on the Republican ticket, garnering 53% of the vote.
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12. Leona Marlin-Romeo
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Leona M. Romeo is a Sint Maarten politician who served as Prime Minister of Sint Maarten from 2018 to 2019. She previously served as a member of Parliament from 2014 to 2016.
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13. Rich Funke
1949-. (aged 77)
journalist
politician
Rich Funke is an American journalist and politician who represented the 55th district of the New York State Senate from 2015 until 2020.
14. Joe Abbenda
1939-. (aged 87)
bodybuilder
Joe Abbenda is an American former professional bodybuilder during the early to mid-1960s. He competed in the tall man competitions, and as an amateur won the Teen Mr. America in 1959, AAU Mr. America and the amateur NABBA Mr. Universe competition in 1962, and was the professional winner a year later, in the 1963 Mr. Universe.
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15. Nancy Buirski
1945-2023 (aged 78)
screenwriter
filmmaker
film director
photographer
Nancy Florence Buirski was an American filmmaker, producer, and photographer. She wrote, directed, and produced the documentary films A Crime on the Bayou (2020) and Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022).
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16. Tom J. Donohue
1938-2024 (aged 86)
businessperson
Thomas Joseph Donohue Sr. was an American business executive. He served as the President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce located in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2021. During his leadership of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and was president of the National Chamber Foundation. Before his leadership...
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17. William Ordway Partridge
1861-1930 (aged 69)
writer
sculptor
William Ordway Partridge was an American sculptor, teacher and author. Among his best-known works are the Shakespeare Monument in Chicago, the equestrian statue of General Grant in Brooklyn, the Pietà at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and the Pocahontas statue in Jamestown, Virginia.
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18. Joe Sambito
1952-. (aged 74)
baseball player
Joseph Charles Sambito is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros (1976–1982, 1984), New York Mets (1985) and Boston Red Sox (1986–1987). He batted and threw left-handed.
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19. Ron Bruder
entrepreneur
Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment, a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create public-private partnerships with employers to train youth in technical and soft skills and place them in jobs. The network has local affiliates in Jordan,...
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20. Carole Migden
1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Carole Migden is an American politician from San Francisco who represented the third district of the California State Senate from 2004 to 2008 and the 13th district of the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2002. She is the state's second openly lesbian legislator.
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21. Steve Reid
1944-2010 (aged 66)
jazz musician
Steve Reid was an American jazz drummer who played with Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Fela Kuti, Kieran Hebden, and Sun Ra. He worked as a session drummer for Motown.
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22. Jennifer Michael Hecht
1965-. (aged 61)
historian
poet
philosopher
writer
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a teacher, author, poet, historian, and philosopher. She was an associate professor of history at Nassau Community College (1994–2007) and most recently taught at The New School in New York City.
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23. Tom Pecora
1958-. (aged 68)
basketball coach
Tom Pecora is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at Quinnipiac. Pecora was originally hired as associate head coach at Quinnipiac on March 28, 2017, under new head coach Baker Dunleavy.
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24. Joseph W. Westphal
1948-. (aged 78)
diplomat
university teacher
Joseph William Westphal is an American politician and diplomat who was most recently the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He served as the 30th United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2009 to 2014.
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25. Michael Ochs
1943-2025 (aged 82)
photographer
archivist
Michael Andrew Ochs was an American photographic archivist best known for his extensive collection of pictures related to rock music dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. The Michael Ochs Archives, located in Venice, California, contained 3 million vintage prints, proof sheets and negatives which were frequently licensed for use in CD reissues, books, films and documentaries.
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26. Donna Orender
1957-. (aged 69)
basketball player
Donna Geils Orender is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She was formerly president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and senior vice president of the PGA. She played college basketball for Queens College in New York and later professionally in the Women's Professional Basketball League, the first women's pro league in the United...
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27. Henry Clay Folger
1857-1930 (aged 73)
industrialist
philanthropist
entrepreneur
book collector
Henry Clay Folger Jr. was an American businessman who was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library alongside his wife Emily Jordan Folger.
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28. Paul Riley
1963-. (aged 63)
association football player
association football coach
Paul Riley is an English former football player and coach.
29. Dot Richardson
1961-. (aged 65)
softball coach
softball player
Dorothy Gay Richardson is an American physician and former two-time gold medal-winning Olympian softball player at shortstop. Richardson is currently the head coach at Liberty. Richardson played college softball at UCLA and won the inaugural NCAA Division I softball tournament in 1982. She is a USA Softball Hall of Fame honoree.
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30. John Forslund
1962-. (aged 64)
sports journalist
John Forslund is an American sports announcer who is the television play-by-play announcer of the Seattle Kraken. He had previously filled the same role for the Carolina Hurricanes and was with the team since 1991 (when the team was the Hartford Whalers) and called games from 1995 to 2020.
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31. Jacqueline Woodson
1963-. (aged 63)
novelist
film director
writer
children's writer
poet
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature,...
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32. Gregory Meeks
1953-. (aged 73)
lawyer
politician
Gregory Weldon Meeks is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023. He still sits on the committee as ranking member. He is also the chair of the Queens County Democratic Party....
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33. Carmen Ortiz
1956-. (aged 70)
lawyer
Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney, college instructor, and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
34. Gary Dell'Abate
1961-. (aged 65)
radio personality
autobiographer
Gary Dell'Abate, also known by the nickname Baba Booey, is an American radio producer who has been the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show since 1984. His autobiography, They Call Me Baba Booey, was released in 2010.
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35. Melanie Chartoff
1948-. (aged 78)
actor
television actor
film actor
stage actor
voice actor
Melanie Barbara Chartoff is an American actress and comedian. Chartoff first became famous for her comedy work on the ABC series Fridays (1980–1982), and in the 1990s Fox sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose. She voiced both Didi Pickles and Grandma Minka, Didi's mother on the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats and All Grown Up!.
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36. Alice Hoffman
1952-. (aged 74)
writer
children's writer
novelist
screenwriter
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name and went to spawn a media franchise. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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37. Max Weinberg
1951-. (aged 75)
bandleader
Max Weinberg is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is the father of former Slipknot and Suicidal Tendencies drummer Jay Weinberg.
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38. Meredith Eaton
1974-. (aged 52)
lawyer
television actor
psychologist
actor
film actor
Meredith Hope Eaton Gordon is an American actress. She is 122 cm (4 ft 0 in) tall, and refers to herself as a "short-stature actress". She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series Family Law (in which she was the first female with dwarfism to fill a regular role in an American prime time...
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39. Peggy Noonan
1950-. (aged 76)
journalist
writer
Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A...
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40. Sal Mineo
1939-1976 (aged 37)
television actor
stage actor
singer
film actor
Salvatore Mineo Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the coming-of-age drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 17, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category.
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41. Paul Ekman
1934-2025 (aged 91)
non-fiction writer
teacher
anthropologist
opinion journalist
university teacher
Paul Ekman was an American psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who was a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He was ranked 59th out of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century in 2002 by the Review of General Psychology.
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42. Chuck D
1960-. (aged 66)
journalist
television producer
composer
writer
record producer
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav. Chuck D is also a member of the rock supergroup Prophets of Rage. He has released several solo albums, most notably Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996).
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43. Chuck Connors
1921-1992 (aged 71)
television actor
military personnel
philanthropist
actor
basketball player
Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1946–48) and Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best...
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44. Flavor Flav
1959-. (aged 67)
hype man
rapper
television personality
William Jonathan Drayton Jr., known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American rapper and television personality. Known for his catchphrase "Yeah, boyeeeeee!" when performing, he is a founding member alongside Chuck D, of Public Enemy, a rap group that has earned six Grammy Award nominations. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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45. Matt Senk
baseball player
Matt Senk is an American college baseball coach who served as the head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. Senk held the head coaching position at Stony Brook from 1991 until his retirement in 2025. Under Senk, Stony Brook has won America East Conference baseball tournaments in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2019, appearing in the NCAA tournament each...
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46. Kenneth LaValle
1939-. (aged 87)
politician
Kenneth P. LaValle is a former American politician. He represented District 1 in the New York State Senate. The district comprises the five East End towns of Long Island, New York, as well as the central and eastern portions of the Town of Brookhaven, New York. A Republican, LaValle was first elected in 1976. Upon his retirement in 2020, he...
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47. Rosalie Gardiner Jones
1883-1978 (aged 95)
suffragist
politician
Rosalie Gardiner Jones was an American suffragette. She took the "Pankhursts" as role models and after hearing of the "Brown Women" she organised marches to draw attention to the suffrage cause. She was known as "General Jones" because of her following.
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48. Steven Cymbrowitz
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Steven H. Cymbrowitz is a Democratic politician from the state of New York. He served in the New York State Assembly representing Assembly District 45, which included Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach and Midwood in the borough of Brooklyn, from 2001 to 2022. Cymbrowitz was unseated by Republican Michael Novakhov in the 2022 midterm election.
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49. Trisha Ventker
1967-. (aged 59)
photographer
author
Trisha Ventker is an author, photographic artist, and elementary school teacher. She is best known for her book Internet Dates From Hell which is self-published by Ventker through iUniverse and has since had the movie rights to it optioned to Paula Wagner. She is also one of the first Indie Books authors to have a book that was optioned for...
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50. Edolphus Towns
1934-. (aged 92)
teacher
politician
Edolphus "Ed" Towns Jr. is an American educator, military veteran, and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York, Towns was Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2011.
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51. James Garner
mayor
James Scott Garner was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than fifty theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand Prix (1966), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Victor/Victoria (1982), and Murphy's Romance (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred on television in Maverick and The Rockford Files.
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52. Michael Rogers
1963-. (aged 63)
journalist
Michael Wayne Rogers is an American politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as Oklahoma's 35th Secretary of State.
53. Bob Beamon
1946-. (aged 80)
basketball player
athletics competitor
Robert Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m ( 29 ft 2+1⁄4 in), he broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm (21+3⁄4 in) and his world record stood for almost 23 years until it...
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54. Sean Hannity
1961-. (aged 65)
radio personality
talk show host
writer
politician
journalist
Sean Patrick Hannity is an American conservative television presenter, broadcaster and writer. He hosts The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, has hosted a self-titled political commentary program on Fox News since 2009, and co-hosted the original Fox News debate show Hannity & Colmes with Alan Colmes from the network's founding in 1996 to 2009.
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55. Mary L. Trump
1965-. (aged 61)
biographer
life coach
businessperson
non-fiction writer
clinical psychologist
Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist, author, and political commentator. She is the niece of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
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