49 Notable alumni of Fairfield University
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Fairfield University is ranked #1,496 in the world and #360 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from Fairfield 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 Fairfield University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Thomas J. Josefiak
lawyer
Thomas J. Josefiak is an American lawyer who was Chief Counsel of Republican National Committee (RNC) and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) during the 1988 U.S. presidential election. Josefiak is currently a partner with the law firm of HoltzmanVogelJosefiak PLLC in Washington, D.C.
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2. J. Edward Caldwell
1927-2013 (aged 86)
politician
James Edward Caldwell was an American politician from the state of Connecticut. He served in the Connecticut State Senate from 1958 to 1974, and as Connecticut State Comptroller from 1974 to 1991, the longest term of any comptroller in the state's history.
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3. Brian J. Flaherty
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Brian J. Flaherty is a Republican politician from Watertown, Connecticut. Flaherty served eight terms as State Representative for the 68th Assembly District from 1988 to 2005 and held the position of Deputy Minority Leader in the Connecticut House of Representatives for 10 years.
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4. Gregory J. Martin
Gregory J. Martin is an American medical doctor and captain in the United States Navy. Martin is a recognized expert in the fields of infectious diseases and bioterrorism.
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5. Maurice Barrow
1992-. (aged 34)
basketball player
Maurice Barrow is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Fairfield University before playing professionally in Austria and Australia.
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6. Bryan Harkin
1980-. (aged 46)
association football player
association football coach
Bryan Harkin is a Northern Irish soccer player who played for Crystal Palace Baltimore in the USSF Second Division.
7. Moses A. McCoid
1840-1904 (aged 64)
lawyer
politician
Moses Ayers McCoid was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a three-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
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8. G. Simon Harak
1948-2019 (aged 71)
peace activist
G. Simon Harak SJ was an American author, peace activist and professor of theology and Director of the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University.
9. Sean Connelly
1958-. (aged 68)
lawyer
Sean Connelly is an American attorney and former judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. He is a former member of the U.S. Department of Justice trial team and the lead appellate prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing cases. He was appointed by then Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2008 and did not seek...
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10. Jorge E. Pérez-DÃaz
1956-. (aged 70)
lawyer
Jorge E. Pérez-DÃaz served as Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico from 1991 to 1992. He was appointed by former Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. Prior to becoming the Secretary of Justice, Pérez-DÃaz served as Prosecutor General of Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1991. He is currently Major League Baseball's Senior Vice President and Special Counsel, Litigation and International Affairs.
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11. Donna Savarese
1967-. (aged 59)
journalist
Donna Savarese is two-time Emmy Award-winning former journalist. Savarese is a graduate of Fairfield University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.
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12. Joseph Russoniello
1941-. (aged 85)
lawyer
Joseph P. Russoniello is an American attorney who served two terms as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California. Russoniello served his first term from 1982 to 1990 and his second term from 2008 to 2010.
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13. Tricia Fabbri
basketball player
basketball coach
Tricia Fabbri is an American basketball coach who is currently the women's basketball head coach at Quinnipiac University.
14. Rosa Rebimbas
politician
Rosa C. Rebimbas is an American politician and judge, currently serving on the Naugatuck Probate Court with jurisdiction over the towns of Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Middlebury, and Prospect.
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15. Steve Shannon
1971-. (aged 55)
lawyer
Stephen Charles "Steve" Shannon is an American attorney and Circuit Court Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia. From 2004 to 2009, Shannon represented Virginia's 35th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 2009 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia. He was defeated by his opponent, Republican Ken Cuccinelli.
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16. Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
1965-. (aged 61)
physician
biologist
ecologist
otolaryngologist
Caitlin Elizabeth O'Connell-Rodwell is an American conservation biologist and author. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, scientific consultant, co-founder and chief executive officer of Utopia Scientific, and an expert on elephants. Her elephant research was the subject of the Elephant King, an award-winning Smithsonian Channel documentary.
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17. Peter Guarasci
1974-. (aged 52)
basketball player
basketball coach
Peter Guarasci is a Canadian former professional basketball player. Having played in Serie A and the Basketball Bundesliga, he currently plays in the Lega2 in Italy and is a former prominent member of the Canadian national men's basketball team.
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18. Susan King
journalist
Susan King is an American journalist and was the Dean and John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2021.
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19. Bob Drury
journalist
opinion journalist
Bob Drury is an American writer and journalist. He has contributed to a variety of newspapers, magazines, and other publications. He is the author of over twelve non-fiction books. Currently, he resides in Manasquan, New Jersey.
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20. Tyler Nelson
1995-. (aged 31)
basketball player
Tyler Nelson is a retired American professional basketball player. He played professionally in the United States, Germany and Greece and collegiality for the Fairfield Stags.
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21. Rebecca Miriam Cunningham
1970-. (aged 56)
physician
academic
writer
Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician, researcher, and university administrator. She is the 18th and current president of the University of Minnesota.
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22. Arthur Kenney
1946-. (aged 80)
basketball player
Arthur Kenney is a retired American professional basketball player. He played at the power forward and center positions, and was nicknamed "The Great Red".
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23. Martin Looney
1948-. (aged 78)
politician
Martin M. Looney is an American politician. Looney, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993. From 2003 to 2014, Looney served as Majority Leader of the Senate; in 2015 he became President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
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24. Brian Monahan
1964-. (aged 62)
military physician
Brian Patrick Monahan is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the...
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25. E. Gerald Corrigan
1941-2022 (aged 81)
banker
economist
Edward Gerald Corrigan was an American banker who was the seventh President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. Corrigan served as a partner and managing director in the office of the chairman at Goldman Sachs and was appointed chairman of GS Bank USA, the bank holding company of Goldman Sachs,...
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26. Tim O'Toole
1964-. (aged 62)
basketball coach
Tim O'Toole is an American college basketball coach, currently the associate head coach at Pittsburgh. He was previously the tenth head coach of the Fairfield Stags men's basketball team. He also worked in the media as an ESPN college basketball analyst and was the color analyst for St. John's University's radio broadcasts with John Minko.
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27. Peter J. Pronovost
1965-. (aged 61)
physician
Peter J. Pronovost is Chief Quality and Transformation Officer at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the main affiliate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
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28. Ronan Ryan
1974-. (aged 52)
businessperson
Ronan Ryan is an Irish-American businessperson. He is the president of IEX, the Investor's Exchange, and an electronic trading expert. As a founding member of IEX, Ryan was a central character featured in Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Irish America magazine named Ryan to its 2014 and 2015 Wall Street 50 list.
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29. Githa Hariharan
1954-. (aged 72)
novelist
writer
journalist
Githa Hariharan is an Indian writer and editor based in New Delhi. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best first novel in 1993. Her other works include the short story collection The Art of Dying (1993), the novels The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), When Dreams Travel (1999), In Times of...
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30. J. Michael Farren
1953-. (aged 73)
lawyer
John Michael Farren is a former American lawyer who served as Deputy White House Counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President under the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009. Farren also served as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the United States Department of Commerce and head of the...
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31. Donatella Arpaia
1971-. (aged 55)
restaurateur
Donatella Arpaia Stewart is an American restaurateur and a television personality who appears on The Food Network. Arpaia is a regular judge on The Food Network's Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef. She has also appeared on The Isaac Mizrahi Show, The Martha Stewart Show, The Tony Danza Show, The Today Show and iVillage.
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32. Derek Needham
1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
Derek Ryan Needham is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player for BÃ squet Girona of the Liga ACB. Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), he plays the point guard position. Needham played college basketball for Fairfield University where he was named to the CollegeInsider.com Freshman All-America team in 2010 and was All-MAAC for four straight years between 2010...
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33. Liz Wahl
1985-. (aged 41)
journalist
correspondent
Liz Wahl is an American journalist. She was a correspondent for the Russian government-sponsored RT television network from 2011 to 2014 but left the network following a harshly critical on-air resignation that went viral.
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34. Pete Gillen
1947-. (aged 79)
basketball player
basketball coach
Peter Joseph Gillen is an American former college basketball head coach of the Division I Providence Friars and Virginia Cavaliers and is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. Gillen is currently a college basketball analyst with the CBS Sports Network.
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35. John L. Flannery
1962-. (aged 64)
chief executive officer
John L. Flannery is an American business executive. He succeeded Jeff Immelt as the eleventh CEO and tenth chairman of General Electric, and was CEO from August 2017 until October 2018. Prior to ascending to the CEO role, Flannery held leadership roles inside GE for nearly 30 years, heading GE Healthcare, GE India and other business units.
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36. C. Frank Figliuzzi
1962-. (aged 64)
spy
adviser
civil servant
Cesare Frank Figliuzzi Jr. is an American former law enforcement agent and author who served as assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Figliuzzi was previously the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cleveland Division, which includes all of northern Ohio, and the major cities of Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Akron, and Canton.
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37. Bob Stefanowski
1962-. (aged 64)
businessperson
Robert Vincent Stefanowski is an American businessman and politician.
38. Nikki Stanton
1990-. (aged 36)
association football player
Nicole Leslie Stanton is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Vancouver Rise FC of the Northern Super League.
39. Laith Ashley
1989-. (aged 37)
LGBTQ rights activist
actor
model
Laith Ashley De La Cruz is an American model, actor, activist, singer-songwriter, and entertainer of Dominican descent.
40. Ron Palillo
1949-2012 (aged 63)
teacher
film actor
stage actor
television actor
actor
Ronald Gabriel Palillo was an American actor and teacher. He was best known for his role as the endearingly dim-witted character Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979).
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41. Paul Marcarelli
1970-. (aged 56)
actor
voice actor
screenwriter
Paul Marcarelli is an American actor. He is best known for being the ubiquitous "Test Man" character in commercials ("Can you hear me now?") for Verizon Wireless from 2002 to 2011. He appeared in all of his Verizon commercials wearing a gray Verizon jacket and his own horn-rimmed glasses.
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42. Kevin Nealon
1953-. (aged 73)
screenwriter
television actor
voice actor
actor
film actor
Kevin Nealon is an American comedian and actor. He has earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
43. Daniel C. Burbank
1961-. (aged 65)
military officer
engineer
astronaut
Daniel Christopher Burbank is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick.
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44. Stephen Buoniconti
1969-. (aged 57)
politician
Stephen J. Buoniconti is an American politician who represented the Hampden Districfrom the Massachusetts Senate from the year 2005 to 2011 and the 6th Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.
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45. Brendan Suhr
1951-. (aged 75)
basketball coach
Brendan Ahearn Suhr is an American former basketball coach.
46. Charles Dolan
1926-2024 (aged 98)
businessperson
Charles Francis Dolan was an American billionaire businessman and media mogul, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, the Sphere, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America, and AMC Networks. As of December 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$5.4 billion.
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47. Robert J. Wicks
1946-. (aged 80)
writer
Robert J. Wicks is a clinical psychologist and writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology. Wicks is a speaker, therapist, and spiritual guide who has taught at universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, and social work for more than thirty years. He is a Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland.
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48. Buddy Cianci
1941-2016 (aged 75)
lawyer
politician
Vincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci Jr. was an American politician, attorney, radio talk show host, and political commentator who served as the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2002. Cianci was the longest-serving mayor of Providence, having held office for over 21 years.
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49. Neil Peng
1953-. (aged 73)
screenwriter
film director
writer
journalist
actor
Neil Peng is a Taiwanese screenwriter and political activist.