37 Notable alumni of Iona College
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Iona College is ranked #2,757 in the world and #714 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Iona College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Iona College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Daniel Tobin
1997-. (aged 29)
poet
association football player
Daniel Tobin is an American poet, scholar, editor, and essayist.
2. Stephen Kwelio Chemlany
1982-. (aged 44)
marathon runner
athletics competitor
Stephen Kwelio Chemlany is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. He has a personal best of 2:06:24 hours for the event.
3. Raymond P. Ayres
1944-. (aged 82)
military leader
Raymond P. Ayres, Jr. is an American military officer who held the rank of Lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps.
4. Edward R. Reilly
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Edward R. Reilly is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Maryland Senate, appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to represent District 33 after State Senator Janet Greenip resigned. He then ran and was elected in November 2010 to his first full term.
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5. Rickey McGill
1997-. (aged 29)
basketball player
Rickey Isaiah Justin McGill. is an American professional basketball player for Patrioti Levice of Slovak Extraliga (basketball) (SLB). He played college basketball for the Iona Gaels.
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6. Laura Jackson
1991-. (aged 35)
association football player
association football coach
Laura Elaine Jackson is a former professional footballer and coach. Born in England, she played as a midfielder for the Jamaica women's national team.
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7. Michael Benedetto
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Michael Benedetto is a Member of the New York State Assembly representing the 82nd Assembly District, which covers the Co-op City, Throggs Neck, Westchester Square, City Island, Country Club, and Pelham Bay sections of the East Bronx. After a 35-year teaching career at the elementary and secondary school level, he was first elected to the State Assembly in 2004. He...
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8. David Laury
1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
David Laury III is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Lamar State and Iona before playing professionally in the NBA G League, Puerto Rico and Israel.
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9. Warren Isaac
1940-. (aged 86)
basketball player
basketball coach
Joseph Warren Isaac, commonly known as Warren Isaac in the United States and Joe Isaac in Italy, is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He had a standout college career at Iona before playing and coaching professionally in Italy.
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10. Kate Avery
1991-. (aged 35)
athletics competitor
Kate Avery is a British long-distance runner. She competes in track and road competitions but specialises in cross country running. She was twice silver medallist at the 2014 European Cross Country Championships and 2015, and also a gold medallist on both occasions as part of the Great Britain women's senior team. She became the first British woman to win the...
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11. Harry Rilling
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Harry W. Rilling is an American politician who previously served as mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. He had previously served as Norwalk's police chief for 17 years before retiring. He is a Democrat, and was elected in 2013. Rilling defeated incumbent mayor Richard A. Moccia. On March 3, 2025, Rilling announced that he would not be seeking re-election and was succeeded...
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12. Sharon F. Terry
1956-. (aged 70)
Sharon F. Terry is an American health advocate in San Diego, California. She co-founded PXE International when her children were diagnosed with pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) in 1994. Her TEDMED talk from 2017 has been viewed more than a million times, and was the subject of the TED Radio Hour. In 2009, she was elected an Ashoka Fellow for her entrepreneurial...
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13. Terry Finn
1955-. (aged 71)
television actor
stage actor
actor
film actor
Teresa Jo Ann Bernadette "Terry" Finn is an American actress best known for creating the role of Gussie Carnegie in the original Broadway cast of the Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince/George Furth musical comedy Merrily We Roll Along and its Original Cast Album.
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14. Kevin Sullivan
1949-. (aged 77)
lawyer
politician
Kevin Sullivan was the White House Communications Director, also known as the Assistant to the President for Communications, from July 24, 2006, until January 20, 2009. From April 2005 to July 2006 he was the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach at the United States Department of Education.
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15. Leonard Korir
1986-. (aged 40)
athletics competitor
Leonard Essau Korir is an American long-distance runner who competes over distances from 5000 meters to the marathon. He is a two-time NCAA champion, winning an indoor 5000 m title and outdoor 10,000 meters title in 2011 for the Iona Gaels. He gained United States citizenship and began competing for his adoptive nation in 2016.
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16. Tariq Kirksay
1979-. (aged 47)
basketball player
Tariq Kinte Kirksay is a French American former professional basketball player. He was born in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up.
17. Jo Anne Simon
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Jo Anne Simon is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 52nd District. She is a Democrat. The district includes portions of Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, Boerum Hill and DUMBO in Brooklyn. She was a candidate for Congress in New York's newly redrawn...
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18. Damon Bruce
1975-. (aged 51)
radio personality
Damon Matthew Bruce is an American sports radio host who hosted the Damon and Ratto (with Ray Ratto) on KGMZ-FM "95.7 the Game" in San Francisco, California. The Duo was replaced in a station shuffle in March 2023.
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19. A. J. English
1992-. (aged 34)
basketball player
Albert Jay "A. J." English III is an American professional basketball player for Beirut Club of the Lebanese Basketball League. He played college basketball for the Iona Gaels.
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20. Mindaugas Timinskas
1974-. (aged 52)
basketball player
Mindaugas Timinskas is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and coach. He represented the Lithuania national team.
21. Robert Greifeld
1957-. (aged 69)
inventor
executive
Robert Greifeld is an American businessman and author. He is the former CEO and chairman of Nasdaq and former chairman of Virtu Financial.
22. John Sweeney
1934-2021 (aged 87)
trade unionist
John Joseph Sweeney was an American labor leader who served as president of the AFL–CIO from 1995 to 2009.
23. Steve Burtt Jr
1984-. (aged 42)
basketball player
Steven Dwayne Burtt Jr. is an American-born naturalized Ukrainian professional basketball player.
24. Eileen Ivers
1965-. (aged 61)
fiddler
Eileen Ivers is an American fiddler.
25. Richie Guerin
1932-. (aged 94)
basketball player
military officer
stockbroker
basketball coach
Richard Vincent Guerin is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) New York Knicks from 1956 to 1963 and was a player-coach of the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks franchise where he spent nine years. On February 15, 2013, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that Guerin had been elected as...
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26. Benedict Groeschel
1933-2014 (aged 81)
Catholic priest
psychologist
non-fiction writer
university teacher
Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. was an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, activist, and television host. He hosted the television talk program Sunday Night Prime (originally Sunday Night Live) on the Eternal Word Television Network, as well as several serial religious specials.
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27. Isaiah Washington
1998-. (aged 28)
basketball player
Isaiah Washington is an American professional basketball player for Basket Zaragoza of the Liga ACB. He played for St. Raymond High School for Boys in The Bronx, where he was named Mr. New York Basketball in 2017. Washington co-founded and popularized Jelly Fam, a social media movement that emphasizes creative finger roll layups. He played college basketball for the Minnesota...
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28. Scott Machado
1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
Michael Scott Machado is an American-Brazilian professional basketball player for Minas Clube of Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB). He played college basketball for the Iona Gaels and represents the Brazilian national team.
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29. Kyle Kulinski
1988-. (aged 38)
YouTuber
podcaster
peace activist
journalist
Kyle Edward Kulinski is an American left-wing political commentator and media host. He is the host and producer of The Kyle Kulinski Show on his YouTube channel Secular Talk, co-host on Kyle & Corin on the YouTube channel Corin's WORLD, and co-host with his wife Krystal Ball on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. A self-described social democrat, Kulinski...
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30. Walter Clayton Jr
2003-. (aged 23)
basketball player
Walter Marterry Clayton Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Iona Gaels and the Florida Gators. With Florida, Clayton was a consensus first-team All-American in 2025 and was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player (MOP) after leading Florida to a national championship victory.
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31. Vito Fossella
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
lawyer
disc jockey
percussionist
violinist
Vito John Fossella Jr. is an American politician serving as the Staten Island Borough President since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, Fossella previously represented the state's 13th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms, from 1997 to 2009 serving as the lone Republican from New York City. A Staten Island native, Fossella initially took...
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32. Ian Whyte
1971-. (aged 55)
basketball player
television actor
actor
film actor
Ian Stuart Whyte is a Welsh actor, stuntman and former professional basketball player. He is best known for his roles as Predators in the Alien vs. Predator film series, Sheikh Suleiman in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, The Last Engineer in Prometheus, as well as various characters in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
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33. Tommy Dreamer
1971-. (aged 55)
professional wrestler
Thomas James Laughlin is an American professional wrestler and promoter better known by the ring name Tommy Dreamer. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a former one-time TNA Digital Media Champion, and was the owner and promoter of the House of Hardcore (HOH) promotion.
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34. Bud Cort
1948-2026 (aged 78)
character actor
screenwriter
film actor
voice actor
stage actor
Walter Edward Cox, known professionally as Bud Cort, was an American actor known for his unorthodox starring roles in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970), for which he was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award, and Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971), for which he was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. He also had supporting...
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35. Amanda Saccomanno
1990-. (aged 36)
actor
professional wrestler
model
Amanda Rose Saccomanno is an American professional wrestler, television personality, and fitness and figure competitor. She is best known for her tenure in WWE from 2015 to 2022, where she performed under the ring name Mandy Rose, and was a former NXT Women's Champion and was the leader of the Toxic Attraction stable alongside Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin. Rose...
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36. Don McLean
1945-. (aged 81)
singer
songwriter
singer-songwriter
composer
guitarist
Donald McLean III is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a "cultural touchstone". His other hit singles include "Vincent", "Dreidel", "Castles in the Air", and "Wonderful Baby", as well as...
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37. Tajuan Agee
1997-. (aged 29)
basketball player
Tajuan Agee is an American professional basketball player for JL Bourg of the LNB Pro A and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for Iona and Tyler Junior College.
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