58 Notable alumni of Mount St. Mary’s University
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Mount St. Mary’s University is ranked #4,034 in the world and #1,047 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 58 notable alumni from Mount St. Mary’s 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 Mount St. Mary’s University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. George J. Turner
1873-. (aged 153)
George J. Turner was the treasurer of the South Atlantic Association when he was elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union from 1915 to 1916. During his tenure the AAU joined with the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America to set the rules that defined amateur sports.
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2. James McSherry
1842-1907 (aged 65)
lawyer
judge
James McSherry was an American jurist who served as chief judge of the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, the Court of Appeals.
3. Dan Costello
1891-1936 (aged 45)
baseball player
Daniel Francis "Dashing Dan" Costello was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. Costello played for the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1913 to 1916. In 154 career games, he had 85 hits, 24 RBIs and a.243 batting average. He batted left and threw right-handed. Costello was born in Jessup, Pennsylvania, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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4. José Manuel Ramos Barroso
1928-1996 (aged 68)
politician
José Manuel Ramos Barroso was a Puerto Rican politician who served as a Senator. He was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1980.
5. Joanne Chiedi
civil servant
administrator
Joanne Chiedi is an American administrator and former government official working as the chief administrative officer of law firm DLA Piper since January 2020. Prior to this, Chiedi was the principal deputy inspector general and acting inspector general of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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6. Ed Kenna
1877-1912 (aged 35)
baseball player
American football player
Edward Benninghaus Kenna, nicknamed "the Pitching Poet", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, college football coach and newspapers editor. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1902 season. Kenna played football at Georgetown University as a fullback in 1898 and at West Virginia University as a fullback and kicker in 1901. He served as the head football coach...
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7. Edward J. Dunphy
1856-1926 (aged 70)
lawyer
politician
Edward John Dunphy of New York City was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1889 to 1895. He was a Democrat.
8. John O'Neill
1822-1905 (aged 83)
lawyer
politician
John O'Neill was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1863 to 1865,
9. Thomas McGovern
1832-1898 (aged 66)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Thomas McGovern was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, from 1888 until his death in 1898.
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10. Francois P. Giraud
1818-1877 (aged 59)
architect
politician
Francois P. Giraud, also known as Francis P. Giraud, was an American politician. He was mayor of the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas.
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11. William Albert
1816-1879 (aged 63)
politician
William Julian Albert was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1873 to 1875.
12. William George McCloskey
1823-1909 (aged 86)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
William George McCloskey was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Louisville from 1868 to 1909.
13. John Ambrose Watterson
1844-1899 (aged 55)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
John Ambrose Watterson was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio from 1880 until his death in 1899.
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14. Richard Gilmour
1824-1891 (aged 67)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Richard Gilmour was a Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Cleveland in Ohio from 1872 until his death in 1891. He published a book while he was a parish priest called Bible History; containing the most important of The Old and New Testaments.
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15. Thomas M. Middleton
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Thomas McLain "Mac" Middleton is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Maryland State Senate from 1995 to 2019, representing Maryland's District 28 in southern Charles County.
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16. Harry A. Slattery
1887-1949 (aged 62)
environmentalist
Harry A. Slattery, was an American lawyer and politician. He was United States Under Secretary of the Interior from 1938 to 1939 and gave his name to the Slattery Report, which proposed to develop Alaska through immigration. The proposal, which included the settlement of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria, largely in response to Nazi antisemitism, was never implemented.
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17. James Clark
1809-1885 (aged 76)
teacher
academic administrator
Catholic priest
James Clark SJ was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who led the College of the Holy Cross during the American Civil War as president from 1861 to 1867. Born in Pennsylvania, he was educated at the United States Military Academy and served as an officer in the U.S. Army for one year, before converting to Catholicism and later entering...
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18. Paul Stagg Coakley
1955-. (aged 71)
Catholic deacon
Catholic bishop
Catholic priest
Paul Stagg Coakley is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Oklahoma City since 2010 and as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops since November 11, 2025. He previously served as Bishop of Salina from 2004 to 2010.
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19. Robert W. Curran
1950-. (aged 76)
Robert W. Curran is a former member of the Baltimore City Council representing the Third Council District in Baltimore, Maryland. A member of a prominent Maryland political family, Curran is the son of J. Joseph Curran Sr., Baltimore City Councilman from 1953 through 1977, a brother of former Maryland attorney general J. Joseph Curran Jr., brother to a former city...
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20. Kathy Afzali
1957-. (aged 69)
journalist
politician
Kathryn L. Afzali is an American politician who represented the fourth district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2019. She was the Republican nominee for Frederick County Executive in 2018, losing to incumbent Jan Gardner.
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21. John Loughlin
1817-1891 (aged 74)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
John Loughlin was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of Brooklyn in New York from 1853 until 1891.
22. Francis L. Delmonico
1945-. (aged 81)
surgeon
Francis L. Delmonico, MD, FACS is a retired American surgeon, clinical professor and health expert in the field of transplantation. He served on numerous national and international committees regarding donation and transplant and is affiliated with various leading organizations and institutions. In addition to his work as a transplant surgeon, he served as chief medical officer of the New England...
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23. George Henry Miles
1824-1871 (aged 47)
writer
George Henry Miles was an American writer. Miles wrote "God Save the South", under the pen name Earnest Halphin, which is considered to have been the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
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24. Cliff Warren
1968-. (aged 58)
basketball player
basketball coach
Cliff Warren is an American college basketball coach. He previously served as the head coach for Jacksonville University.
25. Mary Kane
1962-. (aged 64)
producer
politician
Mary D. Kane is an American attorney from Maryland who was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2010, as the running mate of Bob Ehrlich. In October 2011, Kane became the President and CEO of Sister Cities International. Sister Cities International is a nonprofit organization for individual sister cities, counties, and states across the United States. Kane also sits...
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26. Matthew F. McHugh
1938-. (aged 88)
lawyer
politician
Matthew Francis "Matt" McHugh is an American lawyer and former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, serving from 1975 to 1993.
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27. Carol Keehan
nun
Carol Keehan is a religious sister of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. She served as president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States from 2005 to 2019.
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28. John Baptist Purcell
1800-1883 (aged 83)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
John Baptist Purcell was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1850. He formed the basis of Father Ferrand, the Ohio-based "Irish by birth, French by ancestry" character in the prologue of Willa Cather's...
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29. Agnus Berenato
1956-. (aged 70)
basketball player
basketball coach
Agnus Berenato, is a former basketball coach. She was the head women's basketball coach at Rider from 1982 to 1985, Georgia Tech from 1989 to 2003, Pittsburgh from 2003 to 2013, and Kennesaw State from 2016 to 2021. She is the all-time wins leader among women's basketball head coaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
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30. Joe Engel
1893-1969 (aged 76)
baseball player
Joseph William Engel was an American left-handed pitcher and scout in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Washington Senators and went on to become a promoter and team owner in the minor leagues. He was born in Washington, D.C. as one of six children of a German immigrant who owned a bar/hotel next door to...
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31. William Henry Fry
1813-1864 (aged 51)
music critic
composer
journalist
William Henry Fry was an American composer, music critic, and journalist. Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a publicly performed opera. He was also the first music critic for a major American newspaper, and he was the first known person to insist that...
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32. John Lawrence LeConte
1825-1883 (aged 58)
naturalist
entomologist
military physician
zoologist
John Lawrence LeConte MD was an American entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles. He was recognized as the foremost authority on North American beetles during his career, and has been described as "the father of American beetle study".
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33. Thomas M. Anderson
1836-1917 (aged 81)
lawyer
military personnel
Thomas McArthur Anderson was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War.
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34. Heath Tarbert
1976-. (aged 50)
lawyer
Heath Price Tarbert is an American lawyer and former government official who served as the 14th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development and as acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. As of 2025, he is the president...
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35. John Early
1814-1873 (aged 59)
Catholic priest
academic administrator
John Early SJ was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit educator who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross and Georgetown University, as well as the founder and first president of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. Upon his arrival, he enrolled at Mount St....
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36. Kristijan Krajina
1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
Kristijan Krajina is a Croatian professional basketball player for the Kaohsiung Aquas of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL). Standing at 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in), he plays at the center position.
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37. Michael Augustine Corrigan
1839-1902 (aged 63)
Catholic priest
Michael Augustine Corrigan was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the third archbishop of New York from 1885 to 1902.
38. Fred Carter
1945-. (aged 81)
basketball player
basketball coach
Fredrick James Carter, nicknamed "Mad Dog" or "Doggy", is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons (1969–77) for the Baltimore Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Milwaukee Bucks. He also coached the Mount St. Mary's Women's Basketball Team for three years to a 60-32 record and three years of AIAW...
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39. John Joseph Hughes
1797-1864 (aged 67)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
John Joseph Hughes was an Irish-born Catholic prelate who served as bishop (and later archbishop) of New York from 1842 until his death. In 1841, he founded St. John's College, which would later become Fordham University.
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40. Jamion Christian
1982-. (aged 44)
basketball coach
basketball player
Jamion Christian is an American basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the Bryant Bulldogs men's basketball team. He previously was the head coach at Siena, Mount St. Mary's, and George Washington. He was also the head coach for Pallacanestro Trieste in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) from 2023 to 2025.
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41. Junior Robinson
1996-. (aged 30)
basketball player
Steve Lamont "Junior" Robinson, Jr. is an American basketball player who last played for BBC Monthey-Chablais of the Swiss Basketball League (SBL). He played college basketball for Mount St. Mary's. He was born in Mebane, North Carolina.
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42. John La Farge
1835-1910 (aged 75)
painter
writer
stained-glass artist
John La Farge was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston in 1878, and continuing for thirty years....
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43. John McCloskey
1810-1885 (aged 75)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
John McCloskey was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first American-born archbishop of New York from 1864 until his death in 1885.
44. Harry Hughes
1926-2019 (aged 93)
lawyer
politician
Harry Roe Hughes was an American politician from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maryland Senate from 1959 to 1970, and the 57th Governor of Maryland from 1979 to 1987.
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45. Edward Douglass White Jr
1845-1921 (aged 76)
lawyer
judge
politician
Edward Douglass White Jr. was an American politician and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1894 to 1910 and as the ninth Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 until his death in 1921, for a total of 27 years on the bench. He was a descendant of the...
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46. Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte
1805-1870 (aged 65)
merchant
Jérôme Napoléon "Bo" Bonaparte was an American farmer, chairman of the Maryland Agricultural Society, and first president of the Maryland Club. He was the son of Elizabeth Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I.
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47. Stanley Rother
1935-1981 (aged 46)
Catholic priest
Bible translator
Stanley Francis Rother was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 before being assigned to Guatemala.
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48. William E. Lori
1951-. (aged 75)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
William Edward Lori is an American Catholic prelate who has served as archbishop of Baltimore in Maryland since 2012.
49. Elijah Mitrou-Long
1996-. (aged 30)
basketball player
Elijah Isa Mitrou-Long is a Canadian–Greek professional basketball player for Aris of the Greek Basketball League. He played college basketball for Mount St. Mary's, Texas, and UNLV.
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50. Harry Joseph Flynn
1933-2019 (aged 86)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Harry Joseph Flynn was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette from 1989 to 1994.
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51. Edward Fitzgerald
1833-1907 (aged 74)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Edward Mary Fitzgerald was an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock in Arkansas from 1867 until his death in 1907.
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52. Edward J. Burns
1957-. (aged 69)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
sociologist
theologian
Edward James Burns is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Dallas in Texas since 2017. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Juneau in Alaska from 2009 to 2017.
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53. Frank Ryan
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Frank Beall Ryan was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams (1958–1961), Cleveland Browns (1962–1968), and Washington Redskins (1969–1970). He played college football for the Rice Owls. A three-time Pro Bowl selection with Cleveland, Ryan led the Browns to their most recent National Football League title in...
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54. Michael Owen Jackels
1954-. (aged 72)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Michael Owen Jackels is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dubuque from 2013 to 2023. He previously served as Bishop of Wichita from 2005 to 2013.
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55. Silas Chatard
1834-1918 (aged 84)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
physician
writer
Silas Francis Marean Chatard was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Indianapolis from 1898 to 1918.
56. William Walsh
1828-1892 (aged 64)
lawyer
politician
William Walsh was an archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax. He was born in Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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57. Francisco I. Madero
1873-1913 (aged 40)
military personnel
politician
writer
businessperson
musician
Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in February 1913. He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and dictator Porfirio Díaz. After Díaz claimed to have...
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58. Edward J. Flanagan
1886-1948 (aged 62)
Catholic priest
Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Catholic Diocese of Omaha, he founded the orphanage and educational complex known as Boys Town, located west of the city in what is now Boys Town, Douglas County, Nebraska. In the...
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