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Below are alumni, benefactors, presidents or chancellors, and other notable people associated with Long Island University.

Contents

• Alumni
• Art
• Business
• Judicial
• Media
• Medicine and health
• Performing arts
• Politics
• Sports and recreation
• Notable faculty
• Past
• Present
• References

Alumni

Politics

• Tim Bishop, representative of the State of New York's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress
• Leon Bogues, former senator who represented the 29th District in the New York State Senate
• Mevlut Cavusoglu, incumbent Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Steven Cymbrowitz, representative of the 45th District in the New York State Assembly
• Tuariki Delamere, former member of parliament for the Eastern Maori (now Ikaroa-Rāwhiti) electorate in the Parliament of New Zealand and cabinet minister, including Minister of Immigration
• Katuutire Kaura, member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia; leader of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia
• Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh
• Tom Ognibene, former representative of the 30th City Council District in the New York City Council and New York City mayoral candidate
• Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
• L. Harvey Smith, representative of the 31st District in the New Jersey General Assembly
• Fred Thiele, representative of the 2nd District in the New York State Assembly

Sports and recreation

• Mooley Avishar (born 1947), Israeli basketball player
• Hank Beenders, first non-American to play in the NBA Finals
• Frank Catalanotto, retired Major League Baseball outfielder
• John Collins, former president and chief executive officer of the NFL Cleveland Browns
• Daniel de Oliveira, Rookie of the Year 1987, Northeast Conference; first LIU Blackbird soccer player to play with DC United in 1996 Major League Soccer, Soccer America Magazine 1987 Freshmen all star team, two-time winner MVP Colin Fowles Trophy, 1987 and 1990; coach of the Venezuelan Youth 15 and 17 National Teams
• Ray Felix, second African American to be named an NBA All-Star; the NBA's first dominant African-American center
• Frido Frey, first German to play in the NBA
• Sid Gordon, two-time All Star major league baseball player
• David Hicks (born 1988), basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League ^[1]
• Charles Rahmel Jones, played for the NBA's Chicago Bulls
• Dolly King, one of the rare black basketball players in the National Basketball League, predecessor to the NBA
• Barry Leibowitz (born 1945), American-Israeli basketball player in the American Basketball Association and the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Joe Machnik, elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on the 2017 builder ballot
• Steve Nisenson, basketball player
• Frank Pia, inventor of the Pia Carry
• Ossie Schectman, member of the original New York Knickerbockers in their inaugural NBA season in 1946; inductee in the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame
• Tazz (Peter Senerchia), also known as Tazz in WWE, wrestler and commentator, ECW and TNA

Notable faculty

References