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This is a list of notable alumni of Providence College .

Contents

• Entertainment and communications
• Business
• Politics and law
• Academia
• Medicine
• Religious life
• Athletics
• Men's basketball
• Women's basketball
• Men's ice hockey
• Women's ice hockey
• Baseball
• Track and field
• Football
• Men's soccer
• References

Entertainment and communications

• David Angell – Emmy Award-winning television producer, victim of the September 11 attacks (was a passenger of American Airlines Flight 11)
• Doris Burke – sports analyst for ESPN, former Friars basketball player
• David R. Colburn – author and professor of history
• Wally Dunn – Broadway actor, most recently appeared in Gypsy and Spamalot
• Brett Epstein – actor, playwright
• Matt Farley – musician
• Peter Farrelly – film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Janeane Garofalo – actress, comedian
• Caryn James (as Caryn A. Fuoroli) – film and television critic, novelist ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Mike Leonard – television journalist on NBC's Today Show
• James O'Brien – film director, screenwriter, and producer
• John O'Hurley – actor, television host
• Sean McAdam – sportswriter covering the Boston Red Sox
• Edward Scanlon – Executive Vice President (retired) of NBC
• Paul G. Tremblay – author
• Joseph Ungaro – newspaper journalist

Business

• Brian Burke – president of hockey operations of the Pittsburgh Penguins, former Friars ice hockey player
• Rich Gotham – president of Boston Celtics
• Karen Ignagni – president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans
• Lou Lamoriello – general manager of the New York Islanders
• John Marinatto – former commissioner of the Big East Conference
• Arthur F. Ryan – former chairman and CEO of Prudential Insurance Company of America
• Jack Tretton – former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America

Politics and law

• Scott Avedisian – Mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island
• Michael Napolitano – Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island
• Peter J. Barnes – Member of New Jersey State Parole Board, former New Jersey State Senator
• Jack Brennan – former chief of staff to Richard Nixon
• Frank Caprio – chief judge of Providence Municipal Court
• Arn Chorn-Pond – international human rights activist
• Jasiel Correia – former Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts
• Richard M. Daley – Former Mayor of Chicago
• Richard J. Daronco – former United States federal judge
• Tom Dart – Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois
• Frank Devlin – former senior counsel to ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas
• Armando Diaz – Marshal of Italy, World War 1 commander (Providence College's first alumnus)
• Chris Dodd – former United States Senator representing Connecticut
• Thomas J. Dodd – former United States Senator representing Connecticut
• Benjamin Downing – currently the youngest Massachusetts State Senator
• John H. Fanning – former National Labor Relations Board Chair
• Joseph J. Fauliso – former Lt. Governor of Connecticut
• Raymond Flynn – former Mayor of Boston, former Friars basketball player
• Charles J. Fogarty – former Lt. Governor of Rhode Island
• John E. Fogarty – former United States Congressman representing Rhode Island
• Anthony D. Galluccio – former Massachusetts State Senator
• Maureen McKenna Goldberg – Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Sheila Harrington – Massachusetts State Representative for the First Middlesex District
• Patrick J. Kennedy – former United States Congressman representing Rhode Island, son of former United States Senator Ted Kennedy
• Kieran Lalor – founder of Eternal Vigilance Society and Iraq Vets for Congress
• J. Howard McGrath – former United States Attorney General and United States Senator representing Rhode Island
• William D. Mullins – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and baseball player ^[4]
• M. Teresa Paiva-Weed – President of the Rhode Island State Senate
• Michael F. Rush – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• John Shea – former member of Connecticut House of Representatives
• Fernand St. Germain – former United States Representative from Rhode Island
• William J. Sullivan – former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
• Robert Tiernan – former United States Representative from Rhode Island ^[5]

Academia

• Roy Peter Clark – Vice President and Senior Scholar at the Poynter Institute
• Hank Foley – President of New York Institute of Technology
• Mark Stephen Jendrysik – Political Science and Public Administration Chair, University of North Dakota
• Timothy J. Kehoe – Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
• Clark R. McCauley – Professor of Science and Mathematics and co-director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College
• Edward J. McElroy – President of American Federation of Teachers, Vice President of AFL-CIO
• Austin Sarat – Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College

Medicine

• Robert Gallo – biomedical researcher known for the discovery of Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Religious life

• Joseph Augustine Di Noia – named Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments by Pope Benedict XVI.; currently the highest-ranking Dominican in the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church
• Archbishop Christopher Cardone, O. P. – Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Auki, The Solomon Islands since 2016.
• Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P. – Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky (1982-2007)
• Brian Shanley, O.P. – President of Providence College

Athletics

References