List of Regis High School alumni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of alumni of Regis High School (New York City) includes graduates and students who did not graduate.
- Vito Acconci (1940–2017) – performance artist and architect[1]
- Norberto Barba (born 1963) – television and film director
- Adrian A. Basora (born 1938) – diplomat; U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic (1993–95)
- Michael Bérubé (born 1961) – Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature, Pennsylvania State University[2]
- Adrian P. Burke (1904–2000) – lawyer, appellate judge (New York Court of Appeals), and politician.
- Kevin Burke – chairman, president, and CEO, Consolidated Edison[citation needed]
- James J. Busuttil (born 1958) – attorney, academic and human rights activist
- Frank Joseph Caggiano (born 1959) – bishop of Bridgeport (Connecticut)[3]
- Thomas Cahill (born 1940) – scholar and writer; author, Hinges of History series[4]
- Timothy Chorba (born 1946) – diplomat; U.S. ambassador to Singapore (1994–97)[5]
- Bill Condon (born 1955) – director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter[6]
- Edward Conlon (born 1965) – New York Police Department police officer; bestselling author[7]
- John M. Corridan (1911–1984) – Jesuit priest; organized crime fighter on the New York City waterfront (inspiration for Fr. Barry in On the Waterfront)[8]
- Declan Cronin (born 1997) – major league baseball player[9]
- John D'Agostino – exchange markets expert; subject of Ben Mezrich's Rigged[10]
- John D'Emilio (born 1948) – academic, historian, and activist[11]
- Lou DiBella (born 1960) – boxing promoter[12]
- Kieran Donohue – college basketball coach
- John Donvan (born 1955) – journalist; ABC News Nightline correspondent[13]
- Max Esterson (born 2002) – racing driver[14]
- Anthony Fauci (born 1940) – infectious diseases physician, HIV/AIDS researcher; head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases[5][7]
- John D. Feeley (born 1961) – diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Panama (2016–18)[15]
- Chuck Feeney (1931–2023) – businessman and philanthropist; did not graduate (attended for 1.5 years)[16]
- Patrick Fitzgerald (born 1960) – U.S. attorney; Central Intelligence Agency leak investigation special prosecutor[5][7]
- Steve Fuller – founder of social epistemology; professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom[17]
- Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) – comedian and television personality[18]
- Robert Giroux (1914–2008) – publisher, Harcourt, Brace & Company and Farrar, Straus and Giroux[19]
- Frederick Gluck (born 1935) – managing director, McKinsey & Company (1988–1994)[20]
- Pete Hamill (1935–2020) – writer and columnist; did not graduate (attended until age 16); awarded honorary diploma in 2010[21]
- Charles Harbutt (1935–2015) – photographer[22]
- Donald J. Harrington (born 1945) – former president, St. John's University; former president, Niagara University[23]
- Andrew P. Harris (born 1957) – member of Congress[24]
- Timothy S. Healy (1923–1992) – president, Georgetown University and the New York Public Library[25]
- Rich Hickey – creator of the programming language Clojure[26]
- Robert Hilferty – filmmaker, journalist, and HIV/AIDS activist[27]
- Steve Hirdt – executive vice president, Elias Sports Bureau[28]
- Colin Jost (born 1982), head writer and "Weekend Update" co-anchor, Saturday Night Live; stand-up comedian[29]
- Brian P. Kavanagh (born 1967) – New York state senator[30]
- John F. Keenan (1929-2024) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[31]
- Thomas C. Kelly (1931–2011) – archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville (Kentucky)[32]
- Tom Kelly (1924–2008) – former Boston Celtics basketball player[33]
- Phil Klay (born 1983) – winner, National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for Redeployment[34][35]
- John Koeltl (born 1945) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[5][36]
- David Lat (born 1975) – founder and managing editor, Above the Law legal blog[37]
- John Leo (born 1935) – author; former columnist, U.S. News & World Report[38]
- Thomas Lippman (born 1939) – journalist and author; Middle East specialist[39]
- Chris Lowney (born 1958) – Christian author and speaker[40]
- Gerard E. Lynch (born 1951) – circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[41]
- John Maguire (1904–1989) – bishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York[42]
- Eugene T. Maleska (1916–1993) – editor, New York Times crossword puzzle[43]
- Robert Marasco (1936–1998) – playwright[44][a]
- Mark Mazzetti (born 1974) – Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer[5][46]
- Ken McCarthy (born 1959) – Internet commercialization pioneer, educator, activist[47]
- Mac McGarry (1926–2013) – host, the Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, Virginia, versions of the television student quiz show It's Academic[48]
- John McGiver (1913–1975) – film and television character actor[49]
- Dan McGrath (1964–2025) – television writer, writer for The Simpsons and King of the Hill
- Lawrence M. McKenna (1933–2023) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[50]
- Joseph M. McShane (born 1949) – president, Fordham University (2003–22)[51]
- Ronald J. Mellor (born 1940) – scholar, ancient history and religion[52]
- Arthur Minson Jr. (born 1970) – co-CEO, WeWork[53]
- Alexander J. Motyl (born 1953) – political scientist, Rutgers University[citation needed]
- Thomas Francis Murphy (1906–1995) – government official in the perjury trials of Alger Hiss[54]
- John Nonna (born 1948) – 1972 Summer Olympics fencer[55]
- Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965) – New York Times film critic; screenwriter (The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956))[56]
- Edward J. O'Donnell (1931–2009) – bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette (Louisiana)
- Joseph A. O'Hare (1931–2020) – president, Fordham University; chairman, New York City Campaign Finance Board; editor, America magazine
- John O'Keefe (born 1939) – Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2014[57]
- Francis Edward Peters (born 1927) – scholar of Middle East religion, New York University
- Patrick Quinlan – political activist and author[citation needed]
- Gerard Reedy (1939–2016) – president, College of the Holy Cross[58]
- Ken Rosato – journalist; WABC-TV Eyewitness News anchor[citation needed]
- Sandro Santagata (born 1971) – clinical pathologist
- Lucy Sante (born 1954) – writer and critic; graduated as Luc Sante[59]
- Jon Sciambi (born 1970) – sportscaster, ESPN[60]
- Jim Sciutto (born 1970) – journalist; chief national security correspondent, CNN[5][61]
- Buck Sexton (born 1981) – radio host[62]
- Joe Sheehan – founding member, BaseballProspectus.com; sports writer[63]
- William F. Smith (1901–1950) – lawyer; member, New York State Assembly
- Brian Thomsen (1959–2008) – science fiction writer[64]
- Robert Tomasulo (1934–2008) – computer scientist; devised the Tomasulo algorithm named for him[65]
- Pablo S. Torre (born 1985) – sportswriter, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine; panelist, ESPN shows, including Around the Horn
- Mike Walczewski (born 1956) – public address announcer, New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden
- William Braucher Wood (born 1950) – diplomat; U.S. ambassador to Colombia (2003–07) and Afghanistan (2007–09)[5]