This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni.^[1]

Artists, poets and authors

• Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect
• Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist
• Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States
• Leo Cullum 1963, cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker^[2]
• Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator
• Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs
• Michael Harvey 1980, author of The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor; co-creator of the TV program Cold Case Files
• Jack Higgins 1976, Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times
• Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling romance author
• Edward P. Jones 1972, MacArthur Award winner and 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award in Fiction for his novel The Known World
• Paul LeClerc 1963, President Emeritus of the New York Public Library
• Jack O'Connell 1981, author of noir crime fiction and speculative fiction
• Karen M. McManus 1991, international bestselling author of "One of Us Is Lying", "Two Can Keep a Secret", "One of Us Is Next", and "The Cousins".
• Joe McGinniss 1964, bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision, and other books^{[citation needed]}
• Jay O'Callahan 1960, storyteller
• Josh Pahigian 1996, author of The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip and more than a dozen other books
• Barry Reed 1949, Boston trial lawyer and author of The Verdict, which was made into the Oscar-nominated 1982 film starring Paul Newman

Business

• Bill Abbott 1984, CEO of GAC Media
• Douglas M. Baker Jr. 1981, CEO of Ecolab Inc.
• James E. Burke 1947, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson; named one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune Magazine
• Randall Caudill 1969, president and founder of Dunsford Hill Capital Partners
• Arthur Ciocca 1959, Chairman and owner, The Wine Group^[3]
• Richard A. Davey 1995, President, New York City Transit Authority
• Joanna Geraghty 1990, Chief Executive Officer of JetBlue
• Pedro Heilbron 1979, CEO of Copa Airlines
• Abraham Elias Issa 1926, Jamaican businessman, entrepreneur and hotelier acclaimed as "The Father of Jamaican Tourism".
• Joseph John Issa 1989, founder and Chairman of SuperClubs Resorts^[4]
• James W. Keyes 1977, former Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster, Inc.
• John Koelmel 1974, President of HARBORcenter, former CEO of First Niagara Financial Group
• Stephanie Linnartz 1990, President and CEO of Under Armour, Inc. and former president of Marriott International^{[citation needed]}
• Edward J. Ludwig 1973, former Chairman, President, and CEO of Becton Dickinson^[5]
• Victor Luis 1988, President of Coach Inc. (COH)^[6]
• William J. McDonough 1956, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and current Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch
• William E. McKenna 1947, Former President of Hunts Foods, Former Chairman Norton Simon Inc. Former Chairman and President Technicolor Inc. Former Chairman Sambos Rest.^[7]
• Charles E.F. Millard 1954, former Chairman of the Board, CEO Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York
• William F. O'Neil 1907, founder of the General Tire and Rubber Company
• John Peterman 1963 (aka J. Peterman), catalog and retail entrepreneur
• James David Power III 1953, founder of J.D. Power and Associates
• Roberto Quarta 1971, partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Chairman of Italtel, and former Chairman of BBA Group^{[citation needed]}
• Loren Ferré Rangel 1992, vice president for new products at El Día, Inc. and a trustee of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico
• Carolyn Risoli 1986, former President of Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs, Inc.^[8]
• Frank Shakespeare 1946, former president of CBS Television; former director of the U.S. Information Agency; Ambassador to Portugal and Ambassador to the Vatican
• Joe Shoen 1971, President, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer of U-Haul
• Mark Shoen 1967, largest shareholder and former Chairman of U-Haul
• John T. Sinnott 1961, retired Vice Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies^{[9][citation needed]}
• Kieran Suckling 1986, co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity
• William J. Teuber Jr. 1973, Senior Operating Principal of Bridge Growth Partners and Former Vice Chairman of EMC Corporation^[10]
• John F. Thero 1983, former CEO of Amarin Corporation. After the landmark REDUCE-IT trial, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Life Sciences in the United States in 2019 by Ernst & Young.^{[citation needed]}
• Maggie Wilderotter 1977, former president and CEO, Frontier Communications and DocuSign; as of 2012 had been named one of the "Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune for four years in a row

Education

Professors and researchers

Name	Year/Degree	Notability	Reference
John E. Brooks	1949	President Emeritus of College of the Holy Cross and former President from 1970 to 1994, noted for introducing co-education at the college in 1972; member of Religious Studies faculty
Robert L. Devaney	1969	Professor of mathematics at Boston University; research interests include complex dynamical systems, chaos, fractals
David Granfield	1943	Professor Emeritus at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC; noted as a canon lawyer for his exposition of the Catholic Church's view on abortion
Jane M. Hawkins	1976	Professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; research interests include ergodic theory, smooth dynamical systems, complex dynamics, and computer generated graphics images related to nonpolynomial dynamics
Patrick Francis Healy	1850	first African American to earn a Ph.D. and former President of Georgetown University
Traugott Lawler	1958	medievalist scholar; expert on William Langland; emeritus professor of English at Yale University
Timothy Leary	1942	LSD-pioneering Harvard professor; attended Holy Cross before transferring to West Point
Joseph McCartin	1981	professor of history at Georgetown University; 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University
James McCarthy	1971	President of Suffolk University in Boston
Paul Reiss	1952	14th president of Saint Michael's College, professor and author
Robert K. Wright Jr.	1968	military historian and author

Arts and Entertainment

• Dick Cusack 1950, actor, director and producer
• Neil Donohoe 1978, former Chair and Director of the Musical Theater Division at Boston Conservatory^[11]
• Ann Dowd 1978, Broadway, movie, and television actress; received the National Board of Review award and an Emmy award.
• Brian Gallivan 1991, improvisational actor and executive producer of CBS TV show The McCarthys
• Thomas Ian Griffith 1982, actor and screenwriter.
• Brian Gunn 1992, screenwriter
• Mark Gunn (screenwriter) 1993
• Dave Holmes 1994, MTV host^[12]
• Neil Hopkins 1999, television and film actor and writer
• Peter Jankowski 1986, executive producer, Law & Order
• Douglas Netter 1942, founder, Netter Digital Entertainment and executive producer of Babylon 5
• Kevin O'Connor 1990, host of PBS's This Old House
• Thomas F. O'Neil 1937, former Chairman of RKO General Studios, who brought movies to television and experimented with an early coin-operated pay TV system
• Bartlett Sher 1981, director of Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals South Pacific and The Light in the Piazza
• Tony Wolf 1993, actor
• Bob Wright 1965, Chairman of the Board and former CEO of NBC Universal; Vice Chairman of General Electric; co-founder of Autism Speaks^[13]

Law, politics, and public service

United States federal and state court justices

Name	Year/Degree	Notability	Reference
Andrew Augustine Caffrey	1941	United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961
Francis Patrick O'Connor	1950	appointed by Governor Edward King in 1981, served 16 years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Christopher Droney	1976	United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit; nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012
Conrad K. Cyr	1953	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
John J. Farley, III	1964	Founding Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1989
J. Philip Calabrese	1993	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.	1941	United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966
John J. Gibbons	1947	former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit	[14]
John Greaney	1961	Associate Justice for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School
Edward Francis Harrington	1955	United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987
James Patrick Leamy	1912	United States District Judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940
Richard J. Leon	1971	United States District Judge for the District of Columbia; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002
William T. McCarthy	1905	United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman
Edward McEntee	1928	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Matthew Francis McGuire	1921	United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman in 1949
Clarence Thomas	1971	Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1990

Executive branch and United States Cabinet members

• Joseph A. Califano Jr. 1952, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
• Broderick D. Johnson 1978, White House Cabinet Secretary for President Obama
• John William Middendorf II 1945, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Secretary of the Navy

Members of the United States Congress

Senators

Name	Year/Degree	Notability	Reference
Robert P. Casey Jr.	1982	United States Senator for Pennsylvania, served as Pennsylvania Treasurer	[15]
Peter Welch	1969	United States Senator for Vermont, served as United States Representative for Vermont's at-large district from 2007 to 2023
John A. Durkin	1959	United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1975 to 1980
Thomas A. Burke	1920	United States Senator for Ohio, served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland; namesake of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Maurice J. Murphy	1950	United States Senator for New Hampshire
David I. Walsh	1893	United States Senator for Massachusetts; Massachusetts' first Irish Catholic governor

Representatives

Name	Year/Degree	Notability	Reference
Tim Bishop	1972	United States Representative from New York's 1st congressional district	[16]
William P. Connery Jr.	1920	United States Representative from Massachusetts
Joseph Daniel Early	1955	United States Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district from 1975 to 1993
Mark DeSaulnier	1974	United States Representative from California
Ambrose Kennedy	1897	United States Representative from Rhode Island
James B. Longley Jr.	1973	United States Representative from Maine's 1st congressional district
Martin B. McKneally	1937	United States Representative from New York
Michael R. McNulty	1969	United States Representative	[17]
James P. Moran Jr.	1967	United States Representative	[18]
Frank William Towey Jr.	1916	United States Representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939

United States governors

• Bob Casey Sr. 1953, Governor of Pennsylvania 1987–1995
• Edward D. DiPrete 1955, Governor of Rhode Island 1985–1991
• David I. Walsh 1893, first Irish Catholic Governor and U.S. Senator for Massachusetts

Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States

• Kevin J. McGuire, 1964 U.S. Ambassador to Namibia^[19]
• John William Middendorf II 1945, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Secretary of the Navy
• Harry K. Thomas Jr. 1978, U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe^[20]

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