List of Long Island University people

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

Alumni

Art

• Bunny Hoest, cartoonist for the comic strip The Lockhorns.

• Ben Knight, inventor, designer, artist, typographic co-ordinator at the United Nations.

Business

• Steven Bandrowczak, chief information officer at Nortel; former chief information officer at Lenovo Group Limited and DHL.
• Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates.
• John Kanas, former CEO and president of North Fork Bank.
• Howard Lorber, real estate investor and businessman, CEO of Vector Group and chairman of Nathan's Famous.
• Richard Nespola, founder, chairman, CEO, and director of The Management Network Group, Inc.
• William Nuti, president and CEO of NCR Corporation and board of director of Sprint Nextel.
• Laurence Prusak, well-known figure in the knowledge management field and executive director of IBM's Knowledge Management Institute.
• Frank Ross, cofounder and first president of the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc., first black managing partner at the accounting firm KPMG, and current director of the Center for Accounting Education in the School of Business at Howard University.
• Terry Semel, former chairman and CEO of Yahoo! and is on the Board of Directors of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Museum of Television and Radio, and the Guggenheim Museum.
• John Sergio, Current Chief Operating Officer, Maxim Group.
• George Sherman, former chairman of the board at Campbell Soup Company.
• John Utendahl, founder and owner of Utendahl Group, the largest African American-owned investment banking organization in the United States (U.S.).
• Gary Winnick, founder of Global Crossing, Ltd., installing the first undersea cable linking the U.S. and Europe.
• Adnan Polat, chairman of Football Club Galatasaray SK and CEO of Ege Seramik.

Judicial

• Rose Bird, first woman to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of California.
• Anthony J. Mercorella, former justice on the New York State Supreme Court.

Media

• A. J. Benza, television show host, actor (Celebrity Fit Club).
• Costas Christ, columnist for the National Geographic Adventure Magazine and a globally recognized expert in sustainable tourism.
• Ted David, senior anchor at CNBC Business Radio.
• John Edward McGee, Jr., television host and producer.
• Jackee Harry, known for her roles on the television series "227", "Another World", "Designing Women", and the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Ladybugs."
• Alfred R. Kahn, chairman and CEO, 4Kids Entertainment.
• Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of ACME Communications.
• Brian Kilmeade, television presenter and current cohost of Fox and Friends and Brian the Judge.
• Joshua Kuvin, producer/editor for Dateline NBC and part of a team that won an Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for "Bitter Pills," a segment on Dateline NBC.
• Lynda Lopez, news anchor and sister of Jennifer Lopez.
• Nancy Hicks Maynard, first black female reporter for the New York Times. Mrs. Maynard and her husband are the first African Americans to own a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper, Oakland Tribune; and they cofounded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
• Burl Osborne, former chairman of the Associated Press and former publisher of the Dallas Morning News.
• Sibila Vargas, news anchor.
• Larry Wachtel, was known as the "Voice of Wall Street." Former senior vice president at Wachovia, financial analyst at Prudential Financial, and was a respected financial markets commentator on WINS (AM) radio in New York City.

Medicine and Health

• Morrell Avram, reputed nephrologist and among the first in the U.S. to use the artificial kidney to treat patients with kidney failure.
• Ruth Kirschstein, former acting director of the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards are named in her honor.
• Louis Lemberger, one of the developers of the antidepressant drug Prozac.
• Ira S. Richards, internationally recognized public health toxicologist.
• Velma Scantlebury, first black female transplant surgeon in the U.S.

Performing Arts

• Ed Lauter, actor.
• Dina Meyer, actress.
• Nicholas Pileggi, screenwriter and author.

Politics

• Abdullah M. Al-Saidi, Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations and former Yemeni vice minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Bill Aman, representative of the 14th District in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• 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 and who was succeeded by David Paterson, New York State's first black governor.
• Una Clarke, former representative of the 40th City Council District in the New York City Council and the first Caribbean-born person to serve on it.
• 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 and leader of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia.
• Tom Ognibene, former representative of the 30th City Council District in the New York City Council and New York City mayoral candidate.
• L. Harvey Smith, representative of the 31st District in the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Diana Urban, representative of the 43rd District in the Connecticut House of Representatives.

Sports and Recreation

• Hank Beenders, first non-American to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) finals.
• Frank Catalanotto, Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder, currently with the Texas Rangers.
• John Collins, former president and chief executive officer of the National Football League's (NFL) Cleveland Browns.
• Ray Felix, second African American to be named an NBA All-Star and the NBA's first dominant African-American center.
• Frido Frey, first German to play in the NBA.
• William King, one of the few African Americans to play in the National Basketball League, predecessor to the NBA.
• Vin Lananna, four-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Cross Country Coach of the Year whose collegiate teams produced 2000 Olympic Gold medalists Brad Hauser and Gabe Jennings.
• Frank Pia, inventor of the Pia Carry.
• Ossie Schectman, a member of the original New York Knickerbockers in their inaugural NBA season in 1946 and inductee in the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame.
• Peter Senerchia, wrestler and commentator, also known as Tazz in WWE and ECW.

Notable Faculty

Past

• Gerda Lerner, one of the pioneers of women's history as an academic discipline.
• Leo Pfeffer, was a distinguished jurist and leading theoretician on the separation of church and state in the U.S.

Present

• Bob Brier, noted Egyptologist and one of the world's leading experts on mummies.

Presidents and Chancellors* of Long Island University

• Tristram Walker Metcalfe (1942-1952)
• Richard L. Conolly (1953-1962)
• John H.G. Pell (chancellor) (1962-1964)
• Ralph Gordon Hoxie (chancellor) (1964-1968), cofounder of the Center for the Study of the Presidency
• George D. Stoddard (chancellor) (1968-1969)
• Glenn W. Ferguson (chancellor) (1969-1970); former U.S. ambassador to Kenya; former president of the University of Connecticut, Clark University, and the American University of Paris
• Albert Bush-Brown (chancellor) (1971-1984)
• David Steinberg (1985- )

The term "chancellor" replaced "president" as the designation for the chief officer from 1962-1984*.

Major Benefactors of Long Island University

Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn, New York City philanthropists who have donated generously to several New York City institutions of higher learning such as Columbia University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Rockefeller University

Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., former chief executive officer of Pfizer

Arnold and Marie Schwartz

William Zeckendorf, was one of the primary real estate developers in the U.S.

Other Notable People

• Larry Doby, first African American to play in the American League and second to play in the MLB after Jackie Robinson. Doby attended LIU for one semester before joining the United States Navy.
• Angier Biddle Duke, former chancellor (1986-1993) of the Southampton campus and U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco. Duke's great-uncle, James Buchanan Duke, founded the American Tobacco Company.
• James Hester, first rector of United Nations University and former provost of LIU's Brooklyn campus.
• Lillian R. Lieber, mathematician and popular author.