Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic

Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities. This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of these institutions. Note: Along with lay men and women, and non-Catholics, included in the list below are also a number of Jesuits.

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* Florencio Abad - Philippine lawyer and politician ( Ateneo de Manila University) *

Tony Abbott Anthony John Abbott (; born 4 November 1957) is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parli ...

- Australian Prime Minister ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview) * Monir Fakhry Abdelnour - Egyptian Minister of Tourism ( College de la Sainte Famille) * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - Former Indian President and Aerospace Scientist, St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli *

Robert Abplanalp Robert Henry Abplanalp, ( KHS) (April 4, 1922 – August 30, 2003) was an American inventor and engineer who invented the modern form of the aerosol spray valve, the founder of Precision Valve Corporation, a Republican political activist, and ...

- inventor of the aerosol valve; founder of Precision Valve Corporation (

Fordham Preparatory School Fordham Preparatory School (commonly known as Fordham Prep) is an American, independent, boys' college-preparatory school in the Jesuit tradition located on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. ...

) *

Andy Ackerman Robert Andrew Ackerman (born September 19, 1956) is an American director, producer, and script editor who is best known for his work on ''Seinfeld'', '' The New Adventures of Old Christine'' and the HBO series ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. Early ...

- television director and producer, ''

Seinfeld ''Seinfeld'' ( ) is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of List of Seinfeld episodes, 180 episodes. It ...

'', ''

Curb Your Enthusiasm ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', also known colloquially simply as ''Curb'', is an American television comedy of manners created by Larry David that premiered on HBO with an hour-long special in October 17, 1999, followed by 12 seasons broadcast from Oc ...

'', and ''

Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn that aired on CBS for 12 seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. The series originally starred Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper, a hedonis ...

'' (

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private university, private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university' ...

) * Benigno Aquino Jr. - Philippine politician ( Ateneo de Manila University) *

Benigno Aquino III Benigno Simeon Aquino III (; born Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines ...

- Philippine politician and son of Benigno Aquino Jr. ( Ateneo de Manila University) * Edward Fenech Adami - former President of

Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...

( St Aloysius' College) * Héctor Aguilar Camín - Mexican writer, journalist and historian (

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University (), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'', is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus ( ...

) * José Antonio Aguirre - Basque president (

University of Deusto The University of Deusto (; ) is a Spanish private university owned by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, and the Deusto Business School branch in Madrid. The University of Deusto is the oldest private university ...

) * Carlos Alazraki - President and CEO, Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad agency (

) *

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner and a three-time Tony Award nominee, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pier ...

- American movie actor and TV star (

Fordham University Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its origina ...

) * Iyad Allawi - Iraqi politician (

Baghdad College Baghdad College () is an elite high school for boys aged 11 to 18 in Baghdad, Iraq. It was initially a Catholic school founded by and operated by American Jesuits from Boston. The 1969 Iraqi government nationalization and expulsion of Jesuit tea ...

) *

Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and sat ...

- American film director ( Rockhurst High School) *

Don Ameche Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 19 ...

- American actor (

Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Ar ...

) *

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, a two-time Chess World Cup Champion and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion. ...

- Indian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

grandmaster ( Loyola College) *

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1961. His writ ...

- Yugoslavian author and

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...

(Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, Bosnia) * Guillermo Arriaga - Mexican screenwriter ('' Amores Perros''),

* Mike Arroyo - husband of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ( Ateneo de Manila University) * Emilio Azcarraga Jean - President and owner,

Televisa Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April ...

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) * APO Hiking Society - Filipino singing group ( Ateneo de Manila High School)

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* Claude Bachet - French mathematician (pupil of the Jesuit mathematician

Jacques de Billy : ''For the English patristic scholar and Benedictine abbot, see Jacques de Billy (abbot) (1535–1581).'' Jacques de Billy (March 18, 1602 – January 14, 1679) was a French Jesuit mathematician. Born in Compiègne, he subsequently enter ...

at the Jesuit College in Rheims) * Mohsen Badawi - Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer ( Collège de la Sainte Famille) *Fr. Eugene Balabin, SJ - Russian Catholic priest, collaborator with Martynov and Gagarin, developer of Jesuit "Slavic" Library at

Meudon Meudon () is a French Communes of France, commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, on the left bank of the Seine. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of P ...

(attended seminary at Vals near Le-Puy-en-Velay) * Jakob Balde - German Latinist and poet ( University of Ingolstadt) * Donald W. Banner - United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (

University of Detroit The University of Detroit Mercy is a private Catholic university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is sponsored by both the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy. The university was founded in 1877 and is the largest Catho ...

) *

José Celso Barbosa José Celso Barbosa Alcala (July 27, 1857 – September 21, 1921) was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader. Known as the father of the statehood movement in Puerto Rico, Barbosa was the first Puerto Rican, and one of th ...

- medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader (first racially mixed resident to attend Puerto Rico's Jesuit Seminary) * George Barna - American political pollster (

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

) * Kevin Barry - martyr of the Irish War of Independence (

Belvedere College Belvedere College Society of Jesus, S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a fee-paying voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. Formally established in 1832 at Hardwicke Street in north inner city Dublin, the school was ...

) *

John Barrymore John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly a ...

- American Shakespearean actor ( Georgetown Preparatory School) *

Jyoti Basu Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest ...

- Communist politician from West Bengal, India ( St. Xavier's Collegiate School) *

Elgin Baylor Elgin Gay Baylor ( ; September 16, 1934 – March 22, 2021) was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lak ...

- American basketball player ( Seattle University) * Steve Bellan - Cuban baseball player (Fordham University) *Saint

Robert Bellarmine Robert Bellarmine (; ; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. He was one of the most important figure ...

- (

Gregorian University Pontifical Gregorian University (; also known as the Gregorian or Gregoriana), is a private pontifical university in Rome, Italy. The Gregorian originated as a part of the Roman College, founded in 1551 by Ignatius of Loyola, and included all ...

) *

Pope Benedict XIV Pope Benedict XIV (; ; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in May 1758. Pope Benedict X (1058–1059) is now con ...

- Italian Pope (Collegium Clementianum) * Robert Bennett - prominent Washington, D.C. attorney ( Brooklyn Prep, Georgetown College,

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

School of Law) *

William Bennett William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as the third United States secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of d ...

- former US Secretary of Education and author (

Gonzaga College High School Gonzaga College High School is a private Catholic college-preparatory high school for boys in Washington, D.C. Founded by the Jesuits in 1821 as the Washington Seminary, Gonzaga is named in honor of Aloysius Gonzaga, an Italian saint from the ...

) * Tom Benson -

New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South division. Since 1975, the team ...

owner (

Loyola University New Orleans Loyola University New Orleans is a Private university, private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the nam ...

) * Joseph Berardino - former CEO of

Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corpo ...

(

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2023, the university had about 5,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,200 gra ...

) * Matt Berninger - singer-songwriter, primarily known as the

frontman The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...

band The National ( St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati)) * Fr.

Daniel Berrigan Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's protests against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiratio ...

, SJ - peace activist, author and professor, Woodstock College ( Brooklyn Prep, Le Moyne College, Fordham University) *

Philip Berrigan Philip Francis “Phil” Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Catholic priest with the Josephites (Maryland), Josephites. He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace an ...

- author and activist (

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by educators Benedict Joseph Fenwick and Thomas F. Mulledy in 1843 under the auspices of the Society of Jesus. ...

) *

Rubén Berríos Rubén Ángel Berríos Martínez (born June 21, 1939) is a Puerto Rican politician, international law attorney, writer, and current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP). A former three-time senator, Berríos is a perennial PI ...

- President of the

Puerto Rican Independence Party The Puerto Rican Independence Party (, PIP) is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. Those who follow the PIP ideology are usually called ''independentist ...

( Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola of

Puerto Rico ; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...

) *

Sabeer Bhatia Sabeer Bhatia (born 30 December 1968) is an Indian American businessman who co-founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail.com (now Outlook.com) in 1996. In 2021 he co-founded ShowReel with Javed Yunus. ShowReel initially hosted sho ...

- founder of Hotmail (St Joseph's College, Bangalore, India) *

- French Jesuit mathematician * Joan Biskupic - U.S. Supreme Court journalist (

and

Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Law Center is the Law school in the United States, law school of Georgetown University, a Private university, private research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law ...

) *

William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel ''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'' and for his screenplay for The Exorcist, the 1973 film adaptat ...

- American author ( Brooklyn Prep and

) *

John Boehner John Andrew Boehner ( ; born , 1949) is an American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served 13 terms as the U.S. representative ...

- Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (

Xavier University Xavier University ( ) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier had an enrollment of approximately 5,600 undergraduate an ...

) * Georg Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer (

Aloisiuskolleg The Aloisiuskolleg is a co-educational, Jesuit (Catholic church, Catholic), University-preparatory school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany, which includes boarding school, boarders. It is named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Highly ranked academically ...

) * Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer (Aloisiuskolleg) *Fr. Jean Bolland, SJ - educator, scholar, researcher, hagiographer; founder of the Bollandists; original editor and author of the ''

Acta Sanctorum ''Acta Sanctorum'' (''Acts of the Saints'') is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, organised by the saints' feast days. The project was conceived and ...

'' (Jesuit colleges at Maastricht and Antwerp,

Louvain Leuven (, , ), also called Louvain (, , ), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the sub-municipalities of ...

) *

Jean-Charles de Borda Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (4 May 1733 – 19 February 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer. Biography Borda was born in the city of Dax to Jean‐Antoine de Borda and Jeanne‐Marie Thérèse de Lacroix. In 17 ...

- French mathematician, physicist, political scientist and sailor ( Jesuit college at La Fleche) * Julio Borges - Venezuelan activist of Primero Justicia Party (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola de Caracas, Venezuela) *

Gutzon Borglum John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculpture, sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Moun ...

- American sculptor ( Creighton Preparatory School) * Philip Bosco - Tony Award-winning actor (Broadway and Hollywood) (Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey) * Roger Boscovich -

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

astronomer (Jesuit College in

Ragusa Ragusa may refer to: Places Croatia * Ragusa, Dalmatia, the historical name of the city of Dubrovnik * the Republic of Ragusa (or Republic of Dubrovnik), the maritime city-state of Ragusa * Ragusa Vecchia, historical Italian name of Cavtat, a t ...

) *

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French Bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and theology, theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and lit ...

- French bishop and theologian (Collège des Godrans) *

Charles Bossut Charles Bossut (11 August 1730 – 14 January 1814) was a French mathematician and ''confrère'' of the Encyclopaedists. Early life and education Bossut was born in 1730 in Tartaras, Loire to Barthélemy Bossut and Jeanne Thonnerine. He lost h ...

- French mathematician, confrere of the Encyclopaedists (Jesuit College of Lyon) *

Robert Bourassa Robert Bourassa (; July 14, 1933 – October 2, 1996) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just ...

- Quebec politician ( College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal) *

Pat Bowlen Patrick Dennis Bowlen (February 18, 1944 – June 13, 2019) was an American lawyer, executive and the majority owner of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL), winning three Super Bowls. He was inducted in the Pro Football Hall ...

- owner of

Denver Broncos The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC West, West division. The team is headquartered in E ...

(Campion Jesuit Catholic High School) * Christopher Brennan - Australian author ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) * John O. Brennan - US Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security (

) * Carlos Brito - CEO,

InBev InBev () was a brewing company that resulted from the merger between Belgium-based company Interbrew and Brazilian brewer AmBev which took place in 2004. It existed independently until the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch in 2008, which formed Anheu ...

(educated by Jesuits in his native Brazil) * Isaac Broid Zajman - Mexican architect (

) *

Till Brönner Till Brönner (; born 6 May 1971 in Viersen, West Germany) is a German jazz trumpeter, Flugelhorn, flügelhorn player, singer, composer, producer and photographer. History From 1989–1991, Brönner was a member of the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhyt ...

- German musician (

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

, Germany) *

Jerry Brown Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic P ...

- American politician ( St. Ignatius High School and

) *

John Bruton John Gerard Bruton (18 May 1947 – 6 February 2024) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1994 to 1997 and Leader of Fine Gael from 1990 to 2001. He held cabinet positions between 1981‍ and 1987, including twice ...

- former

Taoiseach The Taoiseach (, ) is the head of government or prime minister of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The office is appointed by the President of Ireland upon nomination by Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legisl ...

of Ireland ( Clongowes Wood College) *

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (, ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), known as Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Securi ...

- Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, United States National Security Advisor ( Loyola High School) *

Pat Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan ( ; born November 2, 1938) is an American paleoconservative author, political commentator, and politician. He was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He ...

- American journalist (

and

) * William F. Buckley, Jr. - American author, conservative commentator and public intellectual (

Beaumont College Beaumont College was between 1861 and 1967 a Public school (UK), public school in Old Windsor, Old Windsor in Berkshire. Founded and run by the Society of Jesus, it offered a Roman Catholic public school education in rural surroundings, while l ...

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

) * Clara de Buen Richkarday - Mexican architect (

) * Georges Buffon - French

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon) *

Jim Bunning James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representati ...

- American senator and baseball player (

) *

Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest and ...

- Spanish filmmaker (Jesuit College, Aragon, Spain) * Daniel Burman - film producer (

)

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* Ryan Cabrera - Colombian musician ( Jesuit College Preparatory School) *

Rafael Caldera Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez ( ; 24 January 1916 – 24 December 2009) was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest se ...

- Venezuelan politician (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

) *

Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño (17 January 160025 May 1681) (, ; ) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished Spanish Baroque literature, poets and ...

- Spanish dramatist ( Jesuit College Madrid) * Joseph Califano - U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration ( Brooklyn Prep and

) * Daniel J. Callaghan - American admiral who won the Medal of Honor in WWII ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco) * Tom Campbell - American educator and former U.S. Representative from California ( St. Ignatius College Prep) * Tony Canadeo -

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

player (

Gonzaga University Gonzaga University (GU) ( ) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in Spokane, Washington, United States. It is Higher education accreditation in the United States, accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges ...

) *

Philip Caputo Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for '' A Rumor of War'' (1977), a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo has written 18 books, including three memoirs, five ...

- American journalist (

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic Church, ...

) * Ernesto Cardenal -

Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...

n priest and poet *

Charles Carroll of Carrollton Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III, was an American politician, planter, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the only Catholic signatory ...

- last surviving (and only Catholic) signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the

Continental Congress The Continental Congress was a series of legislature, legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of British America, Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after ...

and later US Senator for

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...

( College of St. Omer in

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

) *

Daniel Carroll Daniel Carroll Jr. (July 22, 1730May 7, 1796) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a Maryland politician, and a plantation owner. He supported the American Revolution, served in the Confederation Congress, was a delegate to ...

- American politician, considered to be one of the

Founding Fathers of the United States The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American Revolution, American revolutionary leaders who United Colonies, united the Thirteen Colon ...

(College of St. Omer in

Flanders Flanders ( or ; ) is the Dutch language, Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, la ...

) *Archbishop John Carroll, SJ - first American archbishop and founder of

(College of St. Omer, Flanders) * Robert P. Casey, Sr. - Governor of Pennsylvania (

Scranton Preparatory School Scranton Preparatory School is a co-educational Jesuit high school located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. History Scranton Prep opened its doors in 1944. At the request of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton and of Catholic families ...

and College of the Holy Cross) * Robert P. Casey, Jr. - US Senator (

and College of the Holy Cross) *

William Casey William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 – May 6, 1987) was an American lawyer who was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community and personally directed the ...

- American former director of the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...

(Fordham University) *

Giovanni Domenico Cassini Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard sta ...

- Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (Jesuit College at Genoa) *

Louis Bertrand Castel Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natura ...

- French Jesuit mathematician (Jesuit School in Toulouse) *

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba, president ...

- President of Cuba ( Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba) *

Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz ( ; ; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the One-par ...

- President of Cuba (Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba) *

Paul Cellucci Argeo Paul Cellucci (; April 24, 1948 – June 8, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 69th governor of Massachusetts from 1997 to 2001 and as the United States Ambassador to ...

- former

Governor of Massachusetts The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the head of government of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The governor is the chief executive, head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonw ...

and US Ambassador to Canada (Boston College) *

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( ; ; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelist ...

- Spanish author * Giovanni Ceva - Italian mathematician (Jesuit College in Milan) * Tommaso Ceva - Italian mathematician (Jesuit College of Brera in Milan) * François de la Chaise - French priest and father confessor of King Louis XIV; namesake of the

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Buried at Père Lachaise are many famous figures in the ...

(Jesuit College of Lyon) *

Ahmed Chalabi Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (; 30 October 1945 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi dissident politician, convicted fraudster and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq ( 37th ...

- Iraqi politician (

) * Christopher G. Champlin - United States Representative and Senator from

Rhode Island Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Is ...

; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank ( College of St. Omer) * Marcia Chatelain - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, alumna of St. Ignatius College Prep * Jasti Chelameswar - Judge, Supreme Court of India (Loyola College, Chennai, India) * Elwin Bruno Christoffel - German and French mathematician and physicist (Jesuit Gymnasium in Cologne) * Vincent Cianci - American politician (

) *

Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1984), and her subsequent short story collection, ''Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her wo ...

- American author (Loyola University Chicago) *

Walter Ciszek Walter Joseph Ciszek, Jesuits, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuits, Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who Clandestine operation, clandestinely conducted Christian mission, missionary wo ...

, SJ - American priest, Russian Catholic Church; accused of being a Vatican spy; Gulag survivor; author; spiritual advisor ( Collegium Russicum) *

Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science, military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of ...

, Jr. - American author ( Loyola College in Maryland and Loyola High School) *

Will Clark William Nuschler Clark Jr. (born March 13, 1964) is an American professional baseball first baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 through 2000. He played for the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, and ...

- American baseball player ( Jesuit High School, New Orleans) *

Patricia Clarkson Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions. Her accolades incl ...

- Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress (

) * Peter Claver - Roman Catholic saint *

Christopher Clavius Christopher Clavius, (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician, head of mathematicians at the , and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by Aloysius ...

- German Jesuit astronomer * Brian P. Cleary - American humorist, poet and author of dozens of books ( Cleveland St. Ignatius High School, John Carroll University) *

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

- President of the United States (

) *

Johnnie Cochran Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr.Adam Bernstei ''The Washington Post'', March 30, 2005; retrieved April 17, 2006. ( ; October 2, 1937 – March 29, 2005) was an American attorney from California who was involved in numerous civil rights and Police b ...

- American lawyer (

Loyola Law School Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Academics Degrees offered include the Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Science in Legal ...

, Los Angeles) * Billy Collins - American poet (College of the Holy Cross) * Chris Collins - American hockey player (

) *

Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; ; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French Philosophy, philosopher, Political economy, political economist, Politics, politician, and m ...

- French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist (Jesuit College in Reims) * Harry Connick, Jr - American singer, entertainer, movie actor ( Jesuit High School, New Orleans) *

Pat Conroy Donald Patrick Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books ''The Water Is Wide (book), The Water is Wide'', ''The Lords of Discipline'', ''The Prince of Tides (no ...

- American writer (Gonzaga High School, Washington, DC) (one year) * Arthur W. Conway - Irish mathematician and President of

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

, where he had received a Jesuit education as a young man *

Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (; ; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage ...

- French dramatist * E. Gerald Corrigan - American banker, 7th President of the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses the New York (state), State of New York, the 12 norther ...

(

and Fordham University) *

Pierre de Coubertin Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; born Pierre de Frédy; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937), also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic ...

- French pedagogue and historian *

Bob Cousy Robert Joseph Cousy ( , born August 9, 1928) is an American former professional basketball player. He played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969–70 season. A 13-time NBA ...

- American basketball player (College of the Holy Cross) * Thomas Crean - Irish and British and Irish Lions rugby player, doctor and Major in the British army ( Clongowes Wood College Co. Kildare and

Dublin), Dublin) *

Darren Criss Darren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series ''Glee (TV series), Glee'' (2010–2015) and received a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award and ...

- American actor ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco) *

Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian, entertainer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwi ...

- American entertainer (

, Spokane) *

Andrew Cuomo Andrew Mark Cuomo ( , ; born December 6, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, ...

- governor of New York State (Fordham University) * Johann Baptist Cysat - Swiss mathematician and astronomer ( University of Ingolstadt)

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* Geoffrey Da Silva - Guyanese politician and administrator ( St. Stanislaus College, Guyana) *

Arthur Daley ''Minder'' is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, and shown on ITV for ten series between 29 October 1979 a ...

- ''New York Times'' columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism (

) *

William M. Daley William Michael Daley (born August 9, 1948) is an American politician and former banker who served as the 24th White House Chief of Staff from January 2011 to January 2012 under President Barack Obama. Before this, he served as the 32nd U.S. ...

- former

United States Secretary of Commerce The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary rep ...

(Loyola University Chicago) * François d'Aguilon - Belgian mathematician and physicist * Roque Dalton - Salvadoran poet and journalist ( Externado San José in

San Salvador San Salvador () is the Capital city, capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its San Salvador Department, eponymous department. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and fin ...

) *

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

- Nicaraguan poet (educated by the Jesuits of Leon, Nicaragua) * Raymond J. Dearie - American judge, Chief Judge of the

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the United States district court, federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction spans five List of counties in New York, counties in ...

(

) * David DeCaires - Guyanese journalist (

Stonyhurst College Stonyhurst College or Stonyhurst is a co-educational Catholic Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing education for boarding school, boarding and day school, day pupils, adhering to the Society of Jesus, Jesuit tradition. It is ...

, England) * Marco Antonio de Dominis -

Dalmatia Dalmatia (; ; ) is a historical region located in modern-day Croatia and Montenegro, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Through time it formed part of several historical states, most notably the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Croatia (925 ...

n ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science (educated by the Jesuits in their colleges at Loreto and Padua) * Timothy Donahue - Executive Chairman of

Sprint Nextel Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before being Merger of Sprint Corporation and T-Mobile US, acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 5 ...

(

John Carroll University John Carroll University (JCU) is a Private university, private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio, United States. Located in a suburb of Cleveland, it is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts college, liberal arts institution compo ...

) *

Christian de Duve Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he sh ...

- Belgian scientist,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

for medicine in 1974 (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege, Antwerp, Belgium) *

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

- former President of France * Jean-Charles de la Faille - French Jesuit mathematician (Jesuit College in Antwerp and the Jesuit College in Mechelen) * Jean-Luc Dehaene - former Belgian prime minister ( Sint-Jozefscollege, Aalst, Belgium) *

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author of well-known books on the ...

- French mathematician and astronomer (Jesuit College in Amiens) *

Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, televi ...

- American novelist (

) *

Jacques Delors Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (; 20 July 192527 December 2023) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and th ...

- French politician *

René Descartes René Descartes ( , ; ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and Modern science, science. Mathematics was paramou ...

- French philosopher (

Jesuit College of La Flèche The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 ...

in Anjou, France) *

Denis Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during th ...

- French Enlightenment philosopher, art critic, and author, co-founder of the ''

Encyclopédie , better known as ''Encyclopédie'' (), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis ...

'' ( College Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France) * Khoa Do - Australian

filmmaker Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screen ...

(

St Aloysius' College (Sydney) St Aloysius' College is an Education in Australia#Independent schools, independent Catholic school, Catholic Primary school, primary and Secondary school, secondary day school for boys, located in Kirribilli, a suburb on the North Shore (Sydney) ...

) * Dr. John - American musician (Jesuit High School, New Orleans) *

Chris Dodd Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the List of United Sta ...

- American politician ( Georgetown Preparatory School) * Charles F. Dolan - American billionaire, the founder of Cablevision (

) * Dan Donovan - U.S. Representative,

Fordham Law School Fordham University School of Law is the law school of Fordham University. The school is located in Manhattan in New York City, and is one of eight ABA-approved law schools in that city. According to Fordham University School of Law's ABA- ...

* Tom Dooley - American Catholic physician and humanitarian ( St. Louis University High, St. Louis University) * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - author of the

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a Detective fiction, fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "Private investigator, consulting detective" in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with obser ...

detective stories (

Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall (commonly known as S.M.H.) is the preparatory school to Stonyhurst College. It is an independent co-educational Catholic school, for ages 3–11, founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). It is adjacent to Stonyhurst ...

and

) *

Rahul Dravid Rahul Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is a former cricket player, ex-captain and ex-coach of the Indian national cricket team. Known for his outstanding batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely re ...

- former Indian cricket captain (St. Joseph's School and St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore) * Avery Dulles - American cardinal, professor and theologian; son of Secretary of State Dulles (

in Rome) *

Sixto Durán Ballén Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez (14 July 1921 – 15 November 2016) was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect who served as the 37th president of Ecuador from 1992 to 1996. He previously served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 197 ...

- former Ecuadorian President (Colegio San Gabriel, Quito) *

Will Durant William James Durant (; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, '' The Story of Civilization'', which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civil ...

- American philosopher and author (Saint Peter's Prep, Saint Peter's College, Jersey City) * Richard J. Durbin - American politician (

)

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* Timothy Egan - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (

Gonzaga Preparatory School Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Washington, is a Private school, private, Catholic Church, Catholic high school in the Inland Northwest. Colloquially nicknamed "G-Prep", the Jesuits, Jesuit school has been recognized for its college prepa ...

in Spokane, Washington) *

Ignacio Ellacuría Ignacio Ellacuría (November 9, 1930 – November 16, 1989) was a Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theology, theologian who worked as a professor and Rector (academia), rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Ca� ...

- Spanish liberation theologian and professor at Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" *

Keith Ellison Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2019 as the 30th attorney general of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Ellison was the U.S. representative for fr ...

- American lawyer and politician ( University of Detroit Jesuit High School) * Nick Enright - Australian playwright ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *

Juan Ponce Enrile Juan Valentin Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr., (born Juan Valentin Furagganan; February 14, 1924), also referred to by his initials JPE, is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to ...

- Philippine politician; former Marcos Defense Minister ( Ateneo de Manila University) *

Ahmet Ertegun Ahmet Ertegun ( ; , ; July 31, 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and championed many lead ...

- American entrepreneur (

) *

Farid Esack Farid Esack (born 1955 in Wynberg, Cape Town) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-rel ...

- South African scholar, writer and political activist (

Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology (German: ''Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen'') is a higher education Jesuit college in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The school offers a 10-semester Magister in Catholic T ...

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

) *

Raúl Esparza Raúl Eduardo Esparza is an American actor. Considered one of Broadway's most prominent leading men since the 2000s, he is best known for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Bobby in the 2006 Broadway revival of ''Company'' and for his te ...

- American actor *

Patrick Ewing Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who is a basketball ambassador for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he played most o ...

- American basketball player (

)

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* Kevin Fagan - Australian doctor and

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

hero (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *

Chris Farley Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American actor and comedian. He was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and later a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'' for fiv ...

- American comedian and actor (Marquette University, Wisconsin) * Michael Farris - chancellor of Patrick Henry College, founder and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association (

Gonzaga University School of Law The Gonzaga University School of Law (also known as Gonzaga Law or GU Law) is the professional school for the study of law at Gonzaga University. Established in 1912, the Jesuit-affiliated law school has been fully accredited by the American Ba ...

) *

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci ( ; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical ...

- Italian-American immunologist (

Regis High School (New York City) Regis High School is a private, all-male, Jesuit secondary school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. History Founding Regis High School was founded in 1914, through the financial bequest of a single (originally ano ...

and the

) *

Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau ( ; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in films such as ''Rudy (film), Rudy'' (1993), ''PCU (film), PCU'' (1994), ''Swingers (1996 film), Swingers'' (1996), ''Very ...

- head speechwriter for U.S. President Barack Obama (valedictorian at the College of the Holy Cross) * Ferdinand II, of the House of

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (; ), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most powerful dynasties in the history of Europe and Western civilization. They were best known for their inbreeding and for ruling vast realms throughout Europe d ...

- reigned as

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from 1620 to 1637 ( University of Ingolstadt) * Diego Fernández de Ceballos - Mexican senator (

, Mexico) *

Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice presiden ...

- American politician and first woman vice presidential candidate (Fordham University) * Anthony Fisher - Australian prelate (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) * Garret FitzGerald - Irish economist and politician (

) *

Patrick Fitzgerald Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and former Partner (business rank), partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. For more than a decade, until June 30, 2012, Fitzgerald was the United Sta ...

- American attorney (

) * Maile Flanagan - American voice actress and comedian (

) * Justin Fleming - Australian playwright ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *

London Fletcher London Levi Fletcher-Baker (born May 19, 1975) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 16 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the John Carroll Blue Streaks and sign ...

- American football player (

) *

Doug Flutie Douglas Richard Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional Gridiron football, football quarterback who played for 21 seasons. He played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), eight seasons in the Canadian Footb ...

- American football player (

) * Bernard Foley - Australian Rugby union Player (Saint Aloysius' College (Sydney)) * John Patrick Foley - Cardinal, Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (

Saint Joseph's Preparatory School St. Joseph's Preparatory School, known as "St. Joe's Prep" or simply "The Prep", is an urban, private, Catholic, college preparatory school run by the Society of Jesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The school was founded in 1851 ...

and Saint Joseph's College) * Thomas Foley - American politician (

, Spokane) * Fontenelle - French author (Jesuit College, Rouen) * William P. Ford - international civil rights attorney ( Brooklyn Prep, Fordham College) *

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

- French philosopher (Saint-Stanislaus, Poiters) *

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the Nat ...

- President of

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

(Campion Jesuit High School for two years, and

, Mexico) *

Pope Francis Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until Death and funeral of Pope Francis, his death in 2025. He was the fi ...

- ( Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel, Colegio Máximo de San José) * Missy Franklin - Olympic swimmer, gold medalist ( Regis Jesuit High School) * Pedro Friedeberg - Mexican painter (

) *

Frankie Frisch Frank Francis Frisch (September 9, 1897—March 12, 1973), nicknamed "the Fordham Flash" or "the Old Flash", was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants (1919� ...

- American baseball player, third all-time for most World Series hits (

and

) *

Mauricio Funes Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of t ...

- President of

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

( Externado San José in San Salvador)

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Mario Gabelli Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor, and financial analyst. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors (Gamco Investors), an investment firm head ...

- billionaire; founder and CEO of GAMCO Investors (Fordham University) *Fr. Ivan Gagarin, SJ - Russian Catholic polemist and author ( St-Acheul, Brugelette, and Laval) * Delia Gallagher - American journalist (

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in San Francisco, California, United States. Founded in 1855, it has nearly 9,000 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees ...

) *

Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), also known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali language, Bengali), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He is popularly called the ...

- former Indian cricket captain ( St. Xavier's Kolkata) * Rich Gannon - Former NFL quarterback and 2002 NFL MVP ( St. Joseph's Prep) *

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th centur ...

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

n author and

(Jesuit Colegio San Jose in Barranquilla and Jesuit College in Bogotá, Colombia) *St. Thomas Garnet SJ - canonized saint and protomartyr of St Omers, one of the

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( College of St. Omer) *

Bachir Gemayel Bachir Pierre Gemayel (, ; 10 November 1947 – 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982. ...

- Lebanese president-elect; 1982 ( Université Saint-Joseph) *

Marin Getaldić Marino Ghetaldi (; ; 2 October 1568 – 11 April 1626) was a Republic of Ragusa, Ragusan scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematic ...

- Croatian mathematician and physicist (Educated by Clavius) *

Gordon Getty Gordon Peter Getty (born December 20, 1933) is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork Light, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, G ...

- billionaire and businessman ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory) * John Paul Getty - American-British philanthropist ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory and

) * Ludovico Geymonat - Italian Marxist philosopher ( Istituto Sociale in

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

) *

Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn (; ; ; , born 9 March 1954) is a businessman and former automotive executive. He was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Michelin, Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Nissan ...

- CEO of

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and

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(Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour in Lebanon) *

Bob Gibson Robert Gibson (November 9, 1935October 2, 2020), nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hoot", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1959 to 1975. Known for his fiercely competi ...

- Hall of Fame pitcher for the

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(

Creighton University Creighton University () is a private research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In 2015 the university enrolled 8,393 graduate ...

) *

Soe Hok Gie Soe Hok Gie (17 December 1942 – 16 December 1969) was a Chinese Indonesian activist who opposed the successive dictatorships of Presidents Sukarno and Suharto. Overview Soe was an ethnic Chinese Roman Catholic, the fourth of five childr ...

- Indonesian

activist Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate build ...

( Kanisius in

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) * Thomas Girardi - trial lawyer ( Loyola High School (Los Angeles),

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) * Saint Aloysius Gonzaga - (

, Rome) *

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- Mexican filmmaker (

, Mexico City) *

Neil Gorsuch Neil McGill Gorsuch ( ; born August 29, 1967) is an American jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court ...

- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( Georgetown Preparatory School) *Baltasar Gracián - Spanish writer *Guido Grandi - Italian priest and professor of mathematics, philosophy, and theology (Jesuit College in Cremona) *Bernie Grant - first African-Caribbean Member of Parliament, Westminster (St. Stanislaus College, Guyana) *Todd Graves (entrepreneur), Todd Graves - owner of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (

) *Stanley Greaves - Guyanese and Caribbean artist ( St. Stanislaus College, Guyana) *Nick Greiner - Australian politician (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *Merv Griffin - actor, singer, media mogul (

) *Xu Guangqi - Chinese agricultural scientist and mathematician who studied under Matteo Ricci *Camillo-Guarino Guarini - Italian priest, mathematician, theologian and architect *Teofisto Guingona, Jr. - Filipino politician (Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan) *Teofisto Guingona III, Teofisto "TG" Guingona III - son of Teofisto Guingona, Jr., Filipino politician ( Ateneo de Manila University) *Paul Guldin - Swiss astronomer and mathematician (

, studied under Clavius) *Gustavo Gutiérrez - Dominican priest, professor, author, and liberation theologian *El Hijo del Santo, Jorge Guzmán - professional wrestler (

)

H

*William Habington - English poet (St. Omer College, Belgium) *Carter Ham - General, United States Army; Commanding General, U.S. Seventh Army, U.S. Army, Europe (

) *Michael Harrington - Harvard professor, political activist and author (St. Louis University High School and

) *Jonathan Harris - actor, best known for his TV work as Bradford Webster in ''The Third Man'' and Dr. Zachary Smith in ''Lost in Space'' (

) *Richard Harris - Irish actor (Crescent College, Limerick, Ireland) *William Thomas Hart - United States Federal Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) *Joseph E. Hasten - American banker, CEO of Shorebank (

) *Francis Hawkins (Jesuit), Francis Hawkins SJ - Jesuit, child prodigy and translator (College of St. Omer) *Salma Hayek - Mexican actress (

) *Martin Heidegger - German philosopher (Freiburg Jesuit Seminary) *Jordi Hereu - mayor of Barcelona, Spain (ESADE) *Roberto Hernández Ramírez - President of Banamex and Member of the Board Citibank (

) * Andrew Higgins - manufacturer; produced "LCVP (United States), Higgins boats" (LCVPs) during

– Creighton Preparatory School, Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, Nebraska *Mary Higgins Clark - American writer (Fordham University, Bronx, New York) *Will Hill - professional football player for the New York Giants (Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey) *Alfred Hitchcock - British film director (St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, N15; relocated to Enfield, Middlesex in the 1960s) *Tom Holland (actor), Tom Holland - British actor (Wimbledon College, London) *Sven Erik Holmes - United States federal judge (

) *Morihiro Hosokawa - Japanese politician (Sophia University) *Robert Hughes (critic), Robert Hughes - Australian art critic, writer and television documentary maker (St Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney) *Vicente Huidobro - Chilean poet *David Hume - Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (Prytanée National Militaire#The Jesuit College (1604–1762), Jesuit seminary at La Fleche) *Saint Alberto Hurtado - Chilean priest and saint, founded the Chilean Trade Union Association *Zakir Hussain (musician), Zakir Hussain - Indian musician (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai) *Henry Hyde - American politician (

) *Daniel Hynes, Dan Hynes - American politician ( St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, Illinois)

I

*Innocent XI - Pope (Como, Italy) *Allen Iverson - NBA NBA All-Star Game, All-Star player (

(two years))

J

*Arun Jaitley - Indian politician (St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School, Delhi) *Peter Jankowski - television producer (College of the Holy Cross) *John Paul I - Pope (

, Rome) *Lyndon B. Johnson - President of the United States (Georgetown Law School) *Paul Johnson (writer), Paul Johnson - British journalist, historian, speechwriter and author (Stonyhurst College) *Pierre-Marc Johnson - former Quebec Premier ( College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal) *Edward P. Jones - American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (College of the Holy Cross) *Barnaby Joyce - Australian senator ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *James Joyce - Irish novelist ( Clongowes Wood College Co. Kildare and

Dublin) *Raúl Juliá - American actor ( Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola)

K

*Tim Kaine - governor of Virginia ( Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri) *Abdul Kalam - former President of India (St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India) *Sebastian Kappen, SJ - Jesuit priest and liberation theologian (

in Rome) *Brett Kavanaugh – U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Georgetown Prep) *Frank Keating - former Governor of Oklahoma (

) *John Keegan - English military historian (Wimbledon College) *Bob Keeshan - American actor (Fordham University) *John Kerry - US Senator, 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate (

, Chestnut Hill, MA) *Bohdan Khmelnytsky - Cossack leader (educated by the Jesuits in L'vov, Ukraine) *Eusebio Kino - Tyrolian Jesuit missionary explorer of present-day California, Arizona and Sonora ( University of Ingolstadt) *Athanasius Kircher - German Jesuit scholar and polymath (Jesuit College in Fulda) *Curt Kirkwood - American singer in the musical group The Meat Puppets (Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona) *Peter Hans Kolvenbach - Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Canisius College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) *Luke Kuechly - American football player; linebacker for the Carolina Panthers ( St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati) preceding collegiate career at

) *Stephen W. Kuffler - scientist; educated by the Jesuits in Austria *Hans Küng - Swiss Catholic priest, author and theologian (

in Rome, Italy)

L

*Charles Marie de La Condamine, La Condamine - French geographer and mathematician (Jesuit College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris) *Philippe de La Hire - French mathematician *Jacques Lacan - French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor involved in the psychoanalytic movement (Collège Stanislas in Paris) *Maria Elena Lagomasino - CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank from 2001 to 2005 (Fordham University) *Jérôme Lalande - French astronomer (Jesuit College in Lyon) *Alexander Graf Lambsdorff - German politician *Francesco Lana de Terzi - Italian aeronautics pioneer (studied under Athanasius Kircher) *Nathan Lane - two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor of stage, screen, and television (Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey) *Charles Laughton - English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, and producer (

) *Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. - Cuban-American celebrity gossip blogger who writes under the pseudonym Perez Hilton (Belen Jesuit in Miami, Florida) *John Leahy (executive), John Leahy - Chief Operating Officer of Airbus (

) *Patrick J. Leahy - United States Senator (

) *Timothy Leary - American psychologist and writer (expelled from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts after his freshman year) *Byron Lee - Jamaican music pioneer (St. George's College, Jamaica) *Anthony James Leggett - British professor of physics (Wimbledon College) *Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - German mathematician (Jesuit College in Cologne) *Georges Lemaître - Belgian priest and astronomer (Collège du Sacré Coeur, Charleroi, Belgium) *Elmore Leonard - American novelist (University of Detroit Jesuit High School and

) * Pietro Leoni - Italian priest of the Russian Catholic Church; survivor of the Gulag; author of ''Spio dei Vaticano'' ( Collegium Russicum) *G. Gordon Liddy - American political strategist (Fordham University) *John T. Lis - American professor of molecular biology and genetics; List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2000, 2000 Guggenheim Fellow (

) *Christopher Loeak - President of the Marshall Islands (

) *Vince Lombardi - Hall of Fame football coach for the Green Bay Packers (Fordham University) *Bernard Lonergan - Canadian professor and theologian (

) *Lope de Vega - Spanish Spanish Baroque literature, Baroque playwright and poet (Colegio Imperial de Madrid) *Eduardo López de Romaña - President of Peru (Stonyhurst College) *Federico García Lorca - Spanish poet and playwright (attended Jesuit school as a boy in Grenada) *Henri de Lubac - French theologian (

in Rome, Italy) *Ruud Lubbers - former Prime Minister of the Netherlands; former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Canisius College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) *Emmanuel Lubezki - cinematographer (''The Birdcage'', ''Reality Bites'') (

) *Peter Lynch - American financial leader (

, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)

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*Gloria Macapagal Arroyo - President of the Philippines (

, Ateneo de Manila University) *Charles Mackerras - Australian conducting, conductor (

) *Gustavo Madero Muñoz - Mexican senator (

) *Lisa Madigan - American attorney general (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) *Michael Madigan - American politician ( St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, Illinois) *Maurice Maeterlinck - Belgian writer; Nobel Prize-winner for literature (Saint-Barbara college, Ghent, Belgium) *Ettore Majorana - Italian theoretical physicist (:it:Istituto Massimo, Istituto Massimo) *Tak Wah Mak - Canadian immunologist, molecular biologist, and academic (Wah Yan College, Kowloon, Wah Yan College, Kowloon, Hong Kong) *Louis Malle - French film director *Wellington Mara - American football entrepreneur (Loyola School (New York, NY) and Fordham University) *Jan Marek Marci - Bohemian mathematician (Jesuit college in Jindrichuv Hradec) *Guido de Marco - former president of

( St Aloysius' College in Malta) *Subcomandante Marcos (né Rafael Guillén) - Mexican leader of Zapatista Army (Instituto Cultural Tampico, Mexico) *George Martin - British music producer (St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, N15; relocated to Enfield, Middlesex in the 1960s) *Ignacio Martín-Baró - Jesuit priest and liberation theologian (Pontifical Xavierian University) *Fr. Ivan Mikhailovich Martynov, SJ - Russian Catholic priest and expositor of Slavic spiritual and cultural tradition (Brugelette and Laval) *Roberto Matta - Chilean painter *Drea de Matteo - Italian-American actress (Loyola School (New York, NY), Loyola School) *Chris Matthews - journalist (

) *Gregório de Mattos - major baroque poet of Brazil *Theodore McCarrick - American Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington D.C. (

) *Joseph McCarthy - U.S. Senator (

) *Dylan McDermott - Golden Globe Award-winning actor, known for his roles on TV series ''The Practice'' and ''American Gothic'' *William J. McGill - former president, Columbia University (

) *Joe McGinniss - American author (College of the Holy Cross) *John McLaughlin (host), John McLaughlin - American TV producer (

) *Joseph M. McLaughlin - Senior Appellate Judge, U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ( Brooklyn Prep, Fordham College and Fordham University School of Law) *Gregan McMahon - Australian actor and playwright ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *Mark McWatt - Guyanese and Caribbean author and poet ( St. Stanislaus College, Guyana) *Pierre Méchain - French astronomer and surveyor who contributed to the early study of deep sky objects and comets (educated by Jesuits in his birthplace of Laon) *Thomas Patrick Melady - American ambassador; sub-cabinet officer; Senior Diplomat in Residence, The Institute of World Politics (Fordham University) *Lorenzo Mendoza - billionaire and CEO of Empresas Polar (Fordham University) *Bob Menendez - American politician ( Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey) *Ismail Merchant - American/Indian film producer and director (Saint Xavier's College, Mumbai(Bombay), India) *Freddie Mercury - British musician (St. Mary's High School in Mazagaon) *Marin Mersenne - French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist (Le Mans and

) *Franz Mesmer - German physician whose ideas spawned the development of hypnosis (University of Dillingen and University of Ingolstadt) *Joseph Michel - French baroque composer (College of Godrans) *Barbara Mikulski - United States senator of Maryland ( Loyola College in Maryland) *Jason Miller (playwright), Jason Miller - American playwright and actor (University of Scranton) *John N. Mitchell - U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon (

) *Lakshmi Mittal - London-based Indian businessman and industrialist (St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, St. Xavier's College in Calcutta) *Dominique Moceanu - American gymnast (

) *Joe Moglia - chairman and former CEO of TD Ameritrade (Fordham University) *Molière - father of modern French literature (:fr:Collège de Clermont#Le collège des jésuites, Collège de Clermont, Paris) *Juan Ignacio Molina, Juan Molina - Chilean Jesuit and

*Luca di Montezemolo - Italian businessman (:it:Istituto Massimo, Istituto Massimo) *Mario Monti - Italian economist and politician (:it:Istituto Leone XIII (Milano), Istituto Leone XIII, Milan) *Jean-Étienne Montucla - French mathematician (Jesuit College, Lyon) *Massimo Moratti - Italian oil tycoon and owner of football club Inter Milan (:it:Istituto Leone XIII (Milano), Istituto Leone XIII, Milan) *Alejandro Moreno - Venezuelan footballer and commentator for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola de Caracas, Venezuela) *Michael Moriarty - American actor ( University of Detroit Jesuit High School) *Paul Morphy - American chess player (Spring Hill College) *Andrew Morrison - Guyanese journalist and human rights advocate ( St. Stanislaus College) *Julian Morrow - Australian comedian and radio host (St. Aloysius College) *George Moscone - Mayor of San Francisco, assassinated in office ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco) *Alonzo Mourning - American basketball player (

) *Robert Mugabe - President of Zimbabwe *Anne M. Mulcahy - retired chairman and CEO of Xerox and named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" in 2006 (

) *Arthur Murphy (writer), Arthur Murphy - author, biographer and barrister, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction" ( College of St. Omer) *Mark Murphy (American football executive), Mark Murphy, former NFL safety, president and CEO of Green Bay Packers (

) *Bill Murray - American TV and movie star (Loyola Academy, Wilmette and Regis University) *John Courtney Murray - American theologian (Xavier High, New York and Boston College) *Joseph Murray - American surgeon and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel laureate (

) * Robert Murray (priest), Robert Murray SJ, scholar of Syriac *Dikembe Mutombo - basketball player from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (

)

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*Jerrold Nadler - Jewish American politician (Fordham University School of Law) * Janet Napolitano - 21st Governor of Arizona, 3rd and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and 23rd Attorney General of Arizona (

) *Steve Nash - Canadian basketball player who played in the NBA (

) *Pius Ncube - Archbishop of Bulawayo, human rights activist in Zimbabwe *Bob Newhart - American actor and comedian ( St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago and

) *Gavin Newsom - American politician (

) *Enrique Norten - Mexican architect (

) *Gustav Nossal - Australian research biologist (St Aloysius' College (Sydney), St Aloysius' College, Sydney) *Henri Nouwen - Dutch Roman Catholic priest and professor of theology (Aloysius Gymnasium, The Hague) *Garin Nugroho - Indonesian film director (Kolese Loyola in Semarang, Central Java) *Aurelio Nuño Morales - Mexican architect (

)

O

*Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes (band), Bright Eyes) - American musician ( Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, Nebraska) *Bernard O'Brien (Jesuit), Bernard O'Brien SJ - New Zealand philosopher (Pullach, Pullach Jesuit house of studies) *Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien - American actor (Marquette University High School and

, Milwaukee) *Chris O'Donnell - actor (Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL and Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA) *Tip O'Neill - American politician (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) *Sir Anthony O'Reilly - Irish and Lions rugby union teams; businessman (Belvedere College, Dublin) *Charles Osgood - American media commentator (

) *Tomas Osmeña - Filipino politician (Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan) *Paul Otellini - President of Intel Corporation ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco) *Peter O'Toole - Irish actor *Gerry Ottenheimer - Canadian politician and senator (Fordham University) *Jacques Ozanam - French mathematician (Jesuit College in Rheims)

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* Leon Panetta - 23rd United States Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Obama Administration, former White House Chief of Staff to President

, former director, United States Office of Management and Budget, former Member of U.S. Congress, 17th District (

) *Denis Papin - French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his work with steam power (Jesuit school in Blois) *Park Geun-hye - President of South Korea (Sogang University) *Parokya ni Edgar - Filipino rock band ( Ateneo de Manila High School) *Joe Paterno - American football coach (Brooklyn Prep) *Paul VI - Pope (Gregorian University, Rome) *Alexander Payne - American film writer-director ( Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, Nebraska) *Denis Pétau - also known as Petavius, French Jesuit theologian *Francis Petre - New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin (Mount St Mary's College near Sheffield) *Jean Picard - French astronomer and priest (

) *Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. - Filipino senator (Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan) *Donald Pinkel - American medical doctor, founding medical director and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Canisius High School and Canisius College) *Pius XI - Pope (

, Rome) *Pius XII - Pope (Gregorian University, Rome) *Joseph Mary Plunkett - Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising, for which he was executed (Stonyhurst College) *Alexius Sylvius Polonus - Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments (Jesuit College in Kalisz) *John E. Potter - U.S. Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service (

) *Peter Pronovost - Critical care physician, 2008 Time 100 and MacArthur Fellow (

) *Danny Pudi - American actor (

)

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*Francisco de Quevedo - nobleman, politician and writer of the Spanish Golden Age (Colegio Imperial de Madrid)

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*Stefan Raab - German entertainer and comedian (

, the Jesuit gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Germany) *Karl Rahner - German theologian *Mariano Rajoy-Spanish Prime Minister 2011-2018 (Jesuit College in León, Spain) *Narasimhan Ram - editor-in-chief of ''The Hindu'' (Loyola College, Chennai) *Jorge Ramos (news anchor), Jorge Ramos - journalist with Univision (

) *Mark Raper - Oceania Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *Kiefer Ravena - Filipino basketball player ( Ateneo de Manila University) *Hubert Reeves - astrophysicist ( College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal) *Matteo Ricci - Italian Jesuit priest responsible for much of the introduction of Western culture to China *Cardinal Richelieu - French statesman (Collège de Navarre, Collège de Calvi) *Hans Riegel - German entrepreneur (Haribo) *Arturo Ripstein - film director and producer (

) *Jose Rizal - national hero of the Philippines, Reformist, Revolutionary; founder of La Liga Filipina; ophthalmologist, author; surgeon; linguist; led independence movement against Spanish rule in the Philippines ( Ateneo de Manila University) *Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter), Sam Roberts - Canadian singer *Maximilien Robespierre - French statesman (:fr:Collège de Clermont#Le collège des jésuites, Collège de Clermont, Paris) *Jacques Rogge - chairman of the International Olympic Committee (Sint-Barbaracollege, Ghent, Belgium) *Michel Rojkind - Mexican architect and former musician of Russian descent (

) *Al Roker - American TV meteorologist (Xavier High School, New York) *Óscar Romero - priest and martyr (

, Rome, Italy) *Blessed Theodore Romzha - Ruthenian Catholic Church's Bishop of Mukachevo, martyr under Joseph Stalin ( Collegium Russicum) *Fr. Heribert Rosweyde - Jesuit priest and hagiographer, original compiler-writer-editor for ''

'' continued by the Bollandists, taught philosophy at Douai *Manuel Roxas II - Philippine Senator ( Ateneo de Manila University) *Pete Rozelle - American football commissioner (

) *Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish painter of the 17th century, Antwerp *Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón - Spanish politician (Jesuit Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo) *Bill Russell (basketball), Bill Russell - American basketball player (

) *Mark Russell - American political comedian (Canisius High School, Buffalo, New York) *Tim Russert - American politician and anchorman (Canisius High School and

) *Joseph Russoniello - two-time U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (

) *Leo Ryan - member of U.S. House Of Representatives (D-California) assassinated during Jonestown Massacre (

and Campion High School)

S

*Juan Sabines Guerrero - Governor of Chiapas (

) *Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri - Italian Jesuit and mathematician (Jesuit College in Milan) *Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - French writer and aviator (Jesuit schools in Montgré and Le Mans) *Grégoire de Saint-Vincent - Jesuit mathematician who independently discovered the Mercator series, the expansion of log (1 + x) in ascending powers of x *Saint Francis de Sales - Bishop of Geneva, Church Doctor, Clermont, Paris *Antonin Scalia - American judge (Xavier High School (New York City), Xavier High School and

) *Christoph Scheiner - German astronomer and Jesuit (Jesuit Latin School in Augsburg and Jesuit College at Landsberg) *Edward Schillebeeckx - Belgian Liberation theology, liberation theologian, professor at University of Nijmegen and priest of the Dominican Order *Gaspar Schott - German physicist, mathematician and natural philosopher (studied under Athanasius Kircher) *Kurt Schuschnigg (von Schuschnigg) - Austrian chancellor imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 by Nazi Germany following the Anschluss (Stella Matutina (Jesuit school)) *Vin Scully - American sportscaster (started as a student broadcaster at

) *Egon Sendler, SJ - French priest, expert on Eastern Christian iconography ( Collegium Russicum) *Antonio Serrano (director), Antonio Serrano - Mexican film director/screenwriter (''Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas'') (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico) *J. Francisco Serrano Cacho - Mexican architect (Universidad Iberoamericana) *John Sexton - President of New York University ( Brooklyn Prep and Fordham University) *Dennis Shedd - United States federal appellate judge (

) *Bartlett Sher - Tony-winning theater director ( St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco,

) *Mark Kennedy Shriver - CEO, Save the Children (College of the Holy Cross) *Don Shula - American football head coach (

) *Eugene Shvidler - billionaire and international oil tycoon (Fordham University) *Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, political writer, and one of the chief political theorists of the French Revolution *Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora - Jesuit priest and early intellectual born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain (Jesuit College in Tepoztlan) *Paul Silas - American basketball player and head coach (

) *Eugene Edward Siler, Jr. - United States federal appellate judge (

) *Saravanan Sivakumar - Tamil actor (Loyola College, Chennai) *Santosh Sivan - Indian cinematographer and film director (Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram) *Curtis Sliwa - American founder of the Guardian Angels ( Brooklyn Prep) *Tom Snyder - American TV/radio talk show host (Marquette University High School) *Demetrio Sodi - Mexican politician (

) *Francis Cardinal Spellman - Cardinal and Archbishop of New York (

) * Tomáš Špidlík, SJ - Czech Jesuit Cardinal, scholar, author and professor (Pontifical Oriental Institute) *Jordan Spieth - professional golfer (Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas, Texas) *Erik Spoelstra - NBA head coach (Jesuit High School (Beaverton, Oregon), Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon) *Charlie Stayers - Guyanese and West Indian cricketer ( St. Stanislaus College, Guyana) *John Stockton - American basketball player (

) *Yi Su-gwang - Korean scholar; military officer (studied under Fr. Matteo Ricci, SJ) *Robert Surcouf - French privateer *Jean-Joseph Surin - French Jesuit mystic (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Collège de Clermont) *Peter Sutherland - former DG of GATT; former Attorney General of Ireland; board member at BP and Goldman Sachs (Gonzaga College, Dublin) *Kenneth Suzuki - American association executive and magazine editor (Le College des Jesuites in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) *Alexius Sylvius Polonus - Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments (Jesuit College in Kalisz, Poland)

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*André Tacquet - Belgian mathematician whose work led to the eventual discovery of calculus (Jesuit College in Antwerp) * Fr. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ - scholar of Byzantine and other Oriental Christian liturgies (

, Collegium Russicum, Pontifical Oriental Institute) *George Takei - actor (Sophia University) *Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Talleyrand - French diplomat (Prytanée National Militaire, Jesuit College of La Flèche) *Akbar Tanjung - Indonesian politician and former chairman of the Golkar Party ( Kanisius in

) *Torquato Tasso - Italian Renaissance poet (Jesuit College Sorrento, Italy) *Claudio Teehankee - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines ( Ateneo de Manila University) *Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - French Jesuit philosopher and anthropologist (Jesuit College of Mongré in Villefranche-sur-Saône) *Sister Rose Thering - American Dominican nun and activist (PhD from St. Louis University) *Clarence Thomas - Associate Justice of the American Supreme Court (College of the Holy Cross) *Jay Thomas - American actor, comedian and radio talk show host ( Jesuit High School, New Orleans) *Mark Thompson (television executive), Mark Thompson - Director-General of the BBC (St John's Beaumont and Stonyhurst College, UK) *Chris Tiu - Filipino basketball player ( Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) *Loretta Tofani - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Fordham University) *Alejandro Toledo - President of Peru (

) *Gerardo Torrado - Mexican footballer *Evangelista Torricelli - Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer *Spencer Tracy - American actor ( Rockhurst High School and Marquette University High School, Marquette Academy) *Daniel J. Travanti - American TV and movie star (

) *Athanasius Treweek - Australian academic, linguist and code-breaker ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *Pierre Elliott Trudeau - former Prime Minister of Canada ( College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal) *Donald Tsang - Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR (Wah Yan College, Hong Kong) *Robin Tunney - American actress ( St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, Illinois) *Aaron Twerski - Hasidic Jewish rabbi and legal educator (Marquette Law School)

U

*Carmen Wong Ulrich - American author and TV anchor (

)

V

*Peter Vaghi - priest and former politician (Gonzaga College High School, College of the Holy Cross, and the Pontifical Gregorian University) *Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin - Belgian mathematician (Jesuit College at Mons) *Antonio Maria Valsalva - Italian anatomist who coined the term "Eustachian tube" *Adriaan van Roomen - Belgian mathematician (Jesuit school in Cologne) *Jean Vanier - Canadian philanthropist and founder of L'Arche (Loyola High School (Montreal)) *Pierre Varignon - French priest and mathematician (Jesuit College in Caen) *Archbishop Cyril Vasiľ, SJ - Slovak Jesuit priest, professor and Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute (

) *Josefina Vázquez Mota - Mexican politician

*Ramaswamy Venkataraman - former President of India (Loyola College, Chennai) *Giambattista Vico - Italy, Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist *António Vieira - Portuguese Jesuit and writer (Jesuit college at Bahia in Brazil) *Joseph Vijay - Tamil actor (Loyola College, Chennai) *Pete Visclosky - U.S. Representative from Indiana (

) *Vincenzo Viviani - Italian mathematician and scientist; a pupil of Evangelista Torricelli, Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo (educated at Jesuit schools in his native Florence) *Voltaire - French author and skeptical master of the Enlightenment (:fr:Collège de Clermont#Le collège des jésuites, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France)

W

*Dwyane Wade - American basketball player (

) *Benjamin Walker (author), Benjamin Walker - Indian-born author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica in all its forms (St. Xavier's College, Calcutta) * Jimmy Walker - mayor of New York City (Xavier High School (New York City), Xavier High School) * Albrecht von Wallenstein - soldier, generalissimo, Imperial Holy Roman Army during the latter part of the 30 Years' War (University of Olomouc) *Donnie Walsh - President of Basketball Operations, New York Knicks; former General Manager, Indiana Pacers (

) *Francis Walsingham - Elizabethan spy master (University of Padua) *Denzel Washington - American film actor (

) *Charles Waterton - English naturalist and explorer (Stonyhurst College in Lancashire) *Adam Weishaupt - German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati, Order of Illuminati ( University of Ingolstadt) *Frederick Weld - former Prime Minister of New Zealand (Stonyhurst College) *George Wendt - American actor, Campion Jesuit High School (Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri) *Edward Douglass White - ninth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( Jesuit High School, New Orleans) *James White (Southwest Territory politician), James White - American physician, lawyer and politician; early settler in Tennessee and Louisiana (College of St. Omer) *Anthony A. Williams - American politician (Loyola High School of Los Angeles) *Edward Bennett Williams - American trial lawyer (

) *Malcolm Wilson (governor), Malcolm Wilson - Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York (Fordham Preparatory School, Fordham College, Fordham Law School) *Gerard Windsor - Australian author ( St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney) *Terry Wogan - Irish broadcaster (Crescent College, Limerick)

Z

*Gordon Zubrod - American oncologist who played a role in the introduction of cancer chemotherapy ( Georgetown Preparatory School) *Niccolò Zucchi - Italian Jesuit astronomer and physicist

References

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