List of faculty and alumni of John Carroll University

This is a list of people associated with John Carroll University, a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio. This includes faculty, alumni, staff, and former university Presidents. The university was founded as Saint Ignatius College by the Society of Jesus. The university was founded in 1886 and enrolls approximately 4,000 students per year.

Alumni

Paisley Dodds – AP London Bureau chief
Tim Russert – former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief; host and moderator of Meet the Press; the university's Department of Communication and Theatre Arts was renamed in his honor May 2009^[1]

Sara Bloomfield – director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (M.A. from John Carroll University)
Donald Burkart - State Representative, Wyoming Legislature
Rick Carfagna – State Representative and Assistant Majority Floor Leader, Ohio House of Representatives
Anthony J. Celebrezze – Federal Court of Appeals judge, US Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare, Mayor of Cleveland
Frank D. Celebrezze I – politician; brother of Anthony Celebrezze
Anne C. Conway – judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
John Cranley – Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Timothy J. DeGeeter – state representative, Ohio Legislature and mayor of Parma, Ohio
Mike Hope – state representative, Washington State Legislature
Tom McNamara – Mayor of Rockford, Illinois
Donald J. McConnell – former United States ambassador to Eritrea
Tom Murphy – former mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mary Rose Oakar – former Congresswoman (M.A. from John Carroll University)
Jon Powers – politician, U.S. Army captain, and founder of War Kids Relief
Paweł Wojciechowski – Polish economist; former Polish minister of finance

Carter Ham – former general, United States Army, serving as commanding general, U.S. Army, Europe
John D. Lavelle – General, United States Air Force; 4 stars restored by President Barack Obama, 2010
Carl E. Walz – United States colonel (Ret.) and astronaut (M.S. from John Carroll University)

Graham Armstrong – American football player
Tom Arth – professional football player, Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers, former head coach for University of Akron
David Caldwell – former general manager, Jacksonville Jaguars
Nick Caley – assistant coach, NFL
Nick Caserio – general manager, Houston Texans
Enrique Ecker – former NFL player
London Fletcher – professional football player, St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Redskins
Peter Goodwin – former dean, World's Strongest Man
Wade Manning – former NFL player
Josh McDaniels – former Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, former head coach for the Denver Broncos
Dominique Moceanu – Olympic gymnast, member of the Magnificent Seven at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first American gymnastics team to win Olympic gold.
Brian Polian – college football coach
Chris Polian – American football scout and executive
Chuck Priefer – assistant coach, NFL
Greg Roman – American football coach
Don Shula – professional football player and Hall of Fame coach, Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins
Carl Taseff – professional football player and coach, Baltimore Colts, Buffalo Bills, and Miami Dolphins
Tom Telesco – General Manager, Las Vegas Raiders
Dave Ziegler – Former General Manager, Las Vegas Raiders

Leonard Calabrese – rheumatologist and internationally recognized researcher, Cleveland Clinic
James Danko – president, Butler University; former dean, Villanova University, Villanova School of Business
Paul A. Fleury – dean, Yale University School of Engineering
John Hardon – Jesuit priest, theologian, and intellectual
Robert L. Niehoff – Jesuit priest, President Emeritus of John Carroll University
Germain Grisez-French-American philosopher
Chad Miller PhD, University of Hawaii: Professor in Philosophy

Eric Carmen – singer, musician
Brian P. Cleary – author of more than 25 children's books
Marcello Hernandez – comedian, new cast member on Saturday Night Live
Christopher Kempf- poet, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jack Riley – comedic actor

David Ferrie – alleged by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in assassination of John F. Kennedy

George Bilgere – poet
Francesco Cesareo – president of Assumption College, former professor of history at John Carroll University
Vincent Dethier – insect physiologist and entomologist
Charles Geschke – co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.^[2]
Sarah Willis – writer and novelist