The following is a list of notable graduates of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut:
Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
- The Alternate Routes – award-winning alternative rock band formed by Eric Donnelly (2001) and Tim Warren (2003)
 - Donatella Arpaia (1993) – successful New York City restaurateur; judge on The Food Network reality TV series The Next Iron Chef
 - Joe DeCamara (2000) - Sports radio personality for 94.1 WIP in Philadelphia
 - Edward J. Delaney (1979) – award-winning author; Professor of Creative Writing, Roger Williams University
 - Joe DeVito (1990) – comedian and writer; appeared on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham" and NBC's Last Comic Standing
 - Bob Drury (1980) – New York Times Bestselling author
 - Paul Fargis (1961) – founder of Stonesong, publisher of several bestselling reference books
 - Githa Hariharan (1977) – Commonwealth Writers' Prize winning author and editor
 - Pat Jordan (1965) – acclaimed author of A False Spring, ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's 100 Top Sports Books
 - Burt Kearns (1978) – founder, Frozen Television/Frozen Pictures; author, Tabloid Baby; producer, A Current Affair
 - Adam LaVorgna (2011) – actor best known as Robbie Palmer in the TV series 7th Heaven
 - January LaVoy (1997) – actress best known as Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live
 - Paul Marcarelli (1992) – actor/screenwriter best known as the face of the Verizon Wireless "Can You Hear Me Now?" national TV campaign
 - Peter McCann (1970) - singer/songwriter, best known for Do You Wanna Make Love (1977)
 - Kevin Nealon – Saturday Night Live cast member
 - Ron Palillo – actor best known as Arnold Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter
 - Neil Peng – Taiwanese screenwriter and political activist
 - Paul Ryan Rudd (1970) – actor who played John F. Kennedy in the 1977 NBC movie Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
 - Rob Stevenson (1992) – president of Virgin Records US
 - Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (2012) – Mohegan author, historian, and storyteller
 - Jim Wilbur (1986) - guitarist for American indie-rock band Superchunk
 
Academia
- Melissa Begg (1985) - Dean, Columbia University School of Social Work
 - Ronald A. Bosco (1967)– Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature, University at Albany
 - William Doerner (1971) – Professor, Florida State University, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
 - James Hanrahan (1952) – founding Chancellor, St. Thomas More School
 - Edward Hardiman (1991) - Headmaster, St. John's Preparatory School (Massachusetts)
 - Zachary Freedman (2005) - O.N. Allen Professor of Soil Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 - Thomas Kelly - Head of School, Horace Mann School
 - Kevin Kiernan (1967) – T. Marshall Hahn Sr. Professor of Arts and Sciences Emeritus, University of Kentucky
 - Katherine Lapp (1978) – Executive Vice President of Harvard University
 - Harry Marmion (1953) – President of Saint Xavier University, Stony Brook Southampton and United States Tennis Association
 - Bernard McGrane (1969) – Associate Professor of Sociology, Chapman University
 - Robert J. McMahon (1971) – Ralph D. Mershon Professor of History, The Ohio State University
 - David J. McCarthy, Jr. (1957) – Dean Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center
 - Joseph Moylan (1960) – founding President, Durham Nativity School; professor of surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
 - Maurice J. O'Sullivan (1966) – Kenneth Curry Chair of Literature, Rollins College
 - Thomas Poon (1990) – Executive Vice President and Provost, Loyola Marymount University; Acting and Interim President, Pitzer College
 - Donald Preziosi (1962) – leading art historian and author; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University; Professor Emeritus, UCLA
 - Mark Reed (1996) – President of St. Joseph's University
 - Charles E. Schaefer (1955) – "Father of Play Therapy"; Professor of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
 - Kurt C. Schlichting (1970) – E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fairfield University
 - John Skoyles (1971) – poet and writer; Professor of Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College
 
Business
- Michael Amalfitano (1979) - president and CEO, Embraer Executive Jets
 - Michael G. Archbold (1975) – former CEO, Talbots, Vitamin Shoppe and GNC
 - Joseph Berardino (1972) – managing director, Alvarez & Marsal; former CEO, Arthur Andersen
 - Logan Beirne (2005) – CEO, Matterhorne Transactions; 2014 William E. Colby Award winner
 - Joseph P. Brennan (1991) - Global Chief Risk Officer, The Vanguard Group
 - Jeff Campbell (1965) – former CEO, Burger King; ex-chairman, Pillsbury Restaurant Group
 - Carlos M. Cardoso (1980) – president and CEO, Kennametal; named a Best CEO by Institutional Investor Magazine
 - Orlando P. Carvalho - Executive Vice President of the Aeronautics Division at Lockheed Martin
 - Kevin Cassidy (1990) - CEO of Newterra
 - David H. Chafey, Jr. (1976) – president, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
 - Susan Coffey (1986) - CEO, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
 - Timothy J. Conway (1976) – founder, chairman and CEO, NewStar Financial
 - E. Gerald Corrigan (1963) – former president and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 - Bill Crager (1986) - founder and CEO, Envestnet
 - Frank N. D'Orazio (1990) - CEO of James River Group Holdings
 - Joseph DiMenna (1980) – co-founder, Zweig-DiMenna Associates
 - Charles Dolan (2016) – founder of Cablevision and HBO
 - William P. Egan (1967) – founder and general partner, Alta Communications and Marion Equity Partners
 - Jorge Figueredo (1982) – executive vice president, McKesson Corporation; 100 "Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business
 - John L. Flannery (1983) – chairman & CEO, General Electric
 - Bob Galvin (1981) - CEO, Iconix Brand Group
 - Judith E. Glaser – founder and CEO, Benchmark Communications
 - Joseph E. Hasten (1974) – president and CEO, ShoreBank; former vice chairman, U.S. Bancorp
 - George F. Keane (1955) – founder, Common Fund
 - Joseph D. Macchia (1957) – founder and CEO, GAINSCO
 - Shawn Matthews (1989) – CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald
 - Christopher McCormick (1978) – president and CEO, L.L. Bean
 - Andrew McMahon (1989) - CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance of America
 - Kathleen Murphy (1984) – President of Fidelity Personal Investing; Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business
 - Jennifer Piepszak (1992) - Co-CEO of Consumer & Community Banking of JPMorgan Chase
 - Peter J. Pestillo (1960) – former chairman and CEO, Visteon
 - Rick Pych (1975) – president of business operations, San Antonio Spurs
 - Leslie C. Quick Jr. (1999) – co-founder of Quick & Reilly
 - Larry Rafferty (1964) – founder and CEO, Rafferty Capital Markets
 - Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr. (1985) - chairman and CEO, Rose Rock Group
 - Eileen Rominger (1976) – former global chief investment officer, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
 - Ronan Ryan (1996) – president, Investor's Exchange; character in Michael Lewis’ best-seller, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
 - Joseph D. Sargent (1959) – former president and CEO, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
 - Phil Singleton (1993) – author and founding CEO of Kansas City Web Design
 - Marita Zuraitis (1974) - president and CEO, Horace Mann Educator Corporation
 
Journalism
- Rob Finnerty (2005) - News host on Newsmax
 - Sonia Isabelle (1997) – Emmy Award-winning news anchor; host of Celebrity Page, a nationally syndicated TV magazine show
 - Susan King (1973) – Emmy Award-winning TV news anchor; Dean, University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism
 - Bill McDonald (1975) – Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times editor
 - Donna Savarese (1984) – Emmy Award- and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning TV news anchor
 - Bob Sullivan (1990) – award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author; founding staff member, msnbc.com
 - Carmen Wong Ulrich (1992) – personal finance journalist; host, CNBC's On the Money
 - Liz Wahl (2008) – former Russia Today news anchor who quit on air for ethical reasons
 
Judges
- Sean Connelly (1980) – Colorado Court of Appeals Judge; Special Attorney to U.S. Attorneys General Ashcroft and Reno
 - John A. Danaher III (1992) – Connecticut Superior Court Judge; 47th United States Attorney For the District of Connecticut
 - Raymond J. Dearie (1966) – United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge
 - Daniel J. Dinan (1952) – United States Tax Court Special Trial Judge
 - Joseph P. Flynn (1962) – Connecticut Appellate Court Chief Judge
 - William J. Lavery (1959) – Connecticut Appellate Court Chief Judge
 - Steve Shannon (1993) – Circuit Court Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia
 
Law and government
- Stephen L. Braga (1978) – lawyer known for pro bono representation of Martin Tankleff and the West Memphis Three
 - Stephen Buoniconti (1991) – Massachusetts State Senator
 - J. Edward Caldwell (1967) – Connecticut State Comptroller and State Senator
 - Vincent Cianci (1962) – 32nd and 34th Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island; longest standing mayor in the United States
 - Donald DeFronzo (1970) – Connecticut State Senator; Chief Assistant Majority Leader; Mayor, New Britain, Connecticut
 - J. Michael Farren (1977) – Deputy White House Counsel; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
 - C. Frank Figliuzzi (1987) – Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterintelligence Division
 - Michael Fedele (1980) – 87th Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut
 - Brian J. Flaherty (1987) – eight-term Connecticut State Representative; Deputy House Minority Leader
 - Thomas J. Josefiak (1968) – Chairman, Federal Election Commission; Chief Counsel, Republican National Committee
 - Kevin C. Kelly (1985) – Connecticut State Senator
 - Martin Looney (1970) – President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate
 - Edward Mazurek (1968) – Maine State Senator
 - Richard Morgan Downey (1968) – Executive director and CEO, American Obesity Association
 - Thomas C. O'Connor (1955) – Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
 - Leonard S. Paoletta (1956) – 48th Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut
 - Jorge E. Pérez-Díaz (1977) – Attorney General and Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
 - Chris Pilkerton (1995) - Administrator of the Small Business Administration
 - J. Michael Quinlan (1963) - 5th Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
 - Rosa Rebimbas (2004) – Connecticut State Representative
 - David Rothbard – Co-founder and president, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
 - Joseph Russoniello (1963) – two-term U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
 - Thomas Spota (1980) – District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York
 - Steven Stafstrom (2005) - Connecticut State Representative
 - Bob Stefanowski (1984) - Republican nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2018
 - Nancy Vaughan (1981) – Mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina
 - Roy J. Wells – president and managing director, Triad Strategies
 - Darryl J. Brackeen Jr. (2010) - five-term Alderman (City of New Haven, Connecticut), CT 3rd Congressional District Democratic National Convention Delegate, CT Secretary of State candidate
 
Medicine and science
- James L. Abbruzzese (1974) – internationally recognized pancreatic cancer researcher at the Duke Cancer Institute
 - David C. Christiani (1979) - Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 - J. Kevin Dorsey (1964) – dean and provost of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
 - Steven Flanagan (1984) – nationally renowned expert on Traumatic Brain Injuries at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
 - Tatiana Foroud (1987) – internationally recognized genetic researcher at the Indiana University School of Medicine
 - Doris Troth Lippman – Vietnam Women's Memorial Vice-Chair; Honorary Purple Heart recipient
 - John T. Lis (1970) – 2000 Guggenheim Fellow; Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University
 - Jean Malecki – Local Legend honoree by the National Library of Medicine
 - Gregory J. Martin (1980) – Chief of Infectious Diseases, Bethesda Naval Hospital; U.S. Navy Legion of Merit recipient
 - Brian Monahan (1980) – Attending Physician of the United States Congress; Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
 - Richard J. Murphy (1973) - President and CEO Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital; CEO Richmond University Medical Center; CEO Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
 - Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell (1987) – world renowned elephant expert; instructor at Stanford University Medical School
 - Peter Pronovost (1984) – 2008 MacArthur Fellow and Time 100 World's Most Influential People
 - Richard Proto (1962) - noted cryptographer elected to the United States National Security Agency Hall of Honor
 - Julio Ramirez (1977) – national leader in neuroscience education; R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology at Davidson College
 - Francis J. Tedesco (1965) – president emeritus, Medical College of Georgia
 
Social action and community service
- Tom Cornell (1956) - American journalist and a peace activist
 - Paula Donovan (1977) – executive director, AIDS-Free World; Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice Foundation recipient
 - Michael Donnelly (1981) – leading activist for sufferers of Gulf War Syndrome; author of Falcon's Cry
 - G. Simon Harak (1970) – Director of the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University
 - Stephen V. Kobasa (1969) – peace and political activist
 - Robert J. Wicks (1968) – leading writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology; Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice recipient
 
Sports
Basketball
- Maurice Barrow (2014) – professional basketball player
 - Troy Bradford (1989) – professional basketball player; 3x 1st Team Small American
 - Ajou Deng (2003) – professional basketball player; member of the Great Britain national basketball team
 - Joe DeSantis (1979) – All-American and professional basketball player
 - Kathy Fedorjaka (1990) – women's college basketball coach
 - Greg Francis (1997) – Canadian Olympic basketball player and Junior National Men's basketball coach
 - Deng Gai (2005) – professional basketball player; 2005 NCAA Division I blocks leader
 - Marcus Gilbert (2016) – professional basketball player
 - Pete Gillen (1968) – college basketball analyst and men's basketball coach
 - Drew Henderson (1993) – professional basketball player; member of the Dutch national basketball team
 - Art Kenny (1968) - professional basketball player; No. 18 retired by Olimpia Milano
 - Nick Macarchuk (1963) – men's college basketball coach
 - Derek Needham (2013) – professional basketball player; member of the Montenegro national basketball team
 - Tyler Nelson (2018) - professional basketball player
 - Tim O'Toole (1988) – men's college basketball coach
 - Darren Phillip (2000) – professional basketball player; 2000 NCAA Division I rebounding leader
 - Tricia Fabbri (1991) – women's college basketball coach
 - Rakim Sanders (2012) – professional basketball player; 2x Italian League champion
 - Lou Lopez Sénéchal (2022) - Mexican-French professional basketball player
 - Brendan Suhr (1979) – men's college basketball coach
 - Robert Thomson (2004) – professional basketball player in Europe; member of the Rwanda national basketball team
 - A. J. Wynder (1987) – National Basketball Association player
 - Keith Urgo (2002) – men's college basketball coach
 - Mark Young (1979) - professional basketball player
 
Lacrosse
- Brent Adams (2012) – All-American, Major League Lacrosse All-Star and Team USA midfielder
 - Chris Ajemian (2009) – Major League Lacrosse midfielder
 - Nate Bauers (2004) – Major League Lacrosse defenseman
 - Mike Bocklet (2007) – Major League Lacrosse All-Star attackman
 - Charlie Cipriano (2012) – All-American and Major League Lacrosse goalkeeper
 - Greg Downing (2007) – All-American, Major League Lacrosse All-Star and Team USA midfielder
 - C.J. Kemp (2003) – All-American and Major League Lacrosse goalkeeper
 - Joe Marra (2010) – Major League Lacrosse All-Star goalkeeper
 - Jack Murphy (2015) – Major League Lacrosse goalkeeper
 - TJ Neubauer (2016) - All-American and Major League Lacrosse midfielder
 - Spencer Steele (2000) – All-American and Major League Lacrosse attackman
 - Peter Vlahakis (2004) – All-American and Major League Lacrosse All-Star face-off midfielder
 
Soccer
- Abby Allan (2001) – New Zealand national football player
 - Adam Braz (2001) – Technical Director, Montreal Impact; Canadian international and Major League Soccer player
 - Robyn Decker (2008) – professional football player
 - Jonathan Filipe (2021) - professional soccer player
 - Bryan Harkin (2001) – United Soccer League player
 - Brett Maron (2008) – National Women's Soccer League player
 - Jim McElderry (1993) – Rutgers University men's soccer coach and United Soccer League player
 - Mark Longwell (1982) – U.S. international and United Soccer League player
 - Michael O'Keeffe (2013) – New Zealand national football and 2014 Olympic player
 - Nikki Stanton (2013) – National Women's Soccer League player
 - Justin Thompson (2003) – Canadian international and professional soccer player
 - Matt Turner (2015) – United States men's national soccer team and Premier League football player
 - Matthew Uy (2010) – Philippines national football player
 
Other
- Will Brazier (2005) – All-American, U.S. international and Super League rugby player
 - Keefe Cato (1979) – Major League Baseball player
 - Evan Centopani (2004) – professional bodybuilder
 - Nick Lapponese (2023) - Major League Rugby player, All-American and Scholastic All-American
 - Paul Sheehy (1985) – U.S. international and Super League rugby player
 - Brad Troup (2003) – All-American and Super League rugby player
 - Laura Valentino (2013) - Head coach of the UConn Huskies softball team
 
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