List of Long Island University people

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

Alumni

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

Business
  • Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates
  • Howard Lorber, businessman; investor; CEO of Vector Group; chairman of Nathan's Famous and Douglas Elliman
  • Jorge M. Perez, real estate developer, author and political fundraiser; founder of The Related Companies
  • Adnan Polat, chairman of Football Club Galatasaray SK; CEO of Ege Seramik
  • Terry Semel, former chairman and CEO of Yahoo!; on the Board of Directors of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, The Paley Center for Media, and the Guggenheim Museum
  • John Utendahl, founder and owner of Utendahl Group, the largest African American-owned investment banking organization in the US
  • Gary Winnick, founder of Global Crossing, Ltd., installing the first undersea cable linking the U.S. and Europe

Judicial
  • Rose Bird, first woman to serve as chief justice on the Supreme Court of California

Media
  • A. J. Benza, television show host, actor (Celebrity Fit Club)
  • Ted David, senior anchor at CNBC Business Radio
  • John Edward, television host and producer
  • Arnold Hano, journalist, author, editor
  • Jackee Harry, known for her roles on the television series 227, Another World, and Designing Women, and the Rodney Dangerfield movie Ladybugs
  • Alfred R. Kahn, chairman and CEO, 4Kids Entertainment
  • Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of ACME Communications
  • Brian Kilmeade, television presenter and current co-host of Fox and Friends and Brian the Judge
  • Lynda Lopez, news anchor; sister of Jennifer Lopez
  • Nancy Hicks Maynard, first black female reporter for the New York Times; she and her husband are the first African Americans to own a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper, Oakland Tribune; they cofounded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  • Burl Osborne, former chairman of the Associated Press and former publisher of the Dallas Morning News
  • Sibila Vargas, news anchor
  • Larry Wachtel, the "Voice of Wall Street"; former senior vice president at Wachovia; financial analyst at Prudential Financial; respected financial markets commentator on WINS (AM) radio in New York City

Medicine and health
  • Ruth Kirschstein, former acting director of the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; namesake of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards

Performing arts

Politics
Mevlut Cavusoglu
  • Tim Bishop, representative of the State of New York's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress
  • Leon Bogues, former senator who represented the 29th District in the New York State Senate
  • Steven Cymbrowitz, representative of the 45th District in the New York State Assembly
  • Tuariki Delamere, former member of parliament for the Eastern Maori (now Ikaroa-Rāwhiti) electorate in the Parliament of New Zealand and cabinet minister, including Minister of Immigration
  • Katuutire Kaura, member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia; leader of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia
  • Tom Ognibene, former representative of the 30th City Council District in the New York City Council and New York City mayoral candidate
  • Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate.
  • L. Harvey Smith, representative of the 31st District in the New Jersey General Assembly
  • Fred Thiele, representative of the 2nd District in the New York State Assembly
  • Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh.
  • Mevlut Cavusoglu, incumbent Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Sports and recreation
Sid Gordon
  • Mooley Avishar (born 1947), Israeli basketball player
  • Hank Beenders, first non-American to play in the NBA Finals
  • Frank Catalanotto, retired Major League Baseball outfielder
  • John Collins (sports executive), former president and chief executive officer of the NFL Cleveland Browns
  • Daniel de Oliveira (footballer), Rookie of the Year 1987, Northeast Conference; first LIU Blackbird soccer player to play with DC United in 1995 Major League Soccer, two-time winner MVP Colin Fowles Trophy, 1987 and 1990; coach of the Venezuelan Youth 15 and 17 National Teams
  • Ray Felix, second African American to be named an NBA All-Star; the NBA's first dominant African-American center
  • Frido Frey, first German to play in the NBA
  • Sid Gordon, two-time All Star major league baseball player
  • David Hicks (basketball) (born 1988), basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League[1]
  • Charles Rahmel Jones, played for the NBA's Chicago Bulls
  • Dolly King, one of the rare black basketball players in the National Basketball League, predecessor to the NBA
  • Barry Leibowitz (born 1945), American-Israeli basketball player
  • Joe Machnik, elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on the 2017 builder ballot
  • Steve Nisenson, basketball player
  • Frank Pia, inventor of the Pia Carry
  • Ossie Schectman, a member of the original New York Knickerbockers in their inaugural NBA season in 1946 and inductee in the National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame.
  • Tazz (Peter Senerchia), also known as Tazz in WWE, wrestler and commentator, ECW and TNA

Notable faculty

Past

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

References
  1. "David Hicks - 2007 Men's Basketball". Liuathletics.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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