Business

• Mary E. Belle ’73 – President of Licensing, Jones Apparel Group
  Jones Apparel Group
  The Jones Group, Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is an American designer, marketer and wholesaler of branded clothing, shoes and accessories. Its headquarters are in New York City. The company also markets directly to consumers through their chain of specialty retail and value-based stores...
  
  
• Michael Buczkowski '86 - General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
  Buffalo Bisons
  The Buffalo Bisons are a minor league baseball team based in Buffalo, New York. They currently play in the International League and are the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets...
  
  
• Calvin Darden ’72 – Senior Vice President, United Parcel Service
  United Parcel Service
  United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...
  
  ; named 8th most powerful Black Executive in the U.S. by Fortune Magazine
• Michael P. Healy, ’70 - Vice President of Original Movies, Disney Channel
  Disney Channel
  Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
  
  
• Gene F. Jankowski ’55 – Former Chairman, CBS Broadcast Group: Chairman and CEO, Jankowski
• Gregory R. Maday ’70 – Senior Vice President, Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
  
  
• Peter M. Cuviello ’69 – Vice President and Managing Director, Lockheed Martin
  Lockheed Martin
  Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....
  
  
• Rocco J. Maggiotto ’72, MBA ’76 – Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
  Booz Allen Hamilton
  Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...
  
  
• George Mathewson
  George Mathewson
  Sir George Mathewson is a Scottish businessman. His father was an electrical engineer. He was educated at Perth Academy and the University of St Andrews' Queen's College in Dundee, from where he graduated in 1961 with a degree in mathematics and applied physics...
  
  ’72 – Chairman of the Board, Royal Bank of Scotland
  Royal Bank of Scotland
  The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...
  
  
• Carl J. Montante '64, Founder, President & Managing Director of Uniland Development named 2010 Buffalo Outstanding Citizen;
• Charles Moran Jr. - President & COO, Delaware North
• David J. Nasca '79 - President and CEO, Evans National Bank
• John W. Rowe
  John W. Rowe
  John Wallis Rowe is an American businessman and doctor, who served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., a large health insurance company based in Connecticut, a title he retired from in February 2006.-Columbia University:...
  
  ’66 – Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.; member of the Academy of Science
• Andrew J. Shaevel '88, MBA '90 - CEO, Bobalew Ventures and founder of various other businesses, including Remarketing Services of America (RSA), RSA Solutions, RSA Mortgage Solutions, International Personnel Group (IPG) and SuiteParks, LLC.
• Timothy S. Sommer ’94 - Managing Director of Tomahawk Partners (a Private Equity Consulting Firm) and Served in Hon. Rudolph Giuliani Mayor's Office from 1997-2002
• Daniel W. Stanton ’79 – Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
  
• Dennis F. Strigl ’74 – President and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Wireless
  Verizon Wireless
  Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....
  
  

Education

• Paul G. Bulger
  Paul G. Bulger
  Dr. Paul Grutzner Bulger was the third president of Buffalo State College , serving from July 1, 1959 until January 1, 1967....
  
  - President of Buffalo State College
  Buffalo State College
  The State University of New York College at Buffalo, referred to as Buffalo State College, often referred to colloquially as Buff State, is a public, liberal arts college in Buffalo, New York, United States and is part of the State University of New York. Buffalo State was founded in 1871 as the...
  
  
• John Hurley - President of Canisius College
• H. James Birx
  H. James Birx
  H. James Birx is an American anthropologist.Birx received his M.A. in anthropology and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is now professor of anthropology at Canisius College, as well as Distinguished research Scholar in the SUNY Geneseo's...
  
  - Professor of Anthropology, Canisius College
• Paul G. Gassman '57 - former Chair of University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
   Chemistry Department
• Thomas J. Lawley ’68 - Dean of the Emory University School of Medicine
  Emory University School of Medicine
  Emory University School of Medicine, a component of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, is ranked among the nation’s institutions for biomedical education and research...
  
  
• Steven Seegel - author of Ukraine Under Western Eyes and assistant professor of history at University of Northern Colorado
  University of Northern Colorado
  -Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
  
  

Journalism

• Anne Burrell
  Anne Burrell
  Anne W. Burrell is an American chef, TV personality, and instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. She is the host of the Food Network show Secrets Of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America, where she is currently undefeated thus far...
  
   '91 - host of the Food Network's Secrets Of a Restaurant Chef
• J. Michael Collins - co-founder of PBS Buffalo; Emmy winner for Executive Producing Reading Rainbow.
• Norm Hitzges - radio show host for SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket
  KTCK
  KTCK , is a sports talk radio station based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station, currently owned by Cumulus Media, has been made popular by the incorporation of humor alongside the sports talk....
  
  
• Elizabeth MacDonald '84 - award-winning business journalist for Fox Business News, Forbes
  Forbes
  Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
  
  and The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
  
  
• Marylynn Ryan ’84 – Regional Bureau Chief/Southeast
• Michael Scheuer
  Michael Scheuer
  Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies...
  
   '74 - CBS News terrorism analyst and former CIA employee
• Elaine Sciolino
  Elaine Sciolino
  Elaine Sciolino is a Paris correspondent and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, writing from France since 2002.-Biography:...
  
   ’70 – author and Paris Bureau Chief for The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  
• Cynthia L. Skrzycki ’76 – Financial Columnist for the The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
  The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
  
  
• Adam Zyglis
  Adam Zyglis
  Adam Zyglis is an American editorial cartoonist who works for the Buffalo News of Buffalo, New York, where he replaced Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Toles who became the cartoonist for the Washington Post. Zyglis is also nationally syndicated through Cagle Cartoons...
  
   ’04 - editorial cartoonist for the Buffalo News

Medicine and science

• Thomas J. Dougherty, Ph.D. ’55 – Chief of Radiation/Biology Dept., Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States. The facility is involved in drug...
  
  
• Thomas J. Lawley, M.D. ’68 – Dean, School of Medicine, Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  
• Mark J. Lema, M.D., Ph.D. ’71 – Chairman, Critical Care Medicine & Pain Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States. The facility is involved in drug...
  
  
• Robert J. Lull, M.D. (deceased) ’62 – Chief of Nuclear Medicine
  Nuclear medicine
  In nuclear medicine procedures, elemental radionuclides are combined with other elements to form chemical compounds, or else combined with existing pharmaceutical compounds, to form radiopharmaceuticals. These radiopharmaceuticals, once administered to the patient, can localize to specific organs...
  
  , San Francisco General Hospital
  San Francisco General Hospital
  San Francisco General Hospital is the main public hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center serving San Francisco and northern San Mateo County...
  
  
• George E. Schreiner ’43 – Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
  Georgetown University School of Medicine
  Georgetown University School of Medicine, a medical school opened in 1851, is one of Georgetown University's five graduate schools. It is located on Reservoir Road in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, adjacent to the University's main campus...
  
  
• Edward G. Zubler '49, inventor of the halogen lamp
  Halogen lamp
  A halogen lamp, also known as a tungsten halogen lamp, is an incandescent lamp with a tungsten filament contained within an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen such as iodine or bromine. The chemical halogen cycle redeposits evaporated tungsten back on to the filament, extending the life of...
  
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Politics, government, and law

• Hon. Charles S. Desmond (deceased) ’17 – Retired Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals
  New York Court of Appeals
  The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six associate judges who are appointed by the Governor to 14-year terms...
  
  
• Hon. Dennis Thomas Flynn
  Dennis Thomas Flynn
  Dennis Thomas Flynn was a Delegate from Oklahoma Territory to the United States House of Representatives.Flynn was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1861. He moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, in 1863. There, he became an orphan at the age of three when his mother died...
  
  , Delegate to Congress from the Oklahoma territory
• Hon. Matthew J. Jasen ’37 – Retired Judge, NYS Court of Appeals; Jasen and Jasen, PC
• Hon. Salvatore R. Martoche
  Salvatore R. Martoche
  Salvatore Richard Martoche is an American lawyer and judge.Martoche was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his Bachelor of Science from Canisius College in 1962 and his J.D. from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1967. He was a public defender before going into private practice...
  
  , JSC ’62 – New York State Supreme Court Justice: Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
• Hon. John J. LaFalce
  John J. LaFalce
  John Joseph LaFalce is a former congressman from the state of New York; he served from 1975 to 2003.LaFalce was first elected to the 94th United States Congress in 1974 and re-elected to each succeeding Congress through the 107th, serving his Western New York congressional district for 28 years,...
  
  ' ’61 – Former Congressman (NY); Peter Canisius Distinguished University Professor, Canisius College
• Hon. Anthony M. Masiello ’69 – Former Mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
   of Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  
• James T. Molloy ’58 – Former Doorkeeper
  Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
  An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...
  
  , U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. Henry J. Nowak
  Henry J. Nowak
  Henry James Nowak was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York between 1975 and 1993....
  
   ’57 – Former Congressman (NY), U.S. House of Representatives
• Hon. L. William Paxon ’77 – Former Congressman (NY); Senior Advisor, Akin, Gump, Hauer, Strauss & Feld
• Robert A. Klump '79 - Pro Se Attorney, US District Court for the Western District of New York; Associate Director, Frank G. Raichle Pre-Law Center, Canisius College; Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Canisius College
• Denise O'Donnell
  Denise O'Donnell
  Denise O'Donnell is the Director of Justice Assistance at the US Department of Justice in the Obama Administration. She is also an attorney and Democratic politician from Buffalo, New York. She most recently served as New York State Commissioner of Criminal Justice Services and Assistant Secretary...
  
  , former United States Attorney
  United States Attorney
  United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
  
  , candidate for New York State Attorney General
  Attorney General
  In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
  
   and New York State Director of Criminal Justice Services
• Michael Scheuer
  Michael Scheuer
  Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA intelligence officer, American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies...
  
   '74, Ph.D. - Previous Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
  Bin Laden Issue Station
  The Bin Laden Issue Station was a unit of the Central Intelligence Agency dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden.Soon after its creation the Station developed a new, deadlier vision of bin Laden's activities. In 1999 the CIA inaugurated a grand "Plan" against al-Qaeda, but struggled to find the...
  
   (aka "Alec Station"), Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004, and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
  Imperial Hubris
  Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror is a book originally published anonymously, but later revealed to have been authored by Michael Scheuer, a CIA veteran with 22 years service, who ran the Counterterrorist Center's bin Laden station from 1996 to 1999.Scheuer describes his...
  
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• Robin Schimminger
  Robin Schimminger
  Robin Schimminger represents District 140 in the New York State Assembly, which comprises all of the Town of Tonawanda , the City of Tonawanda in Erie County, and most of the City of North Tonawanda in Niagara County.Elected in 1976, Schimminger had previously served as a member of the Erie County...
  
   '69 - State Assemblyman
• Dale Volker
  Dale Volker
  Dale Volker is a New York State Senator representing the 59th Senate District, which comprises Wyoming County, as well as portions of Erie, Livingston and Ontario Counties. Volker is a Republican....
  
   '63 - State Senator

Religion and theology

• Rev. Leonard G. Hacker, S.J.
  Society of Jesus
  The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
  
   ’35 – Jesuit Missionary, Marshall Islands
  Marshall Islands
  The Republic of the Marshall Islands , , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. As of July 2011 the population was 67,182...
  
  

Sports

• Michael Buczkowski, Current General Manager / Vice President of the Buffalo Bisons
  Buffalo Bisons
  The Buffalo Bisons are a minor league baseball team based in Buffalo, New York. They currently play in the International League and are the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets...
  
  
• Tommy Colella
  Tommy Colella
  Thomas Anthony Colella was a professional American football defensive back in the National Football League....
  
  , Football player
• Leroy Chollet
  Leroy Chollet
  Leroy Patrick Chollet was an American basketball player. He was a 6'2" , 190 lb forward....
  
  , Basketball player
• Corey Herring '08 - Basketball player
• Robert A. MacKinnon ’50 – Former General Manager, Assistant Coach, New Jersey Nets
  New Jersey Nets
  The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  
• Johnny McCarthy
  Johnny McCarthy
  John Joseph McCarthy is an American former basketball player and coach. A 6'1" guard, he played collegiately at Canisius College, and was selected by the Rochester Royals in the 1956 NBA Draft. He played a total of six seasons in the NBA — two for the Royals, three for the St...
  
  , NBA player and coach, also coached Golden Griffins Men's Basketball.
• Gerry Meehan
  Gerry Meehan
  Gerard Marcus Meehan is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and the former general manager and Senior Vice President of the Buffalo Sabres.-Playing career:...
  
  , former NHL player and General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres;
• Michael Meeks
  Michael Meeks
  Michael Meeks may refer to:*Michael Meeks , Canadian former basketball player*Michael Meeks , British software developer...
  
  , Basketball player
• Beth Phoenix
  Beth Phoenix
  Elizabeth Kocianski is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE where she wrestles on the Raw brand under the ring name Beth Phoenix, where she is the reigning WWE Divas Champion....
  
   -WWE Professional Wrestler
• Dick Poillon
  Dick Poillon
  Richard Charles Poillon was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He scored a career 247 points and was the Redskin's lead scorer for three years. Poillon was voted one of the Redskin's "Top 100 players" of all time by a poll in the Washington...
  
   - Early National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   player
• Michael F. Smrek
  Mike Smrek
  Michael Frank Smrek is a retired Canadian professional basketball player. He played in the NBA.- College career :...
  
   ’85 – Former Professional basketball player, NBA Los Angeles Lakers
  Los Angeles Lakers
  The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...